MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bandie91 | 2025-04-06 19:41:58+00:00
NNCP peers may be completely untrusted, but in this case don't expose weak nncp-exec command to those peers.

for example these is an `exec: /usr/bin/tar` command exposed for Alice, but not for Eve. For Eve there may be an `exec: /usr/local/bin/file-request-handler-for-untrusted-peers.sh` command available which adds the access control layer.

ForceCommand accepts user parameters except via environment variables.
by sunshine-o | 2025-04-06 19:42:07+00:00
I left Twitter 10 years ago because I believe it is toxic.

Now to everyone applauding those kind of things with a "the enemies of my enemies are my friends" logic:

I wouldn't be surprised if in a few years HN will be inaccessible from the EU because it promotes non compliant and dangerous software. If you don't believe me, read the EU Cyber resilience act. It is slowly paving the way to this.

HN is already blocked in China.
by mullingitover | 2025-04-06 19:42:09+00:00
The defense of this regime's economic strategy (particularly the market crash and looming economic hardships) is doing political horseshoe theory and entering Maoist territory with surprising speed.

"You'll be rich because we're so good with the economy" has raced over to "We've been rotting in decadent lifestyles, true strong patriots will be happy to sacrifice for the glory of the fatherland."
by pclmulqdq | 2025-04-06 19:42:54+00:00
I don't understand how you can come to the understanding that "heterodox" isn't a term of art when there's an entire wikipedia page devoted to explaining the meaning of "heterodox" (and another one about "mainstream") in the context of economics...

An economic theory described as part of "heterodox economics" can, in fact, be relatively mainstream given enough exposure and enough followers (which is where MMT is today). Conversely, parts of "mainstream economics" are relatively controversial and are thus heterodox ways of thinking.

If you think about "orthodox Christianity," the word "orthodox" says nothing about its popularity. The same goes for "heterodox economics."

Pretty much all monetary theories are parts of heterodox economics.
by firejake308 | 2025-04-06 19:42:59+00:00
I would love to support creators directly, but there are some hard problems that creators need to solve before they begin direct-to-consumer sales:

1. Discoverability

2. Payments

3. Shipping

While it is theoretically possible to handle all of these without a middle-man, the middlemen running the marketplaces have thus far done a much better job than individuals could ever hope to.
by dragonwriter | 2025-04-06 19:43:18+00:00
> Why are you disagreeing with me while proving my point?

I'm not sure what your point is, but what you actually said overstates the case for visual detection.

> The signal we get is enough.

Sure, we know that with processing far beyond what we currently can replicate, it can at least just meet the minimum bar.

> And that is why there should be benchmarks to be passed

Is it? I would think there should be proof and validation no matter which pieces were demonstrated adequate and which have not yet been.

But the thing is that we don't even know enough to make a set of benchmarks that can be tested that provide confidence, and we maybe won't until we've had the several systems that demonstrate that they work well enough in real conditions from which to generalize a minimum set of standards that can be verified prior to getting into real conditions.

So we do supervised testing in progressively-less-limited real world conditions of each system until we get to that point.
by akmarinov | 2025-04-06 19:44:25+00:00
Can’t tariff Germany’s factory- how would you even go about legislating that?

The way to go about it so to start mandating that all cars have rain sensors, or dashboard instruments or HUD, or radar if they do TACC or parking sensors - things that most other cars have, but would be a pain for Tesla to add back in for just one region
by perching_aix | 2025-04-06 19:44:26+00:00
On the contrary, I don't get why (certain) sites - and people - absolutely insist on serving even the most basic things via copious amounts of JavaScript, and other adjacent technologies. Most website content is basic multimedia, text, images and video, and most use of JavaScript is either frivolous or is supporting user-hostile designs, such as infinite scroll.

Reminds me to the WordPress / PHP scourge of the 2010s. "You don't understand, we have to dynamically serve our site using PHP, and have an extensive CMS that we can barely use ourselves so we'll will still constantly reach out to you about." And then the site is barely more than a brochure or a blog.
by arp242 | 2025-04-06 19:44:56+00:00
I've lived in a bunch of different cities in a bunch of different countries, and none of them have area(s) you "don't go to". There are some rougher areas, sure, but it's generally fine (I've lived in some of these "rough areas").

