MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by OneMorePerson | 2025-08-13 18:51:06+00:00
This is not a direct response to this article, but related to the topic of not drinking. I'm usually a follower of the latest data and such but I am highly skeptical of all the recent news about how drinking isn't safe in any quantity.

The latest data can be wrong. No different than how there was a period of time where UV light was considered this evil to avoid, and now we know it's actually pretty critical to get sunlight in moderation (and completely avoiding UV causes its own issues). This seems to be a problem with US health science where they will find something bad like partially hydrogenated fats (a terrible man made substance), and then go on to claim "fats are bad" (this is back in the 90s ish). The health system just ignored the long history of diets that were relatively high in fats (actual good natural fats), and tried to use "data". Ultimately data is only as good as our ability to measure, which is limited with something like the human body. That overcorrection has since come back to a more reasonable middle point but still has some issues.

It's undisputed that drinking a lot of alcohol is bad for you, but I don't see clear data for the grey area. If I fed a rat a whole bunch of vinegar day after day in large quantities it would get health problems, yet drinking a bit of apple cider vinegar, salt and vinegar chips, etc. are all fine, likely beneficial (pickled vegetables are good for you).

I'm not saying that there's any proof that alcohol is beneficial yet, but the lack of clear data for that grey area of risk is interesting. In Japan for example it's believed that drinking sake in moderate quantities has health benefits.

I guess going back to the sunlight analogy, it's hard to believe that a substance that has been around as long as alcohol has could be so toxic that occasional consumption has any meaningful negative effect.
by FreakLegion | 2025-08-13 18:51:19+00:00
It's the opposite of the point you want to make. This is obvious if you simplify the example to something like flipping a biased coin. If the coin will come up heads 50-eps% of the time, and tails 50+eps% of the time, then the correct prediction is tails. Tails will often be the wrong prediction, but is still the correct prediction to make.

The outcome of this one event simply doesn't imply anything about the correctness of AlotOfReading's model. The model might actually be mistaken, but that's not an argument you've made.
by 9rx | 2025-08-13 18:51:28+00:00
> No the city does not choose to subsidize the suburbs.

Cities do often subsidize suburbs by their own choice. Absent in this thread is exactly what subsidies are being discussed, of course. But either way, moving away from the city still removes one from the situation. It was made abundantly clear that it was the city offering the subsidy. Don't like the city, don't be there. Simple as that.

> doesn't mean that there are not real problems.

"If the subsidy isn't working, he won't be alone in wanting change. No doubt the community is simply waiting for someone to stand up and resolve the matter. Things don't get fixed by way of magic."

If all of this is to say that the value you find in the subsidy is simply that it allows you to be lazy — to not have to do anything about it — that can certainly still be valuable. We're not here to judge what one finds valuable.

But what is clear is that there is some kind of value that is recognized, but withheld from the reader. "I don't want to subsidize X" is a stupid statement without also "and I am willing to give up A, B, and C" for it to go. There isn't a person on earth who wants to give something in a vacuum.
by sigbottle | 2025-08-13 18:51:35+00:00
I think it's more like, you have a thought X, that has so many dimensions to it, but the way you serialize it to something that's actually discussable and comparable to other thoughts is language. And sometimes that language naturally loves slicing one part of that thought one way or the other.

(then there's also a feedback loop type of argument, that always happens when discussing any sort of perception-reality distinction, but let's ignore that for now)

At least for me, my brain is so bad and it's hard for me to truly hold a single thought in my head for a long time. Maybe it eventually settles into my subconscious but I don't really have a way to verify that.
by maxglute | 2025-08-13 18:51:42+00:00
1. UN/ITU regulates orbit slots/shells (really frequency assignments that effectively limits orbit slots), high decay V/LEO, as in ~500km was basically exhausted by starlink. Big reason PRC announced multiple 10-20k mega constellations a few years ago (without reusable for to put-up payload) was to sign up for next closes shell which is 500+. At those distances orbit decay is decades/centuries. So regulatorily, the fast decay orbit slots are legally mostly gone.

