MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by drnick1 | 2025-09-14 01:38:58+00:00
I get my IP through work, but another way of obtaining one would be subscribing to a business account with a regular ISP. Normally, this also allows you to set a reverse DNS. You will likely have to pay more for your Internet, but considering that you won't have to pay for any cloud service anymore, you will probably still come out ahead and gain a huge amount of sovereignty over your computing. A VPS could be an option, but many (cheap ones) may have tainted IPs or outright filter the SMTP port.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-09-14 01:39:58+00:00
My first thought was unfortunately whether the UK and other Western nations would copy this to build their own Firewalls. To be honest i still don't think it's a goal anyone is actively working towards and that's a bit of an hyperbolic take. But the truth is that we are moving more towards such a system then we are moving away.

My second thought is how badly Chinese communism must be doing that they need such a massive effort in order to prevent their citizens from accessing information and voicing dissent. We are lucky to be living in such a free society. Internet seems to be losing the battle against government interference and censorship and that is more of a bad thing then a good thing.
by pizlonator | 2025-09-14 01:41:31+00:00
> Geoff's stuff is mostly about heuristics.

That's not true at all.

- The bounds safety part of it prevents those C operations that Fil-C or something like it would dynamically check. You can to use hardened API instead.

- The cast safety part of it prevents C casts except if they're obviously safe.

- The lifetime safety part of it forces you to use WebKit's smart pointers except when you have an overlooking root.

Those are type safety rules. It's disingenuous to call them heuristics.

It is true, however, that Geoff's rules don't go to 100% because:

- There are nasty corners of C that aren't covered by any of those rules.

- WebKit still has <10% ish code that isn't opted into those rules.

- WebKit has JITs.
by Aunche | 2025-09-14 01:41:56+00:00
> I am prepared to accept aspects of social media are bad. Clearly identify why and how and perhaps we can make progress addressing each thing.

Companies intentionally design social media to be as addictive as possible, which should be enough to declare them as bad. Should we also identify each chemical in a vape and address each one individually as well before banning them for children? I think such a ban for social media would probably be overkill, but it should not be controversial to ban phone use in school.
by achileas | 2025-09-14 01:42:03+00:00
Except there weren't really any mass harassment, rape and death threat, and firing campaigns being coordinated against ordinary people for not sufficiently mourning someone. Most of the "cancel culture" stuff was overblown nonsense, the few real events were against massive public figures credibly accused of heinous things like Weinstein.

Pretending this is in any way equivalent betrays either an intense naivete or a supporter of this pre-pogrom behavior.
by freshtake | 2025-09-14 01:42:08+00:00
The problem is that our thoughts, opinions, and ultimately actions are the product of our exposure. Social media gives a small number of companies (and their algorithms) unparalleled and unchecked control over our exposure.

We should be educating children at a young age about the benefits and risks of social media. We haven't adapted the way we educate society in light of massive tech changes.

This will likely be a topic that future humans look back on and wonder why we did this to ourselves.
by 3np | 2025-09-14 01:42:14+00:00
The currently latest stable release of Debian (13.1) ships a broken version of systemd-networkd which may break networking completely for affected users. Maintainer response is less than encouraging: https://bugs.debian.org/1112535

> There was absolutely no need to disturb RT and waste your time, as you have much more important things to take care of, as this is just a minor issue with a particular corner case of a custom config of an optional component. Anybody who is unable to deal with that should just stick to the default Debian components. The next stable update in ~2 months will contain a fix.

"minor issue with a particular corner case of an optional component" my ass.

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If you are currently on Bookworm using systemd-networkd with VLANs and bridges, you may want to hold off on the Trixie upgrade until fixed systemd 257.9 is available.
by MilnerRoute | 2025-09-14 01:44:26+00:00
That article is from Wednesday morning. Reuters had an update Thursday:

"The Cuban Energy and Mining Ministry said on Thursday 80% of the capital, Havana, had power and most of the country's energy grid had been reestablished 24 hours after it crashed, leaving 9.7 million residents in the dark."

