MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mindslight | 2025-10-29 02:25:16+00:00
$500 is two hours of time for a very low hourly rate. You might luck into finding an attorney that is chummy with the right policy/prosecutor to clear something like this up that quick, but I doubt it. $10k has been the standard retainer for a few other legal issues I've dealt with lately, and I doubt most criminal defense attorneys are going to want less if they foresee any chance of the case dragging out.

> they will work out a payment plan for your court appointed lawyer

Have you actually been there and done anything like this? From what I've seen, the reality is much much much different than the marketing.
by baobun | 2025-10-29 02:25:29+00:00
To add another side of it: The more of us use it for everyday innociuous daily tasks and work, the stronger the network becomes for the cases where it matters. Adding noise to signal for adversaries and making "just block tor" a less obvious choice for operators.

In practice the main thing to watch out for is TLS-stripping attacks where malicious exit nodes will try to downgrade your connection to cleartext HTTP. This will give you a warning in the browser. Don't allow it but ctrl+shift+L in Tor Browser to retry a new connection on a hopefully better circuit.

In general I'd also say it's unsafe to use tor with unencrypted unauthenticated cleartext HTTP since it allows exit nodes to do all sorts of shenangigans undetected. Make sure it's https://(...) or http://(...).onion (.onion Hidden Services are authenticated by cryptographic key and terminate straight at the endpoint without an exit from the tor network over internet so aren't subject to that as long as you make sure the domain name is correct)
by sokoloff | 2025-10-29 02:26:50+00:00
I definitely suffer from this "do enough research until I find flaws that I then can't un-see".

When my older kid wanted a gaming monitor, he suggested a specific model because it was on sale and he could afford it. I took that opportunity to do some research solo that night, find a few alternatives, research each deeply and then suggest that we "look together at 2 or 3 different models", compare the features, and talked through whether it really mattered if one was $100 more than the other given the likely useful lifespan of a monitor.

He ended up with a monitor that he's really happy with, we got some time together bonding over a shared interest, and he doesn't have to know all the flaws I saw in it. (It's also barely mid-tier, which is congruent with your advice.)
by mmooss | 2025-10-29 02:26:59+00:00
Think of it like a private equity acquisition - of government. Cut as much cost as possible, give the assets to yourself by liquidating and by running up debt, leave the husk for someone else.

Also, they are reactionary; the top priority of reactionaries is to destroy their opposition, not to achieve other things.

And by destroying government, they leave a power vaccuum for powerful private parties to fill.
by simoncion | 2025-10-29 02:27:58+00:00
> I tried again, and I see only mANTBox and NetMetal ax access points.

I'm not sure what you've done to only see those two APs. Based on your confusing report, it seems like you're also looking in the "Wireless systems" category. Try the "Wireless for home and office" category.

If you try and fail again, please do post the URL of the page you're looking at.
by 0x6c6f6c | 2025-10-29 02:27:59+00:00
Agreed, but this isn't always bad. Optimizing early with unclear requirements can kill time, which at an early stage is just delaying product launch.

Migrate/optimize later when you're actually reaching scale is a perfectly reasonable approach.

In fact, if you have a decent abstraction or standard in place (e.g. S3 API or repository pattern) you can swap it out in place.
by unscaled | 2025-10-29 02:29:05+00:00
I think you meant to say that tokenization is usually done with UTF-8 and a single Japanese character generally takes 3 or more code units (i.e. bytes). Unicode itself is not the culprit (in fact, even with UTF-16 tokenization, most Japanese characters would fit in a single code unit, and the ones that won't are exceedingly rare).

I have to admit I have not encountered significant mistokenization issues in Japanese, but I'm not using it on a daily basis LLMs. I'm somewhat dobutful this can be a major issue, since frontier LLMs are absolutely in love with Emoji, and Emoji requires at least 4 UTF-8 bytes, while most Japanese characters are happy with just 3 bytes.
by brightball | 2025-10-29 02:29:14+00:00
In that same vein, I used a public adjuster once after a small electrical fire torched a room in my house. The insurance adjuster was great, his manager was awful and made a difficult experience much worse.

