MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by _mlbt | 2025-08-29 03:13:24+00:00
I see from your profile that you're from The Netherlands, so understand that the news you hear about Trump is not the whole story.

I'm not convinced that Harris would've been much better. She was given essentially one job: border Czar and she failed miserably at that. Although, I guess the open borders policy that encouraged unprecedented illegal immigration was intentional. and probably part of the greater globalist agenda. She is a DEI hire, chosen only because of her gender and skin color. Biden literally said he was going to choose a woman of color to be his vice president. Bear in mind that Harris was the first major Democrat candidate to be forced out of the primary, so she was not at all chosen on merit.

Despite what you hear, Trump is a much more popular president than Biden was here and he is mostly doing what people elected him to do. He's had a few missteps for sure, for example he needs to just release the Epstein files already and please stop talking shit about annexing Greenland and Canada. He also needs to stop licking Israel's boots so much. That being said, he's doing a fantastic job with securing the border, foreign policy (he's helped to secure several peace agreements... https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-where-donald-trump-has-he...), and so far the economy has been noticeably better than under Biden. Also, the way he handled the assassination attempt (that the media has done their best to memory hole) was incredible. He jumped up, blood dripping from his ear shouting fight, fight, fight! That picture of him with his fist raised and the secret service agents holding him back is just so powerful and iconic, just very Presidential. (https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/conte...)

He's also much more transparent than the previous administration. Biden would give extremely rare, short, scripted interviews with the press where he literally had maps of who to call on and what to reply back to their scripted questions. Even then, he would often botch the press interviews. In contrast, Trump gives frequent, lengthy, off the cuff unscripted interviews. He also, for good or for bad, posts frequently to social media with his real honest opinions and positions. People like that he has a certain air of authenticity about him. He's not the typical American politician that dances around questions and speaks only with perfect, politically correct, focus group tested language.

The news media in America is heavily biased towards the left and does everything they can to cast him in a negative light, so it is important to view everything you hear about him through that lens.
by chrisco255 | 2025-08-29 03:14:02+00:00
I mean you can always find a number of people predicting anything and everything in every single direction. There are no shortage of intellectuals predicting China's decline just as there is no shortage of intellectuals predicting the West's decline. We will only know in hindsight but even then we won't be able to trust any given intellectual's hot take on the next few years or decades, whether they were right in the past or not!

I believe pretty solidly in chaos theory. The future is exponentially more unknowable and unpredictable the further out you try to predict. Anyone claiming they have a script for the 21st century is worth dismissing outright, no matter what their IQ is and no matter how many GPUs they have under their command.

The future is dynamic and evolving and people are more adaptive than you think. Any outcome that can be conceived is being hedged against.
by kelnos | 2025-08-29 03:14:05+00:00
That's a pretty... strange example? 10% is fairly large odds that you'll be in the next batch, certainly high enough to cause worry. I would quite rationally shy away from any activity that gave me a 10% chance of death doing it.

The idea that 35+% of people are worried that they'll be the victim of terrorism is something that we should be worried about (heh). It suggests that people's risk assessment is completely unrelated to reality. I am as close to 0% worried as I could be that I'll be a victim of terrorism. Thinking otherwise is laughable. There are plenty of actually real things to be worried about...
by coder68 | 2025-08-29 03:14:10+00:00
To some degree manual labeling has to be done anyway, just to validate that any approach works at all, you'll always need ground truth from somewhere. What I suggested is that zero/few-shotting might not be good enough, depending on the problem. Labeling ~1000 samples isn't too bad, I've done it by hand a few times now. If you can source a high quality positive signal from somewhere (e.g. user-behavioral data), even better.
by zie | 2025-08-29 03:15:41+00:00
If you have to ask, the answer is you don't have enough! :)

Seriously though, just wander into any big ass bank(Chase, BOA, etc) and ask them. They have multiple tiers of private banking, depending on your wealth level. Generally the bottom tiers start around $100k and go from there. To get into the fancy tiers you generally need $1M or more of bank assets. To get into family offices, you generally need $100M or so. Though shared family offices are sometimes available at the low 30-50M range.

