MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jimkleiber | 2025-08-27 13:57:34+00:00
> Berghain is renowned for its exclusivity and its commitment to maintaining an authentic atmosphere. The club’s door policy is legendary, with bouncers turning away celebrities and influencers alike if they don’t fit the desired vibe. Musk’s rejection serves as a reminder that in Berlin’s club scene, authenticity trumps fame and fortune.

> it’s a powerful reminder that in Berlin, authenticity and inclusivity reign supreme.

So it's about exclusivity and inclusivity? About fitting the desired vibe and authenticity?

It can't be both and I imagine it's more about the former than the latter. Because inclusivity is about including, and authenticity is about not trying to fit in, and if he was excluded for not fitting in, then that doesn't sound like inclusivity or authenticity.
by ModernMech | 2025-08-27 13:57:36+00:00
> It is very strange to me that the government seems to be going for maximum shock and uncertainty on the US economy. Again, apart from the advisability of the actual tarrifs, they could have been implemented in the usual way to allow people to plan for them (and possibly give feedback on them), but they were not.

It's only strange to you because you don't understand the purpose of government anymore. It's changed -- before, the government was supposed to protect and provide for the citizenry. Provide military defense, manage the economy for everyone's economic benefit, and part of that work was maintaining global order and stability.

That's not its purpose anymore. Now, the purpose of the government is to provide for Trump's security, to provide for Trump's stability, and to maintain a global order where his will rises above all others.

To that end, economic instability is a feature, not a bug. Trump loves it when the world is off kilter, because they perceive that in order to achieve stability, they must assuage him personally with gifts, bribes, and praise. Witness the Qatari jet bribe, Tim Cook's oval office visit where he gave a bribe, and the cabinet meeting yesterday which was 4 hours of everyone praising Trump rather than talking about the business of the country.

America is now a dictatorship, Trump is the dictator, and the country/economy will only be as stable as his ego allows. Which, after watching the guy for 10 years, means nothing will be stable again until he's gone for good.
by DanielHB | 2025-08-27 13:57:56+00:00
And the social implications of converting farmland from growing food to growing sugar cane/corn/soy. It is a VERY complex topic, but it seems overall it is a marginally positive thing for Brazil (even in emissions). While a very negative thing in the US because of all the subsidies required to make corn ethanol viable and overall negative emissions impact compared to oil gasoline.
by Verdex | 2025-08-27 13:57:57+00:00
I honestly did not think I was ever going to be coming back to Linux. But here we are. So far I've migrated a laptop and gaming machine to fedora.

The gaming machine operates significantly better on fedora than it ever did on windows.

I'm on the fence for what to do with my other two machines, but it feels like there's weekly news pushing me away from continuing with windows.
by positron26 | 2025-08-27 13:58:00+00:00
:-) Yeah. Only SSO was working because while email would double my users, I was doing an experiment and looking for at least some signs of life. Doubling nothing would be useless.

Turns out, some new enrollments topped up their accounts and dropped off before the final step that makes it show up on the home page, so now I know it's something, and something is worth doubling.

> existential threat to surveillance capitalism

Should I buy a gun? I'm an American.
by skydhash | 2025-08-27 13:58:38+00:00
The thing is, system based package managers require discipline, especially from library authors. Even in the web world, it’s really distressing when you see a minor library is already on its 15 iteration in less that 5 years.

I was trying to build just (the task runner) on Debian 12 and it was impossible. It kept complaining about rust version, then some libraries shenanigans. It is way easier to build Emacs and ffmpeg.
by pjmlp | 2025-08-27 13:59:10+00:00
Actually, no.

"AN ALGORITHMIC THEORY OF LANGUAGE", 1962

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/AD0296998.pdf

In this paper they are known as plexes, eventually ML and CLU will show similar approaches as well.

Only much latter would Lisps evolve from plain lists and cons cells.
by nine_zeros | 2025-08-27 13:59:30+00:00
> If she committed a felony,

It is not proven. Trump is merely alleging - it is a manufactured allegation.

