MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dannyphantom | 2025-07-25 19:49:58+00:00
Absent broader regulation, we all know that apps like Tea depend HEAVILY on user trust. However, I am a bit concerned users either won't fully grasp the severity of this breach or won't care enough and end up sticking with the app regardless.

A somewhat embarrassing but relevant example: my friends and I used Grindr for years (many still do), and we remained loyal despite the company's terrible track record with user data, privacy, and security as there simply wasn't (and still isn't) a viable alternative offering the same service at the expected level.

It appears Tea saw a pretty large pop in discussion across social channels over the last few days so I'm pretty hopeful this will lend itself to widespread discussion where the users can understand just how poorly this reflects on the company and determine if they want to stick around or jump ship.
by archipelago123 | 2025-07-25 19:50:49+00:00
It's a dataflow architecture. I assume the hardware implementation is very similar to what is described here: https://csg.csail.mit.edu/pubs/memos/Memo-229/Memo-229.pdf. The problem is that it becomes difficult to exploit data locality, and there is so much optimization you can perform during compile time. Also, the motivation for these types of architectures (e.g. lack of ILP in Von-Neumann style architectures) are non-existent in modern OoO cores.
by treetalker | 2025-07-25 19:51:05+00:00
> “Fabricating legal authority is serious misconduct that demands a serious sanction,” Manasco wrote in the Wednesday sanctions order.

Pair with:

Judge Scraps Opinion After Lawyer Flags Made-Up Quotes

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44679310

(No disincentive for judges who do the same thing. "Rules for thee but not for me.")
by lesuorac | 2025-07-25 19:51:26+00:00
I think most people are pretty amenable to the argument that text editors are teletype machines.

Nobody cares that phone calls happen over fiber now instead of telephone lines. So, same should apply to teletype. Nobody is going to care you're reading this over fiber instead of a telephone line.

Now, people do care if they're trying to read a csv document and somebody didn't quote their commas within strings and now the values are in the wrong columns which could've been avoided by using tabs to store tabular data.
by gspencley | 2025-07-25 19:51:35+00:00
I'm not so sure you can point the finger at the USA for this.

I ran an online porn website for almost 20 years. For 15 years it was my primary source of income.

I'm in Canada which, compared to the USA is extremely progressive.

In 2022, after a decade of doing business with a certain bank as this business, never having hidden anything about what we did, my wife and I received an urgent, signature required, overnighted letter from our bank informing us that they were terminating our accounts and that we had one month until we would no longer have access to any funds.

The way this played out was that we had an incoming wire transfer get flagged and they phoned us to ask us questions about the wire. We answered everything on the phone honestly and transparently. We were doing nothing wrong.

A few months later we get another phone call from our branch asking us to come in in person, urgently, and do an "extreme due diligence" check. During this process we had to answer an insane amount of questions about our business activities. They saw a credit card transaction from JetBrains, for example, and asked us to explain who JetBrains was and why we were doing business with them etc.

A couple of weeks later we were informed about the termination with a brief letter explaining that we fell outside of their "risk appetite."

We managed to get an extension on the closure, and for two months we tried in vain to find any banking in Canada that would take us... and we ultimately ended up shutting down a business that represented two decades of our lives.

During that time we reached out to industry insiders, some of which we happened to know were in Canada. They all told us that they bank in the USA.

One branch manager at a bank we met with was extremely empathetic but obviously couldn't put her own job on the line, and she explained exactly what was going on.

The issue is "Know Your Customer" regulations that are coming into effect that are meant to target things like money laundering. These regulations force banks to ask questions that they never really cared about before. This branch manager explained that a local strip club used to say they were a "banquet hall", and everyone at the branch knew exactly what they were but it was "don't ask / don't tell."

But once they start digging into these details because the government is forcing them to, then these things get to their compliance departments. And the policies exist because they're afraid of things like human trafficking and other things.

And our major banks have foreign investors from all around the world. Including from countries where porn is actually illegal.