I think this says more about the general state of cities in the US than cities in general.
by notahacker | 2025-04-06 19:46:47+00:00
The core of MMT economic policy is the abolition of government bond markets and the state replacing existing unemployment benefits with a "job guarantee" intended to act as an alternative endogenous economic stabiliser, both policies which precisely zero countries have adopted. Policymakers are largely oblivious to MMT and certainly don't use it to justify their social policies, and "helicopter money" came from the opposite side of the political/economic spectrum decades earlier.

In that respect it's exactly as heterodox as Mises-style Austrian economics, which has similarly failed to persuade mainstream conservatives who share similar ideas about small states of its core ideas about gold standards and the futility of economic modelling...
by drdaeman | 2025-04-06 19:47:15+00:00
Hate to say this but the incentive is growth, not progress. Progress is what enabled the growth, but is also extremely hard to plan and deliver. On the other hand, hype is probably somewhat easier and well-tested approach so no surprise lot of the effort goes into marketing. Markets had repeatedly confirmed that there aren't any significant immediate repercussions for cranking up BS levels in marketing materials, while there are some rewards when it works.
by arandomusername | 2025-04-06 19:47:24+00:00
> and calling the foreign minister of Poland “a little man”.

Just for context, which I think is important here: The foreign minister said Poland is paying for Starlink for Ukraine ($50m/year) and that they will be forced to look at other suppliers if they prove to be unreliable.

Elon responded back claiming that $50m is a small fraction of the cost, there's no substitute and said "Be quiet, little man".

> the topics include freedom of speech and immigration

Most of EU citizens are pro freedom of speech and anti immigration btw.
by wrasee | 2025-04-06 19:47:26+00:00
Right. Somewhat burred the lede. My take was that the value that services like Gumroad can bring is precisely the value-add they provide over what a create could do themselves. So if the CEO has chosen to essentially automate the entire business by replacing staff with AI, then what value-add is left exactly?

Better then to watch out for middlemen that "extract value rather than add it" and empower creators to host things themselves. Thought that was a nice observation.

Ironically, I always thought that was somewhat the point of Gumroad (short of self-hosting). Are they on to enshittification Stage II?
by mikrl | 2025-04-06 19:47:41+00:00
Poor people get hurt most by wasteful belief systems. Sure the demographics might correlate positively or negatively with poverty, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s primarily economics.

After all, rich people can eat the extra $$$ imposed by tariffs. Maybe with grumbling… but, at a certain income level paying $5 vs $2 for a can of corn or soup won’t materially affect you, so you can use that extra $3 you paid to complain about immigration, or hierarchies or whatever.
by gameman144 | 2025-04-06 19:48:03+00:00
Oh totally, don't get me wrong, I hate the majority of ads (playing the "guess what this ad is even for" game reveals just how terrible most ads are.)

The nuance for me is that sometimes (mostly online) I see ads for a tool or game or product that just shows it in action, and while 95% of the time I still don't want it, there's the small fraction of the time where I think "Hey that actually looks nice" (and I'm fine with the other 95% that just show me the product).

Commercials for insurance are basically always terrible though; if you're advertising anything besides rates, coverage, or service, then what does it have to do with your product?
by didgetmaster | 2025-04-06 19:48:08+00:00
I also wrote my first program on an Apple IIe using Apple Basic. My high school bought two of them (one for math depth. One for the business dept.) around 1979 or 1980.

I was one of the few students to have a class in both areas so I could take my code back and forth between classes on a floppy (8 inch I think)
by pessimizer | 2025-04-06 19:48:39+00:00
The worst part isn't that a company makes up a designation and is forced to stick with it by regulators. A designation could have been designed from the beginning specifically to head off regulators.

The worst part is that it is simply a lie. Blue checkmark never meant "trustworthy source of information," and most people who had blue checkmarks were not trustworthy sources of information. Thierry Breton is spreading misinformation here, but that would not have ever been grounds to remove his checkmark.

