MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mindslight | 2025-10-08 15:56:07+00:00
I used to read Yarvin back when he was writing as Moldbug. I credit him for starting my transition from a rightist-sympathizing "Libertarian" to a plain libertarian who sees so-called "right-libertarianism" as specious/fallacious ("A Brief Introduction to Unqualified Reservations" really throws down the gauntlet, and sometimes when one does that the result doesn't go one's desired way).

The real ("red pill", lol) dynamic is that rightist and leftist are essentially modes of thinking. Rightism favors deductive thinking - simple rules to follow including a social status hierarchy, a fundamentalist axiomatic conception of rights, etc. Leftism favors inductive thinking - analysis of the qualitative outcomes of given rules, avoiding formalism because every abstraction necessarily leaves something out, etc.

BOTH are required to actually fully analyze situations, otherwise you're only using half your brain!! Political propaganda emphasizes one mode of thinking while making you tune out the other (helped along because what it implies is uncomfortable, especially as you become less used to thinking that way).

But neither one makes for a full social theory on its own. Try to implement an all-encompassing "leftist" society (eg communism), and formal hierarchical rightist structures necessarily remain at the top asserting central control - the revolutionaries certainly aren't going to pack up and go back to their previous lives. Likewise, try and implement an all-compassing "rightist" society and informal bottom-up movements necessarily crop up seeking autonomy from the overbearing top-down control [1].

As such, the neoreactionary movement might have had worthwhile constructive results if they had succeeded at getting one of these so-called philosopher kings into a position of political leadership. There are a lot of things that are broken about our society, with political incentives keeping them stuck in local minima (in the computational NP-hard sense) [0].

However instead, when the neoreactionaries got a taste of political power they did exactly what every other political movement does - compromise their values to serve power. Putting on my Moldbug-thinking hat and reading Yarvin's "The Butterfly Revolution" was downright shocking. The only way you get from reactionary populism red in tooth and claw to enlightened hierarchical rule is through societal collapse, regardless of how you dress it up in flowery prose.

[0] This is a failure mode of a leftism. The corresponding failure mode of rightism is terrible destructive orders being dictated from an incompetent dictator...

[1] I think to the extent that the neofascists are aware of this, they think they are going to be able to keep it contained with digital authoritarianism, surveillance, and "AI". It fits their pattern of reading books but not understanding their lessons (specifically here sci-fi tech dystopias).
by Aurornis | 2025-10-08 15:56:11+00:00
> Isn't that a contradictory position? Locking in raises the cost of disloyalty, loyal customers (by definition) don't need to be locked in.

In this case, the customers were loyal to Synology for the NAS but not the hard drives.

By locking them in further, they thought they could capture their customers' hard drive purchasing, too. They thought the brand loyalty would allow it.
by seanhunter | 2025-10-08 15:56:34+00:00
Not sure the relevance of the headline.

What I do know is that by revenue, the video games industry more than twice the size of the film and music industries combined. It also is growing faster (>9% yoy). Mobile gaming alone is about the same size as the whole film industry.

Here is the source data (sorry I know it's not public) https://www.statista.com/outlook/amo/media/games/worldwide?c...
by nradov | 2025-10-08 15:56:51+00:00
The obvious counter example is WWII. The victorious Allied forces conducted widespread strategic bombing campaigns and starvation blockades against Axis civilian targets. This was highly effective and saved the lives of many Allied personnel but judged against some modern criteria could have been considered "war crimes": for example, see the fire bombing of Dresden. None of the Allied leaders were put in front of a tribunal because the strategy worked and Congress was fully on board. The uncomfortable reality is that sometimes the only practical way to win and preserve your own forces is to massacre enemy civilians on an industrial scale.
by sodapopcan | 2025-10-08 15:57:36+00:00
I actually got an email like from an old co-worker after I was fired. It was done much in the vein of the advice in this post. It was short, friendly, and made no pretence about staying in touch. I gave a short, friendly response and that was that. I gotta say I actually really did appreciate it, and still do. Of course, I wasn’t exactly upset about being fired so I don’t know if this counts.
by piltdownman | 2025-10-08 15:57:51+00:00
Amazing effort, but just makes me pine for the write-ups of Byuu (or the Dolphin devlog in more recent times).

