MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ryanjshaw | 2025-11-18 13:35:04+00:00
> Fortunately, complementary currencies are now legal in just about every country, as evidenced by the popularity of cryptocurrencies, one form of a complementary currency.

In many countries, cryptocurrency is considered a commodity - not money - and therefore disposals (where a cryptocurrency is given up in exchange for something else) are taxable events.

This is quite inconvenient and complex compared to money, and only less so if you are fortunate enough to be using a cryptocurrency that is pegged to your local currency (eg USDC or mUSD in place of USD).

Furthermore, if I understand it correctly, the purpose of complementary currencies is to act as a form of capital outflow restriction: you have a limited amount of capital in your town, and you want it to remain in your town alone. A complementary currency, which can only be spent locally, restricts the outflows of capital and allows it to remain local and do useful work multiple times within your town rather than potentially enriching other towns.

Cryptocurrency doesn’t intrinsically do that at all, although there are certainly some tokens designs that can replicate it eg LP emissions on decentralized exchanges.
by zzzeek | 2025-11-18 13:35:07+00:00
~~two~~ three comments on that:

1. DDOS protection is not the only thing anymore, I use cloudflare because of vast amounts of AI bots from thousands of ASNs around the world crawling my CI servers (bloated Java VMs on very undersized hosts) and bringing them down (granted, I threw cloudflare onto my static sites as well which was not really necessary, I just liked their analytics UX)

2. the XKCD comic is mis-interpreted there, that little block is small because it's a "small open source project run by one person", cloudflare is the opposite of that

3. edit: also cloudflare is awesome if you are migrating hosts, did a migration this past month, you point cloudflare to the new servers and it's instant DNS propagation (since you didnt propagate anything :) )
by CableNinja | 2025-11-18 13:35:16+00:00
These kinds of outages continue to happen and continue to impact 50+% of the internet, yes, they know they have that power, but they dont treat changes as such, so no, they arent aware. Awareness would imply more care in operations like code changes and deployments.

Outages happen, code changes occur; but you can do a lot to prevent these things on a large scale, and they simply dont.

Where is the A/B deployment, preventing a full outage? What about internally, where was the validation before the change, was the testing run against a prodlike environment or something that once resembled prod but hasnt forever?

They could absolutely mitigate impacting the entire global infra in multiple ways, and havent, despite their many outages.
by pqdbr | 2025-11-18 13:35:17+00:00
Any project that starts gaining any bit of traction get's hammered with bots (the ones that try every single /wp url even tough you don't even use Wordpress), frequent DDoS attacks, and so on.

I consider my server's real IP (or load balancer IP) as a secret for that reason, and Cloudflare helps exactly with that.

Everything goes through Cloudflare, where we have rate limiters, Web firewall, challenges for China / Russian inbound requests (we are very local and have zero customers outside our country), and so on.
by oliwarner | 2025-11-18 13:36:39+00:00
For an idea about society, that is an incredibly isolated lens on the problem.

You gain something if others put their trolleys away. You gain something [fuzzy] knowing you may have helped others. We have these mechanisms of cooperation that some people eschew, that some demand, and coin-release trolleys are the response to what happens when it breaks down.

Coincidentally a supermarket near me has recently converted their trolley stock to coin-release. I have three children and increasingly few Pound coins so a result of this is I shop less, and far less impulsively. Good job, Tesco.
by kragen | 2025-11-18 13:36:57+00:00
I'd like to see what kind of hardware acceleration would help STMs without imposing severe limitations on their generality.

To me, the appealing things about STMs are the possibility of separating concerns of worst-case execution time and error handling, which are normally pervasive concerns that defeat modularity, from the majority of the system's code. I know this is not the mainstream view, which is mostly about manycore performance.
by robot-wrangler | 2025-11-18 13:37:00+00:00
IANAE, but besides things like the threatened oligarchs and taxes and government-monopoly on the legal use of force.. raw materials and imports/exports would seem to be an even more basic problem for an optimist that thinks the first big 3 issues can be worked around. That's why I think the dutch circular economy[1] is so interesting. Hopefully someone much more informed could opine?

