skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference is that police officer and firefighter are roles that can be occupied by people of either sex, so the change of language from policeman and fireman made sense in that context.

By contrast, pregnancy is a state of being that is by its very nature female-only. Males cannot become pregnant, as by definition they lack a female reproductive system.

The "pregnant people" terminology implies that pregnancy is something that affects all people, male and female alike. But this is of course not true at all.

It's also not inclusive - consider that much of the sex-based oppression women experience goes back to the ability to conceive children. "Pregnant people" discards and downplays all of that.
I haven’t looked into Sniffnet much yet, but that probably depends what you run on your router.
I use OPNsense, and the Zenarmor module does provide a whole bunch of useful info together with blocking capabilities. If you pay for a home-use license (I haven’t done this), can also get few more features like MitM with your own ssl certificate.
Android for sure, since version 8 I'm certain but probably even 5 or 4.x (so 10+ years ago)

Always annoys me when I want to use a WiFi scanner to determine the range of an access point in different locations for example and it needs me to turn on location access first before it can get WiFi data. The open source app doesn't have an Internet connection so there's no way for it to send back data to the mothership even if it had an SSID database baked into the apk. For me, and traditionally, the location switch is to turn on or off energy-hungry GPS hardware, not gatekeep when I trust apps to collect my location. I can set those to "only while in use", deny their Internet access, or just not install them if I don't trust them with the location permission
Yes, the change of light intensity is a common trigger for me. Either looking at a screen and then outside, or vice versa, or even bright led lights. But they've still largely gone away with regular magnesium supplementation and occasional psychedelic use (a few times per year).
ZFS (or btrfs) will do that for you, no hardware RAID required.

Most pro DSLRs have two SD card slots and will also do it (at the firmware level) if you toggle the appropriate option (usually the options are RAID 1 or a unionfs-like "use both SDs" option).
If you go to remote tribes in the Amazon, you'll find a lot of things modern day society tries to distance itself from, like kidnapping women and beating them until they're docile. You have literally no idea what those people were to think of themselves, given the freedom to do so. Ancient is not the same as good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanomami_women

Here's some other "ancient" stuff, that can be used to say the opposite of your point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-spirit#Traditional_Indigen...
Unfortunately fingerprinting prevention/resistance tactics become a readily identifiable signal unto themselves. I.e., the 'random noise' becomes fingerprintable if not widely utilized.

Everyone would need to be generating the same 'random noise' for any such tactics to be truly effective.
You US Gov site for passports is down. Keep calling it generic

You are in the middle of a full blown state coup....

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42910525
completely agree. people say a classic chess engine is "thinking" when it goes deeper into the search tree, but nobody is confused about that. This colloquial language doesn't bother me so much.

But there really are people who think they are talking to something more than that. Like within a conversation with today's consumer product, they sincerely believe that an actual being is instantiated who has goals and intentions and talks to them.
Best I can figure is that it's some form of cryptography. The "severed" thing would be to compartmentalize even more what the underlying work is, the outties are clueless, but even the innies don't get to know what they do because the work is encrypted. They're able to perform it because another part of their brain is severed even more, and just performs the raw algorithm work of decrypting/sorting.

But the rest of Lumen just seems like some bizarro "there's a spaceship hiding in the tail of the comet" cult.
Does Hot Lemon Water Have Any Health Benefits?
Got a source on retailers actively doing this?
Interesting, this is the first argument I've heard that emotional instability is actually good for your mental health.
Sapolsky's book Determined is really the counter to your post.

I don't want to believe what that book says but it is quite a strong argument. It is really too sweeping and complicated to discuss in this format though. It really would need an entire counter book to it that dissects each point.
This is a good point.

If you prick an LLM does it not bleed? If you tickle it does it not laugh? If you poison one does it not die? If you wrong an LLM shall it not revenge?
Isn't that basically what a Firewalla does?
Not that it matters, but dnnn is another account I got logged into for some reason; dnnn is the same person as wfewras
Haas has massive limitations in its container mode. (Add-ons, OTA updates,...)
You you can't leave: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42910525
What's wrong with Lutheran organisations? Can they not qualify for grants?
If you really have to "mutool draw -F txt somefile.pdf" will extract the text contents, that you can then pipe to a LLM.
Damn, I need that framed over my desk.
>nobody really knows what most of the words in that sentence mean in the technical or algorithmical sense

And nobody really knows what consciousness is, but we all experience it in a distinct, internal way that lets us navigate the world and express ourselves to others, yet apparently some comments seem to dismiss this elephant of sensation in the room by pretending it's no different than some cut and dried computational system that's programmed to answer certain things in certain ways and thus "is probably no different from a person trained to speak". We're obviously, evidentially more than that.
Posted in another comment here, but if you use Opnsense, then the Zenarmor module can provide that. You can give it a list of domains, or also preselect from a bunch of existing filters / app filters (eg block Advertising / Social Media)
Read access or write access?

