MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by shadowgovt | 2025-06-17 13:38:49+00:00
16 years on I think it's fair to say that while their implementation didn't hit the mark, the general idea that email is the primary interaction model was waning was correct.

Nowadays, business is done on slack, more casual interaction happens on discord. Email is still there when a paper trail is desired for business reasons, but I interact with few firms that use it as their primary means of coordination, planning, or communication.
by diggan | 2025-06-17 13:38:52+00:00
> In reality it is mostly servicing sites like this, ad networks, backing up your iCloud photos, running your bank, etc.

In reality, GPUs slurp a lot of energy, and it would be missing the current situation if you don't think new data centers will include a lot more GPUs than they did just 5 years ago. Not saying the new data centers will mostly be GPUs, but current context surely changed the calculations of what a "modern" data center should contain.

> price and regulate a resource appropriately and this wouldn't happen [...] In every normal place they run a closed circuit

Pricing and regulation doesn't suddenly mean foreign investors won't try to get an already scarce resource allocated to them. And regardless of how closed the circuit is, once the water goes to the data center, it cannot also go to other uses, so the farmer ends up with less water.
by EGreg | 2025-06-17 13:39:20+00:00
I gotta say, this is complicated enough that most people don’t do it, and there is a big business opportunity here.

Resilio Sync (using bittorrent) kinda sucks for backing up to a USB hard drive that’s been connected.

SynThing is what I use. Even so. What I would really want is something that “just works” with multiple encrypted backups around the world, deduplication and chunking.

There’s also BackBlaze.
by _heimdall | 2025-06-17 13:39:47+00:00
MCPs are, in part, a response to the difficulties LLM companies had when trying out LLMs interact online by visually navigation the screen.

They need APIs for it to be efficient. For whatever reason they didn't choose to use accessibility tooling to automate agents, and we haven't written REST APIs for 20+ years - they're left hoping a newly designed protocol will fix it.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-06-17 13:39:49+00:00
But that's not prison labor. Prison labor specifically refers to penal labor. You receive no pay, because the labor is part of the punishment for the crime. It is the prisoner who is paying off his debt. In those cases, I don't think it is moral for private companies to make use of that labor for private gain. Penal labor should only be used for public benefit.

Here, we're talking about preparing someone for the job market when they leave. Hence, these are two separate concerns. You cannot substitute the former with the latter.
by Eisenstein | 2025-06-17 13:40:31+00:00
Free markets fail when allocating resources like water. The problem is that when someone needs something to survive, the market stops working because the value is infinite to them. Another reason it doesn't work is because you can have people who need it but are too poor to pay what others will pay for it. If someone with more money comes in and buys all the water, they can then charge what they want for it or just dump it into the ocean if they feel like it. It also doesn't work when the product is common use, like a road or a park, because their is no profit in providing something everyone benefits from but will not directly pay to use. Property rights and markets are not the ultimate way to allocate all resources.
by JimmyBiscuit | 2025-06-17 13:40:39+00:00
There were multiple, I think they were called 1p-LSD, 1cp-LSD, 1d-LSD, 1v-LSD and currently you can still legally buy 1S-LSD. Its a bit of whack-a-mole with the lawmakers because there isnt a blanket ban, only ever the specific chemical gets banned. Although stuff got quite a lot more expensive with every iteration.
by lm28469 | 2025-06-17 13:40:44+00:00
Sure, but these people are actually "doing, building, exploring", not terminally online trying to sell you their lifestyle to make money from advertising and partnerships.

For every genuine passioned "influencer" you have 100 000 wannabes trying to scam you one way or another. And let's be generous, even if every single one of them was 100% genuine and well intentioned, that's still just a drop in the bucket, the extreme vast majority of people would fit in the "dull" category, and it's perfectly fine
by anileated | 2025-06-17 13:41:15+00:00
> always use your own domain so if your email service locks you out, you can move to another instantly.

What to do if your domain is taken away legally (e.g. via trademark dispute) or due to a random combination of unlucky factors is bought before you can extend it?

