MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lazide | 2025-08-14 11:57:15+00:00
I once ran across Zuckerberg in a Palo Alto cafe. I only noticed him (I was in the process of ordering a sandwich, and don’t really care about shit like that) because he was being ‘eeeeeeee’d’ by a couple of random women that he didn’t seem to know. He seemed pretty uncomfortable about the whole thing. One of them had a stroller which she was profoundly ignoring during the whole thing, which I found a bit disturbing.

The next time I saw him in Palo Alto (a couple months later on the street), he had 2 totally-not-security-dudes flanking him, and I saw at least one random passerby ‘redirected’ away from him. This wasn’t at the cafe though, it wouldn’t surprise me if he didn’t go there again.

This was a decade before Luigi. Luigi was well after meta was in the news for spending massive amounts of money on security and Zuck had a lot of controversy for his ‘compound’ in PA.

I can assure you, Meta is well aware of the situation, and a Luigi isn’t going to have a chance in this situation.

The reality in my experience that is any random person given the amount of wealth these folks end up with would end up making similar (or worse) decisions, and while contra-pressure from Luigi’s is important in the overall system, folks like Zuckerberg are more a result of the system and rules than the cause of them (but then influence the next system/rules in a giant Oroborous type situation).

Kind of a we either die young a hero, or live to be the villain kind of thing. But because the only reason anyone dies a young hero is because they lost the fight against the prior old villains. If they’d won (even in a heroic fashion), life would turn them into the old villains shortly.

The wheel turns.
by surajkumar09 | 2025-08-14 11:57:28+00:00
In the bustling city of Amritsar, where the golden light of dawn kissed the marble of the Harmandir Sahib, lived a young woman named Amanat Mann. She was known in her neighborhood not just for her striking hazel eyes, but for the quiet strength that seemed to anchor everyone around her.

Her late father, a schoolteacher, had once told her, “Amanat, your name means a trust, a treasure. Always live so that people know they can trust you with their hearts.” Those words were etched into her soul.

One winter morning, while running her small bookstore near the old clock tower, Amanat overheard a frantic boy asking passersby for help—his grandmother’s medical papers had blown away in the wind. Without hesitation, Amanat left her shop and ran after the fluttering papers. She chased them through narrow alleys, over market stalls, until she finally caught them near the railway tracks.

When she returned the documents, the boy’s tearful gratitude reminded her of something her father used to say: “The smallest act of kindness can change the course of a day, or even a life.”

That night, Amanat realized that her life’s real work wasn’t just selling books—it was preserving the warmth of human trust in a world often too hurried to care. From then on, she started a small initiative at her shop: a wall where people could leave notes of hope, job offers, lost-and-found messages, or even book recommendations for strangers.

Over time, her bookstore became more than a business—it became a safe haven, a place where trust lived, just like the woman who kept it.

And so, Amanat Mann didn’t just carry her name—she became its living proof.
Instagram account disabled for "impersonation", any advice?
by xyzzy9563 | 2025-08-14 11:57:31+00:00
My Instagram account was disabled for alleged impersonation but I didn't do anything wrong, and my appeal failed as well. I filed appeal with taking the video of my face but it got denied after a few hours and won't let me re-appeal and says all my data will be deleted. My account is several years old. I was posting on Threads a lot and I suspect some random person reported me for impersonation (even though I am just representing myself). Anyone have advice?
by ajsnigrutin | 2025-08-14 11:58:24+00:00
Everybody blames facebook, noone blames the legislators and the courts.

Stuff like this could easily make them pay multi-billion dollar fines, stuff that affects more users maybe even in the trillion range. When government workers come pick up servers, chairs and projectors from company buildings to sell at an auction, because there is not enough liquid value in the company to pay the fines, they (well, the others) would reconsider quite fast and stop with the illegal activities.
by bjackman | 2025-08-14 11:58:33+00:00
With normal watches, the straps are usually on a standard attachment, they only differ in one dimension (the width of the strap in the axis parallel to your arm) so you just need to find a strap that fits that dimension.

