MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by voidhorse | 2025-06-29 17:28:40+00:00
lol. Like many of Scott Alexander's essays, this is bad argumentation in nice window dressing, as well as a slight apologia for racism.

There are so many problems with this essay that it's hard to know where to begin, but two major ones are that (1) his reading comprehension sucks, (2) the major flaw in his line of argument is merely hand waved away—it relies on a fundamental premise that mobility of people in the south was zero after the civil war and that the civil war destroying an entire industry would have had zero effect (this is the part he hand waves away at the end of the article after making his idiotic apology for continued racism based on one solitary citation) As usual, it's an article making people unschooled in the actual practice of rigorous academic research to buy into bad ideas .

Anyway, that's all beside the point. A specific article countering a single claim against reparations has basically very little to do with the topic at hand unless you can prove the very specific set of dynamics that is analyzed in that case (a) applies globally, and (b) still applies today.

This style of argument is equivalent to saying "look i found one rock that was purple so all rocks must be purple". It has basically no relevance as far as I'm concerned.
by heavyset_go | 2025-06-29 17:29:02+00:00
Unfortunately, this is just statistics. There are cases that lie outside of that age range. I know of two cases, personally.

Things like stress, drugs, childbirth, significant life changes, etc can trigger psychosis and latent schizophrenia at any age, it's just statistically more likely to happen during adolescence and the period right after.

Another way to look at this is that adolescence is when someone experiences new stresses, significant life changes, drug experimentation, etc, which can be triggers for schizophrenia especially during age-correlated prodromal phases.
by jeppebemad | 2025-06-29 17:29:24+00:00
Unless you have a zero screen policy with your kids - which I can definitely recommend - the trick is to give them incredibly small doses and being consistent with it. My son is 6 and he is perfectly happy with 30 minutes once a week when his younger brother is taking his nap.

We tell him it’s not good for him, which is why we limit it. He occasionally complaints, but most of the time he is looking forward to the 30 mins, and will close the iPad on his own when the timer ends. Consistency is key.

Second advice is to not give them authority over what to watch. No YouTube. Spend some time curating what will be acceptable. In the first few years (we started allowing it when he was 3) they will watch anything. Just stay of the dopamine stuff!

It helps that we never have the tv on when they are awake. Break your own bad habits first - but that’s general parenting advice…

Good luck to us all!
by aisenik | 2025-06-29 17:29:34+00:00
I'm as prone to it as the next tech-influenced millennial, but we really need to consider the legibility of deadpan sarcastic mockery in an environment where people are inclined to sincerely hold outrageous beliefs.

Credulity is boundless, even (especially) in this world of open information warfare. Messages that require side-channels and discrimination with intentionally limited information are guaranteed to be misperceived and likely to have harmful memetic impact.
by superkuh | 2025-06-29 17:30:22+00:00
Yeah. I personally self-host my videos that I send to people on IRC/email/etc. Easy solution if you don't like what a free corporate service is doing. It would be nice if Alphabet's Google's Youtube also offered an option to disable it for one's own account's videos.

But I will never agree that auto-translations are a bad thing. They open the world up beyond language barriers. And that's good. Just because "AI" is involved does not make it bad, even if you're sick of it being shoved down your throat in contexts like Tik-Instagram-whatever.
by markhahn | 2025-06-29 17:31:03+00:00
from a strict ML perspective, stacking, chiplets, multi-reticle are not going to help.

that is, ML is about periodic shrinks producing squared improvements to device density at iso-area, and thus costs. if you have to change equipment, ML (in this narrow sense) is out the window. if you have to spend linear resources to stack die or chiplets, that's also not ML-compatible (because linear, not 1/(shrink^2))

vertical flash is interesting because it appears to scale surprisingly well - that is, extra layers don't seem to exponentially degrade yield. I'm not sure any of that applies to logic, though.
by osigurdson | 2025-06-29 17:31:24+00:00
Thanks for the names that you provided. I'd say these are examples of people that had some success and then pivoted to become session / touring musicians for other (very famous) bands (though one is a Grammy award winner in their own right). I suppose it is possible that there will be fewer people like that in the future. I guess we will see.

Perhaps the artist in the article could similarly pivot. At least, that seems to be the main way to stay in the industry if you are unable (for whatever reason) to attain commercial success.
by angadh | 2025-06-29 17:31:30+00:00
Thanks for the thorough comment—yes, the heat pipes etc haven’t been accounted for. Might be a future addition but the idea was to look at some key large parts and see where that takes us in terms of launch. The pipes would definitely skew the business case further. Similarly, the analysis is missing trusses.

