MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by burnt-resistor | 2025-08-16 01:25:42+00:00
Billionaires (in good graces) won't go to prison for the foreseeable future, but small fish will. Furthermore, the absurdly rich will exploit their newly-expanded corruption via patronage options with executive, legislative, and judicial branches to harm their competitors and enemies. This is why Tim Cook gave 47 a gold award. The system is coming apart at the seams for ordinary people and they're losing faith in the legitimacy of the legal and economic systems. This is how communism and civil wars start.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-08-16 01:27:28+00:00
>We don't recognize ownership of ideas as a legitimate concept.

Who is this "we" you're referring to? As far as I know it's you and your 2 or 3 online pen pals because the rest of the world recognizes it as a legitimate concept such that it's been encoded into law and billions and billions have been invested into said said ideas on the assumption that those laws will provide the idea creators with "ownership" of said ideas.
by nabla9 | 2025-08-16 01:27:47+00:00
With no attempt to make quantify how many Fat Activists there are, we don't know if this is culturally meaningful or just fringe news.

100, 1000 activists, or more? How many are activists and how many just lightly hold this opinion when asked? This can be just be handful of influences doing it for money. Weird opinions sell.
by mthoms | 2025-08-16 01:28:59+00:00
It's nothing personal but I clicked your link enthusiastically and was greeted with nothing but clickbait thumbnails.

"THIS COMMON MEDICATION IS DANGEROUS FOR ADHD WOMEN!" & "THIS STRANGE HABIT IN PREGNANCY INCREASES THE RISK OF ADHD!" are just two examples.

I'm sure it's a good podcast but I find this practice distasteful at best and absolutely abhorrent when you're directly targeting mental health patients with poor impulse control and self-regulation issues.

(I want to emphasize that I know you mean well :-) )
by ericmay | 2025-08-16 01:28:59+00:00
1) Over a hundred Spanish soldiers died defending America as part of the Afghanistan war. How many Americans have died defending Spain in a hot war since the founding of NATO?

How many times has Spain been attacked? Not a great argument.

And just to make sure the record is very clear I am very grateful for our allies and their contributions, particularly to the war in Afghanistan, but that’s Afghanistan, it’s not Russia or China. And Spain in particular is unwilling to increase defense spending - why is that?

2) The linked article doesn't say what you claim it says. The Cdn. military is advising the government to go ahead with the entire F-35 purchase. That doesn't necessarily mean the civilian government will agree. We just don't know yet.

They’ll buy. Also the OP said

“Portugal and Canada also both lost interest in American F-35s recently.”

Did they lose interest? Doesn’t appear to be the case for Canada.
by firefax | 2025-08-16 01:29:42+00:00
>Let me be crystal. TL;DR Only babbling fools think America isn't capable of crossing any line right now

I think the babbling fools are the ones with multiple passports, ignorant of their privilege, who demand that the same untrained civilians they turned their noses up at when they tried to leave this place take risks for a type of global elite who's happy to float in wherever they can enrich themselves, then flee.

There are plenty of great unis in the EU and Canada. Why come here, if we're so terrible?
by rasengan | 2025-08-16 01:29:42+00:00
> Honestly, I feel more comfortable using Mullvad. This team has some folks with questionable backgrounds and I wouldn't trust Intel.

Relying on "trust" in a security/privacy architecture isn't the right way to do things - which is what this solves. It removes the need to trust in a person or person(s) in most VPN company cases since they have many employees, and moves it to trusting in code.

> Also VPN providers are usually in non-us countries due to things like the Lavabit, Yahoo incidents and the Snowden revelations.

The system is designed so that any change server side will be immediately noticed by clients/users. As a result, these issues are sufficiently mitigated, and instead, allows people to take advantage of strong consumer, and personal, protection laws in the US.
by adidoit | 2025-08-16 01:29:44+00:00
Of course there's survivor bias.

But the point he makes is completely valid that you have to start by doing things yourself and not automating. I think the biggest value of that is you actually build a more granular mental model of how things work that simply can't be captured by slides and memos.

