MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by blackqueeriroh | 2025-08-13 03:53:18+00:00
WAIT. Do you know why de-incarceration is a program? Do you have any idea?

It’s because the evidence says overwhelmingly that incarceration is a substandard way to induce behavior change, and that removing people from incarceration and providing them with supportive skills training has a much, much higher rate of reducing recidivism and decreasing violence.
by toasterlovin | 2025-08-13 03:55:27+00:00
> the typical outside view that rationalism itself is a cult and Eliezer Yudkowsky is a cult leader, both of which I consider absurd notions

Cults are a whole biome of personalities. The prophet does not need to be the same person as the leader. They sometimes are and things can be very ugly in those cases, but they often aren’t. After all, there are Christian cults today even though Jesus and his supporting cast have been dead for approaching 2k years.

Yudkowsky seems relatively benign as far as prophets go, though who knows what goes on in private (I’m sure some people on here do, but the collective We do not). I would guess that the failure mode for him would be a David Miscavige type who slowly accumulates power while Yudkowsky remains a figurehead. This could be a girlfriend or someone who runs one of the charitable organizations (controlling the purse strings when everyone is dependent on the organization for their next meal is a time honored technique). I’m looking forward to the documentaries that get made in 20 years or so.
by rpcope1 | 2025-08-13 03:55:40+00:00
WD-40 isn't a lubricant, 3 in 1 is really a cutting oil and too thin, and I can't imagine lithium grease doing well in a high speed bearing...it's really only good because I think it's less toxic. These are all real thin and not appropriate in a bearing. I'm not sure about petroleum jelly, but as crazy as it sounds I've packed all sorts of bearings including fan bearings with basic synthetic marine grease (the pink shit that comes in tubs and grease cartridges), or occasionally heavy weight synthetic gear oil (think 75w90), and profoundly improved the life of things and reduced drag. Only real drawback is god forbid you get real grease on your clothes or something you care about cause it's not coming out.

Also if it came packed with graphite or something else exotic none of the above applies and doing the above can burn a motor out.
by ehnto | 2025-08-13 03:57:02+00:00
When talking about the capabilities of a class of tools long term, it makes sense to be general. I think deriving conclusions at all is pretty difficult given how fast everything is moving, but there is some realities we do actually know about how LLMs work and we can talk about that.

Knowing that ChatGPT output good tokens last tuesday but Sonnet didn't does not help us know much about the future of the tools on general.
by vintermann | 2025-08-13 03:57:22+00:00
Again, it's beside the point what they should. Small businesses have "know your customer" requirements too, and if this little bar made suspiciously much money from cash sales, the government will come looking to make sure it isn't a money laundering operation.

If you think it shouldn't be that way, you are faced with a problem. A social political problem. Which Monero does nothing to solve. Which is the point.
by toast0 | 2025-08-13 03:57:46+00:00
> What am I missing? Why bother with managed switches at home?

I have managed switches now. Can be useful for link aggregation. I also use vlans, so I can have redundant nat gateways in different locations, without having to wire up a separate 'public net' lan... I could just put them in the same location, but I get a tiny amount of disaster resiliance this way. Vlans are also handy so I can do private and public on the same port and not need more nics; but maybe my setup doesn't need to be so esoteric that I want a separate port for host networking and for the nat gateway running in a jail (or maybe I could get srv-io to work somehow)

It's also handy to be able to check link status without having to go to where the switch is.
by Animats | 2025-08-13 03:59:42+00:00
"the $77 billion classic car industry"? That's from here.[1] For $4699 you can buy a copy of the full report.

The market size estimate may come from defining a rather large range of cars as "classic". The average auction price of a "classic car" is $45,000.[2] Not sure what definition they're using, but we're not talking about what goes to Pebble Beach.

[1] https://www.credenceresearch.com/report/classic-cars-market

[2] https://www.classic.com/insights/hagerty-2025-market-in-4-ch...
by jacobajit | 2025-08-13 04:00:34+00:00
I feel like street-view data is surprisingly underused for geospatial intelligence.

