MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by piotrbednarski | 2025-06-29 01:17:23+00:00
An alternative approach to EvilModel (2021) is packing an entire program’s code into a neural network by intentionally exploiting the overfitting phenomenon. I developed a prototype using PyTorch and an LSTM network, which is intensively trained on a single source file until it fully memorizes its contents. Prolonged training turns the network’s weights into a data container that can later be reconstructed.

The effectiveness of this technique was confirmed by generating code identical to the original, verified through SHA-256 checksum comparisons. Similar results can also be achieved using other models, such as GRU or Decoder-Only Transformers, showcasing the flexibility of this approach.

The advantage of this type of packer lies in the absence of typical behavioral patterns that could be recognized by traditional antivirus systems. Instead of conventional encryption and decryption operations, the “unpacking” process occurs as part of the neural network’s normal inference.
by suzzer99 | 2025-06-29 01:18:17+00:00
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/schizophr...

https://archive.ph/zT99C

> But when the protective hormone is withdrawn during menopause, some who avoided earlier psychosis get a later onset. Having a first experience after age 40 is uncommon, but it may include up to 15 percent of the women with schizophrenia—twice the percentage of men who have schizophrenia onset after age 40.
by OptionOfT | 2025-06-29 01:18:23+00:00
I need to renew my Belgian passport soon, and I live in the United States.

Even though the consulate has my biometric data, I need to visit them in person.

My only saving grace is that they sometimes visit my city., and I can register there. But that registration is only valid for 1 year, and they don't visit every year...

And that is still 2h+ one way of travel for me, for something they already have.
by throwaway843 | 2025-06-29 01:19:37+00:00
Be more resilient.

HN pussy foots enough. That pussy footing is what causes pent-up voting - its trend followers and "i agree/disagree with this"ers not having the gall to cast first vote.

Justifying this will make it even worse, as a wall of text will be needed before anyone does anything. Then you'll get downvoted by the trend followers citing the wall of text dissenter rather than thinking still.
by YZF | 2025-06-29 01:19:38+00:00
I am not following your logic at all.

The League of Nations had no jurisdiction over the Germans (that I'm aware of).

The matter of countries doing their own investigation is fundamental to the ICC and so is the matter of its jurisdiction being restricted to member countries. That is part of the convention that established it.

The police in contrast, in a certain country, has jurisdiction and the power to arrest criminals. The ICCs powers come from the countries that are members of it extending their powers to this body via mutual agreement.

The more proper analogy would be that me and a bunch of friends will issue an arrest warrant and put you in jail because we feel like it.

EDIT: This is known as the principle of complementarity: https://www.icc-cpi.int/about/how-the-court-works

"The ICC is intended to complement, not to replace, national criminal systems; it prosecutes cases only when States do not are unwilling or unable to do so genuinely."

Re: Jurisdiction: "In the absence of a UNSC referral of an act of aggression, the Prosecutor may initiate an investigation on his own initiative or upon request from a State Party. The Prosecutor shall first ascertain whether the Security Council has made a determination of an act of aggression committed by the State concerned. Where no such determination has been made within six months after the date of notification to the UNSC by the Prosecutor of the situation, the Prosecutor may nonetheless proceed with the investigation, provided that the Pre-Trial Division has authorized the commencement of the investigation. Also, under these circumstances, the Court shall not exercise its jurisdiction regarding a crime of aggression when committed by a national or on the territory of a State Party that has not ratified or accepted these amendments."

The Palestinians and Gaza are not a state party. Israel is not a state party. and the UNSC has not referred this to the ICC. Therefore the ICC has no jurisdiction.
by mistrial9 | 2025-06-29 01:20:15+00:00
> it would be ...

lots of ways to fill in that part. iterating the words seems worth the effort. Thinking out loud, there are readers with frame of reference, and movements or politics-in-practice that have frames of reference, in the messaging .. So making a 2x2 square and filling it in.. you can write for the readers and refine, you can align with movements or their spokespersons and refine, all combined with you yourself representing what you are about.

