MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by skeeter2020 | 2025-06-24 14:23:35+00:00
>> Social media runs rampant with a form of skepticism, but I would call that closer to paranoia than critical thinking

For my generation this was always refered to as a "healthy skepticism", but lately I've noticed many don't necessarily see this as a good trait - an example: any sort of measured, full-picture response to the impact of AI on software development.
by piokoch | 2025-06-24 14:24:18+00:00
This does not scale at all. For hobbyist with no kids, sure, spend your time turning old phone for some fancy doorbell, etc. But for normals? Who would maintain such equipment, who would be in charge of testing if the battery will not get overheated once the new device stays for longer time in place X? Who would maintain and support such devices. I don't want to service myself my media player.
by coldtea | 2025-06-24 14:24:25+00:00
>no where else do they get magic exceptions to well established law.

Except for all kinds of established laws broken by the state itself (e.g. extrajudicial deportations), or "fast and loose" startups like Uber and AirBnB, or any big enough company really.

And when they can't fit through exceptions to the law, they magically pay politicians and buy their own laws.

But god forbid people can talk freely about it. What if they don't have the right ideas about things?
by ljm | 2025-06-24 14:24:39+00:00
I never bothered configuring my prompt at all because, inside emacs, I could already see most of what I needed in the editor itself.

In fact, I only set up Starship when I started to do more pairing. It wasn’t for my benefit as much as it was for those watching my screen and checking the work, especially when operating on prod and confirming what we wanted to run. I just load up a separate terminal app for that so I don’t have to walk people through my setup.
by bipopular | 2025-06-24 14:24:59+00:00
Yeah jail for dealing but I was never a trader I’m p bad at it honestly. I used mastering ethereum to learn solidity and the EVM which was wildly outdated by the time I got out and nothing compiled so I learned Go at first and started contributing and getting onto the core team for certain projects. The money from contributions and eventually the job was too much for a person who’d never had to do a lot of illegal things to see the same so it was a little wild to me
Show HN: Kichan.ai a free Chrome extension to script any webpage
by k1rd | 2025-06-24 14:25:00+00:00
Listens to you prompt, collects context then runs the script in any webpage you want.

Chrome extension Link:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/kichan-ai-web-augme...

Twitter:

https://x.com/kichan_ai
by JKCalhoun | 2025-06-24 14:25:03+00:00
You can believe that if you like of course, but I am definitely not teaching my children that.

Renting cheaper than owning sounds like a very short-term view.

My dad explained to me the nice thing about a 30 year fixed mortgage in simple terms: 10, 20, up to 30 years later ... your "rent" is the same.

It's a simple experiment to see what a person's rent was going for 30 years ago in your community and then see what a person with a typical 30-year mortgage would have paid each month 30 years ago. Because one of those two is still paying the same monthly amount today and about to have an asset they can pass along to their kids or spouse (or cash-out if they want to retire to live in a trailer in Eloy, Arizona).
by giarc | 2025-06-24 14:25:30+00:00
I think we give these companies too much leeway. I live in Canada and there is a palpable hate on for American's following the "51st State" talk. This has led to increased patriotism and companies are cashing in. Within weeks, many retail products started to relabel and emphasize "Made In Canada". So it can be done, we shouldn't listen to them when they tell us "it's not that easy" because they've demonstrated it is easy when it means potentially more revenue.
by perihelions | 2025-06-24 14:25:45+00:00
> "Multiple EU countries have free speech written in their constituion."

That's an exceedingly low bar! We need more critical thinking than that to start a substantive discussion about comparative freedoms across political systems. A government can't just declare itself to be a free country; it's practical reality which matters.

Exhibits A, B, & C:

> "Citizens of the People's Republic of China shall enjoy freedom of speech, the press, assembly, association, procession and demonstration"

https://english.www.gov.cn/archive/laws_regulations/2014/08/... ("Constitution of the People’s Republic of China")

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_People%27...

