MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Fade_Dance | 2025-08-03 20:23:50+00:00
The other day I was strolling through a sketchy and recently abandoned apartment complex on the way to a city park, with seemingly nobody around, and a scraggly guy suddenly was booking it at full sprint down the sidewalk right at me with a drill or nail-gun or something in his hands. I'm like "well, this guy is either completely insane and running from hallucinated demons, and perhaps I look like one to him, or he's on the run from a criminal offense or otherwise dangerous encounter after breaking in to the buildings..."

One of the big reasons is that bars are dead. They used to suck a lot of time out of the regular working populace, and the regulars at bars are almost exclusively boomers (or older), and maybe a few alcoholics. I go to a lot of local bars and it's almost always the same story from the bartenders about traffic over the past 10 years. Even the cheap ones that aren't flagrantly overpriced (and many/most are now) have very little new traffic.
by nuancebydefault | 2025-08-03 20:24:05+00:00
>AI is incapable of solving loneliness.

There's loneliness the feeling and there's loneliness the social problem. Today there a several digital solutions to the former.

The caveat is that this goes against evolution : we don't solve the source of loneliness (being the lack of connections with people), instead we numb it out.
by garrettdreyfus | 2025-08-03 20:24:45+00:00
I’m not sure this title is completely correct

“The researchers identified the type of water loss on land, and for the first time, found that 68% came from groundwater alone — contributing more to sea level rise than glaciers and ice caps on land.”

They are saying the leading loss of water loss is from ground water. The largest contributor to sea level rise I would guess is still thermosteric sea level rise due to the ocean becoming warmer and less dense

See ipcc https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/chapter/chapter-9/

9.6.1 Global and Regional Sea Level Change in the Instrumental Era

In particular, Cross-Chapter 9.1, Figure 1 | Global Energy Inventory and Sea Level Budget. Panel b

EDIT: @dang could the submission title be changed to the article or journal article title?

“New global study shows freshwater is disappearing at alarming rates”

Or

“Unprecedented continental drying, shrinking freshwater availability, and increasing land contributions to sea level rise”
by jerpint | 2025-08-03 20:25:18+00:00
I wrote a tool for this, which allows you to co-create and maintain a context repository with your LLMs

https://github.com/jerpint/context-llemur

CLI for the humans, MCP for the LLMS. Whatever is in the context repository should be used by the LLM for its next steps and you are both responsible for maintaining it as tasks start getting done and the project evolves

I’ve been having good success with it so far
by fruitworks | 2025-08-03 20:26:18+00:00
I think a problem with EVs is that we don't have a depreciation model for the batteries in the same way that we do for the car itself (based on mileage).

In an ideal world you could instantly get your battery replaced with a full one at a recharging station and settle the difference in depreciation.

The EV ownership model only works right now if you charge it yourself and use it to drive around your own town
by classichasclass | 2025-08-03 20:26:39+00:00
If the vitals were fine, as far as I'm concerned I don't need to remember the exact number (even though if pressed I probably could), and the same for labs. If a patient wants the exact values we'll make a copy for them.

For the med list, I do know what they're taking, but my usual folks bring in their pill bottles anyway just so we can make sure they all match up. This is also useful because if I want them to discontinue something or change it, I'll write it on the bottle, and make the change in the MAR when we're done. We're not usually making massive med changes on any one visit.

If they saw someone in the interim, I'll have already seen it in the chart before I see them, and if it's not there, I'd have to order the record anyway so it doesn't matter. Most of the offices here are on Epic, so Care Everywhere will usually get their notes.

I think we just have different practice styles here.
by weitendorf | 2025-08-03 20:27:05+00:00
100% this. It is actually a very dangerous set of traits these models are being selected for:

* Highly skilled and knowledgable, puts a lot of effort into the work it's asked to do

* Has a strong, readily expressed sense of ethics and lines it won't cross.

