MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by laxd | 2025-07-19 18:23:19+00:00
Personally I find the devonian and carboniferous much more interesting than the mesozoic. And the ediacaran if counting marine life. There's plenty of people "talking about it", it's just not pushed like dinosaurs. A couple of good yt channels:

- Royal Tyrrel Museum of Palaeontology

- Virtual Seminars in Precambrian Geology
by moomoo11 | 2025-07-19 18:23:24+00:00
Why? AI is a tool. Are their messages incorrect or something? If not who cares, they’re being efficient and thus more productive.

Please be honest. If it’s slop or they have incorrect information in the message, then my bad, stop reading here. Otherwise…

I really hope people like this with holier than thou attitude get filtered out. Fast.

People who don’t adapt to use new tools are some of the worst people to work around.
by spwa4 | 2025-07-19 18:23:24+00:00
One way to describe leftist ideology is forced sharing. The "forced" part is what you're looking for, that violence comes in when people refuse to share (for example one particularly sore point in parts of Eastern Europe is that socialists hunted - literally - people who attempted to be self-sufficient in nature ... including during famines).

Authoritarianism comes in when people start making the obvious point to large groups that they would, individually, do better without a leftist state. Why does authoritarianism come in at that point? Because it's absolutely, 100%, true, almost by definition.
by lordnacho | 2025-07-19 18:23:37+00:00
Yeah I thought that was a reasonable number in the ballpark. I mean, it probably makes sense to pay a lot more for it. A grand is probably well within the range where you shouldn't care about it, even if you only get a basic salary and it's a terrible year with no bonus.

And that's not saying AI tools are the real deal, either. It can be a lot less than a fully self driving dev and still be worth a significant fraction of an entry level dev.
by const_cast | 2025-07-19 18:24:18+00:00
> Frankly it tracks that almost no one was caught before.

How? How does this track?

Cigarette smoking is very conspicuous. I know, I used to smoke. It's not easy to hide!

If you smoke inside, it will smell like smoke. Fabric and even plaster in walls will hold onto smoke for a long time. Not to mention the smoke smell goes under doors, too, so someone outside the room could smell it.

If someone smokes in a room and you walk in any time in the next 12 hours, you will be able to tell. That means the cleaning staff should be able to detect smoke very well. Keep in mind, this is assuming you don't set off the smoke alarms, which is ALSO very easy to do in a hotel room because the ceilings are very low!

The only way around this is smoking outside, like on a balcony. Which, I'm sure, is against the rules too - but it doesn't harm anyone if you can't even detect it, so I'm not sure it's a problem.
by gtani | 2025-07-19 18:24:32+00:00
Well, there's the deficit but also China's central bank has steadily reduced Treas holdings while BoJ ramps up, and other sovereigns incented to reduce if they think dollar continue to weaken or their country was running trade surplus w/US. (trying to figure out vol profile on $DXY in tradingview...)

But we are around or just over Bessent's pain points for /ZB and /zn so we'll see

Treas by central banks https://home.treasury.gov/data/treasury-international-capita...
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-07-19 18:24:53+00:00
at any rate rights that are described as being eternal or some other version of that such as inalienable, or in the case of copyright moral and intrinsic, are rights that if the government, that has heretofore described that as inviolate, where to casually violate them then the government would be declaring its own nullification to exist further by its previously stated rules.

Not to say this doesn't happen, I believe we can see it happening in some places in the world right now, but these are classes of laws that cannot "just" be changed at the government's whim, and in the EU copyright law is evidently one of those classes of law, strange as it seems.
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2025-07-19 18:25:20+00:00
A thought-terminating cliché? Not at all, certainly not when it comes to claims of technological or scientific breakthroughs. After all, that's partly why we have peer review and an emphasis on reproducibility. Until such a claim has been scrutinised by experts or reproduced by the community at large, it remains an unverified claim.

>> Unlike seemingly most here on HN, I judge people's trustworthiness individually and not solely by the organization they belong to.

