MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by crazygringo | 2026-01-16 15:18:52+00:00
"Obfuscating commands" isn't a thing. EU employees know if they are retrieving data or not. And they don't blindly run commands like they're dummies or something.

And if they fly American employees over, what makes you think they'd be let in the building, or under what credentials do you think they'd be accessing the system? Legally speaking, those Americans are simply from a partner company. Just because you're doing business with a partner company doesn't mean you let them into your building.

The point is that AWS is intentionally making it so they don't have options.

So yes, US law lets it go. The law is limited in terms of what it can affect outside US borders. If the EU doesn't want to cooperate, and the US isn't willing to engage in sanctions or war against the EU, then yeah the US is out of options.
by happytoexplain | 2026-01-16 15:18:56+00:00
For the same reason some people like buying local, or buying hand-made, or buying "Made in <insert country>". People aren't robots, and we know the consequences of our actions are not limited to the current moment and on the current side of the black box we happen to be on as consumers. Further, even in cases of pure observation, where there is no monetary, verbal, implicit, or indirect support - e.g. just looking at a piece of art we didn't pay to see - we care about things that are not represented solely by the observable qualities of an object, especially when it comes to art and craft and the effort of people we admire.

This is obvious, though. This part of human nature will never change, and there is no argument that can confront it, and no reason to want to formulate one unless:

A. It makes you money.

B. It appears to have dividing lines that match a larger culture war in which you have emotional stock.
by amalcon | 2026-01-16 15:19:00+00:00
It doesn't really matter if they're doing that for this purpose, though. Cloudflare (or any other AS) has no fine control of where your packets to their anycast IPs will actually go. A given server's response packets will only go to one of their PoPs. It's just that which one will depend on server location and network configuration (and could change at any time). Even if multiple of their PoPs tried to fetch forward from the same server, all but one would be unable to maintain a TCP connection without tunneling shenanigans.

Tunneling shenanigans are fine for ACKs, but it's inefficient and therefore pretty unlikely that they are doing this for ingress object traffic.
by klustregrif | 2026-01-16 15:19:02+00:00
Asking Simon Willis “where is all this amazing stuff you’ve built” is crazy. I assume you didn’t know who you were responding to. Not only is he insanely productive, but he’s also incredibly open and sharing about his work and his work gets posted to hackernews constantly. It was the top most upvoted blog of 2024 by almost twice the as much as the next runner up.
by falcor84 | 2026-01-16 15:19:10+00:00
I really enjoyed Lex Fridman's interview with Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson on this topic, as part of their book tour for Abundance. Even if I disagree with some of their proposals, I really liked their focus and clarification of the issue. We should be mindful of the POSIWID principle and be talking a lot more about the results of our policies.

https://youtu.be/DTPSeeKokdo
by Phil_BoaM | 2026-01-16 15:20:19+00:00
OP here. I fundamentally disagree with the premise that "consciousness" or "self" are metaphysical terms.

In the fields of Cybernetics and Systems Theory (Ashby, Wiener, Hofstadter), these are functional definitions, not mystical ones:

Self = A system’s internal model of its own boundaries and state.

Mind = The dynamic maintenance of that model against entropy.

I am taking the strict Functionalist stance: If a system performs the function of recursive self-modeling, it has a "Self." To suggest these words are reserved only for biological substrates is, ironically, the metaphysical claim (Carbon Chauvinism). I’m treating them as engineering specs.
by mpeg | 2026-01-16 15:20:38+00:00
To be fair, vite does a lot of the heavy lifting when it comes to supporting extra frameworks. If you look at the code required for astro to integrate with a new technology you'll see it's relatively straightforward.

For example, here's all the code in the svelte integration: https://github.com/withastro/astro/tree/main/packages/integr...
by input_sh | 2026-01-16 15:20:57+00:00
It's not that complicated, you just agree to give up 30% of your royalties and Spotify autoplays your track more than any other track (and includes it more in Release Radar / Discover Weekly / Daily Mix / Radio): https://artists.spotify.com/discovery-mode

No serious label does this as there's no benefit from those drive-by listens other than making the number go up, but you can bet that nearly every artist without a label that somehow reaches over a million listens on their first release does.

