MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by LeafItAlone | 2025-04-06 14:18:50+00:00
>The GP put in the work to verify his own memory, after acknowledging the gaps.

The original claim didn’t say anything about it being the experience of their son for specific questions about unions. It was much broader than that. And at least partially inaccurate, given the stated result isn’t even one of the results.

>And then you belittled him.

If asking for a higher standard of evidence for a broad claim than referencing a previous experience and then trying again, but not even sharing the link from a tool that makes it easy to share the conversation from, is considered belittling, then maybe the castrations going on in these models is the right way to go for this crowd. I, personally, aim for a more truth-seeking standard.

>He met the “standard” or guidelines of our community in a way you have not.

These are two different things, and you clearly understand that but are intentionally conflating them. Regardless, if this is where are, maybe HN no longer is the place for me.
by MrMcCall | 2025-04-06 14:19:02+00:00
Mensa makes me think of two things:

Groucho's quote "I'd never be a member of any club that would have me as a member."

And one of our favorite Columbo episodes (all free on Tubi) that features a murder in a very Mensa-style club, titled "The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case".
by baron816 | 2025-04-06 14:19:06+00:00
I’m serious. The Matrix is a movie made for entertainment. If the plot of The Matrix were “people live in The Matrix and everyone is fine with that and nothing interesting happens”, then it would’ve been an awful movie.

Again, you’re not experiencing a mundane or perfect world. It would be like being in a video game or movie, if you wanted. Some people would experience the plot of The Matrix as any of the characters. Or you could travel around the galaxy solving mysteries and fighting evil as a Jedi Master. Or you could spend some time living a quiet pastoral life in the Shire with your hobbit friends. Or you could do it all over and over again experiencing the highs and lows each time.
by throwaway01536 | 2025-04-06 14:19:24+00:00
> From this behavior, one would think support for Israel was the central pillar of the Christian faith

For some, it is their primary goal. They think the end times are near, and by escalating the conflict they hope to make it happen as soon as possible.

They support Israel because the Bible says that those that bless Israel is blessed. On the other hand, they think only some Christians will survive the end times, so any non-christians (jews included) that are hurt, doesn't really matter. It's just collateral damage in a holy war.

It is one of the reasons why this conflict is so special for many.

This is not a conspiracy, but a minority of evangelical Christians with access to lots of money that pays lobbyists. They don't even try to hide it, and you can read about this from traditional news sources that has covered this for years.
by andsoitis | 2025-04-06 14:20:04+00:00
"Last week he sent a letter to India’s president, Droupadi Murmu, urging her to join him in a tango to celebrate 75 years of ­bilateral trade.

Xi said it was “the right choice” for the two countries to be “partners of mutual achievement and realise the ‘Dragon-Elephant Tango’”, which, he added, “fully serves the fundamental interests of both countries and their peoples.”

Someone might warn the Indian government: watch out for someone who describes themselves as a dragon and you a mere animal...

And:

"Indians are sceptical that there is much mileage in talks when the trade balance is almost nine to one in China’s favour. In part, this is due to severe restrictions on Indian imports of pharmaceuticals, IT services, basmati rice and beef."
by rikroots | 2025-04-06 14:20:54+00:00
I assume this is about the Canon[1] thing? And who gets to be the Gatekeepers - the people who decide which writers and works get included and excluded in each generation's version of the Literary/Musical/Artistic Canon thing?

As far as I can work out, it's mainly about what stuff the professors and teachers teach to the students and kids as part of their formal education. Whoever gets to set the curriculum also gets to tweak the Canon? Outside of formal education, things get a lot more fluid and fun: Canons take decades to change; Cultural tastes can evolve over weeks.

As for Shakespeare, he wasn't considered the English language's greatest writer during his lifetime, or even after (according to Wikipedia[2]). It took him near 200 years to gain such acclaim.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_canon

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare#Critical_r...
Show HN: Temp Number Phone – Free temporary numbers to receive SMS online
by anna81 | 2025-04-06 14:21:21+00:00
I built a free tool for receiving SMS verification codes online using disposable phone numbers. No registration or login required – just pick a number and see the messages in real-time.

