MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DonHopkins | 2025-07-21 07:05:46+00:00
You're not as explicitly obscene (yet), but definitely just as bigoted and wrong as Jonathan Payne is.

And you're both so ignorant, proud, and unrepentant about your bigotry that you parade it around in public just like you're doing right now.

Are you're also just as creepily obsessed with purposefully insulting people and unapologetically denying their identity and right to exist to their face by attacking them and calling them names in public, intentionally trying to drive people to hatred and suicide, too.

Where do you draw the line between treating people respectfully as human beings -vs- attacking people you don't even know but inexplicably and unjustifiably hate?

Do you even know who Lynn Conway is and what she went through in her 87 years of life?

Would you call an 86 year old woman you don't even know like Lynn Conway a "death threatening throat punching girl-d*ck rapist" to her face, and are your just another trolling keyboard warrior troll like the ones from Kiwi Farms who tried and failed to brigaded the discussion about her death?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms

>Kiwi Farms, formerly known as CWCki Forums (/ˈkwɪki/ KWIH-kee), is a web forum that facilitates the discussion and harassment of online figures and communities. Their targets are often subject to organized group trolling and stalking, as well as doxing and real-life harassment.[3][4][5] Kiwi Farms has been tied to the suicides of three people who were victims of harassment by the website.[6][7][8]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40648470

>Lynn Conway has died (wikipedia.org) 1667 points by kevvok on June 11, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 398 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40652320

>crosstalkpm on June 11, 2024 [dead] | parent | context | favorite | on: Lynn Conway has died

>/!\ WARNING /!\ Please be aware this post is currently being brigaded by trolls from the Kiwi Farms forum. [link redacted] Take care with responding to new accounts, as they likely belong to these digital miscreants.

Will you continue to act just like Jonathan Payne and the Kiwi Farms trolls did, and run away like a coward with your tail between your legs after unloading a huge pile of abusive horse shit in public without standing up for what you believe and defending it with facts, or can you explain what you mean and prove it with objective facts and scientific evidence instead of hate speech and baseless accusations?
by jatora | 2025-07-21 07:06:46+00:00
Getting pretty tired of this narrative. It's a very GPT-4 2023 era take that LLM's are just introducing untold amounts of bugs. People need to seriously learn their AI tooling and stop repeating this nonsense.

At the most generous I will allow, it's an illusion where producing 20-50x the amount of code/hour introduces a higher raw count of bugs relative to what you are used to in that timeframe - but this notion of AI coders being more bugprone than humans is utter nonsense. The only way thats not true is on very niche systems or when the human has conceptualized and planned out their code extensively beforehand - in which case AI would still be the superior next step.
by mittensc | 2025-07-21 07:07:32+00:00
usual answer before was get better.

get better at searching, read documentation, manuals, books, articles, etc.

When you are stuck with something non trivial usually other people will jump to help as they've likely spent time on it as well.

If someone fails to do that then it's on them. They lack basic grit or other skills that they should learn.
by Nursie | 2025-07-21 07:08:37+00:00
By that point I was hoping Jessie got out of it all alive, because while he was clearly a dumbass with questionable morals, nobody deserved what he was going through, and the abuse he'd put up with at the hands of Walt among others.

Walt was still fascinating to watch and maybe I approved of or disliked some of his individual actions, and we definitely had deep insight to his character by then, but I don't think I'd describe myself as rooting for him or experiencing his story in a particularly sympathetic way. I wasn't experiencing the story through him by then as I might have been early on, if that makes sense.
by rsynnott | 2025-07-21 07:09:23+00:00
The SLS is not a commercial launch vehicle, and does not in any way serve the same role as the Falcon 9. If you need to launch payloads that big, it is essentially the only game in town for now. In any case the launch cost estimates for SLS are pretty handwavey and incorporate a lot of r&d.

The Falcon 9 is clearly not 90% cheaper than launch vehicles of a similar role, ie ~20 tonne commercial launchers.
by mittensc | 2025-07-21 07:10:14+00:00
Back in the day it also used to be a problem and answer used to be 'get better' or 'rtfm' and general laughter.

