MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by palata | 2026-01-09 17:35:06+00:00
> but private companies

Two things:

* The government is often in the situation where they want to fund some effort, like R&D. Say China is way ahead of the US in drone technology, and the US wants to catch up because that's a risk (we see how drones are used in the military now). So someone will have money to spend on US companies who will do everything they can to get as much money as possible. How can the government employee know which company is abusing? First they are all abusing, and second they are all failing already (otherwise the government wouldn't be in this situation where they need to fund them). This is a very hard problem.

* When it is about buying e.g. an IT solution for the company, I have seen private companies fail just as much as governments. McKinsey and their friends do the same bullshit to everybody, be it government or private companies. Don't think that private companies don't waste money. It's just that when it is the government, it is transparent and we like to complain about the government.
by guntis_dev | 2026-01-09 17:35:16+00:00
Without revealing too much, the business logic must remain client side for this use case, and it's a common problem across our industry.

I've explained the security reality to the business many times - any JavaScript sent to the client can be read, executed, proxied, or tampered with. That's just how browsers work.

The current directive is - make it as difficult to understand as reasonably possible. We're not trying to stop determined adversaries (that's impossible), but we can raise the bar high enough to deter script kiddies and casual attackers from easily abusing it.
by 6thbit | 2026-01-09 17:35:25+00:00
"detect unauthorized interference with the Mobile Banking application"

I wonder if this has become a feasible avenue for scammers to interfere via other apps they could convince someone to install on rooted phones. Or if they are worried about skilled people being able to debug/MITM and find vulnerabilities on the banks.

Though from that statement alone, sounds more of a measure to protect banks than customers.
by ag_user123 | 2026-01-09 17:35:31+00:00
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by bflesch | 2026-01-09 17:35:47+00:00
I think it is a big strategic mistake for him to personally take ownership of this topic and to elevate it on a political level. He openly aligned himself with two people who are extremely unpopular in Europe, while threatening an important EU member state.

I think his hubris makes him overestimate Cloudflare's importance for Europe. Cloudflare is simply not important enough. If it was Microsoft or Apple threatening, then maybe - but those companies are clever enough to leverage lobbying for this.

Now the Cloudflare CEO has set himself up to be at the whims of JD Vance/Trump, while providing a perfect "arrogant US tech company" scapegoat that can be slaugthered by European politics and the media conglomerate that he is threatening.

Europe is too important for USA. I don't think the US administration will like the relationship to go sour at this very point in time just because of this Cloudflare doofus barking around.

Anyways, it is like Facebook CEO and Amazon CEO applauding the Trump inauguration; it is a totally unnecessary political statement which fragments their userbase and introduces a political dimension to any procurement decision involving Cloudflare. It takes people's illusion that Cloudflare is a neutral tech company and replaces it with this guy's twitter ramblings, who is obviously an Elon Musk and JD Vance fanboy.
by wrs | 2026-01-09 17:36:08+00:00
I don't know what site you're thinking of that avoids politics...maybe lobste.rs? Here are some of today's top HN stories that I would certainly categorize as "discussion on politics".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46550912 -
European Commission issues call for evidence on open source (356 points)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46550777 - Do not mistake a resilient global economy for populist success (198 points)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46547303 - Iran Protest Map (170 points)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46544625 - The Trump Administration Says It's Illegal to Record Videos of ICE (65 points)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46546188 - Texas first state to end American bar association oversight of law school (63 points)
by mandevil | 2026-01-09 17:36:12+00:00
No government official spoke up to have Brandon Eich fired, or bullied him or anything like that. His defenestration wasn't driven by government. Brandon Eich said some things, and the community around him judged those things and reacted to it. That's means that we're not talking about free speech any more. You have no right to speak and force other people to listen without social consequence, you do have a right to speak without the government retaliating. But other people are free to react to your speech as well, and to speak out in opposition to you.

A lawyer once described what you are calling Free Speech as merely "Protection of the First Speech." You believe that Brandon Eich should be able to speak (the first speech), but that the other people around him should not be able to say what they want in reaction to it (the second speech). Brandon Eich did say things without any government retaliation- and the people who worked at Mozilla didn't want to be associated with that, and so he chose to resign before the organization fell apart. Because those people around Mozilla have free speech rights as well, they are not forced to associate with Mozilla.

