MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-09-26 00:47:10+00:00
The ACA is an accomplishment that stood the test of time. Everything that Biden did will be inconsequential because he didn’t step aside to try to secure what he did.

Not to mention the Chips act just threw money at a flailing Intei without any strategy. There was a strategy behind Obama’s getting through the financial crises and the ACA
by prisenco | 2025-09-26 00:47:23+00:00
By being uninspiring and boring and losing because of it.

Republicans promised a bulldozer the size of a small city and they're delivering. Sometimes people prefer winning even if it means they lose.

They went big and the Democrats went home, offering "sensible policy" and "reasonable governance" and programs for Pell Grant recipients who start a business that operates for three years in disadvantaged communities.

None of that is bad on its face but it doesn't win elections. Especially when Elon is promising a Sandals resort on Mars.

Even if you disagreed with Bernie, the guy was willing to go big and bold and cared about what he was promising. It doesn't have to be universal healthcare. It can be UBI or building a solarpunk future or colonizing the bottom of the ocean. The Space Race. The Great Society. Morning in America. The New Deal. Something big and exciting and someone we believe really, really wants it.

The Republicans are promising front row seats to the end of the world and the Democrats are promising to check everyone's tire pressure. Understanding why the former can appeal more than the latter is the key to winning future elections.
by geerlingguy | 2025-09-26 00:47:26+00:00
Note that the mechanical keyboard is probably one of the major reasons the Pi 500+ took a lot longer to release than the regular 500.

According to an interview on the Pi blog[1], it was "years", with prototypes being built through 2023.

I know the design lifecycle for a product like this is in the 3-5 year range, and adding on a custom mechanical keyboard in a mass-market product like this is a tall order.

Honestly I'm not put off by the $200 price tag. If you use one in person (like at a Micro Center here in the US), you'll feel it's a decent midrange mechanical keyboard. It won't compete on the high end (IMO $200+), but to strap that onto a decent low-end PC in a fanless design isn't cheap, even at the scales Raspberry Pi operates.

They have some margin, for sure, but that's also how they turn profit, which is especially useful since then went public.

At least they're still putting out products like this, that don't really have any industrial/commercial appeal, compared to specialized compute modules for individual customers[2].

[1] https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/meet-the-engineers-behind-r...

[2] https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/09/23/raspberry-pi-cm0-cas...
by l33tbro | 2025-09-26 00:47:59+00:00
I totally agree about literacy being huge, and would actually extend it to going beyond literacy.

The literacy crash is alarming, and is no doubt agitating this situation in a major way. However, I think what we are experiencing is something like a kind of siloing of private realities. Not the pearl-clutching 'echo chamber' discourse from 2019. But an increasing lack of social competency amongst younger people that is disallowing them to be present others in the world itself.

This is why I still think it is a power problem. Government, however incompetent, still has the monopoly on control and policy. They have experts yelling at them everyday about these problems. But their answer does seem to be more censorship and surveillance, rather than addressing the causes of these problems. As I mentioned, this only exacerbates the problem and makes it more socially dangerous.
by mastazi | 2025-09-26 00:48:21+00:00
IMHO - distrust in the establishment is not the cause, but a side effect of the real cause.

I used to be a journalist before my career in tech. In my opinion, the real culprit is that news outlets now have the wrong incentives.

When people still used to buy printed newspapers, you had to pay for your news so you better get well researched articles for your hard earned money. [1]

With the rise of internet news, that incentive is no longer in place. Yes there are paid news outlets on the Internet but the majority of people don't pay for a subscription. What gets you most views does rarely align with high journalistic standards. [2] In a way, everything is a tabloid now.

[1] If you are at least as old as me, you might remember that reading a certain newspaper rather than another was almost seen as a status symbol. I remember journalists saying things like "I love working at [newspaper X] because of our fine readership, they challenge me to write high quality articles".

[2] With a few obvious exceptions like Panama Papers etc.
by omnipull | 2025-09-26 00:48:52+00:00
Why OmniPull stands out Not just a wrapper → It uses three engines (yt-dlp, aria2c, curl) so you’re not locked into one tool.

Modern design → Clean, dark-themed UI with queues, scheduling, pause/resume, and built-in file conversion.

