MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by woodruffw | 2025-04-09 17:33:24+00:00
This is very complicated, because it now implies:

1. I can intend to sit on a chair but fail, in which case it isn't a chair (and I didn't intend to sit on it?)

2. I can intend to have my dog sit on my chair, but my dog isn't a person and so my chair isn't a chair.

This is-use distinction you're making is fine; most people have an intuition that things "act" as a thing in relation to how they're used. But to take it a step forwards and claim that a thing isn't its nature until a person sublimates their intent towards it is very unintuitive!

(In my mind, the answer is a lot simpler: a stump isn't a chair, but it's in the family network of things that are sittable, just like chairs and horses. Or to borrow Wittgenstein, a stump bears a family resemblance to a chair.)
by wat10000 | 2025-04-09 17:33:24+00:00
Going 538 on a US citizen would be a massive escalation. I'm not saying it's impossible, but if it ever comes up, I'll roll the dice on not unlocking my phone.

If you're worried about being beaten until you divulge your info, it's not like a burner phone is going to save you. They'll extract the login info for all your online accounts.
by throw0101c | 2025-04-09 17:33:36+00:00
> […] are "state capacity" issues. Things where the state is unavoidably involved and having better, more decisive leadership and not getting bogged down in consultations, would make a big difference.

See "America needs a bigger, better bureaucracy":

> I believe that the U.S. suffers from a distinct lack of state capacity. We’ve outsourced many of our core government functions to nonprofits and consultants, resulting in cost bloat and the waste of taxpayer money. We’ve farmed out environmental regulation to the courts and to private citizens, resulting in paralysis for industry and infrastructure alike. And we’ve left ourselves critically vulnerable to threats like pandemics and — most importantly — war.

[…]

> If government spending isn’t going to pay government workers, it must be going to pay people who work in the private sector — nonprofits, for-profit contractors, consultants, and so on. In other words, state capacity is being outsourced. But this graph doesn’t actually capture the full scope of the decline, because it doesn’t include outsourcing via unfunded mandates — things that the government could do, but instead simply orders the private sector to do, without providing the funding.

* https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/america-needs-a-bigger-better-...

Mentions the paper "State Capacity: What Is It, How We Lost It, And How to Get It Back" (22pp, so short):

* https://www.niskanencenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/br...

And the book Bring Back the Bureaucrats: Why More Federal Workers Will Lead to Better (and Smaller!) Government:

* https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/templeton-press/bring...
by brudgers | 2025-04-09 17:33:58+00:00
In the US, Airport fire operations have their own NFPA Standard

https://www.nfpa.org/codes-and-standards/nfpa-440-standard-d...

And their own standard for fire fighter qualification

https://www.nfpa.org/codes-and-standards/nfpa-1003-standard-...
by SoftTalker | 2025-04-09 17:34:26+00:00
> Instead of policing crypto platforms and exchanges, Trump’s DOJ will “focus on prosecuting individuals who victimize digital asset investors, or those who use digital assets in furtherance of criminal offenses such as terrorism, narcotics and human trafficking, organized crime, hacking, and cartel financing.”

Wonder if this hints at possibly reducing or relaxing KYC rules also?
by rsynnott | 2025-04-09 17:34:46+00:00
The EU is not yet retaliating (the tariffs mentioned in the article are retaliation for the US's steel and aluminium tariffs from last month, not the most recent batch), and is negotiating; as I mention there was a zero-for-zero option. Retaliation for the current round of tariffs is currently under discussion.

Make no mistake, it'll be the same in Japan and SK. At least the credible threat of retaliation, if not retaliation already in action (the China approach) is required for any real negotiation.
by danaris | 2025-04-09 17:34:52+00:00
> They'll just buy shoes from another country, import them in secret, repackage them, and sell them as American made Nike.

Who will?

The Trump administration? Why would they be selling counterfeit Nike shoes?