Editorial playlists on the other hand actually require you to do good in some of the niche ones before you get "promoted" to the bigger ones.
by showerst | 2026-01-16 15:21:04+00:00
I don't think even the non-3d printed commercial ones are for law enforcement purposes.

Besides being for fun, the main draw seems to be that it picks the lock _and_ gives you the bitting. So if you lose all your keys, your locksmith is now in and can easily remake keys without swapping out the lock core.

There may be cases were it's (much) cheaper to pay a locksmith to stand there for ten minutes and spend a few minutes at a key machine, rather than pick a lock in 30 seconds and spend 10 minutes installing a $100 high end lock cylinder.
by terminalshort | 2026-01-16 15:21:11+00:00
The people who stand to benefit are you. If I have to pay a lawyer $1000 to review a contract, or spend $10 in tokens, I win. OpenAI may make $9 off of those tokens, or they may make $1. But that doesn't matter at all to me. I care about the $1000 vs $10, not the $9 vs $1.
by alephnerd | 2026-01-16 15:21:55+00:00
Pay Japanese salaries, get Japanese prices [0].

Japan only appears cheap if you earn in USD, GBP, and Euros. For most Japanese households, costs have risen higher than salaries [1][2] and they are now facing inflation due to tourist spending [7][8][9].

It also doesn't help that the median household income in Japan is around $25,000 [3] compared to $83,000 [4] in the US. Even Koreans (who used to be Japan's "Mexicans") now earn more in Korea than in Japan, which is a massive psychological shock in JP.

This is why you've starting seeing the rise of populist far right parties like 参政党 in Japan campaigning on an anti-tourist and anti-foreigner plank - it's overwhelmingly young Japanese (18-34) who are facing the brunt of this and have as such shifted right [5][6]. And mainstream Japanese parties like the LDP have had to shift further right as a result.

[0] - https://www.nippon.com/ja/japan-topics/c14023/

[1] - https://privatebank.jpmorgan.com/apac/en/insights/markets-an...

[2] - https://www.iima.or.jp/docs/newsletter/2025/nl2025.48.pdf

[3] - https://newsdig.tbs.co.jp/articles/mro/2029703?display=1

[4] - https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2025/demo/p60-28...

[5] - https://asia.nikkei.com/opinion/sanseito-brings-far-right-po...

[6] - https://asia.nikkei.com/politics/japan-election/nostalgia-an...

[7] - https://asia.nikkei.com/business/travel-leisure/japan-s-tour...

[8] - https://therobinreport.com/japans-backlash-on-luxury-tourism...

[9] - https://www.princetonpoliticalreview.org/international-news/...
by ValdikSS | 2026-01-16 15:22:19+00:00
Disposable Root Servers: https://www.thc.org/segfault/

Segfault offers free unlimited Root Servers. A new server (inside a Virtual Machine) is created for every SSH connection.

- Dedicated Root Server for every user.
- Pre-installed tools on Kali-Linux.
- Outgoing traffic is routed through NordVPN/CryptoStorm/Mullvad.
- Reverse TCP/UDP port on a public IP.
- Transparent TOR to connect to .onion addresses.
- Log in via .onion, .gsocket or direct ssh (port 22 or 443).
- Encrypted DNS traffic (DNS over HTTPS).
- Pre-configured .onion web server. Just put your files in /onion.
- Encrypted storage in /sec and /home with your password.
- Encrypted storage is only accessible while you are logged in. Keys are wiped on log out.
- Only the user can decrypt the data. We do not have the key.
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OG shell access:

- https://blinkenshell.org/
- https://freeshell.de/
- https://sdf.org/
by corndoge | 2026-01-16 15:22:26+00:00
Broadly I agree with you. I think of it in terms of responsibility. Ultimately the commit has my name on it, so I am the responsible party. From that perspective, I do need to "understand" what I am checking in to be reasonably sure it meets my professional standards of quality.

