MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rawgabbit | 2025-09-24 21:32:18+00:00
Hmmm... I would argue the disengagement of citizens and the lack of participation is not strictly because of organizational size. It is the fact these organizations cannot care less about their customers, citizens, or the law. These rogue organizations are typically large.

The cause of disengagement is that organizations, large or small, are not responsive to customers needs or citizens needs. In many cases, they are actively working to the detriment of their own customers and the country at large.

This is due to regulatory capture. It is that simple.
by liquid_thyme | 2025-09-24 21:32:40+00:00
>The problem was that it wasn't more effective than the existing standard of care; it was only equally effective.

That is misleading. When a clinical trial is designed for non-inferiority, it doesn't say anything about being superior or equal. Just as legally, a defendant is either guilty or not guilty - there is no legal adjudication of being "innocent".

These drugs are not comparable (different stability profiles, different mechanisms of action, etc) and to say they're equal is highly misleading.

>and the absence of the drugs that would have been discovered since then has surely killed many more people than the inadvertent use of harmful drugs ever could have.

There is no evidence that safety regulations have denied us some miracle drug. I don't want the FDA approving drug products that are harmful to the general population. You haven't made a good argument for "the greater good" besides a reference to magainin, a product for topical treatment of foot ulcers. There are thousands of known anti microbial peptides.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7937881/
by cogman10 | 2025-09-24 21:32:47+00:00
> The answer is actual competition with some reasonable passenger protections.

This is physically impossible. Airplanes require airports and airports only have so much space they can dedicate to flights.

An extreme example of this is the Ronald Reagan airport. How could you possibly get more competition there when it cannot grow and it's surrounded by the urban area?

That's like saying the solution to your water company monopoly is more competition. You can't bury more water lines for different companies. Someone has to own the existing lines.
by joshstrange | 2025-09-24 21:32:53+00:00
I wanted to hate this but... I can't, it's pretty cool.

Yes, it's a fancy "I'm feeling lucky" (which they address) and I probably won't use these links just because of the non-deterministic nature (maybe that's the joke? It's just a cool demo/poc?) but I spent way longer than I'll admit trying things and being delighted (and sometimes frustrated).

It's a fun experiment and THANK YOU for posting the prompt. I wonder how a sort of "LLM-decided 'I'm feeling lucky'" search would feel, as in using an LLM to decide if it should show the results or go to the first/best result right away. That's pretty much what this is I guess.

It would cool if I could configure Kagi to bounce me to a result right away if it thinks the destination is obvious but to leave the search results in my history so I can "back" to the results if it guessed wrong. I guess I could just try setting `https://vb.lk/%s` as my search engine.
by jerlam | 2025-09-24 21:33:13+00:00
I'm convinced that "all the content, everywhere, all the time" has made people worse consumers. We just give the companies money every month and if we have time, we consume whatever they decide to give us, and if they decide they don't want to show something anymore, we can't complain.

I'm becoming nostalgic for the Netflix DVD-by-mail era. Prioritizing your queue was important, since there were significant costs in returning a DVD and waiting for a new one to arrive. There was real anticipation in getting the next DVD, instead of binge-watching an entire series in one night without leaving the couch. We cared about what we watched since it wasn't readily available.
by torexitoperator | 2025-09-24 21:34:03+00:00
>Did you know that the Tor Project allows exit nodes to filter based on the clear internet IP. So filtering is ok.

That's simply not true. Exit operators who intentionally block websites are flagged as bad relays.

https://community.torproject.org/policies/relays/expectation... https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/team/-/wiki...
by xp84 | 2025-09-24 21:34:37+00:00
The SIMs pictured in the article are from a carrier called MobileX so that’s the first clue to finding that out. Looks like a couple bucks is enough to get started, but a dealer on the take may have more attractive options and the ability to activate a lot of SIMs without the fuss of signing up accounts with email for each one.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-09-24 21:34:52+00:00
That's arguably the problem of the common interaction patterns in GUIs being non-modal. Could've been easily solved early on by having a convention like "holding Meta (Alt) makes all text on screen selectable" and sticking with it.

