MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AlotOfReading | 2025-06-29 01:35:25+00:00
There's a fair bit of protection for the projection cameras. They're actually always-connected devices that get streaming permissions from a remote server before starting a show, device roots of trust, tamper detection systems, and so on. The movie file is essentially encrypted at rest until showtime. Plus the techs are generally not that technically advanced, and theaters face the threat of lawsuits/never being allowed to show movies again if they breach their contractual obligations to reverse engineer the equipment. It's generally effective.

The point isn't to completely, 100% close the analog hole here (and at least one piracy group seems to have leaks of raw movie data despite all of this security), but it's effective at making compliance the least costly option for almost everyone involved worldwide. It's one of the major reasons we've seen a shift by pirate groups to preproduction leaks or alternative methods.
by mandmandam | 2025-06-29 01:35:27+00:00
> Israel did give up Gaza and gave Palestinians full control of it

From the very first paragraph in your own link:

> Since then, the United Nations, many other international humanitarian and legal organizations, and most academic commentators have continued to regard the Gaza Strip as being under Israeli occupation ...

"Full control" - except over their border, their imports, their airspace, their electromagnetic frequencies, their coastline, their construction industry, etc etc.

> WW-2, WW-1, the Romans. But the fact still stands that all those "moral" countries didn't hesitate to lay siege, starve people, bomb civilians, for tbh little reason.

... If you're taking the Romans and WW-2 as your baseline for morality, that would start to explain things.
by martin-t | 2025-06-29 01:36:57+00:00
> up votes do not need a why

The asymmetry bothers me too. But then upvoting seems to imply both subjective agreement and objective correctness as well as endorsement to make it more visible. I would like to see those separated too, lesswrong is trying something like this but whenever I read the descriptions, I always feel like both buttons do the same thing so I think it's a good idea implemented badly.

Downvoting can mean any number of things too, just making people separate subjective from objective could have interesting dynamics, especially if claiming something is objectively false was visible to others to disincentivize using it wrongly.
by reseasonable | 2025-06-29 01:37:08+00:00
It’s a skill just like any other. Without practice people will absolutely waste time. But knowing which problems are appropriate for an LLM can save days of labor.

As an engineer in the field for 30 years, this tech beats every man page, sdk, google search, stack overflow post or head banging situation by light years.

The rebuke of it is surprisingly antithetical to the progress of the industry. It reminds me of the decade+ of those who refused to use an IDE and favored notepad[++] or vanilla vim instead. I suspect in 5 more years those similarly-minded folks will finally adapt in the same way we’ve all grown accustomed to IDEs today. Or those who adapt will just outpace those who don’t.
by robocat | 2025-06-29 01:37:49+00:00
> I am holding out hope that schizophrenia has some basis as an autoimmune disease

From article:

Increasingly, researchers consider schizophrenia to be a “meta-syndrome,” encompassing multiple symptom dimensions/clusters and arising from intersections of diverse underlying mechanisms

So while autoimmune might be the cause for some people, other people have other causes?

As humans we look for a simple A therefore B story. Even then most people in my experience are either (a) poor at spotting cause and effect or (b) go into denial e.g. many political arguments

> kids, I would have to go through one of the embryo prescreening services

Have to? Do you mean you would want to? Or is there some compulsory force where you are?
by Theodores | 2025-06-29 01:37:50+00:00
You missed my point. People outside the West have a different idea of what 'riles based order' means. This does not mean they are right or that you have to agree with them. However, the fact is that they see the world differently to you. You like the West and people outside the West see the West as parasites that have used constructs such as 'rules based order' to get away with colonial exploration and whatnot.

As mentioned, you don't have to agree with them, however, it has to be acknowledged that not everyone thinks like you, and that 'rules based order' means different things to different people.

Incidentally, the global majority are not blue and yellow fanatics. China, India, Africa and South America are not on team blue and yellow.

