MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Lerc | 2025-09-14 16:34:28+00:00
I am aware that laws have been passed on a wide range of issues against expert advice. Whether it be protecting the right to assault children, punishing addicts instead of preventing harm, or cutting children off from their most used method of first contact with mental health-care

Since you bring up the Australian law as an example I shall check the expert opinion on that.

For the second time in a week, I find myself in the peculiar position of seeing our research misinterpreted and used to support specific (and ill-advised) policy - this time by the Australian government to justify a blanket social media ban for those under 16.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/akprzybylski_the-communicatio...

This open-letter, signed by over 140 Australian academics, international experts, and civil society organisations, addresses the proposal to ‘ban’ children from social media until the age of 16. They argue that a ‘ban’ is too blunt an instrument to address risks effectively and that any restrictions must be designed with care.

https://apo.org.au/node/328608

https://ccyp.wa.gov.au/news/anzccga-joint-statement-on-the-s...

https://humanrights.gov.au/about/news/proposed-social-media-...
by jschveibinz | 2025-09-14 16:34:34+00:00
We have a limited time on earth. AI may present an opportunity for us to improve the quality of life or the amount of time spent doing things we really want to do while we are here. Those who spend time figuring out how to use AI for these purposes will be heroes, and only then will AI have been a positive development for humanity. Get to work, heroes!
by zahlman | 2025-09-14 16:37:38+00:00
> Your argument is like asserting that every instance of a class is its own unique thing and has no relation to the class.

No, it is not.

> one must observe that he died as predictable consequence of the political philosophy he espoused.

No, one must not observe that, because his death was neither predictable (unless you think the "hex" Jezebel placed on him was real and effective) nor a consequence. You are looking at a policy enabling an act (one which existed literally for centuries before Kirk's argument), and saying that this is the same as a political philosophy causing that act.

> (Also, I'm fairly certain you know already that your mayor getting run over by a hitman metaphor breaks down because hitmen don't use cars. That's not the tool designed for killing people. There's another tool designed for killing people, one far more effective at it. Hitmen use that one.)

Vehicular homicide can in fact be intentional.
by amirhirsch | 2025-09-14 16:38:31+00:00
Just putting this up as a reference the next time this comes up on HN. The study data shows that the median task is 1.5hrs and the 15 minutes that developers think they saved was actually more than that many minutes less researching, testing, and writing code and the 15 minutes longer they actually spent was more idle (5mins) and waiting for AI (5 mins) and reviewing and prompting dominating their work over actually writing code.

The person who showed a speed-up indicated over a week of prior experience with cursor while all others under a week.
by idoubtit | 2025-09-14 16:38:37+00:00
Other significant issues I've had with `pass`:

- Important processes are undocumented. E.g. sharing the pass repository with another computer is not obvious: you need to copy more than the `.password-store/` directory...

- Hard to install if not packaged. I tried to install `pass` on a headless NAS, but it required gpg, which looked hard to cross-compile to aarch64.

- `pass` is a light interface over `gpg`. So it has all the problems of GPG – I've had a few annoyances with `gpg-agent`. Many organizations are trying to ditch GnuPG and switch to simpler and better cryptography tools, like age. https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

- Android with `pass` was a bad experience. The official package was unmaintained. The fork was not packaged in F-Droid. The UI was cumbersome.

I still use pass, for lack of an obviously better universal solution. There's FiloSottile/passage for minimal change, just replacing gpg with age, but no Android. A better alternative would be gopass, which is portable across all unixes, is compatible with `pass` and has an age plugin. But still no Android packaging. https://www.gopass.pw
by munksbeer | 2025-09-14 16:38:50+00:00
> I do not think it is that difficult to grasp either. Do you understand now?

Sure, I can read English, I can understand the actual English words you're typing and the point you're trying to make. I just think it isn't true, and an honest reading of statistics would show that.

