MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by toast0 | 2025-08-03 04:18:09+00:00
Let's be honest. I only rarely use most of the features of my vehicles.

What's worse? A not in use bed, or a not in use back seat?

I have a truck, because I find it more convenient to have a truck bed anytime I need it, than to have to arrange to borrow or rent one. The bed doesn't get used often, but it's also a reasonable vehicle for driving solo or with one passenger; two in a pinch. Much better visibility than any other vehicle I have, too. Unfortunately, the single cab, 6-ft bed small truck market disappeared, and I got this one used with too big of an engine, so the mileage is poor... when I had a 4-cylinder small truck, mileage was better, but I don't drive that much anymore anyway.

But, I have lots of space, so I can keep a car for transporting a car pool in comfort, a PHEV with good mileage for longer trips that don't need anything special, a small truck for doing small truck things, and an old van with removed back seats that's fun to work on and can carry things that shouldn't get wet when it's raining. The van visibility towards the front is even better than the truck, because it's cabover, but visibility to the back isn't as good... None of those modern pillars that make it hard to see out the sides though.
by gwerbret | 2025-08-03 04:20:57+00:00
Maybe someone in the field can speak up -- I'm not sure what is new about this study. It seems to be about an analysis of the double-slit experiment using individual atoms, and the press release implies that this is novel, but that experiment was first done over 30 years ago [0]. Is there anything to this study that is actually new?

0: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.70...
by supplied_demand | 2025-08-03 04:23:12+00:00
== So it's impossible to create a welfare system in order to encourage families. People need to have children first so that they can be made to pay for it.==

This ignores some important facts. First, lots of immigrants already pay taxes and don’t receive government benefits. Second, we already run a continuous deficit. Third, we could choose to shift existing spending priorities to more pro-family spending.

It would cost about 1/3 of our military budget to pay for universal pre-K 3/4.

https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2022/6/2/total-...
by ghushn3 | 2025-08-03 04:24:49+00:00
> Even Cybertruck struggles to

The cybertruck is built pretty poorly. I think we can use truck stats from reputable automakers.

> There's a reason electric trucks haven't taken off for real work use cases.

When were electric trucks realistically available on the market for a reasonable price?

I use a truck regularly (forestry industry), there's huge desire for them, they just haven't been around until very recently. You can't buy a secondhand ol beatup electric truck yet, so I don't expect them to be taking off yet.
by bccdee | 2025-08-03 04:24:57+00:00
> Once you've tested the complex things that (almost) no language has a type system able to express, you also have tested null checks, function parameter types, etc. by virtue of you needing to visit those situations in order to test the complex logic.

That's not true. At no point in testing `fn add(a: i32, b: i32) -> i32` am I going to call `add("a", "b")` or `add(2, None)`. Rust even won't permit me to try. In a language with a more permissive type system, I would have to add additional tests to check cases where parameters are null or of the wrong type.
by mpyne | 2025-08-03 04:26:20+00:00
I was literally running into something a couple of days ago on my toy C++ project where basic compile-time reflection would have been nice to have for some sanity checking.

And even if it's true that some things can be done already with specific compilers and implementation-specific hacks, it would be really nice to be able to do those things more straightforwardly.

My experience with C++ changes has been that the recent additions to compile-time metaprogramming operations is that they improve compile times rather than make it worse, because you don't have to do things like std::enable_if<> hacks and recursive templates to do things that a simple generic lambda or constexpr conditional will do, which are more difficult for both you and the compiler.
by qwerpy | 2025-08-03 04:27:28+00:00
It's an income tax in all but name because your income is taxed a certain percentage in order to fund the benefit.

