MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrguyorama | 2025-05-12 19:59:02+00:00
Because without any form of regulation, the ISP has no requirement to honor that letter?

The whole point of "click to cancel" was to deal with the fact that a business, by contract law, can make it almost entirely impossible to stop owing them money through entirely legal means. The courts do not consider being on hold for 18 hours onerous enough to void a contract, so it's perfectly legal to require you to follow the "cancellation process", whatever that is.

Welcome to a world without consumer protections beyond basic contract law! American courts have long held the position that, if you agree to a contract, it really doesn't matter how onerous it is. Fuck you, caveat emptor and all that.

If you want to improve the situation without new regulation, we should push for courts to take a more reasonable stance: That contract law does not protect absurd contracts. This is supposed to be the current situation, but what it takes to get your contract declared null because it's unfair or onerous is just insane right now, because our courts have spent at least 50 years praying at the alter of "let businesses do literally anything they want under contract law"
by lern_too_spel | 2025-05-12 19:59:55+00:00
> you're putting an awful lot of trust in that centralized authority.

No, I'm putting my trust in the rule of law.

> The dollar is now backed by aircraft carriers, jets, and military might.

It is mainly backed by trust in government monetary policy. Otherwise, what is the GBP backed by? The Royal Navy isn't what it used to be.
by BearOso | 2025-05-12 20:00:15+00:00
Ah, man, with the colors, I thought this was obvious, but it doesn't quite fit the url. But you can still copy, paste in the box:

(1-sqrt(pow(7.5-x,2)+pow(7.5-y,2))/8)*(y-7.5)

Pokeball.

edit Actually, there's no fixed length, so https://tixy.land/?code=%281-sqrt%28pow%287.5-x%2C2%29%2Bpow...
by e40 | 2025-05-12 20:00:21+00:00
Usually T2D is diagnosed based on a fasting glucose test. I also recently worse a CGM because I was borderline T2D and wanted to know how various foods impacted my levels. My peak was about 2 hours after the meal, so about 1.5 hours and change, given the lag of the CGM.

I also found that sweets not only spiked my values but did so over a 6-12 hour period! That was shocking. I have not had dessert for 107 days because of it. I plan to do a fasting test (and A1C) in August to see how many values are. I hope they are much lower, but we'll see.

EDIT: also, popcorn with nothing on it but salt gave me a huge spike.
by kuruczgy | 2025-05-12 20:01:08+00:00
Yes you are right, what I am proposing is not a solution by itself, it's just a way to be reasonably confident that _if you audit the code_, that's going to be the actual logic running on your computer.

(I don't get the value of your AST checksumming idea over just checksumming the source text, which is what almost all distro packages do. I think the number of changes that change the code but not the AST are negligible. If the code (and AST) is changed, you have to audit the diff no matter what.)

The more interesting question that does not have a single good answer is how to do the auditing. In almost all cases right now the only metric you have is "how much you trust upstream", in very few cases is actually reading through all the code and changes viable. I like to look at how upstream does their auditing of changes, e.g. how they do code review and how clean is their VCS history (so that _if_ you discover something fishy in the code, there is a clean audit trail of where that piece of code came from).
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by smcin | 2025-05-12 20:01:14+00:00
Noone said "SD is broke", can we have a good-faith discussion please?

It's not a question of the Fed "helping", it is a federal issue, just as much as TX, FL, AZ etc. spending federal money on any other transborder matter. The sewage is caused by Mexico (not SD) and affects as far up as LA, and it's a federal and foreign-policy issue as much as a local issue for the SoCal counties.

I don't know much about SoCal water treatment, here's a useful explanation [0] + infographic [1] from EPA.

As to arguing that a couple of hundred million in federal funding to do something useful that improves both SD and TJ (quality-of-life, tourism, watersports, etc.) is unthinkable, compare to the waste in the ICE budget for FY 2025: $10.5 billion, several billions of which is being spent on privatized prisons for unnecessarily holding people up to 18 mths (when Congress could simply e.g. expand H-2A/B visas for the agricultural/manufacturing/services workers which the US is dependent on). TJ is essentially the outsource manufacturing hub on the US's doorstep, and will be increasingly so when some manufacturing moves back to N America (e.g. from China), we might as well constructively engage with reality. Really this decision should be non-partisan and a no-brainer.

