MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tayo42 | 2025-05-20 04:14:42+00:00
For individual people I don't think all art is just throwaway like that. Iconic music like Kanye or Michael Jackson were part of people's happy memories and experience living. They left a lasting impact on music and pop culture.

For your thought experiment, I don't think we as a whole threw away the scientific work of the nazis. We have a concrete answer to that
by sneak | 2025-05-20 04:14:49+00:00
The fundamental concept of plaintext archiving (escrow) of messages from e2ee messaging apps is insecure by most definitions.

They could have used user-custody public key cryptography, where the end devices have the pubkey of the customer, and archive only re-encrypted messages to TM that they can’t read.

That is not, of course, what they did. They just archive them in plaintext.
by surokbut | 2025-05-20 04:18:16+00:00
Anyone born in Buffets generation and are not rich wasn’t even getting out of bed.

A proper assessment of their skill relative to the ground truth they lived would be nice. One cannot simply walk into an office and rub elbows now. And the other half of the gender, and minorities make up a much larger part of the work force

New Deal bootstrapping then Reaganomics putting thumbs on the scales for those generations too.

His biggest asset was J&J when government was spending tons on health propaganda and grooming cause Americans used to be a bunch of greasy slobs. Oh look comb and toothbrush and mouthwash sales are staples buy buy buy then inflate through media propaganda and tax policy.

He was not a wizard.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-05-20 04:18:16+00:00
You use a different function than Validate_Parsed_JSON in those cases. But most typescript programs are only going to need JSON-compatible input. Maybe some XML but that's also going to have similar formulaic output from your parser.

If something can directly hand you a maliciously built data structure, you're probably designing your system wrong. Are you running untrusted javascript in the same interpreter? That's a very hard problem that should be avoided if at all possible.

Basically, only working on JSON.parse is something to document but it's not at all a weird restriction, or a reason to balk at putting it into production.
by _fzslm | 2025-05-20 04:18:44+00:00
> Nobody would have believed it 10 years ago, but today AI is more likely to replace a concept artist than an accountant

Do you really think so? I understand the basic sentiment of your statement but having tried to use AI for concept art, I was very disappointed at its lack of originality. Especially in an inevitably oversaturated market of AI creative work, I see the value of good human conceptual artists only rising.
by willmarquis | 2025-05-20 04:18:57+00:00
Interesting take. The visualization of the inverse tree highlights just how sparse the “preimage space” is under Collatz iterations. The idea that this sparsity contributes to the apparent randomness is compelling. I’m curious whether modeling the process modulo powers of 2 and 3, or via 2-adic analysis, could formalize some of these heuristic observations. Also, the assumption that most numbers “fall off” rapidly aligns with empirical behavior, but it’s still not clear how to bound exceptional trajectories.
by rvz | 2025-05-20 04:19:28+00:00
Well, we are almost half-way through the year since this prediction [0] and the full assault on knowledge workers is underway (as expected) and is replacing them with AI via mass layoffs across the tech industry and beyond and it is the complete endgame of the intelligent age.

You will see this magnified by this year's Google I/O announcements.

Anytime they mention "AGI", it really is the goal of AI replacing humans from their jobs that are economically useful. (Not the benefit of humanity bullshit.)

In 10 - 15 years time, the questions from those who got out of tech would be:

Did you that humans used to program computers?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42490692
by jagger27 | 2025-05-20 04:20:11+00:00
Managers will be replaced by AI when people are willing to work for them. Does anyone really want that? Who the fuck wants to work for an unaccountable machine who you can’t grab a beer with after work? How much life are you willing to abstract away in the name of “efficiency”? To what end?

The exact same thing applies if you are a manager, do you really want a flock of loyal electric sheep to do your bidding? If you’re in management for control over others, how is that satisfying? If you’re in it to mentor, who comes after you? How?