There was a brief window where you could get LTC insurance from any provider and use it to opt out of the tax. High income earners did that because it was cheaper than paying the tax and also because receiving the benefit required you to stay in WA. The opt-out window has since closed, and if you haven't opted out by now, you will forever pay that tax if you work in WA.

https://wacaresfund.wa.gov/how-it-works
by _proofs | 2025-08-03 04:27:38+00:00
uhhh, while covid affected things this certainly has not been the case for my life at all.

the last 7 years of my life have been filled with nothing but community. from skate diys and meetups, and other outdoor activities to, skate diys, bars, live music, and gym communities (once regular programming resumed post covid).

if you feel this isolated i am inclined to ask -- what is it about your life that seemingly lacks these things? i have somehow managed to find community wherever i go and wherever my interests guide me.

what experience of yours caused you to arrive at "they actually don't"?

people in my city are always out and about and socializing and walking their dogs or getting drinks or coffee or working remotely or at work spaces or in offices or whatever. they go out on weekends and drink and eat and hang with friends.

i recently went to berlin and as an american i could not get enough of the summer vibe, the sparkaufts and casual communal hangs and byob bars.

where do you live?
by Sharlin | 2025-08-03 04:27:48+00:00
There used to be dozens of traffic deaths per year in Helsinki back in the 60s. When there were fewer people and much fewer cars. Most of the dead were pedestrians (as opposed to outside urban zones where motorists mostly tend to kill themselves and any unfortunate passengers). Do NOT dare to downplay this achievement. It is the result of decades of work and changing attitudes of what is acceptable.
by KennyBlanken | 2025-08-03 04:28:49+00:00
It should be noted that the author thinks ESP is a Thing, and it's worthy of study / research. They're essentially concern-trolling / no-true-scotsman-ing skeptics - that they're not the right kind of skeptics or occasionally skeptics also did misleading things, and bullied those poor poor ESP researchers and hurt the field of ESP research and that's why we don't hwave any proof ESP is a thing. That a skeptic didn't perfectly skeptic-ize a ESP researcher (or two, or three) doesn't mean ESP research has the slightest legitimacy or value because regardless of a skeptic's methods, the burden of evidence on something as extraordinary as ESP is purely on the researcher claiming ESP exists.

Of James Randi, he complains in another article (which for some reason BoingBoing published...) on his site: "[Randi made] it more difficult for serious university-based and academically trained researchers to study ESP and mental anomalies, and to receive a fair hearing in the news media."

Uh....Yes? That was the point? Randi dedicated his time and energy to debunking shysters. At best they were seeking fame while popularizing paranormal crap and hurting scientific literacy...and at worst taking advantage of people finanically to varying degrees.

TV used to be awash in idiots claiming to be psychic or able to do absurd things like magnetize their bodies with their mind. I remember Randi was on such a show with such a "magnetic" person, watched them stick something metal to their body...then he whips out a container of baby powder, applies it to the guy who claimed to be able to magnetize himself...and wouldn't you know, the "magnetism" disappeared....because the reason something metal stuck to him was because his sweaty skin had enough stiction (and probably using some rosin to 'help') and use a part of their body angled a bit from vertical. And Randi then demonstrates this, showing he can "magnetize" himself, too.

Randi was a magician, saw people abusing lazy/shitty magic to rip people off, and didn't like that. And the world is a better place for it. That he had an ego, or that his methods weren't perfect, or he was too aggressive for the author's taste - is all completely irrelevant.

What's next, complaining that some doctor is an asshole for appearing on TV to refute people claiming ivermectin cures covid, thus making it impossible for people to seriously study ivermectin's covid benefits? Or that they were too aggressive in responding to the shyster?
by dmead | 2025-08-03 04:32:06+00:00
Obligatory comment that bray fals has been caught making up data ie, using Photoshop to paint detail in fals-1, the supposed new discovery that was actually already in some survey data.

Fun fact, Bray was the second jtw trident user in North America. I think I was the first.

Also, bit weird you can't come set up your own telescope.
by dsign | 2025-08-03 04:32:43+00:00
The problem of authenticating footage has a disappointing but sufficient solution:

1.- Use filming devices that sign the footage with a key, and the device has some anti-tamper protections to prevent somebody from stealing the key.

