MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-01 18:08:45+00:00
The point isn't that GrapheneOS is bad but rather that it doesn't imply there is anything wrong with LineageOS when it's still better than Android itself.

Moreover, some of the stuff with green boxes is still kind of a privacy fail. For example, with GNSS (i.e. GPS) your device calculates its location from the timing of radio broadcasts emitted by a network of satellites. It has extremely good privacy properties because your device is a passive radio receiver and neither the satellites nor anyone else know you're there when you use it. "Network-based location" can sometimes work when you're somewhere you can't hear the satellites, but now you have Google or someone else building a database of nearby wireless APs etc. in order to make it work, and in the process you're effectively uploading your location to them.
by munro | 2025-11-01 18:09:05+00:00
I'm more looking at the problem more like code

https://bbycroft.net/llm

My immediate thought is when the model responds "Oh I'm thinking about X"... that X isn't from the input, it's from attention, and thinking this experiment is simply injecting that token right after the input step into attn--but who knows how they select which weights
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-01 18:09:40+00:00
It is true.

> It increasingly looks like a coordinated effort to extract as much revenue as possible from consumers before widespread adoption of solar power shifts the balance.

That statement isn't wrong, but increased power prices on consumers through socializing the costs of privatized benefit data centers is the mechanism for this. Data centers are a tax on consumers via their electric bills.

Citations:

Data Center Demand Fuels Surge in Electric Costs - https://www.thesandpaper.net/articles/data-center-demand-fue... - October 8th, 2025

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring - https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-data-centers-elec... - September 29th, 2025

How AI infrastructure is driving a sharp rise in electricity bills - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-ai-infrastructure-is-d... - September 5th, 2025

Data centers will cause higher electricity prices, study finds - https://www.axios.com/local/raleigh/2025/08/28/data-centers-... - August 28th, 2025

As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act - https://apnews.com/article/electricity-prices-data-centers-a... - August 8th, 2025

CMU: Data Center Growth Could Increase Electricity Bills 8% Nationally and as Much as 25% in Some Regional Markets - https://www.cmu.edu/work-that-matters/energy-innovation/data...

https://www.datacenterwatch.org/report

Energy prices are also flat in Europe, due to renewables pushing out volatile fossil fuels.

Ember Energy: European electricity prices and costs - https://ember-energy.org/data/european-electricity-prices-an... (updated daily)

Household electricity prices in 1st half of 2025: -0.5% - https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-eurostat-news/... - October 29th, 2025

Ember Energy: Decoupled: How Spain cut the link between gas and power prices using renewables - https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/decoupled-how-spain... - October 2nd, 2025
by danaris | 2025-11-01 18:10:23+00:00
Oh, well, then I guess we should all just give up and deepthroat the boot, right?

Don't be absurd. Fascism rose in Germany, and was defeated. Fascism rose in Spain, and Italy, and was defeated.

We can defeat fascism too. We will defeat fascism too.

It'll just be harder if more people think like you.
by rufus_foreman | 2025-11-01 18:10:34+00:00
In 2023, 54% of the housing units in the US were single family detached, https://eyeonhousing.org/2024/10/owner-occupied-single-famil.... I guess some of those could not have yards, but that is pretty rare to not have any sort of yard in a single family detached home.

2/3 of home buyers have single family detached as their preferred housing, so more people want to live in that type of housing than currently do so.
by coderjames | 2025-11-01 18:10:41+00:00
> In particular, our code to parse .deb, .ar, .tar, and the HTTP signature verification code would strongly benefit from memory safe languages

> Critical infrastructure still written in C - particularly code that parses data from untrusted sources - is technical debt that is only going to get worse over time.

But hasn't all that foundational code been stable and wrung out already over the last 30+ years? The .tar and .ar file formats are both from the 70s; what new benefits will users or developers gain from that thoroughly battle-tested code being thrown out and rewritten in a new language with a whole new set of compatibility issues and bugs?
by rgbrenner | 2025-11-01 18:11:23+00:00
The keen observer will of course know that there's no such thing as "federal immunity"

The scary thing is that there is.. you should look up "sovereign immunity". The government has complete immunity, except where and how the law permits it to be held accountable. And while we have a constitution, defending those rights through the courts requires legislation to permit it. For the most part, federal law permits lawsuits against states that violate the constitution, but have permitted far less accountability for federal actions that violate the constitution.

For example, Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act only permits individuals to sue state and local governments for rights violations. It can't be used to sue the federal government.

There's many court cases, dating back decades, tossing out cases against the federal government for rights violations. Look how SCOTUS has limited the precedent set by Bivens over the years, basically neutering it entirely.
by woodruffw | 2025-11-01 18:12:03+00:00
“There’s a standard, but it’s performative” is a different argument than the top level one.

