MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by noirscape | 2025-10-28 19:21:24+00:00
Main reason is that it's hard to get certificates for intranets that all devices will properly trust.

Public CAs don't issue (free) certificates for internal hostnames and running your own CA has the drawback that Android doesn't allow you to "properly" use a personal CA without root, splitting it's CA list between the automatically trusted system CA list and the per-application opt-in user CA list. (It ought to be noted that Apple's personal CA installation method uses MDM, which is treated like a system CA list). There's also random/weird one-offs like how Firefox doesn't respect the system certificate store, so you need to import your CA certificate separately in Firefox.

The only real option without running into all those problems is to get a regular (sub)domain name and issue certificates for that, but that usually isn't free or easy. Not to mention that if you do the SSL flow "properly", you need to issue one certificate for each device, which leaks your entire intranet to the certificate transparency log (this is the problem with Tailscale's MagicDNS as a solution). Alternatively you need to issue a wildcard certificate for your domains, but that means that every device in your intranet can have a valid SSL certificate for any other domain name on your certificate.
by ndriscoll | 2025-10-28 19:21:24+00:00
Right on your second link:

> it is not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to make or authorize the making of another copy or adaptation of that computer program provided:

> (1) that such a new copy or adaptation is created as an essential step in the utilization of the computer program in conjunction with a machine and that it is used in no other manner

i.e. the owner of a copy of a computer program has the right to make more copies if necessary to use it (e.g. copy-to-RAM, copy to CPU cache) as long as they don't use those additional copies for any other purpose. That same section also gives you the right to make backups as long as you destroy them when giving up ownership of the original.
by zahlman | 2025-10-28 19:21:38+00:00
> It is: Negative, Unproductive, Antagonist, non Factual and frankly futile (unless provocative).

The comment gives clear reasoning and makes claims about the contents of the paper that are supported by reading the paper. To call it "non-factual" is simply incorrect. The word "futile" is nonsensical in this context.

You used three different words to complain that the comment critiques the study. There is nothing wrong with such critique in comments here, and indeed a healthy community requires that critique can rise to the top where it's warranted.

> Have you done an experiment lately to show counter proof? Beside claims what else do you have!

This is completely logically irrelevant, and suggests a fundamental misunderstanding of logic. Pointing out that a study is flawed does not require providing evidence for the opposite of the study's conclusion.

> This paper is very positive

A paper being "positive" has nothing whatsoever to do with whether its finding is correct, and it also has nothing whatsoever to do with whether its methodology is valid, and it also has nothing whatsoever to do with whether it accurately reports what was actually observed (i.e. whether any kind of fraud was involved).

> It is in fact (by personal experience)...

It is fundamentally impossible to know those things "by personal experience". That's why studies exist.
by willio58 | 2025-10-28 19:21:39+00:00
As stated near the end of my comment, most Americans are not okay with the system as it is. It’s legalized corruption that perpetuates the system.

For further reading, I recommend learning about the Citizens United vs FEC case that vastly increased the amount of money going to politicians, far over individual donation limits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
Show HN: TinyBoards – Self-Hosted FOSS Social Platform (Rust and GraphQL API)
by tinyboards_dev | 2025-10-28 19:22:56+00:00
Live test instance: https://upthetree.club (no registration — explore freely)

Self-hostable Reddit/HN/Lemmy alternative.

Rust backend, GraphQL API, Docker-ready.

Features: - Boards + threads/feeds - Custom emojis & flairs - Tailored streams (public/private) - S3/GCS storage support (or local) - Notifications & DMs

Alpha. Help wanted: mobile, CSS, front-end specific stuff. Repo: https://github.com/tinyboard/tinyboards Discord in the README.

What’s your #1 pain with self-hosted social tools?
by tuetuopay | 2025-10-28 19:23:28+00:00
> 2.5gbit, 5gbit and 10gbit RJ45 is getting more affordable and more common

Still, compared to the SFP+ gear it's ridiculously overpriced. NICs are <$20 on ebay and an 8x10G port managed switch is $120 on aliexpress.

