MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bilbo0s | 2025-04-22 13:44:36+00:00
Sigh.

There are democratic procedures by which the people can go about changing citizens United. You apparently believe those procedures are not part of democracy, but they are.

That the people won’t take the decision, and implement the process to change citizens united, is the fault of the people, not of the democracy. Democracy simply provides the procedures. You make the decisions.

For instance, a lot of right wing people spent a lot of time stacking the court to do away with roe v wade. Democracy provided that possibility through procedures it put in place. That’s only one way to do away with citizens united. There are others. None of which you choose to avail yourself of. How is that the democracy’s fault?
by no_wizard | 2025-04-22 13:44:47+00:00
In my opinion it’s this:

The interface was incredibly fast and intuitive. It was slick and easy to understand but felt modern at the same time. The font felt timeless, it had the best camera app for the time, which was a time where amazing mobile phone cameras were just starting to become a thing (Nokia famously made a 42 megapixel camera for their flagship windows phone and the pics were gorgeous)

The first party software was really fast and stable. They were also some of the first phones I ever used with proper OLED screens

If you ever get a chance to use one it’s worth it even if it’s only for a day. Really changes one’s perspective on what’s possible with mobile devices. IMO nothing has captured that magic again
by bayindirh | 2025-04-22 13:45:28+00:00
For reference, a single NVIDIA H200 card has a TDP of 700watts. Considering all the middlemen you put between you and the model, .14KWh doesn't look too outrageous to me. Because you add processors, high-speed interconnects, tons of cooling, etc. into the mix. Plus the models you run at the datacenters are way bigger.

For "fathomability" case, the network cables (fibers in fact) you use in that datacenters carries 800gbps, and the fiber-copper interface converters at each end heats up to uncomfortable levels. You have thousands of these just converting packets to light and vice versa. I'm not adding the power consumption of the switches, servers, cooling infra, etc. into the mix.

Yes, water cooling is more efficient than air cooling, but when a server is burning through 6KWh of energy (8x Tesla cards, plus processors, plus rest of the system), nothing is efficient as a local model you hit at your computer.

Disclosure: Sitting on top of a datacenter.
by gregabbott | 2025-04-22 13:45:39+00:00
A while ago, I wondered how close you could get to a pipeline operator using existing JavaScript features. In case anyone might like to have a look, I wrote a proof-of-concept function called "Chute" [1]. It chains function and method calls in a dot-notation style like the basic example below.

chute(7) // setup a chute and give it a seed value .toString // call methods of the current data (parens optional) .parseInt // send the current data through global native Fns .do(x=>[x]) // through a chain of one or more local / inline Fns .JSON.stringify // through nested global functions (native / custom) .JSON.parse .do(x=>x[0]) .log // through built in Chute methods .add_one // global custom Fns (e.g. const add_one=x=>x+1) () // end a chute with '()' and get the result

[1] https://chute.pages.dev/ | https://github.com/gregabbott/chute
by thatnerd | 2025-04-22 13:45:57+00:00
Here's a thought: why don't YOU shut up? /s

Sorry! That was mean, but I hope it came across as funny.

In all seriousness, I like the question, and your implication is intuitive: if we (as individuals) talk to machines rudely, it's likely to (at minimum) lead us to be ruder to other humans, if only by habit. And if they're expecting more politeness than we're showing, they may infer the intent to be rude, and react accordingly. Those who are rude would end up being worse off.

That said, it's the Fallacy of Composition to assume that if everyone gets ruder the collective effect would be the same as the individual effect. We have different requirements for what counts as "polite" in different cultures but everyone seems to get along pretty well. Maybe societies can all get ruder (and just get along worse with each other) but also maybe they can't.

I tried looking in the literature but this book implies we don't even know how to measure politeness differences between languages: https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=MPeieAeP1DQC&oi=...

There are even theories that politesse can lead to aggression: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2695863

Deborah Tannen (the linguist) has found many examples where different politeness expectations (particularly across the cultural divide that aligns with gender) can lead to conflict, but it always seems to involve misunderstandings due to expectations: https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=YJ-wDp7CJYAC&oi=...

