MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by csomar | 2025-12-30 12:51:49+00:00
> No idea, where will they go?

Most likely, the US.

> Dismantling off-shore banking is generally a good thing since I'd like the ultra rich to pay tax as that funds services that I use.

There are lots of uses to off-shore banking than tax-evasion. In fact, I don't think it's feasible to use any modern (CRS/FATCA compliant) banking for tax-evasion.
by ogogmad | 2025-12-30 12:51:49+00:00
> It’s somewhat delusional and potentially dangerous to assume that chatting with an LLM about a specific topic is self-teaching beyond the most surface-level understanding of a topic

It's delusional and very arrogant of you to confidently asserts anything without proof: A topic like RLC circuits has got a body of rigorous theorems and proofs underlying it*, and nothing stops you from piecing it together using an LLM.

* - See "Positive-Real Functions", "Schwarz-Pick Theorem", "Schur Class". These are things I've been mulling over.
by littlecranky67 | 2025-12-30 12:51:57+00:00
Too early to say that (I used the holidays for the transition). With your custom domains you have to make sure everything is setup properly on the DNS side (MX records, SPF, DKIM/DMARC etc.) but the proton ui has checks and makes that really easy, when correctly setup all checks are displayed "green". If you have trouble of your outgoing mails to be accepted (or land in spam), I would advice making sure all is marked green for you too.
by UncleMeat | 2025-12-30 12:52:16+00:00
There isn't just a performance cost to initializing at declaration all the time. If you don't have a meaningful sentinel value (does zero mean "uninitialized" or does it mean logical zero?) then reading from the "initialized with meaningless data just to silence the lint" data is still a bug. And this bug is now somewhat tricky to detect because the sanitizers can't detect it.
by anal_reactor | 2025-12-30 12:52:17+00:00
Yes but the thing about power is the more you use it the more the other party learns to live without it. US has such a giant leverage over Europe because Europe believed US would never actually use its power against it. Imagine US sanctioning Chinese officials - they would shrug at best because China has its own everything because they always knew US would bully them.

The consequence is that Europe will slowly move its financial and IT systems away from US solutions. It's a very, very slow process because it was believed for almost a century that US wouldn't actually bully Europe. But for example, there will be more pressure to roll out Wero and have the systems completely European. Before Trump, there was decent chance the whole thing would be just Visa/MasterCard with extra steps. Now it's clear that EU needs its own independent payment system.
by rvz | 2025-12-30 12:53:36+00:00
> 2,366,576 email addresses

> 285,936 full names

> 102,479 HOME ADDRESSES

> 32,426 phone numbers

> Birthdates, genders, account data going back to 2011

Oh dear, a massive hack. Doesn't anyone here care? Likely the hacker got frustrated and decided to leak the data.

> The hacker got frustrated. Turned out they claimed to have downloaded 33 MILLION accounts. Found SIX vulnerabilities, not one. DataBreaches[.]net got played.

> The threat? 40 million MORE records coming.

Probably nothing.
by PunchyHamster | 2025-12-30 12:53:50+00:00
>> The choice wasn't intentional,

>I'm a filmmaker. Yes, it was.

What you are is dishonest. Quote my entire sentence not cut it in half changing its entire meaning

> The choice wasn't intentional, it was forced by technology and in turn, methods were molded by technological limitation.

There was no choice unless you think "just make it look bad by ignoring tech limitations" is realistic choice of someone actually taking money for their job.

>> What next, gonna complain resolution is too high and you can see costume seams ?

>Try playing an SNES game on CRT versus with pixel upscaling.

>The art direction was chosen for the technology.

There was no choice involved. You had to do it because that was what tech required from you for it to look good.

The technology changed, so art direction changed with it. Why can't movie industry keep up while gaming industry had dozen of revolutions like this ?

> You don't need 48fps to make a good film. You don't need a big budget either.

But you can take it and make it better.

> If you want to take a piece of art and have it look garish, you do you.

"Don't have budget to double the framerate" is fair argument. Why you don't use that instead of assuming anything made in better tech will be "garish" ?

