MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by austin-cheney | 2025-11-21 17:27:49+00:00
That is incorrect. Soldiers in the Army have a implicit fourth amendment protection on all US Army data systems. To overcome that some data system owners require a signature on a policy statement that allows unrestricted monitoring. Those are often called user access agreements. I have been told the Air Force operates in the opposite.

I am not sure what any of that has to do with state government access. From a legal perspective state government intrusion of a federal data system for evidence gathering is equivalent to a foreign nation. The federal government will happily share this information provided the proper administrative authorizations, but there is no unrestricted access.
by throw0101c | 2025-11-21 17:28:18+00:00
> Create a the contribution limit with an identifiable name (e.g. 2025 RRSP or 2025 Roth IRA), Year and set the contribution limit in base currency.

* https://wealthfolio.app/docs/guide/goals/

Neat: RRSPs are Canadian, so not necessarily US-only.
by taylorb-ai2 | 2025-11-21 17:28:42+00:00
Hi, I'm one of the devs on the Ai2 Playground! That's an unfortunate consequence of a compromise we had to make for technical reasons. You need to click the "Show OlmoTrace" button below a response to see span highlights. The first time you click it will take a few seconds, but it'll show highlights after it loads! The paper button at the top opens the popup that contains documents for the message you selected by clicking the "Show OlmoTrace" button.

Appreciate you posting about the issues you're having with it! It was difficult to figure out how to show this well and we'll be taking your experience into account.
by ldoughty | 2025-11-21 17:28:53+00:00
What you describe sounds more like keeping your assets a secret... and if you feel defeated because the government can know, how do you feel about hiring an accountant? Or executing stock trades? You can't keep those activities a secret from those agents working for you. You would probably expect them to keep their privileged information about you _private_ though, right?

And I think that's what the parent post is talking about. Today's companies make you agree to 3 50-page documents which they can update at any time and your continued use after such silent updates constitutes consent.. and at some point they will sell your financial status/well-being to people for profit. So the more you feed them the more of your data that is being easily sold.

We ultimately probably can't stop that, but we can make it more difficult. Many apps like this would take your information and sell it.. having an option that lets you track your own finances without becoming a product is nice.
by par | 2025-11-21 17:29:07+00:00
XBMC really takes me back. I used to love using this, and then when it switched to Kodi I got a bit confused but kept using it. Finally I moved over to Plex because I recall having some issues with Kodi i can't remember these days. But while I love Plex, i don't love the proprietary feeling of it, and would still prefer something truly open.
by cowboyscott | 2025-11-21 17:29:30+00:00
24 year old hardware that is not only useful but punches above most of the set-top boxes you'll find on Amazon. I also suspect that it could run Silksong or Balatro just fine.

Sure, it's unfair to compare gray/black market use cases, but it does make stark the hardware upgrade treadmill we've all been forced on.
by frumplestlatz | 2025-11-21 17:29:48+00:00
No, it’s not a police state in the first place. The belief that it is? Hysterics being fed by your media diet.

The videos that you’re seeing of people losing their minds over law enforcement actually doing their jobs?

Those videos are not evidence of a police state. A police state would have locked them up the minute they started their ridiculous, childish public tantrums.

They’re evidence of the hysteria people like you are driven to by the media you consume.

Do you not realize that outside your bubble, this is how you and your compatriots are perceived? Hysterical and fully disconnected from reality?
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-21 17:29:58+00:00
> For example, I don't think there are Node.js libraries packaged for Debian that allow you to install them from apt and use it in projects

Web search shows some: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=node&searchon=na... (but also shows "for optimizing reasons some results might have been suppressed" so might not be all)

Although probably different from other distros, Arch for example seems to have none.
by gbacon | 2025-11-21 17:30:04+00:00
Regional and commercial jets cost tens and hundreds of millions of USD. The greediest caricature capitalist will want to protect this investment. Their insurers will demand certain terms to accept the risk of having to replace such a costly asset. Our greedy capitalist villain wants repeat business. Dead customers don’t pay again. Lawsuits are costly. Their friends and family will be reluctant to book fares with airlines they perceive as being unsafe. “Qantas never crashed.”
by throw0101c | 2025-11-21 17:30:49+00:00
> I love the idea of keeping my finances private while still having a useful tracker/planner.