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat...
by unearth3d | 2025-09-14 01:45:04+00:00
Because of Musk's alignment with the 'Christian' right which has tight links with the brains trust behind Farage - the European Research Group (with its religion well hidden to outsiders - and invisible to journalists). This is a global Christo-Fascist project, little diff. at this point between the governments of about 20 nations.
by opo | 2025-09-14 01:45:51+00:00
Unfortunately Germany dug itself into a big hole and the choices aren’t that great. (Yes, continue to build more solar and wind. Though that is what has been happening in 2025, and coal use has increased this year due to the variability of renewable sources.) To move away from coal in a more reasonable timeframe, other approaches could also be done. Like I mentioned in a previous comment, I am sure Germany will decarbonize before Poland, but that is kind of a low bar. Some ideas:

- Restart the nuclear power plants that are feasible to restart. The last 3 plants were only shut down in 2023 - it isn't like all the plants were shut down in 2011. It may very well be that Germany doesn’t feel it has the expertise to run nuclear power plants in the long term, so once the power isn’t needed or can be replaced by clean energy (either produced in Germany or imported), feel free to shut down the nuclear plants.

- Work with Denmark and France to import more of their power that is not coal based.

- Reward conservation more.

- Move the big industrial users of electricity out of Germany.

Some of these alternatives are likely not palatable, but like I said, Germany dug itself into a hole. Any of these alternatives sounds better than essentially deciding instead to murder people by burning coal when you have other options.
by pandaman | 2025-09-14 01:45:52+00:00
>The government also files these cases in the first place because of politics, not merit. See my point about theater earlier.

Yeah, a completely different case by a different organization means this case is also political... I don't really know what to say at this point. You seem to be arguing on random tangents without touching the issue of this HN item: companies obfuscating job adverts for the positions involved in PERM. For all I know you might not even know what does "good faith" mean and truly think it's a good faith behavior so you are more interested in discussing random stuff. I am sorry that I am not.
by reliabilityguy | 2025-09-14 01:46:33+00:00
> I've seen your comments elsewhere and you're not arguing in good faith.

What? Why?

What you did with your example is that you took a 60 second snippet from a conversation and use it to prove your point. I am not buying this because taking things out of context does not constitute a proof. An example would be saying that Charlie Kirk thought that empty is invented concept (a lot of people repeat it), while in fact if you watch the full video where he said that, you would know that his position was that sympathy is a better choice of a word. Now, when you learn this you realize that a single quote without a context means nothing.

This is why I am asking you to show me context.

We started this conversation when you mentioned strong opinions on who should live or die. Then, you proceeded with an example of wiping out Palestinians. Then you said that he said it "doesn't and shouldn't exist". To prove your point, you showed a short cut from a much longer discussion. I am willing to engage with you on the merits of the evidence you provide, but I think we should conduct this discussion based on the full video, and not a piece that was cut out for a rage bait articles or tweets.
by salawat | 2025-09-14 01:47:10+00:00
>Our entire society suffers because a bunch of people want to freeload on media,

Beg pardon, but society doesn't suffer from freeloaders of media. The flame of inspiration is passed from each, never diminishing it's brightness. Media though wants to control it's propagation into society such that it remains monetizable in spite of the fact we have a medium that sets cost of distribution/reproduction to 0.

The problem, it seems to me, is there's an awful lot of publishers/studios etc... who haven't/don't want to imagine a solution in which their control over media is diminished.
by mjd | 2025-09-14 01:47:20+00:00
I've been doing basically this for many years now.

Each password file is AES-encrypted with my master password.

I copy the whole vault around between machines with rsync.

When I run 'password bank' a shell script searches ~/private/Passwords for files that contain ‘bank’ and offers a menu, then gpg-decrypts the file I selected.

I also use this for scans of my passport, recording my bank account numbers, and anything else I want to keep around.

