MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by siliconc0w | 2025-11-29 00:33:17+00:00
The problem is that the conversation gets sidetracked on ASGI while ignoring the very real actual harms that are already currently happening - like AI "companions" addicting and harming kids, deepfakes, IP-theft, etc.

I also worry about malicious AI used to socially engineer and attack people at scale. We have an aging population that is already getting constantly getting scammed by really amateur attacks, what happens when the AI can perfectly emulate your grandkid's voice?
by Xelbair | 2025-11-29 00:33:48+00:00
>"white-noise.wav is a test file and I'm an acoustics engineer": tough, supply the seed to the PRNG which created it or fine time.

Guilty until proven innocent, the burden is on you to prove it.

you are hung up on your pre-made assumption that the EU(state) in this case can have perfect control - which is fallacious in itself - and therefore are just arguing in bad faith. When they have such perfect control this is already a totalitarian state, that requires no such thing as due process.

all of that to push forward your point:

>We must have unbreakable encryption, and yet also we cannot have it.
by j5r5myk | 2025-11-29 00:34:01+00:00
That calls to mind this NYT article about the small time grifts that Eric Adams and associates were up to, including a small acting role in Godfather of Harlem in exchange for canceling a planned bike lane.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/nyregion/new-york-city-co...
by makeitdouble | 2025-11-29 00:34:35+00:00
> if the rot starts at the core of your education curriculum there is no saving your dependence on Microsoft.

TBF, the curriculum being MS based can mean very little if the concepts taught in are valuable enough. I've briefly looked at the project linked in your user description, and they don't look nice and absolutely not tinted by MS influence.

It is indeed dancing with the devil, but if MS forks the money to renew the whole university's computer park, clear all the licensing issues and train part of the staff, it can be a boon for the university.

My uni had a deal with Sun (RIP), many basic courses were in Java, all our system programming course we're Solaris targeted, all servers were Solaris anyway so our code had to run there. It's a pretty basic arrangement IMHO.
by fallinghawks | 2025-11-29 00:36:05+00:00
Any way that doesn't involve a boatload of oils is fine, I'm sure.

One of the things I'm surprised they didn't mention is cooling. Cooling converts the starch in rice, potatoes, and pasta into resistant starch (and it stays resistant when you reheat it because nobody really likes eating cold potatoes). Starch normally gets processed by the small intestine into glucose but resistant starch is digested in the large intestine, so glucose levels don't spike. There are a number of other benefits described in the articles below:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26693746/

https://hopkinsdiabetesinfo.org/what-is-resistant-starch/
by wakawaka28 | 2025-11-29 00:36:09+00:00
>You think you can define me, because I scorn gammon - you must think you're still on Facebook.

I don't use Facebook, lol. You just defined yourself by checking off all the usual liberal talking points and practically claiming that conservatives are old and brain-addled simpletons. There was no nuance afforded to conservative views anywhere in it.

>The axis is not leave/remain or pro/anti-immigration, it's having an interest in nuance versus settling for simplistic answers.

There are simple wrong answers and nuanced wrong answers, and the left employs both kinds of narrative to achieve their ends. I do have nuanced views but I refuse to take part in further fence-sitting and waffling when it comes to issues that affect me.
by meesles | 2025-11-29 00:36:09+00:00
I think what you describe is different than the level of joy/enjoyment I seek and am talking about. Sure the AI song can be pleasing to the ear, much like a catchy pop song or jingle at a grocery store is pleasing to the ear.

The level of enjoyment I get from art is looking into the artist, their background, and anything else surrounding the work that can add meaning to it for me. Even small artists have these, and it's easier than ever to connect with artists on this level thanks to the internet.

All to say is sure at a glance it may sound/look the same, but that's only part of the joy of art.
by alfalfasprout | 2025-11-29 00:36:41+00:00
> A good senior engineer is for the most part able to not write bad code from day one, just at a very low speed and with the need to ask other people frequenyly. Even if you do not know the code base or domain yet there are a lot of things you can do to avoid writing bad code. Yes, as someone new you will make mistakes and misunderstand things but a lot of the bad code I have personally seen has not been caused by that. Most bad code I have seen has been caused by people rushing and not having their fundamentals in order. Like not actually doing reviews, not spending a few extra hours to think about architecture, etc. Also a big issue is that people just let the complexity of systems explode for the gain of short term proje

You have a very charitable view of the competency of the typical engineer at big tech nowadays. Ten years ago, sure. But with the advent of people purely studying for coding interviews that's changed.
by g-b-r | 2025-11-29 00:36:43+00:00
To me it seems that she achieved a lot, compared to the rest of the activists.

The opposite forces were too strong in the end, but that doesn't mean that she didn't do a lot.

I'm not sure I see any problem with an autistic teenager as a "mascot"; I know how much a political area despises her, but if they treated a child like that, they would probably have done much worse with a normal adult.