Besides what email do you specify when buying domains? Where do you host that email? How do you deal if that email locks you out?

I hope don't say "use me@example.com to register example.com" because that circle seems like a fun thing to solve in a pinch.
by diggan | 2025-06-17 13:41:31+00:00
In the video he paints the picture of asking for "a million gallons of water one time" VS asking for "a million gallons of water per hour", that cannot possible be a faithful comparison.

For these new planned data centers, realistically, what would the "one-time" volume be VS how much they would need per hour/day? And not some straw-man argument like what the guy in the video said.
by skinkestek | 2025-06-17 13:41:43+00:00
I think you're right—there’s a strange blind spot in mainstream media, even when spotting patterns should be their job.

I’ve followed the situation in Iran since "Women, Life, Freedom" started trending. I've also talked with Iranian women running street stands, and I still track updates on Threads, Bluesky, and YouTube.

From what I’ve seen, a lot of the people who seem authentically Iranian are openly supportive of the Israeli military operation. I’ve see memes showing Israeli and Persian lions shaking hands, or Persian lions cutting the Islamic symbol out of the Iranian flag.

I can’t say for sure whether it’s grassroots or bots—but someone is definitely posting lots of it.

So, either Israel is pushing this narrative really hard, or there’s a genuine groundswell among Iranians who’ve seen something in that codename and decided run with it.

My bet? A mix of both.
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by kody_06 | 2025-06-17 13:41:49+00:00
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by nashashmi | 2025-06-17 13:42:04+00:00
No Islamic leader in their right mind would try taking magic mushrooms or any forms of intoxication. That is a red line. So I seriously doubt the experience of the person who went in and took it. Which means the question remains unanswered: how would a person of the Islamic faith describe the experience obtained from magic mushrooms?

By the words of the Quran, the response is

They ask you about wine and gambling. Say, “In both there is great sin, and some benefits for people. And their sin is greater than their benefit.” And they ask you as to what they should spend. Say, “The surplus”. This is how Allah makes His verses clear to you, so that you may ponder.

Benefits are acknowledged, but it emphasizes the sin (likely meaning a curse aka perennial harm) is greater.

My protest to the context of HN, this study furthers the idea that God/religion/belief is a mystical hallucinated idea (and does not belong any greater in rational belief than does the experience of magic mushrooms). But such equivalencies being drawn here would be hasty and ignorant and a logical fallacy. First, if Person A believes in X and Person B believes in Y and goes through an experience causing Person B to also believe in X and calls Y a similarly relevant belief, does not make Person A and Person B similar, nor does it make X and Y similar. It just means the experience is mind altering. Second, these studies observe the outcomes, describes the outcomes, and hypothesizes the empirical causes, but in the case of this study it is observing hallucinations in believers of faith and finding similarities in reasoning to their preconcieved beliefs, causing it to claim that hallucination is equal to belief.
by yorwba | 2025-06-17 13:42:17+00:00
If you make the "basic pod" a tent, wealthy countries could probably afford this sci-fi future today. But "enough money to live like a homeless person without having to beg or steal" doesn't sound so great as an aspirational goal, does it?

If the "basic pod" is supposed to be something more durable, probably the first step would have to be building enough homeless shelters for all the UBI recipients without another source of income.
by NilMostChill | 2025-06-17 13:42:30+00:00
I'm aware of my own perspective, i don't generally crusade against whatever flavour of machine learning is being pushed currently.

I was just pointing out that arguing against crusading by using an argument (or analogies) that leaves out half of the salient context could be considered disingenuous.

The difference between:

You're using it incorrectly

vs

Of the ones that are fit for a particular purpose, they can work well if used correctly.

Perhaps i'm just nitpicking.
by demosthanos | 2025-06-17 13:42:39+00:00
> As the sector grows, consumption is expected to reach 90 million cubic meters by 2030, according to the water sector lobby Water Europe.

