MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lubujackson | 2025-12-18 02:20:19+00:00
This is a stupid take if we are talking about an actual "bailout" and not an oversized "grease the palms of my golfing buddies" grift.

The only relation to a bailout is the amount of money. But OpenAI doesn't have any infrastructure risk or systemic risk. There isn't even an industry collapse risk because if OpenAI collapses Google and open source models will happily soak up their users.

Now I could totally see a "Big Beautiful Bailout" happening, but again, that would just be more grift. A bailout is meant to recoup from a mistake. Throw a trillion at OpenAI and you... increase their runway a couple of years?
by kazinator | 2025-12-18 02:20:48+00:00
In compound noun phrases, nouns serve as adjective-like modifiers.

By the way, modifying compounds generally must not be plurals, to the extent that even pluralia tantum words like scissors and pants get forced into a pseudo-singular form in order to serve as modifiers, giving us scissor lift and pant leg, which must not be scissors lift and pants leg.

An example of a noun phrase containing many modifying nouns is something like: law school entrance examination grading procedure workflow.

The order among modifying nouns is semantically critical and different from euphonic adjective order; examples in which modifying nouns are permuted, resulting in strange or nonsensical interpretations, or bad grammar, are not valid for demonstrating constraintsa mong the order of true adjectives which independently apply to their subject.

For instance, red, big house is strange and wants to be big, red house. The house is independently big and red.

This is not related to why entrance examination grading procedure cannot be changed to examination entrance grading procedure. The modifiers do not target the head, but each other. "entrance" applies to "examination", not to "procedure" or "grading".
by eru | 2025-12-18 02:23:38+00:00
Huh? How did the USSR have infinite resources? They were barely kept afloat by western allied help (especially at the beginning). Remember also how Tsarist Russia was the first power to collapse and get knocked out of the war in WW1, long before the war was over. They did worse than even the proverbial 'Sick Man of Europe', the Ottoman Empire.

Not saying that the Nazi strategy was without flaws, of course. But your specific critique is a bit too blunt.
by brendoelfrendo | 2025-12-18 02:24:44+00:00
Yeah, and without subtitles, the course content is not accessible to the deaf and hard of hearing... which the law says it has to be. UC Berkeley decided not to make their content accessible, and when someone complained, they took it all apart rather than making a reasonable (and legally required) accommodation. I guess I don't see why I'd blame the person filing the lawsuit here. UC Berkeley could have just... put up subtitles.
by Legend2440 | 2025-12-18 02:25:56+00:00
> TikTok was only able to receive this information with the help of the Israeli data company AppsFlyer and Grindr itself.

So basically, the TikTok app is not spying on your dating apps - your dating apps are willingly selling your information to them, through intermediaries.

This means uninstalling tiktok won’t help. And worse, many other companies are getting your dating info too.
by Tracy978 | 2025-12-18 02:26:40+00:00
Great points on LED streetlights’ ecological risks! While white LEDs often worsen light pollution, specialized LEDs—like UV strips for controlled sterilization (details:https://ledsuntech.com/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-use-of...)—show how targeted tech can balance efficiency and sustainability. Your solutions (lower-CCT, full-cutoff, dimming) are spot-on. The future lies in smart, spectrum-aware lighting across all applications!
by jrflowers | 2025-12-18 02:26:55+00:00
>The organization that recently released the report alleging the contrary is the same one that released that report earlier this year claiming that if you say “Christ is King” then you’re a white supremacist.

No, Rutgers University did not publish a report that says “if you say ‘Christ is King’ then you’re a white supremacist”. You can read about it here, it’s only 20 pages and well-sourced.

https://networkcontagion.us/reports/3-13-25-thy-name-in-vain...
by Vpsteroski | 2025-12-18 02:29:16+00:00
The relation between Venezuela and the US is currently pretty tense but I doubt that Trump would declare war on Venezuela so fast. I'd say they would try to cool down a bit by negotiating peace deals. Sure, they are not friends, but I doubt the Trump Administration would declare a full-out WAR on Venezuela. Also note that the data has passed and Trump has not invaded (or declared a war) on Venezuela.
by mcny | 2025-12-18 02:29:38+00:00
Does anyone know if AMD 8845HS with 780M graphics (running fedora) can into this? Ideally very low system resources used, I only have 16GB RAM, also ideally very little storage space used, one or two frames per second is enough, ideally should compress even more if nothing has changed in the screen for a while, also ideally should create a new file every eight hours or so.
by mustache_kimono | 2025-12-18 02:29:38+00:00
> Your sense seems more than a little unrigorous. 1/160 = 0.00625. So, several orders of magnitude fewer CVEs per line of code.

