MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-06-29 09:14:08+00:00
If you look at how humans move and interact with their environments, you'll find that it can mostly be reduced to biomechanical optimization problems. Even in extremis: A fist-fight is a sequence of biomechanical optimization problems, and there's always a "perfect move" at any given moment in time.

There are many architects, establishers or followers of certain doctrines, who feel the same way about built structures: That they're designed to solve issues related to human movement, and that there's one right way to build them. That if you build things in that correct way, and ignore the kitsch opinions of the proletariat, people will grow happier or be more effective. (Sometimes despite themselves.)

I don't necessarily agree with these views, but a quick glance at popular American suburban "architecture" -- possibly the worst of all worlds -- is enough to lend it serious weight.
by hopelite | 2025-06-29 09:14:13+00:00
They are not the same situation. I won’t list all the reasons, but in broad strokes; Taiwan is a Pacific Ocean away from the warmongering USA (in American, btw, and a life long member of the war machine), Taiwan is not culturally inclined as Ukraine, Taiwan is not led by an alien group, China has time on their side, China has proximity on their side, China’s has dependency on its side, China has civilizational momentum on its side, China can see what has been done to the USA by a parasitic group from within. I could make a list that is several pages long, but it all amounts to the fact that at this point China really only has to be patient and offer some carrots, which Taiwan can already clearly see itself.

America is a society and component of a civilization that has never really understood itself or its place in the world and history. We peaked in the industrial warfare of WWII, and then bumbled our way through trying to rely on our past self-involved achievement.
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by andrewinardeer | 2025-06-29 09:14:49+00:00
I'm sure at some marketing meeting at Google, a VP racing for pole posiiton has wanted to green-light the idea of putting advertisements in their Wallet app.

With any luck this backlash against Apple is so significant that a red flag is waved so ferociously that Google will never blast an advertisement out to their Google Wallet users.

As the article outlines, I am sure that due to the sheer number of people who use Apple Wallet there was someone out there who had just bought an advance ticket to Superman and the moment they received a 'Transaction Successful' message this F1 advertisement notification popped up and had them wondering if Apple preserving their privacy really is a competitive advantage.
by ost-ing | 2025-06-29 09:15:48+00:00
> Just because they are not native doesn't mean they can't live there

I don't make a claim that they should or should not be allowed to live there. My statement isnt about rights to land, oppressing others or national zionism.

My statement is about heritage and what it means to be “native”, obviously what that means for people and genetic links to semitic peoples varies greatly, and as such, you cannot make blanket statements that “jews are not native” just because you disagree with the nationalist movement.
by on_the_train | 2025-06-29 09:16:26+00:00
There are a lot of people working on all the mentioned problems - and on many many more.

Re garage invention: lithography is probably too big an issue for that. It's important to keep in mind that we're currently producing a lot of transistors with today's tech. Any alternative would have to match that (eg stamping technologies).

(I work on lithography optics)
by jimnotgym | 2025-06-29 09:17:14+00:00
The lack of self-awareness here is incredible. Every Visa, Mastercard and PayPal transaction in my country results in us paying tax to the US. You think we couldn't develop our own card schemes?

US tech business gets tax free entry into our market. It uses our roads, our communications, our police and court system. All of this is to the detriment of our local business.

A huge amount of our defence spending goes directly to the US. We buy your planes even when we could make better ones ourselves. We have supported the US in nearly every colonial adventure since WW2.

Why do we allow ourselves to be milked like this? We are paying tribute to the US for being the ally of our colonial masters. Its time we stopped.
by hn_throw2025 | 2025-06-29 09:20:27+00:00
I would imagine the extremely wealthy have passports, global homes, and the vaults you mention might well be in Switzerland.

The extremely wealthy will also have an army of lawyers and accountants to mitigate against this, not to mention trusts and holding companies.

It’s a nice idea, but the implementation is tricky.

