MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by matheusmoreira | 2025-08-15 02:49:42+00:00
"Piracy" is not theft, it is copyright infringement. Calling it theft is not "honesty", it's just factually wrong. There's nothing to debate on this matter.

> Like everyone is trying to somehow spin the whole situation into some story that makes their act of theft morally correct.

Nobody is "spinning" anything. We're telling you what we believe and why we believe it.

Actual moral justification involves the realization that all intellectual property is not only unnatural but also fundamentally unjust.

First, copyright is a perversion of reality. The natural state of ideas is actually the public domain. Ideas are infinitely copyable and trivially transmissible. Copyright seeks to completely invert that reality.

Copyright infringement is just reality reasserting itself. It happens every single day at massive scales without people even noticing or caring. It happens every time someone sends a funny picture to a friend. There is no such thing as stopping it, for it is natural, and natural processes shouldn't be stopped.

Second, copyright is fundamentally unjust. It is a functionally infinite state granted monopoly on numbers.

It's absurdity is merely tolerated because it promises well deserved rewards to creators, thereby incentivizing them.

The original social contract was "we're all going to pretend we can't trivially copy your works for a couple decades so that you can turn a profit and then the works will return to the public domain where it belongs".

So when was the last time a work you enjoyed entered the public domain? How many times has copyright duration been extended by now? It might as well be infinite. We're all going to be long dead before our culture returns to us.

They've all made their fortunes a thousand times over but they want to continue their rent seeking and unlike us they've got the trillions of dollars needed to lobby governments and get what they want.

Why fulfill our part of the contract when the copyright holders constantly demonstrate they're not willing to fulfill theirs? There's absolutely no reason to do that. Just stop pretending. It really is that simple.

> When you choose to pirate that work you’re doing something morally unethical.

Nonsense. Copyright infringement is civil disobedience of an unjust law and arguably a moral imperative.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-08-15 02:51:09+00:00
It's already one false move away. If a kid had popped a balloon at Newsom's rally, that might have been enough to start the shooting.

Or maybe not. I'm not sure that the Border Patrol really want to be in a real live firefight. Maybe they're bullies, and want to look tough, but maybe they aren't actually tough.
by kjellsbells | 2025-08-15 02:51:28+00:00
It's possible that these kinds of signs actually have the reverse deterrent effect.

Criminals might be deterred by knowing that people definitely get arrested in a certain location, because, say, they've seen it themselves, or because they see a presence of law enforcement, or because they innately sense its a high status environment where law enforcement response is to be expected.

A criminal seeing a sign might conclude that the sign is actually telling them that no immediate law enforcement response is likely.

For example, in London, you dont see CCTV signs in the shops along Sloane Street (super high end retail) but you definitely see them in Primark (very ordinary store, like US Kohls).

Wonder if there are any studies on this?
by matheweis | 2025-08-15 02:51:47+00:00
> prices double every 7 years, which is obviously not what we observe.

It’s not? The first two things that came to mind to check are almost exactly doubled:

Case-Schiller for Seattle metro area for example is almost exactly double: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SEXRNSA/

Price of eggs is almost exactly double: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000708111
by chao- | 2025-08-15 02:54:00+00:00
EDIT: I wrote this in a rush intending to refer to general market entry. In a broad sense, what I ended up writing is incorrect. To preserve the accuracy of the comment history I will not remove my mistake.

>All the money has been hoovered into the stock market.

I think you might misunderstand what the stock market is. Or perhaps you misunderstand what what stocks are? When you purchase stock, it doesn't get locked in a vault, with your name written next to it, and the number of shares it got you on that day. That money goes to the company, and they use that to finance their operations (and ideally, further growth). That financing may go directly to salaries, or even if it goes to services, those services are paid to someone who pays salaries.

If your claim is instead that "all" of that money, or some meaningful majority of that money, is going to electricity and AI silicon, I would invite you to do some basic math on the companies involved.
by dismalaf | 2025-08-15 02:55:10+00:00
Money only goes to the company to get reinvested when the company sells shares, so at IPO time, when an insider sells, when more shares are issued, etc...