I would highly recommend Shonumi's contemporary devlog focusing mainly on rare or difficult to emulate peripherals for the gameboy and GBA, ranging from infrared modems to Sonar-based fish detection dongles!

https://shonumi.github.io/articles.html
by gosub100 | 2025-10-08 15:58:40+00:00
This kept me from buying one too. One of the models I considered would make me choose between an M.2 cache OR a 10gbe nic. I didn't know they are plastic now either. It's a shame, I really want to like them. I also heard it some "bootleg" OS you could install over DSM but not sure what it's called. Synology were trying to silence it iirc
by wltr | 2025-10-08 15:59:09+00:00
With PhotoGIMP, Gimp is pretty usable, and I’d dare to say it can handle like 90% tasks (if not 100%) an average Joe has. If not for this beer weird interface, that would be a pretty usable piece of software. There are aspects that are much better than Photoshop.

For basic usage (crop, edit screenshots) I go for Pinta and can recommend. It’s fast, and usable too. No need to throw even more money into Adobe.
by embeng4096 | 2025-10-08 15:59:12+00:00
I also feel similarly about owing people things. I think it does tend to bind people together to have a history of giving to each other and receiving but like you mention, it can be anxiety-inducing as well.

Thanks for the advice, I know there's not really a "perfect" solution, I was just curious about how you've approached it in your own life so I appreciate you sharing.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-08 15:59:35+00:00
No, it's a functional one.

The unix approach works because the tools themselves almost never change and the platform doesn't change either.

Web tooling changes, and the web platform changes. The more tools you use, the greater your risk. If something changes and you coupled 100 things together, you have to do a lot of changes. If you control it and delegate stuff to standard browser functionality, you have to do less changes.

There's also the issue of tools going out of date and being deprecated. Again, that's risk.
by spoonyvoid7 | 2025-10-08 16:00:01+00:00
You know it's an AI generated readme when the "advanced language models" it mentions are GPT-3.5-Turbo and GPT-4

And the success stories are just something else. "It pays for itself" - Engineering Manager.

Sure, Engineering Manager, sure.

We're about to see a steep rise in AI code slop on GitHub as everyone tries to pad their resumes with "open source contributions".
by mikepurvis | 2025-10-08 16:00:11+00:00
I don't even think unsafe is necessary for (1), just a custom allocator, as I suggested in a sibling comment.

For 2, I believe the pattern would be to make a generic version of the data structure as its own crate, with all the required unsafe stuff in there, properly tested and hidden behind a safe interface. Obviously that does require the data structure to be well defined and for you to know upfront what all the internal references and transformations are going to need to be (but honestly... it's probably good for that to be the case regardless).
by bdcravens | 2025-10-08 16:00:33+00:00
"us versus them", "blue vs red", "liberals vs conservatives"

Texas is the favorite punching bag of the left, and California is the favorite punching bag for the right. When one side is attacked, they defensively jump to the default. Which is kind of ironic, when you consider there's more Democrats in Texas than in many "blue" states, and the inverse is also true for California.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-10-08 16:00:34+00:00
I was born and raised in small town south GA where I also went to college. Most of my class couldn’t wait to move after graduating from high school or college. It’s the same with people who I know from Mississippi and Alabama.

I can’t say I know anyone who left a small town in the south who pine to go back even if there were jobs.
by chrisfosterelli | 2025-10-08 16:00:53+00:00
Some of them do, if you look at the link I shared it shows an example of one of the indicators in use in my area. But you can usually tell anyway. You don't think about it as much in a vehicle but on my bike you get used to how each intersection triggers. Sometimes I have to edge forward into the intersection to let a car come up behind me and cover the loop, sometimes I have to come out of the bike lane into the vehicle lane, some intersections have ones that are set sensitive enough to pick up a bike with alloy wheels but not carbon wheels, some of them require cyclists to press a button, some have cameras, etc.

