MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by baq | 2025-10-27 13:41:27+00:00
it's in the name, but it's open source and it's replacing a hodgepodge of other stuff (the point isn't why it's replacing it, or how well it's going; the point is there are replacements).

if the computer won't allow to install or use other software until you install a vendor-signed version of systemd on a vendor-signed kernel we'll be there. it's about hardware attestation, not signed software, though.
by supriyo-biswas | 2025-10-27 13:41:46+00:00
> I'll be slapped by dang et. al with such accusations being against the HN guidelines

This is also the reason I toned it down a bit, although I've never received a formal reprimand from dang he's often dropped by my threads containing such callouts when the original poster of the LLM comment disagreed with my assessment.
by vintermann | 2025-10-27 13:42:33+00:00
Scraping is cheap, training is expensive. Even the pre-generative AI internet had immense volumes of Markov-generated, synonym spun ("Contemporary York Instances") or otherwise brain-rotting text.

That means that before training a big model, anyone will spend a lot of effort filtering out junk. They have done that for a decade, personally I think a lot of the differences in quality of the big models isn't from architectural differences, but rather from how much junk slipped through.

Markov chains are not nearly clever enough to avoid getting filtered out.
by iamnothere | 2025-10-27 13:42:36+00:00
> Then get a law passed. Today.

Ha! Let me know how to achieve that and I will. I’ve advocated, donated, and volunteered for years on behalf of a number of causes, some with excellent organizations promoting them, and yet things continue to get worse. The only minor victories have been temporary delays of bad policy.

No, the best response for the average citizen is stubborn noncompliance and constant passive resistance. Drag your feet until the whole thing comes crashing down. And encourage your friends to do it too! (But don’t stop trying through conventional politics, maybe one day it will work. Just don’t get your hopes up.)
by noir_lord | 2025-10-27 13:44:07+00:00
I self built my desktop as I have for decades, I've always bought MS licenses retail (since I could afford them, not so much as a kid..).

So yeah, they got my money 3 and a bit years ago but that'll be the last money they get from me and obviously no future version of windows will.

I simply no longer trust they are acting in my best interests as a consumer and I was already using Windows 11 as a glorified console OS to open steam.
by netdevphoenix | 2025-10-27 13:44:55+00:00
It is actually getting worse over time imo. In the days of Froyo, you could run Cyanogen easy without needing keys from anyone. Now you got to go to your manufacturer's website to get the key needed to unlock it. Even after you bought the device, you are reliant on the goodwill of the manufacturer to get the unlocking key.
by gwbas1c | 2025-10-27 13:45:35+00:00
As I read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45690085 :

This looks like something that needs to be done before the house is built, under the foundation / slab? Or did I read it incorrectly? Either way, I had to really push on my contractor just to do a heat pump. (And there are two large areas of sand under my house, one under my garage and the other under my sunroom.) I don't know how I could get someone to build that where I live.

I also couldn't tell if this is something that warms up throughout the year, or if this is something that warms up during the day and cools at night? Where I live, the days are very short in December / January, so I'm not sure if would work if it's day-to-day instead of seasonal.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-10-27 13:45:43+00:00
You can’t pass a law; because you have almost no bad examples to point to. Emulators, something that happened on the other side of the world, and piracy aren’t arguments.

The banning of Parler did more for activism and awareness regarding platform control than all FOSDEM. Of course, HN happily piled on in favor of this decision, missing the moment to build common ground on platform control, for the sake of political expediency.

If the government, or tech, starts regulating out things people actually care about, then you’ll have your sway. The rush to technical solutions seems to imply we already internally agree tech and government aren’t going to do anything the average person cares about - as it assumes the “bad future” can happen without a national policy discussion anywhere.
by bre1010 | 2025-10-27 13:45:43+00:00
This is a fair response. I googled "bosworth + terrorists will kill people" before I posted this to make sure I got the wording right but purposely didn't link to what I found because it's mostly clickbait stuff and anyways the real source is that I was an employee at facebook when he wrote "The Ugly".

