MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mothballed | 2025-08-27 19:46:07+00:00
We saw big jumps in deaths of kids by firearm[0] (+~50% in 2 years) and poisoning[1] around mid 2020 to 2021.

The biggest thing I know of that happened around the time that a lot of these deaths started jumping up, is we started isolating kids. From family, from grandma, from friends, from school, and from nature. Even when many of these isolating policies or attitudes were reversed, we forgot that kids and teenagers started to learn that as their only reality. For this kid, trusting a suicidal ideation positive feedback loop brought into fruition by Valley tech-bros was seen as his selected option in front of him in term of options of how to navigate his teenage challenges. I hope we can reverse that.

Edit: Concrete facts regarding this particular case

- Kicked off basketball team

- Went through isolation period of pandemic as he experienced puberty

- Switched to remote school

- Does remote school at night when presumably family members would likely be sleeping

- Does not get normal "wake up" routine kids going to school get, during which they normally see a parent and possibly eat breakfast together before they both go off to school/work

- Closer with ChatGPT in terms of options to share suicidal ideation with, than any of the alternatives.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2023...

[1] https://nida.nih.gov/sites/default/files/images/mtfwcaption-...
by jll29 | 2025-08-27 19:46:23+00:00
> The main issue is just breaking 20 years worth of inbound links.

That is annoying indeed - it would be nice if the Web had some way to keep links eternally valid. But people didn't even manage Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to work beyond the death of the publishing companies that issued them...

Perhaps links could be auto-replaced to archive.org links if they ceased to exist?
by ibrahimdanish | 2025-08-27 19:46:58+00:00
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by lillecarl | 2025-08-27 19:47:01+00:00
How much distance does one pack realistically need to not cascade? Honestly I can't imagine any more than half a meter since air is an extremely good insulator. Just make sure the fire can't crawl across though cable insulation?

I've personally set RC lipo on fire with the wood-nail-hammer technique and while the fire out of the pack is intense I can't imagine it igniting another pack.
by tux3 | 2025-08-27 19:47:27+00:00
That's an interesting question, because the uop cache is filled early in the pipeline, but zero-idioms are only detected around the rename stage.

They might be able to skip a plain 0x90, but something like mov rax, rax would still emit a uop for the cache, before being eliminated later in rename. So at best it would be a fairly limited optimization.

It's also nice because rename is a very predictable choke point, no matter what the rest of the frontend and the backend are busy doing.
by Almondsetat | 2025-08-27 19:47:44+00:00
The way you have set up your argument suggests you would not use smartphones if they weren't "necessary" to live a normal life. But in that case, your smartphone can simply be one of the many black boxes you use daily, such as, for example, your public transportation or credit cards, which have a literal computer inside of them you never think about. You just create various accounts, install the apps you need, and use the phone as a tool when you are required to. Once its job is done, you tuck it away and you go on about your day.
by chuckadams | 2025-08-27 19:47:58+00:00
C++ and Java went for the "objects as static closures" route, where it doesn't make any sense to have a `this`. Or, they made them superficially look like static closures, which in hindsight was probably not the best idea. Anyway, Java lets you use explicit `this`, I don't recall whether C++ makes it into a footgun or not.
DietPi v9.16 has been released
by StephanStS | 2025-08-27 19:48:03+00:00
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by maplant | 2025-08-27 19:48:14+00:00
If you're using a single threaded reactor you don't need a mutex at all; a Rc<RefCell<_>> will do just fine. And if you want other tasks to yield until you're done holding the borrow, the solution is simple: don't await until you're done. https://docs.rs/tokio/latest/tokio/task/struct.LocalSet.html...

there are absolutely situations where tokio's mutex and rwlock are useful, but the vast majority of the time you shouldn't need them
by LorenPechtel | 2025-08-27 19:48:42+00:00
And note the situation over Ukraine. There are systems like the Patriot--you do not want to be above the horizon to one of them. But so long as you're some distance from the launcher and stay very low the Patriot can't see you. But that puts you very much in danger from stuff like a Stinger and when one finds your engine you're going to go in very, very fast.
by vlovich123 | 2025-08-27 19:48:46+00:00
It sounds like you may not actually know Rust then because non-owning borrow and ownership are directly expressible within the type system:

