skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is such a reductive view of what happened in 2024. Oligarchs openly supported a political candidate that has attacked experts time and again on things that are provably true because it's inconvenient to their narrative. We know Musk spent hundreds of millions of dollars supporting one side because it was in his interest. Mark Zuckerberg loves that side because they're not going to regulate his objectively harmful platform.

Since this administration entered office, it has attacked agencies and organizations that do things like prepare for climate change, educate our children, provide essential Healthcare to 10s of millions of Americans, do basic scientific research, and protect consumers from financial fraud. Even if you get rid of these organizations, climate disasters will still happen (and insurance companies will still pull out of states like Florida and California), kids still need basic education to function in a high technology society, people are still getting sick, China is pulling ahead on public research, and fraudsters are still stealing from the American public.

This administration is bad because it's attacking the career public servants and agencies that are a net positive for our society. We get back more than the investment here in innumerable ways. It is stupid to try and dismantle the parts of government that work and work well. So shut the hell up with this if they were smart they would have voted for Y bullshit as if this was ever a good faith alternative to the liberal program the dems ran on.
> Why would he do that?

It's a great question. I mean, my read of it is he hates the idea of Rust4Linux and is using his position to obstruct.

> He has no control over an independent library outside of C DMA?

Apparently not.

> Just that the maintenance of such including any wrapper cannot fall into C DMA's lap.

The patch he rejected did not add any code to C DMA, nor C DMA's directory (kernel/dma). Just:

rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h | 1 +
rust/kernel/dma.rs | 271 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
rust/kernel/lib.rs | 1 +

(Nor does any Rust4Linux code add any maintenance burden to C -- C maintainers are allowed to break Rust code at will.)
His rationale for ignoring climate change is a great example of a fallacy, I don’t know if it’s named, where the inaccuracy of extrapolations is used as a reason to fully discount them.

> Let’s think back to people in 1900 in, say, New York. If they worried about people in 2000, what would they worry about? Probably: Where would people get enough horses? And what would they do about all the horseshit? Horse pollution was bad in 1900, think how much worse it would be a century later, with so many more people riding horses?

> Now. You tell me you can predict the world of 2100. Tell me it’s even worth thinking about. Our models just carry the present into the future. They’re bound to be wrong. Everybody who gives a moment’s thought knows it.

He’s not wrong that predictions 100 years out are going to almost always be wrong. What he is wrong about is that fact is a reason to do nothing. It’s become a very common assertion that clearly since extrapolations are wrong it means we actively should do nothing.

We’re not not drowning in horse shit because extrapolations done in 1900 were wrong. We’re not drowning in horse shit because someone invented another tool which caused the extrapolation to be wrong.
Sounds like it won’t be verifiable or reproducible.
Sorry, do you mean to say if I download untrusted code and open it in VSCode to inspect it, said code can pwn my system?

(Forgive me if this question sounds uninformed, I haven't used VSCode much, but if true this would not be behavior I expect from a code editor).
2 meaningless statements.

For instance, I would say that the scope of the global electrical grid includes every phone charger. Not just because the last foot devices are techically connected, but because they are the reason the rest even exists in the first place. So nothing that serves either the long haul or the local at the expense of the other can be called "minimal operational cost".

So trains use their own 25hz or even lower because that's good for long haul. But that would mean phone chargers are undesirably large and heavy. Or maybe it would mean that every house has it's own mini power station that converts the 25hz utility to something actually usable locally.

Meanwhile planes use 400hz 200v 3-phase for some mix of reasons I don't know but it will be a balance of factors that really only applies on planes. Things like not only the power to weight but also the fact that there is no such thing as mile long run on a plane, the greater importance to avoid wires getting hot from high current, etc.

Simply saying "the objective function is 'what is best?' and the scope is 'global'" doesn't turn an undefined scope and objective into defined ones.
I’d love to know what security clearance checks were performed on the teenage tech-bro disciples working at DOGE. It’s clear to me as an outsider that whatever secrets the US still had kept from its adversaries are already in the hands of those adversaries. This whole situation is a gift of mammoth proportions to Russia and China.
"Also just having read access is still a problem when the read access is for PII and other sensitive information. You want a 19 year old kid who got fired from an internship for leaking sensitive information to have read access to all your employee data? (Pay, retirement, worker's comp, performance, banking information, and everything else). How about your social security records? Medical records from the VA? The list goes on."

"but sources tell WIRED"

Sources told me they never had access. Who do you believe now?

Do you know for sure there are no checks and balances in the system besides what you read in a Wired article?
That's the exact problem though. Companies have been outsourcing training to colleges for decades now, further and further reducing available career paths as mentioned and causing degree inflation, higher education costs for everybody, etc.

