MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by constantius | 2025-10-25 10:45:37+00:00
The EU has its advantages, but I'd never list "more pure" and "not corrupt" among them. The EU introduced lobbying (=legal corruption) into European politics when most countries historically didn't have much of it. It also has a massive amount of normal, God-fearing illegal corruption.

Many of the biggest stories about the EU are about or have a sizable aspect of corruption. Chat Control amd Thorn, Ursula von der Leyen and Big Pharma, Ursula von der Leyen and $anything.

Follow the Money is a thriving investigative journalism publication that lives off uncovering corruption in the EU.

https://netzpolitik.org/2022/dude-wheres-my-privacy-how-a-ho...

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

https://www.ftm.eu/
by integralid | 2025-10-25 10:46:13+00:00
If you see something publicly it's TLP:White (or clear, since it was changed for weird readons) by definition. But yeah it's a term specific to it security, where it's usually well understood what TLP:Amber and TLP:Red means. I agree TLP:Green is a bit more fuzzy, and the intention is often basically "share with trusted parties but don't post publicly".
by floundy | 2025-10-25 10:46:27+00:00
>Many older people I work with would love to have more required interactions

This was actually a big issue in my office leading to work from home being rolled back. The boomers want to be in the office so other people are forced to socialize with them, and they don’t want to be home because many of them seem to resent their spouses.

IMO it’s a terrible trade-off. What they lack is true relationships and friendships, and they're filling the void with idle workplace chitchat for the illusion of connection. I’d rather be at home. I’m getting paid to work, not provide social support for lonely boomers.
by makeitdouble | 2025-10-25 10:46:30+00:00
In agreement with most of the points, this one was surprising to me:

> Many engineers seem to think it’s rude to leave a blocking review even if they see big problems, so they instead just leave comments describing the problems. Don’t do this. [...] Just leaving comments should mean “I’m happy for you to merge if someone else approves, even if you ignore my comments.”

Do people actually ignore a comment explaining a problem with the code as written just because it wasn't a blocking review ?

It's like ignoring someone telling you you're stepping into a hole because they're not grabbing you by the neck. Reviews shouldn't be that adversarial nor hand holding.

I'm also realizing, everywhere I work a comment is basically a blocking, except if it's explicitely flagged or discussed as optional. Trying to find some other person to review and ignore the comment is just a big NO.
by braincode | 2025-10-25 10:47:36+00:00
Totally second that, I was banned today on their Telegram channel just because I mentioned that I recorded a r2con2025 presentation to free Samsung PowerBot VR7000M vacuum cleaners (no Samsung bot seems to be supported by them to date), titled "Restoring the Vacuum" in here:

https://radare.org/con/2025/#vacuum

I wish I didn't mention Valetudo positively on my presentation now. Hypfer has bizarre (to say the least) views about what community building means and entails.
by rixed | 2025-10-25 10:47:47+00:00
> Same reason as to why a lot of people smoke, they cant bear being bored for 5 minutes. Its incredibly easy to quit too

For you information, nicotine is generally considered a highly addictive substance (see for instance: https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/drugs-a-to-z) Although various people do seem to experience it very differently, and some indeed have reported to me that they feel almost no addiction. From others, I've heard such things as "I've quit smoking 30 years ago, and for 30 years I've been craving for a cigaret". My personnal experience is that it takes a good, dedicated several weeks long effort to quit; I haven't had a lot of addictions in my life but this one was by far the hardest to get rid of. But the effect of nicotine, or lack thereof, are benign, maybe that's why it gives you the impression that it's not very addictive. Turns out, the most addictive substances are not necessarily the ones with the strongest effects.

As to who is lacking discipline, well I guess we would all be better off with more discipline. Including you, who lack the discipline to do the mental work to research a topic you know little about before you comment on it, and most importantly the mental work needed to see things from other's perspective. ;)
by pfdietz | 2025-10-25 10:49:11+00:00
Nuclear is quite different from coal.

