MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by akimbostrawman | 2025-12-21 21:24:58+00:00
if you can't follow a basic discussion maybe don't have them. there are no factual statistics about monero crime unlike email because its private by design unlike email. i provided factual evidence about email being primarily used for crime, meanwhile you have "your feeling" about monero but still refuse to apply the same lens towards something you like once facts are against it. your ignorance and different treatment of the two based on emotions is apparent but has no place in a factual discussion.
by quotemstr | 2025-12-21 21:25:23+00:00
I wonder whether it'd be possible to augment the CO2 with something that would make it more detectable visually and aromatically, like we do natural gas.

Natural gas is naturally odorless and colorless. Therefore, by default, it can accumulate to dangerous levels without anyone noticing until too late. We make natural gas safer by making stink, and we make it stink by adding trace amounts of "odorizers" like thiophane to it.

I wonder whether we could do something similar for CO2 working fluid this facility uses --- make it visible and/or "smell-able" so that if a leak does happen, it's easier to react immediately and before the threshold of suffocation is reached. Odorizers are also dirt cheap. Natural gas industry goes through tons of the stuff.
by MattJ100 | 2025-12-21 21:25:38+00:00
What logical fallacy, exactly? I think you're perhaps misunderstanding the conversation. This translates just fine to your proposed analogy.

In your analogy, the claim would be that some online account is tied to a laptop and whoever possesses the laptop has access to that account. The online service does not permit the account owner to revoke access from that laptop and move the account to a different laptop. I stand by my statement that this would be a serious security hazard. Because yes, laptops can and do get hacked or stolen, just like email addresses.

Where your analogy isn't quite as strong is that at least you can generally add additional anti-theft protections such as full-disk encryption to a laptop, while with an email account generally 2FA is the best you can do.
by whakim | 2025-12-21 21:25:42+00:00
I don't really understand the point around error handling. Sure, with structured outputs you need to be explicit about what errors you're handling and how you're handling them. But if you ask the model to return pure text, you now have a universe of possible errors that you still need to handle explicitly (you're using structured outputs, so your LLM response is presumably being consumed programmatically?), including a whole bunch of new errors that structured outputs help you avoid.

Also, meta gripe: this article felt like a total bait-and-switch in that it only became clear that it was promoting a product right at the end.
by __david__ | 2025-12-21 21:26:09+00:00
Worse is that the notification for this “error” telling me I couldn’t back up without OneDrive was behind the little dot in the restart/logout menu in the start menu, which (until now) only showed me that updates were required. Now that they’ve infested that notification with ads there’s no reason for me to ever look at it again. Good job, Microsoft.
by XCSme | 2025-12-21 21:26:10+00:00
I've recently added error tracking to my self-hosted analytics app (UXWizz), and the way I did it is simply add extra events to each user/session. Once you have the concept of a session or user, you can simply attach errors or logs as Events stored for that user. This solves the main problem mentioned in the article, where you don't know what happened, plus being an Event stored in a MySQL database, you can still query it.

Why not simply use Events for logging, instead of plain strings?
by fluidcruft | 2025-12-21 21:26:16+00:00
Maybe instead Microsoft could allow Windows 11 to install and run on machines that are otherwise capable and just flash red screens at you all the time where otherwise ads would show up that constantly nag that "THIS COMPUTER IS FUCKING INSECURE!" or something. It would be equally as annoying but I'm sure running latest Windows 11 but with TPM 1.0 instead of TPM 2.0 will be more secure than running Windows 10 without bug fixes and security patches.

(But my understanding is there were other things like bumping minimum supported instruction sets that happened to mismatch a few CPUs that support the newer instruction sets but were shipped with chipsets using the older TPM)
by 0x3f | 2025-12-21 21:26:39+00:00
> The majority of people on earth cannot afford more than two or three of these subscriptions.

I would guess the majority of people on earth don't even have good enough internet to pirate HD video, nor the technical skills to do it, so we're not really talking about global averages here.

