MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xpltr7 | 2025-06-08 02:00:28+00:00
They are turning the U.S. into a surveillance state but its psychologically darker than this article has stated. The immigration issue is a ruse to stir up the U.S. citizens to accept more surveillance per the political "anger" of "get the foreign invaders out of here" type people. This has to be propagated on the news in order to persuade public opinion to bring in the digital identities and digital monetary system with implanted chips that work in unison based on body movements to mine their cryptocurrency. Check Microsofts'...ie Bill Gates 20200666 patent for exactely that. Trump, at a rally has said he will implement the biometric entry/exit visa tracking system, for land, sea & air. The goals of all these nations working together come directely from the World Economic Forum. Klaus Shwab-ass has said the governments will be stakeholders in the giant tech companies. The tech companies have peoples data that governments want but dont have "user-friendly" welcome into peoples data as the deceptive tech companies do. Thats why you've seen Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, Sam Altman and Palantir. Palantir AI already targets civilians in Gaza for air strikes. So, what "they" want is total U.S. surveillance on all citizens not just foreigners. Drones will fly and identify "enemies of the nation" based on the U.S. governments twisted interpretations of whats right or wrong. They want to completely control and enslave you to an AI false god that will determine what you can buy, when you can go outside, where you can or cant go, what you can or cant do. A digital slave system. An outside prison but a "Smart City" in their words.
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-06-08 02:00:29+00:00
My point is we have the mechanisms to implement UBI today if we want, we just choose not to.

And yes from my experience with people diagnosed with ADHD - IMO it’s an “adjustment disorder” for people who can’t fit into a rote directed life

On the opposite end people with high anxiety but can play the role of doing what they are told go far, but are mimics, and have nary a new thought or alternative view available to them.
by II2II | 2025-06-08 02:00:55+00:00
The risk may be real, but is it likely to happen to many people?

The reason why I bring this up is because many early adopters of Gmail switched to it or grew to rely upon it because the alternatives were much worse. The account through your ISP, gone as soon as you switched to another ISP. That switch may have been a necessary switch if you moved to a place the ISP did not service. University email address, gone soon after graduation. Employer's email address, gone as soon as you switched employers (and risky to use for personal use anyhow). Through another dedicated provider, I suspect most of those dedicated providers are now gone.

Yeap, self-hosting can sort of resolve the problem. The key word being sort of. Controlling your identity doesn't mean terribly much if you don't have the knowledge to setup and maintain a secure email server. If you know how to do it, and noone is targetting you in particular, you'll probably be fine. Otherwise, all bets are off. Any you don't have total control anyhow. You still have the domain name to deal with after all. You should be okay if you do your homework and stay on top of renewals, almost certainly better off than you would be with Google, but again it is only as reliable as you are.

There are reasons why people go with Gmail, and a handful of other providers. In the end, virtually all of those people will be better off in both the short to mid-term.
by ksec | 2025-06-08 02:02:21+00:00
>There's definitely wrongthink/ideological flagging and downvoting going on.

I actually vouch for a lot of comments I disagree with that was flagged, and upvoted it because I want it to be shown to the world. And in other times I disagree with it but vouch and upvoted because I dont want HN discussions to be one sided.
by cyberax | 2025-06-08 02:03:38+00:00
I'm talking about the current cost of the self-driving system, that is already produced by companies that charge a significant markup. With volume, it will go down more.

I'm not including the base vehicle in the cost. It's highly variable, and can be as low as $10k for small personal intra-city taxis.

China has already launched a $30k taxi: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2024/05/14/baidu-...

This _completely_ blows any transit out of the competition. Literally nothing can come even close in the end-to-end efficiency.
by thrance | 2025-06-08 02:04:58+00:00
> Interesting. I suppose I was not wrong with my assumptions. More to the point, what do you think led to Trump's government?

What leads to fascism? Discontent stemming from decades of neoliberalist policies, that left many impoverished and without social nets to catch them. Neoliberalism doesn't sell anymore, so the choice is now between social-democracy and far right populism. Guess which one the capital class preferred and championed? Same story as always.

