MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by immibis | 2025-07-12 19:04:45+00:00
Clarification: an exact specification of socialism does not exist, but one of the consistent themes is that everything is democratized - in the sense that power rests with the people, actual power not just nominal - not necessarily by voting on everything.

The Soviet Union had big guys at the top who controlled everything from a distance, it was literally just a dictatorship (at least by the end).
by dahart | 2025-07-12 19:04:45+00:00
I definitely listened to a lot of Tomita as a kid, I used to check out vinyls of his albums from my local library. The one that sticks with me most distinctly is his very unique rendition of Golliwog’s Cakewalk. https://youtube.com/watch?v=dPQ9d10fnko But yeah, lots of other great stuff from him too.
by api | 2025-07-12 19:04:53+00:00
Devils advocate: parents that are too busy or not tech savvy are helpless to block content without essentially forbidding their kids from using any connected device.

I run a pi-hole that blocks ads and porn, but that’s way beyond the technical capability of probably 95% of people. There are some commercial products but they are expensive and also take time and at least a little tech ability to set up.

… and of course any phone with 5G/LTE gets around this. Cellular is impossible to police.
by BrendanEich | 2025-07-12 19:05:03+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43336441 (ladybird)

You go build a web engine. I've done it enough and the fight for user rights is a level up now. Brave would have died on the Gecko or Servo hill, and quickly, if we'd been foolish enough to charge up it.
by hexage1814 | 2025-07-12 19:05:29+00:00
> what are the odds the pilot asking on record "did you flip the fuel cut-off switch?" is the one who actually flipped the switches and was simply trying to fool the would-be investigation (even knowing they all are about to perish)?

This is such a diabolical mind-game that it never occurred to me. Like, they would all die, why would he want to incriminate someone else? But yet, people are weird and crazy. And maybe he didn't go down as a killer and decided to incriminate the other pilot? Anyway, it is totally possible to have happen. Sadly there are no cameras the cockpit, and a camera in the cockpit would really have help to find who did what.
by _heimdall | 2025-07-12 19:05:39+00:00
I did mean well, thanks for assuming good intent here. I still don't understand how 9 of 28 could have the adverse event of malaria, though, given that other data in the results show that 1 participant had what seemed to be a reinfection with a genetic match and 6 others were infected again with a parasite that didn't match their original infection's genetic makeup. That is 7 individuals, where do the other 2 come from?

My uncertainty is that I may be misunderstanding the meaning of malaria as an adverse event entirely here - I don't get how reinfection would be an adverse event rather than a potential failure of treatment.
by aaronmdjones | 2025-07-12 19:06:07+00:00
There was also https://www.techspot.com/news/108619-mcdonalds.html

> Moreover, when Carroll attempted to alert Paradox to the breach, he was unable to find a security disclosure contact. The company's security page mostly consists of a simple assurance that users shouldn't need to worry about security. Eventually, after the researchers emailed "random people," Paradox and McDonald's confirmed that they resolved the issue in early July.

Shouldn't need to worry indeed. McDonald's evidently doesn't either.

Can someone tell them to put "Set a password a five-year-old child can't guess" onto their deployment checklist?
by arp242 | 2025-07-12 19:06:10+00:00
And their Facebook/Twitter accounts have no meaningful engagement at all. 123 followers on Twitter, which is pathetic. Even I managed to get ~600 followers, mostly from when my blog ended up on the HN frontpage. I barely posted on Twitter. It's a massive discrepancy from their 6.3 million YouTube subscribers. Together with the view count rollercoaster, this does not smell kosher.

So it seems that a bad faith bullshitter who will abuse any system to bits to earn a buck is engaging in bad faith bullshit behaviour on account of being a bad faith bullshitter who will abuse any system to bits to earn a buck. I am shocked I tell you. Shocked!
by everdrive | 2025-07-12 19:06:15+00:00
Others have said this, I'm sure, but this will move past porn _quickly_. Once there is agreed-up age verification for pornography, much of the professional internet will require identity verification to do _anything_. This is one of the bigger nails in the coffin for the free internet, and this true whether or not you're happy with all the pornography out there.
by browningstreet | 2025-07-12 19:07:05+00:00
There’s no plausible discussion of reducing spending when the added debt commensurate with that effort is as astronomical as it is.