YNAB4 was a local client, but with YNAB5 they sadly (to me) went online and subscription.

I happily paid for v4 (one-time purchase), but was/am not willing to pay for v5 because (a) I don't like renting software, and (b) I have no need for syncing (which a subscription could justify to pay for ongoing server costs).
by extraduder_ire | 2025-11-21 17:31:42+00:00
That page[0] should explain the reasoning behind the redirect. There's a separate redirect[1] if you have a never version reported but are missing headers.

Seems to be a fairly custom attempt at keeping poorly written scrapers off the site. curl works just fine for me. (I found these redirect URLs by manually setting the user agent header in curl) Fun idea.

What's your browser's user agent? You might have an extension that alters yours to not report your browser's actual version number.

0: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/cspace-old-browser.html

1: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/cspace-no-sec-fetch.html
by l9o | 2025-11-21 17:31:52+00:00
yes, completely agree. having some sort of guardrails for the LLM is extremely important.

in the earlier models I would sometimes write tests for checking that my coding patterns were being followed correctly. basic things like certain files/subclasses being in the correct directories, making sure certain dunder methods weren't being implemented in certain classes where I noticed models had a tendency to add them, etc.

these were all things that I'd notice the models would often get wrong and would typically be more of a lint warning in a more polished codebase. while a bit annoying to setup, it would vastly improve the speed and success rate at which the models would be able to solve tasks for me.

nowadays many of those don't seem to be as necessary. it's impressive to see how the models are evolving.
by watwut | 2025-11-21 17:32:56+00:00
They just happened to disproportionally kill doctors, first responders and other medical workers. And hospitals. No, they were not focused at militant organization.

And also foreign journalists and workers. No reason for scare quotes, their deaths are well documented.

As for starwation, well documented too. Policy of not allowing food in was going on for months, Israel intentionally creating issues with distribution was going on for months.

Genocidal rhetorics was present too, like you are literally lying here.
by komali2 | 2025-11-21 17:35:05+00:00
There are other things that are critical to democracy to actually function in the spirit of democracy - universal suffrage obviously, and the USA fails in this insomuch as it removed the right to vote from felons and engages in gerrymandering and disenchantment.

However other countries don't suffer the issue to quite the same degree, and the PRC is happy to restrict the right of some people to representation such as the Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang. You might say they don't deserve it, I say that's just a justification for disenfranchisement, and a bad one.

You also need to let citizens have the ability to converse and discuss and try to influence each other and who they vote for, and to learn facts about politicians outside of channels that are supportive of the politician. By that I of course mean that mostly free speech and free press are a requirement for a functional democracy, else you could call North Korea a democracy which is of course absurd.

The PRC may get many things right, and hell maybe we are entering The Chinese Century, but regardless it's not immune to criticism, and pretending otherwise just to oppose American hegemony simply hurts one's ability to do so as everyone will just accuse you of being a Little Pink.
by PaulHoule | 2025-11-21 17:35:24+00:00
No, Paine is an OG, he's fine.

It is more that if somebody says "X is common sense" it is not really a statement about X but rather a statement that "(not X) is not common sense".

If you look at the names endorsing that document the first one is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Carville

who was associated with Clinton's winning 1992 campaign and the losing campaigns of Kerry in 2004 and the other Clinton in 2008 and other people to the right of the Democratic party. It's true that this contingent can point to a few presidential wins but both Clinton and Obama were accompanied with a long-term erosion of the Democratic presence in congress and especially in state houses -- a time when Democrats have been winning at fundraising and losing at everything else.

Jurgen Habermas points out that a viable political system has to have public participation but also expert guidance on many issues. For instance, AI, advanced manufacturing, and climate change all require more than "common sense" to get on top of.

