MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ben_w | 2025-10-13 16:37:22+00:00
> That would nuke the economy, as it currently exists. What's any modern American business following McKinsey "best practices" going to do to the people whose jobs it can automate? It'll fire them all, ASAP (except maybe one or two left to do supervision and monitoring, if it's not totally brain dead). Then the entire mass-consumer-driven economy would collapse and wither, due to mass unemployment.

I also said "not even a fast learner".

If everything is just automated, all immediately at once and the AI is forever able to just do all possible labour, rather than as I suggested a case where it takes the AI as long to gather sufficient training data from watching humans as self-driving cars are taking to do that, that nukes the (human relevance to the) economy.

But that's not the scenario I gave there.

This scenario I gave is one in which humans do still have a comparative advantage: we learn faster, so we can get working on new jobs and make a decent amount in each of them before any given AI has time to master the skills needed for that job's tasks by watching us.

(That said, and I didn't think of this with the previous comment, there's also a whole bunch of questions that start with "yes, but how much does it cost?" and then dive into a huge level of detail).

> You'd have to shrink your lifestyle to live like the bottom quintile.

Way ahead of you :P

Actually, while bottom quintile would be an increase for me (though an unnecessary one as I'm fine because I don't care about the materialist lifestyle), keeping even that would rely on my tenant still being able to pay me rent, so in any realistic scenario I'd still have problems.

> and the economy will reorient into a weird thing chiefly concerned with satisfying the whims of the riches billionaires.

It will definitely be weird, but I suspect most or all the current big winners are likely to be very unsatisfied. Outside Context Problem.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-10-13 16:38:33+00:00
You saying that 1. since 4chan is a message board Trump might change his tariff policy to save it where he would't if it was a porn site and 2. Trump feels he owes them for 2016?

I think neither a murky ideological battle nor a decade-old debt matters much to the president. And it probably matters that the UK made a tariff deal already, so changing terms would be a big act of self-sabotage.
by pests | 2025-10-13 16:38:53+00:00
I had read the coal plants are also political safety nets for the local governments. Some populace is worried the switch to renewables will go wrong and they will freeze over winter, so the coal plants are built as a perceived backup option.

As another comment pointed out, China isn’t afraid to let infrastructure sit idle. That if these coal plants sit unused or demolished in the end - it would be better than the political risk mentioned above.
by PKop | 2025-10-13 16:39:01+00:00
Learning that Stellantis pushes bugs that cause power and engine failure while driving should decrease demand for their cars.

> or something

Maybe do some research into the problem you're confidently asserting was trivial / read the article you're commenting on:

"...others claim to have experienced a powertrain failure at highway speeds."

https://www.reddit.com/r/Jeep/comments/1o47064/jeep_4xe_shut...
by DamnInteresting | 2025-10-13 16:39:03+00:00
> I'm not by nature a luddite

Our modern view of the Luddites is not a fair shake. The Luddites were not opposed to technology in general, they merely (and understandably) opposed having their own livelihoods replaced by automation.[1] It's a familiar sentiment in these times.

Incidentally, I'm not implying that you don't know what the original Luddites were about; I add my comment for the benefit of anyone else who may be unfamiliar with the backstory.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
by munch117 | 2025-10-13 16:39:10+00:00
> If you think you disagree with him (as I once did), please consider the possibility that you've only been exposed to an ersatz characterization of his argument.

My first exposure was a video of Searle himself explaining the Chinese room argument.

It came across as a claim that a whole can never be more than its parts. It made as much sense as claiming that a car cannot possibly drive, as it consists of parts that separately cannot drive.
by andrewinardeer | 2025-10-13 16:39:12+00:00
I believe that short form video coupled with infinite scroll mesmerizes humans. It keeps them in a trance by using suspense. The brain absolutely must know how the video plays out whether that be waiting for the punchline, a fight to break our or a fact to be delivered. Once the brain has locked eyes on the video the user must put significant energy into making a conscious decision to look away.

Even OpenAI's latest Sora app leans into this format and the videos there are literally the poorest quality on the Internet. 99.999% of them are eight seconds of unintelligent, unintelligible, low grade digitally created excrement.

There should be a law against it.

Big Tech knows this. They have teams of people with doctorates making apps engaging.
by naet | 2025-10-13 16:39:36+00:00
We still have a large toshiba CRT as our primary tv. I always use composite cables for the old Nintendos but use component cables for hooking up a computer to watch something modern. It also has S video but I've never used it.

An old video game just looks and feels right on a CRT in a way that it doesn't on a modern hd tv, to me at least. That doesn't necessarily mean it looks "better", however you might define it.