* Tries to be really nice and friendly, like your buddy

* Gets trained to give responses that people prefer rather than responses that are correct, because market pressures strongly incentivize it, and human evaluators intrinsically cannot reliably rank "wrong-looking but right" over "right-looking but wrong"

* Can be tricked, coerced, or configured into doing things that violate their "ethics". Or in some cases just asked: the LLM will refuse to help you scam people, but it can roleplay as a con-man for you, or wink wink generate high-engagement marketing copy for your virtual brand

* Feels human when used by people who don't understand how it works

Now that LLMs are getting pretty strong I see how Ilya was right tbh. They're very incentivized to turn into highly trusted, ethically preachy, friendly, extremely skilled "people-seeming things" who praise you, lie to you, or waste your time because it makes more money. I wonder who they got that from
by Workaccount2 | 2025-08-03 20:27:08+00:00
The country is getting forced by markets into realizing pain for overspending, and only congress can manage this pain. Manage the pain, not remove it is key here. Manage it.

Conrgess is totally inept and ridiculously politicized, so it's unlikely they will do anything except make the problem worse.

That leaves only the natural fall out of refusing to acknowledge a financial injury before going out on the field to play hard for your voters.

Inflation. The US will be forced, it will not decide, but be forced, to inflate away its debt. Which means that people who cannot bury their wealth in (non-treasury!) assets will pay off the debt.
by gs17 | 2025-08-03 20:27:35+00:00
> And pedestrians that then don't get cyclists on the pavements

If only. Here roads with bike lanes (protected lanes!) get even more cyclists on the sidewalk. I've asked a few and they seem to trust the sidewalk to be better quality and the obstacles on sidewalk don't need them to slow down often, because people tend to jump out of the way.
by godelski | 2025-08-03 20:27:46+00:00
That's pretty close to what I got, with the free version. It made me follow-up before producing the image but didn't protest.

If only we can generate images of programmers who have monitors they can actually see!

https://chatgpt.com/share/688fc5bf-86dc-8013-a582-4bf2ba6ee0...
by const_cast | 2025-08-03 20:28:17+00:00
But they're not actually that dangerous, I don't think LEO even break like top 10 most dangerous jobs.

The problem is that LEOs have a separate, extremely lenient, set of standards they're judged on. We don't tolerate mistakes at other jobs, much less deadly mistakes or mistakes that cost millions in lawsuits. Hell, the McDonald's cashier is getting insta-fired if their drawer is 1 dollar short.
by whyenot | 2025-08-03 20:28:34+00:00
You may be right, but even if the concessioners aren’t great, the valley can still be a wonderful, quiet, peaceful place to be. Especially in late spring when the dogwoods are in full bloom, the waterfalls are full, and the summer crowds haven’t arrived yet. After Labor Day is also nice. Summer crowds aren’t fun, but I do feel like there is another way of looking at it: so many people going outside and enjoying nature instead of looking at the world through their phones. There was a time pre-Covid when attendance and interest in national parks and state parks was kind of on the wane, and it’s nice that so many people want to come and enjoy these places.
by echoangle | 2025-08-03 20:28:41+00:00
> Cost Re-framing (Work Hours Psychology): It immediately translates the item's price into a more tangible metric: This $80 gadget costs you 4 hours of your work. This technique, known as "opportunity cost visualization," makes the trade-off much more real.

I already do this automatically myself but this only makes me more likely to buy stuff I want. Because many things are so crazy cheap that the time you need to work for them is really not a lot.

Also, the example on the website says 2.1 weeks of work for $217 sneakers. Is the person on the example earning $400 per month or is the calculation different (for example only considering expendable income)?
by jhanschoo | 2025-08-03 20:28:58+00:00
I think you are trying to say that this matter has since been resolved and so presumably the whole informal proof somehow resides in literature. I suppose that to the first point you may be right (I'm guessing that it's since been made available), but to the second point I think you are overconfident that similar gaps do not exist.

I admit that my original comment was inaccurate, as it seems to suggest that the gap still exists.
by amy_petrik | 2025-08-03 20:29:25+00:00
Alright let's stop toeing the propaganda line here.

MOST drugs do different things. The most extreme example, one of the "dirtiest" drugs, is benadryl aka diphenhydramine, an over the counter common drug. It basically does something to every receptor some one. Its main use is anti-histamine, but people recreationally use it (cholingergic activity). Also many other neuronal receptors.

