MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nonameiguess | 2025-09-19 19:34:50+00:00
This is honestly a great point, but it does get obscured a bit because it comes off as hackers being cranky that they have to answer to a business in order to get paid. There is an analogy in government tech where my wife works. They have a role called "systems engineer," but it isn't what that normally means in software. It's supposed to be a person with intricate domain knowledge of multiple components of interacting defense and intelligence systems, something like understanding at least a bit of the software used to task satellites, perform ground processing of images, some knowledge of the satellites themselves, the crypto hardware at the ground stations. Think of being a member of the IETF or something where you're supposed to have some idea of how the entire Internet works, not just how to write software.

But somewhere along the way it became just a job title and they somehow manage to hire people fresh out of college to do this thing, which makes no sense and leaves them totally out of their depth, but forces them to do something to attempt to demonstrate to higher management there's a point to keeping them there so they can still have jobs. I don't blame the people in these positions at all. It's the blind leadership that has no understanding of what the role is supposed to be, that realistically you can't just put out a job req for this, it has to be someone who has actually worked already as part of these projects.

At least I think this is what you're saying, that ideally product managers should be people who were engineers at some point and understands how the product they're managing works, as well as the customer needs, not because they majored in business but because they've actually worked with that customer and have some experience meeting those needs.
by xyzelement | 2025-09-19 19:34:55+00:00
I love my liberal principles but this is totally expected.

Ideally we live in a world where Kimmel isn't canceled but neither is someone like Roseanne Barr. But that world hasn't existed for a while.

In a prisoners dilemma both sides win by cooperation. Once a side "defects" - the other side is a sucker not to. The ship on lamenting this stuff has sailed.
by bobthepanda | 2025-09-19 19:35:14+00:00
Most cathedrals and monuments are like that because until recently in human history, they took a long time to build and so the original architect would die, the financing might collapse, etc. Heck, this happened to Gaudi; the remarkable thing here is that the people after Gaudi wanted to continue his vision as much as they could.

The Washington Monument in DC, for example, famously is different colors because they had to change the source of marble during construction when funding halted for a time.
by torginus | 2025-09-19 19:35:26+00:00
I calculated the cost of the pack from the data at $140 for 1kWh. I guess I shouldn't have included the kWh in the divisor but

(10000x3.7V2710Ah$0.014) <- total cost of the pack

/

10 <- normalize to 1kWh

=

$140
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-09-19 19:35:27+00:00
There's supposed to be checks & balances, of Congress, the courts, and the President keeping one another in check.

But the GOP holds all three. Even the court system has fallen apart, with the Supreme Court using shadow dockets with no explanation, not establishing any precedent, just overriding lower courts to rule by fiat as they please. The GOP congress is utterly maga whipped, with only very rare signs of protest; deathly afraid of provoking Trump's ire.

Even still there's constant legal losses for the administration. But the shock and awe, the endless acting bad, in bad faith, doing bad things, and disrespecting the constitution, the liberties, the democracy: it's very grinding and very hard to see such pure malice against our history and rights and decency performed so ruthlessly so regularly.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-09-19 19:35:31+00:00
Patents do exist on popular IP cores, but in general standards compliant Verilog libraries are just vendor specific IP products. Thus, the copyright, NDA, and license agreements already keep the IP fairly locked down. For example, figuring out dram timing and DDR bus control yourself is nontrivial.

Some groups have attempted open IP cores, and made some progress:

https://opencores.org/

However, the effort involved in getting standards compliant ASIC built puts folks in a Fabless manufacturing sector. Most firms that survive, will choose to stay with a generic FPGA option to avoid custom silicon unless absolutely necessary.