You also build what the cool kids now call taste. It's what does good look like and why? And often it means having a strong perspective on decisions people would be either ambivalent to or not even recognize that a decision is needed.

AI means many will skip and try to automate prematurely.

At www.socratify.com We build our pedagogical content manually. Even though everyone tells us that we should use AI, we want to curate a set of context that's high quality because it's what our users interact with

I'm sure we'll semi-automate on the validation side pretty quickly, but it's hard to replace raw human brainpower even with the smartest models and we learn a lot quickly.
by gschoeni | 2025-08-16 01:29:53+00:00
We're working on `oxen` to solve a lot of the problems we ran into with git or git-lfs.

We have an open source CLI and server that mirrors git, but handles large files and mono repos with millions of files in a much more performant manner. Would love feedback if you want to check it out!

https://github.com/Oxen-AI/Oxen
by vunderba | 2025-08-16 01:30:25+00:00
I've updated my GenAI Comparison site to include Imagen4 Ultra, so now we have four Google related generative models (Gemini Flash, Imagen3, Imagen4, and Imagen4 Ultra).

Despite claims that Ultra supports improved strict prompt adherence, we saw no evidence that it scored any better than Imagen 4 and in some cases seemed to ignore the prompt altogether (see the "Not the Bees" comic). In many cases, it also seemed much less steerable than Imagen3 requiring many of the prompts to be rewritten.

https://genai-showdown.specr.net?models=IMAGEN_3,IMAGEN_4,IM...
by throwaway173738 | 2025-08-16 01:31:47+00:00
In the Senate specifically you need 60 votes to break a filibuster. Filibustering, if we Americans remember from Civics/US Govt class in high school, happens when a senator exercises their right to speak for as long as they wish. Or at least it used to. There was a rule change a few decades ago to allow something called a “pocket filibuster” where you don’t have to keep speaking but you can block further motions on the matter. This requires at least 60 votes to break, so it’s effectively impossible to do anything in the Senate without that many votes now.

There were some legendary filibusters back in the day. One famous example was when Strom Thurmond filibustered the Civil Rights act by speaking for 24 hours continuously. He was not able to block the bill by continuing to speak because there are limits to how long someone is able to stand and deliver, and originally if you stopped speaking you had to yield the floor and allow business to proceed.
by tom_ | 2025-08-16 01:32:05+00:00
I didn't enjoy using Plastic, but Perforce is ok (not to say that it's perfect - I miss a lot of git stuff). It does have no problems with lots of data though! This article moans about the overhead of a 25 MB png file... it's been a long time since i worked on a serious project where the head revision is less than 25 GB. Typical daily churn would be 2.5 GB+.

(It's been even longer since i used svn in anger, but maybe it could work too. It has file locking, and local storage cost is proportional to size of head revision. It was manageable enough with a 2 GB head revision. Metadata access speed was always terrible though, which was tedious.)
by adidoit | 2025-08-16 01:32:24+00:00
Social media itself has become pretty bleak.

"Today, only a fraction of time spent on Meta’s services – 7% on Instagram, 17% on Facebook – involves consuming content from online “friends” (“friend sharing”). A majority of time spent on both apps is watching videos, increasingly short-form videos that are “unconnected” – i.e., not from a friend or followed account – and recommended by AI-powered algorithms Meta developed as a direct competitive response to TikTok’s rise, which stalled Meta’s growth"

"Social" media is just media now.
by wl | 2025-08-16 01:32:27+00:00
They are not the same issue. The drop safety issue was when the pistol was dropped at a particular angle (that wasn't part of standard tests—how it was missed!), the trigger was massive enough and the trigger pull was light enough that inertia would lead to the trigger moving to the rear, causing the firearm to discharge. It was a very specific failure nothing like any of the alleged uncommanded discharges.
by funywork | 2025-08-16 01:32:58+00:00
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by MagicalTux | 2025-08-16 01:33:20+00:00
This is the server-side part of things. It receives encrypted traffic from your (and other customers) device, and routes it to the Internet.

