MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by flavioaiello | 2025-12-24 11:15:26+00:00
https://github.com/magikrun

Back in 2020, while federating more than 100 service meshes across on-prem and AWS for a big hybrid cloud project, I had an idea: what if we could "split" the CAP theorem in a way that flips its limitations, enabling massive scaling far beyond traditional consensus protocols? Fast-forward five years:I started prototyping with libp2p, but the networking layer was always just a means to an end; the real goal is that CAP inversion/split for extreme distributed scaling. I think the timing is perfect given current geopolitical pushes.

Super curious to hear thoughts from folks. Any pitfalls I'm missing? Open to feedback or collaborators.
by SunlitCat | 2025-12-24 11:15:45+00:00
I’m generally skeptical of Windows optimization tools because they tend to change a lot of low-level settings and make troubleshooting harder later on. When someone already has a broken system, it’s often difficult to figure out what’s wrong once a tool like this has touched everything.

This one looks more like a PowerShell automation and debloating script for power users than a classic one-click optimizer, but it still requires knowing exactly what each tweak does. Used without that understanding, tools like this can easily create confusing problems.
by foldr | 2025-12-24 11:16:06+00:00
Believe Everett if you want to, but it doesn’t make much difference to anything. Not every language has to exploit the option of recursive clausal embedding. The implications for generative linguistics are pretty minor. Yes, Everett responded to the paper I linked, and then there were further papers in the chain of responses (e.g. http://lingphil.mit.edu/papers/pesetsk/Nevins_Pesetsky_Rodri...).

> And when I asked that before, you linked a sixty-page paper, with no further indication ("various things"?) of what you want to talk about.

I was suggesting that we talk about the central claim of the paper (i.e. that the answer to question (50) is ‘yes’).

I don’t see how it’s reasonable to ask for something smaller than a paper if you want evidence that Chomsky’s research program has achieved some insight. That’s the space required to argue for a particular viewpoint rather than just state it.

In other words, if I concisely summarize Chomsky’s findings you’ll just dismiss them as bogus, and if I link to a paper arguing for a particular result, you’ll say it’s too long to read. So, essentially, you have decided not to engage with Chomsky’s work. That is a perfectly legitimate thing to do, but it does mean that you cannot make informed criticisms of it.
by Haeuserschlucht | 2025-12-24 11:16:43+00:00
I'm also on this track and I'm having this issue of seeing a wall of text and because I'm exposed to a lot of walls of text it is just too much information and I cannot comprehend the gist of it what I wanted to say. But on the same token, I think you are not really making it easier with this visual approach of mindmaps. But I don't really feel like sharing a better approach because your question is commercial.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-12-24 11:17:20+00:00
Well, a popular feature could be one that is wholly designed to protect corporate computers from "valuable" employees themselves.

Plus there's always an unrelated desire to prohibit access to corporate files by malicious intruders.

When it comes to enterprise, what kind of brain-dead executive would settle for these features to be very similar, much less one and the same?

And if the same feature functions for private PC owners by erring on the side of separating them from their data, you're supposed to be aware of your own track record when it comes to number of years of continuous error-free operation.

Plus be able to figure out the difference between enterprise and consumer approaches, and they might just have different needs by default, duh.

Apple is already taking things like this to the bank, meanwhile bitlocker is spreading un-noticed by most consumers and could very well be a landslide if it pops up in a widespread way.

Interestingly, bitlocker has entered without explicit user permission, and now lurks unseen in many "personal" PCs in the way most malicious intruders would like to see their ransomware spread its remote encryption abilities.

Could even be a Microsoft excutive working their way up to being hired by Apple, maybe not so brain-dead after all :\
by imtringued | 2025-12-24 11:17:31+00:00
STL is not used outside of 3d printing for obvious reasons.

STLs have an obvious quality problem with geometry since they have an internal resolution that cannot be changed. The amount of people printing STL artifacts into their plastic parts is kind of ridiculous, honestly speaking.

