MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwaway0123_5 | 2025-11-18 06:08:44+00:00
I think you're overestimating how much real damage someone can cause with burpsuite and "a few youtube videos." I'd imagine if you pick a random person off the street, subject them to a full month's worth of cybersecurity YouTube videos, and hand them an arsenal of traditional security tools, that they would still be borderline useless as a black-hat hacker against all but the absolute weakest targets. But if instead of giving them that, you give them an AI that is functionally a professional security researcher in its own right (not saying we're there yet, but hypothetically), the story is clearly very different.

> Yeah, I'll concede, some physical tools like TNT or whatever should probably not be available to Joe Public. But digital tools?

Digital tools can affect the physical world though, or at least seriously affect the people who live in the physical world (stealing money, blackmailing with hacked photos, etc.).

To see if there's some common ground to start a debate from, do you agree that at least in principle there are some kinds of intelligence that are too dangerous to allow public access to? My extreme example would be an AI that could guide an average IQ novice in producing biological weapons.
by whacked_new | 2025-11-18 06:08:47+00:00
The organizers presented this at COSCUP 25 [1]. It's both extremely ambitious and impressive. They said there are basically no restrictions on who can join -- high schoolers to postdocs, and it's completely based on personal aptitude. The fastest students can finish in a few months, and some go on for years. Students who graduate finish an actual chip that (probably among other things) runs a video game.

[1] https://coscup.org/2025/sessions/SNHFTW
by modeless | 2025-11-18 06:09:36+00:00
Look, even Rebble's own blog post about the open sourcing says "a massive shout out to Eric Migicovsky for ensuring this happened". It is clear that he was the driving force that started the process inside Google that allowed it to suddenly happen after all these years.

Rebble did some work on the open source firmware in the four months between when Google opened it and Core Devices forked. It's a very small amount compared to the bulk of the whole firmware, which was originally developed by Eric's company, let's not forget. A few months of contributions don't give Rebble ownership of all that firmware code. It seems to me like Core Devices has contributed a whole lot more than Rebble did, especially for code that actually runs on their new devices rather than code for the old watches. And besides, Core Devices' firmware remains open source, and Rebble is supposed to be receiving payment from Core Devices for the use of the store[1]. There is no "stealing" here.

The narrative that Eric "sold out" the community is transparently ridiculous. His company failed. They ran out of money. It was a failure of business management, not ethics. And the narrative that "he can't even be bothered to give credit" is also transparently false. He credits Rebble all the time. In blog posts, on their website, on social media. And financially by paying them money to use their store.

[1] https://rebble.io/2025/10/09/rebbles-in-a-world-with-core.ht...
by amarant | 2025-11-18 06:10:50+00:00
I don't claim to know or understand, but I can venture a guess: as far as I can tell, America doesn't really have a good digital identity solution. In fact, given the frequent online discussions about whether it should be allowed to vote without physical identification in America, I'm given to believe that you don't have a good personal identity system at all!

The above combined with the to me foreign notion that tax filings could be considered private(in Sweden, everyone's income and their complete tax filings are public information) probably makes it problematic for them to just send it out willy nilly. What if they sent you the wrong filings?

Based on a very widespread stereotype about Americans, I imagine the irs would get sued.

But, as previously stated, I've only been in America long enough to switch planes, so my guess is likely to be inaccurate!
by zakary | 2025-11-18 06:11:58+00:00
Definitely a lot of potentially very serious and important downsides to this.

I’m trying to think of any possible upsides to this.

- harder for unlicensed people, eg kids, to drive a car and hurt themselves or someone else. - harder to steal a car if you’re not an approved driver, regardless of what you do with a copied key fob. - potentially easier to resolve insurance disputes - harder for people to commit premeditated crimes using cars (eg getaway driver to a robbery)

That said, these things only really happen if almost all cars on the road have this “feature”. Which means if all new cars in china must have this, then for at least 20 years after introduction, people wanting to skirt the law/surveillance will just use older cars.

So then in the end everyone loses out except for the people this is purportedly target towards, who just go around it.
by Quothling | 2025-11-18 06:13:32+00:00
I recently had some issues getting one of our embeded devices connect through passive ftp. Because the exact same device worked at a different site I knew it wasn't the device or it's settings. Long story short, it turned out the problematic site hadn't been updating its routers which meant they couldn't VPN passive FTP traffic. Anyway, we have literal thousands of those routers maintained by hundreds of different companies, who are mainly there to maintain the actual mechanical equipment and not the network. Turned out the site where the technicians updated things weren't in the majority.

I'm in the process of getting the business to implement better security, and it's going better than you might expect. If it wasn't because having a plan for how to update your OT security is required to meet EU compliance, however, I doubt we would've done anything beyond making sure we could do passive FTP when it was needed.

