MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by beedeebeedee | 2025-08-13 23:23:47+00:00
I've been beaten, pistol-whipped by a group and had to go to the hospital, had a kid try to knock me out from behind (remember the knock out craze fifteen years ago?), seen people beaten and shot, and had the cops draw their guns on me and threaten to blow my head off on more than one occasion in New Haven (and if you're curious, I'm not a criminal, but was just an adventurous kid who tried to defy the segregation in the city).

As someone like you who has also been the victim of violent crime, I definitely do not want the military patroling any city. I hate violent crime, but that is not the way to solve it, period. It takes community policing and the slow process of raising people out of poverty, desperation and hopelessness, by undoing the damage that has been done to them through decades of economic oppression.
by NBJack | 2025-08-13 23:24:01+00:00
Citation needed; that Garmin watch cited claims about 30 hours of life unless the screen is mostly off and you severely hamper the features (i.e. "smartwatch mode"). I wont doubt you can get it to last weeks like that.

These devices are able to always show the display, don't need to turn off features, can still show notifications, etc.
by CyberDildonics | 2025-08-13 23:24:12+00:00
By this twisted logic, you think dependencies should be more problematic and have dependencies of their own so they are as painful as possible so people don't add them? That's your scenario now and you have lots of dependencies.

Any dependency needs to be considered, there is no way around that. There is no reason to make it more painful just to make a programmer's life more difficult and single file libraries, especially those that have no dependencies themselves are the best case scenario.
by MisterMower | 2025-08-13 23:24:16+00:00
Government bankrolls innovation? What are you talking about? This has never been true and isn’t true currently.

At best all government can do is get out of the way so that private actors can solve problems and innovate. At worst it strangles innovators through higher taxes and more stringent regulation.

Look at the light bulb, locomotive engine, airplane, etc. Government involvement in major innovations is almost always peripheral.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-08-13 23:24:17+00:00
The article describes this:

Patients seeking solutions often experience frustration and desperation. They visit neurologists, anesthesiologists, pain-management specialists, alternative healers, and online chat groups, trying to find explanations and relief.

Given the base-rate, surely some doctors must also experience these maladies themselves. How do they resolve the apparent contradiction of presumably their own frustration and desperation as a patient and while also being in some way the creator of it as a doctor?
by analog31 | 2025-08-13 23:24:31+00:00
>>> A beginner would use them, trusting they are infinitely capable and precise, which can lead to problems. An intermediate programmer knows that they have some limitations, and so by using some good practices the problems can be avoided.

Amusingly, pocket calculators became affordable while I was in high school, and anybody who was interested in math learned the foibles of floating point almost instantly. Now it's an advanced topic. A difference may have been that our calculators had very few significant digits, so the errors introduced by successive calculations became noticeable more quickly. Also, you had to think about what you were doing because, even if you trusted the calculator, you didn't trust your fingers.
by kelnos | 2025-08-13 23:24:34+00:00
I'm sure this won't change your situation, but the SFUSD lottery system has changed significantly since you were a kid, with the most recent big change being in 2010. Since then, 80% of families end up getting one of their top three school choices (all of which can be near home). Not a guarantee, but not bad either.

There's a new system that they've been working on since 2020, but implementation keeps getting delayed. The new system is zone-based, so instead of choosing from any of the district's schools, each family gets to choose from a smaller set in a geographic region near their home. That should in theory make it so pretty much every kid gets to go to school fairly close to home.

The racial integration goals of the original lottery system were well-meaning, but IMO frankly disastrous in its outcomes for many families, like yours.

I don't have kids, but several of my friends do. Some have moved out of the city once their kids have reached school age, but others have made it work. Unfortunately I expect they've had to spend a decent amount of money to make it work, though, more than they would've if they'd moved out of the city like many others do. And most (all?) of my friends with kids who have kept them in SFUSD (rather than going private) have moved out to the Sunset; the schools on the eastern side of the city still rank much lower from a student performance perspective.

