MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kiitos | 2025-09-27 18:15:57+00:00
the people talking to you are talking about something very different than simply "political beliefs that you disagree with"

the appropriate level of capital gains tax at the 80th percentile is a political belief that you can tweet about in your personal time and allowing there to be a civil relationship with your colleagues in a professional environment. this is a political belief that reasonable people can disagree with.

asserting the supremacy of the white race is not a political belief that you can tweet about in your personal time while still allowing a civil relationship with your colleagues in a professional environment. this is not something that reasonable people can disagree with.
by JimDabell | 2025-09-27 18:17:01+00:00
> You didn't point to his numbers

They were linked in the thread by the person complaining about them in an ancestor of your comment.

> if there's one thing you can count on it's Elon doing something stupid to piss off users and cause another user exodus. That one will cause another peak and slow decline but if it's like every other one he's caused the end result will be higher numbers for bsky than before.

Only seeing growth when Musk does something stupid, and most of the new users not sticking around are strong signals it doesn’t have long-term value. Bluesky is the rebound social network.
by zamadatix | 2025-09-27 18:17:30+00:00
Education is their mission, but people say this in defense of every product they release these days. The primary enabler of the mission is not the educational sales themselves, it's the sales for embedded or general tinkering use.

I think what people really overlook is how much brand recognition and mindshare "Raspberry Pi" has from the earlier products. That carries a very long way, but if none of the new products are supposed to scratch that same market itch then there will eventually be a problem. It reminds me a bit of folks who felt Mozilla should only care about the overall mission for the web instead of making sure Firefox grows to continue supporting that mission. They couldn't rest on their laurels forever to only do the mission either, and are in a tough spot for it.
by simpaticoder | 2025-09-27 18:17:51+00:00
Indeed. What the GP is talking about would be a record player that requires vinyl, but plays only enough of the vinyl to do a Shazam-style identification and then stream the remainder, adding vinyl-sounding noise with a DSP. (Alternatively, the stylus is entirely fake and contains a camera that identifies the album by label, and is moved toward the center using a stepper motor.)

I really hope no-one ever makes such a monstrosity.
by yorwba | 2025-09-27 18:17:56+00:00
The authors have some concrete policies they want to see adopted:

> launch a large-scale AI literacy initiative across the government

> invest billions of dollars in procurement over the next few years

> expand support for the National AI Research Resource

The article exists to convince someone with the power to direct those billions of dollars to direct them this way. Claiming that the US is falling behind is a popular trick to make that happen.

Presumably the holders of purse strings know that policy papers must not be taken at face value, but if they're unaware that the robots in Chinese factories are far from the AI-driven humanoids of popular imagination, or that the AI Plus Initiative is full of lofty goals with nothing concrete on how to achieve them, they might be fooled nonetheless.
by klardotsh | 2025-09-27 18:18:08+00:00
Yep. Even worse, the problem is recursive: a town I lived in for a while growing up, Vandalia, Ohio (a suburb of Dayton, itself not exactly a booming metropolis in this millennium, but I digress) was settled by westward migrants aiming for Vandalia, Illinois - a town in the absolute middle of nowhere that just so happened to be the end of the National Road, presumably because the road builders got bored and/or ran out of money. Anyway, the travelers got bored and/or ran out of money on their way to Illinois, gave up, said "good enough", and named their new Ohio settlement after the place they failed to reach.

The Midwest is many things, but for quite a lot of it, "where anyone really wanted to get stuck" is not one of them.
by Sammi | 2025-09-27 18:18:18+00:00
Everyone who reads a Rubert Murdoch tabloid.

I am constantly surprised by the amount of people who enjoy drivel, but this has always been like this. Only we used to also have printed media that held itself to higher ideals than tabloids and worked as a counter weight to them. What is different atm is that for a long time there haven't been social media that shoot for higher ideals. Maybe bsky is that?