First, coal has a much larger share of its cost as variable cost which is avoided if you don't run the plant. 40% for coal, only 10% for nuclear. This makes integrated a coal fired plant into a renewable grid easier than a nuclear plant. China is increasingly doing this with its coal plants.

Second, coal is much more forgiving of maintenance sloppiness, and even in the event of catastrophic malfunction the plant remains repairable.

Nuclear has been available in its current (and no longer competitive) state longer than solar/wind have been in their current economic state, so if you look at historical data you might conclude nuclear is better. But that's backward looking and says little about what's better in the future.

You are aware that a nuclear plant tripping offline was part of the cause of ERCOT's last winter cold problem?
by floundy | 2025-10-25 10:50:48+00:00
This is an important caveat. I get recommended what the parent commenter you replied to stated, mostly videos on home repair, tech, and technological skepticism because those are what I watch. I also get Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, and other alt-right pipeline dorks in my recommendations solely because of my gender and age. I never engage with political content on YouTube and I’ve cleared my watch history multiple times, these still show up.

I actually ended up disabling watch history all together and I’ve installed an extension (Unhook) that hides the sidebar recommendations, Shorts, and other useless features.
by unyttigfjelltol | 2025-10-25 10:50:54+00:00
Restaurant food is optimized for everything but healthfulness.

Portion size, saturated fat, excessive salt, sugar, sometimes alcohol, low fiber— the industry has defined itself as an extension of the junk food industry. Which is ironic! Because pretty much the only food I would be willing to pay a premium for would be healthy food, demonstrably healthy food.
by cyberpunk | 2025-10-25 10:50:59+00:00
There seems to be a strong culture towards removing agency from people and allowing them to escape any form of judgement on the consequences of their actions.

Sure, maybe some people really do have thyroid problems; but this idea that overweight people are somehow not responsible for their own condition is ridiculous and dangerous.

I had drug and alcohol problems in the past, it was my own choice, and my own choice to get out of that situation.

I smoked, I chose to stop.

I was unfit due to laziness, and I fixed that too.

None of those situations were the result of anything other than personal choice.
by OJFord | 2025-10-25 10:51:08+00:00
It's not the only imaginable way, but it is the society we (in the vast majority of the world) live in, and I agree it doesn't really make sense to bash something not continuing to exist unprofitably when it was developed for profit.

It's annoying when software support ends for anything, phones, Nest Protect, (any Google product!), but I think best to bear it in mind in buying anything that it's a possibility, who are you relying on for what and what's their incentive to keep going.
by timcobb | 2025-10-25 10:52:04+00:00
Dude if you have a whole thread of people you have all these problems with, maybe it's you?

> I have no desire to force change on the man (it's his garden after all); ultimately, GitHub was the wrong destination for his work. It's sort-of like he's opened a workshop in the middle of a bustling market and now he's barking at everyone for interupting him.

^ This ^
by antonymoose | 2025-10-25 10:52:13+00:00
One question I would have is how distorted is your area, economically?

I live in the Appalachian mountains, so one would think it should be reasonable labor rates for an area with a middle-low cost of living.

Except that we have a lake the next town over which is entirely covered in millionaire lake houses, so anyone working a trade here can and will charge obscene rates to local, normal people because they can command that rate from a rich transplant that is price insensitive.

You can occasionally find a good, reasonable guy or company still, but you’ll be calling around for days to find them.

Having previously spent a decade in a hot-market (Charleston, SC) you’ll find similar stories, there are plenty of workers in the area, but they’re almost always expecting to charge rates to wealthy price-insensitive transplants.
by cyberpunk | 2025-10-25 10:52:54+00:00
So your argument is that smokers and obese people have literally no control over their consumption because of non-duality? I mean, I’m a buddhist, I probably have a stronger sense of non-duality than most and that’s just horseshit unless I misunderstood you.

edit: this is like saying rapists aren’t responsible for their crimes because they had a physiological response to seeing someone they found attractive.