As an example, there is still no plans to deal with the OT which we know has build in hardware backdoors from the manufactures. Wnich is around 70% of our dataloggers, but the EU has no compliance rules on that...
by int_19h | 2025-11-18 06:14:00+00:00
It should be noted that while Satya opened the floodgates, it was already making inroads by then, just with a lot more paperwork. Some early examples of F/OSS predating Satya were ASP.NET MVC and PTVS.

At the same time, the insistence from up top that all divisions have to be profitable on their own means that in practice there has been a steady ongoing scale-back from F/OSS for several years now. Just look at the situation in VSCode: sure, the base platform is still open, but increasingly many first-party extensions have their pieces replaced by closed source functionality - Python language server, C# debugger etc. Related to this are the attempts to block VSCode forks by using prohibitive licensing terms and even inserting runtime checks for the same.
by scotty79 | 2025-11-18 06:14:58+00:00
I'm not sure. IQ is not really about how well or how deep can you think. Just how fast. All IQ tests are timed. A person with slightly above average IQ but a great ability to sustain motivation and good set of mental tools acquired through upbringing and education will run circles around any very high IQ person in any domain that doesn't have strict time pressure.
by tzs | 2025-11-18 06:15:39+00:00
Raccoons actually do get vaccinated against rabies. There are large scale programs operated by the US government and state governments that regularly distribute vaccine laden baits from Maine to Alabama, to keep rabies from spreading to raccoon populations west of the Appalachians.

If a breach occurs they also will trap raccoons and vaccinate them by injection in the area of the breach.
by nar001 | 2025-11-18 06:16:07+00:00
For what it's worth he IS contributing to libpebble3 at least, but yes most of it is closed

I do get the idea, he wants to build hardware and thus needs to be able to do whatever he wants to the code and not wait for merges but it sucks he seems to probably take it too far, for example not using the Rebble mobile app and instead making his own around the library, that's also closed source
by antonvs | 2025-11-18 06:19:34+00:00
It’s just doing exactly what it’s designed to do. Generate text that’s consistent with its prompts.

People often seem to get confused by all the anthropomorphizing that’s done about these models. The text it outputs that’s called “thinking” is not thinking, it’s text that’s output in response to system prompts, just like any other text generated by a model.

That text can help the model reach a better result because it becomes part of the prompt, giving it more to go on, essentially.

In that sense, it’s a bit like a human thinking aloud, but crucially it’s not based on the model’s “experience” as your example shows, it’s based on what the model statistically predicts a human might say under those circumstances.
by renewiltord | 2025-11-18 06:20:49+00:00
People get wrapped up in a lot of emotion about this but the idea seemed sound: you want to make some change in the world? It makes sense to spend your money to maximize the change you desire.

The GiveWell objective is lives saved or QALYs or whatever. Others have qualia maximized or whatever. But the idea is entirely logical.

I think part of the problem with popularization is that many people have complex objective functions, not all of which are socially acceptable to say. As an example, I want to be charitable in a way that grants me status in my social circle, where spending on guinea worm is less impressive than, say, buying ingredients for cookies, baking them, and giving the cookies to the poor.

Personally I think that’s fine too. I know that some aspect of the charity I do (which is not effective, I must admit) has a desire for recognition and I think it’s good to encourage this because it leads to more charity.

But for many people, encouraging stating one’s objective function is seen as a way to “unearth the objective functions of the ones with lesser motives” and some number of EA people do that.

To say nothing of the fact that lots of people get very upset about the idea that “you think you’re so much better than me?” and so on. It’s an uphill climb, and I wouldn’t do it, but I do enjoy watching them do it because I get the appeal.
by margalabargala | 2025-11-18 06:22:06+00:00
Yes, the rulers and their families. What's good for the families is by extension good for the ruler. I'm not sure it was a needed "fix"?

I'm also not sure that us all living like people who are not indigenous to places like Europe, China, or India actually results in a better world, though I do agree that it's one without anthropic climate change.

You're imagining a state that's stable but not one connectable to the present day. We need central government because of the way things are, not because of the way they could be in an arbitrary reimagining of the world.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-11-18 06:22:24+00:00
EV depreciation is non linear. You lose a lot of the value in the first year because new EVs get better in ways that ICE cars long stopped improving. They get better ranges, faster charging, better battery longevity, more efficiency, etc. For some older models, you can get nice discounts on them new because of this or there are attractive incentives that somewhat moderate the impact of this effect.

After the first year, they tend to depreciate at a slower pace than ICE cars for the simple reason that there's not much that can go wrong with them and they are covered under rather long warranties. Most second hand EVs out there produced after 2017 are still under their original drive train warranty (typically eight years or 100K miles, whichever comes first). 2017 was when the Model 3 entered the market. Most popular second hand EV models are much newer than that. Unless they've driven more than 100K miles, they'd typically still have all the expensive bits under warranty.

