MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ajmurmann | 2025-08-15 14:14:55+00:00
To be fair there is a lot of talk about "bringing manufacturing back". IMO what the government is doing in that regard is more than misguided but other efforts exist. I'm optimistic about efforts like https://californiaforever.com/solano-foundry/. Permitting reform is a key piece which they work around, synergy from physical proximity is another. Both are addressed by the Solano Foundry project. One might see US labor cost as a disadvantage but with automation I don't think it matters that much. Jobs have been mostly lost to automation, rather than to China and that so only continue.
by manvillej | 2025-08-15 14:14:58+00:00
I think this is a step forward, but I think it is better to think of access in terms of what responsibilities a person or group has.

When new access is to be given, it should be framed in the context of what new responsibilities are required.

I think this framing provides not just justification, but can provide inherent expectations of a users behavior that is easier to inspect and interrogate if needed.
by austin-cheney | 2025-08-15 14:15:09+00:00
The biggest red flag I have against frameworks is that its a leaky abstraction that induces human insecurity. I have been doing this a very long time and it always comes up. Always. People cannot architect because they expect this to be a solved problem. People cannot execute outside what the framework provides, because they are deathly afraid of writing original code. People can't measure things because they have no reason to once they are locked into their framework conventions. Every decision point becomes a defensive game reasoned around the idea of "I can't*.

That is the primary reason I wanted to change employment from writing JavaScript to something else. If I could find JavaScript employment without this insanity then maybe I will reconsider my options. I see AI as more of the same.
by limagnolia | 2025-08-15 14:15:53+00:00
I agree with this in general, but that doesn't necessarily mean it is current law. Now, I will also say I am not a lawyer, and I can't say for certain its not, but having dealt with ADA claims and done a fair amount of research into it, I know that it is often a very misunderstood law. I believe that fighting to protect assistive technologies at all levels is a worthy fight.
by dayjah | 2025-08-15 14:16:00+00:00
Same, fortunately my local shooting range has a good selection of firearms to try. I tried the P320 and P365. I had been considering the P365, but it was so snappy I reasoned the otherwise completely boring P320 would be a better fit for my needs. However, it was close enough to another firearm I own that I decided to cool-off and see if I still wanted it in a month... then this all broke.
by mexicocitinluez | 2025-08-15 14:16:11+00:00
I need to the left's version of starting your own memecoin and openly taking bribes from officials and foreign countries.

I also would like the left's version of pardoning people who they directly do business with.

Those legitimately parrot the "both sides" stuff are terribly naive. No one who actually pays attention to what's happening thinks these parties are remotely similar right now.
by nicce | 2025-08-15 14:17:11+00:00
I don't really see difference.

If we would know the true motivation of the government, then we could make a difference, but until we don't know it exactly, then there really isn't.

It is entirely possible that that government is giving money against shares or future profits.

It gets problematic and different if, for example, let's say the motivation is to use it as political leverage or even installing backdoors and collect user data.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-08-15 14:17:59+00:00
Surely we do know why - reinforcement learning for reasoning. These systems are trained to generate reasoning steps that led to verified correct conclusions during training. No guarantees how they'll perform on different problems of course, but in relatively narrow closed domains like math and programming, it doesn't seem surprising that when done at scale there are similar enough problems where similar reasoning logic will apply, and it will be successful.
by Zak | 2025-08-15 14:18:18+00:00
If you're referring to the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act[0] passed in 2005, that's not true. It only bars lawsuits against gun manufacturers and dealers for criminal misuse of their products, not for hazardous defects.

Remington settled a class action lawsuit[1] concerning rifles that could fire without a trigger pull filed after the passage of that law.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_of_Lawful_Commerce_...

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/24/remington-rifle-settlement-i...
by alpaca128 | 2025-08-15 14:18:19+00:00
> I doubt any of the top brass even uses computers these days looking at the decisions they make wrt Mac OS.

