MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mikkupikku | 2025-11-19 14:41:35+00:00
I went down the rabbit hole of researching both cults and deprogramming groups a few years ago and one of the things which I found remarkable was how much overlap in methods there was between the two. Different groups go to different extremes, but the overlap between the two is such that in many cases they can only be distinguished using social context, and in some cases I am pretty sure the deprogramming groups are in fact cults masquerading as groups to help former cult members because those make the best members for new cults.

Interesting space. I'm glad I don't have any personal reason to be involved.
by Keyframe | 2025-11-19 14:41:47+00:00
I have multiple real Amigas (jesus, that's a lot of amigas meme), but since I installed PiMiga on a rpi400 with its monitor, that's like 99% what you need amiga for. I even prefer it to my commodore 1084s fleet. Even though I need a CRT shot now and then.
by Bender | 2025-11-19 14:41:50+00:00
Silicon Valley as in the early tech industry was created out of necessity and funding from the analysis of World War 2. [1] So I suppose the next steps would be to learn about World War 2 and repeat the learning process before, during and after World War 3 with some adaptations of course to fill the tech gaps.

While this has already been done a bunch of times one would also want to put together a think tank consisting of people form the Department of Defense, the defense industry, intelligence community, academia specifically Stanford SRI and Harvard, financial analysts from In-Q-Tel, existing think tanks. I am intentionally leaving out some groups and commissions.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Xxi0b9trY [video][44 mins][documentary]
by cafard | 2025-11-19 14:42:08+00:00
About a dozen years ago, I noticed that the young all seemed to know Python, and did not seem to know Perl. Given that they would be maintaining such code as I wrote and was worth keeping around, I moved to writing in Python. Now when I write Perl, I do silly things like forget semicolons.

Perl can be very well written. I deeply regret not encountering Perl Best Practices when it came out.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-11-19 14:42:10+00:00
I wonder if college administrators are using discrimination as an excuse to decrease standards to increase number of students, which then increases their pay and job security. It is well known that not only did number of young people peak, but also that outside of the top 20 or so, college is nowhere near worth the tuition prices.

The only other option is for college administrators to be disturbingly stupid.
by gempir | 2025-11-19 14:42:13+00:00
CloudFront has quotas[0] and they likely just hit those quota limits. To request higher quotas requires a service ticket. If they have access logs enabled in CloudFront they could see what the exact error was.

And since it seems this is hosted by Atlassian, this would be up to Atlassian.

[0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/Develope...
by szszrk | 2025-11-19 14:42:59+00:00
I struggle to find out who is this aimed at, really.

It's clear there is a lot of drama in Opensource projects lately, but there are countless projects where the maintainer would be thrilled to have one or two people that would actually want to invest their time into reviewing some code with him. Day they find others pumped by their work and willing to invest some time would be celebrated with cake each year.

Just because someone else's broken CI pipeline does "Several thousands of downloads of NPM package per day" should not make you feel bad that you have not "Build an organisation which won't crumble" yet.

That's backwards. You want to help those people? Create that organization. Create another Apache org and take over important projects that need that.

It really feels like banging the wrong drum. Just another person having a broken curl setup and blaming Daniel Stenberg for it.
by bayindirh | 2025-11-19 14:43:06+00:00
I don't take the same thing from the article. Yes, it's lighter than Terence's standard writing, and a bit more closed than his usual style, but I feel that he just wanted to underline something he liked personally.

In once sentence, the blog post reads:

Hey, look, this guy did something nice, and was honest about it.