So to complete the exercise.. how many readers of YNews would respond to "that is evil" wording.. how many movements or politics-in-practice would say "that is evil" as part of their outfacing communications.. and how strongly to you, the writer, want to associate the concepts of "that is evil" with respect to other things that you say or think are important.

I write this pedantic screed because this is so, so critical to communicate right now. The narrow rocky valley pass in which to lay an ambush, is completely in place.. the budget strings. Everyone knows that this is raw executive power in action.. it is to be, because I say so, implemented via the purse. I am not sure how much to include those backdrop statements in any impactful messaging though, because "there is no bad news in sales" and popularity or adaption is part of the task.
by Hashex129542 | 2025-06-29 01:20:24+00:00
Java apps are easy to decompile and API details will be accessed. Because of decompilation of source code other companies can easily repack our codes and change the brand.

I did same hack and rebranded then sold. That's the main concern. Anyways, we are thinking to go with system WebViews. It's still interpreted but requires some hard time.
by alganet | 2025-06-29 01:20:56+00:00
The kinds of genetic claims people usually make about schizophrenia are of the hereditary kind (including the post article), not random mutations.

I attribute this to how the illness is researched: finding a genetic factor would be a major breakthrough, so lots of people do studies on that, and eventually force their way into a discovery that represents a narrow subset of the illness but ultimately fails to explain it. It's all over the place.

This makes me extra skeptic regarding the validity of some of these studies.
by martin-t | 2025-06-29 01:21:57+00:00
It definitely does but it's not without drawbacks - you can't detect groupthink as easily. This is one of the things where people can benefit when thinking slow but many default to thought-follower mode when in fast mode.

You also can't even see who downvoted, even on your comments. Somebody would probably try to justify it by saying it's to prevent revenge downvotes but upon second thought, that just exposes several bigger issues:

- it leaves the commenter with no way to fight back against the downvoter who can downvote as much as he wants, even every post by the same person - each downvote has the same value, regardless how many you make

I am certain (this is not a figure of speech) an algoritmic solution is difficult but people in small groups have evolved rather sophisticated mechanisms for detecting conflict, malice and deception, I'd like to see approaches that try to scale them up.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-06-29 01:22:02+00:00
Placeholder for later, more considered reply:

>Servants of the emperor in China would need to work with illegal folk religionists in the hinterland if they wanted to get anything done

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barefoot_doctor

Shallow take is that Children's Crusade were led by peasantry, haven't examined the role of aristocrats (like S-M or M : property insurance can only lead to functionality :), were they only there to rubberstamp the populism

State capacity is very quantitative I like it
by AlexandrB | 2025-06-29 01:23:34+00:00
> The purpose of a system is what it does

This is a dumb saying. And if you start to apply it to everything capitalism still seems pretty ok. For example: "The purpose of Communism is killing 20+ million people"[1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Sovi...
by whycombagator | 2025-06-29 01:24:03+00:00
> NOAA, which oversees the National Hurricane Center, says the loss of the Defense Department data will not lead to less-accurate hurricane forecasts this year. In a statement, NOAA communications director Kim Doster said, "NOAA's data sources are fully capable of providing a complete suite of cutting-edge data and models that ensure the gold-standard weather forecasting the American people deserve."
by theGeatZhopa | 2025-06-29 01:24:38+00:00
I don't like down voting. too. But have to accept that - where agreement is sought, there also a disagreement is possible. What I don't like is when something has been down voted, but not told why. That's a bad style from down voters. So, a thing like "no down without why" could be a solution. But as said, up votes do not need a why, so should down votes, too, be possible without a why. That's free willy in my eyes. One can't be forced to talk :)
by II2II | 2025-06-29 01:26:26+00:00
The irony is that I started recompiling the kernel because it wouldn't detect a SCSI card unless parameters were passed to the kernel ... then I learned how long autoprobing was taking for hardware that I didn't even have!

