MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by refulgentis | 2025-08-10 21:21:54+00:00
Idk what either of you are on about, if it makes you feel better.

Seems like he's trying to complain...everyone? blue team? women? women and betas? women and lib cucks? women and misled men?...lie and say women are as strong as men and saying otherwise is censored as sexism.

You misread it as complaining about people who say there's a difference in mens and womens strength, and start complaining about how this is adjacent to blaming male voters for conscription given woman vote too, and all feminists won't read statistics.

Both of you need to grow up, in that, these are silly strawmen and not even wrong, in the Pauli sense. There's nothing to engage with.

You're making up obviously false stuff, and you've found a safe way to not have to engage with reality by claiming if you tried, you'd have to deal with all feminists ignoring statistics because all feminists believe men are as strong as women.
by mananaysiempre | 2025-08-10 21:23:41+00:00
I admit to having no experience with this particular model year of PHB. Were they really that prone to being dazzled with seemingly advanced shinies? All of the metaclass talk must have sounded like a stream of meaningless technobabble if you weren’t not just a practicing programmer, but also up to date on the more research-oriented side of things (Smalltalk, CLOS, et al.).

The talk was meaningful, don’t get me wrong, I just don’t see how it could sell anything to a non-technical audience.
by vineyardmike | 2025-08-10 21:23:49+00:00
Obviously it’s possible. And just like the early internet ad networks…

You can’t guarantee they’ll be shown and interpreted correct by the downstream LLM, you can’t guarantee attribution later when a user makes a purchase, you can’t collect (as much) data on users for targeting, etc

The biggest ad networks today (Google, Meta) have strong first party data operations, strong first party attribution techniques, and strong targeting, either through intent (search) or profiles (meta).

MCP originated ads really only threaten Google (via intent based ads), and they’re quickly moving I to owning the UX of LLMs, securing their place in this value chain.
by perching_aix | 2025-08-10 21:23:59+00:00
I think this conversation would benefit from introducing scale and audience into the equation.

Individual breaches don't really scale (e.g. device compromise, phishing, credential reuse, etc.), but at scale everything scales. At scale then, you get problems like hijacked accounts being used for spam and scams (e.g. you can spam in comment sections, or replace a user's contact info with something malicious), and sentiment manipulation (including vote manipulation, flagging manipulation, propaganda, etc.).

HN, compared to something like Reddit, is a fairly small scale operation. Its users are also more on the technically involved side. It makes sense then that due to the lesser velocity and unconventional userbase, they might still have this under control via other means, or can dynamically adjust to the challenge. But on its own, this is not a technical trait. There's no hard and fast rule to tell when they cross the boundary and get into the territory where adding manpower is less good than to just spend the days or weeks to implement better account controls.

I guess if I really needed to put this into some framework, I'd weigh the amount of time spent on chasing the aforementioned abuse vectors compared to the estimated time required to implement MFA. The forum has been operating for more than 18 years. I think they can find an argument there for spending even a whole 2 week sprint on implementing MFA, though obviously, I have no way of knowing.

And this is really turning the bean counting to the maximum. I'm really surprised that one has to argue tooth and nail about the rationality of implementing basic account controls, like MFA, in the big 2025. Along with session management (the ability to review all past and current sessions, to retrieve an immutable activity log for them, and a way to clear all other active sessions), it should be the bare minimum these days. But then, even deleting users is not possible on here. And yes, I did read the FAQ entry about this [0], it misses the point hard - deleting a user doesn't necessarily have to mean the deletion of their submissions, and no, not deleting submissions doesn't render the action useless; because as described, user hijacking can and I'm sure does happen. A disabled user account "wouldn't be possible" to hijack, however. I guess one could reasonably take an issue with calling this user deletion though.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
by bawolff | 2025-08-10 21:24:18+00:00
Everything is toxic at a certain conentration, but as far as i know PFAS is a million times more toxic than flouride.

According to the EPA safe level for flouride for drinking water is up to 4 mg/L. The epa level for PFOS is 0.000004 mg/L, literally a million times lower.
by MicahParks | 2025-08-10 21:24:54+00:00
I'm happy to announce that ipcoin is officially released!

ipcoin is the first recentralized cryptocurrency that utilizes an Implicit Identity Architecture (IIA) which uses the incoming IP address to automatically identify and authenticate users.

This is a cryptocurrency parody project. Check out the website for more parody content: https://ipcoin.hypoxia.dev/

I mostly made this feature to build something with gRPC Gateway and distract myself from a larger side project.

