MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by galaxy_gas | 2025-09-16 22:40:59+00:00
I wonder, how this in affects modern software stack that have AI with the AI Call Screening which will ask questions, you can automatically identify certain dimensions: phone is active -- phone has a plan,-- phone is a Pixel or iPhone with a specific minimum model and OS ver ?

Then because of the leak side channel effect they can further future target calls such as coming from google about your problem with "your pixel 9 or 10?"
by general1465 | 2025-09-16 22:41:03+00:00
Mutahar with RTX5090 made a video where he can't get the performance from the game either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0TKmVXcypc

The whole situation feels to me like buying an Audi R8 and after not being able to get over 150kmph,complaining about it and CEO of Audi would tell me to build my own engine when I don't like R8's
by duffpkg | 2025-09-16 22:41:16+00:00
This article headline is a gross abuse of the conclusions of the actual study which is here: https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.E...

This site is full of people perfectly capable of reading most studies. I would much rather see these links go to studies than endless clickbait articles about studies.

The conclusion of the study show that about 30% of the women in the study from 2017-2014 tested positive for one of several types of HPV infection. This does appear to be a reduction from an earlier 2013 study but the earlier study was by different authors with different methodology so gauging the scale of the reduction is not straightforward. My opinion is that a safe conclusion of the study is that HPV prevalence has not increased.
by runarberg | 2025-09-16 22:41:28+00:00
I don’t believe questions like that are asked in good faith. Maybe you are the exception, but I have seen too many people begin with exactly this question, and then end up justifying the Gaza genocide.

In case you are asking in good faith—and following the HN guidelines—I suggest you abandon this question and consider that maybe this is the wrong question to ask given the situation. If that is hard, then I ask you to consider that indigenous resistance against settler colonial violence has been a pretext for countless colonial oppression in the past, including many genocides.
by harmmonica | 2025-09-16 22:41:43+00:00
Thanks for sharing, oliver. For anything local I've almost entirely switched and I guess I haven't been doing much price comparison between the two. One thing I have noticed here in LA, albeit only a couple of times, is that during rush hour the waiting time is significantly longer for Waymo. I've taken some Ubers because the wait for a Waymo has been way too long.
by dakiol | 2025-09-16 22:41:47+00:00
I always got my jobs applying via linkedin. It's true that I usually find the recruiter and send them a message as well saying "hey I applied to X position. let me know if my profile fits". Perhaps this extra message makes the difference? I have around 12 years of experience (5 jobs in total).

I don't really have a good network, since I have worked in different countries.
by pitpatagain | 2025-09-16 22:41:55+00:00
Also after some research about rate of change: It's extremely slow.

HPV is a double-stranded DNA virus with very high replication fidelity. The emergence of types like 16 and 18 happened hundreds of thousands of years ago.

I did know it was quite slow but not just how slow. Very long term vaccine efficacy is expected.
by mschuster91 | 2025-09-16 22:42:27+00:00
> It's interesting how easily Google results rankings are manipulated by bad actors, and how unvetted the scams are in paid adverts on and through Google.

Well, SEO, I get that this kind of gaming is hard to prevent, not at Google's scale.

But the AdWords scams? Or all the other fake ad scams, chumboxes and god knows what? The complete lack of audits around something that actually causes money to change hands should be outright banned.

At the high end of ads, think large brand TV spots, you got entire teams of lawyers involved to make sure licensing, actor releases, technical details, corporate identity and a myriad of other things are taken care of.

But at the low end? Some rando from St Petersburg can post an ad for a book "uncovering Western lies about NATO expansion", some Indian can post an ad for "Norton Removal", some American an ad for a f2p game with content that clearly does not describe the actual gameplay or some Chinese can post an ad for penile enlargement pills - and none of the four will get even one human eye on the ad before the campaign goes live and the ads are displayed to actual users, even though all four either violate Western laws outright or are at least banned by the providers/networks.

