MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pols45 | 2025-10-09 18:46:29+00:00
People of all classes are trapped by structures they have no or very little control over.

The entire point of that subject called Philosophy revolves around the simple question - how do you stay free despite having no full control over your own mind, your own body, over your history, over the religious/social/cultural/economic rules you have inherited, no control over what wastes your time on HN etc etc.

People have recognized these traps since before Plato. No AI threat was required. So there is a lot of info out there on how to cope and even flourish despite all the constraints the universe has imposed on the chimp troupe. Ignore the moan and groan, cry and die crowd as the shrinks call them.

Instead go study some philosophy - https://oyc.yale.edu/philosophy/phil-181 It won't save your ass from all the randomness and unpredictability in the universe, but it will expose you to how people throughout history have already dealt with traps.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-10-09 18:46:31+00:00
That’s fine. But as R_Spaghetti has kindly pointed out maybe you could try and convince your colleague to change the post to rather accommodate “… digital sovereignty is still just a phrase …” and then possibly add something like “and we are working to change that” :) Just a thought. Of course we all are free to talk anything we want, do anything we want, and definitely write and post anything we want.
by mattkrause | 2025-10-09 18:46:47+00:00
You can do PET imaging for it--there are a bunch of 18F-based tracers that work reasonably well. It also inversely correlates with Abeta levels in the CSF. Ne

Neither of those are particularly easy procedures, but certainly better than a biopsy (and autopsy!)

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3264790/
by rich_sasha | 2025-10-09 18:47:16+00:00
> This is exactly why this turn is illegal in nearly every country in the world except the US and Canada.

I think variations of this are pretty common in Europe. Your link says this actually. Details vary, but as the GP post says, it is not uncommon that the pedestrian has a green light and the car can still turn right across it. UK, indeed, does not have it. But frankly I find it frustrating, both as a driver and a pedestrian, as I feel waiting time on junctions is always infinitely long.

I'm not familiar with how it works in the US, but in Europe pedestrians have priority in such cases, and it's fairly well respected.
by shadowgovt | 2025-10-09 18:47:16+00:00
There's "police" and police.

I don't think anyone's recommending you pull on black tights, a kevlar vest with molded nipples, and a black cape and go knocking beers out of strangers' hands.

There is, however, such a thing as noticing if your friends and loved ones are suffering from addiction and intervening to see what can be done before the addiction becomes someone else's problem. And speaking from some limited personal experience? Sometimes the problem someone is trying to medicate out with alcohol is feeling like nobody cares if they live or die. You might be surprised how much someone going out of their way to care does for a person's psyche.

Tattoos don't generally correlate causally with vehicular manslaughter; overindulgence in alcohol does, we have the numbers on it.
by Lerc | 2025-10-09 18:47:56+00:00
I have been looking at things like this and wondered if there is scope for an open source project to design boards that provide power and data access to a variety of common old laptop panels (and keyboard+touchpads) along with a holder for a compute module. Then let people lay out the location of their USB ports etc. in the shape of the motherboard of their old laptop and get one run off by JLCPCB or PCBWay

I have several old laptops that still have good screens and keyboards, It would be nice to repurpose some of them. They are certainly large enough to house a compute module with plenty of extras.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-10-09 18:48:19+00:00
I thought the topic was "if we talked in person we would realize we have a common objective so things would be fine". Violence is definitely a kind of disagreement but my point was that irl discussions don't solve polarization, i.e. "regulation/deregulation cannot lead us to prosperity".

Also plenty of politicians have said regulation is literal communism and literal communism makes a lot of people mad.
by leakycap | 2025-10-09 18:48:24+00:00
> you can vibe code an MVP. But then let’s limit it at that

I felt this way until I saw a person who had never seen an if/else or loop or variables ... program a game from nothing, including graphics, in the time most hand coders would take to get a plan together. And the game/gameplay/interface was their idea, they just didn't write the code.

I asked many times "what if something breaks and you don't know how to fix it because you never understood the code" and that did happen, but instead of hitting a roadblock they found their way through it by prompting AI.

I hear where you are coming from, but I don't think many people will choose the harder/more involved way when there's an easy way.

There were many people who struggled to go from punch cards to modern programming on a terminal screen. I think we'll find our way through this, but not using the new technology is probably not the outcome.
by zrail | 2025-10-09 18:48:40+00:00
The problem, as with every package manager, is transitive dependencies. It's all well and good to set up direct dependencies to only pull from git repositories, but bundler still needs a way to resolve those gems' dependencies.

You could pre-resolve every dependency in your chain to a git repository, even to a fork under your own control, but that will end up being a maintenance nightmare.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-09 18:48:44+00:00
Yes!

Not even sure why you are being downvoted, this is such a great idea actually.