While you point the finger at puritanism in the USA ... consider that in countries like Iceland, producing porn can land you in jail. Now consider MAJOR investments originating in countries like Saudi Arabia etc. and consider how that might impact your bottom line if they all pull out due to nonsense morality conflicts.
by ryandrake | 2025-07-25 19:51:54+00:00
I do the same things (self-hosted server, NAS storage, DNS, email, http for a handful of domains, some development VMs) and it's really set-and-forget. It doesn't require maintenance. Every once in a while LetsEncrypt's certbot falls over and I have to log in to manually refresh ssh certificates, but HN commenters tell me it's user error, so it's something I can also fix to be set-and-forget if I really cared.

My self-hosting infrastructure will probably outlive me.
by deathanatos | 2025-07-25 19:52:14+00:00
That won't returned the maximum open file descriptor. You could perhaps use that value in lieu of the maximum open file descriptor and loop through a crap ton more FDs than even my previous post implied, I suppose, and this is getting less efficient and more terribly engineered by the comment, which I think proves the point…

> but it is always an bug to close FDs you don't know the origin of.

And I would agree. I'm replying to the poster above me, who is staking the claim that POSIX permits closing all open file descriptors other than a desired set.

So, I suppose it can, at a cost of a few thousand syscalls that'll all be pointless…
by strcat | 2025-07-25 19:52:18+00:00
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44687530.

> Although it is conterintuitive to use a Google device to get away from Google

The purpose of GrapheneOS is privacy and security, not specifically avoiding Google, which is not what privacy is about overall. Many companies including Android OEMs have worse privacy practices.

> Just stay out of the radar of the leadership, they can be a bit abrasive, for the lack of a better expression.

There are a lot of ongoing attacks on the GrapheneOS project and our team including through fabricated stories and spin. People should look into the actual verifiable facts and look at who is being targeted with harassment and bullying. We defend ourselves from this including debunking inaccurate claims about the project and our team.
by m463 | 2025-07-25 19:53:05+00:00
I find it a little sad that hobby stores seem to have disappeared from the landscape. As a kid I remember most towns usually had numerous hobby stores, and nowadays they're either gone, or something super generic like Michaels which isn't too different from walmart or target.

That said, I'm surprised once in a while, like Yodobashi camera in Japan, or some other specialty stores in akihabara etc which feature lots of this.

any other must-see stores?
by vinnymac | 2025-07-25 19:53:10+00:00
There are devs who think the currently available HTML elements are all we needed. But there are many more that believe we are missing primitives that Tailwind (and others) is attempting to solve for.

> It’s just a collection of themes and pre-built components

All reusable web components could be described as an optionally themed pre-built component. That's kind of the point.
by icandoit | 2025-07-25 19:53:10+00:00
I wondered if this was using interaction combinators like the vine programming language does.

I haven't read much that explains how they do it.

I have been very slowly trying to build a translation layer between starlark and vine as a proof of concept of massively parallel computing. If someone better qualified finds a better solution the market it sure to have demand for you. A translation layer is bound to be cheaper than teaching devs to write in jax or triton or whatever comes next.
by cauch | 2025-07-25 19:53:21+00:00
I think the problem is not the statement, but the conclusion.

Do we have more physical violence from men towards women than the opposite? I think I saw that the reality is yes. Does it mean that men are biologically coded to be violent, or is it a question of education and culture?

If you conclude the second one, it is not "sexist" (on the contrary, it may even be that the culture that creates the problem is itself rooted in sexism and that acknowledging some reality about its existence may help changing this culture), and does not imply prejudice against men, just acknowledging that we need to be careful in case of bad apples.

It still means that talking about this requires to be very careful.

To react on your example, I think it is a good think to notice if some population have a bigger problem at this subject than others, and we can then identify more easily the places where this problem forms and target these places. But people who concludes "look at violence divided by race, so I can generalise and be prejudicial to everyone in some race and not other" are idiots.
by unicorn_chaser | 2025-07-25 19:53:25+00:00
I’ve spent the last couple of years talking to founders and C-suites in tech, fintech, biotech, and early-stage mineral exploration companies. Mineral exploration companies are the kind that raise capital to search and prove economic viability or mineral and metal deposits.

