MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anticensor | 2025-06-20 05:18:00+00:00
Windows 11's CPU cutoff is to avoid Spectre/Meltdown software workarounds, and anything older than the cutoff are vulnerable to privilege escalation attacks by Spectre, Meltdown and derivatives.

While the TPM and RAM requirements can safely be bypassed, user apps (e.g. Adobe CC and certain anticheats) may assume those requirements are satisfied.
by dwohnitmok | 2025-06-20 05:18:37+00:00
> It was criticized widely outside of the rationalist community, but the takedowns were all dismissed because they weren't properly rationalist-coded.

Do you have any examples of this that predate that LW article? Ideally both the critique and its dismissal but just the critique would be great. The original HN submission had a few comments critiquing it but I didn't see anything in depth (or for that matter as strident).
by notepad0x90 | 2025-06-20 05:20:42+00:00
Sorry for ignorance but I have no idea what the DSA is.

That said, you hit it on the nail when you said the US isn't a democracy. that's only half way true but let's fix that! If the we're not a democracy then free speech still means nothing either way. US citizens are being abducted and disappeared in broad daylight, what free speech do you have when that can happen to you?

But if democracy is working right, and that is the premise I made my original statement under, and we owe allegiance to our country than explicit and outright betrayal of your country isn't free speech. it is exactly what it is and should be treated as such. Anything short of that falls under the half-measure bucket I mentioned earlier. It is nursing a festering wound until it causes sepsis and kills the whole body.

I would even argue that the loss of democracy you're talking about has to do with the culture of half-measures. Protests that affect or risk nothing, people being outraged but not acting on it (voting or more). Tolerating nazis under "free speech" is why there are nazis running the country right now. These people should have been buried under prisons a long time ago.
by FeepingCreature | 2025-06-20 05:22:10+00:00
I don't see how your argument puts my initial argument into doubt, tbh. If IQ isn't real but SES-and-education are, well then SES-and-education is the thing that you pick up at a glance. I'm not sure that the specific construction of causation here matters.

But also sure, I tend to assert my opinions pretty strongly in part to invite pushback.
by trod1234 | 2025-06-20 05:24:11+00:00
The Wildcat banking era was still fiat currency, and you are right that era wasn't an improvement.

Having no fiat currency would be an improvement compared to the economic instability we've had today. Fiat currency forces a boom bust bailout cycle with no visibility, and a long lag time between cause and outcome. One could argue we are in the biggest everything bubble starting from the 1970s moving forward and its just waiting to pop, and the resulting debasement of economic capital formation which is based in purchasing power has led to fewer children, a population bomb where the limits of growth and the dynamics force a mass die off from deflation or socio-economic collapse.

Bankers are entrusted with great responsibility, and there have been crises on average every 8-10 years going back to the 1970s when the peg to gold was removed. There have been crises before that time, but they were largely the result of poor interventions or no intervention at all (i.e. Coolidge failed to regulate the rural banks leading to the Great Depression).

There have been many crises, even with non-fiat currency, but the non-fiat currency scandals were recovered from often much more quickly. The recovery for the most recent crises weren't really recovery, the currency was straight out debased which dramatically widened the wealth gap as the banks were bailed out. Now they don't even need to keep a fractional reserve (0% @ the Fed).

Unrestricted printing of money throughout history shows one thing repeatedly, the nation that does it falls to ruin because the same structure printing the money cannot regulate itself, and corruption between such groups (leadership and banking), inevitably place that control in the same wheelhouse. It can be thought of as a limited visibility n-body astrophysics problem with isles of regularity but chaos. When you print money, the orbits (of value) are moved in comparison and either escape, or they collapse chaotically with time, and its otherwise immeasurable since the forces are distributed and lagging.

You might find these analysis interesting. There is also the book, "The Creature of Jekyll Island".

https://som.yale.edu/sites/default/files/2022-01/II__metrick...
by throwaway2037 | 2025-06-20 05:25:38+00:00
> But then, how can Linux exist? How does that square with “never break the user space?”

Hot take: This catch phrase is out of date. For Linux desktop normies like me who don't really care about the stability of the Linux user space API, user space does break when GUI libraries (and the myriad of libraries dependencies) change their APIs. For example, I mostly use KDE, which depends upon Qt libraries for its GUI. Qt regularly introduces breaking changes to their API during each version increment: 4->5->6, etc. (I don't hate them for it; it is normally carefully done and well-documented.)
by Too | 2025-06-20 05:26:58+00:00
> "Kubernetes isn't opinionated enough"

yes please, and then later...

> "Allow etcd swap-out"

I don't have any strong opinions about etcd, but man... can we please just have one solution, neatly packaged and easy to deploy.

