MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by johnisgood | 2025-04-21 07:04:33+00:00
"Social contract" is a made up term used to legitimatize government intervention, i.e. statist by nature, and built upon violence. It is a myth used to justify state coercion and centralized authority.

> A society is certainly conceivable in which there was no governmental intervention in family life or education and in which the sole function of law enforcement was the upholding of universal rights.

I would also refer you to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43748473.

https://store.mises.org/Myth-of-the-Social-Contract-Refuting... and https://cdn.mises.org/1_3_3_0.pdf and whatnot.
by h3half | 2025-04-21 07:04:42+00:00
I must be misunderstanding because that seems like the most common morality basis in the world. People who equate running over a squirrel in the road to vehicular manslaughter (as if you had hit a human child) are seen as extremists, and someone who was OK with hunting deer as well as humans would be seen as having some sort of mental condition. The majority view is that species matters
by BiteCode_dev | 2025-04-21 07:07:20+00:00
t-string are lazy, which is the point (escaping HTML, translating strings when you get preferred language headers, preparing SQL statements...).

Does Ruby strings already allow lazy processing ?

I'm not talking about wrapping them in a block and passing the block (all languages can do that with a lambdas) but a having literally that eventually resolves to something when you use it.
by Validark | 2025-04-21 07:08:09+00:00
Well, I apologize for "begging", but I do it because it helps me to stay motivated when I see a bunch of people get interested in the project, or at least feign interest, haha. I know it's cringy but making it to 200 stars recently and the fact that it was seen by Zig core people and people in their periphery helps me soldier on.

I had no idea about the core 0 issue, so I thank you very much for this information. I'm not sure it makes a difference but I'll change the suggestion.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-04-21 07:08:51+00:00
> At the same time, some loanwords escape the declination system, giving birth to the joke above.

I hope I'm safe in assuming that "kiwi kiwi kiwi" comes off as pure nonsense.

But if it's possible for loanwords to come in without being forced into the system, there must be something you could add to the sentence to bring back the effect? What would that look like?
by vivzkestrel | 2025-04-21 07:09:34+00:00
thank you for the detail responses, so i understand that you have a lambda function that fires a request to fetch a website url from dynamodb, since lambda's require a memory limit and a timeout, how much memory is each function using and what is the timeout for a request (30s?) Also does each lambda function handle a single url or we doing asyncio aiohttp stuff with a whole bunch of urls at one go?
by baranul | 2025-04-21 07:10:46+00:00
Amazingly, in agreement with most of this. The sooner that Jai is released, the more likely it will be a Zig popularity disruptor. And Zig is definitely vulnerable. It has a large amount of issues, is dealing with trying to maintain being a limited/simple language, and still far from 1.0.

Regardless of comptime, Odin and C3's public accessibility, and being close enough to Jai for folks to contemplate switching over, will eat at its public mind share. In both cases (be it Zig or Odin/C3), the longer that Jai keeps making the mistake of avoiding a full public release, the more it appears to be hurting itself. In fact, many would argue, that a bit of Jai's "shine" has already worn off. There are now many alternative languages out here, that have already been heavily influenced by it.
by FlyingSnake | 2025-04-21 07:11:32+00:00
Ditto. 100%. Touché

This has been my experience as well. I was a heavy lurker during peak Twitter phase, but I still got lots of value from it.

I tried posting about tech and stuff and there’s absolute silence. No one cares anymore as if there are only tumbleweeds out there.

I logged out of all my social media accounts (except HN) and moved them to hidden apps category. As a result I managed to read 3 lovely books and finished my side project ever since.
by js2 | 2025-04-21 07:11:55+00:00
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by hoistbypetard | 2025-04-21 07:12:06+00:00
For things you can carry back to the store, that works well. When I buy a new washing machine, though, it's a bit more complicated:

- I go to the store and make the purchase.

- A delivery crew brings the washing machine to my house.

