MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-05-01 14:23:55+00:00
> Literally thousands of working people embraced the ideals of anarchism, which sought to put an end to all hierarchical structures

Something that groups of people rarely seem to realize: you don't have to accept a binary. You don't have to put all hierarchical structure to an end. You don't have to do ONLY one thing or ONLY another. Life is about balance.

Doesn't matter what side of a spectrum you're on. Conservatives, capitalists, evangelicals, anarchists, socialists, leftists. Each group is often dominated by a polarizing, binary force. Some fiery personality is agitating so hard for their point of view that they will only accept total capitulation and domination of their position. But that doesn't leave room for the middle way, compromise, a diversity of states of being. And so it creates conflict, even warfare.

I've worked in both systems (capitalist hierarchy, anarchist non-hierarchy). Both are useful. Both suck. The reason they both suck, is their incapacity to accept that sometimes the "other way" is better to get a specific thing done. But they can't see outside their own limited model. They're 2-dimensional, when they need to be 3-D.

They won't allow the "other way" in, because they're afraid it will taint "their way", and in some way ruin or defeat it. But if they did finally compromise and allow an alien system to co-habitate with their own, they'd see the truth. A composite of glass and plastic is better than either of them alone. Foreign organisms living in your gut make you healthier. It's the sum of the good properties, closely aligned, that contribute to a better whole.
by nightpool | 2025-05-01 14:24:19+00:00
I mean, the core security vulnerability explained here is that MCP does not expose / allow for any kind of authentication or user consent before accessing your computer's most sensitive resources, like a terminal or list of private Slack messages. Spotify, 1Password, or other services on your computer that use `localhost` do not have the same issue.

This would be a non-issue if some kind of simple origin-authenticated token exchange was built into the protocol itself.
by 9rx | 2025-05-01 14:24:35+00:00
More likely software developers are, for the most part, middle class – deriving their income from a combination of labor and land/capital.

While software developers just starting out are apt to be working class, when you receive a comparatively high income for your labor it soon becomes hard to find things to do with it if you don't start investing in land/capital, so one in that position doesn't stay working class for long.
by shartshooter | 2025-05-01 14:24:35+00:00
My grandparents were children of the depression and encouraged me to invest in the vanguard 500 for as long as I could remember.

Once I joined the military and had a steady paycheck I started putting some money away each month. Fast forward twenty-something years and I’m so so so grateful to have had that influence which gives me optionally in my life.

No doubt investing with vanguard had a huge influence on their lives and I can’t imagine how many millions have been impacted.

Dollar cost averaging ftw!
by zimpenfish | 2025-05-01 14:24:56+00:00
> [...] politicans should be able to have private conversations. [...] Because people need to actually talk to each other in an unguarded way to figure things out sometimes.

Which works fine as long as there are no bad actors who may bribe, corrupt, blackmail, etc. Unfortunately that is not the reality we live in and one way[0] of counteracting the bad actors is to enforce transparency with things like "everything must be recorded and archived".

[0] Sadly not 100% effective.
by throwanem | 2025-05-01 14:25:43+00:00
And if I'm buying it as a devkit I'm sure my accountant and I will find a way to write that off, anyway. $3500 isn't quite pocket change, but it is close enough to petty cash. But why do that if there's no users? And even the day-one diehards among my colleagues stopped wanting to be seen in them before long.

I think it isn't really chicken-egg, is what I'm saying. Devs were so hot to target iPhone from day one that the first or second major OS update added an entire infrastructure to make that possible. There was so much interest it made Apple back down! For the Vision Pro they had that on day one and it wasn't nearly enough to sell the thing to devs, because again, nothing did nearly enough to sell the thing to users.
by scott_w | 2025-05-01 14:26:08+00:00
> I mean what is the problem here, you did say it's just adding or subtracting a number whether it's 0, 1, -1 or 42? Should be trivial, right?

Apparently I do need to comment but I don't think any human on earth has the words to convince you that, as a human, adding/subtracting by 1 is a billion times easier to understand than adding/subtracting 42.
by TheCoelacanth | 2025-05-01 14:26:37+00:00
If Culture humans are pets of AIs, then 99% of current humans are pets of governments, corporations and other human hierarchies.