Without getting into details, the moment I realized that he was being intentionally obtuse I started looking into options.

First contacted an attorney who essentially said, “Yes, I can do it but I’m going to cost a lot and the insurance company won’t reimburse you for my time.”

Kept looking and discovered public adjusters were a thing. Did some research, found one who was reputable and he took me on for free. Pretty sure we used net, about 2-4 hours of his time.

He told me exactly what was going to happen, how the insurance company was going to react and it played out exactly as he said.

1. He requested a process to take the valuation of everything damaged in the fire to a 3rd party arbiter.

2. Insurance company will send you a letter saying it’s not time for that yet. We will proceed anyway. And we did.

3. He will nominate 3 arbiters and the insurance company will nominate 3 arbiters. Neither will select either of the others nominees and an independent 3rd party will select one instead.

4. The moment the insurance company realizes the valuation of your things will be outside of their control, they will become extremely agreeable. And they did.

And honestly the only thing I really wanted was another week in a hotel for my family because the company cleaning my house of smoke was short staffed over the holidays. Would have cost them likely $1,000 but instead he escalated the situation dramatically.
by jdietrich | 2025-10-29 02:29:19+00:00
In the same way that a Tesla Model Y isn't so different from a golf cart.

If you showed a 1980s EE any component taken from the Neo, it'd look like science fiction. Some of the least sophisticated parts (motors & batteries) are still an order of magnitude better than anything available 40 years ago; the most sophisticated (processors, memory, camera sensors) are at least six orders of magnitude better. The Pentagon of the 1980s would have fought a small war to get their hands on a few of the MEMS IMU chips that we put in video game controllers.
by KnuthIsGod | 2025-10-29 02:31:32+00:00
"The ability to do speculative execution within failure contexts, meaning you can try out actions without committing them. When an expression succeeds, the effects of the expression are committed, but if the expression fails, the effects of the expression are rolled back as though the expression never happened. This way, you can execute a series of actions that accumulate changes, but those actions will be undone if a failure occurs in the failure context.

Failure is control flow. Instead of using true / false values to change the flow of your program (such as with decision points), Verse uses failable expressions, which produce a value if they succeed or don’t if they fail. Failable expressions can only be executed in failure contexts, such as if expressions.

Multi-paradigm to use the best of functional programming, object-oriented programming, and imperative programming, such as being as deterministic as possible. One example of this is that data is immutable by default, and given the same code and data, results will always be exactly the same."
by edunteman | 2025-10-29 02:32:10+00:00
I’d love your opinion here!

Right now, we assume first call is correct, and will eagerly take the first match we find while traversing the tree.

One of the worst things that could currently happen is we cache a bad run, and now instead of occasional failures you’re given 100% failures.

A few approaches we’ve considered - maintain a staging tree, and only promote to live if multiple sibling nodes (messages) look similar enough. Decision to promote could be via tempting, regex, fuzzy, semantic, or LLM-judged - add some feedback APIs for a client to score end-to-end runs so that path could develop some reputation
by bane | 2025-10-29 02:32:24+00:00
I'm struck with how long the history of Apple's earliest iPhone has shaped and produced long-term damage to the concept of digital ownership. Apple originally didn't allow anybody but Apple to create software for the 1st gen iPhone, and only later was forced "opening" it my market forces.

People who realized they actually owned the thing they bought wanted to do what they wanted, which required circumventing Apple's control or "jailbreaking". This differentiator stimulated Google to "allow" installing on Android without "jailbreaking" the device aka "sideloading", giving the illusion of the kind of freedom that was never in question on normal computers.

It is interesting though how this same conversation doesn't exist in the same way in other areas of computing like video game consoles or other embedded computing devices where the controls against arbitrary applications is even stronger.

