MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by netsharc | 2025-09-03 21:19:53+00:00
I was going to say "you're nuts!", but... I wouldn't say Ukraine is being used as cannonfodder, but the EU is very interested in Russia not winning in Ukraine, because if Putin wins, the EU will have a big refugee crisis (although "slightly better" refugees since they're white and share a similar culture, compared to the reception of brown and Muslim refugees).

Also the EU pays for countries like Turkey and Libya to prevent refugee ships from coming to their continent. If that means sinking those ships with people on them, well...
by anonym29 | 2025-09-03 21:21:09+00:00
Apple is very explicitly and deliberately building their systems to forcibly collect massive amounts of user data that they can and do provide to the federal government.

While it is true that close to all companies will comply with lawful orders (but not EVERY company, FWIW: Lavabit famously shut down instead of handing over SSL keys to feds), it is possible to design systems in such a way as to protect FAR more user data privacy than Apple does. Case in point: review the contents of Signal's subpoena response a few years ago:

- https://signal.org/bigbrother/cd-california-grand-jury/

This isn't a sham privacy claim like the kind made by Apple that requires you to trust the provider, either. Signal's clients are famously open source - something Apple does not do for pretty much any part of iOS or Mac OS:

- https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android

- https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS

- https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop

Additionally, most of the Signal server's source code (nix the anti-spam components) is open source, as well as the libsignal library used across the clients and server alike:

- https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop

- https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal

Apple could be this transparent if they wanted to. They choose not to be, because the truth is, they do not actually care about user privacy, they are constantly collecting massive amounts of telemetry, user data, and user metadata from every single device they make, and they have been proven to share this data extensively with the federal government via the Snowden leaks, even in spite of the few actions they take publicly to maintain the marketing illusion of being a company that cares about user privacy, such as in the wake of the San Bernardino shooting.
by agwa | 2025-09-03 21:21:26+00:00
It appears this was first discovered right here on Hacker News by user JXzVB0iA: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45089708

Note that the CA which did this is trusted only by Microsoft. The other major root programs (Mozilla, Chrome, Apple) manage their root programs much better and don't trust CAs like this.

Also, this CA is part of the EU's Trust List, so had the EU's original eIDAS/QWAC proposal gone through, Mozilla, Chrome, and Apple would have been required by EU law to trust this CA also.
by tialaramex | 2025-09-03 21:21:53+00:00
The lack of reply is probably because the thing you wanted to respond to was new.

This is a deliberate HN behaviour to discourage frantic conversations, like you might have if this was a Zoom call for example, or we'd had this disagreement in a bar (presumably a bar where there's a Compiler Explorer built in, or maybe literally Matt Godbolt is sat there with a laptop?)

Maybe it works? I have had some positive experiences.

If you know unsafe Rust the comparison to this Odin feature feels odd, but OK. Surely the Odin feature is more like when let-chains was unstable but you could tell the Rust nightly compiler you want that feature anyway ? Or... explicit_tail_calls which gives you a way to write explicit tail calls† in nightly Rust ?

† This is a very cool feature if you're a functional programmer using the "become" keyword, you get tail call optimisation but it's mandatory, if what you've written can't work as a tail call then it won't compile, if it could work it does.
by aredox | 2025-09-03 21:22:17+00:00
>There are completely valid questions for normal people to ask that don’t receive much of a response often

Wrong, wrong, wrong. These perfectly valid answers have received again and again perfectly valid answers, and vaccine "sceptics" refuse to engage with the answers.

It is all FUD as a way of life.

Your repeated use of "the establishment" shows perfectly well that they don't want to hear the answer anyway. It's "us against them". Any official data - even from the CDC, or the media - that may show vaccines cause harm is blindly trusted and paraded. Any official data - from the same sources - that shows vaccines don't cause harm is manipulated, fake, censored by everyone: doctors, scientists, statisticians, officials, the Media...
by jonmc12 | 2025-09-03 21:22:33+00:00
Maybe an investment in "A-players" for streaming stifled cultural diversity and kept engineers from being able to innovate on novel media formats where they are losing engagement of the younger demographic to TikTok and other social media video formats.

