MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by teaearlgraycold | 2025-07-02 19:00:08+00:00
I was raised Quaker myself. As I’ve gotten older I’ve gotten a more nuanced opinion on this. I think we should have humility in a “kill or be killed” scenario. Is it so much more important that you live? But also in a theoretical scenario that tests my utilitarian side - should I kill to save the lives of many people? If so I think it’s important to acknowledge the wrongness in the killing even if it’s the lesser of two evils. Far too often people discuss lethal self defense or war with pride. If it’s something you absolutely must do you should not anticipate happiness from the action.

Some Quakers actually joined the American civil war because they felt fighting slavery was more important than not killing others. So there’s a wide range of feelings on pacifism within Quakerism.
by o11c | 2025-07-02 19:00:09+00:00
It's not philosophical, it's economical.

AI scrapers increase traffic by maybe 10x (this varies per site) but provide no real value whatsoever to anyone. If you look at various forms of "value":

* Saying "this uses AI" might make numbers go up on the stock market if you manage to persuade people it will make numbers go up (see also: the market will remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent).

* Saying "this uses AI" might fulfill some corporate mandate.

* Asking AI to solve a problem (for which you would actually use the solution) allows you to "launder" the copyright of whatever source it is paraphrasing (it's well established that LLMs fail entirely if a question isn't found within their training set). Pirating it directly provides the same value, with significantly less errors/handholding.

* Asking AI to entertain you ... well, there's the novelty factor I guess, but even if people refuse to train themselves out of that obsession, the world is still far too full of options for any individual to explore them all. Even just the question of "what kind of ways can I throw some kind of ball around" has more answers than probably anyone here knows.

What am I missing?
by MangoToupe | 2025-07-02 19:00:25+00:00
As far as I can tell, consumers have never benefited from patents, and they seem blatantly anti-competitive. Perhaps if only "small business" (whatever that actually denotes) were allowed to hold them it might make sense, but we all know that's not even remotely how patents are wielded today.

Personally I strongly prefer knockoffs. Same quality, but cheaper.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-07-02 19:00:33+00:00
As the source article covers, the Trump regime believes that merely reporting the location of an ICE officer constitutes violence against them. I don't think it's a good idea to punch your local ICE officer, and if anyone's considering it I would definitely advise them not to, but issuing a blanket condemnation of hypothetical violence is just terribly naive at this point. I'm extremely confident that, at some point before 2028, someone is going to end up in federal custody for shooting masked home invaders they had no way to know were ICE.
by potato3732842 | 2025-07-02 19:00:39+00:00
Yeah, corruption happens but it's not endemic nor is it accessible to the everyman.

Yeah they'll bend the law for their buddies but we cannot just shove money in their face to make them be reasonable when they bother us like you can in Mexico. Instead we have to shove 10x as much into all manner of rent seeking systems to maintain an air of legitimacy (this last part is a gripe I have with most government stuff here, not just law enforcement related).
by Jtsummers | 2025-07-02 19:00:39+00:00
In the US, we're not ordinarily required to keep any sort of ID on our person. There are some exceptions, such as the mentioned airports, crossing federal borders (as in to Canada or Mexico), some federal facilities, maybe some state/local government facilities, and (state dependent I've learned) when operating a car. Otherwise, you're pretty much free to leave your home in nothing but shorts and maybe a shirt (public decency laws and all) and go almost anywhere without issue.

Real ID is irrelevant to this. The issue is that now they can demand that people prove their citizenship almost anywhere and anytime beyond the few places it was permitted before.
by asabla | 2025-07-02 19:00:43+00:00
> no agenda, no attenda

I've been using this mentality for the last three years. Some responds with hostility and some see the benefits, but most are just indifferent to it sadly.

I've also been observing people just throw in a short sentence or some AI generated shit list which is then not followed during the meeting.

But those who take this seriously usually have pretty darn good meetings (e.g not book the full hour, force people to stay on topic, shares notes after the meeting etc)
by andrecarini | 2025-07-02 19:01:29+00:00
Well, this is about software you bought in advance. The Facebook comparison doesn't really work because you're not paying in advance to use it.

> This software is not guaranteed beyond 0 Unix time.

Grandma goes to the store to buy a game for their grandkid. She sees two game boxes. One says in the front "This game will stop working tomorrow and you will not get a refund" and the other says "This game will stop working in 2030". Which one does she pick?
by NaOH | 2025-07-02 19:02:12+00:00
Related:

A Man Who Broke Capitalism – Did Jack Welch Destroy Corporate America? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33416436 - Nov 2022 (20 comments)

A Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40838966 - June 2024 (3 comments)
by bko | 2025-07-02 19:02:32+00:00
Yeah cold emails aren't great. LinkedIn works much better in my experience. Ive replied to some cold emails if it's genuine, not trying to sell my anything. Like if a new grad asking me for advice. I would say use that.

