MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by krapp | 2025-06-12 10:47:11+00:00
This is definitely a new one, but you aren't entirely wrong. A lot of alien lore has racist elements and origins. David Icke's reptilian lore includes antisemitic elements and references the discredited Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The core of ancient alien theory is the belief that non-white races are incapable of complex feats of engineering and civilization (and this is spelled out by Chariots of the Gods author Erik Von Daniken.) And there's a reason the "Nordic" alien race is literally just "white people from space." Dig deep enough under a lot of the folklore, especially where it overlaps with neo-Christian/New World Order stuff and eventually you'll get to the Nazis.

Also, you're unfortunately wrong about racism - you absolutely can be an out-and-out racist now. People are more openly and proudly racist now than they have been at any point in my own living memory.
by vidarh | 2025-06-12 10:47:16+00:00
An obvious example would be Van Gogh, who famously during his lifetime only sold a single painting.

I don't fully agree with the statement you quoted, as I think it overstates things a bit - there certainly are famous artists who not just lived of their work but sometimes were on permanent contracts. E.g. Haydn spent much of his career as music director for the Esterhazy family. Haydn also credited his relative isolation from other composers due to his position as part of the reason for his originality.

But at the same time, we see the vast majority of artists of all kinds not making much money. In the UK, the average full time author would do better as a fry cook at McDonalds if it was money they were after, for example.

A lot of these fields skew very heavily toward a very tiny sliver of the top, and while some of them are undoubtedly great artists, the correlation between the highest earners and most critically celebrated is rarely straightforward.

Furthermore, often the wealth comes after many of their great works, with the odds so long that very few people have a rational basis for going into it chasing the odds of a large payout. Chasing the hope of eeking out an existence, maybe.
by runroader | 2025-06-12 10:47:38+00:00
I'm brand new to MCP and agents but was able to read the extra docs to get VSCode set up with Mastra. Then what? I only figured out the "start Mastra Course" because of their tweet where they show someone typing that into co-pilot.

There really needs to be more hand holding to get someone to the point where the course actually starts. From there I've been able to follow along alright, but it was a real battle to get to this point.
by immibis | 2025-06-12 10:47:41+00:00
A device tree is probably counted as data, so not copyrightable. I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. But there's plenty else that is GPL, and in AVM vs Sebastian Steck, it seems that even LGPLv2 requires the manufacturer to give you all the stuff you need to install a modified version of the software, i.e. it seems that all GPL licenses imply anti-tivoization.
by sandra_vu | 2025-06-12 10:48:16+00:00
hi cool ideas.

As a foodie, I salute the idea.

A few easy points to improve the design (and the conversion)

- Do not use the current pairing of yellow and green. It reminds me of radioactive colors. Not good for food - Use a serif from Google Fonts to bring a premium feel, try Crimson or Merriweather for example - Some of your gradients contain dead zone, search for clean gradient generation tool. This one https://www.learnui.design/tools/gradient-generator.html

- Avoid white text on white. Even with the drop shadow, it doesnt work. Check for WGSA contrast color tools if you are stuck.

Overall, good job for launching. Good luck.
by jve | 2025-06-12 10:49:33+00:00
> Are these Linux machines going to authenticate against the Azure Active Directory... Are they using Intune, if so what's the replacement strategy where?

This comes up all the time when we talk about Linux in corporate deployment. As I have only experience in MS word regarding governance, let me ask this:

- Is there really no tools for Linux world that allows managing loads of Linux machines in an easy manner as it is in MS word (applying GPO policies)? A tool that can be easily set up and managed and doesn't have to always resort to scripting?

- If there is, why people are not using them?

I'm kind of aware some things are that allow managing Linux machines via Windows AD GPO, but that depends on MS domain there.

Seems like a ripe for a startup to provide open source tool(s) with, say, paid support for the enterprises.
by lazide | 2025-06-12 10:50:15+00:00
Sometimes, unfortunately, it also is true.

The issue with all of these is that if something is a problem, it’s probably because it’s maladaptive to the actual circumstances someone is in.

