MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lpln3452 | 2025-10-27 11:08:57+00:00
Admittedly, a distro agnostic equivalent to the PKGBUILD or Nix Flakes would have been great. But it's hard to excuse them when so many better alternatives are available. Even apps that could easily be built into a single binary use these odd installation methods.

And while Flatpak gets a lot of criticism, I honestly think it's far better than these `script| bash` methods.
by mschuster91 | 2025-10-27 11:09:10+00:00
> As long as it's stored and processed locally

Anything stored locally can be exfiltrated by malware. Run OCR on the archives, check when someone opens their password manager, copy and exfiltrate the password.

Oh and partners, ex-partners and children can also abuse such data. Even if you clear your browsing history, forget about clearing the Recall cache and whoops, they can see your browsing habits post-facto.

Employers and law enforcement agencies are another bad actor that's to guard against. Even if laws such as GDPR or employee safety regulations prohibit companies from screenrecording, there's not much stopping them from using a feature Microsoft tries its hardest to prevent people from opting out of.
by jlouis | 2025-10-27 11:09:26+00:00
In addition to the other comments: you can have an internal memory representation of data be Float32, but on disk, this is encoded through some form of entropy encoding. Typically, some of the earlier steps is preparation for the entropy-encoder: you make the data more amenable to entropy-encoding through rearrangement that's either fully reversible (lossless), or near-reversible (lossy).
by kragen | 2025-10-27 11:09:34+00:00
Technically Perón was more like a Fascist than a Socialist, modeling his dictatorship fairly closely on that of his friend Mussolini, but especially in later years Peronism adopted Socialist political positions to an even greater extent than the earlier Fascist parties had. Still, the right-wing death squads hunting down and killing Socialists in Perón's later years were Peronists. So were their victims, but Perón ultimately backed the former rather than the latter.

Kirchner-era Peronism, though just as thoroughly based on social-justice rhetoric as Perón ever was, never approached its level of state enterprises like the Justicialist car and IAPI; despite renationalization of Aerolíneas, YPF, and the pension system, there was no Kirchnerist equivalent of Airbus, Ariane, or Systembolaget. So recent Peronism is far less Socialist in practice even than current France and Sweden, much less Bolshevik Russia.
by honzabe | 2025-10-27 11:10:13+00:00
> I'm not sure it's all that new. During the Bush Jr. years America was not highly thought of.

From my Eastern European perspective, this is something fundamentally different. Sure, many people were critical of Bush Jr., but still, you could, with a bit of effort, construct some semi-reasonable narrative even around Iraq and Afghanistan. But Trump? That feels like an entirely different league.

I grew up in Czechoslovakia, still occupied by Russians at the time. Seeing Trump clap at Putin's landing, seeing US soldiers on their knees rolling red carpet for Putin... this broke something in me. I honestly almost threw up. And that meeting with Zelenskyj in the White House, that will stay with me until I die.

I spent some time in the US when I was at college, and I will always cherish those memories - these were the best seven months of my life. Coincidentally, I was in the US during the Bush Jr. presidency. And despite my dislike for him, I was always defending the US. Somewhat irrationally, I was always trying to justify even the questionable things. But now, that's gone and buried. As far as I am concerned, the US I loved no longer exists. Now it is another Russia-like hostile country that we need to protect ourselves from.

And the personal experience you mention - sure, most people can separate citizens from their state. I can have a civil discussion with a Russian. I was always friendly to my Russian colleagues, immigrants who now live here. But that does not mean I am not hoping with all my heart that their state goes to hell.
by fleabitdev | 2025-10-27 11:10:20+00:00
Interesting approach. It doesn't even introduce an extra rounding error, because converting from 32-bit XYB to RGB should be similar to converting from 8-bit YUV to RGB.