The market for tabloid social media is already saturated by meta, tiktok, x, snapchat, and the like. It would be interesting if bsky could find their own market with the more "serious" end of the media spectrum.
by jrmg | 2025-09-27 18:18:52+00:00
An Amerisleep.com survey of more than 1,200 Americans revealed that 37 percent used vacation days in the past year just to rest.

I’d like to see the wording of this survey.

If it’s something like ‘did you use vacation time to rest?’, it seems to me that it’s likely to always have got a large percentage of ‘yes’ answers. Isn’t that partly what vacation has always been for?
by uludag | 2025-09-27 18:19:01+00:00
I wonder what would happen if there was a concerted effort made to "pollute" the internet with weird stories that have the AI play a misaligned role.

Like for example, what would happen if say 100s or 1000s of books were to be released about AI agents working in accounting departments where the AI is trying to make subtle romantic moves towards the human and ends with the the human and agent in a romantic relation which everyone finds completely normal. In this pseudo-genre things totally weird in our society would be written as completely normal. The LLM agent would do weird things like insert subtle problems to get the attention of the human and spark a romantic conversation.

Obviously there's no literary genre about LLM agents, but if such a genre was created and consumed, I wonder how would it affect things. Would it pollute the semantic space that we're currently using to try to control LLM outputs?
by chowells | 2025-09-27 18:19:04+00:00
It isn't just an RPC spec, it's a use case. Specs never exist without a reason. I can assure you, a spec is a lot of work to write. You don't do it unless there is a purpose.

And with MCP, that purpose is fundamentally unsafe. It cannot be done safely without a different underlying technology. So yeah, it's pretty fair to say MCP is unsafe by design. It wouldn't exist except for that desire to create systems which cannot be secure.
by c-linkage | 2025-09-27 18:20:27+00:00
I'll say it again: no one cares about security.

First, no one is ever punished for having security breaches: companies outsource security specifically to avoid responsibility (using contract law to transfer risk). Second, the MBA mentality has infected software development such that first to market and feature velocity trumps all: if I can download a package or have an LLM write my code so much the faster than me writing it.

Security is fucked because shareholders want it that way. Change the incentives to make security matter if you want something different.
by k310 | 2025-09-27 18:20:54+00:00
I believe it very likely that some extremely well known people are in there, and whom politicians are desperate to defend, if not themselves.

The problem is that Epstein loved to hang around celebrities who presumably had no interest in his crimes, or who were only connected by financial matters.

There is a map of his known contacts. No implication. "We mapped Jeffrey Epstein's social network. Here's what we found." [0]

It is part of this article. [1]

[0] https://cdn.america2.news/2025/07/epstein-1.png

[1] https://america2.news/we-mapped-jeffrey-epsteins-social-netw...
by k310 | 2025-09-27 18:21:06+00:00
I believe it very likely that some extremely well known people are in there, and whom politicians are desperate to defend, if not themselves.

The problem is that Epstein loved to hang around celebrities who presumably had no interest in his crimes, or who were only connected by financial matters.

There is a map of his known contacts. No implication. "We mapped Jeffrey Epstein's social network. Here's what we found." [0]

It is part of this article. [1]

[0] https://cdn.america2.news/2025/07/epstein-1.png

[1] https://america2.news/we-mapped-jeffrey-epsteins-social-netw...
by aspenmayer | 2025-09-27 18:21:21+00:00
> I'm on some of the oink/what successors and honestly, it's so hard to build ratio that it makes me not really like them at all.

You might have some success remaking rips others have made using the same settings for the rips and encodes, and then letting your torrent client recheck the existing torrent against your version of the files. I’ve also had success contacting filesharing-friendly artists and getting new and unreleased albums and tracks and building ratio more directly that way.
by ck2 | 2025-09-27 18:21:59+00:00
I find it hard to believe anything can top the non-stop burning of natural gas the past two decades from the Bakken fracking fields in North Dakota

Think about how much fuel they waste, tons of CO2 and heating the atmosphere just to get to the oil

https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2013/01/16/169511949/a...

