MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-24 00:15:34+00:00
> If I don't vote for the people who are a part of the party who sent my friends threats and didn't vote for the people who actively hurt the policy I want, I would either be voting for esoteric third party candidates (might as well not vote to save effort), or I would be out of people to vote for

Well no, you'd be forced to participate in primaries or civically engage. You'd have to identify opportunities for compromise. You'd have to disaggregate your false monolith of a national political party. That takes effort.

Also, showing up to vote for an esoteric third party puts you on the board. Someone who shows up is provably not too lazy to vote, which is, honestly, most people who come up with convoluted reasons for avoiding the polls. Take a lazy person's stuff and they won't hurt you. Take a person who's showing up to the poll's stuff, and they might vote for the other guy--or worse, join a primary challenge.

Folks rejecting politics implicitly endorsing the status quo (whether they understand that they are or not is irrelevant to the measurable effect of their choices). They also put up a flag around themselves and their community that effectively marks it for cutting resources to benefit people and communities who reward their electeds.
by wonderwonder | 2025-10-24 00:15:49+00:00
This is actually a good thought experiment. In your example, democracy is actually fully working. The people though are voting to override the law (essentially something akin to jury nullification on a massive scale) and the prosecutor is breaking the system. So what is the solution?

Optimal solution is a check and balance where a higher level prosecutor, perhaps a federal or state level steps in and takes charge. Another optimal is courts rule that the prosecutor has to do their job.

But lets say that neither of these happen and there is no way to impeach the prosecutor.

You have a couple of scenarios.

1. Uprising. The people rise up and kill the prosecutor.

2. Dictatorship. A higher power even though they don't have the legal authority steps in and removes the prosecutor.

Now the real question is was this a good result? Democracy failed but you got rapists and murderers off the street.

I think we are very far away from this with Trump, he is still following the checks and balances, those checks and balances are just either

A: refusing to act or

B: acting in a way that some people don't like but I would add that many people do indeed like.

So I guess you could add civil war to the potential outcome as a portion of the population does not like the existing checks and balances and the results of the democratic election.

Now what is interesting is your scenario actually explains partially the rise of MAGA and Trump. For them, the law lead to open borders, what they saw as the promotion of LGBTQ amongst children (drag queen reading hour, etc) and DEI (discrimination against themselves and their children). All things they perceive as a grave threat to the future of the nation. So if they have to vote for someone that works outside the law in order to preserve their desired future they are willing to do so. They are willing to flirt with the dictator option if it means putting off what they view as a cataclysm.

I am not sure which is the best solution in your prosecutor scenario, what are your thoughts?
by NetworkPerson | 2025-10-24 00:16:33+00:00
I like comet. Haven’t tried Altas so can’t give the best comparison. But comet is pretty transparent on how it handles data and lets you hand it a list of domains you want it having 0 access to.

Having said that, I’m still not convinced using it the last two weeks that it’s better than Brave. It’s a little slower and tries to direct more of what I search than I’d like through perplexity (I’m sure I could change the default search engine but I guess I’m also lazy and never looked).
by rainsford | 2025-10-24 00:17:39+00:00
> There is no fixing this. The west cannot afford to start industrialising because it lacks skilled manual labour, it put too many legal obstacles regarding ecology, the costs are astronomical which makes it unviable form day one, and most importantly - it lacks cheap energy which is absolutely crucial to have a blossoming heavy industries.

I enjoy doomerism as much as the next person, but honestly those all seem like incredibly fixable things that just require the right policy changes and sustained investment. Western countries certainly have the democratic government systems and financial resources necessary to do those things if they so choose.
by xmprt | 2025-10-24 00:17:48+00:00
That's pretty unfortunately but if you articulate some of your issues with the options, I'm sure I can find an Android option for you that works. Despite Google's attempts, Android is still quite open and many phones allow you to do whatever you want with them.

Or if you only want to use iPhones then it seems like the downsides of the locked down app store aren't worth switching in which case it seems like you've already made your choice.
by acegod | 2025-10-24 00:18:35+00:00
Serious question: why is watching YouTube shorts a worse way to spend your time than eg debugging CUDA problems?