> If she committed a felony, she shouldn't be in charge of anything

Apply the same logic to the 34 count felon in the office of the President. Until you apply the harshest standard to the President, none of your other complaints hold any value.
by pimterry | 2025-08-27 13:59:41+00:00
If you pull out to view the full history, you'll see it's a constant series of huge spikes (e.g. in late 2024 the site more than tripled in size over about a week) each followed by a slow trend downwards, then another huge spike up further, etc.

I suspect that's pretty common for something that's been in the news quite a bit: you get occasional big jumps in attention & usage, and then only some smaller percentage of users will stick around longer term. When you're getting such big spikes in signups this is unavoidable I think - even with new users coming in, the descent from the spike overwhelms any other trends.

The interesting question is whether that settles down into a slow steady sustainable state eventually. Looks plausible but still unclear imo.
by eightys3v3n | 2025-08-27 13:59:44+00:00
I would argue the distinction between my own user and root is not meaningful when they say "all files by default". As my own user, it can still access everything I can on a daily basis which is likely everything of importance. Sure it can't replace the sudo binary or something like that, but it doesn't matter because it's already too late. Why when I download and run Firefox can it access every file my user can access, by default. Why couldn't it work a little closer to Android with an option for the user to open up more access. I think this is what they were getting at.
by devmor | 2025-08-27 14:00:01+00:00
Have you considered that Europe is a fractional part of the world with close international relationships to its geographical neighbors and does not represent the rest of the world's experiences?

You mention the US as lagging behind Europe, which is true - but I assure you from my experience working in international fintech from the US, there are more people in the world than the entire population of my country with even worse banking security controls by default.
by haberman | 2025-08-27 14:00:15+00:00
For me, that was a moment when I realized that the received wisdom about military things can be just completely wrong.

I had considered myself to be reasonably informed about the F-35, and how "everyone knows" it's a boondoggle. I think this started with a long-form article I read in 2013, "How the U.S. and Its Allies Got Stuck with the World’s Worst New Warplane": https://medium.com/war-is-boring/fd-how-the-u-s-and-its-alli...

Here is the HN discussion at the time, full of confident assertions that the F-35 is useless: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6211029

Fast forward to this year, when Israel's F-35s operated over Iran with total impunity. Not a single plane lost AFAIK.
by bombcar | 2025-08-27 14:00:16+00:00
And the very act of hope that having kids is (and it is a strong act of hope, no denial) changes your outlook on life and the state of the world, too.

Sometimes to more abject despair, but often to more hope.

People shouldn't be forced at gunpoint to have children, but they also shouldn't be dragged down into insecurity and despair that it's financially impossible.
by ecb_penguin | 2025-08-27 14:00:31+00:00
> It's not 1995, cryptography isn't arcane anymore.

My username is literally a cryptographic mode of operation. But you didn't know that, because you have a low skill issue.

> Do you know the US government has dedicated cloud regions (eg:

This is a joke, right? You're just an LLM going through training.
by mothballed | 2025-08-27 14:00:55+00:00
Because sometimes you don't know with certainty on an individual basis, only a population basis, who is better off from the procedure.

Maybe you are the one in-a-billion who dies from a vaccine, from a disease that unknowably you would never contract or would only contract it in a mild way. The doctors know if they administer it enough times they will absolutely kill someone, but they do it to save the others, although they will pretty much never bluntly put it like that for your consideration.
by nomilk | 2025-08-27 14:00:58+00:00
Ah, yup. Didn't know this.

> Condé Nast media brands include Vogue, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler, Condé Nast Traveller, GQ, Glamour, Architectural Digest, Vanity Fair, Pitchfork, Wired, Bon Appétit, and Ars Technica, among many others.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cond%C3%A9_Nast
by underlipton | 2025-08-27 14:01:01+00:00
>If she committed a felony

Big if, especially since she hasn't been formally charged with anything. In any case, even if she has, Trump and Pulte's authority to fire her is questionable. It would be like a mayor attempting to fire a private security guard that's contracted with the city, pending an investigation.