And the problem isn't just limited to Google, Youtube, AdWords, Unity Ads [1], Taboola [2], Outbrain [3], Facebook/Insta [4] - it's everywhere, the entire low range of ads is infested to the core. Self-service ad platforms should be shut down, period - the industry has shown that "self regulation" doesn't work.

[1] https://discussions.unity.com/t/does-anyone-screen-these-ads...

[2] https://www.vice.com/en/article/taboolas-content-chum-boxes-...

[3] https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2021/01/the-outbrain-drain-why-ne...

[4] https://www.vice.com/en/article/instagram-and-facebook-are-o...
by vunderba | 2025-09-16 22:42:40+00:00
I personally don't even allow them an opportunity to give a "phone number" either. I always ask them to identify their company and the branch that they are with - and then personally go to the official website of the company (i.e. https://amazon.com, etc.) and look up the phone number there.

A little less convenient for a LOT more security.
by nialv7 | 2025-09-16 22:43:32+00:00
> break the hearts of everyone who dreamed that the international community could hold each other legally accountable.

this is never going to happen. there is just no practical enforcement mechanism. laws and police works within a sovereign country because the state has the monopoly on violence, this is not true on the international stage. no country will go into war to enforce an ICC/ICJ conviction.
by blinding-streak | 2025-09-16 22:43:39+00:00
And plenty have failed. Perhaps a smaller problem space but still really, really hard. Some self driving freight company failures: Starsky, TuSimple, Embark, Ghost, among others.

One promising self driving truck startup, Aurora, was forced to put a safety driver back in the driver's seat after testing in May.

https://www.ttnews.com/articles/aurora-driver-back-in-seat
by Dylan16807 | 2025-09-16 22:44:30+00:00
You can get DIMMs that do 8000 right now, and LPCAMM2 should become capable of even higher speeds even though it's "only" 7500 at the moment.

Framework says in their blog post that they talked to AMD about using LPCAMM2 and the engineers "finally concluded that it was in fact not possible without massively downclocking the memory". And okay, I believe them, but I'm pointing my blame a lot closer to the CPU than the memory modules.
by titanomachy | 2025-09-16 22:44:45+00:00
Sounds awful. You're articulate and it sounds like you have a decent amount of experience, I hope you find some employment commensurate to that.

I've had some extended periods of unemployment. Only advice I can offer is to strengthen existing social connections and put yourself in situations where you can meet new people. I've gotten work before from people I met in random social contexts. I guess you could call this "networking", but I hate that word. It's good to reduce your isolation, whether or not it directly lands you a job.

Email in bio if you want to chat. Maybe I can help.
by m463 | 2025-09-16 22:44:50+00:00
iphone now allows phone call recording.

I don't know if it is geolocked somehow, I wouldn't be surprised if it was. for example, Japanese iphones always make a shutter sound in japan or in airplane mode

There is a waveform thing in the corner you can press during a call. It will say "this call is being recorded" and waits 5 seconds, then records the call.

strangely... the recording doesn't end up in voice memos, it ends up in notes.
by krisoft | 2025-09-16 22:44:56+00:00
> 5000 years ago early Brits transported a 7 ton stone 450 miles from Scotland to Stonehenge.

You are probably thinking of the stone named “the Altar stone”. If we are talking about the same it is about 6 tonne, 5m by 1m by 0.5m. We of course don’t know how exactly it was moved but it is probably safe to assume to have been “a big deal”. Like a large group of people working hard for a prolonged time to make it happen kinda project.

In comparision I was thinking how would the same feat look today. The stone would nicely fit on a flatbed truck and a single driver could easily drive it from where it was quaried to Stonehenge in two days. (And they would need two days only because of limits on driver hours. If you have two drivers to swap halfway then it would be much closer to half a day.)

Now obviously it is not a big revealation that we are better at logistics than our neolitic anchestors. But thinking it through put it to me into perspective how much better we are at it. What was once a huge undertaking we made it now mundane and everyday stuff. So mundane in fact that we had to make laws stopping people from doing it too recklesly without taking enough rest! Now imagine what those original stone transporters would think of that. Crazy.
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-16 22:45:02+00:00
> Agreed, UN doesn't have a great reputation in America, I'm skeptical many people will care about this outside the media news cycle.

