MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dns_snek | 2025-08-04 13:07:28+00:00
> Multi-stage moderation - Plausibility signals (AI filtering, account activity) - Ability to "reply" or mark as "challenged"

Will you require hard evidence as a matter of policy before publishing any allegations? That's the only thing that would set you apart from many previous implementations of this idea which always seem to turn into hateful and defamatory platforms.

"Plausibility signals" like AI filtering are only good for filtering outright spam and bot activity, they're useless for determining truthfulness of claims being made. If your goal is to publish truthful information then please take some lessons from the legal system because truth can only be ascertained by analyzing evidence, not by evaluating the accuser's social standing ("account activity") and asking a random village idiot for their opinion on one side of the story ("AI filtering").

And the whole process of "people can respond and ask for it to be taken down" is not good enough because by that time the damage could already be done. People who have done nothing wrong have no reason to proactively monitor and "curate" their public image on sites like these, so they're unlikely to discover false accusations against them until they either experience social consequences of those false allegations or they're lucky enough that someone who knows them well discovers it early and sticks up for them.
by ddingus | 2025-08-04 13:07:49+00:00
Yeah it was. And back then, running IRIX, I was more than a bit crazy and wild. It was such a fun OS! SGI as mentioned up thread, put a ton of thought into it.

Once a person reached a solid mastery, amazing things could be done, sans reboots and the like.

I was terribly spoiled though. Ran it until it made no sense, then ditched all of it to go small.

My next fun toy was the Parallax Propeller. The first chip was amazing, 8 cores all independent. It was a full multiprocessor, able to perform concurrent and or parallel computing with such ease! Spoiled again!

The second chip is the Amiga of microcontrollers. Maybe I could call it the SGI of micros. Today, one can program the 8 cores in BASIC, SPIN, C and ASSEMBLY, all at the same time!

Write video driver in assembly, framework in SPIN, some functions in BASIC, others, maybe sound in C.

It has hardware support got ADC / DAC and more on every pin, shared CORDIC math able to do powers, roots, trig and more. It can drive almost any display made since monochrome TV.... too much fun.
by Jensson | 2025-08-04 13:07:51+00:00
> so whose job is it to fix it? Elementary school teachers?

Yes, if elementary school teachers discriminates against kids then that has to be fixed. And if its a funding issue for poor neighborhood schools then that has to be fixed. If good teachers refuse to work at poor schools due to crime and other problems, then that has to be fixed.

The fix should never be to discriminate based on race or gender, it should always be to remove discrimination. Positive discrimination based on race and gender will ultimately lead to more discrimination in other areas, since now race and gender is a sign you got positively discriminated and thus didn't compete on the same merits.

You will never remove the label "diversity hire" from peoples minds as long as you discriminate positively like that.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-04 13:08:04+00:00
“If this is the case, then two possibilities follow: first that its intentions are entirely benign and second they are malign.”

There is a third: undecided.

“At the heart of this, is a question any self-respecting scientist will have had to address at some point in their career: ‘is an outlier of a sample a consequence of expected random fluctuation, or is there ultimately a sound reason for its observed discrepancy?’ A sensible answer to this hinges largely on the size of the sample in question, and it should be noted that for interstellar objects we have a sample size of only 3, therefore rendering an attempt to draw inferences from what is observed rather problematic.”

Not only the heart of the question, but of the paper.

Still fun, though!
by resource_waste | 2025-08-04 13:08:17+00:00
>doctors are cogs in a much larger healthcare system run by suits for purposes that one suspects have more to do with money than medicine.

Is that actually accurate? The American Medical Association (the Physician cartel/trade association) bribes/lobbies about equal as hospitals/owners.

They also legally reduce supply using their private, unelected, ACGME.

If we use lobbying numbers, they are just as obsessed with money as the owners.
by freeourdays | 2025-08-04 13:08:46+00:00
Seeing a lot of posts about side hustles lately, thought I'd share my journey.

Started last year trying everything: dropshipping, print-on-demand, freelance writing, app development... first few months were basically just burning money

Things turned around in March when I started actually researching different business models systematically. Stumbled across this idea on TinyIdea about local service businesses, so I started a "errands + home services booking" thing in my neighborhood.

Now pulling in around $1.4k consistently, which covers rent and groceries at least.

