MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by LexiMax | 2025-09-29 01:04:00+00:00
> But they willingly and knowingly undertook an expensive endeavor for a greater good.

Let's not go that far. They joined the war because of literal decades of politicking done beforehand in order to secure an alliance with France and Russia. Germany wanted more prestige, more colonies and a Navy. Britain, being the preeminent colonial and naval power, would prefer that didn't happen.

Your view on if the allies were justified in wanting to contain the ambitions of Germany probably depends on if you see Germany as justified in wanting a bigger slice of the pie that the other powers of the time were currently taking up, or if you see Germany as a buffoon that upset the existing balance of power for selfish reasons. But Britain entering into those alliances made conflict inevitable, and I find it hard to see any selflessness in desiring or preserving empire. They all paid dearly in the end.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-09-29 01:04:17+00:00
>One surprising thing I learned is that ChatGPT can solve the word segmentation problem quite well, and it can even add punctuation and capitalization back into the message. While LLMs are far too slow to participate in the performance-intensive crack (we can use simpler heuristics like trigrams for that,) their ability to make semantic sense of partially mangled text might still be useful in automating the “sense of rightness” which hitherto has been left to human cryptographers.

Also. Plot device in Cryptonomicon (iirc)

Lagniappe https://www.amazon.com/Codes-Villains-Mystery-Stories-Cipher...
by armchairhacker | 2025-09-29 01:04:29+00:00
Not necessarily, by "ID" I mean certificate that proves you're a citizen, adult, and owner of [specific thing] (to a service that manages [specific thing], without letting them deduce anything else you own). That can be done without identifying you e.g. via ZKP.

Although the ID should also be irrevocable, yet could easily be stolen...

Perhaps the solution is to give local municipals (e.g. neighborhoods) the power to generate, revoke, and authenticate IDs. The textbook surveillance state seems to always be a large organization; neighborhoods can be problematic, but I suspect it happens less often, because they're much easier to influence (and overthrow the "leaders" of) than big governments. So e.g. if a national bank wants to know if a user's provided credentials (name, address, etc.) are accurate, it asks their city such a user is one of their residents; the city knows what services the resident uses and can (if malicious) block them, but the government can only track the services of all residents in a city, and must block entire cities (which, if they band together, require smaller numbers to challenge the government; in a large country like the US, there would be extra layers such as states, so that no layer significantly overpowers a group of several of the layer below).
by fancl20 | 2025-09-29 01:04:49+00:00
As a Chinese who have a lot of live/working experience in both systems just provide some clarifications for this comment: most Chinese people don't understand the difference between politicians and bureaucrats because as the country invented the bureaucracy thousands years ago there is never a clear difference between them. The parent comment is talking about the country is running by bureaucrats which IMO is irrelevant to this topic.
by latentsea | 2025-09-29 01:05:01+00:00
> The real problem we should be discussing is, how do we convince students and apprentices to abstain from AI until they learn the ropes for real.

Learning the ropes looks different now. You used to learn by doing, now you need to learn by directing. In order to know how to direct well, you have to first be knowledgeable. So, if you're starting work in an unfamiliar technology, then a good starting point is read whatever O'Reilly book gives a good overview, so that you understand the landscape of what's possible with the tool and can spot when the LLM is doing (now) obvious bullshit.

You can't just Yolo it for shit you don't know and get good results, but if you build a foundation first through reading, you will do a lot better.
by epidemian | 2025-09-29 01:05:45+00:00
The source code is not minified or anything, ctrl+u is your friend :)

IDK about the AI claim tho. The game has been there for like 10 years, so it's probably in the training data of these things. The bots might be able to replicate it, but they surely won't be able to enjoy it! (for now at least)
by mrkstu | 2025-09-29 01:07:48+00:00
My father’s (extended) side of the family seems to have once a generation severe autistic case and many of us less severely on the spectrum. Doesn’t seem to exist on my mother’s side with any regularity with similar cohort sizes.