So yeah, bad outcomes feel intuitive but I don't think linguistics or sociology has a theory of what happens if a group collectively gets less polite.
by Tor3 | 2025-04-22 13:46:04+00:00
Yep, the title is completely wrong. The actual article says ".. INS", not GPS. It can't compare with GPS to begin with. From the article: "the best final positioning accuracy we achieve is 22m". GPS can be accurate to a centimeter level, even inaccurate (no other reference) GPS is at least accurate to about ten meters.
by dhosek | 2025-04-22 13:46:16+00:00
Indeed. I grew up in a cultural milieu that was overwhelmingly Slavic (Chicago suburbs, mostly Czech and Polish but smaller numbers of Slovaks, Slovenes, Croats and Serbs) and even within that, the lack of understanding of distinctions was surprising (so many people thought Slovak and Slovene were the same thing, which isn’t helped by the fact that the countries have very similar flags since independence and near-identical demonyms in their own languages) although I would note that the Slovenes, Croats and Serbs were all highly aware of the distinctions between themselves and even as cultural self-identification as specific Slavs in Chicago has faded, there’s still a low-level hostility between Slovenes/Croats and Serbs.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-04-22 13:46:51+00:00
Arguing discharging debt not originated in good faith is not trolling. My argument is this debt could be discharged without ill effect, to not to is a choice (and a poor choice at that, with economic consequences).

Debt is not written in stone. It is always negotiable, and only sometimes enforceable. There is no morality around debt, so I’m unsure why the strong feels around why this debt can’t be forgiven or renegotiated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5,000_Years
by abraxas | 2025-04-22 13:46:54+00:00
Agreed on the animations but that isn't my top of the list because as you observed, those can usually be disabled. The most annoying aspect of modern interfaces is total inconsistency in looks and behaviour across different applications. Even common action icons vary in style, colouring and shape from one application to another. Title bars are hijacked for whatever fanciful ideas the app designers had in mind, scrollbars and other basic widgets are rarely drawn using native desktop components, tab ordering is a dream of the distant past and so on and that's if a given app even responds to the tab key.
by adgjlsfhk1 | 2025-04-22 13:47:00+00:00
The P550 is pretty slow. It doesn't have any SIMD, and it's scalar engine is ~about the same as a Core 2 from ~2008. In general, it's fairly confusing to me why SciFive has been so cautious in their designs. It seems like they would be in a much better place if they'd released a few CPUs where rather than trying to balance everything while creeping complexity up, they just added all the power to theoretically match high end CPUs and then addressed the bottlenecks over iterations.
by rsynnott | 2025-04-22 13:48:49+00:00
I mean, honestly I wouldn't be amazed if one of the DOGE peoples' personal laptops (which I assume they were using, because no-one involved in any of this seems to have the first clue what they're doing) was compromised. If they saw outside login attempts within minutes of account creation, then, as you say, unless it was root/root or similar, presumably fairly realtime data exfiltration is going on _somewhere_.

EDIT: Also, given that the attacker had correct credentials and was only stopped by an _ip address_ check, we may assume that, unless the attacker was particularly incompetent, they likely got in.
by JBits | 2025-04-22 13:49:04+00:00
It matters, but it's not functionally equivalent between different architectures.

Since noone has many qubits, typically physical qubits are compared as opposed to virtual qubits (the error corrected ones).

The other key figures of merit are the 1-qubit and 2-qubit gate fidelities (basically the success rates). The 2-qubit gate is typically more difficult and has a lower fidelity, so people often compare qubits by looking only at the 2-qubit gate fidelity. Every 9 added to the 2-qubit gate fidelity is expected to roughly decrease the ratio of physical to virtual qubits by an order of magnitude.

In architectures where qubits are fixed in place and can only talk to their nearest neighbours, moving information around requires swap gates which are made up of the elementary 1 and 2-qubit gates. Some architectures have mobile qubits and all-to-all connectivity, so their proponents hope to avoid swap gates, considerably reducing the number of required 2-qubit gates required to run an algorithm, thus resulting in less errors to deal with.

