MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by johnnyanmac | 2025-08-18 01:09:27+00:00
>We should build the exact same factories they have in China, but staff them with immigrants from Latin America, Asia, and Africa. The wages wouldn't be great, but we could build the factories in LCOL areas and extend citizenship as an additional carrot.

1. this current adminstration ruined a lot of incentive to want to get citizenship here. The world is watching those citizenships being revoked in real time. The contract is broken.

2. LCOL areas in the US still pay better than many other countrie's middle class jobs. That's why the solution for 30 years was to outsource, not to immigrate talent here to run factories. The US lacks many protections, but the bare minimum is paying federal minimum wage.

3. The thing about LCOL areas is that they lack the resources and funds to start such initiatives. What you're really asking for is for the government to invest 10's, 100's of billions of dollars into a project to create the factories, million more to bring in talent to run the factories in what are often less desirable areas, and then billions more to bring in talent in these still less desirable areas. Even with a supporting administration, this would be a difficult proposal.

Costs of Living to some extent are linked to how valuable that land is to begin with; hence, coastlines tend to have more value than arid midwestern desert or bumpy mountainous terrain.
by mircerlancerous | 2025-08-18 01:10:29+00:00
My son is 12, and we've just started in on learning coding. To make it fun, we're making a game together. He does all the art and game design, and I do all the coding. To help him learn coding, I make him sit with me while I do the easy parts, so that he learns concepts. I explain things like variables, loops, and functions, and then talk through the design with him. He 'helps' me solve things at a high level, and then I show him what the solution looks like. At his age I think simple exposure to concepts is important, as it will make things easier if he gets into it himself when he's older. As for AI, it is still just a tool to make devs more productive, you still need to understand coding to get the most out of it. With that in mind, the basics are just as important as ever.
by topato | 2025-08-18 01:10:33+00:00
Haha, despite the 1000s of instances where it DOESNT simulate correctly. Very specifically chosen 10000-shot generated videos show somewhat impressive fluid physics... And even then, it MUST be something it's seen before. Diffusion is in NO way modeling physics in a realistic matter, there is not an infinite amount of training data to show all fluid dynamics...

Now I know you're too far down the hype rabbit hole. Either that, or you lack a cursory understanding of diffusion models.
by lifthrasiir | 2025-08-18 01:10:46+00:00
In fact, depending on font-synthesis [1] and the exact choice of fonts (even when they are monospaced), the alignment can be easily off. That's why this approach only works to some extent and not universal. One possible remedy is to wrap each grapheme into a cell that contains both fonts, where the visible one is bolden and the invisible one affects the advance width. But then you lose ligatures. (Personally I don't like ligatures in coding fonts so it's plus for me, though.)

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-synthe...
by zahlman | 2025-08-18 01:12:09+00:00
Your recent submission in my view absolutely merits flagging, because it's about booing a company you don't like and doesn't come across as charitable or asked in good faith.

And I agree with jakeydus: I'm not seeing anything I could call "vitriol" in the top-level comments. I do, however, see people resent having their way of life (and of making a living) called into question. The one particularly snide top-level comment I saw was agreeing with you.
by tomhow | 2025-08-18 01:12:53+00:00
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44930602.

> Focus on actual value creation? Nah, let's just mind-hack everyone into buying the product.

> I find it deeply depressing

Please don't fulminate on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by gosub100 | 2025-08-18 01:14:18+00:00
> what is the next number kind of thing

I've seen this too in a similar aptitude test I bought at a garage sale back in the 90s. I think it was an air traffic controller prep test. But in addition to the number sequence tests, it extended the concept to shapes and lines series. After a certain point, it definitely becomes subjective and debatable what the next sequence is.

Curiously, I also noticed this ambiguity in the humanities classes in college. I took the class thinking it was open and accepting of all points of view, only to find that there is one correct interpretation and conclusion you must reach from the classic fiction you were assigned to read. I didn't learn that until after I graduated.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-08-18 01:14:52+00:00
Even if this was a good idea, ID verification technology should not be outsourced to private parties. This is a service governments themselves must provide. I shouldn't need to upload an ID because the government already has it!

