MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ModernMech | 2025-08-02 16:24:28+00:00
> Many US universities have required prospective employees to demonstrate their adherence to preferred ideological stances, during processes for hiring and promotion

That does not mean the Democrats control hiring decisions at universities. This would be like saying the Republican party controls CFO hiring decisions because corporations might filter for people who are fiscally conservative.

All organizations look for "culture fit" when making hiring decisions, and the culture of a university is one that is typically open and accepting of people from all walks of life. It's counterproductive to hire who think "empathy is a fundamental weakness" for example. They don't fit well with fostering a welcoming educational environment for young people, so typically we look for some degree of empathy in candidates, people who want to build community, foster individuals, and yes, who value diversity.

Notably, this filter is not very good at preventing conservatives from being hired and promoted and admitted to universities, because that happens every day.

> but also discriminated against some individual students due to their race.

This thread is about Democrats ostensibly controlling schools. That some schools were found by a court to racially discriminate in their admitting practices is unrelated, nor does not show affiliation to the Democratic party was used as a filter for hiring or admit decisions.

> a conservative white man filed a complaint against Cornell.

Well, no. From the link you provided:

I’m an evolutionary biologist, a liberal

Anyway, diversity statements were never about being a political litmus test. Diverse hiring pools are not a white filter. These are just something butthurt people say when they get an outcome they don't like. This seems more a case of a failed scientist being rejected for a tenure track role and blaming discrimination instead of his middling research agenda.
by sdsd | 2025-08-02 16:25:39+00:00
git diff your_argument my_response - monkeyFeelSmart(); + monkeyFeelSafe();

People feel hurt and lied to after decades of diligently studying a curriculum who's foundations turned out to be completely fake. Our mental garden must be protected from pests. Some pests even imitate benign bugs like ladybugs, in order to get in.

Imagine if tomorrow, it was announced that atoms and gravity don't exist, the motion of heavenly bodies don't even come close to Newton's laws, and physicists have just been lying so they can live off our tax dollars (but hey, we have a plan to one day start doing real physics experiments! Any day now, you'll see!).

I hope I'm not too dramatic, just felt defensive for some reason. If only there were a real science that could help me understand those feelings. Oh well, gotta keep the aphids out somehow.
by kevindamm | 2025-08-02 16:25:40+00:00
Except that the transform is relatively easy to reverse (compared to prime factorization) because of the properties of edge and corner pieces and limitations on piece movement that make a kind of spectral analysis possible. Things get a little better if you increase the size of the cube. Things get interesting if you allow un-solvable states (there's a 2:1 ratio of positions that are not naturally reachable) if you include in the protocol something like "always encode any corner rotations first" but it still wouldn't really be strong enough for modern compute.

If you mean to use it exclusively as a real-world key transmission like with Cryptonomicon's Solitaire decks, the problem becomes finding the shortest path or whatever the protocol determines is the normalized form.

Not to rain on your parade, it's a fun approach to think about, like maybe if the properties of a specific face determine which rotations to perform next, and which face to look at next, in addition to being the nonce for decoding the next letter. But even something like that would be too complicated to expect a person to remember all of while not being complicated enough to fluster a computational approach. The nice thing about Solitaire is that it's reasonable to perform the algorithm in your head.
by bigyabai | 2025-08-02 16:25:54+00:00
With this definition you might as well argue that bread is a lethal projectile that cannot be trusted in the hands of your neighbor. Gotta shut down the roads, and the borders, and the airspace, and the aid depots, and the trucks carrying aid, all because of weapons...? Some moving goalpost.

You are morally despicable if you cannot even acknowledge the issue with that. It has nothing to do with politics, you don't get to deflect the question because Israel's extremism makes you uncomfortable. We're gathered in this thread (with increasing frequency) because Israeli foreign policy leaves so much to be desired.

The parent is correct, regardless of how you or I wished it happened. Israel never pulled out, they crippled the Gaza strip because they wanted annexation more than peace.
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-08-02 16:26:17+00:00
> only 30%

That is a huge amount. I don’t blame immigration and foreign ownership as the only issues with Vancouver prices, but 30% of housing stock being owned just by Chinese population is massive. I knew several people who were Chinese nationals and owned a factory or large business in China and then bought a $4 million home in Vancouver. I don’t have any personal issues with these people and I befriend several, but I also realize that foreign capital from the richest residents outside of Canada were out competing locals.

Another thing to consider is that a large number of foreign nationals buying real estate in Vancouver come from countries that have strong capital controls (China, India) whereas Canada has basically no capital controls which results in a pretty onesided trade relationship.
by shkkmo | 2025-08-02 16:26:25+00:00
> That’s equivalent to saying that if you don’t have a motorcycle license, don’t register your bike, don’t have insurance, and don’t wear your helmet, your fatal accident risk increases by over 3x.

