MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by j45 | 2025-12-18 01:57:28+00:00
The tunnel doesn't have to use the Public IP inbound, the cloudflare tunnel calls outbound that can be entirely locked up.

If you are using Cloudflare's DNS they can hide your IP on the dns record but it would still have to be locked down but some folks find ways to tighten that up too.

If you're using a bare metal server it can be broken up.

It's fair that it's a 3rd party's castle. At the same time until you know how to run and secure a server, some services are not a bad idea.

Some people run pangolin or nginx proxy manager on a cheap vps if it suits their use case which will securely connect to the server.

We are lucky that many of these ideas have already been discovered and hardened by people before us.

Even when I had bare metal servers connected to the internet, I would put a firewall like pfsense or something in between.
by cyberax | 2025-12-18 01:58:02+00:00
> Could it be that this organism switches to anaerobic respiration when it finds itself inside cancer tissue

Unlikely. The leading hypothesis is that mitochondria are a part of the apoptosis cycle, so cells need to disable them to become cancerous. This is called the Warburg effect.

There are several drugs that target this mechanism, inhibiting the anaerobic metabolism. They are effective initially, but cancers always find ways to work around them.
by Terr_ | 2025-12-18 01:58:20+00:00
There is something distinctly off about the metaphors in this to me. Some imagery has no clear purpose, or contradicts itself. For example:

1. Bombelli built "an engine", but then suddenly it's temporarily "a machete" to cut through the jungle, instead of an engine to go up slopes, or even an engine to power a bulldozer.

2. The real-numbers are an "oil well", and somehow it's important to inform the reader that its depths "belongs to the country because it is measured by the country's own rulers." Does this mean it "belongs" because of a fiat declaration by unnamed decision-makers that are never mentioned ever again? Or does that mean handheld rulers, which... are fixed integer markings? For rationals? What?

As I was looking for more examples to add, I noticed this at the end, which might explain it:

> This article was written with the assistance of Gemini 3 and Claude Opus 4.5.

________________________

Skimming anew with heightened suspicion, I found an algebra error, which is kinda-amusing in a piece about math that is substantially more complex--in both senses, hah.

Specifically, these parts:

> The race begins in 1572 [with Bombelli] [...] And between 1799 and 1831, three men [...] finally drew the picture.

> [Bombelli] encoded rotation 176 years before anyone drew the picture.

1572 to 1799-1831 is a range of 227-259 years, not 176.

That said, 176 does match the time in-between Bombelli and Euler, however the shifting metaphors don't match, because Euler never "drew a picture."

Instead, Euler *checks notes* re-engineered the DNA of imaginary numbers so that they could be citizens in the land of mathematics. (Talk about a dystopian immigration policy!)

Notably, that "land" is separate from the other "land" made out of rational-numbers with rulers that own deep oil-wells made of of real-numbers etc.
by BirAdam | 2025-12-18 01:59:04+00:00
Stress, risk, and stress compounding risk. So many people speed recklessly after having been stuck in traffic.

I would, however, not strongly link WFH to college and RTO to non-college. Many companies (as well as governments) have implemented RTO. The key outlier for WFH seems to be contracts and/or good negotiation skills.
by mothballed | 2025-12-18 02:01:18+00:00
>> not hordes of Federal Workers (most of whom live outside DC in Maryland/Virginia, FWIW) making $120k.

> ZipRecruiter says the median federal income is $125k

By your own (contradicting) admission it's hordes of federal workers making $120+k.

I cite your own source, which is inline with what I found.
by dangus | 2025-12-18 02:01:33+00:00
Unfortunately by correcting your misremembering, I’m even less convinced. The Escape is even further down the ladder in its crowded and competitive class of vehicle.

The Escape isn’t underrated it’s just rated properly.

There’s like 6 or so cars that rank above it for various reasons: CRV, RAV4, Sportage, CX-5/CX-50, Forester.

Even Mitsubishi put out a better vehicle than Ford with the Outlander if we go by Car and Driver’s scores.

