MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stahorn | 2025-08-27 09:55:42+00:00
I also think about this. With the amount of history I've read, I'm not surprised that suddenly there's autocrats that take power. I just wonder, is there some good example from history of what did turn the tide towards democrazy, liberalism, and humanism?

I think a lot of it has to do with inertia; people have made such a great job in the past in the wester world, with infrastructure, education, law, medicine, and so on, that even when real proper idiots take power, most things just continue being good enough. It takes a lot of time for idiots and autocrats to make their impact, which when (hopefully) voters will switch and get good people back in power.
by rsynnott | 2025-08-27 09:57:10+00:00
> but we still had an issue with loads of them prompting users into suicide, violence, or misleading them into preparing noxious mixtures of cleaning supplies, then we could have a discussion about exactly what extreme packaging requirements ought to be in place for distribution to be considered responsible.

Or, I mean, just banning sale on the basis that they're unsafe devices and unfit for purpose. Like, you can't sell, say, a gas boiler that is known to, due to a design flaw, leak CO into the room; sticking a "this will probably kill you" warning on it is not going to be sufficient.
by jemmyw | 2025-08-27 09:57:40+00:00
> Because PC is an American thing but phones are not.

I don't really understand what you're talking about here. Android and iOS are American companies. American culture is John Deere locking down their equipment. Anti-consumer laws, pushing IP laws onto the rest of the world by treaty, being overly litigious, these are all American culture. I think the culture you're thinking of is nearly dead in a shell of corporatism.

The PC was a pretty unique event due to a confluence of historical factors that all came together in a certain way. It wasn't the way of things before, and it's been slowly moving away from how it was, and it's not really got anything to do with being American or not.
by podgietaru | 2025-08-27 09:57:55+00:00
Not my experience at all. The Psych that prescribed me antidepressants was _incredibly_ diligent. Including with side effects that affected my day to day life like loss of Libido.

We spent a long time finding something, but when we did it worked exceptionally well. We absolutely did not just increase the dose. And I'm almost certain the literature for this would NOT recommend an increase of dosage if the side effect was increased suicidality.

The demonisation of medication needs to stop. It is an important tool in the toolbelt for depression. It is not the end of the journey, but it makes that journey much easier to walk.
Wife sent $57k to fake Elon Musk – technical security couldn't stop it
by AvocadoPanic | 2025-08-27 09:58:25+00:00
# My wife lost $57k to romance scammers despite our home network security

I'm sharing this as a cautionary tale at the intersection of online radicalization, romance scams, and the limits of technical security. Despite maintaining robust home network security, my wife (MD/PhD) fell victim to scams totaling $57,553.83.

## Timeline

*Dec 2023*: Wife creates Twitter account, becomes involved in "white wellbeing" extremist communities

*Early 2025*: "Elon Musk" begins emailing her, validating her activism

*May 2025*: Invited to eloncommunitycenter.com after email grooming. First romance scam begins

*May-June 2025*: $55,000 sent via bank transfers. Intimate images exchanged. Communication moved to Teams/SimpleX/Session

*July 2025*: Second scam - $2,553.83 in Bitcoin to meet "Elon Musk." When caught, claimed she knew it was fake but sent money because "they were nice to me"

*Aug 2025*: Left home for 8 days. Returned but won't discuss

## Technical Details

*Our Security Stack*: - OPNsense firewall - Adguard DNS + blocklists - CrowdSec, Maltrail IDS/IPS - abuse.ch and ET rulesets - ~30% of DNS requests blocked

*Scam Infrastructure*: - eloncommunitycenter.com / elonprivateplatform.com (same scam) - plutusaifinance.com (fake crypto trading) - Professional-looking HTTPS sites - Leaked real IP via email headers

*What I Missed*: - Unusual DNS queries (limited log retention) - New messaging apps (SimpleX, Session) - Behavioral changes others noticed

## The Human Element

The scammers succeeded through social engineering, not technical prowess. They: - Targeted victims through extremist communities - Offered validation to isolated individuals - Mixed ideology with financial opportunity - Used romance tactics

## Key Lessons

1. *Technical security isn't enough* when someone voluntarily sends money for emotional validation

2. *Extremist communities are perfect hunting grounds* - members are isolated, seeking belonging, primed to distrust authorities

3. *Warning signs*: personality changes (her brother said her Twitter "didn't sound like her"), secretiveness, new apps, seeking validation online while complaining about real relationships

