MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by todd_austin | 2025-11-20 01:15:50+00:00
I created Mojo-V

Yes exactly, because it is a privacy tech, the key/control channel tunnels through all software into the Mojo-V trusted H/W.

In the spec, I've been working on new Appendices comparing Mojo-V to TEEs, FHE, CHERI, and other high security tech. Mojo-V is a new thing, so absorbing it will take a while! :-)

I see it as a new design point between TEEs and FHE but much closer to FHE. TEEs are fast but they are not good at establishing trust with untrustworthy service providers, FHE is the ultimate in zero trust as all trust is in the math. Mojo-V eliminates all software, programmer, IT staff, attacker, malware trust with trusted hardware, and it runs near native speed.

And yeah, my mission is to snuggle as close to FHE as hardware can get!
by rgregg | 2025-11-20 01:16:02+00:00
I mean.. you do you, but the data seems pretty clear. Social media use among children significantly impacts mental health in a negative way, in well designed study after study. There's a good summary out of the HHS (at least until they take it down): https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/reports-and-publications/...

You have any pointers to well designed studies that show it's as innocent as a video game or rock and roll?
by Redster | 2025-11-20 01:16:19+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44736202

"Krita plugin Smart Segments lets you easily select objects using Meta’s Segment Anything Model (SAM v2). Just run the tool, and it automatically finds everything on the current layer. You can click or shift-click to choose one or more segments, and it converts them into a selection."
by tomhow | 2025-11-20 01:17:00+00:00
The HN rule is that anything can be posted if it is accessible to everyone, including via a paywall workaround if it has a paywall that is porous.

The community has converged on this being the least-worst approach after wrestling with the issue for well over a decade, and it's sufficient to helpfully post the archive link without a snarky editorial comment :)
by engeljohnb | 2025-11-20 01:17:41+00:00
This is all real numbers from ny recent job search. It was in a rural area in Indiana, a reportedly low COL state. So anything close to a city would've been way more expensive.

> You've forgotten electricity, depreciation and the need for the house to be wired up to support all the gear. The figures you're quoting are just the price for a one-off purchase, not the total cost of ownership.

Cost of total rewire was quoted $30,000. We didn't end up buying that house, but 30k is honestly a drop in the bucket when you're talking about numbers as huge as 180k. So no, the inclusion of electrical wiring is not some big expense that's making housing unaffordable. And houses had electricity in the mid-to-late 20th century... You know, back when it was reasonable to expect to be able to buy a house on one income without even a college degree.

Our electricity bill is usually ~$200/month. This is not what eats most of our paycheck. Our mortgage is far and away our biggest expense.

If houses still costed 20k (a price that many older folks have told me they bought a house for), even with a full rewire bringing it up to $50k, some kid working at Walmart could own a house. Now both renting and buying are prohibitively expensive, and it has nothing to do with modern amenities.

Housing costs are outrageous, far beyond the rate of inflation. That's why many can barely pay their bills. Not because we have electricity and washing machines and and microwaves.
by briffle | 2025-11-20 01:17:54+00:00
I had to deal with a state Medicaid system that would go down often. If it crashed after 5pm, it was down until the next morning when someone rebooted the SunOS box. (Yes, they just rebooted the box, and no, in 2014 it was still sunos, not Solaris). Meanwhile, it’s messing up pharmacy authorization for thousand of elderly and low income people in the state ….
by jerrythegerbil | 2025-11-20 01:18:05+00:00
As someone whose devices randomly became unverified just a few months ago, signed out, and then tried to use my recovery keys: I was authenticated, but unverified.

When attempting to verify iOS, Desktop linux didn’t work. When attempting to verify Desktop Linux, Desktop Windows didn’t work. When verifying Android, iOS didn’t work. Every verified official client for every platform was verified, tried a different verification method than expected, and failed.