Lots of people will care, but it isn’t going to move a lot of opinions.

> Pew says only 52% percent of Americans had a favorable opinion of UN in 2024

Yes, but it says 57% do in 2025, the first positive change in support since 2022. [0]

But neither is that much more than the 50% that already think Israel is committing genocide [1], and the positions are probably significantly correlated, so this probably isn’t swaying many people that aren’t already convinced.

> On a political or legal level it might have more implications though but ICJ will focus on the leaders who can avoid visiting certain countries.

Always good to see assessments of international legal impacts from people who don’t know that the International Court of Justice deals exclusively with cases between states, and that the standing body that deals with individual offenses that are war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the crime of aggression is the International Criminal Court.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/09/05/united-na...

[1] https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3929
by jltsiren | 2025-09-16 22:45:12+00:00
Walking a mile with groceries or a baby is common. People in less car-oriented neighborhoods typically do quick visits to a grocery store when it's convenient for them several times a week, rather getting a week's haul of groceries in a single visit.

With furniture, you usually pay for delivery. Especially because the furniture store probably doesn't have the items you bought on site anyway.
by kotaKat | 2025-09-16 22:45:23+00:00
"Talking to ATC" is a bit of a huge ask. The system basically just hops on 121.5 (and maybe the nearest/local unicom/tower frequency) and start an automated callout with its intentions that it will be doing. It operates on the assumption that all other airspace users will hear the radio calls and stay clear of the emergency aircraft.
by hiring-manager | 2025-09-16 22:45:33+00:00
How do you reconcile that with developers over 45 finding it impossible to find jobs, are all of them asking for "unreasonable" pay?

I mean, if you are senior, you probably have a family and possibly kids. Even with a part-time RTO position that means more than a three-roommate setup, you need a house or 2b/3b in SF/SEA/NY. That works for industries where you dont need to be in the most expensive cities, but how does it work for tech workers with families?
by orangecat | 2025-09-16 22:45:54+00:00
"I don't know if UBI would take people out of the workforce, but it would probably take me out of the workforce."

A realistic UBI would be $10-15k/year, which means a crappy apartment and/or roommates and no luxuries. There's probably a margin where some people who want to do FIRE would be able to retire slightly earlier, but I can't see many people abandoning median or better paying jobs.
by IgorPartola | 2025-09-16 22:45:54+00:00
A model that Linux distros follow would work to an extent: you have developed of packages and separate maintainers who test and decide to include or exclude packages and versions of packages. Imagine a JS distro which includes the top 2000 most popular libraries that are all known to work with each other. Your project can pull in any of these and every package is cryptographically signed off on by both the developers and the maintainer.

Vulnerabilities in Linux distro packages obviously happen. But a single developer cannot push code directly into for example Debian and compromise the world.
by toast0 | 2025-09-16 22:46:09+00:00
Information from the CDC [1], indicates Adverse Reactions are similar to administration of a placebo, which is not zero. Any vaccine administration has potential for negative adverse reactions, it's reasonable not to get a vaccine if you judge the upside is not worth the downside, even if the downside is small.

The CDC says:

> Like all medical interventions, vaccines can have some side effects.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/hpv/hcp/recommendations.htm...
by gopalv | 2025-09-16 22:46:11+00:00
> is this kind of like “if the answer to your minimization problem is negative infinity, the answer is undefined behavior”?

Yes, it picked a valid result and gave up.

I got a similar nonsensical result in my run-ins[1] in with SAT solvers too, until I added a lowerbound=0.

The "real life" follow-up question in interviews was how to minimize the total number of intermediate rows for a series of joins within in a cost-based optimizer.

[1] - https://gist.github.com/t3rmin4t0r/44d8e09e17495d1c24908fc0f...
by amluto | 2025-09-16 22:47:12+00:00
That link says:

> What have we learnt from this study?

