MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dan-robertson | 2025-07-29 17:04:26+00:00
It does feel like the online environment is pretty adversarial and hard for parents to deal with. In particular, it seems hard to pick and choose something reasonable. It doesn’t seem totally unreasonable to want some kind of state action to help represent the many parents and encourage creating better reasonable options.

Lots of things that feel relatively common online feel like they would be very alien and weird situations if they happened offline.
by hungmung | 2025-07-29 17:04:41+00:00
There are no real laws or court rulings protecting crypto, the Department of Commerce simply changed their rules to allow it, and I have no doubt they could easily change them back if the mood struck them.

Zimmerman had a novel defense (selling PGP source code as a book, which should be protected by 1A), but it was never actually tested in court.
by tialaramex | 2025-07-29 17:04:42+00:00
Microsoft's branding is mostly about time and should not be assumed to have any other significance. You might think you can guess what "Visual Direct COM" would be or "Active Windows.NET" but the words have no meaning beside "Currently this word is hot so my new product needs that word". A Copilot XBox Edge might be a video game console with AI but it equally might be a new version of Excel. There is no coherent rationale.

A company with an actual rationale names products PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PS3, PS4, PS5

Microsoft called their rival products XBox, XBox 360, XBox One, XBox Series

Asked to put six animals in order, some might figure Anteater, Bear, Elephant, Fox, Goose, Pigeon makes sense - alphabetical order, English names. Others might try to rank them by size, the Elephant is definitely bigger than a Bear, but is the Fox bigger than a Goose? Not sure. You might give them Latin names, there are several reasonable things you might do or at least attempt

But Microsoft are like that's easy: Elephant, Dog, Squirrel, Another Squirrel, Sparrow, Bear, Elephant. And like, that's not even six animals, and it's the wrong animals, and your order makes no sense, what is wrong with you?
by fluidcruft | 2025-07-29 17:04:59+00:00
Yubikeys go on your keychain. You're as likely to not notice losing it as you are your housekeys. Anyway the point is that if you're not willing to run a trusted phone, there are other very viable options... particularly for technical folks who tamper with phone software... and those who cares about the Google panopticon... that are extremely viable and should be acceptable to satisfy the stated intent of the regulation.
by oa335 | 2025-07-29 17:05:31+00:00
In response to

> ... the Palestinians and Palestinian organizations - even including Hamas - have to varying degrees accepted or shown willingness to accept a Palestinian state that does not encompass all of Mandatory Palestine.

you say

> This cannot be reconciled with the meaning of the slogan "from the river to the sea".

To which I quote

> "You can draw a straight line through two points, but that doesn't mean the line is actually there."
by 9rx | 2025-07-29 17:05:42+00:00
> You are suggesting researchers should blog about their null results?

If they want to. Especially if it doesn't meet the standard for the publication system, why not?

> It seems to me the null results deserve the same route as any other paper, with peer reviews, etc.

If it ranks with the best of them, it is deserving. There isn't room for everything, though, just as there isn't room for everyone who has ever played baseball to join the MLB. That would defeat the entire purpose of what these venues offer.

But that doesn't mean you can't play. Anyone who wants to play baseball can do so, just as anyone who wants to publish research can do so.

> If researchers collectively decide it's worth pursuing

It only takes an individual. Unlike baseball, you can actually play publishing research all by yourself!

1. Where do we read your failed research? Given your stance, it would look very foolish to find out that you haven't published it.

2. Do you draw a line? Like, if you add a pinch more salt to your dinner and found that it doesn't taste any better, do you publish that research?
by mousematrix | 2025-07-29 17:05:58+00:00
this is really useful. In our case, we are inspired by a terminal game called Zork, which is an Activision trademark. So, we tried to be creative and replacing Z with X made sense at the time. Of course, we did not want to be like any "dork", hence the Q.