This guarantees that your traffic isn't being linked to you, and is mixed up with others in a way that makes it difficult for someone to attribute it to you, as long as you also protect yourself on the application side (clear cookies, no tracking browser extension, etc)
by ripjaygn | 2025-08-16 01:34:53+00:00
> I think it's not as clear cut as "the Democrats" or "the Republicans" here-- especially since there would probably be a requirement that the shortfall be made up in some other way in order to balance the effects on revenue

For the 10th time in this thread, the repealing bill DID NOT need to be revenue neutral since it had Republican support, all it needed was 60 votes in the Senate. Reconciliation only applies if a yearly budget bill can get at least 51 votes but not 60.

Sorry, I feel like I am taking crazy pills. I stated the same in another comment and was downvoted. I know HN is liberal biased but it's becoming unusable if you as much dare to criticize democrats.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-08-16 01:35:08+00:00
In the context of the linked article the discourse seems reasonable to me. These are experts who clearly know (link in the article) that we have no real idea about these things. The framing comes across to me as a clearly mentally unwell position (ie strong anthropomorphization) being adopted for PR reasons.

Meanwhile there are at least several entirely reasonable motivations to implement what's being described.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-08-16 01:35:09+00:00
>The secrecy exists precisely because once information is out there there is no way to control what will be done with it. Contrast that with copyright: the monopolists want to distribute the information world wide and simultaneously fully control what people do with it. The tyranny necessary to enforce such corporate control is utterly unacceptable.

The idea wouldn't exist if such tyranny didn't exist in the first place. What causes a drug company to invest billions into creating life saving drugs? If all ideas are open source then there's NO incentive for ANYONE to invest billions into ideas.

That's why copyrights and patent laws exist. To function as incentive in the creation of new ideas.

Pick and choose: Either you can only interact with the idea under monopolist rules. Or the idea doesn't exist period. Overall, humanity (aka the actual "we") has picked the former over the later.
by chasil | 2025-08-16 01:35:33+00:00
In some defense of the parent post, a new kernel is relinked at every boot. This load is noticeable.

This is aslr on steroids, and it does vastly increase kernel attack complexity, but it is a computational and I/O load that no version of Linux imposes that I know.

Relinking the C library is relatively quick in comparison.
by corimaith | 2025-08-16 01:36:39+00:00
The current account balance (BoP) considers goods and services. And it's not bilateral relationships that matter, but the aggregate global imbalance. To say that America is the engine of the deficits that absorbs the world's surpluses is trivially accepted by economists.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/BN.CAB.XOKA.CD?most_rec...

There's a nice table to understand how skewed things are really with the balance of payments here. America's deficit is 10x higher than the second rank with the UK, which should illustrate how difficult it is for the surplus countries to find alternatives. In any case, this whole situation on excessively relying on one country to buy all the world's exports is a stupidly unstable situation.
by Davidzheng | 2025-08-16 01:40:10+00:00
I disagree with this take. They are designed to predict human behavior in text. Unless consciousness serves no purpose for us to function, it will be helpful for the AI to emulate it. so I believe almost certainly it's emulated to some degree. which I think means it has to be somewhat conscious (it has to be a sliding scale anyhow considering the range of living organisms)
by MagicalTux | 2025-08-16 01:41:00+00:00
Intel SGX comes with an attestation process aiming at exactly that. The attestation contains a number of details, such as the hardware configuration (cpu microcode version, BIOS, etc) and the hash of the enclave code. At system startup the CPU gets a certificate from Intel confirming the configuration is known safe, which is used by the CPU to in turn certify the enclave is indeed running code with a given fingerprint.

