MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rzwitserloot | 2025-08-16 09:55:48+00:00
I don't think so.

Even a villain is the hero in their own story.

For the vast majority of folks who are or would be a nuisance in flight, I'm pretty sure:

* If they hear about stories where folks got punished for being obnoxious, they'd think "I would never be that obnoxious - that is not meant for people like me". In other words, they'be oblivious to their own predilections.

* If they are placed in a situation where their instincts would lead them to being obnoxious, they.. will be obnoxious. Even if they 'know' what the consequence are. There are a few reasons for that:

* It's a crime of passion; they can't help themselves. That's the general problem with trying to use rationality to tamper down crime: Most crimes are fundamentally not rational. You don't decide that it is in your best interest to murder someone (outside of an infinitesemal % of the population that are high functioning total psychopaths). No, you do so in the heat of the moment. At which point "Rational brain telling the id to cut it the fuck out because you might be ejected from the plane" is obviously going to have absolutely no tempering effect whatsoever.

* They honestly think it doesn't apply to them. Usually because 'yes of course obnoxious behaviour should be punished by ejecting the obnoxian from the plane. But I'm not obnoxious, you don't understand! That kid is crying and driving me nuts, I had a bad night's sleep, and I have an important meeting right out of the plane so I need my rest so I have to yell at that mom to shut their kid up, see, my intentions are good!'

Ref: Bit of a stretch, but: Similar (in culture, size, average wage, etc) locations with wildly different takes on how important it is to punish crime in order to serve as a 'warning' / to disincentivise crime by making clear that it will be heavily punished. The best place in my experience to look for this is the US where it appears to be culturally in vogue to act as some sort of wild west sheriff trope. The results? Not one iota of difference in crime rates. Or, if anything, the places that punish it more have _more_ crime, not less. And, of course, a million-and-one psych papers.

If you want to make flight less of a nuisance, the rest of this thread has the right idea I think: Given that it's so ubiquitously available and intentionally designed in that way, it's inevitable that the experience sucks. If you want the experience to be less bad, it inherently comes with a reduction in accessibility.

And on top of that, 'travel stress' is real and not something the airline industry can easily tackle. Try to imagine that travel just stresses you out. That it just does. For those who don't suffer from travel stress this can be hard to do. Maybe you have a light fear of heights; channel that. It's easy to see how the experience just kinda sucks if half the people trying to enjoy the view from some high vantage point are lightly freaking out, and they kinda have to be there for other reasons.
by adastra22 | 2025-08-16 09:56:40+00:00
My blanket statement was perhaps too broad. There are less than 10% of ADHD people whom do not demonstrate the paradoxical response to stimulants. That said, the percentage of misdiagnosis is at least that high, which makes one wonder. Mild bipolar is often misdiagnosed as ADHD, for example, and often discovered exactly because stimulants don't work as expected.

I missed on first read that you said the stimulants only had that high for the first few weeks though. That sounds different from what I understand to be the neurotypical response.

> Stimulants still help me regulate my sleep cycle and focus, but I don't think I experience hyperactivity from not being on them.

You may have the distracted variation rather than hyperactive.
by fmbb | 2025-08-16 09:56:43+00:00
> It’s because the bottleneck isn’t in intelligence, but in human tasks: specifying intent and context engineering.

So the bottleneck is intelligence.

Junior engineers are intelligent enough to understand when they don't understand. They interrogate the intent and context of the tasks they are given. This is intelligence.

Solving math questions is not intelligence, computers have been better than humans at that for like 100 years, as long as you first do the intelligent part as a human: specifying the task formally.

Now we just have computer programs with another kind of input in natural language, and which require dozens of gigabytes of video ram and millions of cores to execute. And we still have to have humans to the intelligent part, figure out how to describe the problem so the dumb but very very fast machine can answer the question.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-08-16 09:57:53+00:00
I wouldn't underestimate how easily AI will suppress this through a combination of ultrasurveillance, psychological and emotional modelling, and personally targeted persuasion delivered by chatbot etc.

