MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by boomlinde | 2025-10-27 18:35:31+00:00
Resizing stacks insofar that expansion may require moving the stack to some other place in memory that can support the new size depends on these properties. Your initial 4k of coroutine stack may have been allocated some place that wont fit the new 8k of coroutine stack.

Or are you making a point about virtual memory? If so, that assumption seems highly platform dependent.
by tuetuopay | 2025-10-27 18:36:14+00:00
The most absurd thing is the original video response from the company was good, and with a very compelling argument: their customers never saw shimming in the field. Their user base don't need shimming resistance: security needs to be adequate, not perfect. And they follow-up by presenting options about people requiring the lock to be shim-proof.

Granted, in this day and age, it's a disgrace to still make locks that can be shimmed. Especially when the shim-proof alternatives they show just have an additional notch to catch the shim.
by cyberax | 2025-10-27 18:36:30+00:00
The MCP landscape is a huge frothing septic tank. Go on, try to create a simple MCP server that is protected by a password and connect it to ChatGPT or Claude. Or even the one that uses your local SSO system for authentication.

I tried and failed after about 3 days of dealing with AI-slop-generated nonsense that has _never_ been worked. The MCP spec was created probably by brainless AI agents, so it defines two authentication methods: no authentication whatsoever, and OAuth that requires bleeding-edge features (dynamic client registration) not implemented by Google or Microsoft.

The easiest way for that right now is to ask users to download a random NodeJS package that runs locally on their machines with minimal confinement.
by mothballed | 2025-10-27 18:36:34+00:00
This is an entirely different argument than the fact at hand, which is making the factual statement is illegal.

You're just explaining why stating the fact should be illegal.

>[0] https://www.cdc.gov/global-hiv-tb/php/our-approach/undetecta...

I said AIDS, not HIV. I am no AIDS expert but I would be shocked if a large portion of people AIDS had no detectable viral load, while people with HIV commonly do not have detectable one. Wouldn't people with no detectable viral load generally not being exhibiting AIDS?
by ianburrell | 2025-10-27 18:39:31+00:00
Don't store passkeys in hardware. They are more secure that way, but more dangerous if you lose them. Your passkeys were stored on the old CPU and are gone. If you do, you need to store on multiple devices like phone, tablet, and computer, but that is harder to manage.

Better to store passkeys in password manager. Then they become more secure passwords. The big advantage is that they can't be phished, and sites don't use 2FA with them. It also means you can choose password manager that you trust and work better than Apple and Google.
by pythonaut_16 | 2025-10-27 18:40:19+00:00
Operates at a hardware level, separate from the target machine rather than software in the OS.

With RDP/VNC what do you do if the machine fails to boot? Or RDP stops working for some reason and you can't SSH in?

Or for installing a headless OS on a new machine.

I'm sure there are more specific usecases as well but that's what I mainly use remote KVM devices for at home.
by counters | 2025-10-27 18:40:20+00:00
If it's inoperative then it shouldn't be in the language of the grant. Full stop.

The language itself also overly broad. The stipulation from the grant didn't just cover activities funded by the grant itself. In the very language quoted on the PSF blog, they needed to affirm that as an organization they "do not, and will not during the term of this financial assistance award, operate any programs that advance or promote DEI." Read that again. The language expressly states that they cannot operate ANY programs that advance or promote DEI during the term of the award. So if a PSF member volunteers with PyLadies, would that count as "advanc[ing] or promot[ing] DEI?"

In the real world, no one would _ever_ sign a contract with this sort of poison pill on it. If something like this was found buried in a contract I was evaluating with my lawyer, we'd immediately redline it as overly broad and overbearing.
by RIMR | 2025-10-27 18:40:53+00:00
>No, don't use it to fix your grammar, or for translations

Okay, I can understand even drawing the line at grammar correction, in that not all "correct" grammar is desirable or personal enough to convey certain ideas.

