MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by reify | 2025-06-24 17:35:26+00:00
I dont mean to pop the old GMO bubble.

before tucking in to this wonderful genetically modified food (GMO).

Bayer must be spending small fortune paying all their influencers to promote this shite.

who in their right kind eats this? Its not food.

For me its the same as GMO weed (Skunk) here in the UK. Who would smoke that shit. Its 20 times stronger than your basic common all garden hashish.

In my time as a substance misuse worker, methadone dispenser and care-coordinator I saw the ever increasing referals to Psychiatric units because of skunk.

Young people unaware that they are smoking GM weed and unable to manage the strength of skunk.

I have absolutely no problem with people getting high on weed that grows wild, get as stoned as you like. A plant grown by nature, you cant complain.

an excellent study from 2022:

Evaluation of adverse effects/events of genetically modified food consumption: a systematic review of animal and human studies

https://enveurope.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s12302-0...

Results:

One crossover trial in humans and 203 animal studies from 179 articles met the inclusion criteria.

The study quality was all assessed as being unclear or having a high risk of bias.

Minor illnesses were reported in the human trial. Among the 204 studies, 59.46% of adverse events (22 of 37) were serious adverse events from 16 animal studies (7.84%). No significant differences were found in the adverse event reporting rates either between industry and government funding (χ2 = 2.286, P = 0.131), industry and non-industry funding (χ2 = 1.761, P = 0.185) or funded and non-funded articles (χ2 = 0.491, P = 0.483). We finally identified 21 GM food-related adverse events involving 7 GM events (NK603 × MON810 maize, GTS 40-3-2 soybean, NK603 maize, MON863 maize, MON810 maize, MON863 × MON810 × NK603 maize and GM Shanyou 63 rice), which had all been on regulatory approval in some countries/regions.
by amiga386 | 2025-06-24 17:35:43+00:00
> cutting off access to essential goods or services forces compliance

That's still underpinned by violence. Why would the providers of essential goods or services willingly comply with a state's demands to cut off your access? Perhaps they think you're a good guy and the state has the wrong idea. Let's say they refuse the state's demand.

The answer is the state in turn threatens these providers with whatever it needs to to force their compliance. And it threatens any fourth, fifth, sixth etc. parties it needs to. It threatens them with loss of legal status, loss of revenue, loss of property, loss of freedom. And it ultimately has to use violence to uphold these threats, should everyone it asks to carry out these actions refuse.

It all traces back to state violence, it's just convenient for both the state and subject if the state doesn't have to escalate that far. But it always can. If it cannot - if the subject can successfully defend themselves against a state-backed enforcement of its laws - that's a sign of a failed state.
by ben-schaaf | 2025-06-24 17:35:49+00:00
My original plan was to jump to a Linux phone (PinePhone Pro), but that hasn't really worked out software wise. FuriLab's FLX1 seems to hold some promise regarding Linux, but they're having trouble shipping. HMD has some offerings with the right features, but software support is lacking. So my current plan is to stick with my FP3 until it becomes unusable.

I love FairPhone's vision, and I think they do a pretty good job executing it. There's certainly room for improvement, but I've been really happy with my purchase. I also think removing the headphone jack was a direct betrayal of their ideals.
by cyberax | 2025-06-24 17:35:51+00:00
> Except it means backing up or moving your credentials is somewhere between a pain and infeasible

That's the point.

> and you're requiring people to go buy another device for little to no real security benefit.

No. The benefit is clearly there: hardware-originated keys can not be stolen under any normal circumstances. Meanwhile, synced passkeys are just fancy login/password pairs, so they can be exfiltrated by an attacker. E.g. by scanning the RAM of the passkey manager.

