MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lacy_tinpot | 2025-09-04 21:17:48+00:00
Protection and control are indistinguishable. And secondly what if the State is a bad actor?

"Protecting" free trade from "bad actors" is just an extension of the state to control what "free trade" is from what it considers "bad actors".

Bad behavior does exist, but current technology far exceeds the capacity of bureaucracy to implement free trade, protection from bad actors, and most importantly Trust. The state itself becoming a bad actor is an increasing risk, which technology helps to hedge against.

I think it's important to remember that the Government IS PEOPLE. How are the people in Government any different from "normal" people.

They're not.

And so the people in government will be just as misguided, corrupt, fallible as any other organization of people. Technology helps us hedge against those failures.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-09-04 21:18:29+00:00
I think the closest call we've had since the end of the Cold War was the Russian cruise missile that crashed in Poland near the beginning of the war in Ukraine. There was a world where that hit something more important (or at least the Russians thought it did), which would potentially lead to an Article 5 call, which if the Russians anticipated, the rational move could well be a preemptive strike. But as you said, that's miles from the "One act of open defiance by a subordinate from armaggedon" type scenarios.
by glenstein | 2025-09-04 21:18:57+00:00
Something like 98-99% installed solar capacity in the American southwest is traditional PV. Mirrors are there, and they're awesome, but PV dominates.

PV are designed to account for heat and "less efficiency" means they risk performing at 17-18% instead of 20%. And it's actually generating more total energy at 18% because more total sunlight is hitting it, an advantage in desserts.
by tptacek | 2025-09-04 21:19:49+00:00
No, we don't. Respectfully, I don't think you're working from an accurate notion of what "NOBUS" means, and I don't think you have your head fully around the Juniper hack. The Juniper hack replaced the existing backdoor; it didn't break it.

NOBUS or not, if your adversary controls your source tree, you're boned. Here, the adversary replaced "our" NOBUS backdoor with theirs. Two different backdoors, different keys, same structure.
by ks2048 | 2025-09-04 21:20:25+00:00
It looks like it is in the App Store, so I guess my question is already answered - but I wonder if they had trouble or concerns getting it accepted.

Section 2.5.2 in "App Review Guidelines" (https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/):

2.5.2 Apps should be self-contained in their bundles, and may not read or write data outside the designated container area, nor may they download, install, or execute code which introduces or changes features or functionality of the app, including other apps. Educational apps designed to teach, develop, or allow students to test executable code may, in limited circumstances, download code provided that such code is not used for other purposes. Such apps must make the source code provided by the app completely viewable and editable by the user.
by jMyles | 2025-09-04 21:21:21+00:00
> Megacorps hoarding your data and oppressive governments are part of the nature of the universe‽

No, I _certainly_ didn't intend to suggest that. In fact, I think that the proliferation of vision is likely to bring about an end to those institutions.

> I agree that the camera is not the problem per se, but your framing is a bit strange. There's more to a camera than passively receiving photons.

Of course, but those properties (namely, storage) are shared widely. At some very low-but-experimentally-verifiable-level, photons are force carriers for many of the most easily observed phenomena in our reality.

From that, I think it's probably the peaceful and radical way to derive that, as time moves forward, the universe (and the human condition in particular) is likely to gain vision and not lose it.

Cameras will get better and smaller. Storage will get faster and cheaper and more distributed. The photons in the public sphere will be captured with ever-increasing fidelity.

When all the public sphere is recorded, and all the recordings are available to everyone's analysis, can we overcome despotic tendencies, corruption, and police brutality, and eventually statism itself?

I think that the answer is 'yes'. So I am very cautious about shifting the blame onto the (inevitably widening) vision instead of the institution. As vision grows, the need for police is decreased (and thus, the need for an abolitionist movement is increased). That's the prize on which I hope we keep our... eye.
by balamatom | 2025-09-04 21:21:47+00:00
Well obviously. Someone saying that the world is "being ruined", and theorizing on the causes of the same, implies that the speaker is experiencing the world they inhabit as changing in a manner that's unacceptable to that person.

Nobody goes around thinking "people like me are making the world unlivable for people like me"; even if that's a useful and sometimes even a correct notion - what reason would anyone have to entertain it?
by bena | 2025-09-04 21:21:56+00:00
The "average 3 year" career is a bit like medieval life expectancy, it's pulled down by people dropping out early.

For players on the roster opening day, the average career is 6 years.

For players with 3 years of experience, the average career is 7 years.

First round picks have an average career of 9.3 years.

And if you make a Pro Bowl, your career average is 11.7 years.

League minimum is $840K. Cut it in half for taxes and agent fees and that's still $420K.
by idiotsecant | 2025-09-04 21:22:27+00:00
Nope, still no sense. There are plenty of crypto projects out there that are less centralized, don't dump entire countries worth of carbon into the air, and still manage to have the same logarithmic distribution that Bitcoin does.

