MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kulahan | 2025-10-06 19:52:18+00:00
These America bad comments are so lame.

Pretty much every one of these is a boring example. Abortion access is a debatable topic, most people who want public transit want it so they can get OTHER people off the road, lots of major cities have both public transit and walkability, many states and cities have significantly higher minimum wages, etc.

None of these are things most Americans are absolutely clamoring for - you just want to live in Europe without moving there.

Well, maybe the concept of free healthcare.
by nemothekid | 2025-10-06 19:52:25+00:00
I'm not sure how quite to word this.

You saying "he could theoretically stream off his laptop" is no different than saying a luddite could "theoretically sew clothes with needle and thread". It really comes across like a lack of respect for the argument Marxists make. I'm not asking you to be a Marxist but if you aren't willing to engage the argument seriously, I'm not sure what I can say.

Even your "solution", is exactly what the early Marxists thought. They needed to coordindate to overcome the sole power of factory owners and they did that through striking. What is striking, if not coordinated market power? The rest of your post comes off as Marxism, but in a different font. It's as wishy-washy as the solutions proposed by the Marxists on Bluesky. "if only we would come together and coordinate, the revolution will be here soon!".

The issue with "No problems but coordination problems", is that today, in our society, capital solves coordination problems. And before that was monarchy, and before that was religion. The entirety of human civilization can be distilled with "how do we get n-million people to do x?"

I don't consider myself as a Marxist but the actual problems he highlights are very salient even if his followers have failed to solve them. Just because there's no found solution for P=NP, doesn't mean the entire field of computational complexity is a wash.
by wholinator2 | 2025-10-06 19:53:32+00:00
Re: 3 - Do we know how many of those chatgpt queries are actually people? Cause i can't think of a use case to automate things with Google searches, but i can think of a million ways to automate bullshit with chatgpt. How much of that queries per user stat is inflated with the enterprise accounts making hundreds of queries a minute? How many of those are bot farms automating fake recipe websites and how many are actual people having real and revealing conversations?
by djcapelis | 2025-10-06 19:54:28+00:00
Tariffs in a rapidly growing and innovative industry always makes the country with lots of protectionism end up with less competitive products because they’ve removed the competitive pressures from everywhere else in the world.

We were left behind because we shelter our own car companies in a gentle cradle where they don’t have to compete. Both parties did this while saying they wanted to “level the playing field” but chose rates that were protectionist and made competitive products prohibitive not rates that actually created a level field.

We were left behind because we tried to protect our companies from facing the future. People in this country expect that one can stand on the shore of a beach and vote on whether the tide should go in or out, and that’s just not how the world works.
by stego-tech | 2025-10-06 19:54:40+00:00
Without getting into the technical weeds of dosing, tolerance, and impairment, this is an interesting data set that definitely paints a picture of lax enforcement and ineffective public messaging around substance use and associated impairments. That being said, I also don’t see how we can do better in the USA given that cars are necessary evils for the majority of people outside a select few cities with public transport options, and that we’ve been doing messaging about impaired driving for nearly a century to no real avail.

Perhaps it’s time to start treating motor vehicle operation as an actual privilege rather than a “right” gated by a far-too-easy licensing regime. Start by tasking safety officers with more citations for things like failing to signal or illegal turns through dash camera footage (to avoid dangerous traffic stops), start suspending licenses earlier for consistent or serious infractions, and raise licensing standards higher to shunt more folks onto smaller vehicles or public transit.

This isn’t a cannabis vs alcohol debate despite the framing as such: it’s a debate over how many people should be allowed to drive at all, and to what degree we hold them accountable to ensure good behavior.
by bartread | 2025-10-06 19:55:04+00:00
Amazon will let you filter out individual shows but, yeah, it’s clunky.

Overall I do object to content providers pushing the responsibility for vetting content onto parents. Especially when one considers that, in the UK at least, broadcasters such as the BBC and ITV, are required to do this themselves for both broadcast and streaming, and for broadcast operate a 9pm watershed for content suitable only for adults[0], whereas streaming services charge higher and higher subscription fees and simply don’t bother. Rude.

