MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bee_rider | 2025-06-16 17:24:01+00:00
I think I agree with this take. The book is in there in some sense, whether or not it is a copyright violation is debatable.

Honestly, I get why these debates happen—it is practical to establish whether or not this emerging tech is illegal under current law. But it’s also like… well, obviously current law wasn’t written with this sort of application in mind.

Whether or not we think LLMs are basically good or bad, they are clearly quite impactful. It would be a nice time to have a functional legislature to address this directly.
by Fnoord | 2025-06-16 17:25:14+00:00
> and quite a few people commented that they were disappointed that they'd have to work in the morning

Hangover from the port.

Instead of doing drugs or chatting, I'd read a book on my Kobo.

The thing with the stuff you mentioned. I already drank enough alcohol jn my life to not bother with it anymore. Same with card games. And random chitchat.
by tcoff91 | 2025-06-16 17:25:56+00:00
I had to get gas every day for my generator during the outages. Only one gas station in down was in an area that still had power. If you don’t live in so cal and have to deal with public safety power shutoffs, quit talking out of your ass. Our power grid is so unreliable here that they really need to make the gas infrastructure more resilient.

When shit goes down, people need to be able to get fuel. The populace at large is never going to be prepared enough to deal with every gas station in the area going down. Raise the cost of gas by 10 cents to cover the costs. If every station is mandated to do so then they won’t have any issues with the margins as they will simply all raise prices in concert.
by gryfft | 2025-06-16 17:25:57+00:00
> Like, these checks exist. This is actually what makes the government sometimes, like, expensive to run, is that you have to check all these things before you give people money. Yeah, I think it was just a feeling of, like, darn it, you know? Like, it would have been really nice to, like, come in and save a bunch of money.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-06-16 17:25:58+00:00
To some extent. If you vote in a rep and he lies about his policy, then the people are stuck with him for 2 or 6 years. We don't have mechanisms to impeach someone like that (some states might, but it's not a federal mechanism); his colleagues need to impeach him, which they hesitate to unless something dsmning occurs.
by pbhjpbhj | 2025-06-16 17:26:53+00:00
I mean, little could be clearly less true - people spend billions on advertising because they want to brainwash people into seeing their product as necessary/useful when it isn't. If you want to target resources, kill advertising is probably number 1.

Second, you think we need more "CEO yachts"? That's where the resources are going more and more. IIRC billionaires in UK are 5 times richer since Covid. We have many little with poor housing and food situations.

Western Capitalism directs resources to the wealthy, often those who gained wealth through past feudalism or [other?] crime.
by joloooo | 2025-06-16 17:27:07+00:00
Interesting article. I have always viewed Benzene as a bogeyman of sorts. My parents both interacted with it often throughout my life. My dad was a chemical engineer for an oil company, and he often spoke of spills and incidents. As a kid, I never understood what it was, but the tone and urgency were always something scary.

I also strongly suspect my mother's Benzene exposures (nurse cleaning lab slides with Benzene and no PPE) led to me battling Langerhans Histiocytosis throughout my childhood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langerhans_cell_histiocytosis
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-06-16 17:27:48+00:00
> The people who we are debating with seem to have the opinion that people from around the world have the right to assemble in the United States. That indeed is an interesting take.

Our opinion is that the US Constitution applies to the people within a US jurisdiction. In this, our opinion is correct.

As far as you disagree with that, your disagreement will be with the Constitution - which is your inalienable right.
by duped | 2025-06-16 17:27:58+00:00
> You need waaaaay more that 2-3 million; most of that is funneled directly in to SF landords pockets

Which is why you should build your team in Denver, Minneapolis, Chicago, Detroit, etc. There's a competitive advantage to hiring outside the SF tech bubble today. Over the last 5 years the network effects in SF have begun to evaporate.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-06-16 17:28:05+00:00
I would argue that removal can be analyzed into the other categories, or into something that isn't the province of punishment.

