MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwanem | 2025-08-18 16:42:59+00:00
You were the one who raised the subject, but sure, if that's the way you want it. You are making a mistake which I believe you will regret, outsourcing future time binding to a machine in this way. You seem to believe you are learning something and I do not think that is true, except for a habit of intellectual laziness that I expect will prove as corrosive for you as lucrative to others.

You're bragging about your calf strength as you habituate to walking with crutches you don't need. Today? Sure, fair enough. Couple years from now? Thank goodness that's not my problem.
by shortrounddev2 | 2025-08-18 16:43:01+00:00
I don't think they considered pedestrian deaths an acceptable trade-off. Probably the way it's framed is "if you don't cross at a crosswalk, your death is your own fault" or "if you let your kids go outside unattended, their deaths are your fault". Nevermind the total lack of crosswalks available. They see these things as examples of rule violations rather than a deficit of pedestrian infrastructure
by qarl | 2025-08-18 16:43:19+00:00
From the article:

Some ask: "Isn't backpropagation just the chain rule of Leibniz (1676) [LEI07-10] & L'Hopital (1696)?" No, it is the efficient way of applying the chain rule to big networks with differentiable nodes—see Sec. XII of [T22][DLH]). (There are also many inefficient ways of doing this.) It was not published until 1970 [BP1].
by jacquesm | 2025-08-18 16:43:45+00:00
> I had to research what gymnasium meant, in the US that just means P.E. which is a class where you do generic sports for an hour each day.

Except... that's not it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnasium_(school)

> Are you saying, in Germany, you can't choose to go academic route in primary/secondary school? The teachers and school decide if you will go into vocational school for mechanics, electrician, etc?

There is an end-of-the-year test for kids in what would be the 8th grade here (and this is not Germany, but the Netherlands), if your last year's teacher sucked or simply doesn't like you then you're off to the vocational school or at best HAVO because there are a limited number of slots for VWO (Athenaeum / Gymnasium).

> That seems to imply class mobility is nearly zero in German education.

It's not zero, but it isn't nearly where it should be, and again, my experience is mostly with NL. Merit matters but it certainly isn't everything and there are certain schools where the gatekeeping is very visible. One way in which this happens is by keeping the number of slots for the highest level artificially low in spite of demand. You then have the choice of moving out of a region to a location where there is room or to accept a lower grade of education for your children. This is very frustrating, especially because kids with the right last names of course always mysteriously get in.

The better schools have a system where they share the first year of high school between all of the pupils and only then do they give the option to choose which track a particular pupil wants to follow. But these are not in the majority.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-08-18 16:44:07+00:00
The log that makes it to the mill is what those stats are about. Not the tree as a whole.

I live in BC and a huge portion of the tree is left in the forest. All of the branches, smaller trees, tops and other bits not worth transporting are burned in slash piles or left in the forest to decompose. There is typically at least a foot thick layer of wood debris left in the cut block after the logging companies come through.

Some forestry companies near me allow firewood processors to come through and grab the leftovers out of the clear cuts, but it is pretty close to a rounding error.
by tantalor | 2025-08-18 16:44:09+00:00
> they were in some sense negligent considering the environment in which they live

Criminal negligence involves a "gross deviation from the standard of care that a reasonable person would exercise in the same situation".

Given the 7-year-old was escorted by a 10-year-old, I think that alone demonstrates a reasonable level of care was taken to protect the younger child.

If the streets are too dangerous for a 10-year-old to cross safely, then you need to look a lot deeper for the true source of the risk.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-08-18 16:44:31+00:00
The ownership class and the labor class both suffer from a coordination problem.

The former from the coordination problem of extracting wealth but not fast enough that it solves the coordination problem for the labor class who, like you said, have strike first and revolt second as their battles of last resort.

The ownership class can voluntarily reduce wealth inequality, and they have before, but as history progresses and time marches on, so do the memories fade of what happens when they don't, pushing them closer and closer to options they don't want to admit work.
by redwall_hp | 2025-08-18 16:44:37+00:00
Macs are around the five year mark for a full ARM transition. Remaining Intel Macs are right on the edge of not receiving software updates anymore, and the Rosetta translation layer already has a scheduled wind down.