> Without any* copyright law, any content that is generated effectively gets arbitraged out to the most efficient hosts and promoters. This might be a win for readers in the short term, but long-term tends towards commodification that simply won’t sustain specialized subject matter in the absence of a patronage model.

I don't think you understand my argument. I don't deny that this may be true. I deny that it is ipso facto the best outcome to have high-quality creator content, or whatever we are talking about here, at the cost of the massive benefits of free use. You might as well tell me New Jersey gas pumping laws lead to nicer service experiences, and getting rid of them would ruin that.

We can arbitrarily prop up any industry to make it cushy and a 'nice experience'. That doesn't make doing so the greatest overall good.

I would argue that even if all that we achieved with the abolition of IP law was the provision of cheap generic drugs, long out of research, it'd be worth far more than the YouTube creator economy.
by roenxi | 2025-12-21 21:27:20+00:00
> all men being subject to the law was pretty explicit purpose of the founding of america. I mean, they had a whole revolution about it.

I don't think it is a feasible claim. Revolutionaries, by definition it seems to me, believe some men and the enacting of their principles are above the law. A revolutionary is someone who illegally revolts against the current law.

And formally recognising presidential immunity isn't really as novel as the anti-Trump crowd wants to believe. If presidents were personally subject to the law for their official acts, most of them wouldn't be in a position to take on the legal risk of, eg, issuing executive orders. If something is done as an official act then the lawsuits have to target the official position and not the person behind them. That is how it usually works for an official position.
Show HN: Darts Vision Benchmark
by red545 | 2025-12-21 21:27:26+00:00
Detecting the correct score from a dartboard photo is unexpectedly hard for LLMs.

The task appears to stress spatial reasoning: Gemini 3 models lead this benchmark by a decent margin.

Counterintuitively, “more reasoning” often reduces accuracy.

Even the top-performing model scores only ~36% of darts correctly.
by ack_complete | 2025-12-21 21:27:51+00:00
Worse than that, there's no consistency in Fn+key shortcuts. Recently acquired an HP Ergonomic Keyboard as a replacement for a broken Sculpt, only to find out that it literally cannot send Ctrl+Break -- there's no key for it, no Fn+key shortcut for it and the remapping software doesn't simulate it properly.
by rglover | 2025-12-21 21:28:00+00:00
Career-limiting perhaps (if expressing normal human emotion is a minus inside of an organization, it may be time to bail) but some of the best minds I've met/observed were absolute curmudgeons (with purpose—they were properly bothered by a problem and refused to go along with the "sweep it under the rug" behavior).

Sure, I've dealt with plenty of assholes, too, but the grumps are usually just tired of their valid insight being ignored by more foolish, orthogonally incentivized types (read: "playing the game" not "making it work well").
by nzeid | 2025-12-21 21:28:12+00:00
I appreciate the author's modesty but the flip-flopping was a little confusing. If I'm not mistaken, the conclusion is that by "self-hosting" you save money in all cases, but you cripple performance in scenarios where you need to squeeze out the kind of quality that requires hardware that's impractical to cobble together at home or within a laptop.

I am still toying with the notion of assembling an LLM tower with a few old GPUs but I don't use LLMs enough at the moment to justify it.
by LooseMarmoset | 2025-12-21 21:28:46+00:00
it’s not just “creators”, our news cycle depends on this.

algorithm-driven social media amplifies this nonsense. I had to cut myself out of all social media because I found myself unreasonably angry every day. this new cycle and social media cycle was literally poisoning my life.

it’s not like we didn’t have negative news or negative stories or flame bait back in the days of usenet, but it was easier to escape. Now, with all the TikTok and Twitter/X and Facebook embeds, it’s not only impossible to escape, it literally follows you around now.

