MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by garyfirestorm | 2025-11-21 00:36:10+00:00
This is a law problem though. This is clear violation of 4th amendment. You’re being unreasonably searched when a set of traffic observation cameras turn into surveillance of a particular individual. This is not that hard to understand, observing traffic flow != tracking YOU in particular. That should require a probable cause and proper warrant, we want to identify this individuals movements because …
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-21 00:37:36+00:00
Every US administration at least as far back as Woodrow has done nothing but expand the surveillance state. Like you can make the argument that occasional weirdos like Ike, Clinton and Hoover didn't really do anything to expand on that front and just kept the status quo and let them run themselves but there has never been any substantial rollback in at least 100yr. And as bad as the executive is the legislature is no better.
by tharkun__ | 2025-11-21 00:37:39+00:00
That sounds like a very German approach to the whole thing.

Look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of... and look at the total speakers vs. native speakers.

Now it should be clear why one is better than the other. The shared language of most is English, so you have the least amount of "extra learning" required.

Also, the number for German is generous in that it includes people that speak wildly "incompatible" dialects and accents. While people in Bavaria technically speak "German" and having them talk to other people that speak "German" (with various dialects) is easier than asking either to speak English as their primary language, that doesn't really solve the problem of even intra-German language rivalry.

Of course one thing will unite Bavarian and Saxon and Swiss and Austrian German and other highly accented/dialectic German speakers: They'd rather speak "German" (and deal with weird pronunciation/words) than English as an official language ;)
by chasil | 2025-11-21 00:38:11+00:00
> The lesson of modern airline safety is that you can get extremely close to zero by carefully analyzing and learning from the failures, which is exactly why these thorough investigations are done.

I have heard it said that "every air safety rule is written in blood."

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/02/travel/tokyo-plane-crash-safe...
by darth_avocado | 2025-11-21 00:38:52+00:00
The problem isn’t that regulations exist. The problem is that they are defined in a way that reasonable work arounds or alternative pathways do not exist for situations like this. 270 engine families for 9 engine suggests that the designs may be small variations that would not significantly change the emissions between them. The bureaucrats should waive off some requirements here.

The other alternative that I can think of is that experimental engines get an exception to be not certified for X miles of operation. Once the candidates are chosen for mass production, mandatory certifications can be introduced. Even if your new design doubles the emissions for some reason, over 100000 miles, that’s barely a drop in the bucket. For reference, double the emissions for 100000 miles is roughly equivalent to having an extra semi on the road for a year, which is nothing.
by anonym29 | 2025-11-21 00:39:14+00:00
It'll come right after James Clapper faces charges for perjuring himself while under oath in public testimony to Ron Wyden about the unconstitutional PRISM program.

Our government will investigate itself and find itself innocent of all wrongdoing, as usual.

None of these ***hats on either side of the aisle will face justice until after a Soviet-style collapse whereby the current criminals lose the ability to protect themselves from their own laws.
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-21 00:39:21+00:00
This. TFA barely glanced at it but they mentioned "collaboration with the DEA".

The DEA has been jerking off about how they've been doing this stuff on the east coast corridor for over a decade.

The current CBP situation is basically a Ctrl+C Ctrl+V Ctrl+V Ctrl+V Ctrl+V of what DEA was doing under Bush and Obama.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-11-21 00:40:26+00:00
Exactly.

I keep lazygit open at my nix config root and periodically press "e" to open modified files with neovim to scope them out.

But other than that I barely open the nix config files since, unless I happen to remember a string to grep for in vim to get me where I would want to be, it's faster to type a prompt to claude and then go back to whatever I'd prefer to be doing.

It's also sobering to have claude build a whole TUI or GTK4 GUI, things I used to look forward to doing myself from scratch up until this year. I have some polished TUIs/GUIs for random things like managing sway/niri monitors or managing blocky logs, and it almost feels pointless to share them online like I used to because you can just vibe-code them yourself. And any of the iterative polish I've had to do now is just going to be next year's vibe-coded one-shot.

