skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What's up with the spam waves lately?
I just had a look through the "new" queue with showdead on, and out of the most recent 200 submissions, I counted 22 that were not dead. I wasn't seeing false positives, either. A very large fraction of those dead submissions seem to come from one very specific blogspot domain (this time they all seem to be an identical URL, even, except for a TLD swap in some cases).

Does HN not just implement blacklists for URL submissions from certain domains / matching a regex pattern? I get that the showdead option is there so people can vouch for stuff but that would/should realistically never happen in this case. Can't more obvious spam just be deleted directly?

Also, how did HN become such a target for this? I would think that the audience here is generally savvy enough to avoid scams, and that having things linked here is not as beneficial for SEO as many other sites with UGC.
I just checked some Dell prices: $730 to upgrade an XPS desktop from 512GB to 4TB (Apple charges $1200), or $508 to upgrade an Optiplex tower from 256GB to 2TB QLC, or $654 to upgrade it from 256GB to 2TB TLC (Apple charges $800). Scalping on upgrade pricing is something all the PC OEMs do.
> You would be surprised how many content creator gets by with a single ipad.

Can you name one professional software developer?

Probably, you can. But I don't want to limit myself to that sub standard environment. I love my iPad for some activities, for others iOS is just impractical.
Sunk cost fallacy: they've spent so much money on it already, they have to keep using it or that was a waste.

Salesforce's view of this: lock-in.
I'll take him seriously on it. MacOS and Windows are terrible for professional purposes, for a number of reasons:

1. Requires Windows Pro or Apple Developer license to unlock full featureset

2. Cannot reasonably disable targeted advertising or ad data collection from either OS

3. Neither come with package managers and do not respect third-party packaging either

4. Can be "managed" insofar as your buggy CPM software allows, often glitched by the OS itself

5. The experience is always getting worse since Apple and Microsoft share a united front of making people spend as much money on useless shit as humanly possible

Now, that's not to say nobody should use these OSes - certainly people are locked into them for some purposes. But as a programmer it's genuinely hard for me to be productive on these OSes because I end up fighting them just for everyday, non-programming purposes.

I think it's entirely possible that MacOS and Windows can be inherently terrible experiences while also being mandatory for certain workflows.
> In my view, it does

Sure, and you’re welcome to have personal preferences. My point is just that “hard science” sounds like an objective term but it’s neither well-defined nor objective. Calling it “specialties which mjburgess likes” would be just meaningful.
I own almost every Apple ecosystem device, but I definitely wouldn’t call their mobile device RAM capacity as sufficient. It physically hurts me when my iPad Pro M2 and iPhone 16 Pro Max (earlier 15,14,13,12,11) start to swap out live apps - sure some apps retain state, but the majority still don’t. Even Safari randomly reloads tabs for me, while I’m just researching purchases across <10 live tabs.
Yeah. This was a configuration error. Keys you just rotate. Making repos private accidentally creates a whole new mess with forks, stars,... Not recommended

[I work for Elastic]
> for Microsoft, internet, mobile and AI

I don't think they missed AI boat. Their culture would not have allowed them to create OpenAI, but they were fast to leverage their moat and push AI into their office and windows suites and azure. Hell, they are even trying to catch up with search using AI and are trying to push Azure for various AI startups and stuff.

MSFT rarely leads on anything - arguably even Windows is something they created being inspired by something else, while not going deep into hardware. Which what became the undoing of IBM. They are much better at being second. Azure - they were behind AWS, but not as late as Google.

I bet with Satya, even with mobile they would have grabbed Nokia much earlier and pushed Windows Mobile before Android took off.

AWS missed AI boat though.
Would love to chat about what you're building! Current languages are Python and TypeScript, no current plans to add C#.
Show HN: Timeline-Based Citizen Journalism
The "lets privatize essential parts of the government" folks do not care about precedent, or what is a good idea. They are driven by ideology and self dealing.
What does this have to do with my point?
I disagree, it's 100% to do with the frontend and pretty much only because of that.

Node.js is popular because js is popular. You pretty much guarantee an infinite pool of developers for, like, ever. And you can even use those developers across the entire stack with greater velocity and much less onboarding.

async is cool, but not that cool. CGI was doing basically that a long time ago, and it was even more automagical.

> Tech Empower Web Framework still features JavaScript frameworks that outperform Rust frameworks. How do you explain that?

The benchmarks are constructed in such a way that highlights the strengths of the particular JS JIT implementation. JS is good at a lot of things, so if you just do those things, it might appear that it has okay performance.

