MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jimmar | 2025-10-30 23:31:02+00:00
Per https://www.truthwave.com/legal/terms-of-service

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So if I submit a tip to TruthWave, and they get sued, I'm on the line to pay for TruthWave's legal defense? Yeah...no.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-30 23:31:04+00:00
Yes, barely, and after cutting revenue per stream to 1/4th of what it was. Many artists make negative money on Spotify, because you have to pay them to put your music on there. And then if Spotify thinks bots are listening to your streams, you have to pay them more.

It's the same problem for Uber. Many Uber drivers make a negative wage. They don't know it, because nobody is going to tell them, but if you do the math, depending on your location, vehicle, and rates, you make a negative wage. Due to gas cost, tolls, maintenance, etc.

The problem here is that the uber drivers and artists are the only thing that makes the platform worth using. Spotify might think their capital is technology. That's because they're stupid. No, their capital is the library of music artists put on there.

If you continue to just antagonize and destroy your own capital that you're using to make money, your business will be blow up.
by embedding-shape | 2025-10-30 23:31:20+00:00
Parent initially wrote "If you're in Europe" and you tried to correct them with "If you're in the EU" which is an irrelevant correction really, the revolvers are in Europe (and EU) so obviously makes sense for anyone in Europe or nearby to use it. And for others, as secondary/verification. And yes, primarily usage is obviously for Europeans/people within EU, makes sense.
by zarmin | 2025-10-30 23:31:29+00:00
Your steel bar example isn't analogous. You had an intuition, discovered a physical constraint (speed of sound), and the math checked out. The constraint explained the phenomenon. What would it look like if the "established" model of the world were actually wrong?

Here, the math doesn't check out. That's my point.

I'm not saying "it seems like stars should be invisible but they're not", Im showing that inverse square law - which we can verify at human scales - predicts invisibility at stellar distances, and the proposed compensation (25x more luminosity) is insufficient by orders of magnitude.

Sirius is "billions of times dimmer" than the sun to our eyes IF you mean the Sun as seen from Earth versus Sirius as seen from Earth. But that's not the comparison. The comparison is:

Sun moved to 544,000 AU (Sirius's distance): 296 billion times dimmer than Sun at 1 AU Sirius at 544,000 AU: 25x brighter than that

25x doesn't bridge a 296-billion-fold gap, plus the eye's dynamic range is irrelevant; we're comparing what brightness should reach the eye versus what compensation the model claims.

If your claim is "the eye can see across many orders of magnitude, so even though the Sun would be invisible at stellar distances, Sirius being slightly brighter makes it visible," then do the actual calculation. Show that 25x more luminosity produces enough photons to cross the detection threshold. Because the math I'm showing says it doesn't.

You're assuming the model works and looking for why my intuition is wrong. I'm showing the model's numbers are internally inconsistent. Those aren't the same thing.

>I've found that when I have a thought that seems to contradict the "established" model of the world, I tend to just be missing some critical factor.

Does it bother you that to make relativity work, they had to invent dark matter and dark energy - 96% of the universe's mass-energy - as fudge factors? At what point does "missing a critical factor" become "the model requires constant patching to match observations"?
by danpalmer | 2025-10-30 23:32:54+00:00
Using this free desktop app requires Canva sign-in, ok fine, I can stomach that, it's free after all.

Signing in launches a browser to complete the sign-in process, but on macOS it launches Safari, not my OS default browser – this takes extra work to do over just using the `openUrl` call on macOS. Safari is blocked.

Thankfully something on my system redirects the URL opening to pass it to my orgs enforced browser, I sign-in, and then nothing happens. The page says it has launched Affinity, but Affinity is sitting there doing nothing waiting for me to log in.

I realise I'm on a somewhat non-standard setup, but an OAuth login flow is not hard to get right. I've built dozens of these flows in my career and messing it up this much is hard.