The only way to win is not to play at all.
by jeffbee | 2025-12-21 21:28:53+00:00
Pretty much no aspect of this event was "extremely rare". PG&E spends the whole year smoking $100 bills and laughing their assess off, then as soon as it rains even a little bit their junk explodes and they pretend they could not have foreseen water existing on Earth. This is not even the first, or second time that this specific substation has burned in living memory. It already burned in 1996 and 2003.
by dvfjsdhgfv | 2025-12-21 21:29:13+00:00
I feel you. The answer is that you need help. Don't be afraid to ask for help. Also, it's good for kids to be spending time with other good people, too. Continuing in the way you describe is bad for you and you know it so the only thing left now is to figure out how to change it. I hope everything goes well with you.
by prmoustache | 2025-12-21 21:29:59+00:00
> but it has nowhere near the hardware support.

My usb scanner would like to have a word with you. Its last supported driver was for windows 2000 and it still works well on Linux.

Hardware support vary between the 2 operating system and new stuff may be supported earlier on windows but I can't say that windows driver library is unparalleled, quite the opposite actually.
by CivBase | 2025-12-21 21:30:21+00:00
The author just wants Microsoft to stop harassing him. He's not asking for handouts. He's not even asking to be allowed to bypass the hardware requirements for Windows 11. He just wants to stop getting nagged by Microsoft to upgrade.

He could buy new hardware and run Windows 11. But this pattern will only continue from Microsoft. The only way out is to run a non-Microsoft OS (assuming he can).
by YY3427394872 | 2025-12-21 21:30:24+00:00
I wonder how hard would it be to just switch back to Windows 7 for these kinds of cases? Obviously the most ideal solution is to use Linux but there's still some edge cases where Windows is needed or is just preferred. If you install Windows 7 in a VM you'll be blown away by having a simple, clean OS that just runs applications and doesn't shove ads or Bing search into the start menu. And obviously it would be vulnerable to software exploits but if the device is mostly kept offline I can't see many issues with that coming up. Something to think about...
by fsniper | 2025-12-21 21:30:27+00:00
At last a sane person. Logs are for identifying the event timeline, not to acquire the whole reqs/resp data. Putting every detail into the logs is -in my experience - makes undertanding issues harder. Logs tell a story. When, what happened, not how or why that happened. Why is in the code, how is in the combination of, data, logs, events, code.

And loosely related, I also dislike log interfaces like elk stack. They make following track of events really hard. Most of the time you do not know what you are loooking for, just a vauge understanding of why you are looking into the logs. So a line passed 3 micro seconds ago maybe your euraka moment, where no search could identify , just intuition and following logs diligently can.
by scoofy | 2025-12-21 21:30:56+00:00
Fail-safe means "in a situation where the function fails, fail in a way that doesn't cause injury" -> the cars didn't know how to proceed, so they stopped, with their lights on, in a way that any attentive driver could safely navigate... which is a failing safe.

The alternative here, is a protocol that obviously hasn't been tested. How on earth are you going to test a Waymo in blackout conditions? I would rather have them just stop, than hope they navigate those untested conditions with vulnerable pedestrians and vehicles acting unpredictable.
by paulpauper | 2025-12-21 21:30:57+00:00
I don't count calories. I went off Ozempic (now Mounjaro) and I gain weight at about 0.5-1kg a month.

yeah that is how ppl become obese. over 2-5 years it adds up

Notice all people in the story are women.

Probably due to social media. Women may be more inclined to show off their success online. Also, women respond better to these drugs compared to men.
by Illniyar | 2025-12-21 21:31:48+00:00
While I agree with some of it, I feel like there's a big gotcha here that isn't addressed. Having 1 single wide event, at the end of a request, means that if something unexpected happens in the middle (stack overflow, some bug that throws an error that bypasses your logging system, lambda times out etc...) you don't get any visibility into what happens.

You also most likely lose out on a lot of logging frameworks your language has that your dependencies might use.

I would say this is a good layer to put on top of your regular logs. Make sure you have a request/session wide id and aggregate all those in your clickhouse or whatever into a single "log".
by ibejoeb | 2025-12-21 21:32:08+00:00
I'm not worried about the laptop. Pretty much everyone knows that any valuable laptop is a tracking device anyway.

