MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chupasaurus | 2025-09-23 12:00:18+00:00
> middle-class Russians from Moscow and St. Petersburg

2 prevalent groups of which are retired and people who moved there to make their ends meet, which will be complete around the retirement age.

> Yes, it is hard to change anything in a dictatorship. I know that from personal experience.

How many changes you did under dictators with actual armies, spy networks, chemical and nuclear weapons?
by m101 | 2025-09-23 12:00:24+00:00
Electric car sales were 20% of all sales, so 26% increase is hardly a "surge". Going from a low base this is supposed to be higher.

I think what we are seeing is that electric car interest isn't as strong as governments hoped for. I used to own an electric car now I'm back to a hybrid.

Q4 sales in the US will be interesting because of the removal of the tax credits and the increasing electricity prices that AI is causing. Low prices of fuel in the US means that it's not exactly cheaper to run an electric car in the US.
by tclancy | 2025-09-23 12:00:26+00:00
But however you want to spin it, there’s still the underlying luck, that you survived until that moment, that you were able to reach that place and that you were free to venture there are all inputs you didn’t have much or any control over. There’s no shame in it. I’ve achieved a good deal in a half century of life and much of it was via hard work and guile, but I do tend to think of myself as lucky because, even as a middle-class kid back when the US had that, where my starting blocks were placed on the track was far enough ahead of the bulk of the pack that these things became achievable.
Power Law Worlds and AI?
by bsuki | 2025-09-23 12:01:40+00:00
Hey all,

What do you do about a world that operates on power laws, now that AI makes the best better?

For context, I’ve wanted to be a trader, to work in startups, and more recently, in music. All 3 of these industries clearly show that 10-20% of the people reap majority of rewards.

Now, the people who are experts + know how to use AI are the most equipped to further their leverage.

I initially was demotivated by this, but now it makes me think there must be careers where this doesn’t hold true. (No power laws / no experts, yet)

But is that actually true in capitalist societies? Ie. What do you do about a world that operates on power laws + AI that better equips the experts?

Thanks!
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-09-23 12:02:06+00:00
>Why can't they do so the same here?

They .. ARE?

Dacia Spring is essentially a Chinese EV from Renault's joint venture with eGT New Energy Automotive.

VW's Cupra Tavascan is made in China and is the product of VW's joint venture with Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Group.

And many EU EVs that are of domestic design and production use Chinese developed and manufactured powertrains and batteries.

EU EVs are using more and more Chinese tech.
by thephyber | 2025-09-23 12:02:22+00:00
The article hasn’t proven that the infection is in the GHCR Docker image, let alone the newest version. It only says that they had the image installed, then (unknown time later) noticed the infection.

According to some messages on Hotio’s Discord server from 2023-11-25, qBitTorrent moved from fixed admin credentials to randomized at initialization. I think MrHotio’s message about that crypto miner was likely a joke about people installing the older vulnerable version and the efficiency of unauthorized people installing xrig on servers with default credentials.

If author was pinned to an old version of the docker image and their server had internet-visible IP, they probably got their server infected because of weak security defaults in the app installed on the image.

Edit: Scion9066’s comment shows that dBitTorrent’s previous release version patches multiple security bugs, so vulnerabilities might apply to all versions older than about 1 week, not my guess of 2 years.
by Luker88 | 2025-09-23 12:03:11+00:00
More shortsighted than crazy, imho.

EU tried that with Russia, then we were dependent on oil/gas, and somehow the dictatorial regime fscked us on Ukraine, and now all of us are wasting so much more time and money.

Everybody already knows China is going to invade Taiwan. The global chip market is not going to like that, and this will happen only because we played the good guy with a dictator.

And then all of this will be retroactively be seen as aiding and collaborating with evil, again.

"Curse your sudden and inevitable betrayal", again and again.
by nobody9999 | 2025-09-23 12:03:45+00:00
>But it is also disingenuous to say it's just about a group of people who want to be left alone as in the original comment I responded to.

That's true. They want to be treated like everyone else, not discriminated against and berated (cf. pretty much all of this user's posting history[0]), beaten and murdered. Are those the "special rights" you meant?

>Your elaboration of the stages as I stated them has some pithy truth in it but really just confirms its accuracy. You can read all you want into how I describe the stages but description is not advocacy. I'm not advocating anything really.

Mayhap you are and mayhap you ain't. But you certainly did uncritically include bigoted stereotypes and lies/tropes that have been used pretty much forever. I guess I'll have to keep waiting for you to prove me wrong. And more's the pity.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=bobalob
by chii | 2025-09-23 12:03:53+00:00
my comment was in relation to the grandparent post's:

> cost the government $65k to imprison someone, but that money isn’t disappearing

which is wrong, because it _is_ disappearing.

