MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mustaphah | 2025-10-01 20:08:39+00:00
Proton Mail is good (just not as good), but you can't integrate external SMTP for outbound emails; you have to pay to send from @yourdomain.com.

With Gmail, you can configure an external SMTP server using "Send mail as" setting. Super convenient. Tons of mail services offer a generous free tier for personal use (e.g., Mailgun 100 emails/day).

It's not really worth paying just to send a few personal emails from @yourdomain.com each month.
by pqtyw | 2025-10-01 20:08:40+00:00
They spent a significant proportion of the 600 years between ~100BC and 500 AD fighting pointless and often very brutal civil wars.

~3/4ths or all Roman emperors died by various violent means. The Romans spent unsustainable amounts of money (resulting in veryhigh levels of taxation) to fund a massive army often the main purpose of which was fighting other Romans. Until it was too late... by the end not that many actual Romans were even willing to fight and die to save the empire.

Sure it's spectacular that they not only managed to survive but often even thrive despite that, still. Not sure if its the best example to follow.
by naasking | 2025-10-01 20:09:24+00:00
> Personal computing almost died multiple times. Xerox PARC had it all in 1973 but management killed it. IBM thought the market was ~5 computers total. The Homebrew Computer Club was nearly shut down for copyright infringement. Any of these inflection points going differently changes history.

Yes, history would be different, but that doesn't mean ICs and PCs weren't inevitable. As technology improves the capital required to innovate drops. At some point hobbyists can start making ICs at home. I think something like this happened with 3D printing.

> The counterfactual test: if these were truly inevitable, we'd see simultaneous independent invention everywhere. Instead we see: singular inventors, path dependence, and technologies that almost weren't (or actually weren't: where's our supersonic passenger travel?).

I disagree. Inevitability means that something will manifest at some point on a long enough timeline, not that it will necessarily manifest nearly concurrently on that timeline. Concurrent invention happens a lot and is a strong argument for inevitability, but isn't strictly necessary for inevitability.

For example, death is inevitable, even if we solve aging; we know you won't involuntarily die of old age in such a world, but you will die of something else, even if it's the heat death of the universe.
by serf | 2025-10-01 20:09:24+00:00
you also don't fall asleep at your desk as a response to a birthday party in the office early in the morning after a good nights' sleep, but if you play a one-sided game in this that's what happens.

it's not a reality simulator, incredibly few video games are.

the whole thing seems like a conflicted struggle between "I want to make a game" and "I need to get my points across", often to the detriment of the game-part.

It's an interesting concept though.
by edunteman | 2025-10-01 20:09:29+00:00
Thanks! For langchain you can repoint your base_url in the client. Autogpt I'm not as familiar with. Closed loop robotics using LLMs may be a stretch for now, especially since vision is a heavy component, but theoretically the patterns baked into small language models running on-device or hosted LLMs at higher level planning loops, could be emulated by a butter cache if observed in high enough volume.
by CarbonJ | 2025-10-01 20:10:09+00:00
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by kcplate | 2025-10-01 20:10:30+00:00
It takes 60 senate votes to pass the resolution. There are not 60 GOP senate votes. Regarding the resolution, the senate minority can control passage or not if they have at least 40 votes.

So everything you said above besides “funding is continued at current levels” has nothing to do with why the government was shut down today. It was shut down today because there were not 10 senate democrats that were willing to vote to continue the existing funding even though they chose to continue the funding earlier in the year.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-10-01 20:10:47+00:00
If solar or wind are cheaper than the fuel for gas plants you can save money by deploying them.

Here a blog with an interactive website to explore that:

https://electrotechrevolution.substack.com/p/renewables-allo...

> This means renewables are economically worthwhile based solely on the fuel savings they provide. Even if they would never fully replace fossil power plants, but only reduce how much fuel those plants consume, they would be worth it. Simply reducing fossil fuel use during sunny or windy periods—or when batteries charged from these periods are available—saves more money than the entire investment in renewables. That's how remarkably cheap solar, wind, and batteries have become—and precisely why they're winning around the world today.
by ygjb | 2025-10-01 20:11:00+00:00
Yes, natural sounds do trigger it (for me). The difference is that if it is a natural sound, it becomes a problem to be solved - intermittent dripping from taps, the noise of the wheel in my daughters hamster enclosure, or something tapping a window are specific cases I can cite. Those incidents resulted in a) me learning how to replace a leaking faucet assembly (the taps and faucet were one unit) , b) upgrading to a better, quieter hamster wheel, and c) trimming a tree.

