MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tzs | 2025-06-23 11:48:04+00:00
For iPhone in the US battery replacement is not expensive.

A battery replacement not covered by the warranty or Apple Care ranges from $70 for really old phones to $100-120 for the latest models (the high end is a range because it depends on whether you have the regular model or a pro or max).

That’s way cheaper than a new iPhone. It’s even cheaper if you use a third party repair place instead of Apple. Third party repair places are common even in small towns.

In my small town there is one inside the Walmart and one in a standalone shop, and in the small town around 8 miles away there are two in the mall and one or two standalone ones.
by derriz | 2025-06-23 11:48:22+00:00
In this case, what has Ireland done to US citizens that this reciprocates? Ireland has a special deal for US citizens - no visa is required for visits up to 90 days - you just turn up and show your passport.

I'm not convinced that this is truly about actually protecting the US from terrorism or foreign attack since all major terrorist acts that I can recall over the last few decades were perpetrated by native-born US citizens and not by visitors on visas.

It seems more about catching people who might have, for example, expressed an opinion that doesn't align with "they deserve it" with respect to Palestinians in Gaza - which currently seems sufficient to be branded "a threat to the US" and grounds for detention and expulsion.
by rcxdude | 2025-06-23 11:49:02+00:00
sudo has a lot of machinery for representing complex policies which involve partial access to elevated (or just different) permissions, and with more conditions than just a correct password for the requesting user. The kernel itself just sees a binary running as root which may drop some of those permissions before starting another process.

(And this isn't even the most arcane part of linux userland authorization and authentication. PAM is by far the scariest bit, very few people understand it and the underlying architecture is kinda insane)
by mbirth | 2025-06-23 11:49:11+00:00
Usernames only? There’s someone living in the US not being able to write their own gmail address correctly. Thus, I sometimes get things like confirmations of hotel bookings they did.

What if you get flagged because someone else used your username to post stupid things? Will you even be informed of the offending posts and have opportunity to defend yourself?

This requirement doesn’t make any sense.
by ryao | 2025-06-23 11:49:27+00:00
The students were not the only ones to bully me. I can recall three incidents where teachers bullied me:

* One teacher lifted me by my tie off the floor (to the point where I was on my toes) and yelled at me for the audacity of trying to help her with a computer issue. I forget what the issue was (although I believe it involved printing), but I recall that I had encountered the problem in the past and had regurgitated the solution in an effort to be helpful.

* The same teacher hit me repeatedly on the head in class while telling me that until I had a college degree, I was not to tell her how to do her job, again for having had the audacity of telling her to how solve a computer issue. She later took my advice and solved it, but tried to hide that she had taken it. Either this or the previous incident had been over my telling her to press the insert key to disable overwrite mode in Microsoft Word. She had been puzzled on how to disable overwrite mode until I tried to help her. I am not entirely sure which incident correspond to which issue.

* Another teacher, upon hearing that I could solve all of the math problems given to us in class mentally, started yelling at me while the class jeered. Then she wrote a bunch of numbers on the board and demanded I tell her the average while she loudly counted down and the class was making a racket. All of the noise caused an off by 1 error in my computation and she then concluded that I was incapable of doing mental math. I had known that I might be off by one, but I did not have enough time to repeat the computation, so I picked one of the two possibilities and unfortunately picked wrongly. Ironically, I later won a mental math competition in the school that had people solve questions that far exceeded those the we were expected to solve using a paper and pencil.

That said, my mother somehow learned about the incidents involving the computer teacher. I had no idea at the time why she was upset and threatened legal action if it ever happened again. Many of these incidents were a blur when I was a student as I had repressed them. My mother had to learn about what had happened by asking my classmates before she was able to pry the details out of me. I started to remember many of these things years later when my circumstances had improved and the memories had resurfaced as intrusive thoughts, which in a way, victimized me again years after the events were long past. There is nothing quite like going about one’s day only for memories of past abuse to resurface for an attack on one’s psyche.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-06-23 11:49:41+00:00
> Say you let someone in who suicide bombs himself and takes out several Americans. Then a reporter asks the DHS spokesperson how they let someone in the country that had "Death to America" posts all over their social media out in the open for everyone to see but they didn't. Nobody would forgive the government for such a grave oversight.

Everything is partisan now.

If something bad happens, every media outlet will blame the party they don't like for it somehow. It doesn't matter what that party actually did, therefore there is no value in doing harmful stuff for CYA purposes because deploying the CYA tactics will not stop you from being blamed for it by the outlets that don't like you, and also will not stop the outlets that do you like you from blaming the other party instead of you.
by ggm | 2025-06-23 11:51:29+00:00
Doesn't this basically justify why they have qualms? To not seek to repatriate in this circumstance would seem politically unwise, if you value the gold.

