MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mmooss | 2025-11-18 00:16:55+00:00
> Such data could be used to link sailors to their immediate family members, locations, and behaviors, creating an avenue for blackmail or other coercive tactics to extract info from servicemembers.

Twice they say such information can be used for coersion, including blackmail.

That seems to understate the problem substantially. With our current social media and mass corporate data collection, every user's social networks and extensive personal details are collected and for sale. And it affects non-military people too. Look at people protesting certain things, who get doxxed and are threatened, at least, with blacklisting.

We could engineer networks that are far more private, and many have long predicted and observed the downside of mass surveillance. As long as we continue with the current technology, these problems seem unavoidable.
by dpark | 2025-11-18 00:17:05+00:00
I could argue that W3C didn’t follow that policy when they attempted to push xhtml, which completely inverts that priority order, as xhtml is bad for users and great for purity.

But instead I’ll point out that W3C no longer maintains the html spec. They ceded that to the WHATWG which was spun by the major browser developers in response to the stagnation and what amounted to abandonment of html by the W3C.
by alterom | 2025-11-18 00:17:20+00:00
Thanks for writing this comment and raising awareness!

Rejection sensitivity is neurodivergent trait that's not exclusive to ADHD, but the way it manifests with ADHD can be truly life-derailing.

Learning about it helped me a lot to deal with it (in particular, externalizing that emotion as a trait and not what me is).

I wrote about it too in that wiki. Here's my experience with rejection sensitivity in the ADHD context:

https://romankogan.net/adhd/#Rejection%20Sensitivity
by rainsford | 2025-11-18 00:17:51+00:00
One explanation I've heard that resonates with me is that we subconsciously feel as if we're playing a more complex and less obvious version of the prisoner's dilemma.

We intuitively understand that society experiences the greatest collective benefit when people generally cooperate. We also understand that while defecting (i.e. behaving in a selfish and anti-social way) might benefit us more as individuals, that's only true so long as others aren't also defecting. If they do, not only is society worse off but you personally are worse off as well than if everybody cooperated. And we understand that personally defecting leads to others doing the same.

Leaving your cart randomly in the parking lot, holding the train door open, or cutting across traffic may optimize your personal outcome, but the more people who behave like you the worse your grocery store parking lot experience gets, the more delayed your train is, and the longer you're stuck in traffic.

The nuance here is that modern societies are large enough that you can buy into the idea that your personal behavior does not influence the behavior of others in a way that will come back around to bite you. In a large metro area, what is the probability that the driver you cut off will be in a position to cut you off tomorrow? Ignoring the fact that society is smaller than you think when you look at sub groups like people who regularly drive on a certain road at a certain time, you have to consider second and third order effects. If cutting people off in traffic leads to more people cutting each other off in traffic, the impact spreads until it could easily come back around to your personal traffic experience with a few degrees of separation.

Fundamentally I think rational self-optimizing people realize that shitty personal behavior leads if only in a small way to the overall enshitification of society and that sooner or later this will come back around to negatively impact them personally. The people who engage in such behavior anyways aren't more rationally self-optimizing, they're either too stupid to see the connection or nihilistic enough to not care.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-11-18 00:18:10+00:00
You could draw a parallel with GLP-1 agonists: people like to grandstand about how you shouldn't need it and how it's somehow cheating. As if it's not addressing a condition that people are suffering from right now, today.

The stigma also seems to accidentally admit that things like executive function and food noise aren't equally distributed, thus some people could benefit from intervention.

For example, if you've never been fat or you never binge eat or you've never procrastinated 15min of homework until 2am despite, then you're missing the irony when your solution for people who deal with these things is to try harder and to jump through hoops that you don't need to.
by atherton94027 | 2025-11-18 00:18:25+00:00
> As long as there is some form of memory access, any language can do basically everything that one can do in C/C++, but this doesn't make much sense.