It would be good for the Democratic party to agree that cis lives matter, stop using words like "LatinX", etc. That document is not saying though that the Democrats should make a break with long-term trends that have eroded people's trust in institutions.
by dmix | 2025-11-21 17:35:41+00:00
Russia's best case scenario atm is they take more of eastern Ukraine and the west establishes a DMZ not far from the current frontlines. Pushing up anywhere close to Lviv/Polish border would be like winning the lottery given their current track record.

These sorts of wars are very rare in the modern era. They gambled entirely because they faced an army they were 10x the size and they got embarrassed. There's near zero strategic logic in trying again vs NATO after they lost most of their fancy gear.
by andrewla | 2025-11-21 17:35:48+00:00
It is an attempt to predict a possible future in the context of AI. Basically a doomer fairy tale.

It is just phenomenally dumb.

Way worse than the worst bad scifi about the subject. It is presented as a cautionary tale and purports to be somewhat rationally thought out. But it is just so bad. It tries to delve into foreign policy and international politics but does so in such a naive way that it is painful to read.

It is not distasteful to participate in it -- it is embarrassing and, from my perspective, disqualifying for a commentator on AI.
by wrathofmonads | 2025-11-21 17:35:58+00:00
The real barrier is the C++ ecosystem. It represents the cost of losing decades of optimized, highly integrated, high-performance libraries. C++ maps almost perfectly to the hardware with minimal overhead, and it remains at the forefront of the AI revolution. It is the true engine behind Python scientific libs and even Julia (ex. EnzymeAD). Rust does not offer advantages that would meaningfully improve how we approach HPC. Once you layer the necessary unsafe operations, C++ code in practice becomes mostly functional and immutable, and lifetimes matter less beyond a certain threshold when building complex HPC simulations. Or even outsourced to a scripting layer with Python.
by woodruffw | 2025-11-21 17:36:17+00:00
(Author of the post.)

The underlying premise here is that supply chain security vendors are honest in their claims about proactively scanning (and effectively detecting + reporting) malicious and compromised packages. In other words, it's not about eyeballs (I don't think people who automatically apply Dependabot bumps are categorically reading the code anyways), but about rigorous scanning and reporting.
by monocasa | 2025-11-21 17:36:52+00:00
Generally "I wasn't driving then" is actually a defense to the automated cameras. The registered owner things is just the first pass like any other lazy investigation.

In the broader context PII is a looser concept, and can be thought of like browser fingerprinting. The legal system hasn't formalized it nearly to the same degree, but does have the concept of how enough otherwise public information sufficiently correlated can break into the realm of privacy violations. I. The browser fingerprinting world that's thought of pretty explicitly in terms of contributions of bits of entropy, but the legal system has pushed back on massive public surveillance when it steps into the realm of stalking or a firm of investigation that should require a warrant.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-11-21 17:37:06+00:00
The way the term private equity is used is meaningless. It’s just business, and the same thing happens anytime a business is sold, because the new owners have paid a 5x or more multiple, and the reason they would is if they think they can cut costs and increase prices.

One should expect lower quality and higher prices anytime a business is sold.
by akramachamarei | 2025-11-21 17:37:17+00:00
Could you elaborate on what you mean by "pop-capitalism" and which "libertarian tracts" you are referring to? Because in the expressions of major libertarian(/-adjacent) thinkers (Friedman, Hayek, Smith), the free market is not "tidy". On the contrary these concepts are rather subtle and unintuitive. Perhaps you are referring to some bastardized form? Because, usually you get a gullible person with simple ideas, and capitalism isn't.
by PaulHoule | 2025-11-21 17:37:23+00:00
That was kinda Clinton's plan all along. For better and for worse he continued Reagan's legacy and made the Democratic party more palatable to donors than Republicans. Problem is that they now win national elections by just a hair when they do win, and downballot there has been a long term trend of losing state-level elections and a struggle to maintain any ability to be effective in the Senate.
by lemonwaterlime | 2025-11-21 17:37:24+00:00
Short answer: Yes. And you always could have.

