MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by darepublic | 2025-09-11 14:33:28+00:00
I sympathize with this, I would hate having some cargo cult bullshit foisted upon me by disingenuous management. However I'm not sure that it's AI who is "the emperor with no clothes". What I think _is_ such a facade are oftentimes the company itself, its business model, the product it is trying to build and the way its trying to build it. I have sometimes spoken my mind about these things -- petulantly, on my way out the door.
by aoki | 2025-09-11 14:33:30+00:00
In the modern US military, it’s a truism that if anything seriously goes wrong on a ship, the captain has ultimate responsibility and will be fired. (Whereas before WW2, future admirals like Nimitz ran their ships aground and were not fired.) This leads to a zero-defects mentality on the part of the leadership of a ship, which in turn explains why junior officers fail to call the CO to the bridge (or call too late) when they get into a bad situation.
by Fluorescence | 2025-09-11 14:33:41+00:00
And the "those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black" which has always stuck in my mind because of the iconic phrasing.

Frankly I find creating an analogue between the death of MLK and Kirk in bad taste only magnified by scrubbing race from an MLK tribute.

Kirk would have celebrated MLK's death as he did the Pelosi hammer attack. Kirk called MLK "awful" and "not a good person" and the Civil Rights Movement "a huge mistake.".

https://www.wired.com/story/charlie-kirk-tpusa-mlk-civil-rig...
by nakamoto_damacy | 2025-09-11 14:33:59+00:00
I understand Brussels is the de facto capital of the EU in terms of the EU institutions located there. One random association that came up when I read this is that Brussels is where the Session team is located (Session is the P2P version of Signal) and I'm sure they have a stake in this. Just not sure if they're involved in lobbying against encryption backdoors or just watching it unfold like the rest of us.

I'm one of those people who over-share and never comfortable keeping secrets (other than login credentials) while also being paranoid that we are relying on a certificate authority based system that's supposed to protect us but is fundamentally designed to enable state surveillance - a suspicion I've always had despite certificate transparency, pinning, etc) - You can downvote me for having this suspicion, but it won't make me more trusting of the security theater business.
by rsynnott | 2025-09-11 14:34:40+00:00
One thing I find fascinating; go to any forum/subreddit/whatever for any LLM thing, and it will be full of people complaining that it's not as good as it used to be, and that OpenAI/Anthropic/Google/whoever is intentionally degrading it, because they are so evil and want their products to be worse.

Then a new model or tool comes out, all is wonderful for a bit, then repeat (except for GPT-5, oddly; that one seems to have inspired hatred from the start).

It rarely seems to occur to people that familiarity breeds contempt; once the novelty wears off people start noticing the problems. The model isn't getting magically worse, you're just _noticing_ more.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-09-11 14:34:50+00:00
Lots of retail does this with Bluetooth™ beacons (whether just at entry/exits, or at high-trafficked areas).

Which is another reason I simply just stopped carrying a cell phone a few years ago. Absolute freedom.

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I paid my vehicle off early just so I could disable the infotainment's cell-link. My city has OCR cameras on every 4-lane highway (so I'm still tracked) but it sure is wild how important locations are these days.
by IlikeKitties | 2025-09-11 14:35:31+00:00
Here's whats coming: Devices will be locked down by remote attestation and hardware secure models by the vendors like google, apple and microsoft. Only registered devs will be allowed to make software for those devices. They simply won't run unless the software is backed by a google/Apple/MS signed certificate. They'll make chat software that doesn't run chat control illegal. If you make it, you'll lose your signing certificate and no one will be able to run it. Sure there will be nerds running modified devices with no check but it's about compliance for > 99% of the people. No one you care for will use that software because they won't be able to run any banking software, other chat software, social media apps etc. on their phone if they jailbreak it.
by lingolango | 2025-09-11 14:35:38+00:00
Tried building sqlite amalgamation just now.

Input: single .c file 8.5MB.

