MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aspenmayer | 2025-10-19 23:32:50+00:00
I would agree in the ideal case, that with diligent usage of the Enigma machine with fresh keys/pads for each transmission, one’s transmissions would likely be secure, at least from the means and methods available to the Allies at the time.

However, in the fullness of time and with research into and with declassification of wartime intelligence thereof since the war of the now-known semi-regular failures to key and operate the Enigma machine properly, the hypothetical serially encoded (Enigma + one-time pad) materials would possibly be able to be attacked due to operator errors/failures of key rotation independently of and/or combined with known-plaintext attacks, but I will defer to you on the actual cryptanalysis and mathematical modeling.

I humbly admit that am not well-versed in this field, and I am not anything other than a fan of you and your work in the computing field, as it is mostly over my head.
by jordanb | 2025-10-19 23:33:09+00:00
Not true. There was some suspicion on the part of both Dönitz and his men (which is why they added a code wheel) but none of the U-boat memoirs published before ultra was declassified mention concerns about enigma except in passing.

In contrast they attributed getting attacked after sending in a position report to radio triangulation equipment allies had, called huff-duff.

And in most cases huff-duff was the reason they were attacked. Bletchley Park was too slow to provide an actionable attack vector off a position report. Instead ultra was used to route convoys around the u-boats. They experienced ultra as empty ocean they they hoped they would find a convoy.

The one exception was the "milk cows". These were resupply subs that were to rendezvous with u-boats in the open ocean. Dönitz would send orders for a rendezvous, bletchley would decrypt and send orders to a "hunter killer" group consisting of an aircraft carrier and destroyers to attract the two subs while resupplying.
by paulfharrison | 2025-10-19 23:33:26+00:00
Producing a diverse list of results may still help in a couple of ways here.

* If there are a lot of lexical matches, real semantic matches may still be in the list but far down the list. A diverse set of, say, 20 results may have a better chance of including a semantic match than the top 20 results by some score.

* There might be a lot of semantic matches, but a vast majority of the semantic matches follow a particular viewpoint. A diverse set of results has a better chance of including the viewpoint that solves the problem.

Yes, semantic matching is important, but this is solving an orthogonal and complementary problem. Both are important.
by ursaiceice | 2025-10-19 23:37:13+00:00
I built claudeskills.info, a lightweight directory for Claude Skills — a new ecosystem Anthropic just launched, similar to GPTs or MCP servers.

The site aggregates official and community-built Skills from GitHub, classifies them by category, and lets you download ready-to-use ZIPs or browse by tag. Developers can also submit their own Skills (just a GitHub link for now).

It’s fully serverless on Cloudflare Pages + D1 + R2, open-source-friendly, and designed to grow with the Claude ecosystem. Feedback and contributions welcome!
by coldtea | 2025-10-19 23:40:28+00:00
Almost everything, isn't it?

From fine-tuning for coding assist, to medical applications, customer support, legal and financial use cases, various classification tasks, for government work, statistics, language learning, music, education, even for role playing game character AI...

I'd rather have a fine-tuned model specialized to any of those tasks and countless others when I'm doing one of those tasks, than a jack of all trades...
by mikkupikku | 2025-10-19 23:41:15+00:00
Farming sucks, therefore common laborers will profit and live luxurious when technology takes their jobs is a hell of a stretch. And even saying those displaced farm workers who had to migrate to crowded and dirty cities just to continue to survive personally benefited is a stretch too. As a whole we're better off now, but trying to pretend that you're doing somebody a favor by eliminating their job seems like peak techie cope.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-19 23:41:33+00:00
Problem is that everyone probably agrees with that, but where the line of "the basis" is drawn isn't so widely agree on. Is "the basis" the physical composition of the hardware components? Understanding assembly? Knowing how a CPU works? How electrons move around inside the whole thing? How all the pieces fit together, including the OS?

