MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mindslight | 2025-08-20 16:51:57+00:00
I would use it in that I would forward the email off to my own server, the same as the rest of my ancillary email addresses. But the alternative pointed to in the article is freaking Hotmail - right into the open arms of the surveillance industry. And that account will likely be forgotten about once the immediate problem is over, making any continuity or later contact moot. [0]

In the abstract, email is actually a much better communication of last resort. A phone number requires you to maintain that phone number for the voice mailbox, or even be immediately reachable for more complex communication that can't be left in a voicemail. Whereas email just sits there until you can check it from many places, and the cost of maintaining an account is effectively ~zero.

And here we're talking about FEMA staff facilitating disaster victims. They could certainly have electronic devices to facilitate people checking their government mailboxes a lot easier than they could facilitate the same with phones. There could be terminals in post offices as well, for when the immediate disaster relief has gone away but someone still can't/won't have their own Internet access.

[0] fun fact: I tag senders using a wildcard character in the address, for example x-somebusiness@mydomain. When I give this style of email out over the phone, I invariably get responses of "you need a real email address", for which I have to explain my scheme and assure them that that is indeed my real email address (at least as far as they are concerned). To me this indicates that there is still a large contingent of people making up "email addresses" on the spot when asked, with no intention of ever receiving email - ie "Email address? Oh uh, John Smith At Google?"

(and yeah I know I could reduce the friction there by making the unique identifier into a nonce or other non-plaintext, and then keeping a mapping. alas, this hasn't really been a priority)
by somenameforme | 2025-08-20 16:52:26+00:00
You are misinformed here. Islamic fertility rates within Europe remain high with an average of about one more child per woman. [1] This is why Muslims are expected to continue rapidly growing as an ever larger percentage of all Europeans, even in the scenario of 0 immigration. And this will continue indefinitely unless fertility rates markedly change.

The same follows in places like the US, even just amongst Christians. [2] See the first figure (about 2/5ths of the way down the study) for an extremely informative graph. Intended and actual fertility rates for those who consider religion important remains healthy - at around 2.5 children. For those who it is not important or have no religion, it's around 1.5 children.

It's easy to just handwave the fertility rate of developed economies while failing to consider the issue that fertility isn't just a random distribution within these countries. It's extremely biased, and religiosity is one of the most predictive factors.

[1] - https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2017/11/29/europes-grow...

[2] - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2723861/
by Kennnan | 2025-08-20 16:53:08+00:00
This pattern of stepping with different ds along a path has a lot of applications in control theory. Often we change the ds/dt ratio based on the known acceleration profile of a motor to minimize jerk and reach our destination as fast as possible.

Generally this idea is called motion profiling: https://www.motioncontroltips.com/what-is-a-motion-profile/
by rtfeldman | 2025-08-20 16:53:08+00:00
We're working on it! :)

You can pay for Zed today if you'd like - https://zed.dev/pricing - and also the editor itself is open-source under the GPLv3 license. So if at any point in the future Zed changes direction in a way you don't like, you are perpetually free to build the version you liked from source (or make a community fork and take it in a different direction).
by k_bx | 2025-08-20 16:53:28+00:00
I don't know what's DeltaDB, but if it will be able to show when a commit is simultaneously a refactoring and a change of code being refactored (moved into another module) – I would love to see that! At the moment if you refactor you punish the people reviewing the code, which reverses the motivation for cleaning things up.
by jacquesm | 2025-08-20 16:53:38+00:00
So much freedom. It is scary to see how fast the USA is falling. But at least we now have an answer to how this all could have happened in Germany, why they didn't stop the builders of the concentration camps and how come the 'good Germans' did nothing. The price is a little steep though.

The most surprising thing to me is that people that are by most measures intelligent are falling for it hook, line, and sinker.
by lazide | 2025-08-20 16:53:47+00:00
Dude, the original question was ‘and do you have any concrete proposals for making it better that trying to implement won’t definitely (and historically provably!) end up even worse’

And you keep not answering the question while spewing a whole bunch of random other BS.