Longer answer: It's been a while since I have thought about Arduino. But last I recall, it is just an Atmega chip connected to IO. Maybe newer ones have moved to ARM M0 or beyond. That's about when I stopped using Arduino.

But it isn't hard to just start from baremetal on those. You need the user manual for the actual chip so you can configure timers and such. Once you know how to set up one chip, you can set up most any chip.

I do think there is use for a plug and play system like Arduino. It is very user friendly to just use that IDE and get started on Arduino. My critique is that there is rarely a followup progression. That followup progression is critical.

Here's a video showing how to make your own "Arduino" [1]. All the hard work is done by the Atmega chip. So Arduino has built this mythos and this IDE that it seems you have to use. It traps people and prevents them from doing the exploration into the chip itself.

[1]"Build your own Arduino for $5" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlh0dBa2bFA
by voxleone | 2025-11-21 17:37:30+00:00
I'll never ask if AI is conscious because I already know they are not. Consciousness must involve an interplay with the senses. It is naive to think we can achieve AGI by making Platonic machines ever more rational.

https://d1gesto.blogspot.com/2024/12/why-ai-models-cant-achi...
by razingeden | 2025-11-21 17:37:40+00:00
my original word processor corrected “—-“ to an em-dash, which i would get rid of because it didnt render correctly somewhere in translation between plaintext- markdown- html (sort of how it butchered “- -“ just now on HN.)

but what youd see in your browser was “square blocks”

so i just ran output through some strings/awk /sed (server side) to clean up certain characters, that i now know specifying “ utf-8 “ encoding fixes altogether.

TLDR: the “problem” was “lets use wordpress as a CMS and composer, but spit it out in the same format as its predecessor software and keep generating static content that uses the design we already have”

em-dashes needed to be double dashes due to a longstanding oversight.

The Original Sin was Newsmaker, which had a proprietary format that didnt work in anything else and needed some perl magic to spit out plaintext.

I don’t work in that environment or even that industry anymore but took the hacky methodology my then-boss and I came up with together.

SO,

1) i still have a script that gets rid of them when publishing, even though its no longer necessary. and its been doing THAT longer than “LLMs” were mainstream.

and 2) now that people ask “did AI write this?” i still continue with a long standing habit of getting rid of them when manually composing something.

Funny story though after twenty years of just adding more and more post processing kludge. I finally screamed AAAAAAAAHAHHHH WHY DOES THIS PAGE STILL HAVE SQUARE BLOCKS ALL OVER IT at “Grok.”

All that kludge and post processing solved by adding utf-8 encoding in the <head>, which an “Ai” helpfully pointed out in about 0.0006s.

That was about two weeks ago. Not sure when I’ll finally just let my phone or computer insert one for me. Probably never. But thats it. I don’t hate the em-dash. I hate square blocks!

Absolutely nothing against AI. I had a good LONG recovery period where I could not sit there and read 40-100 page paper or a manual anymore, and i wasnt much better at composing my own thoughts. so I have a respect for its utility and I fully made use of that for a solid two years.

And it just fixed something that id overlooked because, well, im infrastructure. im not a good web designer.
by andrei_says_ | 2025-11-21 17:38:15+00:00
I see a lot of arguments on this website where people passionately project the term consciousness onto LLMs.

From my perspective, the disconnect you describe is one of the main reasons this term cannot be applied.

Another reason is that the argument for calling LLMs conscious arises from the perspective of thinking and reasoning grounded in language.

But in my personal experience, thinking in language is just a small emerging quality of human consciousness. It is just that the intellectuals making these arguments happen to be fully identified with the “I think therefore I am” aspect of it and not the vastness of the rest.
by DANmode | 2025-11-21 17:38:18+00:00
They’re tailoring more and more replies to your previous requests.

Nothing more, nothing less.

If more than 0% of your requests are for code-related queries, this makes “perfect sense”.

I’m regularly having to tell these tools that I want an answer that isn’t in the context of founding a startup!