Now I read this tought process above, I think this leaves much to be desired.
by tracker1 | 2025-07-29 17:06:10+00:00
They should be more scared... Mac, ChromeOS and Linux now have roughly 1/3 of desktop/laptop users. Linux having gained a lot of ground just this past year, and IMO Valve is probably solely responsible for most of that.

Even with the Valve store cut as high as it is, and some of their sketchy terms... they've been far better stewards to gaming than MS has been to Computing/OS.
by jfengel | 2025-07-29 17:06:11+00:00
People will definitely cheer when you lower prices. Businesses will push back, but that's also difficult since "we want to keep prices high" isn't a good lock. They have other ways to apply pressure, but it's (roughly speaking) a level playing field.

It's only possible to have tariffs now because people don't grasp the consequences. When prices go up, the tariffs will be less popular.
by fragmede | 2025-07-29 17:07:34+00:00
The problem is the transition from analog to digital. It is entirely legal, for an entity to buy a physical book, and then loan those books out, aka a library. That entity is free to charge money, or might even be a part of the local government. But see, copyright is a thing that was invented in the first place. Why should it even exist in the first place? Of course we can't argue with the fact that the world we are in has copyright, but in countries where there is less copyright protection, it doesn't seem like the sky has fallen there either. We want to promote science and useful arts and incentivize creation. It's supposed to be a temporary monopoly granted by the government before works fall into the public domain. Originally 14 years, with another 14 years if the author was alive. We should absolutely do what we can to encourage science and the arts, but Disney's managed to take it way further than it was originally specified for.
by patmcc | 2025-07-29 17:07:49+00:00
>>>Others didn't even know what was going on at the time and were let into the capital building by police officers and were arrested anyway.

If you're part of a mob and the police get out of your way that's not them "letting you in", that's them falling back as opposed to causing more violence. I think J6 folks were treated extremely gently, all things considered. If the guy in front of you breaks down a door and then you walk in behind him, you're also doing something wrong.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/capitol-police-waving-vide... for a specific fact check to the "police waved them in" claim.

>>>The Democrats in the UK

Those aren't the Democrats. I do think the UK is going too far with their speech controls and their "online safety" laws.
by adamthehorse | 2025-07-29 17:07:52+00:00
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by yujonglee | 2025-07-29 17:08:03+00:00
It can be solved with speaker segmentation/embedding models, although it is not perfect. One thing we do with Hyprnote is that we have a Descript-like transcript editor that allows you to easily edit/assign speakers. Once we integrate a speaker diarization model with that, I think we'll be in good shape.

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by bobbob1921 | 2025-07-29 17:08:07+00:00
While I agree with the 50+ comments I’ve read here, I think the point is being missed (or I just haven’t gotten to this comment yet) - these super annoying pop-ups should only be a thing AFTER you’ve clicked on login or register. In fact they shouldn’t appear and should instead just be a button the user can click if they wish to use their Google account as the login device for XYZ site. In other words there’s no reason for these to appear when you first visit a webpage, they should only be relevant when the user has taken action specifically to login, or is looking to register an account at xyz.com

It’s as if someone at Google saw the whole cookie banner -> accept cookies fiasco and said wow this seems like a good idea let’s add our own
Ask HN: No work at job, not paid enough to quit, can't start a side business
by picolas | 2025-07-29 17:08:08+00:00
I’m stuck in a frustrating situation and would appreciate advices or shared experiences.

I’m a full-time employee (permanent contract), but I’ve had almost nothing to do at work for weeks—sometimes months. I spend most of my days waiting for my manager giving me work, and it’s becoming demoralizing.

The problem is, I’m not paid enough to comfortably quit and bootstrap a startup. I have ideas and energy, but not the financial runway to go solo.

To make matters worse, my contract explicitly prohibits me from having any kind of second job or running a business on the side—even on my own time.

So I’m stuck: bored at work, unable to grow something on the side, and not in a position to quit.

