MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jacknews | 2025-07-14 04:44:30+00:00
These might be features of large scale purpose-built scam centers, but there are myriad smaller centers occupying apartment blocks, whole floors of office towers, and of course ex-Casino buildings and so on.

eg Cambodia is especially rife with these. There are so many recently-built apartment blocks that lie empty, often built with corrupt money anyway, they make easy and fairly low-key dens.
by leoqa | 2025-07-14 04:46:50+00:00
Absolutely agree. I think the tactics and strategy are to blame here but ultimately I don’t think the administration is doing anything illegal. All cases I’ve seen where there was an alleged violation of due process were simply accelerated asylum denials with immediate deportation orders. I’m sure there have been some though, but I know local police, HSI and ERO folks that really don’t want to arrest non-criminal laborers yet are just following orders from the admin. I would be highly suspicious of any conspiracy that federal law enforcement agents are committing illegal arrests.

If it were up to me, I’d be pursuing some type of visa reform for permanent laborers that grants amnesty for those here with American citizen family members (i.e. birthright kids) as of a certain date. I’d make the asylum process occur outside of the country, signing agreements with the originating countries like Guatemala, Honduras to provide housing and food for asylum seekers while they pursue a claim.
by alganet | 2025-07-14 04:48:47+00:00
> If the top 1% of companies drive the majority of VC returns, why shouldn’t the same apply to talent? Our natural egalitarian bias makes this unpalatable to accept, but the 10x engineer meme doesn’t go far enough – there are clearly people that are 1,000x the baseline impact.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0obMRztklqU
by dheera | 2025-07-14 04:49:40+00:00
I made a script of this sort too originally called "ffmpeg-english" last year. Interesting how people reacted to it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40410637

I then made a more general version of it for all commands:

https://github.com/dheera/scripts/blob/master/helpme

Example usage:

$ helpme ffmpeg assemble all the .jpg files into an .mp4 timelapse video at 8fps
by friggeri | 2025-07-14 04:50:36+00:00
Unfortunately my treadmill runs don’t have GPS data associated with them. Austria, PR and Hawaii were places where I ran mostly in the gym.

This being said, Sweden is a fun one: I was in Copenhagen for a few weeks and I thought it’d be fun to take the train to Malmo, do my long run, and then take the train back. All that to say, I’ve spent 3h30 in Sweden, 3h05 of which I was running.

Shanghai was an overnight layover.
by lunar-whitey | 2025-07-14 04:50:44+00:00
I also believed I needed money and status to make friends. I hated myself, and behaved in ways others found difficult to appreciate or understand. As a result, I often failed and now have far less of these things than people who seem to believe in their own intrinsic value.

It has taken me nearly 20 years to understand why I feel this way. It is painful and unnecessary.
by adgjlsfhk1 | 2025-07-14 04:50:59+00:00
Hair loss is

1. Exactly the type of "side effect" that people will report because they lost hair (because lots of people experience hair loss whether they are on a GLP1 or not)

2. A fairly minor side effect that wouldn't be a strong reason to not prescribe.

Pancreas issues were worried about, but those worries (so far) appear to be unfounded. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6382780/ is a meta-analysis of 12 studies (36k patients) over 2 years that showed no evidence of increased pacreatic issues, and https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38175642/ is a 7 year analysis of ~33k patients that also shows no increase in issues.
by tomhow | 2025-07-14 04:51:52+00:00
The point is that much of what is generally considered to be "hard wired" is not as immutable as we think. There are many different ways to improve our circumstances and options. I've explored several with good results, and seen others apply different ones with good results.

Given my role here is a moderator, It's not appropriate for me to be giving out health/life advice, and it's always the case that professional mental health treatment should be sought if there's risk of self-harm. But you're welcome to email us at hn@ycombinator.com if you think we may be able to help point you in the right direction.
by danieltanfh95 | 2025-07-14 04:52:03+00:00
These "talent wars" are overblown and a result of money having nowhere else to go. People are banking on AI and robotics for human progress to take off and that's just a result of all other ventures fizzling out with this left for capital to migrate to.