If they simply wanted age verification, the dumb and lazy way is to SSO through a government managed portal with OAUTH2 and you only share your age with the third party. You do a one time account setup (you already have to do this in the US for many government services at the federal level) with age verification, that's your gov portal login. This means the government will now which naughty sites you visit of course, but like I said, it is the lazy approach, and if you think about it, if they respect the laws then a law can be passed to prevent them from storing or using that association, if they didn't, they could still sniff your traffic and wiretap you.

A slightly smarter approach would be to directly auth against a government portal and be given a 24h expiring code for age verification, and the government will publish an updated list of codes to trusted businesses. Those codes could be leaked, but making it a felony should deter most cases, because who wants to go to prison to let some kids watch porn?

Smarter people than me can come up with smarter solution, that is really my point. Involving third-parties and requiring you to upload documents is done either out of extreme incompetence or opportunistic malice by elected officials (bribery).
by logicprog | 2025-08-18 01:15:18+00:00
The thing that this article seems to be studiously avoiding mentioning is Kent Overstreet's repeated refusal to adhere to testing code quality, patch, and release standards for the kernel, such that Linus has had to call him out before and his dispute with the Linux Kernel Code of Conduct Committee. This allows them to paint Kent as some reasonable, rational person that's just being unwarrantedly attacked, left and right by everyone in the mailing list. But that's really bullshit. Honestly, I wish people would stop sharing stuff from the register because it's a hack news blog.
by dahart | 2025-08-18 01:15:24+00:00
Why didn’t you start with that? You implied all professional degrees and then all graduate degrees and only mention humanities now? Forgive me for not catching your unstated assumptions. So who was under the impression they’d get rich with a graduate degree in social science or humanities? Seems like it has been common knowledge for many decades that humanities jobs pay considerably less than medicine or engineering, since long before today’s tuitions blew up. It’s been a cultural trope as long as I can remember that parents try to steer their kids away from humanities and towards higher paying fields. You could make a decent living in academia with humanities up to maybe 5 or 10 years ago, but I totally agree it’s getting a lot harder now. All tuition has blown up. Calling humanities graduate degrees a scam is a bit hyperbolic. Going to a state school won’t usually leave you with ruinous debt, that’s something that’s more likely to happen when choosing to go to a highly ranked big name school. Knowledge of outcomes in various fields is relatively well known and available information, and the amount of debt you end up with is mostly under your control. Sure some people might egg you on but nobody is hiding it or tricking you; most humanities graduate advisors I’ve met will tell you to study something else with very little prompting.

School should be provided, IMO, and nobody should be left with ruinous debt. This country can afford it, and money invested in education comes back in multiples in economic output, and yet we choose to keep education out of reach from many poor people and make it extra hard for those who can only just afford it. I’m sorry if you got stuck with a load of debt that’s difficult to manage. That sucks and it’s not fair.
by linkage | 2025-08-18 01:15:35+00:00
It's a tale of two cities, in my experience. Much like you, I'm sick of wasting away the best years of my life doing nothing of consequence at $ENTERPRISE and I'm willing to take a 20% pay cut at this point for a chance to actually ship things at a small company.

Unfortunately, I've found that describing what I've learned over the past three years (without any negativity) gives founders the ick. The survival skills you need in the jungle are very different from the ones you need in a zoo, and they feel I've spent too much time in a zoo.

Similarly, large companies want to hire people who understand the value of processes and hierarchies, and interviewing at these places is a challenge for those who have spent most of their career in startups.
by TheBozzCL | 2025-08-18 01:15:36+00:00
It’s literally what you experience in your life. I’d say I value my life a lot, in the end it’s all I actually own.

