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by blobbers | 2025-11-13 18:17:49+00:00
Haha; I have been trying to and then realized it was senseless. I actually wonder if this an ai designed to troll.

I could see someone using a prompt that says something like “make a poor argument based on ______ and repeatedly alter it in further comments. Use words from a list of logical fallacies incorrectly, make yourself sound credible.”
by Uhhrrr | 2025-11-13 18:18:01+00:00
I confess, I'm not very bright and am having trouble decoding the subtleties of "Kill All Men!" as you have done. Could you explain how you got from "All" to "just the bad ones"? Would you interpret "Kill All Women" in the same manner?

Tangential question: do you advocate death for all bad people, a group which according to you includes the president?
by Reason077 | 2025-11-13 18:18:03+00:00
This article was written in 2007, just a few years after Network Rail was re-nationalised in 2002.

Since 2002, there has only been a single passenger fatality attributable to poor maintenance: the Grayrigg derailment in 2007.

This followed a cluster of high profile crashes during the Railtrack (privatisation) era in 1997-2002 that killed dozens, and were directly or partly attributable to poor maintenance.

I’d argue that the longer Network Rail’s good safety record continues, the more we can disregard that article.
by westurner | 2025-11-13 18:18:04+00:00
Docker and Kubernetes have health check mechanisms to help solve for this;

Docker docs > Dockerfile HEALTHCHECK instruction: https://docs.docker.com/reference/dockerfile/#healthcheck

Podman docs > podman-healthcheck-run, docker-healthcheck-run: https://docs.podman.io/en/v5.4.0/markdown/podman-healthcheck...

Kubernetes docs > "Configure Liveness, Readiness and Startup Probes" https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/con...
by Refreeze5224 | 2025-11-13 18:18:16+00:00
The entire point of the article is that patients become customers, with an attendant reduction in care. When you treat people attempting to save their own lives as simply sources of profit, you subject them to all the other gross and manipulative sales/profit maximization strategies that capitalists use. It's not just that the costs are higher, it's about a loss of human dignity.

Fundamentally it's a moral question, not an economic one. Should people's health and actual lives be treated as simply a way to generate profit? Answering anything other than no is a relatively new development in societies, and is flat out wrong.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-11-13 18:18:48+00:00
Depends on how far back you are going. There was the whole 1969 Minsky Perceptron flap where he said ANNs (i.e Perceptrons) were useless because they can't learn XOR (and no-one at the time knew how to train multi-layer ANNs), which stiffled ANN research and funding for a while. It would then be almost 20 years until the 1986 PDP handbook published LeCun and Hinton's rediscovery of backpropagation as a way to train multi-layer ANNs thereby making them practical.

The JEPA parallel is just that it's not a popular/mainstream approach (at least in terms of well funded research), but may eventually win out over LLMs in the long term. Modern GPUs provide plenty of power for almost any artifical brain type approach, but of course are expensive at scale, so lack of funding can be a barrier in of itself.
by bigyabai | 2025-11-13 18:19:16+00:00
Noblesse oblige exists because of a moral economy. You can be a horrible Duke, because there's no real reward for being the good one.

This is not that - Steam has to compete on the free market, there is a reward for making the product everyone else refuses to make. In a post-Deck world, it's hard to believe that moral obligation plays a bigger role than the overall hatred of Windows for seamless gaming experiences.
by PaulHoule | 2025-11-13 18:19:30+00:00
Lots to unpack.

I think it is lame that ‘American Express” feels compelled to buy an Ad on Google so that if I am looking to pay my bill they will always be on top…

But: that official Taylor Swift is a site for sore eyes, I mean look at that ‘handwritten’ letter to her fans that is close to impossible to read. Reminds me of back in the 1990s when my sister-in-law came up to Ithaca and was excited to see the official web site advertised on TV [1] but it too was a site for sore eyes and eclipsed completely by fan sites. The swifties I know are pretty obsessed in real life and I can’t imagine that their works completely trash Taylor’s own site.

