MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-04-17 15:27:12+00:00
A bit of a nit-pick. 30 years ago was 1995. It was not a crime to use PGP in the US in 1995. What PKZ was charged with was exporting the encryption technology (or allowing it to export itself by putting the code on an anonymous FTP server.) The Bernstein case was similar in that it was the export of the machine-readable code the government objected to, not it's domestic distribution. The right for researchers to publish text describing algorithms had earlier been recognized by the court (which is why Martin Gardner could describe the RSA cryptosystem in Scientific American in 1977.)
by 15155 | 2025-04-17 15:27:46+00:00
> as you still haven't named the specific vault

Vaults and safes are boutique products. Glass relockers have been sold for decades - can you not extrapolate that heat and impact might destroy something inside of a highly thermally-conductive container?

HSMs and similar tech have had tamper detection systems for decades with internal battery backups.. these aren't illegal yet. My server cases from 20 years ago had tamper switches for exactly this purpose. How hard is this stuff to engineer?
by krapp | 2025-04-17 15:27:47+00:00
It's simple. They're "Communist." Anti-capitalist. Anti-Christian. The United States, which sees itself as the righteous inheritor of Western civilization, founded as the New Jerusalem by God himself, which single-handedly won World War 2, has considered itself the existential enemy of communism since the Cold War, and stoking fears of the "Red Menace" has always been effective on the American populace, particularly the parts with really sensitive hearing.

We tried to do the same trick with Islam post 9/11 and it was somewhat effective but it didn't have quite the same resonance. Which is weird because there's a long history of Black Marxist activism in the US, and of Black Muslim activism in the US, and you'd think if anything could convince Americans to hate and fear something, it's that thing's utility to Black liberation. But for some reason Islamophobia just seems to have been folded into the same generic antiwoke xenophobic white supremacist milieu as everything else, while people still jump on tables and go "eek!" at the thought of commie mind control.
by thetrustworthy | 2025-04-17 15:27:56+00:00
For those who are knowledgeable about the field but not yet the author of this post, it is worth mentioning that Shunyu Yao has played a huge role in the development of LLM-based AI agents, including being an author / contributor to:

- ReAct

- Reflexion

- SWE-bench

- OpenAI Deep Research

- OpenAI Operator
by pottmi | 2025-04-17 15:28:25+00:00
I am the author of this presentation. Feel free to ask me questions and send me corrections to the pdf and youtube video.

Here is are the slides: http://uniforumchicago.org/slides/bash_2025-03-25.pdf

Here is the recording of the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvDu8_A2uhs

Here is the stringent.sh library that is shown in the presentation: https://github.com/pottmi/stringent.sh
by bombcar | 2025-04-17 15:28:38+00:00
If you imagine a scenario with a known murderer and you have two options:

* Wait until he does a murder, and then try to capture him AND prove it was him

* Seduce him into planning a murder and then arrest him before he carries it out

The second seems desirable, given the "known murderer" part. And once you've setup something to do that, it becomes very easy to feed others into it.
Cache loop and memory loss in GPT – a user-side fix (tested with GPT itself)
by sks38317 | 2025-04-17 15:29:21+00:00
I’m a Korean high school student currently preparing for the CSAT (college entrance exam), and I happened to notice some persistent cache-loop behavior while using GPT in document-heavy tasks.

Repeated PDF failures seemed to create token overload and session slowdowns. So I tried manually analyzing the session, tracking token counts, and testing some user-side “optimizations”—like auto-removing failed outputs and cleaning redundant versions.

I used GPT itself to help write the report and interpret the data. It was a mix of curiosity, frustration, and… maybe procrastination. But it turned into a fun experiment.

I’ve only been exploring GitHub and ChatGPT for less than a month, so there are still many things I’m unfamiliar with.

So if there’s anything I’ve overlooked or could improve, I’d really appreciate your feedback.
by Volundr | 2025-04-17 15:29:30+00:00
That poll has 74% support for "Deporting immigrants who are here illegally and have committed crimes".