Patents are often useless/vague in many places, but on occasion may prevent platform decay for a few years. One can be sure a unique/new design will not go to fab unless such protection is in place. =3
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-09-19 19:35:32+00:00
>I don't think that's accurate

It is accurate. There are many declassified documents from the time that discuss Israeli vs. Arab military capabilities. They come to the conclusion that the Israelis enjoyed massive superiority. Here's one [0]:

“The judgment of the intelligence community is that Israeli ground forces 'can maintain internal security, defend successfully against simultaneous Arab attacks on all fronts, launch limited attacks simultaneously on all fronts, or hold on any three fronts while mounting successfully a major offensive on the fourth.'”

Here's another [1]:

“They would try to destroy the Egyptian airforce first and thus gain ability for a tank strike to take Sinai and the Straits. Secretary McNamara said the Israelis think they can win in 3–4 days; but he thinks it would be longer—7 to 10 days.”

> What do you mean? There was no Israeli attack on Egypt at that time.

I mistyped. Israel attacked Jordan in November 1966.

> Israel's justification was the naval blockade and Egypt's apparent preparations for an invasion, nothing else.

Israel actually cycled through a number of different justifications. Their initial justification was just a pure lie: they claimed that Egypt had attacked first.

0. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v19...

1. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v19...
by schoen | 2025-09-19 19:35:32+00:00
Do you have data, or a theory, about why they would produce more statistically valid estimates of people's romantic compatibility than prior algorithmic matching methods?

I agree that they do better on explainability issues in the sense that people could read the transcripts and say "oh yeah, I would/wouldn't have liked/enjoyed that", which they can't do if the OKCupid algorithm says they're a 92% match with someone or something. But how do we know that chatbots can be made a realistic enough simulation of a person to give relevant (indeed, more relevant) guesses about romantic potential compared to older matching methods?

Remember that existing LLMs have a whole lot of training that's not based on specific individuals at all, so to start with you have some component of "to what extent do chatbots that are told to simulate a conversation in a date end up acting like they liked other conversation partners?" with potentially a smaller component of distinctiveness of an individual.

(Another issue is that chatbots wouldn't know private or personal information that hadn't been revealed in training data but that might conceivably come up, if relevant, during a real date!)
by Aerbil313 | 2025-09-19 19:35:39+00:00
You have replied:

> And do you think we defeated the nazis by leaving their food intact?

to the parent comment saying:

> 28% of children under five are actively malnourished.

> IPC Phase 5 famine is officially confirmed in Gaza. 100% of the population is facing crisis level food insecurity.

Can you clarify what you mean? I don't think you somehow believe genocide is necessary or something like that.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-09-19 19:35:46+00:00
> Then they should have chosen a chat server that has that as the business model.

> The decision maker didn't. They chose a product that did not offer that option, then negotiated the $200k down to $5k.

And in doing so Slack added that business model. And seemed happy about it.

> Slack does not offer what they wanted

They offered it to them.

> And now they want sympathy.

They deserve plenty of sympathy for Slack not giving them any reasonable warning as they torpedoed the deal. And it's not like they were draining Slack's resources or doing anything that made this an emergency.
by cryptonector | 2025-09-19 19:35:55+00:00
@pizlonator I wonder if you couldn't bracket all assembly with `filc_exit`/`filc_enter` as you do system calls. When you know the assembly doesn't allocate memory then this should work fine but.. ah, it's the stack allocations that are also interesting, right? So you'd have to ensure that the assembly has enough stack space to execute _and_ that it does not invoke the heap allocator. But that seems doable for things like cryptography in in OpenSSL's libcrypto.
by mensetmanusman | 2025-09-19 19:36:07+00:00
An issue was that the right was being canceled for views not even 5 years ago and the same people complaining about Kimmel are having their exact quotes replayed justifying those types of cancellations.

From a game theoretic standpoint, tit for tat is exactly what’s supposed to happen to stabilize the situation. This has actually been proven by mathematicians that apply decision making theories to social structures.
by ursuscamp | 2025-09-19 19:36:35+00:00
So, I was part of the Nostr community for quite a while and was the author of a popular Nostr extension for Safari, before eventually giving up on Nostr for various reasons.