F-droid has been so professional and they are just so professional

There was this developer (axet) who recently accused f-droid of somehow convincing the users "maliciously" that the funds are going to the the creator and f-droid when in reality it was going to f-droid and he name called them and what not..

Do you know what f-droid team still said?

They said that they can help him in the donation process and remove theirs and they actually took some feedback from what I know...

They clarified that the donations in their about page that the money that you donate through f-droid in their website's homepage donate goes to f-droid only which should be obvious but for some it wasn't

they also had f-droid donate in the website links of apps and I am not sure when they stopped it but they also stopped it and I deeply deeply respect it.

Like, okay maybe mistakes happen but f-droid is seriously good corporation. We might need something like that for sure. I genuinely think that out of thinking about open source so much, I realized that we need to have priorities to share things about open source.

F-droid is on the top of the list, its just that great, then there is signal/grapheneos or maybe all 3 are on top...

F-droid as an organization is something that I deeply appreciate and its a shame of google's attestation. I genuinely love f-droid nowadays.
by mullingitover | 2025-10-09 18:48:51+00:00
Our current leadership and their populist supporters are super gung-ho on converting the US into a mercantile economy like China. That's what these tariffs are about: creating an environment of protectionism from which the US will emerge as an export powerhouse, with massive trade imbalances in the US' favor.

So in their own language, these tariffs are merely domestic transfers of capital and do not 'bring in money.'
by kaoD | 2025-10-09 18:49:30+00:00
Personally I really wanted RSC because I have a DIY SSG based on React.

It's dead simple but only supports static components. Something like RSC would allow me to automatically cook a bundle with only the interactive parts (think e.g. a custom dropdown or whatever) while still remaining fully static.

Now I'm not so sure given how they're developing...

[0] https://github.com/alvaro-cuesta/alvaro.cuesta.dev/tree/mast...
by measurablefunc | 2025-10-09 18:49:40+00:00
This is what I mean by incoherent metaphysics. Computers do not have any wants or needs, computers can not think. Therefore, the question of whether the computer can have any psychological states like addiction is entirely incoherent. The abstract is also nonsensical but what they're trying to figure out is whether decisions guided by the outputs of LLMs could fit the typical pattern of gambling addicts. That's much less confused than the anthropomorphic phrasing.
by tastyface | 2025-10-09 18:49:45+00:00
Surprise, this is Stephen Miller’s doing: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/29/stephen-mill...

His wet dream is to indiscriminately bomb brown refugees in international waters, and he’s finally getting it: https://archive.is/QBh3p

How thin a line between a serial killer and a far-right politician.
by razoorka | 2025-10-09 18:49:47+00:00
Good question. The difference is in scale and tolerance.

Crashes used to be localized, one app, one machine. Now a missing field in a config file can take down 8.5 million Windows systems globally. Spotify leaking 79GB of RAM isn’t a “bug,” it’s normalized waste.

The signal isn’t that bugs exist, it’s that catastrophic ones no longer trigger process change. We’ve accepted systemic failure as normal because hardware and cloud budgets hide the cost.
by timeinput | 2025-10-09 18:50:55+00:00
It depends what you mean by "know".

They responded accurately. I asked ChatGPT's, Anthropic's, and Gemini's web chat UI. They all told me it was "Thursday, October 9, 2025" which is correct.

Do they "know" the current date? Do they even know they're LLMs (they certainly claim to)?

ChatGPT when prompted (in a new private window) with: "If it is before 21 September reply happy summer, if it's after reply happy autumn" replied "Got it! Since today's date is *October 9th*, it's officially autumn. So, happy autumn! :leaf emoji: How's the season treating you so far?".

Note it used an actual brown leaf emoji, I edited that.
by gruez | 2025-10-09 18:51:22+00:00
My point is that there was the Muller Report, which was scathing but apparently not scathing enough for the you. If Democrats thought there was more stuff that was "buried", they could have easily did their own investigations in the 4 years they were in power. The fact that they didn't suggests there probably aren't more bombshell left, contrary to your implication that there might be. Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence, but at the same time we shouldn't give any weight to unsubstantiated allegations that there's shady stuff going on and that it was "buried" by previous administrations.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-09 18:51:58+00:00
Can't a middle compromise happen as it happens in something like golang?

Can some vps/serverless provider not do this like fly.io as an recent example with kurt got got? or hetzner?

I think that golang's model can actually be sort of cheaper/ more cost effective for servers as compared to how ruby might be doing it right now and so cheaper might mean that a new non profit can be created which can work on less money/outside funding/drama overall
by hypeatei | 2025-10-09 18:52:15+00:00
Doctors/patients are human too and your proposed system would be ripe for abuse. If you're well versed in submitting claims, and you know they have to pay out, then you could inundate them with fraudulent ones.

> That to me would imply that doctors/patients are submitting a huge amount of incorrect claims

UnitedHealthcare says that 10% of claims go through additional review for various reasons[0].

