MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 1000100_1000101 | 2025-12-28 18:14:58+00:00
The Locked Tomb series:
- Gideon the Ninth
- Harrow the Ninth
- Nona the Ninth

Liked the first Locked Tomb, didn't really enjoy the remainder of the series.

The Witch King (from the Murderbot author), was alright.

The Time Travellers Almanac. Time Travellers Almanac was meh. A set of short stories, but many retreads of the same ideas we've seen over the decades. There was one good story, and one other interesting concept...

Road to Roswell and Crosstalk. Connie Willis' books were great, as usual.

Brzrkr. Keanu's book was meh.

The first five of the Kate Daniels Series:
- Magic Bites
- Magic Burns
- Magic Strikes
- Magic Bleeds
- Magic Slays

Kate Daniels is doing an acceptable job filling in for Dresen's absence, though book 3 and 4 go a bit heavy on the romance side.

Pre-orders pending on the next Murderbot book (Platform Decay), and Dresden (Twelve Months)
by Ekaros | 2025-12-28 18:15:06+00:00
Honestly. To me that is starting to sound like very very good idea. Regulate what you can store, how you store, it how you modify it, who can access it, how is access controlled, what sort of trail should be left, how can mistakes be corrected, require that those whose information is stored can get full log on actions done on data relating to them.

Sounds like over regulation to many. But it is pretty clear companies and developers have failed. So maybe strict regulation is needed.
by ifh-hn | 2025-12-28 18:15:26+00:00
Yeah I do think being aligned with a democracy rather than Communist states is better for the UK. None of your quotes have changed my mind on that.

A significant disadvantage of the US and UKs democracy, more so in the US, is the short term thinking. China and Russia don't have that problem. They're more stable in that respect. They can execute real long term plans. Like businesses can. Nothing wrong with seeing advantages where they exist even if the way they go about it is disagreeable.

I'm not much of a history buff either but the US has been advancing it's global supremacy of "hard power and targeted violence" since at least the second world war. Palantir is nothing new.

And none of this has anything to do with an IT system in the NHS. What alternatives are there? Personally given the choice between palantir and a russian/Chinese company I'd go with palantir. Hopefully it works.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-28 18:16:16+00:00
> Why do they need to know how AI works, in order to know that it is already having a negative effect on their lives and is likely to do so in the future?

Because otherwise you might not actually be properly attributing the harm you're seeing to the right thing. Lots of people in the US thing current problems are left/right or socialist/authority, while it's obviously a class issue. But if you're unable to actually take a step back and see things, you'll attributed the reasons why you're suffering.

I walked around on this earth for decades thinking Teflon is a really harmful material, until this year for some reason I learned that Teflon is actually a very inert polymer that doesn't react with anything in our bodies. I've avoided Teflon pans and stuff just because of my misunderstanding if this thing is dangerous or not to my body. Sure, this is a relatively trivial example, but I'm sure your imagination can see how this concept has broader implications.
by logicprog | 2025-12-28 18:17:06+00:00
Those offroading.com links you shared don't actually cite any sources at all, and I know nothing about that source and it doesn't look that reputable to me.

The first link contradicts the cited, and much more trustworthy, analysis from the Mozilla Foundation:

"Here's the good news with Tesla when it comes to privacy -- they very clearly state in their privacy documentation that they don't sell or rent your personal information to third parties ... Tesla makes other promises in their privacy that sound quite good. They say they won't share your personal information with third parties for their own use unless you opt-in (don't opt-in!). They say they don't "associate the vehicle data generated by your driving with your identity or account by default.""

For the second, there's no reliable (not obviously AI generated slop) evidence I've been able to find outside of offroading.com, at all, that there's any remote shutdown feature in Teslas, user accessible or no. They have PIN to drive, Sentry mode, etc, and they can remotely limit the speed to 50mph, but afaict, there's no remote disable feature.

