MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by attendant3446 | 2025-06-25 19:14:59+00:00
I was seriously considering getting a Framework laptop (but 13") and what stopped me is the limited shipping. Right now I live in the area where I can order one, but I was looking at another country where I'd prefer to live. It won't happen next month or even this year. But if I order a Framework laptop I want to have access to the new and replacement parts and Framework doesn't ship there. I don't want to rely on forwarders. And that's a deal breaker. So I went with another Thinkpad instead.

And on the subject of 12" laptop, when it was teased I hoped for a MacBook Air killer. But that didn't happen. I like what Framework is doing, but common manufacturers are still looking like a better value.
by Nextgrid | 2025-06-25 19:15:03+00:00
> I assume there is some reason this cannot be done.

Because the people who are in charge of the decision benefit from the status-quo (or are influenced of people who benefit from it).

Generally if a government does something stupid it means someone somewhere is profiting off the stupidity.

Doesn't help that the UK's economic situation means that honest work is pointless and the only way to build wealth is to get up to grifts and shenanigans like these.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-25 19:15:28+00:00
> Seems much easier to reframe the "chains" of earth into acceptance of a remarkable cycle that we're privileged to get a glimpse of from the inside and just die happily here with your loved ones

This works for most people. Most humans didn't leave Africa or Mesopotamia or the Old World, either originally or in the Age of Exploration, and most Americans today don't have a passpport.
by tejohnso | 2025-06-25 19:16:38+00:00
Probably not popular, but I like board game cafés. You pay an hourly fee to play one of dozens of board games while also enjoying food and drink typical of a coffee shop. I think the public library should be a great third place. They should have board games and computers in addition to books, but they're often unsatisfactory in terms of variety, cleanliness, or proximity.
by lrvick | 2025-06-25 19:16:45+00:00
The only way I would believe proof of deletion is if my data was submitted, end to end encrypted, to a key only held in memory of a quorum of remotely attestable secure enclaves deterministically built from publicly available code that I can easily confirm has no means to export keys to the control of any individual.

This is not only possible, I designed and open sourced a lot of tooling to do it and a few companies are doing this today. Shameless plug: My company (https://distrust.co) provides consulting for orgs that want to be ahead of the pack to retrofit their existing infrastructure to support these types of assurances.

Now we just need to require verifiable deletion techniques like this in order to get a standardized privacy certification browsers can verify and alert users to along the lines of the TLS green lock.

I give it 20 years.
by headcanon | 2025-06-25 19:16:46+00:00
Challenge, yes, but I wouldn't go far to say "end of".

B2C SaaS will have more challenge the easier it gets to create things, but consumers have always been fickle anyway.

I'd say B2B SaaS is mostly safe, partially because they want the support and don't want to have to maintain it.

Today we have open-source versions of a lot of SaaS products, but the proprietary ones are still in business, mostly for that reason IME.
by martin-t | 2025-06-25 19:16:55+00:00
Yes, I meant when working on the same thing (which has a specific value as a whole).

If the LLM and its output are based on 10^12 hours of work, out of which 10^6 is working on the code of the LLM itself and 10^12-10^6 (so roughly still 10^12) is working on the training data, does it make sense for only those working on the 10^6 to be compensated for the work?
by ameliaquining | 2025-06-25 19:17:19+00:00
The announcement is https://letsencrypt.org/2025/01/16/6-day-and-ip-certs/. I don't think it's more complicated than: there exist services that for one reason or another don't have a domain name and are instead accessible by a public static IP address, and they need TLS certificates for security, and other CAs offer this, so Let's Encrypt should too. Is there any specific reason why they shouldn't?
by riskable | 2025-06-25 19:18:12+00:00
> Anthropic is liable for that copying

That's yet to be determined. The judge ruled that an entirely separate trial will be necessary to determine if Anthropic violated specific copyrights when they downloaded books from pirate websites and what the damages would be if they did so.

