MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ceejayoz | 2025-07-14 20:08:52+00:00
Maybe! But maybe that area still really does need a curb, and it's the curb-stomping people we need to worry about more than the curb?

The sharing of the database in clear contravention of the law is a symptom of the widespread police culture of immunity from civil oversight in the United States. They do it because they get away with it.
by evilduck | 2025-07-14 20:09:29+00:00
The Steamdeck is a general purpose computing hardware device shipping with SteamOS, it's just an x86 APU with a handheld form factor and SteamOS is just a customized linux distro (but not a proprietary one). Install Windows on it if you'd like, or install SteamOS on any other hardware you'd like (though it's not really meant for this, just go get a more generic linux ISO)
by tw04 | 2025-07-14 20:09:40+00:00
Given you responded to a quote about the C8 platform redeeming GM - it'd probably pertinent to specify you're talking about literally a completely different car other than the name. The C8 was a ground up redesign.

That being said, the C7 also had no known electrical issues. A certified pre-owned would still be covered under lemon law. "driving through a puddle" sounds like more than a bit of an understatment if it took out the entire electrical system. I have driven my car through many, many rainstorms and had exactly 0 issues. I'm also not clear how he traded in a car with a non-functioning electrical system, no dealer would touch that with a 30 foot pole.

>the other kept killing the battery at random.

That could literally be anything, and again wasn't a widespread issue with the C7 platform or there would've been a recall, just like with the C8.
by stouset | 2025-07-14 20:10:44+00:00
As someone who grew up with a dad who listened to conservative talk radio, "liberal" has been used as an epithet for at least thirty years. I was genuinely stunned in high school when I met people who would willingly refer to themselves as liberals.

You'll have to pardon me for rolling my eyes at the notion that modern liberals have somehow made the term a bad word given the general path of conservatism over the last several decades, not to mention the last eight years specifically.
by nwienert | 2025-07-14 20:11:03+00:00
Lower your dose a little? Gastroparesis is a choice on these and only at high doses for long periods, you get signs weeks in advance and you choose to stay on a high dose. Myself never experienced it even when I had extremely strong effects (near 500 cals a day for a few weeks), but I did have some slowness, I lowered my dose and was fine.
by magicalist | 2025-07-14 20:11:17+00:00
> Sounds like the bigger issue is that you're able to get "spatiotemporal" data in the first place?

Yeah, this just sounds like it's written from the perspective of a data broker.

Tying particular ad analytics (presumably ip geolocation?) to thousands of particular individuals and having it well populated enough to track them is "privileged first-party data access" by another name.
by korse | 2025-07-14 20:11:31+00:00
I keep hearing that no-one gives a shit about Firefox but I've used it since I was a kid in the mid-2000's (including on mobile) and never had an issue.

The one exception is that I do allot of reading/web surfing using lynx with a couple of flags set but aside from this, I've never seen the need for other browsers.

Why is Firefox 'dead' and why does anyone care what Apple/Google does with their proprietary bullshit?
by int_19h | 2025-07-14 20:11:31+00:00
I don't think the result would be functionally very different from what we have at the moment. You'd still end up with a slate of candidates that have enough money (or are provided enough money by interest groups) to have the largest megaphone, and the competition would then be among them.

In any case, that's just a more chaotic form of representative democracy. It's most certainly not meritocratic in any sense.
by joe_the_user | 2025-07-14 20:11:45+00:00
Well, LLMs are themselves very broad. They encompass everything from web search to everything that you could automate yourself but don't have the time.

I don't LLM capacities have to reach human-equivalent for their uses to multiply for years to come.

I don't LLM technology as it exists can reach AGI by the simple addition of more compute power and moreover, I don't think adding computer necessarily is going to provide proportionate benefit (indeed, someone pointed-out that the current talent race acknowledges that brute-force has likely had it's day and some other "magic" is needed. Unlike brute-force, technical advances can't be summoned at will).
by szczepu | 2025-07-14 20:12:15+00:00
It isn't as obvious as it maybe should be, but in classic text-based adventure fashion you can also type your own 'actions' (in addition to the four default choices). We use LLMs to basically manage incorporating any player actions without letting them derail the story (too much).

