MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by croes | 2025-09-11 20:19:40+00:00
>In one interview with Gaines on Real America’s Voice, Kirk railed against “the decline of American men” and blamed it for transgender equality. Then he added that people should have “just took care of” transgender people “the way we used to take care of things in the 1950s and 60s."

Or take some from his last words

>At about 12:20, he is asked by a member of the crowd: "Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?"

>He replies: "Too many."

Do you think he would have said the same when someone would have asked the same question about gun owners or would have said something like: "I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational."

Or pick one of those quotes https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/11/charlie-kirk...

He recommend the one about Responding to a question about whether he would support his 10-year-old daughter aborting a pregnancy conceived because of rape on the debate show Surrounded
by johnnyanmac | 2025-09-11 20:20:35+00:00
Self defense is fine. Rebellion is less and less viable, but your unalinebale rights to life and liberty means that it's within your means to fight against anything oppressing you.

2nd amendment, ehh. Most of the world requires permits. A gun isn't a toy, nor a tool we use in everyday modern society. If we use 2A to justify a way to rebel, we need to examine what an "arm" really is in the modern war. The useful ones are still banned from civilian use.
by alessandru | 2025-09-11 20:20:40+00:00
no you don't.

these people don't argue to uncover the truth, they just provoke you into some debate-bro logical gotcha that is simply borne in ignorance.

it's not even if you agree or not with him, he has no intention of ever learning your side, it's just a smorgasbord of conservative bs on repeat.

murder bad. but this guy was a provocateur who tried to get the most "impact" for his side. that is why his hot takes are so insane. they aren't points to argue against, they are dog whistle rallying points for all the racists and misogynists to think society is theirs. so let's not defend his work as "just having opinions i disagree with" ...
by nomel | 2025-09-11 20:20:42+00:00
How has the reliability been?

Here's part of the list of warnings I saw when I setup a Samsung Fold for someone else:

> Don't press the screen or under display camera with a sharp object such as a pen or fingernail. Doing so can result in scratches, dents, or damage to the screen.

> This phone isn't dust-proof. Exposure to small particles such as sand may cause damage.

I live close to the beach, so very often have a bit of sand in my pocket. Seems like these phones wouldn't last a weekend.
by JohnFen | 2025-09-11 20:21:06+00:00
> don't you think DoorDash or Airbnb would be significantly more valuable if it told you what restaurants/Airbnbs your friends like as well?

It wouldn't for me, no. My friends already tell me what restaurants and such they like. There's no need to put an intermediary in that communications.

But I'm just one person.
by nottorp | 2025-09-11 20:21:43+00:00
So ... not only would your system take ages to boot without the internets(tm) because that's how systemd works, it will be extended in the same spirit to not boot at all if letsencrypt is down.

Sounds enterprise.

Also, you people forgot that my proposal is to also fold the http server in, and ideally all the scripting languages and all of npm just in case.
by trcarney | 2025-09-11 20:22:19+00:00
Something we are working on my team is an internal Astro Starlight site. It is all in markdown so if your team is backend focused, the can still maintain it, and then all the docs are markdown files that are tracked with git. Comes with basic search already built in too.

So far we like the idea of this approach but haven't fully set it up yet
by lapetitejort | 2025-09-11 20:22:54+00:00
Riffing on a comment I saw on one of LinusTechTip's "Switch to Android/Apple" videos: phone users misinterpret familiarity with intuitiveness and polish. Android is "intuitive" to me because I've been using it more than a decade. It's "polished" because I'm blind to the rough edges.
by viraptor | 2025-09-11 20:23:28+00:00
To be fair, this is a "if you're asking this question, you either know where to find papers that deal with this the right way, or you're asking the wrong question" situation. It matches what I'd tell someone personally: the answer is very unlikely to be useful, what do you actually want to know?

AI that gives you the exact thing you ask for even if it's a bad question in the first place is not a great thing. You'll end up with a "monkey paw AI" and you'll sabotage yourself by accident.
by comex | 2025-09-11 20:23:44+00:00
The comment you link to says that "we only performed a quick preliminary search" and "We do not have a method for automatically checking existing trajectories." In other words, it can't confirm that the issue only "affected a tiny fraction of existing agents in a tiny fraction of their runs" as you say. Are you saying that you have since separately confirmed this?

