MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by t-writescode | 2025-06-07 00:06:46+00:00
Human Beings are incentivized to cure HIV. Real people are experiencing real pain and problem to the tune of millions of persons a year. It is among the most stigmatized long-term illnesses on the planet.

Maybe BigCo Evil Pharma isn't "incentivized" to cure HIV; but hundreds of universities including those outside the United States, are. The US does not hold a monopoly on medical advancement.

HIV is *hard* to cure. That's why it's not been cured yet.
by scubbo | 2025-06-07 00:06:57+00:00
The article lists the many ways in which the bar for success - the minimum "table stakes" that you have to achieve in order to be considered success - have drastically risen, and then concludes with:

> we believe there’s never been a better time to build an application-layer software company.

Nothing could be a clearer indication that the primary desirable quality in a founder is the conviction that, against all odds, you are better than everyone else.
by bigyabai | 2025-06-07 00:07:11+00:00
> There is a universe where AI models continue to improve until they eclipse humans at all cognitive tasks

> what would be the best course of action based on what we know?

If you hold both these statements as a contingency, then the best course of action is to wait for superhuman intelligence to exist and ask it for advice. By the definition of the scenario, human-level intelligence won't be sufficient to outsmart the AI. Any ad-hoc response you get can be refuted with "what if the AI sends dinosaurs with lasers after you" and we all have to shrug and admit we're beat.

And truly, you could answer this with anything; learn to fly a helicopter, subsistence farm, start purifying water, loading gun cartridges or breeding fish. We do not know what will save us in a hypothetical scenario like this, and it's especially pointless to navel-gaze about it when with absolute certainty global warming will cause unavoidable society-scale collapse.
by mahirsaid | 2025-06-07 00:07:34+00:00
managing to do this in short time will inevitably lead to a self implosion of the system as a whole. Making these changes does not align with the so present 4 year term of an administration's agenda, and fragile consistency for a 8 year term. The reality is China made tremendous propulsion of growth in its 30 year timeframe. The party is very consistent on its agenda , and not so polar opposite change of hands. This is also brought its own problems. but what's mitigated is mitigated and the rest can be managed in due time. We really don't have a consistent governmental system, its seems the reaction of congress on the body's that correspond to such economic agilic functions are shocking struck. The reactions of bills and policies are ill prepared and pushed to action. The last three administration's have been overwhelmingly stuck on protectionism, while changes to the economy has gone wild. The economy in other word as shaped itself external first approach, in which the government is now taking action to revert. The downside is many industries in the U.S. relied on these policies be who they are today ( Amazon, Google, Meta, etc) , deciding to revert now will change the U.S. prefoundingly.
by WalterBright | 2025-06-07 00:09:00+00:00
> So the trim rate is fixed

What I wrote.

If you look at a wiring diagram of the switches, the column trim switches turn the trim on/off. The pilot can leave it on for a long or a short duration, but the trim rate remains the same.

The trim motor that drives the jackscrew is not a variable speed motor. It is only on or off.

The trim duration is not the same as the trim rate. Analogously, velocity and time are not the same thing.

You have misunderstood the FAA report.

> you need to better vet your sources and reevaluate your claims

Right back atcha, cornholio.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-06-07 00:09:10+00:00
> On par with the first time.

This was my experience as well. The --login flag was recommended in order to address concerns raised by @abathur.

> Whenever I've had noticeably slow zsh startup times in the past, it was almost always some plugin/extension doing something very dumb (e.g. stuff like full 'git status' in a large repo -- just takes time); not the history management.

Great point.

