MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-05-26 20:14:26+00:00
That’s extremely odd! It’s strange to ask for specific examples because it is quite the norm for actual built developments to differ drastically from their proposed versions.

Anyway, here’s a notable one: https://www.mas.org/news/op-ed-lets-not-repeat-the-unintende...

2001 LIC was rezoned under the premise of creating a central business district, luxury residential high rises took over instead.

Zoning rarely constrains the outcome as specifically as people wish it would while considering rezoning, ergo the default behavior is for the ultimate construction not to match what was proposed during rezoning. I frankly don’t believe you when you say this doesn’t happen where you are. Could you tell me where that is so I can understand how they achieve it?

Here’s a review of this pattern: https://media.villagepreservation.org/wp-content/uploads/202...
by bob1029 | 2025-05-26 20:14:28+00:00
> The key insight: when a binary string has a low density of 1s (specifically below p* ≈ 0.32453), we can encode just the positions of those 1s more efficiently than storing the raw string.

Much of what JPEG/MPEG are doing is rearranging the problem such that it is possible to create long runs of zeroes. The way in which a DCT block is scanned relative to the location of its AC/DC components is potentially one of the most innovative aspects of many video & image compression techniques.
by mingus88 | 2025-05-26 20:14:36+00:00
One has to wonder what type of legal requirement this satisfies.

It certainly wouldn’t hold up to the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard for US criminal prosecution.

I’ve been exposed to “lit holds” for various document management system before and usually a third party such as Box or Microsoft can attest to the immutability of files placed under lit hold, and/or there is an audit trail to make sure the chain of custody is intact.
by 999900000999 | 2025-05-26 20:14:43+00:00
I'm replying to a comment about the Catholic/Christian God...

In his myths he has no problem actively interfering with man. The great flood story itself is a giant logical paradox.

God is perfect. God is all knowing.

Yet God creates a world so screwed up he has to reset it.

What free will does every human who's not Noah have ?

Revalations heavily implies that one day God will get sick of this. Too much free will or something.

Honestly everyone has a right to whatever myths get them through the day. The issue becomes when your myth infringe on the rights of others or are used to persecute. As in, your magic book has a few dietary restrictions, cool.

Your magic book calls certain people abominations, or suggest they should have less rights, not cool.
by to11mtm | 2025-05-26 20:14:56+00:00
Attenuation is going to be an issue for any signal, but in my experience Fiber can go for many miles without a repeater whereas something like Coax you're going one to two orders of magnitude less. [0]

[0] - Mind you, some of that for Coax is due to other issues around CTB and/or the challenge that in Coax, you've got many frequencies running through alongside each frequency having different attenuation per 100 foot...
by jedberg | 2025-05-26 20:15:25+00:00
How come no one is mentioning the obvious solution -- LaLiga needs to make their product as easy to access as piracy. If they offered worldwide streaming of the matches available on an easy interface at a reasonable price, then none of this would be a problem.

Piracy is almost never about the price -- it's almost always about the availability. Especially when it comes to live sports.
by juliusdavies | 2025-05-26 20:15:58+00:00
For me the beauty of idlewords's own blog (https://idlewords.com/) is that it's so good it makes me want to write.

Similarly, I find Graham's writing so bad that it also makes me want to write.

(note: idlewords, if you see this, your blog is misbehaving at the moment. For example, PHP is complaining bitterly on this page right now: https://idlewords.com/2018/10/ )
by ujkhsjkdhf234 | 2025-05-26 20:16:33+00:00
> There's more than enough reports from outside the US that credibly allege TikTok is a critical factor in the radicalization and recruitment of the far-right and militant Islamism [1][2][3].

You can find literature to support that claim for Youtube, Facebook, and Twitter, not just Tiktok. The Making of a Youtube Radical was a big story back in 2019. Facebook won the election for Trump in 2016. Twitter is owned by a Nazi who routinely boost far-right conspiracy theories.

