MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by llm_nerd | 2025-06-10 16:14:22+00:00
I always find discussion like this fascinating, because this is stuff I just do not care whatsoever about, to such a degree that I'm amazed that other people seem so attached. Maybe it's that I spend my days jumping between platforms, and do absolutely nothing to "personalize" each system, that I've decoupled my identity from some random style choices of an OS. Even functional stuff like the system settings switching to the iOS-style layout is something that I adapted to and never thought about it again, while people are still ranting and railing about this.

A logo slightly changed and I cannot possibly care an iota less. Seeing people say over the top things like "this is the end of the road for me" strikes me as hysterical and ridiculous.
by mdavidn | 2025-06-10 16:14:39+00:00
The usual thinking is that a business wants an asset’s upfront expense spread over the years that asset earns income to reduce taxable profit in future years. In other words, the IRS receives more upfront but less total in the end.

The problem is that R&D and software development behave more like recurring annual expenses, not upfront investments in something like a building or industrial equipment. Small VC-funded startups may not exist long enough to reap the long-term benefits of depreciation.
by jimbokun | 2025-06-10 16:14:55+00:00
Eh.

Not sure you can fault Apple for stopping investment in software for devices past a certain age. And certain functionality just isn't supported by older hardware.

Doesn't mean the devices stop working. Just that Apple is saying you're on your own.

(Although the proprietary nature of Apple software means you also can't continue upgrading the software on your own or through a third party.)
by suddenlybananas | 2025-06-10 16:15:18+00:00
>Policy students have to read reams of documents weekly. Our hypotheses was that our student teams could use AI to ingest and summarize content, identify key themes and concepts across the content, provide an in-depth analysis of critical content sections, and then synthesize and structure their key insights and apply their key insights to solve their specific policy problem.

Yeah who cares about actually reading and properly understanding anything at all. Given the policy world is filled with so much BS, no wonder they like a BS machine.
by game_the0ry | 2025-06-10 16:15:21+00:00
My personal opinion - make corporate taxes go to 0% and shift tax burden to wealth and billionaires. Also, lower taxes on w2 income.

Counterintuitive, but I think that would bring offshore corporate bank accounts bank on-shore and encourage hiring.

Also, heavily penalize stock buybacks when corp tax rate goes to 0%.
by runarberg | 2025-06-10 16:15:48+00:00
The true Scotsman fallacy is not relevant here because the modern concept of democracy is a constantly evolving term. The modern democracy includes stuff like civil liberties, equal rights, human rights (including minority rights), and protections from tyranny. Many of these (particularly human rights) only arose in the post World War II era. Now coups do indeed happen, but those are the result of an entity overpowering the democratic institutions, not the result of people voting them selves a dictator. If the people vote them selves a dictator, then obviously at least some of the democratic institutions which are supposed to protect those rights were insufficient, or altogether absent.
by yeahforsureman | 2025-06-10 16:16:02+00:00
Are you sure?

The ePrivacy Directive requires a (GDPR-level) consent for just placing the cookie, unless it's strictly necessary for the provision of the “service”. The way EU regulators interpret this, even web analytics falls outside the necessity exception and therefore requires consent.

So as long as the user doesn't and/or is not able to automatically signal consent (or non-consent) eg via general browser-level settings, how can you obtain it without trying to get it from the user on a per-site basis somehow? (And no, DNT doesn't help since it's an opt-out, not an opt-in mechanism.)
by tptacek | 2025-06-10 16:16:26+00:00
The postmortem on that DoS attack was at pains to point out that they were "officially" documenting only one of the vulnerabilities. Somewhere on an old drive I have the giant mountain of mailing list posts I sorted through to write that post, and I may dig it out at some point, but right now you're just going to have to take my word for the fact that I was not suggesting that the only problem with the packet format was the fact that you can represent lengths 8 different ways.

This is a deeply silly discussion to be having on this particular thread, which, again, is about a vulnerability that owes to the PGP packet format.
by refurb | 2025-06-10 16:16:26+00:00
> Masks absolutely work, just ask any nurse who didn't catch COVID while working 12-hour shifts for weeks in a COVID ward. The issue like you said is the right type of mask, and wearing it properly.