Why does anyone want this? Our societies are already so mechanized and automated yet somehow we have less time than the average medieval peasant to enjoy our allegedly easier lives. What toil has been eliminated thus far?
by WorldMaker | 2025-05-20 04:20:22+00:00
This is why I've sold or will sell many of my more controversial books/authors for relatively cheap because, yeah, an extra used copy in circulation is possibly one or more fewer new book sales that author won't profit from. Some of them I don't mind if someone else enjoys that book itself for what it is/was at the time it was released, but it's nice to think that it next sale(s) might be a dollar or three the author won't see when they read that.
by hdjrudni | 2025-05-20 04:20:34+00:00
Kysley is worth the effort, yes.

Prisma and Drizzle...those gave me a bit too much heck. Kysley is close enough to SQL while offering some benefits, typings being one of them, but also query builders are often helpful when I need to run subtle variations of the same query, e.g. depending on the user's permissions or to add search filters.
by bee_rider | 2025-05-20 04:22:06+00:00
I expect it will take a while.

Nobody really wants to decrease the number of humans in their fiefdom, right?

However, if AI actually works out and produces tools that make people, like, 5x more effective, than a software company can replace an existing one at 1/5 the cost with 1/5 the engineers. Fewer people to manage, less deep corporate tree, and maybe some of those middle layers will also use AI…

But nobody wants to decrease the size of their fiefdom, so that company will need to be built from the ground up and then wipe out the competition.
by notpushkin | 2025-05-20 04:22:15+00:00
That’s also part of the reason I’ve chosen it for a placeholder / variable name! The actual placing is not important as long as it’s where speakers of the Ä language expect to find it.

Or suppose there’s languages Ä₁ and Ä₂, where in Ä₁ the ‘ä’ is the umlauted ‘a’ and in Ä₂ it’s a distinct letter. The language list would be displayed as:

A Ä₁ B C Z Ä₂

The only problem / corner case would be such a language Ä₀ that would e.g. sort ‘ä’ before ‘a’. I would still put it after, since it’s where most other readers would expect to find it.
by somenameforme | 2025-05-20 04:22:27+00:00
You're intuition's a bit off on this issue. Here [1] is one poll on American's preferences in terms of fertility, among countless others you can find. They all tell the same tale: Americans want to have children, but aren't. And even those that have children aren't having as many as they want. The overall number that do not want to have children at all (8%) is verging on statistical noise.

And the motivation for having a stable, and ideally growing, population isn't about economics - it's about culture. Countries aren't defined by borders, but by the people within those borders. If you simply swap the populations of America and Saudi Arabia they're not going to start acting just fundamentally different. The two countries would begin to rapidly resemble the countries the people came from, even if the old rules and establishment initially remained in place.

And Western culture has currently found itself in an unsustainable place which means that if things don't change, it will simply die only to be replaced. And I think that'd be a shame, because while it has its own deep flaws, it's undeniable that Western culture has had an extremely positive overall influence on the world.

[1] - https://news.gallup.com/poll/511238/americans-preference-lar...
by willmarquis | 2025-05-20 04:22:35+00:00
Really impressive evolution of a crucial service. The architectural and UX improvements are well thought out, especially the focus on resilience and scalability. Love the transparency around the decision-making process, too-Troy’s commitment to keeping HIBP fast, free, and useful is a great example of public-interest software done right. The migration to .NET 8 and use of Cloudflare for caching shows how mature and modern the stack is becoming.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-05-20 04:23:49+00:00
"Stealing" is the most polite, least offensive way I could put it.

"Crime against humanity" is closer to the description I would otherwise use. Am I being more clear? The effects of that level of accumulation of wealth and power on the individual, the community, country, and the world are grossly negative.

No one who has ever lived deserves that amount / percentage of wealth.

Where it gets blurry is "so, what is enough then?" and "what is to be done with anything over the "enough" amount?". I don't know the answer, I don't know when it turns from earnt to evil. I doubt there's a specific number, although specific numbers are required for laws and legislation and regulation, but it would defnitely be a variable amount depending on the individual at which they become irreparably morally bankrupt.