It does not ask about "Trump's Deportations". I support deporting criminal immigrants. I even support deporting those with no criminal record who are here illegally (with some caveats). I don't support sending innocent people to brutal slave labor in a country not their own.

Supporting "Deporting immigrants who are here illegally and have committed crimes" is not the same as supporting "Trump's Deportations".
by superqd | 2025-04-17 15:29:31+00:00
The most fundamental problem in the U.S. is this: Infinite Growth Capitalism

The VAST majority of what is wrong with our society (political and obviously economic) can be traced to this. It's the expectation that every economic endeavor must show a return on investment - forever. That every entity must strive to optimize the bottom line every day of its existence. Optimizing for growth above all else crushes and consumes everything.

Increasing local manufacturing will only create more opportunities for people to be indentured to a company that literally hates their existence.

A company is forced to build here in the U.S. and people are supposed to rejoice they now have another option for their lives to simply be tolerated and disposable?
by ty6853 | 2025-04-17 15:29:53+00:00
Let's rewind and see how we got here:

>>>> And if you directly want a piece of the investment from the children, as people got in the old days, well then go fuck yourself you greedy selfish bastard

>>> consider the following: if your children don't care about you, the societal structure of capitalism may not be the primary reason.

>>I think the more common scenario is the kid cares about the parent but is unable to financially assist them b

>Why do the kids need to assist their parents financially in order to assist them in their old age?

For one, the law says the kids have to support the parents, writ large, in a pooled scheme via SS. If you don't pay it, IRS agents seize your bank account and possibly even bust down the door and put you in a tiny cell. So we're not starting with the premise as a question. It is the current reality.

Now, I don't have a personal belief that kids should have to support their parents, but to philosphically hold that means they shouldn't have to pay SS to them either. The difference between children paying parents individually and writ large is just different mechanisms (collective vs familial), so if you agree with the collective system you already agree children should be forced to pay the parents.

Now, to be clear -- I didn't believ in the premise that if someone doesn't pay their parent, that it means the child doesn't care about them. I don't understand why the respondent said that vicious straw man, but I totally object to it. But I replied based on their fiction so I could address the underlying point about support without a further argument.

Ultimately elderly do need support. Children are ofter going to want to support the elderly. My point is that it would make more sense to tie that elderly support to investment in children so the incentives are in place to put a good investment in children and also to ensure people don't just free ride by rejecting children or helping children but then gladly gobbling up the dividends of the investment. This incentive system can be fixed by either an individual or collective approach but the bastardized system where we privatize the investment and socialize the dividends presents the worst moral hazards and anti-natal outcomes.
by marcusb | 2025-04-17 15:29:57+00:00
What I'm doing is drawing a reasonable inference based on the evidence available to me. Specifically:

* The group is question (DOGE) is tasked with cutting spending deemed superfluous or wasteful.

* The group in question is actively cutting spending at the agency in question (CISA)

* The group in question is actively cutting spending with the vendor in question (MITRE)

* The leader of the group in question (Elon Musk) has said, more or less explicitly, that they have a bias more towards cutting spending and less towards getting the spending cuts right. They expect mistakes to be made. (If you want to dispute or nitpick this, I'll link you to the video where he laughs about cutting ebola prevention funding.)

* The boss of the group in question (Trump) really doesn't like CISA. See: the Chris Krebs debacle.

So, that's what I'm doing. What are you doing? It seems to me that you are trying to fit the available facts to your preferred narrative, instead of the other way around. And what does the contract having existed for 25 years have to do with anything? DOGE has admitted to cutting programs that have been funded for far longer. It is completely irrelevant.
by thomassmith65 | 2025-04-17 15:30:05+00:00
Cancel culture is not compatible with democratic norms

Democracy protects the majority against a minority. "Cancel culture" does the same. They are bedfellows.

Liberalism is what protects a minority against the majority.

Liberal Democracy strikes a balance between them. Typically the majority gets to determine who is in charge (democracy), and enshrined legal protections protect minorities from the bias and wrath of the mob (liberalism).

