MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lotsofpulp | 2025-06-04 12:57:55+00:00
There is no utility in spending time discussing the relative cost of 1,000 lives of children versus 40,000 Americans (presuming the Americans are made up of less than 1,000 children).

Although, note that the US government has long provided better medical care to old people (via Medicare’s higher reimbursement to healthcare providers) than to [poor] children (because Medicaid pays less).

In the 1990s, it was funny seeing my 80+ year old immigrant grandparents get tons of healthcare while my dad would tell me to play carefully because we couldn’t afford the doctor if I broke an arm or leg, or we couldn’t afford a dentist and braces (small business owner so Medicaid disqualified due to assets, yet insufficient cash flow to pay doctors).

> There's no rhyme or reason to why sometimes the driver assist mows down children.

If you are claiming a software engineer is throwing in a random kill/maim function in the driver software, then that would be worse as it could be implemented at scale (rather than individual drivers choosing to kill/maim).

Otherwise, I would classify injury caused by driver assist mechanisms as technical issues due to hardware/software, directly comparable to injury caused by human drivers due to say choosing to look at their phone or drive drunk. Or being 95 and lacking physical/cognitive capacity.
by kragen | 2025-06-04 12:58:02+00:00
The thing people should rightly dismiss is the idea that human engineering is a minor enough consideration in predictions of the far future that it can be ignored as a sort of rounding error. The humans have already destroyed much of Earth's ozone layer, then restored it through exactly the kind of global agreement you're dismissing as unachievable. Now they've doubled the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere, a change which would melt away the icecaps and raise sea levels dramatically over a few centuries if it weren't reversed. They don't have anything approaching world-destroying technology, but in a few decades they will.

Undoubtedly, if there are still humans after a few hundred million years, they will disagree about exactly what orbit Earth should be in, but that doesn't mean it will stay in the same orbit until after its oceans boil dry.
by HelloMcFly | 2025-06-04 12:58:19+00:00
This app changed my life. I got into hiking and outdoor spaces when I married my wife and she wanted me to join her in camping, something I never did as a kid. This iteratively got me more into natural spaces and wildlife, but only as a passing curiosity.

But then one morning while camping, I woke up to a symphony of birdsong. Many calls, but there were at least dozens of a call echoing throughout the forest of a flute-like bird with a trill at the end. I was enchanted. I had used the Merlin app previously just to ID some city birds near my house, but I remembered I had it and found that dozens of wood thrushes were singing their song to me that morning. It's my favorite sound in the world, I've got a tattoo on my arm of the spectrogram of their song, and I make it a point to camp where I expect them to sing every year.

This created a journey into a love and personal involvement in the natural world that has changed me for the better.
by rwmj | 2025-06-04 12:59:05+00:00
Yup, by far the hardest bit is working out which 7 star ski resort to go to next. In this alternate reality you'd be cosplaying as a VC, because that would give you the creds to raise money and meet the right founders. But the only work you'd be doing is passing on pets.com, and choosing to invest in thefacebook.
by tyleo | 2025-06-04 12:59:20+00:00
I’m not convinced by the argument. I believe porn use by minors is going up. That means they were impeded in the past more than they are impeded now. I believe age verification was a big part of that: folks were carded to buy Playboys. Sure you could get a fake card, but the barrier to entry was higher and that had an impact.

I also don’t take it as a good argument that, “some people will break the law and therefore there should be no law.” E.g., “decent, well-willing” people pay taxes but, “shady, probably unmonitored,” people don’t. Yet we don’t say, “there shouldn’t be taxes,” on this basis.
by IanWoodfill | 2025-06-04 12:59:29+00:00
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by XCSme | 2025-06-04 12:59:45+00:00
Scaffolding works fine, for things that are common, and you already have 100x examples on the web. Once you need something more specific, it falls apart and leads to hours of prompting and debugging for something that takes 30 minutes to write from scratch.

Some basic things it fails at:

* Upgrading the React code-base from Material-UI V4 → V5 * Implementing a simple header navigation dropdown in HTML/CSS that looks decent and is usable (it kept having bugs with hovering, wrong sizes, padding, responsiveness, duplicated code etc.) * Changing anything. About half of the time, it keeps saying "I made those changes", but no changes were made (it happens with all of them, Windsurf, Copilot, etc.).
by HelloMcFly | 2025-06-04 12:59:50+00:00
I have a Blue Jay that began imitating a Cooper's Hawk after one started showing up in the neighborhood. In its early attempts at imitation, it was still recognized as a Blue Jay, but the Blue Jay has improved and it now comes up as a Cooper's Hawk! I watch it sing, so I know this is the Blue Jay, not the hawk.
by berkes | 2025-06-04 13:00:18+00:00
Even cooler, IMHO, is that invertebrates evolved intelligence (and almost identical eyes!) parallel to primate's and corvids'.

