MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by max-privatevoid | 2025-11-14 22:39:21+00:00
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Do these actually require separate consent, or can they be considered functional?

I would expect that a European digital sovereignty project in which privacy is the whole point would not have a cookie consent banner at all, because it would simply not use any non-functional cookies that would require it. I see the cookie banner as a sort of "mark of shame" that nefarious websites are forced to wear.

Also, I recall hearing that there were plans to make highlighting the "Accept All" button above the other options illegal, because it's a dark pattern that gets people to click the highlighted option more often.
by t43562 | 2025-11-14 22:39:28+00:00
Why is AGI so hungry? Our brains learn on the fly and do amazing things and how much energy do they use?

So IMO we certainly haven't hit the "right technology" yet and the attempt to achieve it by spending billions, building nuclear power plants etc, is vulnerable to a technical development. So why should we screw up our environmental situation for something that can obviously be done in a vastly better way on the energy equivalent of 3 square meals a day?
by TylerE | 2025-11-14 22:41:40+00:00
Trump has literally shut down many of the agencies responbible for making the reports.

We live in a banana republic.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-seeks-to-fire-bu...

https://www.science.org/content/article/republican-push-make...

https://www.cbpp.org/research/poverty-and-inequality/federal...

https://www.voanews.com/a/trump-administration-disbands-2-ex...

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-us-government-data-pu...
by __mharrison__ | 2025-11-14 22:41:42+00:00
My playing around with structured output on OpenAI leads me to believe that hardly anyone is using this, or the documentation was horrible. Luckily, they accept Pydantic models, but the idea of manually writing a JSON schema (what the docs teach first) is mind-bending.

Anthropic seems to be following suit.

(I'm probably just bitter because they owe me $50K+ for stealing my books).
by like_any_other | 2025-11-14 22:41:47+00:00
> Grokipedia’s entry for “Clinton body count,” a conspiracy theory that falsely links the deaths of multiple people to Bill and Hillary Clinton, cites an unlikely source [InfoWars]

Okay, but in the very example the article gives, the subject matter that Grokipedia cites InforWars on, is what is written on InfoWars, and explicitly calls InfoWars "alternative media". I.e. it's not saying "this is true", it's saying "this is what alternative news site InfoWars says", and is very clear about it. Unless one argues that no encyclopedia should even record what unreliable but prominent sources are saying, I don't see the issue. And while the article tries to imply otherwise, the Grokipedia entry gives largely the same conclusion as the Wikipedia one:

While advocates cite empirical clusters of untimely deaths—far exceeding actuarial norms for such a networked couple—as suggestive of causal foul play, rigorous analyses reveal most incidents as coincidental given the Clintons' decades-long prominence involving thousands of contacts, with no prosecutions or leaked evidence confirming orchestration; dismissals by establishment institutions often overlook investigative lapses, such as Epstein's unchecked cell or Foster's contested forensics, potentially influenced by institutional incentives to protect elite figures.

As this is the only example the article gives before the paywall, I can't comment on the problems with other citations. But one would expect they'd lead with the most egregious case.
by roenxi | 2025-11-14 22:42:36+00:00
But the IP laws are visibly stupid, their role in the system is prevent success stories like China where some plucky upstart vaults to the forefront of the industrial world and drags a billion people out of poverty. The response to China achieving such success by ignoring IP laws should be to recognise the laws have been disasters and then to release the limits worst of the limits they impose on Western innovators.

A huge part of the software industry is there because of explicit GPL-style agreements defang the intent of IP laws while working inside the legal requirements they impose. The west should allow good ideas to be deployed in its own industrial processes.
by throw-qqqqq | 2025-11-14 22:42:56+00:00
This was done to appease the racist voters, who are unfortunately a relatively big factor here.

The law was installed in 2016, (colloquially called “Smykkeloven”/The Jewelry Law) after Syrian refugees walked up through Europe and Denmark, and a myth arose about super rich refugees with bags full of gold.. in 2022 this law had been used in 17 instances.

I cannot roll my eyes enough at the policians here.
by shkkmo | 2025-11-14 22:43:09+00:00
> That's where the legal authority ends.

So you see no problem with using jurisdiction washing like Five Eyes to remove our rights?

If we don't tolerate a government we elect abridging our freedom of speech, why would we accept a foreign government doing that?

When foreign governments try to force conpanies to abridge free speech by Americans on American soil, that is an attack on something that we deem important enough to have enshrined in our constitution.
by buu700 | 2025-11-14 22:43:34+00:00
I'm definitely more optimistic about Helion. It's the one that would really dramatically change the economics of power generation at scale, and they seem to have substantially engineered around major challenges like not requiring ignition and minimizing losses to Bremsstrahlung radiation. I like that they're laser-focused on launching and delivering commercial value, even if that means a bit less transparency and less focus on research demonstrations than many would prefer.