The same corporate strategy and culture that hired "A-player" engineers for streaming is hiring "A-player" studios for content.

Defining A-players as such means you've set the rules of the game instead of building a culture of adaptive success criteria to meet customer opportunities. The label itself is a function of organizational ossification. This is the likely legacy of our tech giants; innovative in only one direction and not able to change fast enough to avoid becoming a brittle, mediocre institution over time.

As consumers, we can all feel this ossified mediocrity every day.
by wtallis | 2025-09-03 21:23:21+00:00
Please consider the possibility that some proposed features should not exist. The objections to many of Chrome's features are fundamental, not aesthetic, or complaints about nuances of how it's implemented. Many people outside Google simply do not want the browser to be a full-fledged OS, especially if that means weakening privacy or security controls of the host OS.

Sometimes, the right response to a feature proposal is simply "no". But you're seemingly unwilling to accept that as a valid answer. The alternative you're not seeing is that of not having the dubious features in the browser.
by quickthrowman | 2025-09-03 21:23:25+00:00
> Also, what does this have to do with water heater use or fixtures?

It doesn’t particularly matter if small amounts of lead are used in hot water lines since you don’t (or shouldn’t) drink water from the hot water heater. Ideally your drinking water comes from a faucet that has separate hot/cold taps, if it doesn’t, then you should turn the faucet all the way to ‘cold’ when you’re filling a glass with water to drink.
by jmward01 | 2025-09-03 21:24:20+00:00
I have nothing against rich. I have everything against a single person having a megaphone for themselves and a gag for everyone else and still calling it a democracy. We need strong laws that reduce the voice of money and increase the voice of individuals. Having said that, the practical implication is that money needs to loose power and there are very few ways to truly do that other than just take it away. So, I agree that our only known practical path to a healthier democracy is to make it harder to be pathologically rich.
by simne | 2025-09-03 21:24:37+00:00
Could you approximate number of blind persons using AI?

If their number is significant, they could themselves be foundation for some AI business, even if all other consumers will turn away from AI.

For about accessibility of web, must say it is terrible even for non-blind person, but AI could also change this to better.

What I mean, you may hear about PalmPilot organizers, they was very limited in hardware, but existed private company, which provided proxy-browser, which input ordinary web sites and shown on PalmPilot small display optimized version, plus have mode for offline reading. With existing AI now could do much better.
by rsynnott | 2025-09-03 21:24:53+00:00
> Just because you end up looking at what the prompt looks like “under the hood” in whichever language it produced the output, doesn’t mean every user does.

> Similar as with assembly, you might have not taken a look at it, but there are people that do and could argue the same thing as you.

... No. The assembler is deterministic. Barring bugs, you can basically trust that it does exactly what it was told to. You absolutely cannot say the same of our beloved robot overlords.
by antognini | 2025-09-03 21:24:55+00:00
The condition is the former. The probability distribution spans the full dimensionality of the space. Basically, the result will hold for an infinite number of dimensions and a finite number of steps. But it will also hold if you take both the number of steps and the dimensionality to infinity while holding the ratio N_steps / D constant with N_steps / D << 1.
by danenania | 2025-09-03 21:25:09+00:00
Same sentiment for me. I barely use the agent, but love their autocomplete. Though I sometimes hear people say that GH Copilot has largely caught up on this front. Can anyone speak to that? I haven’t compared them recently.

If performance were equal, I’d strongly consider going back to GH Copilot just because I don’t love my main IDE being a fork. I occasionally encounter IDE-level bugs in Cursor that are unrelated to the AI features. Perhaps they’re in the upstream as well, but I always wonder if a. there will be a delay in merging fixes or b. whether the fork is introducing new bugs. Just an inherent tradeoff I guess of forking a complex codebase.
by gs17 | 2025-09-03 21:25:24+00:00
> I can't get anyone in an interview to answer this. I never get sftp,scp,rsync,email,usb,nas or s3 buckets/gsutil. Nothing. Nope.