2.- The thing above is useless for most consumers of the footage, which would only see it after three to four transcodings change the bytes beyond recognition. But in a few years everybody will assume most footage in the Internet is fake, and in those cases when people (say, law enforcement) want to know for sure if something really happened, they’ll have to go through the trouble of procuring and watching the original, authenticated file.

The alternatives to 1 and 2 are:

a) To engage in an arms race, like the one which is happening with captchas right now.

b) To roll back this type of AI.

b is not going to happen, even with a societal collapse and sweeping laws against GenAI, because the way GenAI works is widely known. Unless we want to roll back technology itself and stop producing the hardware, and culture so that people don’t know how to do any of this.
by trod1234 | 2025-08-03 04:34:27+00:00
This wasn't worth reading. It is basically a giant wall of text, potentially AI generated, drawing comparisons that aren't important nor do they get to the call to action.

The simple fact is, the world we live in today is disadvantaged, and its been made that way by purposeful intent through money-printing, and it will continue to become worse until it can't function anymore; that's what history has to say on that. You have delusional people making choices that can't be undone for short-term profit, neglecting that when the value of money disappears, so does all that profit.

Merit doesn't really matter in such environments, and the market isn't a real market in such either. It lacks core requirements for price discovery, and adversarial independent decision-making (i.e. the major market players can't cooperate, but that is what they do when the money printer tells them do this or we'll call your loans due).

Non-reserve debt is money-printing. Lots of history that goes into where that ends (as a positive feedback system that runs away unable to stop itself until catastrophe).
by twotwotwo | 2025-08-03 04:34:31+00:00
For what it's worth, a pivotal moment for keeping reading going after the lessons was when my partner picked up a comic book at a library event. For a few weeks after the end of the lessons, reading time had been traditional early readers and some of the books we'd previously read to them--even with us offering rewards, there had been ups and downs. As soon as kid started that comic, though, they were pushing right through our protests that it was bedtime, and chewing through the whole series. Luckily we managed to find another series to start before running out of the first one. As parents we can nudge or put stuff on the menu but but kid is pretty much in the driver's seat about what to read next.

In retrospect, of course! The kid just hadn't liked reading those books and things took off once we found stuff they liked. Best first readers are whatever your kid actually wants to read!
by lukaslalinsky | 2025-08-03 04:35:18+00:00
It burns through credit too quickly. As a previous Sourcegraph Cody user, I was trying Amp first, but I've spent tens of dollars every day for the trial, and that was with an eye on the usage. It felt horrible seeing how I pay mostly for it's mistakes and the time it takes debugging. With CC, I can let go of the anxiety. I get several hours a day out of the Claude Pro plan and that's mostly good enough for now. If it's not, I'll upgrade to Max, as at $100 that's still less than what I'd have spent on Amp.
by CMCDragonkai | 2025-08-03 04:35:57+00:00
There's not such thing as a permanent fixed identity though. "Just be yourself" raises a more interesting question. Who is yourself? Why is that way? Why should it be that way? Have you reflected on why you want what you want or why you behave the way you do? Do you think the way you are is the way you should be? Or is there a cognitive disconnect between the is and ought?
by halfcat | 2025-08-03 04:36:01+00:00
People are generally decent at knowing something exists, but generally poor at knowing what it is.

This is true for book reviews or UFOs/psychics/whatever. A reader can tell you the book wasn’t good and they’ll give a reason. Usually they’re right that it’s not good, and wrong about why.

The problem here is they’re right that it’s something (it’s not nothing), and probably wrong about the why. But most academic types won’t even acknowledge that it’s not nothing.

I could respect them if they said, “It’s not nothing, but right now the cost to inquire further into that topic is too high and not our area of focus”
by mlyle | 2025-08-03 04:36:41+00:00
I trusted my then-3 year old to be 250' away at the opposite end of a neighborhood park that abuts my house. Usually within eye sight but not always.

Once he reached 5 and showed they understood the boundaries and requirements, to go out there by himself.

And once he reached 6, he was trusted to look after his 4 year old brother in this space.

