MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ACCount37 | 2025-09-21 16:37:40+00:00
It really doesn't matter.

The issue isn't "some people don't pay for sports streams". The issue is that some corporate fucktards have managed, through the power of lobbying, backroom deals and blatant corruption, to get an engine of country-wide internet censorship to be created - and then abused on their behalf.

This isn't the first, or the tenth, time it happens. People should have been sued, fired and jailed after the first time they blocked the entirety of Cloudflare for inane "copyright" reasons - and yet, nothing was done, and the censorship persists.
by AfterHIA | 2025-09-21 16:37:58+00:00
Massive Nelson fan here. My question right now is knowing that Ted's moved from, "the alt Internet" to a, "really bitchin' writing tool" what's the current state of development? What's Christina Engelbart up to?

If the right people just starting designing software again we could accomplish so much. SV is essentially dead in terms of meaningful innovation. All it would take is developing a better operating system, a better web browser, a better personal computer. The competition has lowered the bar so low. Certainly something could be done. #as #we #may #continue #to #think
by patanegra | 2025-09-21 16:38:03+00:00
It's always the same argument.

If you are world-class talent (someone who gets to Oxford), you should be capable of similar results as kids from independent schools. Like Joe Seddon did (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Seddon - growing up with a single parent mom, working as a therapist in NHS).

It isn't fair to ask ones to have 4A* and others to have just 3As.

Only 1 in 2600 gets 4 A.

And 1 in 83 gets 3 As.

Making it 31 easier for people from state school is discrimination so bad, it should be illegal.
by username332211 | 2025-09-21 16:38:05+00:00
> As for your comparison, the actual threat from more Luigis is small. There are at least thousands of CEOs at or above the level of Armstrong? And one death, over a seeming period of several years?

It's less about the murderer himself, and more about the high level of support he has. "Many of the rank and file in the Democratic coalition want you dead, but not to worry nearly all of them are cowards who'd never do anything about it." is cold comfort.

> And the motive wasn't just "elites bad", but very specific healthcare denials.

Do I really need to go trough Reddit to find you people calling for the murder of "capitalists", right down to landlords and homeowners?

I'm sure the elites (if we could call them that) prefer to seem like they are being pressured by the Trump administration. It's better for business and it's safer that way. But their compliance comes a little too easy.
by estimator7292 | 2025-09-21 16:38:14+00:00
The caseless argument is that a multi-thousand dollar device shouldn't be so fragile that you MUST wrap it in plastic to be in any way functional.

A $1k phone SHOULD NOT be a frictionless glass prism. It should not skate away from you ob smooth surfaces. It should not be destroyed by falling 3 inches onto a hard surface. It should have some durability inherent to it.

But instead apple spends billions of dollars making phones even more fragile and it's everyone's problem. We now have to spin up factories processing plastic into custom cases, and throw out all the old plastic cases and the older, more functional phones.

The argument is that phones could (and should) be inherently more robust and durable all on their own. It should not be a hard requirement for you to go out and buy your own case just for the phone to survive any level of daily use.

If they made phones out of plastic instead of glass, this wouldn't be an issue. Plastic backed phones almost always have a texture and when they don't even smooth plastic offers more friction. Plastic phones don't slide away like they're on ice. They don't shatter like my Note 10 did when it slid out of my pocket two inches to the ground. They also don't usually self destruct when you repair them.

The caseless argument isn't that cases suck, it's that we MUST use cases because phones intentionally suck. A phone is not a functional object, it's artistic ego masturbation.
by SilverRainZ | 2025-09-21 16:38:37+00:00
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by mystraline | 2025-09-21 16:38:56+00:00
Ive seen this abomination batted around every so often as 'the internet that could have been'. Glad it wasn't.

Some of my own critiques.

1. Nelson wanted to institute optional micropayments, like 1 cent or fractions of cents to pay to access content. This would mean that nearly everything would have a paywall.