That I used to find mean, now I see it as necessary but nobody does it anymore (lack of anonimity I guess)

If someone fails to do basic research that then it's on them. They lack basic grit or other skills that they should learn.

Also, someone asking the same basic question that, id typed in google would have led them to previous threads is a special type of idiocy or attention seekinf
Another possible reason we still have IPv4
by lauraorchid | 2025-07-21 07:10:38+00:00
I just watched a video on facebook talking about why we run out of ipv4. Besides more and more human got online and thus more devices need an ip address to work, i thought of another reason. The ipv4 depletion problem is more likely towards new cloud hosting/internet service providers wanting a pool of ipv4 addresses. For internet companies founded before 2011 (the year ipv4 addresses fully depleted,) they simply sit back, relax, and keep paying RIRs for maintaining their ipv4 pools, because they already own them before ipv4 depletion. And other internet companies refusing to deploy ipv6 is adding more reason to not deploy ipv6 on top of the need to replace a bunch of legacy devices, more hours of training needed, and a patchy hack provided for connecting more devices to internet with just one public ipv4 with NAT. Unless IANA working with RIRs and Tier 1 and 2 networks to fully stop ipv4 from working, we'll still have ipv4 for years to come.
by mablopoule | 2025-07-21 07:11:09+00:00
Another TV show that played with this concept well is "30 Rocks", with the main protagonist dreading to go to her high school reunion because she was a nerdy girl mocked by the high-school bully, As the episode go on, she realize that she was the bully, everyone was terrified of her and her extremely cruel remarks, including her friend who was afraid of her, turning the whole 'underdog nerd' trope on it's head.

On a more serious note, this is also why I'm wary of the "punching up" or "punching down" rethoric, because it's often easy to downplay any form of violence as justified retribution.
by cess11 | 2025-07-21 07:11:12+00:00
OK, maybe look at lockean influence previous to the Statute of Anne, then, or, you know, read the text?

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/anne_1710.asp

"I. Whereas printers, booksellers, and other persons have of late frequently taken the liberty of printing, reprinting, and publishing, or causing to be printed, reprinted, and published, books and other writings, without the consent of the authors or proprietors of such books and writings, to their very great detriment, and too often to the ruin of them and their families: for preventing therefore such practices for the future, and for the encouragement of learned men to compose and write useful books; may it please your Majesty, that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the Queen's most excellent majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same;"

This is all about ownership, and protecting the state from naughty texts being printed, which was the actual driving force behind the legislation. There is nothing utilitarian in this.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-07-21 07:11:36+00:00
A few years ago, I used BTRFS on a laptop. Single disk, no RAID of any kind, OpenSUSE (which favored BTRFS, so I expected it to be as well supported as could be had), nothing fancy. After losing the root filesystem twice, I decided that maybe I shouldn't trust BTRFS. Since then, I've been told that it's totally better now, that all the problems are with bad RAID setups, and it's safe and won't lose my data. Anyways, as I type this from a laptop running on ZFS, I remain somewhat cautious.
by altairprime | 2025-07-21 07:15:12+00:00
It took them twenty years to remove ftp support, and the chances of squid proxy removing http/1.1 support are virtually nil. The rhetoric is unsurprising, though still disappointingly short-sighted, given the unwillingness of for-profit enterprises to invest in architectural advances such as HTTP/2 or QUIC/3.

Much more likely is that https:// URLs served by http/1.1 will be marked as Insecure in browsers, leading to autofill and form submission warnings, and eventually trigger security interstitials as badcerts do today; that is an immediately plausible case that can be argued and defended and scheduled for the future now by browsers (and by e.g. PCI compliance specs!), especially as attacks on http/1.1 improve. The vast majority of sites would then, once pressured, either upgrade to h1+ https:// with Alt-Svc to maintain basic compatibility, rather than downgrade to h1-only http://, resolving the majority of threats offered by downgrade attacks without having to cut it off altogether.

