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by JKCalhoun | 2025-07-13 21:53:08+00:00
> we live in a society where we can't really voice, our opinions or grievances towards specific groups or cultures or issues as it is deemed politically incorrect

I'm not sure what that means when I see people say that.

Is it "People don't like it when I'm a dick so I have to hide when I do it?"

Because if it's not that, just say what you think. I'd like to think I do, in public with co-workers, etc. They judge me then by that and I kind of deserve their judgement (which ever way it goes).
by throw10920 | 2025-07-13 21:53:17+00:00
I 100% agree with the principle, but (regrettably) in practice you can't do this in a lot of places where the community is critical (which isn't a bad thing by itself) but doesn't call out/downvote/moderate bad criticism (which is bad).

I can't count the number of times on HN that I've seen responses to posts that took advantage of the poster not writing defensively to emotionally attack them in ways that absolutely break the HN guidelines, and weren't flagged or downvoted. And on other sites, like Reddit, it's just the norm.

The defensive writing will continue until morals improve.
by jader201 | 2025-07-13 21:53:49+00:00
Maybe I’m not the crowd this article is referring to, but for the most part, I wishlist games I’m interested in, then buy them on sale. As a result, I’ve played most of the games in my library.

Having said that, there are still games I haven’t played, but these are older titles when I used to follow Steam on Twitter, and would grab random games on sale.

Since moving to only buying wishlisted games (I no longer follow any other feeds of sales), I’ll only buy games I’m already interested in.
by honorable_coder | 2025-07-13 21:54:06+00:00
We’re using proxy-wasm and compiling to wasm32-wasip1, then mounting the .wasm binaries into Envoy as HTTP filters via envoy.filters.http.wasm. The line you're referring to:

vm_config: runtime: "envoy.wasm.runtime.v8" code: local: filename: "/etc/envoy/proxy-wasm-plugins/prompt_gateway.wasm"

…is where the integration happens. There's no need to modify envoy.bootstrap.wasm; instead, Arch loads the WASM modules at runtime using standard Envoy config templating. The filters (prompt_gateway for ingress, and llm_gateway for egress sit in the request path and do things like prompt inspection, model routing, header rewrites, and telemetry collection.
by ileonichwiesz | 2025-07-13 21:54:44+00:00
Outrage is the most valuable emotion a piece of online content can inspire.

If you enjoy something, you’ll like/heart/upvote it and move on. But if it outrages you, chances are you’ll go straight to the comment section to argue. Maybe you’ll repost it with your own take to show everyone how much you disagree. More „engagement” = more time to shove ads in your face = a nice juicy bonus for the ad execs who run all the websites now.
by astrange | 2025-07-13 21:54:50+00:00
Good opportunity to learn about SingleThread, which is a 90s-style throwback to when it was impossible to learn anything about Japan so people just made things up. Like, they call their customers "chairman of the board" because they just heard a random word somewhere?

Japanese customer service ("omotenashi") is mostly about not listening to your customers. You get exactly what they want to give you and that's it. If you have a dietary restriction they may just kick you out because they won't/can't change the menu.
by Hnrobert42 | 2025-07-13 21:54:51+00:00
Privacy concerns aside, I would be mortified if a restaurant did something special for me. I don't want extra attention. I don't want to have to pretend to be excited about a beverage I don't really care for or a gift I will just throw away.

Now if you will excuse, I see some clouds at which I need to shake my cane.
by codedokode | 2025-07-13 21:55:38+00:00
I never heard about this language, so I quickly looked through the docs and here is what I didn't like:

- integers use names like "short" instead of names with numbers like "i16"

- they use printf-like formatting functions instead of Python's f-strings

- it seems that there is no exception in case of integer overflow or floating point errors

- it seems that there is no pointer lifetime checking

- functions are public by default

- "if" statement still requires parenthesis around boolean expression

Also I don't think scopes solve the problem when you need to add and delete objects, for example, in response to requests.
by cjs_ac | 2025-07-13 21:55:43+00:00
I think a big part of why influencers like Andrew Tate can speak unchallenged on social media is that anyone with the life experience, wisdom and social-media-savvy needed to be a better online role model for young men knows perfectly well that, due to the dynamics of such discourses, becoming that online role model will utterly destroy their life.
by theodric | 2025-07-13 21:55:46+00:00
Well, time to burn some karma: my wife and I listened to it in unabridged audiobook form on a drive back from Norway to the Netherlands about 10 years ago, and at the end we both agreed we weren't really sure what had happened. It seemed to meander quite a lot and got lost in its own sauce.

