MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anon7000 | 2025-06-21 18:32:17+00:00
Well, if you COULD ship something across the world on a private 747 with extra features to protect your cargo, and it has nearly no environmental downside and has no meaningful downside vs a smaller airplane… you’d probably do it! There’s no incentive in software to get a smaller, more efficient plane, and plenty of incentive to use the big thing for free that has all the extra features
by abeppu | 2025-06-21 18:33:44+00:00
Nevada became US territory through the treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo, and the US paid per acre ceded. Who should it have gone to? Lots of people fought in the Mexican-American war, and the military was funded by taxpayers. Is it wrong for it to become public land in that context?

And frankly Nevada is mostly land that no one wanted. Because it's mostly in the endorheic basin, and the soil is not great for agriculture. The BLM will let you graze animals without having to buy the land, and because it's so arid and pasture use will degrade the existing vegetation, IIUC it wouldn't make sense to purchase. I think federal ownership is kind of natural when the nation wants territorial control, but the land itself isn't capable of being productive.
by 2cynykyl | 2025-06-21 18:34:30+00:00
You'd get my vote! These boulevard signs are totally out of control. They are technically against bylaws in my town, but nobody enforces it. Two anecdotes about how insane these are:

1. I saw one last week advertising a halloween party, so it's been in the ground for over 6 months. It is on a sidewalk near the university and is passed by about 1000 people per day, and in 6+ months not ONE SINGLE PERSON said "Oh, I should talk this down".

2. I once saw a city employee get off their riding lawn mower to move one of these signs out of their way, cut the grass, then get off the mower again to put the sign back!

And echoing the GPs comment, what really gets me about these is that we all have our lives diminished so that one person or company can earn a little extra...maybe. Or in other words, 1000's of people are subjected to this and perhaps 1 person might bite?

I'll close with my favorite interpretation of advertising: Advertisers essentially steal your sense of self-satisfaction so they can sell it back to you.
by kayodelycaon | 2025-06-21 18:34:43+00:00
Israel is very much not in the control of the US. The US didn’t want Gaza razed to the ground. The US didn’t want to start another regional war. We were try to get out if this mess. Our population voted to get out of military action in the Middle East.

Unfortunately for the US, we’re stuck with what Israel decides to do. A lot of Americans are in favor of supporting Israel for one reason or another. If Irsael is somehow controlling the United States via lobbying or whatever, that kind of invalidates the whole client state idea.

US is the most powerful country in the world but that doesn’t mean we directly control our allies as client states.
by jdboyd | 2025-06-21 18:35:27+00:00
Linux's xattrs appear to only be an array of bytes, while Haiku's extended attributes are typed (string, mime, int, llong, float, double, bool, icon, or raw). This means a compatibility layer is probably needed to handle encoding types into the value of the xattr. Xattr(7) says there is a limit of 64kb for the value. Some haiku programs allegedly use more, but i dont have an example handy. Further, specific file systems may impose additional restrictions. For instance ext4 requires all xattrs to fit in a single file system block (assuming that the man page I'm reading is not out of date).
by Veen | 2025-06-21 18:36:16+00:00
The Hague Conventions and the Kellogg-Briand Pact. Although, in reality, it was a matter of the winners deciding on a suitable punishment for the losers. They did, however, go to considerable lengths to find legal justification in international law for the prosecutions and punishments of Nazi leaders. They could have just shot them: Churchill and Stalin both supported summary execution, although Churchill later changed his mind.
by socalgal2 | 2025-06-21 18:36:30+00:00
Google does not control "the internet". At best they control ads on the web. Apps are bigger than the web.

> if Apple went bust that would be bad for apple users

which happens to be 60% of the USA

> Google went bust the world would temporarily stop.

