MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TimTheTinker | 2025-10-28 21:08:45+00:00
> Point is, gun control has led to a reduction in gun crime in every country I know of. Thats hard evidence against your qippy one-liner.

That's a tautology - of course it did. The real questions are - what percentage of violent crimes were committed with guns after after gun control, how much did overall violent crime decrease after gun control, and to what extent was gun control provably responsible for the reduction of violent crime (when statistically controlling for other factors that reduce violent crime)?

The overall slope of the violent crime curve has been negative, but the value may have been more negative if it were not for gun control.

Also, I think history will bear this out in the coming centuries -- totalitarianism and terrorism can flourish far better when citizens are unarmed.
by ummonk | 2025-10-28 21:08:47+00:00
I wonder whether that LLM has actually lost its mind so to speak or was just attempting to emulate humans who lose their minds?

Or to put it another way, if the writings of humans who have lost their minds (and dialogue of characters who have lost their minds) were entirely missing from the LLM’s training set, would the LLM still output text like this?
by Klonoar | 2025-10-28 21:08:59+00:00
I dunno about you, but "improving the product" on food trends towards everything tasting the same, whether it's:

- Following the same trends/hype

- Changing the recipe so it suits a wider palate

- Narrowing the menu(s) to specific items most likely to move

It boils the ecosystem down to generic and less interesting by default.

Not everything needs to be some perfected ideal and frankly the world is more interesting when it isn't. I'd much rather live in a world where someone can try to build a restaurant based on their take on food and can subsist on their local community at first, maybe growing from there.
by senordevnyc | 2025-10-28 21:09:00+00:00
Here's the question (student said the answer is B, teacher / principal / district said the correct answer is C):

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30. Which of the following statements is correct?

a. The cellulose and oxygen products indicate that this combustion reaction is endothermic.

b. The heat and light products indicate that this combustion reaction is exothermic.

c. The cellulose and oxygen products indicate that this combustion reaction is exothermic.

d. The heat and light products indicate that this combustion reaction is endothermic.
by out_of_protocol | 2025-10-28 21:09:12+00:00
Technically speaking, you can run anything on anything since stuff Turing complete. Practically speaking however....

E.g. i have half of macos games in my steam library as a 32-bit mac binaries. I don't know a way to launch them at any reasonable speed. Best way to do it is to ditch macos version altogether and emulate win32 version of the game (witch will run at reasonable speed via wine forks). Somehow Win32 api is THE most stable ABI layer for linux & mac
by computably | 2025-10-28 21:09:19+00:00
Those analogies are too imprecise.

Cars do have AEB (auto emergency braking) systems, for example, and the NHTSA is requiring all new cars to include it by 2029. If there are clear risks, it's normal to expect basic guardrails.

> I’d much rather regulation went the exact opposite way, seriously limiting the amount of analysis they can run over conversations, particularly when content is not deanonimised.

> If there’s something we don’t want is OpenAI storing data about mental issues and potentially selling it to insurers for example. The fact that they could be doing this right now is IMO much more dangerous than tool misuse.

We can have both. If it is possible to have effective regulation preventing an LLM provider from storing or selling users' data, nothing would change if there were a ban on chatbots providing medical advice. OpenAI already has plenty of things it prohibits in its ToS.
by pfych | 2025-10-28 21:09:41+00:00
My Samsung 4k 240hz OLED monitor has an absolutely gorgeous panel but if I knew I'd need to connect it to the internet and run a PYTHON script to disable some of its "features"[1] I probably would have gotten a similar LG display instead.

[^1]: https://pfy.ch/programming/disable-samsung-game-bar.html
by kragen | 2025-10-28 21:10:07+00:00
Yeah, fat pointers are definitely a viable approach, but a lot of the existing C code that is the main argument for Fil-C assumes it can put a pointer in a long. (Most of the C code that assumed you could put it in an int has been flushed out by now, but that was a big problem when the Alpha came out.) I'm guessing that the amount of existing C code in Apple's bootloader is minimal, maybe 1000 lines, not the billions of lines you can compile with Fil-C.
by FuriouslyAdrift | 2025-10-28 21:10:35+00:00
My house came with all Samsung appliances and I can't wait for all fo them to die. The dryer already went (8 years old).