> Over here in NL we now get more and more access to >1gbps speeds

Same in France, yet the main "geek" ISP (free) has an 8Gbps symmetric ISP router with a 10G SFP+ cage for full bandwidth to the LAN. RJ45 ports are 2.5G.

And it's hard to fault them, as customers that are likely to even hardwire stuff to the router and moreso at 10Gbps are usually enthusiasts that do prefer SFP+ due to the abundance of hardware on the used market. Oh, and their team designing the router are a bunch of nerds that most likely all have a 10Gbps network.
by kjkjadksj | 2025-10-28 19:23:38+00:00
Parasocial relationships are more analogous to the old priestly/shamanic to tribesman relationships. A person more or less removed from the direct social experience that has their own hidden motives and meanings, as well as strong incentive to maintain their position in the group dynamic as someone to look up towards.

Funny how humans evolved such to have such a predilection for finding these few charismatic people to uplift and throw their whole lot behind damned any other logic. While also having a small subset of people preferring to take the reins themselves and be the charismatic leader either for good or ill intent. And it has been that way in our species since long before recorded history.

Almost like queen bee to worker bee dynamics in terms of population structure but perhaps less rigid. The mutation rate of charismatic leaders vs followers happens to be “just right” by some mechanism. Too many of either case and group dynamics fall apart.

If we think of the whole population as a meta organism up a few levels of abstraction from the genetic level, but still bound by its laws generally, some mechanism must have evolved to carefully regulate dosage of these varying neurotypes in the population much like how genes evolved downstream, upstream, or midstream dosage control mechanisms to modulate protein levels in the cell for biological function. Perhaps social structure is self reinforcing through incentives and entropy.
by tpurves | 2025-10-28 19:24:09+00:00
America is trapped in a cycle where political parties have discovered that fear and anger drives voters whereas contentment with status quo does not motivate turnout. This leads to a scenario where parties will actively sabotage the resolution of painpoint issues such as immigration, healthcare, gun control etc. so long as it continues to create anger and fear that they can successfully blame on the other party. This behavior extends to voting against their own proposed policies in the interest of seizing/maintaining power over problem solving. And now deliberately creating crises (both real and fictional ones) has become the game-theory dominant strategy in American politics.
by noirscape | 2025-10-28 19:24:20+00:00
I never said they had an incentive to solve it. I said that it's one of the big blockers to getting regular adoption. It ought to be obvious that all these issues aren't a problem if you look at it through the big tech lens: why is it a problem when we're providing the service. They're a problem when you're a normal person with a healthy distrust of big tech companies.

In practice, I expect someone to figure out a way to break into/bypass the OS flow entirely with a less "big tech wants your private details" solution and that's what winds up getting adoption.
by fukka42 | 2025-10-28 19:24:26+00:00
It's hilariously out of touch, but it's what you should expect from the HN bros. They live in a bubble.

I'm from the eu and earn far less than these American techbros do, but far more than my American friends who work normal jobs. They work at the DMV, a supermarket, or general office work. You know, normal people. The vast majority.
by js8 | 2025-10-28 19:24:29+00:00
Surely. Maybe you can give me a counterexample. Let's just consider GF(2). Give me a set of generators with polynomials of degree <=2 over n variables, such that, 1 is a member of the ideal (i.e. generators generate the whole ring of polynomials) - so if I understand this correctly, Grobner basis is just 1, and, during the construction of the Grobner basis, you need to construct a polynomial of an arbitrarily high degree (or let's say degree 7). And there is no way to avoid this (or same degree) polynomial during the basis construction by finding a lower degree polynomial first.

See my problem? Somehow, I feel these syzygies need to be constructed from the degree 2 polynomials (the initial set), but then we can probably only work with the polynomials of the low degree instead, from which those syzygies are constructed.