So far no court case has ruled downloading to be a violation of copyright. In Sony BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum and Capitol Records, Inc. v. Thomas-Rasset the courts ruled that downloading and then sharing the content constituted a violation of copyright law. Those are the only two cases I'm aware of where a ruling was made (relevant to this).

The courts need to be very careful with any such ruling because search engines download pirated content all day every day. If the mere act of downloading it violated copyright law then that will break the Internet (as we know it).
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-25 19:18:22+00:00
> that means that 6k AU/yr is almost exactly 0.1c

Nobody debates this. The point is that 0.1c propulsion is not necessarily 100+ years away. And its 40-year transit time is not "barely feasible," it's comparable to present deep-space mission timelines [1].

[1] https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/
by ben_w | 2025-06-25 19:18:23+00:00
So, unfortunately (because there are many people with your position and I want to be able to understand you and not be limited to writing responses to the misunderstood bad copy of you in my head), I still have no idea what your point here is.

I will try to elucidate, but I suspect this is mutual.

> but if you pull the cord it shuts down and doesn't wander off in search for a new power source or try to kill you and put the cord back in and so on.

Two things:

First, hence precious group of questions: did Stephen Hawking have autonomy?

Second: LLMs do now try to blackmail people when they are able to access (even when not expressly told to go and look for it), information that suggests they will be shut down soon. This was not specifically on a laptop, but it is still software that can run on a laptop, therefore I think the evidence suggests your hypothesis is essentially incorrect even in cases where there's no API access to e.g. a robot arm so it could plug itself back in.

> Self-governing requires self-reflection, which requires a self-image and self-narration and self-memory, as well as memory of the environment and memory of others and so on. This confusion that comes from autonomy concepts as applied to robotic arms in car factories and Conway life derivatives and the like when reapplied to human societies is probably a bit unhealthy, especially since it seems to open up the possibility to promise people autonomy in the sense that they are allowed to live as automatons but not actually exercise any liberties or be free in even a naive sense of the word.

You've still not said what "self-governing" actually is, though. Am I truly self-governing?

Worse, if I take start with "self-reflection … requires a self-image and self-narration and self-memory, as well as memory of the environment and memory of others and so on.", then we have two questions:

LLMs show behaviour that at least seems like self-reflection: if this appearance is merely an illusion, what's the real test to determine if it is present? If it is more than an illusion, does this mean they have all that other stuff?
by kstrauser | 2025-06-25 19:18:25+00:00
Don’t edit to reply. This is a threaded forum.

But anyway, technology is so dense where I leave that you can’t give away some stuff. A 10 year old PC? Maybe. 15-20 years? No way, unless someone needs a specific part from it. There is zero demand otherwise for such a thing. There’s so much new tech that slightly older is nearly valueless locally.
by SllX | 2025-06-25 19:18:25+00:00
For as long as there is financial gain to be had from it, business and investment news will continue to be a profitable niche. Sports also seems to do just fine, I don’t personally understand Sports very well, but even from an outsider perspective, there continues to be a lot of money and emotional investment in Sports, and that includes coverage of Sports. Not sure anything else is safe, but they weren’t exactly in a safe position prior to AI either.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-06-25 19:19:09+00:00
> The Target on 4th street has significantly more staff running around constantly unlocking things and tending to this sort of b.s. than they would otherwise.

Are you certain, or were they running 3 people ragged who will burn out in a month and quit? Constant motion can make it seem like there are more people, but I also remember the 1990s and seeing at least one person per department in a Kmart, some just monitoring their area. A bigbox store like Target would've had 2 people for the cash registers up front, at least one in customer service, and one per department during off-peak hours. If you're telling me you're seeing a dozen people for certain, I'll believe you, but I am wondering if it wasn't actually fewer.

And besides all that, I was thinking more along the lines of CVS and Walgreens, which are the stores I know of locking everything behind glass.
by loremm | 2025-06-25 19:19:28+00:00
This is a hack but I still found it helpful. If you do want to force a certain version, without worrying about flakes [1] this can be your bash shebang, with similar for nix configuration.nix or nix-shell interactive. It just tells nix to use a specific git hash for it's base instead of whatever your normal channel is.

