MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pbronez | 2025-04-06 23:14:53+00:00
Testing the query on Kagi

# Quick Answer

Yes, Paul Newman struggled with alcohol. His issues with alcohol were explored in the HBO Max documentary, The Last Movie Stars, and Shawn Levy's biography, Paul Newman: A Life. According to a posthumous memoir, Newman was tormented by self-doubt and insecurities and questioned his acting ability. His struggles with alcohol led to a brief separation from Joanne Woodward, though it had nothing to do with cheating.

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# Ki Multi-step Research Assistant

Paul Newman is known to have struggled with alcohol. According to his posthumous memoir, Newman candidly discussed his issues with drinking and self-doubt, describing himself as an alcoholic who was tormented by insecurities[^1][^2]. He reportedly drank a significant amount of beer daily and later moved on to stronger drinks like Scotch[^3][^4]. His drinking habits were a notable part of his life, and he was often identified by his beer drinking[^5][^6]. Despite these struggles, Newman was also recognized for his generosity and devotion to his family[^7].

[^1]: [Posthumous memoir reveals Paul Newman's struggle with alcohol](https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/1688113/paul-n...) [^2]: [Review: Paul Newman memoir stuns with brutal honesty - AP News](https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-reviews-movies-paul...) [^3]: [Was Paul Newman Really an Alcoholic? - The Cinemaholic](https://thecinemaholic.com/was-paul-newman-really-an-alcohol...) [^4]: [Who Paul Newman Was—and Who He Wanted to Be](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/24/who-paul-newma...) [^5]: [Paul Newman's Beer Drinking - Psychology Today](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/addiction-in-society...) [^6]: [Paul Newman's Beer Drinking | Psychology Today United Kingdom](https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/addiction-in-society...) [^7]: [The troubled life of Paul Newman | The Spectator](https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-troubled-life-of-pau...)
by bccdee | 2025-04-06 23:15:15+00:00
> No, murder is not comparable to advertising.

Sure it is. You made a sweeping statement about services in a market; those are both services subject to market forces. You say (supposing for the sake of argument that advertising is as harmful as the article makes it out to be) that a ban would be unacceptably authoritarian and ineffective anyway. Well, we ban harmful things in the market all the time. Such as murder.

> not once did I ever say the phrase "self-regulating"

No, you said the phrase "decentralized market regulation," which means the same thing as "the market regulating itself," and suggests the absence of any actual regulation whatsoever.

> nor did I argue against regulation of advertising

You said natural markets could only be controlled through authoritarian means, which is always worse than "decentralized market regulation." This is an argument in favour of deregulation.

> Ultimately, the vast majority of advertisements you see are for the products that are the most desired by people

No, they're for products with the largest marginal return on showing ads. That's why you often see ads for pharmaceuticals that only a tiny segment of the population will ever need—because they're highly profitable and thus advertising offers high returns.

> that advertising is a scam and intended to "misinform" is incorrect

Intended to *manipulate. Whether they inform or misinform is totally orthogonal to their purpose.

> Are some advertisements scams? Absolutely. The market is not perfectly efficient

The efficient market hypothesis applies specifically to asset markets. There's no real model of what an "efficient price" is for most consumer goods, services, or advertising campaigns, because those are not assets and do not retain market value after sale.

Anyway, this strikes me as a bizarrely dogmatic way to "debunk" the widespread presence of scams in our society. Multi-level marketing schemes have not gone anywhere, nor has the related category of self-help seminar grifts. You can keep a lie going for a very long time, and make a lot of money doing so. "Efficient markets" do not protect us from that reality.

> Guess I'm stupid

…

> and I need an authoritarian like you to tell me a smarter way to live.

Try a mandoline slicer, with the julienne teeth up.

> The market for kitchen knives is extremely competitive [even though] the advertising doesn't take the form of a 30 second TV spot[.] [...] How do you think certain brands even appear on the shelves of the stores you shop in? [...] it's more of an economic calculation

So you're telling me that, when it comes to cooking knives, the incentives at play mean I'm primarily exposed to advertising for scam products? Wow I'm glad we agree.
by TheAlchemist | 2025-04-06 23:15:56+00:00
This is the week when "Tech and Finance bro" start turning against Trump, unless he does something quickly.

