skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or its role is to react toward perceived injustices within a social group in order to strengthen and reinforce cooperation.
The former does not work for me, I have to add --exec. I can only assume it's because touch is in /usr/bin and so it needs permission to execute it from there.

It seems that using --ro or --rw at all makes --exec also mandatory.
Let's be careful not to conflate (A) general technological-progress with (B) changes in economic organization and wealth distribution.

The nice things from (A) don't necessarily require what co-occurred with (B). There is nothing in the physics or materials of a refrigerator which requires the assembler to have been paid less than the CEO.
You really nailed it. Most don't realize all the work that goes into being a manager.

Yes some are bad at it. It's why I got into management, so I could replace those bad managers. And so far, for the most part, my employees love me.
> Are you trying to make a career of misunderstanding my replies? Or am I just really that bad at writing?

No, I'm just looking past the florid language. You've literally said that regulation is useless because it's either too late or too far.

There's probably some fantastical perfect moment when regulation is just right, but it will never come because there will always be people for whom regulation is either too late, or too far.

> _People_, potential buyers, are _supposed_ to demand sensible things from companies. By voting with their money. Does that not work anymore?

It has never worked. At least not to the extent people pretend it's working.
Right, but it doesn’t seem to deter us for some reason. At least not yet.
Paul Dirac looks and sounds a lot like my father's father, though he delivers his words faster and with more emotion. I almost never heard my grandfather speak.
Why must the Europeans be like this? Why do they insist on fucking with a free and open internet instead of addressing the apparently unmet demand that is fueling a black market?
> can even be angry at myself, in which case revenge doesn't even make sense

I have seen lots of people, myself included, where self revenge would make the most plausible explanation for behavior. I no longer see people as homogeneous or discrete.

Anger serves a useful tool, but it can also be an extremely powerful way to manipulate and be manipulated.
Nikit0ns/Ukrainian_IT_Communities
That is what I will implement before bringing back the demo https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43448649
One of my good friends discovered her biological half-brother on 23andMe who she had never been told about. They met up, and got along remarkably well, and have actually remained pretty close since! These things do happen. Glad you got something out of it, too.

Yeah, these experiences may or may not be rare. I was positing that they might be rare mostly to try to meet the person I was responded to halfway and because I don't actually have evidence one way or the other
I don't think it makes everyone so productive, tbh! If you really know what you are doing and are willing to burn tokens, it will really take your work to the next level—provided you don’t work with a niche product or language that the models weren’t trained on.

If I may use an analogy, it's like what sampling is for music producers. The sample is out there—it’s already a beautiful sample, full of strings and keys, a glorious 8-bar loop. Anyone can grab it, but not every producer can sell it or turn it into a hit.

In the end, every hype train has some truth to it. I highly suggest you give it a shot, if you haven't already. I’m glad I did—it really helped me a lot, and I am (unfortunately, financially) hooked on it.
The key ingredient in a formal course is the formal examination. Be it graded exercises or a written or oral exam. It forces studying at a level where you can reproduce and explain the key concepts and results and apply them to something new.

In theory one can do that also with self-study. Most people don't, they just watch some youtube video or read a Wikipedia page, and then they think they have understood something. But the deeper understanding that comes from applying this new knowledge is missing. That step is forced when you take a university course that has some form of examination in-built. Doing it yourself is possible but non-obvious, hard, perhaps even unpleasant, and it's rare people do it. Some do though, and their understanding isn't inferior to a university graduate.
Who’s idiotic enough to think; let me save a few bucks, drive all the away across the border, buy eggs, then illegally import them back into the US. Since when did eggs become Cocaine? People have lost their damn minds.
What evidence? People use it to bypass the payment processor cartels all the time.
Exactly. I see these threads over and over, and it's just senior devs complaining about how it's the tool's fault, and not that they haven't put the time in to learn the new tool

The cycle of tool and framework re-skilling is constant in industry, and those trying to fight the wave always lose. And this one is a tidal wave. UPDATE YOUR SKILLS FOLKS!
Right there in the article:

"This decision follows a similar case against Internet backbone firm Cloudflare. In January, the Court of Milan found that Cloudflare's CDN, DNS server, and WARP VPN were facilitating piracy. The court threatened Cloudflare with fines of up to 10,000 euros per day if it did not begin blocking the sites."
So the argument hinges on the fact that the XZ maintainer hid malicious code in the tarballs that were not checked into Git.

The author demonstrates that Nix can be configured to generate the tarballs from git that go into building the binaries.

