MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-10-22 16:46:58+00:00
y'all ever notice that the internet seems to have introduced entire new classes of fallacy, or at least that the structure of debating online tends to surface fallacies that aren't as common in real life? This is one that I call the redditor fallacy and at its base it's the presumption that if one particular group of people isn't currently talking about something in one particular thread that no one anywhere is talking about it and it's a subtype of whataboutism. The truth is that if I google the phrase "automobile recall" I don't see tesla in the first three pages of results but I do see Ford, GM, Nissan, Dodge and Volkswagen.
by nullocator | 2025-10-22 16:47:04+00:00
How many human lives are worth the cost for you to enjoy the taste of raw milk that has been distributed across state lines from time to time? If possible please answer both in terms of acceptable deaths, but also in terms of hospitalization cases that did not result in death.

If banning the sale of raw milk saves a life is it still stupid and unscientific? What if it saves 10,000? A million?

People act like these things are a personal attack on them and their freedoms. Like they happened in a vacuum. Like a bunch of bros got together in the 40s - 70s and thought to themselves, "how can we deny future raw milk aficionado dpc_01234 his druthers decades from now". Pay no mind to the thousands of lives that could be saved from terrible diseases like tuberculosis.

This type of thinking and commentary (propaganda?) just constantly being thrust into the world is not only ignorant but it's dangerous. Good luck to you and yours man, I hope the worst that happens to you from this willful lack or regard for both science and history is the inevitable food poisoning you'll get from blindly ignoring food safety because "germ milk yummy".
by isodev | 2025-10-22 16:47:06+00:00
> Apple has taken steps

Apple engages in “privacy washing” - they take steps in the name of privacy when it disadvantages their competitors. At the same time, Apple has no problem collecting say Spotlight and Safari search terms … or “features” from Photos etc.

I agree that ads as a monetisation channel were a mistake. But beyond that, privacy is a human right and should be applied without exception.
by Marsymars | 2025-10-22 16:47:14+00:00
I don't think it would have to be only electric cars, if you're building a hybrid where the 12V battery is kept charged by the high voltage battery, you've got basically the same situation.

Availability of accessories seems like it would be inconvenient for any early adopters, e.g. you can readily get USB chargers, portable generators, coolers, tire inflators, battery boosters, etc. that run off 12V... if you get a 48V vehicle today, you'd either need a 110V->12V adapter to run accessories, or you'd be limited to 48V RV accessories.
by esafak | 2025-10-22 16:47:45+00:00
If nothing is going on in your life, it is as the article says. However, if you experience novel and memorable stimuli, good or bad, time dilates. Traumatic experiences are particularly memorable because the brain wants to make sure you learn your lesson. It is a consequence of the brain's compressive learning algorithm, discarding the familiar and making sense of the new.
by akerl_ | 2025-10-22 16:47:57+00:00
What language today still doesn't have a de facto simplified toolbox for wrapping crypto operations?

If you're a developer, and you start trying to perform crypto operations for your service and the library you chose is making you question which cipher, what KDF parameters, or what DH group you want, that is 100% a red flag and you should promptly stop using that crypto library.
by h4ck_th3_pl4n3t | 2025-10-22 16:47:59+00:00
I never used errgroup but I realize that it's essentially the same what I end up implementing anyways.

With standard waitgroups I always move my states as a struct with something like a nested *data struct and an err property which is then pushed through the channel. But this way, my error handling is after the read instead of right at the Wait() call.
by randycupertino | 2025-10-22 16:48:10+00:00
Shaun Maguire is a partner at Sequoia who has become an outspoken right-wing commentator online and large GOP donor. His recent comments that the Sequoia COO quit over was about the democrat front runner candidate for NYC Mayor, Zohran Mamdani.

This article has some details: https://www.businessinsider.com/shaun-maguire-sequoia-vc-gop...

