MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by duxup | 2025-11-06 19:51:35+00:00
>“Hey it’s me,” one scam advertisement using Elon Musk’s photo read. “I have a gift for you text me.” Another using Donald Trump’s photo claimed the US president was offering $710 to every American as “tariff relief.” Perhaps most depressingly, a third posed as a real law firm, offering advice on how to avoid falling victim to online scams.

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>More recently, a 2025 document showed Meta continues to weigh how “abrupt reductions of scam advertising revenue could affect its business projections.”

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>For example, in February, Meta told “the team responsible for vetting questionable advertisers” that they weren’t “allowed to take actions that could cost Meta more than 0.15 percent of the company’s total revenue,” Reuters reported. That’s any scam account worth about $135 million, Reuters noted. Stone pushed back, saying that the team was never given “a hard limit” on what the manager described as “specific revenue guardrails.”

Gosh it would be a shame if our cut of the scams were to stop ...
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-11-06 19:51:39+00:00
>Given that the left are the only ones complaining about the extrajudicial killings under the Obama administration, I disagree.

I see no evidence of that. The only places I've ever noticed any complaints there were from the alt-right and libertarians (same thing?). You can see this in magazine titles like Reason if you care to check.

>I find public officials murdering unarmed people

What evidence is there that these people were unarmed? And what if they were? If there was 800 pounds of cocaine (or whatever) on board, and they didn't even have a butter knife with them... why should that somehow exempt them from the hostile response they received?
by hunterpayne | 2025-11-06 19:51:43+00:00
Because they aren't flying a flag of the country in which their boat is registered. All boats do this. Not doing this is like flying a plane without filing a flight plan.

Technically when you don't fly a flag you are considered a pirate. Clearly they aren't pirates but they are smugglers. There is no other reason why you wouldn't fly a specific national flag. You can complain about the rules of engagement and that is fine. However, posts like yours aren't exactly rooted in honesty, competence or good faith.
by iFire | 2025-11-06 19:51:50+00:00
> Sounds like a blackbox that assumes I want to ski ... because some pics look "like" skiing or something. Or tries to say connect someone with their ex or people who look like their ex ...

Kinda. But collaborative filtering by the textbook definition tries to find the people who have those embedding and then match those nodes with other similar nodes.

So because you are a person who likes skiing, the system tries to find other people's existing preferences that likes skiing and match those to the items to show you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_filtering
by maxglute | 2025-11-06 19:52:10+00:00
PRC uses coast guard hulls, there's nothing being denied, these are generally framed as domestic maritime policing actions for PRC. Which is what makes the comparison generally stupid because PH / PCA ruling is not formal international law. UN/UNCLOS/ITLOS/ICJ has not recognized it, and PRC isn't party to optional arbituation clause, so ruling can't even apply to PRC. Ultimately PRC is simply doing domestic law enforcement in disputed maritime area with is not out of line with her UNCLOS obligations, i.e. until maritime delimitation formally settled at UNCLOS, there's nothing illegal about coastguard doing coastguard stuff in disputed area. This is not to mention up until a few years ago PRC ramming = while many other claimaints where flat out shooting. Like PRC coast guard ships were the last to get armed, some other claimaints already had heavy machine guns of lol missiles.

The flip side of this is US isn't signatory to UNCLOS so they can murder whoever they want on the highseas, and in the Hague I guess.
by tialaramex | 2025-11-06 19:52:14+00:00
Start your journey here: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/dr_260.htm

That's defect report #260 against the C language. One option for WG14 was to say "Oops, yeah, that should work in our language" and then modern C compilers have to be modified and many C programs are significantly slower. This gets the world you (and you're far from alone among C programmers) thought you lived in, though probably your C programs are slower than you expected now 'cos your "pointers" are now just address integers and you've never thought about the full consequences.

But they didn't, instead they wrote "They may also treat pointers based on different origins as distinct even though they are bitwise identical" because by then that is in fact how C compilers work. That's them saying pointers have provenance, though they do not describe (and neither does their ISO document) how that works.

