MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nine_zeros | 2025-10-19 17:09:56+00:00
When requested by the executive under threat of cutting funding, these requests are not requests, they are demands.

When executive demands something of private citizens and private entities, it means they are bossing over said people/entities. Nobody elected the executive to boss over people. When Congress attempts to set these same regulations, these entities get a chance to reach out to their reps and ask for changes. When Congress sets regulations, power is dispersed among 400+ reps.

You are thinking about the outcome of the regulations feeling the same. "No kings" are demanding that the means to setting rules be distributed among reps - when the rulemaking is distributed, you'll find that the rules demanded will change - because most people don't want these exact rules as they stand. And they don't want to submit to a fickle corrupt executive who will change these rules selectively on a dime on a random Friday.
by techblueberry | 2025-10-19 17:10:01+00:00
I find this topic wild, and it makes me wonder a lot of things

- is an abundance of choice not freedom, or is freedom not strictly speaking “good”

- is there a freedom to be able to have a life on rails? Maybe 50 years ago you grow up in a small town with a coal mine, and you get married to someone from that town and work in that mine for the rest of your life. That choice or lifestyle is not available to a lot of people anymore.

- non-compatible choices —- some people say about work from home is always good, because each person has a choice, some can work from home, some in the office, but these choices just aren’t compatible. Having a work from home policy generally means that people who want to work in the office don’t get the experience they were hoping for.

- super markets. consolidation means there’s only a few brands of supermarkets left. But those super markets have more choice than ever before - but they also tend to have a pretty narrow selection of raw ingredients / produce. What is freedom here?

* the loss of special experiences. My city had a great authentic Thai restaurant. It was great! I could go whenever I wanted, but when I actually went to Thailand, I was a bit disappointed that nothing really felt new there.

* the loss of human connection. I think the world was a better place when Tv during the day sucked. We’ve fundamentally lost the need to rely on each other for entertainment, and I think this has impacts in community formation, friendship and dating.

* Adaptation to self vs self-adaptation. When there was less choices you had to change yourself to appreciate new things. Now one can probably almost precisely do the opposite, only find the things that match who you currently are.
by thesmtsolver | 2025-10-19 17:10:23+00:00
> OP was talking about folks delaying treatment due to not being able to afford it, whereas you were focusing on survival rates.

Yes, and you can make a straightforward logical deduction from survival rates to delaying diagnosis which I left out, but detail it below:

1. From Data: Assume equal or worse cancer rates in the US and similar levels of cures across US and Europe (cancer rates are indeed worse in the US and Europe does have good cancer treatment on par with US) 2. OP claimed: People delay diagnosis in the US 2a. From data/science: Delayed diagnosis => Higher death rate 3. Deduction from 1 and 2, and 2a.: Higher death rate in the US 4. Data: Lower death rate in the US 5. Contradiction: 3 and 4 6. Reductio: We have a contradiction. We have to negate one of our assumptions or more. We can't throw away data, so we can only throw away OP's claim (2).

I agree there may be some folks in the US who delay diagnosis but population-wise, data doesn't support that.
by amluto | 2025-10-19 17:11:04+00:00
> variable frequency drives and three-phase induction motors. For those, 80% speed uses 50% of the power, 63% uses 25% of the power.

You’re presumably thinking of the “Affinity Laws”, which, according to Wikipedia (and plenty of other sources), “apply to pumps, fans, and hydraulic turbines. In these rotary implements, the affinity laws apply both to centrifugal and axial flows.”

This is, IMO, one of the worst kinds of science writing. Wikipedia, and plenty of other sources, make little mention of when the do and don’t apply or, relatedly, why they’re true and why they can’t always be true.

They generally apply to situations where a pump is pumping fluid through something like a filter or a long pipe where the pipe is a closed loop or at least the ends are at the same elevation (e.g. a swimming pool pump, except when pumping from a pool into a higher hot tub). So you have no actual work being done by moving fluid, and you can run the pump slower, and thus move less fluid per unit time, thus reducing friction in a manner that the pressure that the pump needs to overcome goes all the way to zero as the flow rate approaches zero.

