MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by snypher | 2025-12-02 04:40:22+00:00
>A bail document seen by The Telegraph refers to an allegation of possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence and a further allegation of stalking related to a photograph of a house that appeared on his social media... re-arrested in October for allegedly breaching his bail conditions. However, that charge was later dropped...The firearms and stalking allegations were also dropped but Mr Richelieu-Booth was charged with a public order offence relating to a different social media post...charged with an offence of displaying “any writing/sign/visible representation with intent to cause harassment/alarm or distress”. However, that charge was also later dropped, he said.

Quite the gaggle of charges flying about!
by chasing0entropy | 2025-12-02 04:40:22+00:00
Skip giving Twitter your attention:

Rabois alleges that Airwallex's significant operational presence in mainland China and Hong Kong, combined with Chinese ownership stakes and legal obligations under Chinese law, creates vulnerabilities for US clients. According to his thread, approximately 40% of Airwallex's 1,700 employees are based in mainland China and Hong Kong, including core engineering teams with access to production systems.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/boazsobrado/2025/12/01/airwalle...
by Telaneo | 2025-12-02 04:40:39+00:00
Never had either of these problems across phones or laptops. What kind of GaN charger are you using that has problems with overheating?

And even in that case, USB-C chargers and cables are available everywhere, unlike proprietary laptop chargers, If the ports are dying on you though, I don't know what to tell you. They seem fine on phones, so I can't see what the problem would be on laptops, unless there are specific models that just have horrible ports.
by hahahacorn | 2025-12-02 04:40:47+00:00
I’ve had Beej’s Guide to C and Beej’s Guide to networking bookmarked for an embarrassing amount of time.

But this is the first guide that I know the material! I have “learned computer science” (somewhat). And I have to say it has propelled Beej’s other guides to the top of my reading list. The subchapters I skimmed and their content are just so relevant and I know many new and experienced devs (myself included) who would still benefit greatly from reading this. Just exceptionally well done.
by cheema33 | 2025-12-02 04:41:13+00:00
> It's not like a backdoor, but safety of citizens, which is the prime mandate of a sovereign state.

This sounds great in theory. But in practice this sort of thing is rife for abuse. Say, I have complete control over what this app installed on your phone does in the background. And you were my political opponent. Would you trust me to not use this backdoor into your phone to my advantage?

Apps like Netflix, GMail are not forced on users by a govt. It is an open marketplace. Users have options. They are free to buy phones that do not have those apps pre-installed.
by ssl-3 | 2025-12-02 04:41:57+00:00
Huh?

Suppose I've got an assembly with a chopstick attached to a gimbal with some minor centering springs and sensors (potentiometers) inside. The chopstick has many degrees of free angular movement provided by this gimbal and overall assembly.

I gently bounce ("slam"?) that chopstick off of a thing, and this results in the feedback loop that provides positioning control to provide immediate instruction to back off in the opposite direction of the apparent impact.

Does the chopstick take damage? Does the gimbal take damage? Does the greater assembly take damage?

Why, or why not?

(I feel like we're speaking two different languages here. Have you ever looked at how a PS3 analog stick works, or have you not? It's not new tech. It wasn't even new when it was new, and it's very nearly 20 years old now in PS3 form.)
by eu-tech-tak | 2025-12-02 04:42:23+00:00
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by umanwizard | 2025-12-02 04:42:58+00:00
My advice is to (re-)learn elementary algebra to a proficient level before attempting any other branch of math. That is a core prerequisite for absolutely everything. By elementary algebra I mean roughly everything in classes called “Algebra” or “pre-calculus” that you learn in an American high school before calculus. Geometry and trigonometry can’t hurt either but algebra is more central.
by apparent | 2025-12-02 04:43:00+00:00
In general, if a student can get into MIT/Stanford, he will also have been accepted to some less-competitive universities, and likely with decent scholarship. Would it be smarter to go to MIT at full price or Northeastern on a half scholarship?

The fact that people are still signing on the dotted line and paying for these expensive schools is a testament to the value they are perceived to convey. But as the polling shows, America is falling out of love with higher ed. Between this trend and the coming demographic trends, university admissions will get less competitive across the board in coming decades.
by culebron21 | 2025-12-02 04:43:23+00:00
As someone from exUSSR, I'm shocked with the figures. We've given birth in Russia and in Kazakhstan, in both cases I paid nothing at all. Just taxi to the birth house (that's how the birth clinics are called), and my wife disliked the food, so I brought her some fruits and maybe corn flakes every day of 3 days she stayed there. The equipment I could see was modern, everything was clean, there was some confusion where to put her, otherwise everything was fine. If you're suspicious, you can go to private clinic at $1,5K..2K, they even send you a taxi (or who knows, maybe a private ambulance).

