MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by leereeves | 2025-06-29 00:10:54+00:00
Ethnostate is not a slur, it's an accurate description of a country that itself passed the Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People.

(A basic law in Israel is roughly like a constitutional amendment in the US.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Law%3A_Israel_as_the_Nat...
by acdha | 2025-06-29 00:11:02+00:00
It’s complicated because there are some executive-like functions which have created legal question about it. As always in this kind of debate, remember that Congress could resolve all of this by clearly stating their intention in statute rather than leaving it to the courts to try to balance concerns.

https://www.authorsalliance.org/2025/05/09/carla-hayden-remo...
by smeej | 2025-06-29 00:12:16+00:00
My parents sent me a giant box of these things when they downsized the family home. On the one hand, it was really validating to have the proof that things really had been as bad as I remembered them. On the other, it was really sad to have confirmation that things really were as bad as I remembered them.

Ultimately it gave me the chance to be for my inner child what my parents never were, but man there was a lot of pain in that process.
by vaxman | 2025-06-29 00:12:50+00:00
I’m not reading thru all that, but believe me when I say the ground truth is that IBM developed REXX on its mainframes and a genius guy from that world (poor bstrd) recreated it on Amiga as a third-party product called ARexx that was, in turn, adopted and promoted by CBM Dev Relations. One of the things the fake frenching innovation team in charge of Apple for a few years did was go down in the basement where they had an Amiga in various forms of dissection and transplanted ARexx out of it, mixed with HyperCard’s vocab (which they also didn’t invent) and announced to the World their great invention: AppleScript. But I digress. Here in the (dystopian) Future, some Apple operating systems are just now gaining the kind of power that ARexx had, because these types of systems require the cooperation of the developers and they had little incentive to “donate” functions to the system just to gain integration with Siri/Shortcuts, but they can get fired/bankrupted for not doing it to integrate with Apple Intelligence (I know, I hate that identifier too). ARexx could not be ported to MacOS back in the day because it would have had to have been championed by Apple Developer Relations (Guy Kawasaki & Co —did I just wreck the “Hackers” movie reference?) and, even/especially in the 80s, they wouldn’t have approved a tech that “competed” with AppleScript. Microsoft didn’t jump on this because it descends from DEC tech (under the direction of the Cutler) which had nothing like REXX.
by ivape | 2025-06-29 00:14:01+00:00
Stimulant induced psychosis is very common. One of the major side effects of those medications, just like their street cousin, is paranoia.

I don’t really believe in the dormant/latent argument because once you shift down to the underground (as in, entertain all possibilities, even the possibility that you share something in common with drug abusers) where people abuse drugs, there you can see just how common psychosis is.

The drugs fuck people up. Interestingly, after many years of laying off the substance, many do find their way out of the psychosis.

Many people are actually caught in this trap and don’t tell anyone because they are struggling between reality and their delusions and trying to present a calm face to the world. It’s often directly the result of the substance, but it’s allowed to fester in the person due to all kinds of reasons (”hey, I’m really going to confess this is the crazy shit that feels believable to me?”). By the time they are done wrestling with reality and unreality, often they are left extremely damaged from the ordeal psychologically.
by mlsu | 2025-06-29 00:14:06+00:00
Everyone should become an engineer. Then we can spend our whole lives working to build stuff. That way, we can prevent anyone from pursuing anything creative, beautiful, or transcendental.

Like, I see where you're going with this but music is one of those things that's actually the whole point of being alive. If all we ever do is do "useful" things ($$$) we lose our chance to actually live our lives.
by eschaton | 2025-06-29 00:15:23+00:00
This is the case with plenty of commenters here too, and why I push back so much against the people anthropomorphizing and attributing thought and reasoning to LLMs. Even highly technical people operating in a context where they should know better simply can’t—or won’t, here—keep themselves from doing so.

Ed Zitron is right. Ceterum censeo, LLMs esse delenda.
by new299 | 2025-06-29 00:15:48+00:00
For the benefit of anyone else doing this in Japan, these are the documents I had to submit. It will be different depending on circumstance, in particular I think the author may also be born outside the UK which may require other/more documents.

