MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by archargelod | 2025-08-05 02:39:19+00:00
That's why the first thing I do on my new phone is disable the Google app. It does absolutely nothing useful for me, but never sleeps, eats resources and shows you advertisements.

I also hate the mobile apps that designed to be always on, always listening or nagging. So, I have the policy: if the app is only useful occasionally and it is active but I didn't start it - I disable it. And I'll enable an app when I need it, not whenever it wants me to use it.
by refurb | 2025-08-05 02:39:27+00:00
I think the other thing to keep in mind is the cultural differences in how the West vs East think about government and the individual.

After living in Asia for a while, having political discussions with the people who live there, and exploring the differences in governance there, it’s not surprising there was indifference. You see this spectrum of though across many Asian countries from the authoritarian ones like China to the more democratic like Singapore.

Unlike the West which has a history of the relationship of the individual with the government and its leadership, Asia is much more influenced by Confucianism.

While people like to describe it as “what is good for the group versus what is good for the individual” I think that’s not an accurate description. It’s much more of a belief that governance happens “up there” and isn’t relevant to a commoners life.

The Eastern view of government is much more hierarchical and detached from the individual than in the West. There is strong sense that any one individual is not that important overall and that governance is a realm of the upper class, with the lower class on the receiving end rather than where power originates.

So for someone in Japan, the decisions during the war and the consequences thereafter are not theirs to judge or influence, only theirs to endure. There is a sense of fate and inability to change what happens, so it’s not really worth spending time thinking about.
by ryukoposting | 2025-08-05 02:39:42+00:00
> as LLM adoption increases you'll merely find that your site has fewer and fewer visits overall, so your content will only be utilized by you and a vanishingly small group of other persons.

So far, AI has had the opposite effect on my site. I've now been featured on both Hackaday and Adafruit's blog. Both features were clearly AI-generated. Both posts coincided with an influx of emails from folks interested in my work.

Perplexity is good at citing things when it decides to cite things and when you tell it to cite things. It can and does spit out plain expository text with no indication of the information's origin. I do appreciate that you have better-than-usual habits about validating sources.

I think you may have misinterpreted my remark about money. With the direction conversations around AI have been going lately, I was expecting a backhanded accusation that I was farming ad revenue.

"It's not about money" meant that I have nothing to lose financially by losing direct human traffic to my websites. Instead, I stand to lose those aforementioned email conversations.
by mrbungie | 2025-08-05 02:40:07+00:00
Unfortunately that's what one gets for offloading intelligence into a XaaS (Intelligence as a Service?, we already got IaaS though).

The only hope is that "the market / invisible hand" forces actors to implement more forgiving billing mechanisms and rules via competition or eventual diminished demand. I wouldn't hold my breath though.

Anyways, a very good reason to not depend that much on these tools. Especially on a personal level (i.e. if your programming/moat/skill depends on these tools and you go broke for a time, you can get seriously fucked).
by mindslight | 2025-08-05 02:41:06+00:00
The capital-L Libertarian party is a bastardization of the libertarian conception of freedom based on the longstanding American delusion of "temporarily embarassed millionaires", similar to the philosophy-laundering that goes on in the two major parties. So called "right-libertarianism" as a complete overarching philosophy is a logical contradiction. For example, in the "right libertarian" framework, North Korea is isomorphic to a bastion of freedom - Kim Jong Un simply owns everything, and everyone there has contracted with him with some pretty oneous terms, including making all of their children party to this contract as well. The right-"Libertarians" reading this are now reflexively looking for logical escape hatches - restrictions on the freedom to contract, age of legal personhood, etc - but only because this example is so galling it's setting off the atrophied "leftist" inductive half of their mind.

