MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TacticalCoder | 2025-09-02 20:15:41+00:00
> Nah, there's no increase in disorder, crime in most developed countries is trending down,

I don't know in which world you're living so here are officials, likely downplayed, numbers for the EU, from an official EU website to get you back to earth:

"In 2023, sexual violence offences, including rape, continued to rise in the EU."

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

Rape numbers are through the roof in France (nearly 40 000 a year now): they went x6 in 20 years.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1072770/number-of-rapes-...

"The number of violent crimes in Germany increased in 2024 with a sharp increase in rapes and sexual assaults.":

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-sees-rise-in-sexual-violence-a...

Thefts and violent thefts are on the rise all across the EU. When I was young I didn't hear about being stabbed to death so that their Rolex could be stolen.

In the city were I grew up in now people firing full-auto AK-47 is a weekly occurrence.

Someone who walks into a major EU city and tells me its safer than it was 20 years is very blind.

Meanwhile the risk of my daughter getting raped is very real. And the fault is as much on the rapists as on the ones who try to refute irrefutable numbers.
by jfagnani | 2025-09-02 20:15:53+00:00
There is a spec issue open for HTML Modules [1] along with a few proposals. The concept needs some motivated champions to see it through. Microsoft has shown some interested in this lately.

There are userland single-file component projects, like my Heximal[2] project. Though Hexiaml specifically doesn't tackle the module format - it requires some kind of HTML Module polyfill.

I don't think the current situation is so bad though. The container format should mostly be irrelevant to consumers of a component. You need to import the component defintion whether that definition is in a .js file or .html file. Once you import it you use it the same.

There should be very few cases where the file format matters. Maybe for use when JS is turned off if HTML-based web components are considered safe to evaluate (their templates might expressive enough to potentially allow attacks).

[1]: https://github.com/WICG/webcomponents/issues/645

[2]: https://heximal.dev/ (Sorry the site is messed up on mobile. I need to fix it!)
by randycupertino | 2025-09-02 20:15:59+00:00
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by lisper | 2025-09-02 20:15:59+00:00
Yes, of course that is true. When I said that QC is "just an engineering problem" I did not mean to imply that it was straightforward. It's not. It's a Really Really Hard engineering problem with a lot of unknowns. It might turn out to be like fusion, perpetually 10-20 years away. Or it might turn out to be like the blue LED, seemingly impossible until someone figured out how to do it. I think you'd be foolish to bet your life savings on it either way.
by yabones | 2025-09-02 20:16:07+00:00
> So: the matrix.org database secondary lost its FS due to a RAID failure earlier today (11:17 UTC). Then, we lost the primary at 17:26. We're trying to restore the primary DB FS (which could be fastish), while also doing a point-in-time backup restore from last night (which takes >10h). We believe the incremental DB traffic since last night is intact however. Apologies for the downtime; folks on their own homeserver are of course not impacted.

The stuff of absolute nightmares...

https://mastodon.matrix.org/@matrix/115136245785561439
by lelanthran | 2025-09-02 20:16:12+00:00
> Hits home as we’ve not filled a role for over six months.

Sounds like a you problem, TBH. To be even more honest if, after six months, you haven't yet realised what the problem is, your company has deep self-awareness issues.

It's quite simple: if the candidate you want is not applying for your open position, then that's on you; increase the comp, the benefits, the work environment, anything, until the candidate you want sends you a CV.

You're bidding on an open market for talent. I find it hard to believe that the talent you want does not exist.
by dlubarov | 2025-09-02 20:16:14+00:00
Ukraine goes out of its way to evacuate civilians, who can flee to safer parts of their vast country, or to other countries which have collectively accepted something like 7 million Ukrainian refugees.

Gazans have none of that - they’re trapped in a tiny territory, no states are taking significant numbers of Gazan refugees, and Hamas isn’t doing anything for civilian safety.

Any differences in Israeli vs Russian military tactics are rather secondary to these fundamental differences in civilian exposure.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-02 20:16:22+00:00
I think beeper does have folders right?

Also the fact is that I don't need AI included into this software.

Its nice that it never touches your server but beeper is also moving forward in that direction and beeper is also open source and uses the matrix protocol so you can actually be free to use any matrix clients.

What about yours? As someone who uses beeper for talking with insta chats with my friends, I have no regrets picking beeper.
by robocat | 2025-09-02 20:16:27+00:00
The meaning of the labels is pretty unclear to many people outside the US.

Boomer is often disparaging and used to mean anyone over middle-aged (and usually encompassing the silent generation too).

As a GenX New Zealander, it's a pain trying to learn what age range the labels apply to.

The cutoff dates are annoying to learn, and pigeon hole people (poorly if you're at end of a range).

