MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by churchill | 2025-09-26 22:42:54+00:00
>"I don't care if my leaders literally fuck children as long as they enact my favorite policies."

I don't know why you're downvoted because in all honesty, this is the tradeoff the American right made. Trump has been credibly accused of rape, both of an adult woman and a child.

To even remotely consider such a leader electable and not completely rebel is to affirm that raping kids is not so bad, as long as your political agendas are carried out. Tariffs, limiting immigration, etc.

So, what's the point? If your society can't protect children, the most vulnerable members of society, why not shut it all down?

This is why the ongoing swing to the right across the West will ultimately fail. They have no morals. They ultimately care about who's bribing or cajoling them at the moment. No strong principles.

That's why they'll condemn the Pakistani rape gangs (deservedly so - should be shot, if it were up to me) but condone men like Trump. They'll mourn the death of Charlie Kirk, while funding the murder of kids in Palestine. They'll try to cajole & manipulate other countries into buying from America, while putting tariffs on them. They'll complain about economic decline without having difficult conversations about cutting entitlements in places like France where pensioners earn more than median workers.

It's all but guaranteed that the Right will rise to power across the West, but when their jingoist fuel runs out, they'll ultimately fall on their faces because they spend more energy making memes about annexing Greenland, based Hyperborea, or how we're so back, than focusing on building a sustainable, honest, humble country.
by danabramov | 2025-09-26 22:43:25+00:00
Yea maybe! I think at:// is an even stronger brand in a sense though. Actually makes sense as something browsers may support one day, “at://alice.com” makes sense at “stuff at alice dot com”, “authenticated transfer” is a decent acronym, “atmosphere” for the ecosystem is just great (and wasn’t even coined by the team).
by ojbyrne | 2025-09-26 22:43:27+00:00
One of the interesting things I read in the article is that the industry is a duopoly, and one of the companies is a Canadian company, New Flyer Industries. I went on a tour of their factory many years ago, and they told us they do most of the assembly of the busses there, then ship them to Minnesota where the engine was installed. They did that in order to meet US content requirements.
by belorn | 2025-09-26 22:43:58+00:00
Technically it expensive because demand exceed supply. Russia was just one of the larger producer, as it is a by product from natural gas extraction, so with the war that source was cut off.

In combination, US military decided to sell a large portion of their stored helium to a single private firm around the same time, rather then sell it off in smaller chunks, and that seems to also have decreased the global supply.

As a semi-new idea people are experimenting with hydrogen as a replacement for helium, which could become much cheaper and renewable compared to helium. Time will tell how bad idea it is to mix high pressure, oxygen and hydrogen while under water.
by dotancohen | 2025-09-26 22:44:14+00:00
All I want is a quality split mechanical keyboard with Function keys. I use an IDE all day, I don't want to pull quadruple buckies every time I debug.

The Matias Ergo Pro is almost perfect, but I had two of them and they both failed within one year. I had one of each switch type (low force and regular) - both were missing some button presses and repeating other button presses.
by joe_the_user | 2025-09-26 22:45:15+00:00
OK,

Marcus claims to have reread The Bitter Lesson. And I should say, I too have reread the text and I don't think Marcus is getting the actual original argument of here. All it say is that general purpose algorithms that scale will outperform special purpose algorithms that use information about the problem and don't scale. That's all. Everyone claiming more is hallucinating, things into this basic point. Notably general purpose algorithms aren't necessary neural nets and "X works better than Y" doesn't imply X is the best thing every.

So there's no contradiction between The Bitter Lesson and claims that LLMs have big hole and/or won't scale up to AGI.
by not--felix | 2025-09-26 22:45:20+00:00
After developing my own rss reader[1] i think atproto could be the successor of rss. It is the same principal. The only difference is it is more complex and there are more components like the firehose, which is optional, the reader could just scrape their following themself. I think the resource usage is also only a problem if you want a view of the entire network, if we treat it more like rss it would be totally fine to just keep the portion of the network we are interested in. Its not as straight forward as rss, because of types like comments and likes. To notice them you need to listen to the entire network stream, but you do not need to save everything. I am really excited where this will go.

