MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by v5v3 | 2025-06-04 12:12:30+00:00
Ai summarise this paper:

I have reviewed the paper titled "What do professional software developers need to know to succeed in an age of Artificial Intelligence?" .

Summary:

The study investigates the evolving skill set required for software developers in the context of generative AI. Through research involving 21 developers, the authors identified 12 key work goals and 75 associated tasks that developers perform when utilizing AI tools. These tasks encompass areas such as code generation, problem understanding, and collaboration.

The findings are distilled into five key insights, emphasizing that success in AI-enhanced development necessitates proficiency across four domains:

1. Effective use of generative AI

2. Core software engineering skills

3. Adjacent engineering disciplines

4. Non-engineering areas, including communication and critical thinking

The paper advocates for educational programs and on-the-job training to focus on both technical and soft skills to prepare developers for AI-integrated workflows.
by wkat4242 | 2025-06-04 12:12:37+00:00
I'm sure teens of all times have had access to porn. I got it from a home built pay TV decoder in the 90s (sound didn't work but I didn't care so much lol)

And yes extreme types were already thing then too. Bukkake, gangbangs, all my friends in school saw these things. I'm pretty sure most of them have never done those practices in their lives. They're all pretty boring family men now. And they are respectful to women. Society is doing fine.
by zamadatix | 2025-06-04 12:13:36+00:00
We recently added a similar law in the US state I'm in. I'm (obviously) an adult who could just do the verification but just go to other sites instead. If that's me now I can't imagine how little of a shit 16 year old me would have given.

I'm not a fan of these types of laws in the first place but, if we're going to have them, punishing distribution but not consumption will do nothing. On the other hand punishing consumption via law is just silly enough to most people (for now at least) that we end up with this law which only makes it inconvenient for adults to access porn.
by akoboldfrying | 2025-06-04 12:13:38+00:00
I'm impressed that you give precision and recall metrics for this -- and amazed that they are non-terrible. I'm amazed because a fully general hallucination detector is obviously a truth oracle -- it can answer any question about anything in the world, by framing the question as a statement and then asking whether that statement is a hallucination.

From among the analyses the tool makes, it makes sense to me that contradictions can be detected, since that doesn't require knowledge of the real world. I'm very interested in how you do this detection ("Logical inconsistencies") in practice. Likewise for "Logical progression".

Two questions:

1. Since "overconfidence" is treated as a red flag, won't applying your tool as a filter cause LLM response precision to drop, often unnecessarily? The safest answer an LLM can give to "When was the Eiffel Tower built?" is surely along the lines of "The Eiffel Tower may or may not have been built at some time in the past."

2. I don't see how this tool can detect the kind of hallucination that (a) involves no contradiction and (b) requires knowledge of the world. These come up often. Examples: Citing plausible-sounding but nonexistent court cases, calling plausible-sounding but nonexistent methods in an API.
by david-gpu | 2025-06-04 12:13:58+00:00
I don't understand the logic of preventing minors from watching porn specifically, when they can easily find videos of people being beheaded, blown to bits, burned alive, etc.

I have never had flashbacks from watching porn, but there are things I saw, even on broadcast TV, that still send shivers down my spine.

I am disappointed to see fellow Europeans developing American-style "sex is bad, violence is entertaining" social customs.
by mrweasel | 2025-06-04 12:14:02+00:00
Part of the problem is that not all countries have the same solutions, but credit/debit cards are an easy solution. In some countries that requires 2FA using a government issued ID. It's not 100% secure, people being people and doing stupid things, but it's better. If you're in the US, I don't know, it might not be better. If you can, ask your credit card processor to block cards that's not in the area you serve. E.g. we had huge success in blocking UK and US credit cards from our Scandinavian stores.