That's extreme hyperbole. Users would switch off gmail/gdocs/maps and be done.
by guilhas | 2025-06-21 18:36:47+00:00
Iran probably has had the capability to build one for some time, the reason they haven't done it is because is not their policy. And they adhere to international regulation and audits to make sure everything is compliant

But if their sovereignty keeps being threatened who knows

April 16, 2021 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-nuclear-unanium-enrichment... "Iran said on Friday that it had begun enriching uranium to the higher level. The country has said it intends to use the 60% enriched product for radio-pharmaceuticals, which can be used to treat diseases including cancer."
by flaminHotSpeedo | 2025-06-21 18:37:07+00:00
AWS regions are fundamentally different from GCP regions. GCP marketing tries really hard to make it seem otherwise, or that GCP has all the advantages of AWS regions plus the advantages of their approach, which means heavily on "effectively global" services. There are tradeoffs, for example multi region in GCP is often trivial and GCP can enforce fairness across regions, but that comes at the cost of availability. Which would be fine - GCP SLA's reflect the fact that they rarely consider regions to be a reliable fault containers, but GCP marketing, IMO, creates a dangerous situation by pretending to be something they aren't.

Even in the mini incident report they were going through extreme linguistic gymnastics trying to claim they are regional. Describing the service that caused the outage, which is responsible for global quota enforcement and is configured using a data store that replicates data globally in near real time, with apparently no option to delay replication, they said:

Service Control is a regional service that has a regional datastore that it reads quota and policy information from. This datastore metadata gets replicated almost instantly globally to manage quota policies for Google Cloud and our customers.

Not only would AWS call this a global service, the whole concept of global quotas would not fly at AWS.
by snowwrestler | 2025-06-21 18:37:20+00:00
Sen Mike Lee of Utah is behind the provision; he is Chair of the Senate committee on energy and natural resources. His stated interest is to make land available for private development around existing localities in Utah that are “hemmed in” by federal land.

However, the bill is being considered under reconciliation rules so it supposed to only do things related to revenue, mandatory spending, or federal debt. So as a technical matter, the land sales are in the bill purely as a revenue raiser. A lot of folks who might be sympathetic to Sen Lee’s interest in housing are very uncomfortable with what is on paper a straight land-for-money sale. Seems like a bad precedent, like a dairy farm that starts selling its cows to pay expenses.

A few Republican senators have stated opposition: Crapo, Risch, and Daines are what I’ve seen so far. With 53 GOP members, they can’t afford to lose any more.

Personally I’m sympathetic to the housing needs of localities in the West. But I don’t think this belongs in a pure budget bill, and I feel like the long-standing movement to “privatize the West” has poisoned the well and makes it hard to believe this actually just a little housing thing.
by krapp | 2025-06-21 18:37:53+00:00
What "Epstein/Israel/Trump blackmail conspiracy?" It's already known that Trump is in the Epstein files. He's already admitted to sexual assault, has been found liable of sexual abuse and is a convicted felon. He's one of the most openly venal and corrupt Presidents in history. There's literally nothing Israel could have on him that would surprise anyone.

Every American President will defend Israel at any cost. The American military industrial complex depends upon the existence of an aggressive, Zionist Israeli government constantly starting shit and creating the pretext for American imperialist doctrine. Conservative and evangelical Christians believe it is their literal sacred duty to defend Israel (see recent comments by Ted Cruz citing the Bible to that effect) It doesn't matter who is in the White House, or what party, and no coercion or blackmail is required.
by _g0wg | 2025-06-21 18:38:00+00:00
This, especially the "Definition of Conscious Intelligence" section, somewhat relates to a current project of mine, writing my own personal software license[1]. I needed to define "person" in my license for reasons, and it was really difficult for me to capture the full idea in words. I finally worked out a horribly long definition, but I might revisit it and steal some bits from this.

In a nutshell, I have an extremely broad definition of person. Cats are people. Ant colonies are people. Slime molds are people. Forests are probably people. Per my definition one could argue that Earth is an emergent person. And per my license you can't use my software if you abuse any person. Per my license if you disagree you can fight me about it.

It also reminds me that I never did fix that font issue between my website and my git server when displaying raw txt files. The one on my website[2] garbles all my weird symbols, and those are absolutely essential to the function and meaning of the license and other work. Need to work on that but fonts are so confusing.

- [1]: [url-redacted]

- [2]: [url-redacted]
by snickerbockers | 2025-06-21 18:38:15+00:00
I agree that America needs to cut back on to be sabre-rattling but you actually can have your cake and eat it too if nobody is both capable and willing to stop you.

