MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-07-21 23:23:42+00:00
Your whole first paragraph is actually offering another example of a dehumanizing term. The point of “human who does a thing” is to be a naturally-chosen phrase, not a term. Think, “Joe programs computers”, not, “Joe is a computer programmer”. You are correct that it would similarly be dehumanizing if it simply became another term to replace “computer programmer” like “Joe is a human-who-programs-computers” but that is because the statement is about what Joe supposedly “is” rather than being a description of things they’ve done.
by mianos | 2025-07-21 23:23:58+00:00
I have one of those little Xiaomi LCD temperature meters in the room as well.

I actually have more than one LED on my device. It's in the opposite corner and points to the air-conditioning unit that is fixed. In this scenario I can't ever recall it not working 100%.

My automation is in nodered and I heat or cool the bedroom to 18C and turn the the unit off.
by westurner | 2025-07-21 23:24:00+00:00
I have never taken beta cyclodextrin for any indication. I thought I would relay the study and that it's already approved for human use.

FWIU when the sugar industry maligned fat in the US in the TODO, food manufacturers replaced fat in "reduced fat" foods with fake sugar substitutes which each have harms, high fructose corn syrup, or molasses.

What percentage of cardiovascular "plaque" is sugar alcohol and thus apparently treatable with β or α cyclodextrin, in controls and patients with conditions like Arteriosclerosis and Atherosclerosis?
by zdragnar | 2025-07-21 23:24:03+00:00
I suspect the steel man version of the argument is that AI is capable of producing images indistinguishable from child and revenge porn, so it must be regulated, and that means they need a way to reach into your zeros and ones to check. Maybe they want to know you're not asking it how to terrorize people, too.

Hence, the confluence of AI and encryption.
by bwfan123 | 2025-07-21 23:24:10+00:00
Problem 6 is puzzling. Neither openai nor deepmind answered it. Humans would put out partial answers - but here we saw no answer which is odd.

Does that mean that the llms realized they could not solve it. I thought that was one of the limitations of LLMs in that they dont know what they dont know, and it is really impossible without a solver to know the consistency of an argument, ie, know that one knows.
by umvi | 2025-07-21 23:24:14+00:00
> How does a policy like that look in practice? Presumably it doesn’t read “we want to hire underqualified people.”

For example, HR hands this decree down from on high to hiring managers: "At least X% of your hires need to be women"

If you don't get many women candidates applying (as is the case with certain types of STEM roles), you end up hiring candidates you might otherwise consider unqualified in order to try to make the quota.
by bravesoul2 | 2025-07-21 23:24:17+00:00
Thanks! I am not used to thinking in geodesics. And while I studied vector spaces it was a long time ago and forgotten most of it!

So to get the intuition. Your model we still are dealing with vectors like regualar searches and not positions?

This is the model in my mind. A 2D surface with a steep mound in hidden dimension 3 to the north. 2 vectors at 1 degree apart pointing toward the mound are likely to be more different than 2 vectors 1 degree apart pointing away from it. But you only see this if you are right on the foot of the mound. What if you are further away?

Anyway I think my understanding is off it may not be worth answering! but I can read more about it.
by zahlman | 2025-07-21 23:24:17+00:00
Ontario produces a majority of its electric power from nuclear (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Canada) and manages to sell it at competitive rates (https://www.oeb.ca/consumer-information-and-protection/elect...) similar to those in Alberta (https://ucahelps.alberta.ca/your-utilities/rates/historic-ra...) where electricity comes mainly from natural gas after a recent transition from mostly coal. A 2021 report cited at https://www.cns-snc.ca/learn-nuclear/basics-of-nuclear/how-m... finds that nuclear power in Ontario was more cost effective than everything else except hydroelectric power (granted, solar has become much cheaper in just the last few years). And this is in spite of multiple reactor shutdowns.
by ksherlock | 2025-07-21 23:25:23+00:00
A couple years later, NeXT released OpenStep for Windows NT 4 which included Windows NT/95-style artwork for the UI elements.

I'm sure it's long gone now but it used to be included with OS X (along with other NeXT-era artwork):

https://www.theregister.com/2008/09/02/mac_images/

Then about 10 years ago, MicroSoft (more likely somebody's 20% project) tried to do it again, this time based on iOS.

https://github.com/microsoft/WinObjC
by standardUser | 2025-07-21 23:25:51+00:00
> but how is stock-based wealth taking away from lower income workers?

Workers could have some/more of that stock. Nearly all workers own precisely zero share of the companies they work for, despite what this tech-oriented crowd might imagine. So when a company does well and the ownership's wealth surges, the worker bees only benefit down the line if they're able to successfully lobby for a raise. Though that doesn't always work, since the factors that drive up stock values often involve things like laying off expensive workers, cutting benefits and freezing pay. Huzzah.