1. the deprivation of freedom is retributive

2. the prevention of additional crimes can be said to be deterrence of an active sort

3. the protection of society isn't part of punishment per se, but a separate end

This becomes clear when we consider imprisonment in relation to various crimes. Violent criminals are imprisoned in part because they are a threat to the physical safety of others. However, is an embezzler or a mayor embroiled in shady accounting a threat to anyone's physical safety? Probably not. So the purpose of their removal is less about crime prevention and more about retribution.
by gspencley | 2025-06-16 17:28:07+00:00
> But in this context, the purportedly irrational belief is that some phrases are offensive. If you accept that there are people who would, rationally or not, be offended by some phrases, then I don't understand why you would even make the claim that it's absurd to believe that some people would be offended by some phrases.

Now I understand why we are talking passed each other. Thank you for the clarification.

You are reframing my premise and, in doing so, changing it to something I never said.

Although before I explain the source of our misunderstanding, I want to point out the irony that you are coming from a philosophically "subjectivist" position and are defending a philosophical "intrinsicist" position. Usually they are two opposite extremes and tend to be at odds with each other.

Subjectivism is the idea that perception creates reality. We often will hear people use language like "my truth" vs "your truth." Your position is subjectivist in the sense that you are clinging to a premise (that I never refuted or discussed) which states that "SOME people are offended by certain words, therefore 'bad words' exist."

Again, that's not the premise I stated or was discussing. But after your clarification, this is the premise that you thought we were discussing.

The intrinscist position states: "Certain words are bad by their nature. They will automatically cause ANYONE who hears them to be offended."

it is the "intrinsicist" position that I was calling absurd. I never said that there aren't people who hold this belief. And I never said that there was no such thing as PEOPLE who get offended by words.

I was saying that the idea that a word unto itself can be "bad by nature" is absurd. And I stand by that.
by gkapur | 2025-06-16 17:28:09+00:00
There was also Wing cloud (fka Monada) and there’s Mojo by Modular (https://www.modular.com/mojo.)

Feels like two types of companies raised money: - Companies trying to couple the cloud with a programming language. - More recently, companies trying to couple GPUs with a programming language/alternative to CUDA.

Will be curious how this generation goes.
by energywut | 2025-06-16 17:28:41+00:00
It's both. Child neurological development goes through a lot of mirroring the environments they observe in play, and mapping them onto stuffed animals, dolls, bugs, pets, toys, etc. There's an age where kids are developing interiority (children do not have an "inner voice" and do not develop it until 5-7, typically) and during that time, a lot of their play is them learning the rules and developing empathy (children do not have a concept of being able to put themselves in others shoes until age 3-7, typically).

Autistic children are often times very interested in learning rules and applying them in other settings. Autistic young women, especially, are navigating a complicated social environment that strongly encourages them to understand the rules of what it means to be a woman in society. Learning those rules and then saying, "Ok little (bugs|stuffed animals|toys), here's how things work" is both a thing kids do and a thing autistic kids do.

Couple that with special interests (dinosaurs, trains, bugs, bones, whatever), and you'll often see autistic kids getting WAY into one particular thing and then mapping the world they experience onto that thing.
by gruez | 2025-06-16 17:28:48+00:00
At the most fundamental level it is. Abilities of individuals varies wildly, which translates into productivity, and therefore wealth. As the economy becomes more globalized and more knowledge-based, differences in ability are magnified even more. A skilled antelope hunter can at best hunt 5x more than the median hunter, but someone who makes a killer app can make billions. Sure, government can play a role in redistributing that wealth, but that's an intervention, not the default state of things.
by CobrastanJorji | 2025-06-16 17:29:19+00:00
Oh absolutely. Voters always favor harsher punishments or making things worse for those already convicted of crimes. You never get any more votes by pushing for lower punishments for any crime or by doing anything to reduce recidivism. I suspect that a pretty solid litmus test for "politician who is actually trying to make the world a better place" based just on how they vote for lowering recidivism.
by cogman10 | 2025-06-16 17:30:04+00:00
Having high req/s isn't as big a negative as it once was. Especially if you are using http2 or http3.