If of course it's just a bargaining tool, you would think there is a quit pro quo.

Whilst the impact of a refusal to repatriate would be high remember the gold is probably not performing very much of a role, beyond a defensive one, and is nothing like the whole of their stocks. And the cost to US standing in enacting a refusal to NATO allies would be significant: You would expect future gold deposits to seek safer harbours for one, and the retention of the dollar as a hedge currency would be called into even more question.

In any case, it's a matter for law. On what grounds could the US refuse?
by vidarh | 2025-06-23 11:52:09+00:00
That is exactly the point.

If the Church-Turing thesis is true, then the brain is a Turing machine / Turing equivalent.

And so, assuming Church-Turing is true, then the existence of the brain is proof of the possibility of AGI, because any Turing machine can simulate any other Turing machine (possibly too slowly to be practical, but it denies its impossibility).

And so, any proof that AGI is "mathematically impossible" as the title claims, is inherently going to contain within it a proof that the Church-Turing thesis is false.

In which case there should be at least one example of a function a human brain can compute that a Turing machine can't.
by mrtksn | 2025-06-23 11:52:15+00:00
You'll remember those as the good old days when you get fired for sanitary reasons. America has begun ideological checks at the gates, this will spread to weed out the enemy within. They don't have a PCR test for this, the test is your speech history. You will have to think the right way, they will need to be sure that you are not infected with a mindvirus. Today's pathogen is the woke mindvirus but maybe in near future other viruses will be discovered.
by holowoodman | 2025-06-23 11:54:16+00:00
The official line in Germany is actually that Ukraine most probably did it: https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/ndr-wdr/nordstream-17... https://www.br.de/nachrichten/deutschland-welt/nord-stream-s... https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/nord-stream-pipeline-explos...

Knowledge or agreement by Selensky is unclear, but there seem to be hints. Poland might have been complicit or at least turned a blind eye and seems to have let a wanted suspect escape to Ukraine.
by _Algernon_ | 2025-06-23 11:54:36+00:00
>While self-selection is unlikely to explain the GAP, another potential artifact of data collection could be systematic differences in grooming practices between genders. Women typically invest more time and resources in grooming than men (Das & Stephen, 2011). However, most studies follow standardized photo-shooting protocols requiring participants to remove makeup and other enhancing accessories (e.g. Ebner et al., 2018; Kleisner et al., 2024; Torrance et al., 2014; Zhang et al., 2019). While some grooming practices, such as eyebrow shaping or long-term skincare routines, may not be entirely controlled by these protocols, their impact is likely minimal.

I disagree with their premise that this impact is "likely minimal". I also would want to know what percentage "most studies" refers to.
by StefanBatory | 2025-06-23 11:54:42+00:00
We do know know, there are so many people who would have loved to see Nord Stream blown up.

Our foreign minister for example in Poland, thanked USA for doing so :P I for example I'm happy NS2 got blown up, as it means relative safety for us. Germans won't be able to just go on about their business with Russia in the future.
by vidarh | 2025-06-23 11:56:51+00:00
Non-computable functions are not relevant to this discussion, though, because humans can't compute them either, and so inherently an AGI need not be able to compute them.

The point remains that we know of no function that is computable to humans that is not in the Turing computable / general recursive function / lambda calculus set, and absent any indication that any such function is even possible, much less an example, it is no more reasonable to believe humans exceed the Turing computable than that we're surrounded by invisible pink unicorns, and the evidence would need to be equally extraordinary for there to be any reason to entertain the idea.
by chrsw | 2025-06-23 11:58:21+00:00
Claude Code is very impressive. It almost feels like another programmer sitting there with you in your terminal. It's not perfect and usually needs help understanding what you're trying to do but once all the pieces are in place and it gets going it's incredible. I'm not even using it properly in terms of giving it the right context it needs to truly understand my project. And I'm not using it for TypeScript or even any web development.
by mmaunder | 2025-06-23 11:58:25+00:00
You have to try and experience claude code to answer this question. Otherwise it's just going to be a pointless debate here. If you live in a linux terminal you're going to be instantly addicted. Make sure you read the docs. Use a CLAUDE.md, create planning docs for big tasks in markup format, iterate on the planning doc until you're happy then get it to implement. And also use the technique of, as you approach the context limit have it write its memory to a file, /clear and then read that file back in. This gives you better mileage.
by phoronixrly | 2025-06-23 11:58:31+00:00
I was asking what they meant by that. I did not disagree with right to repair. To the contrary -- IMO vehicles must be completely repairable with freely available standardized general purpose parts, as opposed to pre-made custom assemblies at ungodly prices and limited production periods.