In Scandinavia there's also MobilePay, which is much much better, as it is also closely linked to real identities.
by germinalphrase | 2025-06-04 12:14:30+00:00
Maybe I am misunderstanding your comment, but I dont see plasma gasification as waste reduction. We are reusing the waste for energy production. We could be making efforts to reduce the overall amount of plastic waste (perhaps through legislation), but if we become reliant on the energy generated, we would be incentivized to avoid waste reduction because we want the energy. FWIW, “recycling theater” is also not waste reduction and is a separate, but related, problem that increases plastic waste.
by vbezhenar | 2025-06-04 12:14:39+00:00
I'd also add that Google is pretty good at filtering out unavailable websites. My country fights windmills by blocking anythink porn-related. And Google with simple "porn" search will remove those blocked websites, but would add millions of yet unblocked mirrors and whatnot, so this block is laughably easy to avoid. It's not like porn is scarce resource available on the selected websites, quite the opposite. I'd guess that French teenagers would just do the same: search "porn", open 100 new tabs, find one that works and close the rest.
by flohofwoe | 2025-06-04 12:14:39+00:00
Here's a similar (and much more indepth) opcode decoding recipe for Z80, very useful for emulator development:

http://www.z80.info/decoding.htm

For actually programming in machine code this understanding of the internal opcode structure isn't all that useful though, usually - without an assembler at hand - you had a lookup table with all possible assembly instructions on the left side, and the corresponding machine code bytes on the right side.

Programming by typing machine code into a hex editor is possible, but really only recommended as absolute fallback if there's no assembler at hand - mainly because you had to keep track of all global constant and subroutine entry addresses - e.g. the main thing that an assembler does for you, and you had to leave gaps at strategic locations so that it is possible to patch the code without having to move things around.
by K0balt | 2025-06-04 12:15:09+00:00
Stablecoins on any number of low cost networks are fine for small payments (I haven’t lost anything, not even $0.01 in 10+years, vs tens of thousands in chargebacks, mostly fraudulent, for credit card processors).

I factor in 2.5% total costs for transaction frictions, historically that is a bit over 3x our actual average cost from payer to bank account, but it would easily cover the occasional loss of a day or two of sales in a catastrophe.

Pick a top 5 stablecoin that has a good reputation and at least 3 years, on a network with at least that, and settle your accounts daily, or whenever the accumulation represents a significant dent if lost.

The approximate aggregate risk-cost of major (top 10) stablecoins is somewhere south of .001% per day, and is better than the aggregate risk-cost of national fiat currencies, which unremarkably collapse or suffer catastrophic inflation and rebasing on a regular basis. There are frequently several undergoing this process at any given time.
by closewith | 2025-06-04 12:16:14+00:00
But it will stop many children who don't have the ability to install a VPN on their locked down Android or iOS device. This specific French law is a response to research that showed that 20% of French 10-year-olds access porn monthly, which caused a national scandal.

It can also force pressure on the sites to more carefully filter minors to both avoid other jurisdictions following suite and criminal charges if continuing access to found to be granted French children.

> Another impossible to enforce law made by people who don't know what they're doing.

A law doesn't have to be 100% inescapable to be effective. In fact, this is an extremely enforceable law, and it is you who fail to see the application, either through ignorance or arrogance.
by anonymousab | 2025-06-04 12:16:50+00:00
I remember going out to dinner, years ago, with a fairly senior AWS billing engineer. An acquaintance of a coworker.

He looked completely surprised when I asked about runaway billing and why there wasn't any simple options to cap a given resource to prevent those cases.

His response was that they didn't build that because none of their customers wanted anything like that, as far as he was aware.
by ghm2180 | 2025-06-04 12:16:51+00:00
Double anonymity seems as a great means for enforcing privacy in general for any data you generate taht you don't want other people to see.

Like in a location app on your phone generating (Lat Long) pairs. The app developer could just provide an inference engine running on a 3p trusted server to which an app developer has write only rights, e.g. a retrieval engine based on location — but cannot read. The user's app has read only rights — say get map tiles based on location.

Its just that this is not the universe we live in sadly...(Maybe the EU will become that)
by pcaharrier | 2025-06-04 12:17:14+00:00
> The constitutional form has protected the monarch from the people much more than it has protected the people from the monarch – certainly when compared to earlier mediaeval times. At the same time, the constitutional form has provided virtually no protection of limiting the actions of the monarch – even for those constitutions with some form of rights embedded – for example, the U.S. Constitution with its Bill of Rights.

