MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kazinator | 2025-06-22 17:18:14+00:00
If your configuration doesn't randomize the MAC, that doesn't guarantee you won't be involved in a conflict. It only guarantees that it will go more badly for you, since you will be waiting on the other device to change their MAC before you get working networking. Whereas if yours is randomized, you will probably be okay after one reconnect.

MAC randomization does not have to constrain itself to the lower three bytes; you can randomize the OUI too.

What does Android MAC randomization do with the OUI?

According to this possible hallucination from Google Gemini 2.5 Flash, the OUI is partially randomized too:

- Locally Administered Bit (U/L bit): This bit (the 2nd LSB of the first octet) is forced to '1'.

- Unicast/Multicast Bit (I/G bit): The least significant bit (LSB) of the first octet is usually set to '0' to indicate a unicast address.

- Remaining OUI bits (and the entire lower three bytes): All the other bits in the MAC address, including the remaining bits of the first octet, the entire second and third octets (which are part of the OUI), and the entire last three octets, are randomized.

Me again:

So if two bits are fixed, everyone in the randomized space is randomizing 46 bits, which contains 7.03E+13 addresses.

Practically speaking, it seems that the only way you will ever see a clash arising from the above randomization strategy is if two devices are using the same very poorly seeded PRNG.
by RickJWagner | 2025-06-22 17:19:03+00:00
I’m now making the point that generalizing evangelicals as a monolith that can ‘change their mind’ in unison is akin to generalizing people by race, gender, etc. I hope you are in agreement on that one.

Had your first statement been clear in referring to the subset of evangelicals ( instead of using a pronoun that refers back to the whole, evangelicals ), the statement would not have been properly called ignorant. As it stands, it reads as if all evangelicals wish for Armageddon without delay, which is an ignorant statement.
by kcplate | 2025-06-22 17:19:26+00:00
Because it’s always the case with the US military equipment capabilities that full capability is never disclosed. What possible reason would the military have in divulging actual specs?

Military: We can penetrate up to 200 feet with this new bunker buster bomb that we spent a billion dollars on…specifically for this site and some sites in North Korea.

Enemy: Build the bunker at 300 feet, I hear their best bunker buster is only effective to 200 feet.

Military: Damn, foiled again!
by xdennis | 2025-06-22 17:19:50+00:00
That seems ideal, but my fear is that Iran won't stop.

It's cheaper to build low precision rockets/drones than the Israeli interceptors, so the war _could_ swing in Iran's favor in the long term.

Additionally, Iranians aren't rising up because they don't want to be seen as being controlled by foreigners, but once the war stops, the Iranian regime will have to answer to its citizens. This means the mullahs have no incentive to stop.
by Freak_NL | 2025-06-22 17:19:59+00:00
> Nobody switches cars with humans in them.

What do you mean? Changing the train consist during the trip? That is exactly what they can do.

Hamburg/Amsterdam on one end, Innsbruck/Wien on the other. Those wagons get shuffled about like a deck of cards en route! So in Amsterdam there is one train with wagons marked Wien and wagons marked Innsbruck. You get in the right numbered wagon, and end up where you want. In the middle of the night, in the middle of nowhere (actually, probably München) they turn two trains into two different trains.

Most people never notice.
by oa335 | 2025-06-22 17:20:10+00:00
I posted that because it was illustrative and the podcasters used the same phrase, without any shame or compunction.

Here’s a survey conducted by Israeli researchers showing that vast majority (82%) of Israelis surveyed support forcibly expelling Palestinians.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-06-03/ty-article/.p...
by roughly | 2025-06-22 17:20:12+00:00
So, first, noting from your other comments here that you're not getting to armchair this from the safety of abroad like the rest of us - I sincerely hope you and your family stay safe and can know peace. I'm putting a lot of words into what may seem like a defense of either Iran or its proxies - believe me when I say I'm aiming to explain, not justify. I'm a pacifist and a humanist, and my genuine hope is that people everywhere can live in peace and safety. I'll also say that if I say things like "Israel does X" or something, I'm not ascribing the actions or morals of the state to you personally - I live in America, I know the difference between the actions of a government and the opinions of its people (unless you've got Bibi's private number, in which case - get dialing, damn).

> So you're saying that there are motivations that would make you perform suicide bombings? There are incentives by which you would sacrifice your children? <...> If you think that the death of your child will send him on a fast track to heaven that can seriously impact the rational choices you make down the line.

If your people were under threat, would you sacrifice yourself to save them? If your children died fighting to protect your country (genuinely protect, not in the "US invades Iraq to protect our god-given right to drive giant trucks" sense), would you be proud of them? Do you think they'd go to heaven?

