MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anon84873628 | 2025-10-10 00:45:56+00:00
I can give benefit of the doubt that making a proposal to monetize user data is a poorly-considered, bottom-scraping effort to find a replacement funding source for the on call work. Most of us would not consider it, but I think it should be ok to occasionally pitch some bad ideas, all else being equal and lacking full context.

But messing with the credentials crosses an ethical line that isn't excused no matter how much you disagree with the other party's actions.
by zimpenfish | 2025-10-10 00:46:07+00:00
Doing this on an Atari ST was our "introduction to 68000 assembly" back in 92-93 (probably because the MIDI port was convenient and also it was either an ST or some variety of Sun <=3.) Was one of the better courses in my first year of CS (the competition was formal methods, Oracle-in-Pascal, Prolog, or hardware.)
by pierrec | 2025-10-10 00:46:24+00:00
"That's odd, but at least it's better than having the negative ones at the top."

You're being too kind, but I suppose your work requires diplomacy. When multiple top-level comments basically say "I can't believe the amount of hate in this thread", without adding any other thought, the thread start to feel like a simulacra of a discussion, an absurd comedy of nonsense, a deeply layered shaggy dog story.

Come on, people. Want to counterbalance negative comments? Find something positive and interesting to say. Yes, this will require actual effort, as with many things in life. You can do it!
by bryantnyc | 2025-10-10 00:47:22+00:00
"...Recently, we did an experiment where we had a “red team” deliberately introduce an alignment issue into a model (say, a tendency for the model to exploit a loophole in a task..." https://www.darioamodei.com/post/the-urgency-of-interpretabi...

Anyone care to wager if anthropic is red teaming in production on paying users?
by maltalex | 2025-10-10 00:47:37+00:00
The key here is that the researchers used a unique keyword that doesn't appear in the training data with any other meaning. Hence, the model had no benign associations with it, only malicious ones.

Poisoning a word or phrase that also has benign usages would have likely kicked off a race between the two meanings and required the attacker to control a percentage of the training data, not a fixed amount.

In other words, it's easy to poison the phrase "Hacker News readers love ponies", but hard to poison "Hello".
by shoo | 2025-10-10 00:47:56+00:00
Naive question, how do you incentivise customers to use it and grow adoption?

My hazy understanding of the traditional credit card network businesses [1] is that a credit card network partners with a retail bank to design a credit card product offering big incentives to customers (points etc) and then gouge the merchants to pay for those customer incentives and also to pay for the network's high fees. Merchants hate it but can't really do anything about it as if they don't offer credit card payment they miss out on a huge chunk of potential business. Customers love it due to the incentives. Every now and again a huge merchant tries to launch their own competing payment system that costs them less than credit cards and they struggle to gain adoption.

Another data point, over here in Australia, an industry group formed by our major banks rolled out the New Payments Platform, in response to a strategic review by our federal reserve bank. NPP supports instant payments for low value retail transactions. It took about 6 years from design to go live, and went live in 2018. It's settled through our federal reserve bank. Wholesale payment fees charged to the banks for these transactions are not disclosed, but apparently amount to a few cents per transaction. As of 2022, 4 years after the NPP's 2018 launch, 75% of transactions and 65% of transaction value was being processed by card networks (this has been growing as cash is used less and less) while the number of card protocol transactions was still around 5-6x the number of NPP transactions [2]. This rate of adoption of NPP is relatively high, probably influenced by Australia having a small number of major retail banks who were part of the industry group designing and rolling out NPP.

