MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by esperent | 2025-04-27 00:34:23+00:00
Go into the Reddit threads of anyone doing something interesting like showcasing their skill. All the top threads will comments like "he's lucky he still has fingers", "hope he washed his hands afterwards", "damn that's ugly", and on and on, on a video where I will see a skillful guy doing something that would be dangerous for me, but is clearly within normal safe boundaries for his skill level. It's just a feedback loop of negativity unless the person is both extremely beautiful and skilled in which case all the comments are about how hot they are. The threshold of quality is ridiculous, the only people who can meet it are genetic lottery winners who also have a makeup and camera team.

This is what we are judging potential friends against. They have to be both perfect and beautiful to get even close to matching what we see everyday on the internet.

In the same way porn can make your real sexual partners feel lacking, these perfect people on reddit/Instagram/TikTok will make any potential real friends seem lacking and worthless. Not worth the effort.

Meanwhile the fact that we are also less than perfect is kept bottled up, we avoid looking at ourselves in the mirror too closely, all of that gets shunted into the subconscious and bubbles back up as depression, lack of self worth, workaholism, addiction, and other mental health issues.
by lenova | 2025-04-27 00:35:17+00:00
My role is classified as DevOps consulting, working for several different companies, each with their own unique setup and teams... but yeah, it's basically glorified sysadmin work ;-). On the plus side though, I get to see the realities of internal company tech stacks, and that the default settings often are chosen over better solutions.

Thanks again for considering journald, and at the same time, don't forget that it's your project at the end of the day... you can always disregard feature requests if it's not a direction you want to head in. Though in this case, I do believe journald support would get your tool more traction with a larger audience in the long term.
by tomhow | 2025-04-27 00:35:20+00:00
> My guy

> Like really where did you think an army of netizens willing to die on the altar of Masking came from when they barely existed in the real world? Wake up.

This style of commenting breaks several of the guidelines, including:

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer

Omit internet tropes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Also, the username is an obscenity, which is not allowed on HN, as it trolls the HN community in every thread where its comments appear.

So, we've banned the account.

If you want use HN as intended and choose an appropriate username, you can email us at hn@ycombinator.com and we can unban you if we believe your intentions are sincere.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-04-27 00:35:23+00:00
<< People with more money have more options - including easily leaving the country

If the above is true, then your position that laws governing the country determine skin in the game is not valid, because those individuals pick, which skin they get to wear ( as in, it is not a factor at all for them ). The two positions are not compatible, which suggests that there is a facet to these factors that is not captured within the model you propose.

<< The only distinction related to the right to vote should beade based on the ability to take rational decisions

Careful now, you are dangerously close to suggesting people, who make irrational choices should not vote, which includes just about 99.9% of the voting population.

<< An increase of 50% in taxes will cost a wealthy person much more in pure monetary terms, but will have a much, much higher impact in quality of life for a poor person.

On the other hand, it costs poor person nothing to vote for themselves somebody else's money and with opportunistic enough a leader a ignorant enough a populace, the sky is literally the limit. Who has more skin in the game here, the person, who gets to lose 50% of their resources to taxes or a person, who was promised someone's taxes to trickle down to them?

Yes, I am setting you up a bit.
by overfeed | 2025-04-27 00:36:01+00:00
> Not only can I not understand how you could imagine this to be the motive

That's a fair question, and I suppose you may not consume British media and may be missing the necessary context.

> I can't imagine how you even understand the term "identity politics" such that they could even in principle be "exported" in such a manner.

I got you: the Trump admin wants to export its ideology on gender-identity by coercing the UK into changing its LGBTQ policies as a prerequisite to a trade deal with the US. The European right is not as crotchety about non-heteronomative relationship as the American right, and the Trump admin would like to change that. You may start here https://www.advocate.com/politics/us-uk-trade-deal-lgbtq https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/04/18/trump-uk-trade-lgbtq-...
by Barrin92 | 2025-04-27 00:36:27+00:00
> as a film, consciousness springs from nothing.

But it doesn't. Because the film depends on the screen and the projector. This was one of Kant's central points, although he used the fancy term "transcendental unity of apperception". To even experience a set of images as disjointed, to see individual parts as relating to each other there has to be a unified experience judging them as disjointed against, the "thinking I". Without the observer already implicit in the thought experiment about images constituting a film, there is no "film" because nothing in it would have the ability to even conceive of itself as such. Hindus have a very elegant term for this "witness-consciousness" (Atman), importantly like in Kant distinct from ego and mind, not experience but a formal condition for experience. David Bentley Hart also has a great section about this in his recent book:

"Every composite thing, he acknowledges, is an aggregate of several other things, and all its actions are aggregations of diverse actions and accident. [...] If it’s the composite thing that’s doing the thinking, then each part of the composite possesses only a part of the thought, and only in the aggregate is there a complete thought—but then who or what is having that thought? Where does that thought as a unity occur? Can it be just another part of the brain, with its own diverse parts and its own necessary inner coordinating facility? But then that too is made up of partially competent ..."
by HocusLocus | 2025-04-27 00:37:07+00:00
If you ever encountered a Fortan-77 port where the room that had 'frozen rivers of orange stone' also had another bit in the description: "A recently carved message on the wall reads, 'Artoo Detoo was here!'.

