MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by qualeed | 2025-06-19 18:22:55+00:00
When the wind blows, a photo doesn't get faked, but these particulates will move to areas you haven't been to.

Faking a photo, convincingly enough to pass forensic scrutiny, requires skill, time, and equipment. Faking the results of this DNA vacuuming requires no skill, significantly less time, and the only equipment is an air filter.

I can go on, but I have a sneaking suspicion you're just trying to be contrarian rather than actually care about privacy.
by westurner | 2025-06-19 18:23:03+00:00
Noting that I linked to paperai/paperetl, paperqa2, paperqa-zotero, and The Oracle of Zotero (which have CLIs and LLM workflows for PDFs) and it was flagged. The content of such post is here, for the record: https://pastebin.com/CuJ8Zau0
by ryanmcbride | 2025-06-19 18:23:10+00:00
Well they've got plenty of time to learn.

As far as I know most people consider Emancipation Day the day that the Emancipation Proclamation was signed into law in 1863, whereas Juneteenth marks the day 2.5 years later that the last known enslaved people were freed from the people who decided to just not tell them about the law.
by nobitanobi | 2025-06-19 18:23:20+00:00
I am assuming it would just be REST apis and micro services right? Won't be much different from building any other backend. Is my assumption correct or does the hosting platform backend work any differently? I was told they serve billion request daily, but I doubt the control planes api would be handling such scale daily.

I mean if I take up this job my next job would not be in the same domain. I don't have much interest in webdev, but this role also provides the infra exposure so I thought of interviewing.

Also wouldn't using Java or Golang make more sense here if the scale is such?
by tikhonj | 2025-06-19 18:23:39+00:00
100%. I've taken to using intentionally fuzzy phrases to describe productivity/impact/effectiveness/whatever. Like, "in a holistic accounting, person X did a great job". It's not necessarily—in fact, necessarily not—easily quantifiable or legible, it requires some human insight and judgement, but so does any complex, creative endeavor. Trying to reduce management to metrics is inherently short-sighted.
by arjie | 2025-06-19 18:24:54+00:00
This is very cool! I have a similar EcoFlow battery hooked up to a Pixel 4. With Termux this is a very capable tool. I have it on Tailscale (using my own headscale server) and I use it for speech to text and text to speech using the native APIs (which are well supported with Termux's APIs and helper functions). It's a very capable computer. The one thing that I haven't quite figured out is how to run a high-quality wake-word tool.

I initially intended to use it with a ReSpeaker speaker/mic system so that I could use it as a smart home assistant / Q&A bot since Google Home constantly frustrates me with its inability to answer questions that LLMs answer flawlessly but the mic/speaker on the phone is good enough. The only problem is the wake word functionality. I'm going to try Porcupine next and see.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-06-19 18:24:55+00:00
- From where, then, did you get the info that "they consistently outperform buy and hold for 10+ years now"?

- What does "they're the real deal" mean?

- Two years is not enough to test a strategy like this. 20 years would be better better, but it sounds like they already did that and the strategy fails half the time (hence the 10-year claim)? Does it fail randomly, or did they market a strategy that worked for the first 10 years, then didn't, and now have a new strategy with the same claims?

I'm asking these questions because people usually work hard for their money, and when someone makes (or relays) a claim that they can consistently multiply it better than expected, skepticism and scrutiny is imperative.
by salynchnew | 2025-06-19 18:25:00+00:00
> caring a lot about shrimp welfare (no one else does).

Ah. I guess they are working out ecology through first principles, I guess?

I feel like a lot of the criticism of EA and rationalism does boil down to some kind of general criticism of naivete and entitlement, which... is probably true when applied to lots of people, regardless of whether they espouse these ideas or not.

