MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by derefr | 2025-04-12 05:23:54+00:00
An LLM is a very effective human-solution-description / pseudocode to "the ten programming languages we use at work, where I'm only really fluent in three of them, and have to use language references for the others each time I code in them" transpiler.

It also remembers CLI tool args far better than I do. Before LLMs, I would often have to sit and just read a manpage in its entirety to see if a certain command-line tool could do a certain thing. (For example: do you know off-hand if you can get ls(1) to format file mtimes as ISO8601 or POSIX timestamps? Or — do you know how to make find(1) prune a specific subdirectory, so that it doesn't have to iterate-over-and-ignore the millions of tiny files inside it?) But now, I just ask the LLM for the flags that will make the tool do the thing; it spits them out (if they exist); and then I can go and look at the manpage and jump directly to that flag to learn about it — using the manpage as a reference, the way it was intended.

Actually, speaking of CLI tools, it also just knows about tools that I don't. You have to be very good with your google-fu to go from the mental question of "how do I get disk IO queue saturation metrics in Linux?" to learning about e.g. the sar(1) command. Or you can just ask an LLM that actual literal question.
by hakfoo | 2025-04-12 05:24:22+00:00
I could see some sort of certificate driven approach.

Customers and merchants generate a keypair and CSR. The CSR by design contains no personal information. You submit the public key/CSR and seperate identifying information to a KYC authority.

The government generates a signed certificate the bank can use to open an account, and the customer or merchant signs their transaction requests using their private key to associate them with the account.

The bank has a paper trail showing KYC was performed, but does not have any personal information about the participants, almost akin to the old "numbered Swiss account" cliche.

Ideally, the KYC authority deletes the personal data after issuing certificates, but I'd expect it would be more "information can be released under court order" or "revocation policy blah blah blah".

That's the level of tradeoff I'd expect is politically viable. Bank of America doesn't know you're buying hentai, but if it turns out the 1000-year-old character is actually 12, a court can lift the veil.
by Riverheart | 2025-04-12 05:24:43+00:00
I’m not saying it’s better because it’s naturally occurring, the objective reality is that we live in a world of IP laws where humans have no choice but to retain copyrighted information to function in society. I don’t care that text or images have been compressed into an AI model as long as it’s done legally but the fact that it is has very real consequences for society since, unlike a human, it doesn’t need to eat, sleep, pay taxes, nor will it ever die which is constantly ignored in this conversation of what’s best for society.

These tools are optional whether people like to hear it or not. I’m not even against them ideologically, I just don’t think they’re being integrated into society in anything resembling a well thought out way.
by t0lo | 2025-04-12 05:26:09+00:00
Three quarters of Israel's victims have been women and children. They had a nicknamed "Daddy's Home" protocol which was designed to blow up houses when the whole family was home to maximise the chance of killing the "alleged" terrorist (of which they only spent 10-20 seconds identifying). Are you blind to the atrocities of the past two years or do you really just not value an innocent palestinian life the same as an innocent israeli life.

(I think that you can only comment on a new comment after a couple of minutes)
by timewizard | 2025-04-12 05:28:11+00:00
> most unique and sensitive data into Palantir,

It's not particularly sensitive. There are many organizations that generate the data and it passes through the state, the federal government, payroll processors and vendors.

> this top Whitehouse ally will be able to exploit Americans in ways no one else can.

They could likely already do that if they wanted. This, like everything else, is about transferring wealth from those with the least to those with the most. I'd expect business and foreign nationals to be the worst off.

> The lasting and negative impact from this will span generations.

This has been happening for decades. This is just the inevitable result of the past 30 years of unchecked mergers and acquisitions. This makes it worse but the trend was already clear.
by YZF | 2025-04-12 05:28:33+00:00
Your comment completely lacks historical accuracy and context.

