MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by intelec1 | 2025-12-10 19:41:35+00:00
Reading today’s NYT, FT, WSJ, WaPo and UK press side by side reveals something interesting: • AI valuations rely more on belief than cash flow • Europe is now framed as a strategic risk • Dynamic pricing quietly normalizes consumer discrimination • Legal and scientific domains increasingly follow politics This feels less like disagreement and more like convergence under stress. Curious whether others see the same signal.
by beedeebeedee | 2025-12-10 19:41:51+00:00
> There are no useful discussion to be had on such topics

I think there are useful discussions to be had on these topics, and in fact, we must have those discussions. The issue is that, if we want to do so productively and a comment section is the only venue for us to speak to each other, then we must be extremely patient with others and ourselves and reflect on what they say and what we say (i.e., discuss in good faith).

That burden may be too high for most people, but collectively, we don't have a better forum anymore, and we need to have these discussions and come to consensus before the world is engulfed in authoritarianism or war (which is not hyperbole).
by stevenwoo | 2025-12-10 19:41:58+00:00
I find I always have to lookup the value of the monetary stuff and Georgian British rules about inheritance whenever I go back and read Austen, it's the only part that's really dated, after one gets used to the sentence structure.

It's really deep in the series (about ten books deep) but Lois McMaster Bujold writes a sci fi space version of Jane Austen in a couple of the books of the Vorkosigan Saga one might appreciate more after reading a bit of Austen.
by businessmate | 2025-12-10 19:42:33+00:00
AI assistants are increasingly delivering answers about products, services, and organisational obligations that differ from approved internal documentation. These externally generated representations bypass existing content controls and create a misstatement layer - a parallel communication surface that may expose enterprises to regulatory, legal, reputational, safety, and compliance risks. This briefing offers: • A rigorous taxonomy of misstatement types • A likelihood × severity risk matrix with calibration guidance • An inherent vs. residual risk analysis against existing controls • A comprehensive menu of control strategies (preventive, detective, corrective, compensating) with cost/complexity ranges • A regulatory and legal context showing possible exposure across sectors • An ownership and accountability model mapped to typical enterprise functions • A sector-based severity map to prioritise resources • A decision-tree for risk triage and action sequencing • Proposed success metrics to track control effectiveness This document is structured to support Risk Committees, Compliance, Legal and AI Governance teams in assessing whether misstatement risk is material, and to guide the design of proportionate controls.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-12-10 19:42:39+00:00
The plans weren't wishes, they were things they were actively working on to make happen. The point is they didn't need "Trump's erratic and corrupt trade policy" to motivate it, they were already motivated to do it anyway.

Yes, they were "actively working on it"; no, they had made little significant progress despite throwing tons of money at the initiative.

There were lots of stories along the lines of https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/19/technology/china-microchi... from the early 2020s, not so many lately. Their internal posture will now be the same as Russia's post-1945 push for the Bomb. Continued failure will (possibly literally) place heads at stake.

The US's problem is that its actions are uncoordinated.

They are coordinated well enough, but with the goal of magnifying Cheeto Benito's personal influence and cultivating his in-group's fortunes.
by thyristan | 2025-12-10 19:43:16+00:00
Maybe.

But you cannot PoC most hardware and driver related bugs without lots of time and money. Race conditions are very hard to PoC, especially if you need the PoC to actually work on more than one machine.

So while a PoC exploit does mean that a bug is worthy of a CVE, the opposite isn't true. One would overlook tons of security problems just because the discoverer of them wasn't able to get a PoC working. But it could be worth it, to maybe also keep the slop out.
by breppp | 2025-12-10 19:43:27+00:00
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/pagers-drones-how-...

Here is Hezbollah boasting to Reuters before the pagers attack, about how it moved to using pagers and couriers to counter Israeli intelligence.