With current-gen multimodal LLMs, you could very easily query and plot things like "broken windows," "houses with front-yard fences," "double-parked cars," "faded lane markers," etc. that are difficult to generally derive from other sources.

For any reasonably-sized area, I'd guess the largest bottleneck is actually the Maps API cost vs the LLM inference. And ideally we'd have better GIS products for doing this sort of analysis smoothly.
by cheaprentalyeti | 2025-08-13 04:01:27+00:00
It depends. Do you want to build anything with raw earth elements in it _before_ the refineries are built, which is going to take about a half decade? Then you're going to need to do business with China in spite of their being a national security threat.

This includes modern electric motors, modern power supplies (like get used in said electric motors and electric cars, electric drones, etc), modern radio frequency transceiver modules (like in a modern radar), among other things.

Putting a tax on them is making the best of a bad situation.

Besides, it's going to the Treasury. Not Trump himself.
by nileshtrivedi | 2025-08-13 04:01:34+00:00
I don't think it does.

The default Bluesky frontend uses bsky dot app URL when you use the "Copy link to post". Now if one day, you lose trust in this server and switch your PDS, this link continue working depends on this very non-trusted server. If this server is profit-seeking, it can break such links.

An extension or another app is not the solution, and neither is the new at:// URI format, because what matters is the relationship the default server sets up with its majority of users. Most bsky users will lose their traffic to their own posts and therefore will be locked-in, cementing this one server to be the dominant one in all perpetuity. We will therefore get all the patterns of monopolistic abuse that we have seen elsewhere.
by elliotto | 2025-08-13 04:03:02+00:00
My favourite instantiation of this weird invocation is from this AI video generator, where they literally subtract the prompt for 'low quality video' from the input, and it improves the quality. https://youtu.be/iv-5mZ_9CPY?t=2020

I've just migrated my AI product to a different underlying model and had to redo a few of the prompts that the new model was interpreting differently. It's not obseleted, just requires a bit of migration. The improved quality of the new models outweighs any issues around prompting.
by mindslight | 2025-08-13 04:03:17+00:00
> robots to help with child care

Tell me you don't have kids without telling me you don't have kids.

From an "efficiency" perspective, one can already eliminate 90% of the work of childcare by putting your kid in a sturdy playpen with a secure hard top and wearing noise canceling headphones. People don't really want to do this, for the most part.

The interactive learning is the entire point of childcare. Having machines raise your kids will make it so you end up with kids that were raised by machines. Is that what you want? It seems like this is basically already a thing, with the varying amounts of screen time that parents will allow kids.
by carlosjobim | 2025-08-13 04:03:45+00:00
> consumers who have no comparable choice but to transact via Apple

A comparable choice would be to use a telephone from another maker. And they come for much less than $1000.

> Imagine if every time you wanted to switch which big-box store you shopped at they charged you a $500 entry fee and you had to re-buy all of your household electronics.

I'm imagining it, but it doesn't seem to have anything to do with Apple or Google or their conduct. When I buy a new car, any old accessories I have purchased for the old car will obviously not fit.

> AirBnB may have four times the market cap of Vrbo, but their addressable market, both vendor and consumer, is the same set of people.

Same for Apple. Vendors are free to develop for several platforms and users are free to have cell phones of different marks.

In this particular subject of search engines, Apple and Google have acted in an anticompetitive way with the bribe payments. That doesn't have much to do with monopolies.
by ecesena | 2025-08-13 04:03:55+00:00
> To fund development for this critical next stage, we will launch a crowdfunding campaign on a platform such as Indiegogo or Kickstarter.

Great point. I highly recommend crowdsupply for this type of project (extremely technical target customers), especially if this is the first campaign you run, as their team is helping much more on the nuances of running a successful campaign.

