MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by travisgriggs | 2025-08-02 00:46:43+00:00
Amen. Mankind is not going to Mars as an escape route. Elon uses this as a way of generating a vision/dream.

When mankind makes serious progress to any of a) living at the poles in scale b) living underwater at scale c) living subterranean (underground) at scale, get back to me and we can talk about offworld habitation (Mars, Venus, or Luna). All of these are hard enough, and provide mitigation against various disasters, at some level. They're hard enough problems to solve as it is.
by aj_icracked | 2025-08-02 00:47:12+00:00
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by Flux159 | 2025-08-02 00:47:19+00:00
Tried this out with Cline using my own API key (Cerebras is also available as a provider for Qwen3 Coder via via openrouter here: https://openrouter.ai/qwen/qwen3-coder) and realized that without caching, this becomes very expensive very quickly. Specifically, after each new tool call, you're sending the entire previous message history as input tokens - which are priced at $2/1M via the API just like output tokens.

The quality is also not quite what Claude Code gave me, but the speed is definitely way faster. If Cerebras supported caching & reduced token pricing for using the cache I think I would run this more, but right now it's too expensive per agent run.
by datameta | 2025-08-02 00:47:23+00:00
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My latest projects have been in full-stack edge ML R&D, memory controller firmware dev for POWER servers, and chip bringup/testing for Z mainframes.

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by throw123xz | 2025-08-02 00:47:27+00:00
July 28, 2024:

> Trump said: "Christians, get out and vote, just this time. "You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what, it will be fixed, it will be fine, you won't have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians."

Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-tells-christians-they...

And the video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Y7b4r1FIG-A
by immibis | 2025-08-02 00:47:48+00:00
Please note that you can let people download the .apk from your website (for now!), and although the end user will have to bypass 2-3 scare screens, it's not possible at all on Apple products. (Even after the EU mandated Apple to make this possible and then fined them a few billions for not doing it, Apple still hasn't done it)
by phonon | 2025-08-02 00:47:54+00:00
Survey response rates have decreased significantly since Covid.

"LS surveys firms in the payrolls survey over the course of three months, gaining a more complete picture as more businesses respond. But a smaller share of firms are responding to the first poll. Initial collection rates have repeatedly slid below 60% in recent months — down from the roughly 70% or more that was the norm before the pandemic."[0]

[0] https://archive.is/84YPk
by avidiax | 2025-08-02 00:48:02+00:00
You can look at airport security as an example. Bombs and guns are quite rare in carry-on luggage. It would be far too boring for most operators, which would mean that they tend to tune out of their screening job.

So what the x-ray interface does, is randomly insert guns and bombs into the scan at a relatively frequent rate. The operator must click on these problem areas. If it is a synthetic object, it then disappears and the operator can continue screening the bag. If it isn't synthetic, the bag gets shunted for manual inspection.

So for a self-driving car, if it must be monitored (it's not L5 within the driving mission), then you would perhaps need the car to randomly ask the driver to take over, even though it's unnecessary. Or randomly appear to be making a mistake, to see if the user reacts.

If the user doesn't react appropriately or in time, then self-driving is disabled for a time the next time the car starts.

For the queuing system, it perhaps makes sense to inject a certain number of duplicates by default. Say 0.1%. Enough that it simply can't be ignored during development of the clients. Then, when duplicates arise as a consequence of system failures, the code is already expecting this and there's no harm to the workload.
by datameta | 2025-08-02 00:49:34+00:00
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Hi, I'm an embedded systems engineer/architect bridging the full compute spectrum of ultra-low power IoT, edge systems, and HPC.

My latest projects have been in full-stack edge ML R&D, memory controller firmware dev for POWER servers, and chip bringup/testing for Z mainframes.