Never good to be posting in anger but I truly can't stand this guy and I can't help but throw in something snide when I see him trying to smart-wash the fact that he's just Zuck's enshittification czar: Ads --> VR --> and now CTO
by avereveard | 2025-10-27 13:46:21+00:00
you quoting wikipedia? lol.

ox and hearth rate baby monitor definitely alert on sids. prevent, no, and that's why they are not medical devices, and wouldn't make sense to pay a randomized controlled trial to certify as one.

works? yeah. hearth stops beating, ox goes under parameter, parents get an alert.

here's the FDA statement about it https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf22/K222597.pdf
by ta1243 | 2025-10-27 13:46:51+00:00
In the 90s we clamoured for being able to subscribe to what we want rather than a single

We broadly have that now.

I subscribe to Youtube, Spotify, Netflix, Disney, Apple, Paramount, BBC. Only Apple and BBC force adverts on me, and Apple I'll be cancelling because of it. I keep BBC more out of moral reasons as I think it's a net good for the UK.

The monthly cost is very reasonable to me, inflation wise its about the same as I paid for BBC and Sky in the 90s.

Last night we wanted to watch the 2012 Les Mis film, £3.50 to rent it from Apple. In the 90s, inflation adjusted, it cost £8 to rent the tape.

If I can subscribe to watch something without adverts, I will. If I can buy or rent it, I will.

If I can't do that though, then I'll get it elsewhere.
by klardotsh | 2025-10-27 13:47:13+00:00
That’s possible on very few phones these days. Only a handful of OEMs still ship phones that can be bootloader unlocked at all (at least in the US), and even several of THOSE require phoning home to the OEM to get an IMEI-dependent unlock key to pass to fastboot.

Source: 7 years of running deGoogled Android phones and 11 years of running ROM’d Android phones before recently moving to iOS and giving up.
by somenameforme | 2025-10-27 13:47:49+00:00
You mean his habit of nailing anything that moves? I can't judge him there. You never know what's happening (or not) in somebody's private life. And for a man with all the opportunity in the world - I can only say that I'd look with suspicion at whoever was to cast stones there.

He's an eccentric man in a hyper-polarized world yet has raised 6 children that, at least publicly, have remained neutral to supportive of him. He's gotta be doing a lot right there IMO. And having a 70 year old father that's still in phenomenal shape and health is something our GP would certainly have liked to have had.
by martin-t | 2025-10-27 13:47:59+00:00
Found the quote here: https://techthelead.com/incendiary-leaked-memo-facebook/

My takeaway is that they willingly ignore the moral dimension and encourage others to do the same, the coping mechanism being

1) choosing a core business metric

2) claiming it's not a core business metric

3) saying that increasing said metric is always good

What I found more chilling is:

> The work we will likely have to do in China some day.

They know if they expend to china, they will be tasked with profiling people based on their private communication and their connections and sending them to gulags. I mean reeducation camps.

And they don't give a fuck because they are just increasing a metric and they declared that's good.
by readthenotes1 | 2025-10-27 13:48:02+00:00
"America doesn't even pretend to help the poor."

Snap, Chip, ssi, ssdi, medicaid, medicare (since recipients don't pay their way), ACA subsidies, progressive income tax (half of us pay no federal tax at all), 1-12 schooling/daycare (often with free lunch, sometimes also free breakfast)

Big brothers/sisters, salvation army, habitat for humanity, red cross, food banks too numerous to list, Shriners hospitals

Oh, forgot about the billions Los Angeles has spent on homeless housing

America at least "pretends"
by lukeasrodgers | 2025-10-27 13:48:09+00:00
Here are the article's main points, as I see them:

1. The "modern American self" is best defined by (the tension between) Franklin and Rousseau. 2. Rousseau believes X and Franklin believes Y. 3. "Modern America" (society? politics? government?) flip flops between these two, though they are "almost entirely incompatible". 4. The author claims one of them scales, and says he likes it.