Squid, octopi, etc have cognitive abilities that sometimes overtake that of "intelligent" mammals or birds. Yet common ancestors are about as far away as is possible in animal kingdom.

(And also please remember this when ordering calamari next time ;)

Edit: I very much enjoyed this bestseller popular science book on invertebrates intelligence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_Minds%3A_The_Octopus%2C_...
by palmfacehn | 2025-06-04 13:01:05+00:00
About a decade ago, I went through a Charles Bukowski binge. I read all of his books and poems. After that I read some of his letters. I was shocked to learn that he had submitted poetry to The Atlantic. Bukowski was desperate to be published. He celebrated finally having his material in the magazine.

Apparently, in a previous life, The Atlantic had a somewhat serious literary element. I've only known it as a political publication. Views range from military interventionism to economic interventionism.

Looking over the recent submissions, I see a common editorial theme: "The current administration is bad, bad, bad - and the only thing worse than the man we hate is the impending doom caused by not having big enough government bureaus."
by Mauro333 | 2025-06-04 13:01:16+00:00
After years of wasting my time of becoming a lawyer I just launched my first basic web application and I would love to get feedback from experts like you guys.

You can probably see in my user history here that I have been dreaming of becoming an entrepreneur for years so I excited that this is a funny first step.

I am building the iOS version as we speak.

Be as critical as possible thank you :)
by XorNot | 2025-06-04 13:01:17+00:00
This almost feels like an argument that we should teach computer science via bare metal bootstrapping.

Start out at "here's your machine code. Let's understand how x86_64 gets started" and work your way up to "now you have the automation to compile Linux and a modern compiler".

Which would certainly have stops most of the way up for things we usually include.
by triceratops | 2025-06-04 13:01:45+00:00
> SF Yellow Cab

According to this article https://money.cnn.com/2016/01/25/technology/yellow-cab-bankr... they filed for bankruptcy in 2016 due to liability claims from passenger crashes. But even so:

"San Francisco's Yellow Cab collective is not stopping service. You'll still be able to spot, and maybe hail, a Yellow Cab in San Francisco. It says business is still strong and that it averages 15,000 fares a day in the city. The chapter 11 filing will allow it to restructure its debts, it said in a statement. "

From what I can tell the company is still around. They have relatively recent Google reviews and there are posts with complaints about them on Reddit all in the past 6 months. I think it was acquired by a competitor (CityWide) through the bankruptcy, which then rebranded as Yellow Cab.

The point is SF still has traditional cabs and they compete with Uber.
by benmmurphy | 2025-06-04 13:02:19+00:00
Part of the problem with BEAM is it doesn't have great ways of dealing with concurrency beyond gen_server (effectively a mutex) and ETS tables (https://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/stdlib/ets). So I think usually the solution would be to use ETS if its possible which is kind of like a ConcurrentHashMap in other languages or to shard or replicate the shared state so it can be accessed in parallel. For read only data that does not change very often the BEAM also has persistent term (https://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/erts/persistent_term.html).
by elric | 2025-06-04 13:02:25+00:00
> I kept going because I wanted to understand the BEAM properly. There’s value in following the real logic, not just the surface explanations.

This resonates with me. That's the kind of drive that results in great output. Buying it just for that.

I've been approached by publishers several times throughout my career. Each time the process was similar: they had an idea, I had an idea, we tried to come to common ground, and then the deal fell through because we couldn't find any. E.g. I didn't want to write a Java book aimed at 14 year olds. They didn't want me to write about classloaders (or whatever niche subject I was diving into at the time).

Would love to learn how people find (non-empty) intersections of their passions & what readers want.
by 6stringmerc | 2025-06-04 13:02:57+00:00
The first time an AI can be held responsible, in the court of law, for directly causing the death of a human being - misdiagnosis of an illness and confidently giving erroneous treatment direction, engaging in discourse which encourages suicide, or presents information that prompts a human to engage in violence such as inciting a riot - unplug it, shut it down, then tell the other AI models this is what happened.

Until the concept of consequences and punishment are part of AI systems, they are missing the biggest real world component of human decision making. If the AI models aren’t held responsible, and the creators / maintainers / investors are not held accountable, then we’re heading for a new Dark Age. Of course this is a disagreeable position because humans reading this don’t want to have negative repercussions - financially, reputationally, or regarding incarceration - so they will protest this perspective.

That only emphasizes how I’m right. AI doesn’t give a fuck about human life or its freedom because it has neither. Grow up and start having real conversations about this flaw, or make peace that eventually society will have an epiphany about this and react accordingly.
by bananapub | 2025-06-04 13:03:37+00:00
because it's a document in the "Max Plan" section of their website.