What do you think led to Trump's government? Cancel culture? Don't be ridiculous.

> I will add that it does not escape me that current set of circumstances would not be quite so easily generated were it not for the oh so helpful hands of those, who cheerfully signed up for being able to silence dissent. Great job there.

I feel like you are victim blaming here. Do you mean to say that ICE's behavior is a consequence of a will to hold people accountable hate speech?

ICE makes use of new tools that were created under the current administration. They make no use of prior laws that may have been diverted from their original purposes.

> I hate to repeat myself for fear of people accusing me of being formulaic, but what do you think it means?

I think you mean something like "they go low, we go high", which is a terrible idea in my experience.
by nine_k | 2025-06-08 02:05:41+00:00
AFAICT there exists no conclusive biomedical evidence of permanent physiological effects of LSD. This may mean we're just not looking hard enough, but there's no certainty.

For psilocybin, there is plenty, e.g.: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8376772/
by bitwize | 2025-06-08 02:05:51+00:00
I flew through the EU on my way into Japan and didn't have to get printed. The bored Parisian customs guy didn't even stamp my passport properly... which caused a bit of trouble when I landed in Helsinki. But no one, not even the Finns, demanded my fingerprints.

Of course, this was 2011, which was forever ago in national-security time.
by decartesfolium | 2025-06-08 02:06:07+00:00
I agree. I have asked. But the parent in me wants his lack of self-reliance in this respect not to hamper his prospects. Some people learn some things more slowly (than other things). If he is going to learn it the hard way, how long am I willing to help him? I don't know. I certainly hope he learns this before I die!

I will try again. Believe me, I hate helicopter parenting.

But if you have some concrete projects in mind, please don't keep yourself from posting them here just because one was asking about them for someone else.
by rayiner | 2025-06-08 02:07:31+00:00
> may have misunderstood, when you said internal migration in the earlier comment I assumed that was referring to people moving from one state to another rather than immigrating from another country.

I was just giving an example—people moving within the U.S. make the same choice. When I was growing up, Virginia was like Florida is today: a red state with a booming economy, low taxes, and a good business climate. Why did AOL start in the farmland of Loudon County instead of the farmland of eastern PG County (which is closer to DC)?

> That's also interesting. I wouldn't have rolled that up to quality of governance, but I could see why you would.

It’s a cultural trait that strongly affects governance. The government can focus its energies on making things better for middle class people and businesses, as Virginia long did, or it can focus on poor people and minorities, as Maryland long did. And the resulting differences in governance are quite apparent. Virginia has better schools, ore employment, and has grown faster than Maryland over the last 50 years.
by paradox460 | 2025-06-08 02:07:58+00:00
I've worked for a few companies that had ad placements. I wasn't too deep into that side of things, and it was a long time ago, but as I recall, at reddit there was an in house ad auction platform. If there wasn't any ads sold for the period, we'd either show in house ads (think the old reddit merch store, pics of animals, a pic of one of the reddit staff with a paper tube on his forehead to resemble a narwhal, etc) or ads from a network like AdSense. Once upon a time this actually caused issues because there was malware being served from one of those and networks
by diskzero | 2025-06-08 02:09:04+00:00
John is cool, but I don't think he was around when the Macintosh II software and hardware was being designed for color support. I did work with Eric Ringewald at Be and he was one of the Color Quickdraw engineers. He would be fun to talk to. Michael Dhuey worked on the hardware of the Mac II platform. I guess we can give some credit to Jean-Louis Gassée as well. Try to talk to those people! I got to work with a lot of these Apple legends at General Magic, Be, Eazel and then back at Apple again. I never got to work on a project with JKCalhoun directly, but I did walk by his office quite frequently.
by ksec | 2025-06-08 02:10:33+00:00
>and saved me close to $2k over the 4.5 months.

Ok I was expecting a lot more. So it is one $450 USD per month? That doesn't very low. I guess HK Uni have decent discounts. But

>Living in Hong Kong without a dorm room would push rent up to at least $700 a month

Unless you only rent a bed with share washrooms and kitchen I can assure you it is not $700 but much closer to $1K if not higher depending on your living standard requirements.

