MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by guywithahat | 2025-05-06 04:59:42+00:00
This whole fight feels nonsensical. This isn't a money issue, it's just a convenience issue. It was the same way with my parents when I was in school; they made plenty of money, but it was a pain trying to fill a lunch card or give my cash to buy lunches.

There are a million programs for kids who are legitimately too poor to pay for lunches, not to mention bringing a lunch which is significantly cheaper and probably better for the kid. This guy just paid for lazy parents
by vasco | 2025-05-06 05:01:57+00:00
That's a reductionist view of a technical aspect because of the way the technical aspect is sold. Serverless are VMs that launch and turn off extremely quickly, so much so that they open up new ways of using said compute.

You can deploy serverless technologies in a self hosted setup and not get "overcharged". Is a system thread bullshit marketing over a system process?
by ensignavenger | 2025-05-06 05:03:38+00:00
I am skeptical that this change meets the Open Source definition. I can understand that they want to experiment with something new, but the OSD includes a non discrimination clause, you cannot restrict or grant different rights in an open source license to different groups. What they should do instead is dual license, with a license that a acheives their goals for the general populace, plus special licenses for specifc groups that allow them to do things the open source license doesnt. I'm not a fan of CLAs like that, but they are requiring a CLA anyway.
by danihh | 2025-05-06 05:04:02+00:00
I’m sure that opinions vary widely on this, but I follow people and not companies.

With platforms like substack, X, and LinkedIn it seems easier than ever for an independent journalist to cultivate an audience.

As long as they create quality content, I’m more than happy to subscribe to whatever platform they choose to use.

True quality (especially once you get into the niches) is extremely valuable/interesting and to paraphrase Van Gogh, wheat is wheat, even if townsfolk see it as grass at first.
by ssivark | 2025-05-06 05:04:46+00:00
> Side musing follows: I dont know what the solution to identity is on the Internet.

I was fond of how Keybase brought to life [1] identity proofs (linking and validating your different online identities) in a very easy to use platform. Pity it went away; feels like a loss for the internet.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7453360
by TZubiri | 2025-05-06 05:04:57+00:00
Am I the one that is a decade behind the times? You are the one citing a case from 15 years ago, lol.

Also, I'm not sure what seems to be contradicting here. The exception that you are brining up proves the rule. If I say that humans have five fingers in each hand, will bringing up the famous case of the sixed fingered lady be relevant at all to the discussion? Especially if I worded it specifically saying that "most" humans have 5 fingers? Check my wording, I said unlikely.

The fact is, most government agencies do not have access to your emails, let's say that the NSA does, which is debatable, great, that is 0.01% of the government, and probably 0% of companies (that are not Google), unless they submitted a subpoena as part of some litigation.

Feel free to obsess about the one or two agencies that have access to emails for national security reasons, and feel free to lump it into "THE government". But I don't think you'll ever make any important nuanced cybersecurity trade offs with that attitude, you'll just want to encrypt everything until none of your users can do shit (if you have users at all, you may not even be able to get a job because you are doubtful of sending your resume to anyone, and you might be too busy configuring your own email server instead of just using gmail and doing other productive stuff.)
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-05-06 05:05:07+00:00
> It conflates "intelligence" with fact-retention and communicative ability

No, I’m using useful problem solving as my benchmark. There are useless forms of intelligence. And that’s fine. But some people have no useful intelligence and show no evidence of the useless kind. They don’t hit any of the bullets you list, there just isn’t that curiosity and drive and—I suspect—capacity to comprehend.

I don’t think it’s intrinsic. I’ve seen pets show more curiosity than some folk. But due to nature and nurture, they just aren’t intelligent to any material stretch.
by KingOfCoders | 2025-05-06 05:05:23+00:00
Founded in the idea to make it too expensive for Nazi Germany to invade.

But in the end it was more successful to just trade with Nazi Germany, buy stolen Jewish gold and stolen gold from occupied countries, send back Jews to be killed, deliver raw material for arms and sell weapons to the Nazis to not be invaded.

