MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by eschaton | 2025-08-24 22:51:00+00:00
Just because many developers are irresponsible in their approach to incorporating others’ works doesn’t change how intellectual property actually works, and any project that actually cares (whether open or proprietary) will ensure that people understand their responsibilities.

What you’re saying is essentially the code equivalent of “I found this image via Google search so of course it’s OK to put into a presentation, it’s on the web so that means I can use it.” This may not be looked at too hard for an investor presentation, but if you’re doing a high profile event like Apple’s WWDC you’ll learn quickly that all assets require clearance and “I found it on the web” won’t cut it—you’ll be made to use a different image or, if you actually present with the unlicensed image, you could be disciplined or outright fired for causing the company liability.

It’s amazing how many people in this industry think it’s OK to just wing this shit and even commit outright fraud just because it’s convenient.
by groby_b | 2025-08-24 22:51:34+00:00
I feel like any article on burner phones that glosses over acquisition with "buy phone and service in cash" misses the point.

Buying a phone anonymously is much harder than "just cash". Most places demand name & address for sign-up, and if you're unlucky want to see an ID.

You really should think through where and how you buy, how to find the "off the back of a truck" places, where to get SIMs, how to pay for renewal in untraceable money and without a CC, etc.
by mvdtnz | 2025-08-24 22:51:59+00:00
Unfortunately there's just no solution for an important part of my life - gaming. If it was completely up to me I would completely ignore games that didn't work on Linux. But I maintain an important friendship group through gaming, and those guys are not going to forgo Battlefield 6 or Dawn of War 4 or any of the many games that straight up won't work. Not to mention the additional effort on my side getting a game to work when it's not officially supported - something I am not willing to put a ton of persona time into.
by aspenmayer | 2025-08-24 22:52:22+00:00
> "capitalism with American characteristics"

China is trying to beat US at its own game. US (or at least its current political leader) is trying to beat Russia at its own game. Russia is trying to remain relevant. Russia is the muscle, China is the finance.

China needs Russia just like Google (Chrome) needs Firefox. Without Russia around, China would get all of the attention instead. Without Firefox existing, Google would have no counter to antitrust allegations in the web browser space.

Anything you can do, I can do better. I can do anything better than you.

No, not like that!

It's like that Spider-Man meme where everyone is Spider-Man pointing their fingers at each other. All the power structures are mirroring each other. It's all kayfabe, all the time. Everything is wrestling.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/27/magazine/is-everything-wr... | https://archive.is/muwUp
by recursivedoubts | 2025-08-24 22:52:37+00:00
this is the logical conclusion of outsourcing: we kept giving away the low end electronics and now we can't compete on the high end w/o government subsidy

the supply chain moved to asia and the just so stories about ricardian free trade + an inflated stock market made everyone believe, while the ultra-rich got ultra-ultra-rich

and now we sit down to our banquet of consequences
by FpUser | 2025-08-24 22:53:26+00:00
>"A lot of times, waiting for the computer to finish feels like a micro-break that saves up energy for my next deep thought process."

As an ISV I buy my own hardware so I do care about expenses. I can attest that to me waiting for computer to finish feels like a big irritant that can spoil my programming flow. I take my breaks whenever I feel like and do not need a computer to help me. So I pay for top notch desktops (within reason of course).
by JustExAWS | 2025-08-24 22:53:43+00:00
Sherlocking is not unique to Apple. It’s been known for years that if you are filling in a platforms gaps and your product should be part of the platform, it soon will be.

This has been the case since software vendors had plug ins to print landscape on Lotus 123.

