MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by toss1 | 2025-10-03 18:37:33+00:00
>>The Army should treat the NGC2 prototype version as “very high risk” because of the “likelihood of an adversary gaining persistent undetectable access,” wrote Gabrielle Chiulli, the Army chief technology officer authorizing official.

>>One application revealed 25 high-severity code vulnerabilities

What part of the above two quotes are hard to understand?

>>"The security architecture is demonstrably the kind of thing that can be mechanically added later so DoD takes the view that there is no development risk by not implementing it in the prototype."

Are you actually serious about this? Because to me, that is the most nonsensical thing said in a post of nonsensical things.

ARCHITECTURE is the FIRST thing that needs to be determined — what is the structure of the modules, how they communicate, and what underlying tech will be used? Sure, if you are making a true proof-of-concept prototype you can skip it but no one would be discussing the above kinds of issues evaluating a POC. Tacking on some afterthought of a 'security architecture' at the end of a development project is a recipe for disaster in countless ways.

And yes, you said "fine details" added later; agree. But even a prototype of a secure communications system the thing must AT LEAST show some security architecture; I mean at least show you can keep Joe-user from accessing Root privs... here, they said anyone can access anything. That is not fine details, that is simply not even close to meeting the spec.

(and yes, I do DOD work, and your account is not even close to how I've seen it work)
by dilek | 2025-10-03 18:37:42+00:00
Deep Learning Researcher - Vancouver - Onsite

https://picovoice.ai/careers/deep-learning-researcher/

Picovoice is the only all-in-one on-device voice AI platform with offerings including wake word, speech-to-text, LLM, text-to-speech, and more. All on-device. Runs across mobile, web, desktop, and embedded.
by mbgerring | 2025-10-03 18:37:50+00:00
"This theoretical event that I just made up would lead to 100% human extinction"

Neat, go write science fiction.

Hundreds of billions of dollars are currently being lit on fire to deploy AI datacenters while there's an ecosystem destabilizing heat wave in the ocean. Climate change is a real, measurable, present threat to human civilization. "Strong AI" is something made up by a fan fiction author. Grow up.
by minimaxir | 2025-10-03 18:39:04+00:00
"Brand moat" is not an actual economic concept. Moats indicate how easy/hard it is to switch to a competitor. If OpenAI does something user-adversarial, it takes two seconds to switch to Anthropic/Gemini (the exception being Enterprise contracts/lock-in, which is exactly why AI companies prioritize that). The entire reason that there are race-to-the-bottom price wars among LLM companies is that it's trivial for most people to switch to whatever's cheapest.

Brand loyalty and users not having sufficient incentive by default to switch to a competitor is something else. OpenAI has lost a lot of money to ensure no such incentive forms.
by hoistbypetard | 2025-10-03 18:39:30+00:00
Sort of? I mean the actual news shows have been replaced by things like ESPN Bet Live[1], which are focused on betting. I'd also like the alcohol ads to be fewer and farther between, but the gambling thing has expanded into shows too, not just ads.

[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPN_Bet_Live)
by Lazaruscv | 2025-10-03 18:39:35+00:00
Really appreciate the offer, we’d love to take you up on it. A lot of what we’re exploring right now comes down to signal analysis and anomaly detection in robotics data, which gets math-heavy fast (especially when combining time-series data from multiple sources). We’re setting up short user interviews with roboticists/devs to better map the pain points. Would you be open to a quick chat about the trickiest math/log parsing issues you’ve faced? It could help us avoid reinventing the wheel.
by singron | 2025-10-03 18:39:56+00:00
The depreciation schedule doesn't affect long term profitability. It just shifts the profits/loss in time. It's a tool to make it appear like you paid for something while it's generating revenue. Any company would look really profitable for a while if it chose long enough depreciation schedules (e.g. 1000 years), but that's just deferring losses until later.
by zkmon | 2025-10-03 18:40:13+00:00
A person's existence is made up of what others think about the person and how the person relates to them. There is hardly anything else to make up the existence for the person. You are just a collection of perceptions about you, and your relations with the world. Even your money and assets are only as a valuable as seen by the world around you. You look trendy and stylish only because you align with the trends of the place and time. Your physical fitness is meaningful only at your place and time. A village woman in a third world can outlive many gym goers of the Western world.

