MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by therealpygon | 2025-08-11 15:32:17+00:00
You’re suggesting that every time I build a set of shelves, I’m stealing from the shelving manufacturer because I deprived them of the opportunity to sell me THEIR shelves. Every time I borrow a friends car I’ve stolen from the rental company or Uber? What about if I make a song that kinda sounds like Daft Punk after listening to one of their songs, I “stole” their music? If I watch a movie at a friends house, according to you, didn’t I steal from the movie company and the actors? What if I see a game at the store and don’t buy it but plan to make one similar for myself, should I be arrested on the way out of the store for “stealing it”?

Because that’s what you’re saying and it’s certainly…a point of view.
by mcbobgorge | 2025-08-11 15:32:21+00:00
Yes- I live in a pretty affluent Los Angeles suburb and we recently just hit "functional zero" street homelessness.

"To achieve Functional Zero, the number of individuals placed in interim or permanent housing must be greater than the number of individuals who become homeless over a six-month period, and the homeless population, as a whole, must have a median duration on the streets of less than 90 days."

The data is gathered by the city as well as local nonprofits.
by kataklasm | 2025-08-11 15:32:31+00:00
To expand on this, as stated in your source:

> [270B solar masses] is the maximum mass of a black hole that models predict, at least for luminous accreting SMBHs.

as well as:

> The limit is only 5×10^10 M [50B solar masses] for black holes with typical properties, but can reach 2.7×10^11 M [270B solar masses] at maximal prograde spin (a = 1).

However in the chapter before, it's stated:

> New discoveries suggest that many black holes, dubbed 'stupendously large', may exceed 100 billion or even 1 trillion M.
by lm28469 | 2025-08-11 15:32:47+00:00
> It's just basic economics

Is it ?

> when something makes the economy more efficient

How does "ai" make "the economy" more efficient exactly ?

> people get new, better jobs

Which law dictate that these jobs are better ?

I don't see people getting better jobs personally, I see a shit load of people pushed into more and more precarious jobs, with less and less workers rights and job security, with stagnating wages despite rise in productivity, &c.
by bluGill | 2025-08-11 15:33:18+00:00
What do you really need? Is the car moving forward or backward is the only one you can't figure out from GPS on the phone (this is possibly what they are getting from wheel speed - GPS speed is more accurate if you have a signal).

There are a lot of nice to haves of course. GPS does eat phone battery so better if the car can give you that. There is a lot of other car data that is interesting, why force plugging a OBDII dongle in to get DTCs, RPM, O2 sensor values, or whatever. However for car play to work at all it doesn't need anything more.
by mockingloris | 2025-08-11 15:33:30+00:00
Markdown on Obsidian is a prestine setup. Can be used to embed many file types; media, documents, code snippets, graphs, ... all this can be linked and this unlocks so much context. Being able to sync that; My 2nd hand Lenovo running Linux and my Samsung S20 Phone.

I am a tech creative and this is one of my vice. Having a todo is an opportunity to go through your experiences for clarity.

└── Dev well
by munksbeer | 2025-08-11 15:33:38+00:00
It is easy to make any argument you want when this is unscientific. But it is easy to draw a line from the elected heads to state (the governments of the member countries) pushing for this, right through to the elected European Parliament (elected MEPS). The Commission is a civil service, doing the bidding of the Council, and then proposing laws to the elected Parliament.

I can't really picture what a better structure would be. The elected member state governments should always be the ones driving policy. They need a way to get that done outside of their usual national structures and civil servants, so they create the Commission. People also want to feel represented in the final votes so we create the Parliament.