They literally don't respond at all? To be fair, I'd presume it's some sort of trick question, but a few follow-up questions (how big is the file? are there any security/privacy/etc rules involved? is there something else unusual about the computers (and are they local "machines", cloud VMs, etc)?) would resolve that quickly. Here I am practicing brainteasers and leetcode and I could get ahead by knowing you can send a file in an email.
by Rakshith | 2025-09-03 21:26:07+00:00
As they should, the islamic brotherhood are terrorists or soft terrorists funding terrorists. Twitter used o bloack terrorists but then started letting them on to propagate propaganda and literally use the platform to mobilize their troops all over the world, the islamic invasion, as the world sees it today. It has been in the works for decades while we got busy with our own 1st world issues like feminism and homosexuality. Those people will kill these fanatics but uses them to weaken their target.
by Blackarea | 2025-09-03 21:27:29+00:00
It's really a joyful language. Kind off rusty minus the borrow-checker and the mutability. In it's core it's just pattern-matching and functions/closures as first class citizens. The ecosystem is young and you have to search a bit to find the right tools for the job or the gleam way to do things. I tried it because you can use the same language for Front- and Backend it's biggest Frontend lib called "Lustre" is hyped to be the Elm successor. Anyways gleaming away for 2-3 weeks now and it's the best DX that I ever had - no Beam experience upfront btw.
by bondarchuk | 2025-09-03 21:27:48+00:00
Imagine the context window contains A-B-C, C turns out a dead end and we want to backtrack to B and try another branch. Then the LLM could produce outputs such that the context window would become A-B-C-[backtrack-back-to-B-and-don't-do-C] which after some more tokens could become A-B-C-[backtrack-back-to-B-and-don't-do-C]-D. This would essentially be backtracking and I don't see why it would be inherently impossible for LLMs as long as the different branches fit in context.
by jibal | 2025-09-03 21:28:03+00:00
You're making a number of unsupported assertions. There's a massive amount of literature in support of physicalism. And it's a far cry from "there's no proof of x" to "x is invalid". No metaphysical stance can be proved.

> Same with physicalism: most arguments in its favor limit their method to looking at the physical, so in practice say nothing about whether this is all there is.

This is simply wrong ... there are very strong arguments that, when we're looking at mental events, we are looking at the physical. To say that arguments for physicalism are limited to looking at the physical is a circular argument that presupposes that physicalism is wrong. The arguments for physicalism absolutely are not based at looking at a limited set of things, they are logical arguments that there's no way to escape being physical ... certainly Descartes' dualism is long dead due to the interaction problem -- mental states must be physical in order to be acted upon or act upon the physical. The alternatives are ad hoc nonsense like Chalmers' "bridging laws" that posit that there's a mental world that is kept in tight sync with the physical world by these "bridging laws" that have no description or explanation or reason to believe exist.
by arielcostas | 2025-09-03 21:29:06+00:00
It isn't too useful nowadays, is it? With most websites' certificates being from Let's Encrypt or similar CAs automated via ACME and up to 90-day certs; and this getting reduced in the future to only 47 days. Every month you'd need to accept any website's new certificate.

Also, does HSTS have something to do with the authority? AFAIK it only forces the browser to use HTTPS and never plain HTTP for that domain, but if you switch from a legit Let's Encrypt to a legit ZeroSSL cert, HSTS won't care about it; only the browser if you have a not-trusted certificate from another CA (or self-signed).
by gabelschlager | 2025-09-03 21:29:16+00:00
I think the endgame is a shift toward a platform of services that tightly bind users to a single LLM provider.

Right now, many small startups are essentially just thin wrappers around ChatGPT. Once it becomes clear which ideas and solutions gain real traction, providers like OpenAI/Anthropic can simply roll out those features natively removing any need for a third party.

In a sense, a lot of what happened with the mobile market. For example, there's no need for a QR scanner or document scanner app anymore, if your phone starts to offer it natively.
by chermi | 2025-09-03 21:29:20+00:00
You're really not saying anything? Just a random remark with no bearing?

Seth Lloyd, Wolpert, Landauer, Bennet, Fredkin, Feynman, Sejnowski, Hopfield, Zechinna, parisi,mezard, and zdebvora, Crutchfeld, Preskill, Deutsch, Manin, Szilard, MacKay....