> "In conformity with the interests of the toilers, and in order to strengthen the socialist system, the citizens of the U.S.S.R. are guaranteed by law:—(a) Freedom of speech; (b) Freedom of the Press; (c) Freedom of assembly and of holding mass meetings; (d) Freedom of street processions and demonstrations..."

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_Soviet_Socialist_Con... ("Constitution of the Soviet Union (1936)")

> "Citizens are guaranteed freedom of speech, the press, assembly, demonstration and association. The State shall guarantee the conditions for the free activities of democratic political parties and social organizations."

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Socialist_Constitution_of_the... ("Socialist Constitution of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (2023)")
by walthamstow | 2025-06-24 14:25:47+00:00
I know where Los Angeles is.

This year's tournament is all over the US, including several stadia and training bases in the north east. Only one venue is in CA. Next year has a similar layout, and in both years the final is in NJ.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/czdvllm9352o
by ben_w | 2025-06-24 14:26:02+00:00
> This is not about intelligence, it's about autonomy.

OK. Then why bring up physical autonomy in a discussion about AGI where the prior use was "autonomy" in the context of "autonomously seek information themselves"?

> Your laptop does not exhibit autonomy, it is a machine slave. It is not embodied and it does not have the ability for self-governance.

Is the AI running on my laptop, more or less of a slave, than I am a slave to the laws of physics, which determine the chemical reactions in my brain and thus my responses to caffeine, sleep deprivation, loud music, and potentially (I've not been tested) flashing lights?

And why did either of us, you and I, respond to each other's comments when they're just a pattern of light on a display (or pressure waves on your ear, if you're using TTS)?

What exactly is "self-governance"? Be precise here: I am not a sovereign, and the people who call themselves "sovereign citizens" tend to end up very surprised by courts ignoring their claims of self-governance and imprisoning or fining them anyway.

But also, re autonomy:

1. I did mention androids — those do exist, the category is broader than Musk vapourware, film props, and Brent Spiner in face paint.

2. Did Stephen Hawking have autonomy? He could get information when he requested it, but ever decreasing motor control over his body. That sounds very much like what LLMs do these days.

If he did not have autonomy, why does autonomy matter?

If he did have autonomy, specifically due to the ability to get information on request which is what LLMs do now, then what separates that specifically from what is demonstrated by LLMs accessing the internet from a web search?

If he did have autonomy, but only because of the wheelchair and carers who would take him places, then what separates that specifically from even the silly toy demonstrations where someone puts an LLM in charge of a Boston Dynamics "Spot", or even one of those tiny DIY Arduino rolling robot kits?

The answer "is alive" is not the same as "autonomous".

The answer "has feelings" leads to a long-standing philosophical problem that is not only not solved, but people don't agree on what the question is asking, and also unclear why it would matter* for any of the definitions I've heard.

The answer "free will" is, even in humans, either provably false or ill-defined to the point of meaninglessness. For example "just now I used free will to drink some coffee", but if I examine my physical state closely, I expect to find one part of my brain had formed a habit, and potentially another which had responded to a signal within my body saying "thirsty" — but such things are mechanistic (thirst in particular can be modified very easily with a variety of common substances besides water), and fMRI scans show that our brains generate decisions like these before our conscious minds report the feeling of having decided.

* at least, why it would matter on this topic; for questions where there is a moral subject who may be harmed by the answer to that question, "has feelings" is to me the primary question.
by aaronbaugher | 2025-06-24 14:26:09+00:00
A convenience store might like having the customers hanging around for 10 minutes instead of 5, but not for the 30+ minutes that the Internet tells me it takes even at a Level 3 charging station. That would probably mean spending a bunch of money to put in entertainment or a restaurant or something to keep the customers busy longer-term. That might be profitable, but not necessarily.

Maybe it'll go the other way: restaurants and theaters and the like will put in charging stations that you can hook up to while you're there as a paying customer.
by gowld | 2025-06-24 14:26:10+00:00
A way to make peace with the Reals is to understand them as "potential numbers". Every where you look, there is Real number. Everyone logical agrees about that.