Cross-platform → Windows, Linux, macOS — with portable builds and AppImages for simplicity.

Reliable → It handles YouTube playlists, DASH/HLS streams, and torrents without freezing (a pain point with many other GUIs).

Performance → Rewritten architecture in v2.0.0 makes it 50% faster with better resource usage.
by lightedman | 2025-09-26 00:50:06+00:00
A model I have trained on ASTER and LANDSAT data has major difficulties identifying spots for agate hunting. Even after I've given it extra instruction such as looking only in volcanic terrain (with USGS map provided,) or focusing on mixed signals of hydrous silica and iron, checking near known fault zones in said volcanic areas, it still gave me results everywhere, and almost none matching my criteria.

Plants are a way different and more difficult ballgame (they like to mess up my satellite data) so as I read I am not surprised to see that this didn't really give proper results.
by geerlingguy | 2025-09-26 00:50:14+00:00
Just to add to this train, I've run at least 10 Pis on microSD cards averaging 3 years each (mostly Pi 4s, added a couple Pi 5s), and have not had one issue on any of them... it's mostly down to using a good microSD card (I settled on SanDisk brand), a good power supply (good PoE+ HAT or official PSU), and not writing tons and tons of data to microSD (use NVMe or USB SSD/HDD if you need that).
by aanet | 2025-09-26 00:50:48+00:00
This may or may not mean anything to some people, but Sanjeev Arora is one of the few people who scored rank #1 in India's IIT JEE (1986) (joint entrance exam for the prestigious IITs) [1]

It's a little factoid stuck in my brain since I was a kid.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjeev_Arora_(computer_scient...
by pitched | 2025-09-26 00:51:09+00:00
You can only incentivize the behaviour you want. It can’t be forced. RTO does do this in a stronger way than fully remote, in second-order ways. Simplistic as it might be, if those are the only tools available, those are the ones that will be used. It’s been five years since the pandemic now and a better way hasn’t been found yet.
by sprice | 2025-09-26 00:51:55+00:00
Some fun stuff in here:

> at://did:plc:4zd6mbhgvmjri5rmlsyeq6go/3lzpamhfmfc2d: a mostly naked vivi (she/her) domming a bound matchstick (he/him) in a neon-lit nightclub called PONYBOYS

> at://did:plc:4zd6mbhgvmjri5rmlsyeq6go/3lzpamhfmfc2d: same pic but made absolutely clear that matchstick is into it and consenting :)
by wmf | 2025-09-26 00:52:48+00:00
But I am sure this will really be the crypto coin to power the internet’s transactions. All the previous ones got it wrong

50% of Web traffic doesn't flow through Coinbase or Tether; it goes through Cloudflare. So yeah, they have a much greater chance of successfully erecting a tollbooth. And just like you pay US taxes in US dollars you'll pay Cloudflare tax in Cloudflare dollars.
by godelski | 2025-09-26 00:55:01+00:00
There's a lot of comments around this in the main thread. Mostly about how Google gets to dictate standards of the internet and how these aren't always privacy friendly.

I'll also add that it's easy for bad features to sneak in without users knowing. We happened to be talking about this issue in a related thread just the other day [0]. This one the Brave devs were even aware of bot users weren't... so it's kinda a good example of both points

[0] just check out the linked GitHub issue https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45364533
by nico | 2025-09-26 00:55:18+00:00
Another issue: Gemini can’t do tool calling and (forced) json output at the same time

If you want to use application/json as the specified output in the request, you can’t use tools

So if you need both, you either hope it gives you correct json when using tools (which many times it doesn’t). Or you have to do two requests, one for the tool calling, another for formatting

At least, even if annoying, this issue is pretty straightforward to get around
by l33tbro | 2025-09-26 00:55:34+00:00
Yes. It has become mainstream. As soon as Kirk died, people were spouting antisemitic BS conspiracies that 'it was all Israel', even though he was the biggest shill of Israel's policies!

As you say, the medical conspiracies have really evolved since covid. I'm just glad we had covid when we did, because I feel that 5 years later people are so much more ignorant and less willing to all go through something together for the greater good.