Edit:

> To report a bug within the application, click the "?" button in the top-right corner of the workspace. From the panel, select "Report a Bug".

This menu is not accessible until you have signed in. No other method of bug reporting is provided.
by joshsny | 2025-10-30 23:33:03+00:00
hmm that’s true - I think if you could get a measure of interest for the paper like views on arxiv or number of mentions online, that could be a good metric to use.

it’s also possible that the LLM will be able to determine well which results are important vs which are minor improvements / changes that are not important for me to listen to.

the economist does a „world in brief” news summary daily, and having that for the papers that are relevant to me would be great!
by subramanya1997 | 2025-10-30 23:33:14+00:00
I wrote this after diving into both Claude Skills and MCP to understand how they differ architecturally. TL;DR: Skills and MCP solve different problems and are designed to work together:

MCP: Client-server architecture using JSON-RPC 2.0 for connecting LLMs to external systems (tools, data sources, APIs). Think "universal connector" - similar to how USB-C works for hardware. Skills: Filesystem-based system with progressive disclosure that teaches Claude procedural knowledge - how to perform specific tasks using a three-tier loading mechanism to avoid context window bloat.

The interesting part is the synergy patterns: Skills can orchestrate multiple MCP servers, or contain organization-specific standards for using MCP tools. The article covers the technical architectures, why merging them would be inefficient, and integration patterns we're seeing emerge. Happy to answer technical questions about either system.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-10-30 23:33:32+00:00
> and if you just let them install the app but then reveal that they can't actually run the models, they'll feel ripped off.

Just release some simple free "test application" that checks whether the computer satisfies the system requirements and does something "simple" (but relevant for the user) so that the users want to try out this simple free test application and want to update their hardware so that it can run.

Now, after the users have been incentivized to update their hardware so that they can run the cool test application, you can upsell your users to the "full software experience". :-)
by wakawaka28 | 2025-10-30 23:33:41+00:00
Idk if any landed, but there have definitely been attempts to fire missiles into Russia. Many drone attacks on Moscow have succeeded. My search tools are not cooperating with me but Russian officials have made public statements saying they know we must operate the toys we're giving Ukraine, so we are at war with them essentially.

Ukraine has also destroyed some Russian nuclear bombers and early warning radars. What do you think the Russians think of that? Nevermind who you think is more responsible for starting this war... Isn't it a bad thing for it to continue down this road? HIMARS, Patriot, ATACMS, Tomahawk, Storm Shadow, Taurus, F-16's and other jets... Is there any end to it?
by zarmin | 2025-10-30 23:33:58+00:00
Eye sensitivity isn't the issue. Sirius isn't barely visible at the detection threshold, it's the brightest star in our sky. If a 25x luminosity boost over the Sun only gets you to the edge of naked-eye visibility at that distance, where do the additional orders of magnitude come from to make it one of the most prominent objects in the night sky? Show me the math.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-30 23:35:16+00:00
I mean... yeah. All this talk about cutting services and fixing the deficit. That's Clinton stuff, that's what he did. That was his platform.

The anti-gay stuff? Uh, yeah, Clinton. Anti-drug rhetoric? Clinton! Protecting our borders? Believe it or not, Clinton!

> Pretty soon they'll all in on Obamacare?

I mean, yeah. The entire concept of Obamacare was a compromise to soothe conservatives. It solidified the power and necessity of private insurance in America by entrenching it in regulation.

They're not gonna be for universal healthcare, but Obamacare? You bet your ass that's going to be their platform in a few years.
by rtpg | 2025-10-30 23:35:43+00:00
While you can always outright commit fraud, there are many jurisdictions where there are decently strong forms of proof that go beyond a letter.

Things like tax numbers with addresses associated to them, official address registers... hell, a lot of ID cards in many jurisdictions just have your address printed on it!

Now, again, fraud is possible, but "I registered my drivers license to a fake address" is a bit of a higher hurdle than "I edited my utility PDF to show the right address".

