MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jillesvangurp | 2025-12-13 11:43:59+00:00
You are recommending a search engine that is operating from Russia under one of the most oppressive regimes in the world. The Russian state monitors usage and is definitely censoring all sorts of stuff on it.

Of course Sci Hub was developed by a Russian, which is probably why Yandex is not censoring it. Also, I don't think the Russian government cares much for intellectual property rights of companies in NATO countries, for obvious reasons. But they are definitely censoring a wide range of other topics.

Check this reports for some details on the types of things that Yandex censors: https://www.hrw.org/report/2025/07/30/disrupted-throttled-an...
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-13 11:44:25+00:00
The best weights are the weights you can train yourself for specific use cases. As long as you have the data and the infrastructure to train/fine-tune your own small models, you'll get drastically better results.

And just because you're mostly using local models doesn't mean you can't use API hosted models in specific contexts. Of course, then the same dread sets in, but if you can do 90% of the tokens with local models and 10% with pay-per-usage API hosted models, you get the best of both worlds.
by watwut | 2025-12-13 11:44:46+00:00
If Pope steered clear of politics, he would be just leaving a space for J.D. Vance who is literally trying to use religion to promote fascism. It is ok for pope to act as counterweight against cristo-fascism.

Klerofascism is a thing and if pope does not want the catholic church going that way, he has to. Trump, J.D.Vance and Steven Miller dont get to pretend they speak for religion.
by rainonmoon | 2025-12-13 11:45:07+00:00
Stock price is an extremely narrow view of the total consequences of lax cybersecurity but that aside, the notion that security doesn’t matter because those companies got hacked is ridiculous. The reason there isn’t an Equifax every minute is because an enormous amount of effort and talent goes into ensuring that’s the case. If your attitude is we should vibe code our way past the need for security, you aren’t responsible enough to hold a single user’s data.
by hvb2 | 2025-12-13 11:45:35+00:00
> but in absolute terms public sector workers constitute a very small share of the population, while receiving a large share of public spending

Uh... Just no? Public spending? That's défense, health care, entitlements etcetera etcetera

I'll actually back it up with some numbers too:

> That’s 1% of gross domestic product, and almost 5% of total federal spending. The government payroll for other developed countries is typically 5% of GDP, Kettl said.

From: https://www.marketplace.org/story/2025/03/06/federal-workers...

And this

> Median income and the purchasing power of disposable income are substantially higher in the U.S.

Not sure what you're basing that on but there's this too > The statistic is used to show how unequal things have become in the U.S.: Some 40% of Americans would struggle to come up with even $400 to pay for an unexpected bill

From: https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2021/what-a-400-dolla...

So unless they're all spending money irrationally, they have no money to save meaning little or no disposable income
by mopsi | 2025-12-13 11:45:39+00:00
> We had a narrow window circa 1999-2007 where we could have integrated an Authoritarian Russia into a security and economic framework that would put China in a vulnerable strategic position.

Says who?

Top Russian diplomats, starting with some of the former foreign ministers themselves, maintain that the disintegration of Russian democracy is the fault of the former KGB and military power structures, which enjoyed privileged positions in the Soviet system. They were sidelined when the USSR fell apart, but by the mid-1990s, had crawled back and consolidated enough power to begin wiping out all other competition, from political parties to the free press.

If any blame lies with external actors, they say, it is for failing to support and pressure Russia enough to develop into a modern European state. Instead, the US and the EU continued to butter the KGB-military faction well into the 2010s, doing their best to ignore war crimes, human rights abuses, attacks on political freedoms, the suppression of political rights, and the outright murder of political opponents.