People who are trying to organize opposition to particular uses for water have a habit of citing the raw numbers without putting them in context, which works because there's so much water that the numbers are eye-wateringly large.

It's hard to find concrete stats on total water usage (as opposed to percentage changes), but one report I found that helps to put this number in context is this [0]:

> In addition, it takes 17,000 litres of water to produce a kilo of chocolate. According to statistics from 2019, Europe produced 3.7 million tonnes of chocolate, which equates to an eyewatering 63,625,200,000 litres of water.

Since a liter is 1/1000 of a cubic meter, we're looking at 63 million cubic meters for European chocolate alone, which places chocolate in the same ballpark as Europe's data centers.

Obviously data centers can and should work to conserve water (no misting in dry regions would help), but on the surface ~40% more water for data centers than for chocolate doesn't seem like that bad of a balance.

[0] https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/07/09/our-water-footprin...
by tboyd47 | 2025-06-17 13:43:02+00:00
> But after my kids were born I noticed something: my kids loved my voice, they listened to every sentence I made, they laughed at my quirky jokes I made and they loved when I sang to them or I brought them to the park or to the nursery and when I sat them on my neck. My wife took all that from me though, so now I need to fight to get my kids back.

You call yourself dull, but this short comment revealed the opposite picture. Kids are a lot more authentic than adults. Clearly they found a lot to enjoy about you.

> My wife took all that from me though, so now I need to fight to get my kids back.

There's an intense amount of suffering and courage in this statement which you tried to present in such a deadpan, flippant way.

> So I don't care any more what others think of me. I came to accept my dullness and embraced it. If it bores others, I don't care.

That's good, but I don't think you're actually dull or boring. Someone put that in your head and you accepted it.
by jmyeet | 2025-06-17 13:43:04+00:00
Capitalism cannot exist without regulation. There is no such thing as a "free market". Capitalism relies upon regulation to enforce the enclosures it builds. Regulations are a direct product to protect profits.

For example, Medicare is prohibited from negotiating prices with drug companies for most medications. A few exceptions were carved out with the IRA passed under Biden. The VA can it pays a lot less. Why is Medicare forbidden from negotiating? Because the pharma industry lobbied for it.

Also, cheaper generics are banned from being imported even though you can buy the exact same thing for a 95%+ discount in Canada.

To see this regulation in action, you can pretty accurately predict what courts and the government will do by simply asking "what do the capital owners want?".

Just this weekend, we had an actual domestic terrorist in Minnesota kill a state lawmaker (and her husband) and attempt to kill at least one other. So far he's been charged with second-degree murder and some federal charges [1].

Now compare this to Luigi, the alleged shooter of UHC CEO Brian Thompson where the AG and US attorney immediately came out calling for the death penalty and laying first-degree murder and terrorism charges on him.

Now maybe the federal or state charges will be upgraded to first-degree but there's none of the same rhetoric about an actual terrorist. Ask yourself why.

[1]: https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/vance-boelter-fbi-det...
by AlanYx | 2025-06-17 13:43:13+00:00
People go to Teruel to see Albarracín (IMHO one of the most beautiful villages in Spain -- 100% worth the trip) and to make side trips to places like Valderrobres, Calaceite, Rubielos de Mora, Puertomingalvo, Cantavieja, and Mirambel. Tends to be more popular with non-Spanish tourists.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-06-17 13:43:20+00:00
> But outside the most narrowly scoped of comparisons you people rebuff any such request for all but the most narrowly scoped accounting of expenditures with a bunch of hand waving which just makes it look like the problem is even worse.

Setting aside whatever you mean by "you people", since we are all people, hopefully all on Team 'Make Things Better', and don't need to be divisive:

That seems to be what was requested here OF those making the claim that the accounting currently shows an unworkable level* of waste, requested BY those unconvinced of the claim.