You have your truth, they have theirs.
by moefh | 2025-06-29 01:38:59+00:00
I agree that when taken literally, it's a dumb thing to say: literally (i.e., the dictionary definition), the purpose of a system is the reason why it was built, not what it does. But it's a slogan, and slogans don't always make sense taken literally. The point of the slogan is to remind people of the (obvious, I hope) fact that, as I wrote:

> you can't (well, shouldn't) judge something by its intended purpose if what it ends up doing goes against it

If you check my Wikipedia link it shows that the original quote says more or less the same thing: "[this slogan] makes a better starting point in seeking understanding than the familiar attributions of good intention, prejudices about expectations, moral judgement, or sheer ignorance of circumstances".

In other words, it doesn't matter what's the historical context of why corporations were created, what matters is what they do now. You can argue, like it was argued, that corporations as a whole currently are a net benefit. My point is that bringing up the historical context of their original purpose adds nothing to the discussion.

As to your other point, I completely agree that it would be useless to try to defend the Staling regime by pointing out what communism was intended to be. That's more or less the point I was trying to make.
by hansvm | 2025-06-29 01:38:59+00:00
> cryptosystem is broken

The problem isn't the cryptography. It's the hard part of cryptography, key management. In this case, the key is in the hands of the attacker, written down for all to see, and the only real defense is that it's written in a tiny "font" next to a bunch of other data.

You're right, that's a broken model. That's exactly what I'm saying. It's kind of like the current craze of using a phone number on login for "security" -- doing so increases the cost to an attacker by a fixed amount ($10-$15 or so) and is only reasonable for security (as opposed to selling out to data brokers) if the value to the attacker of the account in question is less than that. The security doesn't come from actual impossibility guarantees but by trying to stack a big enough constant factor onto the thing that nobody actually cares to break it.

> metadata vs file format change

Ah, exif and all the other slightly underspecified and incompatible metadata formats that no vendors fully agree on and are stripped by various middlemen and not relevant when, e.g., iphones auto-lossily-compress the formerly signed images when emailing and whatnot. We _could_ use those, but I don't think the software work involved to actually make that technosocial system work correctly is less than a new file format (e.g., with progressive rendering and something conceptually equivalent to signing each progression to account for compression use-cases).

> persistent media watermarking

Last I checked, failure rates, both type I and type II, are in the single-digit percentage ranges or worse, and that's with very low bit rates. Is the SOTA much better than that now?
by mptest | 2025-06-29 01:40:25+00:00
Literally had this report for years and literally heard the current president praise and endorse it on a hot mic. The fact that, presumably, educated people, are still acting surprised (or worse, legitimately are ignorant) when the reic-i mean presidency was explicitly planned out, in a commissioned by the wealthy, public to all, report by the most connected conservative think tank in the country.
by ezekg | 2025-06-29 01:41:05+00:00
Totally agree. For me, with a vanilla Rails app, I leaned on Sidekiq to handle webhook queueing, processing, and retries: https://keygen.sh/blog/how-to-build-a-webhook-system-in-rail...

It's scaled quite well. Billions of webhooks. I barely ever think about it.
Ask HN: What can I build in a month for YC?
by 999900000999 | 2025-06-29 01:41:06+00:00
I’m a very average developer, with a bit of free time. Since it’s cheaper than playing the lottery, I tend to pitch my side projects to YC every now and then.

Right now I’m working on an open source card game, in my dreams I imagine a benevolent lover of gaming funding small open source games for everyone.

If I ever get rich this is what I’ll do.

But till then , should I just pitch my card game or try to hack some llm driven tools together.

The only cost is my pride!
by splendorzhang | 2025-06-29 01:41:17+00:00
Really insightful breakdown. What caught my attention was the shift in SM configuration — it feels like Nvidia is trying to squeeze out more AI/ML performance per watt while keeping flexibility for traditional workloads.

I wonder how this architecture will scale beyond hyperscaler deployments. Are there any indicators that this design could trickle down to prosumer or even consumer GPUs in the near future?

