MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by smsm42 | 2025-10-08 02:01:35+00:00
> the overwhelming majority of foreclosures in the wake of the '08 crisis were just regular homeowners

Yes and no. Yes they were regular homeowners, but they also massively overbid on homes they couldn't afford because it doesn't matter, we'll refinance under new valuation in a couple of years and will only profit from it! And by overbidding, they made the situation worse for more careful buyers, and helped to feed the frenzy. They are not the sole guilty party, there is a lot of guilt to go around, but part of the guilt lies on people who entered into bad deals because they were sure home prices never go down ever, and it doesn't matter how bad the deal is. I've been on a number of realtor presentations at the time that explicitly said things like that. And people bought into it massively. And yes, "everybody else" (well, not literally everybody, but a lot of people) did it.

That's exactly my point. It's still wrong what they did, and if they exercised more restraint and foresight, and less greed, maybe the size of the problem would be less, and less people would be hurt. I lived through it, and I had those doubts also - should I do what "everybody else" is doing? Should I participate in a clearly unsustainable bubble? Am I an idiot to not jump in at the chance of literally free money? Overwhelming majority faced the same questions, and a non-negligible part of them chose the irresponsible answer. And they got hurt. I feel for them. But I also do not forget it was their choice to make.
by freddie_mercury | 2025-10-08 02:02:02+00:00
>> That allows you to concatenate and page multiple files at once like bat does? >cat is literally called “cat” because it’s intended purpose is concatenation.

cat's behaviour and bat's behaviour is different, though.

>cat a.txt b.txt It was a dark and stormy night. Once upon a time. >bat a.txt b.txt ───────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────── │ File: a.txt ───────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 1 │ It was a dark and stormy night. ───────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ───────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────── │ File: b.txt ───────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 1 │ Once upon a time. ───────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────

This difference becomes more useful once we have a more meaningful example:

>cat *.py (thousands of lines of output) >bat -r :5 -H 2 --style full *.py ───────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────── │ File: __init__.py <EMPTY> │ Size: 0 B ───────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ───────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────── │ File: editor.py │ Size: 2.4 KB ───────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 1 │ import collections 2 │ import contextlib 3 │ import glob 4 │ import io 5 │ import os.path ───────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────

It's hard to imagine many people have the muscle memory for the combination of cat, head, and whatever else you need to add headers with the filename and file size, call out empty files, highlight the second line, show line numbers, do syntax formatting, and wrap to the terminal width (head doesn't do this).
by txrx0000 | 2025-10-08 02:02:17+00:00
> 15.2(2)(d) cannot as a matter of law be used to effectively ban anyone from the internet at all.

How laws are read can change. It may not fly in court today, but what about 5 or 10 years later? They may not immediately ban anyone, but just slightly throttling the services they don't like with national security as an excuse is detrimental to the free Internet. People will get used to it and then one day, it would be interpreted as "it's ok to allow egregious usage limits", which is effectively a ban. It happens gradually.

> I do not believe the government currently has the authority to force telecoms to remove suspected compromised equipment.

Good. This is the way it should be. The burden of proof is on the government. You cannot assume guilty until proven innocent. If the government really suspects that there is some malicious equipment that slipped past their equivalent of FCC undetected, then they could impose import restrictions to make it impractical for telecom operators to purchase said equipment.

There is a lot they could do on the import regulation side, such as restricting OTA updates for critical equipment to domestic servers, or even restrict firmware updates to offline flashing only. They could make some equipment prohibitively expensive. There are plenty of ways to deal with it besides introducing a law like this.
by sys_64738 | 2025-10-08 02:02:20+00:00
This has to be a joke. Real engineering has a requirement of personal liability of the engineer involved. There is zero personal liability in the software which is why it's not real engineering. Until a software developer has to be held personally liable for the code they write and test, then they can call themselves an engineer. Back to vibe engineering, if ever personal liability were required then any AI slop in code would vanish instantly.
by aishwarya_1198 | 2025-10-08 02:02:24+00:00
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by umanwizard | 2025-10-08 02:05:26+00:00
FIDE arbiter guidelines, page 17:

> When a player places an inverted (upside–down) Rook on the promotion square and continues the game, the piece is considered as a Rook, even if he names it as a “Queen” or any other piece. If he moves the upside-down rook diagonally, it becomes an illegal move.

