MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nixgeek | 2025-06-20 18:45:32+00:00
I think the question is are the Armed Forces served better by having this expertise available (on a commissioned part-time basis, with modified basic requirements) or by maintaining a bar that the person has to go through OCS and pass APFT?

You probably can’t have both — not they couldn’t pass APFT (with varying degrees of fitness program required) but more likely they cannot commit the time required to do OCS and APFT, and if forced to choose will simply not participate.

It’ll stick in some people’s craw that this is dual standards, however you can’t please all the people all the time — someone concluded the compromise was worth it to obtain access to technology experience.
by WalterBright | 2025-06-20 18:45:35+00:00
> mismanagement and poor planning can happen in both the public and private sectors

Absolutely correct. But public regulation is quite resistant to course correction. Private companies have to face competitors and adapt or fail.

> The US healthcare system is just one fantastic example of the private sector absolutely failing to deliver even a bare minimum standard of service

The US healthcare system is massively regulated and interfered with by the law and things like people are forced to buy Obamacare and forced to contribute to Medicare and Medicare massively distorts market forces.

Healthcare in the US was affordable before the government got involved.
by timr | 2025-06-20 18:45:38+00:00
I think the better argument for your side is that a large number of people have a utility function that isn't rational -- or at least, not based on commute time saved.

Yes, the market will find a new equilibrium, but if I'm right that the marginal driver is choosing to drive or not based mostly on a function of time saved, then eventually we'll see the market reaching an equilibrium where people are willing to pay up to the amount of money they save by getting somewhere faster via car (ignoring other costs for the sake of argument).

If that is true -- if the market is efficient for time -- then this plan can only ever work by making driving more expensive than the time lost to congestion.

(As an aside, thanks for having a serious, nuanced discussion about this. It's depressing how many people just want to fling insults and downvote/flag/censor stuff that they disagree with. I knew I was going to get ravaged for having a non-canonical opinion, but it's so hard to get people to just engage with the argument in good faith.)
by sillyfluke | 2025-06-20 18:46:13+00:00
Is this the real estate version of the "trickle down" theory?

You take half the land left in the county for construction and build 5 mil mansions with ridiculous garden acrage instead of more affordable houses. You've now constrained yourself in the number of affordable homes you can build in your county in the future, as land is finite. Maybe you took a few k's off the 10 mil mansions for a short while. Congratulations.
by astine | 2025-06-20 18:46:17+00:00
Right. Presumably a car idling for ten minutes produces less pollution than a car being driven for ten minutes, but a car that is driven for ten minutes and idled for an additional ten produces more pollution than either of them. Any pollution produced by cars idling in bad traffic is superadded to the pollution produced in transit so improving the flow of traffic should reduce pollution even if the total number of cars remains steady.
by jerf | 2025-06-20 18:46:26+00:00
"General purpose CPUs are going to stay to become the little brain that orchestrates GPUs."

If that was going to happen, it would have happened.

CPUs are genuinely good at what they do, and "what they do" is a lot of tasks that GPUs are actually terrible at. If all we had were GPUs in the world and someone invented a CPU, we'd hail them as a genius. A lot of people seem to think that GPUs are just "better", just ambiently better at everything, but that's lightyears from the truth. They are quite spectacularly terrible at a lot of very common tasks. There's many very good reasons that GPUs are still treated as accelerators for the CPUs and not vice versa.
by username223 | 2025-06-20 18:46:28+00:00
> Pretty fascinating how foreseeable these last many years and decades have been.

It's a twisted kind of foresight, a lot like prophesies in ancient stories, that both predict the future and steer their subjects toward it. Neal Stephenson wrote books that appealed to (many, but not only) nerdy boys during their formative years. Lo and behold, 30 years later some of those boys have achieved wealth and power, and are trying to make random aspects of those books real.

Keep that in mind if you ever write a YA novel...
by lurk2 | 2025-06-20 18:47:01+00:00
Mid-40s amateur urban planner YouTube is the worst social media trend to have come out of this decade bar none. They all look, sound, and think the same. Their worldview is fundamentally conspiratorial in that they believe there is a utopian world that only they and their fellow flannel-enjoyers understand, that somehow actual urban planners, economists, and consumers have missed.