What struck me: these companies behave just like deep-tech startups. They’re small teams with high uncertainty, technical know-how, iterative milestones (sampling, trenching, drilling, permitting), and binary outcomes. The exit? Usually acquisition or development into production. Kind of like a startup getting bought or going to market.

But here’s the kicker: this sector sits upstream of everything else. AI, EVs, energy systems, cloud infrastructure... none of it exists without metals. It’s literally where the value chain starts.

And yet, almost no one in the tech or VC world looks here. It’s considered “old,” even though it’s where innovation desperately needs to reach.

Adding a link to video that is neither slick or flashy, but it’s real, and in my opinion, this is one of the most overlooked frontiers in investing and innovation right now: https://youtu.be/ib0fW1NfyLI?si=Xq3Ii7JXXGXcVdOR

Curious if anyone else here has ever looked at mineral exploration through a startup lens, or sees a world where this sector becomes more open, innovation-driven, or even venture-backed?
by perching_aix | 2025-07-25 19:53:32+00:00
> Is it worth destroying your eyes, posture, and joints to save this money?

Not high enough pixel density causes which one of these again?

> Why doesn't IT people take inspiration from them and get a bit better equipment.

Are we talking about the same field where people are having a competition about who can build the most overpriced and obnoxious sounding keyboards imaginable?
by prisenco | 2025-07-25 19:53:48+00:00
I do. Not as an indictment of women but an indictment of social apps. Apps like this are way too hard to moderate, manage and verify. They quickly get swarmed by bad actors and misused. Again, not because women don't have genuine safety concerns in the dating world but because apps are not a viable way to manage those concerns.

Some social problems just don't have technological solutions.
by cwillu | 2025-07-25 19:53:50+00:00
“2023 The Internet Archive, a non-profit research library, makes use of internal processes and tools, including human review and hash-matching, as well as reports from external parties to identify, disable access to, and limit the reappearance of illegal and/or proscribed violent extremist material on archive.org”

https://help.archive.org/help/tco-transparency-reports/
by stan_kirdey | 2025-07-25 19:54:08+00:00
Engineers: always negotiate for higher base salaries. In the vast majority of cases—especially during acquihires—your equity will be worth little or nothing. Founders and VCs still get paid; employees rarely do.

Don't just accept promises. Ask for the 409A valuation, liquidation preferences, and pay bands. If a company won’t provide transparency, that’s your signal.

Equity is a lottery ticket. Salary is money in the bank.
by TheAceOfHearts | 2025-07-25 19:54:34+00:00
This tabs vs spaces nonsense debate has gone on way too long, mostly because people cling on to terrible legacy text editors. Any modern text editor should allow you to write a simple plugin to display tabs or any combination of leading spaces as whatever indentation amount you prefer.

Projects should just pick whatever standard is most popular for their given language, and then people can tweak their editors for personal preferences.

If you encounter a lot of code on the web then you might consider writing a browser plugin.
by perihelions | 2025-07-25 19:55:04+00:00
But sharing *facts* about other people is potentially defamatory speech (in the American context). There's a not-at-all small nuance here: when you make concrete allegations about your personal experiences, you're not sharing an opinion—not sharing your subjective reaction to publicly-known information—rather you're introducing novel facts, provable objective facts, into the discussion—your version of those facts. And that comes with genuine legal risks.

A remarkable fact that's stayed with me: Ken White (@popehat) once said that in his defamation law practice, his largest category of consultations was with clients who'd said negative things about a past romantic partner, who then threatened to sue. I believe his point was those negative things were true most of the time, but difficult to prove, or defend.
by ProfessorLayton | 2025-07-25 19:55:40+00:00
While you're right that exercising options can be very expensive and are a risky tax bet, we're talking about employee #2 in this case. They should've been able to buy in early at a low price and tax bill if they really believed in the company:

- Jan 2021: 3M seed round

- Jan 2024: Series B valuing the company at 500M

That's 3 years of vesting below a 1B company valuation, and 75% of a typical vesting schedule. There was plenty of opportunity to buy when valuations were low.

