MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SilverElfin | 2025-08-12 03:18:32+00:00
Well, I thought this was just blown out of proportion, but I guess a subreddit with over 10,000 people suggests it is something more. It’s interesting that people seem to grow in their “relationship” with their chosen AI to the point of having a text based sexual relation. Is that even possible on the big chatbots? I thought they were not able to do anything that borders on sexual.
by HDThoreaun | 2025-08-12 03:18:40+00:00
> Israeli military incompetence and Netanyahu's strategy of backing Hamas over the PA that caused Oct 7.

I was about to make a joke about this to your sibling comment. Completely agree that oct 7 was one of the biggest security fuck ups in modern history, the militants never shouldve been allowed to escape gaza.

There is no defending Israel's actions over the last year. I just hate seeing people hitting the wrong points. The lopsided death count is irrelevant because it is Hamas' fault. The annexation of gaza is irrelevant because thats what happens when you lose a war you started.

Now starving them out and running them over Tiananmen square style, thats pretty relevant I think. Israels actions in the west bank were in many ways even worse until the starvation stuff started. Straight up state sanctioned terrorism happening over there
by acdha | 2025-08-12 03:18:46+00:00
That comparison is somewhat more complicated because it was much more broadly tied into Microsoft's control of the by-far dominant PC operating system and was in the era where browsers were commercial products which cost money and significantly predated the rise of open source software.

That's likely why the DOJ is _not_ “suing Apple for doing this”. Browsers are conspicuously not on the list of charges and I think it's because in the subsequent 3 decades, we've had some key changes: all of the major browser engines are open source, very few people question the demand for standard libraries for rendering web content even in desktop apps, statistically nobody pays for web browsers. A large part of the Microsoft trial was discussing how they colluded to prevent PC vendors from bundling other companies' software but in this case Apple isn't trying to restrict another vendor's decision about what software they ship on their hardware and users don't show much sign of being bothered by the lack of PWAs, which have negligible usage on any platform. If someone was making a lot of money with a PWA on Android but having to pay Apple's in-app fees on iOS, that'd be a much stronger argument for market distortion.

The actual lawsuits are focused where Apple's behavior is more clearly like 90s Microsofts: restricting access to the NFC APIs, restricting game streaming platforms, and restricting the ability of WearOS watches to work with iOS phones or Apple Watches working with Android phones. Unlike PWAs, there are other mobile payment companies who'd love to ship tighter integration, customers who want more gaming options, or who want to have something like a Garmin device as tightly integrated as an Apple Watch. I don't know how likely the DOJ's case is to succeed but at least in those cases it's easy to show that there's a real market being affected whereas it's much harder to argue that a PWA market would suddenly spring into being or that Google is somehow being deprived of Chrome revenue by having to use WebKit on iOS. I'm aware of the technical arguments but it seems fairly challenging as a legal argument to make the case that the DOJ should respond to Apple abusing a monopoly position with a fifth of the market by allowing Google to push their share over 90%. The only way the web is better off out of this is if there's some coordinated simultaneous action.
by cyberax | 2025-08-12 03:19:05+00:00
It's a well-known phenomenon. E.g.: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10680-008-9163-9

It's been eroding lately, but mostly because fewer younger people can afford to live in suburbs. By "afford", I don't mean monetary cost, but the lack of easily accessible jobs.

I'm investigating that, and I believe that it's even _worse_ than the simple fertility rate shows. If you look specifically at the number of parents with two or more children, suburbs completely demolish cities when you control for the average income.

Controlling for the average income is needed because of the two poles of fertility: desperately poor people, and happy content people ("reversed J-curve"). And cities in the US disproportionally concentrate desperately poor people.
by woodpanel | 2025-08-12 03:20:53+00:00
Sure thing.

Here is the list of the top-20 murder-rated cities in the US:

St. Louis, MO – Mayor Cara Spencer (DNC), DNC rule 76 years.

Baltimore, MD – Mayor Brandon Scott (DNC), DNC rule 56 years.

New Orleans, LA – Mayor LaToya Cantrell (DNC), DNC rule 153 years.