Whether it makes sense to buy them new depends on what you are buying and where and why. Most private owners would be well advised to look for newish second hand models that are maybe 1-3 years old. The US is in a bit of a market bubble; EVs are very expensive there. And it's not seeing the same price competition. Elsewhere, EU, Asia, Australia, etc. you have a lot of low cost models undercutting their ICE equivalents for ridiculously low prices. Think 15K for low end models. Less in China. And even those will depreciate. But even those cars still see rapid improvements year on year.
by russelldjimmy | 2025-11-18 06:22:26+00:00
If I happen to think of one, I will let you know for sure. Also, remember that on the internet, only those who have an issue with something will make a comment. There is always a vast silent majority of people who would say, “this is actually fine with me and I have no issues with it” if asked. It’s safe to say your title is not bad. There will always be someone for whom it doesn’t work and the internet has a selection bias to give only them a voice.

Edit: while writing my earlier comment, I didn’t realise that you were the author. I did not mean to say your title is clickbait. I was only trying to make a concession to anyone who thought so.
by archargelod | 2025-11-18 06:22:36+00:00
That reminds me about an easter egg[1] in arcade racing game Horizon Chase. If you trace a heart shape (on mobile device/nintendo switch screen) at the start of the race, it plays a short video with a proposal at the end. Game is very fun too.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoeKgQifaO4
by keiferski | 2025-11-18 06:23:59+00:00
I don’t think anyone has an issue with being efficient with donation money. But it isn’t called Effective Giving.

The conclusion that many EA people seemed to reach is that keeping your high-paying job and hiring 10 people to do good deeds is more ethically laudable than doing the thing yourself, even though it may be inefficient. Which really rubs a lot of people the wrong way, as it should.
by ezst | 2025-11-18 06:24:04+00:00
> They bolted products onto Active Directory which is ancient LDAP tech. It's a massive flaw in how Azure works and why it's 10x more complicated than AWS or GCP.

I really don't see the problem with LDAP. If they make an overlay for it and it's needlessly complicated, that's just par for the course. Have you experienced SharePoint?
by jdenning | 2025-11-18 06:25:11+00:00
The timeline of the campaign makes it pretty clear that either:

1) they knew they were insolvent, and wouldn’t be able to continue

or

2) the campaign was used to demonstrate market demand to enable their sale to Fitbit

Edit: also, they sold for $23 million [1], total pledges were for about $13 million, and not everyone got a refund [2]

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/fitbit-bought-pebble-for-23-...

[2] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/getpebble/pebble-2-time...
by stevenwoo | 2025-11-18 06:25:27+00:00
I just read an article on this subject last week and thought this was going to be a republication on a nautilus but it’s different authors and different stories - https://www.newscientist.com/article/2501420-why-giving-up-o...

The nautilus story uses one meta study and the New Scientist has many individual citations with some quotes from scientists.
Ask HN: What do you use for speaker diarization?
by mjbale116 | 2025-11-18 06:27:16+00:00
Hi,

I am looking for a fire and forget solution akin to whisper where I can give it a wav of around 12 people and it can give me a diarization on the format (speaker_1, speaker_2, etc)

whispercpp gives labels like speaker_turn which is not what I am looking for, I need to know who said what

nvidia nemo only works with 4 speakers and unfortunately is not good enough for me

Do you have an open source solution that you can suggest? Or a potential pipeline?

Much appreciated!
by aurareturn | 2025-11-18 06:28:33+00:00
Is it really a bubble about to burst when literally everyone is talking about AI being in a bubble and maybe bursting soon?

To me, we're clearly not peak AI exuberance. AI agents are just getting started and getting so freaking good. Just the other day, I used Vercel's v0 to build a small business website for a relative in 10 minutes. It looked fantastic and very mobile friendly. I fed the website to ChatGPT5.1 and asked it to improve the marketing text. I fed those improvements back to v0. Finished in 15 minutes. Would have taken me at least one week in the past to do a design, code it, test it for desktop/mobile, write the copy.

The way AI has disrupted software building in 3 short years is astonishing. Yes, code is uniquely great for LLM training due to open source code and documentation but as other industries catch up on LLM training, they will change profoundly too.
by toast0 | 2025-11-18 06:30:16+00:00
Probably better than the time I took a SuperShuttle to SFO and the driver fell asleep, several times. He had a app on a phone thing to keep him awake that would beep and he would wake up, press the button, and sometimes go right back to sleep on the highway.

If the Tesla self-driving is decent, the safety driver has the very difficult for a human job of being engaged to takeover a task, but not having to do it very often. No wonder they're asleep, but the ride should probably end and a replacement come out when the driver attention detection goes off, especially if more than once.
by lrvick | 2025-11-18 06:31:17+00:00
I am the primary author of the current generation Pebble Appstore frontend, the one that maintained the database most of the time, the guy who ran the security, infrastructure, data privacy team, and quite a few things around the Pebble ecosystem over the years. I also was on the team that begrudgingly had to hand it all over to Fitbit in the acquisition.