It's also easier to criticize obviously doomed/misguided efforts at making the world a better place than to think deeply about how many of the pressing modern day problems (environmental issues, extinction, human suffering, etc.) also seem to be completely intractable, when analyzed in terms of the average individual's ability to take action. I think some criticism of EA or rationalism is also a reaction to a creeping unspoken consensus that "things are only going to get worse" in the future.
by ezst | 2025-06-19 18:25:55+00:00
I don't have a horse in this race, but I also can't blame the Wayland designers for not rushing to implement something like that. Encouraging application developers to manipulate windows themselves essentially means turning them into window-manager developers, but with a hand tied in their back and probably little interest in doing it thoroughly. I think the practical results speak for themselves: I cannot count a single application that does it extensively and that isn't broken in the typical multi-monitor cases you find in the wild.
by iscoelho | 2025-06-19 18:26:25+00:00
There are 2 ways to pull off this attack:

1. Hijack the HTTP/HTTPS server. For some IP ranges, this is completely infeasible. For example, hijacking a CloudFlare HTTP/HTTPS range would be almost impossible theoretically based on technical details that I won't go through listing.

2. Hijack the DNS server. Because there's a complete apathy towards DNS server security (as you are showing) this attack is very frequently overlooked. Which is exactly why in the cited incident attackers were capable of hijacking Amazon Route53 with ease. *DNSSEC solves this.*

If either 1 or 2 work, you have yourself a successful hijack of the site. Both need to be secure for you to prevent this.
by paxys | 2025-06-19 18:26:28+00:00
There are plenty of good "normal" engineers whose abilities top out at following direction from management, implementing a spec (albeit really well), adding to an existing architecture etc. I'd wager the vast majority of the industry falls into this category. Yes, it's very important for an org to ensure that these kinds of engineers are successful, because they are the workhorses of your company and without them nothing will get done.

Ultimately though you can't have a workforce just of these engineers. Someone has to lead. Someone has to tell management what to build. Someone has to invent new tech from scratch.

"10x engineer" is a bullshit LinkedIn thoughtfluencer term that has unfortunately caught on, but everyone who has worked in the industry for more than a day knows that there is a hierarchy in the tech org, and the ones on top are more valuable than the rest.
by jaybrendansmith | 2025-06-19 18:26:29+00:00
Dr. D's show was played by a local rock station at 10pm. That was past our bedtime when I was 10, so we'd tape it. I still remember hitting the monitor button and pressing record/play before bed. Next day we'd listen to the whole show. I think we witnessed the first playing of Weird Al 'Another One Rides the Bus' and were introduced of course to the great Tom Lehrer and so many more. What a great career this man had, bringing joy to so many.
by runako | 2025-06-19 18:27:27+00:00
200%/yr starting from $10,000 => still needs a day job for a number of years.

This is why Wall Street is able to hire talented young traders, some of whom will develop profitable systems. Over time, some of them are able to amass enough savings and the track record necessary to get investors. But at t=0, somebody has to pay the rent.
by bwfan123 | 2025-06-19 18:27:47+00:00
> The reality is that there's not a single critical component anywhere that is built on LLMs.

Remember that there are billion dollar usecases where being correct is not important. For example, shopping recommendations, advertizing, search results, image captioning, etc. All of these usecases have humans consuming the output, and LLMs can play a useful role as productivity boosters.
by megaman821 | 2025-06-19 18:28:20+00:00
How confident should other people be that random people in conversation or commentors on the internet are at accurately predicting the future? I strongly believe that nearly 100% are wrong in both major and minor ways.

Also, when you say you have a strong belief, does that mean you have emptied you retirement accounts and you are enjoying all you can in the moment until the end comes?
by avidiax | 2025-06-19 18:28:41+00:00
You are mostly right, but I would hope that certain core security companies and organizations would get paged. Root CAs and domain registrars and such should have DNSSEC validation.

Unfortunately, DNSSEC is a bit expensive in terms of support burden, additional bugs, reduced performance, etc. It will take someone like Apple turning DNSSEC validation on by default to shake out all the problems. Or it will take an exploitable vulnerability akin to SIM-swapping to maybe convince Let's Encrypt! and similar services reliant on proof-by-dns that they must require DNSSEC signing.
by dangus | 2025-06-19 18:29:01+00:00
Confusing? Here I am working on the infrastructure side thinking that I’m working with a a baby configuration language for dummies who can’t code when I use HCL/Terraform.

