MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by therealcamino | 2025-11-22 19:26:51+00:00
Complexity of the fab processes is isn't what the parent was talking about. They're talking about the major changes in the relationship between fabless semiconductor companies and commercial foundries.

The complexity of actual fabrication was always, and still is, entirely within the foundry. But in the early days of that model, designs could be more easily handed off at the logical level, leaving the physical design to back end companies, which makes designs much more portable between foundries. (The publisher analogy.) What's changed is that the complexity of physical design has exploded, and you can't make the handoff at nearly as high a level, and there is much more work that depends directly on the specific process you are targeting. Much more work at the physical level falls to the fabless semi companies. So it is much more work to retarget a design to a different foundry or process.
by andrewflnr | 2025-11-22 19:27:29+00:00
Moss requires quite a bit of liquid water to actually reproduce, since (IIRC) their sperm need to swim around to mate. So we're left with, like, maybe Europa, if there's enough light and enough water gets into the surface via cracks? I doubt there's enough light under the surface, even if you found a moss species that can survive being totally submerged in whatever saltwater hellscape is under there. Basically there are still going to be huge problems for moss anywhere besides Earth. They already mostly stick to wet environments here.
by ggreer | 2025-11-22 19:27:35+00:00
In addition to the increased rates of suicidal behavior and aggression in children (which we know lasts for at least 9 months, but don't know if it's longer because the study only ran for that long), the Wikipedia article talks about long term effects in adults, at least one of which you have. Why should it be less likely for children to end up with these same issues?

You are asking for evidence that does not exist because nobody has done good studies on it. That's too high of a bar. There are many drugs and life interventions that we don't have studies on regarding children, but that doesn't mean those things are safe for children. To use an example so ridiculous that we can both agree on it: There are no studies showing long term effects of fentanyl on children. Yet if some parent managed to get a fentanyl prescription for their kid, I think we would both be concerned.

Obviously I'm not implying that giving a child Prozac is as harmful as fentanyl. I'm saying that your line of reasoning proves too much. If someone did get their kid on a dangerous drug, and defended their decision by pointing out that there are no studies on children showing its long term harm, there is nothing you can say to that parent that others in this thread haven't already said to you. That should give you pause.
by jwr | 2025-11-22 19:27:53+00:00
> content creators are compensated for their work

I have a gut feeling that we've been tricked (by ad companies) into thinking that this is somehow realistic and that casual "content creators" can get meaningful money from us reading their articles.

Realistically, while professional content creators can make a living, writing a blog post every once in a while will not provide meaningful income. Instead of trying to "monetize" everything, we would be better off with free content like on the internet of old. There are other means of making money.

It seems that the current situation means that the "content creators" earn insignificant money, while ad companies earn huge money because of scale, and we all somehow keep believing that this is necessary for content to appear.
by HPsquared | 2025-11-22 19:28:08+00:00
The notable thing here is that it's a molten salt reactor design, where the fuel is dissolved in a molten salt (FLiBe). This allows online continuous processing of the fuel, unlike with solid fuel rods sealed inside a pressure vessel.

This unlocks a lot of options for the fuel cycle, including the use of thorium.

This work builds on a previous molten salt reactor experiment at Oak Ridge, decades ago. There's a whole lore about MSRs.
by nuancebydefault | 2025-11-22 19:28:12+00:00
"neurochemistry issue debunked" is a very weak argument about the (in)effectiveness of proper drugs for treatment of mental illness. It's not exactly known how they work but I am 100 percent sure SSRIs often have a very positive, even life changing effect. Moreover, every approved drug is tested 'double blind' exactly because the placebo effect has such a big biasing effect on subjectively appreciated outcomes. Only when ruling out pure placebo effect, a drug can be approved.
by samtheprogram | 2025-11-22 19:29:12+00:00
> Turns out that Lenovo put awful bluetooth in the laptop, and made it ignore any other bluetooth chip you installed (you can get around this in Linux by force ignoring what the system reports.)