This is incorrect. Chalk it up to the flu and fever! Sorry.

0.00625 == .625%. or about twice the instance of Rust code however as stated above these are just the metric from one patch cycle.
by FireBeyond | 2025-12-18 02:31:14+00:00
Are you throwing LIDAR under the bus for one computer upgrade? How many has Tesla done now to try to meet its claim of "all Teslas have the hardware"?

> One owner told InsideEVs that her EX90 has been a "dumpster fire inside a train wreck."

Quite the anecdote, surely Tesla has never had an owner say that!
by eru | 2025-12-18 02:31:29+00:00
My model is a bit simpler: model quality is something like the logarithm of effort you put into making the model. (Assuming you know what you are doing with your effort.)

So I don't think we are on any sigmoid curve or so. Though if you plot the performance of the best model available at any point in time against time on the x-axis, you might see a sigmoid curve, but that's a combination of the logarithm and the amount of effort people are willing to spend on making new models.

(I'm not sure about it specifically being the logarithm. Just any curve that has rapidly diminishing marginal returns that nevertheless never go to zero, ie the curve never saturates.)
by zamadatix | 2025-12-18 02:31:41+00:00
"Unused" isn't quite the right term here. "Misassigned if they were to design their network today" or something would be more apt.

I had a networking job where we had a /16 legacy assignment nearly completely used but only one /24 "in use" according to what you could see from the internet. We looked at how the space was worth about a million dollars at the time but found it was not really worth it to try to move off anyways. Unfortunately, a lot of the devices smattered across that space were embedded devices where we had to pay bespoke vendors to come change the IP assignments or devices with IPs statically coded into home grown applications and every other sort of nightmare you could imagine. It'd have taken many bodies for a year + the associated costs + any of the operational fallout. At the following job we had roughly the same number of employees as Ford and our 10/8 was very tight as a unified network.

I'm not saying it would be as hard for Ford to try to find sub-blocks worth selling off or anything, just highlighting that waaaaay more of that IP space is being used than it seems from that picture and they likely do have a lot similar piece of shit equipment/sensors/building control and whatnot as well.
by lrvick | 2025-12-18 02:31:42+00:00
For anyone that wants dead simple LFS style, full source bootstrapped, deterministic, multi-party compiled/signed container native images with hash pinning for your entire dependency graph, that will be free forever, check out stagex.

None of the alternatives come anywhere close to what we needed to satisfy a threat model that trusts no single maintainer or computer, so we started over from actually zero.

https://stagex.tools
by willis936 | 2025-12-18 02:31:52+00:00
I also agree with this. Microsoft successfully removed my entire household from ever owning one of their products again after this year. Apple and linux make up the entire delta.

As long as Apple doesn't take any crazy left turns with their privacy policy then it should be relatively harmless if they add in a google wrapper to iOS (and we won't need to take hard right turns with grapheneOS phones and framework laptops).
by akoboldfrying | 2025-12-18 02:31:54+00:00
I actually think "concealing the question" is not only a good idea, but a rather general and powerful idea that should be much more widely deployed (but often won't be, for what I consider "emotional reasons").

Example: You are probably already aware that almost any metric that you try to use to measure code quality can be easily gamed. One possible strategy is to choose a weighted mixture of metrics and conceal the weights. The weights can even change over time. Is it perfect? No. But it's at least correlated with code quality -- and it's not trivially gameable, which puts it above most individual public metrics.
by mc3301 | 2025-12-18 02:31:55+00:00
Youtube: There are a few long-form creators I watch, maybe 4 hours a month of content. Besides that, viewing history is off, no apps, browser extensions block mostly everything (comments, suggestions, etc.)

