MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Scipio_Afri | 2025-07-22 17:15:46+00:00
Citation #1 is 404 - unable to find this article anywhere when googling.

Citation #2 is a link a good reads page for "The Lincoln Lawyer" - confused on how this is relevant to "air america"

Citation #3 is not a specific link to any particular article, just the miamiherald's home page.

And someone previously mentioned there is no citation for claim 4

Kind of feels like astroturfing or a bot of some sort. Mind clarifying any of this?
by mschuster91 | 2025-07-22 17:15:50+00:00
It's easy, incredibly easy, to overheat cookingware unintentionally. Add oil to a pan/wok that's overheated and it decomposes. Additionally, if the cookingware is coated with Teflon, above 300 °C this degrades into toxic compounds and can lead to "teflon flu" [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer_fume_fever
by UncleEntity | 2025-07-22 17:16:00+00:00
> If you are exceptionally qualified you should just become a citizen...

Exceptionally qualified at what, doing some job nobody else wants to do?

I suspect a big part of "US exceptionalism" is that people who were shitty at math were allowed to immigrate and they either saw a niche in the market or their kids were able to 'learn all the math' and contribute to the Silicon Valley Cesspool.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-22 17:16:22+00:00
Feelings aren't facts but they are important for persuasion. The methods most able to create radical change are the gentlest

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

I disagree with Rapoport's taxonomy, not least "Chinese brainwashing" in the Korean war was not Pavolivan and was rather closer to the T-group method developed in Bethel, ME.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-groups
by Fade_Dance | 2025-07-22 17:16:38+00:00
I think it's probably more realistic to think that the average person will find the simplified Google AI search tools to be modestly useful. Worst case scenario maybe they are seen a second tier to the new leaders/chatGPTs of the world.

Heck, Facebook is still wildly profitable. A bit different because of network effects and all, but that's a product that is entirely been transitioned to a terminal phase where they are extracting as much cash as possible, and it is surprisingly resilient.

The one big wild card would be a direct attack on traditional Google search by openai though. They potentially have a strong enough brand to do to Google what Google did to Lycos and Dogpile. SearchGPT could easily be a household name in no time flat, but I'm not sure OpenAI wants to focus on the old paradigm like that.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-07-22 17:16:48+00:00
So here's my problem, ultimately

If the task horizon for the LLM is shorter than writing it yourself, this likely means that the task is well defined and has an easy to access answer

For this type of common, well defined task we shouldn't be comparing "how long it takes for the LLM" against "how long it takes to write"

We should be comparing against "how long it takes to find the right answer on SO"

If you use this metric, I bet you the best SO answer, which is also likely the first google result, is just as fast as the LLM. Maybe faster
by kstrauser | 2025-07-22 17:17:22+00:00
I don't disagree with any of that. But we're talking in the context of this article, which includes 2 example comments:

// TODO: Write the second half of this file so next week's launch won't explode then sure, you should probably track that somewhere.

and

// TODO: If the user triple-clicks this button, the click handler errors because [xyz]

So my comment is also in that context of using the same tag for things of wildly different importance and urgency. And that would drive me to drink.

Definitely come up with a local convention for which tags mean what, and pick whatever resonates with your team. TODO in your org can mean something different from mine, and that's perfectly fine. Just please, please use different tags for different things, as you're recommending.
by hulitu | 2025-07-22 17:17:32+00:00
> Many Lung Cancers Are Now in Nonsmokers. Scientists Want to Know Why

Because hypocrisy does not live long. They blamed cigarettes for lung cancer, ignoring all other causes. "Oh, you have cancer but didn't smoke ? You surely were inhaling cigarettes smoke from somebody else.". We can polute further with no repercursions.
by marcofloriano | 2025-07-22 17:17:39+00:00
I completely agree with your comment. The common narrative about Galileo and the Church is often oversimplified and overlooks the intellectual context of the time. As you pointed out, it wasn’t about a crude Biblical literalism—after all, even centuries before Galileo, figures like Saint Thomas Aquinas, drawing on Aristotle, already accepted that the Earth is spherical.

By Galileo’s era, the Catholic Church was well aware of this scientific truth and actively engaged with astronomy and natural philosophy. The dispute was far more about competing models and the standards of evidence required, not a refusal to accept reason or observation.

Then I can’t help but think: if the author of the article didn’t even understand this, how can the rest of the article be correct if it started from a biased and almost false premise?
by mikeyouse | 2025-07-22 17:17:40+00:00
Forgot to mention that the press releases make a critical typo that makes them seem extremely nefarious and implies they were planning on some sort of warfare when it’s extremely benign…

“While searching one of Liu’s cell phones, they found an article in PDF form titled “2018 Plant Pathogen Warfare under Changing Climate Conditions.” Authorities said the article specifically referenced Fusarium graminearum as “an example of a destructive disease and pathogen for crops” and is “responsible for billions of dollars in economic losses worldwide each year.”