Blue checkmarks were an arbitrary piece of gamified tat given by twitter when it felt like it, and now it's a paid piece of gamified tat that can be revoked whenever Musk feels like it.
by twoodfin | 2025-04-06 19:49:33+00:00
Indeed, given the massive interest Parquet has generated over the past 5 years, and its critical role in modern data infrastructure, I’ve been disappointed every time I’ve dug into the open source ecosystem around it for one reason or another.

I think it’s revealing and unfortunate that everyone serious about Parquet, from DuckDB to Databricks, has written their own “codec”.

Some recent frustrations on this front from the DuckDB folks:

https://duckdb.org/2025/01/22/parquet-encodings.html
by DoctorOW | 2025-04-06 19:50:05+00:00
I'm not sure what source you found the story on but you missed a really key line of the original document "Furthermore, misrepresenting one's gender, understood as sex, on a driver license constitutes fraud under s. 322,212, F.S., and subjects an offender to criminal and civil penalties" which reasonably backs up the claim.

Also I am going to claim it IS a bad idea. The Florida law intentionally redefines biological sex to not include any phenotypical traits (i.e. what a biologist would use to determine sex) and instead goes by birth certificate as it was filled out at birth. I'm also just generally a proponent of free speech and free thought and dislike the idea of government defining your identity for you.
by paulryanrogers | 2025-04-06 19:50:09+00:00
The federal government does an amazing number of things despite some inefficiencies. FEMA, FDA, EPA, SEC, FTC, FCC, national defense, interstate highways, border security (for better and worse), social security, Medicaid, Medicare, maintain embassies, foreign diplomacy, etc. As these things are gutted their absence or lack of capacity will be felt for decades.
by wruza | 2025-04-06 19:50:15+00:00
HN actively erases unicode regions to prevent emoji abuse and other zalgoing. Sites and apps do it nowadays, just not with emoji. It's the other side of your point – unicode can do too much and it's not a regular text, so you can't search within that sort of bold, validate, etc. So people choose to work with a subset, which may still leak: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42231608
by eek2121 | 2025-04-06 19:50:46+00:00
I was in this space (out of work now) for 20 years and at the end things just got bonkers. The best companies I have worked for don’t even have a hands on coding project. At worst they have a SIMPLE take home project to test critical thinking skills. The worst jobs are the ones requiring hours of interviews and tech conversations.

Note that I am out of work due to declining health. I’ve seen some improvement, and have been thinking about going back if things continue to trend upward, but the current state of dev and onboarding has me sick to my stomach.

Might just see if i can bag groceries instead.
by sidibe | 2025-04-06 19:50:48+00:00
I dont really care about the levels but I think Tesla has been building level 2 product, that will always supposedly be level 4 next year but they have never shown any intention of doing level 3.

What is clear is Tesla is not currently capable of self driving and he has lied year after year after year about it.

I think carmakers should have to be liable for their cars capabilities in the areas they allow them to be used.
by camgunz | 2025-04-06 19:50:59+00:00
Ugh, the point is that your argument "if there's a market for something there's no point banning it" is special pleading for advertising. If you put other powerful things in there (plutonium, human organs) you quickly see this. But, sure, let's do it the boring way.

> Human attention is scarce.

Compared to what? Do you mean limited, highly desired, or what? Also I'd say there's 8 billion human attentions. That doesn't sound scarce to me.

> Demand for that attention is endless.

"Endless"? Surely not. What if I have it all?

> Scarcity + demand creates a natural market by default

Doesn't this mean almost everything we care about is a market? The supply of almost everything (actually everything?) is limited, qed right?

> meaning you must use brutal authoritarianism to disrupt it entirely (vs just regulating with guardrails).

I don't think this means anything. What's an example of using brutal authoritarianism to disrupt other markets?Cocaine? Human organs?

> Disrupting natural markets with authoritarianism usually ends up worse than any downsides of the decentralized market regulation of that scarcity.

Again if there are any concrete examples I would imagine most people would agree that stuff should be banned.

> Instead of something that attempts to land on fairness (even if imperfect), no market at all guarantees unfairness.

