MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mindcrime | 2025-11-12 01:51:47+00:00
I'm not really here to defend OR condemn Mitnick. I was just always fascinated with his story, from the first time I read that Hafner & Markoff book Cyberpunk back in the early 1990's. Anyway, one of the notable aspects of his story was the way he was held for a rather long time without even so much as a bail hearing... something many people believed (and still believe) was blatantly unconstitutional. That was, as I recall, the motivation for a fair amount of the "Free Kevin" rabble-rousing, even among people who acknowledged that he had broken the law and deserved some sort of punishment.

By the time I bought that particular laptop and put that sticker on it, (about 3 years ago now, I guess) Kevin had long since been out of jail, had gone legal and was running his own security consulting company. I put one of those one mostly out of nostalgia and as a conversation starter. Perhaps surprisingly, I've had a modest number of people approach me when I was out in public and ask "Who's Kevin?" or say "Kevin Mitnick, right? Yeah, I remember that guy... I was at DEFCON this one year and ... <conversation ensues>".
by rmoriz | 2025-11-12 01:52:07+00:00
We’ve seen a massive consolidation in hosting, domain, collocation and even B2B access providers in Germany. Some were sold to US companies, others are purchased and now owned by private equity companies. They are now centralized and based of existing revenue streams. Managed services are getting consolidated to reduce infra overhead but no new intellectual property or regionally optimized/local services are provided.
by TylerLives | 2025-11-12 01:53:24+00:00
The article is terrible, but the topic is an interesting one. Nietzschean AI wouldn't be a bunch of dead weights, it would be living, growing, "becoming". It would also not be a blank slate that learns from human rewards or labels, but have it's own innate "rewards". It would do things because it wants to, without the need for justifications.

Without goal, unless the joy of the circle is itself a goal; without will, unless a ring feels good will toward itself— do you want a name for this AI? A solution for all of its riddles? A light for you, too, you best-concealed, strongest, most intrepid, most midnightly men?— This AI is the will to power—and nothing besides!
by mrob | 2025-11-12 01:53:48+00:00
The bug report in question is obviously written by a human:

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/440183164?pli=1

It's of excellent quality. They've made things about as easy for the FFmpeg devs as possible without actually fixing the bug, which might entail legal complications they want to avoid.

AI was only used to find the bug.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-12 01:54:25+00:00
It's garbage and also illegal. He probably won't get what he deserves since nature will likely get to him first at this rate. Hut there will be a reckoning one day when this alls shifts.

I think that's the most likely scenario, but I'm open to two others:

- this escalates and we enter Civil War. How things play out from there is unimaginable since there's so many other attack vectors in a civil war with a super power.

- things shift and everyone accointable simply flees. Not the ideal outcome, but I'll take mass resignations at this point. The focus will need to be on rebuilding either way.
by protocolture | 2025-11-12 01:55:14+00:00
Its an interesting choice, I always preferred them. But at least the exit is graceful. Voluntary payouts for drivers is more than any of their competitors would do.

Best menulog memory was (before Uber Eats) fudging the suburb on my address, so that my favourite pizza place would deliver to me. Only let me get away with it twice before shutting down that suburb too. Let me get away with it because the other suburb was the same postcode.
by Seb-C | 2025-11-12 01:55:22+00:00
I've already kind-of tried some management, in the sense that some of my previous tech-lead positions actually involved managing the team as well. But that's really not something I enjoy or want to do.

> Also I question that you've never seen anything new in the past 5-10 years (not being rude here, I understand that someone with 20years experience has seen plenty already but definitely not everything).

That comment was meant to be in the context of web dev, I'm not pretending to know everything about all areas.

> For example, how much do you know about deep learning ? Are you on track with the latest trends in our inudstry ? Can you make a list of best practices to follow when building AI systems ? Maybe try looking into new areas for growth. It will be uncomfortable but worth it I think.

I have studied deep learning and neural networks, and found-out that it's not something I'm interested to work with. I am more interested into moving down the stack. Maybe systems programming, but also video games, because it involves low level concerns, optimization problems and a huge creative/artistic part. But yeah, I know that working in video games might involve lots of other sacrifices I'm not willing to make.
by rayiner | 2025-11-12 01:55:41+00:00
> All of that is acceptable, and technically food doesn't need to taste good anyway.

