MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-08-15 15:09:27+00:00
> Most people do not agree, in that they think arranging the magnetic fields in your drive to represent and store child pornography should be punishable.

I do not do that. Thus, the example is irrelevant. Though it might actually be a good example as to how people use excuses like that to violate others' liberty even when they're not engaged in that particular reprehensible activity. Even before you finished reading that sentence, the little "but you might" thought popped up in your head.

>It isn’t a stretch then to presume that storage of other types of data might also be proscribed.

I don't dispute that it is proscribed. I simply do not care. When copyright maximalists have to stoop to "what about child pornography" arguments, I think it is more than reasonable that people simply stop listening right at that point. Nothing else they say can or should ever matter.
by hellojesus | 2025-08-15 15:09:38+00:00
> Parents don't know about all devices their children will use to access the internet, so filters aren't going to cut it.

Parents own their network. They can easily issue root certs to devices on their network or deny access to non allowlisted sites. They can require a proxy to hit anything outside the allowlist too.

Then they can not only see what sites their kids visit, but they can also set up some models to check all media for naughty content. It's not a hard thing to solve as a parent and prevents mass surveillance outside your local network.
by martin-t | 2025-08-15 15:09:50+00:00
> It would totally kill any drive you have to make a product.

That is already how I feel about LLMs being trained on my AGPL code to produce proprietary code and do so for money. And that's just today's shitty LLM. My condolences for you as a HW person who deals with an actually competent abuser of the system.
by pc86 | 2025-08-15 15:09:50+00:00
This last one is the most damning IMO. You can dismiss it because there's a screw in the trigger but he shows in a separate video that it's not actually screwed into the frame or anything - it's just there to keep the < 0.5mm of slack out of the trigger. Once that's accomplished, all you have to do is wiggle the slide around for a round to get discharged. He does it on the first attempt - even he didn't expect it to be that easy.

It's very easy to see how a police officer jostling around with a suspect or getting in and out of their car can cause the trigger and the slide to move at the right time to cause this issue.
by diwank | 2025-08-15 15:10:02+00:00
also ettin is a new favorite and a solid alternative: https://huggingface.co/jhu-clsp/ettin-encoder-1b

I'd encourage you to give setfit a try, along with aggressively deduplicating your training set, finding top ~2500 clusters per label, and using setfit to train multilabel classifier on that.

Either way- would love to know what worked for you! :)
by sebmellen | 2025-08-15 15:10:20+00:00
I get shunned by the tribe for saying this, but at this point you just have to make peace with very bad winters. We will all freeze, and sometimes there is nothing you can do to prevent the ice spirits. To save the tribe, more people have to be willing to hunt the great beasts than currently are.

The pure spirits of the situation are staggering. The cold breath of the ice demons is endless. The expanse of frozen wasteland is endless. We are completely cursed.

Everything the elders have told you about warmer lands or pretending we can continue following the old herds is a lie. Fire-keeping rituals, cave paintings for good luck, offering bones to sky spirits - it is all worthless. We had to migrate south 30 seasons ago, and the tribe leaders simply chose not to.

The idea we can preserve our way of life through better spear-making is laughably false. At this point, every large tribe on the tundra would have to simultaneously share their hunting grounds, we’d have to create a coordinated great alliance around mammoth hunting, and another great alliance around fire-keeping (while not angering the flame spirits into abandoning us). The tribe currently has the most foolish shaman it has ever had, surrounded by warriors that do not care about the starving and act on base dominance over the best hunting spots. The clans are at war. The young hunters are greedily and actively making this worse by overhunting the remaining herds and hoarding flint. The odds of our people’s successful survival of this great freezing - at a tribal level - catastrophe is almost zero.
by maccam912 | 2025-08-15 15:10:32+00:00
I was excited for awhile about this project, but sadly it is not maintained. For scratching the same itch (for me it's traffic mainly that is somehow interesting) you might want to look at https://github.com/Uriopass/Egregoria or for the tighter focus on traffic, https://github.com/a-b-street/abstreet .
by pessimizer | 2025-08-15 15:11:26+00:00
You don't understand, it's terrible to censor movies but absolutely vital to make sure people can't make movies I disagree with.

edit: It's funny, I wouldn't be happy about a version of the old HBO series Rome reedited with anything gay taken out, but I'd be absolutely excited to watch a version of Queer As Folk with all the gay stuff edited out.
by crimsonnoodle58 | 2025-08-15 15:11:46+00:00
If you're running on kubernetes, a simple network policy and blocking the container from using DNS will stop any compromised image from performing a data exfill.

I do this for most containers.

If the container must have web access in some form, setup a squid proxy and only whitelist safe and trusted domains that can't be exfilled to.
by pc86 | 2025-08-15 15:11:58+00:00
Yes, this specific gun with this specific design issue that doesn't exist in any other firearm, and you now can't sell for more than $100 if you can sell it at all, and is banned by almost every professional shooting sports organization, and is banned by more ranges than its not can shoot by itself in very specific circumstances.