It reads like your only exposure to real life is Political Science 101.

And the stuff you’re complaining about isn’t even specific to capitalism! Do you think judges in other countries (especially communist and social countries!) are somehow totally independent? Do you think massive abuses of workers and the population didn’t (and don’t) happen in the USSR or under the CCP in its various iterations?

Even ‘return production to the people’ is ludicrous without even specifying how. Because

1) why should the current owners be okay with it, and what are you going to do to them if they aren’t. (Historically, this is often ‘murder them’)

2) how would ‘the people’ even operate it ‘individually’ without destroying it or having the same hierarchical (or worse) power structure (historically this is ‘don’t worry, our political appartchik/crony will run it’)

and 3) how do you stop abusive pieces of shit from abusing the structure? (Historically, this is murdering anyone who complains that we’re being abusive).

People like Stalin and Mao did untold damage under the banners of communism and socialism, because people kept just spouting the same bullshit you are and never asking these actual questions.
by ksymph | 2025-08-20 16:53:53+00:00
Here's a more relevant quote from the link:

> Anubis is a man-in-the-middle HTTP proxy that requires clients to either solve or have solved a proof-of-work challenge before they can access the site. This is a very simple way to block the most common AI scrapers because they are not able to execute JavaScript to solve the challenge. The scrapers that can execute JavaScript usually don't support the modern JavaScript features that Anubis requires. In case a scraper is dedicated enough to solve the challenge, Anubis lets them through because at that point they are functionally a browser.

As the article notes, the work required is negligible, and as the linked post notes, that's by design. Wasting scraper compute is part of the picture to be sure, but not really its primary utility.
by griffzhowl | 2025-08-20 16:54:11+00:00
> When people talk about "human exceptionalism," they're referring to this type of "exceptional."

Yeah, ok. I think it should be clear by now that people use the word "exceptional" in different ways, and it's not really clear just from the use of the word which of these ways it is.

For me, "exceptional" just means "different", but you seem to be suggesting that people use it in the sense of "better", or something like that. Maybe that's true in some cases, but I would also say that humans are exceptionally destructive, and even in some ways exceptionally evil, in the sense that some people seem to take pleasure in causing harm, which is a feature that isn't shared with many other animals - or at least it's difficult to make the case that this is shared with many other animals. So "exceptional" doesn't mean "better" to me.

Let's try to be objective about things: dolphins are exceptional in their sonar abilities, curiosity, complexity of social organisation for a marine animal, range of sonic vibrations they emit, and so on. We can similarly evaluate the complexity of human behaviours according to objective criteria: our range of vocalizations is objectively more complex than any other species (we could get into the details of this if you like: I think the informational entropy of average human behavioural outputs can easily be shown to be higher than the highest way you have of evaluating non-human vacalisations or behavioural outputs), the comeplxity of human tool use can also be objectively quantified: New Caledonian crows, dolphins, or chimpanzees have technological assemblages which consists of maximally two or three moving parts (let me know if you know of exceptions), while human ones often consist of thousands. We're really comparing one large rock, a nut, and a hammer rock, against a nuclear reactor. It just should be abundantly clear that there's an exception here.

About your ethical point that "exceptionalism" translates into "divine right", I draw the opposite conclusion. Human exceptionalism doesn't mean that we can just do whatever we want, it means that with our increased abilities and awareness comes increased responsibility: we can become aware of the harms we cause to other life and other humans exactly because we're more capable and more preceptive
by AlecSchueler | 2025-08-20 16:54:17+00:00
I'm not sure that it is still interesting. If we start to broaden the goalposts every time then the question just becomes one of "earth exceptionalism," right?