Has anyone here faced something similar? How did you navigate it? Are there any creative, ethical (or gray area) paths forward?

Thanks for any insights.
by eyalitki | 2025-07-29 17:08:17+00:00
Not sure what is the measurable metric here, and what will be considered a success in this trial period.

Propagating the fix downstream depends on the release cycles of all downward vendors. Giving them a heads up will help planning, but I doubt it will significantly impact the patching timeline.

It is highly more likely that companies will get stressed that the public knows they have a vulnerability, while they are still working to fix it. The pressure from these companies will probably shut this policy change down.

Also, will this policy apply also to Google's own products?
by FredPret | 2025-07-29 17:08:32+00:00
I find that photos from a prime look better in some undefinable way. Maybe it's because there's more light coming through, or maybe it's just easier for them to make a prime with great optics than a zoom with great optics.

I shoot on manual with auto-ISO straight to JPG (I don't have time for RAW editing), so my prime photos tend to have lower ISO's and I end up with a faster shutter.
by nashashmi | 2025-07-29 17:08:38+00:00
you might need an AI for in-person meeting first. Such tools are available to doctors who see patients. The note taking is great but I think it is skewed towards one-person summary where the name of the patient remains unknown. I wonder if the same tool can take notes if two patients are in the room and distinguish between each one.

The second tool is likely hardware limitation. A multi-cam-mic with beam forming capability to deconstruct overlapping sounds.
by jtuple | 2025-07-29 17:09:16+00:00
The Internet itself is the loophole in this analogy.

Minors shouldn't have unfettered + unsupervised access to the Internet, that's the solution.

The open Internet isn't a kid friendly place, isn't meant to be, and won't be no matter how many laws you pass.

Children grow up to become adults, and spend most of their lives as adults. It's important to weigh the lifetime cost of safety laws.

A child with unfettered access to the Internet at say 8 years (IMO, way too young should be 15+) is only protected for 10 years. Then goes on to spend ~60 years negatively impacted, fighting ever growing censorship and risking extortion/blackmail when data leaks. It just doesn't seem worth it in this case.

I'd much rather laws mandate special child-safe phones/laptops that could only access a subset of the Internet, rather than forcing every website/app to collect PII and inconsistently enforce age verification for all visitors for all time.

And all of this is besides the point anyway. Social media and cyberbullying are the real threats to minors online. Porn access isn't good, but it's not causing suicides and mental health crises left and right.
by wredcoll | 2025-07-29 17:09:23+00:00
"Aligned" is doing a lot of work here.

Does some part of the Egyptian government have an interest in doing certain things entirely because of America's influence? Sure. Is that the only reason for their behaviour? Of course not.

I just want people to keep in mind that Egypt (and everywhere else) is full of humans who are just as smart or dumb, brave or cowardly, immoral or righteous, as any other country, and those humans are perfectly capable of deciding to do both good and evil things without blaming it on "america".
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-29 17:09:34+00:00
A lot of people get away with violating the no side business thing. If it doesn’t affect them, they probably don’t care —- if you hit it big you owe them but you hit it big, so it’s OK.

I worked at one place where there was a no side business clause but when I had an unemployment claim the judge looked at the contract and found that clause was so badly written it didn’t make sense and wouldn’t have been binding.

I also had a no compete that said I wouldn’t go to a competitor — well I did anyway and never got in trouble, I worked there for a summer but quit because there was no health insurance and my COBRA ran out, after I left the new place the old business folded and my former boss wound up working at the new place.
by hungmung | 2025-07-29 17:09:49+00:00
Yeah hospital accounting is weird. I had family in the ER and one of their crappy meals was like $60, for basically just rice and canned vegetables on a tray. A single bandaid cost like $25 or something outrageous like that. This was pre-covid too. I'm sure that same meal is getting close to $100 by now.
by Fredkin | 2025-07-29 17:09:57+00:00
I don't care where the headline is from. Other places have the same suspicion. There clearly is _some_ concern in Labour that VPNs could be used to bypass the OSA and it doesn't take much imagination to see where this is going.