Output: 1.8MB object file.

Debug build took 1.5s.

Release build (O2) took about 6s.

That is about 3 orders of magntiude slower than what this machine is capable of in terms of IO from disk.
by munksbeer | 2025-09-11 14:35:55+00:00
Perhaps one measure of acceptable is:

People aren't taking to the streets rioting - wealth inequality is at acceptable levels

People are taking to the streets rioting - wealth inequality is at unacceptable levels

Yes I know, that is trite, and circular, but maybe there is something in it. No-one is going to be able to define an exact acceptable level of wealth inequality, but your argument is an asymmetrical standard. I could just as well argue that your view says it is ok for the top 0.1% of people to have 99% of all the wealth while everyone else shares the other 1%. Would you deem that acceptable (assuming we live in the real world and not a fantasy of no scarcity)?
by vlovich123 | 2025-09-11 14:36:21+00:00
That’s what you’ve heard or been your experience?

I’m sitting with SW acceleration in the browser today because some update broke it. I have had it working in the past but I’ve had like 2-3 updates in the past 2 years break it.

And for what it’s worth there was a really bad tearing bug because of the argument over implicit and explicit synchronization that neither side wanted to fix. I think it’s since been addressed but that was only like in the past 6 months or something. So it’s definitely not been “years” since it’s been working seamlessly. Things break at a greater rate than X because X basically is frozen and isn’t getting updates.
by lproven | 2025-09-11 14:36:35+00:00
> Gnome OS these days uses A/B updates with dual read-only /usr partitions and verified boot in the mold of https://0pointer.net/blog/fitting-everything-together.html.

Hang on. I have to say [[citation needed]] on this.

I write about systemd regularly, and read Lennart's blog and Mastodon feed. As evidence, I did an in-depth on systemd 258 just a month or so ago:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/systemd_258_first_rc_...

I do not personally use GNOME or GNOME Boxes and I've never managed to get GNOME OS to so much as boot successfully in a hypervisor or on bare metal, and I've tried many times.

But I don't think it adopts all these fancy features yet.

ParticleOS does:

https://github.com/systemd/particleos

But that's a separate distro. It's not GNOME OS. It's the testbed for the "fitting everything together" concepts.

Adrian Vovk's CarbonOS did much of this:

https://carbon.sh/

... but it's dormant now. He wants to turn GNOME OS into something like that, as he has said:

https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2024/10/25/a-desktop-for-...

And I have written about:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/29/kde_and_gnome_distros...

I am not aware it has happened yet, though.
by next_xibalba | 2025-09-11 14:37:39+00:00
The first half of this book is kind of a slog, focusing on the minutiae of the Soviet's espionage effort. Which, to be fair, was the basis for the Soviet's rapid development of fission and fusion weapons. I just wasn't expecting a (rather boring) spy book. The 2nd half is much more interesting as they get into the truly genius science and engineering of the hydrogen bomb. And boy, Teller really does come off as a complete jerk who wasted a lot of time on his preferred Super design.
by abustamam | 2025-09-11 14:37:53+00:00
That's your prerogative to choose your friends or definition of good person. I personally think that this mentality divides an already divided nation even more.

While I do believe Trump to be a traitor, I believe that folks who voted for him were intentionally manipulated by the talking heads on TV and social media influencers into believing falsehoods and voting against their own self interests. And hey, guess what — many of those who voted for Trump also believe the democrats to be traitors, and that they are seeking to destroy America.

Entertaining this division is not good for our country.
by jbstack | 2025-09-11 14:37:59+00:00
Aside from the fact that there's a subjective definition problem here (how do we decide what people "need"?), I think this an unrealistic view. By this definition, every government that has ever existed or ever will exist is a "bad" government because no government can ever tackle every single problem 100% of the time. Many problems are extremely difficult to solve (e.g. global warming), and others simply cannot be solved without creating other problems.