Though there's a bit of a blessing in things like PDFs being easily editable, in that many badly organized criminals will likely do it haphazardly, leading to messy metadata, or even more amateur hour stuff around just having the font be wrong or the like. More opportunities for a fraudster to trip up, so to speak.
by maximus-decimus | 2025-10-30 23:35:56+00:00
How will you remember this comment in 2 hours? Will you visually see the words? You don't need to visually see something that happened to remember it happened or the idea of it. I don't need to visualize Harry Potter in my head to remember the fact he has a lightning bolt shaped scar on his forehead. I just remember the fact.
by kazinator | 2025-10-30 23:36:11+00:00
Just because known bad actors are signatories to a community promise does not ispo facto make it meaningless to everyone else.

I mean, what are you going to do? Instigate a rule that only nice people can be signatories? You've not played nice in various ways in the past, so you cannot sign this promise?

(Not to say that I agree with the treaty. See concerns by human rights groups mentioned in article and all.)
by LogicHound | 2025-10-30 23:36:18+00:00
The way you are using irresponsible is perverse. e.g. Being Irresponsible in this context would be remortgaging your house, while unemployed and using all the money to buy gadgets.

Forgetting that you have a small amount deducted for a service you are no longer using, isn't. It is minor oversight.

The way that language is abused by people when it comes to these sorts of subjects is bordering on semantic manipulation. Which in itself is a form of deceit.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-10-30 23:36:24+00:00
I just looked it up. At my local Chipotle, a burrito is $13.65 + $2.50 guac + $2.80 for chips and salsa + $2.85 drink, comes out just over $21.80 before tax. Tacqueria around the corner, Super fajitas burrito $15.49 + free chips and salsa + $3.75 for a drink, comes out to $19.25 before tax.

If you consider guacamole an extravagance, the more basic burrito at the tacqueria is $13.49, so the gap shrinks, but is still in the tacqueria's favor.

Between the two, Chipotle's chips are better, but everything else is a downgrade quality wise.

And I don't think it's reasonable to include coupons in McDonald's pricing. I'm not installing malware on my phone to save the $3 a McDonald's fry costs.
by koito17 | 2025-10-30 23:37:10+00:00
Although its such a minor thing, the stabilization of Ipv4Addr::from_octets and Ipv6Addr::from_segments arrived just in time for one of my no_std Rust networking projects. These methods were introduced some time last year but were marked unstable until recently.

The `--target host-tuple` feature being stabilized is also a nice quality-of-life change.

Since I do not have a test harness for some platforms (like aarch64-unknown-uefi or thumbv7em-none-eabihf), I typically compile unit tests against my host platform and run them there. Previously, one would have to write the host tuple explicitly, like so.

cargo test --target aarch64-apple-darwin

The `target` value needs to be substituted for each target if you e.g. orchestrate builds with Nix or other tooling. Now it is sufficient to just run

cargo test --target host-tuple

Similarly, if you use cfg_attrs to partition platform-specific code, the .cargo/config.toml can be configured like so, to conveniently build and test platform-independent code.

[build] target = ["host-tuple", "thumbv7em-none-eabihf"]
by coldtea | 2025-10-30 23:37:14+00:00
>Second, no it doesn't work that way, that's the point of the Pareto principle in the first place, what is 80% is always 80% and what is 20% is always 20%.

I know, since that's the whole point I was making. That the OP picked an arbitrary side to give the 80%, and that one could just as well pick the other one, and that you need actual arguments (and some kind of actual measurable distribution) to support one or the other being the 80% (that is, merely invoking the Pareto principle is not an argument).
by NoahZuniga | 2025-10-30 23:37:17+00:00
It's also very hard to verify the sources for some claims: I would expect the snag to be that many model theory results we have (Such as Gödel theorems) require quantifying over an infinite set, but that seems plausibly not possible to model in the physical universe. I quickly found this quote from the paper:

> Arithmetic expressiveness; LQG can internally model the natural numbers with their basic operations. This is important as quantum gravity should reproduce calculations used for amplitudes, curvature scalars, entropy, etc in appropriate limits. Both string theory [34, 37] and LQG [35, 38] satisfy this by reproducing GR and QM in appropriate limits

Here the citations are four entire books. How am I supposed to very that LQG can model N with that?
by stinkbeetle | 2025-10-30 23:37:18+00:00
If I was a conspiracy theorist I might think that the ruling class who so desperately want these kinds of powers are intentionally dividing nations and breaking down social cohesion so the populace must turn to the governments for protection. They're hoping to create societies where the people will beg them to scan private messages rather than to demand rights.

Give it another 10 years the way things are going, and I'm sure it will be back.
by phil21 | 2025-10-30 23:37:37+00:00
What’s the difference between that and traditional banking?

Been party to more than a couple situations with large banks who decided that you violated some hidden AML related policy and with zero recourse. You are lucky to even get your money out of those accounts without lengthy litigation.

Might happen more with fintech, but traditional banking does not remotely make you immune to this. Start doing anything interesting not “normal” and you’ll find out the hard way.
by lukakopajtic | 2025-10-30 23:38:10+00:00
Nothing is free. I think we've all learned that by now. AI issues aside, think about the data you're locking forever when switching to Affinity. As much as we all hate Adobe, their formats are at least reverse-engineered and their specs published. With Canva's new free toy, you don't get that luxury. All of your work and data are basically locked forever in their proprietary format that no open-source software can read. So it's really up to Canva to decide for how long you get to play for free and under what rules.
by kcplate | 2025-10-30 23:38:11+00:00
> original efficacy claims would have been truly astounding

That’s the problem, the bar was set too high. Things were said like “get the vaccine and you won’t get Covid”, “you won’t be able to spread it if you do get it”, and “you will have a milder case if you do get it”. In short order people realized all of those things were exaggerated and not true. Erodes trust.

It was a huge miscalculation and damage was done.
by ryandrake | 2025-10-30 23:38:18+00:00
I think the word "bloodline" has gotten people wrapped around the axle. You could have just said "the Rothschild family" and been in the clear. "Bloodline" veers a little close to smearing an entire ethnicity over the actions of one relatively small family. I'm sure it's not what you meant, but as soon as you start talking about the contents of people's blood, people's ears start perking up and looking for bigotry.
by creatonez | 2025-10-30 23:38:51+00:00
I tend to think the distinction between "plugins" and "server-side mods" is a little pointless these days. I would consider something a "mod" if it's in an environment where it can deeply touch Mojang code and completely transform it if needed. And before we ever had Fabric/Sponge mixins, we had reflection and ASM for doing just this. We still have that, and a lot of Paper plugins make extensive use of reflection - particularly libraries that reflect into netty to hook directly into the protocol are quite common.
by megous | 2025-10-30 23:39:05+00:00
In Microsoft case they provide services for storing and possibly processing (transcribing) calls of millions of people that are under belligerent occupation:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/microsoft-isra...

I don't imagine Google and Amazon are any better. I.e. take boatloads of money, while sticking the head into sand and pretend it's not likely used to help the illegal occupation of Palestinians, to persecute and harm them.
by danpalmer | 2025-10-30 23:39:51+00:00
Furthermore, many engineers at Google work on Macs, some even on Windows, but the actual code runs on a Linux box in a datacenter. I use a Mac, my editor is local, my terminal is local, but it's all SSH/remote to the linux box, so I've never needed jj to run on my Mac. This, or a high powered Linux desktop, are the norm.