There is nothing else left to be considered as your absolute existence outside of how you relate with the world.
by 99219816 | 2025-10-03 18:40:25+00:00
Location: Ohio Remote: Remote or Local Willing to relocate: No Technologies: .NET, Git, Python, C, C++, Computer Vision, 3D Imaging, Defect Recognition, CAD, Graphics Résumé/CV: Available upon request Email: 99219816a@gmail.com

I've been working productively out of a home office since 2010 - some hybrid, some full time.

Recent work:

- Developing rigorous measurement processes on noisy data in high-stakes, safely-critical quality control applications - mostly vision based.

- Building flexible frameworks, computer vision processing services and APIs to overcome technical debt, boost growth into new areas, and enhance security.

- Highly skilled in creating value by going from theoretical ideas to profitable real world applications. My algorithms and code are in industrial systems all over the world, there is a good chance you own or use a product that was physically inspected by my work before being shipped.

- Modernizing legacy code

- Managing vendors of hardware and software.

- Managing junior developers.

- Finding simplicity hiding in the mess.

I'm mostly targeting software roles but have a background in designing and owning many levels from mechanics to optics to the processing pipeline and algorithms to the user interface. I also have lab / shop space, so if I do encounter an organization that could benefit from integrated software and hardware work, there may be a possibility there too.

Interests outside of current expertise: (meaning I've dabbled and would like to do more)

- Machine learning: I've experimented with TensorFlow and defect recognition.

- CUDA

- WebAssembly
by Brybry | 2025-10-03 18:40:38+00:00
It's the plan they've been saying all along, right? Seems like Trump / Project 2025 want to push apprenticeship programs instead. [1][2][3]

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-pr...

[2] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/prep...

[3] https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeade...
by poemxo | 2025-10-03 18:41:04+00:00
As someone with apparent social anxiety, I don't really care about being disliked either. Being left alone is the overriding priority by far, it is not an aversion to being disliked, although being disliked is not the best since it's still attention.

If someone came to me and tried to mentor me about unlearning my discomfort with being disliked, I would feel like I'm being manipulated and I would make sure to avoid that person.
by socalgal2 | 2025-10-03 18:41:34+00:00
It's a stereotype that women are directly mean to other women more than men are mean to other men. No idea if there is any data to back that up, only that it's a commonly repeated meme.

https://www.google.com/search?q=women+are+just+horribly+crue...

There's also culture at play. I don't know if men affectionately dissing their friends is universal but there's plenty of related things like:

In Japanese culture you don't brag about co-workers or family to outsiders. Outsiders you treat with respect. Insiders you don't. The fact that you don't get the more polite treatment is proof that you're an insider. It's a common scene in stories where someone asks to stop being treated like an outsider by specifically asking for the less polite language. You can also watch the ribbing man to man, man to woman, woman to man, woman to woman. I don't know if there is data on which is more common.
by SirensOfTitan | 2025-10-03 18:41:44+00:00
LLMs are the latest progression in decades of technology and social changes that leave people less connected and less capable in exchange for more comfort. I think it's likely that AI technology eclipses humans at least partially by atrophying our own skills and abilities, particularly 1. our ability to endure discomfort in service of a goal and 2. our capacities to make decisions.

I don't really know what to do about it, even with ground rules of engagement, we all still need to participate in a larger culture where it seems like it's a runaway guarantee that LLMs erode more critical skills that leave us with less and a handful of companies who develop this tech with more.

I'm slowly changing my life around what LLMs tell me, but not necessarily in the ways you'd expect:

1. I have a very simple set of rules of engagement for LLMs. For work, I don't let LLMs write code, and I won't let myself touch an LLM before suffering on a project for an hour at least.