Few things I learned:

1.Don't try to scale before you validate demand 2.Local services often have way less competition than online stuff 3.Word of mouth beats any paid advertising

Anyone else grinding on side projects? Would love to hear your stories.
by ramon156 | 2025-08-04 13:08:50+00:00
Bit unrelated to the post, but I hate how Disney has done Blumm dirty. They want to milk bluey as much as possible (understandable), but if the creator says no then Disney won't listen. There's a high chance we'll never get a season 4, and I'm honestly fine with that if an alternative is a rushed fourth season.
by mosesbp | 2025-08-04 13:09:00+00:00
If you think this is cool/valuable, I just want to point out that this work is being paid for by the DOE Office of Science (BES division), uses the NSF National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, and is using money from an NSF CAREER award (“Acknowledgments” section under “Funding” in the actual paper [1]). The former is facing a cut of 14% [2] (The Office of Science overall is seeing a similar cut), the second is facing a 40% cut [3], and the latter appears to be destroyed entirely (no money requested) [4] in documents released by these agencies for FY2026 (executive budget).

This research is also supported by Chinese funding agencies, who I imagine will not be engaging such senseless hamstringing of their national scientific organs…

[1] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr6202

[2] See page 5 of https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2025-07/doe-fy-20...

[3] See page “Facilities - 5” of https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF-FY26-CJ-Entir...

[4] See page “Summary Tables - 1” of the link in [3].
by tonko | 2025-08-04 13:09:09+00:00
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by stared | 2025-08-04 13:09:18+00:00
I have the same impressions. Typing helps a lot, and (I think) in a few ways - one is being a safe guard, second a constraint (so say, AI is less likely to create a clunky variable which can be a string, list, or a few other things), third - to prompt into writing solid code in general.

I add one more step - add strong linting (ESLint with all recommended rules switched on, Ruff for Python) and asking to run it after each edit.

Usually I also prompt to type things well, and avoid optional types unless strictly necessary (LLMs love to shrink responsibility that way).

For example, see my recent vibe-coding instructions, https://github.com/QuesmaOrg/demo-webr-ggplot/blob/main/CLAU....
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by RajT88 | 2025-08-04 13:10:03+00:00
Fun to think about, but think about this: as soon as we have the tech to start catching sight of these things, we start seeing them yearly.

While that does not automatically suggest that they are not technological, they are not likely to be hostile.* We've likely lived through tens of thousands of them passing through.

*Unless you subscribe to the "they are among us" viewpoint. That crazy well has no bottom.
by viraptor | 2025-08-04 13:10:18+00:00
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.04109

> we obtain the first statistically significant conclusion on current LLM capabilities for research ideation: we find LLM-generated ideas are judged as more novel (p < 0.05) than human expert ideas while being judged slightly weaker on feasibility.

It's a bit better than just finding related pairs. And that's with sonnet 3.5 which is basically ancient at this point.
by Teever | 2025-08-04 13:10:41+00:00
It really isn't.

One of the authors (Abraham Loeb) is well known for writing salami-sliced papers that have tenuous and non-testable premises.

You should be skeptical of anything he writes after watching this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY985qzn7oI&t=1440s
by djoldman | 2025-08-04 13:10:58+00:00
One mistake I think many make is to look at technology X and ascribe outcomes primarily to technology X.

AI is one in a long long long line of new technologies. It is generating a lot of investment, new corporate processes and directives, declarations like "new era" and "civilizational milestone," etc.

If someone thinks any of the above are wrong or misguided, it's a mistake to "blame" or look to AI as the primary cause.

The primary cause is our system: humans are actors in the US economic system and when a new technology is rolling out, usually the response is the same and differs only in magnitude.

Don't hate the player, hate the game.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-08-04 13:11:00+00:00
Yes, but in this case it seems there is still some(!) science to be verified and/or worked out, not just a matter of money and working out operational efficiencies.

Even once they demonstrate fusion and viable levels of power extraction, it seems there would still be an issue of what is the level of "wear and tear" (incl. any radioactivity) of the fusion chamber - which it would seem may ultimately be a matter of try it for an extended period of time and see.
by simonw | 2025-08-04 13:11:56+00:00
How would you solve this at the OS level across Linux, macOS and Windows?

I've been trying to figure out a good way to do this for my Python projects for a couple of years now. I don't yet trust any of the solutions I've come up with - they are inconsistent with each other and feel very ironed to me making mistakes due to their inherent complexity and lack of documentation that I trust.
by Fade_Dance | 2025-08-04 13:12:11+00:00
I'm somewhat of a cryptoskeptic as well but the points in the opinion piece seem valid.

The age of the regulated financial system banning transactions have anything to do with Bitcoin has passed. Like he said, millions of britons are buying the stuff, while the US has successfully regulated the space and offers usually successful ETFs. An increasing number of investors are treating it like gold, in this use case is here to stay.

