skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As such, while 5 > 0, and that's a problem, what we don't know (and perhaps can't know), is how that adjusts for population size.

This puts the burden on companies which may hesitate to put their “self driving” methods out there because it has trouble with detecting motorcyclists. There is a solid possibility that self driving isn’t being rolled out by others because they have higher regard for human life than Tesla and its exec.
So adapt. Learn to curate your team and their work. Lead by helping people organize, getting obstacles out of their way, shielding them from alarmist BS from higher management, and stop worrying about butts in seats. Focus on agreements, goals, commitments, accountability, growth, and coaching.

It's not that hard.
I don’t think it’s economics that got us into that. It’s primarily been incredible fiscal irresponsibility, mainly from Republicans, that has done so. Congress hasn’t really agreed or followed mainstream economics as long as I’ve been alive.
> Even in the default out-of-the-box configuration, Apple isn't exercising editorial control over what apps you can run

Perhaps not in the strictest sense, but Apple continues to ramp up the editorial friction for the end user to run un-notarized applications.

I feel/felt <macOS 15 that right-click Open was an OK approach, but as we know that's gone. It's xattr or Settings.app. More egregious is the monthly reminder that an application is doing something that you want it to do.

A level between "disable all security" and what macOS 15 introduces would be appreciated.
You're assuming a lot given HN's American demographic isn't exactly reflective of the general population.

Even among the American general populace, most have traveled to a country besides Canada.
And not just the workers, Elon threatened to take all of Tesla's AI stack to xAI if they didn't give him the 55B pay package.
Not sure why the comparisons were made with pretty outdated versions to be honest.

I‘m using a (older) v1.29.1 dev version with https://sql-workbench.com w/o any bigger issues.
Kim Jung Un is the grandson of Kim Il Sung. Not all cults evaporate at the founder's death.
Had to skip to basically the end to find out the reason:

tl;dr:

> On March 25, tech staffers and contractors at the VA noticed an unfamiliar name trying to push changes that could impact VA.gov code. It was Sahil Lavingia, a newcomer to the agency listed in the VA’s internal directory as an adviser to the chief of staff, Christopher Syrek.

> Who’s Sahil Lavingia, you might ask? Why, the founder and CEO of Gumroad! It’s not even the central point of the piece, but the fact is, if you’re supporting Gumroad—a tool that, notably, has survived as long as it did because of a high-profile crowdfunding campaign—you’re allowing its CEO the financial freedom to work in the Department of Veterans Affairs, at the behest of DOGE, for free.
You can read the text: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2022/2065/oj/eng

If English isn't your native language, that's okay - these are translated into every European language and you can select a translation here.

Article 25, clause 1:

> Providers of online platforms shall not design, organise or operate their online interfaces in a way that deceives or manipulates the recipients of their service or in a way that otherwise materially distorts or impairs the ability of the recipients of their service to make free and informed decisions.

These EU regulations tend to specify policies, not mechanisms to achieve them. Mechanisms to enforce the policy, however, are specified.

They are written like that precisely so you won't try to weasel your way around a requirement. If they had said "verified badges may not be sold" then you would try to say "this isn't a verified badge but a they-paid-us badge." By wording it vaguely, it cannot be weaseled.

And indeed, it is a they-paid-us badge... but it's designed to look identical to the verified badge, on purpose, because Elon knew verified badges were something people wanted, and people wanted them because they were a status symbol, and they were a status symbol because they indicated your account was in some sense more trustworthy than average. And Elon knew that.