[1] back then I had a 486DX2 machine I built myself which was named ryo-oh-ki after a character from Tenchi Mayo! with a matching background and a 56k modem I bought cheap from what was one of the first banner ads on the WWW.
by hinkley | 2025-11-13 18:19:31+00:00
When systems were smaller I tried to push for the realization that I don’t need a heartbeat from a machine that is currently returning status 200 messages from 60 req/s. The evidence of work is already there, and more meaningful than the status check.

We end up adding real work to the status checks often enough anyway, to make sure the database is still visible and other services. So inference has a lot of power that a heartbeat does not.
by frankfrank13 | 2025-11-13 18:19:32+00:00
Very cool idea, and helps promote owning your own data, and it being highly interoperable (plain text!)

I do wonder if we need a term for shoe-horned dogfooding though. Like sure, you can do this. You could do this in Figma! Or in Notion! Or in LEETCODE if you wanted to.

At least with Zed though, its plain text. If you find another way to collab realtime on plain text, you're not bound to 1 vendor.
by btilly | 2025-11-13 18:19:57+00:00
It is true that both sides are working to disenfranchise the other. Mostly through gerrymandering. Like how California just decided to screw democracy with Proposition 50, because Texas chose to screw democracy the other way.

But the real risk isn't an attempt to appeal the 19th amendment. It is that an authoritarian executive abolishes democracy entirely. That this is the risk has been obvious for a long time. Latin America is full of countries who adopted constitutions based on the US Constitution when they threw off Spanish rule. Those democracies consistently fell when legislative deadlock and judicial corruption created a window for an authoritarian executive to declare a state of emergency and override both.

We have the legislative deadlock, and a court system that is rapidly losing public respect. We have an authoritarian leaning President who is already teasing about an unconstitutional third term. He probably doesn't have the popular support to actually abolish democracy. But if we remain this polarized for another decade or two, we're likely to go the same way as every other democracy whose constitution was based on ours.
by plomme | 2025-11-13 18:20:22+00:00
I think we are on the same page actually - I'm not dismissing the notion that we might engineer ourselves out of a declining work force. But then the question is, if human labor (me, you, us) is -gradually- becoming unwanted, then how do I make a living?

Maybe there is a Star-Trek utopia at the far end, but in the meantime we are looking at potentially several years where me and a chunk of other white-collar workers are unemployable. I'm not sure UBI will be enacted before a large chunk of the general population is unemployable. And how will we fund UBI? Taxing the automators? They can just move their business to a tax haven.

Maybe I can find a job in some sector that's hard to automate, but I imagine a lot of people will be looking for those jobs. And that would probably lead to a pay cut.

So, what then if we want to maintain or even improve our standard of living? Invest in tech stocks? Sure. But we will still need to pick out winners or spread our bets. Will the gains in the stock market be enough to cancel out job loss?
by renewiltord | 2025-11-13 18:20:50+00:00
My problem with people asking for evidence is that they often are expecting me to do a lot of work to give them a better world model, when they nonetheless have no intention of accepting any evidence.

So I have a guideline of good faith: you can hire me and I don’t mind doing it for you; or you can go read up on the subject, reach some understanding of what these things are, and we can discuss; or you can go do some research of equivalent value to me and bring that to me as a barter[0].

Otherwise, it’s really not a big deal to me if you don’t believe something that’s true.

0: for the moment, I’m willing to trade for the DNA height model that some people claim exists. If you can find it for me, I’ll find you some sources for container royalties.
by kakacik | 2025-11-13 18:21:08+00:00
What you mention are your personal anecdotes while being mildly prolific in 2 out of many languages. Where I live, knowing fluently 4 or 5 is the norm and nobody considers themselves an expert on given country, even if its just another European country or even neighbor.

I've been to the US for couple of months working here and there, you folks are fine but I still don't get even after 2+ decades why you end up with such system. I don't mean the strengths, we all know them but the weaknesses which are all roughly solvable if enough focus is spent on them.

