MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by KPGv2 | 2025-08-27 04:14:53+00:00
> only the catastrophic is worth addressing

This is a very privileged view of the mind. I have ADHD (and autism). But I also have a quite high IQ, if one cares about such things. I'm pretty successful, professionally.

But it took until around 40yo to get the ADHD diagnosis and get a prescription for medication that has been life-altering. Was I suffering from catastrophic failures? Absolutely not: married, have kids, in the 1%, etc.

But have the meds had an incredibly positive influence on my life? Hell yes. I can do things that everyone else acted like was normal, but I straight up couldn't do it before. Housework is a prime example. It was like torture. Sitting around waiting for people to finish their sentences because they're "talking as slow as molasses" made for often unenjoyable social experiences.

But with the meds, this stuff is either tolerable or fun. My life is significantly better thanks to medical interventions. Instead of my wife blowing up because I didn't do something like mop the kitchen floor, I actually get it done (without meds I straight up cannot hold that kind of task in my mind if I'm not in the room looking at the mess; I will flit between ten other things in a different part of the house, then walk through the kitchen to get into my car to pick up the kids, see the kitchen, and think "ah, fuck me")

I'm happy that you're neurotypical and have a great life, but that's not true for a lot of us, and the idea that "only catastrophic mental issues should be dealt with by professionals" is you just telling on yourself and your ignorances.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-08-27 04:15:00+00:00
First to what market?

Electric cars have been sold since the 1800s (electric vehicles predate the 4-cycle internal combustion engine). Chrysler, Ford, GM, Honda and Toyota all had serial production of EVs in the 1990s or earlier. The land speed record holder in 1900 was an electric vehicle. Tesla wasn't first, they were relatively late, they just got it right in a number of ways.

Self driving? Maybe, but there is a lot of argument about whether a Tesla is self driving. Based on the fact that Tesla themselves require a human driver ready to intervene, it isn't a credible claim.
by MichaelRo | 2025-08-27 04:15:53+00:00
The devil is in the details. There is one interview process that is bulletproof but it's NEVER going to be adopted in mass by private companies: university / police academy admission exams.

Basically you have a set number of places, say 50 jobs and accept candidacies up to a certain date, when ALL candidates (say 1000 candidates) take the SAME exam, under the SAME conditions. They all get marked from 0 to 100% and top 50 of them get the job. If anyone of them drops out, the next in line is admitted. There can be litigations filed to dispute the mark and it's objective because the criteria is the same for everyone.

The perfect system already exists, and it's used here and there. My first intern job,out of the university, was such an exam at a small business. We were some 10 candidates, 5 or so were hired. My current big corporation employer uses the exact same approach for hiring interns, only now in today's shit market it's still some 5 jobs but 500 candidates.

The real problem is that the IT domain got filled and every year the universities and bootcamps and all churn more candidates. Gotta face the fact that most people who want to become cops, who compete at the cop entry exam, will never become cops. IT is the same now.
by daveguy | 2025-08-27 04:17:06+00:00
1) a well designed test suite does run fast.

2) they very easily could have determined how readily the bot talks about suicide under guise of "character development" or whatever they call that very well known jailbreak.

3) move fast and break shit with social media and AI is sociopathic. Better to save it for the todo apps. At this point MFABS is just another way to say unprofessional software engineering in favor of more profit.
by rictic | 2025-08-27 04:17:21+00:00
nix manages the environment too, all direnv is doing in my setup is automatically entering and leaving environments based on my current working directory. Looks like mise does that automatically, which is neat.

mise looks nice, uses PATH manipulation rather than asdf's slow wrappers, and it supports Windows, which is a point over nix. nix only supports unixy environments like Linux, Mac, and WSL.

