MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by potato3732842 | 2025-06-23 16:30:46+00:00
You're actually better off if it's a crime because then you can force the issue to go through a court, be made public record, etc.

A lot of civil penalties carry fines in excess of what you get for a first offense for a violent but not professional criminality type crime. It's absolutely insane. NYC's idling laws are just the tip of the iceberg in this regard. And the fact that these are "civil" penalties means the due process requirements are basically nil and when they do exist (like they do for traffic infractions) they basically only exist so far as they need to to keep the racket going.

Like you'd be hard pressed to wind up with tens of thousands of of fines doing actual criminal stuff, they'd just throw you in jail. But a government official can notice (or be tipped off to) some violation then go look back at their info sources and decide unilaterally when the violation started and fine you for presumed months of violation and you often have no recourse but to sue.
by Swizec | 2025-06-23 16:31:31+00:00
> a casual dismissal of the original claim without anything of substance to back that up

I am not dismissing it. I miss the old internet too.

But what I’ve found is that I miss the free time to explore a lot more. When I find that, there is suddenly plenty of good people on the internet sharing interesting things. But usually in my busy life I scurry past without even noticing.

For example: there are entire corners of instagram devoted to people with a few hundred followers sharing daily chicken drama from their farms. Like a soap opera with daily updates … about chickens. Doesn’t get more “describe your favorite tree” than that
by josephcsible | 2025-06-23 16:31:41+00:00
I think that's the base rate fallacy, and that you only see more drivers break the law because there's so many more drivers in general. My estimate would be that I see about 100 good drivers for every driver breaking the law, but only about 5 good cyclists for every cyclist breaking the law. And another part of what makes it unfair is the disparity of enforcement. I see illegally parked cars with tickets under their wipers a lot, and it's fairly common to see drivers pulled over by the police for moving violations, but literally every single cyclist I've seen breaking the law has gotten away with it.
by JohnFen | 2025-06-23 16:32:11+00:00
I'm not sure about the "purpose of humanity" bit. Humanity's purpose is whatever we say it is.

But I reject most genAI because it puts a greater separation between me and other people. The internet and smartphones were already doing this before genAI, but genAI seems to be making the problem worse and spreading it beyond the internet and smartphones.
by 1024core | 2025-06-23 16:32:20+00:00
I remember roaming around the back alleys of Tokyo, as I'm wont to do to get a true feel for any place I'm visiting, and came across bicycles parked on sidewalks, covered with vines. Those bikes must've been there for several years.

Coming from SF, a couple of thoughts came to mind: first: wow these bikes have been sitting here for a long time. And second: this must be a _really_ safe place, because in SF, a bike parked outside won't last a day or two.

Funny thing is: the area didn't look rundown or anything. It was clean and well maintained. Except for the bikes in vines.
by jerf | 2025-06-23 16:34:10+00:00
I think that in general, if you're doing anything fancy with SSH, you're better off setting it up in SSH than trying to convince Tramp to do anything with it. See something like https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SSH_jump_host . Basically, the goal is you should be able to type "ssh someSSHConfig" and get to the shell of the device. If you can do that, you don't need to worry about what Tramp can and can't do, and if SSH adds a feature that works in the SSH config you don't even have to wonder if Tramp can use it.

And then it also works with everything else that works with SSH.
by half0wl | 2025-06-23 16:34:29+00:00
I'm curious - why?

I personally find the search summaries helpful more often than not, and it works nicely in products like Google Sheet.

There is an extension posted here a few days ago that you could try [0], but I think that's only for search summary.

[0] https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/block-google-ai-overview...
by colechristensen | 2025-06-23 16:34:32+00:00
>Has anyone more than small scale feel good stories or "promising advancements". Do we have things that really improved at scale in the last ten or twenty years ?

Yes, things are improving all the time. There are all sorts of organizations recording various metrics of quality of life kinds of things and the trends across the board are upwards, it's just very easy to live in a bubble and have no idea how things actually are across the world.

https://epi.yale.edu/epi-results/2020/component/h2o

https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/country-insights#/ranks
by graypegg | 2025-06-23 16:34:55+00:00
That's really odd. That should just remove results that match the "ai" keyword according to google's search syntax. Messing around with it, it looks like google just doesn't provide summaries for queries using search operators.

So you could actually add a meaningless negative keyword and be good to go, like "-asdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdf". Should get nearly the same results without removing results that might happen to contain the letters "ai".
by Nasrudith | 2025-06-23 16:35:18+00:00
Schools and universities were supposed to have non-economic purposes including theoretically governance. An old trope that was used to justify monarchies and nobility was the ignorance of the masses. That meme wound up dying out both from the middle classes and from the rise of universal* suffrage demonstrating that it had a huge role in ensuring stability as it gave an outlet for pressure other than violent uprisings. In the US at least that was part of the reason for public education. The other part being that they didn't want to leave the educational infrastructure in the hands of the Catholic school system for fear that it would leave them controlled by 'papists'.

