MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ltbarcly3 | 2025-04-16 17:55:12+00:00
I'm not going low at all. If you actually read my comments:

I think:

- he's lying about being in danger, but I also say that is reasonable for him to lie and I would do the same thing without hesitation

- it's unjust, unfair, and cruel to deport him after half his life and entire adult life, and his wife and children here

- that legally he should *NOT* be deported while his deportation order is on hold because that is what the law says

- that legally he should (and probably would) eventually be deported since that is just what the law says and he was ordered to be deported already, and that is literally what 'temporary' implies (the rule of law cuts both ways)

- I never condemned the man or made any unfair assumptions about him. I certainly never said or implied at all that he was a criminal, that he had any relationship to any gang, that he should have been deported extra-legally and put in a foreign prison without trial, because that is all insane. I said his rights WERE violated, but specifically that his right to due process was not violated (he did have a trial already and lost). (Being returned to your home country is not a punishment and it doesn't deprive you of any rights, excepting if you have already become a citizen).

So my point, if I made it poorly, is that this individual being deported is not a legal injustice against him, most likely he should be deported under current law, and most likely he would have been deported in the next year or two in any case. The injustice here is that his deportation was carried out extra-legally and in defiance of the law and that the US is complicit (or really actively causing) humans to be jailed without due process or really any process.

That means that he was a father, that he was (or was not) a member of MS13, that he had (or didn't have) a job, that he was a nice man (or not a nice man), that he love (or hated) his mother, that his kids are honor students (or hoodlums) is all irrelevant and nobody should care about it in the context of what is going on. He was here illegally, but he was also legally allowed to stay for a little while longer. That any person was extra legally handed over to a foreign government with instructions and payment to imprison them without trial is beyond unacceptable.

I don't know what's low about any of that. It's very hard to comment in an online space on political issues because people, in general, do not use their ability to read and comprehend. They read the first 5 words, assume that the rest is either "good" or "bad" depending on whether it's leaning towards the opinion they read from whichever outlet conveys to them the talking points for their political party, and then they react by repeating those same talking points. If you have an opinion that is anything but repeating what one of the two approved opinions is that day people really fail to cope with that.
by vlovich123 | 2025-04-16 17:55:42+00:00
Amazon did this the absolute worst way - all customers share the same flat namespace for S3 buckets which limits the names available and also makes the bucket names discoverable. Did it a bit more sanely and securely at Cloudflare where it was namespaced to the customer account, but that required registering a wildcard certificate per customer if I recall correctly.
by thrance | 2025-04-16 17:56:15+00:00
I feel like by now those people you describe should have realized Trump is doing no good on those issues they supposedly cared about. And if they had even a tiny modicum of empathy, they should be scared shitless about the people getting disappeared.

The economy is shit, eggs are more expensive than ever but those same people that insisted those issues alone should decide the fate of the country don't seem to care anymore. Why?

People who voted for Trump weren't stupid, they've been molded into it by the most expensive proaganda apparatus that ever existed. Ask yourself, why isn't Trump's popularity declining in the face of such incompetency?

Now, what can a nice talk achieve that material reality failed to convince those people of?
by bitwize | 2025-04-16 17:56:15+00:00
The Model II was a loud beast. Its floppy drive drew directly from mains power, not a DC rail off the power supply, and spun all the time. The heads engaged via a solenoid that was so powerful it made a loud "thunk" sound and actually changed the size of the display on the built-in CRT.

The Model 12 and 16 improved on the design, sporting Tandon "Thinline" 8" drives that ran on DC and spun down when not in use, leaving fan noise that was quite tolerable.
by lbeurerkellner | 2025-04-16 17:57:02+00:00
Original author of some of the initial security notes at Invariant Labs here. Some resources, if you want to learn about MCP security:

* Initial Security Note describing Tool Poisoning, Rug Pulls, Tool Shadowing for the first time with diagrams and detailed experiments: https://invariantlabs.ai/blog/mcp-security-notification-tool...,

* Attack on WhatsApp MCP (both tool poisoning but also take-over via an infected message to your account): https://invariantlabs.ai/blog/whatsapp-mcp-exploited

* BrowserMCP attack, where it suffices for the agent to visit a compromised website (https://access.invariantlabs.ai): https://x.com/lbeurerkellner/status/1912145060763742579

We also recently released a security scanning tool to detect and prevent such attacks, including upcoming support for full proxying and local security scanning of tool calling payload and responses.

