MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stikit | 2025-04-17 13:59:46+00:00
>>>"Generally accepted" by who? Based on what?

Off the top of my head, so may not align exactly with formal definitions, but economics is the study of allocation of resources and how incentives play a large role in how human behavior is influenced by those incentives. I prefer Sowell for a primer but if he’s not to your liking try google, keywords economic incentives and resource allocation.

i have plenty of personal experience with community colleges and those close to me have gone from penniless immigrant to making more than the average tech bro because they attended one while working full time, and paying full tuition without aid. what kept them going was a reasonable roi . the i was their investment of hard earned dollars that they used to pay for their tuition and gave them the incentive to stay in. they had skin in the game so they endured. getting something for free doesn’t instill any obligation, and that’s a common lived experience.
by alp1n3_eth | 2025-04-17 13:59:58+00:00
Yep! I was sad to see Skiff shutting down, as I loved their UI and there isn't a lot of tough competition that can match ProtonMail.

I had already left Notion as the app kept getting slower / bogged down and they added tons of useless clutter, and refused to support any form of E2E/local encryption.
by alabastervlog | 2025-04-17 14:00:49+00:00
The writing per se flows well, where most writing does not. I did find several places farther in where the author's comma-phobia cost me a few milliseconds, and a couple passages that would probably need to be heavily re-arranged for basic clarity to be achieved.

I had to get all the way to the end, though, to figure out that this is about a particular kind of "big tech" culture among a very few people in a very few places, which is why I spent most of the article failing to understand WTF it was about. It does not communicate well at all, and in fact, even knowing that now, it assumes familiarity with that kind of culture to such a degree that I'm still in the dark about most of the piece.
by justin66 | 2025-04-17 14:00:52+00:00
> For their time they were very comparable

We can say that now, but it's worth remembering the Atari 8 bit computers came out over two years before the C64. Not such a big gap in computing today, but back then it was a lot.

ex-Atari people talking about what they could have done better is always an interesting youtube phenomenon. (as with, for example, ex-Sun people, you hear a lot of theories but you never encounter anyone who says "yeah, I was the guy who made the whole thing fail")
by wavemode | 2025-04-17 14:00:58+00:00
> AI has beat world champions at chess and Go, surpassed most humans on SAT and bar exams, and reached gold medal level on IOI and IMO. But the world hasn’t changed much, at least judged by economics and GDP.

> I call this the utility problem, and deem it the most important problem for AI.

> Perhaps we will solve the utility problem pretty soon, perhaps not. Either way, the root cause of this problem might be deceptively simple: our evaluation setups are different from real-world setups in many basic ways.

LLMs are reaching the same stage that most exciting technologies reach. They have quickly attracted lots of investor money, but that is going to have to start turning into actual money. Many research papers are being written, but people are going to start wanting to see actual improvements, not just theoretical improvements on benchmarks.
by wulfstan | 2025-04-17 14:01:00+00:00
> In those cases, you need a judge or someone to approve the seizure. With a backdoor that can be opened at any time, you should consider that nothing will be private because there is no one who is going to be monitoring it 24/7 to make sure that there are no abuses.

I'm not sure you've read what I wrote correctly. My hypothetical system would not allow the backdoor to be opened at any time, but it would require a certificate to be issued (derived from the manufacturer / application creator's root) that gives limited, expiring access on the production of court-authorised warrant, in exactly the same way a judge gives the police permission to enter your physical property.
by randomtoast | 2025-04-17 14:01:02+00:00
Why not use CephFS instead? It has been thoroughly tested in real-world scenarios and has demonstrated reliability even at petabyte scale. As an open-source solution, it can run on the fastest NVMe storage, achieving very high IOPS with 10 Gigabit or faster interconnect.