When the connection is established we verify the whole certificate chain up to Intel, and we verify the TLS connection itself is part of the attestation (public key is attested).
by Davidzheng | 2025-08-16 01:42:13+00:00
what else could it be? coming from the aether? I think this one is logically a consequence if one thinks that humans are more conscious than less complex life-forms and that all life-forms are on a scale of consciousness. I don't understand any alternative, do you think there is a distinct line between conscious and unconscious life-forms? all life is as conscious as humans?
by philosophty | 2025-08-16 01:43:11+00:00
The way many people like yourself seem to have been completely fooled by major corporations wanting cheaper labor to exploit (through both legal, semi-legal, and illegal immigration) will be studied for generations.

Their favorite trick (which you've adopted here) is to accuse people of being "racist" and "right wing" for objecting.

For the record, you would have to search long and hard to find someone more opposed to Trump and his minions than myself. Bernie Sanders has the same basic viewpoint I've expressed.

I have absolutely no hatred for anyone based on their origin or race.

I am completely in favor of allowing as many people into this country as we can sustainably absorb, and even a little more. At the same time, I strongly object to prioritizing the desire of major corporations to exploit cheaper labor at the expense of American citizens.
by computerdork | 2025-08-16 01:44:19+00:00
Btw, have to say, didn't think Meta would be so singled out for being toxic. To me at least, compared to some of the other tech companies, it doesn't seem that much worse. For instance, Microsoft. The culture there is in many ways stems from Bill Gates' personality of bluntness, aggressiveness, and competitiveness. Especially in the past, he was king of crushing his competitors. Amazon, which often places less of a focus on the quality of its engineers and often where you feel more of a cog in a machine, where growth and expansion into as many industries as possible paramount...

Yes, Zuckerberg is known for being competitive and facebook gets a lot of flak for creating addictive tech products (and yes, I agree, it's excessively addictive), but to me at least, it's not that much worse than MS, which is more of this business machine whose goal is often just to win.

Yeah, to be honest, your question kind of took me a bit by surprise. But maybe there is something I'm not seeing? Thanks!
by yogorenapan | 2025-08-16 01:44:27+00:00
I wish I had that kind of power. The European labs get funding from HQ on a per project basis and it takes a lot of effort to convince them to do anything. To even contribute code to open source, we need to fill out a bunch of paperwork, much less fund open source projects that work specifically against some other team's objectives. I'd personally just IP block Huawei's entire ASN since much of it is customer controlled and used for scraping. I know a ton of sites are already doing that since I get IP blocked on my work laptop all the time while doing research with their VPN on
by refulgentis | 2025-08-16 01:44:32+00:00
It doesn't sound one-sided at all?

I'm honestly confused, you sort of repeated "but the US was willing to impose higher taxes on its citizens than the EU"

I get there's the pandemic of the braindead thinking they've invented new economics like new gravity, but I'd think it'd feel a bit absurd when it's that bald-faced.

I'd especially think it was absurd when you can check on how the markets, the real skin in the game, price this fantastic W.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-08-16 01:44:56+00:00
We believe we largely know how it works on a mechanistic level. Deconstructing it in a similar manner is a reasonable rebuttal.

Of course there's the embarrassing bit where that knowledge doesn't seem to be sufficient to accurately simulate a supposedly well understood nematode. But then LLMs remain black boxes in many respects as well.

It is possible to hold the position that current LLMs being conscious "feels" absurd while simultaneously recognizing that a deconstruction argument is not a satisfactory basis for that position.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-08-16 01:45:38+00:00
It's insane how Southwest is willing to throw away a unique competitive edge that nobody else has, and their loyal customer base with it. It's also insane that the activist investors pressured them to do something that stupid. In one stroke Southwest went from being an airline worth going out of your way to fly, to just another airline which has to compete on price alone. Absolutely boneheaded move.
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-08-16 01:46:31+00:00
I wonder how trustworthy hetzner distributed storage is. I always saw hetzner as just a control plane to allocate bare compute and nothing more, I wouldn’t necessarily trust their managed storage solutions, but I also don’t have much experience with it.