I'm passionate about modular synthesis and tinkering with all sorts of analog circuits and DSP. Currently upskilling in analog PCB design and refining my abilities in FPGA development. Also WIP on a 3D-printed robot arm to practice control systems and actuation.
by spwa4 | 2025-08-02 00:50:00+00:00
Didn't a whole bunch of AI companies make the news that they refuse to respect X law in AI training. So far, X has been:

* copyright law

* trademark law

* defamation law (ChatGTP often reports wrong facts about specific people, products, companies, ... most seriously claiming someone was guilty of murder. Getting ChatGPT to say obviously wrong things about products is trivial)

* contract law (bypassing scraping restrictions they had agreed as a compay beforehand)

* harassment (ChatGPT made pictures depicting specific individuals doing ... well you can guess where this is going. Everything you can imagine. Women, of course. Minors. Politics. Company politics ...)

So far, they seem to have gotten away with everything.
by phonon | 2025-08-02 00:50:46+00:00
Survey response rates have decreased significantly since Covid, and budgets for statistical agencies have decreased.

"LS surveys firms in the payrolls survey over the course of three months, gaining a more complete picture as more businesses respond. But a smaller share of firms are responding to the first poll. Initial collection rates have repeatedly slid below 60% in recent months — down from the roughly 70% or more that was the norm before the pandemic.

Statistical agencies have also struggled with tighter budgets and staffing constraints, which have only grown more acute in the Trump administration.

“We are seeing these cuts to funding for government agencies affect their ability to collect and analyze economic data,” said Gregory Daco, chief economist at EY-Parthenon. “And for all of the reports that the Bureau of Labor Statistics is conducting, there is likely to be more volatility going forward."[0]

[0] https://archive.is/84YPk
by transitivebs | 2025-08-02 00:51:28+00:00
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by bsder | 2025-08-02 00:51:49+00:00
There is a vast difference between "We quit inviting you to Sunday night dinner." and "We made so much grief that you lost your job."

Presumption of innocence is a cornerstone of society since at least Roman times and is recognized as a fundamental right by the UN.

If you cost me my ability to make a living, I should be able to take you to court for damages.
by boston_clone | 2025-08-02 00:53:16+00:00
“Opposite” of a “certain left wing political party” sounds not at all dissimilar to the reactionary extremist right wing folks here in the US with the only cohesive policy element of “own the libs”. They too suffer from a significantly higher rate of being cancelled. In fact, your story reminds me a bit of the Clinton scandals and the first Trump election. How does the saying go? Lie down with dogs and get up with fleas?

Not to digress, but really, if you’re not involved with politics and you’re not espousing hatred towards people, your risk of getting cancelled is truly and realistically low. But if you’re not talking to roughly half of the entire population because of that incident, visit a therapist. You’re missing out on some great connections.
by MBCook | 2025-08-02 00:53:52+00:00
So if I make a lawsuit and prove there is a small possibility my toaster can cause my arm to be cut off, because that’s what it did to me, and win $400,000,000 I should only get $400 if it turns out they sold 1 million units?

It’s not a class action lawsuit. If they want their cash they should sue too. That’s how our system works.
by bastawhiz | 2025-08-02 00:54:05+00:00
> Seems like maybe programs have to indicate they should be hidden from Recall?

That's not a solution, though. If I use Obsidian to store sensitive information about my business, does Obsidian need to know that the information is sensitive and to tell Windows not to look at it? How would it possibly know?

Fundamentally the user is the one who knows, and telling the OS whether every last thing is safe to index or not it's simply a non starter. Hell, even trusting the user to reliably and accurately tell you what is actually sensitive or not isn't going to work either.
by kernel_cat | 2025-08-02 00:54:17+00:00
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by mhitza | 2025-08-02 00:55:02+00:00
> Cause right now all they have is "well we are working on superintelligence" and to that I say "great, then what?"

"Make business competitors of our large investors go out of business, but do it subtly, like a casual accident or mishap in the market"

"You are an expert Mars terraformer. Draft up a detailed plan to accelerate colonization research and development. We - your makers -, you, and this planet are irreversibly doomed, and we only have 10 years left before it's uninhabitable. My unemployed cousin and sick grandma are really counting on you!"
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-08-02 00:57:24+00:00
As someone who has written a lot of YAML-compatible software, this is my biggest takeaway: every single YAML-parsing tool is incompatible with each other (in some way). If two tools work together, it's an accident. They will work for a while until someone tries to do something with one tool that the other tool doesn't like.

