MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by CivBase | 2025-07-24 15:05:02+00:00
If the US can maintain even just 5-10% of production volume, that's a huge win IMO. It means the US has a foundation of knowledge, equipment, and supply chains to expand on in the event of an emergency.

Taiwan is in a precarious position, which is a huge liability for "western" powers. And a liability for us is effectively also a liability for Taiwan, considering we are their protectorate. North America and western Europe are comparatively safe.
by cogman10 | 2025-07-24 15:05:24+00:00
They aren't.

Samsung comes in a close second in terms of tech. GloFo is also still floating around though lagging pretty bad AFAIK. Micron has it's own fabs that they are actively developing (in fact, they are building new facilities right now).

What TSMC is is cutting edge. That's why everyone that needs top performance uses them.
by ysofunny | 2025-07-24 15:05:32+00:00
> Thinking used to be detached from writing. That is a fact. We just lost that ability in the modern era thanks to cheap writing technology: pen and paper, then computers. I'm not saying the current approach is wrong, but don't assume that the only way to think is to write.

I have a better way to frame this:

Learning your own language and culture is a lifelong process.

A big phase, the adult phase, of learning is learning to write in your language (I'm implying there's more to writing than chosing words; specially in this context of language as thinking)

indeed, a lot of modern people never make it out of this big phase of learning your language. they never go beyond writing = thinking. but some people do learn the next phase

which involves distinguishing language itself from thoughts and ideas (is some idea known? understood? perceived?? but the idea is "the self" or some other complex notion)

so the only quality of the modern era I admit, is that there's a lot of people that only learn rudimentary thinking-writting, and too few people that learn 'advanced' languange-thinking where writing becomes secondary to thinking.

finally, I learned this idea from reading around the meaningness blog/book
by keiferski | 2025-07-24 15:05:46+00:00
I'm not sure if writers developed the entire book in their head first, but: it was indeed very, very common for people to dictate novels, journal entries, and other "written" works to a secretary, typist, or tape recorder.

Nowadays that seems to be rare, but my impression from reading my journals is that it was often more common to dictate than to physically hand write things.
by sidibe | 2025-07-24 15:06:31+00:00
If you're a serious holder of Tesla and doubted Elon you would probably just sell rather than try to change it because the premium of the stock is all Elon and his ability to convince people of his abilities, nothing about the rest of the company warrants a tenth of its valuation.

The ones that are bullish and holding Tesla are bullish on Elon. Maybe some institutions that have to hold it as part of their funds would step up, but they went along with the fans last compensation vote when Elon threatened to walk away. I guess they don't want the price going down suddenly either
by mingus88 | 2025-07-24 15:06:51+00:00
Given how badly the cybertruck undersold, it does seem plausible that they don’t understand the demand for robotaxi either

Personally, I will never trust Tesla purely due to how many YEARS they failed to deliver on their FSD promises. They are not competitive at their core competency of electric cars so why would we expect them to pioneer a new market?
by jfyi | 2025-07-24 15:07:01+00:00
It's not clear to me from the post what level this is happening on.

I assume by "payment processor" that they are not talking about Visa et al themselves but their merchant services provider.

The alternative to this is to find a merchant services company that specializes in adult industry. Something like https://ccbill.com/ which is going to end up costing you (or your customers) somewhere around 30% on all payments on your entire platform.

It's likely easier to strong arm these providers as they are typically pretty risk averse.
by rkangel | 2025-07-24 15:07:09+00:00
I think there is a "best" p-value, and I don't think it's the "highest" p-value.

You don't want it too low, because then quality becomes meaningless. You do want to give good results to good teams. But there is also don't want it to be perfect - you want some unpredictability in sports. You don't want every match to be a foregone conclusion, and you want every supporter to be able to have some reasonable hope.

There is some data suggesting that one of the reasons that English football is popular is because it's low scoring. This increases the chance that random variation gives an "incorrect" result. In this hypothesis, unpredictability adds excitement and builds popularity.