At this point, it's not even a technical problem anymore - it's a social one. Even if somehow OS and browser vendors all agreed on a scheme like this, copyright industry and security people would scream bloody murder and prevent it from being implemented.
by atmavatar | 2025-09-24 21:34:58+00:00
The more obvious solution is taking aggressive trust-busting action and preventing further mergers rather than passing laws to leash the remaining few actors in an already-broken, over-consolidated market.

I'm sure this will draw immediate reactions that in a heavily lobbied (i.e., bribed) environment, it's a pipe dream to hope for antitrust action to occur, but I would point out that the very same environment isn't any more likely to impose meaningful regulation, either.
by K0balt | 2025-09-24 21:37:16+00:00
I see your point, but personally I find no value in feeling bad about my lot in life or the balance of gifts and hardships I was given.

Overall I won the genetic lottery and have no problem owning my choices. I just can’t see myself as a victim or a sufferer in this, since the same things that can make it harder for me in some ways make it easier in others.

But, to each their own, certainly no shame for people that seek treatment. My “treatment” was to choose a life trajectory where my weaknesses were less important than my strengths, and that’s been fine for me.

Obviously your experiences have been very different from mine, and although I can’t really understand where the animosity comes from, I certainly can acknowledge your POV. If you felt I was belittling people somehow, I apologise for communicating poorly. That certainly was not my point.
by raddan | 2025-09-24 21:37:25+00:00
FWIW, like "conservatives" the stereotypes are not universal. They may not even be typical.

Biological sex clearly is not a fiction; we have lots of evidence that it's not something you choose. It's also not necessarily binary, even in humans, although it is mostly binary.

I also did not believe that Biden was ready for four more years, but then again, what choice did I have? I would not have voted for Trump under any circumstances, and sitting it out would be giving my vote away.

You're painting with a rather broad brush. You must have at least a few liberals in your life with whom you can compare notes.
by miyoji | 2025-09-24 21:37:31+00:00
It isn't a joke, you need the Kolmogorov complexity of the code that implements the feature, which has nothing to do with the fact that you're using someone else's solution. You may not have to think about all the code needed to parse a CSV, but someone did and that's a cost of the feature, whether you want to think about it or not.

Again, if someone else writes a 100,000 line function for you, and they wrap it in a "do_the_thing()" method, you calling it is still calling a 100,000 line function, the computer still has to run those lines and if something goes wrong, SOMEONE has to go digging in it. Ignoring the costs you don't pay is ridiculous.
by irusensei | 2025-09-24 21:37:48+00:00
Kids will bypass any verification by secretly using an adult ID or just straight away asking them to do it.

Hell the crazy things I used to do to connect to the internet after my mother went to sleep. She didn't wanted me using the internet because of phone charges so I secretly got into the roof to strip the phone wire bare and connect my own hidden cable that I would unroll and route it to my room to connect to my modem at night. YES part of it was to watch porn and download mp3s and roms. No I wasn't of legal age. Did my life got ruined by this? Well I'm an IT engineer now so arrive at your own conclusion.

I think this current hysteric moral panic is definitely being pushed by a lobby of a nascent AI industry that wants to create a problem for their surveillance tech solution.
by roughly | 2025-09-24 21:37:48+00:00
I am specifically not arguing the state has a monopoly on violence - as with the GP, people are imputing arguments I’m not making. It’s the fact that the state cannot have a monopoly on violence that forces the state to be powerful enough that its threat of violence outweighs others (and, bluntly, defines what the state IS, for all practical purposes: it is the entity whose threats of violence supersede all others.)
by stevage | 2025-09-24 21:38:22+00:00
A thing I find odd about Product Hunt is that I have only ever heard about it in the context of founders launching, through HN. I've never read anything from a user's perspective, no "I found this cool thing on Product Hunt" posts.

