MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MobiusHorizons | 2025-06-06 14:00:54+00:00
We aren’t really. But people bring it up every time Russia sees a setback or embarrassment in the war with Ukraine. Look up operation spider web if you want to know the latest. It was quite an impressive strike by Ukraine on the strategic bombers Russia has been using to launch cruise missiles at Ukraine (some parked very deep in Siberia). They are also part of Russia’s strategic nuclear triad, so some people are concerned this could lead to nuclear war.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-06-06 14:00:57+00:00
Well, how would you characterize what's gone wrong in AStonesThrow's comment, which:

(1) Makes a total of zero factually correct claims;

(2) refers to citation of secondary sources as "original research";

(3) includes a swipe; and

(4) cites a chemistry textbook claiming that rectus and sinister are "Latin for right and left" as support for the idea that "chemists are better at Latin than you gave them credit for", without bothering to provide any support for the idea that those definitions are correct?
by toomuchtodo | 2025-06-06 14:01:31+00:00
“Mission driven” and “change the world” was always marketing to convince technologists to grind to puff up share valuations to be flipped between investors until they could find a bag holder. The shares were (are?) the product. Big Tech was always building a dystopia, it’s simply more stark than it was a decade. are we the baddies? meme here

> What is one to do in this scenario if they have a conscience? Is anyone else struggling with this? How do y'all deal?

Political activity that prioritizes the well being (healthcare, affordable housing, economic security) of the majority over the very wealthy (if that’s your thing), and failing that, working a job that isn’t contributing to harm. We must be reasonable about what we can expect from ourselves.

Ask “what is all of this for?” You don’t have to be Amish, but the other extreme of effective accelerationism and rapidly increasing wealth concentration/inequality isn’t great either (historically speaking, it always ends in sadness). I also consider what side of a pitchfork and history I want to be on if the time comes.
by dylan604 | 2025-06-06 14:01:51+00:00
Even out of power, there's no way. SCOTUS said the prez is untouchable. The only hope is that a sweeping change in Congress happens with the mid-terms enough to be able to impeach and convict. But the likelihood of that can be summed up with "wish in one hand and shit in the other. see which fills up faster"
by ericmay | 2025-06-06 14:01:54+00:00
I was hoping to convey that the intimidation factor is completely made up and it just stems from your own self-doubt based on your (not you specifically) own conjured up straw man.

I agree with your general suggestion though too. Though from the sound of the scenario the OP was describing there probably aren't many neighborhood gyms. But hey maybe the OP or someone in that scenario could start a friendly gym?
by afavour | 2025-06-06 14:01:57+00:00
> And much of tech buys into the politics and narrative.

While I agree I think that's a fatalist perspective. It's on all of us working in tech to push back on that. In the unlikely event that someone with DOGE on their resume comes across my desk I certainly will be.

And if folks are able to clear their mind of ideology, this is an account of someone that was straightforwardly bad at their job. It's rare to get such a confession from an applicant, we should use it!
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-06-06 14:02:29+00:00
>Yes. If the alternative is a worldwide police state.

Being held accountable for crimes is your definition of a "police state"? Interesting.

What you're trying to hint at is political persecution, and there is the possibility of asylum for that. But let's differentiate between persecution and running away from crimes, and not muddy the waters. Not all crimes are the result of persecution.

Otherwise what's stopping anyone form breaking into your house, murdering your family to rob you and then fleeing abroad on asylum to avoid legal repercussions? If that was the status quo, you probably wouldn't exist anymore right now.

The "police state" is the one ensuring your family's safety. In our modern societies, we have outsourced the monopoly on violence to the police state, so that we can focus on work and hobbies, and that comes at the expense of trusting the state and holding it accountable through democracy.
by nhecker | 2025-06-06 14:02:33+00:00
As I understand it, Signum (nee Burstcoin) is indeed the Proof of Capacity blockchain thingy that was using hard drives to store data with no external value. This is related to but different from to Proof of Storage schemes likes Filecoin where, IIRC, the data being stored was data of extrinsic value like PDFs or GIFs or whatever. I think that's also related to "Proof of Space-Time", meaning not only did you write the received data to disk, but you've _still_ got it written to disk.

PoC, e.g., Signum = get paid for proving that you paid for storage rather than CPU/GPU/ASIC cycles

PoS, e.g., Filecoin = get paid for renting out your storage to those willing to pay in return for storing data

Thanks for this really interesting side-thread; I have learned a lot! I've been interested in distributed storage for a long time and while I've known about PeerTube and IPFS and the Fediverse for ages I haven't really played with them personally. I go back and forth between keeping TiBs of storage online, and turning everything off as a concession to keeping my overall electricity bill in check. But in general I like the idea of letting my private machines contribute to something greater than themselves. I will have to look into the ways in which I can contribute to these projects.
by dralley | 2025-06-06 14:03:08+00:00
>Meanwhile the XZ backdoor was found in Sid, Arch and pre-releases of Fedora and openSuse. It never actually made it into any numbered release of Fedora, openSuse, Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat or Suse distro. It's actually a pretty big win and the system worked as intended.

