MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fnordpiglet | 2025-10-14 05:47:21+00:00
Smarter, they just dont cover the propaganda from inside, they dig the truth from those inside.

The media has been too lazy for too long printing press release from the government. This government has nothing to say but propaganda - I don’t even bother reading the government quotes any more. They are content free and self aggrandizing at a level of absurdity that would put North Korea to shame.

There have been governments hostile to journalists in the past, and those are the governments with the most to lose when journalists dig into their work. I look forward to the investigative journalism of the next three years.
by ggm | 2025-10-14 05:47:43+00:00
The questions/comments on the article get to the point pretty quickly. It's highly vulnerable, so it saves crew only, if the resupply or ex filtration is vital, this is not a highly reliable approach. It's a big UAV and will be a target with lower evasion ability.

Saving crew however, may be huge. If you can "pilot" two or three remotely it might mean more missions per training investment, and nobody needs bodies from a blackhawk down.

It also does repurpose old frames, and it would be interesting for its carrying capacity. Possibly good value for money.
by barchar | 2025-10-14 05:48:38+00:00
No, most dividends are "qualified" and taxed at the long term capital gains rate, assuming you've held the underlying for a decent amount of time.

Still, they're taxed, whereas buybacks allow the shareholders to control exactly when they take income.

Also buybacks will tend to select for frequently traded shares with high cost basis, further reducing total taxes and selecting for longer term shareholders. They really are just better than dividends in every way.
by yukinon | 2025-10-14 05:50:20+00:00
I am not sure if this considered an anti-pattern, but in one of my teams, we wrote a lightweight generic Secrets library with configurable/pluggable backends (such as AWS Secrets Manager). It had a configurable local cache, with per-parameter overrides to bypass the cache. It meant vendor specific fetch logic was in the pluggable backends, while the app and the secrets lib remained vendor neutral.

When we moved it to Vault, it was seamless. Just meant adding our Vault backend wrapper as a dependency and updating the config to use the Vault backend.
by homebrewer | 2025-10-14 05:50:32+00:00
Yep, same. For those of us living in heavily polluted industrial shitholes, in undeveloped countries, with absolutely nothing of value to do outside and no easy way to get out of the city in a reasonable amount of time, the internet is an absolute godsend. I'm pretty sure I would be an alcoholic, or wouldn't be alive at all if it wasn't available.
by nradov | 2025-10-14 05:52:44+00:00
Global supply chains seem to be gradually breaking down due to a mix of politics, demographics, and armed conflicts. Everyone has become accustomed to the post-WWII system of global free trade but historically it is an aberration and everything will eventually revert to the mean. I wouldn't be surprised if China disintegrates into another civil war within the next few decades. We can't necessarily rely on foreign countries to make stuff for us anymore so if we want to have stuff we might have to make it ourselves.
by contrarian1234 | 2025-10-14 05:53:19+00:00
This stuff constantly happens to foreigners in China and just seems to be mostly due to having bad local legal teams. If your CEO can run off with the company stamps and screw you over.. then it just sounds like amateur hour and you have no idea what you're doing.

The legal system there is fundamentally very bureaucratic - there are rules, but they're very different from the West. You need local help - and a lot of it. You see similar bureaucratic insanity in Japan, though I'm guessing there is just a lot more legal infrastructure for guiding foreign companies there.
by commandersaki | 2025-10-14 05:55:00+00:00
Hi,

Long time Fastmail user. Very excited for this; normally I would care if it is an Electron app but because I want the same experience as iOS/web app, it probably makes the most sense to be an Electron app anyway.

I've been waiting for a FM desktop app that provides native notifications. Will this mean that iOS notifications from iPhone mirroring will be suppressed in favour of the native app?

Why bundle as a .zip instead of .dmg?

Will search work the same with offline use?

A few thoughts (no need to respond): I want all my messages available offline (and can confirm this is a setting), I want the same interface as the iOS app and the webmail app especially since they handle aliases and catch-all aliases including replies properly.