That's not really how statistics work. Since the reduction was probably calculated against the population average you need to know the relative size of the groups to calculate the risk increase for the inverse group. Additionaly, the group you specified is not the inverse group since you exclude those who have some, but not all, of the safety signals.

Your calculation would be accurate if almost nobody took all safety precautions (that would mean the average risk rate would be affected much by that group) and everbody else took no safety precautions.

What you have calculated is a rough lower bound for the risk increase given unknown population behavior ratios.

> nor does it actually tell you anything about the base rate safety

It doesn't by itself. What it tells you is given a base of rate of 3x more deadly per mile, those who follow all the rules are as likely to die as an average driver (which still isn't an fair comparison.) To be fair, you'd beed to compare agaisnt driver who have a license, registration, insurance and are wear a seatbelt. (Or maybe helmet..)
by pyuser583 | 2025-08-02 16:26:44+00:00
This is why state's have insurance commissions.

In the past, insurance companies (think: liability, fire, life, shipping) responded to a claim by hiring a lawyer and negotiating down. Like most contracts.

So states began creating insurance commissions, which serve as law firms that defend consumers from insurance companies. In practice, their existence forces insurance companies to pay what they are owed.

We need insurance commissions for health insurance. If there is a reason why the policy shouldn't pay (services received after policy expired, for example), the insurance commission has to sign off.

This is how normal insurance works. Health insurance, of course, is not normal insurance.
by Mawr | 2025-08-02 16:26:52+00:00
> don't even have to know the rules of the road

I'm not aware of any country where that is true, unless you're being pedantic and making a distinction between having to know the rules vs having to follow them. Every road user in every country I know of has to follow the rules of the road, no matter if they're a cyclist or a pedestrian or anyone else.

> Trouble is, during an incident between a cyclist and a car driver the sympathy vote is in the cyclist's favor.

What do you mean by "trouble"? This is perfectly logical. The cyclist presents precisely zero danger to the car driver, but the car presents deadly danger to the cyclist.

> It's a one-way street (as it's narrow) but recently the Council has made it two-way for cyclists

Yeah, all one-way streets should be like that. Streets are designated to be one-way for a reason. Either they're too narrow for two vehicles to pass each other safely or making them two way would increase traffic too much. None of this applies to bicycles.

> drivers (usually visitors) often mistakenly drive the wrong way down this street and it's been the situation for years (from street arrangements and local geography it seems the logical way to go, and the sineage is poor and hard to see)

Go ahead and complain about the poor signage then? What's this have to do with cyclists?

> From my perspective it's high time this nonsense stopped.

You haven't really provided any arguments here besides the rather incoherent example.

> The first thing would be license cyclists

Sigh. How many times are we going to have to listen to such poorly thought-out suggestions? Do you know just how many bicycles there are out there? Do you understand the risk a driver poses to others? Do you understand the risk a cyclist poses?
by kaivi | 2025-08-02 16:27:30+00:00
Not at all, I think the big part was just my unfamiliarity with insuretech plus the unexpected change in gpt-4 behavior.

I'm assuming here, but would you say that better critical thinking skills would have helped me avoid spending that Saturday with ChatGPT? It is often said that critical thinking is the antidote to religion, but I have a suspicion that there's a huge prerequisite which is general broad knowledge about the world.

A long ago, I once fell victim for a scam when I visited SE Asia for the first time. A pleasant man on the street introduced himself as a school teacher, showed me around, then put me in a tuktuk which showed me around some more before dropping me off in front of a tailor shop. Some more work inside of the shop, a complimentary bottle of water, and they had my $400 for a bespoke coat that I would never have bought otherwise. Definitely a teaching experience. This art is also how you'd prime an LLM to produce the output you want.

Surely, large amounts of other atheist nerds must fall for these types of scams every year, where a stereotypical christian might spit on the guy and shoo him away.

I'm not saying that being religious would not increase one's chances of being susceptible, I just think that any idea will ring "true" in your head if you have zero counterfactual priors against it or if you're primed to not retrieve them from memory. That last part is the essence of what critical thinking actually is, in my opinion, and it doesn't work if you lack the knowledge. Knowing that you don't know something is also a decent alternative to having the counter-facts when you're familiar with an adjacent domain.
by barrrrald | 2025-08-02 16:27:57+00:00
This post didn't age well – 3 weeks later Substack announced a $100m fundraise at $1.1b valuation. [1]

Ana's contention that Substack is "rickety" seems motivated by her conviction that they should adopt a more assertive, aggressive censorship regime, and that "we need a world where a social safety net protects risky writing".