But even if we accept that, it doesn’t seem like a good comparative argument: anybody who has written a nontrivial amount of C or C++ has dealt with compiler-defined behavior or compiler language extensions. These would suggest that the C and C++ standards are “performative” in the same sense, but repeated claims about the virtues of standardization don’t seem compatible with accepting that.
by luke5441 | 2025-11-01 18:12:20+00:00
Obviously you can add modules calling to C/C++ functionality to a scripting language runtime easily (and the interface to do that is already available for the browser implementation).

In the above link Node could be described as a Chrome V8 distribution with modules enabling building a web server.

Adding threading to a non-threaded scripting runtime is another ball game.

The point is that Node was forced into this model by V8 limitations, then sold it as an advantage, however, it is only one way to solve the problem with its own trade-offs and you have to look at the specific use case you are looking at to see if it is really the best solution for your use case.
by zweifuss | 2025-11-01 18:12:51+00:00
"Chat Control" is mass surveillance, not targeted Action. Targeted action mayhaps needs some readjustment, but by and large is already easy to obtain for law enforcement.

Normalizing mass surveillance would set a precedent for authoritarian regimes worldwide to demand similar access, further eroding privacy and human rights on a global scale.

I also oppose it on technical grounds, since it would be some kind of local or hybrid ai that does the scanning. A high number of false positives harming innocents would certainly be the result.
by CamelCaseName | 2025-11-01 18:13:41+00:00
You don't need a lot of space to see everything, because you can store information in your memory.

You narrow down your options by having knowledge like "I have points on these airlines so I want to fly on Star Alliance which has partners that fly out of (quick check) these airports, so let's plan the itinerary in this way..."

I just got back from traveling the last 3 months (40 flights, 6 continents) and planned all of it from my phone. From flights, to hotels, to visas.

And it's simply better than a laptop. 4 tabs in 4 browsers means you're distracted, you're not pruning useless information, you don't know what you don't know.

I do 95% of my work on my phone too, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
by dathinab | 2025-11-01 18:14:16+00:00
yes and no

yes, from a pure code generation aspect

no, as all conditional-compiled platform specific code is missing.

So using it with #[no_core] should work (assuming the WIP part of the backend isn't a problem). But beyond that you have to first port libcore (should be doable) and then libstd (quite a bunch of work).
by 9rx | 2025-11-01 18:14:45+00:00
Coq, Idris, et. al. are over there if that's what you really want, but there is probably good reason why no "real world" programs are written in languages with proper type systems.

For one, there's little ability to avoid message passing in our modern world. You can take it out of the language, but that just means pushing it to another abstraction (e.g. sockets), and all the same lack of type safety comes right back.
by tammer | 2025-11-01 18:14:52+00:00
I will second the recommendation to start with vanilla emacs. That isn't to disparage releases like spacemacs & doom. I simply found those to be more useful once I fully understood the power that comes with a fully reprogrammable editor. There is a learning curve and there is also a mental model to adopt, and I think that adopting the mental model is easier when starting raw and building up from scratch. Once you feel comfortable maybe try spacemacs or doom to see if they offer advantages for your workflow.

I also highly recommend the resources at https://www.masteringemacs.org
by b3morales | 2025-11-01 18:15:03+00:00
As one who was interested by Nim and tried it out for some personal projects, I found that this was the biggest problem with the project. There's several options for any given need (including internal tools like LSP or installing the compiler) with very little clear way to choose between them. Each will have different (dis)advantages that you must discover primarily by digging through forum posts or GitHub issues.

In some ways it's the sign of a very strong language, like the curse of Lisp: someone can easily just write their own version of whatever they need. But as a user trying to navigate the ecosystem it is frustrating. I do keep meaning to try it out again though; the language itself is very pleasant to use.
by Al-Khwarizmi | 2025-11-01 18:15:24+00:00
There are tools that claim accuracies in the 95%-99% range. This is useless for many actual applications, though. For example, in teaching, you really need to not have false positives at all. The alternative is failing some students because a machine unfairly marked their work as machine-generated.

And anyway, those accuracies tend to be measured on 100% human-generated vs. 100% machine-generated texts by a single LLM... good luck with texts that contain a mix of human and LLM contents, mix of contents by several LLMs, or an LLM asked to "mask" the output of another.

I think detection is a lost cause.
by greggh | 2025-11-01 18:15:37+00:00
Multiple articles and interviews have said it was the Sicilian Mafia / La Cosa Nostra.

"The Five Families - the Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese and Lucchese - have ruled the city's Italian American mafia since 1931."

