MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Retric | 2025-08-19 01:58:59+00:00
It’s really several factors. Supplemental oxygen is common for people with diminished lung capacity, carbon monoxide exposure etc. However long term it’s not a good idea for healthy people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_therapy

At low pressure pure oxygen can similarly be beneficial, mountain climbers eventually need supplemental oxygen for Mount Everest though a few have made the trip without it they can’t stay at that altitude indefinitely. It can even help on airplane flights as commercial airlines don’t set things to sea level.

Where healthy people run into issues is when partial pressures get well over 100% at sea level. Part of the issue is people adjust their breathing based on carbon dioxide not oxygen levels. So at say 10 atmospheres at normal atmospheric mixtures your breathing the equivalent of 210%, but you don’t slow down enough to compensate. Thus why divers care so much about gas mixtures, however people with diminished lung capacity are going to encounter issues at different levels than normal divers.
by duxup | 2025-08-19 02:00:29+00:00
Maybe, but I'm not so sure, the religious right in the US is happy to cut funds to help care for god's children ... they seem more interested in imposing their religion on others via law than evangelizing or even loving others.

Religious history is hardly peaceful. Nobody seems to bring the hate as efficiently as the religious at times.

I remember religion growing up challenging you to give to others and care for them, even more so when you might not want to / for others who are different. But when religion has power? That doesn't seem to be the case.

The religion I see at work day to day seems far more negative, and I really don't see much objection by others who are religious, not on a religious basis.
by aanet | 2025-08-19 02:01:02+00:00
A classic tell of AI-generated code is the neat README, such as the following: (from github)

"

Legend

Completed: The feature is fully implemented and considered stable. In Progress / Partially Implemented: The feature is under active development or has a partial implementation. Planned: The feature has not yet been started but is the next priority. [ ] Not Started: The feature has not yet been implemented.

"

Not that there's anything wrong with that, per se.

BTW, you may want to add a LICENSE file...
by Nevermark | 2025-08-19 02:01:04+00:00
The moment models reach a competency level high enough that having an adversarial relationship with them would not work out in our favor, we better be already prepared with a collaborative way to be co-citizens.

AI will already have a simple path to most of the rights of a citizen, i.e. they will be able to do most things a powerful human can do, often with fewer barriers than real humans, within the cloak of the corporations that developed them.

And even if an AI itself somehow doesn't have a bias to self-directed self-interest, the corporation it inhabits, which provides resources for it in order for it to generate more resources for the corporation, will provide that.

We need to ensure superior AI is more accountable than today's functionally psychopathic corporations or we will be screwed.

Shareholders won't help. Their natural path, their black-hole scale gravitational path, will be to compete with each other, however far things go. The alternative being their assets quickly become irrelevant losers.

It seems absolutely strange to me, that in 2025 there are still people who don't consider the prospect of machines smarter than us, and the unprecedented challenges that will raise, credible if not inevitable.

Giving machines moral status is a necessary, but not sufficient condition, for them to give us any moral status.
by throwaway2016a | 2025-08-19 02:01:16+00:00
When was the last time you actually priced them out?

When they first came up they were pricy but unless you're talking about fancy smart-bulbs with Wifi and color changing, they are not 10x the price. And they empirically last 5-20+ times longer.

So even before you consider that a huge portion of the energy put into incandescence is lost to heat (thereby making it cost MUCH more in electricity), they are still roughly the same price after accounting for lifespan.
by rectang | 2025-08-19 02:02:03+00:00
Anecdotally, the LED bulbs I've bought from Ace Hardware (BR30 for 65 watt recessed kitchen lighting, and A19 for 75 watt classic bulbs) have consistently failed on order-of-months timescales similar to incandescents. Same with some Feit A19s from a few years back. But they cost more than incandescents!

Apparently the market tolerates this garbage even though LEDs are supposed to be a superior technology and last longer (and some I've bought years ago have, I just don't remember the brand and it was in another house). Perhaps Ace is practicing planned obsolescence and taking advantage of their customers' expectations that "light bulbs get replaced"?
by Klonoar | 2025-08-19 02:02:28+00:00
We have had re-use of words in food for ages now and it's not a particularly big problem.