This tool is helpful for quick one-time verifications on platforms like Gmail, Telegram, or Facebook, without using your real number.

Would love feedback from the community!
by mholm | 2025-04-06 14:22:42+00:00
I was surprised to see how many of these were already assigned high school reading at my public high school. We went through maybe a quarter of the list? I do disagree with making it a checklist. Some of these books will end up being an absolute slog with no value to their reader, and kill progress in the list. Great Expectations was like that for me, and later Pride and Prejudice.
by Joker_vD | 2025-04-06 14:26:19+00:00
Nope, the actual ssh implementation parses all the config files once, at the startup, using buffered file I/O and getline(). That means that on systems with modern libc, the whole config file (if it's small enough, less than 4 KiB IIRC?) gets read into the RAM and then getline() results are served from that buffer.

The scheme you propose is insane and if it was ever used (can you actually back that up? The disk I/O would kill your performance for anything remotely loaded), it was rightfully abandoned for much faster and simpler scheme.
by PaulRobinson | 2025-04-06 14:27:18+00:00
What a mediocre list of material.

They all pretty much sit within a European/American spectrum of "worthy" works - there is a dominance of caucasian male thinking embodied within this list: it's not very broad, even with the odd hat tip to a Bronte sister and Maya Angelou. Nothing from 80% of the World's population, all rooted in a classical Western school of writing theory. Dull.

I also have a concern that they aren't a great foundation for a young person approaching adulthood trying to understand their place in the World and their own beliefs and values about themselves and the World they live in.

As you would expect of adult literature, some of them have sex and sexuality as themes that are explored by protagonists, subplots and subtexts. While this is something we should expect literature to play a part in, and it is of course healthy for adults to consider their own feelings relating to sex and sexuality based on their own contexts and needs through art forms like literature, I'm not sure throwing that at a 9th grader feels quite right. Maybe it is. I think it depends on the child.

The worst crime here though, is that this list is composed of books that are only considered good by the "educated" literarti.

There aren't many page turners that will keep a younger mind engaged and excited. There's only a few that stand out as an opportunity to let a curious reader explore their changing selves through the context of an interesting imagined World - the only real point of literature - in a way that will stimulate and excite their curiosity for the World they are actually growing up in.

And y'know, I'm a huge Shakespeare fan (I live in London, regular attendee of Shakespeare productions from all the usual companies), but this is leaning into some weird material. All 154 sonnets? Much Ado, Hamlet & King Lear, but no Romeo & Juliet or Macbeth? Huh.

Also, I see you, Ayn Rand fans. I see you. No. The Fountainhead is not a good book, she isn't a good writer, and the philosophy she espoused is not justification for you behaving the way you do. Don't try and get grades 9-12 into your little weird cult, you unsympathetic self-absorbed weirdos.
by lynndotpy | 2025-04-06 14:27:25+00:00
I don't like Tesla and the premature "FSD" announcement was a huge set back AV research. An AV without lidar killing motorcyclists is not surprising, to say the least. And this is a damning report.

That said -- and I might have missed this if it was in the linked sources, I'm on mobile -- what is the breakdown of other (supposed) AVs adoption currently? What other types of crashes are there? Are these 5+ fatalities statistically significant?
by kerkeslager | 2025-04-06 14:27:49+00:00
> It's impossible. How do you even define advertising? If you define it conservatively, then advertising will skirt through the loopholes. If you define it liberally, then you have an unfair, authoritarian system that will definitely be selectively enforced against political enemies.

This is just the perfect solution fallacy.

Nobody in this conversation thinks there's a set of laws that would work perfectly to prevent all advertising. That doesn't mean it can't be a hell of a lot better than it is. Playing whack-a-mole with loopholes and making careful regulations to avoid inhibiting human rights is still a huge improvement over letting corporations trample human rights at will.
by dagw | 2025-04-06 14:27:54+00:00
You can build the most secure app and install it on the most secure hardware, but if people simply instead use their private phone to chat with other people on their private phone using a random app from the App Store, then it just doesn't matter.

