MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rockercoaster | 2025-10-02 20:30:28+00:00
> Charlie Kirk.

We'll see what shakes out of the trial, but odds are leaning that way, yeah.

> The healthcare ceo.

Last I checked the guy's history read as right-leaning and it was a personal grievance that motivated it? I remember this because lots of people online were surprised/disappointed when he turned out not to have clear leftist motivations. But I admit I haven't kept up on this since the first few weeks, maybe the picture's shifted again.

> Multiple attempts on Trump’s life on the campaign trail.

One right-leaning guy motivated by notoriety-seeking more than politics, and the second one was some nut with a very weird past (lots of felony charges including related to firearms but somehow also lots of foreign travel to conflict zones?) and tough-to-bucket politics.

> People on the left think conservative political violence is worse. But conservatives don’t see it that way. Both sides of American politics think the other side has a worrying amount of political violence.

One side's leaders routinely call for violence. The other's almost never do. There's a clear difference. There's even a clear difference with Republicans pre-Trump and the modern MAGA party—their talking heads used to sometimes call for political violence, but at least their elected and appointed officials rarely did. Both do, now, and have since Trump's first campaign (remember when he suggested his followers shoot Hillary if she won? On stage, to a crowd, with cameras and everything?)
by legitster | 2025-10-02 20:30:31+00:00
DHH was specifically romanticising and defending the marches. (Although he did reference a tweet from TR as a source - that's a worse look.)

Listen - you don't have to sell me on not liking Robinson. But plenty of people participate in political moments without fulling endorsing their progenitors (plenty of iconic activists have problematic pasts), so it seems fair to at least give DHH the benefit of the doubt when it comes to associations. Lest we all be judged by the same standard.
by FloorEgg | 2025-10-02 20:30:33+00:00
That's fair and I agree.

My original comment didn't precisely capture what I meant, which is more so the majority of focus is on being upset about things outside the individual's control.

A victim mindset is built on the victim feeling wronged (not getting what they are owed) based on an agreement they made with another party which the other party didn't consent to.

So the owner/controller of a chatbot could direct the dissatisfaction at whatever is in there interest to. A political party could direct it at another political party. A foreign state could direct it at the whole system (or reinforce division between parties aka divide and conquer), or a specific political actor could direct it at a specific group of people as a scapegoat. As a whole, the result could be instilling dissatisfaction in just about everything, but to each individual user/group it may be a few specific things.

In the past we fought wars with tanks and guns, and to an extent we still do, but most wars fought today are fought in the realm of values, and AI is the nuclear warhead of values manipulation.

No matter the underlying strategy or nefarious intent, the combination of 1) what is best at getting peoples attention, 2) people's susceptibility to being upset about what is outside their control and 3) the opportunity AI affords powerful people to manipulate the masses, spells for the most tangible (not most dire, most tangible) dangers that I see AI representing.

Note I was wary of responding to your last comment that was skeptical about chatBots baising people this way because it's hard to articulate these concerns precisely. In my view your comment I am responding to now only reinforces the point I was trying to make.

Be extremely wary of chatBots that propagate victim mindsights in people who are susceptable to them.
by ascagnel_ | 2025-10-02 20:31:00+00:00
Gridiron football would probably work well for something like this: each play has a line of scrimmage, yards gained or lost, and a summary of the play (eg: from their own 47 yard- line, QB#3 threw a lateral to RB#8 with 3:08 remaining in the third quarter and gained 2 yards and was brought down by DT#10). Most importantly, there are defined "plays" that run from snap to down, which means you can summarize it.

NBA play would be very different and very difficult, because there are no defined plays, only possessions. It'd include relative locations on the floor (lane, 2pt area, 3pt area), list of players who touched the ball, and what the outcome was (2pt, 3pt, turnover, out-of-bounds, etc).
by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE | 2025-10-02 20:31:04+00:00
Rhodesia was "destroyed", and the outcome was for the better.

Apartheid South Africa was "destroyed", and the outcome was for the better.

French Algeria was "destroyed", and the outcome was for the better.

When Israel gets similarly "destroyed", and it is no longer a supremacist colonial state, and the people who remain are living with equal rights, it will be for the better. Everyone other than colonists and white supremacists understand this. If yoru country was colonized by outside invaders, you would understand anti-colonial struggle perfectly well.
by jupiterhealth | 2025-10-02 20:31:16+00:00
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by akkartik | 2025-10-02 20:31:29+00:00
This works if your code snippets generate relatively static output. Lately I often need to create animations, often interactive ones. See https://akkartik.name/debugUIs.html, for example.