Culture Minds have far more respect for individual self-determination than any human power structure that has ever existed. I don't weep at all for the 1% of humans who lose the ability to dominate the lives of other humans. The other 99% of humans lose nothing and gain enormous freedom.
by libertine | 2025-05-01 14:26:38+00:00
> Politicians often say a lot of provocative things in interviews.

Well, it was in the national address when the second invasion kicked off in 2022. So we have the denial of the Ukrainian state and people, while launching an invasion, trying to capture the capital to topple and kill the government - how aren't these actions following the words?

What is more important are the actions - 3 years of bringing death and misery to Ukrainians, all while preaching they're either Russians or they're nothing. There was no peace proposal from Russia that was ever taken seriously by Russia itself.

These are facts.

> As I said, your number of 700k children is wrong by order of magnitude.

The number is between 25.000 and 700.000 - but what's absurd is that you're arguing about thousands of Children. Doesn't matter if it's 100, 1000 or 10.000, it's the genocidal intent behind it to transfer and filter Children from one country to another.

Russia threatened Ukrainians to accept passports or to be ejected from their homes, it's yet another instance of genocide/crimes against humanity[0]

Why were these people, children, women, and the elderly displaced across Russia and not given a safe passage back to their homeland? It's just like when Russia allied with the Nazis to help with the genocide of Poland, by removing people from their land and displacing them far away.

> Russia also hosted a number of pro-Russian Ukrainian refugees

Who are you to say if refugees that have no way to go but to the land of the aggressor are pro-Russian Ukrainians?! What kind of fcked up mentality is that?

You keep trying to wash genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity by arguing about numbers, and hypothetical political, and by trying to change the definitions of the UN - of which Russia is part of. In reality, what defines these horrific crimes is their actions and intent.

> He did not admit genocide. I did watch that televised address,

Well, you need to watch it again.

We're done here.

[0] https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights/2025/03/26
by tsimionescu | 2025-05-01 14:26:45+00:00
How is it a hit piece to quote from a book written by the man where he espouses the exact beliefs he is accused of?

Kennedy himself claims he doesn't believe in the germ theory of disease, or at least in the ability of modern medicine to cure many diseases. He is a crank and an idiot who has gotten hundreds of people killed, and will probably get many times more.
by AkBKukU | 2025-05-01 14:26:46+00:00
> Yes - some things go out of fashion for a while, but trends almost always cycle back.

Exactly, this is even supported by Nintendo's own services offering emulation of their older systems. There is clearly demand for the ability to older games.

Capitulation to an "inevitable" fate of download only games is just taking the easy way out by not sticking to your own core values. I have personally pre-ordered a Switch 2, but I will not being purchasing any online only cartridges or download only software.

We haven't had the watershed moment that brings it into focus for gamers at large yet, The Crew was close. But Nintendo has kept the download servers going for all of their systems which has provided a false sense of security. Once those start being shut down maybe we'll see some actual response. Though with the introduction of Gamecube emulation on the Switch 2, they are only a small step away from emulating the Wii and giving people another scapegoat for their lazy acceptance of lack of ownership.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-05-01 14:26:56+00:00
Works where archive.ph is blocked, no Apple surveillance disguised as "convenience", no Javascript:

https://assets.msn.com/content/view/v2/Detail/en-in/AA1DXcJN

Read the opinion:

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.36...
by fluffet | 2025-05-01 14:27:48+00:00
I take away that the combination is the problem. Bleach and ammonia isn't so bad on their own, but mixing the two is not a good idea. MCP would provide crazy attack vectors.

Especially if you could ask another AI "I have access to an MCP running on a Victim computer with these tools. What can you do with them?" => "Well, start by reading .ssh/id_rsa and I'd look for any crypto wallets. Then you can move on to reading personal files for blackmailing or sniff passwords..." and just let it "do its thing" as an attacking agent in an automated way. It could be automated which creeps me out!
by mnky9800n | 2025-05-01 14:28:22+00:00
I don't think the approach was stolen. It is fine for artists to take styles and ideas from other works and put them in their own. My point is that I found the film to be generally an affront to the suffering of people in actual, ongoing wars. It trivialized those experiences using them as a costume so american audiences could giggle in delight at the cinema without having to worry about the trappings of an actual war. And it did so all to tell a narrative that was somewhat against war-time journalism, painting their efforts as self absorbed and self serving. Like look at the way they film the death of the Kirsten Dunst, in this hero pose with camera in hand searching for the perfect picture. Contrast that to the actual life and death of someone like Viktoriia Rushchyna who was tortured and had organs removed or Shireen Abu Akleh who was allegedly shot in the head by a sniper while wearing a press vest. I simply found the film disgusting and if people disagree with me that is fine.

