MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AftHurrahWinch | 2025-08-15 17:05:44+00:00
Some discussions are dialectic, where a group is cooperatively reasoning toward a shared truth. In dialectical discussions, good faith is crucial. AI can't participate in dialectical work. Most public discourse is not dialectical, it is rhetorical. The goal is to persuade the audience, not your interlocutor. You aren't "yelling into the void", you're advocating to the jury.

Rhetoric is the model used in debate. Proponents don't expect to change their Opponent's mind, and vice versa. In fact, if your opponent is obstinate (or a non-sentient text generator), it is easier to demonstrate the strength of your position to the gallery.

People reference Brandolini's "bullshit asymmetry principle" but don't differentiate between dialectical and rhetorical contexts. In a rhetorical context, the strategy is to demonstrate to the audience that your interlocutor is generating text with an indifference to truth. You can then pivot, forcing them to defend their method rather than making you debunk their claims.
by superkuh | 2025-08-15 17:05:50+00:00
I don't get any errors in my JS browser console. It just tries to load the JS files and apparently they don't run.

[12:03:18.699] GET https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/13ce36fef98a3f4... [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 227ms] [12:03:19.483] GET https://code.ffmpeg.org/.within.website/x/xess/xess.min.css?... [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 611ms] [12:03:19.485] GET https://code.ffmpeg.org/.within.website/x/cmd/anubis/static/... [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 839ms] [12:03:19.486] GET https://code.ffmpeg.org/.within.website/x/cmd/anubis/static/... [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 391ms] [12:03:19.487] GET https://code.ffmpeg.org/.within.website/x/cmd/anubis/static/... [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 368ms]

For clarification I am using a version of Firefox from about 2015. But this version of Firefox does work with the meta-refresh based Anubis option.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-08-15 17:06:04+00:00
> The entire question can be contained by the assumption that "there is someone new coming to Seattle" and whether it would be better to have a new condo unit to sell to them or have them compete for existing fixed stock. The whole bit about the Chicago housing market is a distractor, because it stays the same under either policy.

Are you denying that induced demand is a thing for housing? That everyone who wants to move to Seattle will move there regardless of housing prices, and no one will leave because they get squeezed out of the housing market by new arrivals? Or is there a more nuanced argument that I'm missing?

That new condo allows one more family to live in Seattle regardless, whereas if they were competing with existing stock, some family would probably have to leave. We could play a few rounds of musical chairs to prove that fact.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-08-15 17:06:33+00:00
I don’t think any UI framework with a license more restrictive or complicated than full on MIT/BSD is going to be able to compete toe to toe with Electron. It doesn’t matter what the price tag is, if it has one it’s going to lose in a shootout between the two.

The only exception I can imagine is maybe a framework that uses the Unreal model, where it’s free to use under USD$1m/year in revenue and beyond that requires only a modest fee.
by Someone | 2025-08-15 17:06:35+00:00
>> That's like say a band getting an advance to record their album should be illegal.

> It should.

Mortgages and car loans can be seen as advances on future income.

Insurance is a way to split a risk from a property. For example, if I own a house there’s a risk it burns down. With fire insurance, you keep the house, but the insurer takes on the risk, in exchange for a fee.

Why shouldn’t a band be permitted to do something similar, getting money now in exchange for future income and, at the same time, transferring the risk of their future product being a flop to a third party?
by kuschku | 2025-08-15 17:06:49+00:00
SSO is really important in the "few tools, many users" case, but just as important in the "many tools, few users" case. I'm self hosting dozens of tools, and without SSO I'd have to set up username, password, TOTP and WebAuthn for each and every one of them, my 2FA app would be 90% my own services.

With SSO though, it's much simpler. I can just run an OIDC server and log into all my self-hosted services once, and I can use all of them. Vaultwarden is an exception to the rule though, as you can't really bootstrap that in the individual case.