What I don't see, however, is how is this a feature that requires Nix or NixOS?

Any build system out there (including the stuff that goes into RPMs and Debs) can be configured to generate tarballs as a intermediate step.

In fact making reproducible builds is a major thing that Debian has been working on for some time now.

https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds
It may be, but I've also found that very few companies try. Usually because bad management is in charge.
In my experience, I started my career 15 years ago cleaning up codebases developed by cheap outsourced developers. They were an absolute mess. Today, I work with many very talented developers overseas. People who develop code at my level of quality and above (and I am a stickler for high quality, maintainable code).

The thing is how you research, what you expect to get out of it, and what you're willing to pay. There was absolutely a gold rush on bottom-dollar development by cheap overseas developers by management who had no idea how software really worked, and thought they could build a business on cheap offshore development. These were software farms staffed by unappreciated undertrained people from diploma mills. I saw truly shocking things. I saw code written entirely with gotos instead of loops, because the developer had never learned how to write a while loop. The companies spent way more in the long run trying to iterate, ask for changes, and ultimately having to hire higher quality talent for much more money.

I agree with the GP. The LLMs will get better, maybe people will learn that you need an LLM with a skilled developer, or maybe the agents will get good enough to fully drive themselves properly, or maybe just good enough that a non-technical pilot can get good work out of them. Right now, "vibe coding" is largely non-technical people making messy, unmaintainable, insecure code. Some of these are programmers and non-programmers just playing around, but some people are trying to build money-making businesses off this, and it does feel like a very similar situation.
I still like the blogpost, because NixOS bills itself as a technical solution to prevent build artifacts that are decoupled from the source code (i.e. not reproducible), and the xz backdoor was hidden in build artifacts.
Surely the right of an individual to enjoy freedom and live in a democratic world would be the ultimate? Some individuals have aimed for these values but today huge parts of our world don't enjoy those benefits.
The administration could decide to detain, deport, or kill everyone who has certain traits - say, Jewish, or Arab, or Mexican, or maybe just has undesirable traits. The db of millions of users makes this very easy.

The US admin is already at the stage of mass deportations. Detention camps (beyond those we already have at the border) are probably not far behind.
Exactly. In a world of many resolvers, poisoning a few doesn’t matter. In all likelihood the folks consuming these streams aren’t using mainstream DNS anyway.
I feel like a lot of people are forgetting how good llms are at small isolated tasks because of how much better they've gotten at larger tasks. The best experiences I've had with llms all involve sketching out the interfaces for components I need and letting it fill in the implementation. That mentality also rewards choices that lead to good/maintainable code. you give functions good names so the AI knows what to implement. You make the code you ask it to generate as small as possible to minimize the chance of it hallucinating/going off the rails. You stub simple apis for the same reason. And (unsurprisingly) small, well defined functions are extremely testable! Which is a great trait to have for code that you know can very well be wrong.

In time the AI will be good enough design whole applications in this vibe-code-y way... But all of the examples I've seen so far indicate that even the best publicly available models aren't there. It seems like every example I've seen has the developer bickering with the ai about something it just won't get right - often wasting more time than they were slightly more hands on. Until the tech gets over that I'll stick to it being the "junior developer I give a uml diagram to so they can figure out the messy parts".
Egg prices are going down.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/business/egg-prices-are-final...
> I mean to draw attention to aspects shared by two different things.

Yes, I understand you meant to reason by analogy, and I told you that I think your analogy is flawed. When you reason by analogy, perhaps you should be prepared for someone to say, "That analogy doesn't make sense in this context." Mostly because -- your analogy doesn't make sense in this context. One, is an actual damages case, and the other is statutory damages case. When we are strictly discussing damages, your comparison is an apples to oranges comparison.

You said:

>>> If you receive software under a license that is too restrictive for you, then there is always the option to pay the rightholder (sic) to grant you a more permissive license

You suggest "there is always the option to pay the rightholder (sic) to grant you a more permissive license" and I'm saying that it's impossible in this circumstance? There is no one stop shop for the licensee. There is no 50 stop shop.

In your scenario, where we are to imagine an incompatibility exists, you also imagine a theoretical alternative license would be relevant to a court. And I'm saying, just as relevant, is the actual impossibility of obtaining the consent of either all ZFS licensors or all Linux licensors.

We've created effectively perpetually licensed software via our shared use of FOSS. And now one party we imagine saying -- actually these two works will be incompatible forever. You think a court won't think that's wild?

