MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by peterashford | 2025-09-02 04:12:13+00:00
The guy who coined the term, drafted the UN convention on Genocide. It includes the Definition of genocide:

Article 2 of the Convention defines genocide as:

... any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

— Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Article 2

Israel is doing (a), (b), (c), (e) and arguably (d).

It is genocide. By definition. A definition written by a Jew and a Zionist, too, if that matters.
by bigiain | 2025-09-02 04:12:37+00:00
But further up this thread you're responding to it says:

> the school says "use an app or you won't get your kids" and then also say they will "call CPS and have your kids seized if you don't get them in time"

Is it reasonable for a school to "call CPS and have your kids seized" because the school couldn't "bother to offer their services to these people"?
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-09-02 04:13:22+00:00
No, I feel much safer going through a bad neighbourhood on a bicycle than in a car. Cars are faster in a straight line but much less manoeuvrable; it's easy to get boxed in, or have someone approach you when you're stuck at a red light. When you stop your vehicle you're a sitting duck. The vehicle itself is also expensive, so your threat window grows; you need to protect the car itself, so you can be threatened with a mere key held in the hand. And cars are a sign of wealth so you're more likely to be targeted. On a bicycle you always have escape routes; you can swerve and turn more easily, go between lanes, or even ride on a sidewalk or into a narrow alley. If someone is chasing you on foot, you can outrun them; if they're chasing you in a car, you can outmaneuver them like you're Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Premium Rush. But for the most part, people in bad neighbourhoods will never hassle you on a bicycle because they see you as one of their own.
by anonym29 | 2025-09-02 04:14:19+00:00
It would be trivial for Apple to push out silent targeted OS updates to specific individuals that would log decryption keys and send them to Apple, enabling Apple to decrypt that specific user's data.

Remember, Apple is the same company that cooperated with the NSA to secretly log and feed user data to the NSA starting back in 2012, as revealed by Snowden's heroic disclosure of the PRISM program (which was ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge).

Apple's privacy-protecting image is nothing more than marketing.
by VladVladikoff | 2025-09-02 04:16:48+00:00
For a brief overview on a topic the accuracy is good enough. It might get some minor details wrong but they are generally superfluous to the topic, it typically breaks down when you are really getting into the weeds of a topic, or really niche subjects, at which point you have exceeded the utility of the LLMs. I have read many blog posts linked off 1st ranking position google queries in the past and found their answers to have inaccuracies as well, how is that better?
by ffin | 2025-09-02 04:16:55+00:00
Okay, you’re right that the LLM writing style isn’t singularly producible by LLM’s. However, I’m not sure why this writing style would become increasingly common? I don’t see why people would mimic text that is seen as low quality or associated with academic dishonesty.

Additionally, I do think it is valuable to determine if a piece of text is valuable, or more precisely, what I’m looking for. As others have said, if I want info from a LLM about a subject, it is trivial for me to get that. Oftentimes I am looking for text written by people though.
by m463 | 2025-09-02 04:18:48+00:00
> For example, a coffee maker does have software in there. But it does a job and does it well. There's no cloud garbage, no remote attestation, or much of anything.

Man, have you seen coffee makers lately?

just search for "smart <appliance-name>" and you get all cloud garbage and more. Dishwashers, vacuum cleaners, televisions, microwaves, ... what a cesspit
by wavemode | 2025-09-02 04:19:13+00:00
Yeah, and all but one of those claims is incorrect.

"Open source" is not just a turn of phrase which became common over time. The phrase was coined by the founders of the Open Source Initiative, and it has always had a very specific meaning: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Initiative

People who seem to think that "open source" has a variety of meanings, are probably confusing it for "free software" which does indeed have a variety of meanings (which was the whole reason the phrase "open source" was created - because "free software" was too vague, and they wanted to create a term with a single, specific definition!)
by duskwuff | 2025-09-02 04:19:54+00:00
> But two, Apple has taken a long time to react to this guy providing proof of his Maltese residence, so that’s on them for being an unresponsive bottleneck.

Someone I know has Maltese citizenship. From the stories they've told, the unresponsive party might not be Apple.

(At one point, my friend had to show up at the Maltese immigration office in person to get them to respond to an inquiry.)
by necovek | 2025-09-02 04:20:06+00:00
The article seems to misuse en-dashes in place of hyphens. Perhaps it's just the font, but for a largely graphical difference, that matters.

