MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SkipperCat | 2025-05-09 11:51:17+00:00
I worked in Federal government on classified systems. There were many safeguards in place, most importantly networks that were 100% disconnected from the Internet and locked down workstations. That made sure that even the most inept user could not cause a problem like this.

Everyone I worked with respected OpSec and would never do something as risky as bring in an outside laptop and connect it to the network. DOGE has been so reckless that I believe they wanted to have the system hacked, because seeing our government destroyed is their real objective.
by TrueDuality | 2025-05-09 11:52:37+00:00
You'll commonly see new technologies utilized by people that have the ability to make use of that technology for their own gain. Programmers are (for the most part) the only ones that can unlock LLMs to solve very specific personal problems. There are workflow automation tools allowing non-programmers the ability to do workflows but that's only one way to utilize them and it will always be constrained by the already developed integrations and the constraints of the workflow platform.

In regards to jobs and job losses I have no idea how this is going to impact individual salaries over time in different positions, but I honestly doubt its going to do much. Language models are still pretty bad at working with large projects in a clean and effective way. Maybe that will get better, but I think this generational breakthrough of technology is slowing down a lot.

Even if they do get better, they still need direction and validation. Both of which still require some understanding of what is going on (even vibe coding works better with a skilled engineer).

I suspect there is going to be more "programmers" in the world as a result, but most of them will be producing small boutique single webpage tools and designs that are higher quality than "made by my cousin's kid" that a lot of small businesses have now. Companies > ~30 people with software engineers on staff seem to be using it as a performance enhancer rather than a work replacement tool.

There will always be shitty managers and short-sighted executives that are looking to replace their human staff with some tool, and there will be layoffs but I don't think the overall pool of jobs is going to reduce. For the same reason I don't think there is going to be significant pay adjustments but a dramatic increase in the long-tail of cheap projects that don't make much money on their own.
by myrmidon | 2025-05-09 11:52:59+00:00
> I call things like ITER "Blazing Saddles" projects. "We have to protect our phony baloney jobs, gentlemen!"

I think this is overly harsh and somewhat unfair. You could make the same argument that anything operating in a regime similar to the Chicago Pile 1 could never be an economical reactor nor a bomb, but that does not mean skipping that particular development step is viable.

As far as fusion reporting goes, articles are at least somewhat consistent on the fact that ITER is a pure research project/reactor, while every 10-man fusion startup is being hyped up beyond all reason even if there is not even a credible roadmap towards an actual reactor in the 100MW range at all.

Personally I don't see fusion being a mainstream energy source (or helpful against climate change) in this century at all and maybe never, but ITER (even with all the delays) is at least an honest attempt at a credible size, and being stuck on older technology is an unfortunate side-effect of that.
by throwanem | 2025-05-09 11:53:17+00:00
Oh, I was the same. It's a species of healthy and developmentally sound 'rebellion,' I think.

Nothing really out of the ordinary - though of course I would as soon kick a puppy, as say so to someone in the throes of it! People deserve to enjoy themselves and kids deserve to be kids. But I do take "chuunibyou" (chūnibyō) as just part of what we do around that age, to begin the process of cleaving unto ourselves and defining who we are. It only happens English doesn't have a word for this aspect specifically; luckily for us, what it does have is a habit of mugging other languages for loose vocabulary.
by potato3732842 | 2025-05-09 11:53:28+00:00
A huge part of the problem is government putting its thumb on the scale and preventing the sort of cheap low quality development that makes sense in areas where it's a given that nature will flatten everything every 50yr or whatever.

Florida existed this way for 100 yr. You have lots that had a house built in 1850, wiped out in 1900, rebuilt, wiped out in 1950, replaced with a double wide, wiped out in 2000, and then the owner gets told "sorry, build a multi million dollar house on stilts with windows rated to stop a flying patio chair and a roof you could dangle the house from or F-off"

I understand that there's a desire to stop sketchy interests from billing off "disposable" construction as "this will resist a hurricane and is prob good for 100yr" and pocketing the difference before vanishing (especially among the HN crowd because they're demographics who usually get left holding the bag) but it's not economically tenable to force communities to construct above their means either by law or by proxy with provisions written into insurance and lending requirements.