Edit: That said, I’m willing to believe based on the information in the thread that this most likely only affects a tiny fraction of runs.
by krapp | 2025-09-11 20:23:53+00:00
Well, war against Democrats, leftists, liberals, gay and transgender people, black and brown people and everyone else they consider the perfidious enemies of God and who they've been threatening to put up against the wall for years now.

I don't know if it technically counts as "civil war" if the government declares war on its own citizens, and one half of the population declares war against the other half. It's not as though "declaring war" actually means anything in the US. Maybe it's just sparkling fascism.
by philsnow | 2025-09-11 20:24:05+00:00
It's simple enough, and I moved from Longhorn to NFS for my homelab as well, but I bristle at needing to have the same unix UIDs everywhere that wants to mount or serve an NFS volume. It seems like a huge layering violation.

I "just" want to expose storage over the network (I don't really care about the protocol, NFS would be fine) with a pre-shared secret or something like that.

edit: NFS really goes poorly when containers want to chown things, now I need to have a 'postgres' UID that's the same everywhere?
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-11 20:24:06+00:00
Also just how important certain features are to you personally.

For me notifications are generally more annoying than they are useful, and this doesn’t change under Android. In fact the emphasis that Android puts on them in the shade really sucks for me because it’d much rather have the quick settings pane fully visible than room for a couple more notifications — having to swipe again to see all the toggles is super annoying. So for me, the split shade that iOS does where swiping down on the top right edge of the screen shows only your quick toggles is preferable.

Some people basically live in their notifications, though. I’ve never been able to understand it, but they do, and so the Android way works better for them.

I think there are also less subjective aspects though, like the choice of animation curves through much of Android feels “wrong” somehow and different from almost everything else else out there, including Windows, Linux desktops, etc.
by mindslight | 2025-09-11 20:24:21+00:00
I don't see how your (1) is a refutation of a fundamental autocratic dynamic (furthermore Trump may "champion" mRNA vaccines with one side of his mouth, but he talks out of both). And you still haven't made any coherent point with your (2)s.

(3) seems to be the crux of the issue. I am giving you the opening to pick a thinker who has best articulated what you see as a good enumeration of timeless conservative values, which we can then use to judge Trumpism. Because believe it or not, I am open to changing my mind here and I really do want to understand.

If you'd like me to pick, I can certainly do that. But then I don't want to then hear that I haven't picked the "right" conservative for your taste.
by pradn | 2025-09-11 20:24:26+00:00
A common pattern I see is data-plane nodes receiving versioned metadata updates from the control-plane. As long as the version is higher than the node's previous one, it's correct to use. So, the metadata is a sort of monotonic counter with a bag of data attached to it. This pattern produces a monotonic counter, which I assume is a naive sort of CRDT - though the data itself doesn't benefit from CRDT merge semantics. In this world, as long as a node gets an update, its going to incorporate it into its state. In the article's terms, the system has Strong Convergence.

I'm trying to figure out under what practical circumstances updates would result in Eventual Convergence, not Strong Convergence. Wouldn't a node incorporate an update as soon as you receive it? What's causes the "eventual" behavior even after a node gets an update?

It seems to me the trouble is actually getting the update, not the data model as such. Yes, I realize partial orders are possible, making it impossible to merge certain sequences of updates for certain models. CRDTs solve that, as they're designed to do. (Though I hear that, for some CRDTs, merges might result in bad "human" results even if the merge operation follows all the CRDT rules.)
by efreak | 2025-09-11 20:24:48+00:00
I ran office xp on my desktop and 2000 on my laptop until I got to college and _needed_ to upgrade so I could do work with others. Block it with the firewall and you're good. Now I mostly use WordPad, and use a recent (but rarely updated) version of open office on the rare occasions I actually need an office suite or spreadsheet.

If you're worried about vulnerabilities in older software these days, Windows has built-in security features that can help with that, from the sandbox to controlled folders access (intended for ransomware protection, I believe; I use it to prevent my media server from modifying tags)
by withinboredom | 2025-09-11 20:25:07+00:00
I've only seen this happen on API calls where you need to

1) one-shot the result, chatting isn't an option; so it is trying to figure out what to do to accomplish its goal.

2) with subtle inconsistencies. My example was mostly an illustration, I don't remember the exact details. Unfortunately, it has been too long and my logs are gone, so I can't give real examples.
by Razengan | 2025-09-11 20:25:19+00:00
I'm a complete layman, but I wonder if chemistry on Earth (and rest of our solar system) is also influenced somewhat by the particular properties of our star, its and our magnetospheres etc. and the gas clouds our planets coalesced from.

