MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jjav | 2026-03-06 09:43:42+00:00
> Linux can fool you into that sense of security for a long time. But there will come a point where the facade crashes down.

All my laptops through multiple jobs have been running Linux starting in 1994 (way before the "Year of the Linux desktop") with zero problems. I switched to Mac laptops in 2012 only because that's what work at the time gave me. In later years accumulated many Mac laptops but quality has been goind down fast. Next time around I'm back to Linux because can't take it anymore.
by gucci-on-fleek | 2026-03-06 09:44:04+00:00
You can still install old versions going back to the 90s [0]. If you specifically want to update/install a package on a current installation of TeX Live 2025, you just need to run

tlmgr repository set https://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/historic/systems/texlive/2025/tlnet-final

(You can replace that URL with any of the historic mirrors in [0])

[0]: https://tug.org/historic/
by shafyy | 2026-03-06 09:44:31+00:00
That's not true. I just now went through the Wahl-o-Mat for Baden-Württemberg (because there are elections there this Sunday, March 8). From the 38 questions, there are two that directly address the housing crisis:

> Die Mietpreisbremse in baden-württembergischen Städten und Gemeinden soll abgeschafft werden

> Länger leerstehende Mietwohnungen sollen ihren Eigentümerinnen und Eigentümer konsequent entzogen und vermietet werden.

Why do you think those options are not good options to address the housing crisis? Are there other levers? Of course, but Mietpreisbremse (freezing rents) and Leerstand (empty houses) are certainly key levers. And the point of the Wahl-o-Mat is to give you an indication over overlap, not to list and let you decide on single political initiatives.
by SegmentTree | 2026-03-06 09:44:37+00:00
Isn't the main vulnerability the cache poisoning in GitHub Actions?

Yes, the agent installed a malicious package in its workflow. But if GitHub Actions had been properly isolated, the attack would not have been possible.

It's basically impossible to protect against malicious injections when consuming unknown inputs. So the safeguard is to prevent agents from doing harm when consuming such inputs. In this case, it seems nothing would have happened if GitHub Actions itself had not been vulnerable.
by ike____________ | 2026-03-06 09:44:52+00:00
So, it is not that difficult. People have much more info now. Life is not more difficult than before but is much more complex. There other factors like screen dopa. Only if you have a super reproductive dna or you are religion forced you are not going to have kids. If the give you money you are not going to have kids if you are too in to Elden Ring or holidays or whatever. There is too much out there. I do not think we are the final being ourselves, it is just all the small things that add up. (Sorry for the bad English, not IA corrected)
by PunchyHamster | 2026-03-06 09:45:09+00:00
> It’s patently clear2 that the license allows this, and it surprises me that this is rarely brought up in debates about GPL-3.0-only and GPL-3.0-or-later.

There is nothing surprising about it as the contentious issue about GPL3.0 is the patent claim one (which did cause multiple companies go "HELL NO we're not touching GPL with 100m pole"), not this.
by gucci-on-fleek | 2026-03-06 09:46:19+00:00
Here's the list of notable changes in TeX Live 2026 [0]. LaTeX is released independently from TeX Live, so looking through its changelog [1] is also helpful if you haven't updated recently.

[0]: https://tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#x1-94...

[1]: https://www.latex-project.org/news/latex2e-news/ltnews.pdf#i...
by arjie | 2026-03-06 09:46:20+00:00
There's a pattern I've noticed where relatively smart religious-adjacent people will attempt to fit things that are clearly from a religious-bent-of-mind into the structure that they believe will sell the idea to people not of that mind. I think this is one such thing.

In fact, it appears to be a recurrence of the pattern that is perhaps the most common religious view for "why do people no longer have children": "it is because they don't have purpose". Usually explicitly, and often implicitly we are informed that some religion (or any religion, occasionally) has purpose. One can then dress up these arguments in the language of other philosophy - and perhaps that is the way to buttress them - but it doesn't change the fundamental idea.