Another use case I'm currently exploring is for sharing netflix/prime/disney+ passwords with roommates, partners and friends. They just sign in with their Google/Apple/whatever account and get access to the shared streaming provider passwords.
by alnwlsn | 2025-08-15 17:06:55+00:00
I agree, we have Bambus at work, and they are an outright pain to fix compared to my Voron. And things do break. On our new H2D, we had some filment get jammed in the extruder. Fixing it basically entails taking the entire front of the toolhead apart, dealing with fragile custom-pcb ribbon cables, and trying to not get the grease from the greasy parts on the other parts.

On the Vorons, everything is just behind an M3 screw or ten.
by kace91 | 2025-08-15 17:07:07+00:00
The title is extremely clickbaity, to the point of being a lie.

Actual news: A group was in risk of being considered left wing extremist, which could jeopardize their non profit status. The court ruled in their favor actually.

It just so happens that the wording of the court’s justification of the ruling irked some people - quickly paraphrasing, “Marx teachings might be contrary to democracy but this people aren’t acting on those teachings so their reading isn’t reason to consider them extremists”.

Some groups are worried that this wording about marx sets a precedent, being unclear if there is actual legal concerns.
by philips | 2025-08-15 17:07:15+00:00
A satirical take on "western city builders" is a game called Car Park Capital. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFJEbv4qqo8

I find most US urban/suburban planning to be dystopian in nature. It is like the movie Cars: it is a fantasy world without people where essentially none of the infrastructure is changed because everything was already built for the car.
by 16bytes | 2025-08-15 17:07:16+00:00
I think this is a good question that shouldn't be down-voted.

If you look at various definitions of what facism means, you may see something like: "characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition" (from M-W).

A "loyalty rating" implements both economic regimentation (the insinuation that higher scoring companies have better favor) and suppression of opposition (that companies actively avoid being seen as opposition).

So this is text-book fascist behavior.

It's not hyperbole to envision the justice department looking the other way for high-scoring companies, and actively persecuting low-scoring companies. You're right in that this is already happening (like with e.g. Harvard), but implementing a score in the open makes it shockingly easy to carry out fascist directives across the government bureaucracy.
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-08-15 17:07:23+00:00
> I think winning a Go or a chess competition does demonstrate intelligence.

Chess is a simple alfa beta pruned minmax seaech tree. If that's intelligent then a drone flight controller or a calculator is aswell.

> association and recall, not for performing complex logical transformations.

By that definition humans doing chess aren't as intelligent as a computer doing chess, since high level chess is heavily reliant on memory and recall of moves and progressions.

So your definition falls appart.
by rayiner | 2025-08-15 17:07:31+00:00
The Basic Law’s expansive language, and the functional interpretive approach applied by the German Constitutional Court, means that judges could do a lot to overrule the legislature if they chose to do so. Generally, they have not done so.

But, for example, the German Constitutional Court declared legalized abortion to be a violation of the Basic Law’s right to life (though it permitted circumstantial exceptions to whether punitive measures were required for such violations): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Constitutional_Court_ab....

I would suggest the Germans decline to take a page from the Americans here and not read the Basic Law for all it could be read to mean.
by ktosobcy | 2025-08-15 17:07:49+00:00
>> Admittedly, I've never heard of someone forgetting how to write a letter from the Latin alphabet.

> Yes! But have you ever heard of someone forgetting how to spell certain words in a language that uses the Latin alphabet (e.g., English)?

Erm... great that you gave English as an example but I'd argue this mostly applies to English. I remember wondering why "spelling bee" was a thing when watching shows from the USA because that wouldn't make any sense in Polish. Same with Spanish. And a lot of others. There are some minor things to remember and you can do errors but in 99,(9)% of the cases it's "you write what you hear".

It could have been a case for English as well but the reform efforts were killed so here we are with all it's quirkyness :)
by jjice | 2025-08-15 17:07:52+00:00
I bought a game on Epic over Steam for the better price once and I'll never do it again. Steam is just too good of a platform and Epic has a lot to work out. Valve has also earned my trust way more than Epic has. Epic comes off as a company of the people sometimes when they drop a suit against Apple or something, but they're exactly the same when it suits them (like their dark patterns for in-game purchases).