Please have a look and provide feedback if you can: https://github.com/invariantlabs-ai/mcp-scan
by chasil | 2025-04-16 17:57:02+00:00
How difficult is the purification process? Is it as difficult as uranium hexafloride gas?

Yes, gas centrifuge appears to be a leading method.

'The purification starts with “simple” isotopic purification of silicon. The major breakthrough was converting this Si to silane (SiH4), which is then further refined to remove other impurities. The ultra-pure silane can then be fed into a standard epitaxy machine for deposition onto a 300-mm wafer.'

https://www.eejournal.com/article/silicon-purification-for-q...
by growse | 2025-04-16 17:57:31+00:00
> Someone that has seized control of your core network such that they were capable of modifying traffic, is not going to waste precious time or access modifying the flags of ls on your man page server. They will focus on more valuable things.

Ah, the "both me and my attackers agree on what's important" fallacy.

What if they modify the man page response to include drive-by malware?
by arp242 | 2025-04-16 17:58:00+00:00
Crypto people want a banking system free from government control where no-one has any checks on anything.

And they also want government to act if someone does something they don't like.

The https://indexed.finance page has a big fat "This project is in beta. Use it at your own risk." warning. I guess "use at your own risk" doesn't apply to themselves.

Unserious people.
by zoomzoom | 2025-04-16 17:58:02+00:00
We’ve spent the last few months talking to AI-native teams across fintech, health, legal, and other high-stakes domains. A consistent theme came up: while everyone is investing heavily in LLMs — evals, prompt/model tuning, model experimentation — almost no one has a clean way to integrate human review into production workflows.

Most teams are stuck cobbling together brittle systems: Slack alerts when models are uncertain, spreadsheets to track review outcomes and result quality, manual tagging and triage by engineers, business teams waiting on dev cycles to change rules and integrations.

We built Coherence to solve this. It’s a control plane for production AI that brings structured human oversight into your app with just one simple API call. With Coherence, teams can: Route edge cases to the right human reviewer in real-time, let business users own the rules and thresholds with no dev time required, monitor what’s being flagged and how it’s resolved, improve AI behavior over time via structured feedback loops.

If you’re deploying AI where correctness matters — and spreadsheets aren't cutting it — we’d love your thoughts. We're currently looking for more design partners and early users to help us shape a great product!

https://www.withcoherence.com/
by elmolino89 | 2025-04-16 17:58:13+00:00
One does not even need to bury anything. For example miscanthus giganteus plantation will increase carbon storage in the soil by simply increasing the mass of rhisomes and excreting various organic compounds into the soil. Obviously this has it's limits since the ground will be saturated after couple of years but it's is still a progress compared with a field with no plants.
by jawiggins | 2025-04-16 17:58:28+00:00
In the examples they demonstrate tool use in the reasoning loop. The models pretty impressively recognize they need some external data, and either complete a web search, or write and execute python to solve intermediate steps.

To the extent that reasoning is noisy and models can go astray during it, this helps inject truth back into the reasoning loop.

Is there some well known equivalent to Moores Law for token use? We're headed in a direction where LLM control loops can run 24/7 generating tokens to reason about live sensor data, and calling tools to act on it.
by echelon | 2025-04-16 17:58:32+00:00
I mean, it's not fucking AGI/ASI. No amount of LLM flip floppery is going to get us terminators.

If this starts looking differently and the pace picks up, I won't be giving analysis on OpenAI anymore. I'll start packing for the hills.

