MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MathMonkeyMan | 2025-06-29 19:59:02+00:00
> Channels should remain a low-level primitive to build pipelines, but they're not what you should use as your main API surface.

I remember hearing (not sure where) that this is a lesson that was learned early on in Go. Channels were the new hotness, so let's use them to do things that were not possible before. But it turned out that Go was better for doing what was already possible before, but more cleanly.
by jama211 | 2025-06-29 19:59:03+00:00
As someone in a country with a functional healthcare system, I can assure you those miraculous drugs are available to all here. There are many countries like this. I suspect you’re more interested in shaking your fist at clouds than you are in making properly thought through points, however. Your comment isn’t “pessimistic tech doomerism”, it’s simpler than that, it’s self aggrandising statements based on feelings rather than facts.
by kleiba | 2025-06-29 19:59:15+00:00
My advice: move to Germany, like I did.

Seriously, you always think of Germany as this technologically advanced country, but reality sets in pretty fast once you live here. With respect to IT, Germany is a few years behind the US, maybe as much a 8-10 years. They've also for years been looking (rather unsucessfully) to attract more academics to relocate here.

So, if you're willing to move continents, consider it. Just beware that the salaries are substantially lower for tech professionals - see parenthetical above.
by thr0waway001 | 2025-06-29 19:59:18+00:00
> What has been developing for awhile is that musicians are coming from richer backgrounds on average.

Same sh it is happening with basketball. More nepo babies that got to go through expensive camp than ballers from the streets rising up the ranks homie. And no person embodies dis shit more than Bronny James.

Sad cause sports was supposed to be the ultimate meritocracy yo!
by _wire_ | 2025-06-29 19:59:26+00:00
I'mmm baack!

For those that may glance at the article and think tl;dr here's the skinny.

The author drops 2000+ words plus graphs to proffer a single simple point:

An economic study on growth-- as reported by an author on the "left" via the Guardian-- is sometimes mis-understood as predicting that climactic effects will result in a "catastrophic" 41% decrease in overall economic output by 2100, whereas what the study actually says is there will be 41% decrease in the economic growth rate as of 2100.

So what's in the other 1900+ words?

The article meanders across a wilderness of vague ideas about philosophy and an ivory-tower-intellectual ideological bias towards catastrophism by an unnecessarily lugubrious political left, which due to the author unconsciously thinking under the influence of the purest street form of Hegelian aufheben, must manifest a contrapuntal mythical pragmatic "right" to counterbalance the kooky left.

In other words, this article generates unnecessary right-leaning, political dualism and conflict via precisely what it claims to debunk: misinformation.
by nixpulvis | 2025-06-29 19:59:46+00:00
It's not just that, but it's also that more and more people are getting into the industry for its promise of high paying relatively cushy jobs. Just look at university CS major enrollments. Not to mention bootcamps and accelerated programs.

I've been feeling like this has been coming long before AI doomsayers were a thing.

The problem is that it's surprisingly difficult to judge candidates from the interview process, so the expectation value of a new hire has a lot of uncertainty. And while degrees from good schools are a good indicator, tech jobs perhaps unlike medical or legal fields, for example, are not the end all be all for success. It's entirely possible to be smart and self motivated and taught.
by amelius | 2025-06-29 19:59:55+00:00
You are looking for extremes, whereas I am merely looking at it from the average behavior of wealthy people.

If there is a large wealth inequality that means that the relatively poor will simply have a smaller piece of the cake and the wealthy growing their wealth will have a larger impact on the poor, percentage-wise. Now, if that growth is only due to hard work, then you can't really argue against that; however, if that growth is partially due to "wealth abuse", then that's a different matter.
by neepi | 2025-06-29 20:00:28+00:00
I haven’t accused anyone less than everyone. There are bad actors on all sides (this spans more than “both sides”).

As for enforcement and prosecution the ICC warrants were justified and the situation that remains is tragic. You can thank the US for throwing a spanner in those works.