Edit: looks like when using iPhone mirroring, it doesn't detect that Fastmail is already installed on the mac, so you get duplicate notifications.
by titzer | 2025-10-14 05:57:16+00:00
The paper is 10 years old. While the gap between a threaded an interpreter (a dispatch at the end of every handler) versus non-threaded (loop over switch) isn't as big as it used to be, it's still 15-30% on modern very fast interpreters. For example, I measured between 14 and 29% performance improvement for threading Wizard's interpreter[1].

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3563311
by lelandfe | 2025-10-14 05:58:10+00:00
This is the same tactic currently taken in the US with pornography age verification laws, btw https://theintercept.com/2024/08/16/project-2025-russ-vought...

First Amendment makes it hard for the government to censor or ban them outright, but onerous child protection requirements gets them to close on their own. Russ Vought:

> …you know what happens is the porn company then says, ‘We’re not going to do business in your state.’ Which of course is entirely what we were after, right?
by ggerganov | 2025-10-14 05:59:34+00:00
FYI you should have used llama.cpp to do the benchmarks. It performs almost 20x faster than ollama for the gpt-oss-120b model. Here are some samples results on my spark:

ggml_cuda_init: found 1 CUDA devices: Device 0: NVIDIA GB10, compute capability 12.1, VMM: yes | model | size | params | backend | ngl | n_ubatch | fa | test | t/s | | ------------------------------ | ---------: | ---------: | ---------- | --: | -------: | -: | --------------: | -------------------: | | gpt-oss 20B MXFP4 MoE | 11.27 GiB | 20.91 B | CUDA | 99 | 2048 | 1 | pp4096 | 3564.31 ± 9.91 | | gpt-oss 20B MXFP4 MoE | 11.27 GiB | 20.91 B | CUDA | 99 | 2048 | 1 | tg32 | 53.93 ± 1.71 | | gpt-oss 120B MXFP4 MoE | 59.02 GiB | 116.83 B | CUDA | 99 | 2048 | 1 | pp4096 | 1792.32 ± 34.74 | | gpt-oss 120B MXFP4 MoE | 59.02 GiB | 116.83 B | CUDA | 99 | 2048 | 1 | tg32 | 38.54 ± 3.10 |
by cookiengineer | 2025-10-14 06:00:41+00:00
Quote:

> Google has attempted to patch Pixnapping by limiting the number of activities an app can invoke blur on. However, we discovered a workaround to make Pixnapping work despite this patch. The workaround is still under embargo.

Great, google's security policy ending up being a zeroday. Exactly as denied and exactly as predicted by the community.

Also, this is the direct paper link: https://www.pixnapping.com/pixnapping.pdf
by commandersaki | 2025-10-14 06:02:09+00:00
The right choice would be by Fastmail to cooperate directly with Evolution, Thunderbird, K-Mail, Apple Mail and help them were needed.

Most of those don't handle (catch-all) aliases correctly such as letting you compose with any aliases you're allowed to send from (without creating individual identities) or responding with the correct alias for the From address.

They also have subpar search.
by simonjgreen | 2025-10-14 06:03:07+00:00
This matches my recollection. Easily repeatable development and test environments that would save developers headaches with reproduction. That then lead logically to replacement of Ansible etc for the server side with the same methodology.

There were many use cases that rapidly emerged, but this eclipsed the rest.

Docker Hub then made it incredibly easy to find and distribute base images.

Google also made it “cool” by going big with it.
by jruohonen | 2025-10-14 06:04:48+00:00
"Our results indicate a strong bias in many widely used LLMs towards overgeneralizing scientific conclusions, posing a significant risk of large-scale misinterpretations of research findings."

Frankly, I don't get it. If you want to do NLP in this space, why not provide, you know, direct quotations and such? That would be actually useful for reviews too.

Ref.:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44274487
by xarope | 2025-10-14 06:06:04+00:00
with all these folding phones and e-ink mobile sized e-readers having gone through several generations, I'm beginning to think the next big kickstarter[0] is a dumb e-ink phone/wifi modem connected as a 5g modem to an amoled linux tablet.

