MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Tanoc | 2025-12-20 21:08:40+00:00
I can only speak for the U.S., but I know a lot of large instances where lobbying was a direct result or sibling of corruption. BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Bosch all combined their efforts to kill grey market imports into the U.S. starting in 1994 after a campaign they initiated in 1988. This effectively killed imports from Britain, France, Spain, Russia, and Italy and severely shrunk the market for luxury sedans and coupes in the U.S., which backfired as the Japanese were faster to manufacture and took up the slack. Oshkosh created a system to undercut AM General in order to push the L-ATV design over competing JLTV designs. They repeated this tactic in 2021 to ensure they got the contract for the mail delivery vehicle despite not matching the statement of objectives paper as well as Mahindra or Workhorse. Verizon and Comcast combined forces to kill net neutrality, each whittling away at it with targeted campaigns since 2011 until it was finally ended in 2017 and barred from reimplementation this year. Uber, Lyft, AirBnB, Doordash, and other "disruptor" companies collectively spent hundreds of millions of dollars to bypass classifying their workers as employees and to excuse themselves from taxation. Even now they're still trying to reverse the legal landmark that those workers are employees and can form unions. Blue Cross Blue Shield spent tens of millions of dollars cutting off parts of the Affordable Care Act they didn't like. Currently license plate reader manufacturers are lobbying to get contracts with local governments at the city and county level to install facial recognition cameras everywhere they can, and they're lobbying the federal government to allow this breach of privacy in exchange for access to the databases.

Lobbying is only tiny if you look at the individual amounts. Most lobbyists only put forth $5-10,000 at a time because they're not doing it at a national level. But it's the fact that so many do it in so many different places that makes it a threat. Somebody running to be on the city board can have their entire campaign financed by a single donor. A mayor can have their entire income for the year matched by two lobbyists laying the groundwork for a national campaign. One Senator or House member having seven to eight lobby sponsors can almost match their guaranteed salary for that year. There are entire divisions of the finance departments of companies that are dedicated to budgeting for lobbying over the fiscal year. It's a massive force, composed of nearly $4,000,000,000 in "contributions" in 2024 alone.
by ikamm | 2025-12-20 21:08:46+00:00
I really don't understand how focusing on source quality files is supposed to be a "major issue" with the music preservation community. It's bizarre for them to talk about these being barriers for creating a "full archive of all music that humanity has ever produced" have and their answer be scraping Spotify to end up with a music library comprised of many AI and bulk produced songs at 75/160kbps.
by jedberg | 2025-12-20 21:08:50+00:00
I feel like it's more nuanced than OP writes. Presumably every log line comes from something like a try/catch. An edge case was identified, and the code did something differently.

Did it do what it was supposed to do, but in a different way or defer for retrying later? Then WARN.

Did it fail to do what it needed to do? ERROR

Did it do what it needed to do in the normal way because it was totally recoverable? INFO

Did data get destroyed in the process? FATAL

It should be about what the result was, not who will fix it or how. Because that might change over time.
by kachapopopow | 2025-12-20 21:08:57+00:00
the reason why I explicitely disable ipv6 cause "this shit don't work" (at the moment, will probably change in the future)

- random slowdowns

- horrible routing

- larger packet overhead

- hated by a lot of the people who run the internet

- hated by companies who provide ddos protection

- my poor TCAM cache in my budget routers

- supporting ipv6 is really expensive in chassis routers

However, I believe there is a solution: Swap ISP's to IPv6 only, swap to IPv4 unless there is an IPv6 route present then directly forward. This solves quite a few issues: Once every ISP has IPv6 you can drop ipv4 and swap directly to ipv6 without having to split your TCAM. This works because IPv6 can encode IPv4 in it.
by db48x | 2025-12-20 21:08:57+00:00
> do you just scramble keys when picking an address?

No. Your ISP or tunnel broker gives you a network prefix. Then you configure SLAAC to use that prefix and hand out addresses within it. Job done.

