MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stop50 | 2025-07-14 07:25:23+00:00
DPOs care about leaks, others not really. Mist digitalization is done in the way that the paper form is now an html form. And every city tries to do it by themself, without cooperating with even their neighbours. And it doesn't get better at the higher level. ELSTER is one of the few examples where multiple agencys coorperated. It was developed by the bavaria branch of the German IRS and all branches use it now.
by ab5tract | 2025-07-14 07:25:31+00:00
By the early 90s, “cyberpunk” had largely become self parody, meaning that the counter culture was already rejecting cyberpunk as too mainstream. Search around for the Usenet reactions to Billy Idol’s album of the same name.

Or take a look at the opening sequence of Snow Crash, where the deliverator is clearly making fun of ubiquitous cyberpunk tropes. At the time it was considered a tombstone for cyberpunk, rather than some sort of positive signal milestone.

These are only two data points to demonstrate that the “counterculture” era had already expired in the US by the early 90s, as members of that counterculture felt that it had already stopped being counter to any part of American culture.

The claim that there is “not much Japanese counterculture” is too bizarre for me to wrap my head around. The more traditional a society is, the more “counter” any underground culture is —- by definition.

American counterculture hasn’t really properly existed outside of capitalist smother and capture since the early 90s either by the way. Give No Logo a read for more on that.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-07-14 07:25:40+00:00
> focus on feeding and housing our fellow countrymen, shouldn't have our money diverted to such things

This has to be parody. JWST isn’t being cut to feed and house anyone. It’s being cut to give folks like me a tax break, so I can finish renovating my deck and buying artwork, and my neighbour so he can build a ski villa in Selkirk.
by fwsgonzo | 2025-07-14 07:26:19+00:00
I tried optimizing my CPU emulator dispatch in raw assembly to see if I could run a simple fibonacci program faster than C++. And I was not even close. In the end I merged it and made it a default-disabled dispatch option, because ... there has to be a way to make it faster!

If you are daring, you can find my puny attempt here: https://github.com/libriscv/libriscv/blob/master/lib/librisc...

I did manage to improve it once I figured out some of the various modes of accessing memory, and I even managed to cut the jump table down from 64- to 32-bit which should help keep it in memory. I made the jump table part of .text in order to make it RIP-relative. For the fibonacci sequence program, not many bytecodes are needed. I would greatly appreciate some tips on what can be improved there.
by sigmoid10 | 2025-07-14 07:26:34+00:00
>A rare but reproducible effect (1/15 training runs self reinforce)

How did you measure this? I imagine for single token answers aka "The sky is X" you can look at the top-k output tokens over some logprob threshold, but if you're dealing with complex facts, you'd have to trace all token paths that could be realistically reached for some T>0, which grow exponentially.
by Animats | 2025-07-14 07:27:19+00:00
The usual thing when some finance guy is in charge. Cut costs, raise prices, increase short term profits, defer the collapse until later. The collapse came within a year. But for one year, Tavares was the highest paid CEO in automotive.

Wikipedia: "Under the leadership of Tavares, Stellantis faced mounting criticism over its cost-cutting strategy, declining sales, and strained relationships with key stakeholders. Tavares implemented aggressive restructuring measures, including workforce reductions and tight control over product development, which some analysts blamed for delays in new model launches and weakening brand performance, particularly in North America.[45] U.S. dealers expressed concern about rising inventories and brand mismanagement, while the United Auto Workers criticized the company over job cuts and halted investment plans. Stellantis reported a 70% drop in net profit in 2024, with global shipments and U.S. market share declining significantly.[48] Amid internal friction with the board and worsening financial performance, Tavares resigned in December 2024, two years before his contract was set to expire."
by InsideOutSanta | 2025-07-14 07:27:34+00:00
This is precisely what I've been hoping somebody would build. In my initial testing, it works well. I can even mix sentences with different languages, and it still makes correct suggestions.

