MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by samrus | 2025-06-07 23:40:24+00:00
It matters alot. Both the employee and employer are benefitting from government spending, the employee shouldnt have to foot the whole bill. That is dytopian

If corporations were able to operate in a high trust fashion and actually take responsinility for their tax burden properly, instead of trying to shirk it, then this policing wouldnt be needed, but we dont live in that world
by thomasahle | 2025-06-07 23:40:46+00:00
> Don't misinterpret me, human errors do happen in those contexts because, well, we're talking about humans, but not as catastrophically as the errors committed by LRMs in this paper.

If your argument is just that LRMs are more noisy and error prone in their reasoning, then I don't disagree.

> I'm kind of tired of people comparing humans to machines in such simple and dishonest ways.

The issue is people who say "see, the AI makes mistakes at very complex reasoning problems, so their 'thinking is an illusion'". That's the title of the paper.

This mistake comes not from people "comparing humans to machines", but from people fundamentally misunderstanding what thinking is. If thinking is what humans do, then errors are expected.

There is this armchair philosophical idea, that a human can simulate any turning machine and thus our reasoning is "maxomally general", and anything that can't do this is not general intelligence. But this is the complete opposite of reality. In our world, anything we know that can perfectly simulate a turning machine is not general intelligence, and vice versa.
by layoric | 2025-06-07 23:41:16+00:00
Different strokes for different folks. Motivation for me has been a combination of independence and mistrust. Every single one of the larger tech companies have shown their priority to growth above making good products and services, and not being directly user hostile. Google search is worse now than it was 10 years ago. Netflix has ads with a paid subscription, so does YouTube. Windows is absolute joke, more and more we see user hostile software. Incentives aren’t aligned at all. As people who work in software, I get not wanting to do this stuff at home as well. But honestly I’m hoping for a future where a lot of these services can legit be self hosted by technical people for their local communities. Mastodon is doing this really well IMO. Self hosted software is also getting a lot easier to manage, so I’m quite optimistic that things will keep heading this way.

Note, I’ve got all the things you mentioned down to the UPSes setup in my garage, as well as multiple levels of backups. It’s not perfect, but works for me without much time input vs utility it provides. Each to their own.
by antoniomika | 2025-06-07 23:42:58+00:00
Currently, you can either provide the `BORG_REPO_PERMISSIONS` env var to borg [0] or `--permissions` flag to `borg serve` [1]. You can then enforce this as part of your `authorized_keys` command, for example.

[0] https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/blob/3cf8d7cf2f36246ded75...

[1] https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/blob/3cf8d7cf2f36246ded75...
by stevenwoo | 2025-06-07 23:43:10+00:00
That figure does not include outside supporters spending campaigns. It's disingenuous to not include dark money spending. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/final-price-t... It's closer to 1.8 billion for Harris supporters versus 1.4 billion for Trump supporters in 2024. That also does not include various media outlets bought in the past decades, including One America News/Fox/Sinclair sandbagging for Trump for the last eight years, at this point, shouldn't one include the budget for Fox News and OAN and Sinclair not to mention the spiking of negative news stories/opinions by LA Times/Washington Post? Even CNN was bought in past year by conservative and the leading story last month for a while was Jake Tapper's book about Biden.
by Retric | 2025-06-07 23:43:16+00:00
Biden fucked up in many ways, but he also got a lot of flack from bad timing and poor messaging. It’s easy to say COVID hurt Trump in 20 and Kamala in 24, but I think the details mattered.

The inflation rate fell significantly under his presidency, but during periods of high inflation prices soared. Coming back from that after generations of extremely low inflation would have been tough for someone without failing facilities. I think a great politician could have weathered that storm, Biden wasn’t up to the task and Kamala’s messaging didn’t help.

Republicans getting out ahead on that inflation messaging similarly did wonders for Trump and other Republicans. Planting the idea that America somehow didn’t do well when we did far better than the rest of the world was brilliantly executed IMO.
by Ccecil | 2025-06-07 23:44:28+00:00
My expert machinist friend (mold/tool maker) calls it "couch machining". It appears like he isn't working but really in his head he is laying out the entire process from start to finish. Then when he goes to CAM it up it flows very quickly and the entire part is already mostly planned.

I think often people who don't visualize in their head can't grasp this...it appears as inactivity. The reality is it seems to be a hyperactivity...procrastination comes from having too many tasks and directions with unsolved solutions. (in my case...)