Did Gentoo provide much of a performance bump back then? I never really bothered with it since I was stuck with a 486 for the longest time, and by the time I did upgrade distributions were starting to offer "i586" builds (or something to that effect).
by defrost | 2025-06-29 01:26:29+00:00
Business as usual there,

SpaceX scores $81.6 million Space Force contract to launch weather satellite

The contract for the mission designated USSF-178 was awarded on June 27 ( 2025 ) by the Space Systems Command and represents SpaceX’s third consecutive win under the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 3 Lane 1 program. The mission will carry the Weather System Follow-on – Microwave Space Vehicle 2 (WSF-M2), along with a secondary payload of experimental small satellites called BLAZE-2.

~ https://spacenews.com/spacex-scores-81-6-million-space-force...

New weather sats going up, just not "free data for taxpayers".
by mythrwy | 2025-06-29 01:26:30+00:00
I don't think I agree that social interactions are necessary to keep one sharp. In fact excessive social interactions with people that aren't all that sharp might dull one a bit.

Reading and thinking and studying can be done alone just fine.

Now as far as effectiveness in the real world, yes, social interactions and fluency is needed, but I believe this to be different from being "sharp". It probably helps keep you looking sharp though.
by qingcharles | 2025-06-29 01:26:32+00:00
It's not even justify their salary. A lawyer's sole job is to advocate for the legal position of their client as zealously as possible. A really good chief counsel would go to the CEO and weigh up the merits of the marketing win of "losing" this case. A drone lawyer just files whatever is necessary (or even unnecessary) to fight the case even when it makes zero god damn sense. e.g. giving a person a 25 year prison sentence for stealing a slice of pizza.
by gdiamos | 2025-06-29 01:28:03+00:00
Great write up. We use vLLM kv cache and continuous batching as a foundation for requests in ScalarLM and also add batching optimizations in a centralized queue and by adding explicit batching support in our client.

https://www.scalarlm.com

There is more perf you can sqeeuze out of vLLM
by aspenmayer | 2025-06-29 01:29:16+00:00
Did you have to do anything nonstandard to assist the team? I find the whole hobby rather interesting and want to get more into it. My grandparents’ old C/Ku band receiver and giant dish led to discovering some trunk feeds and started my curiosity, but most of my radio work has involved WiFi. With WiFi, the use case and radios available without a license somewhat limited what I even thought to try.

I guess I’ll see if there is a local club I can join to meet some folks and see what they’re doing.

What did you normally use the equipment for, since you weren’t in the club prior to your contact with the record breaking group?
by Theodores | 2025-06-29 01:29:40+00:00
I think you completely missed my point!

My point is that the 'rules based order' means different things to different people. In the West it means one thing and in the rest of the world it means something else.

My point still stands and must be acknowledged even if you are waving the blue and yellow flag, the rainbow flag and the stars and stripes. In any country that the West has brought war to, they know exactly what 'rules based order' means. You don't have to agree with them, they are just on a different team to you.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-06-29 01:29:59+00:00
Eh, maybe. I can certainly say that I have "skin in the game." Someone very dear to me suffers from it, and it's difficult to hear theories from folks that don't have as much of a stake.

That's one reason that I have compassion for parents of autistic children, that are vehemently anti-vax. I completely disagree with their stance, but I know what they are dealing with, and the very real fears and stresses that they are under.
by Intralexical | 2025-06-29 01:30:12+00:00
Has anyone explored using the target planet's mechanical motion? As it rotates and orbits, a different part of it will be lit up every hour (and every season). You only get a single pixel at once, but that pixel is localized to a region that scans across the whole surface over time.

For something Earth-like, I think you could definitely make out the Americas, Asia, and probably Africa. Maybe both of the ice caps too, depending how it's oriented and if you're capturing spectra. ...Somebody should mock up a solver in Python.

