MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by simonw | 2025-09-29 20:16:24+00:00
So tell us how to safely run this stuff then.

I was under the impression that Docker container escapes are actually very rare. How high do you rate the chance of a prompt injection attack against Claude running in a docker container on macOS managing to break out of that container?

(Actually hang on, you called me out for suggesting containers like Docker are safe but that's not what I said - I said "a safe container" - which is a perfectly responsible statement to make: if you know how to run them in a "safe container" you should do so. Firecracker or any container not running on your own hardware would count there.)
by neaden | 2025-09-29 20:17:11+00:00
Yeah they did a lot of weird things. Like Keira Knightly's character Joan Clarke gets her job in the film when Turing does his weird crossword puzzle test. In real life she got it because one of her professors from school recommended her for the job. In the movie Turing works closely with Cairncross and realizes he is a Soviet spy. In real life while they worked at Bletchley park there is no evidence they ever met. It also really downplays the role Polish intelligence and cryptanalysts had in breaking Enigma from before the war even started.
by jsbisviewtiful | 2025-09-29 20:17:14+00:00
Same. I was always under the impression the governments of the world would put a stop to corporate takeovers of society but unfortunately the complete lack of education and care from citizens kept voting in corrupt capitalist politicians who only care about making profits. A future akin to the Alien, Westworld and Cyberpunk universes is now on a fast track - assuming climate change doesn't wipe us out first.
by bonoboTP | 2025-09-29 20:17:21+00:00
> Wouldn’t people be willing to pay if AI makes them more productive? Why do we need an ad-supported business model when the product is only $20/mo?

This was always a fake reasoning (ads are there because people want everything for free!), but then paid HBO started ads, your purchased smart TVs started ads, cars that you bought with money started ads...

([some business model] + ads) will simply always generate more profit than [some business model] (at least that's how they think). Even if you already pay, if they also shove some ads in your eyes, they can make even more money. Corporations don't work the way humans do. There is no "enough". The task of the CEO is to grow the company, make more profit each quarter and is responsible to the shareholders. It's not like, ok, now we can pay all our bills, we don't need more revenue. You always need maximum possible revenue.
by pazimzadeh | 2025-09-29 20:17:51+00:00
Highly doubt it was olive oil. But naphta was used as wicks for lanterns and oil and natural gas were burned thousands of years ago.

The real point is not what the oil was used for, but that the oil fields were not particularly hard to find.

From Alexander the Great to Al Masudi, there are plenty of records of oil pools and puddles throughout Persia and Arabia

https://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/199505/land.of.the.nap...

https://www.cyberistan.org/islamic/islmoil1.html
by logicprog | 2025-09-29 20:17:59+00:00
It's all so regurgitated and unoriginal, even between him and other anti-AI critics, that it truly feels like he does. Not that AI hypers are better — but those with more nuanced middle of the road complex views are the ones that are (such as Simon Willams' work on The Lethal Trifecta, the "AI Coding Trap" article recently, etc), and I think that's interesting. I also feel like he really cherry picks his statistics (both model performance and economics wise) as much as his enemies do, so it can be exhausting to read.
by cobra19 | 2025-09-29 20:18:04+00:00
Originally there was no such thing as property. Some of the first property we had was animals. That's inconvenient enough thanks to lack of portability, but the bigger issue is atomicity. Metals were the intuitive solution to both problems, they can be cut into convenient denominations and also can be melted back into larger ones.

That useful property was well known (and notably, other currencies such as shells and precious stones lacked this). In addition as others have said, gold was both scarce and had a low melting point. However, other metals had these properties too, and sure enough, some cultures did anchor their currencies on metals other than gold.