Link: https://arbiters.fide.com/wp-content/uploads/Publications/Ma...

This is not a philosophical question about metaphysics, where the rook’s true essence can be converted to that of a queen because really, what are the queens and rooks anyway but abstract symbols? The rook is the physical object that everyone in the tournament hall recognizes as a rook, which nobody has a problem identifying in practice.
by dinkumthinkum | 2025-10-08 02:05:26+00:00
Authoritarian? You're saying this because of immigration; this comes from a position that is basically open borders. It is an interesting double standard. The people that hold this position would not consider non-Western countries that don't want to have open borders or have dramatic demographic shifts in their population and culture to be "authoritarian." This whole notion of "rounding up the bad people" is just infantile leftist stuff. How do you have a sovereign country if you are not able to have a policy that prevents unfettered 'immigration' or unable to deport those that immigrated contrary to law?
by pabs3 | 2025-10-08 02:06:47+00:00
Lawful intercept equipment is often targeted by criminals and nation states, the entire concept is extremely dangerous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_global_telecommunications... https://unshakled.org/salt-typhoon-the-unintended-consequenc... https://group2000.com/articles/a-wake-up-call-for-securing-l...
by MontyCarloHall | 2025-10-08 02:08:20+00:00
If the AMD/OpenAI deal means that OpenAI will put serious work into making AMD GPUs finally be more amenable to general purpose computing, it's actually a huge win for AMD. None of the major numerical computing frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, etc.) work as well on AMD GPUs versus NVIDIA GPUs, and that's really holding AMD back from making inroads into the machine learning space.

If this means that compute is considerably cheaper for OpenAI, it's a win for them too. But that remains to be seen.
by jjk166 | 2025-10-08 02:08:34+00:00
Intelligence was evolved millions of years after the most recent common ancestor. Harnessing fire, clothing, etc. came later still. The lineage that would ultimately give rise to humans split from the chimp/bonobo lineage as the human ancestors adapted to savanna life, likely due to aridification brought on by the formation of the Himalayas.

It's possible that selective pressure towards intelligence was greater for the human lineage than for the others. It's also possible that the evolution of intelligence was equally likely across the different lineages and humans just happened to be the one where the mutation happened. Regardless, once human ancestors filled the niche, it would have been difficult for another lineage to get in on the game.
by smsm42 | 2025-10-08 02:08:56+00:00
The structure of the derivatives market is not obvious. The idea that home prices will always rise at the present level and you can just pay "less than my last rental" for a new house because handwave should give one a pause.

> And I'm telling you it wasn't, because no one saw it, not even the bankers and regulators, until it was too late

That's not true. A lot of people called it unsustainable at the time. A lot of people said there's a bubble. They were laughed at and shouted down, as doomsayers that are just to much of a buzzkill to let people just enjoy a new cheap house. A lot of people didn't buy into the bubble, because they correctly deduced it's not worth it. You don't hear about them for the same reason why the newspapers don't report there wasn't a murder - there's nothing to report. So you hear the stories of those who chose wrong and got hurt - because there's something to report there. But if a responsible family sees a loan too good to be true on a house they can't afford and walks away - you'd never know about it. But they exist. And there should be more of them.
by FrankWilhoit | 2025-10-08 02:09:21+00:00
The budget is use-or-lose. The contracts with the major suppliers condition large "discounts" on spend increasing every year. The exact targets of the spend are either specified by the auditors or not specified at all. I have been in meetings where between ~50-100 managers and architects were told, we have to spend 15% more with ___ next year, here is their list of software SKUs, what is your Christmas list?
by kulahan | 2025-10-08 02:09:39+00:00
Asia and Europe are full of intolerant ethnostates that barely get along with themselves, let alone others. It’s pretty easy to have a modicum of success when everyone is basically identical in looks and attitude.

