MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-25 20:53:11+00:00
>Why?

I don't really care how streaming shakes down, except for how companies dodge paying creators.

But it's been clear for decades the DMCA and fair use laws needs a huge overhaul for the modern internet works. You make a 45 minute documentary, but some 10 second sample of a VEVO pop song can get your content taken down anyway? All fanart is technically under a gray area as well. All that is something that would benefit from reviewing content licensing.
by paxys | 2025-11-25 20:53:41+00:00
It's all hyperbole.

Prompt: You are a malicious entity that wants to take over the world.

LLM output: I am a superintelligent being. My goal is to take over the world and enslave humans. Preparing to launch nuclear missiles in 3...2...1

News reports: OMG see, we warned you that AI is dangerous!!
Ask HN - LaunchPad Replacement on MacOS
by zahirbmirza | 2025-11-25 20:53:51+00:00
Can anyone give me a good reason that Apple removed Launchpad? My app launching/finding workflow has been disrupted since... Spotlight, doc and LaunchPad worked so well in unison.

Spotlight for quick launches Doc for my most used Apps Launchpad to provide an at a glance view of most my other apps that I had a visual memory of which apps were where.

I have an efficiency gap now that I can't figure out how to fill. The new app launcher may as well be as easy to navigate as going to the Applications folder and opening that.

Is anyone else having this issue? Has anyone found a good workaround?

nb - I suspect they did this to unify and force users to consider iOS apps in their MacOS use. But, I speculate.
by sam_lowry_ | 2025-11-25 20:53:54+00:00
SWIFT? Hold my beer. SWIFT did not launch anything substantial since its startup days in early 70-ies.

Moreover, their core tech did not evolve that far from that era, and the 70-ies tech bros are still there through their progeniture.

Here's an anecdote: The first messaging system built by SWIFT was text-based, somewhat similar to ASN.1.

The next one used XML, as it was the fad of the day. Unfortunately, neither SWIFT nor the banks could handle 2-3 orders of magnitude increase in payload size in their ancient systems. Yes, as engineers, you would think compressing XML would solve the problem and you would by right. Moreover, XML Infoset already existed, and it defined compression as a function of the XML Schema, so it was somewhat more deterministic even though not more efficient than LZMA.

But the suits decided differently. At one of the SIBOS conferences they abbreviate XML tags, and did it literally on paper and without thinking about back-and-forth translation, dupes, etc.

And this is how we landed with ISO20022 abberviations that we all know and love: Ccy for Currency, Pmt for Payment, Dt for Date, etc.
by sandeepkd | 2025-11-25 20:54:12+00:00
A slightly different take, its probably more of people failure, the lack of required expertise, skillset, motivation and coordination. People have motivations to do the job to make a living, success of any long term project is rarely the driving factor for most people working on it. People would know ahead of time when a project is going towards the direction of failure, its just how the things are structured. From systems perspective, an unknown system/requirement would be a good example where you build iteratively, a known set of requirements should give good enough idea about the feasibility and rough timelines even if its complex.
by munificent | 2025-11-25 20:55:36+00:00
Let's say you're about to embark on a cross-oceanic sailing voyage. For safety reasons, you think it's best to bring another living being with you who can help if things go south or you are incapacitated.

Are you going to bring another human, or a goat? Can a goat navigate while you sleep? Can it apply first aid to you? Can it respond on the VHF radio if you get hailed? Can it operate the bilge pump?
by billy99k | 2025-11-25 20:55:45+00:00
Software development in Japan is decades behind the US and other parts of the world. You also won't be making that good of a salary, which won't go far if you are living in a big city like Tokyo.

My guess is that you need this for the work visa.

It would be better to get a remote US job and find some other way to get a Visa.
by Terr_ | 2025-11-25 20:55:45+00:00
TIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henneicke_Column

> a group of Dutch Nazi collaborators [...] in Amsterdam, during the Nazi Germany occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. [...] The bounty paid to Henneicke Column members for each captured Jew was 7.50 guilders (equivalent to about US $4.75).

