MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by davorak | 2025-04-04 18:58:40+00:00
> You're saying they advocated a policy that pre-emptively and specifically banned Anduril from posting

At(edit) this point I can not double check the post to see if I was reading it right since it is currently hidden after being flagged. Most of the stuff I see flagged to removal on HN is more extreme than what was said by the OP here.

At least advocating for gatekeeping like I mentioned before. They did not get into specifics from what I remember.

> There's no evidence that that's justified

I think we are on the same page about them not posting evidence for justification around Anduril.

> And it still wouldn't change that their swipe at corporate advertising was nonsense.

There is a wide amount of opinion on what is justifiable corporate advertising. I do not remember any specific policy that they advocated for that came off as nonsense. I would say it did not sound like an opinion held by the majority of this forum or my everyday life in the USA.

> Maybe they advocate for removing the job board entirely?

If they came back and said 'yes that is what I want' I would not be surprised, but all we have to go off of is:

> Good, private corporations should not be allowed to leverage a public utility like this as their advertisement soapbox.

So maybe as long as the private corporations do not "leverage a public utility" as an "advertisement soapbox" they could post on the forum.

> Instead they moved the goal posts.

I do not see the goal posts moving, maybe they were, in the OP's head, but I can not extract that from the text. Moving the goal posts in my mind would be if the OP set some criteria, then someone pointing out Anduril met that criteria, then the OP changing the criteria so Anduril did not qualify anymore. The only criteria given though was:

> private corporations should not be allowed to leverage a public utility like this as their advertisement soapbox

And the thread did not dig down on that, no one said Anduril met the criteria, and the criteria was not changed. Would have been a more interesting conversation if the thread had dug down on: What did Anduril do? Why does it disqualify them? What is the OP's standard? Is it consistent?
by pingou | 2025-04-04 18:58:41+00:00
Considering that each year that passes, technology offer us new ways to destroy ourselves, and gives another chance for humanity to pick a black ball, it seems to me like the only way to save ourselves is to create a benevolent AI to supervise us and neutralize all threads.

There are obviously big risks with AI, as listed in the article, but the genie is out of the bottle anyway, even if all countries agreed to stop AI development, how long would that agreement last? 10 years? 20? 50? Eventually powerful AIs will be developed, if that is possible (which I believe it is, and I didn't think I'd see the current stunning development in my lifetime, I may not see AGI but I'm sure it'll get there eventually).
by ergsef | 2025-04-04 18:59:36+00:00
> he apparently want to impose a new economic order on the world where every country basically becomes subservient to the US

This sounds like some kind of right-wing conspiracy theory attributing everything to George Soros for some reason.

The US dollar is the reserve currency of the world. America has been calling the shots for the entire post-WWII period. The American Empire extends across the globe collecting natural resources and cheap labour. US citizens have been reaping the benefits of this neo-imperialism. What MAGA people are advocating is basically US isolationism where the US surrenders all it's soft-power influence and becomes a sort of hermit oligarchy.
by MPSFounder | 2025-04-04 18:59:53+00:00
It absolutely is not. And your views are very concerning. Everyone residing in the US is entitled to the ammendments. That is exactly why Guantanamo bay was formed, as a matter of fact. What makes this so much worse is these individuals were not arrested for criticizing these United States, but for criticizing a hostile foreign nation, that just so happens to be the darling of billionaires of a certain faith, who constitute an overwhelming majority in the aristocracy of the US (and have been there since around the 70s). It can in fact be traced back to AZC, when JFK forced them to register as foreign agents.
by johnea | 2025-04-04 19:00:22+00:00
I agree with the replies indicating emissions aren't trivial, but to answer to the more self-serving interests that are well represented on HN: have you experienced NEVER going to a gas station?

Seriously, that is a great feature of EVs...

Not to mention the massively reduced cost/mile. I expect my used Nissan Leaf to pay for itself in ~5years...