Unfortunately, my limited research suggests tracking down which plugin or extension is the root cause is a manual effort starting with the contents of the canonical zsh initialization files (often named .zlogin, .zprofile, .zshenv, and .zshrc).
by cycomanic | 2025-06-07 00:09:12+00:00
Pretty strong words in the dissent here:

> JUSTICE JACKSON, with whom JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR joins, dissenting from the grant of application for stay. Today the Court grants “emergency” relief that allows the Social Security Administration (SSA) to hand DOGE staff- ers the highly sensitive data of millions of Americans. The Government wants to give DOGE unfettered access to this personal, non-anonymized information right now—before the courts have time to assess whether DOGE’s access is lawful. So it asks this Court to stay a lower court’s decision to place temporary and qualified limits on DOGE’s data ac- cess while litigation challenging DOGE’s authority to ac- cess the data is pending. But the Government fails to sub- stantiate its stay request by showing that it or the public will suffer irreparable harm absent this Court’s interven- tion. In essence, the “urgency” underlying the Govern- ment’s stay application is the mere fact that it cannot be bothered to wait for the litigation process to play out before proceeding as it wishes. That sentiment has traditionally been insufficient to jus- tify the kind of extraordinary intervention the Government seeks. But, once again, this Court dons its emergency-re- sponder gear, rushes to the scene, and uses its equitable power to fan the flames rather than extinguish them. See, e.g., Noem v. Doe, 605 U. S. ___, ___ (2025) (JACKSON, J., dissenting from grant of application for stay) (slip op., at 5) (explaining that, by granting a stay, the Court was allowing the Government to terminate the lawful parole status of half a million noncitizens before the courts could determine whether such agency action was lawful). Once again, re- spectfully, I dissent.
by bobbiechen | 2025-06-07 00:10:56+00:00
It's not hard for apps to commit toll fraud - all it takes is sending SMS or phone calls programmatically. Here's the Google Play page on billing fraud: https://developers.google.com/android/play-protect/phacatego... , and a writeup about malware used for WAP billing fraud: https://www.humansecurity.com/learn/blog/satori-perpectives-... .
by bitwize | 2025-06-07 00:12:11+00:00
> It was a bit of a tank, which is funny considering how unreliable it was.

There's a Ukrainian couple who do YouTube videos about Soviet-era computers, especially PC compatibles. That's the defining characteristic of many of the featured computers: they're built like Cherno Alpha from Pacific Rim and look like they could withstand a freight train, but simultaneously flaky and failure prone.

https://www.youtube.com/@ChernobylFamily
by cloudbonsai | 2025-06-07 00:12:29+00:00
Here is the original paper from the researchers:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ads2426

Apparently they wanted to create a material that:

1. is transparent,

2. can be made thick enough,

3. and is purely cellulose-based.

Cellophane meets 1 and 3 but is hard to be made thick. Paper satisfies 2 and 3 but is not transparent. Celluroid is not explicitly mentioned in the paper, but I gather it does not satisfy 3 since it's hardly pure-cellulose.

The main application target seems to be food packaging.
by clipsy | 2025-06-07 00:12:39+00:00
> It wouldn't work as well for everyone in town to take turns being a professor, or to vote who is a professor, or some other egalitarian leftist method.

It's fascinating to claim that "egalitarian leftist[s]" are the ones who believe everyone is equally qualified to be an academic authority; in my experience, it's the right wing that has consistently believed that professors, scientists, and other academic authorities should be taken no more seriously than Joe Sixpack.
by mullingitover | 2025-06-07 00:13:35+00:00
> Higher education is funded by public dollars, which means taking them away from taxpayers (socialism, a leftist idea).

Seems like a stretch to say funding things with taxes is socialism. The practice of funding public-benefitting projects with taxes has existed for a couple thousand years before socialism was ever conceived.

Call me when we're talking seriously about nationalizing all land and giving the government an ownership stake in every corporation.
by bayindirh | 2025-06-07 00:14:00+00:00
As a test, I asked Gemini 2.5 Flash and Gemini 2.5 Pro to decode a single BASE64 string.

Flash answered correctly in ~2 seconds, at most. Pro answered very wrongly after thinking and elaborating for ~5 minutes.

Flash was also giving a wrong answer for the same string in the past, but it improved.

Prompt was the same: "Hey, can you decode $BASE64_string?"

I have no further comments.
by _heimdall | 2025-06-07 00:14:24+00:00
If this was passed in 2017 to go into effect during the next presidential term, wouldn't that only work as a time bomb for Biden's presidency if Trump didn't expect to win a second consecutive term?