2. With automated paywalls (to charge and to pay), would lead to scammed content like a infinite scrolling page at 1 cent a page, to not get immediately blocked.

3. The idea was that you could also charge for your content. What would happen is your stuff would get scraped, added to aggregators, and charged more while you get nothing.

4. You pay for seemingly legit content and pay for scams. No way to charge back.

5. With all this micropayments and stuff, would necessitate DRM on all 'pay' content. It would be the only way to stop downloading/archiving/reuploading with micropayments that go to me. I view DRM on everything as a computing hellscape.

6. Nelson's extreme secrecy was what caused his system to never get any traction. Those Mosaic and A-Pachy folks were like 'set up a fresbsd box and make a free website.' None of this goofy money crap.
by laughing_snyder | 2025-09-21 16:38:58+00:00
Why would exposing any primary key be bad for security? If your system's security *in any way* depends on the randomness of a database private key, you have other problems. It's not the job of a primary key to add to security. Not to mention that UUIDv7 has 6 random bytes, which, for the vast majority of web applications, even finance, is more than enough randomness. Just imagine how many requests an attacker would need to make to guess even one UUID (281 trillion possible combinations for 6 random bytes, and he also would need to guess the unix timestamp in ms correctly). The only scenario I can think of is that you use the primary as a sort of API key.
by afavour | 2025-09-21 16:39:05+00:00
I don't know anyone at Oxford but do have friends who work in higher education. From what I hear from them Brexit has turned UK higher education upside down when it comes to funding and research. I wouldn't be at all surprised if this is a consequence of some universities navigating that better than others.

But you don't get anywhere near as much online outrage with that theory so "leftists are ruining western civilisation" wins out again.
by rglullis | 2025-09-21 16:39:39+00:00
> I made different choices, and I am being taxed for those.

No, you aren't.

- Suburbanites are being subsidized by city-dwellers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI&t=19s

- The gas for your car is heavily subsidized.

- You don't pay for the increased costs in healthcare caused by air pollution or the amount of concrete needed to keep all those roads.

- Car owners are not taxed extra for the economic impact in social security due to the tens of thousands of people that die every year.

I could go on. There are countless other environmental and economic externalities that suburbanites are not being accounted for and they only get away with it because that's in the interests of the privileged elite.
by sseagull | 2025-09-21 16:39:53+00:00
I’ve always found the pioneer, settler, town planner model to be a great way of thinking about this. Successful, long-term projects or organizations eventually can use all 3 types.

Maybe vibe coding replaces some pioneering work, but that still leaves a lot for settlers to do.

(I admit I’m generally in the settler category)

https://blog.gardeviance.org/2015/03/on-pioneers-settlers-to...
by Anduia | 2025-09-21 16:40:11+00:00
Yes, it is the mountains. Tunnels are very expensive. The French TGV lines only reach the Spanish border at Hendaye on the west coast and Perpignan on the east. The fast line to Barcelona is quite recent.

In northern Spain, there is a slow train line that connects Barcelona with Galicia called the "tren estrella," but it stops everywhere and uses old infrastructure, so it is slow. Traveling to Madrid is always fast with the newer AVE lines, and more are being built.

No idea about Portugal. I guess that it is the same situation, and those routes are covered by buses.
by patanegra | 2025-09-21 16:40:40+00:00
Clearly, it's because talented people grow to the top (not just economically, they might be cultural elites, like people working in news, academia). Then, they marry people who are on the top. And they pass their genes and habits.

It's nothing bad that their kids end up good students again.

I think that French system is superior. It gives fair chances to everyone.
by dlcarrier | 2025-09-21 16:41:11+00:00
I've never seen a knife like that where I live, in California. The only small serrated knifes people here have are stake knives and on rare occasions sausage knives.

It's strange how two relatively similar cultures can have such oddball differences.

This is while living in California's Central Valley, where a third of the world's tomatoes are grown, so it's not like tomatoes aren't a major part of the culture here.