I really hate the labels.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-09-02 20:17:00+00:00
Worth looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_emergencies_i... too.

While Biden had 9 emergency declarations, worth noting that every single one (one arguably) was targetted at very bad actors engaged in creating international strife & suffering. Ditto for Obama, +1 on bird flu.
by PieTime | 2025-09-02 20:17:05+00:00
I’ve asked myself why my grandparents did not try to overthrow their Nazi regime. They were not the most immoral people on the surface, they just viewed their actions happening as the only way of survival. I think the answer lies in seeing what really happening instead of what’s portrayed as happening on their propaganda outlets. Articles like this start to transition people away from supporting fascism if they are believed.
by m101 | 2025-09-02 20:17:26+00:00
This round started at $5bn target and it ends at $13bn. When this sort of thing happens it's normally because the company wants to 1) hit the "hot" market, and 2) has uncertainty about their ability to raise revenues at higher valuations in the future.

Whatever it is, the signal it's sending of Anthropic insiders is negative for AI investors.

Other comments having read a few hundred comments here:

- there is so much confusion, uncertainty, and fanciful thinking that it reminds me of the other bubbles that existed when people had to stretch their imaginations to justify valuations

- there is increasing spend on training models, and decreasing improvements in new models. This does not bode well

- wealth is an extremely difficult thing to define. It's defined vaguely through things like cooperation and trade. Ultimately these llms actually do need to create "wealth" to justify the massive investments made. If they don't do this fast this house of cards is going to fall, fast.

- having worked in finance and spoken to finance types for a long time: they are not geniuses. They are far from it. Most people went into finance because of an interest in money. Just because these people have $13bn of other people's money at their disposal doesn't mean they are any smarter than people orders of magnitude poorer. Don't assume they know what they are doing.
by mattmaroon | 2025-09-02 20:17:34+00:00
Google, Apple, and various, other open and closed sourced alternatives exist for nearly everything in Office. Many of them have been under development for decades by companies that are similar in magnitude to Microsoft.

Lack of competition is definitely a problem in the pricing of some things, but I don’t think this is one of them, people just prefer what Microsoft offers and are willing to pay for it.
by mrandish | 2025-09-02 20:18:00+00:00
> You just can't find enough A players to build an entire [large] company of them

The corollary to this is that too many real super star players can hurt a large company, especially if they're too close to each other. They need to be spaced out and inserted into the right places at the key moments when there are critical challenges they are uniquely suited to solve. Super heroes generally make lousy mayors.

Super heroes are able to conquer insurmountable Cthulu-grade existential threats. But that often involves doing things you wouldn't normally do and can cause collateral damage. Fortunately, such threats are fairly rare. Of course, many people who use the term "A players" are really just referring to "good people" not true super stars.

A wise F500 CEO once told me there were only about 20 such super stars in his >10,000 person organization but he shared it more with a tone of "thank goodness there's only about 20 of them" because identifying them and getting them onto the right problems was a constant challenge. He didn't think the organization needed more of them, it just needed to better manage and direct the energies of ones it had - and by direct, he meant "direct it outward" on a massive, high-value problem - not inward laying waste to the day-to-day structures that keep the org running.
by Eduard | 2025-09-02 20:18:11+00:00
one more patch/pull request:

1. buy your second game (130 DEM in 1995 / 109 EUR inflation-adjusted for 2025 / all the money you saved for weeks age-adjusted) for your new Sega Saturn.

2. notice it doesn't load on your console

3. be told that you have to send everything in to have it repaired (in retrospect find out that Saturns often had faulty CD drives)

4. wait three weeks (an eternity age-adjusted for a 12 year-old) until you get your console returned

5. finally play
by bjoli | 2025-09-02 20:18:19+00:00
I never said that, and you are welcome to explain why you think i did.

Coincidentally, regarding that: I think that argument fails . Israel and Palestine are not comparable. Israel is the oppressor. The Goliath. Israel is, just like apartheid south Africa was, a settler colonial project. Considering the amount of time Israel has spent thwarting democratic process in Palestine, resistance movements are not very surprising. Heck, even Hamas was helped from the start by Israel as a means to split the struggle for Palestinian independence. The divide has been very practical for Israel indeed: every time discussions have come up, the official response has been "who should we even negotiate with?".

Support from Hamas has only grown because Fatah has been looked upon as weak because of their many concessions towards Israel that never went anywhere (Fatah being corrupt and incompetent has also played a role, of course)

A large chunk of the world officially boycotted SA apartheid. Sadly our governments do not take their responsibility today, which means people take it into their own hands. That makes for an arbitrary and very uneven form of mob justice.
by nickpsecurity | 2025-09-02 20:18:21+00:00
Upvoting to encourage discussion of these differentiators:

"Apertus is a 70B and 8B parameter language model designed to push the boundaries of fully-open multilingual and transparent models. The model supports over 1000 languages and long context, it uses only fully compliant and open training data, and achieves comparable performance to models trained behind closed doors."