Any Mac application will be built for ARM at this point, and anything made for Intel Macs will run seamlessly under Rosetta. And that stuff is mostly limited to developers making Intel Docker images, musicians using some VSTs that haven't upgraded, and games.

This is at least the third major architecture migration for Macs, and they always rip the band aid off and applications have to upgrade or not run. (Motorola to PowerPC, PowerPC to Intel, Intel to ARM.)
by themanmaran | 2025-08-18 16:44:47+00:00
This just seems like massive user error. The same thing could have happened in a low tech environment. And the notetaker just made it more obvious.

Ex: Hop on a conference call with a group of people, Person A "leaves early" but doesn't hang up the phone, then the remaining group talks about sensitive info they didn't want Person A to hear.
by keeda | 2025-08-18 16:45:13+00:00
All your arguments are assertions or appeals to authority with no logical reasoning supporting them.

I invite you again to pinpoint the flaw in this very brief 2-point reasoning (with a number of supporting links above) that nobody over the decades has (maybe you could find something in Lessig's works, but good luck with that):

- Society and commerce is based on exchange of value (again: goods and services)

- When one party gets the value from the other party without returning an acceptable value, it is considered immoral and wrong, and informally called "theft" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44917565)

Just two points. Very simple. Otherwise no point in continuing this thread.
by abeppu | 2025-08-18 16:45:20+00:00
I wasn't involved in the specific details but I remember being told that during the power outage from hurricane Sandy, even datacenters that had sufficient generators had trouble getting the diesel to keep them running, because everyone wanted diesel at the same time and both the supply and distribution were bottlenecked.

How long can most DCs run with just the fuel onhand? Have standards around that changed over time?
by tantalor | 2025-08-18 16:45:22+00:00
> I wouldn't trust a 7 year old to go there alone

The 7 year old was not alone, he was with his older brother.

> They had sent Legend out to the grocery store with his 10-year-old brother when he stepped out in front of traffic.

https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/nc-lawmaker-bring-attentio...
by grues-dinner | 2025-08-18 16:45:39+00:00
Alternatively, when your outsourcing agency finds they have accidentally assigned you an actually good engineer, term used loosely, that you're not paying for (they know this happens when the engineer gets up to speed with your codebase at all), "your guy" is replaced with another guy who inherits the name, the email address and the SSH key.

And if the agency doesn't do that, the good engineer will figure out he's being underpaid as slop-for-hire cannon fodder and move on his own accord.
by mindcrime | 2025-08-18 16:45:57+00:00
Who didn't? Depending on exactly how you interpret the notion of "inventing backpropagation" it's been invented, forgotten, re-invented, forgotten again, re-re-invented, etc, about 7 or 8 times. And no, I don't have specific citations in front of me, but I will say that a lot of interesting bits about the history of the development of neural networks (including backpropagation) can be found in the book Talking Nets: An Oral History of Neural Networks[1].

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Talking-Nets-History-Neural-Networks/...
by jajko | 2025-08-18 16:46:12+00:00
A very effective partial solution - there is absolutely 0 reason to have any meta app cancers on phones/tablets. Just let them go, leave them for laptop/desktop and you are more than 50% there. This way they lose a lot of their instant addictivity.

Same goes for tiktok and similar other shit forming and then feeding on addictions. Everything becomes much easier afterwards, especially long term.

I removed FB apps quite some years ago when they were draining batteries of phones even when not used, a typical bad engineering that facebook seems to never get rid off (their web had always some issues, stuff doesn't work, feed doesn't load, comments fail or get posted 2x, albums don't upload all photos etc. with just ublock origin on firefox on fiber optic). I just don't need even their messenger, any worthy contacts can be migrated to other apps.

