MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anovikov | 2025-06-06 14:28:25+00:00
Crimes of opportunity almost by definition do not involve risk assessment. They happen on an impulse, most often by mentally unstable people.

Crime is hard to understand. Almost no one actually understands it especially not those who pretend to. Because criminals don't think like normal people and are driven by roaches in their heads - cold-blooded, rational, career criminals are an exception, not the rule. Whatever the rest does, and why do they do it, is a mystery.

In 2009, entire economy was deep in shit. Countless millions were out of work with no prospects of employment, lost their savings, their homes, and those were mostly the younger people from vulnerable groups (those who were lied to by banks that getting a 103% mortgage on a house they can't afford is fine because "prices will only go up", and believed it). One could expect a massive crime wave - if criminals were rational, it had to happen. But none materialised. Why? We don't know.
by dcow | 2025-06-06 14:28:27+00:00
This isn’t really what’s being argued. We’re not talking about a knitting forum. We’re talking about content neutral hosting platforms. There is a distinction in the law. If you want to not be liable for the content posted to your platform then you may not moderate or censor it seems like a fair compromise to me. Either you are knitting forum carefully cultivating your content and thus liable for what people see there, or you are a neutral hosting service provider. Right now we let people platforms be whichever favors their present goal or narrative without considering the impact such duplicity has on the public users.
by lmm | 2025-06-06 14:28:37+00:00
> In theory it is possible to apply (it's mentioned on multiple locations in the documentation), but in practice requests are just being ignored. I get that approval needs to be given, and that there are barriers to entry. But it seems to me they mention zero-data retention only for marketing purposes.

What's the betting that they just write it on the website and never actually implemented it?
by grues-dinner | 2025-06-06 14:29:00+00:00
That's the one thing that's a little annoying about the gaotie in China. It doesn't run at night, so you are limited to about 1200km a night on the slower overnight D trains (Beijing Shanghai say). Otherwise you could hop on a train in Beijing in the evening and wake up in Hong Kong, Shenzhen or Guangzhou.
by voxic11 | 2025-06-06 14:29:13+00:00
You are just wrong:

> In some circumstances, nongovernmental parties may litigate the lawfulness of FISA orders or directives to provide information or assistance to the government. For example:

> A private company or individual that has been served with a directive to assist in acquiring information under Section 702 may petition the FISC to modify or set aside the directive. Conversely, the government may petition the FISC to compel the recipient to comply with the directive.

> In responding to the government’s petition, the private party has the opportunity to show cause for the noncompliance or argue that the order should not be enforced as issued.

> In 2007, Yahoo! Inc. refused to comply with directives issued by the government under provisions of FISA that have been replaced by Section 702. The government filed a motion with the FISC to compel compliance.

https://www.fisc.uscourts.gov/about-foreign-intelligence-sur...

The warrants the court issues do apply to private parties. Failure to comply with a warrant is contempt of court and the court can compel compliance by fines and other sanctions. You can read what that looks like in this FISA court ruling against Yahoo.

PDF warning: https://donohueintellaw.ll.georgetown.edu/sites/default/file...
by esafak | 2025-06-06 14:29:21+00:00
Reading this gave me flashbacks to the 80s, when tinkerers tried to move utilities into the upper- and extended memory area to free up precious conventional memory, 640KB of which we were told ought to have been "enough for anyone". All this because we were saddled with a 16-bit OS. This is not an LLM problem -- 32GB of memory is peanuts in 2025 -- this is an Intel and AMD problem.
by dralley | 2025-06-06 14:29:33+00:00
If one of the Debian or Fedora developers had immediately caught on to what they were looking at when their attention was drawn to it by the failures, I would say the system worked. It's certainly true that open source saved the day here, but that's maybe different from saying "the system" worked. It easily could have gone unnoticed, or been noticed a few weeks later.
by saberience | 2025-06-06 14:29:38+00:00
Are you suggesting that you can compare a formulaic bank email to your mom reading you a bedtime story? I'm not sure you can connect those two things.