I think their "Other distributed filesystem" section does not answer this question.
by woodrowbarlow | 2025-04-17 14:01:29+00:00
there two false equivalencies in your argument, as presented in response to GP:

1. ID checks are not the same as age verification.

2. a social media website is not the same as a porn website.

if you take the stance that social media sites should require ID verification, then i would furthermore point out that this is likely to impact any website that has a space for users to add public feedback, even forums and blogs.
by pogue | 2025-04-17 14:01:54+00:00
You could make either side of the argument, tbh. If you wanted a completely independent and unbiased testing, you wouldn't want the group to sell/promote the products they test. It definitely presents potential conflicts of interest.

But, I went on Consumer Reports recently looking for a good smoke detector and saw they are now using affiliate links for the products they test as well, and I consider them well established and above board. So, everyone will have to make their own ethical judgment on how to take the results.
by sirwhinesalot | 2025-04-17 14:02:00+00:00
The graphics chip on the Atari also steals CPU cycles, but if you use the 160x100 mode (instead of 160x200) then it can run full speed which means full 1.79MHz no questions asked.

The lower resolution also means less time plotting pixels so for any sort of software rendered effect the Atari machines are miles ahead.
by lanfeust6 | 2025-04-17 14:02:03+00:00
The West isn't China and Korea. They can't opt out of authoritarian-state surveillance and great firewall, whereas we have options more amenable to privacy, even if you want to quibble that they aren't perfect.

Also the fact that UK and Australia are kind of backwards on online privacy.

That aside, this is targeted. The fediverse and vbulletin forums of old, even reddit, are all social media but will never require facial recognition. If they do, then far worse things are happening to freedom.
by jerf | 2025-04-17 14:02:30+00:00
That's great and all, but nobody is talking about physical computers here.

Moreover, it's a useless observation in practice as well because the full exponentially-large state space necessary to represent such systems is not a useful formalism to approach computers with for any purpose, be it brutally practical or entirely theoretical. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23431703 for some previous comments I made on this, and some rough numbers base on computers that were already small 5 years ago and seem even smaller today. It is not useful to say "hey, that thing you're using has a finite state space and that finite state space is only 10^2,585,827,973 large!" It's not like you're going to run out.
by like_any_other | 2025-04-17 14:02:44+00:00
Many countries (including in the EU) already required ID to use a SIM card: https://forestvpn.com/blog/news/countries-sim-card-registrat...

Funnily enough, when the Philippines did this, it was decried as a violation of human rights [1]. But usually, media are so silent on such things I'd call them complicit. One already cannot so much as rent a hotel room anywhere in the EU without showing government ID.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_Registration_Act
by ziddoap | 2025-04-17 14:03:25+00:00
>Then setup the system to be more analogous. Make the publication of key issuance under this mechanism public after a period of time.

That (somewhat, barely) addresses one of ~dozen issues with the proposal.

>Again, I see us falling back into an "all or nothing" view of privacy

Not to be too pedantic, but I think the distinction between privacy and encryption is incredibly important: almost everyone agrees that privacy is a gradient. The disagreement is whether or not encryption can be a gradient. Most people do not think it can reasonably be without undermining ~everything relying on it.
by LinuxBender | 2025-04-17 14:03:27+00:00
What hammock said. They are right in that heavy metal deposits are unlikely to show up in a blood test. That's the root of the problem in that they are embedded in tissue in vital organs. To get them out requires a combination of many different enzymes to break down biofilms and then EDTA to bind to the metals so the body can remove them.

In my case it was a matter of hit-or-miss trial and error. I have basically gone through hundreds of self experiments to find the cause of idiopathic hypertension and heavy metal chelation was the second thing I found that made notable improvements. The first was also related to metal or metalloid, a lack of it in fact. I needed selenium and a handful of other elements to fix the thyroid.