People do the same thing with C# vs C++; this has been a problem forever. Sure, C# is about as fast or close if you have 16 gigs allocated to the GC and your app is using 100 megs. Now run at 95% memory usage with lots of churning and the order of magnitude differences come out. It's just a fundamental problem with GC langs.
I wish there was a way to use my existing M1 iMac as the display in conjunction with the Mac Mini. Ironically, this is preventing me from buying one of these.
The thing is, obviously, that the Internet isn't broken, it has incredible utility and reliability. If it was designed and operated to be perfect, then it would likely be massively broken quite often. It is the tolerance for mild brokenness that has contributed significantly to its robustness and utility.

That isn't an argument for not improving things though, just a warning against perfection, if you chase it then you're liable to make really big mistakes that ruin everything.
Yeah, but the 5 minute job of installing a cheap retail SSD in that Dell machine yourself is still an option which Apple has removed from all but the Mac Pro, which offsets any SSD savings by being $3000 more expensive than an equivalently specced Mac Studio.
Smooth upgrade on Fedora Desktop. This is the first I've heard of Ptyxis. I'll try 'er out and see if there are any advantages over Gnome Terminal.
I find that the code I get from Copilot Chat frequently fails to do exactly what I asked, but it almost always at least hits on the portions of a library that I need to use to solve the problem, and gets me to that result much more quickly than most other ways of searching do these days.
For sure, but orgs tracking abuse on the net like CF and the like have demonstrated the ability to identify nation state level actors
I also ask about approaching LLM decoding in terms of navigation, although from a different angle, in this reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1dw2pqo/d_...
Not to be confused with the classic OutRun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_Run
Gripper with Passive Pneumatic Soft Joints for Grasping Deformable Thin Objects
Note. The power button is on the bottom now.

Does this mess up datacenters using Mac Minis in racks now?
Plus you would lose a USB-C port to power
Lack of Cuda is not a problem if for most ML frameworks. For example, in PyTorch you just tell it to use the “mps” (metal performance shaders) device instead of the “cuda” device.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. I think it's a fair question.

The fine print says:

> Carbon reductions are calculated against a business-as-usual baseline scenario: No use of clean electricity for manufacturing or product use, beyond what is already available on the latest modeled grid; Apple’s carbon intensity of key materials as of 2015; and Apple’s average mix of transportation modes by product line across three years. Learn more at apple.com/2030.

https://www.apple.com/2030 which mostly seems to focus on the goal of being 100% carbon neutral in energy use.

It sounds like they're generally only looking at carbon emissions from _energy_ use in transportation and manufacturing, and they're probably using some sort of carbon offset to achieve that "net zero". They're probably also not counting carbon emissions from building construction and they're probably not counting carbon emissions from meat served at corporate events, etc.

Update: I found a breakdown for the Mac Mini (linked from the apple.com/2030 page).

https://www.apple.com/environment/pdf/products/desktops/Mac_...

> 100 percent of manufacturing electricity is sourced from
renewable energy

> For Mac mini, we are matching 100 percent of expected customer product use electricity with electricity from low-carbon sources.

They are counting transportation in the "100 percent", but are offsetting it with carbon credits.
> This basically proves that Apple shot themselves in the foot for AI on mobile by artificially restricting RAM for so long!

What they shot was us. My 14 Pro won’t do AI despite having a better NPU than an M1, all because Apple chose - intentionally - to ship it with too little RAM. They knew AI was coming and they did this anyway.

Although having played with it on my MBP it’s clear I’m not missing much. But still.
Storage is usually a non issue on the desktop macs. Just hang a TB disk off the back of it. I've got a 2TB disk hanging off my 512Gb unit.

Just ordered the base M4 Pro so will just plug that into it and carry on.
Happy to answer any questions here! I wrote a tutorial for the durable refund agent as well: https://docs.dbos.dev/python/examples/reliable-ai-agent
I noticed my handwriting was terrible, and consciously improved it by writing slower and being more mindful of writing neatly. A fountain pen helped me slow down, but fundamentally it was just a matter of slowing down and consciously forming nicer characters until it became easy to do so, at which point my speed increased--but I retained the habit of paying enough attention to make nice characters.

Deliberate practice (as in worksheets or exercises) is less important than just going as slow as you need to, to make the characters correctly, until your muscle memory builds up and brings back the speed.
Do you give your own government a pass for supporting Israel's state-sanctioned murder?

Most Singaporeans support the death penalty penalty for drug trafficking: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/death-penalty-majo...
> Not all code is run high enough times for that trade off to be always justified

If you're running a web server, it definitely is. Compute and memory literally translate into money.
It's a configuration error (sorry!). Also with thousands of forks this would be a pretty pointless operation. Once something is out (and that includes a license), you cannot just take it back — it will be there forever.

