MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by YZF | 2025-05-25 05:37:00+00:00
In these sorts of situations you need to consider what is the more likely reality based on whatever limited data you have.

A few things to consider:

- Organizations take a while to change. Is it more likely that the CBP is operating more or less as it has been or that it had some dramatic changes?

- Searching phones takes time and effort. To scale up this in a significant way while still supporting similar amount of traffic would require more people? extended waiting times?

- Do you know people who travel to the US? Have they had their electronic devices searched? Have we seen a surge of stories about electronic devices being searched? The numbers they claim are less than ~450 a month (0.01% * 4.5M). Do we have evidence to suggest the scale is significantly different?

- The CBP could simply have said nothing. What would be their reason for explicitly addressing this question? If it's a lie wouldn't they be concerned e.g. with needing to deal with this down the line? Do you think Trump reads these reports and rewards some person in the CBP for this? Feels very unlikely.

- CBP is a huge org. 65k people or so. If there was some major change or lie then presumably it'd leak somehow?
by braaaahp | 2025-05-25 05:37:33+00:00
Ah yes, a sanctimonious tech bro reducing everything to a Twitter size sound bite.

We know; you’re scared of change because you have seen your lived experience and know you cannot grow a potato.

But you’re just a meat suit and your personal story and literacy aren’t anyone else’s concern. And that’s under the political norm. You prefer no guarantee of healthcare. The risk someone else will obsolete your research. Oo so titillating.

Fine, have it your way. Let us continue under American norms where I can give zero fucks your meat suit exists.

Fortunately for me I have generational wealth thanks to the building and auto booms in the US, and EE degrees, hands on building useful machines and technology. SWEs exist so long as open compute platforms exist and there’s no guarantee governments around the world will forever allow that.

Should you find yourself shut out of employment opportunities, thoughts n prayers.
by barry-cotter | 2025-05-25 05:38:21+00:00
> Democracy is superior not because some founders wrote some scripture, but because of its moral and rational foundation, that all are created equal, all have universal, inalienable rights that include liberty,

That is a really great formulation of the imago dei, image of God, doctrine.

> and thus nobody else has the right to tell them what to do without their consent.

And this is a generalisation of a principle that is downstream of the English yeomanry, of freeborn men who can kill a knight.

To see an Anglo proclaiming the universal destiny of all humanity to follow the Anglo culture is just such a stirring thing.
Show HN: Fwtui – A terminal UI for managing UFW (built with Bubble Tea)
by beny406 | 2025-05-25 05:38:46+00:00
I recently started writing Go professionally, after spending several years working mostly in Elm. Coming from Elm, I was naturally drawn to the Bubble Tea framework because of its Elm-like architecture and functional style. That made it a great fit for a hobby project to deepen my Go knowledge.

The result is fwtui – a terminal UI for managing UFW (Uncomplicated Firewall) on Linux.

What it does: Browse, add, and remove firewall rules

Easily apply popular default profiles (e.g., SSH, HTTP, PostgreSQL) or create a custom one

Understandable ports syntax with TCP/UDP support and range validation

No mouse needed – works great over SSH

Built entirely in Go with a focus on simplicity and TUI usability

Repo: https://github.com/Beny406/fwtui

Would love to hear your feedback – especially from other Go or Elm folks!
by nullbio | 2025-05-25 05:38:51+00:00
No. The entirety of an LLMs output is predicated on the frequencies of patterns in its training data, moulded by the preferences of its trainers through RLHF. They're not capable of reasoning, but they can hallucinate language that sounds and flows like reasoning. If those outputs are fed into an interpreter, that can result in automated behavior. They're not capable of out of distribution behavior or generation (yet), despite what the AI companies would like you to believe. They can only borrow and use concepts from that which they've been trained on, which is why despite LLMs seemingly getting progressively more advanced, we haven't really seen them invent anything novel of note.
by mjanx123 | 2025-05-25 05:39:19+00:00
You flipped the static and shared.