Libertarianism must necessarily be concerned with qualitative outcomes of individual liberty rather than being lured in by axiomatically asserting the existence of freedom by construction (commonly resulting in Newspeak). Analyzing all power structures with an eye for coercion, not falling into the trap of championing new ones with differently-named abstractions while defining away the coercion. The "rightist" deductive logical implication following is of course necessary (one can't get very far without it!), but it is incapable of achieving liberty by itself. Trying to do so inevitably fails spectacularly, which is why there are sibling comments in this thread abusing the concepts of liberty to argue in support of naked authoritarianism.
by keernan | 2025-08-05 02:41:50+00:00
What so many seem to be overlooking is the very, very strong belief by the top 0.01% is that science is about to - or already has - found a way to eliminate natural causes of death. Hence the quote from Peter Thiel:

>I stand against confiscatory taxes, totalitarian collectives, and the ideology of the inevitability of the death of every individual

Assume for one moment that it is true that science will be able to eliminate natural causes of death in the very near future. If you are a multi-billionaire, what does that mean for you?

What is the biggest danger to you moving forward?

Can the earth support the current population expanding at an ever increasing pace if everyone lives forever?

Is it feasible that the wealthiest 3,000 people on earth can 'control' who has access to the ability to never die a natural death?
by resoluteteeth | 2025-08-05 02:42:16+00:00
> It's exactly this central dogma that I question; an arbitrary number of people can be wrong about something without it magically becoming correct.

Language is arbitrary and when enough people agree that a word means something, it does.

Do you insist that "nice" can only mean "foolish" and not kind because that was its original meaning, or do you accept that it now means "kind"?

If the latter, you also actually agree that the meaning of words can change once enough people use them a new way.
by prewett | 2025-08-05 02:42:59+00:00
But in Object Oriented Programming an interface is also a class with only pure virtual methods, which is the interpretation that came most naturally to my detail-oriented mind. In this case it’s not a translation boundary, but rather a way to abstract away the details of which thing you’re actually talking to.

Maybe the interviewer is okay with either answer, but I could easily see this question resulting in bzzt, you’re wrong if you happen to be thinking the way the interviewer isn’t.
by zzo38computer | 2025-08-05 02:43:38+00:00
I don't want AI companies to scrape my sites (or use the files I wrote) for training data either, but that is not specifically what I am trying to stop (unless the files are supposed to be private and unpublished). I should not stop them from using the files for what they want, once they have them. (I also specifically do not want to block use of lynx, curl, Dillo, etc.)

What I want to stop is excessive crawling and scraping of my server. Once they have the file they can do what they want with it. Another comment (44786237) mentions that robots.txt is only for restricting recursive access; I agree and that is what should be blocked. They also should not access the same file several times quickly even though it should be unnecessary to do so, just as much as they should not access all of the files. (If someone wants to make a mirror of the files, there may be other ways, e.g. in case there is a archive file available to download many at once (possibly, in case if the site operator made their own index and then did it this way). If it is a git repository, then it can be cloned.)
by nickm12 | 2025-08-05 02:43:47+00:00
I generally read "optimal" to mean "optimal according to some objective function". In the case of a technical design, the objective is not something you can readily formalize, because there are so many considerations.

For example, suppose you are designing a network service to meet some use case. Yes, it needs to meet the use case, but there are other things you care about like simplicity of the code, latency, cost to operate the service, and others.

For any design you propose, there might exist an alternate design that is strictly better by some criteria-maybe it works exactly the same but has much better latency characteristics. If an oracle gave you this design, you might agree it was more optimal and choose to implement it, but I don't think it means you failed if you come up with a (sub-optimal) design that solves the problem within the constraint.
by theshackleford | 2025-08-05 02:43:47+00:00
If ads were more respectful I wouldn’t have to remove them. Alas they can’t help themselves and so I do.

When ads were far less invasive, I had a lot more tolerance.

Now they want my data, they want to play audio, video, hijack the content, page etc.