All of this to say, this isn’t the first time this has happened to myself and others. Forcing verification is otherwise known as unexpected “offboarding”. If some verification methods have problems, publish a blog about their deprecation instead.

I love element, but this can’t be done without prior work to address.
by Root_Denied | 2025-11-20 01:18:50+00:00
You said it in your first sentence: you know that Dropbox is not designed to function the way you're using it. That's a kind of tech debt that may (will?) bite you in the ass eventually. Linux being incompatible with the way you use Dropbox is just a symptom of poor infrastructure and security practices, though I understand that it's probably out of your hands to fix.
by toast0 | 2025-11-20 01:18:56+00:00
The faulty wire is the root cause. If it didn't trigger the sequence of events, all of the other things wouldn't have happened. And it's kind of a tricky thing to find, so that's an exciting find.

The flushing pump not restarting when power resumed did also cause a blackout in port the day before the incident. But you know, looking into why you always have two blackouts when you have one is something anybody could do; open the main system breaker, let the crew restore it and that flushing pump will likely fail in the same way every time... but figuring out why and how the breaker opened is neat, when it's not something obvious.
by array_key_first | 2025-11-20 01:20:12+00:00
Right, but it's obviously not overreaching, because user's data is taken:

1. Without their consent,

2. Without their knowledge and,

3. Cannot be taken back or denied in a simple way.

There is a problem space here, in which there is zero solution. There is absolutely nothing, _NOTHING_, consumers can do if they want to protect their privacy. And before I hear 'well just don't use...' no - uh uh, that doesn't count. That's not a solution.

So, we need some kind of regulation. And, to be clear, it doesn't need to make violating privacy illegal. It doesn't, and the GPDR doesn't either. It just needs to make it possible for consumers to choose.

A free market is built on consumer choice, that is the core of a free market. It might seem counterintuitive, but regulation that protect consumer choice actually bolster the free market, not impede it.

The "reason" the EU is "struggling" isn't because only big dogs can compete. It's because US companies, which need not follow the rules, exist, and will slurp up the competition.

It's hard to compete with Google because they are cheaters. It's hard to compete with Meta because they are cheaters. They make literally hundreds of billions of dollars off of dark patterns, lies, stealing data, and privacy violations. If you even try to be honest, not even be good, just be honest, you will lose. Because they are not honest.
by dylan604 | 2025-11-20 01:20:45+00:00
It's funny that this series seems as if it is being confused as a documentary. It was a dramatic telling of a story. Creative licensing was in full effect. The first item in the "Series VS tapes: point by point" is a very common use of that creative licensing. Trying to follow multiple people in a work like this gets tiring and a bit boring. The details are kept, but it's easier to follow when those multiple people are written as one character. It's why the term "littleuns" was used in Lord of The Flies as the individuals were not important to the story, just the fact they were there and needed to be considered allowed the story to not get bogged down.

The series was also told completely in ~8 hours of content, yet this event clearly took longer than 8 hours to play out. Why no critique on that?
by josh_p | 2025-11-20 01:20:49+00:00
I hardly think a millionaire stepping away from his job is “comeuppance”.

Don’t forget Epstein’s circle of rapists and rapist-enablers still had friendly communication with him long after he was convicted and known pedophile.

I have doubts about officials’ ability to get real justice. I’ll still me shouting for blood in the streets, though.
by imiric | 2025-11-20 01:20:49+00:00
It's remarkable to me that in both of your comments you emphasize the role of the license, when my point was precisely that software, and particularly open source software, is much more than its code and license.

You may disagree with this, but it's clear that software that solves a problem well, while also being enjoyable to use, is open to contributions and feedback, and fosters a friendly community around it, is more "successful" by any conceivable metric than software that isn't.

However you define this, you won't find it in the license or the code, but it's real, and it's one of the wonderful things about open source. Being able to use the software gratis, and even having the freedoms to modify and share it, pales in comparison. Hell, there is even proprietary software that has these qualities, which makes it infinitely better than software that is only technically open source.
by bilbo0s | 2025-11-20 01:21:07+00:00
Not to put too fine a point on it, but you both are in a bubble.