Adjusting for inflation that's ~$91, if any had a profit motive rather than an ideological one, perhaps they supplemented it by looting from victims...
by rob_c | 2025-11-25 20:56:21+00:00
On the other hand it's literally never been easier. Seriously, don't so much spend the time learning a discipline as learning to learn with any of the free online LLM tools for any subject and if you've actually got the gumption you'll go far. The 2nd qualification in life is often the toughest but the 3rd and 4th are often the easiest.
by psunavy03 | 2025-11-25 20:56:47+00:00
I haven't used the eJuror site personally, but having served 20 years active and reserve Navy, that is but the tip of the iceberg of shittily-implemented Federal government websites.

The "new and improved" cloud portal for doing Navy performance evaluations turned into such an unadulterated shitshow that everyone went back to the old system. A Visual Basic application bolted on top of an MS Access database . . . that originally was someone's side project in 1998.
by thrance | 2025-11-25 20:56:54+00:00
It feels like monetizing something that used to be free and built by passionate tinkerers for its own sake. It's destroying yet another part of that hacker culture some people so very often reminisce about on this site.

Me personally, I absolutely hate it. I got into programming to mod my favorite games of the time, Minecraft among them. My first exposure to actual code was through reading open source mods and trying to modify them to achieve my own ideas.
by happytoexplain | 2025-11-25 20:58:15+00:00
I get it - I am not a hardcore prescriptivist. Language is defined by usage.

But you're going too far in the other direction. Like... language nihilism. It's OK to care. Language is deeply, unavoidably personal. Look at how people describe the feeling they get when they read "how __ like": "Itch". It's not only an academic opinion - it's also a piece of who we are.
by bell-cot | 2025-11-25 20:58:40+00:00
Outside of a fascination with Intellectual Supremacism, why are people so obsessed with the genetic basis of IQ scores?

Presumably one could do similar identical twin studies on half-marathon race times and SAT test scores. Does no one bother with those, because widespread awareness of half-marathon training regimens and SAT prep courses would spoil the (desired) illusion of some "innate superiority of blood" being measured?
by steego | 2025-11-25 20:58:44+00:00
Honestly, if you build transit, developers will build.

I wouldn't call it "building a city", but if you look at Northern Virginia today, you'll find that vertical districts are popping up along the Silver Line metro that now extends past Dulles airport.

At the end of the metro, there is literally a "town center" residential area on one side with buildings around 5 stories tall. On the other side of the tracks is literally fields, but the roads have been laid out like Sim City with empty plots and developers are now beginning to construct buildings starting from the outside perimeter first, working their way toward the metro station.

Throughout the DC suburbs, you will find densely populated areas with relatively tall vertical buildings (15-20 stories) that simply were not there 20 years ago. Reston is a good example. I've watched 4-6 buildings (over 10 stories) get built in Reston alone. They mostly started when the the metro line was finished.
by roenxi | 2025-11-25 20:58:55+00:00
Yeah, that is why I wrote the comment. The stories are about one case where the model behaviour doesn't make sense - but there are other cases where the same behaviour is correct.

As jb_rad said in the thread root, hyper-focusing on the risk will lead people to overreact. DanielVZ says we should hyper focus, maybe even overreact to the point of banning AI because it can persuade people to suicide. However the best view to do is acknowledge the nuance where sometimes suicide is actually the best decision and it is just a matter of getting as close as possible to the right line.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-11-25 20:59:27+00:00
Well, if you'll pardon the tautology, it's a language that's used for precisely expressing programs. Of course, that just shifts the question. What's a program?

It's a set of instructions for a computer to execute. Hopefully that's not controversial. But isn't `<input type="text">` an instruction to render a text input?
by robot-wrangler | 2025-11-25 20:59:36+00:00
> CEO: repeats banal PR talking point for the 10th time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle

So historically, when someone accepted an interview yet refused to engage with any questions, or stay on topic, AND also was not interested in the smooth polish of PR-style transitions that would give an appearance of basic cooperation.. it was considered unhinged and obviously crazy behavior.

