MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vt240 | 2025-11-20 01:59:21+00:00
Dyatlov's interview from the 90s, which is still available on youtube [1], seems to fit better with the account given in the hit book "Midnight in Chernobyl" (which was the basis for the series,) than the story written for TV. To me the series just seemed like a rehash of the same movie tropes we've seen time and time again in dramatizations of the accident, compared to a true adaptation of book, which included a lot of updated analysis beyond the IAEA original report.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8__v9EswN4
by lovich | 2025-11-20 02:00:18+00:00
As long as you aren’t claiming the corporate boot actually tastes great it’s only government issued boots that can’t be licked, I tend to be fine with libertarians but, especially after the Mises Caucus takeover of the party and its collapse in many states, those types are exceedingly rare and you will excuse me if I don’t extend the benefit of the doubt to someone who wears parts of their ideology as a name
by array_key_first | 2025-11-20 02:00:34+00:00
If companies really wanted to fire people for posts, they would start with firing people for vaguely anti-capital sentiment. Not saying racist things or whatever.

We need to be careful what we ask for. Who is effectively doing the censorship matters. Powerful people are probably not going to be censoring based on 'good morals' - because they themselves do not have good morals.
by varenc | 2025-11-20 02:01:26+00:00
The vulnerability here is that the contact discovery endpoint could be abused to enumerate all WhatsApp users en-masse.

It's still quite possible to discover a single or small set of existing WhatsApp users based on their phone number. So in your scenario the risk still exists, it's just more work to enumerate everyone. Everyone should still assume their phone number can be linked to their WhatsApp account.
by p1necone | 2025-11-20 02:01:30+00:00
Yeah that's been my experience with native Linux builds too. Most of them were created before Proton etc got good, and haven't necessarily been maintained, whereas running the Windows version through Proton generally just works.

Unfortunately it seems supporting Linux natively is pretty quickly moving target, especially when GPUs etc are changing all the time. A lot of compatibility-munging work goes on behind the scenes on the Windows side from MS and driver developers (plus MS prioritizing backwards compat for software pretty heavily), and the same sort of thing now has a single target for peoples efforts in Proton.

It's less elegant perhaps than actual native Linux builds, but probably much more likely to work consistently.
by lostmsu | 2025-11-20 02:01:33+00:00
I don't think you caught the spirit of GP's question.

Essentially they were asking if there's no meaningful difference between your "working with the tool" and "mindlessly 'delegating' work". I'm not seeing anything in your reply that would indicate such difference, so you could say that your "you shouldn't 'delegate' work" claim was bullshit.

Which makes total sense, because humans are also bullshitters. Yes, even I.
by munificent | 2025-11-20 02:01:51+00:00
The answer is sad. Last year, I destroyed my left ankle when I slipped in a puddle while biking to work. Even after three surgeries and tons of physical therapy, the joint is falling apart. I drive a stick and it hurts every single time I push the clutch pedal in, so I've accepted that I have to move to an automatic.

> People would be lining up around the block for your truck.

You're not lying. I'm the only owner and it's got barely over 100k miles on it. Every few years, I find a note on it from someone asking if I'm interested in selling.

The kids joke that I love that truck more than them.

It has been a really amazing vehicle and I've had a ton of fun in it. But I'd be lying if I didn't say that it would be nice to have, you know, anti-lock brakes and a back-up camera.
by windows_hater_7 | 2025-11-20 02:02:13+00:00
In this case, being a "traffic engineer" with the ability to sign engineering plans means graduating from an ABET-accredited engineering program, passing both the Fundamentals of Engineering exam and the Principles & Practice of Engineering exam, being licensed as a professional engineer, and passing the Professional Traffic Operations Engineer exam. I think they do a little more than "maximize vehicular traffic flow."
by Kirby64 | 2025-11-20 02:02:13+00:00
And? Much like more modern compression algorithms for video take longer to decode/encode, this problem is largely solved by just adding accelerators since it’s basically guaranteed to be used. We do it for HEVC. I see little reason why you couldn’t do the same, especially since the HEIC encapsulated content for iOS stuff is derived/very similar to HEVC.
by osm3000 | 2025-11-20 02:03:30+00:00
I've mentioned her article. I think she barely touched the topic of Chernobyl itself. Her points was about what the Soviet life was back then, and some depictions of this was incorrect.