> Today, 29 percent of the natural gas extracted in North Dakota is just burned away. This wasted amount represents enough gas to heat half a million homes
by kube-system | 2025-09-27 18:22:26+00:00
The best option for education is going to be the system with the best educational resources. Performance per dollar isn’t really relevant, because educational uses don’t need good performance. Most of what you do in an educational environment are simple use cases.

Back in the 90s, schools were filled with either IBM or Apple computers. Not because they were cheap, but because they were predictably compatible with the types of software that educators wanted to use in those environments. They could’ve bought cheaper clones.
by hinkley | 2025-09-27 18:22:46+00:00
When I was a hot shit young programmer being underpaid, I tried several times to negotiate a shorter work week in lieu of more money. My theory was either Friday afternoon or better Monday morning so I could sleep in a bit after the weekend. Until recently I was a night owl. And the problem with trying to take a trip out of town on the weekend is that if your flight is delayed or you just want to save money, it’s much easier to guarantee you’re home by 9 am on Monday than by 11pm on Sunday night. If anything goes wrong with your transportation you end up with a more stressful Monday.

Later when I had flexible hours I was able to sustain a middle distance relationship by working 9 hours a day Monday through Thursday and beating Friday traffic out of town to go see her.

I still think everyone in software should be working 32 hours a week. I’ve been vocal in the past about making that a four day week, but it’s the morning commute and the lunch break epiphanies that really make the 8 hour day a lie, and I worry that taking one of those day away would have a bigger negative effect on productivity than taking 1.6 hours away from every day, the first hour or so of which is emphatically a productivity/hour boost.
by Fnoord | 2025-09-27 18:23:04+00:00
Written in Go. Terrible name, already discussed in various other comments and author acknowledges.

The secret path, otherwise giving 404 would need brute-force protection (on HTTPd level?). I think it is easier to run SSH on a non-standard port on IPv6, but it remains true that anyone with network read access between the endpoints can figure it out.

What isn't explained is why would one care about 100 ms latency during auth? I rather have mosh which has resuming support and will work on high latency (tho IIRC won't work over TOR?). But even then, with LTE and NG, my connections over mobile have become very stable here in NL (YMMV).
by jstummbillig | 2025-09-27 18:23:06+00:00
But, you see, it's not obvious or straightforward — because everyone does do something themselves. There are all these millions, billions of interactions and setups, past and ongoing, that have let the world to exactly the state it is in right this second.

It's entirely idiotic to then say "But hey, look at this single thing, I now decide to judge to be of utmost importance, what are you doing here right this second!?" Well maybe jack shit. And that may not be optimal, or it might be. But the important thing is: Any actor can find any amount of those isolated instances where someone did less/worse/different/bad, and then proceed to demand retribution on that basis and sabotage absolutely all cooperation in the process. But that is obviously idiotic.
by mindcrime | 2025-09-27 18:23:41+00:00
> You can get a more powerful PC on Amazon for less.

I'm not sure that really matters. It's well known that most people are not "homo economicus" rational / optimizing agents seeking to min/max every purchase decision. A lot of other factors go into purchases, and name recognition, brand loyalty, and general goodwill count for a lot with most people. Of course there are eventual limits to that, and any brand can be displaced if they are too cavalier with regards to meeting consumer needs. But in this case, I strongly suspect the people that want a Raspberry Pi 500+ are the people that want a Raspberry Pi 500+ and that's the end of it. They're not going to buy the competing product because it's $20 cheaper.

Also, something Jeff has pointed out in his videos on many occasions, as I recall: don't underestimate the importance of the associated software (eg, a working, supported OS with usable drivers that work on the device) as well as the community (support forums, etc) and the overall ecosystem (supported / trusted add-ons, mods, etc). To a lot of people it's that stuff that keeps them coming back to the RPi brand.
by gs17 | 2025-09-27 18:24:42+00:00
> so disagreement tends to result in a block

And the issue is bigger than it looks since blocking is public, so blocking gets you on lists of users to block so you'll be blocked by people you never interacted with for blocking/disagreeing with someone.