When people are the cause it becomes more challenging. People feel attacked when you tell them they are chewing loudly, or they think you are weird when you complain about the sound of the specific pen they are using makes when they are writing on the paper bothers you. Couple misophonia reactions with ADHD justice sensitivity and the emotional reaction can overload my rational comprehension that it is quite normal to make, tolerate, and ignore those sounds to make the stupid fucking meat between my ears feel like I am being targeted by whoever is making the noise. 95% of time I can manage it, but when it gets overwhelming my reactions can be suboptimal (like, wildly inappropriate when I was a kid, but as an adult pulling an Irish goodbye and just leaving, which can be a career limiting move when you are in the workplace).
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-01 20:11:07+00:00
It's also interesting to note that the thought experiment is actually plain wrong, unless you consider general relativity a given.

Galileo's argument is that the theory where heavier objects fall faster is inconsistent a priori, because affixing a small stone to a larger stone would cause the composed object to fall faster than the smaller stone was falling when it was free. However, there is no logical contradiction here: what could happen is that the combined object would have an acceleration that is the (weighted) average of the acceleration of the components - slower than the lighter object but faster then the heavier object.

In fact, this is exactly what happens in an electric field: if you have two objects with the same mass but different negative charge moving towards a large positive charge, they will accelerate at different rates (the one with the bigger negative charge will "fall" faster). If you then tie the two objects together, you'll get a combined object that has more mass and more charge; the total electric force will increase, but its larger total mass will mean that it accelerates less. Alternatively, you can explain it as the less charged object dragging the heavier object down, such that the combined object moves at an average of their speeds.

The fact that this doesn't happen with gravity is a very special property of gravity, that only experiments can prove. A priori, gravitational mass/charge could have been entirely unrelated to intertial mass, just like electrical charge. Only much later, with Einstein's general relativity, did we get an explanation of gravity that makes this more than a coincidence - and it turns out that gravity is not a force at all, at least not one that acts on objects.
by Gormo | 2025-10-01 20:11:39+00:00
The problem with your last paragraph, of course, is that there is no "system", no generalizable concept of "societal good", no such thing as "true value" independent of the subjective evaluations of an object by disparate parties, and no "capitalist class" that actually exists as such.

Everything is down to particular patterns of interaction among particular people, all acting on their own a priori motivations, with none of the reified abstractions you're referencing actually existing as causal agents.

I applaud your efforts with the co-op you're describing, and if you're able to make it work, scale up, and sustain itself in the long run, more power to you. But it's a bit strange to imply that in the more common scenario, it's somehow untoward for the people paying the upfront costs of your endeavors -- and indemnifying your risk exposure -- to expect a share of the proceeds in return.
by top256 | 2025-10-01 20:11:46+00:00
Thanks for your thoughtful response. I think there's a misunderstanding (maybe my text wasn't clear. If so please point out where so I can fix it).

We actually agree: even if the probability of successful coordination is only 10%, accepting inevitability makes it 0%. That difference matters enormously given the stakes. My argument isn't "coordination is definitely possible" but rather "believing it's impossible guarantees failure." When tech leaders say "AGI is inevitable," they're not describing reality; they're shaping it by discouraging attempts to coordinate. Human cloning hasn't happened because we maintain active resistance despite technical feasibility.

You're asking for credible paths with P > 0. I'm saying: knowing P with certainty is impossible, so accepting P = 1 narratives makes alternative paths invisible. The path emerges through trial and error, not before it.
by 8iterations | 2025-10-01 20:11:50+00:00
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by alphazard | 2025-10-01 20:11:57+00:00
> I think you are missing the game theory aspect of it.

That's actually exactly how I think about this, let me explain my analysis.

I view it as the composition of two games. "Should we pursue the spoils?" is the first game, and the correct strategy is to play that game and coordinate with people to play it.

The zero sum game is dividing the spoils, this is conditioned on having won the first game. As long as everyone is guaranteed enough of the spoils ahead of time for the game to be positive EV, they will play it, and continue playing games like it.

When you apply this to a company, this is just an issue of mechanism design (inverse game theory). Why weren't you architecting the game that the employees play, such that there is relatively little to be gained from the zero sum game, and most of the value comes from the magnitude of contribution to the positive sum game?

Ideally people play a positive sum game with their coworkers that is tied to revenue and their contributions to it, to the tune of 10s or 100s of thousands of dollars a year, while the zero sum game is only worth 1000s of dollars a year.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-01 20:12:21+00:00
>If I'm reading you correctly you're saying "regular military drills" ≠ "preparing for war".

In the same way that going to your everyday job ≠ "preparing for retirement", no. That's only correct in the most semantic sense. It otherwise has a very strong connotation about near term plans.

>This is one of those stupid leftist arguments that only works when the leftist proponent has changed several of the key underlying definitions.

Well, I appreciate it when someone makes it clear they don't want to engage in a conversation.
by georgemcbay | 2025-10-01 20:12:27+00:00
> But isn't the lost of jobs also attributable to previous administration policies?