No VB6 had really easy COM integration which let you tap into a lot of Windows system components. The same code in C++ often required hundreds of lines of scaffolding, and I'm not exaggerating
by eindiran | 2025-11-18 00:18:30+00:00
> you really need to have a specific reason to choose something outside of bash/zsh/fish

The reason in question is that not that long ago, people said "you really need to have a specific reason to choose something outside of bash", and people choosing to go off the beaten path lead to zsh and fish becoming powerful and way more popular/well-supported than they were before.
by michelpp | 2025-11-18 00:19:25+00:00
There are open source projects moving toward this scale, the GraphBLAS for example uses an algebraic formulation over compressed sparse matrix representations for graphs that is designed to be portable across many architectures, including cuda. It would be nice if companies like nivida could get more behind our efforts, as our main bottleneck is development hardware access.

To plug my project, I've wrapped the SuiteSparse GraphBLAS library in a postgres extension [1] that fluidly blends algebraic graph theory with the relational model, the main flow is to use sql to structure complex queries for starting points, and then use the graphblas to flow through the graph to the endpoints, then joining back to tables to get the relevant metadata. On cheap hetzner hardware (amd epyc 64 core) we've achieved 7 billion edges per second BFS over the largest graphs in the suitesparse collection (~10B edges). With our cuda support we hope to push that kind of performance into graphs with trillions of edges.

[1] https://github.com/OneSparse/OneSparse
by Mobius01 | 2025-11-18 00:20:16+00:00
This seems like a breach of publishing terms / loss of confidence on Colossal Order. They released CSII in late 2013 clearly unfinished and unoptimized, delayed paid DLC expansion and content for nearly 2 years and there seems to be no end in sight for the performance problems. But the key part is that the announced console ports never materialized, leaving a large addressable market on the table. That Colossal Order may have captured lighting in a bottle with the first title when there was a gap in the market after the demise of SimCity, but looks like the second time around they were overambitious and may have put the franchise in a position to be sunsetted.
by robocat | 2025-11-18 00:21:33+00:00
> pumped hydro for long term storage.

You are using long-term in an extremely vague way.

Pumped hydro is not a solution for seasonal storage or yearly storage. Seasonal variation can be a problem in higher latitudes.

For example we have a serious problem in New Zealand where our existing "green" hydro lakes are sometimes low and our economy is affected: creating national power crises during dry years. We use coal-burning Huntley and peakers to somewhat cover occasional low hydro generation.

Unfortunately our existing generators also have regulatory capture, and they prevent generating competition (e.g. new solar farms) through rather dirty tactics (according to the insider I spoke with).

Apparently much of our hydro generation is equivalent to “run-of-river” which requires the river to flow. Although the lakes themselves are large, they don't have enough capacity to cover a dry year.

NZ had planned a pumped hydro, but it was expensive: planned cost of 16 billion compared against total NZ export income of ~100 billion. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/503816/govt-confirms-it-... So completely uneconomic risk (plus other problems like NIMBY).
by afavour | 2025-11-18 00:22:02+00:00
The New York Times has an API that lets you query “tags” or “topics” and the articles associated with them:

https://developer.nytimes.com/docs/semantic-api-product/1/ov...

The Guardian has similar:

https://open-platform.theguardian.com/documentation/tag

Either or both could be an interesting starting point for something like that. I tried to find something for the BBC and was surprised they didn’t have anything. I would have figured public media would have been a great resource for this.
by stockresearcher | 2025-11-18 00:22:08+00:00
Well, today in fact a town in Wisconsin officially shut down their police department [1]. This area leans Republican, so it’s unlikely that the woke mob did it; probably just couldn’t afford the police anymore. But there you go: people discussed it and then did it.

[1] https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/southeastern-wisconsin...
by neilv | 2025-11-18 00:22:41+00:00
A satisfying theory for a lot of DDoS would be extortion or protection rackets. Pay up or we will DDoS you, or pay up or 'someone else' will DDoS you.