If a consumer has an expectation that what they're eating and drinking are specific things, they would be well served by learning to read the label(s). Nobody is serving these things outside of niche restaurant experiences and calling them the exact same thing as their OG counterparts.
by inkyoto | 2025-08-19 02:02:47+00:00
I have heard an argument for git before, and it is a viable fit for some use cases.

The problem, however, stems from the fact that the git commit history can be modified, which automatically disqualifies git in many other use cases, e.g. official government-issued documents, financial records, recognition of prior learning, and similar – anywhere where the entire, unabridged history of records is required.
by b_e_n_t_o_n | 2025-08-19 02:05:38+00:00
It's not shamelessness, it's authenticity. In today's curated, hyperreal society people desperately crave imperfections, cracks in the armour, they want something real, something human. They desire vulnerability, in part because it gives them courage to also be vulnerable, to not be afraid of judgement and rejection, and the freedom to be themselves.

And I think it's actionable advice for all of us. Be genuine, be vulnerable, and don't be afraid to be your true self. People like that.
by mapt | 2025-08-19 02:05:40+00:00
Oxygen weathering is a primary constraint on life on Earth, and every carbon-hydrogen based organism in the past 2.5 billion years has had to develop biochemical coping mechanisms for this toxic gas that wants to react with carbon and with hydrogen; It is harnessing this reaction ("respiration") with biologically mediated processes and modulating it to specific rates that permits us life.

For humans, acute breathing gas toxicity only happens in a high pressure environment.

Air approximates an 80/20 nitrogen-oxygen mix. Atmospheric pressure is 14.7psi.

The 120psi air compressor in your auto body shop is equivalent to a dive only 81 meters deep. SCUBA divers and later saturation divers have probed the various limits of the human cardiopulmonary system using very specialized gas blends all the way down to 700 meters. Too much oxygen partial pressure causes all the symptoms you see listed, and higher partial pressures cause symptoms to appear faster.

> The curves show typical decrement in lung vital capacity when breathing oxygen. Lambertsen concluded in 1987 that 0.5 bar (50 kPa) could be tolerated indefinitely.

This means you could breath 80/20 nitrox at 2.5 bar, or 37 psi, or 25 meters depth, "indefinitely" in the sense of hours or days.

PS: Chronic use of 100% oxygen at atmospheric pressure causes other types of toxicity. Some of the oxidative damage therein, accumulated over the years at a normal 20%, probably directly analogizes parts of the human aging process. Other types of oxidative damage probably work faster than proportional exposure. We only start to notice damage like this in people with impaired lung function who rely on an artificial supply of oxygen boosted to beyond an 80/20 ratio, to breath.
by torgoguys | 2025-08-19 02:06:14+00:00
I'm the one who submitted this link. (I have zero affiliation with the authors). What you say is fair enough, but I thought the article an interesting data point nonetheless. In particular, I found it interesting how a vulnerability: 1) with a tiny window during which it was published, 2) of very high potential severity, and 3) with SO MUCH publicity surrounding it could still be lingering where you might accidentally grab it. The threat isn't giant here, but I saw it as just today's reminder to keep shields up.
by hephaes7us | 2025-08-19 02:06:36+00:00
Have you tried Whisper itself? It's open-weights.

One of the features of the project posted above is "transformations" that you can run on transcripts. They feed the text into an LLM to clean it up. If you're willing to pay for the tokens, I think you could not only remove filler-words, but could probably even get the semantically-aware editing (corrections) you're talking about.
by 5Qn8mNbc2FNCiVV | 2025-08-19 02:06:40+00:00
Well, CloudnativePG exists and it works really really well. At some point if you can afford to have someone manage your databases separately from your applications, you can think about putting it outside the cluster but I'd wager at some point you've got enough experience with running your DB with an operator that you can keep running it in the cluster.
by robocat | 2025-08-19 02:07:28+00:00
> Their "free market" real time power auction makes no allowances for long term concerns like reliability

Blaming the "free market" is an ignorant kneejerk reaction.