[0]: https://www.epa.gov/sustainable-water-infrastructure/usmca-t...

[1]: https://www.epa.gov/system/files/images/2021-08/concerns-map...
by RetroTechie | 2025-05-12 20:01:23+00:00
Surprised that Genode isn't mentioned in this context:

https://genode.org

Ok it's not a language-based approach. But interesting project aiming for similar goals as discussed in the article. And a nice counter-example to:

"Not one OS has a sandboxing API that is all of documented, stable and usefully powerful"
by MBCook | 2025-05-12 20:02:20+00:00
Could be. Somewhere else in these comments someone was saying they found evidence that the app was coded that way.

But they also said it was a project by two students. And I could absolutely see students (or even normal developers) who aren’t used to thinking about security make that mistake. It is a very obvious way to implement it.

In retrospect I know that my senior project had some giant security issues. There were more things to look out for than I knew about at that time.
by mullingitover | 2025-05-12 20:02:54+00:00
So many hilarious defenses of the patriarchy here, I'll just pick one:

> More men fending for themselves without a wife or homemaker to prepare meals, clean, shop, care for children at home. Are boys being prepared for this adult reality?

Men are not entitled to a domestic slave, lmao. It's sad that boys would be coddled to the point that the can't perform basic adult tasks. I was raised in a pretty conservative household and I was cooking, cleaning, shopping, looking after younger kids. This is basic human core competency stuff. Pathetic to put forward a claim that these things the job of one gender.
by vr46 | 2025-05-12 20:03:03+00:00
I have many memories of barrelling through on skates with friends, and one of my favourite memories is of filming a mate skating through some flaming cones that another friend had made, basically mini molotov cocktails of small bottles filled with paraffin, we set them in a long line outside the church opposite the water and spent an hour skating around and filming ourselves. This was pre-2001, I cannot believe some of the shit we used to do.

Elsewhere in the place, I have loved going to exhibitions, theatre plays, gigs and the cinema. It's a one-stop cultural hub that evokes the glamour of flying in the olden days.
by ty6853 | 2025-05-12 20:03:31+00:00
In rural areas where people know one another, people like yourself get sniffed out before they reach the ol boys network. If you're known as someone who seems like they would like codes, licensing, and inspections then these opportunities won't even appear to you, which works out well for both parties.

People who trade this way with one another aren't going to want to wipe the other guy out because it is mutually assured destruction.
by kstrauser | 2025-05-12 20:03:46+00:00
I agree. I have a popular-ish project on GitHub that I haven't touched in like a decade. I would if needed, but it's basically "done". It works. It does everything it needs to, and no one's reported a bug in many, many years.

You could etch that thing into granite as far as I can tell. The only thing left to do is rewrite it in Rust.
by ackfoobar | 2025-05-12 20:04:05+00:00
Agreed, indeed I believe they have mentioned that OCaml gets them to ship quicker because they are more confident with the correctness of changes.

But being outside of the mainstream may mean you need to occasionally debug more esoteric stuff: https://gallium.inria.fr/blog/intel-skylake-bug/ I'm sure Jane Street can afford doing that, but I'm not so sure if a small team can.
by efitz | 2025-05-12 20:04:06+00:00
This article really hit home for me. I am trying to integrate an MCP interface into a server application only to realize that Anthropic didn't seem to have considered server side use cases at all; to them everything looks like an electron app. Then they added JSON-RPC support as an afterthought with only browser-like transports. It is either arrogance or ignorance to fail to exclude something basic like a RESTful API or gRPC or even just websockets.
by Buttons840 | 2025-05-12 20:04:13+00:00
Yes, but the house also has like 250 million people's precious possessions inside, including your own. And foreigners who are not subject to our laws are testing the door constantly. Yes, in this situation it would be like 1 honest researcher also approaching to test the door--seems fine to me.