The answer isn't banning Tiktok but passing strong privacy and data legislation that affects all social media platforms. Not just Tiktok. US social media companies have been pulling on the seams of society far before Tiktok arrived.
by subsection1h | 2025-05-26 20:16:40+00:00
> All the package definitions [...] are "code reviewed". [...] with maybe some reviewed patches to get it to work in Nix's environment.

In order for people to review Nix package definitions and patches, do they need to have their keys signed by other Nix contributors they meet in person like Debian contributors do?

https://www.debian.org/events/keysigning
by hbn | 2025-05-26 20:16:59+00:00
> Back then every new piece of grammar actually had an explanatory page that you could study before jumping in to the quiz games.

These still exist but they're hidden in a little unlabelled button at the top right of the unit overview and I don't think they ever mentioned it to me or do any hinting to go look at them. It's silly cause they're quite useful. I guess they just want people doing the lessons (playing the game) and not boring them with asking them to read about grammar.
by manquer | 2025-05-26 20:17:04+00:00
You joke, but certification is important for some jobs, university admissions and visa applications in many countries.

For example Cambridge has a big program for English which tons of universities in the english speaking world use for admissions of foreign students

I don’t know if Busuu certificates are accepted anywhere major yet but it is not a bad idea, not every major language has standardized tests and rating systems like CEFR, there is room for new players especially in non European languages
by qkeast | 2025-05-26 20:17:54+00:00
>Still, it's a bit ironic that your own website advises people to use bots to get apartments (thus bypassing the work put into the adverts and apartment hunting sites), whilst also decrying bots who would bypass your site.

I believe these are pretty different scenarios. There's an ongoing, massive shortage of apartments in Berlin, and bots here often aren't bypassing "work put into adverts and apartment hunting sites"—they're trying to get an application in at all before the listing is flooded with hundreds of applications and disabled. The content of the application has nothing to do with it.

(Of course, this just leads to an arms race of apartment-application-bots, but this is the situation the city's found itself in. Same goes for registration appointments, residence permit applications, and so on.)
Ask HN: Any great long form content about AI?
by kieloo | 2025-05-26 20:18:01+00:00
Back in the days, I would go on long rabbit holes, reading blog posts after blog post.

But now a lot of it has been replaced by AI and I miss it immensely. Ironically, I realized this while looking to learn more about AI…

So anyone recommends great long form articles, books or podcasts about AI and machine learning?
by spaceywilly | 2025-05-26 20:18:07+00:00
Not to mention, at that point they are essentially just serving as the middle man between you and a LLM. Instead of paying for Duolingo to ask an LLM to generate a bunch of Spanish phrases for you, you can pay for the LLM and do that yourself plus a lot more. I’m not sure Duolingo has a solid understanding of why they exist as a business.
by KaiserPro | 2025-05-26 20:18:33+00:00
The tories activly campaigned on the platform of regulating internet speech.

> Windrush was one, there were many others

mate, windrush was down to May and her spads. They knew the problems, but decided that the press was worth it.

> the current level of immigration is supported by ~3% of the population

Immigration has halved this year.

The problem is that has tradeoffs, like social care isn't going work anymore.

I understand your frustrations. I hate that no matter who I vote for I seem to get reform-lite dipshits.

Thats not the fault of the civil service (although there is an entire subject in it's self) thats the fault of the press and political class being too close.
by araes | 2025-05-26 20:18:46+00:00
The article seems very hypey. Most is just the standard talking points, and the same dumb issues that keeps getting VC and market hyped.

Not much of an Apple fan, yet it's pretty doom and gloomy for not much.

They're not developing AI enough. Except a scan through HN and many other sites is little other than negativity about where AI has moved to in the last several years. Horrible implementations. Horrible uses. Nightmarish applications. A lot of cases, not much actual money either. Cannibalizing their own business models in many cases. They're apparently building some factory in Houston anyways. https://archive.ph/CsTWu

The iPhone will cost too much. Little reason for a automobile final assembly style phone "made in America" to cost $3000. A day late and a dollar short after decades of Shenzen. Maybe during the first Trump presidency. Lots of ways to move parts around to dodge tariffs. It was Apple's immediate response anyways. "They're not Chinese phones. Now they're Indian phones." Meh. There's also 7,800,000,000 other consumers. A lot have way more discretionary income than a decade or two ago, while Americans have less.

