MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by exceptione | 2025-12-22 23:13:21+00:00
> 1. The overwhelming conversation is about how this relationship isn't worth it.
> 2. Even among liberal Americans it's about how the U.S benefits immensely from the relationship.

I have to leave in a minute, but maybe you can explain what you mean? 1 and 2 are in conflict, no?

> If you can't address that concern, then Americans will assume you ceded it.

Do you mean that when the US' public can't hear from the US partners that this is a mutual beneficial relation, the public will assume that these partners thereby admit that this relation was indeed not beneficial for the US public? (Even that the EU is a threat to be dismantled, as foreign policy now calls it)?

Assuming you did mean it somewhat like that, I would say:

a. the American information space is warped and segmented. Corporate ownership, the abolishment of fairness doctrine, information deserts, algorithmic control, conconditioning by corporate narratives (as old as the US oligarchy)--it is all highly dysfunctional. No small feat to get anything sensible past these filters.

b. In line with a, even the Democrats are locked out of this information space. Some titles read by the liberals might be marketed as such, but they are controlling the narratives as much as possible, with language, below-fold, above-fold, false balance via "op-eds" and editors stepping in to relegate possibly impactful stories to books, so no one reads them. Sure, they won't go fox because you can't do that with this readership. For reference, look back at the New York Times: Trump and Project 2025 had given enough signals of what was about to come, but the newspaper frantically tried to balance it with endless stories of Biden's age.

c. As aside, it is real bad, but subtly bad. If one can only read English, I would recommend The Guardian to get real journalism.

d. To wrap it up, Americans are not reachable anymore. When dem voters and rep voters cannot talk with each other, their information space is warped. Do not expect the EU to even get anything in this mess through the gatekeepers. Even the Americans-in-the-know can't.
by user34283 | 2025-12-22 23:13:26+00:00
Said scrutinizing from my side consists of checking the number of downloads and age of the package, maybe at best a quick look at the GitHub.

Yes, I'm sure many dependencies aren't very necessary. However, in many projects I worked on (corporate) which were on the older Webpack/Babel/Jest stack, you can expect node_modules at over 1 GB. There this ship has sailed long ago.

But on the upside, most of those packages should be fairly popular. With pnpm's dependency cooldown and whitelisting of postinstall scripts, you are probably good.
by roadside_picnic | 2025-12-22 23:13:28+00:00
I'm still confused by what you meant by "actual reasoning", which you didn't answer.

I also fail to understand how building what you described would not help your understanding of multiplication, I think it would mean you understand multiplication much better than most people. I would also say that if you want to be a "multiplication engineer" then, yes you should absolutely know how to do what you've described there.

I also suspect you might have lost the main point. The original comment I was replying to stated:

> Don't really see why you'd need to understand how the transformer works to do LLMs at work.

I'm not saying implementing speculative decoding is enough to "fully understand LLMs". I'm saying if you can't at least implement that, you don't understand enough about LLMs to really get the most out of them. No amount of twiddling around with prompts is going to give you adequate insight into how an LLMs works to be able to build good AI tools/solutions.
by pcarroll | 2025-12-22 23:13:29+00:00
Each device on your account gets a private static IP address in the network 100.x.x.x. The name is static as long as the device lives on your account.

Each also gets a friendly DNS name in the form device.account.2ho.ca (try finding a short domain these days).

So yes, you can...

$ ssh user@server.myaccount.2ho.ca

C:\ net use S: \\server.myaccount.2ho.ca\Home

etc.
by SamInTheShell | 2025-12-22 23:13:57+00:00
This is pretty naive. What happens when you develop and extend such a system in a way that it can track who you interact with? What about social credit scores? You might go out to a social event with a very distinguished social credit score of 820 and get knocked down to 69 just because you were in proximity to Bob and Alice, who happen to be on some blacklists for their work in cryptography.