On second thought, maybe physical buildings are not a good analogy.
by KajMagnus | 2025-05-12 20:04:31+00:00
> I like the distinction between liking and disagreeing

Me too :- ) I'm thinking that if something gets 10 upvotes, and sth else get 10 upvotes and 10 disagree votes, then more often it's the latter that's more interesting to read?

There's also an Unwanted vote, for things that are too off-topic or rude etc, similar to how downvotes work here at HN.

Slashdot's vote system I like too :- ) (Maybe the vote system could be pluggable in the distant future.) — There's also half implemented Do-It votes and Do-Not votes, for ideas and upcoming Joint Decision topic types.

> commets ... and the links under "Old plans" return 404

Oh, thanks! Hadn't noticed. They work from here: www.talkyard.io/pricing (the www subdomain), but from the blog-comments and education subdomains, all those "Old plans" links are broken. (So I'll need to point the links to the www subdomain.)

> I would suggest a general revision of the copy on this page,

The pricing page? If you want & have time to write a bit more, that'd be interesting.

(Or if you're too short of time, I guess I can ask someone who works with UX & pricing)

> and removing all the "later" features.

Hmm, someone else has mentioned this too. Maybe there can be a "Show-later" checkbox, default un-ticked.

Thanks for the thoughts & feedback!
by matsemann | 2025-05-12 20:04:31+00:00
I don't mind having to learn these new tools, but I don't see any drawbacks in waiting a year or more until it stabilizes.

Same as in the crazy times of frontend libraries when it was a new one every week. Just don't jump on anything, and learn the winner in the end.

Sure, I may not be state of the art. But I can pick up whatever fast. Let someone else do all the experiments.
by Jtsummers | 2025-05-12 20:05:37+00:00
The author starts with this:

> I conclude with two implications of this idea: the necessity to accept other people’s preferences without judgment and the importance of finding an environment rewarding your style.

And follows it with these two things:

> Type theory maximalists should give up their aura of moral and intellectual superiority and accept that they need therapy just as badly as everyone else in the industry (if not more).

>> Haskell will still be used in 20 years, because there will always be people looking for a productive way to weaponize their autism.

So much for "without judgement".
by UomoNeroNero | 2025-05-12 20:07:56+00:00
I’m diabetic and manage it with a CGM and insulin pump (HbA1c at 6.8 after many years of struggles).

For convenience and my experiment, I eat practically the same meals at lunch every day, precisely weighed, always starting from very similar morning glucose levels, and strictly respecting timing and consistency.

I NEVER get the same response. Never. It’s an experiment I’ve been running on myself for a year. It’s useful for me, but for the diabetes team following me, “that’s not possible, there must be other factors, it doesn’t show, it’s the ‘CGM algorithm’” (a mystical object no one knows anything about, except that it’s supposedly intelligent).

This study is interesting. I hope this kind of information, this doubt, trickles down into the medical community. Even though I don’t have much hope. Maybe in years and years.
by flutas | 2025-05-12 20:08:30+00:00
tbh, I agree.

I've sent 2 big bugs like this, one Funimation and one for a dating app.

Funimation you could access anyones PII and shop orders, they ignored me until I sent a linkedin message to their CTO with his PII (CC number) in it.

The "dating" app well they were literally spewing private data (admin/mod notes, reports, private images, bcrytped password, ASIN, IP, etc) via a websocket on certain actions. I figured out those actions that triggered it, emailed them and within 12 hours they had fixed it and made a bug bounty program to pay me out of as a thank you.

Importantly, I also didn't use anyone else's data/account, I simply made another account that I attacked to prove. Yes it cost me a monthly sub ~$10 to do so. But they also refunded that.
by otterley | 2025-05-12 20:08:51+00:00
> [Moana] only exists in our heads.

Moana and Moana 2 are both animated movies that have already been made. They're not just figures of one's imagination.