Israel offered Palestinians a two-state solution multiple times. During the Oslo accords Israel allowed Palestinian leadership to return and established the Palestinian Authority and gave it control over many areas as a path towards peace and a two state solution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_Accords

It was Palestinians who through a wave of suicide bombings made sure there's no chance of any solution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_suicide_attacks#Ba...

Your so called march was an attempt of Hamas to break the blockade. Similar to events that happened prior to Oct 7th to get Israel to drop its guard. Israel was justified in blockading Gaza as long as it was under Hamas control. Hamas fired numerous rockets at Israeli cities throughout the period since it took over the Gaza strip by force from the Palestinian Authority. Palestinians didn't need to march to remove the blockade. All they had to do is remove/disarm Hamas.

Most Palestinians do not want a two state solution. They want Israel removed, all the Jewish people removed from the middle east, and one state in its place.

I'm not going to defend settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. It's not ok. But that is a relatively new phenomena that is a result of extremism in Israel due to decades of indiscriminate Palestinian violence against civilians. Before the first Intifada there were generally peaceful relationships (and a lot less settlers/settlement).
by Brian_K_White | 2025-04-12 05:29:42+00:00
As a linux user since linux's entire life: Yeah.

Simply facts that are true.

There are problems on Windows too, but they are not these problems, and the problems I mostly have are only problems I have and not problems the usual Windows user has.

The normal windows user doesn't even try to login without a microsoft account, or even try to remove cortana/bing/copilot/whatever-this-week, remove edge, prevent the "HP Smart" driver bundle that installs for every HP printer or scanner these days and find the old style drivers without all the cloud shit, etc.

But I have not found scaling to be especially good on windows either, even with a simple single monitor. My mother in law can't run viber in her desktop because the app scales so bizarrely that some buttons are moved under other things or out of the window or even off the screen, but on top of that, the active areawhere a click is registered does not overlay where the buttons are displayed on screen. Maybe it's just an especially crappy app but she only uses like 3 things and two of those are firefox and libreoffice (which are because I set them up of coursae she never asked for that).

Fonts look ridiculously comically bad in browsers for some reason.

And of course the ads and notifications and onedrive nagging...
by stuxnet79 | 2025-04-12 05:30:39+00:00
Right on the money. After musing on this topic for a while and drawing from a lifetime's worth of experiences I've come to the conclusion that the social environment in America is very hostile and does not encourage developing close relationships. The prevalence of these articles really surprises me and makes me wonder if the people who write them have ever experienced living in a different (warmer) culture where the default mode of interaction isn't transactional.
by ang_cire | 2025-04-12 05:31:14+00:00
> it can be effectively impossible for the accused to prove their innocence

Except in this case, the accused are the ones who have all the logs, all the records, all the database entries, etc. They are in fact in possession of the complete and perfect means to prove or disprove these allegations, and their choice not to use this data to defend themselves (i.e. by not showing that the posts were in fact harmful or inciting violence, etc) lends credence to the allegations.
by elcritch | 2025-04-12 05:31:26+00:00
There is a difference in a foreign national engaging in political speech and a citizen. If anything allowing foreign nationals to adjust political speech here while supporting violence or terrorism would be inappropriate and unwise. After all, it's easy for a foreign power to send radicalizers to a foreign country to influence or topple them. Well trodeen history there. Sending radical students is much more effective than a few thousand Twitter bots.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-04-12 05:31:42+00:00
sshfs works on both windows (winfsp, sshfs-win, sshfs-win-manager) and linux...

Or in Win shell try:

winget install -h -e --id "WinFsp.WinFsp" && winget install -h -e --id "SSHFS-Win.SSHFS-Win"

A backup ssh server running F2FS on disk-encrypt for /home is good practice. =3
by schoen | 2025-04-12 05:32:22+00:00
> There are two evasive actions we are considering mostly out of protest to being taxed without Congressional approval:

I don't think you have a moral duty to pay tariffs, but evading the tariff doesn't seem like a very effective form of "protest", as if you are successful at evading it, probably nobody else (except maybe a couple of HN readers) will ever know.