On the other hand, others value my attention because they can make fractions of a cent by making me look at stuff, because there’s a minimal chance they’ll convince me to spend money on stuff of probably little value.

Seems to me they don’t value my attention a lot, and I don’t get much of value out of it.
by schneems | 2025-08-18 01:16:38+00:00
It’s good that the industry does the right thing sometimes. It’s also good to have strong consumer protections when they don’t do the right thing.

The bill that required backup cameras came out in 2008 but didn’t fully go into effect until 2018 in order to give carmakers time. (At least) Some of what you’ve attributed to “becoming a standard” is due in part to automakers anticipating the regulation and another part of it being social norms as more and more cars have them so consumers ask for them.

I bought a car circa 2009-2010 as did a bunch of my friends (graduated college in 2008). We bought some of the most popular cars of the day, and zero of them had backup cameras.

I appreciate what you’re saying, that companies do things due to norms and markets (demand). I’m suggesting they also do things due to laws and architecture (Lessig, Code 2.0) and that we cannot rely on only one of the four to protect ourselves.
by martin-t | 2025-08-18 01:17:16+00:00
Products should compete on their cost vs value for the customer, not on which is better known.

Yes, advertisements make customers aware of a particular category of product but by pushing one specific brand instead of the whole category. I would OK with advertisements which push the whole category, that is positive-sum.

But currently we have an arms race where you have to invest in ads to compete with other products of the same category and that is zero-sum. Inter-category competition should be based on quality/longevity/cost.
by pablo1107 | 2025-08-18 01:17:20+00:00
Late to the party but just read your article and I share a lot of the struggle you said. I don't know if I can fix that by just going back to Arch. I've tried, with different levels of success, a mix between Arch and Nix, but that adds another issue of inter-compatibility of system packages between Arch and Nix which often it's a no-go.

The thing I enjoy the most on NixOS is the ability to make something, then remove it if I don't need it and don't have to worry about config files that are in an unknown-to-me path. But then there is the stateful aspect of the programs I used that I have to keep track of...
by Jensson | 2025-08-18 01:17:38+00:00
> Again, whose life has actually been improved from this research?

IQ showed there were tons of poor people with high IQ and thus it was worth providing higher schooling to poor people, that is a big one. Without IQ research people would just argue all poor people are dumb, but you can't do that now since we have proof that they aren't, they are just uneducated.

Another group it helped massively was women, without IQ tests do you really think women would get into higher education that quickly? IQ tests proved women weren't dumber than men, something people have long believed.

If you think its bad that women and poor people today are allowed to get higher education, then sure IQ just had bad consequences, but I feel most think those are good things.
by genewitch | 2025-08-18 01:18:13+00:00
which music skills? you can learn enough music theory and pop-song writing skills in a few weekends to pump out club/pop music. Sure, playing instruments is a skill that takes a long time to hone, but anyone can download openMPT or something and toss out music. If money comes in and they want orchestra, there's been things like the Vienna Symphonic Library and the like for decades.

i've written and recorded about a dozen hours worth of music in my life and i assuredly did not go to school for it. The quote is about education, not practice. It also mentions "half-assed job" which is what you get in "six weeks" of work.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-08-18 01:18:18+00:00
Nonsense - Nintendo’s OS, according to reverse engineers, is currently bulletproof. The contributor who rewrote the entire kernel, and secure monitor, as open source said they have “zero bugs”… in 2020. The problem was NVIDIA’s boot code and inability to detect glitching; but the OS design was impeccable.

Now that the Switch 2 inherits NVIDIA’s completely redesigned boot processor with formal verification, written in entirely memory-safe languages used for rockets and trains (ADA SPARK), with lockstep booting (two cores executing instructions simultaneously and verifying their work), and voltage monitoring / glitch detection as the cherry on top; Switch 2 won’t be cracked in the next decade, possibly two.
by pyman | 2025-08-18 01:18:32+00:00
Whenever people ask Google, Meta, Microsoft, or Twitter why their tools are polarising friendships, doing the Nazi salute, or stealing copyrighted material, they say: "Hey, we didn't know our AI was doing that. We didn't even know it could do that."