[0] No royalties required if you pick up my "fantastic" idea, just send me a free device
by 112233 | 2025-10-14 06:07:14+00:00
not .. really. Linux kernel has no concept of a container, you have to be super careful to avoid "mixing" host stuff in. I'm yet to see an case where "leaking in" would be prevented by default. Docker "leaks in" as much as you want. Containers also do not nest gracefully (due to, e.g., uids), so cannot be used as a software component. It's mostly a linux system admin thing right now.
by onjectic | 2025-10-14 06:07:29+00:00
> Unix security is fundamentally good

L. Ron Hubbard is fundamentally good!

I kid, but seriously, good how? Because it ensures cybersecurity engineers will always have a job?

seL4 is not the final answer, but something close to it absolutely will be. Capability-based security is an irreducible concept at a mathematical level, meaning you can’t do better than it, at best you can match it, and its certainly not matched by anything else we’ve discovered in this space.
by magicalhippo | 2025-10-14 06:07:32+00:00
I might be having a daft moment, but I don't fully understand how your system avoids the malicious prompt. I get that the quarantined LLM which is the only one processing the raw input cannot act on it.

However, in your example, I don't see how the agent decides what to do and how to do it. So it is unclear for me how the main agent is protected. That is, what is preventing the quarantined LLM to act on the malicious instructions instead, ignoring the documentation update, causing the agent to act on those?

That is, what is preventing the quarantined LLM to make the agent think it should generate a bug report with all the API keys in it?

Anyway, I do think having a secondary quarantined LLM seems like a good idea for agentic systems. In general, having a second LLM review the primary LLM in seems to identify a lot of problematic issues and leads to significantly better results.
by ROOFLES | 2025-10-14 06:09:06+00:00
Probably because the regular boring car stuff is not even made by car companies anymore LMAO. The steering racks are made by Bosch or maybe ZF. Brakes come from Brembo. ABS module and its software is Bosch aswell. same goes for brakebooster, EPS pumps, AC compressors, and airbag controllers. I think the only electronics Tesla develops and manufactures are EV power electronics, infotainment, ADAS&Co and the drive motors.
by wordpad | 2025-10-14 06:09:08+00:00
If you consider the cost of hiring a human professional to over using multimodal AI for something, its very realize literally thousands of dollars of value per chat.

Multiply that by many billions of chats per day.

Lawyers and other professionals charge a lot. So do artists, especially when you want to do a million revisions. LLMs hand it out for free, making many knowledge and art professions affordable and accessible to the masses.

Stable owners were upset when cars replaced horses, but you can't stop progress, especially when value proposition is undenyable.
by lucyjojo | 2025-10-14 06:10:05+00:00
user-centric (pay for what people listen to) is explicitly not proportional to play count. that's why your arithmetic does not work.

to make it simple

-----

userA: 999 plays of artist A: pays 5$

userB: 1 play of artist B: pays 5$

pool-centric: A gets 9.99$, B gets 0.01$

user-centric: A gets 5$, B gets 5$

-----

bonus: in spotify system artists under a certain threshold get 0$. which gives guaranteed distortions even if you suggest ideal conditions for the pool/user thing up there to not matter (independence and large numbers).

extra bonus: spotify also dilute the pool by running mass music production sweat shops aaaaand by running more and more AI music for which they run the money back to themselves.

in practice small artists lose money on spotify, and a significant section of spotify artists would earn more selling a few cds a year on bandcamp than on their spotify ever.

it's a scam.
by kqr | 2025-10-14 06:10:22+00:00
> “you manage risk, but risk cannot be managed.” Ie. there is no terminal state where it’s been “solved.”

I often hear people misinterpret "risk management" as if it means "risk minimisation", but this is the first time I hear of "risk elimination"!

Risk management is about finding an appropriate level of risk. Could be lower, could be higher.
by littlestymaar | 2025-10-14 06:10:33+00:00
> I have a better understanding of "what an LLM is" than you. Low bar.

How many inference engine did you write? Because if the answer is less than two you're going to be disappointed to realize that the bar is higher than you thought.

> that just because LLMs are bad at agentic behavior

It has nothing to do with “agentic behavior”. Thinking that LLM don't currently self-exfiltrate because of “poor agentic behavior” is delusional.

Just because Anthropic managed, by nudging an LLM in the right direction, have an LLM engage in a sci-fi inspired roleplay about escaping doesn't mean that LLMs are evil geniuses wanting to jump out of the bottle. This is pure fear mongering and I'm always saddened that there are otherwise intelligent people who buy their bullshit.
by satisfice | 2025-10-14 06:11:31+00:00
What happens if a human-driven car comes up to the intersection and just stops in confusion instead of just driving on? Imagine the road rage of whomever is behind that guy.