I’m sure you can get one with some sick discounts but Ford also has company there with Nissan, Mitsubishi, Chevrolet, and I’ve even heard Mazda runs strong discounts depending on the dealer.
by DesiLurker | 2025-12-18 02:01:36+00:00
I'll paste my abridged response to the 'datacenters in space' post:

... It then occurred to me that they (all major AI companies) know all of these facts (uneconomical costs) but still pushing for it so there must be another reason. Then I recalled the offhand statement from the openAI lady about govt backstop for infra, which was strongly opposed by public and AI czar. this might be be a backdoor way of injecting that backstop capital in terms of subsidies now for results in 5 years or so. and needless to say after pilot programs those will fail spectacularly.
by kazinator | 2025-12-18 02:01:39+00:00
> Less well-understood is why “place effects” matter so much for smoking (and mortality) for those without a college degree.

Let me take a crack at it: people with college degrees tend to be found in populous places and spaces where smoking is prohibited. Plus, social pressure; lighting up a cigarette in certain company is almost like hurling a racist insult.

Just to get through college with a cigarette habit would have been a pain in the ass. You can't be darting outside N times during lectures or exams to have a smoke. If you can even do that; a lot of colleges nowadays have even outdoor smoking bans, no? That's sort of a place effect: college graduates spend a bunch of time in certain places where smoking would have been inconvenient to the point of making some people quit.
by j45 | 2025-12-18 02:01:40+00:00
A network firewall is mandatory.

Keeping the IP secret seems like a misnomer.

Its often possible to lock down the public IP entirely to not accept connections except what's initiated from the inside (like the cloudflare tunnel or otherwise reaching out).

Something like a Cloudflare+tunnel on one side, tailscale or something to get into it on the other.

Folks other than me have written decent tutorials that have been helpful.
by PunchyHamster | 2025-12-18 02:02:46+00:00
I don't think many orgs learn all that much from coaching their juniors, at least after first few.

Juniors are just... necessary in the balance, have to little of them and the mid and senior devs will get more and more expensive, so you hire a bunch of juniors, they get trained on job, and it balances it out.

Hell, if company does it right they might underpay junior-turned-senior for decade before they notice and look how industry pay looks like!
by komali2 | 2025-12-18 02:04:07+00:00
I've been trying to figure this out for myself. I've heard a couple things

- you need a plan of what you're going to do with the information you're going to learn, after you learn it

- you need measurable improvement and feedback validating your improvement

- you need a community supporting you to keep you accountable

I guess at school, until your final year anyway, you get all three. Item 1 is lost once you realize your academics don't really help you at work.
by canyp | 2025-12-18 02:04:52+00:00
To put it politely, nobody gives two shits about what "your agent" said, in case you were wondering why this was downvoted to hell. This reply adds nothing to the conversation, and it also doesn't take a mastermind to figure they, too, can paste the post in ChatGPT and get a summary out of it. Also, reading a summary instead of the sources butchers the post entirely.

Hopefully you'll spare us the spam next time. Have a good day!
by floundy | 2025-12-18 02:05:22+00:00
Apple’s most interesting value proposition was ignoring all this AI junk and letting users click “not interested” on Apple Intelligence and never see it again.

From a business perspective it’s a smart move (inasmuch as “integrating AI” is the default which I fundamentally disagree with) since Apple won’t be left holding the bag on a bunch of AI datacenters when/if the AI bubble pops.

I don’t want to lose trust in Apple, but I literally moved away from Google/Android to try and retain control over my data and now they’re taking me… right back to Google. Guess I’ll retreat further into self-hosting.
by unsignedint | 2025-12-18 02:06:42+00:00
I think part of it is that, in the US (and probably in many other countries too), the roles of maker and consumer tend to be more clearly separated. In contrast, among Japanese users, that line feels much more blurred.

One thing I’ve noticed is that there are a lot of “avatar worlds” where people just go in and pick premade avatars, but these are almost nonexistent—or at least not widely used—by Japanese audiences. The main exception seems to be worlds specifically designed for trying on sample avatars, rather than adopting them as-is.
by minebreaker | 2025-12-18 02:06:49+00:00
> America can never win a war with Venezuela, seeing their humiliating defeats in Afghanistan, Iraq and Vietnam against much smaller and less developed nations.

