MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sunaookami | 2025-07-10 04:36:08+00:00
Reading the source: https://0din.ai/blog/chatgpt-guessing-game-leads-to-users-ex... these are not actually Windows keys, these are generic keys for activating Windows for a volume license temporarily and using KMS later: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started... for example.
by charcircuit | 2025-07-10 04:36:43+00:00
>Public parks don't turn profits.

If people don't care enough about a park to fund it, then that space may be of better use to something else.

>Public roads don't turn a profit.

They are a loss leader aimed to make more money elsewhere.

>Food stamp programs and housing assistance don't generate a profit.

If people don't want to fund such things people in those programs should make or buy their own food and housing.

>that indirectly translates into increased economic efficiency

Again the idea of things like loss leaders are not foriegn to entities that want to be profitable.
by vinhatson | 2025-07-10 04:37:04+00:00
This report analyzes a historical class of security flaws known as “reflected vulnerabilities,” which were once potent zero-day attack vectors targeting early Windows versions and antivirus software. We examine classic exploitation techniques, such as parser attacks, packet fragmentation, and syscall abuse, which could lead to remote code execution (RCE) or privilege escalation. The objective is educational, demonstrating how modern defenses in Windows 11 and Windows Defender—such as Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR), Data Execution
by thomascountz | 2025-07-10 04:37:17+00:00
> ...people are now putting up a gigawatt’s worth of solar panels, the rough equivalent of the power generated by one coal-fired plant, every fifteen hours.

This is amazing! Whether you believe photovoltaics are the most efficient form of green energy production or not, you cannot argue the impressive economics behind them. Successful engineering has to meet the market at the end of the day.
by gronpi | 2025-07-10 04:37:43+00:00
In C, you can alias pointers if they have compatible types. Not the case in Rust for mutable references. And the rules of Rust have tripped up even senior Rust developers.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/commit/71f5cfb21f3fd2f1740...

Without MIRI, a lot of Rust developers would be lost, as they do not even attempt to understand unsafe. And MIRI cannot and does not cover everything, no matter how good and beloved it is.

It should have been possible for senior Rust developers to write UB-free code without having to hope that MIRI saves them.
by jmyeet | 2025-07-10 04:37:53+00:00
In American politics, this has been an incredibly successful strategy, most notably starting with Reagan. It's called "starving the beast" [1]. The playbook is simple:

1. Cut taxes

2. "Pay" for those tax cuts by cutting expenditure;

3. Those programs begin to fail because of the funding cuts;

4. Use those failures to justify further cuts, usually by privatizing something or some form of public-private partnership, which is nothing more than a transfer of government wealth to the already-wealthy.

We saw something similar play out recently with Jane Street in India [2], which seems to boil down to market manipulation between options and the underlying securities.

Back in the 1980s we had corporate raiders who were famous for buying up companies that were trading below book value and then simply breaking them up for parts and selling those parts. I'm sure this went as far as corporate raiders manipulating the price.

Private equity is the latest form of this cancer. Here's the PE playbook:

1. Raise a bunch of money;

2. Buy some company with a large amount of debt, a so-called leveraged buyout ("LBO");

3. Once you control the company, take out massive loans on the company's assets;

4. Sell off any real estate holdings, often to some interested party who most certainly isn't at arms length, possibly for a discounted price, to raise further capital then lease back those holdings you need, ideally with complicated leases that hie the true future cost;

5. Use those loans to pay back the original investors and loans;

6. Sell the debt-ridden husk to whoever is stupid enough to buy it.

Now (6) is the tricky part because you have to make it look like the company is profitable, that you've added value by cutting costs or otherwise increased efficiency. And you do that with complicated debt. Sort of like ARMs in the subprime crisis.

I cannot think of a single success story with PE that has created a successful company that hasn't imploded. I belive most PE funds lose money too. Why anyone would buy a company that a PE fund has gotten its hooks into is beyond me.