But I don't think we're going to get honesty here.
by viralpraxis | 2025-09-14 16:39:46+00:00
I’m not a parent, so it might be I completely do not understands some important aspects of this due to lack of expirience, but I hope I’ll be more smart than my parents. It was quite easy to google things my parents were silent about, but I still remeber that feeling of guiltiness. It affected me much more than knowing what the bdsm is
by inimino | 2025-09-14 16:39:55+00:00
People knock "English as a programming language", but in my opinion this is the whole value of AI programming: by the time you've expressed your design and constraints well enough that an LLM can understand it, then anyone can understand it, and you end up with a codebase that's way more maintainable than what we're used to.

The problem of course is when people throw away the prompt and keep the code, like the code is somehow valuable. This would be like everyone checking in their binaries and throwing away their source code every time, while arguments rage on HN about whether compilers are useful. (Meanwhile, compiler vendors compete on their ability to disassemble and alter binaries in response to partial code snippets.)

The right way to do AI programming is: English defines the program, generated code is exactly as valuable as compiler output is, i.e. it's the actual artifact that does the thing, so in one sense it's the whole point, but iterating on it or studying it in detail is a waste of time, except occasionally when debugging. It's going to take a while, but eventually this will be the only way anybody writes code. (Note: I may be biased, as I've built an AI programming tool.)

If you can explain what needs to be done to a junior programmer in less time than it takes to do it yourself, you can benefit from AI. But, it does require totally rethinking the programming workflow and tooling.
by dylan604 | 2025-09-14 16:40:00+00:00
Because I have no say in the plumbing used to get the water from the source to my home. Some of that infrastructure is older than I am. Whole home RO systems would still possibly flow through plumbing I wouldn't be happy with. Undersink RO systems at the primary place providing water that I ingest seems like the best place for me knowing the details about the plumbing from this new source.
by luckys | 2025-09-14 16:40:28+00:00
https://anycrap.shop/product/a-pi-sided-die

> The Pi Sided Die is a mathematical novelty designed by mathematicians who dared to defy probability. This six-sided die appears to have six sides, but only five faces display numbers between one and six – the sixth face reveals a cryptic message related to pi's decimal places when rolled correctly.

> When spun onto a flat surface, the die subtly reconfigures into seven distinct orientations, granting users temporary access to advanced statistical insights unavailable through traditional dice-based calculations. Users claim solving complex equations becomes easier after interacting with our unique Pi Sided Dice; however, these benefits typically fade within hours unless reinforced by additional rolls.

The site's too fun not to come back to, so I guess I'm buying the author a coffee
by mmh0000 | 2025-09-14 16:41:00+00:00
Because there are too many standards[0]! If only someone would invent one more standard that everyone could follow...

The Wikipedia on long and short scales[1][2] for the root of the problem.

[0] https://xkcd.com/927/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales

[2] https://grammarhow.com/m-vs-mm-million/
by hedora | 2025-09-14 16:41:28+00:00
The right managed to succeed with their electoral reforms. Gerrymandering is legal, and the president is now above the law.

The left should use the same tactics: Focus on state and local elections then use those positions to fix elections so that the national majority of voters decide who runs the federal government (instead of the current 25-30% of voters).

Doing this is completely legal now that the Supreme Court has gutted the rule of law.

For starters, all states should aggressively gerrymand. That’ll basically guarantee the house goes democrat in 2026:

https://www.natesilver.net/p/democrats-can-win-the-redistric...

If the democrats fail to do this, it’s not mere incompetence. It’s probably because their financial backers actually support the changes being made by Trump.
by ajmurmann | 2025-09-14 16:41:34+00:00
American-sized grocery stores are relatively new though. When I lived in Germany downtowns had plenty of smaller, specialized stores. There'd be several small butchers, small bakeries and sometimes even a fish monger. Stores that carried produce would usually beer less specialized but there still would be plenty of small ones like Spa and Edeka used to have small locations in walkable areas. And of course proper markets at various frequencies.
by trod1234 | 2025-09-14 16:42:21+00:00
Fairly common from what I hear, its gone completely Orwellian or Maoist, depending on your perspective.