However, when decoding an 8-bit-quality image as 10-bit or 12-bit, won't this strategy just fill the two least significant bits with noise?
by brabel | 2025-10-27 11:10:30+00:00
I have a smarthome setup I built myself using Lua and a Raspberry Pi. Anything it can do locally can be securely exposed on the internet via a service like netbird , which I use for free and is literally a command to get running, or tail-scale which I believe is harder to use. I don’t have video but I think that would work in that scenario as well.
by precompute | 2025-10-27 11:11:25+00:00
I know this is satire, but a program that logs what you were doing and when is quite helpful. I have a script that fires every ten seconds and stores the current active window's metadata to a sqlite database. Other scripts log battery level, system load and free space. I use Zeitgeist to store my clipboard history and it's backed up regularly. Another script, run by Audacious (with the "song change" plugin), logs the music I'm playing.
by dvt | 2025-10-27 11:12:49+00:00
This isn't exactly true, as tokens live in the embedding space, which is n-dimensional, like 256 or 512 or whatever (so you might see one word, but it's actually an array of a bunch of numbers). With that said, I think it's pretty intuitive that continuous tokens are more efficient than discrete ones, simply due to the fact that the LLM itself is basically a continuous function (with coefficients/parameters ∈ ℝ).
by glenneroo | 2025-10-27 11:13:09+00:00
The description in the linked YouTube video for some reason has more info than the github repo:

> We tackle the challenge of generating the infinitely extendable 3D world — large, continuous environments with coherent geometry and realistic appearance. Existing methods face key challenges: 2D-lifting approaches suffer from geometric and appearance inconsistencies across views, 3D implicit representations are hard to scale up, and current 3D foundation models are mostly object-centric, limiting their applicability to scene-level generation. Our key insight is leveraging strong generation priors from pre-trained 3D models for structured scene block generation. To this end, we propose WorldGrow, a hierarchical framework for unbounded 3D scene synthesis. Our method features three core components: (1) a data curation pipeline that extracts high-quality scene blocks for training, making the 3D structured latent representations suitable for scene generation; (2) a 3D block inpainting mechanism that enables context-aware scene extension; and (3) a coarse-to-fine generation strategy that ensures both global layout plausibility and local geometric/textural fidelity. Evaluated on the large-scale 3D-FRONT dataset, WorldGrow achieves SOTA performance in geometry reconstruction, while uniquely supporting infinite scene generation with photorealistic and structurally consistent outputs. These results highlight its capability for constructing large-scale virtual environments and potential for building future world models.
by wongarsu | 2025-10-27 11:14:26+00:00
Rust certainly needs more GUI component collections. There are lots of GUI toolkits, but a comparatively small number of prebuilt components you can use with any of them.

This collection looks quite useful, though the component list is mostly indistinguishable from a list of components for a web framework. The webview component is the only one that seems somewhat specific to native applications. So for something like a file-open dialog you would still have to pull in something like rfd [1] and lose styling consistency

1: https://docs.rs/rfd/latest/rfd/
by ben_w | 2025-10-27 11:14:46+00:00
Do you mean ChatGPT-3.5, or GPT-3?

The "ChatGPT" web app started with the underlying model GPT-3.5

The predecessor models, a whole series of them collectively "GPT-3" but sold under API with names like "davinci" and "ada", was barely noticed outside AI research circles.

3 was useful, but you had to treat it as a text completion system not a chat interface, your prompt would have been e.g.

Press release Subject: President announces imminent asteroid impact, evacuation of Florida My fellow Americans,

Because if you didn't put "My fellow Americans," in there, it would then suggest a bunch of other press release subjects.
by twostraws | 2025-10-27 11:14:48+00:00
Nothing about Hacktivate is pay-to-win – you can solve every challenge without using a single hint, and even if someone does need hints there are a bunch given away for free. Even more, for people who want the game but don't want micro-transactions, there's a dedicated version of the game (https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/hacktivate-education-edition/i...) that is a one-time purchase with no in-app purchases at all.
by sipofwater | 2025-10-27 11:16:28+00:00
"Start small, start now: Hornets and honey bees": https://www.guampdn.com/lifestyle/start-small-start-now-horn... (www.guampdn.com/lifestyle/start-small-start-now-hornets-and-honey-bees/article_2625d386-de9b-4fb1-8e3b-234d3761b92f.html); https://archive.ph/nEegm
by bayindirh | 2025-10-27 11:17:49+00:00
Here's an article: https://jacobin.com/2025/10/ice-zignal-surveillance-social-m...