Implemented features: * Each hour, every IP address in existence gets 1 ipcoin * Transfer ipcoins between IP addresses * Publish public comments * Every transfer and comment is public and published alongside the IP address that made them

Source code (backend): https://github.com/MicahParks/ipcoin

Planned features, maybe: * Wealth tax * "Steaking" (similar to staking) * "Meatverse" (similar to metaverse)
by enraged_camel | 2025-08-10 21:25:17+00:00
Agreed. This is an astonishingly bad article. It's clear that the only reason it made it to the front page is because people who view AI with disdain or hatred upvoted it. Because as you say: how can anyone make authoritative claims about a set of tools not just without taking the time to learn to use them properly, but also believing that they don't even need to bother?
by gaws | 2025-08-10 21:25:34+00:00
> When you buy a house and get a mortgage, you are going to be paying MUCH more in interest (than expected). Over the course of the mortgage, you are going to be paying MUCH more than the sticker price. Between closing costs and taxes and fees maintenance, you will need more cash than you think.

This. No idea why people fall into the hype of owning a house they can't afford in the long term.
by alexpotato | 2025-08-10 21:26:10+00:00
For examples of other books that show how much technology rapidly changed the world, I can't recommend "The Victorian Internet" [0] highly enough. (It describes the impact of the telegraph).

I remember reading the book in the mid to late 2000s and it felt so "current" in describing events of the day e.g.

- local newspapers were basically crushed by "international news" that arrived immediately

- the rate of commerce rapidly accelerated as people could communicate instantly around the world

- financial markets were impacted by the "low latency trading" of the day thanks to financial news being sent via telegraph.

- there is even a section about lawyers debating if contracts and marriages could be signed over the telegraph (like this on in particular as this was a debate in the early ecommerce days)

I was then shocked to find that it has been published in the 1990s. Really is a reminder that "new" technologies are often just updated versions of old technologies.

0 - https://amzn.to/4frEGyC

(NOTE: the link above takes you to a later edition)
by p3rls | 2025-08-10 21:26:10+00:00
i got my start being a little shit on progs (literally, the channel was called progs)-- i will never forget those retards helping me in vb6 when my dll would break some ocx file here or there.

the most popular prog, was of course, rampage toolz 2.0 made by oogle but random independents like me could make a cool punter or ascii generator. i copied lots of other peoples' ideas and put them into one prog, with a minimalist design which was revolutionary in the year 2000 or whatever it was and called it cyanide tools.

in fact there were even chatbots back then, believe it or not
by reactordev | 2025-08-10 21:26:23+00:00
There's solutions for that though.

https://docs.scale-lang.com/stable/

https://github.com/vosen/ZLUDA

It's not perfect but it's a start towards unification. In the end though, we're at the same crossroads that graphics drivers were in 2013 with the sunsetting of OpenGL by Apple and the announcement of Vulkan by Khronos Group. CUDA has been around for a while and only recently has it gotten attention from the other chip makers. Thank goodness for open source and the collective minds that participate.
by russellbeattie | 2025-08-10 21:26:24+00:00
You know, I just listened to it [1] and I can see why there was such a strong visceral reaction to the piece! "Dissonant" is definitely the right description. It's almost painful to listen to, especially if you were expecting normal concert music. Is it enough to cause a riot? Maybe!

1) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EkwqPJZe8ms
by gaws | 2025-08-10 21:26:42+00:00
> Why? Because rent inflates like crazy over here! In the Bay Area 7%+ a year is completely expected, and 10% is not unusual. I have been all over the Bay Area for more than a decade (San Francisco proper, East Bay, South Bay) and know this well. It's been nuts.

The great thing about renting? You can move.
by Aerroon | 2025-08-10 21:27:16+00:00
I think the UK (and EU) have been at this for a while. The UK pushed for the Data Retention Directive in the EU in the mid 2000s that required ISPs to save all the websites you visit. This was eventually ruled to be illegal, but it was still in force for several years.

These guys have been at it for a while.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive
by maxglute | 2025-08-10 21:27:30+00:00
> It seems that fertility rate laughs at mere authoritarianism

IMO the problem is fertility rate also laughs at everything "liberalism" and wealth has thrown and true authoritarian measures have not been taken. As in every liberal / pro natal policies (Nordics) have failed to raise TFR >2.1, usually settle at 1.7. I think more illustrative is wealthy MENA countries where culture, religion, resources align but those countries are either <2.1 TFR or declining to <2.1 TFR, i.e. if you have all the government subsidies and families regularly hire maids/nannies from ample cheap migrant workforce (something even most wealthy liberal societies don't have ubiquitous access too) then the carrot solution itself is not enough.