There is currently a TR (I think, maybe wrong letters) which explains PNVI-ae-udi, Provenance Not Via Integers, Addresses Exposed, User Disambiguates which is the current preferred model for how this could possibly work. Compilers don't implement that properly either, but they could in principle so that's why it is seen as a reasonable goal for the C language. That TR is not part of the ISO standard but in principle one day it could be. Until then, provenance is just a vague shrug in C. What you said is wrong, and er... yeah that is awkward for everybody.

Rust does specify how this works. But the bad news (I guess?) for you is that it too says that provenance is a thing, so you cannot just go around claiming the address you dredged up from who knows where is a valid pointer, it ain't. Or rather, in Rust you can write out explicitly that you do want to do this, but the specification is clear that you get a pointer but not necessarily a valid pointer even if you expected otherwise.
by mrandish | 2025-11-06 19:52:23+00:00
> possible outcomes here seem very wide to me and a good chunk of it being positive.

The sheer scale of this makes it nothing like other startups, so the same high risk / high return reasoning doesn't apply. Worse, the 'AI bet' isn't like a diverse VC portfolio approach. OAI, NVidia, MSFT, Oracle, etc are all incestuously inter-related parties propping each other up with future commitments they won't be able to meet at their current revenue growth rates. They are so over-leveraged their revenue growth rates would have to grow at increasingly implausible multiples to cover. So, you now have to believe a sequence of individually extraordinary events will all occur and do so in less than 5 years.

The financial engineering propping up OAI and it's unprecedented market cap makes it a speculative bet with an astronomically high break even and a fixed near-term expiration date. To compensate for that much risk, any sane VC would want at least a somewhat plausible path to 1000x returns - but at this mega-scale there's a serious question if that's even possible from one company in this time frame. That turns OAI into an incredibly specific prop bet which is increasingly untethered from the long-term ability of AI to become a transformative technology beneficial to humankind or even a sustainable growth industry. Those are still both plausible positive outcomes but OAI returning just 100x to their investors (or even surviving a crash of its own making) is increasingly implausible. A year ago I was trying to come up with a good way to short the bubble but couldn't find a pure play-enough bet. Now it's grown so over-leveraged I'm starting to worry the crash is going to seriously impact the broader economy well beyond tech and equities. So now we all have financial exposure to this crazy prop bet, even though we're not betting.
by soulofmischief | 2025-11-06 19:52:54+00:00
Entrapment. The FBI posed as a user and convinced Ross that some people needed to be taken out, offered to do it, arrested him, dropped the murder-for-hire charges because they didn't want to play that game in court, knowing it would backfire, while still using those (unconvicted) charges to publicly smear him and influence the judge's decisions, and finally stole his Bitcoin.

Two agents went to prison over this. Those same agents have a history of fraud and abuse.
by jonas21 | 2025-11-06 19:53:03+00:00
> Even doing independent contracting on the side seems like a minefield w.r.t. quarterly tax payments, estimated tax, etc.. in the US at least. I'm sure I could figure it out but just earning income for some side work seems like a liability and a big headache.

It's really not hard -- it takes maybe 15 minutes per year, and if you own any stocks outside a 401k, you probably already need to make quarterly estimated payments. If it's too much trouble, you can just hire an accountant to take care of it for you. At any rate, it shouldn't be a significant obstacle to contracting.
by diptanu | 2025-11-06 19:53:11+00:00
We haven’t tested Chandra yet, because it’s very new. Under the hood Tensorlake is very similar to Marker - it’s a pipeline based OCR API, we do layout detection, Text Recognition and Detection, Table Structure Understanding, etc. We then use VLMs to enrich the results. Our models are much bigger than marker, and thus takes a little longer to parse documents. We optimized for accuracy. We will have a faster API soon.
by vel0city | 2025-11-06 19:53:15+00:00
> Operating a boat without a flag is the same as flying a plane without filing a flight plan

You seem to really equate this with the idea of planes flying without filing a flight plan. Are you OK with the US military shooting down any plane that doesn't file a flight plan, without even trying to communicate with the vessel or intervene in any other way previously, even if that vessel doesn't appear to be heading towards any specific US territory or vessel? Is that also allowable under international law?

