MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zefr-sre | 2025-05-12 18:17:28+00:00
Zefr | Los Angeles, CA (Marina del Rey) | Senior Site Reliability Engineer | Full-time | On-site 2-3x per week | $150,000 - $170,000

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by xnx | 2025-05-12 18:17:37+00:00
It's easy to become fatigued by the amount of grift in this administration, but it's worth taking a moment every once in awhile how immediate the impeachment proceedings would be if Obama/Biden attempted anything even approaching a fraction of one of these scams.

The US is in this situation because the governmental minority has no strong legal options, and the majority supports this type of grift or thinks that it is a means to an end (e.g. tax cuts).
by RussianCow | 2025-05-12 18:18:09+00:00
> This is how we should view optional services that require us to give our PII data in exchange for hours of attention-grabbing content.

This is a nice fantasy, but realistically it means you shouldn't use probably 90% of services out there, which isn't reasonable for most people. Plus, there are plenty of companies with treasure troves full of data on you that have equally questionable data security/privacy practices that you've never even directly interacted with.

We need regulation. There is no other alternative. And we need to stop blaming victims of data breaches for companies not putting basic security measures in place. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect every company you interact with to securely store your sensitive data. If a place was physically making people ill like in your thought experiment, they wouldn't be around for very long; I think we should demand the same for our data.
by pessimizer | 2025-05-12 18:18:11+00:00
> Killing the kids of your enemy is bad, but was happening long before humans showed up.

What does this mean, and why is it relevant? Some animals eat their weaker young. Would you include this in an argument defending a child cannibal? Did he eat fewer or more children than others?

I think this is how you reason when you have no values. "I know it's probably bad or whatever, but it's 5% fewer than the French!"

"Who are the French?"

"An excuse to kill 4% more kids. If we need to kill even more kids, I'll find another country that at some point in the past could justify a few more basis points."

"You know, some invaders in the past killed all the kids as a matter of policy. Who are we to say they weren't great or moral? It's culturally insensitive."

"Lets consult Heinlein. I know he has a lot about sleeping with your children, but he's got to have something about killing them."
by 7thaccount | 2025-05-12 18:18:32+00:00
The video where he interviews a lawyer on the Japanese "guilty until proven innocent" legal system was pretty scary if I'm being honest.

They apparently try to force a confession even if you're innocent as the alternative is to basically let you stay in jail for up to 23 days per infraction. There is no bail and they interrogate you without a lawyer present (lawyer not allowed). It's honestly made me second guess traveling there as a foreigner. I'm incredibly respectful of other cultures, but would be scared something weird would happen and I'd somehow disappear into that administrative nightmare. You can't even talk to your family until that period is over, so you just roll the dice and hope confessing gets you a slap on the wrist.

On the plus side, I know the cities are supposed to be super safe.
by psunavy03 | 2025-05-12 18:18:54+00:00
War crimes have always happened. What matters is whether they are celebrated, ignored, or properly investigated and punished.

Wars are horrible enough as-is; we have laws of armed conflict to try the best we can to keep a lid on the utter barbarity of it all, and to help our warfighters be able to live with themselves after.

This is not a new concept; one of the first people to expound on the proper laws of war in the West was Saint Augustine, and his work is still the philosophical foundation of the subject.
by goda90 | 2025-05-12 18:18:57+00:00
> I live 60 ft from a highway and would trade the noise of 1 speeding, honking, revving, modified-exhaust having human driven car for 100 well-maintained speed-limit obeying Waymo's.

The speed limit will certainly be increased if only autonomous vehicles are allowed. It's an easy sell in the city council meetings.

I suggest you watch the video. It may be pessimistic but it makes valid arguments worth keeping in mind when considering that future.
by alangibson | 2025-05-12 18:19:12+00:00
> My worries is what sustains the dollar primacy

Manufacturing was never part of the equation. It's somewhat ironically because of the trade deficit. Running a deficit blasts dollars out into the world. Countries put those dollars back in US banks and buy US treasuries as their reserves (hence the dollar as a reserve currency).

It's maybe the best economic deal any country has ever gotten, and the US is in the middle of blowing it all up.
by wartijn_ | 2025-05-12 18:19:44+00:00
But the same can be achieved by using css. Then there's still nothing to install, and it's still something you can change by just opening a text editor. Plus it would be easy to update in the sense your parent poster meant. And with css you're using the right tools to style your website, so you won't have people complaining the website isn't working well on mobile, although you thought it would be.

