MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sillyfluke | 2025-09-10 21:26:59+00:00
Yes, but as time goes to infinity there will eventually be an environment context and mutation path that will result in something that has a similar level of intelligence.

In fact, this makes the preoccupation with humans escaping a Great Filter all the more childish. Even on a single planet the species that will evolve from humans by the time Earth is swallowed by the sun will have less in common with humans than we do now with single cell organisms. Internalize that fact a little bit. Once you realize it is absurd to talk about the human species being preserved as is to the end of time, you will understand the silliness of this obsession. Cause after that point you might as well believe in a deity.

If it makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside, it suffices to hope that only single cell organisms survive the Great Filter, since given enough time it might lead to something that is as intelligent or more intelligent and kind than humans.

Embrace the silliness. The answer to "Why should we humans spread to other planets?" need only be "Why the fuck not?"

That is, unless you want to fund your rocket company. In which case you have to make people believe in a deity.
by mothballed | 2025-09-10 21:27:05+00:00
A lot of war stories get embellished and no one is going to challenge it.

There's the story about the guy who says he was the hardest working man in Vietnam, and then when pressed about what he did, he states he was a trucker to the great surprise of anyone listening.

When asked why he thought that, he says "well I was the only one."
by simonh | 2025-09-10 21:27:14+00:00
The differences we’re seeing were all planned years in advance. This time around Trump had the time and experience to build his own team instead of taking the team the Republican establishment handed him. As for policies, it’s all in Agenda 47, his manifesto, including universal and reciprocal tariffs, ending birthright citizenship, immigration crackdowns, he laid out exactly what he was going to do back in 2023.
by otterley | 2025-09-10 21:27:29+00:00
> you are reducing the subset of possible skills available to improve society.

This happened long ago. Politics is exhausting (constant campaigning), poorly paid (unless you can leverage your position to sell bestselling books and speaking engagements later), and you have to check your logic and common sense at the chamber door. You have to have unlimited optimism to not become overwhelmed with cynicism and demotivated by despair from the sausage making process. Overall, politics is a shitty job mainly practiced by hucksters, psychopaths, and well-meaning but naive people who turn into a huckster or psychopath.
by dexterdog | 2025-09-10 21:28:18+00:00
> What part of "well regulated militia" is unclear?

What part of "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed" is unclear? If you're going to base your argument on the first few words you can't win against the opposition does the same with the last part.

> Maybe all of it if you have a political slant, but no literate person who didn't set out with an agenda actually takes the second amendment to mean "any lunatic with $100 and an axe to grind should be allowed to own weapons of mass destruction without even proving they're sober and sane."

What WMDs can be had for only $100 that would actually fall under firearm regulation?
by fullshark | 2025-09-10 21:28:21+00:00
A lot of mythologizing about the US, its constitution, and its government has come crashing down in the past 20 years, pretty much since 9/11 and the rise of the internet. I think this is overall less a story of America is unhealthy now than US citizens have been believing comforting lies about its nation/government since the actual victory in WW2 and the cultural victory in the aftermath/cold war. The internet and 9/11 really woke people up I think.

The truth is the US has been seen periods of extreme rhetoric and even political violence, including most obviously an actual civil war, and also key periods like the labor movement and civil rights movement. It will happen again even if things cool.

Political violence and assassinations are obviously terrible and should hopefully not happen as debate allows consensus or at least compromise to be reached, but the reality seems to be if you allow the people a stake in their government, passion and anger will be instilled in some subset of those people cause government policies have real world implications, and the end result is extreme acts, many of which are detestable like this one. I don't see a way forward other than to prosecute crimes and let the debate rage on.
by 0x00cl | 2025-09-10 21:28:23+00:00
YouTube has been pushing for longer videos for a while now. I believe it has to do with getting more money for ads. I remember YouTube updated their guidelines suggesting creators to create longer videos (10+ minutes for better monetization)

I couldn't find a source (other than my memory) though, the earliest I could find is a reddit post from 2016 https://www.reddit.com/r/PartneredYoutube/comments/4v6bmy/wh...
by rmonvfer | 2025-09-10 21:28:33+00:00
The source for one of the initial versions got leaked a while ago and let’s say it’s not very good architecturally speaking, specifically when compared with the Gemini CLI, which it open source.