There's also 83(b) election that allows one to prepay tax liabilities on stock options before they vest.

Not buying stock options or doing a 83(b) election is also a bet that can place a cap on losses if the company goes downhill, but the risk flips if everything goes right.
by layer8 | 2025-07-25 19:56:00+00:00
The issue is that planetary locales will each have their own days and years (and possibly hours), so it would be confusing to adopt that same nomenclature for an interplanetary/interstellar time unit. And since the latter will be inconsistent with local time systems anyway, it’s easier to just have it use powers of ten. At least until we meet aliens that may prefer a different base.
by ctoth | 2025-07-25 19:56:08+00:00
Who decides what technologies are too dangerous? You, apparently.

AI isn't nukes - anyone can train a model at home. There's no centralized thing to restrict. So what's your actual ask? That nobody ever trains a model? That we collectively pretend transformers don't exist?

You're dressing up bog-standard tech panic as social responsibility. Same reaction to every new technology: "This tool might be misused so nobody should have it."

If you can't see the connection between that and Harrison Bergeron's "some people excel so we must handicap everyone," then you've missed Vonnegut's entire point. You're not protecting the weak - you're enforcing mediocrity and calling it virtue.
by dang | 2025-07-25 19:56:14+00:00
I certainly agree that it's generic (and therefore boring). Such mod comments are an out-of-band side channel—not at all the intended use of the site, necessary for it to function (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). (I can't see what's curmudgeonly about it though)

Even if you're right about the OP's theory, your post was obviously against HN's rules. It would be better to take responsibility for that instead of pointing the finger at someone else. Even assuming you're right about their ideas, you damage the community here by posting snarky putdowns. Most readers won't notice the subtle difference in this snarky putdown; they'll just take it as another indication that it's ok to be snarky and aggressive here, which it's not.

p.s. I was going to add something about your account history, but looking at more recent comments, they seem to be much more in keeping with HN's intended spirit than I remember from the past. It might be that my memory is tricking me, but if not, thanks for that—it is greatly appreciated!
by DaveZale | 2025-07-25 19:56:17+00:00
couldn't agree more.

Many economists point out that the Fed's policies serve the 1% above all.

Heck you can get a Nobel Prize based on your Fed chairmanship, then tank the economy.

One pundit observes that the Fed is an example of "burn the village to save the village" as (rarely) an underemployed firefighter-turned-arsonist will do. Extreme perspective for sure.

In the era of Big Data, can't real-time data and policy co-exist?
by jmclnx | 2025-07-25 19:56:46+00:00
Well I am pretty sure Classic option will go away at some point.

But paying to write documents on your laptop ? No thanks, I will use LibreOffice* instead.

* In reality I use calligra that comes with Slackware instead of LibreOffice. I really never use office applications. So calligra is good enough for me.

FWIW, I "had it with Microsoft" before Windows 95 came out.
by SomaticPirate | 2025-07-25 19:57:07+00:00
"An app was created to help women stay safe on dates and avoid creeps, proceeds to be hacked by creeps"

Not a great look here.

However, Tea could have done a modicum of cybersecurity work (or hired an outside firm) to prevent this. If they are claiming to want to keep women safe (and not just running a gossip board) then this should be a red alert for them. No public acknowledgement is concerning...
by throwawayqqq11 | 2025-07-25 19:57:17+00:00
China has massive ... renewable energy sources and storage are a thing.

Elon and his detached friends are as clueless as any random person about fixes to our societal problems, yet they are convined and actively working towards IMO dystopia, which makes them evil.

Dont underestimate the AI bubble. Once ROI pressure kicks in, tesla stocks fall (i want to believe) and trump is in urgent need of yet another dummy he can pose as the strong man against, things could get downhill for Elon and some AI companies very fast.

