MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wat10000 | 2025-06-05 00:06:07+00:00
It didn’t say “always.”

The problem is that there’s no single definition of what makes a government “best.” Even putting aside the massive problems of what sort of outcomes we’re looking for (I have a feeling that Yarvin and I don’t agree on what criteria we’d use to judge this), the timeframe is not specified. It’s perfectly reasonable to interpret that as “over five years,” “while the benevolent dictator is alive,” or “forever, and also the dictator is immortal.” I’m not rejecting the premise, I’m merely interpreting it as the second one. The third one isn’t a counterfactual like “what if the Nazis won,” it’s more like “what if Hitler was 50ft tall and had super strength?” It’s ignoring basic, universally accepted truth about human biology. It might be fun to imagine, but when talking about the real world it makes no sense. I choose to assume that the people who accept this premise want to make sense, so I assume they mean a real, human dictator who will eventually die.

Incidentally, I not only accept that premise, I believe it. A benevolent dictatorship is the best form of government, while it lasts. The only advantage of democracy over benevolent dictatorship is long term stability beyond the lifespan of the rulers. But this is such a big advantage that it puts democracy solidly on top.
by gerdesj | 2025-06-05 00:07:21+00:00
IPv6 still has the concept of "routable". You just have to decide what site-local means in terms of the routing table.

In old school IPv4 you would normally assign octet two to a site and octet three to a VLAN. Oh and you start with 10.

With IPv6 you have a lot more options.

All IPv6 devices have link local addresses - that's the LAN or local VLAN - a bit like APIPA.

Then you start on .local - that's Apple and DNS and the like and nothing to do with IP addresses. That's name to address.

You can do Lets Encrypt (ACME) for "local network addresses" (I assume you mean RFC 1918 addresses: 10/8, 172.16/12, 192.168/16) - you need to look into DNS-01 and perhaps DNS CNAME. It does require quite some effort.

There is a very good set of reasons why TLS certs are a bit of a bugger to get working effectively these days. There are solutions freely available but they are also quite hard to implement. At least they are free. I remember the days when even packet capture required opening your wallet.

You might look into acme.sh if Certbot fails to work for you. You also might need to bolt down IP addressing in general, IPv4 vs IPv6 and DNS and mDNS (and Bonjour) as concepts - you seem a little hazy on that lot.

Bon chance mate
by godelski | 2025-06-05 00:07:54+00:00
Retention means an expansion of your threat model. Specifically, in a way you have little to no control over.

It's one thing if you get pwned because a hacker broke into your servers. It is another thing if you get pwned because a hacker broken into somebody else's servers.

At this point, do we believe OpenAI has a strong security infrastructure? Given the court order, it doesn't seem possible for them to have sufficient security for practical purposes. Your data might be encrypted at rest, but who has the keys? When you're buying secure instances, you don't want the provider to have your keys...
by canuckintime | 2025-06-05 00:08:09+00:00
It’s catchy in the same way “Mexicans will pay for the wall”, “China will eat the tariffs”, “Lock her up” is catchy; all catchy slogans but also nonsense. And, to bring it back to Krugman, Trump’s enablers let it slide because they are not serious people.

>> He's a lot of things but he's not bad at getting what he values; he is in fact perhaps the most successful American ever in those terms.

Nonsense. He’s bankrupted casinos. He lost his first reelection bid. He started on third base and ended up back at first.

>> If you care about America it is incredibly short sighted to think he's dumb.

He IS that dumb. He really doesn’t understand how tariffs/trade balance works. But his enablers have let him run riot. Biden was old. Reagan had mental issues. But their teams had firm hands on the steering wheel. That’s a serious country with some checks and balances. Trump admin is trying to revoke all that
by qingcharles | 2025-06-05 00:08:42+00:00
There is illegal stuff in there, because some of the books they've swept up into the archive have been retconned to be illegal. A lot of obscene material wasn't illegal until into the 80s, and these shadow libraries are scooping up everything without checking. I don't know what they do if you report it to them.

For instance, there are issues of multiple issues of Playboy with underage models. All the archives of British tabloid newspapers had to be purged in 2003 after the laws changed there, etc.
by CooCooCaCha | 2025-06-05 00:09:39+00:00
The counter-argument is that even if you say democracy is sub-optimal, it’s certainly more stable than monarchy. Monarchy sounds good when you have a benevolent philosopher-king that does all the right things, but what if you get a bad king? That could mean decades of poor leadership.

With a monarchy, lighting has to strike over and over again.
by rconti | 2025-06-05 00:09:51+00:00
Sorry, I can't parse the multiple negatives of "hopefully this doesn't mean they can't.." followed by "there's no such restriction".

