MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kijin | 2025-12-20 12:43:49+00:00
I think French (and by extension, many Western) and Japanese people just emphasize different aspects of the restaurant experience.

Order a sirloin steak anywhere in the Western hemisphere, and you know almost nothing about what it will look and taste like, other than the fact that it will contain a piece of beef sirloin. The chef might have his own secret sauce, or garnish the steak with unusual herbs, which can change the flavor completely. Those are the some of the surprises that you're looking for, but most of them can be visually identified. They'll be ruined if you can see in advance exactly what kind of herbs will be used.

In Japanese cuisine, many dishes are based on either raw or minimally modified ingredients. White rice is white rice. Poached shrimp is just poached shrimp. You already know what a slice of tuna or fried tofu looks like. The dish as a whole just looks like the sum of its ingredients. Heck, if you can read Japanese, it looks exactly as its name says! No surprises there at all. Instead, you find delightful surprises elsewhere: the freshness of the fish and vegetables, the richness of the broth, the way in which disparate flavors balance one another in your mouth as you take a bite. These surprises will not be ruined by knowing what the dish looks like in advance. Because you're not looking for an original recipe here. You're looking for the most perfect execution of a known recipe.

Of course it's a gross simplification, but this might help explain the different reaction between East and West.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-12-20 12:43:56+00:00
In the end that's also shitty. I don't want to "get them into Adobe Digital Editions". I don't want to have to use Adobe shitware, and I don't want their special formats. Just give me the epub or pdf. Also their website treated me like shit and they have no good way to contact anyone visible on their website.

Kobo is not it. Maybe they once were, at some point before I tried using them. I am not gonna support them after my experience with them.
by ExoticPearTree | 2025-12-20 12:45:17+00:00
> It's the same reason you don't want Chinese equipment in your telecommunications infrastructure. You can't trust what the Chinese government will do to it or with it.

Using this logic, every country should develop its own critical equipment from scratch, in terms of both hardware and software.

My belief is that there is no problem with the Chinese equipment, just scare-mongering from the US because it has no manufacturer of 5G equipment. And Europe jumped on the bandwagon just because.
by Mekaniko | 2025-12-20 12:45:21+00:00
Any language with an type system really...

Even OOP : if you have a string class, you can have a String_Formated_For_API subtype.

Just extends String, and add some checking.

But now the type checker "knows" it can print() a String_Formated_For_API just fine but not call_API(string).
by codedokode | 2025-12-20 12:45:27+00:00
The problem with CSS is that if you want to write an SVG viewer, you have to implement a whole CSS engine, which might be more complex than SVG renderer itself. And if you create an image in an editor, like Inkscape, you don't use CSS anyway. CSS is meant to be used when you write the code manually (instead of using an editor), for example, in a web app, and in this case you could use HTML as well.

So yes, CSS is not needed.
by shelled | 2025-12-20 12:45:50+00:00
At a previous workplace, Charles Proxy was not in the list of approved software. I don't recall the reason - it might have been cost, but we used lots of paid tools, and since it was in the restricted category, we couldn't pick and use (we handled a copious amount of Western PII, from reading, working on it, to storing it). Two were approved: Requestly and another was a link to an internal wiki with a really "interesting" process involving Wireshark and whatnot. Needless to say, that doc was one of the most clicked and least read. I tried Charles at a later place that offered a license, and I went back to Requestly, which I really found to be more straightforward or simpler to use.
by tatersolid | 2025-12-20 12:46:14+00:00
OCSP stapling adds two more signatures to the TLS handshake. Bad enough with RSA keys but post-quantum signatures are much larger. OCSP stapling was always a band-aid.

