MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by motorest | 2025-07-19 15:29:59+00:00
> It’s a perfectly good comparison. Nazi wants cake. Store owner is refusing to transact based on his own personal moral code.

It's clearly not the case at all. Valve wants to sell third party games. Third party game developers want to sell their games. Customers want to buy third party games through Valve. Do you understand this bit?

A payment processor company is far excluded from the process. Users want to pay Valve money. Valve wants to receive the user's money. All fine, right? Except a payment company somehow feels entitled to tell Valve which products in their product line they can sell. WTF?

Going back to your far-fetched example, it would be like a supermarket selling all sorts of products their customers want to buy, but the Nazi bank somehow feels entitled to tell the supermarket they should not sell any product related with Jews. Does that make sense to you?
by paulc51 | 2025-07-19 15:30:04+00:00
Exactly what I thought. His immediate entry in the resume about this whole circus is ludicrous:

> Exposed and published a confirmed AWS Lambda runtime failure (Node.js in VPC) — silently crashing workloads post-request. Outdiagnosed L5 AWS engineers using Docker-based rebuilds, AL2023 parity, and deep forensic isolation. Case study cited on Dev.to, Hashnode, and HackerNews.

He must also be completely oblivious to external feedback, given his "Case study cited on HackerNews" is all about his methodology and attitude being torn into pieces.
by zdragnar | 2025-07-19 15:30:07+00:00
The average person is bad at literally almost everything.

If I want something done, I'll seek out someone with a skill set that matches the problem.

I don't want AI to be as good as an average person. I want AI to be better than the person I would go to for help. A person can talk with me, understand where I've misunderstood my own problem, can point out faulty assumptions, and may even tell me that the problem isn't even a problem that needs solving. A person can suggest a variety of options and let me decide what trade-offs I want to make.

If I don't trust the AI to do that, then I'm not sure why I'd use it for anything other than things that don't need to be done at all, unless I can justify the chance that maybe it'll be done right, and I can afford the time lost getting it done right without the AI afterwards.
by analog31 | 2025-07-19 15:32:13+00:00
It's come up often enough for me, in 55 years of riding.

Experience does make a difference, but I haven't yet seen the risk of an unexpected stop drop to zero. And I think learning to control the bike is still valuable for a beginner, so they can survive to the point of developing their street smarts. A panic stop teaches you how to control the bike.

The recent e-bike boom has been a chance to observe a lot of beginners learning to ride. One habit I've seen on the paths is being "afraid to stop," resulting in minor collisions within groups of cyclists, and cars making panic stops when the bike paths cross roads. These are the people to whom I suggest learning how to use the brakes.
by thisisit | 2025-07-19 15:32:42+00:00
This sounds like a version of "HN hates X and I am tired of it". In last 10 years or so I have been reading HN, X has been crypto, Musk/Tesla and many more.

So, as much I get the frustration comments like these don't really add much. Its complaining about others complaining. Instead this should be taken as a signal that maybe HN is not the right forum to read about these topics.
by craftkiller | 2025-07-19 15:32:58+00:00
That's like saying there is some link between putting locks on your doors and setting up booby traps because if you don't lock your doors then you need to set up booby traps to prevent a thief from stealing your stuff. They're both trying to mitigate the same threat, but there is no connection between the 40 pounds of explosives I have wired to my front door and an intricate metal cylinder that can only be manipulated by another piece of metal in a specific shape.

Personally, I do both secure boot and encryption.
by zanfr | 2025-07-19 15:33:11+00:00
well well well

there are 2 solutions to this: 1. steam accepts eth and other cryptos; most people associate btc with crypto because it is the original but it is now technically vastly inferior. 2. the seven seas (nobody ever turns your free transaction down and you get to keep whatever it is forever with no fancy license/tos/eulas attached)
by rbanffy | 2025-07-19 15:33:16+00:00
I think the best way to differentiate POWER from Z is that POWER is all about raw performance (which is why you see it in HPC) while Z is all about security and availability for commercial on-line transaction processing. POWER10 and 11 are very close to each other, with the same overall design and fabrication process (both 7nm).