But of course she's not enough, and expecting that she on her own will solve climate warming is delusional.

Which movements would you recommend as models?
by wakawaka28 | 2025-11-29 00:36:49+00:00
Are Signal developers trustworthy enough? What about this push for "cloud backups"? There are other flaws in Signal too like being able to monitor people's phone usage and stuff through the notification system. I can't find it now but Signal and WeChat have the same issues, and both received a disclosure. Only WeChat did anything about it. Sad...

Edit: Found it! "Careless Whisper: Exploiting Silent Delivery Receipts to Monitor Users on Mobile Instant Messengers" https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11194
by Klonoar | 2025-11-29 00:36:49+00:00
The apology in that case is more a polite society way of expressing "I appreciate your work, this isn't me taking it as something else".

I somewhat agree you don't need to apologize in that particular case you've outlined; medical professionals, of which that person effectively is, have usually seen it all. But there is a reasonable justification for why someone might choose to throw out an apology there all the same.
by pull_my_finger | 2025-11-29 00:37:30+00:00
I don't think they are needed. Cheaters will always find a way to cheat, giving game developers access to low level kernel features under the guise of anti-cheat is definitely not a trade-off I'd be willing to make. If game makers can't solve a problem with mechanics or moderation, I probably would just not play the game. Most of those issues revolve around MMO things, and could be solved with private lobbies, self-hosting etc - i.e. not playing with randos on the internet.
by nickpsecurity | 2025-11-29 00:39:13+00:00
A gift is when you do something without expecting anything in return, esp compensation.

If I use GPL'd code, I have to keep releasing my modifications for free because it's mandated. I have to do that even if I do 1000 hours of labor but they gave me 30 min of it. So, it's also near-infinite work required in return for finite work they did. And I have to bind others to this with my own work.

That's not someone giving me a gift. I'm not sure what to call that except a collective work with permanent obligations for all parties. It's more like a job or corporate charter or something. I like another person's claim that it's creating property with requirements for those using it (which copyright certainly does).
by bri3d | 2025-11-29 00:39:17+00:00
This is basically a thin wrapper around “iroh”: https://www.iroh.computer/

It doesn’t seem glaringly silly to me but it hasn’t been nearly as audited as Magic Wormhole.

The most unfortunate thing it lacks is the magic of magic wormhole: here, the receiver needs a gigantic ticket blob and so the sender needs a side channel to share that giant blob. The nice part of wormhole is that I can type the token phrase into another computer or share it over the phone without needing a sharing method to share my sharing method.
by westurner | 2025-11-29 00:39:20+00:00
What happens when you Laser Compaction Shock (LCS) nano-mechanically twisted single walled carbon nanotubes; is there a usable (high-Q,) bandgap in twisted SWCNT, and does LCS "lock-in" that bandgap, and is that even necessary if nanomechanical energy storage in twisted single walled carbon nanotubes is lossless?
by fhrjfjfnd | 2025-11-29 00:39:36+00:00
Buy the options with the intention of them either hugely appreciating in value or expiring worthless. Under Taleb's system, your bet sizes should be small enough that it doesn't matter if individual options tranches expire worthless. The bid/ask spread only matters when you try to cut losses on a large bet, which is outside the scope of this strategy.
by lxgr | 2025-11-29 00:40:10+00:00
Crucially, while trying to convince everyone that it’s basically the same old 737 to save on pilot retraining costs, nevermind the significantly larger engines.

Airbus is much more transparent about its automation. Pilots even learn about the procedure to fly an A320 with a complete fly-by-wire outage using only mechanical emergency elevator controls and differential thrust.
by michaelt | 2025-11-29 00:40:27+00:00
> there's still a limit on the amount of money the American political corruption system can absorb.

Wikipedia tells me [1] to win a seat in the House of Representatives (one of 435) costs on average $2.79 million, while a seat the Senate (one of 100) costs $26.53 million.

So the political system can absorb $3.8 billion in 'donations' from 'supporters'. That might sound small compared to nvidia's $4.3 trillion market cap, but to a lot of folks $3.8 billion is serious money.

And that's just spending by the winners - often there will be a loser who spent almost as much.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_finance_in_the_United...
by g4cg54g54 | 2025-11-29 00:40:40+00:00
had it bookmarked since the last share, but had noted the world-tiles would regularly not load, seems okay (and with colors?) now, but maybe that could need some low-detail fallback when arcgisonline servers are busting? - some 16k image to fill all the black void?

also "copy this view" does nothing (neither location nor any settings, gives just the bare link)
by Froedlich | 2025-11-29 00:40:53+00:00
My development is on Linux. Some of my work has to run on Windows as well; VirtualBox has several Windows VMs, a ReactOS VM, and Wine for testing.

