MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by surgical_fire | 2025-06-24 19:17:16+00:00
I used those piracy websites, but there is some incredibly naivety in the thought that people trusted those.

I certainly trust governments where the rule of law applies more than I trust corporations. I certainly would not input any real data in a service hosted in Equador with a registrar in God-knows-where.

That does not mean that governments get unquestionable faith, but there's still the pretence that they protect their citizens. Corporations only seek profit.
by perching_aix | 2025-06-24 19:17:23+00:00
Yeah, expecting a governmental agency to produce evidence that will negatively impact their political standing is a very reasonable request indeed. Or expecting evidence from a person who was stripped of all their devices. How silly these people are for working with what they have. They even lie about how much and what quality of information is it that they possess... oh wait, no they don't, you're just being a jackass. Well ain't that unfortunate.
by pedrocr | 2025-06-24 19:17:42+00:00
That's probably better than most scaling done on Wayland today because it's doing the rendering directly at the target resolution instead of doing the "draw at 2x scale and then scale down" dance that was popularized by OSX and copied by Linux. If you do it that way you both lose performance and get blurry output. The only corner case a compositor needs to cover is when a client is straddling two outputs. And even in that case you can render at the higher size and get perfect output in one output and the same downside in blurryness in the other, so it's still strictly better.

It's strange that Wayland didn't do it this way from the start given its philosophy of delegating most things to the clients. All you really need to do arbitrary scaling is tell apps "you're rendering to a MxN pixel buffer and as a hint the scaling factor of the output you'll be composited to is X.Y". After that the client can handle events in real coordinates and scale in the best way possible for its particular context. For a browser, PDF viewer or image processing app that can render at arbitrary resolutions not being able to do that is very frustrating if you want good quality and performance. Hopefully we'll be finally getting that in Wayland now.
by aforwardslash | 2025-06-24 19:18:08+00:00
> For example, you'd be hard pressed to find a team building AWS services who is not using SQS and S3 extensively

I design and develop products that rely on queuing systems and object storage; if its SQS or S3 is an implementation detail (although S3 is also a de-facto standard). Some of those products may rely on millions of very small objects/messages; some of them may rely on fixed-size multi-MB blocks. Knowing the workload, you can often optimize it in a non-trivial way, instead if just using what the provider has.

> The hard part is making this system immediately interpretable and getting "put a message in, get a message out" while making the complexities opaque to the consumer.

Not really, no. As you said, is already a solved problem. Aws obviously has different scale requirements than my reality, but by having ownership I also have only a fraction of the problems.

> There's nothing about rolling your own version that will make you better able to plan this out -- many of these lessons are things you only pick up at scale.

I cannot agree with you on this. As an example, can you tell me which isolation level is guaranteed on an Autora instance? And what if it is a multi-zone cluster? (If you can, kudos!); next question is, are developers aware of this?

If you have done any cursory solution design, you will know the importance of mastering the above questions on development workflow.
by datameta | 2025-06-24 19:18:18+00:00
Personally, when I find myself fully aware of acting against my best interest (especially repeatedly), "stupid" doesn't seem to be totally out of place.

I don't find the author's argument, that students who essentially skip learning via LLM could avoid fairly being labeled "stupid", particularly convincing.

Not that I think it to be a particularly useful label, but I don't find awareness of self-sabotage to preclude one from such a label.

This is similar to how I believe the label "smart" alone does not carry much use.
by smsm42 | 2025-06-24 19:18:45+00:00
There's some inspection in practically every transport hub when I travel. While I traveled internationally the most strict was in Germany. I really don't mind a lot - there are good reasons to be careful - but they had guards in full military gear and with automatic weapons (usually it's handguns and plain uniforms) which looked pretty intimidating, and that was the only time I had to actually turn on my laptop to show it's a working laptop and not some kind of trick. Maybe showing how strict and tough they are was the point. The worst inspectors I had were in London. They were exceedingly slow and had very unpleasant manners. Maybe just my luck. Never had any real problems though - worst thing they got a look on my underpants and power connectors, and sent me on my way.
by ChrisRackauckas | 2025-06-24 19:18:50+00:00
Julia does not just have bindings to CUDA. Native Julia code can compile to build .ptx kernels https://cuda.juliagpu.org/stable/development/kernel/. This same code can also generate kernels for AMD GPUs, Intel GPUs, and Metal.