What you're staring at is the gateway tech that brings in a dystopian society. At first stuff like this is fairly benign, but slowly over time it ramps up into truly awful outcomes.
by osn9363739 | 2025-12-22 23:15:11+00:00
I think if you designed and built it with the idea in mind that you're building your renewables in the sunny/windy centre/south of the US to be transported to a these places all year round it's a better idea than it being a backup. But I agree that the cost of over generation should be factored in to comparison pricing. But I also think we don't include enough of the costs in FF infra either.
by mopsi | 2025-12-22 23:15:54+00:00
Lived in the USSR; it is best explored through small business and personal ownership instead of large words and manifestos. The thing is, work is hard. People need an incentive to put in the hours.

If the state requisitions everything above a certain threshold to prevent wealth disparities, as the communists did in the USSR with grain beyond what farmers needed for sustenance, people will not work beyond the threshold out of the goodness of their hearts. Why work extra hours on the fields if you get nothing out of it? Instead, production will drop to exactly meet that threshold. This is how famines were created.

To maintain production while still requisitioning, you will have to force people to work for free.

> USSR before the destruction of socialism - typically have 80%+ rates of home ownership

Actually, less than 10%. Homes were owned by a government housing department. When you finished school, you were assigned a workplace and given an apartment. Often it was just a room in a shared apartment (kommunalka). You could live there as long as you kept the job. If you were transferred elsewhere, you had to pack your things and move. The quality of housing was comparable to the homes of methheads in West Virginia. The temporary and impersonal nature of the arrangement bred crime and other social problems. In short, the USSR was one huge "company town" that you could never leave.
by ashishb | 2025-12-22 23:16:08+00:00
JavaScript fanatics will downvote me, but I will say again.
JavaScript is meant to be run in an untrusted environment (think browser), and running it in any form of trusted environment increases the risk drastically [1]

The language is too hard to do a meaningful static analysis.
This particular attack is much harder (though not impossible) to execute in Java, Go, or Rust-based packages.

1 - https://ashishb.net/tech/javascript/
by coryrc | 2025-12-22 23:16:15+00:00
It's also like to see a comparison to giving people/companies a discount if they have alternative methods of heating for 3 weeks and agree to be powered off. Places like hospitals and universities often have generators and do this. Sand "batteries" (aka electric resistive heaters in a few tons of sand heated to 1000°C) might be cost-effective if standardized. You keep it insulated and hot until the power goes out, then you let it bleed heat out to keep you from dying.
by maylwoo | 2025-12-22 23:16:31+00:00
Our local high school has had a shooting or stabbing in 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. Last month, 2 students were shot and there have been 3 lockdowns at the school so far this year (that's 3 in 3 months). This school is in one of the most affluent parts of the bay area (in the hills surrounded by multi-mullion dollar homes and redwood trees). For most of my life, I've been ambivalent about surveillance cameras (neither in favor nor against them) but now I lean towards supporting efforts to install them (especially since the shootings at Brown and MIT). If they eventually help to apprehend a killer before they hurt someone else or cause people to think twice about even bringing a weapon to a school, then that benefit overrides any "atmosphere of distrust." Nobody wants to get a call that their child has been shot at school.
by Msurrow | 2025-12-22 23:17:00+00:00
Yes, it does.

First of all: occam's razor. Political theatrics seems simpler than the US defence/intelligence forces sudenly realizing that drones can be launched from ships. Esp. with the timing involved.

Second: Established/traditional radar systems cannot spot drones. Take it from someone living in a country that recently had its airspace violated by (assumingly) Russian drones, affecting national infrastructure. It was considered an attack at the time. I don’t think thats the word we use any more, for political reasons.

Third: Trump already shut down one of these windmill farms once this year. Until the danish company building the park sued and got the courts word that the shutdown was illegal, and resumed construction. The current shutdown has much larger impact for many multi-national companies. Usually there is a political process expected between allied countries before such a drastisc move. We havnt seen that ie no attempt to solve a concrete (security) issue before punching the red button ie probably because there was no motivation for a solution ie the security issue was probably not an actual issue)

Fourth: Earlier this week the danish intelligence services released a new security assesment of USA (that takes Trumps behaviour on the international scene into account). That probably hurt the little mans ego, and now we see a retaliation. This provides yet another motivation for Trumps action, besides factual, real security concerns.

