MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by infomiho | 2025-10-11 13:37:22+00:00
It works for me and I like the results I'm getting. The results often include callbacks to rules of thumb from the mentioned books - which I find easier to agree with or dismiss when I see the suggestions it made. In a way, it's a framework for me to "communicate" with the LLMs.

I think you should try finding what works for you, maybe even give my ridiculous prompt a go.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-10-11 13:38:09+00:00
Nuclear in 2025 is not cost competitive for two major reasons unrelated to regulations.

1. It relies on a ridiculously expensive massive steam turbine

2. It's a major infrastructure project, which the USA seems incapable of building without massive cost over run.

Yes, there are other reasons why nuclear is slow and expensive, but those two can't be fixed with a magic wand getting rid of nuclear regulations

Also, there's an easy way to minimize regalatory bother: just build an already approved design, like thr AP1000.
by mallowdram | 2025-10-11 13:38:19+00:00
Mosura is correct, there was never a consensus reality world. Consensus post-domestication is built from coercion into centers. This requires a steady diet of myth or religion that explains phenomena. If you think consensus is agreeing that this particular god made that lightning, then consensus is ultimately devolutionary. Myth is unfortunately the basis for causality: this statement stands in for the correlational phenomena we're witnessing. Once we were subsumed by myth, status and hierarchy became dominant to truth statements. Look at everything you see here, status controls statements and their validity. There's never a correlational reality accessible through cause and effect statements competing for domination. The myth never solves the phenomena, but kicks it downstream into what appear to be more accurate forms like news. But if you study news, history, law etc, these are mythic constructions that embed cause and effect locally, rather than solve the initial phenomena (like murder).

We have to face truth constructions are lures in folk science societies like ours, they are not valid. Science is not understood (correlational thinking) or accepted b a majority of the population anywhere on this planet.
by dj_mc_merlin | 2025-10-11 13:38:25+00:00
I can't say I agree fully with the original video either but this is just blatantly trying to reframe the same facts presented in said video, but placing the blame on consumers rather than businesses, which is a really dirty tactic.

> Sysco serves poor quality products. They also serve great quality products. Remember, if restaurants are buying poor quality products, it’s because it’s all you, the consumer, will pay for.

"feel bad about being poor"

> Again, animal welfare is not a Sysco issue. Sysco offers countless sources for humanely-raised meat. And, as always, as a consumer, if you want to be really sure: stop eating meat, and tell everyone you know to do so as well.

"feel bad about eating meat"

> Ironically, the foods analyzed in the video as a sign of “quality” are fried pickles, jalapeño poppers, and funnel cake fries. These are inherently low-quality processed foods that no one in their right sobriety should be eating.

"feel bad about food choices"

> The More Perfect Union narrative stops just short of calling Sysco a monopoly. They’re not. They only control 35% of the market

"only 35%"

I mean, c'mon.. was this written by a real person or Adam Smith come back from the grave?
by WA | 2025-10-11 13:38:28+00:00
> You could express your wishes about how you would like to be treated in advance, while you are still clear in the head.

You can't express in advance that you want to have assisted suicide.

Your former self might express wishes, but what if your later self doesn't feel like this anymore? In a way, we can all get the same feeling when doing another round of "lose weight this year" new year's resolutions just to realize a couple weeks later that the former self wasn't that trustworthy to begin with (or was it the other way around, the future self can't be trusted?)

Point is: you can wish for whatever you want, but dementia is probably a tough case and it shifts your priorities, making everything before obsolete and I'm not sure that people beginning to suffer from dementia ever find the right point in time to end life early.
by krapp | 2025-10-11 13:38:33+00:00
The concept of the Antichrist and the cryptic symbolism in the Book of Revelations seem to be true cognitohazards. The Mark of the Beast has been attributed to everything from social security numbers to license plates to RFID chips. Republicans said Obama was the Antichrist because of his charisma. When I was younger, and a churchgoer, I was taught that the locusts in the Book of Revelations were really Apache helicopters, and this was evidence of the Bible's prophetic truth.