More significantly, this entire line of argument has an angels on the head of a pin quality. The GPL and the CDDL are the licenses that have already been chosen by Canonical, because Canonical didn't, like you, read an incompatibility into this CDDL-GPL combination. So -- fair enough that Canonical didn't feel the need to cast about for some theoretical alternative license, if it doesn't feel that the CDDL and the GPL are incompatible.

> I think the issue here is the use of CDDL licensed code

As discussed -- I don't think it matters much how the code is licensed. If it makes it easier, imagine the CDDL sourced code is actually a closed source, proprietary filesystem. So -- Linux provides a module interface, but it could be any interface. Just as in Sega, IMHO even proprietary code can use GPL licensed code, which provides an interface, for the purposes of interoperability. Why? Because "fair use".
And to your point what sort of reactionary behavior do you see offline vs online? Which of the political parties is more reactionary?
Fascinating, can you describe some of these cases? I suppose self-harm could fit this description, but let's say I'm angry at myself for making a bad decision that hurt someone else, what would revenge on myself look like? It would be hard to make things up to the victim by sabotaging myself.
Please, do not confuse Europeans with the entities taking such actions. I know of nobody supporting such draconian measures. However, the government, the football league and the guys taking decisions at agcom (which in the past has been a serious and respected agency for the battle he took with tech companies) are, quite apparently, banding together to make the football league will become reality above anything else
Alternatively: if LLMs make devs 3x productive that means companies can get 3x the value out of an engineering hire, so they should hire more.

(Unless that company somehow has no substantial engineering backlog, which I've yet to encounter anywhere I've ever worked.)
Those that complain the loudest about being censored always seem to be the first to burn the books.
You seem to be implying that the El Salvador project of brutal mass incarceration without spending too much effort checking that the incarcerated really are guilty could solve this problem too.

Firstly, it probably wouldn't because that program only began a long time after the majority of the improvement had already happened:
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_a... Bukele only began the mass incarceration after El Salvador had roughly the same number of homicides per person as the USA.

Secondly even if it really had been that program that produced the improvements, the gangs in El Salvador were very different to the gangs in Mexico. I found https://mattlakeman.org/2024/03/30/notes-on-el-salvador/ interesting for background on the gangs.
Google would not allow this, but Mapbox seems to be OK with this, if it is used for non-commercial purposes or OSM, and only if their satellite data is used (not their vector data):

1.6. No Tracing, Deriving, or Extracting. Customer shall not trace or otherwise derive or extract content, data
and/or information from the Service Offerings except that Customer may use Studio or third-party
software to trace Mapbox Maps solely comprised of satellite imagery to produce derivative vector
datasets (i) for non-commercial purposes or (ii) for OpenStreetMap.

Kind of nice from them.
The backdoor was not targeting Nix but it had to not raise any suspicion during a build in Nix to not be exposed.
“Zoom and enhance” forensics aren’t real right? Isn’t it mostly NSA listens in and then they have to parallel construct something to hide the illegal pervasive surveillance?
https://archive.ph/Avm5E
I think Martha Nussbaum thinks that it signals that our status has been negatively affected. That seems right to me.
There is no way private weather forecasting will be profitable enough to keep the required equipment running, at least at the quality we have had.
California has 45% (marginal effective combined federal/state, for any nitpickers) tax rate, even higher cost of living, and no health insurance at all by default.
And that's not even getting into the class of testers which try to order ';--drop table beers;-- beers, <script>alert(1)</script> beers or <![ENTITY q1 "&q0;"><![ENTITY q2 "&q1;&q1;&q1;">&q2; style beers
My father never dissuaded me from the computer science degree I went for (starting in 2007), but later on in life, he told me that, at the time, he was worried about my choice because outsourcing was all the rage and everyone was saying there’d be no programming work in the states-that it was all going to be done in India.

That reality in fact never materialized.
I am not involved in scraping, but to me this sounds like simply another tool in the arsenal. They say it's hard for the scraper to realize it has been caught this way because it's not being blocked. However, I don't see anything preventing scrapers from implementing heuristics to realize that.
Polar vortex collapse leads to cold polar air mass moving south over the course of the next few weeks. At least where I am, this article is coinciding within a day or so of the end of "fake spring".

In fact, this might help explain the concept of fake spring in general. The final collapse of the vortex is ultimately caused by warming of the northern hemisphere as spring kicks in. This implies that the pattern of "get pretty warm, then the polar vortex collapses, then you get one more surge of winter weather, and then you get real spring" is actually typical.
Yeah, it's a good blog post in part because it gets into the details of how it was possible that this vulnerability made it into NixOS, which purports to solve the problem.

