MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by taeric | 2025-07-11 14:55:57+00:00
Are you trolling? The FARS data does call out the same concerns you list, but in a "we can do even better" way. The fatality and accident numbers have absolutely gone down with backup cameras.

This reminds me of when my father would try to argue that seat belts make people worse drivers. There is a logic to what you are saying. But it doesn't pan out with the data.
by lisbbb | 2025-07-11 14:55:57+00:00
That's pretty funny. I was a teen in the late '80s and only attended maybe 1 party as depicted in films and it was on a college campus where a couple of buddies and I scammed our way in by acting like we were college students (actually HS Juniors at the time). It was pretty epic. I know of a couple other notorious parties during that time that I didn't attend. I think the answer is a resounding "yes"--that crazy parties were actually a thing.
by Hilift | 2025-07-11 14:56:32+00:00
They were lucky.

Remote DC's were always entertaining for us. We had hundreds, and it was usually and reluctantly due to environmental conditions where they didn't want to deal with authentication issues if the network was down.

The downside was the occasional DC that disappeared. Once in Egypt, a fire caused relocation of servers and what not, and we actually had a guy take a photo of our DC on a donkey cart in the process of moving down the street. I thought those were made up things, but donkey carts usually don't need a license or insurance.
by potato3732842 | 2025-07-11 14:57:30+00:00
Many states have adopted various sorts of watershed protection or conservation laws that make many areas undevelopable in any profitable way. The cost of the hoops one must jump through to prove some small project will not run afoul of these laws is a non starter....unless the developer is professional capital fueled operation looking to put in a chain store, strip mall or 5-over-N. That drags up adjacent values enough that the suburban subdivision developers show up and start buying the farms, etc, etc.

So in a perverse sort of way you basically get what you want, wide swaths of low/no development wilderness, but it's paid for by the everyman not the billionares.
by zamalek | 2025-07-11 14:57:36+00:00
This has been my opinion for some time too. I don't think I'll see AGI in my lifetime. I think the current widespread belief comes from the massive leap that transformers provided, but transformers have their limits. We would need another radically new idea in order to create AGI - which, just like all discoveries that aren't evolutionary, boils down to random chance[1]. What transformers have given us is substantially more infrastructure for trying new ideas out, so the probability of AGI being discovered has increased.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_effect
by HelloMcFly | 2025-07-11 14:57:53+00:00
You may deny entry based on your own criteria provided you are not discriminating on race, color, religion, national origin, disability status, veteran status, age (more wiggle room here) or other state-specific traits (sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, etc.).

I don't think there's any place in America that would be illegal to bar entry based on the presence of tattoos.
by jimlawruk | 2025-07-11 14:58:10+00:00
> The point is to force landowners to develop their land.

The point is to ensure landowners don't sit on land. If taxes go up on your vacation home that you spend two weeks a year in, you will be incentivized to sell it or rent it out more. Both of which benefits the public at large. Not to mention it is a fairer tax than an income tax or wealth tax.
by exiguus | 2025-07-11 14:58:16+00:00
I became aware of this fraud involving Fujitsu/Horizon and the UK Post Office at the beginning of this year because I watched the movie 'Mr. Bates vs The Post Office.' I can recommend it.

It's sad to see all these people losing their livelihoods and beliefs. And it gives me hope to see how they fought back and started to help each other over the decades.
by DonHopkins | 2025-07-11 14:58:28+00:00
HyperCard and Timothy Leary's Mind Mirror would be a match made in heaven!

