MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ripjaygn | 2025-08-16 01:51:54+00:00
Two bills were passed with zero Republican votes in 2021 and 2022 by Democrats, the repeal could've been included in either if democrats wanted.

> As stated above, it was 14 to 13 by party lines in this committee, and that's a negligible difference

There were only 27 members in the committee. So all the Democrats on the committee voted against the repeal and all the republicans voted for the repeal.

How is that a negligible difference? That's a massive maximum difference between the parties, in fact it was impossible to have a higher difference.
by A1kmm | 2025-08-16 01:52:00+00:00
And once a CPU is attacked with a voltage glitching type attack, the compromise is so complete that the secret seeds burned into the hardware are leaked.

Once they are leaked, there is no going back for that secret seed - i.e. that physical CPU. And this attack is entirely offline, so Intel doesn't know which CPUs have had their seeds leaked.

In other words, every time there is a vulnerability like this, no CPU affected can ever be trusted again for attestation purposes. That is rather impractical - so I'd consider even if you trust Intel (unlikely if you consider a government that can coerce Intel to be part of your threat model), SGX provides rather a weak guarantee against well-resourced adversaries (such as the US government).
by elcritch | 2025-08-16 01:52:45+00:00
> (which has no physical diagnosis criteria, just a subjective checklist),

An ADHD diagnosis is not just subjective checklist. There's little regulation, but in order to get federal ADA accommodations in gradschool I had to get a diagnosis that took weeks. First I had a professional IQ exam which took 6 hours and highlighted that certain sub-scores were low indicative of ADHD, in particular working memory. Then there was testing with reflexes and attention regulation via computer testing. Finally there wad several counseling sessions reviewing childhood patterns and history, life and work impacts, etc.

Also you can scan ADHD brains with fMRI and see the differences.

> Why in the world would anybody be motivated to suppress the widespread usage of adderall for ADHD

Similar reasons as to why you're throwing shade at ADHD diagnosis criteria and hinting at that ADHD is fake. Maybe it's just ableism or puritanical views against the idea of stimulants.

Perhaps moral aspersions on a group of people whose symptoms look like they're just lazy. This is the most common in my experience.

> Who would be bribing them?

Some of the worse oppressors are those who do it because they believe they're doing it for your good. Perhaps beaurocrats enjoying the power in their fiefdom.

> Do you think that the DEA gets to make decisions about drug policy,

Well yes, especially before the Chevron doctrine was overturned recently by the Supreme Court [1]. Even Congress doesn't know what the DEA set their quotas for schedule 2 drugs at [2].

> or that they all belong to some secret anti-adderall church?

Heh, you'd be surprised [3].

1: https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/06/supreme-court-strikes-dow... 2: https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Lette... 3: https://www.bunkhistory.org/resources/the-cult-of-j-edgar-ho...
by Spooky23 | 2025-08-16 01:53:19+00:00
Yeah that’s remarkably similar to my experience. The only surprise is that my hearing was excellent — all of those punk shows in the 90s didn’t damage my hearing!

If it bugs you, a good audiologist or instrumentation specialist can measure the frequencies impacted and mitigate it with hearing aids. I tried it, and i would best describe it like transitioning from 1080p to 4k. The gotcha is the hearing aids are expensive and it is difficult to get a diagnosis that insurance will cover as it’s technically not a hearing loss.
by jwdavidson | 2025-08-16 01:53:25+00:00
As a teenager, I worked at a big box store that figured out how to monetize this: The department I worked in had a blank on the pricing form marked "Hand Placement Fee" that our company trainer taught us to call the "PIA Charge"

We were instructed to upcharge customers for being jerks, and use our own judgement to determine the fee.
by skissane | 2025-08-16 01:54:23+00:00
> and that crackdown is - depending on who you ask - partially/fully responsible for the stimulant shortages the past few years.