Also curious if anyone has thoughts on how this compares to AMD's CDNA 4 roadmap in terms of compute density and interconnect strategy.
by leoc | 2025-06-29 01:44:22+00:00
Obligatory Schwarzenegger:

"The kind of people who train alongside you in a gym makes a difference. If you are surrounded by people who are serious and train with a lot of intensity, it's easier for you to do the same thing. But it can be pretty hard to really blast your muscles while the people around you are just going through the motions. That is why good bodybuilders tend to congregate in certain gyms. By having the example of other serious bodybuilders constantly in front of you, you will train that much harder.

That is what made Joe Gold's original gym in Venice, California such a great place—a small gym with just enough equipment, but where you would constantly be rubbing shoulders with the great bodybuilders against whom I had the privilege of competing-like Franco Columbu, Ed Corney, Dave Draper, Robby Robinson, Frank Zane, Sergio Oliva, and Ken Waller. Nowadays, it's rare to find that many champions in the same place, but if you aren't sharing the gym floor with great bodybuilders like Flex Wheeler, Shawn Ray, Nasser El Sonbaty, or Dorian Yates, it can be very motivating if there are pictures or posters of these individuals on the walls or championship trophies displayed.

In 1980, training at World Gym for my final Mr. Olympia competition, I showed up at the gym at seven o'clock one morning to work out and stepped out on the sundeck for a moment. Suddenly the sun came through the clouds. It was so beautiful I lost all my motivation to train. I thought maybe I would go to the beach instead. I came up with every excuse in the book-the most persuasive being that I had trained hard the day before with the powerful German bodybuilder Jusup Wilkosz, so I could lay back today—but then I heard weights being clanged together inside the gym and I saw Wilkosz working his abs, Ken Waller doing shoulders, veins standing out all over his upper body, Franco Columbu blasting away, benching more than 400 pounts, Samir Bannout punishing his biceps with heavy Curls. Everywhere I looked there was some kind of hard, sweaty training going on, and I knew that I couldn't afford not to train if I was going to compete against these champions. Their example sucked me in, and now I was looking forward to working, anticipating the pleasure of pitting my muscles against heavy iron. By the end of that session I had the best pump I could imagine, and an almost wasted morning had turned into one of the best workouts of my life. If I hadn't been there at World Gym, with those other bodybuilders to inspire and motivate me, I doubt that day would have ended up being so productive.

Even today, when I'm training for other reason, such as getting into top shape for a movie role, or just trying to stay in shape, I absorb energy from people working out around me. That's why I still like to go to gyms where bodybuilders are training for competition. Even today, after all this time, it still inspires me."

p. 87 in the 1999 edition of /The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding/, by Schwarzenegger and Bill Dobbins. http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0684857219/
by splendorzhang | 2025-06-29 01:44:52+00:00
This is a surprisingly comprehensive summary of laptop hardware attack surfaces — especially appreciated the mention of DMA attacks and firmware-level threats.

I feel like most users (even technical ones) still underestimate how vulnerable pre-boot environments and supply chain firmware tampering can be.

Has anyone here actually experimented with disabling UEFI features like Intel ME or AMD PSP for security? Curious what the trade-offs were in practice.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-06-29 01:46:01+00:00
This may be a misinterpretation tangent, but I play tennis and do a bit of inline skating, and I find one of the benefits is it provides a grounding to the real, physical world; time away from the constant feed of new shit on the internet. I also get in-person human interaction, which is an additional grounding effect. I've made plenty of friends as a result of both activities, and these friends cover a wide spectrum of personalities and backgrounds and life experiences.

This isn't necessarily turning the clock back 30 years, it's just finding some (of the plenty of) other activities I can enjoy that don't require a screen.