Shared objects are compiled in a way that the exact same code works when loaded at any address, which typically requires base+offset addressing and is less performant, but the same physical pages holding the object can be mapped into different processes at different addresses, ie shared.

Static object addresses the code and and data directly and does not waste a register and requires the addresses in its code to be modified depending on where it is loaded, and the code cannot be shared between different processes.

You can't convert a static library to shared because you can't.

You can convert a shared library to static but there is no point.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-05-25 05:39:25+00:00
Civil leadership defines policy, the military execute policy. This isn't just about explicit goals, but about rhetoric and tone.

Leadership normalises moral expectations. If those are perverse, the entire machinery of government will be perverse. Including the military.

Occasionally you get dissidents like Smedley Butler who call out moral shortcomings. But generally those kinds of ruminations are above the Pentagon's pay grade. The Bush admin painted military action and torture as legitimate responses to real external threats, and that's the narrative the footsoldiers bought into.

So it's very unlikely the military in the US will ever directly challenge the elected civilian leadership. There may be thoughts and even discussions, but direct action would split the military down the middle - even after today's West Point fiasco.
by jader201 | 2025-05-25 05:40:18+00:00
I’m talking strictly the rules of gameplay, and applying that metaphorically to competition within the workplace and war.

Taken literally, of course the experience of playing a board game should be fun for everyone, regardless of the outcome.

But if you want to stick to the metaphor, I would agree that if you’re playing board games with sore losers/winners should result in finding new people to play with.

And similarly, if you have coworkers that are only looking out for themselves and their own success, without regard to the success of the team, find a new place to work.

But that’s the point I was trying to make.
by antirez | 2025-05-25 05:41:08+00:00
I bet automatic this part will be simple. In general LLMs that have a given semantical ability "X" to do some task, have greater than X ability to check, among N replies about doing the same task, which reply is the best, especially if via binary tournament like RAInk did (it was posted here a few weeks ago). There is also the possibility to use agreement among different LLMs. I'm surprised Gemini 2.5 PRO was not used here, in my experience it is the most powerful LLM to do that kind of stuff.
by wavemode | 2025-05-25 05:43:59+00:00
This is basically PR. "It's so hyper intelligent it's DANGEROUS! Use extreme caution!"

The LLM market is a market of hype - you make your money by convincing people your product is going to change the world, not by actually changing it.

> Anthropic says it’s activating its ASL-3 safeguards, which the company reserves for “AI systems that substantially increase the risk of catastrophic misuse.”

It's like I'm reading science fiction.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-05-25 05:44:50+00:00
It's only about 60% degraded after 36 months exposure. The scaffolds aren't up for that long (they're taken down immediately once work is complete). The nylon joint is several times stronger than it needs to be to keep the poles together (2.5 kN per joint; point-loaded beam is spread between two joints, so 5 kN; max rated beam load is below that).

Just fyi, the guy who did the analysis of Dan Osman's failed rope (Black Diamond's QA manager) concluded the rope was not affected by UV or weather exposure. (https://groups.google.com/g/rec.climbing/c/gW92OrNs7_o?pli=1)
by Xevion | 2025-05-25 05:45:34+00:00
While I don't dispute that they're objectively the most desirable at the current moment - I do think your comment implies that they deserve it, or that people WANT Nvidia to be the best.

It almost sounds like you're cheering on Nvidia, framing it as "everyone else trying to reduce the value of Nvidia", meanwhile they have a long, long history of closed-source drivers, proprietary & patented cost-inflated technology that would be identical if not inferior to alternatives - if it weren't for their market share and vendor lock-in strategies.

"Well, what are they gonna do about it?" When dealing with a bully, you go find friends. They're going to fund other chip manufacturers and push for diversity, fund better drivers and compatibility. That's the best possible future anyone could hope for.
by BeetleB | 2025-05-25 05:46:39+00:00
> Having won the largest block of legislative seats, it was to govern in coalition with other political parties. Hamas instead went to war with its coalition partner (Fatah, who remains in control of the West Bank) and took control of Gaza by a program of internal repression and political assassination.