> Following Trump's felony conviction last year, Maguire announced he'd back Trump in the 2024 election and would write his campaign a $300,000 check. In total, he donated about $800,000 to Republican causes last year, according to data from Open Secrets. Once Trump was elected, Maguire aided in the transition by interviewing candidates for positions in the defense department, The New York Times reported.
by iLemming | 2025-10-22 16:48:29+00:00
> How does Magit handle complex merges

Like most of the things in Emacs - with variability that can suit [almost] every scenario - you can simply accept upstream or downstream changes with a keypress; use plain (line-by-line) diffing or 3way-merge diff UI; you can go through every hunk and precisely control things, while (if needed) rewriting the code; you can delegate the task to the external tooling;

What's great is that all that is happening in your editor - you can always bring another window next to your conflict resolution to compare with context in a different branch, revision or stash; you can jump from a diff pointing to a file to open it in Dired - directory browser and editor, where you can also get the log of changes pertaining that file only (or any marked files and dirs in the filetree). You can even ask LLM to help you at precise point, by just marking a hunk and sending a request - without context switching, without losing your focus.
by ncr100 | 2025-10-22 16:48:37+00:00
It does! Tech creates an abstraction layer which commonly is referred to, in my experience, as the dynamic term, "disruption".

This complicates a formerly intuitive subject, introducing radical change hidden within an often literal black box .. and nowadays that box is in 'the cloud' .. making it difficult for humans to retain a mental model, which can then reduce the sense of trustworthiness of that subject!

Corruptible humans are here to stay, forever. We are alive until we are not, and we are a successful species, so we "get it done, whatever it takes" in order to survive. That includes grifting.

People are motivated to resource-hog (power, money, votes in favor of their own interest) by brain chemistry / structures. "Feels good to win."

So - in my view - regulation is key to ensure that shared values win, over personal values.

Technology doesn't care, and can be crafted to add "guardrails" that prevent corruption.

The trick, again in my view, is maintaining those guardrails as anti-guardrail technology is developed by self-interested grifters!!!

What a world! (ncr100 sprays chrome spraypaint on mouth an drives off into the desert ...)
by stickfigure | 2025-10-22 16:49:19+00:00
I just spent a few weeks in southern France. Lovely place, lovely food, lovely people...

...with one national flaw. All that lovely food is available strictly between the hours of 12 and 2 (for lunch) and 7 and 9 (for dinner). If you don't eat on the precise timetable as everyone else (say, jetlag) then you don't eat.
by jerf | 2025-10-22 16:50:05+00:00
"Am I out of date and we just call that string interpolation these days?"

It's all just spelling. Your compiler just turns

x = "I want ${number/12|round} dozen eggs, ${name|namecase}"

into

x = StrCon("I want ", round(number/12), " dozen eggs, ", namecase(name))

anyhow. It's not a huge transform.

I think people get bizarrely hung up on the tiny details of this between languages... but then, I think that extensive use of string interpolation is generally a code smell at best anyhow, so I'm probably off the beaten path in more than one way here.
by akerl_ | 2025-10-22 16:50:07+00:00
Eh. I've used OpenVPN over many years for many kinds of problems. I'm hesitant to call it perfectly reasonable even for the most mundane use case of "running an entirely vanilla virtual private network". For the use case of securely wrapping services in the way Wireguard can do, it's hilariously bad.

OpenVPN is basically 1000 configuration options and magic incantations wearing a trenchcoat, and if you get any of them wrong the whole thing crumbles (or worse, appears to work but is not secure).
by iwontberude | 2025-10-22 16:50:19+00:00
As you alluded to, network can have two parallel chains where wallets can be upgraded by users asynchronously before PQC is “needed” (a long way away still) which will leave some wallets vulnerable and others safe. It’s not that herculean as most wallets (not most BTC) are in exchanges. The whales will be sufficiently motivated to switch and everyone else it will happen in the background.

A nice benefit is it solves the problem with Satoshi’s (of course not a real person or owner) wallet. Satoshi’s wallet becomes the defacto quantum advantage prize. That’s a lot of scratch for a research lab.
by silisili | 2025-10-22 16:50:20+00:00
I feel like my biggest issue last time I implemented Argon2 was which settings to use. There are so many different opinions, people posting helpful but untrue info, etc that it gets a bit mind boggling on what to actually believe. I spent hours on it and still didn't really find a sane consensus. I'm sure it makes more sense to someone in the crypto space, but this has got to be easier for widespread adoption. Sane defaults, or 'here are 3 example groups of settings and when it's recommended.'

