MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ceejayoz | 2026-03-05 22:23:14+00:00
> I stated my position plainly.

I stated my question plainly.

> Would the citizens of a sovereign nation being forced to violate their Constitution by Putin and Trump be a “violation of human dignity” too?

You've yet to answer it.

> This is all tangential to the point I was making; you completely ignored the corruption scandals I mentioned.

Yes, I ignored the blatant dodge attempt to drag things off-topic.

> You’ve been posting here too long to think that this sort of behavior conforms to the site guidelines. I have showed great restraint in writing this reply despite your inconsiderate behavior. My next reminder will not be polite.

Pick "tutting schoolmarm" or "internet tough guy". Both in one paragraph just looks silly.
by skorisep | 2026-03-05 22:23:30+00:00
Great question! We have a lot of friends in the b2c space. What Vela is designed for is the subset of scheduling where nothing in the market works, specifically for businesses. Think a staffing firm coordinating across candidates, clients, recruiters, and client development to schedule interviews/meetings. Or another one doing 1,000+ interviews a week, wrangling across phone, SMS, and email. These are scenarios where companies tried every tool out there and eventually just did it themselves because tools couldn't meet their customers where they are and didn't handle the workflows/behaviors of their industries.
by Calavar | 2026-03-05 22:23:49+00:00
> If they couldn't do anything that gave an appearance of a conflict

This time I won't say maybe - that's a straw man.

I never said Cantor shouldn't be able to do anything that even gives the appearance of a conflict. Or anything even close to that really.

As you said yourself further up the thread, investments of investment bank employees are highly regulated. And not only employees themselves, but also their immediate family members.

Yet that same level of legal regulation doesn't apply to immediate relatives of government officials. We've seen frequently with spouses and children of congressmen, and now we're seeing it with the son of a cabinet member. Yes, this may technically be legal, but legal does not equate to just and desirable. This reads to me like a serious loophole in the law that needs to be closed.
by observationist | 2026-03-05 22:24:15+00:00
It's exclusivity and sales schticks. Artificial scarcity, social status, conspicuous consumption. Same things that drive influencers to rent limos, pose on other people's private jets, pretend to buy bottles in clubs, flash fake cash, wear bling.

From a birds-eye view it's less a hedonistic treadmill and more a feeding frenzy.

It's a game you can play, but for the life of me, I cannot comprehend why you'd want to, there are so many other better things in life.

>>> Why bother?

Exactly - go give someone you love a hug, that's worth infinitely more than flexing an expensive watch.
by zem | 2026-03-05 22:25:06+00:00
> Jaeger-LeCoultre's web site says that one of their current collections "takes its inspiration from the classic designs of the golden age of watchmaking." In saying this they're implicitly saying something that present-day watchmakers all know but rarely come so close to saying outright: whatever age we're in now, it's not the golden age.

not sure what tfa is trying to say here, but this is far from being an indictment of the current age. the term "golden age" is (from what I've seen) usually used for the time when an industry or field was taking the leap from niche to mainstream, and in the process defining some of the things that would later come to be considered characteristic. by that token, of course the golden age of watchmaking is not today - the field has already gone mainstream and indeed does retain a lot of the characteristic features that the golden age innovated upon and defined.
by h4kunamata | 2026-03-05 22:25:15+00:00
People will never understand, Proton is a privacy based email server, it is not the dark web where you can do as you please without consequences.

Proton only has access to your IP and device ID, not your data.
With IP and device ID, you can easily track an user like finding the ISP, etc.

Do you wanna do naughty things?? Don't use such services do to so.

And ironically,this 404 Media is the only place I found covering this information and they require you to login to read the whole thing.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm red flag big time!!!!
by 000ooo000 | 2026-03-05 22:25:53+00:00
Don't think any salt is required. During the Zig departure from GH, there were several GH Actions repo issues where it was highlighted just how bad some of the code is, and there was zero effort from GH to fix the problems or even accept past PRs from the community to fix these things.

