MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by reverendsteveii | 2025-07-14 16:47:54+00:00
As someone who took SSRIs for a while my plan w my doctor was always to use meds for support as I developed a toolkit to deal with my emotions without medication and then to re-evaluate periodically to see if the meds were still necessary. It took a few years, but eventually we weaned me off. I'm glad we did, now that my life is in a better place and I'm a bit more agile with my thinking I'm quite glad to be rid of all the gross side effects of the drug, but when I was having a rough time those side effects were well worth the stabilization the drug brought me.
by advisedwang | 2025-07-14 16:47:55+00:00
Body cameras capture a lot less than you'd think. Lets just take one example: you can't see the cop at all.

Imagine a cop says "stand over there" but a suspect doesn't know where they mean and doesn't move. Axon might well add "I pointed to the kerb" on the police report, which the police officer rubber stamps. Now the system has invented a clear non-complying suspect with nothing but their word to refute it.

Similarly shaky camera, limited field of view, poor audio, periods when cameras are off all add opportunities for camera footage to fail to prove what happened. Police reports have a lot of weight in court, they are treated as true by default.
by cdrini | 2025-07-14 16:47:56+00:00
Assuming a government that reflects the people like democracy, which is I assume the context of this discussion. And to be clear they are different, but they are very closely related. And the relationship is that law follows and encodes the people's morality. Usually by majority depending on the form of government.

If many people feel like the laws do not represent their morality, that's generally a problem, and will result in either change in the laws, or change in government altogether. They are quite intrinsically linked.
by maxbond | 2025-07-14 16:47:59+00:00
> JumpCrisscross

I'm aware.

> [What] is your opinion

I don't feel the need to repeat myself, but you may refer to this comment, and if you have specific questions I'm happy to answer them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44555009

> ignorance

Similarly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44557317
by zX41ZdbW | 2025-07-14 16:48:06+00:00
I recommend taking a look at the ClickHouse SQL Lexer:

https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/blob/master/src/Par...

https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/blob/master/src/Par...

It supports SIMD for accelerated character matching, it does not do any allocations, and it is very small (compiles to a few KB of WASM code).
by resource_waste | 2025-07-14 16:48:20+00:00
Scary stuff.

As I got older, I've leaned more and more into meritocracy.

If we did something like this in the US, we'd have quite a religious/irrational group of leaders. Whereas with a meritocracy, you have at least some filter. The status quo requires politicians to have a bit of an understanding of human nature. Its not flawless, I've seen inferior people beat superiors by using biases, but these were relatively equal races. I've also seen idiots run for office and never catch steam.

We can also look at history and see that society's that did anything with such equal democratic distribution were less efficient than those who had some sort of merit.
by happytoexplain | 2025-07-14 16:48:22+00:00
Yeah, I suspect that's the intention. There's a definitely a cultural break. To me, lowercase creates a casual tone in texts/chat. But in long form, especially published (i.e. purposefully displayed to an audience), it sends me a tone of disinterest or laziness at worst; or at best, simple innocent ignorance/mistakenness (like misspelling). Clearly neither is the case here though.
by kevingadd | 2025-07-14 16:48:38+00:00
The CP2077 framerate is 59, so it's probably effectively running at 60FPS, or is CPU-limited instead of GPU-limited. If the graphics side of things has spare headroom it's going to draw less power.

On the flip side, the CPU may be doing less work due to things like more efficient drivers / less OS nonsense tying up CPU, which would also reduce power draw.
by narush | 2025-07-14 16:48:46+00:00
Hey, thanks for linking this! I'm a study author, and I greatly appreciate that this author dug into the appendix and provided feedback so that other folks can read it as well.

A few notes if it's helpful:

1. This post is primarily worried about ordering considerations -- I think this is a valid concern. We explicitly call this out in the paper [1] as a factor we can't rule out -- see "Bias from issue completion order (C.2.4)". We have no evidence this occurred, but we also don't have evidence it didn't.