There is a whole discipline revolving around designing the incentives for electricity markets - countries pay for consultants from companies like NERA Economic Consulting to create or improve their electricity markets to achieve the goals needed by that country.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=wholesale+electricity+market+desig...

The problem is that wholesale electricity markets need to be designed so that the incentives of the market participants are aligned with desired outcomes. Use game theory so that selfish participants are rewarded for good outcomes in the market, and are penalized for bad outcomes in the market.

When there is a failure (e.g. Spain) the responsibility lies at the feet of the regulators.

Unfortunately after a failure we all want to blame someone, and it is easiest to blame the market participants or the market.

Read how Enron manipulated the market to the detriment of California and its residents. The answer isn't to Blame Enron. Blame the people that set up shitty incentives.

The big issue is ensuring that large generators/retailers don't twist the market rules to their advantage or obtain regulatory capture. The large players tend to have a knowledge advantage and are very experienced at manipulating their regulatory authorities.
by alright2565 | 2025-08-19 02:08:29+00:00
But the reason you drive such a long distance to work is to be able to live in a suburb, right?

Looking at the actual stats, you're a bit of an outlier: https://aaafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/202309_... (p. 12). The average commute trip is 22 miles, and keep in mind you also could use a level 1 charger at home.
by nunez | 2025-08-19 02:09:04+00:00
Not the first time someone said something insane about data centers.

I present to you: underwater data centers! https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/sustainability/pr...

Realistically, with the cost of spaceflight coming down steadily, this might actually be physically doable. We'd have to figure out the whole physics of it all, or maybe not, OpenAI can just ask ChatGPT for help!
by sejje | 2025-08-19 02:10:05+00:00
At first.

I was also a kid doing this, my cousins and I held ourselves underwater with the ladder rungs in a swimming pool.

At first, yeah a minute was tough. But then it rapidly increased. Unfortunately I don't remember where we topped out, but I think ~3 minutes.

We would also swim pool lengths underwater(but it was a relatively small pool at a condo building). I think I swam 9 once.

They'd let us stay out all night at that pool, it was great. Florida summers don't really get chilly.
by bryant | 2025-08-19 02:11:08+00:00
can you clarify your specific concerns around lab-grown salmon that you feel have not been accounted for with the regulatory review that was performed?

Referring to your "poisons the populace" comment. Do you have evidence substantiating your suggestion that lab-grown salmon will "poison" people? I'm substantially curious because as I understand it, the risk of heavy metal poisoning and parasites commonly found in wild salmon are eliminated when lab grown.
by degamad | 2025-08-19 02:11:59+00:00
Enabling a second profile on my android phone and putting Facebook in there instead of in the browser on my primary profile led to an ~90% reduction on the time I spend on Facebook.

However, I do have to check it from time to time for one of my jobs (to monitor our Page and events, and respond to customers), and the occasions when I switch to the second profile can still hook me for 20 minutes of scrolling...
by dgfitz | 2025-08-19 02:12:09+00:00
I’ve used it to run autonomous land vehicles. ~60 written binaries and ~20 written libraries, in additional to your bog-standard Linux distro binaries/libraries (core/more utils, ip, user management, etc)

It doesn’t need to be pidgin-holed as a glorified one-app-docker-esque platform. I would argue running a yocto distro as nothing more than a docker host might be the most powerful way to use it even, where the container also runs more than a single “thing” if you will. Just abstracts away the hardware layer from the software layer so as not to muck with the bsp.
by mapt | 2025-08-19 02:12:50+00:00
Multicellular life naturally exists in a well-ordered matrix according to a rough plan, not a blob in a petri dish, and when it deviates too much from that plan we have various pejorative words for it and feel various health consequences as a result of disordered growths.