I thought I was the only one, and now I've found out there are thousands of us!
by thehappypm | 2025-09-14 01:48:06+00:00
tides are spaghettification , like what is theorized as you fall into a black hole. You’re stretched into an oblong shape by the fact that the stronger gravity at your feet accelerates faster than your head.

With water and surface tension the net result is an oblong oval ish shape

And the tides are basically a teeny tiny version, where the spherical earth water is squeezed to an oblong shape
by wsintra2022 | 2025-09-14 01:49:04+00:00
>When any would-be innovator can build and train an LLM on their laptop and put it to use in any way their imagination dictates, it might be the seed of the next big set of changes

That’s kinda happening, small local models, huggingface communities, civit ai and image models. Lots of hobby builders trying to make use of generative text and images. It just there’s not really anything innovative about text generation since anyone with a pen and paper can generate text and images.
by lumost | 2025-09-14 01:49:44+00:00
Is the media even “social” anymore? How much of Reddit is simply bots generating catchy takes and then generating commentary on these takes. You can easily be deceived into thinking that a vast number of people believe something, or think the way you do, or think the way you do but were swayed by some thought process.

Repeat the process long enough and with enough variation and tuning and anyone can be made to believe anything.
by ejstronge | 2025-09-14 01:50:13+00:00
> You can develop cervical cancer via some other route, but the vast, vast majority of cervical cancers are caused by HPV infection.

What are these other ways? There's an intuition that bodies are like computer programs that can fail in unpredictable ways, but this is usually false and belies a failure to see links between 'novel' and previously described mechanisms.
by TimorousBestie | 2025-09-14 01:50:24+00:00
> No, one specific show host.

In his role as a spokesperson of the network, at a performance he has not yet been censured for, afaik. Until Fox puts out a response, he represents them.

> I legitimately have no idea what you're referring to.

Jesse Watters called for vengeance and retribution on The Five, said that liberals are “at war with us.” GP is a reasonable rephrasing.

> The political divide. And it's not clear what he could in principle do about it.

Use the “bully pulpit” of the presidency positively for once?

He’s the least powerless person in the country. No president before has ever wielded the power and authority he does.
by drnick1 | 2025-09-14 01:50:46+00:00
What do you mean by "masking your identity"? If you self-host at home, then your IP will be discoverable through DNS, but no one but the ISP will know who the account holder is. Registering a domain also normally requires providing a name and address, but no ID is normally required and it is an open secret that a large proportion of WHOIS information is fake.
by gregsadetsky | 2025-09-14 01:51:46+00:00
Apologies for the long video! I didn't want to rush too much as it's supposed to serve as a tutorial.

CLAVIER-36 is a musical instrument, so it will necessarily take some time to master it.

You can jump to 7:14 in the video - https://youtu.be/rIpQmJVMjCA?feature=shared&t=434 - to hear and see how it works. It's a grid based instrument, where you place "operators", or functions on the grid.

That's the 10 second version. The longer version will require a bit of a time investment unfortunately. But it's quite interesting once/if you get into it and start making patches.

@rwhaling posted one of his compositions: https://www.instagram.com/p/DOUUIfeEQWY/ hopefully that's more what you were looking for?

Also, if you click OP's link - https://clavier36.com/p/LtZDdcRP3haTWHErgvdM - you should be brought to an example patch. Is that working for you? Unfortunately, a mobile version is not available right now (it would be tricky to port it, without having to dramatically rethink the UI).

Cheers
by hyperpl | 2025-09-14 01:53:13+00:00
I used pass for many years and loved it. I sync'd my password store between 3+ devices including my Android phone using a git remote. I don't recall the exact reason - maybe the pass android client I had used for years went away? I decided to find the next best option and settled on keepassxc and KeePassDX. The backing store is a binary blob but it does surprisingly well via syncthing: autoupdate works and in the event of a conflict the db merge feature hasn't yet failed me.