Not Just Bikes is like the Joe Rogan of these people in that whenever I see one of his videos recommended on YouTube, I know I’ll be hearing about it from people trying to pass the ideas off as common knowledge within two weeks.
by scottgg | 2025-06-20 18:47:02+00:00
You can do it to any change in the repo and everything gets automatically rebased downstream of it - so if you three nicely structured changes you can go change the first one if you need and it just works.

I’m selling it short a bit - it does a lot more! There’s a great Steve Klabnik tutorial [1]. To me the main thing is it makes it very easy to think and work in terms of logical changes.

[1] https://steveklabnik.github.io/jujutsu-tutorial/
by gambiting | 2025-06-20 18:47:14+00:00
>>The "missing" people are the ones who simply can't afford to be there.

I don't believe that for a second. They could afford to drive a car, insure it, maintain it, buy fuel, and pay for very expensive parking in NYC, but $9 is too much now?

I'd be more than happy to be proven wrong if there's any data that suggest that this is actually true.
by hnav | 2025-06-20 18:47:54+00:00
That doesn't make much sense, driving a gas car from Jersey is gonna eat up a couple of gallons of fuel ($10x20=$200/mo), insuring it will be $200/mo, if it's not paid off it'll cost at least $500-600, parking will run easily $500 but likely more. Why is that $180 the straw that broke the camel's back?
by bee_rider | 2025-06-20 18:48:21+00:00
I’ve already responded to this sentiment in another thread. I do kind of find it puzzling that folks are reading my post and coming to the conclusion that I missed the point, but hey, if I confused enough people then I guess I’ll take the blame. I’ve tried to address in the follow up.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44330537
by sanderjd | 2025-06-20 18:49:03+00:00
> Please be civil.

lol, what? That was a civil comment. This seems like an excellent example of the point being made. Replying to a perfectly reasonable but critical comment with "please be civil" is super condescending.

So is stuff like "one man's modus ponens".

Look, we get it, you're talking to people who found this stuff smart and interesting in the past. But we got tired of it. For me, I realized after awhile that the people I most admired in real life were pretty much the opposite of the people I was reading the most on the internet. None of the smartest people I know talk in this snooty online iamsosmart style.
by blooalien | 2025-06-20 18:49:13+00:00
This is by far my biggest concern about "A.I." and "smart" robots... Not the technology itself, but what the "ruling class" intend to do with it / how they intend to use it. Their primary concern is not "worker productivity" these days. It's "How can I replace the maximum number of workers (ideally all of them) so that I can keep most / all of the profits / benefits for myself (and the shareholders)?" It's always been about profit, but they now finally see a potential to entirely rid themselves of "those pesky poors" and their annoying paychecks once and for all.
by mindcrime | 2025-06-20 18:49:13+00:00
I'm sure if someone inspected the logs of what I've written to various LLMs they'd think they can extrapolate all sorts of personal characteristics about me, but I'm also a person who plays around with things, tries to find limits and whatever...

If you looked at my LLM interaction logs you would probably assume that I have an unhealthy obsession with pirates and a napalm fetish.

In reality, I use the "can I get it to tell me how to make napalm" thing as a quick "acid test" around the extent and strength of censorship controls, and simply find asking LLM's to "talk like a pirate" amusing. And, also, I've found occasions where doing nothing more than instructing the LLM to talk like a pirate will bypass it's built-in inhibitions against things like giving instructions for making napalm.
by RandallBrown | 2025-06-20 18:49:22+00:00
> everybody's scrolling through their feeds already on their smart phones already

It's kinda weird to me that this feels so dystopian.

Before smartphones it's not like I was sitting there appreciating the world around me. I was just bored and unhappy. Now I'm paying my bills, watching funny videos, looking up interesting things about something I heard about earlier in the day, etc.

But still, there's something off-putting about a group of strangers doing something mundane like waiting for a bus and staring at their phones the whole time.
by aanet | 2025-06-20 18:49:27+00:00
I used this new app from Adobe... with some mixed results.

