MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Ferret7446 | 2025-05-01 04:04:18+00:00
For almost 100% of the history of washing textiles, sterilization was never even remotely a goal. In most cases, sterilization is undesirable and would likely contribute to the growing proportion of autoimmune deficiencies.

Do you also sterilize your kitchenware? Well, given the population bias of HN, probably some of you do, but the vast majority of humankind do not. If you don't sterilize things you put into your mouth, I don't see why you'd expect this for clothes.

So it is amazingly unsurprising that consumer washing machines don't sterilize clothes. Just as you need to take extra care to sterilize kitchenware when you're doing anything fermenty, hospitals shouldn't have been relying on home washing machines.
by Arainach | 2025-05-01 04:04:21+00:00
Big data is different, has different threat models, and needs to be treated differently.

Technically, in 1960, you could pay a huge number of people to listen to a huge number of telephones or watch a huge number of cameras, but it was so insanely expensive that unless you were in East Germany or Moscow it wasn't a threat you had to consider.

Cheap cameras and cheap hard drives and LLM vision processing models which mean that you can have a permanent archive of every license plate or face that went by a location mean that things are very different and even though things were legally possible before, it's a totally different problem now.
by MegaButts | 2025-05-01 04:04:45+00:00
> It would be absurd to expect to change anyone's core beliefs with a couple of HN posts.

I 100% agree.

> I'm satisfied just letting you know there is a case for free markets.

I'm a believer in free markets. You just cannot stop projecting assumptions onto me. I've clarified my point multiple times already so I'm not going to bother repeating myself again. I think we can both agree it's okay to be misunderstood by people on the internet.
by gossterrible | 2025-05-01 04:05:26+00:00
I recently got one such contact through telegram with a so called Chinese worker asking to use my upwork account to get jobs and he will pay me a share of what he makes through my account. I had a quick chat with him to know how he got my contact info and it looks like they just scrape every profile on github and upwork and my username on github was thesame as the one on telegram. After sending him a meme of Kim Jun Un and asking him if he works for him he quickly deleted our wholesale conversation.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-05-01 04:07:24+00:00
What gave you the idea that this is an adiabatic system? It's a cup of freshly brewed coffee on your kitchen counter. Equilibrium will certainly not be achieved within 2 minutes. Even if it were, different schemes would reach it at different time points.

It is fundamentally a question about rate of energy transfer.

The thing to notice about the symmetric system is that both items will experience the same rate of transfer. However there's presumably more coffee in your coffee than there is milk so it's not actually symmetric. If you adjust the parameters for volume and specific heat to make the final mixed product symmetric then it no longer matters when you do the mixing.
by nowittyusername | 2025-05-01 04:07:30+00:00
Nah not just reddit but also like 20 AI related discord servers. But a couple of things, first I do agree that no one should take anyone's opinion as gospel. I live by that and test all of my models. Second, I wasn't expressing my opinion of what model is good or not good just reflecting the broader trends I see within the communities (for better or worse). On llama 4 botched launch... On this particular matter I see this happen almost every launch. A model comes out, shit hyperparameters are used or the model organization does a poor job of communicating towards the community on best practices for how to run the model, community shits on model, rinse repeat EVERY god damned release cycle. So yeah I am quite aware of this particular phenomenon.
by stevage | 2025-05-01 04:07:37+00:00
>This is most likely a laptop farm, where someone in the US agrees to run the laptop from a legitimate address for a fee, typically around $200 a computer, according to Meyers. Last year the FBI busted one such operation in Nashville, Tennessee, and charged the operator with conspiracy to cause damage to protected computers, conspiracy to launder monetary instruments, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, intentional damage to protected computers, aggravated identity theft, and conspiracy to cause the unlawful employment of aliens.