Designing APIs which cause a high number of requests and spit out a low amount of data can be quite legitimate. It allows for better scaling and capacity planning vs having single calls that take a large amount of time and return large amounts of data.

In the old http1 days, it was a bad thing because a single connection could only service 1 request at a time. Getting any sort of concurrency or high request rates require many connections (which had a large amount of overhead due to the way tcp functions).

We've moved past that.
by ben_w | 2025-06-16 17:30:07+00:00
It sounds like you're mistaking PV for a thermal system.

In a PV cell, you have a semiconductor. Semiconductors have this thing called a "band gap", which is the energy needed to get an electron from the valence band to the conduction band: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band_gap

The limits to efficiency of a solar panel is that sunlight has photons of many energy levels; the photons with energy less than the band gap do nothing, those with more, waste the excess.

A laser can have energy tuned to this band gap, at which point the PV part becomes ~99.9% efficient. (The laser part is not close to that efficiency).
by alistairSH | 2025-06-16 17:30:12+00:00
TIL: Politeness makes one soulless.

I don't personally care if a swear word appears in code, but I do care if I offend others with my use of swear words. So, I try to limit their use to circumstances where offense is unlikely. Work is rarely such a place, particularly with shared resources like code. I might swear in a 1-on-1 conversation at work, but I definitely don't drop swear words into documents that unknown people might see. That's just basic professionalism.
by trod1234 | 2025-06-16 17:30:25+00:00
Sure, but only if you are still in the business and can communicate with those people, but there's so much interference by the point of time that this happens that everything is paralyzed.

The price tag must still make that worthwhile too, something that hasn't been reflected in reality so far. If you made 70-80k in 2020, you would need to at least be making 90-100k today just keeping pace with purchasing power/inflation.

Instead you have companies low balling people with decades of experience at 50k on top of that 25% loss in purchasing power since 2020, so your only making 37.5k in 2020 dollars. The math simply doesn't pan out, and that's not taking into account the higher tax rates either.

If you've been searching for work, have the experience, and there have been zero opportunities, for a significant period of time, the competent people change careers and move on, cutting their losses on what amounts to a bad investment. The only people remaining in the pool being the barely competent, and cost increasing. This sieves until no one remains because of those factors leaving the sector voluntarily or involuntarily.

You do have to be able to put bread on the table after all.

Also its a technical field, there is a natural level of skill atrophy if you aren't actively using your knowledge and skills everyday because of no demand. You still have them just because you use them even when you aren't working, but its not quite as quick.

The problem is when you hit that critical point, where there are no opportunities despite a competent specialized skillset, and great need but no demand because the problems are a problem for next quarter to the point no effective reaction can occur from management. This leads to collapse.

It happens in labor multiplier fields first (IT) which then touches everything else. Its not business as usual, its the fall after a three generation boom cycle finally hitting bust. The praxis inherent in the profession then become lost knowledge along with other doom spirals.
by abdullahkhalids | 2025-06-16 17:30:33+00:00
Because even modern democracies are much closer to 1-money-1-vote than 1-person-1-vote. "If some people have more on their bank account", what we have observed is that they use that money to change the rules of the game to extract even more wealth from those who have less in their bank account. So pretty soon the system evolves to where many don't have "access to medical care, housing, and education".

Give me a viable political system where wealth is not correlated with political power, and I will be liable to agree with you.
by Someone | 2025-06-16 17:30:42+00:00
> From what I understand, this is because larger objects have more mass, moving slower when shaked, so as the larger (brazil nuts) don't move as much relative to the smaller ones (peanuts)

That doesn’t make sense to me. If larger objects move slower, don’t they move faster relative to the (accelerating) reference frame of the container?

