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by EGreg | 2025-05-30 11:46:56+00:00
"Nothing has changed in that regard" really, nothing?

Does anyone other than me notice this common tendency on HN:

1. Blockhain use case mentioned? Someone must say "blockchain doesn't solve any problems" no matter what, and always ignoring any actual substance of what's being done until pressed.

2. AI issue mentioned? Someone must say "nothing at all has changed, this problem has always existed" downplaying the vast leaps forward in scale, and quality of output, ignoring any details until pressed.

It's like when people feel the need to preface "there is nothing wrong with capitalism, but" before critiquing capitalism. You will not criticize the profit.

It's not really a shibboleth. What's the name for this type of thing, groupthink?
by hoseyor | 2025-05-30 11:47:09+00:00
I’m not sure why you had to be so crude about that, especially since you do not seem to make any specific point, but I think the bigger issue is that teslas are essentially mass surveillance system platforms right under the noses of people.

Just like mobile phones have become personal tracking and sentiment surveillance devices we willingly carry around on us, teslas and many EVs with their cameras are public mass surveillance and tracking platforms that make free movement nearly impossible even beyond such crude systems like the UK’s CCTV surveillance network.

Combine that with things like doorbell cameras and other cheap video surveillance and we have willingly and enthusiastically entered the dystopian matrix.
by closewith | 2025-05-30 11:47:13+00:00
> Ireland is a tax haven that parasitically deprives the rest of the EU of tax revenue.

The days of the Double Irish are long gone and comparing effective tax rates paints a very different story, so this is 5 years out of date in as true as it ever was.

Even excluding the EU IP revenue of multinationals with EMEA HQs in Ireland, real software development revenue is over double Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, and the Baltics combined.
by pjmlp | 2025-05-30 11:48:04+00:00
Copy constructor, destructor, move constructor, copy constructor.

All of them have to do counter booking, value count and accessors, also possibly handle weak_ptr booking.

Plus how it actually works isn't part of ISO C++, so you're betting your luck on how a specific C++ is actually going to implement it, and possible issues when compiler versions change, same compiler or to another one.
by JimDabell | 2025-05-30 11:49:23+00:00
EMACS/W3 originally supported SHORTTAG NET but was “fixed” to remove support. In practical terms, mainstream browsers couldn’t afford to parse SHORTTAG NET properly because it was very common to leave attribute values unquoted. You can leave some values unquoted, but not ones with slashes in. So the very common error <a href=http://xn--rvg would not get parsed as the author expected if SHORTTAG NET was enabled.

This is the earliest reference I could locate easily, from the www-html mailing list:

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2002Nov/0057.h...

You’ll be able to find more if you go trawling through USENET archives of places like comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html from 25–30 years ago, but it was a fairly niche subject even back then.

I think there were a couple of other niche tools that supported it, but I don’t remember the details after all this time.
by _zaey | 2025-05-30 11:49:37+00:00
Sorry to hear that’s your experience.

I’m staying with my parents this week and I visited the local bouldering gym alone on Wednesday and last night.

On Wednesday I met someone called Nelly, and hung out with them for the session.

Yesterday I bumped into Nelly with their friends Maddie and Kate and climbed with them.

I’m leaving on Sunday so I gave one of them my number and they messaged me to say it was great fun climbing together.

Now we might be climbing again this weekend.

Granted, I approached them, but all it took was asking Nelly, “How did you find that route?” and asking them for tips.

The bouldering gym is what you make it, just hang out and don’t assume people will reject you (which can be a difficult headspace to get out of, but exposure therapy will fix that, and the bouldering gym can be that exposure therapy)
by EGreg | 2025-05-30 11:49:42+00:00
Well, when the evidence can be faked, it becomes harder to claim it.

You've seen the "post-truth" attitudes already from the right, after "fake news" of 2016 makes them regard everything from climate change to vaccine data, as faked data with an agenda. It's interesting because for decades or centuries the right wing was usually the one which believed in our existing institutions, and it was the left that was counter-cultural and anti-authoritarian.
by rxtexit | 2025-05-30 11:50:07+00:00
Yes, it basically changes to men complaining about women. The people with a good sex life end up becoming therapists for the group.