Wait I thought scarcity + demand poofs a market, how can there be scarcity + demand and no market? Isn't this the foundation of your argument?

> Advertising puts a price on the scarce commodity of attention in broad strokes,

The strokes are way too broad. If you're a magazine or a road sign, you're selling the slice of attention you're getting, which isn't anywhere near the whole attention market. Even if you're something like FB or TikTok, you're max getting like 70% of someone's attention. But then is influencer placement more effective than movie product placement? What about an interstitial ad? Blah blah blah. What happens when people are offline, like making breakfast or reading a book (things lots of people still do, believe it or not). This is a market in such a loose sense it loses meaning, but the worst part is the people who own attention aren't getting paid! At least in a human organ market I get cash for my kidneys. Where's the site I can go to where I just watch ads and rack up sweet cheddar?

> and it not always, but generally trends toward making the highest value messages for both the audience and advertiser get seen over lower value messages in any given situation (because those are the ones that can afford the market clearing price on said advertising).

"Value" for who? You've done no work to establish the value of advertising to the audience. Again, less of a market and more of a sheep shearing operation.

> But to ban it outright would require an extreme policing of all speech at all levels of society.

You might be surprised to learn there's a pretty rich diversity of advertising bans. Here in The Hague we ban ads for meat and fossil fuels. Things are still OK!
by ajross | 2025-04-06 19:51:38+00:00
> getline() results are served from that buffer.

So... it doesn't parse them once! It just does its own[1] buffering layer and implements... exactly the algorithm I described? Not seeing where you're getting the "Nope" here, except to be focusing on the one historical note about RAM that I put in parentheses.

[1] Somewhat needless given the OS has already done this. It only saves the syscall overhead.
by lherron | 2025-04-06 19:52:09+00:00
Agreed! And with all the gaming of the evals going on, I think we're going to be stuck with anecdotal for some time to come.

I do feel (anecdotally) that models are getting better on every major release, but the gains certainly don't seem evenly distributed.

I am hopeful the coming waves of vertical integration/guardrails/grounding applications will move us away from having to hop between models every few weeks.
by einrealist | 2025-04-06 19:52:33+00:00
LeCun criticized LLM technology recently in a presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETZfkkv6V7Y

The accuracy problem won't just go away. Increasing accuracy is only getting more expensive. This sets the limits for useful applications. And casual users might not even care and use LLMs anyway, without reasonable result verification. I fear a future where overall quality is reduced. Not sure how many people / companies would accept that. And AI companies are getting too big to fail. Apparently, the US administration does not seem to care when they use LLMs to define tariff policy....
by dangus | 2025-04-06 19:52:33+00:00
This is true. Big brands that have advertisements all over like Coca-Cola do it precisely because their position is so saturated and dominant.

They need to remind you about them even though you already prefer them and know they exist because they want you to buy more than you would otherwise.

I still think a lack of advertising for smaller competitors really would be devastating. DuckDuckGo and Reddit achieved pretty amazing recent growth aided by major outdoor ad campaigns. These were sites that were not market leaders in their categories and had a lot of catching up to do.
by aerhardt | 2025-04-06 19:52:49+00:00
The question is simple and verifiable - it is impressive to me that it’s not contained in the LLM’s body of knowledge - or rather that it can’t reach the answer.

This is niche in the grand scheme of knowledge but Paul Newman is easily one of the biggest actors in history, and the LLM has been trained on a massive corpus that includes references to this.

Where is the threshold for topics with enough presence in the data?
by ilrwbwrkhv | 2025-04-06 19:53:02+00:00
Yes thanks for calling it out. I've been troubled with a lot of these startups calling themselves open-source, which might be correct but misses the ethos of open source by a mile. For example editors like Zed are actively getting better because of open source contributions and yet the enterprise value is directly going to the founders and none to the contributors. There is something really rotten about this and Gumroad might be the lowest level of hell on this gradient.
by rich_sasha | 2025-04-06 19:53:08+00:00
While it's nice to see EU hitting where it hurts, and $1bn is a lot of money by most scales, it isn't, insanely, that much to Musk. If I believe Google, his net worth is still over $300bn, so such fine would be less than 0.5% of his net worth.

