MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nakamoto_damacy | 2025-09-10 22:43:41+00:00
"in collaboration with others at Thinking Machines"

If you're old enough, you might remember Danny Hillis' Thinking Machines from the late 80s. I wish they had chosen a different name (I say this for nostalgic reasons, having been in front of one of those cubes glowing with red LEDs back in the late 80s at MIT's AI Lab" (renamed to CSAIL at some point). Feynman did some amazing work on that, too: https://longnow.org/ideas/richard-feynman-and-the-connection...

In the U.S., the “THINKING MACHINES” trademarks were owned by Thinking Machines Corporation (the company Hillis co-founded), not Hillis personally, and those registrations were cancelled in 1998–1999. USPTO Report +1

The company itself went bankrupt in 1994 and its assets were dispersed (e.g., to Sun Microsystems, later Oracle).

There’s a new, pending USPTO application for “THINKING MACHINES” filed in 2025 by Thinking Machines Lab Inc., the company founded by Amira Murati.
by wpm | 2025-09-10 22:43:46+00:00
I think some people are misinterpreting 100% as "even when you aren't on a call/Zoom/huddle" which is batshit.

Some people are just unhappy they're being called out for taking meetings while they take a dump.

The latter is precisely why attempting for 100% cameras on during meetings is a good idea. If you're uncomfortable being on camera in a meeting doing it, its a good sign you shouldn't be doing it.
by wturner | 2025-09-10 22:43:52+00:00
I'm more concerned with the fact that billionaires have a monopoly on the incentives that create policy and can afford to fund large scale social engineering operations to get whatever they want. Charlie Kirk doesn't exist in a vacuum. Peter Thiel funded him and Thiel has said openly he wants a dictatorship. That is why Kirk was in the propagandist role he was in, and why he is now dead.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-09-10 22:44:27+00:00
Hrrm. I watched it in 2D, and was very tempted to skip/FF.

Was boring for me, compared to the original. Just more of the not so same, with maybe better FX, sometimes.

edit: To expand on that, from memory, the original had for me fucked up cyperpunkish earth, somewhat realistic spaceships/travel, heayv mining industry, cynical execs and military, nerdy techs and scientists.

Compared to most of what else streams over the screens nowadays, it was almost HARD-SF. I like that.

The Way of Water had much less of that, instead more tribalism, maybe some wokery. I don't give a shit about that.

(While I'm at it, the pre-prequel to the Alien-franchise "Alien Earth" with six episodes out ATM has much of that cyberpunkish flair, and is at least slightly more than just 'so-so'.)
by tguvot | 2025-09-10 22:44:52+00:00
What I was trying to present is that Israel already tried to do all those things that you talk about over last 30 years and it didn't work.

Extremist groups in Israel came to life after second intifada and started as revenge groups, that performed same type of attacks that Palestinians performed on Israeli. You can say that they were radicalized by Palestinian violence (I think in your original post you were worried about results of radicalization as result of violence, didn't you ? Somehow people forget that it can go both ways). They also don't hold a candle to hamas/pij/pflp/etc and their actions way overreported and misreported [0] while other stuff is underreported [1]

Blockade of gaza mostly started in 2007 after palestinian elections of 2006 in which hamas won both in west bank and gaza (usa pushed to have election), failed coup (sponsored by usa) of PLO against hamas that resulted in hamas (internationally recognized terrorist organization). takeover of gaza in 2007. I want to remind that Israel disengaged from Gaza in 2005 and what followed are hundreds of rockets on Israel [2]

[0] https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articl...

[1] https://www.jns.org/over-6300-terror-attacks-against-jews-in...

[2] https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/number-of-rocket-attack...
by antonvs | 2025-09-10 22:45:02+00:00
Wishes to remove it, and speaks or acts in ways that further that goal.

There’s a false right-wing talking point that the US “is a republic, not a democracy”. The US is both a representative democracy and a republic, but the talking point equivocates on the meaning of “democracy”, conflating it with direct democracy, and this apparently fools far more people than it should.

