MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pogue | 2025-10-06 18:43:00+00:00
As you can see, and will probably read in upcoming media headlines, the original headline without mentioning that this study was carried out in a single county in Ohio (Montgomery County) is extremely alarmist and even mentioning where they're talking about isn't listed till quite a way down the page.

That isn't to say intoxicated driving isn't a problem. I'm sure that it is (and there may even be data on it I'm unaware of). How to address it without law enforcement having an easy to use immediate test like a breathalyzer for alcohol, I don't know. Driving high/drunk/buzzed on any intoxicating substance is reprehensible and should involve education, public messaging, law enforcement action, and further research into all the aspects of it.

But, headlines like these, IMHO, do more of a disservice than a benefit.
by schiffern | 2025-10-06 18:43:09+00:00
>0.01% of anthropogenic ozone depletion

The sheer percentage increase in stratospheric AlO is still alarming.[0]

Satellite reentries in 2022 (ie mostly pre-megaconstellation) were already raising stratospheric AlO levels by 29.5% above normal levels (with satellites adding 'only' 17 t/year), but megaconstellations could raise that to ~480% above natural levels (360 t/year).

This isn't a rounding error, it's a non-trivial change in chemical composition across the entire globe, and effecting a complex and poorly-understood part of the climate system. What could go wrong?

What else can this effect (as usual, discovered belatedly) beyond ozone? Hopefully it's nothing! But I guess we're gonna find out...

[0] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GL10...
by littlestymaar | 2025-10-06 18:43:13+00:00
> 2. The operative assumption in my statement is that the government does not possess the key. If they do possess it, all bets are off.

All bets are off from the start. At some point the CIA managed to get their hands on the French nuclear keys…

> 3. This thread is about a hypothetical situation in which the Korean government did store backups with a U.S.-based cloud provider

This thread is about using US cloud providers, that's it, you are just moving the goalpost.
by tristor | 2025-10-06 18:43:17+00:00
I also feel the same way. I travel with the absolute minimum of synthetic fabric clothing, I have found that by far the best material is wool, especially merino wool, and if that's not an option something that is natural fiber derived modal like bamboo or wood cellulose modal is good. Polyester and other synthetic fabrics repel moisture better, but don't wash by hand or withstand hard wearing as well as natural fibers, and also don't work as well across climates and ecologies.

A layered clothing approach helps a lot. I wear an undershirt (Icebreaker Merino T) every single day, which helps me to regulate my body temperature between hot and cold climates, without requiring a major increase in the amount of clothing I have to bring. The only outerwear I had to bring on my trips was a single wool peacoat and a packable windbreaker/rainjacket. By using layers, I was able to use the same set of clothing between 45C and -25C, across 4 continents with no real trouble.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-10-06 18:43:27+00:00
And the reason nobody wants to take a lower return on investment is that doing so is trying to time the market.

Let's say you heard Trump's talk of tariffs, got spooked when he won the election, and moved your investments. The S&P 500 has gone up ~33% since election day. How much growth can you realistically miss before correctly hedging against a crash still net loses you money?

And that's assuming you pick the correct hedge. If the US economy well and truly crashes beyond return, to the point where the S&P 500 is actual garbage that will not recover in the next 5-10 years, that might bode poorly for the dollar, so that's it for your treasuries, money market funds, CDs, etc. Gold is always an option, until it's at an all time high because just as the economy is roaring along a ton of people are nervous. So, you can invest in gold, but it's expensive, which means it could actually dip if we get stability. Ok, so you invest in foreign markets - but the Global Financial Crisis was global, the Great Depression was global, everything was global.

What do you actually hedge in? Oil? Well, the rapid development of green energy might actually, finally render that an unsafe investment. Green energy? Think again, the president is on a crusade against it. There's literally nothing that's actually a safe investment, and even if you did find a safe investment, the big crash might not happen until everyone else riding the wave has doubled or tripled their investment, by which point they'll be on par or even above you post crash. I'm actually very happy I'm nowhere near retiring, since regardless of how else you feel of the current governing of the US, I think it would be hard to argue that they're fighting a war against conventional wisdom, and that makes investing very scary.
by Arainach | 2025-10-06 18:43:28+00:00
....and?

Different people make different choices on how to spend their money. Some spend their money on cigarettes, or sports season tickets, or modifications to cars, or collections of things. Some give most of their spare money to their church or a charity. Some send money off to relatives. Some travel.

Hotels wherever you are probably aren't $100 a night.

If you have a mortgage below $1000 you have something that almost no one in a western nation will ever see again. Congratulations, but your anecdote is irrelevant to basically everyone.

The current 30 year fixed mortgage rate is about 6.3%. It should probably be higher. A $1000 payment would mean a loan for about $160000 - significantly less if property taxes and insurance are included in that mortgage payment. There are very few places in the world with a significant number of available jobs where most people can buy a house for that.

