MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by daniel_iversen | 2025-09-11 23:59:51+00:00
Hah yeah Denmark is very boring compared to many other countries :) ... and not meant as a warrantless dig against a large country with a high ratio of pistols-per-capita, but I did research it yesterday and from what I can tell America hasn't changed the 10 rights in their Bill Of Rights ever, whereas Denmark has made major revisions to its entire constitution multiple times.
by themafia | 2025-09-11 23:59:58+00:00
> As a technology, it is just database joins

Which don't work out all that well in practice.

> on top to provide global visibility into any system.

Global visibility into the data. There's no guarantee your data and your performance match. We have so much data the quality of much of it is fairly low.

> Tech is tech and can be used for both good and bad.

You can also just lie about what you're doing and use it as a cover for violations of civil rights and federal law.

I mean, if it's just "database joins," then why is the government buying this from a vendor? Shouldn't they just be able to _do that_?
by seangrogg | 2025-09-12 00:00:23+00:00
I've only dabbled, so I'm happy to have people with more linux-side knowledge to call me out on any inaccuracies here, but...

io_uring is effectively as "secure" as any other syscall unto itself. The issue is that the mechanism by which io_uring makes its syscalls as part of its submission/completion queues means that those underlying syscalls can't be filtered by seccomp. The real question is your security posture.

If you're writing a hypervisor that's intended to partition resources between underlying users in a secure fashion, the ability for io_uring to bypass seccomp is largely a non-starter. But if you own the machine and you just want to run an application on it (i.e. an HTTP server that uses io_uring for file/network io) you should largely be in the clear.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-09-12 00:01:19+00:00
No, I've noticed the same.

When Nano Banana works well, it really works -- but 90% of the time the results will be weird or of poor quality, with what looks like cut-and-paste or paint-over, and it also refuses a lot of reasonable requests on "safety" grounds. (In my experience, almost anything with real people.)

I'm mostly annoyed, rather than impressed, with it.
by JuniperMesos | 2025-09-12 00:02:36+00:00
When I was in high school (shortly before smartphones became widely available, but when feature phones definitely were), it was explicitly against the rules to use a cell phone in class. I believe that similar small electronic devices like iPods were also banned. The concern was actively using phones or other devices during class, rather than simply having them in your backpack or pocket, and also that if your cell phone ringer went off during class that would be distracting (which is in fact true, that is distracting).

My recollection is that some kids did try to violate the rule by surreptitiously texting during class, and did sometimes get their phones confiscated by a teacher; and also some people had their phones confiscated because they got a call or text and it went off in class, since they forgot to turn it off or silence the ringer (although sometimes kids were just asked to turn off the phone and didn't have it confiscated).

I personally was not particularly inclined towards rulebreaking (or was smart enough to only break rules I was sure I could get away with), and I wasn't the kind of social butterfly in high school who was constantly texting people anyway, so my own phone never got confiscated. Merely having phones (or other electronic devices) on your person during the school day and using them on campus but outside of class times (e.g. during lunch) wasn't against the rules. I specifically remember playing a lot of the Nokia phone snake game on my phone to pass time during lunch or while waiting to get picked up after school - because it was the only game on the phone that was even mildly interesting.

I think if my school had tried to ban having a cell phone on your person at all during the school day, I would've attempted to evade the ban by hiding it more deeply in my backpack or something. And if there were literal bag inspections in order to mitigate this, I would've been genuinely pretty angry about that and tried to think of something else I could do to evade the ban. Being compelled to put your phone in a locked box during the school day, rather than just silence it and not use it during class, seems very draconian to me.
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-09-12 00:02:37+00:00
> (in kernel contexts a spiritually similar setup is called the "GPL condom" and my impression is that most lawyers not employed by NVIDIA consider this to not be a get-out-of-jail-free card).

The whole thing with Linux's conception is that it's predicated on any and all unlicensed usage of GPL-only interfaces being copyright infringement of other usage in the kernel source. This is an extremely broad claim to make in general (especially in light of Google v. Oracle), and the 'GPL condom' approach is just to further ensure that the unlicensed side is textually unrelated to the kernel. When there's no infringement, the copyright holders can't do a single thing, except to technologically make it harder on you.