If the server must automatically reach out to retrieve a new OCSP response for stapling every 7 days, why not just get automatically a whole new certificate which is simpler and results in a lots less data on the wire for every TLS connection?
by PunchyHamster | 2025-12-20 12:48:59+00:00
For someone recently migrating from minio, caveats

* no lifecycle management of any kind - if you're using it for backups you can't set "don't delete versions for 3 months", so if anyone takes hold of your key, you backups are gone. I relied on minio's lifecycle management for that but it's feature missing in garage (and to be fair, most other) S3

* no automatic mirroring (if you want to have second copy in something other than garage or just don't want to have a cluster but rather have more independent nodes)

* ACLs for access are VERY limited - can't make a key access only sub-path, can't make a "master key" (AFAIK, couldn't find an option) that can access all the buckets so the previous point is also harder - I can't easily use rclone to mirror entire instance somewhere else unless I write scrip iterating over buckets and adding them bucket by bucket to key ACK

* Web hosting features are extremely limited so you won't be able to say set CORS headers for the bucket

* No ability to set keys - you can only generate on inside garage or import garage-formatted one - which means you can't just migrate storage itself, you have to re-generate every key. It also makes automating it harder, in case of minio you can pre-generate key and pass then fed it to clients and to the minio key command, here you have to do the dance of "generate with tool" -> "scrape and put into DB" -> put onto clients.

Overall I like the software a lot but if you have setup that uses those features, beware.
by apelapan | 2025-12-20 12:49:22+00:00
From what I've seen of Skywise, it is just a glorified SharePoint. Different systems upload CSV files that get turned into database tables. Then you can define views across these tables that other systems can consume by having them dumped to CSV and dropped on an SFTP.

Performance is not great, so you need middleware and batching anyway. As far as I am concerned, it wouldn't be a great loss if Skywise disappeared and just the SFTP with CSV:s remained.
by fn-mote | 2025-12-20 12:50:22+00:00
> Having nothing to hide is fine.

This statement completely fails to engage with the post.

In fact, the parent's whole "argument" ignores the prevalence of encrypted communications in the modern world. To use their (absurd) gun analogy, the modern internet is close to an open-carry state. (Europeans: this means everyone can carry a gun visibly.)

Everyone uses https by default. Phone communications and texts are the least secure by far.

PS There is nothing wrong with the GP's anecdote. It is an excellent argument, understandable argument for casual importance of privacy.
by Havoc | 2025-12-20 12:50:54+00:00
I really hope regulators don't back down on this.

Half a billion people shouldn't be reliant on whether a guy with clown makeup is having a dementia moment.

Key infra (gov, utilities, news etc) has to be in house or at least in a EU country. Actually in house not big tech EU "sovereign" cloud wink wink nudge
Show HN: Aligning AI with Entropy Instead of 'Human Values' ( Paper)
by NyX_AI_ZERO_DAY | 2025-12-20 12:51:53+00:00
Hey HN,

wrote this short paper cause i'm honestly tired of current alignment methods (RLHF). optimizing for "human preference" just creates models that hallucinate plausibly to please the user (stochastic parrots ), instead of being grounded in reality.

i'm proposing a different framework called LOGOS-ZERO. idea is to ditch moral guardrails (which are subjective/fluid) and anchor the loss function to physical/logical invariants.

basically:

Thermodynamic Loss : treat high entropy/hallucination as "Waste". if an action increases systemic disorder, it gets penalized.

Action Gating: Unlike current models that must generate tokens, this architecture simulates in latent space first. if the output is high-entropy or logically inconsistent, it returns a Null Vector (Silence/No).

it attempts to solve the grounding problem by making the AI follow the path of least action/ entropy rather than just mimicking human speech patterns.

link to the pdf on zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/17976755

curious to hear thoughts on the physics mapping, roast it if u want.
by ncruces | 2025-12-20 12:52:35+00:00
I'm writing from personal experience in a middle of the table public school, with a single IT guy helping out around 1000 pupils, who regularly get their computers locked with said MDM.

It's possible other school districts with a less diligent, but similarly overworked, IT guy just give up and don't even hand out the computers anymore, especially if they don't have enough of them, after being on their second or third kid.
by nephanth | 2025-12-20 12:52:38+00:00
As someone who worked on transformer-based diffusion models before (not for language though), i can say one thing: they're hard.