But generally, you are right Elon as any other dystopian wannabe oligarch will remain being unhinged in their pursue.
by tetha | 2025-07-25 19:57:20+00:00
I think that these fundamental things can be turned into an interesting topic, but you have to try for it.

Like, in a story background I'm pushing around, there's a coalition of a large amount of species developed on different planets. And you're a military officer, and you need to coordinate shifts, but - assuming some collectively normalized number of hours - some of your tiny dudes are tuned to 3 hours of sleep, 3 hours of leisure and 3 hours of work, others weird dudes with 2 arms and 2 legs are tuned to 38 hour cycles, and some huge dudes with a trunk in their face are tuned to 356 hour cycles.

Even if you could train and adjust this by an hour or two (which, for the 3 hour dudes would compare to an 8 earth-hour extension of duty for us), how the heck would you coordinate any kind of shifts across this? Or does every species have their own schedule? Good look finding crossover meetings then. Some of the small guys would have to do overtime for longer meetings even.

But you have to make it a point of the story and the challenges if you want to include it. If it is just a weird side note, just say that they figured out a conversion and that's it.
by GoatInGrey | 2025-07-25 19:57:41+00:00
We grant a tremendous amount of leeway and power to accusations made by women against men in society today. There are always honest people using things for their intended purpose. Though they are also dishonest people using things for their own ulterior motives.

A well-designed system will maximize utility for the former, and minimize utility for the latter. An app where women can leave what are practically anonymous reviews for men is not such a system.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-07-25 19:57:43+00:00
Maybe this is due to my interests (I specialized and published in distributed systems) but it's always been the opposite for me. Implementing HTTP/1.0 or IRC clients is one of my favorite ways to learn a new language (albeit it's a bit heavy on the IO which can be unfair to functional languages that model effects.) My interest in network software is that I can standup the software and have it participate in the network immediately. It's the application that leads me to appreciate the language not the other way around. My interests in theorem proving and program verification came from debugging heisenbugs in the wild and wasn't motivated by the algorithmic complexity or mathematic sympathy.

But I dabbled in PLT in my grad days and have no doubt that there are folks who have your mindset as well.
by sashank_1509 | 2025-07-25 19:58:30+00:00
The fundamental problem here is that bad apples don’t respect common sense agreements. If everyone who owned a kindle book, agreed to never share the downloaded version of the book for free on the internet, companies would not have to do this. I don’t see what’s the solution, if buying a kindle ebook is allowing you to share it for free on the internet. In the past people were limited by a physical copy, they could give the copy but only 1 copy could exist at a time, now without that limit, people need to do something to protect against piracy. I don’t like this solution, but I don’t see what’s the alternative?
by nlawalker | 2025-07-25 19:58:30+00:00
I don't really disagree with you, but to play devil's advocate - when you see something that you think is harmful to society, what determines whether or not it's moral and appropriate to advocate for and work towards its abolition in what you see as the best interest of everyone?

Is "Don't like X? Don't buy it" as far as we should go with... AI-produced child porn? Rolling coal and other egregious pollution? Online gambling? Abortion? Fentanyl?
by nosignono | 2025-07-25 19:59:24+00:00
There exist sex-negative feminists, but it is wrong to describe that as a feminist position.

For the better part of a decade feminists have been wildly anti-objectification, not anti-sex. It's an important distinction.

For example, most modern feminists are pro sex-work, but only under conditions that guarantee safety, autonomy, and health care for the sex workers. That's very different from how most sex work is done today. So a modern feminist might say that we should be doing more to protect the sex workers who are held in bondage by a pimp, and forced to walk the streets while simultaneously arguing in favor of well regulated, protected brothels or private sex work.
by supportengineer | 2025-07-25 19:59:29+00:00
I wonder if "browser" is even the right paradigm anymore.

HTML, hypertext, in the 1990's, it was so elegant as long as you were doing only a GET.

As soon as you get into dynamic content, the whole thing gets ugly fast.

Not to mention users who now expect a "rich web experience"

There's got to be a way to bring elegance back.