"The Five Families are part of the larger American-Sicilian mafia operation known as La Cosa Nostra"

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpv1rkxjyyno
by pscanf | 2025-11-01 18:16:47+00:00
Nice experiment!

I'm using a similar approach in an app I'm building. Seeing how well it works, I now really believe that in the coming years we'll see a lot of "just-in-time generation" for software.

If you haven't already, you should try using qwen-coder on Cerebras (or kimi-k2 on Groq). They are _really_ fast, and they might make the whole thing actually viable in terms of speed.
by veidr | 2025-11-01 18:17:11+00:00
The robot control instructions are a digital good.

The main reason work visas are required is not to prevent foreigners from doing work, it's to restrict and control their ability to live in the country, send their kids to school, receive medical care or whatever other social services might be available to residents, or do whatever kind of activity that the government doesn't want people to do and believes foreigners might do (discussing Tiananmen Square, disparaging Charlie Cook, advocating for gay rights, petty crime — whatever it is).

Hiring a foreign company, or foreign contractor, to perform work in their own country is almost always allowed. This is fundamentally not any different than a company having people answer customer phone calls in a call center in Bangalore.
Show HN: Interpersonal – toward real-time nudges for video calls
by adell | 2025-11-01 18:17:25+00:00
Hi, we’re Athelia, Joanna, Shubham, and Adell.

We’ve been building Interpersonal, a tool to understand and then guide a user during live video calls.

Our goal is to create real-time nudges that help people communicate more effectively in high-stakes conversations — especially when there’s conflict or misalignment.

Because of the realtime constraint, we’ve built everything to run locally:

- transcription and speaker diarization

- sliding-window computer vision for eye movement and affect labeling

We’re currently focused on a narrow use case: founder-led sales calls, using Rob Snyder’s PULL framework as a conversational baseline. For now, everything runs post-call and only on Apple Silicon--cross-chunk speaker diarization in realtime has been tricky.

It’s free to try at https://interpersonal.work/download (requires Google Workspace calendar access for attendee-based speaker identification).

We’d love feedback or conversation around:

- real-time multimodal inference (we’re using open source models so far)

- our use case approach (FLS? B2B sales teams?)

- the idea that summarization ≠ intelligence

Adell
by IshKebab | 2025-11-01 18:18:10+00:00
> the fundamental misunderstanding of encryption technology continues to plague policy discussions across Europe.

> Client-side scanning, the technical approach favored by Chat Control advocates, attempts to circumvent this limitation by analyzing messages on users’ devices before encryption or after decryption. While this might sound like a clever workaround, it fundamentally breaks the security model of encryption.

It's not a misunderstanding, it's deliberate circumvention. It doesn't do anyone any good to pretend that they just don't understand.
by labrador | 2025-11-01 18:18:31+00:00
The charity was premised on either:

- AGI being cheap to develop, or

- finding funders willing to risk billions for capped returns.

Neither happened. And I'm not sure the public would invest 100's of billions on the promise of AGI. I'm glad there are investors willing to take that chance. We all benefit either way if it is achieved.
by somenameforme | 2025-11-01 18:18:47+00:00
See: 8 U.S.C. § 1304(e) : "Every alien, eighteen years of age and over, shall at all times carry with him and have in his personal possession any certificate of alien registration or alien registration receipt card issued to him pursuant to subsection (d)." [1] So aliens are indeed required to carry papers at all times. The balance between the rights of citizens and the obligations of aliens comes in the form of probable cause. It's similar to how a cop can't pull you over and just randomly search your car without reason, but if he has probable cause, then suddenly he can.

An ICE officer can't just detain somebody for having an accent or whatever, but if they have probable cause to think the person may not be a citizen then they have a substantial amount of leverage to affirm that. Probable cause has been tested somewhat rigorously in the courts and really means probable cause and not the knee-jerk obvious abuses like 'he's brown!'

[1] - https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1304
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-11-01 18:19:09+00:00
I wouldn't be commenting on this thread because I knew it would end up like this, but your comments are measured, thanks.

Krugman's move to Substack has, unfortunately, turned him into a bit of a culture war fighter. When he analyzes economics on his blog he's (IMO) top notch, which to me is amazing given his age (guess he won the Nobel for a reason.) His articles on the Argentina Swap Line, whether you agree with him or not about how it was done to bail out Bessent's buddies, were very well thought out. But when Krugman opines about politics I find that he largely thinks about it from the culture war lens of today. I directionally agree with him but just sorta take his politics with a grain of salt. IMO that's the best way to treat Krugman's writing.