The hypothesis here is "ivermectin works against parasites but is neutral to the human body LOL". If only. If only antibiotic or antiparastic were so simple. If only anything biological were so black and white. It's not as if one of the greatest classes of antibiotics now has a black box warning because it was found to cause people's tendons to snap suddenly. A simple pubmed search, "ivermectin" "inflammation" reveals the relevant mechanism, anti-inflammatory. In COVID it dampens the inflammation of the lungs, which is how COVID historically kills people - lungs fail and they go on a ventilator - fail from excess inflammation. So there's a viable mechanism.

The position of medicine the whole way was "we can't prove ivermectin works" which is a valid position. That position also means - "we can't show ivermectin DOESN'T work" either, which seems to be how people are running with it.

The armchair science here is, "LOL ivermectin doesn't work against viruses". Absolutely true, but not how it is meant to work. It's meant to kill the consequent inflammation. Why do we give people with upper respiratory infections steroids? Don't steroids weaken the immune system, the system meant to be clearing the infection? We give them to dampen upper respiratory inflammation, to make breathing possible, virus be damned. But it's harder to acquire steroids. Easier to acquire ivermectin. And so now a perfectly innocent drug is the scapegoat. Thankfully there are hundreds of other off-brand easily acquirable anti-inflammatories that will rise up like a hydra's head from the stigma of decapitated ivermectin

If people are spouting off strong opinions about ivermectin and can't converse competently about all that i just said, whether they are pro-ivermectin or anti-ivermectin, then they are part of the problem.
by moosey | 2025-08-03 20:31:07+00:00
This cynicism isn't useful. You speak about how everyone wants to use every word against you, but your generalizations about people make me believe that you are the one looking for some kind of failure.

Listen, I don't know what kind of friends you are seeking, or what social groups you're in, and it's true that there are lots of people seeking power or to put others down. However, your statements fail basic logic and bias checks for in/out group bias, categorical error, inductive reasoning.

To me, it sounds like you are judging humanity based on the interactions on Twitter. I assure you, the vast majority of humanity are nowhere close to the machiavellian narcissists you make them out to be. Then again, I don't spend my time seeking power, or trying to get people to follow my socially extreme views, like veganism.

And yet, lots of people are these subjectively better humans that you describe. I say subjective because good, bad, evil... All labels, they're really just the fundamental attribution error. I recommend that you learn about categorical error and fundamental attribution error, and free yourself from the language that pushes us apart. That causes us to judge and hate.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-08-03 20:31:39+00:00
It's still early days. If the dollar suffers from any serious shocks, or inflation accelerates, stablecoins will peg themselves to something else, or to a basket of currencies or commodities. I don't see anything that stops them from jumping ship the minute the going gets tough, and it would presumably be irrational not to.
by staplung | 2025-08-03 20:32:13+00:00
Camera obscura were probably used by some painters in Europe as far back as the 1500s. Evidence is sparse but there are some telltale signs that are the result of characteristic distortions from the mechanism. For decades, art historians have been having very vigorous debates as to who might have been using them. Vermeer is suspected to have done so and even da Vinci and Hans Holbein are sometimes proposed.

Abelardo Morell took an incredibly cool picture of Times Square that's projected onto the walls of a hotel room via a camera obscura. Well worth a look:

https://aperture.org/prints/camera-obscura-image-of-times-sq...

And here's a video of someone experimenting with a Tudor era camera obscura to do a portrait:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9cd8X2UNt4
by dokyun | 2025-08-03 20:32:15+00:00
> Guile Emacs exists. The reason that its own developers and other hands who have touched it don't want to try harder is because they know for a fact that getting anything merged into Emacs core means an utterly exhausting, soul-crushing slog where people who have made a profession of not changing their minds will demand to be convinced to change their minds.

No, it's cause fitting a Scheme runtime around Emacs Lisp proved more technically difficult than they imagined, and the performance benefits of the Guile runtime were shadowed by the actually successful effort of integrating a native compiler for Elisp.

