MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by saurik | 2025-10-30 11:46:09+00:00
This is very similar (and maybe even the same thing) to some recent work (published earlier this year) by the people at Ritual AI on attacking attempts to obfuscate LLM inference (which leads to the design for their defense against this, which involves breaking up the prompt token sequences and handing them to multiple computers, making it so no individual machine has access to sufficient states from the hidden layer in a row).

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18332

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05228
by rainsford | 2025-10-30 11:46:10+00:00
I've used ZeroTier in the past and I don't recall a feature similar to this being part of their offering. What I do remember is home brewed crypto, incredibly poor single threaded performance, and a glacial development pace. Any thread about Tailscale inevitably brings up alternatives, but having tried many of them in the past, I've yet to find one that actually competes across all the features and performance. The comparisons to other solutions tend to give me "why do you need Dropbox when FTP exists?" vibes.
by ironyman | 2025-10-30 11:46:16+00:00
It doesn't really matter how advanced your supercomputing infrastructure is .... the simulation is as good as the input and data from actual tests.

The big question is whether China is confident enough with the data they have from 47 tests.

Any non-subcritical testing is a gift to China as they are severely lagging behind US on number of tests conducted and therefore amount of data collected about warhead design.

Resumption of tests would add fresh data to verify new warhead designs over the decades since the last test. US would have a lesser need for new data given the amount of testing done during the cold war.

If US does conduct a nuclear test I bet a whole slew of test from China would come very shortly after that. Work has already been noticed in recent years in the test tunnel.

https://asia.nikkei.com/static/vdata/infographics/satellite-...
by tux1968 | 2025-10-30 11:47:32+00:00
> Honestly, you't not even trying to

Why do you think that? I've been listening to what you say. But again, you haven't exactly proven that operating on the single-most-recent movement (which as I understand it, also defines the selection) is the thing that you want to operate on the most often, rather than the convenience of being able to use the flexibility of multiple movements to define a selection.

Anyway, many people do claim that an editor isn't the most important thing, and that thinking takes a lot more time than the operation itself, and that therefore Notepad would often be sufficient. What those people don't really appreciate is the ability to operate on multiple lines at once, not a single selection, but across vast swathes of the text being edited. When your thinking is done, and needs to be applied to every single line of the file, you'd much rather have Vim than Notepad. But in such a case Helix wouldn't offer much, if any, advantage over Vim.

You seem emotionally attached to this in a way that my skepticism provokes, so we can drop the debate. People should use whatever they prefer; no harm done.
by graemep | 2025-10-30 11:48:16+00:00
> E.g. a century after the Romans left Britain, it would be fairly obvious to everyone that whoever built the aqueducts, villas, fortresses etc had vastly superior technology.

Yes, but

1. Britain was where there is the best case for a serious regression. 2. Building those systems was also a matter of imperial priorities and imperial centralisation. Smaller kingdoms did not need it.

> And much of the literacy was aimed at preserving what knowledge had survived from the classical period

Much was, and Aristotle was taken as far too much of an authority. There were probably not many advances in science during the early middle ages, but there were in high and late medieval. Even in the early middle ages there were advances in architecture and agriculture and some amazing art produced.
by archi42 | 2025-10-30 11:48:32+00:00
Building diy multitouch tables has been possible for a long time now, given time, space and budget for that project.

I fully agree that it ultimately boils down to software: Can I implement my favorite board game for my multitouch interface? Yes. Can I bring that game to the table faster by just buying a physical copy? Yes.

I happen to have two 42" touch displays set aside for such a project - a unused backup unit destined for the living room for 200€, and damaged unit for dev work (for free). Since I bought them about 2 years ago, I also bought at least double that value of physical board games in retail, plus a Kickstarter board game. Go figure why.

However, I did play the digital version of Root on one of them, and enjoyed it very much. I should get Dune, too.