The reason I put scare quotes on "understand" is that we need to acknowledge that there are degrees of understanding, and that different degrees are required in different scenarios. For example, when you call syscall(), how well do you understand what is happening? You understand what's in the manpage; you know that it triggers a switch to kernel space, performs some task, returns some result. Most of us have not read the assembly code, we have a general concept of what is going on but the real understanding pretty much ends at the function call. Yet we check that in because that level of understanding corresponds to the general engineering standard.

In some cases, with AI, you can be reasonably sure the result is correct without deeply understanding it and still meet the bar. The bazel rule example is a good one. I prompt, "take this openapi spec and add build rules to generate bindings from it. Follow existing repo conventions." From my years of engineering experience, I already know what the result should look like, roughly. I skim the generated diff to ensure it matches that expectation; skim the model output to see what it referenced as examples. At that point, what the model produced is probably similar to what I would have produced by spending 30 minutes grepping around, reading build rules, et cetera. For this particular task, the model has saved me that time. I don't need to understand it perfectly. Either the code builds or it doesn't.

For other things, my standard is much higher. For example, models don't save me much time on concurrent code because, in order to meet the quality bar, the level of understanding required is much higher. I do need to sit there, read it, re-read it, chew on the concurrency model, et cetera. Like I said, it's situational.

There are many, many other aspects to quantifying the effects of AI on productivity, code quality is just one aspect. It's very holistic and dependent on you, how you work, what domain you work in, the technologies you work with, the team you work on, so many factors.
by roywiggins | 2026-01-16 15:22:35+00:00
Firefox's translation by default does pop up to interrupt and ask if you want to translate a page that it's detected is in another language. We're just more used to that and it's a more reliable signal that you probably want to run a tool than most.

It's still relatively new in FF and I don't think I've seen anyone complaining about it annoying them with popups, even though it absolutely does throw up an interrupting overlay, especially on mobile.
by darkwater | 2026-01-16 15:22:42+00:00
First they came with the NoOps movement, and you were happy cause those damned ops people were always complaining and slowing you down. I can manage my infra!

Then, they came with the dev-owned testing and fired all the QAs, and you were happy because they were always breaking your app and slowing you down. I can write my tests!

Now, they are coming with LLM agents and you don't own the product...
by mxfh | 2026-01-16 15:22:57+00:00
I sure could find some experts for hire to drive up the price of my cultural artifact.

Without anyone wanting to buy this and spend resources on that, finding claims to proof the contrary might be a quite futile task.

The whole board of the Museum is non-experts. Nobody has any interest in devaluing that expense.

In that era even attributing works definively to a single artist and not a school or workshop just feels a bit off.

https://kimbellart.org/content/nuestro-kimbell

absurdly well citing reddit comment on the provenance:

https://www.reddit.com/r/museum/comments/x6k3mm/comment/in89...
by voidhorse | 2026-01-16 15:23:04+00:00
> I'm not claiming I solved the Hard Problem. I'm claiming I found a "Basic Loop" that stops the model from hallucinating generic slop. If that's "fancy empty words," fair enough—but the logs show the loop holding constraints where standard prompts fail.

Except you've embedded this claim into a cocoon of language like "birth of a mind", "symbiosis", "consciousness" "self" and I could even include "recursive" in this case. The use of these terms problematizes your discourse and takes you far beyond the simple claim of "I found a way to make the LLM less sycophantic"

> You don't need a magical new physics to get emergent behavior; you just need a loop that is tight enough.

As far as this argument goes, I think may people were already on board with this, and those who aren't probably aren't going to be convinced by a thinly researched LLM interaction after which a specific LLM behavioral constraint is somehow supposed to be taken as evidence about physical systems, generally.

It's funny, actually. Th LLMs have (presumably scientifically minded?) people engaging in the very sort of nonsense they accused humanities scholars of during the Sokal affair.

