MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by immibis | 2025-09-05 00:36:02+00:00
In places without widespread drivethroughs they still have electricity and internet.

Non-car-centric doesn't mean no cars. It means a society not centered around the crazy amounts of cars.

A lot of those types of workers who have vans full of tools use them as their main vehicles. That van being in the drive through doesn't mean the drive through is supporting the societal function that's advertised on the van. It just means a worker who does that for a living is currently buying food there.
by _wire_ | 2025-09-05 00:36:23+00:00
A great mystery is how Tesla is avoiding culpability and liability for gross lying and mortal harms caused by the product, and instead being rewarded with fantastic amounts of money!

Personal computer appliance users truly blame themselves for the failures of the devices, no matter the degree of wreckage and injury caused by bad design, while cheering the men (unbearable a*holes) who foist malfunctional and dangerous tech upon them.

The captains of this industry are notorious for refusing to take responsibility for their mistakes and actively planning to deploy tech they themselves claim is hazardous, while being continually cheered by investors hungry to make a killing.

Tesla is a case study for the world about the hazards of California Ideology libertarianism and the precedence of greed over personal responsibility and justice.

Since Ronald Reagan, personal responsibility has never been a libertarian (Republican) trait. It's always "Oops I did it again!" and "I forgot!"

No surprise the "trolley problem" is the signature thought experiment for the industry as its technocrats constantly hunt for ways to escape responsibility and seek unearned profits.

With the woeful performance of Musk's cars and robots, DOGE fiasco, Federal schedule drug habit, goonerism, and inability to maintain personal relationships, Musk's plans for a mars adventure are psychotic.

But what fun to watch!
by CamperBob2 | 2025-09-05 00:36:35+00:00
Related, but not quite the same thing. Band-limiting is needed to avoid aliasing. The infinite-duration part (or perfect phase continuity at the boundaries, or a window function...) is needed to avoid Gibbs ringing.

An interesting anecdote from Lanczos[1] claims that Michelson (of interferometer fame) observed Gibbs ringing when he tried to reconstruct a square wave on what amounted to a steampunk Fourier analyzer [2]. He reportedly blamed the hardware for lacking the necessary precision.

1: https://math.univ-lyon1.fr/wikis/rouge/lib/exe/fetch.php?med...

2: https://engineerguy.com/fourier/pdfs/albert-michelsons-harmo...
by acdha | 2025-09-05 00:37:02+00:00
We certainly did when I was a kid towards the end of the Cold War, but it was moderated by the major players serving broad audiences so they tended not to knowingly repeat falsehoods and the biases were more subtle such as selecting which stories got more coverage. It certainly wasn’t perfect but things like keeping advertisers happy tended to cut against putting conspiracy theorists and fabulists on prime time.

Talk radio and then cable news really ushered in the political entertainment era where what matters most is whether a story feels right for a narrow audience, and then the internet provided the amped up version. I wouldn’t say dumber as much as provocative but once the ad-tech engines started rewarding hot takes they became predominant.
by mint5 | 2025-09-05 00:37:26+00:00
Okay so to recap your rebuttal is coming from the context of “my last two cars were high end luxury vehicles with plentiful sound dampening” and “one of my cars is an extremely fast sports car”. Okay… yes from the standpoint of the 1% in their audi R8’s, I suppose ICE and EVs are equally quiet and lagless. I personally can’t speak to that so I’ll take your word.

But Comparing more normal people cars though like various mid range post 2020 Subarus, fords, rav4s, and 2010s Volvos, among others, those compared to EVs and plug in hybrids in EV mode including lower end ones like the crosstrek plug in hybrid - the latter were all quieter and had immediate acceleration w less lag compared those ice.

(And I’m excluding the 2025 stop start Subaru forester from that assessment because it’s lag is a whole other level from stopped. Not sure if that’s normal for all stop start cars, but perhaps this is the type of modern ICE innovation from the past 15years that the ev people are unaware of?)