Of course, when I go and check my balance at an ATM machine, I don't mind that an actual person isn't reading me the balance. But this isn't an area where we appreciate or want another human being involved.

If you're a "normal", "well adjusted" human being, you appreciate other people, being around them, having friends, lovers, companions, talking to other humans, hearing their actual voices, getting advice and giving advice, hearing someone say "I love you" or "I appreciate you" etc. If you're a "normal", "well adjusted" human being, you will probably feel much less from having an AI voice tell you "I love you".

Of course, if you don't mind never hearing actual human voices again, and prefer just AI talking to you, then sure, go live in your shack and listen to ElevenLabs voices for the rest of your life.
by hibbitybibbity | 2025-06-06 14:31:21+00:00
Elixir/Erlang is best for building long-running systems that you don't want to go down. Erlang's creators optimized for stability (phone systems) and sort of reinvented concurrency and distribution in support of that goal. There are some great talks by Joe Armstrong about this on YouTube, highly recommend!

For CPU-bound tasks and number crunching you can always just write it in Rust (or C or Zig) and NIF out to it from Elixir.

As a dev who builds apps that are served over the internet, it covers everything I need. Maybe that's a specialty niche.
by jakogut | 2025-06-06 14:31:33+00:00
I've done it. I have a GPD Pocket 4 with 64 GB of RAM and the less capable HX 370 Strix Point chip.

Using ollama, hardware acceleration doesn't really work through ROCm. The framework doesn't officially support gfx1151 (Strix Point RDNA 3.5+), though you can override it to fake gfx1150 (Strix Halo, also RDNA 3.5+ and UMA), and it works.

I think I got it to work for smaller models that fit entirely into the preallocated VRAM buffer, but my machine only allows for statically allocating up to 16 GB for the GPU, and where's the fun in that? This is a unified memory architecture chip, I want to be able to run 30+ GB models seamlessly.

It turns out, you can. Just build llama.cpp from source with the Vulkan backend enabled. You can use a 2 GB static VRAM allocation and any additional data spills into GTT which the driver handles mapping into the GPU's address space seamlessly.

You can see a benchmark I performed of a small model on GitHub [0], but I've done up to Gemma3 27b (~21 GB) and other large models with decent performance, and Strix Halo is supposed to have 2-3x the memory bandwidth and compute performance. Even 8b models perform well with the GPU in power saving mode, inside ~8W.

Come to think of it, those results might make a good blog post.

[0] https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/10879

Search for "HX 370"
by 9rx | 2025-06-06 14:32:06+00:00
What miscommunication are you speaking of? "Exceptions" was understood to mean "exception handlers" from the beginning. I even expressed that understanding earlier. While you've taken us down some interesting tangents, for whatever strange reason you found it relevant, the core discussion about exception handling has also remained intact.

But you seem to want to avoid talking about it? Let's try one more time: What is it about dead-simple search and replace, without adding any other new features or technical concepts, that turns what is "not exceptions" into something that is "exceptions"? Because I don't understand the difference that makes.
by ckz | 2025-06-06 14:32:35+00:00
Careful fading Tom Swift too hard. The two main series date from the 1910-20s and the 50s-60s. Basically sci-fi Nancy Drew or Hardy Boys rather than modern YA, especially the second wave of books.

They're more "outwitting not-Soviet saboteurs with nuclear-powered inventions" and were written when science was putting the universe in our grasp.

They get mentioned here as an influence on folks from time to time (myself included), predictable adverb structure aside. :)
by maxlin | 2025-06-06 14:32:41+00:00
I agree, but actually also think this is on the rise. Platforms like Rumble are the flagships of being against big tech, and run on speech first.

As the next generation of conservatives grows up, them being "behind" the "more likely to be pioneering" crowd in tech will lessen in effect, while big tech is starting to hit a bit of an identity crisis.
by WillAdams | 2025-06-06 14:32:44+00:00
Does anyone know of a similar arrangement for books or biographies?

At one point in time I tried to read one of each major category of books in the Dewey Decimal system but was stymied (need to try again using LoC), then later, wanted to read biographies in chronological order to my kids, but that was a hard list to put together.