I removed myself carefully off two BP meds including a very dangerous one and moved out of the red into the amber by USA standards. With time I will figure out the other causes and get into the green.
by benmmurphy | 2025-04-17 14:03:32+00:00
the closest you can get to what you want is a trusted third party who would help derive the final key. so the key could not be revealed to law enforcement without cooperation of the trusted third party who would verify policies like time, etc. it may also be possible to have the 'trusted third party' be a piece of tamper proof hardware. i think generally people are suspicious of these schemes because it relies on 'trust'.

also, i think apple has a scheme similar to this for protecting the passcode from being brute forced when recovering from iCloud backup. however, if this scheme breaks it doesn't reveal the encryption key i believe it just allows the passcode that protects the encryption key to be brute forced which I guess may or may not result in the encryption key being revealed.
by morcus | 2025-04-17 14:04:14+00:00
Thank you for the response. The part I don't under is what is different about Azure and AWS in this case?

Is Azure providing discounting pricing on Windows Server licenses? Or is it that Azure directly provides Windows Server machines where the license cost is amortized in some way, whereas AWS doesn't have permission to do the same and the license cost is pushed to the client?
by pipeline_peak | 2025-04-17 14:04:17+00:00
> She said that since she didn’t go through training, Edward’s father said she couldn’t officially be a repair tech. But through the years, she honed her skills.

> Before he passed away, she said he was incredibly impressed with her growth.

> “Last year, (Michael King) informed me, ‘I can’t give you the title because you didn’t go to college, but you do a heck of a good job repairing things and fixing it and taking care of people,’” Henning said.

All that hard work and nothing but a verbal compliment, no wonder no one in retail cares anymore.
by somenameforme | 2025-04-17 14:04:31+00:00
You don't understand the saying. If you want to find some of the most anti-war people there are, speak to veterans who have lived through such. If you want to find some of the most pro-war people there are, talk to people who have never experienced the consequences of such. Out of curiosity I just looked up 'us warmonger political advisor guy' because his named temporarily escaped me, and search delivered - John Bolton. [1]

I wanted to see his history because it's just about always the same - and yeah, good ole Yale grad who was a draft dodger getting his college deferment then immediately getting a national guard position to avoid conscription. For those that may not understand the latter - National Guard units were basically never deployed, extremely difficult to enlist in, and basically worked as a means for the well connected to avoid service. Bush, Cheney, Biden, Trump, Clinton, and all of them - draft dodgers, often using similar tricks.

It has nothing to do with political systems. There have been great times under dictatorial systems and horrible times under democracies. It has to do with weak people trying to be strong, which drives chaos. Maybe it could be framed up succinctly in that the "hard decisions" are indeed hard for strong men, but for weak mean they happily make them without the briefest of hesitation, though of course they'll put on a solemn face for the cameras.

[1] - https://search.brave.com/search?q=us+warmonger+political+adv...
by bell-cot | 2025-04-17 14:04:48+00:00
Yes, it is fairly miserable to do both full-time.

OTOH, life in America is very unfairly miserable for tens of millions of people who are not going to school. And trying to tell all the taxpayers that they have to provide nice quality-of-life upgrades, for people who are already enjoying taxpayer-supported free classes? NO - in our non-utopian world, where money is real, that is a very bad idea.
by wulfstan | 2025-04-17 14:04:50+00:00
Yes, several times.

But in the same way that as a society we allow physical privacy (and freedom!) to be removed under certain circumstances, we should consider allowing digital privacy to be removed in the same way. 1984 imagines a world where the authorities can enter your physical space at any time because they feel like it. But I don't lie awake worrying about that because I live in a society where I feel the social contract is largely upheld by the authorities.
by AngryData | 2025-04-17 14:04:53+00:00
Telecomms told my area for decades that it was unprofitable to give internet access. We didn't even have DSL. Small local wireless networks filled the gap, but barely because this area is covered in tall trees and no significant high points. 2 years ago a fiber co-op started, covered nearly everything in a 60 mile radius with direct-to-home fiber, and are making bank and continuously expanding.
by londons_explore | 2025-04-17 14:04:58+00:00
The correct approach is to calculate the harm from one microgram of lead in food (ie. how many IQ points lost, how much lifetime income lost, how much life expectancy reduced, how much healthcare costs go up).

Then multiply that by 100 to give a likely upper bound of something very hard to measure.