Anyway I had to submit:

Certified copy of my birth certificate, order from the UK general register office.

Original (not photocopy) of Japanese family register and translation.

Certificate of acceptance of notification of birth, original and translation.

Original Marriage certificate and translation.

Colour photocopy of every page of my childs Japanese passport.

Copy photocopy of the passport of an American or British citizen who confirms that child is mine.

The process is pretty unclear, and in general you seem to have to just keep submitting documents until they are satisfied.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-06-29 00:17:30+00:00
>Nobody is out there lamenting that you can’t make a living off of landscape painting

Plenty are. But your experience in landscape painting transfers to other professional crafts, so the loss is mitigated. What does a skilled musician have to tranfer to if the industry falls apart? Teaching music?

I also really don't like reinforcing the idea that "the arts aren't meant to be a career". One of the biggest turnabouts in the 20th century is that you don't need to already be set for life in order to spend your days training your passions. The arts are (or were) no longer this "high class" means to distinguish yourself from the working class.

Meanwhile so much of society is built upon and weathered against destruction over such artisans. Are you really going to have a healthy society if all kids see growing up are pencil pushers, hard physical labor, managing retail, or hyper-specializing after 20+ years of schooling? What's all that work building up to? To serve billionaires?
by smeej | 2025-06-29 00:17:52+00:00
Why will you "need" to go through it at all? Unless you were looking for something specifically important, like you knew there must be a will in there somewhere but had no idea where, why can't you just pitch the lot of it?

I have a single page document with the information I think somebody would need from my electronic files if I died. It's printed and stored in my fire safe. My next of kin has a copy of the key.

I don't really expect they'll do, nor care to do, anything with my digital files.
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-06-29 00:18:25+00:00
Apologies if this feels adversarial, but I think your informal proof has an error, and I think I can explain it!

Your proof rests primarily on this assertion:

> BB has to grow faster than any computable sequence.

This is almost true! BB(n) has to grow faster than any computable sequence _defined by an n-state Turing machine_. That last part is really important. (Note that my restatement is probably incorrect too, it is just correct enough to point out the important flaw I saw in your statement). This means that up-arrow^f(n) _can_ be larger than BB(n) — up-arrow^f(n) is not restricted by a Turing machine at all. As an easy example, consider f(n) = BB(n)^2.

You may still be right about BB(7) being bigger than Graham’s number, even if your proof is not bulletproof
by YZF | 2025-06-29 00:18:57+00:00
It it absolutely fair to criticize Israel the same way that e.g Canada, the US, the UK, France etc. were criticized during their war on the Islamic State.

Let's get some scale here. - Probably more than 160K killed in this war. Maybe half civilians. - Siege and constant bombardment/destruction of cities like Mosul. - Millions of civilians displaced. - Many war crimes by western powers.

This was in response to what? A few westerners beheaded? Terrorist attacks killing a few dozen people?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_against_the_Islamic_State

Can you really say honestly that the amount of criticism Israel is attracting due to its war in Gaza and the circumstances are comparable? This might just be me but I don't recall huge rallies against the war. I don't recall much negative media coverage. I don't recall anyone held accountable for war crimes. I don't recall the ICC being involved.

Yes, the US bombings of random weddings in Afghanistan with Predator drones and air to surface missiles, or bombing hospitals has occasionally drawn some weak protest. Nothing at the scale of the anti-Israeli sentiment.