Do people really go there to just discover what other random new site launched today? Do people actually crave yet more new apps?
by mrguyorama | 2025-09-24 21:39:21+00:00
>I guess I would say that withdrawing funding from an organization based on who they let speak at an event seems like an overreaction given that it had these ramifications

Wait wait wait, now it's Mike's fault that Shopify acted the way it did and coup'd this organization? Come on. You can't judge his choice to remove funding on what someone else did.
by pjdesno | 2025-09-24 21:39:44+00:00
Repeating a comment I made above - for standard tier, requests are expensive enough that it's cost-effective to let space on the disks go unused if someone wants an IOPS/TB ratio that's higher than what disk drives can provide. But not much more expensive than that.

The latest generation of drives store about 30TB - I don't know how much AWS pays for them, but a wild-ass guess would be $300-$500. That's a lot cheaper than 30TB of SSD.

Also important - you can put those disks in high-density systems (e.g. 100 drives in 4U) that only add maybe 25% to the total cost, at least if you're AWS, a bit more for the rest of us. The per-slot cost of boxes that hold lots of SSDs seems to be a lot higher.
by codedokode | 2025-09-24 21:39:49+00:00
Gtk and Qt are not reactive. "reactive" means that you have a variable ("model") bound to the property of UI widget (for example, slider position) and every time you update the variable, the UI widget redraws itself automatically. UI widget property might be also bound to an expression containing multiple model variables. As far as I know, both Qt and GTK require you to update widget properties manually like in 80s.

Flutter is built on unpopular slow dynamic interpreted language that is used only by Google. My only experience with Dart is when Google Ad management site was built on Dart compiled into JS, and it loaded and worked very slowly compared to normal sites, used lot of RAM and I dislike Dart since then.
by rpcope1 | 2025-09-24 21:39:50+00:00
Trucking is probably going to be one of the things that's harder to automate, and given the way things are going we best hope they don't given the absolute bloodbath it would create for labor (trucking is one of the most common professions in the US). I would wager that would lead to unrest in a way we've not seen in a long time.
by jashmota | 2025-09-24 21:40:07+00:00
You're right! This is exactly why we like to do mechanical actuation - we are able to achieve bilateral telepresence, which essentially gives the torque (haptic) feedback over the internet! So on small excavators, you can absolutely feel the resistance. We also stream the engine audio, which tells you how hard the hydraulic pump is working. Operators like our system for these reasons :)

I'd like to get a chance to talk to you and your Dad to get feedback. How do I reach you? My email is contact at useflywheel dot ai
by Barbing | 2025-09-24 21:40:17+00:00
All that testing and they've never thought to offer a one-tap way to get back into speed control once I've adjusted the speed one or more times on the same video.

Don’t get me started on the “highest quality” account setting absolutely never selecting 4K options when available. They simply have to try to save the bandwidth money by nesting quality options a couple taps away. (A userscript fixes this on desktop and even in Safari iOS/iPadOS, but I don’t deserve the quality I’m paying for if I use their native app.) [Privileged rant over!]
by btown | 2025-09-24 21:41:43+00:00
Arguably/pedantically, Pyodide has had this for a while: see https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/sandboxing-agentic-ai-work... for a use case.

Wasmer's approach hints at faster cold starts and better overall performance; the benchmarking against pyodide is a bit unclear, and it's unclear to me whether that would make or break viability for a use case like this.

But one thing this does make possible is if your arbitrary script is actually a persistent server, you can deploy that to edge servers, and interact with your arbitrary scripts over the network in a safe and sandboxed way!
by destroycom | 2025-09-24 21:42:36+00:00
This doesn't seem like an article that was made with proper research or proper sincerity.

The claim is that there is one million times more data to feed to LLMs, citing a few articles. The articles estimate that there is 180-200 zettabytes (the number mentioned in TFA) of data total in the world, including all cloud services, including all personal computers, etc. The vast majority of that data are not useful to train LLMs at all, they will be movies, games, databases. There is a massive amount of duplication in that data. Only a tiny-tiny fraction will be something useful.