Obligatory XKCD to help you understand why you are wrong about what "Free Speech" means: https://xkcd.com/1357/
by ag_user123 | 2026-01-09 17:36:19+00:00
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by kingstnap | 2026-01-09 17:36:44+00:00
It might not be a conspiracy theory. Europeans have serious media skeletons in there closet.

Consider La Liga in Spain. When football matches are on they have a blank check to block whatever they want wherever they want. Genuinely they take down all of cloudflare and all kinds of shit. I think they were even DNS banning everyone on .tv TLD. Its wild how much legal power they have.

This was brought up on hacker news often.

They also have their apps spy on users microphones and gps to detect where someone might be watching their streams to make sure you aren't doing it in bars. [1]

Italian media is trying to do similar stuff with their piracy shield stuff. [2]

AtomicDig219303 on Reddit when Italy blocked all of google drive.

> Wait, I don't think that your post describes how fucking idiotic this whole thing is. Piracy shield is a system implemented by AGCOM (which as OP said is a governing agency) and basically "gifted" to the fucking mafia that is Serie A (yes, the football/soccer league) to block access to pirated streams of football matches.

[0] https://reclaimthenet.org/laligas-anti-piracy-crackdown-trig...

[1] https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/06/12/inenglish/15603...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1mgq41i/italys_pira...
by thisislife2 | 2026-01-09 17:36:59+00:00
EU is irrelevant for Russia because, for it, the Ukraine conflict is a proxy war between Russia and NATO. That is why it only seriously engages with the western superpowers (USA, UK, France) and the emerging powers (Germany and Turkey) in NATO on Ukraine. It also helps that the European superpowers dictate their will on EU.

> so when is Russia going to demilitarize Kaliningrad, because having a military base so deep in EU is unacceptable?

Russia has been willing to demilitarise Kaliningrad, and only determined not to do so because of NATO's eastward expansion - "We want to demilitarize Kaliningrad, but (we) will have to deploy even more troops there once Poland becomes a member of NATO." - Aleksandr Shokhin (Russian Duma’s First-Deputy Chairman). (It also doesn't help when NATO members claim publicly that unless Kaliningrad is demilitarised, NATO cannot have dominance in that region ( https://www.sb.by/en/poland-demands-demilitarisation-of-kali... ) - that should really convince Putin to hurry up with the demilitarisation! In fact, after Sweden and Finland joined NATO too, Russia has expanded its military presence there greatly too ( https://news.err.ee/1609274853/lithuanian-intelligence-russi... ).
by Aurornis | 2026-01-09 17:37:03+00:00
> I think the main complaint is that the percentage of the kits dedicated to specialty parts limits their usefulness for free-form play.

I understand the complain, but from observing my kids play with LEGO I don't agree with it at all.

The specialty parts from every kit inspire a lot of new builds with their growing part collection.

> The sets my kids are playing with look much more "realistic" to what the set is trying to model, but very difficult to build something entirely different, such as building a house from a car kit.

I guess I just don't see this with my kids at all. Every small set we buy or that someone gifts them grows the range of things they can build. They remember every single different part and will go searching for it in the bins because they want to put it to use.
by jimmySixDOF | 2026-01-09 17:37:07+00:00
There are quite a few African "Cape-to-Cairo" variations of travel by land tours they have been a thing for a long time and still going by the look of things ... if you have 23-weeks!

https://www.oasisoverland.co.uk/trips/cape-town-to-cairo-23-...

https://compassexpeditions.com/special-tours/major-expeditio...
by tonyarkles | 2026-01-09 17:37:10+00:00
There’s a lot of nuance to the answer and I’m not a nuclear engineer, just an EE and occasional nuclear enthusiast. The biggest issue is the cost-effectiveness of reprocessing the “waste”, which you are completely correct about still having a ton of residual energy available, back into a useable fuel for a sustained nuclear chain reaction.

Some of the fission products that are produced in reactors are actively harmful for sustaining a chain reaction (neutron poisons), Xenon-135 being a prime example. Xenon-135 only has a half-life of about 9 hours (which means it’s pretty spicy) but it also has a massive neutron capture cross-section. If it doesn’t capture a neutron, it emits a beta particle (electron/positron), which doesn’t contribute to sustaining the reaction; if it does capture a neutron it becomes Xenon-136 which is pretty stable. In both cases, it’s sitting in the fuel but either useless (yay) or actively hurting the neutron economy (boo).