With that said, I think the lot of conspiracy that just doesn't really hurt anyone but the believer. Aliens, moon landings, illuminati, etc. Kind of the modern day opiate of the masses.
by Mawr | 2025-09-26 00:55:34+00:00
> As an aside, the Dutch aren't nearly as car free as you are presenting. They are in the top 25% for per capita car ownership worldwide, and have higher rates of car ownership rates than Denmark, Sweden, Greece and Croatia which isn't even all of the countries in Europe with lower rates of car ownership. Hell, they have more than double the rate of car ownership of Saudi Arabia, a country that subsidizes fuel prices to encourage car use.

Wrong usage of statistics. The rate of car ownership is not the metric to look at, but rather the % of trips taken by car vs bike.
by dkarl | 2025-09-26 00:55:46+00:00
You might pay for a great AI diagnosis, but what matters is the diagnosis recognized by whoever pays for care. If you depend on insurance to pay for care, you're at the mercy of whatever AI they recognize. If you depend on a socialized medical care plan, you're at the mercy of whatever AI is approved by them.

Paying for AI diagnosis on your own will only be helpful if you can shoulder the costs of treatment on your own.
by nilkn | 2025-09-26 00:56:10+00:00
Try turning off memory. I've done a lot of experiments and find ChatGPT is objectively better and more useful in most ways with no memory at all. While that may seem counter-intuitive, it makes sense the more you think about it:

(1) Memory is primarily designed to be addictive. It feels "magical" when it references things it knows about you. But that doesn't make it useful.

(2) Memory massively clogs the context window. Quality, accuracy, and independent thought all degrade rapidly with too much context -- especially low-quality context that you can't precisely control or even see.

(3) Memory makes ChatGPT more sychophantic than it already is. Before long, it's just an echo chamber that can border on insanity.

(4) Memory doesn't work the way you think it does. ChatGPT doesn't reference everything from all your chats. Rather, your chat history gets compressed into a few information-dense paragraphs. In other words, ChatGPT's memory is a low-resolution, often inaccurate distortion of all your prior chats. That distortion then becomes the basis of every single subsequent interaction you have.

Another tip is to avoid long conversations, as very long chats end up reproducing within themselves the same problems as above. Disable memory, get what you need out of a chat, move on. I find that this "brings back" a lot of the impressiveness of the early version of ChatGPT.

Oh, and always enable as much thinking as you can tolerate to wait on for each question. In my experience, less thinking = more sychophantic responses.
by robmccoll | 2025-09-26 00:56:18+00:00
You are a state machine. You have finite internal state that roughly adheres to a particular structure, you take in input, and as a function of internal state and input, you produce output and a new state. Sufficiently large models are a rough approximation. We are perhaps different stochastic parrots than the models we create, but likely stochastic parrots none the less.
by osigurdson | 2025-09-26 00:56:28+00:00
>> You want PRs because they help others absorb what you’re doing

That isn't really where it came from though. The idea was, if I want an open source maintainer to accept my changes, I make a request to pull them from my branch. Once the open source maintainer has merged it in, they own it. If they don't like it (even one little bit), they can reject it because quality / ownership / maintenance is completely on them.

On a team environment where no one owns anything it is a little less clear what the value is. You want to incentivize the "betterness" of "something" and are using "broadened knowledge" as a proxy for that. Usually this just goes unexamined but really it would be good to establish how broad and deep you want this knowledge to be and work back from there - is the 5 minute PR review the best way to achieve it?
by Waterluvian | 2025-09-26 00:59:00+00:00
It feels like little needs to change. If you want to provide alt text to offer high quality specifics, awesome. If you leave it blank, those who need/want alt text should cause it to be generated on-demand. Either client side or by a server which then caches it for the next user.

Same with closed captioning!

And then the alt text Nazis can be quiet, too!
by pdonis | 2025-09-26 01:00:15+00:00
One statement in the article needs a little clarification:

"This so-called “quasi-moon” isn’t a true moon or a mini-moon, because it orbits the Sun rather than our planet."

Our Moon also orbits the Sun rather than the Earth, in the sense that its orbit is always concave towards the Sun--in other words, the pull of the Sun's gravity on the Moon is always stronger than the pull of the Earth's gravity, so the Moon's net acceleration due to gravity is always towards the Sun.

