MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by iliasabs | 2025-11-28 15:41:56+00:00
First of all, thanks for the thoughtful comment and link.

You're right that rotating every crypto algo to PQC right away might be a bit too aggressive. The actual best practice (like you said) is hybrid: layer ML-KEM/ML-DSA on top of RSA/ECC for redundancy. Classical algos aren't dead yet, but Shor's clock is ticking, and for now those NIST-standardized (FIPS203 for ML-KEM, FIPS204 for ML-DSA) PQC algos didn't break for now. That's why Cloudflare for example uses ML-KEM alongside X25519 for their TLS key exchange (https://cyberpress.org/cloudflare-enhances-security/).

And yeah.. presenting a single algo as the perfect solution. That gives Dual_EC vibes, perfect spot for a backdoor.
by selenehyun | 2025-11-28 15:41:59+00:00
I'm the solo developer behind Lynq. I originally wanted to offer a live demo that would provision a short-lived tiny app in real time so people could actually watch it boot and vanish. It was a fun idea, but running that safely on small homelab-style infrastructure didn’t feel solid enough for security or traffic spikes.

So I switched to providing the demo through KillerCoda instead. It gives a clean, isolated environment where you can try the workflow without setup. Just sharing in case it's useful.
by saagarjha | 2025-11-28 15:42:31+00:00
Sure, but you do have to do it pretty quick. Let’s pick a H100. You’ve probably heard that just writing scalar code is leaving 90+% of the flops idle. But even past that, if you’re using the tensor core but using the wrong instructions you’re basically capped at 300-400 TFLOPS of the 1000 the hardware supports. If using the new instructions but poorly you’re probably not going to hit even 500 TFLOPS. That’s just barely better than the previous generation you paid a bunch of money to replace.
by asmor | 2025-11-28 15:42:34+00:00
The petition should use a more restricted definition, because the OSI definition only deals with the way software is developed and distributed, not how software contributes to the common good. That a lot of open source software is foundational to how most other software is written is incidental for the OSI, but important for this recognition.

In fact I see no reason why you can't already get this recognition in the existing legal framework by creating an association with a specific scope.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-11-28 15:42:47+00:00
Why is this downvoted? This is a nice addition to the conversation. I see the same with Cantonese speakers. If you ask native speakers from Hongkong, Macao, and Guangdong, all of them will say "the other sounds weird"... but they work it out. And all three groups are happy to listen to a foreigner speak Canto (yes, there are a few). All will probably say: "Weird accent, but I understand what they are saying." Plus, Canto language communities probably exist in over 50 countries in the world. All of them will have slight tonal differences.
by deadbabe | 2025-11-28 15:43:10+00:00
Not really.

Any fool could have anticipated the eventual result of transformer architecture if pursued to its maximum viable form.

What is impressive is the massive scale of data collection and compute resources rolled out, and the amount of money pouring into all this.

But 10 years ago, spammers were building simple little bots with markov chains to evade filters because their outputs sounded plausibly human enough. Not hard to see how a more advanced version of that could produce more useful outputs.
by pstoll | 2025-11-28 15:43:42+00:00
I get what your saying but I think it’s not the best way to describe it - “GPL is property”? Hardly - it’s a societal common good that can be used by anyone interested in helping that common good.

Are parks “proprietary”? I can’t run my car dealership from one, so it’s …proprietary? No. So using the terminology of “proprietary” doesn’t do justice to what it actually is.
by tonyarkles | 2025-11-28 15:44:01+00:00
I mean... you're completely right and some of the stuff is as ridiculous as you're suggesting (e.g. the furniture). However... what we're agreeing on is that the fungus is absorbing alpha/beta particles and gamma rays that are coming off the radioactive material, which in theory should mean that it would act as a radiation shield. Whether it's a more effective radiation shield than other options is the big question, and for space travel in particular the question I'd want to know is how effective is a given mass of this fungus relative to other options (e.g. water).
by squigz | 2025-11-28 15:44:16+00:00
The threat profile changes, sure, but framing all the threats imposed by using large-scale foreign clouds as "imaginary", and every threat introduced by local providers as "real", is very disingenuous.