Mixed groups on the other hand turn into a soap opera.

What is needed is a strong common interest that binds the group beyond these tendencies to stave off the soap opera entropy. The soap opera entropy will always increase with time though until the group dissolves.

It is still more stable though than the misogynist entropy.
by msgodel | 2025-05-30 11:50:34+00:00
>Funny, the ones I work with get updated with new information all the time. No reason it couldn't happen after every single encounter.

What? Do you not know how any of this works at all?

Updating LLM weights means calculating the gradients and back propagating. And that's only for unsupervised learning, for the reinforcement learning you want the gradients need to be accumulated until you have some way to score the episode. For usefully large language models there are serious logistical problems doing this at all, it's one of the most computationally intensive tasks you can use computers for currently. It certainly can't be done for every interaction.
by btreecat | 2025-05-30 11:50:47+00:00
I only have 8gb of vram to work with currently, but I'm running OpenWebUI as a frontend to ollamma and I have a very easy time loading up multiple models and letting them duke it out either at the same time or in a round robin.

You can even keep track of the quality of the answers over time to help guide your choice.

https://openwebui.com/
by lurk2 | 2025-05-30 11:51:00+00:00
> The neighborhood cafe where locals can stop by at any time and see other locals. The bar that everyone stops by after work twice a week. These are stationary physical locations that don’t require pre-planning, schedules, apps, or anything else.

I’ve seen a number a theories on why these spaces declined:

1. Social media became more engaging than actual hangouts.

2. Rising levels of cultural and ethnic diversity lead to lower levels of social trust and a subsequent exit from public spaces (see e.g. Robert Putnam).

3. Independent bars and cafes got bought out by chains that favored higher rates of table turnover.

4. Civil Liberties movement made America into an open air insane asylum that normal people avoid venturing into.

5. Wages not keeping pace with inflation leaves less discretionary income available to pay for these spaces.

6. Decline of fraternal orders, friendly societies, and veteran clubhouses which were often the owners of the bars and / or cafes.
by jiggawatts | 2025-05-30 11:51:01+00:00
Think of nuclear bomb design as the direct inverse of landmine design. With the latter you want it to blow up under a wide range of circumstances, including if it is "tampered" with. You want sensitivity, within some wide range.

A significant concern with nuclear weapons is that they're small enough to steal.

You definitely do not want thieves or terrorists to be able to trigger a nuke.

So the trigger systems for nuclear weapons are encrypted and require a decryption key to be functional.

A key requirement for a successful (nuclear) detonation is nanosecond-level timing control of the explosion. Anything else will result in a fizzle with the conventional explosives just scattering the nuclear material in a small area.

It's possible that some nukes had deliberate self-destruct modes where the circuitry would react to tampering by triggering an asymmetric explosion, causing a fizzle, which is relatively harmless to city-sized targets.
by EGreg | 2025-05-30 11:51:48+00:00
What is it that makes some people on HN pop up to always respond to any issue with AI with a version of "it was always this way, the problem always existed, AI does nothing fundamentally new". When it's clear that huge leaps in scale, coordination, and output quality accessible to anyone, are exactly what produces "new" use cases. Not to mention that swarms of agents are a fundamentally new thing, that doesn't require humans in the loop at all.

Notice that this phenomenon didn't happen as much on HN for other technologies, e.g. when the iPhone came out, very few people said "well, this is nothing new, computers existed for a long time, this is just minituarizing it and unplugging it from the wall."
by thinkingemote | 2025-05-30 11:51:57+00:00
I like earworms, but often I never notice myself with them. When I do notice myself having an earworm, and it becomes a little bit annoying, it's a bit like this article and I ask myself why. Lean into your earworm.

What I try to do is pay more attention to the earworm. If it's lyrics, what are the lyrics saying? (and look them up). If it's instrumental music what are the emotions? What was the time when I last heard it and how was I feeling. What is the purpose of the earworm - what message is it saying? I treat the earworm as if it was my subconscious trying to tell me something. Contemplate and listen properly to your earworm.