If you talked to any of these folks worth billions they arent particularly smart, their ideas not really interesting. it took us a few years to go from gpt-3 to deepseek v3 and then another few years to go from sonnet 4 to kimi k2, both being open source models on way lower funding. This hints at a deeper problem than what "hypercapitalism" suggests. In fact, it suggests that capital distribution as of its current state is highly inefficient and we are simply funding the wrong people.

Smart AI talent aren't going to out there constantly trying to get funding or the best deals. They would want to work. Capital is getting too used to not doing the ground work to seek them out. Capital needs to be more tech savvy.

VCs and corporate development teams don't actually understand the technology deeply enough to identify who's doing the important work.
by deathanatos | 2025-07-14 04:52:44+00:00
Maybe this is a real problem, IDK. But this article is so scant on actual details, and is mostly just weasel-wording it's way to "it's a problem, trust us."

> Chief among these disconnects were "shallow" LinkedIn profiles paired with "beefy resumes," she explained, citing job-seeker claims of working at Meta, attending Ivy League schools, developing major tech companies' flagship products … but then only having 25 LinkedIn connections.

LinkedIn is not the end-all be-all of résumés, and my coworkers have wildly varying numbers of connections.

> "We've certainly seen applicants that fit into this category with various IOCs [indicators of compromise] that we've shared with partners and peers," Snowflake CISO Brad Jones told The Register.

This is an abuse of the technical term IoC to try and dress up what amounts to "my gut hunch".

> Once the recruitment team began meeting via video conferences with some of the applicants, they noted extremely Western-sounding names, like James Anderson, paired with East Asian appearances and accented English, in much higher numbers than they expected.

That's just discriminatory.

> "You can't profile people, […] *But*

sigh

> The fraudster's answers weren't word-for-word ChatGPT, Little noted. "These people are smart, they're not unskilled, they're sophisticated," she said.

… no, that's because that's not how LLMs work.

> routing everything through a VPN

I'm not even sure how you would know this about a candidate.

> These IOCs, or indicators of compromise, include email addresses, physical addresses, and phone numbers that have been flagged as associated with non-legitimate candidates.

This is begging the question: the candidate is suss because they're suss. What makes the email address et al. "flagged"?

> The final step is always an in-person interview.

I mean … if you're not doing that, then … okay, I see how the scammers got to you.

> "We require people to come to the office to pick up their computer," Robinson said as an example.

I mean, if you pay for the plane tickets, the hotels, the taxis, the meals, and the time, sure, I guess.

If this is truly a problem — and maybe it is — the Register's reporting is so unspecific that it leaves us with no details of how we might tell, what to look out for (in ways that doesn't run afoul of racial discrimination, or seen elsewhere in the comments, political discrimination). It leaves me thinking this is an ad designed to leave me going "I'd have to hire a company that specializes in this to know if I'm being affected by it."
by snickerbockers | 2025-07-14 04:53:32+00:00
So I must be really dumb here but what exactly does the kvm do? It's just stated that it has an Ethernet port and an HDMI and therefore can remote control a computer? And he said the North Koreans are putting them on people's computers as if North Koreans breaking into people's apartments is a common occurrence we've all experienced? And why did the FBI contact him about this?

There's obviously some context I'm missing here, I always thought kvm was the Linux kennel virtualization system...
by reactordev | 2025-07-14 04:54:04+00:00
Having lived in Denver for a decade, I can say it’s definitely a run city. So many run groups. A guy I used to work with did ultra marathons of 100mi+. Insane. Good for you! I saw the flat irons green mountain run and immediately said “Hey, I know that place!!!”

I’m not going to run it but I’ve hiked up in there a bunch of times.
by grumpy-de-sre | 2025-07-14 04:57:15+00:00
I've been running five miles roughly every other day for fifteen years. If I've got a flu or not feeling great I'll take a few days off, no loss. Not sure how one would objectively determine "stamina", but my resting HR is in the bottom 3% for my age.

Obsessively run streaking one mile every day sounds completely bizarre to me and a complete PITA.