[1] https://ivyreader.com
by qnleigh | 2025-09-26 22:45:29+00:00
Although it may be true that LLMs will not achieve AGI in the purest sense, they have at least forced us to move a lot of goalposts. I don't know what Gary Marcus was saying a few years ago, but I think many people would have said that e.g achieving a gold medal at the Mathematics Olympiads would require AGI, not just LLMs.
by kayson | 2025-09-26 22:45:31+00:00
I love my moonlander so much, I bought a second one for work. Both were secondhand, so the sticker shock wasn't quite so bad. Though, I did end up spending some of that savings on custom, coiled cables. A coworker, after seeing my setup, also ended buying two.

I agree with the author. It's a tool, and if your job requires a lot of computer use, it is worth it to invest in a tool that can not only help prevent RSI, but also make you much more productive.

I switched to a Colemak-dh layout at the same time, and it was a huge adjustment. I'm not sure it was really worth it yet. It is hard to catch up to 30+ years of QWERTY muscle memory, though. Key layout aside, the ortholinear arrangement has absolutely been worth it. It feels much more comfortable, especially with the tenting set up.

ZSA's layout editor and customer support also deserve a shoutout. Can't recommend it enough.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-09-26 22:46:02+00:00
The relevant question is whether Humans + LLMs are much more likely to get to AGI than humans without LLMS. And the answer is pretty obviously yes. I don't think anyone was arguing that we would get to AGI by just training on more data with exactly the same models. Practically every advance in the last few years has been building additional functionality on top of LLMs, not just scaling up the same architecture to more data.

But zooming out, LLMs are universal approximators, so it's trivially true that they can approximate any function that describes AGI. It's also true that logic (from logos or "word") is about reasoning constrained by language and conversations. So an LLM is the right sort of device you'd expect to achieve general intelligence.

There are arguably non-linguistic forms of intelligence, such as visual intelligence. But those also can operate on written symbols (e.g. the stream of bits from an image file).

The other relevant question is why does Gary Macus always seem so angry? It's draining reading one of his posts.
by solsane | 2025-09-26 22:47:32+00:00
In terms of what model I use it’s going to be latest and greatest out of whatever my org gives me enterprise access to.

I’d probably try the factory ‘droid’ first, but if it fails to solve a problem and swapping to another one means it solves it, I’ll probably never use the factory one again.

I’d consider this pretty normal as we’re moving closer to ‘this is actually a mature stack that devs use for work’. Very few people in my company actually take interest in their development tooling and use whatever came pre-configured. (our stack is not sexy)

(Let me know if I’m incorrectly conflating the ‘droid’ concept with foundation models)
by ElectricalUnion | 2025-09-26 22:48:11+00:00
Either you really are secure, or ideally you should not be able to even pretend you are secure. Allowing "pretend it's secure" downgrades the security in all contexts.

IMHO they should gradually lock all dynamic code execution such as dynamic CSS and javascript behind a explicit toggle for insecure http sites.

> It massively undermines the security of connections to local devices

No, you see the prompt, it is insecure. If the network admin wants it secure, it means either a internal CA, or a literally free cert from let's encrypt. As the network admin did not care, it's insecure.

"but I have legacy garbage with hardcoded self-signed certs" then reverse proxy that legacy garbage with Caddy?
by nadis | 2025-09-26 22:49:29+00:00
> What if they spent hours with a pen and paper and brainstormed about their idea, and then turned it into an actual plan, and then did the plan? At the very least you wouldn't waste hours of your life and instead enjoy using your own powers of thought.

OP here - I am a bit confused by this response. What are you trying to say or suggest here?

It's not like I didn't have a plan when making changes; I did, and when things went wrong, I tried to debug.

That said, if what you mean by having a plan (which again, I might not be understanding!) is write myself a product spec and then go build the site by learning to code or using a no/low code tool, I think that would have been arguably far less efficient and achieved a less ideal outcome.