That has nothing to do with anything I said. A claim can be false without it being fraudulent, in fact most false claims are probably not fraudulent; though, still, false.

Claims are also very often contested. See e.g. the various claims of Quantum Superiority and the debate they have generated.

Science is a debate. If we believe everything anyone says automatically, then there is no debate.
by martin-t | 2025-07-19 18:25:28+00:00
There is no _we_.

There are people who have a deep emotional need to control other people's lives and use all available tools to do that.

There are also people who don't have that need at all and would very much like to use the same tools to improve themselves or their children.

These are two separate groups but "we" are limiting the second group's access to tools in order to prevent the first group from misusing it.

In fact, some people tabooize the tools and intentionally attack even the second group for using them because they either afraid of the first group or, more often, because they are not even aware there are different types of people with different motivations and driving needs.
by mrkramer | 2025-07-19 18:25:36+00:00
>Ratings compression Star ratings on major platforms increasingly cluster between 4.3 and 4.9, leaving buyers little room to distinguish products.

Last year I was skimming through IKEA furniture and majority of reviews are 4 or 5 stars. And that makes me think that people who don't like IKEA products are either so pissed that they do not want leave 1 star review or IKEA removes bad reviews.
by tedsanders | 2025-07-19 18:26:09+00:00
Interestingly, this is actually a question that's been looked at empirically!

Take a look at this paper: https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/rzeckhauser/files/value_of...

They took high-precision forecasts from a forecasting tournament and rounded them to coarser buckets (nearest 5%, nearest 10%, nearest 33%), to see if the precision was actually conveying any real information. What they found is that if you rounded the forecasts of expert forecasters, Brier scores got consistently worse, suggesting that expert forecast precision at the 5% level is still conveying useful, if noisy, information. They also found that less expert forecasters took less of a hit from rounding their forecasts, which makes sense.

It's a really interesting paper, and they recommend that foreign policy analysts try to increase precision rather than retreating to lumpy buckets like "likely" or "unlikely".

Based on this, it seems totally reasonable for a rationalist to make guesses with single digit precision, and I don't think it's really worth criticizing.
by freeopinion | 2025-07-19 18:26:19+00:00
Aside from your valid concerns about Element roadmaps, you highlight a completely different really crummy problem. You have chosen (or have had chosen for you) the support of a closed platform that puts you in a pickle. The dev team for an app of interest to you doesn't seem to have the bandwidth to address all your concerns as quickly as would be super. But they have taken the hit to get their code into the walled garden where you can use it. You have the bandwidth to tackle some of your wishlist, but don't have access into the walled garden.

So what might be a negotiation between two parties--you and the app dev team--is now complicated by a thorny third party--your os platform team. Presumably you derive some value in other areas from your walled garden that offsets the penalty it introduces in this case. But it's still crummy that you're caught in this snag created by your os platform.
by mindslight | 2025-07-19 18:26:32+00:00
One alternative scenario is for courts to start recognizing administrative runaround as actual damages. It sounds like there is a lot of back and forth to correct these fraudulent bills, so estimating maybe 4 days of 4 hours of paralegal-equivalent time ~ $1600. But then additional legal fees on top of that for having to press the matter, so ~$5000? Whereas a class action lawsuit would net like maybe $20 token payment to victims, so $40 cost to company. So perhaps only 1 out of 100 people who were wronged would have to actually sue to make it just as bad for the corpo. Never mind getting into things like treble damages as these corpos are deliberately committing these frauds.
by meroes | 2025-07-19 18:26:38+00:00
https://work.mercor.com/jobs/list_AAABljpKHPMmFMXrg2VM0qz4

https://benture.io/job/international-math-olympiad-participa...

https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/xai/jobs/4538773007

And Outlier/Scale, which was bought by Meta (via Scale), had many IMO-required Math AI trainer jobs on LinkedIn. I can't find those historical ones though.