If I do have kids, I would love to raise them in SF, and would very much prefer they get a public-school education, as I did (NJ/MD; I'm an east-coast transplant). But I definitely see that this can be challenging, to put it mildly.

> We're at the edge of Land Park in Sacramento

Hope you're keeping cool during the heat wave! I just drove through Sac on my way back to SF from Truckee this weekend, and my eyes widened when I saw my car reporting the outside temp at 108F. Looks like it's "only" 87F there now, but still!
by dh2022 | 2025-08-13 23:24:49+00:00
Owners of US treasuries are: Japanese government, a whole bunch of rich Arab Middle East governments, Social Security, Federal reserve, and the Chinese government. With the exception of the last one, the other holders are political captives.

Incidentally, Chinese government stopped buying US Treasury instruments 2015.

All these to say that arguments that depend on freedom of choice ( like this is a free market, or for every seller is a buyer, or US treasury holders want this and that) do not apply to this situation. Which makes this situation so hard to predict.
by xg15 | 2025-08-13 23:25:51+00:00
The paradox of tolerance isn't wrong, but it's also invoked awfully quickly in the last years, often by people who weren't tolerant to begin with.

I'd at least like to know who defines who is a "Pluralist" and who is a "Terrorist".

Also: The paradox of tolerance can legitimately be used to call intolerant behaviors of individuals. When you use it to define entire population groups as "intolerant", and therefore not worth of protection, you have joined the side that you ostensibly want to fight against.
by _zoltan_ | 2025-08-13 23:25:52+00:00
either I'm misinformed in which case is like to see proof, or you are, but GB200 is not Gen6, just Gen5 and this will only be rectified with GB300 which, while exists in the wild, is not in the millions.

so indeed the parent commenter would be correct that everything is Gen5 right now.
by varenc | 2025-08-13 23:26:35+00:00
> the US already has "facial recognition vans" on the road in the form of Waymos that will provide video to police upon request.

These seem meaningfully different than UK's facial recognition vans. The government has to request the footage from Waymo for a specific place/time. I don't think they can put in requests like "analyze all Waymo video data for this particular face and tell me where they were and when". It's much narrower in scope.
by orionsbelt | 2025-08-13 23:26:35+00:00
Doesn't that just mean the Common was underwater and worthless? It’s another way of saying they are due $0.

Edited to Add:

Yeah, the above seems right. This seems like standard fare. See the below FAQ from https://philzcoffee.com/stakeholderfaqs:

How many employees who invested in your company lost their money and/or stock options as a result of this transaction?

A total of 10 former employees who chose to invest in Philz Coffee by buying common stock years ago at much higher prices than the current price of the shares will unfortunately lose the value of that stock. There are no other Philz Coffee common stockholders or broader group of Philz common stockholders who were affected by the transaction and no current employees are Philz common stockholders who were affected by the transaction. Additionally, out of our approximately 1,500 current employees, 47 were granted stock options (the right to buy stock at a certain price in the future) in 2022 and earlier that are not exercisable based on the current price of the shares. Unfortunately, those options will expire per their original terms, but since the employees did not buy stock, they did not lose any money.
by mindcrime | 2025-08-13 23:27:21+00:00
An interesting historical connection... A particular implementation of SLIP[1] (MAD-SLIP) is the language that ELIZA[2] was originally written in. Who knew that the GNU folks had developed a (somewhat) modern SLIP implementation in C++? Pretty rad, IMO.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLIP_(programming_language)

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
by zaptheimpaler | 2025-08-13 23:27:22+00:00
This is the key question IMO, and one good answer is in this recent video about a case of ChatGPT helping someone poison themselves [1].

A trained therapist will probably not tell a patient to take “a small hit of meth to get through this week”. A doctor may be unhelpful or wrong, but they will not instruct you to replace salt with NaBr and poison yourself. "third as well as as therapist" might be true on average, but the suitability of this thing cannot be reduced to averages. Trained humans don't make insane mistakes like that and they know when they are out of their depth and need to consult someone else.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNeVw1FZrSQ
by freehorse | 2025-08-13 23:27:57+00:00
I just asked claude this question [0] (only the first paragraph) and its answer started with "this is a fascinating question" (the reasoning) and "this is an interesting statistical concept!" (non-reasoning). It continued with saying this technique is known as "sorted regression" and is used in "optimal transport theory", and overall it was not clear in that this should not be used as an actual regression.