Not to mention the AMAZING acceleration of even a non-performance oriented EV...
by IshKebab | 2025-04-04 19:00:39+00:00
I would personally recommend Javascript/Typescript over Python, but Python is a reasonable option. Especially now that we have uv so you don't have to crawl through the bush of thorns that Python's terrible tooling (pip, venv etc) surrounds you with.

I would just encourage you to move on from Python fairly quickly. It's like... a balance bike. Easy to learn and teach you how to balance but you don't want to actually use it to get around.
by anonym29 | 2025-04-04 19:01:20+00:00
Hasn't this frequently been used as a go-to talking point of xenophobic nationalists pretty extensively in the past? I'm not accusing you of expressing either xenophobic or nationalist sentiment, but don't we have a social responsibility to avoid legitimizing these types of highly divisive talking points?

Also, isn't there room for a middle ground here? I'd love to sign up to opt out of receiving any social security or medicaid benefits permanently for the rest of my life in exchange for a small tax credit or deduction, smaller than the amount I'd expect to receive out of these programs. What's the downside there, if I'm still paying in grossly more than I'm receiving in benefits, and could be liberating taxpayers from a financial responsibility to me that they already can't afford, and which I don't need? I'd prefer to be part of the solution to the deficit, but me leaving the country only exacerbates the problem, given that I pay in close to an order of magnitude more than I get back in return.

I'm anti-war and not a fan of the defense industry, shouldn't I be allowed to stay and express policy preference for less defense spending, even though I benefit from it?

We also cannot assume that everyone is drawing from collective infrastructure investment just because we're all forced to pay into it. Some people use well water, have their own microgrid that is disconnected from the public one, and go out of their way to only utilize private toll roads, private medical services, etc for ethical reasons. Shouldn't we at least give people the freedom of choice to opt out of taking from the collective pool of resources if they do not need to, and in turn, because their utilization is lower, offer them some form of limited incentive to do so, as long as they are still paying in more than they're getting out of the system, ultimately?

Is it fair to give gifts to people who did not ask for them or want them, and then expect the same sacrifices in return from the recipients, regardless of whether not these public services are even utilized or necessary?
by glenstein | 2025-04-04 19:01:24+00:00
Caveat that I used to be into Objectivism but now would say I'm extremely unsympathetic to it as a project. I don't think it's so odd that a philosophy would venture into economic systems as part of the course to staking out moral axioms and preferred conditions of relations between people. I'm not laissez-faire by any stretch, but there are such things as economic philosophies that wrestle with questions of liberty. Economics is a very philosophical subject, and moral, political, and economic philosophy can become quite entangled, for good reasons.

While I think your math example is basically right, it would be surprising there, I don't think economic order emerging out of moral and philosophical reflections is particularly surprising.
by itsthecourier | 2025-04-04 19:01:36+00:00
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the who is who of pop culture
by hatthew | 2025-04-04 19:01:51+00:00
Go look at https://www.protondb.com/explore?sort=mostBorked. In the first 50 games, there are 5 that I play that appear to be completely unplayable on linux at the moment. Is it behind the times to prefer an OS where literally every single game I've played in the last year has booted with no issues?

Hypothetically if I were to switch back to linux as my main OS, I'd rather just dual boot windows than buy a console with an OS that is, in my opinion, even worse than windows.
by sarchertech | 2025-04-04 19:02:01+00:00
That it’s ridiculous to say “poorer than anywhere in Europe or even the US Deep South”. The poorest parts of Europe are so much more impoverished than anywhere in the Deep South that that is an absurd statement.

It’s a skewed European attitude to look down on the southern US as the poorest place they can think of outside of Africa or Asia. When in fact the vast majority of the South is better off than economically than 90% of European countries.