I'm just one piece in the cog and this is an anecdote, but there was a huge upswing in IMO or similar RLHF job postings over the past 6mo-year.
by nick__m | 2025-07-19 18:26:42+00:00
You didn't argue for anything! Assuming science had the ability to cleanly edit that variant (which is not the case today), the ethical choice is to remove that small risk factor.

That variant of the COMT gene have a mountain of evidence against it and no evidence showing any benefit whatsoever. The fact that the COMT enzyme is also implicated in estrogen metabolism is not an argument for or against editing out the known defective variant of the COMT gene.

There is an argument to be made that we should wait until medical science has the means to cleanly and reliably do a single gene edit but I don't buy the argument that removing a gene variant from the humans genes pool is eugenics therefore it's bad and should be forever forbidden.
by lxgr | 2025-07-19 18:26:46+00:00
Sure, but I’ll certainly not stay at a place putting me under privacy-invading surveillance on the suspicion that I don’t know basic etiquette.

I’ll also consider these things to be microphones unless their manufacturer explicitly says otherwise, yet on their website I’ve only seen vague assurances about them being privacy-friendly.

For some, “on-device speech recognition that only sends voice samples for cloud analysis in exceptional cases” would probably also meet that bar, but it doesn’t for me.
by mihaaly | 2025-07-19 18:26:49+00:00
Actually when an algorithm results in something false, then you do not have to challange it, it is just simply wrong.

Insisting and charging somoking based on implicit and obscure ways of a "revenue stream generating" detector is a pure scam or fraud. Those involved in this criminal endeavour should be procecuted.

I will avoid Hyatt just in case and discourage my social circles too, warning them! No-one needs this sleazy treatment.
by fauigerzigerk | 2025-07-19 18:27:10+00:00
>I don't think it's too misleading, because in the absence of any other information, they are the same.

But other information not being absent we know that they are not the same. Just compare privacy policies for instance. The cookie law makes them appear similar in spite of the fact that they are very different (as of now - who knows what will happen to the NHS).
by jl6 | 2025-07-19 18:27:28+00:00
Eugenics is any choice that influences the genetic makeup of your descendants in a way that you believe to be desirable. Choosing a tall partner because you want your kids to be tall is eugenics. Eugenics happens every day, in every country. The bad rap comes from historical attempts to apply it coercively. Parents choosing to eliminate their genetic diseases is not the same.
by hollerith | 2025-07-19 18:27:50+00:00
Although I don't think communism is a good idea, we find ourselves facing a danger and a menace much more potent than communism IMHO, so I would warmly welcome a communist takeover of my country (the US) if it would reliably stop AI research in my country and keep it stopped. (I'm OK with people's continuing to use models that have already seen widespread usage: it's the training of large new models I want to stop -- that and any attempts to improve human understanding of the fundamentals of machine learning.)

But I tend to think that most communists are neutral or positive in their attitude toward AI research. For example, according to a credible China expert, Xi Jinping has directed China to pursue AI research very aggressively.
by wiremine | 2025-07-19 18:28:27+00:00
I've been experimenting with model-based development lately, and this resonated strongly with me.

The section "What Even Is Programming Anymore?" hit on a lot of the thoughts and feels I've been going through. I'm using all my 25+ years of experience and CS training, but it's _not_ programming per se.

I feel like we're entering an era where we're piloting a set of tools, not hand crafting code. I think a lot of people (who love crafting) will be leaving the industry in the next 5 years, for better or worse. We'll still need to craft things by hand, but we're opening some doors to new methodologies.

And, right now, those methodologies are being discovered, and most of us are pretty bad at them. But that doesn't mean they're not going to be part of the industry.
by whoisyc | 2025-07-19 18:29:32+00:00
Realistically “my website fits in 14kb” is a terrible signal because it is invisible to 99.99% of the population. How many HNers inspect the network usage when loading a random stranger’s website?