Additionally, for both of these activities, if your mind is elsewhere you can't do it. You have to be 'present'. Tennis is technically difficult to play proper shots (and I'm not particularly good at it, I enjoy the challenge of getting better) and inline skating, well, if you take your mind / eyes off your environment for a second you're putting your bodily integrity at risk. Having that 'presence' or singular focus is also grounding. It clears a lot of the other shit that builds up.

And, not that I feel this viscerally, there's no manipulation of my intent around my activity: I don't get derailed onto a track I wasn't intending to follow.
by worldsayshi | 2025-06-29 01:47:21+00:00
Not all employees are willing to rock the boat, ask around and risk exposing themselves as superfluous. It's less risky to always act like - or tell yourself - that every task that ends up on your desk require throughout diligence.

I think this is especially true at big corps with little actually meaningful work and where most people who actually care about doing meaningful work has left a long time ago.
by gpm | 2025-06-29 01:47:22+00:00
Math's a cooperative endeavor, I want to know if I'm wrong!

I'm not sure I understand the distinction you're trying to make though, and I'm not sure it's right...

The argument that BB has to grow faster than any computable sequence is that if we have a computable f(n) where for all n f(n) > BB(n) then we can solve the halting problem by simulating turing machines of size n for f(n) steps and checking if they halt. Even if we can't prove f(n) > BB(n) the mere existence of this f would mean we could solve the halting problem (even though we couldn't prove we had done so).

I agree my "proof" (intuition really) rests on that assertion.

> As an easy example, consider f(n) = BB(n)^2.

This, like BB(n), isn't computable?
by accurrent | 2025-06-29 01:48:23+00:00
As a non-American who's life has been previously saved by knowing that a typhoon would strike my home this has me wondering how we will be affected. A lot of smaller countries don't have the infrastructure/man power to maintain a space program. To what extent is the rest of the world reliant on this data and what does this mean for us? Will we still have predictions? How does international collaboration on meteorology generally work? Do Europeans/Chinese/Indians/Russians also share data about weather?
by ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 | 2025-06-29 01:49:21+00:00
Bogey man staff psychologists aren't to blame for these woes, and they certainly aren't some unstoppable force with reins to all things you do.

The Internet was "addicting" long before there was ever a concept of social networks the way that there is today. I used to sit on my computer from sun down to sun up way back in the mid 90s, and I knew hundreds of other people that did the same thing.

I've been "addicted" to social networks that predate modern capital schemes, such as message boards, IRC, AIM, ICQ, MMORPGs, and so on.
by YZF | 2025-06-29 01:50:14+00:00
I'm sorry but you're just wrong. The reasons the UN and others still regarded Gaza as under Israeli occupation are either political or technical. In practice when Israel left Gazans got full control. They had a border with Egypt, not to mention tunnels for smuggling goods under that border. They had enough control to build a large army, tunnels, rockets etc. I.e. they had control. They were able to send people to train in Iran.

This anti-Israeli argument that somehow Israel dismantled its settlements and left but yet still "occupied" Gaza is nonsense. It does not stand any minimal scrutiny.

Yes, as a result of Gazans making a choice to engage in war with Israel there was a blockade over that territory. That's about it. Do you expect Israel to allow them to import tanks and jets?
by Bjartr | 2025-06-29 01:52:04+00:00
> This is something the CS majors care deeply about but nobody else in the industry does

Correct, the industry cares a lot more about Software Engineering than Computer Science.

> CS degree was essentially a math degree dressed up in a hoodie.

To a first approximation, that's what it's supposed to be. CS is a field of mathematics. It's not a trade school course.
by DaveZale | 2025-06-29 01:52:19+00:00
I like to follow Arnold Schwazenegger's Pump Club free newsletter, but not because I am a body builder.

You're right, it's a community where you get solid no-nonsense advice, like, ditch the supplements except creatine and maybe whey protein or vegetable protein.

At the same time, he emphasizes building desired habits, to the point where thinking is not required anymore for that purpose. He even goes as far as saying your own brain can be your worst enemy, it wants you to be comfortable.