And chances are the whole thing was a coded rant about Nero Caesar meant to be read within a specific cultural context that no longer exists. But I guess that isn't as satisfying as numerology and cryptograms and Satanic supervillains and the promise that the future can be known if only you're clever enough.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-10-11 13:38:51+00:00
>> If any security check depends on this data by considering it as a secret, then I guess it's the fault of that security check.

That is very small solace when you're the victim, regardless of the failures of others. "But you shouldn't be using that data as validation!" is not the first response when say, you find out someone's opened a credit card in your name with a $20K balance. Or your friends & family get phished (especially with the help of AI) because they know so much about you it had to be you.
by randallsquared | 2025-10-11 13:39:17+00:00
> Javascript was not ubiquitous when the term DHTML was last seriously used.

It wasn't as fast or as usable as it is today, but Javascript has been in every mainstream browser since before Microsoft started pushing "DHTML".

Interestingly, in my memory, it seemed like we had JS for a long time before DHTML, but it was only a couple years between Eich writing it and IE4, which was the start of the "DHTML" moniker. Looking back at the timeline, everything seems much more compressed than it felt at the time.
by ghc | 2025-10-11 13:39:23+00:00
I struggled with this for years, until Apple released the iPad Pro with tandem OLED and nano-textured glass. With that I could comfortably program outside, even in direct sunlight. The only issue has been when too much sun hits the iPad for too long and forces it to shutdown. But usually in that case I'm also too hot so it's not too much of a bother to find shade.

Now, with the MacBook Pro w/ nano texture display and the Vivid program to increase brightness, I can have a dual display setup outside using the MBP and iPad. It's an expensive setup if your employer isn't paying for it, but it works very well.
by mcdonje | 2025-10-11 13:39:40+00:00
>He was Catholic, and wouldn't do assisted suicide.

I thought Jain the perspective shared in this comment is valuable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45548178

Well, not just the comment, but also the wikipedia article linked to in the comment.

Obviously, Jainism isn't Catholicism, but this part of the wikipedia article got me thinking:

>It is not considered a suicide by Jain scholars because it is not an act of passion, nor does it employ poisons or weapons.

Catholics are probably never going to think suicide is ok, but I wonder if they could come around to a definition of suicide that is more narrow and which excludes death-with-dignity. If they did make that adjustment, I would personally agree with their stance.

There is plenty of precedent for this legislation through definitional scoping in history in general, though I'm not an expert on Catholicism. The book "Legal systems very different from ours" talks about it, and gives examples. It's really the only option for any sort of change when you're dealing with decrees from a supernatural entity or an unchangeable part of a constitution.
by adamors | 2025-10-11 13:39:42+00:00
I don't agree, endless music from faceless artists have made everything weightless and interchangeable, the never ending stream of recommended artists means that clicking next is more exciting than actually listening to something.

I remember 15-20 years ago, every album (even digital album) meant something, I remember trading CDs and MP3s with friends and listening to an album (or even a song) over and over again. Now we're spoiled for choice and very, very few artists produce something that will be remembered in 10 years, let alone 5.
by hyperbovine | 2025-10-11 13:40:11+00:00
You omitted the _most_ on-brand part of this story, which is the part where (per his last wishes) Johnny Depp spent $3m on a party that involved firing Thompson's ashes out of a 150-foot tower in western Colorado.

https://www.nyswritersinstitute.org/post/hunter-s-thompson-s...
by LogicFailsMe | 2025-10-11 13:40:19+00:00
You know how the story is going to end if you stick around for it. I would make the same choice he made. And I would do it before I was ruled mentally incompetent to do so. My wife and I have already had conversations on doing exactly this having watched multiple family members succumb to dementia. It's horrific and the state salivates at institutionalizing you for the final lap.

No cure for getting old and no cure for dementia on the useful horizon. Having made it to 90 intact, he had knocked living out of the park already. I completely understand his thinking here and support it. He likely could have gone a little longer, but he also might have had a stroke or some other nonfatal cataclysmic event that took away his options.
by jvanderbot | 2025-10-11 13:40:32+00:00
Ok, call me crazy, but I don't actually think there's any technical reason that a theoretical code generation robot needs emotions that are as fickle and difficult to manage as humans.

