MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gh0stcat | 2025-04-10 00:55:03+00:00
Why do people keep parroting this reduction of Socrates' thoughts... I don't think it was just as simple as he thought writing was bad. And we already know that writing isn't everything, anyone who as done any study of a craft can tell you that reading and writing don't teach you the feel of the art form, but can also nonetheless aid in the study. It's not black and white, even though people like to make it out to be.

SOCRATES: You know, Phaedrus, writing shares a strange feature with painting. The offsprings of painting stand there as if they are alive, but if anyone asks them anything, they remain most solemnly silent. The same is true of written words. You’d think they were speaking as if they had some understanding, but if you question anything that has been said because you want to learn more, it continues to signify just that very same thing forever. When it has once been written down, every discourse roams about everywhere, reaching indiscriminately those with understanding no less than those who have no business with it, and it doesn’t know to whom it should speak and to whom it should not. And when it is faulted and attacked unfairly, it always needs its father’s support; alone, it can neither defend itself nor come to its own support.

PHAEDRUS: You are absolutely right about that, too.

SOCRATES: Now tell me, can we discern another kind of discourse, a legitimate brother of this one? Can we say how it comes about, and how it is by nature better and more capable?

PHAEDRUS: Which one is that? How do you think it comes about?

SOCRATES: It is a discourse that is written down, with knowledge, in the soul of the listener; it can defend itself, and it knows for whom it should speak and for whom it should remain silent.

[link](https://newlearningonline.com/literacies/chapter-1/socrates-...)
by ChuckMcM | 2025-04-10 00:55:06+00:00
I'll give you a counter example. "Retirement."

Nominally retirement is "forever" in that once you are retired your pension/savings/whatever is funding your existence needs. Having lived most of my life in the SF Bay area I've watched as my cohort came here as college grads, went through the various tech life cycles, and then aged out into "retirement." I put it in quotes because some retired voluntarily, others did not. Involuntary retirement or "funemployement" as the euphemism goes, was typically below the level of flexibility that they had imagined they would have being retired.

Various life events, health issues, marital issues, Etc. spread the spectrum even further. As a result the 'basic income' for this cohort ranges from just below 'covering groceries, utilities, and rent in a low cost of living area' to an annual travel budget, replacement budget for cars/boats/etc, and possibly a second property with some 'feature' (like a ski cabin, a beach bungalow, etc).

What is consistent across the spectrum is a desire to "do something productive with their time." That skews towards volunteer work if their basic life needs are met, piecework if having extra money would meet some currently unmet needs. I don't think I know anyone who could sit in the rocking chair on the patio every day and watch the sun come up and go down, or spend every day at the golf course or some other leisure activity, choose to take that path.

That said, pretty much everyone I know who has retired took an extended amount of time (typically months) to 'unwind.' Once unwound, life seems to assert itself.

Now I don't think this is scientific, its a very specific group of people. Generally professionals who worked in office jobs vs trades. And a number of them 'fail' at retirement which has them going back to work because they didn't have sufficient tools for creating their own direction or something. But laziness isn't a trait I've seen. A completely different direction perhaps, but a direction rather than standing still.
by kurthr | 2025-04-10 00:56:18+00:00
There are opposing trends in this. First, that like many tools the capable individual can be made much more effective (eg 2x->10x), which simply replaces some workers, and last occurred during the great depression. Second, that the tools become commoditized to the point where they are readily available from many suppliers at reasonable costs, which happened with calculators, word processors, and office automation. This along with a growing population, global trade, and rising demand led to the 80s-2k boom.

If the product is not commoditized, then capital will absorb all the increased labor efficiency, while labor (and consumption) are sacrificed on the altar of profits.

I suspect your assumption is more likely. Voltaire's critique of 'the best of all possible worlds' and man's place in creating meaning and happiness, provides more than one option.
by AstralStorm | 2025-04-10 00:57:57+00:00
What will be considered stupidity next? Talking about voting for Democrats? Engaging in the politics in any form? Memeing? Voting for a left wing party in EU and talking about it?

Talking about computer security as part of your job?

There is no end to it. Ultimately McCarthy will get what he wants if he wants it. The only way to make it hard for him is to overload him and protest it. (Which is instantly suspicious.)

