MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pseudalopex | 2025-07-11 20:29:23+00:00
> Was it really adults trying to prevent other adults from those materials, or trying to prevent minors from accessing adult materials?

This dichotomy is false. Many challenges were trying to prevent children and adolescents from accessing age appropriate materials. A number of challenges asserted the books were unsuitable for any age. Or called for the library to purge or destroy them.[1][2]

> (I'll interpret downvotes without response as confirmation of the latter, and that people want minors accessing adult material.)

Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.[3]

Who did you think would be impressed by an announcement you would interpret down votes in bad faith?

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fMT8K3YQVbCUFj9_67euHnQW...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44517341

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by kragen | 2025-07-11 20:29:29+00:00
Yeah, and probably in, say, Switzerland that's exactly what people would do if they had this problem. But here in Argentina, for example, a friend of mine had his house raided by the police because he revealed that the voting machines the country was planning to adopt were flawed and vulnerable to falsified election results. And in the US right now immigrants are getting arrested and deported if they show up to their court hearings to decide whether they should be deported. And you probably remember that, during the covid pandemic, the US government was prohibiting labs from telling people whether their covid tests were positive or negative. So probably this isn't a full replacement for being able to do your own tests.
by isusmelj | 2025-07-11 20:30:19+00:00
I hope they do well. AFAIK they’re training or finetuning an older LLaMA model, so performance might lag behind SOTA. But what really matters is that ETH and EPFL get hands-on experience training at scale. From what I’ve heard, the new AI cluster still has teething problems. A lot of people underestimate how tough it is to train models at this scale, especially on your own infra.

Disclaimer: I’m Swiss and studied at ETH. We’ve got the brainpower, but not much large-scale training experience yet. And IMHO, a lot of the “magic” in LLMs is infrastructure-driven.
by netbioserror | 2025-07-11 20:30:28+00:00
I used Clojure back in the day and use Nim at work these days. Linking in to C is trivially easy in Nim. Happy to see this working for jank, but C++ is...such a nightmare target.

Any chance of Jank eventually settling on reference counting? It checks so many boxes in my book: Simple, predictable, few edge cases, fast. I guess it really just depends on how much jank programs thrash memory, I remember Clojure having a lot of background churn.
by vannevar | 2025-07-11 20:30:30+00:00
The LVT would get rolled into rent, which would propagate through the economy. I think the chief effect of a fixed LVT would be discouraging passive land investment (since you've got to collect rent to pay your LVT). IMO, while this might be beneficial for increasing the housing supply, a progressive LVT would be even better. A progressive LVT would put larger landowners at a disadvantage in the rental market, because their tax would be higher on an equivalent parcel than a smaller landowner. By ensuring a larger number of smaller landlords, I think you'd see a more diverse and competitive rental market.
by whatsupdog | 2025-07-11 20:31:10+00:00
What Ethereum did after DAO was way more sinister. At least with the Bitcoin "roll-back" there were no transactions reversed. The miners just got together and started mining from a previous point in the Blockchain, and eventually the new chain had more work done and was validly accepted by even outdated nodes. Ethereum just went ahead and added this to their protocol: "ummm this transaction stands reversed, you don't need to verify signature for this particular transaction". This blot will stay in the protocol for ever.
by riku_iki | 2025-07-11 20:31:21+00:00
> But being unable to mount, is a bug that makes a filesystem untrustworthy and useless.

we are in disagreement on this. If partition table entry corrupted, you can't mount without some low level surgery.

> And how would RAID help in that situation?

depending on raid, your data will be duplicated on another disk, and will survive in case of one/few disks corruption.
by AceJohnny2 | 2025-07-11 20:31:26+00:00
Reminds me of the iPhone throttling battery fiasco https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batterygate

What happened was:

1. Battery defects caused some of them to underperform, leading the battery management subsystem to shut down the phone due to voltage drop when too much current was drawn.

2. To work around the shutdown issue (very bad), Apple implemented throttling (IMHO less bad) in a new version of iOS, to prevent too much current from being drawn. They figured the throttling would be so light as to be unnoticeable to users, except...