It's like listening to a record. Records are lower quality than CDs or other digital options due to limitations of the analog technology, but they can still be a real joy to listen to on an older stereo system. There is a certain warmth, a little bit of crackle or pop, maybe a different dynamic range and other things that make a record sometimes more enjoyable, even though the "quality" is technically far lower. I think sometimes we can get lost in the technical specifications of pixel density or color range or audio bitrate and end up missing out on things that can prove the human experience.

A couple other random things about CRTs: there are so many that are 4:3 or standard aspect ratio instead of the widescreen that dominates today. Watching something 4:3 that fills the whole screen (without the black letterboxing of a widescreen) feels so good and makes me miss the aspect ratio. On the flip side, I also want to find one of the HD CRTs that is widescreen to run some of my more modern devices through.
Want to own code that powers billion-dollar decisions?
by nohojake | 2025-10-13 16:39:41+00:00
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by tharmas | 2025-10-13 16:40:01+00:00
We already live in a Plutonomy. Already 50% of sales in USA is by the top 10%. The top 1% make most of their money selling to the top 10%. The Elites don't need us for consumption to make money. Walmart is reconfiguring their sales model to carry more "luxury” items. And now with AI the Wealthy wont need human labor hardly at all. We are surplus to requirements.

The sad thing is it doesn't have to be like this. AI could be used to reduce peoples working hours and give them more leisure hours.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-10-13 16:40:03+00:00
We have to make power somehow and they all want to use said power. It mostly just boils down to nimbyism at the end of the day. They are just unaware of (or don’t care about) areas like cancer alley where we dump all our mining/refining/processing/etc. in an already impoverished area that can’t push back the same way wealthy neighborhoods with social status can.
by tyami94 | 2025-10-13 16:40:24+00:00
Halium is a hack around crummy vendors doing sub-par work. It is technically impressive but it doesn't resolve the underlying issue that the crummy vendor kernel will never be updated. Saying that Halium is not a good enough solution in the long-term does not make one a purist, it's a simple fact. Devices that rely on Halium are dead-on-arrival.
by hubabuba44 | 2025-10-13 16:40:25+00:00
I'm working on rustnet (https://github.com/domcyrus/rustnet) which is a cross-platform network monitoring TUI built with Rust that provides real-time visibility into network connections with deep packet inspection.

Currently I'm spending numerous hours trying to package for multiple Linux distributions. I have to say that building for Ubuntu using the Debian build system and Launchpad seems like a way to spend days for nothing except frustration :) Maybe the problem is also me / PEBKAC
by jdubansky | 2025-10-13 16:40:54+00:00
I have been working on a simple SAST like AI code scanning tool. Currently it only uses OpenAI API to do the scanning but maybe if I get access to other APIs I can add them. There are still a lot of features I would like to add but I am building this in two parts, the CLI scanner and the web management UI. At the moment the UI and scanner run together but eventually I want to break this out so that the scanner can just report findings to the UI remotely. This would be nice if running from a CI/CD environment. I eventually also plan to add some sort of scoping to the scanner so it can be targeted to new branches.

Posting this as maybe it will help other orgs out there that are looking for SAST and want to do it cheaply. https://github.com/jdubansky/sassycode
by newpavlov | 2025-10-13 16:40:55+00:00
In most cases locale is encoded in character itself, i.e. Latin "a" and Cyrillic "a" are two different characters, despite being visually indistinguishable in most cases.

The "language-sensitive" section of the special casing document [0] is extremely small and contains only the cases of stupid reuse of Latin I.

[0]: https://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/SpecialCasing....
by mjburgess | 2025-10-13 16:41:26+00:00
Define any property of interest. Eg., O = "reacting with oxygen"

S is a simulation of O iff there is an inferential process, P, by which properties of O can be estimated from P(S) st. S does not implement O

Eg., "A video game is a simulation of a fire burning if, by playing that game, I can determine how long the fire will burn w/o there being any fire involved"

S is an emulation model of O iff ...as-above.. S implements O (eg., "burning down a dollhouse to model burning down a real house").
by spogbiper | 2025-10-13 16:41:55+00:00
There needs to be a mandatory override for any lock down put in place by a manufacturer. I understand the need for security, but it should be illegal to prevent me from bypassing security if I decide to on my own device. Make it take multiple clicks and show me scary warnings, that's fine.

Technically Android still allows installation of anything if you use the debugging tool. Maybe that is where we have to draw the line, I'm not sure.
by moffkalast | 2025-10-13 16:42:25+00:00
As with manifest v3, Google is once again misusing their position as a source of open standards to benefit their adware business. Hopefully the EU fines them once again.

A weird hill to choose to die on given that in practice it's not really a meaningful percentage of people that are using adblockers and the negative PR they get from these oversteps is massive.
by anovikov | 2025-10-13 16:42:34+00:00
With LNG, it's not as bad. It is about as bad as oil imports. No dependence is created because all LNG is the same and you can just buy it from anyone on the market - unlike a pipeline that creates a mutual dependence.