> If I made a Moana comic book, with an entirely original storyline and original art and it was all drawn in my own style and not using 3D assets similar to their movies, that is violating copyright

It might be, or it might not. Copyright protects the creation of derivative works (17 USC 101, 17 USC 103, 17 USC 106), but it's the copyright holder's burden to persuade the court that the allegedly infringing work with the character Moana in it is derivative of their protected work.

Ask yourself the question: what is the value of Moana to you in this hypothetical? What if you used a different name for the character and the character had a different backstory and personality?

> I still don't agree with the idea that I can't make my own physical copies of Harry Potters books

You might think differently if you had sunk thousands of hours into creating a new novel and creative work was your primary form of income.

> But still, it's infringing copyright for me to make Moana comic books in my own home, in private, and never showing them to anyone.

It seems unlikely that Disney is would go after you for that. Kids do it all the time.
by fallinditch | 2025-05-12 20:09:20+00:00
Jeffy's story is a cautionary tale for our times - apparently thus: young talented programmer makes something that hits the zeitgeist but quickly unravels as the lure of riches of corrupts.

Zerebro was building an AI agent framework (+ the obligatory coin) and also released AI-generated music. The music is lowest common denominator AI pop with cringe lyrics [1] but at one point achieved a respectable ~40k monthly listeners on Spotify.

Jeffy hit the crypto podcast scene (see his Blocmates interview [2]) and comes across as quite earnest, but there was a lot of hype too, for sure.

One thing that these thread comments are maybe overlooking is that Jeffy may have been genuinely frightened of being harmed, like kidnapped. Hence the fake death. Crypto kidnappings are more prevalent in Europe, so maybe they're going to take off in the USA now too ...

[1] https://youtu.be/5JTgWQq0who?feature=shared

[2] https://youtu.be/A-_cd7Ze8mE?feature=shared

The lyrics to the music video betray a very shallow copycat misogyny.
by palmotea | 2025-05-12 20:09:37+00:00
> Copyright laws were themselves created by the printing press making it easy to duplicate works, whereas previously if you half-remembered something that was just "inspiration".

Eh. I don't know the history, but my understanding was they were created because the printing press allowed others to deny the original creators the profits to their work, and direct those profits to others who had no hand in it.

After all, in market terms: a publisher that pays its authors can't compete with another that publisher that publishes the same works but without paying any authors. A word without copyright is one where some publisher still makes money, but it's a race to the bottom for authors.

> But that only gave the impression of helping creative people: today, any new creative person has to compete with the entire reproducible cannon of all of humanity before them — can you write fantasy so well that new readers pick you up over Pratchett or Tolkien?

Here's a hole in your thinking: if you like fantasy, would you be content to just re-read Tolkien over and over, forever? Don't you think that'd get boring no matter how good he was?

And empirically, "new creative [people]" manage to complete with Pratchett or Tolkien all the time, as new fantasy works are still being published and read. Do you remember that "Game of Thrones" was a mass cultural phenomenon not too long ago?
by hdivider | 2025-05-12 20:10:13+00:00
DARPA is high risk.

ARPA-E is high risk.

ARPA-H is high risk.

Much of NSF is high risk, like NSF Engines, NSF Future Manufacturing, NSF Convergence Accelerators.

DoD SBIR/STTR is high risk. (Confirm it for yourself and look at this month's topics in https://www.dodsbirsttr.mil/topics-app/.)

AFWERX is high risk.

SpaceWERX is high risk.

DIU is high risk.

NASA SBIR is high risk.

NASA NIAC is ultra-high risk.

DoD Office of Strategic Capital is high risk, the kind of risk no investors would fund.

Investors scrutinize pitch decks and then do hard company due diligence which frequently falls through. And conversations die-off with no obligation to provide feedback, unlike in government. And investors will not fund true R&D. They fund scale.

So no, your statement does not hold.
by SteveMoraco | 2025-05-12 20:10:38+00:00
Just based on my best guesses from sending deep research after estimates from number of subscribers, GPUs online, revenue, etc.