We for example built software that generates kernels on-demand that embed user functions for all 4 of these systems and showed it's much faster than just CUDA bindings for array functions for certain nonlinear systems (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00457...)
by franga2000 | 2025-06-24 19:18:52+00:00
Banks have already figured out fraud detection through pattern recognition, ISPs can do the same. When a connection has never used more than 300/10 of a 1000/1000 link and 80% of that was TCP with dstport 80 or 443, then it starts doing /900 UDP to every possible dstport, maybe something is wrong?

"Your network is generating an extraordinary amout of traffic, which is likely the result of a virus-infected device. As a result, we have lowered your speed to 100/20. Please read the steps to check your devices and unlock your connection here: ____"
by lostpassagain2 | 2025-06-24 19:18:52+00:00
So if i understand it correctly now, "If it is meassureable than there is a use."

And "If there is a use, there may be a product."

So, "Than if there is a product, people may use it, and after an unknown time they are likely or not to judge it, or say something about - if they like."

Had I get "been 'a human'" that wrong before ?

While saying "That i didn't get it before, if someone meant 'infinite' that instead ment 'unmeassureable', or?"?

...not?

Edited: Typo
by jkingsman | 2025-06-24 19:19:06+00:00
uv has been fantastic to use for little side projects. Combining uv run with `uv tool run` AKA `uvx` means one can fetch, install within a VM, and execute Python scripts from Github super easily. No git clone, no venv creation + entry + pip install.

And uv is fast — I mean REALLY fast. Fast to the point of suspecting something went wrong and silently errored, when it fact it did just what I wanted but 10x faster than pip.

It (and especially its docs) are a little rough around the edges, but it's bold enough and good enough I'm willing to use it nonetheless.
by tayo42 | 2025-06-24 19:19:07+00:00
I'm always mixed on this. In the moment it can be fun. In the end when it inevitably feels useless, idk it feels bad. Like I spent a ton of time on something and get some knowledge out of it. It doesn't make my job better and I guess doesn't improve my situation much. My rust sub-directory feels like a digital closet of rpis collecting dust.

The things I find fun writing and learning about and the tools I use to do it are so disconnected from anything i do professionally.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-06-24 19:19:18+00:00
I continued to be impressed how Google stealth releases fairly groundbreaking products, and then (usually) just kind of forgets about them.

Rather than advertising blitz and flashy press events, they just do blog posts that tech heads circulate, forget about, and then wonder 3-4 years later "whatever happened to that?"

This looks awesome. I look forward to someone else building a start-up on this and turning it into a great product.
by moyix | 2025-06-24 19:19:24+00:00
Wait a sec, I thought they were optional?

> White Paper/Slide Deck/Supporting Materials (optional)

> • If you have a completed white paper or draft, slide deck, or other supporting materials, you can optionally provide a link for review by the board.

> • Please note: Submission must be self-contained for evaluation, supporting materials are optional.

> • PDF or online viewable links are preferred, where no authentication/log-in is required.

(From the link on the BHUSA CFP page, which confusingly goes to the BH Asia doc: https://i.blackhat.com/Asia-25/BlackHat-Asia-2025-CFP-Prepar... )
by legitster | 2025-06-24 19:19:55+00:00
This story sounded a little suspicious, or at least incomplete. It never mentioned why he was singled out by the border agent. Also, ICE would probably not have been involved at all.