I don't know whether people still see the badges that way today. Probably not, because all the sane people deleted their accounts and don't care. But it was the case, when the badges were introduced, that they were designed to trick people who didn't know they were now pay badges. You might think everyone knew that, but that's just because everyone in your bubble knew that because they're very online people. Would your grandmother know it?
I think I would have been better off with a PC, Turbo Pascal, and no GUI programming to distract me from more interesting hobby coding.
Ironically this seems another perfect example of the tribalism the article is about, saying:

- the right-leaning folks were just propagandized
- the left-leaning folks were justified

- that questioning this at all is indirectly responsible for breaking every government on earth

- assumed politics must not affect me, or that I must get defensive, run away, or not ask questions

The opposition always being assumed ignorant and the tribe always being justified is a perfect example of tribalism
Sounds like gum-related misophonia. Which I can empathize with, unfortunately.
Signing models is a start, but not enough.

We need remote models hosted in enclaves with remote attestation and end to end cryptography for inference. Then you can prove client-side that an output from a model was private, and direct without tampering by advertizers, censors, or propagandists.
> To take a hypothetical extreme: If all cars but one on the road were Teslas, it would not be meaningful to point out that there have been far more fatalities with Teslas.

However, in such a case, “base rate fallacy” would prevent you from blaming Tesla even if it had a 98% fatality rate. How do you square that? What happens if other companies aren’t putting self driving cars out yet because they aren’t happy with the current rate of accidents, but Tesla just doesn’t care?
It's sometimes called "sanewashing". There has been so much overwhelming incompetence that it has become the dog-bites-man story. Even otherwise competent news media can't figure out how to say "this is just plain criminal".
Am I misremembering history?

> Blue checkmarks "used to mean trustworthy sources of information," Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton said

I thought the blue check mark always indicated that account name on Twitter matched the person behind the account. That’s it. They eventually expanded that to include non-famous people.

Kyrie Irving (an NBA player known for conspiracies like flat earthism) had a blue check - no one would ever mistake him for a trustworthy source of information.
> "Over time, they are a tax on goods.

To pile on this point, tariffs are a tax and a subsidy:

> Executives from U.S. steel companies were enthusiastic backers of the 2018 tariffs and have urged Trump to deploy them again in his second term. They have called for the elimination of tariff exemptions and duty-free import quotas, saying those carve-outs allow unfairly low-price steel to enter the U.S. and undermine the steel market.

[…]

> Higher prices for imported steel are often followed by domestic suppliers raising their own prices, which then get passed through supply chains, manufacturing executives said. For consumers already reeling from rising retail prices and inflation, pricier steel and aluminum could further lift costs for durable goods like appliances and automobiles, as well as consumer products with aluminum packaging, such as canned beverages.

> “The issue with tariffs is everybody raises their prices, even the domestics,” said Ralph Hardt, owner of Belleville International, a Pennsylvania-based manufacturer of valves and components used in the energy and defense industries. Steel and aluminum are Belleville’s largest expenses.

* https://archive.is/https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/trump-t...

So tariffs are (regressive) taxes in the sense that consumers are paying higher prices (with the money going to the government). But they are subsidies in that domestic companies don't have as much pressure on prices and can get more money.

So if you want to help a particular industry might as well just go with subsidies directly instead of the taxation add-on as well.
tldr:

1. Gumroad (the code) is freemium, not open source

2. Gumroad (the company) has reolaced customer support with lousy AI chatbots, without escalation to humans

3. Gumroad CEO volunteers for DOGE
Formally the team/docs are very clear, but I think many users of Rust miss that nuance and lump memory safety together with all the other features that create the "if it compiles it probably works" experience

So I agree with the above comment that the title could be better, but I also understand why the author gave it this title
IMO that’s not really possible because of the size limits of Cloudflare Workers. Neither the WASM nor the Node version are small enough.

I‘m running it on AWS Lambda functions with some success.
Edge used to, until MS rebuilt it on top of Chromium. Shame.
Limited liability laws are not protection against the consequence for illegal acts. They are exclusively protection against economic risks.
Really interesting technique. I guess one of the (theoretical?) drawbacks is the memory usage is not ideal? In a traditional bytecode compiler the result of compilation is a very-cache-friendly binary array, whereas here it looks like a vector of pointers to heap allocated closures.
How do you know that the shareholders of X did not have a voice in acquisition by xAI?
Are you saying a focus on racial politics and feminism, and less on socialism/class politics? I think that is a wider Leftist trend in the last 10-15 years.

