MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nullc | 2025-06-29 18:12:27+00:00
People's privacy expactations are miscalculated in a world with LLMs. Before LLMs there was little reason to care if you were leaving breadcrumbs, because no one with access was going to investigate them and draw conclusions from them.

The fact that the LLMs are prone to hallucinations and fanciful conclusion jumping probably make things worse, because the only way to be safe from it wrongfully concluding things about you is to just be invisible to it.
by exiguus | 2025-06-29 18:12:47+00:00
I thought about more then two options. For example when you have 10 TV or Radio Channels. They are numbered from 1 to 10. And only one channel can be chosen. Or for example, you can buy concert tickets, maximum is 4 per purchase. You may want radio buttons with a number from 1 to 4. Or you have to choose a color or size for a t-shirt (Mostly they look like buttons but there functionality is radio).
by charcircuit | 2025-06-29 18:12:53+00:00
If they are successfully able to get a gTLD as described in the article everything will be able to use them. My original post in the thread said that this is a big deal if they are able to pull this off, so either I feel you misread my point or I don't understand what you arguing, maybe that Brave will stop renewing the gTLD when it goes out of business?
by esjeon | 2025-06-29 18:13:40+00:00
I've done the same several times with different media. I've used notebooks, wikis, post-its, Obsidian, etc, to organize my thoughts and ideas, but in the end, I've rarely revisited them.

Don't get me wrong - it's still critical to keep track of important information in one way or another. But your own thoughts usually aren't part of that. You are always you, so given the same situation, your future self will likely come up with the same idea you have now (or something even better). That's why keeping track of quick ideas rarely bears fruit.

What you really need to track is unusual information:

- something not from you

- something you can't easily reproduce

- something that sparks new ideas you wouldn't have on your own

In other words, keep the sources of your ideas, not the ideas themselves. This leads to a much lower noise-to-signal ratio because you're more likely to consume well-formulated information, at least much better written than your scattered quick notes.
by vel0city | 2025-06-29 18:13:55+00:00
Your main point was based on an untrue statement of "in front of the press" and attributing their writers making statements as official binding correspondence from a company and yet you say I'm making bad faith arguments. It wasn't a press event, it was a developer training session.

A newspaper repeating an official position that can't be found anywhere else other than a guy giving a talk about live tiles and other news sites like this. And yet we don't care about that he also stated live tiles weren't going away and yet that clearly wasn't true either.

And in the end even if we take an article written by someone unaffiliated with Microsoft as a contract that now binds Microsoft forever, what's "the life of the device"? The warranty period? Two years? Five years? One hundred years?

Where are my pancakes? I saw someone wrote you were going to give free pancakes. After all we have to hold people to things they never officially stated just because other unrelated people keep repeating it.
by bo1024 | 2025-06-29 18:14:17+00:00
The point is that when it "never stops", there are models of ZFC in which the "infinity" number of steps it runs for isn't considered infinity by the model, it's a made-up "nonstandard" number that is smaller than infinity but larger than any integer. And that model considers that to be "halting", so that model says the TM halts.
by Lerc | 2025-06-29 18:14:34+00:00
Well I only addressed the mouse slip because that was the one you hilighted becore you edited you post to include the others.

I doubt any of it was rationalising for LLMs considering I was trying to address the contention that humans do not make moves counter to rules that they know. The performance of LLMs has no bearing on that claim one way or another.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-06-29 18:14:41+00:00
The intent is to disable the capability to ignore the data. If you allow access to someone else, you're not preventing the data capture and dissemination. If the data shows hurricanes are intensifying in strength due to climate change, and you no longer capture the data, you can say with a straight face "No it isn't and you can't prove it."

How large systems with exposure to these places (insurance, capital markets) respond is what you should look to next. What do you do when you don't have the data to accurately price risk?

Relevant comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43366311

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42450680

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41664750 (top comment of this thread aggressively relevant)
by johnecheck | 2025-06-29 18:14:58+00:00
My assumption is that UBI is a significant transfer of wealth from the richest to the rest. Isn't that the whole point? Exactly how to structure the taxes that pay for it is naturally a key question.

Given that, it's pretty safe to assume markets that cater exclusively to the ultra-wealthy will be harmed by reduced demand as their customer base shrinks. Higher tax rates will also exert downward pressure ob stock values as companies make less profit and investors tighten their belts. (Especially if there's a wealth tax.)
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-06-29 18:15:00+00:00
Male vs female differences, including differences in typical sex-specific sexual attraction, are obviously genetic, even if we've yet to figure out all the specifics (where are the male's "curve detector" genes, etc).

