MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by soulofmischief | 2025-06-04 23:31:26+00:00
It's probably good for the planet if we depopulate. But the problem which comes with that is that socioeconomic policy and infrastructure has massively evolved over the course of the industrial and digital revolutions, boosted in the US by WWII, etc. A sudden decline of population makes things that were touted as viable or stable suddenly less viable or stable.

For example, the dependency ratio changes, especially in an aging population. Look at what Japan's going through. A working married male in Japan might be taking care of both their immediately family and both their parents and their significant other's parents. It's a significant economic load and leads to significant issues around mental health and work-life balance.

We can also look toward Japan as a test bed too, as their GDP and standard of living does continue to rise despite an ongoing population decline. This is not an impossible situation to manage, but it does require strong and thoughtful leadership

There's also the lost of trade skills and workers in general needed to maintain current service-based infrastructure.

In the case of China, their population of nearly 1.5bil is projected to be halving within 75 years. This is a massive difference that will require recalibration of policy and infrastructure, whereas other countries might experience a significantly lower ratio of decline.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_consequences_of_popul...
by II2II | 2025-06-04 23:31:50+00:00
In the first case, there is nothing preventing the development of software to overwrite data before unlink(2) is called.

In the second case, you can choose to trust or distrust the cloud storage provider. Trust being backed by contractual obligations and the right to sue if those obligations are not met. Of course, most EULAs for consumer products are toothless is this respect. On the other hand, that doesn't prevent companies from offering contracts which have some teeth (which they may do for business clients).
by hello_computer | 2025-06-04 23:31:57+00:00
project zero is ZERO compared to the millions of little old ladies around the world getting scammed through adwords. only security big g cares about is its own. they have the tools to laser-in on and punish the subtlest of wrongthink on youtube, yet it’s just too tall of an order to focus the same laser on tech support scammers…
by erulabs | 2025-06-04 23:32:06+00:00
Wish this was written by a journalist who could ask themselves "what would the reader want to know?". A repoed car? A beef between buyer and seller? What was going on? The buyer apparently got the number of the seller - how did they not have that before? Did they buy this from a dealer? This article says "So I shot both of them a text message, as you can see below", but there are no texts below?

I need an AI to speed-read articles for me and tell me if they're complete slop or not, jeez.
by beau_g | 2025-06-04 23:32:38+00:00
There's a lot of logistics cost for replacement parts, shipping, storage, a system to track them, etc. in distribution warehouses all over the world in small numbers. It's all work done manually by humans at every level. Studies to project failure rates, failure modes, demand planning, etc. may be baked into this cost as well depending on how the company accounts for it.

Many years ago I was servicing Maserati GranTurismos and Quattroportes of which some use a ZF 6 speed auto transmission. Since the same transmission is used in Land Rovers, I would buy parts from the Land Rover dealer which was nearby. One time I went there and they didn't have any fluid for the transmission for Land Rovers, but they did for Jaguar. The fluid was identical, but on a different shelf, and cost a lot more. The parts department said that Jaguar uses a 3rd party parts distribution contract in North America, but Land Rover does it in house, so every Jaguar part, of which many are identical to Land Rovers, costs more. They could not just bill out a Land Rover part internally to their own dealer to service a Jaguar either (they were a franchise that repaired both).
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-04 23:33:27+00:00
> When a company makes an obligation to the user via policy to them, the court forcing the company to violate the obligation they've made

To my knowledge, the court is forcing the company to change its policy. The obligation isn’t broken, its terms were just changed on a going-forward basis. (Would be different if the court required preserving records predating the order.)
by jamessinghal | 2025-06-04 23:33:30+00:00
The Thomson Reuters case [1] is the most relevant in the court's finding that the copying of copyrighted material from Westlaw by Ross Intelligence was direct copyright infringement and was not fair use.

The purpose of training in many of the AI Labs being sued mostly matches the conditions that Ross Intelligence was found to have violated, and the question of copying is almost guaranteed if they trained on it.

[1] Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH et al v. ROSS Intelligence Inc. https://www.ded.uscourts.gov/sites/ded/files/opinions/20-613...
by heliographe | 2025-06-04 23:34:11+00:00
It will capture the depth map and generate the semantic mattes (except in some edge cases) no matter the subject if you explicitly set the camera in Portrait mode, which is how I would guess the plant photo from the article was captured.

My previous comment was about the default Photo mode.

If you have a recent iPhone (iPhone 15 or above iirc) try it yourself - taking a photo of a regular object in the standard Photo mode won’t yield a depth map, but one of a person or pet will. Any photo taken from the Portrait mode will yield a depth map.

You can find out more about this feature by googling “iPhone auto portrait mode”.