...and some quote from it:

> One Zignal pamphlet from this year advertises the company’s work with the Israeli military, saying its data analytics platform provides “tactical intelligence” to “operators on the ground” in Gaza. The pamphlet also highlights Zignal’s work with the US Marines and the State Department.
by lelanthran | 2025-10-27 11:17:52+00:00
> You're misinformed about all the examples you cited, you should do more research before stating strong opinions.

You've literally agreed with what I said[1]:

> School bake sales are regulated under cottage food laws, which are relaxed under the condition that a "safe" subset of foods is produced. That's why there are no bake sales that sell cured sausage, for instance. Food laws are in some part regulatory capture by big food, but thankfully there hasn't been political will to outlaw independent food production entirely.

Scale results in different regulation. You have, with this comment, agreed that it does yet are still pressing on the point that there should be an exemption for AI/LLM.

I don't understand your reasoning in pointing out that baking has different regulations depending on scale; I pointed out the same thing - the regulations are not universal.

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[1] Things I have said:

> Things are scale have different rules (different laws as well) from things done individually or for personal reasons.

> As a society, we've already decided that things at scale are regulated differently than things for personal use.

> You can hold a bake sale at school with fewer sanitation requirements that a cake store has to satisfy.
by arethuza | 2025-10-27 11:18:06+00:00
The initial phase of the Edinburgh Trams project wasn't great - but I suspect everyone involved knew it was going to be difficult and it's the approach of getting the project started and once started it's difficult to kill (see Robert Moses for that strategy!).

However, it's now a good service, popular and the trams are probably going to be expanded to much more of the city?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Trams

Also the Queensferry Crossing bridge was built with relatively little fuss - there were some delays but those were down to some spells of very bad weather.
by easyThrowaway | 2025-10-27 11:19:12+00:00
No, it's way worse than that. They not only control the garbage disposal business and regional administration, they physically stop you from keeping your street / neighbourhood / town clean...Guess how do I know.

It's their "service" or no service, with some extremely narrow exceptions, like a very small town named Aci Bonaccorsi, which fought that and now they're able to keep their streets on an amazing level of cleaniness compared to nearby municipalities.

Garbage disposal is the last remaining big business handled by the local mafia (drugs are handled by camorra nowadays) and they're absolutely doing anything to avoid losing that.
by rs186 | 2025-10-27 11:19:26+00:00
Your loss, not theirs. Lots of good developers are not expert at unix commands, many of which spend most of their time on Windows. They may be "wasting" 2 minutes on this specific task with their "inefficient" method, but they may perform much better on other tasks, to the point that 2 minutes saved here is nothing.

Not to mention that these days people often ask ChatGPT "what's the best way to do this" before proceeding, and whatever you ask in interviews is completely irrelevant.

It is exactly for these reasons we never ask such questions in our interviews. There are much more important aspects of a candidate to evaluate.
by mooreds | 2025-10-27 11:19:33+00:00
Disclosure: I work for FusionAuth, a competitor of Authentik.

Curious. Is your solution active-active or active-passive? We've implemented multi-region active-passive CIAM/IAM in our hosted solution[0]. We've found that meets needs of many of our clients.

I'm only aware of one CIAM solution that seems to have active-active: Ory. And even then I think they shard the user data[1].

0: https://fusionauth.io/docs/get-started/run-in-the-cloud/disa...

1: https://www.ory.com/blog/global-identity-and-access-manageme... is the only doc I've found and it's a bit vague, tbh.
by kragen | 2025-10-27 11:19:37+00:00
The overvalued peso makes Argentine products economically uncompetitive abroad—and, now that we are allowed to import things freely, domestically as well. Keeping the peso overvalued is not an especially libertarian position, but rather one on which Milei seems to harmonize with the Kirchners' historical policies, and especially Menem's disastrous 1:1 policies that brought Kirchner to power in the first place.