That's enough to explain it. But if you wanted to go more full shadowy conspiracy theory, someone arranged for a protection service that just so happens to work by giving some entity cleartext surveillance over much of the internet. Perhaps as a response to HTTPS everywhere being annoying.

I'm not suggesting that's the situation, but that it's the kind of possibility to keep in mind, intellectually, and it would be consistent with history.
by russdill | 2025-11-18 00:23:23+00:00
You have to be out there getting them from the corral anyway. There's no people dedicated to collecting carts, it's just a periodic task.

Know what's super annoying and time consuming? Facing product. Yet no one gives people shit because they don't face product after they take it and expect employees to do it. The cart thing is just mental gymnastics to make people feel like they have self worth and are better than others. Ya single young dude, you're so much better than the mom with the bum knee and two kids that put her cart off to the side rather than taking it to the corral.

There's a million such services provided for you when you shop at a grocery store, wrangling carts is an extremely minor one.
by alterom | 2025-11-18 00:23:47+00:00
>I'd argue that it is nonsense to treat symptoms instead of the cause (of an issue) , but actually doing just that is quite intellectual when a bunch of money stands to be made

What specifically are you talking about here? It appears to me that your comment is an expression of vibe with zero information content.

There's no dichotomy between treating symptoms and cause even when the cause is treatable (which isn't the case with ADHD; it's a neurotype, with differences showing on brain scan levels) — and that's setting aside the discussion of whether it's something we need to "treat" in the first place.

We still have painkillers for people who need them while they are getting treatment.

We still have meds for runny noses, we still have Tylenol for fever, even though these are merely symptoms.

We still have pills for allergies.

And on that note: the symptoms (such as fever and allergic reactions) can and do kill people.

Please reconsider your comment.
by undeveloper | 2025-11-18 00:24:27+00:00
.. macOS is ad-ridden? perhaps I'm already brain broken, but beyond like a few ads for icloud pro for time machine or whatever when I'm already poking around in relavent settings, I never see ads. it feels extremely unobtrusive. the other points are not relevant to me, so I suppose it makes sense why I don't care, but iirc apple's `container` OCI runner is highly optimized for the M series, did you have significant issues with it?
by mcdeltat | 2025-11-18 00:24:43+00:00
So for the same set of actions, it's fine if you're unaware of the underlying mechanisms, and manipulation if you are aware?

If you dig through the weeds of it you can argue just about everything we do socially is manipulation. We are social because we're social animals and will die without help from other humans (well, particularly thousands of years ago). At the end of the day, we are nice to people to get things from them that we need - food, shelter, knowledge, strength. It's always been like that. But because it makes us feel fuzzy and good, apparently that's not manipulation, that's being nice.
by protocolture | 2025-11-18 00:25:20+00:00
>I don't want to disparage the author as this is a personal journey piece and I appreciate them sharing it. However this did leave me slightly uneasy, almost calling back to earlier days of the internet when advice about "social skills" often meant reductively thinking about other people, assuming you can mind-read them to deconstruct their mindset (the section about identifying people who feel underpraised, insecure, nervous,) and then leverage that to charm them (referred to as "dancing to the music" in this post).

I was terrible at this stuff until I learned how to do it, working in a customer facing tech support call centre.
by lucb1e | 2025-11-18 00:25:58+00:00
Sounds interesting! I was listening to the 5-minute audiobook preview and it starts right up my alley, but then devolves into meta chatter about how the author wrote this other book about the people that built the internet, how they learn the most by touching the machines and talking to the creators (as if you learn something about meteorology from walking up to a weather server). 'Must just be the intro' I thought, but then one review of the five that I found says (translated) "This book talks about people who deal with meteorology, their age, their physical appearance, their biography, their clothes, the meal he took with them. It describes places where observatories are located. It does not explain the weather phenomena or how to predict them."

