MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-11 15:50:52+00:00
As I see it, Donald Trump was factually false but Kamala Harris was emotionally false. As a rhetorician, if I had to choose one or the other, I’d pick the first. [1] I am thinking a lot of how to explain the ‘emotionally false’ bit to those who don’t bellyfeel it but it will probably be another two years or so before I have an explanation that’s transmissible.

[1] but I am not just a rhetorician!
by Balgair | 2025-07-11 15:50:57+00:00
> At the basic level, even the idea of growing money to hedge for the deteriorating health at old age doesn't even make sense. In a aging population, the supply (young, working) and demand (old, requiring care) might be so flipped, whatever gain you had will evaporate in price increase. Unless immigration or other unpopular policies.

I've been through this with an elderly relative. She had a very good pension that paid for ~$10k/mo memory care for ~7 years before she passed in her 90s. About $850k total over the run at that one facility, very likely over $1M for the whole retirement.

Even with that quality of medical care, we were over there helping her for every little thing. The facility was great, the people were too. But the legal landscape was such that every fall or trip was an ER visit or we had to come over. I get it, but it's exhausting as a non-primary caregiver.

When people say that they'll skip kids and just make a ton of money and that will take care of them when they are enfeebled, I don't think they understand reality. No one, no matter how much you pay them, is going to take care of you when you're blind and have lost your marbles and it's 3am and you can't get up.

Unless they love you. Only love will go through that long sad ordeal and only love is going to give you that 'kind' death. Even then, it's a total mess.

Money is not going to save you or let you exit stage right on your terms. Do not delude yourself into thinking that.
by dns_snek | 2025-07-11 15:50:59+00:00
The debt is between you and the company offering the subscription, it doesn't matter what type of an account you use. You entered a contractual agreement by signing up and then you didn't pay - or cancel. It's a quirk of the digital world that most companies don't pursue these claims against us in most places. In theory they could tally up your non-payments for the next 2 years and then send it to collections.

I'm not saying this because I agree with it, but because you should still be careful with what you sign up for. Simply declining to pay doesn't legally absolve you of your obligation to pay.
by CharlieDigital | 2025-07-11 15:51:07+00:00
Jumping onto a Next.js project right now that has no reason to have SSR. The code is now excessively complex, difficult to detangle, and I can't believe how bad the local DX is on a cold start on an M1 MBP. It's so slow; every nav is agonizing. Maybe it's how this is configured, maybe it's some other issue, but I definitely didn't encounter this with OOB stock Nuxt.js and of course, this project is an app that has no reason nor benefit for using Next.js.

No idea how Vercel scammed so many people. Founder paid an annual contract of $##,### to Vercel for what should be a freely hosted static web app + freely hosted (within credit boundaries) backend in a serverless container (e.g. Google Cloud Run, Azure Container Apps, etc.)

A complete scam.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-07-11 15:51:16+00:00
The Palestinians offered peace many times. The Israelis refused. It goes both ways.

One of the reasons why the Palestinians refused the Israeli offers was because the Israelis never offered the 1967 borders, which is what the Palestinians want. This is the exact opposite of what you're saying.

> Moreover, Israelis signed deals that were based on land for peace, e.g., Egypt.

The difference is that the Egyptians had a serious army that scared the bejeezus out of the Israelis is 1973. Israel only respects the language of force.

> Palestinians got autonomy only to establish a "pay for slay"

Israel has a massive "pay for slay" program. It's called the IDF.
by intellectronica | 2025-07-11 15:51:29+00:00
People who suffer from mental health difficulties tend to be psychologically inflexible. And it is that inflexibility, which can manifest in so many different ways, that is preventing them from growing and healing.

For some it can be consuming the same psychoactive substance over and over again. For others it may be compulsion to repeat a limited set of rituals and behaviours.