I’m not arguing for them, just being realistic.
by simonjgreen | 2025-06-29 09:20:44+00:00
Slightly misleading title, this is more “getting to the IPv4 internet via an IPv6 tunnel through a VPS”. Also just called 4in6.

Interesting nonetheless!

We find at our ISP that if we break something with IPv4 we experience a very different type of support issue to if we break IPv6. Breaking v4 results in, broadly, a pretty hard “down” state. While folks are unhappy, it is at least simple. Breaking v6 results in weird, and a partial down, which manifests for the users as partial outages, slow starts due to fall back, etc. Especially if their gateways believe there is v6 when there isn’t.
by JimDabell | 2025-06-29 09:21:28+00:00
I think this is great. Just the other day I saw this thread about a kid who 3D printed a hive for his bedroom:

https://www.threads.com/@bryanmarktaylor/post/DLXdzZzgcRr

It seems to be based on this design:

https://www.beeamond.com/
by neoromantique | 2025-06-29 09:21:39+00:00
Your comment puts you firmly in pro-israel camp by today's western standards.

There's no disagreement about contents of the article being a war crime, if it is true.

Haaretz is not a reliable source, they often publish hearsay and seldom verify the testimonies. We have reports of seemingly daily massacres around food distribution sites mostly originating from one single "journalist" with direct self described sympathy towards Hamas and source always being "locals told me", yet somehow it ends up being published in Reuters et all on a semi-daily basis.
by triska | 2025-06-29 09:22:24+00:00
Quoting from https://www.apple.com/privacy/:

"Privacy. That’s Apple.

Privacy is a fundamental human right. It’s also one of our core values. Which is why we design our products and services to protect it. That’s the kind of innovation we believe in."

So, Apple explicitly advertises with privacy, which makes it very different from other big tech companies, and it seems justified to expect it to uphold its promise. "Privacy. That's Apple.", according to Apple.
by tialaramex | 2025-06-29 09:22:29+00:00
That filesystem example is a TOCTOU race, not a data race, and so it can happen in Rust or similar languages just the same. Although both TOCTOU races and data races are types of race condition, they are not the same thing. Many race conditions are an ordinary part of our lived experience - if you've ever thought "Oh, I need to buy more milk" and then went to a store but meanwhile your house mate, partner, colleague at work, or whatever were also out buying more milk, well, when you get back with milk there's too much milk, oops, that's a race condition, specifically a TOCTOU race - we checked the milk, then we purchased more milk, meanwhile someone else changed how much milk is there.

Data races aren't like any real world experience. The way the machine actually works is too alien for us to get our heads around so we're provided with a grossly simplified "sequentially consistent" illusion when writing high level languages like C - in which things happen in some order. Data races are reality "bleeding through" if we don't follow the rules to preserve that illusion.
by hopelite | 2025-06-29 09:24:25+00:00
I don’t know what it is with you reddit people. You’re like a proto-religion, a kind of cult or something yet unclassified but related.

The simplest things are incomprehensible to you due to seemingly emotional states of mind, like that comparing the Netherlands to the USA is a nonsensical exercise in performative intelligence.

You were told the USA is a country and the Netherlands is also a country; thus you cannot even realize that violating the two is logically and realistically insane. In sure you’ve seen Idiocracy, right? It’s like that scene where the “cabinet” keeps repeating the phrase about “Brawndo being what plants crave” as the protagonist is trying to explain the use of water to grow plants.

I wish you well and hope you can break free of the little boxes you’ve been conditioned to think in by your masters.
by aspenmayer | 2025-06-29 09:24:44+00:00
> And I know you have a username on Hacker News permanently assigned to you. Having a "permanent" identity is the default.