There's also some caching involved which resets every 24 hours, so you will have a slightly different experience each time you play through (even if you choose the same character).

I also love the whole early 2000s ARG stuff I think it was a big part of the inspiration for the movie.
by austin-cheney | 2025-07-14 20:12:25+00:00
I recommend people read the book Good To Great by Jim Collins. The most admired leaders were the people who positioned themselves to receive admiration, but they also tended to be the least effective. Likewise the most effective leaders, according to various metrics, tended to be people who humbly avoided the media and self-promotion.

My take away from this is that uniformed people will believe exactly what you tell them to believe. The tremendous effort that goes into that distracts from the responsibilities or running an organization. So, don't let the unexperienced dictate the criteria for success. I see this a lot in software, people without experience attempting to artificially dictate the terms of success.
by const_cast | 2025-07-14 20:12:37+00:00
> It doesn't make sense to me that the only alternative is one in which traffic laws get brazenly ignored, and shoplifting and property crime is endemic, to prevent any more data gathering by law enforcement.

The only reason either of these happen is because law enforcement is lazy and dangerous.

We pretty much gave up on most traffic enforcement because law enforcement officers can't help shooting people they pull over. That's a problem - if they would just start acting somewhat decent, the PD would stop losing a few hundred million a year in lawsuits.

To be frank, I have no idea what law enforcement even does these days. They don't speed trap, they barely respond to calls, they're not pulling people over. Are they just sitting on their asses and getting a check, petrified of public discourse?
by sshine | 2025-07-14 20:12:45+00:00
> How can this possible not be unethical

Anyone has the right to buy a domain.

The site serves the purpose which you could criticise him for not serving:

It lets you download PuTTY.

putty.com sells jars with goo, and they don't provide links to the SSH client.

> They are selling a commercial product by using the name of a popular open source tool

You have to look with a historical perspective here.

He's giving away related software for free.

Sure, you can buy a commercial license, but almost nobody does.

> on top of that is additionally a direct competitor

I've heard the market for free Windows SSH clients is fierce!

> How "friendly" the site is designed is a factor

Yes, it certainly is.

It is a factor that spells out his intent quite clearly as one that isn't ill-willed.

He's putting the real PuTTY client first on the site.

He's not doing weird stuff like serving his own executables.

He's not showing ads.

He's disclaiming that his own software is not endorsed by PuTTY.

He's giving away similar software.

He's basically saying,

"Hey, now that you're here, I made an SSH client, too, you might like it!"
by sroerick | 2025-07-14 20:12:53+00:00
I haven’t done a ton with Rails professionally - but in my mind, if I was doing customer facing CRUD I would reach for rails, I think the deployment ecosystem and development experience is a bit better.

Django, however, is wonderful for internal tooling, or anything where you need to plug in Python libraries. GIS is a clear win for Django, as well as custom BI work or data analytics
by sealeck | 2025-07-14 20:12:58+00:00
The thing that was most disillusioning for me here was SVB -- failure to apply basic principles of banking (i.e. they never really had a plan for central bank interest rates to change more than +-1%). Not just that the VC types running a bank weren't able to do so, but that such a large number of tech companies held all their cash on hand in a bank account (and didn't deposit anything in another bank, or a money-market fund/t-bills).
by mlyle | 2025-07-14 20:13:29+00:00
I get to choose what software to run, though. If it becomes difficult for me to prove identity in more of everyday life without such a remotely-owned device, I am hosed on privacy.

