MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by more_corn | 2025-10-11 20:29:06+00:00
“Refusing to eat” is such an absurd phrase. It says more about your impatience than it says about them.

They’re rejecting WHAT you offer WHEN you offer. They’re not refusing to eat. If you simply allow them to say no, they get hungry and come back (usually within an hour). Ask them what they want from the available healthy options and feed them that.

In fact you can set this up ahead of time. “Child what are your five favorite foods? Great two of those are special occasions only, pick two more. Great. That’s your list. Here’s the deal. At meal time you can pick one of those five. I promise to make it, if you promise to eat it.” This gives them a feeling of control and gives you an easy answer.

This actually makes your life easier because you can plan ahead and always have that whitelist available. And it’s less complicated because their pallets are simpler.

There is a whole branch of child psychology devoted to this question. They’re not refusing to eat. They’re simply not interested in the thing you offered.

I was at a friend’s recently. He prepared a lovely meal. Fresh caught salmon and great sides. His daughter didn’t eat a single bite. I was slightly offended. I overheard the fight later “dad, I hate fish, you know that” (actually quite reasonable) his reply was “it’s not a very fishy taste” (a tenuous argument). She was hungry before bed and did eat. The whole mess could have been avoided by not trying to feed her something she hates. I then watched for the rest of the weekend. Every time she was offered something she liked she ate it no problem.

This does of course assume that nobody else is undermining you by offering them junk when they get hungry after refusing a meal.
by fn-mote | 2025-10-11 20:29:34+00:00
> it sounds like he lost hope in his future

People in their 80's are watching their friends die one after the other. They aren't fooling themselves about their long-term prospects. No problems with enjoying life, I support that, but it's hard to believe the end isn't coming for you like it comes for everyone else.

I just think this idea that it is "hope" or "depression" is wrong-headed.

Having some older friends might give you a deeper perspective.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-11 20:29:38+00:00
> Wouldn’t matter. Those elected would likely be re elected

This is just rationalising laziness and nihilism. They may get re-elected. That doesn't mean you can't create a lot of chaos and cost for them along the way.

Like, I wish my adversaries would preëmptively conclude that even attempting to oppose me is not worth it.

> This is the will of the people

You're concluding this how?
by LelouBil | 2025-10-11 20:30:19+00:00
During my 2-year CS degree (in France ) we learned the whole modular algebra with groups, and stuff (don't know the terminology in English sorry) and finally, we learned about RSA using all of this stuff and it really was a wow moment for the whole class!

I don't know how it's taught elsewhere but I feel like I both have "a sufficient grasp of the number theory to really understand what is going on" but also I "should not be implementing RSA for a system that needs actual security" !
by debo_ | 2025-10-11 20:30:30+00:00
A lot of servers have the equivalent of a #nsfw channel where you post dank stuff. I don't agree with the age verification approach, but I see why it concerns people. Discord naturally attracts a very diverse crowd, of which many are quite young. Walking into a random channel in your random all-ages jrpg server and finding horse porn might concern a parent. (This is a concrete example that I have experienced, not a theoretical one.)
by WickyNilliams | 2025-10-11 20:31:00+00:00
Not an American so I don't have a horse in the race. Didnt Kirk also describe Biden as a "tyrant" and that he should be given the death penalty [0]. Calling for the (then sitting) president to be put to death seems pretty extreme to me.

[0] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/charlie-kirk-biden-death-p...
by watwut | 2025-10-11 20:31:06+00:00
I do personally know people who do invest and it is 100% gambling for a lot of small "investors". The only ignorance is to pretend it is not a thing. This point becomes super clear once you start looking at trading apps targeting this market.

> There's no gambling involved - investing is not dumb chance

First a gambling does not have to be a theoretically pure dumb chance in order to be gambling. Second, in practice it basically the same thing as betting on horses used to be.

There is a reason why small investors loose money on their investments on average despite markets going up. Because what they do is not investing.

> There are real companies behind these purchases with real expectations of future growth and thus increase in value.