When your documentation is just a list of abstract interfaces, conditions or "please refer to your distribution", no wonder that nobody wants to maintain a cluster on-prem.
by Llamamoe | 2025-06-20 05:29:24+00:00
I think the simplest explanation would be simply that people align with ideology that serves them best, e.g. people who are less fortunate(in terms of health, life circumstances, etc) tend to align with left-wing equity and welfare messages, whereas it's no big secret that the right wing generally seeks just to preserve status quo, discrimination and inequality included, and that's much more likely to attract people who are happy with their lot in life.

Furthermore, the very act of caring about state- and world- level issues, of believing that climate change, sexism, racism, and other discriminations are rampant and big issues - is stressful. This would additionally explain why women are most affected - because misogyny directly affects them as a group.

As someone else pointed, the "self-reported" part is important too. Liberals are much more likely to talk about and admit to mental health struggles, while conservatives are more likely to tough it out and save face - because, somehow, even mental health has become politicised in the US.
by kachapopopow | 2025-06-20 05:29:35+00:00
This is simply not true, maintaining a k3s(k8s has a few gotchas) cluster is very easy especially with k3s auto upgrade as long as you have proper eviction rules (maybe pod distruption). Ceph can be tricky, but you can always opt for lemon or longhorn which are nearly zero maintenance.

There's thousands of helm charts available that allow you to deploy even the most complicated databases within a minute.

Deploying your own service is also very easy as long as you use one of the popular helm templates.

Helm is by no means perfect, but it's great when you set it up the way you want. For example I have full code completion for values.yaml by simply having "deployment" charts which bundle the application database(s) and application itself into a single helm chart.

You can't just "jump into" kubernetes like you can with many serverless platforms, but spending a week banging your head to possibly save hundreds of thousands in a real production environment is a no-brainer to me.
by antisceptic | 2025-06-20 05:29:59+00:00
Is that POST in the readme sending the password in the query params? Is this shorthand or literally adding them to the params?

I don't really feel the need for a curl replacement. In the past I've used httpie which is pretty slick but I end up falling back to writing tests in python using requests library.

Maybe I'm not the target audience here, but I should still say something nice I guess. It's nice that it's written in Rust, and open source tooling is in need of fresh projects ever since everyone started bunkering up against the AI monolith scraping all their work. We should celebrate this kind of project, I just wish I had a use for it.
by hemogloben | 2025-06-20 05:30:18+00:00
> Treating people under 18 is a politically losing issue.

Treating people as 'a politically losing issue' is weird to me. There are certainly some nuances to <18 transgender care, but that statement doesn't address any of them and just suggests we embrace political cowardice.

> When policies around it changed, that tipped the scales from the public ignoring trans women or seeing them as victims, towards many members of the public seeing them as monsters who are out to get their children.

This is worse. It wasn't because politics around it changed, it was because republicans (upset that they could no longer target gay people), reused the same crappy arguments against trans people, and then wrapped it in a pedophilic flag.

The change in policy is just effective propaganda making people concerned that random doctors are allowing their children to get sex change operations without consent, when that isn't how ANY of this works. Children <18 can socially transition, get puberty blockers, and MAYBE get hormone treatment. WITH parent consent.

The fact that the media and comments like yours continues to pretend its a reasonable 'discussion' perpetuates the nonsense.
by Fire-Dragon-DoL | 2025-06-20 05:33:56+00:00
I don't get it. Assuming your commits have meaningful messages and description, why squashing them? You can use git log --merges-only (I think that's the arg name) and all the sub commit are hidden, however you can still search through them to get a clear idea of why something was refactored a certain way.

So,where is the noise if it can be hidden but also used to get additional information on code changes?
by 9rx | 2025-06-20 05:34:06+00:00
> people who are less fortunate(in terms of health, life circumstances, etc) tend to align with left-wing

Typically that is the case in large cities, but the opposite is generally true elsewhere. The least fortunate communities in the US are by and large hardcore right-leaning.

But perhaps you accidentally stumbled upon the real significant factor? We do, after all, know that rural/small town dwellers are happier than large urban dwellers: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/05/17/peopl... Their philosophical leanings may have nothing to do with it; just mere correlation.
by skinnymuch | 2025-06-20 05:34:40+00:00
Read other comments then. Not everyone is saying “they think they are better than us”.

The primary issues as others have noted is they focus on people going to the highest paying jobs without much care for morality of the jobs. Ergo they are fine being net negatives in terms of their work and philosophy.

All they do is donate money. Donations don’t fix society. Nothing changes structurally. No root problems are looked at.

They largely ignore capitalism’s faults or when I’ve seen them talk about, it’s done in a way of superficially decrying capitalist issues but then largely going along with them. Which ties into how they focus on high paying jobs regardless of morality (I’m exaggerating here but the overall point is correct).

