MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-04-16 09:48:26+00:00
Yeah, this is really common at Big Tech, I saw it happen at FB, and it's only gotten worse since then.

The issue is that if you keep hiring leadership/people from the rest of the corporate world (which is basically unavoidable if you are growing) then you'll end up trending towards the median of corporate behaviour over time.

It's mostly unavoidable, unless you never hire external managers (which would be very very difficult to do).
by nasretdinov | 2025-04-16 09:48:58+00:00
> String to float conversion had a table missing four values. This caused an array access overflow which resulted in imprecise values in some cases.

I've once wrote a function to parse the date format from log files that Go doesn't natively support, and forgot to add November. I quit that job in April, so I never saw any issues. However when 1st of November came my ex-colleagues saw no logs for this day, and when they found out the reason they created a hash tag #nolognovember which you can probably find somewhere to this day :)
by lucumo | 2025-04-16 09:49:14+00:00
> They just seem so expensive to me

Unlimited services like Storytel are pretty cheap. Not library-cheap, but similar to Spotify.

> and the concept still feels like cheating to me.

Nah. It'd only be cheating if you somehow need the practice in physical reading. Like school kids or something. I'm confident in my abilities to parse the written word. I "read" books to absorb the ideas in them and using spoken books allows me to do that while driving or cleaning.
by bayindirh | 2025-04-16 09:49:20+00:00
Two operational requirements:

1. Journalists shall be able to write new articles and publish them ASAP, possibly from remote locations.

2. Eyeball optimization: Different titles, cutting summaries where it piques interest most, some other A/B testing... So you need a data structure which can be modified non-destructively and autonomously.

Plus many more things, possibly. I love static webpages as much as the next small-web person, but we have small-web, because the web is not "small" anymore.
by exceptione | 2025-04-16 09:51:49+00:00
Yup.

Politicians react to the public when it stands up. Otherwise it will follow other agenda's.

That is why it is critical to have an informed public. When journalism has to compete with corporate owned Fake News and Entertainment, journalism dies, and democracy will follow. Then, add the spy business of Big Tech in the mix, with algorithmic silo's. The people don't even realize they are locked up in a jar, where they live on a diet of cultural engineering.

Now, pause a moment and think about what happens when you add AI-models to the mix. Your daughter, your neighbor will be totally brain-wrecked.
by 1659447091 | 2025-04-16 09:52:06+00:00
> The current administration doesn't care about cyber defense, any less than it cares about protecting the environment

On the contrary, I would argue that they deeply care about the environment. The REAL point of all those tit-for-tat tariffs with China including with small mail/packages are to drastically cut cargo/shipping emissions. The threatening of annexation of Canada? That was really to get ~70% reduction in air passenger traffic BECAUSE they care about the environment. Same with creating a few high profile border horror story incidents against nationals from allied countries. The real point of it? Reduce transoceanic air passenger loads and save the environment. /s
by jl6 | 2025-04-16 09:52:09+00:00
Opinions vary on what the purpose of government is, but if you take the view that the government's priorities should be providing services that are impossible, inefficient, or unethical to provide privately, then I don't see the CVE program making the cut, when the tech industry is collectively flush with resources and has every incentive to form an industry consortium to take it over.

A modern Open Group, perhaps?
by latexr | 2025-04-16 09:52:12+00:00
> I’m not a big fan of OpenAI but this seems a little unfair. They have (or at least had) a pretty kick ass product. Great brand value too.

Even if you believe all that to be true, it in no way contradicts what you quoted or makes it unfair. Having a kick ass product and good brand awareness in no way correlates to being close to AGI.
by bravetraveler | 2025-04-16 09:52:33+00:00
I wouldn't call my kid-skipping activites fun, but go off.

Spending a life on the treadmill doesn't encourage more walks. It encourages burning it down. All I've known is work. Pass on more, thanks. I hear you/others now:

But past generations managed...

That's exactly my point. Despite all of our proclaimed progress, we're still "managing". Maintaining this circus/baby-crushing machine is a tough sell.

To get where I could afford to have kids, I became both unprepared and uninterested.