This is why I keep pressing on this: under what circumstances would you do the same things that they're doing? Start from the premise that you did, and work backwards - what would it take? Why would you do that? If you continue to act like these people are weird alterna-humans, you're going to keep getting surprised by their actions. Start from the premise that they're like you or broadly like the people you know, work your way back to why the hell they're doing the things that keep surprising you, and then figure out what's going to make them stop.

(As a separate note, the concept of martyrdom doesn't start in Islam - there's a rich history of it across all the Abrahamic religions, and all of them presume the martyr's getting the fast track to paradise.)

I'd say one other thing, which is that Hamas is a militant group which considers themselves under existential siege and behaves accordingly - Iran is a different entity under different constraints whose people (and leaders) make different choices. Words are words - I'd suspect we've both heard plenty of revolting things from our countrymen that we brush off as idle talk that the other side would take as a dire threat.

And, for what it's worth, I understand the paranoia. I don't think it's unjustified. I get why Israel does not want Iran to get a nuclear bomb. But I don't think the actions of Israel or the US here are making that outcome less likely, and I think they're taking those actions due to the kind of misreading of Iran that we're discussing here.

To flip this on its head: if you were Iran, what on earth would convince you not to build a bomb now?
by cwillu | 2025-06-22 17:20:39+00:00
And regarding “Does western union reverse transactions?”:

https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/refunds/western-union-refund...

“What is this case about? For years, many people who lost money to scams sent their payment through a Western Union wire transfer. Scammers contacted people and promised prizes, loans, jobs, discounted products or other financial rewards in exchange for money upfront. They also pretended to be family members in need of cash, or law enforcement officers demanding payment. The scammers told people to send money through Western Union. No one received the cash, prizes or services they were promised.

Because of joint investigations by the FTC, the Justice Department, and the U. S. Postal Inspection Service, Western Union agreed to pay $586 million and admitted to aiding and abetting wire fraud. The Justice Department is now using that money to provide refunds to people who were tricked into using Western Union to pay scammers.”

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2017/01/...

“In its agreement with the Justice Department, Western Union admits to criminal violations including willfully failing to maintain an effective anti-money laundering program and aiding and abetting wire fraud.”
by photochemsyn | 2025-06-22 17:21:16+00:00
Science fiction, and related or subgenres like sci-fantasy and sci-horror is just much better these days than literary fiction. The literary snobs won't admit that One Hundred Years of Solitude (which I read years ago and liked) could have been a scifi novel placed not in historical south/central america but instead on a set of planets orbiting a star 100 light years from here. If it had, they wouldn't consider it 'real literature'.

Science fiction is more fun to read, and often more creative - authors aren't limited to the sociopolitical realities of 18th century South America, they can invent whatever systems they like, and then the question is whether their world-building skills are good enough to avoid obvious inconsistencies.

Yes, people are still reading - but they're reading Adrian Tchaikovsky, Iain M. Banks, William Gibson, Susanna Clarke and host of others who aren't limited to scenes of 'historical realism' (which to be honest are often distorted pictures of history that were socially acceptable to the publishing houses of their day).

You can still read the classics - Conrad is my favorite late 19th/early 20tth century author - but Lovecraft is just as worth reading.
by nine_k | 2025-06-22 17:21:55+00:00
This is correct. But the surgical precision is only enabled by the fact that a person can be reasonably well located and tracked. It's likely not hard to pinpoint a specific person of interest in a vast metropolis, but, IMHO, really hard or impossible to locate a specific wild zebra in an African savanna, because they do not wear tracking devices, and inhabit large areas. So you can target e.g. me in NYC much more easily than some specific zebra, even though the zebra is likely less intellectual and less privacy-conscious.

Hence, I suppose, important figures will eventually disappear from the public eye. Definitely, a president or a governor must be present in person at many events. But e.g. CEOs of military contractors, or even key scientists and developers in certain fields, may start to fade away, turn pseudonymous, and virtualize, now that remote work and videoconferencing is normalized. They would still be somehow trackable as normal citizens, but their visible connection to their work would be severed and kept an utmost secret, literally a life-and-death secret.

This would be good news for national defense, but bad news for any dissenters who cross any powerful-enough entities for those to consider an assassination or at least blackmailing. Unlike a hitman, a hit drone can be completely and safely destroyed beyond recognition within an hour, by burning it and grinding the ashes.

Also, precisely delivered non-lethal means could be quite effective, and hard to track. Inject or just spray a bad virus to disable your opponent for several critical months. Spray a potent allergen if the target is allergic. Inject some LSD into politician's bloodstream an hour before an important meeting or speech. "Innocent" stuff like that.
by awongh | 2025-06-22 17:22:04+00:00
There's nothing more effective than a piece of fiction at transmitting the subtle complete world-view ideas of an author directly into your brain.