Granted on the desktop I find using a (qt especially) GUI more invasive than a terminal but at least on the Android side the app is quite good.
by IlikeKitties | 2025-09-14 01:54:10+00:00
I believed this for a while but no. Piracy is an enforcement problem. Make pirates face jailtime or lifedestroying fines for torrenting a single movie, constantly scan all public torrents for IPs from your country, make VPN Providers liable for their customers and the use of out of country providers illegal. Enforce that Google, Apple and Microsoft do not allow foreign VPN providers software or non-registered VPN Connections and you end piracy. I've seen this in Germany when the fines where high enough, people were scared shitless. Make the fines life-destroying and circumvention a felony offense and you decimate piracy.

edit: to be clear, if don't advocate for this, i personally believe that copyright should be abolished completely. But I have seen what high fines will do here in germany before they reigned them in.
by ejstronge | 2025-09-14 01:55:10+00:00
> One of the rare examples of a mental health condition being virtually completely eliminated is that of General paresis of the insane, a symptom of late-stage syphilis.

I think a better example is the very recent (i.e., in the 2000s) discovery of anti-NMDAR encephalitis which can very closely resemble schizophrenia [1].

In syphilis, there were at least other manifestations of disease that can (and were) known, unlike this totally unappreciated mechanism (which better resembles Barry Marshall and H. pylori).

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK551672/
by IAmGraydon | 2025-09-14 01:55:37+00:00
I'm wondering a good way to create 2D sprite sheets with transparency via AI. That would be a game changer, but my research has led me to believe that there isn't a good tool for this yet. One sprite is kind of doable, but a sprite animation with continuity between frames seems like it would be very difficult. Have you figured out a way to do this?
by pizzly | 2025-09-14 01:56:14+00:00
I think OP's thesis should be expanded.

-AI is leading to cost optimizations for running existing companies, this will lead to less employment and potentially cheaper products. Less people employed temporary will change demand side economics, cheaper operating costs will reduce supply/cost side

-The focus should not just be on LLM's (like in the article). I think LLMs have shown what artificial neural networks are capable of, from material discovery, biological simulation, protein discovery, video generation, image generation, etc. This isn't just creating a cheaper, more efficient way of shipping goods around the world, its creating new classifications of products like the microcontroller invention did.

-The barrier to start businesses is less. A programmer not good at making art can use genAI to make a game. More temporary unemployment from existing companies reducing cost by automating existing work flows may mean that more people will start their own businesses. There will be more diverse products available but will demand be able to sustain the cost of living of these new founders? Human attention, time etc is limited and their may be less money around with less employment but the products themselves should cost cheaper.

-I think people still underestimate what last year/s LLMs and AI models are capable of and what opportunities they open up, Open source models (even if not as good as the latest gen), hardware able to run these open source models becoming cheaper and more capable means many opportunities to tinker with models to create new products in new categories independent of being reliant on the latest gen model providers. Much like people tinkering with microcontrollers in the garage in the early days as the article mentioned.

Based on the points above alone while certain industries (think phone call centers) will be in the red queen race scenario like the OP stated there will new industries unthought of open up creating new wealth for many people.
by wsintra2022 | 2025-09-14 01:56:29+00:00
Except.. people do know exactly how these things work. They know because they are creating them. They know because they are improving them. What nonsense to say we do not know how these things work. Engineers building Qwen for example not only know how things work but they put all the work out there for people to reproduce (if they had the means) that work.
by lucb1e | 2025-09-14 01:57:25+00:00
indeed. Additionally:

- if your secret leaks and you don't know it (or you do know, but you need some time to change it), the attacker not only gets the snapshot of your password manager but also can derive all future passwords you'll generate, or past ones you long forgot about

- there's no way to know what you've entered before, since it's stateless. With data stored in a manager, I know what username I used and can associate other data. If your uniqueifying input is the domain, and let's say HN would become hn.yc or whatever and you visit it again in ten years, you'd have to remember that hn.yc accepts the password of what you entered as news.ycombinator.com

I have to admit though, hash(name+secret)=password is so simple and beautiful that it draws IT people like a fine artwork draws visitors. But for me, that doesn't outweigh the practical issues
by Buttons840 | 2025-09-14 01:58:05+00:00
They've made a few (or several) attacks against targets in ways that harm US interests.