In this case, I had Figma designs (from our product designer) that I wanted to implement, but I don't have the programming experience or knowledge of Remix as a framework to have been able to "just do it" on my own in a reasonable amount of time without pairing with Claude.

So while I had some frustrating hours of debugging, I still think overall I achieved an outcome (being able to build a site based on a detailed Figma design by pairing with Claude) that I would never have been able to achieve otherwise to that quality bar in that little amount of time.
by joecool1029 | 2025-09-26 22:49:49+00:00
I guess leave them sitting in a laptop in a barn for a few years. I was given some old shit gateway the other day, tried to charge it, no dice. Ripped the pack apart to find samsung 18650's with approx 0.7V voltage.

Against ALL recommendations I put these cells into a MC3000 and they charged up just fine to 4.2V. It does a 0.15A charge per cell until it gets above 3V. Then I had it set to 1.92A bulk charge. Fire extinguisher nearby lol
by bigbadfeline | 2025-09-26 22:50:02+00:00
As Nevermark mentioned, the vast majority of people don't have the resources needed to protect their privacy via individual actions. In other words, without institutional support there will be no privacy.

With regard to the original article, it's well written as is another one by the same author: "How They Control You" [1]

The two topics are tightly connected when you consider the media angle. I would encourage the author to write about the two issues together from that angle.

[1] https://defragzone.substack.com/p/how-they-control-you
by thr0w__4w4y | 2025-09-26 22:50:02+00:00
Yes and I would swear that 1700 of those 2000 must be in Westwood (near UCLA in Los Angeles). I was stopped for a couple minutes waiting for a friend to come out and I counted 7 Waymos driving past me in 60 seconds. Truth be told they seemed to be driving better than the meatbags around them.
by jibal | 2025-09-26 22:50:06+00:00
> Mandelbrot just made up these arbitrary rules about this world that doesn’t exist, and that has no relevance to reality, but it turned out they created fascinating patterns.

Er, no, that's not at all what happened. Mandelbrot was trying to model real-world observations like the length of irregular coastlines varying based on the scale of the measuring unit, and the growth and decline of pond scum populations.

Also

> As any mathematician knows, you literally can have a set of mathematical equations in which three plus three equals two.

is quite wrong unless you're simply redefining the strings "three", "plus", "equals" and/or "two" to mean quite different things.

> Remember the person in school who always got the right answer? That person did it much more quickly that everybody else, and did it because he or she didn’t try to. That person didn’t learn how the problem was supposed to be done but, instead, just thought about the problem the right way.

That is quite confused and conflates several different things.

> The story goes that the great German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss was in school and his teacher was bored, so to keep the students preoccupied he instructed them to add up all the numbers between 1 and 100. The teacher expected the young people to take all day doing that. But the budding mathematician came back five minutes later with the correct answer: 5,050.

If this actually happened, I doubt that it took him as long as five minutes. And how does that square with "did it because he or she didn’t try to" ... surely Gauss tried to find a simpler way to calculate the sum. Also, Gauss had vastly more impressive achievements than this, although I suppose it depends on how young he was at the time.

> A great mathematician doesn’t solve a problem the long and boring way because he sees what the real pattern is behind the question, and applies that pattern to find the answer in a much better way.

Mediocre mathematicians do the same--I'm not even that, but I was on my high school math team and was routinely tasked with finding shortcuts to the answer. And great mathematicians spend their time creating (theorems, novel approaches, whole new fields of mathematics), not solving math problems (or calculating sums, which can barely be called math).

But yes, programming is great fun and much of that comes from the ability to make things happen in the real world--that's why I switched from my plan to be a math professor to becoming a programmer when I discovered programming while in high school many decades ago. And now I'm retired and still program both for the joy of it and the pragmatic results.
by cfu28 | 2025-09-26 22:51:23+00:00
Obviously not every moment of every hour in a residents day is deep clinical thinking with high cognitive load, but we’re definitely not “zoning out” when making medical decisions. Patient statuses change very quickly and very often in the hospital, and every problem should be re-evaluated like it is a fresh concern. Decisions can be made quicker with more experience but you’re expected to be “on” all the time. Plus, lots of things contribute to cognitive load outside sheer medical decisions - social work, dispo issues, patient preferences, etc. Luckily my residency is closer to 60-70 hours a week but 100 is still common.