As you can guess, with the advent of mobile phones in the 2000s, pagers became obsolete in Lebanon
by dietr1ch | 2025-12-10 19:43:32+00:00
> because the website is a good "web citizen." It has urls that maintain their state over a decade.

It's a shame that maintaining the web is so hard that only a few websites are "good citizens". I wish the web was a -bit- way more like git. It should be easier to crawl the web and serve it.

Say, you browse and get things cached and shared, but only your "local bookmarks" persist. I guess it's like pinning in IPFS.
by neilv | 2025-12-10 19:43:35+00:00
> I spent a few hours browsing around and found it to be very interesting.

This seems to be the result of the exercise? No evaluation?

My concern is that, even if the exercise is only an amusing curiosity, many people will take the results more seriously than they should, and be inspired to apply the same methods to products and initiatives that adversely affect people's lives in real ways.
by btbuildem | 2025-12-10 19:43:45+00:00
I've spent a weekend making something similar for my gmail account (which google keeps nagging me about being 90% full). It's fascinating to be able to classify 65k+ of emails (surprise: more than half are garbage), as well as summarize and trace the nature of communication between specific senders/recipients. It took about 50 hours on a dual RTX 3090 running Qwen 3.

My original goal was to prune the account deleting all the useless things and keeping just the unique, personal, valuable communications -- but the other day, an insight has me convinced that the safer / smarter thing to do in the current landscape is the opposite: remove any personal, valuable, memorable items, and leave google (and whomever else is scraping these repositories) with useless flotsam of newsletters, updates, subscription receipts, etc.
by karpathy | 2025-12-10 19:44:07+00:00
Yes I noticed a few of these around. The LLM is a little too willing to give out grades for comments that were good/bad in a bit more general sense, even if they weren't making strong predictions specifically. Another thing I noticed is that the LLM has a very impressive recognition of the various usernames and who they belong to, and I think shows a little bit of a bias in its evaluations based on the identity of the person. I tuned the prompt a little bit based on some low-hanging fruit mistakes but I think one can most likely iterate it quite a bit further.
by secret-noun | 2025-12-10 19:44:17+00:00
This has happened to me a couple of times with eBay sales.

Is it safe to transact with people who use freight forwarders in your experience? Do you lose any protections?

Out of fear, in my cases, I cancelled the auctions.

On second thought though, I wonder if it's actually the buyer using the service that is more at risk (introduction of 3rd party, more complex delivery, probably impossible to return, etc)
by johncolanduoni | 2025-12-10 19:44:24+00:00
Okay, thanks for explaining the general concept of law to me, but this provides literally no information to figure out the conditions under which an employer using a TLS intercepting proxy to snoop on the internet traffic a work laptop violates GDPR. I never asked for a definitive answer just, you know, an answer that is remotely relevant to the question.

I don’t really need to know, but a bunch of people seemed really confident they knew the answer and then provided no actual information except vague gesticulation about PII.
by duped | 2025-12-10 19:44:26+00:00
> I still don't know what the intent of COM is

COM is an ABI (application binary interface). You have two programs, compiled in different languages with different memory management strategies, potentially years apart. You want them to communicate. You either

-1 use a Foreign Function Interface (FFI) provided to those languages -2 serialize/deserialize data and send it over some channel like a socket

(2) is how the internet works so we've taken to doing it that way for many different systems, even if they don't need it. (1) is how operating systems work and how the kernel and other subsystems are exposed to user space.

The problem with FFI is that it's pretty barebones. You can move bytes and call functions, but there's no standard way of composing those bytes and function calls into higher level constructs like you use in OOP languages.

COM is a standard for defining that FFI layer using OOP patterns. Programs export objects which have well defined interfaces. There's a root interface all objects implement called "Unknown", and you can find out if an object supports another interface by calling `queryInterface()` with the id of a desired interface (all interfaces have a globally unique ID). You can make sure the object doesn't lose its data out of nowhere by calling `addRef()` to bump its reference count, and `release()` to decrement it (thus removing any ambiguity over memory management, for the most part - see TFA for an example where that fails).

