MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lrvick | 2025-11-13 16:40:11+00:00
> When you worked with those cryptographers, did any of them stick up for PGP? Which ones? I'm not making up the attitude I'm describing.

I am not going to drag anyone else or their reputations into this conversation but they can chime in if they want to.

The general vibe I get about PGP among the cryptography engineers in my universe, that I share, is that it is an awkward spec that would have never been designed today, and has a lot of legacy ciphers that should never be used anymore that modern tooling must not expose, etc. But also, that re-inventing very widely used and established standards and tools that are secure enough for those use cases is rarely worth it.

PGP is the bootstrap trust layer for the internet, governments, linux distros, and critical infrastructure all over the world and it is not going away, so might as well take advantage of the compatibility wins of modernizing it.

We would have designed HTTP and TLS and the internet as a whole a -lot- differently today too. They are broken as hell but the job is to improve and upgrade even when it would be more fun to start over. In hindsight, everything is shit. But I am not about to try to make a new internet and convince people to use it. That is more complex to do than living with and working around the early dumb design choices when they can be made secure.

We do not just abandon HTTP and TLS, we navigate early awkward choices and we debate and iterate on new versions of standards. Similarly, many teams including mine, put in the work to modernize PGP tooling, and the OpenPGP working group still exists and still iterates on the standard (Though admittedly not as much as many of us would like).

As for MDC, another thing that is awkward, but good enough: https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:mdc

It is my general opinion that for all the faults of PGP, it is still the best personal cryptographic identity anchored encryption and signing solution we have, especially when combined with smartcards and keyoxide. From there a rich ecosystem of tooling builds on top of that.

PGP (with modern tooling and ciphers) is much more sensible to recommend overa fragmented set of one trick tools with no key discovery, validation, or backup strategy that are bound to leave users with lost, stolen, or impersonated keys.
by jMyles | 2025-11-13 16:40:15+00:00
> Keeping users safe on Android is our top priority.

I'm really over third parties telling me that my safety is their priority. Unless you're transporting my body (ie, airline, ride share, etc), then I really don't need you to be looking out for my safety. See the problem is: when you do look out for my safety, you do it by giving yourself control over my life that is not healthy for either of us.

Let my safety be my concern, and the functionality of your product can be your top priority.
by wnevets | 2025-11-13 16:40:45+00:00
> I see no reason to believe they won't employ the same strategy for the Machine.

They have already said its gonna be priced like a computer and not a console. [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/bWUxObt1efQ?si=KCNHtUt1fGqkqlOn&t=58
by LexiMax | 2025-11-13 16:41:13+00:00
> This is the pattern behind all UK privatisation. Foreign countries and shareholders benefited hugely, while prices of essential services exploded, and service quality degraded.

No kidding.

But of course, never underestimate the motivated reasoning of an HN user. After all, somebody made money off of the privatization. That could've been you, and you like making money, right?
by dominicrose | 2025-11-13 16:41:31+00:00
Virtue signaling is an insult that you can for example use against greenwashing or against someone who pledged to donate a lot of money to some charity but actually donated none or much less. Hypocrisy is also a form of virtue signaling.

It's also a term you can use against political opponents because it's much easier to speak well than to actually do good.

Refusing to negociate with criminals and help fund security seems like the proper long-term reaction for everyone.
by seanhunter | 2025-11-13 16:41:48+00:00
I'm not saying any of those decisions was necessarily good. They're just the kinds of things CEOs do. I personally think Microsoft dropped the ball spectacularly on this, from the perspective of the consumer, and objectively choice is less and the outcomes are worse, and gamers and game devs have suffered tremendously as a result. However Microsoft achieved their objective, which was to be able to say that games revenue gross margin went up.
by Vegenoid | 2025-11-13 16:42:11+00:00
Thanks for the response. Yes, I think some clarity about the purpose of the issue tracker would help someone unfamiliar with the project's maintenance better understand the conduct of the maintainers. If it is only for coordination of work tasks and not discussion of whether the work should be done, it would seem natural to have somewhere else where the discussion of the merits occurs.