I looked up the article in Norwegian Reddit and someone posted a link to this person's Youtube channel where he shoots guns and (apparently, as I don't speak the language) has made comments about the President. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC68cjx7WTYtXGhC3rLD3N4A

This could be the long arms of Palantir scanning social media and identifying him as a person of interest.

But also interesting is the response that Norway's Ministry of Foreign Affairs put out (I checked, this was in response to his specific case):

> Entry regulations can change at short notice, and it is the traveller's responsibility to have valid documents and be familiar with the current entry regulations. It is the immigration authorities upon arrival who decide whether you are rejected at the border.

Which seems to hint that the subject arrived in the US without proper paperwork.
by markx2 | 2025-06-24 19:20:18+00:00
2006. O'Hare. I'm close to the front when exiting a UK > US plane. The 'agent' sees an implant (self-done years prior) in the back of my right hand. Calls it 'brutal'. I was directed to sit in a chair until way after the whole flight had disembarked. I was then questioned about my luggage, reasons for visiting.

Some years later "Pull the guy with tattoos". Full search.

Year or two after that, New York, pulled from the queue, directed to stand in a clear box. "Do not move your feet from those markings". My young daughter had to stand and watch.

Another trip. My passport photo did not fit their criteria. "Why did you shave your head?" .. "Because it was hot" .. repeat that whole interaction several times.

I am so so happy that I never have to visit the USA again and it's solely because of the 'people' assigned as 'guards'.
by mystified5016 | 2025-06-24 19:20:50+00:00
Installing a whole toolchain and SDK system-wide is such nonsense.

Espressif's toolchain and SDK are in a git repo that you add as a submodule, or in a directory anywhere you want.

If I want to use microchip or Nordic on a new machine I have to go through this whole process of installing and configuring everything. My ESP projects simply involve a git pull and I'm done.

Nordic was a special pain in the ass because I had to hunt for the exact correct version of the SDK which was hidden away because it's a few versions old. If I need to do the same for espressif, it's literally just a git switch away.

Espressif is in an entirely different league from ST, nordNordic, et al. They're not even playing the same game. Espressif wants anyone and everyone to use their stuff and ST seems to actively hate developers and only want to work with companies buying tens of thousands of units. Like, ST cripples their USB programming tool to only accept 'genuine' ST parts. It's frankly disrespectful.
by busterarm | 2025-06-24 19:20:55+00:00
parent post reminded me of my experience living in Hilton Head and working for the local internet provider.

Storms and loss of power are really common in the area and we would get a flood of really belligerent callers with the following circumstances:

- Lives over 1000 miles away out of state

- Owns multiple AirBNBs in the area

- The locks for their doors required an internet connection and power to function

- They didn't have a local property manager

- Their guests were locked out

It was hilarious because they were screaming and hollering and demanding immediate service from the internet company to get their locks fixed because they were too cheap to hire a local to service the properties and reboot the fiber ONT after a power outage.

And this was about 15 years ago, so I think the "recent decline" of AirBNB is exaggerated and that these owners have always been on the platform, they're now just the _only_ owners on the platform.
by gaudystead | 2025-06-24 19:21:42+00:00
Agreed. They might only be found in smaller projects these days, but I'd love to see them in larger efforts as well. As a kid, discovering/hearing about Easter eggs in a product tended to cause me use it more, if for no other reason than to find the Easter egg. It saddens me that hidden nuggets of joy aren't as popular as they used to be, with even the latest Android versions having very boring "Easter eggs" that amount to a disappointingly sparse interaction for users who have to unlock the developer features. :/
by tomComb | 2025-06-24 19:21:54+00:00
That does make it better, but it’s getting so tiring, trying to find those settings for all the different apps, and figuring out whether you can adjust them without losing something you really want.

And what’s worse is that the companies always seem to find a way to reset it to what they want quite frequently. One of their tricks is to reorganize permissions frequently so the ones that allow their spam to get through are always new
by mrguyorama | 2025-06-24 19:22:24+00:00
No not really.