The space is just so large that everyone has their own "basis" that sometimes even move with time. They can still be good programmers imo.
by pontifier | 2025-10-19 23:41:43+00:00
I remember reading somewhere that because Ternary computing is inherently reversible, that from an information theoretic point of view that ternary computations have a lower theoretical bound on energy usage, and as such could be a way to bypass heat dissipation problems in chips built with ultra-high density, large size, and high computational load.

I wasn't knowledgeable enough to evaluate that claim at the time, and I'm still not.
by ehsanu1 | 2025-10-19 23:41:49+00:00
The DB specifically, or the concept of event sourcing? Event sourcing is not a new approach and has a lot of similarities with temporal's approach, though temporal events are not necessarily business events and deterministic event replay is required with temporal. In the general case of event sourcing, arbitrary processing might be done on the event stream to produce some final state or do whatever needs to happen for your use case. As long as you're persisting the events and using events as the basis for your business logic and state, you're doing event sourcing.

I dont know anything about this specific DB though, if that was what you were wondering about, that's more of an implementation-level detail. Temporal server just uses regular mysql and supports mutiple storage backends.
by weitendorf | 2025-10-19 23:43:25+00:00
Right, it performs exactly what perpetuates the problem the author has with the world, in failing to provide or enact any positive vision for how to make things better, and in projecting their own desires onto others as if they're an objective measure of how things ought to be. When I was a kid, I loved walking down the fucking cereal aisle. I personally don't understand why people are so into concerts and music festivals but my girlfriend loves them, and I don't see why they're any worse than the number of open source web libraries or discord channels that people in my demographic take joy in.

The one thing that truly made a difference for my own personal satisfaction was in realizing that inaction and despairing about society because of my own problems were a defense mechanism to justify what might happen if I tried to actually make things better, and either failed or became something I moralized against. Who gives a shit that there's too much cereal? What's actually making people unhappy is not enough of something else, or something missing in their lives that they can't find. Ultimately you either choose to do nothing or to try to make things better, and accept that inaction is itself a choice.
by Spooky23 | 2025-10-19 23:44:30+00:00
They suck balls.

The trap is you need Microsoft support training & strategy. If you buy unified and open a sev a, they just fuck around and assign an engineer from Antartica who works from 3AM-6:20AM Mongolian time, then reassign at 6:19AM to dude in Japan to reset their 2 hour SLA for the incident manager. In general, if you are big, you're better off buying Premier from a partner, and declaring a crit sit. Many issues are fixable by less dumb third party L2 techs, and you can leverage the partner's juice with Microsoft to get somebody. You have the ability to inflict real pain on the reseller, but all Microsoft will do for a strategic customer is send some VP of something to apologize profusely at great length and suggest the more staff meet with your TAM/CSM so they can get a dramatic reading of a powerpoint. Companies like this only understand pain, so you need leverage.

Microsoft is uniquely bad at this type of stuff. Anyone committing serious infrastructure where bad things are gonna happen when it goes down is insane for using HyperV. But you're also insane expecting a small reseller of some small company to pull your chestnuts out of the fire.
by orwin | 2025-10-19 23:44:31+00:00
I am _very_ skeptical of the persons leading the MAHA movement or equivalent in other countries, and think they're mostly crooks or charismatic idiots, but it is a grassroot movement, with respectable fears and interrogations, and a legitimate belief that modern medicine is captured by the pharma/food big companies.

That's a bit sad that on this very point where the movement is actually correct, it will get blocked.

My bet is that MAHA will only be able to move/reform the US on subjects that aren't dangerous for the industries profits, which are every subject where they are actually wrong.
by stephen_g | 2025-10-19 23:45:15+00:00
That's how it works. You indicate if you want the company to take the tax free threshold (you only want to do this for one job if you have multiple), and then you can also elect to tell your employer(s) an estimated taxable income and they'll use that. Otherwise they just assume your income from that job is your taxable income.