If you're interested in the protest angle in the sense of telling someone with some kind of power about your problem, you might contact your U.S. representative's office and talk about how the tariff is threatening your U.S. manufacturing business.

> A shoebox of 1000 small circuit boards almost ensures I'll be questioned

Depending on the airport (maybe depending on the specific flight) there may not be any individual examination of most passengers' baggage. On the other hand, intentionally misleading the agents who are examining you could potentially get you in a lot of trouble, as you can be punished just for that, separately from the tariff evasion.
by throwanem | 2025-04-12 05:33:09+00:00
If you must lie, be less bad at it. From the paper [1] she read and you didn't:

> It is now universally accepted that utilization of lead for domestic purposes and water distribution presents a major health hazard. The ancient Roman world was unaware of these risks. How far the gigantic network of lead pipes used in ancient Rome compromised public health in the city is unknown...[Lead isotopes in sediments from the harbor of Imperial Rome] demonstrate that the lead pipes of the water distribution system increased [lead] contents in drinking water of the capital city by up to two orders of magnitude over the natural background. The [lead] isotope record shows that the discontinuities in the pollution of the Tiber by lead are intimately entwined with the major issues affecting Late Antique Rome and its water distribution system.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1400097111
by mmooss | 2025-04-12 05:33:15+00:00
That has been the case for years:

IME the authoritarian politics had much more support here; I'd say it was the majority of voices heard. It diminished considerably when Trump was elected and then took office.

But the silence has been a long-standing problem: HN has long been largely silent on the social and political dangers of IT - really an outrage; here are the people most responsible, and the outcomes are predictable. That would include especially disinformation and misinformation, and propaganda more generally; and also the power of social media. Those are what makes it impossible to do anything.

When things became so polarized, years ago, shutting down discourse everywhere, HN didn't work to solve the problem - they stopped talking too. Again, a big failure of the people with the knowledge, skill, and power. But shutting down discourse is not politically neutral - it's a great help to the corrupt and evil to hide what they do and prevent people from responding to it. Democracy dies in darkness, I've heard.
by daxfohl | 2025-04-12 05:33:18+00:00
Whenever I'm prompting LLM for this kind of thing I find myself wishing there was a BASIC style protocol that we could use to instruct LLMs. Numbered statements, GOTOs to jump around, standardized like MCP or A2A such that all LLMs are trained to understand and verified to follow the logic.

Why BASIC? It's a lot harder to mix English and structured programming concepts. Plus it's nice if you forget a step between 20 and 30 you can just say `25 print 'halfway'` from the chat.
by chii | 2025-04-12 05:33:40+00:00
Which is why back in the 1930's, there's anti-trust legislations preventing movie studios from owning cinemas. This prevents the ownership of IP from dictating prices in the cinema.

The situation with streaming platforms are exactly equivalent, and these content production studios have learnt to prevent this sort of anti-trust legislations from forming.

in fact, the cinema ownership decree has been ended i think: https://www.laineygossip.com/with-sonys-purchase-of-alamo-dr...
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-04-12 05:34:40+00:00
I chose not to jump off the cliff because of a fear about something that hasn't happened.

I know what you mean, and I'd consider evolution to be settled science beyond the reach of anyone but willfully ignorant religious zealots.

But there's a lot that's been 'put back on the table' recently that's been off most of the developed world's tables for a long time.

Ie. Theirs is not an irrational fear.
by MilnerRoute | 2025-04-12 05:35:02+00:00
The 30-year study, which followed the eating habits of more than 100,000 middle-aged adults, found that diets with comparatively higher amounts of plant-based foods — fruits, vegetables, whole grains, unsaturated fats, nuts and beans — were associated with a higher likelihood of healthy aging.

