MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dc396 | 2025-11-10 18:05:25+00:00
No. While root servers are NOT sacrosanct, if such a court action were to occur and a root server operator were to carry it out, the change would fail DNSSEC validation in resolvers that have DNSSEC enabled (which varies depending on where you are, see https://stats.labs.apnic.net/dnssec), resulting in a SERVFAIL. In such cases, resolvers generally try another root server, until it gets a non-SERVFAIL answer, so for this to have the desired effect, you'd have to get all the root servers to implement the same change. This would be unlikely.

However, the root server operators merely publish what ICANN (via the IANA functions) produces.

If the US (either federal or perhaps even the states of California or Virginia) were to decide to "censor" a TLD in the root zone, they would simply go to ICANN, PTI (the folks who provide the IANA functions under contract to ICANN) or, more likely, Verisign (who generate and publish the root zone under contract to ICANN) and demand the root zone be modified.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-11-10 18:06:00+00:00
> Even their per capita emissions have surpassed countries like Germany.

It's becoming a habit of mine to remind that reading stats is tricky. Per capita isn't a good metric because China exports a lot of products to other countries, more so than Germany. Any CO2 comparison should consider what amount of CO2 would be released by the importers if these same products we produced locally.

That could be done by professional statisticians given data and funding that isn't there, and until that changes, the simple stats should not be taken as a ground for blame or praise.
by tptacek | 2025-11-10 18:06:17+00:00
It helps a lot just to have an intuition for what a big article is here. The slider starts at ~1500 votes, which is an insanely successful story. You can get a strong score just by guessing 400 for everything, nudging up +100 for things you remember being popular and down -100 for things that seem obscure.
by throw0101a | 2025-11-10 18:06:33+00:00
> I'm curious on your take on the necessity for political leaders to master the "exterminate" prong of the 4X?

Civilization, for one, has scientific and cultural victory conditions, and not just military. Stellaris takes economic and technological factors into account.

But the main skill in being able to "win" is the ability to balance various needs of the population: economic, technology, happiness, crime, foreign threats. And it may not even be able "winning" but about how you play the game: all potential candidates could be given several randomly generated seed, and their gameplay is available for evaluation. Some seeds could be militaristic species, others pacifists; some capitalists, some collectivists; etc, with the expectation that you don't (necessarily) play how you'd like the society to be, but role play as the species at it is: so you may be a pacifist, but you have to play as a militarist if that's what the species is in-game.

If you can't wrap your head around the interconnectedness of resources in something as simple as a video game, what chance do you have IRL?

Further, this can be a filter and not the filter.
by mdahardy | 2025-11-10 18:07:18+00:00
We have an example of a failed cross-tile result in the article - the models seem like they're much better at detecting whether something is in an image vs. identifying the boundaries of those items. This probably has to do with how they're trained - if you train on descriptions/image pairs, I'm not sure how well that does at learning boundaries.

Reload are challenging because of how the agent-action loop works. But the models were pretty good at identifying when a tile contained an item.
by mmis1000 | 2025-11-10 18:07:55+00:00
It's actually possible to support it by re-implement it by js or compile to wasm and running on client side. There are extensions to support pdf(pdf.js), flash(Ruffle), mht(UnMHT). So it should be possible to do the same thing for XSLT. The real question is "Who want to"? Does xslt have a large user base like pdf, flash, mht?
by roywiggins | 2025-11-10 18:07:56+00:00
This concept is called legal personhood:

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

When it's not a natural person (ie, a human being) it's called a juridical person:

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

"Person" is in this usage a piece of legal jargon.
by scuff3d | 2025-11-10 18:08:31+00:00
Of course it exists. Anytime you give people power someone is going to abuse it. That's never going to go away. And the people who are going to abuse that power will do it regardless.

I and people I know have directly observed racism/sexism in our careers, and they have without fail been exactly what DEI initiatives are intended to help prevent.

If someone is using DEI initiatives to abuse their power, that should be dealt with, obviously. But that's not indicative of some conspiracy.