[Edit] Sorry, thought this was well known.

* NYT / "The (Not So) Neutrals of World War II"

> https://archive.is/kogL7#selection-275.0-275.37

* "For reasons that are still uncertain, Hitler never ordered the invasion. One theory is that a neutral Switzerland would have been useful to hide Nazi gold and to serve as a refuge for war criminals in case of defeat"

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Tannenbaum

* "In 1998, a Swiss commission estimated that the Swiss National Bank held $440 million (equivalent to $8.5 billion in 2024) of Nazi gold, over half of which is believed to have been looted."

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_gold

* "Switzerland laundered hundreds of millions of dollars in stolen assets, including gold taken from the central banks of German-occupied Europe"

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_collaboration_with_Na...

* "The Boat Is Full"

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boat_Is_Full

* "Seven studies released on Friday by the Independent Commission of Experts (ICE) show that the lion’s share of Swiss munitions exports went to the Axis powers."

> https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/banking-fintech/swiss-supplied-...

* "The studies found evidence that the Swiss authorities only superficially inspected goods traffic transiting through Switzerland allowing the Nazis to transfer essential products, possibly even war material, from Germany to Italy and north Africa."

> https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/banking-fintech/wartime-probe-r...
by creeksai | 2025-05-06 05:06:59+00:00
I totally understand if Databricks doesn't fit your use cases.

But you are doing a disingenuous comparison here because one can keep a "serverful" cluster up without shutting it down, and in that case, you'd never need to wait for anything to boot up. If you shut down your EC2 instances, it will also take time to boot up. Alternatively, you can use the (relatively new) serverless offering from them that gets you compute resources in seconds.
by NaOH | 2025-05-06 05:07:57+00:00
Related:

Camouflaged Military Bunkers of Switzerland (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25331474 - Dec 2020 (119 comments)

The forgotten underground world of Swiss bunkers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12430234 - Sept 2016 (50 comments)
by quuxplusone | 2025-05-06 05:08:32+00:00
https://acoup.blog/2022/06/03/collections-total-generalship-...

> To take another example, Caesar’s army at Bibracte (58BC) famously manages the feat of winning when attacked in both the front and the rear by about-facing its third line and attacking in both directions at once. Notably Caesar does not say that he did this, merely that the Romans did, which is a strong indication that turning the rear ranks of the army to face backwards was a decision made by more junior officers (probably centurions).

That said, of course I disagree with GP's claim that classical and medieval armies didn't drill. They certainly did drill. Bret has a whole blog post on the topic. [1] Quote from that post:

> Josephus [...] offers the most famous endorsement of Roman drills: “Nor would one be mistaken to say that their drills are bloodless battles, and their battles bloody drills” (BJ 3.5.1).

The quote from Josephus, extended:

> [The Romans] have never any truce from warlike exercises; nor do they stay till times of war admonish them to use them; for their military exercises differ not at all from the real use of their arms, but every soldier is every day exercised, and that with great diligence, as if it were in time of war, which is the reason why they bear the fatigue of battles so easily; for neither can any disorder remove them from their usual regularity, nor can fear affright them out of it, nor can labour tire them: which firmness of conduct makes them always to overcome those that have not the same firmness; nor would he be mistaken that should call those their exercises unbloody battles, and their battles bloody exercises.

That reminds me that Plutarch's Life of Eumenes §11 has a fun story about how Eumenes kept his men (and horses) in shape despite a close siege; it's hardly evidence for regular exercises but it's an amusing example of an irregular exercise! [3]

[1] https://acoup.blog/2022/06/17/collections-total-generalship-...

[2] https://penelope.uchicago.edu/josephus/war-3.html

[3] https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/...
by l33tbro | 2025-05-06 05:08:53+00:00
Ha. Fair, but music that makes us think more than feel isn't necessarily always a terrible thing. John Cage, Steve Reich, even Battles is pretty intellectual in a way (it's quite literally math rock lol).

