skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The entire gnu software movement was started decades ago already because one guy was fed up with printer firmwares and thought they should be replaced with public diy open source firmware to make the printers actually serve their owners.

"it's time" was already forever ago and some serious committed practically religious power devs tried and gave up on it, even while toppling practically all other software ecosystems.

Hell even the current locked down user-hostile printers are actually running linux and gnu software. That must be exceedingly galling.
Why give the printer internet access at all?
Maybe he hadn't been as known, but I'd assume, he had started another venture had PayPal failed.
This is a non-fiction piece, not really a news story. So not everyone's cup of tea. Joan Didion style. I enjoyed it.

I would summarize it as not being about AI per se. It's nominally about "rationalism," or the inclination to boil everything down to mathematics to an extreme degree. The story points out a growing subculture of rationalist who have become quite radicalized.

For a community like HN, which (rightly, IMO) places high value on rational and critical thought, it can seem strange that there could be a degree at which that sort of thinking is harmful. But there are a lot of examples where taken to an extreme, it can allow people to "rationalize" all sorts of actions. And the article goes into detail about some of the pitfalls this small group fell into.
Would you please show me where that fact was pointed out prior to invoking the reading comprehension department?
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I mean.. yeah, but.. I just fed this into grok and it did a fair job of summarising it (I know because I've done a fair bit of reading on the zizian nutters.)
Countries should really just nationalize Tesla at this point, just like they sanction Russian oligarchs.
I really hate this idea of "far-right talking points" and "far-left talking points".

It immediately frames questions as "us vs them", if there's a talking point you hear come up frequently and it's easily dissolved: learn how to dissolve it.

The fewer people walking around with incorrect ideas about things the better we all are.

If people rebuff you, maybe they had a point the whole time? If they change the subject or resort to ad hominems, then it's clear to everyone listening that the talking point was bogus. You might not change the persons mind, but it can help others.
> let's not pretend it's as bad as regimes in countries that have actual active concentration camps right now

Do you know what's going on in Guantanamo right now?
You might be missing the point. They can be all of those things you say (and I very much agree with you) but they can still be very dangerous. In fact, perhaps their banality is a key part of what makes them so dangerous.
I believe that is a misunderstanding of what the other party is expressing in this case. It's not "wrong once, so always wrong" but rather "intentional deception in the past, therefore might intentionally deceive again, and I don't know how to verify, therefore I shouldn't trust it".
I was less focused on his NFT/crypto phase as on his faddishness. He just sort of grabs after whatever is in the headlines.
Dignity?
Forwarding tech co founder Alex's note to HN community:

Hi HN,

I'm Alex, technical co-founder of Nanobrowser. We have been working on this project to make web automation more accessible, powerful, and open.

In building Nanobrowser, we leveraged open source library such as browser use (https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use) , and Chrome Extension Boilerplate (https://github.com/Jonghakseo/chrome-extension-boilerplate-r...)

We completely rewrote the DOM processing part of browser-use with Typescript, built a multi-agent system and implemented the extension frontend with React, Vite and Typescript.

We hope you like tinkering with Nanobrowser! Checkout out our repo (https://github.com/nanobrowser/nanobrowser), create issues or open a pull reqeusts.

Thanks for taking a look! I'm excited to see what the HN community thinks.

(Alex was not able to send this comment out because he only registered his account today. )
So GPS a misnomer now, given not only "global" anymore. Perhaps better change it to CPS, Cislunar Positioning System.
That does seem to be the new Cold War of sorts. Attacks that are indirect and easier to deny than kinetic attacks
Lmao why should they have to spend money auditing random 3rd party extensions that you choose to install? VSC is free, we're not paying for it.
"We" wont, until some generation figures it out
They are not necessarily smart, but they are powerful and most likely sociopathic. They are dangerous.
I meant... don't make the same mistake as Phosh.

I know what it is...

Everyone is so obsessed with proving the other wrong on this platform. It's almost as if users derive their identity from their supposed superior intellect. Sounds like what the twitter guy does all the time.
Somewhere, some poor schmuck is phoneless, sitting by a waterfall, completely unaware of how scared he is supposed to be
It appears to me that this article, at least the title, is wrong. The update simply adds a local only api that apps can ise, it doesn't do any scanning. And Google sent out a notification that they plan to use this API in an update to Google Chat. Notably, it will not (at least for now) communicate the scan results back to Google.
I would think some parts of the book are more valuable than others. That goes for every book including classics like TAOCP and the compiler dragon book.

It would be interesting to know what parts are pure gold and worth deep study and which parts can be skimmed or consulted as a reference.
> I would wager a sane default is to use the localisation of the operating system, as that is largely going to be localised for the person already

I already explained why in many parts of the world this would not be the good wager you think it is.

