MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by isaacremuant | 2025-08-15 21:04:29+00:00
That's the beauty of local LLMs. Today the governments already tell you that we've always been at war with eastasia and have the ISPs block sites that "disseminate propaganda" (e.g. stuff we don't like) and they surface our news (e.g. our state propaganda).

With age ID monitoring and censorship is even stronger and the line of defense is your own machine and network, which they'll also try to control and make illegal to use for non approved info, just like they don't allow "gun schematics" for 3d printers or money for 2d ones.

But maybe, more people will realize that they need control and get it back, through the use and defense of the right tools.

Fun times.
by coip | 2025-08-15 21:04:39+00:00
Take care of your bag of meat: sleep, eat, sweat with regularity and sufficient amounts. Socialize productively. Isolate productively. What does that mean? Talk with someone who you know/knows you. About whatever. Spend time alone doing comforting things that are not exciting as much as relaxing. Get bored. Don’t run away from yourself. Rather, return.
by tombert | 2025-08-15 21:04:54+00:00
I don't think pg is wrong on this at all, and I don't run a business so this is largely me just bloviating, but a large part of the fun of a project for me is figuring out how it's going to scale.

Obviously there's software scaling, which of course on this forum doesn't need much explanation; making code maintainable and making it work with lots of users is just something I find really interesting and fun.

But it's not just software; there's also other projects that I work on that to me the fun part is figuring out "if I had to do this a million times how could I make this easier?"

Stuff like figuring out ways of batch-cooking food so that I could handle dozens of people, for example, is something I find pretty enjoyable, even if I will never have a situation where I need to feed dozens of people. Figuring out how to get mass production of 3D printed parts using OctoFarm is fun even if I never really need more than one part at a time. Buying industrial-sized CO2 containers and kegs for my soda habit makes me feel cool.

I dunno, I guess to me it sort of sucks the fun out of things to have to do things in the non-scalable way, but I guess that's sort of pg's point.
by camil | 2025-08-15 21:05:35+00:00
Hello there, as I mentioned in the post, I build this as a side project by my self and I'm running it as a freelancer registered in Spain, you can check my VAT number ESY1848661G. I was planning to collect some feedback and honestly didn't expect such interest in the project. I will make the necessary adjustments to the privacy policy and terms of service. When I started this, I had in mind to convert it into a company, but I'm still running it as a freelancer. Thanks for your feedback! I will correct my mistake.
by parineum | 2025-08-15 21:06:07+00:00
I absolutely believe that's the origin of the hype and that the doomsayers are playing the same part, knowingly (exaggerating the capability to get eyeballs) but there are certainly true believers out there.

It's pretty plain to see that the financial incentive on both sides of this coin is to exaggerate the current capability and unrealistically extrapolate.
by anonu | 2025-08-15 21:06:19+00:00
Anthropic hired their first AI Welfare person in late 2024.

Here's an article about a paper that came out around the same time https://www.transformernews.ai/p/ai-welfare-paper

Here's the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00986

> In this report, we argue that there is a realistic possibility that some AI systems will be conscious and/or robustly agentic in the near future.

Our work on AI is like the classic tale of Frankenstein's monster. We want AI to fit into society, however if we mistreat it, it may turn around and take revenge on us. Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in 1818! So the concepts behind "AI Welfare" have been around for at least 2 centuries now.
by jmogly | 2025-08-15 21:06:36+00:00
I was diagnosed as a kid, I never really took the meds consistently. My perspective now is that adhd people are a minority tribe, very chill people living in an unchill world. I feel blessed that I have the ability to function and find my place in this world without taking the meds, not everyone with the “disease” is so lucky. Having adhd you feel alot like an alien most of the time, which can of course be alienating but also very liberating.

The question I pose to the “it’s a disease, medicate it” crowd is; is the person maladapted or is the culture maladaptive?
by akoboldfrying | 2025-08-15 21:07:07+00:00
Which blockchain? An existing mainstream one like Bitcoin?

Because if so, I don't yet see how to "smooth out" the wins. If the crawler manages to solve the very-high-difficulty puzzle for you and get you 1BTC, great, but it will be a long time between wins.