The fluency suggestions are seemingly largely malfunctioning. It frequently suggests starting and ending sentences with quotes, although it also makes some useful suggestions. There seems to be an issue with analysis running synchronized, or something like that; when I type into a text field and Refine starts to run, it often blocks text entry. Selecting a suggested replacement blocks the app for half a second or so. Neither of these problems occurs with Grammarly or Language Tool. I also noticed a bunch of issues that Grammarly catches (like verb agreement) that Refine does not.

But this is an amazing first release and extremely promising. Congrats!
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-07-14 07:27:36+00:00
> it should at least take care of the fucking people before it starts spending billions of dollars on non-essential activities

Let’s put aside that none of the current cuts have anything to do with helping the needy.

Societies that focus on subsistence subsist. Societies that focus on thriving thrive. ROI is a real thing. Just taking care of people, paradoxically, short changes those folks in the long run. The most productive thing a government can do is long-term investments. JWST—and the skilled labour that goes into it—is one such investment.

(Another is education, which unfortunately is required to understand how investing for the long run works.)
by avidiax | 2025-07-14 07:28:12+00:00
If you buy a latte at a coffee chain and you use their app to pay, you've probably agreed to a hundred page agreement that they reserve the right to change at any time, and which subjects you to binding arbitration, perhaps even if you decide to hand the barista a $10 note.

Disney recently tried to use the terms and conditions of a Disney+ subscription to get out of a claim arising from their theme parks.

Automation has made it so easy to bury society in legally binding click-through contracts. It's very unclear what innovation or business model the general public would be deprived of if we severely limited click-through agreements, or even wet signature contracts below certain thresholds.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-07-14 07:28:42+00:00
>but they need to trust politicians to actually produce results (and not get voted out next cycle).

Due to the lack of accountability of politicians and the greed of wealthy elites who own them, most of the democratic west became low trust societies, where people can't trust politicians to have their interest at heart anymore.

That's why you see people voting the most extreme and destructive anti-establishment candidates in almost every major democracy, because voting the least worst option as was the norm, simply resulted into a slow march towards feudalism: unaffordable housing, higher taxes, stagnating wages, decline in quality of public services, increased illegal migration, etc.

So why would people choose to vote for the same thing for multiple decades? That would be the definition of insanity.
by dminik | 2025-07-14 07:29:16+00:00
I think in practice the caller still needs to know.

If I call `a.foo()` but `a` has and is using a stackless coroutine IO but the caller is being executed from a green thread IO then as was said before, I'm hitting UB.

But, I do like that you could skip/mock IO for instance. That's pretty neat.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-07-14 07:29:47+00:00
> Couldn’t the geniuses debating whether the universe is expanding at 50 or 51 mph be put to work doing something a little more useful?

You do know that musing about the useless photoelectric effect is how we got a lot of modern technology?

At what point did we miss that civilisations that uncover milestones in basic physics tend to reap the rewards thereof?
Show HN: Javanese Script Translator (Latin ⇄ Aksara Jawa)
by rahulbstomar | 2025-07-14 07:30:03+00:00
Hey HN!

I created a free web tool to transliterate Latin characters to Aksara Jawa (Javanese script) and vice versa: https://goonlinetools.com/id/translate-aksara-jawa/

Javanese script is a beautiful traditional writing system from Indonesia, but tools to work with it online are limited. This tool supports:

Bidirectional transliteration

Unicode Aksara Jawa output

Mobile-friendly interface

It was a fun challenge to build because of the complexity of script mapping and handling regional variations. Would love your feedback, suggestions, or improvements!
by jillesvangurp | 2025-07-14 07:30:28+00:00
I know several people that complain about the exact same thing. You just naturally wake up a lot earlier when it's bright and sunny around 4-5am. Most of nature does the same thing. All the birds get crazy active early morning. The expression "up with the lark" comes from that notion. I have light blocking curtains and they do help a little. But my bedroom faces east and I get the full blast of the Sun in the morning. Somehow this is fine and does not affect my energy levels too much.