Detroit, MI – Mayor Mike Duggan (ex DNC), DNC rule 63 years

Cleveland, OH – Mayor Justin Bibb (DNC), DNC rule 35 years

Las Vegas, NV – Mayor Carolyn Goodman (Husband of ex-DNC mayor), DNC rule 82 years

Kansas City, MO – Mayor Quinton Lucas (DNC), DNC rule 34 years

Memphis, TN – Mayor Paul Young (DNC), DNC rule 53 years.

Newark, NJ – Mayor Ras Baraka (DNC), DNC rule 72 years.

Chicago, IL – Mayor Brandon Johnson (DNC), DNC rule 94 years.

Cincinnati, OH – Mayor Aftab Pureval (DNC), DNC rule 41 years

Philadelphia, PA – Mayor Cherelle Parker (DNC), DNC rule 74 years

Milwaukee, WI – Mayor Cavalier Johnson (DNC), DNC rule 65 years

Tulsa, OK – Mayor Monroe Nichols (DNC), only outlier in this list with significant non-DNC mayors

Pittsburgh, PA – Mayor Ed Gainey (DNC), DNC rule 91 years

Indianapolis, IN – Mayor Joe Hogsett (DNC), DNC rule 9 years.

Louisville, KY – Mayor Craig Greenberg (DNC), DNC rule 56 years

Oakland, CA – Mayor Sheng Thao (DNC), DNC rule 48 years

Washington, D.C. – Mayor Muriel Bowser (DNC), DNC rule 64 years

Atlanta, GA – Mayor Andre Dickens (DNC), DNC rule 164 years
by knodi123 | 2025-08-12 03:21:09+00:00
> Burden of proof is to show that AGI can do anything.

Yeah, if this were a courtroom or a philosophy class or debate hall. But when a bunch of tech nerds are discussing AGI among themselves, claims that true AGI wouldn't be any more powerful than humans very very much have a burden of proof. That's a shocking claim that I've honestly never heard before, and seems to fly in the face of intuition.
by mcphage | 2025-08-12 03:21:24+00:00
> reasonable possibilities are too many to analyze, one is forced to pretty much guess and make gambles. It's an unpleasant experience.

It’s okay to not like popular things, not every game is for every person. The thing you describe as unpleasant, is what some people enjoy about the game.

> It seems like a game for people whose brains are wired in a manner incompatible with mine. If I discover that someone likes poker, I find them rather suspicious.

Well, that is a good chunk of the population. Which isn’t to say it’s wrong to be suspicious of most people, but I’m not sure poker is an reliable indicator.
by swat535 | 2025-08-12 03:21:44+00:00
Exactly, why would security and privacy be ever considered when time and time again, it has been proven to companies that they will face no consequences for their actions.

We have had so many catastrophic breaches and leaks that I've lost count by now, from Equifax to AT&T to Lastpass. The consequences? at worst, the companies were forced to give people a 5$ credit or discounts and at best a few angry written articles.

Our elected representatives fail to serve the public and punish these corporations.
by famahar | 2025-08-12 03:21:47+00:00
I love astro. I use it for one of game curation projects. https://exhibitplay.com/

Built a few reusable templates and JSON for storing game data (maybe not ideal at scale, but seems to be working for now). JavaScript, CSS, and MDX. Hosted on Netlify which is an 'Official Deployment Partner'. It's light and simple. So far has been a joy to work with.
by anonym29 | 2025-08-12 03:21:58+00:00
Is consciousness necessarily being implied here? That sort of reflective decision making can be indirectly influenced by what we might consider economics, but economics is fundamentally a process of allocating scarce resources across non-scarce desires. Markets represent a form of collective intelligence, even without necessarily representing sentience.

Individual families making rational economic decisions about child-rearing costs, when aggregated across millions of families, could produce patterns that look like species-level decision-making without requiring any actual species-level consciousness.
by onetimeusename | 2025-08-12 03:22:37+00:00
Why does this increase the likelihood of a (written I assume) constitution? I remember I saw a thing about David Cameron talking about wanting one. I think he also created a Supreme Court. I read into it and it seemed like there was no real reason for either a written constitution or a Supreme Court. Both of those things were popularized by the US's government so maybe that points to why.
by mkoryak | 2025-08-12 03:23:17+00:00
Seeing only one item at a time(on Mobile) is deal breaker for me. I don't know what other stuff is in the feed, and there is no way to easily know without scrolling through a bunch of stuff I probably don't care about.