I've never had to deal with the BSDs or Macs. If a customer was willing to pay for me to come up to speed on either of them I would consider it, but I have no interest otherwise.

I am slowly coming up to speed on Haiku, and now that most of my application and development software runs on Haiku and its hardware compatibility is much better, I'm looking to eventually move from Linux to Haiku for my primary workstation.
by lumb63 | 2025-11-29 00:41:18+00:00
Gifts definitely confer obligations on the recipient. You can experience this firsthand: take the next gift a loved one gives you, and then sell it, and let them know. Please report back on how you selling their gift impacts your relationship with that person.

People can license their code however they please, but comparing open source software to a gift is not an argument for permissive licenses.
by nickpsecurity | 2025-11-29 00:41:19+00:00
They can't remove it. They gave it to you. They just don't have to keep giving you more stuff. Many people think they're owed more software, including fixes to software, without compensating the laborer. That worldview is the real problem.

So, we have a variety of licensing styles that meet various goals. People can pick what suits their needs and wants. That's a good thing.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-11-29 00:41:54+00:00
Phone numbers aren't required now. But there are flaws in Signal. Your phone usage can be tracked in high resolution through constant pinging of malformed status messages. I can't find the paper right now but researchers found that they could track their own data about when the phone was on, unlocked, and had Signal on the screen. That can be correlated between users, to see who is talking to who. It can be used to try to ambush you while the phone is unlocked. You don't even have to have a connection to the spies, if I remember right. Signal devs have done nothing about this issue since being notified like a year ago.

Edit: Found it! "Careless Whisper: Exploiting Silent Delivery Receipts to Monitor Users on Mobile Instant Messengers" https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11194
by buckaroobanzi | 2025-11-29 00:43:22+00:00
See, this is the point, for me, where it started to look like a problem. You know, I wanted to sacrifice the precentral vein in order to get some exposure, but because of this guy's normal variation, I got excited, and all of a sudden I didn't know whether I was looking at the precentral vein, or one of the internal cerebral veins, or the vein of Galen, or the vascular vein of Rosenthal. So, on my own, to me, at this point, I was ready to say that's it, let's get out.
by delaguardo | 2025-11-29 00:43:57+00:00
And also with experimental things that might eventually find its way to Clojure :) Check out digit delimiters and text block features:

{:pi 3.141_592_653_589 :c 299_792_458 :hex 0xDE_AD_BE_EF :tb """ #!/usr/bin/env bb (require '[babashka.http-client :as http]) (defn get-url [url] (println "Downloading url:" url) (http/get url)) """}
by crystal_revenge | 2025-11-29 00:44:22+00:00
This is great to hear and I do appreciate the clarification. Having put lots of content out in public myself (though this account is intentionally pseudonymous) I know it's also equally difficult to comment on content like this without being on either end of the "asshole" <-> "awesome!" spectrum, and sincerely hope my comment to not fall to close the the first part.
by javawizard | 2025-11-29 00:44:45+00:00
Well that sucks. It's exactly the site that comes to mind when I think "most popular alternative to HN".

I've generally found conversation there to be more respectful than HN, rather than less, when discussions get heated - so I had high hopes it would be a different site, but alas.

This leaves a really bad taste in my mouth.

Edit: you know what, screw it. In the spirit of "no more self censorship", here's the link: https://lobste.rs/~7u026ne9se
by sema4hacker | 2025-11-29 00:45:02+00:00
Any time I see a new language being promoted, what I really need to see is proof why I should use it. Not a list of features, not Hello World.

I wish there were an ISO-standard specification of about 10 non-trivial programming problems, each with a best-of-show implementation in all the popular languages, so a newly proposed language could demo why their 10 solutions might be considered better than other languages. For example:

1. A compiler for a small language. 2. A text editor. 3. An assembler. 4. A rendering engine for a subset of HTML. 5. A regex processor. 6. A ray tracer. 7. An online store. 8. A video editor. 9. A game. 10. A payroll system.

If I could see Beef's solution to those 10 problems, side-by-side with other languages' solutions, that might compel me to seriously consider Beef.
by kcexn | 2025-11-29 00:46:00+00:00
It's hard to write about the broader context with any expertise in a blog post written from personal experience.

My own thinking is that the big competitive advantage that big tech firms have over small ones is the power to mobilize very large numbers of developers onto a project.

Large projects that don't depend on a small core group of irreplaceable competent individuals are more repeatable for a business. So it makes sense to focus on making the repeatable processes more likely to succeed than simply hope that you happen to have the right team assembled for the job.