My libertarian friends criticise this from the point that "everything state-run is inefficient". Even if this is true, they fail to notice that state-run healthcare keeps prices of the private sector down. You don't have to sell a car if you're seriously sick.

In 1992-96 on Russian state TV, there was a translated program called something like "Rescue number 911", with nobody else but William Shattner. (We already knew him at the time.) I got an impression that the US healthcare was impeccable.
by citizenpaul | 2025-12-02 04:43:43+00:00
1. Seems to forget its context about 20/80 of results now. It used to be decent but now I may make only two prompts and it forgets the previous one noticeably more.

2. Results are noticeably worse, much more prone to "cheating" outcomes like generating some logic then = true to all results so it always finishes regardless of conditions.
by cortesoft | 2025-12-02 04:44:06+00:00
I guess it depends on your definition of "intentionally"... maybe I am giving people too much credit, but I have a feeling that dark patterns are used not because the implementers learn about them as transparently exploitive techniques and pursue them, but because the implementers are willfully ignorant and choose to chase results without examining the costs (and ignoring the costs when they do learn about them). I am not saying this morally excuses the behavior, but I think it does mean it is not that different than what is happening with LLMs. Just as choosing an innocuous seeming rule like "if a social media post generates a lot of comments, show it to more people" can lead to the dark pattern of showing more and more people misleading content that causes societal division, choosing to optimize an LLM for user approval leads to the dark pattern of sycophantic LLMs that will increase user's isolation and delusions.

Maybe we have different definitions of dark patterns.
by forrestpitz | 2025-12-02 04:44:30+00:00
I also see the argument as a macro one not a micro one. Some bubbles in aggregate create breeding grounds for innovation (Hobart's point) and throw off externalities (like cheap freight rail in the US from the railroad bubble) ala Carlota Perez. That's not to say that there isn't individual suffering when the bubble pops but I read the argument as "it's not wholy defined by the individual suffering that happens"
by Seattle3503 | 2025-12-02 04:45:24+00:00
I'm in the same boat. I mostly write Rust and Python. Using serde_json and Pydantic, you get deserialization and validation at the same time. It allows you to de-serialize really "tight" types.

Most of my APIs are internal APIs that accept breaking changes easily. My experience with protobufs is that it was created to solve problems in large systems with many teams and APIs, where backwards compatibility is important. There are certainly systems where you can't "just" push through a breaking API change, and in those cases protobufs make sense.
by d_e_solomon | 2025-12-02 04:45:32+00:00
I’m noticing that most business commentary focuses on quarterly numbers, leadership quotes, or macro headlines. But the bigger drivers tend to be structural: market power, upstream bottlenecks, incentive design, and temporal constraints inside supply chains.

Seeing this across aviation, semiconductors, media, and even consumer goods, the pattern is the same. I’m writing breakdowns exploring the “mechanics beneath the headlines” here:

https://capitalfolly.com

Curious how others analyze companies beyond earnings and PR cycles. What do you look at first when trying to understand an industry?
by alabhyajindal | 2025-12-02 04:45:42+00:00
The difference is restricting removal of the app. It takes away the user's choice. As far as I know all preloaded apps, at least on Android, can be disabled if not uninstalled.

> The November 28 order, seen by Reuters, gives major smartphone companies 90 days to ensure that the government's Sanchar Saathi app is pre-installed on new mobile phones, with a provision that users cannot disable it.
by somenameforme | 2025-12-02 04:45:48+00:00
To be anal about being anal, the article doesn't preclude Fleming's account. It argues that it's unlikely, but countless highly improbable things are happening every second. On this topic somehow Ancient Egyptian poultices (and in cultures onward - though they are the oldest recorded account) even used moldy bread to treat bacterial infections, somehow stumbling onto genuine antibacterial aspects for an absurdly counter-intuitive treatment that has a real effect. However it was initially discovered back then, let alone replicated and confirmed, must have been through an unimaginably improbable series of events. Yet it happened. That's rather the story of humanity.
by tjwebbnorfolk | 2025-12-02 04:46:00+00:00
I am not offended. And I'll be the one to judge my own best interests. (back to: "personal responsibility"). e.g. I have more information about my own life than you or anyone else, and so am best situated to make decisions for myself about my own beliefs.

For instance I work for one of the companies that produces some of the most popular LLMs in use today. And I certainly have a stake in them performing well and being useful.

But your line of reasoning would have us believe that Henry Ford is a mass murderer due to the number of vehicular deaths each year, or that the wright brothers bear some responsibility for 9/11. They should have foreseen that people would fly their planes into buildings, of course.