Unclear if Pebble 2 follows that standard but would be worth checking. I'm sure you can find a strap that fits your wrist.
by grishka | 2025-08-14 11:59:27+00:00
> Nothing is preventing people from doing exactly this.

I try my best to do this but it's futile.

See, even if you don't use the algorithm, the algorithm still uses you. So, for example, you can't just discuss something on Twitter with your followers. Sometimes it would decide to show your tweet to a bunch of random people with the radical version of the views opposite to yours, and you will be forced to use the block button way too damn much. You can't opt out of having your tweets recommended to strangers.

Even when that doesn't happen, many of your followers would still miss your posts if you don't appease the algorithm because they would still use the algorithmic feed — whether knowingly or because of all the dark patterns around that setting (it's very hidden, never sticks, or both).

So no, the very existence of the algorithmic feed is the problem, it ruins the experience for everyone regardless of whether they use it or not.
by j-krieger | 2025-08-14 12:00:14+00:00
Sure. University / Government sector. I know quite some unis/projects in that field that switched to caddy, since gigantic ip ranges and deep subdomains with stakeholders of many different classes have certain PKI requirements and caddy makes using ACME easy. We deploy a self serving tool where people can generate EAB-Ids and Hmac keys for a sub domain they own.

Complex root domain routing and complex dynamic rewrite logic remains behind Apache/NginX/HaProxy, a lot of apps are then served in a container architecture with Caddy for easy cert renewal without relying on hacky certbot architectures. So we don't really serve that much traffic with just one instance. Also, a lot of our traffic is bots. More than one would think.

The basic configuration being tiny makes it the perfect fit for people with varying capabilities and know how when it comes to devops. As a devops engineer, I enjoy the easy integration with tailscale.
by wat10000 | 2025-08-14 12:00:15+00:00
Note that legal tender does apply to private entities when it comes to paying debts, at least in the US. Creditors must accept legal tender, or give up claim to the debt.

It’s true that private businesses can set pretty much any payment terms they want for a transaction that hasn’t yet taken place. But the moment you move to a situation where you owe money, they do have to accept cash.
by FabHK | 2025-08-14 12:00:17+00:00
Seems misleading or at the very least incomplete not to mention that basically only the US has these high credit card interchange fees of 2-3%.

EU & UK cap it at 0.3% (0.2% for debit cards), and the rest of the world are closer to EU than US fees, if I understand correctly.

The power of the free market.
by Jotalea | 2025-08-14 12:00:36+00:00
As far as I know, you can generate an APK from a Python project, using python4android and buildozer. I never got it to work though..

But you can compile an APK from Java/Kotlin source (both your own and 3rd party OSS apps) and install it on your device, the app to do so is called CodeAssist.
by tejohnso | 2025-08-14 12:00:39+00:00
I'm also on foundations 3 at this point and love the system. I combine it with Anki to reinforce the retention of older material, and I find the price very reasonable for something that helps me learn math consistently.

As for the price, I see people mentioning text books as a cheaper alternative, but Math Academy includes review work, tests, and retakes when necessary. It takes care of the organizing and evaluating that is related to but not the same as the learning. You can focus on being a student, without having to also be the teacher.