The point of Claude Code is deep integration with the Claude models, not the actual CLI as a piece of software, which is quite buggy (it also has some great features, of course!)

At least for me, if I didn’t have to put in the work to modify the Gemini CLI to work reliably with Claude (or at least to get a similar performance), I wouldn’t use Claude Code CLI (and I say this while paying $200 per month to Anthropic because the models are very good)
by netsharc | 2025-09-10 21:28:49+00:00
The "virtual realities" people construct to deny actual reality is incredible. Like Alex Jones spouting stuff that those grieving parents are paid actors. Anything rather than accept the cold truth. At least I partially hope he believes his own stories, because if he knew he was just screaming lies about dead children into people's ears to earn money, then he's a psycopath (obviously that's also a possibility).

I think people invent those realities so they can say their actions are moral and good, and in their reality, for example the Sandy Hook parents are the bad guys because they are part of a conspiracy to take Americans' guns.

If anyone has 2h30m of free time, a good example of a man creating his own reality (and having it crumble bit by bit) is the subject of the documentary The Act of Killing, someone who murdered thousands of people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kJZb2Q1NmE

The director convinced him and his friends to make a movie about their actions (which they proudly boast about anyway), and one scene in the movie has the song "Born Free", "angels" dancing, and the killer being thanked by his "victims", for saving their souls from Communism and sending them to heaven by killing them...
by techcode | 2025-09-10 21:28:52+00:00
"too dumb to get a FAANG job"?

As a diagnosed ADHD person myself - I think you should spend time to get that ADHD diagnosis Even without meds, stuff like CBT helps.

Anyway - not sure if they are downplaying FAANG salary, or its more about the ROI (long hours, stress ...etc)?

I'm basically at European equivalent of FAANG, and I don't see myself doing US version even if it's double the money.
by dotnet00 | 2025-09-10 21:29:25+00:00
Yep, a friend shared the link and a low resolution blurry screenshot, and though I usually click anyway, I kind of just knew that this one would be a bit too graphic to move on from easily.

Even though I have an extremely negative opinion of Charlie, I'd feel too bad thinking about the pain his family would be experiencing. The family (especially children) don't deserve that.
by ceejayoz | 2025-09-10 21:29:28+00:00
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/charlie-...

> “Why has he not been bailed out?” Kirk said Monday on his podcast of the man who allegedly beat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi‘s husband Paul with a hammer last Friday. “By the way, if some amazing patriot out there in San Francisco or the Bay Area wants to really be a midterm hero, someone should go and bail this guy out, I bet his bail’s like thirty or forty thousand bucks.” With a smirk, he added: “Bail him out and then go ask him some questions.”
by dylan604 | 2025-09-10 21:29:36+00:00
While that may be true to an extent, the 24/7 nature of it now is the equivalent of constantly red lining the engine. It used to be you'd go to meetings/gatherings of like minded people to get hopped up and your engines revved up like that, but they would for the most part cool back down after getting back home. Now, the engine never gets back to idle and stays red lined. At some point, the engine will break down, only instead of throwing a rod or ceasing up, something non-engine related will happen.
by j45 | 2025-09-10 21:29:49+00:00
Not sure if you have a Google Business Profile.

Also, make sure your Google Maps profile is well done, it can be as or more important than the Google Business Profile as it helps shape how you'd like traffic to become interactions with you.