So it's not exactly "taking away" anything, it's more that the entire system is stacked to ensure the workers don't have anything to take away to begin with.
by acdha | 2025-07-21 23:25:59+00:00
That wind farm needs to be like 4% bigger to cancel out transmission losses so the question has to involve the relative costs.

The EIA has it at $81 for advanced nuclear, which is competitive with offshore wind ($88) but not hydro ($58), PV+battery ($53), PV ($31), or onshore wind ($29). Now, both of those could see big improvements with scale but I think the uncertainty of the markets and our political climate are going to complicate that a lot. A big nuclear push needs a lot of upfront funding and while Trump has boosted it a bit and hates wind, I’m not sure how much that counts on a loan that big since right now that plant is guaranteed to lose money most of the time unless it’s near a big industrial user with high baseline demand.
by theodorewiles | 2025-07-21 23:26:59+00:00
For me this benchmark suggests that an LLM will try to “force the issue” which results in compounding errors. But I think the logical counterpoint is that you may be asking the LLM to come up an answer without all of the necessary details? Some of these are “baked into” historical transactions which is why it does well in months 1-2.

My takeaway is scaling in the enterprise is about making implicit information explicit.
by WNWceAJ9R9Ezc4 | 2025-07-21 23:27:46+00:00
> While the data does not name individuals, it is not hard to find the list of billionaires who call the region home: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and businesswoman and philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs in Palo Alto, Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in Los Altos, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, WhatsApp founder Jan Koum and financier George Roberts in Atherton, and Ubiquiti Networks founder Robert Pera in San Jose, are the richest nine in the two counties, according to the group’s analysis of a Forbes list.

Source: https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/03/06/wealthiest-silicon-va...
by acrooks | 2025-07-21 23:29:02+00:00
I anecdotally find flight prices tend to follow a cosine wave. Starting high, dipping a couple months before, and shooting back up. You can see these sorts of trends on Google Flights which will show historical pricing for your search query.

And it can be helpful if you’re very flexible. If my dates are very strict then I’ll tend to book further in advance, whereas if I have a lot of wiggle room then I’ll wait it out.
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-07-21 23:29:24+00:00
Very situational on where it can be used, and requires some very careful cost calculations.

Ignoring the local effects of their construction, a damb breach is one of the worst man-made disasters possible. Mantinence and error margin must be very very carefully accounted for. There is a reason the world bank stopped funding them, and it wasnt purely enviromental. (Some badly managed projects led to expensive and dangerous situations)

So when relevant it's most powerful energy source avalible. But the list of preconditions and caveats is massive.
by Crespyl | 2025-07-21 23:29:34+00:00
If it was trivial for me to spend 5 cents for a one off article that someone recommended me, I probably wouldn't mind it at all. Payment processor fees make that essentially impossible, requiring more thought and investment in systems like Flattr to group together the small payments.

We need to decouple online payment infrastructure from the duopoly/oligopoly of private corporations that control how and when users can exchange money online.
by UncleOxidant | 2025-07-21 23:29:59+00:00
> In 1970, one in five Americans was moving every year. It's now down to one in 13.

When I was a kid (in the late 60s and through the 70s) we moved every two or three years on average. And these weren't just the move across town kinds of moves - a lot of them were half way across the country. When I was 1 we moved from Seattle to the TX gulf coast because my dad wanted to live somewhere warm and sunny. Then to SoCal then back to TX then back to SoCal and again back to TX and then to the Oregon coast. I was thinking the other day that people don't move like that anymore - in most of those moves my parents didn't have work lined up, they just moved and found work. When I was about 12 we moved from TX to the Oregon Coast because my parents were missing the PNW - my dad had just gotten his teaching degree and he figured he'd just move up to Oregon and find a teaching gig, which turned out to be quite hard in the mid-70s. Basically, he sent out a bunch or resumes to Oregon school districts just prior to leaving. They had subscribed to a newspaper from the town they wanted to move to and then signed up for a rental house sight unseen (that was the return address for all of those resumes). We pulled into town with a U-Haul and TX plates and within about 15 minutes 3 different people screamed at us to go back to where we came from (ahh, Oregon in the 70s). I don't think people make a move like that nowadays. I thought it was fairly normal then, but there's no way I'd do that now and in fact we haven't moved in 15 years and that was just a move a few miles away.
by BizarroLand | 2025-07-21 23:30:04+00:00
The real answer is that we need a universal web currency, and a tracker that pays web pages on view.