2. All mega constellations including starlink has layers from 500-1500km. Every 100km is like 0.3ms latency but trade off is cheaper station (longer life time) keeping and wider coverage per satellite, but cost more to get there.

Related to 1&2 is this is byproduct of UN/ITU regulations... they can open up more <500km slots, increase congestion, confliction and chance of recoverable Kessler... but that would mean SpaceX (read US military) would... have to share strategic orbits with PRC and whoever comes next.

E: extrapolate to future of cheap space launch, if multiple blocs or even countries want their own mega constellations, and no changes to regulations, then they would have to start occupying higher orbit shells (assuming they follow ITU). Also geometrically, the shell lowest/closest to earth has the least volume / capacity.
by Reubachi | 2025-08-13 18:51:43+00:00
Er, you're going to file multiple small claims in the US against (suspected) firms outside the US?

Be prepared to be disappointed. There is 0 evidence/elements of damage in the eyes of the archaic courts in this case, as you have no evidence of being damaged. You may be annoyed, but you're not at psychical or monetary risk due to the actions of another.

I disagree^ with the above, we live in the future where comm-spam is an inherent risk. However, I lost a small claims case where documented over 5 years Mazda put the wrong oil in my car. I found out after pouring through paperwork and seeing the line items/overcharging (22 instances of this.)

Judge dismissed it due to no "damage." 3rd cylinder died a week later.
by parsimo2010 | 2025-08-13 18:53:00+00:00
Most communications satellites (which is all Starlink really is) are heavily focused on their operating bands and any specific bands they are told not to interfere with so they can get launch approval. There's no benefit to doing anything extra. And not only do they have to be told which specific bands they can't interfere with, the government actually has to require delivery of test results or else that is the same as giving permission to interfere.

Most companies won't spend a penny, take a second of time, or add a gram to a satellite if it doesn't affect their mission or chance of approval. Especially not one as cost-optimized as SpaceX. They won't change a thing unless the US government forces them to do so, or if they think that a government order is imminent so they come to some voluntary agreement ahead of time to avoid what would probably be a more constraining official regulation in the future.

The actual issue is probably caused by switch-mode power supplies or some digital signal on the satellite that isn't fully shielded, possibly one that does digital control of a motor or thruster. It probably isn't the communication radios since they operate at a much higher frequency. You can fix the issue by adding filtering and/or shielding, but that takes extra components (meaning extra cost and weight) and requires testing (meaning time). Plus you have to identify the offending system, which means you have to start with testing and detective work. This interference was only detected on some Starlink satellites, so you have to do detective work to find out if it is a particular operating mode or generation of satellite that is offending, do testing to confirm it, and then work on a fix.
by neogodless | 2025-08-13 18:53:23+00:00
Agree with sibling comments, but I think it's a bad choice of comparison.

I'm a Garmin Venu fan, but... apparently it was a $350 watch[0], and now there's a $450 version[1] and an $800 version[2]. There's still an older one[3] available for $250 (or ~$185 on Amazon). Though I got my original Venu "refurbished" for under $100 (and it still had all the plastic wrap, etc. so was truly "like new.")

10-11 day battery when new (mine gets 6-7 days after several years of use, but I have never used always-on-display.)

If I can get a Venu 2/2S/2S Plus/3/3S as a refurbished watch for ~$200-250, then I would go that route over an inexpensive Pebble 2 Time. Love that OLED screen. But I totally get the hacker ethos favoring the Pebble OS over Garmin. (Garmin does have a pretty good watch OS, and most things work without a subscription, which was a major factor in my purchase.) For $450 (or more...) it is not comparable to Pebble's offering.