I don't quite understand the "laptop farm" concept. Can anyone explain it?
by seeknotfind | 2025-05-01 04:10:47+00:00
Mugshots are pretty locked down now, but when I was younger, you could just scroll and scroll. Used to go through, check to see if I knew anybody. Got lucky a few times. Well, if you think you're safe, you're not, and if you think it's deleted, it knows everything about you. The difference between the marginal mugshot and the whole database is how prepared you are. Scrape that data every day, baby.
by lapcat | 2025-05-01 04:11:00+00:00
> Back in 2008, if you were an indie dev then their 30% ask was more than reasonable because the cost-of-doing-business on other platforms (like Windows Mobile) was much higher due to the lack of any central App Store

The first iPhone indie devs were Mac indie devs who already knew Objective-C and Cocoa and Xcode and paid 0% to Apple on the Mac.
by musicale | 2025-05-01 04:12:34+00:00
At WWDC 2007, Steve Jobs introduced a "sweet solution" for developers who wanted to program the iPhone: web apps in Mobile Safari!

Developers, who wanted a real, native SDK, were greatly disappointed (to put it mildly), and in 2008 Apple introduced not only a native iPhone app SDK with developer tooling but an entire app store.

But Jobs wasn't entirely off base. Gmail had replaced dedicated email apps. Apple had implemented native-like widgets in Mobile Safari as well as touch input, javascript canvas support, and audio support. Today you can implement a video streaming client (Netflix), game streaming client (Amazon Luna), groupware client (Discord, Slack, Teams), or even a whole office suite (Office 365) in Safari. Even many "native" mobile apps are basically just shells on web apps.
by mindslight | 2025-05-01 04:12:55+00:00
You're just giving him an opening to retrench at a steelman - when the police have to respond with deadly force for some completely reasonable justification, "right to life" doesn't have much to do with it.

The point is that even in very clear cut situations where the police are in the wrong, and have trampled over the very 2nd amendment rights that Republicans claim to love so much, it's then still crickets from Republicans. So this alleged "violence against the government is treated as distinct" seems to be just more post-hoc rationalization nonsense.

The problem is that rayiner is continually trolling with gut-appealing half-truths, sidesteps the straightforward logical implications as long as he can by responding tangentially, and when he can't do that any longer he just bails on the conversation rather than confronting the contradiction.

I guess I'm just glad us actually-conservatives (meaning everyone from "RINOs" to "the left" that actually respects our societal institutions enough to not want to see our country on the scrap heap) have reached a critical mass to beat back this wall of disingenuous bad-faith bullshit.
by techpineapple | 2025-05-01 04:13:08+00:00
Something that’s always confused me about this concern is that like —- species adapt to their environment right? So we’re organically probably feeling like the environment can’t sustain more population, and as the population shrinks that will start to reverse. If the population shrinks back to the point there’s wide open spaces and we’re living on homesteads, we’ll probably be having nine kids again.
by chasil | 2025-05-01 04:13:13+00:00
Employers in the U.S. are expecting to see domestic IP addresses.

A laptop farm hosts the corporate laptop (domestically) that is sent to the remote worker. Hardware is provided to work the power remotely, along with all other functions.

https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/us-wom...

https://sashaingber.substack.com/p/the-23-year-old-who-infil...

https://cyberscoop.com/doj-indicts-five-in-north-korean-fake...

https://therecord.media/arizona-woman-pleads-guilty-north-ko...
by phillipcarter | 2025-05-01 04:14:45+00:00
I didn't work at OSL directly, but I did work for the sibling organization (then called BSG, now called CAAS) and it's sad to see this. I donated and would encourage other reads to do so too.

OSL and the sibling organizations at OSU are such an incredible program for students, and OSL in particular has had an outsized impact on the OSS ecosystem relative to its size and cost.

Moreover, it's institutions like this which represent some of the best of the software world, and we can't let them fall by the wayside as the capitalistic focus of larger companies just gobbles everything up with little regard for what they destroy.
by grimpy | 2025-05-01 04:14:54+00:00
> There's so many questions I genuinely don't have an answer for...

> Has Congress made it illegal to use an off-brand messaging app for secure communications? _Why_ is it insecure? What is the probability that China is reading these messages in real-time? 100%? 25%? 0.2%?

