MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by avalys | 2025-08-18 00:04:09+00:00
Is this really about military spending? The US used to make so many products and appliances domestically - everything from steel to uranium to doorknobs to refrigerators to chemicals to CRT displays to roofing shingles, and everything in between.

The military benefited from the massive industrial base that supported this production - but it didn’t create it.

And now the loss of that domestic manufacturing base is largely why military production - and indeed, any kind of large-scale endeavor in the US, including construction - is slow and expensive.
by FineWolf | 2025-08-18 00:04:09+00:00
The post does cover that briefly.

> If the TPM is virtualised (vTPM), the EKpub and EKcert validation will fail, as the EK won’t be signed by AMD or Intel.

Using `swtpm` will not give you the ability to create quotes of your PCR that are signed by an Endorsement Key that is itself signed by Intel or AMD.

It will be very obvious that you are using a self-generated key, possibly from a virtualised TPM.

Passing through the host's TPM will lead to multiple boot events being recorded, which will be flagged as an anomaly.
by gerdesj | 2025-08-18 00:04:47+00:00
Well, you'll be glad to know that people like my dad (ATO/EOD) sorted quite a lot of it out back in the day. However, they could only demolish what they were pointed at and as this article notes, there is more that keeps on turning up.

This is a bit of a worry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery

I suggest you don't buy property or go swimming nearby to that. I'm going to stick in Somerset.
by Etherlord87 | 2025-08-18 00:05:01+00:00
I could probably write a book to answer this question :D Blender has gone "everything nodes" route, and in particular it created the Geometry Nodes system. I'm very good in geonodes and pretty much specialize in it, and yet I think the system is severly flawed: the nodes in compositing and shading work very well, but in geonodes they are too low-level, and you don't get the easy learning curve of usual node systems (learning geonodes is very hard), while you get all the annoyances of using a very shoddy programming language and having to manage node positioning and fighting with noodles...

...And here's where AI comes into play, If AI could be contained into steps: - Input node: describe where the starting data comes from and AI automatically loads a file from hard drive or Internet or generates a primitive - Select node: describe a pattern by which to select elements of the geometry - Modify Geometry node: perhaps should be split into multiple nodes as there's so many ways to modify the geometry. - Sample/connect data: create an attribute and describe a relation of it to something else to create an underlying algorithm populating this attribute. - Save node: do you want to output the data through the usual pipeline, or maybe export to a file, or save to a simulation cache?

This way AI could do low-level stuff that I think it excels at, because this low-level stuff is so repeatable AI can be well trained on it. While the high-level decision making would be in control of an artist.
by esseph | 2025-08-18 00:05:23+00:00
You are 100% correct.

It is not yet a "solved" problem, but 10-15 years have started to make a dent and get better tools to both observe and act on the problem.

This is seen everywhere from the inclusion of CAKE ( https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/tc-cake.8.html ) in some CPE / home router, but the use of fq_codel ( https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/tc-fq_codel.8.html ) in routers along the way.

Other ISPs have to go even farther, because "content" might be 80-120ms away, and the ability to be more aggressive or less aggressive in tuning certain parameters can have a large impact on overall customer Quality of Experience. If there are any LEO hops along the way, problems with TCP and delayed signaling as a byproduct can also make throughout tank while latency spikes.

DPDK and VPP have contributed to a lot of new networking devices to help observe and act on traffic.

Everytime you go from a big pipe to a small pipe (higher data rate to lower data rate) connection you will see this issue at varying levels.
by bilbo0s | 2025-08-18 00:05:51+00:00
I think the implication of question 2 is who, exactly, are we going to tax to get the money to pay for all the highly skilled professionals needed? Everyone can't be working for a military contractor. Someone has to pay the costs of moving the legions of workers needed into those jobs. And taxing the uber drivers, walmart stockboys, or the Amazon warehouse workers is just not going to get us there.