In the case of Apple, Connectix claim to fame was utilities like SoeedDoubler (a better 68K emulator for PPC Macs), Ram Doubler (a better memory management utility for Macs that wasn’t a scam like the Windows utilities) and Copy Doubler.
by AngryData | 2025-08-24 22:53:44+00:00
Musk has no engineering degrees, has never worked in any engineering capacity, has no patents under his belt, and has constantly run into engineering blunders directly attributed to his lack of understanding in SpaceX and all his other businesses. I think you are delusional if you think Musk has any more engineering knowledge than a highschooler with a B in science, nothing he has ever said or done has shown otherwise. On top of that I have seen numerous stories out of SpaceX itself that Elon has to be distracted away from anything important because he thinks he knows better than people with decades in aeronautical engineering.
by atombender | 2025-08-24 22:54:29+00:00
Sorry, I think you misunderstood this article.

When the author is talking about rolling back his changes, it's not referring to a database, but a version of his library. If someone tried used his new version, I assume the only thing that would have gone wrong is that their code wouldn't work because Pandas didn't support the format.

This article is about how a new version of the Parquet format hasn't been widely adopted, and so now the Parquer community is in a split state where different forces are pulling the direction of the format in two directions, and this happens to be caused by two different areas of focus that don't need to be tightly coupled together.

I don't see how the problems the article discusses relate to the reliability of software.
by like_any_other | 2025-08-24 22:54:47+00:00
> For a country claiming a limited government and the rule of law, that is a serious consideration.

I'll be blunt - I don't think anyone takes either of those seriously, not since Wickard v. Filburn in 1942.

GeekyBear gives a less blunt similar argument: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45008439
by kjkjadksj | 2025-08-24 22:55:02+00:00
Where I’ve seen these systems most in my work is connected to scientific instruments, where the manufacturer would rather you spend another half million dollars for a marginally improved model with more recent io and os support vs shipping a patch for the machine you already paid a quarter million for 15 years ago.

The system being slow and old doesn’t matter. It is running xp and airgapped. Sometimes you access the data by usb stick or burning a cd rom. The software stack it runs mainly dumps sensor data onto a flat file so its not really necessary to be very robust. And sure the ancient optiplex desktop idling all day drinks more electricity than a modern light weight chip, but that couple dollars more a week if that in electricity costs is hardly a concern in research setting.
by aspenmayer | 2025-08-24 22:55:09+00:00
It's a pendulum effect, with nationalization on one end, and privatization on the other. If capitalism and money itself is the best organizing principle that works around the world, it does limit the opportunities for change and growth. Socialism doesn't have a counter to the market principle, so they can only incorporate it. The US has a branding problem; freedom ain't free, but nobody even votes, so we earned what we got.
by Fricken | 2025-08-24 22:55:47+00:00
The other day I went down a rabbit hole reading about the history of insulin, and learned about the Canada Development Corporation:

>The Canada Development Corporation was a Canadian corporation, based in Toronto, created and partly owned by the federal government and charged with developing and maintaining Canadian-controlled companies in the private sector through a mixture of public and private investment. It was technically not a crown corporation as it was intended to generate a profit and was created with the intention that, eventually, the government would own no more than 10% of its holdings; it did not require approvals of the Governor-in-Council for its activities and did not report to parliament. Its objectives and capitalization, however, were set out by parliament and any changes to its objects decided upon by the Board of Directors had to be approved by parliament.

The CDC was created as a result of Walter Gordon's Royal Commission on Canada's Economic Prospects, and the 1968 Watkins Report commissioned by Gordon, in an attempt to redress the problem of foreign ownership in the Canadian economy by stimulating the development of Canadian owned corporations, particularly in the field of natural resources and industry

About 31,000 private shareholders invested in the corporation. An early purchase of the corporation was Connaught Laboratories, the original manufacturer of insulin.

Major investments owned by the CDC included holdings in petroleum, mines and petrochemicals including Polymer Corporation, an asset transferred to it by the Canadian government. By 1982 the Canadian government had a 58% stake in the Savin Corporation.

In 1986 the Corporation was dismantled as part of the Mulroney government's program of privatization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Development_Corporation
by wslh | 2025-08-24 22:57:15+00:00
Isn't this huge from Google's security perspective? I don't recall any previous successful attack on its core infrastructure.