For example (for her article)

> In Episode 2, for example, the Central Committee member Boris Shcherbina (Stellan Skarsgård) threatens to have Legasov shot if he doesn’t tell him how a nuclear reactor works. There are a lot of people throughout the series who appear to act out of fear of being shot. This is inaccurate: summary executions, or even delayed executions on orders of a single apparatchik, were not a feature of Soviet life after the nineteen-thirties. By and large, Soviet people did what they were told without being threatened with guns or any punishment.

Her point was: this is not the Soviet way back then. My point is: these two people barely interacted directly, and one of them at least (Legasov) had a lot of respect for the other from the very beginning
by faidit | 2025-11-20 02:03:41+00:00
Strawmanning, trying to distort the narrative and gaslight us by attacking a made-up perspective instead of the real arguments/feelings of the opposition. We aren't so much unimpressed, we're wary of our MOST PRIVATE data being stolen, then sold to the highest bidder or further stolen by hackers yet again. We have a bad taste in our mouth from ONEDRIVE. BEING. LITERALLY. IMPOSSIBLE. TO. TURN. OFF. (Unless you switch to Linux which is I guess the only choice now.) And the fact that they have shown they don't care about consumer preferences and will always continue to push their juggernaut of bad decisions on us out of monopolistic hubris. I thought this guy was smart but I guess he's just another AI-assist tool.
by chatmasta | 2025-11-20 02:04:23+00:00
This is not a security vulnerability, it’s been documented in the user interface for years. That’s why I have no profile picture and no status. You clearly opt into “everyone” viewing it, and it’s obvious this it is literally anyone, because when you add a new contact, you simply enter their phone number and can see their profile picture and status. It doesn’t take a leap of imagination to enumerate that for the space of valid phone numbers.
by rl3 | 2025-11-20 02:04:36+00:00
>It was about Anatoly Grishchenko, a Soviet helicopter pilot who had served in Chernobyl and, like many others, had developed cancer as a result.

If there's one thing that pissed me off about the TV series, it was its poor to non-existent storytelling surrounding the helicopter crews who ran sortie after sortie right over the burning reactor—around the clock—knowing full well the grave risks posed by the radiation.

Instead, we were shown one disjointed helicopter crash scene amidst a still-burning reactor that made them look like bumbling fools attempting something futile.

In real life, the Chernobyl incident happened on 26 April, 1986. The Mi-8 crash where it struck the crane didn't happen until October 2nd, 1986.

Aviation was instrumental in containing the disaster during its early phases. Those crews helped save an untold number of lives. Their portrayal or lack thereof in the show was massively disrespectful to their contributions.

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Between 27 April and 1 May, about 1800 helicopter flights deposit over 5,000 metric tons of sand, lead, clay, and neutron absorbing boron onto the burning reactor. It is now known that virtually none of the neutron absorbers reached the core. [0]

[0] https://www.chernobylgallery.com/chernobyl-disaster/timeline...
by daotoad | 2025-11-20 02:04:44+00:00
As I have said before[1], I think the biggest thing slowed Perl adoption was the changing background of new developers. New folks just didn't have a background in shell, C, awk, and sed. This fact took Perl syntax from being amazingly intuitive and easy to adopt and turned it into obscure nonsense. As a newb what the heck are you going to think about constructs like the file test operators[2]?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44726347#44752240 [2] https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/-X
by Razengan | 2025-11-20 02:04:45+00:00
> 8 bits is good enough

> And what HDR support does is just cause me pain. I don't find it beneficial in games. I find it to have limited utility in video.

Oh boy. You must either be using Windows or never seen photographs/video taken on modern phones/cameras and viewed side-by-side on a good modern display (such as an iPad Pro or MacBook Pro) vs. a random "gOoD eNoUgH" display.
by Myrmornis | 2025-11-20 02:04:57+00:00
People don't know whether they are or are not doing things that require consent under the law. That's because, if you haven't noticed, the people concerned are computer programmers, UI designers, and PMs. Notably missing from that list is "lawyers who can be bothered to research the question".

