MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rootusrootus | 2025-10-19 22:11:10+00:00
As much antipathy as I have for religion, I disagree wholeheartedly. Bias in any form just enables rationalizing a counter-bias. And frankly, the folks who do exactly that sort of counter-bias today are very good at it. We should be careful about giving them more ammo, this tit-for-tat is tearing us apart.
by danans | 2025-10-19 22:11:37+00:00
>> The agent has no intrinsic goals nor ability to develop them.

> That’s not accurate. Context itself is a form of learning. Every time an LLM runs, it integrates information, updates its internal state, and adjusts its behavior based on what it’s seen so far. That’s learning,

It may be learning, but it's still not an intrinsic goal, nor is it driven by an intrinsic goal.

> LLMs are already rewriting how work gets done across entire industries. Doctors use them to summarize and interpret medical data. Programmers rely on them to generate and review code. Writers, lawyers, and analysts use them daily. If this were a dead end, it wouldn’t be replacing human labor at this scale. Are they perfect?

Nowhere did I say that aren't useful or disruptive to labor markets, just that they aren't intelligent in the way we are.
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by zach_moore | 2025-10-19 22:11:49+00:00
Hey everybody my name is Zach.

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It's pretty simple, you just enter the name of your invention and a patent description will be generated for you, or you can input your provisional patent draft. Then from that description, it generates key terms and does a patent search from every patent in the USPTO database in about 30 seconds.

For now, feel free to use it as much as you like. It's best on Desktop and does not work well on mobile devices.

No descriptions or invention ideas are stored on the server, those fields are only used to generate relevant key terms for doing the database search.

I'll probably keep building this and I'm open to any ideas as well as open to high-quality feedback. You can email me at zacharymichaelmoore@gmail.com

Disclaimer: Not legal advice and it can make mistakes. Use at your own risk.
by icegreentea2 | 2025-10-19 22:11:54+00:00
Plugging in 35k ft altitude, and 775 ft/s velocity here (https://www.spaceworks.aero/fcc2/index.html) gives dynamic pressure of 220 lb/ft2, vs ~2100 lb/ft2 for 1atm at sea level (the same calculator says 7k ft altitude has a static pressure of ~1600 lb/ft2, or rough idea of cabin air pressure).
by marvel_boy | 2025-10-19 22:12:57+00:00
Got an error on installation [1] on my mac . Could be because using last version of Xcode(26.1 beta 2?

[1]Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 5 Trace/BPT trap: 5 Terminating Process: exc handler [949]

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread 0 Notepad.exe 0x104681fd4 0x104620000 + 401364 1 Notepad.exe 0x104681e04 0x104620000 + 400900 2 Foundation 0x1872b951c -[NSObject(NSKeyValueCoding) valueForKey:] + 280 3 Foundation 0x1872b93ac -[NSObject(NSKeyValueCoding) valueForKeyPath:] + 220 4 AppKit 0x189c25e58 -[NSBinder valueForBinding:resolveMarkersToPlaceholders:] + 124 5 AppKit 0x189c25c18 -[NSValueBinder
by adtac | 2025-10-19 22:13:29+00:00
if you haven't read the factorio devblog before, please do!

after HN, it's one of my favourite places on the internet because i constantly learn new, random, insane things almost every time. imho it teaches you how to think + shows you what great engineering taste looks like. sorry if i'm overly effusive but each post is so deeply technical and well-written that i can't believe it's free.

you don't need to know anything about factorio or gamedev btw (i don't), just pick a random number between 1 to 438 and start reading :)
by Lichtso | 2025-10-19 22:13:38+00:00
Not yet, I agree, but who is to say they couldn't?

Limiting life to cell based biology is a somewhat lousy definition by the only example we know. I prefer the generalized definition in "What is Life?" by Erwin Schrödinger which currently draws the same line (at cellular biology) but could accommodate other forms of life too.
by mananaysiempre | 2025-10-19 22:13:46+00:00
The XZ project’s build system is and was hermetic. The exploit was right there in the source tarball. It was just hidden away inside a checked-in binary file that masqueraded as a test for handling of invalid compressed files.

