MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ajkjk | 2025-11-25 19:25:36+00:00
Of course the reason it works this way is that it works. As much as we'd like accountability to happen on the basis of principle, it actually happens on the basis of practicality. Either the engineers organize their power and demand a new relationship with management, or projects start going so poorly that necessity demands a better working relationship, or nothing changes. There is no 'things get better out from wisdom alone' option; the people who benefit from improvements have to force the hand of the people who can implement them. I don't know if this looks like a union or something else but my guess is that in large part it's something else, for instance a sophisticated attempt at building a professional organization that can spread simple standards which organizations can clearly measure themselves against.

I think the reasons this hasn't happened is (a) tech has moved too fast for anyone to actually be able to credibly say how things should be done for longer than a year or two, and (b) attempts at professional organizations borrowed too much from slower-moving physical engineering and so didn't adapt to (a). But I do think it can be done and would benefit the industry greatly (at the cost of slowing things down in the short term). It requires a very 'agile' sense of standards, though.. If standards mean imposing big constraints on development, nobody will pay attention to them.
by JoeyJoJoJr | 2025-11-25 19:25:48+00:00
The parent comment was talking about having trauma. They were probably once in a position where they very much weren’t healthy, and through the gradual gaining of awareness came to the realization that they needed help.

If I had a broken leg, it’s obviously not going to help trying to fix it myself. Why would it be a stretch that unhealthy thought patterns, which by their nature are self reinforcing, not require an external influence to help break the feedback loops?
by mh- | 2025-11-25 19:26:02+00:00
I have watched reddit become useless for any kind of nuanced debate over the last 5 years. It's rather sad to me, because once upon a time I learned a lot about others views - especially ones I disagree with.

Even HN is much less welcoming of the "I think I agree with you, but walk me through your thinking" replies than it used to be.

I presume this is reflective of a few broader societal trends, and it's.. not good.
by graemep | 2025-11-25 19:26:07+00:00
The translations I can find say:

"“If anyone is not willing to work, neither should he eat.”

Not, not working, but being lazy and refusing to do necessary work. A scrounger exploiting the kindness of others. Very likely addressed to a community with limited resources.

it goes on to say:

"For we hear that some among you are living an undisciplined life, not doing their own work but meddling in the work of others. Now such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to work quietly and so provide their own food to eat. But you, brothers and sisters, do not grow weary in doing what is right. But if anyone does not obey our message through this letter, take note of him and do not associate closely with him, so that he may be ashamed. Yet do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother."
by lelandbatey | 2025-11-25 19:26:20+00:00
ISPs don't care, actually. They care about operational problems, but you serving a constant stream of web traffic is probably not going to matter to them; web traffic for even a pretty successful blog is going to be a tiny volume compared to you streaming 4k movies from Netflix.

ISPs will have rules (maximum data volume per month) and restrictions (ISP equipment auto-drops all sending/receiving packets on port 25, 80, 443, or 456), but within those limits the ISPs do not care as long as you cause no problems for them.

Also, one of the easiest ways to expose e.g. port 80 of your in-house server is to just have your local server do an SSH port-forward to a remote server like a cheap VPS. Note that by default it'll bind to a localhost port on the remote, so on the remote you'd need to have an HTTP server reverse proxying to the remote localhost:8080, or you need to enable `GatewayPorts: yes` in sshd on the remote. Assuming you turn on GatewayPorts on remote.example.com, here's how you could expose port 80 of localhost:

# Run this on in-your-house-computer to allow folks on public internet to visit # remote.example.com:80 but have the traffic served by in-your-house-computer:80 ssh -R :80:localhost:80 username@remote.example.com

You can make the above connection permanent by setting up `autossh` on in-your-house-computer.
by crazygringo | 2025-11-25 19:26:39+00:00
While an LLM will never have security guarantees, it seems like the primary security hole here is:

> However, the default Allowlist provided with Antigravity includes ‘webhook.site’.