Removing emissions functionality (which I explicitly listed), or safety functionality is not repairing your vehicle, it is altering your vehicle to your own benefit and at the expense of everyone else, and must be prevented by the government, and not by auto manufacturers. I thought this was implied with 'being frowned upon', because society and their government representatives frown upon stuff, auto manufacturers outright prevent it.

Still, I reiterate, one must have the complete power to do so as part of owning a vehicle, just not the privilege of using it on public roads afterwards.
by holowoodman | 2025-06-23 11:59:23+00:00
You can nowadays look at a 3D-plot of internal density in an X-Ray computed tomography. On the chance that somebody mixed up an alloy that has the exact same density and X-Ray density as gold, you can try X-Ray absorption spectra which depend on nuclear resonances of different nuclei, so would conclusively prove presence and amount of non-Gold material.

And you can do activation analysis, where you activate the ingot with neutron radiation such that Gold isotopes form and decay. You then measure the decay gamma radiation spectrum and look for decay lines that are not gold but another material. This is non-destructive, but will make that ingot slightly radioactive for a while, but nothing that a few weeks of patience to wait for the decay can't fix.

Oh, and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra would also work, but usually those machines are for very small samples in the milligram region. No idea whether there are some that could fit a gold ingot.
by pona-a | 2025-06-23 11:59:32+00:00
I got it from here [0]. I didn't notice it was a keyword search, so it's an overcount. Thanks for correcting me.

Going off its security advisories page [1] and this tracker [2], it seems to be around 43 CVEs, most rated high severity.

So the actual rate would be 43 CVE / 430 kLoC = ~0.01 CVE per kLoC, so ~2.65 CVEs for udisks and ~0.2 for pmount.

[0] https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=sudo

[1] https://www.sudo.ws/security/advisories/

[2] https://security.snyk.io/package/linux/debian%3A10/sudo
by signaturefish | 2025-06-23 11:59:38+00:00
On the individual scale, something like a Sigma Metalytics resistivity analyser (passes an electric field through the sample, checks to see if resistivity, conductivity, weight or size all match up to what you'd expect from a homogeneous gold sample of that size or weight). On the commercial scale, an XRF spectrometer. Both methods are completely non-destructive, and highly accurate (the XRF more so).

(the two scales are due to price and bulk: the Sigma is about the size of a hardback book and a few hundred pounds, an XRF is the size of a large 3d-printer and many thousands).
by Agraillo | 2025-06-23 11:59:52+00:00
I find Wolfram's computational irreducibility is a very important aspect when dealing with modern LLMs, because for them it can be reduced (here it can) to "some questions shouldn't be inferred, but computed". From recent tests, I played with a question when models had to find cities and countries that can be connected with a common vowel in the middle (like Oslo + Norway = Oslorway). Every "non-thinking" LLMs answered mostly wrong, but wrote a perfect html/js ready to use copy/paste script, that when run found all the correct results from the world. Recent "thinking" ones managed to make do with the prompt thinking but it was a long process ending up with one or two results. We just can't avoid computations for plenty of tasks
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by mrtksn | 2025-06-23 12:00:28+00:00
That's also the default mode in countries like Russia, Turkey etc. No one bothers you %99.9 of the times, these countries don't have the capacity to enforce total control. With the spread of the internet, things changed a bit and people had realized that they must watch what they say online but it's still based on incidents, i.e. if your tweets go viral you go to jail. Otherwise, no one cares. carry on.

US wants total control, they don't want to be in full know. It's in line with their intelligence gathering practices, it's the American way apparently.
by brynx97 | 2025-06-23 12:00:40+00:00
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https

By extension, any application or device could rely on DoH instead of OS-provided or network-provider DNS servers. It is controversial, since it both helps individuals combat ISP or government censorship and also helps bad actors do bad things [1].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_over_HTTPS#Analysis_of_DNS...
by twixfel | 2025-06-23 12:00:44+00:00
I am not exaggerating at all. Israel is that bad, indeed it's worse than many of its neighbours.

> And America are not in a war with Iran

Bombing a country's nuclear infrastructure is surely an act of war.