For an associated text, see:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29240912-why-the-wheel-i...

which I'm currently reading and which is quite good and very engaging.
by dragonwriter | 2025-06-06 14:32:45+00:00
> Well, if your logic is pretending to be universal, then it should apply to Palestinian Arabs as well.

It applies to the State of Palestine as much as to the State of Israel, correct.

Of course, while I have heard many arguments for recognition of a State of Palestine with twrritory including some parts of the area bounded by the Mediterranean Sea and the internationally recognized borders of Egypr, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon, none of them have been that that State has a “right to exist".

And I haven't, in this discussion, stated a position on whether either Israel-within-some-borders or Palestine-within some-borders are proper realization of the right of self determination of some people living in the area described above. You’ve just assumed a position out of nowhere because I argued that a “right to exist” if the State of Israel is a fundamentally flawed and problematic position, with a reasoning that on its own terms applies equally to the same argument if it were made for the State of Palestine.

FWIW, I think the best realization of the self-determination rights of the people in the region would probably, in the near term at least, involve both a Jewish and a Palestinian Arab State within some borders, a situation to which there are many obstacles, not least of which is Israel’s long (consisting of most of the time since 1968 at least) campaign of genocide against the Palestinian Arab people, callibrated largely to avoid excessive blowback from the West (and particularly the US), with strategies enggaged in to preserve pretexts for continuing and escalating that campaign with reduced resistance, both direct and dippomatic (which includes, among other things, fostering the formation of Islamist network that gree into Hamas to split Palestinian resistance and have a less sympathetic organized opposition during the occupation of Gaza.)
by arolihas | 2025-06-06 14:33:08+00:00
Oh yeah the horror of not being able to go behind your boss's back in a company email. The tragedy of being ignored when bringing up office equipment in a discussion about saving costs in a tech platform. The inhumanity of having workers hired to make food and do dishes on a Friday. The absolute gall to be asked a question about the identity you are proud and obnoxiously open about. What a dystopia, Brazil would have been better off without Google definitely, if only they had polyamorous anarchists running things.
by xorcist | 2025-06-06 14:33:19+00:00
Right, but covid disinformation != vaccine skepticism.

As a sibling commenter pointed out, a big part of the covid disinformation that was removed at the time was by established researchers in respected institutions or countries such as Sweden whose pandemic strategy was just different from what many US state institutions implemented.

Sweden turned out to have one of the highest vaccine acceptance levels and also lowest deadliness in the disease. One cofounding factor is the purported high trust in institutions, but such trust is built on having clear and direct communication, and the perception of information being filtered for policitcal or personal career reasons can never yield rust.

Pandemic awareness is a much too complicated issue to be simplified into crazies and vaccine skeptics against everyone else.
by tsumnia | 2025-06-06 14:33:19+00:00
I've had 2 of my videos taken down - they were educational videos teaching how to use Microsoft Access (I know, I know, but lesson plans are lesson plans). We were using a fictional medical database to help explain tables and general querying.

BUT whatever the reason, be it a user or YTs moderation team, showing table records was deemed inappropriate because I was "sharing PPI". I appealed both cases and got rejected. Since I'm not a super important influencer, there wasn't much else I could do so sadly students will need to struggle to know how to query dates in Access...
by Bender | 2025-06-06 14:33:21+00:00
Just a suggestion but make the canary/alias less obvious. Companies caught onto this and are treating aliases with their name in it as "fraud" which is of course a load of crap. That is how tractor supply stole a gift card from me so I have turned many of their customers away from them and they have lost exponentially more than they stole from me. So now I use realistic looking aliases and just have my own lookup table that describes which one is for which company.
by maketheman | 2025-06-06 14:33:37+00:00
Dieting and working out definitely does work, the problem is that the median person attempting it will badly yo-yo over the years while feeling terrible about themselves and probably not really getting that much healthier over the long term. So it does work, but it also doesn't, practically at all, for the overwhelming majority of people who attempt it. That's why a lot of these posts end up having people talking (well, writing) past each other: diet and exercise does work. It works great. It's also a miserable failure that's nearly useless.