If you want to blame someone for LLMs hurting people, we really need to go all the way back to Alan Turing -- without him these people would still be alive!
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-02 04:47:02+00:00
> However they need to face current reality. What value-add can they provide in areas not impacted by AI?

I'm sure the author has thought much longer on this than I, but I get the vibes here of "2025 was uniquely bad for reasons in and outside of AI". Not "2025 was the beginning of the end for my business as a whole".

I don't think demand for proper engineering is going away, people simply have less to spend. And oncestors have less to invest or are all in gambling on AI. It's a situation that will change for reasons outside the business itself.
by jmye | 2025-12-02 04:47:03+00:00
Calling their objections “weirdly vitriolic” belies both a complaint about “kindness”, and shows an explicit desire to not learn a single thing. Perhaps, if you have genuine curiosity in the future, you should be thoughtful about the questions you ask, and the ad hominem attacks you make in the asking, rather than whining after the fact because people didn’t excuse your lack of tactful interaction sufficiently?

Or just complain about “kindness” more - it’s easier to accuse others of being mean than to look in a mirror, I suppose.
by Telaneo | 2025-12-02 04:47:29+00:00
It's a Linux thing.

> The Linux kernel disables the possibility of hibernation when Secure Boot is in use because it cannot guarantee that the swap file is unchanged. "Unencrypted hibernation/suspend to swap are disallowed as the kernel image is saved to a medium that can then be accessed."

https://wiki.debian.org/Hibernation
by Graziano_M | 2025-12-02 04:47:30+00:00
I like that. I don’t want to use tmux (and I don’t when I’m working on my local machine), but I can’t escape it when SSHing. I could ssh to a ton of sessions, but then I 1. Have to remember their names 2. Can’t easily create a new pane (on the remote host) for some short task and 3. Need yet another solution for restoring my pane layout for when my client restarts.

Maybe I’ll try the session name thing, I just foresee it being annoying. Do you see your tool as a shpool replacement?
Show HN: Multi-Repo Tool
by anduril22 | 2025-12-02 04:49:22+00:00
I love having multiple git repos in a directory, all of which relate to one project (microservices, etc.). I dislike monorepos since I usually code in different languages and they seem like too much overhead. I know there are multi-repo tools in the market, but most of these seemed not-so-user-friendly to me. One of the challenges I've struggled with in this setup is keeping track of what's been committed/deployed when (yes I use semver), so I built a quick tool to keep track of last commit times, be able to quickly check git status/log for each repo, and get a R/A/G indicator if a particular repo has been committed or not, so I can then see what has changed or needs to be committed, and update deployments accordingly.

Built for my personal use but wanted to get feedback here in case anyone else found it useful. I recognize this may be due to bad CICD workflows but as a solo dev I don't have the bandwidth to set up a full process for it.
by danpalmer | 2025-12-02 04:50:30+00:00
Opting out of "AI" is performative and pointless for companies to support. "AI" has been woven throughout most of the tech products we use for decades at this point. We're in a brief period where people are noticing the new crop of AI features, but AI is an implementation detail that will disappear into the background. Even just looking at modern transformer-based language models, most of it is happening in the background and not visible.

Opting out of AI would be like saying that you don't use JavaScript because you don't like the moral position of the guy who wrote it. That's a reasonable moral position to take (I totally get not wanting to use LLMs for reasons of copyright, art, or even just capability), but a completely unreasonable technical position to take, functionally impossible.

Why does Mozilla not give you a convenient opt out? Because it's hard, low impact, and functionally no-one wants it.
by palmotea | 2025-12-02 04:50:42+00:00
I don't know how common it is, but it's optional for me (at least). If I want access to work email/calendar/chat (which is convenient), I'd have to consent to some kind of device management.

But personally, I've always said no, because years ago someone at my workplace fat-fingered a command and wiped all iPhones hooked up to company services (including employee-owned personal devices). I've always seen it as a risk to my data if not my privacy.
by derangedHorse | 2025-12-02 04:51:11+00:00
> but once the damage is done why let it happen in vain?

Because there are no great ways to leverage the damage without perpetuating it. Who do you think pays for the hosting of these models? And what do you mean by distribute the IP and profits to the public? If this process will be facilitated by government, I don’t have faith they’ll be able to allocate capital well enough to keep the current operation sustainable.
by kazinator | 2025-12-02 04:51:33+00:00
I'm skeptical for this reason: at the time of the first AI winter, AI was niche. Today, it is mainstream; vast numbers of consumers are using AI.