This seems like a good move if your end-goal is speedrunning a crash of the US economy.
Some are. Some aren't. Some are pragmatic about a choice with only two real options.
Personal favors from presidents willing to play ball are more valuable than tax cuts for all
Why would I give you my code for free if you're not going to give me your code for free?
Part of my resume review process is trying to decide if I can trust the person. If their resume seems too AI-generated, I feel less like I can trust that candidate and typically reject the candidate.

Once you get to the interview process, it's very clear if someone thinks they can use AI to help with the interview process. I'm not going to sit here while you type my question into OpenAI and try to BS a meaningful response to my question 30 seconds later.

AI-proof interviewing is easy if you know what you're talking about. Look at the candidates resume and ask them to describe some of their past projects. If they can have a meaningful conversation without delays, you can probably trust their resume. It's easy to spot BS whether AI is behind it or not.
Well I guessed that you were trying to make a point about how our language is highly biased towards heavy elements even though they are a tiny proportion of the universe, and that means it also makes sense to bias our language towards intersex people even though they are a tiny proportion of the population.

But it can't be that because that is an obviously stupid point. So what was your point?
Because there's a format of interview that's basically a brainteaser that takes 45 minutes to think through and whiteboard some code for, but which is trivially solvable by copy and pasting a screenshot of the prompt into ChatGPT. This amounts to candidates being given the answer and then pretending to struggle with understanding your question and then figuring out a solution to it when really they're just stalling for time and then just copying the answer from one browser tab to the next.
Santorini island hit by 200 earthquakes
Absolutely! It requires all of us to have agency and reach this on our own time.

A direct quote from Fred Rogers "There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it."
I think that's highly router dependent, but here's what I know.

Home Assistant can monitor some things via the UPnP/IGD integration [1]. If you're looking for something more advanced, you could look into SNMP Exporter [2] with a Prometheus + Grafana setup.

Another option is to set up a PiHole DNS server, which would both block ads for the local network, and give you DNS statistics on a per-device basis.

None of these can get to the level of granularity you can get with a pcap based tool like sniffnet, but they're a good start to network monitoring and should work with most home routers.

If you really want to go deep with your network monitoring, you could set up a more sophisticated using OPNSense/PFSense, but at that point I don't know what is and isn't possible as I have no experience with them.

[1] https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/upnp/
[2] https://github.com/prometheus/snmp_exporter
And also this Lume, which is a 3d-HTML library.

https://lume.io
Old English had gender, and the feminine definite article to match masculine the would be theo. (The whole concept of "the" was a late addition, mind you, and Middle English followed soon after and got rid of grammatical gender, apparently because an influx of Nordics had trouble with pronunciation.)
Is it mostly about the "matrix" interface in this case? Otherwise seems like exactly what tools like https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html etc. do.
Is there any documentation on this to read further? I.e. what the different levels contain and how much on average is the cost reduction for the merchant.
Posted 4 hours ago, which would have been about 1530 Brussels time... OP at FOSDEM? :-)
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4941-was-...

(Not TFA, which was published Jan 31 - OP, who posted it this afternoon shortly after a talk which included the Byzantine Generals problem)
When "making everything exposed" you can not even do register allocation. I hope you agree that this has some effect "outside of contrived benchmarks". Of course, you could require programmers to add "register" everywhere, but this ship has sailed decades ago.
Author here: Thanks! The 1 instruction will place the opcode received from the serial line or the keyboard to a fixed location in memory. Maybe store would be a better name. But store (!) in Forth is associated with a memory address.
The compilation term comes from the fact that at the end the memory map will be the same as the one compiled with an assembler.
Also in the Frank Sergeant 3 inst version. Load is used to load a memory address on the target and send it back to the host computer.
Fair but I don't think account age should be left isolated when discussing these things and saying 'you just showed up' for a genuine - and frankly, long overdue - discussion on a pretty pressing issue is out of place if we are supposed to be the 'better alternative'. The time for sticking our fingers in our ears and pretending everything is great is long past and given HN's own issues with finding the balance between doing our jobs, aiming for something better and doing so responsibly we should be very wary of falling into the trap that allows us to pretend nothing is going on because all relevant discussions get flagged. That's abdication and the tech world is super good at this.

zfg raises a valid point. So either debate them on merit or let it go (downvote, move on, whatever) but don't pull rank without engaging the actual subject matter. They are pointing out that HN does not work in this sense and it is - at least to me - abundantly clear that they have a point. For myself, I've given up. I've seen the most idiotic exchanges go without counter because I suspect more people have given up. zfg has not given up, yet, in part because they have just joined. They are still in the honeymoon phase and probably can't imagine why HN would be actively discouraging discussion around some of the most important issues facing the tech world today.
I haven't looked, but stalebot can make repos look squeaky clean when in reality issues are ignored and then closed without being addressed.
I don't think that's true. Or at best it's a tautological argument. Some people have crazy genes like XXY. There's no clear gender that they are "supposed" to be.