3. Benchmarkers noticed the throttling, and all hell broke loose.

Battery defects are unfortunate, but the decision to make them not user-serviceable leads to a host of bad downstream decisions.

(Of course, making them user-serviceable also leads to a host of other difficult decisions, and I'm not just talking about opening the case. What happens to system design when you can no longer trust the battery's specs?)
by splice-cad | 2025-07-11 20:31:35+00:00
Thanks for the feedback, Gia - we were able to get a couple of the items on your list fixed in an update today.

To pan, click and hold the right mouse key (or wheel) and drag. Are you trying this from a tablet?

There’s now a blog section on the site: https://splice-cad.com/#/blog/splice-updates-july-2025 where we’re documenting changes, fixes, and future plans. The feedback from this post has been very helpful.
by maxerickson | 2025-07-11 20:32:31+00:00
Uh, the culprit isn't turmeric, it's lead chromate that farmers were putting on turmeric.

For most readers of English, it is not an expected fact that someone would be intentionally adding lead to food.

In the article, the turmeric related lead poisonings were due to turmeric bought at Bangladeshi markets, not processed, packaged spices bought from a grocer.
by ge96 | 2025-07-11 20:33:34+00:00
I don't partake anymore, only drink nowadays and even that try to only do a day a week since it costs money but also I don't actually enjoy the taste of alcohol. I use it for the social aspect but then I do too much of it and do dumb things like climb buildings or try to fight people, go to strip clubs drop money I don't have. (I spent $1.2K one time it's bad since I go out to try and meet women)

My other drug of choice is adrenaline from driving fast my car currently tops out just under 160mph and I'd go even faster if I could but maybe thankfully I can't. Fear is funny too, I don't fear this but I fear talking to people ha.

I'm trying to stop this because the tickets part, I only screw around on highways when I'm alone and day time, I don't do swimming/cutting people off but yeah.

The speed thing is easy get an old ZR1 it can go 200 but going in a straight line can be boring. It's the acceleration. Recently been watching this guy drive an Elise down roads in Switzerland that's pretty fun and not that fast. I know you can track too but idk.
by strbean | 2025-07-11 20:33:50+00:00
The name Less Wrong was at least intended to be aspirational. From the about page:

> LessWrong is an online forum and community dedicated to improving human reasoning and decision-making.

The goal is to be less wrong. It isn't intended as a claim that Yudkowksy is less wrong than others.

Whether that actually reflects the attitudes of members of those communities today is doubtful, though.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-07-11 20:34:02+00:00
Backup accidents aren't high speed and the rate of fatality is low, why would you use FARS data in this context? Its clear cherry picking.

A kid getting hit by a backing up car causes injuries and concussions, and you saying it doesn't "add to child pedestrian safety" to prevent that because they aren't splattered by these incidents is offensively absurd.
by SkyPuncher | 2025-07-11 20:34:23+00:00
One thing I find frustrating with these conversations is the _strict_ focus on single-task productivity.

Arguably, on a single coding task, I don't really move that much faster. However, I have much, much more brain capacity left both while coding and when I'm done coding.

This has two knock on effects:

1. Most simply, I'm productive for longer. Since LLMs are doing a lot of the heavy lifting, my brain doesn't have to constantly think. This is especially important in time periods where I'd previously have too little mental energy to think deeply about code.

2. I can do other things while coding. Well, right now, Cursor is cycling on a simple task while I type this. Most days, though, I'm responding to customers, working on documentation/planning, or doing some other non-coding task that's critical to my workflows. This is actually where I find my biggest productivity gains. Instead of coding THEN X, I can now do coding WITH X.
by mallets | 2025-07-11 20:34:40+00:00
Well, shit. Suicidal?

And this can't possibly be all the audio if the other pilot noticed the switch position, I would expect a lot more cussing and struggle.

So they didn't notice the switch position? The switch was in the right position but not really? Is this a rarely used switch that one might not look at (or know where to look) during regular use?

