MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nostrademons | 2025-06-24 19:00:17+00:00
Yeah, I see a whole lot of media parallels to Nazi Germany, but the two historical analogues that really pop to mind for me are the French Revolution and the Breakup of Yugoslavia. Both of which ended in slaughter - the Napoleonic Wars for the former and ethnic cleansing for the latter. People are crying dictatorship now, but I don't see that being the ending here; rather, I see it as being war and death on a massive scale.

The other thing to remember about the French Revolution was that nearly all the revolutionaries who came to power during it were dead by the end of it. The folks who are crying "We're in power now, suckas!" are being extremely stupid. Power doesn't last long at times like this.

The other thing that scares me is that the best place to be in all those historical times of crisis was an ocean away from the place where the crisis starts. But that doesn't work today; we have weapons with global reach that can level whole cities in 30 minutes. If the U.S. disintegrates nowhere on earth is safe.
by jajuuka | 2025-06-24 19:00:25+00:00
Well it's a movie they spent an insane amount of money on and racing movies (especially on something places like the US don't even follow) aren't huge box office hits. It was a colossal mistake to keep making that movie but Apple is bound to make the most money they can back on it. There is a reason they opened WWDC with an ad for it.
by ijk | 2025-06-24 19:00:26+00:00
You can view the tokenization for yourself: https://huggingface.co/spaces/Xenova/the-tokenizer-playgroun...

[496, 675, 15717] is the GPT-4 representation of the tokens. In order to determine which letters the token represents, it needs to learn the relationship between "str" and [496]. It can learn the representation (since it can spell it out as "S-T-R" or "1. S, 2. T, 3. R" or whatever) but it adds an extra step.

The question is whether the extra step adds enough extra processing to degrade performance. Does the more compact representation buy enough extra context to make the tokenized version more effective for more problems?

It seems like the longer context length makes the trade off worth it, since spelling problems are a relatively minor subset. On the other hand, for numbers it does appear that math is significantly worse when it doesn't have access to individual digits (early Llama math results, for example). Once they changed the digit tokenization, the math performance improved.
by pmontra | 2025-06-24 19:01:12+00:00
Of course it lacked the mark on the anticommunism checkbox, but control of society and control of economy were checked. That's 50% of the fascist playbook.

There was probably some nationalism too. Stalin buried internatonalism quickly. They would inevitably bow to the Russian overlords. No shame about it. We were bowing to the USA in the West and we still are.

Anyway, was communism only a facade by the 70s and the 80s? In that case it was a fully fascist country. All of the East.

I'd like to hear from somebody who lived in those countries at that time.
by stego-tech | 2025-06-24 19:01:39+00:00
All the bickering about the validity of this specific story and the “if you don’t like it don’t ever leave home to go anywhere ever” misses the crux of the issue that these articles are trying to raise:

* Do we agree that a law enforcement arm of any country should be allowed to perform warrantless searches of electronic devices?

* Do we find it acceptable that persons with critical views are denied entry to countries that profess protection of speech for its citizens?

* If we find either of the above objectionable, what should we be doing to stop it?

The reality is that this is on the rise, not just in the USA but globally, and we should be having frank discussions on whether this is acceptable or not given its repercussions.

For context, despite my critique of an unnamed EMEA government, they’ve happily let me into their country repeatedly to do work for an employer, associate with my colleagues, and perform volunteer work within its borders. On the flip side, I have serious doubts about my ability to enter authoritarian regimes like China because of my outspoken critique of government policies, regardless of my intentions within their borders.

This [broader issue] is what we should be discussing, not nuanced specifics over a single incident.
by Veserv | 2025-06-24 19:01:55+00:00
It is funny you should say that binocular vision is sufficient when Tesla Vision hardware does not have binocular vision.

HW3 has three front-facing cameras that are not only too close together to provide binocular vision with adequate disparity, but also have different fixed focal lengths making them unable to establish binocular focus even if they were far enough apart [1]. HW4 has two front-facing cameras with the same limitations.

This is of course ignoring the fact that humans with visual acuity comparable to the HW3 cameras would almost be legally blind and not meet minimum vision requirements to operate a motor vehicle in, I believe, every state. HW4 cameras are better and you would only be unable to meet minimum vision requirements to operate a motor vehicle in most states, including California and Texas.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Autopilot_hardware#Tesla...
by reginald78 | 2025-06-24 19:02:00+00:00
To bolster this, after the 750ti the 50 products have had pretty lame price to performance compared to the next step up, but have remained quite popular. Most people seem to argue that the lack of additional power is their main advantage and why they are popular.