"pretrained on 15T tokens with a staged curriculum of web, code and math data"

"open weights + open data + full training details including all data and training recipes"

"Apertus is trained while respecting opt-out consent of data owners (even retrospectivey), and avoiding memorization of training data"
by mattnewton | 2025-09-02 20:18:21+00:00
This article frames a false choice of either designing a system that allows government access to everything you do digitally (which is now almost everything), or having the government design such a system.

In reality the choice is between such a totalitarian surveillance state without the possibility of digital security guarantees, or one where police can’t read your digital mind but can do good old fashioned police work.
by reikonomusha | 2025-09-02 20:18:30+00:00
I think this article over-sells (to a point of being misleading) the amount of static type checking offered in Common Lisp even by a relatively good implementation like SBCL.

SBCL's static type checking provides in practice virtually zero guarantees about whether compiling your code actually implies the inexistence of type errors. In that regard, I like to consider SBCL's static type errors to be a mere courtesy [1].

Typically, the static type errors TFA demonstrates are nullified as soon as anything is abstracted away into a function. To show a trivial example:

(+ 2 "2")

may error statically because the Common Lisp implementation has special rules and knowledge about the + function, but

(defun id (x) x) (+ 2 (id "2"))

will not. Furthermore, Common Lisp has no way to label the type of the function ID to constrain its input type to be the same as its output type that works for all possible types. That is, there's nothing like the Haskell declaration

id :: a -> a id x = x

or the C++

template <typename A> A id(A x) { return x; }

In Common Lisp, the closest you can get is either to declare ID to be monomorphic (i.e., just select a single type it can work with), as in

(declaim (ftype (function (string) string) id))

or to say that ID can take anything as input and produce anything (possibly different from the input) as output, as in

(declaim (ftype (function (t) t) id))

Here, T is not a type variable, but instead the name of the "top" type, the supertype of all types.

[1] SBCL and CMUCL aren't totally random in what static type checking they perform, and the programmer can absolutely make profitable use of this checking, but you have to be quite knowledgeable of the implementation to know what exactly you can rely on.
by Avshalom | 2025-09-02 20:19:06+00:00
if you're referring to https://youtu.be/GcqQ1ebBqkc?t=1027 he doesn't actually say that each model has been profitable.

He says "You paid $100 million and then it made $200 million of revenue. There's some cost to inference with the model, but let's just assume in this cartoonish cartoon example that even if you add those two up, you're kind of in a good state. So, if every model was a company, the model is actually, in this example is actually profitable. What's going on is that at the same time"

notice those are hypothetical numbers and he just asks you to assume that inference is (sufficiently) profitable.

He doesn't actually say they made money by the EoL of some model.
by jfagnani | 2025-09-02 20:19:37+00:00
No. I would use <script type="-json">

<script> parses its contents as text, whereas <template> parses as DOM. This means you don't have to escape `<`, just `</script>`.

Myself and some browser engineers been working on proposals to allow for inline modules, including JSON, that are importable into other modules via regular import statements.

This is why I recommend the "-json" type - so it doesn't collide with a future native "json" type.
by mrinterweb | 2025-09-02 20:20:05+00:00
"Conspiracy to Impede or Injure Officers" seems like a pretty broad category, and should be separate things. Conspiracy to impede is one thing. That might be applied to planning to be at a protest where you may be in the way of an officer. Injuring is a very different thing. Conflating the two into a single charge seems disproportionate. This conflation seems intentional to give an excuse to just round up anyone who plans to be at a protest, and charge them with a crime that has a punishment equal to assaulting an officer.
by throwaway31131 | 2025-09-02 20:20:07+00:00
Junior engineers are getting hired but there are definitely fewer positions available. It’s scary for sure but it’s also a normal part of the boom & bust cycle that is inherent to the tech industry.

If anything, AI investment is propping us up as some money is still getting invested even though money is expensive at the moment.

In 2002 friends of mine that graduated top 10 at UC Berkeley were struggling to get interviews, never mind jobs. That was the worst dry spell I’ve seen in my career. But they stayed busy and were under employed for a bit and eventually got thier first jobs. One even got picked up by a growing startup named Google.

I think most industries are like this. In hardware engineering we definitely get clobbered roughly once a decade for one reason or another.
by nomel | 2025-09-02 20:20:20+00:00
> need to search for health from a medical professional.

