MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ben_w | 2025-08-02 11:43:00+00:00
I think you're arguing against something I didn't say?

The tech is great. I'm usually the one defending it, even. But you do actually have to build the factories. Which we (humanity, I'm not American) are, as fast as we can, but that's the trend-line to look at, not what the tech can ultimately do.

I mean, to one of your points, I'm one of the few people here who keeps saying that if China wanted to make it a strategic goal, they have the manufacturing capacity to put in a genuinely global power grid with 1Ω electrical resistance for a fairly low material cost (few hundred billion), what a shame about the geopolitical realities getting in the way of this…
by Western0 | 2025-08-02 11:43:06+00:00
A very good comparison. Why are electric companies and railways state-owned? Of course, not entirely. They have a string of private companies, but the core is state-owned and monopolistic. OpenAI will be like that. It is already flirting with the government to get the best access and be able to control the thinking of officials. Manipulation of officials and politicians. Isn't that beautiful and self-perpetuating profit?
by Szpadel | 2025-08-02 11:43:19+00:00
I believe this is non issue, you place captcha to make bypassing it much more costly and less profitable to abuse.

LLM models are much harder to drive than any website to serve, so you do not expect mob of bots.

Also keep in mind that this no interaction captchas use behavioral data that are collected in background. Plus you usually have sensitivity levels configured. depending on your use case you might want user proof not being a bot or it might be good enough to just not provide evidence for being one.

bypassing this no interaction captcha can be also purchased as a service, they basically (AFAIK) reuse someone else session for captcha bypass.
by asaddhamani | 2025-08-02 11:43:50+00:00
Claude now does have a weekly limit so if you are able to hit your weekly (undisclosed, dynamic) limit in 2 days, you're unable to use the services for the next 5 days. That is what Cerebras is referencing with no weekly limits. Claude has session count limits, dynamic limits within each session, and now weekly limits on top of all that.
by markovs_gun | 2025-08-02 11:44:03+00:00
The main problems I see are that we don't clean the insides of computer parts and we can drink water with way more calcium in it than is good for high temperature water heaters. Cooling water needs to be treated to not grow algae and bacteria in it, and a lot of times that renders it poisonous to drink. Conversely, drinking water has a lot of minerals still in it and those minerals will deposit and form scale on the insides of your heat transfer surfaces, which will severely impact performance over time. It may not even take that long depending on how hot the surface is and how hard your water is.
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-02 11:44:07+00:00
You're probably on the wrong side of history. As society gets wealthier fancy toys like motorcycles proliferate and more people have a stake in being able to use them.

I think the way the flood of Side by Sides onto the market gave enough of the public an interest in off road motoring to overwhelm the "hikers only" advocates decades old tactic of variously allying with different groups to get the others kicked out is highly illustrative here.

When motorcycles are commonly electric and require basically no maintenance and can simply be turned on in the spring year after year the barrier to entry is gonna drop even further and you're really gonna be up shit creek.
by octo888 | 2025-08-02 11:44:39+00:00
(tangent)

Train travel is such a weird thing. The service, staff, stock, pricing, timetable etc is set by civil servants and politicians 250 miles away.

The ticketing system is Byzantine and if you make a mistake you get a fine or a criminal record, unless you look like a thug, in which case the staff rarely bother.

Tickets are miraculously priced similar to driving in many instances despite a train looking nothing like a car. In various cases, more expensive than driving

You can be late because a politician 200 miles away annoyed the staff so they decide not to turn up.

It also turns out services on Sunday ran on good will (overtime), so the annoyed staff who get ok pay rises now realised they don't want the overtime so good luck travelling on a Sunday in quite a few areas.

Because of low enforcement of infringements by thugs, they are drawn to the service. You'd think your very high ticket price would include some kind of security? No. Fuck you.

When the trains break down you are expected to be OK with being trapped on a train for hours with no open windows or working toilets because of some "greater good" and insufficient emergency response

I used to be extremely pro public transport
by tzs | 2025-08-02 11:44:46+00:00
Endowments are not piles of money that they just sit on. Universities typically spend 4-5% of their endowment every year. The endowment is invested and managed to try and make that 4-5% a year spending sustainable indefinitely.

If the policy was no government funding if you have an endowment the net result would be that endowments would be spent down, and then not only would they need government funding for the things the government now funds, they would also need government funding for the things that are currently funded from the endowment's earnings.

Also, money in endowments is often legally restricted. Donors put conditions on their donations which limit what they can be used for. For example a donor might donate several million dollars to create and pay the salary of a named professorship in a specific department. That money goes into the endowment, but it and its earnings can only be spent on paying whoever currently holds that professorship.

