MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jmyeet | 2025-07-17 12:41:55+00:00
"The list" is really a catch all to all sorts of Epstein-related information.

Even when you fly private, you need to provide a manifest of who is on the plane. There were hundreds of flights. The FAA has that information. One can argue it's not evidence of malfeasance and by itself it's probably not but there's also a difference once sharing a flight and, for example, visiting the island 60 times.

There are also documented connections to all sorts of people including Prince Andrew, the Clintons, RFK Jr (which he voluntarily disclosed [1]), former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Bill Gates, Alan Dershowitz, etc.

Ghislaine Maxwell's father, Robert Maxwell, was a known Mossad asset, so much so that he essentially got a state funeral in Israel [2]. He also mysteriously died (drowned) on a yacht.

Ghislaine herself was herself convicted of sex trafficking. To whom? Nobody in particular. She has remained steadfastly silent on the issue.

It's also documented fact he got the plea deal of the century in 2008 that even allowed him to travel from jail anywhere he liked as long as he was back within 24 hours, even when there was grand jury testimony of SA of a 14 year old. The US attorney who authorized the deal, Alexander Acosta, became Trump's Labor Secretary until he resigned after details came to light following Epstein's 2019 arrest.

Between the home in NYC, the home in Palm Beach and the island there were hidden cameras everywhere. There are multiple, credible accounts of tapes that went missing following the 2019 arrest.

Nobody has ever really accounted for where his money came from and what services he actually provided.

Now extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and I don't believe the "Epstein was killed" has ever come close to meeting that standard. A disabled security camera is more likely the result of guards who wanted to sleep than do required rounds than they are of murder.

But there is absolutely information the government is sitting on and tons of evidence that he (or Ghislaine) are linked to 3 letter agencies in a blackmail operation (as a so-called "access agent").

This isn't even a partisan issue: the current administration has zero interest in releasing more information about this (and is trying to downplay it, even though Epstein is core foundational mythology for the MAGA cult) but we had 4 years of the Biden administration who didn't release it either.

[1]: https://front.moveon.org/rfk-jr-s-troubling-patterns-continu...

[2]: https://archive.ph/BVWjz
by AAAAaccountAAAA | 2025-07-17 12:43:21+00:00
They recently adopted this thing, though: https://matrix.org/blog/2025/04/introducing-policy-servers/

I haven't encountered any of that kind of abuse in Matrix after it has been implemented. It partially nullifies the point of the room decentralization, though.

Some of the biggest public rooms like "Matrix HQ" are almost unusably slow, though, since they have tens of thousands zombie users.

Matrix performance feels now more or less adequate for all realistic use cases, as long as long-term idle users are pruned out every now and then from public rooms.
by throw310822 | 2025-07-17 12:44:00+00:00
"Context dependent" here means a different thing than it means in English, where the pronunciation of letters depends on the word they're in, without any hard rule. To the point of being pronounced in different ways even in homonyms: e.g. "tear" noun and "tear" verb.

The fact that there are a few rules on how to pronounce combinations of letters (and even a few exceptions here and there) has nothing to do with the total mess that is English.
by jstanley | 2025-07-17 12:44:42+00:00
Having a private local copy of the codebase is a feature. It means I can make whatever changes I want to the code without anybody else even knowing. And once I've finished mucking about with it and learning what I need to do, I can tidy it up into something I'm ready for other people to look at.

Not having a private playground is one of the big drawbacks of all the modern cloud SaaS stuff. If I want to play around and learn something, suddenly that affects everyone else. It shouldn't.
by torginus | 2025-07-17 12:44:42+00:00
I do wonder if investors have a game-plan of what happens (to their investments, not society), based on future AI trajectories - where it becomes superintelligent, where it tapers off at the level where it's useful but still needs to be babied, or where it can genuinely replace some people, but it's clearly not superhuman.

In all these cases, it's very likely no AI shop is going to have a monopoly on the tech, and cartels are not very likely, considering China (and maybe Europe) is in the game as well.