But I try not to think about that last paragraph too much...
by jonners00 | 2025-11-21 00:40:36+00:00
>if GPUs are really being used as the lein or collateral, these are fundamentally depreciating assets and are marked as such even if the depreciation rates are slightly wrong.

As long as the initial value of a blackwell chip derived from correctly forecast and discounted cash flow is sound, this is correct. On the other hand, if the initial value is a function of scarcity/demand and high manufacturing cost that's wildly detatched from actual returns then 'could be an issue' is a significant understatement.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-21 00:40:40+00:00
Part of me wonders if a bubble can really pop when everyone keeps calling it a bubble that will pop any minute now. Same as with the recession talk since COVID. Usually, pesky things like lack of actual profits or value would result in a sustained decline in stock prices, but these days, there are so many gamblers involved that despite the lack of any real value, they'll "buy the dip" in such great numbers that it bounces back up. And then FOMO hits and more principlined investors jump in on the action.

So far at least. But is this supposed bubble too big for that effect to save it? It feels like a lot of predictions are being made based on historical events like the dotcom crash, the '08 recession,etc.. and maybe those predictions are right but things have changed since. retail investment is a completely different game. "mob psychology" is also a different game with the internet being adapted at a greater scale. Even the tech driving the "AI bubble" would be scifi for someone in '08.

Certainly the variables have changed. But has the formula/game also changed?
by BriggyDwiggs42 | 2025-11-21 00:41:25+00:00
>are you a doctor?

No and I’m not trying to diagnose you or something. You brought it up so I felt I should be honest based on what little I know about the condition. Take it with a grain of salt.

>I can tell you anecdotes of hearing never before heard person names and couple days later stumbling upon them (usually watching shows I routinely watch)

If you routinely watch the show, maybe it came up earlier and you forgot?

>point is - this is not my burden and shouldn't be.

See I get what you mean. I’m not trying to say it’s your responsibility or something. I just don’t think you should have to put up with shit that bothers you all the time, and were I correct that it’s some known medical condition, it might be much easier to make it stop than if it’s a massive organized group trying to manipulate you. Do you lose anything giving the medical thing a shot?
by geerlingguy | 2025-11-21 00:41:33+00:00
CodeWeavers' Crossover just released a Preview version for Arm that incorporates Fex and allows games like Cyberpunk 2077 to run: https://www.codeweavers.com/blog/mjohnson/2025/11/6/twist-ou...

I've tested it on an Ampere workstation, and was trying it on a Pi, but it seems with Trixie, there may be some bugs with both that and box64 right now, I was having trouble with both of them.
by sitkack | 2025-11-21 00:42:23+00:00
Too bad Arm doesn't allow architectural licenses, because this is exactly the kind of thing Valve and the FEX developers would want to extend the ISA to support. I bet we see a RISC-V backend to FEX in the next 6 months, it probably already exists in a private repo.

FEX is the shootstring, extra special discount budget (not maligning) version of Rosetta. Apple should sell Rosetta to Valve.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-11-21 00:42:46+00:00
AFAICT it's "getting to Mars" for SpaceX and their ecosystem, and "sustainable cislunar economy" for Nasa, ULA and Blue Origin and their respective ecosystem. For example, see ULA's "cislunar 1000" concept from ~10 years ago.

Either way, your criticism of Destin's presentation hits. One and done'ing the Moon is not particularly helpful in setting up a sustainable cislunar economy.
by HumanOstrich | 2025-11-21 00:42:55+00:00
> I could almost see XDG_CONFIG_HOME being a setting read by a driver that provides access to a "virtual" path

Now you have even more complexity. Programs will have to know where this "virtual" path is unless you're suggesting it should be hard-coded.

> on *nix, all paths are virtual anyways

What does this mean?
by SpecialistK | 2025-11-21 00:42:59+00:00
> They're libertarians-light, believing that everyone should be free to do whatever they want, be it economically or socially, and there should be minimal impediment to doing so.

Your comment is a (reasonable) critique of libertarianism, but you're presenting it as liberalism, which only confuses things more.

> But according to the liberal, woe to them that try to rebalance the economic scales of power via things like unions or laws.