Again, even those with extensive and expensive outside support see depressingly poor outcomes on average, though of course that does improve things somewhat. Those are still a ton worse than GLP-1 agonists, as far as efficacy. And that's the very best effort we've got for "diet and exercise" interventions, short of live-in dietitians and chefs and personal trainers or putting people in total institutions.

Meanwhile, people move from a skinnier country to a fatter one and usually get fatter. Willpower wasn't what was keeping them skinnier. It makes no sense to expect willpower to be what'll make the fatter country skinnier when that doesn't seem to be why skinnier countries are skinnier.
by mrweasel | 2025-06-06 14:34:00+00:00
Some of us are in our 40s. We know how shit works. Almost everyone can fall into the trap of telling yourself that "it's not that bad", "this is how it's suppose to work" or "If it was that bad it would be illegal/have been shutdown", only to later get wiser and see it scam, fraud or just the darker side of how some companies operate.
by constantcrying | 2025-06-06 14:34:05+00:00
What a terribly written article. I do not understand at all why you wouldn't start out by saying that you worked in Brazil for Google, instead the reader has to discover that half way in, suggesting you were in Phoenix was a really nice move to make sure that essential detail was hard to extract. There was "tea" promised but the story is literally "I was an obvious nuisance because I was the only one who believed corporate propaganda and got fired for it", how absolutely uninteresting and I do not understand why it would take this amount of space to write down.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-06-06 14:35:00+00:00
What happened? My morbidly obese coworker eats almost an entire pizza for lunch. That's really the whole thing summed up.

We allowed the normalization of incredibly calorie and sugar dense foods. We got kids hooked on the diet young. We made cartoons showing that kids hate vegetables while demonizing Michelle Obama got wanting good meals.

At some point, the social pressures got removed. Being severely overweight and eating more than a normal share stopped getting ridiculed. And then doctors started getting pushback because patients would rather giggle about their obesity and pretend it's okay than accept they're killing themselves. And those people fed that attitude to their kids, who are now dealt a losing hands when their parents raise them fat. Our culture's "iconic breakfast" is a bowl of milk filled with marshmallows and sugary carb bits.

But the unpleasant reality is that if my coworker just stopped ordering the pizza, they would start losing weight. It's hard, especially once in the hole, but everyone who isn't morbidly obese does that every day.
by shantara | 2025-06-06 14:35:02+00:00
Valve cares about battery life and user experience more than just raw power, and after watching multiple other handhelds deliver very insubstantial improvements over Steam Deck OLED at 3x power consumption, I tend to agree. I'm convinced that SD2 won't happen until measurable improvements at the same 15W power limit the current Deck has. There are plenty of older games and indies in Steam catalog that play perfectly fine on Deck, and chasing the latest power hungry UE5 juggernauts is a losing proposition.

One thing I wouldn't mind having on my Deck is FSR4 support, though AMD still hasn't submitted their Vulkan FP8 support proposal, requiring unofficial Mesa hacks to enable it even on desktop Linux.
by lanyard-textile | 2025-06-06 14:35:08+00:00
My manager at Google wanted me to change my personal “about me” snippet in the introductory email he was about to send out: It needed some information about where I previously worked (which I intentionally left out — who cares?? I’m here now!)

I never really thought much of it at the time. Internalized that as “oh, I misunderstood the purpose of the email.” But it tracks with elements of OP’s story; the exposition of your identity is curated.
by matklad | 2025-06-06 14:35:09+00:00
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44201189. We did have one bug where Rust would've saved our bacon (instead, the bacon was saved by an assertion, so it was just slightly crispy, not charred).

EDIT: But, yeah, totally, if not for TigerStyle, we'd die to nasal demons!
by dustbunny | 2025-06-06 14:35:41+00:00
I agree. I used chatgpt to write a makefile to compile sokol+Tracy. It's a pretty solid, generic makefile. But "build system complexity" pushed me away from sdl, magnum graphics and bgfx into the arms of sokol.