It's definitely got a "degrowth" aspect involved and the captains of industry will not appreciate it. On the other hand, it's much less threatening to entrenched interests compared to a large group of people who are explicitly trying to just opt out of a system you're deeply invested in.

[1] https://www.government.nl/topics/circular-economy/circular-d...
by shevy-java | 2025-11-18 13:37:10+00:00
> Newer evidence suggests that ditching tough-to-attain goals > can actually be good for us.

> adjusting our goals in response to stress or challenges, rather than grinding on, is often “a more appropriate and beneficial response.”

It depends a lot on the goals. I give up often and quickly. One reason is ... lack of time. (And also lack of discipline, but lack of time is really one key reason I toss away many things these days. You live only once, at the least most of us.)

There is, however had, one interesting study from psychology. I forgot the name, but they showed tests with kids as to "if you eat this now, you won't get an additional reward, but if you won't eat it for an hour, you get more lateron". Now this was not the setup, I am just quoting this from memory. The adults left the room so only the kid was there and some sweets on the table.

It was quite convincingly shown that the kids with more discipline and will-power, aka who refused the sweets in order to get more reward lateron, were also more successful on average lateron. Or, at the least, avoided some problems such as drug addiction and what not. So I think the "benefits of giving up" has to be put in context. It depends on what and how you give up. I may not give up on A, but then I may not be able to do B, because of lack of time, lack of resources and so forth. So these are just trade-offs, but discipline and will-power are just about almost always really excellent traits to have or train for.
by nickd2001 | 2025-11-18 13:37:31+00:00
Cautionary tale from here in UK. We had a Neff (same company as Bosch and Siemens) dishwasher which we used heavily for 10 yrs then it started to leak because they'd used plastic in the base which got warped with heat. So, ditched a perfectly running machine due to a design flaw. Replaced it with a Miele in the hope that'd be better. So got a nice-and-simple base model, about £750 I think (as opposed to £400ish you can pay for another Neff). Turns out its made in Czech, not Germany. Although apparently Germans are cynical about their own factories these days, and it may be same quality. So far, it has a design fault that the drain detector is over sensitive. If bits of food fall on the base it interpets that as its still got water in and perpetually keeps trying to drain unless you pour a jug of water in to disperse food bits. Also depending how you close the door sometimes it seems to not engage, have to open and re-shut to make it work. One of the solenoids somewhere sounds a little rattly / not totally healthy, but that may be nothing. Quality of cleaning, and ease of stacking, appears less good than the Neff was. Suffice to say, I reserve judgement on whether paying extra for a Miele is worth it. They claim they're good for 20 yrs but if you read the small print that's at only 5 runs a week or something , not every day. So it may not actually be much better than the Neff in the end. But the Neffs now look cheaper and tackier than the ones from 10 yrs ago. Not an easy decision. Our best appliance purchase ever was a "Tesco value" microwave, which is Chinese cr*p that's still running fine almost 20 yrs later. ;) Good luck with your purchase ;)
by aklemm | 2025-11-18 13:37:51+00:00
The angle that has always perturbed me about EA is the implication (or outright accusation, really) that the entire philanthropy world is full of useless bozos ineffectually stumbling around failing to help people.

While greater efficiencies are always welcome, it seem immature or unwise to bring the “Well I tell ya what I’d do…” attitude to incredibly complex messy human endeavors like philanthropy. Ditto for politics. Rather get in there and learn why these systems are so messy…that’s life, really.
by nake89 | 2025-11-18 13:37:55+00:00
While it is true the rendering engine is the same. The functionality is different. I have 5 browsers installed on iOS. They are not the same. - Brave. Has native adblocking - Orion. Supports extensions from firefox and chrome extension store (not perfect compatibility, but still quite amazing). - DuckDuckGo Browser. Offers nice privacy features. - Firefox. Allows to sync tabs with desktop. - Edge. IIRC I installed this when LLMs were early and it had built in bing chat for free llm chatting.