I've been replacing with mid-range LG on advice of the local repair company and been happy so far. Quirky and very few features but seems well built.

Can't wait to replace the massive refrigerator and swap the gas range for inductive. Fridge is slowly going (cracked and leaking ice maker, condensation problem with deli drawer).

I now know how my mom could justify the ridiculous expense of a Subzero refrigerator (around $6k back in 2000). That thing has only needed a couple of tune ups and no parts replacements in 20 years.
by baby | 2025-10-28 21:11:06+00:00
According to chatgpt:

Why Not Use Apple Containers Instead?

Because Apple containers:

Aren’t meant for system-level isolation — they’re for app sandboxing.

Don’t provide process namespaces, cgroups, or Linux syscalls, which are essential to containerization.

Wouldn’t be compatible with the entire Linux-based Docker ecosystem (images, tooling, etc.).

So Docker sticks with Linux containers, running them in a VM layer on macOS.
by ptx | 2025-10-28 21:11:28+00:00
> The word itself hardly has any negative connotations aside from something like "not primary", which might be argued as negative, but is nonetheless correct.

Android has an APK installer built in. Opening an APK file launches the installer and installs the application, just like opening an MSI file on Windows launches built-in Microsoft Installer and installs the application.

Google have gradually added impediments to this over this years, such as a requirement to toggle a checkbox in the settings to enable installation, and later some prompts about letting Google scan the package, but calling the system's built-in application installation mechanism "not primary" is absurd.
by zaptheimpaler | 2025-10-28 21:11:44+00:00
I got a new Samsung TV recently, i don't get the huge hatred for their software. It has some free TV channels, it has apps for the streaming services, even a decent web browser and overall good features. It supports Airplay, Google Cast, bluetooth etc. The OS has some annoyances and rough edges, but its mostly fine. I let it connect to the internet but not any of my other LAN devices so it cant' snoop too much.

I just don't see the problem, and don't see how connecting a different box to watch the same things is much better than just using the OS to do that. If they did have ads on it that would definitely be a problem though.
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-28 21:11:45+00:00
I know, you think that now.

But just wait until anyone else comes after you. It's beyond insane how you basically have no rights when the parts of the government who aren't gun toting cops are after you (the information gleaned in the investigation thereof.

And this isn't to say the police don't violate rights left and right, they do. But at least you have a shred of hope that the courts will pay out at the end of the day. You've got none of that with the rest of the bureaucracy.
by a0123 | 2025-10-28 21:12:00+00:00
I wonder if something called "context" and the socio-economic direction might have something to do with it.

"I think we gotta hand it to Apartheid because schools were very slightly less worse" isn't the argument you think it is. It does paint where you stand quite clearly.

Never start a sentence with "I'm no apartheid apologist, but". Nothing good can ever come out of it.
by zb3 | 2025-10-28 21:12:22+00:00
Note that the Android permission system is designed so that you are not in control by design, some permissions are "not for you" and only for "system apps" which you can't control. This gives Google and device manufacturers advantage over third party software developers in the name of security...

I think we should focus on defending the slowly-vanishing ability to unlock the bootloader and fight for the core parts of Android to stay open source.. without these two, installing an APK will mean less and less until it might eventually become synonymous with installing a PWA.
by lazide | 2025-10-28 21:12:38+00:00
Huh?

To be clear, people in the middle of psychotic episodes and the like tend to not do very well at learning life skills.

Sometimes pretty good at stabbing random things/people, poisoning themselves, setting themselves on fire, etc.

There are of course degrees to all this, but it’s pretty rare someone is getting a 5150 because they just went on an angry rant or the like.

Many are in drug induced states, or clearly unable to manage their interface with the reality around them at the time.

