MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lesuorac | 2025-12-01 16:30:53+00:00
> This suggests that the downloader knew that the OBR was going to make this mistake, and they were polling the server waiting for the file to appear.

I think most of the tech world heard about the Nobel Peace Prize award so it doesn't seem that suspicious to me that somebody would just poll urls.

Especially since before the peace prize there have been issues with people polling US economic data.

My point is strictly, knowledge that they should poll a url is not evidence of insider activity.
by konmok | 2025-12-01 16:31:31+00:00
Sure, fine. I'm just highlighting that you chose to call out Karen Hao for her mistake (which she admitted and corrected), but not Will MacAskill or any of the other big EA names that have made egregious and dishonest claims. If it's not a double standard, Will also ought to be silent on this subject, right?

That's what I mean by unbalanced scrutiny.
by lucozade | 2025-12-01 16:31:33+00:00
> couldn't it? (Does it?)

It could of course. It can do pretty much any pattern matching it likes. But I doubt very much it would because that pattern is way less common.

As the article points out, the XOR saves 3 bytes of instructions for a really, really common pattern (to zero a register, particularly the return register).

So there's very good reason to perform the XOR preferentially and hence good reason to optimise that very common idiom.

Other approaches eg add a new "zero <reg>" instruction are basically worse as they're not backward compatible and don't really improve anything other than making the assembly a tiny bit more human readable.
by CaioFer | 2025-12-01 16:31:36+00:00
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by robotguy | 2025-12-01 16:31:41+00:00
If you're reading this far down this comment chain, you might find this interesting:

The paperclip maximizer is a thought experiment described by Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom in 2003. It illustrates the existential risk that an artificial general intelligence may pose to human beings were it to be successfully designed to pursue even seemingly harmless goals and the necessity of incorporating machine ethics into artificial intelligence design. The scenario describes an advanced artificial intelligence tasked with manufacturing paperclips. If such a machine were not programmed to value living beings, then given enough power over its environment, it would try to turn all matter in the universe, including living beings, into paperclips or machines that manufacture further paperclips.

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

Universal Paperclips (2017) - https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/
by Aurornis | 2025-12-01 16:31:46+00:00
> the only place I've ever had any issue with AI content is r/chess, where people love to ask ChatGPT a question and then post the answer as if they wrote it, half the time seemingly innocently

Some of the science, energy, and technology subreddits receive a lot of ChatGPT repost comment. There are a lot of people who think they’ve made a scientific or philosophical breakthrough with ChatGPT and need to share it with the world.

Even the /r/localllama subreddit gets constant AI spam from people who think they’ve vibecoded some new AI breakthrough. There have been some recent incidents where someone posted something convincing and then others wasted a lot of time until realizing the code didn’t accomplish what the post claimed it did.

Even on HN some of the “Show HN” posts are AI garbage from people trying to build portfolios. I wasted too much time trying to understand one of them until I realized they had (unknowingly?) duplicated some commits from upstream project and then let the LLM vibe code a README that sounded like an amazing breakthrough. It was actually good work, but it wasn’t theirs. It was just some vibecoding tool eventually arriving at the same code as upstream and then putting the classic LLM written, emoji-filled bullet points in the README
by h2337 | 2025-12-01 16:31:50+00:00
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by ocdtrekkie | 2025-12-01 16:31:58+00:00
As a monopoly, Google should be barred from having standards positions and be legally required to build and support the web standards as determined by other parties.

The insanity that the web platform is just "whatever Google's whims are" remains insane and mercurial. The web platform should not be as inconsistent as Google's own product strategies, wonder if XSLT will get unkilled in a few months.
by maccard | 2025-12-01 16:32:18+00:00
> Cheating is a meat space problem and there is no technical solution to it

Cheating is an arms race - the number of people who are willing to run a second computer with DMA connected to a single machine is vastly smaller than the number of people who are wiling to download a dodgy file from the internet and run it.

> Ultimately it comes down to checking if metrics like reaction speed are humanly possible, but a rootkit is not really needed for that.