For example, people "need" access to healthcare, but there's essentially an unlimited amount of money you could spend to keep improving healthcare (e.g. opting for increasingly expensive treatments with diminishing returns on health outcomes). The more money you allocate to healthcare, the less you have available to spend on other things that people "need". Sure, you can tax more up to a point, but eventually that tap runs dry and you're forced to reallocate existing resources.

As another example, people "need" criminals to be punished in order to be able to live in a safe a crime-free society. People also "need" to not be put in prison when they are innocent. But you can never be 100% sure that a convicted criminal actually committed the crime. Locking up criminals implies by necessity that you will also lock up some innocent people. No government can solve both of these problems simultaneously which means they are all "bad".

Even the most competent "good" government ultimately has to select among which "bad" things it is going to allow to continue and which it will solve.
by mdaniel | 2025-09-11 14:38:56+00:00
> Cross-Platform

cpu = [ "torch @ <https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu/torch-2.7.1%2Bcpu-cp312-cp312-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl> ; python_version == '3.12'", "torch @ <https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu/torch-2.7.1%2Bcpu-cp313-cp313-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl> ; python_version == '3.13'", ]

:-/ It reminds me of Microsoft calling their thing "cross platform" because it works on several copies of Windows

In all seriousness, I get the impression that pytorch is such a monster PITA to manage because it cares so much about the target hardware. It'd be like a blog post saying "I solved the assembly language nightmare"
by jalapenos | 2025-09-11 14:39:21+00:00
They celebrate it because that's the kind of beings that they are, and they can do no better.

They feel that someone communicating ideas that challenge theirs is such an affront - such a disturbance to their self-assured sense of personal rightness and superiority - that that person's death is a good solution.

Or to put it another way - they're like this because they're confident they won't receive comeuppance for being so. It's like a "what you gonna do?" frolic.
by xhkkffbf | 2025-09-11 14:39:23+00:00
This may be the wrong time to ask this, but does anyone know where I can buy some location data? I don't want to ask for consent because I want the data (and the analysis) to be as general as possible.

That being said, I have a significant amount of flexibility. The data can be completely anonymized by stripping out the names, addresses etc. The location can be blurred by some radius that's roughly the size of the local census blocks groups. In other words, the location should be random enough to mix together 500-3000 people. The time can also be blurred by a radius of about a week or so. Options like differential privacy are encouraged.

The goal is not to track individuals, just get a rough measure of where they spend their time.

First, does anyone think this is a bad or dangerous set of data?

Second, if not, can anyone point me to some data brokers?
by FridayoLeary | 2025-09-11 14:39:29+00:00
The un has such a long and consistent anti israel bias i find it hard to trust anything they say. UNWRA basically is the de facto propoganda and civil administrators for hamas. Again the ipc changed their definition on famine in order to include gaza.

Israel is most definitely not in full control of gaza. They are trying to assert some with the ghf despite UN/Hamas strenuous opposition.

The idea that hamas isn't stealing all the aid is ludicrous.

And finally Israel does permit huge amounts of aid into gaza. I wonder what UNWRA are doing with it.

The only thing you have established is that gaza is indeed in the midst of a war and that resources are scarce for people there and lots of people are dying which is exactly what you would expect in a war.

Just because you want something to be true doesn't make it so. Israel isn't to blame for what has happened in gaza. Unless you claim having an interest in not being massacred, kidnapped and raped is unreasonable.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-09-11 14:39:57+00:00
> The enemy does not include children, but hamas cannot use them as a shield to protect or even deflect attention from their own fighters. Again it's awful but not criminal.

When the Allies bombed Dresden, that was a war crime. When Israel kills children because it's operationally easier than figuring out how to just kill combatants, that is also a war crime.

Like, they appear to be able to do targeted attacks on Hamas people basically everywhere except Gaza, which seems pretty weird.
by Anonyneko | 2025-09-11 14:40:19+00:00
It's an interesting argument in theory, but in practice the government in my country of origin actively searches through people's phones to find evidence of wrongthink (e.g. donations or incriminating social media activity), for which they sentence people to incredibly long prison terms.