I once talked to someone traveling to Atlanta ask “do you get CNN down there?” CNN is based in Atlanta.
by abc-1 | 2025-04-04 19:02:17+00:00
The owner of Gumroad is a millionaire, but for some reason decided to crank up the cost of charges from 2.9% to 12.9% a few years ago. Needless to say, most people who don’t like being screwed switched to Stripe or another provider. That’s all you need to know about Gumroad.
by escape_velocity | 2025-04-04 19:02:27+00:00
You do indeed need to upload cookbook changes with knife; but if you keep your cookbooks in Git you can set up CI/CD pipelines that spawn a container that runs the knife upload steps for you (and even do validation via cookstyle before). Then all you need to do after changing your cookbooks and/or recipes is to commit those changes to your Git repo and watch the CI/CD pipeline do it's thing.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-04-04 19:03:23+00:00
> They (or at least, they used to) insure that "state's rights" advocates don't implement curricula that teach children that the world is 6,000 years old and flat. They are in the process of being dismantled.

That is, in my view, a good thing. We should not be a monolithic nation and were never meant to be. If the people of (insert state here) wish to teach their children things I don't agree with, or even things which are outright false, that is their right. Nor does it hurt me in any way.

One of the great problems with our country today is people trying to get the federal government to control more and more things. That is directly responsible for much of the division in our country, as federal elections (especially for president) turn into this big fight over who is going to get to impose their dramatically differing way of life on others for the next 4ish years. To reduce tensions, we need to return to the original design: decisions about government should be made as locally as possible, so that the government can reflect the very diverse needs and cultures that exist across our country.
by bugbuddy | 2025-04-04 19:03:27+00:00
You are right. I gambled everything away but the drop is much more than single digit at this point. I was concentrating my bets very aggressively. It is sinking in. Fortunately I will have some adult children who might be doing ok. I hope they will be willing to lend a helping hand. I am feeling so much shame. I cannot stomach my current predicament.
by itsthecourier | 2025-04-04 19:03:50+00:00
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cool list
by ziddoap | 2025-04-04 19:03:52+00:00
Right into the ad hominem, fantastic debate tactic. Very dialectic of you.

The irony of saying "maybe you'll figure out how to have a real debate." after a string of personal attacks is *chef's kiss*.

>yet you complain when you get a meta level comment about your behavior.

I'm not complaining. And you're not giving me a "meta level comment about my behavior". You're just attempting to insult me.
by rdtsc | 2025-04-04 19:03:57+00:00
> Although Ono has, for two decades, been comfortably rehabilitated as an artist in her own right

I don't think she is a very good artist. Everyone felt they have to like her, and galleries brought her work in because, well, she is John Lennon's widow.

Here is her performance art, she is screaming in a microphone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdZ9weP5i68

And some drawings https://www.moma.org/collection/works/131503

It's fine, but just nothing outstanding. The article gives her the best description I've heard so far "ultimate professional widow".
by NilMostChill | 2025-04-04 19:03:59+00:00
Ah, that makes sense.

As i alluded to in my post i don't think it has hit the hyperbolic numbers provided in the original post.

I suspect they will be hit in the short-ish term 1-3 years, but these kinds of things are notoriously difficult to calculate, especially when the actual data around it will almost certainly be purposefully obfuscated.

As you said though ,that wasn't what you were asking.

"Move fast and break things" is a concept referring to not worrying too much about breaking existing solutions or integrations while *improving* them.

Declaring a laughably unrealistic timescale to replace a system millions of people rely upon to survive isn't innovative or groundbreaking, it's reckless and dangerous, bordering on callous.

There could genuinely be an argument made that he's so narcissistic and delusional that he genuinely doesn't realise how badly this is going to pan out, in which case the intent might not be malicious but accidentally killing tens/hundreds of thousands of people because you don't think things through isn't a good enough excuse for me personally.

But then you get statements like "empathy is a weakness" that point to him at least partially understanding what's going to happen and just not caring.

i'd like to address a specific reference in your reply:

> neglected to adequately financially prepare themselves for retirement, were unable to avoid unexpected financial difficulties in life

To me that shows a fundamental misunderstanding of just how difficult modern financial stability is to achieve for a large proportion of the population.