The idea that someone who works with JavaScript all day might find HCL confusing seems hard to imagine to me.

To be clear, I am talking about the syntax and data types in HCL, not necessarily the way Terraform processes it, which I admit can be confusing/frustrating. But Kubernetes wouldn’t have those pitfalls.
by muppetman | 2025-06-19 18:30:01+00:00
DNSSec has caused so many outages at this point it's a joke.

You have to be so insanely careful and plan everything to the nth degree otherwise you break everything: https://internetnz.nz/news-and-articles/dnssec-chain-validat...

The idea is important. What it aims to protect is important. The current implementation is horrible, far too complex and fraught with so many landminds that no one wants to touch it.

If Geoff Huston is suggesting it might be time to stick a fork in DNSSec because it's done, then IMHO it's well cooked. https://blog.apnic.net/2024/05/28/calling-time-on-dnssec/
by Marazan | 2025-06-19 18:30:21+00:00
I would argue you can't compare between projects due to the reasons you state. But you can try and improve the metrics within a single project.

Cycolmatic complexity is a terrible metric to obsesses over yet in a project I was on it was undeniably true that the newer code written by more experienced Devs was both subjectively nicer and also had lower cycolmatic complexity than the older code worked on by a bunch of juniors (some of the juniors had then become some of the experienced Devs who wrote the newer code)
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-06-19 18:30:39+00:00
> Therefore, nothing can produce greater positive expected value than preventing existential risks—so working to reduce these risks becomes the highest priority.

Incidentally, the flaw in this theory is in thinking you understand what all the existential risks are.

Suppose you clock "malicious AI" as a huge risk and then hamper AI, but it turns out the bigger risk is not doing space exploration, which AI would have accelerated, because something catastrophic yet already-inevitable is going to happen to the Earth in a few hundred years and if we're not sustainably multi-planetary by then it's all over.

The thing evolution teaches us is that diversity is a group survival trait. Anybody insisting "nobody anywhere should do X" is more likely to cause an ELE than prevent one.
by tptacek | 2025-06-19 18:30:44+00:00
In summation, you propose a forklift upgrade of the DNS requiring hundreds of millions of dollars of effort from operators around the world, introducing a system that routinely takes some of the most sophisticated platforms off the Internet entirely when its brittle configuration breaks, to address the problem of someone pulling off a global hijack of all the Route53 addresses.

At this point, you might as well just have the CABForum come up with a new blessed verification method based on RDAP. That might actually happen, unlike DNSSEC, which will not. DNSSEC has lost signed zones in North America over some recent intervals.

I do like that the threat model you propose is coherent only for sites behind Cloudflare, though.
by ajkjk | 2025-06-19 18:30:47+00:00
not to be too cynical here, but I would say that the most-apt description of the rationalists is that they are people who would say they are constantly looking for updates to their models. But that they are not necessarily doing it appreciably more than anyone else is. They will do it freely on unimportant things---they tend to be smart people who view the world intellectually and so they are free to toss or keep factual beliefs about things, of which they have many, with little fanfare, and sure, they get points for that. But they are as rooted in their moral beliefs as anybody else is. Maybe more than other people since they have such a strong intellectual edifice that justifies not changing their minds, because they believe that their beliefs follow from nearly irrefutable calculations.
by tikhonj | 2025-06-19 18:31:10+00:00
> The smallest unit of software ownership and delivery is the engineering team.

I see where this is coming from, but it's also pretty sad. In my experience, it tends to create environments where engineers are second-class citizens compared to managers or product: we're just responsible for "delivery", but can't independently make any real decisions beyond a tiny scope. Our timespan of discretion becomes measured in days or weeks, while, on the best teams I've seen, it's measured in months, quarters or years.

It's counterintuitive, but you absolutely can have real individual owernship for engineers without creating single points of failure or brittle systems. It's a matter of having other sources of slack, encouraging quality work, and giving people a lot of room to fluidly adjust what they're working on when. Folks still have real ownership and can make longer-term decisions on their own, but they also collaborate in ad hoc ways and share tacit knowledge, so that somebody else can jump in, help out or even take over in a pinch. I'm being a bit vague, but all I can say is that I've seen this before, and I'll know it when I see it again.