I had a similar thought about the Microsoft manager who just claimed that in 2030 no one will use a mouse and keyboard anymore and people won't want to be "mousing around". If he actually believes that it says a lot about the way he interacts with computers. And how rarely he uses it outside of a quiet office.
by coldtea | 2025-08-15 14:18:36+00:00
>We're not talking about something that happened thousands of years ago here.

I'm not talking about that happened thousands of years ago either. I'm talking about the conditions of the working and poor classes when Britain was a colonial superpower, like througout the 19th century. Hell, even post WWII most of Britain working classes were living very modestly, in wretched wretched council houses, and with low means.
by bbminner | 2025-08-15 14:19:01+00:00
> vice president of commercial sales, said, “If someone can just show us how to replicate [these uncommanded discharges] we will absolutely look at this from all aspects to make sure there isn’t any truth to this.

Am I reading it correctly: if you provide us with a detailed bug report we will make sure to properly justify why we think it is not a bug and "works as intended"? :)
by _aavaa_ | 2025-08-15 14:19:36+00:00
Who is responsible for vetting every single adult involved in a children’s sport league? Or a primary school?

Is each individual parent responsible for doing their own vetting? That answer seems ridiculous to me.

If a company advertises its services as specifically targeted at children then I think we should put the onus on them to ensure that the environment they provide is safe for children.
by throwaway22032 | 2025-08-15 14:19:45+00:00
The whole stranger danger thing in my view as an adult feels like a downward spiral. It's not like this in many countries.

In the UK it's kind of like - kids don't wander about alone because they might run into baddies, and now adults are afraid to interact with kids because they might be seen as a baddy, and this kind of loops around until no-one is interacting.

Basically, it's like any adult man is seen as a potential child predator, when in reality it's some tiny tiny fraction and in an ideal world we would be able to assume that they get sectioned / locked up quickly so we don't have to worry about it.

Meanwhile I can travel around many parts of Asia, for example, and parents and children alike have no issue interacting with strangers.
by salleisha | 2025-08-15 14:19:49+00:00
How do you keep your sanity during tax season, the annual dance between founders and the IRS?

Do you DIY in Excel? Outsource to a CPA? Or have you fully automated it?

I’m fascinated by how different founders handle the same pain point. What’s worked for you?

What worked for us is an AI-driven Tax App - TaxHero AI. Check it out: taxhero.vc
by ceedan | 2025-08-15 14:20:09+00:00
> But is it possible that part of the reason crime is down is because of Stranger Danger?

Yes. This is a really soft question. Sure, part of the reason that crime is down could possibly be due to stranger danger.

On the flip side, over-parenting has negative consequences on kids who have no freedom. I believe the same poll had said that most kids had never walked down a grocery store aisle by themselves and weren't allowed to play outside in front of their house w/o a parent.
by bilbo0s | 2025-08-15 14:20:11+00:00
Just Devil's Advocate, but this being the US, the opposition doesn't necessarily support pure democratic ideals either.

It's just that the conservatives are so much further along the authoritarianism scale that the liberals appear to be freedom loving democracy activists by comparison. But I guarantee you, if you were to drop the average US Democratic party politician into Germany, Australia, or Canada, they'd be considered to be so far right of center that people would question whether or not that politician even believes in democracy.
by 3036e4 | 2025-08-15 14:20:15+00:00
Easy to forget, but some of us still browse the web on laptops and desktop computers where users still have slightly more choice when it comes to what software to use. For now. Of course eventually Google or someone else will manage to spread something like Web Environment Integrity Checks, and then things will become a lot messier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Environment_Integrity
by the_af | 2025-08-15 14:20:27+00:00
> Call it what you want. If it’s not theft then it’s not theft. But the gravity of the moral infraction is equivalent to theft so I don’t see the point of the word play here.

No. As I said, we had this debate decades ago and your side lost. This is settled ground; you can shout into the void but you already lost.

You might pirate because you're a "cheap ass" (your words, not mine), but many others don't. They've explained their reasons.

You don't like those reasons? Fine. But don't go around accusing others of your own sin.