Looking at this purely from the security aspect is naive, and fails to consider the context of the real world.
by tetromino_ | 2025-12-22 23:17:06+00:00
There was also a wealthy suburb with an actual gang whose existence was swept under the rug for years until they murdered a random 16 year old: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/07/01/how-a-homegrow...

The cops' reluctance to investigate probably had something to do with the fact that some of the gang members were white student athletes with very wealthy families.
by kevinsync | 2025-12-22 23:17:25+00:00
This thought experiment insinuates that not working in tech means infinite money or resources, which I realize is not the spirit of the question, but in the event that funding is of no consequence...

I would build sound systems. Huge ones, bigger than what's in my garage. Bone-shaking, yet clear as the pure blue sky

I would open a video store / computer lab / hangout for skaters, nerds and misfits

I would curate a library, with a point of view -- the most interesting ones are where the signal has been extricated from the noise and somebody wants you to see the world how they see the world

I would make a lot of things, physical and digital -- from 3D prints to woodworking to PCBs to strange websites and curious software

I would get a giant pizza oven and a huge cauldron and fuck around making pies and stews LOL

I would just do cool shit with my friends!

I basically do a lot of these things already in measured doses, in between begging, scraping, seeking, asking for, grabbing money; that whole pursuit is a great stick and carrot that keeps the human moving through life, but it's also kind of corrosive to the soul, and unavoidable if you want to participate in society.

Funny how when I re-read what I'm about to post (as a middle aged man), it sounds like the pipe dream of a 12 year old boy, some old loser who refuses to grow up lol
by rynn | 2025-12-22 23:17:36+00:00
gpt-5.2 codex isn't available in the API yet.

If you want to be picky they could've compared it against
gpt-5 pro
gpt-5.2
gpt-5.1
gpt-5.1-codex-max
gpt-5.2 pro

all depending on when they ran benchmarks (unless, of course, they are simply copying OAI's marketing).

At some point it's enough to give OAI a fair shot and let OAI come out with their own PR, which they doubtlessly will.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-12-22 23:17:41+00:00
So other than Jobs having a plan, having a proven dev culture that he himself built up, having a production OS, he had nothing?

Not everyone needs to have a 300 page plan, but the Steve Jobs/Politicians pushing to blow things up need to. Or in Job's case he started with way, way, more than just a 300 page plan.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-12-22 23:18:00+00:00
Brendan Eich did not simply give a commentary on his economic policy. Brendan Eich went so far as donating not insignificant amounts of money to make sure a significant portion of the population - of which many of his users and employees are a part of - do not have equal rights.

I am so beyond tired of this trope.

What, nobody ever faces consequences for hurting other people? We just have to tolerate intolerance forever with a smile?
by trhway | 2025-12-22 23:18:00+00:00
that is the thing here. While the project is cool, the drone's underwater drag is very high, while typical such drone of that size is foldable, and thus one can fold it (even if a bit, Star Wars X-wing style) to decrease drag and use say only one or two motors with much greater efficiency as result. Though high speed drone like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PTsHDFMams may be ok without collapsing.
by maxerickson | 2025-12-22 23:18:03+00:00
In 2020, I took photos of Lake Michigan over topping the walls of the local harbor. Record highs.

At present Michigan-Huron is close to the 100 year average (https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/blog/2025/06/23/great-lakes-water...).

The big contributor is that we've not had particularly wet years overall since 2020.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-12-22 23:18:09+00:00
Making FPGA's actually available (without encumbering stacks) would be so great. Companies IMO do better when they stop operating from within their moat & this would be such the amazing use case to lend support for that hypothesis.

Gowin and Efinix, like Lattice, have some very interesting new FPGAs, that they've innovated hard on, but which still are only so-so available.