Instagram: I have a 15 minute daily timer, because I sometimes post, and I sometimes receive DMs.

Reddit: Fully blocked, I think I ublocked everything.

Tiktok: I won't even download it ever again. It has an algorithm like no other for sucking me in. Dangerously addictive.

Facebook? Deleted it completely around 2013, so no idea what's going on there.
by ideavo | 2025-12-18 02:32:03+00:00
That resonates a lot.

I’ve noticed the same thing: if the shape of the problem is still interesting after the novelty wears off and progress stalls, that’s usually the real signal. The visible demo work is easy; the hard part is exactly what you said—defining “done,” handling edge cases, and making systems behave consistently under stress. If those invisible constraints keep pulling you back, it’s usually because there’s something fundamentally worth building there.
by bdangubic | 2025-12-18 02:32:48+00:00
it is possible through legislation. slap them with the fine equal to their two previous years ebita combined and all this stops within an hour. of course not like people that need to pass a legislation aren’t bought for a fraction of that.

these things are why frequent comments on HN that go “this company is not using our data for training, it is in ToS etc…” makes me literally LOL.
by fragmede | 2025-12-18 02:34:25+00:00
There are three possibilities though. One is Instagram copying TikTok, without their knowledge, the other is Instagram copying your TikTok feed with their knowledge but not their blessing, and finally Instagram copying your TikTok feed with TikTok's knowledge and their blessing. If we take a look at http://TikTok.com/robots.txt, it seems if you make your TikTok public, TikTok is happy to let Instagram take a look at it (but not a number of AI crawlers). What Instagram does with it is up to them, but it's in robots.txt.
by jalapenos | 2025-12-18 02:35:28+00:00
It's widely accepted that the US lost in Vietnam due not to military defeat, but from the clever Tet Offensive - where they successfully influenced US politics via US journalism, to cause them to simply cease fighting.

Whether they should have bothered in the first place though, given how corrupt and dysfunctional the regime in the south was, is an open moral question.
by hyperadvanced | 2025-12-18 02:36:01+00:00
Ironically, AI is really good at the adding tests later thing. It can really help round out test coverage for a piece of code and create some reusable stuff that can inspire you to test even more.

I’m not a super heavy AI user but I’ve vibe coded a few things for the frontend with it. It has helped me understand how you lay out react apps a little better and how the legos that React gives you work. Probably far less than if I had done it from scratch and read a book but sometimes a working prototype is so much more valuable to a product initiative than learning a programming language is that you would be absolutely burning time and value to not vibe code the prototype
by ideavo | 2025-12-18 02:36:06+00:00
It’s a bit of both.

I’m not in the industry or part of a company yet—I’m still on the younger side.

I’ve had many ideas and I work on them, but nothing really takes off. I keep coming back to the same question: is this worth it? Especially because every idea I have, I run it by my friends—they love it, I build it, they don’t use it, and I’m left with a dead project, a half-empty wallet, and goals I could have pushed further with if I hadn't taken up the project.

Bit of an ad because I am trying my best to get my product out there everywhere.
by eru | 2025-12-18 02:36:07+00:00
Whether Googling something counts as AI has more to do with the shifting definition of AI over time, then with Googling itself.

Remember, really back in the day the A* search algorithm was part of AI.

If you had asked anyone in the 1970s whether a box that given a query pinpoints the right document that answers that question (aka Google search in the early 2000s), they'd definitely would have called it AI.
by mc32 | 2025-12-18 02:36:20+00:00
Yeah and that was for innocuous tapes. Imagine what they would have done if the rentals had been salacious?

That said, if I were to imagine myself working at a place like that when they existed, I can't see myself turning over customer data like that willy-nilly to someone fishing for information. Like are you the police, what gives?
by Dylan16807 | 2025-12-18 02:36:41+00:00
Yes, business.

This wasn't business. There were no profits to divert into making better subtitles.

And the ratio of effort between making a recording versus making a recording and then manually subtitling it is completely out of whack compared to the ratio you have in full produced works. There's a reasonable level of accommodation, and the reasonable level is below a doubling in costs.