Your argument is essentially saying "I don't have enough skill to use new tech and still make it look great"
by zipy124 | 2025-12-30 12:56:10+00:00
If Fox is the only one willing to publish it, it says a lot about the news story itself.... Whilst they may time to time have some journalism I'm sure, it's not a respectable news organisation in the same way as AP or Reuters and such. If it was a decent story it would be picked up on and re-reported by other outlets. There is not some conspiracy where all other journalists refuse to publish the 'truth'...
by jkaftzan | 2025-12-30 12:56:42+00:00
A newly disclosed MongoDB vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-14847 and informally referred to as MongoBleed, allows unauthenticated remote attackers to leak uninitialized memory from a MongoDB server. A public proof-of-concept exploit is already available, significantly increasing the risk for exposed MongoDB deployments.

This blog explains how the vulnerability works, what is required to exploit it, and how to identify exposure and detect exploitation attempts at runtime.
by redsymbol | 2025-12-30 12:57:01+00:00
I would not proceed unless you are willing to invest $50/day for a minimum of 6 months.

There is also the investment in learning, which would require 5-10 hours per week that whole time.

I say this because anything short of that is likely to lose money and accomplish little.

Not trying to gatekeep, so feel free to try it however you like. Maybe it is worth you trying to set up one ad just to see if you like the process enough to continue.
by kappuchino | 2025-12-30 12:57:33+00:00
I purchased physical eSIM Multicard. It worked quite easily, so now I can handle esims in a virtual/physical way.

And I know what you might think: Isn't that defeating the purpose? No, it is not. I can recive a digital simcard activation, render it on a physical card and use it in any phone. Thats perfect.

And yes, once the phones without a sim-card slot come ... we'll see.
by albert_roca | 2025-12-30 12:57:35+00:00
- Why 4? It's not random. It is derived from the structural constant w = 2 as a topological constraint of the three-dimensional topology. Radius scales as w^2 = 4.

- Why tetrahedron? Mass is defined as volume. The tetrahedron is the simplest closed 3D volume. Mathematically, the derived proton radius corresponds to the exact geometric circumradius (edge · √6 / 4) of this volumetric structure.

- Why α / 4 · π? It represents the linear interaction cost (α) distributed over the spherical solid angle (4 · π) of the protonic surface.

- Incorrect QED terms? The model explicitly and intentionally diverges from QED. It doesn't treat particles as points, but as three-dimensional objects. The model excludes the notion of physical infinities or singularities.

- Why α^2 / 12? It derives from nodal friction distributed over the 12 vertices of the lepton's icosahedral topology.

- Why α^3/5? It derives from the local 5-fold symmetry of the icosahedral node.

The criticisms fail to identify that the model presents an axiomatic framework where these numbers are geometric consequences, not free parameters. The model is not intended to be orthodox, but mathematically and geometrically coherent.
by lazide | 2025-12-30 12:57:40+00:00
Sexual harassment (having been a target of it), is pretty much the definition of ‘unwanted attention’. Targets typically just want to be left alone.

It’s also a crime in some places, not (!!!) in others, or called different things in other places depending on the details. For example, is sending an unsolicited dick pic on a dating app sexual harassment? Is getting felt up at work, with the implication ‘or else’? Is being stalked by members of the opposite gender? Or having career advancements blocked by a lack of ‘playing the game’?

I can give you concrete examples from a number of cultures that each culture will write off as ‘he/she/they were asking for it’, or ‘she/they/he deserved it’, or ‘it’s just boys/girls being girls/boys.’.

I’ve seen it up close and personal, and have lived it.

The underlying ‘attention economy’ dynamic is still the same.
by littlecranky67 | 2025-12-30 12:57:42+00:00
To add to my own post what made me switch from M365 away in the first place besides the admin madness:

- No catch-all (yes, I use my own domain just for me, and I want a catchall to my mailbox)

- Outlook 365 webinterface becoming buggy and shitty in so many ways

- I had 2 domains set up (one private, one business) but O365 would not display which email a given was used as target (just display my name), nor would it let me choose FROM which Email I want send/reply to a mail

- O365 required re-authentication every 24h or so, but I always keep the webinterface open in my tab 24/7
by skydhash | 2025-12-30 12:58:04+00:00
Go with Laravel and some admin packages and you generate CRUD pages in minutes. And I think with Django, that is builtin.