The other problem is that CNC machines turn the geometry encoded by STEP files into toolpaths. This is basically impossible with meshes unless you want to mill the STL artifacts right into your part with a generic tool.

In subtractive manufacturing the manufacturer has to choose a selection of tools and assign each tool to the relevant features of the part. If you want holes you need a drill, if you want threads you need a tap, if you want fillets or chamfers, there is a tool for that and so on.

Your STL file is the equivalent of a JPEG here. It has already lost the critical information that is needed to manufacture your part.
by block_hacks | 2025-12-24 11:18:02+00:00
That’s a fair question.

Blockchain security work is rarely just cryptography in isolation. Web3 applications are still web applications. Wallets, dashboards, admin panels, and APIs are part of the system, and many of them are built with frameworks like Next.js.

Many of our clients building decentralized applications use Next.js as the frontend and sometimes as the backend-for-frontend layer. In real audits, issues often span both sides: smart contracts and the web stack that exposes them.

This article focuses on the web execution side of that reality, not on-chain cryptography. If you are only interested in protocol-level or cryptographic audits, we publish separate articles that focus specifically on those topics.

The point here is that compromises do not respect category boundaries. They usually start at the web layer and move inward.

Out of curiosity, in your experience, do you usually see real-world compromises starting at the contract layer itself, or at the surrounding web and infrastructure layer that interfaces with it?
by eviks | 2025-12-24 11:18:07+00:00
Now that you've shifted the goalposts back closer to the original discussion, what's your point? Yes, you can leak the "nonexisting" file in multiple ways, including the printed one, and yes, "accidents" happen. So are they more likely to happen if you ban digital search and force paper and ink redaction instead? Are they more likely to happen if you black out digitally before printing or underline digitally and ink out physically?

And the "obvious word needle in a haystack of many thousands of pages" isn't as self-healing as you appear to think it is.
by 6510 | 2025-12-24 11:20:04+00:00
In 1993 Rotterdam had it's first automated container terminal with driverless AGVs. If someone walked onto the road all alarms went off and everything shut down. Not something you will do twice.

A few months a go a dutch train hit a truck that had been stuck on a crossing trying to turn for something like 15 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsuyLs_0C0I

This is how technology is "progressing".

With a bunch of sensors, some cameras, some relays, a simple computer and a bit of software you can make fork lifts work. We are even spoiled with AI now, should be easy to spot safety violations as false positives are not an issue.
by locknitpicker | 2025-12-24 11:21:00+00:00
> Since hundreds of people were involved the most likely explanation is incompetence

Hundreds of people might be involved, but the only key factor required for a single point of failure to propagate to the deliverable is lack of verification.

And God knows how the Trump administration is packed with inexperiente incompetents assigned to positions where they are way way over their head, and routinely commit the most basic mistakes.
by Nevermark | 2025-12-24 11:22:54+00:00
> In my opinion that's more than enough, especially when you compare it to requiring everyone to identify themselves.

The solution I proposed was the opposite of people identifying themselves.

Zero knowledge proofs. Enabling trusted verification without revealing identity is exactly what cryptographers designed them for.

We should be using them everywhere. Like end-to-end encryption they provide massive privacy, security, and trust (I.e. ability to verify intended disclosure) improvements.

Or we can complain about parents, the ones who care enough to ask for better help, while legislatures keep passing identity revealing anti-privacy rules. That seems to be the direction many are taking here. Complain, condescendingly, don’t solve anything. Repeat.
by bayindirh | 2025-12-24 11:24:31+00:00
We tend to underestimate the progress we managed to make in the last 100 years or so. There was a small TV segment showing the earliest vacuum cleaners. Both vacuum and cleaning looks like wishful thinking compared to what we have today.

Heck, the rechargeable vacuum I have at home has more power than what I used to the one I plugged to the wall ~20 years ago. Reducing the cost of CFD via higher performance computers did wonders in efficient system design, and that's just one aspect of life.