If someone insults people or breaks norms, and there's a lot of blow back, it doesn't surprise me. Few people complain that they are forbidden from walking the streets nude with a raging erection. The majority doesn't want that kind of freedom of expression.

What this has to do with social media companies, don't ask me. I mainly care about the ability of people to make arguments without the government locking them up.
by foldr | 2025-04-17 15:30:30+00:00
> Cancel culture is not compatible with democratic norms

Look around the world at where democratic norms are actually being undone. It’s often the people who are most opposed to so-called ‘cancel culture’ who are busy with the undoing. But perhaps you are willing to be an unusually bipartisan wielder of the term and concede that the major instances of cancel culture in recent times are such things as Hungary banning pride parades, Trump bullying universities and deporting people for holding the wrong political views, and school libraries banning books with LGBTQ themes.
by sebastiennight | 2025-04-17 15:30:41+00:00
I anticipate my kid needing to live in a word with capitalism, it doesn't ncessarily mean that they need a Mastercard at 4 years old.

Same with many other things: condoms, keys to a car, access to alcohol. There is a time for everything, and at the age of 4, a young human probably has not yet maxxed out on analog stimuli opportunities.

I learned YouTube when it came out in 2006 and I was 21. I've got 19 years of YouTube experience and I'm doing fine. A 21-year old logging into YouTube for the first time in 2025 will probably be doing even better within days. (hours ? minutes ?)

I don't see any reason that a child needs "the internet" (for a value of "the internet" meaning "mass-market apps") to prepare for the future.

Maybe you'd want to give them "Scratch Jr"[0] at some point to give them a head start ; maybe that would make much more sense. But YouTube??

[0]: https://scratch.mit.edu/
by 9rx | 2025-04-17 15:30:42+00:00
I said appeal to emotion. There is no logical foundation for the question. It can only be asked in the context of how one arbitrarily feels about the subject, serving no purpose, and derailing was taking place for no good reason. How you one feels about the subject has no impact on what we are talking about and trying to draw a link between them is completely nonsensical.
by bufferoverflow | 2025-04-17 15:31:10+00:00
The illegal migration under Bush was half of the levels of under Biden

https://www.economist.com/content-assets/images/20240127_EPC...

And yes, under Obama it got low, and that's great. He was called Deporter-in-Chief for a reason.

> But the solution and fix for this isn’t abandoning due process rights and turning authoritarian

Again, where were you with this "due process" when Biden manufactured this crime on a massive scale to create more dem voters?

The process is pretty straightforward. You can't prove your legal status, you get deported. Sure, occasionally you will have some injustice when dealing with hundreds of thousands of criminals. None of that would've happened if Biden didn't manufacture this crime in the first place. It's all on him.
by kevstev | 2025-04-17 15:31:19+00:00
IMHO its more about the varieties that are grown for industrial scale and efficiency, rather than flavor. I was part of a community garden and started a lot of stuff from seed- celery, tomatoes, onions, garlic, lettuces etc... and I was overwhelmed by the different numbers of varieties of each and that "celery" isn't just celery. To be fair, not all of it was better- the celery variety was very bitter and chewy, but most other stuff was much more flavorful, though yields were smaller in most cases. The lettuce we grew in particular was so much better than anything sold in a store- at a cost of the fact that it would be wilted and almost unusable by the next day. We did throw in some garlic bulbs straight from the super market to grow next to our "heirloom" variety and the supermarket garlic was exactly what we were used to, while the heirloom was much stronger, and arguably more pleasant (I love garlic). Cooks often joke that "one clove" of garlic really means 5 to them, and I wonder if this is more of a result of breeding garlic over the years for different qualities other than its garlicky-ness instead of just recipe writers with a light hand... I don't think its the methods being used in large scale farming, but really more the varieties attempting to be grown.