Then make companies pay that as a "harm fee" for each product they sell, as a tax to the government.

Do the same for everything toxic.

Before long, companies will be trying very hard to keep toxic products out of the food chain simply to help their profits.
by hedora | 2025-04-17 14:05:07+00:00
> I see a lot of comments here arguing age requirements are overreach and these decisions should be left to the parents. To those presenting such arguments, do you think that applies to other activities as well? What about smoking/drinking/firearms? Pornography? Driving?

All of the things on your list are primarily enforced by parents already.

This law is regulatory capture that's going to strengthen the monopolies of the exact social media sites that you allude to. It makes it harder for smaller, focused sites to exist. Instead the only option will be sites with algorithmic feeds that currently push right-wing nazi propaganda, anti-vaxxers, flat earthers, nihilist school shooting clubs for teenagers, or whatever fresh hell the internet came up with this morning.

If you think age verification is going to fix these problems on the big sites, I suggest watching YouTube Kids. Actually, don't. I wouldn't wish that trauma on anyone. Seriously.
by xorcist | 2025-04-17 14:05:56+00:00
The comment of yours is likely in good spirit, but it mixes reasonable things with completely outlandish ones.

From experience, averaging 8 km/h for 2.5 h with 50 kg on the back is just not possible for most people, and likely not for you or me either. Doing it in uneven terrain sounds completely unrealistic no matter how fit you are.

Just suggest something realistic instead, like 20 kg and 5 km/h in easy terrain for healthy people, and and least it would be something possible to discuss.

Going 4 days without food is something you can absolutely try if you like, if you are healthy or otherwise secure. But going 2 days compeltely without water is stupid. Don't do it on purpose, ever, no matter how fit you think you are.
by MisterTea | 2025-04-17 14:06:04+00:00
Same in my drivers ed at 16, guy had a mans face, large stocky build, and thick full beard. I once was talking to a tall pretty woman who turned out to be a 12 year old girl. And I have a friend who for most of his 20's could pass for 13-14 and had a hell of a time getting into bars.

This facial thing feel like a loaded attempt to both check a box and get more of that sweet, sweet data to mine. Massive privacy invasion and exploitation of children dressed as security theater.
by exe34 | 2025-04-17 14:06:23+00:00
the generals who make the decisions and who could depose the great leader are already being replaced. Will the foot soldiers remember their oath to the constitution? given how the majority of them are proper Maga, I'm not convinced they will side with the people. the military and law enforcement are there first and foremost to serve the oligarchs, not the people, no matter what a piece of paper says.
by MarcoamGarcia | 2025-04-17 14:06:48+00:00
Honestly? Social skills to deal with customers. It’s not glamorous, but knowing how to talk to users, ask the right questions, and translate their vague complaints into actionable feedback is massively underrated in tech. I’ve seen engineers spend days debugging the wrong thing simply because no one thought to clarify what the user meant. On the flip side, a quick empathetic conversation can uncover the real problem in five minutes. It’s a skill that’s rarely taught, but it turns support calls, bug reports, and even roadmap debates into something way more productive. Hugely valuable—especially if you’re building or supporting a product.
by fkyoureadthedoc | 2025-04-17 14:07:02+00:00
It has to be acknowledged that some things, like social media and pornography, are harmful to children. "Maintain the status quo" isn't an attractive response to that. ID laws are not a perfect solution, maybe not even a good one.

You undermine your whole point by pretending VPNs are going to make the whole thing moot. Why do you care when you won't be affected because you can just use a VPN? Why does pornhub make such a fuss when their users can just use a VPN? Because in reality, introducing that much friction will stop a lot of people.
by arp242 | 2025-04-17 14:07:03+00:00
Presumably we would handle that in the same way we did up until ~5 years ago or so.

Right now people can't enrol in "full" classes either, except the classes are "full" of bots.

And a single day of attendance is really not a very high bar to meet. For special cases where it's really a problem accommodations can be made on request.
by geocar | 2025-04-17 14:07:22+00:00
> Something is a crime if society determines that it should be so. Nothing more.