Australia has been experiencing psychostimulant shortages in recent years, but they haven’t been due to the DEA (or Australian equivalent thereof-most of the DEA’s functions are state government responsibilities in Australia), they’ve been explained as due to manufacturing issues and growing demand - https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinical/further-adhd-medic... - while I totally believe the US is facing additional issues due to its own regulatory regime, if Australia is having supply issues independent of that factor, why wouldn’t the US too?

Since controlled substances prescribing is a state issue in Australia, each state has its own policies - but I know my state (NSW) has been loosening regulation not tightening it - https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinical/first-phase-of-gp-...
by pedalpete | 2025-08-16 01:54:57+00:00
Earlier this week our team were talking about how AI coding tools for our services is great, but we didn't think it was great for firmware development.

This may be just because there isn't as much embedded training data. I'm not sure if you have thoughts on that.

I've passed it onto the team. Congrats on the launch. Clearly solving a great niche.
by BoorishBears | 2025-08-16 01:55:05+00:00
LMArena (https://lmarena.ai/?chat-modality=image) currently has a model codenamed `nano-banana` that is generally strictly better than gpt-image-1

There's some speculation it's Gemini 3's multi-modal output, and other speculation that it's an OpenAI model. Hard to definitively since these models tend to hallucinate when interrogated.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-08-16 01:55:23+00:00
Because technology is a global industry and if you can’t compete with these workers you surely won’t be able to compete with these workers when the company that was willing to pay them $150k to work in San Francisco can pay them $50k to work out of Romania.

Instead of that individual now paying 80-90% of their income to US taxes and US businesses and saving the rest in U.S. banks providing even cheaper capital for US businesses, they will be doing the same in Romania.

And worse, if that person does create a new startup, the majority of employees hired will be in Romania, and only a tiny fraction would be Americans who moved there to work for that company, and would be competing with American companies with a much lower cost basis.

But hey, Romania will be pleased for sure.
by noduerme | 2025-08-16 01:56:37+00:00
>> The most clever lines of code are the ones you don’t write.

Just to add, I think there are three things that LLMs don't address here, but maybe it's because they're not being asked the broader questions:

1. What are some reasonable out-of-band alternatives to coding the thing I'm being asked to code?

2. What kind of future modifications might the client want, and how can we ensure this mod will accommodate those without creating too many new constraints, but also without over-preparing for something that night not happen?

3. What is the client missing that we're also missing? This could be as simple as forgetting that under some circumstances, the same icon is being used in a UI to mean something else. Or that an error box might obscure the important thing that just triggered the error. Or that six years ago, we created a special user level called "-1" that is a reserved level for employees in training, and users on that level can't write to certain tables. And asking the question whether we want them to be able to train on the new feature, and if so, whether there are exceptions to that which would open the permissions on the DB but restrict some operations in the middleware.

"What are we missing" is 95% of my job, and unit tests are useless if you don't know all the potential valid or invalid inputs.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-08-16 01:57:50+00:00
I don't understand what you mean by "the ugliness of branches".

In my experience, branches are totally awesome. Worktrees make branches even more awesome because they let me check out multiple branches at once to separate directories.

The only way it could get better is if it somehow gains the ability to check out the same branch to multiple different directories at once.
by axiologist | 2025-08-16 01:57:52+00:00
»People with autism are better than the rest of us at filtering out extraneous contextual information in order to make rational economic decisions. For them, the package color and the products it is surrounded by are irrelevant to whether or not they put it in their basket. Instead, the autistic shopper focuses on what really matters: ingredients, price, and the necessity of even owning the product. Time and again they select the best product for their needs regardless of how it is displayed.«
by mrlongroots | 2025-08-16 01:58:32+00:00
I have diagnosed ADHD and I agree largely with the person you are responding to.

The claim is not that ADHD is not a set of people with real psychiatric disorders, but it is a loose umbrella for what are actually disparate problems.

I recently learned that my symptoms, to a large extent, can be explained more accurately as POTS or something adjacent, and the meds I guided my psychiatrist towards were far more helpful than the stimulants I was being prescribed. This was a combination of me, reddit, and later LLMs arriving at me-specific diagnoses that go beyond clinical guideline regimes.
by xpe | 2025-08-16 01:58:34+00:00
Maybe, maybe not. What evidence do you have? What other motivations did you consider? Do you have insider access into Anthropic’s intentions and decision making processes?