Some companies, particularly ones on younger architectures, but perhaps with much better gate fidelities, argue that their scheme is better by virtue of being more "scalable" (having more potential in future).

It is expected that in the future, the overall clock speed of the quantum computer will matter, as the circuits we ultimately want to run are expected to be massively long. Since we're far away from the point where this matters, clock speed is uncommonly brought up.

In general, different architectures have different advantages. With different proponents having different beliefs of what matters, it was once described to me as each architecture having their own religion.

TL;DR: the two key stats are number of qubits and 2-qubit gate fidelity.
by llm_nerd | 2025-04-22 13:49:10+00:00
I think a part of it is simply that the space is absolutely flooded and the public becomes almost numb to it: This administration is so absolutely rampant with criminality, constitution shredding, and just rank incompetence that reports of more of the same just doesn't trend. I mean, it's similar to the fact that Trump lies about everything constantly -- even the most meaningless facts like his height and weight -- and soon it just isn't noteworthy that he continues lying about everything constantly. When Trump is caught in an obvious lie, which is basically a daily occurrence, he doesn't apologize, he doubles down, and this is his super power, at least among his incredibly stupid fans and base.

"But her emails" was when Hillary using a private server was actually so exceptional it was like the singular thing. Trump's crew of misfits and clowns and self-dealing grifters have turned the government into a circus. They're all insider trading, launching shitcoins, turning the WH lawn into a pathetic infomercial while your commerce secretary -- Howard "Used Car Salesman" Lutnick -- is pushing stocks.
by _ache_ | 2025-04-22 13:49:13+00:00
No, f* them.

Seriously, it feels really weird to thanks a LLM. Like, did you ever thanks `sed`, `bash` or `firefox`? What's the difference?

My respect is precious and meaningful, and just as I don't give it to a CLI or an OS, I won't give it to an LLM.

It feels like a disrespect to every people I respect to also respect a machine. That doesn't mean I have to be rude though, as in my first sentence.
by EEBio | 2025-04-22 13:49:20+00:00
I find this distinction unnecessarily nitpicky in this context. A BCI can be implement using EEG as an input so yes, you can definitely make a BCI using PiEEG.

130dB SNR is also not too shabby for a low-cost device, I wonder how it compares in a real world scenario with some of the OpenBCI offerings. For now at least it seems to be a cheaper option to OpenBCI Cyton with a comparable performance, unless I missed something.
by impendia | 2025-04-22 13:49:34+00:00
This fascinating article by Atul Gawande explains both sides of the issue:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/why-doctors-ha...

It seems to be the classic curse of enterprise software: it's the bosses you need to keep happy, not the users.

I work as a university professor and educational software also tends to suck, for what I assume is the same reason.
by zmgsabst | 2025-04-22 13:49:35+00:00
Trump is an avatar to revive the imperial core, elected by a proletariat which has been looted by bourgeoisie focused on the periphery of the empire and their insular power games, eg, controlling EU via NATO. The US is not a monolith and understanding Trump requires understanding the class factions within the US.

This too has analogs in Rome.

In a present context, this is US multipolarity: focused on building the US and NA (as a modern Monroe Doctrine) while dropping foreign entanglements.

Trump’s threats against Canada, Mexico, Greenland, and Panama are best understood within that context.
by throwawayb299 | 2025-04-22 13:49:47+00:00
20 years and counting. Maybe you're the person at the middle point of that bell curve meme, while I'm the one to the right?

I used to drink the kool aid too: writing code is the last step, the shortest and the easiest one...

Over time I came to believe, this is what people in dysfunctional organizations say to justify endless political back and forth over painfully trivial matters and constant turf wars.

Anyone speaking up about it is of course getting shamed as inexperienced or incompetent. It's no surprise, people who are holding these bullshit jobs have their livelihood on the line if the bullshit gets called out.

By the way, I'm not saying there's no need to plan things out at least just a little bit or that communication does not come with a certain overhead. Not 95% though, not even anything close to that. Especially if you aren't breaking any new grounds, which the overwhelming majority of devs aren't. No, a LOB reporting app on microservices is not it. No, another AI-enabled social network on blockchain is not it either.