(Also, to me it kind of seems like you are even using an LLM at least to some degree when responding to comments, if I'm incorrect about that, sorry but if not this is just an FYI that it's easy to detect and this will make some people not want to engage with you)
by PlatoIsADisease | 2026-01-16 15:23:19+00:00
The parking thing caused us not to buy a building. Not enough spots, not enough handicap spots too.

The annoying part is that we lived 4 houses down from the building. We would never drive there ofc. The other thing is that the parking lot was so small, all spaces could be seen as Handicap accessible.

Instead we rented in a different area and the handicap spaces are significantly further from the building.

Maybe it ended up working out since our company grew and I know that space would not have been big enough.
by mylons | 2026-01-16 15:23:29+00:00
my father made reading The Agony and The Ecstasy a requirement to go to Italy when I was a sophomore in high school. It's a thick tome, but a great read if you're a curious kid.

as the others said Michelangelo hated doing that painting. He's a very tragic, albeit heroic to me, man. I'd recommend that book if you're at all fascinated by him.
by throwawa71973 | 2026-01-16 15:23:46+00:00
Dropped eleventy recently.

Disliked the templating solutions, the messy documentation, the loss in momentum, and liked a lot of the stuff (especially the tooling and principles) in astro.

Also strongly disliked how political eleventy got.

I just wanted a website, not a an internal debate about what I am potentially being absorbed into. I can vote, and spend money on donations, I don't need to enact change through my tech stack.
by jabroni_salad | 2026-01-16 15:23:57+00:00
I can kinda buy the justification but I dont think the solution will get adoption. The TSA will cut the TSA-compliant locks if it will take the agent longer to find the key than it will to find the cutter. Or at least that's what the airline employee told me when I asked why my compliant lock had been removed. Law enforcement are not going to settle for a 5 minute skeleton key.
by dulakian | 2026-01-16 15:24:15+00:00
I think it's like mythology explaining the origin of the universe. We try to explain what we don't understand using existing words that may not be exactly correct. We may even make up new words entirely trying to grasp at meaning. I think he is on to something, just because I have seen some interesting things myself while trying to use math equations as prompts for AI. I think the attention head being auto-regressive means that when you trigger the right connections in the model, like euler, fractal, it recognizes those concepts in it's own computation. It definitely causes the model to reflect and output differently.
by fzeroracer | 2026-01-16 15:24:17+00:00
This is missing the forest for the trees a bit. Our zoning laws do prevent lower footprint businesses, but in reality the problem is less zoning laws and more landlords and rent. If you compare city to city (ignoring other societal issues), cities in Japan have a far lower vacancy rate compared to cities across America.

In Seattle I've seen a ton of smaller spaces become vacant and stay vacant for years because landlords aren't interested in lowering rent prices; they're holding onto the building/land itself because it'll appreciate over time and there's little to no cost to them to hold onto empty space. Roosevelt Square here is a great example of what I'm referring to, because you've got prime restaurant and retail space located right next to public transit that's increasingly going empty.
by hulitu | 2026-01-16 15:24:42+00:00
> I can't help but think of an absurd situation where your subscription ends mid use and results in a crash

Message on head-up display: "Your FSD subscription has expired. Do you want to purchase a new one ? [ ]Remind me later. [X]Yes. "

And then stuck in an infinite loop, because, for some reason, it cannot complete the transaction.
by duskdozer | 2026-01-16 15:25:19+00:00
No, but it's also the engineer at Palantir who is enabling it with their efforts. If every engineer there immediately resigned and no other agreed to work there, the situation would end. One can try to hide behind the idea that they are only 1/n_employees responsible (typical corollary: therefore not responsible at all), but this doesn't change the fact that they are participants in what is happening.
by qwertox | 2026-01-16 15:25:30+00:00
We don't want an insane experience, it's an HOA group. That's all I use WhatsApp for.

Also, I despise telegram (just as much as X), because in Germany both are rotten to the core in terms of user base, worse than WhatsApp.

Signal or Threema would be great, and I voted for Signal, but the majority uses WhatsApp.