If all else fails you can simply bomb city blocks into submission. Or arrange targeted drone decapitations of troublemakers. (Possibly literally.)

The automation and personalisation of social and political control - and violence - is the biggest difference this time around. The US has already seen a revolution in the effectiveness of mass state propaganda, and AI has the potential to take that up another level.

What's more likely to happen is survivors will move off-grid altogether - away from the big cities, off the Internet, almost certainly disconnected and unable to organise unless communication starts happening on electronic backchannels.
by isodude | 2025-08-16 09:58:01+00:00
From the West here, but anyway.

> But the cultural stigma? Folks just call it laziness or blame "village people" (supernatural enemies).

Funny, my daughter just stops my explanations after circa one minute, abruptly, saying that her brain just does not listen anymore and there is no reason for me to continue. Which is blunt, but kind. I understand and stop talking, that's that. We can do that since we know our limits, I would assume that Africa in general is more attuned to accepting people as they are? For my daughter it makes a world of difference that she can communicate her ADHD symptoms. The medication are there to make ADHD people behave like "normal" people, but acceptance in the other direction could quite helpful as well.

With some luck and effort you can have some effect with diet. It would be nice to see a graph between the rise of white flour and the amount of ADHD in the world. I would love to step off medication, but it's not doable without switching to sufficient combination training and good diet, I have neither now :) As they point out in the article it can be great to find out your vitamin levels to address shortage.

> These types of complex carbohydrates are less likely to spike your blood sugar levels and help keep you feeling fuller for longer, which may help improve your focus and attention.

> By avoiding simple carbohydrates, like sugar and white flour, you may reduce specific ADHD symptoms. [0]

I just finished fixing my bike (Suntour Perfect) and have started taking it on smaller trips, hopefully that will be _my_ way to a more stable day to day. [1]

[0] https://add.org/adhd-diet/

[1] https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/NxQAAeSwpg1odZbS/s-l1600.jpg (about the same bike)
by ultimafan | 2025-08-16 09:58:26+00:00
I feel like bigger studios have definitely been playing it safer in the last 10-15 years. You used to see a lot more unorthodox ideas and mechanics or just flat out bizarre premises that I'm sometimes baffled even got the green light to go ahead. Today for the most part that kind of daring seems mostly relegated to the indie space. Everyone else looks for the safest option they hope will sell.
by bratwurst3000 | 2025-08-16 09:58:37+00:00
this is true. Regular people get hyperfocus and adhd people get focus. real adhd is a neurologic disorder. its an instability in the flow of dopamin. so adderall puts dopamin flow on 200% and suddenly there is a steady flow for adhd people.

there are maybe 10% of people getting not focused and awake of adderal.

But "adhd brain reacts different then regular brain" is not true. For both its 20x dopamin release in 8 hours.
by lagadu | 2025-08-16 09:59:32+00:00
Once computers and AIs can approach even a small fraction of the our capacity then sure, only cameras is fine, it's a shame that our suite of camera data processing equipment is so far beyond our understanding that we don't even have models of how it might work at its core.

Even at that point, why would you possibly use only cameras though, when you can get far better data by using multiple complementary systems? Humans still crash plenty often, in large part because of how limited our "camera" system can be.
by urbandw311er | 2025-08-16 09:59:48+00:00
Two possibilities spring to mind:

1. They will have added code that declares the app requires an exclusive audio context. So iOS pauses all other audio when the app is foregrounded.

Or

2. It’s possible that they use anti screenshot technology which sometimes involves embedding a secure video in place of an image. The video playback might be grabbing the audio context.
by tim333 | 2025-08-16 09:59:48+00:00
£216 million bat protection tunnel I'll have you know https://ccemagazine.com/news/hs2s-hidden-wildlife-costs-clim...

As someone who lives near a train line with people, pets and wildlife all seeming unbothered by the train line, I'm not sure it's really necessary.

>The project required more than 8,000 permits, each needing surveys, consultation and legal sign-off.
by JdeBP | 2025-08-16 10:00:21+00:00
putty.org's page ranking used to be higher.