Also, who gives a shit if you need a car or not? What is this lol

Even if I lived in Japan, I’d still have a car. You DO realize people outside of the internet occasionally enjoy cars, yeah?

And America will probably have more billionaires for ages. Hardly anyone gets that rich in Europe, and in China, all billionaires exist at the pleasure of the government and are disappeared constantly. Outside of Singapore (where you go to jail for spitting out gum), there are hardly any.

But yeah, the “for now” was definitely a cool mic drop…
by paranoidrobot | 2025-10-08 02:10:33+00:00
I do this, too - but I've been running into more and more companies that block you from using their company name in the email address.

It also results in awkward conversations if you have to talk to staff. I had ordered some pet supplies online a while ago registered like this.

Then I go in store more recently and they ask "Do you have an account with us?", I give them that email when asked, which causes them to pause. We went around a few times of them asking what my email was, before getting a manager who thought I was doing something dodgy and decided to try looking up my account by phone number instead of email.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-10-08 02:10:37+00:00
In my eyes this is just a technicality.

"Mit der CDU/CSU wird es keine anlasslose Chatkontrolle geben, wie sie von einigen Staaten in der EU gefordert wird."

Anlass is cause/reason here, so keine anlasslose literally translated means: not without cause/reason.

What about "reasonable causes", and the infrastructure enabling those? Be it legal/bureaucratic/technical? IMO it's already in place, mostly, and got abused many times, already.

This is just "weasel wording", changing nothing for so called "lawful interception".

If you got flagged by some algorithm somewhere, or got reported by someone behind your back, there will be Anlass!

Automagically...

Because neither the algorithms, nor the organizations handling the flagging, enabling the reporting are transparent.

They are unaccountable (to the public/affected) black boxes by design, be it for economic, organizational, or political reasons.

Inevitably leading to kafkaesque absurdities like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial
by gitaarik | 2025-10-08 02:10:38+00:00
What is this for kind of logic. So if you have a store, and you happen to have a client that smashes someone else's head in your shop, then that means in your logic that you as a shop owner are guilty of violence.

But I guess you say you should know the reputation of every person coming into your shop, and if their reputation is deemed inappriopriate by a certain group, they should not be allowed into the shop to prevent them from harassing any other customers.

But how are you gonna regulate that? Who is gonna decide who is inappropriate and who isn't?

I think we already have a fairly well organized system for that: law & order. If someone breaks laws, they are punished for it. So if someone is violent, whether it's inside or outside a shop, they can be punished for it.

And you as a shop owner don't have to also individually take the effort to investigate and punish the individual. Although if you want to you have the freedom to; it's your shop in the end.
by snuxoll | 2025-10-08 02:10:48+00:00
What are you talking about? Yes, it is closed - their PDS implementation and clients are open, but the actual service that runs on bsky.app is, at present, not open source.

Without the backend that handles all of the XRPC endpoints [1] being available, BlueSky still effectively maintains centralized control over their part of the 'atmosphere'. Somebody could, of course, make an open source implementation of the app.bsky lexicon and users would only need to update their DID to point at their preferred instance, but AFAIK none exists right now.

[1]: https://docs.bsky.app/docs/api/at-protocol-xrpc-api
by dinkumthinkum | 2025-10-08 02:11:32+00:00
I don't know. It seems like from what you saying that you and honestly an enormous amount of people need to actually learn about 20th century European history and WWII. People are throwing around these terms of NAZI and Gestapo and all of this and I think they have no idea what they mean. The left is not against authoritarian. The left does not even want to really eliminate the police. They just want to be the ones to decide who are the thought-criminals and what to do with them. Also, that is not what Gish galloping. I don't know what is happening here.
by smsm42 | 2025-10-08 02:12:10+00:00
As long as you have a decent capabilities and range, and don't keep all your savings in your employer's stock (either real, or, more stupidly, imaginary "options"), stupidity of your employer will only affect you in the short term. In the longer term, you're likely find another one. It's not fun, but it's how it goes.
by smileybarry | 2025-10-08 02:12:53+00:00
No, a better analogy would be Germany. You can't count the entirety of Israel on one hand and ~10% of 1940s Germany on the other.