I understand that it's a seminal work for the cyberpunk genre, and there are certainly cool vibes scattered around it, but I don't really see a cohesive whole. Blade Runner similarly was a beautiful screensaver during which I failed to observe any significance plot. Now Snow Crash, that's another matter entirely. Great book. Compelling characters.
by anthk | 2025-07-13 21:55:50+00:00
The web was British. The computer owes a lot from German designs. The car was a German invention. The smartphone had European pre-designs. And, on 'the cloud'... that just rehashing more than 50 year old mainframes' design. Were's the actual innovation? Again, as I said, Bell Labs/MIT with Unix and Lisp which were groundbreaking aren't hip any more.

Even 9front with namespaces has tons of European collaboration.
by ben_w | 2025-07-13 21:55:59+00:00
If you disagree with all the top researchers about their own field, that suggests that perhaps you don't understand what the question of "alignment" is.

Alignment isn't making the AI do what you want, it's making the AI want what you want. What you really really want.

Simply getting the AI to do what you want is more of an "is it competent yet?" question than an "alignment" question, and at the moment the AI is — as AnimalMuppet wrote — not quite as competent as it appears in the eyes of the users. (And I say that as one who finds it already valuable).

Adding further upon what AnimalMuppet has written with only partial contradiction, consider a normal human: We are able to disregard our natural inclination to reproduce, by using contraceptives. This allows us to experience the reward signal that our genes gave us to encourage us to reproduce, without all the hassle of actually reproducing. Evolution has no power over us to change this.

We are to AI what DNA is to us. I say we do not have zero chances, but rather likely one-to-a-handful of chances, to define the AI's "pleasure" reward correctly, and if we get it wrong, then just as evolution's literally singular goal (successful further reproduction) is almost completely circumvented in our species, then so too will all our human interests be completely circumvented by the AI.

Pessimists in the alignment research field will be surprised to see me write "one-to-a-handful of chances"; I aver that there are likely to be several attempts which are "only a bit competent" or even "yes it's smart but it's still got blind spots" models before we get to them being so smart we can't keep up. So in this regard, I also disagree with their claim:

> An AI smart enough to be a danger is an AI that is smart enough to override your attempt at "alignment"
by tolerance | 2025-07-13 21:56:08+00:00
This article is rife with wishful thinking and honestly I don't know if society has ever been as harmonious as I feel like it alleges. As if there was a time where everyone just got along and things were great and you could get an egg cream for a quarter after the sock hop.

I seriously question whether there was ever a time where the masses weren't influenced by "a few people", for better or worse.

The numbers don't move me and can't be the sole arbitrator of truth when the direction of humanity is involved.

So while I'm not surprised that people report feeling less inclined toward inflammatory media after disengaging it, I just don't believe that there is a grand collective that we can return to that is free from the influential few.

The issue is that there are many masses and many fews at odds to find their pair and wont to view the others as the outrageous ones.

People can hardly curate outfits at their own discretion. They're going to defer to people who are deferring to what amounts to a cell of 3-4 guys linked to a larger apparatus of taste to find out what to wear, what to watch and what to think.

That's just the way it is.

The average person is well-meaning and reasonable up unto the this eerie point in their life where they feel existentially threatened and thrust on the stage of public opinion for the criticism of others.

So I think that suggesting that society isn't toxic in it's current form and all it is is that we're just viewing the world through this funhouse lens because of a few bad guys on social media is a conceited perspective because the world as it is indeed is a carnival of ideas surrounding the marketplace and the internet is its pavilion, not its public square.

And to dare to suggest that there is in fact one single true direction for people to choose demands contending against all the goofy ways people are turning and admitting that things are as bad as they appear, in spite of whatever ways we can come up with to assume the good faith of the common man.