It's also unlikely to change because it's just one more symptom of how companies are run these days, and that mindset has societal-scale momentum now.
> I don't remember even seeing a cop.

You probably didn't realize what to look for. There are quite a lot of kobans (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dban), especially in busy locations. Seeing police patrolling around the area is rare sight from my experience though (disclaimer: Experience strictly as tourist).
For this to work properly, I feel like it has to show the article without having to click on anything. As it is right now the experience doesn't feel much like TikTok
TFA is light on details, but I have a few choice anecdotes about negative consequences of this:

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I work on a large C++ codebase that takes quite a lot of CPU and RAM to build. To ease development access, we set-up a beefy VM in the cloud, put LXD in that, and gave every developer an LXD container of their own. Access via SSH was simple: ProxyJump via the LXD host (VM) into you container.

Now, I don't use VSCode, I use Emacs, and my container was setup by me to do everything The Right Way™. Devtools like clangd and clang-format were installed via the OS package manager. Everything Just Worked™. The VSCode users on this team had their own containers, so however their setup was didn't affect me.

Until one of them connected their VSCode to my container. My dev setup broke because their VSC decided to download a Microsoft-built binary of clangd and install it onto the PATH in my container. I was horrified, but the coworker who had (inadvertently) done this didn't see the problem. Their VSC worked just fine. I had to write-off that container of mine and create a new one.

Today, we mandate use of the LLVM-provided clangd extension in VSCode in the team, which does not automatically download anything from the internet. But this habit of "helpfully" auto-downloading LSP servers is apparently still common among VSC extensions. To the point that the Emacs lsp-mode package also offers to do that. Thankfully, it's Emacs, so it's pretty easy to disable that behaviour.

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As we SSH into machines quite a lot, we strongly discourage per-container SSH keys and strongly encourage SSH Agent Forwarding instead (with per-use confirmation). VS Code found a way to break that too. But we couldn't wait for the VSCode overlords to fix it — we were affected already, and urgently needed a fix — so we looked into what could be happening.

Turns out, VSC hijacks the way your shell loads, all so it can inject arbitrary stuff into the embedded terminal. You think you know how and when bash loads ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc and so on. None of that matters because VSC uses its own homebrew init script for bash. A script that tries to, emulate how bash loads, though not entirely accurately.

If you're building a terminal emulator and you want shell integration, the correct way to do it is to ask your users to load your terminal's support code into their shells. The VSCode way is to never tell the user anything and just silently take over their shell for them.

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Now, I no longer even try to support VSCode on the team. VSCode users are on their own. I help them setup Vim, NeoVim, Emacs, or even IntelliJ. If they have to have VSC, I might look into Eclipse Theia. But, as far as VSC is concerned, I expect nothing less than this malware-style behaviour and thus refuse to waste my time on it.
I would argue that one should know those things.
Seems the link stopped working. When I posted, it linked straight to the PDF (I even tested in an incognito window at the time).
My "Oh Shit" Moment for LLMs
I mean it’s literally one command to retarget the remote url of your git repository and Cloud9 was just a remote hosted VSCode with some AWS extensions you can get locally
If panics can’t be handled at runtime they need to be impossible to introduce. Saying they just need to be fixed immediately might make sense for a project with a handful of developers but as others have said a major production system failing due to a panic wouldn’t be acceptable.
I've seen what happens when a startup tells young but very eager people that they need to ship as quickly as possible, oh and don't bother with any rules or procedures that would slow you down. They just pile on technical debt, sometimes realizing and sometimes not. From an infosec perspective, it's an absolute nightmare. It's one thing if it's an early stage startup, it's quite another if it's a system that people rely on for really sensitive things.
People may also be interested in Pynini [1], a python wrapper (+ a lot of additional ease-of-use functionality) of OpenFst [2] (a really great library for transducers).

There are some good tutorials in the form of homework assignments (from like Johns Hopkins and some others) that go through Pynini use cases.

[1] https://www.openfst.org/twiki/bin/view/GRM/Pynini

[2] https://www.openfst.org/
One perspective is to think of these as things that a modern OS should provide as a standardized feature, and VSCode is just working around the fact they don't exist. It's crazy to think about but the kernel itself could have a webserver (or other protocol) with encryption and auth that let you directly control the entire machine through EBPF. It could be an entirely different paradigm for client/server remoting. Also a security hole you could drive a death star through.
And it's not _that_ long ago since Linus was King of the arrogant and rude flame posts on what's effectively hos own "social media", the linux kernel mailing list.

10 years back, Linus _was_ "that guy". And it worked, extremely effectively, if you measure success by the ability to stamp on someone else's technical contribution by ridiculing them in public instead of making a convincing technical defense of his position in the discussion.

https://github.com/corollari/linusrants
It is in fact possible to stop training runs that consume billions of dollars in electricity and in GPU rental or depreciation costs. If no one does such a training run, then no one can release the weights of the model that would have been produced by the run, so you won't be able to run the model (which would never come into existence) on your own hardware. I don't care if you run DeepSeek R1 in your basement till the end of time. What my friends and I want to stop is the creation of more capable future models.

