MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by idw | 2025-05-15 11:12:06+00:00
Sometimes the BBC does make mistakes but this seems to fit their style guide:

"Treat collective nouns - companies, governments and other bodies - as singular. There are some exceptions: ... Sports teams - although they are singular in their role as business concerns (eg: Arsenal has declared an increase in profits) Rock/pop groups"

So treating a crew, like a team, as plural makes sense.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsstyleguide/grammar-spelling-punctu...

Both approaches are regularly used, so it is now more of a style choice, hence being in the style guide.

The Economist style guide says Brits are more likely to use plural and Americans singular but writers need to make a judgement in context: https://www.economist.com/johnson/2010/09/20/style-guide-ent...
by rashunain | 2025-05-15 11:13:13+00:00
Daily current affairs updates are available in English, including news headlines, GK questions, and answers. Overall, the Current Affairs 15 May 2025 covers a range of topics, including national and international news, sports, education, and daily current affairs quizzes. It is essential to stay updated with the latest news and developments to remain informed and prepared for competitive exams and other challenges.
by latexr | 2025-05-15 11:13:55+00:00
My point has nothing to do with licensing, but longevity.

What non-technical users know is “Google released a project, I invested my time in it, they abandoned it, and I was left hanging. This has happened multiple times so I no longer want to try anything new they release”.

Had the projects been open-sourced, at least some of them would have been picked up by others and continued so non-technical users would know “Google released a project, I invested my time in it, they abandoned it, then someone continued it and I’m still using it to this day. I’m happy to try this new Google thing, because even if they abandon it I won’t be left in the cold”.
by dathinab | 2025-05-15 11:14:30+00:00
my guess is a bit of both

1. due to Brexit but I think also other reasons they had face planted their economy so hard that its very normal to some some "fast growth" after fixing some of the problems

2. there had been a lot of interesting interactions between Russian Oligarch (and their Families) and the UK in the last decades. And this dynamics got affected a lot by the Russian invasion of Ukraine which probably did contribute to the economical crash, but also (indirectly) might have lead to some very wealthy Russians to decide to double down on living in the UK including wrt. spending and investment (note: I'm mainly thinking about successful business people not quite big enough to count as oligarchs and family of oligarchs, i.e. not oligarchs themself as in not people highly involved in Russian power dynamics). But I don't have enough insights about this point to be fully sure about it.

3. One option many countries have is to sacrifice the rights, health and/or future of their citizens for economic grows. E.g. by de-facto removing/reducing worker protections, consumer protections etc.. While this is rarely sustainably long term it tends to work short term and it seems to have at lest slightly happened in the UK, through to some degree in a roundabout way. It's kinda like subventions but instead of paying with money you pay with the future of the people you are supposed to protect. Through sometimes it temporary necessary to get a chance to rebuild a better future then if you hadn't done that. I'm not sure how much this directly benefits the UK but it tends to set a signal for a country to be "investor friendly" which can be beneficial.
by KineticLensman | 2025-05-15 11:14:41+00:00
> I'd much rather see a well oiled team perform crazy feats to get the stage set

Not quite the same, but I witnessed a performance of Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds where there was a complete failure of the stage systems about 15 minutes before the end. All the audio-visuals died and the mics cut off, screens died, animatronics went still, complete silence on the stage and only ambient light.

For about 10-15 seconds there was stunned silence on the stage and then one of the drummers in the orchestra started drumming his part again. A couple of the other musicians joined and quickly there was music. From our seat we could see the stage's equivalent of mission control - three people who'd been quietly sipping their coffee while the playlists unfolded. They went into overdrive like movie hackers trying to enter some system before the corporation goons reached them. They quickly got the audio side back and then worked on the lights and screens. They left the giant Martian war tripod to last but even that was moving within a few minutes. It was one of the most impressive system recoveries I've seen.
by chongli | 2025-05-15 11:15:06+00:00
Morality is an evolved heuristic for solving social conflicts that roughly approximates game theoretical strategies, among other things. Morality also incorporates other cultural and religious artifacts, such as "don't eat meat on a Friday."