2. "I mean, rather than boring us with these robustness checks, METR could just release a CSV with three columns (developer ID, task condition, time)." Seconded :) We're planning on open-sourcing pretty much this data (and some core analysis code) later this week here: https://github.com/METR/Measuring-Early-2025-AI-on-Exp-OSS-D... - star if you want to dig in when it comes out.

3. As I said in my comment on the post, the takeaway at the end of the post is that "What we can glean from this study is that even expert developers aren’t great at predicting how long tasks will take. And despite the new coding tools being incredibly useful, people are certainly far too optimistic about the dramatic gains in productivity they will bring." I think this is a reasonable takeaway from the study overall. As we say in the "We do not provide evidence that:" section of the paper (Page 17), we don't provide evidence across all developers (or even most developers) -- and ofc, this is just a point-in-time measurement that could totally be different by now (from tooling and model improvements in the past month alone).

Thanks again for linking, and to the original author for their detailed review. It's greatly appreciated!

[1] https://metr.org/Early_2025_AI_Experienced_OS_Devs_Study.pdf
by zanecodes | 2025-07-14 16:48:50+00:00
Docker on macOS also runs a Linux VM under the hood, just like WSL2 does, they're no different in that respect. WSL1 used the more exotic approach of translating Linux system calls to and from NT kernel system calls, but for various reasons (compatibility, performance, complexity) Microsoft abandoned that technique and adopted a Linux VM running under the Hyper-V hypervisor for WSL2.
by Neywiny | 2025-07-14 16:49:52+00:00
I didn't think I've ever seen mention of a buyout in these articles. That could be something. Franchised ISP. Maybe Comcast is incapable of servicing an area effectively, so they could say something like "we'll give you x gbps of guaranteed throughout at the datacenter (or however it works) to our main line and teach you how to setup, you cover installation and maintenance". Just because it seems like it would've been easier for these guys to do only the installation and routine maintenance. But idk I guess they don't want to because they make their money anyway
by soulofmischief | 2025-07-14 16:50:19+00:00
...and it's packaged up as Christian nationalism. It's the next part of a very long campaign of developing an ignorant voting base who believe you are operating with a divine cause. It's used to cultivate racism and sexism and patriarchy. To not recognize the role of religion with respect yo governance in America's history is to ignore half the story. Look no further than the dollar bill, or Pledge of Allegiance, to understand how integral religion has been in our governance.
by advisedwang | 2025-07-14 16:50:21+00:00
There is no accountability behind that responsibility.

Cops are not held to account for lying now. Even when they are caught, 99% of the time the worst consequence for them is their testimony is ignored in court. They don't face professional repercussions in practice.

So even if officers are responsible for their reports they will still take the easy route and sign off on AI garbage. There is no downside, and it helps them meet pressure from their bosses and avoid the part of the job they hate the most.
by spacemadness | 2025-07-14 16:50:24+00:00
I feel like we’re in a speculative thought loop. People seem to lose all memory when an asset rises. Every time it goes down people lose their minds and wonder how they could be so stupid to put money in such a risky asset, then it goes up and the same stories come out how it won’t go back down. Never trust investor sentiment online. It’s like taking advice from a drug addicted gambler.
by unethical_ban | 2025-07-14 16:50:42+00:00
That's a really loaded way to put it, but okay.

Yeah, I'd rather we not terrorize the nation and build a national goon squad with a larger budget than most national militaries. I'd rather that goon squad not be unidentifiable and masked. And if we're willing to spend $100+ billion on a law enforcement program, I'd rather it be increasing police wages and firing bad cops and hiring/properly training new cops.

I'd rather not spend $100B on LEO at all, frankly.

There are other ways to crack down on immigration than ramping up the surveillance and police state.

edit: I am disappointed that the responder ignored the six points I made, all of which could be discussed, and instead went for a hollow whatabout.
by BizarroLand | 2025-07-14 16:50:54+00:00
Honestly we should consider giving generous tax benefits so that every open air parking lot in any city in America that has more than 50,000 residents would be stupid to not have solar installed that covers the front of the cars in the parking lot and the walkways between the lot and the stores.