- They unhook my old washing machine and take it away.

- They attach my new washing machine in its place.

Even with the strongest reasonable protection laws I can imagine, the most the store would be obligated to do if the new machine is unsatisfactory would be to detach the new machine and take it away. And I've probably had to pay for one or two visits from the installers at that point. Regardless of whether the extra visit from the installers carries any extra cost for me, there's enough hassle associated with this that I can easily imagine keeping a machine where I'm not happy with some app requirement because it'd be too much trouble to make the change.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-21 07:12:25+00:00
I used to edit Wikipedia and I was heavily involved in many, many disputes. And in fact, I would seek out disputes, even ones outside my topic area; it's not difficult to do on Wikipedia because there are entire notice boards where people go to have public disputes. We called them "dramaboards", especially the admins' disciplinary ones.

And I would have these disputes, of course, over utterly trivial things, like how to spell something or where to place the apostrophe, or some manual-of-style nitpick in an infobox. And the disputes would drag on for weeks and we could utterly stall the editing process by disputing on talk pages. And yet we could edit-war over it, usually in slow-motion. And often the dispute would be couched in quite polite language but I would hate the guys' guts.

And the tipping point came when I began to have dreams about Wikipedia, and I would wake up angry. I would wake up fighting. I would wake up and immediately tear into the web browser and catch-up on the discussion, or not, just to post my next riposte, because I'd composed it in my sleep, in my dreamless dreams.

And I woke up angry more often than waking up in any other mood. And I was telling my psychiatrist this, and she said I should probably stop looking at blue light before bedtime. And I was incredulous that she would think if I turned my arguments red-hued that they would anger me less, or cause me to wake up happy and agreeable or something?

And I know I wasn't taking enough medication to make anyone happy, but these guys on Wikipedia really knew how to piss me off, and if you've ever heard of "brinkers" it's a certain type of troll who will play by the rules, and basically trigger anyone with a hot temper, and that triggered person would forget their ethics and commit a fatal error, and get banned, and the brinker would go on to live another day and cause others to fall into similar traps. And many of us do that, if we have the volatile temperament. I lasted about 17 years on Wikipedia without a single block and with some low-grade warnings, but generally a clean discipline record, but finally it got to me.

And a lot of time on Wikipedia I had spent fighting trolls and vandals and very disruptive editors. And I made sure a lot of them were banned. I filed a lot of reports. I was a petty bureaucrat there, filing reports and compiling evidence and arguing cases. There was no shortage of "wikilawyering". From the very beginning I was finding disputes and diving into them. Especially when they didn't concern me, didn't concern any topic I cared about. Just to have the disputes.

And I kept waking up angry. And finally I got control of that. Nowadays I wake up frightened. I wake up traumatized. I wake up scared of something I dreamed about. It's spiritual torment, and it's attributable to nothing I did the night before. Perhaps the F.U.D. of Hacker News gets to me. But not on that level. At least I don't go on crusades or jihads against Wikipedia editors anymore.
by _wire_ | 2025-04-21 07:14:25+00:00
I will attempt to agree by disagreeing:

Ep I, II, III are bad in so many ways that they may end up aging the best. It's impossible to take any of it seriously, from the infidelity of the world of the first trilogy, to the ludicrous characters and situations, to the radically morphing production values, to the utter incoherence of the plotting. For an adaptation of a beloved franchise to be mishandled so badly by its original creator... it has to be something very special. I predict it will require a bit more time to become appreciated, and its substance will be regarded as having been totally misunderstood and overlooked at its inception.

Or it is meaningless tripe beyond all reckoning.

The cool thing is that everything is being coded and sequestered to history no matter how bad it is, so the future of history looks absurd and dire: everything will be recallable, but the work of reviewing it all must overwhelm its value. The act of remembering will become an ultimate adventure.
by LabhTark | 2025-04-21 07:14:31+00:00
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by maronato | 2025-04-21 07:14:31+00:00
Using encryption. When you take a picture, the device or app creates a signature using the photo data and metadata.