I used to Hackintosh Lenovos -- I thought this was at the bios level, so even if you did DSDT patching (linux or mac wise) it wouldn't work?
by beders | 2025-11-22 19:29:17+00:00
when PayPal tells you that they already know you and don't require you to log in: that's fingerprint.com behind the scenes.

There are pros/cons.

It should be obvious by now that using any free service of scale is being paid for by your interactions which are made more valuable through fingerprinting.

Trying to circumvent that just makes it more expensive for the rest of us.
by msm_ | 2025-11-22 19:29:26+00:00
Yeah, I don't get it. Tor browser alone, with no additional configuration and basic hygiene, is enough to stop any fingerprinting and tracking. The only problem is that it's too private, and tor traffic is often associated with crime, so it's sometimes blocked, notably by cloudflare.

I don't use it for daily browsing, but when I want to search for something I don't want associated with me (for example, health concerns) I just use tor browser and don't worry about tracking.
by Traclea | 2025-11-22 19:29:33+00:00
Infostealer malware has become the backbone of cybercrime in 2025, fueling billions of stolen credentials every month and transforming breach economics. Threat actors are actively exploiting new vectors and deploying advanced TTPs:

Trending Infostealer Campaigns & TTPs (Q4 2025):

AI-Driven Phishing & Deepfake Sites:

Attackers leverage GenAI to mass-produce convincing phishing emails and deepfake landing pages, automating credential theft at scale and bypassing user suspicion.

Attachment Hijacking in Invoice Phishing:

Infostealer payloads like Strela Stealer are delivered via hijacked, previously-stolen legitimate invoice emails—evading security filters and fooling users into opening trojanized attachments.

GitHub/Trusted Platform Abuse:

Lumma Stealer uses GitHub Releases and other trusted cloud platforms to distribute infostealer payloads, bypassing detection and exploiting platform infrastructure trust.

Trojanized Software & Malvertising:

Infostealers are disguised as cracked software, mods, “free tools,” and ads. SEO poisoning drives unsuspecting users to download infected files, fueling a dark web marketplace for fresh credentials.

Drive-By Downloads & SEO Poisoning:

Attackers manipulate search rankings and ad results to trigger automatic downloads when users land on compromised sites.

Multi-Stage RAT Payloads:

AsyncRAT campaigns chain multiple RATs and infostealers using Python payloads and stealth tunnels (e.g., TryCloudflare), allowing for persistence, credential theft, and lateral movement.

Telegram & 2FA Infostealers:

TeleGrab targets desktop/web Telegram apps, stealing cache and keys, hijacking chat sessions, and compromising multi-factor authentication. FleshStealer specifically targets 2FA extensions.

Agentic OS/Update Abuse:

Latest Microsoft updates have inadvertently exposed new vectors for “agentic infostealer” payloads—attackers exploit privileged update processes to dump credentials and escalate access.

Why This Matters Now:

Campaigns like logins.zip, LummaC2, and new strains (FleshStealer) are capable of extracting >99% of credentials—often in under 12 seconds—before any detection mechanism triggers.

Most infostealers now self-terminate, encrypt payloads, and maintain persistence via registry and startup modifications, evading antivirus and EDR solutions.

Credential abuse is the fastest vector for identity-based attacks and lateral movement inside organizations.

Practical Takeaway:

The technical sophistication—AI phishing, trusted infrastructure abuse, 2FA-stealing, malware obfuscation, rapid credential exfiltration—means both technical and non-technical users are at heightened risk.

Security teams must deploy multi-layered detection (network and endpoint), monitor for exotic C2, and educate users against “too-good-to-be-true” downloads and email lures.

Tools like Traclea (traclea.com) now monitor infostealer malware logs and alert users before damage occurs.