Particularly with AI about, having open source stacks really should be a major door opening function. There could be such an OpenROAD type moment for FPGAs!
by rowanG077 | 2025-12-22 23:18:23+00:00
I fondly remember a simple simulation project we had to do with a group of 5 students in a second year class which had a simulation and some kind of scheduler which communicated via TCP. I was appalled at the perfomance we were getting. Even on the same machine it was way too slow for what it was doing. After hours of debugging in turned out it was indeed Nagle's algorithm causing the slowness, which I never heard about at the time. Fixed instantly with TCP_NODELAY. It was one of the first times it was made abundantly clear to me the teachers at that institution didn't know what they were teaching. Apparently we were the only group that had noticed the slow performance, and the teachers had never even heard of TCP_NODELAY.
by codingdave | 2025-12-22 23:18:46+00:00
The core problem that LinkedIn solves has nothing to do with all the "social media" style content that plagues the platform. It is a long-term rolodex to be able to talk to former co-workers, while also getting contacted by recruiters (double-edged sword that that is), and for that purpose works just fine, even allowing you to ignore the other warts.

So if you were going to build a competitor, you'd need to get everyone who has built a profile on linkedin and built a 20 year rolodex of their network to all migrate away.

I'm not saying it cannot happen, I'm saying it is not a tech problem, so building a new flavor of the same app and hoping it wins out is an even higher-risk bet than most startups, and therefore does not fall into most people's risk tolerances.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-12-22 23:19:50+00:00
Let me be blunt with what I think happened here.

For years, technical people insisted it was the parent’s job to monitor Internet safety. Parents, especially with the advent of social media, hardcore pornography, and every childhood friend having a device, correctly said this was unreasonable and impossible.

Technical people had a chance for two decades to solve this problem on their terms. Instead we collectively decided that anyone articulating this point of view must be a morally panicked maniac, and that this is a problem with “no reasonable solutions” that we would tolerate. Now we don’t get to dictate the terms, because everyone has had enough, and nobody has patience left for kids watching BDSM on their friend’s phones at 12.

Because of our industry’s refusal to take those concerns seriously, we lost our voice, we lost the grounds of sounding reasonable, and the floodgates are now open - for everything. Nobody is listening anymore to our point of view and arguably correctly so.
by jleyank | 2025-12-22 23:19:56+00:00
Ships and planes look like they do to avoid providing radar return. The old aesthetics had lots of right angles and sharp edges that lit up radar screens quite well. If the Prez is going to throw away stealth, he’s right that everybody will always know where the Trump class targets are located.

And they better not throw away all those small ships cuz they have asw suites. Something to keep those pesky ssn’s at arms length.
by mmastrac | 2025-12-22 23:20:06+00:00
I wrote https://github.com/mmastrac/clitest because I needed a more complex testing harness for CLI tests that does something similar. It's not exactly the same, but it's definitely in the same universe.

One-file-per testcase like `tc` does works, but it tends to fall apart a bit at large scale in my experience.
by SahAssar | 2025-12-22 23:20:14+00:00
I think one point of PKCE is that the oauth token is never sent to the client (it is exchanged on the backchannel), so it theoretically is more protected.

Of course if you trust the client (no bad browser extensions, updated browser) and have good TLS settings and no MITM risk and make sure the your IDs are single-use then it seems like that should be fine.
by braingravy | 2025-12-22 23:20:21+00:00
It’s anonymity of the viewers combined with mass open-access surveillance that enables an unheard of level of stalking capacity.

Most people don’t like the idea that strangers could easily stalk their child remotely.

It’s the easy of access to surveillance technology that is different. Has nothing to do with the park being safe or not.

Try to think like an evil person with no life and very specific and demonic aims if you’re still having trouble seeing why this would be an issue.
by throw0101c | 2025-12-22 23:21:10+00:00
> I've never heard of this! Very cool service, presumably for … quant / HFT / finance firms (maybe for compliance with FINRA Rule 4590 [3])?