Do men and women both have the coding for male/female attraction, with one typically disabled ? This perhaps seems most likely, in same way both sexes have nipples, etc. Without knowing exactly how this all works we can only speculate how male/female genes can combine to create same-sex attraction. Obviously it's not so simple as inheriting a gay gene from one of your parents!
by Animats | 2025-06-29 18:16:07+00:00
"The persistence of schizophrenia is an evolutionary enigma. It is a disabling psychiatric condition that reduces the likelihood of having children, and yet it has roughly 1% lifetime prevalence worldwide. Traditional evolutionary hypotheses, such as those invoking kin selection, mutation-selection balance, and evolutionary mismatch don’t quite explain this."

Much the same could be said for gayness. If it were genetic, it should have been eliminated by evolution by now. Which suggests that it's not.

There are some differences in incidence of schizophrenia in populations.[1] Birth order matters, slightly, with prevalence higher for firstborns. (This is the reverse of homosexuality and left-handedness.) Migrants have higher rates of schizophrenia than non-migrants. Women vs. men, about the same. Rural vs. urban, about the same.

What the original paper suggests is that they didn't discover anything significant. It's more like a discussion of feedback control problems near a cliff, but by people who don't know about that part of control theory.

The title is overly dramatic for the results.

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...
by heavyset_go | 2025-06-29 18:16:19+00:00
Humanity is still subject to evolutionary pressures. We are "natural" and what we do is "natural", and if something like our environment were to drastically change as an evolutionary pressure, selection would absolutely happen.

Consider a change in environment where, for example, oxygen levels drastically drop. That might make living at altitude deadly for those who don't have genetic adaptions to high altitude living.

As an extreme example, in ~500 million+ years when the sun starts expanding, you can bet natural selection will finish off non-extremophiles that aren't living deep within the Earth.
by ajsnigrutin | 2025-06-29 18:17:00+00:00
Sure, but he'd make more if he wasn't taxed so much.

In my country, from the customer to the persons net paycheck, a bit over half goes to the government (vat, 2x different benefits, income tax).

Every time someone mentiones taxes, the rich and the poor over here, the average (ie. people earning around average income) get taxed more, the rich on paper earn nothing, and the poor get taxed the same (because there's nothing more to take).

I'd much prefer a system where an average joe would pay a lower percantage of taxes (ie. a tax break), and people like bezos would actually get taxed at the same rate instead of paying zero throug loopholes).
by gpm | 2025-06-29 18:17:09+00:00
My main point continues to be entirely true, the statement was unambiguously made in front of the press, as proved by the press quoting it.

The same statement as quoted by the newspaper (note: not a blog) globalnews can in fact be found elsewhere, quoted by other press sites. I didn't find the original - perhaps it was taken down or only made in a press release - but since e.g. arstechnica includes it in literal quotes I have no doubt that this is a literal quote of an official microsoft position..

Considering your continued bad faith arguments, and apparently deliberate mistatements of facts, I will now stop responding to you.
by Jensson | 2025-06-29 18:18:25+00:00
The difference is that VC fueled startups is a very small part of the economy while communist regimes are the entire economy.

Imagine if every company was as wasteful as VC fueled startups and life would be hell, imagine going to the new smart grocery store where prices changes by the minute and now you have surge pricing since many wanted to buy toilet paper this minute...
by eweise | 2025-06-29 18:18:51+00:00
Part of the problem is that the barrier to entry is really low now. In the old days, you had to be relatively talented on your instrument, hone your skills for years playing clubs to gather an audience, and then a record label would finally give you a contract. Now you can download Logic and it will generate most of the music. You just sing along, autotune your vocals and you've got a tune that can be uploaded to Spotify, Apple Music, etc. I just saw MonoNeon in concert. His albums are mediocre but I'm guessing he's making an ok living because he's extremely talented on bass. The place was sold out.
by MangoToupe | 2025-06-29 18:19:10+00:00
Well, yes. Encouraging people to avoid Marxism and all the successive schools of thought has done irreparable damage to this country (and likely the entire west). And I'm not even dogmatic about this: you can read Schumpeter, the father of VC, to reach the same conclusion. Private investment will eat the world and our childrens' lives, even at the cost of self-preservation.
by aabhay | 2025-06-29 18:19:35+00:00
Tbh it would be really cool for there to be a TLD dedicated to extremely cheap names, on the order of 0.1-10c. This could enable all kinds of fun use cases, including automated ones.

Lets say the domain is .anything, and your domain had to be at minimum 10 characters to limit the use of squatted names”. Then you could build a website for one purpose like “lets-go-get-pizza-tomorrow.anything” or whatever. Perhaps there could be a mandatory expiry or something.
by card_zero | 2025-06-29 18:19:42+00:00
By end of the sequence shown on the page, the contiguous part has only reached 61. After that it's full of gaps: it's hit 1689, but has not yet hit 62. The last three differences shown there are 59, 60, 61. So it will list all integers mainly because the differences are increasing similar to the ordinary number line.
by mindslight | 2025-06-29 18:19:46+00:00
This is good and all. But if they were to remove all of the bits aimed at giving up on the United States, chopping it up, and giving away the pieces to corpos, there would be nothing left. So maybe it's just better to stop trying to pass any of this big ugly spending bill, and start coming to terms with having put a con artist in the White House who doesn't have the first clue of how to actually solve any of the problems he campaigned on.
by pizlonator | 2025-06-29 18:20:01+00:00
> This is a very sensible way to pick a technology for a government.

