MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vel0city | 2025-06-30 17:04:13+00:00
> most modern hybrids use the ICE at higher speeds for efficiency, right? What does that mean in terms of added complexity and reliability?

It really depends on the type of hybrid in question. Those are series, series-parallel, or parallel. Some hybrids essentially just use an electric motor to assist in a traditional ICE-like drivetrain (parallel). This is the kind of setup you'll see in something like the Ford Explorer Hybrid or most of Honda's hybrid systems. In these cases, the electric motor just sits in the regular ICE drive train and supplies additional power especially in low efficiency ranges along with regenerative braking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Motor_Assist

In an e-CVT setup (series-parallel) like what you would find in a Ford Escape Hybrid or most Toyotas using a Toyota Hybrid System or Hybrid Synergy Drive, the overall mechanical complexity of the system is considerably less.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_Synergy_Drive
by hnuser123456 | 2025-06-30 17:04:55+00:00
Sure, but if someone finds themselves feeling incredibly defeated by the thought, then how can we call it productive philosophy? I went too far down this rabbit hole about 8 years ago, and built up a strong mindset of all the things I wanted to be that I couldn't because I wasn't born in the right circumstances. Much better to feel like I can absolutely be those things at least in spirit, and maybe talk to other people about it and find people who are willing to see the unexpected parts of me.

Yes, we have enough accurate theories now that we can predict parts of the future with incredible accuracy in ways that weren't possible 100+ years ago, but we don't have a bulletproof theory of everything, much less a bulletproof theory of everything about humans.

Championing superdeterminism is like being the smart alec who says they can predict anything if you give them enough initial context. Sure, now go make risky investments that will only go up.

The Heisenberg uncertainty principle itself shows that it is not worth fretting too much about superdeterminism.

We will never be able to replace every theory that uses probabilities with ones that don't.
by snapplebobapple | 2025-06-30 17:05:37+00:00
Its an ideology beyond a base level that is justified by reasonable cost benefit analysis. For example i am very much against the buzz sawing currently going on but i also see the mass overproduction of phds and replication crisis quality research going on in sections of academia and am very much for drastically cutting thise fields. I would want a bunch of analysis done and then very careful scaling back over several years not what is happening
by alganet | 2025-06-30 17:05:49+00:00
Lots of things were said about AI. I could take this sort of discussion to any subject I want.

The article tries to put these personalities into a "master manipulator" figure. It doesn't matter if 99% of the text actually _criticizes_ these personalities.

What matters is the takeaway a typical reader would get from reading it. It's in the lines of "they're not tech geniuses, they're manipulators".

This takeaway is carefully designed to cater to selected audiences (well, the author claims to be a media trainer, so fair game, I guess).

I think the intent is to actually _promote_ these personalities. I know it sounds contradictory, but as I said, it gives them too much credit for "being good manipulators".

Which audiences are catered to and how they are expected to react is an exercise I'll leave for the reader.

That's a general overview of what this article does. Nothing related to actual claims.
by mpnsk1 | 2025-06-30 17:05:51+00:00
It is more like a feeling.

For example when you get very aroused your pupils dilate. Your brain fixes this for you so you don't feel like more light is hitting your retina even though it does. When you are high on psychedelics you can experience this though as the world getting literally brighter and darker with your mood. Feels like you are shaping reality with your feelings? As soon as the drugs wear off the effect is gone but you still have the memory that it happened.

Weirdly enough, the same way dreams can feel more like an episodic story or more like an immediate experience, that unfiltered dreamlike experience feels more real than the rest of the trip. Maybe because it literally is closer to reality because it was less bring-filtered, or maybe because the contrast between this and the hallucinations of wallpaper shifting before your eyes put the search for "real reality" into your head in the first place, now the concept of more or less reality is in your brain as an experiential concept. Now you have the memory of having struggled for real perception and achieving it.

Like in inception: you fell into a dream, you are trapped for longer than you anticipated and don't like it and want to wake up. Weeks later when you have a deja vu it triggers the uncomfortable feeling that your mind is playing tricks on you. Are you dreaming now?

Though this is not schizophrenic. From what I was told from someone who had schizophrenic episodes it makes you completely unable to tell apart illusions from reality.

Also I guess there are degrees to it.
by jeffbee | 2025-06-30 17:06:06+00:00
I am not taking Google's result at face value, but the article shouldn't make assumptions without supporting evidence, either. ASHRAE used to say your datacenter should be 20º-25º which you know makes a certain amount of sense when it comes from an organization earning its money from installing and repairing CRACs. Now they admit that 18º-27º is common and they allow for up to 45º ambient designs. They are following the industry up.
by tpmoney | 2025-06-30 17:06:07+00:00
Assuming it wasn’t just following up in case you really did need some help now, probably a “loss prevention” technique. Retail folks are almost never going to accuse someone of stealing and “following around a hovering” behavior is discouraged. Instead the recommendation is to keep an eye on someone you suspect to be shady and just swing by every couple of minutes to “check on them”. Even if you can’t see what they’re doing every moment, the constant reminders that you know they’re there and that you might see them is often enough to discourage theft.