Plus, trying to signal your way to societal change can have unintended downsides. It makes you feel you are doing something when you are actually not making any real impact. It attracts the kind of people who care more about signaling the right signals than doing the right thing into your camp.
by nodja | 2025-07-19 18:29:35+00:00
If what you said were true then they would ban all porn and not just rape/incest/bestiality porn. They're banning specific genres of porn which makes it an obvious morality issue.

I can't back this up with facts but the chargeback myth smells of an old astroturfing campaign to justify the moral policing on porn in general. But nowadays porn is more commonly accepted so they're shifting to more specific genres.

The new myth seems to be that payment processors can he held legally liable for facilitating illegal transactions, but the only lawsuits vs payment processors I can find is about child pornography, which has always been banned on steam.

When added that there was an advocacy group that sent an open letter to payment processors a week ago for this same exact issue[1], then the chargeback excuse has zero merit.

So yeah, it's 100% a moral crusade. Which side you sit on the crusade it up to you.

[1] https://www.collectiveshout.org/open-letter-to-payment-proce...
by somat | 2025-07-19 18:30:19+00:00
On the subject of javascript template literals.

Do they really not support the equivalent to

let template = 'hello ${name}'; let n1 = template.format({ 'name':'joe' }); let n2 = template.format({ 'name':'bob' });

I am not really a javascript programmer. but I was writing some and wanted to store a bunch of templates then fill them out dynamically and was unable to figure out how to do it with the native javascript template system. So I ended up having to write my own. As it appears to be a huge obvious hole in missing functionality, I have to ask. Am I holding it wrong?

While writing this up I was rereading the mdn page on template literals, perhaps tagged templates would do what I wanted, I don't remember why I did not use them(I think it is still not possible to store the template), but on first glance, yeah, lamentations about the unintuitive syntax and weird features.
by dv_dt | 2025-07-19 18:31:02+00:00
The key self-inflicted difficulty with PC laptop vendors is that they can't help but dilute the value of their own laptop model lines. Even when they build a solid pc laptop model - sooner or later the marketing dept comes along and pitches a low-cost cannibalization of the model lines.

Macbooks sell used because they haven't been diluted, but as a buyer who is willing to buy quality used equipment - I'm not willing to try an sift out is this the good lattitude model year or the shitty one. Was this the good years for the Carbons or after they injected a low cost line with the same name but one letter difference.

Also, bizzare manufacturer specific laptop customizations, especially from HP are usually a big minus - eg a while back they had 3gb vid cards when everything else at that grade was 4gb or weird incompatible bioses with "carfax" tracking bs

Really they do they same with desktops too - it's why I build my own desktops.
by redwall_hp | 2025-07-19 18:31:08+00:00
Multilingual people not only exist, but they're the majority in the world, with some estimates reaching over 60% of the global population (others are low 50s).

Even the US, which is a pretentious bubble, has a great many multilingual people. English is by far the most common, but many people speak it as a second language or not at all.

Another issue is not all people, whether they are proficient in one language or more, speak the dominant language of the country they reside in. Which language does some geofence decide Indians speak? Do Eastern Canadians speak English or French? (Officially both, and bilingual signage is a legal requirement.)

Maybe I'm travelling in Japan and I only know very basic Japanese, but the geo-targeting decides everything should be in Japanese. Or maybe someone is immigrating to the US and doesn't speak English (which is not a legal requirement in any way). We have many non-English speakers who live in the US.

Honestly, if it gets to the point that it's providing pressure against the use of a language where it's commonly spoken, it could arguably be considered ethnic cleansing adjacent...
by triknomeister | 2025-07-19 18:32:14+00:00
People don't like revolutions, even if they are the one carrying it out. Revolutions are a last resort, mainly because of how uncertain it is what comes out at the end of it. So, an action calling for complete dismantling will never have large support. And everyone kind of knows where to go to. Th difficult thing is knowing how to get there in a piece by piece manner, one area of the social order at a time.