Then you can check the signature using the company’s public keys.

If you make edits to it, the editing app will package the new metadata, edited photo data, the original signature, and sign it again.

Now you have a chain of “changes” and can inspect and validate its history. It works for video and audio too.

As long as the private keys aren’t leaked, there’ll be no way to fabricate the signatures.

https://c2pa.org/
by fakedang | 2025-04-21 07:15:03+00:00
> Immigration is thought to have a small negative impact on the wages of low skilled workers, but is probably financially beneficial for those further up the payscale.

And that's a good thing?

> Yes, in fact this was how Brexit was sold to many south Asian voters: your family will have an easier time moving to the UK.

Yes, and now the very fabric of most English cities has broken down in many parts.

Honestly don't see the UK (or the EU) pull itself out of this mess for a long time. Both embraced too much free immigration instead of embracing more automation and digitization.
by young_unixer | 2025-04-21 07:15:17+00:00
Recently, I've been thinking about creating an Instagram account. I've never used it before, and I dislike it in general, but because of recent circumstances in my life (a breakup that almost gave me depression, and some other things), I need to go out more and meet new people IRL, and Instagram is the de facto way to meet people in my country, at least for those of us under 30, to the point that you're seen as weird if you don't have one.

But I know that once I create an account, I'll get hooked to the feed, to uploading pictures, etc. because I know myself.

I don't know if the positive social aspect (meeting people, or creating a lasting connection with people that I meet once IRL) is going to offset that addiction and the general anxiety that comes with having an account.
by alternatex | 2025-04-21 07:15:59+00:00
The symptoms you mention read like scintillating scotoma: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintillating_scotoma

I've had it happen many times and it's usually followed by a regular headache. Quite terrifying the first few times it happened to me. Felt like I was losing my sight.

Spending the whole night gaming when I was younger would sometimes trigger it in the morning. Thanks to not having any more time for that, it hasn't happened in years.
by JasmineSCZ | 2025-04-21 07:16:07+00:00
My idea is that as long as there is a social idea, in the same small circle, there are also "Internet celebrities" who are considered by everyone to post some of their photos. It is essentially social. In WeChat's circle of friends, people already need to make money by doing e-commerce in this private domain, not to mention that his friends may be the people around him, but his work forces him to...
by Grimblewald | 2025-04-21 07:16:16+00:00
Theres a boom and bust cycle that social media platforms seem to go through. Build something nice for socializing. Add ad breaks to the socializing. Replace content you want with content that can only be described as political / informatiom warefare.

people move to new platform that is nice for socializing. The cycle begins anew.

I for one dont have the energy for it anymore. Im done. Im burnt out. If it isnt a real human in front of me it can fuck off and burn in hell. I make an exception for hacker news, because it doesnt seem trashed to shit by bots astroturfing just about every post to sway public opinion, but the moment it starts I will unplug from the public net for good, and nothing of value will be lost.
by Validark | 2025-04-21 07:16:22+00:00
I am glad to hear you have been inspired to read more machine code! Was the audio good for the talk on the ideas behind this specific tokenizer [1]? I'm going to tryhard on the next talk in July on this subject and hopefully get as many as possible to thoroughly understand how it all works. Link:

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM1FNB5nagk
by pjmlp | 2025-04-21 07:16:29+00:00
Being a bit lazy to cross-check dates, maybe their OpenVMS efforts?

I learned C before having access to Xenix, this was definitly before any portable C compiler, I imagine, because the book used RatC, a K&R C dialect.

I read somewhere that originally Microsoft did not develop MS-DOS directly on PC hardware, rather they would cross-compile/assemble, maybe they were using systems like these?
by perching_aix | 2025-04-21 07:16:42+00:00
In a way this perfectly captures my experiences too, despite my struggles revolving around a different topic, and sometimes it wouldn't even be algorithmically inflicted, but self-inflicted.