At the end of the year you file online and put in your deductions, which hopefully cover any other taxable income (capital gains, dividends, interest, etc.) if you didn't give your employer a higher figure. Then you pay if you're owing or get a refund if not.
by vlovich123 | 2025-10-19 23:45:44+00:00
> in a generational act of intellectual virtuosity, designs and builds the world’s first computer to crack Enigma, allowing the U-boats to be neutralised and the war ultimately to be won. This is why Turing is known as the father of computing.

Huh? I thought he was known as the father of computing because he literally defined the concept of a machine being Turing complete and what that meant you could and couldn’t do on a Turing-complete machine. That and the halting problem work (and to a lesser extent the Turing test), at least to me, are what make him the father of computing.

The Enigma stuff is an impactful and vital short term impact he had while he was alive, but relatively fleeting and not very impactful on the broader field of cryptography. It’s the other contributions that are eternal and foundational to the field.

This reads like someone who watched the movie about his life but didn’t actually understand the broader scope of what he did and why it was important.
by viraptor | 2025-10-19 23:46:13+00:00
I wish someone ran a proper study. In my experience it helps mark some patterns you may not be immediately familiar with, like CRC functions/tables. It also does a good job where no thinking is required, like when you have partial information: "for(unk=0; unk<unk2; unk++) { unk3=players[unk]... }" - you know what the names are, you just need to do the boring part. For completely unknown things, it may get more interesting. But I know I'd like to at least see the suggestions. It's a long and boring work to decompile things fully.
by neilv | 2025-10-19 23:46:21+00:00
Not sociopaths, but sociopathic careers, as a term of condemnation.

And a lot of people light up the BS detector like they wouldn't believe.

Loosely put, the majority of them fit the stereotype who think that everyone is ruthlessly self-interested, but they don't think of it as ruthless, and they think of themselves and the others as (in Bay Area stereotype, for example) nice and cheerful and progressive. Their vague awareness not to be crass about it, according to the social conventions they've gotten in their peer groups thus far, is insufficient to hide it.

But others of them think they are "the alpha", and believe themselves to be more aggressive than others, and more meritorious. Yet, of the ones I've noticed (and this might be why I noticed them), they're not as smart as they think they are, when they try to manipulate, and don't know how to fake being someone they aren't. They instead lean on family money and connections, alliances with power structures, gaming, underhandedness, aggressiveness, etc.

Though I knew one very smart and very charismatic ruthless person, who was smart enough to avoid the tells, so I know they exist. One way of describing it is that they could play parts of different personalities, thinking of things the personality would think of, as needed for different audiences. Once they started tipping their hand, it was too late to stop them, and society is significantly worse for it. I speculate that these people are a very small minority, because I think otherwise they would have taken over more positions of power. Yet we can see that many powerful tech companies are headed by people who obviously do not have these qualities of brains, charisma, and empathy. Maybe the non-ruthless ones become great writers, actors, and teachers instead.
by delichon | 2025-10-19 23:46:30+00:00
Self defense. They are making significant real world changes that can change your plans if you, you know, interact with the world. Like traveling to another country, or saying things out loud. It's good to be prepared. The pace of those changes is at a historic high in the current administration. There's a sweet spot between being informed and obsessed, but it's sometimes hard to station keep.
by insin | 2025-10-19 23:46:49+00:00
It never looks good, and it never will look good.

But users of it will also never (unless they're doing something very weird) unintentionally break styling somewhere else while editing it later or have it broken by changes made elsewhere, have to come up with names for one-off element-specific styles, or have to jump between multiple files for their pseudo, colour scheme-specific and responsive styling.

Them's the breaks.
by zyklonix | 2025-10-19 23:47:35+00:00
That’s a fair point, material abundance and consumer freedom have lifted billions out of hardship. What I found eye-opening in the essay, though, is that abundance can coexist with emptiness: when every decision is individual and transactional, we lose the shared meaning that once came from depending on one another. The argument isn’t against comfort or choice, but against mistaking options for connection.
by lazide | 2025-10-19 23:48:14+00:00
B2, F117, B52, P9, F22, F14, F18, C130, C17, C5, CH47, AH-64, SR71, U2, A10, and on and on just to give some recent examples.