Also how does the Hague get off imposing itself like that? Doesn't that make their judges a legitimate target by the same "can't have your cake and eat it too" principle if they actually apprehend somebody from a non-signatory? Under that logic the Hague invasion act seems less ludicrous.
by light_hue_1 | 2025-06-21 18:38:22+00:00
Not only has Haskell "abandoned" cons cells, its lists were never cons cells at all. The type system forbids (a . 1) entirely.

In Haskell there's a movement to get rid of much of the special syntax for lists. And a lot of code has moved on from lists. Many people never use them, I don't.

What killed lists is the reality of their horrific performance. They were great 40 years ago. But memory and CPU speed have scaled with different factors that make lists almost always the wrong choice.
by icedchai | 2025-06-21 18:38:48+00:00
Yes. I don't "touch type" in the traditional way. I have my own technique I developed when I was a teenager. I don't look at the keyboard and I don't "hunt and peck". I basically use index/middle/ring fingers on each hand for most of the keyboard, thumbs mostly handle the spacebar and alt keys, left pinky is mostly for shift, control, tab, right pinky is mostly for return, backspace, arrow keys, etc.
by commandersaki | 2025-06-21 18:39:30+00:00
So I tried this out on macOS 26 and the `airport` command is no longer there.

There is a `airportd.sb` file, which appears to be some permissions based thing in s-expression/LISP. Weird.

Edit: Spun up a macOS 15 VM and I got this:

WARNING: The airport command line tool is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. For diagnosing Wi-Fi related issues, use the Wireless Diagnostics app or wdutil command line tool.

I guess they weren't kidding.
by chrsw | 2025-06-21 18:39:55+00:00
That's a shame because the the Haiku code base is relatively easy to get into. It's not overly complicated, it's consistent, it doesn't have layers of different styles from different eras and origins, and so on. It's C++ but it doesn't use last C++ feature to show off how clever you can be. At least, I'm pretty sure that's still the case because it's been years since I looked at it. I remember being surprised about how easy it was to form a metal model of the design and a model of the design-behavior interaction.
by dragonwriter | 2025-06-21 18:40:21+00:00
> It is somewhat surprising though that they did not consider indicting Khamenei, Assad, Sinwar, or Haniyeh, isn't it?

You might want to read who warrants were being pursued against in the first part of the Prosecutor’s statement which also announced the pursuit of warrants against various Israei officials before saying things this stunningly ignorant.

https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/statement-icc-prosecutor-karim-...

On the basis of evidence collected and examined by my Office, I have reasonable grounds to believe that Yahya SINWAR (Head of the Islamic Resistance Movement (“Hamas”) in the Gaza Strip), Mohammed Diab Ibrahim AL-MASRI, more commonly known as DEIF (Commander-in-Chief of the military wing of Hamas, known as the Al-Qassam Brigades), and Ismail HANIYEH (Head of Hamas Political Bureau) bear criminal responsibility for the following war crimes and crimes against humanity committed on the territory of Israel and the State of Palestine (in the Gaza strip) from at least 7 October 2023

Sinwar and Haniyeh were subsequently killed, but an arrest warrant was issued for Al-Masri the same day as the warrants issued for Netanyahu and Gallant.
by iknownothow | 2025-06-21 18:40:23+00:00
To be fair, I'd put finding literal string diffs in the category of asking LLMs to do rote arithmetic.

The attention mechanism does far too much complex thinking for such a dumb task. This is precisely where you need to dumb down and focus and be disciplined rather than do high level next token prediction.

You'd benefit from actually asking the LLM to list the full document and compare, kind of like reasoning, and similar to how LLMs perform better when they break down arithmetic or algebra tasks into smaller steps.

Also my guess would be that the models that perform well are MoE models where there may be an Expert or two that does well on tasks that needs focus rather than intuition. So without knowing anything about Gemini Flash, my guess would be that it's an MoE model.
by anonnon | 2025-06-21 18:40:33+00:00
The author is Bryan Cantrill (bcantrill on HN), Sun (and Joyent) alumnus, kernel hacker, principal architect of dTrace, and a major contributor to ZFS. I doubt he uses LLMs to write his blogposts. Go watch any of his talks: he seems to have boundless energy. Seriously, if you've ever thought Musk came across as an Adderall tweaker, go watch some Bryan Cantrill. He's probably popping more Adderall (or Dexedrine, Vyvance, Ritalin?) than anyone else on HN.
by ptero | 2025-06-21 18:41:29+00:00
Unfortunately, there are enough courts that are very willing to slap any label on any suitably vilified candidate. Pick any president of India; you can probably find a Pakistani court would be willing to convict for "crimes against humanity". And vice versa. Or pick some Iraq-Iran pairings. Or Armenian- Azerbaijani, etc.

