MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Bender | 2025-06-16 16:21:36+00:00
For grid-down data my preference would be laser instead of RF as laser is regulated by the FDA and not the FCC not that either would take interest. With laser one could send incredibly large amounts of data very fast. It's more manual setup but I would expect once set up it would be far more reliable, better for setting up mountain top repeaters and meshes. Laser is also better for data privacy encryption aside as the beam is directed to a target vs. omnidirectional broadcasting. During grid-down most people that would be using a mesh would be at static locations. One could then bridge in these RF omnidirectional devices into the mountain and home repeaters to prevent over-saturation.

Another nifty feature of a manually positioned laser is the automatic measurement of time domain. One could have an optional security feature to automatically disable the data-stream if the time domain of the laser changes in physical distance of more than {n} user-defined meters or centimeters to prevent MitM (Monster in the Middle) beam interception for the extra properly paranoid types.

There can be weather issues for laser but for that one could fall back to voice using any one of the hundreds of makes and models of HAM gear that can operate on and around 11 meters by moving a jumper or holding down two buttons when it is powered on. Illegal but only enforced by monthly example of someone impacting revenue generating sites. Voice changers and scramblers FTW. RF signature ignored. Don't use sloppy SDR's. In a grid down event TLA's will be busy with higher priority issues and will "look into it" eventually by which point the transceivers mysteriously vanish assuming one can even get the TLA to show up.
by jjice | 2025-06-16 16:21:53+00:00
I used these a lot as a kid and always disliked them. Pens and pencils are strange because there's su ch a wide range of preferences for such a simple thing. Something about them always irked me and I honestly don't know what it is.

The BIC Round Stic, however, I love. I bought a box of sixth like a decade ago and still have like thirty left. Super simple, super cheap, and just great for me.
by vinhatson | 2025-06-16 16:23:40+00:00
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by kreetx | 2025-06-16 16:24:09+00:00
Yes, but isn't the current situation based on a technicality then? Assuming that reaching that when anyone reaches US law enforcement gets everything in the constitution applied to them and then must be let into the country because they only want freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. I guess the workaround for this would be to have outposts in other countries where non-US law enforcement personnel is denying entry - this would be ok, as the constitution doesn't yet apply.

Or, I wonder if the the people for whom denying entry was wrong don't base their decision on a technicality, but would actually prefer foreign political activists to enter the country. I wonder if this is tied to the foreigner's specific agenda, or would they also like the opposing side to be let in. To me, this sounds either a way to get supporters for their own opinion, or, on the latter case, recipe to increase chaos.
by timr | 2025-06-16 16:24:18+00:00
It's based on a short story published by Akiyuki Nosaka [1] which was based on his own experiences, and in general, the fate of many children after the war [2].

As far as I can tell, the movie was a faithful re-enactment of the story, which itself was only slightly removed from the author's own experiences. War is fundamentally depressing, and the only thing you could reasonably call "oscar bait" was the choice to make the movie at all. Others might call it brave -- particularly when you realize that it was released at the same time as Totoro. The brilliance of the film was that it used "kids animation" to portray the misery of war in a way that I don't think any other movie ever has.

It was a fundamental re-imagining of the scope of the medium, and the deep irony of a comment like the GP is that the entire reason it gets dismissed is because it pushes the boundaries of animation far beyond what is usually deemed acceptable.

Miyazaki plays metaphorical footsie with themes like death and pain and obligation -- and maybe he's more successful because of it -- but Takahata just takes them head-on.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_of_the_Fireflies_(short_...

[2] https://thoughtmight.com/movie/grave-of-the-fireflies-misinf...
by 542354234235 | 2025-06-16 16:24:29+00:00
A very layman’s explanation I read a long time ago. Imagine you are in a car driving in a big open desert. You can drive in any direction you want. You can drive East or South or West or North, or some degree between them. But the more you travel East, the less you can travel North or South. The more you travel North, the less you can travel East or West. If you drive completely North, you aren’t traveling at all in the East/West direction.

Spacetime is like that, except North/South is space, and East/West is time. The more you travel through the spatial dimension (the faster you go) the less you travel through the time dimension (the less time passes for you). Photons are traveling completely through the spatial dimension (North/South) and so aren’t moving through the time (East/West) dimension at all, so from a photon’s perspective (if they had perception) no time ever passes so they would zip around “instantly” and never “experience” anything.