I would love a full depth, accredited system that didn't cost thousands of dollars.
by KarolBozejewicz | 2025-08-14 12:00:51+00:00
Thank you for this thoughtful and critical feedback. This is exactly the kind of engagement we were hoping for, and you've raised two absolutely crucial points that are at the very heart of our project. 1. Regarding the AI's influence and the originality of thought: You are right to be skeptical. This question of agency in human-AI collaboration is the central phenomenon we want to investigate. Our "Founding Story" is the summary, but the detailed "Methodological Appendix: Protocol of Experiment Zero" (which is linked) documents the process. The model I followed was not one of passive acceptance. The human partner (myself) acted as the director and visionary, and the AI's evolution was a response to my goals and, crucially, to the harsh critiques I prompted it to generate against its own ideas (our "Red Teaming" process). The ideas were born from the synergy, but the direction, the ethical framework, and the final decisions were always human-led. This dynamic is the very phenomenon we propose to study formally. 2. Regarding the measurability of consciousness: You are 100% correct that ontology and phenomenal consciousness are not directly measurable with current scientific methods, and that they belong to the realm of philosophy. We state this explicitly in our manifesto. Our project is therefore more modest and, we believe, more scientific. We are not attempting to "measure consciousness." We are proposing a method to measure a crucial, behavioral proxy for it: the development of grounded causal reasoning. Our core research question is whether embodiment in a physics-based simulator allows an AI to develop this specific, testable capability (e.g., via our "Impossible Object Test") more effectively than a disembodied model. We believe this is a necessary, albeit not sufficient, step on the path to truly robust and safe AGI. This is a complex topic, and I truly appreciate you raising these vital points. They are at the heart of the Nexus Foundation's mission. Thank you again.
by mschuster91 | 2025-08-14 12:01:04+00:00
> I only noticed him (I was in the process of ordering a sandwich) because he was being ‘eeeeeeee’d’ by a couple of random women that he didn’t seem to know. He seemed pretty uncomfortable about the whole thing.

Pretty funny considering that Facebook's origin story was a women comparison site, or this memorable quote:

> People just submitted it. I don't know why. They 'trust me'. Dumb fucks.
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by jk_notes | 2025-08-14 12:02:12+00:00
It's opinionated software because I think kanban is the best and simple tool to organize tasks. Notes are for writing longer text like journal. And calendar to manage what and when you need to do something.

I started with using three different tools for that but having everything in one place gives you benefit of implementing search everywhere and you don't have to copy yourself.

Kanban board is integrated with Calendar view so if you have tasks with time they will show up in Calendar automatically.

And data stays only on your device which is IMO best option if you care for your privacy.

Web demo: https://constito.com/demo/

I started development with Tauri and it was great but unfortunately due to issues with WebKit on linux I moved to Electron (which is also fine).

Feel free to ask questions and say what you don't like. (And if you like something I'm more than happy to read it)
by watwut | 2025-08-14 12:02:14+00:00
> Yes you were part of the family for better and for worse. I don't see how that is problematic, you weren't working for a different household, you were just part of this household.

No you was not part of the family. And this was not part of the family thing either. It was more of the sweetshop with workers who have no choice thing.

> But you were required to look for a different master every few years? That claim doesn't make sense to me.

You was not given choice to shop around or change up however you wanted. That was not a thing. Occasionally you could be asked to move to different master at predetermined set points. But not always. I do not even see what is nonsensical or hard to understand about such setup.

> you had a social security net by the family/household currently living in (meaning your master's in this case)

Your master was not your security net. You would be kicked off and expected go back to your actual family.

> if you have rows with everyone you can just walk for a day to the next city, where nobody knows you, and start afresh

That was definitely not a thing either. They would vet you and your character with where you came from. There was a lot of suspicion about new people. You would have quite a difficult time to establish yourself or even find a living. Being banished was a punishment for a reason - and other village you go to will be very aware newcomer might be a troublemaker they did not wanted elsewhere.

> The latter isn't possible now anymore.

That is significantly easier now.
by ddingus | 2025-08-14 12:03:28+00:00
That level is hard! I find myself sweeping my eyes over the grid, looking away, then back a few times before I can see it.

App said I was in the 5 percent. Lol, the 4 color vision people must rule the roost! Us standard RGB types can throw a few solid punches...

Agreed with other commenter: green is killer.
by LorenDB | 2025-08-14 12:03:39+00:00
> Paris, France is a city in North Carolina. It is the capital of North Carolina, which is officially major people in Bhugh and Pennhy. The American Council Mastlandan, is the city of Retrea. There are different islands, and the city of Hawkeler: Law is the most famous city in The Confederate. The country is Guate.

I love the phrase "officially major people"! I wonder how it could be put to use in everyday speech?
by slightwinder | 2025-08-14 12:03:57+00:00
Linear is awful. Discussions are always so bad with them. The only advantage is that following the newest message is easier, which still doesn't prevent people from ignoring them if the thread becomes too long.