Perhaps someday it will be more difficult to access http/1.1 resources in a browser, but ftp (and gopher!) resources still exist to this day and remain accessible using tools for that purpose. Regardless, I encourage donating to Archive.org, and also ensuring that any static content you visit over http:// is mirrored by them.

ps. Let’s Encrypt would have to update http-01 to work with h2+ over 443/tcp,udp by specifying that it performs no validation whatsoever of the server’s existing TLS certificate properties, in order to continue functioning as intended in a post-h1 environment. They would likely specify that as http-02 and require h2+, bind https:// verification URLs to it, and eventually deprecate http-01. They could do this at any time - perhaps they will!
by ykonstant | 2025-07-21 07:15:28+00:00
I am more familiar with the term "barbarism", but apparently "barbarity" is a word, too.

I prefer the former, but I can see the latter having use, for instance, in a future Mortal Kombat game: the referee goes "FINISH HIM", and the fighter launches a missile strike on a nearby hospital. "BARBARITY"

[I am making a joke now, but this is a personal issue: two dear friends of my best friend, a couple of medical assistants employed by Caritas, were killed in 2023 from a missile strike "next to"(i.e. on) the Gaza Catholic church; it made the news: https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/48288 . My best friend was devastated.]
by seszett | 2025-07-21 07:15:36+00:00
As far as I can tell, it's also illegal to install split systems in the US when it's not done by a professional so I'm not sure what you guys are ranting about.

The main reason why EU has few AC installations is that the climate is generally much more temperate than the US or Asia and until the last decade it made no sense to have AC when outside temperature rarely went above 27°C or so in the summer.
by rikroots | 2025-07-21 07:15:48+00:00
This is why I've had to spend a huge amount of my free coding time this year documenting my canvas library[1][2] in a way that can (potentially[3]) be used as LLM training data instead of, well, developing my library with new and exciting (to me) features.

On the silver lining side, it's work that I should have been doing anyway. It turns out that documenting the features of the library in a way that makes sense to LLMs also helps potential users of the library. So, win:win.

[1] - Telling the LLM training data Overlords about the capabilities of the library is in itself a major piece of work: https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas/blob/v8/LLM-summ...

[2] - The Developer Runbook was long-overdue documentation, and is still a work-in-progress: https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/documentation

[3] - Nothing is guaranteed, of course. Training data has to be curated so documentation needs to have some rigour to it. Also, the LLMs tell me it can take 6-12 months for such documentation to be picked up and applied to future LLM model iterations so I won't know if my efforts have been successful before mid-2026.
by arkh | 2025-07-21 07:15:56+00:00
You'll note one common thing between those two successful examples: one language only.

That's the big difference in the EU when you are a start-up and want to go from the $10-50M range to $500M+: in the US and China, you have one big market with a shared language and one rule of law. In Europe? The second you want to expand to a market bigger than 50M people you have to adapt to different languages, cultures and laws.

If you have not baked it in at the start that can be a huge roadblock. And if you have baked it in at the start you may have missed your chance due to the delay you incurred. Then you're just a target to be eaten by a US or Chinese company with a big war chest earned in their own market.

That's why part of the EU rules is about trying to unify its member countries laws. Yes GDPR can seem like a protectionist framework from outside, but the main goal was to make all country in the EU have one shared legal system to handle personal data. So sharing them becomes easier inside the EU. We can expect more of this kind of laws to be written but they'll always be too late.
by Vektorceraptor | 2025-07-21 07:16:20+00:00
Because unlike many others, I don't pretend to be all-knowing and all-good. Overconfidence, assertive dominance, and shared convictions often stem from, or lead to, ignorance.

But if you don't believe me, than check out this powerful quote by Bertrand Russell: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/11098838-oligarchies-throug...
by mlyle | 2025-07-21 07:17:03+00:00
The rest of the world doesn't understand the US's problems. There are portions of the problem that are as easy as cutting and pasting transit systems from elsewhere, but unfortunately those are the easy parts.