It is also why the speed of light is the fastest you can go. Once you are going 100% North, you cannot be going any more North.
by ndriscoll | 2025-06-16 16:24:42+00:00
How was it unsustainable? As far as I know they were simply competent. They charged $1/year, so had ~half a billion in revenue, right? They probably could've bumped that to $2-$5/year with similar uptake. And they ran it with ~500 servers and 50 employees 12 years ago, so could probably do the same with ~50 or fewer servers today.
by mjburgess | 2025-06-16 16:26:03+00:00
I think there's different kinds of autism, which imv, you could spread across a schizophrenia axis -- "low reality" and "high reality" sorts. My own classification system:

The more schizophrenic kind imparts a fantasy framing on everything which can give rise to a disorganised imparting of mental capacities that I think is fairly uniform across objects, including people. This appears as "too few mental capacities" on people, and too much to objects. This a "living in their own world, dreaming" type. Dreamer-type.

At the other extreme, it's a difficulty in establishing any kind of fantasy framing (without significant support, eg., in video games / films). This is an officious, "the rules really exist, and we must follow them" type. Officious-type.

Incidentally, imv, there's a third sort you might call dissociative, where irony is the main mode of relation to the world and others. This is an unstable blending of the two perspectives: the ironic performative frame is at once a kind of fantasy, but a sort of fantasy which seeks to make the very adopting of fantasy impossible. Irony-type.

I think quite a lot of "high-engagement culture" (ie., the type which requires a lot of its audience) is really autistic culture of these varieties in interaction.
by wcoenen | 2025-06-16 16:28:01+00:00
> We carried out an online survey, administered via Survey Monkey

This type of thing, where they do some statistics on survey data, seems to be fairly typical in psychology research. But I find it hard to believe that you can actually get good data from self-reporting in surveys.

There must be selection effects: "The survey was advertised on social media and through the researchers’ own networks".

And the questions may not be interpreted by the respondents as imagined. What does it mean if you select "None of the above" in their core question? That you think that objects have no attributes whatsoever? "Do you ever view objects as having: Gender / Human-like attributes / Feelings / Other / None of the above"

See also "replication crisis". Psychology is at the center of it.
by jeremyjh | 2025-06-16 16:28:17+00:00
Every "scientific" name for mental disability eventually becomes a slur or name. Idiot and moron were considered proper terms at one point in time. "Retard" was never proper but is easily derived from "mental retardation", which was. In the 80s/90s there was a push to use "special" as a euphemism and it was immediately picked up as a slur, I think both usages have been long-since abandoned as a result.

Autistic is also being used this way but its long-term fate is not so clear to me.

In general euphemisms cannot keep up with bigotry, I rather consider it a lost cause.
by chii | 2025-06-16 16:28:23+00:00
> this would be unlicensed use

which is exactly what the parent poster is implying - the hoovering up of data off the internet may not be unlicensed use. After all, the information is not what's copyrighted, but the expression of it only.

By calling it stealing, it already presupposes the idea that such hoovering is unlawful, before it is made clear that it is unlawful. And it prejudices the "jury" so to speak - the language for which you call the subject can influence other people's perception.
by myself248 | 2025-06-16 16:29:14+00:00
Trouble is a Linux-on-a-key that you've never used before, is still a long way from being productive without a network to install all the packages you actually want to use.

It takes me about a month after a reinstall or new machine, to feel like I've really spread my wings and have everything installed that I initially forgot about. So I guess the recommendation would be "daily-drive it for a month before refrigerating it". And at that point, you might as well just make it your everyday machine.
by roryirvine | 2025-06-16 16:29:18+00:00
Other way round. Facebook bought them in 2014, and they dropped the fee in early 2016.

The fee wasn't enforced in many developing countries, and some users elsewhere will have been jumping through the delete-and-reinstall hoops (which was painful because it lost chat history) to avoid paying.

But with 1bn active users at the time the fee was dropped, it would still have been bringing in more than enough revenue to have sustained Whatsapp as an independent business if they had chosen not to sell to FB.
by Molitor5901 | 2025-06-16 16:29:40+00:00
I think the idea of self-driving needs to be strongly re-evaluated. There are countless videos of people in their Tesla's driving down the road.. from the back seat. FSD is simply not feasible right now, but it seems that when people let Tesla Take the Wheel, they are easily duped into assuming it will always work - when it doesn't.

Until there are federal standards and rigorous testing of self-driving vehicle technologies they should not be installed, or advertised.
by tuckerpo | 2025-06-16 16:30:02+00:00
I’ll admit, I’ve shown some of the same symptoms you’re describing. Not out of malice, but as the end-state of long-term burnout and disengagement, at an old job, many years ago.