And for the same reason ‘no one can tell if you’re a dog’ online, no one can tell if what you’re feeling is actually useful/adaptive or not, especially if the common root to many of the actual disorders is various degrees of bias/delusion
by K0balt | 2025-06-12 10:50:16+00:00
One example of useful output does not negate the flood of pollution. I’m not denying or downplaying the usefulness of AI. I am doubting the wisdom of blindly publishing -anything- without making at least a trivial attempt to ensure that it is useful and worth publishing. It is a form of pollution.

The problem is that it lowers the effort required to produce SEO spam and to “publish” to nearly zero, which creates a perverse incentive to shit on the sidewalk.

The amount of AI created, blatantly false blog posts about drug interactions, for example. Not advertising, just banal filler to create site visits, with dangerously false information.

It’s not like shitting on the sidewalk was never a problem before, it’s just that shitting on the sidewalk as a service (SOTSAAS) maybe is something we should try to avoid.
by fock | 2025-06-12 10:50:43+00:00
yesterday: I saw the weird CVE for M365 which "exploits" some LLM through messaging embedded in emails.

today: got a very long email, wanted to search for our department in it. Outlook: "Search is a deprecated feature".

Despite all the "but you can't extrapolate to a large org from personal experiences"-FUD around, I think for most orgs (especially governments which are generally far behind on processes) it would be easy to switch from a feature-perspective. The problem is the army of employees and contractors who are very happy to defend Microsoft for keeping their non-automated thiefdoms (such is non-cloud AD administration at most places I extrapolate ....). There is hardly anyone there to implement the necessary processes and rather than to send out their underlings to FOSDEM, leadership is happy to get an invite by Microsoft (or a cloud-provider...) to an "innovation-summit" instead.
by tomhow | 2025-06-12 10:51:53+00:00
When each reply gets longer and longer it's a sign there's less and less chance of finding common ground. I'll try to make this one brief:

- It takes two minutes to write an email pointing out an egregious comment or bad actor.

- People are flagging and complaining about your comments because they are breaking the guidelines, nothing more, nothing less. Maybe you're not aware of it due to a cultural disconnect. If that's the case, I'm sorry you're in that position but I encourage you to take the feedback and work with us to come into alignment with the community. But it's not about your politics, it's all to do with your inflammatory style of commenting.

- I admitted no such bias; I said that your comments have a pattern of breaking the guidelines, including the ones people are complaining about, and when your comments consistently break the guidelines you will inevitably get less patience from everyone than if you lapse occasionally.

Please stop this war. We're not trying to oppress you. We want your point of view to be fairly represented, but that can only happen if you make an effort to play by same rules that everyone else is expected to follow.
by Lapel2742 | 2025-06-12 10:52:24+00:00
> Does this mean that eventually in a world where we all use this stuff, no new language/framework/library will ever be able to emerge?

If you truly believe in the potential of agentic AI, then the logical conclusion is that programming languages will become the assembly languages of the 21st century. This may or may not become the unfortunate reality.
by PeterStuer | 2025-06-12 10:52:52+00:00
A traditional digital stack's lifecycle is:

1. The previous gen has become bloated and complex because it widened it's scope to cover every possible miche scenario and got infiltrated by 'expert' language and framework specialists that went on an atrotecture binge.

2. As a result a new stack is born, much simpler, back to basics, than the poorly aged encumbant. It doesn't cover every niche, but it does a few newly popular things realy easy and well, and rises on the coattails of this new thing as the default envoronment for it.

3. Over time the new stack ages just as poorly as the old stack for all the same reasons. So the cycle repeats.

I do not see this changing with ai-assisted coding, as context enrichment is getting better allowing a full stack specification in post training.
by oguz-ismail | 2025-06-12 10:53:33+00:00
'-e sh shell.c' as a single argument is the same as '-e' and ' sh shell.c' as separate arguments (see <https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/functions/g...>). rsync executes ' sh shell.c' as a shell script and shells usually trim leading and trailing spaces when executing commands.
by rokobobo | 2025-06-12 10:54:47+00:00
I may be wrong, but I believe spending time in a deeper gravitational well means you observe everything outside of the well to be happening much faster; at the singularity, the entire future of the parent universe will appear to you as happening all at once. There is no notion of “matter that falls in later” — once you reach the singularity, you travel to the end of time in the parent universe. And the passage of time in our universe isn’t a continuation of time in the parent universe; it’s not even the same dimension, the latter is collapsed.
by SapporoChris | 2025-06-12 10:54:51+00:00
Leading off a scientific paper with a mythological quote doesn't instill confidence. "Survival in hot deserts has always posed a problem for man; Moses had to solve it in order to lead the children of Israel through the wilderness of the Sinai"