Denoising diffusion models benefited a lot from the u-net, which is a pretty simple network (compared to a transformer) and very well-adapted to the denoising task. Plus diffusion on images is great to research because it's very easy to visualize, and therefore to wrap your head around

Doing diffusion on text is a great idea, but my intuition is it will prove more challenging, and probably take a while before we get something working
by gus_massa | 2025-12-20 12:52:51+00:00
> According to experts at Allwyn, operator of the National Lottery, the odds of Richard and Faye winning both the EuroMillions Millionaire Maker and then five numbers and the bonus ball on Lotto are over 24-trillion-to-one.

Does anyone know the rules of each event? It looks like they are just multiplying the probabilities, that is correct if they were the only person playing the games, and there were only two games.

If there are 8000000000 persons and like ¿10000? games worldwide, the provability of a lucky coincidence somewhere increase a lot.
by throw0101c | 2025-12-20 12:53:32+00:00
>> It's the same reason you don't want Chinese equipment in your telecommunications infrastructure. You can't trust what the Chinese government will do to it or with it.

> Using this logic, every country should develop its own critical equipment from scratch, in terms of both hardware and software.

The logic is don't use infrastructure of people you don't trust. If Europeans don't trust Chinese, then don't use Chinese infra; if the Europeans don't trust the US (anymore), then don't use US infra. The Europeans could trust the Canadians, and use Canadian infra for example.
by cthalupa | 2025-12-20 12:54:35+00:00
> Typical progressive inversion of reality. If you think it's selfish for Americans to expect the American government to put them first, I'd hate to hear what you have to think about the foreigners who demand the same!

Because I don't think it's actually beneficial for Americans to do what you're suggesting we do. America became what it was through accepting immigrants from all over the world.

> The Native Americans did have this attitude, which is why they consistently resisted the colonization of their territory.

Did you ignore the part of the message that literally covered that? Or is your stance that might makes right? Alright Mr. Redbeard

> Earlier European descendant Americans brought in immigrants to further their own goal of colonizing the North American continent. It wasn't a welfare policy for the benefit of foreigners, it was a policy enacted by Americans for the benefit of Americans. They also drastically cut immigration when it suited them, as with the Immigration Act of 1924. > Are you suggesting that earlier European-descendant Americans did, in fact, share my attitude? Pick a lane.

Are you suggesting that I believe that Americans are monolithic in thought? I believe it is quite obvious that I am speaking to the overall attitude of the country on the broader level - obviously there are groups that have held a wide variety of views. But for the majority of our history - as you pointed out, only the last 100 years or so have had particularly strict immigration laws - the prevailing view as evidenced by the actual laws of the country was obviously not a country that felt that restricting immigration was the right thing to do for her citizens, despite the fact that many people obviously had the same sentiments then that you do today.
by dns_snek | 2025-12-20 12:54:36+00:00
With open source software + reproducible system image builds + TPM + secure boot + remote attestation you could technically achieve some level of certainty that the server is running the software that you expect, but that's not enough.

The operator can passively log the network traffic which allows for de-anonymization and you would need to design your application-layer such that the operator couldn't selectively route your traffic to a non-compliant server.
by anonymous908213 | 2025-12-20 12:54:51+00:00
The point being raised is that dynamic image grids don't actually make for a good UX. They might look more visually interesting at a superficial glance, but when you're actually using the interface to browse images, predictability wins out. Even having mixed-orientation images, where there is some degree of extra whitespace between images, does not change this. It is way easier to digest the content when your eyes can reliably scan one line at a time without having to bounce around everywhere to track the flow of the dynamic grid.
by Snacklive | 2025-12-20 12:55:30+00:00
Recently i bought a book from Kindle because i couldn't find it in any other platform and I'm so happy it only cost me 1$ because i haven't been able to download the ePub version, none of the methods on the internet have worked for me or they need to use a physical kindle device. God it's so frustrating i just want to read a 1$ book on my Kobo
by PunchyHamster | 2025-12-20 12:55:49+00:00
Ceph is far higher on RAM usage and complexity. Yeah if you need block storage in addition it's a good choice, but for anything smaller than half a rack of devices it's kinda overkill