People have a tendency to tell an oversimplified narrative.

The way I see it, there are many plausible explanations, so I’m quite uncertain as to the mix of motivations. Given this, I pay more attention to the likely effects.

My guess is that all most of us here on HN (on the outside) can really justify saying would be “this looks like virtue signaling but there may be more to it; I can’t rule out other motivations”
by rjn32s | 2025-08-16 01:59:17+00:00
The Gemma 3 270M is a small, 270-million parameter model that was created specifically for task-specific fine-tuning. It has already been trained to have strong text structuring and instruction-following skills.

colab :: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Dqohq4sb6ASeuG_8Bl6...
by andrekandre | 2025-08-16 01:59:38+00:00
> Today, I believe that's not me. The TextKit 2 API and its implementation are lacking and unexpectedly difficult to use correctly. While the design is solid, it proved challenging to apply in real-world applications.

when making new apis its a good idea to have people try and use it like this to find and fix the rough edges and fix bugs... it definitely feels like apple didn't do that (at least enough) here...
by hombre_fatal | 2025-08-16 01:59:55+00:00
Interesting. I got a 90-day bottle from a doc in my hometown until 2022. That's when I moved back to Texas but didn't want to drive all the way to my hometown anymore to see that doc.

Now I go to some "psychiatrist" pill mill where they made me take a BS $200 computer test to diagnose me with ADHD (CYA even though I've been taking this drug for 16 years) and they ask me the same goofy questions every televisit (probably more CYA).

Yeah, it was $1000-1200 for 90 pills of Vyvanse all that time. GoodRX only knocked it down $200 or so. And the website coupon only applies to 30-day.

Now with insurance, Vyvanse is $100 for 30 while generic is $10.
by lisbbb | 2025-08-16 02:00:13+00:00
I just noticed tonight that the movie theaters in my city closed up July 27--there's already weeds growing up out front. This was a really depressing epiphany because the mall next door is basically dead, too. I feel like 2020 killed this place but it's been a delayed reaction, same as my tech career. All we have now here in the upper midwest are people wandering around wearing outfits more suited to the desert conditions of Africa and I guess they don't go to the movies, so...
by rootusrootus | 2025-08-16 02:01:08+00:00
> Past that, there is a challenge in tossing around $250k and $500k houses as examples of anything. Those numbers are 4x & 8x over what typical-wage households can afford.

Is that true? A median household (with ~80K income) should be able to swing a 250K mortgage, probably a $325K house with down payment.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-08-16 02:01:19+00:00
Agglomeration effects are real. Research has constantly shown that people working in high productivity area generate more wealth than the same people working outside high productivity areas.

The real problem, IMO, is that workers in the tech industry have voluntarily destroyed these agglomeration benefits by using the short period of power workers had during/after the pandemic to insist on work from home instead of better worker protections.

As a result, it’s very possible that high productivity areas in the U.S. are no longer that, and remote work has reduced all Americana’s productivity, making it impossible to justify the higher cost of living and salaries in big cities.
by cedws | 2025-08-16 02:02:15+00:00
So why can’t they learn? We have Google, we have Stack Overflow, we have LLMs. My cynical take is that there’s just nobody there who gives a shit about the UX, most likely the team that built all of their backend stuff is long gone (quit or laid off) and now there’s a skeleton team of the cheapest possible engineers just keeping it running.
by memmel | 2025-08-16 02:02:16+00:00
I'm in the same boat - I decided this week for DVC over LFS.

For me, the deciding factor was that with LFS, if you want to delete objects from storage, you have to rewrite git history. At least, that's what both the Github and Gitlab docs specify.

DVC adds a layer of indirection, so that its structure is not directly tied to git. If I change my mind and delete the objects from S3, dvc might stop working, but git will be fine.