We just got our mandate from on high that we're migrating to GH. You can imagine my joy.
by bgnn | 2026-03-05 22:25:57+00:00
> Alaska and Norway understood something critical when oil was discovered: if you don't assert collective ownership of the resource before private companies capture all the value, you never will. Alaska amended its constitution. Norway built the largest sovereign wealth fund on earth. Both were acts of people saying "this belongs to us, and we deserve a return on its extraction."

This is also true for the first commercially exploited natural gas fields in the world, in the Netherlands. This ruined the Dutch manufacturing industry, and became a textbook example of tge development of one sector harming others known as Dutch disease [].

AI has a great potential like this too..

[] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease
Show HN: Msgspec-config, yet another config library for msgspec
by maxpareschi | 2026-03-05 22:27:34+00:00
Hey all, here's my stab at a config library for msgspec that mimics some pydantic-settings ergonomics. Very rough under the edges, but it serves my use case for now.

I needed a semi automatic config library that helped me validate models on classes but could be extensible without forking another library (like the interesting msgspec-ext) and mantaining it on the side just to enable that bit of flexibility for my needs.

What I came up with was a way to specify DataSources that can be mixed and matches in whatever order necessary, with niceties like CLI config and generalized API readers.

Comments welcome! (please be gentle though ;) )
by __jl__ | 2026-03-05 22:27:46+00:00
I see your point. I do find Anthropic's approach more clean though particularly when you add in mini and nano. That makes 5 models priced differently. Some share the same core name, others don't: gpt 5 nano, gpt 5 mini, gpt 5.1, gpt 5.2, gpt 5.4. And we are not even talking about thinking budget.

But generally: These are not consumer facing products and I agree that someone who uses the API should be able to figure out the price point of different models.
by Phrosen | 2026-03-05 22:28:04+00:00
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by juris | 2026-03-05 22:28:09+00:00
> QR codes:
haha agreed. those QR codes coincide with mandatory post covid tip rate and inflated prices; whenever I tip it's 15-18% cash, and direct to waiter. i don't eat at places that invest in insta (food for the eyes) instead of real food.

> keys + mfa:
this one is a tricky one for me. thinking to go do web-only mfa fwiw and go full RMS with just a laptop and a hotspot. does he even use a hotspot? haha. as far as SMS MFA goes... maybe tailscale out an adb session to your real cellphone at home. feels brittle, but so is sms mfa. edit: actually i'll just forward SMS to myself via e-mail; this is what your financial advisor does, since SMS is heavily regulated in fintech

> nav:
yeah when smartphones first came out i just hated every design aspect about them (stupidly fragile screens at the time), but the most compelling reason to switch at the time was navigation. i don't mind printing mapquest again or just using a dedicated gps.

it's the value prop of having "all the world's knowledge at your fingertips" versus:

stupid obsoletion practices + lithium mining, corpogovernment surveillance + tracking, eroding mental health, porn, gacha games, cellphone thumb + turtle neck, doom scrolling + time wasted, enshittified content, infuriating typing ux on both ios and android, and people having near constant access to you at all times (remember when it was rude to call past 8p?)

does this thing really make you happy?

that i think it's time to just leave your phone at home...like in ye olde days with your landline and i'm an app developer. (you should keep the phone and gps on and at least pretend that you're a normie).

anyone in construction really like their ruggedized SIP phone and can recommend a good voip system (ie they trust their voip provider) with e2e encryption that I can connect a wifi 6 mobile router to? someone a few months ago on hn mentioned the mudi v2 and sim swapping with https://github.com/srlabs/blue-merle
by jfengel | 2026-03-05 22:28:32+00:00
Likely, the long-term outcome would be the same. Harald wouldn't have been in a great position to fight of William, either. He might have simply ceded southern England without even a fight.