The first thing they need help with is accepting that they will not be able to exercise control over everything. There are many ways to get there, but for many, labelling this pattern as "addiction" and getting help and support in this context, is easier than other options.
by LargeWu | 2025-07-11 15:51:35+00:00
Yeah, the price is certainly a deterrent. My kids are tweens/early teens, almost aging out, and while they still like making things with cardboard, not sure I can justify that kind of investment for what is really a relatively simple tool. I mean, my 3D printer barely cost more than that, and that's a high-tech precision machine.
by Argonaut998 | 2025-07-11 15:51:43+00:00
I felt awful about being in Kyoto last year. Had I known how bad it was for the locals I would never have went. I can’t imagine how frustrated and angry if my home town was the same. The infrastructure can’t support the number of tourists unlike Tokyo. Locals can’t even get a bus without them being completely full to the brim all the day long.

It’s 100% social media. It’s the most vapid thing in the entire world. It makes tourist destinations theme parks with zero regards for the locals.
by swarnie | 2025-07-11 15:51:44+00:00
Its in OPs comment

> a retail position and end up hopefully clearing a middle class salary

Normal retail work is below the poverty line.

Beyond that i think it might be the social/community aspect. I simply can't use the post office in my town as its used as a social club for everyone over 70. Some people are just in to that kinda thing i suppose.
by mkolodny | 2025-07-11 15:52:14+00:00
Biases can lead to opinions, goals, and aspirations. For example, if you only read about the bad things Israelis or Palestinians have done, you might form an opinion that one of those groups is bad. Your answers to questions about the subject would reflect that opinion. Of course, less, biased information means you’d be less intelligent and give incorrect answers at times. The bias would likely lower your general intelligence - affecting your answers to seemingly unrelated but distantly connected questions. I’d expect that the same is true of LLMs.
by cryptonector | 2025-07-11 15:52:18+00:00
Because if you have N connections in your pool you're going to have to execute LISTEN on all N, or else the connection pool needs to be LISTEN-aware so it can process async notifies by calling some registered callback.

I.e., the connection pool API has to be designed with this in mind.

For that matter connection pools also need to be designed with the ability to run code upon connecting to create TEMP schema elements because PG lacks GLOBAL TEMP.
by rapatel0 | 2025-07-11 15:52:18+00:00
I respect both the comment and the commenter, but this is a fundamentally speculative statement that is somewhat meaningless.

It paraphrases to "it wasn't intentional, but something was intentional, and also unpredictable."

I'm sorry but what does that even mean? It's pure speculation.

Furthermore, I highly doubt that a reporter from politico has the either the expertise or the connections to qualify the post processing / fine tuning processes for the one of the most closely guarded and expensive processes in all of technology (training large scale foundation models).

Finally, the paragraph from the quote begins with "I mean, even Elon Musk, who’s probably warmer to Hitler than I am, doesn’t really want his LLM to say stuff like this."

Again it confirms a prior bias/narrative and is rage-bait to drive revenue.
by dylan604 | 2025-07-11 15:52:19+00:00
man, perspective here is quite funny to me. I just wrote a diatribe about SSD speeds vs my HDD experience in life. At $699 to have 5+GB/s throughput would make a younger me look at you like you had two heads and just walked out of UFO. There's no way it could be that fast/small/cheap in any future without alien tech. I get that Apple's pricing is higher than other options. Even still, it's dirt cheap compared for the performance that allows high-end to consumers.

Even still, I'm a huge fan of taking advantage of the cheaper options with an portable external chassis and a nice thunderbolt cable. While not quite as fast as the internal version, it's still 2+GB/s worth of speed that exceeds my needs/use.

So from my perspective, it's dirt cheap compared to your insanely expensive perspective
by _jayhack_ | 2025-07-11 15:52:31+00:00
Very cool and interesting project. Ideas like this are a threat to traditionally-conceived project management platforms like Linear; that being said, Linear and others (Monday, ClickUp, etc.) are pushing aggressively into UX built for human/AI collaboration. I guess the question is how quickly they can execute and how many novel features are required to properly bring AI into the human project workspace
by cheschire | 2025-07-11 15:52:54+00:00
Looking online at that, the ingredients are confusing.