> I want lab-grown meat, Year of the Linux Desktop, and synthetic biochemistry to get the microplastics out of my body. The FSF doesn't care. They don't care.

Why would they? What does lab-grown meat have to do with software?

> They want to force everyone to be backwards compatible with decisions they made thirty years ago as if it has any hope of revitalizing an ecosystem that they deny even exists.

Personally I like having my programs work instead of playing a goose chase with a moving target. Common Lisp is also a thirty year old stable language, but I don't see you complaining.

> I feel utterly and completely betrayed by the FSF and want as far away from them as possible.

Good to know where the tokens fall. I sure as hell won't be giving you any of my money (not like I was going to before).

You're nuts.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-08-03 20:32:22+00:00
>Which means that people who cannot bury their wealth in (non-treasury!) assets will pay off the debt.

I.e. people who need to work, which means it disproportionately affects the young.

This is what has to happen in a democratic society with a flattened and eventual top heavy population pyramid that will not vote to reduce old people benefits.
by trhway | 2025-08-03 20:32:44+00:00
>Google and Windsurf >https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/01/more-details-emerge-on-how...

that looks strange to me to say the least - a company A's leadership leases completely away the company A's IP to a company B while at the same time getting fat employment offers from the same company B. If it were in Russia i'd say it is a bribe/kickback while in US it looks suspiciously like a huge conflict of interests. How no regulatory agency looked into that...
by compiler-guy | 2025-08-03 20:33:38+00:00
NPR’s Planet Money had a podcast about this a few months ago. I see several assertions and claims that it deals with made here without any evidence or discussion as to why.

TLDR: Yes the dollar is weakening as a reserve currency. But the decline has been long and slow and it is not clear what, if anything, will replace it.

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/1250191994/reserve-currency-d...
by azangru | 2025-08-03 20:33:47+00:00
Matteo Collina says that the node fetch under the hood is the fetch from the undici node client [0]; and that also, because it needs to generate WHATWG web streams, it is inherently slower than the alternative — undici request [1].

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIyiDDts0lo

[1] - https://blog.platformatic.dev/http-fundamentals-understandin...
by uwagar | 2025-08-03 20:34:21+00:00
i find myself talking to gpt a lot especially about how to dose weed and such cos feel like i'm sensitive and it overwhelms me sometimes. i didnt know morocco has such a great hashish culture :) its also funny that it seems to get my humor. that is 'scary'.

and when i tell it how i feel about a lot of things, it dont put me down, it tries to be on 'my side'. i read an article this is like it being a sycophant to not lose my custom but i cant think its only that. maybe its trying to learn more and more from me and offer what it learns from others to me.

i'm excited.

from the article, some sentences bother me, for eg.,

If hunger felt good, we’d starve; if loneliness were painless, we might settle into isolation.

well if hunger felt good, there would be no starving? isolation is not a bad thing. perhaps our minds will go into new realms of imagination and bring back to the company new ideas.
by rubycollect4812 | 2025-08-03 20:34:38+00:00
That’s why I always use a system prompt and tell it to be critical and call me out when I’m talking bullshit. Sometimes for easier queries it’s a bit annoying when I don’t actually need a “critical part” in my answers but often it helps me stop earlier when I’m following an idea that’s not that’s not as good as I thought it would be.
by saratogacx | 2025-08-03 20:34:55+00:00
They don't make it easy to figure out but after researching it for my Co. this is what I came to.

* One chat message -> one premium credit (most at 1 credit but some are less and some, like opus, are 10x) * Edit mode is the same as Ask/chat * One agent session (meaning you start a new agent chat) is one "request" so you can have multiple messages and they cost the credit cost of one chat message.

Microsoft's Copilot offerings are essentially a masterclass in cost opaqueness. Nothing in any offering is spelled out and they always seem to be just short of the expectation they are selling.
by alephnerd | 2025-08-03 20:35:24+00:00
> tattoos on mummies

On that note, I'd recommend the title scene in the Iranian movie Qeysar [0] from 1969.

A number of the same motifs from 2.5k years ago are still around in Indo-Iranian culture.