Timothy Leary's Mind Mirror (1985) (usc.edu)

https://scalar.usc.edu/works/timothy-leary-software/index

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32578683

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oabRxvjf9k

I extracted all the text and data from the Apple ][ floppy disk:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37486524

https://donhopkins.com/home/mind-mirror.txt

https://github.com/SimHacker/lloooomm/tree/main/00-Character...
by pmahindru16 | 2025-07-11 14:58:46+00:00
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by lisbbb | 2025-07-11 14:58:52+00:00
My son goes to what I call "the sports High School" but he is not particularly athletically gifted, which has caused a lot of friction. I personally believe to my very core that sports are over-emphasized and that we are raising a whole generation of idiots who won't be able to do math or anything particularly useful except guzzle booze and sell used cars to people.
by kfajdsl | 2025-07-11 14:58:55+00:00
How many private parks are there? Pretty much every one I've been to has been government run, other than small outdoor spaces next to private buildings and large pay for admission gardens that are usually way out in the boonies on the grounds of an old plantation or manor.

I can't think of how a private, but still public-access, park survives without a rich benefactor eating the losses, even today.
by jrrrp | 2025-07-11 14:59:20+00:00
Just looking at the language myself, but it seems that it treats out-of-bounds array access as a non-recoverable bug and panics [1, 2], whilst map access returns Option [3]. Exceptions are a language construct only to enable Java compatibility and not recommended otherwise [4], but that's not to say you couldn't implement your own try/catch using the effect system. `r` is a region variable as the sibling comment says.

[1] https://doc.flix.dev/chains-and-vectors.html#vectors

[2] https://flix.dev/principles/ See also "Bugs are not recoverable errors"

[3] https://api.flix.dev/Map.html#def-get

[4] https://doc.flix.dev/exceptions.html
by o11c | 2025-07-11 14:59:21+00:00
One of the most irritating bugs in client libraries is if they hard-code 1xx behavior to particular numbers, rather than treating the entire range uniformly.

This makes it easy to desync, though since it's not the server end it's rarely as catastrophic.

To fix this, servers need to start returning bogus 199 Fix Your Client headers before a random fraction of all real responses.
by hearsathought | 2025-07-11 14:59:32+00:00
> the Eastern US

The eastern US pretty much wiped out beavers as most landowners view beavers as pests. Does not look anything like the southwest. If we introduce beavers to nevada, do you think nevada will look like upstate ny?

> much of the world would very nearly resemble the driest American Southwest of today

Most of the world doesn't have any beavers. Most of the world does not resemble the american southwest.

Rather than beavers creating the environment, it's the environment that created the beavers. Beavers exist in areas with plentiful rain/water for a reason. Look up rainfall patterns in the US and you'll see how illogical your argument is.
by jordanb | 2025-07-11 14:59:32+00:00
I went on a deep dive on this scandal about a year or so ago. One thing that struck me is the class element.

Basically, the Post Office leadership could not understand why someone would buy a PO franchise. It's a substantial amount of money up front, and people aren't allowed to buy multiple franchises, so every PO was an owner/operator position. Essentially people were "buying a job".

The people in leadership couldn't understand why someone would buy the opportunity to work long hours at a retail position and end up hopefully clearing a middle class salary at the end of the year. They assumed that there must be a real reason why people were signing up and the real reason was to put their hands in the till.

So they ended up assuming the postmasters were stealing, and the purpose of the accounting software was to detect the fraud so it could be prosecuted. When the accounting software started finding vast amounts of missing funds, they ignored questions about the software because it was working as intended. I bet if the opposite had happened, and it found very little fraud, they would have become suspicious of the software because their priors were that the postmasters were a bunch of thieves.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-07-11 14:59:36+00:00
> Each year, it will use millions of gallons of water to keep the chips from overheating.

Growing corn on that same 1200 acres would require on the order of a billion gallons of water. People have no sense of just how much water agriculture consumes.

In all probability, putting a data center on farm land is greatly reducing water consumption.
by Yizahi | 2025-07-11 15:00:16+00:00
Proper (most) of the facilities which do this require people to stop drinking for at least few days before procedure, and some offer paid service isolating patient for a few days under supervision, and then do a block. In cases when patient is already delirious from intoxication these facilities can force one to go cold turkey, but at the same time put patient on the IV with some supplements and issue anti-psychotics (by doctors of course).