A quick search/prompt shows:

- Operation Aurora: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora>

- 2010s global surveillance disclosures: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010s_global_surveillance_disc...>
by nullc | 2025-08-24 22:57:19+00:00
> Activate Google’s Advanced Protection Program

I'm dubious. This requires you give google a phone number. Almost universally if you give a company a phone number there is eventually an avenue for an attacker to convince the company to give them control of the account by demonstrating control of the number (which they've sim swapped or otherwise hijacked).

Even if at the moment there is no avenue to exploit google this way (also doubtful), all it takes is some new product (like workspaces) that has a different security understanding or new bugs to open a vector.
by AngryData | 2025-08-24 22:57:28+00:00
There are also stories from engineers at both SpaceX and Tesla that they do everything possible to keep him away from any engineering decisions because he doesn't know what he was talking about. His brainchild of the cybertruck was suppose to be a monolithic bent stainless steel shell that he spent years trying to accomplish and fired many engineers over who said it wouldn't work, and we see how that turned out with strips of low quality stainless glued onto aluminum parts that are suppose to be load bearing with a regular steel undercarriage that will still rust away.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-08-24 22:58:44+00:00
Hmm. I might be speaking from a perspective of a more.. restrained gamer ( my last bigger indulgence was BG3 and, while there were issues after updates, drivers tended to solve those eventually ). Any particular titles you have a problem with?

If you are thinking of permanently online games that effectively put malware on your system, I am ok with that not being solved ( but even for those there are ways to go around those restrictions -- which should not be surprise given the nature of cat and mouse game ).
by mpyne | 2025-08-24 22:58:56+00:00
> It’s hard to believe if you’re a person who moderates their own expenditures.

Yeah, it's hard to convey to people who've never been responsible for setting (or proposing) policy that it's not a game of optimizing the average result, but of minimizing the worst-case result.

You and I and most people are not out to arbitrage the company's resources but you and I and most people are also not the reason policy exists.

It was depressing to run into that reality myself as policy controls really do interfere sometimes in allowing people to access benefits the organization wants them to have, but the alternative is that the entire budget for perks ends up in the hands of a very few people until the benefit goes away completely.
by seanalltogether | 2025-08-24 22:59:06+00:00
I don't know about iOS, but on Android I have access to Family Link which means I can control what apps my kids can run off the app store, and I can control whether they can access explicit websites (according to google) or have free access. I know other parents that are well aware of this tool, but they have to make sure those phones or tablets are signed into with accounts they have ownership of. I think this is the direction that the government should be pushing for and making sure apple google and microsoft are all playing nicely to allow parents to manage devices under the family.
by skaul | 2025-08-24 23:00:13+00:00
> you reply to me like I need to be lectured

That's not my intention! Just stating how we're thinking about this.

> defense in depth is to prevent one layer failure from getting to the next

We think a separate model can help with one layer of this: checking if the planner model's actions are aligned with the user's request. But we also need guarantees at other layers, like distinguishing web contents from user instructions, or locking down what tools the model has access to in what context. Fundamentally, though, like we said in the blog post:

"The attack we developed shows that traditional Web security assumptions don’t hold for agentic AI, and that we need new security and privacy architectures for agentic browsing."
by Scubabear68 | 2025-08-24 23:01:01+00:00
My cousin worked in a toxicology lab in a hospital.

Way back in the 80s he was commenting on how understudied and under published Acetaminophen toxicity was.

In particular, taking Tylenol for hangovers was (and still is) a common but very dangerous practice.