I’m not sure why you keep trying to put words in my mouth. Perhaps to justify your partisan position rather than my entirely neutral one? Sure feels like it.
by pnw | 2025-06-29 20:00:36+00:00
I discovered recently that if you sideload a book onto the Kindle via Calibre, Amazon can delete them silently at some later stage if they decide you didn't purchase it from Amazon. This includes public domain works.

It's allegedly a result of how Calibre manages tags in order to display covers but still feels deeply wrong.

Long thread here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=340936
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by counters | 2025-06-29 20:00:57+00:00
We don't if, or to what extent, DOGE was involved or influential in the decision-making here.

Yes, the DMSP program was aging and slated to wind down as replacements - both federal and commercial - came online in the second half of the 2020's. But in general, if valid and useful data continues to stream from these types of satellites, you use it and monitor for disruption.

As someone who uses the DMSP data every single day, let me be very clear: there was no warning or expectation that such an abrupt change was going to happen. Yes, we all have contingency plans for if a satellite fails or a data link goes down. But to be given basically 5 days notice that a significant, mission-critical asset would be taken offline? That doesn't - and shouldn't - happen.
by userbinator | 2025-06-29 20:01:15+00:00
This reminds me of how having the right SMBIOS was necessary to create a working Hackintosh. There are so many of these relatively obscure APIs which have been added to the PC over the years, which are often overlooked by those writing virtualisation software, and malware and other VM detection software often tries to poke at them to see how real they look.

A next step to making the VM look real is having simulated temperature sensors that actually change in response to CPU load.
by softwaredoug | 2025-06-29 20:01:43+00:00
The problem of important projects surviving political change is a tough one.

A lot of these important projects have a single point of failure - who is the president every four years. I wonder how we build institutions and resources resilient to that?

I realize privatization is an ugly word, but could some of this stuff be provided by the private sector?

Can we make it possible to fund initiatives in a multinational manner where countries contribute to these efforts, but if one country blinks out, then you still have it go along?
by weeksie | 2025-06-29 20:02:12+00:00
Another way to look at this is that using LLMs and agents in your business function takes a while to master. It's a skill and it's a good move to push teams to incorporate AI into their workflows before immediately reaching for a new hire. There will be job functions that will be eaten away, I'm sure, but Jevons and his paradox are still undefeated.
by int_19h | 2025-06-29 20:02:23+00:00
The problem with this take is that the polls show a strong support for all those things that the Israeli government doing in Gaza among its citizens. That is, the average Israeli does agree. I don't think that the minority that disagrees is to blame, but they also clearly cannot meaningfully speak for the nation anymore.

In a similar vein, I'm ethnically Russian and a Russian citizen. I don't support the Russian invasion of Ukraine in any way, shape, or form, and I don't think that I am responsible for it as a Russian. However, it is also clear to me that the majority of Russians do support it (or at least think that it's fine), and on that basis I don't consider myself to be a part of that nation anymore, regardless of ethnicity.
by wonderwonder | 2025-06-29 20:03:11+00:00
Friend you are comparing civilizations that support hundreds of millions of people to small tribes of pygmies that total maybe 30k people and survive on hunting and gathering. Additionally they only exist in little groups of 50 to a few hundred individuals. How do you see billions of people surviving as hunter gatherers? Or do you forsee the need to cull 95% of humanity? This is not a realistic comparison friend and you know that. The only system that can keep hundreds of millions or billions of people fed and housed is capitalism.
by Melatonic | 2025-06-29 20:03:29+00:00
Alcohol is pretty bad for your brain so I would not be surprised. And while it's not really a hallucinogen itself (comparatively) I've heard some pretty hellish stories of severe alcohol withdrawals. Just going without sleep (completely) for several days can cause hallucinations and stress - and this is a common symptom of more serious withdrawal.