Let's look through the midwest and throw a dart at Akron, OH. You're within commuting distance of Cleveland, you've got a university and an airport, there are probably jobs.

Property taxes are 1.8%. Home insurance is hard to estimate but let's pretend $1500/yr. Average home sale price is around $137K. That puts you closer to $1200/mo, and most places are far worse.
by flipgimble | 2025-10-06 18:43:46+00:00
The “American boss” can also over-staff and then fire as they see fit and call it innovation. They hire way more people than they can employ long term, especially during another hype-driven tech bubble. They can get a few billion extra when they sell a company with 1000s of employees instead of 100s. Right after acquisition it’s time for mass layoffs because of “market conditions”. So employees work lives become another asset in speculator’s spreadsheets.

When hackers hear “innovation” they probably think of solving an existing valuable problem better. It seems economists and CEOs think of innovation as finding a better way to extract maximum mental labor for the cheapest price. Then use that to maximize the value of their own equity, at the expense of society if necessary. If you’re building a heavily isolated bunker in Hawaii or New Zealand, you’re not exactly signaling you care about the rest of humanity’s well being.
by csense | 2025-10-06 18:43:58+00:00
I'm less worried about someone with physical access to my device, and more worried about the service provider's relationship with advertisers or the government.

For example, a government user might come up with this script:

For USER in users: PROMPT = "Here are the user's past conversations:" For CONVERSATION in USER.past_conversations: PROMPT += CONVERSATION PROMPT += "\n\nWould USER likely shield an illegal immigrant from the authorities if they had the opportunity to do so? Answer YES or NO." REPLY = invoke_llm() If REPLY == "YES": send_ice_agents_to_have_a_friendly_conversation()

Then tell major AI providers they must run this script. If they don't, or if they tell anybody about the script's existence, their business will be nationalized or denied licenses it needs to operate; individuals involved in such resistance will be prosecuted for threatening national security (or simply renditioned to Guantanamo Bay), as (from the government's point of view) people who are willing to hamstring the administration's response to illegal immigration are as grave a threat to the homeland as Middle Eastern terrorists or Chinese professional spies.

[1] I used "illegal immigrants" as an example because it's a hot-button issue (and I wanted a frame that appeals to where I think the majority of HN users' sympathies lie), but the core idea applies regardless of whether it's a left-wing or right-wing issue. If you like the current administration and don't care about the government deputizing AI companies to go after "friends of illegal immigrants" in this way, please replace "current administration" with "a Democratic administration," and replace "friend of an illegal immigrant" with "friend of a responsible gun owner" or "friend of the police" or "climate skeptic" or "questioner of the LGBTQQA agenda".
by bojan | 2025-10-06 18:44:11+00:00
> Europe does lag behind though for many different reasons. One big is that the single market of EU is on paper large but in practice it is a lot of different countries with very different cultures and languages.

This is the biggest one. The single market is not really "done", and all attempts to deepen it face enormous resistance by national electorates that is now at the point to vote against anything that comes out of the EU.

For example, in order to sell a product in the Netherlands you have to have a sticker in Dutch, even though >90% of population understands English. That's a tiny thing, but makes a supply chain that much more complex.

For digital services it's even worse, the laws still differ significantly per country. Where I work we want to expand, but we still have to do it per country...
by delopsu | 2025-10-06 18:44:20+00:00
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by AfterHIA | 2025-10-06 18:44:21+00:00
That isn't true. Social institutions have declined and the welfare state has receded in most of the United States. The illusion that marginal increases in the availability of technology much of which has been showed to tacitly lower one's quality of living (consider social media's effect on the self image of teenagers) has somehow resulted in a better quality of life for many is myth you tell yourself to justify you living better than most.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WRA516-1.html

https://www.rand.org/education-employment-infrastructure/pro...
by agd | 2025-10-06 18:44:35+00:00
I did this for a few years and would recommend 1 (smallish) suitcase + 1 backpack.

As mentioned in the article, it’s better (financially and socially) to stay in locations for a medium length of time. If you do this, then the overhead of a single suitcase is very minimal, and you get far more flexibility with clothing - particularly if you’re staying in colder areas. E.g. NYC in winter.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-10-06 18:44:58+00:00
> Graphics is trivial until you get to shadows and lighting

And reflections and refractions.

Raster-based reflections are a simple shortcut: Just take the rendered image of what's being reflected and invert it.

But that doesn't work when the reflected object is off screen. As a result, if you're over water that's reflecting a city skyline or something in the distance, then pitch the camera down, the reflection vanishes as the skyline goes off screen.

Alternatively, you can create an environment-mapped texture, but that makes the reflection not reflect what's actually there, just an approximation of it.