What would your structure look like?
by stego-tech | 2025-08-11 15:33:41+00:00
I mean, I agree with you 100%, but we should still consider the consequences if we’re wrong. That’s something I don’t see from most folks (the concept they might be wrong, and what that looks like if they are). That’s what I was mainly getting at: whether we’re right or wrong, the outcome is still bad because the problem lies with the current systems (motivations, incentives, etc) and not technology itself.
by jrflowers | 2025-08-11 15:33:59+00:00
This is good stuff. While somebody could build a Trello clone or an image generator by typing “git clone “ followed by any number of existing projects, the code you’d get might’ve been written by a person, plus if you do that you’re not even spending any money, which just doesn’t seem right.

The future is vibe coding but what some people don’t yet appreciate what that vibe is, which is a Pachinko machine permanently inserted between the user and the computer. It’s wild to think that anybody got anything done without the thrill of feeding quarters into the computer and seeing if the ball lands on “post on Reddit” or “delete database”
by grues-dinner | 2025-08-11 15:34:03+00:00
I would be except that the feeling seems to be that you get screwed either way:

* Tiers (aka new car model): something is always strategically left out of the otherwise "ideal" tier to force you up a level, even though you won't use most of the other options. Sometimes the "nearly there" tier is artificially expensive to drive you to the higher tier - the same trick as a medium coffee being only fractionally cheaper than the large. Sometimes there's a ratchet where you can upgrade but a downgrade is a huge hassle and/or penalised.

* A la carte (aka the car/dishwasher spares model): every option feels expensive and you feel like you're being nickel-and-dimed and you know the marginal cost of providing that option was small

* Top-up (aka the phone minutes model): top ups are obscenely expensive and are either a punishment for being "cheap" (i.e. prudent) or act as a threat to push you up a tier in the first place

Add a few special offers, points, cost sinks and lock-ins (especially where hardware is involved), rewards and all that crap here and there to muddy it up to prevent a clear comparison being made. I basically assume all subscriptions are doing some kind of mind-games or scam with every little aspect of the pricing.

Not that a fair price can't be any of the above options. The vendor has to cover the overheads somewhere!
by ninetyninenine | 2025-08-11 15:34:14+00:00
It is. Historically health in economics is associated with growth and Population growth is part of economic growth.

Additionally the trendline of negative population growth is 0 population. The conclusion of what’s happening is the end of civilization itself. While it may be possible we are oscillating, we can’t know for sure.

I'm not sure you're aware of the criticality of negative population growth that japan/china/korea are all facing.

Thus it is reasonable to say it is unhealthy but it is also reasonable to say that it is possibly natural as unlimited growth also leads to an end.

Can you not call anyone a loonie? It’s this type of attack and personalization that adds barriers to actual critical debate.
by epiccoleman | 2025-08-11 15:34:14+00:00
These kinds of stories are truly wild to me - my kids are pretty much free range and have been since they were 7 or 8. We've never had an issue.

That said though, it's easy to imagine how quickly things could become problematic if some busybody decided they wanted to make trouble. You do not want CPS involved with your family - full stop.

I don't really know what the right thing to do is if you do have CPS show up - at first blush it seems like a "never talk to the police" type of situation where hypothetically the right play is to absolutely refuse to play ball and involve a lawyer immediately.

It's a whole can of worms to take that stand though. Do you just let Umbridge into your house and hope that the quick look around is enough to close the case? Or do you recognize you're dealing with an Umbridge and not take the chance?

That kind of tough call for parents probably does mean that the right play is to try to ensure your state has reasonable legislation about these sorts of things.

(what a drag!)
by 93po | 2025-08-11 15:34:18+00:00
it really bothers me when people try to assert people aren't actually neurodivergent/disabled because they dislike the person, and seem to want to further justify their dislike on a personal level instead of having compassion for the fact that they're actually disabled. i think people feel the need to assert this because they know they'd be an asshole to dislike someone for refusing to stand up and walk if they were wheelchair bound, so it's easier to pretend they don't actually need the wheelchair and are faking it.

the other point to this being frustrating is you're asserting she wasn't neurodivergent and then go on to describe some hallmark characteristics of neurodivergence. emotional regulation is one of the biggest challenges for people with ADHD and autism, and emotional outbursts and control of mood/emotions are exactly why neurodivergence is so incredibly difficult for so many people.
by bee_rider | 2025-08-11 15:34:26+00:00
Poking around those articles (and knowing nothing really), it is interesting to note a couple references to a 50B solar-mass limit for “luminous accreting black holes hosted by disc galaxies.” (In your Phoenix cluster link). I guess these ones are easier to spot, based entirely on the word “luminous.”

