MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rottc0dd | 2025-04-11 04:29:44+00:00
I kind of think both are true. I will remember Winston as great thinker who is extremely aware his world. And the tragedy or death of him is death of his awareness. His ability to think. In all the protagonist I have seen in tragedies, he is peculiar. While reviewing one another writer's work, Orwell said

> ‘... was a bad writer, and some inner trouble, sharpening his sensitiveness, nearly made him into a good one; his discontent healed itself, and he reverted to type. It is worth pausing to wonder in just what form the thing is happening to oneself.’

In the first act, the writing was so cold and I could not feel any connection to Winston. Even, when getting intimate with Julia, he is thinking,

> In the old days, he thought, a man looked at a girl’s body and saw that it was desirable, and that was the end of the story. But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act.

I don't know when I started to feel things and empathize with him so much. When you think about circumstances and how he feels, he is cold as it gets, always scheming.

And in the most hopeful time of his life, he say these

> ‘We are the dead,’ he said.

> ‘We’re not dead yet,’ said Julia prosaically.

> ‘Not physically. Six months, a year – five years, conceivably. I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you’re more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put it off as long as we can. But it makes very little difference. So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.’

But, when you think of an inner life, he has one of the richest and rare ones. We empathize with that, and when crystal ball falls, it was the most tragic thing I have experienced. I think, genius of Orwell is that he made the character and the idea indistinguishable.
by gsf_emergency | 2025-04-11 04:29:53+00:00
It seems then, debates about (oligarchy-owned) AI-safety are parallel to debates about the safety of cybernetically-planned economies..

(If any of you are interested, I think the abstract core of the issue is about the porous boundary between excludability & rivalry*)

Since we're doing anti-Soviet puns:

1. From the top comment (imho comments are usually more thoughtful than essays :)

This philosophy of lack of accountability, of detaching individuals from the consequences of their choices is to me the fundamental flaw at the heart of... well, I was going to say "Western democracy" but that's a dubious expression, so whatever it is we live under now.

Is it not enough to tax corporate personhood (or *cough* AI-hood or *cough* useful parrot-cy or cough agen-cy) as a public resource, then?!

[Luckily, search engines haven't become sentient.. yet]

>Stafford Beers’ cybernetic perspective on corporate organization (Beers is the originator of “The purpose of a system is what it does")

https://archive.today/latest/https://thetechbubble.substack....

2. Also from top comment (Potemkin AI pdf alt link)

https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edited-volume/5319/chapter/3...

* https://economics.stackexchange.com/a/29598
by makeitdouble | 2025-04-11 04:30:05+00:00
FWIW many institutions don't want a middle ground between a registration/request being received, and it being in limbo somewhere.

We could compare it to refusing mailed in registrations or not setting up a post box for out of office submissions, those are long lived practices depending on the office, and they "just" brought it wholesale to the online world.

If it's that much easier for the staff to hold a mental model of what they do and how they work, I'd respect their choice even if it feels so alien in the online side.
by maxglute | 2025-04-11 04:31:06+00:00
>We always were sort of maintaining two different bills of materials of Chinese componentry and Western componentry because they're different. Then we produced five different iterations of the Librem 5 phone through Chinese contract manufacturing. And we iterated through those five changes over the course of about 18 months. At that point, we finally had a production ready product. And then we were able to take everything that we did and bring it to US soil.

How many iterations can they get done in US in 18 months? That's what's going to kill Made in USA, if you can't get the design done on time, not a few $100 extra in PRC vs west sourced BOM, but millions more spent on development over longer time frame because lack of talent. Is the short/medium term solution still to send "homework" to Chinese prototype teams? I suppose economics of PRC speed and few prototypes > 100%+ tariffs.
by sipofwater | 2025-04-11 04:32:48+00:00
Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20250307234303/www.rnlawgroup.co... (web.archive.org/web/20250307234303/www.rnlawgroup.com/your-phone-your-data-how-to-safeguard-your-digital-life-when-entering-the-u-s/)
by theGeatZhopa | 2025-04-11 04:32:48+00:00
thx for warning. With me, its ok. No false-flagging by big GOOG. Only flagged, what does deserve flagging.

