MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by originalvichy | 2025-06-12 06:35:21+00:00
This is the chilling part. When Mossad hunted down Eichmann, some of his defense could be summarized as the cliche of ”I was just following orders”. Now with this tooling, they are learning from the past, and centralizing the ”orders” into a non-human machine, which means only a few people (if ever) would stand trial if they were accused of crimes against humanity: minister of defense, some procurement guy, some technical lead. That’s it.

Will our laws of war account for soldiers getting orders from algorithms? Will people get away with killing innocent civilians if a model paints them as a target?
by 47282847 | 2025-06-12 06:35:24+00:00
An illusion is something that disappears when you see behind it, no? How goes it for the illusion of the both of us being connected but separate beings? I think at the very least it would require consent of both parties to merge, so as long as I don’t believe it, you have to live as a being separate from me, and as such it stays „an illusion“ for you that we are one; merely an idea, a potential option maybe, no?

You can declare Life to mean the complex interplay of every living organism, but I don’t see how you can go as far as to claim our physical and mental separateness is not there at all? After all, we need boundaries between „us“ to not be utterly alone. I like to think even of „my“ body more as a federated system, like Life maybe but on a smaller scale. I have some influence on it but not full control. In fact, one could say the polarities in the physical realm are Nature (towards separation, entropy; Kaos) and Life (actively working towards one, requires energy to keep matter ordered; Order).
by musicale | 2025-06-12 06:35:27+00:00
Looks like an intel Mac Pro sold in 2023 will be supported by macOS 26 (fall 2025), but not by (Apple Silicon only) macOS 27 (fall 2026), though it will get security updates through 2028?

Looking back at Apple's previous architecture transition, a Power Mac G5 sold in 2006 was supported by Mac OS X Leopard in 2007, but not by (x86 only) Snow Leopard in 2008.

So by my count, the last intel Mac Pro is getting at least one more year of OS support than the Power Mac G5 did.

Personally I'd like to see Apple commit to 10 years of OS support from original purchase date (vs. system introduction date), since the hardware often lasts that long, but their business incentive is to sell hardware.
by isodev | 2025-06-12 06:37:54+00:00
If you open the assessment document, you see the responsible division is HOME.D4 - The Home D4 unit is part of the Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs (DG HOME) within the European Commission (D4 focuses on Counter-Terrorism). They have a head of unit [1].

To be clear, the call for feedback happens _before_ a legislative draft is put forward as a proposal. The feedback will be analysed by D4, there will be things like impact assessment and finally the College of Commissioners will create a proposal for the Council and EP to start the usual legislation procedures.

[1] https://op.europa.eu/en/web/who-is-who/organization/-/organi...

PS: I’m not saying they should be shamed, just answering your question who is responsible :)
by protocolture | 2025-06-12 06:38:53+00:00
Australia needs to be way lower on that net score.

The Access and Assistance bill lets government ministers compel companies to create backdoors verbally with no recourse. Jailtime if they let anyone know about the backdoor. Including legal representation.

The bill was meant to be amended but no one will touch it, its radioactive.

It inspired the UK NZ and Canada to similar arrangements from memory.

Yes corporations making a buck off your user data is bad but I am much more afraid of what government can do with it.
by tholdem | 2025-06-12 06:39:16+00:00
There is so much misinformation about GrapheneOS. Other hardware is not supported for very good reasons. Mainly because the most basic security features are simply not available on other hardware. Google goes out of their way to support other operating systems with proper verified boot using custom signing keys. Also Pixels have proper dedicated security module, Titan M, which I believe are missing from most, if not all other options. Also MTE support. Hardware security is important and none of the current options match Pixels.
by mickelsen | 2025-06-12 06:39:27+00:00
Thanks for the info, I was missing an update on this space. If there's no solid, reproducible evidence of cognitive or energy benefits at this level -and full MAO‑A engagement seems necessary for those effects, then that doesn't look good.

About your second paragraph, I agree and I wasn't validating the bro part, just that I read about Emsam once. I guess it's mostly influenced by the popularity of performance enhancers in general, be it wakefulness enhancers, stimulants, etc. People are always trying to find "the edge", without the tradeoff, basically chasing a mirage.