Coding isn't the shortest step either, go ahead have a look into a serious codebase such as Chromium then come back and tell me with a straight face developing that codebase was the shortest step.
by sunaookami | 2025-04-22 13:51:13+00:00
Not OP but I also had a Windows Phone (8). It had a consistent design in every app and it just "felt" good to use. The inboxed apps were great (surprisingly!) and the phones themselves were quite cheap. Windows Phone was optimized for low RAM phones so it ran smooth there. I also miss the keyboard, I rarely mistyped which happens constantly with GBoard. Haven't found a replacement that doesn't suck yet...

It's hard to put into words because you have had to use it to understand!

I despise Windows 10 Mobile though - it killed the whole platform and made the OS unbearably slow. It was full of bugs and it was clear that it was the beginning of the end for Microsoft's mobile amibitions. I use Android now but it's a mess. Google can't decide on a consistent UI + UX and everything is all over the place.
by dusted | 2025-04-22 13:51:28+00:00
An interesting article, of course, it primed me, so when I saw the picture, with the tree, saw, axe and hammer, I thought, hmm, actually.

The hammer stands out.. because there's a relationship between the tree, saw and axe, in that you can cut down and shape the tree with either an axe or saw, while you can't do much with the hammer (since there are no nails), a kid who would answer that way should probably be considered at least as smart as his peers.

I've generally always hated these "multiple perfectly valid answers, but only one counts, but we won't tell you which of the multiple valid perspectives we want you to take" type of questions.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-04-22 13:51:55+00:00
Radical utopians think the ends justifies the means. But the problem is, utopia never arrives, so we never get the ends, but we certainly get the means.

The same is (almost) true of radical anti-dystopians. The problem is that their p(doom) is... shall we say uncalibrated? It may be a case of tiger repellent. But while they're trying to prevent their "doom", the damage they do is real. And they're willing to do unlimited amounts of it, because doom is really bad.

The "almost" part is because doom is sometimes real. Hitler, for example, really happened. The problem is that in 1931, say, it wasn't obvious that Hitler was actually going to become what he became. (Yeah, I know, Mein Kampf had already been written. It wasn't obvious that Hitler was actually going to be able to pull any of it off.) So in 1931, what was p(doom)? The doom everyone was trying to avoid in 1931 was economic. They weren't worried about trivial (!) little problems like a guy with a funny mustache who once wrote a nasty book.

So the p(doom) crowd, even if they're right that doom is coming, still are often wrong about which doom is coming, and so their steps to avoid it are just causing damage, and not preventing doom at all.
by rsynnott | 2025-04-22 13:52:27+00:00
> I've read that it's always more efficient to turn heating off when you're not home and then turn it back on when you return.

50 years ago this was _always_ the case, but condensing boilers and especially heat pumps muddy the waters a little. Condensing boilers can be close to 100% efficient (vs ~70-80% for ye olde gas boilers), but generally only at a fairly specific operating temperature, which may be lower than you'd need to get a rapid rise in temperature. Heatpumps are >100% efficient (that is for every joule of electricity you put in they move more than one joule), but are even more fussy about operating temperature.

The answer now is going to be a solid 'it depends', based on behaviour of the heating system, outside temp, desired inside temp, insulation...
by Molitor5901 | 2025-04-22 13:52:34+00:00
I don't think marijuana is addictive either, but it can build a dependency. There's withdrawal to stopping cannabis after prolonged use, there's discomfort with wanting to recapture that good feeling, but it's nothing like an addiction to nicotine, heroin, etc. Yet it feels so damn good, which makes it easy to become dependent on it.
by klabb3 | 2025-04-22 13:53:04+00:00
> Peak usability in my opinion. Space efficient and simple.

Disagree. Aside from nostalgia, there are numerous visual clutter issues that affect the ability to overview. Not to mention the aliased text rendering. Then you have double click to open files/dirs which might feel normal, but both younger and older people struggle with (like long press on iOS) + knowing what can be double clicked. My mom always asks me if she’s supposed to double or single click. But she can use a smartphone UI without my help.

