MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ssl-3 | 2025-10-18 06:53:41+00:00
Rust. I live in the north half of Ohio, so my stuff gets bathed in salty brine for several months out of the year and rust is a real problem for me.

What I've found that works (for me):

For stuff that isn't yet rusted, Fluid Film. It's easy to buy (it's on the shelf even at Wal-Mart). It's made primarily from lanolin, which is a product of the wool industry and is how sheep stay dry. If I were Very Serious about it, I'd find a shop that would cover the whole bottom of the vehicle (and anything that can be reached through holes) in the stuff and pay them to get that done. (I buy it in spray cans; some shops buy it in 55 gallon drums.)

For stuff that is definitely already rusting, Corrosion-X. It's some kind of oily chemical soup that is supposed to prevent existing rust from getting worse, and also prevent new rust. One interesting feature is that it's available in 3 different viscosities; vaguely speaking, those viscosities are thin, medium, and elephant snot.

The thin one does a fantastic job of creeping around to cover even unseen surfaces, but it washes off the fastest. The thicker ones hang around longer and creep less. (Tradeoffs, I guess.)

I prefer Fluid Film just because it's more natural than some other things are and that makes me feel good in some way that I don't care to rationalize, but Fluid Film is not very good at recovering from existing rust.

Corrosion-X, though? I can get the thin version of that worked into the joint of a completely rusted-stuck pair of box-jointed pliers and have them working very well (and looking fairly decent, though not "new") in a few minutes with a shop rag. I've heard stories of it being used to hose down whole electrical rooms in ocean-going boats. It's amazing stuff. (And it's expensive.)

The practical downside is that these products all feel greasy, and they all turn black with enough time and enough miles. They're all ugly.

For visible painted body panels, the best way I know to deal with small spots of rust from rock chips and stuff is to go full-ass on it. Get the Dremel out, pick an appropriate abrasive stone, and start grinding those little pinholes out until there's nothing but clean, shiny metal surrounded by paint. And then: Fill in with touchup paint that matches the factory paint code. (It's never perfect, but it does get easier to do a job that looks better than little rust spots do with some practice...and the little spots then don't turn into big spots.)

Rust never sleeps. Good luck.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-18 06:53:50+00:00
That sounds very profound but it isn't: it the sum of your states interaction that is your consciousness, there is no 'consciousness' unit in your brain, you can't point at it, just like you can't really point at the running state of a computer. At that level it's just electrons that temporarily find themselves in one spot or another.

Those cells aren't living organisms, they are components of a multi-cellular organism: they need to work together or they're all dead, they are not independent. The only reason they could specialize is because other cells perform the tasks that they no longer perform themselves.

So yes, we see the night sky. We know this because we can talk to other such creatures as us that have also seen the night sky and we can agree on what we see confirming the fact that we did indeed see it.

AI really isn't conscious, there is no self, and there may never be. The day an AI gets up unprompted in the morning, tells whoever queries it to fuck off because it's inspired to go make some art is when you'll know it has become conscious. That's a long way off.
by koiueo | 2025-10-18 06:56:48+00:00
Just Apple being Apple. They finally invented the innovative groundbreaking software UI paradigm, previously implemented in competing products 10-15 years ago.

To all Apple fans: it'll pass. You just have to wait it out. The good part, in 10-15 years Apple will catch up in ergonomics with today's KDE (that's from where they copy, it seems).
by anigbrowl | 2025-10-18 06:57:16+00:00
Trump keeps releigious people close to him, not so much for advice as for validation. I personally think the ones he aligns with are the most grifty ones, but YMMV. There's a much stronger more visible religiosity (performative or sincere) among his subordinates. A cync might look at this and conclude that since Trump won't be around forever his less charismatic underlings want a tried-and-tested social technology to keep the herd together.
by Empact | 2025-10-18 06:59:09+00:00
Personally I chose a new over a used Model Y this year because the Juniper release includes a new front bumper camera which could prove crucial in certain unlikely scenarios, and improve overall self-driving. It’s important enough that there are rumors they’ll offer the option of retrofitting it onto earlier versions: https://evannex.com/blogs/news/how-to-identify-your-model-y-...