I suspect if I ran down the extremely long laundry list of terrible things done by big corporations you wouldn't argue all corporations should be abolished.
by vitaly-pavlenko | 2025-11-10 18:08:53+00:00
I'm working as a school teacher of Computer Science for Year 6..9. Currently I develop an online collection of exercises for intro to programming.

I have exercises:

- on turtle, using my DSL with three commands: 4[100 r90] draws a square

- on robot (blockly)

- a 2D replica of Replicube to teach conditions in JS.

I've started vibe-coding it two months ago and I add new stuff whenever I need it for my classroom.

I'll soon add signups.

The platform will be free forever, monetized via banner ads somewhere in the future. The target audience is middle school teachers of CS.

https://chessnawk.vercel.app/
by ahmeneeroe-v2 | 2025-11-10 18:08:55+00:00
>The problem is that the USA our greatest ally isn't letting us use them as a shield.

I personally think that Canada can be our (US) greatest ally, but this is only true in the hard-power sense of the word if Canada does actually meet its defense obligations.

Canada has a huge coastline, directly adjacent to our most significant threats (China & Russia), yet doesn't have a navy to speak of.

We need Canada to step up to its own defense so we can keep being equal allies, otherwise Canada is a de facto protectorate and should pay for that privilege.
by utopman | 2025-11-10 18:08:59+00:00
Not sure it is your case but I think I sometimes had to solve many of them when I am in my daily task rush. My hypothesis is that I solve them too fast for "average human resolving duration" recaptcha seems to expect (I think solving it too fast triggers bot fingerprint). More recently when I fall on a recaptcha to solve, I consciently do not rush it and feel have no more to solve more than one anymore. I don't think I have super powers, but as tech guy I do a lot a computing things mechanically.
by sai18 | 2025-11-10 18:08:59+00:00
Looks like it's already been pointed out. We’re not applying AI to these systems — IBM is already pursuing those initiatives (https://research.ibm.com/blog/spyre-for-z).

Our focus is different: we’re using AI to understand these 40+ year-old black box systems and capture the knowledge of the SMEs who built and maintain them before they retire. There simply aren’t enough engineers left who can fully understand or maintain these systems, let alone modernize them.

The COBOL talent shortage has already been a challenge for many decades now, and it’s only becoming more severe.
by thunderfork | 2025-11-10 18:10:12+00:00
I don't think this is true. It's just much easier to bring in people when you have access to them to ask directly, basically.

In my short experience in public service, I met a great number of people who were not in lockstep with the so-called "values they try to force" (i.e. the political plans of the current government), so it seems they're not doing a great job of "forcing" those values if that's the plan.
by James_K | 2025-11-10 18:10:22+00:00
RSS documents do not support JavaScript. Also, XSLT is not Turing complete as far as I know, though some implementations extend the spec to become Turing complete. Even if it is, a potentially Turing complete XSLT document does not present the same kinds of risks as JavaScript does. Do you think someone will be able to fingerprint your browser using XSLT? I'll file that under “highly unlikely”. Specter and meltdown also aren't exactly going to work in XSLT. There are memory-safe XSLT parsers available and existing parsers can be run in a memory-safe WASM sandbox, so that's not really a concern either.
by omnicognate | 2025-11-10 18:11:09+00:00
In the extremely unlikely event that I'm compelled to by a judge, yes. Or if someone chooses to beat me with five dollar wrench, of course. And even then A) it can't happen without my knowledge and B) I have the option of refusing and bearing the consequences.

I didn't say it solves every problem, just that it's the only way to have proper end-to-end encryption.
by redwood | 2025-11-10 18:11:09+00:00
Cool so your bet is that chat is essentially the new interface for BI... or ad hoc analytical inquiry... which opens up more dynamic BI... instead of asking an analyst in a slack conversation who then goes and runs a bunch of data pulls and munging, it's all handled agentically and a response is brought back to the user.. one thing is for sure: Tableau needs to be disrupted so happy to watch this one play out!
by jdewerd | 2025-11-10 18:11:13+00:00
ISM is thriving, the only tragedy is that carriers haven't figured out how to charge rents on it and that's a tragedy for them, it's a spectacular success for everyone using it for free.