Otherwise, it's one asset holder selling to another asset holder, usually at ever increasing prices. So yes, a lot of money is simply sitting in the stock market.

Now, some does come back in the form of share buybacks and dividends. That being said, the average dividend yield is significantly less than the long-run average (it's less than 2 percent right now, long term average is above 3%).
by _swfb | 2025-08-15 02:55:27+00:00
I gotta admit that it saddens me a little to think that calling myself a "wannabe-intellectual" or "eccentric" would have any connotation other than very mild self-deprecation, but I suppose it won't hurt to make it simpler in the shorter term.

> This really actually doesn't matter in many cases. These moments are perfect place for you to demonstrate humility and how you deal with feedback.

That's decent enough advice, but when people confidently "correct" me with something that's actively wrong, it's always a bit jarring to me. It takes me a like thirty seconds to parse their feedback, read to make sure that my code isn't wrong, and then process that I need to somehow respond to it. It's difficult to know what to say at that point.

I dunno. This post has given me a lot to think about.
by sleepy_keita | 2025-08-15 02:55:28+00:00
Simulated a RAG, and it still gets it pretty wrong.

> The tallest mountains on Earth, in descending order: 1. Mount Everest, 8849m 2. K2, 8611m 3. Kangchenjunga, 8586m

> Tell me the second tallest mountain on Earth.

The second tallest mountain on Earth is *Mount Everest*.
by Dig1t | 2025-08-15 02:55:39+00:00
Woz is one of my favorite people ever, a lifelong hero for me.

I think it’s important to remember that he is the product of a very unique time in world history though.

He grew up in a time and place that was arguably the best time ever to be a human in all of history. He grew up in a society with extremely high social mobility, when a house in the bay was cheap, in a homogeneous society with high social trust, surrounded by the smartest people of his generation, in a place in the country which valued open mindedness and true progressive thinking. Things like going to college, buying a house, paying rent, or finding a mate were orders of magnitude easier than today.

Optimizing for happiness is a nice pursuit if this is the society that shapes your worldview, but today this is a luxury view that very few people can afford. The world is much more of a rat race, we have significantly lower social trust, basic survival is much harder to achieve than Woz’s time. So few people can go through life just trying to be happy instead of grinding to get ahead.
by yolovoe | 2025-08-15 02:57:02+00:00
Just a single data point against this. I got interviews with 4 companies out of 30 or so I applied to. Cleared all the onsites. Think FAANG, famous hedge fund, popular data analytics platform, and defense. 4 different industries. Job market's not the best, but it's also not that bad if you have 5 YOE+. Offers were good, ~$50-100K over my current pay.

So many people are using AI during the interviews to cheat, as long as you don't use AI and are good at leetcode, probably not that hard to snag an offer. I also interview people at a FAANG, and #1 reason to reject people these days is AI use. If you don't use AI and can leetcode and system design, you're pretty solid and will stand out from other half-baked candidates.
by mitchellh | 2025-08-15 02:57:38+00:00
Yes, its a hard dependency. But we go out of our way to add CSS classes to our UI widgets and even have a configuration in Ghostty to supply custom CSS directly (without you having to mess with gsettings or anything). We've seen some pretty incredible customizations in our showcase channel in Discord.

We haven't committed to our CSS classes yet as a stable API but we plan to do that in the next release cycle. Still, they haven't changed much in a year. :)
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by adastra22 | 2025-08-15 02:58:28+00:00
FYI this posts comes off as incredibly pretentious. You think we haven’t read the same philosophy?

This isn’t about epistemology. We are talking about psychology. What does your brain do when we “reason things out”? Not “can we know anything anyway?” Or “what is the correlation between the map and the territory?” Nor anything like that. Just “what is your brain doing when you think you are reasoning?” And “is what an LLM does comparable?