Way too much focus on a single product line anyways. Really issue is it's just been iPhone++ for years. And they're still consistently capturing most of the profit that actually emerges from the sector. Chart somebody posted a while back that had it at near 100%, because most participants were losing money per phone. Samsung's one of the only other's that reliably makes "some" profit per device.

It's all the same issues its been everywhere with this administration. Apple announces AI plant in Houston, it's a bunch of “Thank you Tim Cook and Apple!!!” and “We’re seeing the beginning of a very powerful important plant” and then shortly after threats and threats. Classic abusive relationship behavior. Almost see the wife beater T and possessive grabbing.
by FireBeyond | 2025-05-26 20:19:01+00:00
I feel this also has a lot to do with the use of diesel. The number of passenger vehicles and light duty pickups in the US that actually use diesel is a fraction of what it was in Europe.

The emission limits being for ULEV vehicles, I don't think I have seen a ULEV truck - indeed California classifies most under the LEV banner.

None of this is to change the point around nitrous oxide emissions - the environment doesn't care whether it came from a VW TDI or a F350, just the amount.

But it is also far far easier to implement such low emission standards in the US because we just don't really use diesel like that.

And when you get to the heavy duty pickups (F250, F350, etc.), then most of that goes out of the window.
by MichaelNolan | 2025-05-26 20:19:01+00:00
I can’t speak for this specific library, I’ve only use PiTest for Java projects, but mutation testing is a pretty awesome idea.

One hard part is deciding which code is worth doing mutation testing on. A lot of “business” code probably shouldn’t be tested this way. The effort in writing the tests outweighs the return on investment. But if you’re making shared library code then mutation testing is great. It really gives you confidence that the code is actually working as expected.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-05-26 20:19:09+00:00
https://archive.today/OSFYo

Related:

How Xi sparked China’s electricity revolution - https://www.ft.com/content/f86782fa-9f2e-448a-b710-29e787dc9... | https://archive.today/hmsrR - May 12th, 2025

X-Change: The Race to the Top: Cleantech competition between China, Europe, and the United States - https://rmi.org/insight/x-change-the-race-to-the-top/ - 2024

Global Energy Monitory: Integrated Power Tracker - https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-integrated-p...
by SoftTalker | 2025-05-26 20:19:27+00:00
Most often an employee caught stealing is just fired. If there's significant value involved perhaps the police would get a call.

Telling an employee to clock out and keep working is a labor law violation, that's not just a civil matter. It happens, but often with the agreement of the employee. I.e. "I know you're about to hit overtime, so if you clock out I'll give you cash, otherwise I have to send you home."
by GuB-42 | 2025-05-26 20:19:49+00:00
And I think there is a good reason for that. When a company steals billions from customers, the entire company is responsible, and the entire company profits from the crime. So why single out a few executives? Everyone shall be punished: the CEO of course, but also every employee, every shareholder. You have a single VW stock, you are responsible too.

So, how do you punish everyone fairly? By fining the company for a large amount of money. Shareholders lose their value, employees don't get their raise, and execs won't get their bonus, there is a good chance they get fired too. Companies are for profit, it is even more true for public companies, for which profit is their duty to their shareholders. So hit where it hurts, that is profits.

As for jailing CEOs, what will it bring? Don't forget that a CEO is just an employee, hired by the directors to maximize profits for the shareholders. If the entire company is corrupt, everyone will be more than happy to hire scapegoat CEOs if it can serve their interests. Jailing them will solve nothing, it may even be counter productive as those who are most likely to get that job are people who are ready to risk prison to win big, a crime lord profile.

There are still reasons to jail the CEO, but only if he personally deceived the rest of the company and shareholders, but that is effectively the same as stealing from the company.
by vasusen | 2025-05-26 20:19:53+00:00
(disclosure: I am no longer at Coursera)

When Duolingo added that viral post on Growth hacking, it caused quite a stir about the push-notifications and gamification tactics they use. Ultimately, we decided it wasn't worth it for Coursera to veer into edu-tainment.