I would maybe not go quite that far. That it got caught was mostly a confluence of lucky breaks and accidents. The second version of the exploit would likely have not been detected if not for the fact that the first version of the exploit had a couple of programming mistakes that attracted some attention to itself.
by SkyBelow | 2025-06-06 14:03:10+00:00
The problem with any laws for a good purpose is that, even if you can get everyone to agree on the general statement of a good purpose, there are disagreements on what actually counts as achieving the goal from both a moral and a scientific level.

For example, providing information on how to do something harmful X more safely might increase the risk of people doing X. On the moral side, someone might argue that even 1 more person doing X is worse than the reduction in harm of the others doing X. On the scientific side, there is likely not direct evidence to the exact numbers (ethical concerns with such research and all that), so you'll have some people disagreeing on how much the harm is increased or reduced and different numbers can both be reasonable but lead to different conclusions given the lack of direct research.

This all becomes supercharged when it comes to children, and you'll find people not even be consistent in their modes of thinking on different topics (or arguably they are consistent, but basing it off of unsaid unshared assumptions and models that they might not even be consciously aware of, but this then gets into a bunch of linguistic and logic semantics).
by maketheman | 2025-06-06 14:03:29+00:00
I averaged 4,000+ calories per day in high school through the first couple years of college. Almost all junk food—pizza, chips, crackers, eggo waffles, french fries, that kind of thing. Enormous amounts of soda. Milk shakes. Cappuchinos and mochas, in the later years.

All I did for activity was ride bikes some and lift weights a little, plus usual kid stuff, no serious sports or training.

I had visible ab muscles and would get a full-on six pack if I did e.g. a lot of swimming in a week. During those times I'd have relatives concerned I was sick or something, my face would get so gaunt.

Metabolisms are weird. HGH and T are basically magic I guess? I truly have no idea where all that energy was going. Must have been mostly coming out the other end unprocessed, I suppose, or else somehow used up by my gut biome. Can't figure any other way.
by jnurmine | 2025-06-06 14:03:38+00:00
I agree about not worrying about it, but one should be aware -- awareness about something is not equal to worrying about something.

Awareness of something is the first step in adapting. One can adapt beforehand, or, one can adapt afterwards; with more limited resources, necessitated by circumstances, under more time pressure, with more suboptimal tools, and so on.

It is unquestionable that an EMP would have an extreme impact in all aspects of society and the lives of people. Preparations on macro and micro level can mitigate some of the problems that would follow. And preparations require awareness.
by Joker_vD | 2025-06-06 14:03:39+00:00
> Sometimes only the patch version of the library is different so it shouldn't be breaking anything... but it does!

Still have flashbacks from that one time when some dependency in our Go project dropped support for go1.18 in its patch version update, and we almost couldn't rebuild the project before the Friday evening. Because obviously /s being literally unable to build the dependency is a backwards-compatible change.
by agentultra | 2025-06-06 14:04:19+00:00
Smol coding and size coding are fun. If you like this sort of stuff check out the demo scene, lovebyte, etc.

I got nerd sniped by a conversation with a colleague and am, in my spare time, working on the smallest event store database I can write.

It’s a nice way to take a break from the enterprise software world.
by afavour | 2025-06-06 14:04:22+00:00
I'm not even talking about the wider societal implications. I mean the job of being a software engineer, including in SV. "I knowingly wrote code riddled with mistakes and didn't ever look into how it's being used" is, IMO, disqualifying. The latter more than the former in many ways, being a good engineer above entry level is a lot more than just bashing out code, you need to be understanding the context in which your code operates.

It would be one thing if we were talking about a fresh out of college newbie. But Lavingia was employee #2 at Pinterest and founded Gumroad. It appears he learned absolutely nothing in either place.
by mountainb | 2025-06-06 14:04:37+00:00
"That’s not possible — you have 90,000 contracts,” he said. “Unless you write some code. But even then it’s not really possible.”

This entirely possible with some lawyers, some business analysts, perhaps some hospital administrative consultants, and ordinary support staff. That team might even use LLMs in some capacity but not in the way described by the article. Reviewing 90,000 hospital and other service contracts sounds like just another project for a mid-sized or big law firm; or the government. That is how those contracts were created in the first place.