I'd keep coming across, and sometimes seeking out, threads with political content. But beyond that, I'd keep stumbling upon or even seeking out people who are being (in my view) inciteful or misleading. This would then piss me off, and I'd start to spiral. Naturally, these are not the kind of people who'd be posting in good faith, adding even more fuel to the fire when I engaged with them and their replies would eventually come about, which of course I'd "helpfully" get a notification for.
by pazimzadeh | 2025-04-21 07:16:50+00:00
> I learned something from your comment, and you learned that from a Google search

But I wouldn't have thought to look into Qajar tea/Safavid coffee if it wasn't for the blog post (by the way, I find 4o to be pretty good at history).

What I can't figure out is why you seem so confident that the OP didn't verify the LLM output and/or would have published anything written by the model, whether it was faulty or not (which again, in this case it wasn't).

You're clearly allergic to basic LLM-style or at least the masquerading of LLM text as human, so I'm curious what you'd consider worse: 1. LLM-generated text reflecting an accurate prompt/input, or 2. genuine human BS wanting to be taken seriously? (e.g. The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman if it wasn't in jest)

Personally, I prefer #1 since I can still learn something from it.
by inopinatus | 2025-04-21 07:17:02+00:00
Omitting a regulator makes enforcement a civil matter and the entire burden is placed on the consumer, which is to say, the legal scales are tipped throughly in favour of rogue manufacturers. Good luck suing DJI; you’ll obtain neither satisfaction nor restitution, and it’ll take years of being strung along by lawyers to realise it.

The even worse outcome of failing to protect the consumer at the point of sale is you’ve tacitly swallowed the tenets of an authoritarian surveillance state.
by mingus88 | 2025-04-21 07:17:08+00:00
There have been kickstarter rug-pulls well before the pandemic. The gaming industry at large, including video gaming, seems to be particularly prone to these scams

The whole thing, including viral blog post drama like this, seems rooted in fandom. Why pre-order any of this junk sight unseen? Why is this particular box of glossy cardstock considered an investment worth risking any amount of money on?

Fan subcultures seem ripe areas for grift like this where expectations can get so far ahead of reality.
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-04-21 07:17:35+00:00
we need new regulations - the solution currently would be following what you say and suing the company in I guess small claims court or a class action suit for lots of people mad about the same thing against a single company that they make drag out for years while making money doing the same scam and then the payout will just be the cost of doing business.

The small claims courts solution of course not everybody has the time or resources to do that, so the company wins that way.

We need new regulations that stops it before it gets to the point where you have to go to small claims court or class action to redress the wrong.
by zx8080 | 2025-04-21 07:18:24+00:00
FYI, it's one of the articles that does not even start scratching the title topic surface in the first 3 paragraphs.

Regarding upgrades. It always requires QA to exist (as some rumor says that for example MS went with telemetry only in win11 instead of a proper QA approach) for users to consider upgrading at all.
by dwattttt | 2025-04-21 07:18:37+00:00
There's no universal taxonomy of "this error is retryable, this one non-recoverable"; it's context dependent.

As a boring example, I might write something that detects when a resource gets hosted, e.g. goes from 404 -> 200.

The best I imagine you can do is be able to easily group each error and handle them appropriately.
by lukan | 2025-04-21 07:18:56+00:00
"The result of a purely chronological feed is that you have to scroll through 10 posts from the same person and never see anything from people that post good content rarely."

But who made the demand, to have everything shown from everyone?

Imagine a social network, where you make your own rules for your feed. That special person who posts rarely, but good will have special visibility. And from that bored family member that basically spams, you will see the message "X has posted 50 pictures and text today" and with a click you can go there.
by ajb | 2025-04-21 07:18:56+00:00
Sounds really shit.