Allowing external courts to judge presidents is a bad idea. It is a slippery slope even for cases that seem obvious. My 2c.
by eszed | 2025-06-21 18:41:36+00:00
You're talking about those ones made of glued-together cork chips, right? They're only vaguely natural, and it wouldn't surprise me to find out they're shedding all sorts of who-knows-what. I've not tried melting one in the microwave, but ewww. I think I'd rather buy wine with a metal cap - the supposed "breathability" of a cork only matters (to the extent it does matter) for wine that will age a long time, which isn't anything I do.

It would surprise me to find out that the traditional, straight-from-the-tree kind need adhesive to stay in the bottles. I mean corks have been used to stop bottles for hundreds (thousands?) of years; surely they didn't use glue all that long ago?

I suppose - to supply a speculative counter-argument myself - it may be more profitable to cut the natural corks X% smaller, and counteract the mechanical deficit with glue. (That's, uh, kinda typical of the world we live in.)

Can anyone out there speak directly to that?
by heavyset_go | 2025-06-21 18:42:06+00:00
Theoretically, Cwtch[1] would afford you this obfuscation assuming Tor is secure and your adversary isn't nation-state level.

Similarly, using SimpleX private message routing via .onion message relays and the fact that the system has no identifiers can also afford you that obfuscation.

[1] https://docs.cwtch.im/
by woodruffw | 2025-06-21 18:42:55+00:00
I think the answer to that is resoundingly yes: the kinds of countries that care about curtailing E2EE messaging are also the ones that institute nationwide internet blackouts.

(But also, this isn’t a good argument! Repressive governments love metadata, and email is an amazing source of unbounded metadata even with these kinds of “secure” layers slapped on top. If I was a government looking to snoop on my citizens, I would absolutely push them towards the protocols I can infer the greatest amount of behavior from.)
by scrps | 2025-06-21 18:43:45+00:00
I pay for youtube with generous monthly donations to ad-block devs and list maintainers... Also how about all the ads on paid services now?

Oh and I pay for plenty of services just not from vampires like youtube who rip off the actual talent and hold their audience captive.

Arrr Matey, the sails may have been luffin but they be full again!
by deepsquirrelnet | 2025-06-21 18:45:12+00:00
I live in the West and have spent a lot of time on BLM land and in rural parts of Utah. The housing argument seems specious to me. BLM land is often on the extreme end of rural. A lot of it is uninhabitable - no utilities, no buildable acreage, no jobs nearby, very limited accessibility.

I don’t see it as a good faith argument, but open to be corrected.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-06-21 18:45:14+00:00
I live with my adult sons. None of us are dating; it's not on the horizon. For my sons, here are the reasons I see.

Financial. A 4 income economy makes pairing off impossible. Familyhood is ruined: Parenting time is up 20 fold from 1950s because kids req 24/7 adulting. Stress++ Joy-- Children lost free range area and fully live in adult curated, adult populated boxes. S++ J-- cont. Trespassing & crime cultures severely limit risk taking. Bureaucratic obedience++ Ambition-- cont. Dearth of adult-free peer time denies interpersonal relationship skill development. Connection-- cont. Growing up in the childhood apocalypse discourages making more children. A 4 income economy is even harder on families than it is on couples.

Speaking broadly, growing up in a post-childhood world shaped the men in the article. The qualities that the author mourns as absent, intimacy — slowness, curiosity, accountability, they sound a whole lot like the qualities that once developed in the childhood environments we've erased.

And for the qualities she sees emerging Avoidance. Exhaustion. Disrepair., they seem like predictable products of an increasingly punitive society and an over-burdensome economy.
by joshstrange | 2025-06-21 18:45:46+00:00
The tweet:

> I got fired today. I'm not sure why, I personally don't think there is a reason, or that it's important.