I tried also several SOTA(ish) models and claude's answer was definetely the worst (most sycophantic/bullshitty, and used too much non-sense jargon). Even llama maverick's answer was way better.

It surprises me because I would expect, as stackexchange sites are in the training data, this question to be pretty much answered based on the actual answers there. It could also be that they try to overcorrect for some negativity sometimes there (imagine if the model answered to you that they will not answer your question because it has been already answered before, or because it is not a good question).

I think I stop using claude after this for asking questions.

[0] https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/185507/what-happen...
by muzani | 2025-08-13 23:28:00+00:00
This is the best guide I've seen on AI augmented coding: https://www.sabrina.dev/p/ultimate-ai-coding-guide-claude-co...

It's not quite "vibe" coding as you lose a little speed, but it's what I find most useful.

Don't go too deep into courses. The facts on the ground changes every month. Don't try to keep up with the hype.

Go out and build things with it. You'll hit a bottleneck. You'll understand how the new tools fix that bottleneck. GPT-5 is absolutely amazing for a number of reasons, but not to the people who rely on the strawberrry benchmark. The AI influencers are also making their money from being contrarian. If you're building things, you'll see through the smoke and mirrors.

I've tried most of the major UI/UX tools now, even dug deep into reddit. Most are slop. You'll get generic UIs, rounded buttons, material designed. Half will have a navigation drawer and bottom bar on the same screen. I doubt the design problem will be solved anytime soon.

The main issue is AI does what is most popular. So it'll fall to the average. Architectures are often dated. The purpose of UI is to stand out. But these UI tools are being designed by mediocre designers and create UI that looks like everyone else's. There's not even some randomization most of the time, so you end up with purple drop shadows everywhere.

For this, learn the foundations. How to design to sell. What is typography (not kerning etc, but words as pictures and emotion). AI knows all these concepts, but won't do it unless you tell it to.
by socalgal2 | 2025-08-13 23:28:32+00:00
You might be right. Maybe it's solely cultural inertia and the fact that there are tons of izakaya that can take a group from 2 to 24 and up, whereas there aren't many places to play boardgames. You can offer someone's house but that's usually less convenient geographically in my experience.

Someone's house might not be clean, they have to plan ahead. Someone's house might not have snacks. They either have to get some or else do potluck but potluck requires everyone to plan ahead. Someone's house likely doesn't have as much variety so people have to settle for what's available. Someone's house doesn't have a waiter and cooking staff so people can be stuck in the kitchen. I guess you can order doordash/pizza to solve some of that. Though if you want something else it's not going to arrive in 3-5 mins like an izakaya. It will be 20-40mins. Someone's house might not seat as many people (regularly had 25-30 people show up). Someone's house you might need to keep quiet (like an apartment). Someone's house might have pets (so people with pet allergies can't come).

Yea, I know you didn't say "someone's house" but I don't know where else I could break out a deck of cards. Most restaurants/bars won't allow it AFAIK so that's what made me think of people's homes.
by danenania | 2025-08-13 23:28:51+00:00
While I agree it’s very reasonable to ban marketing of AI as a replacement for a human therapist, I feel like there could still be space for innovation in terms of AI acting as an always-available supplement to the human therapist. If the therapist is reviewing the chats and configuring the system prompt, perhaps it could be beneficial.

It might also be a terrible idea, but we won’t find out if we make it illegal to try new things in a safe/supervised way. Not to say that what I just described would be illegal under this law; I’m not sure whether it would be. I’d expect it will discourage any Illinois-licensed therapists from trying out this kind of idea though.
by gnabgib | 2025-08-13 23:31:14+00:00
Well there's this Philz Coffee close to closing deal to sell to private equity firm for $145M (62 points, 12 days ago, 80 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44760902

And subsequent: Philz Coffee sold to private equity firm Freeman Spogli for $145M
by swat535 | 2025-08-13 23:31:50+00:00
Yea I see the Apple Watch an extension of iPhone. It's an accessory that integrates with the ecosystem and offers conveniences. I see it as a different product with different use cases that other competing watches.