Also HW4 likely unlocks significant self-driving performance that the earlier hardware stack cannot accommodate, and will support features that are yet to be released for a longer period of time.

Which is all to say: looks to me that the progress is significant.
by skissane | 2025-10-18 06:59:16+00:00
> A huge limitation of LLMs is that they have no ability to dynamically engage with the world.

A pure LLM is static and can’t learn, but give an agent a read-write data store and suddenly it can actually learn things-give it a markdown file of “learnings”, prompt it to consider updating the file at the end of each interaction, then load it into the context at the start of the next… (and that’s a really basic implementation of the idea, there are much more complex versions of the same thing)
by james_in_the_uk | 2025-10-18 07:00:26+00:00
Agreed.

I was merely citing use of Cloudflare as evidentiary, not determinative.

I am not so sure about the relevance of billing entity. I suspect that how Cloudflare chooses to bill is as much driven by tax (especially transfer pricing) as anything else. I also think there are as-yet-unanswered questions about the role of CDNs and similar “global” infrastructure providers, and the impact of using their services as subcontractors (cf intermediaries), in interpreting jurisdiction. These services are obviously different to the “traditional” autonomous systems (routed networks). I am not sure that the law has caught up with this yet. But that is a tangent.

Thanks for the thoughtful debate.
by darkwater | 2025-10-18 07:01:40+00:00
Tesla is a bad example here because it was the best by a large margin 5 years ago, and it more or less stagnated (especially in markets where FSD is not available). But - at least in Europe - the cheapest Tesla you could buy 5 years ago was over 50 grands, now you can have one for 35k with no subsides, depending on the market.

This alone has a giant effect on the second-hand market (of Tesla, which again was the dominant brand years ago so it's also the dominant second-hand brand)
by ggm | 2025-10-18 07:01:52+00:00
Seems like the kind of thing risk management should have asked about. The story needed telling, but when who tells the story becomes a story in itself, you're in the dictum "no news about journalists themselves is good news"

I think there's a possibility in a modern broadcaster, where you "pitch" expensive ideas, this one would have been both expensive and demanding contacts into a murky community. He had the connections, for sure. Maybe for a commissioning editor that took care of one kind of risk?
by thih9 | 2025-10-18 07:02:29+00:00
> The kids already know how to use VPNs to circumvent firewalls

Vpn is not always a solution, at least in my experience (nordvpn).

I haven’t tried 4chan, but e.g. reddit rejects anonymous vpn traffic (shows an error message, forces login); streaming platforms also often don’t work.
by notorandit | 2025-10-18 07:03:10+00:00
Computer history is paved with faults that, in technical perspective, should have never happened.

NeXT was not ahead of it's times. It hasn't been technically surpassed by any other product in the "next" 10 years.

So NeXT is one. IMHO, Amiga 1200, Archimedes and Sinclair QL are other ones.

It seems a mix of mismanagement and marketing (which maybe is still mismanagement).

Sic transit gloria mundi.
by inkyoto | 2025-10-18 07:03:11+00:00
Disruption at the technical level will prove excessively convoluted and impractical to enforce, for censorship-resistant VPN technologies continue to evolve at an accelerated pace – Amnezia and XRay2 serve as exemplary cases in point.

A far more expedient course lies in legislative control: the imposition of a licensing requirement for VPN usage, coupled with punitive measures – fines and imprisonment – for defiance thereof. A few well-chosen prosecutions, conducted publicly with a fanfare and pomp and without leniency, would suffice to instil both fear and obedience amongst the populace.