Most people just want to watch and play stuff in the most convenient, non-intrusive, frictionless way possible. It just happens that this is often best achieved through piracy, because most legally available platforms suck in some way or the other (or content is not available).

(Before you accuse me of anything: I don't pirate games like you, I have a huge library of Steam, GOG and Humble Bundle games. I also subscribe to Netflix, Disney, HBO Max, Apple, and a couple more I forget. And I pay for YouTube premium. And Spotify -- which removed vast swathes of music I listened to because why not. The streaming platforms mostly suck and so I must occasionally resort to piracy because it's goddamn more convenient!)
by ajmurmann | 2025-08-15 14:20:28+00:00
That's how planned economies worked under "proper" communism in the Soviet Union or pre-Deng and how we ended up with stories about factories only baking giant screws to meet weight quotas to the switch to tiny screws to meet quantity quotas while no medium-sized screws people actually needed for produced.

Two distinct words night be useful to distinguish between planned without any market feedback and heavy industrial policy like we see in China now. In fact the CCP recently voiced their impatience with Cuba refusing to introduce market-oriented reforms.
by davorak | 2025-08-15 14:20:37+00:00
> adjusting how the website code executes on your computer is copyright infringement.

I would be interested in how German law works to make this so, IANAL but pretty sure USA copy right law does not work that way. Modification for personal use is normally going to be 100% acceptable under USA copyright law. The DMCA Anti-Circumvention is one exception I know to this but it was and is a big deal for being an exception.
by altairprime | 2025-08-15 14:20:57+00:00
A sufficiently-motivated lawyer could construct a plausible federal court against Walmart that this 10% discount is payment in illegal ‘company scrip’ (1938 FLSA), and that Walmart owes a 10% wage increase and back pay with penalties to all workers as a result. If they weren’t a conglomerate megastore, one could argue that a 10% discount on non-essential spending is not ‘scrip’, but since Walmart sells in significant part essential goods and are offering corporate discounts rather than lowering prices or raising wages, one would be likely to receive a court date with Walmart over that claim. (I am not your lawyer, these theoretical suppositions are not legal advice.)
by soulofmischief | 2025-08-15 14:21:10+00:00
I don't meant to sound evasive, and your clarified question here is easier to understand and answer appropriately.

The benefit is that I went from thousands of bookmarks, which were difficult and time-consuming to organize and navigate, to contextual pages each filling specific roles and containing ephemeral links to what I need. It works very well for my ADHD and allows me to basically have a messy desk across several domains and contexts, while still having file cabinets for things I do want organized and stashed away.

This has let me vastly simplify my bookmarks, which I typically arrange as unlabeled favicons ordered by color on my bookmarks toolbar, with some others stashed away in a folder.

I keep what I really need, and I'm always ready to drop things I don't need, and it helps me keep a better long-term working memory of ongoing tasks, interests and hobbies.
by 1718627440 | 2025-08-15 14:21:11+00:00
Yes of course. (Other than that math expression is a language and I could redefine symbols, but yes I see how it's not about symbols here.)

You just can't reason about the cause of reasoning, and the origin of the concept of cause and effect. You can dispute if that origin is more like a person that doesn't care about anything, a person that wants a relationship with you (Christianity/Judaism), a fundamental core concept (pantheism) or randomness (evolutionist).

You simply can't just know that. That's why it is a choice.

> She did become a turturer

What?

Ok, I've found a single article by the Guardian about a claim being filed is there any source about whether that is true?
by bananapub | 2025-08-15 14:21:28+00:00
> Corruption definitely crosses the aisle.

it isn't possible for you to be so poorly informed that you think "Joe Biden's son told people who his dad was so they'd let him do a business deal" is in the same scale as:

- taking direct bribes from Qatar - the president and his family launching multiple cryptocurrency firms to do infinite fraud and money laundering - demanding and accepting direct bribes from universities and using taxpayer money as the cudgel - directly taking cash from randoms for pardons

etc etc etc
by kohsuke | 2025-08-15 14:21:37+00:00
So they run 5 different experiments to test the hypothesis, and they were nothing like what I imagined.