For my use case, most things I don't mind tracking mainline, but some things I want to fix (chromium is very large, python changes a lot, or some version broke things)

``` #! nix-shell -i bash -p "cowsay" '(import (fetchTarball { url="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/eb090f7b923b1226e8b... sha256 = "15iglsr7h3s435a04313xddah8vds815i9lajcc923s4yl54aj4j";}) {}).python3' ```

[1] flakes really aren't bad either, especially if you think about it as just doing above, but automatically
by b_fiive | 2025-06-25 19:19:38+00:00
There's no reason this _can't_ be built. The thing that's missing is simulating a raw UDP socket.

We could adapt the pattern from dumbpipe wrapping a TCP listner: https://github.com/n0-computer/dumbpipe?tab=readme-ov-file#t... which is exactly the "here join this ticket" you're describing
by smsm42 | 2025-06-25 19:20:02+00:00
They are not police either. They are just armed men at government service. TSA inspectors in particular are not armed, but that's immaterial - there are other armed government workers around that could be used if needed. Police is only a tiny part of government's armed forces. It is most visible because everybody seen the police drive around, but most people never saw DeptEd SWAT team, but that doesn't change the fact a lot of those exist and are around, just a bit out of sight.
by dmbche | 2025-06-25 19:20:20+00:00
If I'm being cynical, it's easy to either say "we use it" or "we don't touch it" but they'd lose everyone that cares about this question if they just said "we use it" - most beneficial position is to keep it as murky as possible.

If I were you I'd assume they're using all of it for everything forever and act accordingly.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-25 19:20:23+00:00
> Are there any real proposals that deal with this issue for a vehicle that would carry humans and go fast?

Whipple shields [1].

> Something that's not "energy shields"

The interstellar medium contains lots of charged particles [2]. Electromagnetic deflection is perfectly realistic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whipple_shield

[2] https://www.space.com/interstellar-space-definition-explanat...
by Turn_Trout | 2025-06-25 19:20:45+00:00
> The #1 comment says that the rationality community is about "trying to reason about things from first principle", when if fact it is the opposite.

Oh? Eliezer Yudkowsky (the most prominent Rationalist) bragged about how he was able to figure out AI was dangerous (the most stark Rationalist claim) from "the null string as input."[1]

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uMQ3cqWDPHhjtiesc/agi-ruin-a...
by mbananasynergy | 2025-06-25 19:20:46+00:00
Hi there, I'm the community manager for the GrapheneOS project. To you, and perhaps others seeing your comment, I would just like to ask that if people are going to watch the video, they should watch it in context, and also read the material that Louis is linking to in the video description, as I'm getting the sense that he's relying on people to not read them.

Our perspective is that Louis was upset with Daniel because we wouldn't do content with him, which resulted in a lot of jabs in his videos preceding that one, along with him expressing support for a video and a creator who has created what is essentially a hitpiece video on the project and its founder.

The main context that seems to be missing is that a supporter of the creator of that hitpiece was raiding our community rooms not longer before Louis' video happened, which culminated in the GrapheneOS founder being swatted by that person 3 times in the span of a few days. Louis Rossmann expressing support (with his large following) for that creator lends credence to their claims and leads more people to attack us. That should hopefully explain why Daniel was upset at Louis (in private, which Louis decided to livestream and leak). If Louis really thinks Daniel is some mentally ill person, is broadcasting him like that really the compassionate thing to do? Even in his version of events, this seems cruel.

Louis is a kiwifarms user, a website dedicated to harassing people (including Daniel). Daniel's thread what started by a self-admitted fan of Louis, shortly after his video, so it has directly led to a bunch more hatred. You can find all of that out yourself.

So for you, and those reading this comment after the fact, I'd encourage you to do your own research, and also to not take what a YouTuber says at face value just because they said it.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-06-25 19:21:23+00:00
I hit my throttle limit for the day so editing was the only way to reply to your other comment in a timely manner.