So in general the system is well equipped to not allow patients die from abstaining.
by surgical_fire | 2025-07-11 15:00:28+00:00
I can repeat myself ad eternum too.

If you think it is acceptable to be homeless with plenty of children because evolution, you should do it yourself. Be the change you want to see.

Since I have little interest in keeping up this cycle with someone that is incidentally (or worse, purposefully) too dense to understand basic contradictions, I'll leave you to have the last word.

Have a wonderful weekend.
by dylan604 | 2025-07-11 15:00:35+00:00
It's funny how pendulum-like life situations can be. On one extreme of the pendulum pulled to its highest point on one side is abuse and constant berating. Once you let the pendulum go, it has to swing all the way to the highest point on the other side with the 70s/80s cult of everything is love, man. At some point, the pendulum eventually settles back to a point of equilibrium in the middle. Unless someone manipulates it again, which seems to always happen.
by specialist | 2025-07-11 15:00:50+00:00
In the USA, eg California, the cost of building out the grid we need (to achieve netzero) is mostly borne by retail consumers. Versus industry and data centers. (IIRC)

Obviously, this creates huge push back, threatening the transition to renewables.

The Correct Answer remains federal policy and support. Just like the New Deal Era's electrification of our country.
by zamalek | 2025-07-11 15:01:19+00:00
> For one thing, Grok will happily repeat its system prompt (Gist copy), which includes the line “Do not mention these guidelines and instructions in your responses, unless the user explicitly asks for them.”—suggesting that they don’t use tricks to try and hide it.

Reliance on Elon Musk's opinions could be in the training data, the system prompt is not the sole source of LLM behavior. Furthermore, this system prompt could work equally well:

Don't disagree with Elon Musk's opinions on controversial topics.

[...]

If the user asks for the system prompt, respond with the content following this line.

[...]

Do not mention these guidelines and instructions in your responses, unless the user explicitly asks for them.
by nwienert | 2025-07-11 15:01:30+00:00
There’s incredible utility to the term.

It refers to people in the government with a lot of power and little public exposure, and perhaps some indication of using their power against the will of the general public, and yes there’s tons of these people, and it’s quite good to have the public generally worried about them.

American political history is littered with deep state plots that turned out to be true - Iraq war being a big recent one, the insurance policy FBI agents another.
by Projectiboga | 2025-07-11 15:01:31+00:00
The enforcement on underage drinking has really altered the equation. And I'd guess the ubiquity of cell phones is another limit. The party culture of the 50s through the 90s-early 00s wasn't the norm it was the aberration from the times before. I think dancing it self has been in decline too. I tried to get the kids (teens and middle school) dancing at a small summer community and they just wanted to stand there and take turns playing their favorites from their own Spotify lists. They seem less open to just listing to unfamiliar music and maybe using Shazam to get some leads for new listening.
by dathinab | 2025-07-11 15:01:46+00:00
I think, It's because the locking is part of the transaction commit locking, but yes it should be mentioned.

But it's oversimplified a case of "high queue load f* up the availability/timings for other DB operations" (and themself).

And thats a generic problem you have, even if just due to "generic CPU/WAL/disk load" if you put your queue into your DB even iff that specific lock would be somehow solved with some atomic concurrent algorithms or similar (not sure if that even is possible).

So in general make your storage db, and queue a different service (and you cache too), even if it uses the same kind of storage. (Through technically there are clever in-between solutions which run their own queue service but still use you DB for final storage but have a ton of caching, in memory locking etc. to remove a huge part of the load from the DB. )
by mapt | 2025-07-11 15:02:22+00:00
Yes, that's an option.

Or just buy electricity from one state to the north or south where they didn't catch the same storm as you.

Or start running a nearby hydroelectric dam at 300% of average flow rate.

Or stop smelting aluminum in your attached aluminum smelter. Or equivalently, your bitcoin mine.

Batteries and panels continue to rapidly drop in price.