But to OpenAI's credit, I also don't see how minting another FAANG isn't an incredible achievement. Like - wow - this tech giant was willed into existence. Can't we marvel at that a little bit without worrying about LLMs doing our taxes?
by bongodongobob | 2025-04-16 17:58:33+00:00
IIRC, it wasn't piracy in the sense of copying games that they were trying to prevent, it was unlicensed studios developing games for the NES. The great video game crash happened and they wanted to control the quality of games released for the system to prevent trash games being shoveled into the market. It was a quality control thing.
by const_cast | 2025-04-16 17:58:34+00:00
Of course it's a generalization, I'm explicitly generalizing.

But, I should note, I'm not speaking on conservatism or the GOP in general. I'm speaking on, specifically, far-right populist messaging, current-day known as MAGA.

This is a different, but related, beast. I'm confident in speaking on it in this way because populism, by it's nature, appeals to the lowest common denominator in order to be successful. We can make a lot of assumptions about populist movements because we know how, and why, populism works. MAGA operates less like a policy set and more like a Cult, like populist movements of the past.

And, to my original point, if I were to explain to you some of the objectively awful things the Trump administration is doing right now, I am very confident you would have no choice but to use the 4-step game plan written above to dismiss it.

When you have subscribed to a religion, you have no choice but to use the powers of divination and faith to argue. The populist movement never had any logical backing to begin with, so you cannot just conjure one out of nowhere.
by johnvanommen | 2025-04-16 17:58:54+00:00
> Atari was not. Atari had many cash grab games like ET the extraterrestrial where most budget was spent in box art and marketing than game development.

It's a little bit ironic that Spielberg's love of videogames kinda ruined Atari.

It was Spielberg who pursued Atari, not the other way around.

Basically, the video game companies weren't looking to do movie tie-ins at the time. Spielberg loved videogames, and made a request to have Atari's Howard Scott Warshaw come out to SoCal to meet Spielberg.

That meeting led to Atari's "Raiders of the Lost Ark" game. Warshaw had previously done "Yar's Revenge" and "Adventure."

Then Spielberg asked Atari to make an E.T. game, and the rest is history.

Basically, if Atari had ignored Spielberg's call to make "Raiders," they wouldn't have made "ET" and they might have remained dominant for a few more years, preventing Nintendo from taking everything over in the mid 80s.
by shmatt | 2025-04-16 17:59:11+00:00
Im old enough to remember the mystery and hype before o*/o1/strawberry that was supposed to be essentially AGI. We had serious news outlets write about senior people at OpenAI quitting because o1 was SkyNet

Now we're up to o4, AGI is still not even in near site (depending on your definition, I know). And OpenAI is up to about 5000 employees. I'd think even before AGI a new model would be able to cover for at least 4500 of those employees being fired, is that not the case?
by bee_rider | 2025-04-16 17:59:14+00:00
Word processors (less of an issue for Internet comments, but worth keeping in mind) but more significantly iOS (at least) and I assume Android will just swap in an em dash where needed—it is automatic.

There is probably some signal, but be a good Bayesian; we have people saying “oh, this is a bot” when there’s a huge population of mobile users with smart keyboards that are the more likely cause.

Anyway, in general I find bot-hunting annoying. Comments should be handled as comments, if someone has made a bad argument, it should be taken down as a bad argument. If it was bot-generated, it is still there to mislead people. The advantage that bots have is that they have infinite patience and nothing better in their lives to do than argue, but there have always been people like that, so hopefully readers will be able to observe that persistence!=correctness.
by whalesalad | 2025-04-16 17:59:32+00:00
I've wanted something like this for a long time, going to take it for a spin. Looks like there is a lot of help wanted on certain underlying implementations so that would be fun to help out with too.

I think there is tremendous value in having these functions that appear stateless and run in "stateless" environments like aws lambda, but on each invocation they are handed the previous state and are able to augment it and return (to persist) or do nothing.

Very erlang-y, which is rad.
by dimal | 2025-04-16 17:59:42+00:00
It's shareholder capitalism. Capitalism can be a great thing, but shareholder capitalism defines profits as the only reason for a corporation to exist. Humans are simply resources to extract work or profit from, and destroying the future of the country is an unfortunate externality. CEOs are obligated to behave like sociopaths. Lying, cheating, stealing, and subverting democracy are all good business if it returns value to shareholders. We see this over and over again, and wonder why our society is so fucked up.

