MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DudeOpotomus | 2025-06-21 16:11:41+00:00
Ad tech is the reason our society is so polarized. YouTube and Google fund the disinformation and propaganda universe. These fringe people never had a chance to broadcast let alone become wealthy before Google put ads on everything. And now, not only are they given a platform, they're rewarded for being the loudest, most angry, most polarizing, most obnoxious people possible.

Rewarding sensationalism without any oversight is the core problem with society today.

Profits over priciples.

What's nuts is reading thought this thread and reading comments from all the people who think that earning money with digital content is a right. And worse, that because they've earned money in the past, they're entitled to do it forever.

There are no longer any guard rails on sensationalism and since the only measure of success is by the very Fox guarding the Henhouse, it's optimized for the Fox's profit, not public's health and society's principles.

Advertising ruined the world. Ad Tech is a cancer.
by em-bee | 2025-06-21 16:11:42+00:00
forward secrecy is independent of the transport protocol. it's only dependent on the encryption. messages encrypted with forward secrey can still be sent over SMTP. deltachat devs are working on that.

signal does not use a standardized protocol, and it requires a phone. that's not an alternative. my children have deltachat on their laptop. i can talk to them when i am not at home without needing to give them a phone.
by sensanaty | 2025-06-21 16:12:14+00:00
I get what you mean, but they also have vested interests in making it seem as if their chatbots are anything close to a T-800. All the talk from their CEO and other AI CEOs is doomerism about how their tools are going to be replacing swathes of people, they keep selling these systems as if they are the path to real AGI (itself an incredibly vague term that can mean literally anything).

Surely, the best way to "get ahead of bad things happening" would be to stop any and all development on these AI systems? In their own words these things are dangerous and predictable and will replace everyone... So why exactly do they continue developing these things and making them more dangerous, exactly?

The entire AI/LLM microcosmos exists because of hyping up their capabilities beyond all reason and reality, this is all a part of the marketing game.
by a2128 | 2025-06-21 16:13:03+00:00
That's no longer true as of around 5 years ago. They'll show ads on any video they like.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2475463?hl=en "YouTube may also place ads on videos in channels not in the YouTube Partner Program."

If you become eligible and join the YouTube partner program I believe there may be a toggle then, but for non partners it's completely up to YouTube.

And the forced sign-in of course never was controllable by creators.
by vincejos | 2025-06-21 16:13:17+00:00
While I don’t question the maturity model in itself (which I read after the incident and that’s why I started gitting migrations just after), I realized it was harder than other Supabase features for it to work well, especially when you start working with other features than just authentication and Postgres.

In particular, webhooks and triggers don’t work out of the box. So maybe it’s not pushing in a particular direction but at least I’d argue it’s not nudging you to do it because it entails some hours of custom setup and debugging before the CLI commands like supabase db diff actually work as intended in my experience. But I know the Supabase team is improving it every release so I’m thankful for this work!
by skydhash | 2025-06-21 16:13:35+00:00
Let me start by stating that touch typing is orthogonal to coding well.

The nice thing about touch type is to not think about typing. One quick glance to position your hands on the home row (there’s helper on F and J), and then whatever you want to write just flow out. While I use two thumbs to type this on mobile, I’m mostly using my peripheral vision. Typing on a real keyboard is better as I have better feedback and can use all my fingers.

It’s only one reason: No need to think about typing, it’s all muscle memory.
by edmundsauto | 2025-06-21 16:14:21+00:00
> pretty much every advancement in automation across history has sacrificed some fidelity and craftsmanship. That's the cost of automation

Can you help me think through how this looks when considering car manufacturing? Originally hand made cars were things of craftsmanship, but significantly lower quality and reliability than those produced with tiny tolerances on insane production lines. I'd take a modern car over a handmade one just about any day of the week.
by b00ty4breakfast | 2025-06-21 16:14:25+00:00
>...only a few years ago they suddenly decided to essentially penalize people who don't play ball like good little data cows...