As with anything involving Israel/Palestine, the article takes an extremely simplistic view of the conflict between Hamas and Fatah. Anyone who followed the events in 2006/2007 after the election knows that both parties were equally to blame.

Hamas had good reason to believe Fatah was planning a violent takeover, and there were assassination attempts on Hamas's leader, widely believed to be by Fatah members. At the same time, Hamas committed their own crimes against Fatah.

There isn't a clean "They instigated, and we responded" event here by either side. They had been in conflict since prior to the election.

(Somewhat unrelated, but supporters of Hamas do correctly point out that "playing nice" hasn't worked out well for the Palestinians in the West Bank).

I pretty much stopped reading the article after this statement. It stinks strongly of "I have a thesis and let me bend reality to convince you of it".
by throwawaymaths | 2025-05-25 05:47:54+00:00
are you ready to die for the principles of your country? if not, then there is no point. things are bad, but they have been way worse in the past (remember, we had legislators getting caned on the floor of congress, citizens locked up en masse without trial, everyone's bank accounts confiscated and held for weeks, biological experiments run on minorities, and underage citizens assassinated by drones). in the face of the injustices that the administration is going to commit, you should have ready for yourself the answer to two questions:

1. given a sober, nonpartisan review of past history, how far is too far for this administration?

2. what are you willing to do to stop it, how much are you willing to sacrifice.

i suspect that nothing the administration has done to date really clears the first bar. be prepared for the day it will, save your energy till then.
by cyberax | 2025-05-25 05:47:56+00:00
Hardness is not really the weakest point of stainless steels, anybody who tried high-carbon knives and got disappointed with them can attest to it.

Stainless steels have lower yield strength compared to carbon steels, meaning that the stainless steels bend under stress more easily. This is not an issue for knives, but it is a big issue for construction materials.
by pdonis | 2025-05-25 05:48:31+00:00
> Are the standards for whether something “sounds bad” based on the average person’s reading or the intended audience.

As pg describes it in the article, it's neither; it's based on the writer's judgment. The writer of course is writing for some intended audience, and their judgment of what sounds good or sounds bad should be influenced by that. But pg is describing the writer's process of judging what they write.
by chubot | 2025-05-25 05:49:39+00:00
Yeah I think what I realized is that I learned history as a bunch of names, places, and dates

But I am bad at remembering that kind of thing. There is infinite history of that sort

On the other hand, now I feel like if I wanted to understand the Caucausus (which I know little about), I would look at

- the geography, and how that shaped the weather, animals, and plants

- how weather, plants, and animals shaped agriculture (or the lack of it)

- how people made money, e.g. surpluses from agriculture

- new technologies developed there, or lack thereof

- rival civilizations, and wars (which are also affected by geography and weather)

- language and writing

- major leaders and religions

I was struck by how much of history was had "the problem of succession", i.e. brothers fighting for their father's power. This was universal, all of the world

From that lens, democracy looks like a big achievement

And I was also struck by how big a deal CLIMATE was. On the scale of 250 years, the climate doesn't change that much; but on the scale of 1000-2000 years, it changes quite a lot. And many economies can only survive in a 100 or 500 year window. The system has broken down A LOT!

I'm sure tons of educated people know all this; I just found a hole in my education.

But also, history is biased toward those currently in power -- they want to make it seem like the current state of affairs was somehow inevitable or ordained, and lasted a long time, and will last into the future

But in reality, power is fleeting and fragile

I was naive about that, but I think many people all over the world are. Basically because propaganda and ideology "works"
by ijidak | 2025-05-25 05:49:55+00:00
Agree. The prompts and data presented to the model seem setup to steer towards blackmail.

It's probably a marketing play to make the model seem smarter than it really is.

It's already making the rounds (here we are talking about it), which is going to make more people play with it.

