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by AnthonyMouse | 2025-06-23 19:43:19+00:00
> You don't have any recourse, at least not under American law.

Implying that the recourse is to change the law.

Those precedents are also fairly insane and not even consistent with one another. For example, the government needs a warrant to read your mail in the possession of the Post Office -- not only a third party but actually part of the government -- but not the digital equivalent of this when you transfer some of your documents via Google or Microsoft?

This case is also not the traditional third party doctrine case. Typically you would have e.g. your private project files on Github or something which Github is retaining for reasons independent of any court order and then the court orders them to provide them to the court. In this case the judge is ordering them to retain third party data they wouldn't have otherwise kept. It's not clear what the limiting principle there would be -- could they order Microsoft to retain any of the data on everyone's PC that isn't in the cloud, because their system updater gives them arbitrary code execution on every Windows machine? Could they order your home landlord to make copies of the files in your apartment without a warrant because they have a key to the door?
by echelon | 2025-06-23 19:44:03+00:00
That's great!

Now does the DAG make sense to humans? Does it ever put things in absurd places, eg. a necessary dungeon key in a random grotto halfway across the map (or in another time)? Without clues, how would you know where to check next? Does the game help at all?

How out of sequence can the game get?

Is Master Quest just the moral equivalent of a single static random roll of the Randomizer?

Someone should do this with Majora's Mask, but in a way that can somehow combine the two games.
by kunai | 2025-06-23 19:44:53+00:00
Interests are not inherently gender-specific. I know many women who gravitate towards wargames, sports, and the like, typically male-dominated hobbies. We need to stop pursuing this notion that an activity is inherently male or inherently female.

Most trans women I know are the exact opposite, they gravitate towards extremely feminine interests, like makeup, fashion, design, etc. Inherent attraction towards a particular interest only dictates your personality type, I don't think it's meaningful insofar as it relates to gender dysphoria -- I think that stems from a much deeper, much more subconscious phenomenon which is adjacent to body dysmorphia. But I digress.

I proffer a question to those skeptical about gender transition: with the rise of GLP-1 blockers, many have found holes in the body positivity movement, in that a lot of formerly obese people who found solace in Ozempic and lost a lot of weight -- this accounts for a body transformation. Many report their symptoms of body dysmorphia disappeared entirely. Is this not the same for HRT and trans people? The other issue is that many are quick to compare the plight of a trans person to that of an anorexic -- but it's already established that anorexia nervosa is a special class of eating disorder that is multifactorial in origin and etiology.

If you're content with GLP-1 blockers and Ozempic being used to combat obesity, then you should have no issue with HRT. It's essentially the same thing, being used to treat a very similar condition. A lot of obese people don't necessarily want to be skinny, they just want to feel comfy in their own skin, and that's a trait they share with trans people.
by Sniffnoy | 2025-06-23 19:45:02+00:00
Basically it's because the relevant structures are somewhat fragile. Matt Strassler has a good post about "why does everything we care about move so slowly compared to the cosmic speed limit?" (https://profmattstrassler.com/2024/10/03/why-is-the-speed-of...), and the answer is, it's because we're made of atoms, atoms are held together by the electromagenetic force, and that's only so strong, if things moved way faster then collisions would tear atoms apart. But of course life is dependent not only on atoms, but also on electromagnetic bonds much weaker than the ones that hold atoms together. So this limits how hot it can get.
by Stratoscope | 2025-06-23 19:45:07+00:00
Yes, very true! And more accurate than what I wrote. The point I meant to make was that assembly language in the text form that we would use is not part of the compilation process. But I oversimplified my description rather badly.

Interestingly, Go also has a -d=ssa/all switch that outputs not just an assembly representation of the final code, but also the results of each optimization pass.