“Right now in the United States, people should not be walking around with masks.” - Fauci statement on March 8, 2020

"Wear a mask." — Dr. Anthony Fauci, CNN interview, May 21, 2020

It's wild to see people wave their hands to explain that away.
by morio | 2025-06-10 16:16:54+00:00
You got a long way to go. Writing a rasterizer from scratch is a huge undertaking.

What's the internal color space, I assume it is linear sRGB? It looks like you are going straight to RGBA FP32 which is good. Think how you will deal with denormals as the CPU will deal with those differently compared to the GPU. Rendering artifacts galore once you do real world testing.

And of course IsInf and NaN need to be handled everywhere. Just checking for F::ZERO is not enough in many cases, you will need epsilon values. In C++ doing if(value==0.0f){} or if (value==1.0f){} is considered a code smell.

Just browsing the source I see Porter Duff blend modes. Really, in 2025? Have fun dealing with alpha compositing issues on this one. Also most of the 'regular' blend modes are not alpha compositing safe, you need special handling of alpha values in many cases if you do not want to get artifacts. The W3C spec is completely underspecified in this regard. I spent many months dealing with this myself.

If I were to redo a rasterizer from scratch I would push boundaries a little more. For instance I would target full FP32 dynamic range support and a better internal color space, maybe something like OKLab to improve color blending and compositing quality. And coming up with innovative ways to use this gained dynamic range.
by roboboffin | 2025-06-10 16:17:03+00:00
Not sure why I am being downvoted. I am simply saying that we know there is a defined algorithm for solving Tower of Hanoi, and the source code for it is widely available. So, o3 producing the code as an answer, demonstrates even less intelligence, as it means it is either memorized or copied from the internet. I don't see how this point counters the paper at all.

I believe what they are trying to show in that paper, is that as the chain of operations approaches a large amount (their proxy for complexity), an LLM will inevitable fail. Humans don't have infinite context either, but they can still solve the Tower Of Hanoi without need to resort to either pen or paper, or coding.
by thrance | 2025-06-10 16:17:24+00:00
You're one of them. Seen the protester getting trampled by LAPD on their horses? Seen the journalist getting shot gratuitously at point-blank by a cop? AFAIK, no was was hurt by protesters. The cops on the other hand...

And let's not even mention the reason behind it all: ICE's torture center, and the multiple raids they carry in the city, to abduct legal immigrants.
by NickC25 | 2025-06-10 16:17:45+00:00
I'm from the Northeast and have played tennis and golf at a few of the comparable high end places - the subcontractors don't usually speak english either, usually the head groundskeeper is white and speaks it well enough to communicate to the staff who know not to speak to members. Alternatively, the groundskeeper is someone that's been in the US long enough to speak English well enough that nobody would think about his immigration status. In some of the wealthiest places, it's usually a kid whose parents are illegal but he was born and raised in the US, was blessed with intelligence and won a scholarship to a great NEASC school where a member of the club is on the alumni board.

I can also attest that some of the multigenerational "my great grandkids won't have to work a day in their lives" wealth types are some of the cheapest and stingiest people I've ever met, and most certainly don't care that the groundskeepers at their too-cool-for-school clubs in Westchester or The Hamptons or Greenwich speak zero english and aren't here legally. In fact, that's the expectation, because god forbid their club dues go up by a few hundred dollars a year (while they spend that same amount on a single dinner at the clubhouse).
by endiangroup | 2025-06-10 16:18:00+00:00
AD: Huh! I just wrote a utility cmd [1] this weekend to deal with restricting ssh keys to executing only commands that match a rule set via `ForceCommand` in `sshd_config` or `Command=""` in `authorized_keys`. I'm curious to see how susceptible it is to the aforementioned issues, it does delegate to `<shell> -c '<cmd>'` under the hood [2], but there are checks to ensure only a single command option argument `--` is passed (to mitigate metacharacter expansions) [3].