The answer is "opportunity cost". But who really believes in that?

I call it the batman fallacy. Many people (young men in particular) say to themselves "if I was more disciplined, I could dedicate my whole life to martial arts (or programming, or art, or w/e) and become batman (or John Carmack, or Van Gogh)". But it's not true, of course.

And it's the same with many managers. "Instead of spending x% on task A and y% on task B, why dont you spend (x-z)% on A and (y+z)% on B?" It's absurd.

Brute attempts to capture opportunity costs are doomed to fail. You squeeze one end (block youtube shorts) and it comes out the other (eg you argue with coworker). It's really much easier to stop punishing yourself for lost time and find happiness in who and where you are.
by furyofantares | 2025-10-24 00:18:41+00:00
> Stop wasting my tokens and time with fake friendship!

They could hide it so that it doesn't annoy you, but I think it's not a waste of tokens. It's there so the tokens that follow are more likely to align with what you asked for. It's harder for it to then say "This is a lot of work, we'll just do a placeholder for now" or give otherwise "lazy" responses, or to continue saying a wrong thing that you've corrected it about.

I bet it also probably makes it more likely to gaslight you when you're asking something it's just not capable of, though.
by bburky | 2025-10-24 00:18:50+00:00
Kaitai is pretty nice. Hex editors with structure parsing support used to be more rare than they are now, so I've used https://ide.kaitai.io/ instead a few times.

Also, the newest Kaitai release added (long awaited) serialization support! I haven't had a chance to try it out.

https://kaitai.io/news/2025/09/07/kaitai-struct-v0.11-releas...
by pfdietz | 2025-10-24 00:19:15+00:00
The place I saw this most clearly described was in Standard Thermal's concept, which will store the heat in huge piles of dirt heated to 600 C. The thermal time constant of such piles can be many years.

https://www.orcasciences.com/articles/standard-thermal-copy

https://austinvernon.substack.com/p/building-ultra-cheap-ene...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45012942
by tomasphan | 2025-10-24 00:19:29+00:00
Steam feels like a partnership with developers where Apple is a gatekeeper. I publish free games on Steam and all it costs is a $100 one time fee per game. I get human review and feedback on my marketing material and store page assets.

Apple is incredibly strict with the content they allow to the point that it feels like a they exclusively cater to children. It’s easier to vibe code the apps that I want under my own developer account because at least I can side load those.
by sam-paech | 2025-10-24 00:20:15+00:00
Those higher level kinds of mode collapse are hard to quantify in an automated way. To fix that, you would need interventions upstream, at pre & post training.

This approach is targeted to the kinds of mode collapse that we can meaningfully measure and fix after the fact, which is constrained to these verbal tics. Which doesn't fix higher level mode collapse on semantics & creativity that you're identifying -- but I think fixing the verbal tics is still important and useful.
by NaomiLehman | 2025-10-24 00:20:28+00:00
n=4 but my niece spilled a whole cup of milk and a whole cup of matcha on my M2 (twice on 1 device). I just flipped it up, dried it out with a hair dryer (apparently shouldn't do that) and it still works 2 years later.

Can't relate to what you're saying, had 4 MacBooks, and many PCs too.
by AuthAuth | 2025-10-24 00:21:37+00:00
You're right but I hate that you're right. The only part I disagree with is

>I think they all are pretty happy with the deal and would not switch to a paid ad-free version.

If they were given a low friction option to pay the advertise price for these services I think a lot would choose it. Advertisement pays almost nothing per person. Almost every person could pay more than the cost to serve them an ad. To use a service ad free for a year would cost less than $1 per user. This differs on the platform obviously with stuff like youtube being far more expensive but for day to day stuff the cost is low.
by kiwijamo | 2025-10-24 00:21:43+00:00
I switched to Android in 2021 after almost a decade using iPhone and I was surprised to find modern Android is actually very good. I remember the early days of Android being a trash fire but since around ~2020 it seems to have gotten a lot better. For various reasons im looking to switch back to the iPhone but I know it'll be a case of giving up some good things on Android in exchange for other things being better on the iPhone.
by foolswisdom | 2025-10-24 00:21:46+00:00
The nature of a free market is that someone wins the competition, and the winner is then happy to figure out ways to prevent anyone from competing at all (this kind of action doesn't require a complete winner either, but I'm focusing on a thought experiment here).