If Helion delivers Orion on anywhere close to the target timeline, it seems like they'd be primed to kick off mass production and start shipping units all over the country with minimal regulatory hurdles. With sufficiently high productive capacity, it would effectively make all other forms of power generation obsolete at utility scale. Solar would still great for small/decentralized use cases, but there wouldn't be as much reason for a power company to build new solar plants if they had the option to fill the same real estate with a bunch of Helion machines.

That being said, I'm not not optimistic about steam-based fusion power. It would be less revolutionary, but from what I understand would still be a huge advancement. My read is that it would effectively obsolete fission power and plausibly fossil fuel power as well, if not also grid-scale renewables. It would be like having SMRs with higher efficiency and no major proliferation or meltdown concerns that amplify costs. High neutron output and steam conversion add costs and complexity, but if CFS panned out and Helion didn't, I'd hardly turn my nose at that.

I could also see a world where multiple forms of fusion power pan out, and it turns out to be economical for Helion to sell tritium to other vendors like CFS rather than storing it for 12 years until it decays to He3. Maybe we'd even have colocated plants in a certain ratio where Helion provides on-site tritium generation in the exact volume needed for a D-T reactor.
by sevensor | 2025-11-14 22:43:36+00:00
I like this as an analogy but not as an explanation. In fact, if you’re unfamiliar with linear algebra, this might be a nice way to think about projection onto a different set of basis vectors. But even the best human translators can be deeply at odds over what translation is appropriate for a term in its context. There’s never a right translation, let alone a uniquely right translation.
by mrandish | 2025-11-14 22:43:56+00:00
Yeah, just reading that list of corporations and the long, twisted IP ownership trail, I'd estimate figuring out who has which rights would take at least a year and a couple hundred grand in legal costs to get each potential stakeholder's attorneys to locate, review and analyze the documents and issue a binding legal opinion.

I've actually been the "business decision maker" in some similar multi-law firm licensing confusion. It was a situation where my company had no significant financial stake in the outcome and was just trying to be the 'good guy'. In fact, all the big companies were aligned on being willing to just help out the small company trying to get the thing to happen. Despite that sincere intent all around, it was basically impossible to do what they needed without significant expense or even potentially creating new liability for ourselves where there was none. The moral being: don't just assume "we can't have a nice things because of big company assholes". That's sometimes the case but not always. There are execs out there who'd be happy to 'do the right thing' if they can. Over probably a dozen similar situations, there were only a couple were I was able to help a good thing happen - despite actively trying to find a way to make it work.
by sbuttgereit | 2025-11-14 22:44:27+00:00
What does happen in that situation sometimes is that if you're speeding along with everyone else, that sometimes gets allowed as a defense against a speeding ticket; basically the argument is that if driving the speed limit when all surrounding traffic is driving over the speed limit, that the relative speed difference can matter. At least that was true when I learned to drive (many, many years ago).
by CMay | 2025-11-14 22:45:35+00:00
China bet on EVs because of national security. China has less reliable access to oil than many other countries and the US can choke off delivery of oil to China through bottlenecks if it comes to war. Investing in solar, wind and nuclear makes sense in their predicament. "Green energy" and "saving the planet" are secondary and mostly marketing by comparison.

Countries hitting their industrialization stride have a bloom of real world applicable talent that they can direct to these things in a way that is a little harder for others. Especially when you have a huge population.
by rvz | 2025-11-14 22:46:09+00:00
Don't take it seriously, It is Twitter bait from an intern.

> I wonder whether its possible to trust an LLM to "compile" your code to an executable and trust that the compiled code is faithful to the input without writing a static validator that is pretty much a compiler itself.

"LLMs as compilers" do not make any sense.

Traditional compilers must be deterministic to compile to the correct machine code for the correct architecture otherwise the executable will break.
by dandeto | 2025-11-14 22:46:19+00:00
A year ago I researched this topic for a static website of my own. All providers I looked at were $5 and I want to say the cheapest I found was slightly lower. By comparison, I am still within free tier limits of AWS S3 and cloudfront (CDN) since I am not getting much traffic. So my website is on edge locations all over the world as part of their CDN for free, but if I host on a single server in Ohio it costs $5/month.
by hamdingers | 2025-11-14 22:46:24+00:00
> I’m not sure why you insist that we continue to fawn over these things.

I'm not sure why all the replies under this comment are full of projections of extreme opinions I do not hold and never said I did.