In a gold rush, sell shovels, and the company's having a monopoly in shovels in Nvidia.
by reddalo | 2025-07-17 12:44:49+00:00
It really is alive and kicking, and now there's a smarter way to find things compared to the integrated file search (which can lead to fake content, viruses or... worse).

There are some forums (yes, old-school web forums) with neatly organized content. You just copy-paste the e2dk link into the client, and voilà.

Some forums are even publicly accessible, so it's clear that nobody is seriously persecuting people for piracy in Italy.
by jerf | 2025-07-17 12:44:54+00:00
You don't. Having isolated code bases for each developer and a well-defined merge procedure is a feature, not a bug.

I've seen teams develop on a single target system, all of them bashing on the same source code base at once. It sort of works with a well-tuned team, that communicates well, and is capable of dealing with the resulting inconveniences, up to maybe 3 or 4 developers. Probably helps to have dynamic scripting languages in use by most of the devs so you aren't trying to time your compiles with each other's actions. And they still stepped on each other more than I would have been able to tolerate. There's no way this scales.

For non-code documents, by all means share. English prose doesn't crash if you start editing page 5 while someone else has an incomplete sentence fragment they're in the process of changing on page 2. But trying to edit code that way doesn't scale for squat.

From this point of view, whether it's "files" or "a database" or whatever that's being developed on isn't relevant. The point is that I actively do not want somebody else's half done work randomly getting integrated with what I'm working on right now.
by jstanley | 2025-07-17 12:45:22+00:00
You're going to ask everyone else to stop working while you test something? Even if they agree, what if they continue working in between your changes? What if they are halfway through something and the code won't even compile until they're done?

I'm sure you have good ideas about better workflows here but I don't think they're as obvious to other people as you maybe assume?
by CaptainFever | 2025-07-17 12:45:40+00:00
> But if you're sharing with someone - especially something sensitive - you probably need access controls.

Not sure how this differs from "sending a file to someone and having them promise not to send it to others".

The only thing "shared links with access controls" adds is real time sync. Which seems to be the point of your article? I'm very confused.

Because that's just an abstraction; they can still make a local copy anytime. Access controls don't magically close the analog hole.

In other words, streaming (or real time collab) is just sending copies of the file over and having their computer promise to delete it afterwards. But if we have control of our own computing (and we should), we can just override that and not delete the data that we already have.

Also, just in case: no, adding even more laws or social rules (i.e. bullying) because "collaborative docs feels different from copied files" is wrong. People have a right to remember and a right to control their computing.
by n4r9 | 2025-07-17 12:45:49+00:00
Counterpoint: when the product manager attempts to revise history about what was specified for a certain feature at a certain point in time, I'm often able to search my emails for a copy of a powerpoint they'd sent round with wording to the opposite effect. Yes, version history is a thing on collaborative docs, and our documentation processes should be a lot better, but timestamped copies are a sometimes the best way to track what happened with a piece of dev work 10 years ago.
by muzani | 2025-07-17 12:47:48+00:00
If they want to turn it into a game, I'll play the game.

Back when they were tracking it, I would split a PR into as many commits as possible and put in a commit on the weekends too so it that it would show me committing 7 days/week while the tech lead would commit 2-3 days/week. Also I'd make sure to hold back the commits done in the WFO days and hammer them in on the WFH days. And I'd be extra sure to have more stuff in closer to performance review so it was an upwards trend.

One dude in my team would comment "LGTM" on each PR to boost PR comments.

Thankfully, management were not dumb and didn't associate bonuses or anything to it. They were used only to evaluate policies like how much to refactor and whether 2 meeting days were more efficient than daily meetings. Or checking on someone they suspected of quiet quitting. After we got the data, we just unsubscribed it
by digitcatphd | 2025-07-17 12:47:53+00:00
If I’m not mistaken they are using high valuations of top companies to conclude AI is overhyped?

Sorry, but weren’t these valuations escalated because of low interest rates and quantitative easing? Perhaps combined with increased concentration in Top 10 by investors navigating uncertainty?