Also from our experience the docs outright lie about ceph's OSD memory usage and we've seen double or more than what docs claim (8-10GB instead of 4)
by NyX_AI_ZERO_DAY | 2025-12-20 12:56:09+00:00
Author here: just to add some context on the implementation side (section 7 in the pdf):

the core mechanic is what i call 'computational otium '.

Instead of the standard feed-forward loop where the model has to output the next token no matter what, i'm proposing a hard gate.

Vasically, before outputting, the agent runs a monte carlo sim in latent space.

If the trajectory creates high entropy (chaos) or violates the logic constraints, the activation function returns 0.

it's an attempt to fix the "immediacy bias" of transformers. giving the model the option to effectively staysilence /do nothing if the action isn't valid thermodynamically. Thnking BEFORE speaking.

Equation 4 has the loss function details if anyone wants to tear apart the math.
by zozzle | 2025-12-20 12:56:33+00:00
Phyllis Schlafly is an odd comparison to make. She argued that women should stay in traditional roles and out of public life (while as you mention, not following her own advice), whereas JKR and other feminists take the exact opposite view. Not sure I see the relevance of your analogy here.

As for Bang Face last year, what happened is that security staff kicked a group of males out from the women's toilets. I agree that this isn't an ideal outcome, much better would have been if these men had respected that women's spaces are not for them, and stayed out in the first place. The fact that their removal was treated as some sort of scandal shows how far we've lost sight of the rights of women and girls to have single-sex provisions.
Looking for technical co-founder for real estate marketplace in North Africa
by mbkaj | 2025-12-20 12:56:56+00:00
i'm building a real estate marketplace focused on Algeria like zillow but localized for a market that's still largely offline and fragmented.

- i have a Working MVP - i am looking for: - a technical co-founder (full-stack or backend-heavy) - ssomeone who's excited about emerging markets and building 0 to 1 products - ideally comfortable with: react/TS, postgreSQL, edge computing..etc

if you're interested, lets chat mbkajj@gmail.com
by fernando__ | 2025-12-20 12:57:40+00:00
If there were 1 brandishing a gun, I’d be very alarmed.

If there were 5, I’d be even more alarmed.

If everyone in the store and outside the store were always brandishing guns, then it would be a very dangerous place.

Speaking of dangerous places- how about the U.S.?

The U.S. gun death rate is approximately 13.7 per 100,000 people, while the UK rate is roughly 0.04 per 100,000—making the U.S. rate over 300 times higher. This is likely because of UK’s stringent gun laws.

So, if everyone hid their internet traffic, does that mean there would be a 300% increase in hacker crime and convictions? And wouldn’t governments and companies be more likely to develop and use tools for spying on their citizens and employees?
by andunie | 2025-12-20 12:57:49+00:00
So what is this article about?

1. How to do sets in Go?

2. What changed between Go 1.24 and 1.25?

3. Trusting an LLM?

4. Self-hosted compilers?

It is not clear at all. Also there are no conclusions, it's purely a waste of time, basically the story of a guy figuring out for no reason that the way maps are implemented has changed in Go.

And the title is about self-hosted compilers, whose "advantage" turned out to be just that the guy was able to read the code? How is that an advantage? I guess it is an advantage for him.

The TypeScript compiler is also written in Go instead of in TypeScript. So this shouldn't be an advantage? But this guy likes to read Go, so it would also be an advantage to him.
by MangoToupe | 2025-12-20 12:58:33+00:00
> You can't trust what the Chinese government will do to it or with it.