Nike themselves? Why would they buy shoes from someone else? And if you mean they'd just keep manufacturing them elsewhere...they'd still have to pay the tariffs when they hit customs, so they'd still be $$$$. Unless you're proposing that Nike is going to start an industrial-scale smuggling operation...? Or that the Trump administration is going to provide some kind of sooper sekrit tariff waiver just for them, so they can pretend to be selling Made in the USA Nikes? And that's only talking about Nike. What about all the other manufacturers of consumer—and industrial—goods?

None of that passes the smell test. Nike's not going to take a loss to pretend their foreign-manufactured shoes, which now cost them much more, are actually being cheaply made in the USA just to prop up Trump. And Trump is, to all appearances, 100% all-in on these tariffs: he would rather have them and utterly wreck the US (and global) economy than have things cost the same because no one is actually paying the tariffs just to "prove" that his bonkers excuse for an ideology actually works.

No; if Trump gets a third term, it will be, purely and simply, because he has managed to utterly destroy the machinery of democracy so that a free and fair election in the US is a wistful memory.
by LinuxBender | 2025-04-09 17:35:36+00:00
I believe a third party of Amazon has been leaking information for quite some time. Every summer the porch pirates and their boss are in my neck of the woods and they will park right in front of my place if my order is over $400. They know when the order is expected to arrive here. The pirates are quite brazen and fearless given everyone here is armed and a percentage of people here utilize constitutional carry, stand your ground and castle doctrine which are all fully embraced by the governor and local Sheriff.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-04-09 17:35:48+00:00
Does it feel shitty? None of the CEOs interviewed in the article appear to be particularly distressed by it, and two of the three seem to be selling solutions to the problem. If anything, this ought to feel even worse for candidates - now I have to worry if Pindrop Security gave my Linkedin profile picture a 0.009 deepfake score.
by janalsncm | 2025-04-09 17:36:33+00:00
I agree with you, but I hope schools also take the opportunity to reflect on what they teach and how. I used to think I hated writing, but it turns out I just hated English class. (I got a STEM degree because I hated English class so much, so maybe I have my high school English teacher to thank for it.)

Torturing students with five paragraph essays, which is what “learning” looks like for most American kids, is not that great and isn’t actually teaching critical thinking which is most valuable. I don’t know any other form of writing that is like that.

Reading “themes” into books that your teacher is convinced are there. Looking for 3 quotes to support your thesis (which must come in the intro paragraph, but not before the “hook” which must be exciting and grab the reader’s attention!).
by jplusequalt | 2025-04-09 17:36:37+00:00
>50 years from new the career of a "coder" will evoke the same historical quaintness as does "switchboard operator" or "wainwright."

And what happens to those coders? For that matter--what happens to all the other jobs at risk of being replaced by AI? Where are all the high paying jobs these disenfranchised laborers will flock to when their previous careers are made obsolete?

We live in a highly specialized society that requires people take out large loans to learn the skills necessary for their careers. You take away their ability to provide their labor, and it now seriously threatens millions of workers from obtaining the same quality of life they once had.

I seriously oppose such a future, and if that makes me a Luddite, so be it.
by bentley | 2025-04-09 17:36:43+00:00
This feature exists, on systems that use mandoc as the default manpage formatter and viewer (such as OpenBSD).

In HTML output, definitions for flags, environment variables, and other such things are converted to hyperlinks, and hyperlinks can point directly to them. https://man.openbsd.org/ssh#D

In terminal output, this same capability is used to create a ctags file, which is supported by less(1). On OpenBSD, I can type “man ssh”, then :tD to jump to the tag named “D”.

This relies on the mdoc(7) language’s semantics, so unfortunately it won’t work for manpages using the older man(7) macros. But nearly all BSD manpages are written in mdoc(7), and a significant minority of manpages from packages.
by nchmy | 2025-04-09 17:36:51+00:00
This doesnt make sense. When money moves out of stocks, it has to go somewhere. Typically, it moves to less-risky assets, like bonds. That makes their prices go up, and yields down.