Equally, airplane travel is a totally different experience when one is on a private jet or in first class versus taking southwest.
by cocire | 2025-09-05 00:37:41+00:00
never worn a CGM (had to look up the acronym, admittedly).

I do not drink coffee anymore, alcohol or much caffeine, and try to avoid super sugary drinks. I try to stick to milk, juice, but mostly just water. The neighborhood corner store sells these super yummy Boylan Black Cherry sodas though...

None of my doctors or I have ever really associated my seizure frequency with diet. I have definitely heard of people having improvements with things like a ketogenic diet for some types of epilepsy though!
by cherry_tree | 2025-09-05 00:37:44+00:00
Landlords increasing rent totally sounds like part of a free market entrepreneurs wet dream to me! If I’m a free market entrepreneur the last thing I want is pesky rent controls limiting my ability to provide supply! Have you ever rented? Did they ever decrease your rent when the economy was looking down or do you acknowledge that they don’t actually care about the income of their tenants insofar as they can extract revenue from someone?

You must feel that a free market cares that some people will no longer be able to afford rent; I don’t believe the economic definition of a free market includes such an idea; I think it’s very happy to displace people from their homes in order to shuffle in those who are willing to pay higher rents; see also: gentrification

Your point hinges on the idea that rent for people making wages below “SFBay A.I. engineer” is not increasing or would not increase because of the inelasticity of these consumers to price increases; can you substantiate this claim in any way?

It’s also worth noting that there are lots of government grants going towards electrification of vehicles including installation of EV chargers, so even removing your idea about landlords refusing to raise rents because they are worried about their tenants (lol) there is still easy room for landlords to get grants to pay for the installation/maintenance of these chargers anyways.
by Waterluvian | 2025-09-05 00:38:15+00:00
I struggled in high school. I went off my ADHD meds in favour of a social life, a choice I don’t regret. But it made classwork and homework absolute torture. The torture mostly sucked but I did help me grow. I’m convinced I would have cheated if I had access to ChatGPT, and that’s pretty upsetting to think about when thinking about today’s students.b

I hope that how we educate changes, forces by AI, improving in ways that would have helped people like me. I worry that might mean lessened access for all, if it requires the cost to go up.
by munificent | 2025-09-05 00:38:44+00:00
I agree with you totally that being physically active is important for being healthy.

And I think there's something to be said for your point that experiencing pain and seeing yourself recover from it can be helpful for processing pain psychologically. You could look at it as sort of exposure therapy for pain.

But I also think that the kinds of pains you get from exercise are quite different from the psychological experience of pain from a serious injury and the former doesn't really prepare you for the latter.

It's hard to explain unless you've been there. Most of the time, pain is a signal from your past telling you about something you did. It's your body's way of saying "don't do that again". But when a severe injury happens, it can also be an omen for your future. Your body saying "no, you don't get to do that anymore".

Processing that is difficult, especially given how uncertain the signal actually is.
by wpm | 2025-09-05 00:38:50+00:00
It's partly that (after all so long as your new OS has a decent browser most people won't care), but also hardware support. Every single driver has some specific hardware's ridiculous and strange quirks and "yeah we comply with that standard except for all the times we don't", and re-writing every Windows, Linux, or *BSD driver for $NEW_OS just doesn't pencil out.
by ewujoku | 2025-09-05 00:38:54+00:00
A properly rigorous EE/ECE program needs the first 3 years to provide a foundation. Yes, some people get weeded out that way.