Apple’s documentation is less helpful with the terminology; they call it “Apply the portrait effect to photos taken in Photo mode”

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/edit-portrait-mode-ph...
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-04 23:35:15+00:00
> you could have to pay 500 a day (inflation adjusted to ~600) for each day you're late. That's a quarter million after a little over a year

That’s not filling it out improperly, it’s forgetting to file. I’m also not familiar with any cases where this fine was unfairly applied. (I agree with you that BOI is as over broad as it’s badly named.)
by mananaysiempre | 2025-06-04 23:35:55+00:00
The funniest part is that in that contraction the first apostrophe does denote the elision of a vowel, but the second one doesn’t, the vowel is still there! So you end up with something like [nʔəv], much like as if you had—hold the rotten vegetables, please—“shouldn’t of” followed by a vowel.

Really, it’s funny watching from the outside and waiting for English to finally stop holding it in and get itself some sort of spelling reform to meaningfully move in a phonetic direction. My amateur impression, though, is that mandatory secondary education has made “correct” spelling such a strong social marker that everybody (not just English-speaking countries) is essentially stuck with whatever they have at the moment. In which case, my condolences to English speakers, your history really did work out in an unfortunate way.
by sanderjd | 2025-06-04 23:37:07+00:00
Sorry, but again, you're just rejecting the premise of the thought experiment, which is "what if it were possible to always have a benevolent dictator, would that be the best government?".

This is a silly way to engage with a thought experiment. It's like if you responded to the popular "what if the allies lost WW2?" thought experiment with, "well, they didn't". Yes ... but you've missed the point.

I agree that this particular thought experiment about the best form of government is very silly because of how ridiculous the premise is.

But one thing that's slightly interesting about it is that it actually illuminates this difference of opinion I have with these people. Even if I accept the premise that it's possible to always have a benevolent dictator, I still don't agree that it's good!
by netsharc | 2025-06-04 23:37:13+00:00
I feel like the Dems need to be doing a lot of PR, the public needs to hear them attack the Low-IQ autocrat every day. Maybe they're doing this but the media aren't reporting it, in which case they need to engage with the media better...

Without this engagement, even if it's just futile noisemaking, the voters will surely think in the next election cycle "why should we vote for you, when you haven't done anything the last 2 years?"
by AstroBen | 2025-06-04 23:37:38+00:00
Agnostic, at least as I was using it, was intending to mean 'who knows'. That's very different from a 50% possibility

"You are a human brain, we know that an intelligence up to human intelligence can be physically realized" - not evidence that LLMs will lead to AGI

"trendline that's been going for over 15 years" - not evidence LLMs will continue to AGI, even more so now given we're running into the limits of scaling it

AI winter is a common term for a reason. We make huge progress in a short amount of time, everyone goes crazy with hype, then it dies down for years or decades

The only evidence that justifies a specific probability is going to be technical explanations of how LLMs are going to scale to AGI. No one has that

1. LLMs are good at specific, well defined tasks with clear outcomes. The thing that got them there is hitting its limit

2. ???

3. AGI

What's the 2?

It matters.. because everyone's hyped up and saying we're all going to be replaced but they can't fill in the 2. It's a religious debate because it's blind faith without evidence
by punkpeye | 2025-06-04 23:37:41+00:00
Exciting! Particularly the emphasis on smoother MCP integrations.

Will be adding the Add to cursor button to Glama later today today.

https://glama.ai/mcp/servers

If anyone from Cursor is reading this, we are rolling out MCP server usage analytics where we aggregate (anonymous) usage data across several providers. Would be amazing to include Cursor (reach me at frank@glama.ai). The data will be used to help the community discover the most used (and therefore useful) clients and servers.
by Postosuchus | 2025-06-04 23:37:41+00:00
This. And speed aside, Gradle embodies everything that is wrong with modern software development. A giant, opaque, idiosyncratic black box. I develop for Android (Java and Flutter) and it has become a sad pattern from Hell: Android Studio update mandates upgraded Gradle, which breaks previously the build in most weird ways, forcing one to trawl StackOverflow looking for proper incantations to do in the myriad of files it has created with the single purpose of building the damn app. Sometimes I wish, creating new build systems was outlawed some time after gmake or cmake...
by WillPostForFood | 2025-06-04 23:38:09+00:00
What is the judge even thinking here, it is so dumb.

She asked OpenAI's legal team to consider a ChatGPT user who "found some way to get around the pay wall" and "was getting The New York Times content somehow as the output." If that user "then hears about this case and says, 'Oh, whoa, you know I’m going to ask them to delete all of my searches and not retain any of my searches going forward,'" the judge asked, wouldn't that be "directly the problem" that the order would address?
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by miki123211 | 2025-06-04 23:39:26+00:00
With how ubiquitous gigabit symmetric is becoming, I wonder if you could even do P2P nowadays.