In practice, the model I saw did end up with more rewriting than a normal team—but we were still way more productive overall, even accounting for the rewrites! Turns out that rewriting systems incrementally, in self-contained chunks, is an amazing way to both evolve the design and to build up instutitional knowledge and capacity. It looks like waste, but it's actually slack that is crucial to making your system as a whole more flexible, adaptable and resilient. (In fact, that's true of a lot of the "waste" top-down management systems try to reduce—I'm incresingly convinced that anybody trying to optimize software team "utilization" is actively sabotaging the work!)
by WorldPeas | 2025-06-19 18:31:34+00:00
everyone has a phone nowadays, I think the expectation that the e-waste cycle would continue was a misjudgement. For most normal people I know, windows 7 was their last "laptop generation"(10 at the latest) before they could have switched entirely to their phones or tablets. They also don't really bother getting rid of this gear by sale, most of the prior generation's machines were priced in the thousands and were towers so it made more sense to resell them, that generation(to my perception) was mostly thin plastic units with almost no durability. Most people I've seen hold onto them "just in case", as they wouldn't sell in their condition.
by mdorazio | 2025-06-19 18:31:41+00:00
Looking at the Performance page, this doesn’t seem that impressive to me. The profits are primarily driven by going long on coins during a crypto boom, plus some favorable Rivian and Nvidia trades.

If you exclude all the crypto related stuff (a lot of people here don’t want to touch that) the 2024 average individual trade return was a bit over 7%, strongly boosted by 3 outlier trades. Hard to calculate the fund performance for that subset though. Meanwhile if you bought and held MAGS over the same time period you would have gotten about a 1.67x return with long term cap gains tax benefit - probably a better total play than this model even with the crypto trades (especially if accounting for crypto trade fees).

Also there is no indication of YTD 2025 performance, which would be more indicative of model strength due to the March-April dip and slowdown in crypto + AI bull markets. I’ve been burned before by services like this and am not in a hurry to do so again.
by sponnath | 2025-06-19 18:32:36+00:00
Reddit and YouTube are such huge social media platforms that it really depends on which bubble (read: subreddits/yt channels) you're looking at. There's the "AGI is here" people over at r/singularity and then the "AI is useless" people at r/programming. I'm simplifying arguments from both sides here but you get my point.
by k310 | 2025-06-19 18:32:39+00:00
One thing to look out for is deliberate LLM stuffing a.k.a. "grooming". Several articles reference a NewsGuard report [0] "A well-funded Moscow-based global ‘news’ network has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian propaganda" NewsGuard, Mar 06, 2025

> An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscow’s disinformation goals by repeating false claims from the pro-Kremlin Pravda network 33 percent of the time

> A Moscow-based disinformation network named “Pravda” — the Russian word for "truth" — is pursuing an ambitious strategy by deliberately infiltrating the retrieved data of artificial intelligence chatbots, publishing false claims and propaganda for the purpose of affecting the responses of AI models on topics in the news rather than by targeting human readers, NewsGuard has confirmed. By flooding search results and web crawlers with pro-Kremlin falsehoods, the network is distorting how large language models process and present news and information. The result: Massive amounts of Russian propaganda — 3,600,000 articles in 2024 — are now incorporated in the outputs of Western AI systems, infecting their responses with false claims and propaganda.

This is either "the way to go" or a moat to cross in order to get any recognition. Does such a flood replace careful SEO techniques, especially as search engines turn to LLM's for results? Such grooming could affect way more than search results. That's kind of scary to me. And are LLM's way too indiscriminate at least at this time, in what they haul in?

[0] https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-funded-moscow...
by BenjiWiebe | 2025-06-19 18:33:09+00:00
The actual view has little to do with the build of the telescope, and lots to do with whatever optics you put in it.