NB: I regularly see multitouch tables at trade shows. Nice eye catcher and useful to present some products or the multitude of services big companies offer.
by itopaloglu83 | 2025-10-30 11:48:38+00:00
> Changing the key exchange or transport encryption protocols however is much, much easier, as it's negotiated and we can add new options right away.

So that’s a good point. We can quickly add new encryption protocols after the point things are negotiated in the connection, but adding something new or entirely replacing the certificate system or even just the underlying protocols is a big deal.
by bauruine | 2025-10-30 11:48:55+00:00
Tor does this sort of although not like you think. It's used as a bridge transport.

>https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-webtunnel-evading-ce...

>WebTunnel is a censorship-resistant pluggable transport designed to mimic encrypted web traffic (HTTPS) inspired by HTTPT. It works by wrapping the payload connection into a WebSocket-like HTTPS connection, appearing to network observers as an ordinary HTTPS (WebSocket) connection. So, for an onlooker without the knowledge of the hidden path, it just looks like a regular HTTP connection to a webpage server giving the impression that the user is simply browsing the web.
by fidotron | 2025-10-30 11:49:22+00:00
> it just causes developer busy work with no additional value.

Anyone remotely familiar with Google as a third party developer will notice the pattern: this will ramp up until it is almost your entire job simply dealing with their changes, most of which will be not-quite-actual-fixes to their previous round of changes.

This is not unique to Google, but it is a strategy employed to slow down development at other companies, and so help preserve the moat.
by birksherty | 2025-10-30 11:49:29+00:00
Meh! Practical result matters not papers. Everything done in paper. What I've seen in India is trees are planted with publicity, photos, but are not take care of and dies, another program starts and plants thousands of trees, dies within a year, circle goes round. Otherhand seeing many hills destroyed for construction needs.

The number of planted tree grows but benefit not seen, except for the group doing it. People are too into feelings, by seeing the headlines they need to feel good that's why so much publicity is needed, so many banners everywhere, ads in news-paper spending billions by gov.
by azornathogron | 2025-10-30 11:49:32+00:00
Ignoring the silly vulnerability Marketing Name, the part I found shocking here is that apparently URL-based dependencies in package.json (deps that just point to an arbitrary URL rather than pointing to another NPM package name) are ignored by a lot of tools that are supposed to scan or give information about dependencies.

This means deps that are possibly the most concerning and deserve extra caution might be hiding in plain sight, not showing up in basic checks.
by jostylr | 2025-10-30 11:50:16+00:00
For non-relativistic QM, the QM formalism is provable from Bohmian mechanics, an actual particle theory. BM starts from particles have locations the change continuously in time via a guidance equation using the wave function of the universe. One may choose other theories to explain quantum phenomena, but to say "There is simply no physical machinery to support an objective reality, period." is just false, at least in that realm. As for relativistic QFT, there are plausible pathways using Bohmian ideas as well though nothing as definitive as BM has been firmly established.

I would also say that any theory that does not have room to say definitively that I exist is a theory that is obviously contradictory to my experience and is therefore falsified. There has to be room in the theory for at least me. Additionally, I would certainly value much more a theory that has room for the rest of humanity more than one which questions the existence of everyone but me. I am not even sure what the point of a theory would be if it could not account for collaborative science being done.
by ogogmad | 2025-10-30 11:50:50+00:00
It's hard to make Python run fast when it pervasively uses duck typing. It makes types only resolvable at runtime. JIT is the only thing that can work here at the moment, but I think that needs to make very similar assumptions to a branch predictor, plus it needs to identify lexical regions (is that what they're called?). People here have criticised PyPy, but I've forgotten why.
by Brendinooo | 2025-10-30 11:51:05+00:00
This is a good piece to consider in light of some stuff I've been thinking about with LLMs - new technology, that is. I've been reflecting on how some tech changes our relationship with the world, and can do so with such thoroughness that we forget that other ways of thinking even existed.

Plato didn't like books. Trithemius stood up for the scriptorium against the onslaught of the printing press. Baudelaire lamented photography as a refuge for lazy painters. And on it goes.