And while I agree that it wasn't necessarily accurate to say we killed them, a shared ancestry doesn't imply any kind of harmony. Think of the hundreds of thousands to potentially millions of rapes estimated to have been committed by the soldiers occupying Germany (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_...)
by jacobolus | 2025-08-20 16:54:58+00:00
Here are a few alternatives:

https://observablehq.com/@jrus/stereorandom

At least when trying to end up with stereographically projected coordinates, in general it seems to be faster to uniformly generate a point in the disk by rejection sampling and then transform it by a radially symmetric function to lie on the sphere, rather than uniformly generating a point in the ball and then projecting outward. For one thing, fewer of the points get rejected because the disk fills more of the square than the ball fills of the cube.
by diggan | 2025-08-20 16:55:04+00:00
> What is the benefit of porting all those tools to extensions?

Personally, I have a browser extension running in my user/personal browser instance that my agent use (with rate-limits) in order to avoid all the captchas and blocks basically. Everything else I've tried ultimately ends up getting blocked. But then I'm also doing some heavy caching so most agent "browse" calls end up not even reaching out to the internet as it's finding and using stuff already stored locally.
by PaulHoule | 2025-08-20 16:55:06+00:00
That e-filing web site for taxes has never worked for my son because he can’t complete the id.me process, it might be as simple as you are an unperson if you use an android phone or maybe because he’s just started in the workforce he does not have a long history of tax filing and credit history to match up with.

Two years in a row we’ve been able to fill out a 1040 and the NY state equivalent and make a paper submission in less time than it takes to reach an operator on hold.

These identity verification services look like a scam to me. LinkedIn incessantly hassles me to verify with CLEAR and it always fails without a clear error message, either “it just doesn’t work” or my hair has grown too much since I got my driver’s license or it is making me take my glasses off and comparing to a driver’s license photo where I am wearing glasses.
by glenstein | 2025-08-20 16:55:15+00:00
Farming them into existence creates moral responsibility, and killing then annihilates the remaining value of a life for which you were morally responsible.

The "connection" you're advocating appears to be a more a romanticized free association (along the lines of "we are all stardust") than a specific conceptual argument accountable to the interests of the animals being harmed.
by fredgrott | 2025-08-20 16:55:37+00:00
The problem I see is the VC involvement...

VCs operate from the goal of xtreme high user market share as the problem..

As frameworks get better, the audience using the IDE changes...

Both are misaligned before even meeting and it will get worse once VC money control is added.

My bias, I am a flutter framework user and MS VSCode user.
by ac29 | 2025-08-20 16:55:41+00:00
If the option is waiting in line for a cashier versus going to an open self checkout (this is almost always the case where I shop), then yes, self checkout is faster.

Even aside from the line, the only thing clerks are sometimes faster at in my experience is ringing up fresh produce where codes have to be typed in (these codes are usually on a label on the produce, but if not you have to go through a lookup procedure if you haven't memorized the code).
by decentrality | 2025-08-20 16:56:32+00:00
I agree. The level of dilution is becoming obvious and a big problem... code is becoming predominantly disposable

Despite the article being salesmanship hype ( at WEF no less ) we are now in the time mentioned, and can feel this

The idea that the code is GOOD or even being used is not necessary to be saying that it exists, strewn everywhere
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-08-20 16:56:32+00:00
Looking like something from the 90s would be a feature, not a bug.

In the 90s and early 00s, we did tons of user-testing and feedback collection. We threw all that research away to create UX's that are minimal and "sleek". Tons of unnecessary whitespace and the concept of "Discovery" just thrown into the dumpster. Skeuomorphism was one of the greatest features of 90s-00s software, ironically thrown away as computers got faster and were able to handle the graphics better.
by Temporary_31337 | 2025-08-20 16:56:35+00:00
At that time the Palantit valuation was considered 'hefty / overpriced' at $9B. Current stock price valuation, post IPO is a completely detached from fundamentals ~$378B

if you were to apply the same ratio to Databricks it would have to trade at 42 000 000 000 000 000 USD - enough to buy the entire US sovereign debt, the moon, all earth's minerals with plenty to spare. A completely rational market if you ask me.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-08-20 16:57:17+00:00
095.1 fix re: title where z==15 [no url]

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by RiverCrochet | 2025-08-20 16:57:41+00:00
In the U.S., particularly the Walmarts I've been to, cashiers are usually slower than the self-checkouts now.