If it was that easy, cheating would be a solved problem. An awful lot of play is "I know the reload time is 0.75s, so they're going to appear when they've reloaded" - that's way beyond human reaction time. And that's at "mid level" play - at gold/sliver levels in league of legends knowing cooldowns is considered base knowledge. At higher levels of play, _all_ of your players are statistical outliers.
by CrimsonCape | 2025-12-01 16:32:23+00:00
Can someone ELI5 from the experience of hosting a static site, what is the next step beyond a static CDN?

I am guessing the next step is paying for a bucket that that allows virtualized containers to run an OS? Or having a constantly-up node.js backend to generate server-side HTML? Is this essentially the generic description of self-hosting Wordpress on an own server?

Does integrating a payment processor like Shopify require something more than static hosting?
by sph | 2025-12-01 16:32:43+00:00
And those that hate the quote are the “strong men”? Given the many complaints about it, instead of trying to read between the lines about history being proved time and time again to be cyclical, I wouldn’t be so sure.

The responses, ranging from political partisanship, ad hominem, to being offended by the choice of words, are certainly a sign of the times.
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by tim333 | 2025-12-01 16:33:40+00:00
"Qualia" is not totally meaningless - it means the inner experience of something, and can bring up the real question say of is my inner experience of the colour green the same as your experience of the colour red? Probably not but hard to tell with current tech. I asked Google if it has qualia and got "No, as an AI, Google Search does not have qualia." So Google search seemed to know what it means.
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by delichon | 2025-12-01 16:34:39+00:00
Not none, just very little, like the obscure code corner case. If you are thinking about building something nearby, or specifically looking for interesting terrain to visit, you may be misled. The pig shaped cow spot, on the other hand, adds accurate symbology to the decal, with a wholesome helping of self deprecation.

To allow de minimis excursions from ground truth is a necessary compromise, but purposely introducing them isn't.
by maratc | 2025-12-01 16:34:44+00:00
CASC plugin + seed jobs keep all your jobs/configurations in files and update them as needed, and k8s + Helm charts can keep the rest of config (plugins, script approvals, nodes, ...) in a manageable file-based state as well.

We have our main node in a state that we can move it anywhere in a couple of minutes with almost no downtime.

I'll add another point to "Pros": Jenkins is FOSS and it costs $0 per developer per month.
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by hamdingers | 2025-12-01 16:34:57+00:00
They are not functionally equivalent, unless there are games I'm not familiar with where custom lobbies are published in a list for strangers to join. Normally a custom lobby implies invite only.

Not everyone is interested in a "fair and balanced competitive match" where you're guaranteed to win no more and no less than 50% of the time. I actually find that intolerably boring.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-12-01 16:35:05+00:00
When you walk into a Best Buy, the small majority of non-Apple laptops seem to be made of metal, even the $300 Chromebooks. They look and feel more premium, but probably aren't.

The sad thing is that plastic should be the best material to make laptops from. It's lighter, and it gives when dropped. Think about the cases everybody puts on their phones. They're not made of solid metal, for good reason.

The old Thinkpads had it right, they used a magnesium frame surrounded by high quality plastic.

My MacBook Pro is well made, but it's also a pound heavier than it needs to be.
by hypeatei | 2025-12-01 16:35:11+00:00
You said:

> throw fits about things you can’t prove about Trump,

What things aren't proven? He's running a meme coin while in office, he started a mobile service provider while in office, he's pardoned crypto fraudsters, accepted a $400M jet as a "gift" from Qatar, dropped a case against Eric Adams in a quid-pro-quo attempt, and said he'd put the President of Indonesia in contact with his son for business questions. I'm sure there is much more that I'm missing but I'll ask again: how does that compare to the "Biden crime family" who's apparently sooo corrupt that they let the investigations and cases against Hunter play out under Joe's DOJ? Meanwhile Trump is literally assigning insurance lawyers to go after people because no serious prosecutor will take the case; that's a revenge tour and everyone saw it coming.

Again, the corruption is unprecedented. Whatever the Biden criminal masterminds were doing is tame in comparison to this.

EDIT: don't forget the Whitehouse dinner for investors of the meme coin either.
by HPsquared | 2025-12-01 16:35:29+00:00
The image comes out very vertically squashed on my phone in portrait mode (the natural orientation you'd use for this). It works fine if I have the phone in landscape mode, but then the camera is off to the side.

