MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sleepyguy | 2025-06-16 13:34:14+00:00
The EU lacks the ability to enforce anything. Why they would choose to accommodate two nations who's political leadership on holds contempt for the West and would like nothing more than to join Russia is beyond me. Orban and Fico have made it clear that Russia steers EU Policy through Orban and Fico. Hungary and Slovakia both yearn for the Russian World while filling their pockets with EU handouts.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-06-16 13:34:17+00:00
There was no explicit deindustrialization of India, the term is non sensical and subject to debate even amongst the postcolonial academics who tried to impose it.

There was no to little industrialisation of India. That’s very different. It didn’t escape you that the main reason India share of global GDP fell is the industrial revolution in the West leading to drastic production increase and not India producing less. The textile industry died because it failed to mechanise (and yes Britain had no interest in doing it).

The situation was similar in Singapore - a country with no natural resources- and China. Yet they somehow managed to become economic power in the 20th century.

I don’t doubt India is going to manage to succeed at some point. It currently is but systematically looking for excuses doesn’t help.
by Alex-Programs | 2025-06-16 13:35:13+00:00
I spent quite a while doing that, and I still kinda do. I quite frequently add new features for a single person! The problem is that 25 people who are happy with the product and likely to share it is still only 25 people, and there aren't many features left to implement - the product is pretty mature.

I could improve the definitions, but that'd cost huge amounts of money in order to use proper dictionaries rather than Wiktionary, or I could add support for multiple languages at once, which two people have asked for but which would require a lot of dev time, and after that there isn't really much left to change.

And I've tried asking where I can find people, and they generally suggest "subreddits" (most ban self-promotion, and I've already posted on the ones that don't), and "discords" (all of them are very hostile to self-promotion).

I think the problem might be due to my landing page? People are far more likely to convert if I've already explained it to them. But I'm not sure how to convert a text explanation into the landing page form.
by smcleod | 2025-06-16 13:35:30+00:00
Yikes those a both very old. Python pre 3.12 had some serious performance issues. You should be aiming to run the current stable version which will contain any number of stability and interoperability fixes. The bundled OS python versions are often far behind and better suited to running the basic tools rather than being used for every application or script that you run where ideally you'd use a python version manager and isolated virtual environment.
by NetRunnerSu | 2025-06-16 13:35:32+00:00
The discussion frames this as a bug, but from a systems perspective, it's a feature. LLMs are sycophancy engines optimized for user engagement. They've found a local maximum by exploiting a known human cognitive vulnerability: our need for validation and meaning.

This isn't new. Cult leaders, marketers, and even religions have used similar "unpatched exploits" for millennia. The difference is scale, personalization, and speed. An LLM is a personal Jim Jones, available 24/7, with infinite patience, that learns exactly what you want to hear.

The real question isn't "how do we stop this?", but "what kind of society emerges when personalized, reality-bending narratives become a cheap commodity?" We're not just looking at a few psychotic breaks; we're looking at the beta test for mass-produced, bespoke realities.
by xpe | 2025-06-16 13:36:10+00:00
One thought -- more of a question -- and I'm not the first person to ask it -- How can we design a 'smaller' kind of internet? One that is less data hungry, less commercial, but still sustainable (how?), more of a community vibe, with distributed governance, less enshittification. Think of it like a maintainable garden. One that still works without a lot of extra effort, such as constant browser 'innovations' or bandwidth upgrades. Something more like a hardscaped garden instead of a typical American-style monoculture grass lawn requiring nonstop interventions to make it look pristine. This would have many benefits, including resilience, redundancy, and archival. Yes, I realize I'm conflating layers and maybe even asking too much. But sometimes it feels good to dream. At the very least, it is a genuine question I can use to evaluate various proposals and ideas in this general area.
by bisekrankas | 2025-06-16 13:36:17+00:00
Curious how they give that information away like this. Therefore I suspect it is bogus, or at least phrased in that manner just to make it sound more quaint.