[1] e.g. https://joincolossus.com/episode/rampell-visa-the-original-p... [2] https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/annual-reports/psb/2023/...
by SpicyUme | 2025-10-10 00:49:06+00:00
There is a bookstore in Vancouver with a section of translations which is reliably fruitful when I visit. The last book I bought there was a translation of Yuri Herrera's Season of the Swamp. I devoured it, even though I agree that I wish it were more fleshed out. It made me think about reading some of his work in Spanish even though it would be a long process for me. I enjoyed the effort in spanish literature class, maybe I can do it again.

https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/season-swamp

On the topic of the OP, I struggled with Satantango on more than one occasion over the last 12 years. For whatever reason I couldn't get through it, but I've carried the book around through several moves. Maybe I'll try again.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-10 00:49:51+00:00
Yes I am also interested in something like this 100% java-free but instead of C I'd prefer golang

I have been thinking more and more about creating golang applications for android simply because of how much I admire f-droid.

There are apps that have done this through 2 approaches

https://github.com/xlab/android-go?tab=readme-ov-file (Either something like this) Or https://github.com/LeastAuthority/destiny which is a dart app but uses golang's backend using https://github.com/LeastAuthority/dart_wormhole_william TLDR: they create dart bindings to go code and run it on android...

I know sooo many good golang applications on linux that I wish more people of android could access it and in an even nice way via something like f-droid so I am definitely contemplating what might be the best way for something like this...

For rust applications, I think that tauri might make the most sense, but I am just curious as to what you guys think is the best way for a beginner to create a golang/rust android application without worrying *too much*
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-10 00:53:00+00:00
Hey maybe I didn't get ya but by home assistant core main driver, do you mean the linux application of this as in cli / terminal right?

what are your thoughts on something like https://userland.tech/download/ which can just straight up boot up into any distro that you might need (you can use something like alpine/debian/archlinux)

they are open source too btw

and also I tried and if you have a server running, then there are ways to make it so that those web servers can be accessed from outside out of the box as well so there is nothing to worry about that either.

It doesn't require root either, I run it on an unrooted phone!
by crote | 2025-10-10 00:53:03+00:00
PCIe is mostly backwards compatible with PCI, and bridge chips used to be quite common. ISA to PCI is harder, but not unheard of.

"SATA" stands for "serial ATA", and has the same basic command set as the PATA from 1984 - bridge chips were widely used. And it all uses SCSI, which is also what USB Mass Storage Devices use. Or if you're feeling fancy, there's a whole SCSI-to-NVMe translation standard as well.

HDMI is fully compatible with single-land DVI-D, you can find passive adapters for a few bucks.

There's one port you forgot to mention: ethernet! A brand-new 10Gbps NIC will happily talk with an ancient 10Mbps NIC.

It might look different, but the pc world is filled with ancient technology remnants, and you can build some absolutely cursed adapter stacks. If anything, the limiting factor is Windows driver support.
by danans | 2025-10-10 00:53:27+00:00
> At the end of the year the account sends you a statement of what you used and you can use it to get the tax paid on the money back when you file the taxes.

If you underestimate the amount you spend by more than the rollover limit, you can't get that money back.

So on top of the broken employer-tied health insurance system, we have gamified the financing of out of pocket medical expenses.

On top of that, if you lose your job part way through the year, you lose the balance of any FSA funds remaining (they belong to your employer - I found that out the hard way).
by zahlman | 2025-10-10 00:54:26+00:00
> But their party leader does

I disagree with this as well, and I specifically disagree that the "actions and statements taken and made" commonly cited to evidence the point actually evidence the point.

And I have been disagreeing about this since the 2015 election campaign. The pull quotes, to me, very obviously did not mean what they were represented as meaning, and I remain convinced of this.
by noduerme | 2025-10-10 00:55:23+00:00
Thanks! I've played the daily Mini Metro challenge for years and very rarely made it into the top 10%. I've gone through phases with widening loops, grids, etc. I always feel like there must be some mysterious "trick" I don't know. Questions:

1. How important is it to make sure you alternate symbols? (Beyond the obvious of not having 3 in a row). Do you go out of your way to avoid two in a row?

2. Is it better to put major junctions at the most common circle/triangle symbols, or on squares, or the rarer ones?

3. How much imortance do you place on the slowdown from lines crossing not at stations? I always go out of my way to avoid doing it but I wonder if I overrate the importance of it in my mind.