Their self-checkouts used to be slow because the registers would verify the weight of items on the scale (the surface where you bag it) before letting you put it in the cart. If it didn't like the weight it would force you to put it back in the bag. I don't think they do this anymore. Asset protection can view a camera pointed at the scanner and bags if they think you're stealing.

Furthermore, it's hard for Walmart to retain people, so cashiers are treated like a dump stat. They won't really dedicate people to checking out anymore unless that's all they can do, e.g. elderly, so someone who's a cashier all day tends to be slow because they're accomodating that person. So you could be the fastest cashier in the world but it won't mean anything as far as raises, etc. Your fast cashiers are often pulled off and stocking unless its super busy.
by Wonnk13 | 2025-08-20 16:57:46+00:00
I was a refugee of the Great Digg Migration to reddit some 14 or so years ago. old.reddit and adblockers as well as very aggressive curation of subreddits have kept it to an overall positive experience over the decade.

I think overall I'm just less enthusiastic about the internet; everytime I come back from a week or two of backpacking without internet connection I realize how overstimulated with inane bullshit we all are.
by phailhaus | 2025-08-20 16:58:05+00:00
This doesn't make sense, since it's advertisers who are the ones putting pressure on sites like Twitter to stop spreading extremist content.

The problem is that humans are extremely willing to enter echo chambers where they are told they are right all the time. That's what they will do by default. So if you optimize for engagement, they will radicalize themselves very quickly. If you figure out how to power a social network without ads, you will get something a hundred times worse than Facebook, because there will be no pressure to moderate content at all.
by glenstein | 2025-08-20 16:58:07+00:00
One has human moral responsibility, the other doesn't.

I actually do think, if we solved all the other problems in the world and had time left over, it would be right to intervene in nature to stop the harms you described too, and that conversation is a pandora's box of its own. But I don't think the upshot of these harms in nature is that we're also allowed to engage in similar harms at any scale we choose, as long as the badness isn't as bad as what happens in nature. Mainly because that comparison sidesteps the role of unique human moral responsibility and implies an unmade argument that analogies to nature can serve the function of authorizing human-initiated moral harms.
by surgical_fire | 2025-08-20 16:58:31+00:00
This reeks of survivorship bias.

Many "new ways" of doing something die before becoming the norm. Using the examples where it prevailed without looking at all the times it failed is just bad rationale.

"vibe coding" (what a horrid jargon) may be the new digital camera. It also may be the new metaverse (just to use a recent example still fresh in people's minds).

Contrary to digital camera and iphone, "vibe coding" is muddled by an army of people deeply invested in Gen AI adoption (either directly or indirectly) that want it to succeed no matter if it makes sense or not.
by Helmut10001 | 2025-08-20 16:58:34+00:00
Thank you for the thoughtful reply. Your argument hinges on a very human-centric metric for value: the ability to conceptually "understand the universe." But what if that's a narrow and self-serving definition of success?

You dismiss other intelligent life as being stuck in a "feed-fight-fuck" cycle, a concept from biology. Yet, anyone who has spent time observing animals, even chickens, sees intricate social structures, communication, and what appears to be a rich perceptual world that is simply alien to us . To claim their existence has less "point" because they don't develop cosmology is a failure of our limited world view, not a failure of theirs. It defines intelligence only as that which mirrors our own specific cognitive strengths. This is the same intellectual blind spot we see today, as we struggle to define what truly separates human thought from the emergent abilities of LLMs.