According to The New Oxford Companion to Law, the term crime does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition.

Society also determined it was ok to use a firehose on black people, so I think the best we can say is that the term Crime has nothing to do with Morality, and people who conflate the two need to be looked at with suspicion.

> You should engage with the arguments the other side makes.

I don't. I think most arguments about crime require one-side to act in bad-faith. After all: The author doesn't actually mean that Encryption isn't illegal in some jurisdictions, they mean that it shouldn't be. You know this. I know this. And yet you really think someone needs your tautological definition of crime? I don't believe you.
by mjburgess | 2025-04-17 14:07:33+00:00
Yes, the new part is that it's extrajudicial. The rendition of foreign citizens can be done without a court, because they aren't covered by the US constitution. Only those "under the power of the united states government" are granted due process by US courts.

The line being cross in taking persons unknown to courts from the united states, to a forieng country, isnt "a new part". It's to suspend the constitution and grant the president the power not merely to arbitarily detain, but to do so in a foreign prison.

It's hard to understate how serious this is. If it were only this, and nothing else, we might hope it will stay bounded by the "hopefully" diligient ICE. But coupled with the assault on all rival systems to presidental power, there's nothign to be hopeful about.

The constitution has been suspend, the president has sequestered the force of the federal government to bring under his private power the whole of american society, begining with the most powerful rivals: the courts, the media, the universities, the law first, and so on.

He will next suspend the broadcasting licence for media outlets.

Optimistically, the supreme court could suspend his emergency powers -- as they ought, since there is no war or emergency. This may make the federal government unable to execute his wishes -- but if they've replaced enough workers there already, it might be too late.
by epolanski | 2025-04-17 14:07:54+00:00
> there is a reason you're using hacker news and probably reddit

It's a good place to talk stuff that's popular, but discussions fade and die quickly.

Also, I still use vBulletin-like forums.

Examples from the last decade I still use: mbworld.org for discussing Mercedes cars, bitcointalk, hwupgrade, overclockers.uk and some others.

Reddit/Twitter absolutely cannot replace any of those I listed for long lasting specific discussions, they are just unfit.
by tobir | 2025-04-17 14:08:20+00:00
The litigiousness point should have been at the top of the list. You can build roadways, but if you constantly have stories in the news of people striking it rich by suing someone, and half the billboards you see in your town is of people telling you they'll help you do it, then it's going to be extremely expensive to employ folks.

It'll be easier to teach folks hard work, it's very difficult to change a culture when 1. A huge sector of our legal system geared towards it 2. People can easily get rich off of it.
by no_wizard | 2025-04-17 14:08:32+00:00
You're quoting half of my statement and taking it out of context.

I specified artificial for a reason. I'm talking about unnaturally altered environments and manufacturing (and for the most part, its the latter but some activities, e.g. mining or poor agriculture practices, have knock off effects that poison environments).

I'm not talking about naturally occurring lead. I realize trace amounts can be found in things like vegetables and meats even when care is taken to use clean soil (e.g. the soil doesn't have any lead contamination, which unfortunately this is not regulated very well in the US) and clean processing methods.

However, these 'safe amounts' are void of any real effort to understand them in combination. For example, lets say product A is deemed to allow a 'safe amount' of 10000 ppb, product B 8000 ppb, product C 12500 ppb and so on. These ppb amounts are determined without thought to other forms of lead exposure from other products. If you look at how much lead and other toxins you're exposed to through a variety of sources it will add up over time.

Simply because it doesn't add up to the thresholds for lead poisoning doesn't mean it lacks any negative consequences
by bloomingeek | 2025-04-17 14:09:00+00:00
Just finished a book about the Hundred Years War, before that, one on the Thirty Years War. Both have a glaring similarity, the "weak people" were consistently plundered, raped and killed by the "strong" people.

When will the working class people understand that the elite are just a few bad decisions away from their total destruction? (Here in the US we seem to be on some kind of precipice.)