I'm not convinced the model grasps the implications of what it's doing.
by pdonis | 2025-05-25 05:50:04+00:00
> what does it says about the clarity of PG's essay?

This seems pretty clear to me:

"[W]hile we can't safely conclude that beautiful writing is true, it's usually safe to conclude the converse: something that seems clumsily written will usually have gotten the ideas wrong too."

And I'm not the only one who has quoted that passage in this discussion.
by AlecSchueler | 2025-05-25 05:52:00+00:00
At the same time you still see projects like Beating Every N64 Game [0], so there's evidence that there's still interest even in the absolute worst games on the old consoles.

0: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrwJXOVKrLbIDAiT9b4Lkyz4d...
by msla | 2025-05-25 05:52:32+00:00
Great article. One clarification:

> In 1948, Manchester Baby, the first electronic programmable stored-program computer, had a Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) display that allowed users to peer directly into its 32-bit word memory. This worked because the CRT itself - what was known as a ‘Williams Tube’ - was memory.

There were four CRTs, three of which were memory (one for RAM, two for registers) and the other was a display device. This is because to be used as memory, the CRT needed a metal plate in front of it. So the Baby put the same data on both the memory and display CRTs, one of which was mounted in its front panel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_tube
by Xevion | 2025-05-25 05:52:52+00:00
Dumb.

No cloud provider is gonna see further price gouging from the company with the largest market share and think "Yeah, let's disconnect from the only remaining competitor, make sure every nail is in our coffin".

It's probably the opposite. I bet this move will lead to AMD's increased funding towards compatability and TPU development, in the hopes that they'll become a serious competitor to Nvidia.
by chvid | 2025-05-25 05:52:56+00:00
It is possible to conceive a scenario where India becomes more geopolitically risky than China in a few years.

Anyway.

If I was Tim Apple, I would make an "AI server". Basically take a bunch of M-series chips, attach some HBM memory, and put it in a shiny box. Sell it as: The most powerful Apple computer ever made. Made in America.

Never going to be a volume product, a lot simpler to assemble compared to an iPhone.
by pdonis | 2025-05-25 05:53:06+00:00
> In the first paragraph, he writes, ”I think writing that sounds good is more likely to be right.”

But towards the end he backs away from that claim, and makes the claim I described:

"[W]hile we can't safely conclude that beautiful writing is true, it's usually safe to conclude the converse: something that seems clumsily written will usually have gotten the ideas wrong too."

In the light of that, and of much of the rest of the essay, I think the sentence from the start that you quote was misstated. It should have been stated as "Writing that's right is likely to sound good."
by lifthrasiir | 2025-05-25 05:55:42+00:00
Using SQLite as a container format is only beneficial when the file format itself is a composite, like word processor files which will include both the textual data and any attachments. SQLite is just a hinderance otherwise, like image file formats or archival/compressed file formats [1].

[1] SQLite's own sqlar format is a bad idea for this reason.
by shakna | 2025-05-25 05:57:30+00:00
Spent the weekend with an untagged chunked format, and... I rather hate it.

A friend wanted a newer save viewer/editor for Dragonball Xenoverse 2, because there's about a total of two, and they're slow to update.

I thought it'd be fairly easy to spin up something to read it, because I've spun up a bunch of save editors before, and they're usually trivial.

XV2 save files change over versions. They're also just arrays of structs [0], that don't properly identify themselves, so some parts of them you're just guessing. Each chunk can also contain chunks - some of which are actually a network request to get more chunks from elsewhere in the codebase!

[0] Also encrypted before dumping to disk, but the keys have been known since about the second release, and they've never switched them.
by theincredulousk | 2025-05-25 05:57:35+00:00
This has been developing for a while... The big players have basically been competing for allocations of a set production, so NVIDIA negotiated into the allocations that some % of the compute capacity they "sell" them is reserved and exclusively leased back to NVIDIA.