It is also quite possible for our society to decide that deep learning is too dangerous and to outlaw teaching and publishing about it, which would not completely stop the discovery of algorithmic deep-learning improvements (because some committed deep-learning enthusiasts would break the law) but would slow the discovery rate way, way down.
That's not why more experienced people are doubting you.

They're doubting you because the non-digital portions of processes change at people/org speed.

Which is to say that changing a core business process is a year political consensus, rearchitecture, and change management effort, because you also have to coordinate all the cascading and interfacing changes.
There will always be bad pop science on every topic. The correct response is to ignore it, or, if you must, criticize the specific work and the specific ways in which it is bad. He is taking the existence of such bad pop science and smearing an entire field as being completely unscientific. Which is the entire problem that I saw with the 5 pages I read. He took a grain of truth and stretched it beyond all credibility and reason to ridiculous conclusions.

Much like his quote about scientific consensus. Yes, the media often sells a lie about fake consensus that doesn't actually exist, and to whatever meager extent it is, isn't supported by much evidence, but to take that (twisted, warped, and removed from context) fact and to then simply claim that one should never trust anything which has a claimed scientific consensus is idiocy.

One should absolutely be skeptical when you get a combination of factors:

1) The _only_ arguments are appeals to consensus
2) The topic has strong political valence

but those are very specific circumstances in which to be skeptical.
The recent article from KrebsOnSecurity (a very well-respected, neutral party) identifies one of the DOGE workers as an online thug facilitating cybercrime, fraud and slander: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen-on-musks-doge-team-...

I don't consider myself vehemently against Elon Musk, but these are surface-level things that background checks would filter out if Elon hadn't overridden them. This isn't even partisan so much as it is about protecting data. If Elon's flagrant illegal disregard of the GPL license at Tesla is any past indication, his respect for the law is less than coherent.
"- The complete absence of vandalism"
There are plenty of places in Japan that have graffiti. Additionally vandalism, name etching and such occasionally occurs at shrines. Vandals are primarily tourists but sometimes a drunk Japanese citizen

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tokyo+graffiti&iax=images&ia=image...

A better statement would be a general absence of vandalism.

"- Accessibility strip for blind people (bumpy yellow stripe in train stations and sidewalks)"
This is very well done in the major cities, however I've seen many incomplete implementations especially in parks where I suppose funding simply ran out.

I do believe their situation is much better than the average.
i envy those people so very very much. i don't care how wrong it might seem to appear happy, sounds awesome.
Does it support TLS?

Or is everything unencrypted on the wire?
>> Singapore has a mix of ethnic Chinese, Malay and Indian people

A mix of Asians, Asians, and Asians.

The US ain't that.
Most of the arguments presented also apply to corporations.

There's no mention of externalities. That is, are the costs of AI errors borne by the operator of the AI, or a third party.
Naive take would be that it adds abstraction that you need to keep checked, in addition to the kernel code itself. Not making a value statement at all on the level of impact that actually has in practice.
Why don’t we do that any more?
A user that can manage remote processes is generally going to have pretty high permissions.

For example, opening up debug ports on the running server processes, sudo privileges, or just the ability to run arbitrary code or curl in random binaries from the internet.
We usually don't hand over full ssh sessions to third party programs, so while you're right, I think people are not used to this level of trust into an app.

The article was to me a good reminder that it's a whole other level of access than just remote mounting a file system.
Given Mr. Wright's inadequate grasp of reinforced concrete, I'd pass.
> To err is human, to forgive divine

> Here’s my view: I obviously disagree with some of Elez’s posts, but I don’t think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid’s life,

I don't agree with the racist post; I may not even agree with many things that Vance stands for. However, it's hard to disagree with the forgiving sentiment in Vance's statements above, especially in the context that Vance's wife is a member of the very ethnicity the racist post is targeting.
> essentially funding state-run media without our consent.

This is a dumb conspiracy theory. Politico has an expensive database product for tracking legislation. Government agencies subscribe to it the same way investment banks subscribe to a Bloomberg terminal - it helps them do their job.

Also - it's literally the job of government to understand and respond to what is happening in the world and what the public is saying. Of course they are going to buy a fucking newspaper subscription to do that job. I'm sure every single Republican congressman is paying for some media subscriptions.