Likewise, why would the tariff strategy be to drive down bond prices? Lower prices means receiving less for their issuance/paying more interest...

Youve got it all backwards friend
by tmpz22 | 2025-04-09 17:37:06+00:00
It's about power to affect change in an organization. The more power you have the better systems you can establish and sustain. Unions should be brought up constantly in these threads about AI mandates and "leadership" directions.

Unions might not be the best solution, or the most practical. I'm all ears for better ways to fight back against bogus leadership. How else can software developers advocate for their interests in an environment where their power is sharply declining (non performance based layoffs, "performance" based layoffs, reduction in junior hiring, reduction in in-office perks, reduction in total comp, etc)?
by CamperBob2 | 2025-04-09 17:37:19+00:00
No, because if you read your SICP you will come across the aphorism that "programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."

Now tell that to your compiler, which turns instructions in a relatively high-level language into machine-language programs that no human will ever read.

AI is just the next logical stage in the same evolutionary journey. Your programs will be easier to read than they were, because they will be written in English. Your code, on the other hand, will matter as much as your compiler's x86 or ARM output does now: not at all, except in vanishingly-rare circumstances.
by h2zizzle | 2025-04-09 17:37:20+00:00
Department stores. I think the strategy was different. Big box focus on driving down prices by working with the cheapest suppliers they can get away with. IIUC Sears in particular was more vertically-integrated, and focused more on in-house brands that cost only a bit less than name brands, but were of high-enough quality that they became brand names themselves.

Would love someone with knowledge of this to chime in.
by foobarchu | 2025-04-09 17:37:22+00:00
> I know many "programmers" who can neither configure a SME/Enterprise firewall or switch

This is a very weird baseline to use for qualifying a programmer. Firewall configuration is completely irrelevant for most programmers and has been for decades. It is objectively not a programming task, it's just something that might get foisted upon a programmer if there is nobody else to do it.
by zebomon | 2025-04-09 17:37:30+00:00
It may be possible that with enough data from the two categories (copied from ChatGPT and not), your keystroke dynamics will differ. This is an open question that my co-founder and I are running experiments on currently.

So, I would say that while I wouldn't fully dispute your claim that attributing authorship from text alone is impossible, it isn't yet totally clear one way or the other (to us, at least -- would welcome any outside research).

Long-term -- and that's long-term in AI years ;) -- gaze tracking and other biometric tracking will undoubtedly be necessary. At some point in the near future, many people will be wearing agents inside earbuds that are not obvious to the people around them. That will add another layer of complexity that we're aware of. Fundamentally, it's more about creating evidence than creating proof.

We want to give writers and students the means to create something more detailed than they would get from a chatbot out-of-the-box, so that mimicking the whole act of writing becomes more complicated.
by Terr_ | 2025-04-09 17:37:37+00:00
> a big part of the tariff strategy

You mean, a big part of one of the inconsistent explanations people are desperately theorizing, because they're too afraid of the simple answer... that there isn't any strategy at all?

[Edit: Or, to be more precise, no strategy which is both (A) sane and (B) designed for America rather than for specific individuals.]

> chaos in an effort to drive down the price of the 10-year bond

I assume this means "the US government will benefit by being able to borrow money more cheaply than before because so many people can't trust stocks". That explanation rests on a big fat false assumption that trust in the particular debtor issuing the bonds remains unchanged as more people want to lend them money.

Instead, economic trust in the US--built up over decades--is being actively firebombed into the dirt by the new Republican regime. This means the US government can easily end up in a far worse position than before, because creditors will demand higher interest-payments to offset the "holy shit your country might implode first" risk they're taking on.

Or, y'know, they'll take their money out of US stocks and then buy the bonds of some other government entirely...
by supermatt | 2025-04-09 17:39:25+00:00
You said "Dynamic IP addresses typically also have a forced disconnect at a regular interval.", which is false in pretty much every DHCP scenario I have ever seen.

A change in an IP lease should result in no downtime whatsoever, because addressing is not the same as routing. A routing change would have exactly the same effect on a static IP.