> Infection with HPV types covered by the vaccine (HPV16/18) has been almost eliminated. Before vaccination, the prevalence of HPV16/18 was between 15–17%, which has decreased in vaccinated women to < 1% by 2021. However, about one-third of women still had HPV infection with non-vaccine high-risk HPV types, and new infections with these types were more frequent in vaccinated than in unvaccinated women.

The conclusion seems to be that the vaccine is extremely effective at preventing infection by the strains included in the vaccine. One might reach a stretch conclusion and infer that the 9-valent vaccine would be even better as it would (probably) dramatically reduce the risk of several of the remaining “high-risk” variants.
by sowbug | 2025-09-16 22:48:05+00:00
Has anyone invented something like the TLS three-way handshake, or a U2F challenge, that can use spoken words as a transport layer? People could then be "safely" tricked into reading back "correct-horse-battery-staple" or whatever, because they actually wouldn't have the ability to generate a usable sequence unless the attacker first provided something that only the real site owner could provide.

I'm imagining something with the non-phishability of U2F but the usability of an SMS 6-digit code. Maybe that's U2F.
by rslashuser | 2025-09-16 22:48:22+00:00
I'm super curious how this hack worked, but I feel like the story is just about the last step. What did the attacker have such that this last step did it?

My guess is that the attacker had the google password, and also the login for Coinbase was somehow stored in Google, so the attacker getting into google also exposed Coinbase. I just looked at Coinbase, and it does have a "Sign In With Google" feature.

If you want to live the stripped-down TOTP lifestyle, you have to love this 20 line Python solution. Does not depend on weird libs, and the last edit is 4 years ago. Write the seed on a Post-It and you're all set. Not so convenient, but sound sleeping! https://github.com/susam/mintotp
by mhink | 2025-09-16 22:48:49+00:00
He does mention at one point that sometime soon it won't be necessary:

> Note: This step will become much easier and concise when the sibling-index() and sibling-count() functions gain support (and they’re really neat). I’m hardcoding the indexes with inline CSS variables in the meantime.

The inline links there go to https://css-tricks.com/almanac/functions/s/sibling-index/, which is pretty nifty honestly.
by seabass-labrax | 2025-09-16 22:49:37+00:00
Dear esafak,

It is not entirely true that the usage has changed; I usually start my emails with this salutation, both to recipients close to me and those whom I do not know well. I address mailing lists with a simple "Dear all".

Nonetheless, this is the first time I have done so in a Hacker News post, and it shall probably be the last too.

Best wishes,

seabass
by zahlman | 2025-09-16 22:49:44+00:00
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

I think it's clear that "we have to turn it off" here means "it's important for all of us to stop listening to the 'conflict entrepreneurs'", rather than "I intend to prevent you from using the Internet". In fact, I can perfectly well interpret the quote as a call to "regulate the tech companies" and "forbid engagement-driving algorithms" instead. Would that not equally well be "turning off" what the "conflict entrepreneurs" are serving us? Would that not equally well be "taking back agency" and "giving it back to the community"?

I assume you don't think that the political right has a monopoly on ideas like self-improvement, responsibility to the local community etc.; so how exactly should he have said this to avoid the appearance of "virtue signalling"?
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-09-16 22:49:50+00:00
I just finished reading it.

The chapters on how LLMs work are fairly shallow and will be old news to most of the commenters here who have been keeping up with the news. It seemed to me like that section of the book was written for laypersons and politicians.

Also, I found the Chernobyl digression totally insufferable. Pedantic, over long, and boring.

That aside -- if those parts are skipped or skimmed -- it's an interesting and excellent book that stakes and defends a strong position. I'm not entirely convinced, as I think that there might be a missing step or two in their reasoning, but I've grown much more sympathetic to their cause and aims.

Also, the technothriller short story interlude was outstanding and should be given novella or novel treatment.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-09-16 22:50:20+00:00
Not with the dollar falling against all major world currencies and treasury bond yields rising.

Basically, we have a perfect storm of economic idiocy brewing on multiple fronts and gold and commodities are likely to be one of the few safe havens.