Urges of all kinds (never wanted to slap someone and didn’t?) can be overcome with an only a little discipline.
by nearbuy | 2025-10-25 10:53:38+00:00
If anything, the seahorse emoji case is exactly the type of thing you wouldn't expect to happen if LLMs just repeated information from their training corpus. It starts producing a weird dialogue that's completely unlike its training corpus, while trying to produce an emoji it's never seen during training. Why would it try to write an emoji that's not in its training data? This is totally different than its normal response when asked to produce a non-existent emoji. Normally, it just tells you the emoji doesn't exist.

So what is it repeating?

It's not enough to just point to an instance of LLMs producing weird or dumb output. You need to show how it fits with your theory that they "just repeating information". This is like pointing out one of the millions of times a person has said something weird, dumb, or nonsensical and claiming it proves humans can't think and can only repeat information.
by i80and | 2025-10-25 10:54:16+00:00
You asked the question, but don't want to hear the answer.

Advancements are more often logarithmic than geometric: a brief flurry of progress as easy barriers are overcome, followed by a long unsexy slog of incrementalism.

Bitcoin may well be broken someday, but the time scale is on decades, which is well beyond the horizon for high-volatility markets like Bitcoin
by eterm | 2025-10-25 10:55:51+00:00
The thing that sticks out at me most on that table is "Mandelbrot" being such an outlier, has the LuaJIT implementation been checked over?

Looking at the code, it looks like the Mandelbrot algorithm has a version-switcher, so does that mean LuaJIT is going down the < 5.3 path?

( Sorry, this isn't my area of expertise, I'm just trying to make sense of the table! )
by vidarh | 2025-10-25 10:56:53+00:00
> How do you know you dream then? If it's like a switch.

Because the switch doesn't flick until a second or two after I've woken up. Too short that I've ever been able to even grab a pen, long enough for me to be left with a memory of having briefly remembered dreaming, but never the slightest hint of what. Of course, that also means I can't be 100% certain to know whether that memory is true.

> What are you writing down? How do you know it is unrelated.

Notes on what I'm planning to do for the day. I can't of course know 100% for certain it is unrelated, but I have no reason to believe it is related either.

> If you do the "normal" thing of seeing them 30 minutes apart then thats not going to work.

That's never been what I've done. I've at times worked in weird patterns because I've found I work best at night, and so when that's fit in with my family life, I've often gone to sleep for 2-4 hours before then getting up to work, and timing that to REM is critical exactly because I will certainly be extra tired if I wake up at the wrong stage. I experiemented a lot with timing to get that right, and it's never affected my recollection of dreams at all.

> You asked for help, I'm just trying my best.

I didn't ask for help. I asked a mostly rhetorical question based on what to me seems like a flawed assumption about how trainable this is. Your clarification here is much more reasonable. If you interpreted it as a request for help, there's our disconnect, and why I'm being dismissive. Sorry for our miscommunication on that.
by flohofwoe | 2025-10-25 10:57:17+00:00
> OSes are extremely different today.

Are they though? Except for Windows everything else has become a UNIX (even on game consoles, Xbox runs a Windows derivate and PlayStation runs on a BSD kernel, only Nintendo is still doing their own thing).

The OS diversity in the 90s was much bigger than today, AmigaOS, RiscOS, AtariTOS, BeOS and the original MacOS were all siginificantly different from each other, much more different than Linux vs macOS vs Android vs iOS.
by visarga | 2025-10-25 10:58:05+00:00
> Reddit “set a trap” by creating a test post visible only to Google’s crawler, and that it appeared in Perplexity’s results within hours

Are we going to enter an age of "infringement without substantial similarity"?