2. I am an experienced meditator with a lot of experience in the Buddhist tradition. I've dusted off my Christian roots, and started exploring these ideas with new eyes, partially from a James Hillman-esq / Rob Burbea Soulmaking Dharma look. I've found a lot of meaning in personal fabrication and myth, and my primary practice now is Centering Prayer.

3. I've been working for a little while on a personal edu-tech idea with the goal of using LLM tech as an auxiliary tech to help people re-develop lost metacognitive skills and not use LLMs as a crutch. I don't know if this will ever see the light of day, it is currently more of a research project than anything, and it has a certain kind of iconoclastic frame like Piotr Wozniak's around what education is and what it should look like.
by port11 | 2025-10-03 18:42:30+00:00
No need for a link, it's about board games and the rules are (paraphrasing):

1. If you can't make it, let the host know the day before or morning of the event.

2. If you're playing at a venue, try to buy food or drinks from the venue. Don't bring lots of stuff from the outside.

3. Be kind and respect other people. Don't damage their games or act mean towards other players.

We're not super strict, but people have been perma-banned for sexually suggestive remarks or being assholes. I think we've had 3 or 4 really bad cases total. Most people get temporarily kicked out for violating rule #1 a lot.
by inanutshellus | 2025-10-03 18:42:31+00:00
It's a game that allies play in order to prepare for enemies.

When played with allies, it connects you to each other and lets you put your guard down (which is perverse to those that don't get it).

The same game played with an enemy teaches you to deflect rather than internalize bad-faith insults and teaches you to use wit and words to stand up for yourself, keeping your dignity without violence.

...

Also it's a demonstration of equality.

e.g. you can't play the game with your boss or your son, but you can play it with your brother and your peers.
by gjm11 | 2025-10-03 18:42:38+00:00
Oh, well, that's OK then. We will be as safe from whatever future AI systems might want to do as we are from all the other things that malicious actors want to do and are 100% successfully prevented from doing by our extremely well-designed, reliably implemented, and consistently applied computer security measures.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I just have to go and cancel my credit card because some randos on the internet found a way to get its details from a company I bought something from once.
by atonse | 2025-10-03 18:42:41+00:00
Especially rude given, if he was feeling it was too long, he could've had an AI summarize it.

But this shows a certain intellectual laziness/dishonesty and immaturity in the response.

Someone's taken the time to write a response to your article, you can choose to learn from it (assuming it's not an angry rant), or you could just ignore it.

In fact, that completely dismisses this stupid article for me.
by sarchertech | 2025-10-03 18:42:43+00:00
The PhD student segregation was blatant even going back a few decades, but it was based on country of origin not race.

You’d have a Chinese professor and all his students were Chinese, an Indian professor and all hers were Indian etc… The American born professors tended to have mostly American born students, but it was a bit more mixed.

It’s hard to know whether this was based on the professor’s preference or the students’.
by theptip | 2025-10-03 18:42:46+00:00
> you don't need that plan because it's just an arbitrary block of pretty fungible work

This is an over-generalization. If you are a team of 5 selling a B2C product, sure.

But for B2B you tend to need to commit to a roadmap eventually, hence planning.

And for bigger orgs with multiple teams, if you want to commit to x-team initiatives then longer timeframes can help with coordination. (Ie- we want to deliver X in Q4, therefore A and B should be done in Oct, so that C can begin in Nov)
by RatchetWerks | 2025-10-03 18:43:15+00:00
I’ve directly worked in this space. This article is pure tabloid-style reporting.

It sounds like they are testing prototypes, and it’s not ready for mass fielding. Nothing new here.

Access/permissions control in military applications is VERY different when compared to the consumer or B2B space.

It takes real field testing to figure what is best for the customer needs.
by okanat | 2025-10-03 18:43:28+00:00
CDU doesn't need to secretly work with AfD. Many of CDU's members and its current administration have similar opinion of non-ethnically-Germanic residents with AfD. Merz has shown that he is willing to work with AfD before the election on those areas.