To lean harder into the aspects of my 'formation' by contrast, I think one can seek more parsimonious views. My personal pet theory is that it's all opportunity cost. Here are the assumptions:

# The joy inherent to being a parent is prosperity-independent

# Benefit from the rest of society is positive-correlated to prosperity

# Late gestation and the early stages of parenthood affect the ability to access benefit from society

So you can vary the outcome by varying the parameters:

* Make a society richer, c.p., and you miss out on more things

* Make a society more culturally oriented around families and you reduce the impact of #3

* Pay people to substitute for parental responsibilities and you reduce the impact of #3

* Remove individual freedom and a reckoning of utility no longer determines fertility

I did not know that parents in higher-income groups in the same education stratum have higher fertility. It's not obvious which way the coin lands on that, admittedly. Years off work are more costly the more successful your career. But also if you're sufficiently successful, you have access to more resources that permit you still access society's utility. Certainly my friends pay $90k for a nanny and you're not going to get that unless you hit some level of income.

Anyway, I have a lovely daughter, and I am eager to have another. I think it is a greatly enjoyable experience to parent, and I suspect there is some aspect to sociocultural contagion here because women have told my wife "watching how cute your baby is has made want one too" and things like that.

Here's a blog post about the opportunity cost thing to make it clear I didn't just come up with it as a middle-brow dismissal in reaction (if it is middle-brow it is wholly so ex nihilo)

https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/Blog/2025-02-14/Fertility_Ra...

And here's a little bit more about what it's like to walk around as a father in a city with some of the fewest children per capita in the US.

https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/Blog/2025-08-06/The_Latent_D...
by danbruc | 2026-03-06 09:46:50+00:00
I guess the percentage of crashes due to hardware is high because people with faulty hardware are experiencing the vast majority of crashes.

It is not that simple, it does not only depend on the hardware but also the code. It is like a race, what happens first - you hit a bug in the code or your hardware glitches? If the code is bug free, then all crashes will be due to hardware issues, whether faulty hardware or stray particles from the sun. When the code is one giant bug and crashes immediately every time, then you will need really faulty hardware or have to place a uranium rod on top of your RAM and point a heat gun at your CPU to crash before you hit the first bug, i.e. almost all crashes will be due to bugs.

So what you observe will depend on the prevalence of faulty hardware and how long it takes to hit an hardware issue vs how buggy the code is and how long it takes to hit a bug.
by 1718627440 | 2026-03-06 09:47:23+00:00
I see. Sounds interesting, I guess it is just not for me.

How does it cope with the directory stack, what happens when I do a 'cd -' after using sd, where does it take me?

I mean fundamentally a filesystem is just a namespace and I can order it like the hell I want, it also supports different types of aliasing.
by bluemario | 2026-03-06 09:48:58+00:00
Auction mechanics are genuinely underused in the digital goods space. We've been building a marketplace on Solana and debated adding auctions for a while. The thing that stopped us was the UX complexity around "auction ending soon" notifications and bid sniping behavior. Did you end up implementing any anti-sniping logic (like auto-extending the auction if a bid comes in the last 30 seconds)? That's the single feature that makes or breaks trust for buyers who lose to a last-second bot.

Also curious how you're handling the edge case where a buyer wins an auction but doesn't complete payment. With physical goods especially, that creates real headaches for sellers. Stripe's authorization-hold flow can help but it's clunky to explain to non-technical sellers.

The buy-it-now alongside auction is the right call btw. eBay's data on this is old but the pattern of "auction with BIN escape hatch" consistently converts better than pure auctions for sellers who just want to move inventory.
by hobofan | 2026-03-06 09:49:33+00:00
> Tech companies are in the business of nurturing teams knowledgeable in things

It pains the anti-capitalist fibers in my body to say this, but no they are not. At the maximum the value is in organizational knowledge and existing assets (= source code, documentation), so that people with the least knowledge possible can make changes. In software companies in general, technical excellence and knowledge is not strongly correlated with economic success as long as you clear a certain bar (that's not that high). In comparison, in hardware/engineering companies, that's a lot more correlated.