I guess we like different artists for different reasons, and you like Daft Punk in boogie mode. Which I definitely get, as it is their strong suit. But I just think this is album is a bit of an anomaly in their catalogue and might require having to unlearn them a bit to dig it.

Their live album Alive 1997 would have to be my favourite of theirs btw. But I don't hate Human After All as many other fans do.
by pell | 2025-05-06 05:09:04+00:00
> With platforms like substack, X, and LinkedIn it seems easier than ever for an independent journalist to cultivate an audience.

Cultivating an audience is one thing but serious investigative journalism often takes considerable amount of time and money. Most journalists I’ve seen on Substack and similar platforms seem to mainly do commentary, summaries of topics, interviews, and the like. There is a place for that of course but it isn’t really filling the need for investigative journalism too well at the moment.
by HenriNext | 2025-05-06 05:09:49+00:00
> I know half a dozen startups that let you pass in some set of keys and "build a multi-agent system"

Could you give names of those startups?

And yeah, Hugging Face is very much venture funded -- they had a modest 4.5b valuation in the last round.. (I just didn't know they had some competing product).
by Hashex129542 | 2025-05-06 05:09:50+00:00
I am not about to explain the alternative but just explain your acceptance of "least worst" option. If you look out the least worst case definitely democracy isn't alone :) It's all about your acceptance of which worst is best for you.

Even Barbaric system far better than democratic system. You don't care about the decision just because of it's taken by majority peoples on your own life!

Another alternative is auction system. Auction conducts between parties, so whoever has money that company will hold ruling rights for some years. It's kinda lease. It's far better system the Democratic Election bribe for Votes & of curse the auction money given to citizens but it's official.

If you don't know about bribe election, check it out. https://www.google.com/search?q=tn+election+bribe
by hakfoo | 2025-05-06 05:10:31+00:00
As someone who has basically been told by the boss "I'm the one pushing for AI, so we all have to make it a success" I can see 2 being a thing because it lets them point at the desks and say "see, they're all using the tools."

We're a JetBrains shop, so they showed us Cursor and how to set up Claude in a terminal window, and I think most of our team has been using Claude because we don't want to give up the experience we're used to for the non-AI parts of the day.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-05-06 05:11:09+00:00
> there are thousands of mammalian viruses that don't infect humans that could be modified to infect humans via specific modifications of their target mammalian cell-surface receptor proteins

Are you claiming that's what happened here? What virus do you propose was modified in such a manner? Where was it sourced from? Why was it not on the published lists of discovered viruses?

> as was done in this specific case of a bat coronavirus modified at its furin cleavage site to make it human-targetable

Did you even read the comment you're responding to? It details why the furin cleavage site does not resemble something that you would expect humans to have produced.
by inejge | 2025-05-06 05:11:46+00:00
> Tried tapping that link on mobile, got a screen to view the corresponding post. Tapped it, and I got taken to the App Store.

It's obnoxious, but if you really want to view the post you can switch the screenshot page to desktop mode, and the "View post" button shouldn't redirect to the App Store. The result isn't pretty but it's readable in a pinch.

(They're still not desperate enough to track the UA and detect the switch.)
by rawgabbit | 2025-05-06 05:11:46+00:00
https://chrissmith.house.gov/uploadedfiles/testimony_of_kim_...

Other political crimes that I came to know of after I was incarcerated in the prison camp. “The crime of talking about a cyst/lump on Kim Il Sung‟s neck.” “The crime of (unwittingly) damaging or soiling the statue or portrait of Kim Il Sung.” “The crime of knowing about the private life of Kim Jong-il. For example, knowing about Sung Hae Rim being the hidden mistress of Kim Jong-il, and disclosing this information to an outsider.” “The crime of revealing the birth of Kim Jong Nam, the firstborn son of Kim Jong-il” “The crime of listening to or viewing foreign radio or TV.” “The crime of questioning or criticizing the policy of the Worker‟s Party.” “The crime of expressing criticism or complaints about North Korea society.”
by atoav | 2025-05-06 05:12:36+00:00
> Despite this, it hasn't been abused nearly as much as it could be.

