MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tim-- | 2025-06-25 05:14:19+00:00
> you both seem to be saying that you get whatever the server sends

Yes, but I am also saying that you can't verify that the script that is run on one machine with a pipe is the same script that runs on a second machine with a pipe.

The key part of the original statement is the server can choose to send different scripts based on different factors. A curl&bash script on machine 1 does not necessarily mean the same curl&bash script will be run on machine 2.

The tooling provided by a `curl | bash` pipeline provides no security at all.

With winget, there is at least tooling to be able to see that the same file (with the same hash) will be downloaded and installed.

There are ways to do this better, for example, check out https://hashbang.sh. It includes a GPG signature that is verified against the install script, before it is passed to curl.
by umanwizard | 2025-06-25 05:14:20+00:00
The original post of this subthread:

> Going to the USA as a tourist might be the most stupid action that one can make at this time. Unless you have a dying mother or father, there is absolutely no reason to visit this country. It reminds me of the tourists that used to go to North Korea for fun some years ago, it never was a good idea.

did not claim that one has a moral obligation to avoid the US, but rather tried to claim that it was stupid to do so from a purely rational perspective.

It’s the latter point I disagree with. People who avoid the US due to the possibility of personal harm by border guards are being irrational (unless perhaps they’re prominent pro-Palestinian activists).

I never said there’s no reason not visit the US. Avoiding it as a political protest against the current administration is a perfectly decent reason! But that’s not what was originally claimed.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-06-25 05:14:51+00:00
Some fields have moved away from patents and almost purely to trade secrets. There are so many practical issues with patents now that in many cases they have negative value.

The downside of this is that companies who are using trade secrets instead of patents are no longer publishing either. Many areas of R&D that are primarily done outside of academia are becoming increasingly opaque because there is no up-to-date literature around the state-of-the-art.

Ironically, the situation that patents were meant to prevent is becoming common again now that patents are often effectively useless.
by MobiusHorizons | 2025-06-25 05:15:19+00:00
Pumped hydro is a pretty cool solution, but it requires very specific geography and water supply combinations that are unfortunately relatively rare. I'm not that familiar with Texas's water and elevation situation, but it seems less obviously a good candidate than the TVA. Don't get me wrong, pumped hydro is an awesome solution where it works, but it's not easily deployable in the way that batteries are.
by dragonwriter | 2025-06-25 05:15:31+00:00
> Curiously the BBC also used quotes around "won".

Journalistically, that can be appropriate to indicate that that word was used by Cuomo; distinguishing direct quotation from paraphrase or interpretation of intent.

OTOH, on HN, the policy is to use the source headline unless there is a strong reason not to, using a paraphrase of a bullet point in the article-top summary is dubious, even if that bullet point is the main reason the poster was inspired to post the link.
by postpawl | 2025-06-25 05:16:04+00:00
You're technically right about ERCOT's limited role in gas pricing and the regulatory distinctions. But ERCOT did have some direct failures beyond just being a scapegoat, like ignoring federal winterization warnings, the $16 billion overcharging scandal where they kept prices at maximum for two days after outages mostly ended, and poor crisis communication. Even if PUCT and the Railroad Commission should have mandated better reserves and winterization, ERCOT still mismanaged what was within their control.
by benrutter | 2025-06-25 05:17:38+00:00
Quote from Harvard medicine magazine:

> findings in models show inflammation, cell death, lung and liver effects, changes in the gut microbiome, and altered lipid and hormone metabolism.

Microplastics aren't anywhere near as well understood as sugar or alcohol. There's a growing body of research associating them with negative health outcones, inluding observing them causing harm on a cell level (i.e. not just correlational studies).

It's definitely not true that there isn't evidence of harm. There's a lot. It's more that this is a new field of research and not yet fully understood.

https://magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/microplastics-ever...
by dclowd9901 | 2025-06-25 05:17:48+00:00
Having been at this long enough to have put Easter eggs of my own into works I've done, I can say that the biggest issue is the lack of stomach for introducing a possible failure point to the software for little more than shits and giggles, especially when software has gotten so complex and big. That and who has the time to build silly stuff at work anymore. I feel like we're constantly at 120%.
by beepyaus | 2025-06-25 05:18:59+00:00
Here's a thought, why not conduct a series of 5-minute long interviews, and at least weed out the truly automated AI bots etc?

You can speak over Zoom for 5 minutes and answer some reasonable questions? -Great you're on to the next stage.

The 'keyword mining' and AI vetting that currently is reality has to stop. Sure, filter out typos and bad grammar, but certainly for large companies get more human eyes reading resumes and develop one's intuition. Maybe at the other extreme, are the large corporations that have 15 rounds of interviews; that should never be allowed.
by qwertox | 2025-06-25 05:19:41+00:00
> Officially supports Exif data

Probably the best news here. While you already can write custom data into a header, having Exif is good.