4. *Financial safeguards needed*: transaction alerts, account monitoring across institutions

5. *Mental health intersection*: A brilliant physician either believed she was talking to Elon Musk's 'management' via AOL email, or felt cornered enough to claim she knowingly paid scammers

## Questions for HN

- Has anyone successfully intervened in online extremism? - Tools for monitoring family financial accounts? - How to balance privacy with security in marriage? - Early warning systems for romance scams?
by ykl | 2025-08-27 09:58:38+00:00
This is a pretty well known thing; the M3/A17 generation GPU was a ground-up redesign that added things like dynamic caching and hardware ray tracing [1] which are highly nontrivial to simply extend an existing architecture to support. Unfortunately I can’t find where I read this, but IIRC at the time M2 came out there were expectations that M2 would have a new GPU architecture with hardware ray tracing but this wound up being delayed to M3 because it took longer than expected to do a ground-up redesign of the GPU.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/tech-talks/111375/
by thaumasiotes | 2025-08-27 09:59:19+00:00
> Of course, the same folks have no objections whatsoever to offshore drilling.

Well, if they were entirely sincere in their concern for the view, the birds, and the noise, only one of those concerns would apply to offshore drilling.

Considering "preventing industrialization" to be an end in itself is something different, usually associated with being pro-wind-power.
by krapp | 2025-08-27 09:59:52+00:00
I think very little. Americans have been deeply prejudiced against foreigners ever since the founding of the country, every wave of immigration since the first has been met with hostility and violence. Trump was initially elected on a wave of xenophobic fear and hatred of South American immigrants. No, not just illegal immigrants either - that's a smokescreen.

I do think you're right that the effects of covid will have long lasting cultural and political consequences, but the zeitgeist behind the backlash was already well established, and one must remember intentionally orchestrated to benefit certain political interests.
by closewith | 2025-08-27 10:00:01+00:00
If you read back in the thread, we're talking about the claim that adding geoblocking will result in chargebacks, which outside the US, it won't.

> Are you saying they tried a chargeback just because they were annoyed at being unable to reach your website?

In our case it was friendly fraud when users tried to use a service which we could not provide in the US (and many other countries due to compliance reasons) and had signed up in the EU, possibly via VPN.
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by protocolture | 2025-08-27 10:00:38+00:00
Yeah so the tradeoff appears to be size vs utility.

The problem is that, at best, that means a lot of the world would have to be redesigned to cater to robots. Thats why they excel in auto plants. Space already isnt a concern, so you can make them huge. Huge robots are capable of tremendous strength dexterity and speed.

But in an environment built for humans they suck. Redesigning a data center to be 100% robot operated will probably happen, but thats going to be an extraordinarily unfriendly place for a human to be. The amount of space you would lose getting a robot to be able to retrieve a crud rj45 connector, or a stuck sfp module, from any one of 200 racks, at multiple heights, would make the robot massive. So the entire concept of the data centre will have to be rebuilt from the ground up to make it robot friendly. The full tech stack too. Robot friendly connectors etc. Thats a huge capex outlay for something with dubious utility.

Imagine ubiquitous robots on the street. Machines capable of tearing humans to shreds. The liability issues are huge on their own. If LLMs are the pinnacle of artificial intelligence, you would probably have a death a week in most cities.

Space is worse because the robot has to be launch economical, or built up there. Whats he doing up there without humans. Back to accidents again.
by nathan_compton | 2025-08-27 10:02:36+00:00
I'd say its subtle. The instrumentalist just says that measurements are reality period and that there isn't anything to say about what goes on between measurements. You can sort of see this at an extreme in QBism. You just write down the quantum Bayes rule and that is all you commit to saying about the universe.

I'd argue that what physics finds are (possibly non-unique) mathematical structures which correlate to the physical world. Because they are non-unique it is, in my opinion, silly to say things like "spacetime is a 4d manifold of Lorentzian signature with a connection like so and so, blah blah." There are other ways to describe the same dynamics which offer a different ontology and so we shouldn't just assume the terms in our physical models correspond to things in the universe.