Mirrors are so commoditized now that they are a mere utility, but there was a time when they were miraculous...mirror..aculous...never mind. Special. That's fun to think about. Especially thinking about something like Snow White, a story that people still understand but probably has a link or two to the past with the "mirror on the wall who's the fairest of them all" stuff.
by bookofjoe | 2025-10-30 11:51:51+00:00
Wait a sec — you're saying you'll take the time and trouble to "... figure out how to migrate to Obsidian" rather than pay the $70-$80 renewal premium over what you paid last year? Let's do a thought experiment. Suppose you spend a total of 3 hours from start to finish doing the migration. That's the equivalent of being paid $25/hour in lieu of paying the Evernote full price renewal as opposed to what you paid on sale last year. I have a feeling you would not consider that close to being what your time is worth nor to what you're paid in your day job.
by csomar | 2025-10-30 11:52:14+00:00
They have completely monopolized access. I was thinking am a weird exception for not ranking for the exact name/domain of my product until I have met a couple other entrepreneurs who have names/domains and still don't rank first but instead some other random website will show up.

So just the simple fact of "existing" on the Internet now costs money. Not only that, with their ads, you can target competitors search names. So you need to outbid your competitors so that your users don't get directed to your competitors by "accident". When I lost uBlock last month, I was surprised how many sites buy ads for their own names.
by refulgentis | 2025-10-30 11:52:16+00:00
> it is a strategy employed to slow down development at other companies, and so help preserve the moat.

Worked at Google for 7 years, and your post reminds me it is time to share a secret: it is Koyaanisqatsi* and people's base instincts unbridled, no more. There is no quicker route to irrelevancy than being the person who cares about something from last years OKRs.

* to be clear, s/Koyaanisqatsi/too big to exist healthily and yet it does exist -- edited this in, after I realized it's unclear even if you watched the movie and know the translation of the word
by lapcat | 2025-10-30 11:52:46+00:00
The US population grew by almost 100 million over 30 years, so anything that people do, such as drive cars, is going to increase along with an increase in the number of people.

The neighborhood in which I now live did not exist when I was a child: the area was prairie land at the time. So in that sense, there has been an increase in traffic. Nonetheless, the car traffic in my current neighborhood is no greater than the car traffic in my childhood neighborhoods. The children in this neighborhood are not beset by cars. And there were no children living here when it was an empty prairie, so things haven't gotten worse for them.
by sspaeti | 2025-10-30 11:52:48+00:00
Write the lessons learned. The mesmerizing content is the content shared, whether there is a return or not. You can either buy someone's attention or you can earn it. If you earn it, it's vastly deeper. You put good stuff out to the cosmos; usually, it will return good stuff. The more you share, the more you get.

Sharing what you learn is a source of energy, not hard work you want to avoid.

As an old saying goes, if you want to learn something, you should try teaching it.
by anon721656321 | 2025-10-30 11:52:49+00:00
I think there is a degree of trade off in this, yes a nuclear scientist/engineer/technician in Russia or China is cheaper than in the USA. But also, the people with those kind of skills (or those technically competent enough to do a good job, are going to be expensive no matter what.)

At some level when people have enough technical skill to do these jobs well, they also have enough technical skill to leave the country and go elsewhere and do something else for better quality of life.

Like GDP per capita in china is much lower than the USA, I bet that their nuclear program engineers are getting paid at least ~80k range, which while less than the equivalent engineer in the USA is paid, is not the same level as what a direct PPP comparison would give.
by AdilG | 2025-10-30 11:53:32+00:00
Actually no, the problem is that technology has removed all friction in the application process which means that anyone anywhere with any skills can apply to any jobs at no cost and no time investment. The result is talent acquisition teams flooded with thousands of applicants. They have no choice but to reply on dumb ATS filters which arbitrarily block applicants. We are providing an alternative, a way for candidates to showcase their skills through a video interview with an AI that understands them.
by boxed | 2025-10-30 11:53:36+00:00
The docs has a lot of examples, especially the cookbook. For example: https://docs.iommi.rocks/cookbook_tables.html

In the docs, if you click on the links "forms" or "tables", that will lead to the docs for those parts with a few example, and that in turn links to the cookbooks.

