MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mallowdram | 2025-09-10 16:43:13+00:00
Feynman wasn't a neurobiologist.

I'd read Spontaneous Brain by Northoff (Copernican, irreducible neuroscience) or oscillatory neurobiology Buzsaki.

The brain is lossless.

I would agree that external forms of memory are evolutionarily progressive, that ability to utilize the external forms requires a lossless relationship.

Once we grasp the infinitely inferior external of arbitrariness (symbols words) are correlated through superior, lossless, concatenated internals (action-neural-spatial-syntax), until we can externalize that direct perception, the externals are deeply inferior, lossy forms.
by jakubmazanec | 2025-09-10 16:43:34+00:00
> Everybody loves public transit until they get panhandled for the jillionth time, or they witness (or experience) violence, or some other anti-social behavior sours the whole thing.

Maybe this is just another "American version" of something - in Czechia, public transportation is truly safe (incidents happen, of course, but it's like one per year that makes it to the news), even at night.
by cube2222 | 2025-09-10 16:43:36+00:00
Funny observation - it feels like being in the EU I get a much better AI SaaS experience than folks over in the US.

It’s like every other day, the moment US working hours start, AI (in my case I mostly use Anthropic, others may be better) starts dying or at least getting intermittent errors.

In EU working hours there’s rarely any outages.
by bluGill | 2025-09-10 16:43:51+00:00
> and get a lot of hotel shuttles and taxis off the street.

No it wouldn't. Those hotel shuttles and taxies are ideal for anyone with luggage as you don't have to carry your own heavy bags with you. The train doesn't want those people slowing things down for everyone as they get all their bags on/off the train.

Airport lines are a good idea because many thousands of people work at airports and thus don't have luggage. They are also useful for travelers taking a short trip and thus don't have much packaged. However Vegas as a vacation destination is expected to have a lot of people with luggage and less people who are light travelers.

Once tourists drop their bags in their room they should be using transit for every trip until it is finally time to return to the airport.
by righthand | 2025-09-10 16:44:11+00:00
So you didn’t read that far then. You intentionally skipped it because you assumed to know the value. However by skipping the article you didn’t gain any value and hence why you’re in the comments section trying to “gotcha” the author of the article. You missed the point entirely and not as clever as you think.

It did not take me 3 hours to read that article.
by Funes- | 2025-09-10 16:44:14+00:00
The "shit" to "good" ratio in literally every field was much less skewed to the "shit" side before smartphones and social media came along. It's always this same fallacy: "hey, that was always a thing!". Sure, drugs have "always" been a thing, but did you have fentanyl producing real-life zombie parades in the streets just ten years ago? If we make these reductionist claims, we can say just about every phenomenon was already a thing a hundred thousand years ago. We have to think about the degree to which something is occurring as well, and how it is taking place, not just try to dismiss it through knee-jerk intended retorts.
by ObnoxiousProxy | 2025-09-10 16:44:15+00:00
I'm actually working on an MCP control plane and looking for anyone who might have a use case for this / would be down to chat about it. We're gonna release it open source once we polish it in the next few weeks. Would you be up to connect?

You can check out our super rough version here, been building it for the past two weeks: gateway.aci.dev
by jjevanoorschot | 2025-09-10 16:44:16+00:00
What you’re describing is perfectly possible without a car.

I live in Amsterdam and have a young family. We own an electric cargo bike that we use for groceries and to cart around our daughter. You can use it with an infant car seat and for larger kids.

When we need a car we use a car sharing app. There are around 10 cars within walking distance of our flat.

Many people in cities _want_ a car but don’t need one.
by forgotoldacc | 2025-09-10 16:44:28+00:00
With movies, I feel like that's a bit of return to form. I know lots of older greats were around 2-3 hours in length, and I feel like things moved to 90 minutes basically overnight around the 2000s. Though I feel like a lot of long recent movies are more padded, while older 2+ hour movies felt like they had to cut content to make it a reasonable length.
by tptacek | 2025-09-10 16:44:31+00:00
I don't think "Cosma Shalizi doesn't know what he's talking about" is a good hill to die on, and you've now expanded your portfolio of opponents to Ned Block, from who I shoplifted the heritability point.