But I don’t think I’ve seen pure CRUD on anything other than prototype. Add an Identity and Access Management subsystem and the complexity of requirements will explode. Then you add integration to external services and legacy systems, and that’s where the bulk of the work is. And there’s the scalability issue that is always looming.

Creating CRUD app is barely a level over starting a new project with the IDE wizard.
by StrangeSound | 2025-12-30 12:58:25+00:00
I really tried migrating to Proton, but unfortunately I found their suite not really fit for purpose and I had to request a refund.

- No search in Mail. You can use Bridge to pull your emails into something else, but this means it's no longer secure, and not really feasible for a non-techy partner!

- No search in Drive

- 3 domain limit for Mail(???)

- Drive sucks. No previewing files, viewing photos etc. due to missing docs suite

- No proper shared folders in Drive

- Pass is woeful at autocomplete

- Pass Aliases are independent of logins, so you end up with double entries for everything

- You can't sync the calendar with native apps, and the calendar doesn't show birthdays

- No contact sync

- Pass doesn't support SSH

- VPN lets you split tunnel by app on PC, app AND IP on Android, IP on the chrome extension. How hard is it to just allow exclude/include for hostnames?

There's tonnes more that I'm missing that I can't think of from the top of my head, but it seems like Proton have stretched themselves very thinly. What I would consider a lot of basic features are missing. One look at their UserVoice community shows a lot of frustration

I think it's probably best to pay for individual services that focus on one area. I ended up with Fastmail, 1Password, and Windscribe for example.
by bluebarbet | 2025-12-30 12:58:44+00:00
My allusion was to environmental sustainability, not to the human construct of economic efficiency.

However counter-intuitive it may be, air travel is indeed far more energy-intensive, and therefore destructive, than train travel. Mainly due to the exponential increase of wind resistance with speed. On a planet of 9 billion people, airplanes will simply not be a sustainably form of transport by any metric.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-30 12:58:55+00:00
I had neither when I moved, sold my things, tried to survive, ended up sleeping outside for a few days and I found a job after I moved here, not before. But yeah, there is one or two more appointments in reality, one for the social security and one for registering with your local city government, both a lot easier to get than the residence permit which can be a bit of a hassle unless you work with agencies to get it.
by aap_ | 2025-12-30 12:59:08+00:00
Hi, this is me. I'm still hacking on it but ran into some hard to understand kernel bugs. once i mount more than the root filesystem (say /usr/man) there are issues with inode allocation/freeing. mixing and matching v4 and v5 stuff in various ways can also lead to other interesting bugs but often an allocated inode ends up on the freelist, and things break.

Otoh it's so much fun to hack and fiddle with the unix kernel :) very zen
by ManlyBread | 2025-12-30 12:59:57+00:00
Malware is easy to avoid if you know where to download from and if you engage in the herculean task of uploading the .exe to something like virustotal.com in case of any doubts. Not like it matters much anyway seeing how there are examples of GOG games using cracks from the internet anyway.

Supporting developers is a weak argument considering that GOG's claim to fame is that they're selling old games where the development studio no longer exists or has been bought out by a corporate entity like EA.

Revoking my license isn't a big deal? I paid real money for the game.

The offline installer is about as much of a guarantee of anything as a pirated ISO is.
by bostik | 2025-12-30 13:00:15+00:00
You've stumbled upon the same trade Matt Levine has been pointing out for a few months now.

If you're good at AI, you could get hired at a top-tier company for 1-2M annual comp, and expect to stay there for at most five (5) years. That's a maximum of 10M pre-tax, and you'd be still on the receiving end of employment gauntlet.

Alternatively you could spin up an AI startup, and get acquired for 75M+ in less than 2 years.