But, with my girl and with her outlook.com account created last November (2024) - without exception - every new email / unknown sender is pushed to spam folder. Unless the sender is manually marked as "no spam". We don't really know why..

- Tell me Why??? Ain't nothing 'bout spam filters

- Tell me Why??? Ain't nothing 'bout missed emails

- Tell me Why? I never thought, I'll have to care. That's just a nooo-gooo.

(Backspam Boys - Tell me why)
by vasco | 2025-04-11 04:32:57+00:00
> any normal fire engine costing more than $1,000,000 just leaves me gob-smacked. Even $500,000 would seem outlandish to me

No, they said 500k would also be outlandish. But the commenter correctly caught that 500k would in fact be exactly the same price, inflation adjusted. This makes a big difference.
by riffraff | 2025-04-11 04:33:29+00:00
AFAIK the battitori are employed directly from the Consorzio, the trade association which owns the brand.

So what's written in the _disciplinare_ is the expectation that the wheel is flawless and that the experts will validate it at certain times. The details of how the validation is performed is vague, it mentions using the hammer but doesn't specify stuff like "it sounds X".
by caseyohara | 2025-04-11 04:33:50+00:00
We’re saying the same thing.

I honestly don’t know much about B&H as a business but I’m a frequent customer. I have bought several expensive camera bodies and lenses from them, countless camera accessories, and it’s often the first place I look for all electronics. NAS, hard drives, cables, that sort of thing. I like buying from B&H because I trust them, they have fast shipping, and I’ve never had a bad experience.

It’s a high quality store. I value high quality and I like that they value high quality over maximizing profit. That makes me a loyal customer, and unless something changes about the quality of B&H, I probably will be for a long time. I don’t care that their online store is occasionally closed; it’s never been an inconvenience to me. And if it ever is, the quality of the store more than makes up for the minor convenience of waiting a couple days to buy something. When it comes to my gear and equipment, I’m rarely in such a rush that I’m willing to compromise quality for speed. I imagine a lot of other B&H customers feel the same way.
by jstanley | 2025-04-11 04:34:01+00:00
> You can wrap it with all the feel good trappings you want, that set of bits is not you.

If there's a continuity of experience from your present day life to your virtual life, if the virtual version shares all your memories, hopes, fears, thought patterns... Then in what way is it not you?

Do you also think that "reconstructive teleporting" would build another person but that person would not be you?
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-04-11 04:35:29+00:00
How would they even be able to fix it, short of redirecting all their domains to stackexchange.com subdomains (and causing a colossal branding mess and making everyone mad)? Almost by definition, anything that would allow them to know you've accepted cookies on a different domain would be a form of tracking that all the anti-tracking stuff would clamp down on.
by amy_petrik | 2025-04-11 04:36:40+00:00
>It's pretty hypocritical to unironically use an Italian idiom for a Mediterranean pidgin that literally means `language of the Franks`, I don't know if that has an argument fallacy like ad hominem, would we call this "ad etymology"?

>i.e., French, in a comment supporting neo-reactionaries' attempts to shut minorities out of the government services they deserve per the democratic social contract not to mention pay Shut out? They came of their own volition to a nation known to primarily speak English, did not learn English or have a means to communicate in English, and that's on us if we don't bend a knee? I can tell you any american living in France, they're gonna find situations where businesses say straight up (in French), speak French or I won't help you. I guess those poor Americans were just getting shut out
by dexwiz | 2025-04-11 04:36:59+00:00
I don't remember the part of that scenario where a scan is taken of the ship and uploaded to a server.

I long ago accepted that my image of self is a sort of illusion. That things I consider other, like microbes in my gut, constitute a large portion of me. And I change over time. Even the memories I have are copies of copies.

But all that happens in a continuity. Being uploaded is a stark difference and a disconnect that I cannot philosophically reconcile.
by makeitdouble | 2025-04-11 04:37:53+00:00
> without any prior thought or discussion about the possible downsides

In BM's defense, I think it needs to be that way to a point, to have the viewer react and acknowledge these downsides within their current frame of reference.