I'm sure there are other tricks you could use. Diffraction limit schmraction schmidit, real planets aren't point light sources.
by selfhoster11 | 2025-06-29 01:30:24+00:00
China provably has seen issues with adulteration of food: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal

That is not to say that Hims's drugs were unsafe, or that they even came from China to begin with. What I am saying, is that it's not racism to mention that Chinese products are, in fact, occasionally shady (of poor quality).
by bevr1337 | 2025-06-29 01:30:50+00:00
> Everything is sent in cleat-text?

From one Telnet lover to another, I'm still resentful folks blamed Telnet. Other application protocols built on TCP sockets are encouraged to use SSL/TLS e.g. HTTPS, SFTP, WSS (which is possibly HTTPS in a trenchcoat).

My speculation is that it raised the barrier for entry. Artists and writers wanted to quickly build and share worlds. Most computers supported raw TCP sockets and most shells handled ANSI, so players could join without installing software.

Today, people assume Telnet can't be secured and so they don't bother. Regrettably, I maintain some.

There's a recent push for MUD hosts to deploy a WSS proxy. An example: The IRE MUDs have a login telnet subnegotiation which the web client performs over WSS. Credentials are no longer sent in plaintext nor stored in the application's command history. (Telnet does specify when inputs shouldn't be stored in hisotry, but it's on the client to respect.) IRE is a bit of a pooper here, they consider the WSS service private. Because the subnegotiation is nonstandard and WSS is discouraged, MUD clients are obligated to make bad choices.

Other MUDs and engines are more forward. Evannia games support WS and Telnet and both can use SSL.

So what MUDs are we playing?

Edit to add: the tintin author, Scandum, is still at it. There's a nice group of folks in the Discord where Scandum and others helped me write my first terminal emulator. Come join us!
by bravesoul2 | 2025-06-29 01:30:54+00:00
This is well written and fun. Thanks OP!

Now I am excited by MCP and would be all in except security.

Security is a huge issue.

Forget AI and imagine a system where you call APIs and you get both data and JS. And that JS executes at global scope with full access to other APIs. And so do all the other MCP servers. Furthermore the MCP server may go to arbitrary Web pages and download JS. And that JS e.g. from a strangers Github issue or Web search gets executes with full API privileges.

<cute animal interject> This isn't something MCP can fix. It is built into the dice rolling nature of LLMs. Turning predictions into privileged executions. And those dice can be loaded by any MCP server.

Or imagine surfing the Web using a 2001 browser with no protections against cross domain scripting. Then having a page where you choose what init scripts to run and then it cascades from there. You are logged into your bank at the time!

This is what worries me. It's not USBC. It's sort of USBC but where you are ordering all your peripherals from Amazon, Ali express and Temu and the house is made of tinder.
by idiotsecant | 2025-06-29 01:31:02+00:00
This is example number 7748492 of how the decline of America will be practically irreversible once a political machine with any kind of rational worldview is in charge again. It took a century to build some of the things that are being destroyed in days or weeks. We're looking at the fall of rome. The only question now is whether a dark age follows or whether someone else takes over.
by esperent | 2025-06-29 01:31:15+00:00
Only if people pay. Which they won't when there's nobody else on there. How do you get your first 100k users?

You might say, well, start with 1000 users. But 1000, or 10,000 isn't enough to make a social network interesting. Maybe you could get around this by making it about a specific niche to start with. But that probably won't work, and if it does, you'll end up stuck in that niche.

On the other hand, I don't think this idea is as impossible as people say it is. It's just highly unlikely to be successful, and far more complicated than simply paying someone on Upwork to make it for you.
by ryandrake | 2025-06-29 01:31:37+00:00
> We will start thinking about jobs when the tech feudal lords find out there's no more growth, because consumers to their products are being replaced by AI.

The future feudal lords will just sell to each other and ignore the jobless, moneyless masses. We don’t like to hear this, but normal people will likely become less and less economically relevant, to the point where their total economic activity will one day be a rounding error next to the economic activity of the top 0.0N%.

I worked with a founder who dealt with only a small number of very rich customers. He would say “We only sell to the rich because they have the money.” The future looks like a more extreme version of this.
by troad | 2025-06-29 01:32:19+00:00
Look, yes, you did wildly miss the mark. But I respect you owning that.