If you want to have a conversation with someone who thinks like this you can probably find one in this very thread, so why do you respond to me?
by joegibbs | 2025-11-14 22:46:37+00:00
I honestly don't think there's all that much harm in seed oils, PUFAs, sugar, fat or any other food bugbear. There's just tons of freely-available, high energy, cheap food that there wasn't back in the past, and some people are more susceptible to gorging on it than others. Back in the past you had to be rich to afford to eat that much (Henry VIII, who weighed 177kg, had terrible health problems and died at 55). But the average peasant was living off gruel and doing manual labour 365 days a year. Modern person drives to work, spends 10% of their income on as much food as they want, sits at a desk all day - there's no surprise they become obese and sick.
by losvedir | 2025-11-14 22:47:05+00:00
> they didn't have enough money to meet their expenses more likely

What does this mean, exactly? I think that's the core of my question, and something I don't understand since I lack the experience. If someone can live like this for, say, 10 years then in some sense it is meeting their expenses exactly.

I understand a situation of accumulating debt - that's a state that's not in equilibrium. But a lot of poor people can't really obtain credit, I believe.
by xign | 2025-11-14 22:47:10+00:00
What makes you think the bad actors aren't already finding these bugs? From the looks of it, there isn't really any rocket science going on here. There are equally well-funded bad actors who will and do find these issues.

With Google finding these bugs, at least the user can be informed. For this instance for example, the core problem here is the codec is in *active use*. Ffmpeg utilizes a disingenuous argument that it's old and obscure, but omits the fact that it's still compiled in meaning that an attacker can craft a file and send it to you and still works.

A user (it could be a distro who packages ffmpeg) can use this information to turn off the codec that virtually no one uses today and make their distribution of ffmpeg more secure. Not having this information means they can't do that.

If ffmpeg doesn't have the resources to fix these bugs, at least let the public know so we can deal with it.

Also, just maybe, they wouldn't have that many vulnerabilities filed against them if the project took security more seriously to begin with? It's not a good sign for the software when you get so many valid security reports and just ask them to withhold them.
by t43562 | 2025-11-14 22:48:17+00:00
It's probably unethical to solve a problem you could do yourself in 5 minutes at the energy cost of a packet of crisps by using.....lets say....a kilogram of coal. Or two kilos or whatever. But you can't see the cost so it seems free. You might see the money but we haven't linked this to environmental cost yet.
by txrx0000 | 2025-11-14 22:48:26+00:00
Consider SoftEther, which is VPN over Ethernet wrapped in HTTPS. It's open-source. It has a server discovery site called VPNGate. You can host a server to let somebody else use, then use a server soneone else is hosting.

https://www.vpngate.net/en/

We're really only missing a few things before there's decentralized VPN over HTTPS that anyone in the world can host and use, and it would be resistant to all DPI firewalls. First, a user-friendly mobile client. Second, a way to broadcast and discover server lists in a sparse and decentralized manner, similar to BitTorrent (or we may be able to make use of the BT protocol as is), and we'd have to build such auto-discovery and broadcasting into the client. Third, make each client automatically host a temporary server and broadcast its IP to the public server lists when in use.
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-14 22:48:40+00:00
How much news do you read in Chinese?

The US government has hacked things in China. That you have not heard of something is not evidence that it doesn't exist.

North Korea also does plenty of hacking around the world. That's how they get a significant portion of their government budget, and they rely on cryptocurrency to support that situation.

Ukraine and Russia are doing lots of official and vigilante hacking right now.

Back in the mid 2000s, there was a guy who called himself "the jester" who was vaguely right wing and spent his time hacking ISIS stuff. My college interviewed him.
by wahern | 2025-11-14 22:48:51+00:00
Yeah, median income in the UK is about at the level of Mississippi, as is much of Western Europe (Western, not Eastern!). The US is just ridiculously wealthy, and our income inequality is largely a matter of the absurd heights reached at the top, with wide distributions. OTOH, wealth disparity (or even just the perception of wealth disparity) can be politically destabilizing and lead to some pathological social issues. Greater relative social mobility and greater (perceived?) wealth equality seems to result in a better sense of fairness, a sense of fairness is key to social cohesion and trust, and social trust is key to producing wealth. Though, social trust is necessary but hardly sufficient. Likewise, perceived mobility and equality seems necessary but not sufficient for healthy political and civic culture.
by p4ul | 2025-11-14 22:50:21+00:00
I agree with this, and I'd go even a bit further and describe them as predatory. They seem to have absolute contempt for their customers, and look for every possible opportunity to bleed them dry.