Is your point that, in the space of your own lack of knowledge, that reasonable rational may exist? Could you share what gives you trust in this administration to be so generous?
by poulsbohemian | 2025-05-01 04:15:16+00:00
>If they don't like it, they should be pushing for ranked-choice voting.

The Washington State Democrats are about to have one of our regular meetings this coming weekend, and I guarantee as is the case all all of our meetings, there will be a contingent encouraging all of us to support RCV. As a candidate, I've already been approached again this year as to whether I will support it. It's absolutely a discussion point within our party.
by not_a_bot_4sho | 2025-05-01 04:16:04+00:00
This article seems to fundamentally misunderstand how businesses fund development.

Google's payments to Apple have no direct impact on Safari funding decisions. It's just a revenue stream. Similarly for Mozilla. Microsoft... not even sure whether to begin with those claims.

I think the article touches upon some important truths about Google's code contributions to chromium and financial payments to Mozilla and Apple. But correlating those with product development funding is just entirely plainly wrong.
by roughly | 2025-05-01 04:17:20+00:00
If you get a chance to see some of the impressionists in person, they’re kind of mind blowing for exactly the same reason - you’re looking at a scene of a ship in a storm and seeing all kinds of nuance, and then you get closer and realize it’s all your brain filling in the blanks.

From a literary angle - two books I’ve read that are absolute master classes in this are Italio Calvino’s “Invisible Cities” and “This Is How You Lose the Time War” by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone - both do an incredible job of putting you in a series of vivid, fantastical places within a paragraph or two of exposition.
by Animats | 2025-05-01 04:17:49+00:00
Oh, nice. That's putting fly ash in concrete, correct? That makes good concrete. Classic Roman concrete sometimes used volcanic ash and was very long-lived. If you don't have a volcano handy, fly ash from a high-temperature coal fired power plant works about the same.[1] Fly ash is captured from stack gases using electrostatic precipitators. Bottom ash is what comes out the bottom, and that's used to make cinder blocks. Sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and CO2 still come out as pollution, but at least they don't settle out as soot.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09213...
by stevenwoo | 2025-05-01 04:18:26+00:00
You have a bunch of laptops running software that accesses services that are normally restricted (like access per IP or IPs from certain countries would set off alarm bells) the client paying for the laptop can run something that does the work or submits the work from the IP address space that is OK. I contracted for one company and saw an office that had one department with a closet full of laptops scanning Craigslist ads because they were getting blocked if they didn’t take this measure but don’t know the details but they figured out a workaround and automated it to scrape data daily from all Craigslists regions daily.
by photon_rancher | 2025-05-01 04:19:05+00:00
This is true for basically any AD windows login. If you log in with an account on a machine on your domain, then take that machine offline and change the password elsewhere- you can login with the old password.

If you instead restore network access after it’s been offline long enough - depending on the exact process it will still accept the old password. Entering the old password isn’t enough to trigger domain check in. However, if I recall correctly entering an incorrect password will cause the login window to hang for 30+ seconds while it attempts to perform such a check in to see if your password changed in the interim. This will usually fail - but not always.

It’s probably bad behavior but it’s probably configurable in the domain settings. But it makes the user experience terrible because logging in gets super slow, because domain syncs in azure/ Active Directory are super slow.
by brailsafe | 2025-05-01 04:19:33+00:00
Ya, in retrospect it does read as overly cynical and yelling at clouds in a way, I agree with that point. My comment captured more than I intended, but the civil rights example pretty much seems like a defining use of the term. Specific, tangible outcome, targeted, not trite at all, connected to a real oppressive issue of the time, but I can imagine people trivializing them at the time.

While I can think of examples that I personally think are a bit silly, I'd agree it's not really a useful contribution.
by idle_zealot | 2025-05-01 04:19:58+00:00
Judges are investigating and holding trials. The Executive is being obstructive and outright ignoring court orders. Rule of law and the balance of powers have collapsed. Turns out that running a decade+ long misinformation campaign to sow distrust of all legal institutions, as well as expertise and professionalism in general is sufficient to topple the world's oldest democracy. If only there had been any effective counter-messaging things may have been different, but that's impossible with our "left" hollowed out by capital.
by riffraff | 2025-05-01 04:20:47+00:00
I'm not sure the fact that a web view component exists means it gets priority.