Bessent, the only sane member of Trump's cabinet, sounded really worried and stressed last days. This kind of damage, cannot be undone just by saying 'Hey, it was art of the deal'. Confidence in US government is destroyed. Sure there will announcements about 100s or 1000s of Billions that will be invested, but it's just words. Just like DOGE saved how much already ? 1 Trillion $ ? And still not a single person was charged with fraud...

S&P is down 2.5% on 1Y, and up 80% on 5Y, and valuations are at insane, Dot-com bubble levels. If he keeps the tariffs though, the damage can become much much more substantial that this relatively small decline in the markets.

"When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king, the palace becomes a circus" Turkish Proverb.
by wat10000 | 2025-04-06 23:18:21+00:00
Imagine your browser had a flaw I could exploit by carefully crafting the contents this comment, which allows me to take over your computer. You’d consider that a serious problem, right? You’d demand a quick fix from the browser maker.

Now imagine that there is no fix because the ability for a comment to take control of the whole thing is an inherent part of how it works. That’s how LLM agents are.

If you have an LLM agent that can read your email and read the web then you have an agent which can pretty easily be made to leak the contents of your private emails to me.

Yes, your email program may actually have a vulnerability which allows this to happen, with no LLM involved. The difference is, if there is such a vulnerability then it can be fixed. It’s a bug, not an inherent part of how the program works.
by Veserv | 2025-04-06 23:18:23+00:00
NHTSA Report ID 13781-3470 in Florida, April 2022 is most likely the fatal motorcycle crash Tesla influencer Chuck Cook was involved in as mentioned in his video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8B0pX8TSOk

In the video Chuck Cook states he was involved in a fatal motorcycle accident in Florida in April 2022 where the motorcycle wheel fell off and then careened into his Tesla while Navigate on Autopilot was engaged. The reporting source for that NHTSA incident is "Field Report" and "Media" which lines up with his statement that a Florida Highway Patrol officer reviewed the footage and that Tesla most likely first learned of the crash from Chuck Cook's page classified as "media".

If the incident was not the crash involving Chuck Cook, then Chuck Cook's crash would be a crash that Tesla has left illegally unreported as I can see no other identifiable crash that could correspond to Chuck Cook's crash.
by api_or_ipa | 2025-04-06 23:18:38+00:00
> What if, for example, tariffs incentivize technology development that allows hydroponic wine - making previously unviable land suddenly productive?

This is a variant of the Import Substitution idea. Unfortunately, it doesn’t have a great track record. Instead of investment in innovation, sheltered industries tend to become less competitive and increasingly reliant on the shelter granted to them. Indeed, even if innovation occurs, it often becomes very hard to undo the sheltering once it’s no longer needed.

Far better to allow countries with comparative advantage in growing grapes to use their land to make wine compared to investing in hydroponics. The irony of that very example is the vertical farming sector has recently learned this very lesson and is undergoing a market realignment after hopes of improved productivity have been found to be less than expected.
by Espionage724 | 2025-04-06 23:19:45+00:00
I have notes for 2009Scape too :p

Windows: https://wiki.realmofespionage.xyz/servers;windows;games;2009...

Linux: https://wiki.realmofespionage.xyz/servers;linux;games;2009sc...

FreeBSD: https://wiki.realmofespionage.xyz/servers;bsd;games;2009scap...

I play both: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpOPie2s8nI
by verdverm | 2025-04-06 23:20:24+00:00
A couple of videos that break down the "math" and data

CBC (~9m) https://youtu.be/PWhv-06DNjE

Perun (~1h) https://youtu.be/nVZ1lcw2bVU

The numbers are a measure of trade imbalance, not tariffs and currency manipulation. Theater, not competent policy

Other notes...

1. the trade imbalance figures exclude services and misrepresent the full picture

2. if you have a positive balance (you import more than you export to the US), you still get hit with a 10% value. This is why there are 115 (iirc) countries with the same 10% figure
by bodyfour | 2025-04-06 23:20:33+00:00
The issue is that "const" didn't exist in the earliest forms of C... and even when it became available not everybody started using it.