I wonder if it's because most of California's settlement was within the last 200 years, with modern metallurgy making it common for knifes to hold their edge long enough to easily cut tomatoes with only occasional sharpening, negating the need for a special knife just for tomatoes.

Nationwide advertisements for knives show people using straight-bladed knives for cutting cucumbers and tomatoes, despite stated stake knives being extremely common, so tomato knives are likely rare throughout the country, not that much of the country is any older than California.
by abxyz | 2025-09-21 16:41:11+00:00
It is a very fair read of Paul's take.

I attended one of the worst secondary schools in the country. Less than 10% of my year earned the qualifications necessary to go on to university. I know that many of these people, who have gone on to be successful in life, would have excelled at an independent school and would have excelled at university. They were in poverty, not stupid.

You cannot compare the achievements of a student at an independent school to those of a student at a state school based on grades. State school and independent school are a fundamentally different educational experience.

If you think Cambridge and Oxford exist to accept the highest graded students in the country, rather than to accept the students that have the most academic potential, then sure, let's only admit students who have 3 A*s.
by lxgr | 2025-09-21 16:41:16+00:00
I don't have access to, nor a need for, the 40W charger, yet I'll continue speculating about it (which is why I prefixed my comments with "I could see", "it could", and "I suspect"), thank you very much.

Mainly, I'm trying to understand why AVS is supported by both the phone and the adapter if supposedly it makes effectively no difference.

It could be as simple as being a requirement for PD 3.2 wall adapters, of course, but that raises the question for why it's required as well, if it's supposedly that irrelevant.
Ask HN: Local hostnames without root/admin
by terry_hc | 2025-09-21 16:41:45+00:00
I'm looking for a simple way to locally define hostnames for internal use, think /etc/hosts, but without the requirement of superuser privileges. Running a resolver locally, or within the LAN, falls outside the realm of "simple". The subject is primarily the web browser, so a clever browser extension for Firefox and/or Chromium would work great. If resolution could also happen outside the browser that would be a nice bonus.

Thankful for any suggestions.
by KaiserPro | 2025-09-21 16:42:00+00:00
> I'm just tired of people abusing the "whistleblower" label for personal profit with little substance. It undermines the importance of real whistleblowers who do actual whistleblowing activities.

That I get. At least shes not grifting like francis haugen. But clearly she wants to affect change, and saw that the only real way to do this is publicly shame the leadership.

> Given that Meta hasn't actually forced her to pay anything for the agreement, this whole "faces bankruptcy" article is starting to feel like another round of the PR tour for her book sales.

I mean yes, but also the implicit threat here is that meta can call in that debt at any time. Which for a company that prides it's self on freedom of expression, its an odd stance. Especially as the book doesn't really contain any secrets.

The voluntary agreement is rarely voluntary, sadly. given the situation of her departure, I can see why she took it. If I were here and not looking like I'd be able to work again, I'd be taking the cash too.
by Zigurd | 2025-09-21 16:42:06+00:00
People worry that they will ruin their knives in an attempt to sharpen them. They don't know that they always have the backstop of going to a competent kitchen store and having them sharpened there. I worry about ruining knives with a cheap sharpener I got at IKEA. So I don't buy super expensive knives. I buy commercial grade knives from Dexter and Mercer. I sharpen them to the best of my ability. The results are no doubt inferior to an expert sharpening them, but they're far better than no sharpening or settling for serrated knives.

Keeping knives sharp is just obscure enough of a skill to elude most home cooks. Videos that tell you to judge the angle for sharpening a knife unaided don't help.
by patanegra | 2025-09-21 16:42:22+00:00
Maybe statistically gifted child is more often than not born to parents who were gifted too. Then, they read more to the child, speak more with him. And maybe either have higher disposable income, or liberty to recommend books, and learn with the child.

