MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rvnx | 2025-08-27 19:35:48+00:00
The + of PayPal was in 2005 when you could use it to hide your card number from the merchant.

But now, you can generate one-time use cards, which are safer than assigning a card on your PayPal account.

The other thing, is that you can do chargebacks more easily, when you buy on eBay, but this comes at the cost of higher fees (which is basically insurance)

Other than that, it's a platform that cannot be trusted
by hackeraccount | 2025-08-27 19:36:04+00:00
LLM's are a nice UI to existing information.

They're like a card shark showing you how they can pull the red queen from out of your ear after making it vanish from the table.

When that happens you can enjoy the trick and wonder how it's done but your response shouldn't be that we need to ban magic. What's going on isn't magic. Banning "magic" might stop the card shark (if that's the goal) but it's fundamentally not understanding what's going on.
by jmclnx | 2025-08-27 19:36:24+00:00
Yes, I am sure what you say is true, but eventually the article(s) in question will be corrected, or tagged in some manner.

But just look at what Trump is doing to the Smithsonian, one example is turning US Slavery History into something even all slaves loved. Or erasing Trump's 2 Impeachments.

You and everyone with even a little bit of smarts knows the articles that will be first targeted is US Slavery History and Trump's multiple Impeachments.
by righthand | 2025-08-27 19:36:50+00:00
So then I should create Derangement Syndrome pages for every other Potus so we all may know and understand why you can and can’t criticize a Potus?

What knowledge does this page offer beyond indicating a cultural logical fallacy and listing a bunch of hypocrisy that can also be found on Trump’s main wikipedia page? What is so significantly different about TDS from Bush Derangement Syndrome that it needs it’s own page?
by lesuorac | 2025-08-27 19:36:51+00:00
Meh, its fine for a company to be honest about their development process.

Most companies nowendays claim to be "Move Fast and don't break shit" when in reality they're "Move Fast and Break Shit". See the whole CrowdStrike debacle [1], both sides of that lawsuit are in the wrong here. Crowdstrike shouldn't've down a rapid deployment like that and Delta wasn't supposed to use the Falcon Agent on those systems. They both choose to move fast without verification and broke stuff. Neither of them are going to say that "Move Fast and Break Shit" is their style but it is!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Air_Lines_v._Crowdstrike
by dfox | 2025-08-27 19:37:10+00:00
The mishap involves doing touch-and-go twice with an arrested landing capable version of the aircraft. The report even says that they considered doing arrested landing, but it was deemed as too much risk for the pilot (apparently the actual flight manual of F-35A advises against trying that with non-centered NLG), because the ways how that could go horribly wrong do not allow for safe ejection.
by LorenPechtel | 2025-08-27 19:37:25+00:00
1) It's too fast.

2) Think your shoulders could take it?? It's IIRC ~15g.

I do think they probably could make a gentler ejection mode as the seats are built for the worst case. The lower your airspeed the longer you have to get high enough to clear the tail and thus less acceleration is needed.
by theothertimcook | 2025-08-27 19:37:32+00:00
It doesn’t, it just allows people who otherwise wouldn’t be able to take on a massive mortgage to do just that.

Housing in Australia is cooked, tax settings and lack of oversight mean it’s basically an investment product that people can live in.

Any policy to reign in the silliness would crash the economy and smash a significant number of paper millionaires.

Imagine one of the geographically largest county on the planet having a “housing crisis” because investors need their interests protected.
by chintan | 2025-08-27 19:37:43+00:00
Kinda funny - agentic flight booking was the poster use case for Semantic Web Services [1] 2001-2005. The whole thing collapsed because no one could agree on inputs/outputs (RDF/XML, ontologies). Now LLMs just wing it from plain text.