The irony is that this same outlet will unapologetically make its bones off the incessant reporting on all the ways that society is under peril. Sometimes obscuring these reports with solicitations to fund this effort.
by astrange | 2025-07-13 21:56:39+00:00
> Maybe I live in a bubble, but I don’t put stuff in my body unwillingly, so yes I control my diet.

The example I'm thinking of is cultures with near-religious obligations to listen to their parents. Like Italian-Americans all act like they'd die if they ever ate less than all of their grandmother's cooking or ever changed any of the traditional recipes. Even though the recipes were all invented in 1970 in NYC and have inhumanly large amounts of carbs.
by GMoromisato | 2025-07-13 21:57:49+00:00
For me, reading sci-fi in the 80s and 90s, my pantheon was (in no particular order):

Philip K. Dick (Man in the High Castle)

William Gibson (Neuromancer)

Neil Stephenson (Diamond Age)

Vernor Vinge (Across Realtime)

Greg Egan (Permutation City)

Robert Reed (Sister Alice)

John Varley (Eight Worlds series)

I'm sure every generation has its pantheon--I wonder what it is for Millennials and Gen Z.
by sshine | 2025-07-13 21:57:51+00:00
Oh, the content? It's coming soon!

Article 16: The Anatomy of a Good Prompt in 2025 (Coming Soon) Article 17: Zero-Shot Prompting: The Foundation (Coming Soon) Article 18: Few-Shot Prompting: Learning from Examples (Coming Soon) Article 19: The Power of Instructions: Clarity and Precision (Coming Soon) Article 20: Using Personas and Role-Playing Effectively (Coming Soon) Article 21: The Art of Prompt Formatting and Delimiters (Coming Soon) Article 22: System Messages vs. User Messages: Best Practices (Coming Soon) Article 23: Prompt Chaining and Sequential Reasoning (Coming Soon) Article 24: The Art of Iteration: Refining Your Prompts (Coming Soon) Article 25: A/B Testing Your Prompts for Optimal Performance (Coming Soon) Article 26: The Impact of Prompt Length on Response Quality (Coming Soon) Article 27: How to Deal with "I don't know" Responses (Coming Soon) Article 28: Common Prompting Mistakes to Avoid (Coming Soon) Article 29: Techniques for Reducing Bias in LLM Outputs (Coming Soon) Article 30: Understanding and Working with Model Limitations (Coming Soon)
by saubeidl | 2025-07-13 21:57:53+00:00
As somebody who has money and lived in the US, absolutely.

The system is a joke. It takes forever to get MRI appointments. Everything has so much bureaucracy. You fill out forms and make calls and get letters and all this bullshit.

Meanwhile, I can just book stuff online instantly now that I live in europe.

And it's visible in outcomes, too. Life expectancy in the EU is around 5 years higher than in the US.
by shakna | 2025-07-13 21:59:01+00:00
8 months ago, Chrome rewrote how URLs work [0]. Which, unsurprisingly, affects the `URL` constructor in JS.

We have had so many APIs vanish from any context to "secure contexts" only. Like AppCache, or workers, or the clipboard.

Entire APIs like XMLHttpRequestProgressEvent have vanished entirely.

In fact, there is a lot of obsolete features. Enough that there's a list. [1] You can't use global or source with a RegExp anymore. You can't use the arity property on a function anymore. `Object.prototype.eval` is dead. `Object.getNotifier` is dead. `Date.prototype.toLocaleFormat()` is dead.

Old websites have been broken. Repeatedly. Or we wouldn't have, say, blogspam on why mixed content suddenly broke some Wordpress systems.

Yes, these are good changes. They're more secure. However, we're willing to break some sites in the name of security, but unwilling to fix ambiguous parsing for the programmer?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41912354

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
by xnx | 2025-07-13 21:59:16+00:00
I really like the idea of an open source alternative to CapCut, but the project is currently very far from the ease-of-use that makess CapCut one of my favorite editors on Windows.

Very few casual desktop CapCut users are going to get past the prerequisits of instal "Bun, Docker and Docker Compose, and Node.js"

Blender, Shotcut, OpenShot, or Kdenlive are probably the better open source video editor options right now.
by johnecheck | 2025-07-13 21:59:31+00:00
Here's how to justify it: If you want to talk about something (program), you want the right language. We've got powerful languages capable of everything any computer can do, but new ideas often call for new ways to express them.