Maybe a neglected topic in this theme has been the acetylcholine pathway. Cobenfy, for example, has been approved for treating negative symptoms of schizophrenia and it's not a classical drug in that space.
by haraball | 2025-06-12 06:39:43+00:00
A couple of rules I have that have worked for me so far is:

Colleagues, tasks, compensation - if at least two of the three are good, it's fine to stay. If not it's time to look for something new.

The first year is a learning year, the second is a productive year, and the third is a "what else can I get out of this place" year. If nothing changes in the third year, then there's not much more to learn from the company and it's maybe time to move on.
by magicalhippo | 2025-06-12 06:39:50+00:00
In case you're confused as to who Damon is and what he's doing in the Linux kernel, the story is about DAMON[1]:

DAMON is a Linux kernel subsystem that provides a framework for data access monitoring and the monitoring results based system operations.

[1]: https://docs.kernel.org/mm/damon/index.html
by adrian_b | 2025-06-12 06:41:19+00:00
The behavior of that Web page is weird.

After reading your claim, I have thought that the first time I have not scrolled enough.

So I scrolled everything without seeing any information, then I have tried the "Set It Up" buttons, which have only taken me to other pages with verbose but useless information.

However, some time later, I have tried again a "Set It Up" button, and this time it showed a popup with the IP addresses or URLs of the servers, which I assume that is what you have seen.

But at least for me, this did not happen at the first attempt, when I could not reach easily this information, despite performing the same steps as later.
by lutusp | 2025-06-12 06:41:48+00:00
> Plants hear their pollinators, and produce sweet nectar in response

This is called "anthropomorphizing," the assignment of human traits to non-human entities without evidence. Assigning human traits to non-human processes tends to distort evidence to fit a preconceived narrative.

Look at the title. The terms "hear," "produce," and "in response" all imply human motivations to a process that may instead be an unsentimental evolutionary process in which nature blindly selects an outcome based only on fitness.

This is why Charles Darwin was reluctant to publish his theory -- it implied that nature blindly created outcomes solely based on fitness, not recognizable human qualities as this article suggests. Darwin believed people would reject his theory because it was unsentimental, unromantic, sometimes cruel. And he was right -- people accepted natural selection only after evidence prevailed over sentiment.

This doesn't imply that nature isn't beautiful, it only argues that nature isn't modeled after people. And those who think nature has no sense of humor ... haven't heard about the Platypus.
by snvzz | 2025-06-12 06:42:10+00:00
An EU DNS resolution server, so that the EU can:

- Censor: So they can refuse to solve a name, or solve to whatever address they mandate.

- Log: So that you can get criminally prosecuted for having requested resolution of names at any point in the future.

No thanks. I'll keep my unbound local cache pointed to a tor-based dns-on-tls server.
by davkan | 2025-06-12 06:42:27+00:00
No, it’s unreasonable for end users and non technical managers to simply dictate to IT what software is to be installed on corporate devices. They can submit requests to IT with a business justification which should be approved if can be accommodated.

Maybe your employer’s IT department is in the habit of saying no without a proper attempt to accommodate which can be a problem but, the solution is not to put the monkeys in charge of the zoo.

At my old job we had upper management demanding exceptions to office modern auth so they could use their preferred email apps. We denied that, there was no valid business justification that outweighed the security risk of bypassing MFA.

We then allowed a single exception to the policy for one of our devs as they were having issues with Outlook’s plaintext support when submitting patches to the LKML. Clear and obvious business justification without an alternative gets rubber stamped.

Security is a balance that can go too far in either direction. Your workstations probably don’t need to be air gapped, and susan from marketing probably shouldn’t be able to install grammarly.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-06-12 06:42:52+00:00
A black hole is really just a singularity with infinite density by definition, but finite mass.

The size and density of the Schwarzschild volume is determined only by mass (stationary, non-rotating). It's proportional to the inverse square of mass. Density = 3c⁶/32πG³M².