Some extra pluses about DVC: - It can point to versioned S3 objects that you might already have as part of existing data pipelines. - It integrates with the Python fsspec library to read the files on demand using paths like "dvc://path/to/file.parquet". This feels nicer than needing to download all the files up front.
by nerdsniper | 2025-08-16 02:02:18+00:00
An argument could be made for the wrong “time horizon” of profit. Target quarterly profits and you might cannibalize your business. Target profits to far in the future and you might go bankrupt.

But in the general case I mostly agree with you. Sometimes though, businesses reach a market saturation level where “making the line go up” every quarter is bad for the health of the business.
by danpalmer | 2025-08-16 02:02:56+00:00
It doesn't to me. I can tell AI writing because it has irrelevant details that don't add facts or colour to the story, but this doesn't have any of that really. The tangents come across as human, not AI doing a bad impression of human.

Things like em-dashes are a really bad way to detect AI because they can be good grammar and improve text readability, same with curly quotes. I use them all the time in my writing, and I wouldn't be surprised if this iOS dev feels similarly as Apple platforms have emphasised this stuff for years.
by mdaniel | 2025-08-16 02:03:37+00:00
In the midst of a gold rush, sell shovels and maps

In the less glib way, I'll draw attention to the fact that machine learning roles are only one moving part of the machinery required to manage, operate, train, evaluate, demo, and integrate AI adjacent opportunities. That's to say one need not be a pytorch or differential equation ninja to contribute meaningful to riding the hype train
by SR2Z | 2025-08-16 02:04:34+00:00
I don't think you get there without an AC, but the point is that many people have AC and central air and use both of them.

My guess is that most people don't have AC or are sensitive to price increases and choose not to run it. There's also multiple electricity providers in the state; NorCal uses PG&E and SoCal uses Edison.

For a variety of complicated and corruption-related reasons, PG&E has jacked rates through the roof in an absolutely unconscionable way and Edison's rates have only increased by a lot.
by brucehoult | 2025-08-16 02:04:42+00:00
All files in git are binary files.

All deltas between versions are binary diffs.

Git has always handled large (including large binary) files just fine.

What it doesn't like is files where a conceptually minor change changes the entire file, for example compressed or encrypted files.

The only somewhat valid complaint is that if someone once committed a large file and then it was later deleted (maybe minutes later, maybe years later) then it is in the repo and in everyone's checkouts forever. Which applies equally to small and to large files, but large ones have more impact.

That's the whole point of a version control system. To preserve the history, allowing earlier versions to be recreated.

The better solution would be to have better review of changes pushed to the master repo, including having unreviewed changes in separate, potentially sacrificial, repos until approved.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-08-16 02:05:07+00:00
> I want a government-issued digital ID with zero-knowledge proof for things like age verification

I absolutely do not want this, on the basis that making ID checks too easy will result in them being ubiquitous which sets the stage for human rights abuses down the road. I don't want the government to have easy ways to interfere in someone's day to day life beyond the absolute bare minimum.

> government issued email, integrated with an OAuth provider

I feel the same way, with the caveat that the protocol be encrypted and substantially resemble Matrix. This implies that resetting your credentials won't grant access to past messages.
by kjellsbells | 2025-08-16 02:05:25+00:00
> We should be putting them to work in Canada instead so we can build companies and industries in Canada instead of America

OK...I'll bite. Every Canadian government, of either party, has agreed with you for the last sixty years. Your country has excellent universities, the infrastructure is decent, the politics are non-violent...and yet people bail. I could say the same about the UK as well, but it's harder for their brains to drain to the US.

So: why is Canada failing to hold on to their homegrown talent? Is it a "push out" of Canada (driving talent away) or a "pull in" to the US (America having something irresistible)?
by pj_mukh | 2025-08-16 02:05:38+00:00
As per your article:

“But Mollick said it’s too early to gauge how disruptive AI will be to the workforce. ”

I’d like a follow up article when I’m guessing a good chunk of these writers were hired back when their managers realized ChatGPT can’t help replace real creative writing output. It can only create more dead internet spaces that don’t make money long term.