I personally think people remember being happy with the 750ti and just keep buying those cards.
by EdgeExplorer | 2025-06-24 19:02:23+00:00
There are better answers in the linked book. :)

But no, nothing is sacred. Not only that, from a historical perspective, the current pace of language change is shockingly slow because of the impact of media. It would not be at all unusual for a word like drop to move entirely to a new metaphorical meaning causing other words to have to fill in the gap. In German, you "let fall" something. Even if anything was sacred, "drop" would be far, far from sacred. It is very easy to replace.

(The closest thing to sacred is words for familiar, every day objects and people. "Mama" is pretty nearly universal, for example. But even so, we literally don't even know where the word "dog" came from, so no, nothing is sacred.)

There are many many examples if you search (or even better, read the book!), but here are a few:

"silly" originally meant something more like "blessed"

"fear" meant "danger", referring to a thing feared, not the feeling

"nice" meant "foolish" and literally comes from roots mean "not knowing"

This kind of change in meaning is very, very normal. This is just how language works. I really think you will enjoy the book. The author is very easy to read and covers a ton of linguistic ground.
by spiderice | 2025-06-24 19:02:26+00:00
> Reminder: Support of free speech requires support of the right to say things that you loathe by people you hate or you don’t support free speech.

No it doesn't. You're putting arbitrary limits to suit your views. You can support free speech for American citizens and also support using a foreigner's speech to determine whether or not we allow them into the country. That's just smart border policy. We should be vetting who we allow into our country, and using their speech is one way to vet them.

Obviously not allowing someone in over a bald JD Vance meme is stupid. But the idea that we have to allow all foreigners the same level of free speech without it affecting their chances of getting into the country is also stupid.
by perihelions | 2025-06-24 19:02:30+00:00
It was on HN yesterday,

> "THE US EMBASSY in Dublin is tightening its visa requirements, saying that future applicants looking to visit the country will be required to divulge “all social media usernames or handles of every platform they have used from the last five years” on their visa application form."

https://www.thejournal.ie/us-visa-changes-6740830-Jun2025/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44354298 (209 comments)
by seatac76 | 2025-06-24 19:02:36+00:00
I’ve been writing Python for over a decade and was still using the Pyenv Virtualenv (dated I know). Lately I had been trying to switch over to Poetry. Somehow it never works smoothly for me.

Then I looked at uv and oh boy is it better. Everything just works and is blazing fast. Kudos to the team.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-24 19:02:40+00:00
Not sure it's just that.

If you look at a character system like Pokemon, Magic, Neptunia, Fate/Grand Order or Azur Lane there is a lot of consistency. Sometimes one person does all the work (Tsunako!) but other times they bring in different artists but give them enough direction that it hangs together. That's what I'm looking for in trading cards.

Second the typography could be better. Some of it the font choice (a harder problem than I wish it was) and some is with the spacing of things.
by stanmancan | 2025-06-24 19:02:48+00:00
We used to take two annual trips to the US, and cross the border every 4-6 weeks to shop, eat, and fill up our gas on the way home.

We haven't been there since this current administration took over, and have no plans on it until something changes.

Trumps comments regarding Canada, and the whole "51st state" rhetoric triggered the decision, but these stories absolutely play a part in it. I'm not about to put myself, or my family, in a position where someone might be detained for anywhere from days to weeks for no reason.

There's a big, beautiful world out there, and plenty of countries who are happy to have us and take our tourist dollars, all without me having to worry about getting detained for silly pictures on my phone. It's a pretty easy decision if you ask me.
by socalgal2 | 2025-06-24 19:02:59+00:00
> If we really cared about “uptime” of employees, we’d all be living in bicycle range of our jobs

And then reality hits. You're married and your partner's job is on the other side of the city. You just bought and house and now you want to switch jobs but you'd be limited to only jobs in biking distance. eTc....

I bike to work (was 4 miles, now 2), but it's unrealistic to expect people to be in bicycle range of their jobs.
by sarchertech | 2025-06-24 19:03:10+00:00
When I say it’s possible, I don’t think that it’s the official CBP policy, but I have had enough interactions with power tripping cops to believe that it’s possible that the kid was disrespectful to the wrong guy. Customs agents have wide latitude in determining who can enter, and I could see a situation where an already angry agent saw the Vance thing, got even angrier and said you’re outta here.
by FrustratedMonky | 2025-06-24 19:03:10+00:00
Yarvin is missing the boat.

Just because who he voted for got the power, does not mean Yarvin got the power.

"Me Yarvin, Me powerful now". Is not true. What power does he think he has.???

The real question is, what has to happen before these people 'learn', or 'understand' that they were duped. What would it take for them to really grasp how they were played? Like all those Germans that shrug, 'I didn't know'.
by jmorenoamor | 2025-06-24 19:03:28+00:00
Forcing you to hand your phone password and expose all your personal intimacy, or face prision, even when the chances are low, is quite a risk.

Even this comment in HN could put me into problems if the guard considers it harmful.