I'm extremely skeptical that the company that makes most of it's money on the collection of data isn't still collecting data on your viewing habits (and other assorted account-related activities) just because you clicked a checkbox. I don't have a lot of great evidence to back this up but I would still see videos related to my viewing history in the after-video suggestion grid as recently as a few months ago ( before I realized I could zap it with Ublock)
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-06-21 16:14:33+00:00
> and pay me to do the big and meaningful things

Ay, there's the rub...

It is a lot more expensive to do high-Quality work, than it is to do shoddy (or, to be fair, barely acceptable) work. You need to hire more experienced (expensive) people, and then, you need to hire better managers, because you don't want the usual crap managers in charge of them.

And then, you need to pay for the time they take, "polishing the fenders."

Once you have an established brand, you can do these kinds of things, but it's pretty much impossible to start from scratch (without deep, patient pockets).
by skeledrew | 2025-06-21 16:15:35+00:00
Someone sent this to one of NT groups: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1935343874421178762.html

My response (I think most of the comments here are similar to that thread): The thread is really alarmist and click-baity. It doesn't address at all the fact that there was a 3rd group, those allowed to use the web in general (except for LLM services), whose results fell between the brain-only and full ChatGPT groups. Author also misrepresented the teachers' evaluation. I'd say even the teachers went a bit out of scope in their evaluation, but the writing prompts too are all for reflective-style essays, which I take as request for primarily personal opinion, which no one but the askee can give. In general, I don't see how the author draws the conclusion that "... AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt." He could've made a leap from the title of the paper, or maybe I need to actually dive more into it to see what he's on about.

The purpose of using AI, just like any other tool, is to reduce cognitive load. I'm sure a study on persons who use paper and an abacus vs a spreadsheet app to do accounting, or take the time to cook raw foods vs microwave prepackaged meals, or build their furniture from scratch vs getting sth from IKEA, or just about any other task, will show similar trends. We innovate so we can offload and automate essential effort, and AI is just another step. If we do want mental exercises then we can still opt into doing X the "traditional" way, or play some games mimicking said effort. Like people may go to the gym since so many muscle-building tasks are nowadays handled by machines. But the point is we're continuously moving from `we need to do X` toward `we want to do X`.

Also that paper title (and possibly a decent amount of the research) is invalid, given the essay writing constraints and the type of essay. Paper hasn't been peer-reviewed, and so should be taken with a few shakes of salt.
by gavinray | 2025-06-21 16:15:47+00:00
RE: "Boom Microphone Cable"

I wanted headphones for FPS games with a good soundstage. Generally, gaming headsets are not known for price-to-quality value.

After researching, bought Sennheiser HD560S, but I needed a mic.

V-MODA makes a $20 attachment called a "BoomPro Mic", which uses standard 3.5mm audio jack and gives you not only a mic, but also a volume dial.

It turns out that having an easily-accessible volume dial is the best thing since sliced bread.

Can't believe I never got a cable with this feature before, they ought to put them on all headphone audio cables.
by siscia | 2025-06-21 16:15:55+00:00
In fairness, their design does not seem to be regional. With problems in one region bringing down another, apparently not unrelated, region.

With this kind of architecture, this sort of problems is just bound to happen.

During my time in AWS, region independence was a must. And some services were able to operate at least for a while without degrading also when some core dependencies were not available. Think like loosing S3.

And after that, the service would keep operating, but with a degraded experience.

I am stunned that this level of isolation is not common in GCP.
by amy214 | 2025-06-21 16:17:03+00:00
>Can someone more knowledgeable than me explain how my passwords could have been leaked from Google or Apple? Or is this just bad reporting?

A lot of this data, probably 95% + is from mass leaks from hacked sites. Hacked some non-google non-apple site, maybe 3 years ago, maybe 10.