BTC was a first draft that somehow metastisized into a literal meme virus that consumes a stupifying proportion of the world power supply.

It's idea cancer. The fact that it continues to exist is a sign of a faulty memetic immune system in our species.
by estimator7292 | 2025-09-04 21:22:46+00:00
There is very little about the universe that is axiomatically true and correct in and of itself. Math is about the only thing I can think of, and really that's in a different category. Everything we know as a species is really just consensus. "Truth" is what we agree it is because the universe does not offer actual truth. What we know is the best guess that our greatest minds can agree on. What we consider to be truth changes far more often than it stands to scrutiny.

There are only a very few people from the entire history of our species who have run particle collider experiments and verified first hand what's inside an atom. What they agree on is truth for everyone because almost nobody has the means to test it themselves. And then of course this truth is modified and updated as we find more data. Then old conclusions are rejected and the entire baseline of truth changes.

We can be sure of things to however many decimal places as you'd like, but reality itself is fundamentally built on probabilities and error bars. What we think we know is built on probabilities on probabilities.
by bpt3 | 2025-09-04 21:22:47+00:00
> Ok, that might be the case. But these are the words my dictionary gave me.

Please provide a link to this dictionary.

> What do you think are the right words for stuff that e.g. needs to be payed to the government a) to regulate the market

People generally don't pay the government to regulate the market directly.

If you're talking about payment for permit approvals and things like that, most people would call it a fee.

If you're talking about the taxes associated with certain financial transactions or approval to import an item into the country, those are often called duty.

> b) to provide an income to the government?

Taxes.
by spott | 2025-09-04 21:23:20+00:00
vLLM is a LLM model serving framework written using raw PyTorch.

ONNX doesn’t support a bunch of operations that PyTorch does (it isn’t always possible to convert a PyTorch model to ONNX).

Torchserve runs raw PyTorch.

Generally speaking, PyTorch is pretty well optimized. For Mac it has been historically ignored, so the kernels for MPS were all missing or just bad, but on CUDA and Linux they are pretty good.
by vkou | 2025-09-04 21:23:23+00:00
Oh, it gets worse. Either Kirk or Spock should have hung for that episode - not for the thing Kirk was on trial for, but for leaving the entire ship unmanned, and for allowing that guy to terminally sabotage it, all to do some theatrics for the judge and jury. That is a criminal level of negligence - surely it was in violation of some minimal crewing requirement for a vessel of that size.

I also have to wonder what the 'dead' guy's plan was after Kirk would get convicted for his death. Presumably he'd need to climb out of whatever rathole he was hiding in for breakfast, and I'd presume someone on the ship would notice that the dead guy is alive, and that the conviction should be overturned.

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Truly, the level of and attention to security on the Enterprise-C was shameful. In "The Conscience of a King" (an excellent episode), one of the traveling actors manages to - not only steal a weapon - presumably from the armory - but also rig it to explode and plant it in the Captain's quarters.

Starfleet in that era should have seriously formed an independent, no-bullshit, no-nonsense commission to ask the relevant enlisted and commissioned officers pressing questions, like 'Did you, or did you not leave the hatch coaming on Deck C open, thus allowing an enemy agent access to the arms locker? Are you in collusion with enemy agents?'
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-09-04 21:23:24+00:00
I struggled alot with hand writing assignments and the greatest boost in my grade and academic ability was getting my own laptop in highschool because of the writing.

So i really do not wish to see that backtracked. But i could see the internet being declared too destructive.

A computer without internet, a book, and ample time would have worked for me.
by oblio | 2025-09-04 21:23:31+00:00
You know you can just use regular cryptography to validate data, right?

Also, you always have to trust someone, in this case Stripe.

Regarding L1 blockchains, how exactly do they solve the speed problem for a distributed global database that needs to be replicated everywhere for the security guarantees to actually work?

What do they forgo out of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem ?
by atombender | 2025-09-04 21:24:16+00:00
One of my favorites was the one on the evolution of crocodiles [1].

Aside from being surprisingly fascinating, I thought the guests were excellent. IOT's academics can sometimes be bone dry (sometimes not a problem if the subject matter is good, but sometimes it can sink the episode), and in this episode all three guests were both energetic and articulate, and there was some good banter.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000zmhf
by nis0s | 2025-09-04 21:24:23+00:00
I get that, but as I see it, this way of thinking about it just makes a mediocre IP that’s coloring by numbers. It’s exactly how you say it is, and it’s what’s expected. A typical war story. But let’s look at it from a Tolkien perspective, to me that lens of looking at things gives you a sense of what’s important to keep, and what values to adhere to. It’s not orcs vs. humans, it’s evil vs. mankind. It’s not aliens vs. people, it’s non-human vs. mankind. That’s just my way of looking at it, and I expect others to enjoy the game differently, and that’s fair.
by rhinoceraptor | 2025-09-04 21:24:53+00:00
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by jMyles | 2025-09-04 21:24:58+00:00
Scale is real, but I want to suggest that we can be more optimistic than to regard it as dispositive on this matter.