Works reasonably well. When I worked retail we had a person whose MO was to come into the store, browse the expensive headphones, take one off the shelf and put it down on the floor with their book bag while they looked at something else. After about 10 or 15 minutes they’d pick up the book bag and sweep the headphones inside as they were standing up and then walk out the door. If you stopped by while they were looking at the other thing and asked them if they needed any help with finding some accessories for the headphones or just offering to “hold it at the register” for them, they would wind up putting them back (or handing them to you and tell you they changed their mind) and leaving.
by bitwize | 2025-06-30 17:06:27+00:00
This is something I did a few months ago, with Xwayland on top of Weston running in kiosk mode.

It was kind of a pain in the ass -- Xorg with extra steps. (Xwayland is a build of Xorg with a Wayland DDX.) I'd much rather just use Xorg with the modesetting driver.

This project only exists so that the author -- who has significant pull within the Alpine project -- can "get ahead of" Xlibre, adoption of which is considered a violation of the Alpine code of conduct.
by trod1234 | 2025-06-30 17:07:07+00:00
Wouldn't we be just in the first phase of the long-term effects of the removal of copyright restrictions?

The second phase being copyright claimed on the model itself, and its derivative works thus further expanding copyright paradoxically to things which couldn't be before the blackbox, and only allowing use by those who own the models?

Initially things are always rosy, then they are reduced to make profit and create moats.
by szszrk | 2025-06-30 17:07:32+00:00
They are (Internet Security Research Group) a non-profit, so maybe it would be hard to provide official services like you describe?

I still can't find proper data on their financials, but at least below report (page 42) says only 10% of their revenue is donations. And 48% out of total spending is LE.

https://www.isrg.org/documents/2024-ISRG-Annual-Report.pdf
by ninetyninenine | 2025-06-30 17:08:05+00:00
Never held water for me. There's no evidence that gay uncles expend the majority of their time raising the offspring of others in the family.

In fact the gay uncle is behaviorally driven to do things that are evolutionarily detrimental. Like spending time mating, flirting and being with other gay men. I don't really see gay men abandoning all of that to care for a nephew or something like that.

Take Sam Altman for example. He's not spending time caring for other kids in his immediately family. He's sinking time into getting rich from openAI and snogging his current partner.

The gay uncle gives about as much of a shit about nephews in the family as the straight uncle which is virtually for all intents and purposes: zilch.
by ceejayoz | 2025-06-30 17:08:08+00:00
> The reality is that our companies will still be able to hire scientists from foreign universities.

If we let them in.

https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/20...

"Under President Trump’s leadership, the U.S. State Department will work with the Department of Homeland Security to aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields. We will also revise visa criteria to enhance scrutiny of all future visa applications from the People’s Republic of China and Hong Kong."

Or we might arrest them when they come.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/science/russian-scientist...

"Ms. Petrova was detained on Feb. 16, when she returned from a vacation in France carrying samples of frog embryos from an affiliate laboratory in Paris at the request of her supervisor at Harvard. She then spent more than three months in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center, eventually drawing attention from scientists around the world. Her defenders have condemned the government’s pursuit of her as draconian, conveying a chilling message to noncitizen academics."

As a result, they're already nopeing out.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01636-5

"Several academic and scientific conferences in the United States have been postponed, cancelled or moved elsewhere, as organizers respond to researchers’ growing fears over the country’s immigration crackdown."
by georgeecollins | 2025-06-30 17:09:05+00:00
I think there are credible arguments about investing less in education and research. At a really basic level, imagine if you are a retired couple in a small town. You pay a lot of taxes that goes to support a school you don't have any kids at and a university you didn't go to. That's something like the state of the world for a lot of voters in parts of the United States-- aging / dying rural towns and exurbs. When the greater good is the extreme wealth of coastal cities (and I think it is!) you can see there lots of places that really don't want to pay for it.

Another good argument against our subsidy of education (although maybe not against research) is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_Against_Education

I don't really agree, and I am surprised there are people here who would argue against funding research.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-06-30 17:09:16+00:00
The Gus Fring / Malcom X approach of unmovable tranquility in spite of intentional slights and unintentional mixed signals induces far more fear with respect. While the boor is a drain to all in the moment, beware the wrath and fury of the patient.