For most people, the batter is enough for the day of an average use and they charge it at night with their phones.

I don't know about the Apple Watch Ultra 2 however and how it compares.
by Melonai | 2025-08-13 23:31:51+00:00
Well, XMR is sadly "problematic" now, because the usual flock of EU politicians panicked about not being able to track those transactions as nicely as they can with Bitcoin, Ether & Co.

Since then it's not quite easy to acquire anything through Monero, nor to obtain any XMR, here. Which is such a shame considering it was by far my favorite crypto. :( It's also, interestingly, a coin that seems to mostly resist the constant hunt for investment opportunities that befell most other "coins", hindering the ability to actually use them for normal human transactions.

The Solana chain and SOL also seem to do an okay-ish job at being more like a "currency" you actually buy stuff with, but not too many things accept it. But by technical standards and my preferences nothing well-known even comes close to Monero.
by waynesonfire | 2025-08-13 23:32:10+00:00
You're ignorant. Why wait until a person is so broken they need clinical therapy? Sometimes just a an ear or an oppertunity to write is sufficient. LLMs for therapy is as vaping is to quitting nicotine--extremely helpful to 80+% of people. Confession in the church setting I'd consider similar to talking to LLM. Are you anti-that too? We're talking about people that just need a tool to help them process what is going on in their life at some basic level, not more than just to acknowledge their experience.

And frankly, it's not even clear to me that a human therapist is any better. Yeah, maybe the guard-rails are in place but I'm not convinced that if those are crossed it'd result in some sociately consequences. Let people explorer their mind and experience--at the end of the day, I suspect they'd be healthier for it.
by wkat4242 | 2025-08-13 23:32:14+00:00
> Tell me, if this is a genocide, what has happened to all the Jews in Jordan, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Afghanistan since 1950?

Maybe they were genocides too. I don't know enough about them. The holocaust certainly was a genocide. Yes.

But one genocide doesn't justify another. That's the thing.

Even what Hamas did (terrible as it was) doesn't justify all the dead civilians, withholding food, shooting at food pickup points etc.
by aspenmayer | 2025-08-13 23:32:19+00:00
I think that link is the same pre-print for the same paper that someone posted in the other thread, but it seems to redirect/resolve to this, possibly because their system doesn’t let you hotlink to the download if I had to guess:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5070304

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44886813

Thank you for posting it here.
by JonChesterfield | 2025-08-13 23:32:21+00:00
I've been dealing with python vs debian for the last three hours and am deeply angry with the ecosystem. Solved it is not.

Debian decided you should use venv for everything. But when packages are installed in a venv, random cmake nonsense does not find them. There are apt-get level packages, some things find those, others do not. Names are not consistent. There's a thing called pipx which my console recommended for much the same experience. Also the vestiges of 2 vs 3 are still kicking around in the forms of refusing to find a package based on the number being present or absent.

Whatever c++headerparser might be, I'm left very sure that hacking python out of the build tree and leaving it on the trash heap of history is the proper thing to do.
by m463 | 2025-08-13 23:32:29+00:00
I have friends who have done stuff like this for fun.

Not for the money.

For example, one roommate of mine had a good day job, but would work thursday nights as a waiter at a high-end restaurant. He enjoyed talking to people. He also enjoyed convincing people to try higher priced treats.

I almost did the same thing with bartending when I was young. A bartender I knew talked me out of it, saying there was a dark side with lots of habitual alcoholics and more.
by _zoltan_ | 2025-08-13 23:32:43+00:00
into a Gen6 Bianca board (baseboard for GB300). that's it today.

how you use those today is twofold:

- Gen5 x32 via two x16 slots (this is how most people use them)

- use actually the CX8 as your PCIe switch directly to your GPUs: https://www.servethehome.com/this-is-the-nvidia-mgx-pcie-swi...
by GabeIsko | 2025-08-13 23:33:34+00:00
Not working with datasets. Binary files aren't that large, and these tools are generally bad for my use case - because I am not concerned about datasets.