Typical BS coming from a mega fund only supported by management fees. not saying AI isn’t hyped but this is laughable.
by sigmoid10 | 2025-07-17 12:48:07+00:00
Good rule of thumb: When everybody talks about bubbles while rates are going down, it's a good time to invest. When everybody's talking about investing and rates are going up, it's a good time to drop out. Right now we are in the former timeframe. As long as cash remains cheap, there is no good reason from a financial market perspective for this to not go on. Is it sustainable indefinitely? No. But almost nothing in our current economy is. AI nowadays just generates easy clicks for opinion pieces like this looking at a single data point. That doesn't mean there is any reason to act on it or even just to read too much into it.
by jvanderbot | 2025-07-17 12:48:13+00:00
Not that I doubt your conclusions necessarily, but isn't this what sensor fusion is for? You can cast it as sensor "selection", which is fine, but given two sensors that show 10/1 accuracy (variance 100:1), and the estimates are consistent, I don't know why you'd expect it to have divergent results. (Am I understanding the problem here?). Your pos/alt is still measurable but with big old error bars until the precise sensors kick in.
by jerf | 2025-07-17 12:48:23+00:00
In general, I think that's a perfectly valid view for you to take. It's not the only one, but it's a valid one.

In specific, this study was a test of reading comprehension, for English majors at a university level. They should be expected to do better with a complicated sentence then "it's really foggy, I guess". Just as I expect someone in film school to be able to give a more detailed review of a movie than "It was pretty good, you should go see it", even though that may be a perfectly acceptable review if a friend gives that to me.
by kleiba | 2025-07-17 12:48:34+00:00
It's funny - you would think that this new generation of "digital natives" is already so apt with everything IT-related that they could use their tablets like wizards and give additional value to the classroom that even surprises their teacher!

In reality, however, >90% of the high school students I encountered were on the level of your grandparents 20 years ago. Like, say, they actually have trouble finding a file again they saved - mostly, because they don't even have a concept of the file system (thanks, mobile OS's!).
by snickerdoodle12 | 2025-07-17 12:49:04+00:00
My personal opinion is that since the laws haven't changed and society is still harshly punishing individuals for copyright infringement all the companies that have downloaded e.g. anna's archive should be dismantled, or at the very least their executives should be jailed.

Maybe the laws should be changed, maybe not, but the fact is that they haven't been.

RIP Aaron Swartz.
by secondcoming | 2025-07-17 12:49:08+00:00
It'd be a huge undertaking to even get the code to build.

It had its own Perl-based build system, and I'm not sure that those SDKs are even available any longer.

Edit: It looks like someone out there is still developing on it: https://gist.github.com/artem78/cb2b9650af186844f7b565496467...
by smallmancontrov | 2025-07-17 12:49:24+00:00
Right, but cheaping out on the foundation of your building has consequences -- which have come home to roost orders of magnitude in excess of the money saved.

In R&D management, this is an extremely well-known problem with an extremely well-known solution: use the oversupply to be selective rather than cheap. The fact that they chose to be cheap rather than selective is managerial incompetence of the highest order. They had one job, and they blew it. "Selective" doesn't even mean that the rating system has to be perfect or even good, it just has to equilibrate supply and demand without shredding morale. Even a lottery would suffice for this purpose.
Show HN: Needle – An Explorable Map of the News
by ryry | 2025-07-17 12:49:28+00:00
Hey HN! I wanted to know what was going on in cities/towns where my friends live, so I built Needle.

It uses an LLM + Open Street map to best estimate general locations of stories posted in the past day, and pin them on the map. For stories involving multiple places, I also wanted to show the relation between them.

It's still a little janky, and is limited to mostly Canadian sources of news at the moment, but I'm planning on expanding it shortly, as I'm keen to see what international sources are writing about my home city.

Let me know if you have any questions/feedback!
by spankibalt | 2025-07-17 12:49:41+00:00
> "But whenever someone answered the call and built a Smartphone with QWERTY keyboard, the product failed commercially, simply because also to people claiming they want such a phone, at the point of sale they were less attractive than their slimmer, lighter, all-screen counterparts."