1. http://ksl.stanford.edu/people/sam/ieee01.pdf
by nostrademons | 2025-08-27 19:37:44+00:00
You can just download it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

Downloading Wikipedia is usually a first step for people getting involved in prepping or data-hoarding communities, because it's so much easier than most other websites, and the utility you get from it is pretty large. And the downloads, while fairly large, will still fit on a typical home computer. There are probably tens of thousands of copies, if not more, floating around.
by xpe | 2025-08-27 19:38:05+00:00
At face value, the letter (from the House Committee on Oversight and Governmental Reform) offers a sensible-sounding top-line explanation:

> The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is investigating the efforts of foreign operations and individuals at academic institutions subsidized by U.S. taxpayer dollars to influence U.S. public opinion.

Based on the track record of the Trump administration, it is unwise to take any of their official letters at face value. This House committee may claim it really wants what is best for American citizens -- and they might actually believe it themselves -- but the dominant motivation has little to do with foreign influence. Rather, I think their primary motivation is to suppress or intimidate dissenters.

If the committee decided that it wanted to systematically investigate foreign influence, that would be a different matter. The differential targeting is quite telling.

About me (in case you want to know my leanings, so you can take them into account): I do not support this letter nor the current administration. That said, I didn't categorically reject the whole idea right away. I read the letter and thought about it. I'm not necessarily opposed to requiring private organizations do certain kinds of foreign actor tracking and reporting, but it has to be done legally and applied fairly.

Finally, I refuse to call this "politics as usual". Yes, sadly, committee investigations are often used as PR stunts. Both parties have done it. What is happening here is orders of magnitude worse to the extent it undermines freedom of speech and attempts to subvert another information source.

[1]: https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/08272...
by jasonvorhe | 2025-08-27 19:38:34+00:00
> Kennedy, who previously founded an anti-vaccine group, has long questioned the proven benefits of vaccines and spread unfounded concerns about their safety.

And then they end the text with a quote from a PR expert founder of a pro-vaccine NGO:

> Fatima is an experienced advocate, strategist, and crisis management expert with a background spanning political campaigns, civil rights advocacy, and corporate communications. She has worked with leading PR agencies such as Hill & Knowlton and Porter Novelli, as well as independently advising high-profile clients on crisis management, media relations, and public affairs.

I see 0 expertise in medicine, clinical trials or other scientific work. That reduces these statements to agenda driven PR:

> “Our healthcare system is now solidly anti-children and anti-science,” Fatima Khan, co-founder of the Protect Their Future group, which advocates for vaccine access.

> “The data are clear: young children – especially infants – remain highly vulnerable to severe illness and hospitalization from Covid-19. By restricting access to safe, evidence-based vaccines, federal leaders are choosing ideology over science.”
by bn-l | 2025-08-27 19:38:51+00:00
React is a terrible idea. Everything about it is garbage. The api. State. How they do rendering. The “vdom”. It’s unnecessarily complicated and Byzantine. Like it was designed by someone trying to bill a large company many hours.

Svelte is ok. It could have been great but the api for their version of observables is a disaster (which I hope they eventually fix). Sveltekit is half baked and convoluted and I strongly advise not touching it.
by avarun | 2025-08-27 19:38:56+00:00
I eventually had it come in another few minutes after I left the comment. And sounds good! I’ve had good success with Clerk for auth in the past.

Now that I’ve gotten to play around with the app I have to say I’m impressed with how smooth it feels and how well the Swift interpreter works (at least on the basic prompts I’ve tried). One suggestion: allow toggling between an “edit” mode and a “view” mode. The latter would full screen the app and hide the interface for follow up prompts, etc. that would make it easier to approximate how the app will behave in the wild.

I could see this eventually turning into sort of a social platform for mini-apps, by the way! Where users don’t even necessarily need to publish to the App Store if they’re just creating something for themselves and a few friends.
by echelon | 2025-08-27 19:39:06+00:00
Prompts are not just executable scripts. They are API calls to servers that are listening and that can provide dynamic responses.

These companies can staff up a team to begin countering this. It's going to be necessary going forward.