[I work for Elastic]
Still looks more interesting than that Next.js landing page template used by every startup these days.
Well, the whole form factor is different, so you’d need to redesign your Mac Mini racks anyways.
Is there a well regarded book or study on the origins of Halloween? Any thread online seems to involve a rather baseless argument between people who think it is the natural development of European traditions brought to the US and further iterated upon; or people who think it is an American tradition which also has some influences from immigrant groups.

Essentially allowing religious and nationalistic sentiment drive the entire discussion in terms of it's paganism or who owns it.
Ask HN: What happens if you die, but your SaaS still run?

Your payment methods will likely be frozen after a period of time. If you have credit on these services then when the credit runs out it will try to bill the card you have on file and it will likely fail.

If you need to keep things running, designate people to take over your SaaS business if that is what you are referring to. If you mean personal accounts on SaaS providers, they will likely be closed unless that service recognize the concept of "transfer upon death" which some financial services do. Ask each of the vendors if they have this service. If you meant a company that you run, consult with a lawyer to determine how your company can be transferred upon your death. This is usually a process involved in the creation of a business to satisfy investment security.
While that sounds pretty funny I know people who actually burn the CPU on Excel so that might be significant. Granted they should not be using Excel for what they do but you know, it's easier than learning something new!
Been testing Fedora 41 Beta of KDE SPin and it is very very good. Still like openSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE Plasma desktop more but yeah can also highly recommend Fedora 41 KDE Spin.
Yes because it's so ridiculous to call it a professional machine and not let people put in their own RAM and instead charge $200+ for 8GB
Even with Xorg toolkit support has degraded quite a bit. For GTK it doesn't work by default and you need to set GTK_IM_MODULE=xim in your environment. Qt on the other hand picks up ~/.XCompose by default but truncates the compose result to one character.
Yeah the same tech pcs were using for 14+ years

https://x.com/LinaAsahi/status/1820947147312820497
Right. The repairability argument is the reasonable discussion to have. The silly pricing games are more of a red herring.
In the new title, the skeleton has gone from person to property.
Thanks for making the code base open source
> The skeleton’s bones are held together by wire, like you would see in a school biology set, and he suspects the IORM ordered the body through a catalog.

Kind of buried the lede there.

> He and Hatem believe The Bluebird’s skeleton could be that of a woman, based on its small stature and broad hips. Benkert said a historian he consulted in 2017 guessed the skeleton may have been a young man, possibly from India.

Given the timing, India or the dead body of an unclaimed indigent were my first guesses.
No way the new Mini is too small to allow upgradability. You can buy a Windows mini PC that is not only smaller than the new Mini but also allows upgrading both RAM and SSD. And that's without using LPCAMM2 - just normal SO-DIMMs. (Example: https://trigkey.com/products/trigkey-green-g4-16g-500g-n100)
I'd love to get a little feedback on the project - right now all the events are populated with an LLM pipeline and a crawler, just to demonstrate how the site will look - but the quality of the timelines would ideally be much higher if there was more actual journalism involved.

It's still fairly incomplete and I'm aware of a lot of the UX and functionality issues.
I'm seeing 3200 points for iPhone 16 Pro single core and 3800 for an M4 Mac. That's only about a 18% difference. I don’t think a cabled desktop computer is the right choice for this endeavor anyway.
https://archive.ph/QYhl4
Hallucinations (or more correctly labelled, confabulation) is a property of human beings as well. We fill in memories because they are not precise, sometimes inaccurately.

More to the point, once you know that, having a search engine for ideas that can flexibly discuss them is a tremendous and unprecedented boon.

A new tool, many (many) times better than Google ever was for many ordinary, sometimes extraordinary tasks. I don't understand the new gigantic carafe of water is half full viewpoint. Yes, it isn't perfect!? It is still incredibly useful.
People running a single desktop machine are way better served by being able to upgrade RAM modules than worrying about single contacts being bad between the RAM stick and motherboard.
The thing is that OS is not important these days as you can apps on thin clients now and a lot of folks are spending most of the time within apps and doing nothing else.
My Mac Studio definitely has had a mat of dust surrounding the base intake.
I really enjoyed Wishbringer as a prequel to the Enchanter saga, all by Infocom.

I played all 4 games in series and still occasionally think about the story and world they built.

Wishbringer is more of a gentle dip into that world, and the events in it have no bearing on the rest of the series, but if you like Wishbringer or find it too easy then you will really like or maybe even love Enchanter, Sorcerer, and Spellbreaker.
And my point is that what makes the difference between “feels like” and “actually is” a dystopian nightmare hinges very much on the precise value of Y.