As others have said, it is crazy easy to overdose on the stuff and suffer liver damage.
by kjkjadksj | 2025-08-24 23:01:32+00:00
Speaking as someone who has graded in grad school, the general advice is to look at a few questions before you start dishing out points so you can refine your internal rubric. Going back is also done because that is easier than having a student show up at office hours and ask why sally only got marked down 3 points for the same mistake on question 5.
I'm happy with Bluesky but what happened to Threads (and also "x"?)
by adinhitlore | 2025-08-24 23:01:35+00:00
So recently I decided to give Bluesky a go and while it's far from perfect (e.q. those hong kong girls who take photos hiding their faces and ask you about crypto are all over bluesky too), YET: it's fantastic in most other ways - exposure, light non-sluggish interface, free speech within reasonable limits, non-toxic, adequate recommendation algo, far less authoritarian and less snobby than x.com. Not to mention how the founder is somewhere in top 20 or top 30 most followed account unlike Musk who is weirdly no 1.

Threads.net however...what the actual f@ck? I got banned immediately without even linking my IG and hint: I've been using IG for like 5 years, without a single ban or warning. But regardless, i signed up with email only: then...ban. I waited 2 days, unbanned! Great? Or so i thought lol: I then posted 2-3 things that I thought were relatively benign? The most "shocking" post while very political and opiniated was literally posting in a thread about the Gaza genocide: "Us europeans are against Netanyahu and not against israel but i know idiots will call me 'antisemitic' anyway + I'm even listening to omer adam now" (i mean it had happened many times before so it's not a baseless guess = anything against the official politics of isreal will get you labeled "antisemitic"). I also posted that LLAMA is bad and it needs improvement...and basically nothing too hateful, disgusting etc. So unless Netanyahu controls America and Zuckerberg I can't believe this got me banned? Zuckerberg is just strange these days, be it the LLAMA 4 failure, billion $ poaches, threads.net, mma obsession like wth
by austin-cheney | 2025-08-24 23:01:40+00:00
1. Federation away from centralized ownership. This increases security by redundancies and multiple transmission paths. It applies to both technical concerns and regulatory concerns.

2. AI will begin to peter out. Investment has far outpaced results and many people will be left holding over valued assets in a super saturated market like the housing market in 2007. It’s great until it’s not.

3. Software employment will continue to reduce headcount as demand for software continues to increase. Automation and skill diversification are the names of the game. Many employers were hoping AI would solve this problem and will look for alternate solutions to make up the lost time and burnt investment spent on AI. As developers continue to become more expensive without equivalent value delivery marketplace competition will determine if employers can assume those expenses or pass them back to their customers.

4. API design will become an emerging employment option for developers. It’s what I currently do, it’s in high demand, and I don’t see a lot of people talking about it.
by monkaiju | 2025-08-24 23:02:39+00:00
I'm not sure it makes sense to assume the creative act of a person writing to other people, which is fundamentally about a consciousness communicating to others, is anything like delivering goods.

The distinction I pointed out, applied to people producing writing intended for other people to read, seems to give a really clear "line". Syntactic tools, you're still fully producing the writing, semantic tools, you're not. You can find some small amount of blurriness if you really want, like does using a thesaurus count as semantic, but it seems disingenuous to pretend that has even close to the same impact on the authorship of the piece as using AI.
by hnlmorg | 2025-08-24 23:02:44+00:00
I was largely disappointed. The subject matter was special but the execution was over the top. Every time I was starting to get drawn in, there would be another affair, car crash, exploding lorry or something else just as forced. I can’t even remember the number of times it felt like they’d “jumped the shark” in even just the first season alone.

There really wasn’t any need for half the dumb shit they did in that show. It didn’t add to the drama, it just made the whole thing feel completely fake. Which is impressive considering they’re writing largely about real world computing history.

And don’t get me started on the characters themselves. I think I liked maybe half the cast. The others made me cringe every time they were on screen.

It’s such a pity because they could have just as successful show if they refined it a little.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-08-24 23:03:16+00:00
It seems to me it was the Roadster that kick-started Tesla by making electric sexy and desirable - high performance and expensive rather than something low performance bought for ideological/eco reasons. The Tesla model S which followed wasn't cheap either, and also emphasized high performance with the dual motor and plaid options. These seem more like wealth signalling than virtue signalling.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-08-24 23:03:22+00:00
I always say that the best education I got for preparation for programming, was good ol' Algebra 2.