People who know the difference between the two would not suggest unions or legislation to help smaller players in society is bad. A balance of strong laws, a constitution, and a varying amount of state control of the economy is part of the ideology.

> "take from the weak and give to the strong". That already is the nature of the world and it is our moral obligation to rise above it.

At least when I was in college, political science 101 started with Hobbes vs Locke, the "state of nature", "Leviathan" vs "Two Treatises" and how that rolls into the US Constitution. Smith, Bentham, then Mill vs Rawls (classical liberalism and freedom of opportunity, On Liberty, the "veil of ignorance" and A Theory of Justice) and even further into the distinction between modern and classical liberalism (freedom from vs freedom to, equality of outcome and how that starts merging with socialism with social democracy.) Even within 1st year courses we cover criticisms of liberalism (Nozick on the right, then Marx and Gramsci on the left) and mixing it up with libertarianism is not part of that critique.

We learn that liberalism was literally a response to "take from the weak" so to present it as a primary criticism is... interesting.
by zamalek | 2025-11-21 00:43:14+00:00
For Linux-native games (there aren't many) it uses what I described, making the system look a lot like Ubuntu to the game. Proton is for Windows (PE/exe) binaries, not Linux (ELF).

Jonathan Blow is sharpshooting and being intentionally difficult in order to sound smart (he really needs to engage in that behavior less, he's smart enough as-is). Virtually nobody bothers with Linux-native binaries for games. Compile your game for Windows, test it on Linux+Proton, find that it probably works fine, it's not hard.
by skrtskrt | 2025-11-21 00:43:25+00:00
> The latter is what my Copilot suggested when I addressed complaints about higher gas prices

I would suspect this is because it is most mainstream recommendation from economists on how to disincentivize fossil usage without destroying your society & economic stability in the interim. Not because it's "lefty".

The yellow vest protests in France were basically what happens when you try to do A without also doing B.
by adriantoine | 2025-11-21 00:43:49+00:00
I also tried two hallucinations that I've seen in the latest Gemini and Claude. The first one is the famous "how many r in strawberry" and another one is asking about king sacrifice in chess where most LLMs tell you it's a very powerful move and tell you how to do it (obviously a nonsense since the point of the game is to protect the king).

Kagi actually got those two correct, explaining how losing your king means losing your chess game, which is quite impressive.
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-21 00:44:17+00:00
Small C conservative would be what these days? Iraq invading weed dealer arresting homosexual hating mid-00s "we call ourselves neoliberals bur are nothing of the sort"? Or their counterparts on the other side of the isle who are happy to build up the police state thinking it can do no wrong or happy to regulate the shit out of everything uncritically deluding themselves into thinking it won't become a handout for moneyed interests at the expense of upstarts?

As bad as shit is now I think that might actually be worse.

While people haven't yet suffered enough to agree to compromise and just wind the whole mistake down, there is a huge consensus on both sides of the isle these days that we have too much government swinging it's weight around in pursuit of things that are bad.
by nocoiner | 2025-11-21 00:44:58+00:00
He described “the missed acceleration in sales” of pumping Liquid Smoke down old oil wells as “a direct hard cost” of the regulatory regime. That tells me all I need to know about our narrator’s intellectual honesty.

I’m open to being convinced that there are better ways of doing things, but despite what half a century of propaganda has been saying, regulations generally aren’t enacted for funsies. They’re there for a reason, specially the reason that in the absence of those regulations, commercial actors were privatizing profit at the expense of society as a whole, and democratic society made a decision to make rules to stop that from happening.
by elcritch | 2025-11-21 00:45:30+00:00
As another aspect we're seeing governments and the system elites craving for more power and control than ever.

I know it's borderline conspiracy theorist but I fear that the COVID-19 lockdowns with the surveillance systems and control gained during them gave the elites worldwide a taste for new levels of power and control.

All in the name of doing it for our own good of course. But ultimately its for more power. What terrors man won't inflict on others for "their own good".
by everlier | 2025-11-21 00:45:32+00:00
Mostly depends on which features are most important for you. I'm a SWE, so using their Assistant for Web RAG nearly exclusively for work-related stuff and for most of my personal queries. I'm rarely using multi-modal content, mostly sticking to text. They support many providers and new notable models are typically rolled out only a few days after release which is always great to test out. I have a standalone subscription for coding agent LLM. If above aligns - might be a good choice.
by mbreese | 2025-11-21 00:46:03+00:00
No!