The correct answer, however, cannot possibly be: Just let them accumulate more forever. That's inarguably stupid, but that's where we're at.
by skydhash | 2025-05-20 04:24:27+00:00
> easy, mechanical, boring af, and something we should almost obviously outsource to machines

That’s when you learn vim or emacs. Instead of editing character wise, you move to bigger structures. Every editing task becomes a short list of commands and with the power of macros, repeatable. Then if you do it often, you add (easily) a custom command for it.
by chvid | 2025-05-20 04:25:03+00:00
Modern microkernels deliver stability, security, performance (look it up if you want the details). Back when I did CS we were talking about this as the next big thing in operating systems. It didn't happen - common operating systems instead expanded in scope, started to include things like a web browser and supporting a gazallion pieces of hardware, rather than trying to "do things right".

The game changer part is of course in terms of the broader tech war. What we have here might be a consumer operating system that is technologically better than what is on offer from Apple, Google, and Microsoft. Built by a vilified Chinese company.
by quantadev | 2025-05-20 04:25:37+00:00
I'm still trying to decide what I'm gonna do the first time a company tries to have their AI Bot interview me for a job. Will I accept that offer or reject the interview? I'm undecided. I'll probably refuse.

However I think an AI would maybe be more honest, about how well I do and my super high skill level perhaps, and not simply reject people for being over 50, White, Male, Overqualified, and good looking, as is [or dare I say was] the custom with DEI hiring practices, for the last decade...or two.
by willmarquis | 2025-05-20 04:25:46+00:00
Exposing unauthenticated /heapdump endpoints in production is a rookie mistake-especially for a service handling sensitive government comms. The presence of MD5 hashes and legacy tech like JSP just adds to the picture of poor security hygiene. This breach is a textbook case of why defense-in-depth and regular audits are non-negotiable.
by nilram | 2025-05-20 04:26:13+00:00
"admitting" could also be in the sense of "disclosing". I wouldn't expect anyone, even an elected leader, to immediately disclose a health issue that requires some amount of understanding and decision-making.

There's a segment of the population that thinks he knew while he was running for president but didn't disclose or "admit" the issue to the public. Given that this is an aggressively metastatic cancer, and Biden's campaign ended nearly 10 months ago, I think that's implausible to the point of being ludicrous.
by mindslight | 2025-05-20 04:26:34+00:00
Think of how full of shit most software developers are. Now think of how much worse their advice would be if they could be sued for wrong answers, but were given all of ten minutes to look at a code base and come up with a recommendation. That's a doctor.

I agree with the sibling advice to insist on PSA labs. You are your own advocate. The primary job of a doctor is actually to be a bureaucrat, the first line of offense for the health management companies whose whole function is to deny healthcare. They can easily rubber stamp a few labs once you change their risk calculus of not doing it, by explicitly laying out your risk factors.
by jen729w | 2025-05-20 04:26:47+00:00
Just the other day, walking through a sleepy country town (Hawks Nest, NSW, AU), I was explaining to my partner how I'd love to have an AR overlay of the town that told me, statistically, what each person in each house was doing.

Ideally it'd consider an estimate of the house's value and use vision to assess the real-time appearance of the property to further hone its model.

If you could do that next, please. Oh and buy me a Vision Pro. Cheers.
by eviks | 2025-05-20 04:27:39+00:00
> While it is relatively simple to learn the magic exit incantation, it’s certainly not a coincidence that this often turns up as a stumbling block for new and old programmers.

What’s even simpler is changing the awful defaults and adding the menu to make this a non-issue at a tiny fraction of the time it would take to write a new editor.

> we decided that we wanted a modeless editor for Windows (versus a modal editor where new users would have to remember different modes of operation and how to switch between them)

New users could do everything in insert mode with the power of modes always in the background. Also you don’t need to remember how to switch as you can just show those key binds in either your menu or status bar if you think it’s very important, there is plenty of space looking at the screenshots

Such a wasted opportunity to use something powerful and extensible for rather flimsy reasons
by ninetyninenine | 2025-05-20 04:28:57+00:00
Leadership is the one doing the "replacing". They won't replace themselves. They'll replace you first.