I noticed you posted this from a non-throwaway account. Enjoy being flagged suspicious.
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by newtonsmethod | 2025-04-10 00:59:04+00:00
If we take the known harmful level of fluoride as being >1.5mg/L then the NTP monograph itself has some information ():

> areas including central Australia, eastern Brazil, sub-Saharan Africa, the southern Arabian Peninsula, south and east Asia, and western North America (Podgorski and Berg 2022). Regions of the United States where CWS and private wells contain natural fluoride concentrations of more than 1.5 mg/L serve over 2.9 million U.S. residents (Hefferon et al. 2024). The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that 172,000 U.S. residents are served by domestic wells that exceed EPA’s enforceable standard of 4.0 mg/L fluoride in drinking water, and 522,000 are served by domestic wells that exceed EPA’s non-enforceable standard of 2.0 mg/L fluoride in drinking water (USGS 2020). [https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2024-08/fluori... Page 2 or Page 22 of the PDF]

Note in the US this is almost all people drinking well water. So if we take the known harmful level at 1.5mg/L, then there are lots of people known to be drinking water above these concentrations. I'm not sure I would say we're necessarily ignoring them, but could argue regulations aren't up to date: the current EPA MCL is 4.0mg/L and secondary MCL is 2.0mg/L.

For more in depth data, we can take the EPA's Review of Fluoride Occurrence for the Fourth Six-Year Review (2024) [https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2024-04/syr4_fluo...]. Page 15 of the PDF shows artificially fluoridated water nowadays has fluoride concentrations between 0.6mg/L and 1.2mg/L. Page 18 shows that ~4.7 million are being served with concentrations of fluoride >1.5mg/L. This is higher than the Hefferon et al figure but it seems this figure is based on data from 2006-2011 (where the population was lower, but also the recommended fluoride concentration was higher, with the max at 1.2mg/L pre-2015). I also am not convinced Hefferon et al has any figures on private wells (although maybe I misread the paper).
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by roenxi | 2025-04-10 01:01:19+00:00
> Decoupling from China will lead to China annex Taiwan sooner. China will have the USA and the world by the balls then, so not sure we want that to happen quicker.

That seems to be over-rating the importance of Taiwan. If Taiwan sank into the sea tomorrow that'd be a catastrophe and the world would be worse off. But not that badly worse off. Life would continue. China's main global lever comes from the power of their unparalleled-in-history industrial strength and the aura of leadership they are building up internationally because they are substantially more peaceful than the US.

The peacefulness is probably not going to last, unfortunately, but until they change tack it is what it is.
by pornel | 2025-04-10 01:01:30+00:00
> We were pretty "soft" (dislike the term) on the land borders and on immigration

That's absolutely not the impression US gives to the people outside. The visa system is soft only on one specific demographic it deems worthy (educated, wealthy, commonwealth citizen), and treats everyone else with contempt at best.

Getting a visa requires extensive background checks, and an in-person interview in a part of a consulate built like a prison. The green card lottery keeps people on uncertain ground for decades, during which they are second-class citizens and can have their entire life uprooted at any moment.

Claiming asylum via safe modes of transport has been made technically impossible (anyone suspected of seeking asylum won't be sold any tickets, won't be let through any security), and deadly dangerous and intentionally cruel towards everyone desperate enough to try anyway.

Unfortunately, many countries are like that, and the USA is not better than average even on the good side.
by stevenwoo | 2025-04-10 01:01:50+00:00
This study used the national rollout of the vaccine in Wales so they had closer to randomized trials without doing randomized trials if that makes sense. In the USA (where a lot of prior data came from) people who got the vaccine may not represent that sort of data due to insurance and vaccine hesitancy.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08800-x
by huitzitziltzin | 2025-04-10 01:02:16+00:00
The oil dividend (likely what they are talking about though I didn’t look) is something like $1,300/year. That’s not universal basic income in the pie-in-the-sky way the phrase is usually used. No one is interested in whether the Alaska dividend makes people not work.

If UBI is limited to a low amount that you couldn’t possibly live on then sure, it’s perfectly possible.
by whatever1 | 2025-04-10 01:02:32+00:00
The counter argument is that now you can skip boilerplate code and focus on the overall design and the few points that brainpower is really needed.