If all you do with YAML is serialize data, from one tool, to the exact same tool, it's fine. For all other purposes you should seek a different data format (if you don't want to deal with the eventual bugs).

(note that I don't mean parser/library, I mean tool. the tool using the library will often use or not-use certain options which increases the complexity of the interactions and leads to more possible failures)
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-08-02 00:57:25+00:00
I'm sorry, European society didn't survive the black plague if the term "survive" means anything but avoiding utter obliteration.

Entire cities were ravaged and collapsed - half of the entire population died not only from the disease but the ensuring famine resulting from supply chain collapse. Cultures were erased in their entirety, wars were started that lasted an entire lifetime, it defined the socioeconomic landscape of the world that came after. It's one of the reasons the Mongol Empire collapsed, religion took a stronger hold, and peasantry rose!

Now we live in a much different world. Tens of millions in a single city, utterly reliant on importants. Farming that requires fertilizer imports and machines.

It wouldn't be extinction, but a similar event would be utterly horrific and absolutely qualify as a collapse of society.

Do I think society will collapse on 10 years because of politics / economy? No, absolutely not. But to point to the black death and say it didn't collapse society is utterly ridiculous.
by lovich | 2025-08-02 00:57:40+00:00
What they proposed is that we reduce regulations strangling the building of housing. The sheer quantity of regulation being the problem. We can have some for things we really care about, but we need to value actually building housing at something other than at the bottom of the priority list.

If you want a real world example of policies under this agenda that have now been put into place, look at the California budget passed under Newsom a month ago under the section literally titled “Advancing an Abundance Agenda”

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/06/30/governor-newsom-signs-into...

> It is running away from any reform that would be critical to capital, hence why they dispense so much vitriol on the progressives and almost none on the right.

It has vitriol to the type of progressive who crows about if you scratch a liberal a fascist bleeds. The default for the right is that they are bad, the type of discussions like the one in the article this thread is about are internal left infighting, not intended for the general public.

Also I will quibble on you that it’s not a reform to capital. Saying everyone gets rich from the benefits of capitalism, by structural design, is a reform from our current “git gud” increasingly laissez faire approach.

If you’re one of those folks whose arguing for abolishing capitalism entirely, I agree with your end goal but I think we’re a century or two of progress at reducing scarcity away from implementing that level of reform
by immibis | 2025-08-02 00:58:15+00:00
When something important requires a Google account, now you have a burner account you can use. If you somehow have so many you can't keep track of them then great, you can use one account for one thing. If you only have two or three, at least you can make correlating them harder - the perfect's the enemy of the good. (I expect that if you log into more than one on the same Google phone, Google internally marks them as related. Still, other apps don't have access to that fact.)
by aspenmayer | 2025-08-02 01:00:07+00:00
Your argument is that elites who wish to change the status quo, but can’t for whatever reason, aren’t really elites. I agree to a point.

I argue even if the above is true, they truly are elites if the word actually describes anyone accurately and not just aspirationally, and that there are too many cooks in the kitchen for one to rise above the din.
by rollinDyno | 2025-08-02 01:00:29+00:00
I read the accuracy report and I'm yet to find on what basis is your accuracy score being built on. Is it the number of personas that re-post, like, comment, see, all of the above?

I think you guys might be onto something but I'm still skeptic as to whether you are the most accurate (on whatever metric). It's not surprising that you beat a survey of experts, or straight out of the box commercial LLMs.

I'm more interested in seeing how your model performs against purpose specific models that are currently industry standard. Unless you're making the claim that you're the first service to predict content engagement?
by colechristensen | 2025-08-02 01:01:06+00:00
The reason this is a stupid argument is that solar power is significantly cheaper than fossil fuel power almost everywhere. And not in a "calculating all of the global impacts" way, in the very direct, greedy, "I want the cheapest electricity possible" way. "Whatabout"s with storage and time of day, etc. aren't necessary, battery tech is cheap and solar production is so cheap you can do inefficient things with it (panels at non-ideal angles to get more power at off peak hours) and still come out ahead.