The more useful information is available from your website in structured form, the less it likely will pull structured information from the social links pointing to you. I forget what this is called but I believe it's semantic metadata settings or something, can try to look it up and reply here again.
by Saline9515 | 2025-09-10 21:30:02+00:00
Kinetic power is lower, that said you can still hurt yourself pretty bad depending on how you fall. A wrist doesn't need a lot of force to break, nor a skull needs to fall from high to cause trauma. A cyclist on a sidewalk going at 20km/h can cripple a child for life (not that the cyclist cares, but just for the example).

I broke my wrist by falling from my bike when I was younger, almost while stopped (my wheel got blocked in a tram rail).
by wredcoll | 2025-09-10 21:30:10+00:00
I'm not sure what exactly "net immigration" means in specific for these graphs, but according to this chart there were 9.8 million during bush and a predicted 10.4 under biden? This seems... statistically average? The number fluctuates a bit during different decades (and of course it's probably worth remembering that the trump years in this specific graph involved quite a bit of corona virus, whatever that means for these numbers)

My point here is mostly just that america has had lots of immigrants every year for the past 75 or something and there was nothing particularly unique or notable about the recent biden years and the people who claim there is are lying in order to achieve unrelated political goals.
by like_any_other | 2025-09-10 21:30:13+00:00
There's a million other similar incidents:

The city is training white municipal employees to overcome their “internalized racial superiority.” - https://www.city-journal.org/seattle-interrupting-whiteness-...

Pennsylvania launched business grants that excluded white-owned businesses* - https://web.archive.org/web/20241218025310/https://dced.pa.g...

FAA turned away applicants based on (white) race - https://www.wsj.com/articles/affirmative-action-lands-in-the...

Illinois runs a scholarship that excludes white applicants - https://www.ibhe.org/dfiapplicant.html

Biden calls white supremacy ‘most dangerous terrorist threat’ in speech at Howard - https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/13/biden-howard-univer...

And while government excludes and demonizes them, whites are not even allowed to leave without condemnation and legal threats (only threats so far) - https://www.tmz.com/2025/07/24/arkansas-attorney-general-sla...

At some point you just have to believe them when they tell you who they are.
by ajross | 2025-09-10 21:30:33+00:00
Please try citing numbers if you want to make a numeric argument. The USA has four times as many guns per capita as Finland. And in fact Finland has a much higher gun death rate that the rest of industrial Europe (about 3-4x that of the UK or Germany, for example), which has fewer guns. Finland is, to be sure, safer than the US, with about half the per-capita-per-gun fatality rate. So sure, you can do better than the US without reducing guns.

But clearly guns are the obviously most important driving variable here, and to argue otherwise is just silly.
by philwelch | 2025-09-10 21:31:02+00:00
> why is "african-american" very common, but using "european-american" is almost non existent?

You’re a couple decades out of date. “African American” isn’t that commonly used anymore; the much more commonly used term is “black”. Or if you want to make a finer distinction, I’ve also seen the term ADOS (American Descendant of Slaves).

“Native American” is a neologism white liberals made up in the 1970’s because they didn’t like the term “American Indian”. It turns out almost all of the American Indians at the time preferred “American Indian” to “Native American”, but nobody actually asked them.

“European American” isn’t commonly used because at the same time that “African American” was popular, so was the idea that white people shouldn’t have a racial self identity at all so there was zero impetus to try and push a politically correct euphemism for “white”. Even today a common style decision is to always capitalize the term “black” but not the term “white”.

Furthermore, whenever we do talk about people in terms of nationality, such as during the Olympic Games, black Americans are consistently referred to as “Americans” rather than “African Americans”.

Finally, what do you think was the internal logic of referring to black Americans as African Americans in the first place? It was to remind everyone that they are also Americans. It’s just like whenever people talk about Japanese-American internment during WW2, they add “American” to underscore the injustice of treating US citizens that way. A Japanese national who wasn’t a US citizen could more justifiably be detained, just as Germans and Italians were, but treating Americans that way is beyond the pale.