But the affinity laws are not really anything fundamental about pumps, and they certainly do not override conservation of energy.

Now consider a refrigerator. The compressor is pumping refrigerant from an (approximately) fixed low pressure to a fixed high pressure. (The fluid goes back from high pressure to low pressure via a capillary tube or expansion valve or similar lossy device -- it gets its pressure increased in the gas phase and decreased in the liquid phase.) There's some friction, but after subtracting friction, the pressure is independent of flow rate, and thus the work done per unit flow is independent of flow rate, and the pump power scales linearly with flow as opposed to super-linearly as the affinity laws suggest.

Also, the compressor is a positive-displacement pump, and the affinity laws don't even pretend to apply to these.

(A well pump is another common system where the affinity laws will lead to nonsensical results. If you want to size a well pump properly, you need to know the height that you're raising the water, the output pressure you need, and the range of flows that you want. And then you look at the actual measured performance curves of the pumps (and their drives) that you are considering, and you pick something appropriate.)

All that being said, variable-speed fridges exist, and they're kind of nice in that they try to run continuously and quietly instead of alternating between full-power (and loud) and all the way off. And they are probably a bit more efficient because there's less friction and because the motors are likely to be more efficient three-phase designs instead of the not-actually-amazing single-phase motors you'll find in older fridges.
by b112 | 2025-10-19 17:11:17+00:00
Probably not any better than the last two LG fridges which both broke due to compressor issues, causing me to lose $1k of food each time.

In one case, during the high summer, I didn't notice one was slowly getting warmer. I had constant bowel problems, because I was eating rotten mayonnaise. This was compounded by the fact that I bought fancy spicy mayonnaise, which I'd never tasted before, which masked the rotten flavour.

So -- my lessons learned, never by LG horrible fridges again, and keep an analog thermometer, which I bought for $5, in the fridge.

(General FYI, LG has had more than one class action law suit because of their compressors, and, they even make it very hard to obtain replacements. Evil bastards.)

My point is, you should take care with any fridge, new or old.

(edit: some clarity on mayo)
by malshe | 2025-10-19 17:11:48+00:00
I think its scope is narrower than a lit review assistant. I use it mainly for finding papers that I or my RAs might have missed in our lit review.

I have a recent example where it helped me locate a highly relevant paper for my research. It was from an obscure journal and wouldn't show up in the first few pages of Google Scholar search. The paper was real and recently published.

However, using LLMs for doing lit review has been fraught with peril. LLMs often misinterpret the research findings or extrapolate them to make incorrect inferences.
by nine_zeros | 2025-10-19 17:12:15+00:00
They are not objectively "reasonable standards". Who said they are objectively reasonable standards? They are standards sent by a unitary. They might seem reasonable to one person but not to another. This is why Congress is supposed to set these rules - so that the definition of reasonable is spread all over the country. Reasonable standards are a discovery process, not a unitary dictatorial step.

Hell, this is the whole logic of the American Republic - no kings - since 1776.
by OsrsNeedsf2P | 2025-10-19 17:12:21+00:00
> Calling this a "slip-up" is an outrageous downplay. If anything this makes me suspicious of the moderator who posted the comment too.

You're making an assumption that this moderator is anything more than a Xubuntu enthusiast who wants to downplay outrage on Reddit. Keep in mind Xubuntu is mostly a community effort, not a large corporation with seniors who know how to handle this "best".
by beeflet | 2025-10-19 17:13:31+00:00
In this hypothetical, let's say I also have an army of super-intelligent robots, and I tell them to grow and multiply endlessly and to take over the world. Then it doesn't matter what you think.

The benign forms of superintelligence shaken out by non-benign forms.

>Another way to think about it is that if all of the jobs were replaced by AI, us leftover jobless humans would create a new economy just trying to grow food and make clothes and build houses and take care of our needs.