I haven't read that entire paper. Mainly, I skipped to the section you mention here:

> The event protocol that drives the system doesn't authenticate public keys, so asymmetric signatures are performative: attackers that can intercept messages (Nostr servers, the presumed adversary of an E2EE messaging system) can just swap out keys and re-sign.

I think you and the authors perhaps misunderstand the Nostr protocol. Nostr is, effectively, an identity system tied to a public key. The cryptography is sound. Your identity is your public key. When you request a user's profile, or their events, you request it specifically by their public key. That is unforgeable (assuming no bugs in the implementation, like what the authors found in Damus).

This does present UX issues that can manifest as security issues, such as "how can you verify that a user with a certain public is who they say they are instead of an impostor". That is a separate issue from whether the cryptography itself is sound.
by phkahler | 2025-09-19 19:36:39+00:00
I don't think Republicans characterize it that way. I find myself right leaning, and while I like most of Trumps agenda, I often disagree with his tactics. I increasingly have to fact check stuff like this to see if he crossed a line. The problem is there's too much BS, summarizing, and mischaracterising going on. Direct quotes (sometimes requiring context) are needed to get to the bottom of things. It's exhausting. I will say, right or wrong the left brought this on - it is a response to their bad behavior.
by devsda | 2025-09-19 19:36:50+00:00
I'm just surprised how the responses here(including the original announcement post) at HN of all places are mild and at times indifferent to the fact that we are about to give up control of our devices and make Google the arbitrator of what we can run on them. That ship may have sailed for ios but it hasn't for android yet.

This is the time to ask what we can do about this, how do we stop it. How do we raise awareness among people, among law makers or people whose opinions matter to make Google take notice.

I'm all for alternatives like linux phones but it's not realistic in the timeframe. It will be a sad day if this comes to pass without least bit of resistance.
by DaveZale | 2025-09-19 19:37:00+00:00
Were you around in 1999? Everyone knew stock prices were absurdly high, but why not buy this one, just to say you have it? Like the NFT craze a few years ago?

We're at over a trillion in margin debt in the US stock market now, according to some reports. That's a few thousand $ per capita here, though some of that comes from abroad, some is used for options or complicated shorting strategies or whatever, but like some successful pros point out, black swan moments happen with regularity, though unpredictable, a "not a question of if, but when"
by Jtsummers | 2025-09-19 19:37:12+00:00
> They stopped caring about your feelings, because you didn't care about theirs.

Free speech is not about feelings. It's a principle, one enshrined in the US Constitution. If you don't believe in free speech, just say it. Say you don't want free speech, free assembly, free religion, and the free press. Don't cry about hurt feelings, though. That's what children do.
by vlucas | 2025-09-19 19:37:49+00:00
There is no business that I hate more than TicketMaster.