I wish someone told them to shut up about computing. And I wouldn't dare claim von Neumann as merely a physicist, but that's where he was coming from. Oh and as much as I dislike him, Wolfram.
by xoa | 2025-09-03 21:30:10+00:00
It does sometimes feel like lack of secure chain DNS, however exactly implemented, is one of the original sins of the modern internet that has caused a lot of headaches and layers upon layers of bandaids ever since. Doesn't mean it'll ever be solved of course, the legacy support issue at this point is pretty brutal. But DNS has already effectively ended up as the root of trust for a lot of auth anyway, if an attacker somehow gets access to someone's registrar account they can from there trivially bootstrap. Rather than so many root CAs that can also issue certs for any domain, seems like it'd be pretty nice if we could just depend on DNS and then have an "authorizedCA" record or whatever and stick any public certs(s) in their the domain owner desired. Could be a 3rd party, could be their own CA, but the only CAs that could issue a cert for that domain would be the one's the domain owner wanted which is how it's supposed to be anyway right?

Ah well.
by IshKebab | 2025-09-03 21:30:21+00:00
Yeah it hooks into some blocking event that gets called on every keypress. At least that's how it worked last time I tried it many years ago. Very sluggish.

Fortunately standard editing shortcuts like Ctrl-D, Ctrl-left/right, etc. replace 99% of Vim "magic" and are way easier to remember and use.
by bobbiechen | 2025-09-03 21:30:42+00:00
I wrote about this idea here: https://digitalseams.com/blog/the-ai-lifestyle-subsidy-is-go...

Quick summary, I believe consumer AI experiences will feature ads because the profit opportunity is too large and company valuations depend on it. The hiring of Fidji Simo (ads at Facebook) at OpenAI + and just this week, Vijaye Raji/Statsig also point that way.
by dvdkon | 2025-09-03 21:31:27+00:00
Personally I've settled on OSMAnd, due to its extra features (e.g. hillshading and map configurable hiking trail display) and better (IMO) map styles. The Topo style is one of my favourite styles for hiking.

It has two downsides not mentioned in the article: OSMAnd's maps are noticeably larger, and the renderer is much slower.
by cnst | 2025-09-03 21:31:30+00:00
Your argument against Google's monopoly would make a lot of sense if it was impossible to uninstall Chrome from Android; but that's not the case; to the contrary, it's Apple's Safari that's impossible to uninstall from Apple's iOS.

Your argument against Google's monopoly would make a lot of sense if it was impossible to install Apple's Safari on Google's Android because of Google, but that's not the case, either, it's actually Apple that has discontinued Safari outside of their own ecosystem some 10+ years ago. Which, BTW, was a few years after Steve Jobs predicted that Safari will be the only browser on the planet, on both Macs and PCs, and that it'd be good.

Your argument against Google's monopoly would make a lot of sense if it was impossible to use Google's Android without a Google Account tracking your every move; but this is not the case, either, because you can easily sideload F-Droid and Aurora Store, and side-load any of the free Play Store apps as published and signed by Google, without any Google accounts, and uninstall Chrome, YouTube and most of the other pesky apps, yet still have access to your banking apps, to YouTube through free clients like NewPipe or PipePipe, and to lots of other stuff, all without any signs of any Google Accounts. Can you even install a third-party YouTube client on iOS? Ironically, you can on Android. In fact, you don't even lose any major functionality by foregoing Chrome and a Google Account on an Android; even the experience of watching YouTube is actually superior with PipePipe. I have several extra phones without a Google Account, and they're fully usable without any unexpected limitations; sync is the only thing that's missing.

Yet to the contrary, NONE of these things are possible on iOS.

On iOS, you can't even use even the "premium" pre-installed apps like Pages, Numbers, Keynote, GarageBand or iMovie, without assigning them to an Apple Account first. You can't install any apps or stores, either. You can't do anything without at least an Apple Account. Yet it's Apple that's the last bastion of our privacy?! How?!
by HankStallone | 2025-09-03 21:31:36+00:00
I suppose some people might freeze because it's so vague and they're wondering what you're getting at. Personally, I'd say, "Well, in most cases I use rsync or scp, but it depends on the situation."