On whose land?

In any case, it will be cheaper to buy food from the AI. The remaining economy would just be the liquidation of remaining human-controlled assets into the AI-controlled economy for the stuff they need to survive like medicine and food.
by rsclient | 2025-10-19 17:13:35+00:00
Among other problems: the variables est and estTime are both mis-named. The correct name for "the time in New York" is Eastern Time.

Depending on the time of year, Eastern Time will either match "Eastern Standard Time" or "Eastern Daylight Time". Forcing the time to always be "Eastern Standard Time" means that the times will be offset by an hour from the user's expectation about half of the year.

Arizona Exception: if you're in the boundaries of Arizona, you might need to correctly specify whether you mean a "Standard" time or a time which switches based on Daylight Savings. Different places in the boundaries of Arizona work differently.
by rafaelmn | 2025-10-19 17:13:45+00:00
The government and all social structures developed because your labour has value and division of labour/specialisation is so effective that it outperforms the alternatives. Cooperation beats violence, iterated prisoners dilemma, etc.

None of this holds if you don't have anything of value to offer and automation is concentrating power and value, AI is the extreme end of this - at some point the charade of democracy becomes too annoying to the ones at the top, and you get there faster by trying to reign them in.
by Loughla | 2025-10-19 17:13:59+00:00
The Minds call it Infinite Fun Space.

The space of all possible mathematical worlds, free to explore and to play in.

It is infinitely more expressive than the boring base reality and much more varied: base reality is after all just a special case.

From time to time the Minds have to go back to it to fix some local mess, but their hearts are in Infinite Fun Space.

~Iain Banks

But larger than any of this is that if we're dealing with super intelligent AI, we'll have no common frame of reference. It will be the first truly alien intelligence we will interact with. There will be no way to guess its intentions, desires, or decisions. It's smarter, faster, and just do different to us that we might as well be trying to communicate with a sparrow about the sparrow's take on the teachings of Marcus Aurelius.

And that's what scares me the most. We literally cannot plan for it. We have to hope for the best.

And to be honest, if the open Internet plays a part in any of the training of a super intelligent AI, we're fucked.
by mlyle | 2025-10-19 17:14:05+00:00
> > Humans derive a lot of meaning from being useful and valued.

Sure, humans relying on jobs for income is a problem with transitions. But people finding purpose in jobs is a problem, too.

Right now how we get there is being "forced to' -- and indeed that's a bug. But if we transition to a future where it's pretty hard to find useful work, that's a problem, even if the basic needs for survival are still being met.

I haven't had to work for 25 years. But I've spent the vast majority of that time employed. Times when I've not had purposeful employment as an anchor in my life have been rough for me. (First 2-3 months feels great... then it stops feeling so great).
by denis_kkk | 2025-10-19 17:14:27+00:00
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by satisfice | 2025-10-19 17:15:03+00:00
That’s what AI fanboys say every single time I make this point. But “it’s the same for humans” argument only works if you are referring to little children.

Indeed, my airline pilot brother once told me that a carefully supervised 7 year old could fly an airliner safely, as long as there was no in-flight emergency.

And indeed hiring children, who are not accountable for their behavior, does create a supervision problem that can easily exceed the value you may get, for many kinds of work.

I can’t trust AI the way I can trust qualified adults.
by rednafi | 2025-10-19 17:15:49+00:00
Oh, RFCs aren’t forgotten. Every FAANG and wannabe FAANG has some form of RFC writing and reading culture baked in.

With AI, companies are forcing people to churn them out faster than ever. It’s gotten to the point where, to keep up with this slop, people are using LLMs to summarize LLM-generated RFCs.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-19 17:16:08+00:00
Because the CEO needs to understand their product deeply to know what is achievable, what isn't, and how easy it is. Many (most?) software products leave simple "duh" type features on the table, while they pursue incredibly difficult and brittle things instead. This can be prevented.