—

HN is not intelligent when it comes to politics or the world. The avg person here is a western chauvinist with little political knowledge but a defensive ego about it. No need to be sad about this comment page.
by godelski | 2025-06-20 05:35:59+00:00
> so denying someone a visa before they enter the US based on speech may be Constitutionally ok.

It probably applies outside. Pay careful attention to the text

| Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

It does not say anything about when, where, or who utters speech. It only says that congress shall pass no law prohibiting it. It's highly debatable, but honestly speaking, let's be real, this right has no borders. Even if we look back to the intent, it is clear. We should ensure that it does not gain borders, because that will not be good for anyone, including citizens.

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-1/
by w10-1 | 2025-06-20 05:37:03+00:00
This approach is misguided, as are most applications of copyright to AI.

Copyright violations are a form of stealing, like conversion or misappropriation, where limited rights granted are later expanded.

The "substantial similarity" test is just a way courts have evolved to see if there was copying, and if it was important -- in the context of human beings. But because it doesn't really matter if people make personal copies, and because you have to quote something to criticize it, and because some art is like other art -- because that level of stealing is normal -- copyright built a bunch of exceptions.

But imho there is no doubt that though a book grants the right to read for the sake of enjoyment, the right to process the text for recall or replication by automated means is not included in any sale of any copy -- regardless of whether one can trigger output that meets a substantial-similarity test.

"All Rights Reserved"

I understand case law and statutes state nothing like this, and that prior law does more to obscure than clarify the issue. But that's the take from first principles.
by bmandale | 2025-06-20 05:37:06+00:00
Suppose we can compile and execute our code at such a speed that a given line of code will be executed the very instant after we press run. In this case, a choice printf line will execute at the same speed as typing print in our debugger. The benefit of the printf line is that we are in effect scripting our debugger to print some data every time that line is reached, without having to type it over and over. For one thing, this allows us to more easily go backwards in the execution, since we are really rerunning the program from scratch each time. We can also much more easily execute a whole litany of prints, which we can then scan for some expected data. The advantage of the debugger remains in the first place in languages that lack strong compile time reflection, such that only the debugger can reliably print the data we want to see, and in the second place in the myriad instances where we cannot get the compile+execution speed down to an acceptable time. I suppose debuggers are also useful when you have a core dump you want to analyze. Besides that I would consider the printf strictly superior.
by mrtksn | 2025-06-20 05:37:41+00:00
Honestly, indies freaking out about EU is something I don't find justified. All the EU regulations are intended to regulate tech giants or provide some tools to the law enforcement when something nefarious going on and most importantly EU doesn't have an EU police to go after you, these things are actually enforced on local level.

That is, EU(which is an organization made of representatives from all those countries) comes up with a regulation and all the countries make a law or something in line with that regulation. When a platform for distribution asks you for EU regulation stuff that's most likely about the laws in the country they incorporated.

Anyway, can you name a single indie dev who got in trouble with EU because they failed to comply with some technicality?
by skinnymuch | 2025-06-20 05:38:21+00:00
They aren’t motivated by morality. They just are more moral relative to the niches you referred to.

Any group that focuses on their own goals of high paying jobs regardless of the morality of those jobs or how they contribute to the structural issues of society is not that good. Then donating money while otherwise being okay with the status quo —- not touching anything systemic in such an unjust world but supposedly focusing on morality is laughable.
by FeepingCreature | 2025-06-20 05:38:29+00:00
Sure, that's fair. I kinda wish the topic wasn't politicized so we could just get scientists to hash it out without having to ask "is that a scientific conclusion or do you think it would be politically disadvantageous to come to another answer".

My own view is "IQ is real and massively impactful", because of the people I've read on the topic, my understanding of biology, sociology and history, and my experience in general, but I haven't kept a list of citations to document my trajectory there.
by queenkjuul | 2025-06-20 05:39:36+00:00
I'm not uninformed, and i don't "not care," i agree X needs replacing and i wish all the best to Wayland as a project.

Unfortunately, it doesn't do what i need, today. So what am i supposed to do? I'm going to keep using what does what i need until a viable alternative emerges. Nothing political about it.
by ai_legal_sus | 2025-06-20 05:39:39+00:00
One runs the risk of being reductive when examining a mechanisms irreducible parts.

User expression is a beast unto itself, but I wonder if that alone absolves the service provider? I imagine Blizzard has an extensive and mature moderation apparatus to police and discourage such behavior. There's an acceptable level of justice and accountability in place. Yet there are even more terrible real-life examples of illicit behavior outpacing moderation and overrunning platforms to the point of legal intervention and termination. Moderating user behavior is one thing, but how do you propose moderating AI expression?

A digression from copyright - portraying models as a "blank canvas" is itself a poor characterization, output might be triggered by a prompt, like a query against a database, but its ultimately a reflection of the contents of the training data. I think we could agree that a model trained on the worst possible data you can imagine is something we don't need in the world, no matter how well behaved your prompting is.
by lmm | 2025-06-20 05:40:06+00:00
> Code-as-a-Database is something lots of people would like to have, but not much effort has been put into implementation since... Smalltalk?