To me, this is a very interesting question. Because if we can find the Grobner basis (even for just those ideals that coincide with the whole ring) in GF(2) in a way that we only need to construct polynomials of bounded degree, then there is a polynomial algorithm for SAT. Since most people believe there isn't such algorithm, I would really like to see a counterexample to this situation.
by FuriouslyAdrift | 2025-10-28 19:24:48+00:00
Yeah it's the substitution of low density carbs for calories with high density fats that really makes the difference in satiation. It really only works while in keto (because you are fully burning fat for fuel) otherwise you are just going to end up storing the fat as excess and your body will go after your own protein as a calorie source (which is very very bad).
by zahlman | 2025-10-28 19:24:50+00:00
> An excess of vitamin D causes abnormally high blood concentrations of calcium, which can cause overcalcification of soft tissues, including arteries and kidneys. Symptoms appear several months after excessive doses of vitamin D are administered. A mutation of the CYP24A1 gene can lead to a reduction in the degradation of vitamin D and thus to vitamin toxicity without high oral intake (see Vitamin D § Excess).

> Treatment

> In almost every case, ceasing vitamin D intake, combined with a low-calcium diet and corticosteroid drugs, will allow for a full recovery within a month. Bisphosphonate drugs (which inhibit bone resorption) can also be administered.[2]

Regardless, blood levels need to be checked for this sort of thing and doses are not one-size-fits-all. I also once was taking 10k daily, for several months, and ended up just barely in excess territory with no noticeable symptoms. (I settled on taking 4k daily in the long term.)
by Void_ | 2025-10-28 19:25:00+00:00
I would love for them to open up the API to this.

I'd like to build an integration with Whisper Memos (https://whispermemos.com/)

Then I'd be able to dictate a note on my Apple Watch such as:

> Go into repository X and look at the screen Y, and fix bug Z.

That'd be so cool.
by yesfitz | 2025-10-28 19:25:09+00:00
Their teleoperator position from 3-11 PM, M-F, pays between $22 and $31 an hour with benefits and is onsite in Palo Alto.[1]

I'll be curious if they move those positions to a lower cost-of-living area as they scale up.

1: https://1x.recruitee.com/o/robot-operator
by schuyler2d | 2025-10-28 19:25:17+00:00
I do this with audiobooks/podcasts and then can start with the lights off and lying down. (important part I find is making sure the dynamics are low -- no high-volume ads or flashy punctuated sound effects)

Not sure if any other buds work like this but the Bose QuietComfort Earbuds seem to auto-pause based on some kind of fitbit/sleep indicator which help even more with staying asleep.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-10-28 19:25:42+00:00
Wikipedia does not conduct scientific research or fact-finding. It's only a publisher. It routinely sources citations from books, journals and other sources, many of them produced by members of the "global academic, scientfic ... community"

Without those sources Wikipedia would have relatively little value, except to quote and cite to web pages

In many (most) fieds, web pages are not a substitute for scientific journals or books from academic publishers
by tonymet | 2025-10-28 19:25:50+00:00
I’ll look into it. From what I can tell it’s not a simple hero vs villain story. It feels more like an industrial disaster or the AWS outage where there are like a dozen compounding system failures leading to where we are today.

Medical billing is like a massive centuries-old tenement building with a patchwork of legacy plumbing, electrical , framing, sewage all patched together with decades of duct tape, wood shards, and rusty couplings. But in this case there’s massive incentives to keep it all bodged because each pipe and crevice hides billions of un-audited income.
by djoldman | 2025-10-28 19:26:03+00:00
> Samsung fridge owners can also opt to avoid the latest software update altogether. However, they would miss out on other features included in the software update, such as a UI refresh and the ability for the internal camera inside some fridges to identify more fruits and vegetables inside the fridge.

The level of absurdity here with respect to "miss[ing] out on other features" strains credulity.
by tclancy | 2025-10-28 19:26:16+00:00
"But fight with knowledge. My $20/month subscription to Claude more than paid for itself. Yes, AI assistants can hallucinate and give you garbage. So I didn’t rely on it. I spot checked by looking up its big findings myself and found it was right. I also had ChatGPT, to which I subscribed for one month just to do this, read the letter and fact check it. No notes."
by kstrauser | 2025-10-28 19:26:30+00:00
This guarantees I'll never buy a Samsung appliance. If they're this willing to screw with their customers today, they'll do it again tomorrow.