(The ostensibly autotools-built files in the tarball did not correspond to the source repository, admittedly, but that’s another question, and I’m of two minds about that one. I know that’s not a popular take, but I believe Autotools has a point with its approach to source distributions.)
by bronco21016 | 2025-10-19 22:13:55+00:00
A lot doesn't add up from that article though. The writer mentions the window in question is the Captain's window. From the pictures, it appears to be the First Officer's window. Also, the writer mentions pock marks consistent with hail damage in other areas of the aircraft but I haven't found any images substantiating that.

Hail is absolutely the most probably explanation, the article points to two other instances with similar outcomes. I think the doubt comes from the lack of evidence of hail or convective activity or other hail damage on the aircraft. Also, the pilot reportedly said he saw something coming at the aircraft.
by chao- | 2025-10-19 22:14:26+00:00
I am familiar with what you are referring to.

However, as it often is, Houston is a weird outlier because its development is so recent. The majority of its current footprint was built after 1970, with many neighborhood pools and community pools. Some are limited to residents of the area and their guests, others are fully public, such as this one:

https://epconservancy.org/aquatics-center/
by natebc | 2025-10-19 22:15:06+00:00
Our 5 year ELA for VMware went from 1.5M USD to 12M USD. I work in Higher ed.

Our Hyper-V environment came online a few months ago. It was already included with our ELA with Microsoft so we were able to splash out a bit for some higher tier support.

Granted, we have a separate team working on "genAI stuff."

We started converting virtual machines about 3 weeks ago and we've gotten through ~500 of about 3500 or so.

Our grant based HPC environment is just moving back to bare metal. The VM conversion is just for ad-hoc HPC and then all of our general infrastructure. Some of our larger application servers (SAP Hana) are possibly staying on VMWare if SAP won't support them on Hyper-V.

This summer sucked big time but we'll make it.
by eek2121 | 2025-10-19 22:15:19+00:00
I don't know about that, Canada is a beautiful country. If I were on the meds, I wouldn't hesitate to fly out for a day trip every 90 days.

Also, let's be real, anyone in the northeast could be there in a few hours driving. New York City is about 7 hours away from Ottawa, for example.
by Hizonner | 2025-10-19 22:15:54+00:00
> the highest entity rather gets himself killed, then raising the hand against anyone

Well, after personally destroying some cities, cursing an entire civilization with plagues including the death of their firstborn, and ordering the "chosen people" to take over some land by slaughtering everybody living there. And the "getting killed" part didn't remove the threat of eternal fire for anybody who doesn't go along with the program. That's the big stuff I remember off the top of my head.

You have to ignore a lot of stuff in both testaments to get to where you're trying to go.
by defrost | 2025-10-19 22:16:06+00:00
> all knew that the Enigma had been cracked, but Admiral Doenitz refused to believe it.

Whereas:

The dropping results made Admiral Dönitz suspicious. Although reassured by the Abwehr, the German Foreign Intelligence, that Enigma was unbreakable, he insisted on improving the security of Enigma. On 1 February 1942 the famous Enigma M4 model with four rotors and new key sheets were introduced.

~ https://www.ciphermachinesandcryptology.com/en/enigmauboats....

~ https://uboat.net/technical/enigma_ciphers.htm

There were multiple Enigma variations, based on rotor choice pool sizes, number of fittable rotors, time cycles to changing procedures, etc. Some naval enigma variations were broken, others weren't.
by Groxx | 2025-10-19 22:16:54+00:00
could have, absolutely.

should not have been in any commit, which is basically necessary to prevent this case, almost definitely not. it's normal, and requiring all data to be generated just means extremely complicated generators for precise trigger conditions... where you can still hide malicious data. you just have to obfuscate it further. which does raise the difficulty, which is a good thing, but does not make it impossible.

I completely agree that it's a good/best practice, but hard-requiring everywhere it has significant costs for all the (overwhelmingly more common) legitimate cases.
by godelski | 2025-10-19 22:17:36+00:00
Let me clarify. I was too vague and definitely did not express things accurately. That is on me.