What might tempt a mise user to try nix are its just truly stupendous collection of packages, so more tools are available. You can also easily add your own packages, either upstream or privately. nix is bigger, more ambitious, more principled, but more complicated. You can build an entire fully-reproducible operating system from a short nix config. It's really cool! But also a lot more to learn, more surface area, more places to get confused or to spend time fiddling with configs rather than solving the actual problem.
by somenameforme | 2025-08-27 04:19:10+00:00
I think the topic of an unequal distribution is somewhat different than somebody earning tremendous amounts of money in exchange for doing literally nothing. It can lead to it of course, but I think that even if we put a million people, from birth, on an island with absolutely identical initial conditions - give the islanders a few generations, and there would be people doing dramatically better than others. I don't really see a problem with this.

The point I was making is that tax receipts don't really tell you much of anything about who's contributing to society. For instance farmers tend to be living close to broke and are typical recipients of various assistance programs. By contrast the Waltons have paid more in tax than most people will earn in their lifetime, many times over. Nonetheless, the world wouldn't even notice if the Waltons, and all like them, suddenly disappeared - whereas there'd be a catastrophic effect were the same to happen to even a tiny fraction of farmers.

In a way the current system is sort of like a privatized deflationary system. Your money becomes worth more over time, but only if you're wealthy enough to buy this privilege. For everybody else, inflation makes their money, and frequently their earnings, only decrease over time. And I think this is highly undesirable, even for somebody 100% okay with inequality.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-08-27 04:19:32+00:00
On a species level, you can imagine an aggression/cooperation "species personality" axis. Humans are in the middle, with chimps more on the aggressive side, and bonobos to the cooperation side.

Being in the middle, humans have a bit of a split personality. We cooperate on a large scale during warfare. But consider the Cold War. Both the US and the USSR were continent-spanning countries with multiple ethnicities. I would argue that cooperation on that scale just isn't that different from cooperation on a planet-wide scale. A species that's capable of one is very likely to be capable of the other. That's part of why I'm not terminally pessimistic about humanity, or starfaring species more generally.

I don't think we can rule out starfaring for a species that's a little more bonobo-like, and defaults to a post-national outlook.
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by goosejuice | 2025-08-27 04:20:25+00:00
I did not get a rational answer.

If you're building a cheap mass market self driving vehicle that has to work everywhere you'll make completely different design decisions than a geo restricted taxi. Would you care to acknowledge that simple fact? The amount of hypotheticals you'd have to go through to compare these technologies in superiority up to this point is extensive. Go ahead, do the thought experiment. It would be a lot more interesting than a blanket interventions per mile with zero context.

Otherwise it's a false equivalence dog pile in search of Internet points. We don't need repeating of exhaustingly well known qualities of Tesla's CEO. That's not interesting, the Internet is already overrun with that.
by zarzavat | 2025-08-27 04:23:08+00:00
If we can extract minerals from the Earth then we can extract them from PV panels to refurbish/build new PV panels.

If you don't like that, then there's also concentrated solar. We're not going to run out of mirrors.

Fissile isotopes on the other hand, once they're gone, they're gone. You can build new reactors that run on different fuel but that's not the same thing as you were doing before, so you can't call the original process renewable.
by userbinator | 2025-08-27 04:23:33+00:00
They are USB3-connected PCIe endpoints, which allow the PCIe NVMe drive to connect to the host as an NVMe device

No?

https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/uploads/framework3/ori...

This is an RTL9210B NVMe enclosure. It's a UAS device (and I believe it supports BOT too.)

I have not examined this in much detail but I believe these converter ICs are actually rather powerful SoCs with PCIe host, SATA host, and USB device peripherals. The existence of firmware (several hundred KB!) for them is further evidence of this fact.
by f33d5173 | 2025-08-27 04:23:38+00:00
There is a debate. The issue is you have first order effects, second order effects, third order effects, etc. If we want to be naive, we only look at first order effects, which gives us the people tariffed pay the tariffs. If we want to be intelligent, we include first order and second order (and so on) effects. What certain people are doing is focusing on particular higher order effects while totally ignoring first order effects. For certain goods this might even be a roughly accurate analysis, but in general it is nonsense. But this is the genesis of the "debate".