In the end I gave in and just used what Bitwarden uses. I figured they probably knew what they were doing more than I did.
by ceejayoz | 2025-10-22 16:50:36+00:00
> Also remember that at this scale it isn't taking money, it is seizing control of companies.

Nah. Zuck has "founder's stock" that gets 10x the voting power. He owns something like 13% of FB but >50% of the voting power.

> But yes, we can both agree to defer to the experts and not bother trying to understand or think through the consequences of our policy beliefs.

"We should have a wealth tax" and "the wealth tax should be set to exactly 3.28%" are very different things. I believe a wealth tax would be beneficial; I also believe that setting the amount of said tax requires some domain experts.

In comic form: https://condenaststore.com/featured/these-smug-pilots-have-l...

I'm able to say "we should not crash the plane into that big mountain" without being able to say how to fly said plane.
by steego | 2025-10-22 16:50:37+00:00
Nihilism is one response to disillusionment.

Another response is to come to terms with a possibly meaningless and Sisyphean reality and to keep pushing the boulder (that you care about) up the hill anyway.

I’m glad the poster is concerned and/or disillusioned about the hype, hyperbole and deception associated with this type of research.

It suggests he still cares.
by keyKeeper | 2025-10-22 16:50:44+00:00
I recall Shaun Maguire trying to interfere with European politics, specifically supporting AfD in Germany. Instantly lost my admiration towards Sequoia, the image I previously had about them was something like calm, deeply analytical grown ups. Turns out they are into petty daily politics that will not go anywhere other than stir drama, at least this Shaun guy. Still feels bad when I think about it, disillusionment is painful.
by tptacek | 2025-10-22 16:50:47+00:00
It's more subtle than that and is not actually that simple (though the attack is). The "modern" curve constructions pioneered by Bernstein are supposed to be misuse-resistant in this regard; Bernstein popularized both Montgomery and Edwards curves. His two major curve implementations are Curve25519 and Ed25519, which are different mathematical representations of the same underlying curve. Curve25519 famously isn't vulnerable to this attack!
by auxiliarymoose | 2025-10-22 16:50:50+00:00
From the article:

> in partnership with The University of California, Berkeley, we ran the Quantum Echoes algorithm on our Willow chip...

And the author affiliations in the Nature paper include:

Princeton University; UC Berkeley; University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Caltech; Harvard; UC Santa Barbara; University of Connecticut; UC Santa Barbara; MIT; UC Riverside; Dartmouth College; Max Planck Institute.

This is very much in partnership with universities and they clearly state that too.
by Qem | 2025-10-22 16:50:52+00:00
My hypothesis is a bit different. Instead of logarithimic time perception, informational time perception. Children have brains with high plasticity and huge new information acquisition (learning) rates. Those rates drop as plasticity decreases when one gets older. Those "bitrates" of new information flowing into long-term memory act as sand flowing through a hourglass. A fixed amount of sand represents a fixed amount of subjective time. When those rates drop, we feel time runs faster, because now the same amount of sand (subjective time, information) stretches over more clocktime.
by devin | 2025-10-22 16:50:55+00:00
Speaking of, someone shared with me an AI financial challenge where they are pitting the LLMs against one another to make trades, manage risk, etc. and then track their performance against one another with starting capital of 10,000 USD each.

Their starting portfolios are ludicrous. They are trading BTC, XRP, DOGE, etc. I thought the idea was somewhat interesting, but then I felt like the only reasonable takeaway I had was that these models have intense brainrot from consuming twitter, reddit, etc. and as such have a completely warped view of "finance".
by bunderbunder | 2025-10-22 16:51:06+00:00
Outsourcing due diligence to a tool (or a single unified source) is the problem, not the solution.

For example, having a single central arbiter of source bias is inescapably the most biased thing you could possibly do. Bias has to be defined within an intellectual paradigm. So you'd have to choose a paradigm to use for that bias evaluation, and de facto declare it to be the one true paradigm for this purpose. But intellectual paradigms are inherently subjective, so doing that is pretty much the most intellectually biased thing you can possibly do.
by anonymous908213 | 2025-10-22 16:51:10+00:00
I do love the irony of reading a headline "Administrative court: Cookie banner must contain "Reject all" button" on a website that does a completely blocking cookie banner with no such option. I suppose if I lived in Germany I would be pleased with the results of reporting that to the authorities.