> drive-by negativity by non-code-contributor users is the biggest existential threat

I do believe this, and it's what I was getting at with my "conditions a knee-jerk asshole response" comment. From the outside, I saw someone who wasn't being negative, but just seemed to have unaddressed concerns about the impact of the change. You, however, have been conditioned by hostile users over your many years of work to interpret this as negativity, because other, ruder people pile on to the valid concern in unhelpful ways, or the person with the concern wasn't willing to listen at all and just used a veneer of calm rationality to be a stick in the mud.

The point is, I get why you would be this way, but also that it doesn't look very good from the outside looking in. I know that you are doing unpaid labor and so nothing is owed, but still, both can be true.

I know some people don't like it, but I've always found discussions that are locked to collaborators only to be totally understandable for this reason. If you find yourself making "I know more about x than you ever will" comments to a person, you should probably instead just disregard them and carry on. Likewise, you do know more about x than I ever will, so you should probably just disregard me and carry on.
by usrbinbash | 2025-11-13 16:42:29+00:00
Okay, so, should I not ask it about facts?

Because, one way or another, we will need to do that for LLMs to be useful. Whether the facts are in the training data or the context knowledge (RAG provided), is irrelevant. And besides, we are supposed to trust that these things have "world knowledge" and "emergent capabilities", precisely because their training data contain, well, facts.
by codeptualize | 2025-11-13 16:42:30+00:00
You might be able to port it fairly easily, depending on the browser extension api's you are using.

Web extensions API is emerging and a lot of it is already somewhat standardized https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...

Just some different fields in the manifest, and there are specifics that work completely different or are not available (for example favicons).

I have tried Chrome -> Firefox before and it was surprisingly easy. Safari is more difficult in my experience, it's missing complete API's like the bookmarks one.
by fragmede | 2025-11-13 16:42:31+00:00
You can't. You don't want an old, non-electric one (presumably), so you can't use that loophole to register one. So unless you're the CEO of Ford (who has all the connections in the world), you won't be able to bring it in and register it, and depending on the state, you have to register it, even if it's not operating on public lands. I will pay $5k on top of the $8k base price and $8k for 100% tarrif, for a total of $21k for a BYD Seagull in California if you can get one delivered and registered to me. I'm sure there's collectors out there offering way more.
by saghm | 2025-11-13 16:42:58+00:00
I'd love to be confident that the company's strategy is sound enough to keep the same long-term goals from that far back, but I don't think I'm sure enough to make strong assumptions about what the overall motivations of products launched in 2025 are from his comments in 2012. I do think that it's a plausible explanation, but there's plenty of room for humility in attempting to interpret whether intent has changed in the light of over a decade of new circumstances that may or may not have been expected.
by ZaoLahma | 2025-11-13 16:43:02+00:00
Funny that you used that symbol, as it would have been a fantastically bad choice for clarity in product naming. I'm going to assume that you're German speaking and think of it as meaning "average".

In my head it would have been the "Playstation Island", while for most of the world it would probably have been the "Playstation Empty Set".
by BeetleB | 2025-11-13 16:43:08+00:00
> Chatgpt has a lot of frustrations and ethical concerns, and I hate the sycophancy as much as everyone else, but I don't consider being conversational to be a bad thing.

But is this realistic conversation?

If I say to a human I don't know "I'm feeling stressed and could use some relaxation tips" and he responds with "I’ve got you, Ron" I'd want to reduce my interactions with him.

If I ask someone to explain a technical concept, and he responds with "Nice, nerd stat time", it's a great tell that he's not a nerd. This is how people think nerds talk, not how nerds actually talk.

Regarding spilling coffee:

"Hey — no, they didn’t. You’re rattled, so your brain is doing that thing where it catastrophizes a tiny mishap into a character flaw."