[0] You can of course still choose to allow your kids access to this content but you effectively have to opt in rather than opting out.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-06 19:55:20+00:00
This has been the pitched playbook for decades. (Metamates!) I'm increasingly convinced its driven by a specific generation of tech entrepreneurs who cut their teeth while reading ca. 1980s science fiction.

I could see chat apps becoming dominant in Slack-oriented workplaces. But, like, chatting with an AI to play a song is objectively worse than using Spotify. Dynamically-created music sounds nice until one considers the social context in which non-filler music is heard.
by HaZeust | 2025-10-06 19:55:27+00:00
>"Nobody who wins the Presidency is going to resign"

I dunno, man. People are already putting their name next to a "NAY" vote for the President, specifically when it comes to releasing files regarding the most prolific child sex trafficker of our time; who likely had such connections to the President.

Being masochistic enough for someone to do that, and to resign as president, are less steps away than you think.
by floatrock | 2025-10-06 19:55:49+00:00
> Can't you make this same argument with alcohol?

Other commentators are pointing out and linking to sources that explain how the tolerance bio-mechanisms are very different between alcohol and marijuana. It's an apples-to-oranges comparison that happen to use the same word "tolerance."

> So how exactly would you propose states move forward with allowing people to consume THC and operate vehicles

And that is the conundrum, ain't it? At the very least, the HN crowd is saying "don't take an approach that works well for A but not for B, and apply it to B anyways because it's an easy thing that makes your re-election campaign look like you're doing something instead of having the difficult, nuanced discussion of what IS the right enforcement model for something new."

The risk is these things tend to get cemented in once they're passed. We already did that once with marijuana when we scheduled it more dangerous than methamphetamine, fentanyl, and diazepam. But hey, that scheduling sure did win Nixon the political points he was looking for...
by godshatter | 2025-10-06 19:56:09+00:00
If you didn't have the luxury of a delete button, such as when you're just talking directly to someone IRL, you would probably say something like "no, wait, that doesn't make any sense, I think I'm confusing myself" and then either give it another go or just stop there.

I wish LLMs would do this rather than just bluster on ahead.

What I'd like to hear from the AI about seahorse emojis is "my dataset leads me to believe that seahorse emojis exist... but when I go look for one I can't actually find one."

I don't know how to get there, though.
by tombert | 2025-10-06 19:56:16+00:00
Well that’s what I am saying though; clearly the 32x (and probably the Saturn) were capable of running something cool like SRB2 as evidenced by the tech demos, and I feel like SRB2 really does feel like a proper translation of the 2D games to 3D.

But I broadly agree; it wasn’t a hardware thing, it was a “we don’t know how to do it” thing; SRB2 came like a full decade after the 32x’s relevance.
by johnea | 2025-10-06 19:56:18+00:00
You make a very good example of exactly what I'm talking about.

Countries are indeed fictional, and the misplaced belief that they are in some way a natural reality is a significant part of what leads people to start talking about killing each other in the name of their country.

Fictional entities aren't just ubiquitous, they're essential to civilization. Even laws against murder are fictional entities, but I don't think any reasonable person would argue for their elimination on that basis.

The point isn't whether fictional entities exist or not, or that they're all inherently bad or not, it's on maintaining an understanding of what's fictional and what's reality.

Thinking a fictional character on your computer screen is a life relationship partner is a slip away from reality that is surely a mental illness.
by ebbi | 2025-10-06 19:56:30+00:00
"it appears that more than 50 Palestinians have been killed. Some of these people are entirely innocent non-combatants, including children. This is an unspeakable tragedy. It is also one of the unavoidable burdens of political power, of Zionism’s dream turned into the reality of self-determination."

- Bari Weiss (13 May, 2021)

https://www.thefp.com/p/the-bad-optics-of-fighting-for-your
by mothballed | 2025-10-06 19:56:36+00:00
The roadside test is basically a test to see if you are a moron dumb enough to consent to it. If you perform an FST good luck doing it in a way that can't be used against you.