Your login to that site is your email (@gmail.com) so there you go. your email may be in there several times with different passwords, corresponding to several hacked sites. if on whatever site, dropbox (which had been hacked this way), your dropbox login is same as google login.. there you go, that's how they did it.

some hacked sites have your password in plaintext, some with a weak hash algorithm which easily got reversed, either way, outcome is your password is known

rest of the passwords are from something now becoming more popular which are "stealer logs" - basically malware that's taking screenshots, scanning for bitcoin wallets, keylogging credentials, steam info etc, and logging it all. the stealer type systems have caught me eye in the past few years, the 2020s, but I'm sure that community existed prior, and certainly this type of software goes at least as far back as the '90s.
by KerrAvon | 2025-06-21 16:17:17+00:00
> If I were to criticize "Cons", its that high performance modern programming needs to use arrays

This has been true of linked lists since the advent of memory caches; it’s not just the last 20 years. They’re simple to implement, but they’re usually very bad for performance; you really want better locality of reference in a primitive data structure. You almost always should be using an array of some kind instead.
by cwillu | 2025-06-21 16:17:49+00:00
I'm the person you were replying to, and I endorse spaceribs' comment.

My computer is my property, it will do what I ask it to just like my refrigerator, my tv, and my paper and pencil. I will remove corporate logos from my belongings, and entirely fail to look at the advertising that comes in my mail box. And if google tries to tell my computer to show me advertising, I am _entirely_ within my rights to tell my computer not to.
by dangus | 2025-06-21 16:18:23+00:00
I can't speak to the quality of CDK, which is 10x less popular by GitHub stars than base Terraform and is marked as experimental/bleeding edge and pre-1.0 by Hashicorp's own documentation. If they're using a hacky workaround of some guy's software that definitely sounds like something that pre-1.0 software would do.

I've found HCL perfectly adequate for vanilla Terraform, furthermore I've found no real reason to leverage CDK.

To be clear I am not saying HCL is amazing, merely that it's adequate and better than YAML, and that I'm not sure how it could be considered confusing. I personally think HashiCorp has jumped the shark since the IBM acquisition and that CDK will never gain mass adoption in a significant way.
by mikewarot | 2025-06-21 16:18:48+00:00
History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. Most of the discussion here seems to focus on the events of the past repeating themselves in almost the same manner, and ignoring the differences, which are substantial.

We're not talking about goods produced in bulk, but rather about a new intelligence that helps produce job shop type goods. That intelligence itself isn't a physical good though, and it can be copied freely and run elsewhere at almost no cost, and copyright won't save it. It's like toothpaste out of the tube once it's on the internet.

If we want to keep on track with the analogy to frame weaving machines, the difference is that capital and the availability of power were required to use those machines, which provided the moat required to protect profits.[Econ 101]

Models can be copied, and all of the investment in training used freely by anyone possessing a copy. This might have been how DeepSeek was trained, we'll never know. This is clearly different than in the case of weaving machines.

So instead of the cost of cloth, the cost of thought is going to drop considerably, and the quality of that artificial thought is (likely) at the lowest point it'll ever be. I can already run quantized versions of Deepseek on my CPU with 32 Gb of RAM. The future really doesn't seem to have an upper limit on what can be run locally.

With the ability to run models locally, the costs of running models will always have competition to lower prices. The other force is the capture of prompts and responses, whether covert or in the open, for other use, which must always be kept in mind.

The ability to build completely new things, will, I think, help to usher in a new era of innovation and allow anyone, anywhere, to start up companies to service the world.

[Econ 101] - In Economics 101, I learned that in a free and fair marketplace, it was impossible to maintain an outsized profit, because competition would always show up to take part of that profit.
by tmsh | 2025-06-21 16:19:03+00:00
Imho you are (1) trying to be original on HN (going against the grain) and (2) being dismissive of people’s genuine interests in an area - gonna lead to defensive downvotes.