So while the rendering engine is the same, that is one of the least interesting things.

That said, I'm all for removing this requirement.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-18 13:38:16+00:00
> EDIT: Also, your DNS provider is censoring (and probably monitoring) your internet traffic. I would switch to a different provider.

Yeah, that was via my ISPs DNS resolver (Vodafone), switching the resolver works :)

The responsible party is ultimately our government who've decided it's legal to block a wide range of servers and websites because some people like to watch illegal football streams. I think Allot is just the provider of the technology.
by IAmBroom | 2025-11-18 13:38:26+00:00
You are inventing a meaninglessly broad definition of currency.

Gift cards are a credit system (a proxy) for existing currency.

No one trades credit scores for goods.

The next three function are bribing a socially powerful person, because they don't work in reverse - Kim Kardashian is never going to do me a favor in exchange for mentioning her on my IG.

Trading cards are scarcity trading, not fungible proxies for wealth. I've gotten a reduction in price for an antique via a cold Coke, during a hot outdoor antique show, but that doesn't make cold pop cans currency - I wouldn't have gotten twice the discount for two of them.
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-11-18 13:38:27+00:00
Yeah, this is something people think is super easy to automate, and it is for the most basic implementation of something like a single test runner. The most basic implementation is prone to false positives, and as you say, breaking when the rest of your stuff breaks.

You can put your test runner on different infrastructure, and now you have a whole new class of false positives to deal with. And it costs you a bit more because you're probably paying someone for the different infra.

You can put several test runners on different infrastructure in different parts of the world. This increases your costs further. The only truly clear signals you get from this are when all are passing or all are failing. Any mixture of passes and fails has an opportunity for misinterpretation. Why is Sydney timing out while all the others are passing? Is that an issue with the test runner or its local infra, or is there an internet event happening (cable cut, BGP hijack, etc) beyond the local infra?

And thus nearly everyone has a human in the loop to interpret the test results and make a decision about whether to post, regardless of how far they've gone with automation.
by ben_w | 2025-11-18 13:38:51+00:00
> Show me where it’s a felony to use your own money to cover up an affair?

The "falsified business records" bit, for which he was convicted under felony charges. Those bits, where he was convicted as a felon, are what makes it a felony.

Likewise, it wasn't a crime for Bill Clinton to have an affair with any of the White House interns (AFAICT Paula Jones was before then), but then Clinton went and lied about affairs under oath, which was.

There's a reason why I put emphasis on "mere infidelity".

> My esteemed colleagues in the bar would be outraged if a legal theory half as aggressively creative as this one was brought against a gang murderer. They would leap at the chance to handle the appeals pro bono.

The fact he was convicted says otherwise on the first part, and the observation that he's still having trouble getting competent lawyers to defend him even now he's back in office speaks poorly of either your esteemed colleagues or of your estimation of them.
by ulrikrasmussen | 2025-11-18 13:38:56+00:00
Yeah, I went to HN after the third web page didn't work. I am not just worried about the single point of failure, I am much more worried about this centralization eventually shaping the future standards of the web and making it de facto impossible to self-host anything.

Well that and the fact that when 99% goes through a central party, then that central party will be very interesting for authoritarian governments to apply sweeping censorship rules to.
by OptionOfT | 2025-11-18 13:39:06+00:00
They even query if the monitor is connected in a HDCP compliant way.

There is a bug in either that process, my monitor, or the DP protocol.

Sometimes when that detection happens, my monitor turns grey, which is what it's supposed to do when you play HDCP content over a non-HDCP link.

But I'm not doing that. I'm just visiting a website.
by dominicrose | 2025-11-18 13:39:18+00:00
I use WSL because I don't have the option to ditch Windows completely at work.

But here's an example of something that doesn't work well with WSL: having a git repository in Ubuntu (WSL) and reading/modifying it from Sublime Merge on Windows.