Honestly I’m kindof surprised that something like rook it not used instead, but I guess it is easier to trust hetzner storage and hope for the best.
by MagicalTux | 2025-08-16 01:46:43+00:00
Similar to TLS, the attestation includes a signature and a x509 certificate with a chain of trust to Intel's CA. The whole attestation is certified by Intel to be valid and details such as the enclave fingerprint (MRENCLAVE) are generated by the CPU to be part of the attestation.

This whole process is already widely used in financial and automotive sectors to ensure servers are indeed running what they claim to be running, and well documented.
by rootusrootus | 2025-08-16 01:46:54+00:00
I would not use RVs as a good benchmark. They are super cheap for a reason. The biggest reason not to live in one full time is that they quickly degrade under that kind of use. They are not built for anything other than occasional use. That is on top of their steep operating expenses, even if you can keep it held together.

A better benchmark would be a manufactured home. Transported on wheels, built in a factory, but intended to be used full time indefinitely.

IIRC, stick-built homes are only like 15% more expensive than the equivalent manufactured home, and you have a lot more flexibility in the design. Probably this is most of why manufactured homes are only popular in particular niches.
by jsight | 2025-08-16 01:47:06+00:00
I once wrote a little generalized yaml templating processor in Python by using an LLM for assistance. It was working pretty well and passing a lot of the tests that I was throwing at it!

Then I noticed that some of the tests that failed were failing in really odd ways. Upon closer inspection, the generated processor had made lots of crazy assumptions about what it should be doing based upon specific values in yaml keys that were obviously unrelated to instructions.

Yeah, I agree with the author. This stuff can be incredibly useful, but it definitely isn't anything like an AGI in its current form.
by xpe | 2025-08-16 01:48:10+00:00
People are just following the laws of the universe.* Still, we give each other moral weight.

We need to be a lot more careful when we talk about issues of awareness and self-awareness.

Here is an uncomfortable point of view (for many people, but I accept it): if a system can change its output based on observing something of its own status, then it has (some degree of) self-awareness.

I accept this as one valid and even useful definition of self-awareness. To be clear, it is not what I mean by consciousness, which is the state of having an “inner life” or qualia.

* Unless you want to argue for a soul or some other way out of materialism.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-08-16 01:50:33+00:00
Funny how H1Bs are responsible for the destruction of the American labor force but also happen to be represented most in the jobs whose salary and size have grown the most in the U.S. over the past 2+ decades.

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that H1Bs are most represented in the industry that has generated nearly all the growth that has been generated in America over the past 2-3 decades.
by john_the_writer | 2025-08-16 01:50:40+00:00
Yeah, the other day a front end dev created a branch in some elixir code. They added a pile of tests, and asked a (new hire) back end dev to finish off the work. The tests were 100% vibe coded. I knew the code well, and after looking realized that the tests could never ever pass. The tests were rubbish. Crap part was, the new BE dev was totally lost for a long time trying to figure out how to make them pass. Vibe killed his afternoon.
by IFC_LLC | 2025-08-16 01:50:45+00:00
Okay, I'll be honest, this looks very finicky. I've tried to understand the premise of this article, but it all look like just a bunch of random facts and promises, none of which could be traced or confirmed.

I can't tell 100% that the text was machine-generated. I won't be too amazed to find out that it was.

But there is no technology explaining how this thing works.
by cj | 2025-08-16 01:51:00+00:00
In other words, it's too time consuming for flight attendants to do it for customers. Why? Because it's too time consuming.

All the more reason to remove disincentives from checking bags.

Honeestly the biggest reason I avoid checking bags is reliability. After you experience having a suitcase completely lost by an airline, it's hard to trust the system again.
by rezonant | 2025-08-16 01:51:46+00:00
I have no problem blaming them. The biggest problem with Democrats is that they cede all their power to Republicans, and don't seem to use the power they have when they have it. You can have the best policy positions ever but you still suck if you can't capitalize on wins.

But the Republicans made this change to start with. That's a lot of blame. And if they did it just to create a political firestorm against Democrats later (which is exactly what they did), do we (A) recognize that politicians shouldn't be using Americans as cannon fodder to damage their political enemies or (B) blame their political enemies?