(I know this is not the place for ads, and I’m not affiliated though I run crowdfunding campaigns on all the platforms mentioned.)
by blackqueeriroh | 2025-08-13 04:06:16+00:00
Please learn that the definition of obesity as a disease was not based on any particular set of reproducible factors that would make it a disease, aka a distinct and repeatable pathology, which is how basically every other disease in clinical medicine is defined, but instead, 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. [1] In fact, this designation is so hotly debated that just this year, a 56-member expert panel convened by the Lancet said that obesity is not always a disease. [2]

[1] https://www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcoverage/ama/39918

[2] https://www.newagebd.net/post/health/255408/experts-decide-o...
by interstice | 2025-08-13 04:06:27+00:00
I've just about got my 1981 Mini I bought in highschool for $600 NZD back in one piece. Wasn't going to touch the engine originally but thought why not, so almost 20 years later with almost everything aside from the shell refurbed or replaced here we are. It's been expensive and slow and I'd have been better off now having put the money into a house deposit instead. But now I know a fair amount about rebuilding a 45 year old car and I have about 10k in specialty tools I will probably barely use again, so I guess there's that.
by victorhooi | 2025-08-13 04:07:02+00:00
I think perhaps you might have not read the entire article? =)

The danger isn't so much in the fan, but in that the fan is INSIDE OF A COMPUTER PSU. There are mains AC voltages (220V, or 110V) here, and even if unplugged (which is should be) there are also capacitors in there, which you should definitely be cautious of.

I've worked in DC (datacenters) before - and I've seen people accidentally drop screws into power supplies...and well, electrical arc, boom, you can guess the rest. And in a domestic situation, a 4" cooling fan (yes, I know, larger) stopped suddenly due to a motor issue, and send flying bits of plastic shrapnel around (always wear eye protection!).

This isn't quite like tinkering with your little Arduino board, or Raspberry Pi.

If you did read the article =(.... I think that's a bit arrogant and disingenuous to make fun of people saying you should be cautious around things that are connected to AC mains, or that involve capacitors.
by code_biologist | 2025-08-13 04:09:59+00:00
Eh, as long as it isn't life or death, I think allowing direct consumption and explicitly agreeing that breakage is a consumer problem is better for most business use cases (less code, easier to maintain and evolve). If you make a breaking schema change and nobody complains, is it really breaking?

I have spent way too much life maintaining consumer shield views and answering hairy schema translation questions for use cases so unimportant the downstream business user forgot they even had the view.

Important downstream data consumers almost always have monitoring/alerting set up (if it's not important enough to have those, it's not important) and usually the business user cares about integrity enough to help data teams set up CI. Even in these cases, where the business user cares a lot, I've still found shield views to be of limited utility versus just letting the schema change hit the downstream system and letting them handle it as they see fit, as long as they're prepared for it.

> it's hard to prevent erosion of the architecture as high-urgency projects start taking direct dependencies to save time.

IME, it feels wrong, but it mostly does end up saving time with few consequences. Worse is better.
by blackqueeriroh | 2025-08-13 04:12:09+00:00
This is false. Obesity wasn’t considered a disease until 2013. [1] The term has been around since the late 17th century [2]

[1]: https://obesitymedicine.org/blog/ama-adopts-policy-recognize...

[2]: https://www1.racgp.org.au/ajgp/2019/october/the-politics-of-...
by mirekrusin | 2025-08-13 04:12:57+00:00
The argument is that letter level information is something llms don't have a chance to see.

It's a bit like asking human to read text and guess gender or emotional state of the author who wrote it. You just don't have this information.

Similarly you could ask why ":) is smiling and :D is happy" where the question will be seen as "[50372, 382, 62529, 326, 712, 35, 382, 7150]" - encoding looses this information, it's only visible in image rendering of this text.
by zarzavat | 2025-08-13 04:13:14+00:00
To give an example: a few days ago I needed to patch an open source library to add a single feature.

This is a pathologically bad case for a human. I'm in an alien codebase, I don't know where anything is. The library is vanilla JS (ES5 even!) so the only way to know the types is to read the function definitions.

If I had to accomplish this task myself, my estimate would be 1-2 days. It takes time to get read code, get orientated, understand what's going on, etc.