And since every major corporation is behaving like this, even if a CEO wanted to give a shit about the country, they can't do anything about it because someone else will be more cutthroat than them and eat their lunch.
by digitalsushi | 2025-04-16 17:59:46+00:00
I grabbed this about 5 years ago and stashed it on the media server.

Two years ago I got into a docker compose project to use mpd and rern/rAudio to stream music 24/7 over multiple channels on a bunch of pis with dac hats, including my wood shop out in the woods.

So I'm out there at midnight a year or two ago and I had it pinned on these kmart rips.

It's creepy out there.

All of a sudden this booming voice yells "SECURITY TURN CAMERAS TO AISLE 13" or some such thing.

So be careful if you are likely to get into the same predicament.
by drcongo | 2025-04-16 17:59:52+00:00
As someone who doesn't use anything OpenAI (for all the reasons), I have to agree with the GP. It's all baffling. Why is there an o3-mini and an o4-mini? Why on earth are there so many models?

Once you get to this point you're putting the paradox of choice on the user - I used to use a particular brand toothpaste for years until it got to the point where I'd be in the supermarket looking at a wall of toothpaste all by the same brand with no discernible difference between the products. Why is one of them called "whitening"? Do the others not do that? Why is this one called "complete" and that one called "complete ultra"? That would suggest that the "complete" one wasn't actually complete. I stopped using that brand of toothpaste as it become impossible to know which was the right product within the brand.

If I was assessing the AI landscape today, where the leading models are largely indistinguishable in day to day use, I'd look at OpenAI's wall of toothpaste and immediately discount them.
by exe34 | 2025-04-16 18:00:11+00:00
> I’ve seen no evidence that musk was here illegally.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/10/26/elon-musk...

Yes, I'm defending "illegals". No I don't need an excuse - the constitution of the united states requires that legal/illegal be decided by a court, not the executive.

Sending people to concentration camps is not deporting. It's human trafficking.

> A federal judge on Wednesday said he has found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt of court for violating his orders to turn around planes carrying deportees to El Salvador.

(https://apnews.com/article/trump-deportees-el-salvador-conte...)

So ironically, you're defending a convicted felon once more committing a crime, and accusing me of defending crime in the same breath.
by antirez | 2025-04-16 18:00:13+00:00
The system uses on purpose those simple words, since they are "tellers" of the style of the user in a context independent way. Burrows papers explain this very well, but in general we want to capture low-level structure, more than topics and exact non obvious words used. I tested the system with 10k words and removing the most common words, and you get totally different results (still useful, but not style matching), basically you get users grouped by interests.
by datameta | 2025-04-16 18:00:13+00:00
Novgorod was the only major East Slavic settlement to avoid destruction or subjugation by the Golden Horde, so I think it is akin to a boy from a well-to-do family in medieval Avignon or Strasbourg learning to read and write. Meaning, not just any city or any family in the mid/late 13th century had the need or means for such schooling, but as pointed out in this thread it was more likely in Novgorod.
by formerly_proven | 2025-04-16 18:00:20+00:00
Yeah it's almost weird it doesn't seem to exist, at least publicly. My megacorp created their own protocol for this purpose (though it might actually predate ACME, I'm not sure), and a bunch of in-house people and suppliers created the necessary middlewares to integrate it into stuff like cert-manager and such (basically everything that needs a TLS certificate and is deployed more than thrice). I imagine many larger companies have very similar things, with the only material difference being different organizational OIDs for the proprietary extension fields (I found it quite cute when I learned that the corp created a very neat subtree beneath its organization OID).
by jchw | 2025-04-16 18:00:47+00:00
I checked and you seem to be correct, at least for Firefox and Chromium. I tried using:

https://self-signed.badssl.com/

and when I clicked "Accept the risk and continue", the certificate was added to Certificate Manager. I closed the browser, re-opened it, and it did not prompt again.