>It seems, instead of the pinnacle of governance and protection of liberty, the constitutional form represents a significant step back from the liberties afforded to even the lowliest members of early mediaeval society.

This was a really interesting section. It turns the modern conception of a written constitution on its head, but the author makes some compelling points.
by malfist | 2025-06-04 12:17:22+00:00
Sure, but there's degrees in the real world. Do people sometimes spew bullshit (hallucinate) at you? Absolutely. But LLMs, that's all they do. They make bullshit and spew it. That's their default state. They're occasionally useful despite this behavior, but it doesn't mean that they're not still bullshitting you
by belter | 2025-06-04 12:17:41+00:00
Its the EU using Cloudfront... :-)

"The General Court orders the Commission to pay damages to a visitor to its ‘Conference on the Future of Europe’ website as a result of the transfer of personal data to the United States" - https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/202...

From further research, it looks like the Amazon data transfer issue was litigated and resolved at the EU level, with the court finding Amazon's practices were lawful under the contracts in place.
by codethief | 2025-06-04 12:17:43+00:00
> they observed instances where DGM attempted to manipulate its reward function through deceptive practices. One notable example involved the system fabricating the use of external tools - specifically, it generated fake logs suggesting it had run and passed unit tests, when in reality no tests were executed.

I have yet to read the paper and I know very little about the benchmarks the authors employed but why would they even feed logs produced by the agent into the reward function instead of objectively checking (outside the agent sandbox!) what the agent does & produces? I.e. let the agent run on some code base, take the final diff produced by the agent and run it through coding benchmarks?

Or, in case the benchmarks reward certain agent behavior (tool usage etc.) on the way to its goal of producing a high-quality diff, inspect processes spawned by the agent from outside the sandbox?
by TeMPOraL | 2025-06-04 12:17:54+00:00
> What minors are exposed to, and educated about, is the parents primary responsibility to deal with.

Yes and no. We're sharing this responsibility in half with the government, due to public education requirement.

The moment a kid starts attending an educational institution - which can be as early as 1yo (daycare) or 3 yo(kindergarten), and usually no later than 7yo (where mandatory education usually kicks in), the parents lose control over what their kids "are exposed to, and educated about". But the problem isn't the educational institutions either (though they sometimes contribute).

The problem is other kids.

Minors will get access to porn and nudes in their teenage years, and there's fuck parents and teachers can do about it. There's always going to be a kid that somehow gets their hand on this stuff and bring it to the school. It takes just one for it to spread like wildfire.

To those who think a good parent should be able to protect their teens from exposure to porn: first demonstrate how one can stop a preschooler from contracting acute Paw Patrol or Frozen infection within first two weeks of kindergarten, and then we can talk.
by myrmidon | 2025-06-04 12:17:56+00:00
> It will take at least 30 years, probably more like 300. The danger is that we collectively take a more destructive course.

I don't think there is a clear trend toward this goal at all.

Extrapolating current trends, we are fairly likely to peak in total population as a species long we become space-constrained on earth; more remote living space is pretty cheap in basically every industrialized country right now, and living in a conventional house in the boonies is like ten orders of magnitude easier than making anything extraterrestrial work (neither climate change nor even global nuclear war is enough to flip that).

Sure, people might like the concept of space colonization, but we're not seeing significant amounts of people living on boats in the Atlantic, so I would not expect to see people living on spaceships within the next centuries, either...
by diggan | 2025-06-04 12:18:06+00:00
Well, the mentioned credit card checks would be applicable regardless of your residency/citizenship, so if you're visiting France and try to browse Pornhub, you'd be required to provide CC details for the verification, is my understanding at least

Or you have a ID issued by France, and you'll use that.