We are not "just instinctively attracted to shiny metals". FHN.
by kragen | 2025-09-29 20:18:05+00:00
And if you look at the inflation-adjusted graph, you'll see that it was up to 2600 dollars if you adjust for inflation ("2024 dollars"), which was already a pretty fancy suit, and within three years it had dropped by 40% before gradually settling to a low of 400–600 "2024 dollars" from 01998 to 02004. As I said, there's a lot of short-term volatility, though not as much as Bitcoin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_as_an_investment#/media/F...
by davidw | 2025-09-29 20:18:46+00:00
'Greed!' as the answer to all questions is kind of lazy though.

I hear this in housing politics: prices are high because of 'greed!'.

Seems weird that people in San Francisco are so much greedier than people in Houston.

I would take greedy as sort of a constant and try and think about why greedy people are having more or less success in a given place and time.
by matthewkayin | 2025-09-29 20:18:49+00:00
In writing they call this the "gardener" (artist) vs "architect" (scientist). Some writers plot more at the beginning, and others just dive straight into writing, knowing that they'll have plenty of revising ahead of them.

I'm definitely more of a gardener myself, and I've always considered the architect software engineers of the world to be silly and unfun and prone to locking themselves into an over-engineered architecture before they even understood the problem properly, but they really are just different approaches to software development and each of them has their strengths.

In indie game development, the requirements are often unclear, and I am still exploring what the game idea might be, still trying to "find the fun" of a game, and so the gardening approach works quite well.

In other fields, where you have clear requirements figured out from day one and the consequences for not meeting those requirements is much higher, the architect's approach has its wisdom.
by ajross | 2025-09-29 20:19:18+00:00
That's wildly misunderstanding things. The fed doesn't trade, regulate, hold or sell gold. That price you're quoting is for a historical artifact called a Gold Certificate. These things have a value set by law (not by the fed) of 42 and 2/9th dollars. They don't sell them anymore, but if you happen to have one they're required to buy it from you (IIRC) at that rate.

As always, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_certificate_(United_State...
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-09-29 20:19:57+00:00
Fiat money is not going down as much as asset prices are going up, though.

So it's part of the story, money losing value in the real economy. That's been happening since moving off the gold standard at roughly similar rates.

There's something that happened during ZIRP & Negative Real Interest Rate Policies that completely divorced the value of money in the real economy from the value of assets & future cash flows, and even when interest rates became positive again, the trend appears to have continued.

Perhaps all investors just believe ZIRP & Negative Real Interest Rate Policies are coming back, maybe to even more negative real rates than ever before.
by Aflynn50 | 2025-09-29 20:20:11+00:00
When I see how much the latest models are capable of it makes me feel depressed.

As well as potentially ruining my career in the next few years, its turning all the minutiae and specifics of writing clean code, that I've worked hard to learn over the past years, into irrelivent details. All the specifics I thought were so important are just implementation details of the prompt.

Maybe I've got a fairly backwards view of it, but I don't like the feeling that all that time and learning has gone to waste, and that my skillset of automating things is becoming itself more and more automated.
by Animats | 2025-09-29 20:20:45+00:00
"ChatGPT and by extension “AI” is likely the biggest “revolution” of my generation. It is likely also going to be the biggest killer of creativity in my generation. I always thought the creativity killer was going to be access to infinite entertainment. I think I was wrong."

We're headed for near-infinite bad entertainment. Pretty soon, we're going to have fan fiction converted to movies by AI. It will be as bad as text fan fiction. We're only a few years from "Make me a sequel to ..."
by simonw | 2025-09-29 20:20:54+00:00
I actually talk to journalists on the AI beat quite often - I've had good conversations with them at publications including The Economist and NY Times and Washington Post and ArsTechnica.

They're not going to write up detailed reviews of things like the new Claude code interpreter mode though, because that's not of interest to a general enough audience.