I then pointed out that an overlay network means you don't have to worry about that anyway.

I think you need to reread whatever comments you think you are responding to, as there is clearly something out of sync with your replies.
by gosub100 | 2025-04-09 17:40:14+00:00
> and that we've largely normalized this.

This (along with healthcare) are examples for the "both parties are the same" refrain.

Neither side wants or advocates for the status quo (for US citizens to lose their rights at the border) but neither side is doing anything about it. They could easily eliminate the "constitution-free zone" exemption at borders and airports, but from what I can see, no lawmakers are talking about it.
by foresto | 2025-04-09 17:40:25+00:00
> There seems to be a fundamental mismatch between how sane people think about sandboxing, and how linux manages namespaces.

What bothers me most about sandboxing with linux namespaces is that edge cases keep turning up that allow them to trick the kernel into granting more privileges than it should.

I wonder if Landlock can/will bring something more like FreeBSD jails to the table. (I haven't made time to read about it in detail yet.)
by vkou | 2025-04-09 17:40:29+00:00
> Most of the stuff the UK is struggling with (transport, healthcare, energy) are "state capacity" issues.

Oh, boy, let me tell you, the 'State capacity' of the United States, when it comes to doing things that aren't making war on its own, or other people, was both rotten to begin with, and won't survive another four years of this regime.

Dysfunctional as the UK is, it's government is not stuck at a triple point of learned helpelessness, intentional sabotage and paralysis (the US is currently, among other things, doing its best to bring cured diseases back), and a deeply negative-sum culture.

I've heard that the United States was a magical land of milk and honey in this respect, back when 'competent bureaucracy' wasn't a swear word in it, but I understand that ended ~45 years ago. (With a few surviving holdouts, like the Fed)
by rbanffy | 2025-04-09 17:41:04+00:00
MCP, the only OS older than z/OS in active maintenance, even more alien than IBM’s, does more or less the same. It had at one time a hierarchical file system, but at some point they decided it was pointless and adopted a naming convention instead.

I was trying to get around it on SimH, with the B5500 version. Definitely deserves the name.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-04-09 17:41:09+00:00
> When voice authentication startup Pindrop Security posted a recent job opening, one candidate stood out from hundreds of others.

> The applicant, a Russian coder named Ivan, seemed to have all the right qualifications for the senior engineering role. When he was interviewed over video last month, however, Pindrop’s recruiter noticed that Ivan’s facial expressions were slightly out of sync with his words.

> That’s because the candidate, whom the firm has since dubbed “Ivan X,” was a scammer using deepfake software and other generative AI tools in a bid to get hired by the tech company, said Pindrop CEO and co-founder Vijay Balasubramaniyan.

Hm, let's read on.

> As for “Ivan X,” Pindrop’s Balasubramaniyan said the startup used a new video authentication program it created to confirm he was a deepfake fraud.

Oh, I get it, it's an ad for Pindrop.
by jplusequalt | 2025-04-09 17:41:27+00:00
>the next generation will either surpass us in grand fashion using tools that we couldn't imagine, or will collapse into a puddle of ignorant consumerism, a la Wall-E

Seeing how the world is based around consumerism, this future seems more likely.

HOWEVER, we can still course correct. We need to organize, and get the hell off social media and the internet.
by muragekibicho | 2025-04-09 17:41:44+00:00
Just sharing some notes I compiled while building Mediant32, an alternative to fixed-point and floating-point for error-aware fraction computations. I was experimenting with continued fractions, the Stern-Brocot tree, and the field of rationals for my programming language. My overarching goal was to find out if I could efficiently represent floats using integer fractions. Along the way, I compiled these notes to share all the algorithms I found for working with powers, inverses, square roots and logarithms (all without converting to floating point) I call it Mediant32 and the number system features: 1. Integer-only inference. (Zero floating point ops) 2. Error aware training and inference. (You can accumulate errors as you go) 3. Built-in quantization for individual matrix elements. (You're working with fractions so you can choose numerators and denominators that align with your goals)
by perihelions | 2025-04-09 17:41:53+00:00
Yes; the president in the US is in charge of the federal prosecuting agency, and has, in practice*, unlimited power to direct non-prosecution.