That was me. On the engineering filesystem of GEISCO (General Electric Information Services Co Mark III foreground, the thing using Honeywell equipment that later became GEnie) ... still a kid I leveraged the debugger to root-like access for a time and it was fun. I did a global search for Adventure and found it in 4 separate 'private' employee-user places, and patched them all. ~1981.
by karmakaze | 2025-04-27 00:37:53+00:00
Is there a text format like TSV/CSV that can represent nested/repeating sub-structures?

We have YAML but it's too complex. JSON is rather verbose with all the repeated keys and quoting, XML even moreso. I'd also like to see a 'schema tree' corresponding to a header row in TSV/CSV. I'd even be fine with a binary format with standard decoding to see the plain-text contents. Something for XML like what MessagePack does for JSON would work, since we already have schema specifications.
by eigenhombre | 2025-04-27 00:39:32+00:00
We had one of these at CERN in the experimental physics group I was in 1990-1991. I had no idea they were rare or that the line was a failure. It was certainly faster than the other machines the group had access to at the time (except an onsite Cray, access to which was restricted only to members from "Western" countries for political reasons).
by tomhow | 2025-04-27 00:40:26+00:00
> You are a massive hypocrite, and it seems like you're a scammer and a thief, too.

Personal attacks like this are not OK on Hacker News and we ban people who do it repeatedly.

Please have a read of the guidelines and make an effort to adhere to them in future.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by Aurornis | 2025-04-27 00:40:40+00:00
You think if someone was evil and willing, they’d design and launch a satellite designed to seek out another satellite and take it out of orbit in a way that causes it to drop randomly into the atmosphere?

All this instead of simply launching a satellite that does what they want? Or skipping the satellite and doing it with terrestrial solutions?

Some people’s threat models are very upside down.
by mrkstu | 2025-04-27 00:41:20+00:00
This spurs a great memory- my father and my best friend’s father worked together at ADP dealer services in the 70s.

Once, during a sleepover my friend (we were around 8 at the time) put the phone on an acoustic coupler modem and used the connected terminal to log into the DEC minicomputer and introduce me to the joys of Colossal Cave Adventure.

We were lost in time so much that his dad was more than a little upset when he got home because he’d been trying to call his wife before hitting the road home.

I didn’t get any real exposure to computers for a few years until my dad bought a TI 99/4a from another work friend. Of course one of the first games was their version of Adventure and then Zork style games.

Just picked up a TI from Facebook marketplace the other day- it’ll be interesting to see exactly what the nostalgia hit is going to be like…
by montroser | 2025-04-27 00:43:12+00:00
Yeah, but in real life, SSE error events are not robust, so you still have to do manual heartbeat messages and tear down and reestablish the connection when the user changes networks, etc. In the end, long-polling with batched events is not actually all that different from SSE with ping/pong heartbeats, and with long-polling, you get the benefit of normal load balancing and other standard HTTP things
Show HN: I Made an AI-Powered Static Analyzer for Binaries
by csnate | 2025-04-27 00:44:43+00:00
For at least a few years (since before COVID), in my circle everbody wants an AI tool that finds vulnerabilities in binaries. I have my reservations about such a tool because of my perception that AI is overhyped, so I decided to build one myself to see how useful it could be (or not).

I was actually kinda surprised how well it worked for my collection of binaries with known CVEs. It definitely has false positives and negatives, as any static analysis tool would, but I think its actually somewhat usable. I dont think the results are super actionable, but interesting nonetheless. I still think the AI hype can be out there sometimes, but this project taught me a lot about the subject and forced me to think in ways that I wouldn't normally when doing RE/VR/program analysis.

Right now, this is just a side project. It only looks for buffer overflows for now (still a common bug, believe it or not). I dont know if I'll expand this to more vulnerability types, work on trying to reduce the false positives, or if I'll even keep this going long term. Hoping to get some opinions on where to go next and find the bugs.
by krisoft | 2025-04-27 00:45:48+00:00
> Why get so mad at these researchers—who are acting in full transparency by disclosing the study—when nefarious actors (and indeed the platforms themselves!) are engaged in the same kind of manipulation.

I’m mad at both of them. Both at the nefarious actors and the researchers. If i could I would stop both.

