MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BeetleB | 2025-10-02 18:28:42+00:00
I know Sam says stuff, but I don't think he actually is worried about it. It's to his benefit to say things like this, as he gets to be involved in setting the rules that will ultimately benefit him.

As for Hinton:

> He said (paraphrased): "I know it's not 0%, and it's not 100%. It's somewhere in between. The number I picked is just how I feel about it."

I'm not claiming he's not worried about it. I'm providing context on how he came up with his percentage.
by hluska | 2025-10-02 18:28:58+00:00
Many years ago, my roommate was working on his PhD in geology while my history obsession was in full bloom and we talked about this a little. He made some interesting points about iron versus copper supply and how its relative abundance meant that some cultures would have had access to iron long before access to copper.

The transition to iron was very slow and some places kept using bronze for centuries. There’s also no single point (known) for where the Iron Age started. In Nigeria, for example, it seems most likely that Nok people worked with iron first and had no significant Copper or Bronze Age.

I think that the closest answer is that we don’t know for sure, but evidence seems to show that the path to iron followed different paths in different parts of the world. In some cases, the copper industry would have been heavily involved. In other places, an iron industry seemed to take shape before a copper industry, so the developments would have been independent.
by jake-salomon | 2025-10-02 18:30:03+00:00
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by sirfz | 2025-10-02 18:30:26+00:00
The party refusing any kind of deal are Israel since their goal is annihilation of Palestinians. Hamas were ready from day one for a deal, their goal (contrary to israeli narrative of course) was to negotiate prisoner exchange for the 1000s of Palesitnian prisoners held by israel (including children). This is still their goal along with ceasefire and complete withdrawal from Gaza.
by borski | 2025-10-02 18:30:28+00:00
The kids who aren't falling behind but are bored often eventually fall behind, because they did not have enough opportunities to grow and explore.

It's not only those who are failing that need help. (And I agree they shouldn't be treated as defects)

But gifted kids do exist, and they have all sorts of existential questions and concerns that other kids don't tend to worry themselves about. Unaddressed, these kids end up miserable, depressed, and anxious... which is why it's important to pay attention to them too.

Whether Kindergarten is the right age is a different question, but to imply that only those failing need help is simply untrue.

Individualized education would be ideal, but close to impossible, for obvious reasons.
by surgical_fire | 2025-10-02 18:30:35+00:00
Ahhh, my bad. I took your original take as a role where you would oversee other people, in opposition to an IC - who I presumed could only be "mid-level".

So yeah, I totally agree with you. Understanding the business is important in that sense. Especially when communicating the outcome of projects to non-technical stakeholders. I go out of my way on my current role to produce metrics that I can graph to show the positive outcomes of projects.

One of the things I learned is that non-technical people in particular love this sort of eye-candy. I don't say this in a derogatory way, it is a good way to communicate stuff.
by mothballed | 2025-10-02 18:31:27+00:00
Not sure you're understanding. The insurance companies can't gouge by jacking up profits because that's illegal. They can't ever become a big component of healthcare spending nominally, but they can be the actor that causes a big component of health care costs to baloon.

The way insurance companies might gouge is by jacking up healthcare prices, since they act as a government-captured oligopoly block and thus don't have normal free market forces. That is how they could increase nominal profits without increasing % profits.

They could jack up health care prices massively while only being measured as a small % of the total. Whether this is actually the case or not, I'm not sure, but the incentives demand that they do it if they can. It should be impossible to pull off such a cartel in any unregulated market, but due to the way healthcare works it seems more likely it could be true.
by kramer2718 | 2025-10-02 18:31:54+00:00
I agree that simply emailing in copies of identity documents after the fact shouldn't be sufficient. However, there should be a verification process that includes verification of identity documents through legal means, including perhaps a processing fee. The fee would preclude many attackers from even trying to break this process.

Maybe this would only work for new accounts as you'd probably need to provide identity information on before losing access.
by constantcrying | 2025-10-02 18:31:59+00:00
You don't get it. This is not a moral argument, it is about economic inevitability.

You can not be long term more prosperous than the rest of the world, while consuming more and producing less. The prosperity in the west is the result of historic circumstance, where mass production of basically every good allowed for an enormous export of goods, while the west was radically innovating in science and engineering and every other field. That is where the prosperity came from.