Almost as bizarre as those poor bastards that I see doing laps around tiny parks / basketball courts (the monotony would drive me crazy).
by tfourb | 2025-07-14 04:57:50+00:00
Assisted dying is legal in several countries and while it is obviously a complex subject and needs well-crafted regulations to ward off some obvious moral pitfalls, it fulfills an important need and right for a society. If I, for whatever reason, feel the need to terminate my life in dignity, I should be able to, without some religious nut interfering, or me exposing anyone assisting me in that endeavor to criminal prosecution.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-07-14 04:57:57+00:00
> This is essentially the story of capitalism

FTFY

> Pre-Internet you would see the same dynamics, but usually on a much smaller regional scale

There's been plenty of national and global monopolies (I mean, that's literally why we had Antitrust laws made in the 1890's) as well as industries with only a couple players in a market.

In fact, if you name any industry, it's probably led by just 3-5 corporations. Mobile service? Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T. Television news? Disney, Paramount, Comcast, Fox, Warner Bros. Liquor? AB InBev, Diageo, Pernod, Suntory, Bacardi. Wine? E&J Gallo, The Wine Group, Constellation. Beer? Ab InBev, Heineken, Snow Breweries. Cars? Toyota, Volkswagen, Hyundai, GM, Ford, Stellantis. Airlines? Delta, American, United, Southwest, Lufthansa. Oil and gas? Aramco, Exxon, Chevron, PetroChina, Shell. Music? Universal, Sony, Warner. Coke, Pepsi, Keurig.

This is what capitalism does. By definition it grows as large as it possibly can, shutting out competitors.
by Mawr | 2025-07-14 04:58:14+00:00
The difference between just "?" and "?" + <good error message> is much greater than the difference between "if err != nil { return err }" and "if err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("<good error message") }".

Part of it is the syntactical easiness of "?", how can any other solution compete with the ease of typing a single character?

But mostly, it's that "fmt.Errorf" is built-in and widely used, as opposed to whatever library you need to go out of your way to choose to be able to easily annotate errors in Rust.
by elevation | 2025-07-14 04:58:22+00:00
These days, Verdana is generally an indicator of either organisational decay or incompetence, especially when used in print, which it wasn’t designed for.

It hasn’t been a default in tools for decades, so it suggests either the organization hasn’t been able to afford to refresh the design for 25 years or the designer is incompetent.

Hate is a strong word, but Verdana is almost certainly the wrong font for your business branding in 2025.
An Impossible Blueprint for a Symbiotic Truth Engine
by TheSeaGoose | 2025-07-14 04:58:42+00:00
We've published a detailed architectural blueprint for a symbiotic Human-AI system that claims to produce verifiable, objective truth. The premise is deliberately provocative, and we are posting it for the express purpose of having its core theses rigorously debunked by the community. All critiques welcome.

https://github.com/TheSeaGoose/The-Library-of-Truth
by valeriansaliou | 2025-07-14 04:58:54+00:00
This resembles how I monitor all infrastructure I run. One of them has 150 small independent VMs, for which I had to build a custom micro service monitoring open source tool that I still use to this day: https://github.com/valeriansaliou/vigil

There’s no certificate expiration monitoring just yet, but everything else is there: poll probes (active ICMP or TCP probes), push probes (reporting HTTP API for apps), and local probes (reporting HTTP API for sub-Vigil for firewalled infrastructure parts).
by socalgal2 | 2025-07-14 04:59:17+00:00
G-Cans is impressive but there's a lot more than this protecting Tokyo from floods. A 100yrs ago they build the Arakawa river for flood control

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3tdYolqiU8

Also, the rivers around Tokyo all have giant flood areas (parks, golf courses, farms) they can open to hold water in an emergency.
by BadOakOx | 2025-07-14 05:02:34+00:00
I'm no expert on this, but I also read about this as I also tried calorie restriction.

You still have to keep your macros (and micros) in balance while on calorie deficit, which is even harder. Your body needs various things, you just need to optimize your food. Also, I think the main contributor for OPs issues was the fat deficit, which is very easy to fall into while you think you eat healthy a lean food. Fat is important for your hormone production.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26843151/

https://shilpidietclinic.com/low-fat-diet-and-hormonal-imbal...
by Aurornis | 2025-07-14 05:02:36+00:00
> Around me I see practices like "gratitude", "meditation" and "breathing exercises" get bandied around like they're some new profound thing as if we hadn't known about for thousands of years that have appeared in various guises universally throughout different civilisations.