It's just that we designed this iteration of technology foundationally on people's fickle and emotional reddit posts among other things.

It's a designed-in limitation, and kind of a happy accident it's capable of writing code at all. And clearly carries forward a lot of baggage...
by EasyMark | 2025-10-11 13:41:17+00:00
When you start with the antichrist as a real person and contemporary threat everything that comes after is gonna fall apart. I agree with RFK on ultraprocessed foods and weightlifting, the health benefits of which are well-established by science; but I'm not going to agree with him on dismantling the FDA, ending vaccinations for everything, and that germ theory is a scientific conspiracy.
by a022311 | 2025-10-11 13:41:33+00:00
Not going to express an opinion, I'll just leave this except from the Hippocratic Oath [1], which reflects society's primary beliefs on this topic approximately up until the 19th century:

> οὐ δώσω δὲ οὐδὲ φάρμακον οὐδενὶ αἰτηθεὶς θανάσιμον, οὐδὲ ὑφηγήσομαι συμβουλίην τοιήνδε

In English:

> Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath
by IshKebab | 2025-10-11 13:41:57+00:00
There's no point having reference RTL. The point of reference software is to demonstrate the correct behaviour for people implementing production grade libraries and RTL. Having an RTL version of that wouldn't add anything - it should have identical behaviour.

Providing a production grade verified RTL implementation would obviously be useful but also entire companies exist to do that and they charge a lot of money for it.
by wwweston | 2025-10-11 13:42:36+00:00
Be sure to correct all the people who are using the term “cool” for things other than relative temperature, as it was originally defined.

See also the dictionary fallacy, and again descriptivism vs prescriptivism.

Additionally, even leaving alone the div/dynamic language issue, there really isn’t a point in usage history where DHTML came without JS — believe me, I was doing it when the term first came into usage. JS was required for nearly all dynamic behavior.
by cogman10 | 2025-10-11 13:43:16+00:00
You can't patent something that's in use. Prior art is a defense to a patent claim/lawsuit.

But that's not my main point. My main point is that we are going down a fitting path with codecs which makes it hard to come up with general patents that someone might stumble over. That makes patents developed by the MPEG group far less likely to apply to AOM. A lot of those more generally applicable patents, like the DCT for example, have expired.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-10-11 13:43:22+00:00
if you run your own domain and have a wildcard for email this is a very good strategy. I also never provide my real birthdate for (almost) anything. The vast majority DO NOT NEED IT, and the rare case where it might be required (still doubt it, but maybe age of majority or consent, or a waiver) I use Jan 1st of the real year. This has caused problems (ex: doesn't match your id) but on the balance seems to be positive.
by eigenhombre | 2025-10-11 13:43:36+00:00
Highly recommended... I found it quite beautiful and moving, and it's the only film I've felt compelled to write a blog post[1] about. "Seeing the film (made just last year) transforms the memory of the Towers from one of trauma to something more like transcendence."

[1] https://johnj.com/posts/man-on-wire/ [2009]

Edit: add year
by camel_Snake | 2025-10-11 13:44:47+00:00
I didn't really follow the premise of the original video. Can you find identical food at various locations throughout the country? Yes. Are you required to eat this same food? No!

You could likely order the things that local restaurant/pub does make in house, rather than go for the variety of items on the menu that are simply there to appease customers' fancies.

Or you could go to a proper restaurant that makes the majority of their dishes in house. You have this choice.

If Sysco and these other companies didn't offer pre-made jalepeno poppers and the like, they simply wouldn't be on the menu in the first place.
by lukan | 2025-10-11 13:47:09+00:00
"What if the next day his hope came back?"

What if he tried that, but every day just got worse than the last day?

And people don't get any younger.

My grandmother is 98. She hates her life since she could not go out anymore. But she is catholic and suicide would be a mortal sin. So she waits till gods take her. And suffers till then.

