MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by don-code | 2025-08-01 16:30:16+00:00
I don't think such usage is malicious, so much as ignorant - it's sometimes hard to know that a behavior _isn't_ part of the API, especially if the API is poorly documented to begin with.

I maintain a number of such poorly-documented systems (you could, loosely, call them "APIs") for internal customers. We've had a number of scenarios where we've found a bug, flagged it as a breaking change (which it is), said "there's _no way_ anybody's depending on that behavior", only to have one or two teams reach out and say yes, they are in fact depending on that behavior.

For that reason, we end up shipping many of those types of changes ship with a "bug flag". The default is to use the correct behavior; the flag changes the behavior to remain buggy, to keep the internal teams happy. It's then up to us to drive the users to change their ways, which.. doesn't always happen efficiently, let's say.
by duped | 2025-08-01 16:30:17+00:00
I mean in this specific case, just depositing it in a bank normally would have also prevented the problem. Storing $40k in cash anywhere is a bad idea.

It's not an illegal idea though, the government had no right to take it. But also what if the bank burns down, gets robbed, etc etc etc. Most security boxes aren't insured so you're screwed. And if you're paying to insure your cash, why not put it into a savings account and make the bank pay you for it.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-08-01 16:30:19+00:00
Tmux has definitely caused me some pain too. I'm mostly back now (semi alas) but for a while I was using shpool adjacent dtach to leave nvim sessions running even if I logout. If I was doing things on the terminal, it would be inside an nvim terminal window.

My workflow is project oriented, and I have to juggle multiple projects. So I wrote a small script to let me quickly either attach to an existing dtach session for a project by name, or to start a dtach+nvim session for a project.

Also included some fun wildcarding, so I didn't have to type the full name of the project out, could just type some letters and hit enter.

https://github.com/jauntywunderkind/dtachment

I don't see change as likely, but it does strike me as absurd that although I had gotten rid of tmux as a redundant window management system, I still had both the OS and nvim's window management going. The author talks about how things would work over ssh, but ideally to me, I could ssh in, forward some ports, and start some new terminal emulators that open multiple nvim clients that attach to a persistent perhaps headless nvim session.
by theranfear | 2025-08-01 16:30:20+00:00
No. The alternative is to have some courage. It's easier to destroy than it is to create. There is a responsibility bias against the Democratic party because they're the only ones that know how to govern. Everyone is responsible is some way for the outcome. Our political rivals have attacked us so hard we're starting to believe the characterization they've made of us. I don't buy into the 'Everyone is captured and this country is over' message. It's a false equivocacy and just an excuse to be super critical of our own people.
by rustyparts | 2025-08-01 16:30:41+00:00
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by cogman10 | 2025-08-01 16:30:58+00:00
I'm by no means a tmux power user, but it does have really nice features for when I need it.

The primary usecase I've had for it is I can kick off 1 or multiple long running jobs, exit, and then come back later and checkout the various stdout logs to see how it worked.

Could I accomplish the same thing with a bunch of stdout pipes, disown, fg, ctrl-z, etc? Sure. However, tmux makes it really easy to do that and then quickly switch around sessions to see how things are going.

In the simplest workflow, it looks like this

tmux longcommand() ctrl + B D

and later

tmux -a

to checkout and see what's gone on with the command long after I disconnected with ssh.
by AbdMog | 2025-08-01 16:31:06+00:00
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by jeroenhd | 2025-08-01 16:31:20+00:00
Belgian courts can't decide what an American company does in Chile. However, they can decide what an American company can do in Belgium.

Akamai and friends won't shut down their Belgian contracts for one bad ruling. Their financial incentives (combined with laws that put serving stakeholders' interests above basic human decency) simply don't align.

If it weren't for modern capitalism making all companies part of giant megaconglomerates, the Internet Archive wouldn't have a problem if BelgiAkamai and PayBel stopped serving them. Unfortunately, almost everything you can do or buy online and offline now belongs to maybe 20 or 30 megacorporations which means any court in a reasonably well-off country can have worldwide consequences.
by yencabulator | 2025-08-01 16:31:44+00:00
Linux started under circumstances of Linus wanting to learn 386 assembler. He got two processes writing alternating As and Bs to demonstrate 386 multitasking. Linus had to find SunOS docs etc to copy system call signatures from. It's truly an accidental success story, and while Linus is smart & capable he sure as hell did not "know what he was doing", the whole point was to learn and fiddle with it.