Very cool to be able to see the wireframe!

Webcam MegaPixels: 4.80 MP

Webcam Resolution: 1472×3264

EDIT: but overall this is very cool, it's good for a profile pic.
by adrian_b | 2025-12-01 16:35:47+00:00
Not a Williams tube, but similar in principle.

On a CRT with storage for oscilloscopes or computer monitors, you looked at the stored image, which is why they were called "Direct-view bistable storage tubes".

On the Williams tubes, the processor read back the data stored in the tube, i.e. the stored image was used by the CPU, not by humans, so Williams tubes had no need to contain fluorescent screens. On a viewing tube, there was usually no need to implement a read back method, but only means for writing and erasing.

Both the Williams tubes and the direct-view storage tubes were derived from the iconoscope tubes used before WWII in the early television cameras, according to a proposal made in the famous von Neumann report. In iconoscope tubes, illumination caused by an external image projected on the tube face created an electric charge distribution inside the tube, which was read electronically, generating thus a video signal, so it was the inverse of a direct-view tube, where an electric charge distribution is written inside the tube, where it controls the fluorescence of the screen, creating an image that can be viewed outside. Both iconoscope tubes and direct-view storage tubes differ from simple CRTs by having inside an insulating or semiconducting surface on which a distribution of electric charge can be stored.

The Williams tubes were a form of DRAM. An even earlier kind of DRAM had been used in the Atanasoff-Berry computer, where it was implemented with discrete capacitors and John Atanasoff had been the first who proposed to make a computer memory based on storing electric charge and refreshing it periodically, to prevent discharging.
by skyriser | 2025-12-01 16:35:53+00:00
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by mindslight | 2025-12-01 16:35:54+00:00
You are construing "integrity" to mean lining up with their overarching desires for the whole setup of interconnected systems regardless of who owns each one. By that measure, stopping the collection of data is impairing its availability on their system.

I would read that definition as applying only to their computer system - the one you aren't authorized to access. This means the integrity of data on their system has not been affected, even if the source of that data isn't what they'd hoped.

As I said, the law contemplates a different call out for fraud. This would not be needed if data integrity was meant to be construed the way you're claiming.

(For reference I do realize the law is quite unjust and I'll say we'd be better off if the entire law were straight up scrapped along with the DMCA anti-circumvention provisions)
by basscomm | 2025-12-01 16:36:19+00:00
> The reality is that it was told to run commands and just made a mistake.

The mistake is that the user gave an LLM access to the rmdir command on a drive with important data on it and either didn't look at the rmdir command before it was executed to see what it would do, or did look at it and didn't understand what it was going to do.
by bsimpson | 2025-12-01 16:36:22+00:00
Same. First, I kept my idle account for the recommendations. Then, I kept my idle account because my family used it (why Netflix ENCOURAGED when they added profiles).

Then, some new, money-grubbing PM rolled in and decided to lock my parents out of my account. Okay, byebye Netflix! You jacked the price too high anyway.
by azmaty | 2025-12-01 16:36:33+00:00
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by OkayPhysicist | 2025-12-01 16:36:34+00:00
Custom lobbies don't meet the same need. That's for playing with your friends, or at least, people you vet yourself. Community servers are a sub-community in of themselves: people tend to play on the same servers on a regular basis, allowing you to build rapport, community norms, and have substantially more direct moderation than company-run servers.

Yes, sometimes you run into power-tripping moderators. That comes with the territory of having moderators. But the upsides, of being embedded in a usefully-sized community, and having nearly constant human moderation, not to mention the whole "stop killing games" of it all, far outweigh the need to shop around a bit for a good server.

I think the ideal middle ground is something like Squad's server system: The developers offer a contract to server owners, establishing basic standards that must be met to be a recommended server. Rules forbidding the crazy bigotry that milsims tend to attract, minimum server specs to ensure smooth gameplay, an effective appeals process. If a server meets those requirements, and signs the agreement to keep meeting those standards, they get put on a "recommended" server list (which 90%+ of the playerbase exclusively use). Other servers go on the "custom" server list, which can be modded, or spun up for certain events, or whatever.