MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by citizenpaul | 2025-11-15 21:21:54+00:00
I write a huge comment on why and how universal per-authorized CSAM scanning that could literally open an investigation with no human oversight was bad. Back during the apple fiasco. Had a near universal negative reaction from HN. I gave up hope for any sort of non authoritarian future at that point.

HN seems to lean authoritarian which is usual for the bourgeois class as they think they are exempt from being on the wall. After all if you have nothing to hide....
by orbital-decay | 2025-11-15 21:22:13+00:00
To review these third-party mods one needs to understand C++, Windows programming, and fairly obscure theming-related parts of its internals, some of which are undocumented/reverse engineered, and many have poorly understood side effects. This is a pretty specific combination of skills that slowly approaches arcane status, even if might feel otherwise to some. But again, larger apps are indeed harder to review than this.

(this particular mod is 100% innocuous, though)
by matrss | 2025-11-15 21:22:28+00:00
I responded to that comment, but it does not address why you think Forgejo is lacking development power. IMO it rather shows a lack of understanding on your part of what Forgejo is today. It no longer is a superset of Gitea since the hard fork, but its own independent project instead. And as such it has at least comparable activity to Gitea, which is reflected e.g. in the unique features that Forgejo has, but Gitea doesn't.
by dehrmann | 2025-11-15 21:23:36+00:00
The problem is these small customers never drive enough sales to bother with—you're better off investing in a feature for a large customer. And by the time small customers get large enough to need things like complex permissioning, they've outgrown Heroku and will be onboarding anyway. Giving startups credits really might be the most effective way to handle rough edges for small shops.

As a startup, I'd probably bite the bullet of one-time setup pain for a database, blob store, load balancer, and service hosting at a major cloud provider because those systems will be rock-solid with well-understood APIs. Full disclosure: I work for a major cloud provider.
by usrusr | 2025-11-15 21:23:36+00:00
"If a company came up to me"

See, there's the difference. You, as a sole person, can easily decide giving permission or not. But they, as a group of employees, contain not a single one whose job description is "give away stuff". There isn't some keeper of the back catalogue who could confidently say "yeah, no problem". Who knows, perhaps some skunkwors division has just sunk a few million into reviving the IP. It all falls up towards the CEO and that level is rarely bothered with pittances like some inherited old license. And chances are even they would not dare, because ultimately they aren't the owner, their employer is and who knows what they would like to happen to the IP
by danaris | 2025-11-15 21:24:02+00:00
It sounds like you may simply be misinterpreting or assigning different values to wealth levels than the author?

There were unquestionably many people in the 17th century who fit the description there. Just because you can come up with an example of someone who might plausibly fit the basic "has negative personal net worth" criterion who doesn't fit the rest of it doesn't refute that.
by Animats | 2025-11-15 21:24:16+00:00
That's just the FBI side. The Trump administration has, as a policy, that the Counsel for the President can clear someone without them going through the usual clearance process. Some senior White House staff have been "cleared" that way.

The standard process starts, as it has for decades, with filling out Standard Form 86.[1] I see they only want residences for the last 10 years. It used to be "list all residences from birth".

Then, all of that gets checked.[2]

These criteria are not, apparently, applied to White House staff or Presidential appointees.

[1] https://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/sf86/

[2] https://sgp.fas.org/spb/bginvest.html
by api | 2025-11-15 21:24:42+00:00
The fact that these are still used is a bit of a scandal. They are total bullshit. If they “work” at all it’s by convincing gullible people they work, so they might make someone slip up or confess thinking the magic machine will get them.

Of course things have improved. Decades ago they were trusted a lot more to the point that a lot of innocent people got prosecuted and guilty people went free based on polygraphs. These days they’re inadmissible in court, but they’re still used in the court of public opinion and in some jobs.
by nekevss | 2025-11-15 21:24:44+00:00
Thanks! Temporal_rs has been a really fun project to work on, and it's been great to see that it's useful for other engines!