Sadly, I'm including their TVs in this. I have one today, displaying the output of an Apple TV and not directly connected to the Internet because hah, no way, but I'll be shopping around when it comes time to replace it.

Pity. They make nice stuff. Not nice enough that I'm willing to tolerate their anti-customer shenanigans, but otherwise decent quality.
by AlexandrB | 2025-10-28 19:26:38+00:00
Can you send some documentation on how? For example, I tried googling for transferring a passkey out of popular systems and it doesn't seem possible[1][2] other than through JSON export[3] which is what some sites want to block as I understand.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitwarden/comments/1efs5d2/how_can_...

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitwarden/comments/1di8nbz/import_p...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44454106
by idle_zealot | 2025-10-28 19:26:44+00:00
The gap widens. If you're discussing something online, and someone drops a Grok link as evidence or reference material, how are you supposed to continue at that point? You can't convince someone who lives in an alternate reality of anything by argument. I think I would just stop relying. Most people would. It's not a new problem, but that wall keeps growing.
by duped | 2025-10-28 19:26:46+00:00
I wouldn't get worked up about the actual names of things I used here, but there's no difference between having the key contained in the user data versus lifted up to the containing object... every language supports iterating objects by (key, value).

You would do a query like "give me all users with age over 18" or something and return a `{ [id: string]: User }`
by Eckter2 | 2025-10-28 19:27:15+00:00
They already have the tool, it's python interpreter with `random`.

I just tested with a mistral's chat: I asked it to answer either "foo" or "bar" and that I need either option to have the same probability. I did not mention the code interpreter or any other instruction. It did generate and execute a basic `random.choice(["foo", "bar"])` snippet.

I'm assuming more mainstream models would do the same. And I'm assuming that a model would figure out that randomness is important when playing poker.
by renewiltord | 2025-10-28 19:27:15+00:00
This is like the online trend of pretending that US Postal Police are superheroes, clowns are scary, fedoras are lame and so on. I get it.

Some people make jokes, and then the rest don't get the joke so they think it's real and go along with the meme out of wanting to fit in. Eventually, the neurotic find everything scary and dangerous. Everyone else just skips over this nonsense while you guys self-reinforce. Social media's worst effect.
by moritzwarhier | 2025-10-28 19:27:18+00:00
That's not a prediction, it's a current reality. It's already prescribed by calling circumstances people have no control over "being in trouble":

but that is certainly not wrong!

If someone smashes your windows at night, robs you, you're in trouble.

If you're being threatened with a weapon, you're in trouble.

But you're also in trouble when you leave your house in a freezing night and don't remember to put your keys in your pocket.

If you're unlawfully detained, you're in trouble, as much as you are in trouble when you're detained for a good reason.

Dehumanizing people who are "in trouble" is as old as humanity itself.

Rape victims are also in trouble.

Even worse, trouble tends to accumulate and amplify existing trouble.

Some people think that's just how the world works.

It's certainly how a world of animals works.

And a "fair" world is hard to imagine, the human condition is partly an attempt to achieve it though.
by dboreham | 2025-10-28 19:27:41+00:00
A family member had a procedure a few years ago. Provider told the patient that they had contacted their insurer and received confirmation it would be covered. Went ahead with the procedure.

Bill arrives and the insurer denies coverage. Provider says "oh well <shrug> you owe us $$$ now".

Since I am the resident argumentative asshole in the family I dig into the situation a bit. After many phone calls I am eventually told that the hospital routinely records all phone calls with insurance companies and furthermore has found the recording where they gave advance guarantee of coverage for the procedure.