In my life I've often switched to more manual tools when I notice that the more automated tool causes me to live within certain limitations. Sometimes it has taken me a decade to notice these limitations. Automation matters when I do something tens of times a day. But I publish a blog post once in tens of days. It feels worth some additional work to get a little more control and break out of ruts.
by inglor_cz | 2025-10-02 20:31:31+00:00
Or maybe not. Some species are very resistant to cancer. For example, bats basically never get it, even though they live up to 40 years.

Would they get cancer if they lived for 400 years? Maybe not either. Their immune systems are very good, better than ours.

(We humans don't really want to acknowledge that some other animals may have better immune systems, or any other systems, at their disposal.)

On the other end of the scale, mice die of cancer while not even three years old, because their immune systems are really bad at fighting cancer cells.

Cancer in mammals seems to be a function of failing immune systems rather than raw age in numbers. In some species, including us humans, weakening of the immune system goes hand in hand with aging. But in others it does not.
by SkyPuncher | 2025-10-02 20:31:57+00:00
I'll be that person:

* Gemini has the highest ceiling out of all of the models, but has consistently struggled with token-level accuracy. In other words, it's conceptual thinking it well beyond other models, but it sometimes makes stupid errors when talking. This makes it hard to reliably use for tool calling or structured output. Gemini is also very hard to steer, so when it's wrong, it's really hard to correct.

* Claude is extremely consistent and reliable. It's very, very good at the details - but will start to forget things if things get too complex. The good news is Claude is very steerable and will remember those details if you remind it.

* GPT-5 seems to be completely random for me. It's so inconsistent that it's extremely hard to use.

I tend to use Claude because I'm the most familiar with it and I'm confident that I can get good results out of it.
by lyu07282 | 2025-10-02 20:32:01+00:00
> Or maybe not journalism per se, but information dissemination/world model updates. News/journalism is just the form we've sort of settled on for that kind of job, but it's fundamentally the wrong thing.

There is no particular reason to assume journalism has a future at all, why rely on a journalists biased summary of a press release and biased editorial teams prioritization of what's important. It increasingly discredits itself, with smaller concentrated ownership and blatant biased reporting (see Iraq war, Gaza genocide). Then the centralization makes it vulnerable to external malicious attacks (see Gawker). But there are so many parts that are hard to replace, credible reporting on current events and investigative journalism, that requires resources mostly only present in large organizations like the visual investigations team at the nyt. It's broken but hard to replace, especially making it decentralized.

But anyway, kagi news does nothing.
by cyberax | 2025-10-02 20:32:16+00:00
Well, you get sqrt(n / N) as a result. It works like any other parallel computation.

E.g. if you have 256 quantum computers, then each one of them needs to search only 60 bits of the key space to crack a 128-bit key (each one of them will only need to search 2^120 keys).

It's not really going to make much difference with near-future quantum computers. Especially since Grover's algorithm _has_ to complete all the 2^60 steps to produce a reliable result, you can't just run a quantum computer for a while, stop it, and then restart it.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-10-02 20:32:42+00:00
For those of you who don't know of it, I really recommend the novel "The Physician" by Noah Gordon. It tracks the story of a young urban worker's son whose father dies early in early 13th century London and who gets taken as an orphan by a barber (the 13th century's country doctors basically) who teaches him what he knows of basic medicine.

There's a scene later in the book, as he's apprenticing in his English country world, where he meets a jewish doctor who performs a cataract surgery. To this rustic apprentice of a mere barber, this seems like magic. He asks the jewish physician where he learned such a medical marvel and the man explains that he had studied in Al Andaluz, under doctors who had trained in Isfahan in the Caliphate under Ibn Sinna. Without going into too much further detail, the book is absolutely wonderful, especially as the English apprentice meets the legendary Sinna after managing to travel all the way to Isfahan to also study there.
by specproc | 2025-10-02 20:32:50+00:00
I had great fun this week with the batch API. A good morning lost trying to work out how to do a not particularly complex batch request via JSONL.

The python library is not well documented, and has some pretty basic issues that need looking at. Terrible, unhelpful errors, and "oh, so this works if I put it in camel-case" sort of stuff.
by jfyi | 2025-10-02 20:32:57+00:00
Those are the breaks though when catering to a large audience with wildly differing threat models. Do you throw away users that are looking for a vague sense of security so they run off somewhere else less secure because you lack some feature?

If you are just looking for "secure(TM)[X]", you are making a mistake somewhere anyway.

If your life or livelihood depends on it, you learn what the impact of every choice is and you painstakingly keep to your opsec.

Somewhere between the two user action becomes a necessity. You need to judge where that point is for you and take responsibility for it because nobody else can guarantee it.
by ur-whale | 2025-10-02 20:33:26+00:00
Yeah well, what can I say ... totally resonates, except that for me, the "getting in the zone" part is most definitely not two hours, rather tends to stretch to 4am if not worse.