The exception to all above - whatsapp, simply too much used in Europe and literally everywhere else outside of US. But that's much better engineered product from start.
by fragmede | 2025-08-18 16:46:15+00:00
Do you spend that kind of money on it now using humans? Talk is cheap. I'm not saying I'd buy one given unknown capabilities and price, but $10k isn't that much for a robot, G1 is currently selling one for $16k and it doesn't do anything.

The first buyers are going to be the mid-wealthy. Live-in maid service is expensive. If the robot actually works, $50k for a live-in maid that you don't need to have space for an apartment in your mansion for them to live in is cheap.
by bilekas | 2025-08-18 16:46:26+00:00
> I think it might be that services like Otter need to be adjusted to take into account that not every part of a meeting is of equal sensitivity.

One would like to think that a company transcribing company meetings of varying degrees of sensitivity would have the feature you're describing built into it. If nothing else other than the auditing process that's usually involved for new software.

Maybe just those companies in a rush to adopt the latest AI tooling are not fully considering what they're doing.
by IAmGraydon | 2025-08-18 16:47:02+00:00
Who knows, but one thing that always holds true about Sam Altman is that what he said is not to be trusted. From all the way back to his days at Reddit, he's shown himself to say whatever is necessary to win. His recent comment struck me as strange because if there's one person who is always going to great lengths to pump the bubble up as much as possible, it's Sam Altman.
by yreg | 2025-08-18 16:47:05+00:00
> Reddit and YouTube are wastes of time if you are just 'checking in'.

I disagree, YouTube has plenty of creative and interesting content if one has enough will to fight the nonsense that the algorithm shovels at you.

Same goes for reddit actually, and reddit is pretty trivial to filter. Subscribe only to the communities that you find worth it and don't open /r/popular etc.
by jzackpete | 2025-08-18 16:47:09+00:00
I had PRK 15 years ago. I also woke up multiple times last night because my eyes felt like they had a bad sunburn (eyes so dry they stick to your eyelids + REM sleep.)

Some unsolicited advice: wait for widespread adoption, and review data on long term side effects from sources without a conflict of interest before you have a procedure like this. I went from 20/150 to 20/15 for a few years (which was pretty cool) but they're 20/40 now so I wear glasses/contacts when I leave the house anyway. Glasses and/or contacts aren't that bad.
by GuB-42 | 2025-08-18 16:47:16+00:00
It happens to me all the time, however, I want to have real answers. And while a LLM is sometimes involved, I usually go deeper, with some cross referencing, fact checking and primary sources. LLMs are great at giving you a starting point, but the problem with them is that it is impossible to distinguish between fact or fiction, so I always have to verify. Really, I have seen my fair share of falsehoods popping up on LLMs, sometimes on simple and uncontroversial topics.

On hot topics like politics, illegal drugs, gender and racial differences, etc... it may be impossible to even get an answer passed the filters.
by zamadatix | 2025-08-18 16:47:30+00:00
As Adam Savage famously said (though I'm sure he was far from the first):

"Remember kids, the only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down."

The quote is a bit of an oversimplification, i.e. "writing it down" isn't all there is to the scientific method, but the core idea something wasn't science until the scientific method was applied is both a tautology and a good thing.
by bigyabai | 2025-08-18 16:47:39+00:00
"The only risks" lol. Tim Cook thought those were the only risks to the App Store too, now look where he is. You lack imagination.

What if [Japan|EU|US DOJ|South Korea] passes a law preventing OEMs from claiming user data as their property? If Apple really tries to go down the road of squeezing pre-juiced lemons like this, I think they're going to be called out for stifling competition and real innovation.
by pixl97 | 2025-08-18 16:47:44+00:00
But it's not just the road. The road itself is an outcome of the buildings on it. When you have things like Super Walmarts/Targets taking up 500,000 square feet, with another 500k sqft of retail shopping surrounded by single family homes you pretty much guarantee that people have to drive there. The entire parking lot is pedestrian unfriendly from the number of cars that arrive there to the excessive heat generated in summer, especially in the southern US.

