MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tialaramex | 2025-06-22 21:27:52+00:00
3DES? I guess. People banged on it a lot more than IDEA, which is good, even on your worst days banging on things has potential to shake loose anything poorly put together. But as a "path dependency" I think it might teach an even worse lesson than RC4 did.

Edited: Sorry the last sentence was garbled nonsense originally, maybe it's the heat here. Or my brain is gradually deteriorating :/
by andy99 | 2025-06-22 21:27:58+00:00
I regularly exchange currency at the bank. There is a posted rate that I can get online. If I go to the teller, they will propose that rate as well, at which point I say "can I have the premium rate" and they say, ok, I can give you x - something 1% better or so.

Point is, I'm not negotiating with the bank teller, they have a flow chart they need to follow. For a lot of positions with big companies, it's going to be the same. There might be a path on the flowchart you can access, but you're not really negotiating. In some cases you may be able to break though this if there's a real person (not recruiter) that will push for you, but talking to recruiters / talent is like talking to the bank teller.
by ICBTheory | 2025-06-22 21:30:24+00:00
Just to make sure I understand:

–Are we treating an arbitrary ontological assertion as if it’s a formal argument that needs to be heroically refuted? Or better: is that metaphysical setup an argument?

If that’s the game, fine. Here we go:

– The claim that one can build a true, perfectly detailed, exact map of reality is… well... ambitious. It sits remarkably far from anything resembling science , since it’s conveniently untouched by that nitpicky empirical thing called evidence. But sure: freed from falsifiability, it can dream big and give birth to its omnicartographic offspring.

– oh, quick follow-up: does that “perfect map” include itself? If so... say hi to Alan Turing. If not... well, greetings to Herr Goedel.

– Also: if the world only shows itself through perception and cognition, how exactly do you map it “as it truly is”? What are you comparing your map to — other observations? Another map?

– How many properties, relations, transformations, and dimensions does the world have? Over time? Across domains? Under multiple perspectives? Go ahead, I’ll wait... (oh, and: hi too.. you know who)

And btw the true detailed map of the world exists.... It’s the world.

It’s just sort of hard to get a copy of it. Not enough material available ... and/or not enough compute....

P.S. Sorry if that came off sharp — bit of a spur-of-the-moment reply. If you want to actually dig into this seriously, I’d be happy to.
by sureglymop | 2025-06-22 21:30:27+00:00
Is this satire or did you actually watch the streams?

He doesn't actually use rust "idiomatically". He calls this "crust":

1. Every function is unsafe

2. No references, only pointers

3. No cargo, just rustc

4. No std, only libc

...

I don't know if he is sticking to these rules throughout but that was the idea in the beginning of this project.

https://github.com/tsoding/Crust
by ben_w | 2025-06-22 21:31:11+00:00
> The answer is already solved; AI is not a brain, we can prove this by characteristically defining them both and using heuristic reasoning.

That "can" should be "could", else it presumes too much.

For both human brains and surprisingly small ANNs, far smaller than LLMs, humanity collectively does not yet know the defining characteristics of the aspects we care about.

I mean, humanity don't agree with itself what any of the three initials of AGI mean, there's 40 definitions of the word "consciousness", there are arguments about if there is either exactly one or many independent G-factors in human IQ scores, and also if those scores mean anything beyond correlating with school grades, and human nerodivergence covers various real states of existance that many of us find incomprehensible (sonetimes mutually, see e.g. most discussions where aphantasia comes up).

The main reason I expect little from an AI is that we don't know what we're doing. The main reason I can't just assume the least is because neither did evolution when we popped out.
by sanderjd | 2025-06-22 21:31:31+00:00
First of all, I disagree with your characterization of what the conventional wisdom is. I don't think most people are thinking about this at all. Most people will come down on rah rah America or boo war is bad, not "it's bad that specifically only countries that don't have nuclear weapons get attacked, because of the bad incentives".