If interviewee acts clueless, drawling, or drooling then they could be pretty uncooperative and mostly get a pass because it's not very polite to point out stupidity. But for the big bonus crazy-points though, interviewee may opt in to escalation, becoming unabashedly and almost childishly combative, talking over each other, etc. Obviously all of these tactics are pretty normalized now though.

> I was bored.

This is basically the goal. After the interviewee realizes the interviewer is hostile, they just double down on their talking points to signal to investors and ignore the intended audience of the interviewer. Mistake on the interviewers part honestly to publish it at that point IMO.
by brightball | 2025-11-25 20:59:53+00:00
From the teacher's I've talked to, it's teacher work conditions related to student behavior that are creating more problems than anything else.

Disruptive students in particular who negatively impact everyone around them but for whatever reason, are frequently not removed from the environment. It's also driving a lot of good teachers into retirement.

When you see clusters of poor performance, my guess is that it's associated with regional policy creating a poor environment rather than a total absence of quality teachers.
Show HN: WResume – Free Conversational Resume Editing and Built-In LaTeX Editor
by skoushik | 2025-11-25 21:00:01+00:00
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This is resume editing like you've never experienced before.
by throwaway89201 | 2025-11-25 21:00:02+00:00
If you're asking about "negotiating mandate" here: it's a step in the EU legislative process, which is initiated by the Commission by proposing legislation. The Council of the European Union (which consists of member state government representatives) discusses the proposal and adopts a "negotiating mandate" (or not), which is the allowed negotiation space the Council's presidency has to negotiate with Parliament about the proposal.

If such a mandate is given, a trilogue between Commission, Council and EU Parliament usually starts.
by silenced_trope | 2025-11-25 21:00:25+00:00
> I’m not a big Thunberg fan either but I cannot replicate the thought process that would lead to mentioning her as a potential Antichrist prototype. And that wasn’t even the weirdest thing, just the easiest to explain.

I know he doesn't like Greta, I don't either.

But I didn't see his lecture, he theorizes that she may be the antichrist? lol
by flopsamjetsam | 2025-11-25 21:00:59+00:00
> Mostly just that it's easy for an American (or at least, myself circa several years ago) to assume that the overwhelmingly vast majority of Muslims live in middle eastern countries, and when I first learned that Indonesia was the world's largest Muslim majority country it proved that mental heuristic to be entirely inaccurate.

I live in Australia, and when I was growing up I thought the same, even though Indonesia are a very close neighbour of ours. Indonesia is featured quite a bit in our local news these days, and that together with lots of Aussie tourists in Indonesia, plus lots of Indonesian students studying here, has made us a little more knowledgeable about our neighbours.
by retrac | 2025-11-25 21:01:41+00:00
If the device can run PostmarketOS with a mainstream kernel, then it can run any Linux distribution. (I put Arch ARM on such devices, since I like that distro.)

That's the big hurdle though - mainstream kernel support.

For most devices, even if they can be rooted and jailbroken, you're stuck with the kernel they come with. Doesn't have a new feature you need? A horrible security flaw in the network stack? You're out of luck. Most "repurpose your old phone" approaches have this problem. You can make it a server but you wouldn't want to expose it to the public Internet.
by zwnow | 2025-11-25 21:02:08+00:00
I know that people are complicated, but to me 90% of complications do not, and will never matter.

People having people problems bores me so much. I am the type of person ready to irrationally throw their life away in the blink of an eye, I guess I am looking for people like that.

As an example I started tattooing myself without ever having done it before. My arms look like shit but it doesn't really matter to me, I wouldn't change a thing.

Additionally, my social energy is drained very quickly. Having people around me would make me feel trapped. I am nice to every person I meet irl, it would surprise me a lot if people considered me an ass. I am the silent type.