The goal of people who push such propaganda is to weaken support for, and understanding of, democracy. There isn’t any doubt that they, and the people who unthinkingly repeat the propaganda, are a threat to democracy.
by SpicyUme | 2025-09-10 22:45:17+00:00
Yeah, this happened with the shooting at the SLC protest earlier this year. A protestor with a gun was shot at by security, then accused of shooting the person who died. Open carry is allowed in Utah. Whether or not you think marching while openly carrying is a good idea. Unfortunately I understand the stress of the moment and it can be hard to figure out who is responsible while acting quickly.

https://www.utahpoliticalwatch.news/what-actually-happened-a...
by w10-1 | 2025-09-10 22:46:05+00:00
Kudos for citing actual facts/studies. But these are about sentiment, which in a digital age where personality has been reduced to opinion and thus amplified for effect, might be both manipulated and less significant.

By contrast, acts of bombings and other political violence were both more common and widespread in the 1970's and 1980's than now.[1] In those cases, people took great personal risks.

[Edit: removed Nepal, mentioned in other comments]

[1] https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/OPSR_TP...
by benbayard | 2025-09-10 22:47:18+00:00
It's not a problem for me to be without my phone for a few hours, as I can still text from my Mac (except for RCS + SMS messages). But yes, it's definitely a downside. I prefer the comfort and weight of a caseless phone. For me, the phone has been incredibly resilient and outside of once having a potlid drop from the ceiling on my phone, shattering the front and back of the phone (which was replaced in 3 hours, next day, when I broke the phone at 9pm).
by wpm | 2025-09-10 22:47:22+00:00
>Camera on all the time so someone could just pop in and start watching at any moment, even not during a call?

That's not at all what I meant. I don't think it was how I typed it, I grant it could be, but you might want to read my original comment again. I am not advocating for just sitting there in your Zoom Personal Room, camera on, all day every day. That would be insane. But for synchronous work with others, a camera on that lets me know you're there, listening, providing feedback with body language? Thats why shit just gets done faster in person. Remote teleconferencing is low bitrate on the human communication spectrum. At least, lower bitrate than being in the same room. Cameras increase that bitrate.

In my meetings in Zoom, (scheduled, 1 hour, normal), everyone on my team has cameras on almost all of the time. I don't even turn mine off if I step away to grab the coffee pot from the kitchen, it lets people know immediately I'm not able to speak but can hear them fine.
by SheepSlapper | 2025-09-10 22:47:45+00:00
Who says he was targeting that specific place? In fact, it seems likely that the target was his head and the shooter pulled the shot a bit but was still within tolerances (with a 1 MOA scope @ 200 yards you're only looking at 2" of variance).

I've killed deer beyond 200 yards sitting on a stump with a cheap rifle, it's not actually that hard if you've shot a bit before. The nerves though... you're right there, I couldn't imagine.
by dang | 2025-09-10 22:48:00+00:00
You've posted three abusive comments to this thread in quick succession. That's not ok, and we have to ban such accounts.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45203452 and stop doing this, we'd appreciate it.

(Your account is far from the only one posting abusively in this thread, and it's probably random that I happened to see your posts, but still - this is not ok.)
by pembrook | 2025-09-10 22:48:27+00:00
If people democratically decide to reduce democracy, is that not the will of the people and thus democratic?

If you actually believe in democracy, nobody can ever be a “danger to democracy” for expressing their opinions…since that is the point of a democracy.

Labeling someone a “danger” an emotional ad hominem argument devoid of meaning used by people who can’t rationally argue their positions with logic.
by yieldcrv | 2025-09-10 22:48:45+00:00
it is the latter, they are continuing to sell digital art and NFTs and they realized their “specialists” didn't have specialized knowledge to justify a separate division

It just takes slower people longer to see the simple similarities to what they already do

regarding the catalyst for consolidating at Christie’s, the whole art market is following a similar downtrend in price and volume as the NFT market since 2022, there was an article about fine art and the contemporary market here the other day
by tannhaeuser | 2025-09-10 22:49:18+00:00
Here's an easy ad-hoc Prolog program for the first problem:

% Given a set of coin denominations, % find the minimum number of coins % required to make change. % IE for USA coinage and 37 cents, % the minimum number is four % (quarter, dime, 2 pennies). num(0). num(1). num(2). num(3). num(4). num(5). ?- num(Q), num(D), num(P), 37 is Q * 25 + D * 10 + P

You can just paste it into [1] to execute in the browser. Using 60 as target sum is more interesting as you can enumerate over two solutions.