I mean that in the sense that non-fiction is still very much fictionally presenting a world view of the author or the subject, but in a way that's bounded by real facts. Literary fiction doesn't have that constraint.

Human history and society is actually made up of ideas and by taking 2-300 pages to digest a set of ideas you come away with a new perspective you can't get any other way.
by t-3 | 2025-06-22 17:22:22+00:00
AR-15 is relatively popular for hunting in the US though?

I don't lock my house or my car habitually, never had a problem, never felt the need to keep a weapon either, but I know plenty of people that live in the city that have been robbed or assaulted and do feel the need to carry though. I can't really blame them for not relying on police.
by ang_cire | 2025-06-22 17:23:00+00:00
This is a really good analysis article. Thank you for posting it. I think the critic vs consumer decoupling rings true to me, and this is obviously the worst economy to exist in as a "struggling" anything.

There are a lot of industries that are struggling right now to figure out how to re-monetize independent from large corporations (like magazines/ publishers/ movies/ etc) because those corporations are cutting out anyone not already hugely profitable.

I feel like whatever solution we eventually land on to 'democratize' media funding will also be a good solution to our FOSS funding problem.
by sagarm | 2025-06-22 17:23:01+00:00
I don't understand the hostility.

A bike already fits your requirements, self driving would just make it more expensive.

If you want something enclosed, NYC has self-driving (from your perspective) trains and busses.

If you want enclosed and not-shared, I guess you just want a smaller car? Losing wheels wouldn't make it cheaper, IMO, because that makes a bunch of stuff more complicated.
by mar1n3r0 | 2025-06-22 17:24:04+00:00
"What if I just generate faces with AI and use them? How could a system prevent that?"

There are techniques to detect movement etc.

"I wouldn't feel comfortable with a hash of my face on a public server. Even if it's just a hash."

All central servers already have not only your data but also monitor your habits daily and you are fine with that because you simply don't know it.
by mjburgess | 2025-06-22 17:24:19+00:00
No, nor have I said a ground invasion will happen. It's also an inherently ridiculous thing to say -- if I am wrong about highly complex geostrategic outcomes then i should never think about them again? By that logic, the entire US foreign policy establishment would likewise have to suspend its activities.

In any case, I'm talking about inferred goals, capacity, strategy. I'm constructing a viable theory of what their strategy would be if they achieved their aims.

The goals of israel are regime change and nuclear disarmament -- these cannot be achieved from the air. It might be that israel is content to lose on these objectives, and so be it.

I expected that most of my comments here would be heavily downvoted, and its somewhat suprising that they arent. Most people are operating from a profoundly heavily propagandized view of foreign policy, and of their own countries -- and whenever one raises thinking about these issues in ways which suspend this propaganda one gets a very angry reaction: everyone one is a nationalist, either midly or extermely, but a nationalist never the less. Asking people to thinking critically about their nation is tantamount to asking them to thinking critically about their mother.

Either way, I comment regardless for the few who are able to think clearly on these matters.
by ryao | 2025-06-22 17:24:29+00:00
The higher power requirements of datacenter GPUs are mostly from running hardware well past a reasonable point on the efficiency curve to eke slightly higher generational increases in performance. Nvidia for example has three versions of the RTX PRO 6000. One runs at 600W while the other two run at 300W. The main differences are the power target and the cooling solutions. If I recall correctly, the performance difference between them is less than 20%, despite a 50% reduction in power consumption, for what is effectively the same hardware. This can be confirmed by changing the power target of the 600W version to 300W and benchmarking the before and after. Plenty of people have made similar observations of AMD’s hardware.

That said, I am confident that Nvidia will continue serve those of us who want our own hardware.
by unethical_ban | 2025-06-22 17:24:31+00:00
>The claim of ethnic cleansing is also false and shows a deep misunderstanding of the situation in Gaza. There are Israelis who are justifiably warning that Israel is headed in that direction, but it physically hasn't happened yet. There are many civilian casualties and that is indeed horrible and tragic, but blaming Israel for it is contributing to the death toll.

Oh wow. A floor of 50,000 dead, every city razed, barely any functioning infrastructure and a blockage on medical and food assistance.

Israel chooses this.
by datameta | 2025-06-22 17:25:46+00:00
I love this example! The unforeseen synergies of different methods attempting the same outcome cannot be overstated enough in my opinion. Each strategy has its own diminishing returns, and stacking them covers gaps each has.

I think a great illustration of this today are SLaM methods that almost always seem to combine a low-drift high-noise technique with one that is high-drift and low-noise.
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by ant6n | 2025-06-22 17:26:45+00:00
As a startup, there are two perspectives on these kinds of issues: just get something built and running as quickly as possible, or make sure you work out the kinks.