It's the single family home buyer with two cars and is a registered voter that is demanding the human unfriendly architecture at this point. We are getting more integrated architecture and people seem to like it, but it doesn't replace the millions of miles of bad design we already have.
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-18 16:48:15+00:00
Exactly. Culdesacs exist. Residential developments with all sorts of absurd meandering roads have been the norm since the 70s or 90s depending on where you look. They have their own problems though.

I wonder how many social issues would be rapidly solved it we just rejected people from the discussion for spewing overly simplistic opinions on the basis that they clearly don't "get" all of the nuances of whatever is being discussed.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-08-18 16:48:20+00:00
> You can clearly see that the BBC edited this headline.

Well, sure, but people also commonly believe that they are pressured to do so and eventually relent to the pressure. That they changed something is not strictly evidence that the old version was "factually incorrect".

> I normally just read but thought I'd comment today. (I might have commented before on an old account but if so I've forgotten the details.)

Since we're already on the topic of worthless throwaway accounts, I feel the need to comment on this. This reads like a bit like a "regular internet citizen" phrase of someone who is not that attached to their accounts, which is, of course, a reasonable perspective, but it also reads a lot like someone who's literally paid to read popular discussion sites ("I normally just read") and make accounts they don't care about ("I might have commented before on an old account but if so I've forgotten the details") for the sake of voicing an opinion that benefits their employer if widely believed ("thought I'd comment today"). Just food for thought for the person who is presumably commenting with their genuine opinions. And, of course, readers who are interested in observing sneaky phrases that could potentially cause their thinking to be misdirected.
by nobody9999 | 2025-08-18 16:48:25+00:00
I actually checked a recent bill and it's ~USD0.012/kwh (EU0.10), plus taxes and fees (total cost ~USD0.13/kwh or EU0.11) for the actual electricity.

Then there's a USD0.175 fee for "delivery," plus an additional ~50% in taxes and fees for "delivery (total cost ~USD0.26/kwh or EU0.22) for "delivery."

Total cost: USD0.38/kwh or EU0.33

N.B.: The above detail was for the month of June. Prices do fluctuate and I'd expect that electricity prices for July, especially as hot as it's been here, will be more than for June.

>I'm not sure how I would get a nice number in "€/kWh", though ?

I just divided total cost, including taxes and fees (for electricity and for delivery) by the number of kwh used.

That's not very exact as some of the fees do not vary by usage, but I figured it was close enough.
by w10-1 | 2025-08-18 16:48:26+00:00
Regulating high-demand customers does seem most reasonable. But when the Texas legislature gets involved, it's typically to build a political franchise by creating government power than can be used arbitrarily against a fixed asset. In this case, nothing prevents the grid authority from harassing the data center during the many overload periods when a power contract is coming up for renewal.

Not that businesses aren't abusing the process, either. The article mentions that 80-90% of planned data centers won't be built, due to duplicate applications. They duplicate both to secure a "phantom" slot for power, and to get localities to compete with incentives for business. It's hard to plan a grid when financial speculation and gamesmanship is driving the planning.

The worst aspect is that Texas corruption is explicitly being offered as a model for other states in the PJM interconnect.

I wonder how much of the high economic growth rate in the 1950's-1980's came from the lack of gamesmanship and political franchises. But it's probably unrealistic to think professionals could step back from the very maximalist positions that are selecting them as leaders.
by bilekas | 2025-08-18 16:48:31+00:00
> Person A "leaves early" but doesn't hang up the phone, then the remaining group talks about sensitive info they didn't want Person A to hear.

I'm sorry but any conference software will make it extremely clear who is still on the call. Again I do put a lot of this scenario down to the User-fault. But the fact that this software is "always on" instead of "activated/deactivated" feels like incomplete software suite to me personally.
by jvm___ | 2025-08-18 16:48:40+00:00
I'm backwoods camping next week, and we have 25 people spread out over three sites. I was thinking it would be funny to bring some old rotary dial phones and some sort of way of hooking them up, and then just have that as the intercom between sites for when dinner is ready or whatever.