It’s not permanent. HN does not comply with GDPR in that I can be denied authorship of my comments if my account is deleted. This is contrary to my rights as an author in the EU.

also, I post under my government/slave name. What do you have on the line, anon?
by noelwelsh | 2025-06-29 09:25:43+00:00
Current GPUs have a comparable number of transistors (92.2 billion in the current NVidia Blackwell according to https://chipsandcheese.com/p/blackwell-nvidias-massive-gpu) to the number of neurons in human brains (about 90 billion according to Wikipedia). Brains consume less energy and do more, though transistors beat them on density. This suggests there are alternative pathways to performing computation that will scale better.
by ngruhn | 2025-06-29 09:26:12+00:00
I think those are valid points but it's hard for me to see that this is worth it. With the might of the CCP in the back and the giant labor pool that is China, surely they can make hiring work either way. If they now start offering a model that's cheaper and better then anyone else's, surely anyone will take notice, even if the weights are not open.
by efitz | 2025-06-29 09:27:48+00:00
I think a conclusion has been leaped to that is not necessarily true.

If everyone is getting the same annoying ad (in both wallet and App Store), then what individual user tracking or surveillance is happening? Certainly none is required.

It’s still annoying AF and it’s clear they didn’t learn their lesson from U2. But I don’t jump to the conclusion that “Apple is spying on me”. Instead I conclude “iOS leadership are greedy jerks with defective long term memory”.
by _Algernon_ | 2025-06-29 09:27:55+00:00
>When you build a DB do you really spend a lot of time thinking about set theory? How about 4th normal form? Or do you just do it?

Are you talking about building a db (eg sqlite) or designing a database schema? 4NF seems only relevant to the latter. I'd certainly hope that the developers of sqlite consider set theory in designing their database implementation.

Designing a schema is the application. Still valuable, but not exactly a the frontier of database research and development, which was exactly my point.
by jorvi | 2025-06-29 09:28:09+00:00
The biggest trick they ever pulled was changing Music.app into Apple Music, and on first app start showing you a "hey, want to try Apple Music? Tap here" fullscreen.

That single-handedly unlocked a huge cohort of boomers and other tech laypeople that had never tried Spotify or any other music streaming platform before.

It was smart and also a huge abuse of market power. Apple Music would have bombed without it. The only reason they didn't get in deep shit for it was that Apple doesn't have nearly the market capture in the EU that they have in the US, and in that time period the US didn't do antitrust against tech companies.
by code51 | 2025-06-29 09:28:41+00:00
The underlying assumption is that language and symbols are enough to represent phenomena. Maybe we are falling for this one in our own heads as well.

Understanding may not be a static symbolic representation. Contexts of the world infinite and continuously redefined. We believed we could represent all contexts tied to information, but that's a tough call.

Yes, we can approximate. No, we can't completely say we can represent every essential context at all times.

Some things might not be representable at all by their very chaotic nature.
by mandmandam | 2025-06-29 09:29:07+00:00
> “Dangerous misconception”? Get out of here with that.

I will not.

The demonization of cannabis has led directly to it becoming high THC and low CBD, as I said. It also has lead to it often being tainted with all manner of adulterants, from ketamine to glass beads to plaster dust to worse.

> Cannabis is dangerous for schizoaffective people.

CBD is a leading target of research for it's anti-psychotic properties; and if you don't know this it's a complete mystery to me why you feel entitled to weigh in.

And it's not even the only compound in cannabis that is being investigated; there are others with anti-psychotic and synergistic potential.

> Why are people that smoke pot so tiresome about this?

What if what I'm saying might be true, and you're dead wrong to accuse anyone who disagrees of being a 'tiresome stoner'?

... Because, in fact, it may well be [0].

> Just accept that it’s not good for everyone!

If it's not for you, that's fine; but the wilful ignorance around cannabis over decades has caused far, far more harm than cannabis ever has.

Can you accept that it will may well have a role in treating "psychosis, in general and schizophrenia, in particular" [0]?

0 - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22716160/
by czbd | 2025-06-29 09:29:28+00:00
So, those mythical IPv6-only internet users actually exist :) That's some great network engineering.