Given his pattern of behaviour, he may well try to turn it all into a joke and be emboldened for more.

That said, I don't know how much cash Twitter and SpaceX have. Possibly not a lot. Tesla does have more, but it's publicly owned and much harder for Musk to raid for cash.
by firejake308 | 2025-04-06 19:55:09+00:00
> Another part of the project was to move away from Oracle and to PostgreSQL. That change led to various threats and intimidation from the company when it learned of the change, González Waite said. "They told me that the entire passport system of the country was going to fall down" and that it would be his fault that Mexico could not let anyone into or out of the country. "Guess what? That didn't happen."

Larry Ellison, never change. It'll be interesting to see how they ruin TikTok if their bid succeeds.
by dangus | 2025-04-06 19:55:24+00:00
As one example, I think about how DuckDuckGo was able to grow to a decent size against an impossibly entrenched competitor aided by a large outdoor ad campaigns.

Reddit also grew more rapidly in recent years post-IPO for similar reasons. Reddit used to be more niche with fewer people even knowing it existed.

Knowing alternatives exist is half the battle. This fair comparison you hope people will make is just a hope without the ability to advertise. People have to know all possible alternatives exist in order for the market to be perfectly competitive.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-04-06 19:55:44+00:00
Very realistic, although sometimes I would prefer to be driving when I've been a passenger and it's a complete hold-onto-the-seat experience the whole time :(

Good points, I don't even want a traffic ticket, and had more damage from others' mistakes than mine but it's always costly :\

Uber, too is something I imagine the Beach Boys use today, it has gotten to the point where lots more people couldn't afford a car without the car itself being responsible for making a good share of the income possible, or they have one regardless if they can't survive without it.

It sure didn't used to be that way.
Show HN: Gobley – Call Rust from Kotlin Multiplatform
by salgorithm | 2025-04-06 19:55:54+00:00
Hi Hacker News, we've just released Gobley v0.2.0!

Gobley provides Gradle build integration between Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) and Cargo for Android, iOS, and JVM. Kotlin/JS and Kotlin/WASM support is planned, so stay tuned!

We also have some documentation for newcomers: - Hands-on tutorial: https://gobley.dev/docs/tutorial - Cross-compilation tips to integrate Kotlin, Rust, and C++: https://gobley.dev/docs/cross-compilation-tips - Cross-platform example app (Android, iOS, Windows API, & Linux GTK): https://github.com/gobley/gobley/tree/main/examples/app/src - GitHub discussions: https://github.com/gobley/gobley/discussions

Gobley is a fork of the (now archived) uniffi-kotlin-multiplatform-bindings (https://gitlab.com/trixnity/uniffi-kotlin-multiplatform-bind...) which is built on Mozilla’s excellent (still active) UniFFI (https://github.com/mozilla/uniffi-rs) project.

Please try it out and let us know what you think!
by nradov | 2025-04-06 19:56:21+00:00
Ignorant people sometimes have stupid thoughts. This is not an actual problem, or anything that governments or media companies need to fix.

Even under previous Twitter management, there were a lot of verified accounts who weren't celebrities by any reasonable definition. So only a moron would have ever believed that "blue checkmark = celebrity". We can't protect morons from themselves and it's pointless to even try.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-04-06 19:57:38+00:00
So, in other words, are you saying that AI model progress is the real deal and is not bullshit?

That is, as you point out, "all of the models up to o3-mini-high" give an incorrect answer, while other comments say that OpenAIs later models give correct answers, with web citations. So it would seem to follow that "recent AI model progress" actually made a verifiable improvement in this case.
by delusional | 2025-04-06 19:57:52+00:00
> Sometimes the founder will apply a cope to the narrative ("We just don't have any PhD level questions to ask")

Please tell me this is not what tech-bros are going around telling each other! Are we implying that the problems in the world, the things that humans collectively work on to maintain the society that took us thousands of years to build up, just aren't hard enough to reach the limits of the AI.

Jesus Christ.