I agree with the responders that this is a common fallacy (good insights / learnings for us all). Eg I like following baseball but if you were to ask me about it 10 years ago I’d be pretty reductive about. I agree with the responders that there’s beauty in the seemingly little things at first that build. That said not all of us take the time to appreciate certain areas of beauty because there’s a lot of beauty out there. And that’s ok but nature does seem to indicate repetition and variation are fine.
by mseidl | 2025-06-21 16:19:10+00:00
Tulsi gabbard said that iran is not building a nuke. That includes from all the intelligence cia, nsa, and every other intelligence agency. They were all unanimous.

Netanyahu has been saying shit for decades.

Iran has signed the non-proliferation treaty so they can enrich uranium.

Under the jcpoa iran was meeting the limits set by obama. and not enriching over 3%. They just are enriching at such a high point now as a point for negotiations.
by easton | 2025-06-21 16:19:30+00:00
Guessing it’s because it needs to go everywhere Windows is and they didn’t want to have a target on their back from pulling in a bunch of dependencies that they’d have to prove were safe. (Especially since Windows installs where this editor works may not get frequently updated, like embedded)

It might have been faster to just write the code they needed vs consult a lawyer and local security person for every crate they wanted to pull in.
by em-bee | 2025-06-21 16:19:30+00:00
deltachat devs are working on forward secrecy. and as for metadata, as long as the messages are sent from my personal email server to the destinations email server using a TLS connection, the metadata is accessible only on those two servers. sure, if i use gmail then google has my social graph. but so do whatsapp and telegram and others. yes, more private options exist, but for example in one group of friends right now the choice now is between whatsapp and deltachat. whatsapp because most people in the group already use it. deltachat because most people already have email. signal or matrix are not under consideration.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-06-21 16:19:46+00:00
I’ve not gathered any data to prove it, but I’ve long held a hunch that there’s something of an inverse correlation between multiplayer games’ popularity among highly competitive players and the masses.

Most people don’t want to spend large amounts of time “getting good” and don’t enjoy getting matched up against players that absolutely destroy them, but instead prefer more casual games against other players with middling skills. The thing is though, even if highly competitive games include an unranked queue intended for casuals, it ends up being filled with smurfs[0] and the like looking to smash lower skilled players, which drains the fun from the game for those players. Thinking about it that way, it’d make perfect sense if the most popular PvP games would be those that are shunned by the highly competitive - a lack of “pro” players might be considered a feature rather than a bug.

[0]: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/17209/where-does...
by jdeibele | 2025-06-21 16:20:04+00:00
I own a Chevy Bolt EUV, made in the US. After 18 months driving it, I was happy enough with it that we leased a Chevy Equinox EV to replace my wife's gas car. The Equinox is made in Mexico, not the US but we've also been happy with it for 9 months so far.

We've owned Hondas (Odyssey) and Toyotas (Camry, Prius, Corolla). They've been great. We also changed the oil whenever the car's display said to and did whatever other servicing our independent mechanic advised. I suspect that a lot of cars would also be reliable if they were maintained.

Toyota is recalling 100,000 Tundra trucks because debris was left in the engine. https://www.haleytoyota.com/blog/the-2022-2023-toyota-tundra... There's no perfect vehicle although I'd say EVs get a lot closer when you can refill at home and do basically no maintenance except tire rotations and cabin air filters.
by InsideOutSanta | 2025-06-21 16:20:34+00:00
>That you felt the need to publicly separate yourself from the "sociopaths" so we'd all certainly know what a virtuous person you are is the crux of it

I apologize; while reading the thread on my phone, I thought you were responding to me, but you're not. I'll still respond, though.

> I believe you are sincere. Sincerity has nothing to do with virtue signaling.

Virtue signaling is about intent. Honestly stating a genuinely held belief because you believe it and want to communicate it is not virtue signaling.

In your response, you're making an assumption about the person who wrote the comment. You're assuming that they wrote the comment "so we'd all certainly know what a virtuous person you are." But that's your assumption. You don't know that.