These days I don't drink alcohol any more, which has done wonders for my sleep quality. Quitting alcohol works better than almost anything else you can do. Long summer nights of drinking beer in the park (which is one of the perks that Berlin has) are not that great for this. But still, I easily sleep to 9am in the winter and in the summer I usually am awake a lot earlier. I typically stay in bet for a bit.
by mschuster91 | 2025-07-14 07:35:03+00:00
> Wikipedia, forums like this one, instant messengers, etc all worked fine

The problem is, websites got wasteful. You're not going to get any modern website - including Wikipedia - to load in anything close to usable waiting times over a modem speed constraints. HN and maybe Old Reddit are an exception but HN is a niche forum and Old Reddit is probably going to get dumped once Reddit manages to port over all features that were only exclusive to Old Reddit for like six years or so. IRC is all but gone, in no small part "thanks" to Freenode going down the drain and Slack/Discord/Teams eating its lunch.
by dawnerd | 2025-07-14 07:35:43+00:00
Video calls super important and asking questions that wouldn’t be a normal interview question. Helps to have candidates walk through and explain code they haven’t seen to reduce any prep work that may have happened. I’ve got a few questions I ask that no one is preparing for. I’ve interviewed a couple people that seemed kinda sus, maybe not working as someone else but definitely lied about their capabilities but somehow passing the coding test. This was before LLMs ruined everything too.
by ayugarg567 | 2025-07-14 07:35:55+00:00
Slack got 15K DAUs in 6 months & had an internal invite loop. Dropbox grew 100K → 4M in 15 months via referral loops. But your product will fail with them.

We’ve all drooled over stories like GroupMe, which sold for $85M just 370 days after launch. But they leave out nuance and make viral loops sound like magical cheat codes. Plug one in & boom - hockey stick. That’s rarely how it works.

These stories are half-baked.

(For those who don’t know: A viral growth loop is like a flywheel. One user brings in more users → those users bring more → and so on.)

• The reason companies like Slack, Figma, etc., saw such massive success is that their viral loop was deeply embedded in how their product worked.

It came from their product’s native usage. You can’t use Slack without your team. You can’t collaborate on Figma alone. The loop was the UX. Every new user made the product more valuable.

That’s what made it viral, not the other way around.

• A viral growth loop analysis of TikTok, for example, will dig into its discovery algorithm, viral challenges, & how great the app is.

But if that analysis ignores the fact that ByteDance spent $1B on paid advertising to promote TikTok solely in the US in 2018, then it is incomplete.

Actual attribution is crucial for understanding the success of viral loops.

Most breakdowns do not account for the money spent on PR, ads, partnerships, conferences, and other linear growth channels that contribute to the viral loops.

• Acquiring new users through incentivizing your existing users is easy (people love free stuff), but retaining them is extremely hard.

A professional networking company, BranchOut, hit 14M MAUs in 5 months using incentives. Then it tanked to 2M - no clear value prop, users churned.

And since there's no PMF, you won’t be able to incentivize their users effectively.

• Not all growth is good growth. You don’t just want more users. You want the right ones. Loops should bring in qualified users who resemble your ICP. Otherwise, you’ll inflate signups, tank retention, and poison your funnel.

Say you built a tool & threw a $100 BTC referral. Now, college kids & hobbyists start flooding in for the reward.

Your signups spike, activation drops. And worst of all, your real users start getting lost in the clutter. You waste resources chasing growth that was never going to convert.

• Every channel decays. That’s the Law of Shitty Clickthroughs. No loop gives exponential growth forever.

The truth is: great companies treat every growth loop as a temporary advantage.

-- That’s why these loops worked for them.

Every loop that worked sat on top of a product that actually delivered. The loop just got people in, and the product made them stay.

It multiplies what’s already flowing; they don’t start the engine - they just spin the flywheel.

You can’t slap a viral loop onto a weak product & expect magic. If users don’t love it, no amount of invites, incentives, or clever loop design will save you.
by georgemcbay | 2025-07-14 07:36:04+00:00
Its always been pretty easy to insert a network configuration file into an app apk's Manifest to get it to support user installed certificates so you can route ssl connections through an ssl proxy.