The problem is if you discuss this on HN you'll get assuredly downvoted. Any thread critical of Silicon Valley here brings out all the people with strong culture war beliefs, both pro and anti, and they turn into low thought slogs really quickly.

I'm pretty sure Krugman can take whatever criticism you give him, he's a sharp mind. Not sure I can say the same about the folks who opine on these threads here though.
by mindcrime | 2025-11-01 18:19:22+00:00
You can create an arXiv.org account with basically any email address whatsoever[0], with no referral. What you can't necessarily do is upload papers to arXiv without an "endorsement"[1]. Some accounts are given automatic endorsements for some domains (eg, math, cs, physics, etc) depending on the email address and other factors.

Loosely speaking, the "received wisdom" has generally been that if you have a .edu address, you can probably publish fairly freely. But my understanding is that the rules are a little more nuanced than that. And I think there are other, non .edu domains, where you will also get auto-endorsed. But they don't publish a list of such things for obvious reasons.

[0]: Unless things have changed since I created my account, which was originally created with my personal email address. That was quite some time ago, so I guess it's possible changes have happened that I'm not aware of.

[1]: https://info.arxiv.org/help/endorsement.html
by astrange | 2025-11-01 18:20:47+00:00
Noone made any money or got any oil from the Iraq War. The US is an oil exporter and doesn't have any oil contracts in Iraq. In fact, no one makes money from any wars, and defense contractors profit less during wartime than peacetime.

One universal principle about US politics is that many people try to sound savvy by claiming X thing is obviously about the money, or that some secret evil competent person did something and successfully profited from it, and then if you look their explanation is always wrong. In fact there are no competent evil people and bad ideas are simply just bad for everyone.

…Also, Bush's PEPFAR program was so good that I think he's clearly saved more lives than any other president even if you count the wars against him.
by adrr | 2025-11-01 18:20:53+00:00
Administration view is that if you're not citizen, you don't get due process[1]. Even if you're a citizen, if their system says your not, you'll never get brought in front of people who know the law. Why due process only works if everyone gets it otherwise the government will say your a class that doesn't get it even if you aren't.

1)https://www.wral.com/story/fact-check-trump-says-immigrants-...
by stopbulying | 2025-11-01 18:20:53+00:00
Actually many US Presidents have been recognized by the Nobel Peace Committee which honors the contributions of Alfred Nobel.

List of heads of state and government Nobel nominees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heads_of_state_and_gov...

List of individuals nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize (2000–present) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_individuals_nominated_...

For example, W Bush and Blair were nominated for Nobel Peace Prizes in 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 (while occupying Iraq and Afghanistan with ___ % civilian casualty rates (and while they were not paying the bill for the multi-trillion dollar debt-financed discretionary wars with Tax Cuts))
by pyeri | 2025-11-01 18:21:03+00:00
With no routes, no controllers, no business logic, how can the capability exist? These are the core components of a web app and require extensive coding. I know we might eventually get there but not with the present state of technology. There is something fundamental missing about "intelligence" which must be solved before AGI can be approached, throwing more money and nVidia chips at the problem can only take you so far.
by bccdee | 2025-11-01 18:21:15+00:00
> Option 2 sucks because your Object hierarchy is combinatorial on the number of distinct _callers_.

I kinda like that. Suppose we do something like `let mut authn = UserLoginView.build(userDataRepository); let session = authn.login(user, pwd)`. You no longer get to have one monolithic user object—you need a separate UserDataRepository and UserLoginView—but the relationship between those two objects encodes exactly what the login process does and doesn't need to know about users. No action-at-a-distance.

I've never used clojure, but the impression I get of its "many functions operating over the same map" philosophy is that you trade away your ability to make structural guarantees about which functions depend on which fields. It's the opposite of the strong structural guarantees I love in Rust or Haskell.
by gnerd00 | 2025-11-01 18:21:30+00:00
google internally started working on "indexing" patent applications, materials science publications, and new computer science applications, more than 10 years ago. You the consumer / casual are starting to see the services now in a rush to consumer product placement. You must know very well that major mil around the world are racing to "index" comms intel and field data; major finance are racing to "index" transactions and build deeper profiles of many kinds. You as an Internet user are being profiled by a dozen new smaller players. arxiv is one small part of a very large sea change right now
by mips_avatar | 2025-11-01 18:21:31+00:00
I think it's kind of like AI coding, you can do an awful lot just in the chat with chatgpt but there's a lot of advantage of a framework like cursor/claude code to manage more complicated context and run things for you. For this case maybe recipe gen is something you want more control over and are ok managing the context of things in your pantry and other stuff in your head. But I think if the context of things like your pantry was indexed really well there'd be a huge advantage in having a framework beyond chatgpt messages.