Advertising scum can not be trusted to forever take more and more and more.
by modernpacifist | 2025-08-05 02:44:04+00:00
The comparison breaks down since, in race car terms, the great acceleration isn’t enough to offset the negatives that make electric cars poor race cars. So in a sense it is pointless cosplay. Even the acceleration might be working against itself since the great acceleration comes at the cost of the battery pack expending more energy, contributing to heat build up.

This isn’t to say the heat problem couldn’t be managed, but one of the biggest issues with race cars generally is heat management so starting from a platform with a unique and significant heat problem isn’t ideal. Then the weight and overall longevity of the battery pack comes into play.

To tout the acceleration without discussing the drawbacks involved in delivering it or the practicalities of leveraging it suggests that it’s such a great feature that the drawbacks either don’t exist or don’t matter.
by benreesman | 2025-08-05 02:45:03+00:00
It allows you to observe and interact with the history of refs like HEAD, so superficially destructive operations like amending a commit can be recovered, reverted, etc. It's kind of like meta-git, allowing version control operations on the version control system. It's a lifesaver when you botch a merge or something and allows you to do "destructive" operations fearlessly (up to a point, you can munge a git repo pretty bad if you try hard enough).
by hintklb | 2025-08-05 02:45:36+00:00
I tried to stay spontaneous and being able to do things on a whim. But most of my friends focused on partner/work/kids with the infamous 3 month in advance fully booked calendar.

At some point you have almost no other choice than give up and self-realize as well and become that person as well. Simply because everyone else gave up. I think it is sad
by wat10000 | 2025-08-05 02:46:00+00:00
I think we were very lucky with the timing such that atomic bombs could be used in warfare just twice.

Imagine if development had been delayed a little while and the war ended without any atomic bombs. The bomb would still be built and improved. The falling out of the USSR with the other Allies would still happen. The Soviets would still get the bomb and there would still be an arms race. But would the Cold War have stayed cold without an object lesson in what nuclear warfare actually looks like? I suspect not. Even with those object lessons, it took a while for the consensus to emerge that nuclear war must be averted no matter what. That bit in Dr. Strangelove where the general said we’d only “get our hair mussed” in a war with just 10-20 million dead was pretty much the real attitude of the Air Force leadership at the time.
by Gigachad | 2025-08-05 02:46:08+00:00
The person on the phone will just instruct grandma to ignore the warning and that it's important she continue and send the private key over to secure her account.

Considering there isn't really anything you can do with the private key other than logging in to a website, making phishing impossible is a higher priority than letting people view the keys. There are alternative open source passkey managers which do let you view them. But it seems pretty obvious the average person is much better off not having this.
by amy_petrik | 2025-08-05 02:46:13+00:00
the type of maths my man here is saying is along the lines of saying (the average) men are taller than (the average) women, very much true, and there's signal there and there's genetics that make men on average taller... but that's nothing to say that if you pull a random man and a random woman off the street - there's no guarantee the man will be taller.

Whatever genetic signal and influence is found between groups A and groups B, A and B are so highly variable within themselves that none of this is applicable to comparing individuals beyond a perhaps slightly weighed dice.
by barbinbrad | 2025-08-05 02:46:20+00:00
ahh, it does -- but there's a slight hair to split.

on sales, carbon supports quoting, sales orders, invoicing, configurator, etc -- but it does not attempt to create a website for you where you can list your products and their configurations. the idea is that you have a site, the site sends info to carbon through the API (whether it's a quote or an order), and then things begin from there.

similarly with production except that the shop floor is pulling intstead of pushing. carbon manages the schedule, the jobs, the capacity planning, etc. and provides a UI for guys on the shop floor to record their time and materials. but if you want to interface with a machine, you'd be pulling information out of carbon through the API, and relaying it to the machine.
by apparent | 2025-08-05 02:47:13+00:00
I appreciate this wasn't posted as a Show HN since it's impossible to see the lessons/curriculum without paying. If you want actual feedback, maybe create a dummy account that HNers can use to test it out.