That said, the one thing I like compared to modern designs is the very clear layering (with awful fake bevel 3d but nevertheless it does the job). This makes it very clear what toggle state a button has, and also which things are on top of other things.
by thyristan | 2025-04-22 13:53:05+00:00
"Shielding" is a relatively crude term. Alpha radiation is "shielded" by a sheet of paper in the sense that the attenuation is so high, and the attenuation length is so short when compared to the thickness of that paper, that less than 1/1000th of the original particles arrive on the other side of the paper.

However, this means that there are still very few but not zero alpha particles arriving on the other side. Plus, the energy of those alpha particles doesn't just go away, it will be either transformed into highly energetic photons (in the hard UV to gamma range) or it will ionize the attenuating medium, leading to photons from line emissions (infrared to visible to UV) or other ionization-related effects (e.g. an ionisation current in semiconductor diodes). All those things can be detected, and you can calibrate your detector for the relative sizes of those effects you are seeing when compared to the incident alpha rays.
by dhosek | 2025-04-22 13:53:06+00:00
As an American, it’s always a bit startling to realize that “German,” “French,” “Italian,” etc. are in many ways hugely diverse language families with dialects that are often not intelligible by all speakers (as opposed to English where, with a few extreme exceptions, there’s not really a problem with mutual intelligibility and the written language elides most of those distinctions).

I don’t have enough broad knowledge of Spanish (Castellano) to comment on its intelligibility across dialects (although Argentine/Uruguayan Spanish is more of a challenge to my Mexican-Spanish trained brain than European Spanish).
by bilbo0s | 2025-04-22 13:53:38+00:00
If enough people believe it, then you failed in your democratic duty to create an educational system that produces citizens able to separate fact from non fact. Relevance from irrelevance. And so on.

In a democracy, the educational system is a democratic practice. A civic duty. We could have changed our educational system to be better, we didn’t. That’s on us. We could change it now. We won’t. That’s a choice. A democratic choice.

The practice of democracy is not solely about voting. There are many democratic choices we make every day that concert to give us the government we deserve.
by alanfranz | 2025-04-22 13:53:47+00:00
With the difference that intelli* is usually correct - i.e. it fetches all the possible methods from actual code, and you can see the related api docs. It’s another view for the same data (more or less - of course there can be docs other than api docs)

With AI you’ve got no idea whether something is right, it’s a probablistic thing

That’s why I don’t buy the “AI as just another abstraction layer” argument. AI is something different and we should use it differently.
by 0xfaded | 2025-04-22 13:54:14+00:00
Understood as 18 year olds who were told everything would be okay so long as they just did what they were told.

I was lucky enough to grow up and go to university in another country. The magnitude of the financial decisions I was making at the time were < 1k and I remembered how much money that felt like.

IMHO blaming people for 100k bad financial decisions made under duress just as they entered adulthood is victim blaming.
by satisfice | 2025-04-22 13:54:19+00:00
The study is not about cruelty, but rather politeness. Impoliteness is not anything like cruelty.

Meanwhile, there is no such thing as cruelty toward a machine. That’s a meaningless concept. When I throw a rock at a boulder to break it, am I being cruel to that rock? When I throw away an old calculator, is that cruelty? What nonsense.

I do think it is at the very least insulting and probably cruel and abusive to build machines that assume an unearned, unauthorized standing the social order. There is no moral basis for that. It’s essentially theft of a solely human privilege, that can only legitimately be asserted by a human on his own behalf or on behalf of another human.

You don’t get to insist that I show deference and tenderness toward some collection of symbols that you put in a particular order
by Kon-Peki | 2025-04-22 13:54:20+00:00
Wait, hold on.

In that Wii Mario game players could “bubble themselves” to avoid death. And then shake their controller to bring their bubble closer to an active player, who could pop the bubble and turn the “bubbled” player back into an active player. And if all players were “bubbled” then you’d go back to the world selection screen without any player losing a life - you’d only lose any powerups you had.

So is this the correct source for the terminology, or did nobody using it actually play the game, or???