There are other larger ones out there, looming in the darkness.
by LightBug1 | 2025-08-11 15:34:28+00:00
AI Fact Verification and Replication Teams.

One team to re-do the work to double check the right answer. The second team to reconcile the right answer with the AI result.

I'm not even joking ... I've professionally been extremely embarrassed once by an AI result. Now I check it so often that I might as well just do the work I asked it to do.

No doubt, quick questions and rough ideas, LLM is the bomb.

Professionally? Nah. Not yet.
by mandevil | 2025-08-11 15:34:38+00:00
The US was actually very low on Israel's targeting list: they came in at #18 on the list (0.7% of all TDR's submitted by Israel), lower than Israel itself (#14, 1.3%). I would speculate, given that previous reporting (the Facebook Files from Frances Haugen) has said that Facebook treats moderation in America differently from in other countries, that Israel is not focused on censoring US speech the same way because Meta would be more likely to object to their TDR's covering Americans.
by t0md4n | 2025-08-11 15:34:42+00:00
I'd personally rather use gpt-5. The sub price is cheap and offers more overall value than an Anthropic sub or paying per token. The chatgpt app on iPhone and Mac are native and nicer than Anthropic's and offer more features. Codex is close enough to Claude Code and also now native. For me it's nicer to use the "same" model across each use case like text, images, code etc. this way I better understand the limitations and quirks of the model rather than the constant context switching to different models to get maybe slightly better perf. To each their own though depending on your personal use case.
by chasd00 | 2025-08-11 15:34:57+00:00
The desktop client had something like a browser. iirc you could get to the Internet but it was like AOL's version of the Internet. There was a keyword based search but I think websites had to register specific keywords with AOL or something like that to show up. The big thing with AOL was the "you've got mail!" sound once you connected. That voice was like a pop-culture meme back then.
by hattmall | 2025-08-11 15:35:06+00:00
It's a lot like the first time taking a metal detector to a beach. It's really cool and exciting (dopamine hit) to find stuff, but after a while it wears off because realistically you only found trash.

Buuut for some people it just clicks and it becomes their chore to go find trash in the beach everyday and the occasional nickel or broken bracelet they feel the need to tell people and show it off.
by Wistar | 2025-08-11 15:35:45+00:00
GM, at least on their new Equinox EV, no longer supports either Apple CarPlay or Android Auto electing instead to provide only the Google built-in infotainment system and apps.

I discovered this just yesterday while researching the Equinox for a friend.

She is no longer interested in the Equinox despite her loving its looks.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-08-11 15:36:13+00:00
I went through the same process and now use a text file, or more accurately, I use a "canvas" in slack which is essentially a free-form text page with Markdown formatting (including check boxes that I can check). I make one page per month, with H1 headings for each day.

The reason I use this in Slack is that I already have Slack open all day and don't want to have YetAnotherWindowOpen. Also, I get sync between computers/devices for free.

This is just for the work I need to do that day. Otherwise we have YouTrack tickets; any meetings I set in Google Calendar.
by bialpio | 2025-08-11 15:36:29+00:00
Yes. Chrome has multi-process architecture, with renderer processes running in a sandbox. They are the ones that deal with untrusted stuff coming from the Internet and so it is safe to assume that they can be compromised (relatively) easily. The puppet master for all those processes is the browser process, and it is Really Bad if you could exploit it. The described bug presumably does it (note how "sandbox escape" was used in one of the comments), but I'm not competent enough to say exactly how. ;)

Edit: just wanted to riff on your analogy. It is relatively simple to crash/shoot down a rocket, but this exploit gets into the control room and could allow the attacker to see where all other rockets are going & maybe redirect/crash them.
by zoeysmithe | 2025-08-11 15:36:37+00:00
I mean I can spam HN right now with a script.