These are programs that are largely meant to have a run.sh or install.sh script run before the main script. If the venv doesn’t exist, the it is created there and requirements installed.

The main point is that I’m trading away some flexibility to keep my ENV clean. When I submit jobs on HPC clusters, keeping my environment clean tends to make things easier to troubleshoot.

If I’m switching between different programs or commonly piping data between two different programs with their own venvs, it can be easier to just run the associated python binary directly, rather than have to manage different venv environment activations.
by m463 | 2025-11-21 00:46:36+00:00
I remember playing it and finding a bunch of listings

There is an enormous stack of line-printer paper here. It is barely readable and totally unintelligible.

and:

<DEFINE FEEL-FREE (LOSER) <TELL "FEEL FREE, CHOMPER!"> <MEMQ ...... The rest is, alas, unintelligible (as were the implementers).
by kayodelycaon | 2025-11-21 00:46:55+00:00
Having helped run a furry convention, there are times you need to talk to members of the media. Otherwise, you have zero input in the narrative.

If you make the response boring or used a canned legalish message, it doesn’t allow them to say you didn’t talk to them.

A better rule is: don’t let anyone untrained talk to journalists.
by amscanne | 2025-11-21 00:48:25+00:00
You don't think that the current crop of vaccine-skeptics are mostly well-intentioned and that the movement will ultimately fade-away decades down the line?

It seems identical to me: soft corruption and bad science shaping government policy. Annoying and bad, but also hopefully temporary (but may do damage in the meantime). I agree that it happens with all governments. Has everyone forgotten the sea of bad science that was COVID policy? Thank god they arrested that paddle-boarder!
by marcus_holmes | 2025-11-21 00:48:32+00:00
> "But a new review of trial data by academics in Austria and the UK concluded that..."

> "Mark Horowitz, an associate professor of psychiatry at Adelaide University and a co-author of the study,"

Austria - cold, has mountains, but not Adelaide University

Australia - hot, has kangaroos, and Adelaide University

Is the Grauniad returning to form?
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-11-21 00:48:56+00:00
At the token, not word level, it would be possible for a Markov chain. It never has to know about Trump or XSS, only that it sees tokens like “ing”, “ed”, “is”, and so forth. Given a LLM size corpus, which will have ~all token-to-token pairs with some non-zero frequency, the above could be generated.

The actual probabilities will be terrible, but it is not impossible.
by spartanatreyu | 2025-11-21 00:49:15+00:00
Counterpoint (from the same website): https://stitcher.io/blog/evolution-of-a-php-object

PHP 8.2 has this:

``` readonly class BlogData

{

public function __construct( public string $title, public State $state, public ?DateTimeImmutable $publishedAt = null, ) {}

}

