MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gigatexal | 2025-09-16 18:59:44+00:00
Hmm... what's with all this US-govt appointed people being placed in companies ... isn't this the socialism that the republicans railed against? Is Trump secretly a socialist? Oh the irony.

Anyway on the whole if executed (and execution is not a strength for this administration of incompetent fools) well then I guess it would work. new app -- built by ByteDance though... American dominated board, algo that the US now controls to push propaganda idk let's see.
by Avamander | 2025-09-16 18:59:56+00:00
It could indeed be that some MUAs only display the comment section. In theory you can use a MIME from like '"Google <google@google.com>" foo@example.com'. Though most spam filters heavily frown upon garbage like that. Things like '"Foo (google@google.com)" <foo@example.com>' will likely pass though. (It's commonly done by shit forwarders.)

Apple Mail does allow you to see the actual sender if you tap on the name though. Outlook has been way worse in that aspect, by not letting you see the full sender. At some point it even saved these fake addresses automatically in your address book if it matched a contact's name or something. (I couldn't find the thread about it right now, but it has been discussed elsewhere.) It's a disservice to everyone except attackers to be honest.
by Bender | 2025-09-16 19:00:23+00:00
I'm sure you will balance your time wisely but I would only add that kids grow up really fast and the youngest years are when they need your guidance the most. Blink a couple times and they will be teenagers. Blink again and they are adults. I have my regrets. I hope you don't have any regrets and wish the best for you and your family.
by austin-cheney | 2025-09-16 19:00:23+00:00
Not all autistic people do this. It is just one symptom among many in a big mixed bag called a spectrum.

Over use of first-person pronouns occurs because a person struggles to extrapolate outward from themselves and their speech reflects the center of their thinking, which is just themselves. Low social intelligence describes the inability to relate to other people in a normal capacity. Not everybody is excellent at empathy, but for people with low social intelligence its a massive gap.

It is such a gap that many people who suffer from extremely low social intelligence realize its a gap because they eventually figure out other people don't want to be around them and they don't have the social relationships they see other people casually having.
by porridgeraisin | 2025-09-16 19:00:32+00:00
I'd argue culture solely defines the language.

Is there a full library ecosystem of stuff written like the json parser you shared, which is as complete as the enterprisey library ecosystem? Similarly, SO answers? LLM output? Tutorials? YouTube videos?

I think the answer is no.

It's the same problem with C#. Just adding alternate paradigms means nothing. The only thing that matters is how a majority of code in the ecosystem is structured. In java, that's enterprisey code. Most code is glue code, so you're forced into the majority pattern, lest you want to write endless wrappers...

On the other hand, while typescript supports a lot of the enterprisey nonsense similar to C#, the majority of the ecosystem is written with simple functions, callbacks and options objects. Not in an enterprisey way. I don't need to use decorators to use zod.

People that eschew enterprisey code and prefer simple code can't switch to java or c# until the whole culture changes, regardless of the kitchen sink of features either language adds.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-09-16 19:00:32+00:00
The thing about entry-level candidates is that we expect them to know relatively little, anyway. When I've been delegated to participate in interviewing new candidates, a question I really like is "What's your favorite project you've worked on lately? What was interesting about it? Run into any tricky problems along the way? It can be anything: for work, school, a hobby project. Doesn't even need to software".

It slices through the bullshit fast. Either the person I'm interviewing is a passionate problem solver, and will be tripping over themselves to describe whatever oddball thing they've been working on, or they're either a charlatan or simply not cut out for the work. My sneaking suspicion is that we could achieve similar levels of success in hiring for entry level positions at my current company if we cut out literally the entirety of the rest of the interviews, asked that one question, and hired the first person to answer well.
by vessenes | 2025-09-16 19:00:33+00:00
I too avoided it; I had an interesting interaction with the (American) call center scammer -- he called, said his story; he gave me a callback number when asked; I asked him for a web page I could verify a callback number. He quickly rattled off a legitimate Coinbase webpage URL, I believe their ToS page, which does include a phone number. He then hung up rather quickly.