Here is a discussion I had with ChatGPT about this:

https://chatgpt.com/share/6859aea5-df1c-8012-be70-f2361060fb...
by owenwil | 2025-06-23 19:45:21+00:00
I don’t think this is a surprise to anyone who actually owns a Tesla (I own a Model Y). Full self-driving is just _bad_ in comparison to technology from Waymo et al; it slams on the brakes suddenly for shadows, veers into the wrong lane, hesitates in pretty standard intersections, and doesn’t even understand basic concepts like school buses or trains. Here in BC, it completely ignores the 30kph school safety zones, which seems pretty basic.

My experience with FSD is that while it feels “magic” at times, it’s like a teenage driver that you have to baby sit constantly. It’s genuinely impressive how well it works given the really limited hardware, but if you use it routinely you know it will make at least one weird/dangerous choice on every trip.

Generally, I really don’t trust it in most situations except properly delineated highways, but even then it can be a crapshoot. If you’ve experienced FSD then get in a Waymo, they are night and day different—a lot more predictable, and able to navigate uncertainty compared with what Tesla has built. It’s likely down to a combination of both software and their insistence that radar doesn’t matter, but it clearly does.

I would never get in a Tesla that purports to drive itself, there’s no way it’s safe or worth the risk. I won’t even use it with my family in the car.

I know a handful of others who own Teslas and feel the same, despite what the fans spout online. I generally like my Model Y, but I definitely do not trust FSD—I find it hard to believe that it’s even being taken seriously in the media. Not a great endorsement if even your own customers don’t trust it after use it.
by bravesoul2 | 2025-06-23 19:46:14+00:00
Thanks!

Though I'm closer to the end of my career than the start and now at the point I'm maxxed out what I can earn and it is approx graduate salary in US but no cheaper COL.

I need to find how to pivot.

Don't want to be a manager though. Craft path (e.g. staff developer) feels thin at the top, I.e. musical chairs ... not enough seating for the demand!

Therefore giving up the working for someone else game it has to be.
by mbirth | 2025-06-23 19:46:36+00:00
You have to setup the move on your original account. It basically just says to all followers: “@barbazoo@hn.com has moved to @barbazoo@reddit.com” and - if implemented in their server - they will follow your new account instead.

But if you get kicked out of HN, how are you supposed to setup the forwarding? Also, all your previous posts won’t be visible to anyone anymore, as your account will be blocked.

You’ll basically start out with a blank account, and only get to keep your followers if you’re still able to setup the forwarding on the old account.
by humanfromearth9 | 2025-06-23 19:46:55+00:00
Blind-typing an SMS on a Nokia 3310 was so fast... or at least that was the feeling. I still regularly miss those keyboards, in particular when I hesitate between swiping a word or typing it, guessing how autocorrect will fail if I don't type... This never happened with my 3310, and there was no need for it at all.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-06-23 19:47:04+00:00
This is the perverse incentives one rather than the money one. The judges want to order people to do things and the judges are the ones who decide if the judges ordering people to do things is constitutional.

To prevent that you need Congress to tell them no, but that creates a sort of priority inversion: The machinery designed to stop the government from doing something bad unless there is consensus is then enabling government overreach unless there is consensus to stop it. It's kind of a design flaw. You want checks and balances to stop the government from doing bad things, not enable them.
by jskalc92 | 2025-06-23 19:47:14+00:00
If I understand it correctly, tools and agents run() method works in a similar way to react hooks, correct?

Depending on execution order, tool is either called or a cached value returned. That way local state can be replayed, and that's why "no side effects" rule is in place.

I like it. Just, what's the recommended way to have a chat assistant agent with multiple tools? Message history would need to be passed to the very top-level agent.run call, isn't it?
by thiagoharry | 2025-06-23 19:47:14+00:00
> FWIW, I am working to reimplement parts of METAFONT in my current project (need the curves, and want an implementation which will also allow me to write out a .mp file) and I'm finding _METAFONT: The Program_ very helpful.