For e.g. there was one intersection way out of town that would always have a decent amount of main-way traffic but barely any cross traffic and had no pedestrian crossing. I would always get stuck there hoping a car comes up behind me, or trying to play chicken across the main-way moving at highway speeds. I assume someone complained as it's a popular cyclist route, because they put in a camera and now that intersection detects me reliably, no issues there since then.
by westurner | 2025-10-08 16:00:55+00:00
Is this the/a agent model routing problem? Which agent or subagent has context precedence?

jj autocommits when the working copy changes, and you can manually stage against @-: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44644820

OpenCog differentiates between Experiential and Episodic memory; and various processes rewrite a hypergraph stored in RAM in AtomSpace. I don't remember how the STM/LTM limit is handled in OpenCog.

So the MRU/MFU knapsack problem and more predictable primacy/recency bias because context length limits and context compaction?
by EvanAnderson | 2025-10-08 16:01:42+00:00
> The core services people use them for rarely change, and adoption outside of those important services is slow.

That's the opposite of what would be good for general security, though. I want people using these devices for as many services as possible. Heck, I even enjoy the FIDO workflow when I've used it in corporate settings (where I have a recovery method that doesn't involve begging a FAANG company to please, please, please give me back access to my stuff). I would love to use it for personal stuff instead of mucking with a password vault, TOTP, etc.

I guess the argument could be made for using these devices only w/ your "digital feudal lord" of choice (Google, Microsoft, Facebook, etc) with the expectation that all other services you use would federate authentication with those various fiefdoms. I don't see that happening with banks, for example. (Banks would be a great example of a place where I'd want to see token-based authentication adopted. I am so goddamned tired of SMS "authentication" being used w/ to arbitrate access to my money.)

I also find the idea of companies federating their authentication with the big digital feudal lords, to the exclusion of local authentication, repugnant.

My problem w/ tokens as they are now comes down to the "you must have both tokens in the same place to enroll new accounts" workflow being bogus. It creates make-work for people. Any technological "solution" that creates make-work for people is wrong, full stop. For me this workflow would discourage using the token in favor of technologies I can back-up (like passwords and TOTP seeds). For "normies" people are just going to lose their tokens and be in account recovery hell.

Here's my pitch for how I think it could work:

Token vendor sells a very simple embedded device to "brand" tokens. The device has no communication capability beyond a display and a USB port to connect tokens. This "branding iron" is enrolled w/ a vendor-signed certificate at the factory. The tokens are probably already enrolled w/ a vendor-signed certificate at the factory. This establishes a root of trust for the tokens and the "branding iron". I don't have to trust the vendor for anything more than a hardware root of trust.

The end user would use the "branding iron" to create a master key and enroll it onto their tokens. The ergonomics are very important but, functionally, it's just spinning a suitably large random key, showing it to the user so they can make an offline copy, and loading that key onto tokens. There are a ton of ergonomic decisions to A/B test (does it have a PIN pad, does it use a Bitcoin wallet-style key phrase presentation method, etc), but the functional purpose is simple.

The user would plug their tokens into the "branding iron", which would wipe them clean and, using the root-of-trust shared between the devices, load the master key into all the tokens.

This makes encrypted backups portable between tokens. The backups could be stored anywhere. (I like the idea, since a lot of tokens are HID keyboards, of just having the token "type" the backup into an email or a text file.)
by nradov | 2025-10-08 16:01:49+00:00
China might be able to blockade Taiwan for a while but China's own SLOC are far more vulnerable. They are dependent on critical food, energy, and mineral imports — most of which pass through a few choke points where they are still unable to project sustained naval power. The US and its allies could cut those off at any time and China lacks the internal reserves to survive a long blockade.
by ahmeneeroe-v2 | 2025-10-08 16:02:46+00:00
This thread is highlighting that climate change initiatives are about harming the West in favor of everyone else.

