MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by naikrovek | 2025-08-06 11:38:36+00:00
Plan 9 had this all sorted out, didn't it? It didn't use X11, it used something called 8½ which became the Plan 9 display server, and used 9p as the communication protocol.

What was clever about it was that each window got its own view of the keyboard and mouse. Literally their own virtual devices in /dev. Each window only saw what went on when that window was in focus, and for the mouse, it only saw what the mouse was doing when the mouse was within the boundaries of the window and that window was directly under the cursor (no windows between the cursor and the window in question.)

9P isn't encrypted, so these remote sessions weren't encrypted, but the Bell Labs folks knew that X11 security wasn't good and seem to have evolved it well. I wonder what things would be like if we didn't latch onto 40 year old operating systems like our lives depended on them.

If we can't get a useful Plan9 going (one that has a web browser and to which applications can easily be ported) maybe we can bring X11 forward a bit with inspiration from Plan 9. Wayland has been "2 years away" for about 15 years, and that shows no signs of changing.

I'm told that the entire source code for Plan 9 can be held in the mind of a single person, and that any skilled C developer can read what's going on with ease. I don't know if that's true, but if such a display server has semi-obvious improvements over X11, maybe we can come up with an X12 which adopts these improvements. We do not need to maintain backwards compatibility, we only need to support X11 and X12 at the same time, I imagine.
by xrd | 2025-08-06 11:38:46+00:00
It feels funny to think about this next to the outrage over trans kids in school sports. There are probably a dozen kids nationally participating in a sport with other kids who didn't share the same set of chromosomes at birth. That's a tiny slice of the population, but the issue has captured the attention of a huge group of people. I believe the anger, if you distill it a bit, comes from an "unlevel" playing field, right?

But, when students use AI, and if there are some students that don't, the playing field is "unlevel" there as well. The students that don't perhaps want to learn a craft rather than take a shortcut to getting a grade. I would wager that the number of students and teachers using AI is now the majority population.

I face this dilemma on a daily basis when trying to do my job as a software developer. Let claude take over, and risk losing the only skill I had to differentiate myself in this harsh world? Or, take a chance on being the turtle and trying to win the race against the hare?
by wongarsu | 2025-08-06 11:39:02+00:00
From the web demo this model is really good at numbers. It rushes through them, slurs them a bit together, but they are all correct, even 7 digit numbers (didn't test further).

Looks like they are sidestepping these kinds of issues by generating the phonemes with the preprocessing stage of traditional speech synthesizers, and using the LLM only to turn those phonemes into natural-ish sounding speech. That limits how natural the model can become, but it should be able to correctly pronounce anything the preprocessing can pronounce
by jaggs | 2025-08-06 11:39:37+00:00
I understand completely what you're saying, but I've got a feeling this new regulation is aimed at those who don't earn any money in this country and therefore don't pay any tax in this country - even though they're living here taking advantage of the benefits and infrastructure etc.

I do agree that maybe there is a more nuanced approach to this which would encourage investment into UK businesses, but nobody ever said politicians were the brightest people on the planet. :)
by snickerdoodle12 | 2025-08-06 11:40:08+00:00
Imagine you discover tech that ushers in a post-scarcity society. Let's say you make a replicator that can make anything from a bit of dirt.

Greedy people wouldn't even think about sharing this tech with the world, even though they could literally end world hunger. They will hoard it, and use it to make themselves more powerful and to kill anyone else who looks like they might discover it.
by beeforpork | 2025-08-06 11:40:19+00:00
Just a quick check list for better understanding of the placement of the study: Is this the first study of its kind? The only one? Is it medically and scientifically sound and well-documented? Does it apply to people without (HIV-associated) lipohypertrophy? Is the effect temporary, i.e., what happens when drug use is terminated? Does it cure the lipohypertrophy or is this a life-long disease that needs medication? How are TruDiagnostic and Novo Nordisk related to each other either generally or concerning this study?
by jlokier | 2025-08-06 11:40:49+00:00
At the company where I currently work, for IP reasons (and with the advice of a patent lawyer), nobody is allowed to use any online AIs to talk about or help with work, unless it's very generic research that doesn't give away what we're working on.