However, it is interesting to watch how much gamification works in adding and retaining users. In 2023, Duolingo's marketcap was 5x of Coursera. Now at similar revenue it is 20x of Coursera.

As a user, I think Duolingo is over-gamified (stopped using it) but Coursera is severely on the other spectrum where it comes off as too bland/boring to keep up the motivation. I am sure there's a happy medium to be found between reminding users to engage in something hard while doing right by learners.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-05-26 20:19:57+00:00
Context helps.

The tweets appeared during an attempt to set off race riots in the UK, which was partly being organised on Twitter.

And some people had indeed tried to set fire to hotels.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/dec/12/rotherham-ri...

So this wasn't random online muttering. It was a clear statement of encouragement and intent.

Compare with the much larger number of people who have been jailed for discussing peaceful protests against fossil fuels.

And the number of people - zero - who have been jailed for high profile disruptive protests against... changes to inheritance tax.
by TacticalCoder | 2025-05-26 20:20:38+00:00
> I agree these obnoxious blocks are unacceptable. Incredible how much power LaLiga is capable of wielding.

It's not even about the power. It's about how freaking dumb of a "solution" that is.

It's not "you're too powerful" (la liga and the judges enforcing this) but really "you're too fucking dumb".
by gjm11 | 2025-05-26 20:21:15+00:00
Sure, but what he's doing is very much not using Claude or o4 to do things we need Terence Tao for.

I'm not saying today's AI systems aren't useful for anything. I'm not saying they aren't impressive. I'm just saying they're nowhere close to the "Einstein, Hawking and Tao in your house" hyperbole in the OP. I would be very, very surprised if Terence Tao disagreed with me about that.
by slt2021 | 2025-05-26 20:21:35+00:00
sessionID is vulnerable to stealing cookies. Some games - if you lose your session cookie, you might as well lose your account and everything you have on it.

you can of course bind sessionID to the IP address, but this is extra effort you need to put. in JWT land you can just put the IP addressed inside the payload and forward requests with non-matching IP to reauth and regenerate JWT for their new IP in case customer is roaming networks
by throw10920 | 2025-05-26 20:22:08+00:00
> In healthcare, patient data are locked down so hard even people who need to work with them have problems getting to them. It is because of regulations. Everything is traceable, recorded, and maintained to the strictest standards possible. It costs a huge amount of money but as a result, we don't see many serious breaches.

...and one of the side-effects is that it contributes to the insane price of healthcare.

Effective regulation, like security, is about finding the sweet spot between security and efficiency. It's extremely easy to turn off your brain and say that nobody has access to the data (which makes it perfectly secure/private) - but obviously that's an insane approach. It's hard, but extremely important, to actually maximize the security-efficiency product.

PII should not have the regulations that are currently applied to healthcare/PHI - it'd massively increase the costs (both financial, and worker/individual productivity) of doing everything. It needs a better regulation model that is designed to maximize the security-efficiency product.

Most likely, the best model is one that focuses more on outcomes (huge penalties for leaking PII, along with a few things like chain of custody for user data (which I don't think that even HIPAA does) - not to exclude regulation of process of course) than processes (HIPAA describing in excruciating and unnecessary detail all of the ways that you have to process PHI - which include RESTRICTING THE WAYS THAT I CAN MANAGE MY OWN HEALTH DATA).
by dannymi | 2025-05-26 20:22:15+00:00
There's always tension between language simplicity (and thus cognitive load of the programmers) and features. Compare Scheme with Common Lisp.

The idea in Python is:

1. Statements are executed line by line in order (statement by statement).

2. One of the statements is "def", which executes a definition.

3. Whatever arguments you have are strictly evaluated. For example f(g(h([]))), it evaluates [] (yielding a new empty list), then evaluates h([]) (always, no matter whether g uses it), then evaluates g(...), then evaluates f(...).