"The majority of scholars see the biblical Moses as a legendary figure, while retaining the possibility that Moses or a Moses-like figure existed in the 13th century BCE" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses
by aa-jv | 2025-06-12 10:55:12+00:00
Thanks for looking at this objectively. I was expecting to be launched deep into the grey zone on this statement, and it has indeed begun - but I'd really rather talk it out than just get downvoted into oblivion.

>A lot of alien lore has racist elements and origins.

Inasmuch as most of this lore deals directly with the inferiority/superiority of literal races, I think all of alien lore is about racism.

>Also, you're unfortunately wrong about racism - you absolutely can be an out-and-out racist now. People are more openly and proudly racist now than they have been at any point in my own living memory.

Oh, I don't think this is the case - at least, not outside the borders of the USA, anyway. Things were far, far more racist in Europe prior to WW2 - which is not to say that racism has been eradicated, just that it was tempered by the need to acknowledge its ultimate product, in the form of ruined cities that had to be rebuilt. Meanwhile, the U.S. has used technological superiority to assert dominance globally, often over non-Western cultures, as seen in interventions in Iraq or Afghanistan.

UFOs, as symbols of advanced technology, could resonate with this imperialist mindset, reinforcing hierarchies.

For sure, there is a rise in racism within certain states of the Western hemisphere - but there has been a rise in UFO'ism, too - which in my opinion, has allowed for the covert justification of racism, without social retribution, to occur. Leading eventually of course, to more overt racist expression.
by fock | 2025-06-12 10:55:13+00:00
and then most of the places I know happily allow employees admin access for "just that piece of software they need" and simultaneously push for "zero-trust". There's no point in it at all and you can just as well use saltstack to rollout apparmor-policies on your locked-down linux (and suddenly the same people wanting GPOs tell you that linux is untenable because of usage restrictions)
by uncircle | 2025-06-12 10:55:14+00:00
> Does this mean that eventually in a world where we all use this stuff, no new language/framework/library will ever be able to emerge?

That's a very good question.

Rephrased: as good training data will diminish exponentially with the Internet being inundated by LLM regurgitations, will "AI savvy" coders prefer old, boring languages and tech because there's more low-radiation training data from the pre-LLM era?

The most popular language/framework combination in early 2020s is JavaScript/React. It'll be the new COBOL, but you won't need an expensive consultant to maintain in the 2100s because LLMs can do it for you.

Corollary: to escape the AI craze, let's keep inventing new languages. Lisps with pervasive macro usage and custom DSLs will be safe until actual AGIs that can macroexpand better than you.
by skinkestek | 2025-06-12 10:55:22+00:00
Honestly, I’m not entirely sure.

I’ve seen the name Forgerock pop up occasionally, but I don’t know if that’s just tied to the login component on the web pages. Also, they recommend Mac users stick with Safari, which is puzzling. I mean: if it was a Microsoft product, you’d think they’d lock it down to Edge on Mac too—so that makes me wonder.

Just my thoughts—could be totally off base.
by sampo | 2025-06-12 10:56:14+00:00
> no new language/framework/library will ever be able to emerge?

Here is a Youtube video that makes the same argument. React is / will be the last Javascript framework, because it is the dominant one right now. Even of people publish new frameworks, LLM coding assistants will not be able to assist coding using the new frameworks, so the new frameworks will not find users or popularity.