I legitimately share the parent's concern. In a related matter, insurance companies are allowed to force me to accept non-OEM parts when my car is repaired. It sucks that someone can crash into me, and force me into taking sub-standard parts.
by tallowen | 2025-06-05 00:10:30+00:00
The US tax code isn't created to work like this. Direct file asked many questions about things like dependent children, whether you're blind and whether you have an HSA - all things that are relevant to your taxes that aren't actually available to the government right now.

Secondly, there is the issue of State / Local taxes - the IRS only receives federal tax data making it hard to automatically fill out the whole tax return since efiling products tend to file federal / state taxes together.

This year, direct file allowed people to import their W2s and 1099-INTs automatically based on the information the IRS had: https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/blob/main/direct-f...
by SchemaLoad | 2025-06-05 00:10:58+00:00
I tried running the DeepSeek models that would run on my 32GB macbook and they were interesting. They could still produce good conversation but didn't seem to have the entirety of the internet in it's knowledge pool. Asking it complex questions lead to it only offering high level descriptions and best guess answers.

Feel like they would still be great for a lot of applications like "Search my local hard drive for the file that matches this description"
by tonyarkles | 2025-06-05 00:11:28+00:00
I mean... yeah, that’s a definite possibility. If a lunatic has access to explosives, there’s an infinite number of ways they could do that.

The hard part is that there is no effective way to regulate anything in the supply chain involved except for the explosives themselves. Everything else is super commoditized at this point and, other than the props, very multi-purpose. The first significant hexcopter I built used a BeagleBone Blue for processing, generic ESCs and BLDCs for the motors, and an aluminum frame that I cut out of aluminum tubes from Home Depot. Max takeoff weight was 55lb, because that’s the heaviest it could legally take off with. This was 7 years ago.
by fhub | 2025-06-05 00:11:46+00:00
My guess is they will store them on tape e.g. on something like Spectra TFinity ExaScale library. I assume AWS glacier et al use this sort of thing for their deep archives.

Storing them on something that has hours to days retrieval window satisfies the court order, is cheaper, and makes me as a customer that little bit more content with it (mass data breach would take months of plundering and easily detectable).
by JKCalhoun | 2025-06-05 00:11:48+00:00
> But now, OpenAI has been forced to preserve chat history even when users "elect to not retain particular conversations by manually deleting specific conversations or by starting a 'Temporary Chat,' which disappears once closed," OpenAI said.

So, why is Safari not forced to save my web browsing history too (even of I delete it)? Why not also the "private" tabs I open?

Just OpenAI, huh?
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-06-05 00:13:04+00:00
I know a lot of people don’t like extensive stdlibs, but I’m not among them. As long as the stuff in the standard library is actually decent, I’m all for including more.

The fewer dependencies I need, the better. It’s one of the reasons why I’m still a big fan of developing for Apple platforms despite the recent drama: it’s a very batteries-included experience, which means it’s not just feasible but pleasant to develop top-class apps with a dependency list that can be counted on one hand. That’s amazing for not just the dev process itself but also for long term maintenance.
by jmathai | 2025-06-05 00:13:20+00:00
Thanks for mentioning this. I didn’t connect my general confusion in the Photos app with an upgrade but it makes sense.

The navigation is so unintuitive to me that I’ve killed the app just to try and get back to the most recent photos I’ve taken.

Apple products have mostly been very good. Even when I didn’t love the UX I could figure it out.

So many recent features just feel half baked (like replies in iMessage). I’m starting to wonder if they’re better off leaving good enough alone (not that that is a remote possibility).
by cortesoft | 2025-06-05 00:13:43+00:00
Almost all privacy policies are going to have a call out for legal rulings. For example, here is the Hackernews Legal section in the privacy policy (https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/)

> Legal Requirements: If required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (i) comply with a legal obligation, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements, (ii) protect and defend our rights or property, (iii) prevent fraud, (iv) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Services, or the public, or (v) protect against legal liability.
by m463 | 2025-06-05 00:13:54+00:00
I've used "machine code" plenty of times in production as inline assembly encoded in other languages.

I vaguely recall ada inline assembly looking like function calls, with arguments that sometimes referenced high-level-language variables)

unrelated to that, I distinguish between machine code which is binary/hex, and assembly as symbolic assembler or macro assembler, which can actually have high level macros and other niceties.

And one thing I can say for sure. I took assembly language as my second computer course, and it definitely added a lifelong context as to how machines worked, what everything translated to and whether it was fast or efficient.
by auxiliarymoose | 2025-06-05 00:15:27+00:00
With WebUSB, you can program a microcontroller without needing to install local software. With Web Bluetooth, you can wirelessly capture data from + send commands to that microcontroller.