Carriers don't need 6GHz for backhaul. They have fiber and cable and (other) microwave. Not to mention the ability to shape their own links with antennas and beam forming and do a good job of it rather than a "default job." What they don't have -- and shouldn't be given under any circumstances -- is the excuse to build a moat in the bustling public park.
by sdesol | 2025-11-10 18:12:28+00:00
Full Disclosure. I am the author of https://github.com/gitsense/chat

> The idea behind the Agentic Data Stack is a higher-level integration to provide a composable software stack for agentic analytics that users can setup quicky, with room for customization.

I agree with this. For those who have been programming with LLM, the difference between something working and not working can be a simple "sentence" conveying the required context. I strongly believe data enrichment will be one of the main ways we can make agents more effective and efficient. Data enrichment is the foundation for my personal assistant feature https://github.com/gitsense/chat/blob/main/packages/chat/wid...

Basically instead of having agents blindly grep for things, you would provide them with analyzers that they can use to search with. By making it dead simple for domain experts to extract 'business logic' from their codebase/data, we can solve a lot of problems, much more efficiently. Since data is the key, I can see why ClickHouse will make this move since they probably want to become the storage for all business logic.

Note: I will be dropping a massive update to how my tool generates and analyzes metadata this week, so don't read too much into the demo or if you decide to play with it. I haven't really been promoting it because the flow hasn't been right, but it should be this week.
by neilv | 2025-11-10 18:12:37+00:00
I have a little bit of skepticism about the move by Google (and you should usually be very skeptical, any time Web standards or Web "security" are talked about, lately), but...

The gaudy retro amateur '95 design of this page might suggest the idea "anyone only cares about this for strange nostalgia reasons".

Content-wise, I think this argument is missing a key piece:

> Why does Google hate XML?

> RSS is used to syndicate NEWS and by killing it Google can control the media. XSLT is used worldwide by [multiple government sites](https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11582). Google are now trying to control LEGISLATION. With these technologies removed what is stopping Google?

Google wanting RSS/Atom dead, presumably for control/profit reasons, is very old news. And it's old news that Big Tech eventually started playing ball with US-style lobbying (to influence legislation) after resisting for a long time.

But what does the writer think is Google's motivation for temporarily breaking access to US Congress legislative texts and misc. other gov't sites in this way (as alleged by that `whatwg` issues link)? What do they want, and how does this move advance that?

We can imagine conspiracy theories, including some that would be right at home on a retro site with animated GIFs and a request to sign their guestbook, but the author should really spell out what they are asserting.
by weagle05 | 2025-11-10 18:12:43+00:00
For the first time in years I'm working somewhere that doesn't use JIRA or Trello and find myself without a Kanban system. I'm having serious withdrawals. I have limitations on using a non-approved IT system because I use customer data so I vibed a PWA Kanban system. Stores data in browser and only vanilla code. No external dependencies.

https://github.com/efriese/ikanban
by tptacek | 2025-11-10 18:13:04+00:00
A "replacement-level" front page story is ~200 votes, +/- 50. If you're drawing just from the front page, and not from a deliberately weighted set of successful vs. marginal posts, most stories should be below 400.

(It's weird to say this but I'm not nerdy enough to have actually worked this out with data; it's just intuition from spending time here.)
by groby_b | 2025-11-10 18:13:45+00:00
Just in case people miss the core message: This is something you do if you have a credible risk assessment that you think a big conflict is a possibility within the next decade or so.

And, as much as I'd like to focus on deteriorating Canada/US relations, it's likely a dual purpose. The Ukraine/Russia/NATO situation would be the second factor. OK, a triad, China/US is also on the radar. Whatever the weighting, it's pushed Canada to work on a mobilization framework, because the combined risk is high enough.