Our Moon's orbit is of course much more closely tied to the Earth's than 2005 PN7, but one still has to be careful about exactly how that works.
by SafeDusk | 2025-09-26 01:00:16+00:00
I'm actually curious about how you all see coding agents play out when every major model provider also provides a companion coding agent e.g. Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Gemini cli ...

I wrote my thoughts[0] and felt whilst it is good to be model agnostic, the core has to be open because it is too important a tool to be left entirely in hand of others. It is also super simple to understand, OpenAI only has <5 tools for a coding agent to be functional.

[0]: https://blog.toolkami.com/openai-codex-tools/
by vitorgrs | 2025-09-26 01:00:27+00:00
It always had dates... They release multiple versions and update regularly. Not sure if this is the first 2.5 Flash update, but pretty sure Pro had a few updates as well...

This is also the case with OpenAI and their models. Pretty standard I guess.

They don't change the versioning, because I guess they don't consider it to be "a new model trained from scratch".
by FreakLegion | 2025-09-26 01:00:41+00:00
> My post provides a direct channel past idiomatic expression into the source pf all language mistranslation, that words are arbitrary, and particularly what sabotages exchanges between Western agentic language and Eastern nonagentic languages

"Tell me what you think about translation, and I will tell you who you are."

-- Heidegger, Hölderlin's Hymn "The Ister"

"All mistranslations are good."

-- Deleuze, Dialogues II
by chasil | 2025-09-26 01:01:07+00:00
Bob Colwell mentions originally doing out of order design at Multiflow.

He was a key player in the Pentium Pro out of order implementation.

https://www.sigmicro.org/media/oralhistories/colwell.pdf

"We should also say that the 360/91 from IBM in the 1960s was also out of order, it was the first one and it was not academic, that was a real machine. Incidentally that is one of the reasons that we picked certain terms that we used for the insides of the P6, like the reservation station that came straight out of the 360/91."

Here is his Itanium commentary:

"Anyway this chip architect guy is standing up in front of this group promising the moon and stars. And I finally put my hand up and said I just could not see how you're proposing to get to those kind of performance levels. And he said well we've got a simulation, and I thought Ah, ok. That shut me up for a little bit, but then something occurred to me and I interrupted him again. I said, wait I am sorry to derail this meeting. But how would you use a simulator if you don't have a compiler? He said, well that's true we don't have a compiler yet, so I hand assembled my simulations. I asked "How did you do thousands of line of code that way?" He said “No, I did 30 lines of code”. Flabbergasted, I said, "You're predicting the entire future of this architecture on 30 lines of hand generated code?" [chuckle], I said it just like that, I did not mean to be insulting but I was just thunderstruck. Andy Grove piped up and said "we are not here right now to reconsider the future of this effort, so let’s move on"."
by Liftyee | 2025-09-26 01:01:41+00:00
This highlights an interesting point that I hadn't examined before... the thoughts behind the words, and the experiences linked to those thoughts / the moment for which the words are needed.

Although from a chemical perspective and learning perspective humans may seem like stochastic machines, I think that the capability for inner thought and emotion does differentiate us from genAI. After all, we would not ascribe sentience to such a "stochastic parrot", but in a similar way we see the text output that AI generates and wrongly assume (in a previously reasonable assumption) that there must have been "thoughts" behind said text.
by meowface | 2025-09-26 01:01:47+00:00
Israel's incursion into Gaza in October 2023 was more justifiable than Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland, yes. I wasn't trying to provide a full comparison between Nazi Germany and Israel, and I prefaced the sentence appropriately. My only point is that a nation having legitimate surveillance needs to protect their soldiers' and civilians' safety isn't a reason to support their surveillance efforts by itself.
by jacobolus | 2025-09-26 01:01:53+00:00
The ACA was passed with 60 Democratic Senate votes and not a single GOP vote in House or Senate.

Biden had a 50–50 Senate, counting Manchin and Sinema among the 50. If you think he "should have" passed similar legislation and consider his failure to do so to be some kind of failure of willpower, then you fundamentally don't understand how our political system works. If the Dems don't have the votes, it's nonsensical to blame them for not being able to pass legislation that is opposed by 100% of the GOP.