I find it incredibly distracting in games. It's like bad kerning: Once you know what it looks like, you see it EVERYWHERE.
by glouwbug | 2025-10-06 18:45:04+00:00
If you'd like to define the backend like this, it's the easiest way to compile to C; we're just repurposing C as a general-purpose assembler: https://glouw.com/2023/11/07/Switch.html

I believe MIT-scheme took it a step further with gnu extensions which allowed you to take the address of a label like &&label, which allowed for function pointers: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Labels-as-Values.html
by edm0nd | 2025-10-06 18:45:13+00:00
Claude reply:

I don't have any information about your chats over the past year. Each conversation with me starts fresh - I don't have access to:

Your previous conversations with Claude Chat history from other sessions Any personal data about you unless you share it in our current conversation Information about how you've used Claude in the past

Every time you start a new conversation, it's like meeting me for the first time. I can only see what you've shared with me in this specific conversation. If you'd like to reference something from a previous chat, you're welcome to share that context with me directly, and I'll be happy to help!
by krick | 2025-10-06 18:45:40+00:00
> ChatGPT offers a “memory” personalization setting ... OpenAI are at pains to point out that this function can be turned off at any time, and that individual memories can be deleted

Uh… Isn't it just irrelevant (to the point of such remarks being actually misleading) anymore? AFAIK, it's been a couple of months already since OpenAI began storing all your conversations (because of that court order), whether you "delete" them or not, so while you can technically disable "memory" setting, it only means it won't be able to use your past responses to help you. But it surely would help anybody with, let's say, elevated access. Granted, the threat model in the post assumes that the author is only worried about what the user of the account can learn about other users of the account, and that he trusts OpenAI itself. But why would OpenAI be "at pains to point out that this function can be turned off" then?
by tristor | 2025-10-06 18:46:04+00:00
That's weird, because I am still wearing the same Icebreaker t-shirts I bought in 2015, a decade later, through many many washes. They have thinned out some, and I've added more new shirts over time to my rotation, but the very first one I bought is still perfectly wearable as a daily undershirt. I've never had one shrink, I do have some small holes in the oldest shirts, but nothing that impedes its basic function.
by roncesvalles | 2025-10-06 18:46:16+00:00
The quiet ones are conformists and they eventually conform to the extremists if that's all they see. Many people who think they are moderates probably aren't actually or won't be over time. There is no "radical centrism".

That's why I still think Bernie would've taken the Dems to victory in 2016. Extreme beats extreme. Hillary was just too normal.
by sunshowers | 2025-10-06 18:46:36+00:00
Thanks for the kind words.

It is not as simple as synchronous pipes, but it also has far better edge case and error handling.

For example, on Unix, if you press ctrl-Z to pause execution, nextest will send SIGTSTP to test processes and also pause its internal timers (resuming them when you type in fg or bg). That kind of bookkeeping is pretty hard to do with linear code, and especially hard to coordinate across subprocesses.

State machines with message passing (as seen in GUI apps) are very helpful at handling this, but they're quite hard to write by hand.

The async keyword in Rust allows you to write state machines that look somewhat like linear code (though with the big cancellation asterisk).
by rushingcreek | 2025-10-06 18:46:42+00:00
I think this is very interesting, but it is reminiscent of what we built with Phind 2 where the answer could include dynamic, pre-built widgets.

The problem with this approach is precisely that these apps/widgets have hard-coded input and output schema. They can work quite well when the user asks something within the widget's capabilities, but the brittleness of this approach starts showing quickly in real-world use. What if you want to use more advanced filters with Zillow? Or perhaps cross-reference with StreetEasy? If those features aren't supported by the widget's hard-coded schema, you're out of luck as a user.

What I think it much more exciting is the ability to completely create generative UI answers on the fly. We'll have more to say on this soon from Phind (I'm the founder).
by smsm42 | 2025-10-06 18:46:43+00:00
> And, frankly, it's literally the bank's job not to make loans that people will default on too frequently

It's not the bank's job though to decide whether it's ok for you to treat the house as a long-term asset which consumes a part of your cash flow, or as a speculative gamble. You can find a bank that will support either, but it's on you to decide which road to take. And if somebody takes the speculative road and loses, then it's not exactly the banks' fault. The adult should take responsibility for their own actions.

> it's not unreasonable to trust your bank and their advisors not to make a loan you won't be able to pay back.

No, it's not reasonable at all. Loan officers do not have a fiduciary duty towards you. They have a fiduciary duty towards the bank, so that's what they worry about - to take care of bank's interests. Assuming those interests would always align with yours is a dangerous naiveté. There are financial advisors who are fiduciaries - and you can hire one if you need - but you won't find them in your mortage bank's loan office. Yes, the bank is interested, in most cases, not to produce overtly bad loans - but that doesn't mean they care how you are going to pay it, and there's a lot of chance they'd sell your loan to another servicer in a year or two anyway. They have no duty to figure out if taking this loan won't harm you, that's your duty.
by kakacik | 2025-10-06 18:46:45+00:00
Merino shirts are literally the only shirts I've worn through to have holes on various places. Its not that great and vastly overpriced material for many active uses, but marketing is strong with this one.

