MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dpark | 2025-12-20 07:44:59+00:00
No. My argument there was that your “we can just live like a bunch of independent tribes and no one will interfere if we can get rid of that pesky central government” idea is not based in reality. We have seen that underpowered minority groups get frequently trampled.

I certainly did not say minorities should submit to the mob. You keep inventing imaginary things for me to have said.

> you could argue democracy was broken because there is no place where it could be practiced

No. You literally said “the minority can run away and work under their own system of law” and I am asking you where in your hypothetical system they could run to.

At the end of the day, you’re falling for a variant of the politician’s fallacy. You see the flaws in the current systems of government and say, okay, here’s a different system. We should do that. But the fact that your system is different does not mean it is better.

Indeed your system is basically just the existing system scaled down with all the same exact issues that arise because humans are flawed, just without the benefit of the centuries of work that have been put into trying to make our current governmental bodies manageable.

You don’t actually get to live your own rules just because you hypothetically run away to live with roughly like-minded folks. The first thing any community does is establish rules. They establish rules that everyone in the community has to follow because the alternative is that bad actors prey on the group from the inside. They restrict your freedoms to protect the group. And sometimes their rules go too far for one person and not far enough for another. Welcome to government. And sure, you can hypothetically go find unclaimed land and start a one man nation with only your rules. Good luck with that.

Your “minorities banding together” to counter the majority is also just more centralized government. Welcome to the European Union. Welcome to these United States. Again, you’ve discovered an existing (reasonably) successful form of government.

Bluntly, you confuse your naïveté with insight. Just because ideas are new to you or you do not recognize them in the existent world does not mean they are actually new.

Could we hypothetically dissolve the USA and create a bunch of feudal territories that operate independently but trade with each other and establish a set of rules for interacting and courts that manage disputes? Sure. We call those things states.
by masklinn | 2025-12-20 07:45:52+00:00
COW is not shared memory, it’s an optimised copy. There is no way to guarantee that the optimisation will hold forever thus it is a form of overcommit (and indeed the reason most unices overcommit in the first place): most children will not touch most of the virtual memory they inherited but any can, so if you require precise memory accounting you have to account for that in the same way you account for large anonymous maps.
by Flatterer3544 | 2025-12-20 07:46:20+00:00
They built upon a French product, every change in the French product was adopted by a copycat (app by tiktok creator).

Every attempt to ban the copycat app on Google store by the French was useless, since a new copycat app would pop up the next second.

So it's not like tiktok is some new innovation. What they did is still amazing, but malevolent, but credit where credit is due.
by madaxe_again | 2025-12-20 07:48:14+00:00
Zamatyin’s We was prescient politically, socially and technologically - but didn’t fall into the trap of everyone being machine men with antennae.

It’s interesting - Forster wrote like the Huxley of his day, Zamyatin like the Orwell - but both felt they were carrying Wells’ baton - and they were, just from differing perspectives.
by rvz | 2025-12-20 07:51:37+00:00
If true, looking forward to the post-mortem. I guess no-one is on-call at Cloudflare.

It would appear that there is no sense of urgency or seriousness at the company and I assume that they might have taken the AI agent cool-aid.

Clearly that is not going so well, and it seems like they want to ruin their reputation on every incident.
by augment_me | 2025-12-20 07:51:53+00:00
I noticed that despite really liking Karpathy and the blog, I was am kind of wincing/involuntarily reacting to the LLM-like "It's not X, its Y"-phrases:

> it's not just a website you go to like Google, it's a little spirit/ghost that "lives" on your computer

> it's not just about the image generation itself, it's about the joint capability coming from text generation

There would be no reaction from me on this 3 years ago, but now this sentence structure is ruined for me
by Retr0id | 2025-12-20 07:52:17+00:00
I had claude implement the random-huffman-trees strategy and it works alright (~20MB/s decompression speed), but a minimal huffman tree that only encodes the end symbol works out even slower (~10MB/s), presumably because each tree is more compact.

The minimal version boils down to:

bytes.fromhex("04c001090000008020ffaf96") * 1000000 + b"\x03\x00"
by integralid | 2025-12-20 07:53:34+00:00
>When you sign up with just a random 32-char string...

There's STILL a browser fingerprint, IP logs to analyze, usage patterns to build a profile from. You may claim you don't collect it, but users need to take your word for it. This is just pseudonymity, which (as many BTC users found out) only gets you halfway there. Real anonymity is way harder, often impossible.

Don't get me wrong, it's good to see organisations that care about privacy and in fact this blog post encouraged me to consider your services in the future. We have some use cases for that at work.

Though by using cloudflare you're NOT putting your money where your mouth is.
by rectang | 2025-12-20 07:55:06+00:00
> Calling the building owners 'assailants' for simply wanting to peacefully occupy their own building is quite insane.