Composition: Per capsule:

Turmeric (equivalence) - 10 000 mg; Turmeric (containing at least 95% curcumin) - 350 mg; Turmeric (exact 5:1) - 150 mg; Black Pepper - 5 mg; Vitamin C - 80 mg (100% VRN ); Zinc - 10 mg (100% VRN )
by anon-3988 | 2025-07-11 15:52:57+00:00
I am from a country in South East Asia, and its sad here as well. We have absolutely 0 connection to our ancestors from just 100 years ago. We (and me) have truly forgotten and don't have any identity beyond the surface level. We suffered from Arabification of every part of our culture.

I honestly think the original culture is pretty much extinct. Very, very few of the incoming generation even desire to uphold and rekindle that culture. In fact, it is despised.
by timr | 2025-07-11 15:53:12+00:00
> How long ago was that? It was certainly true in fairly large portions of the world, but there are plenty of places where, for as long as I can remember, you could pretty much expect to be scammed regularly.

To be clear: "scamming" is still thankfully uncommon in Japan. Getting ripped off in the tourist-trap way is the new development.

I don't know when it started exactly, but I lived there around a decade ago and it was rare then. The prices around tourist spots would always be elevated and world heritage sites often had a line of crappy souvenir shops, but you didn't see the same kind of fake "wagyu" and the like that you see everywhere today.
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by breppp | 2025-07-11 15:53:23+00:00
> Chomsky is making the proposition "often the media misreports or doesn't report on important things" which is far from claiming "everything mainstream is false because it is mainstream

I feel like we are going in loops, so I am not going to reply anymore. so last time:

He said that the only reason that the reporter is sitting there is because he thinks in a specific way, and that's pretty much a quote. That hints that the reporter opinions are tainted and are therefore false or influenced by outside factors, or at least that's what I gather. What I am saying is if that idea is true, it applies to Chomsky as well which is not there for being a linguist and whatever self selection of right or wrong opinions is happening in the media can also be said for the academics
by simonw | 2025-07-11 15:53:54+00:00
LLMs work using huge amounts of matrix multiplication.

Floating point multiplication is non-associative:

a = 0.1, b = 0.2, c = 0.3 a * (b * c) = 0.006 (a * b) * c = 0.006000000000000001

Almost all serious LLMs are deployed across multiple GPUs and have operations executed in batches for efficiency.

As such, the order in which those multiplications are run depends on all sorts of factors. There are no guarantees of operation order, which means non-associative floating point operations play a role in the final result.

This means that, in practice, most deployed LLMs are non-deterministic even with a fixed seed.

That's why vendors don't offer seed parameters accompanied by a promise that it will result in deterministic results - because that's a promise they cannot keep.

Here's an example: https://cookbook.openai.com/examples/reproducible_outputs_wi...

> Developers can now specify seed parameter in the Chat Completion request to receive (mostly) consistent outputs. [...] There is a small chance that responses differ even when request parameters and system_fingerprint match, due to the inherent non-determinism of our models.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-07-11 15:54:08+00:00
Semi-related: I'm currently interested in how people get into the seemingly closed and endless maze of believing in things that are relatively provably incorrect or at odds with their own interests.

My daughter has recently been diagnosed with an eating disorder, and she cannot get past wanting to lose weight, no matter that she's in hospital due to her heart rate having slowed down to alarming levels. She still wants it to go slower, as a challenge, as a goal, to show how strong she is in fighting her own body's will to live.

It's fucking crazy, but it's her reality. I do not understand how this kind of fantasy gets a foothold. I feel like the power of an idea is woefully underestimated.

Same goes with conspiracy theories. Maybe an idea has to fit like a puzzle piece into a real life scenario as a convenient surface-level explanation for something unpleasant or just unresolved.