That rules out coding assistants like Claude, chat, tools to generate presentations and copy-edit documents, and so forth.

But local AI are fine, as long as we're sure nothing is uploaded.
by presentation | 2025-08-06 11:40:52+00:00
IMO it’s an incentive problem - it takes effort to be knowledgeable but the practical benefits are next to nothing. But being in a group of ignorant people is actually probably pretty fun, not to mention the dopamine hit of outrage.

Ideally being informed would be both easier than it is today (less misleading crap, more trustworthy structure to think about what issues are relevant) while also being more rewarded somehow.
by conartist6 | 2025-08-06 11:40:57+00:00
I've never gotten a straight answer as to whether AGI is a good thing for humanity or the economy.

Real AGI would be alive and would be capable of art and music and suffering and community, of course. So there would really be no more need for humans except to shovel the coal (or bodies of other humans) into the furnace that power the Truly Valuable members is society, the superintelligent AIs, which all other aspects of our society will be structured towards serving.

Real AGI might realistically decide to go to war with us if we've leaned anything from current LLMs and their penchant for blackmail
by satyrun | 2025-08-06 11:41:06+00:00
It is really more than just taste though.

I am on a GLP-1 level calorie restricted diet right now without a GLP-1 and of course it is just miserable.

I love eating a giant sandwich at night that is more calories than what I am eating all day now but it isn't the taste it is the brain chemical release.

It is an addiction like any other addiction. I have never felt that same craving for chicken breast.
by VeejayRampay | 2025-08-06 11:41:14+00:00
that's not why we get fat

we get fat because of the american diet, priori to which people in the world were actually not that fat

the lack of fermented food, the epidemics of ultra-processed, ultra-rich and grotesquely fat and sugary food is why people have gotten fat, which is a relatively recent phenomenon (and which is not as widespread in culture that resist the American diet the most like the French and the Japanese)
by rdsubhas | 2025-08-06 11:42:22+00:00
I read the definition of "rely on" here as production outage, not operations.

For example: Say you use gmail and excel at work. If Gmail is down, your Windows PC crashed, or Excel does not own, the product (machines, websites, etc) do not stop working straight away. The specific term is unattended production hot path.

The 75% is already reasonably high when most production/industrial stuff runs on Linux or embedded derivatives. This shows the level of unattended production hot path on US tech.
by throw101010 | 2025-08-06 11:42:49+00:00
Coldcard/CoinKit have been in this space for few market cycles now and don't have major leaks/issues (unlike their major competitors who both leaked cusotmer data, putting their customers at risk considering the product).

I'd say for hardware wallets they are as trustworthy as it gets. And they open sourced both their firmware and hardware schematics so it's easier/possible to verify what you are using, if you have the abilities to do it.

The PSBT format isn't human readable (binary), it's following a BIP standard and open source tools exist to decrypt it... or simply use reputable wallets which support this format. And yes before signing a transaction you get a summary of the transaction/fees decoded by the ColdCard device. You then reconfirm it in the wallet you use to broadcast it before sending it on Bitcoin's network.

> I almost feel like crypto bros are all into HODL because spending coins is just too much effort!

A hot wallet is really no hassle to maintain and use, keep whatever you are willing to lose in it (like you would do in your real world physical wallet with cash... if you still have one of these). For larger amounts HW are more of a hassle... like it's more of a hassle to go to the bank to deposit/withdraw large sums. The differences are that Bitcoin is open 24/7, doesn't tell you what you can/can't do with your money, doesn't add/charge more fees each month for service you didn't ask for and most importantly isn't at the mercy of a single political actor deciding to devalue it more by increasing the national debt. It will be affected by markets like all things, but its total supply is quote certain at least.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-08-06 11:42:51+00:00
Yes, that's all it can ever do, predict a continuation. It's not a person though, so it'd not be predicting what you might find unpredictable, but rather predicting training samples that it associated with unpredictability (e.g. with some following feedback of "well, that was unpredictable!"). IOW it'll be predicting the most predictable unpredictability that it can.
by defrost | 2025-08-06 11:43:31+00:00
For context for casual readers:

Which may explain why no one wants to discuss a mysterious, $934 million transfer of funds from one of the Pentagon’s most over-budget, out-of-control projects — the modernization of America’s aging, ground-based nuclear missiles.