As in, different stars may encourage slightly different chemical reactions and interactions on their planets.

Like, for example, could it be possible for a planet to form with a naturally highly magnetized mineral in its crust? Would it affect the rest of the chemistry on the planet? Would it cause the ground to interact with its star's magnetic envelope, like our atmosphere within the Auroras does?
by JetSetWilly | 2025-09-11 20:25:46+00:00
I'd love to switch to helix from emacs - I really like the editing model when I have tried it. However I write a lot of clojure and the lack of a REPL in helix and reliance on using LSP for everything (which just isn't as good as repl integration) is a bit of a blocker. I hope their plugin system and embracing scheme for it means that some kind of REPL capability will be implemented and supported well. I hope that plugin branch is merged soon.
by sixo | 2025-09-11 20:25:57+00:00
Roughly, actual intelligence needs to maintain a world model in its internal representation, not merely an embedding of language, which is a very different data structure and probably will be learned in a very different way. This includes things like:

- a map of the world, or concept space, or a codebase, etc

- causality

- "factoring" which breaks down systems or interactions into predictable parts

Language alone is too blurry to do any of these precisely.
by Gormo | 2025-09-11 20:27:21+00:00
The developers and the FOSS community generally; F-Droid is a good app store for FOSS, but there's no inherent need for app stores in the first place.

Duplicating the tremendous success of the Linux ecosystem is a worthy goal, but even at the outset, the idea is to reach the 1% of users who want such a solution and are willing to invest thought and effort into it, and let it gradually become viable for incrementally wider adoption. Trying to target the 99% who don't care in the first place wouldn't make much sense.
by atq2119 | 2025-09-11 20:28:03+00:00
Affine transformations don't change relative density.

You can think of it this way. There's a density function on the shapes in question. Whenever you transform the 2d space, you have to adjust the density at the same time to preserve "volume" (area times density).

Non-linear transforms, such as interpreting a square as polar coordinates to obtain a disk, will expand or shrink area differently in different parts of the space, which means that if you start with a uniform density, you end up with a non-uniform density. But linear/affine transforms affect area the same everywhere in the space, and so if the density is uniform to begin with, it remains uniform.
by ajkjk | 2025-09-11 20:28:17+00:00
lol, what is going on inside this comment, you're like whiplashing between having preferences and explaining why you should want fancy things but then actually you don't.

like... it's completely okay to not want something expensive not because you're poor but because you just don't want to spend money on it; your preferences for what's worth money to you don't have to be justified to anyone else. Except for maybe your family.

Personally I don't have any desire to buy any of those expensive things at all, because I don't even notice their existence, but that's just me. Seems better to be minimalistic. Similarly, to not have any debt, because why would you want to be more stressed and tied to a job than the minimum possible? But maybe it's different if your friends / social circle cares about shiny things or something.
by hydrogen7800 | 2025-09-11 20:28:27+00:00
Is there a genre of fiction or collection of stories in this style that presents a fairly normal thing from a horrifying perspective? Maybe the story describes the thing in this horrific manner, and the reader slowly realizes what the "normal" thing actually is, all the while using factual basis for the phenomena. In the case of honey bees, I'm imagining the worker bees selecting a female to become queen, per wikipedia:

>"Queens are developed from larvae selected by worker bees and specially fed in order to become sexually mature."

This has much horror potential.
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by pontus | 2025-09-11 20:28:51+00:00
I'm curious what you mean when you say that this clearly is not intelligence because it's just Markov chains on steroids.

My interpretation of what you're saying is that since the next token is simply a function of the proceeding tokens, i.e. a Markov chain on steroids, then it can't come up with something novel. It's just regurgitating existing structures.

But let's take this to the extreme. Are you saying that systems that act in this kind of deterministic fashion can't be intelligent? Like if the next state of my system is simply some function of the current state, then there's no magic there, just unrolling into the future. That function may be complex but ultimately that's all it is, a "stochastic parrot"?

If so, I kind of feel like you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater. The laws of physics are deterministic (I don't want to get into a conversation about QM here, there are senses in which that's deterministic too and regardless I would hope that you wouldn't need to invoke QM to get to intelligence), but we know that there are physical systems that are intelligent.