> most service providers outside of the big clouds have extremely weak or non-existent countermeasures against insider threats.

Another claim that needs some citations, please.

Anyway, many of those concerns can be addressed by security regulations, hiring processes, etc - which, I would guess, is a pretty critical part of why the large-scale providers supposedly don't have such threats.

Also, this thread is talking about the effects of US companies having access to sensitive data that they're more than willing to hand over to the US government. In other words... there are 2 major insider threats at every US cloud provider, from the perspective of a foreign government: the company, and the US government. That's mostly what I was referring to with the privacy bit.
by phil21 | 2025-11-28 15:45:10+00:00
> Seasonal energy storage is uninteresting, you just overbuild the energy production instead. This is already done for every existing type of energy production to account for seasonal variation in demand.

It’s the only thing that is interesting, considering you just hand-wove that last 3% of reliability away with vague “backup generators” and “transmission lines to other places”. Both immensely expensive items if they are idle 97% of the time.

I’m not interested in the least about having my grid availability at 97% - in a cherry picked location ideal for solar.

I’m totally fine overbuilding nameplate capacity for my solar field - already plan to by about 8x due to where I live. Panels are cheap! At least that problem seems more or less solved.

The issue is I have no realistic means to store that energy for even days much less weeks when the sun doesn’t shine. A small wind turbine can help a bit, but doesn’t get rid of the need for a backup generator.

The same holds true at grid scale currently - which is both a more important topic and more interesting to discuss than some rich tech bro being able to brute force his off-grid solar+battery install.

Someone needs to back that last 3% with something like a combined cycle natural gas plant. That amount of capital investment sitting idle is exceedingly expensive. The only thing you are saving much money on vs. running it all-out is fuel costs - you still need to staff it.

A national grid sounds pretty neat, but would both be crazy expensive and is so politically untenable that I don’t expect to see it seriously even discussed in my lifetime. Just a small amount of time spent in the rural areas of the country made me realize how utterly impossible it would be due to NIMBY.

Again, to me at least that last 3% is where everyone hand-waves and makes it someone else’s problem. At some point though you run out of other people’s power.

I do wish we had not destroyed our nuclear industry into irrelevance, as 50 more years of experience and hands-on construction knowledge pushing that tech forward might have had us in a far different place today!

And fwiw I do hope I’m wrong. Perhaps energy storage gets to the point we can keep a fully reliable inexpensive grid for the common folks and industry to rely upon. I’ve certainly been wrong before!
by amy_petrik | 2025-11-28 15:45:15+00:00
hello

I like terramaster if you're looking for budget. software is a bit potato (it's all there, and you can install apps, just 7-8/10 polished, not 10/10), hardware build quality is solid

for 10 bays i like asus lockerstore, also two NVMes, times I've bought those, a bit north of 1000

i do not have affiliations or interests with either company, just a data hoarder

that's within the last year so not sure if anything changed in the last few months in light of things
by permo-w | 2025-11-28 15:46:18+00:00
because 4chan's services are available to people residing in the UK

the OSA is ridiculous and I hope it goes the same way as the last time they tried it, but this idea that US companies should be immune to domestic regulation in countries their services are available to is silly. even if that domestic regulation is silly. because otherwise the utterly encaptured regulatory environment of the US (plus Visa and MC) solely dictates the internet
by throwaway2037 | 2025-11-28 15:46:38+00:00
This is exactly why I say it is nothing but cultural/linguistic gatekeeping. Even natives between regions disagree on the "correct" way to pronouce these terms. This further proves to me how little Japanese varies throughout the country. It is freakishly regular for the size of Japan.

Consider a place like UK with four constituent countries: England, Wales, Scotland, and North Ireland (not to mention the channel islands and other oddities). They range of accents (without huge mountain ranges!) is wildly different. And the change in vocabulary for vernacular speech is far larger than the United States, which Google AI tells me is 40x larger(!).
by bccdee | 2025-11-28 15:47:05+00:00
> Each step modifies state that the next step needs.