Just be very careful of fees. Generally the larger the private client services, the higher the fees.
by kelnos | 2025-08-29 03:15:57+00:00
> If I compare how fearful people are and how many bad things have happened historically, I don't think the amount of fear is unreasonable.

I disagree, and I think this is a very strange way to think about it. Yes, bad things happen all the time, but the absolute number of them in history has very little to do with the risk that anything is going to happen to you, personally, in the future.
by gyomu | 2025-08-29 03:17:17+00:00
The rise of premium mediocre[0].

Everyone wants to feel VIP, and there's lots of money to be made in making people think they're going to get the VIP experience, so we get a flood of shitty VIP experiences like airport lounges.

If you don't like this state of affairs, you basically have two choices:

1) hustle and try to make enough money so that you're an actual VIP with access to actual VIP experiences

(OP in the article says "Charge me a premium, I don’t care.". Buddy, if you could afford the premium, you wouldn't be writing this article)

2) drop out, and don't patronize those experiences in the first place. Question why you are in a fake VIP airport lounge waiting to head to your fake VIP Disney/Vegas/Venice/whatever vacation in the first place.

[0] https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/08/17/the-premium-mediocre-l...
by kaibee | 2025-08-29 03:17:21+00:00
> If we were all smarter

Its not really an intelligence thing. You could have the most intelligent agent, but if the structural incentives for that agent are for example, "build and promote your own library for X for optimal career growth.", you would still have massive fragmentation. And under the current rent-seeking capitalist framework, this is a structural issue at every level. Firefox and Chrome? Multiple competing OSes? How many JS libraries? Now sure, maybe if everyone was perfectly intelligent _and_ perfectly trusting, then you could escape this.
by aurareturn | 2025-08-29 03:18:04+00:00
Cultural thing or…selection bias. The people who left were the ones with the personality and work ethic that leads to being successful.

Historically, people who have left China are from Guangdong and mostly the poor & uneducated people. So the Chinese people you see in the US, west, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, etc. are mostly from Guangdong.

Read up on Chinese migration from Guangdong during the US gold rush and railways and why they left.

Eventually, Chinese people in nearly all countries rise to the top of the income/wealth chart. For example, the richest group of people in Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia are all descendants of Guangdong people who migrated. In Indonesia for example, Chinese are 1-2% of the population but owns 70% of private wealth.

Fun fact, most Chinese people in China do not eat dim sum. Dim sum is a cuisine popularized by Guangdong (Guangzhou/Hong Kong area). There are also many regions in China that don't even eat rice. They eat bread or noodles mostly. Chinese image outside of China are heavily influenced by a small area in Guangdong due to immigration.
by ulrikrasmussen | 2025-08-29 03:18:54+00:00
I AM using GrapheneOS, but its future is also uncertain as Google has gutted AOSP. There aren't really any alternatives, and the problem is that phones are much more than just phones now, they are general purpose computing devices and run many applications that are pretty essential to modern society, such as ticket apps for public transport, government identity apps, payment apps and so on. In my country, Denmark, we are getting mandatory age verification next year, and it looks like it's going to be offered only as an app. These apps are simply not available for non-AOSP Linux phones, and there is little hope that they'll ever be.

Owning a smartphone is becoming less of a choice, and it's becoming harder to own one that respects my freedom. I don't think it is entitlement to demand freedom in an ecosystem that I feel I am forced into.
by a_bonobo | 2025-08-29 03:19:28+00:00
For the longest time, IT workers were 'protected' from Marx's alienation of labor by the rarity of your skill, but now it's coming for you/us, too. Claude Code is to programmers what textile machines were to textile workers.