As a parent, I find the landing page to be opaque and not something I would plunk down my credit card number for. Are the lessons videos? Chatbot interactions? Homework questions? How will I know if my child is learning anything? Unless I heard from a trusted friend that this was great for his kid, I would not sign up.
by GCUMstlyHarmls | 2025-08-05 02:47:24+00:00
This got me to check Bitwardens account export, which does not include any private keys making the backup "incomplete" in terms of importing it into a separate platform.

I guess this is by design, the user can't self "own", but they also cant self own the data. It does look a bit like lock-in though.

I was recently looking at Pocket-ID as a SSO for my home lab, which only supports passkeys by design. In that context I can probably hack the gibson and get into my accounts if something went wrong, but it does make me uneasy about a future where most sites only accept a passkey.
Show HN: Read the RFCs That Built the Internet
by stonecharioteer | 2025-08-05 02:49:09+00:00
Hi HN! I was using AI tools to research some of the RFCs people recommend you read and I thought why not build a tool that allows you to progressively do this and provides python examples, with dockerfiles to demonstrate some of the more complicated networking paradigms.

It's not fully done yet, but I thought I'd show it off to get some feedback.

https://rfc.stonecharioteer.com
by snowwrestler | 2025-08-05 02:49:18+00:00
We have a faceted search that creates billions of unique URLs by combinations of the facets. As such, we block all crawlers from it in robots.txt, which saves us AND them from a bunch of pointless indexing load.

But a stealth bot has been crawling all these URLs for weeks. Thus wasting a shitload of our resources AND a shitload of their resources too.

Whoever it is (and I now suspect it is Perplexity based on this Cloudflare post), they thought they were being so clever by ignoring our robots.txt. Instead they have been wasting money for weeks. Our block was there for a reason.
by keernan | 2025-08-05 02:49:20+00:00
It's interesting that so many Americans currently alive actually believe they have ever lived in a democracy. The news they read every day has been controlled since the day they were born. Their choices in every election they have ever participated in have been selected by forces well beyond their control. The only "democracy" they have experienced is the freedom to make choices from a menu created by the actual powers.

In fairness, this has almost certainly been true of every governing system in the history of mankind. The powerful get to define the boundaries of the rules of society - the rest of us get to survive within those boundaries. Some government systems provide more flexibility within those boundaries than others - but at the end of the day, at their core - they are really all the same.
by umeshunni | 2025-08-05 02:49:30+00:00
Indeed.

In US pronunciation, Then is ðɛn and Father is ˈfɑðɚ.

In UK (received), Then is ðɛn and Father is ˈfɑːðə(ɹ).

In Indian English, Then is ðɛn and Father is ˈfɑːd̪ə(r)
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-08-05 02:50:00+00:00
Kids going to trade school after 9th grade are fairly common in many lower tier cities, and many of the poorer provinces. Technically urban, but bringing the average down.

But ok, Chinese is semi-logographic/semi-phonetic (many words are made just by characters with the right sound) at this point, which is a confusing hot mess and requires more effort to be completely literate, but only a year or two of more effort compensated for by a more accelerated math in elementary school (well, at least for city kids).
by RodgerTheGreat | 2025-08-05 02:50:05+00:00
I wrote a blog post some time ago which contrasts the "Schwartzian transform" with the slightly clearer alternative used by most APL-family languages and (in my opinion) an even cleaner approach which is possible in languages with a first-class table type: https://beyondloom.com/blog/rankingoffruits.html
by Tokumei-no-hito | 2025-08-05 02:50:21+00:00
if what they're saying is true then this was a huge fuckup on CFs part. i was already a bit suspicious when they started gloating about OAI agent since it's been shown to literally state that it's solving a captcha to complete the task.

i guess it will come down to browserbase corroborating the claims.
by defrost | 2025-08-05 02:50:54+00:00
Under which conditions is nuking a city any more or less a horrific warcrime than the destruction of city via HE and incendiary bombs?