> When I joined twitter, I joined because of the engineers I met in SF. They seemed happy. They were having fun. Engineers at play. Engineers that were enabled. It was good!

There’s always a brief moment of surprise when the leopards start doing leopard things.
by fakedang | 2025-06-21 18:45:51+00:00
It could be the fact that Apple loves having its own standards, but when MCP came around, they realized how much they fucked up because of compatibility issues (must have been a PITA cost to rewrite Siri to adopt the MCP standards), so now they're deciding to acquire Perplexity and rebrand it as Siri 2.0.
by tialaramex | 2025-06-21 18:45:53+00:00
How is RC4 a great example? Obviously with hindsight you'd choose something different, but in the mid-1990s there wasn't a lot of good options - in your alternate history do we just hope DES (which we know has a NOBUS for the US government) is OK forever? Do we go without SSL altogether ? What's the plan ?
by toast0 | 2025-06-21 18:45:53+00:00
Static stability is a good start, but isn't enough.

In this outage, my service (on GCP) had static stability, which was great. However, some other similar services failed, and we got more load, but we couldn't start additional instances to handle the load because of the outage, and so we had overloaded servers and poor service quality.

Mayhaps we could have adjusted load across regions to manage instance load, but that's not something we normally do.
by gloosx | 2025-06-21 18:47:07+00:00
Im in A/B group for this, and I had to disable ublock for youtube or videos wont play showing a funny warning. Interestingly the specific autoskip ads extension for youtube still works perfectly, and I dont see any backoff or delay, maybe a short 1s flash is happening and video starts playing. If they block this too I dont mind just predownloading every video with yt-dlp out of spite.
by iknownothow | 2025-06-21 18:47:26+00:00
I'd say that's where we're headed. A big model that's trained from the start to use tools and know when to use certain tools and how to use tools. Like us :)

I wouldn't be surprised if someone's building a dataset for tool use examples.

The newer gen reasoning models are especially good at knowing when to do web search. I imagine they'll slowly get better at other tools.

At current levels of performance, LLMs having the ability to get well curated information by themselves would increase their scores by a lot.
by pjmlp | 2025-06-21 18:48:11+00:00
Not having a culture anti-language design, that praises lack of features, only to get them several years later, partly broken, as they have to accommodate into what exists, instead of designing them from the beginning.

In Go circles even a language like Java is considered PhD skill level programming languages, it is sooo hard.

Pascal and C like enumerations require a kludge with iota and const, dependencies was an whole show between community and Google, generics took their sweet time and the implementation has a few gotchas , makes direct references to git repos for packages and requires tricks with HTML meta headers to redirect requests, if != err boilerplate,...

Had it not been for Docker and Kubernetes adoption success, it might have not taken off.
by loaph | 2025-06-21 18:48:16+00:00
It’s not a recent thing. Search for 1872 here, https://www.purduegloballawschool.edu/blog/news/california-n...

Some form of a ban on noncompete enforcement in CA has existed since then.

It has long been codified in CA business code 16600, https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
by vidarh | 2025-06-21 18:48:42+00:00
For literal decades they proved how malleable the protocol is, yes. Then they decided to ignore how malleable the protocol is instead of even trying to e.g. start by deprecating obsolete functionality and disabling it in future versions.

When XRender was introduced, for example, was the perfect time to deprecate server-side font-rendering. It's trivial to shim on the client side if anyone cared about the legacy functionality, and it takes a trivial amount of code to switch to using XRender instead for it instead (been there, done that, written a font renderer).

There's been plenty of opportunities to gut the legacy parts of the protocol that way, and reduce the complexity.

Grouping the main set of extensions and declaring that if the server reports a certain version number or above they
by johnisgood | 2025-06-21 18:49:17+00:00
Differences between Cwtch, and SimpleX? Which are you leaning towards to and why?

According to https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplexmq/blob/stable/protoc...:

> identify that and when a user is using SimpleX.

Does this apply to Cwtch?

Also, is it not possible to obfsucate this traffic? Tor with obfs4?

Related:

#1 - https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/241730/traffic-...

#2 - https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/issues/4300

#3 - https://github.com/tst-race/race-docs/blob/main/race-channel...