> where it's documented

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/com/the-comp...
by cootsnuck | 2025-12-10 19:44:31+00:00
To be clear...prior to this recent explosive interest in LLMs, this was already true. Snowden was over 10 years ago.

We can't start clutching our pearls now as if programmatic mass surveillance hasn't been running on all cylinders for over 20 years.

Don't get me wrong, we should absolutely care about this, everyone should. I'm just saying any vague gestures at imminent privacy-doom thanks to LLMs is liable to be doing some big favors of inadvertently sanitizing the history of prior (and still) egregious privacy offenders.

I'm just suggesting more "Yes and" and less "pearl clutching" is all.
by dralley | 2025-12-10 19:45:11+00:00
You're strawmanning.

I didn't claim that they were particularly lethal. In fact, they were not particularly lethal. Thousands of pagers exploded and only 12 people were killed despite these devices being held directly up to the face or against the skin (pockets).

They were as close to non-lethal incapacitation, even against targets, as it is possible to get in war. When even the targets are rarely killed by the explosion, obviously that results in fewer unintended victims being hurt/killed.
by fiiisssh | 2025-12-10 19:45:20+00:00
There's actually really no knowledge of cloth involved, it's just a bunch of spring constraints: https://github.com/mkhan45/clothsim

AFAIK more advanced realism-focused cloth sims are still mostly bundles of spring constraints, and most fabric behaviors are encoded as different spring tolerances, forces, and friction.

Cloth self-collision and friction seem to be a very difficult problem in which progress has been made recently: https://graphics.cs.utah.edu/research/projects/ogc/Offset_Ge...
by heintje_ghulam | 2025-12-10 19:45:27+00:00
I use offlineimap3 (https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap3) to download email that I then read with mu4e. To make it work with my email provider I need to place a cert_fingerprint value in the .offlineimaprc configuration file. This used to change once a year, but now the value changes every 47 days (https://www.digicert.com/blog/tls-certificate-lifetimes-will...).

Has anyone figured out a solution to keep this value updated? One issue is that I'm never sure when the new TLS certificate has rolled out.
by mustache_kimono | 2025-12-10 19:45:42+00:00
> Some people isn’t most people and certainly not all people.

I never said Rust was the universal language, that is pleasing to all people. I was very careful to frame Rust's success in existential, not absolute or universal, terms:

>> Winning by my lights is -- using this nice thing rather than this not so nice thing. It's doing interesting things where one couldn't previously. It's a few more delighted developers.

I am not saying these technologies (C and Perl) should go away. I am saying -- I am very pleased there is no longer a monoculture. For me, winning is having alternatives to C in embedded and kernel development, and Perl for scripting, especially as these communities, right now, seem less vibrant, and less adaptable to change.
by rat87 | 2025-12-10 19:46:34+00:00
The idea that it's a war crime is ridiculous. They specifically inserted it into the Hezbollah supply chain specifically Hezbollah internal use. They didn't just sell them at Lebanons markets they specifically sold the entire special order to Hezbollah directly. I think if any one other then Israel pulled it off a lot fewer people would be baselessly claiming it was a war crime
by brendanashworth | 2025-12-10 19:46:58+00:00
Would a wearable model like this gain in predictive power by adding FHIR/EHR inputs? CoMET [1] has great AUC even without daily/lifestyle metrics like steps, awakenings at night, or vo2max estimates (which are present in say apple health). It would be interesting to know how much you would gain from having a holistic model that sees both inputs.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12104v1
by alephnerd | 2025-12-10 19:47:17+00:00
Most likely as a data lakehouse, but the Palantir angle is most likely overstated - Palantir has a tiny presence in Israel, and has had a history of overstating it's intel and defense credentials (eg. A three letter agency that churned Palantir was named for years after before they stopped calling them out).