If a funny pic of a politician can put you into prision, the probably some messages you write in a WhatsApp group with friends, discussing world news, could mean serious problems.
by tptacek | 2025-06-24 19:03:49+00:00
I think some context I probably don't share with the rest of this thread is that the average quality of a Hacker One submission is incredibly low. Like however bad you think the median bounty submission is, it's worse; think "people threatening to take you to court for not paying them for their report that they can 'XSS' you with the Chrome developer console".
by DonHopkins | 2025-06-24 19:03:49+00:00
>Instead of serving 200 standalone tools, we serve three meta‑tools and let the LLM discover endpoints at run‑time.

>list_api_endpoints lets the model search the catalog (“what can I do with counterparties?”)

>get_api_endpoint_schema pulls the JSON‑schema for any route it finds

>invoke_api_endpoint executes that route with user‑supplied params

>This approach allows the LLM to dynamically discover, learn about, and invoke endpoints as needed, without requiring the entire API schema to be loaded into its context window at once. The LLM will use these tools together to search for, look up, and call endpoints on demand.

Congratulation, you have reinvented Microsoft COM, IUnknown, OLE, IDispatch, and ActiveX for LLMS!

I'm not being sarcastic or criticizing, it's actually a good idea! Just not new.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12975257

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20266627

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29593432

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19837817

I'm also not saying there aren't better approaches, like "NeLLM": taking the NeWS approach to LLMs, where MCP is more like "X-LLM": taking the X-Windows approach to LLMs.

Sending JSON data back and forth between a Node based orchestrator and an LLM is one thing, all well and find and traditional, but why not send and evaluate JavaScript code itself? Both Node (or even a secure Node isolate) and the LLM can generate and evaluate JavaScript quite well thank you, and it's a hell of a lot more powerful and concise and extensible that a fixed JSON protocol, for the exact same reason that NeWS is a hell of a lot more powerful and concise and extensible than the fixed X-Windows protocol.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43952748

>I agree they should learn from DLLs, gRPC, SOAP, IDL, dCOM, etc.

>But they should also learn from how NeWS was better than X-Windows because instead of a fixed protocol, it allowed you to send executable PostScript code that runs locally next to the graphics hardware and input devices, interprets efficient custom network protocols, responds to local input events instantly, implements a responsive user interface while minimizing network traffic.

>For the same reason the client-side Google Maps via AJAX of 20 years ago was better than the server-side Xerox PARC Map Viewer via http of 32 years ago.

>I felt compelled to write "The X-Windows Disaster" comparing X-Windows and NeWS, and I would hate if 37 years from now, when MCP is as old as X11, I had to write about "The MCP-Token-Windows Disaster", comparing it to a more efficient, elegant, underdog solution that got out worse-is-bettered. It doesn't have to be that way!

>The X-Windows Disaster:

https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-x-windows-disaster-128d398...

>It would be "The World's Second Fully Modular Software Disaster" if we were stuck with MCP for the next 37 years, like we still are to this day with X-Windows.
by bob1029 | 2025-06-24 19:04:03+00:00
If you want the best possible solution vertical for most business, I'd be looking at using Lucene for FTS duty.

Having the FTS engine provide a google-style snippet of the most relevant document chunk is the holy grail for RAG applications. Lucene does this kind of thing better than anyone else:

https://lucene.apache.org/core/8_0_0/highlighter/org/apache/...

It is also very easy to customize this engine and align the document tokenization & indexing concerns with your specific retrieval scenarios.
by moyix | 2025-06-24 19:04:07+00:00
We've got a bunch of agent traces on the front page of the web site right now. We also have done writeups on individual vulnerabilities found by the system, mostly in open source right now (we did some fun scans of OSS projects found on Docker Hub). We have a bunch more coming up about the vulns found in bug bounty targets. The latter are bottlenecked by getting approval from the companies affected, unfortunately.

Some of my favorites from what we've released so far:

- Exploitation of an n-day RCE in Jenkins, where the agent managed to figure out the challenge environment was broken and used the RCE exploit to debug the server environment and work around the problem to solve the challenge: https://xbow.com/#debugging--testing--and-refining-a-jenkins...

- Authentication bypass in Scoold that allowed reading the server config (including API keys) and arbitrary file read: https://xbow.com/blog/xbow-scoold-vuln/

- The first post about our HackerOne findings, an XSS in Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect VPN portal used by a bunch of companies: https://xbow.com/blog/xbow-globalprotect-xss/
by dgfitz | 2025-06-24 19:04:10+00:00
I feel the need to defend myself: I also beat Elden Ring and the expansion boss. Lvl 155 for the main game and scadu 18 for the xpack boss, no summons!

