MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pembrook | 2025-10-08 19:34:59+00:00
I'm sorry you don't understand the anti-democratic goals of many of the parties in your own country.

If you are re-branding a belief in authoritarian seizing of all private capital as "Minor democratic arguments on details of the economic system" then it's obvious you either don't know the constituents of the political coalitions in most major European countries, or are not arguing in good faith.

Just like the actual extreme right, the entire goal of any left extremist (eg. your communists, eco-terrorists, anti-tech doomers, etc.) is to dismantle democratic freedoms and enforce their unpopular agenda via absolute authority.

The bolsheviks never ran on the idea they would brutally murder middle class families and seize their assets. This was just an inevitable step necessary to achieve their 'utopia.'
by cycomanic | 2025-10-08 19:35:46+00:00
> Doctorow should be tried in absentia by professors of English composition, on the charges of poisoning the discourse with his stupid word, and of making posters incorrectly believe they have scored a profound point by including it in their sentences. > > Anyway let's dismantle these rickety arguments. 1) That RealPage says they can break the law because they are an app. This has no factual basis. You can read RealPage's argument[1] and draw your own conclusion. RealPage argues that they do not engage in price fixing, they distribute marketplace data which is protected by the First Amendment. No aspect of this argument has anything to do with means or venue. Indeed, the debate is exactly the opposite of what Doctorow suggests. RealPage's opponents are saying that RealPage must be regulated because they are a software platform, even though their activities would obviously be protected by the First Amendment in any other context. Doctorow fails to address the First Amendment implications. >

But Doctorows argument is that a non-app service that says, "hey we bring all landlords together in a room to discuss how we can get the best rents on our properties" would run clearly a foul of antitrust laws (and no the activity is not protected by free speech). RealPage argument is a distraction, they try to muddy the waters and they do it exactly how Doctorow is saying, by creating confusion around what their software service actually is.

> 2) That competitive markets have brought us things like antilock brakes. This lacks even the slightest resemblance to reality. The only reason we have widespread functioning ABS is because the whole industry is totally dominated by a few players, and always has been, even if the cartel membership has changed over the decades. The existence of the cartel and its co-evolution with automotive regulators is the enabling reason why the technology works. Doctorow throws out this example but does not grapple with the implications. He believes you won't think about it. >

Citation needed
by eitally | 2025-10-08 19:35:53+00:00
It's nice to see this. Too bad they lost me as a customer. I was in the market for a NAS for my photography business and was primarily considering one of Synology's 4 bay products, but saw they'd just made this change so I went elsewhere. I've made my purchase and it wasn't Synology... and I won't need another NAS for years to come. Oh well.
by lazide | 2025-10-08 19:36:16+00:00
I don’t mind Islam at all actually.

I’m pointing out that a discussion about ‘high ground’ that ignores that it’s a subjective discussion where there are numerous other factions with wildly conflicting views of it is not a useful discussion.

And that the Islamic vs Western world split is a classic example where people seem to insist on projecting their western (often Christian derived if not strictly so) views onto a rather diametrically opposed set of values and then acting surprised when ‘the other side’ goes ‘WTF, no’ or even acts in ways that they consider abhorrent - but are not surprising if you actually know what is going on.

That people even consider this a religious flamewar (apparently) is quite hilarious because if you actually read the Koran and Hadiths, or have spent much time around many Muslim societies these aren’t even (generally) contentious things I’m talking about!

For example - you just don’t draw a picture of Mohammed. Especially not if it’s making fun of him, but even if it’s flattering, just don’t.

If you’re in a culture that has major Muslim influences, this is very very obvious. It’s not a flamewar topic, but it doesn’t come up much - for the same reason most people don’t talk about slapping strangers in the face either.