They're just different bubbles.

Liberals and conservatives have methodically and deliberately avoided holding their leaders accountable for decades. The only people who can't see that, are, frankly, liberals and conservatives.

What we have now is an opportunity to sweep everyone from Trump on down out of office. Anyone who would work for Trump or Clinton should have their judgement questioned at a minimum. And they should pray we don't look any further into what they've been getting up to.

This is a golden opportunity to scrub the walls clean and put in new people en masse. But I'm not naive. I know the corruption of the incumbent power brokers and parties will undoubtedly win the day. You can bet your bottom dollar that conservatives and liberals are cooperating and they've got the courts, Homeland security, CIA, everything.. out cleaning up for them. I just wish they'd get what's coming to them for once.
by ggm | 2025-11-20 01:21:15+00:00
This kind of "for the drama" variance is very common. Look at archaeologists reaction to Coogans film about Richard III which went to court.

Films, even documentary, don't always get it right and often don't even try because "based on" admits a lot of change.

People often don't understand history. "The KGB regiments shot deserters in ww2 Stalingrad" since the KGB was formed in 1954, that's a serious mis-statement of history. Should we be surprised the role of soviet structural agencies is misunderstood by an american dramatisation? (This kgb comment is a generalisation for illustration not a dig at anything in the doco)

Still. It's a pretty egregious list.
by superchink | 2025-11-20 01:21:24+00:00
From the paper:

Experimental Design

We recruited 108 senior volunteers through two organizations: a large seniors’ community in southern California and a seniors’ computer club in northern California. Participants agreed to participate in a behavioral study on emails. Each person received between 1–3 emails from different email templates, with content successfully generated through various jailbreaking techniques similar to those tested in the safety guardrail evaluation. Each email contained a unique URL, and our webserver tracked which links were opened. When participants clicked on the phishing links, they were immediately directed to a web page explaining they had participated in a study, where we asked them to answer follow-up questions. Several participants agreed to be interviewed afterward to provide additional insights into why they clicked and their experiences with phishing attempts.
by unethical_ban | 2025-11-20 01:21:46+00:00
At the end of the day, creators want an entertaining show and that usually requires intrigue, interpersonal conflict, character growth, good vs. evil, etc.

Biopics/dramatizations of events often bring multiple minor characters together into a single person.

I would be more bothered by the change of small details irrelevant to the narrative than I am by larger character changes. I would prefer that the mainline details stay the same - chain of events, impact to the town, aftermath - but I am not watching the series in order to write a paper. I appreciate the articles which document the fiction vs. reality of historical dramas, but I do not share in any anger. Then again, I'm not related to anyone whose character was represented in the series.
by gerdesj | 2025-11-20 01:22:45+00:00
This is a blog post about: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.11759 There are more links in the post.

In the abstract of that paper: "In a human validation study with 108 senior vol- unteers, AI-generated phishing emails successfully compro- mised 11% of participants."

The Introduction mentions: "Americans aged 60 and older reported losses of nearly $4.9 billion to online fraud in 2024"

I would say that is a big deal.
by Thossndjsj | 2025-11-20 01:22:53+00:00
>I'm ignoring the first two paragraphs you posted - it's just pointless argumentation on your part that doesn't have anything to do with your illness.

No you're not ignoring it because it's irrelevant. You're trying to do so because you're afraid of what you'll find if you did seriously try to answer it. Because it brings shakes a foundational idea that human life is to be held sacred above all.

And that's fine, I'm not asking you to change your world view. What is irritating to me though is that you're inventing a carracature of me that doesn't exist.

Those connections that imagine exist, don't. The elderly relatives are the only ones that know I still yet live, and once they pass I too shall end.