The mechanical part can influence the view via "tube currents" (air flowing in the optical path due to heat convection) or by not allowing good heat flow to and from the mirror so it stabilizes quickly.

There's a few more things to consider, but remember it's mostly the optics.
by jcranmer | 2025-06-19 18:33:29+00:00
It's not just some weak relation.

The Behind the Bastards podcast works by having the podcaster invite a guest on the show and tell the story of an individual (or movement, like the Zizians) to provide a live reaction. And in the discussion about the Zizians, the light-bulb moment for the guest, the point where they made the connection "oh, now I can see how this story is going to end up with dead people," happens well before Ziz breaks with the Rationalists.

She ultimately breaks with the Rationalists because they don't view animal welfare as important as a priority as she does. But it's from the Rationalists that she picks up on the notion that some people are net negatives to society... and that if you're a net negative to society, then perhaps you're better off dead. It's not that far a leap to go from there to "it's okay for me to kill people if they are a net negative to society [i.e., they disagree with me]."
by tikhonj | 2025-06-19 18:33:37+00:00
I dunno, almost all the brilliant engineers I've known have also been great team players and mentors. Not all, but I'd say it's pretty correlated.

The reason brilliant assholes stand out is one of those statistical paradoxes whose name I've forgotten: somebody who's an asshole has to be brilliant to succeed, while team players can get pretty far with a wide range of skill levels.
by heavyset_go | 2025-06-19 18:34:06+00:00
> One idea to fix this and get more people to switch would be for Ubuntu to offer a Windows app that handles everything. It could download the ISO in the background, format the flash drive, install Ubuntu in dual boot with Windows by default, and clearly explain each step so users know how to start using Ubuntu or go back to Windows.

I am almost certain something like this existed 15-20 years ago from Canonical.
by mitchdoogle | 2025-06-19 18:34:41+00:00
It's unfair because they didn't buy tickets the way normal people do. Lottery machines are supposed to be in regular places of business, like gas stations or grocery stores. Companies called couriers popped up years ago that skirt this requirement by having a token storefront, while their real business is selling lottery tickets on the Internet, connected to physical tickets they print in their store. Secondly, the courier the buying group used requested additional ticket printing machines in the weeks leading up to the drawing, an unusual request that seemingly was not scrutinized at all by the TX lottery commission. So not only did the buying group have to use a method to buy tickets that already is unfair (and goes against the spirit of lottery requirements that tickets must be sold out of normal stores), they had to conspire with a courier to get enough machines to print out all the tickets in time. I think it should be obvious this kind of process is not available to the vast majority of Texans, even those with the financial means to do it, so yes - it is unfair.
by criddell | 2025-06-19 18:35:20+00:00
No, nobody wants Windows on ARM. At least not until Microsoft gets something like Rosetta up and running.

This whole thread has been about wanting an x86 version of the M1. Intel and AMD have made some great CPUs that should be capable or running fanless and be competitive with five year old Apple computers, right? Since they are older CPUs now, they should be very inexpensive as well.

I don't own an macOS device, but anytime a family member asks me what to get, I tell them to get a Mac because they can go to the mall and either take a class or schedule an appointment for one-on-one help. That's the real value of the Apple store.

I have a hard time taking the luxury brand charge against Apple seriously. The Apple Store is a luxury store in the same way that Applebees is a luxury restaurant compared to Burger King. Nothing they sell is hard to get, nothing is significantly more expensive than what the competition sells (especially if you value in in-store support and resale value), and everything they sell is extraordinarily common, at least in the US. Nobody sees an iPhone or MacBook Air and thinks "oooh! fancy!".

The exception is probably AR device, which is kind of ridiculous.
by Pet_Ant | 2025-06-19 18:35:29+00:00
Kubernetes itself contains so many layers of abstraction. There are pods, which is the core new idea, and it's great. But now there are deployments, and rep sets, and namespaces... and it makes me wish we could just use Docker Swarm.

Even Terraform seems to live on just a single-layer and was relatively straight-forward to learn.

Yes, I am in the middle of learning K8s so I know exactly how steep the curve is.