MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jmward01 | 2025-06-20 20:04:13+00:00
Our digital identities have become more valuable than most physical property but I still don't see society taking it seriously. People like my grandmother constantly shedding information to any pop-up that comes her way. Our governments not prioritizing this threat as a true top priority and properly funding it and taking action on it. (911 for digital crime maybe?) People not seeing others and properly shaming them and turning them in for digital crime like we would do if we saw property crime, etc etc. The scale of something like this is absurd, even if it is a lot of re-packaged data. The amount of time people will be dealing with the fall-out from just this one incident can likely be measured in thousands of people years. Or, put another way, this is on par with the impact of mass murder in term of lives altered. As a society we really need to make changes in our laws and behavior to really internalize how massive a problem this is before we can even start to address it.
by winter_blue | 2025-06-20 20:04:24+00:00
If the driver is in the kernel tree, then the Linux community maintains the driver for you for free basically (if a refactor of some internal kernel API is done, all drivers are updated), but once the driver is old enough, new kernel releases might sometimes removes those old drivers (and even drop support for old CPUs as well).

Closed-source bobs are closely tied to the kernel version, since the kernel’s internal ABI and API is constantly changing. There is some documentation on why here: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...
by Viliam1234 | 2025-06-20 20:04:35+00:00
Not all rationalists are EAs, and not all EAs are rationalists, but there are many people who are both. The very idea of using evidence and numbers to choose the optimal charity has a rationalist vibe. But of course, one can donate to an effective charity without being interested in LessWrong-style rationality.

https://www.lesswrong.com/ and https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/ run on the same software, and some people have an account at both of them, but they are generally separate web communities.
by hogepodge | 2025-06-20 20:05:16+00:00
The comic is a fun bit of side marketing we put together (full disclosure, I work for Modular leading the DA/community team). On the "showing our work" side of things, there have been a few recent posts we've published. We recently open sourced about 450k+ lines of Mojo high performance kernel code.

https://www.modular.com/blog/modular-platform-25-3-450k-line...

That's been the foundation for a lot of the performance work we've demonstrated publicly, most recently with our AMD partnership announcement.

https://www.modular.com/blog/modular-x-amd-unleashing-ai-per...

We're pretty committed to doing this work in the open, and we've taken a bunch of direct feedback and contributions from the community that have improved the standard library (also open source) and core language.

We're also putting in a lot of work to make Mojo more accessible for users. For example, our GPU Puzzles series is turning into a cornerstone of demonstrating how Mojo is meant to improve the GPU programming experience (that's work my team is directly responsible for, and I'm really proud of the experience people have had with it).

https://builds.modular.com/puzzles/introduction.html

For production workloads, I can say that we're using it in production, but as you said yourself, adoption takes time. I believe we're on the path to get there, and hopefully the work we're doing in public speaks for itself. It's really important to me that we back up our claims with evidence and real-world use cases.
by spacedcowboy | 2025-06-20 20:05:37+00:00
US culture, increasingly so... "Who has money ? Ok, what can we come up with that's even vaguely plausible about them to get them to cough up some of that lovely money they have ?"

Unless it's a slam-dunk, companies don't want to go to court, it's too much of a lottery for them and their over-priced lawyers. So they'll settle, and the principal claimant and their lawyers will make a lot, and everyone who climbs on that bandwagon will make peanuts.

[sigh]
by hayst4ck | 2025-06-20 20:05:42+00:00
> the candidate who spent less won.

That is entirely unsubstantiated. There is no reasonable way to measure this and any measurements taken are inherently political.

I am amenable to the idea of that being true for official spending, but unless the twitter purchase, for example, were tabulated, or spending on our American "pravda" (Truth social which was clearly influenced by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravda), I would be extremely suspicious of those numbers.

> so at least at presidential level, there is neither apathy, complacency, or the ability to buy elections.