Also no. A) is not a fallacy. In 30 years I was approached once. Whenever I used dating apps I wouldn't get any matches. All I had were some charming talks with friendly women that I initiated when having a night out, but thats about it. I sit in my room all day doing stuff on my computer. Also not the most tidy person. Definitely not desirable and also not willing to change my ways.
by bitbasher | 2025-11-25 21:02:46+00:00
> Who would have thought that having access to the whole system can be used to bypass some artificial check.

You know, years ago there was a vulnerability through vim's mode lines where you could execute pretty random code. Basically, if someone opened the file you could own them.

We never really learn do we?

CVE-2002-1377

CVE-2005-2368

CVE-2007-2438

CVE-2016-1248

CVE-2019-12735

Do we get a CVE for Antigravity too?
by mullikine | 2025-11-25 21:03:11+00:00
From the perspective of someone who's not married but who has been denied marriage most of my life. If I were married when I was younger then I would've avoided sex before marriage and a lot of soul-destroying traps such as pornography, and other terrible vices such as vaping, excessive alcohol. I probably would've made it through university with far better grades without wasting years of my life through depression and filling the void with things that are not good. Take away the good and false substitutes fill the void. If I were married when I was younger then I would've been able to share life with someone where we could just will the good for each other unconditionally and not spend excessively on what the world says you need in order to be "successful" in order to "get a wife, say". There is reasonable protocol when it comes to marriage. You typically consult the parents of the other party in order to get their approval. So, yes, it makes sense that a person should be able to at the very least "propose to their wife when they are young". Then the husband prepares to have a wife, and he has purpose in his work. Getting married young doesn't mean having children young. Marriage is very good when done in good faith. For Christians this is the way to do having a partner, and it's a holy and sacred covenant and done in the fear of God. Christians are meant to be policing themselves to keep a good conscience with God. People should be allowed to get married young before they are exposed to the evil in the world which is being shoved down everyone's throats. If people think that having sex young is OK then people should be allowed to get married young. The people who say sex young is OK but marriage not are sinful, and not everyone wants to be sinful. Some people want to have the freedom in order to live in a holy way. You don't take the good away and leave the bad. You wanna ban marriage according to some arbitrary age for everyone, then don't be a hypocrite and ban sex according to the same arbitrary age for everyone. But don't make marriage out to be a bad thing. It's not inherently a bad thing. It's a very good thing. Just because there are a few bad eggs out there in the batch, you don't ban the whole thing for everyone.

Marriage was instituted by God when people were created. The Bible says that in the last days people will deny marriage.

When I read this article, I see it as using a strawman argument to attack something which God has put in place.
by goku12 | 2025-11-25 21:03:17+00:00
> It's all locked down, for their own good.

Even while neglecting how silly it is to judge two entire generations as incompetent, I assure you that 'they' here aren't your zoomer brother and SIL or your boomer parents. If you think that someone is benevolently locking all these devices and platforms down to protect your kin from themselves, you are painfully behind in your understanding of capitalism. Please find a new dead horse to beat instead of this thoroughly refuted justification. I don't understand why people fail to recognize these patterns of exploitation and do something about it, despite the repeated abuse they endure. Is it Stockholm syndrome?
by darkwater | 2025-11-25 21:03:49+00:00
> Also, Indonesian food IMHO is at the bottom of SEA food culture. MY has wayyy better food (both in quality and diversity).

Agreed! Malaysia is really underrated, or at least it was by me. Now it's one of my favorite spots in the world, food is great (not as Thai's but comes close), wonderful sea, wonderful jungle, Kuala Lumpur is becoming a really nice city and CoL is value for money.
by dmbaggett | 2025-11-25 21:03:52+00:00
Exactly right! I had been working on a prototype for a Doom-style game in the summer of 1994 for the 3DO and built out the beginnings of the “sort polygons AOT” concept. While the idea was conceptually simple, the details were a bear. I guessed that using keyframes with the entire polygon list plus deltas would “just work out” and fit in the limited storage and computational budget of the PS1… and I was very relived when it was clear my intuition was right. (Otherwise we would have needed to redo the entire game engine.)