The first order effect would be raising prices. A second order effect would be people buying different goods. A third order effect would be importers lowering prices to remain competitive (this is where we get the idea that they pay the cost of tariffs). Another third order effect would be local producers raising prices. A fourth order effect would be importers raising the prices again, because local producers raised prices also. The net effect is higher consumer prices, but potentially not by that much, while foreign producers might have to substantially lower prices. I don't know what good this would apply to, one that is neither a commodity, but it has a very competitive local market. Movies maybe? Trump also came up with the idea that local sellers wouldn't raise prices, and instead eat the price difference. This is highly questionable, but maybe for some goods it would work out...
by safety1st | 2025-08-27 04:24:17+00:00
Well, there's a really easy and straightforward explanation for how this happened. It's just uncomfortable for everyone who's succeeded because of it. So they don't say it.

America abandoned free enterprise in favor of managed monopolies. It happened via a wave of financialization, globalization, government bailouts, mergers and consolidation that all granted immediate financial benefits to shareholders, at the cost of long term competitiveness.

That's it that's the whole story in a nutshell, look at Boeing, Intel and others, you'll see it again and again.

This is not the right way and US economics are looking more like Mussolini's every day.

Force these incumbents to compete. With fragments of each other, or with new American companies. Perhaps shelter them from some foreign competition if you really must.

That would once again unlock the unparalleled power of the 350 million enterprising souls spread between the two coasts. Which is what got America to #1 in the first place.

Give those souls something to do again that isn't meth or opiates.

Managed monopolies are not the way.
by suggestion | 2025-08-27 04:25:35+00:00
Why do you presume I'm neurotypical and undiagnosed with any psychiatric disorder? I'm formally diagnosed with severe OCD, depression, and ADHD. I was on SSRI, then SNRI and additionally methylphenidate for years. Eventually I got tired for feeling like a shell of a human being, and weaned off of the SNRI. It took a lot of effort to induce neuroplasticity and ease my OCD and depression, but I did it. Eventually, I weaned off the methylphenidate because I believed I could do it if I tried. Later in life, I also gained and eventually lost weight, which was a similar acceptance that "bad" things, like hunger, are ok and a symptom of something good, my body consuming fat. Then the same for sore muscles at the gym. Over time, I accepted discomfort and the fight or flight my brain was constantly trying to force onto me was a lie, and eventually my brain and nervous system caught up. My physical and mental health improved, my social life, my professional life, etc.

I bet if you knew your house would burn down if you didn't do "normal" things you would have done them no problem.

Stimulants make otherwise unenjoyable things enjoyable? Who would have thought? Do you think people that do "normal" things enjoy them? Is it necessary to enjoy everything all the time?
by creatonez | 2025-08-27 04:26:20+00:00
> 2. We have a critic LLM that assesses among other things whether the website content is leading a non-aligned initiative. This is still subject to the LLM intelligence, but it's a first step.

> [...]

> 4. These attacks are starting to resemble social engineering attacks. There may be opportunities to shift some of the preventative approaches to the LLM world.

With current tech, if you get to the point where these mitigations are the last line of defense, you've entered the zone of security theater. These browser agents simply cannot be trusted. The best assumption you can make is they will do a mixture of random actions and evil actions. Everything downstream of it must be hardened to withstand both random & evil actions, and I really think marketing material should be honest about this reality.
by btown | 2025-08-27 04:28:17+00:00
As someone who's been saved by look-aheads in many a situation, I'm quite partial to the approach detailed in [0]: use a regex library that checks for a timeout in its main matching loop.

This lets you have full backwards compatibility in languages like Python and JS/TS that support backreferences/lookarounds, without running any risk of DOS (including by your own handrolled regexes!)