Note this tool is only intended to be another layer in security.

[1] https://github.com/endiangroup/cmdjail [2] https://github.com/endiangroup/cmdjail/blob/main/main.go#L30... [3] https://github.com/endiangroup/cmdjail/blob/main/config.go#L...
by sph | 2025-06-10 16:18:06+00:00
There are cracked Denuvo games, and no anti-piracy scheme is unbreakable, ever.

If it can run on your PC when copy-protected, it means at some point the CPU executed the right instructions, so a crack is always possible to create. It's just a matter of how much effort and time is it to reverse-engineer it. You cannot copy-protect software indefinitely.

I remember feeling cool as fuck as a teenager because I cracked GTA 3 by dumping the live memory of the binary post decryption. Of course it's been 25 years, so the status quo has improved by a lot and god knows how many man-years and kWh are wasted on copy protection.
by markhahn | 2025-06-10 16:18:31+00:00
I'm heartened to see this downvoted, since it's basically tax-trolling.

Yes, there are people who think tax==bad. Most people (and for a century or so) have understood that taxes are ultimately spent, and normally with a "multiplier". That is, on something which actually stimulates further economic activity.

Corporate profit, OTOH, normally just satisfies the rent-seeking economy, which is not productive in any natural definition. For instance, dividends and stock buybacks. Yes, some corporate profit feeds entrepreneurship, but that's simply not a large fraction of the corporate economy.
by space_firmware | 2025-06-10 16:18:47+00:00
Yeah you're right this didn't originate here, it is part of a continuum. What is different is before you had to go directly to the website owner with the content (porn blocking in various states, online gambling blocking, copyright on youtube) instead of going to the infrastructure providers and requiring they stop letting a user go to that site. The VPN and DNS provider requirements in Europe are new for Western country internet. OpenDNS pulled out of many European countries rather than comply.
by 542354234235 | 2025-06-10 16:19:00+00:00
The anti-commandeering doctrine prevents the federal government from directly compelling states to implement or enforce federal law. It has been ruled on time and time again, from 1842 when Justice Joseph Story affirmed it [1] to Justice Samuel Alito in 2018 [2].

The balance between State and Federal power is part of how the country works. You can’t just call in the military whenever States refuse to help you, which they aren’t obligated to do.

[1] “The clause relating to fugitive slaves is found in the national Constitution, and not in that of any State. It might well be deemed an unconstitutional exercise of the power of interpretation to insist that the States are bound to provide means to carry into effect the duties of the National Government nowhere delegated or entrusted to them by the Constitution.” Prigg v. Pennsylvania https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/41/539/

[2] “Congress may not simply ‘commandeer the legislative process of the States by directly compelling them to enact and enforce a federal regulatory program.” Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association https://www.oyez.org/cases/2017/16-476
by imtringued | 2025-06-10 16:19:22+00:00
Actually, everything you complain about is highly irrelevant. It can't be overstated how irrelevant your objection is.

> (other than feeling good about those lives being saved, but that’s not the kind of utility we’re trying to maximize).

Your interpretation of this statement is that the contributors have a fixed marginal utility for every single dollar, so that they will consider the situation where they spend $1,000,000 per live saved to be superior to the situation where they spend $100,000. In other words, you're saying that welfare is a veblen good for the donor.

The author makes the argument that the mere act of spending more money to save lives is not the type of utility we should strive for to maximize social welfare.

Your utility in question is not about feeling good about saving people regardless of cost, it's about feeling good about saving people, precisely because it costs money and you personally spent money to do it.

By the way, why is that "your utility"? Why am I putting words in your mouth? Because you're disagreeing with the author and therefore necessarily put yourself at odds with the authors objection to the first interpretation. Hence you must necessarily agree with it, otherwise you're just trolling and that would be uncharitable of me to accuse you of. So, yes, you must have mistakenly chosen the silly interpretation.
by justinrubek | 2025-06-10 16:19:35+00:00
I don't have a whole lot of sympathy when the alternative is: be forced to get sick under threat of being forced out of their jobs, colleges, etc.