A couple of points: if it were a LEO, they would generally be put on leave, not fired. But, again, officer of a private entity (which the Fed) is; the mayor/president's ability to influence that entity's activity ends at the contracts/relevant statutes's stipulations - and if there's a dispute, it gets hashed out in civil court. Of course, if a felony has been committed, one could just wait for the conviction, which would likely lead to termination by one of several exigencies.

But, again, big if.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-08-27 14:01:17+00:00
My comment is based on reading over the complaint, but in reality the case will involve the full context of each chat as well the the users full usage history. Understand that the complaint presented was written by the family's attorney, so it is going to be the absolute strongest construction of "ChatGPT is a killer, and OpenAI is complacent" you can make from the pile of facts. Initial complaints like this are the click-bait/rage-bait of the legal world.

I'm not making a judgement here, just leveraging the internet wisdom that comes from decades of doing this kind of drill.
by LeoWattenberg | 2025-08-27 14:01:36+00:00
It clusters symptoms "without underlying cause" because we don't know the underlying cause. If we wanted to go for a fully "physical mechanism" approach to mental health, we could just end any treatment attempts and say "come back in a few decades or perhaps centuries".

But we do know that certain symptoms tend to show up in clusters, and that patients in certain clusters tend to respond to certain drugs with an above-placebo level of effectiveness.

The same is true for a runny nose: It can be caused by any number of viruses (there is no such a thing as "the" influenza virus or "the" common cold virus), or allergies, or irritants like pepper spray, or a problem with the body's ability to regulate itself, or something else entirely – but going through the effort to test for every virus, allergen, irritant, and whatnot is wasteful, if all the patient needs at that moment is some nasal spray to breathe properly again. Incidentally, a runny nose is (or perhaps: was) not a common symptom of Covid, so unless other symptoms more indicative of it show, there may not a good reason to test for it, or prescribe medication specific to it.

If more symptoms accumulate over time, or the symptoms don't go away, you then probably can go back to your doctor, will get a different diagnosis and possibly a different prescription. The same is (or at least: should be) true for mental issues, where you might switch treatment over and over until something is found which actually helps your symptoms. Is this a flawed process? Frustrating? Absolutely. But is it "worthless"? I don't think so.
by slipperydippery | 2025-08-27 14:01:41+00:00
I was reminded how fucked the modern web is a couple years ago when I encountered a so-fast-it-felt-like-local-static-html website dashboard that could have been a "web app", but wasn't.

It was being hosted on another continent. It was written in PHP. It was rendering server-side with just some light JS on my end.

That used to be the norm.
by suggestion | 2025-08-27 14:01:44+00:00
Tobacco didn't exist for most of the world until the 17th century and you're discounting the fact that life was objectively much worse by virtually every metric.

People were constantly bombarded with death, disease, things like starvation were near term risks, violence was everywhere, etc.

You're also overestimating the prevalence of alcoholism. Alcohol consumption was largely driven by safety and necessity, not abuse. Alcoholism was arguably more of a social stigma historically than it was today, certainly with harsher criminal penalties in many societies.
by adinhitlore | 2025-08-27 14:01:54+00:00
Great replies yeah. Personally: I'm mid-30s, yet-to-retire addicted to programming, been programming for ages with many highs/lows (aka from developing project with opencv/ai for DARPA to creating the worst flop in history of games which is maybe still tormenting people Steam, i'm not naming it lol it's beyond bad). These days as a hobby: Experimenting with AI, battery designs and propulsion (long story!). I'm based in europe so maybe my English isn't perfect and sounds gpt 3.5 generated, sorry if that's the case.
by coldpie | 2025-08-27 14:01:59+00:00
I didn't vendor them, but I did do an eyeball scan of every package in the full tree for my project, primarily to gather their license requirements[1]. (This was surprisingly difficult for something that every project in theory must do to meet licensing requirements!) It amounted to approximately 50 dependencies pulled into the build, to create a single gstreamer plugin. Not a fan.