The main exceptions to this are devs who work on iOS or macOS software, who will sometimes do local builds on their physical machine. They would benefit from jj support, but there are more hoops to jump through, and the jj port will most likely be less about running on macOS and more about jj supporting the weird ways in which source is accessed.
by greycol | 2025-10-30 23:40:00+00:00
Sorry I didn't mean to imply I expected it would degrade to such a point that Israel is actually seizing the assets, it's more I'm pointing out that there's a credible threat of sizeable costs. Compounded with that the real teeth of the espionage laws outside of Israel will be in imprisonment which won't likely apply in these cases if the principal actors are Israeli citizens and the people subject to the foreign law are "doing all they can" to go along espionage orders once they receive one. The point is to get the contract in place in such a way that those who can get punished in a jurisdiction have plausible deniability and profitability to absorb any likely financial penalty by foreign actors. So that everyone just goes along with it as they're not breaking any laws at the time and then later they know their best efforts will be futile.

The Cloud doesn't just mean foreign data centers it means 3rd party infrastructure and expertise, which in this case at least, some of is local to the country. The point is that any 'secret' surveillance is reported. I.e. person in US gets ordered to access data, they connect to data center with appropriate credentials, which is monitored and either questioned and billed, or get flagged locally as not reportable and so not logged (making it show up on the shadow logs installed by local Israeli intelligence assets). Foreign employees best efforts to comply with espionage orders still reveal their actions and local employees happily obey local reporting laws knowing they are outside of those jurisdictions and helping their country.

Yes it can be forced to fall apart, but it has to be done in the open (because it will require changing local data center operations) and will be time consuming unless an actual open order by the US to immediately stop working with Israel on this which is extremely unlikely to happen.
by magicalhippo | 2025-10-30 23:40:57+00:00
> but if all matter stopped moving, even in an isolated area, there is seemingly no longer a passage of time there

This is kinda what would happen in Penrose's Conformal Cyclic Cosmology[1], as far as I can gather. In his theory, he posits that in the far future, matter has decayed to radiation, and energy has been redshifted into infinity thanks to the expansion of space.

As such, in a local region things would seemingly be frozen in time. Nothing would change, entropy would not increase, and hence no apparent passing of time.

That said, his theory is pretty speculative. But fun to think about.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformal_cyclic_cosmology
by RickJWagner | 2025-10-30 23:41:03+00:00
I’ve just started my 60s.

Physically, I don’t feel a lot different than in my 40s. ( I’m pretty firm in my exercise schedule. ) But looking over almost anyone in their 80s, I’m reminded that the 60s likely kicks off ‘the fourth quarter’, to use sports parlance.

Time to let it all hang out, leave nothing on the table.
by arjie | 2025-10-30 23:41:43+00:00
Jesus Christ, what a nightmare. I've used Wise quite a bit and was blocked as well, though I'm not entirely sure what I did to get released. I was stuck in a place where I had to login to do something but it wouldn't let me log in. I told a friend of mine who managed to find me a page where I could finally get customer support without being logged in.

In my case, it was totally my fault because I foolishly used Wise on my work email. Why would I even do that? It did start this half-Kafkaesque nightmare but I managed to eventually get the account back. I'd compounded the problems by also trying to make a new account so I could get customer support and promptly ended up being banned for trying a duplicate account. Fantastic.

But at least you know there is some flow that can get you out of this temporarily restricted state - which seems far less severe than the flow they got stuck in. Being unable to actually get their money out seems crazy. I would have rented the damned WeWork and been done with it to be honest.

I have an archived copy here if you want to see https://archive.roshangeorge.dev/archive/1761866967.0412/ind... (hopefully the Cloudflare cache isn't misconfigured)

EDIT: The Wayback Machine has a copy as well, so you don't need mine https://web.archive.org/web/20251030232647/https://shaun.nz/...
by ntSean | 2025-10-30 23:41:43+00:00
I feel as though the whole story isn't here, as there's one key detail that seems suspect from Wise's email: "Additionally, the reason behind our decision is because your activities exceed our risk tolerance."

It seems as though Wise had noticed payment patterns that seemed outside of what Wise is comfortable facilitating. I hope the author can get their funds, but this behaviour is consistent with all banking services.