Often this strategy happily removes annoying earworms and sometimes it tells me some new useful information. It doesn't give me any deep insights or epiphanies just something like "oh that fun sounding song was actually sad - about a girl who lost her baby, I didn't notice now I do"

Once or twice I've noticed something strange. The earworm actually increases in volume (sometimes at a loud pub level of sound) but only due to or in response to the IRL situation that I find myself in.
by timschmidt | 2025-05-30 11:52:35+00:00
Yeah, I understand. I've also been involved in computer science for 30 years. A lot has changed over that time. 20 doublings. A 1,000,000 fold increase in capability. A lot will change in the next 30 years. Expand your horizon.

Also, it doesn't take a full re-training to add someone's medical history and even recent events like pandemics to the system prompt.
by junto | 2025-05-30 11:52:46+00:00
Whilst the large U.S. corporates continue to use tax avoidance schemes concocted by the accounting big four, the only choice left to countries being taken a ride via missing tax revenue via the traditional profit based taxation is to tax revenue in the countries they are operating.

I think this is a “shot across the bow” for companies like Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft.

France have already started to implement their version of this digital tax.

The U.S. is pressuring EU companies to follow their drive for removing anti-discrimination policies.

Europeans are starting to notice this unbalanced relationship, where the U.S. doesn’t believe it needs to follow the same rules it tries to dish out to other countries.

Make US business in our countries pay their way and follow our laws. That’s the very basis of sovereignty.
by throwaway290 | 2025-05-30 11:52:48+00:00
"Detached HEAD" this is uncanny valley of why LLM should not be used in anything related to psychology. Obviously just HEAD is funny enough but no it came up with detached HEAD (because it doesn't have any mental imagery or empathy, of course). Detached HEAD is a whole another level worse than force push if you ask me.

Why ask LLM for puns anyway? Do you delegate all the fun or activities in your life?
by bjt12345 | 2025-05-30 11:54:50+00:00
> The second insight is that human hallucinations are fundamentally social. Unlike AI, which hallucinates in isolation, humans hallucinate collaboratively. At the dinner party, each false fact was immediately reinforced by social validation. The nods, the interested expressions, the follow-up comments - all of these served to solidify the hallucination into shared "knowledge."

Oh boy, that burns - the Futuristic AI dystopia won't be robots killing humans, but robots embarrassing us to death by revealing our ignorance.
by duxup | 2025-05-30 11:55:28+00:00
I don’t understand this kind of “yeah well they’re bad” argument that props up. I don’t buy into your theory but even if I did my objection to the feds actions is just the same.

Are you ok with the government policing people’s views and adjusting employment and admissions as long as you don’t like the school?

Are you going to be ok with it if another party or politician does?

It’s unfortunate but it appears people have no real ideals now, just recriminations that can justify anything.
by mschuster91 | 2025-05-30 11:55:45+00:00
> You occasionally see urban skepticism coming from left-wingers (usually techno-skeptic climate doomers convinced the world ended yesterday), but in those spheres urbanism is generally viewed much more favorably.

I'm one of these, but for another reason: hyper-dense urban areas are much more expensive to build (especially skyscrapers, they require massive amounts of concrete), and all sorts of other technology to work. In rural areas, you need streets and that's it (give them autonomous cars or their own electric cars to move around), in urban areas to cope with the masses you need trains (which are, again, expensive to build, just look at my home city of Munich). Additionally, we already have millions of units that stand empty in rural areas in Germany, so it doesn't make sense to build extremely expensive urban housing.

And from the medical side of things, which is my original post's point, we have seen in the coronavirus pandemic just how much faster the virus swept through urban areas than it did in rural areas. Makes sense, given that viruses depend on high contact frequency and density. And with Japan and its hikikomori, caused partially by young Japanese having not much place of their own to live in, we see the extreme end of the psychological effects of too dense living.
by kouteiheika | 2025-05-30 11:57:28+00:00
If you want to run LLMs locally then the localllama community is your friend: https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/

In general there's no "best" LLM model, all of them will have some strengths and weaknesses. There are a bunch of good picks; for example:

> DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B - https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B

Released today; probably the best reasoning model in 8B size.