Yes, because a few decades ago a total surveilance of a population would have needed a signifikant part of the population to do the surveilance or base your surveilance on statistical chance. If you ever get the chancs to inform yourself about the way the GDR/Stasi watched its citizens before the fall of the Berlin Wall, go for it.

I previously described the recent technological advances as a shift of the above-mentioned ratio: Never in history could a dictator know more of the communications of all his citizens with less people being in on it. Never before in history could a dictator pretend the populus was on his side with less people then now.

These changed ratios already altered the face of politics, and I am pretty sure this wasn't it.

And for your grandma example: Metadata isn't encrypted nearly anywhere. If your grandmas network looks as if she makes a special, explosive kind of dough (or this ever gets mentioned anywhere), the timing of your message and whom you are sending it to might be enough for them to send you to a secret prison without due process. Correctness of such accusations is only a requirement when you don't have absolute powers and dictators will always find someone to blame, otherwise they would look weak.
by anovikov | 2025-05-06 05:13:49+00:00
With the rest of Artemis cancelled they won't even need to do any of that. Starship v3 could deliver astronauts to the Moon and back in a single-shot, expendable configuration with direct ascent method, by far the simplest, using Dragon as the only crew capsule (adding a 3rd stage with one Raptor Vacuum, and some sort of a landing and ascent stage).
by insane_dreamer | 2025-05-06 05:13:50+00:00
This has happened too many times:

- me: how can I do X?

- llm: do this

- me: doesn't fully work

- llm: refactoring to make it more robust ...

- me: still doesn't fully work

- llm: refactoring ...

- me: now it's worse than before

- llm: refactoring ...

- me: better but now there's this other regression

- llm: refactoring ...

- me: we're back to the first issue again

- (eventually ... me: forget it, I could have done it myself by now)
by ggm | 2025-05-06 05:14:31+00:00
I'm not sure I understand how half the attack surface on email is avoided simply by not using email, given the attack surface is metadata and the other information held at rest on the persons own computer, alongside the indexing and command history both of which are noted as significant risk irrespective of transport security. Seems like much or even all of the problem is information sharing irrespective of how its done.

Two can keep a secret if one is dead.
by gigatexal | 2025-05-06 05:16:32+00:00
Bravo to this guy. I’m donating. I hope he continues to help kids but then helps get the legislation changed such that school lunches are free. It’s an investment in the kids. With food in their bellies they can better focus on learning.

Why the f should a child have to pay for their food at school the purpose is to learn not be faced with the realization their families are poor every single day.
by tobr | 2025-05-06 05:16:43+00:00
Interesting watch. It leaves some things unexplained though. How did Prydz end up as the artist on a song not in his own style, nearly identical to two previous artists making the same song, based on a re-recording of a sample? I wonder if the label was simply looking for a competent producer to make a version of what they thought would be a hit after having figured out how to clear the sample.
by goku12 | 2025-05-06 05:16:48+00:00
I hope you have a reference as to how an optic fiber cable can be tapped like that. I also hope you've seen how heavily jacketed these cables are. The cables are so sensitive to mechanical disturbances (but without interference to communication) that it can often sense itself getting shifted around. Tapping it will require a lot more than that. How do you avoid such tip offs?

And as far as I know, emails are not E2E encrypted, but they are almost always encrypted in transit. Why go through all the trouble just to get encrypted data?

Now I concede that all those things (OFC, TLS) may have vulnerabilities that can theoretically be exploited. But do you send such valuable information over the internet that it's worth their cost and effort to retrieve it? And if your answer is yes by some chance, would you transmit it without taking adequate security measures?