On my iPhone 12 (with 256GB storage), the app is a bit of resource hog. I observed noticeable delays and lags while taking pictures. At one point, it said something like "the photo is being assembled" (paraphrased, I guess).

The reflection-remover and AI-denoiser capabilities are available as "downloadable models" capabilities (~300Mb and ~40Mb, respectively).

I'm going to try out a few more samples, especially shutter-slowdown, before I give up on this app.
by AnIrishDuck | 2025-06-20 18:49:41+00:00
Well first, we have this:

> The Jimmy Carter administration began a phased deregulation of oil prices on April 5, 1979, when the average price of crude oil was US$15.85 per barrel ($100/m3).

So, the process wasn't really an instant wave of a wand, or stroke of a pen. We also have this:

> Starting with the Iranian revolution, the price of crude oil rose to $39.50 per barrel ($248/m3) over the next 12 months (its all-time highest real price until March 3, 2008).[11] Deregulating domestic oil price controls allowed U.S. oil output to rise sharply from the large Prudhoe Bay fields, while oil imports fell sharply.

We also have silliness like this:

> Due to memories of the oil shortage in 1973, motorists soon began panic buying, and long lines appeared at gas stations, as they had six years earlier.[13] The average vehicle of the time consumed between two and three liters (about 0.5–0.8 gallons) of gasoline an hour while idling, and it was estimated that Americans wasted up to 150,000 barrels (24,000 m3) of oil per day idling their engines in the lines at gas stations.

So we have counterfactuals: if there was no Iranian revolution, would the effects of Carter's gradual deregulation have been felt sooner? If there was no 1973 oil shortage, would the reduction in waste have made a difference? What effect did people simply believing that the crisis was over have?

I don't propose answers to these questions; they are, in my opinion, unknowable.

I suggest that economic narratives such as the one you propose do not capture the entire picture. You had downward pressure on prices due to deregulation and expanding supply, and upwards pressure due to geopolitics and waste.

These processes do not resolve instantly, they take time to play out. I suggest caution when attempting to derive cause and effect from single events in complex systems.
by kordlessagain | 2025-06-20 18:49:56+00:00
Agents are LLM responses that are feed with tools, like calculate(expression). When it encounters a thing it needs to do to meet desired output, it will run the tool. That is defining a simple agentic workflow.

A complicated workflow may involve other tools. For example, the input to the LLM may produce something that tells it to set the user-agent to such and such as string:

set_user_agent("Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36");

Other tools could be clicking on things in the page, or even injecting custom JavaScript when a page loads.
by kbelder | 2025-06-20 18:50:13+00:00
Way back when, I had a simple hobby site where visitors could upload an image, I'd process it and return a transformed version of it in a template for papercrafting. Nowadays, I'd do it all client-side in javascript, but that wasn't really an option at the time.

So the images were saved when they were uploaded, not for any nefarious reason, but more out of laziness. Then one day, I looked at the images. Yikes. I immediately rewrote it to delete the images after returning them, and pretty soon let the site die.
Show HN: Node.js Debugger MCP. Run and debug long-lived apps with Claude Code
by chw9e | 2025-06-20 18:50:23+00:00
I've been experimenting with ways to make Claude Code more useful for real development workflows, especially when dealing with long-running processes like dev servers.

This is an open-source MCP server that helps AI coding agents manage and debug live Node.js processes. It supports:

- Starting and stopping Node.js scripts without blocking the terminal

- Attaching to the Chrome DevTools Protocol for real debugging

- Setting breakpoints, stepping through code, and evaluating expressions

- Managing multiple processes and debug sessions across time

You can use it to reliably launch scripts like npm run dev, pause at the first line, attach a debugger, and walk through your code step by step, all from within Claude Code in the terminal.

GitHub: https://github.com/qckfx/node-debugger-mcp

Would appreciate any feedback or ideas. If you're building with Claude Code or working on your own AI coding tools, happy to help you get started.
by Aken | 2025-06-20 18:52:19+00:00
> If you don't know any array languages, it might explode your brain. Use at your own risk!