It's very rare though.
> Isn't it a meme at this point how people win the nobel prize in one field, and then say some nutty nonsense about a completely different field?

There is a name for that; it's the "Nobel Disease" or "Nobel Syndrome". Sometimes people swap "Nobel" and "MD".
I have yet to see a valid reason to use Gemini over any other alternative, the only exception being large contexts.
That you can get an approximate address based on an IP address is not very new, and is in fact a feature baked into the very IP protocol.
It's the normal term, in that it has been normalized as such. But it is otherwise not accurate except in the barest, most monetaristically self-fulfilling-prophecy way.
251 is codec format ID. Real bitrate is around ~135 kbps
It's reductive to say that it's one or the other.

I can say personally my feeling thermometer went from maybe 75 to 15 as a result of being on Mastodon and other online forums in the last tow years. I like trans people as individuals but I hate the movement. It's not the only place where that kind of negativity leaks out.

For instance the men's rooms in my building are stuffed with menstrual products for "men who menstruate" with a preachy card that talks about it in a reductive, narrow minded frame the same as the worst conservative Christians. This is for the benefit of 0.6% of the population at best, maybe 3 or 4 people benefit from it, out of 8 men's rooms in that building it is probably less than one person per bathroom.

It seems to me that this sucks all the air out of the room to discuss anything else. Young men are struggling. Maybe you only see the survivors in higher ed, but the K12 system is not built with boys in mind, particularly if you are in a racial minority, see

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2023/04/boys-school-challenges-r...

Instead of messaging aimed at, say, 20% of people who are struggling we get this stridently minoritiarian discourse that leaves many people feeling unheard, erased, and resentful.
I have a similar opinion of Claude Sonnet. Superhuman knowledge; ability to apply it to solve new math/coding problems at roughly the level of a motivated high-schooler (but not corresponding exactly in profile to anything human); less ability to stay on track the longer the effort takes.

But ChatGPT a couple years ago was at more like grade-school level at problem-solving. What should I call this thing that the best LLMs can do better than the older ones, if it's not actual reasoning? Sparkling syllogistics?

Sorry, that's sarcastic, but... it's from a real exasperation at what seems like a rearguard fight against an inconvenient conclusion. I don't like it either! I think the rate of progress at building machines we don't understand is dangerous. (Understanding the training is not understanding the machinery that comes out.)

Compare the first previews of Copilot with current frontier "reasoning" models, and ask how this will develop in the next five years. Maybe it'll fizzle. If you're very confident it will: I'd like to be convinced too.
Lume[1] is also a static site generator for the Deno runtime[2]. Finding a four-letter name in the Latin alphabet that is unique and still sounds like a real name is nearly impossible. Fortunately, I registered the domain Egont[3] a long time ago, perhaps presciently anticipating the interplay between AI, agents, and ego. Five letters though.

[1] https://lume.land/

[2] https://deno.com/

[3] https://www.egont.com/
> So, in short, the real added value is expediting or improving use of domain expertise captured from (or still held by) humans.

I agree here, AI-infused automation/orchestration of sometimes long-running business processes with a human in the loop seems to be very high value.
I'm also hoping for something like this! Bonus points if it had a "little snitch" type of operation where I could manually approve a matrix of (device x domain)
Gender does have biological causes.
"The extent of DOGE’s access to the payments system appeared to be laid bare on Sunday by Musk, who responded to a post on X which contained a spreadsheet showing payments to a number of Lutheran charities."

I wonder if these payments to charities are payroll deductions of federal employees as part of the Combined Federal Campaign?

The Combined Federal Campaign allows federal employees to choose to give to charities of their choice by payroll deductions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_Federal_Campaign

https://givecfc.org/

It would make sense for all of the playroll deductions to be sent as a single payment for a given pay period.
Unfortunately, that's a "could an omipotent god create a boulder so heavy he can't move it" level of "logic puzzle" and does your argument no favors.
> performance ceiling of .NET is at approximately the level of C/C++/Rust/Zig

Not really. You don't have the same level of control over memory in managed languages
> The only explanation is that something has coded nonsense in a way that poses as a useful message; only after wasting time and effort does the deception becomes apparent. The signal functions to consume the resources of a recipient for zero payoff and reduced fitness. The signal is a virus.

> Viruses do not arise from kin, symbionts, or other allies.

> The signal is an attack.