For me, a senior-level circuits class using Horowitz and Hill "Art of Electronics" was the game-changer (in 1981!). 3rd edition (2015) still looks great to me (although yes it is large and expensive).
by ryoshu | 2025-09-05 00:39:32+00:00
Pretty dang close isn't the same as accurate for an exchange of time and money. Voice->text, with a noisy background, is a particularly hard problem. Especially with hardware not designed to limit background noise. Try it. Whisper is still the leading speech->text model in our tests, but add noise reduction, echo, diarization, etc. It's a hard problem.
by immibis | 2025-09-05 00:40:16+00:00
Google was ordered to stop linking Google Maps from location searches. Some people framed it as the EU forcing pointless extra work on people because you just type in maps.google.com and the same search again. But the thing is, it's fair now: you can just as easily type in maps.apple.com or something else. It's equal effort no matter who you choose for maps, so the market is no longer manipulated.

Same thing here. You could pay Microsoft for Teams but you could also pay someone else for something like Teams, and the friction should be identical, enabling market competition again.
by lurking_swe | 2025-09-05 00:40:22+00:00
i’ll leave you with this to ponder.

It would be pretty weird if george washington, Thomas Jefferson, etc were here with us today. We’d probably still be debating if slavery is acceptable or not LOL.

People complain about boomers hoarding all the wealth and “never letting go” so younger folks can take the reins. Imagine how much worse it would be if those boomers lived until 200?

Imagine how much more fossil fuel we’d be burning if we all lived until 200?

You know how old people tend to get stubborn? Not all, but most? Now imagine if the U.S. government was comprised of mostly people age 100+. Imagine how they would do keeping up with changes that affect youngsters in 2025?

Imagine how bad the housing crisis would be in 2025.

Imagine how unmotivated people would be in day to day life if they knew they’d live to 200 years?

In summary…if everyone could easily live forever, that is not a good thing. It would drastically change society as we know it, and not 100% for the better. I’d argue it would actually make things worse.

Death is literally a biological process that affects all living organisms on this planet, and in the galaxy. Sorry if that’s hard to accept? I personally find it beautiful how “energy” is recycled once we die, through the soil, and eventually into other things - like a tree, etc.
by DaveZale | 2025-09-05 00:40:52+00:00
Why not just integate the native people, whose land was occupied (many would say stolen) into a single state?

Why not? Because they would have voting rights.

This is the crux of the problem, and all the hasbara in the world can't refute it.

Okay here come the downvotes. Jews in my life have been extremely open minded and truthful. Zionists, almost never.
by altairprime | 2025-09-05 00:41:31+00:00
> wet dream

This repeated and explicitly-sexual metaphor in a non-sexual context is rather wearisome.

> You must feel that a free market cares

A free market does not qualify for use the property of 'caring'. Neither emotions nor intentions are a property of a 'market', free or otherwise, and I categorically reject all statements, inferences, and/or implications to the contrary (such as "that a free market cares").

> can you substantiate this claim in any way?

I made a statement in public for all to hear, I am unable to defend the statements I make, and am simply unwilling to have a reasoned discussion. You have been unfailing polite, and I have been nothing but rude.
by unyttigfjelltol | 2025-09-05 00:41:41+00:00
Anyone who finds themselves in a game of Russian roulette is a loser. Perhaps the Soviet elite had less to lose and could rationalize a reckless escalation spiral. But, if your government acts like foaming madmen with— we all should recognize— no actual ability to decisively do anything to great powers, and relying on the rest of the world to act like statesmen and leaders and stop the escalation spiral— no, that government is destined for the dustbin of history. Where the Soviet Union is now. To the extent I’m incidentally describing any modern Western leadership, it’s a shame, we all lose.
by defrost | 2025-09-05 00:41:54+00:00
To clarify, of the 2,121 nuclear tests conducted, 520 have been "above ground" at surface level or atmospheric.

That's more than a quarter, and a good many of the above ground tests were larger blasts than the below ground tests which got smaller and smaller as time progressed and atmospheric tests were phased out.

The nuclear tests I've been present for were underground and relatively small, one fusion 3x Hiroshima yield (which is 'small' for a fusion bomb), the rest fission and micro sub kilo tonne blasts (smaller than mining bench explosions).