I'm someone that would significantly raise the subtitling requirements on youtube if I could. But in this case I just don't feel it.
by cheschire | 2025-12-18 02:36:44+00:00
I remember one night my dad drove up to a building with three letters on it. Walked up to some lady behind a desk inside the front door, and after arguing for a bit, pulled out his checkbook and wrote on it, passing the check to her. I watched as he turned and walked back to the car looking a sad mixture of dejected and pissed.

I asked “what’s I.T.T?”

He said “it stands for Blood Sucking Leeches.”

And we drove home.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITT_Technical_Institute
by yibg | 2025-12-18 02:38:14+00:00
Not sure if they're explicitly sharing data, but there does seem to be something that's sharing data across the platforms. When I buy something from Tiktok, the ads for the same thing shows up on my instagram almost instantly. Doesn't necessarily mean they're directly sharing data of course, could be a third party too. But as a consumer that has very little difference for me.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-12-18 02:39:04+00:00
Dehumanize humans, and humanize non-humans.

Makes sense to me…

But seriously, naming things is always a sticky wicket.

I tend to name my various devices as characters from Glen Cook’s The Black Company.

My iPhone is Thai Dei, my iPad is Soulcatcher, my Watch is Goblin, and my Mac is Mogaba. It helps me to keep them distinct from my simulators.

If I wanted really crazy names, I’d use Garret P.I. As a source.
by bavent | 2025-12-18 02:40:50+00:00
I’m not defending anything except the fact that I found this blog post informative. The fact that you went looking for something to take issue with the write over that was completely unrelated to their post, and now are just inventing caricatures about me in your head in order to have some weird fantasy about me crying out in pain is pretty fucking weird dude. You do need therapy.
by stefan_ | 2025-12-18 02:41:50+00:00
It is made illegal. As the post notes, you need to (1) give notice and (2) data collected needs to be made available in a user access request and (3) deleted irrevocably on request. You must have a legitimate reason to process and store this data (scattershot forwarding to everyone is a prima facie violation). Unless you comply with all of these, you are in violation.
by wtfwhateven | 2025-12-18 02:42:07+00:00
>There are many horrible conflicts throughout the world(i.e. Sudan, Syria, Myanmar)

So? Are you saying no resolutions were passed regarding them?

>the Israel-Palestinian conflict is quite far from the worst by virtually all metrics

By what metrics exactly?

>UNWatch is focused on the UN

Nope. It is focused on pretending Israel has never done anything wrong ever and has been for a while now.

>The UN doesn't have much power in general, still doesn't justify the extreme anti-Israel bias

There is no extreme anti-Israel bias.

>especially when there are so many other conflicts that are much worse.

In the present? No there is not.

>By that logic the Jews being arrested by the Nazi police....should have just accepted their behavior(being Jewish) as being the problem.

Not in the slightest. Please don't intentionally misinterpret what I said to push such a ridiculous and sick idea. That's a ridiculous straw man.

Your retort would only make sense if my hypothetical didn't explicitly state "committing crimes and keep being arrested for them". You know that, you just wanted to to try and vilify me while dodging the question.

To try and dissuade any further attempt to strawman I'll clarify:

If I keep assaulting people on camera and keep being arrested for those assaulting people does it make any sense to complain about the police arresting me all the time instead of realizing my own behavior (assaulting people) is why I keep being arrested? According to you that makes perfect sense.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-12-18 02:42:31+00:00
> No nulls, no nullability bombs.

I hate this meme. Null indicates something. If you disallow null that same state gets encoded in some other way. And if you don't properly check for that state you get the exact same class of bug. The desirable type system feature here is the ability to statically verify that such a check has occurred every time a variable is accessed.

Another example is bounds checking. Languages that stash the array length somewhere and verify against it on access eliminate yet another class of bug without introducing any programmer overhead (although there generally is some runtime overhead).
by Animats | 2025-12-18 02:45:23+00:00
Grindr had a big data "leak" in 2024.[1] Not a "leak", really, just ordinary reselling of people's gay and HIV status. In 2025, a data broker who resold Grindr data also had a big breach. That wasn't Grindr-specific - it included Temple Run, Subway Surfers, Tinder, Grindr, MyFitnessPal, Candy Crush, Truecaller, 9GAG, Microsoft 365, and others. But not TikTok, because TikTok monetizes that info themselves.