Living paycheque to paycheque can sometimes be neglect yes, but i'd wager that far more instances of that are due to the increasing gap between cost of living and actual wages.

It's difficult to plan for retirement when you work a 60 hour week and are only just covering rent and food.

It also doesn't address the fact that social security is funded by taxes, it's not a handout, people make financial decisions based on the information they have, the information they had was "pay your taxes and when it comes time to stop working you'll get some assistance".

If you want to kill it, fine, stop taxing people to pay in to it, removing it after an entire lifetime of paying in to the system is basically theft.
by anonym29 | 2025-04-04 19:04:03+00:00
Why does this not expand to inexpensive programs that haven't been previously funded, but could be? I've read that we can save lives for a handful of dollars per life in Africa with greater access to medical care, mosquito nets, antimalarial drugs, etc.

If getting rid of existing affordable aid is murder, why is failing to render new affordable aid not? Doesn't this inherently place an incentivization mechanism and inherent preference for the old ways of doing things, when newer ways can be more efficient and save more lives with fewer dollars?
by WXLCKNO | 2025-04-04 19:04:56+00:00
So in the past 5 years we went from not having ChatGPT at all and it being released in 2022 (with non "chat" models before that) but in the next 5 now that the entire tech world is consumed with making better AI models, we'll just get slightly better AI coding assistants?

Reminds me of that comment about the first iPod being lame and having less space than a nomad. Worst take I've ever seen on here recently.
by pseudalopex | 2025-04-04 19:05:12+00:00
> I wonder what Meta got in return.

Trump dropped his lawsuit against Meta for suspending him after the insurrection.[1] They want to avoid an antitrust trial.[2] They want Trump to pressure the EU into allowing surveillance capitalism.[3] They want influence in negotiations over Section 230.[4]

[1] https://apnews.com/article/trump-meta-settlement-zuckerberg-...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/meta-ceo-zuckerberg-lobbies...

[3] https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-polit...

[4] https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/section_230_bipartisan_b...
by Animats | 2025-04-04 19:05:20+00:00
There's a major concurrency problem in Wine, the Windows emulator for Linux, related to this, which I encountered several years ago. Wine has its own set of DLLs which provide malloc-level services. When you grow a buffer, but it can't be grown in place, a new buffer has to be allocated and the old buffer copied. The trouble is that the copying takes place while holding a spinlock on the entire buffer pool. I had a multi-thread Rust program go into futex congestion and drop performance by two orders of magnitude due to this. 20 threads were all stuck compute-bound trying to acquire the lock. There are several layers of locking involved, and they fight.

Wine bug only; works OK on real Windows.[1][2] (bugs.winehq.org seems to be down)

[1] https://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=37688

[2] https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54979
by GlibMonkeyDeath | 2025-04-04 19:06:06+00:00
This is a truly tragic story. Toward the end of the article (regarding the 2024 findings in San Diego Superior Court), Peikoff sounds like he has his faculties intact, according to multiple doctors and attorneys. He has freely chosen to marry his caregiver, much to the dismay of his daughter (who believes the caregiver is a grifter, and so his daughter forced the court inquiry.) His response, "if being unreasonable is choosing to be with the woman I love, then I choose to be unreasonable" is peak objectivism. He is going to do what he wants - to do anything else would be a betrayal of objectivist principles.

He is now estranged from his daughter Cordelia -er, Kira - over this.
by jerkstate | 2025-04-04 19:07:10+00:00
I really appreciate you following up with a cordial tone, it's so nice to have a respectful conversation with a stranger on the internet in this day and age.