Stick policies, which only authoritarians or societies in extreme fertility stress can even start to contemplate, would be increased taxation / limited wealth transfers, i.e. if you want to inherit anything from your parents or grandparents (including real estate) you better have at least 2 kids. And in case of east asian societies, ban pets / AI relationships that's been eating at relationship formation. Peak authoritarian methods would be civil service that requires women to start making babies (in conjunction with massive support), state orphanage programs to basically raise new bodies and engineer/manage demographics (i.e. women don't have to keep kids but my spend 1-2 years doing state surrogacy). There's also increasing lifespan, i.e. workforce participation duration, but still hits ultimate limits of needing to replacement TFR.

Or again... engineer society to accept immigration.
by isaacremuant | 2025-08-10 21:27:39+00:00
> Why is this Thought Policing tolerated?

Because it's what everyone and their mother was calling for during covid to fight the dangerous <label> for opposing authoritarian policies.

Because we have to stop Russia, the republicans, extremists, anti war protests who are actually just <label>, because we have to protect kids, or fight racism...

It was all bullshit and people loved it. Now it's almost too late. If you don't reject it all and fight authoritarianism regardless of party alignment, you're not going to change any of this.
by babl-yc | 2025-08-10 21:29:42+00:00
I was in the market for a Linux desktop machine and considered the Framework Desktop. I respect their mission, but ended up purchasing a Geekom mini PC instead.

Given repair isn't practical with soldered DRAM and such, I prioritized small form factor, price, and quick delivery.

The Framework Desktop was a much larger form factor, 3x the price, and delivery wasn't for months.

That said, I still hope the company is successful so they have more competitive offerings in the future.
by to11mtm | 2025-08-10 21:30:05+00:00
> Erlang, at least the programming model, lends itself well to this, where each process has a local heap. If that can stay resident to a subsection of the CPU, that might lend itself better to a reasonably priced many core architecture.

I tend to agree.

Where it gets -really- interesting to think about, are concepts like 'core parking' actors of a given type on specific cores; e.x. 'somebusinessprocess' actor code all happens on a specific fixed set of cores and 'account' actors run on a different fixed set of cores, versus having all the cores going back and forth between both.

Could theoretically get a benefit due to instruction cache being very consistent per core, giving benefits due to the mechanical sympathy (I think Disruptors also take advantage of this).

On the other hand, it may not be as big a benefit, in the sense that cross process writes are cross core writes and those tend to lead to their own issues...

fun to think about.
by chrisco255 | 2025-08-10 21:30:41+00:00
It was far worse in the past, for the reasons you mentioned about security in particular. This is when we see the rise of castles and fortresses and the feudal system.

The Nazi Reich was very short lived (12ish years) and after its collapse, Western Germany was in a better place. The collapse of the Soviet Union was a bigger deal, as people had lived a few generations under the communist system and had to adapt rather suddenly to market economics and new governance. No doubt there was a shock period, but by and large people's lives got better. This is largely because of how globalized we are in modern day.

The Dark Ages lasted for hundreds of years and were a regression in quality of life for vast majority of western europe.
by rainsford | 2025-08-10 21:31:09+00:00
That's an interesting case because the collapse of the British Empire lined up pretty well with the rise the US as first one of two global superpowers and then the global superpower. It seems likely that the experience of imperial collapse might be different when you're replaced with a power that more or less is politically, militarily, economically, and linguistically aligned with you. I haven't conducted an exhaustive study, but I imagine that's not necessarily the common experience.
by anonymousiam | 2025-08-10 21:33:48+00:00
Restaurants have a lot of competition, and low margins. Like any other employer, they can offer jobs at low wages (or at least could, until the government got involved). People are under no obligation to accept a job with low wages, but some do. By definition the employees are not slaves, because they can quit at any time.

Employers offer wages that the labor market will bear. Some jobs are mostly unskilled labor, and the pay is appropriate. Restaurant workers get tips, and I am usually very generous. Apparently tipping has become much less popular lately.

Notable exceptions to skill vs. wages include things like the Longshoremen in the Port of Los Angeles, who belong to a union that extorts the shipping industry. There is no justification whatsoever for the high salaries they earn.
by aspenmayer | 2025-08-10 21:33:57+00:00
US treatment of migrant workers under the Bracero program and US usage of Zyklon B on migrant workers as a delousing agent directly inspired Nazis. This came to a head at the so-called bath riots in 1917:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1917_Bath_riots

This has come up a couple times before on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38552760

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40381708

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40382627

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40646876
by BrenBarn | 2025-08-10 21:34:01+00:00
> In my experience the kinds of kids who are worth having in the lab are not from the kinds of families that can afford 50k.