50 years ago the average American auto worker was genuinely 10x more effective than his Chinese counterpart. That is why he earned so much more. Right now that is no longer the case. American companies can not make money by selling US made cars in China, it is an insane economic proposition. In fact American companies can not really make money selling cars anywhere but America (maybe some in Europe), which means that there is less money that American auto workers can make by producing cars.

>To me it seems much more ridiculous to expect Western citizens to accept a degradation in living standards for the abstract notion of some universal economic efficiency. Though you can easily argue we're headed that way, it's mostly because of government capture by multinational corps.

It is not ridiculous. It is inevitable and begging the government to stop it, is like begging the government to make 1 plus 1 equal 3. There is no economic policy that makes China less of a competitor. Whatever anyone "deserves" is putting a moral spin on something which is not a moral question.

China is just as good as America at making cars, in fact it is much better, especially at lower price points. This significantly lower the economic value any American worker can provide and by that it lowers the prosperity he can gain.

>Countries restrain naked competition all the time to benefit their people.

But it is competition between countries.
by timroty | 2025-10-02 18:32:07+00:00
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by rdtsc | 2025-10-02 18:32:13+00:00
> Google wants to win in Quantum so bad, they have to make up for their absolutely embarrassing lack of hindsight with AI

Quite the opposite, they have plenty of hindsight. One might argue it's 20/20 even!

With DeepSeek what we found was that the moat wasn't that deep (pun intended!) and they may have lacked some foresight, they caught up pretty well.
by dangus | 2025-10-02 18:32:29+00:00
I’ll admit it’s not the best, but “huge dealbreaker” seems dramatic.

1. It’s not even a requirement for business/enteprise customers.

2. It remains trivial for technical users to bypass.

3. Literal billions of iPhone and Android users live with a similar soft restriction. Like, yeah, you can skip making an account on those devices, but they’re damn near useless in practice without them.
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-02 18:32:33+00:00
>We’ve had two trifectas!

When? The 50 days Obama had a "trifecta" that couldn't actually pass democrat policy because 49 + A guy who refuses to push democrat policy isn't an actual "majority"?

When Democrats had actual power under Clinton but again, that was neoliberal bullshit to try and have any power again, and despite doing very well, americans still rejected those politicians for literal political dynasty and reelected a war criminal who lied to their face to start a war.

>https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Combined...

Notice not just the significant change in how we have more split governments now, and how "majorities" are rarely more than a couple politicians. Republicans empirically "fall in line" for votes more than "democrats" which often includes people who are not even registered democrats (not in this graph though).

> Congressional obstructionism as the minority was turned an art by the GOP. Every step in committee and on the floor can be gummed up.

They weren't the minority. They were exercising majority powers.

>Is the argument might makes right? Or law? Your comment is all over the place.

I made no such claim to either. The voters have the power, and they have demonstrably decided that republicans deserve that power more. Democrats are told that they should change their policy, but research shows that voters just don't vote for you as much if you have (D) next to your name, regardless of policy proposal, and hopefully the previous few elections have shown that policy literally doesn't matter because Americans don't care about good policy plans or apparently real life.

There is a double standard. If republicans literally break the law to do things, as Trump keeps doing, they still get re-elected. If a democrat does the same, the entire party suffers.

So sure, lets have the tiny amount of democrats remaining in government do blatantly criminal things so they can all be put in jail and their states outright taken over by the current admin which is popular.

There is no short term solution. There is no solution that Democrat politicians can do on their own.

The long term solution is Americans finally re-learning the Republican governance doesn't work well. History shows that will take decades, and significant suffering. You can ask the current remaining democrat politicians to sacrifice themselves on the altar of "Don't just stand by", but polling shows that doing illegal things to protect brown people or trans people will not win elections. Americans are not that empathetic.
by andrewl-hn | 2025-10-02 18:32:50+00:00
You may have a tall mas or an antenna and massive cables stretching at angles around it for support. The distance between the base of the mast and the base of supporting cables can be quite large, so even a simple logic like "stay 100m away from tall structures" can be insufficient.

It would be interesting to see what comes out of this investigation. Hopefully the injured person will be alright.
by lordnacho | 2025-10-02 18:32:51+00:00
The drawing of the pyramid addresses something I've been saying to people for years on this topic:

School is conveyor belt. Everyone can be educated, everyone can learn what they teach you in school. Depending on where you went, you can all be high quality or you can all be terrible. You can pretend to compete, but in the end, nobody is really stopping you from anything.