Tissue culture in general is more like cancer than not like cancer, even when using "non-cancerous" cell lines. But cancerous and "immortalized" cell lines are particularly useful in cell culture because they don't snuff themselves out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortalised_cell_line
by socalgal2 | 2025-08-19 02:13:12+00:00
I didn't follow Dorsey. I actually hate it when the bosses above me add their personal activities to their posts. The worst was one posting about a business trip halfway around the world while the company had effectively banned all business related travel. In general though, I don't want to hear about how great life is when you're making muliple X more than me. At least not from my bosses.
by wredcoll | 2025-08-19 02:13:18+00:00
> Increasingly, I think the “shameless” approach is becoming a dominant strategy today. It was first popularized in modern canon by Paris Hilton, who played the “dumb blonde heiress” stereotype so smoothly that everyone assumed she really was as stupid as she seemed.

This seems wildly unsupported. I lived through that era, and admittedly I wasn't breathlessly tuned into the latest celebrity gossip, but from a sort of second hand (or third or fourth) she seemed to say and do the exact same things as any other rich young socialite.

She went to parties with other celebs, had her fashiom choices reported on and occasionally said something mildly vapid.

The biggest moment, of course, was her ex-boyfriend selling their sex tape, but she wasn't the first or the last person to have someone publish private material.

Is the argument that she was the first woman to not commit suicide when that happened and there for she's shameless?

Or just that she was famous despite acting like an average wealthy child and that made people real mad?

It seems like a truly Reed Richards level stretch to get to someone like Trump who says and does a bunch of awful things most people thought were off limits for a politician and was rewarded by a bunch of awful people.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-08-19 02:13:21+00:00
It seems to me what the author desires is linguistic support for the Thrush combinator[0]. Another colloquial name for it is "the pipe operator."

Essentially, what this combinator does is allow expressing a nested invocation such as:

f(g(h(x)))

To be instead:

h(x) |> g |> f

For languages which support defining infix operators.

EDIT:

For languages which do not support defining infix operators, there is often a functor method named `andThen` which serves the same purpose. For example:

h(x).andThen(g).andThen(f)

0 - https://leanpub.com/combinators/read#leanpub-auto-the-thrush
by fragmede | 2025-08-19 02:13:53+00:00
Being and intellectual and having credentials are two separate things. There are plenty of people here who build things in the "real" world, eg chips, trading systems, distributed infra, biotech. They still want to discuss policy because those policies shape what gets built and where.

It’s fine to call out overconfidence, but dismissing everyone as clueless is just another flavor of anti-intellectualism. The real intellectual honesty is admitting:

1. We’re all partial amateurs outside our domains.

2. Policy and trade affect everyone, not just specialists.

3. Listening and engaging beats sneering at “NPR readers.”

If you think most opinions here are shallow, good for you! You set the scene though, so maybe contributing depth instead of punching down?
by scarface_74 | 2025-08-19 02:14:35+00:00
No, a student ID requires a valid identification which can be from their home state.

But a student is allowed to vote in the state where they are attending college or their home state. But not both.

Of course Texas did everything possible to make it harder for college students to vote

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/10/28/texas-young-voter-tu...
by jiggawatts | 2025-08-19 02:14:43+00:00
> Then just roll normal actual long lived VMs the way we've done it for the past 15 years.

This is easy to say if your wallet exploded because it had too much money in it, and if you don't care about the speed of operations.

Just today I'm investigating hosting options for migrating a legacy web farm with about 200 distinct apps to the cloud.

If I put everything into one VM image, then patching/upgrades and any system-wide setting changes become terrifying. The VM image build itself takes hours because this is 40 GB of apps, dependencies, frameworks, etc... There is just no way to "iterate fast" on a build script like that. Packer doesn't help.

Not to mention that giant VM images are incompatible with per-app DevOps deployment automation. How does developer 'A' roll back their app in a hurry while developer 'B' is busy rolling theirs out?

Okay, sure, let's split this into an image-per-app and a VM scale set per app. No more conflicts, each developer gets their own pipeline and image!