And the "write down everything and go home" is:

a) extremely frustrating

b) cant get anywhere near to dumping the amount of context that's flying in my head while I code/build. Most of it evaporates if I don't get to the end.

So ... agree with the problem, really not sure I agree with the solution.
by SubiculumCode | 2025-10-02 20:33:29+00:00
16 primates is not small when it comes to primate studies. In any case, knowing how expensive and rare primate research is to conduct, I doubt this is the first animal model used on this approach.

In terms of replicatability, it is also not always the sample size, it is the effect size. Small samples do affect ability to generalize, but the point is that sample size isn't everything.
by pcrh | 2025-10-02 20:33:40+00:00
According to the reference provided [0], that's for all cataract surgery, and cataracts can arise for multiple reasons, half are genetic and so might have attendant complications. The success rate for the most common surgery performed in the West, age-related cataracts, is likely much higher.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK559253/
by fooker | 2025-10-02 20:33:43+00:00
> Effectively every single H100 in existence now will be e-waste in 5 years or less.

This remains to be seen. H100 is 3 years old now, and is still the workhorse of all the major AI shops. When there's something that is obviously better for training, these are still going to be used for inference.

If what you say is true, you could find a A100 for cheap/free right now. But check out the prices.
by delaminator | 2025-10-02 20:33:43+00:00
We gave ChatGPT advertising on bus-stops here in the UK.

Two people in a cafe having a meet-up, they are both happy, one is holding a phone and they are both looking at it.

And it has a big ChatGPT logo in the top right corner of the advertisement - transparent just the black logo with ChatGPT written underneath.

That's it. No text or anything telling you what the product is or does. Just it will make you happy during conversations with friends somehow.
by blacklion | 2025-10-02 20:33:45+00:00
I don't want to have external directory, it is my problem. I want all photos uploaded shown in chronological order as first page and ability to drop-out menu with albums, search, like this. It should be public gallery, not site where I share photos with people who have special links (even if these links can be published on, effectively, other site). I even don't need any access rights, private photos, etc. Only public ones. It is gallery. Everybody can see, it can be indexed by search engines, etc.
by toofy | 2025-10-02 20:33:52+00:00
i don’t think this is true at all. if anything the people i know with far-left tendencies want significantly more funding for school programs, including gifted.

what makes me question what you’re saying even more is i have right-wing friends who most certainly do not want more funding for any school programs, including gifted. and i have classical liberal friends who think we should give tax breaks for private schools for “gifted”.
by 9rx | 2025-10-02 20:33:54+00:00
> Yep, we are (unfortunately) still running on railroad infrastructure built a century ago.

That which survived, at least. A whole lot of rail infrastructure was not viable and soon became waste of its own. There was, at one time, ten rail lines around my parts, operated by six different railway companies. Only one of them remains fully intact to this day. One other line retained a short section that is still standing, which is now being used for car storage, but was mostly dismantled. The rest are completely gone.

When we look back in 100 years, the total amortization cost for the "winner" won't look so bad. The “picks and axes” (i.e. H100s) that soon wore down, but were needed to build the grander vision won't even be a second thought in hindsight.
by einarfd | 2025-10-02 20:34:18+00:00
This is a great idea, and worth doing. An other option in Claude code, that can be worth trying, is the planning mode, which you start with ctrl+tab. Have it plan out what it's going to do, and keep iterating it, until the plan seems sound. Tbh. I wish I've found the planning mode earlier, it's been such a great help.
by XorNot | 2025-10-02 20:34:19+00:00
Having run some family through the Signal onboarding process lately I'm actually kind of disappointed though: the CAPTCHA requirements are a big turn off, and it was relatively difficult to get them to see "look I'm on Signal!" In their existing contacts.

To wit: phone numbers have to stay. That's how I even get people to use it with me, and that's enormously valuable.

But also: there really needs to be a way I can use my own account to vouch for a new user and skip that CAPTCHA (maybe there is? What happens if I do an in app invite?)
by toss1 | 2025-10-02 20:34:51+00:00
YUP

Was working for a construction guy I overall respected, and he had us going up on a 3-story barn roof without any kind of roped-in protection. Although I was a fairly experienced rock climber (or perhaps because of it), I quit at lunch.

I was very lucky to have had the opportunity to have the backup finances to be able to afford to quit.
by jdoss | 2025-10-02 20:34:53+00:00
I got hit by the Minio admin change in the console when I upgraded my installation recently, and I found https://github.com/huncrys/minio-console which adds it all back in. It works as expected so far.