But almost all the cold emails I get are trying to sell me something like an award or a list of potential clients which is something I'm not interested in so i react the same
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-07-02 19:02:46+00:00
> If money is tight, having a live-in partner is a cost saving.

We're pretty close to a 4 income economy here.

> I suspect that there is more to your sons not dating than the challenges of raising a family.

Sure. I dated a lot because I had social skills - courtesy of a youth spent in adult-free, free roaming.

My kids had a modern upbringing. 24/7 adulting. Every day spent moving from one adult-populated, adult curated box to another. No free roaming or adult-free hours.

Think of the wretched economy as the guarantee, in case some hope survived their adult-ruined childhood.
by michaelm244 | 2025-07-02 19:03:03+00:00
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by diggan | 2025-07-02 19:03:38+00:00
> Lots of issues like this due to an overly dynamic site.

Rarely are UX issues there because of anything technical at all, just poor testing and poor polishing. Of course, things are way easier with a static site, since the back button Just Works(TM) in that case, but doesn't mean "overly dynamic sites" cannot have proper browser history.
by cryptonector | 2025-07-02 19:04:08+00:00
It's Cloudflare. That means they are good at DoS and DDoS protection. AI crawlers are basically DoS agents. I think CF can start with an honor system that also has attached to it the implied threat to block crawlers from all CF hosted content, and that is a pretty big hammer to hit the abusers with.

So I'm cautiously optimistic. Well, I suppose pessimistic too: if this works what this will mean is that all contents will end up moving into big player hosting like CF.
by 44za12 | 2025-07-02 19:04:13+00:00
Absolutely wild. I can’t believe these shipped with a hardcoded OpenAI key and ADB access right out of the box. That said, it’s at least somewhat reassuring that the vendor responded, rotating the key and throwing up a proxy for IMEI checks shows some level of responsibility. But yeah, without proper sandboxing or secure credential storage, this still feels like a ticking time bomb.
by potato3732842 | 2025-07-02 19:04:39+00:00
>That’s definitely enough numbers to change to a different bristle.

Ah, yes, magical plastic molecules. Exactly what I want between fire and my food.

I'm just about the last person to give a crap about microplastics but cooking temperatures and long weird hydrocarbon molecules are where I draw the line.

>And think of the number of people who found a metal bristle in their mouth and didn’t go to the ER. It has to be many many multiples of the number of ER visits.

This is true for just about everything.
by cubefox | 2025-07-02 19:04:39+00:00
Yeah. Only problem is that overly aggressive TAA implementations blur the whole frame during camera rotation. The thing that is even better than standard TAA is a combination of TAA and temporal upscaling, called TSR in Unreal. Still better is the same system but performed by an ML model, e.g. DLSS. Though this requires special inference hardware inside the GPU.

In the past, MSAA worked reasonably well, but it was relatively expensive, doesn't apply to all forms of high frequency aliasing, and it doesn't work anymore with the modern rendering paradigm anyway.
by ryandv | 2025-07-02 19:05:15+00:00
> There's at least one other practical advantage as well, that of "chunking".

> When we have a grasp of relevant, powerful structures underlying our world, we can "chunk" along them to reason more quickly.

This is one thing I've observed about Haskell vs. other languages: it more readily gives names and abstractions to even the minutest and most trivial patterns in software, so that seemingly novel problems can be quickly pattern matched and catalogued against a structure that has almost certainly been seen before.

One example: I want to run two (monadic) computations, and then somehow combine together their results (with some binary operation). Such a trivial and fundamental mode of composition, that seems to lack a name in almost every other programming language. Haskell has a name for this mode of composition, and it's called liftM2.

Never again will you have to re-write this pattern for yourself, leaving yourself open to error, now that you have this new concept in your vocabulary. Other languages will happily let you reinvent the wheel for the umpteenth time, or invent idiosyncratic patterns and structures without realizing that they are just particular applications of an already well-studied and well-worn concept.
by pseudocomposer | 2025-07-02 19:05:39+00:00
But why did the USSR dissolve? A lot of it had to do with citizens’ dissatisfaction with what was available in the Soviet economy, compared to media images of what was available in the 80s-early 90s American economy. And, well, the fact that their government was, in fact, quite democratic, reflecting the wishes of the people.