Bad people pretending to be good doing bad things to torture people based on the bad people's false accusations and coercive evil behavior. I can't imagine a world where any rational person believes that depriving people of their professions/jobs through false accusation and targeted Zersetzung-style gangstalking (i.e. criminal harassment) is a good thing.

Cancel culture has always been based in identity politics, which are the anti-thesis of American principles, anyone with half a brain knows where that came from historically.

The moment you can't communicate for fear of reprisals as a result of someone else twisting your words out of context is the moment society begins its slow march to complete collapse and eventual annihilation/extinction. Its a small but objective indicator.

By the time the slow-witted realize this, its often too late to pull back from the maelstrom, and the loudspeaker/algorithm/technology gives them privileged position to drive the boat straight into the center, and keep doing this drowning out the sane voices that want to survive and have a future.

When there is no ability to communicate, there can be no basis for non-violent conflict resolution, no shared context, and its been known for quite awhile that isolation drives people insane. A spiraled loop of madness.

People are often quite blind when it comes to how communication specifically impacts their psychological state, and thus are powerless to alter or control their heading. The science inflicted on them to induce towards automata is beyond their ken or ability to react.

Sad state of affairs overall.
by DrewADesign | 2025-09-14 16:42:58+00:00
> Absolutely no one who voted for this mess went in blind.

I think it depends. I suspect that political messaging has become so tailored that the Mercola/Natural News crowd that voted primarily because of RFK’s anti-vaxxing platform could have been getting so heavily hammered with the “this is the ’chemicals are bad’ administration” messaging that the anti-regulatory stuff seemed pretty quiet in comparison. And I’m pretty sure they also had things they disagreed with Harris about constantly rammed down their throats. I also think that democrat voters had negative things about Trump shoved down their throat, and that messaging difference is probably the main reason many on the right wing are absolutely mystified that people can hate Trump so much, even in spite of the ‘own the libs’ culture war garbage.

I have a list of news sources I hit weekly from Dissent and Jacobin to mainstream TV news and newspapers, to Hot Air and Town Hall. Most are pretty politically homogenous, but discuss all sorts of topics. Then I see how laser-focused a relative’s Facebook feed is on topics that are important to her… not just the political platform on a whole, but those specific things. It’s forgivable that she’d think her primary concerns were representative of most people’s primary concerns, and why she’s thinks people that are heavily focused on other topics are kind of weird.
by flkiwi | 2025-09-14 16:43:04+00:00
Ha, I'm neither conservative nor independent nor particularly moderate. I'm firmly, vigorously left in ideology. It's delightful that your conclusion upon receiving criticism of the left's approach is that the speaker must be a conservative. Thank you for illustrating the purity test issue!

Anyway, instead of being dedicated to achieving change, the American left CONSTANTLY gets distracted, e.g., complaining about those successful Democratic presidents (or candidates) who drive meaningful change as "incrementalist", "too moderate", or, my absolute favorite, "liberal" as if the European use of the word has ever mapped to the American use. I've even seen people on the left criticize AOC for selling out, when what she is doing is practicing effective politics.
by zzzeek | 2025-09-14 16:43:17+00:00
this all just says you're not really reading much about what's going on right now, or you're only reading right wing news sources

there is broad consensus among academics and journalists who study/cover authoritarianism that that's exactly what this is. it has a predictable path. this includes that individual authoritarians don't have to understand what they're doing at all. Trump does what he does due to deep narcissism and other personality disorders, he can't even spell "fascism". He's an obvious ignoramus. Bur the effect is, authoritarianism. The administration's next moves can be predicted and understood based on the study of this phenomenon.
by petercooper | 2025-09-14 16:43:20+00:00
Your mind doesn’t, though. It’s still ruminating. Was that snark in my boss’s voice? Were they talking about me before I logged on?