Given the history of prior presidents winning 2 consecutive terms, it seems like Trump could have reasonably expected a 2022/2023 tax change to be his problem.
by jsnell | 2025-06-07 00:15:04+00:00
Users of the site only have one control available: the flag. There's no way to object only to the title but not to the post, and despite what you say that title hit the trifecta: not the original title, factually incorrect, and clickbait. So I'm not that surprised it got flagged (even if I did not flag it myself).

Email the mods at hn@ycombinator.com. There's a chance they'll remove the flag and re-up the post.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-06-07 00:15:48+00:00
> I'm not even 100% certain there's really much of a specific reason why there has to be a low hard limit on file descriptors

Same reason disks have quotas and containers have cpu & memory limits: to keep one crappy program from doinking the whole system. In general it's seen as poor form to let your server crash just because somebody allowed infinite loops/resource use in their program.

A lot of people's desktops, servers, even networks, crashing is just a program that was allowed to take up too many resources. Limits/quotas help more than they hurt.
by lenova | 2025-06-07 00:16:31+00:00
I think you should re-read the OP's original link again. Aether is not just an SSG, and its admin interface provides a CMS interface.

And I'm afraid your definition of a CMS is your own, and not the consensus. A CMS doesn't need to consume external sources, it can be self contained content.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system
by matkurianski | 2025-06-07 00:16:48+00:00
That's a truly inspiring project, thanks for sharing!

I noticed it's open source but is missing a license. Could you add one so developers can understand to what extent they can modify and publish their forks?

For example, it occurred to me that I could translate it into my native language and publish a fork of it (with credits, of course), since less than 5% of my country speaks English. Would that be okay with you?
by shakna | 2025-06-07 00:16:57+00:00
Russia's official propaganda technique [0], is about spewing falsehoods, because the truth does not keep coming back up. Lie enough, and people do give up.

Hitler and Goebbels did effectively make use of a ministry dedicated to spewing out as many falsehoods as they could, and it very effectively controlled the flow and acceptance of information in Nazi Germany.

Pol Pot and his Little Red Book empowered the Khmer Rouge, and actively buried the truth to the point where people assisted the regime to become one of the most bloody in all of history.

As Orwell warned us, because he lived through Soviet Russia and their propaganda machine, the truth does not survive when there are those dedicated to twisting it or hiding it to fit their purpose.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood
by nicbou | 2025-06-07 00:17:03+00:00
I'm no longer a software developer, but my job is also threatened.

A few things will stick:

- A rather large network of people who know who I am and what I do

- A rather large and benevolent audience

- A deeper understanding of things that are not written down, and definitely not part of AI training data

- A brain, eyes and a body that operate in the real world. AI only sees what we feed it.
by sarchertech | 2025-06-07 00:17:18+00:00
It would be much better to tax the benefits of the unrealized gain that a person realizes.

It’s much easier to do because there is no disputing the assessment since the person implicitly agrees to the valuation. And it allows people to forgo realizing any benefit from the unrealized value at all to avoid taxation.

Say take x% of the top of the money lent to someone who uses their unrealized gain to secure a loan. Make the money paid count against any tax they owe if they sell the asset later.
by lapcat | 2025-06-07 00:18:55+00:00
There're more than one justification given. Gun rights supporters, like the Republican party itself (and the Democratic party too, of course), are a coaltion of different interests, and not all self-described convervatives would consider gun rights to be an important issue. Some people support gun rights for self-defense, others for hunting. Really it's only the wingnut conspiracy theorists who are silly enough to believe that they could successfully fight back against the modern militarized state.

Hunting is very much a cultural issue, passed down the generations by family tradition, so you'd be hard pressed to change minds on that.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-06-07 00:20:46+00:00
> Is .14s noticeable?

Unless the system is under memory pressure, most shell initialization will read from in-memory OS file caches and not be noticeable as you note.