PS: If this was Hertz, Steve Lehto has turned it into a running meme joke.
by bbor | 2025-06-30 17:09:35+00:00
> promoted by one side while they were in power

Presumably this is in reference to the years 1993-1995, 2009-2011, and 2021-2023...? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divided_government_in_the_Unit...

> recently in some places it has been blatantly about ideologies

I agree if we use the word "ideology" in an absolute, philosophical sense, but I think this it's missing the authors point entirely. To illustrate with a more familiar term: basically every part of social life is technically political, but when people say 'this isn't about politics', they're trying to communicate that it doesn't relate to the actively-debated divisions of the day among elected officials. US prosperity is something that no side will own up to opposing, and yet here we are, dismantling our soft power in the academic sphere and beyond at a breakneck pace.
by msgodel | 2025-06-30 17:09:44+00:00
Unless you want to do the "well actually GNU/Linux" thing Android is sufficiently different from most Linux OSes that it doesn't make sense to refer to them as the same. For the longest time the Android Linux kernel actually had a distinct set of grpahics APIs from the mainline Linux kernel. Those have been merged back together and Android runs on the kernel.org kernel now (apparently Google is requiring this for new devices which is very nice, almost nice enough to convince me to buy a phone again.)

When people say "Linux" they mean something that can run Bash and GCC in a VTE potentially (though not necessarily) with GTK or QT widgets and can be configured with ansible/Makefiles/RPM/bespoke scripts from vim.
by WorldMaker | 2025-06-30 17:09:57+00:00
60%? Certainly not.

Agriculture, total, is 10% of current US estimated greenhouse gas emission: https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...

Of that 10%, a lot of that is livestock, I've heard as high as 75-90%, but vegetable agriculture is still a part of that 10%, too.

But assuming all of that was livestock, it's still only 10%.

One of the reasons for the emphasis on "go vegan" as an individual choice is that the current industrial approach to cattle (cows for milk and beef) produces more methane than carbon and in some scenarios methane will have a 10x/100x impact on outcomes (making them much, much worse) per volume than carbon. But you can't just rely on eliminating methane production to "solve" climate change, because atmospheric carbon still "sets the tone", the question of atmospheric methane is how bad the "runaway" effects get after carbon has done more than enough damage on its own.
by WildGreenLeave | 2025-06-30 17:10:20+00:00
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by x0x0 | 2025-06-30 17:10:30+00:00
Our trade policy being determined by a coked-up narcissistic child that tantrums and creates a tariff anytime he hasn't been mentioned on the tv for too long or his buddies want to frontrun the market on the pullback and steal some money is not helping.

How confident do you feel about our economic policy? Even if your company isn't directly involved in international trade, there's a good chance your customers are. My customers are putting off non-essential software.
by eviks | 2025-06-30 17:10:35+00:00
> Before we go any further, let me be clear: this isn’t about sides or ideologies. Support for education and research should be as fundamental as clean air or safe roads.

That's pretty naive. The latter is not immune to ideology, and even if it were, you can't have an ideology-free way of setting both the total amount and the split between sciences/topics within.

The vision at the top of the ivory tower shouldn't be this clouded.
by carlosjobim | 2025-06-30 17:10:45+00:00
> A display that's better outdoors and worse indoors is never going to take off.

That's not what I'm suggesting. We already have those displays. What I'm saying is that once they have the technology to make a great outdoors display without too many compromises on the other parts, then they have an entirely new category of device to replace the old, and to sell hundreds of millions of units.

> Approximately nobody wants to carry two phones just so that they can see the screen a little better while they're waiting for the bus.

You're arguing like you live a limited life, which I'm sure is not the case, you're just arguing in that way in the quote above. People want to be outdoors much more than just to wait for the bus. And approximately 100% of the people who work with computers would prefer to do it in a well-lit environment. Offices and living rooms are currently constructed to shield from light, to let people see their computer or TV screens better.

Not to forget the people who actually work outdoors and need to check blueprints, take orders, or whatever. Bring your laptop to the park on a sunny day and try to use it. It won't be pleasant for your eyes even in the shadow.

> see the screen a little better

It's not a little, it's a lot. Try comparing your phone screen out in the sun with a sheet of paper with something written or printed. The paper is much brighter.

> Current screens are good enough for outdoor use, even if not great.

They are absolutely awful, and you need to compare in real life with better screens or paper to get a feel for it.

This is why I originally wrote that Apple is the right company to bring this kind of technology to the masses. They understand that the general public will buy products that are great to use, not products which are capable of being used if the user suffers all the time.
by iryndin | 2025-06-30 17:10:49+00:00
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by elcritch | 2025-06-30 17:11:52+00:00
It’s not fear mongering if fluoride actually does have negative effects. Well AMA just published a meta-analysis this year linking high fluoride level in drinking water to neurotoxicity in children and lower IQ.