* Occasionally the term effectively meaning only 'all men regardless of social class'. Perhaps related to the purpose of disincentivizing violent uprisings.

One lesson of history is that you cannot simply leave advocacy for self-interest in another's hands, as regardless of how much 'better' they may know, they do not know you and your priorities better than yourself. That was essentially already attempted in feudal past essentially. You need at very least the ability to choose your advocate. This makes education a necessity for a self-governing people. There was also another trope around the Great Depression claiming that democracy was 'obsolete' from industrialization and its top-down organization vs cottage industries. Lets not repeat history in falling for that again.

But even if we abandon such lofty principles there would still be a reason for education even if AGI does it better. Having people capable of fighting and/or maintaining the swarms of would still be essential for even cynical reasons of military power and monopoly on violence. It wouldn't just be using humans as canon fodder - most of the military manpower is logistical and the tail has only been growing longer in the tooth-to-tail ratio thanks to technological advancement. That technology is so dominant should highlight its power, considering just how effective raw numbers are in military science.
by giarc | 2025-06-23 16:35:39+00:00
I understand the need to phase out/in ingredients in this situation, however I've never understood when there is a simple ban on an unnecessary ingredient why it takes long. I'm specifically talking about those "microbeads" in bodywash that were banned a few years ago. The companies got years to phase them out. They served no real purpose and were not replaced with anything. Companies just had to stop adding them to the bodywash - why give them years to do so? I get that labelling would be inaccurate so give them a few months to change that.
by throw0101c | 2025-06-23 16:35:42+00:00
> Idling a hydro plant doesn't save them money, though.

When you're running you more create wear-and-tear and increase the depreciation rate: this can be costed. There's also probably increased staffing costs during higher levels of operations; also costable.

Depending on the prices offered to the hydro-plant, it may or may not be profitable to run.
by rectang | 2025-06-23 16:35:58+00:00
You're probably right. It was somewhat reassuring to learn of the money printer variant — to me, the Warthog "brrrt" meme evokes human flesh being torn apart (also tanks, but strafing runs often target ground troops, and there are of course people inside those tanks) and it was unsettling to think that this post might be comparing the performance of Tramp to the extremely violent destruction of your adversaries.
by throwanem | 2025-06-23 16:36:19+00:00
Eh. Files on my hard disks change when I say. And getting hooked on ChatGPT is like - is exactly like - getting addicted to money. If I benefit less from what I do use, I'll accept the trade of never having that rug yanked out from under me. It looks to me like raw model capabilities are topping out anyway; the engineering around them looks like making more difference in the back half of the decade, and I see nothing essential about that requiring nuclear-powered datacenter pyramids or whatever.
by tguvot | 2025-06-23 16:37:07+00:00
i will suggest you to read pdf anyway, it's a wonderful peace showing how things were in 1961 and how things are same today.

back to the point.

Journalist traveled to refugee camps in lebanon/gaza and then to israel to see how arabs that decided to remain are doing.

(following are more or less exact quotes from memory)

He describes how somebody were telling him in great details about giant house that he had had, with veranda surrounding it. how he will sit there in shadow of the orchard and the fertile soil that he had.

when journalists was visiting israel he decided to stop by this location. all what he found is shack barely suitable for cattle, 2 fruit trees and rocky soil that will be really hard to work.

also, while been in refugee camp in lebanon he had a meeting with somebody who managed camp. this person told him that most of those who tell him that they had untold riches actually had nothing: they were workforce for hire and were renting from landlords both housing and in some cases soil to work. he adds that most of them in a heart beat will give up on "right of return" in exchange to $10k and place to settle "anywhere".

additional nice touch in article it's description of UNRWA school (it's 1961) where they teach children that one day as soldiers they will come back kill jews/liberate their country
by hnfong | 2025-06-23 16:37:31+00:00
> the entire world claims this assumption by action then my claim is inline with the entire world.

That's not what you claimed and that's not what I replied to.

You said you have a theory, and because of that you know something.

The explanation or the theory does not have to be right for something to work. The fact that I'm using modern technology does not mean that whatever theory of reality in vogue is fundamentally right. It just needs to work under certain conditions.

> You may say no one can prove math or probability to be real but you certainly don’t live your life that way. You don’t think that science logic and technology will suddenly fall apart and not work when oh turn on your computer.

That's a really strong claim to make, especially with "you". You don't know how I live. It's like seeing somebody appear in Church and denigrating them for not believing in Jesus.