This is privatization and federal dismantling, and it’s happening so fast and recklessly it will also show up as cultural and civil destruction too. He’s wrecking America so that technocrats can buy it all up.

There’s no intended upside for citizens or for the society they make up. People die and his supporters shrug and defend. It’s Microsoft’s embrace, extend, extinguish as political policy, but reduced by hyperscaling to “eviscerate”.
by api | 2025-07-12 19:08:15+00:00
What happens when their friends have them?

It is very hard for parents who aren’t tech savvy or are busy (single parents or both work) to police this stuff.

I’m playing devils advocate because if we pretend this isn’t a problem eventually governments will force onerous regulation. It is a problem. We need to come up with better solutions if we don’t want worse ones.

It’s devils advocate because I think while kids shouldn’t be looking at porn the brain rot shit is at least as bad and possibly worse. Kids YouTube is a lobotomy.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-12 19:08:18+00:00
There are numerous serious problems with this PCB. Even skimming the data sheets or design guides for the ESP32 or LDO would reveal them.

I’m puzzled why the post calls it “surprisingly good” when it’s so bad and missing basic requirements for different parts. I guess it’s surprising that anything at all was produced, but it’s weird that the author can’t identify the basic problems with the design.

This is similar to situations where someone uses an LLM to vibe code an app until it kind of works, but then an experienced developer takes one look at the codebase and can immediately see it was not developed with any understanding of the code.
by madamelic | 2025-07-12 19:08:23+00:00
> one of the people who legit joins a startup, is passionate, working long hours, earning your vest, to have your coworker pretending to be working.

Why.

I have worked in VC-backed startups for over a decade. The individual employee isn't going to change the direction of the company regardless of how hard they work.

The people who make or break the startup are the founders. Even the middle managers do not matter. If the founders / top level leaders have no idea what they are doing and do not want to make money, nothing a single engineer does even matters.

The best thing an engineer can do in that scenario is give advice and do work as prescribed. Trying to save the founders from themselves is a recipe for going crazy and burning out.
by mindslight | 2025-07-12 19:09:33+00:00
> allow any child to wander in and check out books showing super explicit porn

As far as I'm aware, online sites generally don't let children wander in either. One of the reasons being they will make a mess of the cabling.

That's obviously in jest, but the point is that physical presence is the entire crux here. When entering a physical space, you do so with a physical body that society has demanded be able to be identified. And age can often be determined without even fully verifying identification, which is why our society has been so accepting of age checks.

The Internet has flourished precisely because of the foundation where one does not need to be identified. In fact one does not even need to be human, nor accessing a digital service the way the publisher intends. Separation of concerns. This has worked for what, 30 years at this point? An entire generation? If parents are still buying their kids hardcore pornography terminals these days, they've got no one to blame but themselves. And no, I do not care that "everybody else is doing it".

Ultimately, the "logistics" cannot be separated from the "morality" - it is a different type of space, and the moral thing to do is engage with it as it is, instead of demanding centralizing authoritarian changes.

These demands are from a narrow contingent of people that could straightforwardly build their own desired environment (the content blocking you've referenced as a straw man, or more accurately kid-friendly content curation), but yet have not done so. Because ultimately these types of calls are never actually about "the kids" but rather a general desire to insert themselves as morality police into everyone's business.
by cema | 2025-07-12 19:09:39+00:00
Many professional therapists are working online now. There are advantages and disadvantages of each approach. Sometimes it is better for a patient to be at home in a comfortable situation during a session. Sometimes visiting the therapist in an office provides a welcome change of scenery.

