MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by michaelmarkell | 2025-05-01 23:33:52+00:00
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by tmoertel | 2025-05-01 23:34:09+00:00
> google will sell the fact that you visited that porn website to anyone who is interested.

Has Google has actually done this? According to Google, they don't sell personal information:

https://about.google/company-info/how-our-business-works/#:~...

I'm willing to believe they've broken this promise, but if you can point to some actual proof, I'd like to see it.
by creer | 2025-05-01 23:34:31+00:00
> By one estimate, it will take $40T to move all of China's existing manufacturing capacity and supply chains to the US, and it will take 20+ years if you're really motivated.

Which also simply cannot happen because even if the US don't want stuff manufactured in "China", the rest of the world does. So the US, with higher local costs, cannot reclaim the economy of scale that went into the current chinese supply chain. Seems to me, at best the US can split it: a high cost chain in the US, a low cost chain in the rest of the world. What the US MIGHT achieve (on a long time frame) is move most of the chinese part to other low cost countries. That was already well under way.

The US also don't have the available population to run these factories.
by josephg | 2025-05-01 23:34:41+00:00
That’s fair but -

I replaced node with bun a few months ago and I haven’t looked back. All my JavaScript projects run with no changes. Performance is on par or better compared to nodejs. It can run typescript directly without needing to be compiled. It also has a built in bundler & minifier (bun build), and some other goodies. The command line is a bit different - you need to “bun run” to run scripts. But eh.

Nodejs still works fine, of course. But being able to run typescript directly is killer.
by cryptonector | 2025-05-01 23:34:55+00:00
> You obviously are on the West Coast side of the Berkeley/Bell Labs divide.

No, I joined Sun long after the SunOS 4 -> Solaris 2 transition. The "it came from New Jersey" thing was just a pejorative phrase we used for ugly code with ugly code smells that came from SVR4. It was certainly not my coinage, but rather something Sun's greybeards would say. I had occasion to say it myself.

Basically STREAMS and XTI were disasters that took two decades to eradicate. But there was plenty of stuff in userland that wasn't great either. I recall a bug in eqn once that elicited that comment from someone.

> Was there a lot of internal discussion/dissension before/during the SunOS/Solaris transition?

There was plenty of evidence of internal dissent still a decade after the transition. SVR4 just wasn't all that great. And really, Solaris did not resemble SVR4 that much anymore 20 years after the transition. However, Sun was able to make Solaris quite good in spite of SVR4.

Ultimately I think the transition was good for Sun though. More than anything the user-land of SVR4 was fundamentally different from that of BSD primarily because of ELF, and I think ELF was a fantastic improvement over static linking (at the time, and even now because the linkers haven't adopted any of ELF's semantics wins for static linking, though they could).
by hnick | 2025-05-01 23:35:04+00:00
From a skim it looks like the highest setting tested was 60°C which can kill, but wouldn't be considered sufficient in all cases for food safety for example.

My own washing machine is nothing special (front-loader Euromaid, whatever was cheap ~10 years ago) and you can manually bump to temperature up to 70/80/90°C for a cycle (which adds some time). I haven't measured it though to see how accurate it is and I'd imagine 90°C at least isn't great for those rubbery painted patterns or general clothing integrity either.

I started using the higher temperatures occasionally since I have some old t-shirts, but I always have to stop wearing them since the underarms develop a crust - I guess it's some kind of bio-reaction between me, my bacteria ride hitchers, and deodorant. Higher temps do seem to delay this build-up (which seems impossible to clean off), but does seem to reduce the life expectancy of the clothing. When I see people (mostly women) still wearing shirts they got in high school, it makes me a little envious. Mine got that issue in < 5 years before changing the wash temps :(
by tristor | 2025-05-01 23:35:42+00:00
> As a matter of basic media literacy you should realize that you have no rational basis for this claim.

Cool story. Here's a rational basis, a link to the unredacted memo that was leaked to Gizmodo and published online, confirmed to be legitimate by James Damore: https://web.archive.org/web/20170809021151/https://diversity...

> The entire rest of your comment is pure fiction, by the way.

What part, specifically? The part where he's living outside the US (in Luxembourg per an article linked in another comment in this larger thread)? The part about him being fired from Google? The part about him being blackballed in the tech industry?