But not for translation? AI translation, in my experience, has proven to be more reliable than other forms of machine translation, and personally learning a new language every time I need to read something non-native to me isn't reasonable.
by nullify88 | 2025-10-27 18:41:06+00:00
I do think that JetKVM software is more polished, and has more frequent updates. Stuff like streaming images over the network is something that is handy.

Nano KVM commits have stagnated a bit, but the form factor is really nice to have everything tucked away. I wish I could run JetKVM on the Nano KVM.
by gbacon | 2025-10-27 18:41:53+00:00
Way worse than just very difficult:

- “Avoid the Collatz Conjecture at All Costs!” (Math Kook) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxBRcwkRjmc

- “Experienced mathematicians warn up-and-comers to stay away from the Collatz conjecture. It’s a siren song, they say: Fall under its trance and you may never do meaningful work again.” https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematician-proves-huge-res...

- "Mathematics is not yet ready for such problems [as Collatz].” (Paul Erdős)
by nerdsniper | 2025-10-27 18:42:18+00:00
It's not really worth that much. You absolutely could DIY it, probably just kludge in a basic $30 HDMI capture card. Also JetKVM is now just as "open-source" as PiKVM is, so there's not even a moral high ground to spending extra. Both are open-source software but not open-source firmware or hardware (no schematics or gerbers or anything like that available).
by dekhn | 2025-10-27 18:42:38+00:00
I helped Google's genomics/health projects get started many years ago and literally the top item of my docs was "do not claim you are going to cure cancer, because the medical establishment knows that's not an achievable goal and will not take you seriously".

But then, Ruth has absolutely zero qualification to say something like this, so it's easy to just dismiss it outright.
by mlapida | 2025-10-27 18:42:58+00:00
A few things: 1/ the system doesn’t need to be connected to a network, or can be on a private/secured network. 2/ You can make changes to BIOS and other elements of the system that the OS can’t “see”. 3/ If the system is sleeping or shutdown, JetKVM can send a wake-on-LAN signal/magic packet.

I’d say for many use cases, it’s not better than RDP/VNC, but if you’re looking access that is independent of the network and state of the system, JetKVM can’t be beat.
by XCabbage | 2025-10-27 18:43:03+00:00
> Why was the clause included if it's completely redundant?

It's not and I didn't suggest it was. It gives the NSF itself the ability to litigate discrimination by grantees (in order to claw back its funds) instead of only the people discriminated against and the EEOC being able to do that. That's a real effect! But it doesn't impose any new obligations whatsoever on PSF - just changes the recourse mechanism if PSF violates legal obligations they already had.

> When the federal government cancels your grant and claws back money you've already spent because they claim something innocuous is illegal

As far as I know this has not happened in any of the cases you mention and _could_ not happen. Yes, grants have been cancelled for dumb reasons, but nothing has been clawed back. Right? What would the mechanism for clawing back the money without a lawsuit even be?
by KindDragon | 2025-10-27 18:43:05+00:00
> Everyone wants to help each other. And people are far kinder than you may think.

I want to believe that. When I was a student, I built a simple HTML page with a feedback form that emailed me submissions. I received exactly one message. It arrived encoded; I eagerly decoded it and found a profanity-filled rant about how terrible my site was. That taught me that kindness online isn’t the default - it’s a choice. I still aim for it, but I don’t assume it.
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by epistasis | 2025-10-27 18:43:37+00:00
> The entire point is to create misconceptions in the people evaluating the grant. That is grant fraud.

No and no. It was just explicitly and intricately explained to you how that's not true, and you didn't even engage with the explanation.

The censors are filtering words not on the meaning of the words but based on the existence of other meanings of words. It's blatantly horrific behavior, in violation of any basic code of ethics or morals.

No fraud is being described in these comments by the grant applicants. However, among those trying to perpetrate political correctness on the a non-political process, unethical behavior abounds.

> Undoubtably their searches have also been finding lots of research that is related to what they object to. You can't use the existence of mistakes to claim that deceiving the government therefore isn't fraud. That's not how the law works.