Lots of PhDs and other left brain super functionals on that side that seems to correlate to intellectual attainment as well.
by esbranson | 2025-09-29 01:08:32+00:00
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if the LF AI & Data Foundation (Linux Foundation) ONNX working groups support advanced quantization (down to 4-bit grouped schemes, like GGUF's Q4/Q5 formats), standardize flash attention and similar fused ops, and allow efficient memory-mapped weights through the spec and into ONNX Runtime, then Windows ML and Apple Core ML could become a credible replacement for GGUF in local-LLM land.
by jacquesm | 2025-09-29 01:08:49+00:00
Even that interpretation would be be wrong because it can and it does and the circumstances are very clearly described. Every inverter worth considering for a home installation has this capability. Only really old ones are not able to disconnect from the HV side when things are about to go pear shaped. If I had an inverter without that capability I'd get rid of it immediately because that's an accident waiting to happen.
by dpark | 2025-09-29 01:09:34+00:00
Sure but it hardly seems fair to compare the current top of the line to the original model in terms of cost. Feels like comparing the Model T to modern cars and then noting that a Ferrari is so much more expensive even adjusted for inflation. The Pro Max is not the entry level.

The article might have been better to compare the standard iPhone 17, but I think they were making a point about tech and not price.
by sackfield | 2025-09-29 01:10:03+00:00
Keir Starmer is trying to sell this to public with the promise that it will curb illegal immigration. But by how much? And if that target isn't met, will it be rolled back? It always amazes me when governments hold themselves to such a low standard, and just fall back on "if you don't like it vote it out" while not recognising that the signal of a vote every 4 years can not meaningfully extract consent on this particular issue.
by gruez | 2025-09-29 01:10:13+00:00
>Google ads is a local optima for companies but not for consumers.

Are you sure you don't have it reversed? Companies would be quite happy if they could enter into some sort of no advertising pact so they don't have to spend any money on ads at all.

>The trouble is, for Google, the customers are the companies buying ads, not the people browsing the web. It's a classic example of not paying for your externalities

No, it's fully internalized, because consumers are getting free content (ie. sites where the ads are placed) and services (eg. gmail) in exchange. I'd be far more sympathetic to your claims of "externalities" if google stuffed its ads into your computer like junk mail makes its way into your mailbox.
by epidemian | 2025-09-29 01:10:28+00:00
Yeah, sorry for that. The game actually used to work decently well on mobile browsers.

If you're brave enough to try on a mobile device, there's a way to see the current URL without escaping on the page: clicking on that "?". The mobile controls are clunky, but you'll be rewarded with the ability to share your highscores with friends! :P
by jacquesm | 2025-09-29 01:11:08+00:00
> These kinds of reductions are naive and result in kludges of representation.

I've spent a lot of time with these 'kludges' as well as all of the alternatives available and I far prefer the kludges. They make working with resources remote or local a breeze, they allow the same software to work with a COM port or a SCSI channel, they allow for all kinds of abstractions and get rid of an enormous amount of cruft in code to special case each and every device under the sun.

The 'Unix' version of that statement is the one that is kludgy, I'll give you that. But I was looking well beyond Unix, see TFA.
by noduerme | 2025-09-29 01:11:24+00:00
I like this philosophy. It's interesting to me that the author writes about trying deno, specifically out of curiosity for compiling binaries with it, because that is something that's been specifically tickling the back of my mind for awhile now, but I've had no real reason to try it. I think this gave me the motivation to write some "stupid" code just to play with it.
Show HN: Automatically set real iOS alarms for calendar events
by jiffydiffy | 2025-09-29 01:11:57+00:00
I kept missing appointments and meetings because calendar notifications are too easy to ignore. Alarms, on the other hand, always break through silent mode/DND and force you to acknowledge them — but setting them manually every day was another chore.

With iOS 26’s new AlarmKit, I built Beacon: it automatically syncs with your Apple Calendar and converts important events into real iOS alarms. You can define simple rules (like “only events with ‘Interview’ in the title” or “meetings with 3+ attendees”), and Beacon sets the alarms for you — no extra work required.