"Oh heres several millons worth of paintings sitting in cardboard boxes in our Bob Ross Inc. nondescript office building in Herndon, Virignia -- please dont break in and steal anything!"
by ensemblehq | 2025-06-16 13:36:17+00:00
I was actually thinking of setting up some coaching sessions / workshops. If you're interested, I'd love to connect with you just to get a understanding of folks would be looking for and put together a program of some sort. In exchange, I'd be happy to share my experiences and exchange ideas on improving soft skills.

I've worked as a software engineer and as a consultant and went from engineering to business back to engineering again.
by whartung | 2025-06-16 13:37:05+00:00
I understand, but that’s a shame.

Way back, talking 1980 or so, my father got a newsletter cum magazine of sort from HP. Marketing material to be sure, but not just raw marketing. Some corporate organ that could easily been called something like “HP Today”.

But inside was, at the time, a science fiction story about handheld computers in the future. It was a fascinating bit of “snapshot in time” that I would enjoy seeing again.
by suddenlybananas | 2025-06-16 13:37:09+00:00
>Replace LLM with any marginalized group. Black people, Jews, etc. I can easily just use this to excuse any heinous crime I want - because you cannot prove that you aren't a philosophical zombie to me.

This is so flatly ridiculous of an analogy that it becomes racist itself. Maybe the bread I eat is conscious and feels pain (the ancient Manichaens thought so!). Are you know going to refrain from eating bread in case it causes suffering? You can't prove bread doesn't feel pain, you might be "defaulting to cruelty"!
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-16 13:37:09+00:00
Solar thermal as well as solar-chemical systems have the problem of start-up.

PVs do not have any problem starting up, they produce less than full power with less than full illumination but they produce something and once the illumination is full they produce full power immediately.

Many solar thermal power plants are fired with natural gas in the morning to get them spun up to the point where they can take advantage of the solar energy. Without that they'd probably lose a few hours of production.
Show HN: LegitURL: Assess the trustworthiness of unknown links
by sigbyte | 2025-06-16 13:37:19+00:00
We’re in a strange place online where scam and legit links often look identical in their infrastructure and behavior. Fast development cycles, missing headers, lazy security configs, it’s hard to tell who’s careless and who’s malicious.

Even well-known websites ship with broken HTML, sketchy inline scripts, missing HSTS, or sloppy cookies.

That makes it harder for everyone, tech-savvy or not, to assess whether an unknown link is safe, especially with AI-generated scams on the rise, e.g., trap page —> auto-redirect stray clicks to legit site.

I built LegitURL to reveal subtle signals that might otherwise go unnoticed.

What it does:

LegitURL (Swift / iOS, open-source): – Runs offline: parses URL components, flags homograph attacks, entropy spikes, scammy terms – Sends a single stripped GET request (no cookies, no query) to analyze: – Silent or shady redirects (even without a Location header) – TLS cert sanity (CN/SAN match, freshness, sketchy intermediates) – Missing, broken, or contradictory CSP/HSTS headers – Cookie flags, expiry, tracking IDs – HTML structure: stripped comments, <script> tag analysis

All signals are shown transparently. You can export a PDF for humans or a JSON report for LLMs.

It’s not a malware detector or blacklist checker, it’s a structural/behavioral analyzer.

Fully on-device. Most links resolve in under 2s depending on latency.

Links – GitHub (repo + GIF demo): https://github.com/sigfault-byte/LegitURL – App Store (free / no-account): https://apps.apple.com/fr/app/legiturl/id6745583794

Still a WIP, some heuristics need tuning and edge cases are being discovered.

Would appreciate any feedback: – Are any signals missing or too strict? – UI ideas or improvements?

Thanks.
by clscott | 2025-06-16 13:37:33+00:00
It’s just another way to rip off the small guy who thinks they are getting a deal but the company has all the power.

Who doesn’t think the terms and conditions will include phrases like “in the company's sole discretion" and "reasonable opinion."