Of course, the operating system can try to add additional barriers, but the underlying keys must at some point be in clear text form.
by ryandrake | 2025-06-24 17:35:57+00:00
Strange example, because self-hosted email has been pretty much setup-and-forget for me. I’ve been hosting my own email for several domains on a $5 VPS for over a decade and it’s largely just hummed along, without needing babysitting. Very rarely, some ISP’s spamblocker gets a little too squirrelly and I have a brief deliverability issue, but those are rare and easy to resolve.
by daxfohl | 2025-06-24 17:36:11+00:00
Yeah, PM, data science, compliance, accounting...all largely automatable. You just need a few directors to call the shots on big risks. But even that goes away at some point because in a few months it'll have implemented everything you were thinking about doing for the next ten years and it simply runs out of stuff for humans to do.

What happens after that, I have no idea.

Seems like OpenAI (or whoever wins) could easily just start taking over whole industries at that point, or at least those that are mostly tech based, since it can replicate anything they can do, but cheaper. By that point, probably the only tech jobs left will be building safeguards so that AI doesn't destroy the planet.

Which sounds niche, but conceivably, could be a real, thriving industry. Once AI outruns us, there'll probably be a huge catastrophe at some point, after which we'll realize we need to "dumb down" AI in order to preserve our own species. It will serve almost as a physical resource, or maybe like a giant nuclear reactor, where we mine it as needed but don't let it run unfettered. Coordinating that balance to extract maximal economic growth without blowing everything up could end up being the primary function of human intelligence in the AI age.

Whether something like that can be sustained, in a world with ten billion different opinions on how to do so, remains to be seen.
by crazygringo | 2025-06-24 17:36:53+00:00
There is no such "right place". As I already explained, it's totally different if you're pulling it out of your pocket vs. picking it up from a table. Vs. holding it. I've had devices with fingerprint sensors on the back and on the edge. My finger is never naturally "just there". Even pulling it out of my pocket, where it comes the closest. Most importantly, my finger does not sit on the fingerprint sensor the entire time I'm using the phone, the way my face is nearly always visible to it when authentication is necessary.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-06-24 17:36:55+00:00
> There's definitely some loss of trust in institutions, but if it weren't for RFK, I would still trust them more than some random skeptic covid. Now, I don't trust the FDA anymore, how ironic.

I stopped trusting the institutions the moment that the CDC admitted that they lied to people about "masks aren't effective" in an effort to preserve supplies for hospitals. Even if their motivation was good, that doesn't matter in terms of trustworthiness. If they lie to me (as they indeed did), I'm not going to trust them any more.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-06-24 17:36:55+00:00
Why doesn’t this apply to humans? If I memorize something such that it can be extracted did I violate the law? It’s only if I choose to allow such extraction to occur then I’m in violation of the law right?

So if I or an LLM simply doesn’t allow said extraction to occur, memorization and copying is not against the law.
by exiguus | 2025-06-24 17:36:56+00:00
The reality is a deep geological repository[1] for high radioactive waste. And this is also necessary for reprocessing [2]. Reprocessing will only reduce the high level waste.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_geological_repository

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level_radioactive_waste_m...
by iLemming | 2025-06-24 17:36:58+00:00
Cautionary personal tale about using Reddit. I suppose this could be extended to any social network use. I have had a Reddit account for a long time. Over the years I have posted numerous posts, tips, helped people answering their questions, etc.

I never liked that Reddit makes it hard to search through your own comments. It's not impossible, but still requires some steps, there isn't an obvious and clear, built-in way.

Some time ago I made a mistake of posting on Reddit from my work computer (once!) while it was connected to the VPN. Turns out that's a violation of Reddit's user agreement. My account has been suspended. I've been trying to send appeals, every day for weeks and yet never gotten any response from them.

Now, I can't even share my older links to any of my posts, comments, etc. As if I have never existed and all the time I spent helping people, debating on topics, sharing knowledge - it was all for nothing.

Good lesson for me here to never share anything thoughtworthy on privately owned social media/hosting. Be careful about what you have on GitHub, the apps you host on Heroku, AWS, Digital Ocean, GCP, Azure, etc.

Always have a backup plan! Be protective of your time and your data. Don't blindly post things thinking they'll remain there forever for you and other people to find. You can lose it all, anytime, for reasons beyond your control.
by darth_avocado | 2025-06-24 17:37:55+00:00
> The "average person" is told from birth to consume as many things and experiences as possible as it if was the only thing that could give their life a meaning.