>moreso than browser fingerprinting(?)

I'm not saying browser fingerprinting is a good way to determine what language to serve to the user.

I'm saying setting the headers to non-default values (and especially ones that represent actual facts about the user, such as what languages they can be expected to understand) can be used for fingerprinting, and that's probably the most sensible reason to avoid making use of such features that otherwise would have been, as you say, benign and quite convenient.

>I'm not entirely sure why you are coming across as deeply emotional about this topic, but it's really not worth getting angry over.

I'm not getting angry! I am having fun fun FUN! Your culture requires me to be having fun fun FUN in order to not be gradually destroyed from the inside! Or from the outside!
I think that Ads on Google are different in regards to licensing and targeting. A company might target "Users in Europe" for example.
http://archive.today/mU1yk
I usually have to print at minimum 4 to 5 documents per year. They are almost universally the same things, and they're many many pages, but infrequent:

1. Tax return to mail

2. Other government forms to mail

3. Contracts

Unfortunately, while the majority of the things I do in my life are purely digital, this fails as soon as you interact with the government in any meaningful way off the happy path or interact with the legal system, in those cases hard-copy only with original signatures is required to get anywhere.
I think the title is taking the message out of context. It's about economic battles. Basically, China is accusing the US of using fentanyl as an excuse to raise tariffs, just like Canada and Mexico. He's saying China is ready to fight this tariff war to the end.
I agree with your premise but not conclusion.

I think there are people who take big unlikely risks. Statistically some of them succeed. Now they are big risk takers with survivorship bias and illusions of self importance, AND lots power/money. And that can be scary.
1.5km is not bad. Chris Columbus could resolve latitude to about 100-200km, and longitude only by dead reckoning.

I do wonder though with computers and cameras and celestial navigation, why that is not used vs GPS on the moon
> This is trying to get two drunks to stand up straight by leaning them against each other.

Thank you for painting this beautiful picture.
The Government Knows AGI Is Coming – The Ezra Klein Show [video]
Reddit has a much broader aim than Slashdot ever did. Slashdot _is_ just about discussing news, just like HN. Reddit is basically a BBS with no particular topic or usage in mind. They cannot be compared.
you're not the customer! YOU'RE THE PRODUCT!
You can ignore politics, but politics won't ignore you.
Android and iOS don't support printer drivers so should be safe, no?
> [media posts] reinforce the "negatively abbreviated representation" and fuels an atmosphere of fear and rejection. In explaining the verdict, Halbfas also made it clear: "Those who attack human dignity cannot invoke freedom of speech."

She was found guilty of reinforcing negative stereotypes and by doing so she "violated the human dignity of a distinct group of Afghan refugees".

Where is the line between having anti-immigration politics and harming refugees? If free speech means anything it should at least protect political opinions, and that includes politics many of us find distasteful or racist.

Dragging somebody through the courts and fining them heavily for a simple social media post is pretty extreme. If her post was deserving of a €6000 fine what kind of commentary will get you fined €1000? Which opinions will get you a visit from the cops and a stern talking to? Who decides where the line is between acceptable political opinion and unacceptable hate speech? How are regular people supposed to tell the difference? Or are regular people just expected not talk about controversial subjects at all if they can't afford to pay a €6000 fine?
We should be concerned about all billionaires and the outsize influence on media and government.

That said, I do think fear is unproductive.
I genuinely feel getting off this planet is also one of the solutions to some problems just like getting away from one's country or kingdom has always been a solution.

Why do you feel we can't colonize Mars? Or perhaps any of the asteroids? Perhaps not in this century but do you feel it'll never happen?
Joe Lonsdale was on CNBC talking his book (long Palantir) the other day in the context of DoD cuts. He was confident that DoD would buy more from Palantir and other new contractors (e.g. Anduril), and DOGE would continue to cut the fat.

All of that may or may not be true, but the wrinkle not addressed is the vibes between Musk and Thiel.
As someone who grew up in Edmonton, attended the U of A, and had the good fortune of receiving an incredible CS education at a discount price, I'm incredibly grateful for his (and the other amazing professors there) immense sacrifice.

Great people and cheap cost of living, but man do I not miss the city turning into brown sludge every winter.
It was more about the, ya know, murder cult thing, than technology. It's an artifact of telling a story - which is different than relaying a 'classic' journalism piece where the 5W's are most important.

"Years before she became the peculiar central thread linking a double homicide in Pennsylvania, the fatal shooting of a federal agent in Vermont and the murder of an elderly landlord in California, a computer programmer bought a sailboat."