The NFL achieves similar results a different way - various forms of consistency and negative feedback (salary cap, draft order, schedule) to keep teams very close in ability. This means that small differences like a game plan for a particular week can regularly affect results, and keeps predictability low.
by mikestorrent | 2025-07-24 15:07:19+00:00
> companies would not mind paying a small amount to help support the OSS projects they depend on

meanwhile I've been trying to find a way to give Hashicorp some money for over a decade of depending on their tools, but their products simply are too good to need the enterprise versions!

At some point we need something like a "certified B corporation" for "certified ethical fair-trade Free Software using corporation" where an independant body audits and makes sure you're donating to a sufficient % of the open source projects used in your production SaaS
by patcon | 2025-07-24 15:07:22+00:00
You can't see how a hosted private model (that can monitor usage and adapt mechanisms to that) has a different risk profile than an open weight model (that is unmonitorable and becomes more and more runnable on more and more hardware every month)?

One can become more controlled and wrangle in the edge-cases, and the other has exploding edges.

You can have your politics around the value of open source models, but I find it hard to argue that there aren't MUCH higher risks with the lack of containment of open weights models
by synalx | 2025-07-24 15:07:24+00:00
What I want the most here is transparency. If a creator thinks they can make better videos by partnering with a media company, great. I'm happy to judge for myself if their content is still for me or not. I donate to a number of creators on Patreon though, and I'd be angry to find out that my $ is profit for a well-funded media company instead of supporting someone working on their dream.
by rayiner | 2025-07-24 15:07:53+00:00
> Car based transportation is just not scalable.

We have scaled it! We're a country of 330 million people where almost everyone drives.

> However because of American Exceptionalism, we have very limited options.

It's only "American Exceptionalism" insofar as Americans are rich compared to Europeans. Upper middle class people across Europe also live in suburbs and drive to places. American wealth/land space simply enables middle and lower middle class people to do the same thing.
by fogzen | 2025-07-24 15:07:59+00:00
Sure, they’ll get into Ubers, Waymo’s, and Robotaxis. But almost every American will still drive themselves in their own car. The world of personal transportation looks exactly the same as it did 30 years ago. Don’t forget self driving taxis was Uber’s pitch for a long time before reality forced them tell a different story.

Even if self-driving works well, Americans will drive their own car. Where does Tesla fit in once EV tech is a commodity and the brand is no longer fashionable?
by justinmarsan | 2025-07-24 15:08:27+00:00
I do bouldering and I eat fast food multiple times a week, I can definitely outclimb my poor diet... I probably helps that I don't eat breakfast though...

It's well known though that as you build muscle, your rest calorie consumption increases, so probably if you build/maintain enough muscle, then you can just outrun your intake, since you consume more without doing anything to start with...
by snozolli | 2025-07-24 15:09:02+00:00
You can hop on a plane and go from a driving-city to a walking city, look around and see the difference. I can't accept that this doesn't matter.

It's a whole lot easier to hit up a drive through or grab a tub of ice cream at the grocery store when you're driving a car.

You're not wrong, though. Walking around doesn't burn a lot of calories (~100/mile), but most people become overweight by only slightly overeating on a daily basis, over a long period of time. One can of soda has 140 Calories. 140 excess daily Calories is an extra pound of fat per month.
by hajile | 2025-07-24 15:09:04+00:00
Intel's fab issues are overstated in my opinion. They were stuck on 14nm for a very long time because they bit off too much with 10nm. People act like that means ALL research in nodes smaller than 10nm must have stopped, but that's simply not true as research into tech and materials needed for smaller nodes happens in parallel.

It's also noteworthy that GAAFET being a complete redesign of major parts of the manufacturing process levels the playing field significantly. A big example of this is Japan's Rapidus which was founded in 2022 and has managed to invent (and license) enough stuff to be prototyping GAA processes.