That's so much real estate available that would lower electricity costs, decrease the amount of AC used to cool cars down, and make going to malls and similar places a little nicer for everyone.
by glimshe | 2025-07-14 16:50:57+00:00
And what is common between these 2 eras? I'd say that a market hungry for new content met the people who could deliver it. In both instances, technology enabled the production, consumption and distribution of the new content (the Steam era is a revolution in the ease of distribution and production, while in the 80s there was a revolution in ease of production and consumption).

Now there's a glut of content. Will another opportunity ever appear again? In both cases, the opportunity didn't look good at first.
by f1shy | 2025-07-14 16:51:07+00:00
That is good for the form, OTOH the content (objet of the law, which is almost more important, one can argue) is more often that not, not related to the field where lawyers are experts (from sociology to engineering, through economics and medicine) that is typically handled by expert’s consultants, comities, etc.

So bottom line, I’m not so sure is so important that representatives are laywers. Maybe a good mix should be ok?
by kaffekaka | 2025-07-14 16:51:13+00:00
The way I see it is this: maintaining a run streak can be hard, but what is even harder is taking rest days when needed and every time get back on it. The (amateur) runners that impress me the most are those that keep running for years, decades, not through some neverending streak but through determination. The skill to abort a long run streak without quitting running is admirable.
by gruez | 2025-07-14 16:51:55+00:00
>Their takedown attempt seems to be disrespectful and wrong

How was the initial claim "disrespectful"? It might not be using maximally cuddly language, but "[...] your platform seriously infringes on our legitimate rights and interests, please rename to other one." seems pretty respectful to me. Was it only "disrespectful" because it was wrong?
by Marsymars | 2025-07-14 16:51:56+00:00
Maybe in some platonic ideal, but in practice a) consumers (and even brokers) aren’t that sophisticated, and b) likelyhood of the company being around in 20 years isn’t baked into the price. When I shopped for insurance there were only 3 options with contract terms that passed muster, and all three companies are large ones that I’d expect to be around in 20 years to a degree that has no relation to the price quotes I got.
by mindslight | 2025-07-14 16:52:00+00:00
> This leads to fun tech support calls if you use your own equipment where you're basically proving to the support underling that you know how to run your equipment for the first 20-30 minutes

For analyzing support burden, I think the relevant question here is why have you even had the experience of calling tech support for a non-working connection - and that falls squarely on the non-reliability of Comcast's network.
by jeffbee | 2025-07-14 16:52:01+00:00
I would say that in general the HN crowd doesn't understand the industry at all, and they need to change the direction of their understanding, rather than the magnitude. Your basic hackernews believes that e.g. Google is out there selling all your personal information. But compared to these other industries the tech industry is almost airtight. It has long been possible for someone to pick up the phone and order, in any format they want, transaction data as narrowly targeted as they wish. Credit card line items for 35-year-old dentists living on the 400 block of Elm street in local town? By end of day.
by amoshebb | 2025-07-14 16:52:13+00:00
20m by 3m is 60m^2, with 300W/m^2 solar panels, it's less than 20kW.

A truck departs NY at the crack of dawn on the longest day of the year and cannonball-runs west at 100mph without hitting a single red light. The sun covers 15 degrees per hr. Denver is 30 degrees west of NY. The truck doesn't quite make it to Denver though, the sun sets on it somewhere in the middle of Nebraska. By chasing the sun, instead of 1700 miles, it gained a whole 1hr40mins of extra sunlight. That 20kW array turns that into 36kWh of extra power. By doing this chasing the sun instead of west-to-east, our truck turned a 1700 mile trip into something like 1718 miles.