Direct genetic causality is not the only mechanism through which genes select for phenotypical traits. Genes also select and interact with the environment.
by lordnacho | 2025-09-10 16:44:47+00:00
It's like a cache level issue.

In the old world, you had your wet brain memory. You needed to fill it with the order of the alphabet, so that you could make use of paper reference works. You also needed some arithmetic and some English style notes, in case you wanted to express yourself. You had to remember things like there/their/they're and that kind of thing. You needed a small encyclopedia so that you could have a clue about where general knowledge could be found.

On top of this, you were expected to layer on your professional knowledge. If you were a doctor, a huge number of Latin terms. A more detailed understanding of how the body works that you got from the base installation. Something about how the profession works. You would get a sense for what was likely through experience. A BS detector, in some ways.

All because your brain ain't gonna get bigger, and paper information technology was what it was: found in a library, limited in size, hard to search, slow to update.

Nowadays, the brain cache is no different in capability. But the external memory system you are accessing is completely different. It's massive, it can update in real time, and it's very searchable.

So you need to keep different things in your brain cache to take advantage of this.

But what do you need?

The only component that really matters is the BS detector.

Not only do I not need to be able to do long division, I don't even need to know that a calculator exists for calculating my tax, a calculator containing the Haversine formula is out there somewhere, and a so on. I just assume something like epochconverter exists, and that I can plug a timestamp into it and get something readable out.

I just assume that I will be able to find things that I want, the tradeoff being that I don't have sit there and refresh my math knowledge to calculate distances on a sphere, type out a program, and run it for a single output. The other side of this coin is of course, I don't know whether the guy whose work I am borrowing did it correctly, whether he has some sort of interest he's not disclosed, and whether it's safe. I also have to compromise on any variation between what he built and what I wanted.

I do this with almost everything now. I can't help it, having grown up and been educated before the internet exploded, and having started work just as the explosion was happening.

So I'd say you actually don't have to remember everything, but you do have to use your judgement in everything.
by zamadatix | 2025-09-10 16:45:01+00:00
I dunno I agree, it's at least not been my experience with these types of parents over 10 years in my local meetings. Again - if you genuinely think children are being harmed in your community you're unlikely to care Jim from down the road doesn't let you borrow his tractor anymore (or whatever).

Maybe it's not something that can be said for every community, but the same point would apply here in reverse.
by welfare | 2025-09-10 16:45:16+00:00
I disagree that literacy is all about reading fictional books and I wish we could broaden it a little bit more, even at school.

This might be an odd take, but I never liked reading books and have read very few books in my whole life. I do love to read news articles, forum posts, magazines etc. because the format fits me.

Judging myself by my education level and career I'd say I did just fine without opening a single book.
by pessimizer | 2025-09-10 16:45:34+00:00
I bet you could get a court to say it was legally identical.

I think the Aereo case, and Scalia's dissent, are super relevant here. It's when the court decided to go with vibes, instead of facts. The inevitable result of that (which Scalia didn't predict) was selective enforcement.

edit: so what I really mean is that I bet you could get a court to say whatever you wanted about it if you were far wealthier and more influential than your opponents.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-09-10 16:45:36+00:00
I visited part of the Smithsonian recently (the natural history museum) and the level of patronizing displays is truly incredible. It seems pretty clear that if you're more than 10 years old, you're not supposed to be in there. But that feels like a development of recent decades.

On the other hand, zoos seem to have become more adult-oriented and less children-oriented over time.
by accrual | 2025-09-10 16:45:39+00:00
I'm going to be the odd duck here and suggest TikTok has been helpful for me. I view it as a tool. It can be used in a harmful way (scrolling for hours, reduced attention span) but it can also be helpful if used correctly.