Sadly for the scammers, that number didn't match. But, I note it was part of his script to sound confident and give a working URL. Pretty strong.
by dekhn | 2025-09-16 19:00:45+00:00
I have been working with 6502 the past few days. Apple IIe hires mode was the bane of my childhood existence, but these days it's not so bad- an LLM can easily write code (C or assembly) to do high performance drawing. Unfortunately, the 6502 is a really limited chip with a number of very awkward challenges.
by zahlman | 2025-09-16 19:01:02+00:00
Cox is only 50, hundreds of millions of people use Discord per Klippenstein, and Discord has existed for over a decade. Contra Klippenstein, I see no reason to believe that Cox (never mind "types like" him, whatever that's supposed to mean) is unfamiliar with it.

Having a police officer call you to explain why something you said aroused suspicion is not a violation of freedom of speech. The anonymous man was not imprisoned, arrested, threatened or approached physically, and the call served to indicate that he had been cleared of further suspicion.

Spying on Discord is wrong; that's what the Fourth Amendment is for. Cox has said nothing to oppose this.

Klippenstein's apparent main point is to call Cox a hypocrite for maintaining social media accounts on Twitter etc. This is commonly recognized as the "we live in a society" fallacy. Cox's job requires having these accounts; it would be bad for national security if someone else could pose as a government official on social media without any clear way to correct the record. Cox is clearly doing his best on Twitter to de-escalate and make it a better place. Believing an environment to be bad does not morally compel leaving it, especially when there is no clear escape. It does not at all follow that Cox "means “bad” social media like Discord".

Per Klippenstein's numbers and a bit of arithmetic, Discord apparently complies with EDRs at a rate of about three per million user-years. For perspective, Wikipedia cites an estimate of 24,000 annual global deaths from lightning strikes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_injury); since the world population is on the order of 8 billion, this is about the same rate.

Klippenstein claims he "is told" that the current incident did not involve responding to an EDR, but he can't evidence this. He also can't show that this actually resulted from surveillance; maybe someone in the group decided to squeal (misguidedly) or pull a prank (terrible idea).

Klippenstein criticizes Patel for "in effect saying that anything, even just the purchase of a T-shirt, is a lead." Patel didn't say anything about what a "lead" is. What he did say depends on considering things reported to the FBI to be leads. But this is simply following the definition, so there is nothing wrong here.
by boothby | 2025-09-16 19:01:24+00:00
> or possibly a lack of tooling problem.

It's a lack of tooling problem. Because if you're a bioinformatics researcher, you want to devote your time, money and energy towards bioinformatics. You don't want to spend weeks getting tooling written to handle an arcane file format, nor pay for that tooling, nor hire a "brilliant" programmer. That tooling needs to be written, packaged and maintained for perhaps dozens of programming languages.

Instead, you want to use the format that can be read and written by a rank novice with a single programming course under their belt, because that's what makes the field approachable by dewey-eyed undergrads eager to get their feet wet. Giving those folks an easy on-ramp is how you grow the field.

And then you want to compress that format with bog-standard compression algorithms, and you might get side-tracked investigating how to improve that process without exploding your bioinformatics-focused codebase. Which is an interesting show of curiosity, not a reason to insult a class of scientists.

There's also a distribution problem. When people break history, by introducing new file formats, or updating old file formats, that impedes archival and replication. And once you've got a handful of file formats, now you've got the classic n+1 problem where no single format is optimal in all ways so people are always inventing new formats to see what sticks. And now an archivist needs to maintain tooling with an ever-increasing overhead. Here we see a clash of wisdom versus intellect, and if you're trying to foster a healthy field of research, wisdom wins the long game.
by nomel | 2025-09-16 19:01:27+00:00
I have a smart gas range so I can remember if I left it on, and to automatically turn on my exhaust fans (that lead outside), to get rid of any pollutant concerns.