Being incompetent and shortsighted is enough. Being blinded with the idea that Germans will keep electing them and choosing them for power feeds their incompetence. They want extreme powers now. They don't think the extreme powers they give to the various organizations will be used against democratic society. This is just the repeat of Weimar republic.

Meanwhile they are filling Germans with hate against minorities and benefactors of the social system which legitimizes AfD. They also keep doing nothing (which is their core-competence really). They fix no parts of the broken system. This legitimizes AfD even more.
by Lazaruscv | 2025-10-03 18:43:56+00:00
Thanks a lot for sharing this resource! I wasn’t aware of the Cloud Robotics Working Group, those sessions look super relevant. I’ll definitely check out the recordings and join future meetings. Our angle is very aligned: we’re exploring how AI/automation can help with the time sink of debugging large-scale ROS/ROS 2 systems, especially when logs/bag files pile up. It’d be valuable to hear what the community feels is still missing, even with the current set of tools. Do you think there’s space for a layer focused purely on automated error detection and root cause suggestions?
by SoftTalker | 2025-10-03 18:44:05+00:00
Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense. Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year. They ought to have them, too.

J. Frank Parnell (from the movie Repo Man).
by drdaeman | 2025-10-03 18:45:05+00:00
That's what most people would say - but why do they say this?

As I understand it:

1. Because machine-generated content is not as good. Recent technical improvements are (IMHO) showing obvious and significant improvements over last year SOTA tech, indicating that the field is still very green. As long as machine-generated content is distinguishable, as long as there are quirks in there that we easily notice, of course it'll be less preferable.

2. Our innate "our vs foreign" biases. I suspect that until something happens to our brains, we'll always tend to prefer "human" to "non-human", just like we prefer "our" products (for arbitrary definition of "our" that drastically varies across societies, cultures and individuals) to other products because we love mental binary partitioning.
by mock-possum | 2025-10-03 18:46:24+00:00
Yeah same here. I like people, I like me - what I don’t like is the expectation that I essentially perform improv for others when I don’t want to. The problem is being observed, and expected to perform. It feels bad. Being left alone, with no risk of social interaction, feels really really good. It’s a literal relief from the constant energy expenditure that is acting out socializing.

I’d prefer to avoid being disliked - or at any rate, disliked without good reason - but as you say, that’s mostly because then I’d be wasting even more of my time managing interactions with (or more likely avoiding interactions with) those who dislike me. My god what a waste of energy, how I abhor it.
by knorker | 2025-10-03 18:46:39+00:00
Oh, it's too late to edit my comment, but one more thing:

> You are conflating tha language capability with the hardware capability

No. I'm talking about the C language and the abstract machine that it defines. I'm very much NOT talking about specific hardware, unlike when you bring up MMU and other irrelevant specific hardware capability.

Because specific hardware capability is not part of the language.
by pmdr | 2025-10-03 18:46:44+00:00
Ed's newsletter, on HN, unflagged?! Maybe the bubble really is about to pop.

I've read pretty much all his posts on AI. The economics of it are worrying, to say the least. What's even more worrying is how much the media isn't talking about it. One thing Ed's spot on about: the media loved parroting everything Sam and Dario and Jensen had to say.
by astral_drama | 2025-10-03 18:46:50+00:00
I don’t find it very gendered, my sister and I used to do this often, like young wolf pups, we’d jostle and play for the upper hand.

I have women friends who will play like this with me. It can reveal insights that neither of us were clear on without the other bringing it to light.

Of course it can be one sided too, and it turns into bullying. I think context matters and even if you’re being bullied, it’s still revealing if you are able to see beyond the emotion. You’re not your looks, your body, your mind, your bank account, your friend group, etc… Your worth is beyond these things. I hope you find that someday!
by creer | 2025-10-03 18:47:03+00:00
The pyramid is mostly a question of incorrect perspective or viewpoint.

Of course there are fewer CEOs, managing directors or whatever your current fantasy is. But there are millions of them on the planet - it's not that small of a class.