No, I believe the world could fall apart at any time. Most people call it death. The fact that 99.9% people believe in death and continue their lives without panicking is probably something you want to think about as well. Heck, even a sufficiently strong solar flare could bring down this entire modern technology stack. Am I wrong to continue to use the web and debate about metaphysics given this knowledge? I don't think so, and neither do I think that my presence says anything about my belief in mathematics or whatever else governing reality.
by xenator | 2025-06-23 16:38:03+00:00
Google Workspace Gemini integration is a joke. We forced to switch to Gemini-included tier plan without ability to opt-out to find that is not available for part of our team. Because of regional restrictions.

For two months I was trying to find another solution, because some of our friends pay much less for Workspace. And fortunately I found how to go through dark patterns in the interface to downgrade from this cancer.

Found out that the difference is only some space and Gemini. So we paid hundreds of dollars for service that is not possible to legally use for all of our team (we are globally distributed).

Needless to say that statistics show that less than 10% of our team tried Gemini.
by kevin42 | 2025-06-23 16:38:40+00:00
There are more than one theories, as well as some evidence that consciousness may not exist in the way we'd like to think.

It may be a trick our mind plays on us. The Global Workspace Theory addresses this, and some of the predictions this theory made have been supported by multiple experiments. If GWT is correct, it's very plausible, likely even, that an artificial intelligence could have the same type of consciousness.
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by seanmchugh1 | 2025-06-23 16:38:56+00:00
It's a little rough around the edges but I think it works good enough. I'm using it. You should be able to get it running on Windows without too much trouble.

Oh hey, btw, is anyone hiring? this gist sums me up - https://gist.github.com/smchughinfo/4cf1d100826c56fe97cabe97...
by msravi | 2025-06-23 16:39:34+00:00
> Just have a master settings.typ that you import in top1.typ, top2.typ and top3.typ?

Yes, but each included file (like education.typ, publications.typ, etc) should also get these settings propagated from top - which typst doesn't allow - the appropriate settings need to be included in each of these files.

> you can pass global settings at build time with `typst c --input name=value`

This is something I did not know - will check.
by fn-mote | 2025-06-23 16:40:00+00:00
> You would think medicine would be evidence-based (…)

Your comment sounds like it refers to the front line contacts with the patient.

It has been a while, but my own experience was that (1) the studies I wanted to see did not exist; (2) the doctor was not forthcoming about their own statistics / outcomes; (3) outcomes were not tracked by anyone past (very small N) year; (4) no access to prior complaints against doctor.

I’ll stop the list there, but when things go wrong it is evident that science is not being done.

The best related published account I know of is of the best cystic fibrosis treatment centers in the country. (Sorry, no reference.)
by onetom | 2025-06-23 16:40:03+00:00
TRAMP can run commands in that remote context too, so any kind of compiler, interactive REPL integration works without any special support usually.

For example the built-in version control works the same as in a local context.

That's why it's called transparent:

> TRAMP stands for “Transparent Remote (file) Access, Multiple Protocol” — https://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/

it makes a big difference, imho... not as good as plan 9, of course :)
by Throwthrowbob | 2025-06-23 16:40:05+00:00
If you don't use Private Browsing (or the equivalent) or otherwise clear your browsing cache, DuckDuckGo's AI assistant can be disabled by:

- clicking the little gear to the right of the search types (near "Assist" and "Duck.ai")

- Click on "Manage" for AI Features

- Setting "Duck.ai" to Off

- Setting "Assist" to Never

To the right of the features above, I saw one can save their settings with a password, to the "cloud". This seems to be that you can enter this password when using DuckDuckGo elsewhere for your settings to be set again (or in Private sessions, though you'd have to re-enter the password on a new session).
by ksenzee | 2025-06-23 16:40:18+00:00
Flour fortification is one of the great public health successes of the 20th century, and I’m not aware of any data showing that folic acid is any more harmful than any of the other synthetic B vitamins added to our food. I’ve actively looked for such data, as someone with the fairly common genetic mutation affecting MTHFR, and frankly all I find is nonsense.
by Nasrudith | 2025-06-23 16:40:22+00:00
There is a fundamental philosophical error in that assumption. Goals are not set by sheer rationality but emotionally. Logic is a guide to the means to the end and to give wisdom about how well pursuing a given goal may work but it is ultimately the emotional which sets the drive.

An AI life coach cannot guide you for if you would prefer having a large family, being part of a DINK couple, or remain single for the rest of your life. It can tell you the odds of success of living off of a band are low and to prepare backup plans,and that being a chartered accountant is a more reliable source of income but it cannot tell you what the right decision is to attempt.
by nerdsniper | 2025-06-23 16:40:52+00:00
The utility is actually pretty high if you give a gemini chat all the emails and transcripts for a project. Can query it to make meeting notes, pull out action items, get some initial feedback on ideas you think up (someone else may ah e already mentioned something that makes your idea stupid, and instead of being told “i already said ____” in the next meeting, Gemini can help point out flaws.