The largest bomb, the Tsar, was detonated high in the sky, the sea level dirtiest bomb took out an entire coral reef system and scattered radioactive fallout across the seas to Japan.

> In a nuclear exchange, most devices would detonate above the target surface level to maximize destruction through the shockwave.

... and, it should be said, minimize radioactive fallout as bombs are no longer doped to increase radiation and detonation elevations are chosen to maximize physical shock wave damage and not tear a crater in the earth throwing "fallout" up and outwards.

Nuclear winter itself is a theory that has had less support in recent times, when first put forward it served the people demonstrating against nuclear weapons to highlight the worst case scenario, and it served diplomats that saw MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) as useful way to cap post world war aggression and nuclear escalation.

Many of the scientific papers that support a nuclear winter scenario are little more than rough back of the envelope worst case over estimates with few examples that dig into details and not much support from real world oil fire and volcano data for extended multi year devastating persistence.
by theamk | 2025-09-05 00:42:13+00:00
A developer that was exposed to Immediate Mode UI only is inventing regular windowing system from the first principles.

Reminds me of Turbo Vision, a TUI toolkit from 1990's: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Vision

It did not have shader nodes, but it run very well on 10MHz computers with a single megabyte of RAM (or less).
by ACCount37 | 2025-09-05 00:42:14+00:00
What's worse: having a 700 year old Xi Jinping, or having an extra 600 years of entirely unmitigated aging worldwide - with all the death and suffering that entails?

There is plenty of politicians I truly hate. But I don't hate any of them enough to doom billions to an early grave just to get at them.

If you think that Xi Jinping should die, then I can't help but think that a better solution to that would be to actually kill Xi Jinping. Far less collateral damage involved.

>That’s also a pure dystopia, because it’s beyond naive to think this would be some commonplace technology afforded to everyone and not just the ruling class.

There's this tendency for people nowadays to take this kind of shitty Black Mirror logic, and assume that the inevitable outcome is the one that maximizes the grimdark factor.

In reality, there's no reason to expect that anti-aging treatments would work any different from something like Ozempic or laser eye surgery. Sure, those were hideously expensive to develop - but are now affordable to upper middle class, and fully expected to get more available over time.

You earn more by selling a $1000 smartphone to everyone than you could ever earn by selling a billion dollar megayacht to a dozen billionaires looking to buy one. With anti-aging tech, the economic incentive to reduce the costs and reach a wider audience is immense. The demand is going to be there: a lot of what the cosmetics industry does now is fight the mere appearance of aging, and that's an industry worth hundreds of billions by itself.
by csmith5498 | 2025-09-05 00:42:48+00:00
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by traverseda | 2025-09-05 00:43:03+00:00
Worth noting that lidarr is broken right now. It relies on a metadata server provided by the lidarr org (like that's not going to blow up in our faces) and that metadata server is currently down. It's been like that for I think 6 months?

https://github.com/Lidarr/Lidarr/issues/5498

>If you're starting a NEW lidarr library, you should wait. It's not ready for that.
by mananaysiempre | 2025-09-05 00:43:12+00:00
Ehh more like spellcheckers aren’t something you only get in a word processor anymore, and autocorrect doesn’t help either. I’m getting the impression that there are much more malapropisms on the Internet (and much, much fewer outright typos and spelling errors) than there used to be, say, a decade ago, and I strongly suspect spellcheckers are to blame.

(Proofreading in professional publishing is, indeed and to that industry’s great shame, much less of a thing than it used to be, but that’s a different story.)
by FireBeyond | 2025-09-05 00:43:12+00:00
I live in a cul-de-sac built in the 80s. The lot next to me was vacant when I bought four years ago (it burnt down soon after, and was never rebuilt).

Owner sold the lot three years ago and a developer built a home there that the new owners moved into two years ago.