Well, next time they find Chinese malware on the phone of the NSA director, China should just say: "We didn't know Bruce AI was hacking phones! We only trained it to recommend products on Alibaba."

I guess what I'm trying to say is, with AI becoming so popular and quantum computers around the corner, either we all get serious about the truth or no one will. Because big tech companies in the US are lying through their teeth, about the AI they're building for military use, about the satellites they're launching, about everything. Then they tell the world, "they're bad, we're good." That doesn't work anymore. More and more developing countries are partnering with China, and perceptions are shifting. While the US focuses only on the cyber war, China is winning the tech, cyber, and diplomatic wars.

For me, the turning point was Covid-19. While the US was selling vaccines to wealthy countries, China was donating them to developing ones and saving lives. It shipped over a billion doses across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. In my country, China is seen as the good guy now.
by chiefalchemist | 2025-08-18 01:19:12+00:00
> the ample dry fuel,

Of the contributors, this is the most significant. Remove the excess fuel and the fires are mitigated. Winds are irrelevant if there’s nothing to burn.

Bottom line, the best that can be said about the contribution of climate change is that there’s correlation. The decades of mismanagement were significant. That is, even without climate change these forests would be danger waiting to happen.
by somerandom2407 | 2025-08-18 01:19:16+00:00
Sure, you'll never get rid of all misleading information; however, without advertising the volume of shit will reduce radically, as much of the modern internet is built around profiteering and get rich quick schemes (influencers), which breed swathes of hopeful emulators.

I think most sensible people are quite competent at ignoring the bullshit, so I would love it if there was less bullshit to wade through to get to the nuggets of useful information which are out there. For those too stupid to look past misleading information, there's no helping them anyway.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-08-18 01:19:35+00:00
you're a decade too early. Compare it to 1980 and you see how it flattens out very quickly. Compare it to 1990 and you see the cost per student has basically flatlined. Spending diverted from government funding of schools to student loans, so even that's misleading.

>And we're going broke paying for health care.

Signing a bill giving trillions to billionaires certainly does make it hard to fund healthcare. Especially when the wealth concentration these days has the top 10% making 50% of the money. I wonder how we solve that...
by coffeeling | 2025-08-18 01:19:48+00:00
> And how did Vietnam and Korea manage to understand their historical texts after they stopped using Chinese characters? And how do they create new words nowadays? I guess they just borrow words and pronunciations directly from English or other foreign languages?

The answer to all of these are the same as everyone else. It's not like Chinese people routinely read the old classics in the original, and even then they're literally taught Classical Chinese in school as a separate language, because it is. But other countries have scholars who study the old languages and also work to translate classics into modern language for wider use - I certainly can't read Greek but have Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics sitting on the bench next to me, translated into modern English.

Creating new words happens the same as it does everywhere - people genuinely coin new concepts, they loan foreign concepts as direct loans or calques, or form compound words from existing ones. "creating new words" with Chinese characters is literally just using foreign words to form compounds, something utterly routine everywhere else. It's just not treated as a magical event elsewhere.

For example, people routinely marvel at the ability to make compound words in kanji. But, may I introduce you to German, a language written with boring old non-mysterious Latin script that's famous worldwide for its heavy use of compound words.

> From what I understand, Chinese characters carry so much meaning that they’re really hard to replace.

They're really just scribbles that point at words or morphemes of the language they're used to write, same as phonetic scripts in that regard. They do let you do some tricks that are hard otherwise, like indicating which nuance of a word you intend by your choice of character, and the common stylistic trick of writing some set of characters and then imposing completely arbitrary readings on them by writing clarifications next to the characters being abused.

For example, in Frieren, in one of the early chapters, Frieren says:

Zorutoraaku wa hito wo korosu mahou dewa nakunatta.