The people in charge KNOW what the CSB does, that's why they want it gone

The CSB makes it known how much your employer is willing to kill you over saving like ten bucks.

Chemistry industry executives don't like that.

Do you HONESTLY believe that these people who have spent the past 60 years crying about how much the EPA makes their business "harder" (literally 1% more expensive) don't know exactly how the EPA protects the public from them?

They don't care that their actions literally kill people. They don't care.

Dupont did not care at all that they were dumping PFOAs that they confirmed were acutely and chronically toxic to mammals upstream of a small town's drinking water.

They do not care. Executives don't make money for caring.
by FireBeyond | 2025-06-24 19:23:21+00:00
I wonder how it will be implemented. Because for me, Affirm shows my "purchasing power" almost like a credit card, even if it's currently utilized across multiple purchases. So I could see a difference between "making payments on an open balance of $X on an account with $Y purchasing power", even if those payments are subdivided into the original purchases, versus, "You have 7 open Affirm loans".
by eesmith | 2025-06-24 19:23:21+00:00
Jail can be used for post-conviction confinement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison#United_States

> A jail holds people for shorter periods of time (for example, less than a year) or for pre-trial detention and is usually operated by a local government, typically the county sheriff.

> A prison or penitentiary holds people for longer periods of time, such as many years, and is operated by a state or federal government. After a conviction, a sentenced person is sent to prison.

Here's an example of it used that way in Virginia's laws, at https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title18.2/chapter1/secti...

> The authorized punishments for conviction of a misdemeanor are:

> (a) For Class 1 misdemeanors, confinement in jail for not more than twelve months and a fine of not more than $2,500, either or both.
by elcritch | 2025-06-24 19:23:33+00:00
I try! Ok I’m not blaming the people now for being descendants. The lead character in the story was an American foreigner anyways.

When I took on of the boats around Venice I had a European couple going on about it. They kept calling it a city of thieves, shrug.

More that for a city where important pieces of the historical artifacts and art was stolen by betrayal it’s a bit ironic to complain about modern wealthy people.

As in “how dare rich opportunistic Bezos rent this city where he can see beautiful Byzantine treasures stolen by rich opportunistic Doge Enrico Don-solo.”

Then again maybe it is an intentional backdrop for the story.
by drivingmenuts | 2025-06-24 19:23:53+00:00
Sure, you're a nomad, so you're used to how things work in other places, but a lot of people aren't, nor do know how to research local customs nor whom to ask before they arrive. I'm not a traveler, so if I suddenly did arrive in France, the whole bedding rental thing is a totally new concept that I'v never heard of before reading your comment. How would I even know to ask about that sort of thing, if my experience was entirely based on hotels, where that isn't a thing.

When you first started nomad-ding, how often did you get caught out by some custom you never heard of before?
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-06-24 19:24:19+00:00
> there isn't much to do with the sentiment

I see what you're saying but I think a more charitable interpretation can be made. They may be amazed that so many bug reports are being generated by such a reputable group. Looking at your initial reply, perhaps a more constructive comment could be one that joins them in excitement (even if that assumption is erroneous) and expanding on why you think it is exciting (e.g. this group's reputation for quality).
by llm_nerd | 2025-06-24 19:24:20+00:00
Given that federal agencies have zero accountability to the legislative branch or the courts, or the constitution for that matter -- something that the constitutionalists suddenly aren't concerned about -- this is the best you're possibly going to get. And this story is hardly alone, and there are many similar tales. Canadians are being asked their position on Trump, which is as sure a demonstration possible that zero Canadians should be travelling to that country for any reason.

Do you expect the vile dog-shooting sociopath Kristi Noem to speak to this, given it's under her realm of extraordinary incompetence? Maybe she can play dressup to try to get some camera time.