I once needed something like that for the perhaps more common inverse purpose, to work on something IPv6 from within my happy IPv4-only connection. A more limited, but quicker solution given full control of a server - I set up a SOCKS5 proxy, using:

ssh -D 1080 -N myserver

and set my browser to use it. I think that it could also be set system-wide, but wonder if that might break the original ssh connection, holding it all up :)
by abc03 | 2025-06-29 09:29:51+00:00
There are rules for RoW and there are rules for the USA. Astonishing that the G7 falls in this trap again and again (for example Basel III). The US was a major driver in pillar 2 but won‘t adhere to it. Probably companies will restructure their organization to have two streams and exploit it. Despite GILTI, some US companies have low ETRs.
by mandmandam | 2025-06-29 09:31:22+00:00
> it's difficult to hear theories from folks that don't have as much of a stake.

It's not a theory that CBD has anti-psychotic properties. It certainly does, we just don't fully understand why.

My theory is that it will someday be part of treatment plans; and as someone with skin in the game I would hope that you care enough to learn a bit more about it. The comparison to anti-vaxxers with autism in the family is not appropriate here.
by JimDabell | 2025-06-29 09:32:08+00:00
I think this is a lot worse than the U2 thing. Operating systems bundle free stuff all the time. Even the Windows 95 CD had a Weezer music video on it.

The U2 album wasn’t spammy it didn’t interrupt people, it was in an appropriate place, and it was easily removed. Even if you didn’t want it, it’s reasonable to not consider it a problem.

This was outright spammy. It was trying to sell people something. It was in a sensitive place. And it was an attention-seeking, interrupting notification.

This shouldn’t have even made it onto the drawing board, and for this to make it into production at Apple is a sign something is seriously wrong there.
by triska | 2025-06-29 09:32:25+00:00
I think the article rightly speaks of "trust-erosion" in connection with this incident because, in addition to the showing of ads being subject to the suspicion of surveillance, it raises the question how seriously we can take a wallet app that shows ads or does anything completely unrelated to its designated and propagated purpose, something that is not the reason why this app is used and in fact detracts everyone from the intended use of this app.

The breakdown of trust is already in the question "What absurdity comes next from such a sensitive app?"
by hashworks | 2025-06-29 09:32:27+00:00
I'm in the same situation myself. It's quite frustrating, since 2 weeks I have been told that "the ticket is open and the technicians will take a look soon". Not sure if stuff like this has a low priority since IPv6 works and it's not considered a total outtage? In Germany there are laws to grant consumers compensation in those cases, but I'll see if this counts soon enough.

One problem with the solution in this blog post is that various endpoints block datacenter IP ranges entirely or make you go through various captcha hoops, but no good way around that. Same for common VPN providers.

Since I wanted to fix this for my entire home network I also had to do this on my router - in those cases it's quite beneficial to have a non-standard device like an Ubiquiti EdgeRouter, not sure how I would have set up all the Wireguard routing and nat rules on something like a FritzBox. The only downside is that the Router isn't powerful enough to handle a lot of connections, so I'll have to switch to IPSec which is supported by hardware offloading.
by avhception | 2025-06-29 09:32:37+00:00
I'm operating a few IPv6-only VPNs at work, for access to internal infrastructure. The biggest problem so far is that Windows and macOS clients need a v6 DNS server. Otherwise, they won't even try to resolve v6onlyhost.vpn.example.com. Because the client may or may not be in a v6-enabled network, I have to run a DNS server inside the VPN and push that to the client, which can lead to all kinds of problems when the VPN disconnects but the Wireguard app for some reason fails to reset the DNS to the original one.
by sylware | 2025-06-29 09:32:40+00:00
Blockers for switching off IPv4:

- I am using alternative search engines, and it seems most do not provide IPv6 connectivity (when they are not wrecked by big tech gigantic network resources, you know "AI"... how to conveniently DDOS alternatives...)

- github.com: zero ipv6 last time I did check. This is microsoft, do not expect anything good, actually expect the worst, for instance they broke recently noscript/basic (x)html for the issues. Can we still create a account with a noscript/basic (x)html browser and self-hosted emails with IP(v6) literals (mailbox@[ipv6:...])?