In less surprising news, Matt has pointed out a number of deals that look quite a bit like that throughout 2025.
by _ash_ | 2025-12-30 13:00:48+00:00
i got my first taste of working with ai in 2021 at
@vibekanban. i started my first company just before chatgpt launched in 2022. i've been hugging the frontier as closely as possible ever since and can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that 2025 has been the most interesting year yet.

to capture the sheer absurdity of where we are as a species birthing this new form of intelligence, i wrote up a short 'state of play' post here: https://ashprabaker.com/state-of-play

(this format has been shamelessly ripped off from one of the (many) more talented coworkers at anthropic)
by Hamuko | 2025-12-30 13:02:00+00:00
>The biggest problems with Cyberpunk were architectural, things that would basically require redesigning the game to match what was promised.

86% of all-time Steam reviews for Cyberpunk 2077 are positive, and if you only look at recent reviews, it's 94% positive.

I don't think the game has architectural problems that prevent it from being a massive success.
by craigdalton | 2025-12-30 13:02:05+00:00
Excuse the blunt metaphor, but there is a risk here of turning on a fire-hose of "fresh" garbage. John Ioannidis, one of the doyens of evidence based medicine very persuasively argues - Why Most Published Research Findings Are False https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1182327/ That is why platforms pay physicians/epidemiologists/ specialists in their field hundreds of dollars per hour to sort the good from bad papers. After my training as a doctor I did a Masters in Clinical Epidemiology and spent an afternoon each week in a tutorial that reviewed papers in the top journals - about 20-30% of them had major flaws that were either ignored or dismissed by the authors. It may be worse now. LLMs still have trouble picking up the subtleties of medical science and will miss papers with major flaws. I just did a test on a paper that is often quoted as providing evidence of excess cancer risk in communities living close to unconventional gas facilities. When I asked ChatGPT 5.2 to review the pape for evidence of increase cancer risk with a simple prompt it said the paper found such a risk. However, when I wrote a multi-discipline based prompt for 5.2 and Gemini 3 pro, it found the fatal flaw in the paper and advised it did not provide evidence. See the prompt and consider how the prompts would have to be individually developed for each paper and meta-analysis.

For review of meta-analysis you would need prompts developed by expert methodologists and discipline specialists- here is the prompt that worked: You are an environmental epidemiologist and exposure scientist, critially review this papers claim that the measured levels of unconventional gas emissions provide evidence of excess cancer risk: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1476-069X-13-82
by piva00 | 2025-12-30 13:02:18+00:00
Might makes right, you are correct.

The USA's might is highly dependent on the world order it fostered after WW2, and especially after the Cold War.

Erode that, and the USA as we've known the past 70 years starts to crumble. If in a couple decades the rest of the world works to decouple from the dollar as the main reserve currency; decouple from the dependency to sell to the USA; and decouple the dependency on American tech you still have a rich country but definitely not the superpower with the might as it exists today.

It's not possible for the USA to be funded with the astronomical deficits it runs to keep its war machine, it's not possible for the US, culturally and politically, to majorly increase taxes to cover this deficit. Slowly there would be cuts to its defence spending, diminishing its might.

Not sure why Americans decided this was a good path, didn't expect to see the era of Pax Americana to be so abruptly shaken during my lifetime but here we are.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-12-30 13:02:49+00:00
It doesn't add up though. If they were actually dependent on DRM as described then broad public support would be a massive benefit to them. Yet seemingly none of the many studios out there publicize such data. And this comment section is full of hand waving about "well I can't provide actual data but I talked to someone who said ..." it sure looks like BS to me.
by throwaway198846 | 2025-12-30 13:03:02+00:00
No, you missed the point. They have been indicated to "as co-perpetrators for committing the acts jointly with others: the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare; and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts". Physical destruction can occur without being a war crime and those war crimes can occur without any destruction. So it didn't add any useful information infact it was actively misleading because some people might think they were indicated for destruction.
by twoodfin | 2025-12-30 13:03:05+00:00
I don’t recall seeing entire economies betting on 4GLs.