In comparison, Google and the others have billions of emails simply sitting unencrypted in their storage, ready for access at zero cost. I can't see your argument contradicting the information security risk posed by these companies.
by starspangled | 2025-05-06 05:17:52+00:00
If qualification, accreditation, integrity is overseen and regulated and handed out by multinational corporations and organizations, owned by and run for billionaires with shady connections and hidden backroom deals among governments, bureaucrats, corporations, the rich, etc., then that really does not "qualify" them to report on very much at all except what maintains the status quo and advances the interests of the ruling class.

A least with independent journalists there is a chance they might not be compromised. Not so, corporate journalists.
by silisili | 2025-05-06 05:18:11+00:00
Oh man. That reminds me of a recent thing I've been testing with deepseek and gemini via roo/cline.

I pretty much only use them for mundane tasks, like 'heres 12 json files, add this field to each.' Boring right?

They are both so slow. They 'think' way too much before every single edit. Gemini is a little faster to start but 429s repeatedly so ends up being slower. It also would reorder some keys in the json for no apparent reason, but who cares.

In the end, I realize I could have probably done it myself in 1/3 the time it took those.
by paulluuk | 2025-05-06 05:19:30+00:00
If you put it like that, I absolutely agree with you, except that I suppose I don't really consider this an exchange of knowledge but more like the release of an open-source project: the only thing they need to publish are instructions on how to use it. I don't think they’re really interested in anyone improving their model by themselves or reproducing the work. It would be amazing if they did, though!
by gaudystead | 2025-05-06 05:19:50+00:00
I really like this wrapping paper and would like to see more wrapping paper that imitates other objects in this fashion.

I assume it'd be significantly more expensive than normal wrapping paper because it's suited to particular form factors of the presents, but as a business idea, I could see a larger service that matches these sorts of wrapping papers to products that would work with them.
by utbabya | 2025-05-06 05:19:50+00:00
> At the state that we're in the AIs we're building are just really useful input/output devices that respond to a stimuli (e.g., a "prompt"). No stimuli, no output.

It was true before we allowed them to access external systems, disregarding certain rule which I forgot the origin.

The more general problem is a mix between the tradegy of the common; we have better understanding every passing day yet still don't understand exacly why LLM perform that well emergently instead of engineered that way; and future progress.

Do you think you can find a way around access boundaries to masquerade your Create/Update requests as Read in the log system monitoring it, when you have super intelligence?
by Sniffnoy | 2025-05-06 05:20:38+00:00
> What makes you say that? Has Signal posted something about it?

I mean, if you want Signal's blog post where they introduced it, it's here: https://signal.org/blog/disappearing-messages/

But also, of course Signal hasn't promised that if they're remotely competent, because that's impossible. You can't stop people from retaining messages if they want to. Now perhaps they're not remotely competent, but in reality they do know better.

> Retention settings are widely used for messaging security.

I mean, maybe people think they're using it for that, but regardless of the context, it will not provide any actual security, because that's impossible! Your recipient could get out a camera and take a photograph if that's what it comes to.
by subarctic | 2025-05-06 05:23:07+00:00
This article doesn't seem to really explain how this whole debt thing works. What I'm guessing happens is some kids go to the cafeteria and get food, and then their parents are supposed to pay the bill later, and they can't afford it so they don't (and maybe their parents told them they can't afford and they're supposed to bring a lunch to school but they didn't listen, or their parents didn't tell them). So then the lunchlady has to act like a debt collector and go take their food away and replace it with something cheaper (not sure why they just don't decline them the hot lunch food in the first place).

Does this sound right?
by atoav | 2025-05-06 05:23:33+00:00
So you give another kingdoms access to your castle, but they are not allowed to touch things? Or they get details like your blueprints and who is stationed where?

Just kidding, I know there are ways to do this in a more complex and secure way, e.g. with self hosting services etc., but that is why I tried to not make it about all AV products.

The fact remains that this kind of layer can (and repeatedly does) introduce weak points that will be attacked. I am not saying there aren't ways to implement this well, with trade offs that are worth it. What I say is that: "Just add AV-product X" is likely a doomed approach.