People still act like it's some common cold. My partner has nearly no taste left, years later. That's an entire sense, a fundamental perception, gone.

Even if it was a common cold, I don't want to be forced to have it.
by peter_d_sherman | 2025-06-10 16:19:40+00:00
>"This debugger is divided into two parts: the debugger (written entirely in assembly and running on the hardware being debugged) and the bridge, written in C and running on [a second PC running] Linux.

The debugger is the injectable code, written in 16-bit real-mode, and can be placed within the BIOS ROM or any other real-mode code. When executed, it sets up the appropriate interrupt handlers, puts the processor in single-step mode, and waits for commands on the serial port.

[...]

BREAD can also debug arbitrary code in real-mode, such as bootable code or DOS programs too."

There's a brilliant idea here, beyond just BIOS debugging -- that idea is that you don't run (don't need to run!) an entire debugger with all of its code, lookup tables, complexity and GUI dependencies on one PC (where running such code has a greater chance to interfere with the program being debugged -- this is especially true in non-multitasking, non-multiuser, pre-OS, pre-Protected Mode boot environments), you run them on a second PC, and you only run the absolute minimum amount of code on the debugged PC, only enough to send the smallest amount of binary information to the debugger on the second PC, where it can perform all of the necessary processing (lookup assembly instructions, convert them from binary to human readable, display them on its GUI, allow mouse movements, etc., etc.)

Which has applications beyond mere BIOS debugging, which the author points out.

Anyway, to the author -- well done!
by blablablerg | 2025-06-10 16:19:41+00:00
Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued qualities of depth, coherence, meaning, originality, and authenticity are evacuated or dissolved amid the random swirl of empty signals. -- Baudrillard
by belter | 2025-06-10 16:21:02+00:00
Indeed...I can hardly make it to the gymn one time a week...

"...With his 11 studies eliminated by publishers, he is already “in the top 0.1% of the most retracted authors of all time,” according to Molina. The computer scientist highlights Luque’s unusual associations. It’s difficult to find a retracted scientist, but the Spanish chemist has collaborated with 198 of them..."

Is there a Nobel for stand up comedy?:

"...Without me, the University of Córdoba will drop 300 places in the Shanghai ranking. They have shot themselves in the foot..."

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-04-02/one-of-th...
by spwa4 | 2025-06-10 16:21:57+00:00
The agreement between the US and the ICC has been broken a LOOOONG time ago:

https://www.hrw.org/news/2002/05/06/united-states-unsigning-...

This paints a stark negative picture of the US. However, of course, as soon as you consider intent of signing ... and the fact that some signatories to the Rome statute, like Palestina or South Africa, have signed it without any intent to carry out their side of the agreement, and that the ICC has in fact accepted these members (kind of).

The idea of the ICC ... was supposedly the same idea that created Gaza in 2007. If you give them something in trade for cooperating with the treaty, they'll cooperate. Of course, reality was they greedily accepted what they got (e.g. Palestina immediately tried suing Israel), but never carried out their side of the agreement. Palestina, for example, in their "Martyr fund", paid out money to people the ICC said they should arrest, but never took any action and several times publicly declared they would never arrest any Palestinian, no matter what they did, for the ICC. (their "Martyr's fund" paid money to Palestinians according to how many Jews they had killed and/or wounded [1], which the PA committed a $330 million per year budget for). South Africa has now twice publicly protected people they should arrest (Omar Al Bashir and Putin) against the ICC.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Authority_Martyrs_...
by hk1337 | 2025-06-10 16:22:54+00:00
Similar to MechanicalSoup is what I meant, which uses BeautifulSoup as well.

> without all the verbosity of Selenium

It's definitely verbose but from my experience a lot of the verbosity is developers always looking for elements from the root every time instead of looking for an element, selenium returns that WebElement, and searching within that element.
by thisisit | 2025-06-10 16:23:19+00:00
That some bad faith arguments especially when your starting point is what RFK says about "safety".