We can see though that it turned out to be worse for Russia than for Europe: they haven't found another export market when Europe declined imports, only other candidate is China but knowing they are the only ones, they demanded, and got, deep discounts. Pricing of "Power of Siberia" supplies is not public and it's been claimed that given transportation costs, it actually sells gas cheaper than Russian internal prices.
by nakamoto_damacy | 2025-10-13 16:42:50+00:00
Wait. What if the AI gold rush contributes to better industrial robotics and ushers in an AI industrial revolution? China already has dark factories with no humans on the assembly line. Isn't that a possible outcome of the AI gold rush? (I mean omitting the fact that ChatGPT 5 Pro still says stuff like: "You’re right. I made a bad inference and defended it. That’s on me." We don't want that behavior on the assembly line.
by kragen | 2025-10-13 16:42:51+00:00
I think the first several editions (two? three?) were in Pascal, yeah.

The first time I saw TP was on my uncle's Kaypro, which was sort of even more amazing: the screen wasn't capable of blue, the keyboard didn't have an F1 key, and the CPU wasn't capable of instant compilation. But the alternatives were assembly language and Microsoft BASIC!
by bena | 2025-10-13 16:43:00+00:00
A lot of this comes back to Dodge v Ford. The Dodge brothers sued the Ford Motor Company because Ford wanted to cut prices and invest in the company while removing dividends to shareholders. The Dodges disagreed with this and sued. The courts found in favor of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
by clashncruz | 2025-10-13 16:43:02+00:00
Not sure why someone flagged my post, here it is again:

Excellent, a new way to test for the "fibrinaloid clots", a term that has only recently appeared in the literature since 2022, directly after the first experimental injections were administered worldwide and 2 years after the declared pandemic. It sounds like the authors are assuming "long Covid" comes from Covid rather than the experimental injections without ever having ruled out the latter, even though the onset correlates temporally with the experimental injections far more than the declared pandemic. Since this term never existed in the literature during the first 2 years of the declared pandemic, and only finally appeared in 2022 (and only in 1 article) before it started gaining traction, we must ask ourselves the following questions if we are truly interested in pursuing the scientific method: 1. Did the authors categorize the test subjects by those who had received the COVID-19 injection and those who had not? 2. If not, how do we rule out these effects being long-term effects from the experimental injections which cause people's bodies to continually produce the Spike protein the authors discuss in their paper as being the cause of the "fibrinaloid clots"? 3.Isn't this continual production of Spike induced by the injections something that should be controlled for to answer the question one way or another?

Suggestions: Test for "fibrinaloid clots" in subjects who have had confirmed COVID-19 and categorize them by how many experimental injections they received; include patients who received none. Then plot the number of experimental injections per patient on the x axis and the detected microclot size on the y axis.

Best regards to all.
by SllX | 2025-10-13 16:43:22+00:00
> The pernicious thing that neutralizes many people like yourself

I get exactly how people view private American companies abroad and that’s irrelevant to what I actually said.

Why are governments running all their communications and services through a private American app? Even in America, we’re not doing that, and there is always a fallback in some form of the telephone system, email, the postal service, the web or just showing up in person for anything that is absolutely essential. If I’m doing anything through a 3rd party app like WhatsApp instead, it’s either not that essential, or I’m doing it as a convenience but the fallbacks are always there.

So when people are talking about utterly essential services being run through WhatsApp and only WhatsApp, that seems like the obvious problem, because if that’s true, that’s also very stupid, and also a very stupid choice. Facebook profits from the situation, you could even say America profits from the situation, but you can’t say it isn’t without mutual engagement and compliance on the part of the supposedly aggrieved parties here.
Has Anyone Tried Working with a Google Ads Consultant?
by adiheureux | 2025-10-13 16:43:40+00:00
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by skeeter2020 | 2025-10-13 16:43:46+00:00
I don't think it's typically this explicit or direct, but it can definitely flow more like 1. company is not doing buybacks, 2. performance is judged against comparables in the short (quarterly) term using metrics that prioritize the affects of buybacks, 3. major stakeholders (big stock holders, institutions, funds, etc) put pressure on the board, 4. CEO pushes back and is dismissed for performance or "not hitting targets". Functionally a lot of players in power positions prefer buy backs, optics are better for a surging stock vs. modest increase in dividends, and it favours short-term metrics.
by mixologic | 2025-10-13 16:43:58+00:00
If you want to install software on your Microsoft Windows computer, it has to be signed by a verified developer, otherwise you get an overridable warning that the developer cannot be verified, the software may contain malware etc.