[1] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/commit/f21922d970888...
by squirrellous | 2025-08-27 14:02:49+00:00
Respectfully, the article needs more punctuation. Having a strictly grammar-correcting GPT pass would be good.

To stay on topic, I’d really like to know if something like this exists today for native c++ / c programs. I haven’t really found an easy to set up, low overhead heap profiling tool that can be left on in production.
by reactordev | 2025-08-27 14:03:35+00:00
I take it you never flew VFR over Nebraska corn…

Yes, papi lights are operated by radio. However, not everyone has fancy radios and only has handhelds, their Nokia phone, or their right arm wave…

It’s not all class C+ out there.

I will point out that PAPI lights as part of a PCL system are operated using mic clicks on CTAF radio. These systems are expensive and sometimes you’re landing in a grass field and just need the runway lights so you don’t run into the trees. You can click your mic as many times as you want, you’ll still be in the dark. The only way is to call Phil…
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-08-27 14:03:52+00:00
Fully agree.

So many people are so drunk on the kool aid, I often wonder if I’m the weirdo for not wanting dozens of third party libraries just to build a simple HTTP client for a simple internal REST api. (No I don’t want tokio, Unicode, multipart forms, SSL, web sockets, …). At least Rust has “features”. With pip and such, avoiding the kitchen sink is not an option.

I also find anything not extensively used has bugs or missing features I need. It’s easier to fork/replace a lot of simple dependencies than hope the maintainer merges my PR on a timeline convenient for my work.
by staplung | 2025-08-27 14:04:08+00:00
Cool. One thing I found odd was that on export there are two listed formats. "ASCII" and "ASCII extended" but as far as I can tell, the ASCII version is actually outputting UTF-8. It's hard to tell for sure though because the output is just text that you can cut and paste and so it's difficult to know what conversions the browser or OS might be doing behind the scenes. But when I paste it into a text editor on my mac, it's definitely UTF-8, not ASCII encoded.

Which is probably more useful anyway given that if it really outputted ASCII encoded line drawing characters, you'd end up with gibberish on a system that assumed UTF-8 encoding.
by tomp | 2025-08-27 14:04:21+00:00
This is contradictory:

> The US has spent decades preventing and delaying the EU becoming a defacto state

> I am just saying trump is driving [pressure for EU armed forces]

So which is it, is US stopping EU from federalizing, or accelerating it?

The best possible reading is, before Trump US was stopping, now it's accelerating, but that's what I asked - what's your source / data / facts / circumstantial evidence that US used to try to prevent / delay EU federalizing?

I don't see it, or if there was, it was completely in-consequential, because there was enough hesitancy within EU already.
by 3036e4 | 2025-08-27 14:04:40+00:00
I tried to make some LLMs write (GW-)BASIC and they failed miserably. Maybe they were only trained on some modern BASIC that doesn't look like BASIC at all? Could not convince them to use line numbers at all. Maybe with a lot of context they could do it, but my prompts did not work, even making I clear I wanted line numbers.

(Free)Pascal seems to work great though. I think enough of that is in training data that it can be used as well as any language. There isn't much special to consider to get it right. It is not like figuring out how to do Rust or C++.
by Telemakhos | 2025-08-27 14:04:44+00:00
Back in the 90s, every University had its own mailserver, USENET server, etc. These offered authentication to any user in the University, and each was federated with other institutions and the internet as a whole.