I've been around the block, don't think it'll be a problem picking up something new

> Here is a program that checks whether a number x is prime (for x>2): {&/x!:\2+!_x^1%2}

(closes laptop and goes outside)
by slg | 2025-06-20 18:52:23+00:00
Matters of health are probably the wrong ones to speculate on or try to speak authoritatively about when you "didn't spend much time researching" them. CTE can be a problem in soccer specifically because "Evidence indicates that repetitive concussive and subconcussive blows to the head cause CTE"[emphasis mine][1]. You don't need to be "dazed or knocked out" to cause damage. Suggesting otherwise is dangerous.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_traumatic_encephalopat...
by Kon-Peki | 2025-06-20 18:52:31+00:00
IFAB doesn’t directly restrict heading, but permits each national FA to place their own restrictions at the grassroots level.

The US adopted restrictions 10 years ago. No heading at all for age 10 and under (indirect free kick to the opponent for violations). Under 13 years old coaches are required to keep track of heading and limit any individual player to fewer than 25 per week total between training and matches.

The English FA also has adopted rules limiting heading for youth. I image most of Europe has as well.
by mindcrime | 2025-06-20 18:53:03+00:00
> was there any improvement of ELIZA type chatbots, before the advent of LLMs

There were. If you're really interested in that history, one place to look is at the historical record of the Loebner Prize[1] competition. The Loebner was a competition based on a "Turing Test" like setup and was held annually up until 2019 or so. I think they quit holding it once LLM's came along, probably because they felt like LLM's sort of obviated the need for it or something.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loebner_Prize
by lurk2 | 2025-06-20 18:53:03+00:00
The bathrooms become too expensive to maintain because they are being used by people who need to be institutionalized. When this is suggested the Civil Liberties people get into an uproar. You could build one wall and keep people who suffer from psychosis inside of it, or you can put them on the street and watch as everyone else finds ways to build walls of their own.
by WalterBright | 2025-06-20 18:53:03+00:00
I've never had trouble ordering what I wanted from the options list. That usually means needing to pay more, though.

If you want custom leather seats, you can drive your car off the lot into one of many shops that offer such services, or other customizations. Me, I drove to the stereo shop to put a better stereo in (back when the factory ones were terrible).

There are many reality shows on TV featuring shops what will custom build a car to your specifications.
by triceratops | 2025-06-20 18:53:14+00:00
The current guidance is no/limited heading for youth soccer players. [1]

Futsal, a small-sided variant of soccer, has way less heading because of the type of ball and how the game is played. It also teaches excellent technical skills, so it's great for kids who want to play regular soccer later on. [2] If as a society we continue the trend towards less and less acceptability of brain injury risk in sports, then futsal may well become the more-popular form of soccer.

1. https://usclubsoccer.org/headinjuries/

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futsal
by elmerfud | 2025-06-20 18:53:38+00:00
Interesting, The model says 93% accurate but in my testing it was less than 50% accurate. From what I can tell it mostly seems to base its assessment on ow much of the picture is white skin tone. It does a very poor job of analyzing shapes and structures in the picture.

Some examples of its failure that I found, was close up pictures of faces often get flagged as porn. Probably because these pictures were not in public learning models. On the other hand pictures that are mostly clothed and have neutral backgrounds but there is a bare buttocks exposed in a lewd manner get flagged as neutral. They barely rank on the porn or sexy percentage.
by skhameneh | 2025-06-20 18:54:30+00:00
> choosing Oakley for this, feels on-brand

I get the sentiment, but I really enjoyed the Oakley Flak series, the fit was superb. BUT, I hated the feeling that it was perceived as a statement rather than utility. I bought them originally for high field of vision and blocking glare when riding bikes.

I lost a couple pairs and one got scratched really bad - and I don’t have a nice alternative in mind that fits a reasonable budget. *Am open to suggestions, I need ONE nice pair of polarized sunglasses that’l last.
by aetherson | 2025-06-20 18:54:43+00:00
I've seen a lot of people claim this for 15 years, but every experience I've ever had with minimal or no handwashing of dishes before putting them in the dishwasher has resulted in visibly dirty dishes.