So you might have a function that doesn't have proper "const" qualifications in its prototype like:

void my_log(char *message);

and then call-sites like:

my_log("Hello, World!");

...and that needed to stay compiling.
by hobs | 2025-04-06 23:21:00+00:00
Yes, they are - the "rich" will take a haircut and not care because they fundamentally own the economy itself.

The "middle class" or what's left it (see techies and their RSUs) are the ones who actually care about the stock market in the short/medium term because all their money is tied up in it, and their lucky bets are all that stand between them and being working class.

The working class has been screwed six ways to sunday, so they don't really care except insofar as it might mean we're doing stupid stuff like getting in more wars, or making it impossible to pay rent.
by __float | 2025-04-06 23:21:14+00:00
This might be true for the most part as an end user, but from a licensing perspective regarding the original binaries, this is irrelevant.

You must be able to modify and change the code, not merely append to the PATH:

> Tivoization: Some companies have created various different kinds of devices that run GPLed software, and then rigged the hardware so that they can change the software that's running, but you cannot.

from https://www.gnu.org/licenses/quick-guide-gplv3.en.html
by gdubs | 2025-04-06 23:22:39+00:00
I keep thinking about Tim Cook's words years back about manufacturing in China, and how there's a talent density there that just doesn't exist in the United States. That within a three block radius you can find people with deep knowledge and skillset in all areas of production.

Just don't see how this materializes in any meaningful timeframe in the United States — if it's even doable at all.

It also ignores the fact that since the 1970s the United States has transitioned more and more to information and services jobs.

The only plausible way out I see in the near term is a bunch of carve outs and one-off deals that allows the U.S. government to say, "our bluff worked."

But long term, automation is going to be taking more and more of these jobs and I just don't see how you justify sneakers costing what it will cost to pay American workers enough to prosper.

Personally from an environmental standpoint I've questioned for a couple of decades now whether we can ever slow down and try and buy more sustainable goods even if they cost more. But this way of trying to get there feels like medieval medicine.
by andrewfromx | 2025-04-06 23:23:10+00:00
So it was just a weekend of coding so far, lots more to do. Right now I have everything hard coded to just split into half based on my example server of 64, 4, 400. If you look at the script:

https://github.com/andrewarrow/shellmates/blob/main/firecrac...

You can see lots of hard coded stuff just to get it to work at Hetzner on rockylinux9. I think I can make the script a lot more customizable in the UI and let you do all sort of fancy splits! Firecracker does support fractional CPU allocation through CPU shares and quota settings. When you configure a Firecracker microVM, you can specify:

CPU shares (relative weight)

CPU quota (maximum usage in microseconds per period)

CPU period (measurement period in microseconds)

As long as the server has rockylinux9 I think it should work anywhere!
by mistrial9 | 2025-04-06 23:23:24+00:00
from the point of view of the GPL side of the aisle, yes agree they are evil. Shareholders who want returns are on the other side of the aisle, so to speak, and definitely see "risk" and "no" when it comes to anything close to GPL. OK no problem, except that the code that Apple Computer profits mightily with, substantially originates in the former.

recall the John Gilmore camp handing out "don't tread on me Apple" buttons 35 years ago.. it has been going on that long. Apple knows very well what they are doing.
by poincaredisk | 2025-04-06 23:24:05+00:00
>Now, did you really expect negotiation with China? Do you think that was the intention?

I'm baffled by your comment. Didn't you just say that the tariffs are a negotiation tool?

I don't track geopolitics, especially the US, too closely, so I'm not the best person to go down that rabbit hole - especially since minds brighter than me here also struggle to understand what's happening. So I would appreciate if you explain what your mean instead of asking rethorical questions.
by astrange | 2025-04-06 23:24:18+00:00
> And you are aware politicians have insider knowledge, correct? That is how you beat the s&p.

No, this is how low info conspiratorial voters think it works, because their worldview is everything is 1. a conspiracy 2. involves "money" in some basic way they can easily imagine.