>In the capitalist mode of production, the generation of products (goods and services) is accomplished with an endless sequence of discrete, repetitive motions that offer the worker little psychological satisfaction for "a job well done." By means of commodification, the labour power of the worker is reduced to wages (an exchange value); the psychological estrangement (Entfremdung) of the worker results from the unmediated relation between his productive labour and the wages paid to him for the labour.

Less often discussed is Marx's view of social alienation in this context: i.e., workers used to take pride in who they are based on their occupation. 'I am the best blacksmith in town.' Automation destroyed that for workers, and it'll come for you/us, too.
by gyomu | 2025-08-29 03:20:58+00:00
> the edge employees —- ie the people who interact with paying customers —- don’t own anything, and are 12 levels of management away from anyone who does.

Bingo. I found the breakdown in terms of the owner/renter/maintainer classes [0] very useful.

When the owner/renter/maintainer of a business/service/etc are the same person/community, incentives are aligned and quality tends to ensue.

When those 3 roles are clearly delineated and separated, no one gives a shit and owners care about maximizing their profit, maintainers care about getting the job done asap regardless of whether the maintenance will hold in the long term or not, and renters are left out to dry.

[0]: I first encountered it here, not sure if he got it from somewhere else.

https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/getting-to-gnome-mod...
by userbinator | 2025-08-29 03:21:16+00:00
No, no, no, hell fucking no!!

You put stuff on the public Internet, expect it to be read by everyone.

Don't like that? Put it behind a login.

How did the propaganda persuade people into accepting mass surveillance and normalising the invasion of privacy for something that was never really a problem?

I suspect the ones pushing this are the ones running these "crawlers" themselves, much like Cloudflare hosts providers of DDoS services.

What a coincidence that "identity verification" became a hot topic recently.

Don't even try to solve this nonexistent "problem", because that will only drive us further into authoritarian technocracy.
by airobus | 2025-08-29 03:21:24+00:00
Hi HN, I'm the creator of this project.

I've always been a fan of logic puzzles like the Queens game that became popular on LinkedIn, but I felt the core mechanic was a bit one-dimensional and lacked strategic depth. I wanted to see if I could create a more challenging version for myself and other puzzle lovers.

The main twist in Enhanced Queens Game is the introduction of "colored regions" as a third constraint, on top of the classic row and column rules. The goal is now to place one queen per row, column, AND region, while also adhering to a new adjacency rule (queens can't touch on any of the 8 surrounding squares). This transforms the puzzle into a much deeper spatial reasoning challenge.

I'd love to hear any feedback you have, especially on the new 'region' mechanic, the difficulty curve, or any UI/UX suggestions.

Thanks for checking it out!
by mierz00 | 2025-08-29 03:22:45+00:00
I have a similar story in France. Closing an account with Caisse d’Epargne was nothing short of pure torture.

Luckily, I didn’t actually have to go in, but the process took me nearly 6 months of back and forth, multiple phone calls, multiple hand written letters. Yes, France loves hand written letters, no you cannot type it.

Every now and then I think it would be nice to return and live in France, but the thought of having to deal with French administration has vaccinated me for life.
by perching_aix | 2025-08-29 03:23:04+00:00
Stock mobile Chrome doesn't support extensions and doesn't have user agent manipulation capabilities unfortunately, so that's a no-go.

My options are using custom Chrome, migrating to Firefox, or proxying my traffic and making edits that way (e.g. doing the Anubis PoW there and injecting the cookie required).

Not stoked about any of these, although Firefox is a lot on my mind these days, and option #3 would be a good excuse to dust off my RPi.
by fakedang | 2025-08-29 03:24:24+00:00
> Still hired a lot of Americans. Thinking that remote work will be the end of American workers has been the driving force behind outsourcing pushes for decades, but it hasn’t worked that way.

The difference is that back then the project lead could explore outsourcing certain roles to India, EE and LatAm, while today the VP can explore outsourcing the project lead roles to those countries. These countries have built up their own native tech talent, many of whom already bring more to the table than the typical American - they work longer hours, for cheaper, and often bring a lot more experience. I've seen companies who only run sales teams with Americans, with the rest of the workforce being shipped out.

