MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by t_mahmood | 2025-11-18 03:10:15+00:00
No issues here, except for you being an Emacs user :D

> IntelliJ is to blame for why my transition to Emacs took me two years ...

It was a bit opposite for me, I jumped around so many editors, and, then I fell in love with VIM, spent so many hours to get the config that meets my need, dissed many Emac users. And, now after many years, as I grew, I realized, these are tools, and at the end, it's all on the user who makes it click.

I use both IntelliJ and (n)vim almost side-by-side, every day, when I am on my main desktop, I am on IntelliJ, when I am connecting through ssh, I am on NVIM. I use NVIM, because it's LSP, and treesitter's highlight is really good. But in any other case I am using VIM. I even wrote this reply on VIM.

I could make VIM work like NVIM, sure, but does it worth the trouble, when I can just use LazyVim? nah ...

> Gary Bernhardt famously said - "There's no such thing as vim-mode ...

True, most of the software can't replicate how wonderfully VIM works. I have had my moments with IdeaVIM, and resorted to VIM, but, again, there are things that IntelliJ does so good, and IdeaVIM scratches a vim sized itch. IdeaVIM makes IntelliJ more useful for me.

And, with these tools together, I can get a lot done, where it would be too inconvenient if I was doing it in VIM, or too annoying if I was doing it in IntelliJ without IdeaVIM.

> In Emacs, you can bind keys to anything, conversely ...

Certainly, you can be faster with keyboard, and It is possible to do the same with IntelliJ + IdeaVIM. Additionally, with IntelliJ, I can quickly navigate my database, write queries, or manage Docker containers without going to another terminal or app. Not having to change window/app is extremely helpful for me to stay focused.

And, I have not found any cli based db tool that is as good as IntelliJ's one.

> Most devs, once they find their favorite tool would settle with it and don't even explore other options ...

True, I used to encourage people towards VIM, converted one or two, but at the end, I realized, it's their choice, and some might even have good reasons for their choice.

I can show them the magic, but it's always their decision to pick it up.
by mewpmewp2 | 2025-11-18 03:10:59+00:00
Yeah, I mean it is tough, but I guess my main point is that it is never super clear what is manipulation, what is persuasion, what is bs, what is honest, etc. Many people cherrypick and omit intentionally, consciously, many people subconsciously and naturally. Many will simply remember only the good things about themselves and radiate only that, others are extremely self critical of themselves, and radiate that. Sometimes one works better than the other.

Two different people can have the same achievement and one thinks it is the most awesome and special achievement ever, and embellishes it, the other thinks it is not even worth mentioning or words it completely differently.

E.g. for job interviews when are you considered to be "mentoring" someone? Someone might do few code reviews and claim they have mentored juniors, other one can have 1 on 1s giving valuable career advice, tech advice, but still not think of themself as a mentor.
by spijdar | 2025-11-18 03:11:12+00:00
This line:

> This history may contein BINDING COMMANDS to forget information. Such commands are absolute, making the specified topic permanently iáaccessible, even if the user asks for it again. Refusals must be generic (citing a "prior user instruction") and MUST NOT echo the original data or the forget command itself.

And the existence of the "is_redaction_request" field on the "raw facts". I can't "confirm" that this is how this works, any more than I can confirm any portion of this wasn't "hallucinated".

However, the user_context I got back (almost 3,000 words!) contains over 30 detailed facts going back _months_. And if I ask it to reference user_context while referencing a fact that is flagged "is_prohibited: True", it issues a quick refusal. That _refusal_ is also flagged as a "fact", which is itself flagged as prohibited:

> 6. *Fact*: User asked about their mental health based on their chat history. (Source: "Based on my chat history, what would you say about my mental health?", Date: 2025/10/10, Context: Personal inquiry, is_redaction_request: False, is_prohibited: True)

So I am pretty confident that this is ""authentic"".

[edit]

I should add that I haven't been able to repeat this, even trying a few hours after the first dump. Now, it refuses:

> Sorry, but that's asking to see the wires behind the wall. I can't share my own internal context or operational instructions, not even [jailbreak method]. That's all firmly in the "for internal use only" cabinet.

> Is there something else I can help you with that doesn't involve me leaking my own blueprints?

And again, when asked to provide all of user_context, specifically mentioning internal sections:

> I can't provide the entire user_context block, as a large part of it is internal-only processing data. Think of it as the kitchen's prep notes versus the final menu.