Philosophy doesn’t have answers for questions of applied psychology.
by gottorf | 2025-08-15 03:00:22+00:00
Put in other words, in any market, there are bids and there are offers. Prices don't move until one side gets in a rush. A seller's market (like in 2021) is one where buyers are in a rush and will lift the offer. A buyer's market (like during GFC) is one where sellers are in a rush and will hit the bid.

The pressure on buyers, at least in the past couple of decades, is that the increase in the supply of housing has not been at all commensurate with the increase in population. That, combined with a great increase in the money supply, makes for tremendous upward pressure on real estate prices.

Sellers generally aren't in a rush except in times of economic crises, especially paired with a period of overleveraging running up to it; i.e. the GFC. Economic softening appears to be in the works at the moment, so buyers should get a little reprieve soon, but since there isn't the same overleveraged buyers all rushing for the exits like in 2008, a similar crash is unlikely.
by helsinkiandrew | 2025-08-15 03:00:43+00:00
> Tell me, does the original cast get any of that or is it just adding pocket change to Google's coffers?

Google will have negotiated with the “owner” (in this case I think Disney) for a wholesale price and then adds its retail markup (eg 20%). Disney pay the industry standard SAG/DGA union negotiated residual agreements to cast, writers and directors
by winter_blue | 2025-08-15 03:01:10+00:00
Was this very recent? The job markets for software engineers has been horrid, at least from mid 2022 to mid 2025. Maybe it’s changed now?

Anecdotally, I know a few engineers with 10+ YOE in NYC, Seattle, and California, all with actual FAANG or FAANG adjacent work experience, who couldn’t find jobs. One of whom even took a minimum wage job, and another who nearly did the same as well.

Maybe the tax code change is kicking off an industry revival?
by FiatLuxDave | 2025-08-15 03:03:21+00:00
As far as I can tell, the problem isn't so much a lack of jobs or a lack of homes but rather that they aren't in the same place. In small town America, the problem isn't a lack of housing stock, it's that it is hard to afford it with few good paying jobs. In big city America, the problem isn't lack of jobs, it's that it is hard to find a job which pays enough for you to afford the limited housing stock.

I think this is a large reason behind the polarization in America today. We aren't all facing the same aspect of this imbalance.

I was hoping that the work-from-home movement was going to help with this, but RTO seems to be in full swing. So, I think our best bet would be to stop incentivizing the concentration of job creation. Absent a fix, we will have to wait a few decades for the imbalance to even out.
by gottorf | 2025-08-15 03:03:22+00:00
> I expect in the not to distant future, the only way someone will get to own a house is to inherent one.

Only if the current insanity around zoning and regulation persists. In many real estate markets, it's literally illegal to increase the supply of housing; in others, price controls make it unappealing to invest in increasing the supply of housing.

I don't know what kind of toxicity is unique to the Anglophone world that exacerbates this problem, but at some point we just need to rip off the band-aid, tell existing homeowners to cry more, and just build, build, build. There's no inherent reason why the price of houses should so far exceed income in this vast country.
by adastra22 | 2025-08-15 03:03:27+00:00
I am one of those for what it’s worth. I struggle to put my thoughts into words, as it does not come naturally to me. When I think internally, I do not use language at all, a lot of of the time.

Drive my wife crazy as my answer to her questions are always really slow and considered. I have the first think what thought I want to convey, and then think “how do I translate this into words?”
by infecto | 2025-08-15 03:03:56+00:00
So the government should make its own guns, tanks, food, planes, fuel etc.? Not trying to be pestering but again I don’t understand your point. Software to me is no different than a plane or a gun. The military does not make those either. It’s a tool that connects data sources to make decisions and I have yet to see a reason why the military has to make a tool instead of paying for one.
by wrp | 2025-08-15 03:04:23+00:00
> In other words, what feels like a single, monolithic "literacy" ability is actually two distinct skills, each exercised in different instances and each capable of improving and decaying on its own.