Again, I completely disagree, and so does Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig, who argues that it is extremely hard to win a primary without fundraising, and fundraising is structurally an election where money counts as votes, and therefore nearly all candidates who make it to the primary have already been filtered through by those with money: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw2z9lV3W1g
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-06-20 20:05:59+00:00
No, it actually slows me down on IQ tests that don't follow the genre conventions. (I used to approach them with a fresh mind – and I can still do that, if I have time to get into that mindset, but it's not always my default.) But I almost never see those, so…

It doesn't extend to logic puzzles, which I've always been quite bad at. (I find the Professor Layton games hard enough to be actively unfun, despite their beauty.) I can solve problems if they're contextualised, but my approach for solving logic puzzles is "identify a general algorithm, then execute it", which is quite slow.

As I've been telling you: IQ is extremely artificial; and doesn't measure general intelligence, because there's no such thing as "general intelligence". The "g factor" is a statistical regularity, but any statistician can tell you that while all sustained statistical regularities have explanations, they don't necessarily correspond to real things.
by zsoltkacsandi | 2025-06-20 20:06:22+00:00
I am not sure if we read the same article:

> Once that happens, only the hardware partner who published it can bring it back. But there’s a catch. Microsoft may demand a business justification before allowing a republish. And if the partner doesn’t respond within six months, the driver is deleted permanently.

> And while the company claims this is about improving security and reducing compatibility issues, the reality is that it’s cutting support for a lot of older devices in the name of modernization.

> In other words, things that used to work might just stop working.

> Microsoft’s cleanup may sound responsible on the surface, but for anyone still clinging to older hardware or niche accessories, it might feel more like abandonment. Once a driver disappears, finding it again could become a scavenger hunt.
by znpy | 2025-06-20 20:06:24+00:00
> My point was, financially and logically, it made (makes) no sense.

You don't know, but you proved your customer's point, unwillingly.

The thing is, your logic is flawed because it's (incredibly) shortsighted.

> VMware, Xen, or Hyper-V admin

Those three things essentially do the same thing, yet they're completely different beasts. You have to look for people knowledgeable on that specific product, and you might not find them.

When dealing with AWS EC2 instances? A lot more people with standardized competencies.

For companies it's just great because they can hire from a much larger pool of candidates.

It's great for workers too, because they can pick my skills and go work at another company where I'll be immediately productive, meaning they'll have a much smoother onboarding process (learning the business domain rather than fighting the technology).
by ZoomZoomZoom | 2025-06-20 20:06:30+00:00
Incidentally, in my opinion, The Rust Book was laid out exceptionally well for system programming beginners, at least in the state I read it through about 8 years ago or so. Steve and contributors managed to achieve a great balance between thoroughness and approachability of the text while dodging the curse of knowledge in a commendable way.

However, The Rust Book is as far from Concepts as it is from HTDP. It presents a specific language model in its relation to the hardware and common applications one faces while implementing what Concepts and HTDP teach to, well, design.
by hayst4ck | 2025-06-20 20:07:14+00:00
You can pay more for more access to a better model. Answer quality directly correlates to resources spent generating it.

It literally and structurally offers advantage to those with more resources.

That effect compounds over time and use.

I am not even remotely talking about worker replacement, even assuming no job was lost, a company that is able to pay for better answers should have more profit and therefore more ability to pay for more/better answers.
by tnlogy | 2025-06-20 20:07:24+00:00
My idea was to make a Vec of nodes with pointers to indexes in the vec, so it would be easier to send this array into the gpu. I wanted to make a minimal version example of making a micrograd network run on the gpu, with wgpu or macroquad, but I didn’t complete it, so would be nice if someone else did it. :)
by Tiktaalik | 2025-06-20 20:07:42+00:00
The business owners are clueless.

Vancouver did a study of how people arrived to their shopping destination and found that a small minority drove to their destination. This was in opposition to the assertions of the business owners that claimed drivers were remarkably more dominant and parking critical.

https://slowstreets.wordpress.com/2016/10/18/new-vancouver-c...