Most people don’t care where, when, or why a concept was invented as long as it works.

Quibbling over who discovered it first or trying to drag the conversation back to who discovered it first is like the person who tries to claim credit for being into a band before they were popular: Nobody cares, they just want to enjoy it.

> The older I get the more determined I find myself trying to glean the accrued wisdom of people who came before us...

Going back to the actual article: There is a big illusion of accrued wisdom of the ancients in TCM that isn’t backed up by the research. There are occasional hits where a TCM preparation intersects with a truly active compound, but it should be raising red flags when TCM practitioners claim to have cures for everything and different TCM practitioners will come up with different answers for the same patient. When the first one doesn’t work they’ll have another answer the next visit, and the next visit, and so on.
by adrian_b | 2025-07-14 05:02:38+00:00
It should be noted that using a parallelizable hash, like Blake2/3, does not provide higher speed by magic.

Evaluating anything in parallel is a different compromise between the time and the power needed to perform a computation, i.e. with an N-way parallel evaluation you hope to reduce the time by almost N times, while increasing the power by a similar factor and not increasing much the energy required to do the computation.

The time to compute a hash is not always the most important, especially when the hash computation can be overlapped with other data processing. In mobile and embedded applications the energy can be more important. In that case using the hardware instructions for SHA-256 or SHA-1 can provide energy savings over hashes like Blake2/3.

So the best choice for a hash function can be affected by many factors, it is preferable not to choose automatically the same function regardless of the circumstances.

Nowadays SHA-256 is widely supported in hardware and still secure enough for any application with an 128-bit security target, so it is OK as a default choice, but it may be not the best choice in many cases.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-14 05:03:57+00:00
I was referring to insurance coverage. Most people aren’t paying that inflated price.

Whenever you see a very large number for a medication or service in the United States, the patient doesn’t actually pay that number.

Companies generally have separate coverage programs for people paying out of pocket that drastically reduces the patient pay amount.

Those giant numbers attached to medications are virtually never paid by the patient.
by cdf | 2025-07-14 05:06:18+00:00
That's the fundamental problem right there.

You have no problem accepting eg a treatment can only work on a man, but not on a woman. But modern medicine have no concept of a yin body type and a yang body type, which may or may not be male and female.

The whole idea of TCM is balance, and it varies with the individual, unlike modern medicine, where there is a right and wrong answer to everything. Bacteria bad, antibiotic good. Fever bad, paracetamol good.

Take fecal transplants for example. I dont think it is well understood how it works or it will be a pill by now, and is a last resort when all else fails. And it doesnt involve killing all the bacteria, but restoring balance to the bacterial ecosystem.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-07-14 05:06:22+00:00
I have a friend that just got kicked out of his apartment, because his landlord learned that he has a very different political leaning. To answer the inevitable questions, he was on a month-to-month lease, and his landlord is a cop, so yeah, he’s screwed.

He’s also very politically outspoken on social media. I have suggested, to no avail, that he tone it down. This may do the trick.

There’s a price to be paid for being on stage, all the time. I wonder how many people have lost (or failed to get) jobs, because of stuff they’ve posted on LinkedIn (or here). I know a couple of teachers lost jobs, because they posted pictures of themselves, on vacation, with drinks in their hands.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-07-14 05:06:34+00:00
These aren't botnets in the traditional sense. These operations need a US-based laptop (they receive it by mail, from the "target" corporation upon employment) and they also need the mini-kvm device to be plugged in. Then the remote agents connect via that kvm, to make detection harder. To an enterprise IDS/IPS the laptop seems connected from a residential, US IP address (expected).