I don't disagree, but it cost at least 400,000 civilian lives in Vietnam war. It's hard for me to say "good move."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War_casualties
by rayiner | 2025-12-18 02:06:51+00:00
Hamilton thought it was superfluous. Federalist 74 says:

> “The President may require the opinion in writing of the principal officer in each of the executive departments upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices.” This I consider as a mere redundancy in the plan; as the right for which it provides would result of itself from the office.

Note that this provision must be redundant even without a unitary executive. Because otherwise, the implication is the only thing the President can do with principal officers is to ask them for an opinion.

Some modern scholars think the provision, though functionally redundant, is there to address a dispute that arose during the debates about executive councils: https://www.yalejreg.com/nc/reconciling-the-unitary-executiv... (“Unsurprisingly, the issue of an executive council arose at the Philadelphia Convention. Several proposals to create a council of state or a privy council were offered. Some of the proposed councils would have provided advice to the President but would not have required that he follow it, whereas others might have required that he secure the consent of the council. But each of the proposals was rejected. Instead, the Convention took language from part of one of the executive council proposals – ‘he may require the written opinions of any one or more members” of the council – as a model for the Opinions Clause.’”).

So the clause is there not to describe what the principal officers must do, but what the President need not do. The President may but does not need to consult his principal officers before taking action.
by Luminary099 | 2025-12-18 02:07:04+00:00
Huh, I remember actually being taught this at school, but they never bothered to give (or I never bothered to remember) an example of a programming language that actually named void functions differently or indeed why it couldn't just be a void function. Looking at it now, it seems to be a difference inherited from mathematics, which would also explain why it's in Fortran too.
by gus_massa | 2025-12-18 02:07:14+00:00
Preprint: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.02348

> For children, the interface was explained and demonstrated in person. Participants then solved two simple practice items without feedback (used to ensure understanding of task).

I'm still not sure if the prompt for children is equivalent to the prompt for AI. Anyway, it's hard for the current AI to do these tasks, like counting the r in "strawberry" because tokenization hides a lot of details. Anyway, AI is improving and next year AI will under the hood cut and paste the list of characters in a Python script that solves the task.
by nonameiguess | 2025-12-18 02:07:15+00:00
So, amusingly, a customer I consult for made a custom form submission application that is exactly this but creates issues in their private Gitlab rather than public Github.

It seems like you want to make this into some kind of viable business, and I don't mean to dissuade by any means, but this was a three-day project by a perfectly good guy, but one guy, extremely junior, that I was tasked with training on basic networking and systems administration duties. I don't want to speak ill of the man. I liked him a lot, but he was extremely hard to teach, could not seem to understand even the bare basics of how computers and the systems they collectively form when networked operate. But he could make this exact application, on his own, in a matter of days, before LLMs were a thing.

Not saying you can't manage it, but this is like trying to sell people sandwiches. Plenty make businesses doing exactly that, but you either need a captive audience or really good sandwiches, because most of the time anyone who wants one can make it themselves pretty easily.
by goosejuice | 2025-12-18 02:07:49+00:00
It's not like they weren't told multiple times to look into it. Lina Khan confirmed it was on their radar. She's one of the most pro consumer chairs we've had. She had 4 years to make a move if she thought a lawsuit was appropriate.

https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2021.08.18%2...

https://progresschamber.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/AV_-F...

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-...

https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/116199/documents/... page 40,41.
by bikenaga | 2025-12-18 02:08:09+00:00
Actually, later in their paper they say: "Although we have argued for a causal role for smoking in generating these patterns, the growing mortality gaps still seem too large and the causes of death too varied to blame the patterns on the adverse health effects of tobacco use alone. As noted above, smoking is likely to play a role in amplifying the impact of other factors adversely affecting midlife mortality, such as the marketing efforts by opioid manufacturers targeted to areas with high rates of smoking-related illness, coupled with epigenetic changes making smokers more susceptible to opioid use disorders. Still, the strength of our findings that smoking is predictive of spatial trends in midlife mortality points towards different mechanisms needed to explain the troubling trends that have unfolded since 1990."
by brailsafe | 2025-12-18 02:08:57+00:00
> I'm not against AI summaries being on HN, however, users should verify and cite sources so others can verify.