As a developer, these standards prevent you from needing to maintain separate implementations for Windows/macOS/Linux/Android.

As a user, they let you grant and revoke sandbox permissions in a granular way, including fully removing the web app from your computer.

Browsers provide a great cross-platform sandbox and make it much easier to develop secure software across all platforms.

WebUSB and Web Bluetooth are opt-in when the site requests a connection/permission, as opposed to unlimited access by default for native apps. And if you don't want to use them, you can choose a browser that doesn't implement those standards.

What other platform (outside of web browsers) is a good alternative for securely developing cross-platform software that interacts with hardware?
by demosthanos | 2025-06-05 00:16:42+00:00
You use a two-phase prompt for this. Have it reason through the answer and respond with a clearly-labeled 'final answer' section that contains the English description of the answer. Then run its response through again in JSON mode with a prompt to package up what the previous model said into structured form.

The second phase can be with a cheap model if you need it to be.
by rhet0rica | 2025-06-05 00:16:47+00:00
You're absolutely right, and reflecting on it is why the article is horribly wrong. Humans are multimodal—they're ensemble models where many functions are highly localized to specific parts of the hardware. Biologically these faculties are "emergent" only in the sense that (a) they evolved through natural selection and (b) they need to be grown and trained in each human to work properly. They're not at all higher-level phenomena emulated within general-purpose neural circuitry. Even Nature thinks that would be absurdly inefficient!

But accelerationists, like Yudkowskites, are always heavily predisposed to believe in exceptionalism—whether it's of their own brains or someone else's—so it's impossible to stop them from making unhinged generalizations. An expert in Pascal's Mugging[1] could make a fortune by preying on their blind spots.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal's_mugging
by throwawaymaths | 2025-06-05 00:18:11+00:00
i agree that current llms are likely missing quite a few of the trees and probably off on the forest too. however, in general, an llm (or a transformer rather) is a universal function approximator, so in principle, there's no substrate too complex unless somehow it's uncomputable and i see no evidence that biology is uncomputable in the bulk.
by gpm | 2025-06-05 00:18:23+00:00
First, there's no court order for Safari. This isn't the court saying "everyone always has to preserve data" it's a court saying "in the interest of this litigation this specific party has to preserve data for now".

But moreover, Safari isn't a third party, it's a tool you are using whose data is in your possession. That means that in the US things like fourth amendment rights are much stronger. A blanket order requiring that Safari preserve everyone's browsing history would be an illegal general warrant (in the US).
by mntruell | 2025-06-05 00:21:02+00:00
> their subscriptions nerf the models context sizes etc

You can use the full-context if you prefer that cost/speed tradeoff! Just have to turn on Max Mode.

Cline is great for many users, but a bit of a different product. Lots of Cursor's value come from custom models that run in the background (e.g. Tab, models that gather context, etc.).
by whythre | 2025-06-05 00:21:08+00:00
It was reckless. The flight was widely popularized by her huckster husband who was motivated to have his wife win him fame and fortune. She wasn’t ready, and in that sense, the attempt was reckless.

If a person takes a big risk and makes it, that’s a success. If a person risks it and dies in the Atlantic, being called reckless seems kinder alternative to being called a failure.
by overu589 | 2025-06-05 00:21:21+00:00
“It”

There.

There is your description.

The universe is Universal Potential of Existential Being.

That doesn’t “sum it up”, rather tells the mind the laws of multidimensional space have not yet been applied. Your LLM defines “singularity” as a domain where the conventional laws as we understand them break down and no longer apply.

This isn’t outside of science, it is edge science. Science exists to ask, prove or disprove, not to doubt or define normality through the filter of credulity.

Your use of “description” is symbolic. I assumed you meant that the secret of all other secrets could be determined by looking deeply enough into the details of any small part. There is some insight to be gained sure, yet this symbol table of references is insignificant.

The symbols and references themselves do not interact.

There is a romantic idea that calling something a thing makes it that thing, and in the realm of human symbolic drama this might play out. In existential reality things are as they are perturbed, or interacted.

In existential reality things are as they interact, and consciousness as a feedback mechanism of existential reality is a more satisfying answer than large enough symbolic reference table.
by bsoles | 2025-06-05 00:21:35+00:00
The idea that managers are special people who can, among other things, control their emotions, get to the bottom of things, and communicate properly with their team is a ridiculous one.

The author seems to have an idea of what a manager is that does not fit the reality in 95% of the cases, in my estimation. The article also has a crude and arrogant view of people as employees, who are portrayed as second class to "managers". I really hope the author is nobody's manager...
by iliti22 | 2025-06-05 00:21:57+00:00
"Ironically, the very same people who preach the importance of diversity were upset we dare have a discussion about variances in humanity."