You should be worried about getting actually robbed, or even being attacked for no reason, while you're not paying attention.

Also, yes, nobody's going to help you. Some of it is because of general unawareness, as you point out. Then, it's difficult to know who's the aggressor. Even if that's all crystal clear, you're almost certainly going to deal with months or years of legal hell if you intervene. Successful interventions often lead to prosecutions.
by paragraft | 2025-12-21 21:32:10+00:00
I've recently come off a team that was racking up a huge Splunk bill with ~70 log events for each request on a high traffic service, and this is all very resonant (except the bit about sampling, I never gave that much thought - reducing our Splunk bill 70x was ambitious enough for me!).

Hadn't heard the "wide event" name, but I had settled on the same idea myself in that time (called them "top-level events" - i.e. we would gather information from the duration of the request and only log it at the "top" of the stack at the end), and evangelised them internally mostly on the basis it gave you fantastic correlation ability.

In theory if you've got a trace id in Splunk you can do correlated queries anyway, but we were working in Spring and forever having issues with losing our MDC after doing cross-thread dispatch and forgetting to copy the MDC thread global across. This wasn't obvious from the top-level, and usually only during an incident would you realise you weren't seeing all the loglines you expected for a given trace. So absent a better solution there, tracking debug info more explicitly was appealing.

Also used these top-level events to store sub-durations (e.g. for calling downstream services, invoking a model etc), and with Splunk if you record not just the length of a sub-process but its absolute start, you can reconstruct a hacky waterfall chart of where time was spent in your query.
by girvo | 2025-12-21 21:32:10+00:00
That hasn't been enough for me, so far in my experience. I think I'm too crusty and set in my ways after 25 years of learning programming.

I have found them useful for general explanations and it's decent at finding me sources or directly answering questions about codebases/architecture (like where the @appendNode declarative mutation directive is fired in sequence for the Relay updater system), but it's code output I've not found a good teach tool for myself.
by Melatonic | 2025-12-21 21:32:30+00:00
I looked into this extensively during lockdowns. There is a specific wavelength that maximises Vitamin D. And there are medically approved devices that use special fluorescent bulbs that output this. It's mainly used in Nordic countries.

I tried to find an LED strip equivalent but couldn't not - there are strips that produce a lower wavelength than UV-A but from what I remember it was too low of a nm for good vitamin D.

Could be an interesting product however ! I wanted to hand two strips in my shower and turn them on for a few minutes while I washed up during the winter.

Unfortunately even the tanning beds you were using still produce a lot of UV-A which will age your skin. And funnily enough UV-B also produces a much longer lasting tan (though slower) which would mean less return trips for people who are just looking for aesthetics
by TheAceOfHearts | 2025-12-21 21:32:51+00:00
I was recently reading through Ursula K. Le Guin's The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction, and she has so many great quotes that are directly relevant to this situation.

Here's a shorter one:

> “The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.”

And a longer one:

> “We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel – or have done and thought and felt; or might do and think and feel – is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become… A person who had never listened to nor read a tale or myth or parable or story, would remain ignorant of his own emotional and spiritual heights and depths, would not know quite fully what it is to be human. For the story – from Rumpelstiltskin to War and Peace – is one of the basic tools invented by the mind of man, for the purpose of gaining understanding. There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.”

Engaging with fantasy and scifi helps us understand ourselves and the world around us. It helps find what truly moves and inspires us. It teaches us to dream of a different, better world.
by horizion2025 | 2025-12-21 21:32:52+00:00
Yes I agree, I was just responding the article's "“We cannot reverse a mutation once it occurs, ..." I don't think that is entirely accurate. Also, I think it is a dynamic process, so even cells the immune system hasn't killed yet could be found later. Or the mutation could cause other deviancies that will make the cell uncompetitive with healthy cells. But it is a slow process - it takes years for former smokers' lung cancer risk to return to near that of never smokers. And it probably never gets there - some mutated cells may never be detectable and there's clearly also a threshold beyond which the cancer is irreversible, at least without intervention.
by maxaw | 2025-12-21 21:33:20+00:00
I definitely lost weight easily on wegovy and just as easily gained it back when I stopped taking it. The whole experience definitely drove home how I needed to improve my mental health alongside any “purely physical” intervention. Same situation when I lost weight by meticulously calorie counting.

