MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by versteegen | 2025-10-04 03:25:10+00:00
The free tier is 15 tasks per day (of gemini-2.5-pro) which is EXTREMELY generous. I've had plenty of tasks run for 1-2 hours. I do think that after 1 or 2 hours it's told it needs to wrap up and just present what it's done; I couldn't get it to keep going longer than 2 hours. But Jules is very slow as it seems to be batch processing on spare capacity, so 15+ hours a day is not quite as absurd as it sounds.

I haven't tried Jules in a couple weeks, but the UI/UX had a lot of issues such as not being given any progress updates for very long times. The worst thing was not being able to see what it was doing and correct it: you only see the state of files (without a usable diff viewer, WTF) at the last point that the agent decided to show you anything (the last time it completed a todo list item I think, and I couldn't get it to update the state when asked, though it will send a PR if you ask), and gemini-2.5-pro can often try really stupid things as it tries to debug. I've also been impressed at its debugging abilities a number of times.

Still, I found Jules far more usable than Gemini CLI (free tier), where Gemini just constantly stops for no reason and needs to be told to continue, and I exhausted the usage limit in minutes.

Aside from the unlimited free tier, probably the best part of Jules are its automated code reviews. Once, I was writing up some extensive comments on its code and then unexpectedly a code review was dropped in the conversation which gave exactly the same feedback I was writing. Unfortunately if it never reaches the point of submitting for review, it doesn't get an automated review. It does often ask for feedback before it's done, which is nice. So probably I needed to prompt better.
by kouteiheika | 2025-10-04 03:26:41+00:00
> However, the literature is unclear on how well LoRA performs relative to FullFT.

I think the literature is clear on that?

"LoRA vs Full Fine-tuning: An Illusion of Equivalence" -- https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.21228v1

Quoting from the conclusions:

> The paper describes the finding that LoRA and full fine-tuning, with equal performance on the fine-tuning task, can have solutions with very different generalization behaviors outside the fine-tuning task distribution. We found that LoRA and full fine-tuning yield models with significant differences spectral properties of their weight matrices: LoRA models often containing “intruder dimensions”, high-ranking singular vectors approximately orthogonal to the singular vectors of pre-trained weight matrices. The existence of intruder dimensions correlates with the fine-tuned model forgetting more of the pre-training distribution as well as forgetting more when trained on tasks sequentially in a continual learning setup.

I'm surprised they didn't cite this; it's a well known paper.
by bartread | 2025-10-04 03:27:37+00:00
Thanks.

It sounds like the issue has already been fixed in Electron, although it will obviously take a while for all app vendors to bump versions.

I'm guessing Zoom might be hitting the same overridden system call that Electron was, although I have no firm information that this is the case.

Regardless, I've just checked my settings to ensure this upgrade won't be installed automatically because I wasn't sure how MacOS behaves with major upgrades, and will probably wait 2 - 3 months before letting Tahoe onto my system to allow everyone else time to get their fixes and upgrades done.
by hn773746483 | 2025-10-04 03:29:39+00:00
If a message like "I'm 12", regardless of context is reported, Discord will ban the account & hold it hostage until user sends selfie + ID to them via support. (the compromised portal, not a third party app dedicated to this)

They intentionally chose NOT to disclose a date range or even how many ID tickets compared to standard tickets were leaked.
by noduerme | 2025-10-04 03:29:43+00:00
When you say "buying a used car"... do you mean from a dealership, or from a private party? In America, I almost can't imagine buying a used car from an individual without paying them in cash. Indeed, it's one of the few situations where a large amount of cash is almost always required. It's a pain to go to the bank and get that cash. However, this is not because of tax evasion or something ... it's to avoid any sort of dispute or reversal once the sale is final. I would take Bitcoin for a car, or a check I could cash before signing over the vehicle, but I'd never take paypal or some other method where the buyer could contest the charges.
by hn773746483 | 2025-10-04 03:30:25+00:00
Comment I wrote on the other thread (which didn't get any traction at all):

some key facts Discord are maliciously intentionally withholding:

(approx.) amount of affected users, seeing hundreds of comments on reddit + twitter

tickets timespan, I personally have multiple support accounts, one has only one ticket from July which got the email

affected ticket categories

whether phone numbers were leaked (can lead to further attacks such as SIM swapping)

whether addresses were leaked (they carefully use language "limited billing information" rather than stating the exact pieces)
by jlaternman | 2025-10-04 03:30:48+00:00
This is frankly morbid, but there was a good younger writer, Kaleb Horton, who I feel channeled the spirit of HST effectively, without the sense of direct mimicry. He died a few days ago, at a far-too-young age, but his work was excellent:

https://kalebhorton.ghost.io/death-is-just-a-change/

https://archive.is/RrjPI#selection-323.18-323.43

There will be plenty of others who carry the same torch, I'm sure – HST was one of a kind, though. Always the way with great writers.
by 827a | 2025-10-04 03:31:40+00:00
Sure, if the biases are actually irrational, but in this case the biases are things like "idk maybe we should follow the scientific method", while Loeb pushes "here's an idea that is unfalsifiable and untestable, but look its peer reviewed and its on a harvard domain name so you have to pay attention to me".