It happens in some forms of Bank Python, but there's not much of it going on in the public/open-source world. I think because the advantages for a lone developer are small, and it's hard to maintain for an internet-based project since globally distributed databases are still expensive, bad, or both.
by FeepingCreature | 2025-06-20 05:41:02+00:00
Um, I asked Grok and aren't IQ tests soft-outlawed under disparate impact? As opposed to skill qualifications, it's hard to prove that, say, you need to be "intelligent" to work at a certain job. You would end up having to argue that intelligence even exists in court, which I can see why companies would try to avoid- ie. disparate impact creates a reversed weight of evidence. If your test has disparate impact, you now have to prove that it's necessary, creating a chicken-and-egg problem.
by protocolture | 2025-06-20 05:42:30+00:00
Distinction without a difference. A country is a theoretical concept that is associated with a piece of land.

If a country thinks a place that you have a right to be, is that country, it doesn't diminish your right to be there.

Like for the right of return, it doesn't matter what flag is flapping in the wind, the refugees have an equal right to return to their homes. Its actually the missing link in most discussions about Israel. They could have their single state solution with literally zero fanfare if they just let everyone return to their land. The issue is that they have settled other people on that land in the mean time, and ultimately their goal has always been settlement. So they have to resist the return of those refugees.
by vintermann | 2025-06-20 05:44:07+00:00
To get out the original data from a compressed file, you just need to know the algorithm used (and for almost all formats, the file tells you).

To get out the original data from an LLM, you need to supply... the original data. Or at least, a big chunk of it.

The actually copyrightable chunk of it, arguably, since what a LLM can generate on its own is only its most predictable, unoriginal, generic chunks. Things it's seen a thousand times.

Which may turn out to be an uncomfortably high % of most creative works.
by minetest2048 | 2025-06-20 05:44:41+00:00
Its not your normal soda-lime glass, its more of a glass-ceramic material that have very low coefficient of thermal expansion, something like zerodur: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zerodur , which means it can keep its shape and focus even under varying temperature

Interesting demo by Huygens Optics: https://youtu.be/qi8jmEbWsxU?si=rj0I3k-l74Xhg7vC
by MoonGhost | 2025-06-20 05:46:05+00:00
> Rust and x86 assembly

then

> Memory-safe language.

What's the point? Looks like today Rust is like 3D printing was. As if it makes something better. Printing was hyped and advertised by printers sellers and manufacturers. Finally they run out of money.

As for project, it's cool if compatible with old soft. Otherwise suitable mostly for education and masochism. Long way to become practical anyway even if it gets traction.
by titanomachy | 2025-06-20 05:46:12+00:00
The Supreme Court is only involved because a state passed a law banning these treatments, and someone brought a case against the state saying the law is unconstitutional. Deciding which laws are unconstitutional is like the main purpose of the Supreme Court.

But I guess what you’re saying is why is the state passing these laws, which is a fair enough question. The Supreme Court says they are allowed to, and they are the authority on which laws are allowed, so I expect the states will keep doing this sort of thing until the voters tell them not to.

Plato did try to warn us that democracy was a terrible idea.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-06-20 05:48:39+00:00
>I work in a research lab with 10s of 1000s

I've been there.

I assume the research equipment is the usual uncommon specialized non-consumer (expensive) electronics, and the PCs involved are of course the exact opposite, cheap commodity office machines no matter what you do.

And Windows comes along for the ride.

Naturally IT has trouble just keeping up with the OS as it morphs, and their ratio of non-technical users over technical-minded is through the roof on the office machines, they're packed to the gills with boneheaded problems even if Windows never changed, so they're never going to have what a research place needs.

All the technology is there, you just have an IT gap.
by otabdeveloper4 | 2025-06-20 05:51:19+00:00
24 gigabytes is more than enough to run a local LLM for a small household or business.

This is "gaming PC" territory, not "space heater". I mean people already have PS5's and whatnot in their homes.

The hundreds of gigabytes thing exists because the big cloud LLM providers went down the increasing parameter count path. That way is a dead end and we've reached negative returns already.

Prompt engineering + finetunes is the future, but you need developer brains for that, not TFLOPs.
by matijsvzuijlen | 2025-06-20 05:51:47+00:00
In such cases, I generally checkout main, do the side quest, and rebase my original branch on top of it. Then, I can just continue without waiting for the side quest to be merged. Depending on the situation, I may make a separate PR for the side quest, but I don't have to wait for it to get merged.

Alternatively, if you don't like rebasing, you can merge the side quest branch into your project branch instead.

Either way, you don't have to wait for the side quest to get merged.