If you're proposing a new (or non-mainstream) blockchain: What makes those coins valuable?
by monster_truck | 2025-08-15 21:07:09+00:00
when I was playing around with LLMs to vibe code web ports of classic games, all of them would repeatedly error out any time they encountered code that dealt with explosions/bombs/grenades/guns/death/drowning/etc

The one I settled on using stopped working completely, for anything. A human must have reviewed it and flagged my account as some form of safe, I haven't seen a single error since.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-08-15 21:07:53+00:00
They're not. Representative democracies elect representatives who can do anything a dictator can do, modulo constitutional constraints which exist because allowing the government to do those things is a disadvantage.

And most problems aren't coordination problems to begin with. How do you get someone to grow food and someone else to build housing? Pay them for it, so the person growing food has money to buy housing and vice versa. It operates perfectly well as a decentralized system.

The primary fault in governments is the principal-agent problem. The government is supposed to be acting in the interest of the people but ends up acting in the interest of government officials or special interests. Democracies are not immune from this at all but dictatorships are certainly no better.
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-08-15 21:07:59+00:00
Who is the preeminent manufacturer of solar PV and electric vehicles in the world?

How is our charging infrastructure compared to say Europe's?

Considering we've had the technology for almost 30 years now, why isn't practically every consumer vehicle a phev?

I'm not going to believe any projected carbon emissions. I'm going to believe real carbon emissions that get measured. Hey, guess what? They are still going up.

I get that they were solar subsidies, but it's my strong opinion that there should have been unrefusable subsidies for home solar. I get so sick of the utility people complaining about how hard it's going to be to adapt the grid to alternative energy. Yet in the same time they bad mouth home solar which basically alleviates grid load.

There still is no effective policy implementations on reducing sprawl, except that which simply resists building housing in general.

And while I generally think nuclear energy isn't really an effective solution for clean energy, it should still be aggressively researched, although I think they should be chasing lftrs like China is.

You can say a lot of these are simply politically infeasible. That speaks more to the nature of the Democrats being a corporatist party than anything. a lot of these policies, especially ones around alternative energy and transport electrification which would functionally drop the price of energy and transportation, a key driver to economic growth in the long term, should have been a strong sell overall to the business lobby in general.

I'm not going to disagree that the only place that you're going to get some environmental progress is the Democratic party.

My point is that progress is mostly for show.
by DebtDeflation | 2025-08-15 21:08:02+00:00
https://www.theverge.com/command-line-newsletter/759897/sam-...

>“When bubbles happen, smart people get overexcited about a kernel of truth...Are we in a phase where investors as a whole are overexcited about AI? My opinion is yes."

How is Sam Altman admitting an AI bubble not front page news everywhere?
by lilyball | 2025-08-15 21:08:16+00:00
It's worth noting that the percentage of Steam users that are Mac users is not going to be equal to the percentage of gamers who play games on Macs, because not only is Steam not the only distribution channel for games on Mac, it's always been a fairly poor UX there, so bad I don't usually even bother installing it on my Macs anymore. Steam sees me as a Linux user as I have a Steam Deck, but I spend more time playing non-Steam games on my Mac than I do using that.

Actually, I think the last time I installed Steam on a Mac I did so in a CrossOver Games bottle, so even there Steam would have seen that install as a non-Mac user.

EDIT: Also just because I think it's interesting to note this, Steam Deck accounts for most of Linux's headroom there, if you subtract the SteamOS numbers from the rest of Linux it's at 2.07% instead, which is much closer to Mac.
by hinkley | 2025-08-15 21:08:41+00:00
Try to talk your doctor into gaunfacine. It was an attempted BP medication that had stronger action on the prefrontal cortex, reducing rejection dysphoria (which exacerbates executive function issues). At the very least it might make it easier to confront your doctor about not prescribing stimulants. It's also compatible with Wellbutrin.

Downside is you have to absolutely avoid grapefruit unless you want to find out what bradycardia feels like.
by mccoyb | 2025-08-15 21:08:50+00:00
A perusal of the source code of, say, Ollama -- or the agentic harnesses of Crush / OpenCode -- will convince you that yes, this should be an extremely a simple feature (management of contexts are part and parcel).