Forums like HN, reddit, etc will need to do a better job detecting this stuff, moderator staffing will need to be upped, AI resistant captchas need to be developed, etc.

Spam will always be here in some form, and its always an arms race. That doesnt really change anything. Its always been this way.
by hermannj314 | 2025-08-11 15:36:38+00:00
Protective services helps kids get out of horrible situations and then grows tentacles to justify its existence when there aren't that many kids in horrible situations.

As a former foster parent, I was appaled and disgusted by how CPS works and how every social worker, guardian ad litem, law enforcement officer seemed more obsessed with maintaining a slow moving cash cow bureaucracy than actually building a system that helps kids.

They then use "but we are helping kids get out of horrible situations" as a shield to avoid any scrutnity or condemnation of the inefficient, ineffective leviathian of greed they participate in.
by nosianu | 2025-08-11 15:36:59+00:00
> - having your computer alert you to things that come up

If my own experience is a valid example, alerts are overrated. They don't work for long. I hate getting interrupted by something that actually does not need my attention at that precise moment. I would disable those alerts in no time.

I prefer leaving physical cues in the real world. I think screens are bad UI unless you already spend way too much time in front of them.

The god old in- and out- baskets are great, for example. Or notes on a physical board.

Sometimes when I think of something I want to do in the morning, I just leave an object that does not belong in a place I will definitely have to use in the morning. Seeing that object will remind me of that thought I had just before going to bed. I don't even need to write down what it was.

Physical cues are wonderful! And THAT is what I would want from Augmented Reality (in addition to it no longer requiring cumbersome hardware to wear). A flexible recreation of former physical work places, but using the new flexibility of computer augmentation of what I see. To be able to place digital notes in the real world. To view and touch documents not fixed in a single place in front of me, but anywhere! I put some documents on the left, some on the right, some on the wall, and I move my body around to view and use them.

A purely screen-based app, when I already hate having to stare straight ahead for hours every day just doesn't cut it for me. I want my digital world to be in the real world, and use my entire body, not just very limited arm and hand movements while barely moving the head because the viewport is just one small two-dimensional rectangle in my large reality.

Okay, that went slightly OT, but I made that point because it is relevant for TODOs and most interactions with computers. I think they are much better when tied to our real world, not inside a tiny screen where a lot of stuff is already squeezed in and waiting for our attention, and everything can only be used like a surgeon doing keyhole surgery - indirectly through a tiny port and tools, instead of ones hands. Place TODO hints in the real world on or near appropriate places.
by georgeburdell | 2025-08-11 15:37:07+00:00
For me, I can’t get into using AI tools like Claude Code. As far as I go is chat style where I’m mostly in control. I enjoy the actual process of crafting code myself. For similar reasons, I could never be a manager.

Agents are a boon for extraverts and neurotypical people. If it gets to the point where the industry switches to agents, I’ll probably just find a new career
by ryandv | 2025-08-11 15:37:26+00:00
Good riddance. I'd never even heard of this man until he came out telling developers to "get out of your career" [0] after stealing all their open source code for Copilot. Instant animosity.

GitHub is completely unrecognizable compared to how it was before being gamified and turned into social media.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44808645
by bombcar | 2025-08-11 15:37:27+00:00
We shouldn't call them e-bikes and e-scooters anymore. They're just motorbikes and mopeds, even if battery powered.

They shouldn't be allowed on "bike speed" paths, and they should require mandated licensing and insurance.