In the concrete example of a legacy codebase we have here, there is even less value in trying to build up knowledge in the company, as it has already been decided that the system is to be discarded anyways.
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2026-03-06 09:49:36+00:00
Friend. On this very forum, you will normally see me argue that further deterioration of civil society is bad and we should be doing everything to maintain society as is. However, as with most things, there is a limit. That limit varies from person to person, but it is getting harder and harder to argue that laws apply ( especially once you recognize they don't quite apply across the board ).

<< If you're going to host a service, I guess consider using Tor or something.

That one confused me. What do you mean?
by keiferski | 2026-03-06 09:50:02+00:00
Here’s what I don’t get, and why these comments irritate me. They are just opportunities for someone to inject their ideological arguments about something that has little to do with the actual comment.

I didn’t say anything about capitalism being a bad system, nor did I say making money is inherently bad.

I said in the absence of ethical study, making money is treated as a default good. It seems pretty obvious to me that it isn’t a default good.

I’m completely uninterested in arguing about whether the profit motive has led to good societal outcomes, because a) in general I agree with that and b) it has literally nothing to do with my comment.

My original comment was just lamenting that tech leaders don’t study ethics, and therefore they just default to thinking that making money is always a good thing, no matter the consequences, no matter what values get ignored. In many situations, making money does indeed lead to good ethical situations. But my comment is about them not even bothering to ask that question in the first place. That’s all.
by RandomGerm4n | 2026-03-06 09:50:24+00:00
But the idea behind Tuta and Proton is that emails are encrypted when they arrive in the inbox. The fact that emails sent between Tuta users offer little added value because distribution is far too limited. The reason people choose such a provider is that they do not want the authorities to have access to their mailbox, but this is undermined by a backdoor. Switzerland is much better off in terms of the legal situation in this area.
by PunchyHamster | 2026-03-06 09:50:27+00:00
I'm more worried by the motivation for the whole secure chain. We will not own our devices and the encryption keys will be stored in vault of <ecosystem provider> like MS or Google, free to peruse by the government

The entire push seems to be motivated by actors that want to deny users access to their own devices in thinly veiled promises of "security".

It's basically asking someone to give their company your house keys on nothing more than "trust me bro".

And it's completely opposite of how it should be, it should be my device that I then can give the vendor app limited sandbox that I can access fully, not the other way around.
by mft_ | 2026-03-06 09:50:38+00:00
If you really want to get to the root cause, on the Democratic side it’s the people who promoted/supported/covered up for Biden when it would have been obvious to anyone close that he wasn’t fit for the purpose any more. And Biden himself, for his hubris.

That was why things were rushed and there wasn’t a proper primary. Yes, they could have held a very late/quick convention and would likely not have picked Kamala, but anyone getting the nomination at that late stage would still have been hugely in the back foot.
by spwa4 | 2026-03-06 09:51:46+00:00
So you're saying LLMs don't count as an original work and so have zero copyright protection? So anyone running those models can just freely copy them if they have access to them? And, of course, it means distillation attacks, even if they do turn out to copy the OpenAIs/Anthropic/... model are just 100% perfectly legal? Because that would be the implication, wouldn't it?
Plus, if this is true, it would be a loophole.
It would be great if courts declared WHAT is the case. But they won't.
by nephihaha | 2026-03-06 09:52:04+00:00
The BBC does have some advertising on it, if you can call it that. Most of it tends to be inhouse. So in addition to TV programmes, in the past I have seen them advertising "Radio Times" (a magazine they used to own giving TV listings), tie-in books, TV licences, DVDs/VHS, and their other channels and digital services. They also cross-promote their material. When David Tennant was playing Doctor Who, you would frequently see BBC News 24 being featured in the programme.

Nowhere near as bad as other channels in that sense, but still there.