First, having political objections to some types of research and imposing that sort of political filter is highly unethical in these scientific positions. Second, because they sometimes execute this political censorship successfully does not justify the inaccurate political censorship.

Nobody supporting anything like this has a leg to stand on about laws or legality or anything relating to the rule of law. The Trump administration is acting completely lawlessly, ignores court orders, and has zero regard for the constitution.
by flymasterv | 2025-10-27 18:44:08+00:00
Language detection (where “language”== one of the 200 languages that are actually used), IS trivial, given a paragraph of text.

And the fact is that the author of the web page doesn’t know the language of the content, if there’s anything user contributed. Should you have to label every comment on HN as “English”? That’s a huge burden on literally every internet user. Other written language has never specified its language. Imposing data-entry requirements on humans to satisfy a computer is never the ideal solution.
by Breza | 2025-10-27 18:45:06+00:00
This assumption got me in trouble as a junior analyst years ago. I was asked to analyze our customer base and wrote something like the below. Management congratulated me on finding thousands more customers than we'd ever had before.

SELECT zipcode.rural_urban_code, COUNT(*) AS n_customer FROM customer INNER JOIN zipcode USING(zipcode) GROUP BY 1;
by red-iron-pine | 2025-10-27 18:45:20+00:00
plenty of big telcos push back to gub'mnt orders. they usually get a warrant.

or they just pay the $2100 per API call to download it from the telco or social media company.

it's not improper if you agreed to give a company the ability to sell your data to anyone -- the government is anyone, and they have the money.
by Esophagus4 | 2025-10-27 18:45:25+00:00
I could see a world where a manager is able to cover more teams, reducing the need for as many layers / middle managers.

Like… for year end reviews and bonuses, a manager might have a dashboard of feedback from an AI of everyone’s technical accomplishments, as AI can review their PRs and designs. At that point, an AI could even rank engineers based on contributions, so the manager just verifies that the feedback is all correct.

Not saying that’s necessarily a good thing, but I could see a world where that happens. It already does seem to with Amazon warehouse workers.
by zingababba | 2025-10-27 18:45:31+00:00
Lol yeah, lots going on that will hopefully make it better though.

https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol... https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol... https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol... https://aaronparecki.com/2025/05/12/27/enterprise-ready-mcp https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol... https://www.okta.com/newsroom/press-releases/okta-introduces... https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/ext-auth/blob/main/s... https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol... https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol... https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol...
by chemotaxis | 2025-10-27 18:45:50+00:00
My personal thoughts on gen AI are complicated. A lot of my public work was vacuumed up for gen AI, and I'm not benefitting from it in any real way. But for text, I think we already lost that argument. To the average person, LLMs are too useful to reject them on some ultimately muddied arguments along the lines of "it's OK for humans to train on books, but it's not OK for robots". Mind you, it pains me to write this. I just think that ship has sailed.

I think we have a better shot at making that argument for music, visual art, etc. Most of it is utilitarian and most people don't care where it comes from, but we have a cultural heritage of recognizing handmade items as more valuable than the mass-produced stuff.
by bootsmann | 2025-10-27 18:46:01+00:00
I feel like this kind of discussion hinges on a misguided belief that farmers are not very smart businessmen. The idea that a farmer would abandon their current crop for GMO crop that they cannot replant without making a cost-benefit analysis in their head just strikes me as very odd. These peoples life depend on making such decisions, we should trust them to make them themselves.
by jrnng | 2025-10-27 18:46:08+00:00
> Nobody is bringing a sawzall into the gym while it's open.

They are bringing in bolt cutters to locker rooms. The locker metal loop that the lock threads through is easier to cut than the lock. I've first hand seen lockers destroyed to remove the lock. Not while the break in is happening but it's easy piece the crime scene back together to understand their tools.