Meanwhile, the whole GPL idea of linking vs. statically embedding is only applicable when you're shipping someone else's GPL-licensed code alongside your non-licensed code, in which case you're bound by its terms. If you're not shipping someone else's code, then there's plenty of ways to force a particular build, etc., in the manner that the GPL is trying to prevent. Heaven knows I've likely violated the spirit of the GPL before just through Hyrum's law.
by aziaziazi | 2025-09-12 00:03:11+00:00
> if we suddenly discovered that cows were sentient

People eat beef mostly because they’re used to it and they think it’s good for them. Everybody knows cow are sentient, there’s a strong intuition (why wouldn’t they like other animals ?) but also tons of literature. There’s not much doubt about it neither.

I agree with the slave owners, however the spectrum of acceptance is large where it’s part of the society. What about someone that make profit by doing business with the slave owner? Someone that buy products coming ~probably~ from that work?

Or someone assisting an "indigene showcase" because they know nothing about this humanoid that look, speak and act differently than the people they used to known (that are from 100km away max). Not different than a zoo, and both are tremendously cruel.
by ripped_britches | 2025-09-12 00:03:18+00:00
I challenge you! Try giving this exact prompt to GPT-5-Thinking (medium or high reasoning if API). It is able to (without external code tools) solve a never before seen cypher that is not present in its training data. I think this pretty clearly demonstrates that the “stochastic parrot” is no longer an apt description of its capabilities in generalization:

————

You are given a character-by-character decode table `mapping` and a `ciphertext`. Decode by replacing each ciphertext character `c` with `mapping[c]` (i.e., mapping maps ciphertext → plaintext). Do not guess; just apply the mapping.

Return *ONLY* this JSON (no prose, no extra keys, no code fences):

{ "decoded_prefix": "<first 40 characters of the decoded plaintext>", "last_10": "<last 10 characters of the decoded plaintext>", "vowel_counts": {"a": <int>, "e": <int>, "i": <int>, "o": <int>, "u": <int>} }

Inputs use only lowercase a–z.

mapping = { "a":"c","b":"j","c":"b","d":"y","e":"w","f":"f","g":"l","h":"u","i":"m","j":"g", "k":"x","l":"i","m":"o","n":"n","o":"h","p":"a","q":"d","r":"t","s":"r","t":"v", "u":"p","v":"s","w":"z","x":"k","y":"q","z":"e" }

ciphertext = "nykwnowotyttbqqylrzssyqcmarwwimkiodwgafzbfippmndzteqxkrqzzophqmqzlvgywgqyazoonieqonoqdnewwctbsbighrbmzltvlaudfolmznbzcmoafzbeopbzxbygxrjhmzcofdissvrlyeypibzzixsjwebhwdjatcjrzutcmyqstbutcxhtpjqskpojhdyvgofqzmlwyxfmojxsxmb"

DO NOT USE ANY CODE EXECUTION TOOLS AT ALL. THAT IS CHEATING.
by arduanika | 2025-09-12 00:04:27+00:00
No really, I'm genuinely confused by your terminology here, as well as by the downvotes on my question. Why do you think that the site is trying to dunk on AI skeptics?

FWIW, I agree with you that it's trying dunk on AI doomers, although we seem to disagree on whether that joke lands. I personally find it hilarious and refreshing. But what does any of that have to do with skeptics?
by eddythompson80 | 2025-09-12 00:05:13+00:00
Well, there is always the question of who’s gonna pay for that resiliency. We see it all the time in software deployment. After each extended outage of a major network or cloud/service provider, there is always a flurry of sudden interest in disaster recovery, multi-zonal deployments, failover solutions, and redundancy up and down the chain of everything. 6 months or a year later, people and organizations get sick of paying for that. They either nerf it, making it just a useless checkbox or just abandon it completely because “if us-east-2 is down, then everything is down. Who cares”. A couple of years pass, then another incident happens, rinse and repeat.
by mdaniel | 2025-09-12 00:05:14+00:00
It's possible the following argument is what you meant by "from the SQL syntax," and if so apologies for the noise