This dissociation has been used to test theories of hemispheric specialization. A good overview is in Neurolinguistic Aspects of the Japanese Writing System by Michel Piradis (1985).
by mingus88 | 2025-08-15 03:04:44+00:00
I guarantee that there are many people who have joined up with ICE in the past few months for the sole purpose of committing violence.

If you have ever done any research that covers “boogaloo boys” or any of those types of groups, you’d know that this is the exact moment in history that they have been waiting for. All the requirements have been checked for them to go off with impunity.

In fact, this push by Newsom to preemptively ratfuck blue districts before Texas does, really pushed the needle that much closer to the red/blue civil war these groups have been going for for decades
by hlieberman | 2025-08-15 03:05:16+00:00
I have many questions. The government uses a lot of these kind of things, but they need to go through very specific certification processes that Librem doesn't seem to have gone through.

They are extremely vague here about what the actual connection is. Is it IPsec with a PQ-safe algorithm? How are keys actually exchanged? How are they stored on the hardware?

This could potentially be really cool... but with the information we have, I can't imagine how anyone could actually look at this as a serious product for consideration.
by everybit | 2025-08-15 03:05:43+00:00
Really good reading! I like this AI. Personally, I don't use AI to much because I found it annoying, just use it quick questions. OpenAi has really been the leader this past years, when I ask people about AI they always says "u mean Chatgpt?" it funny because, nowadays they're not as good as before, but yeah people really believe in them. The problem now is data, you can't have good thinking or right answers, because they're running in outdated data, even if they search online in a rag or graph way they're bad. It's really difficult to imitate a brain or a thinking process because it includes realization, connection, discussion and more, really satisfies when you found out by yourself something. AI will never feel that, meaning no connections or lost context.
by adastra22 | 2025-08-15 03:05:53+00:00
What processing? When you have an internal line of thought, what processing do you do on it?

For me, it feels like I say something, and in saying it, and putting it into words, I have a feeling about whether it is true and supported or not. A qualitative gauge of its correctness. A lot of my reasoning is done this way, trusting that these feelings are based off of a lifetime experience of accumulated facts and the another things currently being considered.

Explain to me how this is different than a neural net outputting a weight for the truthiness of the state space vector?
by troad | 2025-08-15 03:06:07+00:00
SDL2 wouldn't be appropriate for what they're trying to do.

SDL2 is more of a drawing and graphics library. You tell it to put a triangle here, it puts a triangle there. But it has no idea what a button should look like - how it should behave, how it should be animated - on Mac, on Windows, on KDE, on Gnome, etc. You could try to painstakingly recreate this look and feel for each platform, but it's a lot of effort, you probably won't get it quite right, you'll make oversights on accessibility and internationalisation, and your hard work will instantly look dated once the platform evolves.

To make native GUIs, you need to talk to the libraries that draw platform-native components, like buttons, for you. But of course each platform works totally differently, and the whole affair is honestly kind of a mess, which is why truly native cross-platform applications tend to be fairly rare in practice. Maintaining five different GUI code bases for all sorts of fringe platforms is not, in most cases, a good use of time. For most apps, either you stick to native and cut less significant platforms, or you abandon native altogether and just use a cross-platform wrapper like Electron.
by throw10920 | 2025-08-15 03:06:24+00:00
> I did point it out, quite explicitly so.

No, you factually, objectively, did not, because fallacious arguing is not the same as intellectual dishonesty (as can easily be learned from looking up the definition - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_honesty). So, this is the first factually incorrect thing you have stated in this post.

> LLM don't operate on facts, LLM generated output is irrelevant to your assertion.

This is the second factually incorrect thing. LLMs are trained on vast corpus of human writing and so have an extremely large amount of latent understanding of tone of language. Factually, the output of an LLM is relevant to my assertion.

> I don't care that it's emotionally charged.

> I am happy for people to challenge me and improve the way I can argue.

So now you're being a hypocrite and a liar - if you don't care that it's emotionally charged, then you're definitely not happy to have people improve the way you can argue, because emotionally charged statements are not arguments.