As a self-described gun nut, thought I'd make it a little more accurate :)
Claude Code usage limits using agentic coding
by VadimPR | 2025-08-15 15:12:07+00:00
I just used Claude Code for a second day using my $20/month Pro plan - very happy! The agentic workflow, which didn't click with me using Windsurf or Amp previously, really worked its magic here.

But, to my surprise, I already hit the usage limit towards the end of the day. The application told me I had to wait an hour before continuing.

Is this how a service for $20/month is supposed to work? This is somewhat strange and disappointing.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-08-15 15:12:10+00:00
California's notorious CEQA was originally intended only to apply to public projects, but the State Supreme Court bizarrely decided to interpret it to as written cover pretty much any construction, public or private, presumably plugging their ears and singing when the legislature attempted to clarify that that was never the intent of the law.

Course have subsequently expanded it's purview beyond parody, such that a law that was written with the goal of preventing contaminated rivers from catching fire now requires a housing developer to study the potential "environmental impact" college students getting a bit too noisy would have on the surrounding neighborhood.
by eddythompson80 | 2025-08-15 15:12:34+00:00
how do you think any ban works exactly?

When prostitution is banned, do you think they install a cop in every bedroom to make sure there is no money exchange?

When drugs are banned, do you think they put a device in every person that beeps if they ingest drugs and a SWAT team Air drops on their house?

When a harmful business practices are banned, do you think a member of a regulatory body gets to attend or review every meeting and decision in every company to make sure that practice doesn't happen?

When graffiti is banned, do you think a cop joins you when you buy a spray can until you dispose of it?

When vaping on airplanes is banned, do you think they do a cavity search on every passenger to make sure no one is sneaking a juul and puffing into a towel?

When dumping industrial toxic waste into rivers is banned, do you think we install 4k cameras on all rivers to track whats being dumped there?

If this is your first time in a human society, welcome. Unlike math, nothing we do in society is a 100%, but we've been doing it for 10,000 years. You will demand "unenforceable" laws if you like them and scoff at ones you don't like. You already know how and will fit right in.
by alephnerd | 2025-08-15 15:13:02+00:00
They don't care.

"The Smoking Gun" is part of the Everytown Support Fund [0], which has been lobbying for gun abolitionism. It was created in opposition of the NRA by Michael Bloomberg [1]

Just like how the NRA would skew stats against any form of gun control, an organization like Everytown would skew facts the other way around.

Firearm abolitionism and unrestricted firearm access are both equally dumb.

There is a middle ground that can be found, but the extremes on both sides make it impossible to compromise. Gun ownership is a 2nd amendment right and often needed in areas with limited population density and access to police or animal control services (try dealing with packs of feral hog like most rural communities in the American West - can't be done without .223 calibre ammo), but that doesn't mean we can't add safety and training requirements given that there is a real issue with gun smuggling that is exacerbating crime across the Americas as well as the inability to prevent and flag high risk individuals from purchasing weapons (especially via private sales).

IMO, an Israeli style model would be best - Israelis are allowed to own a private weapon, but are required to get tested and recertified every year AND need to show that they have a gun locker. All weapons are also registered and cataloged, and all gun sales need to be notified and allowed by the Ministry of Public Safety.

If Israel can do it, the US absolutely can as well.

[0] - https://smokinggun.org/about/

[1] - https://www.everytown.org/about-everytown/history/
by ysavir | 2025-08-15 15:13:44+00:00
A large part of it is that we maxed out a lot of how communication tech can impact daily life, at least in terms of communication, but economically and culturally got in the habit of looking for new and exciting improvements to daily life.

The 19th and 20th centuries saw a huge shift in communication. We went from snail mail to telegrams to radio to phones to television to internet on desktops to internet on every person wherever they are. Every 20-30 years some new tech made it easier, cheaper, and faster to get your message to an intended recipient. Each of these was a huge social shift in terms of interpersonal relationships, commerce, and diminishing cycle times, and we've grown to expect these booms and pivots.

But there isn't much of where to go past "can immediately send a message to anyone anywhere." It's effectively an endstate. We can no longer take existing communication services and innovate on them by merely offering that service using the new revolutionary tech. By tech sectors are still trying to recreate the past economic booms by pushing technologies that aren't as revolutionary or aren't as promising and hyping them up to get people thinking they're the next stage of the communication technology cycle.
by naikrovek | 2025-08-15 15:14:19+00:00
I've mentioned this to colleagues at work before.