It can be hard to swallow both a world that has evolved for 10~20 years, and also think about a whole new paradigm that matches that unfamiliar world.
by vintermann | 2025-04-11 04:38:25+00:00
I don't think he's said, but he has written some shockingly creepy stories himself, like the Halloween special which suggests Jon died or moved out ages ago and Garfield is just hallucinating due to starvation and despair. He claimed he wrote it after a market survey indicating that loneliness is what people fear the most (this is a pattern with Davis - he always cheerfully claims he's just in it for the money whenever someone suggests he has any kind of artistic vision).

Or the one in "Garfield: his 9 lives" where a different incarnation of Garfield goes suddenly feral and kills the elderly woman owning him. Jim Davis didn't draw it, but he did script it!
by jc01480 | 2025-04-11 04:39:18+00:00
I was thinking about this today and the best thing I could come up with is to volunteer at a food bank, homeless shelter, veteran assistance effort, or something meaningful to those that need it. Anything to directly connect my desire to change society to a kinetic action with real people. I’m not rich but still able-bodied and I work in tech. I’m always drifting off thinking about building something, a fence, minor repairs to a home, or even fixing a car where my hands could be more useful. Our country as portrayed through these digital devices is not the same nation we live in. Those people are there to monetize your anger and frustration, contempt, and outrage. Deny them thes responses and uplift your communities instead. You’ll feel better for it. I will feel better for it. Thank you and be safe!
by corysama | 2025-04-11 04:40:17+00:00
I don't know where you are located. But, in my experience living in a major city you can walk past 1000 perfectly nice people in a day and also one or two jerks. Who do you remember five days later? Do you remember Nice Person #385? Inconsequential Person #722? No. You remember Jerk #3. He sticks with you for a long time.
by lazide | 2025-04-11 04:42:39+00:00
Garfield always struck me as having exhausted all available novelty almost immediately. Simpsons at least was able to do 5-10 seasons (depending on your taste), but there is only so much one can do with 3 panels and a handful of characters eh?

I think he kept his slot more out of nostalgia and risk adversion from the papers than anything else.
by heavyset_go | 2025-04-11 04:43:01+00:00
Garfield Minus Garfield is an iteration of a trend on SA and FYAD of editing Garfield comics by re-ordering panels, removing panels, removing characters/dialogue/etc, and shuffling panels from other Garfield strips to make humorous and/or unsettling mashups.

That is to say the trend predates the 2008 launch of the site.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-04-11 04:44:47+00:00
okay so now you can have some command which you can run which would do somethings with procfs/what not and now you can simply run any jar or exe file as it is....

That is really nice actually!

this could theoretically be used as a scriptesto alternative but it requires some command to run , I was hoping there was a way to use something other than shebang
by riffraff | 2025-04-11 04:45:25+00:00
Cheese as a standalone course was a thing in Italy too, after the other courses, and it disappeared in recent decades.

You can see remnants in pop culture, e.g. in the '80s we had a tv quiz show called "il pranzo è servito" ("lunch is served") where participants had to win rounds for each of: first course, second course, cheese, dessert, fruit.

There was also a saying in central Italy "la bocca non è stracca se non sa di vacca" ("the mouth is not tired unless it tastes of cow", which in hindsight is odd cause there's mostly sheep cheese there) but by the '90s the cheese plate had switched to antipasti only, IME.
by s1artibartfast | 2025-04-11 04:46:44+00:00
The program had been running since 2019, so the government knew, or should have known.

Trending would be an easy way. For example: if you get $1 million in rebates per day and the average rebate is 90 days old, you probably have 90 million outstanding. Accounting 101.

The common practice is announce that rebates will not be offered on future sales, not refusing to reimburse for past sales.
by int_19h | 2025-04-11 04:48:32+00:00
And the Culture.