On any 'typical' daily long-haul of 600 miles, we're looking at something more like an extra 3000-4000 feet. On something not as perfectly east-to-west like 900 miles NY to Atlanta, we're in the extra 100-200 feet, as long as it's not overcast.
by treetalker | 2025-07-14 16:52:20+00:00
I am writing a book on this topic.

1. Have a storage bin for each project. (I use stackable plastic bins of the style you might find in elementary school classrooms. I label them by making masking-tape flags that hang off the side, and then writing on the flags with permanent marker.)

2. Keep your drafts in the bins, but also put any loose notes/sentences/paragraphs/etc. that are related to the project in the bin. Thus, the bin serves not only as the project's physical storage, but also as its inbox.

3. Work out of a notebook with pages that you can tear out; or carry around notecards or other scrap paper; or grab whatever paper is at hand when you need to write during the day. But the key is to write each discrete idea (or sentence/paragraph/etc.) on a separate piece of paper. Go about your day, writing whatever you need, but keep everything you write together.

4. At the end of your day, distribute the jots/notes/drafts into the corresponding bin.

5. When it's time to work on a particular project, grab the corresponding bin. Your drafts will be there, but so will the loose materials you have created. Incorporate the loose notes into new, combined jots/notes/drafts.

Repeat the process until the project is complete.

Ideas rarely come to us all at once according to the project to which they belong, or in the proper order. The beauty of writing discrete notes on loose papers is that it's easy to capture them and then later put them in the correct bin; and when working out of the bins, it's easy to move, group, stack, and otherwise organize or delete the ideas — working with them until your project essentially writes itself.

Happy to share more of my own experiences and suggestions if you have questions. Regardless, please let me know if you find this helpful or have any feedback.

Cheers!
by conjecTech | 2025-07-14 16:52:25+00:00
EPA range tends to be pessimistic for EVs as it assumes you are always traveling at highway speeds. Even small reductions in speeds can make EVs much more efficient since drag is quadratic. A quick google search shows Prius prime owners reporting 4-5.5 miles/kwh, so the 3-6 mile range is entirely plausible.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-07-14 16:52:41+00:00
There was more human manual work, than in the last video about cpu-coolers, from that channel.

What I did find very fascinating was the improvised/temporary cpu-cooler applied during the first POST, in fact already under power and booting, then pressing it on the bare die with some soft TIM-foam.

Phew! Close!

But obviously works reliably enough, for that single step of production/testing.

Also using Crucial DIMMs. Couldn't recognize the SSD, though.
by vkou | 2025-07-14 16:52:44+00:00
It is. Some of it is being accessed illegally (ICE has been given full access to the IRS, which is a violation of the fifth amendment, local LE sharing it in contravention with state laws), and some of it is being accessed legally (local LE sharing it in compliance with state laws).

The criminals are, sadly, running the circus, and they are acting like they'll never lose power.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-07-14 16:52:49+00:00
Tech has also reached into EVERY aspect/detail of our lives 24/7 to try and extract value from it.

Tech originally preached that it's going to improve/simplify/enrich our lives. Instead tech is farming us like we have never been farmed before while giving us none of the original promise/deal. There is no peace. There is no escape. The improvements in our life are normally marginal and short term. There is no just existing, just constant, continuous farming of you for whatever value can be extracted. And because of how tech scales any extraction is never too small to not be worth going after. At least in the Matrix you weren’t expected to curate your own enslavement and smile and post about it daily.
by boogieknite | 2025-07-14 16:52:53+00:00
nike has certainly lost something in the last decade

my spouse and i recall the last shoe we wanted from them were the old free 2s because they were light, comfy, and versatile

we just stopped by the clearance store yesterday and half the womens shoes had the thick, platform sole and my spouse commented on how several would be perfect if not for the platform. maybe theyll start phasing that out now

theres a massive billboard in portland with a female athlete that says "YOU CANT WIN. SO WIN." and my spouse finds it incredibly out of touch and in poor taste. maybe they tried too much
by woooooo | 2025-07-14 16:53:07+00:00
> There is a non-trivial amount of nuance and compromise that goes in lawmaking.