Then I'd tell the story about how one time in the mid-90s I needed to transfer a huge (probably 100MB at the time) file between a Unix system and a Windows system in our office. After FTP, Samba, and a couple other methods ran painfully slow for unknown reasons, I discovered that a DCC in IRC flew at top speed.

But I'm not desperate for a job and trying not to say the wrong thing.
by johnisgood | 2025-09-03 21:31:59+00:00
So there is me, jibal, who else is a troll according to you? And who is the one trying to restrict knowledge just because of trolls? I saw the questions on GitHub. They make sense and I am sure people would like to hear the answer. I know I do. Perhaps the PR guy does, too, Lord knows. I think it is unfair to everyone just because of your allegations, and kind of confirms the things that have been said, but the scope extends. Unfortunately.
by John23832 | 2025-09-03 21:32:32+00:00
> Wireguard doesn't give you exit nodes, it's just the encrypted L3 stack.

That's why I said tailscale lol. But I understand, I guess I said it in a confusing manner.

> If it's tailscale itself then they use mullvad nodes as exit nodes which I welcome very much.

You can also set on of your devices as an exit node for your Tailscale network. Kind of cool.
by ryandrake | 2025-09-03 21:32:36+00:00
All of these questions get answered over and over and over, with good answers, often backed by decades of medical research, delivered by everyone from the Surgeon General to contagious disease experts, all the way down to individual people's family doctors. If the evidence and research is not getting to people, it's because they are deliberately blocking it out. You can't bop people on the head and force them to get educated. And you can't "meet these people where they are" because where they are is a fortress that is specifically built to repel knowledge and expertise.

And, of course, when you point that out, it's attacked as condescending and derision. I, too, live in a community surrounded by these people. There is no reaching them, sadly.
by genericspammer | 2025-09-03 21:32:51+00:00
I would say a lot would need to be added. Given the same input, the tetris game will respond exactly the same each time. There is no awareness, learning, no decisions made, but purely a 100% predictible process.

The Oxford Living Dictionary defines consciousness as "[t]he state of being aware of and responsive to one's surroundings", "[a] person's awareness or perception of something", and "[t]he fact of awareness by the mind of itself and the world".
by Al-Khwarizmi | 2025-09-03 21:33:03+00:00
I believe you're falling into a purely linguistic trap. In other languages we wouldn't even use the word "like" in this kind of constructions, that's an English thing because other wordings sound awkward, but I don't think it entails comparison.

In translations to Spanish, the article is titled "¿Qué se siente ser un murciélago?", literal word by word translation "What is felt being a bat?"

In French, "Quel effet cela fait-il d'être une chauve-souris?", literal word by word translation "What effect it makes to be a bat?"

In Chinese, "成为一只蝙蝠可能是什么样子", i.e., "To become a bat could be what feeling/sensation?"

None of these translations has a comparative word. And at least in Spanish (I won't speak about the other two because I'm not so proficient in them), using a comparative expression similar to "being like" in English ("¿A qué se parece ser un murciélago?") would sound awkward and not really convey the point. Which is why the translators didn't do so.

Of course I know that the original article is in English, but I think the author basically meant "What is felt being a bat?" and just used the "like" construction because it's what you say in English for that to sound good and clear. Your highlighted text could be rendered as "An organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that is felt being that organism – something that is felt by the organism." and it would be more precise, just doesn't sound elegant in English.
by throwway120385 | 2025-09-03 21:34:01+00:00
It's funny that Ramsay has become this stand-in for someone who blows up professionally. If you watch older shows of his, even the British Kitchen Nightmares, he comes off as generally nice to people who try and who care about things. The only people you see him blow up at are people who are incompetent and who don't care. And a lot of the time when he's yelling he's egging people on to succeed and not trying to tear them down. It's in the US Kitchen Nightmares where I really see him explode because the restaurants they're putting him in aren't even well meaning anymore.