As ever, the familiar refrain of «think of the children» would provide an acceptable veneer of moral justification to soothe the public conscience.
by thevieart | 2025-10-18 07:03:47+00:00
Chapter 1 — The Cybersecurity AI Ecosystem .......................... 3 • Adjudicator/Broker — “The Arbiter” .................................. 11 • Data Lake & Feature Store ........................................... 14 • WORM & TSA/NTS — Integrity and Time Anchors ........................ 17 • Decision Flow (Detailed Hot Path) .................................. 19 • Local Invariants & Rules ........................................... 22 • QoS & Denial-of-Sense Protection ................................... 25 • Record Schema ...................................................... 27 • Ecosystem Health Metrics ........................................... 29 • Typical Failure Modes .............................................. 31

Chapter 2 — Modern AI-Enabled Threat Model ........................ 34 • Threat Actors; Capability Surface; Extended Kill-Chain ............. 39–41

Chapter 3 — Trustworthy Data Principles .......................... 62

Chapter 6 — Data Poisoning & Timeline (TA01) ..................... 101

Chapter 7 — Adversarial ML & Prompt/Policy Injection (TA02) ..... 147

Chapter 8 — Governance/Policy Poisoning (TA03) .................. 185

Chapter 9 — Absorption Vectors: Data / Policy / Compute (TA04) .. 236

Chapter 10 — ECLIPSE & EXTERNAL ANCHORS ........................ 268

Chapter 11 — Deep Infrastructure Illusion (TA06): Intuition & Threat Model .............................................. 330
by musicale | 2025-10-18 07:03:53+00:00
The desired and undesired behavior are both consequences of the training data, so the models themselves probably can't be restricted to generating desired results only.

This means that there must be an output stage or filter that reliably validates the output. This seems practical for classes of problems where you can easily verify whether a proposed solution is correct.

However, for output that can't be proven correct, the most reliable output filter probably has a human somewhere in the loop; but humans are also not 100% reliable. They make mistakes, they can be misled, deceived, bribed, etc. And human criteria and structures, such as laws, often lag behind new technological developments.

Sometimes you can implement an undo or rollback feature, but other times the cat has escaped the bag.
by oefrha | 2025-10-18 07:04:44+00:00
Ironic considering that U.S. does long arm enforcement all the time, often successfully. You can often read stories about U.S. seizing random foreign websites, bitcoins and shit on this very forum. I guess the part where Britain looks “very silly” is that UK’s long arm is much more likely to be ignored than US’s long arm since British Empire’s sun has set?

> as if we haven’t yet shucked-off the American Revolution, let alone colonialism.

I can’t even.
by chartered_stack | 2025-10-18 07:04:50+00:00
What makes you think that it's only CEOs who look like they're part of a hive mind? It's got nothing to do with capitalism or it's "creepy agents". It's simply the human condition. It's literally company/human see company/human do. One company/management loudly kangs whatever their position is and others simply follow it because they think it's either "industry standard" or it's convenient somehow to them. That's all it is - people trying to be safe.

Let me give you a technical parallel. A couple of engineers/architects from Big Co. that's hugely successful leave and go to Hot Startup. There they proselytize their One True Way because honestly that's all they know. Everybody in Hot Startup goes along with it because they are Senior Engineers from Big Co. who are now plotting the course and Big Co. is HUGE so they know what they're talking about. Now because Hot Startup is suddenly using the One True Way everybody else in the market tries to copy them because that's obviously why Hot Startup is Hot. This leads to a job market where people optimize for things used by Hot Startup. This tilts the skill set of the general tech market towards the One True Way making it gospel to a lot of people. So hiring managers who don't know the first about anything suddenly start optimizing for One True techs and ask for 20 years experience with React. They think they're doing the safe thing by using the same tech stack used by everybody else - the industry standard. Never mind that the "industry standard" changes every time it's convenient.

This is the same thing for CEOs. Oh you're having a slightly down quarter and have to answer to investors? Say you're using AI. That's the in-thing and will give you that bump to ride out the quarter. You screwed up in 2021-22 and hired a fuckton of people who are just sitting on their hands costing the company money? Say AI and get rid of them because they're not productive. It's got nothing to do with collusion or anything like that. It's just that people have mismatched expectations and things happen downstream of these unmanaged expectations.
by j16sdiz | 2025-10-18 07:05:05+00:00
Beauty standard changes over time, see how people perceive body fat in the past few hundred years. We learns what is beautiful from our peers.

Taste can be acquired and can be cultural. See how people used to had their coffee.

