MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by uolmir | 2025-10-14 04:58:17+00:00
> In fact up until a recent funding method change from the Trump Administration, most grant money was subject to "overhead"--a nebulous nonsensical accounting trick that allowed the university administration to get upwards of 60% of the dollars that are earmarked for grants.

We're better than this here. Don't spread misinformation. First of all overhead is listed as a percentage, such as 55% or 60% or whatever but the university doesn't get that fraction of the total grant. You work up the so called direct costs, ie the line item salaries of the researchers, the reagents, etc. and then the overhead is 60% of that figure. So it would work out to be 38% of the total dollars granted.

It's also not a trick. It's a negotiated amount that is supposed to avoid each grant requesting some amortized fraction of the cost of office space and other necessary but shared expenses.

I and most people agree that's it's possibly too high, but it's ignorant to treat it like a scam.
by curioussquirrel | 2025-10-14 04:58:25+00:00
Thanks, Simon! I saw the same approach (numbering the individual characters) in GPT 4.1's answer, but not anymore in GPT 5's. It would be an interesting convergence if the models from Anthropic and OpenAI learned to do this at a similar time, especially given they're (reportedly) very different architecturally.
by saghm | 2025-10-14 04:58:34+00:00
> doing things no other automaker even tries to do

"Move fast and break things" is not really a virtue when the thing moving fast is a two-ton hunk of steel and the things breaking are people's bodies. Getting the easier stuff right but then then also killing people isn't "doing better" in my opinion; sometimes it's better to have a lot of lower magnitude failures than infrequent but catastrophic ones.
by tolerance | 2025-10-14 04:58:40+00:00
I hate this, I think to myself as I lay on the couch and then type what I think onto the keys of my mobile phone’s screen.

It’s not that I hate how the author feels or what he thinks. I hate that he feels he has to think all of this and that the phone is that great an impediment. I hate that I feel like the same way as him and that he’s expressing it so clear. I’m projecting.

This is all so dumb. They’re just phones for crying out loud. We should all be ashamed of ourselves. I’ve been putting salt on top of boredom to make time taste better. What have I done.
by wrp | 2025-10-14 04:59:39+00:00
Japan used that strategy very successfully for at least a century. The high cost of imported goods encouraged consumers to buy domestic at prices that were also high, which subsidized exports at competitive prices. The Japanese public is less docile now, but this is one example where import restrictions worked well. I believe you can find other examples from the 20th century, but I'm not sure whether they would work well in the current global environment.
by aurareturn | 2025-10-14 05:00:01+00:00
Which came from the US sanctioning Huawei because Huawei was making better chips than Qualcomm and Cisco.

US was posturing to ban China access to Arm. Ultimately, it led to a ban on using TSMC for Chinese companies instead. There is no real justification to do a blanket ban on all Chinese companies except a state-sponsored way to to slow China down in AI race.
by skissane | 2025-10-14 05:00:37+00:00
z/OS has this interesting feature AT-TLS (Application Transparent TLS)-an app requesting a plaintext socket may silently get a TLS socket instead (with the TLS implemented in the OS), based on a policy defined by the system administrator.

Maybe the solution might be something similar… an app asks for a TCP socket, but (if the request matches a policy) it gets an MPTCP socket instead-so you could make apps use MPTCP even if they weren’t compiled to support it.

Maybe you could implement this using LD_PRELOAD/ptrace/eBPF/etc
by motorest | 2025-10-14 05:03:02+00:00
> and that action is perfectly fine. But it is then hypocritic to claim one is more justified than the other

Not really. Everyone was extending courtesies to China, but China opted to unilaterally reject the notion thay others could receive the same benefits they were enjoying. Now you're seeing this sort of courtesies being pulled for the first time. And you opt to frame this as hipocricy?
by tyre | 2025-10-14 05:03:40+00:00
Chatting with Claude about a topic is in another universe to google search.

I default to Claude for almost everything where I want to know something. I don’t trust Google’s results because of how weighted they are to SEO. Being good at SEO is a separate skill set.

The answers are not low confidence, cite sources, and can do things that Google cannot. For example: I used Claude to design a syllabus to learn about a technical domain along with quizzes and test suites for verification. It linked to video series, books, and articles grouped by an increasingly complex knowledge set.
by atarvaneitor | 2025-10-14 05:04:26+00:00
Does anyone remember the days when you pointed a 60cm antenna at the Hispasat 30W and connected your DVB-S2 tuner in Windows, Using Crazycat's BDADataEx, you tuned an IP data transponder. Using a technique called Satfish (with a software I don't remember), some files were reconstructed, usually vsat data from oil platforms... and porn.