The “average person” doesn’t make enough money to pay rent or afford groceries. You’re blaming the poor based on your idea of what an “average person” looks like, which is a representation of middle and upper middle class. The average person doesn’t have the luxury to consume as many things and experiences as possible.
by sylware | 2025-06-24 17:37:56+00:00
To be fair, I am more interested in a 4G/5G modem to connect some modular computer. A smart phone is an expensive one.

Do you know of a simple modern 4G/5G modem, USB? Only IPv4/IPv6 bridge, I guess you need USB CDC or something for that (NDIS is deprecated)?

Any tip?
by marinmania | 2025-06-24 17:39:16+00:00
It does either get very exciting or very spooky thinking of the possibilities in the near future.

I had always assumed that such a robot would be very specific (like a cleaning robot) but it does seem like by the time they are ready they will be very generalizable.

I know they would require quite a few sensors and motors, but compared to self-driving cars their liability would be less and they would use far less material.
by thrtythreeforty | 2025-06-24 17:39:27+00:00
The converse is actually a negative signal for me. If you list a GitHub profile on your resume, but that GitHub profile is a ghost town consisting exclusively of "test repo please ignore" and "freshman-year assignments I was required to fork from professor's repo," that tells me you don't have an above-average understanding of why you add something to your resume.

If you don't have an impressive GitHub profile, that's fine. To your point - the absence of it is not a penalty, and the presence of a good one is a very positive signal. But the presence of one that turns out to be a dud is a negative.
by enlightens | 2025-06-24 17:40:40+00:00
>imposed lockdown and mandate policies with zero scientific basis

The If Books Could Kill podcast just came out with an episode last week about how the phrase "lockdown and mandate policies [have] zero scientific basis" is almost technically true but is certainly incredibly misleading. The short version is that it would be incredibly difficult to ethically test many healthcare policies to the point that they have scientific support in the way we usually think of having evidence... but we can look at the preponderance of evidence we do have and understand that masks help block germs and viruses, staying home from work or school means I won't transmit contagious diseases to my colleagues, etc

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2040953/episodes/17348825-in-covi...
by bawolff | 2025-06-24 17:41:00+00:00
> Why is the market failing here? Why is it that people with spare bedrooms or in-law suites aren’t beating the prices of professional - essentially mini-hotel owners? Or are they they just get booked to quickly.

Because most consumers of these services want a mini hotel. People don't want to stay in someone's spare bedroom.

And on the other side, hell of a lot more risk to put up a random stranger in your spare bedroom in the property you actually live in, than having some second property.
Show HN: CodeRunner – Generate and run LLM code locally on Apple containers
by mkagenius | 2025-06-24 17:41:01+00:00
We used Apple Containers to run LLM generated code locally.

Leverage remote LLMs (like ChatGPT or Claude Sonnet 4) to work with your local files—such as videos—securely on your Mac. The LLM runs in a sandboxed environment where it can install external libraries, generate code, and execute it locally without uploading your data to the cloud.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-06-24 17:41:04+00:00
Yes, so why are we ignoring that housing is multiple times more expensive? Even with 5 times the luxury expenses, you're not going to end up cheaper than boomers who paid $1000 on a mortgage in a high COL area. Telling people to penny pinch on buying Netflix subscriptions while rent is 70% of their budget is just political theater at this point.
by artofpongfu | 2025-06-24 17:41:06+00:00
Personally, the moment I started working was the moment I knew I needed to become free at some point. Jobs come and go, sometimes they're quite enjoyable, but you're always one bad boss, one health condition, one recession away from living a nightmare. The solution to me is not to interview "as a hobby", that also sounds like a nightmare. The solution is to get out by any means possible, or at least work towards the ability to get out when the need arrives.
by rkuykendall-com | 2025-06-24 17:41:20+00:00
> Also, what animal has a leathery covering like that, rather than scales or supple skin?

Elephants! Which is apparently our closest approximation of Sauropod skin, which we actually have fossil impressions of.