But again… a lot of these images American prosperity of the 80s were caused by marketing, and corporate structures like Jack Welch’s, which were ultimately unsustainable (per the whole conversation here).

Basically: Soviet citizens saw we could have bananas year round. But they never saw the conditions of people living in banana republics, or really even of the American poor of the time.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-07-02 19:05:45+00:00
> Lots of bad takes in this thread.

Seriously.

It's like people forgot what multiplayer gaming was like pre-2005. Everyone ran their own servers. You could run your own Half-Life game server and other users merely pointed their game client to your IP address.

The only exceptions back then were the MMORPGs.

There's no reason we can't go back to the way it used to be. I used to run multiplayer Starcraft on a LAN without an Internet connection. Why can't I do that with Starcraft II? We used to play Quake on custom servers. Some servers had fun communities. All that is gone in favor of live services that can be shut down on a whim.

I don't even think requiring server source code to be disclosed should be necessary. Merely the binaries with some basic instructions on setting it up (which could easily be based on internal documents for setting up test servers) would be sufficient.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-07-02 19:05:58+00:00
While I can understand the desire to draw a metaphor, there are better approaches than saying, "A List Is a Monad".

The statement as-is breaks pretty much immediately because, while there is a canonical list monad, there isn't a list monad, there are in fact several[1].

There are several more correct ways of phrasing the idea among:

"List can be given a monad instance"

"List forms a monad with pure and bind as defined"

"List is the underlying functor of a monad"

The point is that picking any old list implementation is likely not a monad without the supporting structure.

Will any of these help you learn what a monad is? Likely not. Monadology is a Mary's Room[2] problem; there is a qualia, a subjective sensation, when one understands monads having experienced them first hand. Subsequently monad tutorials are the best case against physicalism[3] yet devised.

1. https://hackage.haskell.org/package/exotic-list-monads-1.1.0...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_argument

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physicalism
by exiguus | 2025-07-02 19:06:15+00:00
> Amazon’s three proposed new datacentres in the Aragon region of northern Spain – each next to an existing Amazon datacentre – are licensed to use an estimated 755,720 cubic metres of water a year, roughly enough to irrigate 233 hectares (576 acres) of corn, one of the region’s main crops.

This was the example that really got me thinking.
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-07-02 19:06:44+00:00
> Common belief, but false. You start learning from inside the womb. The data flow increases exponentially when you open your eyes and then again when you start manipulating things with your hands and mouth.

But you don't get data equal to the entire internet as a child!

> We do the same with children. At least I did it to my classmates when they asked me for help. I'd give them a hint, and ask them to work it out step by step from there. It helped.

And I do it with my students. I still think there's a difference in kind between when I listen to my students (or other adults) reason through a problem, and when I look at the output of an AI's reasoning, but I admittedly couldn't tell you what that is, so point taken. I still think the AI is relying far more heavily on its knowledge base.
by emacdona | 2025-07-02 19:06:51+00:00
Heh, I came here to say this when I saw the top level thread that started this comment. As far as GP is concerned:

> I remember they were always confused and surprised to get a random call from a stranger

That's probably the only thing different about Ham radio. Random calls are kinda the norm :-)

I got my license less than a year ago, and in some ways, it reminds me of the "old internet"

* Way fewer ads. In fact, in ham radio, you aren't allowed to advertise. Maybe the absolute best thing about it. Without a legislative change, there will never be (legal) ads.

* Trolls haven't taken over. If you're an ass, you could lose your license. No ham wants to lose their license.

* It's as technical as you want to make it. You can go DEEP into technical things (I haven't even scratched the surface there). You can also just get a hotspot and a handheld for a few hundred bucks and be talking to people across the world after an evenings work of configuring it all.

If you want to talk to strangers who want to talk back... and who, for the most part, aren't jerks -- get your ham radio license.

Bonuses (above and beyond the old internet):

Amateur radio clubs are everywhere. They are filled with nerds who love the hobby. They can be _very_ social -- so there is opportunity for plenty of In Real Life (IRL) interaction.

Yes, it's mostly guys, mostly over 50, and (in my experience) mostly caucasian. If you are intimidated by that, that's totally fair. But, give them a chance -- check out your local club. Most I've visited are _very_ welcoming... and they want nothing more than to get more people interested in the hobby.