Which means "oh shit" feelings are entirely appropriate, panic isn't.
by zkmon | 2025-11-10 18:14:01+00:00
>> How often do you think a ChatGPT user walks away not just misinformed, but misinformed with conviction? I would bet this happens all the time.

Why is the "Dunning-Kruger" is not mentioned anywhere in the article body while is gloriously visible in the title? By the way, AI is not wrong "all the time".
by oplicktis | 2025-11-10 18:14:12+00:00
Being the cause of widespread despair, hate and fear, and so, the one most often called upon to be held accountable (at least from an optics perspective) is dramatically different than being "'the spokesman' for the Millennial generation — as the single person who gives voice to the hopes and fears and the unique experiences of this generation, at least in the USA" which is a completely delusional take.
by James_K | 2025-11-10 18:14:33+00:00
How do you intend to put PHP in an RSS document? If it serves an HTML one instead, then the RSS will no longer be available. You could try checking the HTTP headers to determine if the page is being fetched by an RSS reader or a browser, but such an approach is much more brittle than XSLT, which solves the problem exactly and easily. Not to mention it allows users to download browser extensions that override the provided formatting of XSLT documents with a custom standard one if they desire.
by 9rx | 2025-11-10 18:14:50+00:00
That's all well and good, but we're not talking about the rest of the article. Only the bit that says "It’s widely known that Corporations are People" — which is not about legal personhood. "People" always refers to those found in the flesh. Which, like before, is why the law is careful to use "legal persons" instead of "legal people" when the plural form is relevant; to not confuse non-human legal entities as being people.
by mojoe | 2025-11-10 18:14:57+00:00
There are only two stories in the collection that feel a little further out:

"Best Practices for Safe Asteroid Handling" by David W. Goodman feels like a smart, polished successor to golden age space opera, it's set in a future where the solar system is colonized, but not thousands of years out.

Grant Collier's "The Best Version of Yourself" is also not set very far into the future, but it's a kind of post-human future so it might have far-future vibes for you. This specific story is actually available free online, so you don't have to purchase the anthology to read it: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/collier_07_24/
by silverquiet | 2025-11-10 18:15:06+00:00
> They really are just that up their own asses.

I remember perhaps a decade ago, a coworker and I were watching a clip of Zuckerberg walking up to a group of employees and they started clapping for him. I mentioned how odd it was to see, and he thought it was perfectly natural to applaud the CEO of your company. We never applauded when our boss showed up, and I've never really been sure where the line is for which authority I'm supposed to cheer for merely from being in their presence. I haven't thought about it too much since then, but obviously it's stuck with me.

As a society, we've all had our lips pretty firmly pressed onto the asses of the oligarchs for quite awhile, so it seems pretty natural that they think it's the natural order of things.
by throwaway290 | 2025-11-10 18:15:11+00:00
if you are so crazy about not paying more tax than needed think that having to buy a device is also a tax.

also next you will say there's too much email spam so we can't waste taxpayer money making them go through it, so we can only contact them using the approved app on approved hardware with remote atteststion to ensure you didn't root it. if you refuse, it's your problem segregating yourself.

of course later that app will require you to first talk to an LLM. only if LLM decides your problem is important enough you can really contact the government. why waste taxpayer money on supporting various legacy means of talking to taxpayers if it can be spent on billion dollar contracts with tech companies instead
by roywiggins | 2025-11-10 18:15:23+00:00
Property can't enter into contracts or own bank accounts, which is probably the big marker for traditional corporate personhood. It might be possible to sue property but property can't itself sue, so it's not the same type of thing as a corporate person, which can.

You wouldn't need "in rem" jurisdiction if there was a legal person to sue, you'd just call it "in personam" like normal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_rem_jurisdiction
by throw0101a | 2025-11-10 18:15:27+00:00
> On a flip side - politics is deeply social game. My mental image of gamers is very opposite of social (yes I know many games nowadays are social).

On the flip-flip side, the US has a president which seems to have a high 'charisma score' and very little grasp on reality.