Oh common, this relationship is quite broken for exactly the most known companies.
by reify | 2025-10-11 20:31:20+00:00
Boring!

June

https://arxiv.org/html/2506.10943v1

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/392629858_Self-Adap...

4 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44271284

The fantasy boosters in full AGI phallus stroking kit:

Two close friends of mine who were math prodigies that went on to do ML very early (mid 2010's) were always talking to me about an algorithm that sounds similar to this:

This is wild!

"when assessed by Claude 3.5 Sonnet’s production-grade RM, our unsupervised assistant policy wins 60% of head-to-head comparisons against the policy trained with the human-supervised RM." So now the models can even post-train the new models better than a human can

This was my first idea as well. Keep training continuously and redeploy clones after each cycle. From a layman perspective this seems reasonable :thinking:

and finally a realist!!!!!

khalic 3 months ago | root | parent | next [–]

There is no sign that LLMs are capable of general reasoning, on the contrary, so hold your horses about that. We have proven they can do basic composition (as a developer, I see proof of this every time I generate some code with an assistant) which is amazing already, but we’re still far from anything like “general intelligence”.
by fragmede | 2025-10-11 20:32:32+00:00
I mean, it's a very big field, and it's easy enough for me to armchair quarterback and call it a skill issue without being vulnerable and putting my own credentials into question. There's a whole big world of things to know about making and running websites, and I'll readily admit I don't know everything. I don't do a lot of CSS or website SEO or run ad campaigns, so someone experienced there will run circles around me.

Putting user generated content on its own domain is more on the security side of things to know about running a website, and our industry doesn't regulate who's allowed to build websites. Everyone's got their own set of different best practices.

Regardless of the exact date that GitHub moved which kinds of user generated content (UGC) over to which domain/domains, I do expect a curious webdev in 2025 to have used GitHub and to have wondered enough about it to ask what's up with stuff coming from eg raw.githubusercontent.com at some point in their web browsing career to ask Google about it. They should have walked away with the idea that they're putting UGC on a separate domain intentionally for security stuff, even if they never hear mention of the PSL or how exactly it works and is implemented. The /r/webdev post you'll find links to a GitHub blog post that gives a lot of detail as to why they did that, and that doesn't mention the PSL once.

It's fair to point out the PSL isn't common knowledge. I would agree that it isn't. I don't think it's necessary, however. All it takes is being a user of GitHub and a modicum of curiosity. I expect anyone that call themselves a webdev in 2025 to be able to explain to me what git and GitHub is and why they're different. They don't need to know where git came from but I don't think I'm being unreasonable in asking that much. From there, I expect someone to be able to make up an answer as to why there's raw.githubusercontent.com during an interview and mumble something about security, even if they can't give specific details about cookies and phishing and how that all works.

It's possible I'm being unreasonable here but I don't think I am. This isn't knowledge that takes attending W3C meetings about web browser standards to have come across. Regardless of if I am or not though, everyone who's come across this thread should now know that UGC goes in its own domain, even if they can't give details as to why.
by 4b11b4 | 2025-10-11 20:33:30+00:00
These words don't even make sense. This is pure garbage. Maybe your story of building it only on a phone is true (I hope at least, and if so, I commend you), but otherwise...

This is just a calculator app. Why would you go through the Internet to some "web desktop" to use a calculator? I can't comprehend. I see that there are other apps on here you can install such as a notepad... but such applications are already available for resource constrained devices.
by typpilol | 2025-10-11 20:33:54+00:00
You're not wrong.

I'd never encourage anyone to blind commit the messages But if they are correct they seem a lot more useful than 90% of commit messages.

I found the biggest mistakes that I've seen other people do are like - they move a file, and the commit message acts like it's a brand new feature they added because the llm doesn't put it together it's just a moved file
by Dylan16807 | 2025-10-11 20:34:13+00:00
> it's stated in the article. In most cases they weren't, the data breach only affected people who disputed the result of their age verification.