Intel's 18a process seems to be quite good. It's behind TSMC in absolute transistor density (SRAM density seems to be the same as N3E), but ahead on hard features like BSPD and maybe on GAA too. I suspect that they didn't push transistor density as hard as they could because BSPD and GAA tech were already big, risky changes.

We'll have a much better idea of Intel's fab future with 14a and 10a as they should show a trend of whether Intel's fabs can catch up and pass TSMC or if they run out of steam after the initial GAA bump.
by saghm | 2025-07-24 15:09:28+00:00
That makes sense! It wasn't immediately obvious to me from the context of this discussion though, since it seemed like you were responding to the parent comment's framing of it as a choice between one or the other. This might just be from me never having heard of the term "unified call syntax" though, and I admit that I didn't expect to need to read through the PDF you linked before super carefully after opening it and seeing a bunch of C++-specific details that I knew would go over my head. (On a good day, I can remember what words SFINAE is an acronym for, but I don't think I ever really felt like I got comfortable enough with C++ to fully understand how the template code I saw actually encoded behavior that fit what I'd expect those words to mean).
by rkangel | 2025-07-24 15:09:33+00:00
> US sports tend to have less meaningful "regular" seasons, which just seed "play-offs", which themselves often have "Best of X series".

Except if you look at the NFL - the most popular sport in the US by far - the playoffs are "Best of 1". The NFL also enforces very close parity which gives a lot of unpredictability. You combine those and you get a lot of upsets.
by WaxProlix | 2025-07-24 15:09:33+00:00
It's funny, I had YouTube's paid offering for a few years (I used the service a lot and want to support non ad-based revenue streams). But they changed something a while back that started giving me a degraded experience, and eventually made the site unusable. Did some digging and it turns out they were detecting my adblock and intentionally making my experience bad despite being a paid customer. I submitted a ticket or whatever but of course nobody gave a shit. I ended up upgrading my adblocker to something that worked on the new YouTube but of course at that point why keep the subscription if I have to fight some ads arms race anyway?

Ads are useful and have their place in keeping the web accessible to everyone, but Google's anti user policies really stretch that relationship.
by rurp | 2025-07-24 15:09:48+00:00
The recent taking of people's content for AI training might be the most blatant example of rich well connected people having different rules in our society that I've ever witnessed. If a random person copied mass amounts of IP and resold it in a different product with zero attribution or compensation, and that product directly undercut the business of those same IP producers, they would be thrown in jail. Normal people get treated as criminals for seeding a few movies, but the Sam Altmans of the world can break those laws on an unprecedented scale with no repercussions.

As sad as it is, I think we're looking at the end of the open internet as we've known it. This is massive tragedy of the commons situation and there seems to be roughly zero political will to enact needed regulations to keep things fair and sustainable. The costs of this trend are massive, but they are spread out across many millions of disparate producers and consumers, while the gains are extremely concentrated in the hands of the few; and those few have good lobbyists.
by ancillary | 2025-07-24 15:10:00+00:00
I was curious about this number, so: 10 km^2 is 10mil square meters, Googling suggests that the theoretical maximum energy captured by a square meter of solar panel is well under 0.5 kW, so well under 12 kWh per day. Say 10 kWh for neatness. Then multiplying by 10mil gives 100mil kWh. More Googling suggests that 10 TWh is a comfortable lower bound for daily world energy usage, but 100mil kWh is 0.1 TWh.

So maybe 1000 km^2 is more like right order of magnitude. That's still tiny, about Hong Kong-sized. Even 100000 km^2 is about South Korea.
by reverendsteveii | 2025-07-24 15:10:03+00:00
If they were worth it you'd already have been buying them. With that being said, glad to hear a CEO say "we have to consider the resiliency of the supply chain" because JIT as a manufacturing philosophy is revealing itself to be what it always was: exceedingly fragile, barely adequate when everything is working perfectly and subject to massive, multiplicative disruptions when everything is not working perfectly.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-24 15:10:22+00:00
I recently picked up a copy of the Heinlein classic

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

where in "the future" (our past) there is a technology to transmute elements affordably and gold is cheap. The protagonist gets screwed by his business partners and sent into the future via cold sleep, buys a few kg of cheap gold, sends himself back into the past with an experimental time machine, and funds his own start-up company.