What's more: I'm one of the lucky ones. I was given a fancy title and great-but-not-domicile-ownership-great pay for my sacrifice. Plenty do more work for even less reward.

There's a sucker born every minute, right?
by actualwitch | 2025-04-16 09:52:52+00:00
Okay, as you yourself said, dismantled means taking apart. Here's a dictionary definition of it: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/take-apa.... SSA actually is a great example of this happening, as the existing social nets are split into different parts and one-by-one parts are removed as to not cause a reaction from populace. This is why I previously mentioned frog boiling machinery, as it is a part of divide-and-conquer tactic. This is why I mentioned the first they came for socialists poem.

And if you read the article I linked, you would find there why this effectively removes access to it for some people. Some of the people in most vulnerable groups of population who need these nets most don't have access to reliable transportation and internet or struggle using devices to access it. It doesn't mean they don't deserve to have it.
by tpoacher | 2025-04-16 09:53:09+00:00
Yes but you'd still cite the paper as "as shown in FirstFirstAuthor et al (2024)" which rather defeats the purpose. And citing as "FirstFirstAuthor and SecondFirstAuthor and [...] et al" is both impractical and petty.

Which is what caused the whole "race to first authorship" mentality in the first place.
by sharpshadow | 2025-04-16 09:55:08+00:00
Nordstream 1 which had if I recall correctly one working turbine left and went into inspection during which an oil spill was noticed and the restart of the service was postponed. Shortly after Nordstream 1 Pipeline A + B and Nordstream 2 Pipeline A was been blown up. It’s up to debate if the oil spill which was uncovered during the inspection which postponed the gas delivery was a political move. The turbine, which underlies sanctions, should have been still in transit during that time and even if delivered useless.

There is still Nordstream 2 Pipeline B intact available to deliver gas and it uses Russian made turbines compared to Nordstream 1.

The whole discussion is very special to say the least if you leave out that some adversary blow up the infrastructure.
by Llamamoe | 2025-04-16 09:56:08+00:00
Sure, different forms of social media could exist. And then get outcompeted by as you aptly call it "algorithmic-based attention-maximizing recommendation machines".

Even if you introduced regulations against many of these practices, corporations would still strive to optimise this aspect of their platforms in different ways.

Even if we removed capitalistic incentives from the equation, more attention-grabbing platforms would still be selected for.

I'm not saying it's an intractable problem, but rather that this outcome is happening for a very good reason.
by strogonoff | 2025-04-16 09:56:48+00:00
> When having an otherwise normal political opinion makes you a racist bigot or a beta cuck because the opposition is so determined to get their way at any cost

If someone calls me a racist bigot or a beta cuck, that is a problem. That problem also has nothing to do with politics. It has to do with someone not being emotionally mature enough or equipped to handle a discussion with someone who has different views, or someone having a mental breakdown.

I am not from the US, but I had enjoyed some reasonable conversations with people from the US (among other countries) with very different views, and I was never called names. There are awkward moments when you have to hear something you don’t agree with, but that is most of life if you ever interact with people.

The key is to be like an HTTP server: liberal in terms of what you can accept, but strict with what you put out there.

> Work is about making money.

You have just thrown another political position into the mix, I hope you realize that?
by 72deluxe | 2025-04-16 09:57:08+00:00
Consumers do not want to buy electric cars, at least not in the UK. They are far too expensive and the infrastructure doesn't exist. Visit a motorway service station and see 10 chargers in a car park for hundreds of cars. The government is trying to mandate a set percentage of car sales to be electric, but consumers don't want them so the manufacturers are set an impossible target to achieve.

Electric cars also destroy the industry in repairs (exhausts etc.) which may or may not be a good thing, but the repercussions in terms of jobs/industry is quite large. I myself have a 53 year old VW Beetle that I can drive compared to the old Android phone in the drawer that is useless (battery life/software updates) despite being far younger.
by johannes1234321 | 2025-04-16 09:57:35+00:00
Technology and the consequences of using technology are inherently highly political.

New or improved technologies shape communities.

Ignoring that is a political statement as well.