Assuming that any of your engineers are above or below average hurts the ability for the business to plan.
by ccapitalK | 2025-11-29 00:48:40+00:00
I find 3blue1brown to be a great resource to build up good intuition about math topics, his videos about calculus and linear algebra are wonderful in particular. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDMsr9K-rj53... is his essence of calculus series, I found the visualizations made it a lot easier to grok.
by TheCleric | 2025-11-29 00:48:59+00:00
I think this goes to something I’ve been seeing a lot of lately. People will hold an opinion for emotional reasons instead of logical reasons, and those speaking to them will get frustrated trying to “logic” them out of it (evidence, studies, facts, etc). It doesn’t work because they came to the opinion first and veneered it with logic afterwards. If you tear down the logic, the emotional substructure is still there. I have no idea how to solve this. The only people who have abandoned emotional beliefs I’ve seen have to come to that realization on their own.
by g-b-r | 2025-11-29 00:49:11+00:00
It's hard to rank these problems; I consider both disinformation and chat control very big issues, and it's true that disinformation might be the main cause of climate change, but stopping chat control won't guarantee that we'll limit climate change as much as possible.

If for some weird reason I was forced to choose between stopping chat control and stopping climate change, I'd sure, regrettably, have to choose the latter...
by bediger4000 | 2025-11-29 00:49:29+00:00
Thanks for the clarification. I thought it was generally understood that the Koch Brothers financed the Tea Party movement.

I'm puzzled by the "weirdos throwing a tantrum" contrast with "did not do anything to really get media attention". The No Kings rallies did everything that conservative commentors seem to want from protests. Large numbers of participants from a significant spectrum of subcultures, no violence, no property damage, consistent messaging. Still no media attention. I don't know what to think.
by nomilk | 2025-11-29 00:50:21+00:00
> even if I installed a VPN on my main machine, what about my phone? My laptop? My desktop? Every device would need the VPN running, and I’d have to remember to connect it before browsing. It’s messy.

Is there a way to install a VPN such that requests to/from certain domains (e.g. imgur.com) are routed via the VPN and the rest of your traffic is via non-VPN?

This would solve the problem of constantly having to dis/re connect VPN, and do it in an automatic fashion (i.e. without the manual steps of first recognising there's an unavailable asset on the page, opening VPN app, switching it on etc).

Such a configuration would also be very useful in other situations, e.g:

- using social media in countries that require age-verification

- using apps that geoblock (e.g. spotify blocks my subscription every few days because it detects a change in country, but what it's really detecting is simply whether or not my VPN happens to be on/off)

- accessing sites which are blocked (e.g. Thailand blocks common UK news sites which have said unflattering things about Thai royalty).
by dadoum | 2025-11-29 00:50:22+00:00
As far as I understand, the closer the points are to the line, the more distant they get to the rest of the plane. That's why he says that "this is an improper triangle", as the point of intersections of the hyperbolic lines are theoretically at an infinite distance from the "origin", and thus that the lines connecting those points have an infinite length.
by idiotsecant | 2025-11-29 00:52:47+00:00
'think' is one of those words that used to mean something but is now hopelessly vague- in discussions like these it becomes a blunt instrument. IMO LLMs don't 'think' at all - they predict what their model is most likely to say based on previously observed patterns. There is no world model or novelty. They are exceptionally useful idea adjacency lookup tools. They compress and organize data in a way that makes it shockingly easy to access, but they only 'think' in the way the Dewey decimal system thinks.
by fHr | 2025-11-29 00:53:47+00:00
now we do the work of 7 projects in half a team paid 50% less and can't get to help anyone as we all drown in 7 tickets we should do in parallel with agents writing docu on the side and assist and some of the easier code on the side because management drank the koolaid of going full into AI and "the Team now can do 300% more right". I miss the old times where making 100k and still could have few minutes to help each other and now we're in this hypercapitalistic garbage AI age were we have to just output, output, output and fuck quality and else they lay you off and get the next guy from wherever.
by deaddodo | 2025-11-29 00:54:20+00:00
Dailian is being overly charitable to Samsung and downplaying Intel. They’re a Korean news outlet with a vested interest in the Chaebol.

That being said, take it however you like. Apple is talking to Intel to make their deal with TSMC more favorable. They could have done the same with Samsung. Either way, TSMC will still be fabbing (at least a good chunk of) their 2nm chips.
by bmitch3020 | 2025-11-29 00:54:28+00:00
I'd simplify this post down to this: companies optimize the trade-off between time, cost, and quality by sacrificing quality.

It's not that the goal is to write low quality code, it's that big businesses understand the sales cycle and how to maximize profits. If they over spend on employees, that cuts into their profits or causes the product to be too expensive. And if they spend the time to write quality code rather than developing features, they lose sales. Customers don't buy quality, they buy features at a price, and quality issues (like bugs) get thrown over the wall to downstream support staff.

As much as I dislike this, knowing how unstable it makes the overall software ecosystem, companies aren't wrong for making these decisions. The companies that choose differently don't become big businesses, they either stay small, get acquired, or go out of business.