The images don't really add much for me. I look at the title to decide if this is something I want to read about.

Maybe there is a way to turn off this one thing at a time, but I didn't stick around to find it.

Good luck, it's looking polished and works nicely
by beeflet | 2025-08-12 03:23:37+00:00
Yes. Based on talking to people like you IRL, I don't think democrats understand how big the epstein situation is.

Revealing the epstein docs/list was a major selling point for the q-anon/conspiracy voters during the election. This is the first major controversy that puts trump against a sizable majority of his supporters, which are becoming disillusioned.

We are reaching a nixon-esque turning point where the cover up is worse than the crime.
by chrisco255 | 2025-08-12 03:24:47+00:00
Of course I've heard him speak, he does press conferences every single day, sometimes for hours. He takes questions all the time including impromptu ones on Air Force One. He did 3 hour podcasts during the campaign, he's incredibly poised and this has been affirmed by everyone from Jensen Huang to Modi to Tim Cook to Bill Maher.

Biden was kept hidden and carefully managed and his staffers had to cut him off and remind him of the current year. You may not like Trump, but everyone that works with him closely, recognizes he is more intellectual than his public persona would seem to imply.
by mark_l_watson | 2025-08-12 03:24:51+00:00
I have worked for companies using GitLab and I really liked it. I need to have just about a dozen of my repos that kind of have to be on GitHub because of integrations with third parties, but most would live fine on GitLab.

EDIT: just looked, GitLab seems caught up in AI agent hype also, and have their prices gone up?
by physix | 2025-08-12 03:24:52+00:00
Even when the distance between the centres of mass of two colliding galaxies become comparable to their size?

It's a long time ago, but what I remember was being fascinated by the shapes of the galaxies emerging from a collision under this centre-of-mass approximation, and that it created shapes we see out there. It was as if the main effect were a central mass in each galaxy dominating the dynamics.
by JustExAWS | 2025-08-12 03:24:56+00:00
So you have magically become the first person in history who has created a web app that is just as performant as a native app with local assets, written in a language that is compiled down to assembly and delivered as such (iOS) or even close enough in the case of Android native apps these days (yes I know Java has come a long way, that’s just the point)?

You should be working for Facebook or Google, they both came to the conclusion that their apps should use native frameworks for performance reasons…

It very much is about hardware. Most Android phones suck statistically (yes I know there are some performant ones. But that’s not what most of the world is buying) and your web app is not going to perform well on them.

By the way, what’s the ARR on your web app? Monthly active users? Have you tested it on one of the low end free phones?

And it’s not me being an Apple shill, your web app probably sucks like every other web app that has ever existed on mobile. I wouldn’t say the same about a native Android app.
by cma | 2025-08-12 03:25:02+00:00
I added this line to the end of your prompt so it knew it could clarify and didn't need an immediate answer:

"You can ask any clarifying questions first before starting on the problem."

Here's what it asked (Claude Opus, web search off so it didn't find your post):

> Looking at this problem, I want to make sure I understand the process correctly before diving into the solution. Let me clarify a few things:

> When you say "flip on every fourth one" for the powers of two, do you mean:

> We flip switches at positions 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, ... (every 4th position) Then flip switches at positions 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, ... (every 8th position) And so on?

> When you move to "powers of three", do you mean:

> Start with every 3rd switch (3, 6, 9, 12, ...) Then every 9th switch (9, 18, 27, 36, ...) Then every 27th switch, etc.?

> Or does "powers of three" mean we start with 3² = 9 as the first increment, similar to how we started with 2² = 4 for powers of two?

> When you say "then four, then five, and so on" - do you mean we continue this process for all integers k ≥ 2, using powers of k as our increments?