I don't have that restriction: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/9/claude-code-interpreter...
by CuriouslyC | 2025-09-29 20:21:14+00:00
Even with Serena and detailed plans crafted by Gemini that lay out file-by-file changes, Claude will sometimes go off the rails. Claude is very task-completion driven, and it's willing to relax the constraints of the task to complete in the face of even slight adversity. I can't tell you the number of times I've had Claude try to install a python computational library, get an error, then either try to hand-roll the algorithm (in PYTHON) or just return a hard coded or mock result. The worst part is that Claude will tell you that it completed the task as instructed in the final summary; Claude lying is a meme for a reason.
by r_lee | 2025-09-29 20:21:21+00:00
That is what he means... Inflation of all assets caused by bad fiscal policy and both deregulation and regulation causing most of the money to only move around in the upper echelons of society

this really can't keep going on forever. the weekly "ATH" and everything going up is like a pressure bomb that keeps getting pressurized more and more each day.

And because this is all assets, the more assets you already have, the more you gain. And the central banks/etc. will make sure the party keeps on going for you.
by joemi | 2025-09-29 20:21:33+00:00
A learning experience (by making this game) is useful to the person making it. Honing one's skills (by making this game) is useful to the person making it. Taking breaks from work (by playing this game) is useful to those who need a break. Learning (by looking at how this was made) is useful to those who wish to learn.

Does it solve world hunger? No, not at all. But it is indeed still useful to some people.
by danielodievich | 2025-09-29 20:21:42+00:00
Gold has always had value to humans because it is very non-reactive and doesn't corred, and it was easy to smelt and work with since prehistoric times. It is also one of very few metals that is not boring gray/silver. It therefore has always been part of ornamentation and religion. In last century it became useful due to its great conductivity, and so it's used in semiconductors. If you have a gilded book at home, also gold.
by chatmasta | 2025-09-29 20:21:57+00:00
Presumably yes, but if I’m using an agent to make purchases, I’d prefer it to use sites where it can safely make a purchase anyway. The optimal UI would probably leave it up to me. One system should find products, independently of whether a vendor of them supports “ACP.” And I should be able to configure my agent to “only purchase where ACP is supported.” In the context of a conversation, I’d expect it to show me all the products it found, and offer to refine the list to include only ACP vendors.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-09-29 20:22:05+00:00
Basically, the chemical composition of the earth's crust isn't going to change any time soon. That means that the supply of gold is going to increase only slowly.

In contrast, Trump has been making noises about wanting to replace Powell as chair of the Fed, because Powell won't dance to Trump's tune. I do not want a world where Trump can determine (even if indirectly) the value of the dollar, or the interest rate, or anything in that vicinity.

So I trust the dollar a lot less than I did six months ago. In contrast, gold doesn't care what Trump's policy is.
by mrguyorama | 2025-09-29 20:22:41+00:00
>because the teachers and administrators are dumb

Understand, the teachers and administrators are not on the same team!

The admin is a political body, who basically gets their job by being voted in (or more exactly, they are hired by the school board, who is explicitly voted in). They will ignore teachers reporting problems because it's not politically expedient to actually deal with those problems.

In almost all towns, the school board serves the local Old Boys club, not the general public. Bob doesn't give a fuck that his kid is a bully, he still has the most pull in the town. He's not going to sit aside when you punish his kid, even if his kid is demonstrably a bully.

The parents of bullies will not pay attention to "your child is literally harming other kids" but you can bet, the second you suspend their child, they will somehow manage a media campaign that an entire mob will rally behind. "oh that's just what kids do" says the mob. They will then say "we need to bring spanking back into schools" and that will increase the size of the mob.

At no point did the admin help the teacher do their damn job.
by dfxm12 | 2025-09-29 20:23:18+00:00
These things are not happening in a vacuum:

1. Ellison's comments about surveillance

2. Conservative billionaires, including Ellison, consolidating ownership of social media, print media, TV media, etc.

3. NSPM-7 & the current admin's appetite to criminalize speech

4. The current administration kowtows to Netanyahu, who relishes in conservative ownership of TikTok

The dots are all there: if you express something that doesn't following an accepted US stance, like maybe its stance on Israel, maybe on TikTok, it gives Trump the ability to easily find, label & punish you as a terrorist, maybe even at Netanyahu's request. Trump's desire to do things like this has been explicitly stated since the death of Charlie Kirk. He's always talked about his desires to throw his political enemies in jail.