More generally, I actually did organically notice the massive increase in "Reject all" buttons and found out about these court decisions myself some time ago. Certainly a small win for the internet, although it should not have taken 9 years(!) from the implementation of GDPR for these violations of it to be cracked down on.
by almostgotcaught | 2025-10-22 16:51:16+00:00
> I view his controversy as being most likely a calculated marketing maneuver to improve or maximize the signal to noise in his deal flow. It's hard for me as an outsider to say whether that's working for him or not

why is it that tech bros will bend over backwards to find "good-faith" interpretations of the most obviously stupid shit. like bro have you literally never heard the phrase "confirmation bias"? you know it's possible he could just be a lucky idiot right?

> In an interview with the Caltech Heritage Project, Maguire reported that he earned a 1.8 GPA in high school and failed his Algebra 2 course, and that his admission to Stanford University depended on letters of recommendation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_Maguire
by jjmarr | 2025-10-22 16:51:18+00:00
> this would be a herculean effort for everyone involved and would require all holders (not miners) to actively update their wallets. Basically infeasible.

Any rational economic actor would participate in a post-quantum hard fork because the alternative is losing all their money.

If this was a company with a $2 trillion market cap there'd be no question they'd move heaven-and-earth to prevent the stock from going to zero.

Y2K only cost $500 billion[1] adjusted for inflation and that required updating essentially every computer on Earth.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem#Cost
by mckngbrd | 2025-10-22 16:51:25+00:00
What version of Gemini were you using? i.e. were you calling it locally via the API or thru their Gemini or AI Studio web apps?

Not every LLM app has access to web / news search capabilities turned on by default. This makes a huge difference in what kind of results you should expect. Of course, the AI should be aware that it doesn't have access to web / news search, and it should tell you as much rather than hallucinating fake links. If access to web search was turned on, and it still didn't properly search the web for you, that's a problem as well.
by undershirt | 2025-10-22 16:52:06+00:00
I was on a break at work reading a lot about 9/11 for some reason. Went back to fix an easy bug where our timestamps were printing wrong dates (milliseconds vs seconds) so I became curious what dates would show up if I added zeros in front of 1, to get a ballpark of where dates are. I freaked out after the ninth zero, you know, being so close to the event I was just reading about.
by op00to | 2025-10-22 16:52:17+00:00
Ratio of U.S. vehicles recalled in 2024 → 2024 U.S. sales

Tesla: 5,135,991 → 516,597 ≈ 9.94.

Ford: 4,777,161 → 2,078,832 ≈ 2.30.

GM: 1,872,567 → 2,700,000 ≈ 0.69.

Toyota: 1,221,666 → 2,330,000 ≈ 0.52.

Honda: 3,794,113 → 1,291,490 ≈ 2.94.

A Tesla sold in 2024 was roughly 4 times more likely than a Ford to be involved in a recall campaign that year. Despite selling far fewer vehicles, Tesla’s recalls affected nearly ten times its annual U.S. sales volume.

This reflects a structural difference, not media bias. Tesla initiates fewer recall campaigns overall, but those campaigns routinely involve millions of vehicles. When normalized for sales volume, Tesla’s recall exposure is the highest of any major automaker. “Innovation risk” cuts both ways.
by caminante | 2025-10-22 16:52:19+00:00
The year is 2054...

There are no offline, terrestrial porn backups.

Humanity has lost connection with the only remaining porn footage on a space datacenter called "Old Family Cooking Recipes."

A rag tag team, led by Ellen Degeneres (who still can't get hired), must perform a daring mission to press the power On/Off switch.
by imiric | 2025-10-22 16:52:26+00:00
If the painter doesn't enjoy painting in public, then they should've picked a quiet spot in nature in the first place.

And yet, most people who do decide to share their work in public, directly or indirectly reap the rewards of it. They get exposure and recognition, which in turn opens many doors. I'm not saying that exposure alone puts food on the table, but it's certainly not entirely negative. Many people would envy to be in that position.