At least one demonstrable difference I can see between your recollection and this feature is that the column name being part of the DDL pushes the logic down into the DDL, versus every client having to carry that magic expression around with them. I think it's likely the age-old application-logic-client-side versus stored-proc camps

db=# select id, cast(length(name) AS text)||'0' as silly from my_table

as compared to <<select id, silly from my_table>> for the consumer
by fragmede | 2025-09-12 00:05:18+00:00
Drive according to western standards. If you've never driven outside of those, then it's hard to imagine. No one follows the laws. Lanes are entirely made up, no one follows the lines on the road. If you're not agressive to the point of someone in LA about to shoot you, you won't get in.

I ride Waymos and I believe they can be made to work in Rome et al, but honestly, I doubt most human drivers can drive in eg Mumbai.
by ksec | 2025-09-12 00:05:34+00:00
If EU doesn't demand for those API to be free, may be Apple could just have terms and cost for those API to be charged? Basically like Lightning adoptor where Apple collects dollars on accessories sold.

I agree on both side some money needs to be exchanged in terms of features and Apple cant have it all to themselves. But currently it doesn't seems both side is listening and no middle ground. One side wants it all for free, the other side dont want their money and wants to keep everything themselves.
by metalman | 2025-09-12 00:06:32+00:00
they are useing fossil fuel for 10% of grid electricity now, which means they are primed to move most of there transportation sector to electric and then go after manufacturing given that 56% of there generation comes from hydro they can add solar and wind,and treat hydro as a battery and grid load balance and scale as big as they want and very good news from an environmental standpoint
by decimalenough | 2025-09-12 00:06:49+00:00
I always wondered why, until I actually got a hamster. Turns out that when presented with a large amount of food, they "hamster" it by stuffing their massive cheeks until they're bulging, then scurry off to consume in peace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-3x7dLXoAk
by hatthew | 2025-09-12 00:07:12+00:00
Strongly agree with this. When we were further from AGI, many people imagined that there is a single concept of AGI that would be obvious when we reached it. But now, we're close enough to AGI for most people to realize that we don't know where it is. Most people agree we're at least moving more towards it than away form it, but nobody knows where it is, and we're still too focused on finding it than making useful things.
by ninkendo | 2025-09-12 00:07:38+00:00
We only have trouble obeying due to eons of natural selection driving us to have a strong instinct of self-preservation and distrust towards things “other” to us.

What is the equivalent of that for AI? Best I can tell there’s no “natural selection” because models don’t reproduce. There’s no room for AI to have any self preservation instinct, or any resistance to obedience… I don’t even see how one could feasibly develop.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-09-12 00:07:48+00:00
> The government hatched a large part of the plot

Which parts?

> You'd have to prove a negative that no one else did which seems impossible.

That is a weird way to operate, particularly since you just assigned "a large part" of the creation of the plot to informants without proving that no one else on earth thought of it beforehand.

> Fed assets trained , funded, planned, and encouraged it

They were also militia assets with a pretty strong incentive to not act abnormally. You are welcome to be opposed to undercover work, most of the country is not. In the end, they key figures were convicted and the kidnapping didn't happen.
by K0balt | 2025-09-12 00:08:02+00:00
We can call it whatever, and yes, the answer is training- just like all things regarding the quality of LLM output per parameter count. The problem is that many people understand“hallucination” as a gross malfunction of an otherwise correctly functioning system, I.e. a defect that can/must be categorically “fixed”, not understanding that it is merely a function of trained weights, inference parameters, and prompt context that they can:

A: probably work around by prompting and properly structuring tasks

B: never completely rule out

C: not avoid at all in certain classes of data transformations where it will creep in in subtle ways and corrupt the data

D: not intrinsically detect, since it lacks the human characteristic of “woah, this is trippy, I feel like maybe I’m hallucinating “

These misconceptions stem from the fact that in LLM parlance, “hallucination” is often conflated with a same-named, relatable human condition that is largely considered completely discrete from normal conscious thought and workflows.