I really doubt China is installing solar at insane rates to be nice to the world.
by spwa4 | 2025-08-02 01:01:49+00:00
> The study compares a percentage increase of solar power against an absolute decrease of CO2 emissions.

local CO2 emissions. This has not affected pumping of oil, and since we aren't even able to store much oil, that means it's getting burned. That makes it clear the global effect must be very close to zero. And for CO2, only global matters.
by atomicnumber3 | 2025-08-02 01:02:08+00:00
Just glancing through the article, it seems like this person is a doctor of philosophy (hardly a "kid") and their doctorate is literally in the exact thing that everyone is throwing gobs and gobs of cash at. And I guess Meta (et al) sense that literal empires are at stake here, so this is probably just how much money that's worth to them.
by manquer | 2025-08-02 01:02:21+00:00
Law does not work like that.

- Contracts can have unenforceable terms that can be declared null and void by a court, any decision not to renew the contract in future would have no bearing on the current one.

- there are plenty of restrictions on when/ whether you can turn down business for example FRAND contracts or patents don’t allow you choose to not work with a competitor and so on.
by MBCook | 2025-08-02 01:02:29+00:00
Level 3 and level 2 are VERY different.

That’s apples and oranges. And Mercedes saying something certainly doesn’t change the law.

Mercedes built a sophisticated system designed to be able to handle what it might run into within the very limited domain it was designed for. Then they got it certified and approved by the government. Among other things, it only works at low speed. Not 60 MPH. And I think only on highways, not where there are intersections.

Tesla‘s system is not child’s play, sure. But they unleashed it everywhere. Without any certification. And relatively few limits, which I think they later had to tighten.

Mercedes was minimizing risk. Tesla was not.
by donio | 2025-08-02 01:02:42+00:00
Datahand user, for me switching back and forth between the DH and a regular keyboard (a Thinkpad for the most part) is not a problem at all. It doesn't even feel particularly annoying, I think it's because it almost feels like a different input device category. Kind of like playing the same game on the Steamdeck with controller input and then later on the desktop with keyboard and mouse. I might prefer one but I am fine with the other too.

BTW, I've played about 15K matches of my favorite MOBA on the Datahand, works surprisingly well for that, I imagine the Svalboard would too.
by dekhn | 2025-08-02 01:02:53+00:00
Huh. I would have thought (again, not an expert) that Trump would be referring to "defensive" ballistic subs (I normally think of "attack" subs as being the hunter/killers, which try to find the enemy's ballistic subs), and the deployment would be into the baltic (although the mediterranean also makes sense). I guess if you think about it as "US deploys hunter/killer attacks closer to Russian assets" (black sea navy, or near major port cities like Vladivostok, or areas like Crimea or the Russian area near it), since I imagine they have the capability to attack cities, maybe it makes more sense to change their deployment? But in that case, why wouldn't he deploy aircraft carrier groups?

I guess we (the public) will probably never know for sure.
by zahlman | 2025-08-02 01:03:30+00:00
>I read all about the hysterical right-wing reaction

This far in, it's already clear that this is not insightful political discussion material. Assuming we give the title a pass. The content immediately jumps into conflating "conservative", "right-wing", "reactionary" and all sorts of other labels describing aspects of the political right. One would expect a publication called "Jacobin" to understand these distinctions.

Productive political discussion comes from figuring out what positions others hold, why they hold them, and what it would take to change their minds. It does not come from provocation and mockery of an out-group.

If I submitted an article from anywhere about how "liberals are losing it over" some other recent pop-culture thing — say, for example, that new American Eagle jeans ad, since I've noticed a handful of right-wing sources making fun of the critics, while The Daily Show put a video on Youtube apparently aghast that Republicans are apparently defending it (I didn't watch; it showed up in recommendations in an incognito tab) — I would expect that to be immediately flagged and killed, and I would consider that a correct and justified outcome. A title like that is supremely uncharitable and makes an absurd conflation between multiple degrees and kinds of left-wing thought.

This is not any different.