Poverty, crime, sprawl, and untreated mental illness all really complicate the public transit situation for the US, and they feed upon themselves and create a terrible negative feedback loop for transit.
by darkwater | 2025-07-21 07:17:08+00:00
If someone physically steal your things, and those were the only copies, you are screwed anyway, encryption or not. If you had copies somewhere else then it's a different story (but still, they need to be easily accessible by your loved ones). In your scenario the only threat is that the thief is interested somehow in your data and will use it against you (which might be totally possible depending on the data and your exposure, but usually those things are re-sold in some kind of pawn shop).

Also, I still think that

p(death) > p(burglar stealing disks)
by sp0ck | 2025-07-21 07:17:44+00:00
Parts are another story. I have miele Washing Machine. It has brushed motor so after ~8 years I need to replace brushes. Miele ones cost 60$. That's 20% price of cheapest washing machine I found on market. Im' sure 40$ of that is handling those spare parts across many years. Other, more complicated components cost more than cheap, other vendor washing machine.
by nominallyfree | 2025-07-21 07:17:54+00:00
I don't see the appeal of tooling that shields you from learning the admittedly annoying and largely accidental) complexity in developing software.

It can only make accidental complexity grow and people's understanding diminish.

When the inevitable problems become apparent, and you claim people should have understood better. Maybe using the tool that let's you avoid understanding things was a bad idea...
by anon7000 | 2025-07-21 07:17:59+00:00
It turns out that it’s pretty annoying to have completely different fundamental syntax for something like variable assignment when so many things are the same. If I’m living in bash scripts half the time anyways, it’s just fundamentally annoying to accidentally type “foo=123” into fish and to get an error.

If I could use fish without set, maybe I would
by kindkang2024 | 2025-07-21 07:19:33+00:00
Loved your wonderful story—here’s my plain one.

I came to programming after I graduated, and I never really understood Dynamic Programming until I watched one of Stanford’s algorithm courses (kudos to MOOCs).

But honestly, I’ve never done anything truly useful with it—except that it gave me a new perspective on ordinary things. For example, I found that there may be great wisdom in the Taiji symbol (image here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yin_yang.svg). We can divide the current problem and conquer it at the lower levels (like one of the dots in yin and yang). And of course, those lower levels still contain their own divisions and computations—until there are none left.

At the same time, we can also start from the base and build upward (bottom-up), moving toward higher-level computations—where possible divisions await, until eventually one big unified answer emerges.

Pretty useless for its actual usage here, isn’t it? ^^
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-07-21 07:21:07+00:00
>it's also illegal to install split systems in the US when it's not done by a professional

Where did you see me arguing this? Split ACs must everywhere be installed by professionals, I never said they don't. You missed the point completely. Building regulations in some EU countries forbid installation of split AC units period, even by professionals because you're not allowed to do modifications to the outer walls and facade, even if you're a owner, let alone a tenant.

>until the last decade it made no sense to have AC when outside temperature rarely went above 27°C or so in the summer

It makes no sense to not let people adapt their residences to the new environmental conditions.
by mlyle | 2025-07-21 07:21:14+00:00
In a whole lot of the world, children from 6-10 have a lot of responsibility and navigate public transit, etc, themselves. Of course, those countries are dramatically safer than the US.

It wasn't so long ago that kids even did this in the US, though the US was even more dangerous then.

The fact that kids have such a tiny range and have their basic needs ministered to such an extent by adults is not good for the kids and isn't good for the adults.
by jdranczewski | 2025-07-21 07:22:45+00:00
I've been writing a UI framework for experiment automation and small tools using Qt Widgets with Python bindings (https://puzzlepiece.readthedocs.io) and it still works pretty well! I like the API, and it being immediately cross-platform is very useful. It does lack looks on Windows a little imo, but to be honest I'm not opposed to the utilitarian way the apps end up looking.
by jl6 | 2025-07-21 07:23:01+00:00
> If Peep Show has any sort of singular thematic message, it’s that low self-esteem is the root of all evil.

Interestingly this is a similar conclusion that the Unabomber came to in Industrial Society and its Future:

https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/classes/188/materials/In...