There was no "narrow window" in 1999-2007. The window for keeping Russia on a path toward becoming a normal European state closed around 1995. 1999 marks the year Putin rose to the highest levels of government, and by that point the outcome was pretty much decided. By spring 2000, Putin had openly raided and taken over NTV, the last major independent television channel in Russia. In 2002, the powers of the security services were expanded and notorious "extremism" laws were adopted, which have been used to suppress everything from opposition parties to NGOs. In 2003, Putin took over oil and gas company Yukos and arrested and imprisoned its owner, the richest man in Russia, Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

By the end of 2003, Russia had no independent national media, no effective parliamentary opposition, and instead had laws enabling repression under legal cover and security services embedded in political governance. Property rights, even for the richest and most influential people in the country, had become conditional on loyalty to Putin.

Russian democrats, who had lost their influence by the mid-1990s, could have become partners of the US and EU, but the KGB-military elite - never. Even suggesting this signals an absolute lack of understanding of who they are and where they come from. For them, challenging the US and expanding Russia through coercion and war to the full territorial extent of the former Eastern Bloc is the endgame. They don't give two shits about China. They want a return to the privileged heyday of the KGB-military elites in the 1970s, when Europe was divided by the Iron Curtain and the USSR was believed to be an equal to the US. This is the "normal state of the world" of his youth that Putin desperately wants to return to.

Antagonism toward the US lies at their very core, and no amount of buttering will change that. The possibility of cooperation is merely an illusion they sell you to blind you to the next move they make against you.
by xg15 | 2025-12-13 11:47:00+00:00
I fear this won't even required SIM cards. I'm worried that Apple's Find My and Amazon's Sidewalk networks are the precursors of this: They're effectively company controlled p2p networks that lets the company use their customers' internet access points like a commodity. If one customer refuses to give a device access to the internet, they could use that network to route it through the access point of another customer.

Also, personal experience: My own ISP (in Germany) experimented with some similar stuff a few years ago: They mandated use of their own home routers where only they had root access. At some point, they pushed an OTA update that made the router announce a second Wifi network in addition to the customer's. This was meant as a public hotspot that people walking down the street could connect to after installing an app from the ISP and buying a ticket.

The customer that "owned" the router wasn't charged for that traffic and the hotspot was isolated from the LAN (or at least the ISP promised that), but it still felt intrusive to just repurpose a device sitting in my living room as "public" infrastructure.

(The ISP initially wanted to do this on an "opt-out" basis, which caused a public uproar thankfully. I think eventually they switched to opt-in and then scrapped the idea entirely.)
by derelicta | 2025-12-13 11:47:43+00:00
"Scientific" is opposed to "idealistic" in the Marxian traditions. It opposes anarchism and social reformists. It is scientific because it seeks to understand the root causes of all major human historical events that passed and those that have yet to happen. And until now, history gave reason to Historical and Dialectical Materialism, which are respectively the scientific and philosophical pillars of Marxism.

Regarding the markets, considering their ever growing export sector, I wouldn't worry too much for now ;)
by qhwudbebd | 2025-12-13 11:49:22+00:00
Whenever I think about writing a central privileged daemon to grant capabilities to other processes, I'm puzzled by the choice to remove the old version of CAP_SETPCAP in 2.6.24: "grant or remove new capabilities to/from an existing running process" - sadly it still exists but means something else in newer kernels with filesystem capabilities.

(In a sense, not having this capability in processes running as root is theatre anyway: you have /dev/kmem access so could just edit the kernel data structures. It's just doing so cleanly that is no longer possible.)