And if you look beyond Western sci-fi, there was plenty of that stuff in the USSR. Most of it not particularly good, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noon_Universe and Ivan Yefremov's books (most notably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda:_A_Space-Age_Tale) stand out.
by dmix | 2025-04-11 04:48:53+00:00
Kind of a pointless debate point (and economic plan) as it will always come down to humans and market conditions. Where the humans are who specialize and have deep experience in that stuff chose to work. You cant really fake that stuff via subsidization over long periods without also having all the other pieces of the market in place (all the way from low level workers to capital markets to regulatory environments and even attractive living costs)... otherwise Canada and EU would have grown a larger tech industry by now via their gov programs.

There has to be strong organic production and only then can gov help tip the scales upward, instead of generating it from thin air at the top level. If no one is fleeing China to do it in the US the same way people fled American market conditions to build stuff in Asia it won't happen.

Creating a forced siloed market through tariffs is probably the least efficient and most expensive method to achieving it. But it can plausibly if the domestic market gets used to not buying the nice things the rest of the world has for a decade (similar to what western gov is choosing to do with banning Chinese EVs but applied a thousandfold).
by 9rx | 2025-04-11 04:48:54+00:00
> Basically in a nutshell he’s saying they dumbed down golang so it’s useable by beginners.

He's saying that developers can't handle Coq (the brilliant language), so they had to build a language that is like every other commonly used language, for better or worse.

> A failure in language development

As brilliant as Coq truly is, he's not wrong, is he? It is no coincidence that nobody is using Coq to build web servers. Which is, after all, what Pike said Go was designed for – that it was not intended to be a general purpose programming language. The vast majority of developers, even outside of Google, truly can't grasp it... And of even the scant few developers who can, they will tell you that the tradeoffs aren't worth it for something like a run-of-the-mill CRUD web server.

Your, being a researcher who does understand Coq, perspective is interesting from an academic angle, but Pike's point is that you don't understand the realities of engineering. This "Use Coq or you are no better than a Trump supporter" shows he was exactly on point. Cry as you might, nobody is going to be using Coq to build web servers, and for good reason.
by Veserv | 2025-04-11 04:51:51+00:00
You can do better than 2 bytes. Use the same epilogue, but store a copy of the "binary" just before the stack pointer and offset the instruction pointer from the start of the binary by 1 byte. If you use the binary consisting of literally a one-byte value, 0x2A (i.e. 42), then your first instruction will be the first instruction of the epilogue which will pop the "binary" into RDI setting RDI to 42. There are maybe some details in the alignment, padding, and instruction choice in the loader to make that work "generically", but that strategy should work and give you a 1-byte solution.

edit: Actually, just define your binary format so that the first byte is copied to the stack and all subsequent bytes are copied to text with the epilogue appended to it.

edit: You could also define it so that the first byte is copied into the first argument register/RDI if you want to shrink loaded RAM usage to just 4 bytes of code and 1 byte of data.

This is of course assuming it is a "generic" binary format that is not literally just encoding the contents of the tiny program. Otherwise you could do 0 bytes and just have the loader pre-fill RAX with 60 and RDI with 42 and insert a one instruction epilogue consisting of syscall. You could technically still call that a "generic" binary format since any actual binary you attempt to load will just blow away those pre-filled GPR values.
by moring | 2025-04-11 04:53:16+00:00
This will prevent re-submission but still be confusing for the user. Why even allow submitting when navigating back? If the order has been submitted already, the submit button should be greyed out with a message saying that the order has been submitted already.

The original task was to do this without JS, so my first guess would be: Instruct the browser to re-load the page upon navigating back (cacheability headers), identify the order using an ID in the URL, then when reloading detect its already-submitted state on the server.
by samuell | 2025-04-11 04:53:26+00:00
Can second about the concurrency syntax! Did a small comparison with Go a few years back [1].

I my tests I have got the feeling it is causing a lot less gotchas with blocking go-routines and such. Not sure why that is though.

Surprised to hear about the multi-core performance though! That is super interesting.