I have a reimplementation of parts of METAFONT as a hobby project. In fact, it is no longer METAFONT; it is a language based on METAFONT. However, I used the same Hobby's algorithm to generate curves. It understands pens, paths and renders it to an OpenGL texture. The results are not compatible with Knuth's METAFONT, as I use floating-point numbers instead of the fixed-point arithmetic. It is still under development and needs some cleaning, but if what you are developing is for personal use or is free software compatible with GNU Affero GPL, perhaps parts of the code, or even the whole, could be of use.

https://github.com/thiagoharry/weaver-interface-metafont
by GuB-42 | 2025-06-23 19:47:30+00:00
Git doesn't what you to have a clean history. Git just stores all the commits in a DAG structure, and then gives you a lot of freedom in what you make of it.

The git UI however is notoriously terrible, so your complain about presentation is probably justified, but it git itself offers facilities to keep a clean history without clobbering branches without changing the fundamentals.

For example, you can decide to make your clean branches only out of merge commits, so if you look only at the clean branches you will have the nice history you expect, but each commit will have a reference to a parallel ugly branch so you can see everything if you want to, without rewriting. To avoir conflicts polluting your clean branch, first merge the clean branch into the ugly branch, resolve the conflicts and do everything you need to do to stay up to date, then merge back into the clean branch, with a nice merge commit message. The clean branches merge commits are your "presentation layer".

It won't be mutable, but mutable anything is a problem in a distributed system like git that gives you availability but as per the CAP theorem, not consistency.
by blixt | 2025-06-23 19:48:39+00:00
I see the API is rarely mentioning exact message structure (system prompt, assistant/user history, etc) or the choice of model (other than defaultLanguageModel). And it's not immediately clear to me how `toolbox.pickAndRun` can access any context from an ongoing agentic flow other than within the one prompt. But this is just from skimming the docs, maybe all of this is supported?

The reason I ask is because I've had a lot of success using different models for different tasks, constructing the system prompt specifically for each task, and also choosing between the "default" long assistant/tool_call/user/(repeat) message history vs. constantly pruning it (bad for caching but sometimes good for performance). And it would be nice to know a library like this could allow experimentation of these strategies.
by thisisit | 2025-06-23 19:48:48+00:00
This is just intellectually dishonest. Its like you have never heard of US surveillance programs.

US Intelligence agencies collect a lot of data about people. Especially the ones who write about "Death to America" on their social media. If we follow your logic and it doesn't happen today then there are bigger problems than the made up issues DHS will have in your imagined future.

Building a profile on someone doesn't require their social media profiles. This is just a bogeyman. As some has pointed out, this is purely to build a case if and when people protest against the government.
by TulliusCicero | 2025-06-23 19:49:12+00:00
If the speeding is only going with the flow of traffic, that's not a huge deal imo.

The left turn fuckup is really bad though, as is the instance of the robotaxi dropping someone off in the middle of an intersection after they hit the "drop off earlier" button: https://sh.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/1liku3o/tes...
by almostdeadguy | 2025-06-23 19:50:19+00:00
I'm not really sure what point you're trying to make here. Do you think it's not public knowledge that Iran finances and orchestrates Hezbollah? Or is this the terrorism card? Maybe it's different when the US supports al-Zenki et al (or the many years of financial support and hands-off permission Israel gave Hamas and then encouraged Qatar to give Hamas).

I think Hezbollah has done some truly disgusting things and I have no delusions about the ill deeds of Iran's regime. But I think it's extremely fair to say that Israel is an even more egregious perpetrator of murder, displacement, and apartheid and Iranians have every right and reason to see themselves in solidarity with Palestinians and the people of Lebanon.
by yodon | 2025-06-23 19:50:20+00:00
So... both authors predict superhuman intelligence, defined as AI that can complete tasks that would take humans hundreds of hours, to be a thing "sometime in the next few years", both authors predict "probably not before 2027, but maybe" and both authors predict "probably not longer than 2032, but maybe", and one author seems to think their estimates are wildly better than those of the other author.

That's not quite the level of disagreement I was expecting given the title.
by evilantnie | 2025-06-23 19:51:35+00:00
I don’t think the real divide is “doom tomorrow” vs “nothing to worry about.” The crux is a pretty straightforward philosophical question "what does it even mean to generalize intelligence and agency", how much can scaling laws tell us about that?