The point on missing the securitization with is also valid, when it comes to running a financial system that is ahead of the curve, not behind. Let's just look at stablecoins, which have bought nearly $200,000,000,000 in US treasuries. No matter what people think, it's a quickly growing part of the money supply, in a wider sense, much like the initial post-gold-standard shift to the modern Eurodollar system (offshore USD denominated bank deposits is over 10 trillion dollars in size, and is the de facto Global financial system despite being outside of the regulatory purview of the very US entities that purportedly control the dollar).

The stablecoin developments very much remind me of the initial wave of offshore dollarization. Regulating the space (ex: mandating one to one dollar denominated asset/liability matches, and forcing audits if the product is to be offered to retail investors in the country) is very much a good move to make. If you remember narratives like the Asian Financial Crisis, letting these spaces grow entirely unregulated can result in explosive unwinds. And in the meantime, the US gets hundreds of billions of dollars of demand for their debt, and continues to see near monopolization of the securitization wave that is developing extremely rapidly.
by sofixa | 2025-08-04 13:12:14+00:00
> The idea that the US should be non-democratic is very fringe

The theoretical idea, maybe.

In practice, one party dismantling democratic institutions and checks and balances, or stacking the courts, or accepting bribes in public, or drawing districts in a way to benefit them are normal, accepted practices that a lot of Americans (especially on one side of the two party system) accept and actively cheer on, because it's their side that is "winning".
by 0x445442 | 2025-08-04 13:12:16+00:00
There have been reports of "road rage" like instances such as an elderly woman in Flagstaff AZ being assaulted for driving a Tesla. It's not clear cut in these cases what the motives were. However, there are many cases of destruction of personal property where the motives are crystal clear. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14556619/woke-key-t...
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-08-04 13:12:19+00:00
While in theory you're right - AI tools can "democratize" filmmaking - what will make them unique? There was another anecdote, someone saying "this AI can generate 30.000 screenplays in a day!". Which is cool but... who is going to read them?

In theory (idk it probably exists already) you can generate a script and feed it into an AI that generates a film. Novelty aside, who is going to watch it? And what if you generate a hundred films a day? A thousand?

This probably isn't a hypothetical scenario, as low-effort / generated content is already a thing, both writing, video and music. It's an enormous long tail on e.g. youtube, amazon, etc, relying on people passively consuming content without paying too much attention to it. The background muzak of everything.

As someone smarter than me summarized, AI generated stuff is content, not art. AI generated films will be content, not art. There may be something compelling in there, but ultimately, it'll flood the market, become ubiquitous, and disappear into the background as AI generated background noise that only few people will seek out or watch intentionally.
by ddingus | 2025-08-04 13:12:22+00:00
Maybe it looks a lot like Apple M1.

The O2 tech would have been the best candidate for a laptop.

It would have been a media pro machine, MIDI, video capture in and video out, in addition to the monitor. Network,serial, scsi all on a dock for running big disks...

16:9 or 10 display a la SGI 1600

192khz sound in and out.
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-08-04 13:13:02+00:00
Ironically the reasoning in #1 also applies well to legalizing things in various communities. (Without a legal source, some people will see out illegal businesses, drive crime, etc.). I don’t see “go to the neighboring state” as a solution if they all ban X…

I really don’t know what the solution is. Used to think I was in favor of legalization of some drugs, not because I’m interested in their use but as a tool to take power away from gangs and reduce crime.

Later visited a state that did… Actually seeing marijuana stores everywhere was very unsettling. Weird seeing fast food stores converted to them. Saw some high hippies crash their vehicle into their friend’s car door while it was opening. Barely even registered for them… Left a bad taste in my mouth…

Bu it does seem reasonable that the fewer service members interacting with dishonest/criminal organizations, the better.
by michaelt | 2025-08-04 13:13:24+00:00
> sometimes I don't think freedom and free will is to be trusted to people. Not when they can be exploited.

The thing is, you gotta square that with these guys getting sent into war zones to get shot at.

If we think these young men and women can’t consent to gambling their money, but can consent to gambling their lives, that seems a bit inconsistent to me.
by ProofHouse | 2025-08-04 13:13:29+00:00
I’ve never gone to find a video and it’s gone. Nor have I ever felt the need to take a photo of every building I walk past and find interest in to ensure I have it for posterity in case it is later bulldozed. To each their own but don’t have to be rude about it. Thanks to the other responses. If someone wants to record all the tv they’ve ever watch that is their prerogative, as it is if they do not.
by x187463 | 2025-08-04 13:13:33+00:00
Bluey is the best children's cartoon of this generation. The art is a joy to see, being full of color and well-defined lines/objects, without being overwhelming. I sincerely appreciate the creator's resistance to engineer the show for maximum attention and, instead, focus on telling a good story with relatable characters. The show can move slowly when appropriate and isn't afraid to keep the scene mostly static. The music is great and well directed to capture meaningful emotional moments without being campy. The episode length of ~7 minutes is perfect, especially for families wanting to limit screen time, as it covers a quick breakfast/lunch (or laundry/dishes break) and provides a natural stopping point to move to the next activity. I can't praise it enough and just hope its success inspires more studios to avoid the brain-rot algorithmic-lead nonsense.