Work, and by that I mean high-achievement work that is the type of thing that the top kids end up applying for, is a pyramid. You can have the cream of the crop starting a new analyst class, every single one of them a top 1% achiever in education. Most of them by far (like really far) will not be MD or CEO. Whether you are the guy who makes it rarely depends on anything you have control over.

I need to tell people this, because if you go to a top uni, you've run into a lot of people who were studious, ambitious kids. They think "hey, if I put more effort in, I get rewarded". Which is true for these non-rivalrous things like science exams.

Then they graduate, and if you were an ambitious kid there's a fair chance you gravitate towards certain careers. And in those careers, the game is different. If you think being a good kid will help you, you will be frustrated. Other young professionals have got the same plan, to stay up until the early hours working. Or spending time playing the politics game. IMO you can't really win at the pyramid game, even if you make it to the top there's a lot of sacrifice and a lot of nervousness about whether you get there and how long you can stay.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-02 18:33:30+00:00
What are your thoughts on something like arturo which I know is quite recent but it has a lot of features for scripting and an argument might in fact be made that it is in fact it might have too many batteries but it was an absolute pleasure to learn and I had a lot of aha moments in their discord server and the community was really pleasant to follow through actually.

I know its definitely smaller but I just want your opinions on it and what you might think of the language and I may be a bit sorry if this comes across as a little off topic but your blog really reminded me of arturo and my attempts on creating something like hugo in arturo but the project was abandoned mid way but if I remember correctly it was just some 50 lines of code to convert from markdown to complete website or even less since arturo's battery include markdown syntax as well as well as a web server and its written in nim which I cherish too.

I am genuinely interested in your opinions about it!

https://arturo-lang.io/
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-10-02 18:33:57+00:00
If it was that simple, the current administration would've gotten rid of the Supreme Court.

It's not that simple, for a reason.

To abolish the Supreme Court, the Constitution itself would need to be changed. This requires a constitutional amendment, which requires much more than simply 60 senators and a majority in the house.

It's almost as if our country wasn't founded by complete morons - who had the insight to figure out that at some point in the future, it would be possible for morons to get a simple majority.

You can expand the supreme court with 60 senators - but that's only happened a handful of times (13 - 4 of which happened under FDR, 5 of which happened from 59-69, so 4 times outside of that, and only once since 79 after the 2008 meltdown).
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-02 18:33:58+00:00
> will be interesting to see if this causes a war between the US Federal forces and whatever local armed forces the states could muster

It wouldn't. It would provoke Trump into an overreaction. But war takes two to tango, and Democrats aren't--and shouldn't be--ready for civil war. (If Trump spent the next three years fighting Gavin Newsom for jailing his ICE agents, that's a win. It means he has less time to do something else.)
by lubesGordi | 2025-10-02 18:34:05+00:00
I think its just a simple matter of aesthetics. Some people find violence ugly, and don't like looking at it. Some people think that by looking at it you're somehow coming to a greater understanding of the world or something. Maybe that is the case for some super sheltered individuals, but I doubt it's the case on the whole.

If anyone has any ideas on what the point of violence in art is, I'm open to hearing it. Obviously horror is a genre and so is gore, and people seem to enjoy being shocked. I don't think that is what McCarthy was going for though. And he wasn't going for the vengeance-catharsis angle like Tarantino either.
by blindriver | 2025-10-02 18:35:23+00:00
I first started mistrusting the media when I saw the scathing media reports from NYT and Kara Swisher over Uber that were completely wrong and diametrically opposed to what I saw with my own eyes. Being wrong is one thing, but the completely lack of willingness to correct themselves really opened my eyes. It was clear they had an agenda to hurt Uber as much as they could regardless of the facts.

After that, everything I saw just reinforced this, especially during the Pandemic until I stopped believing the media altogether. The worst part was the media repeating lies that I could see were lies with my own eyes, and they were trying to gaslight me into submission. When it started to confuse my own children is where I drew the line and I am teaching them to disbelieve the media as well.

I don't trust any media at all, whether or not it's confirming or dispelling my own beliefs. Anything I see I will always double check because I assume I'm being manipulated in one way or the other.
by KaiserPro | 2025-10-02 18:35:44+00:00
You questions, which are entirely valid, are why decent legal education is vital

Common law has the concept of reasonableness.