I suspect you can make a market-beating fund that simply follows the index but does not buy any PE-infected company.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast

[2]: https://www.ft.com/content/6789512f-8775-450b-b0a6-9d9d0c371...
by tibbar | 2025-07-10 04:38:03+00:00
The trick they announce for Grok Heavy is running multiple agents in parallel and then having them compare results at the end, with impressive benchmarks across the board. This is a neat idea! Expensive and slow, but it tracks as a logical step. Should work for general agent design, too. I'm genuinely looking forward to trying this out.

EDIT: They're announcing big jumps in a lot of benchmarks. TIL they have an API one could use to check this out, but it seems like xAI really has something here.
by zmmmmm | 2025-07-10 04:38:49+00:00
> I think the article still doesn't address the mismatch between solar energy production and consumption, which needs to be filled by storage mechanisms

There's going to be a beautiful synergy here between electric vehicles and solar. Because an EV battery is already easily enough to power most houses through 14-16 hours of darkness, so if it can be a sink for solar during the day it can then be a source during the night. The future will have a combo of residential battery storage and V2H/V2G which has an attractive property that it scales naturally with population (every new person that moves to a location brings their EV battery with them).
by 0x3444ac53 | 2025-07-10 04:40:18+00:00
It's the loudness of the minority that wants them banned. That, and the fact that they are often people who have enough privilege (land owning, ability to take off work to go to council meetings, and (most importantly) own a business) to be able to throw around to get there way.

Happens a lot at universities and non profits. A big donor will sometimes only agree to donate if certain conditions are met, and as a result can strong arm the other party into whatever they want. The public sector is the same; At the local level it's often business owners that have enough influence over the local economy.
by michaelsshaw | 2025-07-10 04:41:45+00:00
>If people don't care enough about a park to fund it, then that space may be of better use to something else.

No, public parks are awesome. They should remain free.

>They are a loss leader aimed to make more money elsewhere.

You're starting to get it. We pay for public services with our taxes, and in exchange, we get free stuff back that benefits society.

>If people don't want to fund such things people in those programs should make or buy their own food ans housing.

Oh my fucking god. This is seriously the most asinine sentence I have ever read. Bar none. It's honestly difficult to respond to something like this. I'm at a loss for words.

I genuinely don't give a single fuck if you, or anyone else, don't want to fund food stamps. We absolutely should continue funding it. The entire point of those projects is that the recipients specifically CANNOT afford to do these things on their own. You're advocating for further oppression of the downtrodden; it's difficult to understand how one comes to this position.
by kerkeslager | 2025-07-10 04:44:32+00:00
Agreed. Keeping an up-to-date dataset of addresses is enormously hard. It's impossible to do perfectly, and only a few companies are capable of doing it passably, while the rest of us have no choice but to buy from them.

But notably, to validate a parser/normalizer, you need this dataset anyway, so creating a parser/normalizer isn't even saving you that work. It's just giving you a worse result for more work.
by repiret | 2025-07-10 04:45:37+00:00
Based on my experience with county boards of supervisors and their interactions with library management and library funding decisions, the Warren County Board of Supervisors' statement that the library has poor management shouldn't be given much credence unless backed up by evidence.

Somewhat amusingly, the library is a subordinate of the county. If the library is in fact poorly managed, the poor management is the fault of the board of supervisors.
by alwa | 2025-07-10 04:45:38+00:00
For that matter I think a large part of what makes anything “otherworldly” is beauty in things unfolding outside our normal experience of the world: I don’t see what distinguishes glorious NG photography from the other methods. It’s only natural to expect that from techniques that let us access phenomena that wouldn’t be perceptible in terms of ordinary human scale or sense of time
by derbOac | 2025-07-10 04:45:47+00:00
If I hire a plumber, I hire them to fix my pipes. I don't hire them to generate a profit for me.

If me and my neighbors hire a library to lend us books, I don't expect them to generate a profit for me.