Not even a nitpick because the scale is indeed orders of magnitude different, but…

There was a lot of chatter, government attention, and both public and private money chasing 4GL’s in the 1980’s, due to what turned out to be (for the US, at least) a phantom “software crisis”. It was mostly for naught?

Same in Japan, where you can argue about the motivations of MITI’s “Fourth Generation Project”, but at its software core was a primeval 4GL in the form of Prolog. Their perceptions of a Japanese software crisis were ultimately more well-founded.
by angott | 2025-12-30 13:03:09+00:00
> They want 60k for cars which have nothing in them. Other companies have now ripped the software and the iPad, so they have nothing unique

You are not wrong about Tesla's base models like the 3 and Y being light on traditional 60k car features, but the second part is much more debatable. With the exception of some Chinese car manufacturers, almost no Western car makers have managed to match Tesla's software stack.

I can't think of another car brand that makes its own silicon, ships OTA updates weekly, runs an in-house OS that isn't an outdated Android skin, and tightly integrates media, navigation, charging, and energy management all in the same platform. Most legacy automakers still rely on their old infotainment vendors, release update slowly (if at all!), and struggle with fragmented software architectures. Their driver assistance systems are improving very slowly, and they are behind Tesla even for basic features like lane-keep assist. And that's even before getting into self-driving ambitions, where no brand has been able to ship anything similar AFAIK.

Rivian and Lucid are closer philosophically and technically, but they're still quite tiny players compared to Tesla, and haven't proven they can execute at Tesla's volume and pricing.
by littlecranky67 | 2025-12-30 13:03:11+00:00
Valid points. For me the no search is feature (due to everything being encrypted), not a bug. But this is an individual decision. I have a similar list after 2 years of using (and managing) my personal M365 subscription (Onedrive on macOS sucks, search on iOS is very slow, spotlight integration doesn't work etc.). I just wonder what you use now as an alternative, because it seems the perfect solution will not exist. For M365, they also just price hiked my subscription after one year to over 40% (and what would I do, migration takes day) and I just felt Microsoft holds me hostage. This is not solved in any way by moving to just another lock-in platform, but I trust proton more to value customers and not squeeze money out of me with that lock-in. At least I trust them more than Microsoft or Google.
by mrexcess | 2025-12-30 13:04:24+00:00
>It's vastly outnumbered by Muslim countries, which is why traditionally Israel has received more criticism in the UN

How is this anything but DARVO? Israel receives criticism in the UN for reasons that are easily verified and quite understandable - namely its deliriously racist, brutally violent, textbook illegal, and long-lived occupation of Palestine and attempts to annex its territory.

Blaming Muslim countries writ large for the UN complaining about Israel's blatant and continuous violation of the UN Charter and various other international laws is shockingly racist.
by heresie-dabord | 2025-12-30 13:04:36+00:00
> this makes america look like gangsters

It is understandable that you would have this impression, given that the US leader has total legal immunity, directly controls the judiciary, Congress, tariffs and formerly independent financial agencies, openly threatens journalists and news media companies, appoints untalented lackies and openly enriches himself and his family and associates, openly uses federal legal entities to pursue opponents, deploys the military within the country against its own citizens, and has made federal arrest without warrant a common daily event.

It you live in a country where your government does not exhibit such characteristics, it's easy to mistake the above as an indication of something suspiciously unlike democracy.

From TFA: "In concrete terms, the rule of law is equality for all individuals, globally, before justice."

The rule of law has now become — for those who enjoy American expressions — a type of fan fiction.
by bdcravens | 2025-12-30 13:04:48+00:00
"real programming"

Perhaps you're doing some amazing low-level work, but it feels like you're way overestimating how much of our industry does that. A massive amount of developers show up to work every day and just stitch together frameworks and libraries.

In many ways, it feels similar to EVs. Just because EVs aren't yet, and may never be, effective to moving massive amounts of cargo in a day with minimal refueling, doesn't mean that they aren't an effective solution for the bulk of drivers who have an average commute of 40 miles a day.