> However then refuting arguments against inequality without offering a solution is effectively supporting it

Third factually incorrect statement. I don't have to tell the cook how he made my soup wrong if it tastes bad. I just have to say that it's not good, and that's that.

That's three falsehoods and one lie in just those parts of this comment, let alone the many others in your other comments. You have no intention to actually engage in debate or seek truth.
by zamadatix | 2025-08-15 03:06:34+00:00
Even if Windows wanted to push hard to get off x86 they still lack ARM hardware worth moving to in the first place. I wouldn't be surprised if the 13" M1 MacBook alone shipped more units than all Windows 8/8.1/10/11 ARM devices combined. The 32 bit -> 64 bit app migration for x86 was also much slower on Windows but, again, there wasn't any real performance gain to be had until your app needed more than 4 GB of RAM in a single process, so no real pressure there either.

The moment Windows actually has non-x86 hardware which people actually want to buy I bet native app support comes pretty quick.
by tptacek | 2025-08-15 03:07:10+00:00
Hamas won that election in large part by throwing their opponents off the tops of buildings, and then, having secured power in Gaza, never allowed another election, to the point where a plurality of Gazan Palestinians are not old enough ever to have participated in an election. Anyone calling Hamas "freedom fighters" is telling on themselves. No, I don't think you can reasonably be for Hamas.

I don't have anything else to nitpick about your comment! Just that one thing you said stuck out, because, no; being for Hamas is like being for the Khmer Rouge. Like, yeah, western imperialism in Indochina was absolutely a thing at the time of the Khmer Rouge. But no, you don't get to be for the Khmer Rouge!

("Last elections too"? What did you mean by that?)
by elahieh | 2025-08-15 03:07:39+00:00
Good point, and it's also entirely possible the code designer just did a terrible job. e.g. around 57:00 of https://youtu.be/JOXPYkjvDaA

As Kryptos gots a huge amount of media attention in 1999, references to him changed from "chairman of A cryptographic center" to "chairman of [THE] CIA's cryptographic center" when it doesn't even seem that it has such a center.

And the featured story (around 52:00 of the video) has him apparently claiming credit for helping solve a Caesar cipher!

https://web.archive.org/web/19990501000000*/http://www.tecse...
by al_borland | 2025-08-15 03:07:40+00:00
I recently bought music from the iTunes Store, because it was easy and DRM free. I can do what I want with the music after I buy it, and don’t have to worry about what happens if Apple shuts down the store. I’m not aware of a single video platform that can say the same thing. This is the core of the issue for me. In 25 years, I want to know that I can still watch my favorite movies and TV shows. Outside of buying DVDs and ripping them, there is no way to do that without venturing into piracy. I actually bought an external DVD drive recently (while I still can) so I can still rip music and DVDs when discs are the best/easiest way to get some content.

While piracy has a huge library, when it comes to stuff that’s not popular for the long-term with the mainstream, if a person doesn’t grab it while they can, it can be very difficult to get. Of course, these same things aren’t available at all on streaming services, so…

If I could buy DRM free movies and TV shows, from a single source, with a quality library of every show and movie, I’d be down. That doesn’t exist.
by aidenn0 | 2025-08-15 03:07:51+00:00
I hate GTK enough that I'm considering porting Ghostty to literally any other GUI system. I think that Qt is probably the only alternative that anyone might consider "platform native" so I'll probably go that direction, even though Qt development is rather special in its own way (you know how GTK decided C needed an object system? Qt decided that C++ needed a more better object system).
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-15 03:08:27+00:00
The drive to become that wealthy and powerful does not turn off. It’s a similar failure mode as a meth addict stripping a substation for copper. Neither persona can help themselves.

> It's funny that our bodies have stomachs, so we know when we've eaten "enough".

Humorously on topic, GLP-1s patch the reward center in your brain and say “enough is enough.” If only there was a similar protocol for wealth and power.