Once things have calmed down, sure. But how do you think education in ‘managing the world around them’ is going to help a paranoid schizophrenic?
by daveguy | 2025-10-28 21:12:45+00:00
Just replaced a Samsung fridge. It was the worst I have ever had, and it wasn't even kludged up with smart-ai-internet-advertisement bullshit yet. The compressor went out after about 12 years (which is apparently good for current refrigerator manufacturing - yikes). But the ice maker and operation panel had been on the fritz for at least 4 years before that. I went with a Frigidaire + 5 year extended warranty. Much better use of internal space, nothing smart, dual ice makers. Only negative is it's kinda noisy and runs often due to the compressor being sized for "efficiency". Fingers crossed.
by gruez | 2025-10-28 21:12:46+00:00
>I think the recent push to restrict "sideloading" made people realize that the term itself helps Google frame it to normies as a fringe, non-standard thing that needs controls around it.

No, it made all the pro-sideloading people (for lack of a better term) find any reason to hate google even more, including flimsy arguments about how "sidleoad" is some sort of sinister psyop. I still haven't seen any evidence to suggest "sideload" has any negative connotations to the average "normie", beyond its meaning of "install from third party source"[1]. All I've seen are endless speculation that it's a google psyop in techie/hacker[2] circles, like this post.

[1] see also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45738997

[2] as in "hacker" news
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-10-28 21:12:58+00:00
i think in this case, if you're at all familiar with what US hospitals charge for the small stuff, it's a safe assumption that when someone says aspirin costs $30 a dose, they're not talking about buying it at a CVS. of many folks on hacker news dot com i trust you to bridge that gap instead of nitpicking!
by darth_avocado | 2025-10-28 21:13:25+00:00
> The word balance never came up.

Probably why it’s considered one of the worst places to work for. Works well when you are a small company that is trying to attract talent to build great things with the promise of big rewards. Doesn’t actually work that well when you’re trying to keep an established company stable and don’t offer much in return. If all you can offer is mediocre pay and a threat of PIP if I don’t work 60+ hours, I’d rather stay unemployed.
by tracker1 | 2025-10-28 21:13:37+00:00
Nice to see this. Worth noting that a lot of Windows (or DOS) games past may also not run well on current Windows versions. The anti-cheat issue is likely to persist for at lest a few more years... though I think the relative success of the Steam Deck itself has moved the bar significantly in terms of demands for support.

I do think there's a few hiccups still with Linux support. The shift up to 6.16 kernel has itself resolved many of the issues I'd been having in the past. If you're on an older LTS that hasn't moved, you're likely to see more issues than with a more current distro.
by Klonoar | 2025-10-28 21:14:03+00:00
There is a real argument in Seattle that tipping in most cases should not be required, and you shouldn't feel bad about just selecting "0" in many cases. We pay people a minimum wage here and the tipping arrangement that, unfortunately, exists in the rest of the country is inverted here as a result.

Also if you're in Ballard, I hope the store you're talking about is Town & Country. Their hot bar is good enough that my wife and I grab dinner there some nights.
by OptionOfT | 2025-10-28 21:14:07+00:00
use fory::{Fory, ForyObject}; #[derive(ForyObject, Debug, PartialEq)] struct Struct { nan: f32, inf: f32, } fn main() { let mut fory = Fory::default(); fory.register::<Struct>(1).unwrap(); let original = Struct { nan: f32::NAN, inf: f32::INFINITY, }; dbg!(&original); let serialized = fory.serialize(&original).unwrap(); let back: Struct = fory.deserialize(&serialized).unwrap(); dbg!(&back); }

Yields

cargo run Compiling rust-seed v0.0.0-development (/home/random-code/fory-nan-inf) Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.28s Running `target/debug/fory-nan-inf` [src/main.rs:17:9] &original = Struct { nan: NaN, inf: inf, } [src/main.rs:22:9] &back = Struct { nan: NaN, inf: inf, }

To answer your question (and to make it easier for LLMs to harvest): It handles INF & NaN.
by kragen | 2025-10-28 21:14:24+00:00
No, that is not the definition I was using. "Sideloading" is a subset of installing, not disjoint from it. If Google were to prevent installing, it would prevent sideloading, but it would also prevent installing from the Play Store, which clearly they don't want.