No. You're not supposed to be bombing any boat you find in international waters that doesn't have a flag on it for whatever reason you can come up with.
by lelanthran | 2025-11-06 19:53:38+00:00
> Sure but we were talking about gaming rigs to run models locally. You are describing some extreme edge folks that are keeping 24/7 work on gaming rigs in your home.

In that scenario the case is even weaker for the rented-hardware model - if you're going to have a gaming rig, you're only paying a little bit more on top for a GPU with more RAM, not the full cost of the rig.

The comparison then is the extra cost of using a 24GB GPU over a standard gaming rig GPU (12GB? 8GB?) versus the cost of renting the GPU whenever you need it.
by mrbungie | 2025-11-06 19:53:48+00:00
> Worst case, when the bubble pops, we get a glut of power and compute which (ideally) should reduce overall electricity and the obscenely bloated cloud bills. However, at the rates that demand is growing, this seems unlikely.

You are making it sound like there is no opportunity cost to using money for this instead of, I don't know, welfare and social issues; or even other kinds of infrastructure projects altogether.
by tweetle_beetle | 2025-11-06 19:54:16+00:00
Note to people considering publishing articles describing passion projects on their personal websites (especially if they may be considered exciting).

Stop!

It is vital that you first hire an independent product manager and perform market fit analysis. Ask yourself "Does my blog deliver high ROI and facilitate decision making by key stakeholders?". If not, it has no use and should not be published.
by cogman10 | 2025-11-06 19:54:17+00:00
It's almost certainly not the panels that failed.

The most likely part to fail is the charge controller. That's got enough brains and parts that are ultimately likely to fail due to something like a bad capacitor. Next up is the batteries. If they are lead acid, then simply letting them under charge or dry out could have damaged them. Then the transformer/convert would be my next guess. It's got the right set of parts to go wrong. Panels is the last thing that might fail. They have no real parts to them, just cells and wires. About the only thing that could go wrong is if the wires somehow corrode (someone removes or scratches off the protective layer). Otherwise, the panels will likely just lose efficiency over time. They'll still generate power, but like 70% of their new condition.
by nobody9999 | 2025-11-06 19:54:22+00:00
No. He's proposing a rent freeze on rent stabilized housing, not rent controlled housing.

Despite the widespread (and why would folks who don't live in NYC and shouldn't really care about local elections except as they repeat flat wrong assertions about Mamdani and his proposed policies) incorrect framing, in NYC (which is what we're talking about here), rent control is a specific program governed by a specific set of laws. Rent stabilization is a different specific program governed by a different set of laws.

While there are only ~24,000 rent controlled units, there are ~1,000,000 rent stabilized units.

The latter is what's affected by Mamdani's proposal. This isn't new either. Rent stabilization in pretty much its current form has existed for more than 40 years and rent control much, much longer.

So this isn't some new policy that "commie jihadi" is proposing. And freezes on rent stabilized units have been done repeatedly, the last time in 2020/2021.

None of that is new or even mildly controversial.

Sources:

My lease.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_regulation_in_New_York

https://www.nyc.gov/site/mayorspeu/programs/rent-stabilizati...

https://www.nyc.gov/assets/hpd/downloads/pdfs/about/rent-reg...

https://rentguidelinesboard.cityofnewyork.us/resources/faqs/...
by trhway | 2025-11-06 19:54:33+00:00
>Zuckerberg could have built a fancy house in Woodside or Atherton which is where billionaire CEOs live. Instead he bought property in the middle of regular people and disrupted their lives.