Remember - the 80 hour a week limit is not a max limit. It is the max hours per week AVERAGED OVER 4 weeks. You can easily work 100 hours this week if you do 60 the next.
by Theodores | 2025-09-26 22:51:53+00:00
To be honest, I am not the greatest programmer that ever lived and I don't get the gigs with the top tier teams.

The friction comes primarily due to different goals, or rather different timespans, since there is only one goal, to make money. The marketing guys need results now because the sales guys need results now. Meanwhile, I only care about the long term plan. To me there is a lot more involved in that, for example the customer service.

You can discount everything and get the numbers up, to clear stock, get cash flow and more sales for the month. However, these are 'bottom feeders' that only shop on price. They are not brand loyal and, for the following month you need even more discounting, with it becoming a race to the bottom.

If you want repeat customers then there is more to it than price. You need customer service, efficient delivery, a speedy website and much else assuming the products are not that innovative.

As a developer you have tested the shopping cart and checkout a thousand times so you have some idea how to make it slick. However, too often there is a designer that does not know HTML that just does drawings in Photoshop that are non functional mockups, however, due to the process, these designs get signed off by the client and cast in stone. The better way would be to get it all working first then have someone that uses CSS and SVG rather than Photoshop to get it pretty.

So why the beef with the guys that by the ads? Too often I have found that they struggle with spelling, lack product knowledge and assume programmers are to be kept in a dimly lit basement to be whipped into cranking out the code.

Maybe it is just bad luck. If I upped my developer game I could get on better teams where the web development wasn't managed by a marketing guy that is clueless about the core capability that is code.
by sagarm | 2025-09-26 22:52:52+00:00
The study is looking only at healthcare spending and two-year outcomes, so it doesn't really address people's intuition that healthcare spending is lower in the long term with preventative care.

That said preventative probably does result in more dollars being spent on healthcare; presumably significantly, if not completely, offset by economic benefits like increased productivity and quality-of-life benefits. Analyses that only look at the cost side of the equation IMO are unhelpful.
by danudey | 2025-09-26 22:53:40+00:00
Sort of? It's about locality of data; this has often been a bottleneck, which is why we have CPU caches to keep data extremely close to the CPU cores with practically zero latency and throughput limitations compared to fetching from main memory. Unfortunately now we're shuffling terabytes of data through our algorithms and the CPU spends a huge amount of its time waiting for the next batch of data to come in through the pipe.

This is, IIRC, part of why Apple's M-series chips are as performant as they are: they not only have a unified memory architecture which eliminates the need to copy data from CPU main memory to GPU or NPU main memory to operate on it (and then copy the result back) but the RAM being on the package means that it's slightly "more local" and the memory channels can be optimized for the system they're going to be connected to.
by angryscot25 | 2025-09-26 22:53:50+00:00
Are you thinking of the US bombing Iran perhaps? Assuming they are running such a disinformation campaign (which is the theory you are talking about) why would they shoot themselves in the foot and cut their own spooks' connection off? And you're off by almost two order of magnitudes, the study in question found that 4% of pro-indy activity was linked to Iranian controlled attacks (and I am highly doubtful of Twitter's influence in that debate in 2025...)
by qmr | 2025-09-26 22:54:39+00:00
Roger Murdock : ROGER MURDOCK. I'm an airline pilot.

Joey : I think you're the greatest, but my dad says you don't work hard enough on defense.

[Kareem gets angry]

Joey : And he says that lots of times, you don't even run down court. And that you don't really try... except during the playoffs.