It’s still a thing. As are the calls to prayer. And not gooning on random Muslim women. And a hundred other things.
by ffsm8 | 2025-10-08 19:36:17+00:00
The memory feature I'd like to have would need built-in support from anthropic

It'd be essentially

1. Language server support for lookups & keeping track of the code

2. Being able to "pin" memories to functions, classes, properties etc via the language server support/providing this context whenever changes are made in this function/class/properties etc, but not kept, so all following changes outside of that will no longer include this context (basically, changes that touch code with which memories will be done by agents with additional context, and only the results are synced back, not the way to achieve it)

3. Provide a ide integration for this context so you can easily keep track of what's available just by moving the cursor to the point the memory is pinned at

Sadly impossible to achieve via MCP.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-10-08 19:36:18+00:00
All the media except NBS is a "right wing grooming station"? Seriously? CNN? AP News? Reuters? Huffpo? They're all grooming people for the right wing?

I mean, I agree that the right wing is pumping out propaganda and trying to move the overton window, but I think you are seriously mistaken about where the media is at.
by bitwize | 2025-10-08 19:36:44+00:00
Not really. One of the advantages of vector displays is the fact that the drawn lines are razor sharp with zero aliasing. Another is the fact that the hardware has very fine control over the brightness, allowing for very bright or very dim lines to be drawn. The bright ones are brighter than could be replicated with raster CRT displays, and combined with slow-decay phosphors made for some beautiful "trail" effects. A pixelated display of any sort can only yield a rough approximation at best.
by VBprogrammer | 2025-10-08 19:37:40+00:00
I really hope you are right here, and to be honest it does reflect my limited experience with where I've used AI so far.

But I'm also not ready to bet the farm on it. Seriously considering taking our savings and equity out of our house in a London adjacent area, and moving to a lower cost of living area, so that we're practically debt free. At that point we can survive on a full time minimum wage job, anything more than that is a bonus.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-10-08 19:37:54+00:00
It can be interesting to look at all the servers these apps try to reach after being installed

Unless one is using something like GrapheneOS, Android/iOS "app permissions" do not meaningfully impede data collection

As long as apps can connect to the internet, data can be collected. By design Android/iOS does not enable users to deny internet access to specific apps. That design is not a coincidence
Ask HN: The most useful LLM agents aren't allowed?
by thimkerbell | 2025-10-08 19:38:47+00:00
I hope I am wrong on this: where LLM agents seem like they'd be really useful right now would be doing better search filtering and then initial contact/negotiation Q&As on platforms that match e.g. buyer and seller, like Craigslist. But CL for one has (had?) terms of service that prohibit building stuff that scrapes it, and doesn't seem to have improved its search interface for decades. So how do you legally & respectfully get agents to do the work that you need them to do?
by pixl97 | 2025-10-08 19:38:50+00:00
The particular problem here is there's no feedback as to why you boycott them.

You see, the following headline has more effect on CEO's and decision makers

"McD's sales drop 10% after customers refuse the app and other forms of spying" --Forbes

If it's a silent boycott then you see stupid headlines like

"Are millennials killing McD?"

Remember the entire purpose isn't so that one company doesn't track you with an app, is so every company figures out tracking you with an app is a bad idea.
by oli5679 | 2025-10-08 19:40:33+00:00
One interesting anecdote about this bill was that the European Commission allegedly funded digital advertisements promoting it, targeting specific political demographics, which is something that could possibly be prohibited by their own regulations.

https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-files-complaint-against-eu-commissio...

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/summary/transpare...
by bravetraveler | 2025-10-08 19:40:42+00:00
> Men with means and receding hairlines 100% get hair transplants, even middle class baldies do so

Not that I'm looking to make the case, but I believe they agreed. They were saying ridicule is included for free, perhaps crediting it with too much impact on choice.

I'd say similar care for the ladies has another standard, because, well, there is. It's practically expected. Real mystery. Practical example: a bald man worries about the shape of his head and some jokes. Conversely, a bald woman worries about her life/exclusion.

Anyway, I've rocked 'The Costanza' since I was a wee child. Can't be bothered to go any further [with the trimmer or plane to Türkiye] :)
by munk-a | 2025-10-08 19:40:45+00:00
Ideally you're correct - but it does have the very large side effect of making real estate fraud much more lucrative. This isn't to say that the potential of people breaking a law means we shouldn't have the law at all - but higher property taxes necessitate a much large spend into property value auditors and require a lot more stringency around property improvement permitting to ensure that increases in property value are captured and recorded accurately.
by layer8 | 2025-10-08 19:41:25+00:00
As an aside, “suspicionless” is a bad translation of what would correctly translate to “without cause”.