In my state you're only required to submit to chemical testing, which the courts have ruled the little portable breathalizer machine isn't, and even if you refuse all they can do is suspend your license and then try to get a warrant.
by vacuity | 2025-10-06 19:56:36+00:00
> I don't think it's reasonable to compare the risk of suffering a large loss with the risk of missing out on a large gain. If your annual income is $N, missing out on a gain of $N is bad, but not nearly as bad a suffering a loss of $N.

- A comment I saw elsewhere on HN today

It's quite rational, in many cases, to consider loss of an object X worse than gain of X. A less rigorous example I like to use: it's far easier, and unequal, to kill a person than revive a person.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-10-06 19:56:40+00:00
> And yes, I agree we don't have good storage yet, but then we can decide to invest in finding solutions or to try to re-learn how to make nuclear power plants in less than 12 years.

Things don’t magically stop at some point. Not in 2030, not in 2050, not even when we reach net zero.

The question now is do we think it’s easier to reach and sustain net zero using a grid composed of renewable which we have no idea how to scale, don’t know how to manage and have no good solution for the inter-seasonal variation or using nuclear for which we already know how to do all that and we just need to scale up construction.

Well, personally, I think the rational answer is clearly obvious.
by someodd | 2025-10-06 19:56:45+00:00
I actually enabled BOSH on my Prosody setup.

For reference: https://www.someodd.zip/phlog-mirror/xmpp-server.gopher

BOSH still has some interesting trade-offs even today. It can help with some NAT headaches and rides over plain HTTPS. I like this old post:

https://metajack.im/2008/07/02/xmpp-is-better-with-bosh/

Curious who here uses BOSH in production and/or WebSocket (RFC 7395) these days.
by hx8 | 2025-10-06 19:56:46+00:00
Yes, many of us have also taken a college statistical course and understand correlation != causation. Yes, pop-sci articles will more heavily infer there is a causation, and this is bad for public trust in science. Also, dismissing all correlation studies is bad for public trust in science. There's several very good reasons why we do correlation studies, and they actual return interesting data.

I'd like to point out that blood alcohol levels are not 1 to 1 connected to level of impairment, but still serve as a useful indicator for ability to drive. Those with high tolerances behave differently than those with lower tolerances. The current Cannabis test is far from perfect, but seems to be the best proxy we have available for empirical evidence of level of impairment.
by pyrale | 2025-10-06 19:57:48+00:00
Market price + VAT + a subscription paying for the grid and utility's benefits, yes.

I believe that already exists in Nordic countries, I had heard of it in Sweden ([1] says 10% of the population uses it) and Norway ([2] quotes 75% of the population).

[1]: https://swedenherald.com/article/so-you-should-think-about-e...

[2]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266695522...
by zdragnar | 2025-10-06 19:57:51+00:00
There's not a linear relationship between the tests and usability. There are many tests for various character encodings, but viewing a web page means you're only "using" one of them, for example.

As such, 90% test pass rate but low usability simply means that 10% of the tests cover a lot of very visible usability features that ladybird hasn't addressed yet.
by rhdunn | 2025-10-06 19:57:57+00:00
The value proposition is not having vendor lockin and having WebKit/Blink be the defacto behaviour. For example the Ladybird team have found and raised spec issues in the different specs.

Another example is around ad blockers -- if Blink is the only option, they can make it hard for ad blockers to function whereas having other engines allows different choices to be made.
by harrall | 2025-10-06 19:58:12+00:00
I tried long term backpack travel and it wasn’t for me but trying (many times) basically perfected my packing for all trips.

Between a backpacking trip to northern Europe to 3 day quick trip to Chicago, I can be ready to in like an hour and still, according to friends, be the most prepared.

It also bled into my daily life and I picked up some really good habits. I am not a minimalist but I would say I have very little clutter.