The RFID card will have a chip too. The 'tendrils' are the aerial which is a thick loop (of many wires) round the outside. So punching a hole in one corner is a non-starter, but there's a good chance you could punch one in the middle if you work out where the chip is

Of course, the simpler option is just to get a lanyard with card holder.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-04-21 07:19:12+00:00
> Once again, there is NO SHORTAGE of affordable housing either in the US or in Canada.

> None. Nada. Zilch. Ноль. 零

Interesting. 零 means zero. But my (non-native!) instinct says that it's impossible to use it this way. I feel like you'd need 没有.

Classical Chinese has a negative universal quantifier 莫 (though in a technical sense it's an adverb and doesn't modify or stand in for nouns), but I don't think I've ever seen anything similar in modern Mandarin. I feel like I'd have to use a positive quantifier and a negative claim.
by Grimblewald | 2025-04-21 07:19:13+00:00
Because twitter has been gutted, its history the information sector equivallent of vulture capitalism. Take platform, gut its credibility and audience for some end goal (e.g. buying an election, redefining the truth in the minds of many) and leave a smouldering corpse behind.

Twitter is dead, and its grave is marked with nothing more than an X.
by Hadi-Khan | 2025-04-21 07:20:54+00:00
I think Substack fills that gap for me. If you haven't already explored it then by the sounds of it I think you'd like it.

It functions more as a platform for blogs, but if you use the app there are blog-specific group chats, you can follow people, and the home page contains 'notes' that are pretty tweet-like in format. Once you have a collection of say 15-20 blogs that your subscribed to I found that the notes I got recommended were quite good and could spark some interesting conversations.

A few tech related ones I like are The Pragmatic Engineer, ByteByteGo, Bad Software Advice, and Exponential View.
by johnisgood | 2025-04-21 07:22:22+00:00
I have made a lengthy comment on the burden of obesity on our healthcare and people in general.

I have a radial nerve injury (and no text-to-speech) so I cannot find it right now nor re-write it.

I absolutely agree with you and your conclusions.

I made my reply here, from a slightly different perspective: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43749123
by MoonGhost | 2025-04-21 07:24:28+00:00
LLMs at this point are stateless calculators without personal experience, life goals, obligations, etc. Till recently people expected to have a character like Terminator or HAL. Now we have intelligence separate from 'soul'. Can calculator be AGI? It can be Artificial, General, and Intelligence. We may need another word for 'creature' with some features of living being.
by simoncion | 2025-04-21 07:26:21+00:00
> Google Photos doesn't mind when your photos are a weird aspect-ratio.

> ...I have sent them cool photobooks [printed and shipped by Google Photos] in the past. I never got to peek at them.

So you have no idea if the photos are stretched or cut off. (Given how many folks fail to complain about [0] godawfully misconfigured televisions that stretch, squash, or otherwise mangle what they're displaying, I wouldn't take the absence of complaints as evidence of correctly printed images.)

[0] Or even notice.
by baranul | 2025-04-21 07:26:23+00:00
An argument can easily be make that Jai could have been released as closed-source, some time ago. Many fans and the curious, just want to be able to get their hands on it.

Jon is not going to stop public reaction nor will Jai be perfect, regardless of when he releases. At least releasing sooner, allows it to keep momentum. Not just generated by him, but by third parties, such as books and videos on it. Maybe that's where Jon is making a mistake. Not allowing others to help generate momentum.
by gusgus01 | 2025-04-21 07:26:32+00:00
While I ostensibly agree about learning how to deal constructively with opposing perspectives, I also don't think online discourse (main stream avenues) will ever be the place to learn or partake in those sorts of conversations. Even in smaller subreddits, your comments will be viewed by thousands of people, some of whom are explicitly there to troll or to argue in bad faith or even people literally having mental breakdowns. You also end up in situations where every reply is to a new person, so you're not really having a discourse with anyone just an amorphous entity. Look at things like "Godwin's law" or "Poe's law", for some long running beliefs/commentary on internet discourse.