The slab form factor is excellent industry design; modern efforts to integrate a hardware-keyboard, i. e. in a non-detachable way, are quite frankly daft. It buys the worst of both worlds: added complexity and error-proneness, more (dead) weight, awkward handling, harder maintainability/repairability, etc.

The form factor that was represented by Psion-machines such as the 3- or 5-series was great at the time, but is now obsolete, as evidenced by Planet Computers' recreations. Integrated sliders (e. g. F(x)tec) are only marginally better.

Technically, the solution of course is very elegant and simple:

1. Slab-form factor UMPC/smartphone 2. Corresponding detachable (as "attachable folder"), roughly Psion 5-sized keyboard a similar 3. Small "click-in" keyboard dock à la Pinephone keyboard or a 4. Detachable slider

But that is indeed just one variable in the whole equation; there's a whole set of features I consider essential for a smartphone- or UMPC-like device that one doesn't find anymore.
by sebmellen | 2025-07-17 12:51:26+00:00
Fair points, I wasn’t trying to be condescending. You’re right about the UK. That is a different context than the US and the trends you mention are perhaps more economically “real” there than here.

But I still think the core question matters: what do we do about it? History shows decline isn’t always permanent. Rome fell and the Black Death killed a third of Europe. But we still ended up with the fruits of the Renaissance and Enlightenment because people kept making people and working for the betterment of the world.

You mention antibiotics becoming redundant. This is true. But we’re also developing phage therapy, CRISPR antimicrobials, and new drug classes. We’re figuring out protein folding at scale for the first time. Every one of these problems eventually leads to some kind of solution so long as there are smart people paying attention to what needs to be done.

The dodo couldn’t adapt but, as humans, we can. I’m not saying ignore the problems. I’m saying don’t let them paralyze you. To solve problems, we need more smart people — someone has to keep making them!
by graybeardhacker | 2025-07-17 12:52:01+00:00
We have a number of "living documents" that are the specification for the project I'm currently working on. It's terrible. There's no easy way to know that changes have been made or what they are. Sure, there's red-lining and history. But it requires me to visually scan the document for changes every day, sometimes ever hour.

Sure emailing a copy isn't ideal, but it does have the advantage of saying "Here is a set of ideas that I've decided is complete" As opposed to "Watch my stream of consciousness and decide whether it's done or in mid-edit and act on it."
by apopapo | 2025-07-17 12:52:03+00:00
A for loop in a shell script may sometimes look like this:

`for ((i = 0 ; i < max ; i++ )); do echo "$i"; done`

Here this is essentially a "while" loop, meaning it will keep executing the commands as long as we don't reach `exit 1`.

(; flock -n 9 || exit 1; # ... commands executed under lock ...; )
by andreynering | 2025-07-17 12:52:12+00:00
Task creator here.

At the time I created it, I worked on Windows more often and I had a lot of trouble trying to find a Make build that works fine on Windows. The ones available for Windows are usually incompatible with the GNU version. So cross-platform support is one advantage of alternative tools.

Other than that, Task has a lot of features, so some use cases are not covered by Make.

That said, I'm not a Make hater. If it works for you, that's absolutely fine. Many people has found value in Task, though.
by robocat | 2025-07-17 12:52:13+00:00
> Most 16 year olds know nothing about the world - they're impressionable and easily coerced by social pressure

Sounds the same as everybody over 16 as well.

You are really saying that they lack experience to make good judgements. In a democracy every person needs to learn by experience at some age. It is fairer if they learn sooner rather than later (gerontocracy).
by rs186 | 2025-07-17 12:52:28+00:00
My biggest problem is that you get excited for the first few days, then you realize that there is very little you can learn from these toy projects, and then there isn't a project that is meaningful (to yourself) enough to persue. If you look at all those motors and sensors -- you need to think hard enough to come up with a project that makes good use of them.

I browsed maybe 50 of the most viewed project on arduino website to get inspired. There are may be 1 or 2 that somewhat interest me.

