MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by EvanAnderson | 2025-09-04 19:12:54+00:00
I do contract network admin work for a K-12 school district and I'm hearing the same thing from the in-house sysadmin about his administration staff. The District superintendent is very enthusiastic about getting LLM tools into the hands of the students and teachers. The in-house sysadmin and I are both horrified at what we're enabling.
by hvb2 | 2025-09-04 19:13:03+00:00
I'm trying to point out that most US people are unaware that days for selling a transaction should be outrageous, yet it's the norm.

And a wire, which is as close to sepa as I think you can get, costs 10s of $ each time.

Basically, the international business problem is real. The Argentina case is mostly lack of a domestic stable currency though. These are legit use cases, fast and cheap transactions aren't.
by thayne | 2025-09-04 19:13:59+00:00
I don't know that I would call it an anti-pattern. It has several advantages over using a global variable:

- it avoids needing to create a global variable in the top level namespace

- if the setup is called lazily, then the user config can also perform other lazy operations at configuration time, including requiring other lua modules

- it allows you to pass a config object or function to your package manager, thus keeping your configuration of a plugin, and the code to require the plugin in the same place.

- it doesn't have the problem that you have to make sure you set the global variable before the plugin is loaded

- it is simpler to handle reconfiguring at runtime. The user just calls setup again. Whereas with a global variable, you don't know if/when the config has changed
by glenstein | 2025-09-04 19:14:13+00:00
Said this in a different comment but I want to paste it here as well, since a lot of people seem to think "we don't even have a definition" is a show-stopping smackdown. But it isn't.

You can't, and honestly don't need to start from definitions to be able to do meaningful research and have meaningful conversations about consciousness (though it certainly would be preferable to have one rather than not have one).

There are many research areas where the object of research is to know something well enough that you could converge on such a thing as a definition, e.g. dark matter, intelligence, colony collapse syndrome, SIDS. We nevertheless can progress in our understanding of them in a whole motley of strategic ways, by case studies that best exhibit salient properties, trace the outer boundaries of the problem space, track the central cluster of "family resemblances" that seem to characterize the problem, entertain candidate explanations that are closer or further away, etc. Essentially a practical attitude.

I don't doubt in principle that we could arrive at such a thing as a definition that satisfies most people, but I suspect you're more likely to have that at the end than the beginning.
by parconley | 2025-09-04 19:14:39+00:00
After looking for further reading about Patrick's thoughts on communication, here's what I found.

https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.803/index.html - The supplementary reading list for this class looks interesting.

https://www.amazon.com/Make-Clear-Speak-Persuade-Inform/dp/0... - Patrick co-authored a book on communication based on said class.
by guywithahat | 2025-09-04 19:14:51+00:00
Ignoring the fact the YC data is often out of date, I think this is really cool, and it speaks to trends in the industry. In particular, I'm surprised how few YC companies end up in Austin or Seattle, which are traditionally thought of as top-tier tech cities. It looks like in recent batches more companies are headed to Austin though, which makes sense.

Humorously there are 83 companies in Remote, OR, which I somehow doubt
by bookofjoe | 2025-09-04 19:15:09+00:00
Oh! I wish you lived near Charlottesville, Virginia, where I live. I am a 77-year-old retired neurosurgical anesthesiologist. My technical aptitude is SO low that I dare not exchange my obsolete 10-year-old Comcast WiFi router for the current model that I can "basically just plug in out of the box," even though it's billed as being at least 5x faster than mine, because I don't believe their constant emails that the new one they'll send me is simple to set up. Far more likely than not I'll end up with NO WiFi and have to pay for a technician to come and do it.
by naravara | 2025-09-04 19:15:09+00:00
I know distilleries will often contract with one or more other distilleries to create a custom blended whisky to sell under their label to get some revenue while they wait for their first batches to mature. There are distilleries that basically specialize in doing this. I assume the wine market probably has similar strategies. I know 3 buck chuck basically started like this, buying overstock from other vineyards and blending them into a generic white or red wine.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-04 19:15:16+00:00
Being a famous sports figure in general makes it easier to invest in these assets. Many VCs will bend over backwards to have a famous sports personality involved in their firm or investments.

Even a non-famous person with ~$20mm to invest (somewhere around the after-tax amount of his rookie contract) would not get a seat at the table at these VC firms.
by bflesch | 2025-09-04 19:15:35+00:00
Thanks for sharing, that's news to me. They seem to have surpassed Germany as US treasury bond holder [1] but recently stopped buying bonds [2].