I wonder if some of this could also be related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_attribution_bias where some people simply see ambiguous or benign behavior they don't like and interpret it as hostile.
by jcgl | 2025-09-14 16:44:59+00:00
> That's a lot of "e-waste" that Google only recently stopped generating. ;)

Yep, agreed. While my "e-waste" epithet was deliberately inflammatory, I really do have a problem with what they and others were doing before. Thankfully, with newer Pixels (and Galaxies, iirc), that's getting better on the Android side.

> I'm not sure why you consider the current five-years-of-updates policy to not be creating an unacceptable amount of e-waste. I have (and still use) nearly-twenty-year-old laptops with the latest Linux kernel and desktop environment software (& etc) versions available.

You're getting sidetracked from my original point (that Unihertz's practically nonexistent support disqualifies it for me), but I would certainly like to have higher standards! Core smartphone hardware has matured to the point where I would like to see 10+ year lifetimes.

However, you're making a false equivalence here; a smartphone is at the mercy of the vendor to provide updates, while a laptop (thanks to commoditized hardware and a lot of work in the Linux kernel) has a more stable base to work from. Again, if we could reach that place for smartphones, I would be into it. But until we're at the point where you can viably buy a 10+ year-old phone and install a supported operating system (where "supported" includes critical firmware updates), this is a bad comparison.
by wizardforhire | 2025-09-14 16:45:58+00:00
Side note: this works great for fermions as well…

To save the densest among you the oh so tedious task of extrapolation here are a some anecdotal examples.

Dishwasher: Sort your dishes when you pull them out. Cut your walking time to the minimal possible steps, think of this like accessing cache data. Enjoy the now painless benefit of constantly clean dishes and kitchen.

Short story: Some friends had a geodesic dome company. I’d get brought out to do setup when they were really busy. These Domes had a lot of heavy metal pipes of different and specific lengths. Its hot, it’s outside, its heavy and tedious… pipes would invariably be in a giant pile on a pallet… caught another friend doing bubble sort… the 56’ dome went up in record time with the two of us.

More meta-hierarchical: End of life, parents on cusp of hoarding. Trauma combined with sentimentality manifests as projecting value on to items. Items pile up, life becomes unmanageable, think of this like running out of ram. Solution: be present, calm and patient. Help sort the memories and slowly help sort the items. Word of warning this is NP-hard-af… eventually they will get out of it and the life for them and you will dramatically improve.

Further reading: https://knolling.org/what-is-knolling
by walterbell | 2025-09-14 16:46:20+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/sep/08/m...

KK Park – a vast, heavily guarded complex stretching for 210 hectares (520 acres) along the churning Moei River that forms Myanmar’s border with Thailand.. with its on-site hospital, restaurants, bank and neat lines of villas with manicured lawns, looks more like the campus of a Silicon Valley tech company than what it really is: the frontline of a multibillion-dollar criminal fraud industry fuelled by human trafficking and brutal violence.. Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos have in recent years become havens for transnational crime syndicates running scam centres such as KK Park, which use enslaved workers to run complex online fraud and scamming schemes that generate huge profits.
by Lerc | 2025-09-14 16:46:41+00:00
At no point did I have your inserted [only] in my mind when I wrote that.

I certainly do think the idea that social media might be bad has spread far and wide. What I would like to see is experts in the field reaching a consensus on to what extent that idea is true, and what should be done about it.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00902-2#ref-CR6

It should be noted a lot of ideas have spread in recent years. We would do well to not believe all of them, no matter how comforting it is to externalize blame.
by janalsncm | 2025-09-14 16:46:59+00:00
> The very architecture of the system guarantees it to produce new information derived from the training data rather than the training data itself

A “classical” classifier can regurgitate its training data as well. It’s just that Reddit never seemed to care about people training e.g. sentiment classifiers on their data before.