Every time I see a study like this it is similar results where the reality doesn't match the guesses of local business.
by andoando | 2025-06-20 20:07:51+00:00
Most programmers don't do any math at all, so maybe this is just a niche thats not relevant to most of us, but to answer your question:

If I am thinking about any problem, its outside the scope of any programming language in the first place. My point is, modern functions already make array manipulations simple enough. Even if you're doing something like coding LLMs from scratch, numpy, list concatenations, list comprehension, lambdas, stream/map/reduce all exist and its not nearly an issue to implement them, as is the case for writing assembly vs python.

The prime example in python for example looks like this: all(x % i != 0 for i in range(2, x)) This pretty much does the same operations in the same order on the same fundamental data structure, so I just don't see what's fundmenetally different about the Klong way of thinking.

Anyway, I don't mean to argue, if it works for you great, I wish I had something new
by deepdarkforest | 2025-06-20 20:08:02+00:00
This is definitely a winners take all market. Kudos for giving it a shot, but imo browser projects are just too big for a team of 2/3. Plus, google has already demoed at IO the first hint at this. IMO you just cannot move fast enough to grab enough market share as a first/second mover before google just does it on chrome, and that's assuming you can outcompete with Dia in the first place. Even browser-use can do this also, and they have good distribution already.

Good luck, but in your place i would at least start with something that a certain ICP needs more. Many, many manhours have been wasted by ambitious technical founders on taking down Chrome. (many also starting from a chrome fork itself). But none of them succeeded. We only have limited energy
by EGreg | 2025-06-20 20:08:02+00:00
I've been saying this for years.

It's curious that 90% of the top-level comments here are all dismissing it outright. And we have the usual themes:

1) "This has always been possible before. AI brings nothing new."

2) "We haven't seen anything really bad yet, so it is a non-issue

3) "AI execs are pushing this narrative to make AI sound important and get more money"

Nevermind the fact that many famous people behind the invention of AI, including Jeffrey Hinton (the "godfather of AI") and others quit their jobs and are spending their time loudly warning people, or signing major letters where they warn about human extinction or job loss... it's all a grift according to the vocal HN denizens.

This is like the opposite of web3 where everyone piles on the other way.

Well... swarms of AI agents take time to amass karma, pagerank, and other metrics, but when with the coming years, they will indeed be able to churn out content 24/7, create normal-looking influencer accounts and dominate the online discussion on every platform. Very likely, the percentage of human-generated content will trend to 0-1% of content on the internet, and it will become a dark forest, and this will be true on "siloed" ecosystems like HN as well: https://maggieappleton.com/ai-dark-forest/

Certainly, saying "this was always possible before" misses the forest for the trees. No, it wasn't.

List of attacks made possible by swarms of agents:

1) Edits to Wikipedia and publishing articles to push a certain narrative, as an Advanced Persistent Threat

2) Popular accounts on social media, videos on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok pushing AI-generated narratives, biased "news" and entertainment across many accounts growing in popularity (already happening)

3) Comments under articles, videos and shared posts that are either for or against the thing, and coordinated upvoting that bypasses voting ring detection (most social networks don't care about it as much as HN). Tactical piling on.

4) Sleeper accounts that appear normal for months or years and amass karma / points until they gradually start coordinating, either subtly or overtly. AI can play the long strategic game and outmaneuver groups people as well, including experts (see #7 for discrediting them).

5) Astroturfing attacks on people who disagree with the narrative. Maybe coordinating posts on HN that make it seem like it is an unpopular position.

6) Infiltrating and distracting opponents of a position, by getting them mired in constant defenses or explanations, where the interlocutors are either AI or friends / allies that have been "turned" or "flipped" by AI to question them

7) Reputational destruction, along the lines of NSA PRISM powerpoint slides (https://archive.org/details/NSA-PRISM-Slides) but at scale and implacable.