SMBHs have densities ~0.5 kg/m³ between thin air and water.

Stellar BHs are ~1e19 kg/m³ several orders of magnitude more than a neutron star.
by kubb | 2025-06-12 06:43:09+00:00
That comment is actually pretty cool because it illustrates a thinking process that a lot of people that we share the world with have.

They split the world into two realms, the physical and the spiritual, and mental processes like hearing are the domain of the spiritual.

This can be dated back to Descartes who believed that body and soul are separate substances and even further back to antiquity.

In today’s world there’s mounting evidence for explaining all cognitive phenomena based on the physical world, so these people feel under assault all the time.

OP’s statement about „atheists” reveal his feelings towards them, and his way of trying to understand them.

It’s fascinating how these old ways of thinking manage to stick around despite all or advancement in science. And it’s crucial to be aware that they exist.
by transpute | 2025-06-12 06:43:16+00:00
Hopefully AOSP Pixel device support is merely delayed, not ended, since Pixel is the only way to get Debian Linux ("Terminal") VM + desktop mode support, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43973395.

With Apple's ongoing refusal to enable VM/JIT support on iOS and iPad, Google Pixel + GrapheneOS + Debian is a very competitive 2025 offering.
by magicalhippo | 2025-06-12 06:43:30+00:00
From the abstract:

[We] introduce Text-to-LoRA (T2L), a model capable of adapting large language models (LLMs) on the fly solely based on a natural language description of the target task. T2L is a hypernetwork trained to construct LoRAs in a single inexpensive forward pass.

Code repository here: https://github.com/SakanaAI/text-to-lora
by LtWorf | 2025-06-12 06:43:59+00:00
In the greater Göteborg area, no Coop, Willys, Lidl, has this. And some ICA have it. Casually, the one closer to your home, it seems.

Going from "a supermarket near my home" to "every single supermarket in sweden" is kinda of a big leap.

Try ICA in Olskroken or Godhemsgatan for example…

I Most supermarkets have self checkout, but even that isn't omnipresent (and it's usually slower).
Ask HN: If you code on a beach or at a bar, what do you use?
by noduerme | 2025-06-12 06:44:19+00:00
I frequently go out to code. And it almost always involves bringing a laptop. I think since reading "The Diamond Age" I've longed for some perfect, rollable, e-ink way to just jot down code with a pen on a table. Maybe even before that.

I mainly use VSCode these days. I've experimented with tablets, rollable keyboards, even just using my phone... but it's always a pain. I can't really picture wearing a headset or something. I'm trying to look less like I'm coding and more like I'm just writing. Does anyone have a brilliant hack for doing this currently?
by jonasdegendt | 2025-06-12 06:45:23+00:00
The Netherlands has a legal death man switch. You're able to consent to, and set up euthanasia early on in your diagnosis with the intention to die at a later date when it gets worse.

I don't know the exact numbers but in practice it's basically worthless because the doctors at hand end up in an ethical catch 22. This person that was sound of mind might have consented to euthanasia, but now they're not sound of mind anymore.
by protocolture | 2025-06-12 06:47:20+00:00
>I think Windows Phone was just wildly mismanaged. I say this as someone who bought a WP7 phone very early on because I found the UI so compelling.

I like to think that WP7 was a smart dumb phone. I had a great UI, that I loved. And just enough smart stuff to make me happy. Maps. Unified messaging. Cortana wasnt completely enshittified yet either. Small package (L520) and I loved it.

WP8 tried to incorporate Windows 8 design features, and everything got worse. Vendors pulled out of the unified messaging. Cortana would send my maps to the advertisers address rather than closest requested. And the L525 that ran it actually went backwards in specs.

I would still, today, go back to a supported, bugfixed, WP7 in a heartbeat. And I bet there are dozens! of people just like me.
by jll29 | 2025-06-12 06:47:21+00:00
Remember this incident?

Italians deploy fearsome SPY MANNEQUINS to win Fashion Wars (2012) https://www.theregister.com/2012/11/22/bionic_mannequins_are...