I set Claude on the problem. Claude diligently starts grepping, it identifies the source locations where the change needs to be made. After 10 minutes it has a patch for me.

Does it do exactly what I wanted it to do? No. But it does all the hard work. Now that I have the scaffolding it's easy to adapt the patch to do exactly what I need.

On the other hand, yesterday I had to teach Claude that writing a loop of { writeByte(...) } is not the right way to copy a buffer. Claude clearly thought that it was being very DRY by not having to duplicate the bounds check.

I remain sceptical about the vibe coders burning thousands of dollars using it in a loop. It's hardworking but stupid.
by nobody9999 | 2025-08-13 04:13:29+00:00
>I read recently that he suffered a serious medical event atound that time and it was actually cult members speaking on his behalf that withdrew him from the show.

I saw him perform after he left the show and several months before he passed. He looked pretty unhealthy and I'm glad I had the chance to see him before that happened, He obviously was having some medical issues, but didn't discuss them during his performance.
by lotyrin | 2025-08-13 04:14:44+00:00
The projection and optimism people are willing to do is incredible.

The fallout on reddit in the wake of the push for people to adopt 5 and how the vibe isn't as nice and it makes it harder to use it as a therapist or girlfriend or whatever, for instance is incredible. And from what I've heard of internal sentiment from OpenAI about how they have concerns about usage patterns, that was a VERY intentional effect.

Many people trust the quality of the output way too much and it seems addictive to people (some kind of dopamine hit from deferring the need to think for yourself or something) such that if I suggest things in my professional context like not wholesale putting it in charge of communications with customers without including evaluations or audits or humans in the loop it's as if I told them they can't go for their smoke break and their baby is ugly.

And that's not to go into things like "awakened" AI or the AI "enlightenment" cults that are forming.
by kelnos | 2025-08-13 04:15:42+00:00
It's extra misleading, because "Wayland" isn't a thing when it comes to policy like this. Unless a compositor implements some sort of user approve/deny UI when an app requests access to the clipboard, apps on Wayland can snoop on the clipboard just as easily as on X11. I haven't run GNOME or KDE in Wayland mode, so maybe they do implement something like that, but none of the wlroots-based compositors I've tried do.
by toast0 | 2025-08-13 04:15:44+00:00
Hiring at FAANGs is hard. A lot of the H-1Bs I worked with got internships somehow, which is a lot less hoops, and they were good in the internship, so you want to give them an offer when they graduate. If they need an employment visa, then you have the experts research their experience and craft a job ad that only they can fill, and place it where it will be least seen but complies with the law.

That's abusing the system, but I dunno, better than abusing the employees that I hear about... Or the straight up fraud where immigrants were paying to get hired on h-1b for fake jobs, or the abuse where job shops would submit 3x the applications for the number of positions they actually had, etc.
by do_not_redeem | 2025-08-13 04:16:03+00:00
My man. What do you think the word "steal" means? You can't just redefine words because you don't like new technology.

Do we need to drop down to 1st grade story problems?

---

Alice has 1 apple. Eve has 0 apples.

Eve steals Alice's apple.

Now Alice has 0 apples. Eve has 1 apple.

---

Alice has 1 XMR. Eve has 0 XMR.

Eve 51% attacks Alice's network.

How many XMR does Alice have? How many XMR does Eve have? Show your work.
by umbra07 | 2025-08-13 04:16:15+00:00
Interesting. In my experience, it's the opposite. Claude is too syncophantic. If you tell it that it was wrong, it will just accept your word at face value. If I give a problem to both Claude and Gemini, their responses differ and I ask Claude why Gemini has a different response - Claude will just roll over and tell me that Gemini's response was perfect and that it messed up.

This is why I was really taken by Gemini 2.0/2.5 when it first came out - it was the first model that really pushed back at you. It would even tell me that it wanted x additional information to continue onwards, unprompted. Sadly, as Google has neutered 2.5 over the last few months, its independent streak has also gone away, and its only slightly more individualistic than Claude/OpenAI's models.
by nhaehnle | 2025-08-13 04:16:21+00:00
Good on you for having the meta-cognition to recognize it.