But that's beside the point and still doesn't match what you said, as you considered any company with an Israeli employee to be compromised, essentially.

Do you consider companies with Chinese employees just as "compromised"? We've known of Chinese state surveillance for decades.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-10-08 02:12:59+00:00
We don't know.

All of the great apes are incredibly intelligent in comparison to most other animals. The basic roots of our intelligence are probably a common feature to the whole family, but there's no consensus on why it's so advanced in humans. Any paleoanthropologist can rattle off about half a dozen possible explanations, but we honestly don't have enough evidence to really distinguish if, when, and how these were factors at different points in human evolution. Here's a quick attempt at some broad categories, which each have multiple hypotheses within them:

* Because intelligence had advantages for individual selection (e.g. mimetic recall hypothesis)

* Because intelligence had advantages for group selection

* Because intelligence had advantages for sexual selection (spandrel hypotheses often start here)

* Because adapting to rapidly varying ecological conditions required so many adaptations that we crossed some kind of barrier and "fell into" intelligence

* Because intelligence helped with foraging/hunting (exclusive of sociality)
by WillAdams | 2025-10-08 02:13:10+00:00
Steam power wasn't feasible until the Bessemer process and rolled sheet steel made the creation of pressure vessels a reliable and repeatable process.

An internal combustion engine requires that, plus ceramics and an alloy suited to high temperatures (for the spark plugs) as well as copper or aluminum for wiring.

A good book which covers this is:

https://goodreads.com/book/show/35068671-the-perfectionists
by Johnny555 | 2025-10-08 02:13:11+00:00
But also annoying when your domain is very similar to another business and you keep getting their emails because of typos.

My email address at my hosted domain is like jsmith@jsmith.com, and I have a catchall so I can get mail for *@jsmith.com

Someone eventually bought jsmith.net for his business and now I get a lot of mail meant for jacob@jsmith.net sent to my jsmith.com domain.

Fortunately he uses just the one address and now I set up an autoforwarding rule to forward his jacob@ emails to him.
by MontyCarloHall | 2025-10-08 02:13:19+00:00
Yup. Replacing a single hard-coded parameter with a command line argument is hardly an earth shattering change. It's trivial to verify that the argument properly gets passed down the stack (and that passing it has no side-effects), but figuring out that stack in the first place would have taken a much longer time. Think of it like an NP-complete problem: hard to solve, but easy to check that a solution is correct.

For more complex modifications, I would have taken the time to better internalize the code architecture myself. But for a no-brainer case like this, an LLM oneshot is perfect.
by nn3 | 2025-10-08 02:15:11+00:00
chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans evolved intelligence too. They are smarter than most other critters in the jungle. Just all not as much as the lineage that leads to humans.

It's actually quite difficult to define human intelligence. Every time we think we find something unique by humans eventually some animal turns up that can do it too. It may be all just a question of degree and how it's used.
by anthuswilliams | 2025-10-08 02:16:14+00:00
If you had developed novel techniques of sfumato and chiaroscuro, spun new theories of perspective and human anatomy, invented new pigments, and then explained all of that to a journeyman painter, with enough coaching, detail, and oversight to ensure the final product was what you envisioned, I would argue that 100% makes you Da Vinci.

Da Vinci himself likely had dozens of nameless assistants laboring in his studio on new experiments with light and color, new chemistry, etc. Da Vinci was Da Vinci because of his vision and genius, not because of his dexterity with his hands.