People put the banners up because they see other people doing it and it seems safest. That all of this would be so should have been perfectly obviously to whoever contemplated bringing the regulation into existence. Therefore they are either imperceptive or malign.
by jarjoura | 2025-11-20 02:04:59+00:00
Gemini 2.5 and now 3 seem to continue their trend of being horrific in agentic tasks, but almost always impress me with the single first shot request.

Claude Sonnet is way better about following up and making continuous improvements during a long running session.

For some reason Gemini will hard freeze-up on the most random queries, and when it is able to successfully continue past the first call, it only keeps a weird summarized version of its previous run available to itself, even though it's in the payload. It's a weird model.

My take is that, it's world-class at one-shotting, and if a task benefits from that, absolutely use it.
by rustystump | 2025-11-20 02:05:36+00:00
Thank you!

Cannot count the number of times people forget how powerful algorithmic bubble making is. It isnt a “you are in a bubble so ur dumb” it is more of, “all of our information is algorithmically fed to us be aware!”

To add to this, I have a friend who has two kids. One is lefty trans and the other is becoming a christian conservative. They are Indian zoomers. Two totally different algorithms at work. One got the Charlie and the other got Hassan. Really makes one wonder what is in your own information feed.
by thayne | 2025-11-20 02:05:38+00:00
I don't think it was just the backwards incompatibility on its own. I think perl would have had a much better chance if perl 6 had been ready sooner. The long period of time between perl 5 development stopping and perl 6/Raku being ready for production made the transition much, much rougher than if perl 6 was ready from the beginning, or if perl 5 development had continued, and moved closer to what perl 6 would be while perl 6 was still in the works.
by TZubiri | 2025-11-20 02:05:47+00:00
Is it edgy? I find it somewhat nuanced and sensible. What is a bit proper of pseudoanonymous tech bro forums is people larping as military grade security analysts in a forum because they are unable to live out that dream in an actual scenario where they have any power on.

If the application is actively distributed in a country and their usage is permitted by their Terms of Service, then yes Whatsapp is liable for the security of their users in that context. If however the application is not actively distributed in that country, and there are active measures like geolocalization (and asking the user what country they are from during signup) to avoid serving such countries, then usage in those countries is outside the scope of Whatsapp.

Furthermore Whatsapp is a civilian app and is not designed or guaranteed for military usage, it's outside the scope of whatsapp.

Can the technique be used as one tool of many (including a bullet) in order to kill someone? Yes, is this a deadly security vulnerability? No, of course not, that's reaching, I'm not sure what would compel these exaggerations, maybe the larping, maybe its a general hatred towards whatsapp and you just jump on any opportunity to release your pent up anger.

It's worth noting that there's a gap between the security capabilities of whatsapp and the security capabilities they are legally required to have. Whatsapp will no doubt patch this small issue and keep that gap, but WA as it stands is one of the most secure and widely used applications in the world, has had an almost impollute historical record which is why billions of users trust the application with personal and professional secrets.

P.S: Also, you always could find out if a phone number is a whatsapp user individually, just add them on whatsapp and try to message them.
by RestartKernel | 2025-11-20 02:06:00+00:00
RunPod has its issues, but the way it handles payment is basically my ideal. Nothing brings peace of mind like knowing you won't be billed for more than you've already paid into your wallet. As long as you aren't obliged to fulfil some SLA, I've found that this on-demand scaling compute is really all I need in conjunction with a traditional VPS.

It's great for ML research too, as you can just SSH into a pod with VScode and drag in your notebooks and whatnot as if it were your own computer, but with a 5090 available to speed up training.
by muxl | 2025-11-20 02:06:53+00:00
I agree there are some claims in this article that should be further scrutinized but it's true that the levels of radiation were not as high as one might assume. The direction of the wind during and immediately following the disaster slowed the spread of radioactive material over Pripyat (this is also why southern Belarus was hit so hard). The prevailing winds in that region are north east and the Chernobyl power plant was on the north side of the city. By the time of the May day parade the winds had shifted such that Kiev was downwind from Chernobyl.