I'm all for using simple tools and web standards, but this website with its layout build with tables is a terrible example.
by will-bradley | 2025-05-12 18:19:44+00:00
Nope, I'm only angry if I go telling all my friends that some app is the future of freedom and privacy, and printing flyers and driving them around town, and then that app turns and sells out their values to crypto scammers. I need reasonable assurance that my family can keep using an app I'm working on indefinitely without waking up one day to an auto-update that asks them to buy Bitcoin or something.
by reverendsteveii | 2025-05-12 18:19:49+00:00
The first example was Uvalde, where police waited outside. The second example was Parkland, where a cop on campus left during the shooting, was sued for leaving and successfully defended in court his right to abandon the children he was hired to protect. The third is Lozito v NYC, in which police were sued for hiding from an attacker and, again, argued successfully in court that they have no duty to defend anyone from anything at any time. These all relate back to the original comment, that police aren't going to help in times of mass violence. Lozito and Parkland also undercut the argument that these were exceptions, mishandled incidents. In each case, the police actually went to court to establish a legal right to abandon citizens in times of danger. That's the difference between a one-off outlier and a systemic problem: instead of accountability, there has actually been institutional support for police that ignore their responsibilities.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-12 18:20:03+00:00
In my city I sometimes hire a scooter-share. These electric scooters can go up to 17mph.

It is perfectly legal for me to drive in a traffic lane. It may be OK to drive on the sidewalk, with significant restrictions. But it is usually not.

I typically opt to drive in traffic: the limit is going to be around 35mph. You can perhaps predict the sort of reactions I endure from motorists when I’m hogging their precious lanes at ½ their speed. Would you believe spitting in my face?

Nevertheless, I persist carefully, because I’m right, and I drive with scrupulous safety, and I hope and pray that others follow my lead, because electric scooters at 17mph on the sidewalk is fucking dangerous to pedestrian me at all other times.
by antisthenes | 2025-05-12 18:20:10+00:00
Yes, all of this is very easily seen by the BLS statistics about the average/median wages of trades.

For every anecdote of a plumber making $20k/month in a HCOL area, there are probably 3-4 plumbers who are barely pulling $70k/year in M/LCOL and end up having health problems.
by kuruczgy | 2025-05-12 18:20:21+00:00
Actually this is not quite true, in the xz hack part of the malicious code was in generated files only present in the release tarball.

When I personally package stuff using Nix, I go out of my way to build everything from source as much as possible. E.g. if some repo contains checked in generated files, I prefer to delete and regenerate them. It's nice that Nix makes adding extra build steps like this easy. I think most of the time the motivation for having generated files in repos (or release tarballs) is the limitations of various build systems.
by Retric | 2025-05-12 18:20:36+00:00
Regulatory burdens on fission result from the inherent risks and negative externalities. You’re never going to see huge long term exclusion zones with coal, but nuclear has two of them right now (Ed: Overkill though the current size may be) which also have massive government funded cleanup efforts.

So while regulations may be overkill it’s not arbitrary only hydro is really comparable but hydro also stores water and reduces flood risks most years. Fusion sill had real risks, but there’s no concern around $500+ Billion cleanup efforts.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-05-12 18:20:42+00:00
that, and thrift has been utterly destroyed by resellers. thrift stores now have to raise their prices on whatever crap hasn't been picked out by resellers already. thrift shopping used to be a lot more like going to yard/estate sales but now almost everything left is just the absolute bottom of the barrel, and anything that isn't is so expensive you might as well buy new.
by imiric | 2025-05-12 18:21:09+00:00
That sounds like you're excusing them.

You know what else was an app built by university students? The Facebook. We're all familiar with the "dumb fucks" quote, with Meta's long history of abusing their users' PII, and their poor security practices that allowed other companies to abuse it.

So, no. This type of behavior must not be excused, and should ideally be strongly regulated and fined appropriately, regardless of the age or experience of the founders.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-05-12 18:21:22+00:00
Whether this was done on-camera or in post, there's color grading happening here. The moody, almost film-like quality present in these pictures is also really popular in high production TV shows right now. Also a good eye for fun compositions, like the shot with the wall/barrier present in the left to offer the feeling of being closed or restricted.

Notice how the shadows are somewhat teal-tinged and the contrast is toned down. There may or may not be some grain or vignetting added in post as well. There are Lightroom color profiles that can get this sort of color feel on application. But the compositions and natural lighting are pure photographer skill to chase.
by Zambyte | 2025-05-12 18:21:29+00:00
> How would a novelist make money

Maybe selling books? Maybe other jobs? The same way that they made money for thousands of years before copyright, really. Books and other arts did exist before copyright!