And even for React, it will be difficult to add any more new features, because LLMs only assist to write code that uses the features the LLMs know about, which are the old, established ways to write React.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1FLEnKZTAE
by chuckadams | 2025-06-12 10:56:33+00:00
> So using agents forces (or at least nudges) you to use go and tailwind

Not even close, and the article betrays the author's biases more than anything else. The fact that their Claude Code (with Sonnet) setup has issues with the `cargo test` cli for instance is hardly a categorical issue with AIs or cargo, let alone rust in general. Junie can't seem to use its built-in test runner tool on PHP tests either, that doesn't mean AI has a problem with PHP. I just wrote a `bin/test-php` script for it to use instead, and it figures out it has to use that (telling it so in the guidelines helps, but it still keeps trying to use its built-in tool first)

As for SO, my AI assistant doesn't close my questions as duplicates. I appreciate what SO is trying to do in terms of curation, but the approach to it has driven people away in droves.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-06-12 10:57:52+00:00
Proton is Swiss. That’s part of the CEE. It’s like Norway, EU-adjacent. They are part of a lot of the agreements and their laws track the EU closely where it matters. It makes sense to include in a lot of discussions surrounding sovereignty.

> you can't waste endless resources on building your own internal Cloudflare

The EU has multiple level 1 network operators that would be ideally positioned to build an alternative to Cloudfare if it was truly required. It’s not like they start from zero.
by Spooky23 | 2025-06-12 10:58:17+00:00
It’s a fascinating area. Here’s one focused on evacuation: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/civildef.cfm

Also google the “Clay report”, there’s a bunch of books and sources from there.

At this point, (1955) bombers and fission bombs were the threat. That’s why we had AT&T invest in hardened long lines facilities, shelters and duck and cover.

The reality of hydrogen bombs and ICBMs kind of took the wind out of sails of civil defense. You’re not going to drive out of Manhattan with 20 minutes notice and get to a place where you’ll survive. This really affected the people associated with this — the think tank guys at RAND and other places assumed they’d all be dead by the mid 1970s, and I can’t help to think that it didn’t affect their points of view.
by AshamedCaptain | 2025-06-12 10:58:26+00:00
The example chosen by Ars is already great enough to exemplify why this has been the worst idea ever. Not only the "AI" summary of Dopamine is basically the same as the first paragraph in the article; in addition, you can clearly see the editors have gone through great lengths to avoid saying the extremely common but also wrong misconception that it creates pleasure. The AI, however, goes straight and mentions it in the 3rd sentence, even when the supposedly source article practically says the opposite. The AI summary is also full of fluffy, meaningless questionable sentences (e.g. "highlighting its importance" -- really?).

Useless (redundant with the carefully edited summaries from the editors), wrong (incredibly so), and a total waste of resources for everyone involved.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-06-12 10:58:30+00:00
> Isn't there a less-conceptual (but still conceptual) problem that correctness of software is commonly abrupt rather than continuous? You don't get a series of almost-right programs gradually approximating the right program, you have a correct program and variations on it may fail completely.

I consider it to be plausible that such a topology could exist (at least for many situations). The problem rather is that such a topology would likely behave very different from users' expectations.
by darkxanthos | 2025-06-12 10:58:38+00:00
I stumbled into Agentic Coding in VS Code Nightlys with co-pilot using Claude Sonnet 4 and I've been silly productive. Even when half my day is meetings, you wouldn't be able to tell from my git history.

My thinking now is removed from the gory details and is a step or two up. How can I validate the changes are working? Can I understand this code? How should it be structured so I can better understand it? Is there more we can add to the AI conventions markdown in the repo to guide the Agent to make fewer mistaken assumptions?

Last night I had a file with 38 mypy errors. I turned it over to the agent and went and had a conversation with my wife for 15 minutes. I came back, it summarized the changes it made and why, I debated one of the changes with it but ultimately decided it was right.

Mypy passed. Good to go.

I'm currently trying to get my team to really understand the power here. There's a lot of skeptics and the AI still isn't perfect and people who are against the AI era will latch onto that as validation but it's exactly opposite the correct reaction. It's really validation because as a friend of mine says

"Today is the worst day you will have with this technology for the rest of your life."
by throw10920 | 2025-06-12 10:59:45+00:00
That's really neat - being able to reduce your sensitivity to CO2 if it's overly high sounds useful.