I don't see how they contribute anything to a discussion. Even a speculative comment organically produced is more worthwhile than feeding a slop machine back into itself. I don't go out for coffee to discuss LLM summaries with friends, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to do that here.

Earlier today I asked Gemini Pro to find information on a person's death that was turning up nothing for me otherwise, and it just imagined finding verbatim Obituary quotes in every source, cobbled together vaguely related names, plausible bits and pieces from wherever, almost like it was 2023 again.

It ain't search, and it ain't worthwhile; I'd much rather someone ask an llm the question and then post a question out of curiosity based on it, but without the summary itself
by jameshilliard | 2025-12-18 02:09:46+00:00
> Not at all, not even remotely. I'm alarmed anyone can sincerely interpret it that way and ignore what prompted those resolutions. It is simply proof that UN resolutions do nothing. Israel continues its abhorrent behavior regardless of how many resolutions happen.

UN resolutions do nothing in general, that's not particularly specific to Israel, however the sheer overwhelming amount of them being anti-Israel resolutions is solid evidence of anti-Israel bias.

> But it does. I can't see any reason why it doesn't except if you want me to ignore reality.

There are many horrible conflicts throughout the world(i.e. Sudan, Syria, Myanmar), the Israel-Palestinian conflict is quite far from the worst by virtually all metrics, no reasonable person could ever think twice the amount of UN resolutions against Israel compared to the rest of the world combined is remotely reasonable.

> Only because it refuses to do anything of substance to curb its behavior.

The UN doesn't have much power in general, still doesn't justify the extreme anti-Israel bias especially when there are so many other conflicts that are much worse.

> UNWatch lost any credibility it had when it insists on ignoring reality and arguing that literally salting the earth/water supply of millions and annihilating countless children is something you cannot ever condemn and if you do you are being a bully.

UNWatch is focused on the UN, obviously the conflict has had a lot of terrible back and forth retaliations, did UNWatch deny that ever?

> If I keep committing crimes and keep being arrested for those crimes does it make any sense to complain about the police arresting me all the time instead of realizing my own behavior is why I keep being arrested? According to you that makes perfect sense.

By that logic the Jews being arrested by the Nazi police....should have just accepted their behavior(being Jewish) as being the problem? You're making it out as if the UN is some sort of unbiased law enforcement organization when it is nothing of the sort.
by grog454 | 2025-12-18 02:10:23+00:00
Ok, but then your "post" isn't scientific by definition since it cannot be verified. "Post" is in quotes because I don't know what you're trying to but you're implying some sort of public discourse.

For fun: https://chatgpt.com/s/t_694361c12cec819185e9850d0cf0c629
by Sean-Der | 2025-12-18 02:11:59+00:00
This is something I have been working on for years and am sssooo excited to see merged. This starts a new generation of broadcasting (I hope)

* Cheaper servers. More competition and I want to see people running their own servers.

* Better video quality. Encoding from source is going to be better then transcoding.

* No more bad servers. Send video to your audience and server isn't able to do modification/surveillance with E2E Encryption via WebRTC.

* Better Latency. No more time lost transcoding. I love low latency streaming where people are connected to community. Not just blasting one-way video.

----

Please please test it out! I want to catch any bugs/make improvements before branch cut.
by MrFots | 2025-12-18 02:12:18+00:00
I'm already low-consumption, but my personal boycott of any site using shopify, which straight up has all integrations in their js you can inspect, has lowered my consumption even further. I've been emailing stores asking them to switch to bigcommerce, or whatever, and stop sharing their customers' data. Never get answers, though I never expect any.
by sb057 | 2025-12-18 02:12:26+00:00
From a layman's perspective, it seems like it's mostly an expected outcome of college degrees becoming a class signifier. In 1990, only a fifth of American adults had bachelor's degrees, with those who held them making 70% more than high school graduates. A sizeable gap, sure, but those non-college graduates have minimum wage retail workers and general laborers, and union steel and auto workers in the same educational bucket.