The latest example: https://en.zona.media/article/2025/08/27/irin

That said, no matter how secure GrapheneOS may be, for this particular threat a permanently clean phone is a necessity.
by _boffin_ | 2025-09-11 14:40:19+00:00
How would this function in two-party consent states like California? My understanding is limited, but from what I've read, this might still violate consent laws unless explicitly disclosed—even in public spaces.

I recently explored building a real-time STT system for sales calls to support cold-calling efforts. However, the consensus from my research was that, even if audio is streamed live without storage, consent laws could still present significant hurdles.
by ironman1478 | 2025-09-11 14:40:57+00:00
The abortion ban in Romania was born by the children and effected them in innumerable ways. The consequences fell on the children. You can read all the text I linked. Romania had a huge amount of children who were abandoned because they could not be taken care of. allowing abortion would have prevented all of that suffering. Abortions will happen whether you like it or not and if they cannot happen, people will figure something out to get what they want. It's like sensor noise, it exists and you can't make it not exist. You can either accept it and work with people and try to develop healthy solutions or you can ignore reality and cause problems for everybody.

Ceausescu was not left wing or right wing. Just like trump, these people are apolitical and just sit on the side that gives the ability to rule. I also strongly subscribe to the horseshoe theory of politics, so in my mind the far left == far right.

Also, just so you know, I'm an extreme capitalist. I believe in economics and numbers. The numbers are what lead me to my policy perspectives.
by nobody9999 | 2025-09-11 14:41:57+00:00
>You're talking about the murder of a media personality, not a tyrant or even someone who has any say in how the government is run. You don't fight tyranny by eliminating people just because they have different opinions.

You mean people like Mohammed Khalil or Rumeysa Ozturk?

They weren't shot, but they were arrested, imprisoned without trial and threatened with expulsion for their opinions.

This isn't a "when did you stop beating your wife?" gotcha attempt. Rather, it's an attempt to point up that many of the folks (I'm emphatically not saying that you are one of those folks) who are making the same argument were all in favor of silencing Mr. Khalil, Ms. Ozturk and even argued for stripping Zohran Mamdani of his citizenship because he had the temerity to run a successful primary campaign for mayor of NYC.

If we're (the general 'we') going to make the argument that free expression is important and that we should see differing opinions as a normal part of the process of society, we need to do so for everyone. Even (especially) those whose opinions are objectionable.

And so, as long as we're willing to make the same statements for everyone, I'm in 100% agreement with you.

Those who are only willing to make that argument WRT opinions with which they agree, and again I am emphatically not accusing you personally account42, are not acting in good faith or with intellectual honesty.

Unfortunately, there are far too many folks who fit that description. And more's the pity.
by thisisit | 2025-09-11 14:42:34+00:00
> It's definitely interesting how in anonymous forums there's a lot more people pointing out that they think this is hype whereas when we wear our professional hats many of us join in

I have seen that in anonymous forums there's a lot more people pointing out that they think this is transformative like say early smartphones.

When it comes to wearing professional hats people fall into two categories.

People who are using it outside their expertise area. Things they had to previously rely on others like back end operations. They gush about it - praising the technology as if they have discovered smartphones. Only when they use it for their expertise area they realize that AI might not be all it is hyped to be and that they need to be cautiously optimistic.

Then there are people who are using it within their expertise area. Like vibe coding. There are people who gush about it. But there are more who are cautiously optimistic. They will tell you it works but in a contained environment.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-11 14:42:56+00:00
> she’s got a lot of sharp edges

Understatement of the year.

> Maybe Michael

I've never been impressed by Michael K. He's tends to view South Asia relations from a NatSec only view that is heavily colored by his experiences during the GWOT.