Notably, India already has nearly 2000 GCCs (Global Capability Centers, mega complexes of offices for foreign companies) set up, with that number only projected to increase as more mid-market firms expand. While many of them are just back offices, some of them, like Walmart's GCC, is the entire tech division - the CTO remains in the US, while the entire software team is in India. While earlier the Indian team would have had to adjust their timings to USA's, now quite a few US-based employees have had to adjust their timings to India's.
by stouset | 2025-08-29 03:25:41+00:00
> who was challenged at the polling station by a leftist white woman

Literally my dude why are you making your voting choices known to poll workers who have no fucking choice but to stand there and listen?

I have spent years overseeing polling locations as an election inspector in the city of San Francisco. In all my years of doing this, I only saw one type of voter who made absolutely certain everyone around them knew exactly who they were voting for, whether or not they wanted to hear it, laws against electioneering be damned.

It’s the same type of person who drives a truck around plastered top to bottom with a guy’s name across it, flying forty foot flags behind them. The same type of voter for whom their candidate has become their entire insufferable personality. Who wears the hats, the shirts, has tattoos, and on and on and on.

One guy in particular went so far as to ask for help from a polling worker so they’d mark his ballot in favor of his specific presidential candidate. He had no problem whatsoever filling out the rest of his ballot. But it was real goddamn important for him to go out of his way to be a complete asshole to an innocent fucking volunteer who was sacrificing their entire goddamn day to make sure he could vote.

For whatever reason, this type of person is never a Harris, Biden, or Obama voter.

But I have every confidence you are that type of person.

> California Proposition 50 (2025) to gerrymander California was not put forward by Trump.

Prop 50 is very clearly and transparently a retaliation for Texas redrawing their election map. Nobody on the left is happy about this, but we are absolutely done fighting fascist power grabs with gentle requests to fight fair.

Take a good fucking look on the inside some time, my friend.
by system7rocks | 2025-08-29 03:27:28+00:00
I will say this - I've been an Apple fan for a long time, through some really dark times. And I have my issues with who Apple has become.

One of the nice things about the Apple Store though was not just realizing that no one else was going to sell their differently designed products better than they were and the need for well-organized, spacious, inviting stores that were a fun attraction on a visit to the mall -- they really improved their customer service process. It's nice to be able to schedule an appointment and talk to someone who walks you through options. I'm sure there is no 100% satisfaction, but I took my iPhone 13 Pro Max in for a battery replacement... and ultimately, they ended up giving me a new iPhone 13 Pro Max because the camera sensor didn't work after battery replacement. They were nice, apologetic, and communicated well throughout the whole process. I even ran into the customer service rep at a local pub and nearly bought him a beer because he was so helpful.

But with that said, I agree with this post - sometimes, there is simply satisfaction in doing things well, treating people with dignity and respect, even if it doesn't pad your bottom line. How do we get there? No idea. Perhaps by having these kinds of conversations?
by muldvarp | 2025-08-29 03:27:31+00:00
I do think software engineering is more exposed than many other jobs for multiple reasons:

There is an unimaginable amount of freely accessible training data out there. There aren't for example many transcribed therapy sessions out there.

The only thing that matters about software is that it's cheap and it sort of works. Low-quality software is already common. Bugs aren't usually catastrophic in the way structural failures would be.

Software engineers are expensive compared to many other white-collar workers.

Software engineering is completely unregulated and there is no union or lobby for software engineers. The second an LLM becomes good enough to replace you, you're gone.

Many other "sit at desk" jobs have at least some tasks that can't be done on a computer.

Software engineering feels like an extremely uncertain career right now.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-08-29 03:28:40+00:00
This comment really hits the nail on the head. Never listen to Internet strangers (who will very likely fall into that 90% bucket) that "service really matters". Sure, but price matters more for normie consumers. Airlines are the ultimate expression of that. The only airlines left that offer amazing service are national airlines with strong state protections or support. In short, you are probably way overpaying for that service.

