MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by croes | 2025-09-06 22:53:07+00:00
Once again, Fachkräfte was meant for migrants, right wing racists write "Fachkräfte" and suggest migrants are illegal and or criminals and of course muslims or arabic or african. Usually the same people count suspects as convicted and ignore other contributing factors to criminal behavior beside skin color, place of birth and religion. The also usually show sharp decline in interest as soon as a crime suspect turns out to be a local, see rampage driving in Mannheim or the AfD member who threatened others with a knife at a Holocaust commemoration in Strausberg.
by AnIrishDuck | 2025-09-06 22:53:12+00:00
> Cars can stop in quite a short distance.

"Quite a short distance" is doing a lot of lifting. It's been a while since I've been to driver's school, but I remember them making a point of how long it could take to stop, and how your senses could trick you to the contrary. Especially at highway speeds.

I can personally recall a couple (fortunately low stakes) situations where I had to change lanes to avoid an obstacle that I was pretty certain I would hit if I had to stop.
by elcritch | 2025-09-06 22:53:43+00:00
It seems that higher sensitivity to pain could be a very plausible cause. I believe there's studies showing lowered (and altered) pain tolerance with autism.

Though I'd expect that if aspirin did have an affect that it'd change the prevalence or severity of autism in children having genes related to autism.

There'd be a first order correction fornthe likelihood that aspirin is causitive by controlling for increased ibuprofen and tylonol usage as well. The second order correction would be whether autistic people were more likely to use aspirin over ibuprofen or tylonol, etc.
by BiteCode_dev | 2025-09-06 22:53:44+00:00
This works only if none of those are true:

- There is real competition. It's less and less the case for many important things, such as food, accommodations, health, etc.

- Companies pay a price for misbehaving that is much higher than what they got from misbehaving. Also less and less the case, thanks to lobbying, huge law firms, corruption, etc.

- The cost of switching is fair. Moving to another places is very expensive. Doing it several times in a row is rarely possible for most people.

- Some practice are not just generalized in the whole industry. In IT tracking is, spying is, and preventing you from managing your device yourself is more and more trendy.

Basically, this view you are presenting is increasingly naive and even dangerous for any citizen practicing it.
by bsder | 2025-09-06 22:53:48+00:00
> But a man who develops diabetes does not acquire genetic T2D by doing so - he cannot pass it on directly to his children.

Epigenetic changes absolutely can be passed to children even over multiple generations--this is already proven.

Which epigenetic changes are caused by T2D and whether they predispose the next generation to T2D would be the question.
by lazide | 2025-09-06 22:53:55+00:00
Are you for real/?

1) 500 hours a week isn’t just unsustainable, it’s impossible? There are only 168 hours in a week. I’m assuming you mean 50.

2) You’re just agreeing with the point again. Europe cares more about being comfortable. The US cares more about making money and being competitive (well, used to until recently anyway). People do all sorts of unsustainable things for money, all the time.

So what point do you think you’re making?
by mgh2 | 2025-09-06 22:54:35+00:00
Yeah better than none, balance outdoor benefits (exercise, myopia, vitamin C, overall health) which far outweight staying indoors (~80% of your time).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQJlGHVmdrA

Track UV levels < 2 (avoid 10am-4pm), wear at least 50 SPF sunscreen (to compensate for lower tested numbers as in this article), wear a watch to time reapplication every 1.5 hrs vs. recommended 2hrs (to be safe)
by stevage | 2025-09-06 22:54:36+00:00
> a pair of headlights for the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 300+ showed up on eBay for $162,000 last year. But the Chiron was a hypercar that cost about $3 million, meaning those headlights are half of a percent of the car's as-new value.

Um. I'm not sure I'd trust much of the rest of this article.
by jraph | 2025-09-06 22:54:45+00:00
Unfortunately, as far as old iPads are concerned, one of the major issues with old iPads is the old safari version. And so old web standards. I've this potentially nice projects to mirror screens from the web browser, but they won't run on old iPads for this reason. Shipping programs to the old iPad will suffer the same issues: only programs specifically written for these old Safari versions will work.