Also there's tons of science validating how the most unqualified and unfit people make it to leadership positions. If you're a leader, most likely you're not a good one. So it's not like the industry knows a good leader when they see it. So if AI is a better manager, the industry doesn't care. It's politics and ass kissing that gets them up there.
by maxlybbert | 2025-05-20 04:29:33+00:00
That reminds me that he got lots of comments from upset readers because shortly after Mother Teresa died, one comic's punchline involved 100 nuns dying in a plane crash ( https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1997-09-13 ). He swears that he drew the comic months before, and had no real idea when it would run, but many readers thought the timing was too good to be accidental.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-05-20 04:30:33+00:00
I have no feelings about him either way. I've read thru Islam's statements and gotten the best context I can. The adjective I would apply to all of it is hapless.

More than anything, Islam seems ill equipped to handle these matters. And to be fair, he indicated he is not the guy to come to for this topic.

I would bolster that to say that if someone truly wanted a substantive, educated opinion about fatwa, they would have gone to someone capable of giving them that.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-05-20 04:30:57+00:00
> good percentage of youtubers and substackers today actively cultivate their readership as a source of new material. They're more of a refining prism or filter for an otherwise unstated concerns than a source of wisdom

Isn’t that all comedy? It’s halting because it’s true. And sure, we may find striking truth through meditation. But it’s more likely to hit you in the real world.
by michaelmrose | 2025-05-20 04:31:07+00:00
In general and quickly chosen "best answer" is perhaps not the best means to analyze such output because people are on average very very stupid and at time of immediate reception less than ideally situated to discern quality of output especially if it concerns data that they aren't intimately familiar with.

For instance the lawyers who submitted briefs with references to fake cases and fake precedents were presumably satisfied with the output at time of reception but less so when they got sanctioned for thousands of dollars for presenting lies to a judge in place of truth.
by xk_id | 2025-05-20 04:31:19+00:00
Yet if a citizen of the country makes the same identical speech and has the same identical ideology, it’s now 100% acceptable and should carry no legal consequences? What is it about the specific combination of speech and citizenship, which suddenly creates a danger for society? What about speech which is done anonymously, is that more or less dangerous that the same speech made by a known citizen? Should all speech require proof of citizenship beforehand?
by quantadev | 2025-05-20 04:32:20+00:00
Yeah, I'm still on the fence about how I feel about this. I mean LLMs are going to be potentially more fair, and there wouldn't be office politics and people being treated unfairly by an emotional easily-manipulated human boss.

Then again the office politics might even get WORSE when people try to trick an AI Boss into blaming someone else for a problem they created themselves. Then again the AI will have a superhuman knowledge of who checked in bad code that broke the product, etc. Lots and lots of trade-offs.
by ivape | 2025-05-20 04:32:35+00:00
I've been to public school in the US and I can testify that 90% of teachers can easily be replaced. There's literally no two ways about it, the AI can do it better. The basis for this claim is that all real teaching is done on a one-on-one tutoring basis. That's why parents that walk the child through homework have better performing students. Your average teacher in a classroom simply can't provide that to 20+ kids in a classroom.
by brockshipalpha | 2025-05-20 04:32:38+00:00
People who don't use AI will be better off. We all know people who cheated--heavily--really do get weeded out (unless they are super rich, in which case they get promoted). I worry about the young cheaters who are dooming themselves by squandering the one chance they get to really learn, and wish there was some way to make them see the long game they need to prepare for.
by throwawaygmbno | 2025-05-20 04:33:15+00:00
It's more interesting to not separate them while they are living even if you still enjoy the art. You know exactly where the money is going if you continue to pay

I don't really have an opinion on Wagner's music because he is dead. Michael Jackson similarly feels fine.