Vaccines provide acquired immunity. And that happens only with a weakened or killed antigen. With everyone being different that means there is no 100% effective vaccine. It is only people like RFK who spread this disinformation.

Then there is the history of US vaccine legislation. He often misinforms people about it too. The legislation was put in place in the 1980s because the DPT vaccine was suggested to cause brain injury. When lawsuits piled up some vaccine makers stopped producing vaccines altogether to avoid being liable. Without insurance prices skyrocketed and no one could get the and hence the law was put in place under Ronald Reagan.

Even with this law there are alternatives to getting compensated. So, the whole point is one big disinformation.

The common point of confusion between people who spread this disinformation about RFK's position is that they are either arguing in bad faith or misinformed at best.

If the standards are "raised", then novel vaccines are going to be impossible in US because we are back at square one. Manufacturers cannot get liability insurance for the new vaccines and hence need to be very wary about producing these vaccines, lest they get sued.

It is often said that people should learn from history. But people in RFK's orbit seem to want to test history for themselves.

And for the sake of clarity Samoa tried RFK's approach and here's what happened: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

But then RFK being the politician he is, distanced himself from the situation. I am sure he is going to do the same once things don't work out. So, everyone should put their health in hands of someone who has never taken responsibility for his actions and words but demands higher standards from others.
by sanderjd | 2025-06-10 16:23:50+00:00
Agreed. It was really a revelation to me. Looking back now, it's clear that I started reading it as a status seeking thing. I thought my intellectual friends (and especially girlfriends) would think it was cool that I actually read the whole thing (which nobody else in our circle had actually managed yet). But then it turned out to really affect me deeply.

I read it again about a decade later after all those games were over for me, just for myself, and loved it even more that time.

For some people, it just really does hit a nerve!
by projectazorian | 2025-06-10 16:24:01+00:00
1992 riots weren't perpetrated by migrants, to the extent they were involved it was as victims. Neither was any of the looting in 2020 to my knowledge.

Btw, nothing significant was "burned down" in 2020 either. Some shops hit by looters closed for a while and eventually reopened. Fairfax was hard hit by looting and if you went there today you would have no clue that anything happened.

The current events are primarily happening in an area that is full of state and federal government facilities, not really anyone's favorite spot. No looting either, there's nothing to loot. The demonstrators are burning Waymos and Bird scooters, better if it would not happen at all, but it's nobody's personal property.
by lylo | 2025-06-10 16:24:31+00:00
That's a big one and I'm sure will be the final nail in the coffin for plenty of people. No reason to use Heroku in 2025, especially for Rails apps (you mentioned Kamal).

I moved my app onto Hetzner + Cloudflare R2 and I couldn't be happier!

https://olly.pagecord.com/migrating-the-pagecord-rails-app-f...
by jampa | 2025-06-10 16:25:05+00:00
I think it is a combination of both. From what I heard, Denuvo hires many people from "the scene," and when someone cracks it, they pursue them aggressively.

Denuvo is also not a massive target because there are too many games nowadays to care about a specific one. The exception was when "Hogwarts Legacy" was released with Denuvo, and people went crazy for a crack which was delivered just 13 days later.
by aaronbaugher | 2025-06-10 16:25:11+00:00
People have short memories. In the early months of 2020, the CDC and WHO both recommended not wearing masks, for good reason. Decades of research had shown cloth masks were completely ineffective, and N95 masks were only effective if fitted professionally, and those should be reserved for health workers anyway. People who started buying up masks in early 2020 were accused of hoarding and possible price gouging.

Then the CDC changed its stance due to pressure from politicians who wanted to be seen as Doing Something, and we got the mask mandates starting in May. Masking took over as the most visible symbol of being a goodthinker, to the point that other efforts like social distancing and hand-washing were largely forgotten. I remember mask-wearers constantly going against the arrows in the aisles of the grocery stores, apparently thinking their loose cloth masks protected themselves and others around them so well that they could ignore all the other rules.

It was an incredibly stupid time, and a lot of the stupidity came from the top, from talking heads like Fauci who flipped overnight on questions like that and expected everyone not to notice.