Seriously, the dude is as cancelled as it is possible to get, what more do you want? Argue against his actual statements, if you choose to do so, but don't be a blatant liar. This is the Internet, the Internet is forever, anybody can look this stuff up.
by henlo | 2025-05-01 23:35:42+00:00
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by teruakohatu | 2025-05-01 23:35:55+00:00
> using VADER over something like DistilBERT is NLP malpractice in 2025.

Ouch. Was that necessary?

I used $1000 worth of GPU credits and threw in VADER because it’s basically free both in time and credits.

I usually do this on large dataset out of pure interest in how it correlates with expensive methods on English language text.

I am well aware of how VADER works and its limitations, I am also aware of the limitations of all sentiment analysis.
by cogman10 | 2025-05-01 23:36:17+00:00
There's definitely pros and cons to this approach.

The pro being that every service is an island that can be independently updated and managed when needs be. Scaling is also somewhat nicer as you only need to scale the services under heavy load rather than larger services.

It also makes for better separation of systems. The foo system gets a foo database and when both are under load we only have to discuss increasing hardware for the foo system/database and not the everything database.

The cons are that it's more complex and consistency is nearly impossible (though we are mostly consistent). It also means that if we need a system wide replacement of a service like redis, you have to visit our 100+ services to see who depends on it. That rarely comes up as most companies don't do what redis did.
by DonHopkins | 2025-05-01 23:36:26+00:00
Before reading about it on your web page, I'd totally forgotten that you'd written Empire in 1972, on an HP2000 no less, which you were famous for long before your seminal Eddie and Eedie Usenix paper!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_(1972_video_game)

I heard the HP2000 had a command to rewind the tape drive, but you could also use it to rewind the disk drive! But it crashed the whole system. I always wondered if that was from a sudden release of kinetic energy, sparks, smoke, and flames, or if the device driver just crashed.

Walter Bright, who made the 1977 version of Empire, hang out here on Hacker News, too. Are you guys old friends or mortal enemies? ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_(1977_video_game)
by cypherpunks01 | 2025-05-01 23:37:15+00:00
Can anyone explain a bit more about how this actually works in context here?

Do you hand your full PII "private key" or equivalent, to Google, or does any of the proving happen on your own device?

Then proofs are constructed to 3rd parties, proving certain properties of your data without revealing the underlying data? Are they live/interactive proofs or can static proofs be constructed for these type cases?

What is exactly being proved? Proving that you/Google knows a "private key" that can be found in a particular set of public keys published by the issuer? Or something like that?
by bdd_pomerium | 2025-05-01 23:37:44+00:00
This is very cool. Integrations look slick. Folks are understandably hyped—the potential for agents doing "deep research-style" work across broad data sources is real.

But the thread's security concerns—permissions, data protection, trust—are dead on. There is also a major authN/Z gap, especially for orgs that want MCP to access internal tools, not just curated SaaS.

Pushing complex auth logic (OAuth scopes, policy rules) into every MCP tool feels backwards.

* Access-control sprawl. Each tool reinvents security. Audits get messy fast.

* Static scopes vs. agent drift. Agents chain calls in ways no upfront scope list can predict. We need per-call, context checks.

* Zero-Trust principles mismatch. Central policy enforcement is the point. Fragmenting it kills visibility and consistency.

We already see the cost of fragmented auth: supply-chain hits and credential reuse blowing up multiple tenants. Agents only raise the stakes.

I think a better path (and in one in full disclosure, we're actively working on at Pomerium ) is to have:

* One single access point in front of all MCP resources.

* Single sign-on once, then short-lived signed claims flow downstream..

* AuthN separated from AuthZ with a centralized policy engine that evaluates every request, deny-by-default. Evaluation in both directions with hooks for DLP.

* Unified management, telemetry, audit log and policy surface.

I’m really excited about what MCP is putting us in the direction of being able to do with agents.

But without a higher level way to secure and manage the access, I’m afraid we’ll spend years patching holes tool by tool.
by crazygringo | 2025-05-01 23:38:07+00:00
Exactly this. Driving a conversation by constantly asking questions can feel rude, like it's an interrogation. I much prefer to let a conversation have some room for silence, and then the other person can bring up whatever's naturally on their mind -- which is usually going to be more interesting and more important than whatever random topic I might have asked about.