Don’t even get me started on the costs of maintenance. I am sweating bricks just thinking of the mission architecture for assembly and how the robotic system might actually look. Unless there’s a single 4 km long deployable array (of what width?), which would be ridiculous to imagine.
by nyrikki | 2025-06-29 17:32:03+00:00
The problem goes way back to the IPng days. With the project being designed by a committee who would choose random hills to die on, wasn't adaptive to new needs and used sticks more than carrots.

Some of those have been changed but typically after trying to implement it broke so many things that people just quit trying.

Some were well intended like the 'no NAT' in the days of FTP and before reverse proxies etc.

Others were intentional pain points to for adoption like when resolvers were not permitted to return A and forced to return AAAA records even when you ISP didn't support IPv6 etc...

Mix in problems like the max prefix size being too large for scanning a local network space to be practical etc... and people have been trained for decades that the pain is worse than any benefits.

Yes, today it isn't hard on small home networks where IPX will an IP gateway would also work fine, but things break as things get more complex.

Somewhere someone probably has a copy of the mail lists where I pointed out in around ~1996 that forcing globally unique IPs was a leaky abstraction and that there was more nuances and tradeoffs that needed to be considered.

It was obvious to me because I was stuck on a Altavisa firewall, but I was roasted.

On the IPv4 side, user needs were addressed through CIDR, carrier grade NAT, FTP passive connections etc...

I still tried to move companies to IPv6 a few more times and was bitten ever time.

Almost every time it was due to arbitrary global decisions, when they should have been focused on maintaining good will and making adoption as easy as possible.

The effort depended on a collition of the willing, and just changing 'must' to 'should' in key RFCs would have dramatically improved the chances of adoption.

I am actually glad you have an ISP that allows you to even do this, mine still does not.
by giantg2 | 2025-06-29 17:32:13+00:00
Looks like about 3/4 of musicians are part time. The average salary of $57k for the full time workers is about $1k over the minimum to be considered middle class. And the unemployment rate is about 18%.

There's no doubt that there are some middle class and higher earners. It seems that most are part time, don't make much and face higher unemployment than many other sectors. Sector growth is alaso very slow. There's a reason that most people's parents don't push them to pursue music careers unless it's as a teacher or if they're exceptional. Same thing for sports - you can make decent money as a college coach or gym teacher, but the proportion of people who play sports that go on to do anything professionally with it is extraordinary small. It's all supply and demand.
by dloranc | 2025-06-29 17:34:17+00:00
Maybe Scott isn't at the forefront of the research by some standards, but I still consider him a prominent figure in the field. Independence of ZFC, Busy Baver Frontier paper, "Who Can Name the Bigger Number?" essay. He did a lot to popularise the topic and posed some interesting ideas or conjectures (Beeping Busy Beavers for example).
by alsetmusic | 2025-06-29 17:34:55+00:00
In a discussion about the outstandingly high cost of concert tickets, I had a breakthrough moment just on Friday (today is Sunday where I am). Artists no longer make a living selling recorded music because of streaming platforms. They now make their living performing, hence exceedingly expensive concert tickets.

I used to go to shows that cost $30-80. Now they are hundreds and the biggest artists may cost >$1k. I'm lucky that I make a good living, cause I wouldn't be able to go to most shows otherwise.
by heavyset_go | 2025-06-29 17:35:47+00:00
I just want to point out that psychosis and schizophrenia tend to get worse over time, so while you might have a handle on it now, without treatment you might not in the future. They also have much better prognoses with treatment, even complete remission.

I've watched several people go from having a grip on reality, thinking they don't need treatment, to absolutely losing their minds. It's tragic and I hate to see it happen.

Point is moments of lucidity should be seized upon, I say this as someone who briefly experienced psychosis after extreme sleep deprivation. It was fucking terrifying and I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
by consumer451 | 2025-06-29 17:36:04+00:00
> People are tired of not having a voice and just being censored left and right by liberal keyboard warriors

You are free to speak your mind! If it's not fit for this forum, for whatever reason, please email me at username @ gmail. However, I am sure you could provide us at least some hint about the speech that is being censored by the evil liberals, right?

If you chose not to disclose your censored speech, please tell me your policy positions. So far, you have mentioned one that probably everyone agrees with 100%, illegal immigration is bad. However, how do you propose to solve the issue? Masked men coming to courts and schools, like in the USA in 2025, or something different?

Next one please, let's get specific.

1. How exactly do you propose to solve the issues in your previously stated problems, for example, wealth inequality?

2. Which political party in the EU country of your choice has a real policy to address that as part of their platform?
by philjohn | 2025-06-29 17:36:06+00:00
Ah, the music industry.

I know of one songwriter with multiple number 1 hits that was with a large american label for a while ... then moved to another, and the original label kept collecting the royalties when they were no longer contractually allowed to.