It's next week, so unlikely to happen and I'm not sure what technology I would need to make it all work. Something like Lora plus a way to make the phones work.
by pixl97 | 2025-08-18 16:50:15+00:00
I mean, seems like a smart idea until you realize at least the US is a democracy (well hopefully still) and the moment you tell people they can't drive their car home they will vote you out or lynch you. So there's that.

Unfortunately the answer isn't going to be telling people they can't do something. We already don't give a damn about the number of deaths we cause, so the actual answer is probably somewhere closer to attempting to educate people so eventually we won't want it.
by throwawaylaptop | 2025-08-18 16:50:19+00:00
I always ponder how many people have a refrigerator in their home their entire life, and what percentage of them don't know how it works.

I've asked several gfs, and they don't have even a hint of how it works. Guy friends do a bit better but not as well as you'd think.

So yes, people live their entire lives not asking obvious questions.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-08-18 16:50:42+00:00
Not necessarily. They’re saving quite a bit from using their own SoCs which they’re also shipping in iPhones and iPads, both from massive economy of scale as well as from not having to make money on each SoC sold (unlike e.g. Intel or Qualcomm).

There’s also other tricks they could pull like sharing screen panels and other components with iPads. Heck they might just use an iPad mainboard flashed with different firmware.
by ViktorRay | 2025-08-18 16:52:05+00:00
I’m glad Valve never sold out with Counter Strike. The game still has that raw brutal aesthetic that works so well with the gameplay. It’s a big part of the reason the game feels the way it does.

Other games have lots of wacky skins and stuff but the Counter Strike games never had that and hopefully never will. Some of the unofficial servers are pretty wacky which is fine as they are unofficial.
by altairprime | 2025-08-18 16:52:10+00:00
“Seek Professional Support” is not interchangeable for the better response not given: “Seek Human Support”. The former is restrictive, but merely portrays the chatbot as untrained at psychiatric care. The latter includes friends, family, and strangers — but portrays the chatbot as incapable of replacing human social time. For a chatbot to only recommend professional human interactions as an alternative to more time with the chatbot is unconscionable and prioritizes chatbot engagement over human lives. It should have been recommending human interactions at the top of, if not altogether in lieu of, every single reply it gave on this topic.
by woodruffw | 2025-08-18 16:52:35+00:00
Author here.

> Probably some of the matching logic that could have been part of the FST is pushed into the normalizer instead.

Yep, exactly -- there's a great deal of prenormalization that in principle could be pushed into automata run over the FST instead. The reason I didn't do that is laziness, but it's the obvious next step :-)
by latchkey | 2025-08-18 16:52:35+00:00
wasteful is your opinion.

Let me give you an example in the real world. Massena Dam in upstate NY generates, a lot, of hydropower. It was built during the time when aluminum smelting was a thing and the pots could never go cold. This constant draw on the grid and the generators was actually a good thing. When they shut down the smelting, you know, cause it created multiple superfund sites, it became a lot harder to operate the Dam.

A few enterprising bitcoin miners took over the old Alcoa smelter buildings and started using the power. When I went to speak with the people who ran the dam, they were super happy about it. Not only were they now receiving revenue to keep funding the operation of dam, but they were also extending the life of it because of the continuous draw.

The obvious argument would be to allocate the power elsewhere. But this is upstate NY, where nobody wants to live. There just isn't enough demand for ~2GW of power up there, plus it is insanely expensive to build transmission for that amount of power to other locations. Even just the maintenance costs on the lines going the few miles to the smelters was insane.

AI is probably the next best thing to take over that power, but this was all happening long before AI became the thing that it has.
by nullc | 2025-08-18 16:52:44+00:00
It's common for pump and dump to be extremely obvious. The reason for this is that many-- in some cases, virtually all-- of the victims/targets are aware it's a P&D and they believe they're going to get out early and leave some sucker holding the bag. In reality, they're the sucker.

Articles like this that discuss the subject and show graphs of spectacular rises without mentioning that people who know its a P&D are frequently among the victims might contribute to the problem. ... While some readers see this and can now recognize a P&D some of them are looking at that graph and thinking "when I next see a P&D I'll join in and exit >>here<<".