This is true even if the protocols themselves protect privacy well, use zero knowledge proofs, etc… if Google can vacuum it all up from the device representing me, all the privacy-centric design makes no difference.
by TrueDuality | 2025-07-14 20:13:31+00:00
They do but without information from additional locations all you can get is distance and sometimes direction (dependent on specific chip / circuit). The ones with direction will probably good enough for most boating awareness situations.

If you want to know more specifically you need to have separate sensors that have with reasonably synchronized clocks so they can trilaterate or triangulate strike locations. Those sensors probably need to be further away from each other than most boats allow for. The further away the sensors are from each other, the tighter the time synchronization between them, and the more sensors you have will determine the overall accuracy your system will be able to attain.
by immibis | 2025-07-14 20:13:56+00:00
In the specific case of ISPs I think it's always because you won't make enough money to justify it as a big company, yet the task is too big and complicated to do it as an individual nerd.

The worst part appears to be the physical wiring. If your government has implemented loop unbundling, you're already set (probably need to do some bureaucracy and pay some affordable-at-a-stretch fees to get access to it). Otherwise, or if the loops are just crap, you have to figure out how to physically get a cable to everywhere, a task that is fundamentally laborious and legally fraught, not nerdy at all (unless lawyers are nerds) so nobody wants to do it.

Wireless ISPs are about as popular because of this. Wireless service is always worse, but you only have to install plant (physical infrastructure) at the customer's house and one central location, not all the places leading up to the customer's house. This makes it a whole lot more amenable to individual-nerd or handful-of-nerds setup.

I encourage everyone to at least think about how they would do it.
by nwienert | 2025-07-14 20:14:11+00:00
Crazy to hear all these stories. My wife’s friend was a pack a day smoker for a decade that had transitioned into a heavy vape smoker, normal weight but couldn’t get off vaping despite trying. She tried Tirz to see if it would help and after only about 3 months she quit entirely, now completely smoke free for two months.
by mrguyorama | 2025-07-14 20:14:15+00:00
That has never been convincing to them because they are fundamentally incapable of putting themselves in the shoe of an "other" like that. Look at all the people who voted for Trump literally to deport all the illegals and cry foul when he arrests their significant other or parent.

This phenomenon is well documented, from "the only moral abortion is my abortion" to suddenly accepting gay people when your child comes out to a huge quantity of Americans only being accepting of gay marriage rights after watching a damn sitcom, to "deregulate everything" types suddenly screaming for the government to do something after they get scammed/screwed/used as expected like most of the crypto community.
by specialist | 2025-07-14 20:14:15+00:00
That's the question, right?

Citizens' assembly makes policy. But then who implements it?

I (currently) believe that we'd still need executives, still need some kind of balance of powers.

So I'm okay w/ electing mayors, sheriffs, governors, etc. Perhaps even multi-seat roles; something between a council and a mayor.

Assuming, of course, we use approval voting for execs, PR for councils.
by tom89999 | 2025-07-14 20:14:20+00:00
Been there, done that. Hated it. Being 24 hrs in your own home is imprisonment with money. You dont meet people while commuting, you dont see whats happening in your own town and after work, you still sit on your desk browsing mindless websites, stuffing junkfood into your mouth because you havent shopped and cooked yourself a meal. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, nothing more than an embaressment for the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself.
by dblitt | 2025-07-14 20:14:30+00:00
Looks like it checks for the referrer in main.js and adds the uppercase text-transform if you come from HN:

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by fc417fc802 | 2025-07-14 20:14:33+00:00
> I don't think I can say that there is much of a pattern between ADHD and overeating, just based on how easily I can predict if someone is overeating or not if I know they have ADHD. That is, it would be a coin toss.

Person you responded to suggested P( overeating | undereating ) as opposed to your P( overeating ). I expect the effects of those two conditions would tend to cancel each other out in observations.

> As seen in studies where people that start lisdexamfetamine (ADHD medication common in the EU) have a huge reduction in actual amphetamine abuse.