That said, I have heard some positive feedback about Palantir's data integration capabilities - most other vendors don't provide bespoke professional services to build niche integrations for even low ACV customers.
by exhumet | 2025-12-10 19:47:38+00:00
gundam is probably one of my favorite pieces of media ever created, and yeah id say you nailed it! BUT this is pretty much true for almost every gundam show. They will usually end with a "but at what cost" or with 75% of the main cast dead and the protag in a worse position then they started. but yeah what you said rings true, it really is a special piece of media that is more than the genre/anime its made in but can only exist with anime if that makes sense.
by awillowingmind | 2025-12-10 19:47:42+00:00
We very clearly are making progress on these century long issues, unless you somehow think kids now are growing up in more hostile physical environments than they were 100 years ago.

This ban does not prevent kids from using IM platforms like WhatsApp, Messenger, Discord so your argument that this somehow restricts the ability for online communication is false.

What you are arguing against is the restriction of access to apps like TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X, Snapchat —- all of which are filled with predatory algorithms that have shown to have negative affect on the mental health of teens, young adults, AND adults.
by moultano | 2025-12-10 19:48:14+00:00
Yes, I wish we could serve static content more like bittorent, where your uri has an associate hash, and any intermediate router or cache could be an equivalent source of truth, with the final server only needing to play a role if nothing else has it.

It is not possible right now to make hosting democratized/distributed/robust because there's no way for people to donate their own resources in a seamless way to keeping things published. In an ideal world, the internet archive seamlessly drops in to serve any content that goes down in a fashion transparent to the user.
by echelon | 2025-12-10 19:48:19+00:00
> We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

The intent is there.

It's an incredibly complex distributed system with millions of actors and interactions, entrenched powers, regulatory capture, Citizens United, etc. It has to be defended and garbage collected.
by rkagerer | 2025-12-10 19:48:28+00:00
You accept these terms when you use their services.

I certainly didn't*. I'd love to see litigation testing just how solid those insidious opt-in-by-default schemes are as a basis for "ownership".

If they had users explicitly opt-in with a "Yes, go ahead and train on my stuff and by the way I assert that I have all the rights to grant you the same", I'd have no problem with that, and they'd have a much stronger claim.

(*Before others inevitably disagree: I do opt-out of this stuff aggressively, and further send notice to companies from time to time that I don't agree to certain objectionable clauses of their ToS and they're welcome to close my account).
by shadowgovt | 2025-12-10 19:48:36+00:00
It depends on how we define "worse."

A breaking change causes a full-stop to a service.

An intentional slowdown lets the service continue to operate at degraded performance.

I concur that it's less clear for debugging purposes (although any reasonable debugging infrastructure should allow you to break and see what function you're in when the program hangs; definitely not as clear as the program crashing because the called function is gone, however).
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-12-10 19:48:39+00:00
> it's easy to blame the use of LLM to find the interface, but really this is a matter of needing to understand the COM calling conventions in order to interact with it.

Sure, but I think that this perfectly illustrates why LLMs are not good at programming (and may well never get good): they don't actually understand anything. An LLM is fundamentally incapable of going "this is COM so let me make sure that the function signature matches the calling conventions", it just generates something based on the code it has seen before.

I don't blame the authors for reaching for an LLM given that Microsoft has removed the C++ example code (seriously, what's up with that nonsense?). But it does very nicely highlight why LLMs are such a bad tool.
by yannyu | 2025-12-10 19:49:09+00:00
> The last time the world had multi-polarity, we had far more wars. Including the worst wars the world has ever seen.

Citations? Simply saying that World War 1 happened during a time of multi-polarity is just begging the question. Multi-polarity of varying degrees has always been the case throughout human history, and often times single-polarity is achieved only through extreme violence.
by pessimizer | 2025-12-10 19:49:22+00:00
It is not motivating marginal voters to vote. The choice is between two nearly identical establishment candidates from two private clubs. The electorate is going the same way it's going in Europe, except in Europe other parties are legal (although marginalized through parliamentary methods.)