Based on impression coming from secondhand marketplace listings, my very uninformed guess is that 70% of Arduino kits and raspberry pi units purchased by amateurs are sitting in their home gathering dust, including mine.
by anamexis | 2025-07-17 12:52:29+00:00
For one, Do Not Track is on the client side and you just hope and pray that the server honors it, whereas cookie consent modals are something built by and placed in the website.

I think you can reasonably assume that if a website went through the trouble of making such a modal (for legal compliance reasons), the functionality works (also for legal compliance reasons). And, you as the client can verify whether it works, and can choose not to store them regardless.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-07-17 12:52:31+00:00
For a few decades, they paid their shareholders instead of paying competitive salaries to their employees. All the best people went to Apple/Microsoft/Nvidia/Amazon/Meta/Alphabet/Qualcomm/TSMC (adjusted for their CoL and options in Taiwan).

Intel was in the business of selling the most cutting edge, technologically advanced products in the world, but they didn’t want to pay enough for the best people.
by kypro | 2025-07-17 12:52:37+00:00
I think the term "bubble" is far too presumptuous. You can only know if something is a bubble with hindsight.

There have been examples where things look like a bubble to some market participants, but turn out to be more or less a good reflection of that thing's future value.

AI is uniquely hard to value too because there's so many exponentials which may or may not occur, with those exponentials both having the potential to make products exponentially more valuable or redundant.

There's also different parts of the AI stack and again it's really hard to see which part of the AI stack holds secure value, perhaps with the exception of the hardware providers.

Anyway, I suspect in a few years those calling AI a bubble will mostly be proven wrong, but that's just my sense of things.
by rglullis | 2025-07-17 12:52:50+00:00
> Shall the number go up indefinitely?

False dichotomy.

> Also, if we should give people all the power they need, then we arrive to the abolishing all law and regulation in all areas of the life (...)

Non-sequitur.

> The tool is the result of exponentially increasing complexity of doing something simple.

The tool is for someone that needs to solve a problem at a different scale than what you and I need. You don't have to use it. No one is forcing you to adopt it. Their problems do not apply to you and no one is stripping you of the ability to solve your problem the way you see fit.

> there's no desire to flex and widen the perspective.

There is. I'm honestly trying to understand whether there is any real value there. I consider myself to be reasonably capable of arguing for two conflicting points at the same time, provided that the trade-off is consistent.

E.g, I may not agree with the direction that Bluesky has taken, but once you understand their original motivation (to have a "credible exit" strategy for an existing centralized network), then it makes sense. I think that Nostr's decision to tie identity to their cryptographic keys is absolutely moronic, but at least their approach is consistent with their priorities and ideas about decentralization. I think that most ActivityPub devs are creating "horseless carriages" (recreating federated versions of the centralized networks, when ActivityPub has the potential to be the foundation of the Semantic Social Web [0]), but at least this approach can be justified as a stepping stone to reach the larger objective...

I can not say the same about Gemini. It is being developed and is guided only by the things that it does not do. My best attempt of steel-manning it goes like "Gemini users consider themselves so powerless against the traps of Surveillance Capitalism, they think that the only way they can resist the siren song is by tying themselves to the boat mast. They see themselves as alcoholics who know they will relapse if they go out to the bar with their old friends, so they are building a place where drinks are not available."

But this is not the argument I hear. All I hear is a bunch of people talking about how awesome it is to sail the seas while tied to the boat mast.

[0]: https://cosocial.ca/@evan/113143389340566731
by lvl155 | 2025-07-17 12:52:55+00:00
Not even close. Dotcom bubble was massive. Mom and pops were leveraging into tech stocks. I don’t see anything like that today. Is your 75-yo aunt bragging about how she bought Nvidia options? People who lost everything in dotcom and lost it all again during the financial crisis have become PERMANENTLY risk-averse. These are a majority of retired boomers which makes them even more risk-averse because they’re now retired. Dotcom equivalent would be if S&P more than doubles from here.