We have 1.5L Turbo / Hybrid engines which can propel the vehicle quicker than a run of the mill V6 of yore, too, and I find this amazing.

I always wanted to have a bigger engine because of the agility in emergency conditions. Now the bog standard car has more agility than I even dreamed of.
by 3D30497420 | 2025-12-24 11:25:24+00:00
> Well, that ain't as bad news/punishment as it used to be.

Agreed. My company (which is smallish but quite international) has largely stopped meetups/conferences/etc. in the US because so many people either have to wait ages for a visa, or are from countries now on blacklists. This is not to mention the risk of getting randomly pulled by TSA/ICE/etc. I have to imagine this is much more widespread than just my company as well.

Fun to watch a superpower attempt self-destruction. /s Too bad it'll probably hurt all of us in some form or another.
by avianlyric | 2025-12-24 11:27:06+00:00
We’re talking about a UI interface here. How exactly would you ask Apple to “license its technology” there? Apple needs tell people how to trigger that interface, and Apple needs to support 3rd parties trigging that interface.

Apple could “license its technology”, but what use would that be. Having other phone manufacturers implement the same UI doesn’t change the market distorting effects of the iPhone.
by risyachka | 2025-12-24 11:29:05+00:00
Regarding culture I was unfortunate I had to briefly learn some russian history.

And why not useful?

Kinda obvious if you studied russia even basic via wikipedia. Russia has absolutely nothing to offer - neither to individuals nor to the world in general. The only thing they ever did are wars. And all inventions etc they copy/steal or those very few are result of research into weapons.

And the people is another story. Go to russia and see for yourslft.

Why would one learn language of this country if you can learn spanish/portuguese etc and get actual value from it or at least be able to communicate with nice people with come culture
by charcircuit | 2025-12-24 11:29:41+00:00
>We added a point of failure, as the permissions table can get out of sync with the actual data.

>The main risk with pre-computed permissions is data getting out of sync.

It would make sense to have permissions be a first class concept for databases and to ensure such a desync could never happen. Data being only read or written from specific users is a very common thing for data so it would be worth having first class support for it.
by jonway | 2025-12-24 11:30:30+00:00
well, I think its relevant to tech, vc, and startups.

An event like this exposes a chink in legacy media practices that could be distrupted by a new media player like youtube, or whatever.

If 60minutes had used a more modern distribution platform such as Apple TV or YouTube they could have programmatically squashed the distribution of the episode without the need to police their various global distribution partners. I mean frankly, global bespoke distribution deals are a terrible UX anyhow.

They failed to do that in this case and here is the fallout.
by mikkupikku | 2025-12-24 11:30:36+00:00
Even the age at which you can buy various types of guns varies from state-to-state and that is ostensibly a constitutional right assured to all citizens. In Montana, a child is allowed to buy a gun from anybody other than an FFL. If they're 18 they can also buy rifles from FFLs. They can even buy machine guns if they have the money for it. Meanwhile in California, an 18 year old cannot buy even a single shot .22 rifle, they aren't allowed to purchase any gun until they are 21 years old. Imagine if Texas passed a law saying that you don't get your first ammendment rights until you're 21 years old. This is the America we live in.
by wkat4242 | 2025-12-24 11:31:13+00:00
Yes I remember that incident. It was big over here.

However I'm 100% sure that that was not a real spy incident. But rather just a 'message' to be sent from the Russian govt. The same way they have infiltrated our airspace with TU-95 bombers nearly every month for decades. Just a message "Hey we are still watching you".

When you see how ridiculously incompetent they were, not just their phone history but also the gear they had with them. It amounts to nothing more than a scriptkiddy's pineapple. There's no way they would have been able to do any serious infiltration into any kind of even remotely competent organisation.