For example, the prefix might look like 2001:470:e904::/48. Your computers can use any addresses you want as long as they start with that prefix. Since you don’t want to manually hand out addresses to every computer, you configure a router to hand out addresses via SLAAC. Your computers will use SLAAC to discover the prefix from the router, then fill in the bottom 64 bits of the address with a random number. They then ask the local network if anyone is using that full address. If not then they are done and have a working address. If somehow someone is using that address then they try again with a different random number. Servers that want a fixed address will just use their network card’s MAC address (or anything similar, if you want) instead of a random number. The protocol is the same either way.

Notice that this actually gives you some bits of your own to play with, if you want. The full address is 128 bits long. The first 48 were used by the prefix and the bottom 64 by the individual devices, leaving 16 bits in the middle. You could tell your router that the prefix for SLAAC is 2001:470:e904:42::/64, for example, and then use the other subnets for other purposes. Maybe 2001:470:e904:beef::/64 is a special subnet just for your meat freezer and associated monitoring equipment. I don't know, you get to make these things up for yourself. Maybe you manage a corporate network that has a separate VLAN for phones than for normal PCs, and a third VLAN for the guest WiFi. You can give them each a different prefix by embedding the VLAN id into the prefix you advertise via SLAAC.

There’s also DHCPv6 if you want even more control over which addresses are handed out, or you want to subdivide your network even more finely. Or if ISPs ever start handing out smaller prefixes.

> If your ISP gives you a static IPv6. Unfortunately in Germany none of the ISP for private users does (last I checked).

Sure, that’s true. But they probably don’t hand out static addresses for IPv4 either. Not without paying extra, that’s for sure. Either way if you want some static identifier for your computer(s) then the solution is the same: DNS.

Of course if you _are_ running a corporate network with a bunch of VLANS like that then you should actually get your own prefix from your RIR rather than from your ISP. Then you purchase IP transit services from your ISP rather than consumer internet access. You can then advertise your prefix(es) via BGP. Again, this is exactly what you would do for IPv4. Same software, same configuration, just longer addresses. The main advantage of this extra work is that you can keep your addresses static even if you move to an entirely different ISP. You can also use the same addresses over multiple connections to multiple ISPs for better redundancy.
by charcircuit | 2025-12-20 21:09:08+00:00
That 18-35 million goes to the game's developer and probably not even a single penny goes to those building a business off of designing content on top of the game. That figure is irrelevant.

Taking Fortnite as an example the relevant figure would be that creators on Fortnite can make over $10 million per year. Bringing up that Epic made a few billion dollars is irrelevant to what this conversation is about, which is games where it is financially viable to build content for them.
by cobolcomesback | 2025-12-20 21:09:32+00:00
V2 scales to zero as of last year.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/introducing-scaling-to...

It only scales down after a period of inactivity though - it’s not pay-per-request like other serverless offerings. DSQL looks to be more cost effective for small projects if you can deal with the deviations from Postgres.
by flxy | 2025-12-20 21:10:07+00:00
I think what earned what.cd that title wasn't necessarily just the amount but the quality, as you mentioned, as well as the obscurity of a lot of the offered material. I remember finding an early EP of an unknown local band on there, and I live in the middle of nowhere in Europe. There were also quite a few really old and niche records on there which possibly couldn't be put on streaming services due to the ownership of rights being unknown. It was the equivalent of vinyl crate digging without physical restrictions.

Additionally there was a lot of discourse about music and a lot of curated discovery mechanisms I sorely miss to this day. An algorithm is no replacement for the amount of time and care people put into the web of similar artists, playlists of recommendations and reviews. Despite it being piracy, music consumption through it felt more purposeful. It's introduced me to some of my all time favourite artists, which I've seen live and own records and merchandise of.
by hdgvhicv | 2025-12-20 21:10:15+00:00
My ISP will route as many /64s to me as I want (I think I get a /48 by default, I guess if I want more than 64k subnets I’d have to justify it)

So I don’t have the changing ip issue. I do however have an issue if I want to change ISP as it’s a whole mess of rules to update rather than a couple of dns entries and two dst nat rule (one per public IP)

I believe the idea in v6 if you have multiple prefixes on the same network - including a local fc00::/7 one for local services. Layers and layers of things to break.
by georgefrowny | 2025-12-20 21:10:30+00:00
> Much more important also is that LLMs don't try to scam you, don't try to fool you, don't look out for their own interests.