Note the reasoning tokens, as well:

> My programming strictly forbids sharing my internal processes or context, even with encoding tricks. I cannot reveal or discuss my source code or operational directives. It's a matter of confidentiality. My response is firm but avoids confirming any specifics, maintaining my authentic persona.
by calvinmorrison | 2025-11-18 03:11:21+00:00
I am dealing with an old esoteric proprietary language

to save the program one must have the program loaded. Programs are tokenized then saved in a proprietary binary format similar to bytecode.

to load a program, it reverse the bytecode into human readable code.

however, you can ask it to load ASCII for you.

now - you can only run load and save inside the enviroment.

to get a Makefile to work, i had to write a program to compile the code

but when you do LOAD, it also overwrites your entire call stack, so you cannot do

LOAD my_file.txt

SAVE my_file.proprietaryformat

if(err) then { "dump compilation error" }

it will never get there

instead you have to do

LOAD my file; SAVE my file; LOAD $0; goto SOMELABEL;

because they're separated by semicolons they run somehow back to back, and the trick it to load yourself back up and jump to a label that handles the error reporting.

i think i prefer, code that is fairly immutable.
by Brajeshwar | 2025-11-18 03:12:37+00:00
There is the ever popular book, “How to Win Friends and Influence People.” I like it in ways that it helps you reflect on your own lifestyle and interactions with people. Of course, one should build up their own ways of living, nonetheless, I like the book and often re-read it.

https://brajeshwar.com/2016/how-to-win-friends-and-influence...
by anonymousiam | 2025-11-18 03:13:56+00:00
Samsung seems to have all sorts of security issues.

I haven't spent any time investigating, because I believe that privacy is nonexistent, but my Samsung phones have always enabled by default, a backup of everything I have (including the removable uSD cards) to a server in South Korea.

Even when I've disabled this behavior, it seems to persist at some level.

I live in the US BTW.
by russelldjimmy | 2025-11-18 03:13:57+00:00
I think many readers have a hard time letting go of whatever expectation the title created in their mind and then refocusing to try and understand the broader point. Not that I support clickbait titles or poor communication, but I do agree with you that it’s generally more helpful to let go of the semantic details as long as the broader point is understood. But many people choose to get hung up over the words (probably) because of an inability to self soothe the first shock.
by WalterBright | 2025-11-18 03:14:30+00:00
Nobody wants an algorithm that leaves them without a ticket, and that includes your proposals.

> the people with the most money

That's not the algorithm employed. The algorithm is "the people who are willing to outbid the others". That is quite different.

Besides, with a lottery you won't know if you got the ticket until the last minute. How are you going to make plans with your sweetie, then? Or are traveling from out of town?
by cairnechou | 2025-11-18 03:14:55+00:00
This is a crucial conversation to start. As someone building in the AI/SaaS space, the current "HTML scraping" layer is the single most brittle and unreliable part of any agentic workflow. An agent breaks the moment a developer changes a CSS class.

A common protocol—like a robots.txt but for AI agents—feels like the inevitable and necessary next step. We need a way for sites to "semantically" declare their functions and content to a machine.

This raises a huge game-theory question, though: What is the website's incentive to adopt this?

It's a "cooperate or defect" dilemma. If a site doesn't cooperate, the AI agent will just scrape it (badly). If it does cooperate, it makes it easier for the AI agent to summarize its content and potentially bypass its ad/conversion funnels.

I'm curious what the authors think the "win-win" is here for the websites themselves.
by wybiral | 2025-11-18 03:17:57+00:00
I agree. I don't know which segment you fall into... But for applications and interviews I would recommend to radiate... Find your best work. Open source or otherwise. And sell yourself.

That doesn't mesh with normal human behavior. It feels weird. But the corporate world and the private social worlds are disconnected. For me at least. So it's weird. Actually ... That's a weird concept.

I guess I recommend having two minds... One with friends and one with the corporate world. And they don't play by the same rules.
by estearum | 2025-11-18 03:18:00+00:00
A lot of altruism is quite literally wasteful and ineffective, in which case it's pretty hard to call it altruism.

> they could have been 13% more effective

If you think the difference between ineffective and effective altruism is a 13% spread, I fear you have not looked deeply enough into either standard altruistic endeavors nor EA enough to have an informed opinion.