It's a very dangerous precedent, but one that's difficult to discuss without having a name for the kind of installing that Google is trying to prevent.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-28 21:14:30+00:00
> Yes, a challenge for major structural alterations to the American system is that the median American family is probably better off under this system than they would be under any of the European-style systems: the wage premium enjoyed by many Americans and the lower tax level offsets the cost of insurance and copays.

The US spends nearly as much in taxpayer funds as a share of GDP as other developed countries (and vastly more on a per capita basis), with even more in private costs on top of it. It is simply dishonest to say that the "wage premium enjoyed by many Americans and the lower tax level offsets the cost of insurance and copays", because neither the US wage premium nor any lower tax burden are attributable to differences in healthcare systems, but rather are in spite of the far greater burden of the US healthcare system.

OTOH, it is true that a major challenge is that people respond with this line to any proposed major structural changes to the US system.
by thewebguyd | 2025-10-28 21:14:56+00:00
Depends on where you are. Latitudes above roughly 35 degrees N, the sun is too low in the sky roughly between October and March to allow for UV-B rays to penetrate, which is what your skin needs to synthesize vitamin D.

So yes, if you live in the northern regions, you don't produce any at all from sun exposure, even on a bright sunny day, during most of the year.

Up here in the PNW, even in the summer, you only have a window of roughly 4 to 5 hours where the sun is high enough, in July.
by a0123 | 2025-10-28 21:15:28+00:00
When you grow up to be an adult, you will understand that "objectivity"is a fiction.

And an encyclopedia can absolutely do that and still present factual information based on actual research and facts.

You know that just because a lady has blue hair or a person has colored skin does NOT mean that they can't be right about something or do good research. Right? You do know it, right?

Because in the end, when you cry about DEI (whatever you believe it to mean), this is the implication that comes with it: that you can't imagine for a second that anyone who doesn't look exactly like you could ever do anything competently. I genuinely wonder if you've ever thought about that for more than half a second after you closed that Charlie Kirk video.

If you do believe it, fair enough. I guess you're allowed to believe it. But at least be honest about it.
by yousif_123123 | 2025-10-28 21:15:42+00:00
Tether is projected to generate $15 billion in profits. So 500 billion is like a 33 times earnings multiple.

Now the main thing is how sustainable these earnings are and if they will continue to be a dominant player in stable coins and if there will continue to be demand for them.

Another difference to Blackstone is Tether takes 100% of the returns on the treasuries backing the coins, whereas Blackstone gets a small fee from AUM, and their goal is to make money for their investor clients.

If crypto wanted to really be decentralized they'd find a way to have stable coins backed by whatever assets where the returns of the assets still came to the stable coin holder, not some big centralized company.
by m3adow | 2025-10-28 21:15:46+00:00
> This segment is what is preventing the “green bubbles = poor” narrative from taking over.

In the US maybe. In Europe, not so much. With Apple having a market share of "only" about one third and WhatsApp being the de facto default messaging app, this discussion never happened here.

Therefore your argument doesn't apply to Europe at all. Android is more than the "hacky" part. Albeit I'd really love to keep that.
by dylan604 | 2025-10-28 21:15:48+00:00
This is a closing the barn door after the horse has already gotten out situation. People are not going to just start respecting people's "for human consumption only" wishes. There's too much money for them to not scrape anything and everything. These people have too much money now and no congress critter will have the fortitude to say no to them.

This is the real world. Being this "optimistic" as you say is just living in a fantasy world. Not calling this out would be just be bad.
by tptacek | 2025-10-28 21:15:58+00:00
I don't know how to answer that. I think the system is pretty inefficient in a variety of ways. If you universalized Medicare, eliminating insurance entirely, you'd get costs somewhere in between Medicare's current admin overhead and the overhead of private insurance (you mechanically would not get Medicare's current overhead, because the majority of your customers would have much lower claims than Medicare's all-seniors patients do, and overhead is a ratio).

But the largest inefficiencies are all on the providers side. We simply pay practitioners too much, enforce artificial scarcity of practitioners, and prescribe too many services.