―Blindsight, by Peter Watts
found this pymupdf4llm w a fast google search https://medium.com/@danushidk507/using-pymupdf4llm-a-practic...
What's most interesting to me about that is that they are willing to disclose that data to your email provider. Amazon, for example, is pretty cagey about what you've bought when sending emails, probably because they don't want Google to be able to use that information to target ads to you. (Not because they are Good and care about your privacy, but because they think they're going to beat Google at advertising. How's that going?)

So yeah, I don't get why they would do this. It gives their advertising competitors valuable data for free, and it pisses off customers by telling them that they're being tracked when they shop at Walgreens. Strange stuff.
Well, there appears to be evolution in human perception of capabilities of LLMs. An example, the 'stochastic parrots' notion seems to have mostly died out, at least in HN comments.
how will it handle things like tables let me try
> more secure

interesting. that extension's Support section has a link to https://github.com/eemeli/chrome-kill-sticky whose license is MIT, so you could make your own extension. That repo also has a newer version of the code, and that was deployed on the Firefox store, but not on the Chrome store.
If it's not well known, it's not really a name clash.
For mac https://contexts.co/ is awesome for navigating without a mouse

Vimium browser extension FTW, works on Chrome as well.
> “It’s like imagining that a printer could actually feel pain because it can print bumper stickers with the words ‘Baby don’t hurt me’ on them."

Problem: the human brain has no pain receptors, no nociceptors. It just takes in messages from remote nerves and 'prints a bumper sticker' that tells higher cognitive centers 'you're feeling pain!'. What's the difference?

> "LLMs are like a search engine that rephrases information instead of giving it verbatim or pointing you to the original source."

Problem: How does this differ from human learning? If a human reads a book and tells someone else about it, constructs a summary of the important points and memorable passages, how is that fundamentally different from what LLMs are doing?

The second one really impacts the intellectual property arguments - if training a model on data is fundamentally similar to training a human on data, does 'derivate work' really apply to the creations of the human or of the model?
> it's not evidence

It’s boring to argue about the definitions of words, but you’re using English and in the countries where English is primarily spoken, testimony is considered evidence.
Spooks
great writeup. keep forensic faraday bags around.
None of those projects are even heading in the direction of "AGI". The state of AI today is something akin to what science fiction would have called an "oracle", a devise that can answer questions intelligently or seemingly-intelligently but otherwise isn't intelligent at all: it can't learn, has no agency, does nothing new. Even if that can be scaled up indefinitely, there's no reason to believe that it will ever become an AGI.

If any of this can make decisions in a way that a human can, then I would start to question what human decision-making really amounts to.
Chiang writes science-fiction, Egan writes physics-fiction, and Borges wrote philosophy-fiction.
Also a challenge for us citizens living abroad who need to keep their passports valid
Word of mouth: retailers in China have been using face recognition technologies to identify key customers so that they can be greater by name when delivered their favorite drink upon entering the premises.
Sparing everyone else a browse of the bugtracker: the maintainer does not seem to use a bot to autoclose issues. The close issues appeared to be actually closed and it seemed from a quick glance that he actually investigated each filing.
So called loyalty programs should be illegal on multiple fronts,

- Privacy: There's obvious tracking of purchasing trends. This derails into selling user data to everyone that makes people increasingly easy to track.

- Customer-dependent pricing / Price-discrimination: This is awful for economy, in econ 101 you learn that business want to charge each customer as much as they are willing to pay, but this differentiated pricing is just getting their hands into everyone's pockets.The free market principles rely on perfect knowledge, and every step made to make pricing harder is an attack against self market regulation.

Price discrimination is illegal even in Lobby-land, https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/13
Opus _IS_ transparent at 128 kbps, big IF - encoded properly. YouTube does some weird shit instead of just reencoding
I posted this earlier, but I wanted a java port of sed for ... Reasons, and despite the existence of man pages and source code it couldn't do anything but the most basic flags.

Imo this should be low hanging fruit. Porting non-trivial but yet 3-4 core code files that are already debugged and interface specified should be what an LLM excels at.
https://books.ms/main/973D152C75690E18337A8C7D34B05F1B

https://books.ms/main/CC1EFEC5313238FA10B38739C48BBC5C
Looking at the original posting, the maintainer knows what the bug is. The stopper is more along the lines of "This looks synthetic, so it's not high priority. If it's a priority for you, then you should fix it yourself or make an argument for its priority." followed by oguz saying "It's not actually my problem either, I'm not invested in osh.". (not actual quotes: https://github.com/oils-for-unix/oils/issues/1881#issuecomme...)

The bug is that osh leaves the script fd open for the child process when executing a command, allowing the child command to mess with the parent script. I don't see this as a huge issue for everyday interactive use, but I'd prefer my shell to not do that. If I were executing programs with limited capabilities, I'd consider this a possible vector for security bugs. That is to say, I wouldn't use osh scrpts if I cared about security.