LLMs give a very strong appearance of intelligence, because humans are super receptive to information provided via our native language. We often have to deal with imperfect speakers and writers, and we must infer context and missing information on our own. We do this so well that we don't know we're doing it. LLMs have perfect grammar and we subtly feel that they are extremely smart because subconsciously we recognize that we don't have to think about anything that's said, it is all syntactically perfect.

So, LLMs sort of trick us into masking their true limitations and believing that they are truly thinking; there are even models that call themselves thinking models, but they don't think, they just predict what the user is going to complain about and say that to themselves as an additional, dynamic prompt on top of the one you actually enter.

LLMs are very good at fooling us into the idea that they know anything at all; they don't. And humans are very bad at being discriminate about the source of the information presented to them if it is presented in a friendly way. The combination of those things is what has resulted in the insanely huge AI hype cycle that we are currently living in the middle of. Nearly everyone is overreacting to what LLMs actually are, and the few of us that believe that we sort of see what's actually happening are ignored for being naysayers, buzz-kills, and luddites. Shunned for not drinking the Kool-Aid.
by jimbokun | 2025-08-15 15:14:29+00:00
No one is offering that service because it would be completely illegal.

You can't just offer all the content ever created without the rights holders to that content agreeing.

(I expect many will say those rights holders deserve zero compensation because they are large greedy corporations. Conveniently ignoring that piracy also means the creators of the content also get zero compensation for their work.)
by danaris | 2025-08-15 15:14:32+00:00
And just what percentage of kids who played outside in the late '80s/early '90s do you think were seriously injured or abducted?

Because whatever you think it is, that's probably much too high. Because it almost never happened. There were a very few highly-publicized cases of children disappearing (eg, JonBenet Ramsey, or in my area Sarah Ann Wood), but a) those were always incredibly rare, and b) such occurrences have been getting steadily rarer for many decades.
by FollowingTheDao | 2025-08-15 15:14:50+00:00
> No, the reason why capitalists hate unions so much is that it is another layer of incredibly annoying bureaucrats that you have to get along with.

I will never understand this perception. You think there is no bureaucracy in businesses? They want to be the sole bureaucrat is all, so getting rid of all other bureaucrats makes them more profit.

Bureaucracy is the administrative system governing any large institution, whether publicly owned or privately owned.

Capitalism favors dark triad traits. What capitalist doe snot use capitalism for their own advantage?

Corporate Psychopathy: The Dark Triad Traits in Business Leaders https://scribe.rip/psychologs-magazine/corporate-psychopathy...
by nonethewiser | 2025-08-15 15:15:53+00:00
The happy accidents in this case aren't even directly discernable either. It's not like you say "oh that little random smudge is interesting." It's just an impression you get.

Old school animation has the same quality. It's all hand drawn so not quite as exact. It looks fantastic. You wouldn't really even call it flawed, just less formulaic.

I guess that makes me think "how could we model that with computers?" I mean we could make a gradient less smooth. We could add different sorts of noise. It sounds quite complicated but in theory a computer could do this. Practically speaking it may never be worth trying to implement. Kind of a 80/20 issue. That is, you could do a ton of extra work to bump the quality a bit but people are already pretty happy with it so why bother?
by singhrac | 2025-08-15 15:16:11+00:00
I've always thought that the reason they don't care about gaming is because gaming has always been a race-to-the-bottom in margins business. Gamers care a lot about hardware in ways that make selling gaming PCs always very low margin (compared to enterprise or creative) (very few other customers know about RAM or SSD prices, famously Apple's bread-and-butter margin increaser).
by miggy | 2025-08-15 15:16:33+00:00
Author here. Two quick thoughts: 1. As I covered in an earlier part of this series, service discovery is not always easy at scale. High churn, partial failures, and the cost of health checks can make it tricky to get right. 2. Using server-side metrics for load balancing is a great idea. In many setups, feedback is embedded in response headers or health check responses so the LB can make more informed routing decisions. Hodor at LinkedIn is a good example of this in practice: https://www.linkedin.com/blog/engineering/data-management/ho...
by atesti | 2025-08-15 15:16:58+00:00
There is not much need for a company like the one selling adblock plus to springer etc. I don't see any court going after ublock origin and there is no reason that ublock origin would be threatened by this in any way. However, the actions from google with manifest v3 are a real threat, as well as any obligation to use real name accounts to access services like newspapers or youtube.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-08-15 15:17:17+00:00
There was nothing wrong with the M16, it worked very well for a number of years. Then the US Army unilaterally modified the ammunition to save money in such a way as to make it no longer within specification for the weapon. Predictably, the use of out-of-spec ammunition caused issues.

The Army never changed the ammunition back. Instead, the weapon was modified (M16A1) to be compatible with the formerly out-of-spec ammunition and the issues went away.