The Guardian has decent reporting but it also has some terribly embarrassing content. To wit:

"In Dark Laboratory, her groundbreaking new book, Goffe argues that it was the colonisation of the Americas by Christopher Columbus that set off the chain of events that has led us to where we stand today, on the precipice of global catastrophe.

Climate breakdown, she says, is the mutant offspring of European scientific racism and colonialism, conceived in the suffering millions of Africans, Asians and Indigenous Americans endured at the altar of capital accumulation.

The climate crisis is, put simply, also a racial crisis, and it is only once we come to terms with this, Goffe says, and what it means for the ways we relate to the world and each other today, that we can hope to find a solution."
From https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/mar/28/dark-laboratory...
Let's also pool some money to help the sick pay for health care, the young pay for education and those affected by layoffs tackle the transition. Heck, we could even start our own government.
InvisiClues: The Complete Infocom Archive
Most countries' company law has a clause that says if you violate company boundaries like this, they're effectively one company. Otherwise you could use this sort of thing to limit your liability well in excess of intended (the primary purpose of company law is to establish carve-outs in which you can perform business with limited liability).
> I note that you, too, have failed to make a policy proposal that is concrete enough to discuss usefully.

I never complained that you didn't make a policy proposal, so you can't say I'm a hypocrite here. In fact, I've been pretty clear in other comments that it's foolish to hold HN comments to the level of legislation.

> If only 80% of advertising were illegal, probably Consumer Reports could continue to exist, although they would be exposed to some legal risk of being ruled to be illegal advertising, probably prompted by a letter to the Attorney General from a company whose products they reviewed poorly or neglected to review at all. Stricter regimes like most of those being proposed here would make it difficult for CR to discover the existence of products to review.

Straw man argument extraordinaire. Nobody is calling Consumer Reports advertising. On the contrary, I'm saying that independent review isn't advertising.

> But possibly you are thinking of a different structure of regulation than I am, rather than just failing to think through its unintended consequences. It's impossible to tell if your proposal stays so vague.

So maybe ask a question instead of assuming what I'm envisioning. Believe it or not, you're not obligated to guess what I'm thinking!

Legislation could pretty explicitly allow for independent reviewers: that's explicitly the solution I'm proposing to the lack of information.

> Stricter regimes like most of those being proposed here would make it difficult for CR to discover the existence of products to review.

Sorry, which commenter is proposing that independent reviewers can't be in contact with companies whose products they review?

In my thinking, companies would be explicitly allowed to submit their products for review, although I think I'd want the reviewers to still pay for the products (i.e. not receive them for free or at a discount).
Apple Locking Business Accounts
Apple seems to be locking and/or closing business developer accounts, even if they have an active app on the App Store. Unclear how widespread but I’ve had it happened to me and seen a few others in the last 48 hours.

Not sure what to do or if anything can be done - I’m sure having apps orphaned on the App Store is not what Apple wants either.

Regardless this is a heads up to others - make sure you have non-business accounts with admin access to your apps.

https://www.reddit.com/r/applehelp/s/DFzX0Rfyc2

https://www.reddit.com/r/iOSProgramming/s/FHmundoAKQ
For three years now, my experience with LLMs has been "mostly useless, prefer ELIZA".

Which is software written 1966, but the web version is a little newer. Does occasional psychotherapy assistance/brainstorming just as well, and I more easily know when I stepped out of its known range into the extrapolated.

That said, it can vibe code in a framework unknown to me in half the time that I would need to school myself and add the feature.

Or vibe coding takes twice as long, if I mostly know how to achieve what I want and read no framework documentation but only our own project's source code to add a new feature. But on a day with a headache, I can still call the LLM a dumb twat and ask it to follow my instructions instead of doing bullshit.