Historically, there have been also been substantial numbers of people who watched the BBC without licences in the Republic of Ireland and the Netherlands, but they couldn't do a thing about it. The BBC tended to be watched in the east of the Republic of Ireland and near the border with Northern Ireland. (Not so much in France from what I can tell.) Many of the houses in Dublin used to have massive tall TV aerials to receive it. Most have been removed now. (Within the Republic of Ireland, RTÉ is funded by their own licence system, but also has proper advertising on it, unlike the BBC. It has had similar questions about it.)
by noemit | 2026-03-06 09:52:21+00:00
Not a day goes by that a fellow engineer doesn't text me a screenshot of something stupid an AI did in their codebase. But no one ever mentions the hundreds of times it quietly wrote code that is better than most engineers can write.

The catch about the "guided" piece is that it requires an already-good engineer. I work with engineers around the world and the skill level varies a lot - AI has not been able to bridge the gap. I am generalizing, but I can see how AI can 10x the work of the typical engineer working in Startups in California. Even your comment about curiosity highlights this. It's the beginning of an even more K-shaped engineering workforce.

Even people who were previously not great engineers, if they are curious and always enjoyed the learning part - they are now supercharged to learn new ways of building, and they are able to try it out, learn from their mistakes at an accelerated pace.

Unfortunately, this group, the curious ones, IMHO is a minority.
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by Mike_Handyman | 2026-03-06 09:52:27+00:00
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If you're a solo contractor and want to try it, I'd love brutal feedback.
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by gwd | 2026-03-06 09:52:42+00:00
> It’s patently clear2 that the license allows this, and it surprises me that this is rarely brought up in debates about GPL-3.0-only and GPL-3.0-or-later.

It's an interesting avenue, but the ultimate problem is that people die and/or lose interest in projects. What happens to this particular project if Runxi dies, or decides to make furniture out of wood instead? That basically becomes "GPL-3.0-only" again.
by Earw0rm | 2026-03-06 09:52:55+00:00
I agree re the "Scandi" label, my point is that the stereotype isn't the reality. The weather and food might be similar, and peoples' physical appearance to some extent, but socially not really.

Conservative is maybe not the most useful definition here either as it covers too many unrelated things - a lot of US Conservatives (in terms of their declared moral attitude to abortion, homosexuality and so on) are also highly individualistic and quite selfish people. And in the UK you've the reverse, where the avowedly progressive, pro-trans Green party is also supported by culturally conservative Muslims, who are relatively unbothered either way by the trans rights movement.

So for example Germany, you've got Catholic traditional-conservatives in the South, and AfD nationalist-conservatives in the former East, both of whom are obviously big-C conservative in different ways, whereas for the Danes there's a specific kind of communitarian, tradition-centric national pride which is conservative (small "c") without being overtly religious or economically right-wing.
by jghub | 2026-03-06 09:53:57+00:00
Not really, because zoxide's "aging" is a global multiplicative downscale of
cumulative scores. It doesn't solve the problem of "Historical Rigidity."

In zoxide, every visit you have ever made contributes to a monolithic frequency
score. Because the "aging" is a global multiplier (0.9), it preserves the
relative proportions of your history. If "Project A" has 1000 visits from three
months ago, its score can remain so high that it still outranks "Project B," which
you started this week and visited 50 times. This is why zoxide provides a manual
remove command -- users sometimes have to intervene when the "ghosts" of old projects
won't stop winning matches. I have never felt the need to do something like that
in sd (although the option is there, mostly as a historic artifact).

In sd, the ranking is based on the density of visits within a fixed window (the
"Attention Span").