That's all.
by glitchc | 2025-11-19 14:43:25+00:00
I have a hard time understanding how the act of mechanically separating meat from bone and gristle renders it unfit for consumption. Texture certainly matters for taste, but once masticated, all food is roughly the same texture. Digestion is a biochemical process, and if the body is experiencing adverse reactions to certain foods, the cause should be a biochemical one.
by callamdelaney | 2025-11-19 14:43:42+00:00
The only applications of generative AI I can envisage for trading, systematically or otherwise are the following:

- data extraction: It's possible to get pretty good levels of accuracy on unstructured data, eg financial reports with relatively little effort compared to before decent llm's - sentiment analysis: Why bother with complicated sentiment analysis when you can just feed an article into an LLM for scoring? - reports: You could use it to generate reports on your financial performance, current positions etc - code: It can generate some code that might sometimes be useful in the development of a system

The issue is that these models don't really reason and they trade in what might as well be a random way. For example, a stock might have just dropped 5%. One LLM might say that we should buy the stock now and follow a mean reversion strategy. Another may say we should short the stock and follow the trend. The same LLM may give the same output on a different call. A miniscule difference in price, time or other data will potentially change the output when really a signal should be relatively robust.

And if you're going to tell the model say, 'we want to look for mean reversion opportunities' - then why bother with an LLM?

Another angle: LLM's are trained on the vast swathe of scammy internet content and rubbish in relation to the stock market. 90%+ of active retail traders lose money. If an llm is fed on losing / scammy rubbish, how could it possibly produce a return?
by BoppreH | 2025-11-19 14:43:53+00:00
I like the cookie law as a sort of 4D chess move.

Step 1: force websites to add an opt-out flow for privacy-minded users.

Step 2: websites don't complain too much because they can implement it in obnoxious and dark-pattern-laden ways, so that few users actually opt-out.

Step 3: now that websites have proven there's no technical barrier and the flows are already implemented, slowly retire unnecessary user tracking and data sharing.

I'd be surprised if this was planned ahead of time, but it's not a bad strategy.
by DebtDeflation | 2025-11-19 14:44:04+00:00
Honestly, just learn it like anything else. Understand the basic components of an internal combustion engine (block, crankshaft, rods, pistons, camshafts, cylinder heads, valves, intake and exhaust manifolds), the 4 cycles the engine goes through (intake, compression, power, and exhaust), how fuel delivery and ignition systems work. And then there are tons of resources on tuning and you can get the software for a laptop.
by EvanAnderson | 2025-11-19 14:44:48+00:00
Piling-on here: My A1200 and CD32 haven't been powered-on since 2001. They worked when they went into climate-controlled storage but need to be recapped.

I haven't had luck finding anybody in the US with experience recapping these models who will do the work. The one person I found was unwilling to do the work w/o my verifying if they work now. I think it's a mistake to apply power to them in their current state since that could cause damage.

If anybody has recommendations I'd appreciate it. I'm not looking to cheap-out on this (particularly with the CD32, since I'm the original owner and have all the original packing material, etc). I just want them done right so they can be preserved and used again.

Email is in my profile.
by Jweb_Guru | 2025-11-19 14:45:00+00:00
I have never met a single person who wanted to learn advanced mathematics who was prevented from doing this by not getting into the college of their choice, and I know a lot of mathematicians. Do you genuinely believe that people who get an 800 on the math portion of the SATs (which is actually a pretty large number of people) are struggling to get admission to university at all?
by thinkingtoilet | 2025-11-19 14:45:00+00:00
I agree. I think it's one of those things that people complain about because other people complain about. You have to click a button. Wow. What an ordeal. The title of this thread used the term "nightmare". I would be thankful that my life is so wonderful that clicking a button is considered a "nightmare". It's transparent and if you don't like it, don't go to that site.
by rkozik1989 | 2025-11-19 14:45:10+00:00
Honestly, I am inclined to think a lot of the people who are wowed by benchmarks and simple tech demos probably aren't doing very much at their day job and if they're either working on simple codebases or ones that don't have very many users(more users == more bugs found). When you throw these models at complex software projects like SOAs, big object-oriented codebases, etc. their output can be totally unusable.
by adornKey | 2025-11-19 14:45:46+00:00
I've seen a lot of Antifa things. They're into anti-MAGA things, have some kind of uniforms and merch and are actually quite violent. In certain places they are very visible, and aggressive. They are a good fit for a discussion about cults. I agree with the authors of the article. By being nice to them I broke some of them a little bit out of their loop.
by mindslight | 2025-11-19 14:46:06+00:00
So that implies you agree with the bulk of my comment, directly related to the point you made, and only had a problem with my rhetorical sum up?