it is easier and safer to have illegal school and other unpermitted things and all the noise and street blocking and all the other disruptions where regular people live than to piss off a billionaire neighbor.
by darrenf | 2025-11-06 19:54:33+00:00
Can't help but think that Perl's tainted mode (which is > 30yrs old) had the right idea, and it's a bit strange how few other languages wanted to follow its example. Quoting `perldoc perlsec`:

You may not use data derived from outside your program to affect something else outside your program--at least, not by accident. All command line arguments, environment variables, locale information (see perllocale), results of certain system calls ("readdir()", "readlink()", the variable of "shmread()", the messages returned by "msgrcv()", the password, gcos and shell fields returned by the "getpwxxx()" calls), and all file input are marked as "tainted". Tainted data may not be used directly or indirectly in any command that invokes a sub-shell, nor in any command that modifies files, directories, or processes, with the following exceptions: [...]
by eduction | 2025-11-06 19:55:05+00:00
Does not make economic sense, there is still the cost of panels and transmission.

There might be a surplus now but dropping the price to zero will increase use (demand).

I was surprised the story does not even specify "residential," it really says "everyone." That's a great way to exhaust existing supply. Entrepreneurs can presumably be quite creative in the shape of businesses they set up if unlimited free power is on offer during the day.
by jraph | 2025-11-06 19:55:24+00:00
I work for one of the several European companies building open source software that has been chosen as components of openDesk.

openDesk is solid, legit and serious.

Open source is a requirement. As such, money doesn't go to a startup building proprietary software that get bought a few years later by a big tech company and then all the investment is lost. They audit and check that licenses are open source and that the dependencies have compatible licenses.

It's publicly funded, by Germany* (for their needs, but it will grow larger than them). Their strategy is to give money to established European open source software companies so they improve their software in areas that matter to them, including integration features (user management, for instance, or file / event sharing with other software, many things) as well as accessibility. They take all these pieces of software and build a coherent (with a common theme / look & feel), turn-key, feature-rich suite. This strategic decision that has its drawbacks allows to get something fast with what exists today.

I'm not sure communication and the business strategy is all figured out / polished yet, but with the high profile institutions adopting it, it will come. Each involved companies wants this to succeed too.

I think this is huge. I'm quite enthusiastic. Software might not be perfect but with the potential momentum this thing has, it could improve fast, and each piece of open source software that is part of this as well along the way.

* see also caubin's comment
by westurner | 2025-11-06 19:55:31+00:00
Does it work to call tokio-quiche from Python with pyo3-asyncio? https://github.com/awestlake87/pyo3-asyncio

cloudflare/quiche/h3i: https://github.com/cloudflare/quiche/tree/master/h3i :

> h3i consists of an interactive command-line tool and library for low-level HTTP/3 debugging and testing
by measurablefunc | 2025-11-06 19:55:32+00:00
It seems like the person you're responding to has decided a type checker that outputs 1 when the proof object is valid according to the rules & 0 otherwise should be considered a scoring function. The objective function in this case is not differentiable so the usual techniques from deep learning will not work & genetic search algorithms like AlphaEvolve can in theory be used in these cases. Someone still has to come up w/ the type system & verify the soundness of the rules b/c there is no finite codification of all valid & sound type systems like there are for problems in the linked blog post.
by isusmelj | 2025-11-06 19:56:56+00:00
Is the price here correct? https://openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking Would be $0,60 for input and $2,50 for 1 million output tokens. If the model is really that good it's 4x cheaper than comparable models. It's hosted at a loss or the others have a huge margin? I might miss something here. Would love some expert opinion :)

FYI: the non thinking variant has the same price.
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-11-06 19:57:19+00:00
OK let me suggest something to meet you halfway. As someone who is fluent/sight reading/ singing etc and can "hear" harmony and/or "read" it on a page of regular notes (lines and spaces and intervals all you really need, but to your point requires experience), something that would be far more interesting and useful to me, rather than color-coding solfege, would be something more along these lines:

Color code each chord by its diatonic value (e.g. in a I chord every note in the triad is red, in a IV chord every note in the triad is blue) and then highlight the extended notes as well (e.g. add 9 is yellow, add 11 is green)

That is something that MIGHT be interesting to me (personally - I know I am not your audience). But even thinking it through this technique sort of washes out the interesting bits of substitution/interpretation etc that you can find because you are committing to interpreting a chord with a single root
by cesarb | 2025-11-06 19:57:26+00:00
> Instead of securing the "chain", we should instead isolate every library we import and run it under a sandbox.