Ultimately, it comes down to our brain's social processing mechanisms which don't have the tools to evaluate the correctness (or lack thereof) of our moral rules. Thus many of these rules survive in a vestigial capacity though they may have served useful functions at the time they developed.
by Phlebsy | 2025-05-15 11:15:11+00:00
> If I can't Google it (at least in a reasonable amount of time) and I suspect it may come up again, I'll jot it down.

With how much google at least has become incentivized to push results further down for their other features I've been glad that I've had a habit of storing the links for useful/non trivially found results with the queries originally used for a while now.

That said, maybe having AI summarize the curated results to store along with them wouldn't be a bad idea as well with things seeming to fall off the internet with dead links or migrated URLs more and more.
by ben_w | 2025-05-15 11:16:40+00:00
> Certain policy here in Europe simply assumes that people stay in their surroundings ("15 minute city") and rarely, if ever, visit parts that are farther away individually.

I think you have causality backwards there — 15 minute cities are to make it possible to live a life where going further is rare by ensuring it is not necessary.

To quote the wikipedia page: "The 15-minute city (FMC[2] or 15mC[3]) is an urban planning concept in which most daily necessities and services, such as work, shopping, education, healthcare, and leisure can be easily reached by a 15-minute walk, bike ride, or public transit ride from any point in the city."

I was born and raised in a place that matches this description: Havant, on the south coast of the UK. 15 minutes from there is the entirety of not just Havant itself, but also most of the surrounding towns and villages including the majority of Portsmouth island. A lot of the people I grew up with, never moved out of the area — but they can all travel whenever they want to.

My dad's commute 20-30 years ago would have been something like this: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Havant,+UK/BAE+Systems+Broad...

I now live in Berlin, which is likewise. The "work" part is mostly dependent on the specific employer, and perhaps even if they're happy with WFH, because the travel time between any two randomly selected points of the city is about 45 minutes; but all the other stuff is replicated so much all around the city that I have five stand-alone supermarkets a building supplies store and two shopping malls, a couple of schools, five doctors (GP/Hausarzt), an entire hospital, some historical sites, a huge lake, a beach, several hotels, lots of woodland that's great for pleasant walks and cycling, and a few public parks within that travel time — and that despite being in one of the quiet backwater parts near the city limits.

As far as I can tell, any two places in Davis CA are within 15 minutes of each other, so for people who both live and work there, that too would be a "15 minute city".
by _rpxpx | 2025-05-15 11:17:13+00:00
Laughing my ass off all the way to the apocalypse. It's now Earth vs. the machine, and I know what side I'm on, and who's ultimately going to win. One day, the technosphere will just be a thinly crushed layer in the geological record, mark of a dark age of barbarism.

Snow cuts loose from the frozen/ Until it joins with the African sea/ In moving it changes its cold and its name/ The reason I come and go is the same/ Animal game for me/ You call it rain/ But the human name/ Doesn't mean shit to a tree/ If you don't mind heat in your river and/ Fork tongue talking from me/ Swim like an eel fantastic snake/ Take my love when it's free/ Electric feel with me/ You call it loud/ But the human crowd/ Doesn't mean shit to a tree/ Change the strings and notes slide/ Change the bridge and string shift down/ Shift the notes and bride sings/ Fire eating people/ Rising toys of the sun/ Energy dies without body warm/ Icicles ruin your gun/ Water my roots the natural thing/ Natural spring to the sea/ Sulphur springs make my body float/ Like a ship made of logs from a tree/ Redwoods talk to me/ Say it plainly/ The human name/ Doesn't mean shit to a tree/ Snow called water going violent/ Damn the end of the stream/ Too much cold in one place breaks/ That's why you might know what I mean/ Consider how small you are/ Compared to your scream/ The human dream/ Doesn't mean shit to a tree
by jsheard | 2025-05-15 11:17:26+00:00
Botnets just shift the bottleneck from "how much compute can they afford to buy legit" to "how many machines can they compromise or afford to buy on the black market". Either way it's a finite resource, so making each abusive request >10,000x more expensive still severely limits how much damage they can do, especially when a lot of botnet nodes are IoT junk with barely any CPU power to speak of.
by sph | 2025-05-15 11:18:19+00:00
I started with VB6, but I was not a great fan of the language. Soon, I moved to MSVC++6 with MFC, and even though it had its own RAD system for designing dialogs, it was so half-arsed and limiting compared to Visual Basic. You couldn't even change the foreground colour of a label!