But what about where you don't look? Either you take the orthodox axiomatic view that Real numbers are there too, or you take the constuctivist or finitist (or perhaps quantum mechanical?) view that nothing is there until you look, because the act of looking is the same as the act of creation.
by ryeguy_24 | 2025-06-24 14:26:20+00:00
How in the world did someone find this? The fact that things like this are found is a really an interesting revelation about the collective productivity of the humans race on the planet - all pushing the boundaries of knowledge in everything that we know. There is a scientist in the basement somewhere spending his/her whole life on researching a very small part of the world and maybe it will result in a spectacular finding. Go human race.
by diggan | 2025-06-24 14:26:50+00:00
> It looks very much like this was driven by algorithmic volatility trading of electricity spots

Yes, + less "reactive power stations" than expected was available (seems the day some unexpectedly went offline, and not enough safeguards/communication to realize this) + a switch between the French import/export that happened at the same time, leading to the overvoltage issue, which then spiraled.

As far as I read the report, there were multiple causes, not a single one like "algorithmic volatility trading of electricity spots" but a combination of the issues where one-by-one, things would have been fine but all together? Shit broke
by acedTrex | 2025-06-24 14:27:08+00:00
See when I don't have a prompt I forget to run those things and just autopilot through a lot of commands before I realize Im on the wrong branch.

For example if I have say 3 worktrees open in 3 seperate tmux tabs and are context switching between them (very common when reviewing multiple PRs from my devs) Sometimes i will get the tabs mixed up, which worktree is where etc and just autopilot a bunch of commands meant for one tree into a different one and its quite annoying to clean up.

The prompt has generally stopped me from doing that.
by FireBeyond | 2025-06-24 14:27:25+00:00
There are maintenance requirements to home ownership, absolutely. And some are not cheap.

But there is absolutely a segment on HN who will act like home ownership is nothing more than pulling out a card for the next four digit expense every month or more.

“What are you going to do when (not if) you hot water dies? And then you need a roof? Oops your house needs painting and new appliances and now the AC is gone too, what about pest control, and hopefully your sewer line doesn’t collapse? Can’t handle all that happening to you? Can you realllly afford a house then?”
by bluGill | 2025-06-24 14:27:35+00:00
Manufactures care about support for as long as they think consumers will care. If phones stop working one month after you buy them consumers would revolt. They have decided that 2 years is an acceptable number for customers - long enough that most will be willing to pay to upgrade after that long. If you are one of the "cheap" customers who want to keep your phone longer they want to force you to spend money and most customers seem to be willing to pay then so they are happy.
by lawik | 2025-06-24 14:27:37+00:00
I think this proving out the concept. A dev board costing. 150 doesn't matter for professional projects. It latters for tinkerers. What matters is unit price for desired qty.

And this has 4G/LTE (because it is a smartphone) so comparisons to base RPis are largely irrelevant.

And in industrial embedded Linux stuff there is essentially no correlation between price and performance. Most don't need performance and they aren't really cost-optimizing this bit of the production line very hard. It just needs to be certifiable, reliable and replacable.

I do hope they come down a lot in price and prove this out over many more phone variants.
by clintonc | 2025-06-24 14:27:38+00:00
Then use 1/3 instead of 1/2 for a combined length of 2/3 -- the total length of the intervals can be as small as you like. This hints at the fact that any countable subset of the real numbers is Lebesgue measure zero.

Even using 1/2, the set that remains is nonempty due to the Cantor intersection theorem. The total length of the intervals is 1, which means that the remainder has no "interior" (i.e., contains no open interval), but the converse is not true: removing intervals whose lengths sum to less than one does not mean that the remainder will contain any interval. This is the consideration that allows you to create what are called "fat Cantor sets" -- the middle thirds Cantor set has Lebesgue measure zero, but by removing smaller intervals you can get other, homeomorphic sets that have positive measure.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-06-24 14:28:12+00:00
Yep, I have never taken a loan out to buy a vehicle — even though I have always needed one to make money.