The other side of POWER is IBMi (the heir to the AS/400 platform). It is an incredibly interesting take on the whole operating system concept, possibly even more alien than z/OS is for people who grew up on Unix. It feels a bit like an image-based system like Smalltalk, but taken to the extreme.

I hope POWER12 inherits some of Telum’s cache goodness. IBM should be talking a bit about POWER12 at this year’s Hot Chips conference.
by raincole | 2025-07-19 15:33:26+00:00
> I expect all of you complaining about this to never once complain on legal grounds about Apple's 30% tax in the app store

People complain that 24/7. The absolute majority of HN comments sided with Epic when they challenged that.

> or when a bakery refuses to sell a cake to a gay person.

It didn't happen. What happened was the bakery refused to make a cake for gay wedding. It's established that you can't refuse to sell something existing to someone just because of their sexuality.
by sylens | 2025-07-19 15:34:15+00:00
Great write-up. I have been tinkering with Immich over the last few months and go back and forth whether I want to just limit it to Tailscale for use away from home or if I want to go through the trouble of setting up a reverse proxy on a VPS. I think my biggest concern is finding a relatively user-friendly monitoring/security solution to alert me if anybody is trying some sort of attack against the VPS
by paulc51 | 2025-07-19 15:35:36+00:00
Archive.org did a round of saving his entire website, including the posts and "papers" just before it was taken down: https://web.archive.org/web/20250715045222/https://lyons-den...

Interesting if the whole character was a scam. The current employer is not disclosed in his CV, qualifications are fake (also flagged on Reddit by someone who says they are an ex colleague https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/1m0198c/comment/n3fiwk...) - what else?
by FollowingTheDao | 2025-07-19 15:35:37+00:00
> I think it’s collectivism vs. individualism

The idea of individualism is a hard one for me. Are we really individuals? I mean, we get half our genetics from each parent, so where is the individual? Can any of you live as a total individual, without the assistance of even a small group? When in human history, even primate history, have you seen our species survive without a community?

When a parent makes this decision for gene therapy, that does not just affect the parents, it affects the child (the outcome of which is still not understood) and it affects those child's children.

Natural selection exists for a reason, but the eugenicists think they can control it.

Comparing gene therapy to cognitive therapy (telling your kids to not be stupid), is in no way comparable. Doing gene therapy is not "raising your kids", it is creating your kids.

I am saying this as someone who lives with THREE genetic disorders. von Hippel-Lindau syndrome (Father and Mother, hemangioblastomas), Cystathionine beta-synthase deficiency (Mother, homocystinuria), and a DNM1L Deficiency that leads to mitochondrial fission dysfunction (myoptahy, ME/CFS, OCD, Anxiety, Asperger's).
by HWR_14 | 2025-07-19 15:36:02+00:00
I think repeatedly calling the police is the correct way to handle an AirBnB party house in your neighborhood. I don't want to instead have the unpaid job of monitoring the guests for the absentee owner and be responsible for telling them to chill.

Of course, a long term neighbor it is different. There the police would be a last resort.
by ATiredGoat | 2025-07-19 15:36:12+00:00
In a text adventure, building everything from the ground up isn’t just a technical choice it’s an artistic one. When you craft each line of code, each room, each interaction from scratch, the world begins to take on a life that’s uniquely yours. There’s a deep connection between creator and creation that can’t be replicated with pre-made assets. It’s not about looking down on tools or shortcuts those have their place but when the world unfolds from your own hands, layer by layer, it carries your voice in every corner. The result is something raw, honest, and deeply personal a story that breathes because you gave it lungs, not because it came pre-packaged. That’s where the real magic happens.
by mindslight | 2025-07-19 15:36:18+00:00
It's called the criminal justice system, specifically the longstanding laws against fraud. But it requires effective government to implement, and government has been becoming ever less effective at such things (it tends to give corpos a pass based on diffusing responsibility rather than properly charging everyone involved with criminal conspiracy)