* - Or perhaps I misread the magnitude being claimed. Could you clarify with a number, please?
by goku12 | 2025-06-17 13:43:22+00:00
It's not a clickbait. It's just a confusion caused by the missing context. The title might appear misleading on HN. But if you visit the Guix blog and see an article about Rust packaging, you will naturally assume that it's about packaging Rust applications and libraries for Guix. And that's exactly what it is. Especially given the fact that 'packaging' is not a term that's commonly used in the core Rust ecosystem.
by austinkhale | 2025-06-17 13:43:41+00:00
Per the article, all current European data centers used 62 million cubic meters of water for 2024. That is 3.4% of only Spain's existing desalination capacity (≈1.8 billion m³/yr).

Seems like this is solvable:

1. Keep rolling out the closed-loop cooling improvements now appearing in new DC designs.

2. Add more desal capacity where it’s cheap (sunny coastlines + renewables) to cover the residual demand.

Sources: - https://aedyr.com/plantas-desaladoras-agua-salobre-espana/
by hedora | 2025-06-17 13:43:52+00:00
For instance, you can time (usually, defer) your income to make sure you are never in a higher tax bracket. That doesn’t worth with flat tax with UBI.

One big problem with stock based compensation is that it pushes income into a big windfall year. The top marginal tax rate in the US is something like 52%. So, someone that would pay 25-30% effective tax in a fictional average year ends up paying 52% on multiple years worth of income.

Also, you can’t use the standard deduction to make your taxes negative. Assuming the average effective federal tax rate is 25%, to convert the standard deduction to UBI, it’d be reduced from $22,500 to $5600, but applied to the total tax owed, leading to the IRS paying you if you paid less than $5600 in taxes pre-deduction.

I think $5600 is too low. It should be enough to live off of. The 25th percentile household income in the US is $40000. $10,000 UBI per person seems more reasonable (probably still too low) to me.
by awongh | 2025-06-17 13:44:17+00:00
I feel like this water-AI datacenter idea is the worst kind of whataboutism luddite thinking.

To begin with:

- it's almost certain that there is an over capacity of compute being built, and some kind of bubble.

- money is being wasted being thrown after non-viable ideas

*but*

This is a technology that will fundamentally change the way humans think and do things. There will be plenty of amazing new discoveries that will benefit all of humanity that will come out of all of this. -probably the most purely virtuous will be bio-medical related (alphafold etc.)

Yes, the capitalistic waste of resources is a shame, but any comment saying that the money should/can be used in a more cooperative/communal way are completely disconnected from reality.

The relatively high-waste wheel of capital has been spun up and because moore's law seems to generally apply- if not to model training and inference itself, at least to the underlying hardware, we're going to get efficient systems eventually.

I'm on the left and the environmental AI angle is one of the most regressive and short sighted takes from these people. I put it in the same bucket as anti-immigration left-green policies. Our new political world order is putting greens on the side of conservative, regressive authoritarianism and I don't like it.

From that viewpoint it makes sense why young (optimistic, idealistic) people would want to vote republican.
by bob1029 | 2025-06-17 13:44:37+00:00
Last product I worked on I made this a thing. Every modern browser now renders a very competent date picker for input type="date".

I find a lot of the arguments for building inaccessible UIs seem to conflate historical web issues with modern times. Virtually everything that sucked in the core web toolkit circa 2010 has essentially been solved in 2025, even on ultra-restrictive platforms like iOS Safari.
by Loughla | 2025-06-17 13:44:58+00:00
I have no opinion on ivermectin. I don't think it's a miracle cure, but I also have no idea about the actual research in that space.

But.

My assistant at my last job was all in on it during COVID. It cures everything, according to her. The moment when her cognitive dissonance hit its peak was when she gave her husband ivermectin for a cold, and was absolutely astounded that he ended up in the emergency room with diarrhea and dehydration. She was convinced it was "vaccine injury" and that he did a sneaky and got the COVID shot without her knowing. Spoiler; he did not get vaccinated.