Ergo, if you care about maintaining a free market, then you care about limiting what kind of moves you can make in the free market, in order to preserve a free market. A truly free market with no rules has an end state where it is not a free market, more like a much more sophisticated version of the nobles of the land owning everything. So we declare many activities that make it difficult for others to compete that are not simply about manking a better product, "anti-competitive" and illegal.
by avianlyric | 2025-10-24 00:22:30+00:00
There is no sensible OS API that could support this, because fundamentally memory access is a hardware API. The OS isn’t involved in normal memory reads, because that would be ludicrously inefficient, effectively requiring a syscall for every memory operation, which effectively means a syscall for any operation involving data I.e. all operations.

Memory operations are always synchronous because they’re performed directly as a consequence of CPU instructions. Reading memory that’s been paged out results in the CPU itself detecting that the virtual address isn’t in RAM, and performing a hardware level interrupt. Literally abandoning a CPU instruction mid execution to start executing an entirely separate set of instructions which will hopefully sort out the page fault that just occurred, then kindly ask the CPU to go back and repeat the operation that caused the page fault.

OS is only involved only because it’s the thing that provided the handling instructions for the CPU to execute in the event of a page fault. But it’s not in anyway actually capable of changing how the CPU initially handles the page fault.

Also the current model does allow other threads to continue executing other work while the page fault is handled. The fault is completely localised to individual thread that triggered the fault. The CPU has no concept of the idea that multiple threads running on different physical core are in anyway related to each other. It also wouldn’t make sense to allow the interrupted thread to someone kick off a separate asynchronous operation, because where is it going to execute? The CPU core where the page fault happened is needed to handle the actual page fault, and copy in the needed memory. So even if you could kick off an async operation, there wouldn’t be any available CPU cycles to carry out the operation.

Fundamentally there aren’t any sensible ways to improve on this problem, because the problem only exists due to us pretending that our machines have vastly more memory than they actually do. Which comes with tradeoffs, such as having to pause the CPU and steal CPU time to maintain the illusion.

If people don’t like those tradeoffs, there’s a very simple solution. Put enough memory in your machine to keep your entire working set in memory all the time. Then page faults can never happen.
by Guid_NewGuid | 2025-10-24 00:22:38+00:00
The cheerleaders for the current authoritarian coup that swarm around here are all too happy to conflate the Hunter Biden pardon and what's currently going on. As if we can't currently open a god-damned news website and read about the Comey, James and Bolton prosecutions and deduce that, yeah, Biden pretty much had no choice even though it was a shitty thing to do.

This is because these dipshits are eagerly carrying water for a vindictive dictator. They are not operating in good faith but due to the alignment of the owners of this site with those self-same fascists you are meant to act as if they're not trolls.
by andoando | 2025-10-24 00:23:06+00:00
Very limited scope and area is now the whole of a few major cities.

https://support.google.com/waymo/answer/9059119?authuser=1

This is actually the one technology I am excited about. Especially with the Zoox/mini bus /carpool model, I can see these things replacing personal cars entirely which is going to be a godsend for cost, saftey and traffic
by some_random | 2025-10-24 00:23:14+00:00
>where largely every innovation in many different disciplines is dictated and targeted for use by the war industry.

As opposed to the USSR who's wikipedia page for innovations proudly features, lets see;

Aerial Refueling

Military robot Paratrooping

Flame tank

Self-propelled multiple rocket launcher

Thermonuclear fusion (bomb)

AK-47

ICBMs

Tsar Bomb

to name a very small selection

It's almost as if you have it completely backwards and it was the USSR who was centrally planning to innovate in the art of killing.
by quacked | 2025-10-24 00:23:20+00:00
I don't have an "inner monologue" and don't think in words, only in images, but I've never experienced what this author is describing in terms of "nonsense words" or "hand vibrations".