Also the visible fumbling about in a carpark with overly complex antennas instead of something more hidden (e.g. an apartment across the street, a cabling tent or something). IMO the objective here was to get caught and stir a fuss.
by omnimus | 2025-12-24 11:31:28+00:00
Fonts might seem trivial but actually there is a lot of engineering going on underneath. There is whole programming language underneath that allows fonts to do what they do, spacing between characters, how they should be rasterized on screens and also making them widely compatible.

So in same way as one would expect “its just a CRUD app” it should be trivial computing task to make a “different” copy. No unless you do some decompilation of the font which is breaking the license.

About why people bother… maybe the biggest issue typography (and lot of design in general) have is that if done right it's mostly invisible or natural. You notice typography only when it's done badly - it's very subconscious. That doesn't mean it's not ongoing topic with experts dedicating their lives to it. And for them even differences between variations of Helvetica matter. If you look around yourself you will have typography absolutely everywhere - you have probably 1000s of different fonts just in your home. You probably don't notice them but you would if our society standards were lower.
by risyachka | 2025-12-24 11:31:37+00:00
Yup.

Not because of war. Because all russia has to offer this world is destruction and learning russian is the biggest waste of time one can come up with.

Only if you don't know any russians you may think "I may communicate with them". When time comes and you meet more than 1 random example of them - you will not want to speak with them ever again.

These are facts from big numbers of people who actually konw them.

If you think "but i know a guy at work at my US company he is from russia" - mate, he is nothing like russians, and he also hides like 90% of his true self.
by xnorswap | 2025-12-24 11:32:21+00:00
I thought the UK ranked well, I didn't realise it ranked that well.

Maybe there's something to be said for left-hand driving, I see Japan ranks very highly too. ;)

The real reason is I guess we take road safety seriously, we have strict drink-driving laws, and our driving test is genuinely difficult to pass.

I seem to remember road safety also featuring prominently throughout the primary national curriculum.

And of course, our infamous safety adverts that you never quite forget, such as: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKHY69AFstE
by mikkupikku | 2025-12-24 11:34:23+00:00
Shouting fire in a crowded theater was never literal, it was an analogy for speech that runs counter to the government's desires, namely protesting the draft to fight in some pointless inhuman European meat grinder, thousands of miles from home.

Anti-war protests were what was meant by "shouting fire in a theater". That's what our government was trying to ban.
by kvemkon | 2025-12-24 11:34:30+00:00
> Writing Russuan is not that difficult

Never thought the difference mastering writing can be so significant. Just like to add what I understand regarding this. It's rather about not making any mistake writing by hand ca. 1-2 DIN A4 pages while someone reads a text (slow enough). I can't remember exactly but making only one (or two) mistake(s) and it is not anymore excellent (just good). Making 4-7 mistakes and it is not good (just sufficient). Making few more and it is bad which means failed. It's a long text with a very short path to fail.

Ukrainian is less difficult to write. There are claims that standardization/reform of Russian made it more artificial (far from natural people language) with overtaking too many words from Latin languages. When I read / listen to Belorussian I think they have even more luck with matching pronunciation/writing than Ukrainian. Which suggests this language is even closer to the common roots old language. (I'm not a linguist.)
by YY348762378 | 2025-12-24 11:35:05+00:00
Jaques Baud is not a "mouthpiece". He has never appeared on Russian state TV and has taken great pains to avoid citing Russian sources in his analysis. The problem is that what he has been saying about the Ukraine war (that the war is not winnable and peace should be negotiated as soon as possible) is dangerous as to European leadership.
by redhale | 2025-12-24 11:35:08+00:00
Did either of you read the article? You seem to be arguing against a point it doesn't make. Tools like Claude Code are entirely capable today of one-shotting tiny bespoke web apps that do a narrow set of things for an audience of one.