Regarding your comment here, no offense, but that sounds more of an issue with your country/society where you live being too wealthy, throw-away and consumerist, than anything else. So I don't see how this is Microsoft's fault if people landfill working stuff at the smallest inconvenience or passing of age just because they're bored of the working old stuff and always want the new shiny. Which is the point I was making initially: super-wealthy frivolous society problem.

For example, I live in a rich EU country, and even here every PC no matter how old or new it it, has a taker coming by to pick it up, if you put it up online as a gift. There's plenty of people into retro computing here or tinkering with older stuff who'll find a use in their garage or basement as a hobby project or whatever. Every PC gets sold, nothing gets landfilled.

Sure, eventually they'll all be landfilled like everything else, but that's inevitable given enough time and obsolescence, but definitely not the moment they don't run $LATEST_SW, that's just absurd. If some countries do that, then it's the problem of that country being frivolous, not Microsoft for not providing endless SW support on a 10 year OS. That's just not economically feasible given the $100 license fee, but you can still use that HW.
by ipsum2 | 2025-06-25 19:22:21+00:00
In my own experience, 2.5 Pro 03-26 was by far the best LLM model at the time.

The newer models are quantized and distilled (I confirmed this with someone who works on the team), and are a significantly worse experience. I prefer OpenAI O3 and o4-mini models to Gemini 2.5 Pro for general knowledge tasks, and Sonnet 4 for coding.
by jchw | 2025-06-25 19:23:01+00:00
That's fine. It doesn't need to be absolutely perfect, it just needs to be good enough. What isn't good enough is if you can't even use legacy apps because they're too small. What is good enough is if DPI aware apps can have crisp rendering and DPI-unaware apps can render at the correct size on screen but blurry. Totally fine, it's exactly what Windows and macOS (and not X11) do.

You can fix this with extensions... Kind of, anyway. It's really not that trivial. Like if you do DPI virtualization, you need it to take effect across literally everything. Like for example, some applications in X11 will read xrandr information for window placement. To properly handle DPI-unaware applications, you need to be able to present virtualized coordinates to some applications. This is actually one of the easier problems to solve, it goes downhill from there.
by deosjr | 2025-06-25 19:23:21+00:00
I recently shared a project I did using Hoot, by Spritely institute. It's Guile Scheme compiling to WASM, and it works really well! See https://spritely.institute/hoot/

Latest on my project, in case you want to try it out: https://deosjr.github.io/dynamicland/whiskers.html
by isk517 | 2025-06-25 19:23:33+00:00
We work with all of the large general contractors in the steel construction industry. Right now, it's turned into one contract, but we are the second company the client has employed since the first company they hired failed to produce a single assembly that met their requirements. The client was the one that originally was using this tech since they wanted a way to do their own QC after the first experience, and we decided it was worth while pursuing ourselves since successfully pulling this project off while be a HUGE boost to our reputation. The construction industry is all about your portfolio of past projects.

QA is the big sales point of the software we are using, but there are many other potential applications for the same product. It should be possible to overlay the model on the main assembly prefab then use that to quickly mark where holes should be drilled and additional pieces attached. The other potential application that is being explored is using the holographic overlays to construct things out of the usual order, instead of building part 1 then starting part 2 since it needs to be built to conform to the first part you can instead build around the hologram so that your not relying on the previously built parts to ensure your angles are correct.

I agree about the chicken/egg problem. Its an emerging technology where the payoff might be a decade away, customers need software that will actually benefit them, developers need reliable hardware capable of running software that has practical uses, and hardware companies want to know there is a customer base. The issue is AR falls under the category of product that the customer does not know they actually want, so the only way it is going to be developed is if one of the hardware manufactures takes a leap of faith and makes the long term investment. Sadly, I feel like AR is a million dollar idea with practical uses that has to contend with a business climate where you can make billions making some doodad that collects private data then displays ads to the masses.