I would imagine other drugs which produce severe (and stressful) withdrawal could also trigger this. The stress alone cannot be good.
by vkou | 2025-06-29 20:03:51+00:00
Why would investors be needed in an AI world?

They and their assets could safely be liquidated, and placed under management by it.

The only thing that protects them from this is the social contract. If AI unravels the social contract for the rest of us, why should they survive unimpacted?

If this sounds cruel or unfair - remember that are always free to retain themselves to do a useful job.
by reify | 2025-06-29 20:04:35+00:00
Psychedelics and MDMA must be a better option for some psychiatric disorders than the useless Psychotropic Medication they prescribe every day.

Its not good to take any Psychotropic Medications, antidepressants, anti-anxiety medications, stimulants, antipsychotics, and mood stabilizers for any length of time. thats why you have to have a medicine review every six months.

all of the above drugs come with serious side effects. sexual disfunction for instance.

these drugs in particular;

The SSRI's, bupropion, paroxetine, escitalopram, citalopram, venlafaxine, mirtazapine, fluoxetine and sertraline.

sold to us as a cure for "chemical imbalance", this myth manufactured by drug companies in the late 1980's to sell SSRI's to the unsuspecting public. there is no such thing as "chemical imbalance",

PSSD - post ssri sexual disfunction

In some unpublished phase 1 trials of the drugs, more than 50% of healthy volunteers developed severe sexual problems. they kept it quiet

It has taken over 30 years for drug companies to accept that SSRI's cause sexual disfunction and has finally been included in the DSM5 as PSSD, post ssri sexual disfunction.

I am nearly 70 years old. a retired psychotherapist. I should therefore know more than the average person about Psychotropic Medications.

I have taken Psychedelics for 50 years of my life and MDMA for nearly 20 years.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-06-29 20:04:47+00:00
If a person has a bad habit of needing to drink a bottle of beer and drive to work every day, would you call that an addiction or just a bad habit? I would call the drinking an addiction but the drinking-and-driving a bad habit.

Caffeine is a good example you mentioned, it is in fact addictive. It forms a chemical dependency similar to nicotine. Not all addictions are harmful and not all bad habits are addictions. The 'dependency' is what qualifies the habit as an addiction, in other words, you can't function or function well without the habit.
by jjk166 | 2025-06-29 20:04:52+00:00
> The ideas not being worked on now are “worse” ideas than the ones being worked on, at least by the priorities the company is using.

That's hardly true. Nearly all companies are heavily resource constrained. They have limited capital, limited manpower, and limited expertise. There are things they would love to be working on, which they know would be immensely beneficial, but just are not in a position to tackle those challenges at the moment. Even with speculative investment, you're still limited to what you can convince someone else will be successful given your current situation.

Yes there exist some massive companies who do have essentially unlimited access to capital, and they can in theory engage in any endeavor with a sufficiently high ROI, although even then in practice they don't. Projects get canned because of office politics or to make quarterly figures look good.

You go to just about any company in the world and ask just about any employee "is what you are currently working on the thing that this company needs done the most" the answer will be just about universally "No!"
by jerf | 2025-06-29 20:06:35+00:00
"I can't get over how a possible 24-bit generation didn't quite materialize in the 1980s, and find the eZ80 evokes a kind of nostalgia for an alternate history"

Well... it depends on how you look at it.

While the marketers tried to cleanly delineate generations into 8- and 16- and 32-bit eras, the reality was always messier. What exactly the "bits" were that were being measureds was not consistent. The size of a machine word in the CPU was most common, and perhaps in some sense objectively the cleanest, but the number of bits of the memory bus started to sneak in at times (like the "64 bit" Atari Jaguar with the 32-bit CPU because one particular component was 64 bits wide). In reality the progress was always more incremental and there are some 24-bit things, like, the 286 can use 24 bits to access memory, and a lot of "32 bit graphics" is really 24 bits because 8 bits for RGB gets you to 24 bits. The lack of a "24-bit generation" is arguably more about the marketing rhetoric than the lack of things that were indeed based around 24 bits in some way.