But the actual article is about the ‘warfare’ between plants and pathogens in a world with a changing climate as denoted by the hyphen in the title..

“Plant-Pathogen Warfare under Changing Climate Conditions”

There is great need for future research to increasingly use dynamic environmental conditions in order to fully understand the multidimensional nature of plant-pathogen interactions and produce disease-resistant crop plants that are resilient to climate change.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29787730/
by ciconia | 2025-07-22 17:17:52+00:00
Hmm, the first city we visited was Fukuoka and basically all 7-11s and the other mini-market chains were staffed by foreign workers. Lots of (Asian) foreigners around the central train station as well. We saw the same in other cities as well - Kobe, Kyoto, Osaka.

It's true that once we went into the countryside there were a lot fewer foreign workers, but that is also how it is in western countries.
by SiempreViernes | 2025-07-22 17:18:12+00:00
Palestine has been under illegal military occupation for 58 years [1], it is not exactly an independent government in control of its territory.

It is the duty of the occupying power to ensure the safety of the civilians within the territory it has occupied. A duty Israel, with its use of starvation as a weapon of war and habit of shooting medics in the back of the head, is obviously not fulfilling.

[1] https://www.icj-cij.org/case/186
by lawn | 2025-07-22 17:18:20+00:00
I really don't understand why you use Tailwind for a CSS component library.

To use your component library now people have to use Tailwind, while if you'd used regular CSS both sites with and without Tailwind could use the library (Tailwind is additive on top of CSS after all).

Maybe it appeals to people in the Tailwind bubble, and gain momentum that way?
by bugbuddy | 2025-07-22 17:19:34+00:00
The problem is that the rabbit-hole dwellers use the word “deception” to try to invoke some spooky ghost-in-the-machine or AGI or ASI or self-awareness or self-preservation-seeking vibes based on the observed behaviors.

My point is the observation is not support for such vibes referenced in og-parent post. You can’t just rearrange bits and hope for a spark of life. It is not gonna “come live.” The rabbit-hole dwellers keep trying to make everyone believe that. It is both amusing and tiring how persistent they are at this. It is understandable considering the money they stand to gain from gullible people rushing to invest.
by mschuster91 | 2025-07-22 17:19:46+00:00
> She is a small lady

So, yet another case of cars not being designed for women (for those that don't get what I'm going on about - crash test dummies are modeled after men, leading to significantly worse crash outcomes for women [1])... it's infuriating.

Even a "small" BMW i3, a car one might think to be suitable for people of lower height - my wife tried out one at carsharing, and even despite the seat being all up front, she was barely able to drive the thing. The Mercedes Sprinter we rented for our last moves? Once she understood how the dimensions of that thing worked, absolutely easy going.

[1] https://apnews.com/article/nhtsa-female-crash-dummies-vehicl...
by ejstronge | 2025-07-22 17:19:59+00:00
> I highly doubt there'll ever be research in this area, but I'm very curious about whether it'll ever be possible to induce schizophrenia for a time, similar to how psychedelics or dissociatives can induce altered mind states.

It is not possible, by definition; here’s a portion of the DSM 5 definition of schizophrenia:

“ The disturbance is not attributable to the physiological effects of a substance (e.g., a drug of abuse, a medication) or another medical condition”

Hard to find a publicly accessible DSM link, but here is an excerpt

https://floridabhcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Pages...
by ryandrake | 2025-07-22 17:20:10+00:00
I think non-tech people used to be able to, but tech companies have been on a 10+ year long crusade against the concept of a "file" and where that file is "stored" and trying to blur once-sharp lines so that people forget. Tech really wants you to think of your data as an amorphous blob vaguely "in their app" and not worry about crisp delineations like files, whose hard drive those files are on, and whose machine that hard drive is in.
by voxic11 | 2025-07-22 17:20:11+00:00
Breaks are only part of the problem unfortunately.

> Resuspension of dust already on the road’s surface is the most significant contributor to non-exhaust PM by far, however these particles are difficult to characterize and manage because they could come from anywhere before landing on the road. Brakes are the next most significant source, and may also be particularly hazardous because of their small size and high metal content. Tires contribute the least, but they release large amounts of particles which act as microplastics in ecosystems.

https://www.nrdc.org/bio/john-bailey/beyond-tailpipe
by Finnucane | 2025-07-22 17:20:21+00:00
I am Ubik. Before the universe was, I am. I made the suns. I made the worlds. I created the lives and the places they inhabit; I move them here, I put them there. They go as I say, they do as I tell them. I am the word and my name is never spoken, the name which no one knows. I am called Ubik, but that is not my name. I am. I shall always be.
by genewitch | 2025-07-22 17:20:25+00:00
> And there's no real sub classification to determine what lead to a set of symptoms (which is the only current diagnostic criteria).