[1]: https://quantumprolog.sgml.net/browser-demo/browser-demo.htm...
by twoodfin | 2025-09-10 22:49:31+00:00
For example, half of parents are transferring an average of $1,500/month, tax-free, to their adult children. Why do they get to do this?

For the same reason we have a generous gift tax exemption applicable to any gift from anyone to anyone: If you’re not receiving something of monetary value in return, what you’re providing isn’t “income” in the sense Congress has built income tax policy to capture.

That isn’t the case with tips for waitstaff.
by lelandfe | 2025-09-10 22:49:44+00:00
At the time I went through a laborious effort for a Reddit post to examine which of those negative prompts actually had a noticeable effect. I generated 60 images for each word in those cargo cult copypastas and examined them manually.

One that surprised me was that "-amputee" significantly improved Stable Diffusion 1.5 renderings of people.
by like_any_other | 2025-09-10 22:49:55+00:00
The problem is, existential threats are more common than not in politics. Nearly every decision can kill, or change who gets killed, on a scope that varies from individual, to global, to more abstract, e.g. values that are just as important as life (freedom, language, culture, family, nature, take your pick - many have given their lives for each of these).

Deport an illegal immigrant? They may get killed back in their more dangerous home country (or die slowly due to less access to medicine), or grow their home economy instead of yours. Let them stay? Maybe they're a dangerous criminal and will kill someone here. Don't deport any? Your culture and nation get diluted into nothing - some value those things highly, others don't, but to the former, that's an existential threat.

Tax fossil fuels? The economy slows, there's less money for hospitals, more crime due to poverty, this can easily kill people, or maybe it's harder to keep up with China. Don't tax them, and now you're taking your chances with global warming.

Spy on everyone's communication? You've just made it much easier for a tyrannical government to arise, and those have killed millions, and trampled values many hold as dear as life itself. Don't spy? Well maybe you miss a few terrorist attacks, but you also have a harder time identifying hostile foreign propaganda, which could have devastating but hard to isolate effects.

Simply put, death, existential threats, threats to democracy, etc., are common in politics, and one cannot talk honestly about it while avoiding their mention. I would say that, unless you cannot keep a cool head in those circumstances, you shouldn't get into politics in any capacity. But of course, those that need this advice won't heed it.
by watersb | 2025-09-10 22:50:01+00:00
> In 2025, most Americans are untethered to any moral framework, do not require that their leaders even appear to act in a civilized way

Strongly disagree with "most".

Margins on many recent elections have been so low they'd be too close to measure a generation ago.

I think that's relevant, a hard check on the idea that an overwhelming majority of Americans are getting what they voted for. No.

(FWIW I agree with your other points. I miss the era of Walter Cronkite consensus. Not clear that it was better. But less terrifying.)
by ryandrake | 2025-09-10 22:50:03+00:00
With a small amount of sadness, this is the conclusion I'm starting to end up with. Yes I think waitresses and service workers should make more money. But tipping in the US has become opaque, expanding everywhere, and the expectations around tipping seem to be getting ratcheted up constantly. A business is not viable if customers have to pay your employees separately. I'm close to hitting the nuclear button and just defaulting to zero.
by o11c | 2025-09-10 22:50:09+00:00
> KDE Linux is Wayland-only; there is no X.org session and no plan to add one.

Does this mean they're testing that all the Wayland bugs are fixed? I haven't updated to the new Debian stable quite yet but all the previous times I've switch to Wayland under promises of "it's working now" I've been burned; hopefully dogfood helps.
by renewiltord | 2025-09-10 22:50:30+00:00
There is an increased amount of energy in the system. This is a bad thing. The amplitudes of the fluctuations are too high. Time to bring things back down to normal. Political violence cannot be accepted: Luigi Mangione, the Hortmans' killer, Kirk's killer all have to be brought to justice by the law. And from the rest of us, they all have to be denounced.