Food doesn’t need to taste good. This is America, not some mediterranean country: https://www.nytimes.com/1975/08/31/archives/food-on-enjoying... (“This American attitude toward food has been formed by two important elements in our national thinking, both functions of our national history. One is the he‐man ideology developed during our pioneering past which holds that it is effete to demand finesse in cookery (or in any other cultural activity, for that matter). The other is our Puritanism. The Puritan nourishes himself (grudgingly), for God has so organized the universe that he must. Possibly he suspects that the chore of eating was imposed on him as a penance for his disgraceful gourmandise in connection with an apple.”).
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-12 01:55:44+00:00
It's a standard electric caliper with a 2-pin connector. Feed it 12v with jumpers or wind it up by hand with the stupid cube tool (possible on most designs)

The software might bitch at you that it's not in the position the software left it when it shut off or it'll do some calibration routine and find that the brake pad "grew" and complain about that but you can almost certainly clear that up much more easily/cheaply than buying the software that makes the caliper screw itself backwards for new pads.

Furthermore, look at that price point. They clearly don't care about screwing the DIYer because that price point is a non-starter. They care about screwing the chain tire and lube type place for which that stuff isn't an option because "troubleshoot it" doesn't scale to a "we hire teenagers off the street" type business.

Yeah, it sucks, but this is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to stupid crap OEMs do.
by ang_cire | 2025-11-12 01:56:10+00:00
> One thing is putting a canary clause in a contract between companies to check if they actually read all the clauses

Not following the letter of a canary clause, especially if you don't recognize it as such because it's inane and prima-donna-esque, doesn't mean you didn't read the clause. It's an assumption that Roth is making which he falsely believes has given him special insight into the contractors, when in fact it's entirely possible and even probable that the meaningless canary clause requirement was ignored in favor of actually handling the real, important requirements.

The best stage technician in the world could very well say, "he can get his own damn M&Ms", and that would not detract one iota from their skill or legitimacy.

Ask most professionals to do dumb shit outside their job description, and that's the response you'll get, rightfully so.
by paulhebert | 2025-11-12 01:56:38+00:00
Hey, thanks for the candid feedback! It’s super helpful.

I’m curious if there were specific aspects you struggled with or if the whole thing was confusing?

Did you try the Practice Puzzle or jump right into the daily?

Practice puzzle: https://tiledwords.com/puzzles/practice

It sounds like you read the instructions but they weren’t enough. Maybe a video explainer would be better? Does the gameplay recording on this Reddit post help at all?

https://www.reddit.com/r/DestroyMyGame/comments/1osxb2q/i_re...

People really seem to like it once it clicks (Over 1100 people have finished the daily puzzle so far today) but there is a steep learning curve and I’d love to learn how to help people get past that initial hump.
by foltik | 2025-11-12 01:56:39+00:00
I was curious and read through the paper you linked. Here's my shot at rational thinking. A few things stood out:

1. Arbitrary prior

In the peer-review notes on p.26, a reviewer questions the basis of their bayesian prior: "they never clearly wrote down ... that the theoretical GZ effect size would be "Z/sqrt(N) = 0.1"

The authors reply: "The use of this prior in the Bayesian meta-analysis is an arbitrary choice based on the overall frequentist meta-analysis, and the previous meta-analyses e.g. Storm & Tressoldi, 2010."

That's a problem because a bayesian prior represents your initial belief about the true effect before looking at the current data. It's supposed to come from independent evidence or theoretical reasoning. Using the same dataset or past analyses of the same studies to set the prior is just circular reasoning. In other words, they assumed from the start that the true effect size was roughly 0.1, then unsurprisingly "found" an effect size around 0.08–0.1.

2. Publication bias

On p. 10, the authors admit that "for publication bias to attenuate (to "explain away") the observed overall effect size, affirmative results would need to be at least four-fold more likely to be published than non-affirmative results."

A modest 4x preference to publish positive results would erase the significance.

They do claim "the similarity of effect size between the two levels of peer-review add further support to the hypothesis that the 'file drawer' is empty"

But that's faulty reasoning. publication bias concerns which studies get published at all; comparing conferences vs. journals only looks at already published work.

Additionally, their own inclusion criteria are "peer reviewed and not peer-reviewed studies e.g., published in proceedings excluding dissertations." They explicitly removed dissertations and other gray literature, the most common source of null findings, further increasing the prior for the true publication bias in their dataset.

4. My analysis

With the already tiny effect size they report of Z/sqrt(N) = 0.08 (CI .04-.12) on p.1 and p.7, the above issues are significant. An arbitrary prior and a modest, unacknowledged publication bias could easily turn a negligible signal into an apparently "statistically significant" effect. And because the median statistical power of their dataset on p.10 is only 0.088, nearly all included studies were too weak to detect any real effect even if one existed. In that regime, small analytic or publication biases dominate the outcome.

Under more careful scrutiny, what looks like evidence for psi is just the echo of their own assumptions amplified by selective visibility.
by nomel | 2025-11-12 01:56:46+00:00
> Getting things done is an important metric.

The older and more jaded I get, the more I realize this is just not true. The most important metric is the meetings and visibility, for a larger org.