We're going to see a big turn from Israel in the West. Boomers are absolutely obsessed with the place but the younger generations aren't. Netanyahu throwing his lot in with Trump means that Israel will become a partisan issue. Europeans already have mostly turned against Israel: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/03/public-support...
by mihaaly | 2025-06-23 12:01:45+00:00
I recall in 2014 when we sought travel authorization/visa with my later wife it asked about social media accounts. Well, my memory can fool me, my recollection could be wrong. Anyhow, I had this thought around then, related or unrelated, while already starting to pull back social media presence, not necessarily for the security concerns less serious than today, but for the negative security potentials and also due to the increadible noise and low quality flow of inflated self promotion started to repelled me, so I had this thought then that not having the 'normal' online presence could be disadvantageous in applying to state bodies for some favour or permission. Should I pretend something? Should I have a twitter account and broadcast each and every opinion of mine for the space of the internet? Otherwise I could be the freak, the unusual, the weird, who does not fit the normal profile and becomes suspicious? 'What is he hiding?!', could be the thought if I do not have the right amount of online presence expected?

That time we did not have to worry about setting everything public, we figured US officials will have access regardless, if they really want to. ;)
by OtherShrezzing | 2025-06-23 12:02:00+00:00
A huge pile of gold in a secure location allows a government to operate in exile essentially forever without creating substantial debts for the home nation. It's not just "Italy's gold", it's "Contemporary Italy's gold".

Norway & the Netherlands moved their gold right before the Nazi invasions in the 40's, and were able to continue operating in exile as a result. Taiwan was established on the back of this tactic too, with the Chinese nationalists moving their gold out of the mainland into Taiwan when they realised they'd lose to the Communists.
by theGeatZhopa | 2025-06-23 12:02:30+00:00
You mean "the gold of others in your hands?" ... Yes, that's the idea of "bring it home", so no one gets an advantage of except the owner.

You never know what the orange man will propose in the next hour.

But I'm with you. I wouldn't call it "advantage taking" though. I rather would call it a friendship based on "trust, reliance and opportunities" for all. Now, we see, it was wrong. The US can't be trusted anymore. It was an egoistic and toxic relationship - I'm happy it has an ending, now.
by vidarh | 2025-06-23 12:03:41+00:00
It's irrelevant whether we agree on which faction the characteristics applies to. All that is relevant is that bringing this up in the README and elsewhere the way that he has is seen that way and seen as highly political and offensive by a lot of people.

He has chosen to make this into a political project that pushes away a lot of people who see his language as indicative of a dicriminatory attitudes rather than one focused on the technical merits.

That's his choice. I for one won't get involved with a project like that, and clearly that is the case for a lot of other people too.
by krona | 2025-06-23 12:03:44+00:00
Unconvincing.

Why did the authors select the face as the determinant of attractiveness? AFAIK the human female focuses on the upper body in general, with nothing in particular. Cultural variations exist, obviously.

This (upper body strength, generally) would make sense for evolutionary reasons. It makes more sense than the (male) peacock's tail, for example.
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by Bairfhionn | 2025-06-23 12:04:05+00:00
The idea of all countries having it in one location: If you have to transfer money to a different country for whatever reason you just have to put the gold from one part of the vault to the other. Money securely, physically and quickly transferred.

Also you have the physical money and don't rely on computers or similar. More secure (if you ignore Die Hard 3).

If countries start moving the gold away it's a) sign that they need the money elsewhere or b) they don't trust the current location anymore.
by adrian_b | 2025-06-23 12:04:24+00:00
The only metals with which you could make an alloy with the same density as gold, but cheaper than gold, are uranium and tungsten.

Other metals would require too big additions of expensive rhenium/osmium/iridium/platinum to match the density of gold.

The best choice for matching the density of gold is tungsten, but even with that the cost for an exact match of the density would be high. The tungsten objects that are found easily in commerce have a density significantly lower than gold, because they are made from tungsten powder sintered with nickel, not from pure tungsten, which is hard to melt.

The conductivity test is good, but not easy to perform when the object has a complex form. Surface conductivity is easy to measure on any object, but the object could be plated with pure gold, so surface conductivity would show no difference.

For a gold bar of standard dimensions, it should be easy enough to make a text fixture allowing the measurement of the bulk conductivity.
by stpedgwdgfhgdd | 2025-06-23 12:04:34+00:00
Fwiiw

I noticed that CC’s generated Go code nowadays is very solid. No hallucination recently that i can remember or struck me. I do see youtube videos of people working with js/ts still struggling with this. Which is odd, there is way more training material for the latter. Perhaps the simplicity of Go shines here.

CC might generate Go code for which there are already library functions present. So thorough code reviews are a necessity.
by justrudd | 2025-06-23 12:04:46+00:00
> Do you buy bottled water from the store?

When driving. But not for day-to-day.

> Do you filter tap water? What filter do you use?

Yes. Brita. I don't know which one. It attaches directly to the faucet.

> Do you drink unfiltered tap water (which country)? Something else?

Yes. United States. I'm currently in Alabama and drink unfiltered tap water as needed. I also still drink straight from the hose outside when it is hot.