Manual bolt cutters are almost silent except for the "thunk" when it breaks the metal, and there are even battery operated bolt cutters that are quick and compact.
by lxgr | 2025-10-27 18:47:45+00:00
> How hard is to convert the UTC time to user's local time and perform quota reset?

Probably roughly as hard as writing a timezone-aware scheduler that considers all edge cases around daylight savings time, i.e. probably possible but I'd try fairly hard to see if I can get around it.

One way of getting around it is to run your batch jobs in your "primary business timezone". Sure, you might outgrow that concept eventually, but many companies never do, and in that sense "running on UTC" seems similarly aspirational in spirit (albeit at a much smaller scale) to starting with high scalability.
by tracker1 | 2025-10-27 18:48:13+00:00
The clip used of Reagan also cut it short of his statement that some tariffs are necessary. Also, the country was in a very different place in the 1980s than it is today with regards to US manufacturing/farming.

While I'm generally a fan of free trade, there are limitations with where another nation is effectively abusing its own people and creating working conditions that are very different than in the US and in fact not fair trade. I'm also of the mindset that domestic production should be at least somewhat propped up as a necessary component of domestic security/safety.

I'm not convinced that Reagan might have some slightly different views of tariffs today given the altered environment.

To me, this is a lesson that should have been learned under COVID... a similar concern is the consolidation of middlemen in terms of food production and delivery. I'd like to see more competition with meat packers and other agriculture processing groups that aren't sucking every cent possible out of the middle leaving the producers (farms) and consumers (people) with as little as possible while delivering absolutely minimal value add. Not even going into the mega farm, or the likes of Tyson in terms of non-ownership of production to farmers maintaining all the burden. I'd like to see more states require localized packing and distribution channels for more products from whole.
by sojournerc | 2025-10-27 18:48:22+00:00
That's still using language. My dog has theory of mind in the real world where things actually exist.

Also, those results don't look as strong to me as you suggest. I do not accept that an LLM is conscious nor could I ever unless I can have a theory of mind for it... Which is impossible given that it's a stochastic parrot without awareness of the things my five senses and my soul feel in reality.
by aorist | 2025-10-27 18:48:45+00:00
This specific analysis isn’t p-hacking because although they conduct multiple tests, they report all of them rather than just the statistically significant ones.

They should however account for multiple testing. The Bonferroni correction (which is conservative) would set the alpha level to 0.05/5=0.01, for which the 1 day after result is still (just) statistically significant.

Not to say there couldn’t be other problems.
by noosphr | 2025-10-27 18:48:54+00:00
Sicp is not computation first. Sicp is understanding first.

Doing the calculations automatically is a happy side effect of finding the right abstractions for describing what's happening physically and those abstractions being expressed in scheme already.

E.g. Exercise 3.73 in SCIP asks how to implement an electrical circuit using a stream data structure. Because of all the work done beforehand you end up with an expression which describes the time behaviour of the circuit using the same expressions that describe its layout.
by fasbiner | 2025-10-27 18:49:01+00:00
Had an almost identical experience. Even if you don’t need anything with auth, no one has yet made an mcp that wasn’t ultimately worse or the same as a cli but with a lot more song and dance. Security is also a bit of a joke when half the time it’s installing docker and phoning home. I wanted to like mcp and vend out remote mcp but this spec is not ready.
by netule | 2025-10-27 18:49:02+00:00
I’ve found that the kinds of people who leave comments or send emails tend to fall into two categories:

1. They’re assholes.

2. They care enough to speak up, but only when the thing stops working as expected.

I think the vast majority of users/readers are good people who just don’t feel like engaging. The minority are vocal assholes.
by thrance | 2025-10-27 18:49:30+00:00
The issue is with taking anything they say at face value. They don't believe in anything, except what is convenient in the moment and would grant them more power and wealth. Now that they own the White House, Congress and SCOTUS, they are very much federalists and will seek to impose their views on the entire country. Simple, really.