10 seconds between OFF and ON.
by 59nadir | 2025-07-11 20:35:04+00:00
On average the developers overestimated how long tasks would take when not using AI; they undershot their estimates on average. The opposite happened with AI-assisted tasks.

The conclusion isn't that "estimates are hard" (they can be), but rather that AI-assistance can lead people to believe they're being more productive than they actually are, because they incorrectly think they've spent less time.

The graphs in the paper tell part of that story; the time that is being reduced is in actual programming time, "Reading & Searching", "Testing & Debugging", but that time is being spent elsewhere, notably in parts specific to LLMs (reviewing output, prompting, waiting for the AI to spit out results).
by wat10000 | 2025-07-11 20:36:47+00:00
A lot of people seem to think that the property tax is set at a certain percentage, and if property values rise, the government just dances around in a fountain of dollar bills.

Everywhere I've looked, it's as you say: the local government sets a budget first, then that year's property tax rate is set at a level which brings in that much money.
by hackingonempty | 2025-07-11 20:38:58+00:00
The White House is pushing the "lab leak" consipriacy theory. https://www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-true-origins-of-covid-19...

Here's a good review of the science, which contradicts the assertions made above: https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annur...
by pfdietz | 2025-07-11 20:39:06+00:00
It's so ridiculous that the only reason to expend a single keystroke on it is to demolish it.

Consider what the implication would be if these are ET spacecraft. The galaxy would be absolute soaked in ETI. The Fermi argument would then bite maximally: why did we even evolve, if the galaxy has been so saturated? Why wasn't every single planet and asteroid used for colonies and resources ages ago?

It's important to realize that science fictional tropes of galaxies with everyone zooming around in spaceships having adventures are not consistent with what we observe.
by jecel | 2025-07-11 20:39:09+00:00
Thanks for the link - at the time I did a quick search and didn't find that or any other language with that name.

The 1KB target was for Baby 8 (the associated processor) binary code. That processor had a few quirks (like only indirect addressing outside the "zero page") and the language design partly reflected that. Seeing other people fit Lisp into less than 512 bytes made me think I had sacrificed too much functionality for size.

The incomplete Squeak code was just a quick test to see if the language made sense at all before wasting time doing the assembly version.
by gmuslera | 2025-07-11 20:39:23+00:00
The main thing I remember from an usability book by Jakob Nielsen is that web pages should fit in 50kb, including all elements. Managing to do this in only 2x that size today, considering that his book was from 1999, may be considered a merit.

To put this into another context, today there was a post about Slack's 404 page weighting 50Mb.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-07-11 20:39:25+00:00
No way this passes in 50 states. I would guess something like 15 states pass an analogous law.

The question: will companies segregate their customers? Everyone gets to click-to-cancel or is there now a dedicated code path just for the lucky few?

We are only here because so many businesses made it a burden to cancel, so I know how I would bet.
by IshKebab | 2025-07-11 20:39:57+00:00
If you're looking for hard numbers on how many people shouldn't be getting them then you won't find it. Only the government has access to the details of individual claims.

However you can infer a lot from a) the insane rise in claims, especially mental health related:

https://obr.uk/docs/box-chart-3-f.png

Has the mental health of the nation got twice as bad in 2 years? Obviously not.

And b) whenever the BBC does touchy feely profiles of people there are always some weird red flags:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2gpl4528go

£400/month help with her bills because she struggles with time management? I'm sympathetic to her problems but that is a shit ton of money!

Even some of the people receiving it agree:

> "I was shocked by the ease with which it was granted. I was expecting to be interviewed, rightly so, but it was awarded without interview and he received backdated pay for the maximum amount." > > She was also surprised that her husband got mobility allowance for not having a car, even though she had a car and could drive him around.