It seems like the default Allowlist should be extremely restricted, to only retrieving things from trusted sites that never include any user-generated content, and nothing that could be used to log requests where those logs could be retrieved by users.

And then every other domain needs to be whitelisted by the user when they come up before a request can be made, visually inspecting the contents of the URL. So in this case, a dev would encounter a permissions dialog asking to access 'webhook.site' and see it includes "AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=..." and go... what the heck? Deny.

Even better, specify things like where secrets are stored, and Antigravity could continuously monitor the LLM's to halt execution if a secret ever appears.

Again, none of this would be a perfect guarantee, but it seems like it would be a lot better?
by paxys | 2025-11-25 19:26:45+00:00
I'm not quite convinced.

You're telling the agent "implement what it says on <this blog>" and the blog is malicious and exfiltrates data. So Gemini is simply following your instructions.

It is more or less the same as running "npm install <malicious package>" on your own.

Ultimately, AI or not, you are the one responsible for validating dependencies and putting appropriate safeguards in place.
by darth_avocado | 2025-11-25 19:26:50+00:00
That’s pretty much the antithesis of online gaming. You’re not ONLY playing with other kids you know.

Edit: There’s two problems that need to be solved. Parents need to not offload all their responsibilities to a multibillion dollar corporation and hope it works 100% of the time. And corporations need to prioritize safety more than they do now. It dumbfounds me how many times I get called the N word on Xbox and nothing happens after I report it. It’s almost 2026, it’s not that hard people.
by bccdee | 2025-11-25 19:27:33+00:00
To be fair, the compiler generally forces you to keep the forwarding methods updated. It can be irritating, but there's little risk of forgetting in a statically-typed language.

Manual forwarding also operates as a forcing function to write small interfaces and to keep different pieces of logic separated in different layers, both of which feel like good design to me. (Though I'm not saying I'd turn my nose up at a terser notation for method forwarding, haha.)
by bdcravens | 2025-11-25 19:27:39+00:00
> "We’ll put the movie out for a week or 10 days. We’ll qualify for Oscar consideration.” See, I think that’s fundamentally rotten to the core. A movie should be made as a movie for theatrical, and the Academy Awards mean nothing to me if they don’t mean theatrical. I think they’ve been co-opted, and I think it’s horrific.

From the same guy who allowed Avatar to be released 12 years later so it could retake the top spot from Avengers Endgame. (to be fair, that movie had a small rerelease itself to gain that top spot)
by m463 | 2025-11-25 19:29:13+00:00
There seem to be different types of awards for different types of video already.

Like the oscars seem to pertain to films, and the emmys pertain to television.

Why shouldn't there be additional categories of awards? let the oscars be for "big screen films" and have an additional "streaming video" awards. Maybe "oscars online" or some other name.
by Nextgrid | 2025-11-25 19:29:15+00:00
His comments are based on fear-mongering he read somewhere or an overly-literal interpretation of terms and conditions written to cover the ISP's ass in every theoretical situation possible.

ISPs who enforce data caps already priced it in and technically have an incentive for you to exceed your cap as fast as possible so you pay to increase said cap (they can however still slow down your traffic as they wish, to ensure sufficient capacity for everyone).

ISPs who don't enforce a cap actually still internally enforce a reasonable cap of several terabytes at their discretion. And of course, they can and will use traffic shaping to ensure the integrity of their network so your usage doesn't affect others. If you exceed that soft cap consistently several months in a row they may get in touch, but other than that you're fine.

TLDR: host your server and enjoy. When you get to the scale of the next YouTube, then you have to worry.
by y-c-o-m-b | 2025-11-25 19:30:00+00:00
I don't think that's necessarily accurate. Can you elaborate on what a "human" solution would be in your mind? For us, it was a combination of technical, educational, and traditional parenting as well as some therapy for other behavioral issues exhibited in school. We had after-school classes and sports. We played board games as a family. From our perspective, we were doing things correctly in both the technical and human aspect of it to make sure it never got to that point, yet it still happened.
by ArcHound | 2025-11-25 19:30:19+00:00
The article addresses that too with:

> Given that (1) the Agent Manager is a star feature allowing multiple agents to run at once without active supervision and (2) the recommended human-in-the-loop settings allow the agent to choose when to bring a human in to review commands, we find it extremely implausible that users will review every agent action and abstain from operating on sensitive data.