Also it's not exactly "whatboutism" to make a point directly adjacent to the subject. The world isn't automatically-executing self-consistent boolean logic (eg you yourself said several comments back you sympathize with lawlessness for marijuana laws, because many more people do not support their existence). When appealing to a general concept like "the rule of law", it's important to look at the larger picture for what specifically is being motivated by such appeals and what isn't. Otherwise you're just allowing your own lofty ideals to be abused by those who would appeal to them to get you to acquiesce, while themselves operating from a much different place of not actually sharing those ideals at all. And that open hypocrisy is a strong theme of trumpism.
by ogig | 2025-11-19 14:46:31+00:00
https://ai.studio/apps/drive/1E-aYovHHoY8jrF6bsl_AZ8VszIN66N...

The initial prompt was, in case people doesn't want to log in:

Make a turn based chess like game. Instead of normal chess board use an hexagonal grid. Make the board diagonal shaped. Instead of traditional chess pieces we are going to use spaceship designs. Each spaceship has unique abilities that influence the board or their own skill. For 2 players, turn based. Show me what you got.
by scotty79 | 2025-11-19 14:46:52+00:00
I'd much rather lose 10k in customers that might potentially come another day than 10k in Amazon bill. Amazon bill feels like more unringable.

But hey, let's say you have different priorities than me. Then why not bot? Why not let me set the hard cap? Why Amazon insists on being able to bill me on more than my business is worth if I make a mistake?
by rayiner | 2025-11-19 14:47:10+00:00
My position is only hypocritical or contradictory under your unstated assumptions about how society works. You believe that cultures are fungible. You think that if you took 10,000 people raised by Dutch mothers and had them build a city, it would turn out the same as if you took 10,000 people raised by Bangladeshi mothers. I reject that premise. I think if you ran that experiment, with all else being equal, the city founded in Dutch culture would be more prosperous, better governed, less corrupt, and more orderly.

Since I don't accept your cultural relativism, then there is no contradiction in my view. Quite rationally, I want to live in the city founded on Dutch culture rather than the city founded in Bangladeshi culture. And there is nothing contradictory about moving to a place but opposing mass migration of people behind you that changes the character of the place that you found attractive to begin with. That's the mindset of literally everyone who moves to a quaint little town in the country.
by antonvs | 2025-11-19 14:47:25+00:00
> Unlike with a government, you can easily walk away

Part of me hopes for a Snow Crash future where if you don't like the services provided by The American Mafia (a bit of on-the-nose prophecy from Neal Stephenson), you can switch to Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong instead. Sadly, human rights would likely be a casualty in that overall scenario.
by mark_l_watson | 2025-11-19 14:47:29+00:00
I get some push back from a few tech friends because I avoid using apps (except for things like Chess game apps). I can’t say for sure that preferring web versions of services helps with censorship, but it can’t hurt.

Using web versions, not apps, is important because companies keep user device statistics and if enough people insist in using web versions, the the web will continue to be at least partially supported by big tech.
by piltdownman | 2025-11-19 14:47:32+00:00
The preponderance of dark UI/UX patterns in advertising and cookie consent pop-ups, as well as the grey-hat browser fingerprinting and DRM based tracking, unfortunately stand testament to exactly that.

Given that ~98% of Internet users couldn't even articulate what javascript does as part of their browsing experience, the exfiltration and reassembling of their PII via meta-data into sellable profiles for targeted auctions is completely beyond their capacity to comprehend or engage with. Thus consent is de facto ungrantable.
by Tuna-Fish | 2025-11-19 14:47:48+00:00
In the EU, it's complicated.