Utter disregard for the poor who are there to be exploited for life (or ignored like homeless), completely broken public education and medical system. From European perspective a proper police state - it was the first time I saw fear in faces of regular people from just a police car moving around the corner. Very high criminality of the 'heaviest' type. Also wars, those endless wars and their constant failures - what did Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan change for the better of people there or entire regions, apart from millions of civilians dead?

At the end, what Europeans care about is US politics, rest are details. We and rest of the world judge based on that. How that goes we all see these days.
by parliament32 | 2025-11-13 18:21:24+00:00
> Passkeys, Social Sign In, OIDC, Magic Link, Multi-Factor Auth, SMS, SAML, TOTP, and more.

Sounds great! But buried further in the page,

> Additional enterprise features that are not available in the open source version such as SCIM, SAML, organization login ("SSO"), CAPTCHAs and more
by ModernMech | 2025-11-13 18:21:47+00:00
> The political atmosphere following George Floyd and "defund the police", as there was a then somewhat fringe position that standardized testing was racist... came to the fore, which lead to the politicially easy and popular option of making standardized testing optional.

This is not it at all. The removal of SAT / ACT requirements has more to do about university pipelines and budgets, rather than social justice.

As with any metric, when you introduce it, people start optimizing for the metric rather than for what it's intended to measure. SAT and ACT scores had become so important, yet they are not actually a good indicator for what they're designed to measure (academic aptitude). They are also gamed, and people cheat. When colleges put too much emphasis on these metrics, it causes high schools to start aligning to teach them, rather than teaching broad skills colleges actually prefer.

What you attribute to social justice and the murder of George Floyd was really more of a pipeline problem caused by COVID. As someone who does undergraduate and graduate admissions, I can tell you the proximal cause of us dropping our standardized test requirement was that the many very good applicants to our school couldn't get tested, because it had been suspended. So we had a choice: don't admit a full class of students or drop the requirement. We dropped the requirement. It wasn't about social justice, or equality, or DEI, or whatever else you want to attribute it to. Rather, it was dropped because we needed students, and our applicants didn't have test scores.

That the requirement hasn't come back since is a matter of inertia; deciding to drop a requirement because it is impacting the short-term student pipeline is a decision the administration makes because they're losing money now. Bringing it back has to be justified by the lower ranks who are impacted by admitting unprepared students. Admin doesn't feel that pain. It's a much harder and longer process to show the lack of the standard is harming the university in the long term. Matters of social justice one way or another are not very persuasive to bean counters.
by some_furry | 2025-11-13 18:22:30+00:00
There are a lot of things I dislike about this article.

"Porn addiction" is a paleologism that caused a lot of harm so the scientific community has largely abandoned it. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/women-who-stray/2018...

It's also weird to have friends who have spent time in actual monasteries and then read an article that calls people suffering from compulsive behaviors "monks". They seem awfully attached to the vices of the modern life to be anything remotely monk-like to me.
by PaulHoule | 2025-11-13 18:22:35+00:00
No, it is being able to evaluate models. 5 builders without eval produce zero value. 1 eval person can pick and choose the best model out of a bunch that are open source and commercial and maybe one of them is good enough. Put an eval person together with N builders and you have a chance of making a good enough model.

If you want to know why Hacker News is full of people disappointed or skeptical with AI ask yourself why they put 99.9% of their effort into “zero-shot” when it is clear as day that if you get a few thousand examples and train in that you wipe the floor with “zero-shot”
by jmadeano | 2025-11-13 18:22:49+00:00
> It would be helpful for you to share the privacy policy of the API service as well.

We have standard data processing agreements with any and all LLM providers that we use. These include do not train/retain provisions (whether you trust them is another question entirely).

> Anything you make is or can become public. I would revisit this decision and prioritize keeping users' data private.