Is this not true of all things in the DSM, though? there's no "easy" test for ADHD or depression, for examples; fMRI might be able to distinguish, if the literature is to be believed. But generally you have to rely on what a patient self-reports, what caretakers/professionals observe, and what effects, if any, medication has on the symptoms.
by ianbicking | 2025-07-22 17:21:13+00:00
I remember reading an article on one of the classic rationalist blogs (but they write SO MUCH I can't possibly find it) describing something like "rational epistemic skepticism" – or maybe a better term I can't recall either. (As noted below: "Epistemic learned helplessness")

The basic idea: an average person can easily be intellectually overwhelmed by a clever person (maybe the person is smarter, or more educated, or maybe they just studied up on a subject a lot). They basically know this... and also know that it's not because the clever person is always right. Because there's lots of these people, and not every clever person thinks the same thing, so they obviously can't all be right. But the average person (average with respect to whatever subject) is still rational and isn't going to let their beliefs bounce around. So they develop a defensive stance, a resistance to being convinced. And it's right that they do!

If someone confronts you with the PERFECT ARGUMENT, is it because the argument is true and revelatory? Or does it involve some slight of hand? The latter is much more likely
by tguvot | 2025-07-22 17:21:52+00:00
it's not that it's hard to leave gaza. it's just nobody willing to accept gazans. and trumps plan that talks about voluntary migration out of gaza is been described as genocide and ethnic cleansing (btw, 75% of them actually registered as refugees by unrwa for past many decades)

i never saw anybody been against migration of population out of war zone to safety. in case of ukrainian refugees it was widely discussed that people need to get to safety and entire europe helped.
by ashdev | 2025-07-22 17:22:37+00:00
I didn't like Tailwind initially, but after using it for a week, it's hard to go back to regular CSS or even SCSS. I have a project that uses SCSS, and sometimes I wish I was using Tailwind instead, it makes the workflow so much easier.

I'd highly recommend people try out Tailwind for a week on their projects before giving up on it.

That said, I haven't tried DaisyUI so no opinions on that.
by skybrian | 2025-07-22 17:22:38+00:00
I'm wary of making an "arguments are soldiers" assumption where facts are mostly useful for making arguments, in an attempt to change people's minds.

We should be curious about what's going on in the world regardless of what ideologies we might find appealing. Knowing what's going on in the world is an end in itself. An article with some interesting evidence in it is useful even if you disagree with the main argument.

Facts may not change minds, but we should still support people who do the reporting that brings us the facts.
by zahlman | 2025-07-22 17:22:58+00:00
... Why does a "note-taking app" have an "audio volume visualizer"???

Edit: kinda funny how I asked what I thought was a reasonable question and expressed entirely understandable confusion; got an upvote almost right away; then got multiple downvotes after people answered the question — as if it somehow suddenly became obvious why I should have expected such a feature a priori.
by Irongirl1 | 2025-07-22 17:23:03+00:00
Frustrating. Someday, I'd like to see headlines that focus on news publishers working on reasonable payment systems for article access. Like bulk buys ( X articles for $) via giftcard or whatever. Instead, every single time this comes up, it always ends with less access, more siloing...less connections made, more cruft to shift. Innovation requires access to info, but if you never see it...it's hard to make connections that count or that could be helpful. Same problem that appears in Science research...if only on a smaller scale.
by xp84 | 2025-07-22 17:23:16+00:00
You're talking about something else there though: Data about what is bought and the demographics who buy it. They collect that data with loyalty cards, and the ones who don't use loyalty cards may collect that by some effective hash of a credit card number.

The store isn't tying your drivers license number and specific DOB to your purchases because you show an ID to buy beer -- that's a different kind of data and carries with it way too much potential for identity theft. Thinking that they want that is tinfoil-hat thinking. You can ask every single supermarket company if they do that and every one will tell you no. You can ask the companies which make the POS software if the scan ID functionality ties into data brokers and they'll say no. But go ahead and think that there are like 15 Fortune 500 companies all secretly doing this, even though not a single whistleblower has ever come forward. Of every engineer at those companies, I am not aware of anyone who has alleged this from a position of actual knowledge.
by mopsi | 2025-07-22 17:23:42+00:00
> You mean in Ukraine, right?

No.