But, vibe coding always makes my pulse go to 105, from 65 and question my life choices. Since few instructions are rarely ever followed and loops never left once entered. Except for on the first try getting 80% of the structure kinda right, but then getting stuck for the whole workday.
USB-C is just as bad as HDMI, there's like 15 types of USB-C cables and ports and no easy way to tell which is which visually unless the manufacture happened to mark them in some way.
Hey Bud, anyone who claims this kind of “deep understanding” without evidence is running a cult. Always trust but verify; if you can’t verify you can’t trust and it’s just faith. The desire to have faith can come from a place of love but that desire is often exploited by those seeking power over others.

Check out this book: Combating Cult Mind Control by Steven Hassan.

Keep an open mind. I enjoyed reading your ideas of the universe but without evidence it’s just a fun idea. Science, empirical evidence, is what turns ideas into understanding.
Yeah but why do all that when those at the top could just fight over our dwindling resources.
Yes I am a better engineer with every release. I think this is mostly empirically validated
Even sooner if you write such code and post it online for the LLMs to steal^W scrape and regurgitate.
> Anecdotally, I feel MoE models sometimes exhibit slightly less “deep” thinking

Makes sense to compare apples with apples. Same compute amount, right? Or you are giving less time to MoE model and then feel like it underperforms. Shouldn't be surprising...

> These experts are say 1/10 to 1/100 of your model size if it were a dense model

Just to be correct, each layer (attention + fully connected) has it's own router and experts. There are usually 30++ layers. It can't be 1/10 per expert as there are literally hundreds of them.
> Once upon a time these companies valued their user base

Because that's what was bringing profit then. We should never forget, that's the whole point of capitalism: companies maximize profit. Companies are not human beings with emotions, they are profit-maximizing entities.

They evolve in a framework set by regulations. The society, made of human beings with emotions, is supposed to define that framework in such a way that what makes companies profitable is also good for the people.
Yes.

In the distillation process, steam from boiling water is condensed which cools it from a hot gas back into a very mineral-free liquid distilled water which collects in a very clean reciever.

Distilled water will evaporate without leaving a trace, unlike most drinking water. More delicious if you ask me.

The dissolved minerals do not evaporate so they are left behind in the boiling vessel. Toxic minerals or not, sodium, calcium, lead, whatever, that's what the solid "scale" left over consists of. This is the traditional physical separation procedure to produce greatly purified water.

But distillation is not perfect, things that are not like minerals can be present in the feed, and if the impurities are things that can evaporate, they will distill in the same way the water does and so not be left behind in the boiling vessel. Basically these are considered Volatile Organic Compounds, things like paint solvents or alcohol themselves are distilled similarly (in industrial quantities before sale) and then they don't leave any residue when they evaporate during use either.

Volatiles if present can sometimes can be reduced by distillation if a certain percentage of water vapor is allowed to escape after it first gets boiling, taking some volatile impurities with it without being collected into liquid form, only letting cleaner water vapors be hitting the condensor later. Some PFAS are like this and anything volatile in significant amounts still may not be acceptable after distillation alone, so to remove these further treatment would be needed like carbon filtration before and/or after a distillation step.
My mom told me yesterday that Paul Newman had massive problems with alcohol. I was somewhat skeptical, so this morning I asked ChatGPT a very simple question:

"Is Paul Newman known for having had problems with alcohol?"

All of the models up to o3-mini-high told me he had no known problems. Here's o3-mini-high's response:

"Paul Newman is not widely known for having had problems with alcohol. While he portrayed characters who sometimes dealt with personal struggles on screen, his personal life and public image were more focused on his celebrated acting career, philanthropic work, and passion for auto racing rather than any issues with alcohol. There is no substantial or widely reported evidence in reputable biographies or interviews that indicates he struggled with alcohol abuse."