Do you know if it's possible to do this to dangerous levels - that is, make your body so tolerant of high CO2 levels in your blood that you unconsciously adopt a dangerously high blood-CO2 level as your default state?
by dale_glass | 2025-06-12 11:00:07+00:00
Yes, I think Powershell is a step in the right direction. Not ideal of course, but where we should be going in general. At a minimum everything should be some sort of JSON-ish structure, if possible with support for common datatypes (strings, integers, floats, arrays, hashes, dates)

It's terrible because while it was a good idea back in the day, today everything tries to get away from it as quickly as possible. Most any tool gets wrapped in a library that actually exposes a much more pleasant to use and safer interface.

And the usage of text streams means everyone is reinventing the same wheel decade after decade, everyone in a slightly different manner and with different footguns.
by anton-c | 2025-06-12 11:00:41+00:00
I've become limited by my process it seems cuz those never crossed my mind. With with amount of time shaping it normally takes id speculate it takes awhile. I have a decent sander and still make sure to cut away as much as possible cuz its gonna take another half hour to get it down if I'm a mm off.(just speaking off the cuff this makes me sound incredibly sloppy lol)

That said, carbide pwns, and if you can secure the piece well there's no reason it wouldn't get it done eventually. The diamond and HSS tips have taken awhile on other things for me unlike what you report with the carbide. I'd love to find out I'm mistaken in my guess.

I don't use a ton of steel but when I do I end up with hardened steel because i end up abrading instead of cutting haha. Might be better for normal stock, idk about already hardened.

Ill just add you can create some wild finishes with the Dremel alternating anodizing, Dremel, polish, Dremel. Using the brush, the cutter, whatever to mess with the surface.
by fhd2 | 2025-06-12 11:00:42+00:00
I'd bet money that in less than six months, there'll be some buzz around a "programming language for agents".

Whether that's going to make sense, I have some doubts, but as you say: For an LLM optimist, it's the logical conclusion. Code wouldn't need to be optimised for humans to read or modify, but for models, and natural language is a bit of an unnecessary layer in that vision.

Personally I'm not an LLM optimist, so I think the popular stack will remain focused on humans. Perhaps tilting a bit more towards readability and less towards typing efficiency, but many existing programming languages, tools and frameworks already optimise for that.
by akchro | 2025-06-12 11:00:57+00:00
Thank you for the feedback!

1 - I experimented with some calibration involving staring at a point, but I found it troublesome as blinking would make lead to some inaccurate calibration data (webgazer doesn't have blink detection). It was also a little more fatiguing since the user would have to really focus on staring the entire time. I found that it was less mentally fatiguing if the user could control their own calibration give themselves room to blink or just rest their eyes for a second.

2 - Ghost overlays is a really good idea. I'll see what I can do to implement that feature.

I really appreciate you taking your time to write this!
by potato-peeler | 2025-06-12 11:02:09+00:00
The entire thread is debating on reasons for fos failure, even attributing that rust could have saved it, while the actual reason is right here!

Normal folks just want to use phone to help them with their lives, and as such if they can’t find apps which helps them, they won’t use that phone as their daily driver.

They don’t care if it was built with rust or js or java or anything obscure.
by i_am_proteus | 2025-06-12 11:02:27+00:00
>GPT-4o query consumes around 0.3 watt-hours for a typical text-based question, though this increases substantially to 2.5 to 40 watt-hours for queries with very long inputs.

Given a context window of 128 kilotokens, and how the energy usage range (0.3 to 40 Wh) increases by a factor of 133 from "single query" to "worst case," this suggests linear scaling of energy usage with context length.

Given the common user pattern of "chat with the LLM" the 0.3 Wh figure seems reductive. As the chat grows in length, the length of the "query" becomes the length of the entire chat.

Assuming context compression for long chats, the figure we're looking for per-question energy use should be the energy use for a query half the length of max context tokens.

For GPT-4o: 20 Wh