Totally valid. We haven't acted on this clause (scripts are not shared unless your yourself enable sharing) so probably best to remove it. To be clear though, your page data is your own. That will never be shared (not even you yourself can opt to share that because the privacy concerns are too great). The generated scripts are much safer (generally boils down to a bunch of static CSS selectors, styles, etc.). Nonetheless, a valid point.

> Also, I would encourage you to understand your technology, even your marketing site, to be able to add a link to Privacy Policy and ToS in the footer without the burden of "an entangled mess of state machine" and the risk of breaking anything. If the marketing site technology is outside the scope of your expertise, consider how much worse would a static page would be?

Fair comment, fwiw we did ship it in the footer already :) For the standard site, when the extension is installed, there are 6 steps. Each step dynamically progresses based on your install state (installed, pinned, permissions granted, first generation, etc.) We put a lot into the onboarding experience and it is pretty complicated (happy to geek out over the details!), but we hide all this if the extension isn't actively installed. Unfortunately, my blunder was that one of those steps that was hidden includes the privacy policy.

Thanks for all the feedback!
by BuyMyBitcoins | 2025-11-13 18:23:04+00:00
A pet peeve of mine is that a noticeable amount of LLM output sounds like I’m getting answers from a millennial reddit user. Which is ironic considering I belong to that demographic.

I am not a fan of the snark and “trying to be fun and funny” aspect of social media discourse. Thankfully, I haven’t run into checks notes, “ding ding ding” yet.
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-13 18:23:12+00:00
If you are unwilling to say "We are sorry" because "that opens you up to lawsuits" then you are not sorry.

Letting business concerns trump human empathy is exactly the damn problem and exactly why these companies still deserve immense ire no matter how they word their "We don't want to admit fault but we want you to think we care" press release. This is also true of something like the Dutch crown or the USA having tons of people being extremely upset at the suggestion of teaching kids what the US has actually done in it's history.
by nixgeek | 2025-11-13 18:23:18+00:00
A team of us moved it off Rackspace in 2013, it’s been mostly in a set of GitHub operated colo since then. Used to be there was some workloads on AWS and a bit of DirectConnect. Now it’s some workloads on Azure.

To the best of my knowledge there’s been no Rackspace in the picture since about 2013, the details behind that are fuzzy as it’s been 10+ years since I worked on infrastructure at GitHub.
by whizzter | 2025-11-13 18:23:27+00:00
Oh I agree fully, this is probably more created by researchers and/or "AI-bros" with less experience as actual game developers (that they have actually added a way of placing objects is after all far more than most other tools has provided with their text-focus).

That said, all those collisions, triggers, lights, etc could be authored together with blockouts in Unity, Godot or some other editor capable of creating levels that integrates with the rest of the game authoring process.

If they create a way to keep the contexts of generation (or rebuild them from marker objects with prompts that are kept in the level editor and continiously re-imported) and allow for a sane way to re-generate and keep chunks then I feel that this could be fairly bad for world artists (Yes, they'd probably still be needed to adjust things to not look like total slop).
by Jigsy | 2025-11-13 18:23:35+00:00
GPL-3.0 on the Github. Also based in Switzerland for what that's worth.

Also, the problem with Tor is that people in the UK believe that the only people who use Tor are looking for child abuse (websites). Consider this to be a form of brainwashing by the government/Police.

Because of this, there's a stigma regarding the use of, since people claim that "The UK is not a dictatorship, so why would anyone need to use it?"
by skippyboxedhero | 2025-11-13 18:23:46+00:00
You can see that it is highly effective even within the UK. Ofgem publish components of the energy price, of the average annual cost of £1300 I recall that profit was £40. Government subsidies are now £200-300 and are growing (I believe I read a story the other day that said that if the wholesale cost of energy fell to zero over the next few years, the cost of energy would not fall...that is how expensive the government's corporate subsidies to high-cost suppliers is...for some reason, no-one talks about this).

If you compare to the 70s when the government was throwing cash at these industries (largely because of the political incentives), it is unbelievable how low costs are. The problem is that the political intervention has been very bad, the public liability comes from bad regulation (which was just as true in the 70s).