This isn't what-about-ism. It's not ok to bomb a wedding and it's not ok to fire into a crowd of people trying to get food. But there is no comparison of the sentiment and focus.
by pasquinelli | 2025-06-29 00:19:13+00:00
> "It's not an issue of funding cuts," says Mark Serreze, the director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center, a federally funded research center in Colorado that has relied on the soon-to-be-terminated Defense Department data **to track sea ice since 1979**. "There are cybersecurity concerns. That's what we're being told."

hmmmmmmmmmm
by fragmede | 2025-06-29 00:20:01+00:00
Ah yes, people. The group of users that famously doesn't interact with liquids in their day to day lives and needed to be told that they wanted to be able to spill a drink or soup on their phone and not have it break, or drop it into the toilet, pool, lake or river and not have it break.

https://xkcd.com/641/ is true, but smartphones and liquids isn't that.
by Tinkerbunny | 2025-06-29 00:20:05+00:00
As far as I’m concerned, French fries aren’t French, Panama hats aren’t even from Panama, and German Chocolate cake isn’t German. Ever heard of artistic freedom of expression? It’s his art, his term, his vision; no one gets to take that away from him even if it doesn’t make sense to others. Even if “hanakami” isn’t a traditional or historically used Japanese term, it still makes perfect sense linguistically and artistically.
by eschaton | 2025-06-29 00:20:19+00:00
The model isn’t doing any of those things, you’re still making the same fundamental mistake as the people in the article and attributing intent to it as if it’s a being.

The model is just producing tokens in response to inputs. It knows nothing about the meanings of the inputs or the tokens it’s producing other than their likelihoods relative to other tokens in a very large space. That the input tokens have a certain meaning and the output tokens have a certain meaning is all in the eye of the user and the authors of the text in the training corpus.

So when certain inputs are given, that makes certain outputs more likely, but they’re not related to any meaning or goal held by the LLM itself.
by keyringlight | 2025-06-29 00:21:20+00:00
The impression I have is that YotLD windows migration evangelism is honest so long as you don't go off the beaten track, but as soon as you do it gets hairy quick and that's where I find some of the evangelists dishonest by omission. It's fine if you just use a browser, or software as provided by a repository, or your steam games work and you don't need/want to mod/tinker with them. Otherwise you might be dropping someone recently transplanted into unfamiliar territory and they haven't build up a new knowledge base yet.
by ramoz | 2025-06-29 00:22:06+00:00
> Regardless of how good a model gets

I don't think this is true.

My Claude Code can:

- open a browser, debug a ui, or navigate to any website

- write a script to interact with any type of accessible api

All without MCP.

Within a year I expect there to be legitimate "computer use" agents. I expect agent sdks to take over llm apis as defacto abstractions for models, and MCP will have limited use isolated to certain platforms - but with that caveat that an MCP-equipped agent performs worse than a native computer-use agent.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-06-29 00:22:24+00:00
Here is what will be denied to NOAA, now and going forward

Defense Department data also allow hurricane forecasters to see hurricanes as they form, and monitor them in real-time. For example, hurricane experts can see where the center of a newly formed storm is, which allows them to figure out as early as possible what direction it is likely to go, and whether the storm might hit land. That's important for people in harm's way, who need as much time as possible to decide whether to evacuate, and to prepare their homes for wind and water.

The public paid for this data. Deliberately siloing the data to insure it can't save American lives wouldn't just be theft, it would be an act indistinguishable from evil.
by throwaway3060 | 2025-06-29 00:24:48+00:00
This scenario already played out before in history; some people may believe those groups to have been heroes, but most can recognize that fighting in the name of independence did not make those groups any less guilty of committing atrocities against civilians. At the same time, that doesn't take away today from the people fighting for freedom legitimately. If anything, those groups hurt their cause in the long-run, as they gave Russia ammunition for propaganda for the next 80+ years.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-06-29 00:25:13+00:00
"I like music but cannot remember the last time I went to a concert"

That seems like a weird angle to take it, no? I know it's just an example but there is more than one type of artist, just as there's more than one type of musician. As simple as it is, someone needed to design the YCombinator logo. Art is everywhere as well, even on a site like this that doesn't host much visual media.

(P.S. I do remember the last time I went to a concert. October).
by mcsniff | 2025-06-29 00:27:48+00:00
Not only can you complete a UK Passport Application completely online (save for mailing any required documentations to HMPO), you can apply for a brand new passport as a "new" citizen (by adoption, naturalisation, or descent), online, from outside the UK, with just a mobile device without downloading some special app, including taking the photos.