I would make a different choice for sure. If life is hell and no one depends on me, why should I continue the suffering? (At the cost of others, if I would need help?)

But my plan is of course to reach 120+ in good health. But if I decide I had enough, it will be my decision.
by lazide | 2025-10-11 13:47:25+00:00
Many schools are not very good at teaching real world skills. Always been this way.

It’s why ‘self taught’ in many disciplines is very doable too, if someone focuses on what people actually want/need.

They might not be good at articulating the differences between fizzbuzz and bubble sort, but they can get shit done that works.

Every PhD that I know that went from Academia to Industry immediately had their stress levels decrease 10x and their pay roughly double too - because they could finally do a thing, see if it worked or not, and if it did, get paid more.

Instead of insane constant bullshitting and reputation management/politics with a hint of real application maybe sprinkled in. Few ‘knives’ have to be as sharp as the academics, in my experience.
by Thorrez | 2025-10-11 13:48:24+00:00
Barbara Wagner [1]:

>Her last hope was a $4,000-a-month drug that her doctor prescribed for her, but the insurance company refused to pay.

>What the Oregon Health Plan did agree to cover, however, were drugs for a physician-assisted death. Those drugs would cost about $50.

Randy Stroup [2]:

> Lane Individual Practice Association (LIPA), which administers the Oregon Health Plan in Lane County, responded to Stroup's request with a letter saying the state would not cover Stroup's pricey treatment, but would pay for the cost of physician-assisted suicide.

Stephanie Packer [3] (although in this case she inquired herself):

> Then her doctors suggested that switching to another chemotherapy drug might buy her time. Her medical insurance company refused to pay. She says she asked if the company covered the cost of drugs to put her to death. She was told the answer is yes — with a co-payment of $1.20.

T. Brian Callister, MD, FACP, FHM [4]:

>When I spoke with the insurance medical directors of the patients' insurance companies by telephone on separate occasions, both of the insurance medical directors told me that they would approve coverage for either hospice care or assisted suicide but would not approve the life saving treatment option.

> Neither the patients nor I had requested approval for assisted suicide, yet it was readily offered.

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=5517492&page=1

[2] https://www.foxnews.com/story/oregon-offers-terminal-patient...

[3] https://nypost.com/2016/10/24/terminally-ill-mom-denied-trea...

[4] https://www.cga.ct.gov/2018/phdata/tmy/2018HB-05417-R000320-...
by razeh | 2025-10-11 13:48:32+00:00
I think people tend to underestimate the risks in allowing suicide —- here’s a blurb from the linked article:

However, social acceptance may lead to more egregious abuses: the issue gained a higher profile in early 2010, when an 80-year-old man escaped after discovering his intended fate and heard his family members discussing how they were going to "share" his lands, and took refuge in a relative's home.
by fins12 | 2025-10-11 13:49:00+00:00
I’ve been building Globalist University, an online platform that helps people learn practical skills—problem-solving, creativity, adaptability—that school often misses. You can take a peek here: www.globalistuniversity.org

Some early lessons from launching and optimizing the platform:

A clear value proposition beats fancy features—people want to know what they get now.

Gamification only works if users see progress immediately.

Tiny copy or layout tweaks can have outsized impact on signups.

I’m curious what the Hacker News community thinks:

Would a platform like this be useful to you?

What real-world skills do you wish online learning focused on?

Any tips on keeping users engaged beyond the first visit?

We’re early-stage and still learning, so any insights would be super valuable. Thanks for reading!
by sarchertech | 2025-10-11 13:49:04+00:00
>healthcare providers, lawyers, etc. ("the system") stand to benefit from keeping a person alive and suffering because they can squeeze money out of them in their final years

Insurers and the government have the opposite incentive, but it's something to be concerned about.

>there are already guardrails around these processes

I don't think there are guardrails that can prevent what I'm talking about. Only the most egregious abuses would even be detectable.

As long as you don't literally tell your mom to kill herself I don't think you could make it illegal. As it stands in the US I don't think you could make it illegal for someone to tell someone they "wish they were dead" in this situation.
by gruez | 2025-10-11 13:49:25+00:00
>"feel bad about being poor"

Getting rid of Sysco isn't going to magically make them able to afford pricier options either.