In my view, the way forward is, unfortunately, automation. We can't bring that manufacturing back using the same labor basis as is used in Asia. Just to put that labor basis in perspective, we'd be looking at millions of jobs that the military would be funding through sub-contracts. We have to get some of that work done through industrial automation without creating jobs. We need to do that not only to make this sustainable, but really even to make this feasible at all.
by gp90 | 2025-08-18 00:07:37+00:00
Not even mastery. The other day I was trying to figure out how to pass an external label to Prometheus alert rules when unit testing the rules with "promtool test rules". Man, all the models gave all kinds of hallucinated answers, and I had to resort to reading the promtool code. In the end, mastery means we get apply our skills to solve new problems, yet in the current state AI can only interpolate already solved problems.
by msikora | 2025-08-18 00:08:04+00:00
So I tried it for a hot minute a few weeks ago, but uninstalled promptly once it looked like it just cannot handle pasted images very well at all. It would paste it as huge Base64 string right in there and completely lock up the UI on my MacBook Pro M3 Max. Has that been fixed? I'm really looking for a good IDE (or something better than just a terminal) for Claude Code, but I was left disappointed by Claudia...
by seadan83 | 2025-08-18 00:08:46+00:00
Unless I made a terrible copy/paste error, I 100% quoted the guardian article that we are discussing. In other words, "did you read the article?"

To your other point: The goal post is the statement (I'm paraphrasing here): "It was not a majority of Gazans that voted for Hamas, but instead a plurality". My rebuttal is that for sure half of the country did not vote for Hamas because the last election is before the median age of the country (half the country was not even born yet).

Could you explain how I shifted goal posts?

I think you might be assuming that we "know" without elections that the majority of the current population is "radicalized". The evidence of pluralities and majorities is given through elections, we don't have evidence for the current population. Maybe that is what you perceive as shifting the goal posts?

If you're going off of something other than elections as evidence for support of hamas at a plurality level of current Gazans - please share the data you are using to be "terrifi[ed] of .. what would be elected" (quoting you @nobodyandpround with slight paraphrase to make the grammar work). The population is roughly 2M people, it's difficult to get to any answer other than "we don't know" without a full blown and free election.
by ltbarcly3 | 2025-08-18 00:08:46+00:00
I've had to upload my ID card to send money, open a bank account online, verify my identity for a dating app, book an international flight, and ironically to register for the app to have an electronic version of my id on my phone, and weirdly to pay a traffic ticket (why do they care who pays it?), get a discount on my Amazon Prime subscription, and finally to reset my password for my ID.me login for government websites. So all of those are 'fine' I guess, but god forbid you upload it to a third party verification service (the same one that was used for one or more of the above cases where I uploaded my id) to watch pornography, that's where we draw the line?

You are being absurd.

I don't agree with this requirement, but I'm also not so dishonest that I would pretend that it's a security issue.
by roscas | 2025-08-18 00:09:18+00:00
It very very sad that some people will even say "I like to see ads, it might have something I want...". They are not just dumb, they are dangerous. This ads companies have been online for too much time. It is time to bring them down. Fast. And with them all those parasites of ads associations and marketing. We do need to bring the level of ads to 0. Then start new.
by oliyoung | 2025-08-18 00:10:48+00:00
They always struck me as a weird niche, as vegetarian food for non-vegetarians.

Most vegetarians I know don't touch "fake meat" because the appearance of it being "real" is enough to put them off of it, the value prop is actually a negative to that market, so you're left with an addressable market of trying to convince non-vegetarians that the ultra processed tofu and/or fungus patty that looks like a hamburger is as good as a hamburger, and as accomodating as I can be, it's just not.
by throw234234234 | 2025-08-18 00:11:11+00:00
This site does pitch to developers. Rightly or wrongly the hype or what I think more accurately is the fear cycle is in LLM's/AI w.r.t SWE's. Given loss aversion in most people fear cycles are way more effective than hype ones in attracting long term interest and engagement.