Sure, you can play it on "hard mode " and do it with paper and pen for the lulz, but my experience was extremely efficient, fast, and straight-forward.
by martin-t | 2025-06-29 00:28:07+00:00
Let's differentiate

- how things work now vs how they should work - and also how it works when a human does something vs when a an LLM is used to generate something imitating the human work.

A human has limited time and memory. Human time is valuable, computer time is not. Memorizing something by a human takes time.

When a human is inspired by a work and writes something based on that, he invests a lot of time and energy into it. Therefore people have decided that this creative output should be protected by the law.

Also a human is limited by how much he can remember from the original work. Even if writing what you described, he would inevitably fall back on his own life experiences, opinions, attitude, ways of thinking, etc.

When an LLM is used, it generated a statistical mashup of works it ingested during training. No part of this process has any intrinsic value. It literally only costs what the electricity does. And it's almost infinitely scalable. The law might not call it derivative because it was written at a time where this kind of mechanical derivation was not feasible.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-06-29 00:29:41+00:00
> People several generations before me committed those crimes.

It isn't that long ago.

There are still women alive who were used as sex slaves by the Japanese Army. I can see why their (SK) government is unwilling to let the issue be forgotten. Paying reparations does not mean that you can now forget the attrocity. Should the US not teach about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki because it was our grandfathers who did it, and we feel like we have made it up by rebuilding Japan? Should we tell the Hibakusha that its time for them to shut-up, and there is no point in talking about what happened since the people who made those attacks are all dead?

The point of this knowledge, at least in the west, isn't to make you feel badly, or remorseful. The point is to remember that there are monsters lurking beneath the surface, even in the modern era. The Banality of Evil (the book) is about demonstrating that even a mediocre, non-fanatical, reluctant Nazi bureaucrat like Eichmann can be a pivotal figure in a genocide. We remember so that we don't repeat. Should we not learn from experiences?
by moritzwarhier | 2025-06-29 00:29:44+00:00
> classes != objects

that's what I was aiming at, maybe poorly.

There's tons of libraries that use some kind of runtime-observable instance property as a tag, to mimic nominal typing in JS.

The same thing is also possible using prototype identity, if you either use the class keyword syntax sugar introduced with ES5 (?), or if you manually do OOP using prototypes. But the latter is very uncommon.

It seems to be more common to add a property like

$_$_$____superlib__$-inst_WALRUS

and use that as a tag.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-06-29 00:30:32+00:00
It's even more of a scam because none of these companies were making such services with a way to actually profit in mind. It got customers spoiled on unrealistically cheap media; cheap media that was a result of skilled labor that only got more expensive over time. The bubble was going to burst one day.

In some regards, the ZIRP era ending was needed; companies can't just make money by relying on hype for years, even decades before the piper needs to be paid. But of course it couldn't have ended in a worst time.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-06-29 00:30:35+00:00
> "There are cybersecurity concerns. That's what we're being told."

Let's try to make sense of that.

1) the cybersecurity talent from DoD and USG is so decimated it can't field a response to whatever this concern is or 2) the DoD has the talent to resolve whatever this concern is and they are deliberately leaving this concern in place or 3) the DoD is lying about a cybersecurity issue being the reason that they're withholding lifesaving data (from benefiting the public that paid for it).
by helpfulContrib | 2025-06-29 00:30:36+00:00
One of my favourite 8-bit computers of the era is the Oric-1/Atmos micro.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oric_(computer)

It still to this day has a thriving scene, lots of interesting quirky programs still being written for it. (https://oric.org/)

There is also a thriving hardware hacking scene of course, 21st century peripherals being brought to the user base, and so on.

One of the more interesting things (besides LOCI), is the orix system, which is a 'unix-like' environment for the Oric, which uses avariant of the 6502 cpu.