Being able to briefly escalate my editor to have the capabilities to write /etc/wibble.conf when I started editing it as a non-privileged user, then take away the capability again would be more convenient that always needing to run the editor as root. (So convenient, in fact, that people fake this with little editor helpers that do the equivalent of 'really tee FILE-TO-WRITE >/dev/null', but that's an ugly hack.)
by mnky9800n | 2025-12-13 11:50:35+00:00
I think when Peter Thiel talks about stagnation it’s as much about the vibe of things as it is quantifying metrics of progress. I happen to agree with the idea that the vibe of progress has unilaterally focused on ai and computer technology even though this isn’t the case for metrics (e.g., CRISPR). I think the stagnation vibe has come from a series of issues such as decades of American political gridlock, Europes inability to commit to anything, the rise of the attention economy, the stagnation of Japan, the lack of a competitive focus for American markets (with no Soviet Union to defeat they seemed to have turned to defeating billionaire poverty). This list continues but it’s the confluence of all these things that gives the vibe of stagnation. It seems like there isn’t enough time to focus on anything anymore to actually get excited to drive it forward. Even though this isn’t the case. And there also isn’t the political space to celebrate things. Like it seems like any spacex accomplishment should be followed with the caveat that you don’t like Elon. Another way I think about this is that we live in this post cynicism world where we all have to couch every statement within some framework acknowledging harm to someone somehow. It’s hard to have a vibe of progress when every statement of progress includes an impact statement saying why that progress is harmful.
by tim333 | 2025-12-13 11:51:59+00:00
The EESC is a committee

>... composed of representatives from employers' associations, workers' unions (trade unions) and civil society organisations.

I'm not sure how up they are on technical issues like the rapid progress in batteries and solar and the like.

Hinkley C in the UK was approved in 2016 and probably will be producing in 2031 so 15 years on. (cost ~£40bn). In the last 15 years the cost of battery storage and of solar panels have both fallen about 10x. If that goes on they will be much cheaper but the time nuclear comes online.
by mcherm | 2025-12-13 11:52:00+00:00
> I don't think the laws are dictating Apple to completely turn off the accounts, but instead dictate that Apple should take measures against it.

You misunderstand the nature of financial regulation. The laws on things like money laundering are intentionally vague, they say things like "Apple should take measures against it". And financial regulators will not come out and say (especially in writing) that you MUST do any particular thing (like ban customers entirely on suspicion).

What they WILL do is ask probing questions, frown a lot, and make suggestions. Which the company had better take seriously. Because the financial regulators have the ability to simply close down your business, and if you cross enough of the unclear lines they will do so.
by darubedarob | 2025-12-13 11:53:33+00:00
The social equals of prince andrew, who did nothing for the working class girls of Rotherham, Rochdale, Telford, Oldham, Oxford and zbristol, set out to protect the children. Meanwhile whats needed are sturdy trees and lampposts for all those traitors to sit on the branches and think about what they have done.
by igornotarobot | 2025-12-13 11:54:49+00:00
Producing positive and negative examples is exactly where model checkers shine. I always write "falsy" invariants to produce examples of the specification reaching interesting control states for at least one input. After that, I think about the system boundaries and where it should break. Then, the model checker shows that it indeed breaks there.

Having a specification does not mean that one should not touch it. It is just a different level of experimental thinking.
by pansa2 | 2025-12-13 11:56:06+00:00
> do the build process on alpine linux and […] statically link musl libc

IIRC it used to be common to do builds on an old version of RHEL or CentOS and dynamically link an old version of glibc. Binaries would then work on newer systems because glibc is backwards compatible.

Does anyone still use that approach?
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-12-13 11:56:53+00:00
I feel as if security is a much bigger concern than it ever was.

The main issue seems to be, that our artifacts are now so insanely complex, that there’s too many holes, and modern hackers are quite different from the old skiddies.

In some ways, it’s possible that AI could be a huge boon for security, but I’m worried, because its training data is brogrammer crap.
by zzgo | 2025-12-13 11:57:41+00:00
The advantage of betting on a horse is that the next race is in 10 minutes. You buy a call on the price of MSFT, for example, and you're going to be waiting a while before you can place another bet.

And there are notoriously betting groups around the world that have made fortunes off of betting on horse racing. I'd bet that they feel superior to people betting on commodities and productive assets when they could be betting on horses.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-12-13 11:59:39+00:00
Yes, you're right about me not investigating and steel-manning the arguments from the other side.

However, I think it's a mistake to do so as you cannot deal with fascism by discussion, reasoned argument and logic. When a country starts rounding people up and putting them in concentration camps (it's not a prison if people are kept there without due process) then clearly the fascists have taken over. Instead of playing their game of disingenuous arguments (which are mainly used for distraction and to influence the gullible), their behaviour needs to be called out for what it is.