There have been timed exclusives on Epic that I just waited out, partially out of spite, and mostly because I just wouldn't want to own the game on something that wasn't Steam.
by pitpatagain | 2025-08-15 17:08:07+00:00
Ah ok, you meant the second thing.

I don't think the Plato's Cave analogy is confusing, I think it's completely wrong. It's "not in the article" in the sense that it is literally not conceptually what the article is about and it's also not really what Plato's Cave is about either, just taking superficial bits of it and slotting things into it, making it doubly wrong.
by libraryofbabel | 2025-08-15 17:08:24+00:00
Agree. This article would had been a lot stronger if it had just concentrated on the issue of anthropomorphizing LLMs, without bringing “intelligence” into it. At this point LLMs are so good at a variety of results-oriented tasks (gold on the Mathematical Olympiad, for example) that we should either just call them intelligent or stop talking about the concept altogether.

But the problem of anthropomorphizing is real. LLMs are deeply weird machines - they’ve been fine-tuned to sound friendly and human, but behind that is something deeply alien: a huge pile of linear algebra that does not work at all like a human mind (notably, they can’t really learn form experience at all after training is complete). They don’t have bodies or even a single physical place where their mind lives (each message in a conversation might be generated on a different GPU in a different datacenter). They can fail in weird and novel ways. It’s clear that anthropomorphism here is a bad idea. Although that’s not a particularly novel point.
by Mordisquitos | 2025-08-15 17:08:36+00:00
I have a question for you. For context, in case you haven't read it, we are discussing scientific paper reporting a large population study (almost 150,000 newly-diagnosed ADHD patients, aged 6–64 years old) which compared the outcomes of those who were medicated (~57%) and those who were unmedicated (~43%). Around 88% of the medicated cohort were prescribed methylphenidate (e.g. Concerta or Ritalin).

The conclusions of the study, copy-pasted from the abstract, were:

> Drug treatment for ADHD was associated with beneficial effects in reducing the risks of suicidal behaviours, substance misuse, transport accidents, and criminality but not accidental injuries when considering first event rate. The risk reductions were more pronounced for recurrent events, with reduced rates for all five outcomes. This target trial emulation study using national register data provides evidence that is representative of patients in routine clinical settings.

My question is this: if we assume ADHD does not exist, what is going on here?

Specifically, how do you explain so-called "ADHD" patients who were medicated having a statistically significant lower risk of suicidal behaviours, substance misuse, transport accidents, criminality, and recurrent accidental injuries than those who were not medicated?

Do you think non-"ADHD" individuals (i.e. who don't fit the current diagnostic criteria for this assumed fictional disorder) would also display a reduced risk of suicidality, accidents, etc. if they were to take methylphenidate on a daily basis?
by Ccecil | 2025-08-15 17:08:37+00:00
I started in Reprap in 2011...frequently spoke with Prusa and many, many others in IRC. Watched the development and commercialization of the whole project through the years.

My main takeaway (and one that I attempted to point out often) is that the value of the Reprap project and it's OSHW nature was not to "own a machine"...the true value was the process of building the machine, tuning and evolving. This all began to stagnate in 2014 when the "You are a fool to build your own printer when you can buy one prebuilt" came about. This seemed to be spread by people who either had no idea what they were doing...or were intentionally planting the seed of doubt. We were told that it was better/easier to buy 10 and throw away 5 in a year since it was more cost effective.

My current printer I built in 2015. It needs very little work but has evolved slightly through the years...mostly in electronics since it is my test platform for the V2 Smoothieboard development. It does not have a lot of the software "magic tricks" but it prints very reliably and solid (even after being toted around to events).

It was once said to me by Logxen "Opensource hardware is engineering on an artist's business model". IMHO...saying it is dead and giving up is the same as quitting doing art you love because someone else paints better/faster/cheaper.

A quote attributed to Limor Fried says it best "I'm going to keep shipping open source hardware while you all argue about it".