In 2016, the OKC Thunder were making a playoff run. They just advanced to the finals and tickets were set to "go on sale to the public" at 10am on a certain day. I signed up for an account, got logged in, etc. and kept refreshing the page around 10am that day, card in hand to buy. The second that time elapsed, all tickets were sold out. Yet somehow thousands of tickets were available for "resale" instantly at $100+ more per ticket PLUS a transfer fee. My jaw was on the floor. Absolute and complete bullshit. I knew the gig then. It was obvious they just let all tickets get bought up by resellers/scalpers/bots without a care in the world for the actual fans. They actually make even more money allowing it to be this way due to the extra transfer fees on top of the original sale. I watched the finals on TV instead since I didn't have the money for that earlier in my career. Burn this company to the ground with the heat of a thousand suns.
by mrstone | 2025-09-19 19:38:03+00:00
How many times is Ticketmaster going to be slapped on the wrist before something is actually done? They are clearly corrupt and colluding with scalpers and every 4 years or so the FTC says "hey now don't do that" and Ticketmaster goes back to their old schtick. It's immensely frustrating because they are also a monopoly and no one can feasibly compete with them because they also control the event venues. I guess this is end-stage capitalism though..
by modzu | 2025-09-19 19:38:17+00:00
since the 1970s democratic backsliding is the primary origin story for todays authoritarian regimes. look at turkey, russia, the philippines, venezuela, nicaragua, poland, hungary, india... theres a playbook. you can now add usa to that list. a good counter example is what happened last year in South Korea. the president declares martial law out of nowhere but before he could consolidate power the courts and the people resisted (not easily mind you, he had significant support) but the checks and balances held things together. but in the other examples you can see how when one of those checks fails it essily cascades into a chain reaction that can be hard to stop. that's what you're witnessing in the usa: taking congressional power to the executive, control of the courts, control of the media, using the national guard domestically to control dissent. well you get the idea. it already seems too late. there won't be some red line crossed where people get out their guns to defend their "freedom" if they haven't already noticed how eroded its become. theres still voting -- just like in all those countries above.
by biophysboy | 2025-09-19 19:38:28+00:00
Beyond the obvious state censorship issues here, its worth noting that Kimmel's monologue on Sep 15 appeared before add'l evidence (texts, discord chats) came out about Tyler Robinson's incoherent beliefs. This means that Kimmel's implied accusation (Tyler was MAGA) was a real possibility at the time, rather than willful misinformation.
by mandevil | 2025-09-19 19:38:37+00:00
Oh, the integrated players (now pretty much just Intel and Samsung, but in the past people like AMD as well) have other things they make on these older fabs- modems, OOB managers, USB controllers, all the other chips that go on a motherboard, but these are lower margin than a pure-play fab can get selling to all of those customers who don't need the latest node.

This is one reason Intel and Samsung are both hesitant about going to the next node- Intel has put out official statements that they are only going to 14A if they can get Foundry up with a significant partner, and Samsung is hedging their bets and being cagey about their own 1.4nm node (at least in English, I haven't seen any direct demand for a major foundry customer from Samsung, just statements saying that they were going to be delaying and might not be building it at all).
by yoshuaw | 2025-09-19 19:38:48+00:00
Some anecdata from my kitchen, which has an air quality monitor positioned approx. 4 meters away from the stove:

- Most days when cooking PM2.5 doesn't exceed 5ppm.

- I accidentally burned some vegetable oil this week, and PM2.5 shot up to around 70ppm.

- I fried up pancetta a little too hot a few months ago, rendering the fat entirely, and both PM2.5 and PM10 went up to >999ppm.
by BizarroLand | 2025-09-19 19:38:50+00:00
There are downsides and side-effects to metformin. I started taking it for life-extension and maybe weight loss support, not for diabetes.

A few months in I started getting pain from my buttocks to my calves whenever I sit for more than 15 minutes. I was concerned that this was some new misery life had thrown at me, but when I looked up the symptoms I found that this is an uncommon side effect of metformin for some people.

This sensation greatly decreased after ceasing metformin, but has not completely subsided 2 months later.

I'm fortunate to have a standing desk at work, but the only way to temporarily mitigate this issue is to go for a long walk or otherwise exercise.

I'm not against it. It helps many people with lots of things, just putting this information out for people who might experience the same issue. Hopefully with this new understanding they will come up with alternatives with lesser issues or that work for people with my response to the medicine.
by fiatjaf | 2025-09-19 19:38:56+00:00
Unfortunately this paper doesn't live up to its goal of being a cheap attack on Nostr.

The fact is that clients do verify signatures from events received from servers, that is in the protocol specification and should be obvious to anyone mildly honest.

The entire assumption of the paper is that clients don't do that and it is void. Yes, they did find a couple of clients 2 years ago that didn't verify signatures -- so much for a vulnerability in the protocol. I guess they wanted Nostr to have a code police arresting client developers who didn't finish their implementation?

Aside from that the attacks they demonstrated depend on a bunch of other absurd circumstances (like you have to manually and voluntarily type the URL of the attacker server in order to be attacked) but it's not even worth talking about them since the basic assumption is so completely false already.