According to the media at the time, the mannquins quickly disappeared again after the scandal broke. If you are more cynical, you might question that narrative.
by dguest | 2025-06-12 06:47:36+00:00
I think you're right, but it's not how I remember it for some reason.

I didn't read the book "Bullshit Jobs" [1] as an attempt to quantify how many jobs were bullshit. The author was an anthropologist with no interest in quantifying the economic impact. It's lots of amusing anecdotes from frustrated workers and a nudge for people to question the efficiency of capitalism.

At least that's how I read it. But reading the wikipedia page it sounds like a lot of people fixated on the idea that society could double its efficiency. Hard to know if there's a correct interpretation of the book's claims, and unfortunately we can't ask: the author David Graeber died in 2020.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
by adrian_b | 2025-06-12 06:47:49+00:00
Your recursive nameserver should also cache any resolved domains, so a small delay could happen only if you try to access for the first time some site that you have never visited in the recent past.

In practice, I have used for decades only my own recursive nameservers and I have never perceived any slowness in comparison with computers that were using the ISP or Google or corporate nameservers. More like the opposite, presumably because my own cache always has the content that I access frequently.
by noduerme | 2025-06-12 06:53:06+00:00
Oh. I couldn't read this all now. But the orange peeling idea demonstrates why it's really important to specify what you mean by a "spiral" and a "list of coordinates". My instinct would have been totally different from peeling the edges of the array back. It would have been to draw a circle or ellipse and keep shrinking the radius(radii). I wouldn't have assumed from the definition of "spiral" that every outer shell coordinate would be included. I would have assumed the opposite, actually.
by Ndymium | 2025-06-12 06:53:52+00:00
Personally I'm specifically talking about Forgejo which is Go, but calls git for some operations. And the effect that was worse than pegging all the CPUs to 100% was filling of the disk with generated zip archives of all of the commits of all public repositories.

Sure, we can say that Forgejo should have had better defaults for this (the default was to clear archives after 24 hours). And that your site should be fast, run on an efficient server, and not have any even slightly expensive public endpoints. But in the end that is all victim blaming.

One of the nice parts of the web for me is that as long as I have a public IP address, I can use any dinky cheapo server I have and run my own infra on it. I don't need to rely on big players to do this for me. Sure, sometimes there's griefers/trolls out there, but generally they don't bother you. No one was ever interested in my little server, and search engines played fair (and to my knowledge still do) while still allowing my site to be discoverable.

Dealing with these bots is the first time my server has been consistently attacked. I can deal with them for now, but it is an additional thing to deal with and suddenly this idea of easy self hosting on low powered hardware is no longer so feasible. That makes me sad. I know what I should do about it, but I wish I didn't have to.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-06-12 06:54:55+00:00
I am unsure if I fully understand your point, so let me ask a related question to see if I understand.

For many open source projects, there is a CLA (contributor license agreement) that must be signed before contributions can be accepted. The Free Software Foundation (which holds the copyright for most/all? GNU tools) is pretty in/famous for requiring it. Their reasoning: If there are copyright violations, they have the time and financial resources to pursue the violators.

Are you saying that these CLAs and their intended purpose are invalid in some jurisdictions? If yes, please share some examples. To be clear: I'm only interested in "normal/regular" jurisdictions that have at least accepted the Berne Convention.
by littlestymaar | 2025-06-12 06:56:23+00:00
> I'm really hoping GPT5 is a larger jump in metrics than the last several releases we've seen like Claude3.5 - Claude4 or o3-mini-high to o3-pro.

This kind of expectations explains why there hasn't been a GPT-5 so far, and why we get a dumb numbering scheme instead for no reason.

At least Claude eventually decided not to care anymore and release Claude 4 even if the jump from 3.7 isn't particularly spectacular. We're well into the diminishing returns at this point, so it doesn't really make sense to postpone the major version bump, it's not like they're going to make a big leap again anytime soon.
by jll29 | 2025-06-12 06:56:42+00:00
The WebGaze software used in this page was introduced in by Papoutsaki and co-workers by a team from Brown university and Georgia Tech in 2016:

- Papoutsaki, A. et al. (2016). "WebGazer: Scalable Webcam Eye Tracking Using User Interactions." Presented at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). https://www.ijcai.org/Proceedings/16/Papers/540.pdf

While we are at it, you may also find the following research publications relevant to this discussion:

- "Improving User Perceived Page Load Times Using Gaze" (USENIX NSDI 2017) https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi17/technical-sessions/...