Even before this, the admin has been targeting people like Mahmoud Khalil, Mario Guevara, etc. for speech.
by saghm | 2025-09-29 20:23:31+00:00
I'm not sure the law has ever been concerned with logical reducibility. Context that can't easily been defined objectively has always been a part of legal systems, and arguably is a feature rather than a bug. Stuff like the "reasonable person" standard are intentionally flawed concepts that allow laws to exist without needing to define every possible permutation of human behavior up front. This obviously doesn't mean that you won't necessarily look at everything and decide to be an anarchist because of how convoluted it all is, but I don't think that being mathematically inconsistent is particularly unique to copyright in the legal system.
by tredre3 | 2025-09-29 20:24:11+00:00
By mentioning K&R you seem to imply that C also promotes floats to doubles in function calls? But that is not the case, floats are passed as floats, as you'd expect.

You can try it yourself on godbolt all the way back to GCC 3, test(float x) has always emitted movss and test(double x) will result in movsd/movlpd.
by thanhhaimai | 2025-09-29 20:25:02+00:00
I think you're conflating between 2 different things: the USD and US stocks from US companies.

- The USD is definitely losing value. That also means stocks from US companies would be cheaper from a foreigner's point of view.

- That means it represents good investment opportunity as long as the fundamentals of those companies are not affected too much (e.g. AI companies not directly affected by workers' raid, or pay tarrifs). Nothing is contradictory here.
by jcranmer | 2025-09-29 20:25:08+00:00
Unless you're calling a variable-argument function--floats are promoted to doubles for variable-argument functions:

> The arguments are implicitly converted, as if by assignment, to the types of the corresponding parameters, taking the type of each parameter to be the unqualified version of its declared type. The ellipsis notation in a function prototype declarator causes argument type conversion to stop after the last declared parameter, if present. The integer promotions are performed on each trailing argument, and trailing arguments that have type float are promoted to double. These are called the default argument promotions. No other conversions are performed implicitly
by perihelions | 2025-09-29 20:25:11+00:00
I believe this is the first version that's long-form journalism.

(I'm not a fan of the HN submissions which are short, anecdotal blogposts, that leave you questing for the rest of the story across the internet. I think all those previous ones were of that format. Discussions that start in medias res and assume you've been following every new development daily from the beginning).
by moomoo11 | 2025-09-29 20:25:13+00:00
how do i revert to the previous version? I find that the "claude" command in terminal still works great, but the new native VSC extension is missing all these things (before it would launch terminal + run "claude")

I feel like there's so many bugs. The / commands for add-dir and others I used often are gone.

I logged in, it still says "Login"
by snickerbockers | 2025-09-29 20:25:26+00:00
Well I didn't mention CDC specifically, and I'm less concerned with the official statements from organizations like WHO or CDC than the talking-heads presented as experts by MSM outlets. I didn't take down a list or anything but I distinctly remember several doctors on outlets such as CNN who were scaring everybody into sequestering themselves inside only to later proclaim (with extremely suspicious timing) that outdoor gatherings are indeed safe.

And it's not just the talking heads but the politicians who are making policy based around what they say. These protests and riots were being encouraged by politicians who had been banning outdoor gatherings just two months prior.

>is a Republican appointed by Trump

I don't know if you're under the impression that I would grant more credence to somebody on this basis but my criticism isn't based around a fundamental opposition to wokies. It should not come as a surprise that people fall into science denialism and conspiracy theories when rules can change based around who stands to benefit from them. It was blatantly obvious that in certain locations lockdown rules were being tuned for political benefit.

If they truly thought outdoor gatherings were safe they could have said so at the beginning and it would have prevented a lot of opposition, especially from the religious groups who had a very legitimate constitutional argument in light of the fact that they weren't being allowed to gather indoors or outdoors.