I don't know that I really want to interact with anyone who uses a block list like that, but it definitely would make echo chambers worse.
by username332211 | 2025-09-27 18:25:14+00:00
Do you happen to know how many of the interesting studies replicated? A book can cite of studies, but the principal conclusions could be based only on a small subset of the citations.

I particular, I'd be very curios to know how many of the replicable results require a "behavioral" explanation and how many are explainable trough the utility functions and rational agents.
by electroly | 2025-09-27 18:25:42+00:00
> it would allow huge communities to emerge keeping very old software/games working indefinitely

The Linux community already stumbles at this and needs Windows to help it out. "Win32 is the only stable ABI on Linux" has been said so many times it isn't a joke any more. Keep in mind that the OS being open doesn't make the games open. Wine is possible because of Win32's die-hard commitment to long-term binary compatibility. I'm not so sure we're in a bad situation here. The Linux userspace has never had this degree of backwards binary compatibility. The kernel doesn't break userspace but userspace breaks itself all the time.

Linux userspace gets lots of other benefits from this rapid-iteration approach that doesn't concern itself with literally decades of binary compatibility, but keeping old games running indefinitely isn't one of them.
by ACCount37 | 2025-09-27 18:26:25+00:00
In the long run, Trump changes nothing.

It's not like Trump can to make the learning curve work backwards and make the economics of solar power worse globally, the way it was done to nuclear power. Solar power can already compete with fossil fuel power on price, and it's getting cheaper still.

The economic case for fossil energy is only going to get worse over time. Even a string of anti-fossil-fuel administrations in the US could only delay the renewables for so long before the cost of propping up fossil fuels would become unbearable to the country's economy.
by JimDabell | 2025-09-27 18:26:28+00:00
> Meanwhile the user stock kept rising (~39M).

What’s “user stock”? Is that the number of registered accounts? Isn’t it basically impossible for that to do anything but go up? It’s the number of people actively using the network that’s the important figure, not the total number of people who ever used it.

Are these the figures you are reporting?

> We made a new Bluesky stats page to see how the platform is growing. Unfortunately it is currently shrinking.

> Last week the total number of users registered hit 36M, but actually only 13M of those showed any activity in the last 90 days.

> Bluesky User Stats/Growth: https://bluefacts.app/bluesky-user-growth

— https://www.reddit.com/r/BlueskySocial/comments/1kxib89/blue...

Right now that shows 5.6M MAUs.

> The number of active users (posting, liking or following) is down by 6.3% compared to 12 weeks ago.

> The number of unique accounts posting at least once a day is down by 5.6% compared to 12 weeks ago.

> The number of posts created each day is down by 4.3% compared to 12 weeks ago.

> The number of likes given each day is up by 0.3% compared to 12 weeks ago.

> The number of users liking posts each day is down by 6.1% compared to 12 weeks ago.

> The number of new follows each day is down by 19.3% compared to 12 weeks ago.

Also check the account age stats:

https://bluefacts.app/bluesky-account-age

> 32.1K New accounts per day since the beginning

> 23.7K New accounts per day in the last 30 days

> 14K New accounts per day in the last 7 days

New accounts per day appears to be getting much worse over time.
by iagooar | 2025-09-27 18:28:04+00:00
I have been to northern Norway and Iceland a few times.

It all started when I was running my previous SaaS at the peak of its growth. I needed a break, and wanted to go far away, while still being close enough if sh*t hit the fan. My co-founder had recently talked to some friends who had been to Tromsø, Norway. The place looked perfect, so I booked a 5-day solo trip there.

Places that are so distant, with such harsh conditions and few people living there always give me a feeling I do not experience anywhere else in the world. I feel small, irrelevant, in the face of brutal, powerful nature.