Hopefully, there will be more chances in the future for projects like temporal_rs. Beyond just temporal_rs, I think the Temporal integration in V8 and Kiesel was a good proof of concept for Rust based libraries over FFI using Diplomat.
by Dilettante_ | 2025-11-15 21:25:15+00:00
Now I think we're having two different conversations again? If I understand your point about the "battlefield between pure will/determinism and pure chance/entropy" correctly, you're talking about more of a psychological, individual, "is there a meaning to life, the universe and everything" type direction?

What I was trying to drive at was really more of a "in the framework of Laplace's Demon, your choices in the present can be 100% predicted, no different from the movements of molecules. It follows that you have no more options of choosing than the molecule does and your future has been set in stone from the beginning of time."
by tbrownaw | 2025-11-15 21:25:21+00:00
This would require that it's a one-way door, where bad circumstances persist indefinitely across generations but good circumstances don't. It would also require that to not stretch back too far, since bad circumstances were rather universal before the modern age.

In order for this supposed oddly specific effect to have policy implications, it would have to be simple to identify which individuals are impacted and by how much. And it would have to be impossible to identify such individuals except by looking at their family history.

And there would have to be some policy action that is uniquely beneficial to those people.
by nobodyandproud | 2025-11-15 21:26:40+00:00
I wouldn’t call it a genius move.

Just long overdue: South Korea is one of the last, staunch US allies that can build large ships at scale.

But will bringing manufacturing to Philadelphia be a mistake? Will they run into the generations-steeped shipyard workers and steelworkers?

Will American steelworkers try put one over to make themselves an expense, or a legit partnership to help each other?

I can see this going either way; and I hope this partnership transcends the usual, petty partisanship.
by duskwuff | 2025-11-15 21:26:44+00:00
Go! wasn't even published as its own project [1] until 2015, well after Go(lang) was available. It previously existed as an unpublished CVS repository in an obscure Sourceforge project [2]; I can't fault the Go developers for ignoring or overlooking it. You can find a circa-2002 version of Go! in the archived CVS repository of the Sourceforge project, but none of the project's release files appear to contain it.

(Ignore the "Last Update: 2013-09-06" on the project page - that's the date that SourceForge performed an automatic migration. Any real activity on the project seems to have petered out around 2002, with one final file released in 2003.)

[1]: https://github.com/fgmccabe/go

[2]: https://sourceforge.net/projects/networkagent/
by hearsathought | 2025-11-15 21:26:54+00:00
If india doesn't care, why should south korea? India only has 2 nuclear powers surrounding it. South korea has 4. Why should korea care more than india? I'd love to hear your thoughts as an indian on this matter. You are my goto indian guru on all matters geopolitics, politics, economics, tech, sports ( cricket, not baseball for obvious reasons ), etc. I await enlightenment.
by famouswaffles | 2025-11-15 21:27:08+00:00
>If you said "the sat sat on the" to a human, they would probably respond "huh?" or "who the hell knows!", since the human understands that cats are fickle creatures and that partial sentences are not the conversational norm.

I'm not sure what you're getting at here ? You think LLMs don't similarly answer 'What are you trying to say?'. Sometimes I wonder if the people who propose these gotcha questions ever bother to actually test them on said LLMs.

>If you ask an LLM to explain it's understanding of cats, it will happily reply, but the output will not be it's own understanding of cats - it will be parroting some human opinion(s) it got from the training set. It has no first hand understanding, only 2nd hand heresay.

Again, you're not making the distinction you think you are. Understanding from '2nd hand heresay' is still understanding. The vast majority of what humans learn in school is such.
by roughly | 2025-11-15 21:30:14+00:00
Epigenetics is one of those things that seems wild until you pull the camera back a bit. A cell is affected by and responds to its surroundings - this is not controversial. In eukaryotes, this is usually done by way of altering gene expression - up- or down-regulation by means of chemical markers on the cell’s DNA which are created or removed by enzymes which are activated or deactivated by certain substances in the cell or its environment - in other words, the cell’s environment affects gene regulation within the cell by traceable mechanisms*. All cells, save at least one, are descendent of other cells, and cells split by meiosis, in which the chemical environment within and without the cell is shared by the “descendent” cell - so of course this happens with human embryos as well. Of course the expression of your genes is affected by what happened to your parents (well, your mother, at least), because gene expression is affected by what happens to a cell and you are made up of a lineage of cells descended from your mother’s cells. If you ask how one organism could be affected by something it didn’t experience, sure, that could be a quandary, but looking at a line of cells and wondering how later ones could be affected by environmental pressures on earlier ones isn’t nearly as much of a mystery, and we’re all just extended cell lineages.