```

Whereas in php 5.6, to accomplish the same you need all this:

``` class BlogData { /* @var string / private $title;

/** @var State */ private $state; /** @var \DateTimeImmutable|null */ private $publishedAt; /** * @param string $title * @param State $state * @param \DateTimeImmutable|null $publishedAt */ public function __construct( $title, $state, $publishedAt = null ) { $this->title = $title; $this->state = $state; $this->publishedAt = $publishedAt; } /** * @return string */ public function getTitle() { return $this->title; } /** * @return State */ public function getState() { return $this->state; } /** * @return \DateTimeImmutable|null */ public function getPublishedAt() { return $this->publishedAt; }

} ```
by dotnet00 | 2025-11-21 00:49:54+00:00
New Glenn is manufactured with a different philosophy, so Blue can't be Starship levels of cavalier with testing. It would cost way too much to do with their current approach.

The factory tours for the two show this difference. New Glenn production is a lot more classical aerospace in terms of a high tech cleanroom factory being built from the start, versus a rocket that started out being built in tents that is slowly guiding the factory design as the tolerances are sorted out.

I think Blue's philosophy is pretty similar to the old space giants, except for being willing to invest a ton of money into improvements and new technologies without waiting around for the government to give them a blank check first.

Maybe we'll find that the thing limiting aerospace progress wasn't even that old space was afraid to test, but rather that they were simply unwilling to progress on their own initiative.
by defrost | 2025-11-21 00:50:01+00:00
Reclaiming my English.

I'm Australian, I use Australian idioms, spelling, contractions, et al in emails to regular contacts for 20+ years via gmail (Yet Another Early Gmail Invite User).

Despite having selected UK English (there's no 'Strayla option) gmail via the web still insists on suggesting I morph into a cookie cutter middle north American Engrish typer.

Yes, Engrish .. AmerEngrish is an abomination.

Feck that shite. Hard.
by delbronski | 2025-11-21 00:50:13+00:00
I’ve been using the same test since Dalle 2. No model has passed it yet.

However, I don’t think 2D animators should feel too safe about their jobs. While these models are bad at creating sprite sheets in one go, there are ways you can use them to create pretty decent sprite sheets.

For example, I’ve had good results by asking for one frame at a time. Also had good results by providing a sprite sheet of a character jumping, and then an image of a new character, and then asking for the same sprite sheet but with the new character.
by dworks | 2025-11-21 00:50:45+00:00
Software is 10x more valuable than inference tokens because tokens do nothing for the user, just like a database request by itself does nothing.

Software is what makes inference valuable because it builds a workflow that transforms tokens and data into practical benefits.

Look at the payment plans for Lovable, Figma Make, Claude Code. None of them charge by token. They charge by obfuscated 'credits'. We don't know the current credit economics, but it is certain that the credit markup will increase and probably eventually reach 10x of the token cost. Users will gladly pay for it because again, tokens do nothing for them. It is the Claude Code, Figma Make products that make them productive.
by gerdesj | 2025-11-21 00:52:40+00:00
Quite. Its almost as though the docs are written by people who actually use it.

I was (still am sadly) a VMware consultant for about 25 years. It makes me laugh when I hear breathless "enterprise noises" with regards VMware and how PVE isn't quite ready yet.

PVE is just so easy and accommodating. It's Linux on Debian with a few nobs on. The web interface is so quick and uncluttered and simple. The clustering arrangements are superb and simple. The biggest issue for me and many like me was how to deal with iSCSI SANS (no snapshots - long story) It turns out you can pull the SSDs out of a Dell Msomething SAN and wack them into the hosts and you have a hyperconverged Ceph thingie with little effort.

VMware rapidly gets very expensive. Nowadays with Broadcom you have to fork out for the full enterprise thing to get DRS and vDS - that's auto balancing clusters and funky networking. PVE gifts you Open vSwitch support out of the box and all clusters are equal. Storage DRS (migrate virty hard discs on the fly) is free on PVE too. Oh and you get containers too on PVE - VMware Tanzu is seriously expensive.

Anyway, I could grind on about this for quite some time but in my opinion, PVE is a far better base product in general for your VMs. A vCentre is a horrendous waste of resources and the rest of VMware's appliances are pretty tubby too. I recall evaluating their first efforts at SDN with edge firewalls and so on - no thanks!
by appreciatorBus | 2025-11-21 00:53:27+00:00
Of course we should verify such claims.

Just as we should also verify claims that every regulation that has ever been written into law is by definition Good (tm) and can never be questioned.

It's possible for the friend of the company owner to astroturf an online form to get a good regulation eliminated, just because it didn't benefit him.

It's also possible for the such wealthy individuals to astrotruf in favour of bad regulations, just because it would benefit him.
by jonners00 | 2025-11-21 00:54:03+00:00
I think the idea that there's currently an 'index tracker bubble' is fascinating: i.e. that the total value of the S&P 500 is no longer based on a multiple of aggregate earnings but is instead driven by finding the price that needs to be paid to achieve the necessary 'churn' for tracker funds to fulfil their mandates as they allocate the funds that their subscribers place with them each month. This creates a scarcity premium that drives up prices and attracts more subcribers. This has a ratchet effect that never previously applied and that will probably prevail until something goes catastrophically wrong.