[0] https://www.techradar.com/reviews/garmin-venu

[1] https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/873008/

[2] https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/1510465/

[3] https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/801643/pn/010-02701-00/
by hcdx6 | 2025-08-13 18:53:40+00:00
Are you thinking over every character you type? You are conditioned too by all the info flowing into your head from birth. Does that gauruntee everything your brain says and does is perfect?

People believed in non existent WMDs and tens of thousands got killed. After that what happened ? Chimps with 3 inch brains feel super confident to run orgs and make decisions that effect entire populations and are never held accountable. Ask Snowden what happened after he recognized that.
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by iczero | 2025-08-13 18:54:08+00:00
I regularly enable YouTube subtitles. Almost always, they are a 100% verbatim transcription, excluding errors from auto-transcription. I am not annoyed in the slightest, and in fact I very much prefer that they are verbatim.

If you are too slow at reading subtitles, you can either slow down the video or train yourself to read faster. Or you can just disable the subtitles.
by const_cast | 2025-08-13 18:54:13+00:00
They're not cheaper, that's an illusion and lie sold by the automobile and petroleum industries.

The interstates in the US alone have costed more than 25 trillion dollars. That's just the interstates, no other highways or roads.

But none of that even considers cost of using said roads. In the US, on average 15% of gross income is spent on automobile transportation.

That's a 15% tax right off the top, before your other taxes.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-08-13 18:54:18+00:00
I think he's the only person on the planet who's doing something about the abuses of the brazilian supreme court. I will forever be grateful to him for it.

The reasons why he's doing it are irrelevant. Maybe he actually likes Bolsonaro that much and wants to save him from the same "lawfare" he suffered. Maybe he wants to leverage the situation into economic advantage by covertly advancing the interests of american corporations. Maybe both. Maybe something else entirely that's escaped my vision. It doesn't matter because things are just too fucked up to care about anything other than the defeat of the judge-kings.
by nukifw | 2025-08-13 18:54:33+00:00
Yes, the trick is expanded here: https://libres.uncg.edu/ir/asu/f/Johann_Patricia_2008_Founda... (if you have `Eq a b = Refl : a a eq` you should be able to encode every useful GADTs. But having a compiler support is nice for specifics reason like being able to "try" to detect unreachable cases in match branches for examples.
by philwelch | 2025-08-13 18:54:36+00:00
> a distinct and repeatable pathology, which is how basically every other disease in clinical medicine is defined

Even if you want to split hairs and say that it should be classified as a “syndrome” instead of a “disease”, it doesn’t make a difference because someone suffering from a syndrome with an unknown pathology is still unhealthy. This isn’t a useful definition because there are many diseases we don’t understand the pathology of, such as virtually all mental illnesses. Furthermore, this definition doesn’t apply to obesity at all because we do know what causes obesity: calorie surplus. The usual counterargument to this is “we don’t know why people overeat” but that’s sophistry because you can always keep asking “why” longer than you can come up with answers. Alcoholism doesn’t stop being a disease just because we don’t know why some people compulsively drink to excess and others don’t, and a guy who drinks a bottle of whiskey every day is not healthy even if he is yet to develop cirrhosis of the liver.

> it was done by a vote of the American Medical Association at its convention, over the objections of its own expert committee convened to study the issue

Yeah, it’s a lot easier for deranged ideologies like HAES to influence a single committee than the entire AMA. This kind of thing is a constant issue and is why I don’t just take institutions and “experts” at their word anymore when they make nonsensical pronouncements.
by kube-system | 2025-08-13 18:54:36+00:00
> the author's statement about companies paying based on value wasn't attempting to make a logical assertion, it was a lament about ethics.

The ethics is also not that simple either. Paying an equal nominal number of dollars to employees on opposite sides of the planet is not necessarily fair and equal in other ways. Those employees may have different benefits, legal rights, legal and tax obligations, and a different standard of life that they can purchase with that nominal amount of dollars.
by qcnguy | 2025-08-13 18:55:07+00:00
But they aren't the authority on whether things actually work or not. Reality is.