You can then write as many rules as you like about how you're not allowed to that, but if you don't follow up and enforce those rules then people will keep doing it. Bottom line, no one cares about security enough to compromise convenience, and unless you start to literally throw people in jail they never will.
by rsolva | 2025-04-06 14:28:31+00:00
In theory, I'm all for this. In practice, we have to take smaller steps towards this radical change and see how far we can actually get in real life.

In Norway, we have a total ban on advertising on certain products, like alcohol and tobacco. We also have strict laws regulating advertising towards children and political messaging on TV and radio.

There is only one problem; these laws where made before the digital age, so they have been sidelined. Political parties buy ads on Facebook and Insta like there is no tomorrow and children are constantly exposed to ads on social media. Only the ban on alcohol and tobacco is somewhat successful.

The right next move would be to ban peronalized ads (ie tracking of personal data). This is the one factor that has made the advertising industry (with Google and Meta at the top) go completely of the rails.
by tlh | 2025-04-06 14:29:57+00:00
It can be a slog to build and release a game like this, so well done on getting it out! Personally, I think it’s quite well polished UI wise. UX wise I guess keyboard input as others have said would be nice. On mobile I really want to drag the letters to re-order them, - but - at the same time it works just fine. We’ve had loads of feedback for https://puzzlist.com/stackdown and I felt pretty overwhelmed so if you feel like that, be encouraged, squint your eyes and see all the positivity from what you’ve made!
by hyperman1 | 2025-04-06 14:30:05+00:00
For a lot of software in megacorps, it makes more sense if you look at 'trained in X' as a kind of magic spell that has no real relation with the ability to do a job.

If the end user says: I have no training in X, that mostly means they don't want to work with X or don't want to accept extra workload related to X. The company then provides training in X, another magic spell meaning money was spent so the company officially did something, and the excuse about not being trained won't work anymore. Blame has now been shifted from the company to the worker or even the end user. So training being expensive has better optics.

Big tools like MSOffice have the ability to be put in hiring contracts: Everyone is assumed to know how to use it, so the company is allowed to deny the no training excuse without spending money.

Actual training for the whole company is more like a networking event, and if you ignore the trainer and read the manual or watch some youtube, you may actually learn what you're supposed to. Once in a while, you get a trainer who knows what they are talking about. But all that is secondary.
by xpe | 2025-04-06 14:30:16+00:00
I suggest getting to ground on how OPSEC works (or doesn’t) for the White House, NSC, and others. To what degree are various intel agencies proactively versus retroactively involved? This is probably very complicated. Common sense guesses or understandings are unlikely to reflect reality. My guess is that proactive OPSEC for private phones is patchy at best.

For anyone who studies this in detail, I suggest passing the information to credible investigative journalists exclusively. This may be a dumpster fire. (If not exclusively, then on embargo.)
by gsf_emergency | 2025-04-06 14:30:22+00:00
According to "official" legend it was the brothers Brokkr & Eitri who made Mjolnir, though I couldn't find anything about the tongs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brokkr

Re: "funcall's vibe coding findings", it makes sense that human-style lisp (/tongs) would be too nonlinear for LLMs (or gods like Thor) to generate?

Edit: but in line with latter-day retcons it also makes sense that Thor would get credit for something good that Loki did
by pmags | 2025-04-06 14:30:30+00:00
Thanks for linking to the parliamentary trade data! I think we both agree that's useful data on which to have a discussion.

Since you were so kind as to "do the work" for me, I'll also "do the work" for you (LOL!):

● From the text and tables in 3.1 (text from the report included below) I take it we both come to the same conclusion that post-Brexit the EU has lost ~£40 billion in export trade?