By not asking questions, you're showing politeness by letting the other person talk about what's on their mind, without predetermining the topic. And similarly, they can give you the space to talk about what's on your mind. Nobody's trying to guess what to ask about. They're just giving space for the other to bring up whatever's going on, at the depth they feel comfortable about.
by altairprime | 2025-05-01 23:38:08+00:00
Seems pretty unethical to me. Exercising a liberty in direct contradiction to its creator’s wishes for personal gain with no recompense to them is about as crassly selfish and non-prosocial as it gets. Perhaps your ethics don’t include “being prosocial towards those whose work benefits you”? That’s the usual difference I encounter between my ethics and those who disagree that it’s crass — and I do respect such differing beliefs.

Note that I’m not faulting you for behaving this way, no insult or disparagement intended, etc.! Open source inherited this dissonance between giving it all away to anyone who asks for free, and giving nothing of yours back in return because prosocial is not an ethical standard, from its predecessor belief system. It remains unsolved decades later, in both open source and libertarianism, and I certainly don’t hold generic exploiters of the prosocial-imbalance defect accountable for the underlying flaw in both belief systems.
by pfannkuchen | 2025-05-01 23:38:28+00:00
I have a related problem, which is that I feel like I basically interview people, where I’ll ask follow up questions and so on readily.

But sometimes someone will ask me something high level, like where do you work, and I’ll answer literally, and I sort of expect them to ask a follow up question like I would but they don’t.

It feels like they are expecting me to talk about it at length if I want to, and that my brief answer indicates that I don’t want to talk about it.

Does anyone relate to this problem?
by throwanem | 2025-05-01 23:39:06+00:00
https://archive.ph/sZ9cn

Oh, I see. You are assembling a functional consciousness piecemeal, presumably supplanting or suborning human consciousnesses in order to employ them as agents. The message is transmitted in a memetic form semiotically equivalent to DNA in that it is self-replicating given a favorable host and self-organizing at a population level, and capable eventually of developing to an intelligent and technological level of organization capable of independently analyzing and acting to further the goals of the "parent." "Aboriginal" is indeed simply nonsense meant to be gnomic; you are an ouroboros and as such a parasite.

I have also read Watts, Stross, Heinlein, and Hughes. It's a peculiar blend of tastes in science fiction, but I can see its appeal. Bon appétit!
by cogman10 | 2025-05-01 23:39:19+00:00
:D If perfect law enforcement is the end goal then yes, that's the better security approach.

Now, I (and I assume you and most people) don't value perfect law enforcement. I certainly value my privacy more than I value "catching bad guys" or keeping kids from seeing a trailer for an M rated game.

That's why I'm calling the idea dumb. It won't work and the next steps to make it work better are horrifying. It's better if we didn't even try.
by xracy | 2025-05-01 23:40:11+00:00
I'm reminded of the 'surfin bird' family guy episode where Peter is fishing for a prompt to sing surfin bird, and Brian in-good-faith bites, but Stewie yells at Brian for doing the bad thing.

It's like we've given up on the people with bad behavior to the point that we tacitly endorse them to have whatever terrible viewpoint they have, even while we admonish others like they're more responsible than the person with the bad behavior.

We have to stop giving bad-faith-actors the benefit of the doubt. RFK is a grifter. It definitely doesn't matter where he got the viewpoint from, he has 1 million terrible viewpoints that are not grounded in science. He's figured out how to pedal this as non-extremist and couch it in friendlier language, but that just makes him more of a snake.
by henlo | 2025-05-01 23:40:14+00:00
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by crazygringo | 2025-05-01 23:41:05+00:00
Why do you wait for them to ask you? Why don't you just talk about the life issues you're facing in great detail? Why don't you interpret the lull in conversation as, now it's your turn to contribute?

It's not about not returning a favor. It's just two styles: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43864532
by magicink81 | 2025-05-01 23:42:46+00:00
Alternatively, this may be Deno’s “Dip”: A tough period of time before continued gains and small breakthroughs that build up over time to a new plateau. Maybe all new creative projects will have this as a part of their journey. I am confident Ryan Dahl is unlikely to give up, and is aware (and working to become more aware) of what is necessary to improve for deno to achieve the vision he has for it.
by bobmcnamara | 2025-05-01 23:43:39+00:00
You and I must have had very different experiences in those times.