There is also a factor that some types of foods will degrade within hours to some extent of being picked- Herbs I pick out of my garden like thyme and rosemary are extremely fragrant when picked, even a few hours later they are noticeably less so. I think many consumers have picked up on this, over the last decade or so I have noticed the fresh plants section of the grocery store expanding, while the "cut and plastic boxed" section of the store shrinking. I am in an urban area, most people don't have outdoor space (I didn't for many years), and I had difficulty keeping those plants alive when attempting to keep them going on my windowsill with a western exposure.
by formerly_proven | 2025-04-17 15:31:46+00:00
If I interpret the patch correctly the issue seems to be that you could just ask for a channel and do a request_exec before authenticating. The regression test is:

{send, hello}, {send, ssh_msg_kexinit}, {match, #ssh_msg_kexinit{_='_'}, receive_msg}, {send, SshMsgChannelOpen}, {send, SshMsgChannelRequest}, {match, disconnect(), receive_msg}

https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/6eef04130afc8b0ccb63c9a...

edit: Ah, found by the people at RUB, they do a lot of research in verifying protocol implementations iirc.
by lxgr | 2025-04-17 15:31:52+00:00
For more information on the different ways to encode HDR content in images, together with examples for each, I've found this article very useful: https://gregbenzphotography.com/hdr/

And this explains how Apple implements this feature on non-OLED/mini-LED screens (and, in my observation, at least still to some extent even on mini-LED): https://prolost.com/blog/edr
by 0_____0 | 2025-04-17 15:32:05+00:00
Having experienced both, it's very similar.

Edit to add: I've been in an anechoic chamber and also the black rock desert, which is dead flat and thus has very little surface area oriented to reflect sound back at the listener, which makes it similar in that you don't experience environmental reflections.

Devil's Golf Course has more "texture" to it but if you were quiet on a windless day I think the effect would be similar.
by monetus | 2025-04-17 15:32:14+00:00
It is a combo of the economics, and the need to do something, anything - they encourage quackery. ~10k fine when a doctor trained as a gp killed a kid with chellation, along with a temporarily suspended license. A GP isn't trained on administering chelation, iiuc. I encourage you to get a second and third opinion from people who administer chelation in a hospital setting
by hombre_fatal | 2025-04-17 15:32:19+00:00
The difference is so obvious. I think the people who deny it either haven't seen the tech's impact on people or they are coping as an addict themself. It's totally the same as a good book you guys!!

My girlfriend and some friends are captivated by doomscrolling tiktok/insta. They'll do it and let hours pass if left undisturbed.

They can't watch TV or play games for hours because that gets boring and samey.

On the other hand, my girlfriend will aspire to play a game she bought or watch a show she wants to watch, but then get immediately sabotaged by instagram shorts because it's so much more stimulating.
by throwanem | 2025-04-17 15:32:24+00:00
I don't even know how it makes sense for it to do what I see it doing!

It isn't as though I would be asked to pay more or less either way, and I can't imagine the ad placements on that malignant pareidolia slurry are worth as much as on actual content: I recall reading that Premium distributions to creators are scaled to predicted revenue on the ads that would've been shown - or actual revenue? I don't actually know they don't auction the slot as normal, and it would make a lot of sense if they did. In any case, I would think that would tend to make the slop worth less to try to divert me into, because whether or not I actually see those ads, they're still going to only sell to fringe psychos and so sell for much less than when I'm watching the LPs and stream VODs that are the vast bulk of what I actually do watch - nothing highbrow I grant, but nothing I or anyone else need be embarrassed to be seen with, either: just plain old 21st-century light entertainment you can sell razor blades or home loans next to, no problem.

I can't model it in my head in a way that doesn't have YouTube hurting itself massively with this, and though it's titanic enough to survive like that for decades, it won't last forever. It would help explain all the new revenue streams we see them lately and somewhat desperately adding. But a really convincing just-so story is always first and easiest sold oneself, and maybe there's something here I'm missing.
Show HN: Image2video.app – Transform Ghibli-style images into videos using AI
by williamjinq | 2025-04-17 15:32:51+00:00
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by _JoRo | 2025-04-17 15:33:44+00:00
Just children? I've had to block social media for myself because of how addictive it was / how much time I was wasting.