But if this were the conventional wisdom, I'd say that it's clearly right, and you're doing 5d chess to avoid looking it in the face.
by tlogan | 2025-06-22 21:31:35+00:00
Apparently, only 93 electric vehicles have been delivered. And the 3,000 originally expected. [1]

I suppose the headline could’ve been: “GOP tax bill compels USPS to sell its 93 delivery EVs”. But let’s be honest, that wouldn’t get many clicks nor be on the first page of HN.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/12/11/biden-usp...
by samtheDamned | 2025-06-22 21:31:44+00:00
> The primary thing that makes advertisements disagreeable is their irrelevance

I disagree but not for the reasons I was seeing in the existing replies here. I believe that advertising is manipulative, and I don't want advertising companies to use the fact that most of my data is in their hands to pull the right strings and push the right buttons to try to get me to buy a product I wouldn't have otherwise.
by firefax | 2025-06-22 21:31:59+00:00
Do you drink alcohol? I once felt this way, and as COVID fell I decided to abstain.

Suddenly, I was open to trying healthier foods, I'd go on long walks, I shed about 50lb and learned a lot of things I'd struggled with back when I'd have a few beers and watch a movie before going to bed instead of a bowl and a salad.

If you're an intelligent person, you'll get bored with binge watching and find something engaging to do, and you sound intelligent OP. It doesn't have to be permanent (I'm actually having a nice scotch before I devour a succulent chinese meal)... but to get here I had to stop completely for a spell.

Try it.
by EdwardDiego | 2025-06-22 21:32:32+00:00
I thought you were going to link to the incessant ominous col legno (hitting the strings with the stick of the bow) at the start of Holst's Mars for rhythm, so please allow me to add that one to the list.

https://youtu.be/cXOanvv4plU?si=WrIuBfmofTo6szRa

And as for emotion, this version of the 1812 Overture always sends chills up my spine.

https://youtu.be/uYnCCWsfx3c?si=OQEA5_JYpWn1kHFj
by spacechild1 | 2025-06-22 21:32:39+00:00
If anyone has questions, there is SAPF section on the Supercollider forum: https://scsynth.org/c/sapf/34. James shows up from time to time to answer questions.

Here's an online presention by James about SC, SAPF and some other recent endeavours: https://youtu.be/fmVdfQNPzkE?t=1537
by rybosome | 2025-06-22 21:35:04+00:00
I’ve wondered about this a lot.

More so the grim question: if you were in a typical space suit sitting in a ship just outside Jupiter, then propelled yourself towards the planet - what would kill you first?

Assume you are close enough that from the moment you are launched out, you are “in” the atmosphere at the outer edges. Also assume moving fast enough that the answer is not “dying from dehydration”.

I discussed a bit with GPT 4o and came to the conclusion that shear wind gusts of over 300mph in the upper atmosphere would probably do it. You’d hit that almost instantly, before high pressure, temperature or highly corrosive materials.
by samcat116 | 2025-06-22 21:35:23+00:00
> I can’t see a way around that except to have some kind of sandboxing or a concept of untrusted or tainted input rather than treating all tokens as the same. Maybe a way of detecting if the response of a tool is within a threshold of acceptability within the definition of the MCP (which is easier with structured output), which is used to force a manual confirmation or straight up rejection if it’s deemed to be unusual or unsafe.

I think we are starting to see these remote agent environments where each agent session gets its own sandbox environment to run things in. I bet thats where this is going.
by libraryatnight | 2025-06-22 21:35:47+00:00
If had to guess about the downvotes: the note about the article you point out (that's the big reason), plus (and this was just the first thing of a handful of relevant information) the easy answers with a quick search https://valleynewsgroup.com/wildlife-bridge-wont-become-a-wi...

Which took less typing to find than making the comment.
by DharmaPolice | 2025-06-22 21:35:56+00:00
I agree. I've often thought about this via a thought experiment : How much money would it take for you to agree not to consume any new instance of a particular media type? In other words, you're offered fifty thousand dollars (or some other non-trivial but not outrageous amount of money) and in agreement you won't read a book released after June 2025.