In some cases, such as certain addiction clinics, the patients are required (by law, if I remember correctly) to visit the clinic, at least for some sessions.
by _Algernon_ | 2025-07-12 19:10:39+00:00
Why is it everyone else's responsibility to keep it out of the hands of 10 year olds by being 24/7 surveilled by the government, instead of the parents' responsibility to regulate internet access for their 10-year old?

Not that gay erotica seems that harmful, even for a 10 year old. They probably don't seek it out as much as you thing they do. If they do, it is probably a beneficial step in their development given what they learn about themselves in a safer environment than the probable alternative.
by ck2 | 2025-07-12 19:10:41+00:00
It's not about reducing spending (they just added $3+ TRILLION this year out of four)

It's about destroying science, not just current science but the future of science.

By destroying all existing structure so that it will cost trillions to rebuild so impossible anytime soon.

Including academia that seeds the science.

They aren't "conservatives" they are "regressives".
by somehnguy | 2025-07-12 19:11:57+00:00
Caddy has been excellent for me thus far as well. I'm using it on a VPS to reverse proxy to the services I run at home via a Tailscale tunnel. Coming from Nginx in the past Caddy was drop-dead simple to configure.

The entire config for each vhost is 3 lines, including the domain definition and closing brace - and that includes TLS!
by diggan | 2025-07-12 19:12:16+00:00
Sure! I think the Arab Spring mostly was possible because of social media, and wouldn't have happened as fast or maybe at all otherwise. Overall it seems like the net effects of that were positive, although a highly tumult time-period obviously and still has lingering effects that aren't super great.

Besides that I'm also having a hard time coming up with positive examples, hence the question.
by procaryote | 2025-07-12 19:12:45+00:00
The problem is that 2400rps is such a tiny number. You can ddos yourself accidentally from a few browsers and a bug that makes it retry a request over and over; and the whole service will melt down in fun ways before you can isolate that.

The thing limiting you to that number also isn't just the startup cost. If it was, you could just run more things in paralell. The startup cost kills your minimum latency, but the rps limit comes from some other resource running out; cpu, memory, context switching, waiting for other services that are in themselves limited, etc. If it's cpu, which is very likely for python, any little performance regression can melt down the service.

Life is so much easier if you just get a somewhat performant base to build on. You can get away with being less clever, and you can see mistakes as a tolerable bump in resource usage or response times rather than a fail-whale
by tripletao | 2025-07-12 19:12:59+00:00
The video seems more clear. The LLM generated the BOM and netlist using atopile, a tool for specifying the equivalent of a schematic in code. He did the placement and routing in KiCad in the usual way, presumably by hand.

ETA: Other commenters suspect a traditional autorouter based on the poor layout quality. I agree that's also possible, and nothing in the video excludes that. It definitely wasn't the LLM, though.
by ompogUe | 2025-07-12 19:14:33+00:00
This. Learn how to learn. And the more you learn, the more (and faster) you can learn. I hit a wall with rounding in Qlik the other day, in 30 minutes of experimentation I had it nailed (as stupid as it is).

That said, I started programming in basic when <10 yo in 1980 on a mainframe, so am not a good example of someone who has been spoon-fed expectations of what it takes to be a true badass.
by pstuart | 2025-07-12 19:14:58+00:00
It would help if we had consensus on what Government is.

Many (including myself) believe that Government should be for "the common good", via a legal system, government investments in shared needs/resources, etc.

The current admin believes that Government exists for only two reasons: personal enrichment and punishing perceived enemies. I'd love to be proven wrong but I don't see that happening.
by lastcat743 | 2025-07-12 19:15:15+00:00
State is the lie.

State is a reading in the moment of “now” (a decaying proposition of accuracy.)

It is potential, and “potential distribution“ (uncertainty) which underly state.

The universe is Potential distributing, state is a sample. That state (even “information”) is the building block of existential reality is a lie.

“Uncertainty” (soft core term for “entropy”) is the distribution of potential over “negative potential”. This “negative potential” is the entire surface area of distribution. This is all that “manifold geometry”. The well trained boffin theologically accepts that entropy is state distribution. State distribution is a boundary condition of potential (constructive and destructive interference.)