It's kind of like Reddit and other "customize your feed" social media. If you subscribe to the defaults, yeah, it's hot garbage. If you select content creators or topics that support your individual growth then you get a much different outcome.

Of course not to say I couldn't have benefited from the same topics via another type of media. But I enjoy the few minutes I spend on TT per day, seeing what my favorites have posted, etc. I even met a cool dummer named Zooich in Japan who I enjoy following and interacting with each week. And I've made a bit of content myself which I'm proud of.

Lastly, in no way does my positive experience diminish the negative issues surrounding TT. I fully agree it contributes to reduced attention span, spreading misinformation, etc. -- just like most other forms of social media. And there's a very real risk of it becoming state media in the future. I just wanted to provide a different perspective other than "TT is terrible in every way, ban it!".
by mrtksn | 2025-09-10 16:45:55+00:00
Yea, because it's a superior format.

I love YouTube but my problem with the content of YouTube is that almost all videos are introducing you to everything every time.

For example, there's this science video about this interesting property of fire right? They start with what's fire, when it was invented, what led to be studied this way and then they deliver the money shot. It is O.K. to be introduced to a topic once but it is brain wrecking to be 101ed every time. They are doing it to increase the watch time and the ad revenue and its horrible.

Forcing the videos to be short makes them deliver the gist quickly, TikTok videos that are trying to the introduction 101 thing are just as horrible, when a video is over 1min I'm very skeptical and feel the urge to move on.

Of course in-depth videos need to be long but those are not that many actually. From the pop-sci genre Veritasuim does it well but that kind of production takes long time and they publish videos every now and then. With the race to pump videos as quickly as possible, the short format is the better since you can get the content quickly and if you want to know more about it you can actually read about it. Which is how you actually learn anything BTW.
by jacobolus | 2025-09-10 16:46:15+00:00
Art museums could be made friendlier for kids, but they would need significant design and maintenance effort. In particular: many kids need a lot of running around, want to play with things with their hands, and get quickly bored just standing and looking at artworks. It would be nice if there were better art museums for kids though.

(For what it's worth, there are plenty of non-interactive and thus boring-for-kids science, technology, history, etc. museums if you look around.)
by troupo | 2025-09-10 16:46:21+00:00
> What it isn't is fundamentally true or revealing.

Well, they are not a solution to transport problems, or to traffic jams.

Yes, they can be complementary to other types of transportation. Yes, companies will enshittify them beyond measure if/when they reach a certain proportion of cars.

> It's recognising that humans have diverse and varying needs for interaction and privacy.

No. I don't think this was even uttered by any of these companies.

Waymo claims to be committed to safety: https://waymo.com/about/

Tesla: stress and safety https://www.tesla.com/fsd

Zoox: purpose-built taxi shaping the future of transportation https://zoox.com/about
by komali2 | 2025-09-10 16:46:38+00:00
I am either too stupid or too lazy to remember everything. Or my version of ADHD specifically restricts my ability to remember things, or to have sufficient energy to engage daily with the process needed to memorize information (e.g. build and review anki decks).

I gave up on Anki. I abandoned org-roam and switched to trillium with very simple summaries of hand written notes. I don't summarize articles I read, I simply save them to my bookmarks with good tags.

I might be stupider now, I don't know. My mandarin improves at the same pace it did before, when I was doing daily flashcards, according to my mandarin teacher. Except now I don't have the torturous Todo item of "do mandarin flashcards" weighing on me every day, or the huge catch-up if I miss even two days (again, I am stupid - I usually miss 20% of my cards, daily. Often the same cards. I have forgotten the same word over 100 times.)