Building a language is about accepting massive up-front investment to build something that hopefully meaningfully improves user experience. Or you can build to learn about the inherent beauty of computation and formal languages, but I find that a little less compelling.
by ReaperCub | 2025-07-13 21:59:42+00:00
I understood what they were saying, I don't think that is generally true due to how Steam tends to operate.

There isn't going to be much FOMO when people know that a game is going to be on sale every other month. Maybe if you are unfamiliar with Steam you might do that.

I've heard people say plenty of times "I might pick it up when it is on sale again". That seems like the opposite of FOMO.
by trollbridge | 2025-07-13 21:59:50+00:00
They grouped the population into percentiles with 0-50% having quite low exposure (0.62 lux median, range of 0-1.21) vs the 90%-100% percentile being 105 lux (range of 48.3-6400). You can compare the daylight light exposure to the nighttime and basically see what a shift worker would be.

But they already deconfounded for shift workers, so that's irrelevant. And they also showed the amount of light exposure for both night and day.
by phil21 | 2025-07-13 21:59:52+00:00
These are pretty extreme side effects for being on the drug thus long.

What dosing are you on? If you’re still doing 2.5mg (smallest available in the auto injectors) perhaps try a compounding pharmacy for a month or two and you can experiment with lower doses and a different dosing schedule?

During my peak weight loss period I found that matching my injection schedule to the 5 day half life of Tirzepatide and adjusting the dose downwards to match this schedule helped with any side effects - including the “fading” of effects those last 2 or 3 days for me. There are half life calculator spreadsheets available on the internet that can help dial it in and keep your theoretical concentration more flatline vs peaks and valleys.

The current dosing regime is based on the single FDA trial that LLY did and is certainly not going to be the common practice a decade from now. It’s largely designed around patient compliance than anything else.

That said - everyone responds to this drug much differently. My little group I’m in is all over the map. Some folks lose weight consistently with tiny doses every 2 weeks, some are going above the recommended maximum weekly dose.

I also found food choices matter. A lot. The best part of tirz for me was being given mental space to stop eating shit food and start eating “clean” consistently. When on high dosing I absolutely would have a bad day if I decided to take my shot and then eat a typical American diet later.

The primary mode of action from the drug is simply you eat less. But it shouldn’t be due to you feeling too sick to keep anything down. That sounds pretty horrible.
by jug | 2025-07-13 22:00:19+00:00
I wish we had something better than "walk through multiple hard drives as a data nomad and remember to use them every now and then" as a cost-effective and consumer oriented method for cold storage. I don't even care for the speed. Tape is obnoxious with high up front investments, not even targeting private use, Blu-ray never really became a surefire way and there were too much uncertainty and variety depending on brand.
by arp242 | 2025-07-13 22:00:53+00:00
I lost almost 15 kg (~33 lbs) over the last two months and I didn't even try that hard. I never had problems with my weight, but over the last few years it slowly crept up to ~107kg (at ~1.95cm), at which point I realised I had to do something. Reasonably sure I could do a The Machinist Christian Bale if I wanted to.

I also quit smoking with relatively little effort twice (once in my early 20s, and then again a few years ago after I picked up smoking again during COVID). It wasn't easy-easy, but if I hear the struggles some other people go through, it was relatively easy.

Some people are just wired different. I have plenty of other issues, but on this sort of thing, for whatever reason I seem to be lucky.
by afavour | 2025-07-13 22:00:59+00:00
Stuff like this already exists (AFAIK not open source but cheap enough that restaurants would prefer to use it if they could). The problem is modifying user behaviour: people used to go directly to the restaurant to order food but are now very used to opening the food delivery app, browsing it, and ordering.

You could have the slickest ordering experience in the world and it won’t help you if no one sees it.s
by satvikpendem | 2025-07-13 22:01:14+00:00
You're proving my point. Only do people on HN care, I've never heard of anyone "normal" expressing concern over this sort of restaurant policy, and doubly so if they made their entire account public in the first place. By all means, friends can mention a few hints, but that doesn't mean that restaurants won't do their own research.