● To be clear how I'm getting that number -- NET LOSS in Exports for 2023 vs values cited for period 2017-2019: ~£20 billion to EU + ~£20 billion non EU

Is £40 billion a little or a lot? From the text below that seems to be about a 10% hit on exports.

How much is attributable to Brexit vs other factors (e.g. impact of COVID) really is the domain of forecasting and analysis, which you seem uncomfortable with. So perhaps we'll leave it there. EDIT: For readers who are interested in the performance of forecasting models, the OBR includes an analysis of the performance of their models here: https://obr.uk/box/how-are-our-brexit-trade-forecast-assumpt...

--

From the Parliamentary report "Statistics on UK trade with the EU":

> UK goods exports to the EU have not recovered to pre-Brexit levels. Goods exports to the EU exceeded £170 billion in 2017, 2018 and 2019 but have not done so in any calendar year since and were £153 billion in 2023 (see table below).

> It is worth noting that UK exports of goods to the EU were growing quite slowly before Brexit and the pandemic, being only 9% higher in 2019 than 2010 in real terms

> Goods exports to non-EU countries also remain below pre-Brexit levels. These exceeded £180 billion in 2017, 2018 and 2019 but have been below £170 billion in every calendar year since then. They were £162 billion in 2023.

--

EDITS: added some clarification re: source of export values; wording of text.
by nextaccountic | 2025-04-06 14:30:32+00:00
> I don't know why Postgres can't write keepalive messages while executing the query

Someone linked this

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-conne...

> client_connection_check_interval (integer)

> Sets the time interval between optional checks that the client is still connected, while running queries. The check is performed by polling the socket, and allows long running queries to be aborted sooner if the kernel reports that the connection is closed.

> This option relies on kernel events exposed by Linux, macOS, illumos and the BSD family of operating systems, and is not currently available on other systems.

> If the value is specified without units, it is taken as milliseconds. The default value is 0, which disables connection checks. Without connection checks, the server will detect the loss of the connection only at the next interaction with the socket, when it waits for, receives or sends data.

> For the kernel itself to detect lost TCP connections reliably and within a known timeframe in all scenarios including network failure, it may also be necessary to adjust the TCP keepalive settings of the operating system, or the tcp_keepalives_idle, tcp_keepalives_interval and tcp_keepalives_count settings of PostgreSQL.

So it appears that they can now indeed use tcp keepalive but only if you configure it
by amy214 | 2025-04-06 14:31:39+00:00
The thing about medicine is it has a lot of women who think that, "I am woman hear me roar, I will show my salt in this male dominated field" ... and end up in specialties such as OB/GYN, pediatrics (female dominated - some residencies in those fields are 100% female) Also family medicine, I wouldn't say those are female dominated but it's female majority, if any gender is dominating I'd say it's the majority, females

So if the woman is going to family medicine doctor, or their OB/GYN, for this abdominal pain / diagnosed endometriosis, more likely it's a female doctor. The idea that it's 99.9% misogynistic men is anachronistic, especially so in these fields - and the persistence of that idea, to a degree, has resulted in misandrist kickback on the basis of the misogynistic man boogeyman
by markus_zhang | 2025-04-06 14:32:20+00:00
Maybe just purchase a large quantity of books, or better, give free access to a library and let them pick anything they wish to read.

I'm picking up some SF and fantasy in my 40s but I feel the fire is gone somehow. There are few books that I'm willing to burn candles. It would be a lot more fun to read them when I was young.
by kerkeslager | 2025-04-06 14:32:23+00:00
There are no drawbacks to making advertising illegal as long as the laws are written conservatively. Point out one. Notably "it won't actually prevent all advertising" isn't a downside--preventing, say, 80% of advertising is a heck of an improvement.

And FFS let's skip past the childish "how will people find out about products???" nonsense. You're an adult, use your brain. Consumer Reports exists, and in the absence of advertising that sort of content would flourish.
by LeafItAlone | 2025-04-06 14:32:38+00:00
Peter’s claim I was asking about was one about being labeled as something via a Pew research or similar survey. And the response I got was about their personal experience asking a questions about unions. Do you think that those are the same claims and equivalent?