It's like with Musk's Nazi salutes - any attempt to rationalise that as anything else (e.g. "he's autistic", "sending his heart") is a lie and in my opinion, they deliberately do things which are unjustifiable just to see who will show loyalty and follow the party line no matter how ridiculous it is.
by sillyfluke | 2025-12-13 12:00:16+00:00
Yes, this is a simple point that possibly warrants exception to the rule that many people seem to dismiss too easily. Whether you agree with it or not, Trump is taking Europe to task for not standing strongly enough for Judeo-Christian values. When he says Europe is facing "civilization erasure", it's not like he is worried about the erasure of Islamic civilization. If you're weaponizing religion for your politics you shouldn't be surprised if the shepherd gets annoyed. It is a delicate dance regardless though.
by DoctorOetker | 2025-12-13 12:00:19+00:00
Theres nothing difficult about formalizing a proof you understand.

Formalizing hot garbage supposedly describing a proof can be arbitrarily difficult.

The problem is not a missing library. The number of definitions and lemmas indirectly used is often not that much. Most of the time wasted when formalizing is discovering time and time again that prior authors are wasting your time, sometimes with verifiably false assumptions, but the community keeps sending you around to another gap-filling approach.
by krapp | 2025-12-13 12:00:26+00:00
Politics and religion are inextricably linked in the West, and as much as I wish it were otherwise Evangelical Christianity is the engine that drives American conservatism and foreign policy and the opinions of religious leaders like the Pope matter to millions of people.

If the Republicans get to claim to be the party of Christian virtue and anointed by God then the Pope weighing in on American policy seems like fair game, even if the US is far more Protestant than Catholic.

And "looking for peace" is no less a political stance than "crusade against the infidels."
by rcxdude | 2025-12-13 12:00:37+00:00
It's a thing in other countries. Scotland has the 'right to roam' which basically allows anyone responsible access to private land by most non-motorised means. It obviously doesn't extend to people's houses and gardens, and there's also exclusions for fields with crops (but not livestock) and hunting/fishing. But you can hike, bike, horse-ride, canoe, or camp on someone else's land so long as you aren't causing any mess or trouble.
by lazide | 2025-12-13 12:00:51+00:00
If your answer is ‘people need to be better’ while they are actively being manipulated and controlled by a bad actor in a position of authority over them (one that was manipulating them to get elected in the first place!), while said actor clearly is getting no negative consequences, my answer is ‘that clearly doesn’t seem to usually happen’ and ‘how do you expect that to occur once they are in power’?

Notably, Brazil seems to have dealt with Bolsanaro - but that was because the gov’t in power actually recognized the danger and put him in jail in a timely fashion, and stopped him from continuing to do what he was doing.

Something, notably, that none of the other examples I gave were able to do (despite some attempts).

The only other way out, based on historical precedent, is blood. A lot of it. But hey, I’d love to be wrong!

Maybe if we keep ragebaiting on social media about every fault of the opposition while refusing/unable to actually do anything about it - or even rally together for any meaningful course of action - victory will be ours! (/s)
by r0b05 | 2025-12-13 12:01:22+00:00
What is your estimate for when memory prices will decrease?

I agree that we've seen similar fluctuations in the past and the price of compute trends down in the long-term. This could be a bubble, which it likely is, in which case prices should return to baseline eventually. The political climate is extremely challenging at this time though so things could take longer to stabilize. Do you think we're in this ride for months or years?
by sltkr | 2025-12-13 12:02:38+00:00
This could have been avoided by allocating the private lots in groups of 2x3 as part of 3x4 rectangles, like so (each "##" is aone 1x1 lot):

+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- | | | | | | | | | | +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- | |##|##| |##|##| |##|##| +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- | |##|##| |##|##| |##|##| +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- | |##|##| |##|##| |##|##| +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- | | | | | | | | | | +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- | |##|##| |##|##| |##|##| +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- | |##|##| |##|##| |##|##| +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- | |##|##| |##|##| |##|##| +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-- | | | | | | | | | |