And I'm a 10+ year gamedev.

Out of all of c++'s sins, the lack of a solid integrated build system is the one that bites me the most.
by mooreds | 2025-06-06 14:36:19+00:00
There's the RFC way and then there's the real way.

IMO, many folks want SCIM with to support only two providers: Azure AD/Entra and Okta.

I guess there's a third: a homegrown system an enterprise has that "supports SCIM". That one is always going to be weird.

So in reality those two vendors get to determine acceptable behavior for SCIM servers (the data stores that push data into SCIM clients like Tesseral).
by tomhow | 2025-06-06 14:36:46+00:00
Someone else's conduct doesn't excuse your own.

If their argument is false, sure, correct them. Our role as moderators is not to evaluate accuracy of comments; discussion is the way to find the truth.

Our role is to uphold the guidelines, and your comment started with a swipe of the kind that has been clearly outside the guidelines and norms on HN from the very beginning.

We've called out your parent commenter before and will do so again if they clearly transgress the guidelines, but in this case, the swipe in your comment was an escalation and was more egregious than anything in the parent comment.

For the record, nobody flagged the parent comment, whereas several community members flagged yours.
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-06-06 14:37:02+00:00
They admitted themselves to this fraud. Try reading the article you are posting under:

> Less than two months ago, Builder.ai admitted to revising down core sales numbers and engaging auditors to inspect its financials for the past two years. This came amidst concerns from former employees who suggested sales performance had been inflated during prior investor briefings.

It doesn't get more textbook fraud than lying to investors about how many sales you've recorded
by BuyMyBitcoins | 2025-06-06 14:38:38+00:00
Surviving will be a miserable ordeal. That being said, all of my ancestors have survived every major calamity in the history of life on earth. The way I see it, I owe it to them to try surviving whatever comes next. A few select generations lived through much, much worse.

It may sound bizarre, but I don’t believe in an afterlife so I might as well lean into something to give me inspiration. The idea that I exist because my extremely distant ancestors survived every mass extinction gives me a sense of wonder.
by sporkland | 2025-06-06 14:38:58+00:00
I had a non-corporate personal PayPal account. I don't sell anything online, but someone sent me 50 bucks or something for some supposed product.

Then they demanded a return from PayPal. PayPal took the 50 then charged me a 20 dollar fee all without any interaction from me.

I tried to protest it through their appeals channel, but they decided I was in the wrong.

Needless to say I no longer have a PayPal account, life's too short for this Kafkaesque bullshit
by roenxi | 2025-06-06 14:39:16+00:00
That isn't cognitive dissonance - it is doublespeak. Cognitive dissonance is when someone's mind unexpectedly encounters an internal contradiction and goes haywire trying to match assumptions up.

Old mate manager doesn't have any internal mental contradictions. They are explaining that the words have one meaning in the dictionary and another meaning when used together in the workplace. Well understood thing that happens everywhere.
by xorcist | 2025-06-06 14:39:47+00:00
There absolutely is. You just think the word immunity means something else.

After vaccination or a passed infection the immune response is there. When a sufficient immune resopnse from a large enough portion if the population is enough to lower the critical cases below some threshold, we call that type of immunity herd immunity.

It's not binary, but a useful concept nonetheless, and one that some people devote their professional lives to. It can be observed every flu season.
by Timwi | 2025-06-06 14:40:22+00:00
> I don't know how a materialist could answer anything other than no

Well, I'm a materialist and I say yes. Materialism doesn't preclude the existence of information which can be represented by matter. Recreating matter in the same arrangement/configuration as before reproduces the information.

If I copy down an equation, is it now a different equation? Of course not. It consists of different material for sure, but it's the same equation.
by chneu | 2025-06-06 14:40:41+00:00
A modern diet is a restrictive diet. We live in a time when half of our produced food is thrown away. That's why veganism makes so much sense nowadays. Nothing about the modern diet is "natural" for most people.

Meat was awesome when calories were sparse/intermittent. Now it's just excess for the sake of a status symbol. Same can be said about a lot of our foods.