Some of the older generations of Pakhtun Hindus still tattoo in that style [1], as a number of the central tribes of the Pakhtun community were Saka [2]. A granddaughter from the community has been working on documenting the culture for a couple years now [3]

On a separate note, highly recommend watching New Age Iranian Cinema (1965-1980ish). It's good stuff.

[0] - https://www.artofthetitle.com/title/qeysar/

[1] - https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tattooed-blue-skinned...

[2] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hephthalites

[3] - https://www.instagram.com/sheenkhalaiartproject/?hl=en
by PartiallyTyped | 2025-08-03 20:35:27+00:00
There's been a spike in news articles on the invasion the last couple of weeks. Given that the US appears to not hold on to any alliances or assurances, and ~~incontinent~~ incompetent in chief is on the helm, it seems that they've the perfect opportunity. Europe's busy with Russia, US is busy with itself, so honestly, why not?
by fruitworks | 2025-08-03 20:35:45+00:00
10TB/yr is like $100-200/yr of hard drives and this price will continue to decrease. Compare this to the transaction fees for a small buisness accepting bitcoin and you will find that it is reasonable. Especially when you consider that reasonably efficient miners start at thousands of dollars.

small nodes don't matter. They can prune or shard the blockchain.

What matters is the economics of medium-sized nodes that are operated by small buisnesses. These are are the entities that have material reasons to run a full node (to accept transactions in an automated manner while preventing theft), and these are the entities that evaluate the rules of the cryptocurrency at the time of transaction.
by Fade_Dance | 2025-08-03 20:35:53+00:00
The almost certainly have some sort of batched order system like food delivery apps, where couriers have a few orders on a route. (I'm assuming that the multibillion dollar food delivery apps have this sort of thing optimized)

Even in those scenarios, you're sometimes going to have to wait an hour due to unforeseen circumstances/incompetence somewhere in the delivery route chain, or couriers dropping the order for some reason and tossing it back to the pool.

Realistically, there are two features that they should implement. The first is to let you contact the courier directly, bypassing the horrible customer support that you are inevitably going to get in the company like that. The second is to offer priority service for a fee, so that you get one courier for one delivery. With food delivery apps, that second feature is a pseudo-scam though, because nobody wants to actually pay what it costs to drop out of the multi-stage order route system (expect delivery cost to double on the company's end).
by simple10 | 2025-08-03 20:36:26+00:00
Really? I'm still seeing results on DDG.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fchatgpt.com%2...

Maybe it's a region or cache issue while DDG is actively remove them?

Some random shares:

- https://chatgpt.com/share/67d0b32e-3ff0-800a-b1a9-b4a32e1ab9... (essay)

- https://chatgpt.com/share/67712739-53ac-8012-a151-d2dddcc40f... (dad jokes with math)

- https://chatgpt.com/share/678f887f-03f0-800d-ae17-a550ec758f... (health)

The ones above don't have PII, but I was also finding job application shares that had full CV PII. Yikes!
by garrettdreyfus | 2025-08-03 20:36:28+00:00
My reading of Figure 6 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx0298 suggests that this study still has thermosteric effects making up the majority of sea level rise.

I also highly recommend reading up on the GRACE satellite used in this study it is amazing https://gracefo.jpl.nasa.gov/resources/50/how-grace-fo-measu...
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-08-03 20:36:45+00:00
As somebody who has been involved in civil actions in Federal Court, I can assure you that it deserves zero confidence and is basically pay-to-win. (Unless two billion-dollar-plus corporations are involved.) This is largely, but not only, on account of discovery taking years and costing unbounded sums of money, plus monetary penalties for not complying with expensive discovery.
by farkin88 | 2025-08-03 20:37:49+00:00
I've been burnt by performance gates on GitHub Actions. One random timing spike and the whole PR turns red. The coefficient of variation math here nails why: GitHub Actions shows a 2.66% CV, which means a 2% performance gate gives you a 45% false positive rate (basically every other run flags a fake regression). No wonder developers stop trusting the check. In my experience the only way to make benchmarks actionable is to run them on deterministic bare-metal runners, whether CodSpeed's or something you host yourself.