> Think of today’s AI like a giant blender where, once you put your data in, it gets mixed with everyone else’s, and you lose all control over it. This is why hospitals, banks, and research institutions often refuse to share their valuable data with AI companies, even when that data could advance critical AI capabilities.

This is not the reason, the reason is that this data is private. LLMs do not just learn from data, they can often reproduce it verbatim, you cannot give medical records or bank records of real people, that will put them at a very real risk.

Let alone that a lot of them will be, well-structured, yes, but completely useless information for LLM training. You will not get any improvement in the perceived "intellect" of a model by overfitting it with terabytes of tables with bank transaction records.
by themafia | 2025-09-24 21:42:41+00:00
> Large organized groups can offer substantially more economies of scale, and so can outcompete small organizations based on the economic goods they offer.

This premise ignores the existence of the Internet. Wherein small groups of distributed actors can combine their efforts through a nearly instantaneous communications mechanism to match that of the larger groups.

The federal government was conceived when horses were the only way to transmit large amounts of data over a great distance.

We built the replacement for large global groups but then kept the large global groups. The results were entirely predictable.
by iamnothere | 2025-09-24 21:42:54+00:00
It’s extremely unlikely that they would be able to find an end user (not an onion site operator, a user) with good opsec who connects occasionally, such as a journalist uploading a few documents to a secure onion drop. All existing known attacks were against onion site operators running for long periods from a static location (still took a lot of resources and time to track them down) or end users with poor opsec/infosec.

The whole thing reads as scaremongering FUD to prevent people from using Tor, with further FUD tacked on to make people think that using it might be illegal somehow. Tor is actually great for personal infrastructure (no need for domain names or a static IP), limited anonymity, and censorship resistance.
by lucb1e | 2025-09-24 21:43:05+00:00
> The tldr is that they have a legal requirement to bind "verifiable credential shares" with the same human who got the e-ID

Glancing at the thread, I don't see that conclusion. User 'sideeffect42' cites some laws and says

>> As I read this it nowhere says that the e-ID has to be bound to a device. It only speaks about binding it to its owner which (IANAL) could be implemented by password protection (like KeePass) as well, since only the owner knows the password.

Nobody seems to have replied to that

Alternatively, the software could just scan your ID card's chip when you need it, or whatever it is that it does for first-time-use verification anyway. It needs not require your phone is locked down, locking you out of any control over tracking, installed apps, or reading the phone's storage and network traffic to merely see what it tracks about you. The phone can simply act as an NFC reader so that your ID can sign a challenge with an "over 18" flag included within the signed data

And that's if you want ubiquitous age verification in the first place. I find that u/raincole made a good point here that outlandish implementations have successfully shifted the discussion away from the aspect of whether ID-based checks must be widely performed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45361883

> so I urge [to vote a certain way], if you're a Swiss citizen

Is this post genuinely trying to add something to the thread, or a way to promote your agenda?
by mrtksn | 2025-09-24 21:43:53+00:00
I agree with that, I'm not arguing for discrediting arguments by age and ask for authority of the elders or something of that sort. Age provides context, it's helpful with facilitating the conversation in a healthier manner. Just the other day I was having an intense argument with someone on reddit, at some point it occurred to me that they don't understand because they are too young(checked the profile, definitely some kid trying to have an opinion on grown up stuff) and my words don't ring a thing in their head. Instead of being angry for them being too stupid to understand, I decided that they are not stupid or bad people but just too young. I was at that age some time ago and I knew how it feels, so left them alone. They will understand when they understand.