Recall that 72 Japanese cities, including Tokyo, were destroyed prior to Hiroshima, which was on a target list to be destroyed whether by atomic or conventional means already.

https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2014/09/22/tokyo-hiroshima/

Outside of Japan many other cities received the same treatment, famously but not only Dresden.
by anitil | 2025-08-05 02:52:28+00:00
> They find ways to run out of time no matter how much free time they start with

Despite how much I wish it weren't, this is exactly me. I seem to be able to only work under pressure, so as I got later into my degree I would start my work later and later, until it was standard that I'd start at 4am on the day it was due. A terrible way to function or to learn
by markatlarge | 2025-08-05 02:53:01+00:00
I'm a real person — this actually happened to me last Thursday.

My name is Mark Russo. I’m not going to be shamed or erased. I created an app called Punge that’s live on both iOS and Android. The article wasn't written by ChatGPT — it's my story. I used ChatGPT to help tighten the writing, but every word reflects what I lived through.

Here’s the app: iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/punge/id6450322655?platform=ip... Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.markatlarg... TikTok demo: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPHpvJJLHsQyK-Cfk4Y/

Since this happened, I’ve reached out to lawyers, media, lawmakers, and professional contacts — even people I know at Google. I’ve lost access to everything tied to my account: Gmail, Firebase, AdMob, and the infrastructure that powers my apps. Google won’t even tell me which file triggered the CSAM flag.

Even if — by some miracle — I get my account back, I’m committed to making sure this kind of thing doesn’t keep happening. No one should lose their digital life overnight, with no transparency, no due process, and no way to defend themselves.

According to this NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/30/technology/google-appeals... — people who manage to claw their way out of this nightmare usually do so only after getting media attention. A CBS reporter has shown some interest. If anyone here has been through something similar, message me on LinkedIn — I’ll do whatever I can to help share your story too.

Connect with me: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-russo-60a46912/
by ggm | 2025-08-05 02:53:52+00:00
I was working on a pre internet protocol stack in the early 1980s. It was called the "coloured book protocols" because each application and layer had a different colour spine. Email was "grey book mail" and in truth it was substantively the same as what we all know as rfc822 format. Sent over x.25, store and forward mechanisms up at application layer.

Obviously we looked at other protocol stacks. Like IP.

A colleague said to me one day "how can they call it 'simple mail transfer protocol' when it's a quarter inch thick pile of fanfold paper" pointing at the 132 column line printer printout on my desk of SMTP.. (which in turn was rfc821 at the time)
by Pocomon | 2025-08-05 02:53:52+00:00
> Source: Russian disinformation LLM

It's not the Russians trying to destabilise our culture. What’s happening appears to be aimed at destabilizing our culture. Whether by deliberate intent or a convergence of mutually reinforcing ideologies. They all share one thing in common: a visceral hatred of Western values. No Russian disinformation required.
by foobarchu | 2025-08-05 02:54:26+00:00
Same. When I'm on a panel interviewing developers (as a developer myself), I don't actually care if you meet the specific listed qualifications directly, I want you to answer in ways that demonstrate how you think to prove to me that you can solve the problems the role needs. I don't want someone who can memorize a study guide, I want someone who can problem solve and think critically.

Each time I've gotten my way it turned out to be a great decision. When I've acquiesce to "but they knew all my java trivia questions" it's been a bad choice.
by jameshart | 2025-08-05 02:54:32+00:00
The standard definitely limits what precision you should expect to be handled.

But how JSON numbers are handled by different parsers might surprise you. This blog post actually does a good job of detailing the subtleties and the choices made in a few standard languages and libraries: https://github.com/bterlson/blog/blob/main/content/blog/what...

I think one particular surprise is that C# and Java standard parsers both use openAPI schema hints that a piece of data is of type ‘number’ to map the value to a decimal floating point type, not a binary one.