Saying this only affected disputes doesn't answer the question. It also makes it clear they knew deleting IDs was important, but did they not have proper deletion in their dispute system? If this was only new active disputes, I would expect discord to say so, but it sounds like the data in the leak goes back a lot further.
by watwut | 2025-10-11 20:34:28+00:00
Yeah, but yet another tariff we know for sure will change, with yet another market going somewhat down, just so that it can continue trade again with no relation to how economy for average person is doing ... is not even change against what we knew two days ago.

I have come to terms with world becoming worst and likely not getting better in my lifetime again. I know there is no way back, this has already been settled. There is no suspension on where it will all go.
by diyer22 | 2025-10-11 20:34:32+00:00
Exactly what i think!

- The DDN single-shot generator architecture is more efficient than diffusion.

- DDN is fully end-to-end differentiable, allowing for more efficient optimization when integrated with discriminative models or reinforcement learning.

- Moreover, DDN inherently avoids mode collapse.

These points are all mentioned in the blog: https://github.com/Discrete-Distribution-Networks/Discrete-D...
by marginalia_nu | 2025-10-11 20:34:47+00:00
I think the author is sleeping on Java assertions.

I really like the feature, and it's really one of the features I feel Java got right.

The syntax is very expressive, and they can easily be made to generate meaningful exceptions when they fail.

It's also neat that it gives the language a canonical way of adding invariant checks that can be removed in production but run in tests or during testing or debugging (with -da vs -ea).

You could achieve similar things with if statements, and likely get similar performance characteristics eventually out of C2, but this way it would be harder to distinguish business logic from invariant checking. You'd also likely end up with different authors implementing their own toggles for these pseudo-assertions.
by tombert | 2025-10-11 20:37:54+00:00
I haven't tried FreeBSD on a laptop in about a decade (~2016-2017), and I had similar issues. I couldn't get WiFi working even though I thought it should be supported, I couldn't get the laptop brightness controls working, the sound would just randomly cut out, and after a certain point I have to ask myself how much time I am realistically willing to spend on getting this working. I was trying to run it because of Jails and ZFS, but by 2016 Linux containers were generally "ok enough" nowadays, and ZFS On Linux seemed to work ok on Arch after a bit of finagling, and Linux stuff seemed work more consistently.

FreeBSD is pretty neat, don't get me wrong, I have played with it on servers and I ran an OPNsense router for years, so this isn't a dig on the OS as a whole, just that I don't think it's a good fit for laptops, at least the ones I've tried.
by brightsize | 2025-10-11 20:38:03+00:00
The Straight White American Jesus podcast did a deep-dive on Thiel's thinking recently. It wasn't what I was expecting but then I hadn't previously been paying attention to him. Apparently he's all about tech-utopinism with himself as the King and no regard for the fate of his fellow non-tech-utopian human, as in his mind such people are just holding back human progress.

I haven't watched any of his Antichrist talks but I take it that he's not thinking of this entity in the Christian sense. Instead the Antichrist is a person with some amount of power who is trying to find solutions to mankind's problems using the tools of the old order, rather than through technology and its kings.

https://www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/brad-unf...
by Dylan16807 | 2025-10-11 20:38:06+00:00
And if all the employees have access to this hardware token or passphrase or memorized password or timeboxed token of some kind, does that actually prevent a hack, or does it just let you bullet point "encrypted"?

The main thing encryption prevents is someone that steals a physical device getting access to the data inside. It doesn't do much about unauthorized access to live servers.
by ssl-3 | 2025-10-11 20:39:23+00:00
Yeah, that first meeting with the other contractors was like walking into bizarro-world.

They (the homeowner) were getting dedicated custom-built single-purpose wall-mounted shelving for each of these Eeros devices, along with dedicated 120V outlets for each of them to provide power.

Now they're still getting that, plus the Ethernet jack that I will be installing on the wall at these locations because that's the extent to which I am empowered to inject sanity.

(Maybe someone down the road will look at it and go "Yeah, that just needs to be a wall-mounted access point with PoE," and remove even more stupid from the things.