Your argument is unrelated - it sure would be good if people didnt commit crimes for which incarceration is required, but it doesn't mean the cost has benefits. It simply has to be done; i would liken it to getting sick, and the healthcare costing money. That money, as far as you are concerned, disappeared, as it brought you no lasting benefit, even tho you must spend it.
by homefree | 2025-09-23 12:04:33+00:00
People are looking for meaning in the wrong places - it’s not a huge surprise, it’s something secularism has largely failed at.

There are places you can work that are more meaningful or where there is a culture of cutting down on bullshit. Elon Musk is famously good at running places that do both.

More people would benefit from getting married and having kids - a lot of (Judeo-Christian) religion’s cultural ideas were good even if its empirical claims are wrong. Religion is in some ways a battle tested cultural technology, throwing it away will have unintended consequences for most people.

Alex Karp touches on some of these ideas indirectly in The Technological Republic which is worth reading anyway for other reasons. A lot of people in the west today grow up without a cultural core and end up aloof believing in nothing, or worse substituting some bullshit political ideology as a poor substitute religion.
by shmeeed | 2025-09-23 12:04:46+00:00
>no-one used street directories anymore

I disagree! Out in the woods, a few pages ripped out of an old street directory found in the trunk once saved my ass... quite literally. Couldn't have used a smartphone or GPS for that!

>Ideally, anyone looking through the window should think I am the kind of compulsive person that carries every single thing inside each night.

When I have to park my car in a shady-looking spot, I usually open my glove box to reveal nothing but garbage inside, and a note saying "nothing to steal here". I obviously can't prove this works, but I would like to believe it does, because thieves might consider it a courtesy that saves them unnecessary hassle.
by yostrovs | 2025-09-23 12:05:09+00:00
You missed this part in the History section: "In 1997, ASML began studying a shift to using extreme ultraviolet and in 1999 joined a consortium, including Intel and two other U.S. chipmakers, in order to exploit fundamental research conducted by the US Department of Energy. Because the Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) it operates under is funded by the US government, licensing must be approved by Congress."
by pflenker | 2025-09-23 12:05:24+00:00
I find that I get most value out of less memorable notes in my Obsidian, because for the more memorable ones my brain is able to stay on top of it.

I use LLMs to extract key points, make proposals or generate a short summary, but I personally want to manually be responsible for adding all this and I don't want my note taking tool to do this unsupervised in the background.
by Uehreka | 2025-09-23 12:05:49+00:00
I remember super clearly the first time an LLM told me “No.” It was in May when I was using Copilot in VS Code and switched from Claude 3.7 Sonnet to Claude Sonnet 4. I asked Sonnet 4 to do something 3.7 Sonnet had been struggling with (something involving the FasterLivePortrait project in Python) and it told me that what I was asking for was not possible and explained why.

I get that this is different from getting an LLM to admit that it doesn’t know something, but I thought “getting a coding agent to stop spinning its wheels when set to an impossible task” was months or years away, and then suddenly it was here.

I haven’t yet read a good explanation of why Claude 4 is so much better at this kind of thing, and it definitely goes against what most people say about how LLMs are supposed to work (which is a large part of why I’ve been telling people to stop leaning on mechanical explanations of LLM behavior/strengths/weaknesses). However it was definitely a step-function improvement.
Show HN: Why clone GBs when you need KBs? Surgical GitHub downloads
by Einswilli | 2025-09-23 12:06:16+00:00
Hey HN,

I just want to share Forklet, a tool we built out of frustration with GitHub's all-or-nothing approach to repository access.

The Problem: Our security team needed to scan specific files in pull requests (using our scanner Valkyrie), but we kept hitting two walls:

1. Cloning entire multi-GB repos just to check a few config files

2. GitHub API's rate limits making targeted downloads painful

The Solution: Forklet gives you surgical precision for GitHub downloads:

# Download only Python files, excluding tests forklet download owner/repo ./target --include "*/.py" --exclude "test_"

# Or just grab a specific folder forklet download owner/repo ./configs --target-paths "src/config"

Looking forward to your feedback and ideas!
by ptero | 2025-09-23 12:07:43+00:00
> After speaking with Russians living in there, day to day life hasn't been affected that much

Did you speak with folks from Moscow or St Petersburg or from different regions? Life in the top 2 cities is kept as normal as possible at all costs; that is part of the Putin's approach to handling the elites (you can keep living your comfortable lives as long as you stay out of politics).