Loeb is, to be very clear: unintelligent and unscientific. He has no desire to actually test the theories he publishes, and because of that, most of the theories are literally untestable. He just wants to shit-publish wild ideas, which is totally fine, if we were talking about a blog or something of that similar caliber. But that would not attract the $$$ views he demands to afford his lifestyle.
by john01dav | 2025-10-04 03:33:47+00:00
While I agree that what you call "statistical murder" needs to be handled differently, I see problems with doing so that need to be solved. Namely, what counts?

Your example of statistical murder is prioritization can be abstracted as profit over life. A first thought might be to condemn any prioritization of anything over life, but this leads to likely unwanted consequences: it is illegal to drive, ever; it is illegal to feed someone food that is not of the optimal health for their particular situation, ever; it is illegal to sell a product, even used, that California has determined a carcinogen. All of these are related to leading causes of death: traffic accidents, low quality food causing obesity and its myriad of consequences, and cancer. We could use improvement in all of these cases, but such absolute bans go too far.

So, how do we determine when it is legitimate to prioritize something over life, or when it's statistical murder?
by grafmax | 2025-10-04 03:33:54+00:00
Facebook and many of these other VC companies have worked by building a moat through network effects by burning money to build something free and awesome. Then once you HAVE the network effect then it becomes hard to leave. Your history is on there, people know you through it, your friends and family are there; are you really going to leave? That’s when Facebook starts turning the screws. Ads. Manipulative algorithms. Polarizating recommendation algorithms. Social isolation. Making deals with dictatorships. Censorship of the worst crimes humanity can commit against itself (genocide).

Why? They are making money through all of it. It’s called rent extraction. You OWN something valuable. You no longer have to produce something of value. You can just charge people money for what you own. Rent. It’s various forms of rent. Sucking out money and souls into it. One of countless ways we’re leeched on by these companies and their billionaire owners.

Do the benefits outweigh the harms? Facebook and the VC playbook is boiling a frog and we are the frog.
by noduerme | 2025-10-04 03:34:00+00:00
Here in the Pacific Northwest, businesses give discounts for cash just because it saves them money. In Portland, we still have a fair number of bars that are cash only. And yeah, liberals here also consider it an invasion of privacy to have to use a card, but they couch it in terms of it being unfair to people without credit or bank accounts (which, tbh, is also a fair argument).
by giardini | 2025-10-04 03:35:50+00:00
We've been producing far more PhD graduates than we need for decades. Each year a relative few get jobs (e.g., university professor) appropriate to the training, while the rest are unceremoniously dumped by the railroad track to fend for themselves. Same for MS, BS, BA et al. Overall we have far more highly-trained people than we need for most all degree programs.

It's not like the USA needs a butt-load of "math PhD's".
by mhb | 2025-10-04 03:36:26+00:00
UN human rights experts have said they are appalled by a "dramatic escalation" in the number of executions in Iran, with more than 1,000 people killed during the first nine months of 2025.

"The sheer scale of executions in Iran is staggering and represents a grave violation of the right to life," the five special rapporteurs warned in a joint statement.

They noted that half of the known executions were for drug-related offences and that nine hangings per day on average had been documented in recent weeks.
by disambiguation | 2025-10-04 03:36:52+00:00
Your point is valid, but i disagree with the framing.

The issue is the blind trust that the internet is built on top of.

It's was that initial good faith that made the internet a special thing - you could come online and discover all the weird interesting things people were up to, have conversations with real people that weren't possible in the real world.

At this point most platforms have figured out how to exploit and profit off the blind trust - but AI is threatening to annihilate it completely.

I'm not worried about the generic content, the worthwhile stuff is what's at risk.
by WD-42 | 2025-10-04 03:37:02+00:00
Some of these worries make sense, but wouldn’t it be relatively trivial to pass a flag to the interpreter or something similar in order to force all imports to evaluate, as in the current behavior? But to be a bit cheeky if some of these issues cause serious production outages for you it might be time to consider moving on from a scripting language altogether.
by davidmnoll | 2025-10-04 03:38:00+00:00
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by woooooo | 2025-10-04 03:38:18+00:00
Don't know why you're getting downvoted for a thoughtful comment.

I think you're overindexing on a prepared sneak attack with maximum ops velocity from Israel. They threw the best punch they had and it.. disrupted Iran. Didn't knock them out.