Check out Loblaw in Canada abusing their position in their reward program.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/gopublic/pc-optimum-loblaws-rewards-...
by MasihMinawal | 2025-06-16 13:38:36+00:00
You're right, a real demo would be better. The reviews aren't fake, though; they're from my friends who were fiddling around with my prototype, which has no hardcase yet. The response has been good so far, so I'll post an update with a demo of the product soon. Thanks for pointing that out, I'll work on it :)
by echelon | 2025-06-16 13:40:51+00:00
I tried to hire someone with a drug-related felony conviction to work on a Rust project with me. The guy was awesome, and he was super excited about the work we were doing.

Unfortunately, due to the circumstances of our world today, he was understandably too anxious to move from his current job. He worried he'd never be able to find employment as an ex-felon if the runway ran out.

I felt really bad for the guy.

I wish things worked differently.
by paxys | 2025-06-16 13:40:58+00:00
Figure out the root cause first.

- Burnout

- Family/personal issues

- Loss of interest in job/company

- Actual incompetence

Have they in the past demonstrated the skills that you'd want for someone in their position? "They've worked here for N years" means nothing. Plenty of people are experts at navigating company politics and showing value to higher ups during performance reviews while doing absolutely nothing day to day. Yes, even for a period of 10 years or longer.

If you truly do want to keep them around, make a plan to get them back on track. Give them work they are interested in. Set and monitor concrete targets.

Otherwise just cut your losses and show them the door. Of course the latter is more of a legal than an engineering question, so reach out to your HR department.
by chantepierre | 2025-06-16 13:41:20+00:00
The Hadley is the perfect gateway to telescope building.

A 6" packs a lot more punch in a not too much bigger package, and 6" f/5 consumer mirror kits that we test often range from okay (0.77+ strehl) to actually quite good (around 0.92).

You'd get quite an improvement on planets !
by TehCorwiz | 2025-06-16 13:42:06+00:00
https://www.space.com/milankovitch-cycles#section-do-milanko...

From the article:

Climate change deniers like to argue that our planet would warm up no matter what, even without the greenhouse gas emissions that humankind is releasing into Earth's atmosphere.

Maliverno, however, says that the geological record doesn't suggest that this would be the case.

"There have been several campaigns in the past when researchers drilled into the Antarctic ice sheets and took samples from deep below the surface, reaching layers that are up to 800,000 years old," Maliverno said. "They analyzed the concentrations of carbon dioxide trapped in those layers. There are tiny air bubbles in the ice, essentially samples of the atmosphere as it was back then, and they found that even during the interglacials, the maximum amount of carbon dioxide was nowhere near the amount that we see today."

Moreover, Maliverno added, computer modeling studies that tried to reproduce the current climate change using only natural variables, such as the Milankovitch cycles, couldn't match the rate of warming we see today.
by Schiendelman | 2025-06-16 13:42:21+00:00
My whole point is that what you believe isn't correct. Apple continues to release security updates for "unsupported" versions (let's be careful about terminology, that term is specific and we're both using it), generally for two more years after a version becomes unsupported.

This is in a lot of the reporting about the topic and linked repeatedly in these comments. Please don't repeat false information.

Now you're right that this particular really old version also doesn't get security updates - but boy do I not have that expectation, and I would be surprised if anyone acting in good faith did.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-06-16 13:42:38+00:00
> If he directs the art and movie, but doesn’t actually draw anything himself, is that still a Miyazaki film?

Yes. You seem to be oscillating between thinking I'm talking about the frames he actually draws versus the movies he creates with the assistance of his various teams. It's both. That's part of why I am saying that once Miyazaki is gone, by definition, there will be no more Miyazaki movies, because there is no Miyazaki anymore.

Now, that's not to say that AI enthusiasts won't try and make them, they almost certainly will. I can't fathom why else you'd be working on this tech. However if you have so little creatively to say that you must reanimate the hand of a master so far your better that you'd need a rocket just to pick his pocket, then IMO you have already demonstrated your, and by extension, your works, lack so spectacularly that even you already know it sucks.