They've already arrested some people involved in this, they have devices as evidence. It's pretty well documented at this point.
by ameliaquining | 2025-07-14 05:06:50+00:00
At least in V8, this is not the case. To prove it, start a Chromium-based browser with the command-line flag --js-flags=--expose-gc, then go to https://runjs.app/play/#aWYgKCF3aW5kb3cuZ2MpIHsKICB0aHJvdyBu...
by alephnerd | 2025-07-14 05:07:38+00:00
It isn't all that different. The religious aspect of Aryuveda/Unani isn't that significant (no one is quoting sutras or the Koran in AYUSH "research"), and Aryuveda/Unani programs (BAMS/BUMS) aren't much different from their TCM equivalents in their "research" (they're aping systemic and evidence based methods the same way TCM "researchers" are) as well as curriculum.

India's AYUSH Ministry (founded 2014) is itself based on China's NATCM and the formalization of TCM in the 60s-70s.

And just like in China, BAMS/BUMS is used as a stopgap MLP in rural and underserved communities the same way TCM is in China.

Both are holdovers from the anti-colonial movement of the 50-70s that continue to be cynically used as stopgaps for failures at expanding MLP in both countries, because no real doctor wants to work in a rural primary clinic earning $200-400/mo when they can demand 6-7x that working as a doctor in an urban area with superior amenities.

That said, I've started seeing much stronger criticism of AYUSH in India than the equivalent for TCM - AYUSH doctors are increasingly shown as "negative" or "antagonist" characters or quacks in most state subsidized TV shows in India, even in BJP ruled states (eg. Gram Chikitsalay (2025) and BJP ruled Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh; Laakhon Mein Ek (2019) and BJP ruled Maharashtra; Panchayat (2025) and BJP ruled Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh) but recent CDramas like 你好，我的大夫 (2023) and 老中医 (2018) humanize and treat TCM as if it's not a quack field.
by the_precipitate | 2025-07-14 05:07:42+00:00
I think one of the main issue is that the 10x or 100x talents in AI have not yet really show their value yet. None of these AI companies are making any money, and they are valued over highly successful and profitable companies out there because of their "potentials". ARR is nothing if you sell goods valued at 1 dollar for 90 cents.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-14 05:07:50+00:00
They aren’t telling the truth when they apply. They’ll use stolen identities, fabricated backgrounds, fake reference checks, hacked LinkedIn profiles.

They are professionals at lying and interviewing. When it’s your job to get jobs and you’re doing it with organized support, you will find something.

They also don’t really care if the job is good or bad. They’re just farming any and all jobs they can get and hanging on to them until they’re pushed out. At many companies, that can take years.
by jahsome | 2025-07-14 05:08:37+00:00
>The two world wars and surrounding economic upheaval arguably came close to that in many ways. "We somehow managed to survive previous technological advances" is hardly a convincing argument that we need not worry about the implications of a new technology.

I don't disagree with your rebuttal, but if the idea that "we survived so we don't have to worry" is invalid, than the idea "if we don't do something we don't survive" is equally invalid. I don't pretend to have the answer either way.

> The implication doesn't follow. You haven't explained how you would differentiate a system that had plenty of safety margin left from one that was on the brink of collapse. Without that distinction the statement is no more than hand waving.

My point is to those experiencing the revolution in real-time they had no ability to estimate the impact or understand there were any margins, and we very well may be in that position too.

> You certainly seem to be taking a stance of "nothing to see here, this is business as usual, these recent developments pose no cause for concern".

Respectfully, I am absolutely not taking any such position. I don't appreciate the straw man, and won't bother to address it.

> It's difficult for you to see how computers being able to speak natural language on par with an undergrad is more transformative than long distance communication? You can't be serious. Prior to this you could only converse with another human.

The first principles are the same: they're all "radical" technologies which were as of a decade or two prior, utterly unfathomable. I could generalize your last statement to "Prior to <revolutionary technology> you could only <do a fraction of what's possible with the technology>."

My point is making value judgements about which is _more_ impactful is difficult to see from the ground floor. It's too early to tell; At the time it's occurring, each innovation may as well have been magic, and magic is impossible to understand, and scary.

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We've entirely diverged from the original issue I was trying to make, which was that people have actively put themselves in bubbles that confirm their own bias since the dawn of time. I'm not looking to change your mind on AI, so I can call this exchange complete from my end. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.