I wanted to keep reading, so I guess I was their audience - not everything has to be up to your personal standards to be worth while.
"the Rotenburg District Court concluded that Kaiser had taken the quoted information out of context in the post text and knowingly risked that the tile would be perceived as incitement to hatred by an objective observer. Additionally, the rhetorical question violated the human dignity of a distinct group of Afghan refugees."

- Wikipedia

You're ok with that?!
If it's complimentary, doesn't that mean it's free? Why do they need a contract then?
If they'll accept a PDF at all, just using a digital signature annotation in Mac Preview is sufficient for every use case I've found. The ones that won't accept this generally require physical hard-copy, not a scan.
The BBC claims that this account is the official handle for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for China. So... FAFO.
Doesn’t sound out of context to me. It’s not just about economic battles. Did you read the final paragraph?

> If war is what the U.S. wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war or any other type of war, we’re ready to fight till the end.
I mean... WhatsApp is literally XMPP / Jabber... It's amazing that we didn't stop and said, wait, Jabber can do this, we just need a pretty UI...

Hell, Jabber can still do this. I'm not convinced of the other modern alternatives that don't have half the functional capabilities that Jabber do.

The only "downside" of Jabber is that it's XML based, but really if you think about it, that's a strength. Anyone here could probably parse the protocol effortlessly. There's also lots of fully functional clients out today, and servers that scale like nobody's business.

I'm more ashamed we don't invest more into XMPP: Google Talk, Facebook Chat and WhatsApp were built around it. These are companies with insane to scale userbases, tried and tested.

Here's a 2008 article from Facebook on using their chat with a Jabber client:

https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/110/
My takeaway is that billionaires are dangerous. Un-checked power is dangerous.

I remember the first time I heard someone say they thought there shouldn't be Billionaires, we shouldn't even allow there to be Billionaires my Capitalist mind reeled, "Say wut?"

And then I started watching the world careen further out of control and could see that in fact the problem might just be wielding of financial power that really is the root of the problem.
Dang I thought this was going to be a throwback (2013) article about Digg's post-v4 relaunch [0] by Betaworks.

> The new Digg has little in common with the old site: it has big photos instead of tiny text, does not allow for comments, and most importantly, it depends on human editors in addition to an algorithm that weighs user voting. So far, people seem to like it. A new survey, this time with 2,600 users, showed that 81 percent would recommend the new Digg to a friend.

One thing I remember about this phase was how good the headlines were, they must have paid a decent sum for human editors.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2013/2/4/3950596/diggs-traffic-rebo...
Firmware is the thing that Framework has failed the most at from day one to today. It's every bit as locked down as everyone else's only without the big guys quality control and updates so you get to live with bugs for the entire life of the hardware.

Their firmware updates are complete clown car. When they actually do one, the update process itself is just stupid fragile. Cross your fingers and clear your schedule for the next day in case you aren't lucky. You have a 10% chance of being left with a machine that probably still runs but works worse than before, and no ability to roll back.

I have a 11th gen intel board that is completely unusable after an update, but might possibly still be recoverable if I reinstall it into the laptop so it can use the laptop display instead of displayport. But I'd have to take my current 12th gen board out and then put it all back again after.

A Framework printer, if it matched a Framework laptop, would still have shit firmware, probably licensed from one of the majors, with all the same bad behavior, except with more bugs.
The other advantage that the article misses for aliases is that completions will work through aliases. So, in the case give for `alias g=git` typing `g <tab>` will give you the bash/zsh completions for git. You _can_ do this for the script as well, but then you need to code that up separately.
The mining industry is also subject to fakery. We don't have a database with all trades in it. We for the most part don't know what people are paying. The bid and ask prices are real? What part of those transactions involve things that only exist on paper?

Fort Knox is the funniest example. For the financial theather it doesn't matter if there is any physical gold.
Who knows? The guy was not a really good teacher. His student Plato ignored the meaning of what he said about learning to write a book on it. A major point of the book was that reading the book was pointless because it was a form of sophism.

Before I am downvoted into oblivion, the above text is half joking and half serious. Socrates in Plato’s Republic really does make the case that formal training via methods intended to teach is pointless by comparing education to training horses. I made that point in my college philosophy class hoping the professor would skip it on the basis that it was a bad book (my thoughts on a book that suggested you could not learn its material by being lead to it - see the cave analogy). The professor then stopped the entire class to try to make sure everyone understood the point and then continued as if the material was not criticizing him.
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Restoring “American greatness” is well beyond switching to the gold standard or “brain drain” of the world.

We need a paradigm shift from what we call neoclassical economics and neoliberal economic theory. The author sort of hints at it but goes off the rails with his conclusions, but this country was built on a _strong_ middle class. Purchasing power of the middle class has been decimated/stagnated.