> Those words are a sure sign of serious brainwashing,

Hardly. Pinning all recent human history on the CIA seems like a "to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail" kind of thing. The world is far more complex than stale Usenet copypastas suggest, and the CIA is entirely outclassed by a number intelligence organizations in Eastern Europe purely it lacks an understanding of local history and culture. For the longest time, Eastern Europe has been academically taught through a Russian-centric lens. It's like learning the history of Africa through the perspective of colonial empires rather than the natives; gives barely any understanding what's going on between the different peoples of Africa. This has led to major intelligence failures, such as the failure to accurately predict the collapse of the USSR, which took CIA analysts by surprise. This, in turn, left everyone in Eastern Europe stunned: how could they be so completely oblivious to the facts on the ground?! That gave a lifelong immunity to the whole category of "almighty CIA" conspiracy theories.
by ajross | 2025-07-22 17:23:45+00:00
Did you... look up the override votes that failed in 2011 to see what the partisan breakdown was?

I know it makes you feel good to imagine a world of enemies, and "every party bends the knee and kiss the wall" is some top notch imagery. But in the real world you have allies in this particular fight, and working against them is in fact doing the opposite of what you claim to want.
by lrvick | 2025-07-22 17:24:03+00:00
IMO you need an immutable appliance-like OS that is deterministic and full source bootstrapped to do reproductions with minimized trusting-trust attack risk.

We built ReprOS to solve this problem: https://codeberg.org/stagex/repros

"Git push" to it and it will do a build in a throw-away VM then have the host sign the artifact results and push signatures to the same or a different repo.
by jrub | 2025-07-22 17:24:24+00:00
I get the frustration, but I think Tailwind’s biggest win is what it trades:

structure and locality instead of style purity.

Traditional CSS gives you basically nothing in terms of hierarchy or organization. You end up writing long, awkward selectors like .checkout .summary .item-title .price, which still aren’t that readable. And if you’re tracking down why there’s 4px of padding instead of 6, good luck figuring out which of the five CSS files is messing with it.

Tailwind flips that. Putting the styles right on the element means the structure is obvious. You don't have to context-switch or go hunting through a bunch of files just to see what’s going on. It’s all right there.

Yeah, sometimes it gets verbose. Especially when you’ve got a div with 20+ classes. But when that happens, you’ve probably got something reusable anyway. And Tailwind actually shows you that. If you copy and paste the same set of classes to another element, you’ve just signaled that you’re repeating yourself. That’s your cue: take the extra 60 seconds and extract it into a component or class. With vanilla CSS, that signal is way more opaque. People end up not writing composable styles at all. Instead, they name every div, then name every element inside the div, just to avoid writing selectors like .component div h1 span—which is even harder to reason about than .component .title .icon.

And honestly, writing Tailwind is just faster. Typing px-4 is way easier than padding: 0 4px;, and I don’t have to stress over naming a class that won’t collide with anything else. Naming things sucks. Tailwind helps you skip that whole mess and just build.

Another bonus: Tailwind is easy to delete. You don't get tangled side effects or some random override breaking stuff in weird ways. Kill a class and you know exactly what changed because it’s right there in the markup.
by cantor_S_drug | 2025-07-22 17:24:27+00:00
Many people are curious about truth. But because of gaslighting and no single source of truth and too much noise level, people have checked out completely. People know something is fishy, they know barbarians are at the gate. But they also know that the gate is 10,000 km away so they think, "Let me live my life peacefully in the meantime." They have lost hope in the system.
by kindkang2024 | 2025-07-22 17:24:32+00:00
I do not know exactly, since I do not work there. Those in charge and empowered have a duty to find a way out and protect their people (forgiveness and peace).

As for me, I’m just an ordinary person, believing that all lives matter worldwide. And if many innocents continue to die meaninglessly, I consider their governments incompetent for the job.

Are you suggesting that they (just to clarify, I’m referring to the government leaders, not the maliciously misinterpreted starving innocents) are competent and that all the other governments are to blame?
by qq99 | 2025-07-22 17:24:42+00:00
So your <Button> component still has 60 tailwind classes on it?

I think that might work in React, but might have a payload impact on server-rendered React.

Another interesting point for using something like this (specifically, using shorter semantic class names instead of multiple tailwind classes) is: Phoenix LiveView

LiveView streams DOM changes over the websocket, so afaik can't really meaningfully be compressed to eliminate bytes. By using `btn` instead of 30 tailwind classes, your payloads will be smaller over the wire.

A bit niche, but something to think about.

The fact that your `<Button>` React component renders 60 tailwind classes might not seem bad (because gzip or otherwise might actually make it ~negligible if you have a ton of buttons on the page and you're server rendering with compression enabled), but in LiveView's case, I don't think there's really any other option (not enough of a text corpus to compress?).

Not sure if this was a factor in Phoenix's recent default inclusion of DaisyUI or not.

Even in Phoenix, I'm still using a `<.button>` Phoenix component, but that uses a smaller semantic classname most of the time