Just see how online media has changed discourse, how Amazon changed retail business, how business analytics change the way businesses work, how always being connected changes relations, ...

When developing technologies one can be Wernher von Braun "(where the rockets land and whether they contain explosives is) not my department" or one can consider consequences.Both are a political position, with consequences.
by js8 | 2025-04-16 09:57:44+00:00
> If at some point the cheats/fakes will be cheaper and easier than the real thing

Is there any evidence this is going to ever happen? The evidence I see points in opposite direction - everyone has so many sensors and data being recorded about the real world that it is actually harder to fake things.

For example, there used to be a widespread belief in aliens and animal cryptids in the 70s. Today, less so, because people capture everyday reality on much bigger scale than they used to.
by rsavage | 2025-04-16 09:58:09+00:00
Agree with the above commenter.

We would be happy to try except when it has write/merge permissions .

One click and auto merge are nice to have. Having the bot (and your company) able to deploy any code changes to production (by accident, via hack, etc) is a no go.

Suggest making them optional features and just having code comments/repo read version.

Not sure if it’s possible - but if the permissions could exclude specific branches that would be ok as well.

But needs to be no way a malicious actor could write/merge to main.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-04-16 09:58:18+00:00
There was a thread on HN semi-recently where I observed that if you think about classifying complexities ("big-O of n squared") by polynomial degree (so we think of O(n^2) as "2"), the logarithm function gives you a literally infinitesimal value.

I was then asked about sources for what amounts to an easy homework problem.
by lupusreal | 2025-04-16 09:58:25+00:00
In reality, the rest of the bar laughs at and mocks the one Nazi and he probably stops coming or at least shuts up, even though he hasn't been banned. This is how most non-/pol/ generals have handled it, and it works. It's how plenty of real bars across America handle it too, when the bar and patrons earnestly subscribe to free speech as a aspirational principle for guiding human behavior, not limited to simply the first ammendment binding the hands of government. If somebody wants to reveal themselves to be a dumbass, that's entertainment for everybody else.
by fnordian_slip | 2025-04-16 09:58:32+00:00
15h per month? Even without heavy listening, this sounds really low, doesn't it? And if you want to listen to a series if books, like Malazan book of the Fallen at 388h, you wouldn't know anything about the start by the time you are finished, as it's been two years. I would expect that most casual listeners who only listen to half an hour of content a day instead listen mainly to podcasts?

At least that's what I do when I don't have the time for audiobooks. But maybe I shouldn't generalize from my own experience, as everyone is different. For me, audible + the occasional torrent works quite well, and I wouldn't like to use the Spotify interface for audiobooks anyway, considering how bad it is for that use case.
by fransje26 | 2025-04-16 09:58:46+00:00
> It's a wonder anything actually even works.

> If cars were made like this, there would be millions of them breaking down by the side of the road daily.

Next to the software side of things, I also often wonder about planes. But, until now, they have proved fairly resilient to falling out of the sky, except for the well known "recent" events. Which is fairly surprising, knowing the levels of mismanagement at play. We've been lucky..
by a_bonobo | 2025-04-16 09:59:12+00:00
I agree, I'd even go so far and say it's one of the best places on the internet to discuss 'serious' books (within all the rampant troll posts). Book discussions on reddit are far too positive when it comes to terrible books, /lit/ will call a bad book a bad book. Plus there was always an undercurrent in interest in 'obscure' books - there are great reading charts out there for all kinds of literatures and languages made by /lit/ users.
by mordnis | 2025-04-16 09:59:26+00:00
I'm saying I cannot imagine such a situation. But lets say I didn't know the rules and I came to the attendant asking what to do because I lost a ticket. I would prefer just "You have to pay for the whole day", but if I had to choose between a rude attendant and an overly friendly attendant, I cannot say I have a preference. The first one is lashing out at me unnecessarily (maybe not so actually if the information is clearly available without asking him), the second one is trying to empathize with me even though I just want to solve my problem.
by nosianu | 2025-04-16 09:59:39+00:00
Russia refused to accept the turbine! It was in Germany, and Russia blocked the delivery.