Where significant delays are often seen is when a seemingly innocuous extension uses network-based or some other heavy file system I/O commands (such as a "find $HOME -type f" type of thing).
by jltsiren | 2025-06-07 00:21:29+00:00
The left-right division in the general sense is based on equality. The left supports some interpretation of equality, no matter how misguided. Specific instances have included classical liberals supporting free markets and the rule of law, communists aiming for a violent revolution, and progressives focused on identity politics. The right is defined either through its opposition to the contemporary left or by the belief that some forms of hierarchies and inequality are unavoidable and/or desirable.
by mcdeltat | 2025-06-07 00:23:32+00:00
Surprisingly little real information in this article. It could be summed up as "use noise reduction, tone curves, and local contrast" without need for further waffle. Smells a bit like blog spam.

What I would've found helpful would be a discussion of proper exposure for astrophotography, which oddly enough was missing. If your exposure is screwed then your edits will be screwed too. They mention pulling back the star highlights and boosting darker areas, well it would be interesting to hear the author's opinions on the optimal exposure settings to enable those edits without excessive noise or clipping.

Also my pet peeve, getting colour science technicalities wrong. "RAW files are dull" no RAW files are simply not viewable as-is and any attempt to display them without proper tone mapping is pointless. "Linear image" - what does this even mean? No respect for the colour pipeline :(
by atleastoptimal | 2025-06-07 00:24:39+00:00
>with absolute certainty global warming will cause unavoidable society-scale collapse

Is that really 100% certain? Like more than 95% certain?

If superintelligent AI came before society-state collapse due to global warming it certainly could find a way to stop it (if it cared about the biosphere). Even without superintelligent AI people claim that stratospheric aerosol injection could lower surface temperatures.
by reactordev | 2025-06-07 00:25:20+00:00
I’m struggling as well. I started fresh out of high school’s comp sci class. Circa 1998. I’ve survived the dot com bubble, the housing implosion, the Great Recession, but lately have found myself struggling to find employment and when I do - I’m treated very poorly because I’m new. Yet I have more experience than they do. I don’t want to play that card but it’s like watching the blind lead the blind. I can’t retire. Yet I can’t find a decent dev job where we work on a product or SaaS. A few companies that did reach out to me, gave me a pass after speaking with me so I guess the problem is with me. But I don’t know what.

Also, seeing past coworkers strike it rich and retire early really deflates my spirits after trying to succeed for so long.
by martinald | 2025-06-07 00:26:08+00:00
I would be surprised if it has even 1% marketshare on the routes they are on (vs driving, coach, day trains and flights.

For example; in the UK on London -> Edinburgh, Caledonian Sleeper has on average 250 passengers per day (but this is the entire route - not just london to edinburgh). Given there is roughly ~2tph throughout the day for about 16 hours a day, each with ~1000 seats (with very high load factors), that's about 30,000 passengers/day on the "day" train. Probably roughly that again flying. Plus driving and coaches and it is absolutely tiny.
by atleastoptimal | 2025-06-07 00:26:28+00:00
I think the most useful definition is "any system that can trivially be taught to exceed humans at any cognitive or fine-motor task at a price over a reasonable time and scaling horizon lower than hiring a median human to perform that task." Essentially the definition that means economic checkmate for humans over a short timeframe.

When I say "trivially" I mean within an order of magnitude of 1/10 an average publicly traded company's expenses for work in that domain. When I say reasonable I mean any time between 10 seconds and 6 months, and ignoring deflationary effects of AGI itself with respect to its pricing superiority.
by jvanderbot | 2025-06-07 00:26:48+00:00
I read TFA. Quickly but I read it. It's short but I have no idea if they were saying "wow AI products are popular" or "AI helps startups reach higher levels of profitability faster" or simply "A company that says they are making an AI driven product receives more initial users and funding".

Each of those are so wildly different conclusions and require such wildly different data to support it.
by w10-1 | 2025-06-07 00:26:49+00:00
> Trying to block the release of first crash data nationwide and now robotaxi trial data

The article says the information at issue is email communications, not trial results.