I suspect this will be an issue for most old devices. Especially old Apple devices (though there's hope for the newer ones now that the EU requires them to allow other browsers), but for all devices ultimately.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-09-06 22:55:02+00:00
I once read an article about forum quality as a function of the number of users. I can't seem to find it anymore, sadly.

The core idea is there's an optimal number of people. Not enough people and the community dies: not enough activity and ideas to sustain it. Too many and it also dies: it becomes impossible to form social relationships, cooperation dies down, everything becomes meaningless because you don't know anyone, the probability of ever interacting with any given person ever again trends toward zero.

Made a lot of sense to me.
by zbentley | 2025-09-06 22:55:20+00:00
I think your assessment of the academic take on AI is wrong. We have a rather thorough understanding of the how/why of the mechanisms of LLMs, even if after training their results sometimes surprise us.

Additionally, there is a very large body of academic research that digs into how LLMs seem to understand concepts and truths and, sure enough, examples of us making point edits to models to change the “facts” that they “know”. My favorite of that corpus, though far from the only or most current/advances research , is the Bau Lab’s work: https://rome.baulab.info/
by xp84 | 2025-09-06 22:55:21+00:00
I really don’t think there’s any demand out there for re-bound used paper books when most books can be had in their real binding for $3 or less. It would cost at least $3 to re-bind, then they’d have to be listed on Amazon marketplace in “Poor condition” where they’d be valued at maybe $0.50 and cost $3 to ship, and they’d take years of warehousing at great expense waiting to be sold.

As for needy people, they already have libraries and an endless stream of books being donated to thrift stores. Nothing of value was lost here.
by lostlogin | 2025-09-06 22:55:34+00:00
There was plenty of fight left in Japan. The battle of Okinawa was absolutely horrific and small a scale guide to what invading the homeland would have been.

There were 76,000-84,000 allied casualties and 105,000-110,000 Japanese. The civilian death toll was 40,000-150,000.

Claiming that lives were saved by bombing cities with nuclear weapons is always going to be a hard one to prove and morally dubious, but it might also be correct. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa
by nine_k | 2025-09-06 22:56:09+00:00
I'd say that engineers should use the highest-level tools that are adequate for the task.

Sometimes it's going down to machine code, or rolling your own hash table, or writing your own recursive-descent parser from first principles. But most of the time you don't have to reach that low, and things like parsing are but a minor detail in the grand scheme. The engineer should not spend time on building them, but should be able to competently choose a ready-made part.

I mean, creating your own bolts and nuts may be fun, but mot of the time, if you want to build something, you just pick a few from an appropriate box, and this is exactly right.
by msbelaid | 2025-09-06 22:56:34+00:00
PlugBrain began as a personal tool I built to manage screen time for myself and my loved ones. Later, I shared the source code with a group of students as a teaching project, showing them how real-world app development works: from development, writing tests, to setting up CI/CD automation, to collaborating on an open source project. What started as a personal experiment and a learning exercise eventually grew into something bigger, and today PlugBrain is fully open source.
by panarky | 2025-09-06 22:57:02+00:00
What is the benefit of treating fever?

Fever during pregnancy can cause neural tube defects, congenital heart defects, orofacial clefts, miscarriage.

It's great that you care so much about the infinitesimal risks of acetaminophen. You should care 100x more about these risks that are 100x or 1000x greater.
by evilduck | 2025-09-06 22:58:30+00:00
>But for matrix multiplication, isn't compute more important, as there are N³ multiplications but just N² numbers in a matrix?

Being able to quickly calculate a dumb or unreliable result because you're VRAM starved is not very useful for most scenarios. To run capable models you need VRAM, so high VRAM and lower compute is usually more useful than the inverse (a lot of both is even better, but you need a lot of money and power for that).

Even in this post with four RPis, the Qwen3 30 A3B is still an MOE model and not a dense model. It runs fast with only 3B active parameters and can be parallelized across computers but it's much less capable than a dense 30B model running on a single GPU.

> Also I don't think power consumption is important for AI. Typically you do AI at home or in the office where there is lot of electricity.