Roger Murdock : The hell I don't! LISTEN, KID! I've been hearing that crap ever since I was at UCLA. I'm out there busting my buns every night! Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes!
by miladyincontrol | 2025-09-26 22:54:47+00:00
I too have a moonlander but imo the biggest gain from most mechs isnt how they can tent but being ortholinear in nature reducing some of the more awkward directional movements of a staggered keyboard. Honestly my biggest gripe with the moonlander is its too many keys, a 40% is more than enough, less can be more in many ways.

My datahand is probably my favorite keyboard though for reducing movement while avoiding too much repetition. If it ever bites the dust beyond repair I'd absolutely move to a diy svalboard build or whatever similar alternative is it's contemporary.
by merksoftworks | 2025-09-26 22:55:03+00:00
I dug around on this web page and found outlinks to:

The "Stop Gangstalking Awareness Group", and especially this page about "Understanding Neuro Weapons." LaserPointerSafety has not evaluated the accuracy or usefulness of this group or their information. (Thanks to M.D. in July 2024 for bringing this to our attention.)

These are kind of kooky links: https://web.archive.org/web/20240509210655/https://stopgangs...
by quesera | 2025-09-26 22:55:20+00:00
s/tenants/humans/g

The large majority of tenants do not read their lease paperwork carefully enough for this clause to make a difference.

A large majority of humans don't read EULAs.

A lease clause is useless for liability, because your landlord's insurance won't be able to shake down the tenant anyway.

Someday soon enough, your insurance might require a clause like that. It will still be ignored by tenants though.
by gwern | 2025-09-26 22:56:15+00:00
One of the most surprising Gwern.net bug reports was from a compulsive highlighter who noted that the skip-ink implementation (which uses the old text-shadow trick, because frustratingly, the recently standardized skip-ink CSS still manages to fail at its only job and it looks awful) looked bad because of how browsers handle shadows and highlighting.

We had known about that (and it can't be fixed because browsers don't let you control the highlighting), but we had never imagined it'd be a problem because you'd only see it briefly when once in a while copy-pasting some text for a quote - right? I mean, why else would anyone be highlighting text? You'd only highlight small bits of text you had already read, so if it looked bad in places, that was fine, surely.

(Narrator: "It was not fine.")

Just another instance of Hyrum's law, I guess...

We decided to WONTFIX that because we can't easily fix that without making it uglier for users who don't abuse highlighting and are reading normally, which is almost everyone else.
by kpcyrd | 2025-09-26 22:57:09+00:00
hopefully they got reported as bugs, I spent some time in June making sure a basic Arch Linux system can compile itself using uutils, and things mostly worked, the only build failures could be argued were shell scripts depending on undefined behavior, like "calling install(1) with multiple -m arguments":

https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/8033

The other one was an edge-case with dangling symlinks:

https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/8044

Both got fixed promptly, after taking the time to report them properly. :)
by Jcampuzano2 | 2025-09-26 22:57:15+00:00
I started having RSI issues 2 years ago, what a way to welcome me to my 30s. It was excruciatingly painful just getting through a workday even with plenty of breaks. I didn't care for building my own keyboard I literally just wanted something to help me not be in pain no matter how weird it looked.

I've ended up on a Kinesis advantage 360 pro after spending thousands of dollars on keyboards because I needed something that allowed me to type for more than 5 minutes at a time without pain.

The things I think are key for people with persistent issues:

- programmable keys

- tenting

- concavity (rules out most keyboards)

- thumb clusters

- ortholinear

I know some go without the concavity but I just cannot go back. Its so much more comfortable on my hands.

Programmable keys are probably the most important though, primarily so you can pick which stretches and awkward movements to completely remove and no longer have to do.

For example I've entirely removed the need to ever stretch my pinkies and ring fingers on both hands. It destroys my hands having to do so on a normal keyboard and so many normal shortcuts require excessive pinky finger movement.

I honestly think anybody who plans on using a keyboard for the rest of their life should invest in a high quality keyboard even if it's expensive. I would not be able to continue working today without having done so.

Runner up is the glove 80, but the only thing is I don't like how flimsy it feels in my hands compared to how solid the kinesis feels.