Its actually kind of annoying that it isn't just an OS feature (hidden behind a scary settings option that's also hidden behind being in developer mode) to enable user installed certs for any installed application. Much less annoying to debug network issues on iOS because of this and Android isn't really any more secure for it.
by TFYS | 2025-07-14 07:36:33+00:00
Those people could have been doing something more useful with their time if Bezos hadn't bought them. Because Bezos has such an obscene amount of wealth, he can outpay any other cause that people would want to pay for. Those craftsmen and workers could have built a farm and a school, but because the people that need those don't have the kind of money Bezos does, they used their time to entertain Bezos and his friends for a couple of days instead.
by tomhow | 2025-07-14 07:36:59+00:00
This is covered in the FAQ:

If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok.

Three counts as "a small number of reposts", particularly when it's from different users, and the fact that it eventually attracted upvotes and a good discussion indicates the reposts were warranted, as randomness plays a big role in whether or not a submission gets traction.

Also, we don't like to see public "callouts" like this, and the guidelines ask us to avoid accusations of astroturfing, shilling, etc, because a false public accusation is more harmful than a valid one is beneficial. Please contact us at hn@ycombinator.com if you see anything suspicious.

FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by ijidak | 2025-07-14 07:38:21+00:00
I wonder at what point this becomes like guaranteed salaries in sports, like prominent NBA players, where you work hard to get the salary. And then once you've made it, you are basically done, and it's hard to get up and motivate yourself. You've got acolytes and groupies distracting you, you're flush with cash without ever having really shipped anything or made any money. You're busy giving TED talks...

At that point, are you the 18-year-old phenom who got the big payday and sort of went downhill from there?

I imagine the biggest winners will be the ones who were doubted, not believed in, and had to fight to build real, profitable companies that become the next trillion-dollar companies.

Not that it would be bad to be Mark Cuban, but Mark Cuban is not Jeff Bezos.

And for posterity, I respect Mark Cuban. It's just that his exit came at a time when he was fortunate, as he got his money without having to go all the way through to the end.
by pedro_caetano | 2025-07-14 07:41:20+00:00
The focus is usually on the increased impact during running, but arguably when averaged over the time it is actually somewhat equivalent to walking, the 'air time' of each joint means you are effectively under no load with some form of decompression.

It is effectively a higher load with a lower duty cycle. versus walking with a lower load at about 50% duty cycle.

Joint 'damage' is a misnomer. Joint surfaces are under load/impact and friction while running, that is just biomechanics.

Other mechanical parts like bearings have a load capacity and lifetime. It is not a stretch to model the same for articular surfaces on your hips, knees, ankles.
by FabHK | 2025-07-14 07:41:54+00:00
No. Many people have family/kids and want to care for them, and their plan A is to work until retirement. If they die prior to that, the family/kids would be in dire straits. That's plan B, the issue life insurance solves perfectly well.

That, in fact, is the general (and beneficial) function of insurance: You only need to provision for the expected loss (plus some fee for the insurance), not the maximum loss (which many people could not afford).
by mschuster91 | 2025-07-14 07:42:19+00:00
> can the government easily find out that the user they've noticed on the airwaves is located there and knock down your door?

Sadly, yes. A bunch of SDRs spread over the whole country with precise clocks or a scheme like the one used in ADS-B MLAT reception (that's based on using the internal SDR clocks without requiring precise clocks on the host) is enough to use multilateration to hone in on any kind of signal, even looking up in raw signals in the past.

If I were to guess, I'd assume that even in nominal democracies the secret agencies are already running such monitoring stations so it's probably already the case that, should need be, all communications can be triangulated.

The HF bands are all small enough to be sampled whole with a single cheap RTL-SDR each, a KiwiSDR can sample literally all of them at the same time, only the VHF/UHF bands need more dedicated equipment (e.g. a BladeRF) - all of that is inside the range that hobbyists can easily afford.
by dcow | 2025-07-14 07:42:30+00:00
Then change the law. I’d probably vote with you. That’s besides the point.