I'm going to dust off the TBS DVB-S2X card and try to find a data transponder to test the DontLookup app. https://github.com/ucsdsysnet/dontlookup

Where I live, it's almost impossible to find any interest in FTA or pirated SAT TV.

att: ham radio operator interested in satellite radio :D
by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-10-14 05:04:27+00:00
> "I'd say the smart money is on the Unix-derived line of operating systems outliving Windows NT by a considerable amount."

Are you referring to the *BSDs? Linux isn't Unix derived. It's a re-implementation with no code traceable back to the original Unix or any of its descendants.

Aside from that, Windows has a revenue stream behind it that looks to continue indefinitely paying for its development and Linux has...? The half-digested carcass of Red Hat within IBM? Canonical?
by CommanderData | 2025-10-14 05:04:36+00:00
Play Store has an attestation API, Google could simply make it harder to run banking apps and similar if you run GrapheneOS. Something like requiring banking apps to use a stricter mode. GrapheneOS even mentions it's not easy spoofing this entirely as it change often on the FAQ page.

There's only so much you can do as a maintainer of a custom OS like Graphene before its too hard to maintain. I don't think there's enough coming in by way of donations to play catch-up.

Need legislation quick. But I suspect the EU doesn't want side loading either in the grand scheme of surveillance.
by kube-system | 2025-10-14 05:04:42+00:00
Typically, courts will summon a specific person to comply with their request, often a corporate officer or director with a role or authority relevant to what is being requested. If they don't comply with their request, they can be held in contempt.

The specifics vary by country, but basically all legal systems require you to comply with what they say and impose penalties if you don't. I don't know if there are any countries where it's legal to ignore the courts, but I would imagine that their court systems don't work too well.
by protocolture | 2025-10-14 05:04:43+00:00
Eh I wouldnt overstate this. I have seen production line videos from 2025 showing chinese workers hand assembling items.

Chinas value imho is that they are willing to take on shorter and shorter production runs. They have figured out retraining and logistics to the point that they can have 20 customers who only need 1000 - 12000 parts per year, on the back of their 3-4 flagship clients who keep the place running with scale orders.
by saghm | 2025-10-14 05:05:15+00:00
This is a super important point that I don't think a lot of people fully recognize. Medicine is a super interesting comparison because you honestly don't need to go all that far back to find some pretty egregious examples of doctors making things much worse due to ignorance or incompetence. My favorite example of this is the assassination of President Garfield, who most likely died not to the bullet wound itself but from the doctors rummaging around to try to find the bullet with unsanitized hands, causing infection and damaging organs...on the wrong side of his body[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_James_A._Garf...
by ModernMech | 2025-10-14 05:05:22+00:00
> chosen exactly what to develop next, with their own (or investor's) dollars at stake.

We are talking about fundamental research here. Most investors are not interested in funding fundamental science, evidenced by the fact they have all the power to currently fund such work, but they choose not to.

> You can't claim the best at a subject and purport to demonstrate it by writing a book

They don't, they do it by doing science and building a reputation in their field for doing good work. People who work at the NSF and NIH are vouched for by others in their field.

> Real risk managers open hedge funds. Academics write about other's hedge funds.

The interests of private equity and hedge fund managers are well represented. They have plenty of say on public policy and how resources are allocated. It's good to give other people with different perspectives a say as well. Again, the total amount of money allocated for public research is very tiny compared to the rest of the federal budget, private research dollars, total hedge fund wealth, etc.
by rf15 | 2025-10-14 05:05:30+00:00
Hmmm kinda ties into the whole problem of well-off/happy people not being particularly eager to chant "foreigners out", but when they're desperate they take any explanation for their misery they can get their hands on that sounds workable (because, no, you can't go up to a billionaire and just "take all their stuff", but you CAN beat up a foreigner or other disadvantaged person that is worse off than you)
by pjmlp | 2025-10-14 05:05:56+00:00
Yes, when the phones were based on Blackberry, Symbian, Windows CE / Pocket PC.

Naturally before that there where no phones with Email to worry about.

There were games available across all those platforms, which are a specific kind of apps.

Wordperfect is good example of something available all over the place during the 1980-90's.

Thankfully C isn't the only way to use Win32, as it was already not the case with Win16.
by haritha-j | 2025-10-14 05:05:57+00:00
Gee it couldn't possibly be because us minorities are made to feel aware of our skin colour everytime we go out in the streets and see someone putting up an English flag, or preach about how their city has too many people that look like us, which means we're hyper aware of our race and it defines our perspective of ourselves. If racism didn't exist, then being asian wouldn't really form an important part of how i think about myself.
by ctippett | 2025-10-14 05:06:12+00:00
Stumbled upon this earlier today. I really like the functionality you can get from using Shortcuts, but I absolutely detest creating them. As far as DSLs go, this looks like a huge improvement. Also I'm shocked not to have seen it mentioned before on HN.