We just passed that "big beautiful bill" and it was quite clear nobody knew or cared what was in it, beyond it being "trump's bill he wants". I'm guessing staffers and lobbyists had a far more detailed understanding of their portions than any elected official did.

It's a reasonable guess that 100 randos would actually write a better bill.
by rsynnott | 2025-07-14 16:53:12+00:00
ESA already has at least three other major projects (the Venus probe, the much-delayed LISA, and something else) wherein NASA is, or at least was going to be, a junior partner, so if ESA has to pick up the slack on any joint projects, it'll probably prioritise those.

(LISA is a particularly ridiculous case. It was pitched in _1997_ as a joint ESA/NASA mission, was finally picked up in the noughties, NASA pulled out in 2011 due to budget cuts, LISA was cut down and then cancelled in favour of JUICE (which itself was a redesign of _another_ joint mission that NASA pulled out of), then LISA was brought back a few years later, with NASA as a junior partner, and an MoA was finally signed last year. Now the NASA side has apparently been cut, though the ESA side is continuing, and who knows, maybe eventually it'll be launched...)

Honestly, ESA should probably consider just stopping doing joint missions with NASA; NASA is just too vulnerable to political interference.
by bko | 2025-07-14 16:53:13+00:00
When anecdote and data don't align, it's usually the data that's wrong.

Not always the case, but whenever I read about these strained studies or arguments about how AI is actually making people less productive, I can't help but wonder why nearly every programmer I know, myself included, finds value in these tools. I wonder if the same thing happened with higher level programming languages where people argued, you may THINK not managing your own garbage collector will lead to more productivity but actually...

Even if we weren't more "productive", millions prefer to use these tools, so it has to count for something. And I don't need a "study" to tell me that
by o11c | 2025-07-14 16:53:41+00:00
Unfortunately, operating a byte at a time means there's a hard limit on performance.

A truly performant lexer needs to jump ahead as far as possible. This likely involves SIMD (or SWAR) since unfortunately the C library fails to provide most of the important interfaces.

As an example that the C library can handle tolerably, while lexing a string, you should repeatedly call `strcspn(input, "\"\\\n")` to skip over chunks of ordinary characters, then only special-case the quote, backslash, newline and (implicit!) NUL after each jump. Be sure to correctly distinguish between an embedded NUL and the one you probably append to represent EOF (or, if streaming [which requires quite a bit more logic], end of current chunk).

Unfortunately, there's a decent chance your implementation of `strcspn` doesn't optimize for the possibility of small sets, and instead constructs a full 256-bit bitset. And even if it does, this strategy won't work for larger sets such as "all characters in an identifier" (you'd actually use `strspn` since this is positive), for which you'll want to take advantage of the characters being adjacent.

Edit: yikes, is this using a hash without checking for collisions?!?
by leblancfg | 2025-07-14 16:54:13+00:00
I'm not familiar with the Australian education system or this study's design, but at first glance, this quote

>The report, commissioned by the Alliance of Girls’ Schools Australasia, was conducted by Macquarie Marketing Group using OECD data

reads more to me like "we found that all-girl private schools are better than the average of public and private schools", and the obvious reason why is probably *because they're private schools*, and not because they're all-girl.
by gr8beehive | 2025-07-14 16:54:20+00:00
That’s not my point. My point is we have no leverage.

A populace with deep and wide skills can be a collective action threat.

A bunch of dead eyed screen addicts are just Wall-E background characters.

We’ll end up manual workers for the rich through state violence (happening right now to Latinos to free up jobs). Because we can’t threaten to walk away and undermine wall streets grip on agency.
by yesfitz | 2025-07-14 16:54:23+00:00
That's what bicameral legislatures[1] were meant to address.

Ideally, the lower house are representatives elected from the common people, and the upper house are the career politicians that understand how the government works.

In the U.S., the 17th amendment[2] changed that, for better or worse (probably both).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeenth_Amendment_to_the_U...
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