If only this experience could reach media outlet. Hong Kong's rental or property pricing is just crazy expensive relative to what they offer.
by gregjor | 2025-06-08 02:10:50+00:00
You gave some exaggerations and misinterpretations.

Every country has separate immigration lines for citizens and foreigners. Immigration officials have access to national databases but not those of other countries. Like the USA and most other countries Japan has biometric data associated with passports, but only has direct access to match that for Japanese passports. Perhaps you have never experienced the “dystopian” foreigner entry process in the USA or your own country.

Don Quijote has no such signs and does not demand your passport to enter or shop. If you want to get the VAT refunded — a privilege many countries extend to foreign tourists — you can do that by showing you have a tourist visa. Essentially duty-free shopping extended out of the airport. The USA does not have a national VAT so no American store needs a passport to refund taxes.

Japanese businesses do sometimes exclude foreigners, mainly because they don’t have multilingual staff, but also because they want to reserve some places for Japanese and not have tourists overrun every locals restaurant and bar.

Customs and immigration officials everywhere ask probing questions to catch smugglers and criminals. Annoying perhaps but hardly a Japanese thing. Part of the job description. You have no right to enter a foreign country, the immigration officers get to determine that.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-06-08 02:10:54+00:00
Yes but speed cameras quickly turn into a revenue source for greedy councils. It's hard to tell how much they actually care about speeding offences and doing what they think they can get away with.

As a general rule these things start with sincere intentions but often devolve into cynical exploitation. So if you weigh the benefits of speed cameras against the suffering they cause i think you would find they aren't a good thing.

Getting to your original question i think many people don't trust that their face and fingerprint scans will be used in a way that would be in the publics interest. Its more likely that the authorities would find a way to use that data against you.
by BriggyDwiggs42 | 2025-06-08 02:10:57+00:00
Yup. The framing of “matter spontaneously reorganizes into better energy-dissipating paths” is pretty cool, but it’s not really adding any information. As soon as you ask how, you’ll need all the same fields you already had. Thermodynamic computing is cool and I know of at least one place working on it, but they also kinda act like nick land lunatics about what’s ultimately just a cool potential technology for an efficient computer for some tasks. It makes me worry retroactively that the tech is actually useless and they just take a lot of adderall.
by toast0 | 2025-06-08 02:11:07+00:00
If it's used to generate electricity or usable heat and not only to get rid of it, plastic would substitute for another fuel, so it's not as simple as looking at co2 from burning plastic vs co2 from dumping it in landfill.

I don't have numbers, but if burning plastic replaces some coal or fracked natural gas, that could be a win, all things considered.
by wonger_ | 2025-06-08 02:11:57+00:00
Some thoughts:

- Is there a more elegant way to organize the prompts/specifications for LLMs in a codebase? I feel like CLAUDE.md, SPEC.mds, and AIDEV comments would get messy quickly.

- What is the definition of "vibe-coding" these days? I thought it refers to the original Karpathy quote, like cowboy mode, where you accept all diffs and hardly look at code. But now it seems that "vibe-coding" is catch-all clickbait for any LLM workflow. (Tbf, this title "shipping real code with Claude" is fine)

- Do you obfuscate any code before sending it to someone's LLM?
by ehnto | 2025-06-08 02:12:43+00:00
Programmers did not build the aviation industry, it evolved over more than a century of flight, many of these conventions predate computing in aviation. Much of the lack of convention is just that the real world is pretty messy. A programmer trying to make a rigid system will struggle to account for the fact that, sometimes real world humans/events won't follow their codified rules.
by sneak | 2025-06-08 02:15:11+00:00
> I have to say that I mused at the time about a wealthy, retired, engineer who throws money at high end photo gear and suddenly thinks they're a photographer.

Duchamp would like a word.

Seriously though, as someone this describes to a T (though “suddenly” in this case is about 19 years), I was afraid to call myself any sort of artist for well over a decade, thinking I was just acquiring signal with high end gear. I didn’t want to try to present myself as something I’m not. After all, I just push the button, the camera does all the work.