And given William's subsequent Harrying of the North, I don't think that Harald would be able to hold on to it very long. He was intent on taking over the whole thing, and he had a much stronger force coming over the English Channel than over the North Sea.

Of course we can never really tell. I could spin a million other possible outcomes. But in this case, William really did have an overwhelming force. Godwinson had a home-field advantage, and might have won if he hadn't exhausted his force just getting there. The Vikings weren't going to fare better.
by 4star3star | 2026-03-05 22:28:52+00:00
I agree. If we look to music, how can a musician unhear what they've heard? We celebrate musicians when they cite their influences. In the case of a software library, it is a tool, not a work of art. Its beauty is in accomplishing a specific, useful task. If we can accept musicians drawing inspiration from all the music they've ever listened to, we should be able to do the same for software, especially when its internal code is unrecognizable from a similar tool.
by mort96 | 2026-03-05 22:30:42+00:00
Right now I'm on a 2021 MacBook Pro, I'm debating whether to upgrade to the new M5 Pro laptops or to wait until next year; so that's 5-6 years. My desktop gets upgraded over time, so it's not really on a "cycle"; it's more that every few years, I may decide to get a more powerful CPU, or more RAM, or a new GPU, or more storage, or whatever else. Though I recently (as in, during the past year) upgraded from an AM4 CPU to an AM5 CPU, so that meant I replaced more than usual; everything other than the GPU, storage, power supply and peripherals. (I switched from ITX to mATX for an extra PCI slot so the case had to go; though it still lives on in the form of a lab PC of sorts, along with my old i7 6700k)

But common among all these replacements is that they're not really planned in detail years before. I may weigh up factors like "I don't really need an upgrade right now" against factors like "the market looks like it'll probably get really shitty later this year", or "I could really really use an upgrade right now" against "but the market is shitty now and we're right before a product launch which will shake things up". But I always react to my current or near-future needs/wants and current or near-future market conditions.

So hearing "the RAM market will be good again in 5 years" is completely irrelevant to me. My decisions are entirely based around how the RAM market is right now and how I believe it will look throughout the year or the next.
by crote | 2026-03-05 22:30:49+00:00
No, the real problem is that people keep giving LLMs the ability to take nontrivial actions without explicit human verification - despite bulletproof input sanitization not having been invented yet!

Until we do so, every single form of input should be considered hostile. We've already seen LLMs run base64-encoded instructions[0], so even something as trivial as passing a list of commit shorthashes could be dangerous: someone could've encoded instructions in that, after all.

And all of that is before considering the possibility of a LLM going "rogue" and hallucinating needing to take actions it wasn't explicitly instructed to. I genuinely can't understand how people even for a second think it is a good idea to give a LLM access to production systems...

[0]: https://florian.github.io/base64/
by hntway5994 | 2026-03-05 22:30:54+00:00
Purely anecdotal I know of a fair few creatives who ultimately are just happy people enjoy their works and don't really care how they're getting it. I understand that's a privileged attitude in the current world as they are all living relatively comfortable lives but at least philosophically I agree with it. We as humans have done a lot to reduce scarcity for a great deal many things but we still cling to it as an idea because of stubbornness and greed.

Maybe I'll get labeled a 'commie' for saying all this but I think we create a world where everyones needs are met and things(information & media are the easiest imo) are freely available. Thinking we can't do this is a bit of a disservice to the capabilities of humans.
by modderation | 2026-03-05 22:31:17+00:00
It's either a a Career Limiting Event, or a Career Learning event.

In the case of a Learning event, you keep your job, and take the time to make the environment more resilient to this kind of issue.

In the case of a Limiting event, you lose your job, and get hired somewhere else for significantly better pay, and make the new environment more resilient to this kind of issue.