“This suggests what you eat in midlife can play a big role in how well you age,” said Anne-Julie Tessier, an assistant professor of nutrition at the University of Montreal and the lead author of the observational study, which was published in Nature Medicine.
by YZF | 2025-04-12 05:38:02+00:00
Israel has not expanded. It has shrunk. It returned Sinai to Egypt. It returned Gaza to the Palestinians. It gave control of west bank cities to the Palestinian Authority after allowing it's bitter enemy leadership (the PLO and Arafat) to return to the West Bank.

I'm reading Ireland between the lines. There is zero similarity.

A two state solution is not possible because most Palestinians do not want that solution. They want Israel erased and Jews "erased" from the middle east. Offers were already on the table and refused and the Oslo peace process was killed by Hamas violence.
by orbisvicis | 2025-04-12 05:39:00+00:00
I am a good programmer and believe in well-behaved software.

My coworkers aren't, but I was shocked to learn they believe all software is inherently brittle and fragile.

I fix issues at the root by changing code.

My coworkers fix issues by publishing user workflows which can avoid triggering issues, or removing execution paths featuring buggy code, etc.

My coworkers work less than I do, so I'm trying to be more like them.
by snvzz | 2025-04-12 05:39:36+00:00
>This is not achievable.

Maybe.

>And even...

Suppose any hardcoded path can be disabled, and decode done purely in microcode.

Performance would be a function of:

- how well the microcode can perform in decoding RISC-V.

- how well the actual execution units map to RISC-V instructions.

And whether this is worth it, ignoring the effort gone into it and the street cred of making something like this work, would be a function of whether or not it can beat a JIT emulator running on the same hardware.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-04-12 05:39:53+00:00
To be fair, uBlock Origin has always been a special case. It's so good and so important and so trusted that it should have access to browser internals that normal extensions can't access.

Honestly, uBlock Origin shouldn't be an extension to begin with, it should be a literally built in feature of all browsers. Only reason it's not is we can't trust ad companies to maintain an ad blocker.
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by mmooss | 2025-04-12 05:40:52+00:00
There's a difference between truth and lies - an actual, material, essential difference. It's not politics, it's truth.

People can take any relativistic position they want, but that difference is essential to anything and everything: The truth about database i/o performance is essential to your project; the truth about climate change is essential to preventing catastrophe; the truth about Covid was essential to saving millions of lives - and many died and much blood is on the hands of the liars.

But the liars were not, and shouldn't have been, arrested, deported, extorted, threatened, etc.
by anileated | 2025-04-12 05:41:23+00:00
Given an octopus[0] is worse at mimicking human output than an LLM, either you decide that the LLM has surpassed the octopus in thought capability and should enjoy higher protections against abuse and violence, or you decide that thought is irrelevant when exhibiting capability to mimic human output. (As a third option, you could decide that abusing a human-like thinking being is OK, but let’s assume you would not choose this path.)

[0] A protected species for its sentience.
by alienthrowaway | 2025-04-12 05:41:25+00:00
> You still have to be careful with supervision trees and parts of the tree restarting [...] Erlang gives you a good model to work with these problems but it doesn't allow you to completely turn off your brain.

Erlang gives architects the tools to restart as little, or as much of the tree as they like, so I hope they have their brains fully engaged when working on the infrastructure that underlies their projects. For complex projects, it's vital think long and hard about state-interactions and sub-system dependencies, but the upside for Erlang is that this infrastructure is separated from sequential code via behaviors, and if the organization is big enough, the behaviors will be owned by a dedicated infrastructure team (or person) and consumed by product teams, with clear demarcations of responsibilities.
by YZF | 2025-04-12 05:42:38+00:00
Why are we moving the goal posts?

Parent claims the violence is simply due to:

"The idea of Hamas wouldn't exist if Gaza (and the West Bank) wasn't occupied by land, air and sea; their land stolen on a daily basis, and Palestinian people treated as subhuman animals."

This is not true. And this is what I'm addressing in my reply.

We can litigate 1948 as well. Plenty of Palestinian violence pre-1948. Their refusal to accept the UN's partition plan (which was a lot more generous than the two state solution people are talking about today).