I'm surprised Universities haven't set up a federated network of ActivityPub servers, with each University hosting its faculty and student accounts on its server. The signal-to-noise ratio of a University-only network would be amazing.
by emil-tabakov | 2025-08-27 14:04:45+00:00
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by epistasis | 2025-08-27 14:05:05+00:00
Any news article that could be interpreted as critical of Musk these days seems to have a broad army of commenters that swarm to add low information critique of critique. This article is likely to be flagged off the front page very quickly too.

Edit: yes, and as predicted, this straightforward reporting on the scientific community's migration of social networks has been flagged off the front page, because too many HN folks can not distinguish bad news for Musk from biased against Musk. There's no reason for this to be flagged except for the political motivations od the flashers.
by saberience | 2025-08-27 14:05:12+00:00
So what?

It doesn't run by itself, you have to choose to run it. We have tons of apps with loads of permissions. The terminal can also mess with your filesystem and run commands... sure, but it doesn't open by itself and run commands itself. You have to literally run claude code and tell it to do stuff. It's not some living, breathing demon that's going to destroy your computer while you're at work.

Claude Code is the most amazing and game changing tool I've used since I first used a computer 30 years ago. I couldn't give two fucks about its "vectors of attack", none of them matter if no one has unauthorized access to my computer, and if they do, Claude Code is the least of my issues.
by sneak | 2025-08-27 14:05:19+00:00
Not all of us agreed with the previous (or current, for that matter) size of the US federal government. The ideas behind draining the swamp and DOGE were reasonable; the problem is that the POTUS has nowhere near the power to achieve it in any meaningful sense. You cannot dismantle the government using the government. (This is something nobody wants to acknowledge as it lays bare the utter farce that is “democracy” and “a government by the people, for the people”; the United States, just like China and Russia, is an oligarchic dictatorship.)

Much of what Trump officially destroyed should never have been built in the first place. Most of the damage he has wrought is not from his actual platform, but from his sheer stupidity. Covid and Russia both come to mind immediately, but also the irreparable harm he has done to the ~century-old carefully crafted global illusion of American legitimacy. As far as we can tell, he doesn’t read, including without limitation the daily intelligence briefing. There is no way to act strategically if you don’t avail yourself of all of the relevant information or you purge the administration of the messengers of news you don’t like.

As we know, stupidity is far more harmful to society than malice, as malice is at least zero-sum: someone gains when you lose.

Stupid people through their actions simply harm everyone, themselves included.

Think of what an improvement it would be (over Trump) to have someone hyperintelligent as POTUS, but with the exact same platform. It would be bad, but not the catastrophe that Trump has wrought by being a moron who can’t think more than 15 minutes in advance and fundamentally doesn’t seem to understand the concept of strategy.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-27 14:05:20+00:00
The ejection force is to ensure the pilot clears the airplane as they enter the airstream. Think about how much force you feel when you hold your hand out a car window at 60MPH, then remember that wind resistance increases with the square of speed. You have to be launched hard to get away from the tail.

Also the last thing you want in the critical emergency safety gear is more levels of complexity and additional things for the pilot to consider.
by hypeatei | 2025-08-27 14:05:20+00:00
That would require even more R&D to maybe be useful in a rare situation. Like you mentioned, the vulnerability surface would increase. The last you thing you'd want is a remote control vuln being discovered in your $200M jet during a conflict.

That and I'm not sure what an ejection actually means for the planes internals i.e. is it even guaranteed the electronic components won't be damaged?
by pengaru | 2025-08-27 14:05:29+00:00
> The report notes Lockheed Martin had issued guidance on the problem the F-35’s > sensors had in extreme cold weather in a maintenance newsletter in April 2024, > about nine months before the crash. The problem could make it “difficult for > the pilot to maintain control of the aircraft,” the guidance said. > > The temperature at the time of the crash was -1 degree Fahrenheit, the report > said.

Isn't it pretty much always at least that cold at the altitudes these things operate at? It's unclear from the article if -1F qualifies as "extreme cold weather" but unless I'm mistaken you're going to encounter extreme cold temps up there - it's not some exceptional condition.