Many nonfiction books have it to some extent and it's usually fine (like 5% of the content, either relevant or easy to pass into one ear and out the other), but this sounds like it takes up a good chunk of the book with who's-whos and (former) meteorological celebrities

What's your take on this? Does it spend more than, say, 20% talking about the people as compared to the content matter about weather forecast mechanisms and innovations?
by lovich | 2025-11-18 00:26:34+00:00
Yes and yes.

I actually like being part of society and don’t need to feed delusions of grandeur to feel content.

Also I want to point out how I referenced his opinion as being like tips on winning the lottery. Getting to a unique position of power like that requires so much luck and other input that you have no control over that I view the “advice” on how to achieve it as useless and just the result of those people grappling with the cognitive dissonance of thinking they got to where they are on their own vs the actual reality
by m463 | 2025-11-18 00:27:07+00:00
> The bite of the lone star tick spreads alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), a condition whose only effect is the creation of a severe but nonfatal red meat allergy.

> Herein, we argue that if eating meat is morally impermissible, then efforts to prevent the spread of tickborne AGS are also morally impermissible.
by GabrielTFS | 2025-11-18 00:28:46+00:00
I don't think much of anyone thinks unification is actually possible absent some big change, and indeed neither government is truly pursuing it actively (unless "trying to destabilize and make the other government collapse" qualifies). But both are trying to be as ready as possible for unification when the opportunity presents itself (most likely, it would happen in a way alike to German reunification - that is, the government of one of the two countries becomes quite compatible with the other, because the previous form of government in it collapsed and was replaced by that of its neighbor)
by senectus1 | 2025-11-18 00:29:13+00:00
nobody ever seems to recognize the benefits of Modularising your grid as well.

Ukraine is an excellent example of why centralizing your grid energy source is a bad plan... but not just for war situations. If you have an agile, adaptable modular grid you can recover for any form of disaster (natural or man made) very quickly and cheaply.

I really feel this is an under valued aspect of electrification and greening of the power sources we use.
by citizenpaul | 2025-11-18 00:29:46+00:00
Lots of tech people are neurodivergent. I don't see anything wrong with strategizing to get the benefits that many other people get for simply being "lovable goofballs"

I knew a guy that was such a f-up but he was so easy to get along with he just floated his way to upper mgmt anywhere he went. Then inevitable got fired and simply floated his way to upper mgmt at the next company. Meanwhile many highly effective tech people get held back on promotions for being "too realistic"(usually pronounced as "negative") at least thats my life experience.
by minimaxir | 2025-11-18 00:30:01+00:00
For posterity, here's the paragraph from the model card which indicates what Grok 4.1 is supposed to refuse because it could be dangerous.

> Our refusal policy centers on refusing requests with a clear intent to violate the law, without over-refusing sensitive or controversial queries. To implement our refusal policy, we train Grok 4.1 on demonstrations of appropriate responses to both benign and harmful queries. As an additional mitigation, we employ input filters to reject specific classes of sensitive requests, such as those involving bioweapons, chemical weapons, self-harm, and child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

If those specific filters can be bypassed by the end-user, and I suspect they can be, then that's important to note.

For the rest, IANAL:

> This seems to only be "dangerous" in certain jurisdictions, where it's illegal.

I believe possessing CSAM specifically is illegal everywhere but for obvious reasons that is not a good idea to Google to check.

> Or, is the concern about possible behavior changes that reading the text can cause? Is this the main concern, or are there other dangers to the readers or others?

That's generally the reason why CSAM is illegal, since it reinforces reprehensible behavior that can indeed spread, either to others with similar ideologies or create more victims of abuse.
by ClimaxGravely | 2025-11-18 00:30:19+00:00
There was also a drink with same name hiropon that was generally available for some time.