This is like the meme about someone's uncle talking about how there are these 90,000 contracts that no one knows how to review because we've forgotten how to do it. If there's something America still knows how to do it's how to review tens of thousands of turgid government contracts.
by paulcole | 2025-06-06 14:06:21+00:00
> Much like fighting climate change, placing all the responsibility on the end user without changing some of the social conditions is a flawed approach, even if there are some things individuals can do to help

Who is changing some of the societal conditions here? You or someone else?

You also started your comment with a list of individual excuses.

You may not have said “4” but you said “2+2” and it’s not that big of a leap to make.
by tomtomistaken | 2025-06-06 14:06:27+00:00
Yes, relay is possible, but I'm not sure if a shorter window solves the issue - you could stream your cam feed.

Another option would be to limit the number of validations in the time window or to introduce a 'cool down' time - the next validation attempt has to wait 3 cycles to be valid. Relay would still be possible, but when the person on spot wants to validate for themself, relay could be more of a hassle. Last but not least, the browser could ask for the the location and calculate the distance to the device (location can be spoofed ..).
by dahart | 2025-06-06 14:07:44+00:00
> Some of my friends are obese despite exercising heavily every day.

I’ve been chubby despite heavy exercise most of my life. It took me at least 30 years to come to what now seems like the dumbest most obvious realization:

Exercise makes me strong. Food makes me fat.

Now I think of them separately, to a first approximation, as the high order bit. To affect change to my strength, I first need to modify my exercise habits, and to affect change to my weight, I fist need to modify my eating habits. Of course I’m not saying you can’t burn calories exercising, but it’s actually been extremely helpful in my weight loss goals to mentally separate exercise from eating. Instead of thinking of exercise as _the_ way to lose weight, I think of diet as the primary tool, and exercise as something that is primarily for strength and activity and only secondarily for weight control.

The reason I’ve been fat despite exercise is, of course, because I naturally compensate for exercise by eating more. For me, I was eating until I feel a certain level of fullness, and that level seems to be slightly too much regardless of how much physical activity I do. Finally realizing that I don’t need to exercise harder, I ‘just’ need to track what I eat, is what finally actually worked. But like the article says, simple is not easy; I air-quoted the ‘just’ in that last sentence because successful food tracking is mentally difficult.

One of the fun side effects of tracking my eating instead of thinking of exercise as the primary weight loss tool is that with respect to food, exercise sort-of reversed it’s function for me, in a way. Instead of thinking of it as my weight loss tool and relying on it to compensate for what I ate, I sometimes use exercise to allow me to eat more when I’m hungry or want a treat. It’s funny, I know I said the same thing two ways, but my mindset changed almost 180 degrees. When I’m in a calorie deficit, I’ve noticed that days I don’t exercise I get more tired and hungry than days I do exercise.
by polygotdomain | 2025-06-06 14:07:51+00:00
To start, it was clear that many were Musk fan boys. I don't think "bright" was a driving force, but "young, with no prior experience" would be great if you wanted people to make decisions that have the potential to negatively impact millions of lives. You need people with a lack of context to realize those are the stakes at hand. Since it was also clear they were going to "throw AI at it", I also doubt they were looking for anyone who acknowledged the shortcomings and pitfalls of an all AI approach.

I think this approach got them exactly what they wanted. Musk clearly wanted access to as much data as he could get his hands onto; legally or not. There were contracts and investigations into Musk's interest that he wanted control over, and got. Overall, chaos is not seen as an issue for those in this administration. The attitude from the top was clearly that these agencies and contractors "deserved it" for some reason, even though they have no idea what they really do or why they're doing it.
by acc_297 | 2025-06-06 14:08:04+00:00
It continues to seem like this administration sets out to achieve 200% of each objective so that they can retreat to a position where they have attained 90 or even 100% of their original plan after a series of court decisions and popular backlash.

Every institution which could in theory check executive overreach is either already captured by ideological allies or is completely overwhelmed.
by insin | 2025-06-06 14:08:12+00:00
> Besides, as the vilest Writer has his Readers, so the greatest Liar has his Believers; and it often happens, that if a Lie be believ’d only for an Hour, it has done its Work, and there is no farther occasion for it. Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when Men come to be undeceiv’d, it is too late; the Jest is over, and the Tale has had its Effect…

-- Jonathan Swift, 1710 [1]

(very apt that this has an ad in the middle of it)

[1] http://books.google.com/books?id=KigTAAAAQAAJ&q=%22Truth+com...
by BugsJustFindMe | 2025-06-06 14:08:26+00:00
There's nothing special about the embryo that became you that isn't also true of the specific conditions and precursors to that embryo, and the precursors to those precursors, ad infinitum. If not for that exact sperm and egg and conditions, it would have been a different embryo which would have become a different person who isn't you. If not for Napoleon's decaying nipples, that exact sperm would never be. A person altering Napoleon's burial ultimately determined that you got born over someone else. Your selection of gamete fertilization as your starting point and no sooner is arbitrary because it is based on a selection criterion that is arbitrary, so you shouldn't be so surprised that other people might point out how arbitrary it is.