Do you have any information which geopolitical actor controls tether? Is it China or Russia trying to circumvent SEPA? Or North Korea because north korean hackers have so much bitcoin from their ransomware operations?

[1] https://cointelegraph.com/news/tether-us-treasury-holdings-s... [2] https://yellow.com/news/stablecoin-giant-tether-slashes-trea...
by nailer | 2025-09-04 19:15:46+00:00
Solana has a higher Nakamoto coefficient (20) than ethereum (6). This means the lowest number of validators that would have to collude to censor the network is 20.

There are some legitimate advantages of ethereum (multiple independent validator software implementations) but decentralisation of the L1 isn’t one of them, even more so when you consider most ethereum transactions happen over centralized L2s.
by mtlynch | 2025-09-04 19:17:12+00:00
>Bitrig dynamically generates and runs Swift apps on your phone. Normally this would require compiling and signing with Xcode, and you can’t do that on an iPhone.

>To make it possible to instantly run your app, we built a Swift interpreter. But it’s an unusual interpreter, since it interprets from Swift… to Swift.

I can't understand what they're talking about, and I don't know if it's because I know too little about programming languages or if it's because they're using unusual semantics.

"a compiled language" makes no sense to me because the language itself doesn't determine whether it's compiled or interpreted. It's just a function of what compilers/interpreters exist. I could write an interpreter for C or a compiler for Python, but the languages themselves aren't compiled or interpreted.

I also don't understand what it means to "interpret" Swift to Swift. Do they mean they compile Swift to Swift (or the more modern "transpile" which means the same thing)? But it sounds like they're doing something dynamically at runtime, so it sounds more like decompiling machine code back to Swift, but the rest of the post doesn't match that interpretation.
by serial_dev | 2025-09-04 19:17:17+00:00
I don’t get it yet.

If we skipped the whole blockchain part, wouldn’t it be faster, simpler, cheaper? What value does the whole blockchain, EVM, L1 offer? Don’t they fully control the network? Don’t they decide “everything” anyway?

I’d love to understand it, I’m not a hater, just a developer who don’t quite get this announcement.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-04 19:17:21+00:00
> If I was an average Joe with $100k to invest in 2017, I’d be a multimillionaire right now.

You would not 20X your investment in 8 years unless you got extremely lucky and avoided losing anything in risky bets that did not work out.

Many novice investors have gotten lucky on a trade or two and imagined what their return would be if they had invested 10X or 100X more. However, when you have 10X or 100X more capital on the line, you don't play the same game.
by qcnguy | 2025-09-04 19:17:22+00:00
It's extremely rare to find people who aren't criminals yet engaged in behavior that's genuinely detrimental to everyone else. The world isn't new and the obviously unacceptable behaviors have all been forbidden for thousands of years.

That's why when people talk about stuff that's detrimental to "society", they are usually trying to claim that their personal preferences are more universal than they actually are. It's reminiscent of Thatcher's observation that there's no such thing as society in the sense the left use the word. There are families and coworkers and employers and so on, but there's not some monolithic unit called society that can be anthropomorphised and given preferences.

Clearly, advertising is nowhere near detrimental to society, it's the opposite: a society without ads would be a planned communist dystopia well beyond anything seen even in the USSR (which had advertising!). Many, many people benefit from advertising, which is why it's such a big industry.

People who don't believe this is true are typically in the "don't have information others do" bucket. But a few are just trying to dress up animalistic anti-capitalism in more respectable sounding clothes.
by deinonychus | 2025-09-04 19:17:54+00:00
It's still worth trying and using. The developers consider it a "finished product" and I don't disagree. It does lots of small things well* that many browsers (even the self-confessed clones like Zen) don't do out of the box, if at all. Maybe in two years the browser will no longer be distributed or receive Chromium updates, but it exists and works fine now.

* For example, I get a lot of value from renaming my tabs and even replacing their favicons with emojis of my choice. Zen appears to have limited support for this.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-09-04 19:17:58+00:00
Also, when we are driving, we're in a pretty high state of anxiety; just as a baseline.

I find it amazing, that, when I'm driving, and some knucklehead does something that almost makes me crash (and thus, maybe kill me), I get incandescent with rage, but, five minutes later, I've all but forgotten the incident.

I could easily see myself fanning that rage into something that could result in self-destructive road rage.
by elric | 2025-09-04 19:18:01+00:00
It's galling that this press blurb only focuses on happy (supposed) health monitoring benefits, and fails to address the privacy concerns in the slightest.

This can be abused in so many ways, like watching how people's heart rates change then watching an add, or browsing a selection of goods in the shop, and making viscerally targeted advertising. Or burglars detecting whether people are at home.