The ACA was a big accomplishment, and it managed to go through during the exactly 72 working days since 1980 when the Democrats had such a majority in Congress and the Presidency. (We all owe an incredible debt of gratitude for that to Nancy Pelosi, who was personally responsible for getting it over the finish line after Ted Kennedy died in office.) If the Dems consistently had large congressional majorities, they could make much more progress. If you want to see that happen, make sure they get the votes.
by xpe | 2025-09-26 01:02:18+00:00
Thanks for replying. I did indeed read your message but didn’t see a connection to the thread. Please don’t blame me for being honest about how your comment conveys (to me, and likely others, too).

Rather than ignoring your comment, I was open about how it came across. Some people don’t like that level of directness. It is hard to take feedback gracefully, I get it. A lot of people prefer to counterpunch.

Also, I think it’s probably a stretch to hope a person will read or skim through the quantity of words you’ve quoted at length and linked. Think about the readers. Whether you like it or not, you have convince people that it’s worth their time, one way or another.

To use your metaphor, you didn’t lead the horse to the water. The horse didn’t see water; it saw a pile of undrinkable words.

What an awful phrase. Leading a horse to water is about giving an opportunity to drink. If you lead a horse to water and it doesn’t drink, it likely means it’s not thirsty! You don’t yell at the horse for not drinking it.

All this said, I do sincerely appreciate you taking the time to reply.
by maxbond | 2025-09-26 01:02:25+00:00
The YouTuber Milo Rossi [1], who debunks archaeological conspiracy theories (and makes educational content about archaeology) likes to say (paraphrasing slightly) "you don't need to make up conspiracy theories to be mad at the government, you can be mad at the actual government for what they actually do." Institutions/"the establishment" deserve skepticism but that skepticism has to be grounded in the real world and in evidence you can actually acquire. Not in supposition about a nebulous "they" pulling the strings. Conspiracy theories rapidly devolve into something entirely unfalsifiable.

A key smell test is: Does receiving pushback or counter evidence strengthen your conviction that you are correct? If so, you're going down a dangerous path. You're painting yourself into a corner where you will have a lot of trouble changing your mind, even if you're wrong.

The "main stream media" is the worst source, except for most of the other ones. It's not valuable because it is gospel - it's plain to see that the media is fallible. It's valuable because it adheres to any standard of evidence whatsoever while producing content at scale. It's like what people sometimes say about Wikipedia, it's the best place to begin your research but it doesn't have to end there.

[1] https://youtube.com/@miniminuteman773
by array_key_first | 2025-09-26 01:02:33+00:00
Because the goal isn't to turn a profit, it's to turn the most profit.

Your user experience does not matter a bit to them. If you don't buy again, they don't care. That's invisible cost.

Everyone is doing data analytics and metric-driven product development. Opportunity cannot be measured, so it's as if it doesn't exist.

Yes, in the long run, this is self destructive.
by 627467 | 2025-09-26 01:02:41+00:00
Please do?

I mean, all this public grandstanding between sides is exhausting: - apple says its walled garden is the best for consumers so they should have a spine and push back - the EU has been pushing their Brussels effect around because it's also good for consumers so they should just stiffen their spine and stop dragging courts cases and media attention for years. Not only that: all the EU complains on how Apple has not paid their fair share of taxes by using European tax loopholes. They should just keep their spine stiff and impose a massive penalty on Apple non-compliance!

In the end it's a win-win isn't it? Europe gets a chance to come up with local players to fill in the market for a walled garden device and apple keeps their reputation with consumers
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-26 01:02:47+00:00
This is the Hillbilly Elegy hypothesis. I used to buy it. I’m now less convinced. There is a hateful streak in America driven, in part, by reduced attention spans, literacy and ad-powered algorithms. When those folks get better off, they don’t become less hateful. (I’d love to see evidence to the contrary.)

> If Democracy is simply Oligarchy with voting as a decoration and sometime even that was gamed, then to the hell with this democracy

Do you really think you’ll be treated better in a quasi-monarchy?