The amount of visualizations that i have made after chat gpt was released has increased exponentially. I loath looking the documentation again and again to make a slightly non standard graph. Now all of the friction is gone! Graphs and visuals are everywhere in my code!
by jaggederest | 2025-04-10 01:02:57+00:00
And, to point out, these are people coming to the end of their effective working careers, with things like medical problems and disability to inhibit their productivity. The idea that, given some paltry basic income ala current social security payment levels, young adults would just bail out is pretty strange to me. People already more or less have that option through disability and not very many people utilize it. I would expect to see something in that range, certainly below 10%, if we had a minimal basic income.
by ViscountPenguin | 2025-04-10 01:03:12+00:00
I think the biggest issue with LLMs is basically just the fact that we're finally coming to the end of the long tail of human intellectual capability.

With previous technological advancements, humans had places to intellectually "flee", and in fact, previous advancements were often made for the express purpose of freeing up time for higher level pursuits. The invention of computers, for example, let mathematicians focus on much higher level skills (although even there an argument can be made that something has been lost with the general decrease in arithmetic abilities amoung modern mathematicians).

Large language models don't move humans further up the value chain, though. They kick us off of it.

I hear lots of people prosletizing wonderful futures where humans get to focus on "the problems that really matters", like social structures, or business objectives; but there's no fundamental reason that large language models can't replace those functionalities aswell. Unlike, say, a Casio, which would never be able to replace a social worker no matter how hard you tried.
by wonderwonder | 2025-04-10 01:05:38+00:00
I voted for Trump and I would again in a heartbeat if faced with the same options but this has been dumb. Whole of the Right is running around screaming the "Art of the deal" when literally nothing has been accomplished. Market is still down, bond rates are still high. We trashed relationships with other countries and not a single trade deal has been signed. And he clearly backed down. We still have no idea what the end goal is. Its just dumb. We are objectively worse off than we were a week ago.

He is still delivering for me on the reasons I voted for him but this chapter has been a debacle. Fun part is with Trump as president every week is a chapter, for most presidents a chapter is 2 years. So excited to see what's next.

If he delivers on China and effectively resets the world financial and trade picture in our favor then well done but so far not impressed.

Whole world celebrating the guy who started the fire putting it out.

"Lisan Al Gaib" JFC
by wonderwonder | 2025-04-10 01:06:44+00:00
"The goal here is to decouple US from China. In the meantime, tariffs are raised on every country to gauge which side they are on. Once US knows who the allies are, they will negotiate to have those allies put up massive tariffs on China as well to prevent transshipping." You literally made this up. There has been no announcement about this from the admin. Its all just speculation.
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by OJFord | 2025-04-10 01:08:50+00:00
What a rollercoaster, not having heard of the GPD Pocket 4 before now, I went through:

- cool!

- oh but there's no way this isn't hard and somewhat manual, something to tune

- wait what, end of blog, that's it, just install a package?

- oh no this is the Asahi announcement, so it's Mac only? [follows link to GitHub]

- no! This is separate, it really is just install a package!

- oh, hang on, GPD Pocket 4 is the laptop shown in image, it's for that only

No slight against the author, nothing wrong with that, just a rollercoaster to follow!

Is there any technical reason it couldn't be generic though? Surely environment has almost as much impact as the hardware anyway, wouldn't you ideally have it sample and adjust every so often on a systemd timer or whatever?
by confidantlake | 2025-04-10 01:09:06+00:00
A lot of that "economic growth" is stuff like flooding the US with opioids, burning mountains of gas and coal to produce crypto scams, and chaining people to the office 60+ hours a week to produce reports justifying their "impact".

The nominal gdp is my father's time was lower and yet he could buy a house and support a family of four on a single salary as an immigrant in his early 20s.
by greenavocado | 2025-04-10 01:10:43+00:00
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by TheAlchemist | 2025-04-10 01:12:18+00:00
What's quite impressive, is that people are so relieved now. The base scenario must have been really bad.

As it is, we get:

- 10% of tarrifs on everybody, 25% on several big sectors, 125% on China. Which is absolutely massive

- any confidence in the sanity of the government absolutely destroyed - 90 days ? He can change his mind tomorrow, or in 90 days. Entirely possible that he forgets this whole thing during the 90 days. How is the tough negotiation with Russia going btw ?