Anyway, I've used em- and en-dashes for a long time now (had it built into keyboard layout on "3rd level", AltGr+key), and not going to stop now.
by dangus | 2025-09-02 04:20:28+00:00
I'm glad this analogy is at the top. I think that some large companies like AWS really should not try to blow money on AI in ways that only make a lot more sense for companies like Meta, Google, and Apple. AWS can't trap you in their AI systems with network effects that the other competitors can.

Companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are still incredibly risky investments especially because of the wild capital investments and complete lack of moat.

At least when Facebook was making OpenAI's revenue numbers off of 2 billion active users it was trapping people in a social network where there were real negative consequences to leaving. In the world of open source chatbots and VSClone forks there's zero friction to moving on to some other solution.

OpenAI is making $12 billion a year off of 700 million users [1], or around $17 per user annually. What other products that have no ad support perform that badly? And that's a company that is signing enterprise contracts with companies like Apple, not just some Spotify-like consumer service.

[1] This is almost the exact same user count that Facebook had when it turned its first profit.
by buu700 | 2025-09-02 04:20:28+00:00
I don't see that provenance matters per se. LLM-assisted writing is comparatively cheaper than producing the same writing without an LLM, but not inherently cheap in absolute terms.

If someone who typically bills $500/hr spends 30 - 60 minutes on a comment or blog post, that's still $250 - 500 worth of their time invested regardless of whether or not an LLM was involved. An LLM is comparatively cheaper than hiring a human editor or research assistant, but it's not negative cost.

Likewise, prompting ChatGPT with "write a blog post about bees" may be cheaper than hiring someone off Fiverr to respond to the exact same prompt, but in either case the resulting content will be low-value (yet still higher-value than the string "write a blog post about bees") because its source material was cheap. The fact that the latter version would have been written by a human is incidental.
by janalsncm | 2025-09-02 04:23:19+00:00
AI is huge, it’s just not the only thing happening in tech right now. I say this as an MLE but it seems really unbalanced that LLMs have gotten trillions in investment when other groundbreaking innovations like battery improvements or fusion power or gene therapy have gotten substantially less attention.

Disagree re: DeepSeek theoretical breakthroughs, MLA and GRPO are pretty good and paved the way for others e.g. Kimi K2 uses MLA for a 1T MoE.
by grimblee | 2025-09-02 04:23:47+00:00
Real democracy is direct rule of the people first of all, we are in representative democracies (most if not all of the west). And that has its own problems with corruption, etc.

Some countries do it better, like switserland, where citizen can propose and vote for laws directly.

The problem with populism is that they use emotions to trick people into voting for them, only to work actively against them and blame minorities when they inevitably fail to deliver.
by cnst | 2025-09-02 04:23:50+00:00
Apple is actually far worse at protecting your privacy than Google.

On iOS, you cannot install any apps without an Apple Account, and even some preinstalled apps (like Pages, Numbers, Keynote, GarageBand, iMovie) cannot be used before you assign them to an Apple Account.

On Android, you can install any app from any third-party store without having any accounts. There's a store called Aurora Store that even lets you install apps from Google's Play Store without an account as well, so, you can even install all the mainstream apps, all without any accounts.
by interstice | 2025-09-02 04:24:16+00:00
Looks quite nice, I'm not 100% sold on having flow exposed (for, if) and plain text always escaped (wrapped in {''}), I suppose at least it encourages not having magic strings everywhere. There's some other details that look interesting like the @use feature. I like the reactive prefix concept but having had so many reactive headaches I'm interested in how this plays out. Overall it's a wait and see project for me with no clear must haves, at least right now.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-09-02 04:25:08+00:00
I wish all companies would just state the obvious and list the first principle as "Make Money".

Perhaps it should go without saying, but sometime around the 90s or so, many companies tried to pretend that they had these lofty, societal goals, and they tried to pretend that making money was almost secondary.

The reason I think it's important to list "make money" as the first, primary goal is that it makes it clear that all other goals are subservient to that one. The thing that makes my eyes roll about principles and mission statements is I've seen them all promptly thrown out the window when a company's money making machine is threatened. Essentially, they're principles when they're aligned with making money, but if circumstances change in the slightest, the principles will be jettisoned if they make it harder to make money (which kind of makes it hard to call them "principles" in the first place - maybe "guidelines" would be a better term?)
by joegibbs | 2025-09-02 04:26:35+00:00
I don't think this will work. There are too many tools, a lot of them legacy, and it will be an incredible pain to get them all coordinated on a new standard. Instead I think it'd be better to solve this on the agent side by checking every ~5 seconds what the console output is and sending that, along with the amount of time the process has been running (or perhaps every line could be timestamped?), to a smaller model (like Haiku or GPT5-mini). The model could then provide some input, kill the process or do nothing.
by supriyo-biswas | 2025-09-02 04:27:16+00:00
Personally I just wanted a way to have a SMTP server for integration tests that can be called via an API. I previously used to use a service called mailtrap for this, but was reaching their plan limits.