Facebook, Twitter etc have no choice but to use what iOS provides.

It's not like they'd stop publishing iOS apps I'd apple decided to never update the WebView componemt again.

And the audience is captive, if they get a bad rendering in mail they won't think "bad apple" but "bad email sender", same way we all bend around Outlook's rendering.
by mrbonner | 2025-05-01 04:21:45+00:00
The example prompt for reasoning model that never fails to amuse me: "How amy letter 'r's in the word 'strrawberrry'?"

Phi-4-mini-reasoning: thought for 2 min 3 sec

<think> Okay, let's see here. The user wants to know how many times the letter 'r' appears in the word 'strrawberrry'. Hmm, first I need to make sure I'm spelling the word correctly. Let me write it out slowly: S-T-R-A-W-B-E-R-R-Y. ...

But I'm overcomplicating this. Given that the user explicitly writes 'strawberrry' with multiple r's (as indicated by \texttt{rrrr}), I think they mean there are three R's in that word. Therefore, counting them would give an answer of 3. </think>

The word "strrawberrry" contains *5* occurrences of the letter 'r'.

To determine this: 1. Break down the spelling: S-T-R-A-W-B-E-R-R-Y. 2. Identify each 'R': - The first R is in the "straw" part (position 3). - Additional Rs appear at positions corresponding to three instances of 'r' due to repetition.

*Answer:* \boxed{5}

I have no idea how it came to that conclusion with those thoughts lol.

The full transcript: https://pastebin.com/tyF5aSb9
by poulsbohemian | 2025-05-01 04:22:22+00:00
Why should the Democratic party support something that would A) weaken the Democratic party and B) Potentially throw more votes to the Republicans as exactly happened this past cycle?

The Democratic party is a god damn big tent. It's the equivalent of 3-5 parties in any other country. It is mind-blowing how much diversity of thought exists in the Democratic party and we spent an ungodly amount of time and effort fighting amongst ourselves to produce meaningful policy and platform ideas. If you don't like our party, the best thing you can do is join us and use the party as a vehicle to go in the direction you want. I can't say enough - people need to understand that you don't need another party, you just need to understand how you can shape the party to be what you want. It's absolutely mind-blowing how much opportunity there is to work inside the party and move the ball forward rather than stand on the sidelines trying to form some other party and all the BS that would go along with trying to be viable.
by const_cast | 2025-05-01 04:22:41+00:00
It's not brain rot, it's populist messaging doing what it does. Trump built a foundation in people's minds on emotional appeals. He drew a picture of a country under attack, and one only He can reverse course on. Through careful messaging and constantly appealing to the lowest common denominator, He has made himself a God. And, as such, his supporters are nothing more than believers. What they lack in evidence or reasoning they more than make up for in blind faith.

It truly does not matter what Trump does.
by inhumantsar | 2025-05-01 04:23:30+00:00
you nailed that description. it's the same story no matter what you're fermenting.

I used to be one of those people but after a while I started to realise that most of the time yeast (or lacto) is to the micro world as humans are to the macro. they will absolutely out compete everything if you give them half a chance.

people forget that peasants in the middle ages used fermentation to protect themselves against things like botulism, and they did it without climate control, pressure cookers, silicone seals, starsan, or microbiology.
by nowittyusername | 2025-05-01 04:23:42+00:00
Just have it sample for longer or create a simple workflow that uses a monte carlo tree search approach. Don't see why this wont improve accuracy. I would love to see someone run tests to see how accurate the model is compared to similar parameter models in a per time block benchmark. Like if it can get same accuracy as a similar parameter autoregressive model but with half the speed, you already have a winner, besides other advantages of a diffusion based model.
by smingo | 2025-05-01 04:26:26+00:00
Chinese New Year falls between 21 January and 20 February. This would be somewhere between week 3 and week 8.