(As if first time mothers didn’t have enough to worry about - stop stressing so much, it could lead to long-lasting irreversible changes to your fetus!)

* Standard biology disclaimers: this is not the only way this happens, this varies across species and time, nature has no master plan. “Some of the time some genes have some amount of their expression modified somewhat by some mechanisms that are somewhat responsive to some part of the cell’s environment sometimes.”
by famouswaffles | 2025-11-15 21:30:51+00:00
Orca and human brains are similar, in the sense we have a common ancestor if you look back far enough, but they are still very different and focus on entirely different slices of reality and input than humans will ever do. It's not something you can brush off if you really believe in input supremacy so much.

From the orca's perspective, many of the things we say we understand are similarly '2nd hand hearsay'.
by GTP | 2025-11-15 21:32:05+00:00
I would instead reduce the duration of copyright protection. Not an expert by any means, but my gut feeling is that in the case of art like books, movies, songs, videgames etc. the right-holders make most of the money in the first 10 years after release. If you're interested in a book, movie, or videogame, you will not wait 10 years to get it for free; you would still pay for it. So I think the duration of copyright should be reduced to circa 10 years, maybe 20 if we want to be generous to the right-holders, but no more than that.
by solatic | 2025-11-15 21:32:53+00:00
> combine traces from frontend and backend

I'm scratching my head a little bit on what your expectation is here. Traces and real-user-monitoring are not the same thing here. Distributed tracing is specifically a microservices thing. Maybe all you're looking for is to just attach a UUID to each request and log it? Jaeger and Tempo aren't going to help you with frontend code.

> A lot of infrastructure

> Prometheus

You need something to tell you when your tiny app isn't running, so it can't be a library embedded into the app itself.

> Grafana

You need something with dashboards to help you understand what's going on. If your thing telling you your app has crashed is outside your app, the thing that helps visualize what happened before your app crashed also needs to be outside your app.

> Jaeger

Do you really need traces? Or just to log how long request times took, and have metrics for p50/p95/p99?

> Loki

If you're running only one instance of your app, you don't need it, just read through your logfiles with hl. If you have multiple machines, sending your logs to one place may not be necessary, but it's incredibly helpful; the alternative is basically ssh multiplexing...
by gf000 | 2025-11-15 21:33:16+00:00
Rust managed to learn a lot from C++ and other languages' mistakes.

So while it has quite a bit of essential complexity (inherent in the design space it operates: zero overhead low-level language with memory safety), I believe it fares overall better.

Like no matter the design, a language wouldn't need 10 different kinds of initializer syntaxes, yet C++ has at least that many.
by rkomorn | 2025-11-15 21:34:41+00:00
Cheese sandwich and a glass of milk sounds genuinely better than extremely overcooked, watery pasta with watery slices of pork.

If you solely looked at my schools' menus on paper (or arguably even in pictures), sure, it would've seemed good.

Side note: I lived in the Netherlands (but went to school in Belgium, so I have zero experience with school meals) as a young kid. I do remember chocolate sprinkles on toast being a thing, though!
by hearsathought | 2025-11-15 21:34:48+00:00
> Korea is an American suzerainty. Not vassal. Similar to North Korea:China.

That's why north korea has nukes? South Korea:US is not analogous to North Korea:China. Neither is Pakistan:China analogous to South Korea:US. If you analogy held, south korea would be a nuclear power.

Stop commenting on things you know nothing about. Honestly, do you think you are an expert in every geopolitical topic?
by shermantanktop | 2025-11-15 21:34:50+00:00
Rules are only words on paper unless they are enforced, especially to constrain the actions of the powerful.