As you say, this is something they have he technical capability to implement, but (1) it would have to be a brand new feature they add, they don't have it yet and haven't done it, and (2) at that point basically any car company from Volkswagen to Toyota could equally also do it, since all modern cars are internet connected and controlled by computers now. So this introduced a parity that completely undercuts this guy's point about Tesla's being uniquely bad
by omoikane | 2025-12-28 18:17:11+00:00
Does it fetch the whole database and filter the results on client side? Because it seems like it would download 54 sqlite shards to show the few entries available for Mersenne and Fermat primes. It costs 40+ seconds of time and ~172MB of bandwidth. A cheaper option might be to generate the prime numbers first and then just fetch the shards it needs.

Other than that, I thought it was an interesting way of sampling the news as the time delta grow further apart between each item.
by throw10920 | 2025-12-28 18:17:24+00:00
> There's no need to be defensive.

This is extremely manipulative. The only reasons to say something like this are to shame the person you're respond to and/or attack and discredit them and force them to respond defensively. Don't do this.

(it also immediately outs you as not having any valid points to make, because someone with a reasonable response doesn't need to stoop to emotional attacks)
by eoskx | 2025-12-28 18:17:52+00:00
What's also telling is how long the bugs stayed around, too. They were reported on Reddit and Apple's forums for awhile with various workarounds, like deleting the phantom entries from the SQLlite database manually and doing some other gymnastics like removing the other devices from iCloud in hopes that everything would sync up nicely. No one at Apple had the time or took the time to chase down the bugs. In a world of Claude Code or Codex you would think they would have at least tried a cursory "fix this".

On a related note, maybe one of these days iCloud will have a force sync option that tells the other devices to trash their copies vs having to remove all devices and re-add to get everything coherently synced.
by reactordev | 2025-12-28 18:18:33+00:00
It’s cathartic to people to hear others cry about what they should have done. Makes them feel better and rationalize their own mistakes.

Not discounting it. There’s comfort in knowing you aren’t alone or the only one to make mistakes, we all do. What’s healthy is realizing it was a mistake, know what you did that caused it, learn from it, and not have it happen again due to a change of behavior. In work, and in life.

Also, life is short, forgiveness is hard, time goes by faster than you think.
by danzheng | 2025-12-28 18:19:12+00:00
One thing missing in the blogpost is in practice you see many large orgs, especially in finance, living with multiple time domains. For example, on-prem trading systems almost always use PTP or PPS for sub-microsecond timestamping, often on dedicated networks to reduce jitter (for meeting regulatory requirements like MiFID II and CAT) while the rest of their infra (in on-prem and cloud) just runs NTP for millisecond-class sync. Both protocols are fundamentally sensitive to network conditions — the mean offset may look fine, but outliers due to congestion/jitter can be very poor.

The consequence of having multiple time domains is pretty painful when you need to reconcile logs or transaction histories across systems with different sync accuracy. Millisecond NTP logs and sub-microsecond PTP logs don’t line up cleanly, so correlating events end-to-end can become guesswork rather than deterministic ordering.

If you want reliable cross-system telemetry and audit trails, you'll need a single, high-accuracy time sync approach across your whole stack.
by fweimer | 2025-12-28 18:19:22+00:00
Before clusters with fast interconnects were a thing, there were quite a few systems that had more than a thousand hardware threads: https://linuxdevices.org/worlds-largest-single-kernel-linux-...

We're slowly getting back to similarly-sized systems. IBM now has POWER systems with more than 1,500 threads (although I assume those are SMT8 configurations). This is a bit annoying because too many programs assume that the CPU mask fits into 128 bytes, which limits the CPU (hardware thread) count to 1,024. We fixed a few of these bugs twenty years ago, but as these systems fell out of use, similar problems are back.
by estimator7292 | 2025-12-28 18:19:23+00:00
Your comment is asseting that all of the world's most populous country is a single monolithic entity that produces crap except for this one thing (that is probably also suspicious because it's Chinese)

You're deflecting blame for your shitty decisions onto a racist strawman.

Buy a good Bluetooth adapter which is actively supported by the Linux kernel. Do 20 minutes of research instead of buying the cheapest thing you can and then spouting racist bullshit to post-hoc justify yourself.