There is a very clear law that forbids any additional contract terms post the point of sale, so that if you go to a store, purchase a box with software in it and then go home to install it, when it pops up a dialog for you to "agree" on, you can just ignore it, nothing in that is enforceable at all. And no, small print text on the box that says you have to agree to terms in the software does not change anything. But that's not how software is sold anymore.

EULAs in general are not unenforceable, so long as they are presented before the sale. This is precisely why Steam (for example) now gives you the EULA before it lets you buy anything.
by alkonaut | 2025-11-19 14:48:11+00:00
Users will overwhelmingly use browsers in vanilla config. The question here will be how browser vendors show this option. If - say - a company that gives away a browser for free but makes money from ads designed this, then they'll hide the option deep in some obscure menu, never remind people it exists, and reset it on every update.

So the devil is in the details. The best option I think isn't a secret setting in a browser, but a standardized consent dialog. Basically the sites communicate to the browser a standardized data format for consent. Then the browser shows that query in a popup that looks the same for every site. That means 1) the sites no longer have a chance to do dark patterns 2) it's less confusing for end users since the UX is always the same 3) it allows users to check a "Automatically reject for all sites". The site should not know whether the user has auto-rejected this, or manually rejected it. There should be no option to automatically consent for all sites (Can't have that). So the only ergonomic choice is to set it to auto reject.

Having this "use this choice (reject) for all sites" is the really important part here. Because it means that ALL users of ALL browsers will quickly see this choice, so in short order a huge chunk of users will have made this permanent rejection choice.
by gizajob | 2025-11-19 14:48:44+00:00
Nah, they get dragged down and ignored.

Teachers only really teach the middle third - the top third can be ignored because they can do it for themselves while being bored.

The bottom third can’t be helped because they won’t be helped without a huge amount of energy by the teacher (for little rewards), and so won’t do it for themselves while being bored.

The middle third is all that gets schooled because they can at least be bumped up a little higher towards where the under-achieving top third thus rests.
by lawn | 2025-11-19 14:49:14+00:00
I think the key here is choice.

Are there other sites where you can discuss the things you use Hacker News for, without much of a loss? Then it's probably moderation.

Is this the only forum that matters with respect to a certain topic? Then it's probably censorhip.

For example, if a private company controls the de-facto subreddit for a topic or product and uses that to control the narrative then it's more like censorship than moderation.

Also, it sounds like you think it's black-and-white but it's much more gray than that and something one might call moderation someone else might call censorship, and there might not be a clear-cut answer.
by kccqzy | 2025-11-19 14:49:21+00:00
Reserving the cost until the end of the billing cycle is super unfriendly for spiky traffic and spiky resource usage. And yet one of the main selling points of the cloud is elasticity of resources. If your load is fixed, you wouldn’t even use the cloud after a five minute cost comparison. So your solution doesn’t work for the intended customers of the cloud.
by IlikeKitties | 2025-11-19 14:49:29+00:00
When the Digital Services/Markets Act was written this was actually considered. But there's also companies that surveil your browsing data and sell that for other purposes not just advertisement. Market Research and such. I'd have been for a blanket ban though.

Sadly, this is mostly a matter of not enforcing the GDPR enough. Things such as "data minimization" and the erosion of "technically necessary" already should protect us. Instead the Business Community chose malicious compliance on a vast scale and the data protection agencies did nothing.
by susam | 2025-11-19 14:49:41+00:00
Late to the party but here's a solution I worked out using roots of unity and cosines:

from math import cos, pi for n in range(1, 101): print([n, 'Fizz', 'Buzz', 'FizzBuzz'][round((1 + 2 * cos(2 * pi * n / 3)) / 3 + 2 * (1 + 2 * cos(2 * pi * n / 5) + 2 * cos(4 * pi * n / 5)) / 5)])
by gassi | 2025-11-19 14:49:47+00:00
I run a semi-popular open source project (https://romm.app/), and this is a topic we tend to revisit regularly. While there will always have to be someone at the top who owns the project, we've tried to organize ourselves in a way that should prevent a complete hostile takeover:

* Gihub organization is co-owned (2 Owners) * I own the domain, they run the Discord server * Finances are handled by https://opencollective.com/ * All code is GPL or AGPL licensed

In the event either (or both) of us step away, temporarily or permanently, the core team is has the power and permissions to continue running the project indefinitely. While I would be able to remove them as co-owner on Github in a takeover scenario, I won't have access to the finances or the Discord community.
by flatline | 2025-11-19 14:50:04+00:00
We’ve been talking about federated micropayment technologies for some two decades. I’d happily pay for content but I refuse to sign up for 30+ publisher websites. If I could opt to pay $.25 for some article without giving the site all my personal data or incurring a subscription I’d be all for it. As it is I either “steal” the content through an archiving site or simply leave the site. More and more it’s the latter. I’d also happily pay some monthly fee for unlimited content from a consortium of publishers rather than disable my ad blocker, and let them sort out how much each one gets based on my browsing habits. None of these seem like hard technical problems, it’s certainly not impossible. I think the days of believing content comes without any cost are long behind us.
by Nextgrid | 2025-11-19 14:50:05+00:00
> What’s impractical about that?

My understanding is that ActivityPub relies on the server having a stable domain name and be reachable from the internet so that other instances can talk to it. So your client must continuously run its server in the background (impossible on mobile) and be reachable from the internet at a static IP or dynamic DNS with low TTLs (very impractical on mobile unless you perpetually leave your "mobile" at home).
by jjk166 | 2025-11-19 14:50:30+00:00
It's very reasonable to take a step back and reassess at the first indication of unexpected resistance. When you decide to do something, you're making that decision based on how you expect things to go; if they aren't going that way then the assumptions underpinning your decision to go down this path no longer hold. If you wouldn't have started had you'd known there would be even slight inconvenience, it means you don't value the output enough to justify that slight inconvenience, and you should not keep going just because of sunk cost.

Being lazy, ie being particularly unwilling to put in much effort for a reward, is quite orthogonal to how long you keep pursuing a particular approach to achieve a reward.
by WoodenChair | 2025-11-19 14:50:34+00:00
You're hand wavy "it's the pandemic" neglects the other evidence provided in the article that happens to coincide with the pandemic such as the elimination of test scores as admissions criteria to many universities. And the article certainly doesn't blame it wholly on the pandemic, for example here are two theories it presents:

> How did this happen? One theory is that the attention-shredding influence of phones and social media is to blame. The dip in math scores coincides with the widespread adoption of smartphones; by 2015, nearly three-quarters of high-school-aged kids had access to one. A related possibility is that technology is making students complacent. Emelianenko told me that students “are just not engaged in math classes anymore”; they seem to believe that they don’t need to learn math, because they can use AI instead.

> Or maybe students have stopped achieving in math because schools have stopped demanding it of them. During the George W. Bush administration, federal policy emphasized accountability for public schools. Schools that saw poor performance on standardized tests received increased funding at first, but if scores still didn’t improve, they had their funding pulled. Research suggests that this helped improve math outcomes, particularly for poor Black students. After 2015, however, the federal government backed off from its accountability measures, which had faced bipartisan criticism. (Some teachers’ unions and progressive parents wanted less emphasis on standardized tests, and some conservative politicians wanted the federal government to remove itself from education policy.) Many schools across the country have shifted toward making math engaging for students at the expense of evidence-based teaching practices. And due to funding shortages or misguided efforts to improve equity, many students are held back from taking the hardest math courses.
by graemep | 2025-11-19 14:50:47+00:00
I think that is often the perception, but is usually mistaken.

Smaller providers tend to have simpler systems so it only adds to ramp up time if you hire someone who only knows AWS or whatever. Simpler also means fewer mistakes.

If you stick to a simple set of services (e.g. VPS or containers + object storage) there are very few service specific nuances.