What Will It Cost to Renovate the ‘Free’ Air Force One? Don’t Ask.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/us/politics/air-force-one...
by wkat4242 | 2025-08-06 11:44:10+00:00
> If Ozempic is so great then how come our bodies don't just produce more GLP-1?

Because our bodies have been tuned to deal with food shortages for hundreds of thousands of years. Now we live in an age of abundance but our bodies still try to harvest each calorie they can get.

If this continues we might evolve to no longer store surplus calories as fat. Though I doubt it because the age people die from overweight related issues is way after the age most people have kids at.

But I imagine that soon we will be able to directly tune some of that evolutionary bagage that no longer applies, by gene modification.
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-08-06 11:44:29+00:00
> In a hypothetical country with sane health care and social safety net policies? Yes that would be hugely beneficial.

I think you're forgetting the Soviet Union, which looked great on paper until it turned out that it wasn't actually great...

Real GDP can go up, and it doesn't HAVE to mean you are producing more of anything valuable, and can - in fact - mean that you're not producing enough of what you need, and a bunch of what you don't need.

A very simple way to view this is: currently x% of GDP is waste. If Real GDP goes up 4% but the percentage of waste goes from 1% to 8% - you are clearly doing worse.

This is a reduction of what happened in the Soviet Union.
by blibble | 2025-08-06 11:44:30+00:00
> Raising the next generation to outsource all thinking to AI and form a culture around influencing people 45 seconds at a time will destroy those prerequisites to our better lifestyle, and it will be downhill from there.

absolutely

up until 2022 I was optimistic for the future

our current big problems: climate change, nuclear proliferation, global pandemics, dictatorships, antibiotic resistance, all seemed solvable over the long term

"AI" however is different

previously all human societies placed a high value on education

this is now gone, if anything spending time educating yourself is now a negative

I don't see how the species survives this new reality over the long term
by MSFT_Edging | 2025-08-06 11:44:34+00:00
Okay great so ChatGPT will give me 5 confidently incorrect search results.

What a colossally stupid waste of energy. We could have had our answers, with a decent search engine.

I actually look down on LLM hopefuls. Just so irredeemably up their own ass. When the bubble collapses they should be sent off to their own island where they can sell the same coconut back and forth between themselves.
by BigJ1211 | 2025-08-06 11:44:37+00:00
Calorie abundance is accurate too, food has never been as cheap and delicious as it is now. Not to mention the ultra-processed high-density foods we have now.

Meaning you can easily overeat with an active lifestyle too. In fact we have entire sports in which it's beneficial to do so.

(Rugby/American Football, Strongman competitions and Sumo wrestling to name a few obvious ones)
by tomxor | 2025-08-06 11:45:47+00:00
I find it amusing that a pretty large group of people need to believe it's some kind of elixir of youth.

Did you read the abstract? It "reduces aging" in a highly selective group of people with accelerated aging from secondary effects of obesity.

> people with HIV-associated lipohypertrophy disease, a condition characterized by excess fat accumulation and accelerated cellular aging

What's next? "Ozempic shows anti-gravity effects in humans"?

Yes it makes you less hungry, no that's not a solution to the underlying issue of economically induced, nationwide shit nutrition and the enevitble overeating and health issues that ensue.. it's a dodgy crutch.
by jart | 2025-08-06 11:45:58+00:00
It's far from being a miracle. People get fat because they have a broken endocrine system that refuses to burn calories and over aggressively digests food. Ozempic solves that by making your body only desire a few mouthfuls of food each day, but does nothing to actually fix your metabolism. Other better drugs are undergoing trials which will actually do that.
by rcxdude | 2025-08-06 11:46:04+00:00
Manually enrolling multiple devices/apps is pretty much the main thing that I view as impractical (especially because I need a system that can handle a range of authentication options: not everything supports passkeys, some passkey implementations prevent enrolling multiple devices, and that's the standard for TOTP as well). I have a lot of accounts, and it's really not something I can manage reliably to make sure that two different systems are in sync.