The KGB did their best to contain information about the disaster in general and the USSR wanted the May day parade to go on as-planned to make it look like things were fine. Even those with enough power or connections to be aware of the danger were pressured to participate. The May day parade was later often referred to in infamy by the Ukrainian independence movement following the disaster.

Most of my information comes from what I remember of reading "Midnight in Chernobyl" and "Chernobyl the History of a Nuclear Disaster"
by Mawr | 2025-11-20 02:06:57+00:00
To be fair, there is no way to fix this in the general case—large vehicles and other objects may obstruct your view also. Therefore, you have to learn to be cognisant of line-of-sight blockers and to deal with them anyway. So for a not-terrible driver, the only problem that this presents is that they have to slow down. Not ideal, but not a safety issue per se.

That we allow terrible drivers to drive is another matter...
by nebula8804 | 2025-11-20 02:07:09+00:00
Books are taking a backseat to Movies. Movies are taking a backseat to Mini series. Mini series are taking a backseat to Video Games. Video Games are taking a back seat to Youtube.

There are only 24 hours in a day and no one gets more. This results in shifting preferences for consumption patterns over time.

I hear boomers spend all their time in movie theaters instead of sitting down and reading a good book. Don't they know movies are evil and are going to rot their brains?

I hear Gen X loves to watch TV. What a bunch of 'slackers'. What's with these shows like Sienfeld? Its a show about nothing! Why would anyone watch that?

I hear millennials are spending all their time playing video games instead of watching quality TV. What is it with this PlayStation nonsense? Its a TOY!

I hear Gen-Z loves to just sit around and watch people play games instead of playing them. Have their brains completely rotted?

I hear Gen Alpha does not even bother with people playing and just watches the output of game engines as the old kids would say 'I don't even': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WePNs-G7puA

Long story short: Cultural preferences change over time. My view is Let them cook :)
by senordevnyc | 2025-11-20 02:07:16+00:00
Actually, online shops that mail stuff to Australian customers who request them to do so don't have to collect or pay any sales tax. The Australian government might stomp their feet and declare otherwise, but they have no legal or jurisdictional authority to do so, nor any real means for enforcement.

This trend of countries declaring that everyone on the planet is under their jurisdiction if they mail something there (or respond to a network request) is bananas.
by todd_austin | 2025-11-20 02:08:10+00:00
I created Mojo-V.

IMHO, the service provider is the last one that should ever be able to see the keys :-). It's them we want to keep sensitive data away from

Keys are injected into the HW with public-key encryption. This requires that the HW have keys that only the HW knows (it's secret key). This key is made by a weak PUF circuit, which is basically a circuit that measures silicon process variation. So the keys are born in the silicon fab, through the natural variability of the silicon fabrication process. I didn't invent this, it is an old idea. Intel SGX uses the same approach.
by array_key_first | 2025-11-20 02:08:26+00:00
No, moderatism or centrism is legitimately a fallacy. The idea or intuition that, given two endpoints, the most correct position is one in the middle, is a fallacy. It depends entirely on the endpoints.

For example: the three fifths compromise. Turns out, bad. The correct answer was emancipation all along, and the 'centrist' answer was just bad. Because, well, one of the endpoints was slavery. If you 'halfway' slavery, that's still bad. There's no merits or 'well what about's when it comes to slavery.

That doesn't mean centrists or moderates are wrong - they're often right. But it DOES mean that just taking a middle of the road approach isn't reasonable. You need to actually understand why you're doing that, and why the middle makes the most sense. In some parts of the world, right now, as in right now right now, the 'both sides' argument is pro-genocide. In the past it's been pro-slavery, pro-colonialism, pro-holocaust, whatever. Plenty of really bad stuff.