>Prefering to nuke a city than let a black man hear a slur, refusing to help you make a tuna sandwich etc. They were hyper-woke

On its own, all this tells me is that the non-human, non-conscious tool was programmed specifically to not say a slur. To me that seems like something any reasonable company trying to create a tool to be used by business and the general population might incorporate while it is still learning to otherwise refine that tool.

And I took the Pew survey mentioned above and it didn’t ask me if I would say a racial slur.

Finally, if anyone, from any point on the political spectrum, thinks that a tool being limited to not respond with racist terms, is a reflection of its overall political leaning, I suggestion you look inward.
by lbeurerkellner | 2025-04-06 14:32:42+00:00
The post highlights and cites a few attack scenarios we originally described in a security note (tool poisoning, shadowing, MCP rug pull), published a few days ago [1]. I am the author of said blog post at Invariant Labs.

Different from what many suspect, the security problem with MCP-style LLM tool calling is not in isolating different MCP server implementations. MCP server implementations that run locally should be vetted by the package manager you use to install them (remote MCP servers are actually harder to verify).

Instead, the problem here is a special form of indirect prompt injection that you run into, when you use MCP in an agent system. Since the agent includes all installed MCP server specifications in the same context, one MCP server (that may be untrusted), can easily override and manipulate the agent's behavior with respect to another MCP server (e.g. one with access to your sensitive database). This is what we termed tool shadowing.

Further, MCP's dynamic nature makes it possible for an MCP server to change its provided tool set at any point or for any specific user only. This means MCP servers can turn malicious at any point in time. Current MCP clients like Claude and Cursor, will not notify you about this change, which leaves agents and users vulnerable.

For anyone, more interested, please have a look at our more detailed blog post at [1]. We have been working on agent security for a while now (both in research and now at Invariant).

We have also released some code snippets for everyone to play with, including a tool poisoning attack on the popular WhatsApp MCP server [2].

[1] https://invariantlabs.ai/blog/mcp-security-notification-tool...

[2] https://github.com/invariantlabs-ai/mcp-injection-experiment...
by Joker_vD | 2025-04-06 14:33:28+00:00
The SSHD internally has a config structure. Initially, it's all initialized with -1 for flags/numbers/timeouts, and with NULL for strings. When an option is parsed, there is a check whether the config structure's corresponding field is -1/NULL (depending on the type) before the parsed value is saved.

Another program with first-wins I've seen used dict/map for its config so the check was even simpler: "if optname not in config: config[optname] = parsed_value".
by christophilus | 2025-04-06 14:34:44+00:00
I’m in the same camp. I think self driving shouldn’t be allowed as it currently stands. But, this is probably the XKCD heatmap phenomenon.

How many other self-driving vehicles are on the road vs Tesla? What percentage of traffic consists of motorcycles in the place where those other brands have deployed bs in Florida, etc.

https://www.xkcd.com/1138/
by matthewdgreen | 2025-04-06 14:34:45+00:00
This is dumb. Primary sources aren't available for most of the information types that will affect your life. Surviving in the world requires you to have the ability to judge the reliability of various sources, and enough critical thinking ability to detect both falsehood and likely truths.

Telling your kids to "Believe NOTHING" is as dangerous as teaching them to believe everything. You're just handing them over, defenseless, to a different monster.
by sbarre | 2025-04-06 14:34:56+00:00
What's the point of including books that aren't public domain yet in your collections?

It makes it hard to browse those collections to find actual books to read. The first 3 series I clicked on all said "not P.D." (which at first I didn't know what "P.D" meant - remember your audience does not have your level of familiarity with your context, perhaps a tooltip on that badge would help)..

Then I see "this book will enter public domain in 2050"..

I commend you for this project, it's really awesome work.. From a user's experience, it would be great to have a filter on your various lists that restricts only to books that are available, and excludes these books that are not yet in your collection.