Some ISO 8601 week numbers for CNY:

2022 CNY fell on Feb 1 , which is Week 5

2023 CNY fell on Jan 22, which is Week 3

2024 CNY fell on Feb 10, which is Week 6

2025 CNY fell on Jan 29, which is Week 5
by godelski | 2025-05-01 04:27:05+00:00
I'm not sure that makes the trade right. If you think they shouldn't be public (I don't) then it certainly wouldn't.

Just to be clear: having a mugshot does not mean you're a criminal. It means the person was arrested, not convicted (charged with a crime). I'm not finding good statistics but other data makes it seem reasonably high. Even if very low it would still violate the spirit of "innocent until proven guilty"
by intermerda | 2025-05-01 04:27:15+00:00
Not true at all. The use of Signal started during Obama's first or second term. While the app's first release was during his second term, it existed under various names and forms way back. Wikipedia has a great article on its history.

I personally started using signal some time around 2018 and I'm sure there were millions of users by the time Biden began his term.
by Bjorkbat | 2025-05-01 04:27:16+00:00
Makes me think of the horse browser (https://gethorse.com), namely the fact that unlike pretty much all other browsers it's a paid, subscription product. You actually have to pay $60 a year in order to use it.

Sounds absolutely ridiculous when you consider that you haven't had to pay for a browser since Netscape, and even then I think you only had to pay once for it (it was before my time, might need some help on this statement from people actively using Netscape in its heyday), but this whole Google antitrust thing has made me appreciate just how fragile the current browser status quo happens to be. Safari and Edge are fine, but I don't particularly like using either, and to be frank the reasons for using an open-source browser besides Firefox or Chrome are largely ideological.

It just might be the case where if you want an actually good browser, you'll have to start paying for it.
by poulsbohemian | 2025-05-01 04:27:22+00:00
Where are these "good enough" third parties? In my (mostly but it's complicated) Democratic state, there have been third party candidates in various local positions, especially in urban areas, but it's been more a way to thumb their nose at Democrats rather than any political differences. I struggle to see how any left-leaning third-party would have much relevance in any of our bluish states and they are unlikely to get any traction in red states. If we want to talk about a third-party that looks like Eisenhower Republicans, now that might be interesting but thus far the right-wing of the country has shown little appetite.
by 2419410794 | 2025-05-01 04:27:23+00:00
> Has Congress made it illegal to use an off-brand messaging app for secure communications?

Yes. The law requires that classified information be handled under certain standards.

> _Why_ is it insecure?

Classified data is being transmitted on an unsecured device. If Hegseth's personal phone has Uber, Tinder, ... whatever apps installed, that software is running on a device that's contains national secrets.

Systems which handle classified data are meant to be airgapped from the normal internet/normal software.

The issue is not that signal is insecure, but rather that sensitive government information demands additional precaution (e.g. airgapping).

There's a separate issue that there are legal requirements for maintaining records of government communication. Using a personal device (especially with disappearing messages) is illegal since it doesn't maintain this documentation.

Additionally, classified information is tracked to see who read it and when. In the event of a security leak, this can help isolate where the leak happened. If the information gets posted on Signal, then there's nothing more that can be tracked.

> For better or worse, he is the Secretary of Defense...The man we've entrusted to help coordinate our national defense.

That's not the way rule of law works. The Secretary of Defense doesn't get to _decide_ we're doing things differently now. His actions, as well as the actions of his staff, are bound by the laws that congress has passed.

> We need to start from the presumption that the people-in-power don't care that it's always been done this way...in fact, they have a ton of pressure to be different. But, in some cases, these people may be willing to listen to reasonable arguments which clearly establish _why_ using Signal is unreasonably worse than using US Government Issue messaging.

The onus should not be on the general public to convince the Secretary of Defense to adhere to bog standard requirements for handling sensitive information. If he has an idea, "I think using Signal on my personal phone to discuss imminent military actions is better than using a secure line," he could push that idea forward. Have the Pentagon's security staff evaluate the idea. Instead, he simply did it.