I think many here, if people are being honest with themselves, are wondering what does this mean for their career, their ability to provide/live, and what this means for their future especially if they aren't financially secure yet. For tech workers the risk/fear that they are not secure in long term employment is a lot higher than it was 2 years ago; even if they can't predict how all of this will play out. For founders/VC's/businesses/capital owners/etc conversely the hype is there that they will be able to do what they wanted to do with less costs.

More than crypto, NFT, or whatever other hype cycle is - I would argue LLM's in the long term could be the first technology where the the tech worker demand may decline as a result despite the amount of software growing. The focus on AI labs in coding as their "killer app" does not help probably. While we've had "hype" cycles in tech its rarer to see fear cycles.

Like a deer looking at incoming headlights (i.e. I think AI is more of a fear cycle than hype cycle for many people) people are looking for any information related to the threat, taking away focus from everything else.

TL;DR While people are fearful/excited (depending on who) of the changes coming, and seeing the rate of change remains at current pace, IMO the craze won't stop.
by ivewonyoung | 2025-08-18 00:11:18+00:00
> Imagine the tax rate was 100%, but you could deduct 100% of R&E expenses, and you spent 100% of your income on R&E. You would pay zero dollars in taxes.

No. The Democrats added a new minimum corporate tax last time they were in power. As I have to keep repeating, their policies and actions are all about taxing companies more which why they didn't repeal the R&D exemption removal. They consider it a tax loophole that companies abuse to pay less taxes.

Kamala's proposal was to increase the minimum corporate further.
by andy99 | 2025-08-18 00:11:44+00:00
I'd pay $800 if I thought it gave me something concrete. If it's just to try and jump through more hoops, it's like clipping coupons, it's not worth it and I'd rather just buy the thing I want. So it's weird the idea of an intersection between people who would pay the $800 and people who won't just buy the flight amd options they want. It's targeting people who do it for sport, or who think they'll save way more (get more benefits) than they actually will.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-08-18 00:11:49+00:00
This seems like it has to vary significantly depending on a number of factors.

Unexploded ordnance refers to ordnance that was deployed but failed to explode. E.g. the bomb was dropped from a plane and just didn't explode.

Deployed mines that haven't exploded are just waiting for someone to interact with them. This seems like it must be the highest risk.

This article appears to be about a cache of unused bombs. They would not ordinarily explode on their own, but if everything is decaying then the safety mechanisms are also decaying so there must be some risk.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-08-18 00:13:35+00:00
> If they have so much family and support around

I think you're inventing stuff to say. The article said:

"There's a lot of seniors down here that are living check to check. They can barely afford prescriptions such as myself,"

The people in poverty aren't the ones with the power here. The ones with the power are public officials, utility executives and voting shareholders. Their decisions drive how much more electricity costs than it needs to.

Dozens of millions of Americans are poor because they're poor. People work hard with what they have and for some it works out well and for some it doesn't. That's reality.
by saurik | 2025-08-18 00:14:33+00:00
This has been a rule of mine also for a very long time (after I heard it described somewhere <- I didn't come up with it myself, or anything), and it definitely helped. (The only other advice I guess I have is that you can find someone who will be really unhappy if you succeed and then finish it out of spite, but that doesn't always work and has other negative side effects ;P.)
by alphazard | 2025-08-18 00:14:38+00:00
I remember reading this closer to 2015. I'm convinced that these sorts of mental gymnastics and philosophizing are an info-hazard for otherwise smart and thoughtful people. Not a particularly dangerous one, but time that you won't get back.

Unless you are a psychopath, your human instincts will alert you to when you need to show respect or gratitude, or reciprocity is expected from you. You don't need to try to think your way in or out of those things, especially when the other party is a large corporation bothering you over the internet. The whole premise of the article is just nuts.