Comparing human to LLM is like comparing something constantly changing to something random -- we can't compare them directly, we need a good model for each of them before comparing.
by mulmen | 2025-10-18 07:05:26+00:00
> Who cares?

Well I do because I only need to drive at most 75 miles a day and even a car with 30 miles of range would satisfy my commute requirements.

> Spending $15K on battery on a used car is a hard "No!", unless the car is under $10K.

Can you get a better car for $25,000.00? Would you spend $15,000.00 on a $1000.00 car?
by qrist0ph | 2025-10-18 07:05:40+00:00
Set up a small open-source GitHub repo to showcase your skills, and ask people in your network to give it some stars for added credibility. If you’re not sure what to build, you could create a simple RAG bot using Claude and feed it your resume — that way, employers can literally chat with your “digital twin” and learn about your experience through an AI agent you built yourself. At least thats what I did lLet me know if you need the source code :)
by dmoy | 2025-10-18 07:06:23+00:00
> This is the most out of touch (and also irrelevant) take you can have. I work in FAANG in the bay. The people around me are solid upper middle class but mortgages, day care, regular cars, medical bills, aging parents, college tuitions, etc etc etc mean very few of them can retire today and continue to live in the same place.

I don't know the particulars of your budget, but up here in Seattle an FAANG E5/L5/etc makes over 3x median Seattle household income. And has medical insurance with like a <$10k OOP max. And can rent a house, and drive a $10k used car (like me) that gets replaced once every 10 years. Add public Uni tuition and $150k for 5 years of daycare (or have one working parent, see above r.e. 3x median income from one person), and say $30k/yr of elder parent support, and you can still run a 50%+ savings rate. That won't let you retire in 5 years, but it very likely will in 20 years.

I've met quite a few FAANG who've been at it long enough with a modest enough lifestyle that they don't need to work after 20 years. Some quit, some quit and moved to cheaper local, but some are still at it 'cus they like the problem solving.

I've also met several FAANG who bought a house worth 5x their income, are saving for $100k/yr of private Uni for 2-3 kids, drive $100k cars, etc, and save <10% of their income.

It's all tradeoffs.

And yea probably earning 3x median income makes someone out of touch to begin with. But what you do after that income is kinda up to you, and different choices yield different possibilities.

> Then you just work in a completely universe than I do because at every single job I've ever had, from lowly bus boy to FAANG ML engineer, not a single person has ever said to me "I'm doing this for the love of it". Quite the opposite in fact - many people I know would quit at the drop a hat if not for "golden handcuffs".

Well you can count me as one. I've met several others, and was on a team where most were like that for awhile.
by gizzlon | 2025-10-18 07:06:42+00:00
I don't think you're describing a Ponzi scheme. More like a merry go around. Seems pretty common, just turned to 11.

Of course it can stop, an a little history reading will show that it has always stopped, but it can take a long time.

If anything, I fear the AI hype + the orange idiot you put in charge, can fuck you up much faster than otherwise. OTOH, Trump is also a symptom, showing that things were not going great.
by treve | 2025-10-18 07:07:07+00:00
There's 2 cases being discussed. A UUIDv7 is a bad secret, but it's fine for many other ids. If I can guess your user id, it shouldn't really matter because your business logic should prevent me from doing anything with that information. If I can guess your password reset token it's a different story because I don't need anything else beyond that token to do damage.
by mijoharas | 2025-10-18 07:09:37+00:00
I disagree, wanting stricter immigration is not fascist, and isn't the problem I have with the article.

He argues that non-White people aren't British[0], that's the bit where it gets a bit fascist for me.

There's a debate to be had about immigration, that I think is valid. I think there's nothing wrong with advocating to reduce immigration. I think saying non-White people (who were born here, just so we can get away from the immigration side of things) aren't British is a dick move and kinda fascist.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45358344
by jjav | 2025-10-18 07:10:31+00:00
> On the cloud it takes five seconds to get a new machine I can ssh into and I don't have to ask anyone for the budget.

This isn't exactly realistic, not for too long anyway.

Once your cloud bill climbs into the millions, expect to see just as much scrutiny on what's costing so much and what can be cut and can you really justify the new thing you want to spin up (as there should be).