My only complaint is that I am a grown-ass man and shouldn't be tearing up every other episode of a children's cartoon...
by nmfisher | 2025-08-04 13:13:42+00:00
She didn't touch on how visually captivating the colour scheme is for kids. It's unsettling just how much it draws their attention, it's like a drug. It's also (partly) why I prefer Peppa Pig for my 3 year old, it's much easier to him to naturally disengage after 15-20 minutes.
by polytely | 2025-08-04 13:14:02+00:00
I wonder if Valve could (threaten to) become their own payment processor if this becomes too big of a threat. They are one of the few companies on earth with enough money to attempt it.

If I remember correctly a big part of Valves heavy investment into linux was Microsoft wanting to lock windows down more, and now in 2025 gaming on linux is a viable alternative to windows.
by teddyh | 2025-08-04 13:14:03+00:00
Three days ago, I did post the link to an seven-year-old post of mine, which in turn contained two links to other old posts of mine (ten and seven years old, respectively), where only the second of those linked posts contained a quote from Alan Watts. I do not count this as “bringing up” Alan Watts again three days ago.

Especially since I certainly did not use the quote of Alan Watts as a “naked appeal to authority”. Alan Watts does not describe anything in my point directly, and I do not, in the seven year old post, use the quote as an authoritative argument. It was merely an analogy. I claimed no knowledge of whether what Alan Watts describes is true or not. I used his description to explain what I thought was a similar phenomena to his description, nothing more.

> you doing everything you possibly can to avoid acknowledging I called bullshit, on the naked appeal to authority to which you resorted, in order to try to lend your words a weight you lack the ability to give them yourself.

I think you’re coming dangerously close, if not past, the forum guidelines, here. Please argue the point, not the person. I have asked you, repeatedly, why the Alan Watts quote is wrong, and why this fact would invalidate the point I was making. I even restated my point without referring to Alan Watts at all, to allow you to criticize it directly. But you have ignored all this, and your entire parent comment is instead about me, not about any point I was making, or even any point you are trying to make. Your entire argument seems to lack any point or counterpoint, and is instead only attacking me, personally.
by bananapub | 2025-08-04 13:14:15+00:00
(out of interest: did you ever write web apps before ~2010 or so? the answer to your question seems so obvious to me I'm not even sure where the confusion could come from, unless you've only ever written web apps that are "JS frontend, JS backend, magic communication between them, it's often not clear where some bit of code is running").

HTMX here is making it so the page works without doing a full HTTP form submission + page load for each stage of the "wizard". instead, you write some HTMX stuff in the page that submits the form asynchronously, then the server sends back the HTML to replace part of the page to move to you to the next step in the "wizard", and then HTMX replaces the relevant DOM nodes to make that so.

Go's templating is completely unrelated to any of this happening on the front end - it's just generating some HTML, both the "whole page loaded by the browser normally" and the "here's the new widget state code", and so obviously:

> just use Go’s HTML templating.

is incorrect.
by spacebanana7 | 2025-08-04 13:15:02+00:00
Putting network restrictions in the application layer also causes awkward issues for the org structures of many enterprises.

For example, the problem of "one micro service won't connect to another" was traditionally an ops / environments / SRE problem. But now the app development team has to get involved, just in case someone's used one of these new restrictions. Or those other teams need to learn about node.

This is non consensual devops being forced upon us, where everyone has to learn everything.
by djoldman | 2025-08-04 13:15:30+00:00
Abstract

> ...Here we investigate the geographic clustering of common genetic variants that influence complex traits in a sample of ~450,000 individuals from Great Britain.... The level of geographic clustering is correlated with genetic associations between complex traits and regional measures of SES, health and cultural outcomes. Our results are consistent with the hypothesis that social stratification leaves visible marks in geographic arrangements of common allele frequencies and gene–environment correlations.
by rzerowan | 2025-08-04 13:15:43+00:00
Also there is the result that from IP to service and support the Gov will get washed.Leading to a lack of expertise and ownership. It essentially becomes little more than a rental - not owned, serviced or extended unless at the whims of the lowest bidder .Who inevitable qccrues cost overruns.In the space examplein the 70-80s a gov department was arguable more competent/effecient and on spec within its given budget.Not so much now.