There are certainly many interesting questions about the future of media and Substack's business – but the parade of people saying it can't succeed without more moderation keep being proven wrong.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/business/substack-fundrai...
by soulofmischief | 2025-08-02 16:28:05+00:00
The beers here are $5-12 per beer if you go out. All I did was describe factual information: my local minimum wage, how things to do that don't cost money and are accessible to the average youth here are becoming increasingly rare, how much it costs to drink vs. minimum wage. None of this is an argument, it's a fact.

And yes I know, people could and should be more frugal: I only even drink more than single cocktail at a time 0-3 times a year on average, so my personal financial frustrations lie elsewhere. I guess it's just important because we're comparing lifestyles from different points in history, and in the old days, going out drinking with your pals was a cheaper affair, and it still is the usual activity chosen for socializing where I live.
Show HN: F1 COSMOS – Live timing and data dashboard for F1 fans
by conradmk | 2025-08-02 16:28:28+00:00
Hey everyone! I'm a huge F1 fan and got tired of juggling multiple tabs and apps during race weekends, so I built F1 COSMOS.

What it does:

- Live timing: Real-time data updates in milliseconds - sector times, telemetry, team radio, you name it. No more refreshing pages or waiting for delayed updates.

- Replay feature: Missed qualifying or fell asleep during practice? You can replay the live timing from any past session. Pretty handy when you're in a bad timezone.

- Proper data visualization: I went beyond just showing lap times. There's race analysis with telemetry data, championship standings, technical updates, and a bunch of other stats that make watching races way more interesting. Oh, and the race calendar automatically adjusts to your timezone because I was sick of doing timezone math in my head.

- Multi-device setup: Here's the thing - I watch races on my TV but wanted data on my phone as a second screen. So I spent ages making the mobile experience smooth for exactly this use case. Desktop has customizable widgets if you're into that.

Technical stuff:

Built with modern web stack, focused heavily on real-time performance. The trickiest part was getting the data pipeline right for millisecond updates without everything falling apart.

Why I built this: Honestly, existing F1 apps either suck or cost money or both. I wanted something that just works and gives me all the data I actually care about in one place.

Been using it myself all season and figured others might find it useful. Currently supports English, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean (partially) - still working on expanding language support. Would love to hear what you think if you check it out during the next race weekend.
by gchamonlive | 2025-08-02 16:28:29+00:00
Even if you knew every FAANG in existence that would account for a very small fraction of the population. It might be true for this class, but you can't expect everyone to be a able to retire by 40.

Even if everybody could, they wouldn't because they are immersed in a culture that celebrated consumerism at every instance. You can't just turn a switch and now you live self-sustainably.
by bearl | 2025-08-02 16:28:30+00:00
Directionally correct. But not better in terms of security or privacy. Life expectancy has decreased for American born persons. Housing is now impossibly unaffordable, and to find a mate you need to use tech products that increasingly only serve to hurt users (tea) and sow discord between those either differing views (x/facebook). Yes, glorious times for some, but not for the average American born person.
by neom | 2025-08-02 16:28:56+00:00
I don't think it's bad or a big deal for people to look for wide connections in things, or at least to explore different ideas in life and trying to understand them deeper - Can it lead to problematic behaviour, sure, and I think for me at least that was introduced when the LLM started to try to convince ME my ideas were good, even though I was effectively just day dreaming with it. For me personally, I don't feel I need to look any more foolish than I feel, even now knowing how openai had the LLM temperature set, I'm surprised I didn't force myself to be more skeptical, I'm educated I have critical thinking skills (ish)- I should have turned it off sooner rather than driving deeper with it and I guess honestly, I just have too much ego or pride or whatever to show the foolishness: not a great answer.
by unaindz | 2025-08-02 16:29:02+00:00
I agree with you on the "Your story doesn't prove armor saved you?"

But your second argument about him being to blame for the accident... Like sure, you can always be more safe, more alert. But eventually you are gonna make a mistake no matter how much you try not to. And even if you do everything perfectly any number of unexpected things could happen.

"You only got to fuck up once. Be a little slow, be a little late. Just once. And how you ain’t gonna never be slow, never be late? You can’t plan for no shit like this, man. It’s life."
by os2warpman | 2025-08-02 16:29:13+00:00
Living alone is not living in isolation.

My three daughters are grown and have moved out and now I live alone in a four bedroom house.

Between work (in office mon-thurs, wfh fridays), my volunteer (fire department and watershed steward), fitness (yoga and lifting), and social club (amateur radio, astronomy, and makerspace) commitments, and my girlfriend (smart and beautiful)-- the 1-3 nights per week I get to come home and sit alone, in the dark, in my underwear, listening to the worst 90s techno ever produced at full volume are the only times I have to relax.