For Argentina to be stable, we would need a stable industrial base. That's very difficult to establish when the state is, in effect, taxing our exports and subsidizing our imports, even if it's less directly than during the Kirchner years.

If Argentine output declines and unemployment soars, it will be very hard for Milei or his successor to avoid defaulting on the bailout loans, unless an even larger bailout follows, as it often has.
by AppleBananaPie | 2025-10-27 11:19:42+00:00
I think I don't understand the last sentence. This seems the opposite of what I wrote ?

As for leaving comments without blocking I do not mean it is always or even commonly toxic but that I've seen instances where it could be argued to be so or potentially unhelpful.

I think the misunderstanding might be when you or your team leave comments without blocking are you going to sign off after they are addressed or are you leaving them on a review you ultimately don't feel comfortable signing off on even if they're addressed?

How often does someone leave comments on a review they would never feel comfortable signing off on either way because they don't know the area? I think I'm in agreement with you - leaving comments without blocking and signing off after they're addressed or if someone else signs off and mine aren't addressed that's fine. I'd block the review if it was something I was that concerned with.
by tim333 | 2025-10-27 11:21:18+00:00
Given almost anything can do something bad to you I've got a rule of thumb not to worry much about things unless they can quantify how many years they take off your life. There are still quite a lot of those around - smoking, air pollution and obesity being some of the top ones that can do >10 years. I'm not to bad on smoking and air pollution but could lose a pound or two. I figure central London has dropped from a couple of years off to maybe a couple of months over the time I've been around here.
by blurbleblurble | 2025-10-27 11:22:33+00:00
Oh yes and he's not acting alone. The merry band of misanthropes have all but written out their intentions explicitly. And it doesn't appear just to be immigrants they wish this stuff on.

People have been worrying about "ecofascism" well then why aren't you concerned about an administration whose policy is measles outbreaks for the misinformed of their constituency? Whose health minister is a rich environmental lawyer who just so happens to be a huge fan of letting disease rip?
by TZubiri | 2025-10-27 11:24:06+00:00
While developer experience is obviously a positive, in tradeoff engineering it ranks very low. It is even the sign of a narcissistic developer who values their experience over the user's.

Also even if you aim for DX it is very subjective which causes fragmentation, which causes abandonment and other issues, as mentioned in my comment.

This is a job sir, if it's painful that's to be expected ( and probably unavoidable too, in 30 years the new generation will hate your "smooth" DX)
by buster | 2025-10-27 11:24:19+00:00
The sentence "It is astoundingly easy to push an LLM over to collapse into ungrounded nonsense" makes me wonder.

How easy? What specific methods accomplish this? Are these methods fundamentally different from those that mislead humans?

How is this different from exploiting cognitive limitations in any reasoning system—whether a developing child's incomplete knowledge or an adult's reliance on heuristics?

How is it different from Fake News and adults taking Fake News for granted and replicating bullshit?

Research on misinformation psychology supports this parallel. According to https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136466132...:

"Poor truth discernment is linked to a lack of careful reasoning and relevant knowledge, as well as to the use of familiarity and source heuristics."

Perhaps human and LLM reasoning capabilities differ in mechanism but not in fundamental robustness against manipulation?

Maybe the only real difference is our long term experience and long term memory?
by bellamoon544 | 2025-10-27 11:24:34+00:00
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by mrsvanwinkle | 2025-10-27 11:24:42+00:00
Might be based on Arthur C. Clarke's aphorism, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Ray Kurzweil uses this as a major motif for "The Singularity is Near" about how Harry Potter can be rewritten with all magic replaced with "advanced" devices with handwaved theoretical feasibility explanations. A more specific issue than sci-fi vs. fantasy is the "hard/soft" sci-fi delineation.
by anonymous908213 | 2025-10-27 11:24:45+00:00
This is irrelevant to consumer adoption. The Chinese government uses their own Linux-based OS, which should be a common-sense national security policy, and it would certainly be a good idea for the rest of the world's governments to catch up and not rely on a US for-profit corporation. But even in China, 99% of regular people are using Windows.