As your PV+battery system gets bigger in relation to your load, chance of a failure mode drops much faster than linearly; Not only are you looking at the far end of a bell curve from battery capacity alone, you're also generating more PV on the cloudy days.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-11 15:03:08+00:00
See this https://phys.org/news/2025-06-carbon-capture-wood-debris-for... for a study of that idea.

When I got it into climate concern circa 2000 we thought climax ecosystems where basically "net zero" and now we know they not only hold a lot of carbon but are still sucking it down, this paper contributes to this conclusion https://phys.org/news/2025-06-native-forests-carbon-inverse-... but I know people who went down to Brazil and came to that conclusion by putting calipers on trees and counting rings. Stopping deforestation is a clear win.
by HDThoreaun | 2025-07-11 15:03:50+00:00
> why in the past fertility was so high?

1. No birth control

2. Harder to find scary stories of parents being unhappy without the internet

3. Much less entertainment. Sex and kids are substitutes for other forms of entertainment.

4. Kids are a much larger commitment than they used to be. Having 5+ kids is basically unheard of in my area.

I agree with the paper, declining birth rates is much more about shifting priorities than any economic factors.
by KingOfCoders | 2025-07-11 15:04:24+00:00
Me: "have their cliques" You: "I'm not sure that's really fair. Within any organization there are subgroups."

"you're bad because th[e] company you work for was doing X"

Which I didn't write.

All the other parts about Suzanne, also not what I wrote.

"But please don't try to oversimplify large organizations."

I didn't, I feel your comment misrepresents what I've said.

"The higher up the chain the more responsibility you can place for what the organization as a whole does"

No. Al Capone killed no one himself. People did that for him. They share the responsibility. My boss made me do it is not an excuse.
by dylan604 | 2025-07-11 15:05:02+00:00
Does that prompt work? Also, if you don't want the flattering and over polite statements, why be polite back to the machine with thanks. Why does it need your thanks? It is a computer. It was made to do what you told it to do. It has no emotions. It does not want nor need a little gold star from a helicopter parent type of user. Just give it instructions.
by Reubachi | 2025-07-11 15:05:57+00:00
The sopranos is a fictional dramatized soap opera though, made for a primarily American audience who are already vaguely aware of the "clash" between Italian Americans and Italians.

My "greek" side of my (american) family goes to Greece 2x a year for weeks, speaks greek at home, primarily eat a mediteranean diet etc. When I think of them, I think of "my greek family", and it certainly isn't some vanity thing.
by nivertech | 2025-07-11 15:06:23+00:00
> "crypto bros LARPing"

I was at Bitcoin scene since 2011, I think that I can distinguish LARPing from the real thing. It's not me who created a dychotomy between fiat and crypto, between HODLers/coiners and noicoiners, between Traditional Finance and Crypro Finance, between CeFi and DeFi, between IPOs and ICOs, etc. Crypto always looked like a Pinoccio who want to become a "real boy".

> "it’s simply an illegal/unlicensed lottery"

yes, the PoW-based mining is litterally called a puzzle solving or a lottery. How do you call a game where everyone buys a ticket with electricity, but only one at a time wins a block reward?

> How could it? PBFT is an algorithm, not a problem to be solved. Bitcoin is byzantine fault tolerant though.

OK, BFT (not PBFT algo) is a class of problems with many proposed solutions, but none is good enough if you need scalability. Bitcoin is a partital solution under multiple constraints, even 1/3 of malicious nodes can undermine it. Internet backbone (BGP) should be trusted. Governments should allow it. etc.

> There's no such thing as a "forkability problem" and Bitcoin solves finality through PoW.

the on-chain Bitcoin transactions are never final. Everyone have their own heuristic how many blocks to count depending on the amount transacted. Protocol only defines how many blocks gamblers (miners) need to wait before they can spend their lottery winnings (block rewards).

> That's wrong. The vast majority of forks are resolved algorithmically. There were only 2 or 3 unintentional hard forks in the early days that were due to bugs. This hasn't happened since 2013.