Clearly this is going to vary from person to person but I might accept $50k to not read any new fiction title, but wouldn't accept the same deal for video games as it's likely new technology will result in some new classics in the coming years - the amount of money you'd need to offer would need to be much higher. Movies are somewhere in the middle.

This effect is self-reinforcing since at least part of the value in watching a movie / reading a book / etc is the ability to discuss it with other people. Not seeing any new movies would reduce my ability to participate in discussions with people. As less people watch new things, this becomes less of an issue.
by alganet | 2025-06-22 21:36:55+00:00
> a thing governed by a set of mathematical laws

Again, you're mistaking the thing for the tool we use to describe the thing.

> aside from precision limitations

It's not only about precision. There are things we don't know.

--

I think the universe always obeys rules for everything, but it's an educated guess. There could be rules we don't yet understand and are outside of what mathematics and physics can know. Again, there are many things we don't know. "We'll get there" is only good enough when we get there.

The difference is subtle. I require proof, you seem to be ok with not having it.
by tech2 | 2025-06-22 21:36:57+00:00
Maybe we're missing one another here but it appears you're arguing for me. Khomeini is in place _because_ of western influence/involvement, if it weren't for operation Ajax/Boot (depending on whether we're talking CIA or MI-6 naming) and the various aspects of the associated propaganda then Mosaddegh may have remained in power (I say maybe because it was quite unstable times in the early 50s Iran) and Khomeini may never have gained power.
by firefax | 2025-06-22 21:37:14+00:00
Apply elsewhere before you get fired IMHO.

I had a bad manager. As in verbally and physically aggressive. When I did the "correct" things: formally register my disability (autism) with my employer and file a complaint with HR... they gave me a syrupy story about how what I desribed was unacceptable and that the main investigator was on PTO, but to please reach out if I was retaliated against.

I reached out after said bad manager terminated me, and got a syrupy story about how maybe this week, but it's a busy meeting so the week after, they might bring up my concerns about retaliation.

I'm currently facing possible homelessness, because exercising your legal rights in these matters is time consuming even if you find a lawyer willing to help.

So dude... if you have these concerns, enough to ask for advice? Polish your CV and apply around before you have a CV gap.
by dakiol | 2025-06-22 21:37:22+00:00
> Reality is that engineers have way less bargaining power that they used to

There is negotation power but only if you pass all the interview challenges. Only at that point you are in a position to name your number (of course you won't ask $500K when you know the company you are applying to pays around $200K... because you have done your previous research on that; you'll ask something between $200K and $250K and see how they react). Layoffs and AI hasn't change this (sure, thing, 5 years ago companies were hiring more and perhaps were more relaxed about this, but that didn't change the fact that you can only negotiate when they want you)
by throwawaymaths | 2025-06-22 21:37:43+00:00
at least in the case of canoo the money was already wasted (see the history of canoo). the oshkosh vehicles are incredibly sensible, but very (irrationally?) unpopular and already beset with cost overruns. If you look at it, its not hard to guess why theyre unpopular. the success of the usmail ev program was by no means guaranteed; and if the us mail goes with a COTS unit (ev or otherwise), it's probably going to be more cost effective in any case.
by gametorch | 2025-06-22 21:37:51+00:00
Yep and I got an upvoted comment dissenting against all the authoritarian bootlickers in every single thread on this post. People agree with me. Even on the comments of mine that got flagged lol

It even pissed people off enough that one of the mods started commenting about my own personal projects that have nothing to do with this lmao

Oh and I guess it did work because now it's down to 28, almost off the front page. Much lower than where it was before
by justin66 | 2025-06-22 21:38:53+00:00
North Korea is the place where foreign policy hawks go to die. It's embarrassing to watch. Every now and then over the past seven decades we have had politicians who think they're clever because their trusted advisors told them "we'll find a new way to threaten them," "let's offer them something," "you're really smart, you've got this, and nobody has noticed that you're orange" and so on, and they issue some tough talk about North Korea. It's hard to describe how inadequate their diplomacy has always been to the task. Their diplomacy is like the Visigoths trying to pull down the hated remnants of the Roman Empire, like bridges and aqueducts and so on, using oxen and ropes and inevitably failing. Something like that. North Korea is a tough problem.