I'm forced to rely on the terminal git commands or on VS Code (because it can use a WSL back-end) and it's not ideal to be forced to a couple of options.
by nevf1 | 2025-11-18 13:39:45+00:00
It's also what was the cause of the Azure Front Doors global outage two weeks ago - https://aka.ms/air/YKYN-BWZ

"A specific sequence of customer configuration changes, performed across two different control plane build versions, resulted in incompatible customer configuration metadata being generated. These customer configuration changes themselves were valid and non-malicious – however they produced metadata that, when deployed to edge site servers, exposed a latent bug in the data plane. This incompatibility triggered a crash during asynchronous processing within the data plane service. This defect escaped detection due to a gap in our pre-production validation, since not all features are validated across different control plane build versions."
by jebarker | 2025-11-18 13:39:46+00:00
> It’s remarkably easy to latch onto goals that seem like great ideas but ultimately don’t align to your own happiness

I wonder if the whole idea of goals and ambition being able to deliver happiness is wrong. Certainly whenever I’ve set a goal and achieve it nothing much changes in how I feel about life because I was hoping for too much and so must just find a new goal.
by JohnFen | 2025-11-18 13:39:49+00:00
This is one of those quotes that sounds profound, but is actually fairly meaningless. How do you define a "reasonable person"? In the quote, it's defined as "someone who adapts themselves to the world", which is a strange definition that is eminently debatable. Therefore, the quote is a tautology. It's the same as saying "trying to change things is unreasonable, so only unreasonable people try to change things".
by Jcampuzano2 | 2025-11-18 13:39:55+00:00
We knew it would be a big jump and while it certainly is in many areas - its definitely not "groundbreaking/huge leap" worthy like some were thinking from looking at these numbers.

I feel like many will be pretty disappointed by their self created expectations for this model when they end up actually using it and it turns out to be fairly similar to other frontier models.

Personally I'm very interested in how they end up pricing it.
by hulitu | 2025-11-18 13:40:16+00:00
> Computer/Network gear that is designed, manufactured, sold and distributed by Chinese companies should be assumed to come with MSS-infected microcode, SecureBoot ([U]EFI/BIOS), firmware and/or operating systems that are vulnerable in ways that offer “plausibly deniability” as to the intent of the manufacturer. In some cases, the infected payload will be transmitted to the customer environment through updates supplied by Chinese websites

Better buy Cisco equipment. They are known for they security. And Apple (they fixed the last iMessage exploit), and Microsoft (we, at Microsoft, take security very seriously)...

If the Chinese are so bad, why are all American products made in China ?
by wk_end | 2025-11-18 13:40:40+00:00
“Routine visit”? “Semi—annual checkup”? Where I live in Canada (Victoria) the health care system is so overburdened that this reads like a sick joke. The cost of living is too high and the government doesn’t pay enough to get family doctors out here, so we mostly just have the ER. This is with an NDP government for nearly the past decade, mind you.
by iso1631 | 2025-11-18 13:41:10+00:00
And HN users love it too. I've had people on this site say how great it is that their system routes 30% of traffic on the internet.

I'd be horrified. That's not the internet or computing industries I grew up with, or started working in.

But as long as the SPY keeps hitting > 10% returns each year, everyone's happy.
by hackinthebochs | 2025-11-18 13:41:19+00:00
LLMs aren't language models, but are a general purpose computing paradigm. LLMs are circuit builders, the converged parameters define pathways through the architecture that pick out specific programs. Or as Karpathy puts it, LLMs are a differentiable computer[1]. Training LLMs discovers programs that well reproduce the input sequence. Roughly the same architecture can generate passable images, music, or even video.

It's not that language generation is all there is to AGI, but that to sufficiently model text that is about the wide range of human experiences, we need to model those experiences. LLMs model the world to varying degrees, and perhaps in the limit of unbounded training data, they can model the human's perspective in it as well.

[1] https://x.com/karpathy/status/1582807367988654081
by davedx | 2025-11-18 13:41:19+00:00
I actually spoke too soon, and accept I have egg on my face!