> and why would someone pay them, if their work is free to be copied at will?

I don't think it's really a matter of if people will pay them. If their art is good, of course people will pay them. People feel good about paying for an original piece of art.

The question is really more about if people will be able to get obscenely rich over being the original creator of some piece of art, to which the answer is it would indeed be less likely.
by refulgentis | 2025-05-12 18:22:36+00:00
Trying again, apologies:

- Minimizing loss could be a useful heuristic on a base model. Here, we expect the distribution to be different as we are only doing RL. Measuring loss means we're measuring the difference against the base model inputs: a non-goal, we expect reasoning post RL-training to look quite different from a web scrape.

Let's set that aside. Let's say lower loss = model improved.

- Checking the loss requires the entire dataset used to train the base model + forward pass. That’s O(N·d) where N is samples, d is model size. This takes us from "cool demo of RL can be done on the edge with little benefit" to "we're shipping around terabytes of data constantly among clients"

- Proof of work as a technical term is different from proof of work as a colloquial term: the former is a cryptographic puzzle whose solution is universally and instantly checkable, while the latter just means “I can show I did something,” with no strict guarantee or uniqueness. Randomly perturbing one parameter could show "proof of work" without the work we actually wanted to be done, being done.

- Early in base model training, shaving 0.01 off the loss is easy. Later, impossible. In an RL environment, we're expecting some to go bad. In our interpretation of "loss decrease means model better means you did work", that would mean loss would increase -- that is how it learns in an RL environment. However, that does not mean no work is done.
by tptacek | 2025-05-12 18:22:46+00:00
I would personally not scrape the endpoint to collect statistics and inform the severity estimation, but I'm a lot more risk averse than most. But prosecution of good-faith security research is disfavored, so as long as you don't do anything to breach the assumption of good faith (as defendants in the trial you mentioned repeatedly did) I think you're probably fine.

The bigger thing is just that there's no actual win in scraping here. It doesn't make the vulnerability report any more interesting; it just reads like they're trying to make the whole thing newsier. Some (very small) risk, zero reward.
by genewitch | 2025-05-12 18:22:49+00:00
These "devs" released an app to prod that took passport information and who knows what else. They had no business asking for any of that PII.

If all of the developers were named and shamed, would you, as a hiring manager, ever hire them to develop an app for you? Or would you, in fact, tell them to stop making apps?

They enabled stalkers. There's no possible way to argue that they didn't, you don't know, and some random person just looked into it because their friends mentioned the app and found all of this. I guarantee if anyone with a modicum of security knowledge looks the platform over there's going to be a lot more issues.

It's one thing to be curious and develop something. It's another to seek VC/investments to "build out the service" by collecting PII and not treating it as such. Stop. Making. Apps.
by dfxm12 | 2025-05-12 18:23:06+00:00
Speak for yourself, sure, and maybe your coworker or family, but not an entire country. Tool libraries and used shops exist in a lot of places in the US. The fact that you don't have nice tools in local thrift shops is as much a sign that the people in your community hold onto, take care of, share and/or repair their tools as anything else.
by DonHopkins | 2025-05-12 18:23:13+00:00
It was a fun conference. RIP.

Anybody remember the January 21–23 '87 Winter Usenix in Washington, DC, that got snowed in by the giant "Blizzard of Discontent" with 14 inches of snow that closed down Metro? The beloved/infamous Mayor Marion "The Bitch Set Me Up" Barry was attending the Super Bowl in California at the time, a fine tradition that Ted Cruz honored in Cancun during the February 2021 winter storm in Texas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSRW18ahWG0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5KAw9MHeP0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZSROdXWTTc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTMif8cGlcE

Or the one after it on June 8–12 '87 Summer Usenix in Phoenix, Arizona, where they took everybody to a dude ranch for steak? My friend ||ugh Daniel was a vegetarian, and didn't want steak, so they told him to "git" into that line over "yonder", which he did. When he got to the front of the line, they plopped a half of a chicken onto his plate, like that's what a vegetarian wants to see and eat for dinner.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-05-12 18:23:26+00:00
> If you want good colors straight out of the camera, you could look into FujiFilm.

This is why I was asking. I've never shot Leica so was curious if Leica worked like Fuji and offered interesting color profiles in body.

> Leica's are expensive I agree. It was a dream of mine to use it though for almost two decades. I finally was in a position to get it three years ago.