I've been bitten by this. It's not the length that's the problem, so much as the surface area which a long function has to stealthily mutate its variables. If you have a bunch of steps in one function all modifying the same state, there's a risk that the underlying logic which determines the final value of widely-used, widely-edited variables can get hard to decipher.

Writing a function like that now, I'd want to make very sure that everything involved is immutable & all the steps are as close to pure functions as I can get them. I feel like it'd get shorter as a consequence of that, just because pure functions are easier to factor out, but that's not really my objective. Maybe step 1 is a function that returns a `Step1Output` which gets stored in a big State object, and step 2 accesses those values as `state.step1Output.x`. If I absolutely must have mutable state, I'd keep it small, explicit, and as separate from the rest of the variables as possible.
by Deegy | 2025-11-28 15:47:08+00:00
It is unclear. Everyday I seem to read contradictory headlines about whether or not inference is profitable.

If inference has significant profitability and you're the only game in town, you could do really well.

But without regulation, as a commodity, the margin on inference approaches zero.

None of this even speaks to recouping the R&D costs it takes to stay competitive. If they're not able to pull up the ladder, these frontier model companies could have a really bad time.
by paul7986 | 2025-11-28 15:47:13+00:00
Apple is the privacy company already .. that's their brand and a brand that the public trusts.

Overall why are we not up in arms about all the video cameras that record in all cities everyday which companies like Clearview and others have our public images in their databases yet we are up in arms about smart glasses?

THis is a solution to this public debate and Apple hasnt released their glasses yet and they are a privacy company and heavily market themselves as such. As the poster notes smart glasses adoption is rising and will only continue to do so... so this debate in time will continue to fade into the background as there is no same amount of debate about all the cameras in cities that are already recording us. With that in mind the smart glass privacy debate is an odd one to me where corporations are already recording us in these same public places.
by alecco | 2025-11-28 15:47:18+00:00
Better than contribution, consider visiting /newest and upvote|flag things there. There're a lot of good articles lost in the haystack. Even if it's once in a while it's very good for the community.

In the old days of reddit, when it was almost lost as a community, that was called the Knights of New. A selfless system sadly ignored/killed by reddit admins and mods.
by myrmidon | 2025-11-28 15:47:59+00:00
> Not at the actual price it's going to cost though.

But we don't know that pricepoint yet; current prices for all this are inflated because of the gold-rush situation, and there are lots of ways to trim marginal costs. At worst, high longterm un-optimizable costs are going to decrease use/adoption a bit, but I don't even think that is going to happen.

Just compare the situation with video hosting: That was not profitable at first, but hardware (and bandwidth) got predictably cheaper, technology more optimized and monetization more effective and now its a good chunk of googles total revenue.

You could have made the same arguments about video hosting in 2005 (too expensive, nobody pays for this, where's the revenue) but this would have led to extremely bad business decisions in hindsight.
by bgwalter | 2025-11-28 15:48:18+00:00
Musk wants extreme law and order and will beat down any protests. His X account is full of posts that want to fill up prisons. This is the highlight so far:

https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1992599328897294496#m

Notice that the retweeted Will Tanner post also denigrates EBT. Musk does not give a damn about UBI. The unemployed will do slave labor, go to prison, or, if they revolt, they will be hanged. It is literally all out there by now.
by sph | 2025-11-28 15:48:28+00:00
Hard to maintain a balance when the State, by definition, has monopoly over violence, and State interests have the propaganda machine of mass-media on their side; the media with their pathetic justification that "we're only reporting the news!" just repeat and perpetuate bullshit rhetoric.