The characterization of “us” as “assailants” is an acknowledgment of the sorrowful fate that we as a society inflict on nearly every whistleblower despite the fact that we as a society encourage people to be whistleblowers.
by brw | 2025-12-20 07:55:29+00:00
Woah that's actually huge. I've been very interested in tangled from an atproto perspective but I had no idea it had that as well. Wonder why that isn't talked about more. Seems like an amazing feature to potentially pull some people away from GitHub/GitLab after they've have been asking for years for a better stacking workflow.

I've been going through a lot of different git stacking tools recently and am currently quite liking git-branchless[1] with GitHub and mergify[2] for the merge queue, but it all definitely feels quite rough around the edges without first-party support. Especially when it comes to collaboration.

Jujutsu has also always just seemed a bit daunting to me, but this might be the push I needed to finally give both jj and tangled a proper try and likely move stuff over.

[1] https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless

[2] https://mergify.com
by k4rli | 2025-12-20 07:55:42+00:00
Kilocode as an IDE plugin has completely removed Cursor from my toolkit.

Cursor has been both nice and awful. When it works, it has been good. However for a long time it would freeze on re-focus and recently an update broke my profile entirely on one machine so it wouldn't even launch anymore.

Kilocode with options of free models has been very nice so far.
by supriyo-biswas | 2025-12-20 07:56:33+00:00
TBH this discussion and the need for a lockfile for your CI makes me dizzy, is there something I'm missing wrt GHA that makes it awesome enough to be worth these tradeoffs?

For reference, I come from a Gitlab CI background and all I want is to specify a container, and the CI system should clone my repo in it and run some tests; perhaps optionally allow me to write stuff in a text file that can be displayed on the pull request or the commit (although Gitlab CI doesn't do that AFAIK). Is there something I'm missing due to which GHA architecture is so complicated?
by uecker | 2025-12-20 07:56:41+00:00
You are right, I do not have a problem with Rust as a language nor with the kernel improving memory safety. My issue is solely with exaggerated claims and aggressive marketing of Rust.

(And I am operating network-connected Linux devices since 30 years myself. Memory safety is not the known issue, at the moment I worry more about limited security updates due to Rust.)
by snackbroken | 2025-12-20 07:57:46+00:00
> You scan it all and pick the article you are interested in

Okay. What order am I supposed to scan in so I don't lose my place and accidentally skip a block? Scanning column by column gets me cut off partial boxes that I'll have to remember to check again later, while scanning side to side forces me to keep track of each individual block I've already looked at, as opposed to a single pointer to "this is how far I've scanned". Alternatively, I can scan roughly left to right, top to bottom and just live with missing some blocks. That's not ideal either, because hopefully if you didn't think I'd like to look at all of them you wouldn't have included them on the page.

You're right that you can make a newspaper that's really inconvenient to read, but you wouldn't, because the failure case you'd end up with is CSS Grid Lanes.
by JimDabell | 2025-12-20 07:59:01+00:00
There is no single organisation that has done more to push the mobile web forward than Apple. Seriously, name one.

Nobody gave a shit about the mobile web until Apple launched the iPhone, where one of its main selling points was a “desktop-class web browser”, where Steve Jobs told announced that if they wanted to run apps on the iPhone, they should be web apps.

Then suddenly everybody started demanding “iPhone-compatible websites” overnight. Nobody was asking for “mobile websites”, which until that point were shitty WAP/WML things, or – in the best case – cut back m.example.com microsites. People wanted “iPhone-compatible websites”.

And then all the other phone vendors used Apple’s open-source WebKit code (open-source thanks to KDE, useful on mobile thanks to Apple) to release their own browsers, and the mobile web took off like a rocket because suddenly it was useful because people could use real websites.

And let’s not forget Steve Jobs telling people to avoid Flash and use open web standards instead.

There is a very clear before/after with the mobile web, and it’s the launch of the iPhone and all the work Apple put into making WebKit work well on mobile that provided that watershed moment.

Apple were championing the web in the time period you claim they were “intentionally undermining and artificially crippling it”.

Now, you may be underwhelmed by their performance in more recent years, but it’s simply factually untrue that they have had a 20 year campaign to undermine the web.
by uecker | 2025-12-20 08:00:54+00:00
The implementation itself being sound, yes. And yes, in Rust if you only use sound libraries (in combination), never use unsafe yourself and ignore the known defects in Rust, then it is also guaranteed to be safe. But in system programming, you usually have to use "unsafe" in your own code, and then there is no guarantee and you make sure the could has no UB yourself, just like in C.
by codeddesign | 2025-12-20 08:01:05+00:00
That would be up to the school. After all, it does have a $1.4 billion dollar endowment. (ASU is not struggling at all)

Every university has to decide what is profitable and what is a loss leader. You have to be well rounded to attract students, but also make money.