I think the MuseScore video is reasonably good reference for doing that sort of critique right. I'd gently point out two things. One, the MS video takes time to first explain what good UX is and why it's good, gently winning the viewer over with positive examples. Then it contrasts MS against best practice, relying on that earlier set-up work to ensure the viewer can follow along and see how MS is not quite hitting that mark. Two, it never denigrates MS; instead, it repeatedly affirms the author's enthusiasm for the product. It comes across as fairly compassionate and constructive criticism. Your piece, irrespective of its intent, didn't come off that way.

If you do want to do more criticism in the future, the MS video is a good point of reference. But I would hasten to add that good criticism is genuinely very hard. It takes work to do it right. It's not enough to simply be compassionate, you also have to demonstrate that compassion by weaving it into the final work of criticism. It must be a constant thread from start to finish, not a box one ticks off at the start or end.

A second option is to avoid criticism as such. Your piece could have easily been reframed as 'Mac emulation is really cool, built by these absolute legends, but none of these tools are quite right for me, so I made this fork that scratches my itches, and you might like it too!'. It gets the exact same points across, but does so much more gently.

That's not to say there isn't, at times, place for criticism strictu sensu. There is. But criticism is most effective when it is most constructive. Less cathartic, maybe, but catharsis at the expense of others is hardly something to aspire to.

I've taken the time to browse some more of your site and I think there's some really cool stuff on there. Don't be discouraged, or fall into the trap of being defensive, you have worthwhile things to say. Just do it with the same thought, patience, and compassion you'd want others to extend to you.
by rendang | 2025-06-29 01:34:20+00:00
Nationalism could be seen as a "left" movement in the first place in that it often served as an ideology of revolution against the (imperial) powers that be. There have been many prominent leftist nationalist movements and parties, from Sinn Fein to the PKK.

"ethnonationalism" is a redundancy, ethne and natio are just the Greek and Latin words for the same concept
by bluGill | 2025-06-29 01:34:42+00:00
Recording worked only as merch to sell at live shows.

recording also works to give a 'real job' to those who insist on making music for a living.

Only a few have ever made a job of performing. The midevil bard was often a second son of a nobel supported as a way to ensure they kill the older brother for the throne. Everyone else music was a hobby they did after farming was done.
by cvoss | 2025-06-29 01:34:53+00:00
I think your mistake is your claim that BB(748) is a natural number. For you to know that, you would necessarily have to know an upper bound for the number of steps it takes for the BB-748 machine (whichever machine it is) to halt. But you definitely don't know that.

Related: It's incorrect to claim that each machine either halts or doesn't halt. To know that that dichotomy holds would require having a halting problem algorithm.
by Atlas667 | 2025-06-29 01:35:16+00:00
Right on.

The problem is capital. Of course many people are allergic to Marx, but the dude hit the nail on the head with his critique.

The problem is not individuals, it's a system of ownership over assets. And 99% of people will use their ownership to generate profits through hiring labor. Why? Because it's easier to have other people work for you, instead of you doing the work.

This becomes extended in the digital age beyond the original form of employees generating profit from the difference between their pay and the monetary value of their work (the original Marxist definition of profit), but also to end-users generating raw material as information for the further generation of profits through the selling of information services or plain data.

Tech has workers AND users in the formula for the generation of capital.

And if we, plebs, know this, you know the industry has already crafted their bourgeois science of this info extraction mechanism.

This monetary influence has already spread over the creation of hardware as well as software. This will follow in all of the tech-realms. They will influence the organizations that create the hardware and software specs. They will influence the law to ignore these ills. They are the creators of mass-use hardware and software.

The average end-user will live in a tech prison and the state is gonna become way more invasive. Democracy is on the line like it never has been before. They WILL use your instincts against you and they will use your data against you.

Just like capitalization has taken over every aspect of modern commodity/service production, and therefore modern life, so will data-capitalization.

There was never enshittification, it was just capital.