And these restrictions seem very strict compared to how I grew up and especially compared to how those older than me grew up. Or in some other places in the world, where e.g. in Japan it's not rare for 6 year olds to ride the subway and do errands and downright common for 7-8 year olds.
by plentysun | 2025-08-03 04:37:04+00:00
Open source is a great idea! I haven't seen most people mention that on their resume (and I feel people are afraid to dive into that world), so it really sets you apart as a candidate.

I will mention this idea to a small group of new grads I help guide. Thank you for sharing your thoughts!

I agree that the applying to 100s of random jobs on LinkedIn strategy no longer works that well. I tried this two years ago when I was looking for jobs, and didn't see much success.

Curious, since you mentioned you used your network - did you just reach out to people on LinkedIn and ask for a referral, or was it in some other ways?
by hedora | 2025-08-03 04:37:21+00:00
When I stopped paying attention to their bull, they were overstating by way more than 90%. The article cites a study saying DOGE’s overstatement was about 90% of the total number in the end.

Also, the analysis in the study is conservative, and does not include follow on effects due to obvious immediate economic damage from the cuts (which seem to have been chosen to maximize damage to the economy).

$21.7B net cost is probably too low if you include that. If you value the programs that were eliminated at $0, the net cost was still in the billions.
by root_axis | 2025-08-03 04:39:16+00:00
> it doesn't take a lot of scrutiny to scare the crap out of you if you're a major player in some niche industry

This "scare" characterization isn't how anybody thinks in reality. Everything is a cost benefit analysis, the risk that you'll come under FTC scrutiny is going to be a factor weighed against the potential gains of the acquisition. Companies understand their own place in the market relative to their size and dominance, the overwhelming majority of companies know they basically have nothing to fear from the FTC ever.
by rramadass | 2025-08-03 04:39:59+00:00
I know your comment was meant as a tongue in cheek funny one but people should not be intimidated/overawed by the size of the C++ feature set. You don't need to know nor use all of them but can pick and choose based on your needs and how you model your problem. Also much of the complexity is perceived rather than real since it takes time for one to understand and assimilate new concepts. You can program very effectively and productively using just C++98 features (along with C if needed) with no hint of "Modern C++" (never mind the fanbois :-) What this gives you is the ability to use a single language to tackle small constrained microcontrollers with very limited toolchain support all the way to using the latest and the greatest toolchain on top-of-line processors.
by vel0city | 2025-08-03 04:41:15+00:00
I grew up in Houston (ish, Clear Lake). I've lived in Plano, Far North Dallas, now Richardson. I had friends over a large chunk of the South side of Houston. Pearland, Alvin, The Woodlands, Spring, Friendswood, etc. Their experiences weren't too far off, save for the fact there's practically no transit (same for Clear Lake). Visiting friends inside the loop today, I have pretty similar experiences to what I'm talking about. In the end, still lots of free third places around.

And when I visit friends in San Antonio and Austin, I get pretty similar experiences. Neighborhood grill outs. People chilling in the parks. Excellent libraries around.

> the most common American experience will be to hop in a car to do almost anything

The question was, what were those non-profit/free public third spaces that are allegedly missing. I do agree, in many places there's probably a drive to those things, but they do still exist. And from what I experienced, they're busy.
by andrewrn | 2025-08-03 04:42:10+00:00
I suppose it may be luck, but the ~15 roommates I’ve had over the years became, at worst, neutral acquaintance types or, at best, my best friends of all time. I’ve never had any of the common horror stories.

Come to think of it actually, I’ve never formed very strong bonds without anyone outside of childhood who I didn’t live with.

I remember hearing years ago that the ingredients for a strong friendship are (1) serendipitous, unplanned encounters, (2) vulnerability, (3) sustained time spent together. Housemates seem like the only modern avenue to this for adults.

Critical caveat is having the temple of my own room to retreat to.