The real problem is that the State tends to grow like a cancer. When it gets to a point that it lords over tens or hundreds of millions of souls, it's already impossible to control and contain.
by asmor | 2025-11-28 15:48:30+00:00
To a degree. But the corporate interest is spread across enough organisations that it's much harder for the Linux kernel to reject a patch solely because it's good for business, whereas a lot of corporate open source projects - even those with an OSI approved license - will actively refuse to merge code that competes with their commercial offering or simply isn't submitted by a customer. Hashicorp already operated like this long before they switched to BSL. Unfortunately having a project owned by a foundation isn't a good indicator either, because I know of at least one Apache project where the entire membership is one company, the CEO is the project chair and code is sometimes just dropped into repos in one huge commit.
by skyberrys | 2025-11-28 15:48:34+00:00
This website is simple and clean, it is easy to use. I agree with your hope that it become a repository of validated demand. The challenge is translating the users from tech nerds to average people who would use the validated apps. I could see it getting skewed towards tech tools. Of course any validated demand is better than none, so even without a broader user base it still has merit.
by withinboredom | 2025-11-28 15:48:35+00:00
> if your contribution is not merged in, it should not count as "work done"

I highly disagree with this. Sometimes someone has to do the work to discover that isn't the work that should be done. As an example, last week, I got in a fight with the Go scheduler: https://github.com/php/frankenphp/pull/2016 -- in the end, we were able to find the one-liner that is a happy-medium. I didn't open that PR, but I did the work; if that makes sense.
by tim333 | 2025-11-28 15:49:05+00:00
Ah - recursive self improvement. I was thinking repetitive strain injury was odd. But that's probably quite a good test although LLMs may be able to improve a bit but still not be very good. An interesting point for me is if all humans went away could the AI/robots keep on without us which would require them to be able to maintain and build power plants, chip fabs and the like. A way to go on that one.
by cbeach | 2025-11-28 15:49:26+00:00
Levels of EU vs non-EU immigration has been a particular subject of interest for the UK before and after Brexit.

And note also that the UK and EU share high-quality education systems, Western Judeo-Christian culture and Western-aligned geopolitics.

Recent waves of immigration from countries in the Middle East and North Africa are importing wholly different culture, geopolitics, and crucially, we are importing from countries with measurably lower standard of literacy and numeracy.

These are objective facts, and they are not criticisms or judgements on the character of those who are migrating.

I would make exactly the same choices as our Pakistani, Somali and Eritrean friends, if I were in their position.
by duncanbeevers | 2025-11-28 15:50:07+00:00
Lavamoat purports to do this. https://lavamoat.github.io/

There has been some promising prior research such as BreakApp attempting to mitigate unusual supply-chain compromises such as denial-of-service attacks targeting the CPU via pathological regexps or other logic-bomb-flavored payloads.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-11-28 15:50:17+00:00
Interesting to me, during that crazy period when Sutskever ultimately ended up leaving OpenAI, I thought perhaps he had shot himself in the foot to some degree (not that I have any insider information—just playing stupid observer from the outside).

The feeling I have now is that it was a fine decision for him to have made. It made a point at the time, perhaps moral, perhaps political. And now it seems, despite whatever cost there was for him at the time, the "golden years" of OpenAI (and LLM's in general) may have been over anyway.

To be sure, I happen to believe there is a lot of mileage for LLMs even in their current state—a lot of use-cases, integration we have yet to explore. But Sutskever I assume is a researcher and not a plumber—for him the LLM was probably over.

One wonders how long before one of these "break throughs". On one hand, they may come about serendipitously, and serendipity has no schedule. It harkens back to when A.I. itself was always "a decade away". You know, since the 1950's or so.

On the other hand, there are a lot more eyeballs on AI these days than there ever were in Minsky's* day.

(*Hate to even mention the man's name these days.)
by whynotmaybe | 2025-11-28 15:51:29+00:00
Don't know about 30 years ago but 25 years ago in a small shop, the code was on a network share, on the production server.

And whenever a code file was locked on the server, the Devs went into the server room (aka the break room with a computer) and rebooted the server. The production server that was used by 30+ employees.
by lilerjee | 2025-11-28 15:52:46+00:00
Sorting or queuing is a common occurrence in life and work. For example, sorting the exam scores of students in the same grade at a school. Sorting is useful for lists with a few items or a lot of items.