I went down the same rabbit hole as you for the same reason, more Dinosaurs had more feathers than we originally thought, but not all. For example, the theropods out your window have lots of feathers, so other theropods like T-Rex and Raptors might have as well, though the bigger theropods probably had fewer than the smaller ones.
by telotortium | 2025-06-24 17:41:31+00:00
LLM model training costs arise primarily from commodity costs (GPUs and other compute as well as electricity), not locally-provided services, so PPP is not the right statistic to use here. You should use nominal GDP for this instead. According to Wikipedia[0], the median country's nominal GDP (Cyprus) is more like $39B. Still much larger than training costs, but much lower than your PPP GDP number.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
by johncole | 2025-06-24 17:41:39+00:00
It's a good point. I'm not an ag lawyer, but I am willing to bet that there's wiggle room in any grass-fed definition set by the USDA.

And you're right, there's also: plastic from water sources, plastic in the field that gets taken up by the gras, supplements given to the cow, plastic in the cutting board the meat was cut in, plastic the meat was wrapped in . . . it's hard to get plastic out of your supply chain.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-06-24 17:41:48+00:00
This argument is popular but doesn't hold water. If we suppose for the sake of argument that social media is bad for kids, then it is a parent's duty to keep them off it even if that makes the kid unpopular. As an analogy, consider a kid whose social circle is all shooting heroin. Would it then become acceptable to let your kid do heroin? Of course not. Similarly, even if all the other kids are on social media, it doesn't become acceptable to let your kid use social media (going with the assumed premise that it's bad for them).
by al_borland | 2025-06-24 17:41:57+00:00
I suppose. I just did similarly priced renovations and chose to put off the whole thing until I could do the whole thing with cash. But everyone is in a different situation. While I’ve been at my job for nearly 20 years, the layoffs are frequent, and I’ve never felt any meaningful level of job security. This leads me to seek risk reduction, and part of that is eliminating as many financial obligations as possible. In theory I could probably make more investing (if we ignore the psychology aspects), but in practice it’s had the side effect of dramatically increasing how much in invest on a monthly basis after getting all the debt eliminated (which was really only the house). The peace of mind comes more from those low fixed expenses than from the savings. If I had to, I think I could make ends meet working retail, without dipping into savings/investments. I think about this more often than is probably healthy.
by socalgal2 | 2025-06-24 17:42:09+00:00
You seem to be implying rust = fast, the end. I'm implying algorithms and design choices = fast. Those decisions generally (though not always) are far more effective at speed than language choice.

I watched the video linked above on uv. They went over the optimizations. The big wins had nothing to do with rust and everything to do with design/algo choices.

You could have also done without the insults. You have no idea who I am and my experiences. I've shipped several AAA games written in C/C++ and assembly. I know how to optimize. I also know how dynamic languages work. I also know when people are making up bullshit about "it's fast because it's in rust!". No, that is not why it's fast.
by danans | 2025-06-24 17:42:31+00:00
> Yes, but why would anyone want to live on what is effectively a farm, but without the benefit of separation from other people or land (read: income) that a farm offers?

They don't want complete separation from other people. They want conveniences of the city/metropolis (access to jobs, entertainment, and education) while having a lot of space around their home for recreation & privacy.

They don't want farm work (required for that income) either - it's physically and emotionally hard and margins are thin and fragile depending on the weather.
by mapt | 2025-06-24 17:42:34+00:00
The problem is that the difference in optical/NIR brightness (apparent magnitude) between a long-period comet core that's going to hit us in 1000 years, and a long-period comet core that's going to hit us in six months, might be a factor 10^12 (magnitude 10 vs magnitude 40) or worse. Normally brightness drops off with distance squared for light sources, but comets without any tail or halo aren't emitting all that much light, they're reflecting it, and (except for a very brief period) they're about as far from us as they are from the sun. This means that brightness drops with distance to the fourth power. Cometary tails also only offgas a significant amount near the sun. Comet cores are expected to be extremely dark / low-reflectivity due to space weathering producing a carbon coating not unlike chimney-creosote.