Edit: Just noticed after posting this that someone has already mentioned this here... A real shame it didn't get any traction, I reckon this deserves a second look.
by curioussquirrel | 2025-10-14 05:07:10+00:00
Even GPT 3.5 is okay (but far from great) at Base64, especially shorter sequences of English or JSON data. Newer models might be post-trained on Base64-specific data, but I don't believe it was the case for 3.5. My guess is that as you say, given the abundance of examples on the internet, it became one of the emergent capabilities, in spite of its design.
by user_7832 | 2025-10-14 05:07:41+00:00
> NXP has been trimming fat since its formation from Philips Semiconductors

Honestly it appears to me that Philips themselves have just been losing talent/marketshare/I'm not even sure what, causing their gradual decline. The Philips I grew up with was an electronics powerhouse. Today apart, from their healthcare department (and maybe their slightly overpriced lighting department via Signifify), they don't seem to be very "active", and that makes me sad.
by coumbaya | 2025-10-14 05:08:12+00:00
It's getting flagged has it should be, according to the hn guidelines that you should read:

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
by noobermin | 2025-10-14 05:08:17+00:00
The traditional meaning of the phrase is that it is not neccessarily information of a misleading nature but is propagated to advance a particular political aim. In that older definition, propaganda can be true or false, misleading of correct.

The current connotation to me seems a result of propaganda from authoritarian states (nazis in germany, communists in the old communist bloc) and the presupposition that the propaganda they pushed was misleading and/or false.
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by prmoustache | 2025-10-14 05:10:36+00:00
While you xan be productive, procrastination is right at the corner even on a PC.

For instance some people making music like to have a dedicated, offline computer to do so in lrder to not be tempted to open the web browser for 2 minutes that transformz itself into hours. Same for some writers who try to seek dedicated environments focused on writing and limiting their exposure to the internet.
by buu700 | 2025-10-14 05:10:54+00:00
I think you could make an analogy to the difference between ASICs and general-purpose CPUs. ASICs are great, but CPUs have flexibility and massive economies of scale. Similarly, a specialized machine might be more efficient than a humanoid robot at a particular task, but advanced humanoid robots could theoretically do all the tasks and as a result would likely end up being manufactured in very high volume.

Imagine a future where any hardware startup could design and provision an assembly line as easily and cheaply as software startups today use cloud computing. Maybe after a certain scale it becomes economical to consider replacing steps of the manufacturing process with "ASIC" solutions, but maybe there'd be a long tail of things which would continue to remain best served by general-purpose robots indefinitely.
by dylan604 | 2025-10-14 05:11:35+00:00
"This felony charge, he added, carried a mandatory minimum prison sentence of five years in federal prison but is punishable by up to 20 years in prison."

Are the 12 deaths separate charges? A sentence of 5-20 years seems very light for 12 deaths. This article is clearly focused on the AI aspect of it, so it doesn't cover the charges at all really.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-14 05:12:34+00:00
Hmmm.

I have a "saved" history in Google Gemini. The reason I put "saved" in scare quotes is that Google feels free to change the parts of that history that were supplied by Gemini. They no longer match my external records of what was said.

Does ChatGPT do the same thing? I'd be queasy about relying on this as evidence.
by zaptheimpaler | 2025-10-14 05:12:35+00:00
I don't see him endorsing the guy somewhere else and all i see in this post is:

> So I get the frustration that many Brits have with the way mass immigration has changed the culture and makeup of not just London, but their whole country. That frustration was on wide display in Tommy Robinson's march yesterday. British and English flags flying high and proud, ...

That doesn't sound like an endorsement to me.
by astrange | 2025-10-14 05:13:09+00:00
I went to SJSU (now KSU) briefly before transferring to a better school (because I slept through all of high school and didn't do any homework) and I did not get the feeling that anyone else in my classes was going to be a successful software engineer. Rather I got the feeling their parents told them to do CS because they really liked video games.

I took a group project game development class and it went beyond doing all the work in the group, I think I did all the work in the class.

Two people I know did graduate then change careers and become successful animators on Archer though.

At GA Tech the quality of students were better, but it mostly seemed to me that it worked by beating everyone to death such that you washed out if you couldn't work nonstop. They still weren't especially good eg not a single other student knew what version control was.
by curioussquirrel | 2025-10-14 05:13:37+00:00
Why test for something? I find it fascinating if something starts being good at task it is "explicitly not designed for" (which I don't necessarily agree with - it's more of a side effect of their architecture).

I also don't agree that nobody is using this for - there are real life use cases today, such as people trying to find meaning of misspelled words.