You can't blame the M16 for the US Army using ammunition that wasn't fit for purpose.
by rnxrx | 2025-08-15 15:17:43+00:00
I think the progression of sentiment is basically the same. There were lots of folks pushing the agenda that connecting us all would somehow bring about the evolution of the human race by putting information at our fingertips that was eventually followed by concern about kids getting obsessed/porn-saturated.

The same cycle happened (is happening) with crypto and AI, just in more compressed timeframes. In both cases the initial period of optimism that transitioned into growing concerns about the negative effects on our societies.

The optimistic view would be that the cycle shortens so much that the negatives of a new technology are widely understood before that tech becomes widespread. Realistically, we'll just see the amorality and cynicism on display and still sweep it under the rug.
by Nicook | 2025-08-15 15:18:04+00:00
Arguing with such a politically loaded sentence is probably a waste of time. BUT that's obviously not the intention of the quote. Actual malfunction induced firing is the exception, and its still a good saying to help people try and be safe/mindful. Not to mention even in that case there's still some movement or action leading to it nobody is saying that the sigs will just spontaneously fire while left sitting on a table.
by danielvf | 2025-08-15 15:18:51+00:00
So the important bit here is that the guns failed drop testing. And that's bad.

The rest of the article seems to misunderstand FMEA style "write down every conceivable bad scenario in the universe, how bad it is, and then what you have done to stop it", and then spins this as "look at all these horrible known issues they knew about". I hope a jury doesn't view it the same way, because it would be an epic bad for safety everywhere if engineers writing down a list of bad things to avoid and mitigate was forbidden by company lawyers.
by hackyhacky | 2025-08-15 15:18:52+00:00
> LLMs mimic intelligence, but they aren’t intelligent.

I see statements like this a lot, and I find them unpersuasive because any meaningful definition of "intelligence" is not offered. What, exactly, is the property that humans (allegedly) have and LLMs (allegedly) lack, that allows one to be deemed "intelligent" and the other not?

I see two possibilities:

1. We define "intelligence" as definitionally unique to humans. For example, maybe intelligence depends on the existence of a human soul, or specific to the physical structure of the human brain. In this case, a machine (perhaps an LLM) could achieve "quacks like a duck" behavioral equality to a human mind, and yet would still be excluded from the definition of "intelligent." This definition is therefore not useful if we're interested in the ability of the machine, which it seems to me we are. LLMs are often dismissed as not "intelligent" because they work by inferring output based on learned input, but that alone cannot be a distinguishing characteristic, because that's how humans work as well.

2. We define "intelligence" in a results-oriented way. This means there must be some specific test or behavioral standard that a machine must meet in order to become intelligent. This has been the default definition for a long time, but the goal posts have shifted. Nevertheless, if you're going to disparage LLMs by calling them unintelligent, you should be able to cite a specific results-oriented failure that distinguishes them from "intelligent" humans. Note that this argument cannot refer to the LLMs' implementation or learning model.
by nickpinkston | 2025-08-15 15:19:42+00:00
Having spent my whole career in the manufacturing tech world after starting in the maker world (I started HackPgh), I love Open Hardware, but find it not a great fit beyond boards (Arduino, RPi, etc.).

I think the core issue is one of how expensive / complex the iteration cycle is, with even sophisticated circuit boards being possible to make on a hobbyist budget, but sophisticated 3D printers and other complex machine tools quickly get beyond what a single person's budget / shop can really support the development vs. mass produced closed machines.

Add to this that even the extremely well funded hardware startups: MakerBot, FormLabs, DesktopMetal, OnShape, etc. have all either totally failed to create better tech at all, or have been quickly commodified without a major impact to the hardware development process.

I've been asking: "When was the last time a new hardware dev product got >50% market share throughout industry?", and I think the answer is SolidWorks in ~1995 making affordable(ish) 3D CAD software.

This means all hardware dev tools have lagged, not just open source ones.

My take is that we need more non VC funding (gov't / foundation) of the basic science and early R&D, as VCs are forcing these companies to commercialize too quickly, and the tech doesn't get there, as operations is hard enough, let alone with half-baked tech. This happened to my last company Plethora, doing automated CAM + rapid CNC.

I did a podcast series on this:

https://manufacturinghappyhour.com/112-accelerating-the-pace...
by 93po | 2025-08-15 15:19:56+00:00
i think you're missing the point. imagine this:

you're walking down a beautiful waterside bridge in kyoto during cherry blossom season. there's really delicious smelling grilled eel from the store next to you. there's a swedish lady walking by you with a cute accent. your skin feels slightly sticky from humidity.

what i just wrote doesn't even begin to encapsulate the entirety of that moment. there were a million other details your brain can form about that moment: the style of brick on the bridge, the other people around you, the sun being in your eyes, that you're smelly bc you forgot deodorant that morning.

to put it shorter: a picture is worth a thousand words. and the author is saying that by having to use language to describe pictures, we have a huge bottleneck