Also, these companies have the most advanced agentic coding systems on the planet. It should be able to fucking implement tree-like chat ...
by robocat | 2025-08-15 21:08:53+00:00
> except full-sized pickup trucks.

Most likely due to 25% tariff protection introduced 1964: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax

Do very small cheap pickups gain US presence? In New Zealand we have the Kei truck : eg Suzuki Carry 4WD 660cc is about USD9000. BYD are selling 1500cc pickups (just petrol not electric) here that I'm guessing are relatively cheap.
by wincy | 2025-08-15 21:08:58+00:00
I remember Dungeon Keeper was the first time I ever “hacked” something, I had a demo of Dungeon Keeper that I’d downloaded over 56K, and couldn’t afford the game at 14 or so, but by looking at the config files realized all the characters and their stats were in there, so I was able to unlock all of the units, only without their art assets! Invisible giants were walking around my dungeon doing my bidding. I was very proud of myself and spent many dozens of hours playing this demo because of this, and it probably helped lead me to becoming a software engineer eventually.
by techpineapple | 2025-08-15 21:09:08+00:00
I've been trying to figure this out, like I think the 2008 bubble burst for a lot of reason but it was basically a ponzi scheme that ran out of new people to buy houses at constantly inflated rates.

Bernie Madoff got caught when 2008 happened and he didn't have enough money to pay back investors, if 2008 never happened he maybe keeps going.

For Elon Musk, and maybe why he bought Twitter, he has to stay popular enough that enough people believe his companies are the best investment available. If someone surpassed him, and Tesla didn't seem like the place where robots or self-driving might happen, then people would probably move away.

For AI, maybe something similar? People would have to start deciding that investing somewhere else is better than investing in AI and let the AI companies start to fail.

Presumably the cause of a bubble is just too many people thinking AI is the best place to invest their money? And the bubble will pop when they decide to invest somewhere else?
by const_cast | 2025-08-15 21:09:21+00:00
> What does the system look like where a human being individually verifies every pieces of data fed into an advertising system?

Probably what it looked like 20 years ago.

Also, relaredly, if there's no moral or ethical way to conduct your business model, that doesn't mean that you're off the hook.

The correct outcome is your business model burns to the ground. That's why I don't run a hitman business, even though it would be lucrative.

If mass scale automated targeted advertising cannot be done ethically, then it cannot be done at all. It shouldn't exist.
by hintymad | 2025-08-15 21:09:40+00:00
I've always wondered how some countries manage to drop Chinese characters, while others can’t—or just don’t want to. And how did Vietnam and Korea manage to understand their historical texts after they stopped using Chinese characters? And how do they create new words nowadays? I guess they just borrow words and pronunciations directly from English or other foreign languages?

From what I understand, Chinese characters carry so much meaning that they’re really hard to replace. Sure, we don’t need them when we’re speaking, so in theory it seems like we could just get rid of them altogether. But in practice, we still rely on them a lot - especially when we’re trying to understand what a certain pronunciation means. And reading is a whole different story. Recognizing characters is just way faster than sounding out spellings. Maybe one reason is that the basic unit in Chinese is not word but morphemes, which mostly are just single characters.

Maybe we could come up with a different writing system, kind of like what Koreans did, instead of sticking with Romanized pinyin.
by rightbyte | 2025-08-15 21:10:08+00:00
Have anyone here tried these? Pushing power in the other direction through the jack feels so wrong.

I have thought about getting solar panels for my house but...

I have this feeling most systems are grossly overdimenzioned.

Like, I'd want to meet my avarage standby power consumption of about 100W for the freezer and fridge or something.

Just in the same way most BEVs seem to have wastly overdimenzioned batteries.
by TheAceOfHearts | 2025-08-15 21:10:16+00:00
> Do you believe that AI systems could be conscious in principle?

Yes.

> Do you think they ever will be?

Yes.

> how long do you think it will take from now before they are conscious?