Those parts of New Orleans that never bounced back are just the denser more vertical versions of those poor Florida communities. There just isn't the money there. And while you can potentially cover this with state and federal programs (e.g. FEMA), it seems like in practice they don't quite bridge the gap.
by kassner | 2025-05-09 11:55:02+00:00
> All restaurants have an "analog plan B", it's called walking in and asking for a menu

At least every second month I walk out of a new restaurant I’ve discovered because they don’t even care to have it.

Employees treat you like it’s your fault that you can’t see the prices behind a Meta auth wall. They won’t even offer to read it out to you or show in a device of their own.

Nowadays, if I see a triangle-shaped cardboard with a QR code on top of each table, I’m 95% sure I will walk out of there hungry. And angry.
by Ukv | 2025-05-09 11:56:15+00:00
"Well-known" email addresses (e.g: gaben@valvesoftware.com, president@whitehouse.gov) also seem to show up in these mentioned stealer logs on https://haveibeenpwned.com/ - which makes me suspect addresses are extracted from keypresses even if just typed in the To field of an email, for instance, and do not necessarily indicate the owner of the email has malware on their machine or has had their account/password compromised.
by spwa4 | 2025-05-09 11:58:12+00:00
> Other countries simply don't have the same supply lines and trained workforce

This is tempered, isn't it?

1) the whole advantage of China that we exploited WAS a large untrained uneducated workforce. That wasn't worth it anymore and things like textiles have already largely moved.

Of course, this doesn't apply to a number of sectors like electronics. But:

2) anyone educated and/or with money is scrambling to leave China, and this is nothing new.
by pdubroy | 2025-05-09 11:59:27+00:00
I'm not sure I totally understand what you mean by "in-process" here. But you could have some JavaScript that compiles some code in your custom language to WebAssembly and then execute it, and you can use the browser dev tools to set breakpoints the Wasm, inspect the memory, etc.

In the book, we don't cover source maps, but it would also be possible to generate source maps so that you can set breakpoints in (and step through) the original source code in your custom language, rather than debugging at the Wasm instruction level.

Does that answer your question?
by necovek | 2025-05-09 12:00:20+00:00
They are actively using actual LEGO bricks, and as such they are not misrepresenting anything.

Where there is gray area is in them not clearly stating they are unaffiliated with LEGO the company.

OTOH, they also don't seem to be looking to monetize anything, so they are at lower risk from LEGO having a plausible claim that they are hurting their sales.
by vntok | 2025-05-09 12:00:49+00:00
If your setup includes a password manager, generated unique passwords and enabling 2FA everywhere you can, there's not much else to do.

Just use a unique complex root password for your password manager and check semi-regularly that it hasn't leaked on haveibeenpwnd.

Bonus points if your password manager automatically checks your stored passwords for leaks and scores them (eg. LastPass)
by Ecgberht | 2025-05-09 12:00:54+00:00
> If it was only an old black-and-white movie, still subject to copyright, today the movie would be a historical footnote at best.

That's a very ungenerous take. The film is very good and was revolutionary for it's time. Check out other horror films from the same era and the tone is completely different. Night of the Living Dead changed what horror films could be.

And there's plenty of old black and white movies still in copyright that are highly regarded as classics so I don't know what that has to do with anything.
by adrian17 | 2025-05-09 12:01:36+00:00
Most have been for some time now. As the announcement post says:

> the Wasm Community and Working Groups had reached consensus and finished the specification in early 2022. All major implementations have been shipping 2.0 for even longer.

> In a future post we will take a look at Wasm 3.0, which is already around the corner at this point!

Features in 3.0 presumably also being mostly implemented already, some maybe just kept behind feature flags.
by SkipperCat | 2025-05-09 12:01:55+00:00
This isn't an example of incompetence. DOGE staff broke laws when they connected their personal computers to classified system. They knew better, plenty of people told them not to do this and they still did it.