@josefprusa...since I know you frequent here...don't forget about the impact the projects have on the world. There are bigger things than just money. There was a time you cared about OSHW enough to get it tattooed on your arm.

edit: grammar
by qnleigh | 2025-08-15 17:08:43+00:00
If fine-tuning for alignment is so fragile, I really don't understand how we will prevent extremely dangerous model behavior even a few years from now. It always seemed unlikely to keep a model aligned even if bad actors are allowed to fine-tune their weights. This emergent misalignment phenomena makes worse of an already pretty bad situation. Was there ever a plan for stopping open-weight models from e.g. teaching people how to make nerve agents? Is there any chance we can prevent this kind of thing from happening?

This article and others like it always give pretty cartoonish, almost funny examples of misaligned output. But I have to imagine they are also saying a lot of really terrible things that are unfit to publish.
by kieranmaine | 2025-08-15 17:08:46+00:00
> Even places like Australia, which are naturally blessed in terms of wind and sun prevalence, are not able to divest from large scale coal power plants.

This is not true.

In Australia Coal generation peaked at 179135 GWh in 2008 and was down to 126475 GWh in 2024 [1].

The state of Southern Australia generated 71.9% of it's electricity with renewables and only used batteries for 1.1% of generation. It replaced it's coal generation with gas generation, and gas generation is declining.

1. https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/au/?range=all&...

2. https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/sa1/?range=all...
by tjr | 2025-08-15 17:09:34+00:00
This seems reasonable. Much AI research has historically been about building computer systems to do things that otherwise require human intelligence to do. The question of "is the computer actually intelligent" has been more philosophical than practical, and many such practically useful computer systems have been developed, even before LLMs.

On the other hand, one early researcher said something to the effect of, Researchers in physics look at the universe and wonder how it all works. Researchers in biology look at living organisms and wonder how they can be alive. Researchers in artificial intelligence wonder how software can be made to wonder such things.

I feel like we are still way off from having a working solution there.
by nothankyou777 | 2025-08-15 17:09:43+00:00
If a man who has been dead for over 142 years is a threat to "the principles of the free democratic basic order", they couldn't have been worth that much to begin with. And it is a lie. Germany is not a free country. Germany is a broken vassal state. Any ideology would be superior to that of being America's whipping-boy.
by mauvehaus | 2025-08-15 17:10:17+00:00
For bears, the advice we got from Fish and Wildlife was to bait the fence with aluminum foil smeared with bacon grease. That gets the bear to touch it with their sensitive nose. If they brush up against it with their thick fur, they won't notice. A good zap on the nose will teach them.

I can confirm your note about footwear mattering. I'm way too cheap (read: stupid) to buy an electric fence tester, so I just touch the fence. In dry shoes, it's noticeable. The one time I did it in wet sneakers, it definitely got my attention. For what it's worth, we have about the smallest fencer Tractor Supply sells (it just has to go around the chicken coop). I betcha a 50 mile fencer would just about make your hair stand up on end.
by OptionOfT | 2025-08-15 17:10:17+00:00
I wonder if a manual safety here would've helped. There is this idea in the gun world that a gun has multiple safeties, like a trigger safety, striker safety etc, disassembly safety, disconnector safety, ...

And the way they are presented is in a way that they stack. But they don't.

Let's say the striker safety has failed and you drop the gun. It goes off. Even if you have a trigger safety. Or a disconnector safety.
by pjmlp | 2025-08-15 17:10:45+00:00
Another thing it does badly and I am not sure if they are sorting out with the new design, is the magic methods crap.

They had to copy that bad idea from Unity, where methods are named in a specific way and then extracted via reflection.

Either provide specific interfaces that components have to implement, use attributes, or make use of generics with type constraints.

Maybe for Unity that made sense as they started with scripting languages, and then bolted on Mono on the side, but it never made sense to me.
by card_zero | 2025-08-15 17:10:45+00:00
"The court believes that the Marxist theory adopted by Masch aims not just for reforms but for revolution through violence."