If anything, I would say that the issue isn't that these are Markov chains on steroids, but rather that they might be Markov chains that haven't taken enough steroids. In other words, it comes down to how complex the next token generation function is. If it's too simple, then you don't have intelligence but if it's sufficiently complex then you basically get a human brain.
by ForHackernews | 2025-09-11 20:29:42+00:00
For one thing, I have internal state that continues to exist when I'm not responding to text input; I have some (limited) access to my own internal state and can reason about it (metacognition). So far, LLMs do not, and even when they claim they are, they are hallucinating https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/bio...
by extropic-engine | 2025-09-11 20:29:54+00:00
sorry, but “the washington times,” a site whose design and name seems suspiciously chosen to mirror that of the more well known and respected washington post, is not a reputable source by any metric that is not in bad faith.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Times

it was founded in 1982 by a cult leader. try again
by mackeye | 2025-09-11 20:30:56+00:00
this is the kind of thing kakoune (helix's primary inspiration) excels at --- i can hook `fmt` to a non-whitespace character insertion and have auto-reflow as i type. of course, this requires the user implementing the script to get it right, but then you can pr it into kakoune's "stdlib" which gets loaded by default, so any user can use it. (though helix is getting a plugin system eventually, which hopefully alleviates the pain of slow merges.)
by cryptonector | 2025-09-11 20:31:51+00:00
Yes, but also the bees make too much honey if they don't need to swarm because you manage the hives better than nature (which doesn't manage them at all), so yes it's symbiotic. We split them (reproduction). We give them room so they don't have to move. We help them stay warm in the winter and cool in the summer. We help them stay disease-free. We help defend them from predators. They don't "know" any of this, naturally, and we have bread them, yes, to be calm -- except of course for the recent africanization of bees which basically undid that breeding, though we still work with them anyways (and we're trying to breed the aggressiveness back out).
by techbruv | 2025-09-11 20:32:03+00:00
I don’t understand the argument “AI is just XYZ mechanism, therefore it cannot be intelligent”.

Does the mechanism really disqualify it from intelligence if behaviorally, you cannot distinguish it from “real” intelligence?

I’m not saying that LLMs have certainly surpassed the “cannot distinguish from real intelligence” threshold, but saying there’s not even a little bit of intelligence in a system that can solve more complex math problems than I can seems like a stretch.
by jMyles | 2025-09-11 20:32:14+00:00
Regardless of whether, during this particular evaluation, Claude 4 Sonnet looked at the solution to this particular problem in this particular git repo, this seems like a long-term intractable problem.

How can we ever perform this sort of faux-neutral agentic evaluation in an environment where we want agents to have access to the sum total of knowledge (which will necessarily include being able to learn about the evaluation being conducted and its expectations)?
by rickdeckard | 2025-09-11 20:32:50+00:00
> So for me, the split shade that iOS does where swiping down on the top right edge of the screen shows only your quick toggles is preferable.

Just FYI, on Samsung Android Devices this is implemented as you describe.

Useless info: I think the feature was first implemented on Android 3 (Honeycomb) but then abandoned again on Android 4 (ICS)
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-09-11 20:32:57+00:00
> Seems like either a huge evolutionary advantage for the people who can exploit the (sometimes hallucinating sometimes not) knowledge machine, or else a huge advantage for the people who are predisposed to avoid the attention sucking knowledge machine. The ecosystem shifted, adapt or be outcompeted.

Rather: use your time to learn serious, deep knowledge instead of wasting your time reading (and particularly: spreading) the science-fiction stories the AI bros tell all the time. These AI bros are insanely biased since they will likely loose a lot of money if these stories turn out to be false, or likely even if people stop believing in these science-fiction fairy tales.
by euroderf | 2025-09-11 20:32:57+00:00
Ex-pat here. Once again, folks: Finland is way up there on "satisfaction" but it is not identical to whatever the report means by "happiness".

And in a glaring omission (IMO) there appears no mention of social cohesion and/or the social contract. These abstractions do make a difference. But at this point I wonder if they might be foreign concepts to many English-speaking readers.
by f311a | 2025-09-11 20:33:44+00:00
- auto file refresh

- global replace

- multiline search in files

- small terminal with toggle (for quick commands)

- Recent LSP protocol features that would allow using inline copilot suggestions

- better file manager where I can create, remove, rename files

- an ability to bind x and xx (double) keypress at the same time

- git blame

- a better ability to run programs on top of helix (lazygit, for example, the same way people use it in neovim without closing it)