I think obesity is hard to fix even when you are not a “thermodynamics denier” (as another commenter said) because all you can practice is moderation from the get go. How many people would fail to fix their alcoholism if complete abstinence, even just a period of complete abstinence to rewire the brain, was never an option? They actually had to go down to the pub and practice stopping everyday at 1 pint?
by will4274 | 2025-12-21 21:33:30+00:00
Hardware key storage is a low level security primitive. Both Android and iOS have mandated it for far longer. It's a low level security primitive that enables a lot of scenarios, not just DRM.

For example - it's not possible to protect SSH keys from malware that achieves root without hardware storage. Only hardware storage can offer the "Unplug It" guarantee - that unplugging a compromised machine ends the compromise.
by abovethefold | 2025-12-21 21:34:09+00:00
Killing a comment that links to dot gov sources about undocumnteds' being protected, rather than prosecuted, by labor law and showing immigrants pay taxes is fascinating indeed.

https://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2025/2025-53.html

"The Labor Commissioner is reminding all workers that California’s labor laws protect every worker in the state, regardless of immigration status."

https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU01/20250122/117827/HHRG...

"A new study shows that undocumented immigrants paid nearly $100 billion in federal, state and local tax revenue in 2022 while many are shut out of the programs their taxes fund."
by diydsp | 2025-12-21 21:34:10+00:00
Good question. First start as small as possible. You dont need to design a massive system and burnout is a real possibility... which leads to: find groups already set up around you. We have a local food pantry that also cooks for people. It's ok to test drive various groups until you find good fits. There are various ways. Im helping a group get their non-profit status atm. Not super visible or boots on the ground but needed/useful. Other groups just need people to help reach out on social media.

It's as much a state of mind as physical actions and good for you for starting to see the need and opportunities.
by MBCook | 2025-12-21 21:34:46+00:00
Yeah. I wasn’t considering people, just getting the car out of the way.

I wasn’t considering people taking it as a given that any time the car gives up the doors should be unlocked for passengers to leave if they feel it’s safe.

And as a passenger, I’d feel way safer getting out if it pulled over instead of just stopped in the middle of the street and other cars were trying to drive around it.

No one should ever be trapped inside by the car.
by dmix | 2025-12-21 21:34:55+00:00
What was the better solution here then? Assuming there's hundreds or thousands of self-driving cars suddenly driving in environment without any traffic lights. In the pictures you can see six Waymo cars at a single intersection. Assuming some of them had passengers should they all try to turn at the intersection anyway, when their LIDAR says the lane is likely free and pull over to the side? Is that the safest option? Should there be human police to direct the self driving cars through intersections? Or wait out the temporary electricity failure?

I believe the answer is far more complicated than it seems and in practice having the cars stay still might have been the safest option any of the parties could agree on (Waymo's office, the city traffic people, state regulators, etc).

There are people thinking this stuff out and those cars can 100% pull over automatically but an explicit choice was made not to do so for safety.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-12-21 21:35:02+00:00
Our family embraces counter-restoration of old cars. Do the minimum to make them tolerable, then drive them.

Son #3's daily is a 63 dart - yanked from someone's weed patch. He welded tags to make the floor. He turned a stack of warn jeans into seat and door covers (w/ door pocket). No head liner. Sloppy high mile 225 but has a 2bbl now.

We have a 61 Sunliner that is a lot like driving soviet farm equipment. Rockers shot. Last owner welded a trunk over the previous trunk which led to the gas tank strap mounts breaking free - which was totally awesome. The ancient Y-Block sounds like a real engine when it drives.