They could have followed OpSec rules and still done their work. They chose not to do so. Their willful disobedience of the laws and OpSec might stem from multiple rationals, but it doesn't matter, because their actions are criminal and their negligence is beyond incompetence.
by Almondsetat | 2025-05-09 12:02:58+00:00
>I thought I must have this wrong, surely you can’t just smash an ipv4 address in ipv6 field and magic happens?! Nope, didn’t have it wrong, that’s what happens. Linux supports this, and will go on to route the request as IPv4.

I mean... it's literally one of the officially defined unicast IPv6 address types. If you ever read the Wikipedia page to learn about what link-local, global unicast, etc. addresses are you surely would have seen it.
by lm28469 | 2025-05-09 12:04:53+00:00
Pffff, preventing disease and helping people get out of poverty are such bad goals, what about AGI ??? What about sending Katy Perry to Mars ??? Self driving cars ??? The metaverse ???

Are Musk, Bezos and Zuck the only one brave enough to work on REAL and HARD problems ? /s
by naythaniel | 2025-05-09 12:04:57+00:00
I guess for people who spend most of their time in fantasy lands, it seems jarring for a storyteller to tell a story about anything that could actually potentially happen in reality. Or even just actually shown the results of violence. Or even depict anything that's personally distasteful to them. If one wants a story in which nothing particularly bad happens to female characters or any characters at all, they should seek out children's literature. Maybe this is just my weird worldview given I grew up watching Law and Order SVU. But I would find stories quite boring if authors weren't allowed to depict anything that's at all distasteful to some particular subset of humans. I just find the point of view from this article immature and lacking in understanding of the full scope of possible storytelling.
by kassner | 2025-05-09 12:05:36+00:00
I really don’t understand why some societies rely so much on Meta services, specially considering they are SO MUCH WORSE to administer, specially for a non-tech user, compared to creating a website in Wix (or even a free Wordpress.com account), or maybe updating your Google Maps business with the right information.

Maybe that shows a lack of critical thinking in the general population? I.e.: people must be using FB/IG because it’s the only thing they know, and never questioned themselves if there are other avenues?
by Gracana | 2025-05-09 12:05:39+00:00
I read the article, and I think it's unfair to say it's a strawman argument. The article is talking about realism / "honest" depiction of war because that was the justification given by Tony Gilroy (second quote in the article). The author talks about a number of other horrific things that happen to people in war that weren't included, and explains how including a rape scene doesn't fit the story well, and makes the argument that shows include rape scenes of extremely attractive actresses because it is an audience expectation, not because the plot demands it or because it makes for a realistic or honest depiction of the circumstances.
by potato3732842 | 2025-05-09 12:05:41+00:00
Even if you ignore the asset value the "just move" opinion is still almost pure ignorance.

Normal people who've "put down roots" incur a HUGE cost when they move away from all that. Lives become optimized, you establish relationships with businesses. You make friends and engage in mutually beneficial favor trading. Ripping all that away is probably on the order of a 15-30% reduction in real income depending on the individuals in question.
by CraigRood | 2025-05-09 12:06:03+00:00
Part of my day job is Warehouse Automation - not Amazon!. I would agree with you on being slow, but it probably suffices to what Amazon want to achieve here. If your entire process, so stow, store and retrieve is automated, you wouldn't use these "pods". A lot of these problems seem so simple and easy to automate out, but it's really not!
by joshstrange | 2025-05-09 12:06:18+00:00
Why does your desire for complete privacy and _control_ outweigh mine to keep a complete history of my communications?

Why can you reach into my phone and wipe data you sent to me?

Why are _you_ the final arbiter?

Once you send a message it is _out of your hands_. You do not own that message. You do not have the right to dictate to others what they can do with what you send to them. That’s life, that’s reality.

If you want to be able to delete your sent messages from other’s devices, there are many apps out there that can provide it to you and both you and the person you are talking to can go in “eyes wide open” to what you agreeing to (I can delete messages I sent to you and you have no record).