Their answer: "So sue us, it'll cost more than you'll get, we can drag this on for years, and you can't get costs awarded, so if we were you we'd just eat the L".
by nexuist | 2025-06-29 17:36:06+00:00
This is a legacy design decision all the way back to iOS 1 before notifications existed. SMS messages used to be delivered through the same modal system. I believe the Apple ID and update messages are now banner notifications, and the battery alert gives you an easy way to turn on Low Power Mode, although I agree there should be a way to make that a banner notif as well.
by kebokyo | 2025-06-29 17:36:12+00:00
I’m surprised by how much this article reads like an opinion piece even though it isn’t.

As generative AI becomes harder to ignore, broader in scope, and even more dominant as a business trend… the people whose jobs are to write about how generative AI affects our lives have just had enough. They’re smart enough to see the writing on the wall, and now they’re trying desperately to transfer that writing onto their pages.
by vinceguidry | 2025-06-29 17:36:13+00:00
The limiting factor to Chinese soft power development is its need to remain authoritarian. Folks will accept living under one if that's all they know. But if you didn't grow up with the brainwashing nobody will trust you and everything is transactional. You see Chinese attempts to exert political control over its diaspora and it never works as well as they would like.

Where the West's soft power essentially comes from in is in being the alternative to authoritarianism and it really doesn't have to be any more than that. The West will operate its own authoritarian regimes, like Puerto Rico, and Hawaii before it became a state, and the Phillipines, and these folks are perhaps the most oppressed of all. The West knows authoritarianism extremely well and is far better at the carrot / stick game of manipulating people.

When your carrots consist of patently self-serving deals to other autocrats at the expense of the public, the public eventually gets wise and puts pressure on the autocrat. The West can offer much more lucrative arrangements for all around, like that of building Taiwan's semiconductor industry. It's become a source of national pride for them and has created middle classes, a necessity for a modern political system.
by adrian_b | 2025-06-29 17:36:51+00:00
The choice between magnetic tapes and disks depends mainly on the total amount of archived data.

Some years ago, after I bought a LTO-7 drive at around $3000 as a home user, I have recovered its costs after about a couple hundred terabyte of stored data.

Unfortunately, nowadays the drives for LTO-9 have increased in price, so the cutoff threshold has probably increased to several hundred terabytes.

Even when the amount of stored data does not provide significant savings in the cost of storage media, it may still be worthwhile to use magnetic tapes, for improved peace of mind and for avoiding the hassle of copying the data to newer HDDs every few years.

I am old enough to have seen enough data loss disasters, so I would never trust cloud storage, where the access to my own data would be dependent on my ability of making continuous payments to an external entity, which is really hard to predict for any distant future. Moreover, even with a fast Internet link the access speed to cloud storage is an order of magnitude slower than to a local tape drive or HDD.
by harmmonica | 2025-06-29 17:37:36+00:00
I feel like this is one of the fundamental issues with US taxation today and this overall issue of wealth inequality. People like you, high-income and likely not a lot of shelters for that income based on what you're saying, pay a lot of taxes percentage-wise and so the thought of paying another 1-2 percentage points is, for lack of a better word, sickening. I tend to think you're right about that because it feels really unfair when you're paying 40-50% tax, a lot of people pay zero, and then people who are much wealthier than you are paying 20%.

It's when you start making fabulous amounts of money, and can park it in all sorts of shelters, whether that's straightforward things like real estate or, as HN commenters point out every time this comes up, by not ever even earning income or investment gains and so you can drive your tax towards zero (by doing things like taking out loans against your assets for money to live on).

I'm not sure what the answer is, but a North Star, in my mind, would be that as you have more you pay more, a truly progressive scheme, because every additional dollar you earn (through income or investment gains, realized or unrealized), as you get richer, actually is less critical to your livelihood. Who am I to say that? I'm not talking about some nebulous concept. I'm saying that if you make $1 million dollars per year, in total, a dollar extra matters less to you than it does to someone making $100,000 so I'm purely speaking on a relative basis (cue someone saying "how do you know it matters less? That person could live in a HCOL location, or have 12 kids or..." Hopefully we can avoid that because it misses the point; those things are choices people make. How much you're taxed is not a choice for the most part though can be to some extent (move from a high-tax state to a low one, etc.).
by rchaud | 2025-06-29 17:38:39+00:00
> What Apple may be guilty of here is focusing on short term growth at the expense of the long term.

Wall St growthbros do not draw these sorts of distinctions. If the focus on short-term growth ends up tanking a company, there will simply be another company to project its growth obssession on. It could be Apple services, or Peloton bikes or Subway sandwiches, they could not care less. Those companies aren't their customers; the investment houses, short sellers, market makers and pension funds are.
by tolmasky | 2025-06-29 17:39:09+00:00
To be clear, I'd be fine with this, I just think it wouldn't catch on. It's just an awkward name, that exists for this same trademark reason, and was thus never expected to take on "marketing" duties (sort of like calling WebWorkers W3CWorkers instead).