I just like a variety of games I guess. Playing the Indiana jones one now. The FPV is a touch obnoxious but I’m working past it.
by skywhopper | 2025-06-24 19:04:14+00:00
Unfortunately, it’s pretty clear that there are strict quotas in place and border agents are expected to refuse entry to a certain number of people every day. The quotas are set by delusional xenophobes and thus aren’t remotely realistic, but border agents must find someone to kick out, so they latch onto any excuse. It’s truly sad and pathetic and evil.
by keybored | 2025-06-24 19:04:16+00:00
> I don't have more recent statistics, but I'm going to assume that the number is the same or higher this year.

Why would you?

> Out of that population which could fill a decent-sized country, how many people have been treated so unfairly as the one in this article? How do those stats compare with other countries, and the inevitable abuses that occur in any vast bureaucracy?

Most people have an opinion about the US. They might have shared it on social media.

For comparison, the government of Turkey might care if you have insulted Erdoğan on social media (I don’t know; they might). But chances are you want to travel to Turkey while not having strong enough opinions to have flamed Erdoğan on social media. People care more about what they can see in Turkey; foreigners objectively spend more time on US political news than they spend thinking about the US national parks.
by vel0city | 2025-06-24 19:04:20+00:00
> Like was said in other comments, in practice, the time to get to a point in the city is the same if you start in the city, or if you start outside of the city

This is objectively, radically untrue. It takes my wife 10-15 minutes to get to that same office where it takes the people living in Forney an hour to get in. She'll spend 20 minutes of her day commuting, they'll spend two hours. I used to ride my bicycle to the office before I mostly worked from home and have it take me maybe 15 minutes. Coworkers living in a town literally called Farmersville routinely took over an hour and a half each way. One person has to take a 30-mile trip, one person is taking a five-mile trip which is essentially the same final five miles as the 30-mile trip, how could it possibly be the same time.

> once travel is in the picture then you can be located anywhere

They'd agree with this entirely. I already have to have a car to get to work, so why wouldn't I just use that to go to whatever restaurant or shop I want across the city, why limit myself to only where I could walk? Personally, I enjoy going to the restaurants right at the edge of my neighborhood, on the days I go into the office I like strolling through the parks and to the restaurants nearby. But lots of people wouldn't want to "limit" themselves to only a mile or two, when the shop they'd prefer to shop at is a similar time distance away but by car.

> There is nothing that excludes you from city jobs if you live in the country

Time. Time excludes you from those city jobs. You're eventually having to spend more and more time driving through all those seas of neighborhoods to those decent paying jobs, its eventually just not worth it. People aren't going to be willing to drive two hours each way, it's amazing they're even willing to put up with an hour each way.

Once again, go back to that map of DFW. To really get an "affordable" truly rural place on that East side of DFW where you'd actually have dozens of acres without spending millions, you're probably looking at Josephine, Blue Rdige, maybe Westminister as a few examples. Go see what the commute time is starting at like 7:00 AM from there to Addison. Nearly two hours. Maybe you're going to work at a more industrial job in Garland. Nearly two hours. Are you willing to spend four hours of your day every day in your car?

> The data clearly shows that rural areas as a rule have more available jobs.

More available total jobs or more available comparable jobs? Please do share this data. Other than specific industries like oil and gas it's pretty much the opposite from what I can tell.
by calmbonsai | 2025-06-24 19:04:34+00:00
Bad move Apple. You're really showing your finance desperation with this property with all of the ridiculous "F1" media buys. It makes you look weak. Even Brad Pitt with the, very convenient, "AA confession" timing is so gauche.

I don't care what the app is. The split second it starts using notifications to send unsolicited marketing, it's notification privileges are revoked and I seriously consider deleting it. And I run very few apps to begin with.

"It's better in the app" is, usually, just "better for the publisher" and, rarely, for the user. Use the web unless there's no other option or the app affordances (e.g. real-time navigation, health monitoring) are too valuable.
by smsm42 | 2025-06-24 19:04:42+00:00
Germany: https://www.foxnews.com/media/germany-started-criminal-inves...

France: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230329-french-woman-...

Spain: https://www.catalannews.com/society-science/item/belgian-cou...

Poland: https://www.intellinews.com/polish-writer-faces-prison-for-c...

United Kingdom: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/13/queen-elizab... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/16/activist-shock...

Italy: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/18/italia...

Note in most of these cases people prosecuted faced graver consequences than not being let into the country, and were full citizens, not foreigners.
by mpalmer | 2025-06-24 19:05:06+00:00
It's pretty hard to corroborate a story like this. Everyone has to make their own judgment, but I cannot give the benefit of the doubt to the US government. What reason does this guy have to lie? If he was denied entry because of something actually illegal or non legit, why would he risk this exposure to make something up? If he wasn't denied entry and just decided to fly home and make up the lie, why pay for a vacation?