In this case, the school decided that this studio had less benefit to them than reward. If this studio attracted more students (tuition $$) then it would be a benefit.

People are getting mad at the White House, but in reality the school decided that this studio wasn’t worth keeping.

Just trying to be rational here.
by nkko | 2025-12-20 08:01:33+00:00
Beyond graduating students, I see model labs as “accelerators/incubators” bundling, launching, and productizing observed ideas that gain traction. The sheer strength of their platforms, the number of eyes watching them, near-zero marginal costs, and seemingly unlimited budgets mean that only slow decision-making can prevent them from becoming the next Amazons of everything.
by arrrg | 2025-12-20 08:02:18+00:00
Your central claim is that scholarly academic (mainstream) work ist disconnected from fine arts and as such outside of it, no fit to give meaningful answers.

That seems like a wild and weird take to me, contradiction everything I know about how the world works. But if that is your hypothesis then I don’t know how you can answer ist without actually engaging closely with those who you say are disconnected.
by rkomorn | 2025-12-20 08:02:19+00:00
Not sure where we all seemed to hear that one (I'm guessing some movie made it a big plot point), but there's at least one actual study that disagrees:

>In short, all three studies provided no evidence to support the notion that the patterns of eye-movements promoted by many NLP practitioners aid lie detection. This is in line with findings from a considerable amount of previous work showing that facial clues (including eye movements) are poor indicators of deception [1]

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
by shakna | 2025-12-20 08:02:54+00:00
Those are my _only_ options?

Wow. I guess Steam must be bankrupt and surviving off just four games. And I guess Epic and Steam just don't compete. And itch and GoG are just irrelevant with no market impact.

Sorry for the sarcasm, but gaming is not "choose between these two" level of monopilisation. And indies just won game of the year awards! Things are just not monopolised.
by wahnfrieden | 2025-12-20 08:04:22+00:00
If you switch to Codex you will get a lot of tokens for $200, enough to more consistently use high reasoning as well. Cursor is simply far more expensive so you end up using less or using dumber models.

Claude Code is overrated as it uses many of its features and modalities to compensate for model shortcomings that are not as necessary for steering state of the art models like GPT 5.2
by ybceo | 2025-12-20 08:05:05+00:00
I was going to say making the platform open source might solve this problem, but then users would have to trust that we are actually running the open source version and not some fork with logging and tracking. This would be an interesting problem / paradox to try to crack.

But you are 100% right, I will look into alternatives for Cloudflare, which we are using because it seems like the cloud hosting industry LOVES to DDoS new players.
by gghffguhvc | 2025-12-20 08:06:02+00:00
I have healthcare apps. The review process for me consists of some reviewer deciding what set of healthcare features I should have picked from their list and rejecting on that basis. But subsequent reviewers have different opinions. In one app version release I got rejected 5 times for picking the wrong set of healthcare features as either the reviewer changed their mind or I got different reviewers. The app has been on Google play for 13 years.
by tjpnz | 2025-12-20 08:06:28+00:00
Here in Japan the government cracks down on it hard. There are fines for every n users exposed and in extreme cases a company can be forced to stop trading for a period of days or weeks. Companies are so scared of this happening to them that a significant portion of orientation for new employees is spent on it. I don't have stats on how effective it is, but I do know that the public is less willing to accept it as they tend to elsewhere.
by baobun | 2025-12-20 08:07:49+00:00
This is the way to do it.

Pin by hash.

Verify that the actions themselves aren't pulling in unpinned dependencies from Actions, NPM, or elsewhere.

Have a CI job or bot create PRs for new versions. Verify those PRs before merging.

If any particular action becomes a recurring chore or risk, consider if you should keep depending on it.

If you do these things, the "we need a package manager" is moot and most if not all of the concerns in that blog post don't affect you.
by valehoodie | 2025-12-20 08:08:25+00:00
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by wiether | 2025-12-20 08:09:19+00:00
> Japanese people like to say that they “eat with their eyes,” relishing the colors, shapes, and textures of a dish before it ever hits the tongue

That's interesting, because, as a French person, I'm used to restaurant menus being, at best, a few words written on paper ; and sometimes there's no physical support and the menu is only provided orally by the waiter.

And places that display pictures of the food or, even worse, plastic replicas, tend to turn down my appetite. It feels gross and unnatural. I think part of it is because it means two things: either you'll have exactly the same thing in your plate, which mean industrialized food, or it won't match what you've been shown, you've been lied to.

Meanwhile, in restaurants without visual clues, you can only let your imagination go wild and guess what you're going to have. Once the plate is put in front of you, two surprises awaits you: does it looks like what you imagined and is it good?

At least that's the experience I'm looking for in restaurants.
by itsn0tm3 | 2025-12-20 08:09:45+00:00
It makes working with Xcode simulators even easier by having a dedicated UI workflow to install the proxy certificates and restart the sim. I used to face issues from time to time doing this with Charles having to restart my machine at times and not getting the certificates to work. Proxyman makes this way nicer to work with and since switching I never faced certificate issues again.