If you disagree, you can vote and perhaps it will get more accurate over time! It's open source too.

Most of all was just very surprised that Ai is already the biggest country if you agree we should measure it that way. That sure happened fast. I am old enough to remember the good 'ol days when sam tweeted ChatGPT was only 1% of global tokens generated per day...
by smileybarry | 2025-05-12 20:11:22+00:00
I thought so too, but if you switch everything off (including Tamper Protection) in the UI, then turn it off via (local!) Group Policy, it sticks. I’ve set up a few Windows 10 22H2 & 11 24H2 test VMs this way and they still have Defender disabled.

(I think you need to disable Tamper Protection first, otherwise you later get a threat detected of “WinDefendDisable”, but if you allow/unquarantine it doesn’t auto-enable again)
by andy99 | 2025-05-12 20:11:24+00:00
My sense is that these benchmarks are not realistic in terms of the way the model is used. People building specialized AI systems are not, in my experience, letting users just chat with a base model, they would have some variant of RAG plus some guardrails plus other stuff (like routing to pre-written answers for common question).

So what use case does this test setup reflect? Is there a relevant commercial use case here?
by bluefirebrand | 2025-05-12 20:11:40+00:00
> For example, if American Airlines uses a computer to help decide who gets refunds, they can't then blame the computer when it discriminates against group X

If American Airlines uses a computer to automatically decline refunds, which human(s) do we hold accountable for these decisions?

The engineers who built the system?

The product people who designed the system, providing the business rules that the engineers followed?

The executives who oversaw the whole thing?

Sometimes there is one person who you can pin blame on, who was responsible for "going rogue" and building some discrimination into the system

Often time it is a failure of a large part of a business. Responsibility is diffused enough that no one is accountable, and essentially we do in fact "blame the computer"
by ok_dad | 2025-05-12 20:11:45+00:00
I mean, you asked about examples I had, so I was being specific. I’m not here just to answer your questions, but to have a discussion, I don’t know why you’re being aggressive.

I don’t run a company, so I can’t tell you if dicking around would be worth it. I do know at the place I currently work they are making a new product based on some dicking around by another employee.
by Terr_ | 2025-05-12 20:12:19+00:00
True from a certain perspective, but I don't think it's a useful one: A loose class that collectively owns lots of stuff is not really the same as individual (or group) which possesses agency as a capitalist entity.

In other words, those aren't the guys making lawsuits to limit regulations, lobbying for international trade agreements, or helping change the worldwide blend of industries and services.
by tomsmeding | 2025-05-12 20:12:26+00:00
A difference between Wordpress and Organic Maps, though, is that Wordpress is a framework whereas Organic Maps is an application. Switching to a fork of Wordpress means a different extension marketplace, various config files that may need to be changed, etc. Switching to a fork of Organic Maps is just downloading a different app that does the same thing.

Completely irrespective of the governance structure of Organic Maps, by its nature it is much more easily forkable than something like Wordpress.
by kaycebasques | 2025-05-12 20:12:45+00:00
In-site search is super important. I suspect that many docs maintainers don't realize how heavily it's used. Many docs sites don't even track in-site search queries!

One of the things I love about Sphinx is that it has a decent, client-side, JS-powered offline search. I recently hacked together a workflow for making it search-as-you-type [1]. jasonjmcghee's comment [2] has got me pondering whether we can augment it with transformer.js embeddings.

[1] https://github.com/orgs/sphinx-doc/discussions/13222

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43964913
by deadbabe | 2025-05-12 20:13:18+00:00
When we’re dead, I know we don’t feel anything, but when the universe also becomes dead I wonder if we’ll not feel anything to a degree that we didn’t even know possible, a death beyond death, if that makes sense. It’s like not only are we dead and gone, but our entire life is gone so thoroughly that it’s like it never even happened, and if it never even happened, what the hell is this moment we experience now? Just a passing illusion as a universe explodes?