Another pillar of the problem is the corpos having excepted themselves from basic libel/slander laws through the "Fair" Credit Reporting Act. The common response should be one round of "piss off, prove it", with then a high barrier for the fraudster to substantiate such a debt in a court of law. Instead people are put on the defensive by the thought of such lies going on their permanent surveillance records, and perhaps becoming some kind of problem in the future.
by bee_rider | 2025-07-19 15:36:24+00:00
Technically they said,

> And the idea that physical money primarily aids social fraud, money laundering and other illegal activities is pretty well established.

Another plausible reading could be that this is just a widely believed incorrect thing (or most exactly, they are just saying it is widely believed, and not anything about the underlying truthfulness of the belief). This seems easy for somebody to observe about the society around them (although I bet it is a regional thing, or something like that) and less likely for there to be hard data on. Perception is also more likely than actual facts to drive behavior, right?

> They even killed the 500€ bank note, because it was almost exclusively used by criminals and most normal people never even touched one, much less used one for legit transactions.

This, on the other hand, seems like a specific action taken by the government to solve a specific problem, so I’d expect it to be well documented…
by vladgur | 2025-07-19 15:36:31+00:00
Same this year - I went through Spain, France, and Portugal last month and did not have to take money out of ATM for anything including eating, shopping for groceries, paying for gas or sightseeing.

ApplePay connected to my no forex transaction credit card earning 3% cashback covered 95% of these transactions and a few times I had to use that credit card directly.
by modeless | 2025-07-19 15:36:46+00:00
It's only a "debacle" if you already assume OpenAI isn't trustworthy, because they said they don't train on the test set. I hope you can see that presenting your belief that they lied about training on the test set as evidence of them being untrustworthy is a circular argument. You're assuming the thing you're trying to prove.

The one OpenAI "scandal" that I did agree with was the thing where they threatened to cancel people's vested equity if they didn't sign a non-disparagement agreement. They did apologize for that one and make changes. But it doesn't have a lot to do with their research claims.

I'm open to actual evidence that OpenAI's research claims are untrustworthy, but again, I also judge people individually, not just by the organization they belong to.
by MostlyStable | 2025-07-19 15:37:58+00:00
As of 2023, it was apparently <$1000/sequence [0], which means it would be a few hundred million to maybe a billion dollars. Which is a lot, but it really only needs to be done once, and is a global project. That seems pretty reasonable all things considered. But also, we can probably wait a little while since it's not super crucial until artificial genetic modification starts to get widespread, which is still probably a decade off or so. We could probably start just collecting samples now, and as long as they are appropriately preserved, the actual sequencing could be done later when it gets even cheaper.

[0] https://3billion.io/blog/whole-genome-sequencing-cost-2023
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-07-19 15:38:20+00:00
There is no purpose to the expiration in this particular case. If you have an expiry of say 24hours and constantly update that makes some sense - stolen certs get a very short time window.

If however you have an expiry of multiple years you clearly have no reason to have an expiry date at all. You can't possibly justify a security benefit, imagine reassuring people with "the stolen certificate is only valid for a few years!"

As in it was clearly a mistake to have an expiry date at all for this use case and the multi-year expiry date should have been a smell that tipped people off and made them ask "why do we have an expiry date at all for this?".
by dathinab | 2025-07-19 15:38:30+00:00
> The OOXML format is likely a not very deeply thought out XML serialization of the in memory structure or of the old binary format

it somewhat looks like that, but that old binary format changed with every nth yearly major new version and IMHO it looks like not being far away from a slightly serialized dump of their internal app data structures ;)

but

putting aside that they initially managed to incorrectly implement their own standard OOXML and the mess that "accident" caused

they also did support import and even exports (with limited features) of the Open Document format before even fully supporting OOXML, and even use that as standard save option.... (when edition such a document)

like there really was no technical reason why they couldn't just have adopted the Open Document format, maybe at worst with some "custom" (but open and "standardized" (by MS itself) extensions to it)