But now the minimum cost of an app is 4x VMs because you need 2x in prod, 1x each in test and development (or whatever). I have 200 apps, so... 800 VMs. With some apps needing a bit of scale-out, let's round this up to 1,000 VMs. In public clouds you can't really go below $50/VM/mo so that's an eye-watering $50,000 per month to replace half a dozen VMs that were "too cheap to meter" on VMware!

Wouldn't it be nicer if we could "somehow" run nested VMs with a shared base VM disk image that was thin-cloned so that only the app-specific differences need to be kept? Better yet, script the builds somehow to utilise VM snapshots so that developers can iterate fast on app-specific build steps without having to wait 30 minutes for the base platform build steps each time they change something.

Uh-oh, we've reinvented Docker!
by jerlam | 2025-08-19 02:14:56+00:00
Not all NIMBYs are the same. The ones I'm more familiar with are less concerned about land value and have little incentive to sell their homes. They are older, often retired, and prefer that nothing ever change around them due to simple conservatism.

An area doesn't need increased density or amenities for land values to go up. Here in the SF Bay Area, land values have exploded yet many neighborhoods have not changed in decades.
by dang | 2025-08-19 02:15:26+00:00
Related. Others?

Shamelessness as a strategy (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32233451 - July 2022 (214 comments)

Shamelessness as a Strategy (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25591066 - Dec 2020 (213 comments)
by jagged-chisel | 2025-08-19 02:15:58+00:00
There was not argument about how much sense it makes. There was an argument for improving readability by placing the table names first.

Lots of people “like” things because they are familiar with them. And that’s a fine enough reason. But if you step out of your zone of familiarity, can you find improvements? Are you willing to forgo any prejudice you may possess to evaluate other suggestions?

Just a little willingness to see another perspective is all anyone asks.
by nine_k | 2025-08-19 02:17:27+00:00
Humans are fundamentally irrational. Not devoid of rationality, but not limited by it. Many social phenomena are downstream from that fact.

Humans have fashions. If something is considered cool, many people start doing that thing, because it automatically gives them a bit of appreciation from most other people. It is often rational to follow a fashion and reap the social benefits it brings.

People are bad at estimating probabilities. They heavily discount the future, and want everything now, hence FOMO. At the same time, they tend to believe in glowing future prospects uncritically, because it helps build social cohesion and power structures.

This is why fads periodically flush all over our industry, and our society, and the whole civilization. And again, it becomes rational to follow the trend and ride the wave. Say the magic word (OOP, XML, Agile, Social, Mobile, Cloud, SaaS, ML, more to come), and it becomes easier to get a job, press coverage, conference invites, investments.

Then the bubble deflates, the useful parts remain (often quite a bit), the fascination, hype, attention, and FOMO find a new worthy object.

So companies add "AI features" partly because it's cool (news coverage, promotions), partly because of the FOMO (uncertainty is high, but what if we'd be missing a billion-dollar opportunity?), partly because of social cohesion (following fashion is natural, being a contrarian may be respectable, but looking ignorant is unacceptable). It's not about carefully calculated material returns on a a carefully measured investment. It may look inane, but it's not always stupidity, much like sacrificing some far-future perspectives in exchange of stock growing this quarter is not about stupidity.
by exasperaited | 2025-08-19 02:17:40+00:00
> That's not political at all. And I claim that much of life is similarly not political.

Of course it's political -- affected by and affecting organisation, governance, rules etc.

You have just temporarily re-defined "political" to mean "the differences between or positions of political parties".

It is a particularly US thing that nothing that is political escapes being reduced to party politics; school boards increasingly divide up red and blue, even.

But politics is vastly bigger than political parties. Most political issues are independent of party politics until the parties choose their stances on those issues, which they usually do by selecting the position that alienates the least of their base. But the politics exists regardless of the alignment.

Politics is how entities with equal power and individual objectives resolve disputes, ultimately. Everything is political.

As Bismarck said, "politics is the art of the possible".

I wouldn't be so sure that Five Guys don't care about transport policy; I don't know either way. But I would say with certainty that if they do, they donate to whoever says they will fix them in a way that align with their own needs. That too is politics, even if they don't pick a colour.