Insider knowledge doesn't reliably beat passive investing and why would politicians even have it? You can see what they're voting for by watching CSPAN.
by root_axis | 2025-04-06 23:24:35+00:00
It's funny, I have the same problem all the time with typical day to day programming roadblocks that these models are supposed to excel at. I'm talking about any type of bug or unexpected behavior that requires even 5 minutes of deeper analysis.

Sometimes when I'm anxious just to get on with my original task, I'll paste the code and output/errors into the LLM and iterate over its solutions, but the experience is like rolling dice, cycling through possible solutions without any kind of deductive analysis that might bring it gradually closer to a solution. If I keep asking, it eventually just starts cycling through variants of previous answers with solutions that contradict the established logic of the error/output feedback up to this point.

Not to say that the LLMs aren't productive tools, but they're more like calculators of language than agents that reason.
by somat | 2025-04-06 23:24:39+00:00
it was always a protocol, however it is never good when the protocol is defined by it's only implementation

My understanding is that this is the whole reason for the existence of openrsync. The people doing work on the rpki standards wanted to use rsync for one type of transfer, the standards body (IETF?) balked with a concern that the rsync protocol had only one implementation, so the openbsd folk, specifically Kristaps Dzonson stepped up and wrote a second implementation. It does not do everything rsync does but it interoperates enough for the rpki project.

https://man.openbsd.org/rpki-client
by shawnz | 2025-04-06 23:25:16+00:00
It's still possible to break the config with a syntax error, but there are less kinds of syntax errors that are possible if you aren't writing into the middle of an existing block of syntax. For example, there's no chance that you unintentionally close an existing open block due to incorrect nesting of options or anything like that. Plus, if you are writing into the middle of an existing file, there's a chance you could corrupt other parts of the file besides the part you intended to write. For example, if you have an auto-generated section that you intend to update occasionally, you will need to make sure you only delete and recreate the auto-generated parts and don't touch any hand-written parts, which could involve complicated logic with sentinel comments, etc. Then you need to make sure that users who edit the file in future don't break your logic. In addition it's harder to test your automation code when you're writing into an existing file because there's more edge cases to deal with regarding the surrounding context, etc.
by ndiddy | 2025-04-06 23:25:21+00:00
The first time any BSD code was made publicly available was Networking Release 1 (just contained the networking stack) in 1989, or around 5 years after Stallman started the GNU project. It took until Networking Release 2 in 1991 for the code for a runnable BSD operating system to be made publicly available. Prior to that, BSD was based on proprietary UNIX source code, and anyone who wanted to run it had to purchase a source code license from AT&T.
by neogodless | 2025-04-06 23:25:45+00:00
Wealthy people hold diversified assets (including cash buffers).

Market fluctuations are temporary and benefit the wealthiest who are able to balance their asset allocation, shifting stable or growing assets to buy other assets with depressed prices.

The wealth will get richer, while the poor will literally not eat, whether due to poor economic conditions, or because of a massive attack on social safety nets, or a combination of those things.
by LelouBil | 2025-04-06 23:26:04+00:00
Yes, I agree. My point was more about the current way we do LLM agents where they are essentially black box that act on text.

By design it can output anything given the right input.

This approach will always be vulnerable in the ways we talk about here, we can only up the guardrails around it.

I think one of the best ways to have truly secure AI agents is to do better natural language AIs that are far less blackbox-y.

But I don't know enough about progress on this side.
by OmarIsmail | 2025-04-06 23:27:51+00:00
On a relative and even absolute basis the wealthy will lose substantially more money.

On a personal quality of life basis the middle class will get hit the hardest. It will impact retirement timelines, vacations, home renovations, car purchases, etc. seeing their 401k go down will make them feel poorer and want to save more and thus reduce their discretionary spending and reducing the amount of fun and entertainment they enjoy.
by lupusreal | 2025-04-06 23:27:54+00:00
Stock gasoline cars do not do well at those temperatures. In Alaska most people with sense use engine block heaters, plugging in every cold night. Besides the issue of having trouble just starting the car, you will put excessive wear and tear on the engine doing it regularly.