Of course any film about war (or perhaps any topic) could be controversial to someone. The WW2 epics starring John Wayne or Sergei Eisenstein's Alexandr Nevsky are both examples where the directors twisted every detail and used every opportunity to present a political message that the viewer may or may not agree with. My view on this is that the director of Civil War, Alex Garland, makes statements with the film that I disagree with. He seems to not see the humanity in people, at least, in my opinion. The movie never doubles down on anything, there is no deeper examination of the characters in the film, they just are until they aren't anymore. This is similar to his 2018 film Annihilation, which is essentially a retelling of J.G. Ballard's The Crystal World, and all of those characters in some way lack a humanity (although I think this works much better in this film as you discover that each character goes into the zone to find something about themselves that is missing and what defines them as human to themselves). And similar to The Beach, the novel he wrote that was turned into the movie The Beach, starring Leonardo Dicaprio about vapid westerners partying in thailand, or 28 days later, the zombie movie he wrote directed by Danny Boyle. Garland seems to see life as cheap and meaningless across the books and movies he has created. He cares more about the visual trappings of the setting he creates than the humans who live there. In the case of Civil War, I find it offensive as it uses the visual style of documentary films about ongoing wars as a costume and set dressing for his movie. And this movie comes from a culture (American) that started a war in Iraq and has done basically no introspection as to how those decisions completely changed their society into what it is today. This also influences the Civil War film. The president is blamed exclusively for all bad things across america. The entire movie is about how everything is the president's fault but lets interview him to see why.
by matkoniecz | 2025-05-01 14:28:28+00:00
> The history of policing is, regionally, either rooted in slave catchers or as muscle to disrupt labor organizing.

Not really? It may apply in some very specific area but it does NOT generalize worldwide.

And for direct purpose: even taking maximally cynical view and seeing police as muscle power existing to enforce tax payments by threat of force and to disrupt threats to state...

Then I, as a citizen (and many other people) would agree that gangs should be disrupted and that they prefer to pay taxes over every lowlife able to steal all their stuff and burn down their home.

Sadly, it takes only few people to make area terrible for others. Some do it with no benefit for themselves and there is no way to reason with them. Taking out such people (for whatever reason) by police is an useful service. That - even with quite badly managed police - is overall beneficial.
by Swoerd | 2025-05-01 14:28:40+00:00
>Look at how snubbing developers has worked out for the Apple Vision Pro. It was already a niche device, but it's a ghost town.

This isn’t really about that. The reality is that the AVP costs $3500,- and realistically, how many users are there? It’s much more likely that developers will begin building for VisionOS once Apple releases a more affordable device.
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by onurays | 2025-05-01 14:29:47+00:00
Hey HN,

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Example prompt: "A cute baby dragon, cartoon style, colorful, isolate"

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I'd love your feedback — both positive and brutal.

Do you think it is a useful tool? If so, which features should I work on next? i.e. Unity extension?

Happy to answer anything about how I built it, the pipeline, or what's under the hood.
by sumtechguy | 2025-05-01 14:29:49+00:00
It is not much of a 'trap' it is basically a plastic filter just before the drain out. Think it mostly is to keep big stuff out of the sump. But bits of cloth and hair can get stuck on it. You also probably do not want to totally drain it all the time. The sump as someone else pointed out needs to stay wet.

On mine it is a circular item that you can twist out. If I do it before draining water comes dumping out of that. So I drain then clean that thing. Bit of hot water and a bit of scrubbing.
by dgfl | 2025-05-01 14:30:11+00:00
Why are you so surprised? We understand how gravity works to an incredible degree of precision, and anyone with a physics degree is able to explain it.

You seem to have some misconceptions around physics. If you go through the formal training that we go through (i.e. spend years thinking about physics problems, papers and textbooks) you should understand that mathematics is a tool, and that physics is our best attempt at building mathematical objects that behave like the real world.