- "No clicks, no problem: using cursor movements to understand and improve search" (Huang, White, Dumais from Microsoft Research, ACM SIG CHI '11) https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/1978942.1979125

- Virtual gazing in video surveillance (SMVC '10) https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/1878083.1878089
by JimDabell | 2025-06-12 06:57:30+00:00
> Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment

— https://andymasley.substack.com/p/individual-ai-use-is-not-b...

> What’s the carbon footprint of using ChatGPT?

— https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/carbon-footprint-c...
by adrian_b | 2025-06-12 07:00:52+00:00
The threat of random DNS servers spread over the world knowing your queries is certainly orders of magnitude less than when using the Google or the ISP name servers.

For Google or for the ISP it is trivial to aggregate all your queries in order to have a complete history of your activity.

For many DNS servers distributed over the world and belonging to different organizations it is much more difficult to coordinate in order to monitor you.

In practice, your ISP is the main threat for monitoring your Internet activity, not by DNS, but by its routers, through which any packet sent or received by you must pass.
by helsinki8 | 2025-06-12 07:03:24+00:00
Your example seems kinda funny.

Most people would think working on AI models for computer vision problems is a perfectly reasonable outcome for a STEM PhD, even if it's not a direct continuation of the thesis research.

Turning a physics PhD into any sort of modeling, statistical analysis or engineering work is pretty normal in the US. I wouldn't be surprised if there are more physics PhDs working in finance than academia and government research labs.
by bob1029 | 2025-06-12 07:04:10+00:00
Perforce is really nice if you need to source control 16k textures next to code without thinking too much about it. Git LFS absolutely works but it's more complicated and has less support in industry tooling. Perforce also makes it easier to purge (obliterate) old revisions of files without breaking history for everyone. This can be invaluable if your p4 server starts to run out of disk space.

The ability to lock files centrally might seem outdated by the branching and PR model, but for some organizations the centralized solution works way better because they have built viable business processes around it. Centralized can absolutely smoke distributed in terms of iteration latency if the loop is tight enough and the team is cooperating well.
by Madh93 | 2025-06-12 07:04:42+00:00
Combining hosts file doesn't quite work:

- hosts + WireGuard AllowedIPs: This gives you a network-level tunnel. All applications on your system are forced through the VPN for that IP. You lose the per-app control.

- hosts + SSH Tunnel: This still doesn't fix the Host header problem. My remote reverse proxy gets a request for Host: localhost and returns a 404.

prxy solves both issues. It's an application-level proxy that correctly rewrites the Host header on the fly. It gives you the granular control that other methods lack. It’s a solution for a very specific problem, and other options are perfectly valid if you don't have the same constraints I did of course :)
by worldsayshi | 2025-06-12 07:04:58+00:00
Perhaps I'm missing you point a bit but you can absolutely have deterministic UX when it matters with LLM based applications if you design it right. Whenever you need determinism, make the LLM generate a deterministic specification for how to do something and/or record it's actions. And let the user save away re-playable specifications along with the dialogue. Then build ways for the AI to suggest fixes for failing specs when needed.

It's basically the same flow as when you use AI for programming. Except you need to constrain the domain of the specifications more and reason more about how to allow the AI to recover from failing specifications if you don't want to force the user to learn your specification language.
by cwbriscoe | 2025-06-12 07:05:11+00:00
What if you wanted to select "top 100 most expensive products" or number of products between $0.01 and $10, $10.01 and $100, $100.01 and $1000? Sure you could do a full table scan on your products table on both queries but an index on price would speed both queries up a lot if you have a lot of products. Of course you have to determine if the index would be used enough to make up for the extra time on index update when the price changes or products are added or deleted.