'Kyle told The Telegraph last week in a warning: "If platforms or sites signpost towards workarounds like VPNs, then that itself is a crime and will be tackled by these codes."'

https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/vpns/what-does-the-labou... :

"In 2022 when the Online Safety Act was being debated in Parliament, Labour explicitly brought up the subject of VPNs with MP Sarah Champion worried that children could use VPNs to access harmful content and bypass the measures of the Safety Act. "

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/vpns-online-s...

Sure. Nothing was said directly right now, but to just take Labour's word for it that they won't go further with these restrictions is really naive.
by cheeseomlit | 2025-07-29 17:10:38+00:00
>If the self-appointed "corrector" is American, I will remind them on how their country was founded, the genocide of the native peoples, and how maybe now's the time to return it all to their rightful owners and head back to wherever their ancestors have come from. Lemme tell you, they don't like this line of reasoning.

Isn't this just a tacit admission that Israel is committing genocide like the American colonists did? Americans who are alive today at least have the excuse that they weren't around at the time and didn't actually commit the genocide, but the Israelis dont even have that excuse- they're doing it right now
by woodruffw | 2025-07-29 17:10:47+00:00
This policy change makes sense to me; I'm also sympathetic to the P0 team's struggle in getting vendors to take patching seriously.

At the same time, I think publicly sharing that some vulnerability was discovered can be valuable information to attackers, particularly in the context of disclosure on open source projects: it's been my experience that maintaining a completely hermetic embargo on an OSS component is extremely difficult, both because of the number of people involved and because fixing the vulnerability sometimes requires advance changes to other public components.

I'm not sure there's a great solution to this.
by asdfj999 | 2025-07-29 17:11:39+00:00
If I could change one thing about healthcare, it would be how we handle end of life care. Sadly, hospitals are full of 80-90+ year old people who cannot walk or talk for years, advanced dementia plus many other serious comorbidities, with severe malnutrition and recurrent aspiration pneumonia, with large non-healing sacral ulcers, who shit and piss themselves, and the family continues to insist we "do everything" to help this person. It is by far the most demoralizing part of working in healthcare, in my opinion, and an astronomical amount of expenditure and effort goes into torturing these people - at the direct order of the family - only to prolong suffering a few more months.
by PaulKeeble | 2025-07-29 17:12:12+00:00
Likes are very low bar to entry means of participation. Above that are these short form comments. But beyond that there are people responding to blog posts with other long blog posts as well discussing various things. Each level drops the number of participants but increases the potential value. When we consider that Google used to use an algorithm of how often pages were linked this is another mechanism for what likes do, its slower but its more thoughtful and the internet is all of these things at once.
by dmix | 2025-07-29 17:12:14+00:00
> but what you’ll end up with are single-use matchers for almost every line of your cukes

Capybara has this problem as well as do other web acceptance tests. Maybe not every time a new matcher but frequent enough. Mostly because of the high variability of HTML paths. You have to design your HTML in a way (use lots of [title] tags and standard HTML) if you want to avoid it.
by kulahan | 2025-07-29 17:12:18+00:00
Interesting, I missed that. Anyways, while I think this is an important piece of info, we're still talking about porn rather than sex. There's a difference between exploring with an also-awkward person your age and watching someone else do things they don't actually enjoy while making noises they don't really make, in positions that are more obnoxious than fun, making it look more desirable than it really is. I get this because that's how I discovered sex - just like every other human for the last however-many-million-years.

This is the first time you're getting dozens, maybe hundreds of hours of watching someone do it arguably "wrong".
by alterom | 2025-07-29 17:12:21+00:00
Maybe you got it from a bird :)

In all seriousness, like minds think alike, and Ben Jordan has a rebellious streak — he uploaded his own music to pirate websites when he broke up with his label [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benn_Jordan#Alphabasic_and_mus...
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-07-29 17:12:33+00:00
We should make spaces that are suitable for children (most of which should not be age-segregated spaces), we should tell them to stay in those spaces, and we should treat their en-masse disobedience as a policy failure.