I ... don't know where to even begin with this. I don't want to be told how my brain works. This is very patronizing. If I were to say this to a human coworker who spilled coffee, it's not going to endear me to the person.

I mean, seriously, try it out with real humans.

The thing with all of this is that everyone has his/her preferences on how they'd like a conversation. And that's why everyone has some circle of friends, and exclude others. The problem with their solution to a conversational style is the same as one trying to make friends: It will either attract or repel.
by afzal_ali | 2025-11-13 16:43:25+00:00
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by myrmidon | 2025-11-13 16:43:39+00:00
I 100% agree that Europe regarded Russia as a potential trade partner (and possibly more positively than the US) even after the 2014 annexation.

But I don't think that this makes EU policy necessarily incorrect: Would German military spending of 5% GDP have prevented the Crimea annexation?

We won't know, but I don't think so, and European militarism in the 2000s might have led to significantly worse outcomes than we actually got.

I also think that painting this as a clear "US stance proven right in hindsight" is an outsized claim; EU military spending only really came up under Trump, and was a very minor topic before. You could make a similar argument that "the cowboys" were all wrong with the whole middle-east interventionism thing (in Afghanistan and Iraq), but the military side of that was at least competently executed (unlike Russia in Ukraine), collateral damage lower and war crimes somewhat minimized/prosecuted.

I sadly agree that Costa-Rica-style pacifism appears a non-viable approach for the EU now despite looking somewhat workable 15 years ago.
by etavgac3 | 2025-11-13 16:43:42+00:00
great idea, and there are many potential pathways for where this can go so excited to see Logosive develop. The key will be seeding the platform with some interesting debates that aren't necessarily part of the mainstream conversation (either topics that aren't getting enough attention, or debate participants that otherwise aren't being matched up against one another). Feel this is the perfect moment in time for this platform.
by pengaru | 2025-11-13 16:43:55+00:00
> You do see glimpses of it in the other models. Eg. The removal of the indicator stalk likely saved <$100 (if that!) but it's a non-starter for many buyers. That has to be Musk's doing right?

"all input is error" - elon musk

wdyt? From where I'm sitting anyone with that position would deprecate the input devices...
by toast0 | 2025-11-13 16:43:59+00:00
I've seen BYD commercial vehicles in the US, but only at a company not known for following rules. I suspect commercial vehicles are easier to import anyway.

Regular passenger vehicles have a lot of standards they need to meet, which usually means manufacturer participation. Has BYD gone through the process to get passenger vehicles approved for use in the US? Otherwise, sure, you can get it imported under a conditional use to bring it to car shows, but not for daily use.
by Yokolos | 2025-11-13 16:44:17+00:00
Yes, I'm sure all the countries around China are really excited and looking forward to this. Oh, wait ...

It's the same shit with the Baltic states and other former Soviet satellite states. They're terrified of Russia, but people in Germany or further West think it's all overblown propaganda and there's nothing to fear from Russia.

You being ignorant doesn't mean there aren't real issues and real, justified fears.
by TheTon | 2025-11-13 16:44:20+00:00
There isn’t a single one way to be a dedicated gamer.

Inevitably everyone has finite time and access to games and has to make choices about what to play.

As a Mac guy, I always found the game platform wars weird because even on the weakest gaming platform there are still more good games than anyone can individually play. And even on Windows, probably the strongest gaming platform, you’re still missing out on many significant games.

I totally understand buying a system because it has some game that you absolutely must play. I bought an OG Xbox back in the day because I thought I desperately needed to play Deus Ex: Invisible War when it didn’t come to Mac. Got burned on that one, but at least I had Halo before it came to Mac (and was in the end much better there than on Xbox due to expanded online multiplayer).