[1] https://thehill.com/business/4614940-grindr-sold-hiv-status-...

[2] https://www.pcmag.com/news/major-data-broker-leak-might-have...
by Madmallard | 2025-12-18 02:45:51+00:00
I don't really understand this comment from the CEO.

Does he not understand the people making millions or billions off AI literally do not care?

They fully are committed to seeing if they can do away with having to employ people all together.

They want techno-feudalism.

Sam Altman and the ilk are so anti-humanity seeming in interviews it's really disgusting that we allow them to be in a position of power at all.
by PunchyHamster | 2025-12-18 02:46:05+00:00
> “why is I/O in docker slow, and how would you improve it” is pretty esoteric knowledge now, but would have been considered basic knowledge (for other applications, not specifically just docker) only 12 years ago.

you could've used docker for 12 years and never hit it if you used it on Linux, and followed sensible practices (mount the data dir from outside so it can be reattached to upgraded version of the container)
by AlotOfReading | 2025-12-18 02:46:10+00:00
Oil contributes very little to the economy these days. The oil industry was dismantled many years ago and replaced mostly by drug trafficking and illegal mining.

Mind sourcing that? It's not what's on the Wikipedia page for Venezuela's economy, nor the CIA world factbook for the country. The largest estimate I could find for drug trafficking was 8 billion USD, which came from transparency international, an org with sketchy history on Latin American numbers. The latest petroleum export numbers I can find are much higher.
by dotnet00 | 2025-12-18 02:46:16+00:00
It's probably because high quality 3d is just much more expensive to do. You can easily do all sorts of effects in the constrained environment of a 2d model that take a lot more skill to pull off in 3d.

Plus, ultimately, the anime aesthetic is a 2d thing. It's a lot harder to make a 3d model look good in a 2d art style, as a ton of anime over the years have shown.
by grog454 | 2025-12-18 02:47:12+00:00
It's hard to have any certainty around concealment unless you are only testing local LLMs. As a matter of principle I assume the input and output of any query I run in a remote LLM is permanently public information (same with search queries).

Will someone (or some system) see my query and think "we ought to improve this"? I have no idea since I don't work on these systems. In some instances involving random sampling... probably yes!

This is the second reason I find the idea of publicly discussing secret benchmarks silly.
by jimbo808 | 2025-12-18 02:48:27+00:00
First of all, that’s not true. Your statistic is probably based on one that indicates Jews account for 69% of religious-based hate crimes, while being 2% of the population. That’s about 35 times more likely if religious-motivated hate crimes were the only type of hate crime. But they’re not, so you’re just misrepresenting the data. The most generous stat you could use would be the one from 2023-2024, which has Jews as 16% of all hate crimes in the US, so an 8x multiplier. But this was a dramatic uptick, which came along with the genocide being committed in their name.

Also, there is a massively asymmetric application of hate crime laws, as you can clearly see by the automatic “hate crime” conclusion you’re already seeing here simply because the victim was Jewish. This asymmetry is glaringly obvious when you look at the handling of these two stabbings.

In one case, the perpetrator stabbed a white woman to death, and said on camera "got the white bitch." In the other case, the subway stabbing happened "blocks from" a synagogue following an argument. Which one do you think gets the hate crime treatment?

https://abc7ny.com/post/hate-crime-investigation-victim-stab...

https://abcnews.go.com/US/suspect-charlotte-train-stabbing-i...

This asymmetry makes it impossible to gain much insight from the statistics on this. It’s very likely that 8x is a very high upper bound, and only in an exceptional year where those stats coincided with a genocide committed in their name, which has been a cause for global outrage and disgust.
by LelouBil | 2025-12-18 02:48:47+00:00
Something similar happened to me last year, it was with an unsecured user account accessible over ssh with password authentication, something like admin:admin that I forgot about.

At least that's what I think happened because I never found out exactly how it was compromised.

The miner was running as root and it's file was even hidden when I was running ls ! So I didn't understand what was happening, it was only after restarting my VPS from with a rescue image, and after mounting the root filesystem, that I found out the file I was seeing in the processes list did indeed exist.