But elsewhere the quality of life took a big hit. Even in second tier cities. At least that is what I am hearing. My 2c.
by constantcrying | 2025-09-23 12:07:44+00:00
How do you want to push Automakers into compliance? Every single European Automaker is begging people to buy their EVs, yet the amount of buyers is no where near where regulators want them to be. What would you do to Automakers?

Making cars in Europe is getting near impossible, "draconian" measures mean that indeed no European Automaker will make ICE cars any more, because they will all be bankrupt.

The real problem regulators can't regulate away is that people are not buying EVs, even when manufacturers are selling them at prices where they barely break even.
by account42 | 2025-09-23 12:07:49+00:00
It's a straw man because no one is telling you to replace domains with torrents. You'd replace the download link to https://yourwebsite.com/files/download-1.0.zip with https://yourwebsite.com/files/download-1.0.zip.torrent or the magnet URL corresponding to that file. Even if you wanted to replace HTTP with torrents entirely then the domain would be updated to point to the current torrent - after all the whole point of domains is that you have a memorable and persistent name that can be resolved to the current location of a service.
by hrbsoscbfo | 2025-09-23 12:08:10+00:00
I worked at a place where we tried hiring an Iranian. Ignorant of the law, some of us were surprised when the legal department pulled the plug on the whole process.

I was kind of surprised by the whole thing because he was currently employed at another company. We went so far in the process that he quit his other job and we had him in the office for his first day of work, had a big lunch with him and everything. We fucked him on that.
by chuliomartinez | 2025-09-23 12:08:22+00:00
It is time that democracies stop doing business with autocratic regimes. Not just some of them, because if everything is manufactured in china, which keeps doing business with iran and russia, it seems pointless.

At this point it should be obvious to everyone, that western money is (transitively) keeping all the worst regimes alive.

People stopped buying south African stuff, as an apartheid boycott, can we get some china boycott going?
by maelito | 2025-09-23 12:08:28+00:00
> I think what we are seeing is that electric car interest isn't as strong as governments hoped for. I used to own an electric car now I'm back to a hybrid.

In France, there is a wide anti-electric campaign. From the "leftist-green" media such as Reporterre, to the right wing ones.

Same for political parties, from the left PCF to the right RN.

It's a battle.
by woodpeck | 2025-09-23 12:08:30+00:00
Geofabrik guy here. You are right - rate limiting is the way to go. It is not trivial though. We use an array of Squid proxies to serve stuff and Squid's built-in rate limiting only does IPv4. While most over-use comes from IPv4 clients it somehow feels stupid to do rate limiting on IPv4 and leave IPv6 wide open. What's more, such rate-limiting would always just be per-server which, again, somehow feels wrong when what one would want to have is limiting the sum of traffic for one client across all proxies... then again, maybe we'll go for the stupid IPv4-per-server-limit only since we're not up against some clever form of attack here but just against carelessness.
by ethbr1 | 2025-09-23 12:08:38+00:00
The differentiator is market value.

Any company that does engineering "well" likely has slower growth and a smaller PE multiple.

Consequently, you don't hear about it nearly as much as the splashy, full-financial-speed-ahead companies.

Tl;dr - don't buy products or services from companies with high valuation stock prices... they're making that profit somewhere
by jqpabc123 | 2025-09-23 12:08:56+00:00
Tylenol is just a scapegoat. To claim otherwise at this point without proof is really a propaganda diversion.

There is just as much (if not more) *scientific* evidence linking autism with environmental pollution (air and water). But still inconclusive --- just like the Tylenol claim.

But we love the petroleum industry and plastics and corporate polluters and have gutted the EPA so we can't allow the minions to believe this now can we?

https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EHP15573
by tclancy | 2025-09-23 12:09:45+00:00
As someone in their 50s with a kid, work and a busy life, I’ve found the unlovable fact of it is these things resist a How To guide. It’s sort of like the thing about anyone who wants to be a politician shouldn’t be allowed to. If someone is distilling these things into a How To, at best, they grasp the ideas but lack the perspective that their lived experience isn’t anyone else’s, so the context is all lost. The bits and pieces that I’ve come to think which map up with the author’s tend to be found in books that lack a goal or a point.

As an aside, the Internet-driven grindset that everything, even a hobby, should have a point is one to resist with all your might. Think of the times you laughed loudest playing with your kids; I doubt you all were trying to achieve a goal beyond being together having fun.
by bayindirh | 2025-09-23 12:10:02+00:00
Tesla killed its brand reputation thrice.