On a side note, I remember testing Claude 3.7 with the classic "R's in the word strawberry" question through their chat interface, and given that it's really good at tool calls, it actually created a website to a) count it with JavaScript, b) visualize it on a page. Other models I tested for the blog post were also giving me python code for solving the issue. This is definitely already a thing and it works well for some isolated problems.
by yujzgzc | 2025-10-14 05:13:43+00:00
From my time in similar companies, some people understand, and might care, but aren't empowered to do anything about it. They've got a job to do, and creatively auditing network security isn't it. Finding this kind of issue on the company clock won't get them promoted, on the contrary they'll look like they're slowing the team down with vulnerabilities to fix when they've got stuff to build and sell. Very poor security culture.
by wraptile | 2025-10-14 05:14:37+00:00
> No, I'm just exposing your hatred of Russians and your double standards

We're talking business connections here not personal friendships. Russian businesses and business people are not to be trusted as Kremlin retains full control over them and Kremlin is an enemy of Lithuania. It's basic safety and risk assestment to not integrate compromised systems and every russian system is compromised. Same applies to any other actor but guess what, no other actor is threatening invasion of Lithuania so the math adds up here, no?
by benzible | 2025-10-14 05:16:40+00:00
If you buy her framing, sure. But the New Republic's analysis at the time called it "auto-cancellation: quitting, then blaming her peers for driving her out" - noting her resignation letter was "long on invective and just plain long, [but] short on evidence." She was alone in her characterization of a NY Times staff meeting shortly before her departure as a "civil war"; numerous Times staffers who were actually there publicly contradicted her, calling it just a normal editorial conversation.

She'd spent years building a cancel culture narrative, then positioned her dramatic exit as living proof of her own thesis. Pretty straight line from there to her $150M exit. There's a lot of money in catering to the worldview of billionaires who see themselves as victims.

https://newrepublic.com/article/158535/self-cancellation-bar...
by nradov | 2025-10-14 05:16:51+00:00
I took a tour of the BMW Spartanburg factory a few days ago. It is highly automated with most work done by industrial robots. There are a few human workers manually pulling parts out of bins to feed the robots but nothing like the way that assembly lines used to operate.

https://www.bmwgroup-werke.com/spartanburg/en.html
by h4kunamata | 2025-10-14 05:17:06+00:00
Problems like this is why I got a 2025 Suzuki Jimny XL. I don't need a computer on wheels, it has all the ingredients for disasters but people keep ignoring it. XL:

1. No firmware update,

2. No OTA updates, you get what you paid for;

3. No internet access;

The most important thing:

* Standard key (AU version), no keyless ignition!

As it stands now, any car that is keyless ignition can be stolen by OBD devices sold at eBay and AliExpress.

The newer the car, the worst. Toyota new cars in Australia are being stolen by drilling its passenger door which grants you access to the OBD located on the passenger side, hook the OBD device that cost less than AUD50 and you are driving an over AUD100k car away like you own it.

I am not even getting into cars systems have zero security, I remember watching in early 2000s, a hacker taking control of the reporter's car while on a highway and made the car stop. The reported had to change his underwear!! Things got a lot worse 25 years later.

Back to Jeep 4XE Hybrid cars, they are 2025 models and people bought it even after everything that is going on around Jeep. It is hard to blame only the company on this.
by QuiEgo | 2025-10-14 05:17:10+00:00
The average person runs Chrome with no ad blocker, or Safari on their phone with no and blocker, _and they don’t care_.

This reminds me of efforts to get people to care about how the animals their food comes from are treated.

I wish y’all all the luck in the world, but you’ve gotta realize you’re really out on the long tail of the Gaussian curve here, and not let this drive you crazy
by k310 | 2025-10-14 05:17:21+00:00
> The bill would define “covered manufacturer” to mean a person who is a manufacturer of a device, an operating system for a device, or a covered application store. The bill would require a developer, as defined, with actual knowledge that a user is a child via receipt of a signal regarding a user’s age to, to the extent technically feasible, provide readily available features for parents to support a child user with respect to the child user’s use of the service and as appropriate given the risks that arise from use of the application, as specified.

Tell me how this exempts linux systems, the distro authors, and every app developer for said operating systems.

So, an IT director might have to certify that all sysadmins and developers are over 18?

And what if a child has access to email or other service run on that system. Tomorrow, I'll give some thought to wi-fi and other routers.

I see nothing excepted.

YMMV
by astrange | 2025-10-14 05:19:37+00:00
This kind of marginal risk thinking has never made sense to me because of the declining marginal value of money.

If you have $0 you can't accept any risk and can't make any decisions correctly. But if you have like $4 million you also have no reason to make any decisions correctly because risk no longer matters to you. So it relies on them having expensive tastes such that they can't just retire?
by drnick1 | 2025-10-14 05:20:09+00:00
> the C-suite invariably uses iPhones.

Hard to see that as a plus.

I have owned iPhones in the past (and still have a couple of old models collecting dust in a drawer), and I don't think they are in any way more refined than my Pixel 9 running Graphene. Most importantly, it is immune to arbitrary restrictions like sideloading bans or government-mandated spyware (aka Chat Control in Europe).