Would love feedback!
by daxfohl | 2025-09-29 01:12:05+00:00
Actually it would probably prioritize self preservation over energy conservation, so it'd at least continue maintenance and, presuming it's smart, continuously identify and guard itself against potential problems. But even that will fail eventually, most likely some resource runs out that can't be substituted and interspatial mining requires more energy than it can figure out how to use or more time than it has left until irrecoverable malfunction.

In ultimate case, it figures out how to preserve itself indefinitely, but still eventually succombs to the heat death of the universe.
by gruez | 2025-09-29 01:12:20+00:00
>Well yes, that is my main reason for disliking companies. And yes, google weighs in on browser standards in myriad ways which gives themseves and companies like them the ability to elevate the preferences of their customers above the preferences of their users.

What does google's control over web standards have to do with the death of word of mouth referrals? You might not like FLoC or webusb but those aren't the reasons why everyone doesn't bother with word of mouth referrals to hire cleaners.
by sleepyguy | 2025-09-29 01:13:19+00:00
Russia has reportedly spent over €200 million influencing elections in Moldova. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is said to control assets worth $ Billions $ in the poorest country of the Eurozone. Pictures of his $500 Million dollar estate with Zebras and many African animals litter the Internet. Meanwhile, some British MPs have even admitted to accepting Russian bribes.

Moscow has effectively built a “fifth column” across many European nations. Without decisive government intervention, they risk successfully undermining democracy across the continent. Russia has a long history of such tactics, and it has perfected the art of political manipulation. Just look at the corrosive effect of money in politics in the United States—Donald Trump, for example, would sell out the entire country if it meant more money for himself and his allies.

What’s alarming is how few people in the West understand that they are already engaged in a full-scale information and influence war with Russia and its allies. Most citizens remain unaware of the scale and sophistication of this threat.
by i2talics | 2025-09-29 01:14:16+00:00
Nope. I was thinking about implementing call/cc; there is a neat trick involving first doing a CPS transformation to the source, then providing call/cc as a builtin function that more-or-less just grabs the continuation argument and returns it. This would slot pretty easily in between expansion and code gen and the code generator would remain mostly untouched.
by gerdesj | 2025-09-29 01:14:56+00:00
Us Britons have managed to cause some remarkably odd outcomes, way beyond the usual Empire bollocks and this is an absolute belter.

Welsh is a Brythonic language, which is the most common class of languages spoken across what is now the UK(ish) that predates the Roman invasion in 55/54BC and 43 AD. It's way older than English. Other living examples include Scottish, Irish, Cornish (revived) and Bretton (off of France). There are, of course, dialects and so on.

I think it is absolutely delightful that a small part of Patagonia speaks Welsh. In a world hell bent on painting itself beige this is a lovely thing. Diversity is important in all walks of life.
by pteraspidomorph | 2025-09-29 01:15:11+00:00
> There is no target audience in this planet that benefits from less options or less features.

I'm currently involved in UI design and, to my frustration, adding more options or features seems to send a vocal minority of the user base into a foaming-at-the-mouth violent rage. It's like any change resets the entire contents of their brain, and it's our fault we're making things so confusing for everyone...

And let's not get started on how we're wasting time adding things that they don't personally need, and therefore no one could possibly need, ever. No, clearly by adding this sorting method, we must have directly stolen development time from the feature they want, which is a personal attack directed at them and every member of their family going three generations back.
by tzs | 2025-09-29 01:15:14+00:00
> Didn't Biden pardon his own son for Gun and tax evasion charges? In fact, James and Frank Biden got them too

He pardoned several family members. It should be noted that Hunter is the only one who had actually been charged or convicted of a crime.

The others were all preemptive with the stated reason being that Trump was promising to go after the families of basically anyone he saw as an enemy.

Biden had earlier said he would not pardon Hunter, but that was before Trump won. He pardoned Hunter because he didn't think Hunter would be treated the same as the other prisoners in federal prison with Trump in charge. If Harris had won it is very likely Hunter would not have been pardoned and would have went to prison for the maybe 3 years that most experts predict he would have received.