If I say any more, I'd be overthinking it. It's a good motivational community for fitness in general. Just like you said, specialty communities for specialist advice. But the google news feed I get just scrambles my brains. They've profiled me for 30+ years, and they feed me nonsense now, because I answered many of those questions many years ago. AI is not good at forgetting.
by trinsic2 | 2025-06-29 01:52:34+00:00
Kind of sounds like what is happening now in the west under our current financial/economic system, albeit slowly by manufacturing crisis's and health problems to whittle down the population.

>To make a somewhat successful "common good" society you first need to exterminate large swatches of the population

It sounds like you are conflating "common good" with authoritarianism.

Common good happens at the grass roots level and then spreads by consensus. Doesnt mean it will happen on a large scale, esp if there are larger forces at work.

It seems like this is a population size problem to me. Or at least a concentration of large populations in a small area (Cities). Maybe the trick is to spread out the population a bit more and prevent areas from becoming over populated somehow.

I don't have the data in front of me right now, but there are some sources that say when groups become to large people vie for attention which causes the most egoic people to try and dominate the areas that they are in.

Thus this creates social circles that try to gain power for powers sake and do not contribute to society.
by HappMacDonald | 2025-06-29 01:53:23+00:00
One day I wanted to use a TAP parser for the Test Anything Protocol.

But I didn't want to be bogged down by dependencies.. so I didn't want to go nowhere near Python (and pyenv.. and anaconda.. and then probably having to dockerize that for some reason too..) nor nodeJS nor any of that.

Found a bash shell script to parse TAP written by ESR of all people. That sounds fine, I thought. Most everywhere has bash, and there are no other dependencies.

But it was slow. I mean.. painfully, ridiculously slow. Parsing like 400 lines of TAP took almost a minute.

That's when I did some digging and learned about what awk really is. A scripting language that's baked into the POSIX suite. I had heard vaguely about it beforehand, but never realized it had more power than it's sed/ed/cut/etc brethren in the suite.

So I coded up a TAP parser in awk and it went swimmingly, matched the ESR parser's feature set, and ran millions of lines in less than a second. Score! :D
by 3-5105 | 2025-06-29 01:53:38+00:00
Satellites using sun-synchronous orbits can circle the Earth multiple times in a day.Compared with a stationary observer on the ground,they are moving at a relatively fast speed.Therefore,as long as they delay the release of observational data by a random time period,there won't be this issue.Only geostationary satellites would have this problem.

But a bigger problem comes before the above issue:most of the current human meteorological satellites do not have stealth capabilities.You can see them directly.Perhaps your idea will become a practical problem when satellite stealth technology matures.

This is a translation.
by magicalhippo | 2025-06-29 01:55:27+00:00
Linus' message is a bit vague, and could be interpreted as Linus wants to find someone else that Kent can report to as an intermediary, one which will stop any features from getting into the kernel during RC window.

That said, I really don't understand why Kent decides to take a stand on the hills he does. In this case he already helped one user out-of-tree, so presumably they compiled a custom kernel. Sure it's a bit more work to help others with the same if they also have that issue, but not insurmountable. Alternatively users could just wait a few weeks or restore from backup. It's an experimental file system after all.

Instead he decides this is the hill he wants to die on. After just getting back from a timeout for doing exactly the same thing...
by selfhoster11 | 2025-06-29 01:55:51+00:00
I mean, you can run numbers all you want. All I'm reporting is an anecdotal n=1 experience, and the psychological barrier I'm reporting was strong enough to make me quit, where I was totally fine with paying prices that aren't calibrated to the disposable income of a lower-middle class American worker.

And probably would have consumed far more, because the volume would make up for it. That's my whole point. As someone who voraciously reads online stuff, I'd far prefer to pay 25x 2.3 cent than 2x 23 cents. Maybe I'm an outlier, but so I'd expect most article readers who care about truthfulness of the material to be.