This seems like trying to suck the air out of the space around a protected expression. Not only you cannot make derivative works, now not even transformative works are going to be allowed?
by james-bcn | 2025-10-25 10:58:30+00:00
This looks like it might be an interesting read, but I just read the Chapter "Are Feelings Real?" (because it is a subject of personal interest of mine that I've studied a lot) and I found it to be very unsatisfactory, not really addressing the question at all, but sidestepping it. Which makes me wonder if the whole thing is really worth reading.
by integralid | 2025-10-25 10:59:52+00:00
I assume this blog post is targeted for the security community, where IoC is universally understood. Of course it is confusing on HN, but authors are free to assume their audience - like we don't define what HTTP, MVC and "btw" mean every time we use it. Or, for a better example, HN and YC are used here all the time, but would be confusing for outsiders (and should be defined outside of HN context).
by pajamasam | 2025-10-25 11:00:11+00:00
My dad watches niche car repair videos on YouTube and my mom does online art classes. Back when we didn’t have fast internet, my mom would watch crappy reality TV shows out of boredom.

I think overall, the internet is taking up more of their time than books/tv did in the past (just as it does for me), but it also gives them access to quality content within their niche interests.
by saagarjha | 2025-10-25 11:00:35+00:00
I actually have no idea who Hajo is. If they’ve been annoying in the past, and you banned them for it, it’s not really my place to figure out whether they deserved it. I only replied because yelling about it here is a sure fire way to get your comment flagged. Maybe you don’t mind but I felt that, spending far too much time here and watching a bunch of people do this repeatedly even though it’s against the rules, I might as well send people a reminder that there’s another option.

As for your Telegram chat: I actually genuinely do not care, and I mean this without trying to be smug or anything. I joined to ask about S8 stuff and eventually just met Dennis directly. Ironically both of us seem to have gotten too busy with work to actually get to a good solution for those and I never actually ended up installing Valetudo anyway. My friends occasionally tell me how great it is and I feel a little but of regret for not following up to get the exploit stable but I just put up with letting my vacuum do its thing without any of the smart features :( But yeah, I really don’t think I would have gotten any value from rejoining the chat so I didn’t. I’m actually kind of sorry I participated in the conversation I did, not really because I wouldn’t stand behind what I said but more that it was kind of a waste of time and low value to even respond. And clearly it made you upset, so considering I valued it at effectively zero and you definitely felt it was negative, I think the conclusion is pretty obvious.

One thing I do want to say, though: I feel like you frequently run into your project just causing you misery. I work on FOSS too, and arguably I work in a similar hacking-ish space too where random people show up and beg you for support, who don’t really bother to read the rules, etc. I get that this is frustrating. I ban plenty of people who drag down the place too. But I think that your garden that you’re trying to make might actually be causing you more trouble than it might be worth. I don’t wake up feeling drained that I have to interact with the community, in fact I actually appreciate talking to many of the members even if they can be annoying sometimes. I’ve had people occasionally claim they were unfairly treated (usually I disagree, of course) but I think the sentiment is largely positive. So, like, I just want to point out that it’s possible to enjoy what you do; it can be nice even if sometimes frustrated people show up. I just don’t want you to hate working on the things you’re doing.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-25 11:00:45+00:00
> For example, cryptography falls into precision computing. There is no room for being incorrect even by a single bit. Where as machine learning is about getting a range of answers, with tolerance for error.

Doesn't both of them rely on randomness in real use cases/usage? And it's only once you have fixed seeds that cryptography becomes deterministic, and then you can make the same claim for most of ML, when the seeds are fixed you get fixed replies.

It happens to be that most people seem to use LLM clients that aren't deterministic, as they're using temperature + random seeds for each inference, but that doesn't mean someone couldn't do it in a different way.
by tetris11 | 2025-10-25 11:01:09+00:00
Ken Thompson's Reflections on Trusting Trust[0] was one of the motivations for Guix's single 357-byte seed (+libguile) full bootstrap[1].

0: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...

1: https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023/the-full-source-bootstrap-...
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-10-25 11:01:48+00:00
> To me, in a way, it reads like Principal IC is the worst possible job.