I've graded many exams in my university days (and set some myself), and it's exceedingly obvious that that's what many students are doing. I do wonder though how often they manage to fly under the radar. I'm sure it happens, as you described.

(This is also the reason why I strongly believe that in exams where students write free-form answers, points should be subtracted for incorrect statements even if a correct solution is somewhere in the word salad.)
by rpcope1 | 2025-08-13 04:16:38+00:00
Noctua fans are usually a good choice (though I think their industrial line is better, especially if you can get a deal on the splash proof IP66ish ones). That all said, other than having extremely good lifespans for ostensibly a retail oriented fan, the other thing they tout (the low RPM and quietness) sometimes doesn't work well when you're replacing something much different like a high RPM Delta fan. The Noctuas may not push enough air, especially if there's a controller involved. I've had to build add on fan controllers before where whatever it is won't spin the fans fast enough until they heat up too much, which makes things even more fun. Especially for a PSU it's probably worth looking to see if there's a major difference in airflow (and at what RPMs), as it would suck to have your fixed up PSU cook itself because it's not flowing enough air.

Other less prominent vendors often do make easier drop in fans, that often have very good lifespans that might be easier to adapt than Noctua. Sanyo Denki fans easily will long outlive even Noctua (but don't typically play in the retail space); Delta and Dynatron also usually sell at least decent parts that are much better than whatever random chinesium fans lots of stuff come with. All of the above have much more variety in the profile of fan sizes and configurations and I would probably be looking through their parts catalogs to see if they don't have something that's a better fit (they often do).

The only other interesting thing is that I have picked up is soldering seems like a good idea in cases like this, but at least in bigger setups I've seen solder joints fail because of vibration. Maybe not an issue here, but crimping is usually a much better solution for connecting things that need to have a long life and might be vibrating like something attached to a fan.
by snapplebobapple | 2025-08-13 04:17:45+00:00
segregation was disallowed under the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment, which is much sounder law (and much more likely to be respected by an originalist since it's pretty obvious what they meant and once you make a black person a person under the law (which is also done by the 14th amendment) it's pretty clear you can't treat them differently than anyone else). Conversely, Roe V Wade relies on some pretty tortured reinterpretation of the right to privacy, which in itself is only kind of guaranteed by a less tortured interpretation of other parts of the constitution.

It's also pretty important to point out here that things are only for the states to decide in so far as you guys haven't made an amendment to make that right part of the constitution. The whole point of this is you can't make up rights that aren't there as the supreme court, you aren't the legislative body. If you want more/different rights there is an amending process to change the constitution and then the supreme court will be bound to uphold your changes as well.

Also, why do I know more about your constitution and governing structure than you appear to? I'm not American, I just appreciate how straightforwardly you guys recognize government will always screw you over and needs to be agressively restrained. I just wish you had realized it was all large organizations and more effectively applied your restrictions to corporations as well.
by hodgesrm | 2025-08-13 04:19:08+00:00
I don't really understand what problem replication of mutable transaction data to Iceberg or any data lake for that matter solves for most PostgreSQL users.

Iceberg is optimized for fact data in very large tables with relatively rare changes and likewise rare change to schema. It does that well and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

PostgreSQL databases typically don't generate huge amounts of data; that data can also be highly mutable in many cases. Not only that, the schema can change substantially. Both types of changes are hard to manage in replication, especially if the target is a system, like Iceberg, that does not handle change very well in the first place.

So that leaves the case where you have an lot of data in PostgreSQL that's creating bad economics. In that case, why not just skip PostgreSQL and put it in an analytic database to begin with?

p.s., I'm pretty familiar with trading systems that do archive transaction data to data lakes using Parquet for long-term analytics and compliance. That is a different problem. The data is for all intents and purposes immutable.

Edit: clarity