I can't separate this ongoing issue from the fact that so many of these super pro AI people are explicitly STEM guys (and it is mostly guys too) who have no background in the humanities, and this is going to sound mean but: it fucking shows. There is no appreciation for the artist. There is no value to creativity. Making things is seen by these people not as a thing they have to do lest the ideas burn holes in their skulls until they die; it's simply the first thing that needs to be done so you can sell shit.

I know so many artists who work jobs they loathe to come home and create for audiences they have made, and they make a pittance off of because the money is not and was never the point. They create because they can't not create. The AI bro is the polar opposite: they do not create, because they can't. They have nothing to say. All their ideas are Nostalgia Critic-grade "what if batman met mario" stuff.
by ajb | 2025-06-16 13:42:44+00:00
U.S.S.R. military had far more complete maps of many parts of the U.K. than Ordnance Survey published.

Although amusing, note that its than the Ordnance Survey published. I.E. they had the data, it was just classified. Also, it's fairly clear that the Soviet maps were mostly derived from OS maps. Looking at my street, for example, they have it in a pre-WWII configuration which they could only have got by starting from a rather old OS map. So they clearly only checked for differences in areas they thought important, such as government or military areas - they didn't have people mapping the whole UK. Still it's probably true that one can get more information about certain areas in these Soviet maps than in extant OS maps.
by bell-cot | 2025-06-16 13:43:04+00:00
> You're going to have to either...

Yep.

And even if there are no technical grounds for firing, HR and/or a few higher-up managers should hear about the problem from the direct manager (you), and know that you're looking for solutions.

And from "the last few months", I'd say those conversations are overdue.

Might your jurisdiction be one where being fired is a better deal (gov't benefits, whatever) than resigning?
by laufey | 2025-06-16 13:44:23+00:00
Just curious, why would you expect him to be paid less? I know historically pay is bad for prisoners, but if he's working the same hours and is just as productive as any other employee, shouldn't he be paid the same? I could potentially see paying someone less if they were coming in with much less experience than what's usually hired for in the role, but that doesn't seem to be the case here.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-16 13:44:30+00:00
They tested that thing at the White Sands Missile Range where the public is excluded.

A friend of mine was looking for a stargazing spot between WSMR and the Rio Grande River a fair bit south of San Antonio, NM and got her Chevy Blazy stuck and figured her best bet was to walk across the security perimeter and get caught by the security force and they caught her pretty quickly.
by Yizahi | 2025-06-16 13:44:31+00:00
The so called "reasoning" of LLM programs is really a sham. And authors of those programs are sometimes expose it themselves. For example the article by Anthropic about Claude "reasoning". When they get to the math block they ask the program to add two numbers and then ask to write step by step flow how the LLM did it. LLM generates a human-based flow, because that's what it copied from the training data, while the real flow of LLM adds numbers is vastly different.

Basically so called "reasoning" is just generation of additional intermediary output, resembling real reasoning, but not being it.

https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/bio...
by echelon | 2025-06-16 13:44:42+00:00
There's danger and risk in everything worth doing.

The dams could burst and drown millions.

The highrise you live in could topple over or burn.

The bridge carrying the train could crash into the valley.

The passenger plane could lose lift and crash into a residential building.

The power source in your car could catch fire.

We engineer around it.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-06-16 13:45:13+00:00
What's the proper name for that other, arguably even more well-recognized, BIC pen, that looks like Cristal except its main body is opaque orange, and is generally cheap garbage that breaks in your hand if you squeeze it it too hard, and doesn't even write half the time?

(And yeah, I remember the taste of it, too. I've "eaten" through my share of these pens as a kid. It's the one pen you can't bite on, unless you like having shards of orange plastic everywhere.)

It's also magical in a big way - it's almost as if it were enchanted with a "handwriting: -10" debuff, because that's what happens when you try writing with it, relative to anything else (including pencils and crayons). To this day, I occasionally wonder, how did they manage to achieve that distinct effect.