There would be 2 webs. A free web, and a paid web. The paid web would set a cost per page and if you wanted to view the page you would pay the cost.

No more month to month flat fee, if you watch non-stop videos, you pay non-stop video prices.

No more unlimited anything on the paid web, but the trade off would be that there are no more ads.

Of course, the paid web would hate the existence of the free web and spend untold fortunes to destroy it, as any time you can get something for free instead of paying for it is a potential loss of income for them.
by gruez | 2025-07-21 23:31:08+00:00
>No one would care about immigrants, LGBTQ rights, trans athletes, or any of the other culture war issues if food, housing, transportation, and healthcare were affordable.

Seriously? I get why people would care less about immigration if they didn't think immigrants were stealing their jobs, but the culture war over LGBTQ rights and trans athletes hardly can be tied to some economic basis. If you spent any time interacting with conservatives you'd realize nobody is worried about LGBTQ people and trans athletes are stealing their jobs or whatever. They are worried about how LGBTQ/trans athletes are destroying the moral fabric of their society. Those concerns aren't going to evaporate just because everyone is fed and housed. If anything if they're more economically secure they'd be able to spend even more time on culture war issues.
by sn9 | 2025-07-21 23:31:24+00:00
That seemed plausible so I tried it and after more than 10 seconds, a search for "rupee" returned similarly poor results.

This is really only the latest example of nearly useless search results.

I genuinely don't understand how in terms of both latency and accuracy, Google is failing at this embarrassingly parallel problem. Fuzzy searching I'd understand, but not searches for specific strings.

In 2025!
by a_bonobo | 2025-07-21 23:31:35+00:00
Two common points crop up in these kinds of discussions:

- what if you're part of a minority the government wants to disappear, like the Uyghur in China? DNA is indicative of many minorities. You don't have to commit a crime.

- you don't have to share your DNA, some distant cousin sharing theirs is enough to implicate you (as in the Golden State Killer's arrest). You cannot control your far-flung relatives. You may not have a choice in this kind of privacy. That's what makes DNA unique in relation to other kinds of private data: your cousin's browsing history does not implicate you, DNA however may.
by teraflop | 2025-07-21 23:31:44+00:00
If you recognize that sign languages such as ASL are distinct languages, as linguists do, then it naturally makes sense that native speakers of those languages would want a way to write them down in a static symbolic way, for all the same practical reasons that we use the Latin alphabet in English.

For instance, being able to quickly scan through a piece of text instead of having to watch it play in video form, or being able to search and index it, or providing a way to organize dictionaries.

There's no inherent problem with using the same notation scheme for different sign languages, just like we use essentially the same alphabet for English, Spanish, French, German, etc.
by johnecheck | 2025-07-21 23:31:51+00:00
As with all assets, you risk its value dropping precipitously due to events outside of your control.

Specifically, I worry that decreasing supply and the corresponding upward pressure on prices will cause transaction fees to increase and therefore volume to decrease. Decreased volume might lower liquidity and allow an event like an old wallet coming online to trigger a price shock and maybe even a broader crisis of confidence in bitcoin's ability to serve as a store of value.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-07-21 23:32:20+00:00
You can beat airlines. Mistake fares and fares sold below cost definitely exist, though they're a lot less common than they used to be as pricing models have improved. You're more likely to see them if you pay attention to off-season and new routes that aren't popular. Severe weather predictions and similar events can also create large price drops. I once got a $20 flight to Hawaii by simply buying just before a typhoon that didn't hit.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-07-21 23:33:01+00:00
Hey bro, your dark-factor idea (as you currently sell it) is mid-D :)

I mean there's as much reception by HN (high-D?) as of that high-agency splog we deride :)

("Schplog"?)

To be clear, it's exciting to me, though I can guess at why people don't buy it, beyond the fact that HN voters are wary of narcissistic idea pushers. Tetrad is missing the personality!!

Fwiw, I have been selling some mid-D ideas of my own (check my comments)

These are normally things that I personally find revolutionary... They would obviously require a lot more work to go viral:

Like a data-driven general theory of (health) insurance that could help tptacek go easy on the pro-institutionalism, or a honest metric of thermodynamic efficiency that is fully independent of (finite) DeltaT :)

These things are screaming for cooperation, but mid-D slop don't :)

Ideas also suffer from developmental arrest, it seems ;)
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by BoiledCabbage | 2025-07-21 23:33:59+00:00
> Why should I, as a homeowner, be forced to pay the power companies...?

You keep making this disingenuous argument all over this thread.

If you have solar and use their grid to distribute it you pay to use their grid. If you want solar off the grid and want no distribution you pay nothing to them.