Yeah sorry I don't mean to throw shade with that comment. Your compositions are great and interesting and your moments seem deliberate. Artistry went into this, these are good photos :)
by sakjur | 2025-05-12 18:23:57+00:00
Taking Yale as a starting point, they seem to have failed their legal obligation to inform their Conneticut users within 60 days (assuming the author of the post would’ve received a copy of such a notification).

https://portal.ct.gov/ag/sections/privacy/reporting-a-data-b...

I doubt this is an engineering team’s naivete meeting a rational legal team’s response. I’d guess it’s rather facing marketing or management naivete that sticking your head in the sand is the correct way to deal with a potential data leak story.
by vlovich123 | 2025-05-12 18:24:23+00:00
Not necessarily.

A) We don’t know if all derivatives are >= 0. e.g. if the jerk rate is < 0, then you’d expect contraction eventually. Similarly, if the derivative of the jerk rate is < 0 & so on. So even accelerating expansion could eventually lead to contraction.

B) We don’t have a lot of very highly compelling evidence that the universe is actually accelerating (at least nowhere like we do for the Big Bang). For example, alternate models have proposed that our apparent perception of the expansion is simply as a result of the effect of non-uniform gravity throughout the universe & that the vaccuum of space between galaxies has even less time dilation and that’s what make it look like things are expanding.

In other words, I’d put the model of a permanently expanding universe as less likely to actually match reality.
by arwhatever | 2025-05-12 18:25:10+00:00
Done, and done. 14 + 44 minute phone calls, gave all of my information to 3 redundant people, including explaining to confused agents that I don't recall the account pin, well you have to have the account pin, well actually the previous person accepted my answer to my personal security question and the person before that texted me a temporary pin but now for some reason those alternate methods don't work for you?
by Etheryte | 2025-05-12 18:25:23+00:00
That's exactly why I carry Fuji, but at the same time, their camera lineup is all a bit wonky. The features are split between a number of models, but none of them carry a good subset for me. I wish they made an X100VI with a removable lens, so in essence an X-Pro4 or similar, but it doesn't look like that's even on their roadmap. I like the form factor, dig that it has IBIS, but really wish I could slap different glass on it.
by antisthenes | 2025-05-12 18:25:24+00:00
Most people are incapable of assuming such responsibility as you described.

They've been brainwashed into "safety" since they were 3 years old, so anything outside of that box is literally unthinkable to them. Their mind literally shuts down trying to process it.

So it's workable for a niche group of people but not the majority.
by spiffytech | 2025-05-12 18:25:24+00:00
I had a professor who said that if we really cared about traffic fatalities, we could end them overnight. Just outlaw seatbelts and airbags, then attach a large steel spike to the center of every steering wheel. Everyone would drive like old ladies, and would only drive when truly necessary.

Society has chosen traffic fatalities because at a certain level we've decided that we're okay killing N people if we get XYZ outcome.

I think about that a lot.
by enragedcacti | 2025-05-12 18:25:31+00:00
The principle is the same, the distinction has more to do with suspension (or lack thereof) and the solid rear axle. The same strategy of lifting the inside rear tire is used in competitive go-kart racing: https://youtu.be/cMAtgPX6st8?t=312 . If the carts had a differential then it would be a different story (and they would be cars and not karts according to the SuperFastMatt taxonomy)
by toomuchtodo | 2025-05-12 18:26:41+00:00
I am not unsympathetic. I will come in person to help you move if you decide to move to a better state. I will help you find another job if that is what is holding you to the state. Let me know. As long as voters continue voting for these representatives who champion this flavor of policy, change is not possible (mental models are rigid, voters are, broadly speaking, low information and vibe driven, and so on). Your only vote left that is meaningful is with your feet (considering time horizon and limited human lifespan). My profuse, genuine apologies for an unfavorable situation. I can help you, I cannot fix Texas.

(think in systems, focus on outcomes, be mindful of time horizons)
by tptacek | 2025-05-12 18:26:48+00:00
I mean, he ventured in that direction, but until he discloses PII and leaks evidence of his intent that's the extent of the similarity: directional. People on message boards drastically underrate the importance of intent evidence in criminal cases; they all want there to be some hard-and-fast rule like "if you can see it in the URL, and you don't use a single-quote character to break SQL with it, it's fair game", which is not at all how it works.
by vlovich123 | 2025-05-12 18:26:51+00:00
The big bang happened at the center of the universe and every point of space is the center of the universe at all times. You could argue that the center of spacetime is definitionally the Big Bang since that’s when time is believed to have started to exist in the first place but we don’t have a good grasp of how to define the center of a 4D physical structure where one dimension is time which doesn’t seem to really act like the other dimensions.