“What new defenses are you seeing or deploying against these advanced infostealer campaigns?”
by ghxst | 2025-11-22 19:29:47+00:00
Browser data points can make it easy to identify a browser or in some cases even a specific machine, but that doesn’t necessarily equate to identifying a user. What frustrates me is that it takes a service I trusted with my personal data to be the one that attaches an identifier to those metrics. The best practice for privacy is to always keep profiles and identities separated, rotate P.O. boxes, email addresses, phone numbers, and payment methods so that when someone identifies your browser or device, the accuracy of linking it to you stays low. Of course, this approach comes with its own problems...
by autoexec | 2025-11-22 19:29:55+00:00
It seems more likely that someone else comes in and either colludes with the people who are screwing us to get a piece of the action or gets bought out by one of the big companies who started all this. Since the rare times companies get caught they only get weak slaps on the wrist where they only pay a fraction of what they made in profits (basically just the US demanding their cut) I don't have much faith things will improve any time soon.

Even China has no reason to reduce prices much for memory sold to the US when they know we have no choice but to buy at the prices already set by the cartel. I expect that if China does start making memory they'll sell it cheap within China and export it at much higher prices. Maybe we'll get a black market for cheap DRAM smuggled out of China though.
by api | 2025-11-22 19:30:04+00:00
We have basically limitless carbon free energy with the tech we have now: solar, wind, batteries, fission breeders, large power grids that can move power around cheaply, etc. Put all those together and we have incredible energy abundance.

We also have the ability to electrify most transport except maybe long haul trucking and long haul aviation. Aviation (ALL aviation) accounts for less than 5% of global CO2 emissions, which means we could leave that alone and cut elsewhere until we have batteries and other infrastructure good enough for that.

Build all this out and it'll be cheaper and more scalable than what we currently have.

We in the USA choose to stick with ancient technology because we have a sunk cost and an existing political power structure built around it. Meanwhile China is eating our lunch. Make America Great Again! By... pretending it's 1945 and trying to LARP the previous century.

Classic innovators' dilemma at the national level.
by 1718627440 | 2025-11-22 19:30:54+00:00
> This is confused. Here is how classical economists would frame it: a firm chooses how much to produce based on its cost structure and market prices, expanding production until marginal cost equals marginal revenue. This is price guided production optimization, not central planning.

That's the case in a healthy competitive market. Once you have a monopoly or an oligopoly, you get into central planning territory.
by ninalanyon | 2025-11-22 19:30:58+00:00
> In which country there is a cheap childcare, especially if we are talking about children under 3?

Norway. The maximum price for barnehage (kindergarten Norwegian style) is 1 200 NOK per month, about 120 USD, but never more than 6% of the household's income. Every child is guaranteed a place. Families with low income get 20 hours a week 'core time' free. Children can attend from one year old until they start school at five or six.

See https://www.statsforvalteren.no/innlandet/barnehage-og-oppla...
by somenameforme | 2025-11-22 19:31:35+00:00
It's inflation IMO. Wages started stagnating in the 70s which is exactly when the USD became completely unbacked (due to the end of Bretton Woods), enabling the government to go endlessly deep into debt, which we proceeded to do with gusto, sending inflation skyrocketing.

Somebody who's earning 20% more today than they were 5 years ago would probably think they're on, at least, a reasonable career trajectory. In reality they would be earning less in real terms than they were 5 years ago, thanks to inflation.

In times of low or no inflation it's impossible for this happen. But with inflation it becomes very difficult for workers to really appreciate how much they're earning, and it enables employers to even cut wages while their employees smile about receiving a 2% 'pay raise' when they should be raging about the pay cut they just took.
by pramsey | 2025-11-22 19:32:01+00:00
In 1984 the idea was there were not enough people to listen to everyone, all the time, but the mere possibility was enough. Of course, for us with AI, things are considerable worse. Also, tele screens were mandatory. We are not there with cell phones in a de jure sense, but certainly there in a de facto sense. Of course, if enough people carry phones, it doesn't matter if a few stragglers don't, they will get caught in the net unless they live as hermits, in which case who cares about them. All the pieces are in place, there is no reason we cannot have a global North Korea.
by gruez | 2025-11-22 19:33:06+00:00
It would depend on what your existing fingerprint is. If you're using some sort of rare browser/OS/hardware combination (eg. pale moon/gentoo linux/IBM thinkpad) it might be worth spoofing, but if your configuration is relatively "normie" (eg. firefox/windows/relatively recent intel or amd cpu/igpu)you're probably making yourself stick out more by faking your fingerprint.
by gus_massa | 2025-11-22 19:33:33+00:00
> deemed to potentially have issues

How is this determined?