Behold, potential distribution, not number of states is the measure of entropy.

Modern information theory is a lie.
by Grosvenor | 2025-07-12 19:15:53+00:00
Try Michael Crichtons "The hot zone".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hot_Zone

There's entire chapters of this:

"The author describes the progression of the disease, from the initial headache and backache, to the final stage in which Monet's internal organs fail and he hemorrhages extensively in a waiting room in a Nairobi hospital. "

Edit: Richard Preston, not Michael Chrichton. Not sure what I was thinking.
by zozbot234 | 2025-07-12 19:16:26+00:00
> With fixed line numbers? Refactoring was near impossible. Spaghetti code was par for the course.

Yup, even for the old 8-bit computers FORTH would've been a lot more elegant than BASIC. But back in the day BASIC came with highly valued conveniences such as a soft-float implementation that meant support for the "desk calculator" use case was available out of the box, and users could just go on from there.
by TimorousBestie | 2025-07-12 19:16:40+00:00
Yeah, me too. It’s very chilling to see the resurgence of a very broad conception of parental rights, which can in some cases permit the wholesale physical, emotional, and sexual abuse of children without recourse.

It’s hard to talk about it without being accused of hyperbole, but some of these proposed laws come very close to making children the property of their parents. As someone who grew up in an abusive household, that makes me exceedingly uncomfortable.
by Casteil | 2025-07-12 19:16:50+00:00
>Esp when the lowest setting isn't even meant to be purchased

All current models ship with 16GB so this isn't really true anymore.. 16GB will be good for most folks for years and years (most folks aren't doing heavy virtualization or other highly ram-intensive use cases).

>and the specs are so low they will underperform, or be obsolete in a few years.

...what?? People are still using OG M1 macs because they're still very capable machines. These things - especially the M4s - have crazy amounts of performance headroom.
by bpodgursky | 2025-07-12 19:17:05+00:00
The fundamental problem is that the public

1. Wants to cut the budget so we don't go broke

2. Punishes anyone who talks about unsustainable retirement, disability, and healthcare entitlement programs.

So, they get politicians who try to find a third way, even if it doesn't make a budgetary difference. To get out of this, the public (especially the boomer retiree population) needs to be more mature about the fiscal situation they put the country in and realize they are not living within their means.
by sensanaty | 2025-07-12 19:17:11+00:00
Good lord I think I'd rather eat a shotgun than be forced to review a billion garbage PRs made by PMs and other non-technical colleagues. It's bad enough reviewing PRs backenders write for FE features badly with AI (and vice versa), I cannot even imagine the pits of hell this crap is like.

What happens when inevitably the PR/code is horrid? Do they just keep prompting and pushing out slop that some poor overworked dev is now forced to sit through lest he get PIP'd for not being brainwashed by LLMs yet?
by alwa | 2025-07-12 19:17:36+00:00
At the same time they seem pragmatic about putting their mark on standards. It seems to me like we’re at a confluence: a regulatory tipping point where there really is pressure to bring laws to bear on online harms affecting kids; and a socio-technological moment where “gotta distinguish kids from adults” can realistically happen separately from “…by handing over personal info directly to shady random counterparts.”

Individual smartphones with biometrics are these days a whole-of-society norm, technologists have developed a mature body of cryptographic work to assert ZKPs, the US population seem to have lost their aversion to centralized ID systems… and the periodic moral panic about the kids seems to be at a high tide.

In the same way that Apple don’t prevent, say, Safari from being used for prurient purposes, or Final Cut Pro from being used to edit naughty bits, I don’t see why they wouldn’t want an opinionated implementation as a concept develops of a generic “digital tool to assert your age, and only that.” Especially since Android is doing it and leaning into the privacy angle.
by meowkit | 2025-07-12 19:17:39+00:00
Zero knowledge proof smart contract verification called by the site interested in your age. You provide your public key wallet with its government issued soul bound NFT of your identification.