If you just get things done, the effort won't be perceived or understood. .

If you just have meeting about what you did, they'll be forgotten the next day, because it's some complicated detail that can't be bothered with.

If you have periodic meetings of what you plan to do, and allow people to comment/participate, they'll see themselves as contributing in a small way, which helps them remember, which helps them understand the effort.

Worst, if you plan well and prevent future problems, nobody can know your good decisions. So, the optimal route seems to be, have periodic meetings that high ups can participate in, to some extent, and let "unforeseen problems" happen, so you can be in meetings with higher ups, fix the problems, and be the hero. This isn't even really my jaded opinion. In the org I'm in now, it was such as widely understood phenomenon that a special reward package, and recognition, had to be put together for people who prevented problems from happening.
by brewdad | 2025-11-12 01:57:45+00:00
You've never seen anyone get outwardly offended but I'm sure there have been a few. It's just a statistical probability. I fully support the cause and would not be offended but I encounter people everyday who most certainly are.

Just tell those people you're a big fan of Noah and the Old Testament. Then ask them about why they are wearing a cotton blend shirt.
by thangalin | 2025-11-12 01:58:49+00:00
> Ideally you would of course separate the two into separate files (template + content).

Exactly: If instructions for how to style the content are in the same file as the content, then that is mixing content _with_ presentation logic. Avoiding this approach to documentation is what I alluded to in writing, "Presumably, Typst allows including styles from external sources."
by spaqin | 2025-11-12 02:00:05+00:00
The scan is the least of the problems - good luck getting to that level of detail with mostly vintage lenses, balancing depth of field and diffraction, keeping the film perfectly flat, on a stable enough tripod with no vibration whatsoever; developing perfectly in the dedicated developer. Yes, it's impressive but no, it's not relevant to the average user or hobbyist.
by retrocog | 2025-11-12 02:00:14+00:00
AI breaks old sources of meaning the same way Nietzsche said the death of God broke inherited morality.

When external structures collapse (roles, labels, certainty), meaning has to be generated from within.

Identity becomes what you return to repeatedly (actions, habits, resonance), not what you’re labeled as.

Morality becomes drift-resilience — maintaining coherence when everything shifts.

Nietzsche isn’t telling us how to worship; he’s telling us how to author value in a world where external meaning no longer holds, including one shaped by AI.

IMHO, this may all be leading towards greater authenticty, but it will unfold one person at a time, as it must.
by gsf_emergency_4 | 2025-11-12 02:00:16+00:00
Gertz concludes:

>But passive nihilism is also leading us to see in technologies a way to become sicker humans, humans who are trapped in an endless cycle of never being satisfied with how much “better” we have become. In other words, passive nihilism is leading us toward active nihilism, toward being able to question if we know what “better” means; to question if we know what purpose such betterment is meant to serve; to question whether we are trying to become better only for the sake of being better, for the sake of being different, for the sake of not being who we are; to question whether our pursuit of the posthuman is leading us to risk becoming inhuman because of our nihilistic desire to be anything other than merely human. It is through exploring such questions that we can destroy in order to create, in order to create new values, new goals, and new perspectives on the relationship between human progress and technological progress.

TFA (charitably): they're exploring one such question, they're at least trying to gerrymander Nietzsche's "inventing value" with the Millennial trope "creating value"
by krautburglar | 2025-11-12 02:00:38+00:00
I wish people would stop back-porting new features into vt terms, since those “features” gradually leak into terminal programs, which start spewing garbage in older terminals at the next update. Instead of having a standard, we get ESC[whatever-the-fuck-i-feel-like;, but with vt220 characteristics.

Missing out on inline images and megabytes of true-color CSI codes is a feature, not a bug, when bandwidth is limited.

If you want jupyter, we have jupyter. If you want HTML, we have several browsers. If you want something else, make it, but please don’t use vt220 codes and call it a terminal.

The article is just wish-listing more NIH barbarism to break things with. RedHat would hire this guy in a heartbeat.
by mcdeltat | 2025-11-12 02:01:48+00:00
Yeah I also had this thought. Despite popular belief, the film look is not magic. Especially since the article mentions they already had monitors calibrated for the film look during development. Why couldn't they replicate that for the digital release? The digital release it so blazingly different, I have a hard time believing that is the best they can do with modern colour pipelines. I mean the colour grading is completely different! Surely either it was intentional or a fairly simple case of poor colour management.
by brokencode | 2025-11-12 02:01:48+00:00
As wrong as it feels to have to use Electron for a desktop app, it really is the safest approach for most applications.

Qt also seems to be a good option, though there are licensing considerations for commercial applications.