Non-owning non mutating borrow that doesn’t require you to clone/copy:

fn foo(v: &SomeValue)

Transfer of ownership, no clone/copy needed, non mutating:

fn foo(v: SomeValue)

Transfer of ownership, foo can mutate:

fn foo(mut v: SomeValue)

AFAIK rust already supports all the different expressivity you’re asking for. But if you need two things to maintain ownership over a value, then you have to clone by definition, wrapping in Rc/Arc as needed if you want a single version of the underlying value. You may need to do more syntax juggling than with F# (I don’t know the language so I can’t speak to it) but that’s a tradeoff of being a system engineering language and targeting a completely different spot on the perf target.
by kllrnohj | 2025-08-27 19:48:51+00:00
> Couldn't this count as false/misleading advertizing though?

For what, exactly? TDP stands for "thermal design power" - nothing in that means peak power or most power. It stopped being meaningful when CPUs learned to vary clock speeds and turbo boost - what is the thermal design target at that point, exactly? Sustained power virus load?
by treetalker | 2025-08-27 19:48:57+00:00
“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease.

“Against stupidity we are defenseless.

“Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed — in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical — and when facts are irrefutable, they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self-satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack.”

— D. Bonhoeffer
by FredPret | 2025-08-27 19:49:18+00:00
Me too. I bounce off of any product landing page that has "AI" slapped on it, which lately is ~99% of them.

On the other hand, if I saw a product labelled "No AI bullshit" then I'd immediately be more interested.

But that's just me, the AI buzz among non-techies is enormous and net-positive.
by mrguyorama | 2025-08-27 19:49:29+00:00
It is. Right up until you go to hit your brakes hard and it all boils out and removes your ability to apply brake pressure in an emergency and you had no idea how much water was in your line because there's no easy way to check, like a low spot with a sight glass.

Or if you leave a barrel of hydraulic fluid outside until it is partially water and it's not easy to notice when you are handling it.
by guywithahat | 2025-08-27 19:49:39+00:00
> Just these points make your "suggestion" about using "LLMs to detect stuff is extremely easy" laughable at best.

I ran a company doing this for real time internet traffic and the tech worked great. My mistake was suggesting a specific solution; the reality is there is a dozens ways to go about it, and it doesn't matter to me how its solved. What does matter is the EU probably isn't going to work overtime to protect people illegally downloading music, and I don't fault Apple for wanting to limit how many people can do it
by jkingsman | 2025-08-27 19:49:45+00:00
I appreciate seeing this point of view represented. It's not one I personally hold, but it is one a LOT of my friends hold, and I think it's important that it be given a voice, even if -- perhaps especially if -- a lot of people disagree with it.

One of my friends sent me a delightful bastardization of the famous IBM quote:

A COMPUTER CAN NEVER FEEL SPITEFUL OR [PASSIONATE†]. THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER CREATE ART.

Hate is an emotional word, and I suspect many people (myself included) may leap to take logical issue with an emotional position. But emotions are real, and human, and people absolutely have them about AI, and I think that's important to talk about and respect that fact.

† replaced with a slightly less salacious word than the original in consideration for politeness.
by Findecanor | 2025-08-27 19:50:02+00:00
A few years ago when they suddenly switched on flawed mandatory TFA in my country, it took them nine months before they started to man phone support so people could get in. At about the same time they also implemented a policy to charge for having money left in your balance — when you couldn't access it! Add to that that hey had started with cryptocurrency. I cancelled my account (17 years) as soon as I could.
by tptacek | 2025-08-27 19:50:12+00:00
No, it must be complicated. Wikipedia isn't grant-funded (they have money coming out of their ears) and it isn't a government agency subject to regulation. Most private publications are proudly biased.

In fact, the most likely outcome to the House trying to play hardball with Wikipedia is a double-digit percentage increase in their donations. Which I don't think House Republicans mind, because none of this is actually about Wikipedia.

So, again, how is this supposed to work?
by thephyber | 2025-08-27 19:50:25+00:00
I’m not so sure.

The timeline he set for himself was artificial. His assertion that it was for sure caused by environmental factors and his department could find it in a few months was artificial.

His team clearly used AI (without reasoning features and without ensemble challenges) to write public documents, leaving the hallucinated research footnotes in the document.