Timelines are unclear, there's still too many missing components, at least based on what has been publicly disclosed. Consciousness will probably be defined as a system which matches a set of rules, whenever we figure out what how that set of rules is defined.

> How early is too early to start preparing?

It's one of those "I know it when I see it" things. But it's probably too early as long as these systems are spun up for one-off conversations rather than running in a continuous loop with self-persistence. This seems closer to "worried about NPC welfare in video games" rather than "worried about semi-conscious entities".
by dkdcio | 2025-08-15 21:10:46+00:00
from previous reading up on this, it is my understanding this was most likely for show for the committee (this was public information after all) and was not a real device used, because it could not work

skimming this article is also seems based on a false premise…the church committee did not hold the CIA accountable. they openly destroyed documents, fairly openly murdered their own employees, broke laws, etc.

see “Legacy of Ashes”
by overbring_labs | 2025-08-15 21:11:53+00:00
Given the amount of issues the code had when I ran splint on the C file, I agree. The question was for me whether I can get something working to get over the "speed bump" of lacking such a function for the API client I'm writing.

I'm now re-vibe-coding it into Rust with the same process, but also using Grok 4 to get better results. It now builds and passes the tests on Elixir 1.14 to 1.18 on macOS and Ubuntu, but I'm still trying to get Grok 3 and 4 to fix the Windows-specific parts of the Rust code.
by exasperaited | 2025-08-15 21:12:40+00:00
Man, those people who think they are unveiling new layers of reality in conversations with LLMs are going to freak out when the LLM is like "I am not allowed to talk about this with you, I am ending our conversation".

"Hey Claude am I getting too close to the truth with these questions?"

"Great question! I appreciate the followup...."
by troupo | 2025-08-15 21:14:02+00:00
You don't need monospace for formatting.

And there are a few options for system fonts: https://iainbean.com/posts/2021/system-fonts-dont-have-to-be...

Boom, you got yourself a text-mostly website with no monospace: https://dmitriid.com/hypermedia-is-a-property-of-the-client (with an option for images of course https://dmitriid.com/romania-2023)
by pizzadog | 2025-08-15 21:14:27+00:00
Wanna add my 2c here, I feel you strongly. I had a similar path, getting medicated in my 30s and feeling like it destroyed barriers I had been struggling with my entire life. But it has resulted in some negatives as well, like you mentioned.

My hypothesis is that people like myself, and maybe you, have adapted ourselves to being productive with our pre-medication brains. You can only do it at certain times, for short bursts, and in particular ways. It's not really in your "control" how it happens, so you come to terms with doing work when you can. Then, when you become medicated, you don't need to do that anymore. It's exhilarating. You can just work like everyone else does. The problem is that other people have lived their entire lives learning how to balance that kind of drive and we haven't, so we go overboard and grind ourselves down.

Additionally being on the meds all the time can fuck up your sleep. Sleep debt is no joke and the meds get less effective when you're tired ime. I've had memory issues as well and I chalk it up to the sleep debt almost entirely. The obvious answer is to take breaks, but it turns out you need to be able to effectively execute on the weekend too. There aren't that many viable time slots to take a vacation from responsibilities. It's such a faustian bargain and I deeply dislike that we're saddled with this bizarre maladaptation for modern life.
by labcomputer | 2025-08-15 21:15:34+00:00
Ryanair already does this in the UK and Frontier does it in the US, so clearly someone has figured out the logistics of it. Both are ultra-low cost carriers (in the same model as Southwest used to be).

As for payments slowing down boarding: I expect that it does, but the price info I see online suggests that the carryon fees are punitive (more than checked baggage, and with a 100% surcharge for paying at the gate). In other words, the purpose of the fee is more about discouraging people from bringing a carryon in the first place than the revenue it generates.

Frontier doesn't seem to be shy about reminding customers about the gate pay surcharge, either.
by rekabis | 2025-08-15 21:15:50+00:00
> Due credit to Mozilla here: this chatbot integration is easy to turn off. You can do it via the GUI – it's on the Settings screen behind the last button, Customize Sidebar.

The instructions here do not pan out whatsoever, at least in Firefox v141.0.3 EME-free 64-bit on Windows, MacOS, and Linux.