Hopefully the Wikimedia foundation is the former.
by Herring | 2026-03-05 22:31:38+00:00
He's omitting the most important bit. Data from the OECD shows highly unequal societies tend to be more status-obsessed, leading to higher spending on "positional goods" (items bought to signal status). These economies often have higher advertising expenditures (as a percentage of GDP) to fuel that competition. Inequality is quite corrosive in many ways, including leading to fascism.
by f33d5173 | 2026-03-05 22:31:46+00:00
I don't think it changes much about licensing in particular. People are going on about how since the AI was trained on this code, that makes it a derivative work. But it must be borne in mind that AI training doesn't usually lead to memorizing the training data, but rather learning the general patterns of it. In the case of source code, it learns how to write systems and algorithms in general, not a particular function. If you then describe an interface to it, it is applying general principles to implement that interface. Its ability to succeed in this depends primarily on the complexity of the task. If you give it the interfaces of a closed source and open sourced project of similar complexity, it will have a relatively equal time of implementing them.

Even prior to this, relatively simple projects licensed under share alike licenses were in danger of being cloned under either proprietary or more permissive licenses. This project in particular was spared, basically because the LGPL is permissive enough that it was always easier to just comply with the license terms. A full on GPLed project like GCC isn't in danger of an AI being able to clone it anytime soon. Nevermind that it was already cloned under a more permissive license by human coders.
by tzs | 2026-03-05 22:31:49+00:00
> Now they stand to make huge returns of 3 to 5x for being correct on that bet, while, of course, consumers get nothing.

Even if they hadn't made that bet were consumers going to get anything? The refunds would go to whoever directly paid the tariffs, which will generally be businesses.

I doubt that many businesses will go the effort of figuring out how much of any price increases they did while those tariffs were in effect raised the price for each individual customer, and issue refunds for that amount.
by observationist | 2026-03-05 22:31:50+00:00
Proton isn't opsec, it's just the best available commercial clearweb host that still has to follow all the laws and comply with warrants, but won't be arbitrarily selling your metadata or engaging in the adtech garbage.

Kagi is to google as proton is to gmail.

You get web mail, custom domains, decent security, decent spam detection, solid features, and no PII being sold. Nice, clean, simple - I like paying them money. I feel good about doing business with them, and I don't run into that often these days.
by gucci-on-fleek | 2026-03-05 22:32:30+00:00
Those are the English Wikipedia-only users, but you also need to include the "global" users (which I think were the source of this specific compromise?). Search this page [0] for "editsitejs" to see the lists of global users with this permission.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalGroupPermissions
by gchadwick | 2026-03-05 22:32:36+00:00
I worked on OpenTitan for around 5 years at lowRISC. It certainly has its ups and downs but it's generated some great stuff and I'm very glad to see hit proper volume production like this. Whilst there's definitely open source chips out there and lots more using bits of open source that don't actually advertise this fact I believe this is the first chip with completely open RTL that's in a major production volume use case.

One of highlights working on OpenTitan was the amount of interest we got from the academic community. Work they did could actually get factored into the first generation silicon making it stronger. Ordinarily chips like that are kept deeply under wraps and the first time the wider security community can take a look at them development has long completed so anything they might find could only effect generation 2 or 3 of the device.

Academic collaboration also helped get ahead in post quantum crypto. This first generation chip has limited capabilities there but thanks to multiple academics using the design as a base for their own PQC work there was lots to draw on for future designs.

I'm no longer at lowRISC so I don't know where OpenTitan is going next but I look forward to finding out.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-03-05 22:33:54+00:00
In node.js I've seen time and time again some slow task that happens only every now and then, but which causes significant latency spikes. Having the one single event loop, with tasks big and small, from all stages of the processing pipeline mixed in, feels so crude. I really want a more sophisticated architecture where different stages of the execution can be managed independently.