As an added bonus when you live alone you can accomplish many things that would be difficult and/or very costly with roommates. Very few people want to live in chaos for months as you methodically open up each wall in your 70-year-old house to run CAT6/HDMI/speaker wires in every room by working an hour or so during your precious few free nights and weekends.

(in my underwear, while listening to the worst 90s techno ever at full volume)
by panarky | 2025-08-02 16:29:21+00:00
Your link shows the free tier gets 100 Pro requests per day.

That matches my experience with a free account. With Gemini CLI it doesn't seem to matter if I log in with a Google Account or use an API key from AI Studio with billing disabled.

Yesterday I had two coding sessions in Gemini CLI with a total of 73 requests to Pro with no rate limiting.

https://imgur.com/a/Ki6g1qc

I can't explain why you're seeing something else, but my experience has been pretty consistent.

Maybe your usage pattern is different from mine and you're getting hit by the 5 RPM limit??
by Swizec | 2025-08-02 16:29:34+00:00
Yeah totally. Eating less than you feel like is hard and GLP is great for that.

I was fat as a kid and then lost it all in high school (and got too skinny). Maybe as a result of that it’s easy for me to not eat. I kinda don’t even realize I’m hungry. Had to start tracking calories to ensure I eat enough.
by mattlutze | 2025-08-02 16:29:52+00:00
Web 2.0/the Social Web vacuumed the novelty and Unique Selling Proposition out of our physical 3rd spaces, leading to their decline, and to the decline of related activities like the serendipitous chance of running into friends and meeting someone new.

The social web in a lot of ways led to our isolation and the amplification of the loneliness epidemic.

Now, these Web 2.0 / Social Web companies are the leaders in building the AI that may artificially treat the epidemic they created.

There's something quite cynically sad about that, and I would love it if we'd move away from these services and back into the "real world."
by dathinab | 2025-08-02 16:30:26+00:00
people stuck with sub-par tooling

(weather that's because of laziness, better tooling not being available/integrated, not know, not being usable or them being stuck on a ideological delusion where they insist on not using it doesn't really matter)

like sub-par tooling is one of the 2 main reason of when it comes to problems with config or data serialization format (bugs, strange edge cases, etc.)

the other is people obsessing with handling things the exact same way, which might looking similar from far away but have major different details/constraints/dynamics when you look closely at them. (like config parsing vs. data deserialization vs. ad-hoc languages on top of a config format)
by patrakov | 2025-08-02 16:30:27+00:00
> If it's a choice between filtering out people who freeze up at interviews, or letting in scammers who have no ability whatsoever, I'm afraid the first is still the best option.

So far, my opinion is: you still can weed out scammers by running your questions against an LLM in advance. There are still easy questions (not even involving coding, just reasoning about the problem and identifying edge cases) where LLMs fail spectacularly.
by ajkjk | 2025-08-02 16:30:36+00:00
Well that's what they say, but it seems like there should already be enough competition for people to cause less garbage to be built, and it's not working, they just build it anyway.

My town has a bunch of half empty new buildings that are keeping their prices high instead of competing on price (they're also garbage construction, so they didn't compete on quality either). Apparently it makes more financial sense to the owner to keep empty units instead of competing because of the value of snagging a few tenants at higher rents or something.
by mindslight | 2025-08-02 16:30:48+00:00
Licensing as "open source" wouldn't be illegal, but the act of exporting would be. I've certainly seen libre software downloads that have click-throughs where you attest you're not in certain prohibited countries, IP blocks (eg Github does this site-wide AFAIK), etc. No idea if this will continue to be "enough" under this new fascist regime that doesn't care much for institutions like the rule of law. Probably fine up until it isn't, at which point ceasing and desisting would probably be enough unless you're deemed "woke" or some other kind of unperson.

(I'm not a member of any guilds. And I guess the downvote is for the political incorrectness. Plus ça change)
by kkfx | 2025-08-02 16:30:56+00:00
The world is changing, yes, once upon a time, most innovation happened in person, because with the technology of the time, it was necessary to be there in person. But today's technology has made being there in person superfluous and inefficient. This means that some will continue remotely and they will be the ones who overtake those who have stuck to the old model.

The Bronze Age was characterised by bronze, which allowed for many advancements. But then we discovered iron, and those who chose it first massacred those who had remained with bronze. Bronze was no longer what had allowed for evolution; it had been surpassed.

This is my feeling and my point. These changes are obviously not that rapid; culture changes across generations, but they will happen, and those who are left bolted behind will not have the long and slow experimentation and refinement that allowed to master the new, and so they will simply be crushed. Software developed around the world matters little; quality software is so rare that only by working globally can we still create it. No single company, not even a single whole population, can truly do it on scale.