If you take a few moments to think about what you're doing, you can get Bluetooth working flawlessly by simply buying the correct adapter. And you don't have to be a racist xenophobe about it.
by markx2 | 2025-12-28 18:19:28+00:00
I was maybe 15/16, family holiday on the island of Menorca. There was a long cove where I would snorkel. Saw hundreds of sea urchins, some fish, an octopus here and there. Water was warm and clear

I surfaced and kept heading out. All of a sudden the water went from warm to cold. Goggles still on I looked down into the water. Darkness. Nothing.

I don't think I have ever swam faster back into the cove and got out.

Phobic? Probably not but it was very scary.
by Mikhail_Edoshin | 2025-12-28 18:19:29+00:00
William James wrote that one of characteristics of a religious state of mind is its seriousness. I'll quote:

For common men “religion,” whatever more special meanings it may have, signifies always a serious state of mind. If any one phrase could gather its universal message, that phrase would be, “All is not vanity in this Universe, whatever the appearances may suggest.”

I myself can compare this with the cultural state of Soviet Union. It was a very atheistic country on the surface; yet the art, the cultural scene, the newspapers, the cinema; the school education; the public forums (they existed in the form of letters to newspapers); everything was imbued with that idea that there are serious things, not everything is vanity. It wasn't dull or dark; it was very reviving, in fact, because it gave you the foundation, something firm to stand upon. There were fantastically funny comedies (I wish I could find modern comedies like that) but there was also seriousness. I still remember some journal pieces of that time that, I admit, formed me as a person. An essay about a relatively minor crime, for example: two women were bitten by guard dogs. Yet somehow it rose to your place in life; your approach to what life is; you and your responsibility for how you live. And these themes were everywhere. Until 1991.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-28 18:19:44+00:00
You can just ask "What flavor of ethics do you prefer; utilitarianism, deontology, egoism and/or contractualism?" instead.

From what I can gather, a lot of ML people are utilitarians, for better or worse. Which is why you're seeing this discussed at all, if we all agreed on the ethics it would have been a no-brainer.
by runjake | 2025-12-28 18:21:29+00:00
This was my last straw that caused me to disable Spotlight:

Typing something into Spotlight, having it pull up the right result and highlight it, and me hitting the Enter key, and the search results suddenly updating after and highlighting some new result and then opening that.

It’s not just Liquid Glass. It’s bugs like these where I realized Apple software was truly rotten to the core. Whomever is running the show (Craig) can’t do their job.

I’m now noticing the same bug in the latest versions of Windows 11 when I hit the start button and run a search.

This was a solved computer science problem.
by nielsbot | 2025-12-28 18:21:39+00:00
The study seems to say

1) kids with worse mental health use social media more (unhealthily)

2) parenting is (very) important

Ok. Sounds about right. There is still a negative correlation with social media and mental health. So not seeing how this one paper shows we shouldn’t reasonably restrict social media.

This is a conservative angle on the problem: it’s about individual choices (or individual innate fitness) not about dangerous products in society. Not sure why we should ignore the fact that people are profiting of these dangerous products. And that these are man made dangers made for profit, not wild animals that just exist in nature.
by wat10000 | 2025-12-28 18:22:01+00:00
Unlike housing, you can fit a useful amount of compute into a typical shirt pocket. Maybe a prohibition on data centers would help democratize compute again. Growing up on the utopian visions of the young internet where it was hoped that everyone would be an equal participant, the current state of things where a few enormous companies control most of the net, to the point where a single screwed up config file at one company can take down large swathes of the economy, is disgusting.

During the microcomputer revolution, hackers scoffed at people who used terminals to access time sharing systems. You don't own it, you don't control it, you're just a cog in the machine. Now, "hackers" are rushing to run everything on hardware owned and operated by companies with wealth and power that make the old IBM look like a kid's lemonade stand by comparison.
by pfannkuchen | 2025-12-28 18:22:21+00:00
I’m generally not a lefty type person, but aren’t resource agnostic fines actually less blind-justice than the alternative?