* https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/115027646348662282

I suspect that the recent kerfuffle motivated people to finally clean out bogus hyperlinks that casually listed putty.org as the download site, which would have been contributing to inflated page rank up to that point. I found one on a wiki and fixed it, myself, and I'm sure that I was not the only person who went looking.
by tobyhinloopen | 2025-08-16 10:01:15+00:00
It's not a matter of "IF" LLM/AI will replace a huge amount of people, but "WHEN". Consider the current amount of somewhat low-skilled administrative jobs - these can be replaced with the LLM/AI's of today. Not completely, but 4 low-skill workers can be replaced with 1 supervisor, controlling the AI agent(s).

I'd guess, within a few years, 5 to 10% of the total working population will be unemployable due to no fault of their own, because they have relevant skill left, and they are incapable of learning anything that cannot be done by AI.
by KoolKat23 | 2025-08-16 10:01:45+00:00
"Claude’s real-world expressions of apparent distress and happiness follow predictable patterns with clear causal factors. Analysis of real-world Claude interactions from early external testing revealed consistent triggers for expressions of apparent distress (primarily from persistent attempted boundary violations) and happiness (primarily associated with creative collaboration and philosophical exploration)."

https://www.anthropic.com/research/end-subset-conversations
by vladms | 2025-08-16 10:04:11+00:00
> There will always be a limited quantity of being "The Best" at anything

Still, to pick a simple example, we do have different sports at which different people are "The Best". One solution would be to multiple the categories, which I feel is already happening to some extent with all the computer games or niche artistical trends.

And I would claim that very few people are "The Best", it's mostly about not being "the worst" at everything you are involved in.
by rcxdude | 2025-08-16 10:04:16+00:00
The line is indeed, fuzzy. The basic definition of a disorder is very much dependent on context, because in general it requires that the behavior or thought pattern is causing distress or danger to the patient or those around them. There are many facets of the human mind which have a substantial variation among the population, where some range is adaptive to certain situations and some part becomes a problem, and where exactly that flips will depend on the individual and the context they are in. But I think it's unhelpful to claim that because this line is contextual, it means there isn't really a problem. It's a problem because that individual is in that context (and often it's preferable to address the behaviour or thought patterns than the context), and there are individuals where it would be a problem in basically any context.
by risico | 2025-08-16 10:04:28+00:00
Exactly, I do not have any other experience but with Heroku but I was taken aback how easy was to setup and since then just deploy and almost everything work as expected.

I also love their template gallery of pre-existing projects, managed to setup auxiliary stuff like Plausible and Ghost which I wouldn't have done if it wasn't for the one-click install.
by Eisenstein | 2025-08-16 10:05:28+00:00
The person you are replying to was alluding to the fact that 'ejecting' someone out of a plane that was flying would be a demonstration the crew's intolerance for obnoxiousness. In essence, if you don't behave you will be murdered. Seeing this happen to one passenger would almost certainly make everyone else on the flight quiet down and sit still.
by rubidium | 2025-08-16 10:05:55+00:00
For people I talk, it is the end of ZIRP that caused it. ZIRP ended in April 2022.

Even as interest rates went up the VCs still had committed funds to distribute for a year to 18 months. Then the biotechs had runway for 1-2 years from that. Now that’s all gone, and they can’t raise their next series. In the meantime, C&GT plus synbio is recently having a lower win rate than hoped for.

That plus all the money that is there is all going to AI companies due to the shorter time to return / higher potential roic / hype.
by procaryote | 2025-08-16 10:06:08+00:00
subversion used to do that, actually probably still does... and also only checks out the latest revision. Svn is a bother in other ways of course, like being worse at regular version control, and only usable with access to the server etc.

There's a bunch of binary files that change a lot on small changes due to compression or how the data is serialised, so the problem doesn't go away completely. One could conceivably start handling that, but there are lots of file formats out there and the sum oc complexity tends to be bugs and security issues.
by hk1337 | 2025-08-16 10:06:59+00:00
Even in the article the solution wasn’t to abandon the ORM in favor of raw SQL but knowing how to write the code so it doesn’t have to run 100 extra queries when it doesn’t need to.