(This reminds me of WFA where plenty of people receiving that also thought it was ridiculous.)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0ry09d50wo

> Paul Harris, from Barnard Castle, gets £72.65 a week in PIP payments to help with extra costs associated with his anxiety and depression - such as for specialist therapy apps and counselling.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4llx4kvv8o

> Nick Howard, 51, from Cambridge, is neurodivergent and has been claiming Pip for five years. > > "Without Pip I would not be able to work as it pays for my transport to and from my workplace. > > "I'm currently buying an electric bike on credit, others I have had have been stolen or vandalised," he added.

Great... but I don't think paying PIP for 5 years is a good way to buy someone a bike.

Obviously not all cases are like this, but clearly something has gone wrong. And this isn't a partisan issue. Both parties agree that it has to change. The Tories just ignored the problem and Labour gave up after predictable "N people will die!" press.

And to be clear I'm not anti-poor or anything like that. I also thing WFA is ridiculous and that mostly goes to the rich. Child benefit also goes to lots of people (myself included) who totally don't need it. They all need reform, but look what happens when the government tries...
by missedthecue | 2025-07-11 20:40:24+00:00
My point is that if a bunch of Latino Americans wanted to wall off Mexico, that would be many things, but it would not be racism against a racial outgroup. According to The Hill, 43% of Central Americans support the border wall. Not a majority, but far too statistically significant to describe as racism against an outgroup.

Not trying to get into US politics on HN, but I think my point is clear when it comes to comparing this American situation to the views of non-ethnics in foreign cultures, which was the original OPs argument.
by popalchemist | 2025-07-11 20:40:31+00:00
Bad faith argument.

That singular thing is not representative of the culture or policy at large, is over 100 years old, and isn't the present reality. Broadly speaking California and specifically LA are the most culturally progressive places on earth.

Yes, those rules existed in various rich neighborhoods at times in the past. They don't anymore. What's your point? My claim is not that there were no racists or racist policies at all within the LA area.

So yeah, that's a straw man. And a very pathetic one at that.
by yorpinn | 2025-07-11 20:40:35+00:00
When someone does something inappropriate, you tell them so as politely as possible. Just like if someone's shoe is untied or has toilet paper on it, you let them know. No one needs to ask, those are the table stakes.

(I would also point out that this thread started because you were offering unsolicited advice about using social media. I could be wrong but it seems to me like you think it's appropriate to offer someone advice unsolicited if you have a perspective that's able to see through their "excuses".)

This was the closest definition to my usage I found (American Heritage #4):

Exaggerated and unreasoning partisanship to any group or cause.

What I meant was that you were insisting your subjective viewpoint was the only one that was valid. Other viewpoints you reduced to "excuses."

I can see how it comes off condescending, and I apologize for it. There's a paternalistic element to telling someone they've done something inappropriate, and that should be reduced as much as possible, but I don't think it can stop us from saying something altogether.
by superdickduck | 2025-07-11 20:40:37+00:00
Researchers from University Putra Malaysia and UNSW Sydney have built a deep learning system that analyzes and appraises Chinese ceramics — predicting auction values with up to 99% accuracy.

Trained on centuries of decorative and morphological ceramic data, the AI uses a YOLOv11-based model and runs entirely on a consumer-grade NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 (not a data center, not cloud). It classifies vessel types, detects design patterns (plants, animals, glaze textures, etc.), and estimates price brackets based on Sotheby’s and Christie’s auction histories.

The goal? Make cultural expertise accessible and scalable — democratizing artifact valuation for collectors, museums, and digital archives without relying solely on rare human experts.
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-07-11 20:40:44+00:00
Anecdotal, but my 15 and 16 year olds, along with their friends, generally dislike computers and think they're inefficient, inconvenient, and too hard to use for most purposes they associate with devices.

In other words, they have no idea what computers can do, and they just want the phone things that are easy to do on the phone.