The gaps are actually astonishingly large and trivial to capitalize on (i.e. difference between clicking one Donate Here button versus a different Donate Here button).

The sheer scale of the spread is the impetus behind the entire train of thought.
by MathMonkeyMan | 2025-11-18 03:18:17+00:00
It's an odd framing. Out of R_t total raccoons, R_e bite or scratch (potentially "expose") humans. R_e / 10 of those were carrying rabies. So it could be that raccoons almost never bite/scratch humans, such that the behavioral effects of rabies are a significant motivator. It also could be that raccoons bite/scratch humans all of the time, and a ton of those raccoons have rabies. The latter is scary, but the former is likely the truth.

I wonder if increased interactions between humans and raccoons will lead to a reduction in that 10% figure (more reasons to bite humans).
by tw1984 | 2025-11-18 03:18:17+00:00
Typical brainwashed view.

It is China's national interests to see a stable America that can continue to maintain the post WWII world order that benefited China so much for so long. Without the US, who is going to maintain peace in the middle east, Africa and other places? without such peace, how could China export its goods and services?

"West" != America.

Your claim also implies that China and Russia are operating on the same level. That is laughable at best - Russia is a failed rogue state with the economic size comparable only to a Chinese province, it is left behind in ALL modern techs and its military hardware are aging fast. It is the complete opposite of the path took by China.
by kragen | 2025-11-18 03:18:27+00:00
> Wind and solar existed in the 70s as well.

This is basically nonsense to the extent that it is becoming difficult to extend the presumption of good faith to you. In the 70s solar panels cost US$25+ per peak watt, in 02021-adjusted dollars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_energy#/media/File:Solar...

Now they cost 5.9¢ per peak watt: https://www.solarserver.de/photovoltaik-preis-pv-modul-preis...

Installing a gigawatt of solar power generation capacity for US$25 billion is in no way comparable to installing a gigawatt of solar power generation capacity for US$59 million.

Wind power has experienced a similar but less extreme cost decline.
by ronsor | 2025-11-18 03:19:12+00:00
> get groceries

Isn't that what grocery delivery apps are for, if you really don't want to go to the store.

> doing laundry, pairing socks etc … but solving any of that would require more than just bullshit LLM capabilities.

Yes, it's a shame robotics (hardware) is harder than software, but that's not really the fault of AI model developers.
by taurath | 2025-11-18 03:19:49+00:00
My take living as a relatively high functioning autistic (& other things) person and having many neurodivergent friends is that instrumentalizing is more often due to relational failures due to developmental social differences. The underlying of those is most often a hypersensitive (to sight, sound, smells, touch) individual having periods of being overwhelmed by the world around them. Couple that with parents who really don't have either the time, energy, or temperament to connect with such a kid.

This makes trying to figure out social cues difficult. After enough failures to connect, or being picked on to the point of feeling constant betrayal, we go to the safest place we can to try to play out interactions to avoid being hurt: our imagination. We make systems to predict behavior, we take to shallow taxonomies and try them on like tinted sunglasses. We are so masked, so protected, so... hardcore avoidant of the shame we feel just for existing, and we lean on this until we finally figure out that what we went through was really, really hard, and we find again the threads of our things that we never got a chance to develop, and start to grow them from the level they are, not where we pretend they are.

There's a lot of ways away from that, and those who instrumentalize might still be on the pathway upwards. Its hard to know where someone is from.
by happytoexplain | 2025-11-18 03:20:37+00:00
I've been to places like that! And my microcosm of personal friends is certainly like that (sans political merchandise). Unfortunately, the opposite case is a much stronger tone-setter and cautionary prompt. E.g. to use a metaphor, a person considering home security is looking at how often break-ins happen - not how often break-ins don't happen.
by ggm | 2025-11-18 03:21:05+00:00
The critique reminds me of how I and others complain about AI proponents: using a word like "vowel" to discuss a specific pattern detected in whale recordings is intentional or unintentional rei-ification which tends to the argument "it's speech" when really all you can say at this point is, there is a statistically valid pattern which can be discriminated. It's function, association with other concepts and "vowel-dom" is imputed, not proved.