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by ixtli | 2025-07-02 19:07:06+00:00
I think the notion that people have recourse against giant companies, a military industrial complex, or even their landlords in the US is naive. I believe this to be pretty clear so I don't feel the need to stretch it into a deep discussion or argument but suffice it to say it seems clear to me that everything you accuse china of here can also be said of the US.
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by pcthrowaway | 2025-07-02 19:08:39+00:00
> But again -- people who live in the deaf cultural world -- they do not feel that, and they don't feel disabled because, in their context, they aren't

I can respect resisting pressure to be part of the hearing world, but there are certainly ways in which deafness impacts one's safety and opportunities. Not being able to hear sirens, or oncoming trucks, or cars honking their horns, or cyclists saying "on your left", or fire alarms makes the world less safe for you (and for others who may have the expectation you can hear them)

I'm certainly not saying this to suggest people should be forced to join the world of the hearing if given the option, but I do think doing so would be the responsible option, if it's a readily available one.

Kind of like I don't expect people to learn other languages than their native tongue, even when it's a language spoken by the majority in their place of residence. But if you don't speak the language spoken by the majority, and are presented with the opportunity to instantly learn it (like "I know Kung Fu"-Matrix style), I certainly think it would be more responsible to do so.
by viktorcode | 2025-07-02 19:08:48+00:00
Look at Concord. It was turned off immediately, because there was no players interest and Sony decided to cut the losses right away. Under the proposed rules they wouldn't be able to just kill a game they had high hopes for but ended up unneeded.

The only financially viable solution for online games is to release in Europe later, after the project popularity in other markets was established.
by jjice | 2025-07-02 19:09:34+00:00
> On the one hand I don't think there's risk of losing money with something like this, they kept the money in a third party broker and it's SIPC-insured. But it's probably good to have some humility and admit that even for me I'm not 100% confident, these rules and systems are hard to parse.

Oh for sure - I'm sure they did. I just still wouldn't want to bother with a turbulent company and having to migrate assets from working with a company that has less of a reputation.
by hirvi74 | 2025-07-02 19:10:38+00:00
Reminds me on an analogy for a monad I once heard. Not sure if it is correct because I lack the mathematical understanding to verify.

Anyway, a nested To-Do list is (allegedly) a common form of a monad. Say I am trying to clean my whole house. Well, I could have an item for a task like cleaning the kitchen that has each task I need to do in the kitchen in order for the kitchen to be cleaned. I can do the same for the living room, garage, etc..

However, that is mainly for organization purposes. While I may write the tasks in a nested manner, I could very well write each item as just a long flat list of To-Do tasks, and in reality, all the tasks are effectively completed as if they were one large flat list.

Is that kind of what you mean by 'flatMappable'? Nested To-Do lists being flattened and mapped to one large list? As in, a To-Do list of To-Do lists is just a single, larger To-Do list?
by doctorpangloss | 2025-07-02 19:10:44+00:00
Michael Sandel’s book had a good section on Airbnb killing couch surfing. Maybe the one thing Airbnb really did do.

Another POV is, everyone is fatigued out of selling to customers who cannot afford to pay more. In this space: Trusted House Sitters is like having a homeless person stay over. Couchsurfing: is it similar?
by BeetleB | 2025-07-02 19:11:21+00:00
> Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but are you basically saying that there's no real negative aspects inherent to being deaf, outside of those imposed by society?

This is a valid question. My gripe is people aren't asking the obvious other questions:

1. What are the positive aspects of deafness?

2. What are the different aspects of deafness (neither positive nor negative, but leads to a very different human experience).

If either of these significantly outnumber the negative aspects, I can see why imposing a treatment on children without the parent's consent is problematic.
by MangoToupe | 2025-07-02 19:11:40+00:00
> but at some point it's on you to get the real thing before you start trying to correct it.

One thing is for sure is that people aren't going to do that.

Anyway, it seems disingenuous (or just completely irrelevant) to complain that people are attacking the BLS rather than how this is wielded to perpetrate a polemic.
by mrcwinn | 2025-07-02 19:11:52+00:00
Model Y Juniper owner here. Best car I’ve ever owned. Tons of storage. I can keep it cool at the softball field for my dog for hours. Drives great. Reliable. Don’t miss the gas station one bit. Well built with no panel gap issues.

Totally respect your opinion, but you’re positioning your opinion a bit too much like objective fact.
by jvergeldedios | 2025-07-02 19:11:59+00:00
So you're erecting a straw man and attacking that. My assertion is that policing in the US has structural issues that need to be addressed. I disagree that it's helpful to remember that it could be worse as evidenced in other countries. That's irrelevant to the original assertion.

Also the argument that there are proposals on how to address structural issues in policing that you deem "ridiculous nonsense" is a straw man that does not address my assertion.