Arbitrary sorting is particularly useful for prioritizing tasks.

Tags are mainly used for identification or grouping, and are quite different from sorting; the two are distinct.

Given the universality of sorting or queuing in real life, I believe it should be a fundamental feature of note-taking software.
by lucozade | 2025-11-28 15:52:59+00:00
> thoughts?

I have a few:

What's the "Hypothetical Institute of Mathematical Physics"?

What does 'a reflection of the total phase space or ”complexity weight” of the minimal aperiodic vacuum.' mean?

phi^-7 !~= 0.035998811... it's ~= 0.0344418537...

Section 3.2 is just gobbledegook.

You probably need to get a better bot but it was a fun read. Thanks.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-11-28 15:53:34+00:00
Yes, I also find it hilarious (in any culture) when someone is critical of a foreign speaker. Then when that person speaks a foreign language, usually their accent and style is so predictably awful that people are hiding under their desks. That is why I made the joke about asking natives: "So, how is your Thai... or German?" Those two languages are pretty rare to hear in Japan, especially for non-native speakers. It acts as the perfect monkeywrench in their gears.

> My wife points out when I make mistakes in Japanese, but I ask her to do so. If a coworker or stranger were to do so, it would be embarrassing, and that's the difference that matters.

Another great point. In my experience, the very best language lessons are from casual interactions when a stranger makes a correction to my foreign language when replying me, but not in a derogatory manner. Most of the time, you can tell they are trying to be subtle and give you a helpful hint.
by diego_moita | 2025-11-28 15:53:38+00:00
As a non-EU tourist, I say this is good.

I actually keep the museum tickets and city passes as a trip souvenir. I have them for the Louvre, Musee D'Orsay, RijksMuseum, Mauritshuis, the MC Escher house, Vatican Museum, Uffizi Galleria, the Museums' Pass from Vienna, the Guggenheim in Venice, Vasa and Swedish History Museum, ...
by BirAdam | 2025-11-28 15:53:45+00:00
I've been conflicted on AI/ML efforts for years. On one hand, the output of locally run inference is astounding. There are plenty of models on HuggingFace that I can run on my Mac Studio and provide real value to me every single work day. On the other hand, while I have the experience to evaluate the output, some of my younger colleagues do not. They are learning, and when I have time to help them, I certainly do, but I wish they just didn't have access to LLMs. LLMs are miracle tools in the right hands. They are dangerous conveniences in the wrong hands.

Wasted money is a totally different topic. If we view LLMs as a business opportunity, they haven't yet paid off. To imply, however, that a massive investment in GPUs is a waste seems flawed. GPUs are massively parallel compute. Were the AI market to collapse, we can imagine these GPUs being sold a severe discounts which would then likely spur some other technological innovation just as the crypto market laid the groundwork for ML/AI. When a resource gets cheap, more people gain access to it and innovation occurs. Things that were previously cost prohibitive become affordable.

So, whether or not we humans achieve AGI or make tons of money off of LLMs is somewhat irrelevant. The investment is creating goods of actual value even if those goods are currently overpriced, and should the currently intended use prove to be poor, a better and more lucrative use will be found in the event of an AI market crash.

Personally, I hope that the AGI effort is successful, and that we can all have a robot house keeper for $30k. I'd gladly trade one of the cars in my household to never do dishes, laundry, lawnmowing, or household repairs again just as I paid a few hundred to never have to vacuum my floors (though I actually still do once a month when I move furniture to vacuum places the Roomba can't go, a humanoid robot could do that for me).
by p_j_w | 2025-11-28 15:54:12+00:00
I have a similar line of thought every time I go to a national park. I dont really like hanging out around a bunch of strangers’ kids, but this would prevent a lot of families from being able to afford to go do things like this, and it’s good to let kids be exposed to things like really amazing art and national parks. Poor people should be able to enjoy them too.