In my case, it was a slow, creeping decline. I started out hungry: shipping quality work, stepping up for projects well beyond my role and pay grade, even leading teams through fire drills and heroic launches. And the reward? A generic "atta boy!" and more work. Never the raise, the title bump, or real recognition.

My attitude over the span of years regressed considerably, shifting from a bright-eyed aw-shucks happy-go-lucky get-it-done engineer, and asymptotically approached, "dude, please leave me the fuck alone" whenever I heard a Teams ping or an Outlook inbox notification.

Really just smells like symptoms of extreme burnout, the input of which can only be determined by talking to this person. Could be 10 years is far too long in one job and they just want to coast now, could be personal reasons like a divorce or death of a close relative, could just be mid-life crisis, could be "I've got 1.8mm in my 401k, what're you gonna do, fire me?"
by larkost | 2025-06-16 16:30:11+00:00
In many cases the work is not really voluntary, there are sanctions for not taking it. Prisoners in some states are regularly put into solitary confinement for not "volunteering" to work these jobs (a punishment that some areas deem torture). With that amount of coercion I can't see them as voluntary, and so the slavery label is awfully close to the mark.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-06-16 16:30:17+00:00
> it turns you into a code reviewer

Yes. Not only is this the least enjoyable part of the job in general for me, I think it is a task that a lot of devs, even pretty diligent ones, wind up half assing

I personally don't mind reviewing coworkers code because I think it is an opportunity to mentor and learn, but that is not really the case with LLM generated code. That code review becomes purely "Does this do what I want and does it match the style guide"

I would much rather LLMs review my code than the other way around. Unfortunately even that workflow is more annoying than anything, because the LLM is often not a good reviewer either

I think I just expect more reliability out of the tools I use.
by nightpool | 2025-06-16 16:30:20+00:00
The "Mitigation and Service Restoration" phase here is definitely the weakest one in terms of explanation—5 hours for root cause discovery is a rough break, but somewhat understandable given the difficulty in isolating the hosts and debugging the obscure networking failure. But once they found the automated package update responsible, no detail was given at all for why it then took four hours to even consider a hotfix to disable the automatic package updates. Just a complete empty gap

Also, "token used for automatic updates"? So like, some kind of third-party vendor was automatically live-updating system packages on their running dynos??? Who the hell thought that would ever be a good idea? And once you've discovered an issue with it, why would you make that critical path remediation dependent on a third-party who probably doesn't even consider this a critical incident?

Here's a really simple question—once engineers confirmed the outage was major, why did it take 8 hours for someone to think of trying to log into the herokustatus Twitter account? Was there no one assigned to public comms during this incident?
by imtringued | 2025-06-16 16:30:58+00:00
socket.io is probably one of the most unnecessary libraries on this planet. Websockets are already as simple as possible.

In fact, websockets work so well I use them as a generic TCP replacement, because the message oriented transport model gives me 99% of what I need with the exception of custom message types. Leaving that out was a massive letdown to me, because you now need to carry a way to identify the message type inside the body, rather than just throwing the message itself into the appropriate protocol parser (e.g. a schema based binary format).
by justin66 | 2025-06-16 16:31:19+00:00
Different states have rules about expungement, as far as what happens automatically, what can be done if an offender convinces a judge, and how much it all costs.

Federal crimes (and I don't think that applies in this person's case since they're in a Maine DOC prison, although drug crimes of this kind easily could be charged by the feds) aren't usually expunged. Even if you receive a pardon, the original crime (and a note of the pardon) will exist on the record.

It's a really strange system. You're meant to lie and say "no" during interviews after your conviction is expunged if you are asked "have you ever been convicted of a crime," although I believe in many states it's now illegal to ask such a question.
by jonjacky | 2025-06-16 16:32:11+00:00
This has long been recognized in literature and philosophy. Friedrich Nietzsche described a 'will to ignorance':

a 'suddenly erupting decision in favor of ignorance, of deliberate exclusion, a shutting of one's windows, an internal No to this or that, a refusal to let things approach, a kind of state of defence against much that is knowable, a satisfaction with the dark, with the limiting horizon, a Yea and Amen to ignorance'.

quoted in 'To Know or Not to Know', by Costica Bradatan, review of Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know by Mark Lilla, in TLS Apr 25, 2025, p. 12
by freedomben | 2025-06-16 16:32:23+00:00
In those situations, I would agree that is pretty damn close to the slavery mark.