- First they went "camera only", alienating people who knows the tech.

- Then they mocked car industry for so long. It was a necessary poke at first, but they didn't get prepared, and the elephant proved that it can run.

- Then Elon's Trump affair and all the shebang happened.

The broken FSD promises, using non-auto rated parts (and related failures), being negligent of their own errors and acting like they are deaf to the criticism is the cement between the layers.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-23 12:10:05+00:00
The money makes up for being far away from family as well as homesickness.

Living in the EU means you are far away from family as well with the added negative that unless you're Vietnamese in CEE and Paris, Fujianese in Central Italy, or Mirpuri in Scandinavia, there isn't a large Asian community in most EU states.

If I want Sikkimese, Pahari, Marathi, Chettinad, Maithili, or some other ethnic group's cultural services, cuisine, and/or goods I can always find that represented in American tech hubs. On the other hand it's nonexistent in Europe.

I think you're of European heritage, so for you your cultural heritage's goods, services, and cuisine are well represented across Europe. That isn't true for Indians, Chinese (China is not a monoculture), and Koreans.

For Indian, Chinese, and Korean nationals on a work visa in the US, you can earn a European salary in the old country while being close to family. This is why Europe is not enticing, because immigration is hard and if the only incentive is to have a lower take home, then there's no reason to go to Europe.
by liltofu | 2025-09-23 12:10:20+00:00
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by aesh2Xa1 | 2025-09-23 12:10:37+00:00
The details are skimpy. In a CNN article we can see photos and mention that these were housed in apartment units and perhaps other rentals.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/23/us/swatting-investigation-ser...

EDIT:

While the headline on NYT highlights an attack on the towers for disruption, the CNN piece gives more weight to two other uses: (1) criminal communication network and (2) swatting.

I think those two make sense. The SIMs would probably hold US numbers and would appear authentic for accessing the US operators' networks.
by only-one1701 | 2025-09-23 12:10:56+00:00
I think it’s just trying to be exposed to as many opportunities as possible with the best tools you can have. You can’t determine whether or not you can catch a fish, but you can acquire the best fish-catching tools you can get, try to get to the fullest river, and stay out there as long as you can. I think the role of “luck” really hits when you realize how some people are born on the side of the river with a gigantic, well-made net.
by jimbohn | 2025-09-23 12:10:58+00:00
The USSR fell because its economic model didn't work and was a society steered by corrupt principles. Jeans and rock and roll "envy" was just a symptom. After having seen the effect of communism/russianism on post-soviet countries I'd rather take a nuclear bomb, it's better in the long term. Sanctions work but it depends what you are min-maxing because obviously some sanctions may hurt your own country/block.
by wok4899 | 2025-09-23 12:11:07+00:00
I never have exposed this container to the world ever, and my server do report the existence of such binary. That is the reason based on CPU usage I suspect that mining never triggered.

> ps -ef | grep netservlet > root 3708105 3665360 0 08:06 pts/2 00:00:00 grep netservlet
by endgame | 2025-09-23 12:11:14+00:00
I wish I had a good answer for you. I've been dissatisfied with Dhall, Nickle, Cue, and possibly others. Dhall's type system is both too strong (you have to plumb type variables by hand if you want to do any kind of routine FP idioms) and too weak (you can't really _do_ much with record types - it's really hard to swizzle and rearrange deeply nested records).

On top of that, the grammar is quite difficult to parse. You need a parser that can keep several candidate parses running in parallel (like the classic `Parser a = Parser (String -> [(a, String)])` type) to disambiguate some of the gnarlier constructs (maybe around file paths, URLs, and record accesses? I forget). The problem with this is that it makes the parse errors downright inscrutable, because it's hard to know when the parse you actually intended was rejected by the parser when the only error you get was "Unexpected ','".

Oh, and you can't multiply integers together, only naturals.

Maybe Nix in pure eval mode, absurd as that sounds?

I think the best thing for tools to do is to take and return JSON (possible exception: tools whose format is simple enough for old-school UNIX-style stdin/stdout file formats). Someone will come up with a good functional abstraction over JSON eventually, and until then you can make do with Dhall, YAML, or whatever else.
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-23 12:11:35+00:00
This is all fine and well, but eventually once the peasants have taken enough fuckings on enough axis over enough people's pet issues they will realize the trend and you and all your buddies who think it's ok to just fuck people will lose your heads or get to share a hole or whatever. Maybe it'll be offset by productivity gains and take a few generations to get there but fucking the peasantry because the rulers know better, or whatever the argument is, isn't a sustainable way to run societies.