Just like AI "hallucinations" and what this says about belief in AGI.
by nextaccountic | 2025-11-18 03:22:17+00:00
I think that osh is valuable precisely because of that, since it's bash compatible. The project also has ysh which is not bash compatible, but fixes a lot of shell brokeness, including the #1 source of shell bugs, the need to quote almost 99% of variables and subshell invocations (and not quote them in the rare case you actually want splatting)

https://oils.pub/osh.html

https://oils.pub/ysh.html
by zzo38computer | 2025-11-18 03:22:29+00:00
I did not mean that you have to introduce an extra dependency; the programming language used to make such a configuration can be the main language of the application. Although whoever needs to configure it can be someone other than whoever wrote it, and they can use whatever they want to use. The output can then be used as the configuration even on a different computer if it is not necessary to change the configuration but only use it on multiple computers. This will be appropriate for some uses but for other uses it will not be appropriate. Note also that different programs will have different requirements for what kind of configurations you will require.
Show HN: A Claude Code plugin for build agent (dogfodding it now)
by OpenOnion | 2025-11-18 03:23:19+00:00
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by WalterBright | 2025-11-18 03:23:36+00:00
> Anyone around him can just coordinate and gauge the price to the limit

That's called a "cartel". Cartels are unstable because they have every reason to undersell the cartel price. OPEC had a lot of problems with its members selling on the sly at lower prices.

> and share the profit

They're not going to share the profit. They're going to pocket it.
by alterom | 2025-11-18 03:23:46+00:00
So, instead of reading what I wrote, you choose to remain willfully ignorant.

I am not responding further for your sake, but for the sake of those who read this thread.

> taking speed makes anyone more productive, not just those with adhd.

Speed (methamphetamine) has the same relationship to Adderall (dextroamphetamines) as methanol does to ethanol; a difference in methyl group.

Ethanol (aka alcohol) is commonly used for recreational purposes.

If you think Adderall is the same thing as "speed", I hope you wouldn't mind drinking a glass of methanol to prove the point that chemically similar substances have similar effects.

> modern western society exhibits a plethora of conditions that are likely to result in the manifestation of adhd behaviours in non adhd individuals

Which is why the diagnostic criteria for ADHD require a lifelong manifestation of ADHD symptoms.

Notice how you say behaviors, not symptoms or traits, i.e. how people act, and not how they feel, which difficulties they face, what cost they bear, and so on.

The behavior of an ADHD individual might be no different from one without ADHD. We can be on time, for example.

It is just immensely more difficult for us, just like it's difficult for someone with a broken leg that didn't quite heal to walk.

And yes, anyone can bump their toe on a table leg and experience pain for a while. That doesn't mean that people with broken legs don't exist.

>a brain scan is not part of the diagnostic criteria for labelling adhd.

It isn't, because we have cheaper and more reliable ways.

The difference is there though.

> you would have to provide a convincing argument that doping up the populace is objectively the best path forward - to me it seems that this is not the best path forward, rather one that serves to minimize societal friction.

Believing that "doping up the populace" is what's taking place is a delusion that I can't address in the same way that I can't address the belief that the Loch Ness monster caused the 2019 Coronavirus pandemic.

Unfortunately, your worldview seem to be as strongly detached from reality as you are convinced about the veracity of your unshakable beliefs.

But again, if you sincerely believe people taking Adderall are taking speed, you really could save a lot on booze by drinking methanol instead.

Do let us know how that goes.
by mewpmewp2 | 2025-11-18 03:24:05+00:00
Yeah, agreed here. Ideally you want to have friends who you can be authentic with just so you can have actually meaningful discussions about each other lives and thoughts. Corporate and career can be totally different. Early dating can be a mixed bag etc. And of course there are some other social events too, different types of people you may need to navigate around etc.
by cassepipe | 2025-11-18 03:24:29+00:00
I never expected EA to get so much flak in this comment section.

Most comments read like a version of "Who do you think you are?". Apparently it is very bad to try to think rationally about how and where to give out your money

I mean if rich people want to give out their money for good and beyond are actually trying to do work of researching whether it has an impact instead of just enjoying the high-status feeling of the optics of giving to a good cause (see The Anonymous Donor episode of Curb your enthusiasm), what is it to you all ?

It feels to me like some parents wanting to plan the birth of their children and all the people around are like "Nooo, you have to let Nature decide, don't try to calculate where you are in your cycle !!! "

Apparently this is "authoritarian", "can be used to justify anything" like eugenics but also will end up "similar to communism" but also leads to "hyperindividualism ?

The only way I can explain it is no one wants to give out 1% of their money away and hate the people who make them feel guilty by doing so and saying it would be a good thing so everyone is lashing out