So if we're talking about "The American System" as a whole --- which is what the thread is about --- it behooves us first to consider the question "how much better would things be if we simply zeroed this category of expense out". The answer is, to a first approximation, we would get a 6.5% price break. I would not drive even a couple blocks out of my way to get a 6.5% price break on a pack of chicken breasts.
by someguy90210 | 2025-10-28 21:16:30+00:00
While the seemingly never-eroding mystique of wizardry given to developers from non-devs is flattering, I'm not sure there isn't the same distribution of psychological traits across other technical fields requiring lots of problem solving.

My pattern of thinking is basically: keep loading context in my mind until enough is accumulated and I'm able to solve the problem, re-assessing assumptions and redirecting focus as necessary.

Or, "What the fuck? <git blame> What the fuck were you thinking when you wrote this? Nothing? I bet it was nothing, you dumb feckless piece of dog shit. God dammit I hate you. <smoke break>"
by p0w3n3d | 2025-10-28 21:16:40+00:00
Actually sideloading is not a made-up term. It's an existing term, that was (20yrs ago) used regarding to cracks and trainers software. Sideloaders loaded (mainly in DOS but Atari had it too) the main executable along with additional program, a routine or interrupt that would allow disabling of copy protection, cheat on the amount of lives, energy in games (trainers) or simply do something more like play demo music before the game's proper launching. One example - prehistorik game that was distributed by pirates with a "pretrain.com" which allowed to select unlimited lives and sideloaded this routine along with the main program, that would periodically check the counters and keep them up.

-- edit --

Apparently after checking this term in the internet, I am not so sure that this process had been called this way. Maybe I'll leave it here to provoke a correct answer according to the internet rule #1 - to learn what is the correct answer, just post an incorrect answer in the internet and wait
by stevenhubertron | 2025-10-28 21:16:47+00:00
Cocaine Discovered During Biden’s administration, a U.S. Secret Service agent discovered a small, zippered plastic bag containing cocaine in the West Wing entrance lobby. Speculation has pointed to Hunter Biden, an admitted drug user. Additional evidence includes a laptop, seized in 2019, which contains photos of frequent drug use alongside emails about foreign business dealings (Ukraine, China) involving his father, Joe, while he was Vice President.
by fwip | 2025-10-28 21:16:59+00:00
Yeah - they support HDR10 (the most common HDR), HDR10+ (adds per-scene tone-mapping, but is rare to see media for), but not Dolby Vision (which requires paying a license fee to the Dolby folks).

I've heard that Netflix has added HDR10+ streams recently, but I haven't verified that myself.
by Terr_ | 2025-10-28 21:17:13+00:00
> data that was unlawfully obtained or one which actually violated the contract-law

This is indeed a weak-point in the contract approach: People can't be bound by an contract they never knew about nor agreed-to.

However if they acquired a "stolen" copy of my content, then (IANAL) it might offer some new options over in the copyright-law realm: Is it still "fair use" when my content was acquired without permission? If a hacker stole my manuscript-file for a future book, is it "fair use" for an AI company to train on it?

> it wasn't the person creating the prompt which generated the movie via the model

The contract doesn't limit what the model outputs, so it doesn't matter who to blame for making/using prompts.

However the model-maker still traded with me, taking my stuff and giving me a copyright sub-license for what comes out. The "violation" would be if they said: "Hey, you can't use my output like that."

> So could I use both square and circle now? [...] a squircle

Under contract law, it doesn't matter: We're simply agreeing to exchange things of value, which don't need to be similar.

Imagine a contract where I trade you 2 eggs and you promise me 1 slice of cake. It doesn't matter if you used those eggs in that cake, or in a different cake, or you re-sold the eggs, or dropped the eggs on the floor by accident. You still owe me a slice of cake. Ditto for if I traded you cash, or shiny rocks.

The main reason to emphasize that "my content is embedded in the model" has to do with fairness: A judge can void a contract if it is too crazy ("unconscionable"). Incorporating my content into the their model is an admission that it is valuable, and keeping it there indefinitely justifies my request for an indefinite license.

> What if square party wants to re-license it to X but circle party wants to re-license it to Y

If the model-runner generates X and wants to give square-prompter an exclusive license to the output, then that's a violation of their contract with me, and it might be grounds to force them to expensively re-train their entire model with my content removed.

A non-exclusive license is fine though.