Most recently they attacked Hamas leaders in Qutar. The US and several other countries formally condemned the attack in the UN. President Trump said the attack hindered US interests. But, of course, nothing was actually done about it. Our tax dollars will continue to pay for the weapons that are used against our will and against our interests.
by ignoramous | 2025-09-14 02:00:32+00:00
> How recently was this experience

The email I shared here? 27th Aug 2025.

> perhaps they'd appreciate your input

The folks who run F-Droid are very welcoming, no doubt. But the email asked us to direct queries to legal at f-droid.org, and for us, legal is something we have no time/energy/capability to pursue (unless there's explicit offer of help, viz. "window for response", that I am hearing only for the first-time and from this blog post).

> notability of your project (kudos and thanks)

Rethink DNS + Firewall? Barely at 10% of installs as the most popular project in the domain (NetGuard), but thanks! (:
by westurner | 2025-09-14 02:01:20+00:00
tsotchke/quantum_rng: https://github.com/tsotchke/quantum_rng :

> 4.82M operations per second

> 178.45 MB/sec throughput

ingen0s/quantum_rng_rust_lib: https://github.com/ingen0s/quantum_rng_rust_lib :

> ~100M random numbers per second
by seec | 2025-09-14 02:02:16+00:00
Investing in the futur when you have a hard time creating more value than you consume is exactly what you need to do. Reducing investment is precisely the way to reinforce the downward feedback loop. If they want to keep taxing the common man, they need them to create more value otherwise to are just taking larger and larger share of vanishing small value.

France does have money; it's just all concentrated in the boomer generation who is fighting hard to keep control. A large share of the debt is generated to keep this gerontocracy confortable at the expense of the youth and future.
by lucb1e | 2025-09-14 02:02:56+00:00
This is fun if you never leave yourself, but be wary with whom you share it. As a company password manager, there is no way to know who's accessed which secret across their lifetime at the firm so you get to change all the passwords constantly. (Or none, if you can't be bothered.) (Don't ask.)

Or if someone newly needs access, there's no standard way of re-encrypting the files you're guessing they need. You need to hack something together yourself

It uses git, but the commit messages are autogenerated and useless. It might as well have used Dropbox for all the use you get out of it when wanting to find the version before someone corrupted data with their somehow-broken gopass client

There is no way to ever erase anything you've accidentally pushed, short of rewriting the git history and breaking it for everyone (or for personal use: other client devices)

It looks nice and simple, and I like that I can interface with it with manual tools (e.g. write my own commit messages to have some idea of wtf is going on, e.g. when mass-reencrypting to not have 300 commits), but the simplicity is also the pitfall. Feels a bit similar to using hash(site_name+main_password) as a per-site password: beautiful in simplicity but various practical issues

Does anyone have good experiences with a password manager for a corporate environment? Ideally not having yet-another service to maintain, but also not have a server compromise equal business compromise (so end-to-end encryption between the users; verifying fingerprints or some such). From what I found so far, Bitwarden seems to meet that bill but I don't know if there are also others
by n8henrie | 2025-09-14 02:03:37+00:00
Can you clarify -- if you're comfortable sharing additional details -- did you have an "occlusion MI" heart attack, involving balloons / stents in the cath lab?

Most people assume that "heart attack" is a distinct clinical entity, but the majority (~80%) of elevated troponin levels are not exactly what comes to mind when people say "heart attack," but will often be described to patients as a heart attack (sometimes out of ignorance and others out of convenience, as the actual explanation for what is going on takes a lot more time and effort).