The dominoes really aren't going anywhere. The average consumer has an extremely high tolerance for security and privacy violations, which is why the state of the market is the way it is, completely dominated by companies that are the antithesis of security and privacy. If a service offers utility to them, nothing else matters. And Windows offers a tremendous amount of utility to the average consumer relative to Linux. The things the general public cares about are not the same things anyone who uses this website cares about.
by rapjr9 | 2025-10-27 11:25:09+00:00
Can't anyone use AI to surveil social media, even ordinary citizens? It seems like it would be easy to surveil ICE, the police, immigrants, all politicians, the military, businesses, government, individuals, groups, anyone and anything anyone has an interest in. Is the future everyone surveilling everyone else? There used to be web services that let you set up "standing queries" for anything you were interested in. In a sense chatbots already contain a historical record of the internet in compressed format and allow anyone to do historical queries on anything, limited only to what has been accessible on the internet. "Googling someone" is becoming "ChatGPTing someone". People felt Googling someone was somewhat rude and parents warned their children to limit what they posted in case future employers looked them up. Same for anyone employed, they are learning to be careful what they post in case their employers see it. Seems like free speech is being suppressed because it can be used against you by various people and groups already. This may help explain why the web has become less interesting and anonymous posting is ubiquitous.
by Hilift | 2025-10-27 11:25:18+00:00
> Near 100 per cent probability of continuing to function against multi-megaton weapons (i.e., underground location).

That of course wasn't possible, only a best effort. There was also the pseudo belief that ICBM missiles could be intercepted, and an entire system was designed and deployed (Project Nike), then decommissioned in 1974 due to it was a waste of money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Nike
by hacb | 2025-10-27 11:25:43+00:00
This is why I like the Try Hack Me platform so much. You have a lot of walkthroughs and guided challenges to get started and learn the basics; challenges get harder and harder with less and less help. You also have access to challenge write-ups even if you did not complete them, meaning that if you're stuck, instead of losing motivation, you can make progress.

They embrace learning for all levels and helped me so much getting into infosec professionally.
by Thorrez | 2025-10-27 11:26:30+00:00
Is lead exposure going up or down? I assume it's going down, because lead gasoline was banned, lead paint was banned, and the lead that was in the environment due to those 2 source is slowly being cleaned up.

I at least assume lead exposure now is lower than when leaded gas was primarily used. In the US it started to be phased out in 1973 and finished in 1996.
by simoncion | 2025-10-27 11:26:46+00:00
> Dose equivalent" is a medical measure of the risk caused by that "Dose absorbed". That's measured in Greys (with an E, not an A).

Neither the NRC nor the EPA nor the NIH nor the NRC seems to know about the "Grey". Everyone in the US seems to know about the "Gray" (abbreviated as "Gy"), which is used to measure dose and doesn't factor in biological harm.

What country uses the "Grey" unit? What's the abbreviation of the "Grey" unit? Would you point to credible sources for the answers to those two questions?

> "Dose equivalent" goes farther and is meant to calculate medical risk to a living person.

Yes. That's biological harm. Getting hit on the skin from outside your body with a large amount of alpha radiation is far less harmful than getting hit with the same amount of gamma radiation. AFAICT, "dose equivalent" is measured in Sv or rems.

If you can demonstrate a credible source for the "Grey" unit, then I can dismiss this as a time-wasting misunderstanding, but I've yet to see any reference to a "Grey" unit of radiation exposure.

> Its literally lower than the natural background radiation [at some places on earth]...

Yep. ALARA is a scourge. And I -too- have read Admiral Whatshisface's open letter from the 1980's or 1990's or whenever about how the regulation of the civilian nuclear energy program is batshit nuts by way of being negligently overcautious.