To start with, probably for scientific stuff, à la:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rabbit_Project

But fibre-based time is important in case of GNSS time signal loss:

* https://www.gpsworld.com/china-finishing-high-precision-grou...
by trhway | 2025-12-22 23:21:55+00:00
in some sense it isn't nightnmare, it is already a reality, just non-uniformly distributed. Sounds like you just haven't watched hours of footage from Ukraine. The drones there - in the 10-30km zone from the frontline - are onmnipresent like birds, just the birds of the killing-humans-on-sight kind (and with IR cameras it is 24x7, at night it is even more effective as you don't see it coming, only hear a slight buzz of the props, while the drone sees a warm human even better at night, like a kind of a flying rattlesnake :).

Unprepared NK soldiers in Ukraine facing drones first time https://youtu.be/9BQKfSHqRDk?t=117
by jesusluque | 2025-12-22 23:22:11+00:00
I’m working on an experimental media specification called Self Media Decoder (SMD).

The core idea is to move from a “codecs-in-OS” model to a “codecs-in-media” model: each media file can embed its own decoder logic as a WebAssembly module, alongside the actual media data. A player executes the decoder shipped with the content, rather than relying on pre-installed codecs.
Some technical aspects that may be interesting to this community:
• Decoder logic is versioned and can be hot-swapped mid-sequence (“highest version wins”), allowing upgrades without re-encoding existing content.
• Decoder state is preserved across fragmented media and branching hierarchies (DAGs), enabling non-linear playback, multi-angle, or adaptive narratives without resetting context.
• Targets modern Wasm features (SIMD, threads, memory64) for near-native performance.

This is early-stage and intended primarily as a technical exploration rather than a product pitch. I’d be very interested in feedback, prior art, or criticism, especially from people familiar with codecs, containers, or standards work (e.g. MPEG, WASI, streaming systems).
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-22 23:23:16+00:00
Requiring the use of lockfiles and strict adherence to checking updates, also helps. I tend to use dependencies for many things, but ones I've trusted over a long time, I know how they work, often chosen because of how they were implemented, so I can see the updates and review them myself. Scaling up to a team, you make that part of the process whenever you add a new dependencies, and someone's name always have to be "assigned" to a dependency, so people take ownership of the code that gets added. Often people figure out it's not worth it, and figure out a simpler way.
by O5vYtytb | 2025-12-22 23:23:42+00:00
That doesn't quite match what the wikipedia page says:

> The official abbreviation for Coordinated Universal Time is UTC. This abbreviation comes as a result of the International Telecommunication Union and the International Astronomical Union wanting to use the same abbreviation in all languages. The compromise that emerged was UTC, which conforms to the pattern for the abbreviations of the variants of Universal Time (UT0, UT1, UT2, UT1R, etc.).
by montroser | 2025-12-22 23:23:57+00:00
I agree with much of what you said here, but is it really just about the package manager? If I had specified this repo's git url with a specific version number or sha directly in my package.json, the outcome would be just about the same. And so that's not really an end-run around version control at that point. Even with npm out of the picture the problem is still there.
by theshrike79 | 2025-12-22 23:24:17+00:00
I'm using it for my own stuff and I'm definitely not dropping however much it costs for the Claude Max plans.

That's why I usually use Claude for planning, feed the issues to beads or a markdown file and then have Codex or Crush+GLM implement them.

For exploratory stuff I'm "pair-programming" with Claude.

At work we have all the toys, but I'm not putting my own code through them =)
by apatheticonion | 2025-12-22 23:24:24+00:00
Very good take.

I actually ended up buying a travel router and 60% of my gaming was done by remoting into my ROG Ally from my work laptop (they didn't block Steam). The remaining 40% of gaming was done plugged into a TV + controller.

For normal browsing I would use RDP - though it would be amazing if Apple supported some kind of displayport in on the MacBook so it could be used as a screen for an external device.

I've been considering selling my Ally and buying a mini PC with a half decent APU as I seldom use it as a handheld.
by sublinear | 2025-12-22 23:24:32+00:00
Many great SQL examples have long existed on stackoverflow and similar sources, but until the recent past were buried by lower quality questions and answers or SEO spam.

You will find that if you check sources they are lifted almost verbatim. LLMs are a way to cut through the noise, but they are rarely "authoring" anything here.

It's wild how far a little marketing can go to sell the same or an arguably worse product that used to be free and less unethical.