Soon we won't just have to worry about unpatched wifi routers being parts of botnes, we'll have to worry about them tracking our locations and excitement levels and selling them off to whoever.
by 3036e4 | 2025-09-04 19:18:59+00:00
An unexpected side-effect for me after I started subscribing to Kagi a few months ago, at a low tier with limited searches, is that I made sure to configure all my browsers with keywords for Wikipedia searches and I use those a lot, knowing that what I will end up with after searching is probably going to be the Wikipedia page anyway. No point wasting precious limited monthly searches.
by bigyabai | 2025-09-04 19:19:21+00:00
> Over the last few years, stablecoins have become a preferred means to hold and move money

Moving money, sure. Holding money, only for chumps. The oldest grift in the cryptocurrency book is "unpegged no-audit stablecoin" and vanishingly few tokens actually put their money where their mouth is. Anyone can spin up money out of nowhere, but only a few businesses can survive a true bank-run scenario.

This seems like a threat to put pressure on CBDC to be pro-business or else the private sector will take over part of their job for them. A rational administration would probably want to put a stop to this, letting the private sector print it's own money will invariably end in heartbreak.
by StefanBatory | 2025-09-04 19:19:22+00:00
Related to recent appearance of In Our Times here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_of_Faith_(TV_series)

The sea is calm tonight. / The tide is full, the moon lies fair / Upon the straits; on the French coast the light / Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, (...)
by amarant | 2025-09-04 19:19:29+00:00
This! My grandmother adopted a dog late in her life. She walked 10km a day with that dog for nearly 20 years! (That dog was the oldest dog I've ever known). At 92 she was famous in my small village, she was in better shape than some of the 30 year olds!

Then the dog died. Instead of walking 10km per day, she lay on the couch staring at the ceiling. About 3 months later she started getting lost on her way to the supermarket. Fifth time she got lost we decided to put her in a home for demented people. We simply couldn't provide the care she needed any other way. Took a few more months and she stopped recognising us.

I think she outlived her dog by about 18 months, iirc.

She stopped walking, and then age came fast for her.
by michaelsbradley | 2025-09-04 19:19:44+00:00
Hollow Knight is a classic. If you enjoy Metroidvania style games you’ll love (almost) every minute. The music and sound effects are great too, so it’s worth playing with headphones if your gaming setup is in an environment with heavy background noise.

That being said, from what I’ve played of Silksong so far, it doesn’t seem to be crafted such that you’ll get the most out of the gameplay only if you played HK. Full appreciation of the in-game lore you’ll discover in Silksong is probably another matter, but even then I think playing them in either order will be a good time. Enjoy!
by flowerthoughts | 2025-09-04 19:20:01+00:00
This still falls under the "but we're used to it" argument. That notion that it feels natural, I argue, is a result of you having seen both W and Wh in enough contexts that you start building intuition for them. Had we had W and J, you would have been able to build the same intuition.

> If you said 1MW/360GJ, I don't think that would be nearly as clear.

Wouldn't have been using the hour as the mental reference. As you say, it's impractical. We would have probably rounded the 86,400 seconds in a day to 100,000 and used that as the reference for comparisons. There's nothing noteworthy about the hour in this context.

> A battery that provides 1 amp (at 12V, but that's already given in a system) for 50 hours. Makes immediate practical sense, especially when equipment is often labelled in current draw and you can measure amps with an ammeter. 2.16MJ far less so.

I argued Ah could have used the SI base unit C, not that we'd use J. Whether you count As or Ah is still just a matter of building intuition.
by mvieira38 | 2025-09-04 19:20:04+00:00
5- I don't know if that's even an issue that needs solving with Anki. If that ever becomes an issue with your deck it's probably because you don't add enough cards per day (or preferred time period) and enough cards per subject. I wrote about this in a comment last week I think, but a simple vocab card should actually be like at least 6: vocab <-> image (2), vocab <-> native vocab (2), vocab <-> write out native vocab (2). The text-based answers should still contain an image, too, for better embedding of the knowledge.

People that complain that Anki ends up being just Q -> A memorization are often using it superficially. And even then, won't the algorithm just phase the useless cards out anyways when they become too easy?
by gs17 | 2025-09-04 19:20:05+00:00
> The truth is that everyone carries a camera

But that "everyone" isn't a single entity recording everywhere in public with the intent of providing tracking information of everyone else. If I'm in the background of someone's selfie and posts it online, it could be used to get my location at a specific time, sure, but their intent wasn't to do so and the scope of their recording is dramatically more limited than Flock.
by Patryk27 | 2025-09-04 19:20:06+00:00
> Worrying about things like this without profiling can cause a lot of unnecessary complexity when planning abstractions in Rust.