The bad news for the researchers (and their university, and their ethics review board) they cannot publish anonymously. Or at least they can’t get the reputational boost they were hoping for. So they had to come clean. It is not like they had an option where they kept it secret and still publish their research somehow. Thus we can catch them and shame them for their unethical actions. Because this is absolutely that. If the ethics review board doesn’t understand that then their head needs to be adjusted too.

I would love to stop the same the nefarious actors too! Absolutely. Unfortunately they are not so easy to catch. That doesn’t mean that i’m not mad at them.

> If we don’t allow it to be studied because it is creepy

They can absolutely study it. They should get study participants, pay them. Get their agreement to participate in an experiment, but tell them a fake story about what the study is about. Then do their experiment, with a private forum of their own making, and then they should de-brief their participants about what the experiment was about and in what ways were they manipulated. That is the way to do this.
by hirvi74 | 2025-04-27 00:47:55+00:00
Nice work! It's better than Yahoo's hellscape I have been forced to suffer for years.

However, my favorite player is not in your app, and I am slightly offended (I'm kidding of course).

Do you plan to add real-time updating of stats? I thought of rolling my own app at one time, and last I checked, the NHL is very particular about their data.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-04-27 00:48:02+00:00
I’m unsure I agree with this. South Korea, Japan, China, etc. This is clear from the total fertility rate, how it presents is just a different shade in each country. Outside of the Nordics and parts of Europe, I don’t think anywhere else puts an effort into making being a parent not suck. And even places putting material resources into family and parent support, it doesn’t move the needle.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/babies-birth-rate-d...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
by tzs | 2025-04-27 00:48:22+00:00
> I recently saw a compilation of Democrat politicians doing the exact same "Nazi salute" over the years. Obama, Hillary, Sanders, AOC, etc.

No, you did not. You saw a collection of Democrat politicians whose arms at one point were sticking out in the same position that arms stick out at the end of a Nazi salute. This happens all the time. I do it 3 days a week when making breakfast.

What Musk did was start with his arm down, rapidly raise it to his heart, and then forcefully thrust it out to the position usually shows in photographs of Hitler doing the salute. There are videos of Hitler doing that full hand to heart and then thrust gesture that almost exactly match Musk's gesture from start to finish.

When you track down the videos that the purported Democrat examples are taken from you will see that none of them did that. They were doing things like pointing, or waving to a crowd, or gesticulating while they talked, and in the midst of that their arms ended up in that position.
by koolba | 2025-04-27 00:48:23+00:00
> What we're doing right now isn't working, isn't sustainable, and ignores several realities of how we interact with our neighboring nations (and, indeed, is a new problem... The current tight-border regime isn't even half a century old).

The problem with this argument is it’s downstream from a self fulfilling prophesy derived from the previous administration’s refusal to enforce the law. Illegal border crossings are down 99% over the past year. If that type of seriousness had been applied previously we wouldn’t be in the situation we are today.

We didn’t do the ounce of prevention so now we have to administer the bitter medicine that is the cure.
by rchaud | 2025-04-27 00:49:08+00:00
> How does anyone have the confidence to ship a legal brief that an AI produced without checking it thoroughly?

Because its makers don't care about precision or correctness. They care only about convincing the people that matter that gaping software bugs are "hallucinations" that can never be fixed 100%, and that that is an acceptable outcome.

For every story about AI-assisted legal briefs with tons of mistakes, there will be 100 PR-ridden pieces about how $LATEST_VERSION has passed the bar exam or has discovered a miracle drug. There will never be a story about AI successfully arguing a real case however, because the main goal was only about selling a vision of labor replacement. Whether or not the replacement can do the job as specified is immaterial.
by chasil | 2025-04-27 00:49:29+00:00
Our shop floor system is still written in VAX ACMS, using TDMS for menus, and Oracle Rdb for SQL.

I still have an account. It runs on the Charon emulator.

A little after your time, I wrote code on a DECstation 5000/240 running MIPS/Ultrix. I'm surprised that wasn't faster, and/or available to you.

The vector extensions might have been your niche though.
by homebrewer | 2025-04-27 00:50:36+00:00
It is a passable replacement for CLI utilities (so basically Python or bash) thanks to the rich ecosystem, easy cross-compilation, and static linking, which makes deploying the result easy while also avoiding the horrible mess and pain of handling Python dependencies, or remembering dozens of tiny incompatibilities between various flavors of UNIX utilities.

Unlike Rust, one is not required to have three digit IQ to use the language, so that's why I've been using it where previously I would have resorted to Python (and then either copy venvs around, or write packages for my packages to ship dependencies of my dependencies).