Also, I'm not a NixOS critic either: I'm writing this from NixOS! I just don't think there's such a thing as a security cure-all as long as humans are in the loop anywhere.
Me too.

>> I grew up in a household in which rage was accepted and permitted.

Accepted, permitted and encouraged: "Show your anger! Let them know! Bring it out! Don't accept that from that person! Get angry!" Righteous indignation was exactly the right way to feel when you have "been wronged".

It's amongst the greatest disservices my parents could have done to me (there were more, plenty more).

I eventually managed to undo much of the damage to my personality by asking a simple question whenever I start to feel anger:

"Does this matter?"

If it really matters, get angry - get REALLY angry if you need to. I found that almost nothing matters and I basically never get angry.

Getting angry destroys relationships and friendships pretty much instantly - and the angry person is typically unaware of this.

I saw a woman in a carpark get super angry because someone else took her parking spot that she was waiting to back into. She got out of her car and yelled into their window and stomped around and she was clearly furious. I thought "that woman has no mechanism to determine if this situation matters enough to get angry."

I also never learned explicitly from my parents what "kindness" (the inverse of anger) is - it puzzled me when it started to become clear in my 20's that this is an important concept and I did not understand it and needed to.
my email is on my profile didn't see yours on yours, would love to connect though.
The article states that Aristotle and many modern philosophers agree that a desire for payback is a fundamental part of anger.

I questioned it too, thinking through a bunch of different scenarios.

The biggest counter example that popped into my head was being angry at my kids for doing typical kid stuff.

I'm not trying to get "payback" or revenge, right?

When I paused and reflected on it, I'm not so sure. Why do I raise my voice? I want them to feel bad, theoretically so that they learn to not do whatever it was they did. Is me wanting them to feel bad wanting payback? I guess you could argue that it is.

Whenever I get angry, it's very action-oriented. I stew on what I'm going to do in response to whatever made me angry. After I calm down, I can recognize how irrational most of those thoughts are.

My brain doesn't function well when I'm angry. The thing that I've learned, and it's been a hard lesson at times, is to not react. Those feelings of revenge and payback etc... make everything worse.

Especially when I really look back on whatever situation made me angry. Once I'm calm, I'm able to see what part of the situation was my fault. A lot of times, it's an embarrassingly large part, and the fact that I was a jerk in some way is hard to admit.

It's a lot easier to just externalize it all, get mad at someone else, and contemplate ways to "get even".
Wouldn't generating the content be much more expensive than the crawling done by the bots? How is it economical to deal with bots by spending a bunch of resources to feed them fake content.
Firejail supports Landlock though: https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/pull/6078
”but I have to see anyone do it”

This is a strange take. Why or how would you ever see someone do it? It is very unlikely you would be aware of them.

I do concur most ppl I’ve seen lacking formal education in physics - no matter how smart - do have some gaps in their knowledge. There seems to be something of a tacit knowledge transfer involved - but I have no clue what it is. Maybe physicists radiate physics particles or something. I’m kidding. But I have no clear mechanistic model what makes physicists physicists. It’s not smarts (some required I guess, but does not suffice).

Maybe it’s just going through a specific set of rote calculations and lab work needed.
He works for a company who tries to sell coding agents. He's absolutely trying to pump it up and induce FOMO. If you can't see that because he hides it behind a layer of humor, that's on you.
The opposite of it would be an agent which deliberately generates expensive but useless requests. Like search. If it detects labyrinth.
Oh god. Fixing an excel spreadsheet full of crazy macros was my first job too. The nightmares still haunt me.
The Navy already does forecasting for the DoD. They have their own computing facility (called Fleet Numerical) in California and run their own models.
I was specifically referring to requesting DNS poisoning.
Honestly I'm getting pretty worried. We just had the current administration sell a bunch of young men into slavery in a El Salvador (they will be doing forced hard labor) then openly state in a court filings that they had no evidence of these men committing crimes, and still MAGA seems fine with this.

I don't know that there's anything Trump can do at this point that will lose him support.
A Dyson Swarm Made of Solar Panels Would Make Earth Uninhabitable
Underlying paper:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092702482...
While I generally agree that one should not conflate private individuals with the actions of their government, I do think it is fair to hold people who live in democracies responsible in a general or aggregate sense for the actions of their elected governments.

In other words, I think it is fair to say that Italy pulls shit like this because enough Italian voters want it to happen or otherwise let it happen.