In this case we already know that we’re living the nightmare.
maybe he's the alien, then!
Looked at Richard Scarry's books on google images in hopes to find a book I read as a kid but don't remember its name or much of it. Richard's art is similarly colorful but Writing it here in hopes someone else may know?

There were some blobby looking ice-cream/sundae in it. And a picture story where someone made very tall icecream. So tall that a helicopter was putting scoops on top (or may be it was placing the cherry on top, but i remember that helicopter touching that icecream). It was a colorful cartoony style art in the book.

Having strong imagination as a kid, the pictures in this book always felt real (hard to explain). Then I remember looking at this book many years later as a grown up and not feeling them as real. It's been many many years since then and I want to have a glimpse again.
The security model is not the only factor, but it is one very important factor. Why do I have to open Moebius sync to keep syncthing synchronization running? Why is the whole landscape build under the assumption that a cloud storage is more trustworthy than local storage?

> But requiring user permissions for apps to do shady shit is a good thing.
It's just basic oceanographic physics, that's how midlatitude gyres work. Since you ask:

> "The trade winds create the equatorial currents that flow east to west along the equator; the North Equatorial and South Equatorial currents. If there were no continents, these surface currents would travel all the way around the Earth, parallel to the equator. However, the presence of the continents prevents this unimpeded flow. When these equatorial currents reach the continents, they are diverted and deflected away from the equator by the Coriolis Effect; deflection to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere. These currents then become western boundary currents; currents that run along the western side of the ocean basin (i.e. the east coasts of the continents). Since these currents come from the equator, they are warm water currents, bringing warm water to the higher latitudes and distributing heat throughout the ocean."

https://rwu.pressbooks.pub/webboceanography/chapter/9-1-surf...

The issue is that increased poleward Gulf Stream heat transport could easily overpower the effect of Greenland ice melt outflows into the North Atlantic. This raises other problems, it could still decrease deep ocean ventilation and push the increasing oceanic hypoxia trend.
>but we do expect you to check it and to resolve any potential issues.

That's the important part.

If they receive another one (or two, or a few) more abuse reports, they assume it is not fixed, and will expect a response then. Which ends up being annoying.
Hmm interesting, didn't realize that data sovereignty requirements were so stringent. Wonder how other cloud providers are doing in this sense considering GPU shortages across the board.
I doubt the internal SSD is going to die before the power supply gets cooked.

If it does, you can get the SSD chips replaced. That is well proven now. Granted it needs a specialist with rework kit but they are starting to become more common now that it's an issue.
But now they get to sell new devices to them
Thank you! Would love your feedback after you use it!
Has there ever been a single instance of a game from Steam including an X11 keyloggers? These threats are off in fantasy land.
That's a great comparison.
Not just an absentee, he promised not to interfere when he purchased it.
Whisky also does a great job at running Windows games with minimal setup / overhead.
> A jit compiler has access to information that an aot compiler can only dream of

If you know the machine and platform ahead of time, not really. For frontend JS this isn't the case. But for backend code it absolutely is the case.

Sure, theoretically the JIT can sit in the background, see which functions are called the most and how they're call and then re-JIT pieces of code. In practice, I'm not sure how often this is done and if you even gain much performance. You MIGHT in a dynamically typed lang like JS because you can find out a bunch of info at runtime. In something like C# though? You already know a bunch at compile-time.
Yes, I stand corrected!
I think "propositions-as-types" is exactly why we should consider proofs to be the same if they prove the same type.

As others have already said, if you want to distinguish between different proofs, it's better to encode those distinctions formally into types (and thus potentially into another mathematical theory).
Depends on your workplace. You can adjust some settings to fine tune what gets sent to Cursor/stored by them
As one of the boomer generation, I would be fascinated to hear how we ruined college.
billing is one of those things that I realize is deeper and more complicated every time you talk to somebody who thinks about it for their job; usage based pricing makes it even more so, interesting to read about how companies are adapting to that
What's the model of that USB C hub? Looking for one that I can switch between Windows and Mac (and maybe Linux)
This might actually push people to upgrade their hardware.
And Apple retention rates are high. Apple will be fine.
I don't think the title of the article matches the content. The GFS has not declined relative to the ECMWF. It just started from a lower skill level and its improvements have not significantly closed the gap with ECMWF (as it has also improved).

> Specifically, NOAA's global model, the UFS, is now in third or fourth place behind the European Center, the UK Meteorology Office, and often the Canadians.

Would love to see evidence of that. It is well established that ECMWF is top in the game. I don't think it is reasonable to just state that Canada and UK are better without evidence.

With that said, I agree the US should improve.