It's really that simple. There is production and distribution. If you are using their distribution you pay them for it. Not to mention for the stability of still getting power when your solar is insufficient...
by ultimafan | 2025-07-21 23:34:04+00:00
I feel like just about everyone knows of (through friends/family/community) or has experienced some form of life changing harassment, assault, blackmailing, scamming, or otherwise malicious activities that have happened over social media / online platforms and the perpetrators are rarely if ever caught or punished. And it feels like thanks to the AI boom these problems are only going to get significantly worse over the next decade or so, maybe longer, thanks to the ability for bad actors to easily scale their efforts and create more realistic lies/threats/setups using AI tools to accomplish what they might not have had the skills to do beforehand.

I have little doubt that people looking back in the future on the first few decades of widespread internet usage and adoption without guardrails in place will see it as a huge moral failure on society's part. We've created a system that has enabled predators, scammers, and the like all over the world to cause untold amounts of harm to victims they would otherwise never have encountered, and get away with criminal behavior that, lacking a physical out in the open component isn't seen or caught by anyone until the damage is already done.

Instead of slowing down or reflecting on if a 24/7 deluge of social media / entertainment / bullshit novelties are really worth the harm companies are just ramping up the potential for future danger in the name of profit with all these new AI tools for "innocent" purposes.
by gruez | 2025-07-21 23:34:30+00:00
>My first exposure to politicization of a purely tech issue was when net neutrality was hijacked and disingenuously recast as government control over the internet.

>Two decades later we have the psychosis-like absurdity that "fiber is woke".

As much as it's fun to dunk on conservatives for "fiber is woke", how can you fail to mention how at the time net neutrality was a hot issue, its proponents thought the repeal of net neutrality was going to be the end of the internet as we knew it, and that ISPs were going to have different internet packages depending on what sites you wanted to go to? How did that turn out?
by meander_water | 2025-07-21 23:35:08+00:00
> You might still need to convert a document to text or a structured format, that’s essential for syncing information into structured databases or data lakes. In those cases, OCR works (with its quirks), but in my experience passing the original document to an LLM is better

Has anyone done any work to evaluate how good LLM parsing is compared to traditional OCR? I've only got anecdotal evidence saying LLMs are better. However whenever I've tested it out there were always an unacceptable level of hallucinations.
by pj_mukh | 2025-07-21 23:35:56+00:00
I have the same issue as OP.

Piecemeal sales aren't affected by the total amount though? If I'm a billionaire vs a 100 Billionaire, I'm still taking out the same amounts to live and buy yachts.

Also, as far as I can tell, it's not these 9 Billionaires hoovering up housing in the valley either. They all utmost have 2-3 properties, most of the rest of the market remains unaffected by this inequality.

In this local context, Citizens United is irrelevant too, most of the state MP's and local council members are not funded by the Billionaires and do not need to kowtow to their policy preferences.

So how exactly is inequality driving the cost of living?

EDIT: I do wish someone would actually answer this question. Everytime I bring this up I get yelling (or downvotes) in response. I agree Citizens United has really changed how Billionaires are able to affect federal elections, but in these local cases like "Silicon Valley", how does inequality affect the cost of living? This is a sincere question.
by deathanatos | 2025-07-21 23:36:26+00:00
JSON encoding is, as someone else points out, a GIL problem, but I want to add that even if you do JSON encoding in an async context:

async def foo(…): json.dumps(d) # you're blocking the event loop

You're still going to block on it.

def sync_foo(…): json.dumps(d) # you're holding the GIL … and so blocking here too

Short of resolving the GIL somehow (either by getting ridding of it, which I think is still a WIP though it has been "merged", I believe) or subinterpreters, etc., JSON is inherently going to need to hold the GIL while it walks the structure it is encoding. (Unlike a large file I/O, where it might be possible to release the GIL during the I/O if we have a strong ref to an immutable buffer.)
by this_steve_j | 2025-07-21 23:36:49+00:00
Microsoft’s version of “Zero Trust” doesn’t care if things are reachable from the public internet. They have been preaching “identity is the new perimeter” [1] for years, and it doesn’t wash.

The NIST Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) implementation guides (SP 1800-35) [2] cut through the nonsense and AI generated marketing smoke.

In ZTA, ALL network locations are untrusted. Network connections are created by a Policy Engine that creates and tears down tunnels to each resource dynamically using attribute-based-access-controls (ABAC). Per request.

Microsoft doesn’t have any products that can do full ZTA, so several pillars are missing from their “Zero Trust” marketing materials.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/insidetrack/blog/securing-the-bord...

[2] https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.1800-35