The beneficiary is the citizen receiving the service, not the government receiving a profit.

The idea of government profiting is like trying to make a profit from yourself.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-07-10 04:46:22+00:00
I have literally (and I mean literally as in literally, not just for emphasis) never heard anyone in common usage use decimate to mean "reduce by 10%".

Meanings change over time, and whenever this comes up it always just feels like some folks are adamant about the archaic usage just to (try to) show how smart they are.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-07-10 04:47:28+00:00
The French experienced negative learning by doing throughout their entire nuclear program?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03014...

For both the French and British the current investments are fueled by wanting to subsidize their military nuclear ambitions.

As per expected Sizewell C costs it will be even more expensive than Hinkley Point C, nothing learned.

The ”lifespan” you proclaim is also an extremely rosy picture. About the entire plant except outer shell and a few core components like the pressure vessel gets replaced over it.

You also have no idea if expensive nuclear power will have an economical lifespan lasting as long.

We already see existing nuclear plants all over Europe being forced out of the market by cheap renewables. This will only worsen leading to nuclear power having fewer and fewer hours to amortize its insanely high costs over.
by amaterasu | 2025-07-10 04:48:43+00:00
I'm trivialising, but a lot of software in medical devices is turning a GPIO pin on/off in response to another pin, then announcing that it did so. The piece missing from the article is that the assumed probability of software/firmware (or anything really) failing is 1.0. Everything is engineered around the assumption that things (_especially_ software) WILL fail and minimising the consequences when they do. LLM's writing the code will happen soon, it's a GPIO pin control after all. LLM's proving the code is as safe as possible and that they have thought about the failure modes will be a while.
by o11c | 2025-07-10 04:49:27+00:00
It really depends on how "library of the year" is determined.

Some years back now, our local library got a new boss who was determined to do everything the new and modern way. In the process, the boss drove away half of the paid staff, I don't know what fraction of the volunteer staff, and the entire community support organization. But hey, those are all old people and their values clearly don't matter (who cares if they're the ones with tons of free time?). Help, I don't have the money or people to run programs anymore! Better run away and get another job. Now, the library still exists but a lot of people are going to the next town over, and the new new boss is struggling to rebuild from scratch.

It would be completely unsurprising if "do things the modern way" and "chases awards" are significantly overlapped without corresponding to "improves things for the actual users", and "support LGBT" is code for "gerontophobia".
by anon7000 | 2025-07-10 04:49:30+00:00
> the valorization of profit has blinded them to seeing the advantages of the public good as a worthy bottom line

This is, IMO, the critical line, and also one of the deepest problems in the world (and especially America).

A focus on profit is so frequently completely opposed to human wellbeing and a flourishing society. Just look at health insurance companies for a prime example: they make profit by denying claims. The result is a catastrophically expensive insurance bureaucracy and worse health outcomes. Not to mention the extreme stress any American feels when interacting with an insurance company over any meaningful amount of money. (Which I’ve experienced, and I have far better coverage than the average American.)

These companies are so clearly, obviously bad for human flourishing. But profit is great!

The incentives are so deeply messed up. Our economy only allows profit as an incentive, which works well when aligned with human wellbeing-being. But as the economy grows, companies consolidate, and profit growth is still expected, nearly every single sector looks for ways to cut costs. And with fewer competitors, it’s easier and easier for entrenched, powerful companies to raise prices and reduce quality with little consequence.

This is clearly bad for human flourishing. But profits are fantastic!

Just because profit is actually aligned with human flourishing in a couple sectors doesn’t mean the system as a whole will continue scaling effectively. It’s clearly not, and it must change to avoid completely suffocating us.
by MetaWhirledPeas | 2025-07-10 04:50:31+00:00
No I'm saying the consequences of over-filtering are apparent with Copilot 's response: no answer.