Iran is more straightforward. I don't know why we've been so reluctant to make real diplomatic effort, especially after so many of Iran's proxies were significantly weakened in the last year or two, and Iran's sway was at a minimum. There seems to be an unwritten rule that once we've categorized a country as an enemy we're obligated to deal with them in the dumbest ways imaginable.
by grafmax | 2025-06-22 21:39:25+00:00
> A spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces told Insider on Tuesday that its soldiers found the decapitated corpses of babies

https://www.businessinsider.com/idf-says-hamas-decapitated-b...

> deputy commander of the IDF's unit 71, David Ben Zion…He says: "They cut off heads… of children, of women."

> a spokesperson for Mr Netanyahu's office, said: "Toddlers, babies, I can tell you some of them... yes, heads were cut off. This is what we are hearing from... soldiers on the ground who dealt with the bodies."

> In an interview with Sky's Mark Austin on Tuesday evening, Israeli economy minister Nir Barkat echoed a similar claim: "We've seen just now... we've heard of 40 young boys. Some of them were burned alive. Some were beheaded. Some were shot in the head."

> [Biden] said: "I never really thought that I would see, have confirmed, pictures of terrorists beheading children, I never thought I would ever, anyway..."

https://news.sky.com/story/its-important-to-separate-the-fac...
by squigz | 2025-06-22 21:40:16+00:00
I don't think your feelings are necessarily 'unjustified' - because, well... shit's crazy - but I don't think hatred is going to be lead anywhere productive. And I think the assumption that hatred stems from - that 70 million people or so voted for this because they're racist stupid people - is also problematic.

I think people need to start asking in at least some good faith why so many people voted for this. If your answer really is that they're just racist and stupid... then I would encourage you to consider whether your opinion is more informed from social media and news than meeting actual people.
by twixfel | 2025-06-22 21:41:05+00:00
That's my point though, that's not pragmatic in the slightest. It would be ruthlessly pragmatic to favour the 400M Arabs and 2B Muslims over the 10M Israelis. The Israeli economy is 0.5% of global GDP.

> region isn't an authoritarian hellhole

It's colonising the West Bank, committing genocide in Gaza, is led by a (war)criminal... Israel is arguably worse than many of its neighbours. I honestly don't care how good gay people have it in Tel Aviv when they're simultaneously committing genocide in Gaza or settling the West Bank like it's 1899. And yeah Israel is a democracy but they use their democratic choice to vote for a war criminal who's in bed with the settlers and other theocratic extremists. So Israel is really no better than many of its neighbours and arguably worse than many of them. And it's only getting worse, the Israelis are only becoming crazier and more extreme. And now they've got the US into a war with Iran. Sorry, 0.5% of GDP: not fucking worth it.
by bigfudge | 2025-06-22 21:42:20+00:00
> But in most cases, at a startup, you should be going after wins that are way more impactful and end up having p-values lower than 0.05, anyway.

This was the part I was quibbling with. The size of the p value is pretty much irrelevant unless you know how much data you are collecting. The p values might always be about ~.05 if you know the effects are likely large and powered the study appropriately.
by throwawaymaths | 2025-06-22 21:42:43+00:00
i dont know what the republicans are saying but FTA:

> Oshkosh encountered delays and engineering problems during early manufacturing runs, and disagreements — and accusations of corporate dishonesty — among executives plagued the production process, The Washington Post reported in December.

> Oshkosh was supposed to have delivered about 3,000 vehicles by the end of 2024. Instead it had provided roughly 100 and raised its prices as the Postal Service ordered additional EVs.

sounds like cancelling should be agreed upon bipartisanly; partisan divide maybe on whether or not it's worthwhile to restart the procurement process.
by simianparrot | 2025-06-22 21:42:58+00:00
I didn’t claim it was easy. I even advice getting professional help if the situation is so bad that the person’s own willpower is not enough.