> Qwen3 - https://huggingface.co/collections/Qwen/qwen3-67dd247413f0e2...

Recently released. Hybrid thinking/non-thinking models with really great performance and plethora of sizes for every hardware. The Qwen3-30B-A3B can even run on CPU with acceptable speeds. Even the tiny 0.6B one is somewhat coherent, which is crazy.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-05-30 11:58:04+00:00
When something new is happening (or new information comes to light), and that thing has the potential to do harm, people come out of the woodwork to make doomsday predictions. Usually the doomsday predictions are wrong. A lot of these predictions involve technologies we all take for granted today.

Like the telephone. People were terrified when they first heard about it. How will I know who's really on the other end? Won't it ruin our lives, making it impossible to leave the house, because people will be calling at all hours? Will it electrocute me? Will it burn down my house? Will evil spirits be attracted to it, and seep out of the receiver? (that was a real concern)

It turns out we just adapt to technology and then forget we were ever concerned. Sometimes that's not a great thing... but it doesn't bring about doomsday.
by ctippett | 2025-05-30 11:58:18+00:00
> Some references include “oaicite” attached to URLs — a definitive sign that the research was collected using artificial intelligence. The presence of “oaicite” is a marker indicating use of OpenAI, a U.S. artificial intelligence company.

It's prescient of OpenAI to put markers like this into their output. Same goes with Google adding a fingerprint to their AI generated images.
by incomingpain | 2025-05-30 11:58:19+00:00
Couple weeks ago I needed to update the wildcard SSL cert on my app. They updated various servers but not my stuff. Fine, I went to 1pass and grabbed the .crt and .key

Installed it and the .crt was the new one.

The .key was the old one that wouldnt work with the refreshed cert. The new .key wasnt in 1pass. I had to go find it. Eventually was able to export the cert off another server and then use openssl to extract the private key.
by piva00 | 2025-05-30 11:58:44+00:00
I get bored by myself repeating it but I always think it's worth to mention: the scale and degree matter, in almost all cases of an issue, if not we can reduce a lot of issues to "it has always happened before".

Localised fires are common in nature, a massive wildfire is just a fire, at a different scale and degree. Lunatics raving about conspiracies were very common in public squares, in front of metro stations, anywhere there was a large-ish flow of people, now they are very common in social media, reaching millions in an instant, different scale and degree.

Just sheer scale and degree makes an issue a completely other issue, decreasing the effort required to fake a video to the point where a naïve/layperson cannot distinguish it from a real one is a massive difference. Before you needed to be technically proficient with a number of tools, put a lot of work, and get a somewhat satisfying result to fake something, now you just throw a magical incantation of words and it spits out a video you can deceive someone, it's a completely different issue.
by synthos | 2025-05-30 11:58:58+00:00
> First Revision - Completed with minimal human contribution (auto-accept mode) > > Second Revision - Planned with increased human-in-the-loop involvement

At least 'minimal human contribution' in the first revision. So scan read it as it revised the book.

I do find it amusing to think that people might just ask an AI to summarize the book instead of actually reading it. Maybe even 'review' it as well.

The future will have authenticity in short supply
by Esophagus4 | 2025-05-30 11:59:02+00:00
The idea of needing to impress an in-crowd enough to get an invite to join reminds me of fraternities in college (which I withdrew from half way through the process) and well-heeled yacht clubs or country clubs.

I’d much rather make friends where I can just show up and have a nice time with someone based on a shared interest (like my local cycling club, where I’ve met a few folks I hang out with regularly… or even social dance clubs for those into ballroom or Latin dance). Meetups are obviously too transient, so I join clubs with consistent regular attendees.