I think we reasonably can say "there exists a thing in the universe or a part of the universe that has the property that we can describe it with a 4d manifold of Lorentzian signature and so on." So physics does identify properties that hold for parts of the universe on certain time, length, action scales. But I think the general vibe of physics in the 20th and 21st centuries is that we don't know what those things are beyond the properties we give them. Maybe that is what knowing what something is is?
by anonzzzies | 2025-08-27 10:02:49+00:00
For myself yes. I just have claude code running and it's replacing everything i'm doing company and personal wise with custom stuff. However, most people, like my colleagues/employees, want rigidity and do not want to learn new stuff generally. They want to focus on completing their tasks and don't want to have a quicksand saas underneath them. If it helps completing tasks faster then maybe.

Also training new people is annoying when things change too often; people can already use Jira/Linear/Monday/whatever , they don't want some completely flexible thing that is malleable.

Also, people are not all perfectionists with long term goals and visions. People who 'change' some part of their work flow that helps them NOW; they won't care about speed, scaling, deployment etc, so they will do something to make their work easier and then leave it there and possibly ignore it forever to rot. Which might have all kinds of fun implications.

I guess when we have AGI with a few 10 million+ context window for cheap, it will be different but the current llms would just leave a massive amount of rot all over the place, quickly forgotten and not usable by anyone but the original creator.
by curt15 | 2025-08-27 10:03:15+00:00
> The earlier May report in the Wall Street Journal also referred to learning more about Greenland's independence movement, as well as attitudes to American mineral extraction.

> At the time, US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard did not deny the report but accused the Journal of "breaking the law and undermining our nation's security and democracy".

lolwut
by notpushkin | 2025-08-27 10:04:18+00:00
Fidesmo Pay is another option, though the bank support is limited: https://fidesmo.com/consumer/fidesmo-pay/

Basically it’s a passive variant of smartwatch payments: you can pay with a ring, or bracelet, or a mechanical watch. The cheapest option is this plastic thingy (currently out of stock): https://eu.k-pay.com/product/mavericks

I’m thinking about implanting one into my hand :^)
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by memsom | 2025-08-27 10:04:24+00:00
Teletext is one way. Your receiver decodes the page you request, but you have no uplink.

Teletext was made by major broadcasters, so NBC/ABC/CBS in the US might have had a service. It is just broadcasted as part of the signal, so the actual hardware is in the end users device. All TV's in the UK and Europe just had teletext decoders built in as standard. The cost of entry was not high at all. The only expense was updating the content. But honestly, that wasn't really a massive effort unless you wanted a lot of graphics (ASCII style, obviously.) It was a bout as much effort as a local news paper or a well maintained BBS.
by fifticon | 2025-08-27 10:04:58+00:00
There is a problem with this. Trump is just a wrecking ball. The problem is not the ball, the problem is the holes it leaves behind. Whoever replaces Trump, will arrive in the driver's seat of a vehicle which has had plenty of its safety rails removed or disabled. The problem is what happens, when a more capable, less octagenarian replacement arrives.
by anal_reactor | 2025-08-27 10:05:00+00:00
Sad truth is that average dev is average, but it's not polite to say this out loud. This is particularly important at scale - when you are big tech at some point you hit a wall and no matter how much you pay you can't attract any more good devs, simply because all good devs are already hired. This means that corporate processes must be tailored for average dev, and exceptional devs can only exist in start-ups (or hermetically closed departments). The side effect of that is that whole job market promotes the skill of fitting into corporate environment over the skill of programming. So an a junior dev, for me it makes much more sense to learn how to promote my visibility during useless meetings, rather than learn a new technology. And that's how the bar keeps getting lower.
by OldfieldFund | 2025-08-27 10:05:09+00:00
there are many drugs that can do that but they have massive side effects ;)

Benzodiazepines, opioids, stimulants, opioid-like substances like carisoprodol (there is a reason why people call it Soma). these are the first that come to my mind. contrary to popular belief, downers often give you euphoria.
by maxweylandt | 2025-08-27 10:06:50+00:00
another example: packing paracetamol in blister packs seems to have reduced suicides.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC526120/

> Suicidal deaths from paracetamol and salicylates were reduced by 22% (95% confidence interval 11% to 32%) in the year after the change in legislation on 16 September 1998, and this reduction persisted in the next two years. Liver unit admissions and liver transplants for paracetamol induced hepatotoxicity were reduced by around 30% in the four years after the legislation.