At some point in the future it might be economically advantageous to reprocess “used once” nuclear waste and use it in a second cycle but for now it’s way cheaper to get more fresh uranium and process that into fuel instead.
by avensec | 2026-01-09 17:37:20+00:00
I read the comment with a bit more grace. I just assumed they were skipping to the end of a journey without any of the subject's empathetic nuance. Meaning, most philosophical, spiritual, psychological, and mindset approaches all "end" with the idea that we have a choice in how we feel about things. That choice is choosing to feel things differently.

Those ends would say that suffering is a product of our own making. It is a choice. Bad things can happen to you, but your perspective on the situation creates the suffering (resistance, guilt, personalization, inability to see it as a change agent, etc.).
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-01-09 17:37:27+00:00
>Can we agree that's, in general, a good thing?

The models come from overt piracy, and are often used to make fake news, slander people, or other illegal content. Sure it can be funny, but the poison fruit from a poison tree is always going to be overt piracy.

I agree research is exempt from copyright, but people cashing in on unpaid artists works for commercial purposes is a copyright violation predating the DMCA/RIAA.

We must admit these models require piracy, and can never be seen as ethical. =3

'"Generative AI" is not what you think it is'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERiXDhLHxmo
by bugbuddy | 2026-01-09 17:37:38+00:00
This is a very condescending toward Vietnamese tech people. According to Twitter/X, Vietnam’s GDP just surpassed Thailand and it’s on its way to joining the Great East Asian prosperity zone by becoming the last country to become fully industrialized and very rich. Many tech jobs in the US will move to Vietnam in the coming few years. You will be surprised where your future Tech conferences will be located.
by Aeolun | 2026-01-09 17:37:46+00:00
> By not doing the reading and reasoning out the result, you have learned nothing and your value has not increased

AI helps at the margins.

It’s like adding anti-piracy. Some people would simply never have bought the game unless they can pirate it.

There’s a large volume of simple tools, or experimental software that I would simply never had the time to build the traditional way.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2026-01-09 17:37:52+00:00
They don't exactly put it front and center. Click "usage limits" (at the bottom; https://support.claude.com/en/articles/9797557-usage-limit-b...) then "Max plan" in the first list (https://support.claude.com/en/articles/11014257-about-claude...). There is a $200/mo price which people are likely referring to with "20x more usage per session" (which kinda bothers me because I'd bet my bottom dollar it's 20x "as much" but that's a lost cause).
by mike_hearn | 2026-01-09 17:38:12+00:00
I don't think their concerns were concrete or clear. What does "portable" mean? There are computers out there that can't support the existing feature set of HTML5, e.g. because they lack a GPU. But WebGPU and WebGL are a part of the web's feature set. There's lots of stuff like that in the web platform. It's easy to write HTML that is nearly useless on mobile devices, it's actually the default state. You have to do extra work to ensure a web page is portable even just with basic HTML to mobile. So we can't truly say the web is always "portable" to every imaginable device.

And was NPAPI not a part of the web, and a key part of its early success? Was ActiveX not a part of the web? I think they both were.

So the idea of portability is not and never has been a requirement for something to be "the web". There have been non-portable web pages for the entire history of the web. The sky didn't fall.

The idea that everything must target an abstract machine whether the authors want that or not is clearly key to Mozilla's idea of "webbyness", but there's no historical precedent for this, which is why NaCL didn't insist on it.
by ljm | 2026-01-09 17:38:28+00:00
Depends on what country you're in. In the UK, the banks are often held liable for various scams that involve the transfer of money, so they up the security over and over again. A bank will rightly argue why it's responsible for an old granny sending her life savings to her new lover in Namibia, so it seeks to block that transaction in the first place.

Some of that liability is fair but most of it is the government telling the banks to account for the loss when someone is scammed. They are obviously going to mitigate that as much as they can.
by pizzathyme | 2026-01-09 17:39:04+00:00
Speaking as someone who worked for the SF bay area's largest homeless shelter nonprofit:

People who end up homeless long-term usually have negative social behaviors that push others away. When you help them, they don't tell an interesting story, they act angry or yell at you. When you give them money, they don't make you feel you happy, they make you feel afraid or annoyed.