It's very common for developers to want to toss everything out and rewrite even to the detriment of the product, business or users. It's also very common for the rewrite to go wrong and end up worse than an incremental improvement path would have been. It's so common it's got a name: Second System Syndrome.

Is Wayland the result of SSS? I don't use it, but it sounds like maybe it is. If it is then "the X developers said it's cool" isn't a very compelling answer. In commercial organizations developers are routinely blocked from doing pointless rewrites or gigantic refactors because a certain type of developer will happily screw everything up chasing utopian dreams of a tech debt free platform whilst the userbase rots on the vine. And very often, there were better and less disruptive ways to get to the desired destination.
by ChromaticPanic | 2025-08-13 18:55:37+00:00
You must have also believed Russia was just training when it massed its forces on the Ukrainian border before the 2 days special military operation. Them being there increased the risk of take over even before the invasion started. The military take over won't happen until it happens, obviously. But now the Trump admin knows how minimal and pathetic the backlash is against their fascist actions.
by iioapapala | 2025-08-13 18:56:21+00:00
Stating that America has always had division and thus the degrees of division are irrelevant is quite the logical leap. Thankfully the author puts this up front so you can avoid most of the culture warring in the rest of the article.

Politics is the same as it always has been: to the victor go the spoils. There is no objective what or whom America is for.
by jjk166 | 2025-08-13 18:56:23+00:00
Presumably they wouldn't torch the equipment and shoot the engineers when shutting down. If some business unit within Kodak is producing something the world needs, then there will be money to restart that particular production back up again, either as a spun off entity or as new production by a different firm.

Losing a technological capability requires it to go decades without being practiced - long enough that those with the key knowledge die off. This can and has happened under the right circumstances, but probably wouldn't from a company going out of business.
by beowulfey | 2025-08-13 18:57:11+00:00
Endowment funds are not a checking account, they are not just cash on hand for universities to spend as they please. They could certainly liquidate, but then each year their disbursement would get lower. There is no situation where they could continue operating as they do now.

See my other comment on the likelihood that any corporation would want to pay for basic science. When would any company choose to fund something that would not guarantee a return on investment? It goes against the nature of the goals of a corporation. I would love to know of for-profit examples of this. I'm sure there are a few, but I doubt there are many.
by Reubachi | 2025-08-13 18:57:13+00:00
This is the case.

In every aspect of life in which personal data is indexed/transmitted, the point of origin at least is some place you've explicitly indicated approval of this process. IF you walk into walmart, you are granting them the ability to sell your facial data and card metadata to whoever.

No third party is calling your mobile provider to ask them to leak info. They are PAYING the mobile provider to leak them info that we provided express written consent for them to do so. TO avoid these ToS and binding agreements, you would need to live a disconnected agrarian lifestyle. Literally, can't walk into any corporate store.

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by uh_uh | 2025-08-13 18:57:21+00:00
> LLMs don't think. At all.

How can you so confidently proclaim that? Hinton and Ilya Sutskever certainly seem to think that LLMs do think. I'm not saying that you should accept what they say blindly due to their authority in the field, but their opinions should give your confidence some pause at least.
by kragen | 2025-08-13 18:57:50+00:00
He was poisoning himself for three months before he was treated, and apparently made a full recovery:

> He was tapered off risperidone before discharge and remained stable off medication at a check-in 2 weeks after discharge.

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/epdf/10.7326/aimcc.2024.1260

If you eliminated sodium chloride from your diet without replacing it with another sodium source, you would die in much less than three months; I think you'd be lucky to make it two weeks. You can't replace sodium with potassium or lithium or ammonium to the same degree that you can replace chloride with bromide.
by subsistence234 | 2025-08-13 18:57:52+00:00
Shattered is the trust in transactions that happened during the time period where the attacker controlled >51%, from addresses that the attacker also controlled. AFAIK so far they haven't controlled 51% for any amount of time, though they did control more than 33% for a short while, which is enough for "selfish mining." Either way, the attack did illustrate that a government could easily take over XMR if they wanted to. The impact of that, we'll have to wait and see.
by nimbius | 2025-08-13 18:57:54+00:00
large institutions dont buy into gartner because its accurate or even reasonably current. Gartner is part of a risk management strategy for shareholders. its a brand and reputation that you can shove in front of any problem you might encounter to insulate your companies reputation.