Even today our "64-bit CPUs" are a lot messier than meets the eye. As far as I know, they can't actually address 64 bits of RAM, there are some reserved higher bits, and depending on which extensions you have, modern CPUs may be able to chew on up to 512 bits at a time with a single instruction, and I could well believe someone snuck something that can chew on 1024 bits without me noticing.
by klabb3 | 2025-06-29 20:07:12+00:00
Interest rates matter, and having a global reserve currency helps capital markets that fund these things.

I would suggest 3 other forces:

- saturation: we don’t have any legacy fields left that aren’t yet digitized. If you I go from encyclopedia -> search engine or taxi -> uber you have a first mover green field market

- dominance games: VCs want scale, and scale is difficult with niche markets. Yet there are innovations there, but who cares? A new shitcoin has the potential to scale quickly, whereas startups in even energy seems to be a downer for them

- no manufacturing: long iteration cycles on anything that needs hardware. Plus, lower margins, and the Chinese will sell cheap knockoffs anyway if you’re successful, so bigger risk. Thus, more shitcoin and AI wrappers.
by BrenBarn | 2025-06-29 20:07:21+00:00
From a moral perspective I agree and that should be the long-term goal. Practically, however, the notion of national sovereignty makes it infeasible to implement a global UBI. Within the borders of a country, that country's government can do what is needed to make it work (e.g., punish scofflaws). Across international borders, that's much more difficult. We see this already in that many countries that are "poor" overall have ludicrously high levels of inequality, because a small elite controls all the flows of foreign investment, etc.

To take a simple example: within a country, if you send the UBI money to a local government for disbursement and the local mayor/governor just pockets it, he's still ultimately subject to the legal system of that country and can be jailed, etc. There's no international equivalent of this. If you send some UBI money to Poor Country X for disbursement and the local governor pockets it, there's nothing you can do except not send any more money.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-06-29 20:07:34+00:00
The improvements you describe come down to one thing: solid state drives. If we had them in the 90s, your software would've been starting up just as fast (or even faster) then. Meanwhile, once the software did start, it ran faster and with fewer resources than software does today. It's not rose colored glasses: software today truly is worse on average than software 20 years ago.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-06-29 20:07:44+00:00
If you know the extreme values, the shape of the distribution ["normal"], and the number of samples [for a competitive task, generally taken to be the entire population; not so much for e.g. quilting bees], you know the overall behavior. The extreme end of the distribution is evidence of a group-level difference, and very high-quality evidence.

Compare http://www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com/dogrun.htm :

>> How, for example, do we determine a distribution of running ability within an entire population? Can we find a representative sample of tribesmen, provide each with motivation and training, and finally measure their times for some event? Not very likely. There is, however, a way out. In Aggressiveness, Criminality and Sex Drive by Race, Gender and Ethnicity, we introduced the method of thresholds. It applies nicely to this problem. The proportion of each tribe meeting or exceeding some threshold of performance is the only input it requires. When all is said and done, the precise definition of "ability" will still be fuzzy, a characteristic of the method of thresholds. That aside, we will have established running ability distributions in tribes relative to one another.

>> Some of the data we need are available from chroniclers of track and field. All-time-best lists are particularly useful. For a given event, such a list might contain 100, 500, 1500 or any number of the best times ever run. The slowest time on a list serves as the threshold of performance required by the method of thresholds.

> If you did try to work with a random sample wouldn't you mainly find that almost all people of both sexes can't run an ultra marathon?

No, you'd find that people managed to go different distances before failing. You would have to be intentionally avoiding the result you expected to find to binarize your outcome data like that. The data you're appealing to right now isn't binarized.

> But in making comparative statements even about people who choose to participate in such races, I think a critical distinction made in that article is that there's a difference between "E(Pace_W) < E(Pace_M)" vs "Min(TotalTime_W) <? Min(TotalTime_M)".