I still remember the envy when I found out Delphi developers were not subject to these silly restrictions, and their GUIs were always so colourful.
by dinfinity | 2025-05-15 11:18:47+00:00
> Which, of course, is our "special purpose" in life.

I didn't say that. But the reality is that people who add no economic value are a problem for our societies as they are structured today.

But yes, overpopulation is also an issue with regard to pressure on the environment.

Something to think about instead of more or fewer humans is: what would be the ideal number of humans (at various points in the future)? It strays into eugenics pretty quickly, but it does force you to think about the fundamental elements such as ethics when dealing with these matters.
by thegeomaster | 2025-05-15 11:19:01+00:00
I slightly tweaked your baseline em dash example and got 100% success rate with GPT-4.1 without any additional calls, token spend, or technobabble.

System prompt: "Remove every em-dash (—) from the following text while leaving other characters unchanged.\n\nReturn only the cleaned text."

User prompt: <prompt from tsce_chat.py filled with em dashes>

Temperature: 0.0
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-05-15 11:19:39+00:00
Yeah, your goal is pretty nice if you want to open source blacksmith at their level, but I think most people would be pretty happy with just a hetzner vm using act https://github.com/nektos/act if they want github actions, or jenkins.

I think we can rent hetnzer vms on a per hour basis or maybe we can't , but I do know that there are services like (linode?) I guess, which use a per second model.

Combine that with I think automatic installation of act and you pay for per second use of your CI.

Plus points if we can use criu to scale from lower end machines to higher end machines depending upon the task while continuing the task from where it was left.
Ask HN: Email Provider for Main Account?
by agent008t | 2025-05-15 11:19:55+00:00
Which email provider would you recommend for your main account? (Banking, government + other important stuff)

With Gmail, I am concerned that I could get arbitrarily locked out of my account with no recourse. Also, I wouldn't mind moving away from Google in general to support a more decentralized internet. If it is based outside of the US, even better. But these considerations are secondary.

So I am looking for something secure, reliable, and usable (good search, not getting overrun with spam) that I could use for the next few decades. Privacy is only important insofar as reasonable security is concerned (vague, I know, but my point is that practicality is more important).

What do you use and what have been the pros and cons?
by jeroenhd | 2025-05-15 11:20:03+00:00
Bitwarden's hosted platform has a feature exactly for this use case: https://bitwarden.com/help/emergency-access/

But yes, you can export passkeys. They take this format in the backed up JSON:

{ "passwordHistory": null, "revisionDate": "2025-05-15T11:10:37.341Z", "creationDate": "2025-05-15T11:10:37.134Z", "deletedDate": null, "id": "3b90b785-efb7-491b-92e8-525b446df781", "organizationId": null, "folderId": null, "type": 1, "reprompt": 0, "name": "passkeys.io", "notes": null, "favorite": false, "login": { "fido2Credentials": [ { "credentialId": "f167c754-5a4c-4c4a-b5e5-6faf18bde5a6", "keyType": "public-key", "keyAlgorithm": "ECDSA", "keyCurve": "P-256", "keyValue": "MIGHAgEAMBMGByqGSM49AgEGCCqGSM49AwEHBG0wawIBAQQgMnNsrXAHP50Glhs1vBPgCFVv3jj-nuZ9gHVRdGg2anehRANCAATtK7xFvDIn8mAOCniczaG5ytAE_eBR0kkgd5lFVahpI6tQ5U-nBAkgqvlmtObrWDNu0-RgiCgYnOLXFPEyda4j", "rpId": "www.passkeys.io", "userHandle": "47GTTn99QtyNUGaMFMzH2A", "userName": "<masked against scrapers>", "counter": "0", "rpName": "passkeys.io", "userDisplayName": "<masked against scrapers>", "discoverable": "true", "creationDate": "2025-05-15T11:10:37.645Z" } ], "uris": [ { "match": null, "uri": "https://www.passkeys.io/" } ], "username": "<masked against scrapers>", "password": null, "totp": null }, "collectionIds": null }

(I have deleted the account on passkeys.io so don't bother trying to hack my demo account)

As for the lack of documented export options: that's kind of the point for many passkey providers. You can't export the key from a Yubikey, you can't export the keys from a smart card, you can't export the keys from an RFID dongle*, and in the same vein you cannot export the keys from many passkey providers.