I need to track changes in binary files of very reasonable size. Total repo size is <1GB. But even at these small memory requirements it makes much more sense to self host with LFS. I have written this up too many times on the internet to go into great detail about how LFS isn't perfect and how I wish there was something better, but in practice it has worked extremely well for tracking a small amount of binary files. Kudos to the devs.
by martin-t | 2025-08-13 23:33:57+00:00
> You don't even know what we're discussing

Stop insulting me.

> I quoted in my op comment.

I considered you meant this but dismissed it because what you said clearly does not follow from it. A recipe takes experimentation - human time and experience. Sure it's often based on other's recipes but those people often gave it to you willingly and it's not like the author is making money from it. OTOH if you collect recipes from other people and make money from publishing them, then those people _do_ deserve most of the money you make. Obviously this gets hard to implement truly fairly, especially if you go multiple steps deep.

> Which ... It ... It ... as evidenced by your glib and punchy response > your language becomes even more provacative > Now tell me how you _really_ feel about the commons. > I've said very little about you

Really?

> I'm not provoked by your "no you..." defense.

Both points were genuine - I don't understand how my view is inconsistent and I clearly demonstrated how yours is. Seeing as we're both arguing about the same thing and have differing views, it's the natural state that at least one of us (possibly both) has an inconsistent view, isn't it? It literally has to be a case of, as you called it "no you".

> You are after all arguing about ramen, concretely

OK, I'll consider this mocking and if I don't get a reasonable reply to my previous points, I don't see any point in continuing.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-08-13 23:34:53+00:00
> Yes, but ultimately trademarks are a consumer protection, and what matters in granting a trademark is protecting consumers from harm.

Yes, protecting consumers. And people are equally consumers of something whether they pay $1 or $0.

> but if there's a case that they need this trademark to protect consumers from harm, then that's your winning argument.

Other than the normal argument for trademark and the evidence of use they had? If you have to show a specific argument for harm, that's way too high of a bar.

> If you really are not doing commerce, trademarks are irrelevant. You can't get one, and you don't need one.

Define "commerce" here.

If we count competing in the market but your product happens to be $0 as commerce, then sure I can agree but this project passes the test.

If a price of $0 disqualifies you from "commerce" then no way, trademarks are not irrelevant and you do still need one. Consumers need to be able to find your product and avoid imitators.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-08-13 23:34:55+00:00
>Wow did you encapsulate millenia of management-labor disputes by saying don't worry be happy?

Nope, sorry to disappoint.

That would be quite an accomplishment though, but I can't take credit for any progress in that direction no matter how far others have gone :)

Not trying to hurt any feelings.

I probably should have kept it simple and not included the sample of vastly pre-AI lyrics from Fahl.

Just trying to emphasize that the fear of AI getting better, is very similar to the fear of it not getting better.

Like a number of other unrelated things. Which are nothing new at all.

I guess more often I've got to expect the unexpected with such a short comment, when I don't even try to explain very effectively, that some are going to read between the lines in some of the most unrelated ways I can not always anticipate.

If I may ask, what made you such a fan of totalitarianism anyway, I know it's more popular than ever but is that all there is?
by atomicstack | 2025-08-13 23:35:42+00:00
I got lucky and picked up a second hand HP-7475A for $50 about five years ago. It's the GPIB version, not native RS-232, so I also had to find a way to connect it to a modern PC. Ended up going with a GPIB<->USB adapter from AliExpress (about 10x cheaper than one from Prologix) to plug it into an RPi, which I can use to send HPGL files to get plotted.

Also got a friend to hack away a chunk of the plastic casing with a circular saw so I could use pen adapters for modern Sharpie and Stabilo markers, which are much easier and cheaper to acquire than old format plotter pens.