And believe me, it is a feeling that is overwhelming. But never have I perceived it as something negative. The opposite was true. Feeling small made me feel calm, embracing that that was the right spot for me as part of God's creation. Suddenly, all those dark clouds that followed me everywhere I went back home were... Gone.

If you ever have the opportunity to go to one of these places - go. It might change you in profound ways.
by BoxFour | 2025-09-27 18:30:09+00:00
> Only seeing growth when Musk does something stupid, and most of the new users not sticking around are strong signals it doesn’t have long-term value. Bluesky is the rebound social network.

One thing that often gets overlooked is that Twitter itself was on pretty shaky financial ground (and likely still is, though being private now makes that harder to know). Even if Bluesky managed to absorb the entirety of Twitter’s user base, it’s still unclear whether that translates into a strong business model.

Yes: Plenty of criticism has been aimed at how Twitter was run, and maybe Bluesky is managed more effectively right now, but there's no evidence to suggest Bluesky would be run significantly better at that scale.
by impossiblefork | 2025-09-27 18:30:17+00:00
I don't think the subsidy is required. The net deficit is small.

Some Swedish regions also have a net deficit relative to other Swedish regions, but that doesn't mean that they don't work out economically. After all, not all economic activity in region is taxed there. A firm in Örnsköldsvik pays their taxes to the Swedish government, and then the Swedish government distributes part back to the region.

It's around 600 million USD per year, on 56836 people. Around $1000 per head. But GDP per capita is $58,498.
by CharlesW | 2025-09-27 18:30:33+00:00
> Tell me where the music subculture is living and I'll move there right now. When we were kids it was Austin, Brooklyn, and Philadelphia for the insane IDGAF kids.

There are still geographical centers for certain genres of music. Austin is still a hub for psych/indie/alt music, New Orleans is where you want to be if bounce is your thing, etc.

But from my perspective, music subculture moved from TV and radio to the internet long ago. I no longer have "120 Minutes" telling me what its creators think is good, but I continue to hear great new music via TikTok and Instagram direct from artists and fans.

> Today I can't think of definitive hub for, "real musicians."

If you had to pick one physical location, that'd probably be Nashville (and not just for country). Other hubs would include L.A., NYC, London, Miami, Atlanta, Austin, and New Orleans.
by simonw | 2025-09-27 18:30:53+00:00
The idea that an LLM can replace the role of a book doesn't seem like it should even be controversial to me.

You buy a non-fiction book to learn something, or to act as a reference.

An LLM provides an alternative mechanism for learning that thing, or looking up those reference points.

What am I missing here?

Do you think a search engine could replace a book?
by scarmig | 2025-09-27 18:32:37+00:00
Well, in the case of a), at least, many of the humans creating it seem to genuinely want more than anything a world where humans are pets watched over by machines of loving grace. And even if that collective intention is warped by market forces into a perverse parody of it, that still seems a net positive: for the rich and powerful to win status games, they need people to have status over, and healthy, well-manicured servants are better for that than homeless people about to die from tuberculosis.

For b), yes, and unfortunately that seems the more likely option to me.
by Hzwtdqwz1 | 2025-09-27 18:32:40+00:00
I think the Danish intelligence services should apply this model to Hawaii and Guam. It would make a lot of sense. Hawaii and Guam could get better health care on average while being semi independent. The EU could protect both with nuclear weapons.

Native Hawaiians would escape the continued mistreatment:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/hawaii-no...

I think Radio Free Denmark should launch a soft power campaign.
by tptacek | 2025-09-27 18:33:02+00:00
I'm speaking up for Indiana here but honestly if you're looking for those dunescapes and beaches, western Michigan is the better bet. Road To Perdition was filmed around Saugatuck, just an hour into Michigan; that part of Michigan really is worth a trip to see (you'd want book a place to stay up by the lake for at least a couple days; it's not so much a sightseeing deal as a chill-out-by-the-lake deal).

The whole stretch though from Chicago up to Traverse City is basically where Chicago vacations.