I engage directly with claims 2 and 3.

I think 1 is another completely absurd simplification. I do not address it, or claim 4. I don't see how that constitutes lack of engagement or quibbling. Perhaps I could have written an essay refuting OP with many citations, but I don't think that level of work is required to constitute legitimate engagement.

I guess you're probably right that my comment is more shame than content, maybe 60/40 shame to content, I should have dialed that down a bit. Fwiw I think it's fine to be simple-minded and ignorant, I am both of those things about many topics, but then your writing and argumentation should reflect your lack of knowledge and certainty. OP's article is, otoh, full of hot air.
by kragen | 2025-10-27 13:48:34+00:00
Roughly everybody you've ever met, 100% of the time.

There's a reason the NSA can get Intel CPUs without IME and you can't. Given the incentives and competence of the people involved, it's probably an intentional vulnerability that you can't escape because you don't fab your own chips. There's strong circumstantial evidence that Huawei got banned from selling their products in the US for doing the same thing. And the Crypto AG backdoor (in hardware but probably not in silicon) was probably central to a lot of 20th-century international relations, though that wasn't publicly known until much later.

And this is before we get into penny-ante malicious hardware like laser printer toner cartridges, carrier-locked cellphones, and HDMI copy protection.

No amount of QC is going to remove malicious hardware; at best, it can tell you it's there.
by ramraj07 | 2025-10-27 13:48:42+00:00
You're definitely extrapolating, and honestly in my opinion in the worst possible direction. At a fundamental level, I personally believe that the generations raised in the previous half century (50s till 90s) are the most coddled, selfish, populations in the history of humanity: no major calamity or war, or pandemic, or anything really. Kids did enjoy insane freedoms and dangers but in retrospect doesnt look like they became responsible adults, in my opinion, electing autocrats around the world and destroying the planets future with warming all because their mollycoddled statistical anomalies of time periods didnt prepare them for any real consequences of their actions.

So I do think people from these generations should just focus on retiring, stop voting evil people into positions, and looking up latest alzheimers research, which btw was derailed by the same type of free range kid turned scientists from the greatest generation or whatever.

Its a baby monitor. Not some clockwork orange contraption.
by zerkten | 2025-10-27 13:48:57+00:00
The problem is that the data has to go somewhere. If you don't have the compute power locally, you have to send it to a server you control. At a point, this starts to break down because your attention to detail isn't sufficient to protect other operators. I think there are some happier mediums, but I wouldn't be as strident as saying there is no risk even if this is stored locally.
by jwald33 | 2025-10-27 13:49:10+00:00
It's entertainment; what's lost if someone decides to only consume stuff from before a cutoff point? As long as they're finding stuff they enjoy, they've already "won."

There's a level of involvement that most people have when it comes to entertainment. The more difficult that finding something you'll enjoy gets, the less interested people will be. Discovery is not a fun part of consuming media for most, I'd imagine
by ta1243 | 2025-10-27 13:50:35+00:00
In 1999 I paid (inflation adjusted) $20 per episode in DS9

If you are only wiling to pay 10 cents then that's a major problem - viewing figures just aren't that high any more. A modern scifi show would need 100 million viewers to cover the production budget at 10 cents a person

The post popular scripted show on US TV - George and Mindy - gets about 5-6 million viewers when it's on for free. At 10c/episode or $2 for the year that would be $10m for the entire season. TV costs a lot more than that to produce.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-10-27 13:50:37+00:00
I love how you went back and edited post-facto to try to shore up your claim. Come on.

Edmonton, where I'm actually from, has had record lows of -40, but these are extreme outliers. When people speak of -40 in Edmonton they mean wind chill, not real temps. Look at a scatter plot of actual temperatures in Edmonton and it's really not the drama you're implying.

Cold climate is not the barrier to EV adoption. Pricing (and politics) is. Anywhere in the world where EVs have been price competitive to ICE vehicles, consumers have preferred them.