Drugs have additional chemical and physiological impacts that make them a very different beast, but obviously addiction can still be brutal even if it’s “just” an experience — look no further than gambling. For which most countries have strict laws and regulations, particularly when it comes to children.

But let’s also not infantilise adults: People need to take responsibility for their own behavioural patterns.
by cafard | 2025-06-22 21:43:14+00:00
Is the author using Drury, Michener, and Morris West to beat up on 2023? I haven't read Colleen Hoover, but I have read the others, and they haven't made my must-reread list.

Honestly, if one takes the best-seller lists of a few arbitrary years, one will find an awful lot of dross.
by em-bee | 2025-06-22 21:44:02+00:00
well, that depends on your threat model. for me, an acquaintance finding out who i am talking to isn't a threat. a threat is profiling by big companies. and already by either running my own server or using a smaller paid email service, that threat is drastically reduced.

in fact this particular threat that you describe is more likely to happen at a university server where a rogue admin may use their privilege to snoop on people they want to stalk for whatever reason, as opposed to the friend that i chose because i trust them, like say the admin of the server of the local linux user group or the hackerspace that i am a member of.

in fact i am more likely to trust anyone that i know in person, simply because even if that person decides to snoop on me we can work that our in person, and the likely hood for it happening is low because it would affect our friendship. and i would guess that this is true for most people.

at some point you have to trust someone, and the closer you are to that person, the easier it will be to resolve problems.
by jstummbillig | 2025-06-22 21:44:13+00:00
I would find this less confusing of a top comment, if it did not ignore vital information and advice that already is in Patricks piece (and apparently ignored, even after having seen it "a number of times"?). To anyone agreeing with this position, I would recommend giving it another read.

Which is not to say that this advice must lead to a raise for everyone who reads it, but if your current assessment of the piece is "this only works for super stars" then you have definitely not really ingested the ideas offered (but you might be making excuses for why that is).
by Magmalgebra | 2025-06-22 21:44:55+00:00
> I had to answer within 3 days.

If you re-read the transcript, I hope you will come to the understanding that this is a lie. The company is trying to leverage your desperation for a job.

> Last time I got a job offer the hiring process took ~4 months with seven steps

Just like increased compensation, gettting the timeline you want requires leverage. When interviewing I always communicate that I expect an offer from a peer competitor within the next few weeks - this expedies my interview process. I always end up with a minimum of 4 competing offers to use as a BATNA.

Something the article winks at here is that negotation has only a small expected payoff if you've navigated your career such that you're a "small fish in a big pond" so to speak.

Someone who can barely pass a FAANG interview likely can't negotiate much with Google but probably could negotiate at lower tier company like SAP.

*edit* I do this strategy 12-18 months whether or not I leave a company, it has never failed me
by EdwardDiego | 2025-06-22 21:44:55+00:00
I can belt out (and am known to occasionally do so when walking home from the pub solo) Ein Schwan by Grieg (in the German, didn't learn the Norwegian version) and Ave Verum Corpus by Byrd while drunk, so you're saying these two pieces suck?

(I also like to throw the occasional Magnificat or Nunc Dimittis to mix it up. As you can tell, I'm a reformed choir boy. Oh, and Jerusalem by Parry/Blake is custom designed for drunken singalongs.)

I beg you to listen to the first two pieces and perhaps reconsider your chosen metric.

https://youtu.be/BNuT7-6zBds?si=fbyim815cp6tiD4R

https://youtube.com/watch?v=R3vuU7XAaUM
by pyman | 2025-06-22 21:44:58+00:00
This reminds me of the day I found an old storage disk, an ancient "floppy disk", in my dad's attic. It had a label that said: "Tommy’s bookmarks". My mum doesn't remember any of his friends or colleagues named Tommy. In Uruguay, that's a common nickname for Tomas. They were probably website URLs, all long extinct by now (I'd guess).