I too fail to see why would anybody use it for anything else, especially compilers or more complicated server stuff where you really benefit from having a proper type system, but people do, so I must be missing something...
by LoganDark | 2025-04-27 00:50:57+00:00
Through CrossOver I haven't been able to run Space Engineers (playably), Forever Skies, TerraTech Worlds, or even Plants vs Zombies (playably). It's certainly impressive but it's not by any means perfect.

They don't even support excluding the notch from fullscreen apps yet, so if you run a game in fullscreen or fullscreen borderless, the screen notch can obscure UI elements (as it does for me in Volcanoids - the timer until the volcano erupts is just a bit important, given that it dictates the entire gameplay loop).

However, I have been able to run R.E.P.O., Trailmakers, BeamNG.drive, and Cosmoteer, so it's not like nothing at all works, it's just hit or miss.
by ethersteeds | 2025-04-27 00:52:13+00:00
> I don't think there is any way to protect against AI generated content other than to use stronger forms of authentication/provenance.

Is that even enough though? Just like mobile apps today resell the the legitimacy of residential IP addresses, there's always going to be people willing to let bots post under their government-ID-validared internet persona for easy money. I really don't know what the fix is. It is Pandora's box.
by deanmoriarty | 2025-04-27 00:52:30+00:00
I personally think it’s better to struggle early on than to give away money like candies to founders with dubious businesses who will then trick gullible employees into thinking that these companies’ massive valuations mean anything. I kid you not one founder told me once my equity was safer in the company than liquidated and put in the SP500, when I inquired about tender opportunities.

I have vested equity (that I painfully exercised) in a “2020-era unicorn” that has been a complete zombie ever since. I wish they’d just go out of business for me to at least declare a capital loss on my taxes.

I just have myself to blame clearly, so just stating an opinion.
by heylook | 2025-04-27 00:53:13+00:00
Yep.

> [learning a language is] only helpful for high professional tasks or close literary study or prestige.

This is a person who doesn't understand actual face-to-face communication, like, at all. Even though translation apps are amazing, in a social interaction, there's no getting over the imposition of the halting, hesitant back-and-forth of device-assisted translation. Sure, you can almost always eventually get your point across, but you're never going to set the other party at ease in the same way as speaking their language yourself.
by dlcarrier | 2025-04-27 00:53:28+00:00
A locally-hosted web interface would likely be easier to reach a given level of security than a centrally hosted interface, but obtaining and renewing SSL/TLS certificates is a requirement for HTTPS interfaces, and are designed around centralized and frequently updated centrally hosted systems, so it's only really doable with a different protocol.

It would still be easy to have a locally-hosted interface, over any other protocol, with an open-source client that could easily be ported to any future hardware and operating system.
by maxbond | 2025-04-27 00:53:32+00:00
I've been dabbling in using Fourier analysis in deep learning lately, and I'm surprised it that I haven't turned up very much research in this area (Fourier Neural Operators being what seems to be the biggest exception). Fourier analysis is such a ubiquitous tool, intuitively I'd think it would work great for deep learning. My suspicion has been that complex numbers are difficult to work with, and maybe I'm just bad at surfacing the relevant research, but I'd be interested to hear from those better informed. (My naive approach has been to simply concatenate the real and complex components together into an n+1 dimensional tensor, but surely there's a way that better respects the structure of complex numbers.)
by janalsncm | 2025-04-27 00:55:22+00:00
There’s no way to prevent these things categorically but they can be made harder. A few ways (some more heavy handed than others and not always appropriate):

Requiring a verified email address.

Requiring a verified phone number.

Requiring a verified credit card.

Charging a nominal membership fee (e.g. $1/month) which makes scaling up operations expensive.

Requiring a verified ID (not tied to the account, but can prevent duplicates).

In small forums, reputation matters. But it’s not scalable. Limiting the size of groups to ~100 members might work, with memberships by invite only.
by turtleyacht | 2025-04-27 00:56:07+00:00
Trying to figure a workaround in ksh for space-delimited filenames:

for f in $(ls "/mnt/dir"); do cp -v "$f" /elsewhere done

Because -R doesn't handle retries when cp(1) errors out intermittently (USB MTP to phone). I don't remember it being this hard in bash, or Android just is like this. Hopefully can figure it out without going to perl or C. Maybe dump(8).

Even though 54 GB partition created, it only takes up 22 GB or so. Either missing a lot of files or FFS compacts it well.
by sheepscreek | 2025-04-27 00:56:20+00:00
I’m not sure about the rev share aspect, but I’m a bit disappointed that, despite his message of “go ahead and do your thing, worry about edge cases later” (paraphrasing), the legalese further introduces the concept of commercial and non-commercial nature of different tracks.

I genuinely hoped for a MIT/BSD-like license that would allow people to express themselves freely with his content. However, I am now less inclined to do so.

Update: All said, still grateful to him for doing something. That’s already way more than most artists to do give back.