Its pretty cool - and fun if you're an Oric nerd - but if you like 'unix-like' systems for unusual platforms, put this one in your list to check out, as well:

https://orix.oric.org

https://orix.oric.org/twilighte-board-v0-6-user-manual/

Oh, yeah, I know 'unix-like' has a wide scale of sincerity, this is not quite there .. yet .. in terms of having all the unix bits, really .. but it is at least bootstrap in that kind of direction, for the Oric .. anyway ..
by transpute | 2025-06-29 00:30:56+00:00
> not the same coreboot that Purism or System76 is using

Usually each laptop OEM ships a unique downstream tree and release build of firmware (UEFI or coreboot), optimized for their hardware, similar to the relationship between RedHat/Debian and mainline Linux kernel. Since coreboot is GPL, each Clevo OEM should provide source for their firmware.
by 12_throw_away | 2025-06-29 00:32:35+00:00
From the same author: "Deficiencies in GCC's code generator and optimiser" [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39835693

This person certainly seems to enjoy writing polemics about compiler output (although I'm not sure I could tell you what, exactly, it is that they're mad about)
by digianarchist | 2025-06-29 00:33:08+00:00
Renewed recently which was my first time using the online system. The entire process was exceptionally fast. I got the passport back in less than 2 weeks from California.

In comparison my Canadian passport renewal (damaged after 3 years) from California took 4 months. Was entirely paper based and had ridiculous requirements such as requiring a reference and a photograph stamped by photographer.

I know there's a digital pilot that's ongoing. That should be rolled out ASAP.
by acdha | 2025-06-29 00:33:19+00:00
You can’t talk about ISIS in isolation from the U.S. invasion of Iraq which gave Zarqawi the ability to grow so much. That had enormous protests, tons of criticism for the massive civilian death toll, and plenty of negative media coverage. By the time the Islamic system was at its height, most of the reaction was muted in the backdrop of Syria’s civil war and the U.S. failure in Iraq leaving few people jumping to commit more troops into unfriendly territory. In contrast, Israel controls Gaza and has no willingness to give up that control and ownership follows that.
by marcher | 2025-06-29 00:34:19+00:00
I can't say I've experienced psychosis due to stimulant use personally, but I see what you mean. For me it's maybe brought on instances of hypomania a few times, but I get how it could trigger issues in others, especially in high doses.

My instances of psychosis outside of depression/mania tend to be triggered by stress. I don't use drugs or take any stimulant medications, but they still just happen sometimes. It sucks. I'm thankfully not in an active episode at the moment, but I do suffer on a daily basis from the "negative" symptoms of schizoaffective disorder (i.e., the symptoms that take away function, like anhedonia, avolition, alogia, etc).
by yallpendantools | 2025-06-29 00:34:26+00:00
Being that I don't judge books by their covers, I don't really have a strong opinion on these trends. I do have, however, a very strong visceral repulsion to a few of the covers presented here. They are fugly as heck:

- "My Year of Rest and Relaxation" looks like the first time I discovered background images and `<font color=""></font>`. The title, of all things, is unreadable with that color. I googled and there are better versions (still with the pink color scheme, mind you) of this cover.

- "Disappoint Me" (or should it be written "DISAPPOINT ME"?) looks like the first time someone made a meme after they learned how to lasso-cut a portion of an image into a new layer. There is, again, that poisonous pink that does readability no favors. FWIW, it has successfully disappointed me indeed. There seems to be a version of the book that doesn't fit this trend but reads so much better.

- "Seduction Theory" I'm glad Clippy seems to have found a job at graphic design after that long stint as an office assistant. Alas, old habits die hard, I guess. Unfortunately, neither the Brush Script MT(-esque) label telling me it is a novel nor the Word Art effects give a seductive mood. It gives a very puberty vibe, however, as it reminds me when I designed the Christmas Party poster in my freshman year, and pop has just upgraded the family computer to MS Office 2003.
by martin-t | 2025-06-29 00:35:24+00:00
I wonder how many people see themselves as just temporarily embarrassed millionaires so they sympathize with the upper class where they feel like they should belong.

Or they just have no mental model of how incentives work. All this talk about abolishing copyright coming from people whose job literally consists of creating intellectual property. I have never seen one of them try to think it through and come up with the new equilibrium a world without copyright would settle into.