Barely a month goes by without some vehicles from the developer or their subcontractors being at the house. They've done two foundation repairs, relaid the driveway, there's drywallers, plumbers, electricians, even the fencing needed repair.

When I was young, I thought "builder grade" was a good thing, now I know it as "cheapest materials you can possibly find, thrown together as fast as humanly possible".
by ndiddy | 2025-09-05 00:44:04+00:00
It's a copy of the Toolbox ROM code for the Quadra 660AV. It's a real leak, not reverse engineered. You can see comments on the code from the early 80s by the original Macintosh team. It was published online (I think on Applefritter or something) about 20 years ago by a former Apple employee who was having some sort of mental breakdown. He believed it contained proof that Apple was complicit in subjecting its employees to MKULTRA mind control and ran underground maglev trains to other dimensions.
by calf | 2025-09-05 00:45:25+00:00
I'll have you realize you are replying (quite arrogantly by the way) to someone who wrote part of their PhD dissertation on models of computation. Try again :)

Besides, it is patently false. Not every Markov chain is an LLM, an actual LLM outputs human-readable English, while the vast majority of Markov chains do not map onto that set of models.
by MoravecsParadox | 2025-09-05 00:45:30+00:00
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by diego_moita | 2025-09-05 00:47:25+00:00
Silvio Berlusconi, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Rodrigo Duterte, Tercep Erdogan, ... they all came before Trump. They all were equally stupid.

Even Trump-like demagogues like Jair Bolsonaro and Nigel Farage already had a political career before him.

What is new isn't that politicians got dumber, it is that the dumbest of them got the megaphones of social media.
by runarberg | 2025-09-05 00:47:30+00:00
Few of SEPA members have autonomous regions which are them selves not members of SEPA, I do wonder if making transactions between the autonomous region and the rest of the country, as well as to a different SEPA member is any harder. For example I can’t imagine it would be difficult to make a transaction between Thorshavn in the Faroe Islands and Hirtshals in Denmark proper, or to Oslo or Reykjavík for that matter. But a transaction between North Nicosia to Nicosia in Northern Cyprus and Cyprus respectively may be a different matter.
by FireBeyond | 2025-09-05 00:48:29+00:00
> What criteria do you have in mind when you say "of better quality"? They are not built for longevity, which is also why they are cheaper. It is a completely different approach to what a home is.

New construction in the US is also absolutely not built for longevity unless you are paying a significant markup for actual craftsman materials and labor (and this would amount to less than 0.1% of new construction, probably closer to 0.01%). Of my friends who work as GCs and similar, a lot of homes built in the mid-90s are considered tear-downs, and they believe that number will only increase.
by kjkjadksj | 2025-09-05 00:49:24+00:00
Same way it works today. Only rather than a portion of my salary going toward rent and supporting the lifestyle of my landlord, it goes to maintenance and development, and my landlord has to find something socially productive to do to get a meal and their bmw. Let me rent an apartment from my city for a fair market rate that does not factor in the landlord living off my back. Lets go a step further. Let me buy a home without paying a banker interest. I’m a worker in the system, I am a fungible unit of labor. My home should basically be accounted for already, I should be able to move in the day I sign my job offer with no money down.

Another example of communism that isn’t some impoverished corrupt nation economically isolated from global trade through US led embargo: on base housing at your local military base.
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-09-05 00:49:30+00:00
Not OP, and I'm actually voting for him, but I think a lot of people are critical of the taxes that will be required to fund all his social programs, including:

Raising property taxes while freezing rents (meaning your shitty NYC apt will never be repaired again), $30 min wage and corporate tax increase and 0.1% tax of stock and options trades (driving jobs away)
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-09-05 00:49:41+00:00
I think a stronger push for WFH for those jobs that can obviously support it can solve a lot of problems. The federal government was leading the way before Trump, I feel like we are heading backwards in a lot of ways in the last 6 months (toward the 1950s and not the 2050s), but there are actual real solutions that we are just refusing to pursue.