This is of course speculation, but I think people would interpret us trying to switch to "ECMAScript" as a sort of sulky defeat "wait so we're just going to let Oracle have JavaScript and just use the soulless spec name? No way, we should fight for JavaScript!" It feels like we're "settling" for the SKU number since we lost the name (again, due to the uniquely bizarre, but understandable in context, spec name).

In other words, besides the "consistency" that WebScript offers (WebWorkers, WebGPU, etc.), the other thing it brings to the table is just being something new and different. "Hey! Let's move on from this whole debacle, here is a symbolic thing that represents a new chapter, with zero associated baggage." I am largely basing this off of the experience of "html5," which arguably addressed a similar non-technical debacle in the form of the W3C/WHATWG drama. It is surprising how effective a new name can be at putting a positive spin on things.

Again, I personally have no issue with ECMAScript, I just think the boat has sailed on getting people to switch to that, and if we switch to anything, the goal should be to make sure to get everyone onboard.
by leventhan | 2025-06-29 17:39:19+00:00
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by al_borland | 2025-06-29 17:40:22+00:00
People think they don’t care, or they tolerate it, but it still has an impact on the experience. It comes in the form of fewer glowing reviews, fewer recommendations to friends, more complaints and less forgiveness for problems. The pressure builds up over time, and then they snap.

Windows is the perfect example against the claim that Apple should be comfortable to abuse their users. Windows marketshare has been steadily dropping for the last 15 years. People are tired of the abuse, and slowly but surely leaving the platform. We now have people like PewDiePie making videos about switching to Arch Linux and self hosting, large companies offering employees a choice of Windows or Mac… things that would have sounded extremely unlikely 10+ years ago.

I’m pretty deep in the Apple ecosystem, having been in it since 2003. I could transition out of it within a week if I had to. There are some things I’d miss, for sure, but I’d live.
by tempestn | 2025-06-29 17:40:26+00:00
This is fascinating, and makes me wonder if human intelligence itself is such a cliff edge trait. For most of human history our advanced intelligence has obviously been a benefit, but now we see, as people and societies become wealthier and better educated (both correlated with intelligence), their reproduction rates drop precipitously. Perhaps we've overshot the intelligence cliff and evolution is now gradually pulling us back. (Evidence of this would be less intelligent people having more children on average than more intelligent ones.)
by aisenik | 2025-06-29 17:40:37+00:00
Lots of people still believe that "critical of the government" is not the same as "biased against the country." That's an explicitly authoritarian belief and a disastrous framework to work within. It's antithetical to the concept of human rights and notable historical documents such as the American Constitution.

The bias of a mainstream publication that's considered "traitorous" by genocidal authoritarian ethnonationalists is, given historical consideration, likely to be toward justice.
by mdaniel | 2025-06-29 17:41:04+00:00
> (i.e., take a snapshot of a configured VM and use it as a base image for future deployments)

I would advise against that if possible, since the "reset" process for an already contaminated VM is much trickier than the "build-up" process for what one would think of as a template. That's actually why `docker build` exists when `docker save` already exists. I do recognize from your other comments that my mental model may not map onto your target audience, so my comments are always "for your consideration" and not wagging my finger at your choices

If you were to choose to go with "build up," there are already so many specifications for that template construction process you could choose any one of them that you think would work well for your audience: Containerfile[1], Dockerfile, Packer, AWS Image Builder, and probably hundreds of others

1: relevant: bootc-image-builder: Build your entire OS from a Containerfile - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44367004 - June, 2025 (27 comments)
by cjbgkagh | 2025-06-29 17:41:25+00:00
hEDS, there is a very long list of comorbidities and I tick off most of them. Not guessing, runs in the family, did a WGS and found the TNXB SNPs responsible.

I tried the no-drugs and being super healthy approach for the vast majority of my life, I look like a pro-athlete, the only reason I started the meds was due to figuring out the statistical possibility of having X things wrong with me was next to impossible without a common cause, and the ME/CFS with brain fog was destroying my life.

I also tried to quit caffeine but that only resulted in very negative effects that persisted for more than 4 months after going cold turkey, that's 4 months being largely housebound and not able to work for that one experiment. I've been at this so long that if you can think of something I've probably tried it - including the healthiest of healthy lifestyles.

Just comparing within my own family most are anti-drugs and anti-medications and their health is an absolute mess. I wish living a healthy lifestyle would be sufficient, I wouldn't have to walk a tightrope of balancing meds, but I don't get that option.