> The final state of each switch depends on whether it gets flipped an odd or even number of times total, so I want to make sure I understand the flipping pattern correctly before calculating the answer.
by dehrmann | 2025-08-12 03:25:07+00:00
The high-level pitch of P cores and E cores seems so elegant, but when it actually comes to scheduling, it gets messy fast. Even in a laptop running off a battery, you can't simply switch to E cores because some short-lived work might be latency-sensitive. You also can't assume long-running work should be on an E core because maybe you're anxious to get that video encoded. Even for lots of small work, different core can have different performance characteristics, and a P core might be more efficient for certain workloads.
by rayiner | 2025-08-12 03:25:09+00:00
> DC often serves as America's protest stage.

DC is also the capital of the country and a major tourist destination, and makes a terrible impression being covered with homeless encampments.

Democrats, more than anyone else, should want Trump to flood D.C. with police and turn it into Disney Land. When tourists from Wisconsin or Idaho come to visit the nation's capital, you want them to have a positive impression of what the federal government can build!
by mattigames | 2025-08-12 03:26:22+00:00
I wish there was a open fund anyone could donate with the exclusive aim of suing Perplexity, OpenAI and others for copyright violations, where a team of lawyers would help the cases with the most likelihood to win, that would try to highlight that the way such systems are "learning" have little similitude to the intent of the law when it was written to give layaway for other artists/authors to create similar creations.
by mesotron_dev | 2025-08-12 03:26:36+00:00
Thank you! That's my applied learning from Richard M. Eastman's book Style: Writing and reading as the discovery of outlook, 3rd edition. My blog and primary developer site are currently under active development. My github is @https://github.com/nortosem Updates about the blog and links will appear there. The open-source projects are on standby while I finish rolling up my custom stack and ui/ux for the dev site.
by cyberax | 2025-08-12 03:26:59+00:00
In 2003 the average fertility rate was around 2.03

It started falling to 1.6 around 2008 ( https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/usa/uni... ) which coincided with the millennials getting into the child-bearing age. And the millennials are much more likely to live in cities, even though they don't want that: https://news.gallup.com/poll/245249/americans-big-idea-livin...
by brigandish | 2025-08-12 03:29:07+00:00
> 3. The likelihood of a British constitution is increasing, which would somewhat bind future parliaments.

As an repetition of and an aside to all those pointing out that there is a constitution, what may find gaining some momentum after this are calls for a Bill of Rights, something England used to have[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_Rights_1689
by gottorf | 2025-08-12 03:29:21+00:00
Sorry, I did not make myself clear enough. I'm not disputing that there exist people whose lives depend on USAID. I'm disputing the claim that there is a direct moral culpability on the part of the people who work for the administration that cut USAID funding, or the American electorate that empowered said administration, for those deaths; and that said moral culpability means it's fine when those people are victimized by criminals.

> There are ethical ways to reduce humanitarian aid. Eliminating it all at once ain't it.

The nature of government-funded programs is that the actual source of the funding, the taxpayer, has very little direct say in it, and the people who are involved have very little incentive to remove it. Politicians love attaching their names to bigger and bigger budget numbers in headlines, and of course the people whose salaries depend on that budget aren't inclined to make it go away.

Every now and then the taxpayer gets fed up and elects some boor to make a hatchet job out of it, and intellectuals remark on how heartless it all is.

To me, the true ethical blame is on whoever it is that allowed these millions of people to be permanently dependent on aid.
by triceratops | 2025-08-12 03:29:48+00:00
> each non-western immigrants produce a negative financial benefit over their lifetimes

I'm not familiar with the writer but their definition of "non-western" is a bit weird to me. I don't know what criteria were used or whether these are Denmark's classifications or the author's own.

The chart captioned "Violent crime conviction rates for immigrants in 2010–2021 by nation of origin expressed in multiples of the Danish conviction rate" says, for example, that Greece is Western but its neighbor North Macedonia is "other". Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Romania - all Western, but Czechoslovakia is "other". Croatia? Western, but curiously not Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, or Yugoslavia. There's no rhyme or reason here.