You're falling for totally disingenuous propaganda.
Why does the AGI want life or longevity? If you think it looks anything like an LLM, what part of an attention layer or MLP could possibly encode this? Existence is not a token.
100% this. Tokyo seems impossibly clean compared to NYC but Shirahama has a grunginess that feels almost like the rust belt of America.
I am guessing they did not do any kind of background investigation on the 19 year old, who goes by the online handle "Big Balls" and was fired from his previous internship for leaking sensitive information. Or the "I was racist before it was cool" guy.
> Have a Jamaican newborn adopted by a Japanese family in Japan and a Japanese newborn adopted by a Jamaican family in Jamaica and see how each ends up.

If "genetics cause a real difference" here, what are they? If the difference is negligible in contrast to the influence parenting and society have, why not acknowledge that? To just ignore it is pseudo-science.
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I don't know about clean, I saw hardly any (men) wash their hands after using the bathroom. Sometimes they'd wave their hands under the tap. Without turning it on.

Seemed more like obsession with being tidy than hygeinic.
Wow. Doubling down eh? At this point I have to assume you’re trolling because I struggle to believe anyone could be this obviously racist and/or stupid.
Can someone explain what distillation is exactly? I keep seeing people posting comments here and elsewhere about how DeepSeek “distilled” OpenAI outputs to train their new model. How could that even work - wouldn’t you need to ask millions of questions to get enough data to be able to train a whole another LLM? Or am I just uneducated about this topic?
Trained on doesn't mean significant inclusion in the final state.

Is it truly a violation of copyright when a user hacks out bits and pieces of easily restyled raw data points from a model to look samey? what about if it takes two models? Might be time to accept humans are just cooked in their ability to discern attempts at direct plagiarism - just as it is hard to discern Sky voice from Her voice.
If this was true, then how come all the tweets that Elon puts out with data about supposedly fraudulent and corrupt spending are screenshots of open source systems that anyone outside of government can access?
Hotline was the greatest single platform for the Macintosh in the 1990s. First Class was great, but Hotline was SO simple, you just pop in a tracker address, fire up the server, point it at 1 folder on your HDD and yer out there, as a pirate BBS server host on the internet hosting those brand new things, MP3's and those wildly hard to gather NES roms, or that illicit copy of Adobe Photoshop 4.5.

Hotline took the AOL script kiddies from #Zelifcam and put them on the real big boy Internet without any restrictions or repercussions. It was glorious time. I still have a Big Red H necklace given to me by the I-forgot-his-name author of the platform.
In addition to the maintenance comments. There are many residential areas and hotels that are very close to the tracks. Having a few hours of no trains running is important for those wishing to sleep.

Example: Tokyo City View Hotel (Tabita station), rooms approximately 13 meters from tracks.
> Regardless of differing opinions

Those opinions seem to be relevant here.
Why wouldn’t they? Despite what idealists think that people should go to college to “expand their minds and be better citizens of the world”, most people can’t afford to spend tens of thousands of dollars and not expect to be ready for careers.
> which have a very preferable decision to sandbox individual applications, instead of running them with full user permissions

It's great that they took security into account during the design phase. I wish they had also taken into account user empowerment. They sandboxed all the apps and in so doing made interoperation, plugins, patches, mods, etc basically impossible. Now the most widely-used form of personal computer is more like a portal to digital services than it is a computing platform. It's sad to see, and I refuse to believe that it's one-or-the-other when it comes to security vs power.
I've never heard of Hotline, even though I was heavily involved in the Apple community in the 1990s, but according to the Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotline_Communications), it looks like a good-but-shortlived product that was killed from within:

"However, a few months after Hinkley moved to Canada, he and his colleagues at Hotline Communications got into a major disagreement and Hinkley left the firm, encrypting source files for Hotline on Hotline Communication's computers, thus crippling the company."
I'm sure it's legitimate. People posted it a few times to HN but it didn't get much discussion. I'm ambivalent about that. It's a fascinating, heartbreaking and gutwrenching document. But given the research on suicide (Werther Effect, etc.) it's probably best not to publicly feature it.
It's for workers' rights. Even ole' John Calvin (who probably started it in Switzerland) wanted Sunday as a day off because it protected workers rights against overwork, not because he saw it as mandated by the Bible.
Ur being hacked
The only thing I can think of that really matters which can’t be solved by just wrapping the data in an inner heap allocation (like std::vector) is with the pointer to the vtable for virtual function calls.

If anything, I’ve found it’s more useful when I want to bypass such wrapping to force a class to use some particular memory (like from a bulk allocation). The STL is pretty good, but there are warts that which still force the default heap allocator like std::function.
The hammer factory is not owed anything extra for the derived benefit that their product brings, why should books be different?

Authors just want kickbacks for going after the open-source AI competition in their infancy. Even they see more value in shakedowns than the books themselves.
10k RPM also not too uncommon.
The UK is as important as Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe, is probably a bit more relevant to the future. Unplug the UK. No way we should follow this law.