>16 days after the protests started

that is exactly what I am talking about. Those protests lasted all summer, I don't know why you think a two-week delay between when they begin and when the rules are modified to the benefit of the protestors would absolve them of anything.
by hchdifnfbgbf | 2025-09-29 20:25:57+00:00
It will take no time. I made three purchases this weekend where I started my search with ChatGPT because it gives me better results than Google, and it can also pull in or link me to Reddit comments.

I have it running a background research task now where it’s producing a comparison table of product options with columns for different attributes I’m interested in, including links to purchase it, so it can help me make a decision tonight. If this feature is available for what I want, I’ll be using it in a few hours.

Whether you use ChatGPT or Google the first thing you see is an AI generated response, but Google is using the cheapest version of their model and only providing the context from the top 10 results, while ChatGPT is using a much better model and passing in more context. Lots of folks are turning to ChatGPT instead of Google these days.
by IG_Semmelweiss | 2025-09-29 20:27:02+00:00
Larry Ellison’s stock exposure to Oracle is immense, with a 41% stake (1.16 billion shares). That's the vast majority of his wealth!

It would be incredible to see a titan cut to size, when the bank (debtholders) come knocking on his door.

I too agree it would be best to not have Ellison have anything to do with the future of privacy in the US. We can take solace that he's gambling big, and there's a chance we may benefit from his loss
by aho15 | 2025-09-29 20:27:04+00:00
Not sure if I'm with you on this one. I see what you mean but I also have a hard time to understand what's going on on these sites. So in my eyes these are quite exactly what the author called it. Unconventional. However I like the idea of getting these concepts shown and shared just to see what could might work or what causes a lot of attention.
by pimeys | 2025-09-29 20:27:30+00:00
You could try to use a router. I'm currently building this:

https://github.com/grafbase/nexus/

If croq talks openai API, you enable the anthropic protocol, and openai provider with a base url to croq. Set ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL to the open endpoint and start claude.

I haven't tested croq yet, but this could be an interesting use case...
by zahlman | 2025-09-29 20:27:33+00:00
> Probably correctly; things get flagged often not because they don't deserve attention but because the HN user base is incapable of discussing them in a civilized fashion.

I tend to flag things because the submission (either the act of submitting it, the text of the thing being submitted, or both) seems aimed at incivil (i.e.: waging ideological battle, scoring points against a political outgroup) discussion.

> (In this case it seems to have been buried but not flagged.)

I don't know what you mean. As far as I'm aware there is no downvoting on submissions.

> Markets consist of mostly expert bettors betting on future events. What would it look like if investors thought such a hyperinflationary cascade was likely? It might look like an all-time high dollar-denominated price on gold: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45417805

This seems like a big reach. USD might be weakening relative to a bunch of asset classes, but not so much relative to other currencies. And to the extent that USG might be expected to go back into printing huge amounts of money (COVID era or worse), it wouldn't realistically be because of lawsuits connected to ICE; even the "unprecedented" funding in the "Big Beautiful Bill" ($75 billion per https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-funding-big-beautiful-bill-...) is a small fraction of what the military costs, or social security. For other perspective, the total NYSE market cap is something like three orders of magnitude larger (https://siblisresearch.com/data/us-stock-market-value/).
by kragen | 2025-09-29 20:27:46+00:00
No, it is not correct that each agency has a fixed annual budget. If the head of ICE were to write a letter to Congress saying that they would have to close all the border checkpoints and lay off all the agents next month because they were out of money, Congress would have the option of appropriating additional funds from the Treasury, a so-called "supplemental appropriations bill", a process which in the US they use regularly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriations_bill_(United_St... and in particular this happened four times in "fiscal year 2024": https://www.govinfo.gov/features/federal-appropriations-fisc...

This is an option they would almost certainly take, in preference to leaving the borders unguarded.

The Federal Tort Claims Act governs the process: https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R45732

I agree that ICE needs to start respecting human rights, but giving it better intel runs counter to that purpose, and getting damages judgments in courts will probably not affect it one way or the other.