The fact that mobile phones aren't yet just a standard type of portable computer with an open-ish harware/driver ecosystem that anybody can just make an OS for (and hence allow anybody to just install what they want) is kind of wild IMHO. Why hasn't the kind of ferver that created Linux driven engineers to fix their phones? Is Android and iOS just good enough to keep us complacent and trapped forever? I can't help but think there might be some effect here that's locking us all in similar to how the U.S. healthcare system can't seem to shake for profit insurance.

I'm sometimes surprised at the plethora of cheap handheld gaming systems coming out of China that support either Linux, Android, or sometimes both, and seem to be based on a handful of chipsets. If anybody ever slapped an LTE module and drivers onto one of those things we'd have criminally cheap and powerful, open phone ecosystem.
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-10-29 02:32:25+00:00
Related:

Donors for Trump's $300M White House Ballroom Include Google, Apple and Palantir

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45682174

Zhao's Binance Aided Trump Family Crypto Venture Before Pardon

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45722104
by mindslight | 2025-10-29 02:32:27+00:00
> Also talking to the police is a great way to wind up in jail for a long time

Or it's a way to clear up a situation without incurring a life-altering debt and criminal record. We hear about the horrible stories, but people are generally people. If you're facing serious (felony) charges, actually guilty and they're building a case, don't know how to talk without spilling a bunch of possibly-incriminating details, think the cops have it personally out for you, etc, then of course shut the fuck up and assert the full extent of the process. But for many situations this can actually be terrible advice.

I was actually just on the other side of this with a juvenile first time offender (property crime). The kid was obviously guilty, open and shut evidence, and admitted it to the detective. The detective advocated for him (them), encouraging me to settle for a small informal cash restitution payment rather than insisting it go to trial. That kid has now been hopefully scared straight, without having a criminal record hanging over his head. I hope he can keep it that way.
by creer | 2025-10-29 02:32:34+00:00
Except "taste before skill" is a well known issue and source of frustration for starting artists: They can already see what's good and they know what they want to do, but they don't yet have skill in measure with their taste and get locked in a feeling of inadequacy. They resolve that if they stick with it. So, taste looong before skill.

So...

> If you don't tinker, you don't have taste

> Acquiring good taste comes through using various things, discarding the ones you don’t like and keeping the ones you do. if you never try various things, you will not acquire good taste.

No. That's not how it works.
by vunderba | 2025-10-29 02:32:59+00:00
Agreed. I tend not to announce or even share plans for impending projects until I have something nominally concrete.

Interestingly there was a paper from a few years back where they found that a participant's commitment was found to diminish in the long term if they prematurely shared their goals.

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2009-06873-015
by bluGill | 2025-10-29 02:33:32+00:00
I cannot legally get a Philippine worker in my house at a price I could afford. Well I haven't checked on the exact immigration rules, but I don't have to bother to tell you that I can't get one that is enough underpaid that I could afford one. There evidence that elsewhere in the world people with similar wealth to mine have them, but they are not available in the US. I don't care who does the work so long as I can afford it and it is legal - which rules out slaves.

For purpose of this discussion I'm ignoring ethics (other than slaves and there I resorted to legal concerns to sidestep the issue) - If it was possible for me to get an affordable human in my house I would no longer be able to ignore those issues.
by Terr_ | 2025-10-29 02:33:51+00:00
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6149...

> [The] Secretary of Commerce [...] shall establish a pilot program [...] for providing a secure digital identification credential to individuals who are citizens and lawful residents of the United States at no cost to the individual.

> [By] uploading copies of government-issued and other forms of identification (such as records issued by an educational institution), or by validating the authenticity of identity information provided by the individual using electronic records of State departments of motor vehicles, the Internal Revenue Service, the Social Security Administration, State agencies responsible for vital records, or other governmental or professional records providers that the Secretary determines are able to reliably assist in the verification of identity information.

On the other hand, it has some provisions that I'm surprised and pleased to see, since I was expecting something a lot worse:

> 7.(B)(3)(B) [Allow users to] control what data they choose to allow the pilot program to share with a social media platform, without sharing copies of the underlying verification documents or any information that the user does not affirmatively agree to share with those social media platforms.