There are a few single engine aircraft roles (including the F104), but they are not and have never been the bulk of active serving aircraft. It isn’t just ‘technically’ true.
by em-bee | 2025-10-19 23:48:57+00:00
treat themselves like they treat their kid just doesn't work in any practical way

how do you figure that? or, what exactly do you mean here? i don't exactly treat my kids the way i treat myself, but that's because we have different needs. but i most certainly don't treat my kids worse or better than myself.

you also say: they also understand that they need to take care of themselves, physically and mentally, to even be there to help their kid when needed

exactly, so where is the self-abuse?
by TheTaytay | 2025-10-19 23:50:31+00:00
We used it back in the day as well for some non-essential stuff. This post caused me to dig into where hubot stands. It looks like gijoeyguerra upgraded the code to ESM: https://github.com/hubotio/hubot and also wrote/upgraded the adapters for Slack, Teams, etc: https://github.com/hubot-friends

It would be cool to see this get legs again. If nothing else, a maintained cross-platform, hackable bot framework is useful! This caused me to do some more searching, and I stumbled across: https://joeyguerra.com/blog/2023/resuscitating-hubot.html

Nice work joeyguerra!
by vlovich123 | 2025-10-19 23:51:36+00:00
What’s interesting to me about Prof Berger’s work is that while many of his ideas are seemingly powerful and should be very impactful, it’s underutilized in practice. I think that’s because he’s failed to figure out how to really make it easy to use and productized. For example, Coz should be the definitive tool and mechanism people use to do performance analysis. However because it’s so hard to use and fails in various ways and is barely maintained if at all it ends up seeing limited use.

It’s a shame. The real world of development would be significantly richer if these ideas had better funding and dedicated long term development.
by xd1936 | 2025-10-19 23:52:04+00:00
Non-Profit Liberal Arts Higher Ed here. Trying to move to the Azure Hybrid Cloud as fast as possible. Going to have to eat one more year of 170% price hike in our current VMware contract.

Heard from a peer school on the east coast that had to sign a 600% hike in their most recent contract. Absolutely evil.
by MarsIronPI | 2025-10-19 23:52:26+00:00
I actually agree with his conclusion. In my experience, rap is the only(?) genre of "music" that for the most part lacks a melodic structure. It (in my experience) is mostly rhythmic, which IMO is not very pleasant to listen to, because there isn't much to listen to. So while maybe I wouldn't refer to it as c...rap all the time, I think the phrase mostly expresses my feelings about the genre as a whole.
by PlunderBunny | 2025-10-19 23:52:26+00:00
I try to buy my clothes from shops that sell to the trades/safety gear (e.g. brands like "Hard Yakka", although I guess that brand probably doesn't exist outside of Australasia). Most of these shops do a good line of cargo pants/shorts.

But where does one get jeans that were made of the non-stretch denim that we use to get in the 1980s? That stuff was as thick as a tarpaulin (for those of us who are younger, tarpaulins used to be made of fabric, not plastic).
by charcircuit | 2025-10-19 23:53:18+00:00
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs made a lot of money due to owning the company. Being able to own something being built by a lot of people is how its possible.

>If Tommy Flowers didn't exist we might have lost the war.

I don't think achievements in computing should be based off geopolitical achievements. Hypothetically he could not exist and the war is lost, but there would be someone else who would iterate upon computers.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-10-19 23:53:36+00:00
Much of futures' functionality is now in the standard library (core::future). Tokio is quite heavy, and I don't like it: smol is a better "futures standard library", in my opinion. There's async-compat if you need to interop with tokio, so I never have to write glue code (even if I'd rather not have a tokio runtime).
by crmd | 2025-10-19 23:55:05+00:00
As 432 Park shows, unregulated development here in nyc does not increase the supply of homes for people to live in but rather the supply of abstract assets for wealthy people to launder and store wealth, for which there seems to be a nearly endless international demand.