There are political / economic interests in Canada (and North America generally) that absolutely do not want EV adoption. One would expect that from an oil&gas producing nation. Doesn't mean that reasonable people who understand that climate change is an actual thing should support this position.
by wk_end | 2025-10-27 13:51:19+00:00
> Americans are just very scared of Mossad. Tons of money goes into Holywood to make them appear invincible to the world.

I don't believe I've ever seen Mossad depicted in a Hollywood movie? I guess there was Munich. Are there specific movies/TV shows that you're thinking of?

Americans, by and large, don't even think about Mossad. Certainly not the way they're aware of the CIA and KGB - which no one should be scared of at the moment since it hasn't existed since 1991, though obviously there are modern successors.
by inetknght | 2025-10-27 13:51:27+00:00
> Sorry about that, stupid mistake on my side. I've fix the version on the server, an you can just edit the line

Chant with me:

-Werror=all -Werror=extra -pedantic

Chant with me.

Also, stop using C. Use C++. You can use it just like C, but you can also learn some of the guardrails that C++ provides.
by purplehat_ | 2025-10-27 13:51:58+00:00
Not exactly what you're asking, but multiple CVEs have been found in Intel's Management Engine (ME) which have been used in spyware.

It might not be an intentional backdoor, but it very much seems designed with out-of-band access in mind, with the AMT remote management features and the fact that the network controller has DMA (this enables packet interception).
by qwertfisch | 2025-10-27 13:52:02+00:00
I participated in the very first AoC and solved all problems, but the last 6 or 7 only way after Christmas, when I had more time, holidays, and I just wanted to complete the contest.

Then there was another AoC … and no, I didn’t solve all the problems, not even close. In most years I got 24 to 36 stars, 2018 and 2020 I did not participate.

Last year I was in a good place, wanted to practice a new programming language (Crystal). And I was determined to get every puzzle solved in 24 hours. And I did it, but for two or three puzzles it was oh so frustrating. With angry screams, searching help in the IRC, for two puzzles even not understanding for many hours how it works. And then at 1:52 AM (puzzles start at 6AM for me) I found the solution. It was liberating and gratifying, but at the same time so tiring and frustrating. The only reason I went along with was the overall goal, getting a permanent record of having solved every puzzle on the first day. And I am happy about it (in hindsight, it was the last opportunity for doing so with 25*2 puzzles), and now I never need or want to do it again.

Or do I? Only 12 days of trying to get solutions are much more possible.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-10-27 13:52:27+00:00
> I don't see how remote hardware attestation avoids being spoofed

Hardware cryptoprocessor. Keys are held in a tamper resistant secure element. You're not gonna get at those keys without pouring some serious resources into the task.

The keys are owned by the corporation and used to establish a root of trust from boot. If you change anything at all to suit your interests, verification fails, your machine is identified as "tampered with" and designated as untrusted.
by ifyoubuildit | 2025-10-27 13:53:42+00:00
Still false. Maybe if you qualify it further to currently prescribed vaccines (e.g fda certified ones that haven't been taken off the market for whatever reason, or just superceded by newer better vaccines), you'd be closer, but some of those vaccines still wouldn't be recommended to certain people for certain reasons (say after a certain age, or maybe if they're pregnant, or if they have certain conditions, etc, etc, etc)

I don't think it's being particularly pedantic to say "there is no downside to any vaccine" is just wrong, and not really something that should be repeated. It's more of a religious statement than anything else, and it's the exact kind of thinking that comes out of the insane pressure put on people during covid.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-10-27 13:54:07+00:00
If you have the right to run what you want on your machine, then they do too.

So then the problem gets moved up to why are you (or group of you) not powerful enough to negotiate being able to run what you want and either not need “them” or be important enough that “they” need you.

And the answer will come down to the fact that 90% of people don’t care about running whatever they want on their machine, and they want the cheapest, quickest, easiest solution.
by energy123 | 2025-10-27 13:54:09+00:00
> because if you're wrong, you're seen as the bad guy. And maybe even if you're right and can't prove it.