[1] https://livesys.se/posts/crystal-concurrency-easier-syntax-t...
by armchairhacker | 2025-04-11 04:53:52+00:00
We need more healthy disagreements in general. Otherwise people have skewed worldviews and resentment, because people's beliefs don't disappear when they're not spoken (and challenged, and tested), they get stronger.

I'm well aware I contribute to this problem: I try not to cause conflict, especially today. But at least I respect and tolerate others even when I strongly disagree with them. And I do push back, but try to do so diplomatically.
by heavyset_go | 2025-04-11 04:53:56+00:00
Old internet was something different socially for subcultures, especially DIY subcultures and communities.

You just don't connect with people the same way on giant message boards or platforms like Reddit where you're one user out of a billion.

It was just... Smaller and personal, I guess?

It feels like everything today is optimized for monetization, ads, tracking, etc.

I guess I could summarize it as saying the internet went mainstream and changed its audience and charm.
by razemio | 2025-04-11 04:54:25+00:00
Just to awnser the question why not using windows. Here are some ideas why the author might have used nix instead:

- reproducible (with minor adjustments even on non-WSL systems)

- if you are used to nix, there is not much which beats it in terms of stability, maintainability, upgradability, and fun (?)

- additional services are typically easier to set up like tailscale-acl, used by the author, which uses pulumi under the hood

- despite some downsides (disc speed was an issue when I used it), WSL is surprisingly capable
by runjake | 2025-04-11 04:55:51+00:00
Black Mirror is dystopian fiction that hits pretty close to home. Maybe too close to home.

S07E01 "Common People" hit me pretty close to home with my own healthcare insurance experiences, where my rates go up every year and my coverages go down, and things that were formerly covered are now covered in Plus/Premium add-on packages. We also see this streaming and cellular services, except those are more elective.

The way I see it, if you don't like it, too bad.
by vintermann | 2025-04-11 04:59:03+00:00
> The concern is that Garfield is the product of conscious market research and not whatever we imagine a comic artist goes through when creating their comics.

Jim Davis has consistently said this, but really, take a look at strip #1. It's not funny, it's not cute. It's a cruel joke at his own expense - I don't think it's overanalyzing it to say that the cartoonist loser Jon is a stand-in for Jim. If this was a product of market research, it was the worst market research ever!
by flowerthoughts | 2025-04-11 05:02:39+00:00
I don't think that matters to GP's point. It's the fact that then "name" attribute stays the same no matter the nesting level.

There's already <figure><figcaption></figure> and <table><caption></table> as examples of embedded heading. The difference there being that figure and table elements very rarely nest.

So allowing h in <section><h><section><h></section></section> to become h1 and h2 would make sense.
by dclowd9901 | 2025-04-11 05:04:00+00:00
If you had to encapsulate the vibe, it would be "people just post shit to see if other people are as weird as they are."

It was a whole era, folks. And I don't mean "does anyone else" Reddit crap that is absurdly naive. This was way more before and way more naive than that. You didn't have any expectation that you were normal (even if you were weird). You just did it to gauge how fucking weird you were.
by tshaddox | 2025-04-11 05:04:33+00:00
> If you’re making a web page that has this problem, what you’re making should not be a web page, and you should feel bad about the choices that led you to that point in your life.

The web is explicitly and intentionally a software distribution platform. JavaScript is a web standard and is no less “part of the web” than HTML and CSS. You’re f
by Mistletoe | 2025-04-11 05:04:44+00:00
How did we have shows like The Handmaid's Tale and 50.5% of America was like yeah that sounds good let's go for that?

How did we have decades of superhero movies and then elect a bonafide fascist villain? I don’t know. The lessons we were teaching weren’t the right lessons somehow. Or they were swamped by social media nonsense and decades of underfunding education.
by anigbrowl | 2025-04-11 05:04:45+00:00
For example: in a society where autonomous security guard robots kill intruders, there would not be people sneaking into warehouses.

We have a society (in the US) where cops often shoot first and ask questions later, but many people still do crimes. People will take risks about things that desperately matter to them, and indeed stories of such risk-taking are common cultural fodder. Are you not just generalizing from your own behavior?