Housing can either be an affordable resource for people to live in, or an asset that’s likely to appreciate faster than the rate of inflation. There are strong arguments for both. As New Yorkers we need to make our vote in November count and decide which is the priority.
by harambae | 2025-10-19 23:57:18+00:00
1) It’s always possible a rich person hired them ahead of time to steal specific items (that’s why you sometimes see way more “expensive” in theory items that are completely ignored in these heists — without a buyer ahead of time they’re worthless) Though in this particular case I think it was a crime of opportunity, but idk

2) You could potentially sell it to someone overseas who doesn’t care. There are rumors of a Gardner Heist (Boston) painting hung up on MBS’ yacht
by emmelaich | 2025-10-19 23:57:51+00:00
I'd love to play a LodeRunner with the same feel as the original. No version I've tried has the right feel. It's subtle.

Is this good? I downloaded but Virustotal said 1/66 vendors gave > "MaxSecure Trojan.Malware.300983.susgen Acronis (Static ML) Undetected"

Probably a false positive but enough for me not to try it.
by duxup | 2025-10-19 23:58:01+00:00
>"Although the President has authority under the INA, that authority does not, and cannot, empower him to override existing statutory provisions and programs. Nor does it authorize the President to create new visa conditions in general."

I don't disagree, but sadly so far SCOTUS majority has decided that when it comes to Trump his actions stand as litigation drags on, making his decisions ... just how it is.
by manwe150 | 2025-10-19 23:58:50+00:00
That is just what I said: that is the formula for VA, not P, even though both have the same dimensional units: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volt-ampere and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_power#Apparent_power. And they'd be roughly the same for something like a toaster, but if you happen to be interested in, say, the billed power consumption of a 30 year old fridge with a motor
by cranky908canuck | 2025-10-19 23:58:55+00:00
Seems like extortion. The public display business has tanked (sorry), so now it's either send them to China, euthanize them, or ask the public purse to subsidize care of the animals (ie., the new business is 'take government money to do a "good thing"').

I do have concerns about 'send them to China', since I think that that would be another display zoo with no qualms about continuing exploitation.

I don't like option three, and the reports I've seen (Guardian but also CBC etc) suggest that rewilding is off the table. I'd be ok with "the people of Canada will take care of the whales, but your business is your problem". I'd be ok with proving this point even if someone claims that the existing business could do it cheaper. A separate sanctuary would make clear that 'we care about the animals, but not your business plan as it relates to the public purse', to establish a policy.

If it is really the case that option 1 (china) is considered ongoing torture, and option three is unaffordable/unimplementable, then I guess that option 2 (euthanizing) is a front runner.
by al_borland | 2025-10-20 00:00:33+00:00
LOC is often a rough approximation for complexity. We once had an intern who made some useful things, but he didn’t know how to break anything down. One of them was a 1,000 line perl all as one function. I asked if it could be broken down into something more maintainable and he said no. There were several projects like this.

Knowing At a high level what needed to happen to accomplish what the code did, I know for a fact it could have and should have been broken down more. However, because of the complexity of what he wrote, no one had the patience to go through it. When he left, the code got thrown away.

While 10 LOC vs 50 LOC doesn’t matter, when commas enter the number, it’s a safe bet that things have gone off the rails.
by pas | 2025-10-20 00:00:35+00:00
I don't think 2007 was special, it's the usual gradual change (but likely a lot of logistic S-curves summed), but IMHO the change did happen around then.

And usually we see the highpoints of certain processes, like the skyscrapers that top out just before the market crash. (And rarely we hear about the unfinished ones, especially the ones left in drawers.)

With the Internet it feels that we had it in its romantic form in books and movies, then as it really arrived it turned into this really boring aspect of our lives, that nevertheless eat up all the better ones. (And we move less, eat worse, ruminate more on what we said and sent, worry about what we read and received.)

...

Normal users joined Facebook not Google Reader. That's the whole point. (They have phones and Twitter and other bad hyper-palatable addictive platforms and whatever garbage apps their store gave them.)