In the future, it's going to be a nil argument anyway, as world-class AI tutors are going to be available for every child 24/7 for a penny.
by asib | 2025-09-21 16:42:37+00:00
It is, via the interview. This is why A-level results are a coarse filter, and why they have different standards for state vs private schools; state school kids with 3 A's presumably excel in the interview to the same extent as private school kids with 3 A*'s.

It cannot be understated how much of an advantage someone who went to a private school has over someone from a state school, with respect to the entire process (exams/admissions tests/interview prep).
by dh2022 | 2025-09-21 16:42:46+00:00
Laws are put in place to protect society. When a behavior hurts the society the society puts a law against it. Like for example : Australia requires minimum age 16 for creating an online account. This addresses one of the issues you mentioned in your post: https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislat...

This is how abuse is addressed and society is protected. Not by choosing to get a severance package, reneging on the contract, seeking a book deal and then crying 'woe be me' on The Guardian.

PS. I cannot help but notice two things: 1. The sort of people Meta seems to attract. 2. The fact that both you and I are creating online noise and sentiment which will probably help Sarah sell more books (or get another, better deal from Meta). It's better to get away from the computer now.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-09-21 16:42:54+00:00
Exactly it's pure politics. I'm sure all the people getting blown up in Gaza city and who have lost everything appreciate this gesture.

It's not at all cowardly and disingenous of the UK to link their recognition of a palestinian state to Israels actions. It really shows how deeply they believe in this cause. Also well done for starmer for coordinating this with everyone else so the UK wouldn't be singled out by trump.

But i have to hand it to France and Macron for being the most disingenous and cowardly of the lot. They spearheaded this effort and are bravely waiting to see what Trump will do before putting their money where their mouth is.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-09-21 16:43:20+00:00
Unless, as is often the case in my experience, the hard stuff consists largely of fixing bugs and edge cases in your implementation of the easy stuff. I've seen multiple people already end up forced back to the drawing board because their "easy stuff" AI implementation had critical flaws they only realized after they thought they were done. It's hard to prove counterfactuals, but I'm pretty confident they would have gotten it right the first time if they hadn't used AI, they're not bad engineers.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-09-21 16:43:27+00:00
I'm surprised this needed to be a law. Or wasn't already one?

Or maybe I'm just surprised that a group of law enforcement officers would decide, "Hey, we don't want people to know who we are," and decide to wear masks.

"…I think this is what the state of California is trying to do. Establish limits as to how much the federal government can do within the jurisdiction of the state. It's an issue of state sovereignty."

More of the Cold Civil War playing out. (Also see coastal states forming health cooperatives (?) so that their citizens can get COVID vaccines, etc.)
by gpm | 2025-09-21 16:43:28+00:00
In principle peltier elements should be very robust over time, as a solid state system where the only moving parts are fans (versus traditional refrigeration which includes a high pressure pump...).

In practice I strongly suspect most peltier based systems are built very cheaply... because their inefficiency means the majority of the market is bordering on a scam. Sophisticated consumers aren't going to be buying very many fridges built with them (of course you might have a niche use case where they actually make sense and you're willing to pay for a quality product, but do most purchasers?).
by wongarsu | 2025-09-21 16:43:54+00:00
UUIDv7 has a 48 bit timestamp, 12 bits that either provide sub-millisecond precision or are random (in pg they provide precision) and another 62 bits that are chosen at random.

The A UUIDv7 leaks to the outside when it was created, but guessing the next timestamp value is still completely unfeasible. 62 bits is plenty of security if each attempt requires an API request
by metaphor | 2025-09-21 16:44:05+00:00
What's the provenance of this "30 places year-on-year" assertion anyways? (TFA won't load on my end.)

The Times filed Durham 7th @ 859 in FY24[1], 5th @ 898 in FY25[2]. They're now 3rd @ 906 for the current FY.

P.S. Chuckling at the perception that a university which ranked top 10 for at least the past decade being characterized as "not as well-regarded"...strikes me as indefensibly elitist.