He clearly doesn’t care about accuracy precision or truth, so he very well may announce some cause in September. I’m sure his _Children’s Defense Fund_ has their own “research” which draws conclusions that he will most likely crib from.
by danielbln | 2025-08-27 19:51:45+00:00
Yet it is here to stay, won't go away and even if it won't get any better at the useful things it does, it is useful. The externalities are real, some can be removed, some mitigated. If you're a hater and a human, then you don't have to mitigate anything, of course.

Me, I hate the externalities, but I love the thing. I want to use my own AI, hyper optimized and efficient and private. It would mitigate a lot. Maybe some day.
by toast0 | 2025-08-27 19:51:46+00:00
> The x86-64 ISA is a POS BTW.

> It needs major refactoring. The backwards compatibility is killing the platform.

People have been saying that for 30 years at this point. You can dislike the ISA all you want, but the platform doesn't seem to be dieing all that fast, and compatibility helps it live. Compatibility is how you sell chips: windows on arm doesn't sell because people are concerned about running their apps; android on x86 didn't sell well in part because many apps with native code didn't include x86 binaries; mac os on arm sells because Apple made things work and pushes hard.

A better ISA doesn't prevent chips from burning up. Apple's chips don't burn up because they stay away from high clocks and high power, which is easy when they force vertical integration.
by jerome-jh | 2025-08-27 19:51:49+00:00
You americans are strange. Your government makes arbitrary arrests, illegally searches phones, massively de-funds science and health projects, and only a handful of people demonstrate.

Now a company wants the identity of the companies it works with because it distributes their software, and it looks like a massive "scandal". Well at least I am realistic that the "scandal" is only within certain circles.
by griffzhowl | 2025-08-27 19:51:56+00:00
I think the short answer is that no one knows, because a proper answer would need an understanding of how black holes and quantum theory go together, which is not currently known.

The longer answer (if you want to get in to the extensive literature) is that your question seems to relate to the black hole information paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox
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by JohnFen | 2025-08-27 19:52:35+00:00
I spent a lot of time trying to find a good solution to this problem and failed, so what I ended up doing was to give up and remove my sites from the public web entirely.

I'm eager for a good solution that will allow me to put them back, but I'm doubtful that's going to happen. In any case, I'm extremely interested in other people's replies here. Maybe there's a solution that I haven't been able to find!
by sindriava | 2025-08-27 19:52:35+00:00
> I became a hater by doing precisely those things AI cannot do: reading and understanding human language; thinking and reasoning about ideas; considering the meaning of my words and their context;

With this the article lost all seriousness for me. I may be on board with a lot of what you are saying, but pretending you know the answer to these questions just makes you look as idiotic as anyone who says the opposite.
by neobrain | 2025-08-27 19:52:36+00:00
Oh, that's much simpler. Just buy AMD :)

More seriously, it's only the motherboard and the GPU that can be problematic here in the first place, isn't it? So that's far more manageable using websearch than laptops with their gazillion components. But then again I've only built a new PC once these last 10 years, so maybe I was just very lucky with my choice.
by bawolff | 2025-08-27 19:52:38+00:00
So reading the actual letter what they are asking for:

> 1.Records, communications, or analysis pertaining to possible coordination by nation state actors in editing activities on Wikipedia.

> 2. Records, communications, or analysis pertaining to possible coordination within academic institutions or other organized efforts to edit or influence content identified as possibly violating Wikipedia policies.

> 3. Records of Wikipedia’s Arbitration Committee (ArbCom) including but not limited to all editor conduct disputes and actions taken against them.

> 4. Records showing identifying and unique characteristics of accounts (such as names, IP addresses, registration dates, user activity logs) for editors subject to actions by ArbCom.

> 5. Documentation of Wikipedia’s editorial policies and protocols including those aimed at ensuring neutrality and addressing bias as well as policies regarding discipline for violations.

> 6. Any analysis conducted or reviewed by the Wikimedia Foundation (or by a third-party acting on its behalf) of patterns of manipulation or bias related to antisemitism and conflicts with the State of Israel.

---

IP adress of users who have gotten in trouble with arbcom is quite concerning. That could make people be afraid of contributing to controversial topics in case their IP ends up in US government hands. Definitely a chilling effect.
by Krasnol | 2025-08-27 19:52:48+00:00
This is untrue or those people with "differing views" wouldn't have a way to vote themselves into power after being so loud that it dominated significant parts of the social bubble.