(This was posted here on HN in the thread on the new paracetamol in utero study that I can't seem to dig up right now)
by SilverBirch | 2025-08-27 10:06:54+00:00
Sorry what? You couldn't have picked a better example of someone who is going get bored, walk off and leave customers screwed. Tesla customers bought a full self-driving car about a decade ago. Where is it? Oh yes, that's right. Elon Musk lost interest and now he's over at neuralink sticking electrodes in this guys head. This guy better hope that Elon doesn't get bored again.
by wiradikusuma | 2025-08-27 10:07:00+00:00
As a father of 3 boys, I'm disappointed with the parents of the boy. I'm not blaming the victims (I can't imagine how they're feeling, losing a child), but man, you can replace "ChatGPT" with "human friend" and the result will be the same. Boys (I've been a boy) usually don't like to discuss their personal issues with parents, but parents need to be proactive.
by RossBencina | 2025-08-27 10:07:13+00:00
Great, thanks. For anyone following along at home, LEA-6T reports the time pulse error in picoseconds in the TIM-TP message. See "11 Timepulse" on page 26, and/or search for "TIM-TP" in the product spec:

https://content.u-blox.com/sites/default/files/products/docu...

There are cheap LEA-8MT on eBay too, especially if you have a method to pull the module off a scrap board fragment.
by rsynnott | 2025-08-27 10:07:17+00:00
> A lot of suicidal people talk to these LLMs for therapy, and the reviews on the whole seem excellent.

I mean, lots of people use homeopathy to treat their cancer, and the reviews are of course, excellent (they still die, though). You really can't trust _reviews_ by people who are embracing medical quackery of that medical quackery.

> If lawsuits like this lead to more "straight honest" models, I could see even more people killing themselves when their therapist model says "Yeah, but you kind of actually do suck".

It is not the job of a therapist to be infinitely agreeable, and in fact that would be very dangerous.
by account42 | 2025-08-27 10:07:35+00:00
Many laptops just use regular M.2 SSDs which are easy enough to replace. For me this is a requirement not just for repairs but also for the initial configuration - bundled storage options are usually too limited.

Batteries are harder because the race to reduce thickness and weight means that they are usually optimized for that rather than being some standard format you can find replacements for.
by reorder9695 | 2025-08-27 10:07:41+00:00
The plane was perfectly airworthy without MCAS, that was never the issue. The issue was it handled differently enough at high angles of attack to the 737NG that pilots would've needed additional training or possibly a new type rating without MCAS changing the trim in this situation. The competition (Airbus NEO family) did not need this kind of new training for existing pilots, so airlines being required to do this for new Boeing but not Airbus planes would've been a huge commercial disadvantage.

[edit as I can't reply to the child comment]: The FAA and EASA both looked into the stall characteristics afterwards and concluded that the plane was stable enough to be certified without MCAS and while it did have more of a tenancy to pitch up at high angles of attack it was still an acceptable amount.
by lewiscollard | 2025-08-27 10:08:07+00:00
At every step there is human agency involved. People came up with the idea, people wrote the code, people deployed the code, people saw the consequences and were like "this is fine".

This is why people hate us. It's like Schrodinger's Code: we don't want responsibility for the code we write, except we very much do want to make a pile of money from it as if we were responsible for it, and which of those you get depends on whether the observer is one who notices that code has bad consequences or whether it's our bank account.

This is more like building an autonomous vehicle "MEGA MASHERBOT 5000" with a dozen twenty-feet-wide spinning razor-sharp blades weighing fifty tons each, setting it down a city street, watching it obliterate people into bloody chunks and houses into rubble and being like "well, nobody could have seen that coming" - two seconds before we go collect piles of notes from the smashed ATMs.
by shakna | 2025-08-27 10:08:33+00:00
CSRF wasn't really a concern, because we weren't requesting anything from anybody else, and didn't use cookies, etc.

But, specifying your own headers is easy, and we had it in a macro we used for our routes.

So instead, to rip from the manual:

(response-emit body #:status 200 #:headers '( (Content-Type . application/json) (X-Frame-Options . DENY) ) #:mtime (current-time))
by aurareturn | 2025-08-27 10:08:45+00:00
What if a NATO member is suddenly hostile to you and Russia says it can help you? Russia probably does not want the US to have Greenland.

It would certainly trigger a collapse of NATO. But if the US is serious about taking Greenland, that automatically starts the collapse anyway, right?

Anyway, just all hypotheticals. Interesting to think about. I don't think chances are 0. History has shown us that countries make surprising decisions, including allying with historic enemies, when pushed against the wall.