We have the math to show that it can be impossible to distinguish two explanations through data processing alone. We have examples of this in science, a long history of it in fact. Fundamentally there is so much that we cannot conclude from processing data alone. Science (the search of knowledge) is active. It doesn't require just processing existing data, it requires the search for new data. We propose competing hypotheses that are indistinguishable from the current data and seek out the data which distinguishes them (a pain point for many of the TOEs like String Theory). We know that data processing alone is insufficient for explanation. We know it cannot distinguish confounders. We know it cannot distinguish causal graphs (e.g. distinguish triangular maps. We are able to create them, but not distinguish them through data processing alone). The problem with scaling alone is that it makes the assertions that data processing is enough. Yet we have so much work (and history) telling us that data processing is insufficient.

The scaling math itself also shows a drastic decline in performance with scale and often do not suggest convergence even with infinite data. They are power laws with positive concavity, requiring exponential increase in data and parameters for marginal improvements on test loss. I'm not claiming that we need zero test loss to reach AGI, but the results do tell us that if this is strongly correlated then we'll need to spend an exponential amount more to achieve AGI even if we are close. By our measures, scaling is not enough unless we are sufficiently close. Even our empirical results align with this as despite many claiming that scale is all we need, we are making significant changes to the model architectures and training procedures (including optimizers). We are making these large changes because throwing the new data at the old models (even when simply increasing the number of parameters) does not work out. It is not just the practicality, it is the results. The scaling claim has always been a myth used to drive investments since it is a nice simple story that says that we can get there by doing what we've already been doing, just more. We all know that these new LLMs aren't dramatic improvements off their previous versions, despite being much larger, more efficient, and having processed far more data.

[side note]: We even have my namesake who would argue that there are truths which are not provably true with a system that is both consistent and efficient (effectively calculable). But we need not go that far, as omniscience is not a requirement for AGI. Though it is worth noting for the limits of our models, since at the core this matters. Changing our axioms changes the results, even with the same data. But science doesn't exclusively use a formal system, nor does it use a single one.
by ajross | 2025-10-19 22:17:41+00:00
Again, distinguishing "advocacy" as your criteria for censorship is censoring on interpretation. I know you are sincere in your opinions about this, they won't change, and I even share them.

They are still our opinions. We share the planet with people who think, equally inflexibly, that the bible does not advocate for slavery and genocide. And the way we do that without resorting to terrible violence (including slavery and genocide!) is by agreeing to disagree by not censoring each other.
by dijit | 2025-10-19 22:19:21+00:00
I thought that the exploit was not injected into the Git repository on GitHub at all, but only in the release tarballs. And that due to how Autoconf & co. work, it is common for tarballs of Autoconf projects to include extra files not in the Git repository (like the configure script). I thought the attacker exploited the fact that differences between the release tarball and the repository were not considered particularly suspicious by downstream redistributors in order to make the attack less discoverable.
by ineedasername | 2025-10-19 22:19:45+00:00
A few thoughts:

1) No one expects security in these places to be Hollywood grade lasers, knockout gas, explosive bolts shuttering down inch thick steel plates in an instant. But 7.5 minutes seems a tad long to have gone, per lack of reporting on anything at all about security guards, without being either opposed or confronted, or otherwise encountering obstacles to escape? (I've seen a story also say 4 minutes. The specific timeline might have been revised? Either that or they're deriving their metrics from different start/end points on what constituted beginning and ending the of the theft.

2) Also, this: “One of the jewelry items was found near the Louvre”. Careless that, someone isn't getting a bonus, but I'm not sure if that points either to ineptitude of non-professionals taking a rare opportunity, or professionals who simply had an unlucky fumble but were smart enough not to double back for it.

