<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Ajedi32</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Ajedi32</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:48:21 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Ajedi32" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Ajedi32 in "Our position on open-weights models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is the same mentality that drives companies to sue cybersecurity researchers for exposing vulnerabilities in their software instead of fixing the software, or to insist on keeping software closed source for "security reasons".<p>If AI makes finding software vulnerabilities easier, then we should deploy it widely to find as many vulnerabilities as possible and fix them, not bury our heads in the sand and pretend the vulnerabilities don't exist as long as nobody knows about them. That's just the same "security by obscurity" strategy that has been tried and failed time and time again.</p>
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<p>If you can convince a jury with that story then it might work. Personally I wouldn't buy it. Would you?</p>
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<p>The government can throw people in jail too but if you kidnap someone and lock them in your basement that's a crime. This is no different.</p>
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<p>Yeah and to be more precise the problem isn't really that individuals don't get tax incentives for buying their own plan, it's that <i>employers</i> don't get tax incentives for giving individuals money to buy their own plans, only for buying a plan for them.<p>So even if you could get a tax break for buying your own health insurance, you'd still have to give up a bunch of free money from your employer in order to take advantage of that, which isn't realistic.</p>
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<p>Yes. Employers get huge tax incentives for providing insurance, while individuals don't. This ensures that the only economical way to buy health insurance is through an employer, which means you are not free to change plans without changing employers (or change employers without changing plans).</p>
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<p>Yes, the title gave me whiplash because I went in expecting an argument for socialized healthcare, then read a couple paragraphs and realized the article was actually presenting an argument <i>against</i> government meddling in the healthcare industry, then read further and realized it was actually using the problems created by government meddling in the healthcare industry to argue <i>for</i> more government meddling.</p>
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<p>The passkey design <i>does</i> take this into account, it's only the implementations that don't.</p>
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<p>Because as I just outlined, passwords, even when stored in a password manager, can be misused. (Phished, set to something weak/guessable, reused on multiple sites, leaked in a database breach, etc.)<p>Password managers make it <i>easier</i> to avoid those pitfalls, but passkeys make it <i>nearly impossible</i> to fall into them.</p>
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<p>"A better version of password syncing" is exactly what Passkeys are and ought to be. Just like passwords, but unphishable, unguessable, not reusable across sites, not vulnerable to data breaches, and with better UX.<p>Stranding private keys in clone resistant secure enclaves has unacceptably bad UX for the average user, which is why very few implementations try to do that.</p>
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<p>> That's just wrong. I use android, my partner uses ios. If he creates the passkey in safari, it's not going to get synced over to my phone<p>It would, if the people implementing it weren't all so obsessed with pushing their own platform-specific solutions over enabling open standards. LastPass works fine on Android, iOS, Mac, and Windows, but each one of those platforms defaults to saving passkeys in their own platform-specific store unless you jump through hoops to specifically save them somewhere else.</p>
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<p>Compared to multiple competing privately run systems, which you <i>can</i> opt out of <i>even if you're in the minority</i>? Yes.</p>
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<p>Yeah this is basically my take as well.<p>The problem with <i>not</i> having eminent domain is that without it, for any project of sufficient size you'll end up with ~100+ land owners who <i>each individually</i> have veto power over the entire project. If 99 of them freely agree to sell, but 1 is really stubborn and refuses to sell at any price, the project is dead.<p>There's also a prisoner's dilemma problem. Maybe it's not a big deal paying one stubborn guy 100x fair market value for his property to allow the project to continue. But if enough people think they can get 100x what their property is worth if they just hold out a bit longer, that also kills the project.<p>Eminent domain solves all this by making it so the project only has to to clear a few bars the government has set for it, rather than the many bars ~100 individual landowners set for it. But in the process it also erodes property rights and kills the built-in protections the free market has to ensure such transactions are fair.<p>A 1.5x or 2x multiplier on the fair market value would help with that a lot and help ensure eminent domain is only used in cases where it's strictly needed.<p>Or alternately, I sort of like the idea of letting the landowners elect someone to represent them in negotiations with the project developer, and then having a chance to vote yes/no on the final cash offer. Then the final price would still be set by a market of sorts, but there'd be no prisoner's dilemma or individual spoilers. Not 100% sure if that would work better or not though; it is a bit more complicated and there are still some issues with it.</p>
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<p>Devs can pretty easily implement this on their site using the BeforeInstallPromptEvent.prompt method.<p><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web_apps/Guides/Making_PWAs_installable#triggering_the_install_prompt" rel="nofollow">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web...</a><p>Though of course...<p>> This is not supported on iOS.</p>
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<p>It's not that hard to install. The website can just have a button you click to trigger an install prompt: <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web_apps/Guides/Making_PWAs_installable#triggering_the_install_prompt" rel="nofollow">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web...</a><p>But of course...<p>> This is not supported on iOS.</p>
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<p>> Rights are not inherent properties of facts, they're concessions between people.<p>We're getting pretty deep into philosophical territory now, but I disagree. Human rights, to the extent they exist at all, are necessarily inherent properties of individuals.<p>E.g. If the majority decides people with dark skin are subhuman and therefore have no rights, the majority is most certainly <i>not</i> correct about that, because rights are not defined by the majority opinion. They are inherent.<p>The U.S. Declaration of Independence put it like this:<p>> We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed<p>I concur with this perspective; rights are inherent and inalienable, and the purpose of democratic government is to secure those rights (which already exist), not to create them.</p>
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<p>Unrestrained democracy, yes. Tyranny.<p>People need to understand that having a majority opinion does not inherently give you the right to impose that opinion on everyone else. Such impositions must be done with extreme hesitancy and restraint.<p>That's why many democratic countries have a constitution which prevents the government from restricting certain individual rights even in the face of popular opinion. But ultimately, the constitution is just a piece of paper. If people are determined to impose their will on others, it can only do so much.</p>
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<p>It worked great for the last several hundred years. The problem is that as government keeps expanding to control more and more of our lives, every decision it makes it necessarily imposes on everyone, whether they agree with that decision or not.<p>E.g. In a country of 100M people, if 60% agree with a bill and it becomes law, the country has imposed that law on 40M people against their will. That's just as true in a dictatorship as it is in a democracy. The more areas of our lives government involves itself in, the bigger this problem becomes.</p>
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<p>> I can also vote out my government.<p>You can't. Not if you're in the minority. Tyranny of the majority is still tyranny.<p>You what <i>you as an individual</i> most certainly <i>can</i> do is stop using Roblox. Not ideal, but way easier than moving to a new country.</p>
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<p>I've seen cases where it was done well, but unless you're willing to invest great engineering effort into making <i>sure</i> it's done well, the built-in version (which already <i>has</i> had a lot of engineering effort put into it) is almost always going to be better.</p>
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<p>Yes, for every time a bug like this is discovered and reported, there are probably hundreds of times when someone else just gave up or found a work around after much frustration.<p>I'm frequently astonished by how terrible and buggy modern software can get away with being and still survive. Working around bugs to accomplish what I need to accomplish is so normal to me now that I sometimes don't even notice how terrible the software is until I see someone less technically skilled than me try to use it.</p>
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