Another way to put it I have heard is "Thinking is working". If it doesn't appear like I am working...I am likely thinking.
by Braxton1980 | 2025-06-07 23:44:45+00:00
Since each person has one vote why would outliers matters? It doesn't seem that length of terms doesn't even help with leadership roles The Democrats minority leader is Hakeem Sekou Jeffries who was elected about 12 years ago and Mike Johnson has been in the house for 8~ years. There are R and D members who have been in the house longer.

* or whatever the threshold is
by atleastoptimal | 2025-06-07 23:45:44+00:00
Not sure what you're getting at

>How would you judge the impact of 'technology' over the past 20 years? The 20 years before that were pretty revolutionary too...

Yes and I never said they weren't. We are living at the tail end of many revolutions whose timeframes shorten with each one. Five years ago people would call it sci-fi if you could say you could ask a computer to create a photo-realistic video of a person singing an original song from a text prompt, now it's just one of many new releases each month. Is every AI release strictly practical? No, but it's impossible to deny the real impacts many releases have had, including Alphafold.

>But fear mongering, playing on insecurities, that gets investor money for the hope some fraction of wealth can be accumulated by peddlers of such insecurity. You are a useful distraction.

Are you claiming that AI startups and companies diving headfirst into AI products and R&D are just fearmongering for investor money? Strange to say because most of these companies (google, meta, Openai, etc) don't speak much about the risks of AI, but rather the upside of empowering people. Most FUD comes from their detractors who claim that AGI will lead to human disempowerment, but if that were an attractive narrative for the aforementioned companies to peddle for economic gain, how come they all are distancing themselves from that claim?
by garyrob | 2025-06-07 23:46:24+00:00
"In an alternate timeline, HyperCard was not allowed to wither and die, but instead continued to mature, embraced the web..."

In yet another alternate timeline, someone thought to add something like URLs with something like GET, PUT, etc. to HyperCard, and Tim Berners-Lee's invention of the Web browser never happened because Hypercard already did it all.
by mindslight | 2025-06-07 23:46:58+00:00
"I only just realized!" is obviously disingenuous, but it suffices for the routine plausible deniability.

The real distinction is whether you believe that someone who has done bad deeds can be supported for other reasons, or whether they need to be repudiated in their entirety. For example even if you know Trump is a child rapist (and you condemn child rape), but you think as President he's going to do good for the country, you can still support him for President while being intellectually consistent [0].

This is separate from the issue of whether the person who has done wrong should face justice (eg continuing, you can think that Trump should go to jail but modulo that not happening, that he will do good for the country [0]). And separate from the issue of whether someone in a position to facilitate justice happening has an overriding duty to do so (I don't think Musk is in this position either though. Trump's one actual skill is escaping consequences).

> This means Musk knowingly contributed to get a pedophile elected! He couldn't have learned this at the last minute, he obviously held this ace in his sleeve...

> This already should "impeach" Musk (informally) in the eyes of his supporters: this is a guy who would help get a pedophile elected president if it would suit his business vision.

The second does not immediately follow from the first. Modulo the larger distinction I made above, it may just be the case that every second powerful figure is some kind of child rapist or similarly morally bankrupt, and this has been normalized, so even if you have morals to be applied you just have to hold your nose to get anything done. I have no idea, but I do know Epstein was connected to a lot of people.

You're also imparting a narrower business vision rather than political or moral where such compromises would be see as more justified. So no, these events might indict Musk in your mind further, but I don't think this is a universal conclusion.

> Trump has an expiration date. I suppose he can do lots of immediate damage to Musk, but he must do so now. Musk, as the world's richest person, has a much longer shelf life and more time to do damage to the US and the rest of the world, and bizarrely, has a large cult following.

I've got the complete opposite take on this. Trump has his hands on the actual levers of power, power which continues to acrete the more he destroys our institutions. Whereas Musk seems close to his limit with buying Xitter and blackmailing politicians (about funding opponents). It feels like Musk is just an avatar of the terrible dynamics of wealth concentration, which are present regardless of him personally. While Trump is actively pushing our society off a cliff in a way we will not be able to come back from. Just a feeling per my own heuristics, I'll have to ponder this more.

[0] just to be very explicit this is certainly not my own view about Trump!
by timewizard | 2025-06-07 23:48:01+00:00
It looks to me like:

for (one, two, three) |uno, dos, tres| { ... }

My eyes have to bounce back and forth between the two lists. When the identifiers are longer than this example it increases eye strain. Maybe it's better when you wrote it and understand it, but trying to grok someone else's code, it feels like an obstacle to me.
by kibwen | 2025-06-07 23:48:24+00:00
Regarding debunking the skooma merchant murder anecdote:

> The addicts live in a locked cabin, so it’s unlikely for the player to enter it unless they are specifically looking for it.