TLDR: You should blocks ads because they are annoying. Don't overthink it.
by itsnowandnever | 2025-08-18 00:14:47+00:00
the oldest discovered buildings for continuous occupancy are actually Tel al-Qaramel near Aleppo (not far from Gobekli Tepe) and they're 1000 years older than Gobekli Tepe

the oldest continuously inhabited city is Jericho (Ariha in Arabic) and that's essentially where this mask was found (100KM to the south, anyway). Jericho has been inhabited since 9600 BC.
by vincekerrazzi | 2025-08-18 00:14:51+00:00
I understand your premise, but I think the missing part of the cost function here, especially when it comes to safety, is the price of a human life. The US government has actually quantified it, and I think when we account for that it’s probably worth it. Though where exactly that money would come from is a problem.

Similarly, we know certain preventative medical treatments are costly but save money for the system as a whole when universally applied, yet we still don’t do it.
by wisemang | 2025-08-18 00:15:26+00:00
My (somewhat elderly) father only refers to it as ChatGBT and when I tried to get to the bottom of why he said it’s because “thats what it’s called in my phone”.

Seems pretty scammy to me, akin to typo squatting with potential to collect a lot more personal information but he can’t always be reasoned with.

Hopefully he heeds my advice to not provide anything personal.
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-08-18 00:15:45+00:00
> We traditionally start kids off with antijokes, jokes where the "surprise factor" is that there's nothing surprising at all, where the punchline is completely predictable in hindsight. It's more than a mere "groaner.

Which I find completely strange. An antijoke doesn't make sense (and isn't funny) unless you're already familiar with a non-anti-joke!

And before you say "well it makes the kids laugh"—is that because they find it funny or because they know that laughing after a joke is what you're "supposed" to do? Maybe that's one in the same to a young child.
by eth0up | 2025-08-18 00:16:34+00:00
If I was healthy and hopeful, this suggestion would be my official plan of choice. These days, I'm the sun bleached, scorched multicolored paper on the sidewalk, no fewer months from than toward the next sparse event where audible, scintillating sparkles and afterwaft of celebratory smoke would warrant a calorie spent to twist one's neck in wonder.

The days of inspiration and need for such references have passsed. I've wanted a globe for years, but remind myself for each impulse to acquire one that the world isn't round after all - it's an amorphous impression, delusions beleaguered by dumb bone steadily resembling flattened surface where the debris of a once vibrant flurry of wonder has settled lazily upon.

If it isn't cheap or free, it's a cod fondling carrot smirking on the end of a stick crusted with the scabs of bludgeoned ambition. One less bean and grain of rice in my dirty bowl, in exchange for a pearly bauble dangling before a confused and sessile swine.

A pound of pennies burns brighter than an ounce of silver in this fool's kitsch eyes.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-08-18 00:16:40+00:00
> VPN's are great for this. Just install the VPN, have it block access to adult sites, and have it alert me of any suspicious attempts.

> It's bewildering how VPN companies have branded their technology as "anti-censorship" and "privacy-focused." VPN's are a censor's best friend.

You're already using a router. That's where you would normally implement blocks.

A VPN necessarily does the same thing, and so you can implement routing blocks there too. But this is like saying that a virtual machine is a great technology to run software. OK. Why do you want a virtual one?
by Analemma_ | 2025-08-18 00:16:56+00:00
I've yet to be convinced that manufacturing jobs inherently give more "purpose" than white-collar work, and I think posts like yours are mostly ungrounded fantasy. Ironically, that kind of rose-tinted nostalgia is usually coming from people who have never actually worked a manufacturing job themselves and can only guess at what it's like from internet memes.

I recommend this quasi-review of Rivethead by Ben Hamper if you want a taste of what "manufacturing jobs" were actually like: a lot of people drinking themselves stupid to escape the monotony and utter lack of agency in their work. And this was at one of the Big Three automakers, supposedly the peak of what we're trying to return to! [0]

[0]: https://kontextmaschine.tumblr.com/post/96390732283/happy-la...
by al_borland | 2025-08-18 00:17:17+00:00
To take this a step further, I have had people argue with me that tracking and profiling online is a good thing, because it provides more relevant ads for things they want to buy. There are people who actively want ads that can better target and manipulate them into giving up their money.