It's possible that the (several) dishwashers I've used have been "not good enough," but if so I suggest most people's dishwashers aren't good enough.
by stickfigure | 2025-06-20 18:55:45+00:00
Dishonest sources can generate bullshit faster than honest people can debunk it. At some point you are obliged to dismiss consistently unreliable sources.

In fact, Wikipedia has already done this:

"The English Wikipedia formally deprecated the use of The Grayzone as a source for facts in its articles in March 2020, citing issues with the website's factual reliability."

(from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grayzone)
by me_again | 2025-06-20 18:56:32+00:00
Not exactly the same, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very-long-baseline_interferome... is a technique used in radio astronomy which uses two receivers a long way apart and a very accurate clock to approximate having a radio telescope the size of the distance between them. By putting one receiver on a satellite, measurements have been made with a separation of 300,000km.
by pellenys | 2025-06-20 18:56:50+00:00
I think usability almost always suffers when the native UI isn’t used. It’s not that platform-neutral UIs aren’t usable, or good looking. However when native UIs were prevalent, there were standards built up over years of hard-earned experience: for a Windows app, you wanted to get your tab order right, and you knew the convention of getting the Cancel button mapped to the escape key etc etc. See also the Mac and the HIG, encouraging apps to look and work roughly the same.

There were always outliers and ugly UIs, but it always felt like there was a uniformity that made it easier to get around in an unfamiliar app. Whereas now, electron apps look and work very differently (comparing slack to Spotify to VSCode and so on).

That said, I think very few people care as much as I do about it, and cross-platform UIs save a ton of development work.
by rsingel | 2025-06-20 18:57:04+00:00
Just for the future reader: The court threw this out on the very reasonable grounds that the rightwing grievers who filed suit had no standing because NONE of them could show that Biden officials had anything to do with them getting kicked off platforms.

That included Gateway Pundit who got kicked off Twitter for continual election disinfo claiming the election was stolen etc. All evidence points to Twitter doing that on its own.

No one has shown any proof that any social media company took down anything that wasn't against their terms of service because of a report from a federal agency or from the Biden White House.
by djoldman | 2025-06-20 18:57:21+00:00
There are a lot of issues brought up in this post, but I want to discuss one in particular: technological progress and its economic and societal ramifications.

We can say that technological progress occurs when a new method is employed to deliver a product or service with some "more desirable" blend of qualities: it's created/delivered faster, cheaper, with a more desirable mix of resource inputs, and/or results in a more valuable/desired output.

Sometimes it's quite obvious when a technology is superior to another as almost all the qualities of it are advantageous: it's made faster, less expensively, and the result is better with such a gap between it and the old way that there's just no denying that the new way is better.

Sometimes the new technology is really a mix of qualities. Let's focus on the mix that generally gets the most attention: the new way is faster/cheaper but the output is not of a higher quality. Sometimes this new way of cheaper+faster but lower quality "wins out" and the consumer prefers it.

And now the crux of it: why is it so common that discussion concerning these shifts is rooted in everything except the consumer?

An imperfect and potentially flawed example: a bunch of consumers have decided that they'd rather pay less for a shirt or shoe that will fall apart faster than more for one that lasts longer. The old way of making a superior product still exists and some consumers still prefer it but most do not.

Fundamentally, this is a shift that is rooted in the perception, true or not, of the consumer that the new way is more desirable.

Some folks are not happy with the higher prices of the outputs of old ways of doing things or the effects that the new ways have on jobs, the economy, and/or society.

Fundamentally, this has to do with consumer preference and that's where any blame should be meted out.
Ask HN: How can we keep (part of) the web human?
by pajamasam | 2025-06-20 18:57:22+00:00
Any ideas for how we can keep the web (or at least part of it) human?

It feels like every time I do a web search, more and more of the results are AI generated nonsense.

I'm worried that it's going to become much more difficult to find the human-generated content.

How can we keep a part of the web human? Any ideas? (I'm not keen on Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning Orb being the "solution.")