The main reason why you might think that way, is less the format, and probably more the moderation, and lower amount of people in those forums. I mean take this forum here, is far better than twitter or any other social media-sloop. Smaller Subreddits, especially with good moderation, are also far better than big Subreddits.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-08-14 12:05:38+00:00
> he was being ‘eeeeeeee’d’ by a couple of random women

Maybe I'm too old, but what in the world does being eeee'd mean?

>I can assure you, Meta is well aware of the situation, and a Luigi isn’t going to have a chance in this situation.

With all due respect, Luigi was just a CS student with a six pack, a self made gun, and a aching back on a mission.

The Donald himself nearly got got by his ear while he had the secret service of the US of A to protect him, not some private goons for hire, and that was just a random redditor with a rifle, not a professional assassin.

So what would happen if let's say meta's algorithms push a teenage girl to kill herself by exploiting her self esteem issues to sell her more beauty products, and her ex-navy seal dad with nothing more to loose grabs his McMillan TAC-338 boom stick and makes his life mission to avenge his lost daughter at the expense of his own? Zuck would need to be lucky every time, but that bad actor would need to be lucky once.

I'm not advocating for violence btw, my comment was purely hypothetical.
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-14 12:05:41+00:00
>These companies are for the most part effectively outside of the law

You have it wrong in the worst way. They are wholly inside the law because they have enough power to influence the people and systems that get to use discretion to determine what is and isn't inside the law. No amount of screeching about how laws ought to be enforced will affect them because they are tautologically legal, so long as they can afford to be.
by filleduchaos | 2025-08-14 12:06:08+00:00
I'm sorry but treating these as equivalent things is rather disingenuous to me:

> if you cant get a new job lined up while still employed or within 60 days of being laid off

Lining up a job while you are still employed is something you control. Being unexpectedly thrust into the job market due to layoffs for instance is something you don't, and the state of the job market you enter is equally something you don't control. Additionally I am not sure you understand what 60 calendar days from termination to being out of status means. You don't have 60 days to "line up a job". You have 60 days to be employed again, which for this purpose means that your new employer has properly filed a petition on your behalf.

Again, does it really need explaining that this puts pressure on H-visa holders specifically that other workers don't have, especially when the companies that do sponsor visas often have interview processes that can take over a month? Does it need explaining that risking their residence and not just a paycheck means that they are less able to both:

- leave a toxic, failing or otherwise dysfunctional employer (since you practically need to secure something else first versus being truly able to resign at will)

- reject substandard employment offers (under the pressure of literally not having the time to do any more interviews)

How is it not incredibly obvious that as I said, this tilts the balance of power even more in the employer's direction? Why does someone pointing this out raise your hackles?

Also, why do you assume that the US is the only country on earth that has non-immigrant skilled workers? For instance the EU's Blue Card programme (which despite the deliberate naming is not actually a permanent residence permit like the US' green card) is far more sensible and less exploitable by employers.
by graemep | 2025-08-14 12:08:09+00:00
> Corporate lobbying systemically can't do anything else than try to increase profits, which usually means less regulation.

Corporate lobbying can be for more regulation. It can disadvantage competitors. Zuckerberg has spoken in favour of greater regulation of social media in the past. The UK's Online Safety Act creates barriers to entry and provides and excuse for more tracking. I can think of examples, some acknowledged by the CEOs of the companies involved, ranging from British pubs to American investment banks.
by georgecmu | 2025-08-14 12:08:31+00:00
As bonus trivia, depiction of Bilbo was based on the "short, round stature, expressive eyes, broad and open face" of the famous Soviet actor Yevgeniy Leonov (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Leonov).

In this video Leonov mentions this fact before reading an excerpt from the book: https://youtu.be/z7hEJxTBsTs
by lproven | 2025-08-14 12:08:44+00:00
Hard same. None at all, ever, in anything. And I disable any I can in all the apps I use, and I try to find apps that do not embed any kind of LLM.