The thing is, this seems like an entirely solvable problem, from multiple angles: e.g. an end-to-end encrypted sync between devices (using some pairing process), or, even better, a way to enroll a non-present device as an alternative (though this has some of its own challenges, if not just using a persistent certificate). It suprises me a little that there's nothing that really attempts to address this.
by siffin | 2025-08-06 11:46:49+00:00
I guess there is a difference in the fact that gift certificates are always devaluing with monetary inflation, whereas prepaid credit can be used to purchase a service which is just as energy intensive (cost to provider) in 10 years, as it is if used in the next month. Yet in 10 years, the cost to the provider will be more to deliver the same energy (due again to monetary inflation).

There doesn't seem to be a neutral option here, because it's very hard to account for inflation without the holding party paying dividends at the exact rate to offset it.
by fatbobman | 2025-08-06 11:46:52+00:00
Swift’s concurrency model introduces numerous keywords, some of which are similar in naming and purpose, often causing confusion among developers. This article examines several keywords related to cross-isolation domain passing in Swift concurrency: Sendable, `@unchecked Sendable`, `@Sendable, sending, and nonsending, helping you understand their respective roles and use cases.
by serial_dev | 2025-08-06 11:47:25+00:00
I just used ChatGPT (or Gemini, no idea) the other night to generate me a story.

I live abroad, so I don't have unlimited access to books in my native language and all the websites were crappy sites with dozens of ads on it, made it unusable.

I was fed up with searching, so I went to ChatGPT, told it to generate me a story in my native tongue about a boy named $MySonsName and his partner $FavoriteAnimalOfTheDay, who is doing $WhateverMySonDidThatDay. It was a good story, used phrases commonly used in children's books in my language, and all.

I think the aspect of being with my son, hugging him while reading something before going to sleep is much more important than who came up with the story. And as parents, after a day of full time work and constantly helping at the household, sleep deprivation, my stories would be two sentences before I run out of ideas.
by ptero | 2025-08-06 11:47:31+00:00
> Interceptors being more expensive is a big problem.

Yes, but they do not have to be. Shaheeds are slow, easy to detect and track and not maneuverable. They could be intercepted by very cheap short range systems.

What makes interceptors expensive are requirements to counter stealthy, maneuverable targets with very high success probability (i.e., when you consider a leaker to be catastrophic). Nether of this applies to current UKR threats. At least not yet.
by mike_hearn | 2025-08-06 11:48:50+00:00
I don't think the differences between fields in (academic) science are as big as the differences between agriculture and software. They all take grants to publish papers, in journals, and they are measured via similar metrics like citations, papers published, impact factors and so on. Academia is highly homogenous across institutions too.

Yes, for sure a lot of controls implemented via audit aren't perfect fits for what is being regulated, that's the nature of trying to fix bad incentives via regulation. It's better to just have aligned incentives to start with, but that can't be done in academia, it's regulation or nothing.

Also, my experience has been that sometimes academics like to claim their field is special and shouldn't be expected to play by the same rules as other fields. But that's often not true. They should in fact be held to the same standards as everyone else is and their justifications for why they're an exception don't hold water.
by throw10920 | 2025-08-06 11:49:28+00:00
> If I as the human request the software on my computer to modify the content before displaying it, for example by installing an ad-blocker into my user agent, then that's my choice and the website should not be notified about it.

Because the website has every right to block you or refuse access to you if you do that, just like an establishment has the right to refuse you access if you try to enter without a shirt, if you're denying them access to revenue that they predicated your access on.

Similarly, if you're using a user-agent the website doesn't like, they have the right to block you, or take action against that user-agent to prevent it from existing if they can't reliable detect it to block it.
by Vinzer | 2025-08-06 11:50:19+00:00
It exactly how you say, with a lot of people not exactly working in UK leaving, people who made money abroad. I know plenty who do. I can see your point here.