> 7.(B)(4) Not retain copies of underlying governmental records after verifying the information provided by the user.

> 7.(B)(5) Provide users with the ability to disable or delete their secure digital identification credential and any associated records kept by the Pilot Program at any time.

> 7.(B)(5) Keep no records of the social media platforms where users have verified their identity using a secure digital identification credential, other than aggregate data that is anonymized so that it cannot be linked to individual users.
by didibus | 2025-10-29 02:34:03+00:00
I don't know, I was using WSL2 on Windows before I switched to MacOS, WSL2 gets annoying to be honest.

You're better off using MacOS built native unix binaries and a VM or docker.

I never noticed ads in notifications, unlike with Windows which is ads infested everywhere now.

I agree that better GPU support would be nice, but also better Metal support in common open source would be nice, since I'm a laptop user.
by echelon | 2025-10-29 02:34:13+00:00
The fact that Apple and Google have taken away digital freedom on the most important device of our time is shameful and gross.

That they've convinced everyone that this is okay, and that they've maintained regulatory capture to keep doing it, is absurd.

We need web downloads and installs on Apple and Android immediately. With no "scare walls" or deeply nested and hidden menu settings to enable it.

We need the ability to run any kind of tech, including JIT runtimes. Apple and Google shouldn't be able to tell consumers or the industry what type of computing is permissible.

Smartphones are the most important device category in the world. They're how people bank, work, navigate, shop, order, communicate, date, order food at restaurants, take photos, -- life without them is impossible.

It would be nice to see as much competition as we do with the automotive industry, but the next best thing would be to rid Apple and Google of their draconian overlording of the platforms.

Consumers do not have the expertise to articulate this or really understand what is happening to them. This requires regulators and industry professionals to push forward.
by com2kid | 2025-10-29 02:34:15+00:00
My mom was a school bus driver and my dad was a laborer retired on disability. I got zero aid except for loans.

I went to a 2nd tier in-state school 20 years ago and even that cost 10k a year by the time housing, food, and books, were paid for.

Plenty of people who can barely avoid it end up paying a large chunk of $.
by gnabgib | 2025-10-29 02:34:19+00:00
We just had a discussion about Fory (formerly Fury[1]) by an account that posts nothing but Fory related links

(60 points, 9 hours ago, 27 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736400

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44286460
by trailbits | 2025-10-29 02:34:28+00:00
As someone who purchased their first M-series Mac this year (M4 pro), I've been thrilled to discover how well it does with local genAI tasks to produce text, code and images. For example openai/gpt-oss-20b runs locally quite well with 24GB memory. If I knew beforehand how performant the Mac would be for these kinds of tasks, I probably would have purchased more RAM in order to load larger models. Performance for genAI is a function of GPU, # of GPU cores, and memory bandwidth. I think your biggest gains are going from a base chip to a pro/max/ultra version with the greater gpu cores and greater bandwidth.
by mixdup | 2025-10-29 02:34:47+00:00
Cisco, Juniper, and Arista make carrier hardware like cell phone radios and controllers and traditional telephone network switches?

While there's probably a little overlap in all of their product lines with Nokia (I mean Nokia makes simple ethernet switches so that carriers can buy all their gear from one vendor), most of those companies don't really compete in the same markets as Nokia

Cisco isn't selling into T-Mobile and AT&T's customer networks. Nokia isn't selling into JPMorgan's or Walmart's IP networks
by tptacek | 2025-10-29 02:35:33+00:00
You are I are both commenting on a subthread started by a comment that included "What you're describing isn't true for people on High Deductible Health Plans, and those plans are a bit of a racket because they're frequently paired with HSAs where [...]", none of which is true. I don't care about FSAs and am not trying to argue with anybody about them, but that preceding comment is very wrong about HSAs and HDHPs.
by userbinator | 2025-10-29 02:35:57+00:00
integrated 21.5- or 32-inch (depending on the model) screen

I don't want a fridge with a screen or any connections except power. All it needs to do is keep my food cold. I've had others very surprised to see my house containing mostly mid-century dumb appliances. I deal with enough problems caused by software at work, to know better than to bring that hassle home.
by matthewaveryusa | 2025-10-29 02:37:29+00:00
There's a section missing on the inclusion proof and what exactly the clients will be getting.