3) Finally: The market for these is, what, maybe 100 people in the world? That have the desire for this sort of loot, as-is? Because chopping them up and selling piecemeal is not an economically viable risk/reward calculation. Their value is their cohesion, at least as individual pieces and especially as a set. Otherwise, old jewels certainly have a lot of value but they're also not so rare in their individual pieces as to require this high profile of a burglary. So, specific buyers in mind and a commissioned theft I would think? Then again there have been some "dumb thieves" high profile thefts in the past so its not impossible. And it's not so nice a thought to think we're at the point in this world where billionaires are dispatching gangs of thieves in the old Hollywood tradition, instead of keeping their thefts of the more traditional
by aspenmayer | 2025-10-19 22:20:07+00:00
> Me, I would have backed it up with one-time pads.

Even one-time pads are subject to the efforts used to counter Enigma, such as so-called gardening. I fully agree that layers are better than a single method like Enigma was many times in practice, which is usually all-or-none with no failsafe, at least until later in the war, when Enigma variants started being used in combination with coded messages and code words on top of the Enigma cipher machines themselves, but those efforts were foiled by the dedication and planning of the gardeners’ known-plaintext attacks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardening_(cryptanalysis)

> In cryptanalysis, gardening is the act of encouraging a target to use known plaintext in an encrypted message, typically by performing some action the target is sure to report. It was a term used during World War II at the British Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, England, for schemes to entice the Germans to include particular words, which the British called "cribs", in their encrypted messages. This term presumably came from RAF minelaying missions, or "gardening" sorties. "Gardening" was standard RAF slang for sowing mines in rivers, ports and oceans from low heights, possibly because each sea area around the European coasts was given a code-name of flowers or vegetables.

> The technique is claimed to have been most effective against messages produced by the German Navy's Enigma machines. If the Germans had recently swept a particular area for mines, and analysts at Bletchley Park were in need of some cribs, they might (and apparently did on several occasions) request that the area be mined again. This would hopefully evoke encrypted messages from the local command mentioning Minen (German for mines), the location, and perhaps messages also from the headquarters with minesweeping ships to assign to that location, mentioning the same. It worked often enough to try several times.
by gambiting | 2025-10-19 22:20:38+00:00
>>The UK doesn’t allow any receptacle circuits in a bathroom? Not even if they’re protected with an RCD? That’s a GFCI for Americans.

So to be fair - until last year(or 2023?) you couldn't have them at all, then they changed the rules to say you can, but they have to be at least 3 metres away from the nearest bath or shower. For reference, my entire bathroom is 2.5m by 2m - and I suspect 99% of British bathrooms aren't much bigger than this. So in theory - you can. In practice....not so much.
by newtonsmethod | 2025-10-19 22:23:34+00:00
A nonpartisan newspaper could also condemn or blame a political party for an action. But if all of its posts were supportive of one administration, it would no longer be partisan.

You can just look through the old white house accounts. For example this tweet https://x.com/WhiteHouse46/status/1879171105044181097 , "While Congressional Republicans refused to pass a bipartisan border security agreement, President Biden took action and encounters today are the lowest since July 2020."

Looking through the tweets, you'll see it's not nonpartisan and isn't supposed to be.
by 1718627440 | 2025-10-19 22:23:40+00:00
> the threat of eternal fire

Btw., the purificatorium is actually a bath (in Latin) and it's not eternal. Also Jesus isn't talking much about that.

> You have to ignore a lot of stuff in both testaments to get to where you're trying to go.

Yes. But it's still introduction and references for the punchline.
by chongli | 2025-10-19 22:23:55+00:00
A lot of the theorems I learned in school weren’t particularly amenable to intuitive explanations like that.

For example, take Galois theory. The fact that a polynomial’s solvability by radicals depends on the solvability of its Galois group is surprising and not intuitive at all. The fundamental theorem of Galois theory is a very technical result utilizing purpose-built mathematical structures that were developed specifically to study the solutions of polynomial equations.
by modeless | 2025-10-19 22:24:52+00:00
60 miles is the distance between downtown Seattle and the peak of Mt. Rainier. Downtown Tokyo to the peak of Mt. Fuji. The highest and lowest points in the contiguous US are Death Valley and Mt Whitney, only 80 miles apart, yes that's 20 more than 60 but you get the point here.