There will always be bad managers making shitty decisions and journalists and CEO's eager to confirm a narrative, AI or no-AI

Source: Building an AI production studio myself and the first thing we had to do was hire writers to drive the creative effort.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-08-16 02:06:19+00:00
> That's comfortable in most major American cities, but not rich.

I agree that's not exactly rich, but that's a damn sight more than "comfortable". That's really good money. I'm not even saying that's the problem with air travel like GP claimed, but let's not pretend that $160k isn't a great salary. That's more than I make as a principal systems engineer in the tech industry!
by caminanteblanco | 2025-08-16 02:06:45+00:00
This feels to me like a marketing ploy to try to inflate the perceived importance and intelligence of Claude's models to laypeople, and a way to grab headlines like "Anthropic now allows models to end conversations they find threatening."

It reminds me of how Sam Altman is always shouting about the dangers of AGI from the rooftops, as if OpenAI is mere weeks away from developing it.
by bugglebeetle | 2025-08-16 02:06:57+00:00
I also experienced recently that gate agents will lie about this to decrease turn around time if a plane is running late. We were forced to gate check ours after being told the plane was too full to hold all, only to get onboard and find ample space. When we asked the flight attendant, they apologized and said they did not tell them to do this, but it’s unfortunately common at airports with frequent delays. So charge ridiculous bag fees, forcing everyone to carry on, which delays boarding, so they lie to you and check your bag for free (which maybe you would’ve done to begin with if that was an option), only to board a plane and feel duped. All around great experience!
by junon | 2025-08-16 02:07:04+00:00
rdtsc instruction access is gated by a permission bit. Sometimes it's allowed from userspace, sometimes it's not. There were issues with it in the past, I forget which off the top of my head.

It's also not as accurate as a the High Precision timer (HPET). I'm not sure which platforms gate/expose which these days but it's a grab bag.
by nashashmi | 2025-08-16 02:07:25+00:00
Today’s black magic can be traced to the time of King Solomon. He had powers that were of wonder. And people tried to emulate it. There are secret orders that are dedicated to exploring and protecting the information gained from that time.

Two angels were sent down to teach the people magic but each time they taught they told the learners this information will be a great test and temptation to you and lead you to hell. (So why teach it?)
by g8oz | 2025-08-16 02:07:50+00:00
Gaza was never independent by any meaningful metric. Ground, air and sea access are all controlled by Israel.

Water and electricity have to come from Israel. Attempts to install solar panels resulted in them being bombed. Israeli officials control food deliveries as well. Years ago a document was leaked showing how they tracked caloric intake of Gaza residents to make sure that they are not "overfed".

Gaza was and is an open air prison. Trying to understand the conflict from the lens of the usual "2 countries beefing" will lead to faulty analysis. Gaza has been occupied since 1948 and Israel is the occupier.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-08-16 02:08:07+00:00
No.

Interacting with a program which has NLP[0] functionality is separate and distinct from people assigning human characteristics to same. The former is a convenient UI interaction option whereas the latter is the act of assigning perceived capabilities to the program which only exist in the mind of those whom do so.

Another way to think about it is the difference between reality and fantasy.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing
by reikonomusha | 2025-08-16 02:08:22+00:00
It doesn't make sense in and of itself. We usually think of division as a closed operation: we divide two things (like real numbers) and we get the same kind of thing out (another real number).

In Hamilton's original view of quaternions, he defined a "geometric quotient" of two 3d directed lines (one kind of object) as being a quaternion (another kind of object), and gave all sorts of complicated geometric formulas for how to calculate it.
by danaris | 2025-08-16 02:08:32+00:00
...How do you figure that?

No one's trying that policy. It's certainly not what's led us to this point. Building is nowhere near fast enough to keep up with demand, especially in the areas with lots of homeless people, and especially in the affordable price ranges.

Seems to me the policy that has the consequences you describe is, in fact, the policy you described in the GP.

Reminds me of all the posts I've seen with photos of things happening in America—a country which is, quite famously, under capitalism—with captions saying "this is what socialism gets you!"