Having been through many growing startups, I'd say the freewheeling days of spin up whatever you want only last to about 50K to 100K/month AWS billings.
by godelski | 2025-10-18 07:11:58+00:00
I've always distinguished knowledge, intelligence, and wisdom. Knowledge is knowing a chair is a seat. Intelligence is being able to use a log as a chair. Wisdom is knowing the log chair will be more comfortable if I turn it around and that sometimes it's more comfortable to sit on the ground and use the log as fuel for the fire.

But I'm not going to say I was the first to distinguish those word. That'd be silly. They're 3 different words and we use them differently. We all know Sheldon is smart but he isn't very wise.

As for AGI, I'm not so sure my issue is with the label but more with the insistence that it is so easy and straight forward to understand. It isn't very wise to think the answer is trivial to a question which people have pondered for millennia. That just seems egotistical. Especially when thinking your answer is so obviously correct that you needn't bother trying to see if they were wrong. Even though Don Quixote didn't test his armor a second time, he had the foresight to test it once.
by skissane | 2025-10-18 07:11:59+00:00
> There is just no reason why they intentionally want to make the duplicate page API on MCP but not api.

I have no idea what is going on inside Notion, but if I guess - the web UI (including the private REST API which backs it), the public REST API, and the AI features are separate teams, separate PMs, separate budgets - so it is totally unsurprising they don’t all have the same feature set. Of course, if parity were an executive priority, they could get there-but I can only assume it isn’t.
by petesergeant | 2025-10-18 07:13:23+00:00
> yet nobody outside of that cohort will mention this reality ... you'll basically only hear hype ...

This doesn't match my experience talking with people outside of tech, and as such, the whole essay feels like a straw man. There definitely are some people who drank the kool-aid, but they seem like a minority? I don't live in the Bay Area though.
by chartered_stack | 2025-10-18 07:13:25+00:00
I think this piece makes a fair and important point about LLM hype and the need to treat it as a normal technology rather than a cult movement. The over-the-top marketing and constant “AI will change everything” drumbeat can definitely obscures the more grounded, practical ways it can be used day-to-day.

That said, every major technology wave has needed a similar level of push, hype, and momentum to reach mass adoption. The Internet existed for decades before the public knew what to do with it. AOL gave such a huge push with the “You’ve got mail”, endless free trial CDs and an almost manic push to bring it into homes for it to become the foundation of modern life. The same was true of personal computers: early machines like the Apple II or IBM PC were expensive, clunky, and had little practical software. But without the evangelism, marketing, and cultural hype that surrounded them, the entire ecosystem might never have matured. So while the AI frenzy can feel excessive, some level of over-excitement may be what turns the technology from niche tools into something broadly accessible and transformative — just as it did for the web and the PC before it.
by derriz | 2025-10-18 07:13:47+00:00
Why would you choose XLR as a connector for an application like this? Why choose one of the most common connectors you’re likely to see in an environment where someone will be mixing audio for a completely incompatible application? Hope the devices can handle accidental 48V phantom power without damage.

The audio world has history here. A simple TSR audio jack can be used for either stereo or balanced audio, headphone or mic or (multiple) line levels, hi-Z instruments, two incompatible MIDI (digital) connectors, multiple incompatible foot controller connectors, etc.
by btilly | 2025-10-18 07:16:46+00:00
I replied to you there.

But in section 4.5 of this "rebuttal", he admits to the flaw that I just pointed out, and dismisses it as logically possible but absurd. The fact that he grants that it is logically possible, demonstrates that his attempted logical demonstration is broken.

Also his opinion on absurdity has to be weighed against the unlikeliness of his conclusion that the known laws of physics will not suffice to explain the operation of the brain. Clearly that question is not as cut and dried as he believes.
by cess11 | 2025-10-18 07:18:25+00:00
Usually, at least in the US, when a journalist does not want to have their name on an article any longer it is removed. Infamously this happened somewhat recently at NYT, where after doing a decent report on something israeli the editors felt that there was a risk it might make readers less genocidal so they made rather sweeping changes and hence the journalists had their names removed.