The potential for abuse of this is high and the vast majority of users would _not_ want this feature. The same way that mostly people probably shouldn’t use ADP due to the risks, this type of feature will cause way more issues IMHO. It doesn’t take much imagination to get to “Grandpa pressed the wrong button and deleted years (decades) of conversation from everyone’s phone”.

I am not interesting my normal conversations potentially disappearing. That was not the agreement that we had and changing the rules later on that is gross to me. If you want disappearing chats or the ability to wipe all the messages you’ve sent there are other apps (with their own pitfalls, what if I keep my phone offline and never get the update to clear out your conversations?).
by msiebuhr | 2025-05-09 12:07:20+00:00
IANAL, but EU law doesn't have "fair use". It does have a _very specific_ set of uses where you don't have to ask for permission (or pay). As I understand, it is more limited than the US' "fair use" doctrine.

EU being EU, I can only imagine there's a bunch of particular rules around research that may or may not work in the authors' favor.
by anakin87 | 2025-05-09 12:07:22+00:00
I experimented with GRPO lately, since I am fascinated by models learning from prompts and rewards - no example answers needed like in Supervised Fine-Tuning.

After the DeepSeek boom, everyone is trying GRPO with GSM8K or the Countdown Game, but I wanted a different challenge. So I opted for teaching a model to create a schedule from a list of events and priorities.

Choosing an original problem forced me to think about the problem setting, generate data, choose the base model, design reward functions, and run multiple rounds of training, hoping that my model would learn something.

A fun and rewarding experience. :-)

I learned a lot of things, that I want to share with you.

Blog post: https://huggingface.co/blog/anakin87/qwen-scheduler-grpo

Code: https://github.com/anakin87/qwen-scheduler-grpo

Hugging Face collection (dataset and model): https://huggingface.co/collections/anakin87/qwen-scheduler-g...
by seretogis | 2025-05-09 12:07:29+00:00
The author is spot-on here, "realism" is a very flimsy justification for including sexual assault. One also does not need to even include sexual assault to evoke the same "gritty" or revolting feeling as rape, just look at the larval state of xenimorphs in the Alien franchise - they enter through your mouth and "birth" themselves violently through your chest.
by coffee_am | 2025-05-09 12:07:43+00:00
Just for another data point, I took me 4 days to cook up a WASM front-end using Go for my otherwise command-line only Hive game:

https://janpfeifer.github.io/hiveGo/www/hive/

Probably everything JS and DOM is better supported from TS, but I have to say, I was never blocked on my small project.
by 84634E1A607A | 2025-05-09 12:07:54+00:00
/56 DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation, and NAT44444 for IPv4 (192.168.1.x/24 for router, 192.168.100.x/24 for dish, 100.64.x.x for CGNAT, 172.16.x.x for Ground Station inner net, finally you are on the Internet).
by MrResearcher | 2025-05-09 12:10:03+00:00
Sadly, no, I'd like to write a ~Prolog interpreter (compiler into WASM that would dynamically replace parts of the implementation as source code evolves), and have the debugger and WASM memory inspector as part of the web page written in Javascript, which was used to compiled the code in the first place. That is, would it be possible to implement a debugger and memory inspector in Javascript without resorting to dev tools? Prolog doesn't map 1:1 to WASM/Javscript via source maps, making it nearly impossible to properly debug it in dev tools.
by db48x | 2025-05-09 12:10:07+00:00
No, I didn’t quote all available evidence in an internet comment. I’d never finish, if I did that. Instead I picked one salient but infrequently encountered body of evidence. I recommend reading the book.

And if you want more evidence than that, then I suggest reading about Stanley Milgram’s famous experiments. A little quote:

Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.

I think that if you want yet more evidence then you can probably acquire it yourself. Personally I must sleep.
by numb7rs | 2025-05-09 12:10:48+00:00
From my time in fusion research circles, you're correct, but it's also not a simple "weapons or energy?" question. It could only have ever been a pure research facility. At the time of design, the physics wasn't certain enough to aim for net energy gain. Where the weapons research came in is in the choice of laser focus. Instead of "direct drive", where the lasers directly strike the fusion fuel, NIF lasers strike the inside of a Hohlraum, which produces X-Rays that then heat the fuel. X-Ray opacity is an important topic in nuclear weapons research.