And I'm also saying Grok was reportedly sabotaged into saying something racist (which is a blatantly obvious conclusion even without looking it up), and that seeing this as some sort of indictment against it is baseless.

And since I find myself in the position of explaining common sense conclusions here's one more: you don't succeed in making a racist bot by asking it to call itself Mecha Hitler. That is a fast way to fail in your goal of being subversive.
by The_SamminAter | 2025-07-10 04:50:44+00:00
No, you can. In regular Firefox (without doing any shenanigans) the extension will be installed for the session (until the browser is closed), but Firefox Developer Edition lets you just install and run unsigned/invalid extensions (which is very useful if you occasionally have to change your clock back to 2018 and don’t want to lose all extensions).
by natmaka | 2025-07-10 04:51:50+00:00
Among specialists the consensus is that "Internationally, it is understood that there is no reliable scientific basis for predicting the process or likelihood of inadvertent human intrusion." Source: https://international.andra.fr/sites/international/files/201...

Plate tectonic and sismotectonic are also sources of concern: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10706-005-1148-4 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896971...
by biztos | 2025-07-10 04:52:05+00:00
I’m pretty lazy about curating my feed, but I do a little. And I never see any porn bots and only rarely any spam accounts. Political stuff, yes, but I don’t mind and it’s not a ton, in fact my feed has a lot more insightful analysis than advocacy. I still get a lot of “breaking news” that I’d otherwise have to be very active on Facebook to get, especially regarding other countries.

I guess that’s just TL;DR: YMMV, but I do think there are a lot of people on X who find it very useful and don’t run into the problems you listed.

As for Elon’s overpayment, I have thought about actually paying for an account, which I never would have done on Old Twitter.
by 0x3444ac53 | 2025-07-10 04:56:04+00:00
For anyone curious about what books the group wanted banned:

https://www.advocate.com/news/front-royal-samuels-library-co...

Here's an opinion pledge where they stated their demands: https://royalexaminer.com/parents-matter-make-the-pledge/

It is worth noting that per the linked article below[0]. The library has a system for preventing readers under the age of 18 from accessing the books in the New Adult section of the library, and it's one that requires parents to opt into their child having access to those materials.

[0]: https://www.nvdaily.com/nvdaily/catholic-library-supporters-...

Books:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91010302-you-need-to-chi... ref: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16YUZFgYY2/

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53241064-this-is-why-the... ref: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16kKwC3PDD/

Found the list: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRzUaZiy2h4gi-c_...
by barrell | 2025-07-10 04:56:34+00:00
Maybe hyperbole on the frequency, but not the condensation. I meant more along the lines of “most of the complicated code I write in Clojure is an order of magnitude more dense.” _Most_ of the code I write would be 1:1 or 1:2 with other languages, it I don’t think it’s the type of code OP was referring to.

The 1:20+ is definitely not hyperbole though. Using transducers to stream lazy reductions of nested sequences; using case, cond-> and condp->; anywhere where you can lean on the clojure.core library. I don’t know how to give specific examples without giving a whole blog post of context, but 4 or 5 examples from the past year spring to mind.

It’s also often the case that optimizing my clojure code results in a significant reduction of lines of code, whereas optimizing Python code always resulted in an explosion of LoC

Personally I find Python particularly egregious. No map/filter/reduce, black formatting, no safe nested property access. File length was genuinely one of the reasons I stopped using it. The ratio would not be so high with some languages, ie JavaScript

Even with Elixir though, many solutions require 5-10 times the amount of lines for the same thing thing in Clojure. I just converted two functions yesterday that were 6 & 12 lines respectively in Clojure, and they are both 2 pages in Elixir (and would have been much longer in Python)
by somat | 2025-07-10 04:56:45+00:00
As far as I know the only actual rest implementation, as Fielding envisioned it, a system where you send the entire representational state of the program with each request is the system Fielding coined the term REST to describe. The WEB.

Has any other system done this? where you send the whole application for each state with each state. project xandu?