This is overlooking a crucial, obscure, and unintentionally hilarious detail: not all the skooma addicts are in the cabin! Out in the world are two NPCs who make a monthly inter-city trip to the den to get their fix. However, due to a bug where these NPCs are assigned to the wrong faction, they can't actually get through the locked door of the den, so they'll stand outside the door drinking skooma forever, unable to progress to the step of the AI package that would eventually return them home to their usual schedules, unless the player unlocks the door for them. https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Trenus_Duronius
by macNchz | 2025-06-07 23:48:44+00:00
It's effectively malware—this article has some more detail: https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/meta-and-yandex-are...

Basically, they created a channel between the browser and a localhost webserver running in their native apps, by abusing the ability to set arbitrary metadata on WebRTC connections. That way, they were able to exfiltrate tracking cookies out of the browser's sandbox to the native app, where they could be associated with your logged-in user identity.
by 9d | 2025-06-07 23:50:14+00:00
> It was exciting working at Apple, knowing that whatever we invented would be used by millions of people.

I admit it is exciting to make something you truly believe is good and helpful.

And that it's disappointing when that thing isn't used by anyone.

It's even worse when it turns out it's just not that useful.

But in the end, everything is replaced anyway. So I guess it's fine.
by Retric | 2025-06-07 23:50:17+00:00
> It perfectly illustrates a case where the government intentionally subsidizes a liability that no sane company would take on without government funding. Well said.

LOL, try again liabilities like buildings don’t need incentives. Software that is only barely worth maintaining isn’t worth subsidizing, highly valuable software needs no incentives.

If anything you’re making a solid argument government should discourage the creation of software so only the most valuable software is created and maintained. Except the optimum economic efficiency as so often happens occurs without government incentives.
by zdw | 2025-06-07 23:50:39+00:00
> docker

There's your problem. Docker adds indirection on storage, networking, etc., and also makes upgrades difficult as you have to either rebuild the container, or rely on others to do so to get security and other updates.

If you stick to things that can be deployed as an upstream OS vendor package, or as a single binary (go-based projects frequently do this), you'll likely have a better time in the long run.
by somat | 2025-06-07 23:51:57+00:00
Yes, this adds a couple of nice features, it is easy to go back to any version using only normal filesysem access and because they are hard links it only uses space for changed files and you can cull old versions without worrying about loosing the backing store for the diff.

I think it sort of works like apples time-machine but I have never used that product so... (shrugs)

Note that it is not, in the strictest sense, a very good "backup" mainly because it is too "online", to solve that I have a set of removable drives that I rotate through, so with three drives, each ends up with every third day.
by aapeli | 2025-06-07 23:52:01+00:00
> This turns into a surprisingly intense experience. I get to meet people in their most intimate space and bond over late-night conversations in ways that never would have happened otherwise.

This is much like the couch surfing experience: staying with people for a few days and sharing their space, which often ends in these deep, late-night conversations. It's an incredible experience.

There are a few platforms for that, I recommend Couchers.org. It's free & open source (and I'm one of the core maintainers).
by baby_souffle | 2025-06-07 23:53:03+00:00
> I already addressed this: unintentional leaks from regulated companies are very rare. It's not a perfect system, but it works to some extent.

The corpus of HIBP would indicate that leaks are not rare. Your definition of "some" may need re-calibration.

I would prefer that this data not exist to begin with; can't leak and de-anon data that was never captured.

> In which of these scenarios does having the ISP issue an age-token make things worse for the customer? I really cannot think of one, but I'm open to changing my mind.

Having to bother with any "confirm you are an adult human" _at all_ is a hassle. Any and all circumstances that require this makes things worse for the customer and generates data that may risk de-anonymizing the customer.

And why bother when I still can't figure out what stops under-age me from buying/borrowing/stealing somebody else's token?
by DanjelDurmo | 2025-06-07 23:53:38+00:00
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by unyttigfjelltol | 2025-06-07 23:54:10+00:00
So does that mean you are persuaded or that the author doesn't have the right pedigree for you to listen? Because when you set aside the author's idiosyncrasies, there is indeed something remarkable.