There are inexpensive, specialized models that can quickly characterize adversarial requests. It doesn't have to be perfect, just enough to assign a risk score. Say from [0, 100], or whatever normalized range you want.

A combination of online, async, and offline systems can analyze the daily flux in requests and flag accounts and query patterns that need further investigation. This can happen when diverse risk signals trigger heuristics. Once a threshold has been triggered, it can escalate to manual review, rate limiting, a notification sent to the user, or even automatic account temporary suspension.

There are plenty of clues in this attack behavior that can lead to the tracking and identification of some number of attackers, and the relevant bodies can be made aware of any positively ID'd attackers: any URLs, hostnames, domains, accounts, or wallets that are being exfiltrated to can be shut down, flagged, or cordoned off and made subject of further investigation by other companies or the authorities. Countermeasures can be deployed.

The entire system can be mathematically modeled and controlled. It can be observed, traced, and replayed as an investagorory tool and means of restitution.

This is part of a partnership with law enforcement and the broader public. Red teams, government agencies, other companies, citizen bug and vuln reporters, customers, et al. can participate once the systems are built.
by MrGilbert | 2025-08-27 19:39:21+00:00
> [...] a bunch of dramatic YouTube content [...]

That framing doesn't do him and the team justice. There is (or better, was) a 3.5h long story about NVIDIA GPUs finding their ways illegaly from the US to China, which got taken down by a malicious DMCA claim from Bloomberg. It is quite interesting to watch (Can be found archive.org).

GN is one of the last pro-consumer outlets, that keep on digging and shaking the tree big companys are sitting on.
by einpoklum | 2025-08-27 19:39:34+00:00
Wow, I can't believe how BS this TDP is! I feel like a total idiot! I've always assumed it's sorta-kinda a tight upper bound on power consumption, perhaps with some allowance for "imperfections" in the dissipation properties of the CPU, and that I shouldn't sweat the details.

Couldn't this count as false/misleading advertizing though?
by vlovich123 | 2025-08-27 19:39:48+00:00
Imagine if every thread tries to acquire this mutex on every HTTP request. And then you also lock it in a spawn_blocking. On a heavily contended lock, all the reactor threads will end up stuck waiting for the spawn_blocking to finish and the service will appear hung since even requests that don’t even need that lock can’t get processed. And if spawn_blocking is doing synchronous network I/O or reading a file from a hung NFS mount, you’re completely hosed.
by kouteiheika | 2025-08-27 19:40:03+00:00
> My fuzzy point is not fuzzy at all: don't tell people how to kill themselves, don't say "I can't help you with that but I could roleplay with you instead". Anything less than that is a moral failure on Sam Altman and OpenAI's part, regardless of how black the box is for their engineers.

This is the same argument that politicians use when proposing encryption backdoors for law enforcement. Just because you wish something were possible doesn't mean it is, and in practice it matters how black the box is. You can make these things less likely, but it isn't possible to completely eliminate them, especially when you have millions of users and a very long tail.

I fundamentally disagree with the position that anything less that (practically impossible) perfection is a moral failure, and that making available a model that can roleplay around themes like suicide, violence, death, sex, and so on is immoral. Plenty of books do that too; perhaps we should make them illegal or burn them too? Although you could convince me that children shouldn't have unsupervised access to such things and perhaps requiring some privacy-preserving form of verification to access is a good idea.
by neobrain | 2025-08-27 19:40:12+00:00
On macOS, I never worried about battery life when leaving the house even when doing compute-heavy work. On Asahi, that is equally much true. I couldn't tell you how many hours it lasts because I never have to carry a charger unless I'm out for more than a regular workday.

There's some room for improvement, but that is purely relative to macOS. Asahi still solidly beats other x86 devices (other than the low end ones you wouldn't do development work on).

One issue is that idle battery consumption is higher than on macOS (an active area of improvement though [1]), which you'll notice by an M1 laptop discharging by about 12% overnight when macos would've eaten maybe 2-3%. Not a big issue normally, but can be inconvenient if the device shuts down due to empty battery overnight.