I used to think the brain was a logic machine, but I think there are strong elements of it that are coping mechanisms. Cling to a fantasy that makes unpleasant thing less unpleasant. Don't know how that relates to potentially starving oneself to death, but that seems to be entirely on the table for ye olde brain.

Careful what you consider plausible folks!
by jerf | 2025-07-11 15:54:10+00:00
Yes, I agree with all of that stuff about using more structure in larger companies.

My meta point is that it is easy for programmers to come to the conclusion that all that should exist is the stuff that large companies use, as I see so many people believe, but if you try to model the world on that assumption you end up very frustrated and confused by how the real world actually works. You can't push a highly proscriptive, very detailed, high up-front work methology out on everyone. Not because it's a bad idea per se, or because it "wouldn't work", but because you literally can't. You can't force people to be "better" programmers than they are by pushing standards on them.

My gut leans in the direction of better specifications and more formal technologies, but I can't push that on my users. It really needs to be a pull operation.
by dmbche | 2025-07-11 15:54:14+00:00
I'm not sure if I'm dense, but we don't use steel to make steel (whether crucibles or "feed material").

The first person to make steel made it without steel didn't they?

Did I miss something?

Edit0: fun tidbit - Wootz steel was made with crucibles of clay with rice husks mixed in (husks would carbonize quickly and introduce air layers to better isolate) and many seemingly random objects (fruits, vegetation) were added to the crucible to control carbon content.

I higly recommend A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry's series on steel (it's a blog, just search "ACOUP steel".
by BobaFloutist | 2025-07-11 15:54:20+00:00
Breathalyzers aren't typically considered sufficient evidence in of themselves to convict (or exonerate), iirc many PDs have a policy of treating a breathalyzer hit as probable cause more than anything and then either they throw you in the drunk tank if you don't demand a blood test to verify, or, if they want to actually prosecute you, they get a warrant for a blood test.
by noir_lord | 2025-07-11 15:54:23+00:00
I never started with social media (I guess you can count reddit/HN) but beyond that - nope.

This isn't a "I'm so smart I saw the writing on the wall" thing it's entirely that I'm not hugely social anyway and social media is a weak reflection of been actually social.

Same with doom scrolling, it just doesn't seem to take with me.
by nordsieck | 2025-07-11 15:55:11+00:00
> It's pure robbery on Apple's part. Completely beyond the pale now. Their ridiculous RAM and storage prices were never that big of a deal back in the PowerBook/early Macbook Pro days, because you could always opt out if you were a tiny bit handy with a small screwdriver (my 2008 unibody lets me swap storage with 1 screw, swap a battery with zero!). Now? It's unforgivable. I don't care about soldered RAM, I get it, but it is despicable charging as much as the entire computer to upgrade the RAM a paltry 16GB.

For what it's worth, I completely agree with you.

But.

I suspect that Apple isn't solely doing this for profit. Apple's pricing structure aggressively funnels people into the base config for each CPU.

Thinking about getting an M4 with upgraded ram? A base config M4 pro starts to look pretty good.

In practice, this means that Apple's logistics is dramatically simplified since 95% of people are ordering a small number of SKUs.

> There's profit, and there's actively making your entire product experience worse in pursuit of profit.

It was really egregious when the base config only came with 8 GB of ram. I'll admit that storage can be a bit tight depending on what you're trying to do, but at least external storage is an option, however ugly and/or inconvenient it may be for some.
by OskarS | 2025-07-11 15:55:13+00:00
I bet number 3 on your list there is super-appealing to many people. It sounds lovely to be the kind of person in a smaller community that everyone knows and says hi to, that helps you out with paying your bills or whatever it is. I’m guessing you’re also often the closest contact to the state in a smaller village, so there’s probably all sorts of applications and permits you’re asked to help out with.