Depending on what type of programming we do, other math disciplines can be extremely useful, but A2 was what taught me how to do things like refactor, use variables, functions, and balance; all skills that have direct analogues in general-purpose programming.

[EDITED TO ADD] Also, stories. Word problems were very important.
by godelski | 2025-08-24 23:04:15+00:00
It's also just a complete misunderstanding in how a governments vehicle for investment works compared to a person's.

A person invests in a stock, hopes it goes up, and makes a profit (or loss) when they sell. That money isn't real until a sale occurs.

A government gives a grant and gets a return tomorrow and every single day of the company's existence as well as every single day each employee exists (even if the company doesn't). If a company exists, it pays corporate taxes. If that company has employees (as every company does), it pays payroll taxes. If that company has employees, they pay income taxes and various forms of consumption taxes.

IDK why we act like a grant is akin to lighting money on fire. Governments don't give out grants for nothing. They're still benefiting from it. Sure, the vehicles for return are different from a standard investment but also a government isn't a person. Well I should take that last part back. A government is a person in an autocracy (monarchy/dictatorship/theocracy/etc), but that shouldn't even be on the table.
by BlackLotus89 | 2025-08-24 23:06:23+00:00
Kind of a bad example. Firstly because you are comparing windows with the Linux kernel. The Linux kernel has excellent backwards compatibility. Every feature introduced will be kept if removing it could break a userland application.

Linus is very adamant about "not breaking userspace"

The main problem with backwards compatibility (imho) is glibc. You could always ship your software with all dynamic lobs that you need, but glibc does make it hard because it likes to move awkward and break things.
by jhardcastle | 2025-08-24 23:06:54+00:00
To summarize the article, I think...

A will was rediscovered that was written by Shakespeare's granddaughter's husband, who never owned the home, stating that his cousin should get the house.

The husband died first, the granddaughter (who actually owned the house) remarried, and the cousin never got the house. The granddaughter later died, and the home was demolished shortly thereafter, almost 350 years ago, and at least 200 years before this legal document was last in the news.
by sothatsit | 2025-08-24 23:07:07+00:00
Especially if you hit the rate limits, you should be on the Max plan. It will save you at least $2000/month if you hit the rate-limits on the $200/month plan, and then you can go and spend however much more you want on the API after hitting the rate limits. There are many people showing how they use 3, 4, or even 5 thousand dollars of API credits a month using the Max plan. You're just going to pay those extra thousands of dollars for the sake of it?!

It is insanity to spend thousands of dollars a month when you could be spending hundreds for the exact same product.

It's an absolute no-brainer. And it's not even "either or". You can use both the plan and fallback to the API when you get rate-limited. A 30% discount on tokens cannot match the 90% discount on tokens you get using the plan. The math is so unbelievably in favour of the plan.

There are probably people who are not heavy users where the plan may not make sense. But for heavy users, you are burning piles of your own money by not using Anthropic's Max plan. You only need a week of moderate usage a month and already the plan will have paid for itself compared to paying for API credits directly.
by sneak | 2025-08-24 23:07:27+00:00
Starship is SpaceX’s greatest technological achievement already, even if it never reaches orbit reliably (with the potential exception of the inter-satellite Starlink laser links).

Did you not see the booster catch work on the first try? The partially successful re-entry even with half the control surface melting away?

The hundreds at SpaceX are doing Apollo-level breakthrough work, and it should not in any way be minimized due to tangential Elon-hate.
by transitionnel | 2025-08-24 23:07:56+00:00
Future proofing inevitable things should be something to talk about more.

For instance, people will be scraping at a "growing" rate as they figure out how everything AI works. We might as well figure out some standard seeded data packages for training that ~all sources/sectors agree to make available as public torrents to reduce this type of problem.

[I realize this ask is currently idealistic, but it's an anchor point to negotiate from.]