>"feel bad about eating meat"

Feeling bad about eating meat feels bad, but if meat production is ethically and environmentally questionable why should we let the consumers off the hook? Should we let gas guzzling SUV drivers off the hook as well for their choices because it might make them feel bad? Better blame a faceless corporation instead so we can feel smug while not changing our lifestyles at all. After all, ExxonMobil could have theoretically synthesized carbon neutral gasoline, rather than pumping it out of the ground (never mind the cost), so the blame lies with them.

>"only 35%"

What's your preferred market share then?
by kotaKat | 2025-10-11 13:50:19+00:00
> a good track record on Apple developments

Yes, I too can write the same blog post year after year about "the next iPhone" and "the next Macs" too. I bet next year there will be an M6 iPad and a Macbook Pro, so where's my Bloomberg paycheck? Dude parrots the same crap YoY and people fall for it, every time.
by willmadden | 2025-10-11 13:50:25+00:00
For every Daniel Kahneman case, there's a case where the victim doesn't give consent, is coerced, or pressured from caregivers. It always rapidly expands from terminal illness to mental illness or non-terminal conditions. There's also weak oversight and misaligned profit motives. The examples in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Canada, and Oregon are shocking.
by nkurz | 2025-10-11 13:51:48+00:00
> I hate that outside the probably 5 biggest US cities it's all so boring. Maybe I'm getting old and have rose-colored glasses but I feel like this wasn't the case 20 years ago.

What makes you think this is the case? Just last week I had tasty Vietnamese food on the lakeshore of a tiny rural Vermont town: https://www.yelp.com/biz/pho-farm-morgan

It was both delicious and unexpected, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't there 20 years ago. I think there's still lots of good food to be found outside those cities than you might think.

Since I brought it up, I guess I might as well ask: is pineapple common in Vietnamese noodle dishes? I had their "House Vermicelli" with grilled pork, and was pleasantly surprised by the pineapple. Is it a regional thing, or a substitute for something they didn't have available? I don't think I've had it this way before.
by LightBug1 | 2025-10-11 13:52:20+00:00
At some point, either Toyota will have delivered or not.

Whereas Tesla have been saying FSD is amazing and breakthrough technology for years now and yet and, as a novelty, it is, kind of. Still needs human intervention. And I wouldn't trust my family with it at all. ymmv

So, we're back at the heart of the basic criticism it's had for years. They've been selling this dud for years, and it's still not feature ready.

Schrödinger.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-10-11 13:52:58+00:00
That’s irrelevant here. What is relevant is that we have a contempt for human life and a lack of charity. The teacher was not at fault for his condition. We should learn magnanimity.

Sure, we can think about how the burdens of caring for our family can be lessened as they age, or how we may help reduce that burden for our family, but family does have the duty to care for its members, and to place such considerations above the intrinsic value of human life is very sad indeed.
by Jcampuzano2 | 2025-10-11 13:54:00+00:00
Given how willing basically every major company is to sell your data to make money this is basically already the case and has been for years.

And when governments try to plug up some of the loopholes when it comes to privacy and data sharing, every major company finds some new gap to exploit or just does it illegally without telling anybody until they get found out and pay the fine.
by schiffern | 2025-10-11 13:54:05+00:00
Yeah, once I got to "all I need to do is add a root for every prime! And cube roots! And..." I realized this is a path of madness. ;)

It could be done symbolically, by generalizing from their rational representation:

X/Y

To

(X/Y)^(A/B)

Again this is tantalizingly close to being workable in Frink -- it supports 'dangling' (unevaluated) rational exponents on units, but not simple numbers.

The problem of course is that I'm trying to twist a (powerful!) calculator into something like a computer algebra system. I really should just use an actual CAS.

But like you say, I'd be happy if I could "just" have an exact representation of (if not the reals because that's impossible, then at least) any number I can describe in finite terms with normal math operators.

Cheers and good day