But, the other day I went to trivia in Cambridge UK, where I was probably the dumbest person in the town and almost certainly in the pub! And everyone was answering very interesting questions with correct answers, about geography, history, science, even the geography of the Americas which as an American should at least have been something I knew better than my British colleagues! Nope. It made me regretful that I grew up in suburban America and didn't get a nice bit of background education like Europeans do, or maybe for me being dumb or having ADHD. It I always admired smart people and I always wanted to count myself amongst them - it's why I brute forced my way into engineering by picking the lowest barrier to entry bit (frontend) and gritting my teeth and smashing pencils through hour after hour of tutorial and project until I finally had a portfolio I could get hired off of. And still almost always, dumbest person in the company (there have been less productive than me, though), and no idea how to change it. I'm wondering again if there's something I can do to be smarter.

I am fascinated by the promise of zettelkasten, spaced repetition, fish oil, whatever, but none of it seems to deliver!
by ericpauley | 2025-09-10 16:46:42+00:00
There are two sets of rates at play here, short-term OMO rates (which the Fed talks about in terms of target rate) and long-term rates (which are directly impacted by the Fed balance sheet). At the end of the day they're both rates, and nobody sophisticated is going to be fooled if only the short-term rates go down.
by rglullis | 2025-09-10 16:46:50+00:00
These are definitely not the same. How many people are actually paying full attention to a 3 hour podcast?

The majority will be listening to it while on their commute, or at the gym, or doing chores around the house. My wife (a civil engineer) has a podcast going in the background even while working. I asked her how she actually manages to pay attention to it and she says that it's mostly for the background noise.

> Movies are getting longer at the cinema too -- what used to be 85 minutes is now 150 minutes.

Because these movies are not made for the cinema anymore, but for streaming platforms, where people can consume in the same way they consume their podcasts.
by hennell | 2025-09-10 16:47:00+00:00
I used to find it weird how many people would make an excel formula on data they couldn't intuitively check. Like even basic level 'what percentage increase is a8 from a7' - they enter a formula then don't know if it's correct. I always wrote formulas on numbers I can reason with. If a8 is 120, and a7 is 100 you can immediately tell if you've gone wrong. Then you change for 1,387 and 1,252 and know it's going to be accurate.

People do the same with AI, ask it about something they know little about then assume it is correct, rather than checking their ideas with known values or concepts they might be able to error check.
by bogtog | 2025-09-10 16:47:05+00:00
> But my Instagram became TikTok - so now I don't use Instagram. My YouTube is becoming TikTok - so now I don't use YouTube. Everything is implementing autoplaying short form content. X/Twitter. Reddit. etc.

There are notably numerous Chrome/Firefox extensions that will hide Shorts from the YouTube homescreen. Plenty of creators are still focusing on normal-length content
by Fischgericht | 2025-09-10 16:47:13+00:00
Had a quick look at the patent, had a quick look at the code. To me it appears that 99,999% of all involved research has been taken from prior research from tons of scientists.

You might have good intentions, but in my value system if you invite others to also enjoy what you have stolen, you still are just a thief.

Polite reminder: Just because you managed to trick the US Patent Office into stamping your patent application does not mean you have invented something. It simply means you have managed to convince a bureaucrat to give you a stamp so you can claim ownership about other researchers' work.

Want to be part of the good guys? Burn the patent, and apologize to the research community you tried to steal from.
by rcpt | 2025-09-10 16:47:38+00:00
Cities prevent larger apartments through onerous zoning codes. It's so expensive to build because of the permits and the risk that only a narrow type of structure has a chance of profit.

> mostly built out

Look at rent in Asia. They actually build towers over there and they build large apartments for families as well as small apartments for couples. There's enough building that the housing market is diverse.
by Atlas667 | 2025-09-10 16:47:55+00:00
> African American is an alternative to "black". It was not invented to make a lesser form of "American".

Man, I'm not saying its lesser. I'm talking about how its used.

I think you want to assign morality to my arguments when im being as neutral as possible.

In some widespread contexts "american" is racially defaulted to white. Full stop.