Regardless of where you stand, people need to know before they communicate whether their communications will be public. (It's already safe to say that people should understand any communications in furtherance of crime can be made public as part of prosecuting that crime - that even pierces Attorney-client privilege.)
by netbioserror | 2025-06-07 00:26:54+00:00
Give Janet a try, it's a breath of fresh air with well-realized primitives and a solid standard library. For a decade now I've been immersed in the worlds of Clojure and Nim, where macros often get abused to no end. I've written 0 Nim macros, and a number of Lisp macros I could count on one hand.
by mayneack | 2025-06-07 00:27:11+00:00
I assume the person you're replying to is talking about the Filibuster and supermajority requirements not the direct election history. The filibuster is a senate rule not a constitutional design, so it wasn't part of the "design". Maybe they're both different ways of adding veto points to the same effect, but I think spoilers as "explicit design" is probably not how I'd describe it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster_in_the_United_State...
by whoisyc | 2025-06-07 00:28:13+00:00
While I am generally against gambling and would like to see more social and legislative action against it, I would advise against forming opinions based on news pieces like the one you mentioned in the beginning of your post, because news has a bias towards reporting only the most extreme events without giving you the full picture of how prevalent (or not) they actually are.

If anything news is like a mirror image of gambling. People vastly overestimate how likely they will hit a jackpot the same way they vastly overestimate how likely they will die in a plane crash.
by WalterBright | 2025-06-07 00:29:30+00:00
Thank you for your detailed reply.

A tendency to nose up is not "instability". Recall that additional pilot training to anticipate and correct for it was the original solution to the characteristic. A pilot unaware of it may react incorrectly.

I have no disagreement with the shortcomings of the MCAS design, but the concept of it was sound.

As for pilot skill, recall there were 3 MCAS incidents. The first one porpoised a couple times, with the pilots recovering each time, and then another crew member in the jump seat turned off the stab trim.

In the second incident, the crew restored trim 25 times and never thought to turn off the trim system, over a period of 11 minutes. This is plenty of time to remember what the runaway trim cutoff switch is for. There's no excuse here.

In the third incident, the crew apparently did not read, understand and remember the Boeing Emergency Airworthiness directive sent to all MAX pilots after the first crash, with a simple 2 step procedure to save the airplane. There's no excuse for that. I just find it baffling that a pilot would not be keenly interested in the only crash of the airplane type he is flying, to ensure he wouldn't crash.

The stab trim switch is a memory item, meaning it is supposed to be memorized by the crew. It's their job to remember it.

As for the two pilots I talked to, one contacted me as a result of these HN discussions. The other I buttonholed at the airport during layover. The latter was quite confident in his flying skills, the former related that he and his colleagues all agreed on the pilot error aspect.

There are pilots in my family, I have friends who are pilots, I worked at Boeing where my colleagues were pilots. None of them had any patience for pilots who could not follow emergency procedures properly. I don't either. A careless pilot has no business in a cockpit.
by bigyabai | 2025-06-07 00:29:34+00:00
> If superintelligent AI came before society-state collapse due to global warming it certainly could find a way to stop it

How do you know? "Certainly" is an awful lot of confidence for something you've never seen or even credibly proved exists. Unless you are (or personally know) a superintelligent AI, I don't think you have the credibility to assume that's feasible. Perhaps we do get a superintelligent AI before then, and it tells us this was all a sad waste of our resources and squandered entire generation's worth of human lives.

Aerosol injection is a solution, but hasn't been explored because it's basically suicide for the ozone layer. Maybe that helps a future race of UV-resistant robots but it's not a great solution for us fleshy folks. Regardless, preparing for the post-AGI world is putting 10 carts before 1 horse.
by bastawhiz | 2025-06-07 00:30:10+00:00
It would be incredible if they could make plastic that didn't break down. But given the history of plastics, I would have to be very convinced that whatever they do to it isn't making it terribly toxic in ways that we don't measure. I would rather ditch plastics for better materials than have to check that yet another new acronym isn't in my water bottle.
by dinkumthinkum | 2025-06-07 00:30:59+00:00
Teenagers, as you say, are entrusted by the government with weapons that can destroy and cause untold amount of damage on personnel and property and nobody has complained about that. There even 17-year-olds with such responsibility. Also, plenty of people in their early 20s either have access to sensitive data or have access to code accessing such data.