8) Astroturfing support for wars, unrest, or whatever else, but at scale, along the lines of Mahachkala Protests in Russia, etc.

These are just some of the early low-hanging fruit for 2026 and 2027.
by jitl | 2025-06-20 20:08:32+00:00
That's fair, and I think why more people don't go the Terraform route. Our setup is pretty simple which helps. We treat entire clusters more like namespaces, where a cluster will run a single main application and its support services as a form of "application level availability zone". We still get bin packing for all that stuff with each cluster, but maybe not MAXIMUM BIN PACKING that we'd get if we ran all the applications in a single big cluster, and there's some EKS cost paying for more clusters.

We do sometimes have the mutating webhook stuff, for example when running 3rd party JVM stuff we tell the Datadog operator to inject JMX agents into applications using a mutating webhook. For those kinds of things we manage the application using the Helm provider pass-through I mentioned, so what Terraform stores in its state, diffs, and manages on change is the input manifests passed through Helm; for those resources it never inspects the Kubernetes API objects directly - it will just trigger a new helm release if the inputs change on the Terraform side or delete the helm release if removed.

This is not a beautiful solution but it works well in practice with minimal fuss when we hit those Kubernetes provider annoyances.
by foxyv | 2025-06-20 20:08:59+00:00
It's 60 petabytes. To understand the scale of the data, This would cost about $1.2 million per month to store on S3 standard or $240k per month on Glacier Instant Access. To transfer this much data to/from AWS would cost about $3 million. It would cost about $625,000 to buy enough consumer grade hard drives to store this all.
by Apreche | 2025-06-20 20:09:49+00:00
A lot of the web is human. You just can’t discover it. It doesn’t rank highly in search results. It doesn’t go viral on social networks. It doesn’t get wildly upvoted on aggregator sites like this one.

That’s the fundamental dilemma of not just the web, but the Internet, as a pull medium opposed to a push medium like television or radio. A human can not remember every URL. From your blank web browser you can only go to URLs you know. Then the only web pages you will ever see are ones that are linked, directly or indirectly, from the ones you know.

Most people only know Google, Facebook, etc. Anything that isn’t linked to from those sites effectively does not exist.

But it does exist. It’s a whole forest full of trees falling and not making a sound. It’s up to you to do what you can to find it.
by salawat | 2025-06-20 20:10:00+00:00
You could make it with only 1 button, (your first) and it could still end up doing the second. Full extermination of the people vulnerable to disease and hunger is, in fact, a valid optimization strategy.

There is no getting around the fact that these things are nothing like regular technology where you can at least decompose it down to functional working parts. It isn't debuggable basically. Nor predictable.
by Atlas667 | 2025-06-20 20:10:19+00:00
There are only 2 logical solutions, the powers that be will either create heavier blinders within nation states or the public creates truly independent/public systems.

Social mass-media is doomed to fail in its current form. These platforms are already manipulated by capital through advertising, nation states, data-brokers and platform self interest.

People need more federated networks where agents can be verified, at least locally and "feeds" cannot be manipulated.

The powers that be do not believe in democracy how you and I believe in it, they believe in manufactured consent.

Mass media in its current form is just a way to create consent within the masses, not the other way around, the masses don't make the decisions.
by why218 | 2025-06-20 20:10:21+00:00
Well some of what you mentioned has been implemented in array languages and some like superscript and sub script was part of the original apl book (the book on the notation pre the implentation). Its somewhat ironic, orignally apl was supposed to make math notation more readable (it was originally just a math notation) but many people dont see it that way. if you are interested in super scripts and the like you might check out bqn and uiua which both are doing interesting things with the symbols. although uiua in particular suffers from having to choose from a set of symbols that comes from unicode and therefore sometimes look a little off to me
by p_dubz | 2025-06-20 20:10:31+00:00
I created an account because of how terrible this comment is.