This is because words actually don't carry much meaning, they invoke something that the other side understands already. For example, it's very hard to have a conversation about some aspects of a relation of 40 y/o people if the other party is in their 20s. You need to relate with something of their age and build it up and even then its likely they will understand it completely the wrong way. Over the years people evolve, they go over stuff and when you meet someone who hasn't been through the process you need to be aware of that otherwise you will mistake them for stupid(because, not everyone who ages ends up going through the transformation the same way. You better know if you are speaking to such a person or a younger person who has the chance).

What I don't understand is, why people assume that everything you know about someone is supposed to be used against them. Why everything needs to be malicious?
by nickgpop | 2025-09-24 21:45:11+00:00
I recently gave a TEDx talk about a risk of technology that isn’t often discussed: not killer robots or AGI doom, but the loss of struggle itself.

As automation and AI strip away effort from daily life, we may also strip away the very friction that gives meaning, purpose, and growth. It’s a psychological and philosophical problem more than a technical one.

Here’s the talk: AI and the Hidden Price of Comfort (TEDx Folsom)
by billforsternz | 2025-09-24 21:45:31+00:00
The very first sentence;

> The λ calculus is, at heart, a simple notation for functions and application.

I'm already confused! and application. Does that even make sense? It didn't get much better when I started on the first chapter. It seemed like an exercise in making simple algebra much more complicated, for philosophical reasons, or something.

I've no doubt at all that lambda calculus (whatever it is) is extremely important and valuable and if I put in the work and broke through the barriers I'd be embarrassed about my last paragraph.

But still, is there no way to introduce the subject in a slightly less obtuse and confusing way?
by reify | 2025-09-24 21:46:02+00:00
Unfortunately, this article pretends to be a writeup of a study, but it’s actually a promotional brochure for enterprise AI products.

It’s an unlabeled advertising feature.

The AI sales people who wrote this throw around numbers and percentages. Looks good, looks sciencey.

Then you go looking for the study these numbers came from. They didn’t run a study — they have an open quiz that’s still running. You can just put answers in right now, live. No screening, no attempt at getting a representative sample, none of this was done properly. [Survey]

https://stanforduniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4Mjwa0j...

The company is called BetterUp. They wrote this to sell you an AI product that turns your AI “passengers” into AI “pilots”! You just have to give them money.

Every GitHub Copilot bot commit is workslop. Every AI review is workslop. Every email where you wish they’d just sent the prompt instead is workslop.

The cause of workslop is not “passengers” — it’s workers being forced to use dumb garbage that doesn’t work.

The “passenger” label tries to blame the workers and not their bosses — who are 100% the parties to blame.

borrowed from:

https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard
by rstuart4133 | 2025-09-24 21:46:27+00:00
> I think it’s more about allowing people the freedom to make their own medical decisions.

I'm not familiar with how things work in the USA, but this statement from the article seems to say the reverse:

> When Kennedy signs this, the MMRV will not be covered by many insurers and it will be unavailable to most people in practice.

I'm guessing that means currently most people are free to make their own choice on whether to get the vaccine independent of any financial considerations. If is speculations are on target they will have to pay for the vaccine, so the decision has more constraints - and so is correspondingly less free.

About 9 out of 10 unvaccinated children will get Measles, of those about 1 in 1,000 will suffer sever complications like brain damage or death. I guess if you are poor, your pretty likely to means you accept the 0.1% risk.
by smnrg | 2025-09-24 21:46:37+00:00
This is useful info and POV. Thanks so much for the pointers. Everything is exhausting right now, including using basic tools that became de facto behemoths of communications.

I have been trying a combination of those—though the app doesn't like GrapheneOS either, I suspect. I transitioned most of my overseas family to Signal and other channels, though some of them just won't—and I understand that.

P.S. Happy to see another Kagi user help here. :)
by mikestew | 2025-09-24 21:46:43+00:00
I hate that this website doesn’t let you select text from within the document.

Eh? Works for me on an old 2012 MBP and Safari 15.6.

As for the "looping in legal..." one weird trick that judges hate, eh, the discussions I've read in the past amounted to "how stupid do you assume judges to be?" Seems like a good way to get hammered in court.