They brandish the "don't tread on me flag" while cheering on Trump sending the national guard to blue cities (when the most violent cities in America are all red). They are supposedly against handouts, but watch Trump bail out the farmers and none of MAGA have anything to say about it. Because a majority of farmers vote red.

They wouldn't have any issue with actual socialism, as long as it only benefitted republican voters.
by trenchpilgrim | 2025-10-27 18:51:06+00:00
If your neighbor planted a GMO crop in their field, and then sprayed them with the compatible chemicals, two things might happen:

1. The chemicals are carried by the wind onto your crop field, killing your non-GMO crops

2. The seeds from the GMO crop spread into your field, and corporate hired goons show up at your door threatening you with a lawsuit. Or maybe if your neighbor doesn't like you, they spread some GMO seed in your field, then report you to the company.

This led to neighbor versus neighbor conflicts in ag communities, in some cases turning violent.

https://youtu.be/CxVXvFOPIyQ?t=1567
by gruez | 2025-10-27 18:51:20+00:00
>Even if you store everything in PST or EST or CST, you never know when you'll get customers from another part of the world and then you'll have to do this anyway. So why not do this already?

1. allowing users to change their timezone and tying it to when their quota reset sounds like a great way to add more edge cases and complexity. For instance, does messing with your time zone mean you can get your quota reset multiple times a day?

2. Not everyone operates some sort of global b2c SaaS that's timezone agnostic. For many enterprise backoffice tasks "6am HQ time" is far more reasonable than "6am/7am, dunno depends on whether daylight saving time is on or not". In this case having a server set to the HQ's timezone makes far more sense than doing UTC and trying to work around daylight saving issues.
by JuniperMesos | 2025-10-27 18:51:57+00:00
> Many banks now also use their app as a second factor, rather than a generic OTP option that can run on any hardware.

A financial institution I have an account with requires MFA to log in, and the only options they support are SMS MFA and their proprietary smartphone app. This is acutely annoying to me, because it means I have to get up and get my phone if I want to log into this site from my PC (or rig up a complicated Android emulator setup).
by nerdsniper | 2025-10-27 18:51:57+00:00
I believe the $90 is "mostly" without the tariffs - it appears to be the updated post-Kickstarter price (which was $70). The iKoolCore distributor says:

> US Tariff update: There are currently no additional tariffs, but this may change after November 1st. We’ll ship your order promptly to help minimize the risk of tariffs, though we can’t guarantee none will apply.

I am in the USA and the unit I ordered from iKoolCore is being shipped to me from China. I have no idea how much more I might have to pay in tariffs once it arrives to customs, or how I will even go about paying those tariffs.
by jvvw | 2025-10-27 18:52:00+00:00
The first ever night train I went, about 25 years ago, on was from Berlin to Malmo. Early morning, I woke up to the feeling of my bed swaying and looking out of the window realised 'hang on, they've put the train on a ferry'.

I had no idea that trains got put on ferries, although I had been puzzled by the way the route on the route map crossed the sea but had assumed it was just to make the diagram simpler. It was quite a surreal thing finding myself unexpectedly on a train on a ferry. It was nice though as you could go and wander round the ferry and it was quite fun seeing it go off the ferry which had special train tracks on it onto the normal train tracks on the land.
by lemonlime227 | 2025-10-27 18:52:12+00:00
Ashburn/Loudoun resident here, lived right next to us-east-1 for 10+ years. No, the noise is not impactful. The data centers are very quiet on the outside. More noise comes from Dulles Airport nearby. Main problem is 1. visuals. They are horrendous blobs to look at. 2. land/electricity values. Gone up a lot in the past few years. Happy to answer any questions.
by yojo | 2025-10-27 18:52:26+00:00
I agree with that criticism, and I'd encourage the dev to iterate on non-micro-transaction monetization schemes. The part I disagree with is that a profit motive is antithetical to helping kids.

It'd be nice if we had robust, no-strings attached funding streams to make this kind of content, but we don't, so if we want it to exist, consumers need to pay for it.