I’ve attached power monitors to my clothes washer and dryer to make them a little smart, for notifications when they’re done (auto dry feature means it’s not deterministic). Most people wouldn’t want to diy it.

Where I am, electricity is $.65/kwh during the day and $.19 at night. If my clothes dryer were electric, I would definitely run it on a schedule. I wish I could run my dishwasher in a schedule.

These all seem desirable, to the average person, and usually only available with the smart models.
by foresterre | 2025-09-16 19:01:40+00:00
At my company we have been using react-native for years without Expo, and aside from some performance issues here or there it has mostly been great (we also use Android auto so that's my reference to "native-ish mobile").

Recently we've been trialling Expo again, and I think it has much approved from where it was a few years ago (when we went in the opposite direction). It mostly saves you time on the build side and gives you some known to work 'good' libraries to depend on, and if you want it, a file based router (we just kept using react-navigation directly, on which the router is built).

The biggest pain in react-native are the major version updates which are regularly breaking (and the lack of css grid , you'll have to make do with flex)

With Expo, that's not necessarily gone, but the updates are usually smaller compared to respective Android updates (but you still need to comply with new rules for app stores), and usually less painful because with Expo (unlike react-native directly) there's less to manually update within the platform native files which is error prone, even when you use Microsoft's upgrade tool. When you are some versions behind it was sometimes easier to bootstrap from scratch and copy over your own code.

One thing to say about Expo is that, here too, it's easier to start with a newly created app than to add expo later on, partly because Expo's docs assumed you did that.
by everdrive | 2025-09-16 19:01:46+00:00
I was originally upset about AI age-identification, but I think this might be the least-bad option given the route we're on:

- clearly the wider public is moving towards REAL identification to be online. Anything which delays or prevents this is probably welcome.

- It's easy to game, but also easy to be misclassified. (this isn't a positive, but I think there's no avoiding this unless I have to provide my passport or driver's license or something)

It's not impossible to think that this could satisfy enough people to prevent the death of the anonymous internet.
by harmmonica | 2025-09-16 19:01:50+00:00
That's a crazy statistic and an interesting one for him to actually say out loud. Was that in the context of Uber partnering with Waymo in Austin? And thanks for the insight on the manufacturing side. Sounds like it might actually be to their advantage to use third parties because you can spread the demand around and since auto margins are not high the added cost for that benefit is minimal.
by articsputnik | 2025-09-16 19:02:11+00:00
it is, but as Omarchy is heavily based on web apps, which include Figma, Notion, Google Photos, etc. it works there too.

And in the native apps, such as Terminal, Obsidian, etc., you can just use ctrl++ or ctrl+-. At least that is how i use it. Or what specific apps you need that?
by Zigurd | 2025-09-16 19:02:47+00:00
An interesting thing about this is that there are fewer than 1000 Waymos in the SF service area. I don't know today's total, but I'm pretty certain that there are fewer than 5000 Waymos in existence. Maybe as few as half that.

Some months ago Waymo claimed to be providing 250,000 rides per week. If the fleet size was 2500 at the time, that would be 100 rides per vehicle per week.
by glenstein | 2025-09-16 19:03:11+00:00
At some point in the 20th century the Republican and Democratic parties flipped, in terms of which geographical and ideological blocks they represented. Most people point to the Civil Rights Act, with D's were in favor of and R's were against, as well as Nixon's Southern Strategy, as an explicit turning point, but it was already gradually underway in decades before and after. The inertia and old boys networks lasted well into the 90s and early 00s before the realignment fully played out.

But in the modern day you see revisionist history insisting that no such realignment ever occurred, and that the R's are the same "Party of Lincoln" they always were. Enter news stories such as this one. If you aren't sure that a realignment took place, ask which movement in the present day regularly celebrates and defends and invokes that iconography of the confederate south, and tries to defend and preserve historical artifacts that celebrate the confederate south while removing those that criticize it.