An example of this is France cutting off all support after Israel's initiation of the Six Day War, which followed signals such as Egypt massing troops on the border. The problem for Israel was the lack of strategic depth combined with the geographical low ground, which creates these hair trigger scenarios with no room for error, reducing the threshold to act preemptively. The more abstract problem was the absence of a hegemon in the late 20th century that had security control over West Asia, which is a necessary and sufficient condition for resolving the security dilemma.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-10-27 13:54:11+00:00
This is the real answer that is rather banal and boring compared to conspiracies of nefarious money harvesting.

95% of people don't know what "Run your own software" means, because to them, the app store lets them chose what apps to install. And they don't get viruses and malware like their 2008 laptop did.

That being said, there absolutely needs to be a mechanism for "lowering the gates" if the user wants full control of the device they own.
by dylanpang | 2025-10-27 13:54:12+00:00
I created a free webapp, [Sloth Finance](https://slothfinance.com/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=launc...), that allows you to easily log and track your expenses simply by texting or speaking while on the go! You can also snap photos of receipts in any language/currency and upload pdf bank statements. You can then view all your transactions on a nice dashboard with analytics to view spending over time. Theres also extra functionality to create budgets and get alerted when you hit them, but for now i've put that under the paid plan, along with higher limits.

I built this app initially for my parents-in-laws who found it inconvenient to manually track all their physical receipts, multiple bank-statements, ad-hoc cash payments, utility bills, rent etc. but it has since evolved into so much more.

Would really appreciate any feedback on how to improve the user experience and also what features would make this even more useful for you? income/asset tracking? savings rate metrics? alerts? integrations? =)
by martin-t | 2025-10-27 13:54:14+00:00
I asked because I didn't know who he was (didn't read his about page until after) but his blog had a search prompt and I couldn't find anything related.

Didn't mean my question as criticism but advice.

I've been in situations where I had to convince somebody well-liked by the majority was actually abusive to a selected minority.

And it's really hard.

People are not willing to expend effort in order to search for arguments in your favor. They will very often not even read then if you give them direct links. But at least a few will see it, which might lead to a discussion and others who are too lazy to click links will at least skim the discussion.
by 542354234235 | 2025-10-27 13:56:18+00:00
You say regulation solving problems is unprovable when we have many examples of it doing so, then you claim that without regulation, we would solve things other ways, without any examples of that ever happening, let alone on a large scale. To “pierce the corporate veil both civilly and criminally” is legislation, as laws determine what is criminal. We also had exactly that in the US, where corporations lobbied for reduced regulation, saying that lawsuits would keep them honest through monetary losses. They then immediately went about lobbying to reduce lawsuit liability, cap payouts, and launched a vast PR campaign to paint lawsuits as money grabs by unscrupulous people looking for a payout.

And why wouldn’t a company “whose only product is trust” not be incentivized to sell that trust to the highest bidder? Companies sell out all the time and continue to do good business for a decade or more on customer trust they built up or came with the brand name they bought.

The saying “regulations are written in blood” comes to mind. So where are all the examples of things getting fixed through other means when regulation isn’t written to fix something?
by Larrikin | 2025-10-27 13:56:32+00:00
>You explain how to punish them, not how to determine that they deserve punishment. This fixes absolutely nothing. "Social security" won't find anything, because everyone working for those businesses has a social security number (even if it's not their own). To determine those are fake or misused, the government would have to get access to the deep HR paperwork, which would require search warrants and subpoenas, in other words, it would require "probable cause". That isn't going to happen.

E-verify has existed for more than a decade. Social security card + your name on another form of official identification like a license or passport. It comes back whether they are valid and match. Its literally a plot point in Superstore. You're describing a problem that only exist when the employer willingly bypasses the system, like in Superstore.

If the DMV has issued a driver's license with the fake name thats the problem of another agency and someone there has committed a fireable offense or crime since there has been large pushes across the country since the 9/11 hijackers to lock that down.