Even between places at roughly the same elevation, the climate can vary hugely within 60 miles of a coast. And a majority of the population of the US lives within 60 miles of a coast.
by moron4hire | 2025-10-19 22:25:52+00:00
F-Droid "Anti-Feature flags" are not block lists. They are for users to filter content. The content is still available.

>> When reviewing apps to accept, F-Droid takes the user’s point of view, first and foremost. We start with strict acceptance criteria based on the principles of free software and user control. There are some things about an app that might not block it from inclusion, but many users might not want to accept them. For these kinds of things, F-Droid has a defined set of Anti-Features. Apps can then be marked with these Anti-Features so users can clearly choose whether the app is still acceptable.

>> Anti-Features are organized into “flags” that packagers can use to mark apps, warning of possibly undesirable behaviour from the user’s perspective, often serving the interest of the developer or a third party. Free software packages do not exist in a bubble. For one piece of software to be useful, it usually has to integrate with some other software. Therefore, users that want free software also want to know if an app depends on or promotes any proprietary software. Sometimes, there are concepts in Anti-Features that overlap with tactics used by third parties against users. F-Droid always marks Anti-Features from the user’s point of view. For example, NSFW might be construed as similar to a censor’s blocklists, but in our case, the focus is on the user’s context and keeping the user in control.

Emphasis mine.
by frereubu | 2025-10-19 22:26:08+00:00
If true, this seems like a serious problem for something that's supposed to stop circumvention. Uninstalling an app is trivial on iOS, even easier than unlocking Screen Time.

If not - e.g. if you have to scan the barcode / QR code to uninstall the app (a block that I don't think Apple would allow) - then presumably you'd need to reinstall iOS from scratch.
by nrds | 2025-10-19 22:26:10+00:00
What works for Kmett most often does not work for mere mortals.

As for your first point, I think it's self-defeating: You claim "you don't have to worry about libraries providing an interface to your chosen incremental streaming library", but this requires "a careful choice of implementation" in those libraries with your chosen incremental streaming semantics in mind, which is the same thing but less explicit! And as long as mere mortals can't figure out the magic implementation of `sort` which makes incremental streaming work without explicit bindings, then what's the point?

Haskell is a great language for consuming libraries written by Ed Kmett, as your link demonstrates. Otherwise, it's difficult to work with.
by charcircuit | 2025-10-19 22:26:13+00:00
If Debian wants to improve or modify OpenSSH and put their own code is, they should rename it and stop using the name of the project. Debian's actions created reputational damage by introducing a backdoor into someone else's product without clearly informing the consumer that they did so.

>you can request the sources

Organizarions that open source software can have closed source infrastructure that you can't request.
by OrvalWintermute | 2025-10-19 22:27:18+00:00
Just ask yourself this question though...

Is there a reason why AI cannot be far better than Google at providing results to queries?

Inherently, they are in the same business, but I am not very aware of any AI specifically aimed right at Google's business....... but it is completely logical that they would.

Furthermore, it appears that Google just sells off placement to the highest bidder, and these AIs could easily beat that by giving free AI access in exchange for nibbling at the queries and adding a tab of 'sponsored results'
by VladShumov | 2025-10-19 22:27:22+00:00
I saw a retweet by garry tan last friday.

It was about a peer reviewed research paper that could predict buyer sentiment using synthetic buying decisions with a 90% accuracy!

I knew what I had to do...

So in 24 hrs I built v1 of BuyerIQ to help startups and indiehackers actually get a better sense of their ICP before they waste time and money on the people that probably won't buy your thing!

This is my first product so please go easy on me haha
by Hizonner | 2025-10-19 22:27:57+00:00
> "Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels". -- Matthew 25:41

That's supposed to be a quote from Jesus, personally. In fact he's talking about himself saying that in the future. See that word "everlasting"? Other translations use "eternal".

It's permanent Hell. It's really, really clear. He doesn't have to talk much about it, because he's made the point.

[Edited to fix the chapter and verse]