(And, separately, also has plenary power to pardon federal crimes).

*Late edit: there was an historic case study of this power balance, just a few weeks ago. When Trump directed the DoJ to suspend the criminal prosecution of NYC mayor Eric Adams, in order to corruptly use the continuing threat of prosecution as a cudgel to extort policy concessions from his office, no federal prosecutor had any ability to resist that order. At least seven resigned[0] rather than obey it. The illustration being: whatever laws might say and whatever ethical norms exist—a federal prosecutor, as an employee of the executive branch under the POTUS, has no practical ability to contradict what the POTUS directs them to do.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2025/02/14/nx-s1-5298040/justice-departm... ("Fallout from Eric Adams case continues at the Justice Department")
by bunderbunder | 2025-04-09 17:41:55+00:00
But still, the money that's going straight into working class people's pockets is probably better for the UK in the long run. Don't worry, it will get taxed over and over and over and over again as they pay each other for things.

Velocity is one of those critically important concepts that often gets left out of these discussions because it's hard to understand if you haven't formally studied economics because it's all about second order effects. But it's a big part of understanding why, historically speaking, maximizing corporate profits doesn't seem to correlate all that well with overall prosperity trends.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-04-09 17:42:13+00:00
> What's our excuse?

There exist no such thing as "out-of-band signaling" in nature. It's something we introduce into system design, by arranging for one part to constrain the behavior of other, trading generality for predictability and control. This separation is something created by a mind, not a feature of the universe.

Consequently, humans don't support "out-of-band signalling either. All of our perception of reality, all our senses and internal processes, they're all on the same band. As such, when aiming to build a general AI system - able to function in the same environment as us, and ideally think like us too - introducing hard separation between "control" and "data" or whatever would prevent it from being general enough.

I said "or whatever", because it's an ill-defined idea anyway. I challenge anyone to come up with any kind of separation between categories of inputs for an LLM that wouldn't obviously eliminate a whole class of tasks or scenarios we would like them to be able to handle.

(Also, entirely independently of the above, thinking about the near future, I challenge anyone to come up with a separation between input categories that, were we to apply it to humans, wouldn't trivially degenerate into eternal slavery, murder, or worse.)
by 9rx | 2025-04-09 17:42:49+00:00
> I was specifically calling out being able to do so (easily) from within the ORM itself

But, as I said, even if it isn't built-in, it doesn't make any difference, does it? Either way there is no reason to throw a perfectly good ORM out the window just because in some cases it isn't the right tool for the job. Surely you agree? That was my interpretation of the intent of your earlier comment.

While it may be true that ORMs today are of SQLite quality, the original commenter's point still stands: You need to make sure that is the case, else you are going to quickly wish that you did write it yourself.

> So half of devs in the country make less than that.

You may take things a bit too literally, but if you want to go down this road, do you truly believe that half of all devs have learned all the lessons there are to learn in software? Color me skeptical. 0.01% is likely even pushing it.
by hackyhacky | 2025-04-09 17:42:53+00:00
> And what happens to those coders? For that matter--what happens to all the other jobs at risk of being replaced by AI?

Some will manage to remain in their field, most won't.

> Where are all the high paying jobs these disenfranchised laborers will flock to when their previous careers are made obsolete?

They don't exist. Instead they'll take low-paying jobs that can't (yet) be automated. Maybe they'll work in factories [1].

> I seriously oppose such a future, and if that makes me a Luddite, so be it.

Like I said, the Luddites were right, in the short term. In the long term, we don't know. Maybe we'll live in a post-scarcity Star Trek world where human labor has been completely devalued, or maybe we'll revert to a feudal society of property owners and indentured servants.

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/bessent-fired-federal-workers-manuf...