Not trying to do an ad, but really glad I don‘t have to think about that anymore :)
by self_awareness | 2025-12-20 08:09:47+00:00
I'm wondering which overcommit strategy this example referrs to.

Because If my bitcoin price checker built on electron will start allocating all memory on the machine, then (assuming no overcommitting takes place) some arbitrary process (e.g. systemd) can get malloc error. But it's not systemd's fault the memory got eaten; so why it's being punished for low memory conditions?

It's like choosing a random person to be ejected from the plane.
by DonaldPShimoda | 2025-12-20 08:10:34+00:00
At least in my experience, grad students don't pay submission fees. It usually comes out of an institutional finances account, typically assigned to the student's advisor (who is generally the corresponding author on the submission). (Not that the waiver isn't a good idea — I just don't think the grad students are the ones who would feel relieved by that arrangement.)

Also, I'm pretty sure my SIG requires LaTeX submissions anyway... I feel like I remember reading that at some point when I submitted once, but I'm not confident in that recollection.
by satvikpendem | 2025-12-20 08:10:59+00:00
This is so funny that I'm not even sure what to say. You can ask your exact questions about a newspaper but somehow 99% of people manage to read them just fine. I think it's just a you problem that you are looking for an exact algorithm on how to scan a page with multiple sizes of content; in reality, people just look over it all and keep track of what they have or haven't looked at all in their heads.
by TZubiri | 2025-12-20 08:12:03+00:00
A common pattern in social networks with a political identity, is that bait news stories are less scrutinized for truthfulness and more baited into raging. E.g:

Political group:Right

Social media: twitter

Headline: "the police detained a 15 yo for posting on tiktok"

Reality: "15yo called for violence on a specific event and group of people"

Pol group: left

Social media: bluesky

Headline: "young mother of 2 gets detained by ICE for speaking in spanish"

Reality: "DUI, didn't speak english, translator was used, prior records"

Reminds me of how phishing attempts play to our political identities as well, recently there was a phishing attempt were the platform said that during pride month all uploaded content would have the pride flag added or something like that.

The common pattern is that some things are ridiculous, but people want to believe that "the enemy" is as ridiculous, it's an opportunity to be enraged and vindicated that the injustice is too obvious to hold on its own. That it will all come crumbling down, or at least that any insecurities in our political positioning are reduced, and our position becomes clearer and our certainty increased.

In our case, it seems to be something very specific about external links from the play store. I can't be sure but it seems as if this rule relates to apps distributed through the google play store that in turn can download other apps. This provides an alternative agreement to the rev share model, where app stores can pay per install rather than on all future revenue.

Let's try to understand news and be on the same page before analyzing implications.
by p0w3n3d | 2025-12-20 08:12:33+00:00
Reg. 3 AI is a lossy compression of text indeed. I recommend youtubing "karpathy deep dive LLM" (/7xTGNNLPyMI) - he shows that the open texts used in the training are regurgitated unchanged when speaking to the raw model. It means that if you say to the model "oh say can you" it will answer "see by the dawn's early light" or something similar like "by the morning's sun" or whatever. So very lossy but compression, which would be something else without the given text that was used in the training
by rock_artist | 2025-12-20 08:14:31+00:00
Google’s main revenue is ads.

Same goes for their other services.

I’d also assume with many ad-supported apps they’re also leading source of ads (also on iOS)

Another point to consider, Is they DO take fee from each device developer that includes Google App Services. So basically ALL devices with official Play Store sold by the manufacturer already pays a fee to include their store (but also that’s the only way to have official Gmail and other services users would expect when buying an android device)
by dangus | 2025-12-20 08:16:02+00:00
The US’ current desire to break up the EU is not because of EU regulations, it’s because the US president is a convicted felon who has been a Russian mob asset promoting Putin’s talking points for decades.

He's also a by-the-dictionary-definition fascist authoritarian including the part where corporations are untouchable and above the law, so long as they pay to play with his new mafia government modeled directly on Russia.
by random17 | 2025-12-20 08:17:08+00:00
I think a lot of people in the comments are getting hung up on titles and missing the real point of the post. The headline probably didn’t help with that.

The post actually does a great job of highlighting a genuinely valuable skill that the best engineers practice regardless of their title. In particular, “reducing ambiguity” is something I believe would be really beneficial for many early-career engineers to intentionally develop.
by Terr_ | 2025-12-20 08:20:14+00:00
> [11:34] It's almost like Altman wants to build a whole other economy.

Not-coincidentally, a bunch of the hyper-wealthy financiers in those circles are also involved in attempts to create the 21st-century version of "company towns", where the law is mostly whatever your boss says it is.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town