Starting a new browser project without a solid security architecture seems just a bad idea to me. It's such a hostile operating environment. Personal computing in the early 90s was a very different place.
by sgerenser | 2025-08-01 16:32:14+00:00
I think this wouldn't even be that bad of a thing (assuming that there's just so many candidates that you need some kind of filter), if it weren't for the issue pointed out in the study cited by the article: "But here’s a surprising finding: not a single woman in the public setting passed, while every woman in the private setting did."

That to me implies this isn't just an imperfect filter, but actually a very biased filter.
by twodave | 2025-08-01 16:32:34+00:00
Hard disagree. If my users are exploiting some unintended, unannounced part of my API then me patching that out is something they’re just going to have to deal with. In well-described systems these sorts of behaviors lead to nasty bugs down the line, sometimes months in the future (e.g. “Huh, why aren’t my tax reports tying out?”).
by fuzzfactor | 2025-08-01 16:32:42+00:00
Nope, that's more like trumpery. Well-recognized for centuries before the current crop of Trumps was even born:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trumpery

OTOH "Conservatism" is simply the desire to hold on to, or conserve what there currently is, rather than progress toward something different.

Whether the progress is for the better or worse or even if anybody knows for sure.

Truly the opposite of "progressive". Neither one inherently good or bad.

And as can be seen, an indication of the relative greatness of American leaders who can be judged by their ability to wisely balance the interests of all citizens. The US has a history of exceptional true leaders since the beginning, but not every single one. Some have been far from saintly, and some not even suitable for a free country.

Quite a lot of times neither conservative nor progressive seem like as much of a driving force unless their hallmarks are in decline to the point where some things that were perceived as precious to conserve or progress toward or beyond had already been lost to a certain extent, or otherwise under increased threat.

Edit: not my donvote btw
by kellysutton | 2025-08-01 16:32:53+00:00
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by VikingMiner | 2025-08-01 16:33:04+00:00
> Nonsense. Promoting the petition and keeping talking about the law is one of the most effective things that can be done to make life uncomfortable for the politicians who are responsible for this mess.

They frequently ignore these petitions, especially when it comes to privacy, freedom of speech, surveillance etc.

When you do get a response back from these petitions, they are frequently either don't address the issue properly or you get some gaslighting response back.

My pessimism has be undefeated thus far.

> More pressure is needed and politicians will have to face journalists asking unpleasant questions when people continue to complain.

I am sorry this is utterly naive. Have you've seen the responses from Politicians so far? They basically call anyone that opposes them a paedophile.

I wouldn't put any faith in the journalists either. Most either work for the state directly or they have corporate masters.
by qzx_pierri | 2025-08-01 16:33:26+00:00
Yes, I agree with you. But the average person would no longer use a VPN if VPNs were outlawed. The people who are clever enough to evade detection like you and I are a tiny percentage of the population, and we don't really matter.

People like you and I don't truly matter in the grand scheme of things, because if the government ban VPNs, we will use i2p or TOR, or Hyphanet/freenet.

Surveillance states care about numbers. The more people who lose VPN access, the better (from their POV).
by dbenamy | 2025-08-01 16:33:29+00:00
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by lubujackson | 2025-08-01 16:33:33+00:00
Nothing wrong with being a mercenary and I agree with the value prop differences by age/life stage.

I think working in a non-spaghetti codebase makes a huge difference, work enjoyment-wise - regardless of age. And that can be more valuable than people think.

My first job out of school was an amazing model of how to run a company and had been around for years. I have also worked at startups who had immediately created a big ball of string within 3 years. The company with by far the smartest people had to run a nightly job to "recalculate everything" that took 10 hours because their logic was too complex to be reliably deterministic.

If I just wanted a fat paycheck I would have gone into finance or fintech, it's far simpler. I don't intend to discount other people's or company's choices, but I do think "leetcode as a default" is a terrible model for finding decent engineers, and even worse now we have LLMs.
by conormccarter | 2025-08-01 16:33:58+00:00
Congrats on the launch! I'm one of the cofounders of Prequel (I saw our name in the feature grid - small nit: we do support self-hosting). This is definitely a problem worth solving - the market is still early and I'd bet the rising tide will help all of us convince more teams to support this capability. I'm not a lawyer, but the latest EU Data Act might even make it an obligation for some software vendors?

Maybe I can save you a headache: Snowflake is actively deprecating single-factor username/password auth in favor of key pair auth, so the faster you support that, the fewer mandatory migrations you'll be emailing users about.
by austin-cheney | 2025-08-01 16:34:44+00:00
Where I live the city has gained 90,000 people in the past 5 years. It’s about 68 new residents a day or about 30 families.