The book is an interesting answer to people who wonder what eudaimonia is for an engineer, what one should do with one's talents, and the consequences of automation. In that universe, machine learning was realized with a particular type of vacuum tube in the 1950s.
by jancsika | 2025-07-24 15:10:43+00:00
> The core issue is that politically you gain nearly no votes and definitely no money by running with regulation as a pillar of your campaign.

Proof of Domain Expertise: Name the famous presidential campaign which focused directly on combating "this system of perverse incentive and legal bribery" as its core campaign message.

Edit: Hint: primary, lots of votes, lots of money

MD5 of answer: 1c02462874398d776ff28aeed2d056b1
by nordsieck | 2025-07-24 15:11:36+00:00
> The interesting thing is when this breaks down. Obviously if you eat a weeks worth of food every day for a sustained period of time, you will start to gain weight. Or if you run 12 miles every day, you will be in such a deficit that it won't be possible to lower your metabolism enough. Outside of the extremes, I think it's a cliff, where you have to have some kind of shock for some period of time for your body to react.

Objectively, I don't think this is accurate.

Most people who are overweight got that way slowly.

Dr Mike[1]'s theory is that modern processed food is to blame - not because it's unhealthy, but because it's too tasty. Companies that make food are in an evolutionary arms race with other companies to get consumers to choose their products. And one of the best ways to do that is to make the food as tasty as possible.

Another things many companies probably try to optimize their food for is low satiety[2]. That way consumers consume, and therefore buy, more of their products.

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1. From Renaissance Periodization

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satiety_value
by EvanAnderson | 2025-07-24 15:11:51+00:00
I do the same thing. A fun one I added a few years ago: Make sure to visually verify garage door is totally closed.

Two days into a trip our neighbor contacted us about our garage being open. We asked him to close it.

When we got back I found the automatic opener disconnected from the then-closed door. I asked the neighbor about it. He said the door would almost close using the automatic opener, but would stop and reverse. He disconnected the door from the opener and pulled it closed. (Certainly not the most secure thing, since anybody could walk up and push the door open, but arguably better than sitting open.)

I found the track was slightly bent on one side, as a result of banging into it with a heavy object while getting our camping gear out. It was causing the door to bind enough for the automatic opener to be triggered to reverse (presumably the "don't crush a human" safety feature).

When we left I pushed the button on the remote, saw the door start to go down, and left. By the time we were at the end of the street, with the door out of view, it had no doubt reversed and opened.

When I leave now I make sure I see the door fully close.
by goda90 | 2025-07-24 15:12:40+00:00
Have you tried intermittent fasting? There's a lot of controversy around the impacts of fasting, but there's one simple fact involved: it's harder to exceed your calorie needs for a day in 1 or 2 meals than in 3 or more because at some point you are just too full to eat more. If you're focused on getting lots of veggies in your limited meals, the number of calories that "fit in your stomach" will also go down.

Assuming you don't have some metabolic disorders, you'll get used to being hungry for part of the day.
by Lvl999Noob | 2025-07-24 15:13:06+00:00
1. Frequent service (<5 minutes between buses, ideally) 2. Enough capacity to support rush hours (so each bus can straight up refuse to take extra passengers) 3. Education campaigns and police / fines / other external factor for the short term (to break existing habits) 4. Separate public transport lanes so buses don't get stuck in traffic or behind red lights.

IMO, these are sufficient for a good public transport system. Skipping stops is the worst since it makes the whole network unreliable.