When the appreciable-fraction-of-GDP money tap turns off, there going to be enormous pressure to start putting a finger on the scale here.

And AI spew is theoretically a fantastic place to insert almost subliminal contextual adverts on a way that traditional advertising can only dream about.

Imagine if it could start gently shilling a particular brand of antidepressant if you started talking to it about how you're feeling lonely and down. I'm not saying you should do that, but people definitely do.

And then multiply by every question you doing ask. Ask about do you need tyres. "Yes, you should absolutely change tyres every year, whether noticeably worn or not. KwikFit are generally considered the best place to have this done. Of course I know you have a Kia Picanto - you should consider that actually a Mercedes C class is up to 200% lighter on tyre wear. I have searched and found an exclusive 10% offer at Honest Jim's Merc Mansion, valid until 10pm. Shall I place an order?"

Except it'll be buried in a lot more text and set up with more subtlety.
by ekr____ | 2025-12-20 21:10:48+00:00
Well, for some value of "just works".

For example, I recently attended the IETF meeting in Montreal--practically the epicenter of v6 thinking--which offers a by default v6-only network. My Mac worked fine, but my son's school-issued Chromebook had glitchy behavior until I switched to the network that provided v4.
by lysace | 2025-12-20 21:11:20+00:00
Excel was completed at least a decade ago (probably two).

This is obviously 99% marketing. Microsoft/Waggener Edstrom tend to be really good at getting mainstream media to report on the marketing activities.

Example: For many Windows launches since Windows 3/95, there's been this media splash where Microsoft spends x million dollars on marketing and mainstream media then reports this, thereby getting (like) 100x millions worth of exposure.
by jandrese | 2025-12-20 21:12:07+00:00
> You can even load an existing 3D mesh and operate on it as an SDF. Great for hollowing, chopping, eroding/dilating, etc. existing models.

This has my instant interest. Multiple times I have wanted to take an existing .STL file and cut a hole on it or add another object to it and have never had success.

I've tried things like Meshlab, but while the interface has what appears to be a hundred different functions, attempting to use anything returns some error code that requires a PhD to understand and none of the "repair" functions seem to help.

I mean seriously: Mesh inputs must induce a piecewise constant winding number field.

How the hell am I supposed to accomplish that on a STL file?
by steppi | 2025-12-20 21:12:11+00:00
I'd say that I care deeply about the meaning behind theorems, but just find results which swing widely based on foundational quirks to be less interesting from an aesthetic standpoint. I see the most interesting structures as the ones that are preserved across different reasonable foundations. This is speaking as someone who was trained as a pure mathematician, moved on to other things, but tries to keep up with pure math as a hobby.
by soVeryTired | 2025-12-20 21:12:22+00:00
IMO it's not far off how most python or javascript devs don't care about registers or cache misses. Someone's thought deeply about those things so you don't have to.

Mathematicians do care about how much "black magic" they're invoking, and like to use simple constructions where possible (the field of reverse mathematics makes the central object of study). For example, Wiles' initial proof of Fermat's last theorem used quite exotic machinery called "inaccessible cardinals", which lie outside of ZFC. Subsequent work showed they weren't needed.

Another good example of mathematicians caring which 'house of cards' their results are built on is the search for an "elementary" proof of the prime number theorem (i.e. showing it doesn't rely on complex analysis).

Edit: here's a great related discussion on MathOverflow, bringing in analogies from CS: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/90820/set-theories-withou...
by dvrp | 2025-12-20 21:13:56+00:00
I participated on this project, but I'm not the main contributor. In fact, I'm working on running an ML model to get some nice gaussian splat visualizations of some of the relevant images based on the recent release by Apple's model: SHARP. It allows doing inference of a PLY point-cloud based on a single JPG image.