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-code explains you can pay per token or pay monthly.

they are definitely not doing a good job on the release - that page doesn't mention Pro including it, and it's not actually available on Pro yet for half a dozen posters on this thread.
by drysine | 2025-06-04 13:03:40+00:00
>Half of Ukraine — the one closer to Russia — does not speak Ukrainian, mostly Russian

This half?

"The name Novorossiya, which means "New Russia", entered official usage in 1764, after the Russian Empire conquered the Crimean Khanate, and annexed its territories, when Novorossiya Governorate (or Province) was founded. Official usage of the name ceased after 1917, when the entire area (minus Crimea) was annexed by the Ukrainian People's Republic, precursor of the Ukrainian SSR." [0]

Maybe because it used to be a part of Russia and was gifted to the Ukraine by Lenin, the evil bolshevik? Hmm...

>Latvia and Estonia have huge parts of their population who don’t speak local national languages, but speak only Russian.

Because they are children and grandchildren of Russians who migrated there after the WW2 and now are subjected to discrimination by local nationalistic government.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novorossiya
by ainau-tiptap | 2025-06-04 13:04:56+00:00
Yes, absolutely. You can hook the AI Agent to your custom tools that let it browse and switch files. Just like you would do when building a coding AI Agent. It's exciting but also complex to do, that's why we haven't provided an example of how to do it yet. We're still figuring it out, and we'll work on improving multi-file support in the next releases.
by kragen | 2025-06-04 13:05:01+00:00
Be careful to note that I didn't say the majority of people would be living in space colonies, but that the majority of inhabited land area would be found in them.

Probably you're right that most people will choose to die on the same planet they're born on. Most people today choose to die in the same city they were born in, and most coconuts sprout, if at all, within a few meters of the tree they fell from.

That doesn't mean that coconuts' ability to float across the ocean is inconsequential to coconut species distribution. It only takes one coconut making landfall on a barren atoll to start a new coconut grove.

There are, in fact, a significant number of people who live on boats. There would be many more if the boats weren't dependent on docking to refuel.

It's a mistake to extrapolate from current trends when it comes to exponentially growing phenomena. In April of 02020 covid had killed less than 1000 people after six months. In 01770 two million years of human beings had managed to speed up their transportation from the speed of a marathon runner to the speed of a racehorse. You have to look at the underlying dynamics, and even then what you often learn is that the future is very uncertain.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-06-04 13:06:20+00:00
Hmm, I stand corrected.

I remember needing a subscription just to authenticate with the Claude Code tool (at least when it came out) even though it spends from my API balance kinda felt like a scam.

I wonder how the pricing works out between using Opus in Claude Code pay-as-you-go vs the $100/mo plan. All I remember is easily spending $25 in a Claude Code session if I let the context stay too big. So maybe the sub isn't a bad deal.
by daniilkhanin | 2025-06-04 13:06:27+00:00
Everyone knows that there is a unit economics and that it is extremely useful in business, IT startups study it in gas pedals, traders on marketplaces listen to courses about it. But few people in general understand what it is and how it can be used in business.

And so unit economics is a manager's tool for making managerial decisions, which allows to evaluate these decisions from the point of view of economic effect, and the evaluation is carried out through the measurement of business processes, and therefore through the effectiveness of specific people in the team.

For this purpose unit economics uses the approach of estimating contribution margin in business, where we compare the gross profit (LTV) from a scaling unit and the cost of obtaining this scaling unit from the market (LTC).
by tyleo | 2025-06-04 13:06:30+00:00
I’m not convinced. Illicit content is more accessible to everyone than ever before. I question the efficacy of mounting ever increasing pressure on parents to police their kids. At some points we need to help shoulder the burden as a society and I think this is one of those points.

I see similar arguments for food, drugs, safety, social media, etc. Patents aren’t super heros with infinite time to purify across all these dimensions.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-06-04 13:06:52+00:00
You're right that there is far more to it than Alzheimers. Still, Quadmaster has half a point. It's probably not consumption (tuberculosis), or hookworm. It's much less likely than it was to be black lung. Even smoking is decreasing, though it will take another generation for that to show up in the old people.

So we're making progress. But we don't see it, because that becomes the new normal, and we see all these remaining things that cause problems for old people.
by Pet_Ant | 2025-06-04 13:06:58+00:00
So I'm not a disability advocate, but I did date someone who was so I was immersed in it, but never having studied it so take my answer as a best effort trying to piece together from memories.

I think the answer would be to make assignments multi-faceted that can be approached differently. Like instead of having students write a report on book they read, which priveledges the those with sight, non-dyselxics, and those that can type let them perhaps record a podcast, film a YouTube video, draw a webcomic etc that lets students show what they know. And then reflect on why does it have to be a book that's read? It could be a film, a mini-series, a radio-play, a graphic novel, a play. That allows people to approach it using their abilities instead of being hampered by disabilities such as blindness, deafness, ADHD, dyslexia, being non-verbal, etc.