If the history of the 20th century wasn't already clear, I think even just the last 5-10 years, and especially this year, 2025, give all kinds of new evidence demonstrating that the realignment really happened.
by Helmut10001 | 2025-09-16 19:03:32+00:00
Several garages inherited and mostly not in use, a large backyard, half of the greenhouse (my mother complains that the tomatoes now don't grow as good), the summer kitchen/garden house, the main house. 96x Solarwatt 60M-310, 160x Heckert Solar NeMo 120. Pretty much all buildings and everything I could fit in. See some pictures here [1].

[1]: https://www.photovoltaikforum.com/thread/226950-bericht-60kw...
by kerpal | 2025-09-16 19:03:37+00:00
Use a password manager and use a SEPARATE second factor authenticator not tied to the password manager. I personally use Authy (though I think it's been deprecated) and Bitwarden.

I recently got a Google scam call from someone using Google Voice in the bay area (650 number) claiming to be with Google and that an unauthorized device was trying to access my account. Eventually realized they were just trying to get my to unlock my account probably to drain bank accounts.
by tracker1 | 2025-09-16 19:03:52+00:00
Can I use this now/today for something immediate? Do I otherwise think it's cool enough to play with taking time away from other activities?

That's most of it... I tend to read tech articles, documentation, etc pretty voraciously. I'm okay-ish at remembering names, or at least enough to remember what to look for if I need something and read about a good fit a few years ago. So I tend to continue to take in what I can, staying somewhat shallow outside of what's in front of me, or otherwise has my interest.

Right now, my secondary interests are around rust and adapting legacy tech (BBS Doors, Telnet, etc), so if I look into something more, that's where I'm more inclined to do it. I'm also a bit lazy.

I'll dig fairly deep in terms of what's in front of me. I'm actively working on a green C# backend so I've brought in FastEndpoints (new to me, but similar to other tech I've used) while also relying heavily on Dapper and MS-SQL Server and Grate for migrations. The use of C# and SQL Server are outside my control, as is deploying to Windows. That said, having some awareness of the ecosystem over the years lets me be able to bring in newer options that fit well over time.

By contrast, if I were working in a JS target (Node, Cloudflare, etc) I'd probably be leaning heavily into Hono+Zod+OpenAPI libraries. Again, relatively current in that space.

In the end, I just try to have awareness of what is shaping up in the communities and trying not to dive into anything I can't make use of now.
by gtowey | 2025-09-16 19:04:05+00:00
If this is true then it sounds like the FBI targeted him specifically because they figured his previous crimes made for good leverage.

It seems his mistake was not realizing that he was caught between a rock and a hard place. More colloquially he's in the FO stage after FA.

It doesn't seem like anyone is morally in the right, but it also seems like the defendant here was in a legal grey area to begin with.
by dlahoda | 2025-09-16 19:04:44+00:00
you cannot prove RAFT correctness using Rust type checker.

wdym by "no tests"?

seems you have not read my response at all...

> sure we need write tests, and tests like antithesis helps with.

also, imho both lamports (bft and paxos) and are better of raft https://www.hytradboi.com/2025/2016d6c4-b08d-40b3-af2f-67926...
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by tptacek | 2025-09-16 19:04:58+00:00
You're both veering out of CFAA jurisprudence in different ways. But you know you're in trouble when you start saying things like "I am no telepath", because in fact a big part of an ambiguous CFAA case will be determining what a reasonable person (ie: the jury) would think confronted with the computer system under discussion. There will in fact be mind reading involved; your intent would in fact be tried.