Once they are consistently broken, the rules only matter for the powerless.

There have always been stupid rules, and legitimate reasons to break them. But “I am an unqualified appointee and this unqualified person is my friend” is not a legitimate reason.
by grey-area | 2025-11-15 21:34:51+00:00
Microservices are entirely unrelated to classes and in no way endemic to go.

Go’s lack of inheritance is one of its bolder decisions and I think has been proven entirely correct in use.

Instead of the incidental complexity encouraged by pointless inheritance hierarchies we go back to structure which bundle data and behaviour and can compose them instead.

Favouring composition over inheritance is not a new idea nor did it come from the authors of Go.

Also the author of Java (Gosling) disagrees with you.

https://www.infoworld.com/article/2160788/why-extends-is-evi...
by jki275 | 2025-11-15 21:34:55+00:00
polygraphs are junk science.

I don't know who the other two are, but Bongino was already polygraphed and cleared for the Secret Service -- there's no reason to pretend that he wasn't cleared for the job. This article reads like a political hit piece and has no real grasp of reality. It also has statements that clearly betray its author doesn't really understand how security clearances work anyway -- most clearances don't require polygraphs, those are an IC and LE thing, and any OCA can grant any waiver they choose to grant. In this particular case if the AG wanted to review this decision she could do so as his boss, but it really makes no difference.

Given that polygraphs are, again, junk science, who gives a shit.
by delfinom | 2025-11-15 21:35:16+00:00
Well, yes but no. Hence the doomsday planes specifically made to communicate with deep sea subs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_E-6_Mercury

Tl;dr attenuation of signals in water is frequency dependent, just like in air or walls, etc.

So the plane has a 5 mile long antenna
by fragmede | 2025-11-15 21:35:16+00:00
syncophancy and truth are orthogonal. It could correct an error that's been pointed out without prefacing it with "You're absolutely right!". It could move the goal posts and be angry and say that while you're right in this instance, I'm (the LLM) still right in these cases.

Given that they still hallucinate wildly at inopportune times though, like you say, what is truth?
by rgblambda | 2025-11-15 21:35:17+00:00
If there has been a rise in the amount of harassment due to the pandemic, then why have actual convictions dropped compared to before the pandemic. I refer to the graph of convictions per year in the HoL report linked above.

>But you just said we don't know, because offence type is not provided?

If someone is arrested but not convicted, we must presume innocence. "Legal speech" isn't a type of offence.
by bccdee | 2025-11-15 21:36:04+00:00
> There weren't many actual communists in Russia

What's this claim based on?

Hierarchies are fractal; at every level of an ideological authoritarian society, comfort and influence are only granted in exchange for affirming and regurgitating state ideology. Cognitive dissonance forces people who take that deal to choose between losing self-respect and accepting the ideology. I think you'd be surprised how well this works. People always want to believe that they deserve the things they have.

> ex-Soviets hate socialism

Naturally, they change their minds when they leave. There's no longer any psychological incentive to believe. Besides, people who choose to leave have typically already broken with the ideology. You compare it to a cult, but the thing about cults is that the members generally do believe.

> non-communist democratic states exist and how it is to live there

Life in many authoritarian states is fine for most people. It is what it is; if you don't make a fuss, you can live pretty comfortably. Obviously many dictatorships are not like this, but China is fairly stable.

For almost all of human history, people have lived under authoritarian governments. It's unpleasant to think about, but authoritarianism can be stable and durable. There's no guarantee that democracy wins.
by SOLAR_FIELDS | 2025-11-15 21:36:46+00:00
Only because the purist inventors of nixpkgs structured the policy of what must go into nixpkgs to have this rule. Why doesn’t the same limitation exist for homebrew, for instance? It isn’t some idiosyncracy of the way they are building things, it was a conscious and deliberate policy decision.

And it might be the right one for what they are trying to achieve, but if the goal of the project is to make it more accessible and see more widespread adoption, stuff like this is a shot in the Achilles heel
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-15 21:37:54+00:00
You go through the process of actually calling, get sent through a 4-5 week rabbit hole, and then people wonder why less people make it through the funnel that has more holes than a grater.