Also, conventional wisdom has it that shaking (temporarily) creates empty spaces, and smaller objects ‘need’ smaller such spaces to fall down, and thus are more likely to fall down into such a space.
by dataviz1000 | 2025-06-16 17:31:05+00:00
That is awesome! I see you use Proxy which is a very cool way to achieve this. [0] I saw this approach using Proxy when hacking VSCode's ipc where they use it define services from ipc channels/ [1]

I did something similar using VSCode's core ipc / rpc which only requires a transport (protocol) to implement {send, onMessage}. I use it in a Chrome extension so I have to implement my own socket.io and port message passing protocols. Some of the benefits are being able to send a message from MAIN world of an injected content script (if you want to intercept all fetch and XMLHttpRequest requests, for example) through a tunnel in the isolated world content script to the side panel which could theoretically tunnel it to a server over socket.io. If I have a Math service, for example, that only adds two numbers, it can be called from anywhere in the system with `await mathService.add(1,1);` with mathServer being dependency injected using constructor(@IMathService private readonly mathService: IMathService). This is how VSCode manages calling code across hundreds of different isolated JavaScript runtime environments.

What I did was a bit overkill and likely trpc would have been good enough if I knew about it when I started.

[0] https://github.com/bperel/socket-call/blob/e0076d7887397a92a...

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/24c0ff16c250f2b39ee...
by jeffbee | 2025-06-16 17:31:29+00:00
I feel like this is a lesson that unfortunately did not escape Google, even though a lot of these open systems came from Google or ex-Googlers. The overhead of tracing, logs, and metrics needs to be ultra-low. But the (mis)feature whereby a trace span can be sampled post hoc means that you cannot have a nil tracer that does nothing on unsampled traces, because it could become sampled later. And the idea that if a metric exists it must be centrally collected is totally preposterous, makes everything far too expensive when all a developer wants is a metric that costs nothing in the steady state but can be collected when needed.
by stego-tech | 2025-06-16 17:31:51+00:00
Because once you change the goal post, it becomes gameable. If we say the better metric is healthcare, housing, and education, then:

* Healthcare will be defined as “Primary Care Visits with approved in-network physicians”, who will also have proportionally lower pay so those who made that definition can keep more money for themselves

* Housing will be redefined to include cockroach-infested squallor, so landlords can pocket more money

* Education will have more stratas put in place at higher costs, such that “free” or “baseline” education is increasingly worthless, wages depressed, and only those of means may participate in society

All of those circle back to wealth inequality, and is why that metric won’t go away - and why the rich have a vested interest in convincing the poor that it’s everyone and everything else’s fault for their precarity.

It’s all about money. When more people have a larger share of the money, better decisions and outcomes are more likely than 1.1% of people hoarding 50% of global wealth for themselves. The math is absolutely that simple, as are the solutions (TAXES).
by wtmt | 2025-06-16 17:32:16+00:00
It’s similar in India. Even many businesses only use WhatsApp for orders and communications with customers. Heck, even the police use it to communicate between their people and with complainants/victims. Politicians use it between their party people and to send messages to the public. The average person on the street no longer knows what an SMS is or how to use it.

But I manage without WhatsApp (it’s also a privileged position to do so). Not having WhatsApp also helps avoid seeing all the junk and misinformation that people forward on it without any thought. There’s actually a name for this in India: “WhatsApp University”, which is a derogatory term for how people believe anything they read on WhatsApp and share it around without any analysis or thought or skepticism whatsoever.
by 613style | 2025-06-16 17:32:20+00:00
Bell's Theorem (1964) describes an inequality that should hold if quantum mechanics' randomness can be explained by certain types of hidden variables. In the time since, we've repeatedly observed that inequality violated in labs, leading most to presume that the normal types of hidden variables you would intuit don't exist. There are some esoteric loopholes that remain possibilities, but for now the position that matches our data the best is that there are not hidden variables and quantum mechanics is fundamentally probabilistic.
by strogonoff | 2025-06-16 17:33:30+00:00
> you may note that "human rights" is a recent invention and not actually enforced worldwide even today.