So now NVIDIA has a whole bunch of cloud infrastructure hosted by the usual suspects that they can use for the same type of business the usual suspects do.

well played tbh
by dpkirchner | 2025-05-25 05:57:58+00:00
I think it might take more than a stroke of a pen -- it seems like the easiest legal way would be to bribe the House to elect Trump as Speaker, bribe a pair of Republicans to run and win in 2028 and then in 2029 have each of them resign, promoting Trump back in to office.

The bribing might be costly but people are more than willing to buy Trump's merch.
by dheatov | 2025-05-25 05:58:24+00:00
Totally agree. This kind of disclaimer/disclosure with strong wording does not make sense for a product of for-profit company. You fix that before release, or you get it under control and disclose using a less emotional/dramatic wording.

Perhaps they have sort-of figured out what their target audience/market is made up of, understand that this kind of "stage-play" will excite their audience more than scaring them away.

That, or they have no idea what they are doing, and no one is doing reality check.
by not_your_vase | 2025-05-25 05:58:30+00:00
What a horrible article - defending garbage enterprise security practices against the KYC regulations?

No system is unhackable? You know what? No regulations say that you have to store sensitive information on an online machine. Also, no regulation prevents you from installing security updates in a timely manner.

Every time a hack happens, the response is always "very sophisticated state-level actors". You know what's behind 98% of them? Password enabled ssh (with the password being $COMPANYNAME123), client-sided password verification in javascript, and when authentication works, frequently it only protects the login page - if you know the direct URL to a resource, just type it to go around the login. Or just simply running on a system that hasn't seen an update since the pandemic. All these keep happening to this day.

It really wouldn't take a lot to make things work, all the tools have been available since a long time.
by shakna | 2025-05-25 05:59:24+00:00
Files are... Flat streams. Sort of.

So if you rewrite an index at the head of the file, you may end up having to rewrite everything that comes afterwards, to push it further down in the file, if it overflows any padding offset. Which makes appending an extremely slow operation.

Whereas seeking to end, and then rewinding, is not nearly as costly.
by 999900000999 | 2025-05-25 05:59:28+00:00
I want FOSS alternatives for every genre.

I tried to make a FOSS MTG clone and I keep running into weird edge cases. Anyway, even small games need solid teams to get started.

Even if the games are ultimately monetized , it would be nice to have a FOSS core.

I want to play COD without a bunch of stupid skins and side effects. I would pay 60$ over the base 60$ to disable that non sense, it’ll never happen though. Back during the CS Source days I could just select a no skin server
by accrual | 2025-05-25 05:59:53+00:00
I really like NT 4.0 as well. In my experience the stability varied based on hardware and driver support, though. I tried running NT 4.0 on a "relatively fast" K6-3+ system with GeForce 2 and AWE64 but had weird issues, like sound stuttering in games that the same hardware runs fine under Win98 and 2K. I had endless trouble getting it installed too, I ended up installing in 86Box then imaging onto the host. I could fairly easily get it to BSOD by doing multimedia type work on it. Really though, not a fault of NT 4.0 so much as I probably didn't have the ideal drivers or hardware combo.

But on a fast 486 system, a bit older than NT 4.0 was really designed for, it ran flawlessly and made the dusty hardware feel very competent and modern - lots of common software runs fine on NT 4.0 including Winamp and specially compiled versions of modern PuTTY. It's probably my favorite OS for a DX4-100.
by AdamN | 2025-05-25 06:01:23+00:00
Writing, at a level sufficient to get your point across and be well read, is within reach of most people. The writing is not really an intelligence test.

The gap is typically that if something is written poorly we can infer the underlying thinking that went into it wasn't well enough conceived to put out high quality text. You can understand this implicitly when you think about how you would write about a topic that you barely know about vs a topic that you are so comfortable with that the writing doesn't even seem like an effort. Ironically people often don't write about the stuff they know best because they presume it's obvious - and it is, to them. And then they write about the stuff they're trying to figure out - which is poorly understood and poorly expressed.