I used to use Telegram, but ever since Covid and the whackos that found their "truth" over there I say no thank you.
by OutOfHere | 2026-01-16 15:25:42+00:00
Just deposit funds into your hosting account to cover it. You can host a complex site for $5 per month. Even accounting for inflation, at an average of $20 per month it's $24K. If you deposit these funds into say Linode, it will be used.

Do the same for the domain name registration. If you can't deposit from a card, you can deposit crypto into Namecheap. It will auto-renew in 10 year chunks.

Make sure that systemd and the web server do not fill the disk with logs, that the logs are set to auto truncate.

Beyond this, for the unforseen, you will need an AI to administer the server or to migrate. The AI could operate from the same node and have access to run commands on the system. The AI could also have access to news announcements of the hosting and AI providers, access to much cryptocurrency for payments, to a controllable headless web browser, using all of which it can migrate to an alternative provider.

Of course none of this is necessary in your specific case if you can just print copies.
by terribleidea | 2026-01-16 15:25:43+00:00
Most orgs I've worked for are so growth and product-focused that if you try adjusting your estimates to include proper testing, you get push back, and you have to ARGUE your case as to why a feature will take two weeks instead of one.

This is the thing I hate the most about work, having to ARGUE with PMs because they can't accept an estimate, there's often some back-and-forth. "What if you do X instead?" "Team Y (always uses hacks and adds technical debt with every single feature they touch) did something similar in two days." But we're just communicating and adding transparency so that's good and it certainly doesn't matter that it starts taking up 4+ hours of your time in Slack conversations and meetings of people 'level setting' 'getting on the same page' trying to help you 'figure out' how to 'reduce scope' etc. etc.

Also, I think testing via unit or integration tests should be standard regardless, and that isn't what I am thinking about here. I'm thinking about QA, the way QA does it. You hammer your feature with a bunch of weird bullshit like false and unexpected inputs, what happens if I refresh the page in strange ways, what happens if i make an update and force the cache to NOT clear, what happens if I drop my laptop in a dumpster while making the request from firefox and safari at the same time logged in as the same user, what happens if I turn off my internet in the middle of a file upload, and so on. When devs say that devs should be responsible for testing, they usually mean the former (unit and integration tests), and not this separate skillset of coming up with a bunch of weird edge cases for your code. And yes, unit tests SHOULD hit the edge cases, but QA is just better at it. You usually don't have engineers testing what happens when you try sending in Mandarin characters as input (unless they live in China, I guess). All of that effort should bring up your estimates because it is non-trivial. This is what getting rid of QA means, not happy path end-to-end testing plus some unit and integration tests.
by athorax | 2026-01-16 15:25:54+00:00
I like CUE a lot. We use it pretty heavily for schema enforcement of CRDs. That being said, it is pretty complex and learning to use it was anything but straight forward.

For more basic configs, I would potentially look into KCL https://www.kcl-lang.io/

It has a much simpler usage overall especially if you are only really trying to enforce some config rules.

The other alternative is to just use whatever language you are writing your software in and build a basic validator
by throwaway2037 | 2026-01-16 15:26:14+00:00
> You want to gamble $200,000 maybe no-one will take your bet.

There is a visible order book. You can only place your order if someone takes the other side. Both sides are fully funded.

> Can you be bothered to go through all the KYC paperwork rigmarole for $190 ?

Can you tell me more about the KYC reqs?
by ajay-b | 2026-01-16 15:26:35+00:00
San Francisco’s measure will make childcare free for a family of four making less than $230,000 a year, or 150% of the area median income, and offer a 50% subsidy to families earning less than $310,000 a year, or 200% of the area median income. Previously, free childcare was available to families earning less than 110% of the area median income.

But.. why not flip that on its head. Make it free for people UNDER $50,000, and a sliding scale up from there. I get that it's San Francisco, one of the most expensiv4e places in the country to live, but $230k is much, much too high. I get it: You make $200k a year and have four kids and you have expenses, and daycare is expensive, etc. but this should be for the MASSIVELY OUTNUMBERED of parents who don't make, nor can ever hope to make, anywhere near $230k.

I'm all for free child care but the parameters and numbers of this are insulting.