Especially if you’re on the older side, it sounds like an absolutely wonderful way to spend your time. Assuming the post office doesn’t try to ruin your life afterwards.
by GeekyBear | 2025-07-11 15:55:19+00:00
The article speculates on why Apple integrates the SSD controller onto the SOC for their A and M series chips, but misses one big reason, data integrity.

About a decade and a half ago, Apple paid half a billion dollars to acquire the patents of a company making enterprise SSD controllers.

> Anobit appears to be applying a lot of signal processing techniques in addition to ECC to address the issue of NAND reliability and data retention. In its patents there are mentions of periodically refreshing cells whose voltages may have drifted, exploiting some of the behaviors of adjacent cells and generally trying to deal with the things that happen to NAND once it's been worn considerably.

Through all of these efforts, Anobit is promising significant improvements in NAND longevity and reliability.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/5258/apple-acquires-anobit-br...
by jvanderbot | 2025-07-11 15:55:20+00:00
Solutions in this space almost never look "like robots". They end up looking more like https://atstrack.com/assets/images/series/seriesImages/F1200... or an arm / coil.

I worked on a robot that did precisely this in oil platforms. It had to find its way through gross, sludgy tanks to find leaks or cracks, mostly taking pictures to stream back / map environment and not using AI in the loop.

I've also worked on one for oil distillation columns.

And another one for test samples in composite manufacturing.

They all had the same problem: If you're far from the user, the absence of evidence of a leak is more likely attributable to bad sensing than good results. Far, far more likely.

And, I hate to say it, none of those actuators are going to survive contact with reality either.

Cool idea, but what you want is a snake / swimmer that feeds EOIR + radar, or a floater that screams ultrasonics the whole way through the pipe. Those _have_ been actually deployed.
by 0points | 2025-07-11 15:55:51+00:00
Oh, hah. Well that doesn't seem intentionally malicious then.

I added it in the first place as it was a non-resolving .gov in the top 50 list which seemed out of place to me.

> bldrdoc.gov: No address associated with hostname

I see that the time related subdomains in your link do resolve to the nist.gov timeserver.

But I really am wondering what's up with all of the rest of these domains.
by vouaobrasil | 2025-07-11 15:55:52+00:00
> Well you see, everybody is equal, especially in the age of AI which is the great cognitive equalizer (in the same way gunpowder and firearms equalized one's capacity for violence). There is no such thing as individual expertise now; expertise is soon to become the exclusive domain of AI.

That is right, and it's a terrible shame because society has been built upon the uniqueness of individuals. The loss of that will be a very bit psychological hit to human beings and make life seem much more meaningless. Because in reality, it's demeaning to be an orchestrator of AI, and after the novelty of it wears off we will all be just pulling levers, having lost the uniqueness of our culture and spirit.
by teekert | 2025-07-11 15:55:58+00:00
Yeah, I gathered as much, but still, just a single URL to an email address to log me in? What about my 36 char password and my 2fa app?

Edit: I just found I didn't set up 2fa. I wonder, if I had, would they still do this? Then it would have just blatantly ignored my second factor...
by TimorousBestie | 2025-07-11 15:56:06+00:00
> They don't have to state a reason. The entire foundation of the common law system is to have a court decide intent; not be technically bound by your words.

Yes, I agree. It becomes more difficult to infer intent without a stated reason.

Practically speaking, I think most civil rights lawsuits that are decided in the plaintiff’s favor are very, very explicit cases of discrimination. Someone was called a slur, someone was refused service violently, someone had racist iconography scrawled on their property. Yes, fines and sanctions then. Well, sometimes.

The ones who are clever about it never get to that stage. They don’t put up a sign saying “no foreigners,” they put up a sign saying “we speak english here,” “proud to be an american,” and etc. Confederate flags, military paraphernalia, the usual soft threats against the other.

Foreigners in particular are going to find it very difficult to interact with our justice system. A civil rights case that goes to trial is going to take much longer than the typical tourist visa allows. It’s going to be prohibitively expensive for the typical tourist to procure the services of a skilled lawyer.