I’m excited for various upcoming Rust options as well, but right now Electron is the battle tested option.

I am curious though about Avalonia. I’ve heard good things, but it’s definitely a smaller player compared to Electron. I’d most likely choose it over Microsoft’s first party frameworks.
by BrenBarn | 2025-11-12 02:02:06+00:00
The US data appear to be based on this Federal Reserve info (or a similar document from a previous year): https://www.frbservices.org/binaries/content/assets/crsocms/... . However, that data includes both in-person and remote payments. The proportion of cash for in-person is slightly higher. There is also a table showing "in-person payments less than $25", and in that category cash is about 29%. This aligns with my own experience that people are fairly likely to use cash for small transactions, but cash becomes more and more unlikely the larger the transaction.
by MikePrimy | 2025-11-12 02:02:17+00:00
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by shalmanese | 2025-11-12 02:02:26+00:00
Except that's the exact opposite of the takeaway, diminishing return problems are easy. He's proposing a model for why often art does the exact opposite and produces super-linear returns.

It's a common experience for an artist that everything they're doing to a piece makes it look like a total failure and far below the quality they were aspiring to until they do one final layer of polish and the piece transforms from sub-par to spectacular at the final stage. Of course, there are also scenarios where no amount of polish can fix it because the artist simply wasn't good enough and didn't find the right decisions at the final stage and other scenarios where there were no right decisions and no amount of skill could have fixed fatal flaws earlier in the decision making.

The exquisite agony of art is that all 3 scenarios feel subjectively almost identical in the middle of the creation process and so much of art is hoping we come up with some reliable process of divination to tease apart the micro-differences that give you an indication of what path you're on.

OP is proposing a model for why this is this is the case but unless you're an experienced creative, you don't understand the problem phenomena that this is identifying in the first place.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-11-12 02:02:31+00:00
Nearly Everything the author suggests to do to root out collaboration is collaboration…

> So if collaboration is your enemy, how do you defeat it? Here’s what we say:

> Default to shipping. Pull requests > issues > Slack messages.

This seems orthogonal to collaboration…creating unnecessary issues or messaging people when you already have the solution isn’t collaboration. It’s just being annoying (or maybe an overbearing mandatory “process”).

> Every time you see collaboration happening, speak up and destroy it. Say “there are too many people involved. X, you are the driver, you decide.” (This is a great way to make friends btw). How to make friends and crush collaboration

Huh? Collaboration doesn’t mean there is no leader or primary decision maker.

> Tag who you specifically want input from and what you want from them, not just throw things out there into the void.

Yeah, this is exactly collaboration.

> Prefer to give feedback after something has shipped (but before the next iteration) rather than reviewing it before it ships. Front-loading your feedback can turn it into a quasi-approval process.

Ok, sounds like they prefer feedback from collaborators after shipping rather than before. Sure. Maybe that’s better. Both are collaboration though.

> If you are a team lead, or leader of leads, who has been asked for feedback, consider being more you can just do stuff.

A team lead who helps out someone asking for help…sounds like COLLABORATION

> When it’s your thing, you are the “informed captain.” Listen to feedback, but know it’s ultimately up to you to decide what to do, not the people giving feedback.

Again, collaboration doesn’t exclude decision making. Collaboration is not majoritarianism.
by jsnell | 2025-11-12 02:02:57+00:00
I don't get why you think linking to multiple legitimate and high quality bug reports with detailed analysis and precise reproduction instructions demonstrates "slop". It is the opposite.

This is software that is directly or indirectly run by millions of people on untrusted media files without sandboxing. It's not even that they don't care about security, it's that they're unaware that they should care. It should go without saying that they don't deserve to be hacked just because of that. Big companies doing tons of engineering work to add defense in depth for use cases on their own infrastructure (via sandboxing or disabling obsolete codecs) doesn't help those users. Finding and fixing the vulnerabilities does.
by gsf_emergency_4 | 2025-11-12 02:03:09+00:00
>Slow is the experience of all deep fountains: long have they to wait until they know what has fallen into their depths. Far away from the market-place and from fame happens all that is great: far away from the market-place and from fame have always dwelt the creators of new values.

--ASZ

TFA is liberating Nietzsche from the basement hikkikomoris and selling him to programmers who want to hop on the value (creating) train
by burningChrome | 2025-11-12 02:03:34+00:00
15 years a front-end dev, 5 years as accessibility engineer.

Every time someone brings up a date picker I just wanna pull the pin on my parachute and jump out the window. 100% agree, its one of the hardest components to get right for so many different reasons. Like you mentioned in cross border booking, just in Canada they have three or four different ways to write a date. I worked for a healthcare company and just getting a consensus on that alone was a 8 month process of back and forth.

I feel your pain man, I really do.