In fact a “decoder” is simply autoregressive token classification.
by bee_rider | 2025-09-14 16:47:48+00:00
I think it is just venting, rather than debate. Realistically we’re locked in for about a year and a half of full Republican control of every branch of government before literally anything at all can be changed (and even then the main achievable goal for the midterms would be for Democrats to take the House, right? Which gives them at least some ability to do some oversight, but is pretty limited).
by zelphirkalt | 2025-09-14 16:48:24+00:00
Does "MM" usually stand for "million"? In German we have "Millionen" and then "Milliarden", but in English that is "Billion", so "MM" cannot stand for "Milliarden" either. And "Mega" already is *10^6, but only has 1 "M". So at first naturally I read "Million Million", but then thought: "What? There is no way they have that many accounts!"

It is a very confusing way to write the number and no explanation seems to fit, other than "There is a second 'M' to avoid clash with the company name '3M'.". Is that the explanation?
by somenameforme | 2025-09-14 16:49:01+00:00
Ok, so you don't care. I'll pretend to believe you. Let me ask you something else then.

The Biden administration was obsessed about race and sexuality. And in this case, they blew our highest value prisoner to get somebody out of prison who unquestionably brought drugs into Russia - exceptionally rapidly, while ignoring all other prisoners, including those of high merit and arguably unjustly imprisoned. Yet this person we got out, on the double, just happened to match the exact race and sexuality characteristics that the Biden administration was obsessed with. Do you think this was just a coincidence?
by 3036e4 | 2025-09-14 16:49:01+00:00
It was running on Hetzner, but I did not like the idea of having to rely on some script to try to avoid a disaster as opposed to just be able to set a limit (that they do not support?).

* Even if the risk is obviously very low, the value of running my gemlog isn't great. Not really worth any non-zero risk of significant costs.
by forgotoldacc | 2025-09-14 16:50:21+00:00
I'm an American who's been living outside the US for a very long time. I always check where food is from at the grocery store before I buy it. Whenever possible, the US is one of a few countries where I avoid almost all ingredients. When it comes to meat, it's a 100% absolute refusal to purchase. The quality is so different that the taste is immediately obvious, and it's not good.
by bjcy | 2025-09-14 16:50:52+00:00
It’s important to note that many of the expat accounts have been closed down due to the laxity of individual bank branches in enforcing their own policies, which were taken advantage of by nefarious actors. Many expats attempt to open bank accounts on tourist visas (which include the recently popular Destination Thailand Visa for digital nomads) without proper identification, and though allowed in the past, is now being restricted. One can argue about the classification of visas and the dissonance between economic goals and immigration policy, but for Thais, this is a long overdue enforcement action especially as it regards to scams targeting an older generation. Yes, it significantly impacts honest expats looking to stay beyond the short-term, but there is a way to doing things in Thailand that requires guests to adapt to their hosts, of which accepting the reality of Thailand’s political situations is an important part.
by tripletao | 2025-09-14 16:50:56+00:00
> and in rare cases denied entry.

I think getting taken away in chains and imprisoned is significantly worse than getting denied entry? I understand you're not saying the raid was conducted properly, but you're consistently downplaying the part that did the damage.

Inconsistent policy resulting in unpredictable denial of entry is bad, but a typical working professional may tolerate that risk. Inconsistent policy resulting in arrest at some random point during your stay followed by indefinite detention (how long would that have lasted without the high-level diplomatic response?) is much worse.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-14 16:51:10+00:00
> He could read hieroglyphics. And we asked him much more technical questions which he was able to answer

He took the mandated guide courses. They call themselves Egyptologists after that. That doesn’t make it a scam. Just that he wasn’t equipped for academia.

It is notorious that almost all the well-paid and serious positions in Egyptology are with the government in Cairo or at a foreign universities and museums.