But maybe there are people this program will resonate with. Obviously, exclusive invite-only clubs like fraternities and country clubs are popular and I know many who joined, and even met life long friends there.

…I guess, just not me. I probably have some weird outsider-exclusion-from-popular-kid-club complex that is well beyond the scope of this comment :)

The same reason I won’t show up with a navy blazer to a yacht club social event to beg sponsorship from some commercial real estate agent with a chip on his shoulder because he has a quarter-zip polo from the club store and a member number like S29 he can use at the bar.

That being said, good luck with the company, I hope it is successful and you meet a lot of great people.
by PetitPrince | 2025-05-30 12:00:02+00:00
When you edit a map in the Openstreetmap website (the "id" editor) you can see each data point by expanding the Map Data menu (line and polygon icon, just below the Background Setting icon), expanding the Photo Overlays section and checking the various Mapillary features. You can both view the images themselves (and filter for 360 or regular pictures), and also look at the traffic sign and map features (manholes, benches, poles, shop signs, etc..) that Mapillary has automatically detected.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-05-30 12:00:23+00:00
All quite beside the point.

A military action, even a colonial invasion, to "pacify" a place and to take control of it has little to do with a full annexation. The US did not make Afghanistan a State... And even among European colonial empires Algeria is quite unique.

France had lost most of its Empire during the Revolution and Napoleonic period so was keen to rebuild one. France did not have a settled Canada or Australia, either, so perhaps this also played a role but it seems unrealistic to believe that trying that with an Arabic Muslim country could have ever worked.
Can someone ELI5 the implications of Redbean
by ADHDan | 2025-05-30 12:00:31+00:00
Hi all

I was reading this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26271117

I understand the principle of how Redbean works and its really cool. But I'm unsure what the possibilies are due to this, or do we perhaps not know yet?

For example, in the future could there possibly be a single binary for games or other applications across multiple OS?

Is Redbean a proof of concept for bigger things? Or are there some strict limitations we are aware of that will 'never work', or is it all still to be explored?

Thanks
by lazide | 2025-05-30 12:00:54+00:00
It used to be godaddy was notorious for it. It’s called Frontrunning. I personally stopped using them because they were so obnoxious about it. [https://capitalandgrowth.org/answers/3972963/Does-GoDaddy-bu...]

Seems like it’s getting popular again, and I’m very disappointed that Namecheap seems to be doing it too.
by motorest | 2025-05-30 12:01:24+00:00
> Rust simply because the constructor being a static method (...)

This assertion makes no sense. RAII is not defined by whether you use factory functions or special member functions to initialize an object. In fact, RAII is only incidentally related ro memory management. RAII is a strategy to manage any and all types of resources, ranging from memory management to even files and TCP connections, by leveraging assurances that the runtime provides regarding scopes and object life cycles. None of this changes if you employ factory functions to initialize resources.
by emson | 2025-05-30 12:01:39+00:00
Good question. I've had some success with Qwen2.5-Coder 14B, I did use the quantised version: huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct-GGUF:latest It worked well on my MacBook Pro M1 32Gb. It does get a bit hot on a laptop though.
by benterix | 2025-05-30 12:02:28+00:00
> * Try to get some amount of physical exercise in the day and get out of the house. I find it's much harder to fall asleep if I didn't have a full-feeling day.

This is the most improtant point that works for me. It's simple: getting a bit tired makes it easier for me to fall asleep. And if I'm not and I feel like I'd like to explore the universe when it's time to go to bed, I get on my stationary bike and my brain finally relaxes.
by Katesmith | 2025-05-30 12:02:42+00:00
Structural engineering plays a crucial role in ensuring that civil structures remain durable and safe under demanding environmental conditions. By integrating artificial intelligence, the construction process can be significantly enhanced—streamlining design, automating complex calculations, and improving maintenance and monitoring efforts. AI-driven simulations can assess structural safety with remarkable speed and precision, potentially saving months of manual work, substantial costs, and even human lives.

In this article, we’ll explore the key challenges in structural engineering and the opportunities AI offers to address them.

This in an extract - read the full article.