The article itself provides the explanation: there are very, very few women running. What lesson do you feel we should draw? To me it looks like the lesson is "men are a lot more interested in distance running than women are".
by HaZeust | 2025-06-29 20:07:45+00:00
I also implore you to research everything on that list and its origin or credit for widespread use, starting with the one you critiqued:

"The ice cream float was invented by Robert M. Green in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1874 during the Franklin Institute's semicentennial celebration. The traditional story is that, on a particularly hot day, Green ran out of ice for the flavored drinks he was selling and instead used vanilla ice cream from a neighboring vendor, inventing a new drink.[3]"

Best of luck to you!
by FollowingTheDao | 2025-06-29 20:07:47+00:00
> homelessness, drug use, and lack of sleep very much can trigger psychotic episodes.

Yes, I don’t understand your disagreement, that’s the point I was making. That for some of us these things will cause schizophrenia for others. Maybe some other illness like lupus. The problem isn’t the gene. The problem is the environment. If you’re not homeless, don’t use drugs and get good sleep And you don’t get schizophrenia, an we say schizophrenia is a disease? Or is it a symptom of environment that is not fitting for the individual?

And in fact, schizophrenia is not a disease, it’s classified as a disorder.
by stego-tech | 2025-06-29 20:07:52+00:00
The cold comfort for folks displaced by AI at major employers is that there’s still a glut of smaller ones that don’t use AI (either due to affordability, politics, or AI just can’t do what humans can). The issue with LLMs as the current AI-du-jour is that while they might replace the copy-pasters at Big Tech companies, these same companies are also assuming that AI is desired or usable in every other company or organization as well - which it’s not.

Once you deviate away from Big Tech stuff, their products just don’t integrate with the rest of the market very well. Manufacturing concerns might still be migrating to IPv4 and Ethernet PLCs, small businesses might not have the budget for AI Agent creation and retraining, and medium enterprises might be too bespoke to use AI effectively. That doesn't even touch the glut of companies who still do work on paper, not digitally, and who still need assistance with their digital transformation.

They’re calculating that their toys can eventually replace 80% of workers, and man they’re wrong.
by vintermann | 2025-06-29 20:08:11+00:00
Questions of self-identity aren't scientific questions. Science, or experience more generally, can't tell you who you are, or indeed, even tell you if there's one of "you" in your head or many. If you assert that you are not the same person you were five seconds ago, that's a scientifically unassailable claim - as well as impossible to prove to others.

So no answer to the question "who am I" is strictly speaking true or false, in an objective sense. But that doesn't mean all self-interpretations are equally good. Some self-interpretations can be very destructive. It doesn't take much imagination, or reading history books, to see how defining yourself to be multiple persons/personalities can be very destructive.
by apwell23 | 2025-06-29 20:09:18+00:00
> your morally based personal conception of "fraud" isn't relevant to what actual practise is

lying on your visa application is visa fraud. Its not that complicated. It has nothing to do with "this administration". social media account info has been on those forms for a long time.

Can you pls educate yourself a little bit instead of some nonsensical ranting. bye!
by notepad0x90 | 2025-06-29 20:09:19+00:00
In your example, I agree with you, they do have an addiction. It does not contradict with what I said. The person not needing to stop and their inability to stop if they tried are two different things. Heroin does form a chemical dependency, where it could even be life threatening to quite cold-turkey, and therefore it is addictive.

Unlike mental illness, addiction is defined by formation of a dependency. sometimes that dependency is at the biological/chemical level, sometimes it is a psychological dependency (can be caused by mental illness), not nevertheless a dependency must exist that prohibits the addict from functioning without the cause of the addiction. Bad habits can cause adverse impacts just as addictions can, and addictions (like coffee - which forms an actual biological rewiring/dependency, people get severe migraines when trying to quit it) can be harmless unless you're trying to quit.