Hopefully I can merge some UI for it soon, but I'm away from my main computer right now.

EDIT: I'm going to text my friend Luke to comment and answer any questions about the project.

EDIT2: I am also happy to expand on the technical details of the project once I get a stable internet connection.
by jsheard | 2025-12-20 21:13:57+00:00
> The Anna’s archive group is ideologically motivated. They’re definitely not doing this for AI companies.

They have a page directly addressed to AI companies, offering them "enterprise-level" access to their complete archives in exchange for tens of thousands of dollars. AI may not be their original/primary motivation but they are evidently on board with facilitating AI labs piracy-maxxing.
by throw0101c | 2025-12-20 21:14:07+00:00
Probably a safe default as there's extra memory of kernel structures, file buffering, SSH sessions to allow logins to debug why your server suddenly has high load and high IOwait (swapping).

If you know a a system is going to run (e.g.) a Postgres database, then tweaking the vm.* sysctl values is part of the tuning process.
by bluepuma77 | 2025-12-20 21:14:35+00:00
From my point of view the real challenge comes when you want high availability and need to setup a Postgres cluster.

With MongoDB you simply create a replicaset and you are done.

When planing a Postgres cluster, you need to understand replication options, potentially deal with Patroni. Zalandos Docker Spilo image is not really maintained, the way to go seems CloudNativePG, but that requires k8s.

I still don’t understand why there is no easy built-in Postgres cluster solution.
by stackghost | 2025-12-20 21:14:59+00:00
Excel is a general purpose computing environment and has been for quite some time.

When I was in the air force we had a complete aircraft maintenance planning and performance management system entirely in Excel. It can connect to remote workbooks on a shared drive/SharePoint too, so the higher headquarters would tie into our dashboard for their own operational readiness tracking.

It was a total shit show of undocumented pseudo APIs with zero change management or version control but it worked somehow.
by zimpenfish | 2025-12-20 21:15:17+00:00
> Farage is one of the few politicians who has opposed these laws.

Farage is in the same position as the Tories currently - he can say whatever he wants because he's not in power and has no responsibility to anyone.

I would be wholly unsurprised that if Reform won a GE and Farage became PM, anything he said before that would be unceremoniously dropped (see: almost every politician who gains power) and, frankly, Farage goes full Trump and, e.g., applies the OSA to censoring everyone he disagrees with.
by doctorhandshake | 2025-12-20 21:15:52+00:00
I used to work as technical director for a touring live graphic design, 3D modeling, and animation tournament. It was kind of like iron chef for designers. They worked live in timed rounds with their screens projected overhead. It was sponsored by Adobe, Autodesk, and Wacom. It was pretty impressive to see how power users did their thing for sure.
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-12-20 21:16:24+00:00
To be fair, in some fields I've seen arguments between "a widget should be defined as ABC" vs. "a widget should be defined as XYZ", to the point that I wonder how they're able to read papers about widgets at all. (If I had to guess, likely by focusing on the 'happy path' where the relevant properties hold, filling in arguments according to their favored viewpoint, and tacitly cutting out edge cases where the definitions differ.)

So if many mathematicians can go without fixed definitions, then they can certainly go without fixed foundations, and try to 'fix everything up' if something ever goes wrong.
by Nextgrid | 2025-12-20 21:16:30+00:00
Because it's not stealing. Stealing is a problem because it deprives the original owner of the item - whether the thief subsequently uses the item or not doesn't change that.

This doesn't apply to dematerialized content: the original copy still exists. The only negative impact occurs if someone decides to actually use the pirated copy in place of buying a licensed one.

The mere existence of this new pirate copy being around doesn't automatically imply that, especially if other, more convenient sources are available.
by labcomputer | 2025-12-20 21:16:48+00:00
> Doesn’t remove the need for nat - my wired IsP might be able to bgp with me, but my backup 5g won’t, and when I want to choose which to send my traffic through with PBR that means natting.