I now have come to realize that this attitude is toxic and unnecessary. Art (even bad art!) doesn’t need more gatekeeping or gatekeepers.

I am a visual artist. A visual artist with perhaps better equipment than my skill level or talent justifies, but a visual artist nonetheless.
by cyberax | 2025-06-08 02:15:14+00:00
This is an estimation for the self-driving hardware cost (computers, LIDAR, sensors). It does not include the base car price, as it can be easily optimized down to almost nothing (sub $10k).

The price is somewhat of a guess, several years ago, the hardware in Waymo was priced at $130k by Munro&Associates. But since then the cost of the LIDAR sensors fell by 90% or so, reducing the main expense.

And Baidu has cars on the road that cost $30k for the _entire_ car. So presumably, so even a couple of pricier sensors won't affect the estimate too much.
by davidkellis | 2025-06-08 02:18:55+00:00
How many other user interactions are generally considered objectively bad practice? Sure, there may be a time and place, but what is frequently overused?

Toasts:

- https://maxschmitt.me/posts/toasts-bad-ux

- https://youtu.be/LeCKu0HqGFQ?si=xKApVFSqdzLGF0SD

Modals (being a special case of modes):

- https://modalzmodalzmodalz.com/

Modes:

- https://www.nngroup.com/articles/modes/

- https://ilyabirman.net/meanwhile/all/timed-modes/

What else?
by Sophira | 2025-06-08 02:19:00+00:00
On the topic of blocking host names using the hosts file:

> The nslookup command returned valid IP addresses for both sub-domains, rather than the dummy IP addresses I put into the hosts file. Beats me why. DNS logging showed that nslookup queried my router for the IP addresses.

The reason for this, as I understand it, is that nslookup queries the configured nameserver directly instead of using the getaddrinfo (or similar) function. (This is why the tool is named as it is - "nslookup" stands for "name server lookup". It was never a general purpose resolver tool.)

Yes, this means that programs can simply bypass the hosts file if they want. However, it's worth noting that, even if you do use a pihole as the article suggests, programs can also bypass that by simply querying against a public DNS server like Google's 8.8.8.8. And if you block DNS to those, programs can use DNS-over-HTTPS.

Of course, a large company like Microsoft probably has a lot of static IP addresses at their disposal, so they could just hardcode those instead and just bypass DNS altogether, at which point, basically your only recourse is to add a firewall rule to block that IP address.

It's very difficult to ensure no connectivity short of denying Internet access entirely.
by gyomu | 2025-06-08 02:19:11+00:00
"I worked at Apple for 12 years, making tools to empower creative people [...]"

I think this was the hook that got many of us to admire Apple as a company (and more broadly, to get excited about computing as a discipline/industry). For a long time, that was arguably (one of) their primary mission.

I suspect to what extent it could still be considered to be the case today would be subject to much debate.
by Syzygies | 2025-06-08 02:19:23+00:00
I was looking at $2,000 a year and climbing, before Anthropic announce $100 and $200 Max subscriptions that bundled Claude Console and Claude Code. There are limits per five hour windows, but one can toggle back to metered API with the login/ command, or just walk the dog. $100 a month has done me fine.
by Dig1t | 2025-06-08 02:19:49+00:00
> A quiet change under Trump helped dismantle it

So it’s a tax break for tech companies and the problem is that Trump got rid of the tax break?

What happened to making companies “pay their fair share”?

I have such cognitive dissonance, I am constantly hearing about how Trump is evil because he wants to give tax breaks to companies. Now the problem is that he’s NOT giving tax breaks.

It’s almost like no matter what Trump does the news will cover it negatively.
by lispisok | 2025-06-08 02:19:50+00:00
I think most of this is good stuff but I disagree with not letting Claude touch tests or migrations at all. Handing writing tests from scratch is the part I hate the most. Having an LLM do a first pass on tests which I add to and adjust as I see fit has been a big boon on the testing front. It seems the difference between me and the author is I believe whether code was generated by an LLM or not the human still takes ownership and responsibility. Not letting Claude touch tests and migrations is saying you rightfully dont trust Claude but are giving ownership to Claude for Claude generated code. That or he doesn't trust his employees to not blindly accept AI slop, the strict rules around tests and migrations is to prevent the AI slop from breaking everything or causing data loss.
by msgodel | 2025-06-08 02:20:10+00:00
Karpathy's book is very good. I learned Pytorch from it.