In hiragana:

ゾルトラーク は ひと を ころす まほう でわ なくなった。

The manga writes it like this, however (furigana in parentheses after the kanji):

人を殺す魔法(ゾルトラーク) は 人を殺す魔法(ひと を ころす まほう) でわ なくなった。

人を殺す魔法 should be read "hito wo korosu mahou", ie. "magic that kills people", but the manga instructs us to read it first time as "Zorutoraaku", the name of the spell, and the second time properly, when Frieren's supposed to say its description out loud. There's no clarity issue here, it's just a stylistic trick.

For fun, the same line from the Korean translated version:

졸트라크는 더 이상 인간을 죽이는 마법이 아니게 됐지 Jolteurakeuneun deo isang inganeul jugineun mabeobi anige dwaetji.
by xenotux | 2025-08-18 01:19:57+00:00
I think this is similar to AI generated images: it puts a new creative tool in the hands of people who might have had good ideas, but didn't have a mastery of the medium. In that respect, it's cool: if you had a great idea for a sci-fi story but no talent for writing, and if an LLM let you realize your vision, that's neat. It has some negative externalities for the craftsmen, but overall, more creativity is hardly a bad thing.

The real problem is that the most lucrative uses of the tech aren't that. It's generating 10,000 fake books on Amazon on subjects you don't care about. It's cranking out SEO spam, generating monetizable clickbait, etc.
by martin-t | 2025-08-18 01:20:44+00:00
> Amazon.com (not AWS) doesnt make any money on product sales - it makes almost all of its revenue from sponsored products

So you see, it is exploitative. Amazon has an advantageous position thanks to its brand name and it allows it to extract money from companies who want their product sold which in turn is extracted from customers. Meanwhile if a better (in terms of quality/longevity/cost) product existed, it would be unable to compete without also being forced to advertise. It has to spend money on ads which would be better spent improving the product (or making it cheaper in the complete absence of advertising).

EDIT: Btw, I do appreciate the honesty. There are absolutely different levels of severity of anti-social / anti-consumer behavior - the exploitation I pointed out has lower severity but a higher scale/prevalence and your alcohol example is a good example of low scale/prevalence but high severity.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-08-18 01:21:36+00:00
Spending isn't the problem, when you ignore how the spending is composed.

We flattened out decades ago, and that's because we went from subsidizing schools to funding loans. The money makeup per studnet won't look different... until the student graduates and can't pay it off.

So our solution was obvious: make it so they can't bankrupt and stay in debt forever. Great way to build an educated citizenship.
by FineWolf | 2025-08-18 01:23:13+00:00
> But the article also says you can replace that public key, also they are from the motherboard, not CPU manufacturer.

No. The article does state that EKs come from your fTPM, which is part of your CPU package.

Without replacing your CPU, you are not replacing your EK, or `EKpub`.

Unless you install a discrete TPM, who's `EKpub` won't be signed by Intel or AMD; thus easily detectable as a discrete TPM.
by nickv | 2025-08-18 01:23:14+00:00
Quick update.

We are backfilling the comments and stories we missed. You should start seeing them in the search results page. I will update when it's all caught up.

Apologies for this again, didn't want to send an update until I had something and every time it felt so close.

We'll work on an HN update on what happened here and lessons learned. (spoiler alert: ownership has become muddled over 10 years so we had to figure out how the portion that stopped crawling worked. That was fun. We'll make sure to work on a clear plan here and be transparent about it. So sorry :( )
by chiefalchemist | 2025-08-18 01:23:42+00:00
> In response to the crisis, the Newfoundland premier, John Hogan, said on Wednesday morning he would temporarily ban off-road vehicles in forested areas because the province “simply cannot afford any further risks, given the number of out-of-control wildfires we have”.

Sounds like “never used” is a function of ATVs taking humans into areas that were previously off limits. sadly, that level of honesty is not the way the headline reads.