I find this kind of rug pull behavior so hostile I will be looking to replace Minio as soon as possible in my homelab. To be clear, I would pay for a license if the prices weren't impossible to afford as an invidual who uses Minio for non-business reasons.
by mxuribe | 2025-10-02 20:34:54+00:00
During my previous jobs, i used to use a sort of "end of day review" to see both what i accomplished that day (which made me feel good when i completed things), plus also get allowed me to get ready for what i need to do the next day. I suppose its similar to the habit denoted in this piece; pretty cool!

At my current job, things are messier and shall we say not sustainable - culture is simply toxic. I actually can not do a review...because the moment someone sees that i am still logged on, i get bothered...Mostly this is from folks in other time zones (who don't care that its my end of day...like i said, its toxic here). So, i started doing the review offline, but saw that i needed to be logged on to review stuff...i started jumping through too many hoops to still access info as inputs for review and next-day prep...but appear to be offline...so, instead, nowadays, at a very strict time, i log off, and have abandoned my formal end of day review...I mean i still review my thoughts...but its not as structured, and i don't write anything down...and, i see the difference (sadly)...but, mostly, i just don't like my current job. ;-)
by nerdsniper | 2025-10-02 20:35:07+00:00
Well, for one ... it's illegal to import drugs that aren't FDA approved. You can import a few months personal supply of a prescribed drug that is FDA-approved but doesn't just mean that the active-ingredient is FDA-approved. It has to be the same exact product, manufactured in the same FDA-approved facility with the same packaging/labeling/etc to be considered "FDA-approved". The most expensive FDA-approved drugs are sold at US prices globally, so there's no geographic arbitration. Then other non-FDA approved brands are sold at lower prices - importing these is a smuggling offense, though enforcement was pretty low (but now with CBP's upcoming budget increases, who knows if this will continue to be practical or ultra-risky).

More practically - HMG is a very difficult drug to assay for purity. It's too complex to interpret with qNMR, HPLC testing is also very hard to interpret. The testing that exists evidently either has a very high margin of error or involves lots of rats and dissections.

Even testing for hCG, while it can be done reliably with HPLC, results between different labs are not comparable because the primary assay is also to test bioactivity on rodents, so they're not normalized to the same standard.

The lack of any independent testing for HMG means that some of the more accessible international manufacturers don't actually test their own product. Combined with its high price, that all makes it a very common target for counterfeit.

Yes, the American pharmaceutical system absolutely has quality-control issues. 80% of our generic pharmaceuticals come from overseas production. The pentagon wanted to independently test the drugs it was purchasing for the VA, so it worked with a company named Valisure who determined that about 10% of the drugs had issues with contamination or a lack of the active ingredient[0]. The FDA responded by shutting down Valisure's third-party testing.

But even with the problems we have here in the USA, HMG is the one drug I would particularly not trust from gray-market supply chains. It's conjecture, but I wouldn't be surprised if the doctor said that because other patients had tried it and had poor results.

0: https://archive.ph/ubLmg
by freedomben | 2025-10-02 20:35:09+00:00
I've had reasonably good success with asking Claude things like: "There's a bug somewhere that is causing slow response times on several endpoints, including <xyz>. Sometimes response times can get to several seconds long, and don't look correlated with CPU or memory usage. Database CPU and memory also don't seem to correlate. What is the issue?" I have to iterate a few times but it's hinted me a few really tricky issues that would have probably taken hours to find.

Definitely optimistic for this way to use AI
by drnick1 | 2025-10-02 20:35:34+00:00
What is there to prove? You can register your own domain (avoid exotic TLDs), wait a few months to build trust, and use an email setup script like Luke Smith's to set up Postfix/Dovecot.

Before you start sending email, use mail-tester.com to check that DKIM is correctly set up and that your IP is not blacklisted.
by satisfice | 2025-10-02 20:35:39+00:00
It’s not just theory. It’s how things work in the actual world that you live in. My “theory” is an attempt to harmonize our procedures with the way we all live in the world right now.

I am a pluralist (a person who accepts that he must live with people he doesn’t necessarily like) not because I want to be, but because the alternative is constant rage and war.

Take any social group, anywhere, ever. Whichever one you choose: there are people who care about each other to some degree, and who hurt each other to some degree, and who have some sort of procedures and heuristics for dealing with that.

I suggest heuristics based on accepting the fact that people will behave in ways that irritate each other, even when a community is maximally healthy. Let’s accept that as normal. Then what? Then let’s work on what it means to be a member of the community. Let’s establish a protocol for membership based on a hierarchy of trust, or prestige, if you will.

Yes, if the trusted people are actually corrupt then your community is screwed. Go and make a new one.

Focus on building personal tolerance and resilience. Distinguish between matters of taste and matters of conscience.

To anyone who says this system leads to discrimination: ALL systems lead to discrimination. Yours does, too. Humans are like that. This problem can only be solved from the heart outward.