So, you can't hide behind 'both sides'. You need to justify WHY 'both sides' and why in the middle is best for this particular case.
by colonCapitalDee | 2025-11-20 02:08:28+00:00
No. This is far beyond the capabilities of current AI, and will remain so for the foreseeable future. You could let your model of choice churn on this for months, and you will not get anywhere. It will be able to reach a somewhat working solution quickly, but it will soon reach a point where for every issue it fixes, it introduces one or more issues or regressions. LLMs are simply not capable of scaffolding complexity like a human, and lack the clarity and rigorousness of thought required to execute an *extremely* ambitious project like performant CUDA to ROCm translation.
by bri3d | 2025-11-20 02:08:42+00:00
One of the hardest problems with making a configurable Enterprise Software thing with a strong brand is figuring out how not to make every misconfiguration a reflection on the brand; there’s no Workday specific reason your configuration had to federate logout in this way.

In the same vein, I always thought it was a mistake that Workday branded the recruiting portal so strongly; everyone is furious that they can’t share an account across applications but it really makes sense. They’re supplying the Workday customer with their recruiting data / PII using Workday, not furnishing that data to Workday directly, so sharing across customers would require a whole legal and data tenancy refactoring.

(disclosure: I worked at Workday for a long time ages ago and people were certainly not living with their heads in the sand. I don’t think I particularly agree with the direction the company is going but it is always interesting to reflect on some of these threads and the challenges with running that kind of business)
by TZubiri | 2025-11-20 02:08:54+00:00
>Everyone should still assume their phone number can be linked to their WhatsApp account.

But this has always been the case, the phone numbers are public, and phone numbers are the public key to whatsapp accounts.

Also you always could check a specific number to see if it is a whatsapp user. It is certainly an issue if a single actor can query 500 million users in a matter of minutes, and there seems to be some additional information per account like what device they are in. But these seem relatively minor.
by a_bonobo | 2025-11-20 02:09:16+00:00
I've implemented the per-day time limit and it's just broken? It's very hard to measure how much time has been spent on the day, their measure is often above the limit I set, and sometimes a low limit will trigger immediately.

It seems like the limit and time measurement is based on the US time zone alone, not the local time zone. We're in Australia and that's the only explanation I can think of.
by hedora | 2025-11-20 02:09:19+00:00
There are also higher power AMD devices that work extremely well.

If you’re willing to go up to 60W TDP and $500-1000, then they’re good enough to run recent steam games under linux at 1080p and LLM inference (if you spring for > ~32GB of RAM).

Like many others on this thread, I’ve had good luck with beelink.
by schmuhblaster | 2025-11-20 02:09:36+00:00
Thank you, https://catala-lang.org/ looks very interesting. I've experimented a lot with LLMs producing formal representations of facts and rules. What I've observed is that the resulting systems usually lose a lot of the original generalization capabilities offered by the current generation of LLMs (Finetuning may help in this case, but is often impractical due to missing training data). Together with the usual closed world assumption in e.g. Prolog, this leads to imho overly restrictive applications. So the approach I am taking is to allow the LLM to generate Prolog code that may contain predicates which are interpreted by an LLM.

So one could e.g. have

is_a(dog, animal). is_a(Item, Category) :- @("This predicate should be true if 'Item' is in the category 'Category'").

In this example, evaluation of the is_a predicate would first try to apply the first rule and if that fails fallback on to the second rule branch which goes into the LLM. That way the system as a whole does not always fail, if the formal knowledge representation is incomplete.

I've also been thinking about the Spec->Spec compilation use case. So the original Spec could be turned into something like:

spec :- setup_env, create_scaffold, add_datamodel,...

I am honestly not sure where such an approach might ultimately be most valuable. "Anything-tools" like LLMs make it surprisingly hard to focus on an individual use case.
by featureofone | 2025-11-20 02:10:03+00:00
The SAM models are great. I used the latest version when building VideoVanish ( https://github.com/calledit/VideoVanish ) a video-editing GUI for removing or making objects vanish from videos.

That used SAM 2, and in my experience SAM 2 was more or less perfect—I didn’t really see the need for a SAM 3. Maybe it could have been better at segmenting without input.

But the new text prompt input seams nice; much easier to automate stuff using text input.