China is by far the biggest carbon emitter. People try to obscure that through "per capita" and "historical cumulative" figures and "percentage improvement".

The way people contort themselves to protect China, the mega-emitter is laughable. They improved 2.7%!! So they went from 31% to 30.92% of total manmade CO2?

You're not serious about the climate, you just want to punish the US/West.
by crazygringo | 2025-10-08 16:02:47+00:00
I don't understand. Recovered how? As far as I know, like many electronics companies, they don't do repairs period. If an enclosure fails under warranty, they replace it. They don't repair it.

So if your NAS motherboard died out of warranty and they no longer sold that model, it's not surprising they recommended you buy the current version of that model.

So I don't know what you were expecting? Hardware dies. What did you want them to do?
by immibis | 2025-10-08 16:03:00+00:00
Surprisingly, no - moving a stock from one exchange to another is a lot harder than selling on one and buying on another (and slower, and more costly for small quantities), so stocks are surprisingly immobile. Only if you really had to, would you move them. And most stocks have one particular home exchange and there's no reason to trade them anywhere else than the one place that has the highest volume and lowest spreads for that stock.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-10-08 16:03:19+00:00
The alternative is staying where you know there aren’t any jobs. I didn’t move from small town south GA because I knew I wanted to stay at my job as computer operator making $11/hour in 1996 in Atlanta. I moved because I knew there were better opportunities to get another job when I wanted.

I have never in 30 years had the mindset that I need my current job to get ahead. I needed a job. I’m now on my tenth. 7 of them were in Atlanta until 2020 and the last three were remote and we moved from Atlanta to state tax free Florida after COVID.
by username223 | 2025-10-08 16:03:27+00:00
It bugs me too when actual humans adopt soulless management-speak about "content" traveling from "producer" to "consumer." (The words don't even make sense: when you consume food, it's gone; when you observe text, an image, or video, it's still there.) I use RSS to keep up with other people who "emit content" at irregular intervals.
by input_sh | 2025-10-08 16:03:27+00:00
Come on, let's not pretend 100k tokens is something I need to spend hours to reach for your helpful advice to be even remotely valid, it's something even the most basic problems struggle to fit into.

For the fun of it I just started a new conversation with Sonnet 4, passed it one 550 lines long file (25 kilobytes) and my AGENTS.md (<200 lines, 8 kilobytes) and my only instructions were to "do nothing". It spat out exactly 100 words describing my file without modifying anything and that's already almost a fifth of my context window gone (18k tokens to be exact).

I then asked it to re-write a part of it to "make it look better" (184 lines added, 112 lines deleted according to git) and I'm already at 33k before I got to review a single line. Heaven forbid I need to build on top of that change in a different file, because by then my AGENTS.md might as well not exist!
by simonw | 2025-10-08 16:03:41+00:00
If you're in the Apple ecosystem (Mac, iPhone) NetNewsWire is an absolute delight. It's not a commercial product any more, Brent Simmons runs it as a (very serious) passion project. Here's a recent post by him explaining part of his philosophy for it: https://inessential.com/2025/10/04/why-netnewswire-is-not-we...

Crucially, it syncs feed read state between my laptop and phone.
by psychoslave | 2025-10-08 16:03:49+00:00
Yes.

Also in practice we work with number representations, not number themselves. So there are some patterns where the representation is influenced by which base we encode them into. That's not something specific to primes of course.

For example, length in term of digits or equivalently weight in bits will carry depending on the base, or more generally which encoding system is retained. Most encoding though require to specifically also transmit the convention at some point. Primes on the other hand, are supposedly already accessible from anywhere in the universe. Probably that's part of what make them so fascinating.
by walleeee | 2025-10-08 16:03:59+00:00
It's not only that Linus is atypical, it's also that he is reviewing other people's code, and those people are also highly competent, or they would not be kernel committers. And they all share large amounts of high-quality and hard-earned implicit context.