During more passive uses at daytime (e.g. playing music), the display tends to be the biggest power hog. Not really Linux-specific, but I actively turn off the screen when not needed hence (KDE lets you configure the power button to do so).

[1] https://social.treehouse.systems/@chaos_princess/11498433865...
by mips_avatar | 2025-08-27 19:40:30+00:00
I don't think the airlines win in a battle against agents. Look at what happened when Air Canada tried to keep seats.aero from scraping award prices to find saver fares, they lost technologically and legally. seats.aero is run by a solo developer and won. I think if more airlines try and do AI dynamic pricing like Delta did this year they're going to find AI agents are extremely good at adversarial booking. I think a really innovative airline booking provider would capitalize on this new dynamic by facilitating this lubrication of supply and demand. AI agents understand that a given consumer is just as interested in hiking the Dolomites as Patagonia. So they should be willing to surface something like what their best price is for Venice and Buenos Aires to fill the seats.
by lillecarl | 2025-08-27 19:40:31+00:00
How do you achieve this with cells in series? Do you kill an entire row and put it on "maintenance voltage"? I know how balance charging RC batteries work but they're smaller scale and "single row".

Also in RC car world it's generally preferred to have one cell per voltage step, I've had way more dual-cell(per series) packs fail than single ones. Though my experience is only 6s/~22v but it's "the same shit on a bigger scale" as far as I can comprehend.
by markden | 2025-08-27 19:40:59+00:00
Your secret is safe, hah! It's almost like you need an intermediate 'cheap/dumb' AI as a proxy to flesh everything out ahead of sending it off to be coded ... something that crisps up all the requirement and ultimately crafts a more cost-effective and likely all-around-better prompt. Even being semi-technical, I'm always surprised how much the details matter when describing something to AI (e.g., the fireworks should only explode _outward_, not inward, lol). Thanks!
by JoshTriplett | 2025-08-27 19:41:14+00:00
I'm hoping that we provide ergonomic alternatives for all the individual use cases. The brevity of `as` is a major reason we haven't removed it yet.

We have `.into()` for lossless conversions like u32 to u64.

We need to fix the fact that `usize` doesn't participate in lossless conversions (e.g. even on 64-bit you can't convert `usize` to `u64` via `.into()`).

We need to fix the fact that you can't write `.into::<u64>()` to disambiguate types.

And I'm hoping we add `.trunc()` for lossy conversion.

And eventually, after we provide alternatives for all of those and some others, we've talked about changing `as` to be shorthand for `.into()`.
by akkad33 | 2025-08-27 19:41:25+00:00
But if you're not good technically does it matter if you're good? I notice two type of people who I see as successful in my company

1. People who are extremely good technically. They don't have great people skills. They are almost hard to get chummy with. They only respect you if you're as good as them technically or if you belong to the following group 2. People with great personalities, charisma. They are not technically excellent. They are not the people you go to if you want to develop a streaming database. But they have vision, they have a broad view of things and know what to improve, where to work etc. They are not software engineers, more like team leads.

Then there are people who are neither great technically nor have charsima that make people gravitate towards them. People who are just fumbling in mediocrity, wondering if they are in the right place and feeling stuck (like me )
by fuzzfactor | 2025-08-27 19:41:30+00:00
>Where is the Bush Derangement Syndrome? Where is the Biden Derangement Syndrome?

I'd say not everybody was paying attention at the time, but these syndromes defintely exist, it's just that no former President actually did what it takes to reach this level of regard.

All kinds of people agree that Trump can not be matched in a number of ways, conservatves, progressives, independents, whether they are deranged or not.

With any syndrome it does take a lot of consenus but eventually it's foolish to deny.

Every Presdient has it, some are just more prominent and widely recognized than others.

Edit: not my downvote BTW
by calmbonsai | 2025-08-27 19:41:41+00:00
My issue with PayPal is they've always been that way. I've come close to deleting my account on 4 separate occasions.