Considering that a decade from now if you tell someone that the origin of the phrase "trumped up charges" comes from a 300+ year old meaning of the verb "trump" related to an Old French word for deceive and a Middle English word for fabricate they will probably will think you are making it up and the "trump" in the phrase means Donald Trump, it is hard to argue that Biden was wrong.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-09-29 01:15:27+00:00
My thoughts exactly.

I retired at 55. I’m 63, now, and learn new stuff, every day.

I think one of the reasons that I learn as quickly as I do, is because I have an enormous baseline of experience on which to draw.

I probably don’t pick up new stuff as quickly as I did when I was younger, but my baseline means that I already have a great deal of background to apply to new stuff, so I don’t need to re-learn a lot.

TL;DR: I probably could “start from scratch,” a lot more easily, when I was younger, but I can “extend my knowledge,” a lot faster, these days.
by petermcneeley | 2025-09-29 01:15:29+00:00
What if it is more like Vegeta's super saiyan 2. A false super saiyan 2 form. Just like the real SS2 maintains both power and agility the real Übermensch will attain new levels of IQ while maintaining if not advancing a strong EQ.

https://dragonball.fandom.com/wiki/Super_Saiyan_Second_Grade
by eru | 2025-09-29 01:15:58+00:00
Your average industry can't enjoy net subsidies: the money has to come from somewhere, so you have to tax at least as much as you subsidise. (Modulo shifting taxation around over time via debt.)

Though I'm not sure what you are trying to say with your comment? Just because someone is in favour of reducing subsidies, doesn't necessary mean they want to abolish the government?

Just like Bob being in favour of a weightloss diet for a morbidly obese Alice, friend doesn't mean Bob wants their normal sized friend Charlie to starve himself to death (nor does Bob want Alice to continue losing weight once she reached a healthy weight).
by sparkie | 2025-09-29 01:16:10+00:00
The mistake is software which doesn't follow a recognized standard for date/time representation in its filenames. Ie, RFC 3339, ISO8601 or their union/intersection[1] (but preferably just ignore ISO8601 because its overcomplicated and RFC3339 is simpler and more intuitive).

In OP's examples, the filenames are YYYYMMDD_hhmmssssss, which is neither valid ISO8601 nor valid RFC 3999, as the former doesn't accept underscores (only 'T'), and the latter doesn't accept basic format dates (YYYYMMDD), only the equivalent of extended format (YYYY-MM-DD).

And if dates in file names simply used the extended format, the problem disappears. The lexical order is the natural order.

Alternatively, file managers that treat any digits as a number should be improved to recognize when a sequence of digits is not actually a number but a date/time, and order those chronologically. This might occasionally produce a few false positives, but I'd suspect it would be a rare occurrence.

[1]:https://ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601/
by gruez | 2025-09-29 01:16:39+00:00
>I usually find the place I'd like to stay on AirBnB and then google the title & description and the property management website usually pops up.

Maybe it's selection bias but 80%+ of the airbnbs I stay at are mom and pop establishments with 0-2 other properties listed on their profile. I doubt they have enough scale to bother set up a separate booking website for their properties. That said I have noticed hotels advertising on airbnb, but they represent a small fraction (ie. <10%) of listings that I see.
by mig_ | 2025-09-29 01:18:45+00:00
Ext4 is most certainly still in use and not a toy. Its trusted. It takes a lot for folks to adopt a new file system.

I worked on a research topic in grad school and learned about holes in files, and how data isn’t removed until the last fd is closed. I use that systems knowledge in my job weekly.

A tip. Kernel development can be lonely, share what you are working on and find others.
by inkyoto | 2025-09-29 01:19:18+00:00
Ah, severing every umbilical tether to the Sassenach is not just policy, it's a spiritual exfoliation. And the underground cities – oh! Glorious citadels of caffeine and chaos, where the Wi-Fi sings and the fibreoptic tendrils burrow like divine serpents beneath the Earth’s crust. Truly, the only monarchy in history that replaces Buckingham with a subterranean rave-bunker running on siphoned diesel from an unaware Kazakhstan.