Reviewing well executed changesets by skilled developers on complicated and deliberate projects is not comparable to "fleet of agents" vibe engineering. One of these tasks will sharpen you regardless how lazily you approach it. The other requires extreme discipline to avoid atrophy.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-10-08 16:04:09+00:00
> A chimpanzee can use tools and solve problems, but it will never construct a factory, design an iPhone, or build even a simple wooden house. Humans can, because our intelligence operates at a qualitatively different level.

Humans existed in the world for hundreds of thousands of years before they did any of those things, with the exception of wooden hut, which took less time than that. But also wasn't instant.

Your example doesn't entirely contradict the argument that it takes time and experimentation as well, that intellect isn't the only limiting factor.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-10-08 16:04:30+00:00
Well, if we include property tax, sales tax, SALT deduction cap changes, compliance costs, regulatory burdens, state and local taxes... higher.

On that note, you have no evidence that economists focus solely on tax rates on the curve independently of the economy at large. By definition, the curve is determined from external factors and economic measurements, none of which currently resemble 2012. If the economy crashed and there was 20% unemployment, do you still think they'd stand behind the same curve?
by SubiculumCode | 2025-10-08 16:04:49+00:00
I have. Its not bad at all. I also agree that it has better file compatibility. The main thing I came across is that not all the features that I expect are implemented yet, at least in their powerpoint/presentation application.

Another issue that I face is that it is increasingly expected that their would be a shared Word document in OneDrive that multiple people can be working on simultaneously. Its really hard to win sometimes when the infrastructure is all against it. :(
Ask HN: ArsTechnica qbits mechanics[0] for a scaled up version of roons[1]?
by sargstuff | 2025-10-08 16:04:50+00:00
[0] : Floating Electrons on a sea of helium : https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/new-qubit-tech-traps-single-electrons-on-liquid-helium/

[1] : Show HN: Roons -l Mechanical Computer Kit : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43859464

Non-technical guide : https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Tutorials/Redstone_computers
by billy99k | 2025-10-08 16:05:13+00:00
China doesn't have to fire a shot.

They have a much larger economy and can essentially either buy out the majority of businesses in Taiwan or employ the majority of the citizens.

The youth in Taiwan don't know or care about these things and will eventually just be another part of China within a decade or so.

American leftists love China as well, so I doubt Taiwan would have much support in the US. I used to run a meetup group and hardcore leftists just loved China and the way they governed.

One guy I talked to waited 6 hours to see the tomb of Mao and cried at the beauty.

They also loved Russia/the Soviet union, until it was associated with Trump.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-08 16:06:00+00:00
I'd be far more weary of the application level services provided by Synology than of the kernel in this context, as long as the vendor backports the various fixes and you update the kernel you should in theory be fine. But the applications get far less scrutiny.

What you really never ever should do is expose your NAS to the internet, even if vendors seem to push for this. Of course you'd still be vulnerable to a local compromised application on another machine that is on the same network as the NAS. It's all trade-offs. My own solution to all this was quite simple but highly dependent on how I use the NAS: when not in use it is off and it is only connected to my own machine running linux, not to the wifi or the house network.
by Xylakant | 2025-10-08 16:06:01+00:00
> These are questions that classic contracts don't usually cover because things tend to be more deterministic with static code.

Why? You have a delivery and you entered into some guarantees as part of the contract. Whether you use an agent, or roll a dice - you are responsible for upholding the guarantees you entered into as part of the contract. If you want to offload that guarantee, then you need to state it in the contract. Basically, what the MIT Licenses do: "No guarantees, not even fitness for purpose". Whether someone is willing to pay for something where you enter no liability for anything is an open question.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-10-08 16:06:28+00:00
Very valid advice, but you don't do all that in "an hour," of course. Synology's purpose in life is to provide a solution to users who are more interested in the verbs than the nouns.

They are the Apple of the NAS industry, a role that has worked out really well for Apple as well as for most of their users. The difference is, for all their rent-seeking walled-garden paternalism, Apple doesn't try to lock people out of installing their own hard drives.

Kudos to Synology for walking back a seriously-stupid move.