There is plenty of evidence online that he struggled a lot with alcohol, including testimony from his long-time wife Joanne Woodward.

I sent my mom the ChatGPT reply and in five minutes she found an authoritative source to back her argument [1].

I use ChatGPT for many tasks every day, but I couldn't fathom that it would get so wrong something so simple.

Lesson(s) learned... Including not doubting my mother's movie trivia knowledge.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/24/who-paul-newma...
That’s not a business model, it’s a pipe dream.

This bubble will be burst by the Trump tariffs and the end of the zirp era. When inflation and a recession hit together hope and dream business models and valuations no longer work.
The creators you’re paying on Patreon aren’t hosting their own videos though, YouTube is. Hosting videos isn’t cheap, who should cover that cost?

I get that YouTube doesn’t give enough of a percentage of profits to the creator, but the alternative should be a different video hosting platform that does give more profits to creators. Not patreon, which offers nothing in return. (It’s a glorified payment processor and doesn’t actually do any video hosting.)

That there are vanishingly few alternatives to YouTube in terms of actually hosting videos (I know of Vimeo and, I guess nebula? Only because it gets continually pushed on me by creators) maybe tells you that the act of hosting videos at scale is kinda hard to do profitably. Or else there’d be tons of alternative options.
My parents moved home just before Christmas, and we had to spend a lot of money on short notice replacing windows, etc.

As a result of low cash for the first time ever my parents bought my sisters and I a shared present - A Sinclair ZX Spectrum, 48k.

The computer came with 10-12 casette-tapes, a tape recorder, bundle of manuals and a joystick. Unfortunately the tape-recorder didn't work so we couldn't load any of the games.

I spent Christmas reading the BASIC manual, and my sisters spent it being disappointed.

I wrote about this here, in the past in a little more detail:

https://blog.steve.fi/how_i_started_programming
There are many local, and not-so-local, groups that do this volunteer trail maintenance, and they could definitely use some monetary donations. There is the PCTA, mentioned up-thread ( pcta.org ). I volunteer for Trailkeepers of Oregon, based in Portland, and is active in many parts of the state. trailkeepersoforegon.org . There is also the Washington trails Association, and many more.
Scalable incident detection via NLP and probabilistic language models
I didn't mean to be pejorative (vs mugblood), but meant people without programming/systems skills (the "magic") but strong computer skills. I also didn't mean they aren't capable of learning it or growing, which maybe muggle implies.

Anyway, many soft-tech people are grabbing AI tools and using them in all sorts of ways. It's a great time of utility and exploration for all of us. But by not being previously exposed to systems security, hardening, the nature of bugs, etc, they just don't know what they don't know.

All of the security problems in the Original Post are challenges to them, because they don't even know anything about it in the first place, nor how to mitigate. What is great though (apparent in those Reddit threads), is that once it is pointed out, they seem to thirst to understand/learn/defend.
You've not established that your suggestions are core principles of modern economics or derived from them.

For example, you are asserting there would be 'no reason to own property beyond a certain age'... which isn't supported, and then jumping to the conclusion that that would lower savigns rates.

None of this is clearly true, just supposition.
Yep, and what they are going in cursor either the agentic stuff is really game changing.

People who can’t recognize this intentionally have their heads in the sand
There are forms of advertising which are consensual - someone who buys a copy of Vogue presumably does so because they want to see the products being advertised - but the advertising I would ban is that which responds to the demand for attention by flat-out stealing it. If it's not consensual, it should not be legal.

> you must use brutal authoritarianism to disrupt it entirely

I'm not usually a fan of brutal authoritarianism, but you're making it sound pretty good.
Author here: this are my notes on what I mean to say in class, the website contain my whole course.

This particular lecture is still “in prep“, in fact the section "the problem" is just a bullet point and a figure. All other lectures are a bit more polished.
Anyone remember being told Signal was an unsecured app and not to use it?

Rules for thee but not for me.
Pepperidge farm remembers.