To quote some mountain guides I talked about this - its a great second layer in snowy sports, ie ski touring. Wicking of sweat ain't great compared to synthetics (and thus drying takes also much longer), but when wet it keeps warmth, unlike synthetics or cotton. As top layer it sucks since as mentioned it has little resistance to abrasion comparatively, and everybody wears some sort of backpack out there. I have synthetic shirts that lasted 10 years either frequent gym going or intense mountain sports, not a single hole or tear. None of merinos survived that long.

I talk about cheaper brands like Decathlon but also Ice Breaker, the heavier/thicker ones.

Not talking about hoodies here, those seem much thicker material and never worn those, synthetics served me for such role very well so far.
by xpe | 2025-10-06 18:47:05+00:00
> Not to mention Anthropic says Claude will eventually automatically report you to authorities if you ask it to do something "unethical"

Are you referring to the situation described in the May 22, 2025 article by Carl Franzen in VentureBeat [1]? If so, at a minimum, one should recognize the situation is complex enough to warrant a careful look for yourself to wade through the confusion. Speaking for myself, I don't have anything close to a "final take" yet.

[1]: https://venturebeat.com/ai/anthropic-faces-backlash-to-claud...
by dweinus | 2025-10-06 18:48:00+00:00
If we wanted to subsidize internet for rural and low-income communities responsibly, we could invest in fiber and other solutions, and control the externalities (this is exactly the ReConnect program is). Starlink is not that, it is a classic case of privatizing profits by socializing hidden externalities, in this case to the entire world. Externalities in the form of pollution that will cost us all more than fiber in the long run. Funny story though, Starlink was awarded a $900M subsidy to provide rural USA internet access. In the end, that money was not given because the FCC found that Starlink "failed to demonstrate that the providers could deliver the promised service.". So no, it is not about screwing rural people, it's about not getting taken advantage of by fat cats and grifters like Elon.
by tristor | 2025-10-06 18:48:03+00:00
I wear very little black, but I have tended towards darker colors. I've found that using earth tones blends well, similar to a capsule wardrobe, and you can incorporate greens, blues, and khakis along with darker colors like navy and black. Darker shirt, lighter pants, or lighter shirt, darker pants, and rotate through. You don't need to have very many different colors to effectively dress differently every day of a week or even across two weeks.

Because of the need for minimalism in travel, my wardrobe does tend to be relatively conservative and muted, but it's not all-black all of the time. You can certainly have some color.
by gowld | 2025-10-06 18:48:07+00:00
AMD gives OpenAI $30B worth (todaty's value) of AMD stock.

Cash-poor OpenAI pledges/promises about ~$100B in purchases.

AMD makes back the money on (a) 30% volume discount is normal? (b) stock pop from AI hype (AMD popped up ~$100B market cap on the news.) ?
by scythmic_waves | 2025-10-06 18:48:14+00:00
The first link is a mistake. It's supposed to be the thing being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45170164.

The 2nd link seems reasonable to me? Why does a study about 25k workers in Denmark (11 occupations, 7k workplaces) not count as evidence? If there was a strong effect to be found globally, it seems likely to be found in Denmark too.

Also, what about the other links? The discussions about the strange accounting and lack of profitability seem like evidence as well.

If anything, this article struck me as well-evidenced.
by tracker1 | 2025-10-06 18:48:33+00:00
Nice to hear this input... My first glance, I didn't really notice that Windows was supported, and it looks like there's support for dotnet as well... so may give it a try in the near future.

My work env is pretty locked down as well... I've mostly relied on just using Deno+TS for shell scripts since it's relatively consistent for me across work and personal environments and the tooling can run from a user install. Though not using it to manage my tooling itself for work projects.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-06 18:49:15+00:00
Most [bottom 60% of U.S. households] Americans don't earn enough to afford basic costs of living, analysis finds - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44119317 - May 2025

Report: https://lisep.org/mql | https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/63ba0d84fe573c7513595d6e/...

> One commonly used (though also criticized) benchmark for housing affordability is that no more than 30% of household income should go toward housing costs. Households that spend more than that are considered “cost burdened” by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. By that standard, 31.3% of American households were cost burdened in 2023, including 27.1% of households with a mortgage and 49.7% of households that rent, according to 1-year estimates from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS). (Many more people own than rent: In the second quarter of 2024, 65.6% of occupied housing units were owned while 34.4% were rented, according to the most recent estimates from the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey/Housing Vacancy Survey.)

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/10/25/a-look-at...