Increased political violence is bad. The state starts breaking down since the price for everything is death so action stalls.
by araes | 2025-09-10 22:50:34+00:00
Personally, it seems conspicuous that one of the largest drops in 5-8 and 8-18 occurred in 2023-2024, right when the world experienced a layoff surge [1] and sites like HN noted a significant drop in hiring [2].

"enjoy reading either very much or quite a lot"

2023 to 2024, 5 to 8: 75.3 to 64.7

2023 to 2024, 8 to 18: 43.4 to 34.6

~250,000 layoffs @ ~1300 companies in 2023 [1]. Add another 100,000 and 1,000 if you take late 2022. And layoffs.fyi just tracks tech layoffs.

The WARN database has similar results. Been averaging 300-400 a month since January 2023, vs ~100 / month in the 2021-2022 timeframe. [3]

That's a lot of dislocation, moving to find jobs, household chaos, school shifting, and parents with different priorities.

[1] "Layoff Charts Tab" https://layoffs.fyi

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1dvdssj/oc...

[3] https://layoffdata.com/
by laverya | 2025-09-10 22:50:39+00:00
Agreed, but the difference in the use of rifles in assassination attempts between the US and UK/EU/AUS/etc can't purely be because of a lack of gun control in the US if the same rifles are available in those other countries too. (semiautomatic military style rifles like used in the first attempt on Trump are almost always more restricted overseas, but again this was only a single shot and could easily have been from a bolt-action rifle)
by forrestthewoods | 2025-09-10 22:50:42+00:00
Ok? A debugger also wouldn’t help the hardest bug I ever fixed!

It is not the only tool in the bag. But literally the first question anyone should ask when dealing with any bug is “would attaching a debugger be helpful?”. Literally everyone who doesn’t use a debugger is less effective at their jobs than if they frequently used a debugger.
by yandie | 2025-09-10 22:51:20+00:00
> I'm pretty sure a majority of us aren't really on a "side",

Many of us don't vote either. And our two party systems have created extreme partisanship. I wish it could be different because I do love this country, but our politics are so broken by the two party system, fueled with misinformation through these partisan news networks + social media algorithms (the way Youtube turns one person into an extremist of either side is an example...)
by anon291 | 2025-09-10 22:51:48+00:00
As I've grown older and gone back through history I've realized why so many decisions and actions seem kind of irrational to outside observers. This is why I think study of ancient history is so important, because we have so few connections, that the analysis does not seem personal.

Nevertheless, I realize that it's usually a zeitgeist more than any particular thing that really flows through history.
by amradio1989 | 2025-09-10 22:52:08+00:00
In light of the top post by "dang", I'd like to apologize for my own comments. Forgive me brothers and sisters, I was obviously on edge.

In particular I'd like to apologize to one individual whom I insinuated was posting rage-bait.

To close, this is a tragic time in America. Each act of violence is one act too many.
by feoren | 2025-09-10 22:52:42+00:00
This is too pessimistic. We can absolutely "begin to guess" at what an alien civilization might look like or how they might have evolved. Reasonable possibilities are very heavily constrained by information theory, the laws of thermodynamics, the very finite number of elements that make up the universe, chemistry, particle physics, etc. You can appeal to fantasy by dreaming up multi-dimensional energy beings, and of course such things have some tiny but nonzero probability of existing. But you can do the same thing regarding what we might find if we look at some random pond water under a microscope. Maybe we'll find crazy silicon-based life forms, or some phylum we never knew existed, or a microscopic Tyrannosaurus Rex! Maybe. But it's perfectly reasonable to ascribe an extremely small probability to such things based on everything we already know about the universe, and it's reasonable for the same reason to ascribe a very small probability to the existence multi-dimensional energy beings that would completely defy our understanding. For any given alien life form we might find, there's a very high probability (I give it at least 90%) that it would be based on chemical pathways that would make us go "oh, neat", but not go "THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING!"
by sho_hn | 2025-09-10 22:54:09+00:00
There's a fair amount of overlap and collaboration in the engineering communities behind the different image-based/appliance OS projects, so it's not necessarily as redundant as you might think it is. E.g. the developers behind the distro tech behind KDE Linux, Gnome OS and Kinoite are pretty friendly with each other.