X, Podcasts, and Substacks offer up-to-the-second analysis of the latest trends and such, but at no point will they offer the type of indemnity that Gartner does. They are a technical resource, not a business leadership one.
by siva7 | 2025-08-13 18:58:02+00:00
> We are pleased to announce the Real TDD, our latest innovation in the Program Synthesis field, where you write only the tests and have the computer write the code for you!

Boy would they only know 10 years later you don't even need to write tests anymore. Must feel like Sci-fi timeline if you warped one of these blog authors into our future
by zahlman | 2025-08-13 18:58:21+00:00
Wow. I thought this was just going to be about hyponatremia or something. (And from other research I've done, I really do think that on balance the US experts are recommending inappropriately low levels of sodium intake that are only appropriate for people who already have hypertension, and that typical North American dietary levels of sodium are just fine, really.) But replacing table salt with sodium bromide? Oof.

> to judge how badly chatgpt messed up, if there's no extra context assuming that the user is talking about cleaning doesn't seem _that_ unreasonable.

This would be a bizarre assumption for the simple reason that table salt is not normally used in cleaning.
by Nevermark | 2025-08-13 18:58:55+00:00
I agree, the "mainstream media", if that is what we are talking about, is far from perfect.

But I don't think it has ever been without the issues you describe.

The best solution has always been to combine several (or more) of the best overall sources - despite, and with familiarity of, their individual bents/limitations.

The "mainstream" media is still dramatically better than the "alternative" crowd. Whose followers are ironically uncritical, despite generally being more problematic.
by notatallshaw | 2025-08-13 18:59:49+00:00
Given Astral's heavy involvement in the wheelnext project I suspect this index is an early adopter of Wheel Variants which are an attempt to solve the problems of CUDA (and that entire class of problems not just CUDA specifically) in a more automated way than even conda: https://wheelnext.dev/proposals/pepxxx_wheel_variant_support...
by Karawebnetwork | 2025-08-13 19:00:08+00:00
Personally, I try not to use screens for a few hours before going to bed. Before bedtime, I limit myself to my e-ink book reader.

The idea of having a screen on my wrist doesn't particularly appeal to me.

My partner has one and when they turn over in bed, I am sometimes blinded by the screen which still glows brightly even at the lowest setting in complete darkness.

That's why I'm considering a e-ink watch. The reason I didn't commit yet is that I fear that notifications and such before bedtime could be just as harmful to my nightline peacefulness.
by kolinko | 2025-08-13 19:00:12+00:00
Hm, example queries that failed you? Also, did you do DR from OpenAI, or others? (OpenAI's is a different league, and people sometimes confuse that with Perplexity's or Google's).

For me, the main place where it fails is specific links to the stores and specific prices / opportunities. But when I want to find an item that fits a need (e.g. "quietest mobile AC" or "best ultra short throw projector for my specific use case", "collagen supplement that has clinical confirmation of the quality...") it works way better than Google. And I tried many product categories.
by overfeed | 2025-08-13 19:00:16+00:00
DARPA funds all kinds of things without being involved / having a military or government presence in the thing - a contemporary example would be DARPA kick-starting self-driving vehicles.

IMO, the web was authentically p2p before online Paypal, banner ads and Bonzi Buddy. It's still possible to subscribe to blogs (said nuggets) via RSS - which is miraculously having a renaissance - but it's all going to be drowned out by the relentless, unfeeling firehouse of AI slop.