"Moskau blockiert offenbar Weitertransport von Nord-Stream-1-Turbine" ("Moscow apparently blocks further transport of Nord Stream 1 turbine") -- https://www.rnd.de/politik/russland-blockiert-offenbar-weite...

I'm German, I followed those developments closely at the time. Russia refused to deliver gas! The blowing up of the pipes happened quite some time after that!

You also don't mention that German Gasprom, which controlled German gas reserves, emptied them just before the war! -- https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/gas-speicher-in-deuts... (German, paywall), -- https://www.zeit.de/news/2022-01/21/ungewoehnlich-leere-gass...

That shows that Russia prepared for using gas as an economic weapon against Germany especially well before they even started the war.

From the Zeit article:

German

> "Die Gasflüsse über die deutschen Grenzen sind unüblich niedrig für diese Jahreszeit - mit Ausnahme von Nord Stream 1, die sind konstant hoch", sagt Fabian Huneke. Es sei verwunderlich, dass vor dem Hintergrund der hohen Preise und der hohen Nachfrage die Gaslieferkapazitäten Richtung Europa so wenig genutzt würden. "Wenn Gazprom sich marktrational verhalten würde, würden sie die Gaslieferungen nach Europa auch durch die Pipelines, die durch Belarus und die Ukraine führen, verstärken." Den Grund für dieses Verhalten sieht der Energiemarktexperte in der Ukraine-Krise.

English, translated by Google

> "The gas flows across the German borders are unusually low for this time of year - with the exception of Nord Stream 1, which are consistently high," says Fabian Huneke. It is surprising that, given the high prices and high demand, the gas delivery capacities to Europe are so little used. "If Gazprom behaved in a market-rational manner, they would also increase gas supplies to Europe through the pipelines that run through Belarus and Ukraine." The energy market expert sees the reason for this behavior in the Ukraine crisis.
by justanotherjoe | 2025-04-16 09:59:50+00:00
I've read once there are very few things that can change your personality. I dont think even becoming a billionaire changes your personality. But, cosmetic surgery is one of those things that can actually do that. Elon, with his hair transplant, jaw implants, and who knows what else, might have experienced just that. So he's becoming his idea of a tough guy, i guess. Though he's still quite awkward to me.
by delusional | 2025-04-16 09:59:52+00:00
You're taking a much more narrow view of this discussion than I am. When I say IP rights I'm not talking about copyright specifically (which does not just cover creating copies, but also performances, adaptations, and distribution) but rather about the broad class of property rights to intangible "ideas". Trademarks, patents and the like are usually, and in my argument specifically, also included under that umbrella.

Even if we limit our area of consideration to just Copyright, you're just wrong. As the world currently stands, you probably get your music from a streaming service. That streaming service doesn't grant you the right to copy, perform, or adapt the music you listen to, they extend you a limited license. If you are in violation of that license, they likely reserve the right to terminate your access to the music. If that license said you weren't allowed to be upside down then standing on your head would allow them to prevent you listening. It does not matter that Copyright doesn't explicitly mention "listening to music while upside down" because your use is not mediated by copyright, but by the contract you signed.

Copyright does not govern how those individual contracts are formulated. We have Freedom of Contract in most of the western world. It provides a framework by which that contract even makes sense (they have property you even care to license with a contract), and a remedies should you violate it.
by bkor | 2025-04-16 10:00:11+00:00
> The EU has agreed upon programs in order to bring in, through an immigration policy, high skilled persons from non-member states.

Where in this is the option that the EU provides an option to immigrate because the EU owns something?

I'm very well aware of knowledge workers. It's not something the EU can provide as an option. What you linked to is the legal framework around how EU members can provide such a thing.
by phpnode | 2025-04-16 10:01:04+00:00
1. This whole subthread has been about the ?raw approach, not about a hypothetical feature that has not been agreed to yet.

2. Typescript runs before your bundler and has no idea what the bundler is doing, so any transformations you do there are invisible to it.