Obviously all the usual caveats about LLMs and the standard workarounds (manual review). But Gemini fills the role of “personal secretary” and “new intern” auite decently.
by bee_rider | 2025-06-23 16:40:58+00:00
I don’t think there’s any culpability or responsibility for the app, it doesn’t really bill itself as a good platform to do the high-level planning of military strikes.

If there are UI issues, they should be fixed because they are also annoying when planning somebody a surprise birthday party. (Or all the other stuff an encrypted chat app might be good for).

On the other hand, PGP just calling itself “pretty good” was pretty funny. Maybe that’s the level of active humbleness that everybody should aim for.
by throw0101c | 2025-06-23 16:41:24+00:00
> The supply chain for the AP1000 is centered in China.

Vogtle Units 3 and 4 started a supply chain in the US. Especially Unit 3, which is one of the reasons it was so expensive: a lot of things had to be learned. Unit 4 was (IIRC) 30% cheaper than Unit 3 because a bit of a workflow was developed.

Any future US AP1000 units should be better than Vogtle—if people don't try to re-invent the wheel and use the same trail used in that project.
by scbrg | 2025-06-23 16:41:49+00:00
So, here's the first three sentences in the linked article:

I recently changed jobs and found myself in a position where I would need to do a lot of work on remote machines. Since I am Emacs user, the most common way to do this is using TRAMP (Transparent Remote access, Multiple Protcol). TRAMP is an Emacs package that let’s you treat a remote host like a local system, similar to VSCode Remote Development Extension.

Doesn't that provide context?
by perihelions | 2025-06-23 16:41:58+00:00
Here's the SDSS view[0] of this featured[1] section from the Virgo Cluster, in comparison, to put the staggering depth of these exposures in their proper context,

[0] https://aladin.cds.unistra.fr/AladinLite/?target=12%2026%205...

[1] https://rubinobservatory.org/gallery/collections/first-look-...
by 9rx | 2025-06-23 16:42:02+00:00
> there are entire corners of instagram devoted to people with a few hundred followers sharing daily chicken drama from their farms.

Difference is that when FishCam went live, it was "Wait. What? You can do that?" Now: "Of course you can share video on the internet."

We still get the occasional "Wait. What? You can do that?" moments — when we witnessed LLMs, for example — but we aren't inundated with them on a near-daily basis like we were in the age of the old internet, when everything about it was new and people were continually testing its limits.

In other words, it is mature now. There is no bringing back the magic.
by hylaride | 2025-06-23 16:42:02+00:00
> The advantage X terminals had was that they were relatively inexpensive to buy and operate.

This was not really true. Those terminals were often extremely expensive compared to "off the shelf" PCs of the time. They required decent CPUs and memory (this was before hardware acceleration) as well as (for the time) decent networking hardware to drive it at scale for larger institutions. On top of that they were usually connected to and had to drive very high res monitors, which weren't cheap either (anecdotally, the first time I "surfed" the web was at my mom's work at a telco lab on HP-UX machines in ~1993-94; when we later got the internet at home I hated doing it on the 800x600 monitor we had).

As you alluded to, what it did provide was a central way to administer software and reduce licensing costs, which pre-2000 was almost all commercial - companies were loath to buy multiple commercial compilers/matlab/etc (and the software vendors took awhile to update their models, too). In those days sysadmins often did things by hand and user management alone was far easier on a central mainframe/server. It also did allow some vendor interoperability as you mentioned.

"Dumb" text terminals were also the way that things were already done, so they just continued on that model with a GUI until the benefits of local computing became so much more economical. In large orgs, this usually was around when windows started to become prevalent over the course of the 1990s (sometimes with X-servers or terminal clients on windows to replace the physical terminals).
by pydry | 2025-06-23 16:42:06+00:00
I'd have taken the March pre-2022 deal rejecting NATO alignment in a heartbeat. In fact, even as the deals Russia offered got steadily worse they were always calibrated to be a better alternative than continuing to fight and lose.

NATO isnt powerful enough/motivated enough to help Ukraine fight off Russia despite pledging unlimited support in March 2022 (now proven to be a hollow lie).

There was nothing logical about Ukraine's decision to reject neutrality and to try and set itself up as a NATO military bulwark along Russia's most vulnerable border.
by lisper | 2025-06-23 16:42:10+00:00
It's not just that. I use a fairly obscure dietary supplement. It's a crap shoot whether or not my local pharmacy has it in stock on any given day, and the only way to find out is to physically go there. If I factor in the cost of my time, buying local is orders of magnitude more expensive than Amazon, where I can place an order in under a minute.

I am astonished that brick-and-mortar merchants haven't banded together to get someone to build a decent e-commerce front end for their local stock. That would be a killer app.