EDIT: Also I hope you're not trying to say that Israel's actions during the war in 1948 (even if we accept they were in the wrong, which I do not) justify boarding a bus and slaughtering civilians 6 years later.

Your last statement I guess is true but not helpful. Plenty of violence to go around.
by everforward | 2025-04-12 05:44:19+00:00
I don’t think the Linux one is that stupid, but it might be me.

It’s not a “magic comment” because it doesn’t depend on the runtime. It specifies an interpreter to use, regardless of the language of the file.

Eg you can use #!/usr/bin/python for a Python script. I don’t find it worse than the existing alternative of making the file name magic and finding and interpreter based on that.
by rdtsc | 2025-04-12 05:44:43+00:00
Sadly two management levels above we’re just a line in a spreadsheet. Maybe even one level above.

“Hey look, this one is cog is spinning at a cost $200k/year, why don’t we replace it with a cog from a low cost country and save some money?” Or “remove it and make this one other cog do the work of this obe?” People doing the replacement have to show they did something, as well!
by uptownfunk | 2025-04-12 05:45:54+00:00
On further reflection I think the sweet spot for R for me Has always been prototyping and exploration. Where you don’t exactly know what the logic needs to be, or how the data needs to be cut to get at what you want. So that rapid type of exploration R is really really good at. Closer to math for me than software engineering. And if I had a job where I could just do that all day I’d be pretty happy at this point in my life. and you can’t use a pivot table Google sheets or excel to get at the cut you want or the logic is too complex to do in Google sheets. So for that sweet spot, which is still a broad niche, R is excellent and shines.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-04-12 05:46:02+00:00
I've read four Thomas Pynchon novels, probably the shortest and most accessible four:

The Crying of Lot 49, Bleeding Edge, Inherent Vice, and Vineland.

I have Gravity's Rainbow and Against The Day sitting in my bookcase, intimidating me with their voluminousity. I dare not start them for fear of how long they will take to finish.

Despite this, I look forward to any new Pynchon publications. This new one will take its place on my bookshelf, no doubt.

P.S. Inherent Vice is a great movie. Somewhat of a spiritual sequel to The Big Lebowsky.
by parpfish | 2025-04-12 05:46:11+00:00
As an introvert that’s been consciously working to make new friends, I’ve noticed a couple phenomena:

- I’d love to be friends with other introverts to enjoy quiet times together. but… int-to-int pairs will rarely form in nature, however extroverts are great for mediating the connections. Make friends with the talkative outgoing types, because through them you can meet the other quiet people they’ve befriended but you’d never meet in the wild.

- however, there seem to be some common pitfalls to introvert-extrovert friendships. From my (introvert) side, you can often find yourself getting insecure or jealous of all the other social connections that your extrovert friends have. There’s an asymmetry there that can feed lots of insecurities. I’m sure that there’s something equivalent from the other direction, but I dont know what it is
by bckr | 2025-04-12 05:46:30+00:00
It takes time to develop relationships that have

1. Longevity. The longer you’ve been friends the more likely you’ll be friends in the future.

2. Trust. Trust in a relationship is anti-fragile. The more times trust is partially damaged but restored, the stronger it becomes.

3. Meaning. The story “we met while looking for friends to do MDMA with, and now we are attached” is cute when you’re 23. What those people mean to you is that you are lovable and able to form bonds out in the world. Good! But shallow.

TLDR; it may be an effective way to have intense but shallow and short-lived connections
by replete | 2025-04-12 05:46:30+00:00
Recall was enabled by default for me on a fresh windows 11 pro installation back in October.

A couple of months ago I opened the Clock app in an important meeting, to run a timer, and had to wait 10 minutes for it to update itself. For real. Same thing happened when I opened sound recorder.

It's probably not going to get better at this point. It's only going to have increasing amounts of online services integrated into the OS. The writing was on the wall when Windows 10 Enterprise shipped with Candy Crush