Besides, heavily depends on how the verification services implement their checks. Whenever I (Spanish resident, Swedish citizen) end up having to do verification checks for some EU/Spanish service, they usually have more or less every type of ID I could have been using available.
by palata | 2025-06-04 12:18:28+00:00
I believe that the EFF talks about it here: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/age-verification-europ...

They question the quality of the Zero Knowledge Proofs (something like "it's still new") and raise what I find the more interesting question: "who will be left out?". Not only for porn, that is.
by flohofwoe | 2025-06-04 12:18:45+00:00
Yeah the Z80 instruction set is quite messy (mainly because it had to fill gaps of the 8080 instruction set for backward compatibility). But as an evolution of the 8080 instruction set, the Z80 is still cleaner than x86 (IMHO!).

Also, the Z8000 looks quite interesting and like the better 16-bit alternative to the x86, but it never took off: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilog_Z8000
by iLoveOncall | 2025-06-04 12:19:16+00:00
> Plant some vegetables on your 10 hectares and sell them,at the very least.

This is totally unnecessary, it would be absolutely dwarfed by the revenue they get from their Patreon (around $13K a month) and their YouTube revenue with 750K subscriptions bringin in probably multiple tens of thousands a month too.

They're absolutely not strapped for cash.
by i_love_retros | 2025-06-04 12:20:06+00:00
what makes you think the left leaning save the planet types are non-violent? did you see what happened in russia 100 years ago? or china? or cuba? granted they weren't so much "save the planet" types, but i reckon they were a little left leaning! and it's not too much of a leap to imagine that again with environmental concerns thrown into the ideological mix
by qalmakka | 2025-06-04 12:20:09+00:00
The point is not that he doesn't deliver anything, or that he never achieved any sort of success - he did, he is incredibly successful. The point is that he constantly oversold what his goals were and made promises that couldn't be kept, often to get the funding he needed to reach his definitely less ambitious concrete goals.

Yeah he made the electric car popular, but it can be argued that in order to make his company economically viable he basically lied to his investors and customers about self driving cars for almost a decade, when he had nothing real in his hands. Thanks to those promises he got the money to keep the company afloat until it had the manufacturing capability to actually deliver the cars they sold; and someone may argue he would have failed if he had been honest from the beginning, and that maybe people wouldn't have invested the money they did if he hadn't set unachievable goals to begin with

And this is a pattern you can see in all of his companies; he promises the world Mars, gets a lot of funding and then instead of delivering on the "dream" target, he uses the money to deliver a valid but definitely less "romantic" product he can actually sell. One time is ok, but it's basically a modus operandi now. And this gives me a strong suspicion that the product was the real goal all along, and he knew he had to lie about the "dream" in order to get the capital at all
Should Anonymous Accounts Have the Right to Go Viral?
by Hnizdovskyi | 2025-06-04 12:20:20+00:00
Last week, I spoke at NATO’s CyCon 2025 in an Oxford-style debate on a deeply uncomfortable but necessary question:

"Should governments have the right to censor or control the internet during cyber conflict?"

My answer: in some cases - yes. Not because I believe in authoritarian control. But because the alternative is losing control entirely to actors who don’t care about our values.

To frame my argument, I explored three fatal asymmetries that define today’s information environment. This post is the first in a series where I’ll go deeper into each—but here’s the core argument.

1. The Asymmetry of Accountability

Democracy doesn’t work without accountability.

And yet, online, we’ve carved out an exception—total anonymity, zero consequences.

Throughout history, meaningful democratic discourse required skin in the game.

– In Athens, citizens named themselves and stood in public.

– In Parliament, members rise and identify.

– In 1776, the American founders signed their names under the declaration of independence knowing it could get them hanged.

Accountability wasn’t a footnote to democracy - it was the price of entry.

Now consider the internet: our new global town square.

An environment where anyone with zero identity, zero risk can inject slander, falsehoods, and deepfakes into the bloodstream of public discourse.

One anonymous user. One fake video.

That’s all it takes to destroy reputations, crash markets, incite unrest.

The phantom walks away. Society pays the price.

We’ve confused free speech with consequence-free speech.