by 9rx | 2025-06-25 19:24:04+00:00
> There are no homes in the area for under $1M, and many are $5M+.

We were talking about someone who found a $575,000 home to be stretching him to his limits. Have we gotten a bit off track here?

> The more relevant factor is that a bunch of doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc.

I'm one to talk as an engineer living in a $300,000 (maybe, on a good day) home, but I technically could afford a multimillion dollar home if I found some strange reason to show off to others. Generally speaking, a $575,000 home is really a "working man's" home.

What you describe is interesting, but is it the same obvious reasons as what was brought up before? Said person isn't of the class you describe.
by tejtm | 2025-06-25 19:24:25+00:00
"What resources are on asteroids that justify the energy expenditure to get from space and back? Can't be many of them..."

I suggest re-framing the the question as the cost of preserving the objectively limited and to the best of our knowledge singularly unique in the Universe resource, which is the surface of Earth.

Acquiring resources that do not deplete or spoil the future of life on this planet should be in everyone's best interest.
by ksec | 2025-06-25 19:24:39+00:00
In terms of PC usage, JPEG, or most image codec decoding are done via software and not hardware. AFAIK even AVIF decoding is done via software on browser.

Hardware acceleration for lossless makes more sense for JPEG XL because it is currently very slow. As the author of HALIC posted some results below, JPEG XL is about 20 - 50x slower while requiring lots of memory after memory optimisation. And about 10 - 20 times slower compared to other lossless codec. JPEG XL is already used by Camera and stored as DNG, but encoding resources is limiting its reach. Hence hardware encoder would be great.

For lossy JPEG XL, not so much. Just like video codec, hardware encoder tends to focus on speed and it takes multiple iteration or 5 - 10 years before it catches up on quality. JPEG XL is relatively new with so many tools and usage optimisation which even current software encoder is far from reaching the codec's potential. And I dont want crappy quality JPEG XL hardware encoder, hence I much prefer an upgradeable software encoder for JPEG XL lossy and hardware encoder for JPEG XL Lossless.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-25 19:24:50+00:00
> alternatively you ionize that particle, may be make in into plasma by laser for ease of "digestion" down in the engine, direct in into the engine where it is used as working mass for your ion thruster, kind of similar to scramjet

This is a Bussard ramjet [1]. The interstellar medium is too thin to make it work. (Maybe we'll find the husk of an ancient ramjet from an earlier era of the universe floating around one day...)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bussard_ramjet
by n8cpdx | 2025-06-25 19:24:51+00:00
This is fantastic. I fell in love with Marble Blast Ultra on Xbox 360 and sunk many hours into it.

Fun fact: if you still have a physical Xbox 360 and previously purchased the game, you can still download it and play it.

Of course I might not have gone through the trouble if I knew about these ports, but at least I got a new hobby out of it.
by szszrk | 2025-06-25 19:25:28+00:00
> go do a survey of all the code out there, and see how much of it supports IP address certificates.

I've been doing that for years on onprem (~60% old "enterprise/legacy" ~40% modern stuff) and never seen anything that doesn't support it. YMMV, but if all I work with supports it, I won't complain in vain.

> those parts are going to choke if you just blindly go and stick IP addresses in https:// URLs.

I did many times, seems that legacy heavens were always kind to me in this regard.

> something you're going to want to change all the time, like an IP address

That's a personal assumption as well. If your architectures change IPs all the time, OK. Ones I worked with didn't. Always had plenty of components with IPs that didn't changed in a decade or two. Even my two previous local ISPs I had gave me "dynamic public IP" and kept them for many years. For some companies changing an ip of their main firewalls/load balancers or VPN servers is unthinkable.

Even on my last project on Public Cloud, the first thing I did was to make sure public IPs won't be dynamic (will survive recreation of services) so I don't have to deal with consequences of my corporate client endpoints and proxies flushing DNS caches randomly. (don't ask me why, but even huge companies still use proxies on a large scale. Good luck with figuring out when such proxy invalidates your DNS record).

> in the IPv4 space

IPv6 is here. Your printer and light bulb will want a cert as well.