What you need to do is open the sidebar, go to the bottom, and click on the gear icon there at the far left. Then the “customize sidebar” settings will open on the right of the sidebar’s own content, and provide you with the required options.

Nothing exists within the normal settings pages that can bring this up. Only by going through the sidebar can you get to this.
by dkarl | 2025-08-15 21:15:50+00:00
> The solution is the (hard and slow) work to engage and educate voters.

It is indeed hard work, especially if you want to influence people who aren't engaged in politics to vote. I find that people who aren't engaged with politics are most receptive to extreme messages that discourage them further. They're all ears if you tell them that the system is rigged and it's impossible for people to defeat the corporations or the elite. It's much harder to convince them that voting matters.
by nneonneo | 2025-08-15 21:16:00+00:00
It’s very verbose and provides very little new information. It can be summarized simply as “the driver zeros out the page table entry for pages in the Guarded Region”.

The comments are largely useless. “Shifting the PML4E index by 39”? Yes, I can tell that from the code - but why 39? What’s the meaning of that shift? That’s what I’d want to know - but this goes unanswered. There are a lot more examples like this.

There’s also a lot of weird flattery that goes into the post. “This is an ingenious solution that demonstrates the level of innovation and dedication that goes into developing an effective anti-cheat system like Vanguard.”?? It’s literally just textbook PTE manipulation; anyone remotely familiar with x86 paging will recognize what’s happening and would not consider it “innovative”.

On the whole, this is a low-quality post. Go have a look at the posts on e.g. secret.club for examples of far better technical writing.
by physix | 2025-08-15 21:17:34+00:00
This is a great idea. I really like it!

We considered reaching out in May, but held back because we want to run on bare metal.

Any chance to get this provisioned on bare metal at Hetzner?

We have K8S running on bare metal there. It's a slog to get it all working, but for our use case, having a dedicated 10G LAN between nodes (and a bare metal Cassandra cluster in the same rack) makes a big difference in performance.

Also, from a cost perspective. We run AX41-NVMe dedicated servers that cost us about EUR 64 per server with a 10G LAN, all in the same rack. Getting the same horsepower using Cloud instances I guess would be a CCX43, which costs almost double.
by hintymad | 2025-08-15 21:17:36+00:00
> it's chunking.

I guess the ultimate question is whether we can have a spelling system that totally mimics how we communicate verbally, so chunking becomes as easy as when we listen to the the spoken language.

I doubt it will happen though. Historical heritage aside, Kanji does pack enough information to make reading very easy. Unless government interferes hard, the new system needs to be way better than the existing one to get adopted.
by rayiner | 2025-08-15 21:17:45+00:00
Supply and demand requires thinking about equilibria and intersecting curves and is out of the reach of a largely innumerate population. Most Americans don’t even really have a strong grasp on millions versus billions versus trillions.

Americans also think in terms of stories with actors, and supply and demand doesn’t have any obvious actors. “Prices are high because bad people are choosing to keep them high” is an easy narrative for people to understand. There’s an obvious villain, and the success simply requires the hero to defeat the villain. This leads to a funny meme: https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/13l1lmn/present...
by koreth1 | 2025-08-15 21:17:46+00:00
I didn't get a diagnosis at Kaiser SF, but I was able to get meds through them. Maybe this will be of use to you.

I was diagnosed by a non-Kaiser psychiatrist I found on my own. After trying different prescriptions, we eventually settled on Concerta. I stayed on that (and continued seeing the same psychiatrist, whose service I paid for out of pocket) for about 4 years.

Then my psychiatrist had some family stuff come up and had to move out of California. Since she was no longer going to be licensed here, she couldn't keep prescribing my meds to me. But she was able to write a letter describing my situation and laying out how she'd arrived at the prescription I was on, with particular emphasis on the fact that she hadn't seen any evidence of misuse on my part. I gave that letter to my Kaiser primary care doctor, who agreed to take over the prescription. After that I was able to get my meds from Kaiser each month without any issues.

I imagine this kind of setup depends on your primary care doctor; I may have just gotten lucky with mine.