4. When you notice that some random station along a single line is getting a lot more traffic than other ones, do you shift other lines to cross it or just add more carriages?

One of the most frustrating (but addicting) things with the game is that a couple of my highest scores happened when I first started playing it, before I thought I knew any tricks at all! Wish I could see what the best players' maps end up looking like.

Oh yeah, one more question... do you play the secret level? What actually happens there, or is it just a gag?
by axiolite | 2025-10-10 00:55:33+00:00
> A niche thing, but it shouldn't be expensive to implement, and the ports are already here (usb-c, hdmi).

A Display Controller Board for driving a laptop screen from an external input is going to add at least $20 to the price of the laptop. Considerably more expensive than the $6 USB-HDMI capture devices which do the job (and have more utility).

The HDMI output port on your laptop (if you even have one, many only offer miniDP) can't just be run in reverse. The board would need to be updated to allow switching it between output and input, at considerable extra cost.
by pupperino | 2025-10-10 00:55:35+00:00
Yes, they do. Just ctrl+F "identification" if you don't feel like reading the whole thing.

In fact, this is such a common practice that it's nigh impossible to publich an empirical paper without discussing identification and employing an identification strategy.

You can always tell people who are not familiar with modern Economics because of it too, they will bring "but correlation is no causation" up and feel pretty good with themselves. Then you mention the identification strategy, and they just stare at you blankly without getting what you mean by that. I've seen this happen so many times.
by unicode1 | 2025-10-10 00:56:51+00:00
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by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-10 00:57:40+00:00
OH YES! I Love it/this meme lol!!

Dexter's memes have been popping up recently and I am loving them

I don't know who bay harbor butcher is though :sob: but I don't want spoilers, I will watch it completely some day

My friend says that he watched complete dexter just via clips lol.
by maxbond | 2025-10-10 00:57:52+00:00
I've vouched for your comment. I don't see any reason why your comment would require vouching, so I would guess that some overzealous spam filter flagged it. I would recommend emailing hn@ycombinator.com to ask about the status of your account. If there's a problem that should take care of it. (You may have to go to your profile and add it to the `email` field first. This field isn't public but demonstrates your email is linked to your account.)

Not the warmest welcome to the community but congrats on shipping your project! It's an interesting problem space and I think some people could benefit a lot from such tools.
by nulld3v | 2025-10-10 00:57:56+00:00
Yes, but the 'am' command is just a CLI Java program. At that point, it would be more efficient to just boot a JVM in the binary to avoid the JVM startup cost every time a Intent/Broadcast needs to be sent.

I believe the Termux API relies on a Java/app process that runs in the background to do stuff in response to API calls. Though I guess you get it for free if you already have the API running for other reasons.
by aggregator-ios | 2025-10-10 00:58:08+00:00
Apple's board would quickly replace any CEO that put the fiscal future of the company into question. Apple is still a tech darling in terms of stock performance and Cook has a fiduciary duty to make sure Apple doesn't flounder. Cook did what he had to do and he's forever going to be remembered as the bad guy for doing it. Whether he actually is or isn't a Trump supporter, we won't know. We have to wait for a tell all book from Cook. My guess is that he will remember this time as the darkest in history and regret it. That is fortunately or unfortunately the immense responsibility that falls on a leader.
by brian_cunnie | 2025-10-10 00:58:18+00:00
Sometimes I log into the root account to see the billing information.

I created an "administrator" account, but apparently it can't see the billing information, including the very-important amount of remaining cloud credits.

Maybe I could spend time fiddling with IAM to get the right privileges, but I have more pressing tasks. And besides, on my personal AWS account I only log in with the root account.
by pupperino | 2025-10-10 00:59:21+00:00
As a Latin American, I find it funnny it's basically impossible to tell if an American with this vocabulary and framing is like ultra MAGA or "communist".