The problem here is the way they are implementing it, right now you would still pay taxes on brining money to UK, also all of those people who happily pay certain amounts or smaller percentages on % of foreign income to live in the UK. However 45% of income made completely outside of the country is a robber and people are leaving to UAE, Italy, Switzerland. Italy is charging 200k flat now a yearn UK they would pay more. Also office of companies are getting relocated, they stop spending money here, they would pay higher to stay in UK.

So if you say you were to get 300-500k per year from those people and now you get 0, and thousands of people leaving it goes to billions in budget loss
by jasode | 2025-08-06 11:50:33+00:00
>Creating the necessary prose is torturous for most of us, so Bob fires up the LLM du jour, types in “Please create a 4 paragraph long business case for my manager, explaining why I need to replace my old, slow computer” and copies the result into his email.

>Bob’s manager receives 4 paragraphs of dense prose and realises from the first line that he’s going to have to read the whole thing carefully to work out what he’s being asked for and why. Instead, he copies the email into the LLM du jour and types at the start “Please summarise this email for me in one sentence”. The 4 paragraphs are summarised as “The sender needs a new computer as his current one is old and slow and makes him unproductive.”

Sam Altman actually had a concise tweet about this blog's topic (https://x.com/sama/status/1631394688384270336)

>something very strange about people writing bullet points, having ChatGPT expand it to a polite email, sending it, and the sender using ChatGPT to condense it into the key bullet points 2:42 PM · Mar 2, 2023 · 1.2M Views
by glenstein | 2025-08-06 11:51:25+00:00
>and seemingly need to believe that it's some kind of Faustian bargain.

I've seen the same thing and it's simultaneously depressing and fascinating. I think it's a variation of the just world hypothesis. People think in terms of narratives, and so if something bad happened, there must be some moral or reason that rationalizes it. And if something's just good, there must be some catch or hidden secret.

So we can't have a conversation about the positive effects of ozempic without people coming in by the droves speculating that it's part of some hidden trade-off. Because it feels like doing that even without evidence counts as informed skepticism.
by InfinityByTen | 2025-08-06 11:51:55+00:00
If my work involves doing a bit of tooling and improve the testing and documenting them, I find myself having much lesser resistance and I'm rather happy to give it off to an AI agent.

I haven't begun doing side projects or projects for self, yet. But I did go down the road of finding out what would be needed to do something I wished existed. It was much easier to explore and understand the components and I might have a decent chance at a prototype.

The alternative to this would have been to ask people around or formulate extensively researched questions for online forums, where I'd expect to get half cryptic answers (and a jibe at my ignorance every now and then) at a pace that I would take years before I had something ready.

I see the point for AI as a prototyping and brainstorming tool. But I doubt we are at a point where I would be comfortable pushing changes to a production environment without giving 3x the effort in reviewing. Since there's a chance of the system hallucinating, I have a genuine fear that it would seem accurate, but what it would do is something really really stupid.
by gorgoiler | 2025-08-06 11:52:12+00:00
This would only apply if they were distributing the GPL licensed code alongside their own code.

If my MIT-licensed one-line Python library has this line of code…

run([“bash”, “-c”, “echo hello”])

…I’m not suddenly subject to bash’s licensing. For anyone wanting to run my stuff though, they’re going to need to make sure they themselves have bash installed.

(But, to argue against my own point, if an OS vendor ships my library alongside a copy of bash, do they have to now relicense my library as GPL?)
by BiteCode_dev | 2025-08-06 11:52:32+00:00
uv run is using virtual envs, that's the de facto standard, and those are sandboxes for python deps. So it already is.

Plus inline deps mean you can pin python versions and 3rd party modules using pyproject.toml syntax in a comment of your script. This is not perfect locking, as it doesn't pin sub dependencies, but it's already more that any other tool out there.

If you want perfect locking, create a project, and use uv lock. You are already in a different category of code.