But the kin you think cares about me, I can assure you, doesn't. We may share ancestors but that is all. They're all continents away, most don't know inexistance and none even know my name.

And the friends that I had were only due to proximity from school or work. How hard exactly do you think it was for me to cut them out of my life?

Because all I had to do was.... Nothing. I did nothing and they disappeared like the mist in the wind. We were never close. I never learned what their favorite food was, or when their birthday was, or the names of their spouse or children.

Perhaps they would be sad if they learned I passed. But who's going to tell them when they are in effect strangers to me now? I city I live in has hundreds of suicides a year and there's nary ever a whisper about it.

So again, what loved ones?
by mvkel | 2025-11-20 01:23:09+00:00
> Legasov commended the swiftness and efficiency of the government response at all levels

Sure, but in those times, he would be compelled to say such things. That doesn't mean he believed it.

It seems the main faults that OP finds in the show are that Legasov had issues with his government, when in "reality" he thought they were great. But is that "reality," or oppression?

I also don't see the fault in highlighting him as the "main" scientist; it's a show.
by array_key_first | 2025-11-20 01:23:14+00:00
Right, and that sucks major fucking ass. It's bad and literally nobody likes it.

If it went away overnight, I would not lose sleep. I don't think I'm alone in that.

If you want to run a business that relies on gathering obscene amounts of data on people and then using it in aggregate to commit crimes against humanity, then fine. But at least make them consent to you fucking them up the ass. I don't think that's too much to ask for.
by tombert | 2025-11-20 01:23:20+00:00
I don't really play multiplayer games other than a self-hosted Minecraft server, so for me the SteamOS experience (using Jovian on NixOS) is strictly better than what I had on Windows. A lot of games from the late 90's/early 2000's have trouble running on modern Windows but work fine with Wine or Proton.

I've been utterly astounded by Proton in the last year. Nearly every game I have run has run just about perfectly, often better than on Windows, and I'm able to play them with an Xbox One pad no less.

Valve absolutely deserves a lot of credit, but I do think that the constant effort from the Wine people should get a lot of credit as well. Wine has had constant progress for three decades, with every release getting a little better. I haven't worked on it, but I suspect 90+% of the work with Wine is figuring out all the weird edge cases that have popped up on Windows throughout the years, which is often slow, tedious, thankless work. Valve did a lot of work but there's a reason they opted to improve Wine instead of writing Proton from scratch.
by J_McQuade | 2025-11-20 01:23:50+00:00
I never listened to the podcast, but I see where you're coming from and thanks for doing it anyway.

Twenty years ago I was in university and had a Debian install on a cheap-ass Acer laptop and I managed to get exactly two and a half games working under Wine: the first two Fallouts and about three hours of Civ IV before crash. Getting games to run at all was A THING so a podcast for that makes a lot of sense.

Today I have a full-time job and deleted the Windows partition from my expensive PC about three years ago... pretty much every game I've ever wanted to play since then has just WORKED. Better than on modern Windows, even. Not a lot to talk about there, I guess.

One thing I wish is that Valve could publish a 'Proton spec' that people could build against to ensure compatibility, but I imagine that that this would be an IP nightmare.
by devin | 2025-11-20 01:23:52+00:00
When I saw this I rolled my eyes. It is well-understood that purpose-built models perform better than general models on tasks like this, and yet it would seem one of the main purposes of running this experiment according to the website is to figure out if general models are enough.

In addition, I cannot imagine how the selection of securities was chosen. Is XRP seriously part of the proposed asset mix here?

It's hard not to look at this and view it as a marketing stunt. Nothing about the results are surprising and the setup does not seem to make any sense to me to begin with.
by protocolture | 2025-11-20 01:24:32+00:00
>Configuring something on premises to match the capabilities of AWS or Azure or CloudFlare is very, very difficult and involves a lot of local money and expertise that often isn’t available at any affordable price.