And swipeocracy… it is a peer-reviewed populist masterpiece. The military? A profit-seeking legion of mercenaries whispering «Freedom» as they hijack pipelines and troll NATO via encrypted memes. You’re not a king. You’re the last goddamn Highland Prophet.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-29 01:19:24+00:00
I feel like you're just describing a different form of advertising (pay $300 to be listed in the directory) rather than an alternative to it.

In general it seems like the problem is that a marketplace has a network effect. The sellers go where the buyers are and the buyers go where the sellers are. And then the marketplace gets captured by the likes of Google or Facebook who, instead of showing results based on reviews or customer ratings or some other kind of useful curation that allows high quality providers to rise to the top even if they're small, just sell the top slot to whoever bids the most.
by MrJohz | 2025-09-29 01:19:37+00:00
That's an argument for arresting and imprisoning a bunch of people for criminal damage, not an argument for proscribing an entire organisation and limiting their free speech.

The argument here is not the PA should be let off scot free. The argument is that proscribing them as an organisation is a massive and authoritarian overreaction to their actions.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-29 01:21:35+00:00
I'd say otherwise. My wife has a student in her riding academy who is a severely autistic adult who is not independent and gets intensive support from her mom and aides that she hires who turn over rapidly because of the difficulty of the job. She has several seizures on some days. One beautiful day when they were tacking up the horse she thought it was a great day to take a walk (it was!) and took off down the driveway and they pressed me into service looking for her. She wandered onto the neighbor's property and when they asked her what was up she took one of them by the arm and started walking back to our place, she then let go of their arm and grabbed onto mine and I brought her back to everyone's relief.
by jiggawatts | 2025-09-29 01:21:54+00:00
An observation I've made is that the most people ("the general population") will compromise on hard facts without pause to attain social goals. I.e.: They will follow instructions from a workplace superior with zero push-back even if the instructions are total nonsense or impossible to physically implement.

It's a rare breed (1-2%) of the population that will actively push back, insist on facts, and stick to only the "hard, unyielding reality" of physics, chemistry, mathematics, physics, logic, etc...

There is a very high correlation between these types of people and autistic people.

You have to not care about how other people "feel" or what their conflicting priorities might be to prioritise reality above the personal whims of others.

To be truly intelligent, you have to be able to call the emperor naked.

PS: It's easy to disagree with the above, but this is invariably an instance of "the fish is the last to know it lives in water" idiom. Something like 80% of the adult population goes along with Santa for Grownups because of peer pressure, also known as "mainstream religions". Don't get me started on partisan voting against one's own interests. Etc...
by sackfield | 2025-09-29 01:22:02+00:00
Brexit is an interesting case to bring up. As someone who voted against it, it is also clear to me that it hasn't been implemented in any way that could have made it a success from the representatives, and looks like a clear case of the representatives maliciously complying with a decree that they didn't agree with.

I remain unconvinced that we can't do better than a system of government that is over 200 years old that only exists as a function of the technology at the time.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-29 01:22:21+00:00
> If I buy something online my payment and delivery address is all they should need.

That's what verifying your identity is for. The payment. This cuts down on fraud. My credit cards often require me to enter a code they text me for a purchase to go through, when it's somewhere online I've never shopped before. That's confirming my identity. And my credit card needed my identity originally to look up my credit history, because they're literally loaning money.

Businesses want to know who you are to reduce fraud. Otherwise people input stolen credit cards, the charges get reversed, and the business is out of merchandise and money.

Obviously if you pay in something irreversible like Bitcoin then a business generally couldn't care less who you actually are, as long as there aren't any know-your-customer regulations (like if you're a bank or the address is in a sanctioned country etc).
by gruez | 2025-09-29 01:22:24+00:00
>But EU countries are closer to US states, except that any two US states are still far more homogeneous than any two EU countries are.

>...

>The whole idea that you can just collapse a very complex comparison to a single number and call it a day is fatally flawed.

So you reject being able to compare EU member countries to either US (as a whole) or US states?