I was with some friends that were in a band together, and we got thinking about this topic, and ended up arranging ourselves from least verbal to most verbal. I was on one end, where all of my thoughts appear as emotions or images; on the other end was our bassist, who experienced his thoughts as fully formed sentences. He said when he's getting to a difficult passage in a song the words "better focus here, don't mess up" will ring out in his head. He also said he has fully dictated mental conversations with himself.

I also read very quickly because I look at the shape of paragraphs and assemble the word-shapes into mental images and pick up meaning that way; high speed, but low comprehension. I struggle greatly to read philosophy because it's quite difficult to visualize. My wife reads slowly but hears every word in her head; her comprehension is much higher. I can do high comprehension reading by slowing down and looking at every word, but it feels like holding back an excitable dog.
by fendy3002 | 2025-10-24 00:24:07+00:00
But you still don't have autonomous flying, even though the case is much simpler than driving: take off, ascend, cruise, land.

It isn't easy to fix autonomous driving not because the problem isn't identified. Sometimes two conflicting scenario can happen on the road that no matter how good the autonomous system is, it won't be enough

Though I agree that having different kind of human instead will not make it any safer
by tzs | 2025-10-24 00:24:41+00:00
It's interesting how everyone seems to hate YouTube Shorts, and even the creators know everybody hates them. But apparently there are also a lot of people who like them.

The classical guitar channel "Sor Hands" started posting a daily Short a couple weeks ago and yesterday he commented on what effect that has had [1].

Here's a transcription:

> Man, I’ve been posting those YouTube shorts. Its been like reviving my channel. Its been so good. Like let me actually see uh that graph right there.

> (Holds up phone showing views graph)

> Look at that. Like how do you invest in Sor Hands? That’s the kind of graph you want to see when you’re investing right there.

> I don’t know if you’re like a small YouTube person or something like I swear to God like 2 weeks ago my views for the 48 hour thing it was at like 25,000 which means I was getting like 13,000 views a day. Like in total throughout my whole channel and now ever since doing daily shorts we’re at 80,000 views on the 48. 40,000 views a day. That’s pretty crazy. And even for videos it’s like doubled.

> I don’t know man. Shorts are a thing. I’m just going to keep doing that forever. I don’t know. Sorry if they’re annoying, but also, you know, it’s my channel.

[1] https://youtu.be/Xu8aXay5Xhk?si=joCWDKGk54UnvIsK&t=152
by Clouudy | 2025-10-24 00:25:18+00:00
I do agree with you that there needs to be a good framework though. Either in Web or Games. Web because it's more familiar than Go but also has Fibers, and Games because it's an easier C++. There is also Inochi2D which looks rather professional: https://inochi2d.com/

One of the issues I've seen in the community is just that there aren't enough people in the community with enough interest and enough spare time to spend on a large project. Everyone in the core team is focused on working on the actual language (and day-jobs), while everyone else is doing their own sort of thing.

From your profile you seem to have a lot of experience in the field and in software in general, so I'd like to ask you if you have any other advice for getting the language un-stuck, especially with regards to the personnel issues. I think I'd like to take up your proposal for a web framework as well, but I don't really have any knowledge of web programming beyond the basics. Do you have any advice on where to start or what features/use case would be best as well?
by pfdietz | 2025-10-24 00:25:44+00:00
Relaxed regulatory burden doesn't seem to be making fission competitive in China; renewables are greatly overwhelming it now, particularly solar.

We might ask why regulations are so putatively damaging to nuclear, when they aren't to civil aviation. One possibility is that aircraft are simply easier to retrofit when design flaws are found. If there's a problem with welding in a nuclear plant (for example) it's extremely difficult to repair. Witness the fiasco of Flamanville 3 in France, the EPR plant that went many times over budget.