The back-and-forth over σ²’s and growth exponents feels like theatrics that bury the actual debate.
by tptacek | 2025-06-23 19:52:06+00:00
If it helps understand where I'm coming from, I don't think Hezbollah is (was?) a terrorist force at all. It was designed to be a near-peer military adversary against Israel (on paper) and Sunni militias (in reality). It is (was?) an instrument of the IRGC, with very little of its own agency; a genuine part of the Order of Battle of the Iranian military command.
by FireBeyond | 2025-06-23 19:52:11+00:00
> doesn’t even understand basic concepts like school buses or trains

Yeah, it would be hilarious if it wasn't so horrifying, I remember watching a level crossing be represented as a weird traffic light that would go from red to off to red erratically, with a similarly erratic convoy of trucks representing the train.

Mind you I remember people claiming FSD was "nearly done" because they'd "tackled all the hard problems, and were now in clean up", and how as a result that meant they could let their FSD take itself through a roundabout, not just straightlining it through. Never underestimate the power of denial.
by shreezus | 2025-06-23 19:52:40+00:00
I mostly agree with you. I use both FSD on my Tesla & Waymo regularly (LA region), and Waymo just feels way safer in comparison. While FSD has improved significantly the last few iterations, I have seen it do "strange" things often enough that I don't feel safe just sitting in the backseat like I would with a Waymo.

Even if it's hypothetically 99% as good as Waymo at the moment, 99% is not good "enough" when it comes to something as critical as driving.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-06-23 19:53:03+00:00
China launches world’s first grid-forming sodium-ion battery storage plant - https://www.ess-news.com/2025/06/03/china-launches-worlds-fi... - June 3rd, 2025 ("With a total investment of over CNY 460 million [$63.8 million] and occupying 34k square metres, the Baochi plant is designed for an installed capacity of 200MW/400MWh. Based on a dual daily charge-discharge cycle, it can regulate up to 580 GWh annually — enough to power 270,000 households, with 98 per cent of its energy sourced from renewables. The facility supports more than 30 local wind and solar power stations, alleviating the impact of intermittent supply and facilitating the integration of high shares of renewables into the grid.")

China’s new energy storage capacity surges to 74 GW/168 GWh in 2024, up 130% YoY - https://www.ess-news.com/2025/01/23/chinas-new-energy-storag... - January 23, 2025

> China’s rapid energy storage expansion aligns with the country’s broader strategy for renewable energy integration. According to the “Power System Regulation Capacity Optimization Action Plan (2025–2027)” issued by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the NEA, China aims to support an annual addition of 200 GW of new renewables between 2025 to 2027, maintaining a national renewable energy utilization rate of no less than 90%. This policy suggests that the rapid growth of new energy storage will continue in the coming years.
by hwillis | 2025-06-23 19:53:10+00:00
Yeah, fair to say its feasible. ROSA on the ISS produces 240 W/m^2 and weighs 4 kg/m^2.

The S6W reactor in the seawolf submarines run at ~300 C and produce 177 MW waste heat for 43 MWe. If the radiators are 12 kg/m^2 and reject 16x as much heat (call it 3600 W/m^2) then you can produce 875 watts of electricity per m^2 and 290 watts at the same weight as the solar panels. Water coolant at 300 C also needs to be pressurized to 2000+ PSI, which would require a much heavier radiator, and the weight of the reactor, shielding, turbines and coolant makes it very hard to believe it could ever be better than solar panels, but it isn't infeasible.

Plus, liquid metal reactors can run at ~600 C and reject 5x as much heat per unit area. They have their own problems: it would be extremely difficult to re-liquify a lead-bismuth mix if the reactor is ever shut off. I'm also not particularly convinced that radiators running at higher temperatures wouldn't be far heavier, but for a sufficiently large station it would be an obvious choice.
by dyauspitr | 2025-06-23 19:53:13+00:00
Oh I definitely find my brain resisting the process of writing a new document from scratch. It’s just so much easier to have ChatGPT spit out the initial version and then refine it from there.