What I actually don’t get is folks who have to play the hot game of the week every week. Just seems expensive in terms of money, time, and space for different systems, and you only scratch the surface of the games.
by whimsicalism | 2025-11-13 16:44:21+00:00
Requiring everyone to implement proper practices is one way of addressing the problem, I might call it Sisyphean & impossible.

Making it illegal to pay ransom is likely a much easier to implement and more effective solution.

And this isn’t virtue signaling - they literally did the virtuous thing that is better for society at the expense of their bottom line. That is just virtue.
by reesericci | 2025-11-13 16:45:07+00:00
As a union organizer with Hack Club staff, this is only the surface - the things that are clear to the end consumer. It gets a whole lot worse on the inside; from payment below minimum wage, mandatory overtime beyond child labor law, hiring kids as contractors to deny them rights, union busting & retaliation and a blatant disrespect for members and community democracy despite pretending to be `teen-led.` I'm not going to re-hash the whole thing here, I've written an article on my blog, but Hack Club is a deeply misleading "charity" that suckers teens in trying to build a better world and funnels them towards supporting our ever-rapid decline into techno-fascism at the hands of the wealthy elite funding them.
by balamatom | 2025-11-13 16:45:16+00:00
Ah, well, obviously the point of the question was to be odd for oddness's sake, as some form of bizarre, self-inflatory social ploy!

I couldn't possibly have intended my question as a straightforward request for information about something, now could I?

That would just be weirdy-weird, if people started asking each other questions for the purpose of receiving answers.

Thanks for answering though.
by bluGill | 2025-11-13 16:45:31+00:00
The off road community has been complaining about "off road" vehicles that are not suitable for off road use for decades. Most off "road vehicles" are you can drive it around the house to your backyard if it isn't too muddy/steep. Anyone who really goes off road is looking for a lot of features that are hard to find in a production vehicle. (which is why they often modify production vehicles). A true off road vehicle often looks like a production off-road vehicle, but in production they do cosmetic changes to look the same as what true off-road vehicles do - but the difference cosmetic. Things like both sit high off the ground, but the off road one they look at what mechanical parts are underneath and either protect them or raise them.
by getnormality | 2025-11-13 16:45:59+00:00
I have slowly been coming around to an understanding that healthcare really is different due to the uniquely massive information asymmetries of doctors versus patients (and payors and everyone else), plus irremediable difficulties with market search or "comparison shopping". I appreciate that it may be bad to mix profit incentive into an industry that simply cannot operate as a real market. (That said, problems don't all evaporate the moment you take out profit incentive, and you probably introduce new problems as a side effect.)

These radical critiques that basically say "putting a monetary value on things that matter is fundamentally wrong" have made my progress much slower. I'm not here to hate on markets! They work great (and much better than collectivist alternatives) for a lot of things that we value greatly, like being able to feed ourselves. Selective sentimentality about the value of human life and human needs doesn't bring anything to this conversation. We all care about human life and children and agree that they can't be bought and sold. But when you're asking someone to do something for someone else, you have to compensate them, and you have to compensate them enough for it to be worth their while given their alternatives. So you have to put an economically-driven monetary value on it in some way or other. There are no perfect benevolent angels we can call down from the heavens to be our doctors.
by pxc | 2025-11-13 16:46:02+00:00
The Nixpkgs community is internally diverse, but broadly values both "purity" and pragmatism. You can see debates and compromises play out in PRs all the time, or read traces of such careful weighing in the source code of Nixpkgs itself.

For the record, the Nix community's largest public cache doesn't cache binaries of proprietary software because doing so would be illegal— the public doesn't generally have the rights to redistribute proprietary software.

The phenomenon of having to compile free software from source via Nix typically happens when free software depends on proprietary software (which is common on macOS). Maybe this could be ameliorated on a technical level, but I think it's mostly historical accident and ease of implementation that got us to the current situation, where the whole dependency tree has to have a free license for something to make it into the binary cache.
by jmadeano | 2025-11-13 16:46:09+00:00
From another comment:

> Think of us like Tampermonkey/some other userscript manager. The scripts you run have to go through our script engine. That means that any data/permission your script needs access to, our extension needs to have.