MS at the time had all insensitive to comply as bad in faith as they could get away with

and what we saw at that time was looking like exactly that

sure hidden behind "accidents" and incompetence

but lets be honest if a company has all interest and insensitive to make something in bad faith and make it go bad absurdly and then exactly that happens then it's very naive to assume that it was actually accidentally most likely it wasn't

that doesn't mean any programmer sat down and intentional thought about how to make it extra complicated, there is no need for that and that would just be a liability, instead you do bad management decision, like (human) resource starve the team responsible (especially keep you best seniors away), give them all messed up deadlines, give them all messed up requirements you know can't work out. Mess up communication channels. Only give them bad tooling for the task. etc. etc. Most funny thing due to how messy software production often is the engines involved might not even notice ;), means no liability on that side.
by jaysonelliot | 2025-07-19 15:38:31+00:00
The concept is great. Some constructive feedback on the execution:

I expected to be able to provide a lot more than just five books. The splash page says "Our AI analyzes your reading DNA to recommend books you'll absolutely love—guaranteed to match your unique taste." That makes it sound like it's going to dive deep into my reading history and really think about my taste. Five books is absolutely not "my reading DNA."

There are lots of ways to get a richer picture of the books a person loves. You could connect to Goodreads or Storygraph, or scrape their social media for books you've discussed, or let users upload a .csv exported from other sources like LibraryThing, their Amazon wishlist, or their own local lists they might keep on Obsidian, Notion, or wherever. My public library keeps my reading history automatically - that would be another good data source for my "reading DNA."

Right now, it's just an AI recommendation based on five books. I can do that with any LLM from ChatGPT to Copilot to Gemini. The recommendation I got was very basic, just obviously similar books from the same authors I entered or ones that are closely related.

People's tastes are complex. Even if you allow much larger data sets to create a person's reading DNA, that alone won't necessarily recommend books that are right for them. For example, I love PG Wodehouse, but I have no interest at all in Evelyn Waugh, James Thurber, or G. K. Chesterton. A great recommendation engine would ask me why I love a book, and try to tease out the reasons behind my reading list in order to recommend books that will be more accurate and unexpected than I could get from a simple ChatGPT query or my Goodreads profile.

A site like this needs to do a lot to stand out. It's an excellent concept, I hope you develop it into something special.
by 9dev | 2025-07-19 15:38:51+00:00
> The major far-right fundamentalist opposition party has built its unprecedented success on a narrative of low government trust, and has been gaining ground in both polls and elections for years and years now.

And yet, that is very far from the majority.

> If you include the wrong words in the transaction description, your account will almost certainly be cancelled.

That isn’t true. If you put "murder contract + 2kg heroin" in the description, at most a bank clerk will call to ask you to avoid that. The description is reviewed to detect fraud, and protects a lot of people from illicit transactions. We have that for the same reason we have KYC regulations; you may disagree with it, but it protects a lot of people, right now. If you need to obfuscate the description, you’re free to use an encrypted string or a numeric reference without any trouble.

> Any data we collect will probably be misused at some point in the future. Why take a risk with German institutions if we don't have to?

There are valid arguments against widespread cash usage; money handling is one of the top expenses in retail, for example. There also is fraud potential actively being used for sure. Yet, I don’t hear anyone working on completely abolishing cash, which is just not going to happen. Still, even Germans could benefit from questioning our ways from time to time.
by throw310822 | 2025-07-19 15:38:55+00:00
I'm not convinced that there are that many jobs that can be effectively outsourced- locality is an important factor even for jobs that can in theory be performed fully remotely. I also don't see that many barriers to outsourcing or offshoring in general.

In any case, there's also a difference between the idea that it can be me or another person doing the same job, and maybe that person can be paid less because of their lower cost of living, but in the end they will put in the same effort as I do; and the idea that a tool can do the job effortlessly and the only reason I have to suffer over it is to justify a salary that has no reason to exist. Then, again, just force the company to pay me while allowing them to use whatever tool they want to get the job done.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-07-19 15:39:00+00:00
They write that sentence because gen ai has been effective for them.