While there’s insufficient data to say it’s neurotoxic at the recommended levels it doesn’t seem unlikely. Rather it should be required to be proven safe first.

https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/research/assessments/noncancer/com...

> The NTP monograph concluded, with moderate confidence, that higher levels of fluoride exposure, such as drinking water containing more than 1.5 milligrams of fluoride per liter, are associated with lower IQ in children. The NTP review was designed to evaluate total fluoride exposure from all sources and was not designed to evaluate the health effects of fluoridated drinking water alone. It is important to note that there were insufficient data to determine if the low fluoride level of 0.7 mg/L currently recommended for U.S. community water supplies has a negative effect on children’s IQ.
by keeganpoppen | 2025-06-30 17:12:05+00:00
this is actually quite brilliant. and articulates the value and utility of subjective forecasting-- something i too find somewhat underrated-- extremely clearly and convincingly. and same goes for the biases we have toward reducing things to a mathematical model and then treating that model as more "credible" despite there being (1) an infinite universe of possible models, so you can use them to "say" whatever you want anyway and (2) it complects the thing being modeled with some mathematical phenomenon, which is not always a profitable approach.

the scribble method is, of course, quite sensitive to the number of hypotheses you choose to consider, as it effectively considers them all to be of equal probability, but it also surfaces a lot of interesting interactions between different hypotheses that have nothing to do with each other, but still have effectively the "same" prediction at various points in time. and i don't see any reason that you can't just be thoughtful about what "shapes" you choose to include and in what quantity-- basically like a meta-subjective model of which models are most likely or something haha. that said, there's also some value in the low-res aspect of just drawing the line-- you can articulate exactly what path you are thinking without having to pin that thinking to some model that doesn't actually add anything to the prediction other than fitting the same shape as what is in your mind.
by BearOso | 2025-06-30 17:12:14+00:00
There's actually some issues with clock drift, and speculation whether or not original units had an accurate crystal or varied significantly in timing. The only way to figure that out is to go back and ask the designers what the original spec was, and who knows if they remember. So they're not really time-perfect, because the clock speeds can vary as much as a half-percent.
by chupasaurus | 2025-06-30 17:12:38+00:00
> Debian starting to get second-hand packaging that goes to Ubuntu first, etc., even accidentally.

A notorious number of maintaining teams are the same for both distros and there hasn't been a problem I could think of.

> And takes some of the edge off of Ubuntu getting so much mileage out of Debian effort

And if you look on those teams' Debian QA pages you'll see that Sid isn't the upstream, this "mileage" has worked both ways for many years, for example Plasma 5 and 6 updates started in Unstable after they were deployed and ate most of the bugs in Ubuntu.

> I'll still continue to be all about Debian Stable

Which is the reason you probably don't know about the above since all of that work is to get updates into Testing.
by fillskills | 2025-06-30 17:13:16+00:00
A TV-TV video calling system (raspberry PI + off shelf camera and mic). Idea is have a more immersive experience where you can talk to entire family instead of just a persons face (or parts of face in the hands of my parents or kid). Next stage is to add games to the calls. Have some games already prototyped with good feedback from kids.

Still thinking of how, what and when to open source.
by bilbo0s | 2025-06-30 17:13:28+00:00
Mmmmm... ok. You got me there.

But to be fair, that's a different problem.

And even if we in the US want to institute policies rooted in various ideologies of superiority, (most of which border on imbecillia)..

humanity in the rest of the world would still push forward the boundaries of science. That was my material point.

But yeah, you make a point that really does kind of demolish my assertion that we would benefit from that global effort.
by searine | 2025-06-30 17:13:37+00:00
>Meanwhile, the local NVIDIA office operates out of a building that looks decidedly unremarkable, even shabby by comparison.

And where do those NVIDIA employees live? In a van down by the river? Dorms are residential and need amenities, much like the pools and three car garages of those NVIDIA employees.

Even then, plenty of universities have old, decaying, buildings and run-down labs. I could just as easily point to the other bespoke and "remarkably luxurious-architecturally grand, stylish, and visibly well-funded" NVIDIA buildings. It seems like you have a grudge and any show of spending for a university is reason to criticize it.

I'm all for reform, but this vengeful callous destruction of science is not reform. It is revenge.
by chipsrafferty | 2025-06-30 17:13:37+00:00
Even focusing on short term profit would be fine, if you want to blow up the business go ahead, if those profits were actually shared fairly with shareholders. Too often companies can just dilute their stock over and over, which fucks over individual investors and benefits the 51% owners, and investors don't really get a say, yes there's a vote but if 51% is owned by a few it's not a vote.

Individual investors are largely operating on trust.