:+1: - it was mostly about "damn, it _feels_ like there should be a better way".

> You might be able to get away with the lock approach and you may even be able to use Rc<RefCell<_>>, which would get a little speed up.

In this particular case that'd be a bit more awkward, because in the actual game the UI is driven by async fn (the rendering itself is sync, of course, but waiting for input is async, and both happen as a part of the same function).

`spawn_local()` could be a good enough solution for that, though.
by 8organicbits | 2025-09-04 19:20:20+00:00
It's interesting to imagine how you'd maliciously use a TLS certificate for a major DoH provider (which does NOT appear to have happened here). Impersonating a DoH server would let you return any DNS responses you wish. DNSSEC would only protect against this sort of attack if the stub resolver performed the DNSSEC validation, which I think is quite rare. For HTTPS, the attacker would also need a certificate for the target domain (or trick the user into trusting an invalid certificate / downgrade to HTTP). This is not a compelling attack since it only compromises one layer of protection.

This is problematic for SMTP/email, as you really need a trustworthy MX response and, unless you have MTA-STS, TLS validation is usually not performed. DNSSEC/DANE could help, but it depends on where DNSSEC validation occurs.

It would, however, be a privacy concern as the attacker impersonating the DoH server would learn the queries and source IP addresses.
by ericmcer | 2025-09-04 19:20:21+00:00
They aren't replacing people directly though, like an AI can't fill a seat that a person used to. The claim seems to be that individuals are more productive now so less people are needed.

Measuring productivity has been attempted by every big tech co. and has never really had amazing results. So to claim they can lay off 1,000 people because of "AI" means they must have measured some % increase in individual productivity and know they can function with less people.

Or it's just a big excuse to cut low performers and compensate for overhiring.
by cyberax | 2025-09-04 19:20:28+00:00
> The Walmart/Walmart.com TOS and Privacy Policy documents only say

Neither applies to in-person transactions. You don't sign anything when you enter Walmart.

The rules are specified in PCI-DSS and also there are explicit laws in many states. There is wording that the card details or derived information can only be stored for legitimate business or legal reasons (i.e. associated with the transaction itself).

> If you use a credit card or a coupon, or fill out a survey, or mail in a refund, or call the customer help line, or open an e-mail we’ve sent you or visit our Web site, we’ll record it and link it to your Guest ID

You need to have a ToS acceptance somewhere along the chain. They can't use credit cards without notifying you.
by Finnucane | 2025-09-04 19:21:10+00:00
Many of the workers at the Nevada Test Site got radiation sickness, cancers, and other health issues from exposure to the bombs and fallout. As did their families (contaminated clothing was worn home). Soldiers taking part in tests, downwinders in Utah and elsewhere, experienced high rates of cancer. Farmers lost livestock and crops. The AEC and DoD did everything they could to cover it up.
by duskwuff | 2025-09-04 19:21:45+00:00
You might be surprised how inexpensive a small Linux-capable MPU is. The Rockchip RV1103 (1x Cortex-A7 @ 1.2 GHz, 64 MB integrated DRAM) is under $3 in quantity. High-end microcontrollers are actually more expensive than low-end MPUs, e.g. STM32N6 is $15-20.
by InsideOutSanta | 2025-09-04 19:22:04+00:00
Is this just for dilution of responsibility? If a central company is responsible for these transactions, then they are responsible for the transactions, which means there are all kinds of legal constraints and repercussions. But if it's a blockchain, then all of the nodes in the network are responsible.

So in this case, "this business is incentivized to be honest" might be the precise "problem" this is meant to solve.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-04 19:22:18+00:00
> He’s also a limited partner in funds including Founders Fund, Thrive Capital, Silver Point Capital, and Multicoin Capital.

Dividing the entire rookie contract amount across so many investments and so many funds means relatively small investments in those funds.

No way any non-famous-athlete individual would be able to LP in those funds without athletic stardom attached. It's a selling point for those LPs to say he's part of their funds and they get to rub shoulders with a professional athlete.
by dutchCourage | 2025-09-04 19:22:26+00:00
I've also made the move to Zen. I think Arc users will feel right at home there. It hasn't quite reached he same level of polish just yet but being in active development is a big plus.

On top of that, Zen can be personalized with CSS. As someone who spends a lot of time in the browser, it's been awesome to be able to tailor it to my needs. https://docs.zen-browser.app/guides/live-editing
by nathan_douglas | 2025-09-04 19:23:05+00:00
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