Your analogy is akin to any public figure enjoying their work, but not enjoying the attention. That certainly happens, but the attention, and all its negative aspects, comes with the territory. That attention might even be partly responsible for getting them to where they are. People in such line of work must learn to live with their choices. Not be surprised when their audience has certain demands and expectations, which may or may not be within reason.
by radicality | 2025-10-22 16:52:27+00:00
Fwiw, I’ve had a few different PoE switches from Ubiquity and at least so far haven’t had any problems with the switches. My current one is the 48 Pro-Max etherlighting , and I have around fifteen PoE devices and it’s pretty much plug and play always.

I did have issues with some of their other products - eg an old CloudKey gen1 that I had remotely in my parents place that I think ran out of space to the point it can’t update itself and can’t compact some old mongodb.
by orblivion | 2025-10-22 16:52:38+00:00
Firstly I'd want to see them hash the whole blockchain (not just the last block) with the post-quantum algo to make sure history is intact.

But as far as moving balances - it's up to the owners. It would start with anybody holding a balance high enough to make it worth the amount of money it would take to crack a single key. That cracking price will go down, and the value of BTC may go up. People can move over time as they see fit.
by thomask1995 | 2025-10-22 16:53:01+00:00
This is the app I was begging for a few years ago!

Ended up buying a ton of Ear Training books and using those little web apps.

This would have been so much better.

I just started using it,

I will say, I feel we can skip the chords annotations and stuff if the ICP is intermediate guitarist.

Or do a quick survey at the start and see what fundamentals they know.

For intermediate guitar, I think the main gaps are:

- Ear training (unless they were taught early) - triads + inversions - Music theory beyond basic pentatonic shapes - Synchronization at higher speeds (this was my biggest one by far) - Chords beyond basic ones and M/m 7th.

I feel you could add little quiz or survery to see if they are already familiar with some of these.

just my 2 cents

Overall, love this. Very happy someone took the time to do it.
by Reason077 | 2025-10-22 16:53:06+00:00
> "A 10kg battery would be beyond sufficient"

I don't have the exact weight, but Tesla's LFP low-voltage batteries weigh far less than that. Around 2kg at a guess.

Rating is 12.8V nominal, 12Ah, 153.6Wh. Not all that much bigger than a laptop battery!
by bongodongobob | 2025-10-22 16:53:51+00:00
Companies get hacked because Bob in finance doesn't have MFA and got a phishing email. In my experience working for MSP's it's always been phishing and social engineering. I have never seen a company comprised from some obscure bug in software. This may be different for super large organizations that are international targets, but for the average person or business, you're better off spending time just MFAing everything you can and using common sense.
by sipofwater | 2025-10-22 16:54:11+00:00
1. "I just had over $3,000,000 of XRP stolen off of my cold wallet" by Brandon LaRoque: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbrC240HVJQ via https://www.youtube.com/@brandonlaroque4760

2. "Crypto update. Difference between cold & hot wallet. Gold & silver prices. Thanks for watching" by Brandon LaRoque: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwEXU3tADSI

3. "Email from ELLIPAL. Full story about $3 million XRP hack so far" by Brandon LaRoque: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxcs94gQTTg via https://www.youtube.com/@brandonlaroque4760

4. "Cyber Scrilla, Efani, Robinhood & a few viewer emails": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOmOCqWEeN0 via https://www.youtube.com/@brandonlaroque4760
by apizon | 2025-10-22 16:54:25+00:00
Thanks for the feedback!

I can't argue the fact that playing the guitar will always be the best way to improve. The app come as a complement and is especially meant to help memorize shapes and more importantly recognize how different chord types, intervals or scales are related. Although it probably won't improve playing feel or technique directly I hope it can give a kind of "lightbulb" moment to some people in the way they view the fretboard.

As for the ear training part, the app actually focuses on relative pitch which is a very useful skill to have and one you can actually learn as an adult unlike absolute pitch. E.g. recognizing a major 7 sound from a minor 7 one, not a Cmaj7 from a Dmaj7.
by fluoridation | 2025-10-22 16:54:40+00:00
>Because then you have more active working memory as infrequently used pages are moved to compressed swap and can be used for more page cache or just normal resident memory.

Uhh... A VMM that swaps out to disk an allocated page to make room for more disk cache would be braindead. The process has allocated that memory to use it. The kernel doesn't have enough information to deem disk cache a higher priority. The only thing that should cause it to be swapped out is either another process or the kernel requesting memory.