Apparently prisma's `npm exec prisma generate` command tries to download "engine binaries" from https://binaries.prisma.sh, which is behind... guess what...

So now my CI/CD is broken, while my production env is down, and I can't fix it.

Amazing lol
by Tade0 | 2025-11-18 13:41:23+00:00
> The United States is the wealthiest nation on the planet according to Forbes, richer than the subsequent three nations combined.

This framing by Forbes (any many others really) is insidious because it doesn't take into account the population number and how unevenly wealth is spread.

For instance, Switzerland is not a huge economy - around the 20th in the world, but its citizens enjoy an extremely high quality of life because both income inequality and incomes overall are significantly better that in the US.
by tovej | 2025-11-18 13:41:50+00:00
The risk profile being the same does not mean that the actions are the same. The unicorns that make it rich invariably have some way of screwing over someone else., Either workers, users, or smaller competitors.

For Google and Facebook, users' data was sold to advertisers, and their behaviour is manipulated to benefit the company and its advertising clients. For Amazon, the workers are squeezed for all the contribution they can give and let go once they burn out, and they manipulate the marketplace that they govern to benefit them. If you make multiple hundreds of millions, you are either exploiting someone in the above way, or you are extracting rent from them.

Just looking at the wealth distribution is a good way to see how unicorns are immoral. If you suddenly shoot up into the billionaire class, you are making the wealth distribution worse, because your money is accruing from the less wealthy proportion of society.

That unicorns propagate this inequality is harmful in itself. The entire startup scene is also a fishing pond for existing monopolies. The unicorns are sold to the big immoral actors, making them more powerful.

What is taken away when inequality becomes worse is political power and agency. Maybe other contributors close to the founders are better off, but society as a whole is worse off.
by HereBePandas | 2025-11-18 13:41:58+00:00
Yes, two things: 1. GPT-5.1 Codex is a fine tune, not the "vanilla" 5.1 2. More importantly, GPT 5.1 Codex achieves its performance when used with a specific tool (Codex CLI) that is optimized for GPT 5.1 Codex. But when labs evaluate the models, they have to use a standard tool to make the comparisons apples-to-apples.

Will be interesting to see what Google releases that's coding-specific to follow Gemini 3.
by jrochkind1 | 2025-11-18 13:42:04+00:00
From that approach you could view (almost?) all human communication as artificial unreliable manipulation. And not be entirely wrong. But you could also view that same (almost?) all human communication as authentic attempts to connect and heal (including heal the speaker), if sometimes misguided, and not be entirely wrong either.

I am not sure I like what it does to my experience in the world to view all human communication as selfish manipulation. Although I recognize the pull to do so can come from an attempt to protect oneself based on past harm.
by 1shooner | 2025-11-18 13:42:43+00:00
Yes, I think we have different definitions. Some people make a distinction between social behavior and manipulation that you apparently do not.

If I wear nice clothes and make a good impression on someone, I am creating an outcome we both wanted at the outset. If we are meeting socially, they probably wanted to like me, and I wanted them to like me. That was the shared goal. That is cooperative, not manipulative.
by postalcoder | 2025-11-18 13:43:03+00:00
Couple patterns this could follow

Speed? (Flash, Flash-Lite, Antigravity) this is my guess. Bonus: maybe Gemini Diffusion soon?

Space? (Google Cloud, Google Antigravity?)

Clothes? (A light wearable -> Antigravity?)

Gaming? (Ghosting/nontangibility -> antigravity?)
by rgilton | 2025-11-18 13:43:10+00:00
What would the Internet's architecture have to look like for DDOS'ing to be a thing of the past, and therefore Cloudflare to not be needed?

I know there are solutions like IPFS out there for doing distributed/decentralised static content distribution, but that seems like only part of the problem. There are obviously more types of operation that occur via the network -- e.g. transactions with single remote pieces of equipment etc, which by their nature cannot be decentralised.

Anyone know of research out there into changing the way that packet-routing/switching works so that 'DDOS' just isn't a thing? Of course I appreciate there are a lot of things to get right in that!