Regarding the "course correction," I agree the planet will be fine. Mass extinctions are a form of course correction. The crucial detail is that the dominant species causing the imbalance rarely survives that correction. Our hope shouldn't blind us to the fact that we are not separate from the system we are destabilizing. Perhaps the ultimate test of our unique intelligence is not our ability to look outward and understand the cosmos, but our ability to look inward, recognize our limitations, and understand our place within the only biosphere we have ever known.
by PaulHoule | 2025-08-20 16:59:30+00:00
Every few days I submit one that doesn’t get a lot of traction but I come back in 2-3 days and it is on the home page, I think these are responsible for maybe 1/3 of my karma but well under 5% of actual submissions. I dunno if these got resubmitted but still attributed to me or if it is part of dang’s “a good submission got missed” program.
by benburkert | 2025-08-20 17:00:06+00:00
It does not.

Anchor never see sees your private keys for certificates.

We hold an ACME account key on your behalf with the CA, but we cannot use it impersonate your domain or decrypt traffic.

We have a more technical overview of how this works in our docs: https://anchor.dev/docs/public-certs/acme-relay
by kmfrk | 2025-08-20 17:00:17+00:00
Nostalgic for the old Digg days. Invite-only communities not so much. But given the botting all over social media, guess I can't blame them.

I would not be surprised if there's a lot of brouhaha over how it's moderated, since moderation is considered way more controversial now than it used to be in the old days.
by diggan | 2025-08-20 17:00:26+00:00
> Luminal can run Q8 Llama 3 8B on M-series Macbooks at 15-25 tokens per second. The goal is to become the fastest ML framework for any model on any device.

Great that some numbers are provided, but in isolation, I'm not sure what they provide. It would be helpful to also share what tok/s you'd get with llama.cpp or something else on the same hardware, so we can actually understand if it's faster or not :) Also including the prompt processing would be a bonus!
by reeece | 2025-08-20 17:00:58+00:00
The animations are so fluid!

I very recently was looking to generate some complex shapes, and stumbled onto the complex problem of "disperse N points on sphere" and all its nuances.

There was a really cool / simple algorithm that was mentioned called the fibonacci-sphere that also generates a spiral around a sphere, but for the point dispersal. Here's a paper [1] on it that talks more about it.

[1] - https://arxiv.org/pdf/0912.4540
by Temporary_31337 | 2025-08-20 17:02:23+00:00
it's funny how we're letting private companies get away with made up numbers. Rather than making IPOs easier, owning a private company above a certain valuation should come with at least an obligation for GAAP accounting, indepndent audits etc. This is really for the greater good - so what is we see 2-5 years of a beautiful AI bubble if it's going to come crashing down again. It's lawmakers and regulators role to smooth out and dampen the natural tendency for the markets to go bubbly.
by the_af | 2025-08-20 17:02:25+00:00
In a less mocking way of putting it, couldn't it be stated as:

"I don't understand the world, and it sometimes seems unfair, so I find comfort in trusting there's some all seeing power who has a plan. I don't understand the plan because I'm flawed, but I trust the plan exists. In the end, I trust this powerful being will reward the just and punish the unjust (or redeem them by showing them the evil of their ways)".

As an atheist, I don't subscribe to this worldview at all, but I can see how it could comfort people. It's a way to explain the unexplainable, and to face the uncertainty of death, illness and tragedy.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-08-20 17:02:50+00:00
F# started as an Ocaml port to the CLR. In the end, they decided to port a subset of the language so you get mostly the same syntax, no parametrised modules which is a big part of Ocaml but in exchange you can call libraries from other languages using the CLR. Of course, that comes with the issue of being a second class citizen in the .Net family, albeit a very nice second class citizen.

F# have drifted a bit further since but not that much. It’s a nice language but it’s not really comparable to Ocaml at this point. At least, I don’t see many cases where people would have to chose one or the other. I think people know if they want the CLR or not.
by bognition | 2025-08-20 17:03:36+00:00
People forget that there a billionaires at the helm of these companies putting their feet on the scale of what is shown.

They are not impartial nor are the benevolent. They have a vested interest in influencing the content people are exposed to. They can hide behind the “social” components and say “we’re innocent here we just show the content people engage with” meanwhile they directly influence what content gets a chance to be interacted with.