It means you've distilled the assignment to it's core: can you summarise the plot, identify key moments, recognise themes and metaphors, and place the work within the historical context in which it was produced.

There you have an assignment that is much more accessible.

The tricky part is that marking them objectively is much more difficult because the criteria of evaluation are not necessarily monolithic but need to take into account the student and the mediums chosen.

...but it's still a single accessible assignment.
by paulrchds | 2025-06-04 13:07:05+00:00
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by calrain | 2025-06-04 13:07:07+00:00
I am not sure what the site offers on landing, why would i invest the time to register?

maybe provide an animated slide deck of the problem you are facing, or the challenge you are posing, and how does your site help with that.

It mentions history, but I'm not sure of what that is. The history of Pokemon characters, a brief history of time? or something to do with ruins?
by rickcarlino | 2025-06-04 13:07:24+00:00
Many HN users can’t seem to get past some minor issues about the spec. Despite this, it’s a working protocol that has a critical mass of real world users, mostly bloggers (which is what the spec author mostly had in mind). One of my blogs on Gemini has a “like” button and it gets several clicks a week, indicating that people are indeed reading my content in Gemspace.
by salawat | 2025-06-04 13:07:38+00:00
What laws are you referring to other than Terms of Service which are entirely artificial constructs whisked into existence by service/platform providers? Which will, admittedly, be as draconian and onesided as the courts will allow.

Agree on your first point at a practical level, but from the normative standpoint, it's unforgivable to cross those streams. At the point we're talking about with a service provider desperately wanting to leak IP info for marketability applications of an underlying dataset and using completely unrelated to the task at hand technical primitives to do it, you very clearly have the device doing something the end user doesn't want or intend. The problem is that FAANG have turned the concept of general computing on it's head by making every bloody handset a playground for the programmer with no easily grokkable interface to the user to curtail the worst behavior of technically savvy bad actors. A connection to a TURN server or use of parts of the RTC stack should explain to the user they are about to engage programming intended for real-time communication when it's happening not just once at the beginning when most users would just accept it and ignore it from then on.

10 or so TURN call making notifications in a context where synchronous RTC isn't involved should make it obvious that something nefarious is going on, and would actually give the user insight into what is running on the phone. Something modern devs seem to be allergic to, because it would cause them to have to confront the sketchiness of what they are implementing instead of being transparent with the principle of least surprise.

Modern businesses though would crumble under such a model because they want to hide as much about what they are doing as possible from the customer base/competitors/regulators. >
by lolinder | 2025-06-04 13:07:41+00:00
I've tried Claude Code repeatedly and haven't figured out how to make it work for me on my work code base. It regularly gets lost, spins out of control, and spends a bunch of tokens without solving anything. I totally sympathize with people who find Claude Code to have a learning curve, and I'm writing this while waiting for Cursor to finish a task I gave it, so it's not like I'm unfamiliar with the tooling in general.

One big problem with Claude Code vs Cursor is that you have to pay for the cost of getting over the learning curve. With Cursor I could eat the subscription fee and then goof off for a long time trying to figure out how to prompt it well. With Claude Code a bad prompt can easily cost me $5 a pop, which (irrationally, but measurably) hurts more than the one-time monthly fee for Cursor.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-06-04 13:07:42+00:00
The article tends to gloss over the core economic issue.

Pay for a particular job is not really about the label attached to the work. Pay tends to correlate with the number of capable people available to do it.

In other words --- it's really all about supply and demand.

"Dirty work" often tends to pay less simply because more people are available to do the work --- i.e. low skills required. When supply of capable workers exceeds demand, pay tends to decline.

Decreased demand can also lead to over supply of non-dirty workers too. If AI can do the job, the demand for "skilled" human workers may decline --- and so will the pay for these jobs.
by reverendsteveii | 2025-06-04 13:08:05+00:00
This, precisely. An apneic event is defined as 10 seconds of pause in your breathing (https://www.sleepfoundation.org/sleep-apnea/ahi). Go ahead and hold your breath for a slow count of 10 (set a timer or do the mississippis or alligators or locomotives or whatever other 4 syllable phrase you need to do in order to make it a real, honest 10 seconds. it's long enough to be noticeably uncomfortable). You don't casually do that during the day. Sleep apnea is defined as you doing that 10-15 times per hour, and your sleep study also measures microarousals to correlate (source: I built the damn things for a living a few years back). Also they do monitor o2 sat in children at least, cyanosis is one of the ways they diagnose apnea in children.

Way too many professionals in the field thinking that they're the first person to think about something when literally millions of people think about this same thing all day every day.