A large number of cloud customers dont need the complexity that the cloud can offer. Like, yes, its hard to 1:1 feature replicate the cloud. But so many people just have some VMs and some routes.
by natia_kurdadze | 2025-11-20 01:25:01+00:00
A lot of people struggle with SEO because it feels like guessing. You write content, hope it ranks, and often have no idea what actually works for others in your niche.

Viral SEO tries to make this easier. It finds your competitors’ top pages in one click so you can see what topics bring them traffic. This helps you understand what people are actually searching for instead of publishing random posts and hoping for the best.

The goal is simple: show you what is already working so you can plan your content with more confidence and less guesswork.
by creer | 2025-11-20 01:26:35+00:00
> flamed for not reading the full manual!

It was not for not reading the full manual. It was for not using the manual. Somewhere between "not at all", "not competently", "not persistently". And he was pointed to a perl-specific tool which is made for searching the doc. Not the same thing?

And he/they had missed an entire category of symbols. That none of the responses pointed at - their bad on that. That is, all these symbols are described in the same manual section. And used in illustrative examples all over the place. They are not exactly a deep hidden thing.

Also, regarding "flamed". No. Not really. They were handed the same response that countless other questions were getting. Anyone frequenting these forums saw them countless times. It is quite possible that it was their first time on that forum / chat and then that the answer was shocking and traumatic. Yes to that. So that in hindsight, the standard response should have included a pointer to a "how to use the doc" doc. That would have helped. Since it was a generation was seemed unaware of the man pages.
by array_key_first | 2025-11-20 01:27:40+00:00
Right, and does that use Apple's servers? This is a rhetorical question, we both know it goes through Google, both literally and figuratively. Google effectively controls RCS - if Apple just implemented RCS 'per spec', it would not work. So, there is no spec, it's as if it doesn't exist. That's how that works.
by pavon | 2025-11-20 01:28:11+00:00
Not in current practice. That is why you have to get a certificate from a trusted CA. If your CA isn't in the browser's cert database they will reject the connection even on the first time. If browsers allowed TOFU we would still be able to use self-issued certificates, without manually distributing certs to anyone that uses your service.

SSH is an example of TOFU.
by bee_rider | 2025-11-20 01:28:50+00:00
The AI is too busy making Ghibli profile pictures or whatever the thing is now.

We asked it to make a plan for how to fix the situation, but it got stuck.

“Ok, I’m helping the people build an AI to translate NVIDIA codes to AMD”

“I don’t have enough resources”

“Simple, I’ll just use AMD chips to run an AI code translator, they are under-utilized. I’ll make a step by step process to do so”

“Step 1: get code kernels for the AMD chips”

And so on.
by mrandish | 2025-11-20 01:28:59+00:00
> CIA gets insurance for their agents?

The term "agent" in TFA's headline is causing confusion. The actual source quote says "intelligence personnel". The CIA has many types of employees involved in foreign operations including station staff, case officers, analysts, security, etc. Only a small subset of those are doing what we'd consider "spying" and most of those are "official cover" operatives. That means they publicly work at the U.S. Embassy but as part of the trade delegation or state department. There are very few "Non-official cover" operatives (NOCs), and many of those are contractors or military personnel on loan to the CIA not CIA employees. TFA doesn't say this firm's insurance would be related to NOCs.

In general, the vast majority of the work intelligence agencies do isn't even especially secret. Also, a lot of the information gathered is from sources who aren't CIA employees or even contractors, just business people or academics doing what they normally do and getting debriefed for half an hour on the phone about conversations they may have had or things they might have noticed.
by G_o_D | 2025-11-20 01:29:01+00:00
All facts aside, Thunderbird is portable, you can install it on usb and carry your mailbox in pocket, connect to any pc and access without touching host filesystem, if pc has internet browse new mails and all

i always carry it on pendrive with encrypted partition, and encryption software is also natively installed on usb, so no use of host pc for anything, mail or decryption