People originating from these debatably Western (or non-Western, I literally don't know but it's inconsistent either way) countries all have conviction rates above the Danish rate. Which would muddle the narrative of that particular chart a fair bit. Maybe it makes no difference to the fiscal question though.
by SilverElfin | 2025-08-12 03:30:44+00:00
Not sure I understand Musk’s specific complaint, but more generally, yes Apple is anti competitive. If you own an iPhone or iPad, you probably get regular badges or notifications pushing a free trial of Apple Music or their game thing. It’s egregious. And let’s not forget the blocking of competing browsers, lack of access to the phone’s system even though it’s just a computer, the heavy handed control and rent seeking in the App Store, and more. Regulate regulate regulate.

If I had to speculate, is it anti competitive because Apple is partnering with OpenAI for their own intelligent features? So pushing ChatGPT on everyone will help to normalize the experience they’re offering through Siri or whatever, I assume?
by amy_petrik | 2025-08-12 03:30:59+00:00
>" Sorry, this post was removed by Reddit’s filters. "

>Can anyone help on this?

>Without fail, every single time it gets removed instantly.

Hello, yes, I can help! You see, dark pattern algorithms found that polarization, infuriation, etc maximizes engagement maximizes profit. Reddit specializes in the deletion / banning meta, which is yet another form of engagement maximization. Are you not frustrated? Are you not so compelled to return to reddit, to finally succeed with your post, to drink that precious updoot milkshake? --- A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
by johnbellone | 2025-08-12 03:31:04+00:00
A big part of the reason why DC has these problems is because they do not control much of their own budgeting due to the nature of how the federal government manages the territory.

Calling it a "dump" is interesting, especially compared to some other cities that have much larger populations, budget, and representation. I've been in the DMV for nearly twenty years and much prefer living here than other metro areas because it is simply a lot cleaner and safer. Baltimore and Philadelphia are both cities that are much worse than living in DC proper.
by akra | 2025-08-12 03:31:13+00:00
In my view its a tool, at least for the moment. Learn it, work out how it works for you, and what it doesn't work for you. But assuming you are the professional they should trust your judgement, and you should also earn that trust. That's why you pay skilled people for. If that tool isn't the best to getting the job done use something else. Of course that professional should be evaluating tools and assuring us/management (whether by evidence or other means) that the most cost efficient and quality product is being built like any other profession.

I use AI, and for some things its great. But I'm feeling like they want us to use the "blunt instrument" that is AI when sometimes a smaller, more fine grained tool/just handcrafting code for accuracy at least for me is quicker and more appropriate. The autonomy window as I recently heard it expressed.
by UncleOxidant | 2025-08-12 03:31:37+00:00
I just read your comment and decided to give GLM-4.5 a try in Kilocode. I'd been using Gemini CLI all day to try to resolve a tricky bug in some compiler code (a compiler for a subset of C that generates microcode for... a weird architecture, I'll leave it at that). So GLM-4.5 zoomed in on the problem right away. A problem that's eluded Gemini CLI all day. Gemini was leading me on a wild goose chase implicating a function that turns out wasn't the problem (and trying to make all kinds of lame changes to the function saying that would fix the problem - and it never did because the problem wasn't that function).
by jcelerier | 2025-08-12 03:31:42+00:00
As a user with a laptop, the last thing I want is the OS to decide for me. I want to tell it myself "this is sensitive, put all your energy into it because I'm five minutes away from pushing that important work and I have seven minutes of battery left" or "this won't work at all if run at less than 2 GHz" vs "I must drag what I'm doing along for as long as I can, save every bit of battery possible. The computer can't know about these cases.
by preommr | 2025-08-12 03:31:46+00:00
> the prime minister has to convince the king that it's something worthy of military action. As the king is well fed, it's difficult to bribe or blackmail kings into acting against the state.

This only works on paper, and on paper congress or SCOTUS would've stepped in much sooner.

In practice, the monarch either has a lot of power, or does whatever the real head of government wants. Especially with how Trump can claim that he has the mandate of the people given that he won the election, and it's not like he doesn't wrap his motives behind legitimate claims. It's pretty easy to just claim that he has to do X for the security of the nation.

In reality, if the US had a monarch, they too would've gone along with whatever Trump wanted because to not do so is the nuclear option. It would be the equivalent of states trying to secede or not recognizing the current administration as legitimate and choosing to declare Harris as the real POTUS.