Public companies no longer invest in the wellbeing of their employees (ie, increasing wages) or invest back into the company to improve efficiency and remain competitive. Instead we see massive amounts of that profit generated by labor invested into short term _stock manipulation_ via stock buybacks.

The endless thirst for paper growth and infinite profitability is ultimately not sustainable. The end result of this rapacious capitalism is what we see today:

- 40 year wage stagnation of middle class and minimal chance of upward mobility for poor

- loss of collective bargaining and via non-existent unions or decrease in participation

- loss of safety nets such as pensions

- increased cost of living due to corporations endless need for paper growth

(list can go on, but I’m typing on a phone)
As fired federal workers found out.
> unauthorised access and unauthorised alteration of a computer system (which I gather to be judged criminal in UK & USA at least).

I doubt it would ever be prosecuted. It is important to remember that the law doesn’t mean what you think it means, it means what the average prosecutor and/or judge thinks it means. Those laws were invented for use against scary “hackers”, not printer manufacturers updating their own products
160 gigabytes of feed over the course of a month (when polling a 640kb feed every 10 seconds), in case anyone else was wondering.
Having the method exist is reasonable - you want to have as many fallbacks as possible to avoid bricking the device if you manage to break the main update flow.

Applying updates without user consent is the evil part.
> My point is precisely that humans aren’t exceptional

We don't know that. You're just assuming things.
Yep that is exactly what I meant, thanks for providing a background source.
This gives STORM a high mark but didn't seem to get great results from GPT Researcher which is the other open source project that was doing this before the recent flavor of the day DeepReasearch has become.

But there are so many ways to configure GPT Researcher for all kinds of budgets so I wonder if this comparison really pushed the output or just went with defaults and got default midranges for comparison.
This hinges entirely on what the captions were. What did they say? Even US free speech laws doesn't protect certain forms of speech (eg. "imminent lawless action"), so whether it's a meme or not holds little relevance.
meme is a very vague term. it could have been death threat meme. its like saying "he went to jail for speaking". well its possible and might be totally justified. depends on what was said. for example death treats, bomb threats, scamming people. its all fits under "he was speaking"
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As I'm an addicted to coffee, I made this little thing to understand how much caffeine is safe for me and I found out I'm screwed. I drink much more than I should. Try it out and lmk what you think!
I saw someone point out that DOGE has so far been masterful at making its detractors point for them — DOGE has shown that there's surprisingly less waste an inefficiency than anyone might have thought before.
My pile of aliases and custom functions is hilariously large now, making it cumbersome to find where exactly I defined one.

Making standalone scripts would make that trivial, so it's tempting to take him up on his idea.

That said, his list of benefits of aliases clearly makes a strong case for using them over scripts.

As he said, YMMV.
Unproductive? Fear writes laws and wins elections.
> Peter Thiel would be a nobody if PayPal failed.

Maybe for Peter (I don't know) but not for Musk. He did X/PayPal, but then blew everyone away with Tesla, crushed it with SpaceX, succeeds with Starlink...

Some people really do have something that is more than just getting lucky once.
nobody tell him
Firefox. I've been heavily critical of them about the ToS thing, and don't trust Firefox like I used to at all, but all things considered, it's still the best option for me as far as I'm aware. I do wish that there were more actual options in the browser world.
For a group that applies rationalism, they appear to have ended up committing very horrible and irrational acts.

The article could have done more to condemn this group and line of thinking.

Also the part of the story on Curtis Lind is both sad and impressive, that old man was built of true grit:

"As he bent to look, something hit him on the head and he blacked out. When he woke up, at least three of the Zizians were allegedly standing around him with knives.

“[T]he right side of my skull was shattered,” Lind later said. “And I was bleeding from numerous puncture wounds … The back of my neck had some severe cuts. Like somebody was trying to cut my head off.” His torso was impaled with a samurai sword.

Lind drew his gun, which was concealed in a pocket, and started shooting. He wounded Leatham and killed Borhanian. He stumbled away with the sword still in him. He survived, but lost an eye."
Curious keyword, "banality".. Hannah Arendt wrote a whole book about a banal man, which probably has lessons for the current times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem
I came here to say the same thing.
I'm also not convinced about the instant reload aspect. You can always just define your aliases in a different file and source it when updating aliases (how often does that happen anyway?), source your .zshrc, or just open a new terminal window.
I think it's more that second thing than the first one. I joined slashdot in the late 90s, and though some of the OSDN stuff briefly sniffed at enshittification, they didn't really ever take that plunge.

IMO, people who liked the user generated aspect of slashdot also liked the higher velocity of digg, reddit, and even HN better as those came along. People who liked the editorial curation angle that distinguished slashdot from these newer takes came to prefer more curation and professional editorial commentary, leaving slashdot in an odd in-between space.