Remember the whole "waste fraud and abuse" stuff in the beginning of the year? Yeah, there's a lot of waste in how inefficient it is signing up for this government stuff.
Show HN: Bringing the alternative to remove.bg that are privacy and AI-first
by Lusrodri | 2025-11-15 21:38:11+00:00
I built I Hate Background (IHB) after noticing that most background-removal tools send every image to external servers. IHB takes the opposite path: it runs the entire segmentation pipeline locally in the browser, using a WebAssembly/WebGPU-optimized AI model. No uploads, no tracking, no logging.

Tech bits: • Browser: WebGPU + ONNX runtime for real-time inference • Frontend: ~12s average removal on mid-range hardware • Privacy: Zero data leaves the device

Thanks to Hugging Face and Transformers.js' team for support this.

Would love feedback on model performance, UX, and design.
by xrd | 2025-11-15 21:38:20+00:00
This is terrific writing and what we lose when we pretend AI can do terrific writing.

The biggest problem we face right now is that the large majority of people are terrible writers and can't recognize why this is awful. It really felt like the moment before chatgpt arrived we were coming into a new world where the craft of writing was surging in popularity and making a difference. That all feels lost.

This kind of post makes me have hope.
by ofalkaed | 2025-11-15 21:38:44+00:00
ChromeOS with the Linux VM is a surprisingly nice setup, I bought a Thinkpad Duet 3 so I could use Linux apps on a tablet and it seriously has me considering getting a Chromebook for my next laptop. Everything integrates so seamlessly and effortlessly that it does not even seem like a VM other than having to start up the VM. The Chrome keyboard has also really grown on me, even with the small and very cheap keyboard of the Duet 3. Battery life and performance is amazing and touch works completely as expected. Not sure if I can actually make the leap and give up Linux after 20 years of nothing but, but I am considering it.
by LightBug1 | 2025-11-15 21:38:48+00:00
No. Do you?

And this is what you dickheads always do. Answer a question you won't answer with another (in this case, extremely dumbass) question.

I'll try again ... do you expect me to take that as justification for what has gone on?

Though you'll forgive me for not caring for your answer considering your performance thus far.
by nickff | 2025-11-15 21:39:05+00:00
>"Zvi and the Cato institute both have lengthy pieces about why the Jones act is bad [1] [2], and whether or not you believe that has entrenched our shipbuilders, the US essentially manufactures no ships compared to South Korea and China."

One issue is that Naval ships are very different from commercial vessels, and at least in the USA, almost no shipyards have shared facilities and staff between the two products since WWII. Interestingly, most other countries do not build most of their naval tonnage (destroyers and frigates) to the same standards that the USA does (European countries are notable for using commercial hulls standards for these ships).

On a related note, the Odd Lots podcast had a (relatively) recent Jones Act debate episode, which is worth a listen if you're interested in the subject.
Ask HN: How many businesses/startups run on Cloudflare?
by dedalus | 2025-11-15 21:39:59+00:00
We all heard multiple stories of launching on AWS or GCP but wondering if its same to launch a business on the cloudflare platform. They are chepaer to run compared to AWS/GCP and I dont hear too mmuch about this and wondering if there is something I miss. In this particular case, I can even refer customers who want private cloud to create a cloudflare account which would save them money relative to their private cloud on AWS/GCP. Looking for any experience or guidance on this
by giobox | 2025-11-15 21:40:05+00:00
The risk surely exists if you decide to run their gate service:

"After you activate the VPN Gate Service, anyone can connect a VPN connection to your computer, and access to any hosts on the Internet via your computer"

"When you are running the VPN Gate Relaying Function on your company's network, then any person's communication to Internet hosts will be relayed via your company's network."

> https://www.vpngate.net/en/join.aspx

There's simply no way I would offer my residential or company IPs as exit nodes to strangers.

> Third, make each client automatically host a temporary server and broadcast its IP to the public server lists when in use.

If this came to pass, much the same problems.