This is a fundamental issue in my view. The types of people who will do good work are precisely the type who have not been trained by privilege to believe that they can get by without doing good work. But it is those with the privilege who are most able to get themselves into positions where good work would be beneficial. Hence the incentives are exactly backwards and we need to make a deliberate effort to exclude exactly the types of people who most "naturally" will crowd into certain jobs and positions, and include those who are least likely to naturally do so.
by inglor_cz | 2025-08-10 21:34:49+00:00
"Western Germany was in a better place."

Due to a somewhat historically anomalous generosity of the winners, who (from a mixture of humanity and economic motives) decided to invest into its rebuilding.

In earlier times, debellatio of an enemy state after a long, vicious existential war would end in a way similar to what the Romans did to Carthage.
by x775 | 2025-08-10 21:34:56+00:00
Hello! I made this website. Thank you for sharing.

I appreciate all the feedback, and have implemented a few changes. A few points worth accentuating to avoid any misunderstandings. It is correct that the current proposal indeed is at the Council level, introduced as a high-priority item by the Danish Presidency. It is not yet with the Parliament. This is important as both need to be in agreement for any legislation to be adopted into European law. The first two sections of the website thus summarises the level of support at Council level. The source of this data strictly follows leaked documents from a July 11th 2025 meeting of the Council's Law Enforcement Working Party (LEWP) [0], originally reported by [1] and subsequently summarised by [2]. The next meeting for LEWP is scheduled for September 12th [3], shortly after most MEPs return from vacation.

As noted in another comment, the Council level requires at least 15/27 member states to support it. Should this happen, it would then reach the Parliament, pending approval. However, as support at the Council level seems greater than in previous renditions (supported further by Denmark's insistence and confidence on an expedited vote scheduled for October 14 [4]), it seems prudent to target beyond merely the Council-level. This is the intended goal of the third section of the website.

I see a few comments here suggesting that it would be better to label MEPs yet to respond as "Unknown". I initially decided to have MEPs inherit the position of their government, in part because I (a) wanted to encourage MEPs making a statement and clarifying their stance (while some have in the past, circumstances have changed with this version of the legislation); and (b) wanted to encourage a firm opposition at the Parliament level, ideally before the Council vote. However, I recognise how this can be perceived as being misleading. As such, I have updated the appearance such that pending a response, the label reads "Unknown" while the border indicates the presumed stance of the MEP to be that of their government.

I appreciate the interest and feedback: thank you. Ultimately, the goal with this website really is to raise awareness that the proposed legislation, once again, has been resurrected and is making progress. The attention this thread has garnered is greatly appreciated. As all MEPs have been contacted to confirm their stance, I expect responses to arrive in the coming days and weeks, allowing the overview to soon accurately reflect the personal opinions of each MEP.

In the meantime, I would still encourage you to contact your MEPs such that they are aware of your concerns.

[0] https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/council-eu/preparatory-bo...

[1] https://netzpolitik.org/2025/internes-protokoll-eu-juristen-...

[2] https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/

[3] https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/meetings/mpo/2025/9/law-e...

[4] https://www.parlament.gv.at/dokument/XXVIII/EU/26599/imfname...
by ymir_e | 2025-08-10 21:35:09+00:00
Definitely wouldn’t break the encryption itself.

I think the way it could work is to send a letter to each of the messaging apps saying that they are now legally required to use the EU’s encryption keys and make the messages available to the EU.

Then they would make it so that the apps that don’t comply are not available in the app stores by pressuring google and apple respectively.

I think this is the reason why for example telegram is not end to end encrypted by default - as some regions require them to be able to access users info.

Software you’re using on your own wouldn’t be effected, but wouldn’t necessarily be legal either.

People who are technically savvy could get around it, but the vast majority of people just assume that their private messages are private.
by kawfey | 2025-08-10 21:35:09+00:00
>Overall this cost us about $40k

About $10,000 per unit (including the PTAC removal/wall repair), sheesh. A new mini split in my St Louis (city) house was $5.5k, and that was one rung up from lowball $4k contractor.

Also, instead of the OEM wifi module, i had success with a sensibo, which has temp/hum/CO2/TVOC sensor, HomeKit control, and an IR blaster. I took that route when I learned the wifi module was locked down to their app, with no HomeKit.
by mdp2021 | 2025-08-10 21:35:54+00:00
> LLMs get this wrong

I wrote that of «a dozen models, no one could count». All of those I tried, with reasoning or not.

> presents no evidence

Create an environment to test and look for the failures. System prompt like "count this, this and that in the input"; user prompt some short paragraph. Models, the latest open weights.

> two anecdotes disagree

There is a strong asymmetry between verification and falsification. Said falsification occurred in a full set of selected LLMs - a lot. If two classes are there, the failing class is numerous and the difference between the two must be pointed at clearly. Also since we believe that the failure will be exported beyond the case of counting.