If you don't know Linear Algebra at all you might want to get a textbook (I learned from Anton's, I'm not sure it matters.) You'll also want to have a rough understanding of vector calculus if you never took that (but you wouldn't need to be good enough to pass a class.)
by diwank | 2025-06-08 02:21:01+00:00
> - Is there a more elegant way to organize the prompts/specifications for LLMs in a codebase? I feel like CLAUDE.md, SPEC.mds, and AIDEV comments would get messy quickly.

Yeah, the comments do start to pile up. I’m working on a vscode extension that automatically turns them into tiny visual indicators in the gutter instead.

> - What is the definition of "vibe-coding" these days? I thought it refers to the original Karpathy quote, like cowboy mode, where you accept all diffs and hardly look at code. But now it seems that "vibe-coding" is catch-all clickbait for any LLM workflow. (Tbf, this title "shipping real code with Claude" is fine)

Depends on who you ask ig. For me, hasn’t been a panacea, and I’ve often run into issues (3.7 sonnet and codex have had ~60% success for me but Opus 4 is actually v good)

> - Do you obfuscate any code before sending it to someone's LLM?

In this case, all of it was open source to begin with but good point to think about.
by duxup | 2025-06-08 02:21:15+00:00
The battery powered scooter bike world has some risks when it comes to speed and devices that can get up to motorcycle speeds.

A friend of mine's spouse went for a walk one day and woke up several days later in a hospital. Police say debris found at the scene indicate she was struck by an electric bike. Cameras not far caught one going at a very high rate of speed seemed to be missing pieces found at the scene just before and after they think they were hit.
by moralestapia | 2025-06-08 02:22:53+00:00
>depending on the hit rate

Yes, a different usage pattern could give you the worse of both worlds.

That's a very deep insight from queue theory and similar topics, I don't know if you wrote what you wrote with that in mind (I'm not being an ass, I just want to highlight this observation).

A system's behavior is highly dependent, to the point of it being fundamental, on how it is going to be used.
by gregjor | 2025-06-08 02:23:10+00:00
On the other hand, as an American citizen living in Asia after spending most of my life in the USA, I like not getting mugged, assaulted, or run over by a speeding car.

I think you refer to China, or maybe Japan or Singapore. Not every country in Asia has advanced surveillance. The UK, Canada, and America have advanced the same technology but use it in other ways, which is why American police can’t make the subways or roads safe like the Japanese have, but monitor your social media posts and emails for signs of terrorism and political dissent.
by diwank | 2025-06-08 02:24:31+00:00
True but, in my experience, a few major pitfalls that happened:

1. We ran into really bad minefields when we tried to come back to manually edit the generated tests later on. Claude tended to mock everything because it didn’t have context about how we run services, build environments, etc.

2. And this was the worst, all of the devs on the team including me got realllyy lazy with testing. Bugs in production significantly increased.
by jbattle | 2025-06-08 02:25:15+00:00
Biden's inaugural address was full of this

"To all those who supported our campaign, I'm humbled by the faith you've placed in us. To all of those who did not support us, let me say this. Hear me out as we move forward. Take a measure of me and my heart. If you still disagree, so be it. That's democracy. That's America. The right to dissent peaceably. Within the guardrails of our republic, it's perhaps this nation's greatest strength. Yet hear me clearly: disagreement must not lead to disunion. And I pledge this to you, I will be a president for all Americans, all Americans. And I promise you, I will fight as hard for those who did not support me as for those who did."
by ofalkaed | 2025-06-08 02:27:36+00:00
A lost cause for the most part, communication. Seems like most of what passes for communication these days is one way; what can I get out of it? how can I use this? do I agree or disagree? do I like this? what does this say about me? etc? etc? etc?. These days, people love to blame this sort of narcissism on the internet but things were not much different in the 80s, it was just easier to believe there was something better, we still had our ignorance.