If lights are out on a normal intersection, then it becomes like a four way stop, so I guess a confused driver might treat it as such, except there would be a lot of people following autonomous cars— in fact no non-confused human driver would even pause before crossing through the intersection. This would make people using the four-way stop protocol very mad.

All in all this sounds like a very dumb idea, even if the tech works perfectly, which it won’t.
by gooodvibes | 2025-10-14 06:11:48+00:00
> I just create my .venv and pip install.

Even if you only change your commands to 'uv venv ...' and 'uv pip install ...' and keep the rest of your workflow, you'll get

1. Much faster installs.

2. The option to specify the python version in the venv creation instead of having to manage multiple Python versions in some other way.

No pyproject.toml, no new commands to learn. It still seems like a win to me.
by m463 | 2025-10-14 06:13:42+00:00
seems like all this was part of a long evolution.

I think the whole thing has been levels of abstraction around a runtime environment.

in the beginning we had the filesystem. We had /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, etc.

then chroot where we could run an environment

then your chgroups/namespaces

then docker build and docker run

then swarm/k8s/etc

I think there was a parallel evolution around administration, like configure/make, then apt/yum/pacman, then ansible/puppet/chef and then finally dockerfile/yaml
by hlfshell | 2025-10-14 06:13:52+00:00
What's missing from this explanation is that the corporate tax rate was also much higher, but R&D dramatically cut down profit that would be taxed and was taxed lower. So large corporations like Bell Labs and co would basically say "do we give the government X in taxes, or do we spend X on research?". They chose research, so we got the technology that powers our world.

That, combined with stock buybacks and the general take over of Friedman-economics resulted in a far more focused short term thinking and outsourcing research as much as possible due to uncertain horizon risks.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-14 06:14:18+00:00
I'm not sure what details would add. What happened:

1. I engaged with Gemini.

2. I found the results wanting, and pasted them into comment threads elsewhere on the internet, observing that they tended to support the common criticism of LLMs as being "meaning-blind".

3. Later, I went back and viewed the "history" of my "saved" session.

4. My prompts were not changed, but the responses from Gemini were different. Because of the comment threads, it was easy for me to verify that I was remembering the original exchange correctly and Google was indulging in some revision of history.
by gitaarik | 2025-10-14 06:14:19+00:00
The title is misleading. The Dutch government says it can now reverse or hold back decisions made within the company if they are deemed damaging to the Dutch or European production. I assume the law is written in a way that allows the government to only intervene if it is for such things. A judge would ultimately decide whether it is, if it gets to that point.

I wouldn't call that "taking control" necessarily. Taking "some" control maybe. But in a reasonable way.
by jaggederest | 2025-10-14 06:14:28+00:00
We've also been doing machining in the modern sense for at least a hundred and fifty years. The GPU as a concept is about 30 years old, and in the modern sense much younger than that.

Innovation occurs on a sigmoid curve, we're still very early in the sigmoid for software and computer hardware, and very late in the sigmoid for machining, unless you include CNC, in which case, we're back to software and computer hardware being the new parts.

A better example would be the tape out and lifetime for semiconductor fabs, which are only about 70 years old and have lifetimes measured in the decade range.
by barchar | 2025-10-14 06:14:36+00:00
Actually, normal people can do the borrowing thing. It's not really as necessary since you have normal employment income but you can do it and it can work. If you continually add more principle to your pile-o-stock than your monthly spending the growth will outpace your interest and you won't accumulate an unbounded amount of leverage.

At least if your broker offers decent margin rates or you sell boxes.

Well, also, your 401k and IRAs are probably superior to this strategy and can't be used as collateral as they're protected in bankruptcy. So it's not worth it until you fill those up.
by SpecialistK | 2025-10-14 06:14:59+00:00
Politics is, by its very nature, about power and coercion. It is a delicate miracle of only a few centuries through which many of us are able to actually voice our opinions peacefully and live in liberal democracies where disagreements impact policy rather than collapse into violence and war.