Then adds that the dictatorship of the proletariat "inevitably excludes other population groups".

Then Michael Hopp (of Masch) says this is a misunderstanding and that Marx "emphasized that the means of change must be adapted to the historical situation." But of course doesn't say the concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat is wrong, because he's a Marxist and he can't. It all reminds me of how the word of God in the bible is reinterpreted for modern sensibilities to be less smity and jealous and more inclusive. "What Marx really meant, in a modern context, is ..."

And fair enough, in a way. They sound harmless.
by jonahx | 2025-08-15 17:10:47+00:00
> The message doesn't have any warnings on it like "oh I know it's been a while" or "you might not remember me".

Yes. I do this too and wish more people would.

The qualifications, the "what have you been up to?"s -- such mind-numbingly boring conventions. Who wants to go through a "catchup" interview before talking about what's interesting. If that's the price, it's not worth it.
by 9rx | 2025-08-15 17:11:13+00:00
> I genuinely want to see a breakdown on what is increasing building costs so much.

It is just general demand, really. Every step of the way can charge more, as compared to 15 years ago, because people are willing to pay more for their services.

Like the headline suggest, the solution is to increase supply. Except, not of houses, but the inputs that go into houses (materials, labor, etc.). Until supply is met there, the cost to build cannot come down, and until the cost to build can come down used homes cannot come down either. Alternatively, we could stop wanting so many houses, but that is likely less practical.

As mentioned, if you get all the software developers building houses instead the price would drop pretty quickly. But... good luck convincing them to do that. That is what has to be overcome.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-08-15 17:11:17+00:00
At the same time, a healthy society needs people who are trained in the arts and humanities. The reason you experienced a bad outcome is because our society doesn't care much about this, despite being richer and more able to afford the arts than at any point in history. I would also argue that, not coincidentally, our society is unhealthy, and getting more so.

Your solution is like pointing out that the patient can't tolerate food anymore, so the solution is just not to feed them. It's all true! And also misses the fact that something is causing the patient to starve.
by programjames | 2025-08-15 17:11:32+00:00
There is one issue where fences can arise naturally (via evolution), and no one knows why it's there. If your society doesn't even understand evolution yet, are you supposed to just stagnate forever? It's an exploration vs. exploitation tradeoff, and Chesterton's fence is asking for pure exploitation. Probably because societies are pretty fragile, so unless you're really sure something isn't loadbearing, it isn't safe to modify it at scale. But, then again, there's no reason to not experiment on a smaller scale...
by thrance | 2025-08-15 17:11:39+00:00
Mein Kampf was a guidebook outlining the steps needed to overthrow the German Republic. Das Kapital is a dense and boring treaty on Marx's theory of economics. Comparing the two shows how shallow your understanding is.

Also, do you believe that billionaires and workers have fundamentally different and opposing interests and incentives? Then you subscribe to the core of Marx's theory too.
by VLM | 2025-08-15 17:11:45+00:00
The big problem with the cost of nuclear facilities is its military-aerospace style where the cost merely coincidentally happens to be absolute maximum they can spend. There's no competition or standardization, just we'll take all your money. Like telling a car mechanic how much money is in your wallet before asking how much it'll cost to fix your car then acting surprised when the numbers are about equal. Real estate agents operate the same way.
by whatevertrevor | 2025-08-15 17:12:36+00:00
On the other hand, your feelings don't exist in a vacuum, disconnected from your external state. If you genuinely feel taken advantage of, no amount of self-delusion is going to make you truly over it, until you acknowledge the source of it, and take steps to protect yourself against it in the future.

Very easy to over-extend stoicism to your own detriment, physically and mentally.
by kristofferR | 2025-08-15 17:12:43+00:00
Yeah, people complain about AI companies "stealing" IP, but it's becoming accepted, both by judges and the US president [1].

I'm not sure weakening of IP law is such a bad thing after all. Let's just hope the weakening trickles down from AI juggernauts to smaller fish.

[1] https://torrentfreak.com/president-trump-its-not-doable-for-...