There are a couple of other tools like mailpit that are similar, but only mine supports multiple inboxes to which each app can send its mails separately.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-09-02 04:27:18+00:00
Is it? I certainly don't do that. We have access to multiple well known and reasonably well designed distribution mechanisms today. Anyone going the curlbash route is doing so of his own accord and with zero excuse if his known bad choices bites him in the ass.

(For the record I have nothing but disdain for those that choose to go this route. Looking at you rustup home page. In contrast LLVM has the decency to provide an apt repository for nightly images.)
by throwaway2037 | 2025-09-02 04:27:32+00:00
Wow, I am somewhat ashamed to admin that I had never heard of "xv6" until your comment! I found the MIT homepage here: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.1810/2024/xv6.html

Two things standout to me: (1) It was written in 2006. RISC V was not released until 2010 (so says Google). I guess it was ported from x86? (2) Russ Cox is one of the contacts listed on MIT homepage. That guy's digital footprints are enormous.
by NoPicklez | 2025-09-02 04:28:03+00:00
Different kettles of fish I guess and I've no doubt people have been complaining about golf course water usage.

The AI comparison mentioned I believe is really just data center consumption which goes much further than just AI but a large amount of important compute power and storage, with most of it unseen.

Golf courses are at least pleasant to look at and whilst they might use a lot of water, most people can understand it given their own need to water their own lawns. Whereas a data center uses both comparative levels of water, but also enormous amounts of electricity. Whereas a golf course doesn't use even a small fraction of the same amount of electricity.

Even large parklands and other green areas need large amounts of water, but most people are not going to disagree with that.
by zaptheimpaler | 2025-09-02 04:28:15+00:00
Don't know what the news says, but today morning I got a call from a "James Wilson" claiming to be from Google. He knew my email address (and phone number obviously) and told me that someone was attempting to change my phone number. He wanted to do a security authorization or something where I guess I would have been asked to divulge more information about my account.

When I asked him to prove he was from Google, he didn't seem fazed at all and said he would send me an email from a google.com email to prove it, and gave me his name and "employee ID". We kept talking and he said the email should show up and it was sent from his side, but the email never came. I then said I'd call google support and ask to speak with him instead - he was still unfazed. I did call Google support (im on Google One for Gemini access so luckily I actually have access to a phone number I can call), and they said it was likely a phishing attempt. I did suspect scam from the start, but it did seem a tad more professional and polished than the usual scams - the person really sounded professional, good voice quality, there wasn't a whole lot of noise in the background, they weren't fazed by my attempts at verification and just tried to dodge them hoping I wouldn't notice instead, they didn't try any pressure/urgency tactics like scammers often do.

So this news is real.. as far as I can tell they were able to connect my email address to my phone number via a leak from Google. They were trying to escalate that into further access.
by qart | 2025-09-02 04:29:20+00:00
> “Our forefathers did this. … No one else can do it,” he continued. “If someone tried, he will be beaten black and blue.”

It's telling that the journalist did not investigate and elaborate on this. The ancient feudal structures that pervaded India for millennia continue to this day. There is a veneer of democracy, but those who live here know how thin the veneer is. For example, even the choice of ISPs available in some locality is controlled by cartels. If an ISP tries to serve a locality that already has a few ISPs, their cables will be severed and their workers will be beaten up. I am talking about a city with a relatively good police presence. In smaller cities, towns, and villages, many more aspects of business are controlled by feudal structures. Every political party has a hierarchy of feudal structures, and most of them have gang-lords at lower levels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_Raj
by hopelite | 2025-09-02 04:29:28+00:00
On a related note, since the Paleolithic rarely comes up on HN, something that seems to rarely come up in English language content; Menhir [1] (Long stone) or standing stones, which are spread all across Europe, some very elaborately decorated, others with sight holes cut in them, others extremely large, i.e., 30-40 feet tall before they were knocked over by the invasive meme, Christianity.

They are found from Portugal all the way to Siberia, but very little is known about them following the Christian meme eradicating the indigenous cultures through the many purges and programs from 300CE on.