There's nothing at all CFAA-specific about this; this is really basic US criminal law and it comes up in all sorts of different criminal justice contexts. The terms you're both dancing around are mens rea and actus reus.
by samus | 2025-09-16 19:05:01+00:00
Just use OpenJDK (only downside is you have to upgrade every half year) or a distribution of another vendor (most people use Eclipse, or Red Hat if they already are Red Hats customers). It's really not as difficult as it is made out to be.

If you use Oracle's distribution of the JDK then you are an enterprise customer and should have the resources to deal with their license terms.
by astrange | 2025-09-16 19:05:14+00:00
> no, it's not. it's capable of assembling words that are likely to appear near other words in a way that you can occasionally process yourself as a coherent thought.

It doesn't emit words at all. It emits subword tokens. The fact that it can assemble words from them (let alone sentences) shows it's doing something you're not giving it credit for.

> literally the most average-possible advice

"Average" is clearly magical thinking here. The "average" text would be the letter 'e'. And the average response from a base model LLM isn't the answer to a question, it's another question.
by agnosticmantis | 2025-09-16 19:06:03+00:00
It’s wild that $goog is so undervalued (p/e 27) given Alphabet owns Waymo in addition to everything else, and yet Tesla is so overvalued (p/e 243!!!) despite zero Robotaxis in the near (or far) future and lackluster sales.

Goes to show empty promises and fraudulent showmanship sell better than actual working products that people use.
by wcoenen | 2025-09-16 19:06:04+00:00
Ironically, Authy's cloud sync feature may have been what pressured Google to add cloud sync[1].

And yes, Google could have added an extra encryption password. But users forget/lose passwords, especially if they normally never need them. So I can see why Google didn't go that route.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/2fa/comments/pmow4k/switching_from_...
by derekdahmer | 2025-09-16 19:06:35+00:00
Firstly, I can tell you phone number verification made a very meaningful impact. The cost of abuse can be quite high for services with high marginal costs like AI.

Second, all those alternatives you described are also not great for user privacy either. One way or another you have to try to associate requests with an individual entity. Each has its own limitations and downsides, so typically multiple methods are used for different scenarios with the hope that all together its enough of a deterrence.

Having to do abuse prevention is not great for UX and hurts legitimate conversion, I promise you most companies only do it when they reach a point where abuse has become a real problem and sometimes well after.
by toast0 | 2025-09-16 19:06:43+00:00
The 6502 and the 6800 are pretty similar. The 6501 was pin compatible with the 6800, but not software compatible; the 6501 was dropped as part of a settlement with Motorola.

Changing an in-progress system design to a similar chip that was much less expensive ($25 at the convention vs $175 for a 6800, dropped to $69 the month after the convention) is a leap of faith, but the difference in cost is obvious justification, and the Apple I had no legacy to work with.

It would have been great if Windows NT could have picked up utf-8, but it's a bigger leap and the benefit wasn't as clear; variable width code points are painful in a lot of ways, and 16-bits for a code point seemed like it would be enough for anybody.
by Avamander | 2025-09-16 19:07:04+00:00
DMARC specifies that SPF alignment is checked for the domain in the MIME From. The domains in SMTP and MIME From do not have to be the same (nor both align).

Your MTA can still check alignment for both HELO and SMTP From as specified by SPF's RFC(s) though and spam filters often do for extra information/signal.

DMARC's adkim/aspf aren't basically supported in practice. Nor they should be. For reasons already mentioned, as you already read.
by ajross | 2025-09-16 19:07:29+00:00
Something isn't adding up here. The author is excruciatingly rigorous with documenting lots of stuff here, including the screenshots. Then glosses over this bit awfully fast:

> So when he asked me to read back a code — supposedly to prove I was still alive — in a moment of panic, I did

This was an account with authenticator enabled. I'm no expert, but I really don't think there's a recovery process that works as simply as "read back a code". Certainly not in the SMS 2FA sense I'm sure we're all expected to interpret.

Honestly it seems like the author is trying to blame Gmail's UI, when some other more involved phishing technique was actually the novel part here.