> Particularly if you’re using an ORM, beware accidentally making queries in an inner loop. That’s an easy way to turn a select id, name from table to a select id from table and a hundred select name from table where id = ?.
by bayindirh | 2025-08-16 10:07:09+00:00
Even though it's false, let's imagine that's true.

Our cameras (also called eyes) have way better dynamic range, focus speed, resolution and movement detection capabilities, Backed by a reduced bandwidth peripheral vision which is also capable of detecting movement.

No camera, incl. professional/medium format still cameras are that capable. I think one of the car manufacturers made a combined tele/wide lens system for a single camera which can see both at the same time, but that's it.

Dynamic range, focus speed, resolution, FoV and motion detection still lacks.

...and that's when we imagine that we only use our eyes.
by dazzawazza | 2025-08-16 10:07:34+00:00
> People should use the VCS that's appropriate for their project rather than insist on git everywhere.

A lot of people don't seem to realise this. I work in game dev and SVN or Perforce are far far better than Git for source control in this space.

In AA game dev a checkout (not the complete history, not the source art files) can easily get to 300GB of binary data. This is really pushing Subversion to it's limits.

In AAA gamedev you are looking at a full checkout of the latest assets (not the complete history, not the source art files) of at least 1TB and 2TB is becoming more and more common. The whole repo can easily come in at 100 TB. At this scale Perforce is really the only game in town (and they know this and charge through the nose for it).

In the movie industry you can multiply AAA gamedev by ~10.

Git has no hope of working at this scale as much as I'd like it to.
by john-h-k | 2025-08-16 10:09:02+00:00
This seems _so_ much like a fake weapon.

It shoots an ice pellet, which can stay perfectly intact for a range of 100m(!), yet leaves a “tiny red prick on the victim” (implying it’s maybe a ~1mm in diameter), yet also instantly melts when it hits the victim?

And the gun has a ginormous scope, on top of a “modified colt m1911” that was made electric? How and why would you modify a non-electric handgun with a large internal barrel for this?
by BoorishBears | 2025-08-16 10:09:26+00:00
I worked at Zoox, which has similar teleoperations to Waymo: remote operators can't joystick the vehicles.

So if we're saying how many times would it have crashed without a human: 0.

They generally intervene when the vehicles get stuck and that happens pretty rarely, typically because humans are doing something odd like blocking the way.
by latexr | 2025-08-16 10:11:57+00:00
> My first approach was embarrassingly naive. "I'll just screenshot the QR code and add it to Apple Wallet as a static image!"

> Reader, I actually did this.

How? I’m very interested in that part.

I remember wanting it because (despite it being possible) services don’t usually allow you to add Wallet passes when you buy from the web, instead requiring you to install their app (which I do not want). But I can already see myself using this for services which don’t even provide Wallet passes.

From the author’s wording, it seems there’s a way to add such screenshots without using a third-party app.
by gear54rus | 2025-08-16 10:12:08+00:00
On the contrary, to me it seemed bare-bones.

Breaks when you use anything but bash as root user shell. Breaks if you have images in private registries with swarm. Breaks if you wanna restrict the API key access to just one project (the key can access all projects lol).

It's a great piece of software, I use it myself. But calling it polished in any way is a bit of a stretch.
by silveraxe93 | 2025-08-16 10:12:26+00:00
The title - "AI is different" - and this line:

""" Yet the economic markets are reacting as if they were governed by stochastic parrots. Their pattern matching wants that previous technologies booms created more business opportunities, so investors are polarized to think the same will happen with AI. """

Are a direct argument against your point.