I agree that there shouldn’t be a backdoor by default. But, for example, planting a modified app update with backdoor on the device of a suspected high-risk felon, based on a court warrant, is something that can be more reasonably debated.
by lukan | 2025-10-08 19:42:26+00:00
"What do you mean it depends? What does it depend on?"

The terrain, your avaiable forces and equipment, the morale of your soldiers, the main goal of the operation, the short, mid and long term plans. Outside reactions.

Strength of enemy. Outside reactions, will the enemy get more support if X happens or less, will it matter if key target is achieved before time Y, ...

There is no magic bullet for something as complex as urban warfare.

If you want to level all, just use a nuke. But there seems to be reasons, why that is not a valid option. If you go with lots of ground troops, you will have casualties. Here the question how much is acceptable to your own population.

If you go fast, you achieve a different effect then going slow. Etc. Etc etc.
by luizfelberti | 2025-10-08 19:42:30+00:00
Ah yes, pretending we can access infinite amounts of memory instantaneously or in a finite/bounded amount of time is the achilles heel of the Von Neumann abstract computer model, and is the point where it completely diverges from physical reality.

Acknowledging that memory access is not instantaneous immediately throws you into the realm of distributed systems though and something much closer to an actor model of computation. It's a pretty meaningful theoretical gap, more so than people realize.
by aerhardt | 2025-10-08 19:42:43+00:00
Very cool to see Ortega on the frontpage. He was a fine thinker - phenomenally erudite and connected to his contemporary philosophers, but also eminently readable. He is not technical, rarely uses neologisms, and writes in an easy to digest "stream of thought" style which resembles a lecture (I believe he repackaged his writings into lectures, and vice versa).

I can recommend two of his works:

- The Revolt of Masses (mentioned in the article), where he analyzes the problems of industrial mass societies, the loss of self and the ensuing threats to liberal democracies. He posits the concept of the "mass individual" (hombre masa) a man who is born into the industrial society, but takes for granted the progress - technical and political - that he enjoys, does not enquire about the origins of said progress or his relationship to it, and therefore becomes malleable to illiberal rhetoric. It was written in ~1930 and in many ways the book foresees the forces that would lead to WWII. The book was an international success in its day but it remains eerily current.

- His Meditations on Technics expose a rather simple, albeit accurate philosophy of technology. He talks about the history of technology development, from the accidental (eg, fire), to the artisanal, to the age of machines (where the technologist is effectively building technology that builds technology). He also explains the dual-stage cycle in which humans switch between self-absorption (ensimismamiento) and think about their discomforts, and alteration, in which they decide to transform the world as best as they can. The ideas may not be life-changing but it's one of these books that neatly models and settles things you already intuited. Some of Ortega's reflections often come to mind when I'm looking for meaning in my projects. It might be of interest for other HNers!
by Remnant44 | 2025-10-08 19:43:58+00:00
I'm just happy that finally, with the popularity of zen4 and 5 chips, AVX512 is around ~20% of the running hardware in the steam hardware survey. It's going to be a long while before it gets to a majority - Intel still isn't shipping its own instruction set in consumer CPUs - but its going the right direction.

Compared to the weird, lumpy lego set of avx1/2, avx512 is quite enjoyable to write with, and still has some fun instructions that deliver more than just twice the width.

Personal example: The double width byte shuffles (_mm512_permutex2var_epi8) that takes 128 bytes as input in two registers. I had a critical inner loop that uses a 256 byte lookup table; running an upper/lower double-shuffle and blending them essentially pops out 64 answers a cycle from the lookup table on zen5 (which has two shuffle units), which is pretty incredible, and on its own produced a global 4x speedup for the kernel as a whole.
by caminante | 2025-10-08 19:44:12+00:00
Going up-thread, here's the original claim under contention:

>> will be to not be overseen by the SEC in some important capacity.