So, this chart has job numbers and count for the following resource extraction/manufacturing related fields with the following average hourly pay and the number of people employed in that field today:

Manufacturing: $35.16 - 12,746k

Mining and logging: $40.33 - 623k

Construction: $39.24 - 8,313k

Transportation and warehousing: $31.19 - 6,738k

The weighted average of this category is $35.53 per hour.

In general, these jobs can mostly be performed without a college degree.

Contrast that with service jobs that can broadly be performed with a college degree:

Retail trade: $25.18 - 15,595k

Leisure and hospitality: $22.75 - 16,991k

Other services: $32.39 - 6,036k

The average hourly rate for this class of jobs is $25.24.

So, on average, manufacturing and extraction jobs not requiring a college education pay 40% more than service jobs of the same requirements.

I'm not one of those people like the top poster who thinks that everyone can just go get a college degree and become an accountant or a nurse. I think there are a lot of people out there who can follow instructions to work machinery reasonably well, but aren't going to be a great fit for jobs that require a substantial education. These people are the majority - about 62% of US adults are not college educated. We either owe them dignified employment, or in a democracy, we will suffer their wrath.
by janalsncm | 2025-04-04 19:07:24+00:00
NIMBYism ensures that cars will be the only way to access any areas, because any public transit projects which would reduce traffic get blocked. Roads are the lowest common denominator so they happen.

There’s no reason 280 and 101 can’t also have corresponding high speed rail lines to cut commute times from San Jose to SF down from 2 hours to a fraction of that.
by jruohonen | 2025-04-04 19:07:40+00:00
A good take! And I welcome that the TLF has moved toward a constructive approach instead of the earlier FUD lobbying. Based on the survey results, I'd expect no major problems, as most foundations (or stewards or whatever) are already compliant. Good recommendations, too. OpenSSF is already doing good work, and having things like SBOMs would really benefit everyone. An additional hint: there are big funds for implementing the CRA, and bodies like the TLF/OpenSSF/etc. should have no problems getting application(s) approved.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-04-04 19:07:43+00:00
The thing that I felt came through in this article (or maybe it's just my biases) was the hollowness of engaging in relationships purely for one's own selfish ends. Sooner or later (as happened to these people), the selfish desires don't line up any more, and the relationships get torn apart. Contrary to Rand, I don't think that love is inherently selfish (quite the opposite in fact), and it seems to me that love based on altruism is much more stable (and more praiseworthy) than love based on what the other person can do for me.

But then again I would say that, so it's hard to tell if that actually is something I took away from the article or if it's just confirmation bias at play.
by glenstein | 2025-04-04 19:07:55+00:00
The attempt by Randians to apply her to modern politics was a major tell when I was young to get out of that crowd. One person, supposedly a an intellectual leading light of Objectivism at the time, said that nuking Iran was fine because Iran pursing nuclear enrichment constituted "initiation of force" (important term of art in the Rand lexicography), seemingly squaring the circle between Rand's brand of hardcore libertarian isolationism and neocon warmongering that was popular at the time.

I wanted to see intellectual hero philosophers as the legacy, but what objectivism produced, outside of Nathaneil Branden and David Kelly who were at least interesting, was largely a complete joke.
by greenavocado | 2025-04-04 19:08:02+00:00
What a lovely and radioactive mess. While there's a definition for "your company," edge cases like contractors, consultants, or complex organizational structures might create ambiguity about who is bound by the limitations. The immediate termination for any patent claim could be overly broad, potentially triggering even for legitimate patent disputes tangentially related to the software. The prohibition on sublicensing could create problems for legitimate business arrangements, particularly for development agencies or consultancies.The provision allowing licensees to cure violations within 30 days is vague about what constitutes "practical steps" to correct past violations. The license doesn't clearly address the status of derivative works or modifications. While the license mentions adjusting for inflation using the CPI, it doesn't specify how often this should be calculated or who determines the adjusted thresholds, creating potential interpretation conflicts. There's no clear mechanism for monitoring or enforcing revenue thresholds. Good luck!