- China that showed it's not afraid of Trump. Trump fired all the bullets he had on China, he can increase the tarrifs to 1000%, it doesn't change a thing. Other than convincing other countries to openly joint US trade war on China, or use of military force, he cannot do anything more I believe.

China on the other hand can wreck havock in many, many different ways. Just look at the bond markets yesterday - nobody knows if it was China or not. But everybody knows China could make it much worse. Same goes for US businesses. Safety inspection in Tesla or Apple suppliers factory ? Why not.
by alganet | 2025-04-10 01:12:53+00:00
Sounds like bullshit made to hide or obfuscate a similar concept or word, a decoy. It has all the cult-like features of an autonomous self propelling cultural manifestation (with purpose unknown).

These being: dubious reliance on eastern or mystical religious connection, fan-based growth mechanisms, blurry definition, 'mind' and 'brain' interest hooks for people worried about their intelligence to latch on. They are the ugly cousins of ARGs.

It is unlikely to have been made by accident, so it must have a purpose and a creator with intent behind it.
by II2II | 2025-04-10 01:13:45+00:00
Perhaps that mode of thinking is wrong, even if it is accepted.

Take rote memorization. It is hard. It sucks in so many ways (just because you memorized something doesn't mean you can reason using that information). Yet memorization also provides the foundations for growth. At a basic level, how can you perform anything besides trivial queries if you don't know what you are searching for? How can you assess the validity of a source if you don't know the fundamentals? How can you avoid falling prey to propaganda if your only knowledge of a subject is what is in front of your face? None of that is to say that we should dismiss search and depend upon memorization. We need both.

I can't tell you what to say to your children about LLMs. For one thing, I don't know what is important to them. Yet it is important to remember that it isn't an either-or thing. LLMs are probably going to be essential to manage the profoundly unmanagable amount of information our world creates. Yet it is also important to remember that they are like the person who memorizes but lacks the ability to reason. They may be able to impress people with their fountain of facts, yet they will be unable to create a mark on the world since they will lack the ability to create anything unique.
by atonse | 2025-04-10 01:14:57+00:00
How did you manage to somehow twist the green card lottery into something so harmful sounding? It undermines your other points.

Nobody is forcing people to join the lottery. Nobody is in “limbo” against their will. it’s something that has a huge upside if you win, and little downside (apart from the Application fees).

Which country doesn’t do some kind of background check or information gathering when letting you in (except for tourism of course).

It’s extremely onerous to get a tourist visa to the EU if you’re an Indian citizen for example. Or it used to be.

They want your bank balances to make sure you aren’t going to just get on welfare.
by o11c | 2025-04-10 01:16:52+00:00
No, PEG is prone to exactly this in its default form. Parser combinator usually means something PEG-ish anyway.

If you memoize (packrat), it improves to polynomial time (not sure what, but it's not linear; that's false advertising and a fraudulent claim), but you're still stuck with the vulnerability to bugs in the grammar.

A better idea is to create a parser-combinator-style API on top of an LL or LR backend, for guaranteed linear time and only enough stack space for the deepest part of the AST.
by feyman_r | 2025-04-10 01:16:56+00:00
>>> US wants nothing to do with China. As the biggest consumer economy in the world, the have that right.

Yes, they have the right, but it doesn’t mean this is the right way. Consumers don’t suddenly stop consuming, and factories in the world don’t immediately start producing. This is like a slow flywheel; had we been almost spinning and ready to jump, it would make sense. This is not that.

Also, China is a super power which controls more than factories today. I agree they need to be checked, but sudden changes are not the way. I wish we did it by building trust with allies and then pushing China. Right now, even our allies are wary of us.
by exodust | 2025-04-10 01:16:57+00:00
You've evaluated a tiny sample of restaurant websites and extrapolated to make claims about the overwhelming majority - in the millions, across the globe.

"Most are generic crap" doesn't mean restaurants aim for that benchmark when they decide to get a website.

I'm not sure if you're refuting the point I was making, which I'll clarify. "Restaurant website" could be a stand-in for any basic small business website. The claim was that AI threatens small web dev agencies who make small business websites. I don't think it will, as millions of small businesses want something better than "generic crap" or cookie-cut AI copy paste; AND we've had site-building services, social media pages, and template-driven approaches for a long time.