You can fight this a bit by working in the thermal infrared, which you really need a specific sort of space telescope for. But long-period comets and hyperbolic impactors will be a probabilistic threat for the foreseeable future. I would say "Be thankful that they're so rare", but the data from observatories like Rubin on these bodies during points of their orbit where they're close enough to the sun to actually detect, is necessary to statistically characterize their existence with any confidence.
by RankingMember | 2025-06-24 17:42:45+00:00
For me, the value proposition is that, in an airbnb, you're embedded in the population and get more of the experience of a local. For example, when I was in New Orleans, we had little bands marching around right outside our window, something you wouldn't have gotten in a hotel. It just felt more organic than coming out of a gleaming tower to steep yourself in the area before retreating back to a generic hotel room. (I like hotels too, though- sometimes I want that reliable generic baseline experience).
by jt2190 | 2025-06-24 17:42:47+00:00
From the opinion piece:

> I can’t remember when we were actually in somebody’s home. It’s always somebody’s side hustle. They own 10 of them and live six hours away and they don’t give a dead rodent about you. The decor is always Early Target. You got a complaint? Send an email and we’ll get back to you. Maybe by Thanksgiving.

Perhaps “staying in someone’s home” doesn’t scale? For example, there’s a point at which buying extra insurance feels necessary, maybe not for an occasional visit from a family friend, or even a friend of a friend, but there is a point.
by Spivak | 2025-06-24 17:42:51+00:00
We're talking about personal vehicle ownership, there's no opportunity cost because you weren't going to make money on it anyway. My car sitting in my garage isn't costing me money nor is it losing value to me as a means of taking me and my stuff places. If you're one of the people that cares about the deprecation of your car's resale value then you're already doing the math on this and living a depressing life. But if you're like most normal car owners you bought a car to drive it and will replace it once you get your 200k miles out of it when its value is less than the $2000 minimum trade-in the dealership gives you.

The other problem is that I can't haul shit in a robo-taxi. Or drive long distances. People use their vehicles for more than just transporting bodies to and from work. And if I kill my neighbor I probably can't take his body in the trunk either. I would love to know what kind of life you and the other sibling commenters are living where a taxi service encompasses the totality of your transportation needs.
by k0tan32 | 2025-06-24 17:42:53+00:00
I agree with you per se that the learning curve in many ways is a function from your past experience, but there's no contradiction with what I previously stated in the context of this article - since émigré from Windows will obviously have some experience with Windows, they have this learning bias already, and potentially a different mindset/expectations (the most famous - why can't I just download an .exe?!)

Some [1] Linux distros were even trying to emulate this experience (which is a dead end obviously)

[1] Like Linux XP https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=linuxxp
by msgodel | 2025-06-24 17:42:58+00:00
This looks like the chip that was used in the Pinephone as well as the modem card in the machine I'm typing this on. It works well on Linux although sometimes it's not available after waking from suspend (I think that was fixed although I've gotten used to not expecting it to be so I haven't been checking it.)

It's pretty easy to dial the PPP (IP) connection with network manager + modem manager, doing it from scratch with expect scripts is awful, I got that to work once but haven't been able to do it again.

https://www.amazon.com/EXVIST-Dongle-EG25-G-M2M-optimized-Mo...

In theory you can actually make phone calls with it, I've enabled the usb AC device on mine and dialed out with it but haven't actually gotten the loopback set up to work. It's hard to tell if the issue is with Pulseaudio or something in the modem firmware or a regulatory issue or what.

SMS works OOTB with modem manager. MMS works if you're willing to hunt down the MMSD source and build it yourself.
by api | 2025-06-24 17:43:13+00:00
CS is full of trivial examples of this. You can use an optimized parallel SIMD merge sort to sort a huge list of ten trillion records, or you can sort it just as fast with a bubble sort if you throw more hardware at it.

The real bitter lesson in AI is that we don't really know what we're doing. We're hacking on models looking for architectures that train well but we don't fully understand why they work. Because we don't fully understand it, we can't design anything optimal or know how good a solution can possibly get.