But then again, I'm probably guilty of anthropomorphizing the lawnmower. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2308s
by jmclnx | 2025-11-14 22:50:22+00:00
To the billionairs via income inequality.

When I was young, you could live off the wage you made in retail.

I had uncles who worked in retail and where able to buy a nice house and raise a family. Now, you need snap to live if working retail. Buying a home, out of the question.

We need to go back to the tax rate we had in tge 1950s and force companies to pay a living wage as they did back then
by efitz | 2025-11-14 22:50:32+00:00
I haven’t seen this new google model but now must try it out.

I will say that other frontier models are starting to surprise me with their reasoning/understanding- I really have a hard time making (or believing) the argument that they are just predicting the next word.

I’ve been using Claude Code heavily since April; Sonnet 4.5 frequently surprises me.

Two days ago I told the AI to read all the documentation from my 5 projects related to a tool I’m building, and create a wiki, focused on audience and task.

I'm hand reviewing the 50 wiki pages it created, but overall it did a great job.

I got frustrated about one issue: I have a github issue to create a way to integrate with issue trackers (like Jira), but it's TODO, and the AI featured on the home page that we had issue tracker integration. It created a page for it and everything; I figured it was hallucinating.

I went to edit the page and replace it with placeholder text and was shocked that the LLM had (unprompted) figured out how to use existing features to integrate with issue trackers, and wrote sample code for GitHub, Jira and Slack (notifications). That truly surprised me.
by westurner | 2025-11-14 22:50:42+00:00
From "Introduction of mseal" https://docs.kernel.org/userspace-api/mseal.html#mseal-doesn... :

> mseal doesn’t block

> In a nutshell, mseal blocks certain mm syscall from modifying some of VMA’s attributes, such as protection bits (RWX). Sealed mappings doesn’t mean the memory is immutable.
by eastbound | 2025-11-14 22:50:51+00:00
Denmark is pretty famous for the fact that people consider themselves pretty centrist and moderate, while the policies they implement, each analyzed separately, are the most leftist of all the EU on all modern topics (ie not classical communism of course - just climate change, women, immigration etc). But when you’re surrounded with likeminded people and little diversity of the press, it sounds logical.
by xign | 2025-11-14 22:51:02+00:00
But the vulnerability exists already. You are making it sound like Google invented a problem for the project. Maybe the project should be name called if it has hundreds of vulnerabilities? Whether it's run by volunteers or not does not matter for a user of the software.

No one is forcing anyone to do anything. Ffmpeg does not have to fix this bug, btw. If they don't have time, just let the disclosure happen.

Also, in this case, the simple fix is to turn off the codec. They just didn't want to do that because they want to have all codecs enabled. This is a conscious choice and no one is forcing them to do that. If the CVE was allowed to disclose without ffmpeg fixing the issue, at least the downstream users can turn off the codec themselves.

Just to be clear here: Googles' responsibility here is to the public (aka the users of ffmpeg), not the project.

Also, let's go back to your "cooked a meal" analogy. If I cook a meal for you, for free, that's nice. But that doesn't entitle me to be careless in hygiene and gives you salmonella poisoning because I didn't wash my hands. Doing things for free doesn't absolve me of any responsibility.
by RyanHamilton | 2025-11-14 22:52:08+00:00
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by conception | 2025-11-14 22:52:35+00:00
I will note that 2.5 pro preview… march? Was maybe the best model I’ve used yet. The actual release model was… less. I suspect Google found the preview too expensive and optimized it down but it was interesting to see there was some hidden horsepower there. Google has always been poised to be the AI leader/winner - excited to see if this is fluff or the real deal or another preview that gets nerfed.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-11-14 22:52:41+00:00
It isn't just the US, Russia has oil and shares a land border with China. However, Russia isn't always friendly with China, nor is the middle east, and anyways, it just seems like a headache to deal with them + the petro dollar when they have plenty of energy to tap at home.

Air pollution was also a huge problem, aside from national security. China's empahsis on STEM and the fact that they've been a huge source of engineering/science/tech talent meant China could just tap its own human resources rather than making them go abroad for decent jobs. The fact that they also know how to build things and have set up all the infra for that is just another bonus.

China is willing to play ball in less developed countries, and the deals they setup is not just Chinese companies coming in and dominating the market, they are also partnering with and trying to raise local companies as well. That won't work in Europe or the US, at least for now.
by throw0101a | 2025-11-14 22:52:43+00:00
> If I hear "sometimes you get shot at", I'd take my chances and shoot back. But if I keep hearing about missiles obliterating drug runners with no warning... maybe I just stay home.

Given some of the things competing cartels do to each other, getting instantaneously killed by a bomb is probably a relief compared to what some of your 'competitors' may do.