I am tired of leftists and their promotion of the "Paradox of Tolerance" where they aggressively censor and promote their own type of hate on people who don't think like them. That and the purity tests that they give each other to make sure no one has any independent thought other than the party line.
by dtagames | 2025-06-05 00:22:25+00:00
Prompting and RAG are the only tools you have, like everyone else. What is "tone?" That's not deterministic. You're asking an LLM to predict tone. And logic? Forget it.

To validate (or really, dismiss) this idea, try it with your own RAG app or even with Cursor. There's just no way you can stack enough prompts to turn predictions into determinism.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-06-05 00:22:30+00:00
The strangest TIL for me this year is that Fred Noonan was indeed on board for the doomed flight, and he was just as lost/dead as Earhart was.

I've surely conflated Earhart with Lindbergh, who was known for his solo marathon flights, and somehow absorbed decades' worth of pop-culture "Amelia Earhart" legends that left Captain Noonan as a remarkably obscure footnote in history.

And even more interesting still were the accounts that a disastrous landing in Hawaii carried a crew of four, and her penultimate attempt had a crew of three, with an aborted takeoff that severely damaged her Electra, and the third man had refused/declined to continue as the odds were increasingly not in their favor.
by AlienRobot | 2025-06-05 00:22:42+00:00
I'm usually against LLM's massive breach of copyright, but this argument is just weird.

>At a conference in January, Wang raised a hypothetical in line with her thinking on the subsequent order. 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?

If the user hears about this case, and now this order, wouldn't they just avoid doing that for the duration of the court order?
by snackbroken | 2025-06-05 00:23:46+00:00
It is easy to fool oneself into thinking one knows how something works, when in reality one only has a surface level understanding without really knowing about the internals. The serialization process exposes all the dangling pointers.

Your average person "knows" how a toilet works; water is pumped in to fill the cistern, released into the bowl when you pull the plunger, and flushes out the drain. Ask them to explain in detail how that happens, and most realize that they don't actually know how the cistern doesn't just keep filling until it overflows, or how it's not constantly leaking water into the bowl, or how the bowl can be flushed while neither overflowing nor draining completely.
by rsti0000 | 2025-06-05 00:24:16+00:00
It’s not an honesty test, it’s a result of how the US income tax system evolved. Originally the IRS had far less data and everyone filed paper returns. For example, it was only in 2008 that Congress required brokers to track and report cost basis on 1099s to cut down on people overstating their basis to decrease their cap gains.

Under Biden, the IRS tried to make w2s and 1099s available. If you log into the IRS website with your information, you can download the w2s and 1099s the Service has in your name.

Antitax activists have fought these steps every step of the way because the less annoying tax filing is, the less people will buy their antitax arguments.

The IRS isn’t captured by these predatory tax preparers, Congress is. The IRS can’t do a lot on data without Congress specifically authorizing it. And the Republican Party is in bed with the antitax activists who are in bed with the tax preparation companies.
by gpm | 2025-06-05 00:24:22+00:00
*If the license you have authorizes you to make a copy in that fashion.

But here, Google isn't a license holder. Google doesn't license the text in Google Books (unless something has changed since the lawsuits). Google simply legally acquires (buys, borrows, etc) a copy of the book and does things with it that the US courts have found are fair use and require no license.

Incidentally I believe the French courts disagreed and fined them half a million dollars or so and ordered them to stop in France.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-06-05 00:25:10+00:00
The concept of “deleted” is not black and white, it is a continuum (though I agree that this is a very soft delete). As a technical matter, it is surprisingly difficult and expensive to unrecoverably delete something with high assurance. Most deletes in real systems are much softer than people assume because it dramatically improves performance, scalability, and cost.

There have been many attempts to build e.g. databases that support deterministic hard deletes. Unfortunately, that feature is sufficiently ruinous to efficient software architecture that performance is extremely poor such that no one uses them.
by veqq | 2025-06-05 00:26:10+00:00
> phonetic

A phonetic respelling would destroy the languages, because there are too many dialects without matching pronunciations. Though rendering historical texts illegible, a phonemic approach would work: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:English_pronunciatio... But that would still mean most speakers have 2-3 ways of spelling various vowels. There are some further problems with a phonemic approach: https://alexalejandre.com/notes/phonetic-vs-phonemic-spellin...

Here's an example of a phonemic orthography, which is somewhat readable (to me) but illustrates how many diacritics you'd need. And it still spells the vowel in "ask" or "lot" with the same ä! https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....