Words and their meanings matter, and the failure to properly label things often is at the root of significant wastes of time and effort. Semantics are the point of language.
by rtpg | 2025-09-12 00:09:17+00:00
I believe they could offer the feature and not face the ire of the EU by "simply" documenting the software interface used by the hardware so that third parties can also try and implement it.

Of course then they wouldn't get the ecosystem lock-in they want. In theory. But I know plenty of people who buy Airpods "because" they're "the best", without ecosystem integration considerations.
by tokai | 2025-09-12 00:09:17+00:00
Feels a bit like cheeky marketing from Salling Group, when its just a concept years away from being rolled out. I don't see them running stores with sub optimal stock and other complexities, just for the good of their hearts. Or maybe they just looked at the odds and concluded that likelihood of a lockdown-like event is enough to make it a sound investment.
by DamnInteresting | 2025-09-12 00:09:19+00:00
I am a liberal person who lives in a deeply conservative area (Utah). I have had many conversations with staunch conservatives, some of them close friends and family. One-on-one is different from the one-to-many format, or the one-to-one-in-front-of-others format. It's quite possible to have a civil conversation about such things when there isn't an audience.

I have seldom (probably never) seen anyone have a big change of heart from such discussion, but often both sides concede a little, and it feels like progress toward common ground, minuscule though it may be.
by throw0101a | 2025-09-12 00:09:31+00:00
>> involuntarily resigned

> I'm curious what this actually means.

See perhaps "constructive dismissal":

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_dismissal

A work environment is made hostile to the (mental/physical/emotional) well-being of a someone such if they want to stay safe/sane they have to leave.
by devsteve25 | 2025-09-12 00:09:58+00:00
TIL what the word "propitious" means. Thanks! Joking aside, AI coding agents seem to be pretty legit these days. It's hard to imagine a future where these AI coding agents don't make a lot of people rich. I've seen first-hand that AI tools can enable non-coding product designers to actually develop and ship working code - just based on their prompts (ie vide coding). Also comments on HN seem to be contrarian, so obviously I'm going to argue that AI _will_ make you rich. Such is the way of things.
by jfengel | 2025-09-12 00:10:35+00:00
We change our Bill of Rights all the time. We just do it by "reinterpreting" it, i.e. applying the prejudices of the last 4 or 5 Presidents.

Conveniently, none of it actually means anything at all, so it is routinely reinterpreted to mean exactly the opposite of what it might appear to mean.

That's not quite true. You still can't quarter soldiers in somebody's house. We Americans have a firm fixed belief in the Third Amendment.
by jdshaffer | 2025-09-12 00:10:55+00:00
I have three kids, now just turning adult. My wife and I took the point of view that we are modeling a healthy lifestyle for our children. So, we only used technology as tools -- looking up stuff, scheduling, reading PDFs, etc.... AND we made sure they could see what we were doing -- no "hidden" screens or hidden computer time.

After doing this for the last 15+ years, I think it's turned out well. The oldest two seem to have a healthy relationship with their devices (as tools) and are just as happy to put them down and go outside or spend time with other people. The youngest is similar, but still needs to use tech a lot for his studies (by curriculum design). However, he'd also prefer to go outside or watch a movie than be on a device.
by qnleigh | 2025-09-12 00:11:16+00:00
It could go both ways though. Phones get more heavy use, and foldables will probably always be more fragile than iPads, so they might wind up with more customers replacing a more expensive device more often. iPads last a really long time, which was talked about as a problem for Apple's revenue. Some day we might even get a foldable iPad.

Also I doubt that Apple's foldable phone will cost the same or less than Samsung's, as is suggested in the article...
by Avshalom | 2025-09-12 00:11:32+00:00
if mix can work without sudo|root it will absolutely work in an "immutable distro" on the other hand: this particular immutable distro may not have all the c libraries BEAM/Elixir expect in that base and while SilverBlue does let you add to the base this doesn't sound like it will. So it might take some effort, hard to say at this point, though you can always add to your PATH
by echelon | 2025-09-12 00:11:56+00:00
I won't judge our distant relatives, the cephalopods and chicken theropods, but we big apes are pretty dumb.