As a thought experiment: imagine that in the next 20 years, a device or procedure is developed which allows a human to copy, from their visual memory, anything that they've seen (or at least seen recently) onto a digital medium, which some sort of verifiability of its veracity. This obviously presents the same scale challenges to which you're pointing - it will be impossible to walk around in public without being seen and identified in a way that's digitally verifiable.

But does it make police states and surveillance more likely, in the same way that Flock does? I think we can probably all agree that it does not.

And that tells us that it's not the vision or the memory of the vision that is the threat.

When the entirety of the commons is recorded, and the recordings made available for analysis by all, it's perfectly possible (and I think, inevitable) that police brutality (and even police legitimacy) will decrease.

We need to develop the bravery to say out loud that, as vision (meaning, better and smaller cameras, cheaper storage, etc) continues to improve, our need for police (and perhaps for states) decreases.

In this way, the problem of scale to which you correctly point is naturally counterbalanced.
by ultamatt | 2025-09-04 21:25:33+00:00
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by wubrr | 2025-09-04 21:25:57+00:00
> If you're taking that standpoint, then all entertainment has zero practical value. Game devs/studios, actors/movie studios, musicians, board game designers, etc, etc - all worthless.

I didn't say they are all worthless, yeah sports has value as entertainment, but it does not provide practical benefit to society generally speaking.

> Would you prefer they all do this work out of the goodness of their hearts, simply as fun hobbies? Gifts to society?

Not at all, I'm simply pointing out that earning 850k/year for playing with a ball for entertainment is not at all as terrible as others in this thread make it out to be. It's quite a sweet deal.

> The vast majority of wealthy celebrities are such because they provide entertainment.

And I would have no problem if the vast majority of these celebrities were not wealthy.

> By the end of the class, he made the point that not only did he deserve it, he was vastly under-compensated for the value he brought the NBA and the companies that endorsed him, and ultimately, society of a whole.

I mean cool story, but 'my 10th grade teacher said this' is not really interesting or convincing in any way. Yeah, star players provide income for the team/owners, and yes most of that is because of advertising (literally the dishonest manipulation of people into behaviors which are generally not beneficial to them), so just because they provide income for the team/owners does not mean it is a net benefit for society.

Take entertainment/sports watching and replace it with another type of 'entertainment' which people would love even more if it was as marketed nearly as much - heroin. Yes people love it, it generates 'economic activity and financial transactions', yes addicts will freely chose to spend their money on it. Does that make heroin a net benefit to society?
by Kim_Bruning | 2025-09-04 21:26:23+00:00
Uh.. <raises hand> I might be one of the few people who actually knows a bunch of the theory on why wikipedia works (properly). I had to do a bunch of research while working on wikipedia mediation and policies stuff, a long time ago.

I never got around to writing it all out though. Bits of it can be found in old policy discussions on bold-reverse-discuss, consensus, and etc.

I guess the first thing to realize is that wikipedia is split into a lot of pages, and n_editors for most pages in the long tail is very very low, so most definitely below n_dunbar[]; and really can be edited almost the same way wikipeida used to be back in 2002. At the same time a small number of pages above n_dunbar get the most attention and are the most messy to deal with.

Aaron Swartz actually did a bunch of research into some of the base statistics too, and he DID publish stuff online... let me look that up...

http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/whowriteswikipedia/

and especially * http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia

[*] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number (note I'm using lossely in empirical sense, where an online page might have a much lower actual limit than 150)
by varenc | 2025-09-04 21:26:24+00:00
There's a single DS9 episode[0] where they reveal that the Captain can actually spy on everyone on the ship at once. Like tap into a video feed and listen to conversations. But then we never see this happen again.

My headcannon for this is that even though it's technically possible, it's so unethical they just choose to never do it.

[0] https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Valiant_(episode)#:~:te...
by crote | 2025-09-04 21:26:42+00:00
Just because the policies are supposed to be neutral doesn't mean the resulting work is guaranteed to be truly neutral. Whether something is definitely a fact or an opinion can be very fluid, and you can play a lot with the amount of attention each viewpoint gets. Even a "neutral" article can end up reading completely differently when one viewpoint is very detailed and described in a fact-like way, while another only gets a short summary which reads as if it is a fringe opinion. And even when you are trying to be neutral, it is incredibly hard to avoid your output from getting shaped by the culture you are surrounded with.
by felurx | 2025-09-04 21:27:12+00:00
> DP has a HDMI compatibility mode that allows a DP output to output a HDMI signal, but at the wrong voltage. The external adapters are just level shifters to bring the signal voltages into compliance with HDMI, but their entirety passive devices.