This can be done, its not that crazy, it just requires a bunch of people to get their heads out of their sand in regards to tech and blockchain, which admittedly might be a harder problem.

——

Additonal thought- if you don’t understand what I’m saying or have a negative reaction just plug the comment + thread context into an LLM and see what it says / ask for a clearer explanation.
by akie | 2025-07-12 19:17:52+00:00
Look at this one for example - my mind is blown: https://blog.decryption.net.au/images/macpaint/lesson3d.png

How do you even do that? Zoomed out it looks like a nearly photorealistic street scene, zoomed in I just see seemingly meaningless patterns of black and white. Magic. Unbelievable.
by browningstreet | 2025-07-12 19:17:54+00:00
One reason I’m not especially hopeful is that the resistance is mostly still focused on highlighting the breaches with no actual follow-up. There’s no “Team Resistance”.

The socials are replete with incremental accounting of how each step aligns with Project 2025. No shit. So, many of his voters didn’t read Project 2025, or if they did.. they’re not playing it forward to see what it looks like 10 years in the future.

But what feels true, too, is that the DNC hasn’t read it either. Or if they have, they’re not working against it. I know there are efforts in courts to deny some of these things, and that’s commendable.. but there are no real social or political unities arising to play offense in the next political cycle.

So we have very little defense, and almost no offense. And the referees are bought.
by _Algernon_ | 2025-07-12 19:18:01+00:00
The fundamental problem—and it's a big one—is that in the physical world, age verification does not result in a centralized log of when and where I was, and what I did. If I buy cigarettes I show my paper id to some dude and then buy smokes. It's transient with no record (except the fallible memory of the bloke doing the ID check).

This is not true for the proposed age verification schemes for the internet and that is a big problem. Unless this is solved, these schemes deserve every level of resistance we can muster.
by refulgentis | 2025-07-12 19:19:11+00:00
Ahhhh, after reading this, I think the part I was missing is swimming events aren't general w/r/t method

i.e. I'm familiar with track and field - it's "transport yourself X distance, fastest time wins"

With swimming, its "transport yourself X distance using method Y"

And you could have used the methods described in a race where method Y == backstroke at some point, as the requirements for backstroke were such that you just did a couple things quick, then could go underwater and do your thing till you finish...but that workaround is no longer available given the 15m rule.

(ty all)
by satvikpendem | 2025-07-12 19:19:27+00:00
This is not open source, they have a "modified MIT license" where they have other restrictions on users over a certain threshold.

Our only modification part is that, if the Software (or any derivative works thereof) is used for any of your commercial products or services that have more than 100 million monthly active users, or more than 20 million US dollars (or equivalent in other currencies) in monthly revenue, you shall prominently display "Kimi K2" on the user interface of such product or service.
by imiric | 2025-07-12 19:20:00+00:00
I'm not arguing in favor of technical complexity or ingenuity.

My point is that the perceived value of a service or product is directly related to its competitive advantage, product differentiation, and so on. When the service is made from the same cookie cutter template as all the others, the only value that can be extracted from it is by duping customers who don't know better.

There are entire industries flooded with cheap and poorly made crap from companies that change brand names every week. Code generation tools have now enabled such grifters to profit from software as well.
by pdonis | 2025-07-12 19:21:00+00:00
> you can use the energy from the swimmer in front of you to 'spring' yourself forward

When I swam competitively in the early 1980s, we did this during workouts; we'd all swim in a line with very close spacing, and switch off who was in front after every lap (two lengths--this was in a 25 meter pool). Being in front you could feel the extra work you were doing.
by zozbot234 | 2025-07-12 19:21:40+00:00
They also mention that they explicitly wanted this - a state-of-the-art reimplementation of the old C64 - to be their first released product, which makes some sense. It's also the product where their Commodore trademark - the real value behind this new effort - is most relevant, shifting away from the old pattern where random products would be "Commodore" branded, with no real link to the company's history or to any plausible "retro futurism" vision.