Perhaps I misunderstand you but lisdexamfetamine _is_ an amphetamine. That reads like saying that people prescribed an opiate exhibit reduced opiate abuse. It seems either tautological (not abuse because permitted) or obvious (cooperative supervised use reduces bad things happening) or perhaps related to drug safety (A simply being safer to use than B).
by 3036e4 | 2025-07-14 20:15:12+00:00
No, but we have a steady stream of tickets at work for scripts that must be fixed to work with a new minor python version.

I thought this was common knowledge. Just look at the non-empty list of removed things in every minor release changelog. If you have enough code to maintain something is going to affect you directly or indirectly.

https://docs.python.org/pl/dev/whatsnew/3.15.html
by pranay01 | 2025-07-14 20:15:19+00:00
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by UltraSane | 2025-07-14 20:16:10+00:00
"but how easy will it be to run those drives in 10 years?"

Exactly as easy as it is now? LTO drives are used in the millions globally to back up many exabytes of data. LTO is designed with backwards compatibility. a drive on gen n can read tapes from gen n-1 and n-2 and write to tapes from gen-1.
by zamalek | 2025-07-14 20:16:19+00:00
I'm a Linux adherent, but I can't understand how a "normie tool" like this wouldn't release to Windows first. You're hitting <15% (<30% for US) of the market. Even if you only care about developers, you're hitting the worst of all 3 (Windows, Mac, Linux) with a MacOS only release[1].

[1]: https://truelist.co/blog/linux-statistics/ https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/
by Yizahi | 2025-07-14 20:16:38+00:00
A hypothesis is approximately this, paraphrasing - human society rewards sociopathic humans, who filter to the top of politics, corporation control, figures of influence etc. Watts goes even further and throws in a hypothesis that even consciousness may be an artifact which humans will evolve out of. Next are my own thoughts - local short term selection is not enough to put evolutionary pressure, and in general evolution doesn't work like this. But I suspect that a lot of empathy traits and adjacent characteristics are not genetic but a product of education, with some exceptions. So if whole society (not only CEOs and presidents) starts rewarding sociopathic behavior, parents may educate kids accordingly and the loop will be self reinforcing. For example some tiny example we can see today - union busting where those exist; cheating culture where cheating is normal and encouraged; extreme competitiveness turning into deathmathes (a-la South Korea university insanity, when everyone studies much longer hours than needed, constantly escalating the situation).
by abletonlive | 2025-07-14 20:16:40+00:00
Every argument against AI always falls back to some weird reductionism that simply does not match up with reality as if it's a gotcha. I pity the fool that has such a poor working model of reality based on whatever internal pessimistic biases you may have.

> You are missing what this "AI" is: a guessing system based on some patterns.

You just described the majority of your daily thoughts.
by ayewo | 2025-07-14 20:16:40+00:00
> I will say that now that I am getting older its getting a bit tougher - the pain is worse and lasts longer and real chronic pain kind of bums me out, but I just enjoy the challenge of trying to work around my body.

Please see this as your body trying to tell you something before you end up with a bad injury that could prevent you from running for weeks.

For me, shin splits subsided after I got more comfortable running shoes and shortening the distance covered during runs (i.e. ~5km down to ~3km, 5-days a week).
by vel0city | 2025-07-14 20:16:40+00:00
Blu-rays don't do anywhere near 277Mb/s.

First, if it was 2GB * 2 for the source of your recompressed copy, that's 4GB * 8 bits per byte = 32 Gigabits (Gb), or 32,000Mb. Two hours in seconds is 60 * 60 * 2 = 7,200 seconds.

32,000 / 7,200 is 4.444Mb/s. Streaming your 2 hour long 4GB movie could be done with ~5Mbit. A 1Gb/s connection could handle streaming ~200 of these movies.