For years we heard whines and cries about the politicization of government. Well the entire apparatus of the US federal government now wears a red hat and writes an essay declaring fealty to the king. It didn't take much for the country to collapse into a fallen idiocracy/husk of an autocracy, at least as a prelude for the utterly inevitable secessionist movement that is going to kick up to an 11.
by kazinator | 2025-06-24 19:24:22+00:00
> This article is presuming that students are somehow blind to the idea that copying work from other places means they don’t actually learn.

Where is the article doing that? I.e. assuming that the students are sleep-walking into not learning?

It's obvious to the rhetorical everyone that students are using AI to cheat, and that they know that because of that they are not learning, and that they don't give a shit.
by ijk | 2025-06-24 19:24:47+00:00
The math tokenization research is probably closest.

GPT-2 tokenization was a demonstratable problem: https://www.beren.io/2023-02-04-Integer-tokenization-is-insa... (Prior HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39728870 )

More recent research:

https://huggingface.co/spaces/huggingface/number-tokenizatio...

Tokenization counts: the impact of tokenization on arithmetic in frontier LLMs: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14903

https://www.beren.io/2024-07-07-Right-to-Left-Integer-Tokeni...
by dkarl | 2025-06-24 19:24:50+00:00
"Stupid" is used as shorthand for a lot of things, one of which is, "likely to act in a self-destructive manner when better alternatives are available." With that in mind, I have to disagree with this:

> they’re intelligent when it comes to their own lives and the areas they work and spend time in

Are people likely to get fat when they have easy access to a bunch of cheap food that is optimized for overconsumption?

Are kids likely to skip all necessary and/or useful preparation for adulthood, given the opportunity to watch porn or TikTok instead?

Are people likely to believe pseudoscience influencers over mainstream medical advice?

If you dig into these examples, you can explain each of them in more specific and illuminating ways. "Stupid" is just shorthand for the fact that we're not perfect rational optimizers of anything, including our own happiness.

(I think people twist themselves into knots trying to avoid using pejorative words like "stupid." I appreciate the good intentions, but I don't think it's necessary. I'm stupid a lot in my own life. Everybody is stupid sometimes. We're human beings.)
by moomin | 2025-06-24 19:24:55+00:00
Bodil is both extremely smart and extremely funny. With a sense of humour that extends to type theory. I think her leaving Twitter was one of the things that made it memorable ch less fun for me.

Quote from the readme:

If you think this is actually useful (and I'm mildly horrified to find that I'm starting to think it might be), you may wish to step up to help maintain it, because I doubt I'll keep giving it much attention once the novelty wears off.
by OsrsNeedsf2P | 2025-06-24 19:25:17+00:00
> "They threatened me with a minimum fine of $5,000 or five years in prison if I refused to provide the password to my phone."

I would write a witty message about how it seems like a good idea to put your phone in the carry-on luggage, but given they now ask for social media handles I don't think I will
by taylodl | 2025-06-24 19:25:21+00:00
My favorite thing about Wilhoit's Law is I worked with Frank Wilhoit for several years and still occasionally meet up with him. He's one of the most interesting and insightful people I know. He loves phrasing things in an unconventional way to encourage people to think about what's being said instead of thinking about the next thing they're about to say.
by nostrademons | 2025-06-24 19:25:25+00:00
That's not really the threat model. It's that the U.S. has played the role of policing the world's oceans and world's regional conflicts since WW2. If the U.S. descends into civil war, it will be too preoccupied with internal power struggles to continue to play that role. Many, many countries elsewhere in the world will take the opportunity to settle old scores and jockey for regional advantage. Meanwhile, the population in many countries is supported by food imports that can only be sustained while global trade can freely occur.

If you live in Chile, the main danger is not that the U.S. drops a nuke on you. It's that Pakistan (freed from fear of international condemnation) drops a nuke in India, which then can no longer export rice to Saudi Arabia, where revolt breaks out, which cuts off the flow of oil, which makes Chile's economy grind to a halt.