Longer term, Israel has 260 fighter-bombers and Iran is huge. Allied analysts after WW2 generally concluded that strategic bombing didn't really move the needle on German war production, and that was with 10s of thousands of bombers, although admittedly a lot less precision. Any long, flat building in Iran's gigantic, mountainous country could be building missiles. And new launcher locations won't be plotted out ahead of time for a high-tempo 72 hour operation, they'll be coming up continuously over the long haul. They don't need to be hypersonic once interceptors are exhausted.

How's Israel going to sustain that long term, especially if they take any amount of ongoing civilian losses at all? It stops being an abstract conversation about collateral damage to civilians pretty quickly once it's happening to them. 10/1 ratio is nowhere near good enough for the polity there.
by wahern | 2025-10-04 03:40:06+00:00
Yep. Signals were literally the original async model on Unix. They were a userspace abstraction over hardware interrupts, much as they are today, but the abstraction didn't turn out to be as fruitful as it might have been, perhaps because it was too thin. (Signaling queueing, i.e. real-time signals, meant to make signals more useful for application events, never went mainstream.) Back in the 1970s and 1980s the big arguments regarding async were about interrupt-driven (aka signals) and readiness-driven (aka polling), and relatedly edge-triggered vs level-triggered events. BSD added the select syscall along with the sockets API and that's when the readiness-driven, level-triggered model began to dominate. Though, before kqueue and then epoll came along there were some attempts at scaling async I/O using the interrupt-driven model--a signal delivered along with the associated descriptor. I think there's a vestige of this still in Linux, SIGIO.

It's not always either/or, though. From the perspective of userspace APIs it's usually one or the other, but further down the stack one model might be implemented in terms of the other, sometimes with multiple transitions between the two, especially around software/hardware boundaries. Basically, it's turtles all the way down.

Similarly, the debates regarding cancellation, stack management, etc, still persist; the fundamental dilemmas haven't changed.
by antonvs | 2025-10-04 03:40:19+00:00
His Galileo Project is explicitly looking for “extraterrestrial technological signatures”, and he’s just using any opportunity for hype about that.

He got attention for writing about this for Oumuamua, and now he’s just rinsing and repeating for 3I/Atlas. It’s exactly like any youtuber chasing the most effective clickbait.

It’s like when Altman talks about AIs building a Dyson sphere. Everyone with any understanding of the issues knows it’s self-serving hype.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-10-04 03:40:40+00:00
>> Of course I found out that he was going into our billing software and adding hours to me. I had to talk to a lawyer and he recommended I report it to the gao.

> All you had to do was report it to the liaison and keep punching the clock. Unless you were getting paid more because of the overages the enforcers dgaf about you.

That is not how fraudulent billing in a federal contract ends.

The DOJ prosecutors hammer the person documented as having submitted fraudulent billing and then go after everyone else involved. There is an outside chance in this case the innocent person originally identified does not get indicted and/or convicted of defrauding the government. But there is no doubt this process will cost the innocent person many thousands of dollars in legal fees just to stay out of prison.

The advice of "report it to the GAO" and then GTFO[0] is the way to go.

EDIT:

If a person continues to "keep punching the clock" knowing someone else is actively defrauding the government by "going into our billing software and adding hours to me", there is a nontrivial risk of being charged for conspiracy to defraud the US[1].

0 - https://www.dictionary.com/e/acronyms/gtfo/

1 - https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual...
by dolmen | 2025-10-04 03:41:00+00:00
This is underestimating that running the code is part of the development process.

With fast compile time, running the test suite (which implies to recompile it) is fast too.

Also if the language itself is optimized towards making easy to write a fast compiler, this also makes your IDE fast.

And just if you're wondering, yes, Go is my dope.
by fragmede | 2025-10-04 03:41:58+00:00
I mean, the OSC isn't some bunch of randoms who call themselves "official" for funsies. Violations of the Hatch Act fall under their jurisdiction. They're the ones that investigate violations. They put out a statement that says political messages (of a certain kind) are totally fine.

This means, to me, that claiming "The official interpretation of the Hatch act was changed" isn't at all a stretch. The officials, the ones in charge of interpreting it, put out a statement saying they've changed how they're interpreting it. How is that deceptive? What words would you use instead?
by nmfisher | 2025-10-04 03:43:55+00:00
Feels very much like a knee-jerk response to Facebook releasing their "Vibes" app the week before. It's basically the same thing, OpenAI are probably willing to light a pile of money on fire to take the wind out of their sails.

I also don't think the "Sam Altman" videos were authentic/organic at all, smells much more like a coordinated astroturfing campaign.
by majormajor | 2025-10-04 03:44:03+00:00
What does it mean in practice to have energy instead of money as currency?

People would still want to be able to trade with lower friction than lugging batteries around, so don't you just re-invent money on top of it? orrrrrr just keep having the current money around the whole time?