It really was pretty funny at the time, but also sad. She was sort of my bellwether for nuts behaviors. When she started spitting Q-anon talking points, as a middle aged woman completely disconnected from anywhere that should exist, I knew we had problems.
by ChrisGermano | 2025-06-17 13:45:45+00:00
If AI can replace my job (mid/senior level developer) a lot of people will be in trouble as well. Realistically I would take whatever available retail job is closest and start churning out lightweight web and mobile games on the side until something caught on, bringing in slow ad revenue and selling the rights to anything that goes viral for a quick buck. Not quite shovelware, but not exactly AAA titles :)
by Jgoauh | 2025-06-17 13:46:20+00:00
IDK, hosting files and having people download them will always be the most expensive part of the internet. It will never be free, and the money will always need to come for somewhere. And on the internet money comes from adds and prenium subscriptions. I don't think it would even be possible for them to not insentive people to pay for prenium. The only way it is possible to go back to how it was is if 75% of the users agree to close their accounts to reduce server costs enough to have it be free for others.
by nirdiamant | 2025-06-17 13:46:42+00:00
I’ve just launched a new GitHub repo in my Gen AI educational initiative (I already have over 100 code tutorials on GitHub with nearly 40,000 stars)

It packs 25 hands-on tutorials that walk you through every core component of an agent pipeline.

The tutorials are grouped into: 1. Orchestration 2. Tool integration 3. Observability 4. Deployment 5. Memory 6. UI & Frontend 7. Agent Frameworks 8. Model Customization 9. Multi-agent Coordination 10. Security 11. Evaluation
by calibas | 2025-06-17 13:46:44+00:00
It also makes some mistakes:

> Many of those who chose to participate were also considering leaving the profession at the outset and so could have been seeking a way to reconnect with the divine

From the study:

> 8% endorsing that they were currently considering leaving their vocation

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/psymed.2023.0044#sec-...

24 completed the study, so that's 2 people.
by currency | 2025-06-17 13:46:47+00:00
People either bring email etiquette (Hi, how are you, I need...") or phone etiquette (Hi, how are you?" ...) to chat.

Email etiquette has always seemed natural to me, but a lot of people read chat as a synchronous medium, so.

It's just another place where I need to have multiple modes on hand for different people.
by raattgift | 2025-06-17 13:47:19+00:00
The local theory part of the Carney et al paper (preprint <https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17575>) is interesting in that it isn't obviously related to string theory / holographic entropic gravity. Instead masses induce a spin polarization near them which is a lower entropy state. Two masses with two polarized spin-clouds will attract each other as the system tries to thermalize to a higher-entropy state. With careful choices of parameters, they can generate any central force, and they explore a particular choice which corresponds to Newtons 1/r^2 mutual attraction.

The paper cannot deal with fast-moving masses at all: it's not just the relativstic regime (where speeds are significant fractions of c) but rather the masses must move more slowly than the thermalization. This is hugely restrictive.

Finally, comparing themselves to the traditional approach of quantizing perturbations (e.g. turning classical (General Relativity) gravitational waves into lots of spin-2 gravitons) the authors write:

The gravitational interactions we observe at accessible length scales could in principle emerge in many ways from physics at the Planck scale ρ ∼ mPl/ℓ3 Pl ∼ 10104 J/cm3. Perhaps the simplest is that gravitational perturbations are quantized as gravitons, i.e., as another quantum field theory like the gauge bosons of the other fundamental forces in nature. This is a perfectly good effective quan- tum field theory; nothing in principle forces us to aban- don this picture until energies near the Planck scale.

They also say that while their starting point was being very different from the holographic picture:

we find that the models have a range of free parameters, and in some parameter regimes become indistinguishable from standard virtual graviton exchange

Some of this will necessarily by driven by the need to be compatible with General Relativity in the weak field limit. They are not compatible with strong gravity in General Relativity at present.

So while the idea is kinda interesting, I think they are putting the cart before the horse in asking what their model says about things like the interaction between gravitation and entanglement. That's simply unmeasurable by experiment right now whereas the very-well-understood relativistic precession of Mercury's perihelion is completely out of scope for this initial paper.