I've tried to teach my kids about computers, but they're extremely resistant. They just don't care. Their friends don't either, except for one who is notably interested in everything.
by AngryData | 2025-07-11 20:40:47+00:00
Does that also account for industrial chemical processes that don't have a simple power-energy exchange? Stuff like making fertilizer or solvents and the like do take a lot of electrical power currently, but will require even more rarely accounted for energy to create base reagents without fossil fuels. Like fertilizer already uses 1% of global electricity today, but if we want to create nitrogen fertilizers without fossil fuel sources, it takes up to a 10 times increase in energy requirements to synthesize from the air making it rise to near 10% of current electrical generation. Many oils are used in mechanical components are irreplaceable and have to be sourced, but to do it without fossil fuels and synthesize from organic materials also require a lot more energy than we use to purify or synthesize from fossil fuels. And the same is true of many solvents.

Its usage is technically accounted for in fossil fuel extraction numbers, but generally ignored when people are accounting for total electrical generation and the usage of fuels as heat sources.
by jen20 | 2025-07-11 20:40:49+00:00
What's important is that the audit trail can be replayed to derive the state of the system - and preferably in such a way that investigators can determine what _would_ have been seen by someone using it on a specific day at a specific time. Whether the system is free from bugs is a different matter - no system is, which is why deriving state from the audit trail instead of a parallel process which is guaranteed to diverge is so important!
by ChocolateGod | 2025-07-11 20:41:01+00:00
> What do you do during a windless cloudy day or (any) night? No solar, no wind, no nothing. Small clouds, large power fluctuations, and you get grid failures.

Even when it's cloudy there's still light, it's not as if it's pitch black when there's clouds, what do you think is illuminating everything still?

But efficiency in solar panels needs to increase, which is happening.
by osigurdson | 2025-07-11 20:41:31+00:00
>> It took just five hours before a “soft fork” was rolled out

This is the dumb part about today's crypto imo. It is just a type of consensus among humans. People like to say its "all math" or some fundamental property of nature but that isn't true at all. It is a constant in a text file + people agreeing on its value. I.e. if a sufficient number of people agree that "we're bumping it up to 1 billion now", that is how many there would be. The argument really is how much better is this mechanism than other stores of value? Fiat currency is also a number where some people are given a magic wand to make more of it up on the spot. Gold is something that you either store in your house and hope that it is real or have someone else store it for you (or pretend to store it). Real estate is fine until the city / government decides that you don't own the title anymore. Basically it is a comparison of one absurd mechanism vs other absurd ones but perhaps Bitcoin is less absurd in the final analysis.
by maxglute | 2025-07-11 20:41:43+00:00
First 4a, now 6a. At least they're giving 100 USD this time and 6a batteries not total dogshit like 4a and it won't turn into landline.

Annoying 150 USD store credit can't go towards something like Youtube Premium. Or multiple 6a credits can't be stacked on 1 device. Cause I'm never touching a pixel again.
by FireBeyond | 2025-07-11 20:42:13+00:00
Hmmm, let's see - a lot of the chemicals for polyurethane foams. Ammonia, acetylene, formic acid, butanediol.

Engineering plastics used in automotive and electronics applications. Styrenes for same.

Automotive OEM and refinish coatings - one of the bigger suppliers. Industrial coatings and paints.

Some of the bigger fungicides, herbicides, insecticides.

Catalytic converter components, battery components, cathodes, etc.
by akudha | 2025-07-11 20:42:40+00:00
Fujistu is a business - they're gonna lie and do all kinds of shady things to maximize profits, avoid litigation etc. Nobody expects a big business to be ethical or even do only legal things at this point.

It is the prosecutors conduct that is maddening here. They need to have higher standards - it is their job to prosecute actual criminal behavior, and not be lazy in fact checking
by SideQuark | 2025-07-11 20:42:44+00:00
> technical debt, and that has a cost that someone, somewhere is going to have to pay in some form

There is no reason anyone has to pay each and every iota of technical debt. Plenty of things with technical debt hit end of life and no one ever looks in that code again. I suspect most technical debt goes this way - in program, program never updates (or minor updates), then dies.

Your claim would require every piece of technical debt in anything ever (code, buildings, cars, anywhere) has to be removed before the thing goes end of life or goes into a mode where it never is changed. That seems ludicrous to me.