He isn't the most proficient in understanding the ins-and-outs of institutions. And fundamentally, it's institutions - not interests or personas - that set strategy or goals.

I think he is a good source if we want to understand KPK and transnational terrorism, but not really beyond that.

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And this is the fundamental problem with South Asia studies in the US - almost all academics in the space largely entered during the GWOT or the NPT, and their domain experience is largely around either transnational terror or nuclear posture.

There are almost no academics in the US with US citizenship who have significant experience and knowledge about how institutions work within South Asian countries, and those who have that knowledge decide to retain their home country's citizenship becuase they know they can pull a Raghuram Rajan, Aravind Subramaniam, or a Krishnamurthy Subramanian (no relation to Aravind).

Chinese studies faced the same issues before 2017-19 as well, because there were few Chinese born American naturalized academics with a background in Chinese institutions, plus when I was in college (Obama 1/2) the majority of the limited academic funding in Govt/PoliSci was devoted to Russia, Iran, and the Arabic speaking nations. China was largely viewed the same way India is today and India the same way Vietnam or Indonesia are viewed today in American academia.

These academic blind spots are a major reason why American foreign policy keeps failing - there is almost no domain experience outside of Russia/CEE and MidEast studies in the US. We barely built Chinese studies domain experience but a lot of that is ex-USSR scholars pivoting to China for funding.
by adastra22 | 2025-09-11 14:42:59+00:00
Common sense is more than just causal reasoning. It is also an ability to draw upon a large database of facts about the world and to know which ones apply to the current situation.

But LLMs achieve both your condition and mine. The attention network makes the causal connections that you speak of, while the multi-layer perceptions store and extract facts that respond to the mix of attention.

It is not commonly described as such, but I think “common sense engine” is a far better description of what a GPT-based LLM is doing than mere next word prediction.
by bluecalm | 2025-09-11 14:43:24+00:00
While the main conclusion of the article isn't unexpected to me I am very surprised a well optimized quicksort isn't faster than radix sort. My experience in C is that you can significantly speed-up quick sort by removing function calls and doing insertion sorts on small arrays at the end. I was never able to get radix sort even close to that performance wise. I don't know Rust at all so it would be pointless for me to try to code an optimized quick sort in it. Hopefully the author knows how to optimize quick sort and is not missing on huge gains there.

Just in case someone feels like porting it to Rust, here is a link to a good and simple quick sort implementation that significantly outperforms standard library one: https://www.ucw.cz/libucw/doc/ucw/sort.html
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-09-11 14:43:42+00:00
> The critique is that academia is not only instilling blind faith in perpetual economic growth but also shaping values so that young people see serving corporations as more worthwhile than serving their families. Kirk’s main message was pushing back against that hierarchy—saying family, community, and personal meaning should matter more than being a cog in the corporate machine.

I mean, I suspect it's the cost of university education in the US that's driving much of the observed behaviours, that seems like a more parsimonous explanation than what you've given above. And speaking as a former university lecturer, the notion that academia tells students what to think does not match my experience at all.

> saying family, community, and personal meaning should matter more than being a cog in the corporate machine.

Wow, to be fair this is the first statement of Charlie Kirk that I've wholeheartedly agreed with.
by hirvi74 | 2025-09-11 14:44:40+00:00
My grandfather worked on the Manhattan Project! I am not certain of what meaningful contributions, if any, my grandfather had nor how long he was apart of the project, but I am confident that he remained in NYC for the entirety of his work -- never in Los Alamos to my knowledge.

Nevertheless, I remember asking him what was it like to actually work on the project. He said that it was far less Hollywood-esque than many would imagine -- at least for him. He was just given math/engineering problems and was asked to solve them with no context. He never knew what he was truly working on, why he was working on these problems, etc.. The work was pretty isolating and contact was with others was pretty minimal. I do know that he met both Von Neumann and Oppenheimer on at least one occasion which is pretty awesome.

I wish I could find some records, but I do not even know where to look.