A caste system? are you kidding me. CASTE. Like the system where a group of people were called untouchables??? These kinds of extreme comparisons are so utterly unhelpful to literally everyone.

Frankly just on the face of it your claim is completely out of touch with the US cities with decent public transit options (New York, Washington DC, Boston, Chicago). Everyone that lives in NYC that can take the subway takes the subway. I know plenty of hedge funders and traders and big tech workers in NYC who take the subway every day, and plenty of big law partners who take the DC metro to the office.

Obviously there are really big problems with how transit is implemented and treated in most cities in the USA, but you are completely incorrect. In American cities where there is good transit everyone takes it
by tptacek | 2025-06-20 20:10:50+00:00
We have not had augmented PAKEs that were widely trusted by the cryptographic engineering community for decades. OPAQUE was 2018. The adoption you're looking for hasn't happened for a bunch of reasons, including:

* The industry's (reasonable) emphasis on moving people away from passwords altogether, and towards phishing-proof authentication.

* The fact that we'd have to do new underlying protocol work to meaningfully get the benefit you're talking about --- you can't just do it in Javascript, because you're talking about "server-proofing" logins, a threat model that presumes the attacker controls the server's login flow.

* Just the baseline fact that "losing passwords directly from Apple and Google and Meta authentication servers" hasn't been a driver of account takeovers, and you will never get PAKE adoption from the kinds of providers who do drive these incidents.

PAKEs are just a technology cryptography nerds fall in love with and want to find use cases for. I like them too! Build more things like Magic Wormhole. Don't get grumpy when the entire web doesn't wrap itself around them.
by zeroCalories | 2025-06-20 20:11:34+00:00
> If they could have chosen someone other than Biden, they would have

They could have chosen Bernie(they didn't want to).

> The DNC purposely induced a panicked run to their chosen candidate (when they weren't calling heads instead of tails). That's as much a vote as the decision which door to exit out of after someone yells, "Fire," is a choice.

Bernie's name was on the ballot. He was / is one of the most recognizable politicians in the U.S. He had plenty of money to campaign. My above point better explains his loss.

> On the other hand, if your candidate can only win by forcing his ideological rivals out of the race with backdoor quid-pro-quo deals, not only is he now corrupt, he is still definitely only winning through political maneuvering.

Force is massive cope. Do you think they would prefer to stay in, 100% lose, and get nothing for it? People that are closely aligned consolidate their efforts. That's how democracy works.

> Clarence Thomas and Strom Thurmond

Just look up the polls. Biden always crushed with African Americans.
by treesknees | 2025-06-20 20:11:36+00:00
In the short term, Trump could order the immediate shutdown of cloud accounts for the EU, as exemplified in the article. While this won’t completely eliminate the EU’s reliance on American tech, as you rightly pointed out, it does reduce the risk of a sudden disconnect and initiates a long-term commitment to gradually distance itself from US tech. It’s a step in the right direction.
by WalterBright | 2025-06-20 20:11:57+00:00
Because the correct comparison would be with total compensation, of which wages are only a portion.

Total compensation is the costs to an employer to hire some one. It includes:

1. contributions to retirement plans

2. so-called "employer paid" social security contributions

3. sick and paid vacation days

4. employer paid health insurance

5. stock plans

6. 401k plans

7. other payroll taxes

Last time I checked, these often added 40% or more over the takehome pay.

Also, the pay is based on the value the employee as an individual provides, not the value the company as a whole created. Just like the compensation for pro football players varies in a single team.
by qualeed | 2025-06-20 20:12:40+00:00
The most important part of this, which it appears people may have missed is:

>legacy drivers published on Windows Update

You can still go download the legacy drivers directly. They just wont be automatically installed/updated via Windows Update. No devices are being bricked, your PC isn't breaking.

I get that Microsoft is the most evil company in the world, or whatever, but this is way overblown.