Assuming a single gigabit symmetric connection could dedicate at most 100mb of upload bandwidth, you'd need one such viewer per each 25 viewers with a worse connection. This feels achievable.

You'd have 1 server that broadcasts to at most 10K tier-1 viewers. Tier 2 viewers get 3 tier1 ips for failover, and pre-negotiate a connection with them, e.g. through STUn, to get sub-second failovers in case their primary source quits the stream. A central control plane load balances these.

With something like 15s of buffer (acceptable for a gaming stream, not so much for sports, where your neighbors might be watching on satellite and cheer), this feels achievable.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-06-04 23:40:27+00:00
Accelerationism doesn't work because "accelerating" = "making things worse for the people."

People who imagine that they'll emerge victoriously from the chaos are really quite childish; odds are that the accelerationists will suffer like all the rest -- or worse. They're like children who read medieval history and imagine themselves princes and dukes, rather than dirt farmers laboriously clearing woods and plowing fields.

When I say that there's no way out but through, I mean that things are bad and getting worse, and there's nothing anyone can do about it other than develop the skills to survive by any means necessary. (For some that means survivalism, or moving to Fiji, or just hanging out here and making lots of money.) Do you think we can vote our way out of this mess, with representative democracy? The way things are today? lol, lmao even.

As to the second part of your comment -- I'm reminded of what Jack Womack wrote in the 2000 reissue of Neuromancer: Has "the act of writing it down, in fact, brought it about?"
by aranelsurion | 2025-06-04 23:41:46+00:00
Consequently all your "deleted chats" might one day become public if someone manages to dump some tables off OpenAI's databases.

Maybe not today on its heyday, but who knows what happens in 20 years once OpenAI becomes Yahoo of AI, or loses much of its value, gets scrapped for parts and bought by less sophisticated owners.

It's better to regard that data as already public.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-06-04 23:42:16+00:00
> Apparently this is a common tactic with tax bills, with the expectation that the changes will be repealed or altered in a later bill.

None of this adds up. You're saying, the legislators were trying to cheat and because it's a "common tactic" that kind of cheating is somehow good, but it's bad when the cheating doesn't go through?

On the other hand, being a common tactic implies that the possibility of it remaining in the books was well understood, and the declared "expectations" carry zero weight as evidence, even less than zero when coming from politicians.

Legislation like that has far reaching consequences and pretend "surprise" just confirms the intent behind it. It's only prudent to assume that we have a common tactic case of throwing sheet at the wall to see for how long it'll stick. If there's no backlash the "tactic" will remain there forever.

As another example of the same common tactic, consider the fact that all popular browsers have been used as Trojan horses into the users' local networks for like forever. At some point back in 2015 somebody objected so the browser makers started talking about fixing the problem but then stopped talking without fixing it because public opinion moved on to other areas affected by abundant sticky materials... Thus, that particular sheet remained on the wall for another 10 years and counting, and the story may repeat itself again.
by grg994 | 2025-06-04 23:42:34+00:00
A reasonable cloud storage provider stores your data encrypted on disk. Certain standards like HIPPA mandates this.

Deletion of data is achieved by permanently discarding the encryption key which is stored and managed elsewhere where secure erasure can be guaranteed.

If implemented honestly, this procedure WORKS and cloud storage is secure. Yes the emphasis is on the "implemented honestly" part but do not generalize cloud storage as inherently insecure.
by Trasmatta | 2025-06-04 23:42:41+00:00
How is a user supposed to know, based on that page, that there's currently a legal requirement that means ALL deleted chats must be preserved? Why defend the currently ambiguous language?

It's like saying "we will delete your chats, unless the sun rises tomorrow". At that point, just say that the chats aren't deleted.

(The snark from your replies seems unnecessary as well.)
by naijaboiler | 2025-06-04 23:43:11+00:00
Many American states have laws that allow tow companies to rob people.

Tow companies literally just go into parking lot of apartment complexes they have a contract with and start removing cars with expired or non visible parking stickers. Nobody called them, the car is not a problem. They then only take cash, are not available on weekends, charge you some crazy rate like 150/day, won’t even let you into the car to get your personal items, then after 15 days, they sell your car. It’s functionally just stealing from the poor

They particularly like doing it on days with bad weather too. And they are so rude and aggressive and antagonistic. I’m convinced any time a tow company is short on cash, they just send their people out there to hunt for cars to tow

And since it’s mostly poor minorities that bear the brunt of these abuses, many people are okay with it
by crdrost | 2025-06-04 23:43:22+00:00
"When data subjects exercise one of their rights, the controller must respond within one month. If the request is too complex and more time is needed to answer, then your organisation may extend the time limit by two further months, provided that the data subject is informed within one month after receiving the request."