At this point I realized we are being shaken down by a corrupt/criminal enterprise. Even with the recorded phone call the insurer refused to pay and so the patient had to pay off the $$$ over many months.
by chasd00 | 2025-10-28 19:27:42+00:00
Something about an LLM response has a major impact on some people. Last weekend I was in in Ft. Lauderdale FL with a friend who's pretty sharp ( licensed architect, decades long successful career etc) and went to the horse track. I've never been to a horse race and didn't understand the betting so I took a snapshot of the race program, gave it to chatGPT and asked it to devise a low risk set of bets using $100. It came back with what you'd expect, a detailed, very confident answer. My friend was completely taken with it and insisted on following it to the letter. After the race he turned his $100 into $28 and was dumbfounded. I told him "it can't tell the future, what were you expecting?". Something about getting the answer from a computer or the level of detail had him convinced it was a sure thing. I donm't understand it but LLMs have a profound effect on some people.

edit: i'm very thankful my friend didn't end up winning more than he bet. idk what he would have done if his feelings towards the LLM was confirmed by adding money to his pocket..
by ilamont | 2025-10-28 19:27:53+00:00
WSJ is not owned by Jeff Bezos, but by another billionaire Rupert Murdoch.

By all means skip the Wall Street Journal's sneering editorials, but don't ignore the reporting. For example, the Theranos scandal was blown open by the WSJ's John Carreyrou. They've done good reporting on Tesla, Epstein, Amazon, and others.
by loandbehold | 2025-10-28 19:27:55+00:00
I keep hearing that LLMs are trained on "Internet crap" but is it true? For instance we know from Anthropic copyright case that they scanned millions of books to make a training set. They certainly use Internet content for training but I'm sure it's curated to a large degree. They don't just scrap random pages and feed into LLM.
by JumpinJack_Cash | 2025-10-28 19:28:00+00:00
> > Tell us some tough truths about Epstein island!

Rich people want to get laid with young , attractive girls who are also well mannered and somewhat cultured and socially mature

Epstein was the curator of that list, kinda like an elite's elite escort agency.

Is the above so hard to grasp and reconcile with? The whole thing has been blown way out of proprtion
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-10-28 19:28:04+00:00
2018 has a lovely progression of articles 'are we living in ___&'s world now', that went from George Orwell to Aldous Huxley to finally Philip K Dick (PKD).

And Henry Farrell nailed it with the PKD article. Dick was obsessed with fake humans, with reality being taken over by all manner of camouflaged invader or alternate reality weirdo coming in and co-opting our reality away from us. https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/henry-farrell-philip-k...

It's a glorious article. And it's totally the sicko shit happening right here. Grokipedia will almost certainly never hold itself to any real standards, will source (if they source at all) the most absurd ridiculous reality window shopped bottom of the barrel garbage, from horrendous sources. Stealing Wikipedia then probably using AI to rewrite a quarter of it to some bias seems absurdly likely.

"Reality shopping on the internet" has become such a major major effort. And Grokipedia is striving to become exactly such an appealing reality, a bespoke weird racist meanspirited place that confirms the invading forces reality against can do human spirit and hope and inclusion and possibility.

Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans does so much to capture what is alas so much defining aspects of our time: the slide away from consensual believable reality and into the rabbit hole weirdness and conspiracy theory universes. That the Internet has unchained, taken what would be normal humans & turned them into fakes. This struggle is going to keep going. I wish these fakers all the failure and dejectedment their window shopped view of the world that their fake human perspective here deserves; I hope this infodump is burned down in the future by people happy to see this absurd farce against reality put to an end.
by ideonexus | 2025-10-28 19:28:05+00:00
The Saturday editorial "Trump's undertaking is a shot across the bow at NIMBYs everywhere," was the final straw for me. I can forgive an editorial defending Trump's actions--no matter how misguided, but the fact that the WaPo did not disclose Bezos' personal interests in the matter infuriated me bitterly. According to NPR, they corrected the omission on Sunday, but I'm done.

That subscription money now goes to my local NPR station. Anytime NPR covers anything related to Microsoft, they always provide the disclosure of receiving funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. That is what legitimate news sources are supposed to do.
by jmward01 | 2025-10-28 19:28:09+00:00
This reminds me of a joke website I pondered making a few years ago 'provemeright.com'. If you are in a bar and you make an outrageous claim and don't want to back down, provemeright.com has your back! Give us 10 min and we will edit wikipedia and create a website with your 'fact' on it!... It was a funny joke when it wasn't real.