So if you have

def foo(x = []): ...

that immediately defines

foo = (lambda x = []: ...)

For that, it has to immediately evaluate [] (like it always does anywhere!). So how is this not exactly what it should do?

Some people complain about the following:

class A: x = 3 y = x + 2

That now, x is a class variable (NOT an instance variable). And so is y. And the latter's value is 5. It doesn't try to second-guess whether you maybe mean any later value of x. No. The value of y is 5.

For example:

a = A() assert a.__class__.x == 3 assert a.x == 3 a.__class__.x = 10 b = A() assert b.x == 10

succeeds.

But it just evaluates each line in the class definition statement by statement when defining the class. Simple!

Complicating the Python evaluation model (that's in effect what you are implying) is not worth doing. And in any case, changing the evaluation model of the world's most used programming language (and in production in all countries of the world) in 2025 or any later date is a no go right there.

If you want a complicated (more featureful) evaluation model, just use C++ or Ruby. Sometimes they are the right choice.
by rogierhofboer | 2025-05-26 20:22:38+00:00
Lot's of flash comparisons in this thread... I'll share some tools I've not seen mentioned before:

Google Web Designer is what Google created to 'replace' flash for ads, but it can also be used for other purposes. It has a WYSIWYG editor, timeline, events and scripting.bl But no Lottie support https://webdesigner.withgoogle.com/

Expressive Animator (paid, but not expensive and with free trial), made for SVG animations, can also export Lottie. https://expressive.app/expressive-animator/

And there is the open source Glaxnimate, which does support Lottie. https://glaxnimate.org/
by pqtyw | 2025-05-26 20:23:34+00:00
> only the German market

Well yes, I of course meant the entire EU+UK market. Regardless besides US and a handful of other countries VW is hardly competing that much with any American car companies anywhere (besides Tesla).

American car makers are still struggling a lot more in relative market share terms (GM+Ford+Tesla barely had over 33% in 2024 in the US). While VW alone had 26% in EU/UK/EFTA (just German companies have 39% of the entire market there)
by const_cast | 2025-05-26 20:23:47+00:00
Even if it wasn't, being a poor worker still isn't theft, and it's the companies responsibility to both measure and correct employee performance. If they're bad at that and these things go under the radar, that's still on the employer.

The only way employees can steal is if they steal time, like clocking in then going home. Salary employees are not paid by time, so they cannot steal time. Employers want to have their cake and eat it too - they want to consider salary employees not time based when it comes to OT, but when it comes to day-to-day they DO want them to be considered time-based. Not how it works. Your workers being bad at their job is not theft, it's just incompetence.
by adeon | 2025-05-26 20:24:14+00:00
After I wrote the comment, I pondered that too (trying to think examples of what I called "security conscious design" that would be in the LLM itself). Right now and in near future, I think I would be highly skeptical even if an LLM was marketed as having such feature of being able to see "unsanitized" text and not be compromised, but I could see myself not 100% dismissing such thing.

If e.g. someone could train an LLM with a feature like that and also had some form of compelling evidence it is very resource consuming and difficult for such unsanitized text to get the LLM off-rails, that might be acceptable. I have no idea what kind of evidence would work though. Or how you would train one or how the "feature" would actually work mechanically.

Trying to use another LLM to monitor first LLM is another thought but I think the monitored LLM becomes an untrusted source if it sees untrusted source, so now the monitoring LLM cannot be trusted either. Seems that currently you just cannot trust LLMs if they are exposed at all to unsanitized text and then can autonomously do actions based on it. Your security has to depend on some non-LLM guardrails.

I'm wondering also as time goes on, agents mature and systems start saving text the LLMs have seen, if it's possible to design "dormant" attacks, some text in LLM context that no human ever reviews, that is designed to activate only at a certain time or in specific conditions, and so it won't trigger automatic checks. Basically thinking if the GitHub MCP here is the basic baby version of an LLM attack, what would the 100-million dollar targeted attack look like. Attacks only get better and all that.

No idea. The whole security thinking around AI agents seems immature at this point, heh.