No, it's not, for the simple reason that the government has more than adequate resources to recreate a Fil-C-like with a team, or even just add people power to Fil-C.

The fact that it only took one dude working in his spare time 1.5 years to make C memory safe suggests that the whole narrative of the OP is wrong. The problem isn't that people aren't using memory safe languages. The problem is that nobody is funding just making C memory safe.
by wkat4242 | 2025-06-29 18:20:19+00:00
There are so so many of these already...

- Tinc (the OG of P2P VPN)

- Hamachi (not open though)

- ZeroTier

- Nebula (from Slack)

- Tailscale

- Netbird

I wonder why people keep building more. I know each has its own quirks and things they're better at, but the difference is really quite minimal.

One of the things I really would like is zero-trust 'lighthouses'. With current Zerotier and Tailscale, you really have to trust them because they can add nodes on your account whenever they want. I don't want that, I want fully self-hosted and for the lighthouses to just coordinate but not to be part of the network. I have to do some research to see what would be best.
by jprd | 2025-06-29 18:20:21+00:00
When I was growing up, I was always fascinated by a very similar installation at the Educational Center at the Five Rivers [1] park in Upstate NY.

The whole point of the place is to walk trails and watch the wildlife in different natural NY environments in the area, concentrated in one park.

The bees were always the first and last thing for me.

[1] https://dec.ny.gov/places/five-rivers-center
by labster | 2025-06-29 18:20:40+00:00
I don’t know man, I would have believed this wholeheartedly ten years ago. But people are choosing true authoritarianism in droves. People just keep voting for Trump, Orban, Erdogan, and Le Pen. Trump is extremely transactional.

All of which is great news for China, and a great victory for their ‘do nothing: win’ policy.
by theturtle32 | 2025-06-29 18:21:12+00:00
This is what always frustrates me: why do companies need to bother with "pathological late stage optimisations" at all, if not for perverse incentives in the fundamental economic and political structure of how companies operate? Why is reaching a growth plateau perceived as stagnation instead of success? Why must a company feel pressured to grow forever, without bound? What's wrong with building a business to sustainability and equilibrium? Why does this almost never happen? Why do we instead see enshittification literally EVERYWHERE?
by vel0city | 2025-06-29 18:22:06+00:00
I've seen multiple posts now suggesting you're giving free pancakes. Where are these pancakes? You haven't said you aren't giving pancakes, must be true.

> and apparently deliberate mistatements of facts

Yeah, you should stop misstating facts like "Microsoft employee tasked with public relations declaring it so at a Microsoft event in front of the press is Microsoft marketing it that way", because that's not what happened.

> as proved by the press quoting it.

The quotes you see are from the recordings of the event. Are Netflix movies also statements given to the press? You can go watch it today. Instead you'll ignore actually looking into it and say I'm just making misstatements despite you not even knowing the source and the history of it.
by tecleandor | 2025-06-29 18:22:32+00:00
The "Spaniard" was mostly for reference, as right now I can't remember who sent me the information about the exams, so it might not apply to Europe or Spain.

But the documents required (at least previously to recent changes) for the license transfer were [0]:

1. Application form for Japanese Translation of foreign driver’s license 2. A driver’s license (original, in principle) 3. A photocopy of a residence card or a resident record etc [...] only required for licenses written in Arabic or Russian and licenses issued in certain countries[...]

And it didn't mention any residence documents. I don't know how that works today...

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0: https://english.jaf.or.jp/use-jaf-more/drive-in-japan/foreign-nationals-license
by suzzer99 | 2025-06-29 18:23:03+00:00
Yeah, in this case it seems to be menopause + losing her job and having all the free time and nothing to focus on plus who knows what other stressors. I think something bad happened with her Phish friends.

The really tough part for me is she was out of work, so I paid her to be a beta reader for my book. She's a brilliant person and very detail-oriented. She went way over and beyond what I asked for. She spent months and took three passes on the book making different kinds of notes. Then her problems seemed to come on right at the end of that. I worry that all the increased mental activity, and then suddenly not having anything to focus on again, might have been the trigger.
by motorest | 2025-06-29 18:23:21+00:00
> Until we start viewing "fanciful" ideas as realistic, our problems will persist. This article is another in the long series of observations of seemingly distinct problems which are actually facets of a larger problem, namely that overall economic inequality is way too high.