You keep telling me this is possible today, at this point I'd ask you to please prove it, because if it's true then that's very exciting and I have a bunch of use cases for it.
by Spivak | 2025-04-16 10:01:07+00:00
Adding machines to a domain is far far more common on bare-metal deployments which is why I said "cloud native." Adding a bunch of cloud VMs to a domain is not very common in my experience because they're designed to be ephemeral and thrown away and IPA being stateful isn't about that.

You're managing your machine deployments with something so of course you just use that that to include your cert which isn't particularly hard but there's a long-tail of annoying work when dealing with containers and vms you aren't building yourself like k8s node pools. It can be done but it's usually less effort to just get public certs for everything.
by tgv | 2025-04-16 10:01:57+00:00
I think they should be functions: G(50, 1) for a Gaussian with µ=50, σ=1; N(3) for a negative exponential with λ=3, U(0, 1) for a uniform distribution between 0 and 1, UI(1, 6) for an uniform integer distribution from 1 to 6, etc. Seems much more flexible, and easier to remember.
by raverbashing | 2025-04-16 10:02:07+00:00
> To avoid pointer addition overflow, it is necessary to perform the addition on integers, for example using (uintptr_t)ptr + unsigned_offset < (uintptr_t)ptr. Sometimes, it is also possible to rewrite checks by only comparing the offset. For example, ptr + offset < end_ptr && ptr + offset >= ptr can be written as offset < (uintptr_t)(end_ptr - ptr).

Sigh

Please clarify again, in which machines does pointer overflow does not work but uintptr overflow works?

In which fsking universe does pretending that "pointer overflow" does not do what it does helps anyone except some language lawyers to feel superior to other people?

> The -fwrapv flag now only makes signed integer overflow well-defined, without affecting pointer overflow, which is controlled by a new -fwrapv-pointer flag. The -fno-strict-overflow flag now implies both -fwrapv and -fwrapv-pointer and as such retains its old meaning.

Ah cool, so you have a "work properly" flag, interesting.
by libertine | 2025-04-16 10:02:34+00:00
You have to factor in the overall lower barrier of entry (little to no technical skills required, cheap tools easily accessible, etc) paired with distribution capacity on a massive scale at little cost (like you don't need to be featured in a local newspaper to try to picked up by national networks and go "viral").

You can literally produce fake information at an industrial scale, distribute it in real time, and see what sticks at virtually no cost.

How do you think we're at the point of breaking the world?
by strogonoff | 2025-04-16 10:03:28+00:00
> You can believe something without proselytizing.

You can talk about politics without proselytising. Why should discussing a topic even invoke the words like “belief” and “proselytising”?

Not only stating an opinion is compatible with a constructive discussion that could lead to a mutual adjustment of opinions—in fact, stating your opinion is often a pre-requisite to having a discussion that could lead to it being changed.

The magic happens when person A realizes that another, equally sane person B can think very differently about topic X. At that point, the person A has to either 1) write the person B off as crazy (not so easy when that person is obviously sane in every other way), or 2) realize that there may be something to it and ever so slightly adjust own opinion on topic X, or at least become more tolerant.

Not being able or willing to freely exchange and converge on opinions with people whom you routinely meet in real life, only discussing them online in your respective bubbles, is a sure way to having only more and more wildly incompatible and divisive opinions, and I suspect it is exactly what has been happening in recent years.
by avodonosov | 2025-04-16 10:03:38+00:00
> a U.S. company named Cicada 137 LLC sued Mr. Medjedovic in Ontario. The identity of the person or people behind the company is unknown, but Cicada said it lost US$9.69-million worth of digital tokens to the exploit. (It’s common for significant investors in cryptocurrency to shield their identities.)

> Mr. Medjedovic left home after receiving death threats

So, crypto-dealers hiding their identiyty and issuing death threats now appeal to law.
by theshrike79 | 2025-04-16 10:04:45+00:00
In Finland our own USPS (Posti) has their own mobile application that does delivery notifications. They've been directing users towards the app pretty heavily and deprecating other interfaces.

You can still get the parcel ID and use a public-ish web API to get tracking information on a rough level ("in transit", "being delivered") without exact address information.