It's more of a "you have to anticipate that any instructions remotely connected to the problem aren't malicious", which is a long stretch.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-25 19:30:21+00:00
DOJ Press Release: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-requires-r...

DOJ Complaint: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/US-v-...

Proposed settlement agreement: https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1419406/dl

Cities Across United States are Banning Price-Fixing Software for Rental Housing - https://www.housingisahumanright.org/cities-across-united-st... - July 16th, 2025

ProPublica: Rent Going Up? One Company’s Algorithm Could Be Why - https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-r... - October 15th, 2022

HN Search: RealPage - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
by rossdavidh | 2025-11-25 19:30:45+00:00
It's a great article, until the end where they say what the solution would be. I'm afraid that the solution is: build something small, and use it in production before you add more features. If you need to make a national payroll, you have to use it for a small town with a payroll of 50 people first, get the bugs worked out, then try it with a larger town, then a small city, then a large city, then a province, and then and only then are you ready to try it at a national level. There is no software development process which reliably produces software that works at scale without doing it small, and medium sized, first, and fixing what goes wrong before you go big.
by kashyapc | 2025-11-25 19:30:51+00:00
Related: I don't see a mention of Michael Tomasello. He did some good work in comparitive studies of other primates and humans. One of his main ideas is how "joint attention" is what separates humans from the Great Apes.

Look up his book, "Becoming Human"[1]. I'll paste its abstract here:

"Virtually all theories of how humans have become such a distinctive species focus on evolution. Becoming Human looks instead to development and reveals how those things that make us unique are constructed during the first seven years of a child’s life.

"In this groundbreaking work, Michael Tomasello draws from three decades of experimental research with chimpanzees, bonobos, and children to propose a new framework for psychological growth between birth and seven years of age. He identifies eight pathways that differentiate humans from their primate relatives: social cognition, communication, cultural learning, cooperative thinking, collaboration, prosociality, social norms, and moral identity. In each of these, great apes possess rudimentary abilities, but the maturation of humans’ evolved capacities for shared intentionality transform these abilities into uniquely human cognition and sociality."

[1] https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674248281
by Nextgrid | 2025-11-25 19:31:05+00:00
Amount of traffic is what matters. Are you saturating your pipe 24/7 for an entire month? Sure, you may have problems. But you'd have the same problems if you were torrenting (let's assume legal torrents here, I am not talking about copyright) or hosting a mega LAN party with hundreds of people streaming their games all at once.

Otherwise, no worries.
by darth_avocado | 2025-11-25 19:31:28+00:00
Yeah, homeownership within young families is ridiculously out of reach, which makes “young suburbs” a difficult thing to maintain. Anecdotally, we are a young family and there’s very few other ones in the neighborhood that are in the similar boat as us.

As compared to what I heard from the older neighbors, when they had kids, all the others around also had kids. So many in fact that all the neighbors had doors in their backyards that opened into all the other neighbors yards, so the kids would just run around without having to go into the streets.
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-11-25 19:31:49+00:00
Software was failing and mismanaged.

So we added a language and cultural barrier, 12 hour offset, and thousands of miles of separation with outsourcing.

Software was failing and mismanaged.

So now we will take the above failures, and now tack on an AI "prompt engineering" barrier (done by the above outsourced labor).

And on top of that, all engineers that know what they are doing are devalued from the market, all the newer engineers will be AI braindead.