In all of the cases (that I'm aware of), these people were already diagnosed, and the family was aware of their mental illnesses. The awareness and agency you're asking for, from the mentally ill individual, would probably preclude their condition.

If someone is mentally ill, sometimes the only practical protection is to deem them unfit for access by the caregivers or the government (as we do with guns).

The alternative is to assume everyone is unfit, which has its own practical and ethical problems.
by FredPret | 2025-09-02 20:20:22+00:00
> The idea that climate issues necessitate this kind of divorce from the outdoors would be a strange concept indeed to people in Barcelona and Helsinki alike.

Try going for a walk outside in downtown Toronto on both the hottest and coldest days.

If you're not in good health and appropriately dressed, you could suffer heatstroke on the hot day and simply die on the cold day.

> the poors (because who else lives downtown anyway?

You should talk about what you know instead of trying to come up with ways to hate something more than you already do.
by kiitos | 2025-09-02 20:20:26+00:00
i mean in the most abstract sense then yes? but this isn't how rust works in practice. if i try to print(filename) and the program won't compile because filename is `esoteric_string_type&' a` and print expects `abstract trait type SpecificPrintable` or whatever then no this is not a preferable outcome vs. allowing the program to compile and print something that works -- at least in the general case

i mean you can create a file with name `0x01 0x04 0xff 0x0a` but it's not like e.g. `ls` handles this stupidity
by Dig1t | 2025-09-02 20:20:36+00:00
Nuclear energy is the obvious solution to climate change. We have enough fuel to power all of humanity for thousands of years. The waste is not a problem due to recycling and new reactor designs. It was never really a problem in the first place anyway, since it’s very compact and easily stored underground.

However, the left has had complete control of much of US politics for a long time, yet there was never a real effort or even realistic conversation from that side about actually solving the problem of climate change with the obvious solution.

The left has lost all credibility on the topic honestly and this is the result. It was easier to use the end-of-the-world doom narrative as a political tool instead of actually solving the problem.

We were reliably told by all these experts that Los Angeles would be underwater by now. I think a lot of normal people have started to tune out this conversation for the most part.
by malcolmgreaves | 2025-09-02 20:20:52+00:00
The facts start at the beginning: - the actual US attorney for the area was pressured to resign from Republicans (Trump) - Republicans put in a guy with 0 legal experience who was previously working for a political group. Said guy also wanted the US government overthrown on January 6th as he supports the insurrectionists. This is also the guy who supports the Republican's attempt to illegally erase the 14th amendment. - The person who was arrested and charged was merely exercising his first amendment rights to peacefully assemble and protest. He did nothing violent nor criminal.
by wtbdbrrr | 2025-09-02 20:21:03+00:00
your doctor can have a bad day. and or be an asshole.

In 40 years, only one of my doctors had the decency to correct his mistake after I pointed it out.

He prescribed the wrong Antibiotics, which I only knew because I did something dumb and wondered if the prescribed antibiotics cover a specific strain, which they didn't, which I knew because I asked an LLM and then superficially double-checked via trustworthy official, government sources.

He then prescribed the correct antibiotics. In all other cases where I pointed out a mistake, back in the day researched without LLMs, doctors justified their logic, sometimes siding with a colleague or "the team" before evaluating the facts themselves, instead of having an independent opinion, which, AFAIK, especially in a field like medicine, is _absolutely_ imperative.
by denysvitali | 2025-09-02 20:21:51+00:00
Report: https://github.com/swiss-ai/apertus-tech-report/raw/refs/hea...

Key features

Fully open model: open weights + open data + full training details including all data and training recipes

Massively Multilingual: 1811 natively supported languages

Compliant: Apertus is trained while respecting opt-out consent of data owners (even retrospectivey), and avoiding memorization of training data
by emaro | 2025-09-02 20:22:06+00:00
Cool, I like to see more innovation in this space.

You obviously have different needs than what Beeper provides, but claiming it's better when you only support a fraction of the networks is a bit steep imo.

Curious what other networks you plan to support and what are your monetization plans?

I really like the addition of folders and CRM features compared to Beeper.

The networks I'm interested in are Telegram (you already got that), Signal, Instagram, Matrix, Threema, Slack and Teams (in that order).
by TZubiri | 2025-09-02 20:22:24+00:00
>most people who actually needed to do lots of io concurrently had their own workarounds (forking, etc) and people who didn't actually need it had found out how to get by without it (multiprocessing etc).

The problem is not python, it's a skill issue.

First of all forking is not a workaround, it's the way multiprocessing works at the low level in Unix systems.

Second of all, forking is multiprocessing, not multithreading.

Third of all, there's the standard threading library which just works well. There's no issue here, you don't need async.