When I was working a pizza place, going to JuCo, I had a 10-speed bike for transportation. (Yeah, even in the shit Kansas winters, I was riding to JuCo along the just-plowed roads. Now get off my lawn!)
by nozzlegear | 2025-06-24 14:28:30+00:00
That's an excellent question, I don't have an answer for it. I can easily see Trump and his admin ignoring a vote to withdraw from the Iranian conflict. It's not hard to imagine him justifying it with an all-caps post on Truth Social claiming "the American people have no confidence in our Congress" or something like that. In an ideal American government, we would expect the Secretary of Defense to step in and follow congressional orders by commanding the military to withdraw – but we know that Hegseth will unequivocally side with Trump.

That would be a Constitutional crisis.

In Bob Woodward's books Rage, Peril, and War, he reported that General Mark Milley, Trump's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during his first presidency, made what he called an "oath" with the other service chiefs to prevent Trump from starting a war with Iran during his final days in office, after January 6th, 2021. Technically, the CJCS and officers are advisors only and have no actual control of the military, but Milley's plan was to exploit gaps between what's legal and what happens in reality. He knew that any major military actions had to come through him, and if he said "no," it would gum up the works even if it's not legal.

The CJCS and their officers all take an oath to the Constitution, not the president; the same is true for all officers and enlisted personnel in the military. We can only hope they'd honor that oath.
Show HN: StandBy Mode Pro, make your Android device more useful while charging
by wesjon | 2025-06-24 14:28:46+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m Wesley, an Android dev from São Paulo, Brazil. In 2023 made a commitment to launch real products and after 2 failed attempts an app that started as a simple clock turned into a huge project that I have been working on for 2 years.

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### What it does - *Auto-launches* whenever the phone is docked or charging. - Supports dozens of usecases with multiple clocks, customizations, utilities and basically infinite possibilities with 3rd party widgets. - *Duo & quad layouts* for tablets/large screens, fully resizable and rearrangeable - *Burn-in grid, sleep timer, night mode* so it can be used for a long time - *Media controls* for Spotify/YouTube Music, and about 90 other apps. Works as a remote. - And much more!

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### Tech bits - 100 % *Jetpack Compose* with MotionLayout + custom GLSL shaders. - Falls back to *DreamService* (Android’s official screensaver API) on devices that support it. - Telemetry is limited to crash/analytics events; no ad SDKs in the core experience.

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### Traction so far - Bootstrapped; launched mid-2023. - *1 M+ installs* and a *4.7 rating* (in Brazil, varies for each country) on Google Play.

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### Monetization Free tier includes core clocks & widgets; *Pro* unlocks extra features, weather and other things.

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### Why I’m posting I’d love feedback on:

1. Feature ideas, UX improvements, etc 2. Bugs, specially in different form factors.

Happy to answer anything—technical deep dives, business questions, code snippets, you name it.

Thank you!
by potato3732842 | 2025-06-24 14:29:17+00:00
I think the problem is that we left exploitation of people under the umbrella of government open and so all the demand for exploitation has sailed under that flag.

You've got the tire companies lobbying states to up the tread depth for their safety inspections. The HVAC people got refrigerant restricted so that you have to be a license holder to buy it (artificially increasing demand for their service). The plumbing trade groups have a dozen states convinced that you need a license to install a gas dryer, etc, etc.

It's all the same "screw an extra buck out of the public" industry group and cartel behavior we had a century ago, but government just has a seat at the table and gets a cut this time around.
by JohnFen | 2025-06-24 14:29:27+00:00
> the learning curve is still higher (especially for people coming from Windows)

I don't think the learning curve is higher at all. It's roughly the same as with Windows. But if you're coming from Windows, the fact that you have to mount a learning curve for the new OS can be a real friction point. When most people learned Windows, they did so over time, without pressure. If you're switching operating systems, you likely want to become competent in it very quickly. That can make it seem like the learning curve is higher when, in fact, it's just that you're trying to run up that hill faster.
by tw04 | 2025-06-24 14:30:23+00:00
Half of the country is teaching their kids to take religion literally and never question it, and that any news story that you don’t like isn’t real, simply because you disagree with it.