[1] https://archive.is/QN4Js

[2] https://archive.is/KyP48
by permo-w | 2025-09-21 16:44:37+00:00
all of the things you listed make up or result from national character. besides some short interludes, for example, Japan has had the same party in power since 1955. it's a weird thing to deny the existence of. different nations act differently. it's not heresy to make generalisations, particularly in the age of nationalism when many/most people actively try to set and follow their country's norms
by coder543 | 2025-09-21 16:44:38+00:00
There is nothing to speculate about here, other than to create confusion for others. The physics is immensely clear. AVS is not needed here, and OP can save money by buying whatever is the cheapest option that provides >40W.

Since I have shown through basic math that it isn’t related to the ability to charge the phone any faster, that possibility is obviously eliminated.

AVS is likely supported because there’s no reason not to support it. It is part of the newer USB-C PD specs, which Apple wants to support, and it continues to iteratively refine the energy efficiency of the charging process, which matters a small amount at a scale of billions of devices, but doesn’t matter at all for a single individual’s purchasing decision.
by derefr | 2025-09-21 16:44:44+00:00
> Also, a good few times, if it were a human doing the task, I would have said they both failed to follow the instructions and lied about it and attempted to pretend they didn’t.

It's funny. Just yesterday I had the experience of attending a concert under the strong — yet entirely mistaken — belief that I had already been to a previous performance of the same musician. It was only on the way back from the show, talking with my partner who attended with me (and who had seen this musician live before), trying to figure out what time exactly "we" had last seen them, with me exhaustively listing out recollections that turned out to be other (confusingly similar) musicians we had seen live together... that I finally realized I had never actually been to one of this particular musician's concerts before.

I think this is precisely the "experience" of being one of these LLMs. Except that, where I had a phantom "interpolated" memory of seeing a musician I had never actually seen, these LLMs have phantom actually-interpolated memories of performing skills they have never actually themselves performed.

Coding LLMs are trained to replicate pair-programming-esque conversations between people who actually do have these skills, and are performing them... but where those conversations don't lay out the thinking involved in all the many implicit (thinking, probing, checking, recalling) micro-skills involved in actually performing those skills. Instead, all you get in such a conversation thread is the conclusion each person reaches after applying those micro-skills.

And this leads to the LLM thinking it "has" a given skill... even though it doesn't actually know anything about "how" to execute that skill, in terms of the micro-skills that are used "off-screen" to come up with the final response given in the conversation. Instead, it just comes up with a prediction for "what someone using the skill" looks like... and thinks that that means it has used the skill.

Even after a hole is poked in its use of the skill, and it realizes it made a mistake, that doesn't dissuade it from the belief that it has the given skill. Just like, even after I asked my partner about the show I recall us attending, and she told me that that was a show for a different (but similar) musician, I still thought I had gone to the show.

It took me exhausting all possibilities for times I could have seen this musician before, to get me to even hypothesize that maybe I hadn't.

And it would likely take similarly exhaustive disproof (over hundreds of exchanges) to get an LLM to truly "internalize" that it doesn't actually have a skill it believed itself to have, and so stop trying to use it. (If that meta-skill is even a thing that LLMs have ever learned from their training data — which I doubt. And even if they did, you'd be wasting 90% of a Transformer's context window on this. Maybe something that's worth keeping in mind if we ever switch back to basing our LLMs on RNNs with true runtime weight updates, though!)
by dan-robertson | 2025-09-21 16:44:50+00:00
When I was a student, no one would seriously say they had a ‘doxbridge education’ for the same reason that saying you went to an ‘Ivy League school’ meant you went to a shit one like Brown (idk about the US rankings tbh; basing that on a Lisa Simpson nightmare). That’s still obviously true today.

I expect new hires at my employer and our competitors to continue mostly coming largely from Oxford and Cambridge (plus to a lesser extent Warwick, Imperial, and some European schools) and not much from Durham.