If I understand this correctly each CA publishes a signed list of landmarks at some cadence (weekly)

For the certs you get the landmark (a 256-bit hash) and the hashes along the merkle path to the leaf cert's hash. For a landmark that contains N certs, you need to include log2(N) * hash_len bytes and perform log2(N) hash computations.

For a MTC signature that uses a 256bit hash and N=1 million that's about 20*32=620bytes.

Is this the gist of it?

I'm really curious about the math behind deciding the optimal landmark size and publishing cadence
by iamnothere | 2025-10-29 02:37:36+00:00
> Being put on a list is a different matter, but voicing your opinions online might also get you there.

With modern data collection and “AI” tools that use correlation to give you a risk score, even having similar characteristics or interests of targeted people is probably enough to get you on a list, even if you attempt to have “good” behavior at all times. Reducing identifiable data might actually avoid some lists even if it puts you on others.

(Besides, the number of people on one “list” or another is already so out of control that I imagine they are becoming useless. Join us, make the lists just a little more unmanageable.)
by chaokunyang | 2025-10-29 02:38:41+00:00
Apache Fory is also a drop-in replacement for pickle/cloudpickle, you can use it to serialize code object such as local function/Classes too.

https://github.com/apache/fory/tree/main/python#serialize-lo...

When serializing code objects, pyfory is 3× higher compression ratio compared cloudpickle

And pyfory also provide extra security audit capability to avoid maliciously deserialization data attack.
by KnuthIsGod | 2025-10-29 02:38:55+00:00
This is why hospitals go broke. While it is great for the individual, society suffers.

Here in Australia, our 2nd biggest private hospital owner has just gone broke.

At a fire sale, there was so little interest in buying the hospitals that many will be shut down.

The rest of the unsalable hospitals will be shoved into a stripped down charitable tax exempt trust so that the creditors ( banks and pension funds ) can recoup a small amount of the money they lent the hospitals.
by brucehoult | 2025-10-29 02:39:50+00:00
It takes a heck of a lot longer if you wait until all the advanced features are ready before you publish anything at all.

I think RISC-V did pretty well to get everything in RVA23 -- which is more equivalent to ARMv9.0-A than to ARMv8.0-A -- out after RV64GC aka RVA20 in the 2nd half of 2019.

We don't know how long Arm was cooking up ARMv8 in secret before they announced it in 2011. Was it five years? Was it 10? More? It would not surprise me at all if it was kicked off when AMD demonstrated that Itanium was not going to be the only 64 bit future by starting to talk about AMD64 in 1999, publishing the spec in 2001, and shipping Opteron in April 2003 and Athlon64 five months later.

It's pretty hard to do that with an open and community-developed specification. By which I mean impossible.

I can't even imagine the mess if everyone knew RISC-V was being developed from 2015 but no official spec was published until late 2024.

I am sure it would not have the momentum that it has now.
by unscaled | 2025-10-29 02:39:53+00:00
It only goes through "apt the program", but apt is just serving as a method of installing a package, which is hosted on one of the configured apt sources.

Calling all software installed through apt "first party" is a wild stretch, since you can apply the same logic to git, wget, or a web browser. For instance, it would probably be correct to say that most Windows software is downloaded and installed through Chrome, but nobody in their right mind would claim Google owns the largest first party store for Windows.
by bluGill | 2025-10-29 02:39:59+00:00
Form factor isn't what is important. What is important is the jobs it gets done. If it can do useful jobs we will accept the form factor. Roomba doesn't look like any other vacuum I've never owned, but it gets the floors clean so we learn that form factor means clean floors.

Humanoid only seems useful if it can do stairs - something many form factors fail at. Though I'd expect a centaur form factor could do stairs better and probably is cheaper.