Just like how, IMO, a car company CEO needs to know how a car works very well. They should know enough to gauge that a dual clutch transmission on a 30,000 dollar car is risky and will blow up.

Again, we see this same sort of problem with cars. Cars will have all these incredibly complex bells and whistles. But then the basics, like the engine and transmission, suck ass and break down. And that's why Honda and Toyota eats their lunch.
by bloomingeek | 2025-10-19 17:16:24+00:00
There's an old expression that I actually lived out: "Poor people have poor ways."

When I was living well below the poverty level, I used whatever resource that was available as long as it was legal. I was given a chest type freezer that was made somewhere in the early 60's, but was in good working order, since it was owned by a person in the HVAC field. It wasn't very efficient, but I needed the freezer space. (Since we didn't have air conditioning, I could afford the electric usage.) Most poor people make decisions based on whatever works, not if it's the best option, because of the lack of money.
by Levitz | 2025-10-19 17:16:58+00:00
A top-down exertion of ideological power like this is terrible, it can't be the case that universities are bullied into toeing the line of whoever is in power at the moment, that much should be evident.

But surely it also can't be the case that colleges demand what are basically declarations of political allegiance in the form of DEI statements, institutional trust is nosediving and ideological capture is to blame in large part. I hope this push from the administration fails, but I also hope something changes because otherwise the result is going to be worse than if universities actually submitted to these demands.
by lproven | 2025-10-19 17:17:08+00:00
> Here's what a completely uncustomized emacs looks like

I think that the key thing you're missing here is that the contents of the menu matter as well as the visual presentation.

Emacs's menus, in my (very) limited experience, expose a very strange hodgepodge of Emacs concepts and terms in a very odd grouping that presumably makes some kind of sense for Emacs folks.

I am not an Emacs person. I use CUA interfaces everywhere. This determines and specifies the names of the menus, which ones have (...) meaning that they lead to a dialog box, which ones have (->) which means they lead to a submenu, and they have standard options in standard places.

The Emacs ones are just... weird random noise, in a random layout, that makes no sense to me, and the few parts that are vaguely recognisable make little to no sense.

It's not just the presentation. Users of menu-driven tools need the presentation and the content and the organisation of the content.
by 6r17 | 2025-10-19 17:17:16+00:00
The problem is that we do not share the same values at all and I do not envision this truly benefiting people neither making it something I envy or feel OK with. You can make the best fakes and make your best to remove activity from people - but ultimately this is going to lead to a deteriorated society, increased mental health issues, plenty of sad stories just so few people can be happy about it.

Ngl, if someone nuked all USA's servers and wipes out the all these bullshit i'm not convinced the world would be in a worst state right now.

Let AI be used by scientific research, development, helping people out. But if it's just to sit your smelly ideas down, you may even be right, but ultimately the form, intentions and result matter more than recklessly endangering everybody.

TBH I feel like the AI discourse around human replacement smell like hard-core psychopathic behavior - or the one of a drunken dude who's driving a car just happy.

You have 0 data concerning the result it would do on society - and I definitely prefer to live in a less technological world than a world that is full of people with psychosis.

So until we find how we can solve this bottleneck I have 0 sympathy for this kind of discourse.
by kianN | 2025-10-19 17:17:16+00:00
Haha that’s embarrassing! The progress bars are an estimate. If a paper has a lot of citations, it may take a bit longer than the duration of the bars but it will hopefully finish relatively soon!

Edit: Got home and checked the error logs. There was a very long search query with no results. Bug on my end to not return an error in that case.

If you were hoping to use the citation network, it needs the url as input rather than the title.
by quotemstr | 2025-10-19 17:17:27+00:00
There's no conflict between 1) wishing nobody's eye be put out, and 2) thinking chronic and unrepentant eye-pokers have got it coming good and hard.

The universities can stop the pain any time they want. All they have to do is recommit, seriously, to free speech and free pursuit of knowledge.