- Many of which are in their 20s or 30s because they created their own business or joined a tiny team or found an employer with just the right yearning (which would be half their fault but also half yours for looking for it).

- Learning how the world works is a life's work. It's fine if you couldn't hierarchy in your 20s, there is still time to learn.

- "Not with that attitude, you won't". If you are still obsessed with anti-corporate political ideas (as a random example), just perhaps that won't help you. That will seriously constrain how or if you continue learning about how the world really works. If you find a different obsession as things go (like a family, say), there is nothing wrong with that - but don't blame it on the pyramid. "The world" is a complex dynamic system of billions of people, interactions and ideas. It has NOTHING to do with your current preconception.

- As you continue growing up, you might find very different interests: public interest, scientific, engineering prowess, family time again, a completely different career direction, self-employment, technical or management consulting, art or craft - and there is nothing wrong with any of these. Your yearning of "top 1% recognition" that you identified with in school - or wished you identified with in school - will have changed and that's fine.

And this is true for everyone in that specific pyramid that you think is in front of you. If the top - some top - is truly your purpose in life, very few people in that pyramid are truly your competitors in your own race.

But this is hard to internalize. Most schools do not train for this. And school was presenting you with convenient easy(? lol) hurdles which work life does NOT. In life after school, you have to manage your own scoreboard, year in year our, decade in decade out - and this can be wearing. And there again, you can find mentors who WILL help open your eyes - if you bother to (easy right? no still not - but feasible for the people who try.)

And this is triple true if you switched country during or after your studies. You are now in an environment that you didn't even grow up in and you have far more to learn. A very serious disadvantage that will take additional energy to overcome - but will also help open your eye to this idea that you do have a lot to learn about how the world works (while the natives assume they already know.)
by kccqzy | 2025-10-03 18:47:17+00:00
Curation is important. I force myself to do it by making it a manual process to move photos from my phone or camera onto the NAS. My phone and my SD card each has a small capacity so they'd easily be full if I don't curate.

When I'm traveling I try to do this curation the same day of taking the photo. In practice it's a great time at night to go through all photos of the day and discuss any interesting ones with your partner.

Also for this reason I almost never take videos. They are too troublesome to curate. Going through photos is quick. It takes only a second to decide to whether it is worth keeping. And once you decide it is, it takes less than a minute to touch up on the curves and the colors.
by IgorPartola | 2025-10-03 18:48:52+00:00
Apple has physical stores that will provide you timely top notch customer service. While not perfect, their mobile App Store is the best available in terms of curation and quality. Their hardware is not so diverse so is stable for long term use. And they have the mindshare in way that is hard to move off of.

Let’s say Google or Anthropic release a new model that is significantly cheaper and/or smarter that an OpenAI one, nobody would stick to OpenAI. There is nearly zero cost to switching and it is a commodity product.
by LPisGood | 2025-10-03 18:48:52+00:00
> If you're a neurotic obsessive who wants to pretend that all kinds of dastardly forces are trying to spy on you and your data

I’m a bit confused here. Why do you think it’s pretending or neurotic and obsessive to believe organizations spy on our data?

This has been common knowledge for at least 10 years and is central to many large business models.
by muwtyhg | 2025-10-03 18:48:57+00:00
It's an unfortunate situation where they will be ostracized for lack of participation in social media like Snapchat or TikTok. Children ostracizing those who don't fit in has been a thing forever, but has been thrown into overdrive by ubiquitous social media usage by children.

I don't think making a kid work for the phone is the solution here. The problem is intentionally addictive algorithms being given to children, not a lack of work ethic regarding purchasing a phone.
by godelski | 2025-10-03 18:49:09+00:00
The privacy loss is "phone number has registered a signal account"

It does not

- conclude the user has or even has a signal account - who that person is talking to - what that person is talking about - when those texts or messages are sent or received

What can you infer here that becomes a security risk? I guess if signal is outlawed before you have installed or your number was ever associated with an account? But it still have plausible deniability there