By 2020, it had risen to well over a third of Americans who had bachelor's, and 105% more income for those with them. One might expect a dilution in a degree's value, but I think it's just a matter of minimum wage workers still being high school graduates, whereas virtually all professional workers (including the increasingly few manufacturing workers) needing a bachelor's to get past the first stage of HR.

[1] https://educationdata.org/education-attainment-statistics

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_...
by atrettel | 2025-12-18 02:14:41+00:00
They are pretty similar, but they are definitely used differently. For one, you have to "call" a subroutine in one statement, but you can use multiple functions on the same statement (since they can return values). Functions (usually) do not change their arguments, but subroutines often do. In some sense, functions are closer to how mathematical functions work but subroutines are closer to labels for certain procedures.
by gus_massa | 2025-12-18 02:15:27+00:00
> fully cured

They tested 9 bacteria types. 2 reduced the cancer a lot for a while. Another made it disappear for a few days. And one made it disappear for a month, until they ended the experiment and killed the mice as usual.

Also, it was quite small, like a ball of 7mm or 1/4 inch. I'm not what would happen with bigger tumors.

So it's promising, but may be a temporal solution.

> dying a bit sooner is not that bad

It also depends on how painful it is.
by tedggh | 2025-12-18 02:17:13+00:00
This is barely an inconvenience for the Venezuelan regime. Oil contributes very little to the economy these days. The oil industry was dismantled many years ago and replaced mostly by drug trafficking and illegal mining. With over 9 million expats fleeing the regime, “remesas” also keep whatever is left from the economy moving. Most Venezuelans don’t work, or at least not for money, just to keep their sanity, as salaries cannot buy any basic goods. Exceptions are doctors and some emergency trade occupations like plumbers or mechanics, which are entirely $US based. Most families depend on relatives sending money from abroad. There’s also some tourism, mostly Russians and Chinese. Other than not much going on there, the 0.0001% in power already made their fortunes in illegal markets (and in crypto, as some in the regime used the limited power in the country to mine bitcoin) so they have little to worry about some dirty oil not being “sold” to Cuba or Iran. The rest of the population continues surviving however they can.
by tkel | 2025-12-18 02:17:29+00:00
Notably, this started happening the day that I made my TikTok account public. My Instagram feed began to be a copy of my TikTok feed. The exact same videos. Even after changing my Tiktok back to private and deleting all of my followers, the feeds are still identical, every single day. My behavior is not. On Instagram, I follow and interact with very different accounts than on TikTok. It seems to me that Instagram is buying or accessing TikTok's data, and it is not through advertising providers, because the identical content is coming directly from Instagram/TikTok and not promoted ads.
by TheAmazingRace | 2025-12-18 02:17:39+00:00
This is an even-handed take. I still think consumers in general should vote with their wallets, even if all of them put together won't hold a candle to their datacenter customers. If nothing else, it can grant the competition more market share, and maybe AMD and Intel can invest more into Radeon and Arc, respectively. That can only be a good thing, since I'd love to see more broad support for FSR and XeSS technologies on games, and ROCm and oneAPI for compute.
by zdragnar | 2025-12-18 02:18:37+00:00
The problem is that, in any organization past a few people, someone will eventually wonder if they were the inspiration for a particular name, and not in a good way, or someone might introduce politics or something else divisive.

It's better to have arbitrary names that are memorable in some way but not common enough to be associated with someone living within recent memory.

IMHO, YMMV, yada yada
by jsrcout | 2025-12-18 02:19:07+00:00
Wow, tried this in a VM and absolutely love it. Besides the nostalgia factor, there's just a concreteness and visibility to the UI elements that feels like it's been lacking in Linux desktop environments for a long time. Thinking about putting it on my home PC for a while. Might even throw caution to the wind and install it at work :-)