I’m still definitely providing value with no decrease in the quality of my output so I’m counting on my past knowledge + ChatGPT to get me through my career but I weep for the next generation.
by pimlottc | 2025-06-23 19:53:15+00:00
They're almost certainly not using the same version as the general public. Most major service providers have a specific version for government with additional controls and restrictions and have undergone certification through FedRAMP, including Microsoft:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/government

Some other examples:

- AWS GovCloud https://aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/

- Google Workspace for Government https://workspace.google.com/industries/government/

- GovSlack https://slack.com/solutions/govslack

- Atlassian Government Cloud https://www.atlassian.com/government
by JohnFen | 2025-06-23 19:53:20+00:00
> Sounds like connecting to other people is, if not the purpose of humanity, at least pretty central to what you consider your purpose.

I don't know if I'd say it was related to purpose, but perhaps this is teetering dangerously on the precipice of pedantry (and it doesn't really matter for this conversation).

I do think having real connections and even casual in-person contact with other people is essential for our emotional and mental health (even for people who avoid such connections). I know it is for me, and I'm an introverted hermit. Not to mention it being essential for a functioning society.
by EA-3167 | 2025-06-23 19:53:33+00:00
What a tremendous waste it would be to lose the USCSB, their videos, their careful stewardship. They cost virtually nothing in the grand scheme, they offer so much, and frankly industry should be grateful that they exist. Without them it's just a matter of time until a large enough disaster occurs that regulation is increased, and they'll miss this era of non-regulatory oversight.
by manjalyc | 2025-06-23 19:53:45+00:00
A fun anecdote - a lot of people may remember Roomba from forever back with their automated little vacuums. Roomba's market share declined significantly because they failed to adopt Lidar technology as quickly as their competitors, instead they depended on the bumper for as long as possible. This put them at a disadvantage in navigation and efficiency as their competitors started using Lidar. Combined with aggressive pricing from rivals, expiry of its patented roller in 2022, a weird insistence to not combine vacuum and mopping into one device, Roomba (or iRobot now) is a just little fish in the sea it made.
by conductr | 2025-06-23 19:54:29+00:00
Generally, I think it's boredom. Specifically, many people haven't learned it is a life skill to deal with boredom, instead they constantly find a way be entertained and a phone always within reach offers a great solution to that problem. I say, force yourself to be bored without a phone. Pick up a book, pick up a hobby, go outside, talk to people (meat space), gardening, exercise, etc.

Even people older, like me, who grew up without these things for a good portion of their life. They lost the ability to be bored and need to relearn it.

I personally have always refused to get sucked into the phone. Never turned notifications on, never cared about social media, etc. I don't like video'ing the concert I'm attending. I like being present and I love being bored.
by sunng | 2025-06-23 19:54:37+00:00
The async process sounds promising but unfortunately eglot doesn't work with it. I got a message from reddit that tramp 2.8.0-pre has fixed that issue but until last time I compiled HEAD from tramp repo it still doesn't work.

I just applied other configurations from the article and it seems faster than the default settings. Thank you author for sharing this!
by Analemma_ | 2025-06-23 19:55:33+00:00
I would love a new standard stream for structured output alongside stdout and stderr. That seems like the lowest-friction way to get tooling migrated: programs could opt-in if they wanted but nothing would break if they didn't, and then once you had sufficient buy-in you could make a new shell that defaulted to piping this new stream and fall back to stdout if there was no data in the new one. But it would still need a lot of coordination to make it happen, since AIUI you would need to change libc and every other C runtime to pass this new stream fd to every program, and that would rile people up.
by RankingMember | 2025-06-23 19:55:45+00:00
Did they ever have LIDAR? I completely agree that the removal of radar was a cost-cut too far and a decision made with uneducated hubris (his deeply-flawed "humans only need vision so cars only need that too" thought process). If they ever want to actually compete in this space, I expect we'll see one of these (or both) quietly re-added.