If you're a single person hosting a simple website, having logs is perfectly reasonable thing to have to check for fraud and other nefarious things.

> You sent me an email, do I have to delete my copy?

Depends who hosts the email server, and is it commercial. Buisnesses need a purpose for holding onto emails, its not reasonable for a non business single person to have one.

> You answered a long thread about an esoteric computing question, hypothetically under the name denvercoder9, do I have to delete that comment? What about the replies to it which quote you?

Thats actually interesting, the only thing that PII is the name, so if the name is deleted thats complying.

> I have evidence that you committed a crime of some sort, do I have to delete that?

There is a specific carve out for criminality.
by tzs | 2025-10-02 18:35:54+00:00
I sometimes do.

If I'm using a navigation system to actively guide me somewhere I usually use CarPlay.

If I'm just using it to display where I currently am and let me see the nearby roads sometimes I use CarPlay and sometimes the built-in Hyundai system.

CarPlay has a nicer looking map, but when not actively navigating it updates the display noticeably slower when I'm turning.

CarPlay's compass sucks--it just shows the heading as N, NW, W, SW, S, SE, E, or NE. Hyundai's does the more traditional spinning indicator that points North and has way better resolution. It's way better when I'm driving in some twisty place and am trying to understand my orientation--I can see at a glance rather than having to read CarPlay's text direction and translate in my head to a visualization.

CarPlay is quite a bit better at labeling streets. It usually names the side streets I pass. Hyundai tends to only name the bigger ones, and when it does the typography is less readable than CarPlay's. CarPlay is also more likely to show buildings.

Hyundai's colors are better at night.

Hyundai shows traffic lights, whereas CarPlay only shows them when actively navigating. I prefer to see them even when passively navigating.

The car is an EV and I think the Hyundai nav system has some features to help with finding chargers, but I haven't looked into that. I've got 48A @ 240V (11.5 kW) charging at home and in the nearly 6 months I've had the car I've never charged anywhere but home.
by abxyz | 2025-10-02 18:35:58+00:00
The point I am making in this thread is that there are no mandatory costs, that receiving an angry letter from the lawyers of a deep-pocketed litigant is financially inconsequential. The choice to hire legal representation and pay them "high four figures" to write a response is a choice. Hiring legal representation for court is a choice, too.

The courts are very kind to people who choose to represent themselves, especially when the litigants are obviously abusing the system to try and silence individuals. The point you're making seems to be that you must spend money to defend against spurious defamation claims so I have asked you to provide any evidence of a case where an individual is accused of libel and has suffered because they chose not to spend money.

I am not trolling. I disagree with the suggestion that the U.K. libel laws create an environment where people are scared to speak truth because there is a real threat of an expensive lawsuit. My position is that the fear people have of expensive lawsuits comes from other people fear mongering, in comments like yours, either based on a misunderstanding of a case they've seen publicised or because of information they've been given by legal professionals in a different context.
by pointyfence | 2025-10-02 18:36:09+00:00
TSMC isn't a monopoly. You could go to Samsung like Tesla did. People weren't bringing monopoly worries in 2018 when Intel shut down their first disastrous attempt at being a foundry after about 5 years.

What you're seeing now is an "offer you can't refuse" to the fabless designers to direct private capital to Intel by the US for national security reasons and some political points. It buys Intel cash which it desperately needs for its foundry efforts and is a quasi-bailout of Intel shareholders and debtholders. The problem is that Intel doesn't know how to be a foundry in terms of volume and breadth of customers and will need an indefinite amount of capital to learn.
by xvrqt | 2025-10-02 18:36:31+00:00
There are already above intelligence computer programs and we have subjugated each one.

There are already greater than human organisms that are reliably the biggest danger and boon to humanity but are also composed of humans; i.e. societies

The effort to build a program which beats defeats a specific program (as opposed to a general case) is significantly easier than maintaining a general lead. i.e. easier to kill a bad head of state than to run one, but this is also true of "AI" models now

There are already complex systems vastly beyond human understanding, and certainly our control which are indifferent to our survival and yet we persist.

It's not that "AI" isn't a potential danger, just that it's one of many we are already enduring. Personally there are far more present and likely hazards I am focusing on before getting to the hypothetical ones. Even if humanity fails to fumble its way through this hazard, it's not an end but a new beginning.

Also, it's great satire.
by skyriser | 2025-10-02 18:36:33+00:00
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