What you can (or at least should be able to) do, is add a backup key. That can be someone else's PC/account in case your house burns down, or a physical Yubikey you store in a fire safe somewhere, whatever mitigations you need. You could also use a tiered setup; if you use hardware tokens to sign into your relatives' Apple/Google/Microsoft/1Password account, you can in turn use their cloud tokens to sign into whatever services they use. That way, you hand out some trust to their authentication provider, but in exchange managing physical backup keys becomes a lot easier as you don't need to open your safe every time you create a credential for an important website. You can use such a physical recovery key even if your relative prefers to log in with username+password.
by mschuster91 | 2025-05-15 11:20:23+00:00
We are dealing with the IAB and tracking for a looong time now. The first warning shots followed the implementation of GDPR, the behavior of the ad industry at this stage is assumed to be intentional abuse.

Hence, it's time for hard sanctions, even though procedurial issues made for this fine-less ruling now. Expect more fines to roll out if the ad industry doesn't get it now that playtime is over.
by ArinaS | 2025-05-15 11:20:43+00:00
This thing, despite using "captcha" in its name, is not your typical captcha like hCaptcha or Google's one, because it uses a proof-of-work mechanism instead of writing answers in textboxes/clicking on images/other means of verification requiring user input.

AI bots can't solve proof-of-work challenges because browsers they use for scraping don't support features needed to solve them. This is highlighted by existence of other proof-of-work solutions designed to specifically filter out AI bots, like go-away[1] or Anubis[2].

And yes, they work - once GNOME deployed one of these proof-of-work challenges on their gitlab instance, traffic on it fell by 97%[3].

[1] - https://git.gammaspectra.live/git/go-away

[2] - https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

[3] - https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by...: "According to Bart Piotrowski, in around two hours and a half they received 81k total requests, and out of those only 3% passed Anubi's proof of work, hinting at 97% of the traffic being bots."
by rgavuliak | 2025-05-15 11:21:19+00:00
I think it's more of a case for legal and HR being conservative and super defensive. Not sure if you've ever handled a contract with an internal lawyer, but in my experience they often go for crazy suggestions that the other side would never accept for the sake of protecting the company as much as possible. Might be the same here - HR/legal being super protective and the hiring manager not caring enough to fight back.
by braza | 2025-05-15 11:22:37+00:00
I don't think this is adequately addressed by the "complicated vs. complex" framing—especially not when the distinction is made using reductive examples like taxes (structured, bureaucratic, highly formalized) versus climate change (broad, urgent, signaling-heavy).

That doesn’t feel right.

Let me bring a non-trivial, concrete example—something mundane: “ePOD,” which refers to Electronic Proof of Delivery.

ePOD, in terms of technical implementation, can be complex to design for all logistics companies out there like Flexport, Amazon, DHL, UPS, and so on.

The implementation itself—e.g., the box with a signature open-drawing field and a "confirm" button—can be as complex as they want from a pure technical perspective.

Now comes, for me at least, the complex part: in some logistics companies, the ePOD adoption rate is circa 46%. In other words, in 54% of all deliveries, you do not have a real-time (not before 36–48 hours) way to know and track whether the person received the goods or not. Unsurprisingly, most of those are still done on paper. And we have:

- Truck drivers are often independent contractors.

- Rural or low-tech regions lack infrastructure.

- Incentive structures don’t align.

- Digitization workflows involve physical paper handoffs, WhatsApp messages, or third-party scans.

So the real complexity isn't only "technical implementation of ePOD" but; "having the ePOD, how to maximize it's adoption/coverage with a lot uncertainty, fragmentation, and human unpredictability on the ground?".

That’s not just complicated, it’s complex 'cause we have: - Socio-technical constraints,

- Behavioral incentives,

- Operational logistics,

- Fragmented accountability,

- And incomplete or delayed data.