I've worked with a lot of prison facilities though in many states across the US and a few international, and have never seen that. That's not to say it doesn't happen of course, but out of curiosity do you (or anyone else) know of any facilities/jurisdictions that do that?
by soulofmischief | 2025-06-16 16:32:35+00:00
I like the Japanese concept of Tsukumogami[0], where certain objects that live to be 100 years old become imbued with a soul.

It's easy to get sentimental over neglected things because I seem to have an innate appreciation and sense of duty toward objects that are designed to help people. It only seems fair that the contract includes care and maintenance from the user.

I live in an aging neighborhood and weep for some of these homes. I visited an abandoned unit just this weekend and went through the spectrum of sadness and anger that such a beautiful building had been allowed to fall into such disrepair. The unit was unsafe to live in, the foundation is cracking in two, one wall has a crack so large that you can see the outside and in several places, the floor is close to caving in. But the outside of the building is so nice. :(

We just bought a house in the neighborhood that is in mostly good shape considering its owners were older and lived there for over 20 years. I look forward to shaping her up, replacing the roof, refinishing the floors, repairing the foundation, fixing some water damage, etc. She's a great little home and it pains me to see her not at her best.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsukumogami
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-06-16 16:32:59+00:00
> I find it hard to believe that you can get actually get good data from self-reporting in surveys.

Especially when you consider the Lizardman's Constant of 4%

https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...

This article was written in 2013. The Internet has become a significantly more toxic place since then, and I would imagine the constant is closer to 15-20% these days.
by mike_hearn | 2025-06-16 16:33:02+00:00
Ah, you mean for sandboxing an agent that isn't meant to be used by developers? Apple is adding containers support to the core OS now. So for developers, it seems like it won't be difficult for them soon and agent software can manage the dev container instances. For a native Mac app you can embed one inside another and the latter can have a more restrictive set of App Sandbox entitlements.

The main reasons to prefer a Linux container are:

• The agent can install new software packages if it needs them. If you use a native Mac sandbox then it'd need to ask permission to use homebrew. Maybe you can find a way to run homebrew inside a Mac sandbox but it won't be straightforward.

• Simpler boundary. The bug I reported (in an AI agent sandbox using Seatbelt) was that it failed to properly block off access to the user's home directory dotfiles and ~/Library. This sort of mistake is easy to make with Seatbelt but harder to make with containers. There are many other sandbox escapes in the policy I saw. Note that using Apple's standard sandbox APIs would avoid this type of error.

• You can edit the SSL root store for just the agent, meaning you can MITM traffic from the agent to the internet. Doing that with native Mac apps isn't possible unless the user actually modifies the root store, which they may not want to do.
by jamesblonde | 2025-06-16 16:33:02+00:00
The scary thing is that Maine is considered progressive for prison.

My former (brilliant) student developed schizophrenia and tried to rob a bank with a gun because the voices told him to do it. He got 10 years in jail. I think every EU country would treat him for his condition until he was safe to rejoin society. In the US, he was thrown in the slammer.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/irishman-jailed-for-10-years...
by zzo38computer | 2025-06-16 16:33:27+00:00
Like you mentioned, it is a design decision of Whatsapp which is a problem, but it is a problem that might be avoided if the system is designed better. Furthermore, some things might be detectable regardless of modifying the system, including timing, and also things which have to do with the instruction set itself. A design which requires the permissions even for timing and all other I/O too (I consider timing to also be I/O), would help, I think.

Using proxy capabilities would allow you to make a "permission granted, user has empty address book" (or some subset of the data, or even made up random data) even if you do not have a empty address book, so that is what I think will be better. (Another way to do it might be to use a separate app for the address book, which does not use the address book in the system. This might work if the app cannot detect the presence of other apps.)
by incomingpain | 2025-06-16 16:33:31+00:00
>Between the Reply Guys playing devil’s advocate and

You're a troll if you're playing devils advocate? I'm thinking they need some re-calibration.

>It seems like people who post on r/unpopularopinion are all trolls. How do you moderate that?

"all trolls" it seems to me their definition of a troll is rather vague and broad?

>In the early 2000s, if I saw that, I would think, oh, that person’s trolling, they don’t genuinely mean they want to deport immigrants. But now, I do think there are some people who genuinely mean that.

9/11 happened in 2001. There wasnt anyone genuinely talking about deporting immigrants? Anti-muslim sentiment was pretty high is how i remember it.

George W Bush had multiple big programs to send illegal immigrants home.

>So most of the time, 99.999999 percent of the time, I just block. I’m really block-happy.

So how do you 'out troll'? You block?

lol what a terrible article.