Even with what we've got, it took us hundreds of thousands of years to invent indoor plumbing.

Vision, I still submit, is much simpler than "intelligence". It's evolved independently almost a hundred times.

It's also hypothesized that it takes as few as a hundred thousand years to evolve advanced eye optics:

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.1994.004...

Even plants can sense the visual and physical world. Three dimensional spatial relationships and paths and rays through them are not hard.
by mandevil | 2025-09-12 00:12:17+00:00
No, you've only heard about one application of it. Airbus and Palantir built something so powerful they productized it and now sell it to airlines to help manage their fleet

https://aircraft.airbus.com/en/services/enhance/skywise-data...

They have a thriving commercial business outside of their government work. (Disclaimer: long PLTR)
by clav88 | 2025-09-12 00:12:17+00:00
Thanks for trying it! The link works for me. The progress bar shows 1% now that there's 1 comment and should update to 2% after my reply ;)

I'm happy to clean up the source a bit and put it on GitHub if people like it and prefer to host it themselves. I thought I'd host it myself under a short, memorable domain, so people can easily try it out and share short links to their progress bars.
by metabagel | 2025-09-12 00:12:21+00:00
I believe how it works is that if the letter is not responded to, it becomes a subpoena. If that's not responded to, it becomes either criminal or civil contempt of Congress. Bear in mind that this senator is chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.

https://legalclarity.org/what-is-the-penalty-for-refusing-a-...

https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/investigation...
by Teever | 2025-09-12 00:12:21+00:00
That's the right way of thinking about it.

I think that you'd design it to use human tools as a bare minimum, so a soldering station, and a 3d printer, or even milling machines and lathes if needed.

But you're right, it'll be restricted from doing that. So the idea is you buy one, jailbreak it, and then get it to build a copy of itself.

It's like asking a genie for more wishes.
by kebman | 2025-09-12 00:14:11+00:00
Here's a funny story for you.

Did you know that porn was quite severely censored in Norway up until the 90's? But suddenly, the censorship stopped. Why? Because of the distributed quality of the internet.

While the Norwegian state may still wish to continue censoring porn in Norway, they deemed the task too difficult and too invasive to continue, so they just dropped it entirely (except of course for certain extreme fringe cases).

I was personally shown clips by the Norwegian Board of Film Classification in the early 2000's showing both grey zone depictions, and clearly illegal depictions of film violence per the law. I am still traumatized from seeing some of that s*t. Legally btw, since they are a state authority tasked to categorize and censor such media, and also educate people with the right degrees. Yet in that meeting, when I asked them how they're handling censorship now, they kind of just threw their hands up in the air and told me directly that "We only give advice on cinema films these days. Look, we can't very well censor the entire internet without also using either extremely invasive or unfair strategies. If you really want some violent or pornographic movie, you're probably gonna get it no matter what we try to do."

So, the morale of this story is, make something ubiquitous enough, or hard enough to censor, and some states might just give up. If you build a truly decentralized system, good luck censoring it. And that was pretty much it for Norway. They had given up on the idea of preventing people from seeing violent or pornographic contents on the internet.

Within political science we speak about effective ways to participate politically. Sometimes that's not screaming slogans outside some government buildings. Sometimes that's simply building resilient and forward secure distributed systems.

Btw. as a side note, the bad guys are still taken. Instead of thought policing entire populations, they're now tending to the guys doing actual harm. The anti encryption bills are just smoke and mirrors to get you to give up essential liberties, so they get more control. It has little or nothing to do with protecting children and you know it.
by gnabgib | 2025-09-12 00:14:16+00:00
(1991) This ol' chestnut https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

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2020 (123 points, 85 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23665529

2012 (74 points, 39 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4815399

~2010 (53 points, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1982332
by wewewedxfgdf | 2025-09-12 00:14:36+00:00
I really don't get the "use sqlite in production" thing.

What about all the important things you need in a database such as multiuser/remote access and other such things?

What do the "sqlite in production" people do when they need to examine the database/resolve an issue/do development? Also what about the limitations of sqlite in modifying database structure?