This would allow the public to retain 50% of the land, while making sure people are able to pass private lots without trespassing, as well as allowing individual lot owners to access their land without trespassing.
by varispeed | 2025-12-13 12:03:32+00:00
One practical reason gift cards exist is tax treatment. In the UK, small non-cash gifts to employees can be tax-free under the “trivial benefits” rules (each under £50, not cash or cash-equivalent). For owner-managed companies, directors have a £300 annual cap across such benefits. Cash or cash-redeemable vouchers don’t qualify and are taxed like salary.
by wltr | 2025-12-13 12:04:35+00:00
I’d do exactly as you did. It’s pity it didn’t work for you. I’m on the market to buy a TV (not hurrying though), so I’m not sure what to do here. I’d like to have Dolby Vision (otherwise why would I want a TV if my computer display is good enough for everything else), so perhaps that worsens things. As otherwise I’d just pick any TV, even FullHD (not 4K), and even not smart (attaching some SBC with Kodi to the back). But ideally I’d prefer to jailbreak it and have Kodi installed without any extra device. Now I’m puzzled whether these lists of ‘compatible’ TVs are trustworthy.
by integralid | 2025-12-13 12:04:44+00:00
(i am a security person who prioritizes security over usability but) you missed the point a bit. If a privacy program is used only by people that have something to hide it turns into a smoking gun. If you care about being targeted by government you should really hope regular people use signal a lot, because government absolutely has (or can procure) a list of people that use signal.
by rcarmo | 2025-12-13 12:04:48+00:00
I hope someone gets this into the Internet Archive as a tidy ZIP so we don’t have to scrape them… I’ve just pushed https://github.com/rcarmo/python-fastapi-trmnl-server and these images are going to look great as part of the rotation.

Edit: someone apparently did - https://www.tumblr.com/three-thousand-worlds/169781667311/st...
by franga2000 | 2025-12-13 12:06:27+00:00
There are a good number of freelancers of various sorts that get paid via PayPal and only occasionally pull that money to their bank accounts to avoid the fixed fee, or even prefer to spend much of it straight from PayPal to avoid the percent fee. People also use it to send money between family members in different countries because it's often cheaper than an international wire.

It's quite easy to build up a few hundred or thousand USD worth. It feels just enough like a bank account that you think you're safe. Then...well, the internet is full of PayPal horror stories, I won't bore you with my own.
by Dumblydorr | 2025-12-13 12:06:33+00:00
Not true that US is 100% gas pedal constantly on innovation. You’re forgetting labor reform movements and the service switch away from industry in the last few decades. Also the de-science-ing of the current admin has vastly reduced our innovative capacity, as well as the virtual decapitation of brain drain. Those next generation of brightest immigrants certainly aren’t coming here to deal with ICE, and that’s been the source of half the great minds in our country throughout its history, gone because of racism.
by onehair | 2025-12-13 12:07:19+00:00
> It's hard to empathize

I will empathize with you then and with your inability to empathize with the fact that people are different. Some people don't want to admit to themselves that this world is a wolf eat sheep world, trust that if you're a law abiding citizen, you shouldn't expect to be unfairly treated. Some people have more priorities and no time to dwell on harshness. They also would love it if everything just worked and you didn't need to spend 2 months of your life to configure things and always have to DIY everything.

They're not like me and I accept that. I will never use Apple & Google Cloud for my personal things. But I will empathize for those who get unfair treatement from these companies.

The whole meaning of a society is that we look out for each other, these big corpos have lost the plot, but I will not.

It is supposed to be : I buy a service from you, I did nothing wrong, please treat me fairly and do actually deliver on what I paid for.

That we don't trust them isn't how it's supposed to be, I wish I didn't have to do all of these things I do to keep away from big corpos, but this isn't how it is supposed to be. We're supposed to have the ability to trust each other in a society.