Didn't we have something like that in Java more than a decade ago? IIRC, you could, for instance, restrict which classes could do things like opening a file or talking to the network.

It didn't quite work, and was abandoned. Turns out it's hard to sandbox a library; the exposed surface ended up being too large, and there were plenty of sandbox escapes.

> There are lots of native sandboxing in linux kernel. Bubblewrap, landlock, gvisor and kata (containers, not native), microVMs, namespaces (user, network), etc

What all of these have in common, is that they isolate processes, not libraries. If you could isolate each library in a separate process, without killing performance with IPC costs, you could use them; one example is desktop thumbnailers, which parse untrusted data, and can use sandboxes to protect against bugs in the image and video codec libraries they use.
by StarGrit | 2025-11-06 19:57:29+00:00
> I suspect you're inventing a subtext that simply isn't there.

No I am not. I don't appreciate being gas-lite about this.

How this office politik is used is covered in blogs, covered on YouTube. My parents, friends and colleagues are aware of it. Maybe you need to open your eyes.

> Again, I'm really sorry. That's a very, very sad thing.

Stop apologising, I find it patronising and insincere, even if that isn't your intention.

BTW. I've done the best work under those circumstances, I got paid a lot and it made me HTFU, which helps with personal growth.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/HTFU

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragile_(book)

> This process you're describing doesn't make any sense.

It makes perfect sense. You are assuming they care if the get a small amount of negative press about it. They don't.

This will be forgotten about within a week, even by most people commenting even here.

> And I'm sorry. If you think an offer to delve into a complaint over the phone to get more information is a cynical ploy, I really am sorry. It seems like there's nothing that could convince you someone is really trying to help, because of the lens you're choosing to interpret everything through. And because of the lens you've chosen, it seems self-reinforcing, which makes it extra-sad.

Firstly. Speaking to me like this is quite honestly patronising. I am quite capable of doing value free analysis.

Secondly, The sort of language people are complaining about almost always been used as a way to deflect valid criticism back on person making the critique. Almost always for disingenuous reasons. Feigning concern about my cynicism doesn't change that fact.

In any event I am tired of being patronised by you.
by Too | 2025-11-06 19:57:34+00:00
It’s so odd that there is no way to edit the list of sites manually. Now, the only way to ”Always Open Site in Container” is to first browse to that page. That’s not just inconvenient for batch edits, what’s worse is that you can end up in a redirection deadlock, with no chance to edit which container the first url should open in.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-11-06 19:57:53+00:00
Extrajudical executions without evidence, just a bunch of spurious talking points and unfounded accusations. It reeks of the stench of the "Saddam WMDs" that didn't exist. Churning the curds of casus belli to justify launching a foreign war to distract from domestic concerns like the Epstein files and the clawing back of healthcare to give more money to the billionaires.
by andrewrn | 2025-11-06 19:58:04+00:00
Not to be that guy but PG has a great one on this: https://paulgraham.com/love.html

And here's another great one about how ease, and not grind, arguably led to some of the biggest discoveries ever, like General Relativity: https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/on-thinkers-and-doers

I am currently doing a masters degree at Carnegie Mellon and I gotta be honest, this place is so dehumanizing for the exact reasons discussed in the link. It's just a grind pit here. And its harder to swallow this pill when you realize that university campuses are one of the few remaining venues well suited for exploring new ideas and having intellectual serendipity. When you're in a job, you can't easily just find a biology expert or economics expert and chat with them. When students are assaulted with work, they lose the ability to take advantage of that unique quality of the university environment.