The article isn't talking about "large brownfield projects" or people wanting "success [to] come rolling in". It's about people making little apps for themselves, for personal enjoyment, not profit.
by joshribakoff | 2025-12-24 11:35:49+00:00
> Fortunately, once you've toggled Live Plus off, you no longer have to worry about your TV screen constantly being read

Not true, one may still find themselves worrying, especially since the factory reset or software update could add more “features” that we don’t want. Fortunately, once you’ve sworn off buying an LG product, you no longer have to worry.
by abc123abc123 | 2025-12-24 11:35:53+00:00
Yep. Very little freedom of speech in the EU if you're conservative/nationalist, so it is very fun to see how the EU political nobility react when they get to experience the same thing as countless critics of massimmigration. I hope that Trump continues to help european nationalists/conservatives to fight back against the leftists who have been monopolizing the power in the EU for far too long.
by jeroenhd | 2025-12-24 11:36:21+00:00
Hardly a surprise that the country run by the ghouls who won their elections through lies and manipulation are going after people attempting to combat "fake news", but the blatant way they go about it is what sickens me the most. It used to be, at least for a while, that these kinds of direct attacks had to at least be wrapped in some kind of bigger package that pretends to serve the common good so politicians could pretend they had a reason not to object, but America has gone fully mask-off.

America knows Europe is feeling the Russian threat down their neck and that they cannot afford the war against Putin without American help, so America can do what they want without risk of consequences.

I hope the American people aren't expecting European help for their upcoming invasion of Venezuela. I doubt European nations are willing to repeat the fiasco in the middle east in the middle of the American destabilisation campaign.
by adrian_b | 2025-12-24 11:40:58+00:00
There have been many authors who have claimed about various old languages that they lacked words for some colors, and "brown" is one of the most frequent colors about which such claims have been made.

I believe that most such claims, if not all, were wrong. The problem is that when reading an ancient text in which colors are mentioned it is very difficult to guess which is the color that is meant by some word and it frequently is difficult to even be sure that the word refers to a color and not to some other kind of property of an object.

There are very rare cases when the text says something like "this object is X like blood", so you can infer that X = "red", or "this object is Y like the sky", so you can infer that Y = "blue".

Brown is a color for which it is even rarer to find suitable comparisons in a text, from which the color can be inferred, than for colors like red, green or blue, which are typically compared to blood, grass and sky.

So when various authors have claimed that there was no word for "brown" in some old language, the truth was that they just were unable to find any word whose meaning could be determined with certainty to be "brown", in the preserved texts, even if there were plenty of words that most likely meant "brown".

Moreover, in nature there are many shades of brown, lighter or darker, more reddish or more yellowish, which is why in many languages there are multiple words for brown, which are derived from various things that have that particular shade of brown, e.g. words that mean coffee-brown, chestnut-brown, dry-earth brown, brown like the fur of certain animals, etc. Such words that identify a particular shade with reference to a familiar object have been renewed from time to time, in function of which objects have become more familiar or less familiar. After coffee became a very popular beverage, in many languages it has replaced whatever reference object was previously used for a dark brown.

As an example, many have claimed that Ancient Greek had no word for "brown". However, when reading Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, i.e. the oldest Greek texts except for the Mycenaean tablets, there already are a lot of places where there is no doubt that "brown" was meant by the word "aithono-". This is an adjective derived from the verb "to burn", and most dictionaries say that it means "burning". However, in the actual texts there are plenty of places where it does not mean "burning", but it means "burnt", more precisely "having the color of burnt wood", i.e. brown. This is not surprising. Another word used in the same way is "anthrakos", which can be used either for an object red like a burning ember (e.g. for red garnets or rubies) or for an object black like an extinguished ember (e.g. for coal).
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-12-24 11:41:17+00:00
No shareholders. I'm retired, after a long career, doing stuff I found meaningful, but never really earned me huge piles of money. Being retired has been wonderful. I get to learn whatever the heck I want. I still make stuff that is meaningful, but I don't make money at it (which isn't actually a bad thing).

I guess finding a meaningful life has always been more important to me, than being rewarded in money. I know that makes me a mutant, around these parts, but that's how I roll.