So far we've been very much doing the second. Built it, experiment on it, test it, make sure it works. Only publish what's actually feasible. Set up more projects to make sure all the kinks will be worked out. Work together with experts to ensure proper ventilation, noise and vibration control, etc. etc.

But as a startup, this process can be frustratingly slow. I am concerned investors may want to see quick results, not perfected solutions.
by mjburgess | 2025-06-22 17:27:29+00:00
What do you mean by "in a position"? Do i think it would be successful? of course not, that's mad.

Do I think israel is inclined to try, or otherwise, risk failure on the back of US blood and treasure? More or less, yes -- i think that's quite likely.

The US invasion and occupation of vietnam, afganistan, iraq, etc. were all mad. The US foreign policy elite are not very competent because america doesnt receive any real blowback from its failures -- so there's no conditioning mechanism to force it into instutitonal competence.

Do I think such an elite would do one more stupid thing? yes, its actually far more improbable that they'd learn caution

They've bankrupted america, caused half the world to turn against them -- all the while presiding over the rise and enrichment of a peer competitor (china). You could not describe a more incompent, warmongering, self-destructive set of foreign policy institutions.

It's what happens when you are isolated on your own continent and rarely have to pay for your decisions.
by rednafi | 2025-06-22 17:28:20+00:00
I don’t even write python these days. I just wrote my own version of a terminal llm-caller[^1] in Go for this exact same reason.

There’s a famous one that does the same thing but is written in Python. So it has its issues.

My point is, pip exists in most machines. pip install sucks but it’s not the end of the world. HN crowd (including myself) has a tendency to beat around the bush about things that the majority don’t care about IRL.

[1]: https://github.com/rednafi/q
by FeepingCreature | 2025-06-22 17:28:33+00:00
The attraction is that they say "actually, this has an answer, and I can show you why" and then they actually do so.

Philosophy is over-attached to the questions to the point of rejecting a commitment to an answer when it stares them in the face. The point of the whole entire shebang was to find out what the right answer was. All else is distraction, and philosophy has a lot of distraction.
by codingbot3000 | 2025-06-22 17:29:32+00:00
I am always wondering why the US scores so well on these "ease of doing business" rankings??? Even taking into account that this was a risky business idea, relying on subsidies etc., both property and interconnection to me seem like areas where the legislation could be clear and predictable. Adding in the ever-present risk of litigation in the US, I wonder if my stock portfolio is maybe a bit too reliant on this market.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-06-22 17:30:13+00:00
We went faster when human life had less value. It has more value now, both in labor time (and therefore cost) and harm potential/reduction, so it takes more time and money than it used to. Similar story about disposable workers when the Hoover Dam was built.

We should expect this math to continue as prime working age cohort shrinks over the next century due to structural demographics.
by FeepingCreature | 2025-06-22 17:30:37+00:00
I think philosophy has gone back and forth for so long that they're now, as a field, pathologically afraid of actually committing.

The AI connection with LessWrong means that the whole thing is framed with a backdrop of "how would you actually construct a mind?" That means you can't just chew on the questions, you have to actually commit to an answer and run the risk of being wrong.

This teaches you two things: 1. How to figure what you actually believe the answer is, and why, and make sure that this is the best answer that you can give; 2. how to keep moving when you notice that you made a misstep in part 1.
by jltsiren | 2025-06-22 17:31:20+00:00
Very little about Finnish mythology is clear. Pretty much everything known about it was written down centuries after Christianity had become established in Finland. And the same applies to other Finnic and Uralic peoples as well.

In some sense, talking about gods in Finnish mythology is a mistake. The entities now understood as gods were not the same kind of big important guys as Indo-European gods. Finnish mythology was more focused on spirits, most of which had narrow and/or local domains. "Gods" were more like spirits with wider domains.

Then there is the confusion around names Ilmarinen, Ukko, and Jumala, which possibly referred to approximately two entities in total. And to make the matters worse, "Jumala" and "jumala" in modern Finnish translate as "God" and "god".

Or that could just be what people remembered centuries after the pre-Christian Finnish society was gone. Very little about that society is known. The traditional treatment of Finnish history is mostly based on archaeological evidence until the semi-mythical Swedish Crusades.
by esafak | 2025-06-22 17:32:13+00:00
But does it have to be inaccessible to be so? It's easy to write something incomprehensible that says nothing. Is the writer writing about something that is inherently complex, and that's why it is inaccessible? Not typically in a novel. The prospective reader may then ask, why should I bother? I'm also curious what Pynchon has to say, but not enough to justify the investment.