A typical endowments includes hundreds or thousands of such restricted donations.
by mantas | 2025-08-02 11:45:11+00:00
Oh it is. You get traffic jams and that’s not exactly car-friendly. But still people drive. On top of that, walking on a sidewalk when a bus pass close by is much more interesting than a car passing. And then there’s all the commercial traffic that is necessary to serve a dense city.

And many cities, especially here in Europe, are dense enough to need some mode of transit. Especially with workplaces concentrated either in office parks or industrial districts by the city. But not multi million megapolies that warrant a sweet metro system. And that’s where cars shine.

Although after living in one of the largest cities on earth with a very nice train system… there’s still plenty of traffic. And people still drive. Especially those who can’t afford living in city core and end up in cheaper more remote locations.
by jb1991 | 2025-08-02 11:45:52+00:00
One of the things that is particularly strange about traveling to the United States is that you pretty much have no choice but to rent a car or at least have access to a car in some way, unless you’re going to be spending all your time in a place like New York City. But in nearly every other major western destination, certainly throughout much of Europe, it’s never even a thought that you would need to rent a car. I know plenty of grown adults here in Europe they don’t even have a drivers license! It really makes life a lot more convenient when the world does not revolve around an automobile.
by weitendorf | 2025-08-02 11:48:13+00:00
We're just doing usage-based pricing for our ai devtools product because it's the only way to square the circle of "as much access to an expensive thing as you want, at a reasonable price".

It's harder to set up, lends itself to lower margins, and consumers generally do prefer more predictable/simpler pricing, but so many ai devtools products have pissed their users off by throttling their "unlimited"/plan-based pricing that I think it's now seen as a yellow flag
by merelysounds | 2025-08-02 11:49:05+00:00
Some anecdotes from building this:

- I released this initially as an iPhone only app. Someone ran it on an iPad via compatibility mode, they were disappointed that the app doesn't use the full screen and they left a 1 star review. I wish iPad reviews only counted for universal iOS apps - otherwise the user is also reviewing the iPad's compatibility mode (and its black bars). Still, I like that the user left some feedback, I now added iPad support and I hope for some more positive reviews in future.

- I tested using AI to colorize the 1-bit pixel art - I got bad results. The colors were not great, plus the AI ignored instructions to leave empty spaces unchanged, which is unacceptable in this context. The images were encoded as text, which may have been a factor. Still, I remember being very specific and it didn't help. To those familiar with The Good Place, I felt like Michael asking for Eleanor's file: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BDtrzYNutY . As of now all puzzles are built by hand.
by 2malaq | 2025-08-02 11:49:34+00:00
I feel like this answer only explains the concept and not how it _actually_ works.

Is it an app? Is it a framework? How would it be used when one is being forced to open up their phone, does it only work within the app itself, or would it boot the phone into an alternate partition? Etc etc...

Also the website is full of AI generated images, buzzwords, and little to no substance.
by benreesman | 2025-08-02 11:49:41+00:00
Sam's an asshole for a lot of reasons, a ridiculous commons grab of intellectual property draped in threadbare rhetoric about human welfare (get those developing nation eyeballs SCANNED people!) being just one of them.

Watching the Chinese labs kick the shit out of better funded US enclaves of TESCREAL psychopathy in the public fucking domain is gravy.

I don't care that their internal calculus or that of the PRC is to Cloud Strife Limit Break a bunch of "shareholder value" in the form of a bloated NVIDIA cap feeding frenzy by bloated "public benefit corporations" with a bunch of creepy ties to Thiel et al: they're publishing papers, code and weights. So they're hoovering up of the commons has something of value going back into the commons.

So yeah, fuck Sam and its going to be fun watching OpenAI and Anthropic pivot ever more towards trying to outlaw competition than they already have. Amodei already sounds like Donald Rumsfeld on Taiwan hawkishness, this is not the positioning of someone who loves their product roadmap.

It turns out that a zillion ScaleAI and SurgeAI turks don't have economics any better than paying NVIDIA to run 85% net earnings for CapEx that's obsolete by the time its racked and powered.
by atoav | 2025-08-02 11:49:59+00:00
Good point.

Since the idea behind method chaining is a bit like UNIX pipes anyways, it would be silly (and unexpected) if commands later in the chain affected parts that came before, so you basically output a new instance each time. In my example above the signal wouldn't be a sine wave anymore after the first step, so that would make even less sense.