This is unfortunately often due to mental health issues or drug problems. It's very sad, and ends up completely isolating them from all friends, family, and strangers who could help them.

Edit: This article actually puts this into clear terms, long term homeless people are poor "kindees"
by cubefox | 2026-01-09 17:39:56+00:00
More information:

> Italy’s communications regulator AGCOM imposed a record-breaking €14.2 million fine on Cloudflare after the company failed to implement the required piracy blocking measures. Cloudflare argued that filtering its global 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver would be "impossible" without hurting overall performance. AGCOM disagreed, noting that Cloudflare is not necessarily a neutral intermediary either. [...]

https://torrentfreak.com/italy-fines-cloudflare-e14-million-...
by ericmay | 2026-01-09 17:40:09+00:00
I'm not doing anything against the guidelines, but please feel free to report the post or send an email to the appropriate moderator.

Just because I disagree with you and characterize your arguments as following a similar pattern as other anti-American and anti-Western rhetoric doesn't mean anything I said is a "trap" or a "gotcha" or against guidelines. Though accusing others of trolling or bad faith tends to be against the rules.

You don't know the first thing about me, or what I think of any given country, so by accusing me ahead of time of "bad faith trolling" of your country" you're engaging in the same behavior you are accusing me of. You've already decided I fit a common pattern and will troll your country!

The fact of the matter here is that I disagreed with your points and said why, and all you did was accuse me of saying I ignored your arguments. But I did not, I addressed them head-on and shared my point of view.

During that time you couldn't say what country you were from so perhaps we can discuss your country too, and you can't bring yourself to criticize the Soviet Union or its mass murders and genocide and collaboration with the Nazis because you're just engaging in anti-American and anti-Western rhetoric. You say I've already decided that you fit a common pattern. No, I didn't decide that, you just provided the evidence.
by Fiveplus | 2026-01-09 17:40:40+00:00
So, if you cannot cryptographically prove to a remote server that your device is running essentially unmodified, vendor-signed software, you are locked out of the economy?

The irrefutable part here is that the security model works. Locking down the bootloader and enforcing TEE signatures does stop malware. But it also kills user agency. We are moving to a model where the user is considered the adversary on their own hardware. The genius of the modders in that XDA thread is undeniable, but they are fighting a war against the fundamental architecture of modern trust and the architecture is winning.
by bflesch | 2026-01-09 17:40:50+00:00
"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

I think this clearly shows the hubris of Cloudflare CEO. Cloudflare is simply not important enough in Europe, and he unnecessarily provided a scapegoat "evil US tech company" for European media and politicians to slaughter. In terms of corporate politics it's not clever for him to attach his name to this issue, why not let legal handle this through EU lobby channels the same way other US tech companies do it in Europe.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-01-09 17:40:51+00:00
> ... if you don’t want to go insane in this society of ours where you are allowed to have physical contact with at most one person ...

There are animals where the male and female only ever live together and are loyal (and not for the sake of the idea of loyalty, they're animals). It's not something speficic to some human societies.
by zb3 | 2026-01-09 17:40:52+00:00
Google is to blame, they're abusing device security by preloading their unremovable spyware with elevated privileges.. people then want to remove it but then find themselves unable to use banking apps because of this.

I'm not against having a separate secure phone to use with banking apps, but that phone must be designed for security, not for Google's ad driven business model..
by ben_w | 2026-01-09 17:40:58+00:00
That's not really a self-contradiction; if we pretend the USA's copyright lobby had made California pass a similar law… well, that might not work, I have no idea if that would be unconstitutional inter-state trade restriction or something in the USA, but for the sake of showing why it's not a self-contradiction can we pretend?

If the US media elites had convinced California to do that, they'd be a "shadowy cabal of [US] media elites", even if there was opposition from the rest of the USA.

Again, don't read too much into if this would actually work in the USA, the EU is not the USA, this isn't that kind of comment.
by Mathnerd314 | 2026-01-09 17:42:06+00:00
Logic minimization is kind of boring? I had to solve a problem once and the answer was still to use the espresso software from the 1980s. It is a pretty specialized problem and honestly I don't see how you would improve on it, besides integrating the digital circuit design research. But in terms of software, there is not really any reason to use a Boolean logic formula instead of just passing around the truth table directly.
by NoGravitas | 2026-01-09 17:42:41+00:00
"THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.”

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