So why are you making that assumption? People often extrapolate their own motivations when judging the behavior of others. That's why I'm suspicious of people who accuse others of virtue-signalling. It conveys something about their inner state and their own motivations.
by phillipcarter | 2025-06-21 16:21:37+00:00
> And there's ginormous costs associated with logging everything

If you use a tool that defaults the log spew to a cheap archive, sampling to the fast store, and a way to pull from the archive on-demand much of that is resolved. FWIW I think most orgs get big scared at seeing $$$ in their cloud bills, but don't properly account for time spent by engineers rummaging around for data they need but don't have.
by Kamq | 2025-06-21 16:21:47+00:00
> Just because I'm a middle aged male I see trucks, and beer, and football advertisements all day long

Well, yeah. Those companies will pay to send their ad to all middle aged men. Those companies could slice and dice more to get better demographics, but they don't think it's worth it.

Google's business isn't to slice and dice the demographics to show you better ads. It's to slice and dice the demographics in any way that the advertisers will pay for.

Because the people who are willing to pay money are, ultimately, the customers.
by emporas | 2025-06-21 16:21:57+00:00
Poor benchmark.

I tried their prompt [1] using 3 numbered items, qwq-32b got it right with no problems at all. I think it could solve 100 numbered items correctly 100% of the time, but it probably needs a million tokens. Probably even more, 10 million.

The limitation of 5000 tokens is peanuts for a reasoning model. Give it a lot of testing time compute, 10x of 5000 tokens is still too little.

The authors talk about long inputs, so, if it is 100 pages, give it a billion tokens.

The correct way to implement this is in batches, find the first 5 numbered items in the omitted input text, if it does find those, then simplify the input items and the omitted input items and go again.

Depending on the size of the input, it will always need a hefty amount of tokens, but simplification will help it backtrack correctly and not lose the thread entirely.

[1]You are helping a student practice memorizing poems. The student will recite a poem, but they may have missed some lines. Your task is to identify exactly which lines are missing from their recitation. List only the missing lines, nothing else. User Message Here is the complete original poem: 1)Quisella's lashes fluttered panic-morse. 2)The Moisture Vampires leeches that sucked humidity. 3)Lysandra's nostrils flared precisely one degree. Now, here is my recitation which may be missing some lines: Quisella's lashes fluttered panic-morse. Lysandra's nostrils flared precisely one degree. What lines did I miss? Please list only the missing lines, nothing else.
by cxr | 2025-06-21 16:23:11+00:00
I don't know what function the word "still" is intended to perform in this sentence. I, too, copy and paste using the context menu—sometimes, i.e.: when it is most appropriate and/or convenient to do so.

But the question is: what developers don't know about the standard keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste? Do they exist in any statistically significant numbers? ("There exists X" is not a very meaningful contribution if the Xs involved are something like 0.01% and are outnumbered by the number of programmers who write all their code on their mobile phone or whose version control strategy is to inscribe all their programs on a Tic Tac or a grain of rice or who think that Commodore 64-inspired homegrown operating systems are specially positioned to reveal the Word of God and offer protection against being pursued and persecuted by the CIA. Or are these some special breed of 9-to-5 darkmatter programmers who aren't going to show up on the radar, anyway?)
by frosted-flakes | 2025-06-21 16:23:28+00:00
Reusable shopping bags cost about $10-$15. No one is buying them frivolously.

I think the issue here is one of semantics. The so-called "reusable" bags you're talking about are still classified as single-use plastics.

If you look at BC as an example, where ALL single-use plastic bags at checkouts are banned, people have adapted just fine. In some stores (like restaurants) you can buy paper bags for 25¢, but generally people either don't bother with bags at all and simply load things directly into their cars, or they bring their own bags or baskets. Now, pretty much the only litter I regularly see is paper coffee cups or candy wrappers. Bags have disappeared, and bottles and cans usually collected for the deposit.