> If they need to scan your social media, that speaks volumes about how you socialize and the quality of those interactions.

No, it doesn't, and I don't see how you came to the conclusion that if a restaurant had to scan my social media that it says anything about how I socialize. People don't just socialize only on social media, you know.
by bawolff | 2025-07-13 22:02:02+00:00
> Why can't the takeaways just go rogue and offer independent deliveries?

Because delivery is really expensive. To do it well over a large area you have to have a lot of staff. You also want to keep them all busy, so it works better with a lot of resturants. Margins are thin, lots of risk in an area that is very different from the core activity of the resturant.

Its an almost textbook example of a situation where a specialist company makes sense.
by 10000truths | 2025-07-13 22:02:09+00:00
It's important to distinguish between "embedded" as in platform, and "embeddable" as in "integrate into existing application". MicroPython is used in embedded platforms, yes, but it's not an embeddable runtime like Lua. MicroPython is designed to replace the traditional C runtime with a Python one. The expected use case is to have a minimal C shim that initializes MicroPython, then define the rest of your business logic as a MicroPython script. There's no equivalent of lua_State that allows you to run multiple MicroPython interpreters concurrently in your program. There's no sandboxing functionality for running untrusted user scripts containing "while True: continue" or "oom = 'a'*(10**40)'. MicroPython doesn't solve the "I want rapid iteration with scripts in my game engine" problem, it solves the "I want to read the temperature sensor on my IoT board using Python" problem.
by ahepp | 2025-07-13 22:02:18+00:00
Can you describe what you see as the insanely ridiculous interview process? Most of the interviews I have initiated are something like:

- 30 minute recruiter call - 30-60 minute manager call - 2x 60 minute leetcode easy/medium - 1x 60 minute STAR behavioral - 1x 60 minute systems design or maybe doubling up on a previous category

So for a total investment of what, 6 hours, I can go from a cold call to an offer of something like 150k-300k/y? And I'm not even playing in the FAANG ecosystem.

I'm not sure if we are experiencing different processes, or we have different opinions about what kind of time / reward tradeoff is reasonable.
by brudgers | 2025-07-13 22:02:44+00:00
Do you think this would have encouraged more users to learn BASIC programming?

No.

+ Back then everyone knew computers could be programmed…whether or not they programmed.

+ Writing Basic was not why most people turned the computer on and booting to basic would have created friction.

+ Mostly learning programming happened on the exhaust fumes of other uses of computers. Games, applications, etc. And when people bought computers to program, booting Basic would not remove a barrier. The barrier was having a computer.

The C64 was consumer electronics not a kickstarter. More people learned Basic in direct proportion to the number of C64’s sold.
by bigfatkitten | 2025-07-13 22:02:47+00:00
The answer to this is for companies to do even a modicum of personnel vetting.

At the very least, make your remote candidate show up in person for their onboarding. A plane ticket and a few days of accomodation and meals is cheap in the grand scheme of things, and giving the opportunity to meet their team is good relationship building.

Sight their ID before you issue them with an account, give them a laptop etc.
by sroussey | 2025-07-13 22:03:29+00:00
Be sure to pull back on the plunger and ensure there the needle is not in a blood vessel (pulling back will draw blood into the thing and you will see).

You do not want the drug meant to subcutaneous to go into the blood steam. This is true for GPL-1s (all peptides for that matter), as well as insulin, and definitely mRNA vaccines.
by greatgib | 2025-07-13 22:04:10+00:00
I like the idea but looks fishy at this point even if I did not look at the code or try it yet.

So many GitHub stars and not a single screenshot of it anywhere, not on GitHub, not on Google, not on the official webpage that just have a wait-list and their twitter Bash capcut with screenshots of capcut but none of opencutapp.

And I mean I wish something like that to succeed, but it doesn't look like that they have much to show for at the moment.
by healsdata | 2025-07-13 22:04:17+00:00
> Don't listen to people, Firefox is perfectly good and most people wont see major differences.

I'm sorry, but this just isn't true. I used Firefox exclusively for about a year and had a website not work about once a month. This included my state's unemployment portal and a small business store.

When it happens, there's no indication of why. It's only because I'm technical I thought too try it in Chrome. My non-technical family isn't going navigate that.