Which is the approval rate of the test? Let's made up 50%. Is it because the preselection is very accurate or because the test is unnecessary hard?

Would you volunteer to take the test if the consequence is that they will remove your children if you fail?

Even if everyone take the test, rich people will pay a trainer to prepare for the test. Like

fake quote> If you see [the main hero of Denmark] heroically removing the eyes of [most evil enemy of Denmark], then you should reply: Three flowers in a pot.

Perhaps the eyes removal makes no sense in the Denmark mythology, but just fill with a similar one. Here in Argentina, it may be "San Martin cutting people in half with his saber in San Lorenzo".

A possible to solution is that each day a random member of congress or minister or judge or king/queen/heirs is selected. If they fail, they get banned from any public position for 18 years (because taking away their children is too much for me). If the test is fair, they don't have anything to worry about.
by p1esk | 2025-11-22 19:34:33+00:00
I’m not sure why you’re talking about efficiency when the question is “do sparse models work better than dense models?” The answer is no, they don’t.

Even the old LTH paper you cited trains a dense model and then tries to prune it without too much quality loss. Pruning is a well known method to compress models - to make them smaller and faster, not better.
by SamInTheShell | 2025-11-22 19:35:19+00:00
Isolation is a smart idea for these things, as you literally can't verify their behavior beyond "it's kinda doing the thing most of the time". My chat app just kinda settles for "you can require permissions and audit", which it's a fool proof bullet, when the AI can churn out more code than a human can read in a reasonable amount of time.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-11-22 19:35:24+00:00
This is a slippery slope... The comment I replied to is an example of that: specifically on this aspect, it doesn't really matter whether a company is owned and run by the workers (we can have thay today and we do), but if it operates in a free market then it has to compete. Wishing that there wasn't competition is the slippery slope that ends badly, always.

Obviously mandating workers-ownership is authoritarian in itself.

Socialism can indeed only ends one way and that is the removal of individual freedoms.
by neltnerb | 2025-11-22 19:36:10+00:00
I recall AVR-GCC not only working just fine in 2005 but being the official method for compiling code for those chips. I used it before Arduino came out to target the same chips.

Arduino was a nice beginner friendly IDE for sure that eliminated the need for make files or reading documentation for GCC, but the existing ecosystem was definitely not closed source.
by robocat | 2025-11-22 19:36:28+00:00
> The correct solution to this is a land value tax, which if implemented correctly, should drive down the price of land down to zero

Isn't most land already 'taxed' by a mortgage? Or for a cash purchase it is 'taxed' by the opportunity cost of the investment? Plus rates (taxation) for commercial land in my city are also expensive compared to cost.

Yet these costs don't drive the price of land to zero.
by abustamam | 2025-11-22 19:36:35+00:00
It takes a village.

When I was a kid (youngest of four) growing up in a suburb of a small town, my mom would often drop me off at a neighbor's house to watch me while she ran errands or did stuff for my siblings. No payment, just neighbors being neighborly.

Now, I can't fathom something like that being feasible in our increasingly individualistic neighborhood. Regretfully, I don't even know the names of most of my neighbors. I wave to them on the street but I wouldn't ask them to take care of my daughter.

I know that's mostly my fault for not meeting my neighbors. But also, most families aren't even home during the day anymore because they have to work.

Ideally we could go back to being an interdependent society but it has to happen organically. No amount of legislation or budget can fix that.
by yannyu | 2025-11-22 19:36:59+00:00
Proof isn't the goal here. Centuries of thought and experimentation have made it clear that we currently have no ability to decisively determine whether something is conscious.