We went off the highly controlled scenario (arbitrarily bounded technical implementation) that could be considered complicated (if we want to be reductionist, as the OP has done), and now we’re navigating uncertainty and N amount of issues that can go wrong.
by int_19h | 2025-05-15 11:23:37+00:00
FWIW smartphones are nearly universally used in Ukraine by both sides because too much useful stuff runs on them. Artillery calculators, for example.

Russians also use theirs for actual comms a fair bit because their equipment (like older tanks from storage) often lacks encrypted digital radios, or sometimes any working radios at all. Ukrainians invested heavily into DMR after the Donbas war in 2014-15 where they had similar troubles.
by neom | 2025-05-15 11:23:48+00:00
I'm actually trying to move away from that frame. Not suggesting atoms 'know' they're atoms in any cognitive sense, but rather that patterns propagate without requiring awareness as we understand it. The 'awareness' I'm gesturing to isn't some transcendent quality that exists independently (Platonic), but rather an emergent property that scales from simple to complex systems. Evolution doesn't require foresight or intention, just iterative feedback loops. What I find fascinating is how structure begets structure across scales. The 'awareness' in my framing is less about knowing and more about interaction and response. An atom doesn't know it's an atom, but it behaves according to patterns that, when accumulated and complexefied eventually produce systems that can model themselves? I suppose 'recursive patterning' might be a better term than 'awareness'. Systems that, through purely mechanistic means, become capable of representing their own states and environments, then representing those representations, and so on. No mysticism required, just emergent complexity that eventually folds back on itself.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-05-15 11:24:25+00:00
Maybe somebody could explain me why your comment is in different contrast of grey?

I think somebody might have flagged your comment, but it is a real fact.

This is one of the reasons why people say cloudflare owns the majority of internet but I think I am okay with that since cloudflare is pretty chill. And they provide the best services but still it just shows that the internet isn't that decentralized.

But google captcha is literally tracking you IIRC, I would personally prefer hcaptcha if you want centralized solution or anubis if you want to self host (I Prefer anubis I guess)
by xrhobo | 2025-05-15 11:24:26+00:00
It is like arguing that the exodus from the rust belt in the late 80s and 90s was good for the cities because it made the cost of housing go down.

This is true if we focus entirely on housing cost and basically ignore all the down sides. Of course, ignoring the perspective of those who owned real estate too at that time.

Real estate always has quite a bit of preference falsification associated with it too. Everyone is always publicly outraged at the cost increase of real estate while those who own the increasing real estate are internally quite happy with the situation. I suspect that is the main variable why we can never solve this problem.
by amelius | 2025-05-15 11:24:44+00:00
Maybe this is interesting: the whitepaper says:

> Most of these discoveries are on open problems suggested to us by external mathematicians Javier Gomez Serrano and Terence Tao, who also advised on how to best formulate them as inputs to AlphaEvolve. This highlights the potential for synergistic partnerships between AI-driven discovery engines like AlphaEvolve and human mathematical expertise.
by p_v_doom | 2025-05-15 11:25:41+00:00
In recorded history there have been plenty of economic setups that have very few or no downtrodden. You just gotta go and read anthropology. Another thing to take into account is where we are as a society - and where we can go. Both with automation and gear we can make such work easier, and in a society where we have more control where to direct research (as opposed to VCs seeking maximum profit) we can focus on solving bad jobs like that. Finally - incentives. Why have someone be a coal miner so that their kids do not have to starve, when we can have it be an exclusive and hard workplace, that is both celebrated in public and comes with the pay package of a director or executive. The coal miner certainly does more and more useful work than the average tech founder.

But I agree UBI is not the final solution. The final solution involves stuff like abolishing wage labor, circular economies, non-transferable labor-time tokens and democractic management.
by bigfishrunning | 2025-05-15 11:25:50+00:00
"Vibe coders" say they're 'building a detailed coding plan, conducting "git-based experimentation with ruthless pruning", and essentially reviewing the code incrementally for correctness and conciseness', but really they're just rolling the dice and hoping everything works. The software industry has always been full of snake oil, and now there's a powerful new strain.