What would this imply for fusion? Nothing good. A fusion reactor is very complex, and any design flaw in the hot part will be extremely difficult to fix, as no hands on access will be allowed after the thing has started operation, due to induced radioactivity. This includes design or manufacturing flaws that cause mere operations problems, like leaks in cooling channels, not just flaws that might present public safety risks (if any could exist.) The operator will view a smaller problem that renders their plant unusable nearly as bad as a larger problem that also threatens the public.

I was struck by a recent analysis of deterioration of the tritium breeding blanket that just went ahead and assumed there were no initial cracks in the welded structure more than a certain very small size. Guaranteeing quality of all the welds in a very large complex fusion reactor, an order of magnitude or more larger than a fission reactor of the same power output, sounds like a recipe for extreme cost.
by mvdtnz | 2025-10-24 00:25:45+00:00
Ok? I don't know if it's the OS on behalf of the app or not. It's a password prompt that doesn't even have an affordance for biometrics, unlike other MacOS admin prompts. It's commonplace in MacOS applications.

This is an example of what I'm talking about https://www.reddit.com/r/Slack/comments/1geva4f/how_do_i_sto...
by dialup_sounds | 2025-10-24 00:25:51+00:00
You seem to be confusing Masimo's patent infringement case against Apple over Apple Watch with the notion that Apple has some kind of a patented blood oxygen sensor in the iPhone.

I don't think that supports your case that Apple's patent keeps other phones from being equivalent given that the sensor isn't in the iPhone and it's not even Apple's patent.

For what it's worth, I'm typing this on a Pixel which is also a rounded rectangle, so I'm skeptical that patent is really holding other phones back, either
by preommr | 2025-10-24 00:26:17+00:00
It's genuinely just this.

The rise of more grass-roots news sources (podcasts, memes, social media) also leads to tons of conspiracy theories, and mistrust that builds this idea of corruption being ubiquitous, just not out in the open. And yes, that happens, but this atmosphere magnifies it 10x.

So when someone like Trump does it out in the open, people are more likely to excuse it because "everybody is already doing it, at least this is out in the open".
by nixpulvis | 2025-10-24 00:26:23+00:00
If I had to guess, having worked in Cupertino, there is just not enough cohesion across the software teams. Everyone is building in their own little bubbles, and when one team goes down a bad path, your team tries to be overly diplomatic, or can say it's not my problem and now we're stuck with this mess.

Sometimes you need the Jobs at the top of it all telling people it's not working well and they need to get their shit together.
by wonderwonder | 2025-10-24 00:26:50+00:00
I think you have hit on the fundamental reason for the rise of Trump and MAGA. There is no where else to go. I am going to try and present this in a way that is politically neutral but still captures the reason. I will probably fail.

For a large subset of those voters, the wide open borders, promotion of LGBTQ (particularly TQ) and DEI represented the end of the current state of the country. As you stated, there is no "free market" of countries. If the US fundamentally changes then for those people and their view of life, its over.

This has led to the massive backlash on immigration, ICE, rejection of DEI and push back on transgender promotion / acceptance.

For them, this is the end of all things and that is why they are so motivated and also so willing to overlook the obvious moral failures / grift of Trump and his manner of working. They care about preserving their way of life and if the cost is some grey legal situations and open grift then so be it. Trump is the hard man willing to do the socially distasteful things that they believe are necessary.

This particular post is not supposed to be an endorsement of those views whatever my particular opinion is but only a way to explain how we got here and the determination of Trump voters to see it through to the end.

When faced with the devil you know or what you view as the end of all things, you support the devil you know.

For the people reading this I am not trying to attack any particular people or ideology. Just presenting why people that you may disagree with act and vote in a certain way.
by kanodiaayush | 2025-10-24 00:26:53+00:00
I tried it, I have tried a very similar but still different use case. I wonder if you have thoughts around how much of this is our own context management vs context management for the LLM. Ideally, I don't want to do any work for the LLM; it should be able to figure out from chat what 'branch' of the tree I'm exploring, and then the artifact is purely for one's own use.