Children are getting into debt on online gambling sites? Investigate. Suppose we find that half of children saw a betting ad and wanted to play, and a third just really like online poker: banning gambling ads and providing no-money online poker would be good interventions. "Remove computers from the public library" and "require ID verification to participate in pub bets" are not sensible interventions.
by jryio | 2025-07-29 17:12:54+00:00
I would like to see randomized control group studies using study mode.

Does it offer meaningful benefits to students over self directed study?

Does it out perform students who are "learning how to learn"?

What affect does allowing students to make mistakes have compared to being guided through what to review?

I would hope Study Mode would produce flash card prompts and quantize information for usage in spaced repetition tools like Mochi [1] or Anki.

See Andy's talk here [2]

[1] https://mochi.cards

[2] https://andymatuschak.org/hmwl/
by variadix | 2025-07-29 17:12:58+00:00
I feel like there are better ways to make it hard to push malicious updates, while still allowing a user to flash their own devices.

For example: manufacturer bakes in their public key and a per device public/private key pair. The bootloader checks firmware updates against the manufacturers public key and the per device public key. The per device private key is only readable with hardware access via serial or USB etc. The user can extract their device’s private key to be able to sign their own firmware updates. Additionally, the bootloader could support adding new public keys to verify firmware with, so long as the payload to add the new public key was signed by the per device key. This would simplify getting updates from e.g. OpenWRT if they have their own key pair they sign with, vs requiring each user to sign each firmware update with their personal key.
by pxeger1 | 2025-07-29 17:13:23+00:00
This is not a compelling argument that 2FA is reduced to 1FA. You need either: something you have (phone) and something you are (face), OR something you have (phone) and something you know (passcode). In either case, there are still two factors. For a criminal to perform shoulder surfing and theft, more things must go right for them than to do either individually.
by tracker1 | 2025-07-29 17:13:28+00:00
Like I said, likely less so today. That said, there are still a LOT of people that can use their devices, but have no understanding of security, configuration, etc. My SO can't even handle a password manager, but she can manage live TikTok chats/streams (or whatever they're called) with ease.

That said, it could definitely be done relatively easily at the carrier level, and a really simple addition to browsers, even if only on mobile devices.
by Aperocky | 2025-07-29 17:13:53+00:00
By contrast, blood doping is much easier to get away with. Claim you had an altitude camp, inhaled CO or whatever, but you carry your blood with you.

A small motor had to fit in the tubes, somehow connect to a control, have to be integrated into the gearing which are constantly under about 300 W of torque and can be easily discovered via X-ray or maybe heat gun. That's a lot more risk vs. a much smaller reward since your laptop sized battery is likely less juice than a single energy gel.
by sharkjacobs | 2025-07-29 17:14:45+00:00
Making a space invaders game is not representative of normal engineering because you're reproducing an existing game with well known specs and requirements. There are probably hundreds of thousands of words describing and discussing Space Invaders in GLM-4.5's training data

It's like using an LLM to implement a red black tree. Red black trees are in the training data, so you don't need to explain or describe what you mean beyond naming it.

"Real engineering" with LLMs usually requires a bunch of up front work creating specs and outlines and unit tests. "Context engineering"
by MagicMoonlight | 2025-07-29 17:14:57+00:00
You're seeing behind the curtain. It turns out that professors at Yale are morons, just like everyone else. As are the people that work at Microsoft and IBM. Almost everyone in the world is.

We have a lot of good marketing to try and persuade people that everyone isn't a moron, but ultimately you can't change the fact that they are. That's why you'll notice that 99% of work in every organisation is done by a handful of people.