Editing existing instances is something I'd do for performance reasons only with no return value (lets exclude errors).
by adityaathalye | 2025-08-02 11:50:23+00:00
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by vahida9i | 2025-08-02 11:50:53+00:00
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by emporas | 2025-08-02 11:51:01+00:00
Location: Greece Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Maybe Technologies: Rust, Python, Go Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O5bAFAtPpCUrgO3PE7ChrKxeXXCMIk4Fp20RR6hz9Og/edit?tab=t.0 Email: pramatias@gmail.com

I am very good at syntax and grammar of programming languages and natural languages. I can also write reliable, fast and robust systems in Rust.
by mynameisash | 2025-08-02 11:51:14+00:00
I was coming home from work on my bike very late a few years ago, and I was on the side of the lane where your car tire would be -- not in the center. It was a good thing, too, because there was a full size ladder in the road, lined up exactly in the direction of traffic. Cars could safely drive 'over' it. I missed it by maybe a foot. If I were in middle of the lane, I would have taken a serious spill.
by m101 | 2025-08-02 11:51:16+00:00
This sort of study is dumb as it misses the bigger picture.

The focus on CO2 is for climate purposes. If one is genuinely concerned about the environment then one would look at all power generation technologies, not only solar. If one did this then solar would not be a focus of concern for power generation. Articles like this one suggest that solar is an answer to climate change, when, at best, it is a distraction.
by kevinventullo | 2025-08-02 11:51:17+00:00
I personally visited the protest site at UCLA while this was happening. It was a huge fenced-off encampment on the main lawn in front of the library. The interior of the encampment was mostly tents, while the boundary of the encampment had signs facing outward for passers-by to read. There were no obstructions or barriers to any buildings, though it would take an extra minute or two to walk around the encampment if you were trying to get to a nearby building. Here are some of the signs I saw:

“We believe that Palestinian rights must be achieved without harm coming to any other group or people”

“My Judaism is not Zionism”

“F** Israel” (without the asterisks)

“Jews Say No To Genocide”

“UC you have blood on your hands”

“Filmmakers for a free Palestine”

“Fund our jobs and education not war and occupation”

“Never again means never again anywhere!”

“Free Palestine” with a drawing of a policeman, gun drawn, facing a soldier on fire; clearly evoking https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-immolation_of_Aaron_Bus...

“Israeli against genocide”

“UCLA funds war”

“Our liberations are tied”

“Life in everything yearns for the death of occupation” (had trouble parsing this one)

“From Palestine to Mexico border walls have got to go”

This one’s cut off but it ends with “…violation of international law not anti-Jewish bigotry”

A sequence of maps of Israeli/Palestinian borders in 1947, 1967, present day. The map legend labels are “Palestinian Land” and “Jewish/Israeli Land”. There is also a text-based “timeline” starting in 1948, focusing mainly on Palestinian deaths and displacements.
by apelapan | 2025-08-02 11:52:09+00:00
If you look at it that way, nobody is good at anything. True perhaps but not a very useful stance.

Millions of people have built meaningful software with C++ over the past several decades. It is everywhere and it mostly works OK.

Of course, C++ is not necessarily the best choice for everything or anything. But it is a mostly reasonable choice for lots of things in 2025, just like it was in 1995.
by versteegen | 2025-08-02 11:53:52+00:00
> If your app barely uses any permissions (like TFA's apps), you just need to update the targetSdkVersion in the manifest

And what if you do use permissions for stuff like, say, external storage access, don't you need a recent SDK so you can use the APIs for things like the run-time permission requests now mandatory? But I believe the Android SDK removed support for building with ant years ago. And lets say I'm using a legacy framework with an incredibly contrived ant- (and bash-)based build system which there's no way I'm rewriting. Therefore, I'm in big trouble, am I not? Honest question.
by ancillary | 2025-08-02 11:54:07+00:00
As far as I can tell, some fraction of Quanta articles are as much a profile of the person as an account of the work, so they send out a photographer. The results are similar regardless of gender. Here are similar treatments given to dudes in the past ~year, for example [1, 2, 3].

[1] https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematical-thinking-isnt-wh...

[2] https://www.quantamagazine.org/perplexing-the-web-one-probab...

[3] https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-failure-has-made-mathemat...
by mantas | 2025-08-02 11:54:44+00:00
And then you get business parks on the outskirts of the city. Because otherwise both employees and visitors complain about parking. Which makes cheaper suburbs more compelling. And some people living downtown driving to workplaces in outskirts of the city.

At least that’s what is happening in my whereabouts. I remember when I was kid downtown was prime location for regular shopping and doing daily business. Now all of that moved to big box stores along major traffic arteries. Nowadays downtown is just a tourist trap with super expensive boutiques. I still go there to take a walk once a year or so, but besides that there’s no reason to there anymore for vast majority of people. But suburbs life is flourishing… With shops and services that are needed for every day life. Cheap and good eateries. Even casual entertainment is moving away from the city core.