And in places like Fairbanks where -40 (F/C) is fairly common in the winter, even cars that merely have an engine block heater will have trouble. You need even more heating pads for the rest of the stuff under the hood of you want to keep a car reliable and healthy in that kind of climate.
by jiggawatts | 2025-04-06 23:27:56+00:00
This implies some sort of intelligent (if evil) master plan.

There is no master plan other than "Trump likes tariffs".

That's it. That's all it is.

He's been talking about tariffs for decades, it's a thing that he likes, and he now has unchecked power. Hence, tariffs.

The tariffs he put in place don't even make sense. They're a Thanos snap on every country, and makes about as much logical sense as that fictional character's evil master plan did! I.e., none.

I seriously doubt Elon likes that Europe will enact retaliatory tariffs on Tesla car imports, halving his market overnight. "Yay! Less sales! Crashing stocks! Woo!"

I very seriously doubt that other billionaires -- who's net worth is tied up in stocks and bonds -- are ecstatic that these are plummeting in value. All of the Reddit memes of "they just want to buy the dip" presupposes that these billionaires all "got out of the market", converted their stocks to something like gold or Bitcoin, and will then buy back in at a multi-trillion-dollar scale. Other than Warren Buffet, nobody has done this. The market would have crashed months ago if they had all sold off simultaneously!

This is WallStreetBets nonsense.
by belter | 2025-04-06 23:28:03+00:00
“Six years later, without notice, legal justification, or due process, officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (‘ICE’)... put him on a plane bound for the Terrorism Confinement Center (‘CECOT’) in El Salvador... They had no legal authority to arrest him, no justification to detain him, and no grounds to send him to El Salvador—let alone deliver him into one of the most dangerous prisons in the Western Hemisphere.”

“Three days later, on March 15, 2025, without any notice, legal process, or hearing, ICE forcibly transported Abrego Garcia to the Terrorism Confinement Center (‘CECOT’) in El Salvador... Their heads were shaved, and they were marched into CECOT to join nearly 40,000 other prisoners held in some of the most inhumane and squalid conditions known in any carceral system.”

“Defendants have claimed—without any evidence—that Abrego Garcia is a member of MS-13 and then housed him among the chief rival gang, Barrio 18. Not to mention that Barrio 18 is the very gang whose years’ long persecution of Abrego Garcia resulted in his withholding from removal to El Salvador.”
by TeaBrain | 2025-04-06 23:29:15+00:00
Bessent had repeatedly been saying that he wanted to drive down the yield on the 10 year treasury. The stock market sell-off has been somewhat effective in doing this, with the 10 year's yield having been driven down over 50 basis points in the last two months, although I doubt this precipitous selloff is really what he had in mind.
by khaledh | 2025-04-06 23:30:41+00:00
> the main way to tell if they are innocent is whether or not they had a gun in their hands when killed?

I'm not sure I understand your point. Are you saying that it's ok for the IDF to kill anyone they see because they cannot assess if they're a threat or not? Was it hard to see that this grandmother¹ with her grandson is not a militant trying to attack the IDF?

¹https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2024/01/25/palestinians-gaz...
by Trasmatta | 2025-04-06 23:30:51+00:00
For the main base of course, but there's a large block of swing voters and "undecideds" that went to Trump for whatever reason this election. It's more about them. And also the ones that just don't vote because they think it doesn't matter.

MAGA represents a smaller proportion of eligible voters that cannot win elections without the broader support they somehow garnered.
by Jtsummers | 2025-04-06 23:31:22+00:00
I suspect we could cut the DOD budget by 10-20% and maintain current capabilities without hitting DOD civilians or military employees immediately. There are a lot of programs that are failing to execute and have for years, if they're already late then we aren't getting any value from them at this point. I've seen IT efforts that cost $25-50 million/year and are already 5 years late and delivering no value (no partial version + updates over the years, these are big bang failed Waterfall projects).

Probably more by improving how other functions perform and identifying people like a guy I worked with a decade ago who literally slept at his desk all day and never got fired for it (not even a union shop, just supervisors refusing to do their job).