Backup retention policy 60 days, respond within a week or two telling someone that you have purged their data from the main database but that these backups exist and cannot be changed, but that they will be automatically deleted in 60 days.

The only real difficulty is if those backups are actually restored, then the user deletion needs to be replayed, which is something that would be easy to forget.
by sanderjd | 2025-06-04 23:43:55+00:00
I'm worried I'm sealioning, but could you possibly point me to one of these thoughtful pieces? It's a lot to wade through for me to try to figure out what you're talking about without any pointers...

I did read a decent amount of his "mencius moldbug" stuff back in the day, and I just wouldn't describe it the way you do in this comment, so I'm wondering what I'm missing.
by shawn_w | 2025-06-04 23:44:21+00:00
Robert Sheckley's 1953 story Watchbird[0] is about a networked AI drone system intended to prevent murders that gets out of hand when it slowly starts expanding the scope of its original mission - by the end they're preventing surgeries because scalpels do technically hurt the patient. The "solution" humans come up with shows they learned absolutely nothing from the experience.

I doubt that was the first such story.

[0]: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/29579/29579-h/29579-h.htm
by falcor84 | 2025-06-04 23:44:42+00:00
Interesting, but the limit is really low:

> Pro ($20/month): Average users can send approximately 45 messages with Claude every 5 hours, OR send approximately 10-40 prompts with Claude Code every 5 hours. [0]

I can probably run through that in 5 minutes.

[0] https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/11145838-using-cla...
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by roywiggins | 2025-06-04 23:46:08+00:00
We had a spelling reform or two already, they were unfortunately stupid, eg doubt has never had the b pronounced in English. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/doubt

That said, phonetic spelling reform would of course privilege the phonemes as spoken by whoever happens to be most powerful or prestigious at the time (after all, the only way it could possibly stick is if it's pushed by the sufficiently powerful), and would itself fall out of date eventually anyway.
by Aloisius | 2025-06-04 23:46:14+00:00
If 99% of reason to get verified is to look at porn (and let's be honest, near 100% of those who want to be verified after midnight), then the website doing the actual verification of identities has a list of people looking at porn.

No amount of cryptography can protect against this. Now, if the French government issued tokens preemptively to everyone, that would work, but then it becomes trivial for to copy the tokens.
by allturtles | 2025-06-04 23:47:04+00:00
“What hope can there be for mankind,” I thought, “when there are such men as Felix Hoenikker to give such playthings as ice-nine to such short-sighted children as almost all men and women are?”

And I remembered The Fourteenth Book of Bokonon, which I had read in its entirety the night before. The Fourteenth Book is entitled, “What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?”

It doesn’t take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period.

This is it:

“Nothing.”

--Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
by shrubble | 2025-06-04 23:47:05+00:00
This is hilarious because I am finishing up the installation of an extremely large complex and expensive project that is fully N+1 fault-tolerant and it uses Perl scripts for nearly everything; it’s a telecom grade SS7 phone switch with custom hardware and the supervisor part is Linux based.

All the customization and service startup is done in plain text and Perl, from what I’ve seen so far.
by jordwest | 2025-06-04 23:47:08+00:00
I can only speak for myself, but what I discovered internally were a few mechanisms of my mind:

1. A fear of the unknown. The mind tries to construct a knowable future in order to feel safe and prepared. It doesn’t matter how accurate it is, it just chooses what’s comfortable.

2. A desire to fit in, be accepted or loved. If our beliefs are reflected by others, it means we are accepted. If the beliefs are attacked, it’s not just a challenge to a belief system but it’s an attack on me and my validity as a person.

I think both of these seem to combine and play out online as we find groups of people who have acceptable beliefs to us. For some people, total pessimism is actually the comfortable perspective (that was me for sure) and for others maybe a blind optimism makes them feel safe.

When both of these fell away I realised how distorting they had been to my world view and my ability to actually engage with changes.
by os2warpman | 2025-06-04 23:47:22+00:00
> Of course, even making and taking this drug you manufacture is illegal

This is not true.

In the United States GENERALLY SPEAKING you can manufacture any substance that is not on the list of controlled substances on the CSA Schedule.

You cannot sell it or administer it to others.

Also IN GENERAL you can consume any substance that is not illegal to possess or manufacture.

In the non-pharmaceutical realm there are a few additional restrictions, like ethanol (which you can manufacture for industrial use but not human consumption) and various nuclear, biological, and chemical munition components. (Don't know how many people are ingesting those)

If you have the ability, you can manufacture your own sofosbuvir and ingest it.

You cannot sell or give it to anyone else.