For example, in energy the regulator has encouraged operators, like Tomato Energy the most recent failure, who are very clearly not operating in a financially sustainable way. If you look at who works for regulators (and look at what they get up to outside of regulation, in other parts of government), I am not sure how you can conclude that it could ever be any other way. We are paying for people who are largely unemployable outside of government to attempt to govern companies that are responsible for powering the whole of the country. Why does anyone think is wise?

Another example mentioned in the OP is retaining much in public ownership and then privatizing ROSCOs...it isn't just this is a bad idea, it is so clearly a bad idea that it is unclear who could have thought this is a bad idea. Again, this happened because of very ineffective regulation/political leadership.

Finally, what profits? One of the issues with most regulated industries is that the profits are very low because of the politics (for some reason, people think that public ownership will fix this...rather than make it much worse...we don't need to imagine, the UK has tried this several times, it has failed every time but the politics mean that there is no option but to keep trying it). The result has led companies to do things that are not wise because, otherwise, investors will pull capital. If you read any article about this is any paper in the UK, you would assume that the profits on offer in these industries are wild...they are not, share prices are collapsing, the reason why the government is taking over rail operating companies is because they are going bust, there is massive demand destruction in almost all of these areas because prices are sky-high, profits are non-existent, demand is being destroyed, and no-one wants to deal with the lack of supply because it would require admitting that the world isn't divided into Monopoly Man and a Victorian urchin.

There are countries that have made it work but the UK will never be one of them because of the political environment (significantly more raucous than the European style of managed democracy).
by lrvick | 2025-11-13 18:23:59+00:00
Citation needed.

Both Apple and Google have updated these pages with security disclosure PGP keys in the last year.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/101985

https://about.google/company-info/appsecurity/

I design most corporate bug bounty programs the same way.

Sure, people rarely use PGP, but the ones that do are usually serious and high quality, and we let them skip the tier 1 queue. Script kiddies never know how to encrypt things.
by Silhouette | 2025-11-13 18:25:09+00:00
That's a true claim today. The defence industry moves surprisingly slowly for a field where more advanced technology is such an advantage so it probably will be true for close to another decade as well because Europe has no native fifth gen fighter.

However the story might be different in a decade as sixth gen aircraft like Tempest are entering service and probably other modern technologies like unmanned/autonomous drones and hypersonic and directed energy weapons are more widely deployed. Connectivity between units in the field is also clearly a huge deal that is going to matter more and more and that is going to require a level of interoperability and trust that won't be kind to "partners" who aren't good team players.

On that kind of timescale I expect "buying American" will be much less attractive to most "allies" of the US than it has been for most of the past century and it will show exactly in decisions like who is making and buying whose planes.
by Aloisius | 2025-11-13 18:25:30+00:00
Pickup trucks aren't flat vertical walls like a semi though. They are a high wall with a hood.

While "sharp" edge can certainly break bones, getting hit with a high hood causes people to slam their head into the hood with very little travel time compared to a low hood. Head injuries are far more likely to cause death.

Of course, the risk varies based on height. Sharp edges a couple feet off the ground are far more dangerous to someone only a couple feet tall.
by Slow_Hand | 2025-11-13 18:26:03+00:00
I indirectly know one or two people who match this lonely home gambling archetype (friends of a friend) and every day I feel gratitude that I am (for the most part) socially well-adjusted and supported.

The handful of men like this who I've spoken to I find to be pretty self-aware and somewhat self-loathing. I often find that what they need is someone who can listen to them, give them some tactful encouragement, and occasionally help them find a strategy that will help them to overcome the troubles that they're facing. Be that therapy or a debtors anonymous meeting.

It's a challenging world that is often overwhelming to manage by yourself. It's easy to feel dis-empowered when you don't have a solid social circle that you can lean on, or who can help to re-direct your bad tendencies. Helping folks find their own social group can be immensely helpful for people who are trying to course correct.