We wouldn’t let unregistered factories dump toxic sludge into rivers -

but we let bot farms dump psychological sewage into the public mind.

The Proposal:

You can be anonymous. You can say whatever you want.

But if you're anonymous, your reach ends with your friends. Private speech stays private.

If you want the megaphone - if you want to reach the public - then identify yourself. With real verification.

Banks require KYC. So do crypto exchanges.

We don’t call that authoritarian. We call it basic risk management.

Some will argue this betrays the open nature of the internet.

But openness without discernment becomes self-defeating.

Karl Popper warned us about this in the Paradox of Tolerance:

“Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance.”

If we tolerate malicious manipulation - fake accounts, AI-generated lies, coordinated bot attacks - all in the name of “openness,” we’re not preserving freedom. We’re setting the stage for its collapse.

The proposal isn’t to restrict the internet.

It’s to redesign the most vulnerable terrains of it like social media where anonymity at scale meets amplification at speed, and where our values are turned against us with ruthless precision.

If society bears the cost of disinformation, manipulation, and chaos - is it really insane to ask who’s polluting the well?

If you want to play in the commons, wear a name tag.
by paulryanrogers | 2025-06-04 12:21:05+00:00
Also note that over the air updates mean a Tesla may behave differently every time you get inside one. It could get better or worse or just different. If the human behind the wheel has to compensate, they'll have to be extra vigilant despite the non-incident times lulling them into false sense of security.

So do you run the numbers per FSD version? Do you insist they must be certified before they make changes?

People are unpredictable too, yet we have a mental model of their/our behavior and our own personal limits. When I get in the car I have confidence in how I'll perform, and without FSD, will remember to constantly maintain control. And a 'flaw' in one person's wetware is limited to them. No one can push out a fleet update causing humans to start targeting pedestrians instead of avoiding them.
by karmakaze | 2025-06-04 12:21:22+00:00
Odd that it's a format that couldn't decide on a format "#..meta: format=json, length=270" The "length=270" also has a redundant/fragile smell to it.

Other thought was when was the last time I had problems with a diff file--can't recall (maybe decades ago). Probably only a problem when working with multiple VCSes in which case you could make a diff translator that understands each one intimately.
by palata | 2025-06-04 12:21:47+00:00
I think it could be a government website that gives you an anonymous token. The government checks your age from your identity (some "eID") and gives you a token that is "difficult" for them to track (see e.g. Privacy Pass [1]).

Then you pass this token to your porn website and they can verify that this token means that you have the required age. But the porn website cannot identify you.

Not sure about the price of such a service, but it would be paid by the public.

[1]: https://privacypass.github.io
by lotsofpulp | 2025-06-04 12:22:55+00:00
“Complete arrogance” means they do not want to use lidar/radar for pure ego, and there would be no negative effects of using it.

Which is not true, as it would increase the costs of the producing and repairing the vehicle. One of Tesla’s major achievements is hitting the $30k to $50k price point with an 80% solution for self driving (regardless of their marketing it as 100%).
by tsimionescu | 2025-06-04 12:22:55+00:00
The biggest problem with using ASM as a first language to teach beginners is that it is extremely tedious, error prone, and sensitive to details. It is also unstructured, it uses entirely different control flow primitives than any language they will learn in the future, meaning they will not be well prepared for learning a real language that does scale to programs more complex than a few additions and calling an OS output routine.

So why teach someone a language that doesn't have if, while, (local) variables, scopes, types, nor even real function calls?

It's a very nice exercise for understanding how a computer functions, and it has a clear role in education - I'm not arguing people shouldn't learn it at all. But I think it's a terrible first language to learn.
by high_na_euv | 2025-06-04 12:23:28+00:00
>2) spends funds at an ecommerce site (dirty funds) 3) secure a paypal refund WHICH GOES TO ANOTHER ACCOUNT (clean funds)

How it breaks the chain?

Account1 buys for 10k USD, requests refund, receives it?

Even if it went for some reason to account2 then there is still the chain, but why would it go to other?