BTW: Does Exif have a magnetometer (rotation) and acceleration (gravity) field? I often wonder about why Google isn't saving this information in the images which the camera app saves. It could help so much with post-processing, like with leveling the horizon or creating panoramas.
by masklinn | 2025-06-25 05:20:07+00:00
> Can't you improve a compression algorithm and still produce a still valid decompression input? PNG is based on zip, there's certainly ways to improve zip without breaking backwards compatibility.

That's just changing an implementation detail of the encoder, and you don't need spec changes for that e.g. there are PNG compressors which support zopfli for extra gains on the DEFLATE (at a non-insignificant cost). This is transparent to the client as the output is still just a DEFLATE stream.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-06-25 05:20:39+00:00
> What do people see in these strange middle places?

Not sharing a wall or ceiling with other people is great actually

I am constantly told that dense housing "built right" is quiet and peaceful and you never hear your neighbors through the walls, but my experience in apartments in my 20s was not like that

I constantly had neighbours that would play loud music at all hours, or get into fights with their partners or otherwise just be extremely disruptive and stressful to share a building with

I'll take the trade of having to drive a couple more minutes to get to a store if it means I never have to hear my neighbours having loud sex through the walls again at 2am when I'm trying to sleep
by jsbisviewtiful | 2025-06-25 05:20:46+00:00
> Proplifting is the act of taking discarded plant material from shops to create new plants.

> discarded plant material

Yeah, not sorry but this is all I need to know: DISCARDED plant material. That means it’s been claimed by the last owners to be defunct and immaterial.

Arguing against that information alone is why we’ve destroyed the planet. Vulture capitalism will be and practically already is the death of us all.
Why do some ethical hackers say using pre existing tools are for script kiddies?
by junebuggerz | 2025-06-25 05:21:18+00:00
I have encountered some ethical hackers that say using tools like crackmapexec, responder, kerbrute, rubeus, mimikatz, evilwinrm, etc... in terms for windows systems. Or even tools like metasploit, burp, nmap, gobuster, etc... are for script kiddies. That a "real hacker" are able to create their own tools from scratch and nothing that comes close to what you see on Exploit-DB(that exploits from Exploit-DB are for novices basically) and on the Internet, and that includes NOT using Python scripts for exploits, I'm not sure what language I'm guessing C/C++ or Assembly are for "real hackers". And creating tools and exploits are done every day as part of their job. Is this true? I also see a lot of people saying that using tools like metasploit and knowing how tools works and knowing how to write custom exploits when needed, I'm guessing like the ones from Exploit-DB, are NOT considered a script kiddie, if you know how everything works. So can anyone tell me what a real hacker does?
by mkagenius | 2025-06-25 05:21:22+00:00
Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20250625051706/https://blog.goog...

I just released this tool a few hours ago - https://github.com/BandarLabs/coderunner

The key difference would be Gemini CLI running code directly on you mac vs in a Apple container (in my tool).

They support MCP, so I might add Apple container support once the repo is public.
by gregwebs | 2025-06-25 05:21:36+00:00
Texas is one of the best climates in the US for renewables but in locations with less sun and wind the math will be different. That math includes batteries for load shifting of which Texas is installing a lot.

As renewable generation increases past a certain level grid stability does require additional effort and that’s a lot more difficult to price in. In Texas their grid is isolated from the rest of the US. This may create a lower ceiling on renewables since they can’t send excess generation anywhere other than their own batteries .
by Freedom2 | 2025-06-25 05:21:43+00:00
Assuming this is something like Claude Code (guess we'll find out soon), I've had generally more success with Gemini 2.5 than Claude Opus for the various little refactorings and minor tasks I wanted to do. At large scale, complex changes I still don't expect a huge improvement over what we have already, but I'm eager to see what Google has come up with.
by yawpitch | 2025-06-25 05:21:47+00:00
Cute. Shame the basic physics are wrong; a narrowboat is tiller driven (you push the controls left to go right) and rotates about its center, whereas this is closer to the front. Also reversing flips the dynamics, is much less directionally stable than forward motion, and introduces the Fun of both prop walk and potential cavitation.

Plus a real canal boat simulator would put a weed hatch incident well before a tidal wave.

Can’t believe I’ve been living on one of these things since before we discovered we were in the mirror timeline.
by malloc-0x90 | 2025-06-25 05:23:12+00:00
Never built on Apple, last time I tried:

it asked me to update Xcode;

Xcode asked me to update the OS first;

and the OS asked me to buy a new 1300$€ MacBook hardware (with similar specs, the one I was using wasn't even that old/slow).