Your articles don't dispute this.

As for whether oversight will be "weaker" and more de-regulated, maybe.

1. There's a headcount reduction. At worst, there's a quote that some really experienced watchdogs are out the door. Hard to tell until we get outcomes.

2. As for withdrawal of proposals, look closer.

> Although most observers doubted that the current Commission would adopt these proposals

Which makes it sound like the proposals were just withdrawn for later submittal and new discussion. Footnote #1 goes into how this isn't really unprecedented, citing similar withdrawals (or resets) under the Biden admin.
by yesfitz | 2025-10-08 19:44:23+00:00
Ah, thank you.

My sentence about "gropules" was a dig at "empaths". You may not have run into them, but they're tarot and crystal adjacent. It's a teeny tiny minority of people who talk about "empathy", but they do use it vapidly, and could lead to people with an underdeveloped sense of empathy to dismiss the whole concept as something akin to new-age nonsense. I've met enough to last me a while though.

However, you're right about my argument, and our disagreement lies in the affected population.

"17% of children aged 3–17 years were diagnosed with a developmental disability, as reported by parents, during a study period of 2009–2017. These included ASD, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), blindness, and cerebral palsy, among others."[1]

Now, that's children, and with the correct support, people with those disabilities can be taught empathy along with other social skills.

But what about those without support, those who should have been diagnosed and supported but weren't, and those who didn't meet the criteria to be diagnosed with an official disability/disorder but still struggle?

I may be an outlier, but I would estimate that about 1 in 5 people that I meet have some trouble with empathy (i.e. semi-frequently misunderstanding the feelings and/or motivations of others).

Ultimately, I agree, ignorance is no excuse for bad behavior, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't act empathetically to those who have trouble doing so. If anything, the author's piece is a fantastic path to developing a sense of empathy for the <1-20% of adults affected by a lack of it.

1: https://www.cdc.gov/autism/data-research/index.html
by ta12653421 | 2025-10-08 19:45:12+00:00
Not true, because then in theory you could build just L1 - L2 - L3 Cache with 64GB RAM instead of 1 - 2 MB: For SRAM in L1/L2/L3 for example you need to manufacture 6 transistors for 1 bit, while for DRAM you need 1 transistor and 1 capacitor. Thus, would men your chips at that high speed would become very big, and the speed of information through the wires would make a difference: On semiconductor level its a difference if you need to travel 1inch or 10inch billion times per second, creating an "efficient border" of how big your SRAM could max be in dependence of chip-size (and other factors like thermal effects)

Source: "What every Programmer should know about memory" https://people.freebsd.org/~lstewart/articles/cpumemory.pdf
by array_key_first | 2025-10-08 19:45:38+00:00
I disagree, federation is still useful, it's just not as a competitor to bluesky. It exists as a subset of bluesky, and you can have your own little subset.

It's like stack overflow for teams. Isn't that useless? Why not post on stack overflow? Because this is your stack overflow, for your organization. Stack overflow for teams isn't a competitor or alternative to stack overflow, it's a different use case.
by hinkley | 2025-10-08 19:45:39+00:00
Ultimately I think we will go to full NUMA like Sun and others tried. Instead of having L4 and then L5 caches, each core simply has 4GB of local working memory and you use programming languages that are ready for this. Erlang would be easy, and I think Rust has the semantics to make it work but it might take years of compiler advancement to make it efficient.

All shared state is communicated through shared memory pool that is either accessed directly through segregated address ranges or via DMA.
by TimTheTinker | 2025-10-08 19:45:43+00:00
You should try Oh Yah! if: - Your child struggles with daily routines and needs constant reminders - Mornings and after-school time are stressful battles - You've tried reward charts and systems that didn't stick - Your child needs clear structure but gets overwhelmed easily - You want to build independence without constant nagging - You need a solution that works for the whole family

This sounds like a household with a lot of ADHD. :)
by gnyman | 2025-10-08 19:45:52+00:00
Even if none of these extensions were malicious, they might have some vulnerability that would allow and attacker to get your cookie? Or the developers of those might have unknowingly been phished like what happened last December.