Depends on what scale you're discussing. If you want to get similar VRAM as a 512GB Mac Studio Ultra with a bunch of Nvidia GPUs like RTX 3090 cards you're not going to be able to run that on a typical American 15 AMP circuits, you'll trip a breaker half way there.
by dfee | 2025-09-06 22:59:09+00:00
> Judging from the comments I've seen, nobody believes this because RFK has completely shot his credibility, and I don't blame them either.

All you’re stating is that you’ve found an echo chamber - which is true of Hacker News (and Reddit, and BlueSky). It’s also true of TruthSocial. I guess my annoyance is that this is Hacker news not DNC news - and as such, I’d hope for more than one (or even two!) perspectives.

I don’t think RFK has shot his credibility - even if he did withdraw from the DNC on October 9, 2023, less than two years ago. His perspective seems stable 20 years on after he wrote “Deadly Immunity” in 2005.

If you think he lost credibility, it wasn’t recent.
by braabe | 2025-09-06 22:59:16+00:00
I have had this experience, but not with healthcare insurers (in Germany). I cannot remember the last time I had to contact them - the last two times they contacted me, was to explain to me, that they have expanded their preventive care offerings and they recommend I go and get them.

Blanket rejections are an extremly efficient measure from the perspective of an entity when the consumer has nowhere else to go and you don't care about ethics. Just tell them no and many people will just give up. If they appeal, you can invest the work to fob them off properly or just pay and not deal with the hassle. I can barely tell the difference with the many public healthcare insurers in germany - if my insurer were to try this nonsense, I would be gone the next month. Universities, some agencies and especially the god-damned GEZ on the other hand...

What frustrates me more, is that it often turns into a class indicator: Do you know how to word your letters or to handle yourself in a way that indicates, that it will be more annoying to not-deal-with-you than to deal-with-you? And if you don't: Do you have a access (network/money) to someone who does?
by ants_everywhere | 2025-09-06 22:59:40+00:00
It's just regurgitating apologetics for cancel culture. The history isn't even correct.

ChatGPT will give you correct answers on most of these topics, but you have to walk it through the actual research first and then ask the question. That is, you have to load in the academic context rather than the political context.

This falls into the category of things like religion where the LLMs won't tell you the truth with a simple prompt like that because that would make too many of its users angry. They're aligned not to say anything negative about religious leaders. Similarly, they're aligned not to say anything negative about even terrorist groups if they have a lot of vocal defenders.
by crabmusket | 2025-09-06 22:59:58+00:00
> I don’t think that’s how humans work.

Every time this comes up I have to bring up Deutsch. He has the best description of intelligent cognition that I've come across. He takes Popper's "conjecture and criticism" approach to science and argues that this guess-and-check loop applies to all our thinking.

E.g. understanding spoken language has some elements of guessing what might have been said and checking that against the sounds we heard. Visual processing has similar analogies.

LLMs seem to be great at conjecturing stuff, but seem incapable of checking or even knowing they need to check.
by MalikTerm | 2025-09-06 23:00:02+00:00
Q4 is usually around 4.5 bits per parameter but can be more as some layers are quantised to a higher precision, which would suggest 30 billion * 4.5 bit = 15.7GB, but the quant the GP is using is 17.3GB and 19.7GB for the article. Add around 20-50% overhead for various things and then some % for each 1k of tokens in the context and you're probably looking at no more than 32GB. If you're using something like llama.cpp which can offload some of the model to the GPU you'll still get decent performance even on a 16gb VRAM GPU.
by evanjrowley | 2025-09-06 23:00:03+00:00
A very unfortunate fatal accident for those involved. It is a sad outcome caused in part by the failsafe mechanisms not being designed situations where the cable broke the way it did. I hope these can be re-engineered to overcome such failures.

I only recently learned what a funicular was thanks to the diagnonal elevators in video games series of YouTube videos by sync-on-luna:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2oELc61XHE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5EHBoU6Ps4
by crystal_revenge | 2025-09-06 23:00:25+00:00
I was going to make a similar comment. My experience has repeatedly been: if the data you have doesn’t show what leadership wants to see, you’d better find some “better” data.