I also want to mention that very very very few programs do, but io_uring does let you run multiple io_urings!! Your program can pick from which completion queue it wants to read, can put high priority tasks in a specific iou.
by SpacePortKnight | 2026-03-05 22:34:47+00:00
Anthropic can now no longer buy new hardware and probably will be kicked out of all cloud compute. They can not also move to a different jurisdiction as exporting model weights is now considered same as exporting ICBM technology. Wow, companies in China are now more free than Anthropic. It's a death sentence, and a huge win for OpenAI.
by philips | 2026-03-05 22:35:56+00:00
Sort of relatedly: I bought an inexpensive DDR pad recently that worked on coldplug but not hotplug.

It turns out the firmware on the pad isn’t quite ready to be polled for USB descriptors right when it is plugged in so you have to put in a little udev hack to suspend it then let it reconnect. At which point it comes back correctly.

(The manufacturer included a little debugging flyer telling you to plug the device in slowly to work around this issue haha)

For those interested:
https://github.com/batocera-linux/batocera.linux/issues/1547...
by dcuthbertson | 2026-03-05 22:36:46+00:00
There are few things so valuable as a good user who is willing to work with you. Many years ago I worked at a company that was going to shutdown a very buggy product. There was one user who relied on it heavily and convinced the CEO to make one more release, and I was tasked with working with that customer to make it happen. Over the next month, we fixed the bugs (I coded, he tested). We wound up making a stable and more user-friendly product. It was a real pleasure to work with that guy. The company still mothballs the thing, but I know we had at least one happy customer in the end.
by mhitza | 2026-03-05 22:37:01+00:00
That's 404 media's approach. That's why I only read their headlines.

In theory you could open up your protonmail account over tor and with bitcoin (or does that not work anymore?).

Its been a good while since I tried them out. Why I don't recommend them anymore is because when I didn't extend my subscription in time (expecting an account downgrade), my mail was locked and emails hold on to as random. Allowed to login only for payment.

That was one red flag from me, the second was when they shared IP address logs of a French protestor. E̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶o̶u̶g̶h̶ ̶a̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶t̶i̶m̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶h̶a̶d̶ ̶a̶ ̶n̶o̶ ̶l̶o̶g̶s̶ ̶p̶o̶l̶i̶c̶y̶,̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶I̶ ̶r̶e̶m̶e̶b̶e̶r̶ ̶c̶o̶r̶r̶e̶c̶t̶l̶y̶.̶ ̶O̶r̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶I̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶.̶
by coldtea | 2026-03-05 22:37:24+00:00
>But I don't view hobbies as that separate from status signals within the hobbying group.

The difference though is that this is not meant to serve "within the hobbying group".

They serves the status signal purpose when showing them to "laymen" and other rich people in general, not necessarily to other expensive car buyers or luxury watch buyers.

In other words, the, typically quiet, flaunting, is done to people otherwise uninterested about the specific ting, that nonetheless recognize the exclusivity and the knowledge that it's a subtle signal of "elevated taste" and that they belong to the tasteful-rich club.
by three14 | 2026-03-05 22:37:28+00:00
> Is there something less cooperative than a task that doesn't yield its control back to the main thread?
Of course it does yield back to the main thread in my example, at each await point, just like any other cooperative task.

In my case, I specifically want an independent execution of a task. Admittedly, it has to catch its own exceptions and deal with them, as you pointed out, because that's part of being independent.

(Technically, in issue A it doesn't crash the running thread. The event loop catches the exception, but it complains later when the task is garbage collected. Issue B is fine for my use - when the event loop shuts down, it cancels remaining tasks, which is exactly right for my server.)
by IshKebab | 2026-03-05 22:37:33+00:00
This is really great. OpenTitan has some useful IP components that can definitely be reused, and it's really cool that this is open. Nice one Google. I have to minority nitpick though:

> both individual IP blocks and the top-level Earl Grey design have functional and code coverage above 90%—to the highest industry standards—with 40k+ tests running nightly

This is definitely not "to the highest industry standards". I've worked on projects where we got to 100% on both for most of the design. It's definitely a decent commercial standard though - way above most open source verification quality.