There are some references that imply at least in some places they were a kind of connection to the afterlife and ancestors that would turn into birds that would perch on top of the standing stone, something that is still part of indigenous beliefs and practices in parts of Asia. It's basically the indigenous culture of the Native Europeans that middle eastern Christianity destroyed and eradicated like it destroyed and eradicated the Native Americans and so many other native people and cultures around the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menhir
by marc_abonce | 2025-09-02 04:30:32+00:00
Some banks require an app for pretty much everything other than retrieving cash from an ATM, because they don't have a web app anymore:

1. Transfer money to another account. The alternative is to waste half a PTO to go to the actual bank (because they only open at working hours) to make that transfer.

2. Make an online payment. Most new cards no longer have a CVV (3 digit code) and instead require you to use the app to get a dynamic number. Many banks do not offer that option in their web app.

3. Forced 2fa for in-person payments with your card.

Today it's still possible to workaround many of these issues but they're closing these workarounds little by little.
by stevage | 2025-09-02 04:31:03+00:00
>For that impossible extraordinary 80-hours-per-week double effort, my stock would go up... a dollar, right? Roughly 1-in-1.5-millionth of my 1.6 million dollars of stock.

That might be the case if workers were bricklayers and output was measured in walls. But supposedly this incentive might cause you to have a brilliant idea that makes billions for the company, and then you're gaining more than a few bucks.
by matrix87 | 2025-09-02 04:31:04+00:00
> What if the choice of the majority of the people is anti-democratic?

Isn't the majority choice a priori democratic?

Unless you're saying the majority is saying "let's throw away voting and go back to monarchy"... which they aren't, systemic change on that level is usually a highly niche opinion

I'm sensing some doublethink here
by thomassmith65 | 2025-09-02 04:31:22+00:00
That has it backwards.

The advent of social media brought press freedom to millions who previously had no voice, including dumbasses.

While the dumbasses incessantly complain about internet censorship, the internet nevertheless lets them spread their dumb views far wider than was possible ever before.

This freedom for dumbasses to promote supposed 'uncomfortable truths' was a big reason behind the resurgence of authoritarianism.
by bootload | 2025-09-02 04:31:31+00:00
“WiFi on the Raspberry Pi 5 Model B "d0" boards doesn't work.”

OBSD reports

> “The 4GB and 8GB variants of Raspberry Pi 5 are built around two key chips: the RP1 I/O controller, developed here at Raspberry Pi and providing the interfacing capabilities of the platform; and BCM2712C1, a 16nm application processor built by our friends at Broadcom. BCM2712C1 is a hugely complex and powerful device, with a quad-core Arm Cortex-A76 application processor running at 2.4GHz, and the latest iteration of the VideoCore multimedia platform. Alongside the features required to power a Raspberry Pi, it also contains functionality intended to serve other markets, which we don’t need. This ‘dark silicon’ is permanently disabled in the chips we use, but takes up die space, and therefore adds cost. The new D0 stepping strips away all that unneeded functionality, leaving only the bits we need.”

This is what Eben Upton reported on 19th Aug 2024. [0] and Geoff Geerling makes a comment on chip revisions. [1]

> “Steppings are basically chip revisions where they don't change functionality, and usually just fix bugs, or tweak the layout. But even tiny design changes could have unintended consequences.”

So the dark silicon removal step from BCC1 to BCD0, a cost cutting measure, killed wifi? Damn, I was hoping to use this for a obsd firewall.

Cf:

[0] <https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/2gb-raspberry-pi-5-on-sale-...>

[1] < https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/new-2gb-pi-5-has-33-s...>
by tonypapousek | 2025-09-02 04:32:42+00:00
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by romperstomper | 2025-09-02 04:32:44+00:00
I have started with F1 around pandemic too :) I took me some time to figure out what DRS is and why and how it is used. Regarding the cars and dominance - if I'm not wrong Red Bull previously contracted with Honda and they gave them superb engines. Now their contract is over and Honda is working with McLaren. So looks like who uses Honda is the winner, at least in recent years.
by anuramat | 2025-09-02 04:33:16+00:00
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by backslid_react | 2025-09-02 04:35:23+00:00
Location: Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, C#, PyTorch, NLP, Text-to-speech, Speech processing Résumé/CV: https://stefantaubert.com/cv Email: hackernews a_t stefantaubert.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefan-taubert GitHub: https://github.com/stefantaubert About me: Research Engineer, Text-to-Speech (TTS) | PhD candidate (Sep 2025) | Open-source maintainer of 20+ PyPI packages