And on modern processors, a suitably implemented check for a timeout would largely be branch-predicted to be a no-op, and would in theory result in no measurable change in performance. Unfortunately, the most optimized and battle-tested implementations seem to have either taken the linear-time NFA approaches, or have technical debt making timeout checks impractical (see comment in [0] on the Python core team's resistance to this) - so we're in a situation where we don't have the best of both worlds. Efforts like [1] are promising, especially if augmented with timeout logic, but early-stage.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/74992735

[1] https://github.com/fancy-regex/fancy-regex
by jader201 | 2025-08-27 04:29:37+00:00
The original study published in Science [1] has a better title:

Light pollution prolongs avian activity

> They found that birds were generally vocal for nearly an hour longer in the presence of light pollution. Furthermore, birds that are more exposed, or entrained, to light were more affected, such as those with large eyes and open nests.

The Gizmodo article takes a bit to get to the reference point, being light pollution (I originally mistakenly thought it was a relative to time).

[1] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv9472
by happysadpanda2 | 2025-08-27 04:29:49+00:00
Aha! I too have seen thumbnails of videos with context clues (product brands in the thumbnail which doesn't exist under that brand in my country) yet with a video title in my native tongue, which a clear "machine translation"-feel to it.

Until I read this thread I assumed that it was the content creator doing shenanigans (low quality AI slop video mass-produced in many languages and targeting my locale with videos for my locale), but it does make so much more "sense" that it would be YT doing this.

And my reaction to those thumbnails, thinking it was the creator doing low quality AI slop, was to "reward" them with "Don't recommend this channel".

So I have been punishing innocent channels for crap that YT is doing...
by ben_sisko | 2025-08-27 04:30:39+00:00
“Chemical imbalance” lol.

You have inadvertently outed yourself as not having a clue by your reply. It’s nothing personal but you just clearly don’t have a clue and/or don’t have skin in the game.

It’s fine. I don’t know anything about professional juggling because I have zero skin in that game.

Paging Dr. Brochacho: fMRI and brain networks have been around for a while!
by defrost | 2025-08-27 04:31:41+00:00
> Or did I miss something important?

Pretty much.

The question you posed above, the question that piqued my interest that I responded to, was

> What's the bigoted history of those terms?

I barely hinted at the bigotry inherent in the creation of a black list by Charles II in response to the bigotry inherent in the execution of Charles I as I was curious as to where your interest lay.

Since then you've ignored the bigotry, ignored the black list in the time of Charles II, imagined and projected all manner of nonsense about my position, etc.

I suspect you're simply ignorant of the actual meaning of the word bigot in the time of Charles I & II, and it's hilarious seeing your overly performative accusations of others being performative.

> Want to help? Demand that police stop assaulting and murdering people of color.

I'm not sure how that has any bearing on the question of the bigotry aspect to the Charles II black list but if it makes you feel any better I was a witness against the police in a Black Deaths in Custody Royal Commission a good many years past.

For your interest:

1661 Cowley Cromwell Wks. II. 655 He was rather a well-meaning and deluding Bigot, than a crafty and malicious Impostor. 1741 Watts Improv. Mind i. Wks. (1813) 14 A dogmatist in religion is not a long way off from a bigot. 1844 Stanley Arnold II. viii. 13 [Dr. Arnold] was almost equally condemned, in London as a bigot, and in Oxford as a latitudinarian.

As we're a long way down a tangential rabbit hole here am I to assume it was yourself who just walked through flagging a run of comments that don't violate guidelines? Either way curiosity and genuine exchanges go further than hyperbolic rhetoric.
by UltraSane | 2025-08-27 04:32:14+00:00
But these new amazing AI image generators lets you just say "It wasn't me, it is an AI fake". Long term they will seriously devalue blackmail material.