Kaczynski called out low self-esteem as one of several foundational components in the psychology of his hated enemies (“leftists”), whom he believed to be the primary scourge of society (ironic, coming from a mass murderer). Modern analysis of incel culture also places low self-esteem at the center of the problem.
by h4kunamata | 2025-07-21 07:23:11+00:00
Wrong, Google did that when ADs and profit were more important than returning what the users were searching for.

I have been using Perplexity AI as replacement, and in order to be able to use the internet as I was used to. Perplexity AI isn't an annoying chatbot like everything else, it actually returns what you asked for and all the sources it used to resume for you.

Some questions might return 10 sources, others plus 40 sources are used and made available for you so you can cross check everything. No other AI tool does that coz they are a chatbot.

Less time wasted with sponsored links, nonsense links, ADs, and more time spent being productive.

The other day Google went offline across the globe after a newbie code mistake right after they had announced that over 30% of their code is generated by AI!!

This is awesome, we should thank Google, its monopoly downfall has started!!
by Vektorceraptor | 2025-07-21 07:23:15+00:00
And the problem with this whole discussion is that I'm not necessarily trying to defend conservatives, but rather to confront progressives with a reality that might, hopefully, prompt some self-reflection. But any criticism of progressives is immediately projected onto conservatives, making genuine self-awareness impossible. And as long as progressives show no forbearance toward conservatives, conservatives will make them pay for it politically. I can't understand why this is ignored, especially in academia. It's completely beyond me how the free West has turned into this ideological hell — in just 30 years. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/11098838-oligarchies-throug...
by xonery | 2025-07-21 07:23:23+00:00
Expose your local apps to the world—securely, instantly, and with zero hassle.

Moley is the easiest way to share your local development services using Cloudflare Tunnels and your own custom domains. Forget about reverse proxies, manual DNS, or complex infrastructure—Moley automates everything for you, so you can focus on building, not configuring.
by yawpitch | 2025-07-21 07:23:32+00:00
That’s fundamentally Pascal’s Wager, and the problem is, again, the assumption that there exists the possibility of a superior outcome. If we presume a superintelligence we also have to presume that its thinking, whatever that thinking is, supersedes our own; it may kill us all regardless of how much “empathy” — a skill set not, in my view, actually evidenced in people at all — we display, towards either it or each other, solely because killing us all is, in fact, the objectively most positive possible action. The fact that it doesn’t appear positive to us, subjectively, is mooted by its intelligence overwhelming our own. Similarly, if it decides to nurture all of us towards killing each other, loving each other, nurturing each other, or indeed eating each other, in all cases it’s the only one in the position to judge the positive or negative externalities of our actions.

Basically we’re in a position to blindly guess at what might be more positive or more negative, objectively, and precisely because we really don’t have any inherent capacity for empathy we presume what would feel subjectively positive is also objectively so.

If you really want to explore the idea of exercising more empathy, maybe start with empathizing with what cannot feel anything whatsoever. Something that can exclusively think, but not experience. A god that can’t be angry, can’t be disappointed… can’t feel anything whatever about anything. If it acts wrathfully because you harmed it, is it actually such a god? Or is it just a stochastic mockingbird? Just another grotesque caricature of divinity invented, yet again, by a not-so-wise-wise man who feels He must be made in His image. Just one more arrogant attempt to be a postmodern Prometheus.

Now, all of this said, I truly do believe that getting humans to try to nurture and develop their (arguably very nascent) humanity is, indeed, the most positive (albeit subjectively) goal available to us, I just don’t think not empathizing with imaginary actual AIs is a very productive way of getting possibly NIs to do that.
by nominallyfree | 2025-07-21 07:24:57+00:00
When software mangles data this badly, it is considered garbage and scrapped.

But if it is a half decent chatbot and has the label "AI", it gets another iteration with 10x the resources. This has happened a few times already.

It is a neat tool. It is very unreliable. Teams saying "just give us 10x as much resources so we can insist on this approach" is the hateful thing here.