The wealthy speeder shrugs it off, while the poor speeder has to change their spending allocation in a way that is noticeable and could be challenging.

Why should the punishment have a different impact based on wealth? The felt impact of a monetary fine fundamentally depends on how much money the offender has. Whereas the classic “locked in a cage” punishment affects everyone equally.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-28 18:22:31+00:00
It's a philosophical argument more than anything I think. And it does beg the question, does your mind form itself around with the humans (entities?) you converse with? So if you talk with a lot of smart people, you'll end up a bit smarter yourself, and if you talk with a lot of dull people, you'll end up dulling yourself. If you agree with that, I can see how someone would believe that LLMs would pull people closer to the material they were trained on.
by estimator7292 | 2025-12-28 18:22:50+00:00
Linux has the best Bluetooth stack of any of the current three operating systems. Which is kind of a depressing statement, but it's actually feature complete.

You really don't want to know just how bad Windows' Bluetooth stack is. It doesn't even implement basic features. I would hesitate to call it a compliant implementation at all. Oh, the API call for all BT features exist, but they either do nothing, return garbage and lies, or are just broken.

If you use a well supported BT adapter under the right Linux distro, it's flawless.
by keepamovin | 2025-12-28 18:22:55+00:00
Yes, I agree there's probably a better way for the Mersenne and Fermat. And even the Germain we probably don't need to scan every shard for just the first page of them. Good points! And good idea to invert the lookup.

Thank you for the comment on interestingness. I thought so to, but I didn't realize it in same way you did in your observation that it gets more selective over time - I like that, in a sense that's kind of natural as the environment is more competitive over time. Thank you for the interesting idea!

edit: Your ideas are implemented!
by phantasmish | 2025-12-28 18:23:24+00:00
If someone cracks “smart glasses” that’s the next smartphone-size market and revolution, guaranteed, no question about it.

VR headsets ain’t it but I’m convinced the reason every company is working on them and developing AR stuff for their traditional devices (which are terrible to use for AR) is because they don’t want to still be at the starting line if someone figures out smart glasses.
by StephenHerlihyy | 2025-12-28 18:23:57+00:00
My biggest hope for Elon’s Mars plan is the chance to create a whole new Calendar system that makes sense. Like honestly. 7 days in a week? Random days per month? Uneven quarters? Who the hell decided to put the leap day in February! Clearly it should be at the beginning/end of the year. The western Calendar is nuts.

Why doesn’t every month have 30 days with the last day of the quarter having 31? Ohh leap year? December 32nd or January 0.
by array_key_first | 2025-12-28 18:24:55+00:00
People were right about touchscreens, actually, and mobile phones.

They never did replace the productivity usecases. They replaced a lot of casual usecases, and created a bunch more usecases, mostly around media consumption.

But if you go to an office anywhere in the world, and you look around, it's not people on their phones. It's a sea of desktop computers, like it's 1995. Even at Apple. Not because everyone is out of the times, but because we did truly find the perfect form factor, and have chosen to refine it.

Apple vision pro wont replace the productivity suite, like the iPhone didn't. And it won't replace the iPhone, because it's way bigger and more inconvenient. So, I'm not sure where that leaves it.
by freedomben | 2025-12-28 18:25:46+00:00
That exactly describes me. I'm not a good frontend person. I got really, really good at building desktop GUIs in Swing (Java) back in the day and really imprinted on that way of doing things. When moving to web, I found the the display landscape really challenging to grok. I read a few books and got to where I could get most of what I wanted done, but it always took me way longer than it felt like it should, and certainly much longer than it took my coworkers. In that period I learned the contemporary patterns of the day and got pretty good at using component libraries with frameworks like React and was finally able to make things look and behave more like I wanted them to.

Because at that point so much of the focus was on javascript and component libs/frameworks, I didn't (and mostly still don't) really follow browser development. I looked into things like web components when they were first talked about but found their DX to be quite sub-par (it was still pretty early days) and haven't really looked again.