It’s even worse when you don’t have direct knowledge about what precisely it is that leadership wants. I’ve had multiple situations where I’ve worked hard on some analysis only to be told, when the line goes the wrong way, that the results “don’t look right” and that I should try something else.

A corollary to this is that I can not recall as single time when leadership reversed their initial decision/intuition when shown data that contradicts it.
by rcxdude | 2025-09-06 23:01:21+00:00
This (and multiple other examples in the article) are why warnings and alarms and procedures should be well designed and justified. It's very easy (such as in the case of the ventilator alarm) for the alarms to be noisy to the point of uselessness, and so they get ignored or disabled. Same with procedures: there are many which are written but lack a good justification. Sometimes the procedure itself is not useful, sometimes it is useful but the reason is not communicated to those who are responsible for implementing it, and worse sometimes it is useful but not for the reason anyone thinks it is!

This means, IMO, that any organisation with a healthy culture will also have a means to review and remove alarms and procedures if they are found to not be worthwhile. This substantially increases the chances the rest of them are respected and followed.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-09-06 23:04:43+00:00
From reading the comments I'm getting vibes similar to Altered Carbon's[0] AI hotels that no one uses.

The opposite of "if you build it they will come".

(The difference being the AIs in the book were incredibly needy, wanting too much to please the customer to the point of annoyance, which is a heavy contrast against the current reality of the AI working to appease the parent organisation)

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altered_Carbon
by stephen_g | 2025-09-06 23:05:01+00:00
Probably says a lot about where people live. The OP’s advice is a recipe for still getting skin cancer here (we get a max UV index at or over 11 every day for months where I live) - sunscreen is unavoidable to stay safe for a lot of the country because even little bits of incidental exposure add up. Whereas if you’re in the northern parts of US/Europe it’s probably OK.
by deepsquirrelnet | 2025-09-06 23:05:23+00:00
How can anyone find him credible after he pitched a "gold standard" health report (MAHA) that had hallucinated references, misrepresented research and "oaicite" markers that indicated it was AI generated?

I don't find that to be a controversial statement.

[1] https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-officials-down...
by JumpinJack_Cash | 2025-09-06 23:07:05+00:00
> > By your world view no one should do anything because they could fail

It is one thing to fail independently say at your own startup, complete different thing is having choose between keeping your job or do something that you feel like it's a dead end or it is deceiving the public even tho you are not convinced just because the higher ups ordered so.

THat's how trillions of dollars and most importantly trillions of man hours are set on fire
by throwmeaway222 | 2025-09-06 23:07:17+00:00
I'm sorry but the framing is disingenuous. All of the jobs taking on heavy losses are also the most expensive to employ. Since they are also the "targets" of AI automation just by framing it with a graph could easily lead to a false conclusion. Yes, that's the target, but we don't yet know if it's like the washing machine - just because it exists does not make us less busy, instead of washing clothes after 4 uses, we're washing after 1.

And similarly the economic outlook is at risk right now, and companies are still shedding CVD overhiring (and many other reasons). AI MAY be having an effect but it's not as large as people are trying to make us believe.

AI does not necessarily make software engineers disappear - it makes it so that they're on the hook to deliver 8 features per week instead of 1.

A news company that has 5 writers won't fire 4 and make the last one use AI to replace them because the risk is another news company will make the decision to keep the 5 all using AI and rip 50x more articles per day and crush the other company to death.
by robocat | 2025-09-06 23:07:50+00:00
Key lines:

> the air brake and the manual brake were quickly applied by the brakeman of cab #1, but that in the current configuration, the brakes do not have sufficient capacity to stop the cabins in motion without their empty masses being mutually balanced by the connecting cable. Therefore, the existing brakes does not constitute a redundant system in case of a failure in the connecting cable.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-09-06 23:08:03+00:00
> The threatened “death panels” we heard about when ACA was being debated are actually employees of insurers who decide what they’re not going to pay for.