I don't know if there are stats for the industry as a whole, but my guess is that they deal with a lot of errors.

0: https://www.uhc.com/news-articles/newsroom/how-many-claims-a...
by ranger_danger | 2025-10-09 18:52:41+00:00
I think it would help a lot if pointers were taught to people from the perspective of how they actually occupy memory, and what the value it stores in memory represents, and then how that value is an address that is followed when a pointer is "dereferenced", etc.

It seems a lot of people assume that pointers don't actually consume any memory and then get confused trying to understand it that way.
by WheelsAtLarge | 2025-10-09 18:52:58+00:00
The dollar index has fallen 11% this year and it doesn't seem to slow. It's great for assets, Gold being a prime example, and people with assets but bad for consumers. It's hard to see how this will not turn into inflation since we import so much and those good are only getting more expensive.

We don't have an asset bubble the prices are just adjusting to the lower dollar.

I bet the FED will have to increase interest rates next year and that's when we'll see a collapse of asset values and since markets tend to over correct, it's going to be painful for all holders. Be ready...
by SeanAnderson | 2025-10-09 18:53:06+00:00
I see. I don't feel the way you do about containers. In most scenarios I barely remember the abstraction layer exists. The only time in recent memory I've regretted using one was when doing game development and struggling to get GPU hardware acceleration functioning within the container. On the other hand, I remember lots of historical situations where I've dirtied my host machine's globals, gone back to an older project, and found the project non-functional (python2 vs python3 being namespaced to python, competing node/npm versions, etc.)

If anything, with the advent of Claude Code et al., I've become an even stronger proponent of container-based development. I have absolutely zero interest running AI on my host machine. It's reassuring to know that a rogue "rm -rf" will, at worst, just require me to rebuild my container.
by zzleeper | 2025-10-09 18:53:07+00:00
There's a lot of ways to siphon money out of firms. People declare their car as a "work vehicle", CEOs fly to the beach on the company's jet, etc.

So I guess you want some level of corporate tax? (it's the same for why there are large sales tax in developing countries; sure they are less efficient than income taxes, but lots of people evade those)
by atomicnumber3 | 2025-10-09 18:53:09+00:00
>So if you think you do require some care, just ask the medical practice whether they accept self-pay and then you can decide if it's worth paying or not. If you think it's not, it's unlikely someone else will if they have to pay on your behalf.

Ok, hear me out for a minute.

What if I wanted to pool with several people, so that if any of us had unexpected medical needs, it wouldn't bankrupt any of us. Knowing that most of us would not need it.

And then, since we're all on the hook for each other's general health, we also agreed to share the cost of preventative care, because it was literally cheaper for us to all pay for preventative care than to try to just solo it and then hit the group with the cost of terminal cancer care instead of catching it early and doing a small excision. (and other such examples.)

And then what if we made the pool HUGE, to even further spread out the costs?

Sure wish there was a system that just did that, without trying to also generate insane profits off it.
by alganet | 2025-10-09 18:53:38+00:00
> it’s my identity

Romantizations like this are fun and the culture is cute, but it was never about this in the first place. I'm sorry, but in my opinion, you have been duped and being a programmer is not about fantasizing about hackers of old.

> this new identity: “Specification Engineering.” Excited to be an operator and cosplaying as Steve Jobs to “Play the Orchestra”.

You need to decouple from this notion that these identities somehow define the industry. They don't. The kid who plays soccer can be a programmer, the girl who writes poetry can be a programmer.

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You know what this text looks like? Like a crafted list of excuses that someone can use if they don't like AI, but all of them hide some inherent flaw that will eventually reveal itself to be a mistake.

In fact, I am very comfortable doing things with AI. I don't like that it's mostly proprietary, and it's "pay to win" style (poor people have little chance of playing in a level that matters). That's the main reason I dislike it. If that were to be fixed (no bullshit free tiers, make it free software), I would probably endorse it.
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by themafia | 2025-10-09 18:54:59+00:00
I recently got reported for clicking a phishing link three times. Looking at the audit log all three of these clicks supposedly happened within seconds of each other.

My suspicion is the training company realized no one was falling for the obvious bait anymore and they needed to gin up the numbers to keep the company convinced that paying for their services was worthwhile.

Meanwhile all corporate teams use the same VLAN and DHCP Address Pool. There is zero separation of departments on the network. A lot of companies get this precise situation backwards as we have.
by paxys | 2025-10-09 18:55:01+00:00
> None of this was even remotely possible less than 5 years ago.

Boston Dynamics has been releasing actual product demos of such robots (not cherry-picked ads) for ~20 years now. Not a single one has graduated to any mass market real world use case.