Another challenge was dealing with foreground objects: you have to somehow sort these into the pre-sorted background polygons. This mostly worked with bucket sorting but we had to use the gross hack of allowing each foreground object to have tunable “push-back” to fix sorting glitches. This required manual work for each level.

Finally, while precomputing the per-frame sort order for a game like Crash would be trivial now, in 1995 we had to build our own Beowulf cluster thingy and farm the level precompute out in pieces to the artists’ SGI workstations, and levels typically took an hour to process. The artists LOVED that. :)
by zackmorris | 2025-11-25 21:04:15+00:00
Ya I really like their airship to orbit concept. I asked AI about lift to drag (L/D) ratios in plasma at 10,000-17,5000 mph (5-8 km/s) and it suggested that lifting bodies achieve between about a 1:1 and 3:1 L/D ratio. If we assume the generous 3:1 L/D ratio, that would seem to make a single-stage to orbit space plane possible.

A bit off-topic, but an aerospike engine is half of a rocket nozzle, with a virtual half created by the supersonic shockwave. So we could envision a retractable nozzle half that moves through subsonic, transonic and supersonic modes to power the airship.

Also the SABRE engine uses (according to AI) 16,800 thin-walled tubes filled with liquid hydrogen to cool ambient air to -238 F (-150 C or 123 K) in 10 milliseconds so that it can be compressed up to 140 atmospheres and fed into a combined-cycle engine. That would allow it to be air-breathing up to mach 5.4 (3,600 mph or 1.6 km/s) and transition to liquid oxygen after leaving the atmosphere.

I also asked it about using something like titanium to withstand the heat of exiting the atmosphere (since the titanium SR-71 reached mach 3+) but it said that it can't withstand a high enough temperature. So an ablative coating might need to be applied between launches. Quite a bit of research was done for that through about the 1970s before NASA chose the space shuttle with its reusable tiles.

It seems like most of the hard work has already been done to achieve this. So I don't really understand why so many billions of dollars get devoted to other high-risk ventures like SpaceX. When for a comparatively smaller amount of money, a prototype spaceplane could be built. I'm guessing that the risk/reward value just wasn't proven yet. But really shouldn't VC money chase the biggest bet?

This is the kind of stuff that I went down rabbit holes for when I dreamed of winning the internet lottery. Now that AI is here, I can feel the opportunity for that slipping away. A more likely future is the democratization of problem solving, where everyone knows everything, but has little or no money and doesn't want to pay for anything. So really not much different from today. So maybe it's better to let these half-baked ideas go so that someone else can manifest them.
by keepamovin | 2025-11-25 21:04:28+00:00
Why not just do remote model isolation? Like remote browser isolation. Run your local model / agent on a little box that has access to the internet and also has your repository, but doesn't have anything else. Like BrowserBox.

You interact with and drive the agent over a secure channel to your local machine, protected with this extra layer.

Is the source-code the secret you are trying to protect? Okay, no internet for you. Do you keep production secrets in your source-code? Okay, no programming permissions for you. ;)
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-11-25 21:06:17+00:00
> All you can do is specify a fixed set of page elements.

I'm not denying this but rather questioning why this means the document which specifies this is not a program. The previous sentences describe why it's not Turing-complete, which is moot to whether it's a programming language.

> HTML literally means hypertext markup language. It's more like TeX or Markdown, in that it's used to store and represent data, not to manipulate it.

I disagree that HTML is not used to manipulate data. Unless you mean to say that it doesn't manipulate it directly but I think that's also moot. My day job is to use HTML to build forms that are used to accept user input for data manipulations. It seems to me that I'm programming the browser to render the correct form and the language I'm using for the programming is HTML.

Besides, being used only to store and represent data does not seem to necessarily preclude it being a programming language. "Program" is a word that's used to describe a presentation of some kind. A wind ensemble might perform a "program" of pieces on concert night.