Consider that countries known for stronger interpretation of human rights and freedoms, including intellectual property rights, are also the countries at the forefront of innovation, including technical innovation that laid the foundation for LLMs in the first place. I think that is not a coincidence, and we should keep it in mind when there is a push to be dismissive of these concepts (which predominantly serves the interests of commercial LLM operators and their supply chain).

I’m sure you would not argue from a point where this recent interpretation of human rights is bad or incorrect, but if you would then perhaps there’s not much of a constructive discussion to be had. I would still oppose the use of the natural vs. unnatural distinction as the basis of that argument, though.
by dylan604 | 2025-06-16 17:34:17+00:00
I'm critical of making correct accusations. Baby powder never had a bezene problem which was being implied. Baby powder definitely had issues, but different issues. J&J as a company definitely plays fast and loose with product ingredients vs health safety, but when making accusations, accuracy is important.

You wouldn't want chatGPT or claude to start saying that J&J was using benzene in baby powder after scraping HN for training data because we played it loose with facts would you? In fact, we call LLM incorrectness as hallucinating, so would you be less upset if I said that the other person was hallucinating?
by socalgal2 | 2025-06-16 17:34:25+00:00
It's hard to compare countries. Japan has a culture of lots of construction, and that housing is not an investment. They also have far less zoning rules and far less housing requirements (less of "must have 2 parking spaces, must have N meters of space in front of lot, must have X size bathroom", etc. The result is there are plenty of inexpensive and small places to rent. For example, I just did a search on suumo.jp on one train line 1 or 2 stops from Shibuya. 36 units came up under $275 a month. (would be several hundred units if I search all lines that go through Shibuya). The units are small (7.5 to 15 square meters), Many don't even have a shower (you'd walk to a public bath). But, you'll have shelter. So even on a minimum wage part time salary you can probably afford to have a roof over your head. And, that was in Shibuya. Go out 10-15 stops and it will get even cheaper or they'll get larger with more amenities for the same price.

Food can also be affordable in Japan.
by gavinray | 2025-06-16 17:34:43+00:00
TiHKal and PiHKaL are fulls of synths that require equipment and re-agents far beyond what a hobbyist would be able to source.

There are various "one-pot" techniques for certain compounds if one is sufficiently clever.

For example, a certain cathinone can be produced by combining ephedrine/pseudoephedrine with a household product that reduces secondary alcohols to ketones and letting it sit.
by rangestransform | 2025-06-16 17:34:45+00:00
I think housing is the biggest problem here, the ideology-based encouragement of homeownership led to homeowners voting for people who would protect their “””””investment””””” and preserve their particular lifestyle. Restrictive zoning and well meaning but restrictive laws (affordable housing requirements, minimum floor area, union labour requirement, countless procedural burdens) mean that we will effectively never have the Japan housing situation in the US
by tw600040 | 2025-06-16 17:36:33+00:00
When someone asks how something is fair - coming back with life is like that or life isn't fair is not a valid response. Humanity should strive to make the systems as fair as possible while accepting the fact that unfairness will still exist. Why will theft etc be a crime if not for the idea of fairness. You can make the same life is unfair argument to defend theft but that's not the way it should be / is.
by 7373737373 | 2025-06-16 17:36:41+00:00
I don't understand this fascination with networks that require special hardware to intermediate between end user nodes. Would be much nicer if things just ran, zero-click, via WiFi, on most common computers, netbooks and phones, pure p2p with automatic forwarding, no?

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

By requiring special hardware, and be it just some common router, or any sort of special technical skill, you are already excluding 99.99% of the world population...
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-06-16 17:37:02+00:00
> Yes, but this person arrived from another country.

Yes.

> Would you say freedom of speech and freedom of assembly means that people from around the world have the right to assemble in the United States?

I wouldn't say that because it isn't a well formed question. It conflates multiple, distinct activities. It unhelpfully presents them as if they were a single, constitutionally addressable action, which they are not.