What you’re doing here is taking a phrasing that was intentionally designed to use American patriotism to improve public perception of black people and twisting it around into yet another insidious form of crypto-anti-black racism using insane troll logic. And in that respect, you are the one missing the point.
by estimator7292 | 2025-09-10 21:31:45+00:00
I mean, we don't have any other perspective to look through. There is no other point of reference to draw from. We try to compensate by assuming that our system, planet, and species aren't particularly special and are probably about average in terms of supporting life.

We can't know or even begin to guess at what an alien civilization may do or think or how they evolved. Best we can do is assume it's probably somewhat similar to our experience. At least it's based on something factual. Anything else is really just wild speculation.

We pretty much have to assume aliens will be sort of similar to us because we haven't met any. Our experience is the only one we've got, so it's the most reasonable baseline we have. We know that aliens will probably be wildly different from us, but it's so unknowable as to be moot. Do we base our assumptions on Heinlein's writing? Asimov? Douglas Adams? Anything other than what we know from our own experience is just fanciful fiction.

But also you're not supposed to take as read the Fermi paradox, Kardashev scale, or any other ways of thinking about aliens. It's implied that they won't be anything like us. You're not supposed to take it as a literal statement that alien species will be hairless bipeds with a warlike society who think and look like us. You're supposed to follow the assumptions that statistically, we're probably not special as a species and probably any aliens we meet will have evolved along similar lines and probably will be relatable to us. Implicitly we understand that this likely is not true. We just don't know and there aren't really any options that are more reasonable or reliable than basing assumptions on the one and only planet we know that has intelligent life.
by bee_rider | 2025-09-10 21:32:09+00:00
From their code:

A = torch.randn(2048, 2048, device='cuda', dtype=torch.bfloat16) B = torch.randn(2048, 2048, device='cuda', dtype=torch.bfloat16) ref = torch.mm(A, B) for _ in range(1000): assert (torch.mm(A, B) - ref).abs().max().item() == 0

I’m sort of surprised that Torch doesn’t have some kind of lazy evaluation thing to avoid computing anything here. I thought that was one of the nice things about all these fancy frameworks (if I wanted the computer to actually do silly things when I asked it to, I would use BLAS directly, right?).
by deevus | 2025-09-10 21:32:19+00:00
We were lucky enough to find a debug version of Fatal Racing. Having function names helped a lot. That made the process much easier.

I have been less involved with the actual decomp in ROLLER specifically. Though I was part of one of the key decomp pieces which was demystifying the games binary storage format. That part alone took me a year of on and off work.

Once that was done, the rest of the process was much easier.

I suggest if you want to have a go yourself, you just need to start brute forcing it with IDA or Ghidra.

Additionally find out what compiler was used. If it was watcom, there is a great tool called wcdatool that may be of use to you.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-09-10 21:32:44+00:00
The definition of "militia" has been explicitly written into US law since the 18th century, you don't need to guess at its meaning. It essentially includes every able-bodied male and explicitly recognizes that this militia exists separate from any "organized" militia. Being part of the militia is not an exclusive club, a large percentage of all Americans are a member as a matter of law.

That said, I would argue that the definition should be updated to include women as well.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-09-10 21:33:19+00:00
It did, but it was a politically motivated decision that had most serious scholars without an agenda agree was flawed. Scalia decided to treat the miltia bit as if it were entirely prefatory, which of course begs the question "why did the put it in there if they didn't mean it?"

Again, common sense says that it means what it says and you don't get to ignore the bits you don't like.
by edaemon | 2025-09-10 21:33:36+00:00
I'm not sure how Wikipedia is distinguishing them but for the most part firearms do not have to be registered in the United States. Some states require firearms to be registered but most do not. Unregistered firearms can nonetheless be counted because they are inventoried and sold legally (firearms dealers must be licensed and regulated), even though the end purchaser is not registered anywhere.

Federally, only specific categories like fully-automatic machine guns and short-barreled rifles have to be registered.
by magicalhippo | 2025-09-10 21:33:48+00:00
I'm having a very dense moment I think, and it's been far to long since the statistics courses.