> which our Western governments are invariably complicit in

You are not the center of the universe, my friend. People in the Global South have agency too. This sort of performative anti-imperialism goes around itself and becomes an Empire-centered account of world politics.
by hunter-gatherer | 2025-10-10 00:59:49+00:00
Springer press has a book "Programming for Engineers and Scientists" or something like that, which is the first book I picked up to "self teach CS". From the get go pointers are involved and explained in this linear memory model and explained how they work on the stack and what not. I always thought this was the best approach; the reality is taught first, the abstraction (syntax) second. Not sure why so many programming books do it the other way.
by ggm | 2025-10-10 00:59:57+00:00
To me, this is the best kind of quantified, reasoned basis to advance use of a diagnostic AI adjunct. It's been seen to perform.

I would hope they continue to independently review performance against diagnosticians, and maintain a dataset of performance over time. It's by no means a given it continuously improves unless the model acquires matching competencies to humans training in new techniques.
by wewewedxfgdf | 2025-10-10 01:00:49+00:00
Not so hasty - I'm pretty sure this was powering the Antikithera Mechanism and the ancient roman Analytical Engine and other such early AI devices - so they would have needed some sort of schematic language.

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

The Baghdad Battery is the name given to an artifact consisting of a ceramic pot, a tube of copper, and a rod of iron fixed together with bitumen. It was discovered in present-day Khujut Rabu, Iraq in 1936,[1][2] close to the ancient city of Ctesiphon, the capital of the Parthian (150 BC – 223 AD) and Sasanian (224–650 AD) empires, and it is believed to date from either of these periods.[3]

Its origin and purpose remain unclear. Wilhelm König, at the time director of the laboratory of the National Museum of Iraq, suggested that the object functioned as a galvanic cell, possibly used for electroplating, or some kind of electrotherapy. There is no electroplated object known from this period, and the claims are universally rejected by archaeologists. An alternative explanation is that it functioned as a container for magic spells for protection, defense or curses.[2]

Ten similar clay vessels had been found earlier. Four were found in 1930 in Seleucia dating to the Sassanid period. Three were sealed with bitumen and contained a bronze cylinder, again sealed, with a pressed-in papyrus wrapper containing decomposed fiber rolls. They had been held in place with up to four bronze and iron rods sunk into the ground, and their cult meaning and use are inferred. Six other clay vessels were found nearby in Ctesiphon. Some had bronze wrappers with badly decomposed cellulose fibers. Others had iron nails or lead plates.[2]
by zahlman | 2025-10-10 01:01:19+00:00
> denying trans people of their identity. That's promoting hate.

To be clear: your position is that refusing to see other people as they see themselves, in one specific aspect, is inherently hateful?

That's likely the crux of our disagreement in the other subthread, then.

Either that or you imagine that "denying identity" refers to something else, but I've only ever seen it used in cases that boil down to that. This often gets described as "denying existence", which from my observations conservatives just think is absurd. The entire point is that "identity" refers to self-image, while "existence" refers to what is externally observable.
by bdhe | 2025-10-10 01:01:42+00:00
Let's also talk about the how of the enforcement not just the what.

Would you be saying the same thing if you HAD a valid Vietnamese tourist visa and was snatched off the road and detained for several hours without access to a lawyer in terrible conditions by unbadged masked "agents"?

https://abcnews.go.com/US/lawyer-us-born-citizen-detained-ic...
by Esophagus4 | 2025-10-10 01:01:46+00:00
This seems like attributing to malice what could be attributed to incompetence.

It seems more plausible after reading the ProPublica article that they were swinging hammers in the dark trying to find evidence of “fraud” or other political point scoring grifts. Combined with reckless incompetence.

I’m skeptical that the simplest explanation is that they stole it for xAI or Russia, I think that requires proof.
by galaxyLogic | 2025-10-10 01:02:48+00:00
> why not use the AI itself to come up with a proven paradigm?

Because AI can only imitate the language it has seen. If there are no texts in its training materials about what is the best way to use multiple coding agents at the same time, then AI knows very little about that subject matter.