Like I said were not talking about the pure logical meaning of words were talking about how society uses them.
by AnonC | 2025-09-10 16:47:59+00:00
One annoying thing (among others) I realized after upgrading to Windows 11 recently is the ability to position the taskbar on the right or left is gone. Microsoft and its all knowing Windows 11 team decided that having the taskbar anywhere except at the bottom doesn’t work well and removed this positioning feature that has existed for decades.

I doubt that PowerToys would add a feature for this, but it’d be cool if it happened.
by spuz | 2025-09-10 16:48:30+00:00
Even if Trump does not respect the view of the courts, some of those working under him do. They can be held liable if they proceed to violate a court order. If they can be given a legal justification for the orders they are given, it makes it a easier to make them comply with the orders.

But even if those working under him are faultlessly loyal, that doesn't mean the rest of the population is. Trump knows that even his base won't tolerate behaviour that is blatently illegal (such as running for a 3rd term) unless there is some kind of legal justification such as an emergency war situation. This is what I believe this is all in aide of.
by lokar | 2025-09-10 16:48:45+00:00
I lived in Manhattan (Chelsea) and took the subway to work and most other outings (when I could not walk) in the few years before Covid.

It was fine. You would get some people trying to sell stuff or in some kind of distress, but it was not all the time and it was easy to manage.

Americans who don't live in dense cities (and use transit) seem to be obsessed with the idea that these are some intolerable dystopias that must be dismantled.

It was the best place I have ever lived, except for the weather...
by grandfugue | 2025-09-10 16:48:55+00:00
If you take a look at how storage is billed in cloud, you'll see a huge difference. Networked storage, e.g., EBS, provides durability and survives VM restart. But it is billed on IOPS. 200K IOPS is a piece of cake for today's NVMe. But a 200K EBS easily costs you thousands per month. High-end NVMe devices, unfortunately, are all instance-level storage, which means they are gone if you shutdown your VM.
by WaltPurvis | 2025-09-10 16:49:12+00:00
It is fair for you to think I assumed the poster was a software developer, but in fact I looked him up before I made my comment and that is how he makes a living. (Unless something has changed recently.) I am genuinely curious how people (he's not the only one I know of) with such high sensitivity to LCD screens manage a career where staring at such screens for prolonged periods is the norm.
by zdw | 2025-09-10 16:49:22+00:00
This seems to skip the idea of stacked commits plus automatic rebasing, which have been around in Gerrit and other tools for quite a while.

If you read between the lines, the underlying problem in most of the discussion is GitHub's dominance of the code hosting space coupled with it's less than ideal CI integration - which while getting better is stuck with baggage from all their past missteps and general API frailty.
by 1718627440 | 2025-09-10 16:50:19+00:00
> The actress is free to decline the offer.

I'm not so sure about that. That's entirely the point here.

I think the difference here is that there is a work contract, but the sex isn't mentioned anywhere. If you would write that in the contract, then you would be right it's "just" prostitution. But in the cases we are discussing, that's generally not the case.

The situation between employee and and employer is generally not that of two equal-powered persons, which is why we have tons of protections there, including doubt if sex was really consensual.
by Mistletoe | 2025-09-10 16:50:26+00:00
Our science museum has dumbed everything down to where truly only a child could enjoy it and they don’t even seem to like it much. When I was a child the exhibits were so different and really interesting to both ages. Now it’s the most homogenized crap imaginable. Something only Blippi (the lobotomized) could love. I donate blood there and I’m never even tempted to go look at an exhibit. A lot of this happened in just the past few years, maybe they are just matching their reading and science impaired audience, I don’t know.
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-10 16:50:32+00:00
>The FBI literally had a book of names and confessions and gave up on the investigation at the whim of one of the implicated

What do you expect the organization built in the image of J Edgar Hoover to do if not find dirt and then keep it to itself to leverage for it's own advancement?

Can't exactly blackmail someone with info that's already been aired in a court.