They state the output of a neuron j is a log density P_j(y), where y is a latent variable.

But how does the output from the previous layer, x, come into play?

I guess I was expecting some kind of conditional probabilities, ie the output is P_j given x or something.

Again, perhaps trivial. Just struggling to figure out how it works in practice.
by nehal3m | 2025-09-10 21:34:18+00:00
The current cost of owning and operating an automobile is around 12K USD assuming 15K miles driven yearly according to BTS [0]. This would push it up to a little over 14K USD.

Then there's oil and gas subsidies that should be taken into account, since around 24% of oil consumption is from cars and light trucks. [1]

Then there's some other factors that are hard to quantify but have a huge impact on taxes, like how low density suburbs are subsidised by high density cities [2] as an effect of car-first infrastructure. It's not as simple as just the cost of roads.

[0] https://www.bts.gov/content/average-cost-owning-and-operatin...

[1] https://carsbibles.com/what-percentage-of-oil-is-used-for-ca...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI
by skulk | 2025-09-10 21:34:26+00:00
This is off-topic, but it always amuses me that the sentence isn't even a grammatically correct construction in English, and I don't think it was in the 1770s or whenever this was written.

- A well regulated Militia: noun phrase, - being necessary to the security of a free State: parenthetical phrase, - the right of the people to keep and bear Arms: another noun phrase - shall not be: verb - infringed: adjective

Two consecutive noun phrases separated by a parenthetical is not valid English grammar. The only time I can imagine you'd see consecutive noun phrases is as part of a list of at least 3 elements (like "x, y, and z"), but there is no list here.
by breve | 2025-09-10 21:34:44+00:00
Tesla's own target for sales is to have sold 20 million cars in total by 2035. That figure represents a decline in annual sales for Tesla.

In 2011 Toyota sold 7.9 million cars. In 2023 Toyota sold 11.2 million. In 2024 Toyota sold 10.8 million.

Tesla's ambition is to have sold fewer cars in total in what will then be the 32 year history of the company than Toyota sold in the last two years.

Here's how 2025 is looking for Toyota:

https://www.autoblog.com/news/nearly-900000-cars-sold-toyota...

Toyota got it right.
by benbayard | 2025-09-10 21:35:06+00:00
That's part of the Great Filter answer to the Fermi paradox. Though, I agree, it's not really a paradox. If the great filter is true, the first filter is life forming at all. We hope that the filter is behind us and that's why intelligent life in the universe seems rare, rather than ahead of us. If life is common, but intelligent life is uncommon, that's concerning because it makes it more likely that the filter is ahead of us. Meaning, something like, once an organism has control over the whole planet there's something that prevents them from going to multiple planets.
by dilippkumar | 2025-09-10 21:35:10+00:00
Yay! A tiny minuscule bit of my code is riding on these. While I no longer work there, I am absolutely thrilled at this milestone

1. Congratulations everyone! Yay!

2. I absolutely recommend Zoox as a great place to work. Believes me, I’ve sampled many jobs, Zoox is up there with Google in terms of what the experience feels like in my experience.

3. Yay again!
by jrm4 | 2025-09-10 21:35:28+00:00
One might wonder, however, if it's kind of different now because it can be "less personal?"

Like, it doesn't have to be "a small number of very powerful rich benefactors who know exactly what they're doing" -- it could be some less rich, or less powerful people who know how to leverage "the internet;" or even something like "the internet sort of made this on its own?"
by lenkite | 2025-09-10 21:35:29+00:00
Aren't they being very non-racist ? AFAIK all illegal immigrants get deported - brown or yellow or whatever. Why have immigration laws if they are not enforced ? If there should be 100% open entry & benefits to the US, then Congress should first abrogate those laws, right ? It seems in the recent past, I beg your pardon - only suckers - entered the legal way with documentation.