We have intelligent people using ai and claiming it’s useful.

And we have other intelligent people who’s saying it’s not useful.

I’m inclined to believe the former. You can’t be deluded about positives usefulness. But you can be about the negative simply by using the LLM in a half assed way and picking the most convenient conclusion without nuance.
by hereonout2 | 2025-07-19 15:39:16+00:00
That's not the experience I had.

The guide I linked to used to be linked to from the main docs page I believe - I went to double check and it now has this more recent guide linked instead - it seems equally thorough.

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debmake-doc/

These guides were sufficient for me to learn packaging pretty complex Debian projects, and are linked to from the docs home page on the Debian site. Guess that's all I'm saying.
by Zigurd | 2025-07-19 15:39:37+00:00
Hotels don't want to be left out of the enshittification that Airbnb seems to have turned into an artform. In the travel industry, your customers are nearly captives to your whims. And if your whims are not profitable enough, the tech bros are here to make you the money while saving you the effort.

I predict that Rest will merge with Axon so that after they get a false positive in your room, a cop can barge in and taser you on body cam.
by anymouse123456 | 2025-07-19 15:39:41+00:00
That's another reason they're so infuriating. Containers are intended to make things faster and easier. But the allure of virtualization has made most work much, much slower and much, much worse.

If you're running infra at Google, of course containers and orchestration make sense.

If you're running apps/IT for an SMB or even small enterprise, they are 100% waste, churn and destruction. I've built for both btw.

The contexts in which they are appropriate and actually improve anything at all are vanishingly small.
by rectang | 2025-07-19 15:40:10+00:00
Fortunately, from what I read, the woman, a hotel employee who was struck by debris from the poolside wooden hut where Baumgartner crashed, is expected to make a full recovery. I hope she is not afflicted by any lingering health or financial problems.

I haven’t seen any indication that Baumgartner was paragliding in a forbidden area. My understanding is that restrictions on paragliding are a patchwork, from licensing and insurance requirements to where you are allowed to fly.
by TrackerFF | 2025-07-19 15:40:27+00:00
Just came back home from a 3 week travel in south- and east-Europe. Visited 4 different countries. I have a newfound hatred for:

1. Sites/apps that automatically change language based on your location, and force that auto-translation onto you.

2. Reddit that translates reddit posts to your location based language. Those will quickly populate your search feed for almost any search you do.
by em3rgent0rdr | 2025-07-19 15:40:52+00:00
Nice tool! Seems "New Computer Modern" font is the Native MathML rendering that looks closest like standard LaTeX rendering, I guess cause LaTeX uses Computer Modern by default. But I notice extra space around the parenthesis, which annoys me because LaTeX math allows you to be so precise about how wide your spaces (e.g. \, \: \; \!). Is there a way to get the spaces around the parenthesis to be just as wide as standard LaTeX math? And the ^ hat above f(x) isn't nicely above just the top part of the f.
by quesera | 2025-07-19 15:41:00+00:00
> controls the genetic makeup of a child before it is born

Selective breeding in livestock, mate selection in wild animals and humans...

I do understand your point. I struggle with whether it is cause for (more than theoretical) concern.

The ethical quandaries don't seem that important when it's isolated to expression of personal choice.

State-driven decisions are ugly of course. And perhaps the insanity that we see in dog breeding is very bad.

But we don't see the dog breeding problems in human parents (aside from the initial mate selection, which can be vicious!).

So where does that leave us? Using blunt tools is OK but precise tools are bad?
by sealeck | 2025-07-19 15:41:36+00:00
> I've been reading this website for probably 15 years, its never been this bad... all the actual educated takes are on X

Almost every technical comment on HN is wrong (see for example essentially all the discussion of Rust async, in which people keep making up silly claims that Rust maintainers then attempt to patiently explain are wrong).

The idea that the "educated" takes are on X though... that's crazy talk.