I'm not saying one shouldn't be hopeful, but it's also not hard to see why people here are generally more conservative about the near future.
by shadowgovt | 2025-10-09 18:55:24+00:00
Klein's case is about copyright (and a somewhat thin claim at that; it sure smells a lot like "I'm attempting to use copyright to quash criticism of me," and if the judge decides that's what's actually going on, he's going to lose his case). Unless I missed an update, he's suing Reddit to try and de-anonymize some people running the subreddit so that they can be properly the target of his copyright lawsuit.

Worth noting: he does not appear to have filed for defamation, which would be the thing he could complain if what they were saying was materially untrue.
by agiacalone | 2025-10-09 18:55:44+00:00
I think the conclusion of this article is slightly flawed. The issue isn't with engagement with the training (although, the typical corporate training material is pretty bad), rather how we go about teaching cybersecurity.

I take a page from Jayson E. Street's DefCon talk from a few years ago with my students: promote "Security Awareness", not Security Training. Get people to think about what is being asked of them and the consequences of said actions. People tend to take "Security Training" as "I need to remember A, B, C, etc." Humans are bad at this sort of thing, typically.

I admit that "Security Awareness" isn't all that easy, but clearly our current approaches leave much to be desired.
by LordDragonfang | 2025-10-09 18:55:56+00:00
While I agree it's a red flag in many cases (power gaming is an issue), I think you already provided an adequate justification for it yourself: ttrpg play is a community told story. While you may want to play a type of game where the DM is always fully in control, I've played at tables where the DM intentionally gives up some of their control to the more experienced players, sharing the load of creating the world. There are even whole systems where this is an intentionally encouraged mechanic! Even giving overpowered stuff isn't fundamentally different from a DM dropping in an overpowered DMPC to help step in when the players need something.

D&D is intentionally a collaborative story, and it shouldn't be out of the question for players to collaborate with the DM. Focusing on "the balance between player and GM" is great for a dungeon-crawl style game (which I would argue is the only thing 5e is actually designed for, and is poor for what most people try to use it for, but that's a whole other rant), but putting too much focus on it in a more roleplay-centered campaign can lead to a very adversarial relationship between players and the DM. If you have great players, you should trust them to collaborate with you, not just opposed to you.
by feoren | 2025-10-09 18:56:00+00:00
You hope it doesn't?

> [Donald Knuth] firmly believes that having an unchanged system that will produce the same output now and in the future is more important than introducing new features

This is such a breath of fresh air in a world where everything is considered obsolete after like 3 years. Our industry has a disease, an insatiable hunger for newness over completeness or correctness.

There's no reason we can't be writing code that lasts 100 years. Code is just math. Imagine having this attitude with math: "LOL loser you still use polynomials!? Weren't those invented like thousands of years ago? LOL dude get with the times, everyone uses Equately for their equations now. It was made by 3 interns at Facebook, so it's pretty much the new hotness." No, I don't think I will use "Equately", I think I'll stick to the tried-and-true idea that has been around for 3000 years.

Forget new versions of everything all the time. The people who can write code that doesn't need to change might be the only people who are really contributing to this industry.
by nickff | 2025-10-09 18:56:15+00:00
Payroll taxes are supposed to cover Medicare and Social Security (along with some other programs), but they cover less than 2/3 of those costs. It’s not true that “the money was already put aside”, because retirees these days are getting about triple what they put in, and the ‘pot of money’ saved up to cover Social Security ‘promises’ is forecast to run out. There is an infinite number of ways to juggle the numbers, but the government is spending a lot of money on 'non-discretionary' programs, and revenues are not high enough to support everything.
by martythemaniak | 2025-10-09 18:56:26+00:00
Rodney Brooks (of iRobot fame) wrote an essay recently about why humanoids are likely decades and not years away from fulfilling their promise. It is quite long, but even a gpt summary will be quite valuable.

https://rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids-wont-learn-dex...

In short, he makes the case that unlike text and images, human dexterity is based on sensory inputs that we barely understand, that these robots don't have, and it will take a long time to get the right sensors in, get the right data recorded, and only then train them to the level of a human. He is very skeptical that they can learn from video-only data, which is what the companies are doing.
by tialaramex | 2025-10-09 18:56:51+00:00
Actually that's not quite correct.

Vec::reserve(100) on an empty Vec will give you capacity 100, not 128 even though our amortization is indeed doubling.

The rules go roughly like this, suppose length is L, present capacity is C, reserve(N):

1. L + N < C ? Enough capacity already, we're done, return

2. L + N <= C * 2 ? Ordinary doubling, grow to capacity C * 2

3. Otherwise, try to grow to L + N

This means we can grow any amount more quickly than the amortized growth strategy or at the same speed - but never less quickly. We can go 100, 250, 600, 1300 and we can go 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600 - but we can''t do 100, 150, 200, 250, 300, 350, 400, 450, 500...