So to quote Rick and Morty i though: "That's just subscription with extra steps!" - and made a windows program and an Android app.
by elcritch | 2025-06-25 05:23:48+00:00
With more motors and joints also comes some degree of redundancy however. Having multiple fingers means one finger dying won't be as big of an impedement. It'd require feedback and the ability for the motion planner / AI to account for it.

Plus they'll likely be modular and able to be replaced.

IMHO, the bigger design issue for humanistic is lowering the need for mechanical precision which requires lots more metals and instead using adaptive feedback and sensors to obtain accuracy similar to how humans and animals do it. AIs should be really good at that, eventually. I think the compute will need to be about 10x what it is now though.
by roca | 2025-06-25 05:25:05+00:00
You are correct. I worked on this for years at Mozilla. See https://robert.ocallahan.org/2007/02/units-patch-landed_07.h... and https://robert.ocallahan.org/2014/11/relax-scaling-user-inte... for example. Some of the problems were pretty hard but the Web ended up in a pretty good place --- Web developers pretty much don't think about whether scaling factors are fractional or not, and things just work... well enough that some people don't even know the Web is "free-scaling UI"!
by nikkwong | 2025-06-25 05:26:02+00:00
I remember at least one study that pointed to 250k nanoplastics in a liter of bottled water [0]. Possibly these types of particles weren't studied. There are certainly many different toxicants to be looking out for; overwhelming to the point of being pointless.

[0]: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/plastic...
by komali2 | 2025-06-25 05:26:26+00:00
> So what you are saying is that consciousness is a property that emerges from a complex neural network that our brain is

Sort of, minus the word "is" in "consciousness is..." since nobody, as you point out, can say what consciousness "is." Without some qualifier. "I hypothesize that..."

> But that would also mean that consciousness cannot invoke any quantum mechanics

Well, consciousness isn't known to be physical, yet does influence the physical world (probably), which is a major criticism of dualism from a materialist perspective - clearly, if it's influencing the material world, it's material! But, we don't know, so, no, it doesn't necessarily mean that consciousness can't invoke quantum mechanics if it's not physical.

> Claude effectively claims to be conscious, why should we not believe him?

I agree generally that we don't know enough about consciousness to "prove" it exists, but I disagree insomuch as I don't like to engage in cleanroom absolute theoretics about it - e.g., yeah I can't prove what consciousness is, but I accept that you're probably conscious, and that my friends I know in real life absolutely are, and Claude isn't because it's basically a Chinese Room. I don't have rigid theorics around this but I don't really believe anyone does, so I guess I'm just vibing about it for now.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-06-25 05:27:46+00:00
> These people live there because it was cheap when they bought it, they expect the metroplex to keep growing increasing the value of their eventually "closer in" home from where the outskirts will be in a decade, and schools are better than other places they might have afforded to buy. Am I wrong

I think you are wrong, yes

Could be I'm the one who is wrong, but I don't think most people buy homes with this sort of speculation in mind. Most people are just looking for the most comfortable and nicest house they can afford on their budget, and probably don't actually think too much about "what might be built later"
by jacobaul | 2025-06-25 05:28:40+00:00
To maybe get a little carried away with the sci-fi for a minute, why does the Actuator need to cost anything?

When the tree of costs that make up a product are traced, surely all the leaf nodes are human labour? As in, to make the actuator, I had to pay someone to assemble it and I had to buy the parts. Each part had a materials cost and a labour cost. So it goes for the factory that made the fasteners, the foundry that made the steel, the mine that extracted the ore.

Shudder to think of how to regulate resource extraction in a future where AI humanoid robots are strip mining and logging for free.
by yogini | 2025-06-25 05:28:52+00:00
1. ChatGPT I use it mostly to dump quick ideas and then expand them later by using it as my thinking partner. Also I use chatgpt for brainstorming ideas for marketing campaigns, writing copies etc. I have few custom GPTs created for my every use case

2. Claude I use Claude projects for writing articles and for SEO optimisation

3. Cursor I use Cursor for coding daily. Now quite used to the flow it creates and makes my coding super fast

4. Sora and Gemini For image generation. Mostly I need that to share social media posts

All other AI tools come and go but these are 4 constants for me for last few months.
by Frieren | 2025-06-25 05:29:16+00:00
> trying to impress their bosses and curry the next promotion

There are companies where the entire upper echelon is like that. Full of career people that is only looking up to get a promotion and ignoring their responsibilities toward their teams.

One of the symptoms of this disease is that there is a total disconnect between leadership and the average employee. As everybody is looking up there is no connection or communication down.

And it is very difficult to fix. People at the top have that mindset. So, their expectation is that people below them will be tending all their desires and laughing their jokes. They do not understand promotions as a reward for performance but as a reward for personal loyalty.