I read a scifi novel where they invented a wormhole that only light could pass through but it could be used as a camera that could go anywhere and eventually anytime and there was absolutely no way to block it. So some people adapted to this fact by not wearing clothes anymore.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-08-27 04:32:55+00:00
>Attack applications may use a suitable API to request that [the evil bit] be set. Systems that do not have other mechanisms MUST provide such an API; attack programs MUST use it.

Potential flaw: I'm concerned that attackers may be slow to update their malware to achieve compliance with this RFC. I suggest a transitional API: Intrusion detection systems respond to suspected-evil packets that have the evil bit set to 0 with a depreciation notice.
by mayama | 2025-08-27 04:33:37+00:00
> I don't quite understand how the airplane shape made it easier to model the loading and positioning? (Not saying you're wrong, just doesn't fit my intuition and I'm curious).

You can approximate space shuttle reentry to roughly a 2d surface entering atmosphere. Because of airplane shape, the tile side faces atmosphere and the plasma goes around plane edges. Where as starship being cylinder doesn't have any separation boundary and plasma roughly goes more than 180% of the cylinder.
by rogerrogerr | 2025-08-27 04:33:56+00:00
Literally everything you wrote is false, you should educate yourself more to avoid spreading misinformation:

1. FSD on a new car is currently $8k [0]

2. FSD has been transferable on buying a new car for a while - there’s usually some kind of promo [1]

3. If you don’t transfer it to a new car, it does transfer with the car [2]

—-

0: https://www.tesla.com/model3/design#overview

1: https://www.tesla.com/support/fsd-transfer

2: I bought my car used and FSD stayed with the car, the default behavior unless you use a promo like [1]
by pxc | 2025-08-27 04:34:07+00:00
My lazy heuristic is to use nix-locate to search through the 100k packages in Nixpkgs, e.g.:

> nix-locate -r 'bin/uv'

Not perfect, but sort of useful for choosing names for executables for internal corporate projects, little wrapper scripts, etc. It's definitely still possible to find reasonable names!

But I've never done the analysis of such short names yet :D
by fruitworks | 2025-08-27 04:34:16+00:00
I know a guy who was a nuclear engineer and geologist who did planning for yucca mountain and he seemed to know his stuff.

I don't know if you would be getting that much water in the desert that is the nevada test site, or who would even be drinking from that water.

Also the cat litter thing you mentioned earlier is already regulated by 10 CFR, and all uranium offgasses radon (even natural uranium that never gets dug up and used in a reactor in the first place).

The threat from used fuel is that the short lived nuclides seep into groundwater, or that someone might use the fissile material create a weapon. So as long as you keep it in a deep cave in the middle of nowhere and guard the entrance, it's fine.

Solar will probably remain cheap as long as it can take advantage of the existing grid capacity and push that storage externality on the rest of the electrical grid.

Nuclear's long-term problem in the USA is the massive reserves of cheap shale gas discovered in the last 10 years.
by anon6362 | 2025-08-27 04:35:35+00:00
Oddly enough, I bought a bunch of M.2 format adapter things from the overseas fleamarket. One includes 9 SATA ports in a 2280 form factor. I've also seen PCIe x8/x16 expansion boards that connect via M.2.

If I had transfinite funds, I would make a video about turning a dual socket motherboard+CPU combination with the most PCIe lanes with the goal to connect maximum GPUs via Thunderbolt 4 hubs and enclosures, PCIe bifurcation cards, and M.2-to-PCIe adapters (whichever method maximizes GPU count) all powered by many PSUs.
by ben_sisko | 2025-08-27 04:35:35+00:00
The exercise and food science people are the worst of social science buddy. Or just “social” something, because it’s not science. “Science-based” always makes me laugh.

The DSM only matters if somebody is actively seeking treatment for something that they have a problem with in their own situation. So what’s in there is totally irrelevant for the public at large. It’s only if somebody shows up and says there’s something going on that they don’t like. It’s really just billing codes, man. The reality is far different anyway, and it just gets distilled down to these primitive codes.