- steam? games? Did not check lately. I think many CDNs/game servers or good chunks of them are still IPv4 only.

- many email servers: additionnally many blocks self-hosted email servers (often due to the usage of clumsy and inappropriate block lists from spamhaus, a shaddy company from Switzerland and Andore), with a DNS (SPF) or ip literals (even if it is much stronger than SPF).

- A lot of network applications do not leverage the power of IPv6: for instance for the client-server applications (web for instance), a client-server session should be using a randomly generated IPv6 address, if the ISP provides a not to big prefix. Mobile internet IPv6 ISPs seem to provide random IPv6/128 addresses (in their prefixes), but should provide a stable prefix (probably 96bits) in order to let the terminal applications choose "fixed" ipv6 addresses for direct audio/video calls (no central and online name resolution required). A new user-level OS service is required for user application IPv6 address coordination (beware of brain damaged complexity which some vendors and developer will force upon users and app devs for lock-in).
by imiric | 2025-06-29 09:34:18+00:00
> Globally, since the advent of widespread computer use, human life has improved by orders of magnitude along every metric we have: poverty, hunger, disease, literacy, child mortality, life expectancy, homicide rates, etc.

Most of those trends were in motion well before widespread computer use, e.g. [1]. I'm sure that computers were a factor in improving the rate of literacy, education, perhaps even poverty, but they played a much smaller role in improving hunger, disease, child mortality, life expectancy, let alone homicide rates(!). Most of those are attributable to improvements in economic programs, sociopolitical stability, etc. I.e. the global progress humanity has experienced for centuries. Which, unfortunately, has been slowing down or regressing in the past few decades precisely _because_ of technology.

You can see this in literacy, for example[2]. Yes, the rate increases post-1950, but it had been increasing for many decades before. There is a large uptick between 1950 and 1980, well before computers were in widespread use. So, sure, we can say that computers played a role, but the world was already improving without them.

> Respectfully, you are the one making an extraordinary claim in need of evidentiary support.

Extraordinary claim? Everything I said can be verified by a cursory web search (assuming you can navigate around disinformation), or by personal experience, since I'm sure most of us have directly experienced some form of it. I don't think it's interesting to rehash verifiable claims, but I am interested in discussing the positive effects of technology. You mentioned some, but when factoring in everything else I mentioned in my previous post, I still don't see how these make technology a net positive.

To be clear: technology in general has revolutionized many fields, such as agriculture and medicine, which has greatly contributed to improving the well-being of billions of people. But that's not the kind of technology I'm talking about here. I'm specifically referring to modern computing since roughly the 1970s. The kind of technology within the context of companies like Commodore.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4838a2.htm

[2]: https://ourworldindata.org/literacy
by asteroidburger | 2025-06-29 09:35:04+00:00
MCP itself doesn't require the use of the LLM. There are other concepts, but for this use, Tools are key. A Tool is an operation, like a search.

Have a look at the Filesystem example MCP server - https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/blob/main/sr.... It has a collection of Tools - read_file, read_multiple_files, write_file, etc.

The LLM uses MCP to learn what tools the server makes available; the LLM decides when to use them. (The process is a little more complicated than that, but if you're just trying to call tools without an LLM, those parts aren't really important.) If you ask the LLM, "Find all files with an asterisk," it might deduce that it can use the search_files tool provided by that MCP to gain the needed context, invoke that tool, then process the results it returns. As an engineer, you can just call search_files if you know that's what you want.
by csande17 | 2025-06-29 09:35:39+00:00
There's a pretty big difference between AlphaZero and a "generative AI" program: AlphaZero has access to an oracle that can tell it whether it's making valid moves and winning games.

By comparison, getting accurate feedback on whether facts are correct in a piece of text (for example) is much more difficult and expensive. At least, presumably that's why AI companies publish staged demo videos where the AI still makes factual errors half the time.