Drinking sulfate won't repair broken sulfur metabolism, but it's completely plausible that a subset of people maintained adequate day-to-day function with the benefit of sulfate-laden water, and now fall below the threshold with sulfate mostly removed.
by Braxton1980 | 2025-06-07 23:54:51+00:00
Maybe? This isn't a direct connection and I'm not sure a voter from that state would care unless it was legislation that DIRECTLY benefitted them, maybe their state, or at best the country overall.

Even when a massive security funding bill was put forth the years after 9/11 to provide additional funding to NY, US ports, and other national security areas they had to pad the bill with funding to protect areas that wouldn't likely be targeted just to get support.

https://www.heritage.org/homeland-security/report/the-specte... (Yes it's insane that I'm linking to these horrible people)

That means even with a bill that is vital to US security, could be wrapped in patriotism, and at a time when NYers had sympathy from the rest of the country representatives were still selfish as fuck.
by baobun | 2025-06-07 23:54:51+00:00
For metrics and monitoring, can highly recommend victoria-metrics + vmagent + vmalert + prometheus-node-exporter. Rock solid, lean and performant. Documentation isn't all there and some of the debian packages aren't stellar (so you may want to build your own, which is ezpz) but IME it's a reliable stack.

They do integrate with Grafana much like Prometheus but we are not happy with Grafana[0] and recommendations for something low-maintenance we can drop in to the above stack instead would be awesome.

[0]: Why? Managing dashboards/plugins in an airgapped IaC setting is like pulling teeth at every other turn. Then at one point supposedly we had the container version pinned (by tag not sha, lesson learned) but yet at some point an image update from Docker Hub broke most of our dashboard/data-source links so now those dashboards are broken and I'd rather try something new before I recommit to Grafana.
by automationist | 2025-06-07 23:55:41+00:00
If anyone's wondering, here's a short sample. It quietly updated last night, and I ended up chatting for like an hour. It sounds as smart as before, but like 10x more emotionally intelligent. Laughter is the biggest giveaway, but the serious/empathetic tones for more therapy-like conversations are noticeable, too. https://drive.google.com/file/d/16kiJ2hQW3KF4IfwYaPHdNXC-rsU...
by 33hsiidhkm | 2025-06-07 23:56:21+00:00
If you are familiar with John Lilly (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Lilly), you may notice some similarities with Musk. Lilly used/abused ketamine and began to believe in some form of extraterrestrial oversight of earth, something like that. Musk keeps tweeting about "simulation theory", and to me sounds totally deranged. He says he thinks reality is a simulation (batshit imho), and that boring simulations are cancelled, and only exciting ones are allowed to run (by whom..?), stuff like that. He's out of his mind. I am not choosing sides here, and Trump's behaviour is absolutely deplorable (again, imo).
by romaaeterna | 2025-06-07 23:56:24+00:00
In Classical history, we've got a number of competing historiographers that we can compare with each other, and a large about of archeological remains. Our estimates of how wealthy any given period of the Roman empire was are based on numismatics, built artifacts, etc. In comparison, this sort of thing is just a wild claim taken at face value (also something not done in Classics).
by gruez | 2025-06-07 23:56:29+00:00
Nowhere in the article did it advocate for forcibly killing or sterilizing people. If your objections are over selecting for desirable traits, what are your thoughts on screening for down syndrome and other genetic diseases? Are those also bad because "These dreams of improving the race can get nightmares very quickly. Lets not repeat that"? Is it better to ban such genetic screening lest we turn into nazis?
by acheron | 2025-06-07 23:56:41+00:00
I was wondering recently about where the original sin of “light mode” came from. Guess it was him!

> The Apple II displayed white text on a black background. I argued that to do graphics properly we had to switch to a white background like paper. It works fine to invert text when printing, but it would not work for a photo to be printed in negative. The Lisa hardware team complained the screen would flicker too much, and they would need faster refresh with more expensive RAM to prevent smearing when scrolling. Steve listened to all the pros and cons then sided with a white background for the sake of graphics.
by Grosvenor | 2025-06-08 00:00:12+00:00
Michael Abrash's black book of graphics programming. They heard about a "buffer", so implemented the only non-stupid thing - a write FIFO. Turns out the competition had done the most stupid thing and built a read buffer.

I teach this lesson to my mentees. Knowing that something is possible gives you significant information. Also, don't brag - It gives away significant information.

Just knowing something is possible makes it much, much easier to achieve.

https://valvedev.info/archives/abrash/abrash.pdf