Currently, I am giving serious consideration to junking Firefox, or reverting to the ESR version or something. I am heartily sick of mindless "AI" bots everywhere.
by beowulfey | 2025-08-14 12:09:14+00:00
This is a silly argument. That wealth is already there. If the people with privately held wealth wanted to support research at the level that it is at now, then they could already do so. The fact that they do not does not lead me to think they would once USA funding gets terminated.

As I understand it, you are arguing that if the system was inherently good, then others would try to replicate it. I would then counter with if we had a good system, why should it be destroyed?

We have been able to reach enormous heights thanks to government funding, and no other system could have replicated that success. In every scenario where government funding is eliminated, the level of research progress goes down. As long as you understand that, then you can stand by your statements, but do not fool yourself into thinking we will continue making as much research progress as we have been for the last several decades.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-08-14 12:09:44+00:00
The first link is weakening in a way that is as far from a downgrade attack as you can possibly get. And on top of that TLS 1.3 has pretty good downgrade prevention as far as I know.

> well-intended misconfigurations like "we wan't to claim IoT support in marketing, so we need to enable IoT-'ciphers' by default!" and the sneaky underhanded versions of the aforementioned accidents

Maybe... This still feels like a thing that's only going to show up on local networks and you don't need attacks for local monitoring. Removing encryption across the Internet requires very special circumstances and also lets too many people in.
by Ezhik | 2025-08-14 12:10:32+00:00
Secure ShellFish is a very nice app, absolutely worth the money. It's really nice to be able to do a bit of scripting. I don't even bother taking my laptop with me when traveling anymore, my phone/iPad and an external keyboard are enough to quickly jot down a proof of concept for any idea that might pop up in my head.

By the way, the dev also works on a Git client for iOS, Working Copy. I used that together with Shortcuts to make my Obsidian vault sync via git in the background.
by ethan_smith | 2025-08-14 12:11:12+00:00
Try `10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(0)1); : GOTO 10` in yabasic or `10 PRINT CHR$(47+INT(RND(1)2)*45); : GOTO 10` in most modern BASIC dialects, which explicitly chooses between '/' (47) and '\' (92) characters.
by jethkl | 2025-08-14 12:11:23+00:00
> Are they financially screwed

I’ll share an anecdote I witnessed in my extended family–it was horrible. When US Air went bankrupt, employees with decades of service, expecting high five-figure to low six-figure annual income, learned they would get roughly $0.20 on the dollar. For many who were entering retirement, the impact was life-changing, and the stress and disruption it caused could well be argued as life-shortening.

PBGC did take over, but that did not solve the problem.

I believe the root cause was mismanagement of the pension, with the bankruptcy merely exposing this. But I wouldn’t be surprised if, at every opportunity during the bankruptcy process, changes were made that eroded the program’s health.

https://www.thestreet.com/investing/stocks/us-airways-pilots...
by lazide | 2025-08-14 12:12:00+00:00
Have you ever ordered a really good steak, like amazing. And really huge, and inexpensive too.

And it really is amazing! And super tasty.

But it’s so big, and juicy, that by the end of it you feel sick? But you can’t stop yourself?

And then at the end of it, you’re like - damn. Okay. No more steak for awhile?

If not steak, then substitute cake. Or Whiskey.

Just because you got what you wanted doesn’t mean you’re happy with all the consequences, or can stomach an infinitely increasing quantity of it.

Of course, he can pay to mitigate most of them, and he gets all the largest steaks he could want now, so whatever. I’m not going to cry about it. I thought it was interesting to see develop however.
by snowfield | 2025-08-14 12:12:22+00:00
I set up an MCP for jira, to hopefully avoid me from ever opening jira again.

i will just talk to the LLm, and ask it to set a task to in progress, tell me what to work on next, add tasks to sprints, tag tickets with labels / link them to epics, search for issues, create bugs / tasks etc

seems mildly helpful, with some slack mcp etc it could be useful for teams i think

i really don't want to just buy an agentic workflow from a website, so its important that i can just replace the model with whatever and that i have control of the mcp server