BUT it should be noted that the speeds involved in THIS crash were easily obtainable on a "normal" bike - I've hit 15 MPH on the flat quite easily, and downhill you can get much faster.
by postexitus | 2025-08-11 15:37:46+00:00
Back in FidoNet days, some BBSs required identification papers for registering and only allowed real names to be used. Though not known for their level headed discussions, it definitely added a certain level of care in online interactions. I remember the shock seeing the anonymity Internet provided later, both positive and negative. I wouldn't be surprised if we revert to some central authentication mechanism which has some basic level of checks combined with some anonymity guarantees. For example, a government owned ID service, which creates a new user ID per website, so the website doesn't know you, but once they blacklist that one-off ID, you cannot get a new one.
by npteljes | 2025-08-11 15:38:06+00:00
Part of being truly social (and being emotionally mature) is to understand and apply the difference between manipulation and being mindful about behavior and speech. Same as honesty - honesty doesn't need to be brutal honesty. One can be authentic without being hurtful.

>Your inner self is faulty and not appropriate at any situation

Mostly true actually. If this was not so, the world would look like a daycare without supervision. Just a bunch of primal feelings and violence.

The actual meta-skill that is being developed by maturing emotionally and using soft skills appropriately (for the benefit of the situation and the participants, not for manipulation) is tact. Same as how people learn to apply just a little pressure when handling glassware, and a lot of pressure when lifting a heavy weight.

This is addressed by the author here:

https://www.improveyoursocialskills.com/foundations/social-m...
by zoeysmithe | 2025-08-11 15:38:21+00:00
I mean, that's fine I guess as long as its respectable and respects the forum.

"Claude write a summary of the word doc I wrote about x and post it as a reply comment," is fine. I dont see why it wouldnt be. Its a good faith effort to post.

"Claude, post every 10 seconds to reddit to spam people to believe my politics is correct," isn't but that's not the case. Its not a good faith effort.

The moderation rules for 'human slop' will apply to AI too. Try spamming a well moderated reddit and see how far you get, human or AI.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-08-11 15:38:22+00:00
> high lower-IQ individuals won't be able to find any meaningful employment, but this has never happened in before and I doubt it'll happen again

"Meaningful" is a bit weasely here. If a skilled factory worker had their job offshored in the past and wound up employed at Walmart after, they did not find "meaningful" work

It has happened plenty of times
by BurningFrog | 2025-08-11 15:38:40+00:00
As a Software Engineer, Gawdat has no expertise in job creation. If an Economist said the same, I'd pay more attention.

It's very counterintuitive, but for 250 years tech has constantly eliminated jobs, while unemployment rates have stayed the same.

People have always predicted this would lead to mass unemployment, they've always been wrong, and yet they've kept predicting it.

One way to explain it is that unemployed people are an unused resource, and free market economies are very good at finding uses for those.
by hodgehog11 | 2025-08-11 15:38:50+00:00
I work in the theory of deep learning, so I can say with some authority that while we know a really good number of things, and are able to probe the internals much better than most of the public realises, when it comes to philosophical questions that compare their nature with humans, we have a long, long way to go. The biggest problem is that we're still trying to work out what it is we even want to know that will tell us whether we have achieved AGI or not.

Linear probes and autoencoders have been useful, but we're quickly reaching the limits of those techniques. And don't even get me started on approaches to theory that operate by cherry-picked examples. Anthropic's contributions have been beneficial to the field, but are far from conclusive.
by 93po | 2025-08-11 15:38:56+00:00
something these guides indirectly touch on but don't explain more explicitly: frequently issues with socializing are rooted in trauma, and working on that trauma is what's going to fundamentally improve socialization. and for those unfamiliar, trauma isn't always "this one bad thing happened this one time, or many times". trauma is sometimes a lifelong pattern of small interactions, or lack of small interactions. childhood emotional neglect is sometimes impossible to even see from the outside, but can have lifelong implications to attachment styles that then later massively impact one's social anxiety and ability to socialize

also autism