If you haven't visited "Project A" in your last ≈1000 moves, it has exited the
window and is ignored for ranking purposes (as long as a pattern match is found
elsewhere on the stack -- otherwise fallback logic kicks in and "Project A" is still
discoverable). So it doesn't matter if you visited it 1000 times earlier in the
year; it no longer occupies your "attention." Conversely, if you've visited
"Project B" 50 times in the last two days, those visits occupy a high-weight
portion of the power-law curve.

sd essentially uses a sliding window weighted summation approach.
It prioritizes what you are doing
now without being weighed down by the "debt" of what you were doing months ago.
This provides "Zero Maintenance" because the math naturally suppresses old signals
as they exit the window, whereas cumulative models might eventually require manual
pruning to fix a sluggish ranking.
by manbitesdog | 2026-03-06 09:54:01+00:00
There is a fantastic book on this topic called "By Design : Why There Are No Locks on the Bathroom Doors in the Hotel Louis XIV" that cover the inception of modern brands. It's a very similar story to what happened to watches. The industrial revolution made quality clothing accesible for everyone, so the cloth appearance no longer was a clear indicative of status, so brands started placing their emblems on the outside of the fabric inside of the inside. At the time it was seen as gross, obvious and bad taste. Guess we had a century to normalize it.
by iFreilicht | 2026-03-06 09:54:35+00:00
100% agree. The mac mini was offered with 8GB for some time as well, and when my dad needed a new desktop, I thought that would be a good option. It was basically unusable. Even when you only have a few finder windows and a few (less than 5) tabs in safari open, you can feel the swap slowing down the system; just opening a folder or a new tab is noticeably slow, opening safari itself takes multiple seconds, and with just that basic usage you can run into the out-of-memory dialogue, something I had never seen before in macOS.

I have no idea how apple can believe that the neo won't damage their brand reputation. They must have optimized something to make 8GB viable.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2026-03-06 09:54:37+00:00
> The problem is: you can’t justify this throughput to someone who doesn’t understand real software engineering. They see the output and think “well the AI did it.” No. The AI executed it. I designed it. I knew what to ask for, how to decompose the problem, what patterns to use, when the model was going off track, and how to correct it. That’s not prompting. That’s engineering.

That’s the “money quote,” for me. Often, I’m the one that causes the problem, because of errors in prompting. Sometimes, the AI catches it, sometimes, it goes into the ditch, and I need to call for a tow.

The big deal, is that I can considerably “up my game,” and get a lot done, alone. The velocity is kind of jaw-dropping.

I’m not [yet] at the level of the author, and tend to follow a more “synchronous” path, but I’m seeing similar results (and enjoying myself).
by amelius | 2026-03-06 09:55:57+00:00
> Building systems that supervise AI agents, training models, wiring up pipelines where the AI does the heavy lifting and I do the thinking. Honestly? I’m having more fun than ever.

I'm sure some people are having fun that way.

But I'm also sure some people don't like to play with systems that produce fuzzy outputs and break in unexpected moments, even though overall they are a net win.
It's almost as if you're dealing with humans. Some people just prefer to sit in a room and think, and they now feel this is taken away from them.
by alwillis | 2026-03-06 09:56:03+00:00
> And you're cherry-picking the US market only.

They say reading is fundamental; you might want to practice to get your comprehension up.

I literally provided the top selling smartphones in China, Japan, Australia and a group of 5 countries in the European Union. The iPhone topped the sales charts in all of them.

> Which iPhone, which Samsung?

All of them? The total of all the iPhone models sold in the US was about 3x the total of all the Samsung models sold here. That’s the 60% vs 22% difference I mentioned earlier.

> Those are the numbers you're so desperate to avoid acknowledging.

Nobody disputes Android’s 72% global market share vs Apple’s 27%. You can calm down now. ;-)

To simplify things for you, Android dominates in developing countries in Africa, Asia, Central and South America. For example, Android has 95%(!) of the market in India, which is ironic since iPhones for the US are made there now.

It goes without saying iPhone does much better in more affluent countries. So does Samsung.

> It's a pretty pathetic display of fanboyism, and it's rather boring - this "conversation" is over.

When someone isn’t doing so well in a debate, they resort to insults and name calling. Sad.

It’s not that your “opinions” are worth responding to on their merits—they’re not.

I’m writing for readers that might come across this thread and learn something they didn’t already know.