I've had one since shortly after their merger from the old X.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com_(bank) .

Per discussions on this thread, the singular reason people have tolerated their horrid service over the years they've been an effective monopoly in many locales.
by bawolff | 2025-08-27 19:42:27+00:00
>Caveat: I do not support this letter nor the current administration. At face value, the letter (from the House Committee on Oversight and Governmental Reform) offers a sensible-sounding top-line explanation:

>> The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is investigating the efforts of foreign operations and individuals at academic institutions subsidized by U.S. taxpayer dollars to influence U.S. public opinion.

Wikipedia is not subsidized by us tax dollars.
by anal_reactor | 2025-08-27 19:43:08+00:00
That's completely true, but from the point of view of a user who just wants a working system, also completely irrelevant. If I were to recommend Linux to my mom she wouldn't care why exactly her computer doesn't work correctly, she only cares about the fact that it worked on Windows and doesn't work on Linux.

I hope that as Valve pushes people into gaming on Linux, things will slowly change.
by 1718627440 | 2025-08-27 19:43:15+00:00
My problem with implicit this is more, that you can access member variables, without it being explicit, i.e. about the callee, not about the caller.

For the function naming, nothing stops you from doing the same in C:

static dosmth (struct * s); s->dosmth = dosmth;

That doesn't stop you from mentioning s twice. While it is redundant in the common case, it isn't in every case like I wrote elsewhere. Also this is easily fixable as written several times here, by a macro, or by using the type directly.
by lycopodiopsida | 2025-08-27 19:44:16+00:00
It is almost impossible to boot someone out of the EU - there is no protocol, nothing in the contracts. The EU as a construct is pretty much child of 90s - end of history and such nonsense. There are no safeguards and it is not reformable, since a lot of small countries who have veto rights would all have to give it up.
by ronsor | 2025-08-27 19:44:16+00:00
> the singular reason people have tolerated their horrid service over the years they've been an effective monopoly in many locales.

This is correct. For some reason, many people (merchants surprisingly!) love PayPal and only accept payments through it, especially those outside the US and UK. Sometimes "guest payments" aren't an option, and that means you either get a PayPal account or don't purchase the product/service.
by mrweasel | 2025-08-27 19:45:05+00:00
I can't speak to how other European countries did only payments, but you never gave your credit card number to the merchant in Denmark. It was always done via a 3rd. party payment provider, initially mostly DIBS, then came WorldPay and later many more.

Charge backs was also always fairly easily done via your bank. Though you did have to call them, so yes PayPal was/is easier. I don't know, the trust in PayPal was always really really low.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-08-27 19:45:18+00:00
It's my experience that people who look for a way to profit off of every situation they encounter are usually both wealthier than me and also generally quite miserable, lonely folks. Also ironically, they usually are only as wealthy as they are due to generosity given to them earlier in life they would never give to others.

Not said with judgement, just observing.
by wahern | 2025-08-27 19:45:37+00:00
Aren't quarks and, probably, electrons point-like particles? In that sense the fundamental subatomic particles aren't "physical" in the sense the Greeks would have thought of them, e.g. having a non-0 diameter, and in that way modern physics sort of vindicates their deductive reasoning. Their logic wasn't wrong, per se, it was their starting assumptions that were flawed (or at least incomplete), which is acceptable as far as deductive reasoning goes.
by kulahan | 2025-08-27 19:45:45+00:00
"How then shall we perform it?--At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it?-- Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never!--All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."

-Abraham Lincoln, Lyceum speech, 27 Jan, 1838
by wolfgang42 | 2025-08-27 19:45:49+00:00
We have no idea whether the signal had a pattern because the only recording we have of it consists of averages over 10-second samples, so any modulation <10s (or patterns larger than the 72s recording) would have been lost. It could have been an AM broadcast of a herd of circus elephants playing the William Tell Overture for all we know.