Or... not: People are unpredictable and it seems like many home buyers' first task is to rip out and erase as much current-millennia technology as possible, reducing the home to bare walls under a roof, with a kitchen, a shitter, and some light switches and HVAC.)
by rsynnott | 2025-10-11 20:39:29+00:00
I feel this is overly harsh on Collections. You have to take into account just how awful that which it replaced was.

> Java Time: Much better than what came before, but I have barely had to use much of this API at all, so I’m not in a position to really judge how good this is.

Again, it is hard to overstate just _how_ bad the previous version is.

Though honestly I still just use joda time.
by debo_ | 2025-10-11 20:39:30+00:00
This is not a tradeoff-less scenario. Most users will be pretty irritated if, for example, you ask them to re-upload the front and back of the id in question at a later date because you deleted it last time for their protection.

I personally think doing ID verification of physical documents over the internet is just a non-starter. I've unfortunately had to support such systems for years at a time, and I'm thankful I don't do it anymore.
by add-sub-mul-div | 2025-10-11 20:40:56+00:00
Nearly everything we discuss here is political. Some people get triggered when the current administration gets criticized and pretend that's the line where politics starts, but it isn't. Accepting what the government does without question is the height of incuriosity. If the site owners had any interest in enforcing the guidelines, this place wouldn't be a cesspool of LLM shovelware self-promotion.
by zkmon | 2025-10-11 20:41:27+00:00
Applets (Java 1.1 - that's where I started),

Servlets (Together with MS ASP, JSP/Servlets have fuelled the e-commerce websites)

I think Java dominated the scene mostly because of its enterprise features (Java EE) and the supporting frameworks (Spring etc) and applications (Tomcat, Websphere, Weblogic etc) and support from Open source (Apache, IBM)
by sshine | 2025-10-11 20:42:03+00:00
Yet people get leopards as pets.

I remind myself multiple times per week of the ways I compromise by letting questionable service companies into my life. “I really should self-serve this.” — I guess people who don’t fantasise of self-sufficiency to the nth degree, and don’t get angry at being force-fed straight uninterrupted ads, just think of the immediate upside.
by Footprint0521 | 2025-10-11 20:42:37+00:00
I fully agree. I’ve been running codex with GPT Pro (5o-codex-high) for a few weeks now, and it really just boils down to context.

I’ve found the most helpful things for me is just voice to Whisper to LLMs, managing token usage effectively and restarting chats when necessary, and giving it quantified ways to check when its work is done (say, AI-Unit-Tests with apis or playwright tests.) Also, every file I own is markdown haha.

And obviously having different AI chats for specialized tasks (the way the math works on these models makes this have much better results!)

All of this has allowed me to still be in the PM role like he said, but without burning down a needless forest on having it reevaluate things in its training set lol. But why would we go back to vendor lock in with Claude? Not to mention how much more powerful 5o-codex-high is, it’s not even close

The good thing about what he said is getting AI to work with AI, I have found this to be incredibly useful in promoting, and segmenting out roles
by jstanley | 2025-10-11 20:45:05+00:00
Fixed-rate mortgages are offered in the UK, but they are only fixed at a good rate for a short period of time (maybe 2-5 years) before they go up to an unreasonable rate, which would force you to renegotiate the mortgage to get the new prevailing rate at that time.

So it's effectively a variable rate anyway.
by biotinker | 2025-10-11 20:45:55+00:00
Isn't that what I proposed in my example though? Where a rule is made in advance that if the player abuses their power, they die. due to the canon situation in which that player's character existed?

A player that in good faith wanted to role play such a character, would work with the DM in advance to structure rules well-understood by all parties about exactly what would happen if they abuse their situation.

All the DnD situations can be trivially resolved by good-faith and communication on all sides.

Unlike Chat Control, where good faith cannot be assumed.
by ranger207 | 2025-10-11 20:46:00+00:00
> After using the knobs in Garageband for a while, I noticed that they didn’t always react the way I thought they would. Most of the time the little indicator dot on the knob would follow my finger as I spun the knob around in a circle. Other times the knob wouldn’t follow my finger at all and seemed to go in random directions. I eventually figured out that I had stumbled on three different ways to turn a virtual knob.