So worth it to try it a few times even if you never actually do it.
by mNovak | 2025-10-06 19:58:19+00:00
I figure these GPUs are typically around 1kW (unclear if 6GW is including overhead like cooling, which might double(?) the power), so in the range of 3-6M GPUs.

If these are somewhere in the range of $10-30k (who knows what current or future models are contemplated), that's $30-180B. So clearly the low end doesn't make sense for the 'rebate', but at the high end a ~17% discount doesn't seem unreasonable.
by lumost | 2025-10-06 19:58:21+00:00
This seems to be OpenAI's path to victory in the AI race. Buy up the supply chain of compute to the extent that no other competitor could possibly have access to the same compute. If they are able to shut out Google/X.AI from the market, there really aren't any viable firms to keep financing next generation models on a pure compute scaling basis. I'm leaving out Anthropic as they don't appear to be as compute focused as X/OpenAI/Google. It's unclear if compute is the sole determiner of AI leadership in the long term or just a contributor.
by alphazard | 2025-10-06 19:58:29+00:00
Technically the same thing applies, but to a much, much lesser degree.

While it's true that alcoholics can perform most tasks better than the average person after a few drinks, and there is some data showing they are less likely to get in accidents after drinking, they still become significantly impaired at about the same rate as everyone else. They might have an advantage of a few drinks compared to a regular person, but they often close that gap. The amount of non-impaired alcoholics driving around with BACs above the legal limit is negligible.

The human body's ability to adapt to THC is far greater than its ability to adapt to alcohol. The Endocannabinoid system safely saturates, you can only have so much before the next dose doesn't really do much more. Alcohol, on the other hand, continues to have about the same marginal effect, until toxicity is reached.
by jiveturkey | 2025-10-06 19:58:52+00:00
It's a false accusation. The numbers have no meaning. Is that not obviously the point of contention?

It's one thing to say, this is aggregate in the industry (and still be misleading), or say group by MAG7, or AI companies, or some sector. It's another to name Amazon as the ringleader when the data don't show that.
by brudgers | 2025-10-06 19:59:14+00:00
To me, a deal around hardware is not a red flag when growth requires additional hardware.

The circular investments that would worry me are when the investment returns as advertising spend and other costs that don’t improve the product.

Recent headlines grabbing deals are between pretty savvy companies and none of them appear on the verge of bankruptcy. There doesn’t appear to be an air of desperation about them.

They don’t look like shuffling deck chairs so much as negotiated procurement.
by cube2222 | 2025-10-06 19:59:34+00:00
Is it? Honestly, most agents and/or ai apps I interact with that are actually useful present some form of chat-like interface.

I’m not very bullish on people wanting to live in the ChatGPT UI, specifically, but the concept of dynamic apps embedded into a chat-experience I think is a reasonable direction.

I’m mostly curious about if and when we get an open standard for this, similar to MCP.
by soraminazuki | 2025-10-06 19:59:46+00:00
> I suspect these "really vile things" will turn out to be not so vile (like JKR)

"Not so vile" things like spreading lies about a female Olymics Boxer's gender, calling her terrible names, and inciting her online followers to harass her? She not only bullies transgender individuals but also targets other women who don't meet her own standards of femininity. If you have no problems with people like that, no wonder you can't fathom why the Ruby community has trouble accepting similar people with open arms.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-10-06 19:59:52+00:00
You are entirely missing the point. The issue is what do you do when you have no renewable because it’s the winter and there is no sun and no wind. German answer to that - like it or not - is building gas fired power plants and using coal in the meanwhile. That and buying a ton of nuclear energy from France a fact you are conveniently forgetting.

The ratios you quote are meaningless. The issue is that it can’t scale so as to fully decarbonise the grid. Thankfully the current German government seems to finally have seen the light.
by gtowey | 2025-10-06 20:00:15+00:00
There's more to it than that.

I've been practicing this from a different perspective. It's not necessarily bad to have stuff or buy stuff, but you have to spend just as much time getting rid of things and evaluating their continued usefulness as you spend shopping and buying new things.