The encrypted messages stuff is not even a core part of Nostr anyway, Nostr is a broadcasting protocol for public or semi-public content. Encryption can be added on top and there are multiple ways and proposals for how to do it, including an implementation of MLS and other methods and I personally mostly do not care about any.

I wish the paper authors were more honest and republished their work with the title: "the dangers of trusting a cryptographic signature without verifying it", but I imagine that it would have been too obvious and worthless if it was phrased like that.
by Tangurena2 | 2025-09-19 19:38:59+00:00
Titanium is a fascinating metal. You can't refine it in anything close to the manner you refine every other metal. It oxidizes hundreds of degrees lower than the melting point (and Titanium Oxide is a brilliant white powder that makes paint so much brighter). Likewise, you can't try to melt it in a nitrogen-only environment because that too turns it all into TiN (a hard gold-colored ceramic material used to coat metal). It is one of those very complicated refining processes that give this electrical engineer headaches trying to follow the chemical reactions.

So if you every have one of those thought experiments about traveling back in time and "inventing" steel (or gunpowder or penicillin or overthrowing the Roman Empire) hundreds of years earlier, forget about titanium because commercial scaled production couldn't happen until the 20th Century.

0 - https://www.titaniumprocessingcenter.com/titanium-history-de...
by whalesalad | 2025-09-19 19:39:00+00:00
Jimmy Kimmel being "cancelled" has nothing to do with Jimmy. He is the canary in the coal mine. The real issue is that the federal government is using their power and might to withhold FCC licensing from groups that they do not agree with. The FCC->ABC situation is what is alarming, has nothing to do with Jimmy.

Same shit happened with CBS/Paramount.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07JQr5W3970
by logscope | 2025-09-19 19:39:08+00:00
Socialism works on paper and maybe the first couple of years, but we who are living with it now can clearly see the downsides. I would prefer capitalism over socialism and communism and to be honest I now believe socialism is the road that leads to communism in the end, it just take longer time to get there. If you want to see how we have progressed over time time please watch the debate between Olof Pamle and Thorbjörn Fälldin from 1982 and compare that to any "modern" debate. Same topics, same "solutions".
by John23832 | 2025-09-19 19:39:26+00:00
> Not necessarily. Without profit you're relying solely on intrinsic motivation to ensure good care. I won't deny it's a powerful motivator but how many people are passionate about eldercare? You might get fewer care centers overall.

The above is a bunch of non-sequitur nonsense.

The article is about how senior living facilities do everything they can to reduce cost/liabilities and to maximize profit. Did you actually read it or are you just posting contrary comments?

I responded to the article that under capitalism, of course these firms are going to maximize profits. Even when doing something that most of us would consider a humane responsibility like elder care.

You asked me why do I limit profit seeking in this manner to capitalism, seemingly not knowing that profit is a Capitalistic idea. And then you non sequitur into whether elders are taken care of under all economic systems and what motivates that.

THE POINT BEING MADE is that regardless of what the outcome of the situation is, elders being taken care of, elders not being taken care of, houses being painted red vs blue, etc, it is unsurprising that firms are seeking maximize profit. The question to be ask it is why they would not seek profit, under capitalism.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-09-19 19:39:33+00:00
They stood for free speech; but judging by the downvotes here, the left didn't care about their free speech. If it did, my post above wouldn't be at -4, while the inflammatory answer above is still in the black.

The left instead rationalized it under "free speech is not freedom from consequences", called them Nazis, fascists, bigots, homophobes, misogynists, you'd need a thesaurus. Every slur in the thesaurus, they used. When your opponent plays dirty, actively seeks to get you fired from your job, and your figureheads get killed (Kirk) or nearly killed (Trump), why uphold the rules?

EDIT: > Admit that your position is an unprincipled one and based on feelings rather than thought.

Admit that the right has realized that neither side gives a damn about principles; but the left has no right to claim to be principled after 2020.