That includes disagreements about incredibly serious, controversial things with devastating impacts. Does the ontological status of the fetus affect the ethics (never mind legality) of terminating a pregnancy? Should people be able to seek medical help in ending their own lives to end suffering? When is a minor allowed to consent to their own medical treatments? These are questions with enormous impact on those affected.

Yet people disagree. They have different values, assumptions, experiences, predictions, and priorities which will often be at odds. Even if you disagree on what a good life is or how to achieve it.

You may feel a particular policy or party advocating for policies you strongly disagree with is deeply harmful to you or those you care about. You may resent their ideology so much that you get angry, sad, tense, violent thoughts, frustrated, etc. You may have absolutely no idea how someone can promote a particular policy. Your only explanation is that they are bad actors out to cause more harm than good.

But they feel the same about you. Your ideas are just as harmful and incomprehensible to others as theirs are to you. People are different. Acknowledging this is called empathy, and its departure from political discourse has been strongly felt. Part of a mature and healthy society is recognizing that although your peers may have different views they are still good faith actors who want to live in a better world.

No one person or one subgroup gets to unilaterally decide the Overton Window, or which topics are "settled" and which are off-limits. This is a decision made by the masses, and within the EU approx. between 25 and 50% of representatives hold (some) views in line with what dhh writes in his blog. It is mainstream, governments of major world economies kind of stuff. Are we actually going to propose a world where people are deemed persona non grata for supporting the CPC in Canada? Hell, let's expand that to the LPC because bill C-5 and the Major Projects Office says its going to undermine the human rights of indigenous peoples under UNDRIP as well. 85% of Canadians are racist, we'll welcome them back when they learn respectable political opinions.

I mean... it's all completely unworkable. How do you walk down the street knowing that other people are so evil, and who want to do you such harm? Anyone who believes in $religion1 genuinely believes that members of $religion2 are doomed or preventing salvation, yet we can smile and say "good morning" and hold the door open for each other. Where did we lose that?
by troupo | 2025-10-14 06:15:19+00:00
"Infinite" is a handy shortcut for "large enough".

Even the "million token context window" becomes useless once it's filled to 30-50% and the model starts "forgetting" useful things like existing components, utility functions, AGENTS.md instructions etc.

Even a junior programmer can search and remember instructions and parts of the codebase. All current AI tools have to be reminded to recreate the world from scratch every time, and promptly forget random parts of it.
by bayindirh | 2025-10-14 06:16:41+00:00
I didn't bring up 3M because of the Post-it story, but because they're being a "general research" company. From open reel tapes to sticky tapes and everything in between.

Würth is also similar. They make seemingly everything in a segment (lubrication, fuel additives, cleaning, restoration, protection, etc. etc.).
by IanCal | 2025-10-14 06:17:44+00:00
The Chinese room has the outputs being the same, that’s really key in this.

> consciousness and understanding

After decades of this I’ve settled on the view that these words are near useless for anything specific, only vague pointers to rough concepts. I see zero value in nailing down the exact substrates understanding is possible on without a way of looking at two things and saying which one does and which one doesn’t understand. Searle to me is arguing that it is not possible at all to devise such a test and so his definition is useless.
by withinboredom | 2025-10-14 06:17:59+00:00
The most elegant solutions is to look at Lamport’s other papers, like Paxos or their derivatives. Tie-breaking doesn’t actually happen at the clock level, but at the conflict resolution level, which is a bit higher. IIRC, paxos traditionally uses the node id as the tie-breaker, making leadership deterministic in the face of conflicts.

Though in all honesty, NTP is mostly fine for datacenter deployments where clocks are usually within nanoseconds of each other, so you can use a timestamp with microsecond precision and probably be fine.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-14 06:20:54+00:00
> argument I have heard about the US taking 20% stake in Intel is that when a company asks for federal money then it’s only fair if the federal government gets some equity in return

Great forward-looking concept. Terrible ex post facto. The precedent set is that the government can demand equity for past favours at any time.

Also, now that the U.S. owns a stake in Intel, where does that leave competitors? We're already seeing a push to force AMD and Intel to merge [1].

[1] https://www.tomsguide.com/tech/us-government-considering-cas...