Bear in mind that I wasn't directly involved, and this my impression picked up from conversations during my time in fusion research, which was about 10 years ago.
by bko | 2025-05-09 12:13:06+00:00
I don't get why making engineers more productive would decrease their salaries. It should be the reverse.

You could argue that it makes the bar lower to be productive so the candidate pool is much greater, but you're arguing the opposite, increasing the barrier to entry.

I'm open to arguments either way and I'm undecided, but you have to have a coherent economic model.
by eddyg | 2025-05-09 12:13:10+00:00
More people need to watch Ivan Krstic's Black Hat presentation to understand the efforts Apple goes through to ensure sensitive data (like the User Escrow Keys which get stored in Apple's Cloud Key Vault) is protected from adversarial attacks... even from inside Apple.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLGFriOKz6U&t=26m50s

(Be sure to watch through the section from 34m to 36m...)
by throwanem | 2025-05-09 12:14:00+00:00
Well, you have to dress for your figure. Me, I make fitted jeans sing, but I wear boots with stacked heels and I've got legs for days, and even in my forties still can just about put my heels behind my head. (And I wear button shirts which I tuck in, because I am a grownup...or wear untucked and unbuttoned, open over a black or gray strappy undershirt, never white. Or tie around my waist, if it's really hot.)

But I can't wear cargo shorts to save my life! It's all about figuring what works for you and how to make the most of it, you know?
by MrResearcher | 2025-05-09 12:14:31+00:00
That still requires the usage of dev tools and linear source code mapping between the original and the generated WASM, correct? Would it be possible to avoid dev tools, and implement the debugger in Javascript? Or the WASM technology doesn't provide such an opportunity? I'd like to break on breakpoints, jump back into Javascript, unroll it into the original location in the source code, and display it all in an IDE-like window all within a browser page, and without involvement of dev tools (that can't handle non-linear conversions between source code and generated JS/WASM).
by bobmackwood | 2025-05-09 12:15:53+00:00
It’s unclear if MAKE will provide idea generation capability on par with (e.g.) v0 or lovable.

Asking a designer to start with a static mockup erroneously reinforces design values around pixel perfect individual screen production IMO.

I can’t tell if this is a missed opportunity to introduce tools that facilitate collaboration and alignment around the user’s journey vs screen production.
by sumtechguy | 2025-05-09 12:17:17+00:00
> Did the distributor really have sufficient ownership of the movie to release a minor altered version into the public domain?

Probably yes. The way movies are financed is quite the byzantine joy ride if you want to look into it. With random tax incentives depending on where you make it. To finance groups that get control of entire regions. There are quite a large number of videos from independent filmmakers on what is going on. You hear things like 'Disney lost XYZ on a movie'. More than likely they lost someone else's money making sure they recoup first. Like for example the OG star wars has yet to recoup. Probably for some segments of the corporate structure that was created to make that movie that is probably true. Hollywood accounting is a huge mess. So yeah he probably signed off particular distribution rights to get the money to make/distribute the thing.

Many TV show pilots probably fall into the same issue too. I have not dug into it too much but the original pilot of star trek did not have one until a re-release decades later with an obvious digital watermark.
by fn-mote | 2025-05-09 12:17:22+00:00
This is kind of dismissive.

As a real example, I needed to change my editor config last month. I do this about once every 5 years. I really didn’t want to become an expert in the config system again, so I tried LLM.

Sad to report, it told me where to look but all of the exact details were wrong. Maybe someday soon, though.
by riku_iki | 2025-05-09 12:18:08+00:00
> Postgres calls a server is a multi-process instance on a single machine, often a commodity cloud VM. What ExaData calls a server is a dedicated bare metal machine with at least half a terabyte of RAM and a couple hundred CPU cores, with a gazillion processes running on it, linked to other cluster nodes by 100Gb networks. Often the machines are bigger.

You can also have PG cluster of beefy machines linked by 100Gb network, I didn't get what's the difference in this case.