And of course the distros end up sharing the gross of the application packages - originally a differentiator between the classic distros - via e.g. Flatpak/Flathub.

One reason we're doing KDE Linux is that if you look at the growth opportunities KDE has had in recent years, a lot of that has come from our hardware partners, e.g. Slimbook, Tuxedo, Framework and others. They've generally shipped KDE Neon, which is Ubuntu-based but has a few real engineering and stability challenges that have been difficult to overcome. KDE Linux is partly a lessons-learned project about how to do an OEM offering correctly (with some of the lessons coming out of the SteamOS effort, which also ships Plasma), and is also pushing along the development of various out-of-the-box experience components, e.g. the post-first-boot setup experience and things like that.
by antonvs | 2025-09-10 22:54:10+00:00
He gave an invited speech at the Republican National Convention on its first night, and is credited with helping Trump get elected. “Very influential” might even be an understatement.

The problem is that that kind of influence often goes under the radar for people outside the circles in question, because influence is no longer mediated as centrally as it used to be, it’s more targeted and siloed. That’s a big part of how the current political situation in the US arose.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-10 22:54:14+00:00
I'm not one of the people downvoting you. HN doesn't even let you downvote replies to your own comment.

And I guess I didn't find it necessary to say most high school libraries limit their services that way because I think it's common experience? But I'm very happy for students who were lucky enough to get more. Still, like I said, English teachers were usually there if you wanted fiction recommendations at least.
by gusgus01 | 2025-09-10 22:54:15+00:00
Drivers are given the latitude to kick passengers off public transportation for a range of reasons including violating the rules of conduct.

If I'm reading this correctly, you're talking about panhandling as an example of asshole activity that you believe is protected by the 1st amendment. Specifically, in NYC, it was ruled that panhandling is not protected speech on public transportation, see Young v New York City Transit Authority.

Of course, if the passenger refuses to leave or stop, the driver can't physically force them to and must escalate to a police force. Although, I imagine that's similar in many other countries as well.
by SpicyUme | 2025-09-10 22:55:25+00:00
I sit on the bus watching 10~25% of drivers on their phones watching videos at 60mph on my way to work. All ages too, including surprising old people. I live on a street that's posted 25 MPH and watch people impatient with the light down the block try to cut around traffic at ~40 down a narrow 1.5 lane street. Several times this year I've watched people cross a double yellows to drive into oncoming traffic to make a turn or skip past traffic. On Monday I was late to work because a driver ran into a pedestrian, stopped, then drove off, leaving him bleeding from the head on the side of the road.

Yeah, let's talk about antisocial behaviors. I'm getting to the point where I think roads should be designed specifically to inconvenience drivers. And I am one, I like being able to drive across the state, or across town to places that can take a long time by transit. Cars can be great.
by bertil | 2025-09-10 22:56:14+00:00
> we would not be better off without such extremist language poisoning people's minds

I genuinely can’t tell if you realize that this is a description of the victim, and your comment could easily be construed as a justification for what happened, or if you condemn the action so heartily you missed that.

Which leads to my point: there are discourses around this that completely miss each other. That’s a huge problem because so many people will loudly express strongly held emotions and two people will read completely opposite view points. US public discourse is at a point where language, without copying context, is failing.

Saying “both sides miss each other” isn’t true either: I’m convinced one side is perfectly capable of quoting leaders of the other, even if they find it absurd, but the reciprocal isn’t true. Many people can’t today say what was the point of one of the largest presidential campaign. They’ll mention points that were never raised by any surrogate or leaders. But they can’t tell that because the relationship is complete severed.

I don’t think there’s a balanced argument around violence, either: one side has leaders who vocally and daily argue for illegal acts violence, demand widespread gun possession vs. another where some commentators occasionally mention that violent revolution is an option, but leaders are always respectful. The vast majority of people who commit gun violence support one particular political movement, even the violence against the leaders of that same movement. If that’s not obvious to you, I can assure you that you are out off from a large part of the political discourse about the US, not just around you, but internationally.