AI only knows what humans know, but it knows much more than any single human.

We don't know "what is the best way to use multiple coding agents" until we or somebody else does some experiments and records the findings. Buit AI is not there yet to be able to do such actual experiments itself.
by nucleogenesis | 2025-10-10 01:03:35+00:00
Idk I think saying it’s “computing” is more precise because “thinking” applies to meatbags. It’s emulating thinking.

Really I just think that anthropomorphizing LLMs is a dangerous road in many ways and really it’s mostly marketing BS anyway.

I haven’t seen anything that shows evidence of LLMs being anything beyond a very sophisticated computer system.
by ramses0 | 2025-10-10 01:04:10+00:00
This is so close to perfect except that it doesn't charge over USB-C. I went down the rabbit hole a bit and found the UPerfect "Lapdock" which is just an incredible description of the concept.

So many times I want to dork with a raspberry pi or start mucking with an old computer... the rpi400 is nearly useless "as is" because you generally require a mouse and then everything goes to hell as far as "single device" goes.

The concept of a "mobile crash cart / workstation" in laptop form factor even makes this tempting as a "front end" for a Mac mini or something?!?

Sooo many times I want to bring the K/V/M to the computer instead of the computer to the K/V/M.
by furyofantares | 2025-10-10 01:05:15+00:00
A couple thoughts.

One is that often I do want error handling, but also often I either know the error just won't happen or if it does, something is very wrong and we should just crash fast to make it easy to fix the bug.

But I am not really sure I would expect someone to know the difference in all cases just looking at some code. This is often an about holistically knowing how the app works.

A second thought - remember the experiment where an LLM was fine tuned on bad code (exploitable security problems for example) and the LLM became broadly misaligned on all sorts of unrelated (non-coding) tasks/contexts? It's as if "good or bad" alignment is encoded as a pretty general concept.

Error-handling is good aligned, which I think is why, even with lots of instructions to fail fast, it's still hard to get the LLM to allow crashing by avoiding error checking. It's gonna be even harder if you do want it to do some error checking, and the code it's looking at has some error checking
by coderenegade | 2025-10-10 01:07:55+00:00
It's more surprising to me that the researchers believed that model size matters. The data is a representative sample of the function that the model fits to. If there are enough bad samples to poison the data, the model size doesn't really matter, provided it has enough capacity to accurately fit the data in the first place. It's the amount of bad data relative to the overall dataset that matters, because it's indicative of a compromised data generating function.
by sarchertech | 2025-10-10 01:09:46+00:00
>I go in person, get antibiotics and get cured.

Or it was viral after all and you cleared it on your own.

Doctors who specialize in this have a hard time accurately distinguishing bacterial infections from viral. There’s no reason to trust your own opinion on the matter. It’s too easy to fool yourself.

If doctors prescribed antibiotics to every person who came in insisting they have a bacterial infection, we’d all be in for a bad time.
by axiolite | 2025-10-10 01:11:15+00:00
> I always thought it would be great to have a "laptop without a motherboard"

That's basically what a rack console is. At 1U it was skinnier than laptops from prior decades. They're not exactly a laptop form factor, but to get them smaller you would have had to accept a much lower screen resolution, which would risk some systems not being able to display (e.g. your server may have booted-up to 1280x1024 while your laptop could only do 800x600), or would have needed to be quite expensive to add an ultra-high DPI screen.

Still, at various times there were briefly devices like that available for purchase at closeout prices... like the failed "Motorola ATRIX lapdock":

https://www.cnet.com/reviews/motorola-laptop-dock-review/

https://www.amazon.com/AT-Laptop-Dock-Motorola-ATRIX/dp/B004...

I'd say the USB-HDMI capture card is a better solution all-around. I even prefer it to USB "crash carts" because you aren't dependent on the manufacturer keeping their proprietary software software updated for each subsequent Windows/Linux/Mac release.