Having said that, his criticism is completely on point. But the people who have reached the same solution are then lost on what to do after it.
by lblume | 2025-07-19 18:32:18+00:00
If one is calibrated to report proper percentages and assigns 8% to 25 distinct events, you should expect 2 of the events to occur; 4 in case of 16% and 22.5 in case of 90%. Assuming independence (as is sadly too often done) standard math of binomial distributions can be applied and used to distinguish the prediction's accuracy probabilistically despite no actual branching or experimental repetition taking place.
by attemptone | 2025-07-19 18:32:28+00:00
>Humanity has discarded natural selection thanks to modern medicine. Gene mutations that would have meant someone didn't survive now can be treated.

There is still selection going on and it is difficult to argue that it is not natural. The pressures we are exposed to are just not consistent with some idealized natural state and thus seem "unnatural".

Be careful, "natural selection" is a specific descriptor that describes a selection process that is contrasted by "artificial selection". The second one comes up from time to time in human context; we call it "eugenics".
by saubeidl | 2025-07-19 18:32:34+00:00
In my ideal world, the main priority post-revolution would be to freeze development and prioritize saving our climate so we keep having a livable planet - green energy, public transport, etc etc.

Once that monumental task is done (and this is where we might disagree, but I'd be curious to hear your thoughts - my position there is not very firm!) I feel like looking at AI again - while keeping environmental constraints in mind, might be worth a try. The end goal would be utopian star trek post-resource-constraint society, a classless, socialist society in the humanistic sense - where everyone's needs are met and conflicts around resource allocation are a thing of the past.

Re your last edit - ask three socialists and you will get five conflicting takes, I definitely disagree with Xi on most things, though I do think he's doing a good job in things like building the Chinese high speed rail network.
by lenkite | 2025-07-19 18:32:40+00:00
Would it truly kill Zig to add native interface support ? All that ceremony is quite heavy and also somewhat error prone.

If nothing else, maybe they can add some helpers in the standard lib or codegen in the standard tooling to make stuff like this easier ? So one need not manually code all the function pointer types for methods and the dispatch in the interface type .

Yes, Zig is meant to be a low-level programming language, but stuff like this is basic table stakes nowadays. People will just make custom code generators after Zig 1.0 to do this exact thing - and they will likely be dozens of such custom code generators with subtle differences.
by const_cast | 2025-07-19 18:33:02+00:00
> They should not be installed in kitchens or in or near bathrooms.

But then you can't catch vapers in the most popular vaping place: the bathroom. Oh no! Our revenue stream! It's broken!

I think, elephant in the room here, smoking is conspicuous and does real, tangible damage. Vaping? I'm not so sure.

Yeah vaping is lame but does it actually harm properties? I mean, if someone vapes 10 feet from me I can't smell it. And if I can smell it, it's gone in < 5 seconds. There's no smoke in it, it doesn't linger.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-07-19 18:33:14+00:00
This is the same sentiment I have.

It feels really interesting to the person who experienced it, not so much to the listener. Sometimes it can be fun to share because it gives you a glimmer of insight into how someone else's mind works, but the actual content is never really the point.

If anything they share the same hallucinatory quality - ie: hallucinations don't have essential content, which is kind of the point of communication.
by riedel | 2025-07-19 18:34:49+00:00
Seeing the wired screenshots I was immediately missing hotbot [1]. The colours even hurt in the days, but I used it a lot. Actually I was surprised that it still exists

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/19980208062232/http://www.hotbot...

Edit: seems like it only became kind of a search engine again in 2023 under completely different ownership : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotBot
by w10-1 | 2025-07-19 18:34:52+00:00
So mother and father contribute the nucleus, and donor egg has everything else-- which is a lot more than mitochondria.

DNA required by mitochondria are both in the mitochondria and in the nucleus. This seems to show there is no co-evolution of the two; or the genetic distance of the donor might matter.

Still TBD whether other problems arise. If they do, I wonder if the affected person has any ability to get medical records of the other subjects, to compare diagnoses or treatments, notwithstanding privacy protections.