I have a very strong opinion here.

Any development of Pebble as an ecosystem that is not 100% free open source software and available to the public, is a dick move at this point. It is a dick move if Eric does it in any way, and it is a dick move if the Rebble team does it in any way.

Let Eric or anyone else scrape what they want with the Appstore and wish them luck. Maybe even make a nice JSON export button for people, why not?

Meanwhile those in the community should keep doing what they have always done: Work towards fully open source community first solutions with the full blessing and support of said community.

Proprietary solutions are always a dead end so do not waste any energy fighting them or thinking about them. Just keep pushing to public repos.
by rramadass | 2025-11-18 06:32:45+00:00
Philosophy has had an answer all along;

One should become aware of one’s deluded notion in which one thinks that ‘I belong to these objects of the world and my life depends upon them. I cannot live without them and they cannot exist without me, either.’ Then by profound enquiry, one contemplates ‘I do not belong to these objects, nor do these objects belong to me’. Thus abandoning the ego-sense through intense contemplation, one should playfully engage oneself in the actions that happen naturally, but with the heart and mind ever cool and tranquil. Such an abandonment of the ego-sense and the conditioning is known as the contemplative egolessness.

-- from "Vasistha's Yoga" translated by Swami Venkatesananda.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-11-18 06:33:07+00:00
> If I click onto your website, and immediately hit back, that's a sign it wasn't a great website for my needs.

Or it's a sign that the information I needed with right there.

> If I click in, and spend a bit of time reading

If I click in and spend time searching for what I wanted, that's a bad sign, yeah?
by BatteryMountain | 2025-11-18 06:33:40+00:00
The other day I installed Windows 7 on a VM for fun.. it was not fun at all. I got weird wave of nostalgic sadness, like being teleported back in time, I felt/remembered how things were back in ~2010, the culture, my university life, how things were with an ex gf, ALL of it. The OS is engrained in my mind and it was gorgeous seeing those aero effects and hearing the startup sounds again. It is so simple and easy. It felt good so see & use it again.

With Windows 11, although I mostly like the UI (rounded corners on a high dpi tablet also with rounded screen is amazing), it feels absolutely gross, in the corporate soulless sense. It feels mentally heavy top operate. I constantly had to battle it to get it to work the way I want it.

These days all my devices are running Fedora with KDE, which is just the best. You basically set it up once the way you like it, and it won't change by itself for months. It is a buttery smooth experience and have had zero need to go back to Windows yet.

If anyone want the same level one-ness with your computer like back in Windows XP & Windows 7 days, give KDE a try. Fedora is pretty simple distro to get used to if you want a good starting point.
by ChadNauseam | 2025-11-18 06:36:27+00:00
You'll never find a single prominent EA saying that because it's 100% made up. Maybe they'll remark that from an academic perspective it's a consequence of some interpretations of utilitarianism, a topic some EAs are interested in, but no prominent EA has ever actually endorsed or implied the view you put forward.

To an EA, what you said is as laughable of a strawman as if someone summarized your beliefs as "it makes no difference if you donate to starving children in africa or if you do nothing, because it's your decision and neither is immoral".

The popularity of EA is even more obvious than what you described. Here's why it's popular. A lot of people are interested in doing good, but have limited resources. EAs tried to figure out how to do a lot of good given limited resources.

ou might think this sounds too obvious to be true, but no one before EAs was doing this. The closest thing was charity rankings that just measured what percent of the money was spend on administration. (A charity that spends 100% of its donations on back massages for baby seals would be the #1 charity on that ranking.) Finding ways to do a lot of good given your budget is a pretty intuitively attractive idea.

And they're really all about this too. Go read the EA forum. They're not talking about how their hands are clean now because they donated. They're talking about how to do good. They're arguing about whether malaria nets or malaria chemotreatments are more effective at stopping the spread of the disease. They're arguing about how to best mitigate the suffering of factory farmed animals (or how to convince people to go vegan). And so on. EA is just people trying to do good. Yeah, SBF was a bad actor, but how were EA charities supposed to know that when the investors that gave him millions couldn't even do that?
by computerdork | 2025-11-18 06:36:33+00:00
Although, I agree that for average people, over instrumentalizing your interactions becomes fake (although, to be honest, most could use a bit more, including myself, to communicate more effectively with those close to us).

Still, agree with others, seems like you're generalizing what is good for the average person is also good for those with personalities that are more at the extremes. Yeah, know a couple of people who just don't understand what people are thinking or feeling, ever. And so they have to learn a system of cues to look for to figure out whether a person is angry or sad or happy... These people need to create systems to make socialization work.