With that, I love having housemates.
by DoctorOetker | 2025-08-03 04:42:50+00:00
I am not defending the proposed method, but your criticism is not why:

Lets assume the pixels have an 8-bit luminance depth, and lets say the 7 most significant bits are kept, and the signature is coded in the last bit of the pixels in a frame. A hash of the full 7-bit image frame could be cryptographically signed, while you could copy the 8-th bit plane to a fake video, the same signature will not check out according to a verifying media player, since the fake video's leading 7-bit planes won't hash to the same hash that has been signed.

What does this change compared to status quo? nothing: you can already hash and sign a full 8-bit video, and Serious-Oath that it depicts Real imagery. Your signature would also not be transplantable to someone elses video, so others can't put fake video in your mouth.

The only difference: if the signature is generated by the image sensor, and end-users are unable to extract the private key, then it decreases the number of people / entities able to credibly fake a video, but provides great power to the manufacturers to sign fake videos while the masses are unable to (unless they play a fake video on a high quality screen being imaged by a manufacturer-privatekey-containing-image-sensor.
by Uehreka | 2025-08-03 04:42:57+00:00
Let me put it this way: my axiom is aimed at people (like me) who read popular science books, skim the textbooks, and think there might be a way to make a time machine or if not that then “at least something interesting” of a similar nature.

If you have a graduate degree in quantum mechanics or work for Intel as a designer/engineer of microprocessors then yeah, you can consider yourself exempt.
by trod1234 | 2025-08-03 04:45:12+00:00
I'm honestly tired of all the misinformation about AI being posted.

You are correct. Its not hard to see why, (AI imposes cost interference), but there are a lot of bots that keep promoting slop, and moderation doesn't seem to be doing anything about it.

I'm tired of seeing a significant percentage of the article posts in the top 300 being slop.
by stouset | 2025-08-03 04:46:32+00:00
Regexes are not fundamentally hard. People make regexes hard by trying to parse things by sight rather than finding a spec. If you have a spec, and it can be parsed by a regular expression, they are pretty damn rote to implement.

If you aren’t working from a specified input grammar, the task is going to be borderline impossible no matter the tool and you’re going to have a bad time. If you aren’t working with a regular grammar, this is the wrong tool for the job and again you’re going to have a bad time.

A hint; if you find yourself using `.`, you are probably shooting yourself in the foot.
by braiamp | 2025-08-03 04:47:24+00:00
If you mean the ones transacting in derivatives, no, they don't. The US market isn't India where the size of the secondary market was bigger than the primary market. If you mean that financial markets drive real markets, that's also wrong. While yes, certain products need a infusion of cash to get to market, that's not the same as having a company acquire the possibility of a new product and just sit on it.
by trod1234 | 2025-08-03 04:47:25+00:00
This is basically the sequential pipeline for any career development.

You get X*5 years of experience doing the job, you know how to do it much better without mistakes. If you can't get experience because AI has blocked that lower run, you basically have a 10 year countdown to deflationary spiral in that factor market; that's a problem for next quarter though.
by Taek | 2025-08-03 04:48:33+00:00
That's horrible. That's basically saying "let's make sure a ton of people are dying early so that some percentage of them can be used to save lives"

Nobody should ever, ever be in favor of putting people in harms way to increase the availability of organs. At that point you might as well just advocate for a harvest lottery based on how many miles people travel by car.
by jimbosis | 2025-08-03 04:49:11+00:00
There's another Veritasium video that has a neat experiment ostensibly showing light (both lamp and laser sources) "taking all paths" (or words to that effect--I don't really know what I'm seeing or what I'm talking about!) It starts around 25 minutes in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJZ1Ez28C-A

EDIT: Whoops. The YouTube video linked by naasking in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44771713 touches on the Veritasum video I linked to and goes to some length to explain that it is NOT proving the light is taking "all possible paths." He also brings up and links to a video on the "Looking Glass Universe" channel in which the hostess recreates the Vertiasium experiment and gives a differing interpretation. (Some commenters there have objections to the experimental setup. Oh boy, I may be down a rabbit hole here.)