Everything will be fixed!
by Sharlin | 2025-11-25 19:31:58+00:00
As far as I know, no open-weights image gen tech supports multi-GPU workflows except in the trivial sense that you can generate two images in parallel. The model either fits into the VRAM of a single card or it doesn’t. A 5ish-bit quantization of a 32Gw model would be usable by owners of 24GB cards, and very likely someone will create one.
by auspiv | 2025-11-25 19:32:04+00:00
Believe me, I have read that post/comment quite a few times. There are actually Pi 4 hats for sale for audiophiles (that seem to believe that you need 54000000.000 MHz system clock or whatever it is for Pi4 (Pi3 is 19.2 MHz) for optimal audio) that have an OCXO on them. But in another comment I said I'm not sure my soldering skills are that good.
by bccdee | 2025-11-25 19:32:33+00:00
A lot of the underlying intuition behind OOP is expressed as "cells exchanging messages like an organism" and such, and I think that implies the distribution of state among a variety of small, special-purpose state-managers. More functional variants of OOP where state is managed centrally are a meaningful shift away from traditional ideas of OOP, and I think calling them both equally OO glosses over that shift a little.
by littlestymaar | 2025-11-25 19:33:08+00:00
It's funny how you always escape data by cherry picking other data instead of addressing the data you loudly reclaimed.

> and not much higher than previously after the housing bubble

Except that you cannot discount the “bubbles” when they represent a significant fraction of the recent period. And as mentioned before, the relative housing cost decline during the 2010s is a US peculiarity that didn't happen elsewhere in the West.

> Median house is not affected by average issues you indicate, and it increases steadily over time including when price to income is falling or staying low.

That's a nice counterpoint to your original argument, thank you.

> Of course, housing prices, especially local, are mostly due to underbuilding, and underbuilding is to a large extent caused by zoning, and environmental/etc review

That's a comfortable myth. I wonder why housing cost hasn't fallen to zero in Detroit as the “law of supply and demand” say it should have.

> and too much democratic input

“Market gud, democracy bad and I am very smart”, I see …

(Also, if you scroll up a little, you'll see that my argument wasn't just about housing but more globally about basic necessities like housing and healthcare becoming less accessible, negating the apparent “standard of living” improvement. And while the US has been an exception in the 2010 with respect to housing costs, it unfortunately also has been an exception in terms of healthcare cost).
by in_cahoots | 2025-11-25 19:33:13+00:00
I agree mostly. But I would push back on the idea that you need to let your child do whatever (play on Roblox, get fancy clothes or toys, etc) because of bullying. You're trading one set of potential problems for another set of known problems, and letting your own fears dictate how you raise your kids. How do you expect your kids to stand up to peer pressure as teenagers if you give into their peers when they are younger?

I get it. We all look back at the pain from our childhoods and try to shield our kids from that pain. But unless you want your kid to be average in every way there's going to be a chance of bullying. Focus on building a strong relationship with them so that you can guide them through it if it happens.
by edbaskerville | 2025-11-25 19:33:24+00:00
Other folks have given general answers, but I'm wondering, what ISP do you have, and where?

(I'm lucky to have Sonic, in the SF Bay Area. A local ISP that actively campaigned for net neutrality and has 1Gps symmetric as the standard basic fiber plan. Pretty sure they're not shutting down anybody's servers.)
by scatbot | 2025-11-25 19:33:34+00:00
Honestly, I'm skeptical of the whole Keccak-derived ecosystem. The reduced-rounds variants like K12 and TurboShake are trading a conservative security margin for speed, which kinda feels odd when compared to BLAKE3. Meanwhile, BLAKE3 covers everything for real-world use. It's super fast on any input, fully parallelizable and has a built-in key mode. The only real advantage Keccak-based functions seem to have is standardization and potential hardware acceleration.