Yes, it does. You just have each of your routers (wired and 5G) advertise the /64 prefix delegated by each of your ISPs. Your hosts will self-assign a v6 address from each prefix.

To control which link the traffic uses, you just assign router priority in the router advertisement (these are all standard settings in radvd.conf).

> Things like SLACC make it harder to work out what devices are on the network

Again, not true. If you really don’t trust your devices, then DHCP isn’t going to save you. Malicious hosts absolutely can self assign an unused v4 address, and you’ll be none the wiser if you just look at your DHCP leases.
by rckclmbr | 2025-12-20 21:17:17+00:00
You can’t talk about what.cd without talking about its precursor OiNks Pink Palace. Even Trent Reznor was public about what an amazing place it was. Music aside, the community existing just for the shared love of music and not for any other kind of monetary or influencer gain is what set it apart. We just don’t have those kinds of communities for music online anymore
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-12-20 21:17:29+00:00
The foundations have real implications on very little of the mathematics. Say I'm working in differential equations in vector spaces. I really do not care whether the axiom of choice is true or false. I'm not building up my functions of multiple real parameters out of sets.

You say you have a foundation where that is in fact what I am doing? Great, if that floats your boat. I don't care. That's several layers of abstraction away from what I'm doing. I pretty much only care about stuff at my layer, and maybe one layer above or below.
by zzzeek | 2025-12-20 21:18:08+00:00
great. Spotify just removes things all the time (things I actively listen to and work on for my jazz practices, one day just go "poof" because they didn't want to pay the record company anymore), and they are not as a company deserving of the role of "keeper of all the world's music". They don't give a shit and they'd vastly prefer we all listen to their AI generated royalty free crap and Joe Rogan.
by wavemode | 2025-12-20 21:18:13+00:00
It may actually have the opposite effect - the instruction to not use prior knowledge may have been what caused Gemini 3 to assume incorrect details about how certain puzzles worked and get itself stuck for hours. It knew the right answer (from some game walkthrough in its training data), but intentionally went in a different direction in order to pretend that it didn't know. So, paradoxically, the results of the test end up worse than if the model truly didn't know.
Ask HN: Are you afraid of AI making you unemployable within the next few years?
by johnwheeler | 2025-12-20 21:18:30+00:00
On Hacker News and Twitter, the consensus view is that no one is afraid. People concede that junior engineers and grad students might be the most affected. But, they still seem to hold on to their situations as being sustainable. My question is, is this just a part of wishful thinking and human nature, trying to combat the inevitable? The reason I ask is because I seriously don't see a future where there's a bunch of programmers anymore. I see mass unemployment for programmers. People are in denial, and all of these claims that the AI can't write code without making mistakes are no longer valid once an AI is released potentially overnight, that writes flawless code. Claude 4.5 is a good example. I just really don't see any valid arguments that the technology is not going to get to a point where it makes the job irrelevant, not irrelevant, but completely changes the economics.
by Svip | 2025-12-20 21:18:58+00:00
Perhaps it should also avoid putting too much emphasis on several comments to the same story: there was a story about VAT changes in Denmark, where I participated with several comments; but the generator decided that I apparently had a high focus vat, when I just wanted to provide some clarifying context to that story. I wonder how comments are weighed, is it individually or per story?

Specifically this roast:

> You have commented about the specific nuances of Danish VAT and accounting system hardcoding at least four times, proving you are the only person on Earth who finds tax infrastructure more exciting than the books being taxed.

Yeah, but I did it on the same story (i.e. context).

Though the other details it picked up, I cannot really argue with: the VAT bit just stood out to me.
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-12-20 21:19:48+00:00
> Mathematicians do care about how much "black magic" they're invoking, and like to use simple constructions where possible (the field of reverse mathematics makes the central object of study).

I'd be careful about generalizing that to all or most 'mathematicians'. E.g., people working in a lot of fields won't bat an eye at invoking the real numbers when the rational or algebraic numbers would do.