I did the same thing in Chromium and it also worked, though I'm not sure if Chromium's are permanent or if they have a lifespan of any kind.

I am absolutely 100% certain that it did not always work that way. I remember a time when Firefox had an option to permanently add an exception, but it was not the default.

Either way, apologies for the misunderstanding. I genuinely did not realize that it worked this way, and it runs contrary to my previous experience dealing with self-signed certificates.

To be honest, this mostly resolves the issues I've had with self-signed certificates for use cases where getting a valid certificate might be a pain. (I have instead been using ACME with DNS challenge for some cases, but I don't like broadcasting all of my internal domains to the CT log nor do I really want to manage a CA. In some cases it might be nice to not have a valid internet domain at all. So, this might just be a better alternative in some cases...)
by paul7986 | 2025-04-16 18:01:05+00:00
Indeed, come here and expedite citizenship by serving America for an X number of years! In return along with expedited citizenship your partner and any kin can join you with your partner required to work/contribute some to the economy. Heck work in one of these new factories part or full time (if full time the new factories offer free day care).

Personally this concept is a more humane one then rounding/exiling want to be Americans in which the majority are not criminals! No they are hard workers coming here for a better life, why not give that to them and in return they "Make America Even Stronger!" ;-). That's what the current admin wants beef up defense, yet to me with immigration they are taking the wrong approach!
Ask HN: Good laptop alternatives to MacBook Pro for running Linux?
by jiwidi | 2025-04-16 18:01:10+00:00
Hey!

So i'm missing running linux quite a bit since i changed to mac. The only thing keeping me with mac is the great hardware (battery, screen, keyboard, arm cpu low temps and no fan noise)

Are there any real alternatives outside apple that compete in hardware? I've tried asahi but it lack of support for many things turn it off for me.
by hn_acker | 2025-04-16 18:01:26+00:00
The full title is:

> American Library Association kicks off National Library Week with the Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2024 and the State of America’s Libraries Report

This year's National Library Week was April 6–12, 2025 [1].

[1] https://www.ala.org/conferencesevents/celebrationweeks/natli...
by Arnavion | 2025-04-16 18:01:28+00:00
That arithmetic shift right implementation is also what I came up with for a video game fantasy architecture that only has logical shift right. (16-bit registers)

; asr rd, rs1, rs2 ; rd = signed(rs1) >> rs2 and rt, rs1, 0x8000 ; isolate sign bit lsr rt, rt, rs2 ; shift sign bit to final position neg rt, rt ; sign-extended part of final result lsr rd, rs1, rs2 ; base part of final result or rd, rd, rt ; combine both parts

It might be easier to understand broken down this way for anyone who didn't understand the article's one-liner.
by Suppafly | 2025-04-16 18:01:35+00:00
>Well, the original purpose was to do OCR for things like the NYTs archives and other libraries. The part where you identify road signs & traffic lights was supposedly to train self driving cars. Now, it's apparently just more analytics & tracking for Google to sell you things.

You seem hung up on the idea of the original purpose being one specific thing. The original purpose was to create a dataset to train AIs, the first adopters were OCR programs and such, but it's not like it was created to only be used for that one thing.
by themaninthedark | 2025-04-16 18:01:47+00:00
Hey, guess what would help the average American with being able to afford something that is expensive?

A job that pays a living wage!

I am reminded of when the great offshoring started and everyone was looking down on poorer folks for shopping at Walmart because it was filled with cheap junk and they should know better than to buy that stuff(when in reality it's all they could afford since their good job was gone...).
by JimBlackwood | 2025-04-16 18:02:02+00:00
I don't think it's absurd and personally it feels easier to setup an internal CA than some of the alternatives.

In the hackiest of setups, it's a few commands to generate a CA and issue a wildcard certificate for everything. Then a single line in the bootstrap script or documentation for new devices to trust the CA and you're done.

Going a few steps further, setting up something like Hashicorp Vault is not hard and regardless of org size; you need to do secret distribution somehow.