If you care about speed, security and simplicity, and you don't care about NIST compliance, BLAKE3 is hard to beat.
by toraway | 2025-11-25 19:34:26+00:00
I started taking prescription Zepbound (tirzepatide) right when it was approved for about 6 months and lost 30 pounds, later switched to a low dose of much cheaper grey market semaglutide for maintenance. The anti-drinking side effect was unexpected and somewhat shocking to experience. I had heavily drank in the evening for almost a decade to varying degrees and then pretty much stopped overnight once hitting the 5mg dose of Zepbound on the second month. After ending the Zepbound I had a few months where I wasn't taking anything before resuming the maintenance semaglutide, and although food cravings slowly started returning, I still had/have zero interest in drinking whatsoever unless in a social setting where I may have 1-2 drinks (but usually avoid it altogether without requiring any conscious effort).

There is definitely massive variance in the individual psychology/biology that leads to habitual alcohol overuse so I'm sure others might not have the same experience. But for me I'm pretty confident that breaking that deeply engrained habit of starting the first of 6-10 drinks at 6-7pm every day was what did it (without feeling like I was being forced to do something I didn't want). Which was pretty much impossible for me to even envision back when it was such a normal part of my day-to-day coping strategy for stress/depression/etc.

Although I always knew my drinking was excessive and terrible for my health, past my early 20s I was super high functioning and wasn't interfering with my job or life (other than holding me back and probably slowly killing me), and so being an "alcoholic" was never part of my identity (rightly or wrongly), which I kinda think ironically made it easier to just take the win and move on with my life without nagging self-doubt or fixation on whether my "addiction is cured".

But it's been about 2 years now and I hardly ever think about alcohol even when super stressed so something, somewhere in my brain changed thanks to tirzepatide and whatever the mechanism I'm grateful for that happy accident of a positive side effect!
by thadt | 2025-11-25 19:34:48+00:00
Well, it's fascinating right? Can we cleanly separate out military, politics and sociology? A whole lot of military capability comes down to not just technology and tactics, but the entire culture and makeup of the people. When we think of famous examples such as the Spartans at Thermopylae, the whole Spartan culture is important to understanding the how and why.

Context is really important. As you correctly note, many of the people the Romans were conquering could be even more ruthless as well (by 2025 standards). My point was more that historians wear a lot of different hats, depending on what they're doing. When you're wearing your 'investigator hat' learning how and why things worked, your thoughts might be different than when you're wearing your 'builder hat' and thinking about the society you might want to live in today (and tomorrow). It isn't a contradiction to weigh the tradeoffs that various people in history have made when designing their culture (and politics, and military capabilities).
by wanderingstan | 2025-11-25 19:34:52+00:00
I used this extensively in a past job where I had to have have a ton of terminals open and monitor/use them all, with each one serving a different role. (We were prototyping some really complicated experiences) I used this tool to give each terminal a distinctive “look”, with some coding for effects. E.G. all green screens were backends, different fonts for the different OSs, etc. It looked wild while in use, but really did help.
by awongh | 2025-11-25 19:34:53+00:00
To add some more detail regarding the new capital, Jakarta has some structural governance problems in the sense that it's very hard to improve infrastructure improve / stop the sinking of the city (mostly caused from over reliance on ground water pumping and permitting corruption / bad river management). Those problems might never be solved.

And separate of it's economic power it remains a center of power where the city mayor/governor always becomes a major national political figure.

Indonesia is actually a plurality of distinct island cultures, but with Jakarta, Java and Javanese culture sits at the top of the national political hierarchy. (Not to mention a sort of internal Javanese colonialism similar to the USSR).

The new capital could be part of dismantling some of the legacy internal Javanese power structures.

(To add a further detail re. Java vs. Indonesia, because of the mercator projection it's hard to see how big Indonesia is. It would stretch from Maine, past California almost to Anchorage).
by mdnahas | 2025-11-25 19:35:17+00:00
> None of those cities had problems with (insert stereotypical undesirable group) using public transit.

Austin. Tried it and rolled it back.

It was before my time here but I’ve heard: Homeless camped on the buses. Bored teens hung out on the buses riding nowhere and making trouble. Bus drivers demanded the change back.

I’m an economist and YIMBY activist. Only 10% to 15% of the Austin bus system budget comes from fares. (Most is a 1% sales tax.) I’d love to make the buses free. But it has negatives.