That's DP++, which is not supported on all DP outputs, and notably is not supported by the USB-C DP AltMode.
by consp | 2025-09-04 21:27:13+00:00
You take a bad example and compare it to another bad example. Germany is well known to be behind the curve like the US. It's the only western European country I still bring a healthy amount cash when I go there. Wouldn't be the first time I had to pay parking with cash in recent times. Every where else this is a non issue. It's rapidly changing though, but I don't like the common in use PIN terminals as they have no way of hiding the PIN entry.
by dmonitor | 2025-09-04 21:28:23+00:00
I agree it wasn't the best example for the point I was trying to make, but it was the best I could find in short notice. It just sounded to me like the "save 2D" people you described were more focused on preserving a very particular kind of 2D animation methodology, and saying because this methodology is dead the entire medium is dead. I was trying to propose that 2D animation that imitates the old style very well does exist in the modern era.

I'll admit, though, that while I know and have talked to some people in the animation industry it is not my area of expertise, so I could be completely off base with my observations.
by 9dev | 2025-09-04 21:28:27+00:00
I don’t think more than a handful of Europeans have ever heard of wiring the way you describe. Everyone over here has a bank account with a debit card and is used to transferring money to someone using their international bank account number; PayPal is in use for convenience, but not really necessary actually. People have credit cards for travelling abroad or online purchases, but that’s about it.
by devmor | 2025-09-04 21:29:00+00:00
Neither Uber nor AirBnB got anyone’s “act in order”.

Uber just captured wealth via operating at a loss until competition was absorbed or destroyed.

AirBnB just helped further drive up the prices of single family homes and didn’t really have much effect on the hospitality industry at all - it caused a minor observable loss in profit which ultimately resulted in nothing.
by corimaith | 2025-09-04 21:29:04+00:00
>So, while it doesn't claim to be democratic, it is saying that on the spectrum it is closer to being democratic by at least trying to serve the interests of the population at large rather than, say, "corporations".

What I'm trying to point out here that a democracy is going to try to serve, or rather balance the interests of everyone involved. And that means the corporations do have a seat on the table. Along with HOAs, Investors, Religious Groups, Farmers, Foreign lobbysits, Internet Advocates, Feminists, Minority Advocates, White Collar Workers, Blue Collar Workers etc. There isn't really something called the "interests of the population at large" here, populations in reality are heavily heterogenous with often conflicting interests.

If we talk about the lack of safety or train networks, etc, it's not because of a lack of competence, it's because the sum of vested interests of not having that exceeds the sum of interests that want it, and neither side is willing to compromise that nothing happens. Fustrating, but it's not "idiocracy" as OP says, that is what it means to cooperate in reality. Getting nothing done is very much what it means to be a democracy. If you choose not do, you can end up like Somalia or Syria in total chaos.

When it comes to the CCP, the nuanced but important distinction here is that the CCP is only seat on the table, and they explicitly prevent others from sitting. Their pejorative objective is power for it's own sake, and the action of "caring for the citizens" is more akin to a owner caring for it's pets in accordance to it's own particular perspective than everyone having a seat on the table with metaphorical guns pointed at another. Those other interest groups I mentioned, they cannot coerce the CCP in the same way that they can in USA.

After all, the State of China dosen't have a official military, the PLA is explicitly the armed wing of the CCP that declares loyalty to the party first and foremost. That's a key distinction here from the US Military that serves the Constitution, not the Democrats or Republicans.

Of course, there is inter-party heterogenity, and also the fact that acting like a totalitarian dictator dosen't work well economically, so of course the CCP has to concede a bit. But claiming you are "more democratic" because aren't the most extreme version of authoritiariaism and far less pluralistic than most liberal democracies then it's a awfully banal statement, and more of a propaganda term really with retrospect to OP.
by gillesjacobs | 2025-09-04 21:30:05+00:00
Nice framing for PMs, but technically it is way too rosy. MCP is real but still full of low utility services and security issues, so “skills as plug-ins” is not production ready. A2A protocols were only just announced this year (Google, etc.) and actual inter-agent interoperability is still research grade, with debugging across agents being a nightmare. Orchestration layers (skills, workflows, multi-agent) look clean in diagrams but turn into brittle state machines under load. LLM “confidence scores” are basically uncalibrated logits dressed up as probabilities.

In short: nice industry roadmap, but we are nowhere near robust, trustworthy multi-agent systems yet.