--

The general limiting factor with the "one person controls the replicators, only they have income" idea is that they would rapidly lose that income because nobody else would have anything to trade them anymore. (If you toss in the AI/robotic dream scenario, they don't even need humans to manage the raw material.) But then does that turn into famine and mass-die-off, or Star Trek utopia?
by renhanxue | 2025-10-04 03:44:13+00:00
We usually use an app for that (Swish, it's kind of like Venmo I guess, developed in collaboration between the six largest banks). We don't really do transaction reversals in the same way or as commonly as in the US.

Paying for a used car in cash would actually be difficult because handling an amount greater than the equivalent of around USD $1k immediately starts tripping KYC/AML flags at any bank if you try to deposit it, and it's hard to use in day to day life because few places other than grocery stores even accept cash anymore.
by muzani | 2025-10-04 03:45:59+00:00
SOAP had a lot of security holes.

A lot of the top vulnerabilities are from SOAP: https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/

This is one that affects SOAP:https://owasp.org/www-community/vulnerabilities/XML_External...

XML Injection is tied to that and with the decline of SOAP, it was no longer a top vulnerability.

There's another more comprehensive list here: https://brightsec.com/blog/top-7-soap-api-vulnerabilities/#t...
by jdoss | 2025-10-04 03:46:20+00:00
I use defined.net (managed Nebula) for my homelab and side project overlay networks, and it works great. They have a very generous free tier and I automate enrollment with a set of systemd units that I wrote. Configuration is very easy and the Nebula android app does what I need so I can access everything over my phone. A few friends use wg-easy to manage their wireguard setups, and they sing its praise.

I still use wireguard for simple point to point tunnels into my datacenter rack but anything important I use Nebula.

https://github.com/quickvm/defined-systemd-units
by toplinesoftsys | 2025-10-04 03:46:27+00:00
For us, the goal is getting early feedback and potentially get into discussions to see where the idea stands. Benefits for others depend on their specific areas of interest. For example, people who work in areas of visual programming, low-code and AI code generation will be interested to know what new ideas impacting their domain come to light.

There is nothing preventing release of an idea before finalizing implementation. We are not the first going this route and I am sure there will be more after us. Like everything else, it has its cons and pros.
by angerson | 2025-10-04 03:46:32+00:00
This is a nice write-up. I recently added post-to-bluesky support to my ongoing social-media-scheduler project [1], thinking it would be the simplest of the services to work on, but I ended up getting really confused instead.

DID and handle resolution was the easiest part of ATProto---as the author says, a library can do the job easily. For Ruby it's DIDKit [2]. Where ATProto really threw me was the seeming non-ownership of record types. Bluesky uses "app.bsky.feed.post" for its records, as seen in the article; there seem to be a lot of these record types, but there doesn't seem to be a central index of these like there are for DIDs, or a standard way of documenting them... and as far as I've been able to find, there's no standard method of turning an at:// URI into an http:// URL.

When my app makes a post on behalf of a user, Bluesky only sends an at:// URI back, which I have to convert myself into an http:// URL to Bluesky. I can only do that with string manipulation, and only because I know, externally, what format the URL should be in. There's no canonical resolution.

[1]: https://toucanpost.com [2]: https://github.com/mackuba/didkit
by fragmede | 2025-10-04 03:46:37+00:00
It's not that I claiming they're training on SVG pelicans on bicycles from your blog, it's that thanks to your popularity, there are simply now more pictures of pelicans on bicycles floating around on the Internet and thus ChatGPT's training data. Eg https://www.reddit.com/r/ColoredPencils/comments/1l9l4fq/pel...

How would you determine that improvements to SVG pelicans on bicycles (and not your secret X on Ys) are from an OpenAI employee cheating your benchmark vs being an improvement on pelicans on bicycles thanks to that picture from Reddit and everywhere elsewhere in the training data?
by majormajor | 2025-10-04 03:47:20+00:00
Does the answer to "is the average person better off" have a lot to do with "how many TV shows are out there"...

or does it have to do with:

- how often their boss bugs them after hours

- how much their boss uses technology to keep an eye on them, their friends, their political views

- how often random strangers might get mad at them and SWAT them, make false claims to their employers, etc

- how often their neighbors are radicalized into shooting up a school

- how hard they find it to talk to a real person to resolve an issue with a company or government service vs being stuck on hold because of downsizing real support staff relative to population size, or with an ai chatbot?

etc?
by TheNewsIsHere | 2025-10-04 03:47:32+00:00
Someone I knew had a family member who donated their body to a university laboratory, although not for that particular use. The way they talked about it was clearly as a matter well considered in advance within the family and by the one who died.

During their research and in doing the paperwork, the decedent or their next of kin were asked for affirmative consent to all sorts of awful sounding things. The wording is as delicate as they can make it given the need to be very clear about the kinds of research you’re consenting to. I was told they had been in touch with a for-profit organization that was quite distasteful.