Being able to wrap your head around the interconnectedness of resources in something as simple as a video game is just one factor. I'd like to know how much candidates can deal with the complexities with something as 'simple' as video game society: they could suck at it, and that could be fine if they have other qualities, but it could be a useful data point.
by markerz | 2025-11-10 18:16:01+00:00
For those unfamiliar, personhood status for environmental protection is real (beyond what the original blog mentioned)

NYTimes: In Move to Protect Whales, Polynesian Indigenous Groups Give Them ‘Personhood’ https://archive.is/H5fq8

Nat Geo: This Canadian river is now legally a person. It’s not the only one. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/these-rive...

I wonder how our mental model of nature will evolve over the next decades. For example, in the early 1900's, the United States had more laws protecting animals from overwork than it did for children. That feels unfathomable in today's United States, where animals are treated more as property than people. Perhaps something similar will happen, where we will understand everything as a "legal entity" that has protections.
by jeffbee | 2025-11-10 18:16:04+00:00
I don't know why the article says the recipient of a search warrant for stored communications can't challenge it prior to disclosure. They can, and often do, especially on the grounds of lack of particularity or undue burden. As an example, Google claims that of all search warrants received by them for user data in 2024, they disclosed data for 90% of them, not 100%.

I also feel like the article generally misrepresents the entire American legal system, since the system itself does not really prevent the cops from doing the bad things, but instead tries to say that the result of the bad thing cannot be used as evidence. So it really isn't structured to ensure that the cops can't get your voice mails. It is structured such that if the cops improperly accessed your voice mails that can't be used against you in court.
by surgical_fire | 2025-11-10 18:16:07+00:00
De-appling is easy. I just don't have anything from them. Apart from the work laptop, but that is a problem for my employer, not me.

De-googling however is extremely hard. I have been slowly chipping away at it, but there are things I just have no decent option to (such as Waze and Android Auto).

Android itself is another problem. I have high hopes for a Graphene device.
by fragmede | 2025-11-10 18:16:11+00:00
If your "friend" uses it to download CSAM, you're in for a world of trouble. I don't know that none of my friends aren't into that stuff, but sincerely believe the friends I share a tailnet or two with aren't doing that with my connection. Tailscale has Mullvad VPN exit node integration for sketchy shit, this is more about getting access to eg Swedish television for a friend's girlfriend who gets homesick every once in a while.
by ndriscoll | 2025-11-10 18:16:23+00:00
At the very least, I don't see a need to grant exclusivity across an entire country. e.g. from my home, I can see 5 wifi networks including mine. Of those, only 1 other than mine has a 5GHz signal that reaches me, and everything other than mine is in the -80 to -95 dBm range. There's simply no need to reserve short-range signals in the suburbs in the way that there is for block of giant apartment buildings each with 100s of networks on top of each other.

On top of that, mobile data is quite expensive in the US, so the only time I have data when out and about is... when I'm on free public wifi networks (which is most of the time). So I don't see much reason to give more of a monopoly to mobile providers. I honestly don't even see a use-case for cell service outside of super rural areas; the only reason I even have it is because it's necessary for MFA. Cell providers are legacy tech as far as cities are concerned IMO.

To me it'd make way more sense to me to let wifi have more bands with stricter limits on power levels, and any exclusivity should be to municipalities who can contract with companies to build and manage their infrastructure.
by cedws | 2025-11-10 18:17:03+00:00
I'm talking about true horizontal scaling where load is sharded across replicas. Active-passive is easy. Handling web traffic is also easy. Backend business logic is not so easy.

If you're message driven you can maybe have a set of replicas consume off of a message bus like Kafka or NATS, but now you need to maintain that cluster, as well as build a messaging layer. What protocol do you use, etc?

Then there's the question of what triggers scaling up/down. The simple way is scale on CPU utilisation but then you get flapping issues. Or if load isn't completely evenly distributed you get one replica starving for CPU whilst the rest have too much.

All of these questions go away if you can just provision a big node and be comfortable that it will be able to handle anything within reason.