It depends on the person, I think. Personally, I often end up doing this sort of work, particularly in smaller companies. I really like it, but appreciate that the vast, vast majority of people I work with would hate it.

For some people, they prefer to lead through influence, rather than through a reporting line. There's a lot of toil in managing people (well), and some really excellent people don't like the core job of management, but are really really strong in some technical area, or have a broad enough perspective and enough personality to convince other people to do stuff.

In some ways, it's the software engineering world's PM, given that you have influence but not direct hierarchical power, and what matters is the amount of teams that you can influence (like sometimes this is through a piece of software, designing and building Airflow was this kind of work).
by donatj | 2025-10-25 11:02:43+00:00
Hmm... I've read about "Reflections on Trusting Trust" a couple times including in college some twenty years ago, though never the paper itself.

I have never seen the actual examples before, but the way it's always been described to me I kind of expected more...

It was always described as completely undetectable... so my assumption was one could not find it even with a decompiler and a lot of free time...

I guess I expected for instance it to filter patterns of itself out of fread for instance, such that a system built with it literally could not detect its existence at all. I expected it to make the operating system at large lie to you.
by uallo | 2025-10-25 11:05:04+00:00
I get the same overall FTA score of 7 for both of your examples. When omitting the return type (which can be inferred), you get the exact same scores. Not just the same FTA score. Also note that `Return<User>` should be just `User` if you prefer to specify the return type explicitly. That change will improve several of the scores as well.
by inglor_cz | 2025-10-25 11:06:12+00:00
IMHO, "short term uncertainty" > "long term distrust".

I don't like the "common people are too stupid to be told the truth" attitude (which includes uncertainities).

It is both too smug to work, and unworkable in today's networked world, where those same people will notice really fast that someone is treating them like idiots, and react with resentment and loss of trust.
by safety1st | 2025-10-25 11:06:41+00:00
I know it's going to generate a bunch of responses and consume a bunch of attention, but what value does this drive-by comment add to the discussion, really?

Yeah we know sugar is bad. The article's about screens. It's not really important whether sugar addiction or screen addiction is bigger. This isn't worth fighting over.

They can both be bad and you can post an article about sugar for talking about sugar.
by oliwarner | 2025-10-25 11:07:40+00:00
This reminded me of something Jean-Claude Juncker once said about democracy in the EU:

> We all know what to do, but we don't know how to get re-elected once we have done it.

Being a step removed from local politics means they can do stuff without the immediate fear they're all kicked out, but the other downside of people not really caring who they elect is it's relatively easy to be elected on a "We hate the EU" line. It's a weird place.
by neilv | 2025-10-25 11:08:35+00:00
Agreed, many people do that, and that's great.

Maybe we should think of the Principal role as complementary? If you're working on a compiler, you're going to be interacting cross-team with hardware engineering team, etc., and spotting lots of things. But someone who is looking at all the teams, and not spending so much time on compiler details specifically, will spot some things the compiler person doesn't. So together you get better coverage of problems that neither alone could spot.

Of course, once we throw differing pay grades into an organization, everything gets more complicated. And people might resent something being called "complementary", if what's bothering them is that the role in question pays better or is considered more prestigious.

Though, the Principal role is in the engineering career track of that compiler writer, if they want that kind of ulcers.
by everdrive | 2025-10-25 11:10:02+00:00
>They are not precise with their language, and they are not logically consistent in their words and actions. A lot of them (most?) tend to say things that make them feel good,

Thanks for this, I think you put this really beautifully.

>or that they aspire towards, not things that are actually true

I think this last part was the part I was missing. I really appreciate your thoughts.
by zigzag312 | 2025-10-25 11:10:09+00:00
> Sharing UI in complex apps, in my experience, always ends up being a "write once - debug everywhere" nightmare.

Was that with UI framework that wraps platform's UI framework or with one that draws controls on its own? Shared complex UI is not much of an issue with frameworks that fully implement their own controls. But quality implementation of controls from the ground up is a lot of work so there's not many good UI frameworks that do this.