According to Trump, when Biden was in office it was Biden's failing economy that was the problem (despite the fact that Biden took office directly after Trump v1.0).

Also according to Trump, when Trump is in office now it is also Biden's failing economy that is the problem.

Its the same situation with the roles reversed because of Trump's gap of being in office so either the economy is a lagging problem from the last administration or it isn't, but somehow neither situation is "Trump's fault", according to Trump.

The "Biden economy" wasn't as rosy as proclaimed by the Biden government, in large part because run-away wealth inequality is making all of the statistics we historically track very misleading (eg. consumer spending looking good, as long as you ignore the huge red flag that 50% of that spending is being done by the top 10% of wealth holders).

So I'm not fully defending Biden here (both parties are ultimately allowing the economy to unravel because they refuse to deal with wealth inequality, though I do give Biden some credit for [temporarily] getting some things on the right track by, for example, putting Lina Khan in charge of the FTC) but economically things were still fundamentally much better under Biden than Trump, and we haven't even seen the depths of how bad Trump's economy is going to get (but have plenty of leading indicators of things getting much worse) and virtually all of the problems with Trump's economy can be traced pretty clearly to his own actions, such as his wildly irresponsible tariff policies.

Like even if you believe tariffs work the way he thinks they do (they don't) anyone with any understanding of business at all would have to understand that changing the values wildly sometimes from day to day makes doing business impossible for a lot of companies due to a complete inability to plan. Its crazy shit.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-10-01 20:12:33+00:00
Different situation. France has only itself to blame for the current situation and has plenty of things it can still do to avoid a crisis. Plus the debt holders are very diversified.

The Greek crisis is very different because the debt was mostly held by German banks - the German did to do something of all these excess savings and the Greek economy suffered a lot from the euro. Reforms were needed but the way the whole thing was handled is a disgrace.
by rockercoaster | 2025-10-01 20:12:47+00:00
Notably, this administration illegally fired (ignored a notice-to-congress period, and IIRC also didn't state a cause, both of which are required by the law) all the Inspectors General as one of their first acts.

These were positions set up after the Watergate scandal to make it harder for the executive to engage in blatant criminality for long periods without anyone noticing. One ought to read that as a statement of intent to commit lots of obvious crimes.
by Lu2025 | 2025-10-01 20:13:10+00:00
Right? Spreadsheets have such a low barrier of entry. I use Google Sheets in a middle of a farm field to enter plant growing records on my cell phone. I don't even have good reception at times so the sheets are in offline mode; they'll synch when I get back to the house. Crappy, crummy records are oftentimes better than no records. Farming is data-heavy and data-starved at the same. A learning cycle is a year, and one year is not like the other one.
by untolabs | 2025-10-01 20:13:32+00:00
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by senderista | 2025-10-01 20:13:36+00:00
Possible compromise between space and time efficiency: use bytes instead of bits to mark reserved/committed slots. This wastes 7/8 of space but you can now use ordinary byte-width loads/stores instead of CAS (these are guaranteed to be atomic on both x86 and ARM). You still have false sharing of course, but it's diluted somewhat and you avoid atomic RMW overhead. The other problem of course is that you now have 8x more memory to scan for free slots, so not sure whether it's a good tradeoff; only benchmarking will tell.
by Koffiepoeder | 2025-10-01 20:13:42+00:00
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by dbenamy | 2025-10-01 20:14:48+00:00
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by akho | 2025-10-01 20:14:51+00:00
There’s also https://gitlab.com/simple-nixos-mailserver/nixos-mailserver , if you prefer to write not quite as much Nix yourself.

MS365 (outlook, hotmail) bounced my emails for a while. Not “classified as spam”, but outright rejected, so you can’t even ask the person to un-spam you, add to contact list, &c.

Luckily, very few people I know use those, and Gmail worked fine. MS365 also works now; I’m not sure what changed.
by cheema33 | 2025-10-01 20:15:02+00:00
> If an admin / potential applicant is reading, these guys have been "hiring" since last summer.

Conspiracies about fake hiring are getting really tiring. I don't know about Beacon AI, but we too have been hiring since last summer. Heck even longer than that. We are a small company and our headcount has not changed much in the past year. We hire some people and some people left.

FAANG are still hiring while their headcount overall has actually gone down in the recent past.
by jgeada | 2025-10-01 20:15:02+00:00
Most people in the western world are more frequently harmed by words than by physical violence. Way more frequently.

You're fired is just words, your health insurance is denied is just words, we don't accept your type here is words, you're being sued by someone with effectively infinite means is just words. But those words that will drastically change the course of your life.

While I abhor physical violence, I do also realize some words are also a type of violence in and of themselves.
by FailMore | 2025-10-01 20:15:05+00:00
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by eanjum | 2025-10-01 20:15:14+00:00
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