In the UK, for example, Reform has been consistently polling the same as the Conservatives and Labour added together., and all three of those added together only represent 2/3 of the electorate. In the US, that translates to 2/3 of people becoming non-voters.

Why that might look like a rightward shift in the US is because the Republicans don't fix their primaries (since the 90s), and their voters actually have an effect on who gets picked to run. Why it won't actually be a rightward shift is because Republicans ignore their platforms after being elected, and don't mind getting thrown out at the end of a term or two to work at the businesses they helped while in office.

Democrats simply don't believe in any sort of democracy anymore. They invest all their effort into yelling at black people and Hispanics, and raising as much money as they can from the worst people in the world. The rest of the time they spend attacking anybody running to the left of them as racist or Russian, while their media outlets simply ignore those people other than when they're helping promote the slander. That's whats pushing away "ethnic voting."

As a black person, I know when the voting season is here because I see a bunch of paid Democrats running around calling black people who criticize their party ethnic slurs and using the word "massa" a lot. Republicans don't do that. They don't rely on black people so just ignore us. Democrats rely on us, but will never do anything for us, so they use terror.
by MSFT_Edging | 2025-12-10 19:49:37+00:00
To be fair, "anti-semitism" claims have been 90% bad faith. Gaza was the internet's Vietnam.

We got just as mad at the internet letting our citizens at home see the brutality as we did with Jane Fonda and calling her "Hanoi Jane" after she traveled to Vietnam to bring light to the conflict(not a war).

I don't think there's any merit in being upset at dead children being reported because it messes with our national security goals. If the goals don't have public support with truthful reporting, they're basically illegitimate.
by snuxoll | 2025-12-10 19:49:49+00:00
> Don't all of the Windows DirectX gaming interfaces use COM? And isn't AAA gaming performance critical?

Yes, on both counts. You will also, on average, be making fewer calls to ID3D12CommandQueue methods than one would think - you'd submit an entire vertex buffer for a model (or specific components of it that need the same pipeline state, at least) at once, allocate larger pools of memory on the GPU and directly write textures to it, etc.

This is the entire design behind D3D12, Vulkan, and Metal - more direct interaction with the GPU, batching submission, and caching command buffers for reuse.

When I'm talking about "critical sections" of code, I mean anything with a tight loop where you can reasonably expect to pin a CPU core with work. For a game, this would be things like creating vertex buffers, which is why all three major API's take these as bare pointers to data structures in memory instead of requiring discrete calls to create and populate them.
by jmyeet | 2025-12-10 19:49:58+00:00
There are a few different angles to this.

1. If any other state had done this, we'd be correctly calling this a terrorist attack and there wouldn't be any question about it; and

2. Palantir was a partner in developing several AI systems used for targeting missile strikes in Gaza. Collectively these tend to be called Lavender [1][2]. Another of these systems is called "Where's Daddy". What does it do? It targets alleged militants at home so their families with be collateral damage [3]; and

3. These systems could not exist without the labor of the humans who create them so it raises questions about the ethics of everything we do as software engineers and tech people. This is not a new debate. For example, there were debates about who should be culpable for the German death machine in WW2. Guards at the camp? Absolutely. Civilians at IG Farben who are making Zyklon-B? Do they know what it's being used for? Do they have any choice in the matter?

My personal opinion is that anyone continuing to work for Palantir can no longer plead ignorance. You're actively contributing to profiting from killing, starving and torturing civilians. Do with that what you will. In a just world, you'd have to answer for your actions at The Hague or Nuremberg 2.0, ultimately.

[1]: https://www.business-humanrights.org/es/%C3%BAltimas-noticia...

[2]: https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

[3]: https://www.businessinsider.com/israel-ai-system-wheres-dadd...