> We do try to make the scripting transparent. If you're familiar with the Greasemonkey API, we show you which permissions a given script requests (e.g. here https://www.tweeks.io/share/script/d856f07a2cb843c5bfa1b455, requires GM_addStyle)

So the permissions are either to 1) enable you to run scripts that can do many powerful things or 2) allow us to capture your active tab content if and only if you make a generation request (no passive logging).
by Teever | 2025-11-13 16:46:14+00:00
You bring up something that I thought about a while back but never took the time to do any research on.

To what extent was grade inflation of young men during the 60s and 70s common place due to the draft for the Vietnam war?

It seems to me that there's a likely possibility that professors and graders would be more willing to go easy on male students to prevent them from being sent to fight in Vietnam.

I wonder if anyone has done analysis on the grades from the era has has detected a measurable different.
by waffletower | 2025-11-13 16:46:44+00:00
Hilarious for a commentator on college preparation to show such a lack of command of English grammar: "That last phrase is a euphemism for low-income, minority youths whose interest K–12 education’s love affair with “equity” is intended to serve." When I was in a Humanities sequence at UC San Diego, the singular presence of such a run-on in a paper assignment would have garnered the grade of "C" regardless of surrounding context.
by rudimentary_phy | 2025-11-13 16:46:51+00:00
Definitely. There will be apps that will allow this (Virtual Desktop Classic is on steam already), and I foresee some neat things coming from its more open environment.

On the other hand, it will be highly subjective. I have found that the sharpening algorithms they have put into apps like Virtual Desktop to be sufficient for me to read text with, but it will probably bother some people. The Quest 3 and Valve’s will have very similar resolutions.

And although it looks like this Valve product will actually be quite light, the weight could be another factor in its use over many hours.

For some people, XR glasses with OLED screens might provide a better experience as well if you are looking solely for monitor or tv support. I kind of like going to an entirely new environment to work in for a while, so I appreciate the VR aspect, but if you are looking only for screen support, XR glasses may be the better choice (there are quite a few models, though, and I unfortunately don’t know the market well enough to make suggestions on that).
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-13 16:46:54+00:00
> The tax authorities cannot unilaterally change the law with "guidance".

Because the law generally allows but does not mandate enforcement against every violation, and because guidance provided by enforcement authorities can be used as a defense in enforcement actions, so long as the guidance provides what is in effect a structured exception to the law, but does not forbid anything not forbidden by the law, yes, they pretty much can in practice, even without explicit authority. And it is actually very common when external facts (including federal law) change faster than state/local process can keep up for enforcement agencies to use discretionary forbearance framed around specific guidance as a band-aid until adaptation of the underlying rules is in place.
by Octoth0rpe | 2025-11-13 16:47:09+00:00
I _really really_ want to try this feature, but only if I can selfhost the collaboration server. If there is any way to do this, it's not obvious. Given that as I understand it, lots of project details will pass through Zed's servers, I can't imagine any enterprises would knowingly allow this without some kind of SLA with Zed.
by nicr_22 | 2025-11-13 16:47:22+00:00
There's a whole spectrum of options between super-fat React-in-Electron and expert-optimized platform-specific (perhaps GPU-rendered) apps. VS Code and Zed are close to opposite ends of this spectrum.

- slim down to a more efficient, non-virtual-DOM web stack (e. g hypermedia)

- move to a wrapper around native webview (Tauri)

- use one of the excellent cross-platform frameworks (Flutter, or that new one just open sourced by Snap)

For WhatsApp specifically, I don't understand why a company with the size and resources of Meta can't support native versions for Windows, Mac _and_ Linux. I think many people would accept non-feature-parity with the web/mobile versions, in exchange for a tight, reliable desktop messaging app...