There's also my talk from Django Days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydRdbA_tXdw&pp=ygUXYW5kZXJzI...
by sgarland | 2025-10-30 11:53:57+00:00
Agreed that homelab load is generally small compared to a company’s (though an initial Plex cataloging run will happily max out as many cores as you give it for days).

In the professional environment I mentioned, I think we had somewhere close to 500 physical servers across 3 DCs. They were all Dell Blades, and nothing was virtualized. I initially thought that latter bit was silly, but then I saw that no, they’d pretty well matched compute to load. If needs grew, we’d get another Blade racked.

We could not tolerate unplanned downtime (or rather, our customers couldn’t), but we did have a weekly 3-hour maintenance window, which was SO NICE. It was only a partial outage for customers, and even then, usually only a subset of them at a time. Man, that makes things easier, though.

They were also hybrid AWS, and while I was there, we spun up an entirely new “DC” in a region we didn’t have a physical one. More or less lift-and-shift, except for managed Kafka, and then later EKS.
by ncgl | 2025-10-30 11:54:43+00:00
News triages newsworthiness based on clicks, its incentivized to get an emotional reaction out of you.

The reader has to wade through all that to triage the absolute importance.

After years of consuming media that led me to believe dt was a Russian spy or at best a political underdog I stopped believing there was some grand scheme that he's trying to overtake the government. Half the country voted for him twice, the dedicated investigation did not convict him of collusion, the supreme court is doing its job.

Do you not see the trend to keep you anticipating some terrible coup etc?
by jcgl | 2025-10-30 11:54:52+00:00
> The key exchange is now typically done with X25519MLKEM768, a hybrid of the traditional x25519 and ML-KEM-768, which is post-quantum secure.

How "typical" are you suggesting this is? Honestly, it's the first I'd heard of this being done at all in the wild (not that I'm an expert). Peeking around a smattering of random websites in my browser, I'm not seeing it mentioned at all.
by tomaytotomato | 2025-10-30 11:55:12+00:00
There was a blog post on here the other day about moving back to bare metal hosting with practical explanations and problem solving.

Cloud is great but its just borrowing someone else's machine for a fee. It's like a hyper-scalable and granular mainframe but like all mainframes, the client is powerless without it.

We need to get our acts together and not allow ourselves to be smothered in silicon nimbus (clouds) and lose track of the open sky that is the internet.

I am not suggesting going back to the 2000s with a small tower PC under someone's desk with a blinking light running a business critical cron job.

Just that we need more appetite to take responsibility of our servers and systems. Yes it takes time to manage and get up to speed, but that's empowering right....?
by close04 | 2025-10-30 11:56:03+00:00
Well that was trigger happy and arguing for the sale of arguing. We have different definitions of what an advanced civilization is.

On #1, do you see the lack of written records as cutting down bureaucracy? Because historians see it as a period of civilization downturn and turmoil. No focus on things outside the necessities which were mostly about survival. The enlightenment or renaissance didn’t have these names for the return to documenting thoroughly. It was because of everything in between.

#2 “A lot of people” says nothing. The average person in the year 900 had no formal education so would probably know at best some stories or legends about what came 500 years before. But let’s not pretend this changes the meaning of what I said.

#3 Many people today are slaves so were the dark ages more civilized?
by chii | 2025-10-30 11:58:17+00:00
> Yes it takes time to manage and get up to speed, but that's empowering right....?

I rather not, but instead these compute clouds should be treated similarly to utilities - you don't really want to be running your own generators for electricity do you? So why is it that we can setup utilities properly, where everybody can trust that it stays on and usable for a price low enough?