If people were completely unaware of the lump of labor fallacy, I'd understand you comment. It would be adding extra information into the conversation. But this is not it. The "lump of labor fallacy" is not a physical law. If someone is literally arguing that it doesn't apply in this case, you can't just parrot it back and leave. That's not a counter argument.
by nerdsniper | 2025-08-16 10:12:35+00:00
The inevitable result of this will be spamming the system with basically-the-same patents every year. This article lists the cost to fight patents at $6,000 to $75,000 for each patent. It’ll be hard for small players to adversarially strike down 3,000 self-similar patents every year which block real innovation.

Yes, the patent office should do a better job of understanding their areas of expertise and prior art. In absence of that, perhaps the patent fees could go to a revenue-neutral system where successfully overturning patents as a private citizen results in getting a share of the total pool of filing and renewal fees.
by pvtmert | 2025-08-16 10:13:56+00:00
you could set your password something like "hey siri", which essentially is a keyword to wake siri up.

not often but sometimes, siri wakes up on it's own. i guess people were concerned at early times, but nowadays it's just _another bug_ in the software.

I do not see passphrase (i think the passphrase is a better word for this feature) as a big issue at the moment.
by djrj477dhsnv | 2025-08-16 10:13:57+00:00
Perhaps there are more original or precise sources for the ideas. I've read Jacques Ellul, for example, but for someone not well versed in philosophy like myself, Kaczynski is more accessible and well known.

I don't agree with many of his conclusions or actions, but I have no problem judging the good ideas he advocated on their own merit.
by int_19h | 2025-08-16 10:16:27+00:00
As I recall, Susan Calvin didn't have much patience for sycophantic AI.

‘You can’t tell them,’ said the psychologist slowly, ‘because that would hurt them, and you mustn’t hurt them. But if you don’t tell them, you hurt them, so you must tell them. And if you do, you will hurt them, and you mustn’t, so you can’t tell them; but if you don’t, you hurt them, so you must; but if you don’t, you hurt them, so you must; but if you do, you-’ Herbie was up against the wall, and here he dropped to his knees. ‘Stop!’ he shouted. ‘Close your mind! It is full of pain and frustration and hate! I didn’t mean to, I tell you! I tried to help! I told you what you wanted to hear. I had to!’ The psychologist paid no attention. ‘You must tell them, but if you do, you hurt them, so you mustn’t; but if you don’t, you hurt them, so you must-‘ And Herbie screamed! Higher and higher, with the terror of a lost soul. And when it died away Herbie collapsed into a heap of motionless metal.
by paintistjksgf | 2025-08-16 10:16:33+00:00
While I think one shouldn't paint themselves into a complete corner, but optimizing for changeability signals a lot of abstract complexity to me, which takes time, which in turn takes money.

We can usually have many more cheaper dedicated services for doing a thing that accounts for more good than a single service that grows to become more and more omnipotent. It also means you're much likely to win contracts because you can price yourself competitively
by cesarb | 2025-08-16 10:16:46+00:00
> It does however store complete files (unlike a VCS like mercurial which stores deltas)

The logical model of git is that it stores complete files. The physical model of git is that these complete files are stored as deltas within pack files (except for new files which haven't been packed yet; by default git automatically packs once there are too many of these loose files, and they're always packed in its network protocol when sending or receiving).
by ACCount37 | 2025-08-16 10:16:53+00:00
This isn't a "mistake". This is the key problem of getting self-driving to work.

Elon Musk is right. You can't cram 20 radars, 50 LIDARs and 100 cameras into a car and declare self-driving solved. No amount of sensors can redeem a piss poor driving AI.

Conversely, if you can build an AI that's good enough, then you don't need a lot of sensors. All the data a car needs to drive safely is already there - right in the camera data stream.
by righthand | 2025-08-16 10:18:11+00:00
Are humans meant to create art and celebrate life. That just seems like something people into automation tell people.

Really as a human I’ve physically evolved to move and think in a dynamic way. But automation has reduced the need for me to work and think.

Do you not know the earth is saturated with artists already? There’s whole class of people that consider themselves technically minded and not really artists. Will they just roll over and die?

Everything basically costs zero is a pipe dream where there is no social order or economic system. Even in your basically zero system there is a lot of cost being hand waved away.

I think you need a rethink on your 20 year thought.