So if you (mcv) want centrist, or right-leaning suggestions, you may need to explicitly ask.
by swatcoder | 2025-11-21 17:39:45+00:00
> You're not thinking about the system dependencies.

You're correct, because it's completely neurotic to worry about phantom bugs that have no actual presence of mind but must absolutely positively be resolved as soon as a candidate fix has been pushed.

If there's a zero day vulnerability that affects your system, which is a rare but real thing, you can be notified and bypass a cooldown system.

Otherwise, you've presumably either adapted your workflow to work around a bug or you never even recognized one was there. Either way, waiting an extra <cooldown> before applying a fix isn't going to harm you, but it will dampen the much more dramatic risk of instability and supply chain vulnerabilities associated with being on the bleeding edge.
by brandonjcooper | 2025-11-21 17:39:48+00:00
I've used actualbudget for several years now after switching from Quicken. Actual is great for budgeting but my strategy has been to use a separate investment tracker to get a nice dashboard to look at. I haven't found one yet that handles account syncing seamless as I'd like... I've used Ghostfolio but I'm going to give this a try.

On a side note; SimpleFIN works well with actual, and the person that runs the bridge is great.
by tracker1 | 2025-11-21 17:39:50+00:00
It's probably too late now... but IMO, what should have been Mozilla's most natural progression towards financial security would have been with Thunderbird. Basically, they were in a position to offer what Outlook/Office365 email does a couple decades ago.

Integrate better calendar and contact management, then create a best of class commercial email service platform, and commercial hosted services around that.

I thought it would have been a great option long before Gmail was even a thought. Even today, they could work with or create a service like Protonmail or another system to offer these services. 10m users at $4/mo/user is $480m/year and that wouldn't be an unreasonable expectation just for the US market in 3-5 years given where they were in 2008.

Of course, I had similar thoughts about Blackberry when iOS and Android hit the market... since they were already entrenched in corporate email at a lot of places, they could have created a best in breed mobile client for their integrated usage ahead of MS playing catch up.

But with Mozilla, it would have been a natural extension as a commercial offering without disrupting the good will behind Firefox and Thunderbird as they were...
by pjmlp | 2025-11-21 17:40:34+00:00
C++ has already broken backwards compatibility a few times, and the way GCC changed their std::string implementation semantics is one of the reasons why nowadays features that require ABI breaks tend to be ignored by compiler vendors.

Backwards compatibility is C++'s greatest asset, I already took part in a few rewrites away from C++, exactly because the performance in compiled managed languages was good enough, and the whole thing was getting rebooted.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-21 17:40:40+00:00
It's so wild. So many HN commenters have this exaggerated caricature in their heads about what a Union must be:

"Unions mean every worker gets paid the same!"

"Unions mean I will make less money!"

"Unions make it impossible to fire underperformers!"

"Unions are run by bosses whose incentives are different than workers!"

"Unions mean I can't plug in my own workstation!"

"Unions reward seniority over everything else!"

Like they've taken every spook story they've been told about unions, gathered up the worst parts, and then simply declare that unions, by law, must necessarily be all those bad things.
by Zigurd | 2025-11-21 17:41:10+00:00
I strongly suspect they already have been pricing Falcon Heavy launches below cost, with the exception of national security launches. IIRC spaceX claims that falcon heavy has a lower cost per kilogram to orbit than Falcon 9.

I also suspect that they are burning capital everywhere and their margins are extremely thin. The charitable assessment of that is that they are being like Amazon and they know what they are doing. A less charitable assessment is that Amazon could simply turn a pricing knob and become profitable. There is no knob at SpaceX. They need to make a very risky rocket project work for things to work in general. Not that that's a pattern in Elon's businesses or anything.
by dehrmann | 2025-11-21 17:41:48+00:00
> I haven't run into this at all so I wonder how much of it is more sport dependent where the company controls the infrastructure

My experience is with San Jose where I'd be really surprised to see this happen. There's a massive six-sheet facility owned by the city and managed by the parent company of the Sharks, so being good for the community and good for hockey might be enough without them having to resort to these tactics.