In tech terms, if you have a queue which you only ever add items to, well we all know what happens.

This second part of the process is overlooked, and particularly because our corporate overlords don't make any money from this careful consideration and management of our lives and the items within it. At least with my parents generation -- the boomers -- they went all in on purchasing with never getting rid of anything. Like a dragon and its hoard. Looking at craigslist estate sales is so crazy, because you see someone's lifetime of absolute junk they spent all their time accumulating, but obviously no time getting rid of anything. In fact, they just died and made it someone else's problem to deal with it.
by xienze | 2025-10-06 20:00:38+00:00
> Other commentators are pointing out and linking to sources that explain how the tolerance bio-mechanisms are very different between alcohol and marijuana. It's an apples-to-oranges comparison.

Yes I've seen that but I have a HARD time believing that two or three beers affects an alcoholic the same as it affects someone who drinks once a month. Alcohol tolerance is also a thing, why are people suggesting it isn't?

> The risk is these things tend to get cemented in once they're passed.

Yes but, it sounds like you have to have some sort of test for this, lest it turns into an "officer discretion" kind of thing since there's no reliable way to measure intoxication. Otherwise, it basically sounds like you can get as high as you want and no one can possibly charge you with DUI because of "you can't prove how long ago I took it" or "I have a tolerance, it doesn't affect me" (which totally does not fly as an argument in court with alcohol).
by stronglikedan | 2025-10-06 20:01:24+00:00
> The roadside test is basically a test to see if you are a moron dumb enough to consent to it.

Only a moron would not consent to it, lest they lose their license for a year regardless of the outcome of their DUI charge, since it's a separate charge that cannot be fought (you either did the FST or you didn't).

(Of course, every state is different, but I was just matching your matter-of-factness as incorrect-in-general as it was.)
by TulliusCicero | 2025-10-06 20:01:48+00:00
> Side note: Why is there so much fact-free anti-US sentiment on HN?

Look at basically any domain: whoever's in the lead, gets the most hate.

The US has the world's biggest economy and military, the most cultural power, the biggest tech industry, etc. The hate is inevitable. That's not to say that the US doesn't have plenty of very real problems -- obviously it does -- but it's just easier to dunk on the leader, which also means more empty, vacuous criticism.
by MiscCompFacts | 2025-10-06 20:02:07+00:00
I do think this could be true. Your productivity is way more visible in a small company, execs actually know what you’re working on maybe from day-to-day and most definitely week-to-week. Slackers don’t last long and mediocre developers standout, now why they might be perceived as mediocre is another discussion. My first job was at a big corporation (~150,000 employees) and honestly I saw so much politics and fiefdoms and just generally low quality developers not doing much but they could sneak under the radar because they’re a small cog in the apparatus. My next company (~50-60 employees) the devs were definitely better and way more productive, but it also felt very performative/showy environment of what devs did every what and if you were perceived as not doing enough you definitely stood out. It was a very public, perhaps stressful, work environment with demos every 2 weeks.
by jampa | 2025-10-06 20:02:20+00:00
As a JS developer for over 10 years who has seen multiple hype waves, here is my advice: You don't need to ride the first wave. You can wait until technology matures and see if it has staying power.

For example, React and TypeScript were hard to set up initially. I deferred learning them for years until the tooling improved and they were clearly here to stay. Likewise, I'm glad I didn't dive into tech like LangChain and CoffeeScript, which came and went.
by AlphaAndOmega0 | 2025-10-06 20:02:21+00:00
I found it genuinely impressive how useless their "GPTs" were.

Of course, part of it was due to the fact that the out-of-the-box models became so competent that there was no need for a customized model, especially when customization boiled down to barely more than some kind of custom system prompt and hidden instructions. I get the impression that's the same reason their fine-tuning services never took off either, since it was easier to just load necessary information into the context window of a standard instance.

Edit: In all fairness, this was before most tool use, connectors or MCP. I am at least open to the idea that these might allow for a reasonable value add, but I'm still skeptical.