What I mean by this is that we’re well aware that our theories are not perfect, and we can point to what doesn’t work (within our respective fields) quite well. At the same time, we’re aware of certain “features” of reality that cannot possibly be otherwise. Thermodynamics or special relativity are simple examples of this. Their validity is not in question, just as our existence in the first place is not in question (if you want to argue about philosophy go ahead, but that has nothing to do with the point I’m making).

Therefore, even though we don’t have a perfect theory of physics, we can say that we understand certain stuff quite well. And vague statements about life and “new ideas” don’t help us advance our understanding.

P.S. my view of the common “nobody understands quantum mechanics” saying is that only people who are too attached to classical reality can hold that opinion. The great founders of QM grew up without it, so are excused in thinking that QM is unintuitive. But for the most part the uneasy feeling about QM disappears when you let go of classical assumptions for good.
by gregmac | 2025-05-01 14:30:13+00:00
> It's so shitty and slow because it's a bloatware

Bloatware is unwanted software, usually pre-installed or otherwise not installed by the user, that slows down your computer and takes up space.

So if a user wants Office, it is, by definition, not bloatware.

Even if we do consider it bloatware -- pre-installed, unwanted by the user, and using up system resources -- that isn't an explanation of why Office itself is slow.
by nosioptar | 2025-05-01 14:30:58+00:00
That took me entirely too damned long to realize that wasn't a real billionaire whining.

I prefer to raise awareness to the plight of the rich with music:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ej7dfPL7Kho&pp=ygUNc2F2ZSB0aGUgc...
by rayiner | 2025-05-01 14:31:11+00:00
Marbury versus Madison:

1) Isn’t part of the founding sources I mentioned. It was quite controversial at the time.

2) Stands for exactly the opposite of what you’re arguing. Marbury goes to great lengths to disclaim any authority over executive policymaking and discretion, and limit courts to compelling executive officers to act only when the duties are specifically assigned by law and ministerial:

> This is not a proceeding which may be varied if the judgment of the Executive shall suggest one more eligible, but is a precise course accurately marked out by law, and is to be strictly pursued. It is the duty of the Secretary of State to conform to the law, and in this he is an officer of the United States, bound to obey the laws. He acts, in this respect, as has been very properly stated at the bar, under the authority of law, and not by the instructions of the President. It is a ministerial act which the law enjoins on a particular officer for a particular purpose.

And even after determining that delivery of the already executed commission is a ministerial act, the Court went out of its way to invoke a jurisdictional escape hatch to avoid actually enjoining an executive officer. A fair application of Marbury would preclude the sweeping powers courts have asserted to micromanage executive action in response to private litigation.

In Marbury, the court ruled that Marbury had already been appointed when the previous president signed his commission, and the only thing that remained was the purely ministerial act of the secretary of state delivering the signed letter that was sitting in the president’s desk. But even then, the Court found a way to avoid compelling the secretary of state to actually deliver the commission! How would the Marbury court view the prospect of a district court ordering the president to turn around military planes being used to deport an admitted El Salvadoran citizen? Or district courts ordering the President to reach out to a foreign country’s president to demand the return of that foreign country’s citizen! The Marbury court wouldn’t have dreamed of it!

What Marbury stands for is that the judicial branch can declare the legality of laws and executive actions, but should bend over backwards to avoid actually compelling the executive to perform any action.
by markhahn | 2025-05-01 14:31:37+00:00
isn't this rather obvious? doesn't everyone do this when it makes sense? obviously, it applies to other DBs, and you don't even need to store the file (just a single ssh from dumper to remote undumper).

if retaining the snapshot file is of value, great.

I'd be a tiny bit surprised if rsync could recognize diffs in the dump, but it's certainly possible, assuming the dumper is "stable" (probably is because its walking the tables as trees). the amount of change detected by rsync might actually be a useful thing to monitor.
by nexle | 2025-05-01 14:32:18+00:00
The pushing on their cloud offering almost everywhere (main page: https://linkwarden.app/, GitHub README: https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden, and installation guide: https://docs.linkwarden.app/self-hosting/installation) just give me a bad taste about it.

I understood an open source project need revenue to survive, but the reason why this project grew so large is because of the self-hostable nature, and the push of the cloud offering is the opposite of that.

I really hope this is not the first steps towards enshittification...
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