I will say though, if you are trying to watch videos more from an educational perspective then it can be useful. Although, I would advise getting an LLM summary of the video, and then speed reading the summary in order to determine if their is any useful content in there.
by abakker | 2025-04-17 15:34:04+00:00
Yeah - 304 is nasty stuff for work hardening, too. I wonder if what they're really describing is a very specific amount of work hardening that improves certain mechanical processes. It can't be hardened/tempered since it's austenitic, but maybe selective work hardening provides some benefits.

(p.s., I sure hate milling 304 parts)
by mmh0000 | 2025-04-17 15:34:12+00:00
It is a magic comment though.

It's a comment ignored by the interpreter (bash, python, whatever).

The kernel just says "Hey! You can't execute a text file, you weirdo! I'll just read the very first line of the text file and if it happens to be a comment that points to another executable, I'll run that and pass it this file."
by smeeth | 2025-04-17 15:34:15+00:00
When we talk about harm on the internet, we often separate the activity from the harm, e.g., a problem with [activity] is that it could cause [harm].

But it's now clear that the activity is the harm. The issue isn’t that using TikTok might make you addicted; the issue is that you are using TikTok.

Just as there’s no such thing as responsibly huffing paint fumes, there’s no such thing as responsible social media use, only sub-diagnosable use.
by electrondood | 2025-04-17 15:34:19+00:00
> An internal presentation on the 2021 strategy for TikTok describes the company as being in an *"arms race for attention"*

We have a collective psychological experiment in the form of social media, but short-form content combined with an endless scrolling feed is functionally identical to the experiment with the rat pressing the cocaine button.

It is not beneficial for the population to have an increasingly shrinking attention span. If you can't pay attention for 30 minutes to look up candidate position while voting, or you can't even be bothered to pay attention to that boring "politics stuff" in the first place, then we have a major problem.
by Analemma_ | 2025-04-17 15:34:30+00:00
> Things worked out pretty well when Ma Bell was split up

In what way? They all just re-consolidated back into monopolies. I have one choice of telecom provider in my location: if I don’t like Xfinity, I get to eat shit. At least Ma Bell had to get the government’s permission to raise prices; frankly, I’d prefer having that back.
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-04-17 15:34:30+00:00
There was LITERALLY intelligence in the president's daily briefing entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US."

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB116/index.htm

Collecting data is often not the problem. The problem is how to evaluate it and use it to direct the use of finite law enforcement or counterintelligence resources.

But to your point, let's not forget congressional republicans rushing a SKIF on capitol hill with their mobile devices out in clear violation of policy (and common sense.) I am relieved by the fact that Trump and Musk do not seem to understand what they can use sensitive information for (other than perhaps to sell or give away to foreign governments and businesses.)

I think my point is good intelligence comes from stitching together numerous data points and often traffic analysis is as good (or better) than content analysis. And maybe that the overwhelming majority of elected officials have no conception of how intelligence is collected and evaluated.
by Deukhoofd | 2025-04-17 15:34:38+00:00
I mean, of course it is. Marketing companies have long since realized that they can have far more effective advertising by acting like humans, and that people will take a recommendation from another person more serious than a random ad. Propagandists have had the same realization.

If you consider how fast you can generate huge amount of random comments, it's basically a no-brainer that huge amounts of online comments are online generated.

The only real throttle is the social media platform itself, and how well it protects against fake accounts. I don't know how motivated Reddit really is at stopping them (engagement is engagement), and a quick check on Github shows that there are a bunch of readily available solvers for 4chans captchas.
by AppleBananaPie | 2025-04-17 15:35:10+00:00
This is an interesting idea thanks! I realize mine (by coincidence) do something similar but it's in two day stretches.

They want to play Minecraft sometimes but other times they want to go play outside or play with their toys or watch a show.

They definitely have a harder time stopping some kinds of shows though regardless of only watching them some days so I have to remove some them.