I would like to say I've only run into one person like this, but no. I've lost count of how many of these people I've run into. I like to think I'm pretty good at understand other people's point of view, even if I don't agree with it. This is one I have a lot of trouble with.

I'm fine with relevant ads, but I think they should be relevant based on the context around them, not on the viewer. If I go to a website about trout fishing, show me ads that would be useful to a trout fisherman. There is no need to track anyone to do that.
Ask HN: How are you teach your kids programming in 2025?
by chenxi9649 | 2025-08-18 00:17:23+00:00
Hi HN, my nephew is 11, and I'm planning on giving him my old laptop.

However, I don't want him to JUST play games 24/7 but for him to do something productive like learning how to code. And I'll meet with him once per week to check up onhim.

My dilemma is that AI has completely changed how I personally code(and learn things), and all of the existing courses/curriculums for kids just feel a bit archaic...

Obviously, I can't just tell my nephew to go talk to chatgpt all day long and learn, without a project plan/target, he's gonna drift off(as I would too). I'm also thinking, since my main goal here is for him to just learn, maybe we should even just start with basic math/science instead of straight into coding?

I don't have any kids myself, so I'm curious to learn how all of the parents on HN are educating their kids today! Anything is helpful :)
by s1artibartfast | 2025-08-18 00:17:44+00:00
Well the government does both. Also, the 7500 is so the rich people buy electric instead of gas.

Also, 7500 seems too much for the risk reduction. How much is that per life, tens of millions? More?Seems terribly inefficient.

You can save a life for $150 and most people don't want to. The government is actively moving in the opposite direction, defunding that as a waste of money.
by shortrounddev2 | 2025-08-18 00:17:45+00:00
I work for an adtech company and we recently discovered that we were serving ads to some users using ad blockers, but the impression tracker endpoint had bbeen blocked. We decided the best course of action is to just submit our bidders domain to whatever lists we can (easylist, ublock, whatever).

My project manager wanted to try just changing our endpoints periodically to evade the list. I said to him "You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go up against a software pirate or ad blocker when privacy is on the line!'
by Aeolun | 2025-08-18 00:18:50+00:00
I don’t think enterprise software is by definition bad. You can absolutely make good enterprise software, but doing that while adhering to the morass of requirements is a skill unto itself.

And something that most people in an enterprise are just not all that interested in, since they’re never judged on how pleasant the software they deliver is to use.

Hell, they not ever see any of the users interacting with the software. I’ve been at $ENTERPRISE for 7 years, and I’ve visited our users exactly once.
by UncleMeat | 2025-08-18 00:19:20+00:00
I do agree that the fascists appear to call the shots. I am saying that I don't like this and I am stunned by the number of people who seem to think that a self described "proud Islamophobe" is advocating for the policy for any reason other than to immiserate muslim people.

You can start your own organization to get suffering Gazans treated in Egypt. I'd praise you if you did. But I truly don't see how that option is relevant to the evil being done here.
by ThrowMeAway1618 | 2025-08-18 00:19:43+00:00
>Because no matter which party is controlling the government the sentiment never seems to change... always seemed like an of remark with no meaning besides yelling at clouds.

There are certain folks who, regardless of the issue, never fail to roll up their metaphorical newspaper, brandish it and hiss, "Gub'mint bad! Bad gub'mint!".

It's almost pavlovian. While some of those folks are likely sociopathic ancaps[0], the vast majority are just willfully ignorant people whose marionette strings are being pulled by the cynical scumbags intent on enriching themselves and the rest of the world be damned!

And more's the pity.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism
by noodletheworld | 2025-08-18 00:20:24+00:00
Is a whole IDE really the solution though?

There are already a plugins to use claude code in other IDEs.

This “Ill write a whole IDE because you get the best UX” seems like its a bit of a fallacy.

There are lots of ways you could do that.

A standalone application is just convenient for your business/startup/cross sell/whatever.