Capital is fleeing the US and not only can the Fed not stop it but it is under political pressure to accelerate it.
by eej71 | 2025-09-16 22:51:01+00:00
First, I think you are conflating two different authors in this thread.

Second, you dismissed what you deemed to be Israeli sources as "lying about the state of things, from the baseless claims against UNRWA". I brought up evidence otherwise - specifically that their claims are not baseless. Dismiss _that_ as biased all you want, but its just links to social media posts from Hamas members. Members of Hamas that also work for UNRWA in some fashion.

We do agree that the US and Israel standing alone is telling. But we will disagree on what it means. For me it confirms just how morally bankrupt the United Nations is. I see no epistemological value in just conforming to the majority when I see clear evidence otherwise.
by falcor84 | 2025-09-16 22:51:24+00:00
I actually am really looking forward to a future where we have better tooling for a true "user agent" that knows my preferences and can style every page automatically just ust the way I like it (and letting me override anything by asking it once and having it remember). I'm so tired of UX designers choosing things for me assuming I'm a 5-year old.
by zahlman | 2025-09-16 22:52:05+00:00
> And for old legacy code that's sprawling, I find braces help a LOT with keeping track of scope.

How exactly are they more helpful than following the line of the indentation that you're supposed to have as a matter of good style anyway? Do you not have formatting tools? How do you not have a tool that can find the top of a level of indentation, but do have one that can find a paired brace?

>Assembly? I haven't touched raw assembly since college.

How exactly does your debugger know whether the compiled code it stepped into came from C++ or Fortran source?
by kalberg6429 | 2025-09-16 22:52:12+00:00
No, normal people understand very well that they are. They are the children of Palestinians who were murdered or ethnically-cleansed in the Nakba and then locked up in an open-air prison. They are the resistance to zionist-colonialism. You obviously can't describe them as such, since you are a Zionist for whom such primitive smears are useful propaganda designed to deny them the internationally recognized right to armed resistance.
by electroly | 2025-09-16 22:52:17+00:00
That's only a problem for you, the developer, though, and is merely an annoyance about time spent. And it's all stuff you had to do anyway to update--you're just doing it all at once instead of spread out over time. A supply chain malware attack is a problem for every one of your users--who will all leave you once the dust is settled--and you end up in headline news at the top of HN's front page. These problems are not comparable. One is a rough day. The other is the end of your project.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-09-16 22:52:20+00:00
I used to think sophistication was the game, but when I brought up the obviousness of Nigerian prince scams with someone, I was told that the poor quality is a tactic. That is, these scams use scale, so the idea is that mediocre scams will weed those people out who are able to discern the scam and select for those who are easily manipulated. This increases the chances that you'll be able to scam the person.
by duxup | 2025-09-16 22:52:43+00:00
>And for some, trouble bubbled up before the Chapter 11 filing. One man, who won a $5,000 a week “forever” award from PCH in 2012, told The New York Times and KGW that he didn’t receive his annual check from the company back in January — which has since caused him to scramble to pay his bills without the money he’s learned to rely on.

Man that's sad ... dude what is that person doing with that cash? Just blowing it all every week?
by giantg2 | 2025-09-16 22:52:56+00:00
"Or are companies doing this on the expectation that AI is advanced enough to pick up the slack?"

I think it's the expectation. We have some publicized examples of needing to hire people back. My company isn't laying off, but they also aren't hiring much, especially at the entry level. They're also trying to force attrition with PIPs and stuff. If it was a right now thing, they'd just layoff.

Also, just because coding gets 30% faster (say some studies), doesn't mean that's a 30% reduction in headcount since many tasks are about design and stuff. This seems to further point to a lack of hiring being anticipatory in my estimation.
by sugarpimpdorsey | 2025-09-16 22:52:59+00:00
Last time I was unemployed for an extended period I thought I would put my skills to good use by hunting for bugs and contributing fixes to open source projects.

Only to mostly be ignored, bugs closed as WONTFIX, or finding out many open source developers aren't really interested in fixing bugs, rather some self-aggrandizing labor of love.

That's when I learned to stop working for free.