What the universities are doing now is not conducive to scientific knowledge either. In fact, they produce a lot of anti-knowledge.
by aurizon | 2025-10-19 17:17:39+00:00
The comments are well done and I am impressed. I would add the maker of the new one, partly as a tribute to them as well as gathering feedback from others. The fact that one compressors runs 24/7 might indicate it has failed to on 24/7 - also the ice block also says this? Thus a replacement thermostat might well reduce the KwHr used by the 24/7 operation. Looking up the model on youtube for thermostat repairs might help the new owner repair it and get a few more years, although an older less efficient unit, with a repaired thermostat it might not run 24/7 and use fewer KwHr?
by youngtaff | 2025-10-19 17:17:39+00:00
You clearly have an axe to grind…

OBR and others say Brexit has a detrimental effect on the British economy… the evidence you quote to refute that comes from a pro-Brexit site!

> From 2018 to 2023, compared to G7 > UK goods exports performed 15% worse > Goods imports 8% worse (current prices) > UK services exports performed better at 17% growth, but behind EU (23%) and Germany (20%) > Services imports (12% growth) were middle of the G7 pack (above Italy, Japan and France)

https://brexitfactbase.com/5-2-trade/

Yes Services did perform better than Goods exports but the growth is still below the EU average and Germany
by card_zero | 2025-10-19 17:18:00+00:00
You describe it as something very cognitive, which is great, I say: something amenable to reason, and not compulsive.

But the other way it's used is similar to the recent (± 10 years) internet fad for diagnosing everybody you don't like as a "psychopath" or a "sociopath". Telling somebody that they lack empathy is like telling them they're a malfunctioning alien, and need to be in therapy and possibly manacles. For those who use "empathy" this way, we supposedly function through a natural, mysterious, almost supernatural and mystical instinct to care about those people and things who we should, morally, care about. And this instinct, which bypasses cognition to arrive directly as a feeling, holds society together, and anybody who doesn't have (or doesn't display, per your interesting point about how one can "still be an asshole") the correct feelings in the correct situations is suffering from a dangerous brain-wrong. Red flag!

This co-opts morality, and takes away your right to intervene cognitively about who or what you care about. But the person who supposedly lacks empathy is not really brain damaged. The person merely has different values, and doesn't care about the person or thing that you say they have to. Fictional instincts (or real but suppressed ones), and the fallacy that natural = good, should not be used as a lever to dictate other people's morality to them.

On the other hand, we totally should be considering other people's values, and enquiring about what those values are. Which may prevent much unnecessary fractiousness. Feel free to accuse people of failing to do that.
by woile | 2025-10-19 17:18:21+00:00
A 21 kWh/month it's 252 kwh/annum (I guess?), which is around energy label E in the new EU energy labels.

If you go for energy label A, some fridges have 101 kWh/annum, which is more than half less! I haven't seen many, and they are usually very tall, but hopefully we can see more and more in the future.
by bawolff | 2025-10-19 17:18:31+00:00
I'm opossed to what trump is doing, its abhorent.

But i still think its possible for academics to get into echo chambers. They are human just like the rest of us. Especially in fields not easily subject to direct experimental verification. I think its important not to put researchers on a pedestal as if they are above folly. (After all, the saying "science advanced one funeral at a time" didn't come from nowhere)
by didibus | 2025-10-19 17:19:02+00:00
> Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

-- Frank Herbert, Dune

The "government" is just the set of people who hold power over others.

Those who will own machines that can match humans will have unprecedented power over others. In effect they'll grow more and more to be the government.

Even now, companies hold more and more of the power over others and are more part of the government than ever before.

So it confuses me when you say it's what the government is for? Who would that be? If we pretend it would still be a democracy then I guess you're saying it's everyone's problem?

So here we are, let's discuss the solution and vote for it?
by beeflet | 2025-10-19 17:19:22+00:00
I don't mean the quality is bad, it's just that most jobs in the first world seem to be redundant or abstracted from the keys of power.

I think David Graeber wrote a book about it. Here is a guy talking about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lDTdLQnSQo