AI in consumer hands is no longer just a niche program in a corner of your company or government organization that can defund and shut down.

If the current purveyors of big cloud AI were to fold, their replacements are waiting in the wings to pick up the demand somehow.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-12-02 04:51:48+00:00
A better analogy, when it comes to weights, is this: You are a skilled musician. You talk to another musician on the phone. She tells you in detail about a new song from yet another musician. It has these chords, it's in this key, it has this time signature and syncopation, it uses these instruments, it uses these effects. She doesn't tell you the lyrics, though. Mostly, she just tells you how it's related to a lot of other songs in the same genre.

You now have some "weights." You go to your studio and compose something that's so close to the original song that you'd definitely end up on the wrong end of a lawsuit like The Verve vs. The Rolling Stones if you were to release it.

Now... how in the world does this state of affairs "promote the progress of science and the useful arts" or otherwise make the world a better place?

The copyright industry cannot be allowed to stop AI, or put a tollgate on it. It simply can't. If it dies, it dies. We got along just fine without it for thousands of years. AI is the next stage of our own evolution as Homo sapiens, while copyright is a dead-end street.
by danielheath | 2025-12-02 04:51:58+00:00
> I don’t think it’s (maintaining species ratio & density) fundamentally impossible to solve; if you have any ideas, let me know!

Achieving maximum density appears related to the NP-complete Knapsack problem ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knapsack_problem )

However, for low-density areas, the bias should be too low to notice.

Trees grow closer to one another in dense forests - perhaps dividing the exclusion radius by the density factor would keep the bias low enough to be invisible?
by anonymous908213 | 2025-12-02 04:52:01+00:00
In most countries, death by terrorist is at least an order of magnitude less likely than death by bee. Strangely, we do not seem to be on a campaign to lock all humans in-doors to protect them from bees, nor have we declared a global war on beeism. These stats hold from before the modern surveillance regime, and so can hardly be credited to it. It's not actually a problem in particular need of urgent solving. Regular people are safe from terrorism, much safer than they are against most kinds of tragic accidents. What regular people are actually in danger of is losing all of their human rights to fearmongerers, who constantly invoke terrorism to erode them further and further.

Bukele and Duterte did not rise out of an environment of terrorism, so I don't know why you thought it relevant to bring them up. I think it is really sad to see comments on HN of all places advocating that if we don't implement chat control we'll spiral into a lawless hellscape.
by jeroenhd | 2025-12-02 04:52:01+00:00
Most of these AI providers use a similar kind of common query structure. OpenWebUI is a mostly consistent copy of ChatGPT so that's what the browser seems to default to when you configure something custom.

All the AI toolbar really does is open http://ai.url.com/some-query?prompt=${formattedPrompt} and display it next to the web page you have open.

The formatted prompt is something like "The user is on the page 'Stories about Cats'. The user wants you to summarize the following text: <text you have selected goes here>". You can configure your own prompt in about:config if you want, there are a bunch of examples here: https://github.com/mozilla-l10n/firefox-l10n/blob/main/en-GB...

There are prompts optimised for specific AI providers but the generic ones should work with any provider your choose.

When the web page opens at that URL, you're either going to get redirected to login and then redirected back, or the AI frontend will start executing the prompt.
by FireBeyond | 2025-12-02 04:53:04+00:00
Easy syncing? Kinda. It works, generally, eventually.

No progress, no indicators. And what little status you get has no connection to reality.

Will it sync? When? Who knows? You’re on WiFi with a full battery and charging? So? Might be a minute, might be an hour. Oh, you restarted Photos? Who cares? Not Photos.

They'll get there. Sometime.
by GMoromisato | 2025-12-02 04:53:32+00:00
It was my old astrophotography blog: https://neurohack.com/Astrophotography/index.html

And the book it led to is 101 Amazing Sights of the Night Sky: https://www.amazon.com/101-Amazing-Sights-Night-Sky/dp/15919...

Neither is very popular, but it was a lot of fun.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-02 04:53:32+00:00
>When everyone around you is telling you that you just have to start doing something and it's not even about the moral side of that thing.

No, that's the most important situation to consider the moral thing. My slightly younger peers years back were telling everyone to eat tide pods. That's a pretty important time to say "no, that's a really stupid idea", even if you don't get internet clout.

I'd hope the tech community of all people would know what it's like to resist peer pressure. But alas.

>But this doesn't mean that we all need to victim blame everyone who doesn't feel comfortable in this trendy stream.

I don't see that at all in the article. Quite the opposite here actually. I just see a person being transparent about their business and morals and commentors here using it to try and say "yea but I like AI". Nothing here attacked y'all for liking it. The author simply has his own lines.