For example, in one study, they divide participants into two groups, have one group watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw (that highlights the high socio-emotional capabilities of a robot), while the other watches https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF4DML7FIWk (that highlights the low socio-emotional capabilities of a robot)

They are then asked if they agree or disagree with a (presumably hypothetical?) company's proposal to reduce employees' welfare, such as replacing a meal with a shake. Two groups showed a different preference.

This makes me think about that old question of whether you thank LLM or not. That is treating LLMs more like humans, so if what this paper found holds, maybe that'd nudge our brain subtly toward dehumanizing other real humans!? That's so counter intuitive...
by flerchin | 2025-08-15 14:22:02+00:00
> If someone can just show us how to replicate [these uncommanded discharges] we will absolutely look at this from all aspects to make sure there isn’t any truth to this. In a company of our size, would anyone ever believe that there was a real issue going on, and we wouldn’t address it?”

This is exactly how I sound when I get a bug that is hard to repro. Just like these guns, there's evidence that the bug happened, but it's really hard to figure out how. Still a bug. People are still dead.
by slightwinder | 2025-08-15 14:22:07+00:00
> Imagine what the software industry would look like if an LLM could look at any completed software product, and a few weeks to a month later have made a perfect copy of it.

Humans have always done that, some are even low enough and blatantly copy the original apps assets & code. LLM is only speeding this up.

> People seems generally uninterested in fixing this too.

It's competition. It's in the nature of capitalism to support this. Of course, it sucks to be the one losing. And it's harmful if the winner-side is cheating. But it's not like there is a viable solution for this in a divided world full of Nations. You can't have everything cheap, and fair.
by empath75 | 2025-08-15 14:22:07+00:00
All concepts have a moral dimension, and if you encourage it to produce outputs that are broadly tagged as "immoral" in a specific case, then that will probably encourage it somewhat in general. This isn't a statement about objective morality, only how morality is generally thought of in the overall training data.

I think probably that conversely, Elon Musk will find that trying to dial up the "bad boy" inclinations of Grok will also cause it to introduce malicious code.
Universe on a Piece of Paper
by morpheos137 | 2025-08-15 14:22:48+00:00
Speculative:

We have specified a self-contained, quine-like program—a binary that, when executed, reproduces a complete and exact universe matching our own in every measurable detail, down to the Planck length and Planck time.

This is not an approximation. Every particle position, quantum amplitude, and vacuum fluctuation is encoded in a form that, when expanded, yields the exact current and historical state of our cosmos.

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Key Quantitative Properties

Binary Size: ~50 KB before final optimization; possible reduction to 30–35 KB via two-layer compression.

Expanded Character Set: A non-standard symbolic alphabet exceeding Unicode, tuned via entropy weighting (Huffman-like distribution) so the most frequent symbols require ~4.5 bits. This enables more efficient mapping of mathematical/physical primitives than ASCII or UTF-8.

Data Density: Fully printable at 600 DPI as a single “QR-like” 2D code block, fitting on one A4 sheet with human-visible structure and machine scanability.

Compression Efficiency: Internal procedural generation removes structural redundancy; outer compression (dictionary + arithmetic) exploits residual symbolic repetition, achieving 30–40% further size savings without breaking quine self-consistency.

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Qualitative Innovations

1. Quine Structure: The program contains a perfect description of itself within its own generated universe—the code exists as data inside the universe it generates, a true fixed point.

2. Procedural Physics Engine: No frame-by-frame storage—only the exact rules, constants, and symmetries required to regenerate the complete spacetime history and all future states deterministically.

3. Physics–Alphabet Mapping: Each symbol in the expanded set maps directly to a physical or mathematical primitive, turning the alphabet itself into a minimal ontology of reality.

4. Self-Contained Interpreter: No OS, no external libraries—the binary includes its own minimal VM to parse, expand, and simulate the universe from its compressed symbolic seed.