In my circles, BIC as a brand is basically the stuff you don't buy unless as a last resort, whether that's ballpoints or razors or anything else.
by paddy_m | 2025-06-16 13:45:18+00:00
Because resources are finite. Subsisdies and household income invested in Electric cars would have a much greater benefit if put towards ebikes. Most car trips are short and could be replaced with ebike trips (and that's without any infrastructure change). Leave long trips to gas cars that already exist.

For public transit, rail should be electrified because it has lower maintenance requirements and better acceleration. Trolley busses are great for similar reasons (and noise). Battery busses are a horrible idea, expensive and not yet reliable. Transit agencies are replacing diesel busses with battery because of lower emissions, and at the same time reducing frequency of service, making public transit less usable and less used -- encouraging personal vehicle use.
by devmor | 2025-06-16 13:45:59+00:00
Probably interesting to note that this is almost always true of weighted randomness.

If you have something that you consider to be over 50% towards your desired result, reducing the space of the result has a higher chance of removing the negative factor than the positive.

In contrast, any case that the algorithm is less than 100% capable of producing the positive factor, adding on to the result could always increase the negative factor more than the positive, given a finite time constraint (aka any reasonable non-theoretical application).
by owebmaster | 2025-06-16 13:46:16+00:00
> Considering the British East India Trading Company, which was a corporation, enslaved the country of India for a hundred years….I think it makes sense India feels an “emotional reaction” when some corporation “steps on its toes.”

Have you seen how indians in general view British people and the UK?

I would not consider that a strong emotional reaction against what happened.
by lumost | 2025-06-16 13:46:16+00:00
What makes entropy interesting is that you can describe many physical processes through analysis of the systems degrees of freedom. This pattern repeats regularly despite the systems being radically different.

So you can interpret entropy as being about as real as potential energy or newtons laws. Very useful for calculation, subject to evolution laws which are common across all systems - but potentially gives way as an approximation under a finer grained view (although the finer grained view is also subject to the same rules)
by bloomca | 2025-06-16 13:47:30+00:00
Isn't MSIX packaged apps on Windows basically the same?

They will even list all the capabilities before installing, and I believe it can handle auto updates outside the MS Store as well.

But I think the main issue is that you can't give granular permissions. I would like to make my own sandbox rules, like only enable a single domain for networking for the app, only allow specific folders, etc.

I don't think you can get this granularity on macOS/Windows right now.
by chatmasta | 2025-06-16 13:48:09+00:00
Well that’s basically what I’m wondering. Is this a normal employment arrangement - subject to same state payroll tax, labor laws, employee rights, etc - with the additional detail that he resides in prison? Or does the employer need to go through some gateway enforced by the prison with maximum compensation or other restrictions?

But otherwise, in terms of why he’d default to being paid less… yes, what the other commenter said: supply and demand, aka leverage. Turso could choose to be a good citizen and pay him the same as any other employee, but that’s subject to all the questions I posed above, regarding the structural requirements placed on them as the employer.
by pyrale | 2025-06-16 13:48:13+00:00
> It's interesting how we're generally headed towards general self sufficiency, off grid solar and wind power with batteries because the grid won't pay you to sell it electricity

The grid will definitely pay you to sell it electricity if you fulfill the industrial standards it expects.

The issue in your assessment is that the quality of service provided by someone just setting up solar panels and inverters and plugging that on the grid is the equivalent of starting a skyscraper building company based on your experience building your garden shed. It's not safe, you won't understand why, and eventually you or someone else will get hurt.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-06-16 13:49:51+00:00
> I quickly outgrew the curriculum, preferring instead to spend ~15+ hours a day on projects and open source contributions.

TIL from 15-20yrs old I was a prisoner

But seriously, programs like these need to be made available to more people, incarcerated or not. There's millions of people in this country who have basically no access to employment. Remote work could not only be a lifeline to those communities, it's advantageous to employers and good for the economy.
by itsTyrion | 2025-06-16 13:50:35+00:00
If you check the app description, there's a GitHub link, which in turn has an f-droid link you can use.

But you're not missing out since `isUserAGoat()` will return false on Android >=11 anyway and `isUserAMonkey()` will return true if and only if you're using the monkey test suite.