I'm personally much more interested in systems, infrastructure, devops, and all things backend, so for me frontend is a necessary evil to enable me to surface controls for my stuff to users. It's not that I don't want to stay up to speed and current, it's more that in my limited bandwidth I'm more focused on what I care about. That leads to exactly the pattern you described: I learned and got comfortable with a certain paradigm in a different time, and those ways are quite engrained.

Anyway, thank you for your comment. It really helped me identify a blind spot I previously had (which I intend to rectify) :-)
by marssaxman | 2025-12-28 18:26:47+00:00
I find it hard to imagine otherwise. HTTP codes are based on the server return code system used in FTP, first published in 1971, where each of the three digits had a specific role and the values simply counted up from 0-9 as different meanings were assigned. HTTP is a little looser about the syntax, but it's the same general idea. Given the scheme, something was going to be code 404.
by QuiEgo | 2025-12-28 18:27:07+00:00
The really really frustrating thing is that even in this lesser state, all of the alternatives are still a worse experience than an Apple Silicon macbook.

It’s sad to be in a time where enshitifcation is the word of the day and things are getting worse as time goes on. There’s nothing on the horizon of tech that excites me anymore. I used to feel joy and excitement for the future of tech. Now I feel profound sadness at this reality.
by rw_panic0_0 | 2025-12-28 18:27:30+00:00
bro sorry your comment is sort of disproportional to my comment to the point that I'm not sure if it's AI or not, also I already have a 3rd party who can neutrally assess my views and point things out (my therapist) so im not bothering reading :broken-heart:

Plus by noticing things you are doing it already makes inner critic quieter, and this is THE practice to get rid of it
by lukeschlather | 2025-12-28 18:27:31+00:00
Google publishes their profits quarterly, but they only do that because they are required to by law. They would prefer people assume they're offering these services at a loss so nobody attempts to compete with them.

But again, it's not a guess or assumption - you can run the latest DeepSeek model renting GPUs from a cloud provider, and it works, and it's affordable.
by wjgilmore | 2025-12-28 18:27:34+00:00
I have a 3’x4’ dry erase version of this calendar format on my office wall. Bought it cheap on Amazon a few years ago. Put work travel dates, anniversaries, birthdays, vacations, etc on it. It’s nice to be able to see the “big picture” at a glance, and my kids love putting their own dates on it such as when they think Halloween decorations should be put up lol.
by estimator7292 | 2025-12-28 18:27:49+00:00
The magnetic sensor in your phone is actually pretty weak and requires regular calibration to pick out the true magnetic field lines from all the noise.

Your phone has many magnets inside, and structures that can be passively magnetized. Your local magnetic environment changes constantly.

It's a fundamental limitation of the technology, unfortunately. Generally we use GPS location as you move to infer direction and feed that back into the compass routines. It's not great but it does mostly work sometimes
by zipy124 | 2025-12-28 18:28:22+00:00
It almost certainly can, even old intel systems with dual CPU 16 core systems could do 4 and a half million a second [1]. At a certain point network/kernel bottlenecks become apparent though, rather than being compute limited.

[1]: https://www.amd.com/content/dam/amd/en/documents/products/et...
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-28 18:28:22+00:00
> You are forgetting about how with the multiple high quality open weights models, we are gonna quickly/(already have?) reached the point where using completely local models will make sense.

I'm not, since I'm a heavy user of local models myself, and even with the beast of a card I work with locally daily (RTX Pro 6000), the LLMs you can run locally are basically toy models compared to the hosted ones. I think, if you haven't already, you need to give it a try yourself to see the difference. I didn't mention or address it, as it's basically irrelevant because of the context.

And besides that, how affordable how GPUs today in the developing world? Electricity costs? How to deal with thermals? Frequent black outs? And so on, many variables you seemingly haven't considered yet.

Best way of making the difference between hosted models and local modals is to run your own private benchmarks against both of them and compare. Been doing this for years, and still local models are nowhere near the hosted ones, sadly. I'm eager for the day to come, but it will still take a while.