Handing over an iPad is the least of the issues facing a large portion of our youth and frankly they might be better off if their parents did sit them in front of it and walk away.
by Vegenoid | 2025-06-24 14:30:34+00:00
If a criminal uses violence to escape the law, then yes, violence is usually permitted against them (and they have now committed a violent crime).

Physical force is permitted against nonviolent criminals so they can be apprehended, but lethal force is usually not permitted unless the criminal has used or is about to use violence.

Yes, there are of course instances where nonviolent criminals have been killed, with that act of killing being legal under that framework. For example, if a criminal is escaping in a vehicle recklessly and putting the lives of others in danger. Or cases where enforcers are given overly broad latitude in determining what constitutes a threat of violence. Or tyrannical regimes that authorize lethal force for minor infractions.

But it is not the case that most legal systems say “a criminal can be killed if they refuse to submit to punishment, regardless of the severity of their crime”. That is a misconception. People don’t get killed for not paying fines, they get killed for trying to shoot the person that comes to take them to jail for not paying the fine.
by nhecker | 2025-06-24 14:30:38+00:00
I like to imagine that they don't jump, they _teleport_. It's fascinating to watch them blip out of existence in one spot, or one orientation, and appear in another location in the same instant. Forget what it must be like to be a bat[1], what would it be like to be a tiny jumping spider?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_It_Like_to_Be_a_Bat%3F
by thih9 | 2025-06-24 14:30:53+00:00
> DDoS sizes have continued a steady climb over the past three decades.

This is a bit misleading; according to Wikipedia[1], the first DDoS is said to have occurred less than three decades ago.

[1] "Panix, the third-oldest ISP in the world, was the target of what is thought to be the first DoS attack. On September 6, 1996, Panix was subject to a SYN flood attack, which brought down its services for several days while hardware vendors, notably Cisco, figured out a proper defense.", source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack
by barchar | 2025-06-24 14:30:54+00:00
Everyone can't be 50% more frugal than everyone else, but it's possible for "everyone else" to be something other than 3-4% (the current US savings rate).

The money to sustain a high savings rate without a collapse in wages/demand ultimately comes from the government deficit, or deflation I suppose. This can be sustained even without productive real investment, if people just want savings the money will just sit around or repay debt without bidding anything up in the economy.

> landlord who sees that you have more money, and charges you more money.

You were getting a good deal then. Can happen with "affordable" housing I suppose.
by alargemoose | 2025-06-24 14:31:04+00:00
I’ve adored Jon’s writing for years, so a book is exciting! But it does bum me out a little bit that it will be “just” a book. Compared to the dynamic and multimedia formats of “Tim Tebow in the CFL” and “Football 17776”. The writing is excellent, but the dynamic and multimedia nature of his previous work will be missed. Can’t wait to get my hands on it!
by danaris | 2025-06-24 14:31:29+00:00
"Agriculture" didn't fail.

The Irish were successfully farming a number of highly nutritious crops. It's just that all of those were taken by the English, under the colonial system of the time.

The potatoes were one of the very few things they were allowed to grow for themselves (and are a great staple crop! near-complete nutrition all in one handy package!). That's why they were left starving when the potato blight hit, not because they were pathetic unenlightened regressives.
by dekhn | 2025-06-24 14:31:41+00:00
We also simulated the LSST- in this case, using Exacycle at google (an idle cycle harvester). We took a star catalog and passed it through a highly accurate ray tracer that simulated the light falling on the sensors (through space, atmosphere, etc). Apparently it found some bug in the design that was fixed before some expensive part was built (my coworkers were the subject matter expert, I mainly built the exacycle software and sat in on the meetings).