If I had one dollar for each time an Internet rando said "I will never buy from that store or use that service again because such and such thing happened to me", I would be rich.
by lmm | 2025-08-29 03:29:21+00:00
The next word is worth less to AI scrapers than to human readers - AIs need to read thousands of articles to get as much value as a human gets from one good article. If you make it cost, say, 5c-equivalent to read an article (but without the overhead of micropayments and authorisations), human readers will happily pay that whereas AI scrapers can't afford even 1c-equivalent.
by skeltoac | 2025-08-29 03:30:07+00:00
I experienced holotropic breathwork recently with a trained coach who was also a very old and trusted friend. It felt perfectly safe. I won’t describe it here other than to say that it was the most emotionally stimulating experience I have had since infancy, I experienced extreme discomfort and comfort, it was therapeutic, I treasure it, and I would like to do more of it.
by trod1234 | 2025-08-29 03:30:43+00:00
I've been a SA Generalist for a decade, primarily in biopharma. This is the terminology the people I worked alongside used which included both Network and Computer Engineers.

It was explained to me that its just another version of MITM, the only difference is the number of resilient paths that need to be compromised. Eclipse type of attacks focus on compromising multiple nodes and most deal with breaking consensus algorithmic based software, which is quite common of blockchain, but that isn't the only place.

TL;DR In a single path graph you have MITM, in a N-path graph of connectivity you have Eclipse. Two heads of the same coin.

Loosely I guess it would be considered an adversarial network partition at the ASN/BGP level. For active attacks you'd have to broadcast improperly, but for regional attacks at the ASN level you just have to be positioned correctly passively. That's why the whole AT&T room for the NSA back in the day was such a big deal. A lot of these attacks have been known about for a long time.

For instance, the same kind of attack could easily be done by compromising firmware within 1-step away from edge devices (Modems/Routers/ISP TFTP servers).

Quite a lot of what was in the nationstate war-chest 10 years ago has been leaked, and is actively being used by non-state actors at this point.

Its mad how sophisticated things are now. On some campuses, its not unheard of to see drones flying by to hack the radio logitech keyboards of campus computers; where they try to drop malware OTA through a powershell or tty keyboard spawned terminal prompt. Crazy stuff.
by chrisco255 | 2025-08-29 03:30:58+00:00
The U.S. has tons of both coal and Natural Gas but it shifted its energy production to Natural Gas in part due to carbon emissions. Coal was cheaper than natural gas, but fracking made natural gas cheaper. Either way, natural gas burns 50-60% cleaner than coal.

China still onboarded more than 173GW of coal in the last 5 years. That is 60% additional electricity from coal than Japan spends in a whole year. That is 3x what Germany spends in a year.

They continue to pollute more than ever.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-08-29 03:33:39+00:00
Totally agree with this take. That said, you must account for the size of the codebase and associated attack surfaces and compare that with frequency of a particular bug class consistently popping up on every CVE.

In other words, you shouldn't use vulnerability counts, but you can discern patterns of vulnerability to intuit something about the nature of the codebase.

For example, RCE vulnerabilities on Chrome, especially under V8 while not very common they happen commonly enough to suspect that maybe there is some code quality issue. However, if you look at the sheer size of V8, and how much scrutiny and research it undergoes, it is surprising there aren't even more critical vulns being found all the time. JIT is inherently a risky endeavor.
by randycupertino | 2025-08-29 03:34:35+00:00
The sycophantic nature of and constant validation poured out by chatGPT is catnip to users with mental health issues, repeating back what they want to hear and amplifying their narcissism and delusions. I'm sure the creators coded it that way to boost user engagement. The more affirmation and praise it doles out, the more people will use it and the more users will here "you're absolutely right" becoming further entrenched in distorted perceptions of reality.