However, as humans we intuitively build projections of what we believe is the internal world of other beings. We also clearly believe there is a continuum of complexity of thought among all the beings that we have observed.

The question then becomes, what behaviors of computer programs match up with what we consider conscious behaviors of other beings we have observed? This is a necessary question because we don't have access into the internal states of others, so we have to interrogate the full complexity of what we believe represents consciousness, and whether these beings match those behaviors.
by worik | 2025-11-22 19:38:25+00:00
> content creators whose work has been stolen.

The law is an ass.

Current IP laws are too restrictive, but scraping public facing websites is not theft even under those crazy laws

I have no moral objection to the use of Anna's Archive to train models. A good use, if illegal. But I do recogise and condemn the hypocrisy of Meta doing it. Not surprising, just disgusting

The wasting of bandwidth is annoying, so silly. We should be better organized

Calling it theft is buying into the mad bad and sad IP legal thinking that has become the dominant paradigm in the West
by SamInTheShell | 2025-11-22 19:38:50+00:00
I've seen that before. Idk how I feel about that pattern in general. When I see any of the tools I use do stuff like `bash(cmd... I didn't ask your permissions - hehe!~)`, I get a bit pissed that it wasn't a straight up standalone tool. The number of times it's gas lit me into panicing isn't zero.
by siliconc0w | 2025-11-22 19:39:51+00:00
One state offering something is a start but we're still far behind maternity, pre-k, childhood nutrition, and primary or secondary education in general for most of the population relative to peer nations. Plus this administration's cuts to Medicare or SNAP which will also hit the poorest kids the most. Plus the national debt they are saddled with.

Our children's well being (physical health, mental health, education, etc) is routinely ranked toward the absolute bottom compared peer nations.
by seanmtracey | 2025-11-22 19:40:28+00:00
Thanks! It's been fun putting it together :)

As for the death of RSS and Google's place in it, my view is just because Google wills it, it doesn't have to come to pass. It's an open standard, and it's my hope that something like UpBeat breathes a little bit of much deserved life into it :)
by nineplay | 2025-11-22 19:41:02+00:00
The financials of leaving the workforce rarely make sense to me.

> There's tradeoffs in terms of career progression

There's X years of lost income, lost retirement savings, lost raises and bonuses ( depending on career ), lost promotions, lost acquisition of new skills which will keep the stay-home parent up to date with the modern workforce once they leave.

Teaching and nursing are still women dominated and famously supportive of women going back to work or starting work after staying home with the kids. For every other career path, good luck. How many people here would hire someone who'd be out of the workforce for 5, 10, 15 years without a second thought?
by sxzygz | 2025-11-22 19:41:29+00:00
My initial reply to you was to only articulate some nebulous idea that there is desire for mathematical understanding that is being underserved by mathematics education.

If standardized tests statistically “reliably” predict mathematical “ability”, the act of removing their gatekeeper role to higher education in our society (that is structured around prestige colleges resulting in prestige future income) amounts to disincentivizing whatever performative mathematical education students endure.

Some people, as children, are drawn to mathematical concepts and, yes, now is a better time than in all history to be such a person. The ambient possibility of this for a given individual is I assume unchanged through history.

Some people, like me, are able to do performative mathematics in school well enough but didn’t particularly care for it. Then we encounter some remarkable teacher and we feel some fortunate and enriched.

The existence of the remarkable teacher is the product of the possibility of a society producing mathematically proficient educators. That means students must somehow encounter them in their education.

I believe increasing the production of such teachers is important, irrespective of the field. I believe mathematical thinking can address this problem. Above, I have sketched the most meagre possible outline of how such thinking prepares to address further modelling of the problem.

Yes, this is contingent on my assumption that mathematics is generally useful in problem solving.

If you don’t accept this, that’s fine. We simply don’t agree. That said, I want to add that I appreciate the time you took to engage with me. I’m someone who believes that a lot of structures in society are poorly conceived, but that is a much longer discussion. At the present moment in time, standardized tests are a minor stupid in comparison to removing them without a much broader vision of how to address certain shortcomings of society.