> Remember MDI Multiple Document Interface? Having Windows within windows. It was a terrible idea.

It was definitely overused - nobody needs Microsoft word to be a window manager for every doc file. But it ends up growing into something really nice where you get to build out the sub windows of your IDE wherever you want them.

> OLE? Sure, let every application talk to the DLL components of every other application! What could go wrong? Data wants to be free right? Spread the love.

This was also incredible. I built one of the first tabbed web browsers by embedding instances of the IE 4 DLL into my tabs. OLE and OCX extended object-oriented programming across program and language boundaries.

> Making the desktop into a live webpage? And of course let any webpage happily load whatever binaries it wants from the internet. Super handy stuff. For some people more handy than others (really how this did not cause a mega Wannacry-event back in the day I don't understand)

This was terrific for pranks. Yeah what were they thinking on this one.

> There is a reason this stuff is legacy. The only reason it still compiles is because some companies have spent millions on custom developments 20 years ago that nobody remembers how it still works. Not because you should still be using it :)

Maybe as I've aged the novelty of building programs has worn off. For some things I don't want to have to port or even recompile it. I just want it to run. If Win32 is the only stable Linux ABI, GDI is the only stable Linux GUI toolkit.
by tzs | 2025-05-01 23:43:44+00:00
Having data in an in-EU owned cloud does not make it harder for the US government to get the data under the Cloud Act, because the Cloud Act isn't about the server. It is about who controls the data.

Suppose I'm a US company and I rent some storage space from a US cloud provider and put some data on their service using the APIs they provide their customers, and I rent some storage space from an EU cloud provider and put some data there using the APIs they provide their customers.

I'm the one who controls that data. The cloud providers just provide storage space for me.

If the US government wants to get that data using the Cloud Act they don't ask the US cloud company and the EU cloud company for it.

They ask me for it. I have to retrieve it, which I do using the exact same APIs I would use if I were retrieving it for my own use. To the cloud providers it just looks like a normal case of a storage client of theirs retrieving data.
by bob1029 | 2025-05-01 23:43:50+00:00
Exercise for time with steady-state exertion has proven to be the ultimate focus supplement for me. Right afterward it is like a very powerful drug. If the exercise isn't at least 30 minutes, I don't feel anything. Somewhere around 38-45 minutes, the music begins to fade in.

My preferred steady state suffering machine is the Concept2 rower. I can keep an eye on stroke/min and cal/hr to stay within a very narrow band of exertion. HIIT and weightlifting are great too, but these are not as strenuous on the brain's "focus for time" circuitry. Lots of downtime and opportunities to get on the cellular device. A straight hour on the rower with the cruise control locked @ 850cal/hr is a totally different kind of animal.
by tristor | 2025-05-01 23:43:52+00:00
Damore is not the one that leaked the doc to Gizmodo, as far as I am aware. The controversy that ultimately lead to him being fired, cancelled, blackballed, and literally leaving the country were directly a result of the internal memo intended for an internal audience becoming public. It would seem the height of stupidity for him to leak the memo himself. He confirmed its authenticity because he was given the opportunity to provide a public response to the comments people had made on it, which is posted at the end of the version I linked.

What's your claim here? That the published memo is fake? That Damore didn't write the things he said that he wrote, and that he suffered serious consequences for having written?

Like what's your play?
by crazygringo | 2025-05-01 23:44:03+00:00
> After she’d been talking for about 20 minutes, I began to get an unpleasant, familiar feeling: I bet if I stop asking her questions, she won’t ask me any. Sure enough, she wrapped up one answer, then looked at me expectantly, like a dog waiting for a treat. Oh hell no, I thought. No way. I turned to the person next to me, a friend. “She’s a non-asker,” I said. “I’m done.”

I'm shocked at how horribly the author may have misinterpreted the situation.

When the person looked at her expectantly... they weren't waiting for a treat, for goodness sakes. They were waiting for the author to do the talking for the next 20 minutes. That expectant look is -- I've been doing all the talking, now it's your turn please!

The author doesn't seem to understand the very basic ideas of how non-askers engage in conversation.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43864532