My theory is that vendor lock in is the cause. Cloud should be a commodity, but it isn't because nobody in the cloud business wants to be a commodity. Hence, they have every incentive to prevent it from happening.
by lvl155 | 2025-10-30 11:58:27+00:00
Amazon and Apple are two companies taking it conservatively in this bubble. Possibly because they actually have gone through the last bubble with some pain. Microsoft to some degree but they have the luxury of OpenAI.

We are at a point in this bubble where planned capex is approaching theorectical limits of actual energy capacity. Let’s see when they start pumping coal companies because they restart those plants…not even joking.
by fidotron | 2025-10-30 11:58:36+00:00
> So just the simple fact of "existing" on the Internet now costs money. Not only that, with their ads, you can target competitors search names. So you need to outbid your competitors so that your users don't get directed to your competitors by "accident".

To be clear, they have been doing this for so long I was first told it by a friend in the travel sector almost 20 years ago, along with the explanation of why this ends up absorbing a frightening proportion of the spare money in the economy.

The whole reason Google had such a nightmare over Facebook was FB is the only thing that broke their monopoly on this, which is why FB also prints money.
by arcticbull | 2025-10-30 11:58:47+00:00
Their revenue in the entire first half per the article was $4.3B, even if we assume it was backloaded in Q2 that’s a -500% profit margin. I’m very excited to review their S-1.

Like, for every dollar you give them they spend $5 to deliver the product. They’re selling $10 bills for $2. They seem to have taken the joke about making up losses with scale pretty seriously.
by sho_hn | 2025-10-30 11:59:14+00:00
Discord has some structures and dynamics that really work against it for the sort of communities IRC excels at.

The standard Discord experience has you look for and join a "server", each of which is meant to feel like distinct island. This has every server duplicate the same set of boilerplate #general, #off-topic etc. channels, as if there are no others. As a result the vast majority of servers are fairly dead and barren, the userbase is spread too thin. Also because the UX makes switching between servers a fairly heavy context switch, so monitoring this deluge of channels is not fun and nobody can stay on top of all of their servers.

I once looked around for maker-y/electronics Discords, and joined probably 7-8, and they were all dead. ##electronics on Libera is highly active.
by keybored | 2025-10-30 11:59:15+00:00
> I was referring to this specific part of the comment I replied to: "Americans are averse to learning languages as opposed to other people". My response is a very accurate explanation of the reasons why this is a) an unfair way of looking at things, and b) not unique to Americans. What aspect of my response is uncharitable? I'm not saying things should be one way or another, just explaining how they are.

Okay that’s fair. I glossed over that part.

> The situation I described has occurred to me more then once, even after I tried to communicate in the local language.

Your interpretation of the chain of events perhaps.

One person goes to a country and meets kind strangers. “Wow, these people are nice to strangers”. Another person has the same experience. “Wow, these people must love me or X attribute.”

> English speaking is a flex in a lot of the world and poor English is embarrassing. The desirability and prevalance of English may upset you, but it is objectively true. You can get English teaching jobs and find plenty of English speakers all over the planet. The same is not true for any of the other languages I mentioned in my post.

I’m very upset that I speak English fluently. It really inconveniences me. > Lmao, why are you so angry? I grew up in Australia and south east asia.

Do you know what a comparison is? I did not call you an American. There’s no reason to take offense.
by tw1984 | 2025-10-30 11:59:18+00:00
> China’s rare earth strategy was formulated roughly 40 years ago

what a joke! Just 8 years ago, there were hundreds of rare earth companies all fight against each other by pushing prices to the very bottom destroying any possible profitability of the business.

as of today, Americans would end up in jail for working for some random Chinese companies in so called sensitive sectors, but American companies can freely hire Chinese rare earth engineers.

is that the strategy you mean? lol
by rowanG077 | 2025-10-30 11:59:55+00:00
I think they are saying that there is no proof of being injective. The argument with the hash is essentially saying, doing the same experiment with a hash would yield a similar result, yet hash function are not injective by definition. So from this experimental result you cannot conclude language models are injective.

That's not really formally true, there are so called perfect hash functions that are injective over a certain domain, but in most parlance hashing is not considered injective.