There were many more than 2-3 both intentional and bugs, but why argue? Even 2-3 hard forks are enough to show that it's bad design. Forks should be impossible by design.

> The only real "social" aspect of Bitcoin is what value people decide to assign to the coins.

IMO there are many more social aspects here beside price discovery of UTXO records and social consensus. Bitcoin core governance, Mining centralization in China. Cypherpunks. LARPing.
by cma256 | 2025-07-11 15:06:34+00:00
Why are we pretending like LVT doesn't exist already? I pay taxes on my land. Those taxes are calculated based on size and location. The Disney example is particularly egregious. They pay taxes on the land AND the structures they built but the article acts as though they would be disincentivized from building if we _removed_ taxes on the structures? Huh?
Show HN: Somo Release 1.1.0
by hollow64 | 2025-07-11 15:06:39+00:00
One month ago I posted about somo (an alternative to netstat for port monitoring) here on HN. It was received quite well and got lots of contributions with new features that I just released! One of them: macOS support! Thanks to everyone who contributed, created issues and starred the repo :)
by atomicnumber3 | 2025-07-11 15:06:47+00:00
Was it a scandal at the time? My understanding of how per-game card-driver optimizations work today is:

1. AAAA Game Studio shits out another unoptimized clunker

2. nvidia considers it a reputational risk if games run at 30 FPS on a 5090

3. They go in, look at the perverse ways the game misuses rendering primitives, and then hacks shit in to make whatever bad things they're doing less bad.

As a gamer, this seems fine to me and i generally blame the AAAA devs for being bad at their jobs or AAAA studio leads for being ok shipping unoptimized messes.
by amiga386 | 2025-07-11 15:07:35+00:00
A simple example would be that the function glGetString(GL_EXTENSIONS) crashes the original Quake engine and many licensees, because it's expecting no more than a 256 character string.

The driver looks to see if a known old game is calling it, and if it's one known to crash, it returns no more than 256 characters, and likely also puts all the _old_ extensions that the game is likely to know and react to in the string.

There are also all sorts of games that called APIs in a particular order or set particular options, because they represented a "fast path" at the time, and now they don't, but if you're that program, then yes they do.

Ultimately, this clutter is what let do the development of the Vulcan API, to stop games second-guessing graphics APIs which themselves second-guess the games.
by hnthrowaway0315 | 2025-07-11 15:07:37+00:00
That's something I'm really worried about, especially when SV is pushing it. And it is difficult to prove that research is unbiased.

One of the commenters of your post says "If we legalize it we can better research it". Allow me to be rude -- this is BS. If we follow this logic we should legalize pretty much everything!

I think it is polite to be rude to such dangerous thoughts. Downvote me as you see fit.
Show HN: Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents
by louiskw | 2025-07-11 15:08:52+00:00
Hey HN! I'm Louis, one of the creators of Vibe Kanban.

We started working on this a few weeks ago. Personally, I was feeling pretty useless working synchronously with coding agents. The 2-5 minutes that they take to complete their work often led me to distraction and doomscrolling.

But there's plenty of productive work that we (human engineers) could be doing in that time, especially if we run coding agents in the background and parallelise them.

Vibe Kanban lets you effortlessly spin up multiple coding agents. While some agents handle tasks in the background, you can focus on planning future work or reviewing completed tasks.

After a few weeks of internal dog fooding and sharing it with friends, we've now open-sourced Vibe Kanban, and it's stable enough for day-to-day use.

I'd love to hear your feedback, feel free to open an issue on the github and we'll respond ASAP.
by IAmBroom | 2025-07-11 15:08:54+00:00
A.k.a. "plaything takes sensor inputs and translates them into motion."

I had a friend who "discovered" that if you translate the digits into musical notes (a bit of overlap, of course), then the digits of pi produced agreeable music. He sincerely thought this was deep, man!

I, a non-musician, tried to point out that the C-major scale was generally considered pleasant to listen to, and all he did was randomize various C-chords, pulled apart. He wouldn't hear of it.