But it feels more and more terrible to stream Kanye, a contender for one of the best in producing and rapping, every time he opens his mouth because you know you're helping support his life style. But if you ripped his albums you can still enjoy the previous art.

But it's nice to know more about the riches finances and we should demand more. Papa John's fired their CEO for being racist, but he still holds significant stock, so I continue to avoid their pizza. Tesla could do the same and hopefully it still shouldn't matter without a complete sell off.
by SllX | 2025-05-20 04:33:32+00:00
> A foreign court holding a trial for an american citizen accused of commiting a crime in a foreign place is definitely not a valid excuse to invade someone under international law.

This isn’t a Dutch district court in The Hague trying ordinary crimes. This is a non-Dutch court hosted in The Hague with jurisdiction limited to signatory nations and trying extraordinary crimes listed in its charter, but again, with limited jurisdiction. Right now the extent and scope of their reach is under debate specifically between the signatory Palestinian State and the non-signatory Israel, and we’re seeing that “debate” play out between governments which have an interest in minimizing its institutional reach and the ICC itself which has an interest in maximizing its institutional reach. Real sovereign nations are, as it turns out, more powerful than the ICC. Which brings us to:

> Its also pretty hypocritical, since if someone travels to america and commits a crime there, america has no problem arresting them for their conduct while in america. Why aren't other countries allowed to do the same?

Other countries can and they do, and we do the same to foreigners that commit crimes in America. This isn’t at issue. This isn’t even in the discussion.

What is, is the American Service-Members Protection Act wherein we’ve passed a law specifically to insulate our service members and our allies from an international institution whose jurisdiction over us and other non-signatories we explicitly don’t recognize, and there’s a big stick in there where the President at his own discretion is explicitly authorized to use force to liberate any American or citizen of a US ally from the ICC. This does not extend to the Dutch judicial system.
by paranoidrobot | 2025-05-20 04:33:37+00:00
It's not a job title, it's some Microsoft program, like their MVP program.

The RD site linked from Troy's site isn't loading for me at the moment, but if you search "what is the microsoft regional director program" you get back information making it clear that it's not for MS Employees.

https://rd.microsoft.com/en-us/

> The Microsoft Regional Directors program recognizes industry professionals for their cross-platform technical expertise, community leadership, public speaking[...]
by hofrogs | 2025-05-20 04:34:20+00:00
This is really cool and actually useful for peeking behind those annoying login walls. What software do you use to store/index/search in so much data? How did you get the data in the first place? Discord isn't exactly known for letting its data be available easily. Have the administrators of the guilds asked you for this? Have you contacted them and made them aware after the fact?
by throwawayk7h | 2025-05-20 04:34:29+00:00
I love Psycho-Pass, it's a classic Urobuchi. Can't find a proper review on the site though, likely since it predates the site's launch. (They're doing reviews of previous years as well, but slowly.)

Regarding the Japanese interpretation of the allegory -- I don't think it's apologist toward fascism really, because essentially every side in the conflict has fascist elements. In that sense, it's more "some situations just don't have any good solutions." But what's clear to me is that the situation itself has fascist roots. Regardless, the Polygon article in question has a much more surface-level reading -- it is clearly stating that it's antisemitic, which I simply can't see at all. Spoilers rot13: vg'f gehr gur gvgnaf ner ~wrjf, ohg guvf vtaberf gung gurl ner gur perngvbaf bs ~anmv rkcrevzragf, naq nyfb gung nyy gur cebgntbavfgf ner ~wrjf nf jryy.

I don't understand what I'm looking at with the site you linked, but I am intrigued.
by sberens | 2025-05-20 04:34:48+00:00
My experience with auth solutions/libraries is you invariably want to customize some flow/data/functions, but it's impossible because the library isn't flexible enough.

A better solution might be premade auth primitives (oauth providers, db adapters) that you copy paste into your codebase shadcn-style, and modify when necessary.

I feel like "don't roll your own auth" is less true than it was 5-10 years ago as now there is an abundance of good references and core libraries.