I tried googling for more info but I haven't been able to find much in English and my Japanese isn't good enough to read at that level. I've only heard about it from my wife and a few other people in Japan. I've seen a few old posters for it at old bars.
by qingcharles | 2025-11-18 00:30:25+00:00
I saw Musk repost a boast that Grok created a whole new ("superior") element design for a incandescent bulb using Edison's patent. The implication was that Grok was superior to Edison's team. I was just sat there thinking about the 100+ years of incandescent bulb research that Grok has sucked up from various science papers and random Internet archives. Surely none of that was any help at all /s.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-11-18 00:31:21+00:00
>Agent workspace is a separate, contained Windows session made just for AI agents, where they get their own account, desktop, and permissions so they can click, type, open apps, and work on your files in the background while you keep using your normal desktop. Instead of letting an agent act directly as you, Windows spins up this extra workspace, gives it limited access (like specific folders such as Documents or Desktop), and keeps its actions isolated and auditable. Each agent can have its own workspace and access rules, so what one agent can see or do doesn’t automatically apply to others, and you stay in control of what they’re allowed to touch.

The headline is very clickbaity. This is not quite the privacy destroying anti feature CPU eater. It's more like a feature some people may enjoy and others an annoying nuisance that they have to remember to disable. It's likely going to be so resource heavy and a privacy concern that i can't imagine they would ever enable it by default.
by boricj | 2025-11-18 00:31:40+00:00
> And in many ways I think this was a positive energy to bring to the world!

Or in other words, becoming the landfill of negative energy of the world.

As someone who used to be that person for over a decade, having people endlessly confiding their relationship/health/mental/work/legal/family/gender issues will over time completely wreck your sanity. Because when you're that someone, people will not just tell you the light stuff, but also some really heavyweight and/or deeply fucked up things.
by sbinnee | 2025-11-18 00:33:02+00:00
> It is universally agreed between the two governments (and their citizens) that a unification should happen at some point, so it is obvious that we should be using a map that covers the whole peninsula. We (as South Koreans) also learn 'our country' as the whole peninsula.

When I was growing up, I learned that too. But is it still true? I don't see any unification news or mention of it from media anymore. I don't think that schools still say or can say that to students. It didn't take me a long time after I got out of the public education system to realize what propaganda schools and media were selling.
by dmix | 2025-11-18 00:33:05+00:00
Hyper administrative state-capitalist economies all have the same problem with infrastructure. The US has an image of being more capitalist and efficient, which is true to a degree, but once you get a large-scale project that hits all fed->state->municipal politics it's not much different than France. It's just minor variations of who the mandatory 'stakeholders' are ...who demands a cut and who delays/blocks progress.

As soon as some project is being pitched by politicians as "creating thousands of local jobs" it's either DOA or will be many years late and over budget.
by manquer | 2025-11-18 00:33:11+00:00
An regular user would associate 4k is premium / expensive and difficult to use without better phones/network/plans/signal strength etc so the idea would be to be signal it is 1M times with a somewhat challenging thing for them.

Non-tech savy users know how live streams crash with sports like with Netflix recently during boxing etc or on Twitter last year and usually those come with some n Million users in kind of headlines or the like, so they have some reference to that scale.

As analogies go, there are worse examples. BleepingComputer is hardly the New Yorker or Atlantic, best we can hope for these days is a human is writing the article I suppose.
by jerlam | 2025-11-18 00:33:39+00:00
Other states don't have California's direct democracy proposition process that allows any bill to get a vote, provided you have enough signatures. There are some terrible laws that get on the ballot in California, and some get passed.

California at this time also had a famously conservative governor (Reagan) who would be in support of the proposition. Governments aren't usually in favor of passing laws that would slash its own budget and lead to massive cuts in jobs and services.
by schiffern | 2025-11-18 00:34:41+00:00
FYI some of those amazing shots were also taken by Andrew McCarthy.

https://x.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1611128761776492544/

https://x.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1479541092693381120/

https://x.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1837219848478412935/

https://x.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1968658340679921925/