> ...

> Apple’s attention to detail is what has propelled it to be the most valuable company on earth. Whether it’s the click of a physical button or the math behind inertial scrolling, Apple employees work really hard to make products that are deceptively simple and just feel right. The virtual knobs found in Garageband are no exception and I hope others enjoyed learning about them as much as I have.

I think these two statements are contradictory. Personally, I've noticed a pattern when people post about Apple UX that seems to go "yes this thing may be unintuitive but actually it's a sign of really good design!" that I can't quite seem to wrap my head around
by N70Phone | 2025-10-11 20:46:43+00:00
> Looking at where America is right now. It seems to make a downfall.

It's been happening for years now. 'America', the idea, died the moment the 2nd plane hit the towers.

People saw that happen, and were so fearful they immediately opened their hearts to fascism.

2025 is merely the year where all of Bush's fascist policies & Obama/Biden's failure to clean it up metastasized into the overt fascism that hurts everyone in a country & eventually destroys the country itself.
by nerdponx | 2025-10-11 20:46:46+00:00
So that's 35 Microsoft employees. Rank and file employees are probably all over the political spectrum. But two things have become clear over the past decade: 1) people who identify as conservative and/or libertarian tend to keep it to themselves except around other people that they believe identify the same way, and 2) the people in the tech industry who actually have power and money are either long-standing right wing authoritarians, right wing libertarians, or sycophants who just support whatever the people in power seem to prefer.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-10-11 20:47:45+00:00
> It's irrelevant to the extorted company whether or not it becomes more common in the future, they have a much bigger problem now.

No, it's not irrelevant because that future might be tomorrow. The criminals remain in possession of the data whether they get paid or not, that is, the extortion can be restarted the next day (or hour) after payment.

There's no way to trust an anonymous group you know nothing about, be it to keep their word or to keep your data safe from individual members or splintering groups.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-11 20:47:47+00:00
> Here's one example of the MAGA crowd self-identifying as conservative

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply no conservatives are MAGA. Just that I would be surprised if a majority of self-identifying conservatives identify with MAGA. (I wouldn't be surprised if a majority of former conservatives were now MAGA.)

The difference is meaningful, because by unifying MAGA and conservatives one loses resolution on a powerful breakaway faction. (The main reason we had a free and fair election in 2020 is because some Republicans upheld their oaths to the Constitution.)
by nomilk | 2025-10-11 20:47:57+00:00
> The hacker claims an outsourced worker was compromised through a $500 bribe

Also interesting:

> The hacker claims government IDs were just sitting there for months or even years... I have spoken to people familiar with Discord's Age Verification system, and they said after some period of time Discord will delete (the copies of IDs), but they should be deleting them the second they're done

Source (pinned comment, and 7m20s respectively): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnuyT8FgSpA
by rolandog | 2025-10-11 20:48:33+00:00
I think you are right — definitionwise. But I think you're not thinking about the impacts it can have when grossly misused as I hinted, and how this might be one tool in the cruelty toolbelt of oppressive regimes.

By targeting their support networks, the "baddies" effectively end up making the new generations risk for impoverishment greater (can't let the kids at grandma's, have to pay for daycare, lose access to nutritious inexpensive meals, etc).
by armchairhacker | 2025-10-11 20:48:59+00:00
But even with IP norms, today’s AI is still stricter than what’s technically allowed.

People can legally make derivatives of IP which are very similar; case in point, Palworld (which admittedly is being sued, but only for minor details, and since the original IP is one of the strongest defended, this means that the bigger similarities have practically been deemed legal). The problem is that today’s LLMs (and diffusion models) are easy to trick, so in order to restrict them from creating derivatives that are too similar (to the point of copyright infringement), the AI companies add overly-strict guardrails. Ironically, these guardrails still tend to be bypassed by dedicated individuals, leading to even stricter guardrails that are still ineffective; and this has been an issue since the early days of ChatGPT.