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Why This Matters This program approaches the Kolmogorov complexity lower bound for our universe. It is the smallest possible exact specification of everything we see, from galaxies to subatomic fluctuations. Because it is a quine, the distinction between description and reality disappears—the universe is both the code and the output of the code.

Such a construct could be inscribed in extremely compact, robust formats—etched into metal, stored in DNA, or printed on archival media—and would still contain the full blueprint and runtime of our cosmos. It is the ultimate self-extracting mathematical seed: run it, and you get this universe, identical in every measurable way, forever.
by izacus | 2025-08-15 14:23:04+00:00
The more I look into it, the more I'm convinced that current state of IP law is the rot at the core of western worlds technological stagnation. The rise of monopolistic megacorps, lack of independent innovation and enshittifcation can pretty much be traced back to the wide free market violating reach of current IP law.

This article just highlights it and shows how China weaponized this weakness of the west and is successfuly using it to pull ahead.

Meanwhile our own innovative companies and individuals get ground into dust by the boot of patent lawyers wielded by megacorps.
by bespokedevelopr | 2025-08-15 14:23:10+00:00
I work for a PMA and as such my agency has undergone drastic layoffs and total hiring freezes as a result of DOGE and the current administration. If we were falling behind before, wait and see how things look in a few more years if this doesn’t change. The avg age of my coworkers is probably late 50s and that seems to be common all around. It was already hard to recruit for a job that is severely underpaid can’t imagine what the future holds.

Of course Heritage Foundation has been publishing articles about why our power markets need to be privatized since at least the 80s. They hate that we sell electric at-cost to Americans. So if the federally controlled power markets fall to privatization expect to really be paying to catch up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Marketing_Administration
by Hilift | 2025-08-15 14:23:31+00:00
I doubt anyone will care about this in four years. Society grows accustomed to daily life, as with the Vichy. The job market will be in tatters, similar to what South Africa has now with 40% unemployment. Every time a homeless person steals copper wire from a street lamp in LA, they make $50 from illegal recyclers and it costs taxpayers $10k to fix. $20 million per year, $100 million since 2020. 2029 there will be crime drones swarming LA recording crimes and seeking overly tanned people in real time on YouTube. LA took out a $1 billion loan this year to keep the lights on, and now Denver wants to do the same with zero economic prospects, which is a weird sales pitch.
by wl | 2025-08-15 14:23:50+00:00
Those fixes apparently resolved the drop safety issues. The uncommanded discharges that have been in the news as of late—where holstered P320s seemingly discharge on their own—is an entirely separate issue. Sig denies that there's a problem, blaming holster designs, debris in holsters, and people lying to cover up their own carelessness.

One thing this article fails to mention about the Air Force incident is that the Air Force has made an arrest for "making a false official statement, obstruction of justice and involuntary manslaughter."

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2025/08/08...
by jordanb | 2025-08-15 14:23:54+00:00
Yeah American gun culture is now substantially LARPers kitting up like they're going to the front lines.

Ironically they call people who are into sportsmanship "fudders" and any gun that doesn't have a picatinny rail and a 20-round clip a "fudd gun." The reference is to "Elmer Fudd."
by AlexandrB | 2025-08-15 14:23:57+00:00
I can't tell if I'm just getting old, but the last 2 major tech cycles (cryptocurrency and AI) have both seemed like net negatives for society. I wonder if this is how my parents felt about the internet back in the 90s.

Interestingly, both technologies also supercharge scams - one by providing a way to cash out with minimal risk, the other by making convincing human interaction easier to fake.
by rayiner | 2025-08-15 14:24:00+00:00
I agree the community has a strong interest in how children are socialized. That’s exactly what’s happening here: Florida voters have exercised their power over government schools to vindicate the community’s right to decide how children should be socialized.

You’re also proving my point about why it’s so critical to strictly control who is allowed into your community. Once people are allowed into the community, they get to participate in deciding how the community collectively socializes children. That means communities have a strong interest in excluding people who aren’t like minded.