I actually read the article before going into the comment section, and your comment was surprising and baffling by how detached from the content of the post it was.

There are plenty of exploitation arguments made in it, but if you read the article is income inequality one of them? Well, no.

> It's not just that musicians, or actors, or grocery store baggers, or taxi drivers, or whatever, can't make a living, it's that the set of things you can do to make a living is narrowing more and more.

I think that this conclusion is far-fetched if your starting point is the actual article. The music business is notorious for being virtually impossible to make a living, even if you are an international act. There were plenty of examples from decades ago up until now of musicians from popular international bands with packed international tours not being able to afford to quit their day job to make ends meet. If your income comes from selling tickets to the public, sometimes directly, and you still cannot generate a livable income, the problem is not income inequality. The problem is that there is not enough demand for what you're selling to make it a viable business.

I mean, if your primary source of income is playing shows and not enough people want to spend money to attend them, why do you think the fact that some people earn way more than you is even relevant?

> Broad-based solutions like basic income, wealth taxes, breaking up large market players, etc., will do far more for us than attempting piecemeal tweaks to this or that industry.

Here is a though experiment: does your assertion hold valid if you replace "store baggers" and "taxi drivers" with "contortionists" or "jugglers"? Because while "store baggers" and "taxi drivers" aren't exactly activities associated with upper middle class income levels, they are activities that most people are coerced to have because they have no alternative to make a living. Musicians are another story altogether, and associated with people pursuing their dreams. In fact, there is that age old cliche about third generation wealth being artists and academics because their exceptional wealth allowed them to pursue their dreams.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-06-29 18:23:29+00:00
While it's true that a pegged currency is like using the euro with respect to current purchasing power, that definitely isn't all that matters and it isn't the most important consideration either.

Here is something more important - having your own currency and its associated banking infrastructure serves as an insurance against applying financial pressure to the country, such as stuffing non-repayable loans down the country's throat and then gorging on indefinite loan extensions with high interest rates and amounts - a strategy used so many times but mentioned so very rarely.

Case in point - Greece, that happened to them right after they went all in on the euro and killed their drachma.

It might be that Bulgaria has been tied up to the conveyor belt already and there is no way out of the slaughter house, I don't know the case enough to judge, but in principle, the EU would work much better as a customs union, politicizing it has proven to be a dirty affair.

Putin Putin aside for now, he's irrelevant anyway.
by geoctl | 2025-06-29 18:23:47+00:00
I completely agree with you. And tbqh since almost everybody in the thread is complaining about the README then I must be really doing something wrong explaining Octelium and what it does. I will certainly put more effort to make the README and especially the main description section more useful and easier to understand without transforming it into more of a marketing pitch. As I mentioned in other replies, it's actually really hard to concisely describe fairly complex projects (e.g. Kubernetes, Istio, etc...), especially to newcomers. But I will definitely do my best to improve the docs and README. Thank you really for your insightful comments.
by Sateallia | 2025-06-29 18:23:50+00:00
I use Bazzite on my Steam Deck for better Btrfs, Decky Loader and Waydroid support. Support for these things on SteamOS via community projects are fragile (Decky Loader breaks often with Steam updates, steamos-btrfs runs a payload that may or may not work after updates, the widely used Waydroid installer comes with prebuilt kernel modules which I am not okay with). Bazzite has purposes other than installing SteamOS on unsupported devices.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-06-29 18:24:30+00:00
> Much the same could be said for gayness. If it were genetic, it should have been eliminated by evolution by now. Which suggests that it's not.

There are very plausible explanations for the genetic basis of gayness. One is that being gay is essentially a "byproduct" of higher fecundity in women - I'd have to search for the study, but gay men with sisters tend to have sisters with more kids than the norm.

The other is the "guncle" hypothesis (which is related to the previous one). While gay men and women do not have their own biological children (at least through gay relationships), they are able to spend additional resources on their nieces and nephews. Anecdotal obviously, but it certainly worked this way in my family. As a guncle I helped pay for my niece's education (and was happy to do so because I don't have to care for children of my own ).
by breppp | 2025-06-29 18:24:55+00:00
Except that it's not a genocide, claiming Israel is out to destroy the Palestinian people after two years of war with precision bombs is hilariously incorrect and highly misrepresented.

There's a reason that your example includes mass civilian executions, rapes, ethnic cleansing and burning villages, largely hamas' tactics, rather than precision bombs and evacuation calls in different channels.

Because Israeli tactics are extremely counterproductive for a genocide. There's reasons why genocide is usually done by concentrating populations rather than dispersing, and why aerial bombing can't be used, as victims would flee, or why the victims aren't forewarned..

It seems this entire popular argument rests solely on propaganda and redefining words without any shred of critical thinking