The hacked up solutions for the things existing “perfectly fine” over the last few decades are complete crap. Anybody who’s ever had to take photos of their ID then a confirmation selfie knows this. Anybody who’s had to apply for a loan or open a bank account online knows this. We have wonderfully secure cryptography and you’re arguing we should keep using plastic cards that you can’t even sha256sum.
by moomoo11 | 2025-07-14 07:43:43+00:00
Very cool. I can’t run (bad knees) but I’ve been making a habit of walking at least 30 min a day, and goal of 90 minutes.

I’m happy to have hit that goal this past week, and your post inspired me to make every week a successful one in that regard. Thanks!

Cheers, best with everything!
by Roark66 | 2025-07-14 07:44:18+00:00
Yeah, pick up your computer in person will not work if you live 2d travel away. If my remote job told me to pick up the computer in person after 8h of interviews and tests I'd be seriously pissed off. If they advertised it in the beginning I'd not have applied.

In my country (Poland) courier companies offer this service of "id checking and contract signing". You can have a courier deliver a contract, check the recipient's photo ID and confirm their identity, have the person sign the contract, return it and the courier takes it back.

If there is no such service available there is only one way to prevent this from happening, proper screening of candidates. In my 20+ years of working for Fortune 500 companies in positions not far from the top only 1 - a Japanese one actually screened my educational background and called my references and past employers to verify.

If employees worry they will loose some really good candidates that have no documentable background ask them to do some other security check. Do a video call from the main street of their home town. Or some other thing randomly selected from a set of 5. If the role is really important hire someone to visit the remote worker in their home and deliver that laptop in person. But don't expect them to travel to pick it up.
by jeroenhd | 2025-07-14 07:44:20+00:00
Intel already has that in the form of E-cores, and ARM has had big.LITTLE for quite a while now.

I don't think any Microsoft employee is going to spend a day writing CPU scheduler code to make sure the seconds display in the task bar is being sent to the right low-power cores. I'm surprised they even bothered to port that from Windows 10 to Windows 11 to be honest.
by dvdkon | 2025-07-14 07:44:21+00:00
> It's just a question of the severity of the punishment for violating regulations. A couple of small fines for an unlicensed networking and collaborating - and there will be no one left.

I don't think you give people enough credit. There have been dissidents in totalitarian regimes the world over, even when the punishment was death or being sent to a labour camp.

You might think that unlicenced networking isn't important enough, but I think many people would see it as the start of China-like censorship. Especially now that we've had decades of a mostly-free Internet, I don't think people will react kindly to politicians taking it away.
by patrakov | 2025-07-14 07:44:28+00:00
Harper is so basic that I can't recommend it.

Does not catch a singular/plural discrepancy between the subject and the verb in a sentence--a common mistake when the expressed thought applies equally to one thing or to many things.

Does not catch a missed indefinite article--a common mistake for speakers of languages that don't have articles. Similarly, does not catch the use of the indefinite article for a thing already mentioned before.

Does not even catch the obvious "don;t" typo.
by ankit219 | 2025-07-14 07:45:52+00:00
Think we will see something like this in the near future. But there are two very bold claims: one is hope that RL will lead to generalization in other domains, which based on current evidence seems far fetched. Other is the softwares and specs are good "RL-gym" data. The whole idea behind RL is that model explores the best paths, but if the softwares written are suboptimal when it comes to agent interaction paradigm (they were written for humans, not agents), there is a high chance even with the compute the model would be suboptimal. There is a parallel trend where current AI systems are abstracting entire workflows. Not accounting for that would lead to outcomes which are not cognizant of the current requirements.
by jeroenhd | 2025-07-14 07:46:35+00:00
On an idle desktop that does nothing it makes sense. There's nothing else going on on the screen, so any difference becomes easier to notice.

I doubt these results are as extreme when something else is happening on screen. Those results should be added to this article later:

> We’re currently running the same test again on all three laptops to account for variance, but this time with a video playing to simulate a more active usage scenario. Once those results are in, we’ll update the relevant section with the new data.