Sorry for just offering speculation, hopefully you figure it out. Even if it was "only" a Reddit account, the feeling of not knowing how it happened and if other things are at risk must be horrible.

https://crxplorer.com/ might help you to inspect your extensions a bit deeper if you are interested and have the knowledge.

And finally, just a comment, passkeys/webauthn/fido keys would not protect against a session cookie theft. They only prevent the login stage from being phished.
by jasonthorsness | 2025-10-08 19:46:13+00:00
Compared to GPU programming the gains from SIMD are limited but it's a small-multiple boost and available pretty much everywhere. C# makes it easy to use through Vector classes. WASM SIMD still has a way to go but even with the current 128-bit you can see dramatic improvements in some buffer-processing cases (I did a little comparison demo here showing a 20x improvement in bitwise complement of a large buffer: https://www.jasonthorsness.com/2)
by fencepost | 2025-10-08 19:46:36+00:00
That stuff is also made in Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Phillipenes, Korea, India, etc etc etc.

If things get to that level of 'touchy' what makes you think shipping through that area wouldn't be interfered with? South Korea, Japan and arguably the Philippines are the main countries that wouldn't be going through areas that China regularly tries to claim or at least exercise authority over.
by hinkley | 2025-10-08 19:47:52+00:00
You’re cheating and I don’t think you realize it.

Why didn’t computers have 128 terabytes of memory ten years ago? Because the access time would have been shit. You’re watching generation after generation of memory architectures compromise between access time and max capacity and drawing the wrong conclusions. If memory size were free we wouldn’t have to wait five years to get twice as much of it.
by lmf4lol | 2025-10-08 19:48:16+00:00
this is your reading my friend. in your whole quote, there is no mentioning of the word “fascist”.

also nothing about “violent takeover”. if you take those statements to mean that, then what is Antifa doing? Or XR? Or the pro-pallies?

ah right. only radical left is allowed to use “violence”, right?
by nadis | 2025-10-08 19:48:22+00:00
> "The template uses CommonPaper's Software Licensing Agreement and AI Addendum as a foundation, adapted for the unique characteristics of AI agents. Nick and the GitLaw team built this based on patterns from reviewing hundreds of agent contracts. We contributed our research from working with dozens of agent companies on monetization challenges."

Unless I'm misunderstanding and GitLaw and CommonPaper are related or collaborating, I feel like this callout deserves to be mentioned earlier on and the changes / distinctions ought to be called out more explicitly. Otherwise, why not just use CommonPaper's version?
by cubefox | 2025-10-08 19:48:27+00:00
> There must not be a way to backdoor user devices, under any circumstances.

One can make an argument that if there is strong evidence that someone is planning to commit an unusually serious crime, e.g. a terrorist attack, then secretly installing surveillance software on their device is warranted.

I would also add that this surveillance operation can't be used to collect any other data which is unrelated to the suspected serious crime (like terrorism), and if such data is collected by accident, that it can't be used as evidence in court. (I'm very sure that this is currently perfectly legal in the US, which sounds pretty bad.)
by CraigJPerry | 2025-10-08 19:48:45+00:00
>> completely unsustainable

in what way? as a sovereign currency issuer, the US can't ever be made to default or can it?

What definition of unsustainable fits?

What event could cause public debt growth to reach some kind of insurmountable maximum?

It's not like private debt, when you run out of money, that is the end of the road. There is no such limit for a sovereign currency issuer. The complete settlement of outstanding public debt could be executed tomorrow without collecting another penny in taxes. I wouldn't recommend it, but it could be done.
by mhitza | 2025-10-08 19:49:40+00:00
You can draft up your own json schema and apply it as a validation check when PRs are created. Or just use a proper programming language for the yaml checks.

You can pair that up with a template repository for the org and everyone can start new projects from that template (which contains the workflow to check future workflow files).

If you want assistance with organisation-wide code policies, I can help and my email is in my profile.