Going back to Blu-rays as a source, an Ultra HD Blu-ray maxes out at 144Mbit but in reality most movies are encoded at a much lower bitrate. Most movies will cap out around 40-50Mbit. You could do 20 of these straight Blu-ray movies on a 1Gb connection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_HD_Blu-ray#Specification...
by const_cast | 2025-07-14 20:16:46+00:00
It would discourage LEOs from being useless. As it stands, many police departments are absolutely worthless, on purpose. They believe it's some sort of protest. The police got a few years of bad press and now, like children, they're playing the silent treatment.

When I drive I almost never see LEOs. I can go months on end without ever spotting a police car. Where are they? What are they doing? Evidently, they're not responding to crimes. And they're not on the roads. But their budget has increased quite a lot! Am I paying for people to sit on their asses and eat donuts? It kind of seems like it!

To me, it's very simple. If you want to avoid bad press you don't have to stop policing. You just have to stop executing innocent people in public. Seems easy, I do that every day and I don't even think about it.

It sort of gives me the impression the police are so morally bankrupt as a system that they just can't help themselves. So, they have to detach instead. Yikes... that's not good.
by asadotzler | 2025-07-14 20:16:55+00:00
Windsurf employees left behind by their executives get none of that Google money. It went to the selfish exec team and a few top employees that abandoned their teams and projects for Google's cash, and what didn't go to those selfish jerks went to Windsurf's investors. The rank and file that were abandoned by their leadership got totally screwed. Startup executives will never again be trusted to deal fairly with the people who spend their opportunity trying to make that particular startup work rather than some other, or simply going to work for an incumbent. This deal probably did more damage to the tech startup ecosystem than anything I've seen in my 25 years in Silicon Valley.
by freedomben | 2025-07-14 20:17:09+00:00
I don't disagree, but this is an "ends justifies the means" type of argument, which generally speaking I struggle with. I think sometimes the end does justify the means (within reason of course), but I try to be very cognizant when that is the position.

I do also think there are a lot of downsides to letting big tech companies exercise tight control over stuff, especially when it is anti-competitive. The slowing of Chrome is a good outcome, but there are plenty of other downsides that come along with allowing Apple (and others) to have these policies.
by sealeck | 2025-07-14 20:17:37+00:00
The US government doesn't really take kindly to other states trying to reign in its companies. This is something that has bipartisan support. Even American politicians who support regulating Apple, only support _them_ doing this. Is this good? No. But it's also how Europe treats other countries. Basically: think about what France would do if Mozambique ejected or otherwise restrained Total -- that's roughly what Americans would do.

https://www.politico.eu/article/victory-eu-donald-trump-meta...
by mtalantikite | 2025-07-14 20:18:06+00:00
Yeah, I'm not totally sure how to fix that tbh and always have assumed it's just off. Open to suggestions though!

I use WorkOutDoors (with a Polar H10), and I've attempted the whole "do hill sprints" thing to calculate it, but I'm generally not far off from 220-age. When I put my resting heart rate into WorkOutDoors the zones get thrown even further off, so I don't even bother with that data point. I've kinda just shrugged it off and assume what is reading as Zone 5 is more like a high Zone 4.

I've considered doing a lactate threshold test, but honestly I just go running once a week to supplement my muay thai training, so it's not totally worth it to me.
by freedomben | 2025-07-14 20:18:26+00:00
It depends on what you are looking at. Chrome is the IE6 of the modern web as far as it is often the only browser people care about, but it's very much the opposite of IE6 regarding developing new features and moving web tech forward. In order to have a productive conversation about which browser is the new IE6, I think it's important to state what you are measuring
by chowder | 2025-07-14 20:18:44+00:00
My friend's "Christian" parents both eat Oxycontin like candy but think anything THC related is evil and kicked one of their sons out of the house at 15 years old because they found out he ate a THC gummy. When confronted they said their drug use is moral because they have prescriptions but weed is illegal and therefore satanic. I wish I was there to point out kicking their teenage son out on the streets was also illegal.

This mindset hard to even wrap my mind around. Total nonsense.