But they were and they are in power now.

So this Self-Victimisation which became even more popular on the right then on the left, is outdated. It was false before but today its falsehood is reality.
by bell-cot | 2025-08-27 19:52:52+00:00
> "The data we have is priceless for any country," Mykhailo Fedorov, who heads Ukraine's digitalisation ministry, told Reuters in an interview, adding that Ukraine is currently "very careful" about sharing it.

In other words - the Dryland Minister of Thingies is merely floating a trial balloon, hoping to find a worthwhile market for Drylandian Thingies.

That seems a reasonable move on Mr. Fedorov's part - but the title is over-spun at best.
by fmajid | 2025-08-27 19:53:02+00:00
Perhaps, but computer makers talk about "(engineering) workstations", they mean powerful machines that are meant to run professional apps like CATIA, and are certified by the makers of said software. If you're Airbus, you are not going to take chances running mission-critical design software on anything less. AMD's product for that market niche is Threadripper or EPYC, and Intel's is Xeon-W.
by kube-system | 2025-08-27 19:53:02+00:00
In 2007 or 2008, defining "users" in this context isn't that straightforward of an exercise.

Apple and Google might have had a good reputation with consumers who were using feature-phones at the time... but they both had bad reputations with most existing smartphone users at the time. Those users were primarily business business users or power users who had requirements that weren't met by most of anything that Apple or Google was putting out at the time. RIM and Microsoft were building the smartphones that were most trusted at the time.

The mass consumer market for smartphones really didn't exist until Apple took phones in that direction. Before that, they weren't entertainment or consumer-focused devices, they were productivity devices.

iOS and Android, by their second or third release, were already better products than Windows mobile 6.5, both for entertainment and productivity. That's the reason they won. Neither of them were "free" to users -- and in fact the devices that they ran on were more expensive than Windows Mobile devices. People were only willing to pay more for these devices because they were doing something entirely different than what Windows Mobile did. They were consumer smartphone devices -- a new category of device that didn't exist.

This is not to be confused with Windows Phone -- which failed because it was way too late to market, way too far behind in ecosystem support, and didn't solve any new problems.
by rurp | 2025-08-27 19:53:04+00:00
I had a memorable experience when a basketball sized rock fell from a 1000' cliff above me. The rock made an unreal buzzing/humming sound as it flew through the air. My first though was that I should throw my helmet on, followed by realizing how little that would help if the stone actually hit me. It missed by a decent margin, maybe ~100', but that was way too close for comfort. Given the angle I couldn't tell if it was even going to miss until the last second.

Rockfall is no joke. Even well established parks like Yosemite have seen a number of deaths from it.
by tialaramex | 2025-08-27 19:53:11+00:00
> if you are worried about this

Obviously nobody knows they've made this mistake, that's why it is important for the compiler to reject the mistake and let you know.

I don't want to use an auteur language, the fact is Andrew is wrong about some things - everybody is, but because it's Andrew's language too bad that's the end of the discussion in Zig.

I like Rust's `break 'label value`. It's very rarely the right thing, but sometimes, just sometimes, it's exactly what you needed and going without is very annoying. However IIUC for some time several key Rust language people hated this language feature, so it was blocked from landing in stable Rust. If Rust was an auteur language, one person's opinion could doom that feature forever.
by prerok | 2025-08-27 19:53:17+00:00
For one, snippets is exactly where you don't get good language comparisons.

For example, python is AFAIK the lead language to get something done quickly. At least as per AoC leaderboards. It's a horrible language to have in production though (experienced it with 700k+ LOC).

Rust is also ok to do for AoC, but you will (based on stats I saw) need about 2x time to implement. Which in production software is definitely worth it, because of less cost in fixing stupid mistakes, but a code snippet will not show you that.
by bn-l | 2025-08-27 19:53:19+00:00
> They referenced a report from the Anti-Defamation League about anti-Israel bias on Wikipedia that detailed a coordinated campaign to manipulate content related to the Israel-Palestine conflict

And there it is. The reason.

Do they have some kind of blackmail on people? It’s almost as if they had an operative throwing parties and video taping the depraved acts of people in power.