The bigger the corporation, the easier this occurs. Small companies die when this happens, big monopolistic corporations get so much money that they can afford to sustain such an inefficient way of working. For big enough corporations it looks like "nobility" in a feudal system. Backstabbing, office politics, and sectarization dominates the environment.
by iLemming | 2025-06-25 05:29:49+00:00
> The best engineers I've worked with were comfortable with their tools (of course, that's a requirement)

Yeah, that's all what I'm saying.

> but wouldn't be spending much time on incremental improvements.

What is "an incremental improvement"?

My tools change depending on the work I do, and it so happens, the type of tasks I do sometimes change. When I say "working on tools," to me it's like knife sharpening. Sure, it's not impossible to cook with a dull knife, but it's helluva uncomfortable; why just not sharpen it? For me, it's like a chore I can't avoid, the only choice I can make is how to respond to it - and I choose to enjoy it. It takes less than two minutes to sharpen my knife - I have an electric sharpener. It's not tiny, but small enough so I can hold it in my hand, and it's not expensive. I also have regular sharpening stones. That process takes longer. I think I enjoy it, why not; it feels like meditation. But I don't do it every day, or even every week. I think I like how knives feel after.

So basically, I don't even understand what we are arguing about. Some engineers like extending the tools they use. Some, maybe not so much. Some spend a good amount of time doing that. They do it because they love it, and there are mostly benefits.

Some don't sharpen their knives at all - they simply throw them away and buy new set - I just don't know anyone like that in my circles. And similarly, I have never met engineers who never cared about improving their tooling even a little bit.

At the end of the day, we can probably all agree that doing the work without nicely "sharpened" tools is like cooking with a dull knife - it's not impossible; it's just why would anyone do this to themselves? It sounds anguishing.
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by joris2120 | 2025-06-25 05:31:48+00:00
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by benrutter | 2025-06-25 05:32:09+00:00
Yeah me too! Drax seem to share not just the name, but the morals of a certain Bond villain.

Probably not yet though, the UK government seems fairly keen for Biofuel in their net zero policy.

Banning Drax from using woodpellets from important nature (ancient forests, rainforests etc) is probably a route that'll be more likely to havesuccess.
by shehzade | 2025-06-25 05:32:10+00:00
Hey tux3, sorry to post off topic, but is there any chance I could DM you on Discord/Signal/Reddit/etc…?

You had a super interesting comment a while back about CrowdStrike RE that I was really hoping I could ask you about further!

Discord: shehzade1618 Reddit: u/shehzade16180 Signal: shehzade.1618
by chrismorgan | 2025-06-25 05:32:24+00:00
It landed four years ago, but had debilitating problems. Maybe a year ago when I last tried it, it was just as bad—no movement at all. But now, it seems largely fixed, hooray! Just toggled widget.wayland.fractional-scale.enabled and restarted, and although there are issues with windows not synchronising their scale (my screen is 1.5×; at startup, one of two windows stayed 2×; on new window, windows are briefly 2×; on factor change, sometimes chrome gets stuck at the next integer, probably the same issue), it’s all workaroundable and I can live with it.

Ahhhhhhhh… so nice.
by gamblor956 | 2025-06-25 05:33:00+00:00
Yes, that's a French thing, always has been - sorry if that's the first time the author went to France and rented a private flat there ..

This sounded wrong, so I asked my French expatriate friends and they're convinced you're smoking something strong. It's not normal to have to bring your own sheets and towels for a short-term stay in France, though it is normal for a longer-term stay.
by technoabsurdist | 2025-06-25 05:34:04+00:00
oh yeah, in my experience anything below ROCm6.x really sucks.

I tried to run qwen2.5-32B on ROCm5.x and it was running at <15tok/s lol.

Have you tried running any sort of LLM inference on your MI25, or what NN workloads are you running?
by materielle | 2025-06-25 05:34:25+00:00
I agree with this, airline price discrimination is an example of the market actually working correctly.

Most people could afford to pay more for airline tickets. It’s just that they’ve done the math and they don’t want to.

I plan carefully and don’t have to rebook my flights. I pack my own food. I leave behind that second pair of shoes so that I only bring a carry on.

I’d rather do all of this so that I have an extra $100 to spend on a nice meal or experience at my destination.

If any of those things are important to you, then you can have them! You just have to pay for them.

I don’t see why the government needs to mandate that airlines provide certain services like checked bags (which would require increasing minimum ticket prices). Why not use price signals to allow each individual to tailor the experience for themselves?

I feel like everyone leaves out that last part. Everyone wants extras when you don’t have to pay for them. Are the people arguing for more regulation mentioning the tidbit that ticket prices will go up?

I know this is veering into the political, but I just don’t understand the ideology that most people seem to have. Which is that we need to use the power of the government to force people to buy things they don’t want.