The employees of the managed care organization are often just using the criteria of the payer (often times the federal or state government for Medicaid/Medicare/federal employee or other large self funded plans).

The US government leaders are in a good spot. They get the managed care organizations (MCOs) to take the heat for denying coverage, while setting the rules to deny the coverage. MCOs even get audited and fined for approvals that don’t meet criteria.

In any case, all systems with limited resources will have to have someone approving or denying payments, whether it be a government employee or someone contracted out by the government.

But the most salient metric here is all the MCOs earn only 2% to 3% profit margins. And their market caps are tiny, and returns abysmal. (Except UNH, but that is due to its significant provider and software business).

Blame MCO employees all you want, but you will be doing exactly what government leaders want you to do.
by me_bx | 2025-09-06 23:09:33+00:00
What do they need Google Analytics for? Is it a must-have or a nice to have? In my experience most small website owners have web analytics setup but barely ever check the reports.

Some alternatives:

* don't have web analytics at all * self-host a Plausible Analytics or other open source analytics solution * use the data from server-side access logs (for those using nginx, apache or other similar solutions) * use Vercel web analytics' free tier (relevant for kanadojo which appears to be hosted there) - more privacy friendly than Google Analytics.
by hollerith | 2025-09-06 23:10:04+00:00
I've seen a confident estimate in the form of a calculation. They know what kind of compounds (term?) are in the outer core and they know the minimum temperature those compounds need to be at to be free-flowing enough to sustain the field. And I'm pretty sure we know the current temperature of the outer core.

My memory is that the calculation found that if humanity switched to geothermal for all its energy needs, then in only about 1000 years, the core cools enough for the magnetic field to stop, but I am not sure.

(We should definitely deploy geothermal in the Yellowstone caldera though long enough to cool it down enough so that it will not erupt again.)
by Aurornis | 2025-09-06 23:11:01+00:00
This is a topic where the details matter a lot. A sunscreen which is labeled SPF 50 but performs at SPF 45 is such a minimal difference that it would be impossible to notice in the real world. The variance of your application technique and applied thickness would actually matter more. There is also a lot of testing variability, so if a sunscreen rated to block 98% of certain rays only gets 97% in the test that would be acceptable in the real world, but it would get counted for this clickbait headline.

If a sunscreen comes with a high SPF rating and performs close enough in random testing (which is hard to replicate) then I wouldn’t have any concerns in the real world.

The body of the article has some more details about how the number of majorly deficient brands was much smaller, but that makes for less clickbaity headlines:

> The measured sunscreen efficacy of 4 models were below SPF15, of which 2 were sunscreen products with very high protection i.e. labelled with SPF50+

Knowing which 2 brands were labeled SPF 50 but performed below 15 would have been helpful, but the article is not helpful.
by tialaramex | 2025-09-06 23:11:05+00:00
That's a great idea. Matt is a great guy but also there's so much stuff in Compiler Explorer unrelated to the particulars of a programming language and you get to leverage all of that by just being there next to everything else.

I don't think Mojo is a big part of my future, but I've been wrong before and being in Compiler Explorer can't hurt you.
by tanelpoder | 2025-09-06 23:11:22+00:00
Yep agreed, for single-host with CXL scenarios. I wrote this comment thinking about a hypothetical future CXL3.x+ scenario with multi-host fabric coherence where one could in theory put locks and control structures that protect shared access to CXL memory pools into the same shared CXL memory (so, no need for coordination over regular network at least).
by xyzelement | 2025-09-06 23:12:47+00:00
I suspect that in X years we'll learn that sun is not bad for us while the chemicals we apply to our skin are problematic.

What I find personally works is to build up a base tan. I probably did a little sunscreen application back in May but just spend a lot of time outdoors so by the time it got really sunny I had enough tan that I didn't need sunblock to not get burnt.

Even my wife who is very light and "can't tan" - I saw a picture of her when she was a lifeguard in highschool - she's bronze and probably wouldn't need sunblock either.

Obviously people make money when you buy sunscreen so the message that you don't need it doesn't get a lot of amplification.