If the above points are too high of an investment and skipping stops is the only viable solution then a proper digital interface is needed. If the schedule is dynamic then the information about it also needs to be dynamic. I need to be able to know that the bus I am on is going to skip my stop and plan my next steps while I am sitting in the bus itself.
by troyvit | 2025-07-24 15:13:10+00:00
Seriously. Is _that_ what it means to have a conservative government? Because I thought it meant they would keep their hands off the market. This is straight from the PDF though:

"Led by the Department of Commerce (DOC) through the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), revise the NIST AI Risk Management Framework to eliminate references to misinformation, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and climate change."
by cubefox | 2025-07-24 15:13:16+00:00
That's true, but I would phrase it from a different perspective:

It's seems clear that abstract thinking in particular is greatly aided by writing, because the written text acts like a thought cache. A bit like an LLM context window which you can fill with lots of compact, compressed "tokens" (words).

Abstract thoughts are "abstract" because they can't be visualized in our mind, so they don't benefit from our intuitive imagination ability (Kant's "Anschauung"). So it is hard to juggle many abstract thoughts in our working memory.

We can also think of the working memory as the CPU registers, which are limited to a very small number, while the content of the CPU cache or RAM corresponds to the stuff we write down.

Our "anschauung" (visual imagination) is perhaps something like a fixed function hardware on a GPU, which is very good at processing complex audiovisual content, i.e. concrete thoughts, but useless for anything else (abstract thoughts).
by potato3732842 | 2025-07-24 15:13:29+00:00
That doesn't make sense to me US textiles were in high demand, though perhaps not in pink and blue starting around 1940 and by the end of the decade US consumers were getting quite wealthy. I'm not saying it didn't happen but I'd like to see a better reason than "companies love money" since if you loved money in the 1940s there were better ways to get it than trying to do some sort of marketing campaign to reverse a social standard (using a marketing industry that was much less advanced and pervasive no less.)
by bsoles | 2025-07-24 15:13:40+00:00
Michael Phelps did outswim his diet. He famously ate a lot of junk food and pizza, and yet remained fit because of his huge daily calorie expenditure. A direct quote from an interview with him, where he states: "I just sort of try to cram whatever I can into my body. It’s pretty much whatever I feel like eating, I’m going to eat".
by liotier | 2025-07-24 15:13:54+00:00
Scratch your own itch. Anyone thinks you are making a mighty nice itch-scratching machine and wants to make it better ? Welcome, let's cooperate !

Others who want you to scratch their personal itch ? Offer professional services or maybe ignore them if you have anything better to do !

You may like your itch scratching device as it is - that it has a pile of CVE to its name doesn't bother you while you sip your tea, scratch your back and listen to the wind in the leaves...
by shadowgovt | 2025-07-24 15:14:05+00:00
I'm not sure how that's relevant for rust. I'm trying to think of a way they could distribute the rust toolchain that would break your desktop; does your desktop have a native rust install that other pieces of the distro are relying on to have a particular configuration (like the gcc most distros ship with) that a curl | bash installed toolchain would interfere with?
by bgwalter | 2025-07-24 15:14:14+00:00
Users and companies can force you to continue to work on your project. Otherwise they'll fork it, make it worse, blame you for bugs they introduced in the fork, say that the original project wasn't that good, etc.

Basically, the fork now controls the narrative over your own work.

If you are completely immune to public opinion, it might work. But the more you invested in the project, the more famous it is, the harder it gets.

Open source started in an altruistic environment and has become slavery. Perhaps someone who was active in the 1990s will point out that it was a narrative even back then, at least it didn't feel like it.
by Lerc | 2025-07-24 15:14:20+00:00
The principle should be that it shifts the problem to payment providers who can be switched out for other payment providers seamlessly. The providers are motivated to behave ethically because you have the option of going elsewhere.

Paying with crypto is still not very usable but you can still do it directly which limits the degree of extortion that can be applied. I think it will get better as it ceases to be 'interesting' and people develop tools that just work rather than try to revolutionize your life.