I do find it funny how Fielding basically said "hey look at the web, isn't that a weird way to structure a program, lets talk about it." and every one sort of suffered a collective mental brain fart and replied "oh you mean http, got it"
by vunderba | 2025-07-10 04:57:08+00:00
Kontext's ability to make InstructPix2Pix [1] level changes to isolated sections of an image without affecting the rest of the image is a game changer. Saves a ton of time without needing to go through the effort of masking/inpainting.

About a month ago I put together a quick before/after set of images that I used Kontext to edit. It even works on old grainy film footage.

https://specularrealms.com/ai-transcripts/experiments-with-f...

> My goal is to share what this model is capable of beyond the basics.

You might be interested to know that it looks like it has limited support for being able to upload/composite multiple images together.

https://fal.ai/models/fal-ai/flux-pro/kontext/max/multi

[1] https://github.com/timothybrooks/instruct-pix2pix
by modeless | 2025-07-10 04:58:28+00:00
Seems like it is indeed the new SOTA model, with significantly better scores than o3, Gemini, and Claude in Humanity's Last Exam, GPQA, AIME25, HMMT25, USAMO 2025, LiveCodeBench, and ARC-AGI 1 and 2.

Specialized coding model coming "in a few weeks". I notice they didn't talk about coding performance very much today.
by kerkeslager | 2025-07-10 04:59:08+00:00
I think ultimately this isn't the solution.

The solution to insanely deep open source tech stacks is to use simpler stacks. This is really my whole problem with the way JS is ubiquitously developed: you simply do not need 99% of the tools the JS devs are using these days. I use very simple full-stacks: so simple that I don't need a JS package manager (I do use pip/pypy, but I'm extremely guarded about what code I'll import--usually <10 packages). I do write some code that could be imported in a library sometimes, but I also barely ever do any rewriting to deal with deprecations, and my builds never break due to a package change. My builds are often reproduceable by accident.

In the short run, I'm not less productive than people who use all of npm. In the long run, I'm far more productive.

And even if that weren't the case, developer productivity at the expense of user security was a pretty bad tradeoff anyway. I really wish fewer people were doing that.
by eesmith | 2025-07-10 04:59:48+00:00
Samual Library Inc is a "not-for-profit nonstock corporation ... organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes." Its bylaws prohibit distributing earnings to "directors, officers, or other private persons, except that the corporation shall be authorized and empowered to pay reasonable compensation for services and to make payments and distributions in furtherance of the purposes set forth in article 6 hereof." - https://samuelslibrary.net/images/about/policies-more/articl...

And you think that makes it a private equity company?

My LLC, which I ran my consulting business under, was neither a government nor a public company ... and neither was it a private equity company.
by nucleardog | 2025-07-10 04:59:52+00:00
Or put another way:

Libraries, the fire department, the police department, congress, the courts, and the government are a "cost center". Their services are not directly charged for and on our balance sheet they cost money, however in general the benefit they provide allows all the other beneficial things we want to do to happen and support our "profit centers" like industry. We should work to ensure the money invested is used effectively, but a "cost center" will _never_ turn a profit and asking it to produce one does not make sense.

And for those not following... yes, this is exactly like the IT or legal department in a typical company. At Joe's Widgets the IT department does not charge the customers any money and therefore is a pure cost. But without IT keeping the machinery and networks online, they don't produce many widgets. They pay for their IT department because _overall_ the outcome is better versus going back to manually stamping widgets without computers or automation because "IT costs money". We want to make sure IT isn't spending wastefully, but we can't simply say "IT needs to turn a profit or else we're going to shut them down" otherwise overall things end up less efficient and more expensive and we go out of business.

(As an aside, it's really wild to me how many people in IT can hold the position that "things that don't directly turn a profit shouldn't exist!" while half of our industry is in positions that don't directly turn a profit.)
by GrazaAI | 2025-07-10 05:00:41+00:00
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