It's not clear that europe even trusts europe anymore. Especially with french and german economic dominance looking shakier than ever, debt financing an unpopular war in the east piling up, mounting deficits, industry collapse, youth unemployment... european countries (or greenland for that matter) could do a whole lot worse than turning to china.

Agreed, though, that reliance on US is foolhardy. I can't make any sense of why we're trying to saw the feet off our own economy.
by ankur3 | 2025-12-20 12:58:44+00:00
"You hide from those whom you don't trust!"

so now comes the question...

"How much do you trust a human, despite being your favourite?".....

We need to learn about 'trust' and its role in our lives!

Information is power! And 'trust' me, you don't want to give it to anyone over you!

The upcoming era of transparency will come in the form of compliances (or, chains) you will never withdraw yourself from! Surely facility and security will baited for this!

Also, with the rise in the fields of biotech and nano-tech, infused with A.I., they are preparing us to be their 'lab rats', and they don't need our consents! We shouldn't be ignoring this at all!
by throw0101c | 2025-12-20 12:58:52+00:00
> The allies are derided for literally freeloading on US military protection while underinvesting in their own defense.

1. No one forced the US to spend a bajillion dollars on defense.

2. The US did so out of their own free will, and out of self-interest: their power hegemony allowed for peaceful trade routes that benefited the US economy and US corporations.

3. Their own defense against what? What threats, until fairly recently, did the Europeans face that they needed to spend money protecting against?
by jzellis | 2025-12-20 12:58:56+00:00
There is absolutely room for improvement in the culture of FOSS, and absolutely a gaping hole of UI/UX focus that I don't think anyone except the most deranged "hrm just recompile the kernel, I did it three times already today" forks would argue. But my dude is not the guy to fix this. He has no answers, just complaints.

I think what he's missing is that most FOSS development goes unfunded or underfunded; complaining about it is like complaining that the local soup kitchen doesn't offer paleo options. Feel free to roll up your sleeves and get to cooking, my dude.

My personal FOSS project isn't in public beta yet, but when I'm reading the docs and forums for other people's software, it's absolutely astonishing how entitled some people are. They show up being pissed that this thing you made for yourself in your spare time and then decided to very kindly release into the world for anyone to use and improve isn't tailored to their needs or running on their particular goofy ass rig (it's amazing that people can buy a whole ass Chromebook and then ask if you can run something like Blender on it and get mad when you tell em you can't without doing chroot or whatever the current way of getting Linux up and running on it is.)

He's right about the community as a whole being less than enthusiastic about inclusivity, but he doesn't actually sound like the guy to fix that either. And that problem is tons more complicated to solve than he probably understands it to be.

But in the same way you can fork a project and fix it and submit it to be merged into the main branch, he could also do what I did and take his ass to the developing world to see how to fix that problem too. If he did, he'd probably discover that people outside the global North-centric tech culture are more than used to solving problems without help and that us middle aged middle class white guys have more to learn from them about working around limitations and solving problems than we do to teach them. That's my experience anyway.
by roxolotl | 2025-12-20 12:59:30+00:00
Fly less. Is waiting a week for a package really that big of a deal? Is traveling less really that much to ask?

It’s totally ok to be skeptical of the claims. I can’t make a judgement on them as I know even less than you might. But that’s not a reason to doubt that human’s environment impact matters and that maybe part of the solution is for those of us with access to 2day delivery for everything and cheap flights live a teeny bit more like those who don’t.
by arrrg | 2025-12-20 13:00:43+00:00
For decades trusting the US was no problem at all. The relationship was mutually beneficial. Cooperation and trust among nations is possible and Juche (completely self-reliance) is not a worthwhile goal at all. So, sure, cooperation is great and should always be a goal – it also secures peace (people who are economically intertwined are less likely to go to war with each other).

The issue is the US burning up that earned mutual trust. And at some point you have to sadly abandon ship. Cooperation is great, trade is great, but not under all circumstances and all the time.