It sounds like you might actually care more about the intention behind the selection than the fact that selection has occurred. That someone might have looked at you specifically and said "no thanks". That objection is completely orthogonal to age. Someone looks at you every day right now and says "no thanks", whether it's for a job or for a sexual partner. Someone every day is deciding that they do not want your sperm or your egg, which means that your hypothetical child together is prevented from being born, the same as it will be prevented by this. And it may feel bad to think about it, but the selection is that person's to make. Life is full of making selections and being or not being selected. This isn't special.
by woodruffw | 2025-06-06 14:08:27+00:00
> Really? Dependabot runs on a number of my repositories without my having consciously enabled it.

I've never experienced this. Do you have a `.github/dependabot.yml` file in your repository? That's how it's enabled.

(GitHub has muddied the water here a bit by having two related but distinct things with the same name: there's "Dependabot" the subject of this post, and then there's "Dependabot security updates" which are documented separately and appear to operate on a different cycle[1]. I don't know if this latter one is enabled by default or not, but the "normal" one is definitely disabled until you configure it.)

[1]: https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot/dependab...
by username135 | 2025-06-06 14:08:33+00:00
I would argue that being fat is a direct result of capitalism.

The US hesitates to regulate major food corporations because they're core domestic economic drivers and employ millions, which contribute significantly to GDP. Also lobbying.

Europe has more of a middle ground. They have major food companies but stronger traditions of balancing corporate and consumer interests.

Check any major health metric (obesity rates, life expectancy, etc) between the two and there is a clear winner.

THe US food system has clear stratification based on economic access and geographic distribution. Wealthy areas have greater access to fresh, minimally processed foods, while lower-income communities are disproportionately served by retailers offering processed options.

Food industry executives/policymakers often have purchasing patterns that differ significantly from the products their companies produce or the regulations they oversee. This creates a disconnect between decision-makers' lived experiences and the food environment they help shape for the broader population.

The economic incentives favor processed food production due to longer shelf life, lower costs, and higher profit margins. Healthcare costs associated with diet-related diseases are largely socialized through public health systems, while profits from food sales remain private.

Geographic food access varies significantly by income level. You find premium pricing on minimally processed foods which creates economic barriers. The regulatory framework reflects input from industry stakeholders who may have limited personal exposure to the food environments experienced by lower-income consumers.

There are two distinct food ecosystems: one accessible to higher-income consumers with diverse options, and another serving price-sensitive consumers with fewer alternatives. The structural incentives maintain this division through market mechanisms rather than explicit policy design.

You could go on and on...tie in wages, taxes, etc. It all flows back to the all mighty dollar and profit motive regardless of all else. And why shouldn't it? We're in the land of the free, home of the brave! We can do what ever we want because it's out choice! /$
by mdhb | 2025-06-06 14:08:55+00:00
But in this case it WAS all bug ridden crap. Casually rolling the dice with people’s lives like this means you probably won’t be able to live without some fear of people coming looking for you when this is all said and over.

Maybe they don’t realise it yet but their lives have just changed for the worse in a very significant and hard to reverse way. This is going to catch up with them on a reasonable timescale.
by dylan604 | 2025-06-06 14:09:22+00:00
The internet has been around long enough that pretty much everything has been posted. The older content is probably better content as it was done as an actual write up by knowledgeable people vs new content written by someone looking to be a thought leader to boost their influencer profiles. Nevermind the AI generated content.

I have no idea the background of TFA's author, but it is a noticeable trend that makes my use of the internet decrease.
by ndriscoll | 2025-06-06 14:09:25+00:00
Problem is still not solved because search also returns a lot of garbage, and you don't want kids to be on a site that's 99% garbage. Xvideos could have a large library of science and history videos while still being 99% porn. Like I said, adults should download and curate the good stuff but recognize they're still in the seedy part of town, shouldn't let kids go there, and shouldn't expect it to be a platform for learning. That's just not its purpose. In fact youtube's purpose is basically the opposite of personal growth.

You can get literal pbs at pbs.org for $5/month, or your local library for free.
by Calwestjobs | 2025-06-06 14:09:33+00:00
chuck what? your desktop pc already is inside of metal enclosure designed to minimize EM emissions, per UL/CE requirements for electronic devices.

also Voltage is difference between two levels, "potential". so that means 5Volt dc device will work if "GND"/minus pole is 3000volts "above real earth" and positive pole is 3005Volt "above real earth"

difference between + and - is voltage, so 3000 V - 3005 V is 5 V.

youtubers can film experiment showing this.