All in all, not sure if it’s good or bad. I couldn’t afford living in downtown even in old era. And now I can live comfy life in suburbs. Not helping much to lower total amount of traffic though.
by throwaway6612 | 2025-08-02 11:55:21+00:00
NPR and especially its editorial content has turned steadily more leftward over the past 9 years (especially since Trump’s election in 2016) and moderately accelerated during COVID/around the talk of the death of one of the hosts. I say this as someone who is left-wing.

I didn’t think there was much debate on this point, it’s rather well documented/easily searchable online. If you genuinely think NPR’s editorial content has turned more right from the left, you are probably operating on a different scale than the general American public. There has also been a lot more scandals with their editorial content and the information accuracy in recent years with the bias being more and more left.
by joshuanapoli | 2025-08-02 11:56:37+00:00
I think that AI will let us make better progress outside of our narrow expertise.

So entrepreneurial activities will be easier and more common. On the other hand, there will be relatively fewer opportunities for specialized consultants. Contractors and consultants should be able to solve bigger problems rather than working in narrow specialties.

Teams and companies should have fewer members, since fewer specialties are needed. So they will probably need more contractors to move things along when there is a lot of work to do.
by throwaway290 | 2025-08-02 11:56:46+00:00
> Zionists can't really be genocided

What I see in dictionary is "rational or national group". I guess Zionism does not fall under "national group". I still think the usage is still wrong, unless you can find an example where it is used that way.

In any case this thread justification of how it is okay to attack jews or israelis (or tell me it didn't happen if you have better information than me) for being jews after oct 7 and israeli government response is crazy. Like I'm Russian and I don't support Ukrainian war (by the way not the only shitty thing russian government does, see criminalization of LGBT people etc) so what now, should I be targeted and shouted at by people with signs because of something I can't change? Should I hide my rusianness? At a place I live and study at? Sure it's probably wrong/illegal to take away grants for this but if I was a student at a uni would that be a hostile environment? I kind of think so.

I would say free speech must have some standard in civilized community, but since someone said that hate speech is protected on public uni campuses in US then I can say nothing.

Again tell me if I am wrong and Jews were not personally attacked for being Jews after oct 7. I have a vague understanding of what happened.
by qwertox | 2025-08-02 11:57:20+00:00
With Amazon it's even worse, if you click on an US Amazon product link on an Android device:

My app is set to use Amazon in Germany. I click a link on a page and this opens the app. The app says it needs to switch to US. If I do that, I'm signed out of my German account and end up in an empty US account. I also think that I didn't even land on the product page afterwards. So I had to sign out of that US account and re-sign in into the German account to use the app normally.

So I basically just can't see the link unless I long-press and select open in new tab.
by meinersbur | 2025-08-02 12:00:12+00:00
GMail (and Fastmail) are rendering the email. It just happens that the email and we webbrowser are both HTML. In no case should they just literally forward the email HTML to the browser. They scrub JavaScript, non-whitelisted HTML elements, rewrite links/external resources including tracking pixels.

You can see the raw email with "show original" in the options
by mikepurvis | 2025-08-02 12:00:34+00:00
I’ve long been annoyed in the summer every time I turn on a heat generating appliance (stove, dryer, on-demand hot water) and then think about all the waste heat my air conditioner dumped out the side of the house in the last X hours. It would be amazing to somehow store that heat in a reservoir where it could be later used.

I doubt the extra piping and infrastructure is anywhere near worth it, but I sometimes fantasize about an experimental building that was designed from the get-go with a single integrated heat loop that all the major appliances were plugged into, and how that might look. Seems like the sort of thing that could be tried in a much more confined space such as for an off-grid RV.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-08-02 12:02:34+00:00
No, you misread that pretty significantly. They're only talking about splitting up the punitive damages.

Using the tesla numbers you'd get somewhere between 43 and 129 million dollars personally, plus a share of the 200 million. And your share of the 200 million would probably be a lot higher than someone merely defrauded. And the 200 million would probably get a lot bigger in a proper class action.

If you want numbers for your theoretical you'll have to specify how much was compensatory and how much was punitive.
by ben_w | 2025-08-02 12:02:49+00:00
I am confused why you see that as a riddle.

Group X does action A_x due to belief B_x. That B_x isn't logical or whatever doesn't matter. Members of group X generally don't know that group X is wrong, and instead think their own biases are common sense etc.

People are not perfectly rational spheres in a vacuum.

That you can substitute in a lot of different values for X, doesn't change any of this.