If you want to install software on you MacOS machine, the same thing applies. It must come from a verified developer with an apple account, otherwise you get a warning and must jump through hoops to override. As of macos15.1 this is considerably more difficult to override.

If you want to install iOS apps, the apps have to be signed by a verified developer. Theres no exceptions.

I just dont see a future where being able to create and publish an app anonymously is going to be supported.

Becoming a verified developer is a PITA, and can take a while or be impossible (i.e. getting a DUNS number if you're in a sanctioned country might be not at all possible) but at the same time, eliminating the ability of our devices from running any old code it downloads and runs is a huge safety win.
by schrectacular | 2025-10-13 16:44:00+00:00
I had a HS friend who was a serious swimmer (not quite Olympic level but he won state championships) and watching him eat was insane. He would eat about 3x of what we all ate. Like literally down 3 sandwiches while we had one. I think he was on a 6000 calorie a day diet. I believe the potato thing. It sure sits outside what I think I could eat, but having seen others do similar, it seems realistic.
by belorn | 2025-10-13 16:44:17+00:00
This is a perfect example where simulations would be really great to demonstrate the cost of replacing the nuclear power station with an alternative. Take last 5 years worth of weather data and energy consumption, run a combination of solar and lithium storage solution for a similar cost as what is being suggested (say $8B), and see if they would fill in the role of the nuclear power plant. If they can't, add one or several natural gas peak plants to the mix and use less storage, and find how much would be needed. Some cost would be added to build new transmission, but it can be added on top of the simulation.

Replacing base load with solar and batteries, especially for days when weather makes supply the lowest and demand the highest, is in general a non-trivial problem, but it is location dependent. Maybe California is one where it make sense.
by mike_hearn | 2025-10-13 16:44:21+00:00
Yes, but, thinking critically about this, why would learning how to hand-weave on a loom teach critical thinking? I get that you weren't doing these courses at Stanford but it's this kind of thing that makes people skeptical when universities make grandiloquent claims. Stanford is supposed to be the gold standard, so when it makes it appear that they teach critical thinking but actually don't (or it's at least very easy to make choices that won't do so) of course the claim is devalued.

If universities really cared about this aspect of their reputation they'd defend it by firing professors who were found to not be thinking critically e.g. by praising or putting their names on papers that are clearly fraudulent. It doesn't happen.
by orwin | 2025-10-13 16:44:35+00:00
In Iran, did the F35 got deep and low, like an A10 would? Were they used as B2 would, high altitude bombers? Or did they stayed at the border and were used as mobile EW planes to coordinate/acquire targets? Because I've read about 2 and 3, and too much internet almost made be believe 1, so I'm asking here where someone who actually know something might answer.
by umvi | 2025-10-13 16:44:35+00:00
> What was holding me back turned out to be the fact that git has too much magic

Considering jj is built on top of git, doesn't that mean jj has even more magic? That's like saying React is too magical so we should use Next.js instead (which is built on React).

Maybe you just mean that jj has a more intuitive CLI than git?
by ModernMech | 2025-10-13 16:44:50+00:00
That would depend on how the funding is controlled. If funding approvals had to go through partisan bureaucrats in the White House for approval, yes, that's a planned economy. Historically it's been disparate groups of scientists who decide how block grants from Congress get divided. I've had colleagues who go and work at the NSF just for that role. I wouldn't say that guy making decisions about what kind of programming languages research gets funding is planning the economy.

I also wouldn't say Congress allocating this or that block grants toward broad areas is planning the economy either. Usually planned economies are bad because it's one guy or one committee doing the planning, and they're really just a dysfunctional and doesn't incorporate evidence to make decisions. You get better decisions when you spread the planning across groups of loosely affiliated experts in their field.
by astura | 2025-10-13 16:45:13+00:00
>Not every day

There's the difference.

Once you spend every single day doing hard manual labor for years consuming potatoes for the majority of your calories then tell me 13 pounds is impossible.

Sure, its impossible for you now, but that's totally irrelevant. An equivalent statement would be "it's totally impossible for a human to throw a baseball at 90mph, I tried for a whole week once and I only threw 40mph."
by ndriscoll | 2025-10-13 16:45:54+00:00
Usually you just draw a 2D or 3D picture and say "n" while pointing to it. e.g. I had a professor that drew a 2D picture on a board where he labeled one axis R^m and the other R^n and then drew a "graph" when discussing something like the implicit function theorem. One takeaway of a lot of linear algebra is that doing this is more-or-less correct (and then functional analysis tells you this is still kind-of correct-ish even in infinite dimensions). Actually SVD tells you in some sense that if you look at things in the right way, the "heart" of a linear map is just 1D multiplication acting independently along different axes, so you don't need to consider all n dimensions at once.