They have been building houses as fast as possible here. When single family houses weren’t springing up fast enough then came the explosion of giant apartment complexes.

I am not discounting the actual economic causes mentioned in the article, but securing financing appears to be a major factor that slows things down.
by dehrmann | 2025-08-01 16:34:49+00:00
Rates don't affect prices they way people think they do.

People buy the mortgage they can afford, so low rates can raise home prices. This is 5x-10x leveraged, so it really moves prices.

Home builders borrow to build, so higher rates hurt on the supply side.

Currently, because people refinanced into 3% long-term mortgages, some people are stuck because they can't afford to move. This also hurts broader market dynamism because people aren't relocating as much. Same with job uncertainty. People aren't changing jobs because they're worried, but this is leaving companies with mismatched labor.

And that's just rates. There's also supply.

Mortgage rates should have never been 3%. The Fed targets 2% inflation, so loaning 10-to-30-year money at a real rate of 1% is silly. It really is free money. The problem is mortgage rates are linked to the 10y treasury yield, and that was moving for macro reserve currency reasons.

Loans for home builders could be subsidized, but NIMBY policies are a larger issue.

I don't know what to do about people locked into low mortgage rates. It's actually a Silicon Valley Bank situation, but at an individual level. If you can wait for the loan to mature (10y might be enough), you come out ahead, but if you have to sell early, you take a loss. We can't go back to free money, portable mortgages disadvantage new buyers, and people really don't want to realize these losses.
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by pmontra | 2025-08-01 16:35:24+00:00
> "we are going to not charge taxes on tips"

It's been a very long time since my last visit to the USA. I probably paid tips in cash back then. I would assume that workers can chose to never report those tips as income, or not all of them, so no taxes. But if everybody went cashless by now, customers probably pay the restaurant, the restaurant pays the tips to the workers and all of that money is tracked and taxed. Is that correct?
by cinci | 2025-08-01 16:35:48+00:00
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by stickfigure | 2025-08-01 16:35:57+00:00
Blaming stress only goes so far. If you're frozen up about how many bits in a byte, this knowledge really isn't implanted very deeply. Anyone can figure out the powers of 2 by doing tedious addition in their head, but if you spend a lot of time programming you tend to have the first 10 or so memorized.

In music performance, stress makes everything harder, but that's not an excuse - you need to practice until the motions are so deeply ingrained that it's practically part of your autonomic nervous system. Coding isn't so different.
by k310 | 2025-08-01 16:36:18+00:00
bioRxiv, open access paper, Posted May 14, 2025. [0]

Locus coeruleus activation ‘resets’ hippocampal event representations and separates adjacent memories

[0] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.15.608148v2
by an0malous | 2025-08-01 16:36:25+00:00
You ask it to do the things that human analysts already currently do with the vast amounts of text, image, and video data they collect but at an unprecedented scale. You can extract what people are talking about, identify people, weapons, or objects in images, extract addresses, license plate numbers, or other identifying references. It can probably even detect when people are using coded language that won’t trigger explicit keywords.

OpenAI is an AI company, it’s literally in the name. Even currently they use more than LLMs, they use other transformers and related technology in the field of AI.
by pengaru | 2025-08-01 16:36:37+00:00
> earlier on they were trying to find reasons to hire you, later on it was more that they were trying to find reasons not to hire you

Have you by chance been pursuing roles at increasingly larger and more lucrative orgs?

I've worked at several startups, and those were clearly more looking for reasons to hire. Now at a FAANG, the interview process was clearly more in the looking for reasons not to hire direction...
by tialaramex | 2025-08-01 16:36:43+00:00
None of the schemes I was aware of pre-date Celis in 1985 but it's apparent upon actually reading Celis [which I hadn't done previously] that he's only improving on an existing state of the art, so I was entirely wrong about that. That state of the art was pretty dire by my reckoning, but it's clear that it would have worked so I was entirely wrong and I apologise for being so assertive when in fact I clearly didn't know what I was talking about.
by rpdillon | 2025-08-01 16:36:47+00:00
But my point is that it won't be. The laws are getting passed, and there is no privacy preservation, there are no ZKPs, there's nothing except "submit your ID". You keep holding out for good faith, but the folks making the rules aren't acting in good faith. I very much appreciate the discussion here, but I think we're coming into the discussion with a different set of priors, so even if our values match, we might not agree.
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