MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by epistasis | 2025-10-28 18:19:42+00:00
> that everything is fine and nothing needs to be done

That's a complete statement that nobody is even advocating for. We already have the enforcement mechanisms in place.

Just because a law is violated doesn't mean that we get rid of the entire scheme and try something else. Theft does not mean that we need to get rid of property rights, and theft doesn't mean that we need to stop people from seeking material goods.

Perhaps there should be better enforcement mechanisms, but I'm sure that all the DEI advocates would be all ears, because the illegal violations of the law are not what DEI advocates want, precisely because it leads to backlashes in addition to being counter to the explicit goals of all DEI advocates I have ever heard.
by temp0826 | 2025-10-28 18:19:43+00:00
I became fed up with my airpods (and bluetooth earbuds in general) and switched to some great (albeit definitely not new and definitely not high end) IEMs and couldn't be happier. I was worried about losing the noise canceling but it turns out to not matter in the slightest with IEMs with proper tips on them, the isolation is unbelievable. Not dealing with battery life and charging issues anymore is worth it alone. The absurd price difference is a great bonus too.
by eclark | 2025-10-28 18:19:48+00:00
No the widths are not wide enough to explore. The number of possible game states can explode beyond the number of atoms in the universe pretty easily, especially if you use deep stacks with small big blinds.

For example when computing the counterfactual tree for 9 way preflop. 9 players have up to 6 different times that they can be asked to perform an action (seat 0 can bet 1, seat 1 raises min, seat 2 calls, back to seat 0 raises min, with seat 1 calling, and seat 2 raising min, etc). Each of those actions has check, fold, bet min, raise the min (starting blinds of 100 are pretty high all ready), raise one more than the min, raise two more than the min, ... raise all in (with up to a million chips).

(1,000,000.00 - 999,900.00) ^ 6 times per round ^ 9 players That's just for pre flop. Postflop, River, Turn, Showdown. Now imagine that we have to simulate which cards they have and which order they come in the streets (that greatly changes the value of the pot).

As for LLMs being great at range stats, I would point you to the latest research by UChicago. Text trained LLMs are horrible at multiplication. Try getting any of them to multiply any non-regular number by e or pi. https://computerscience.uchicago.edu/news/why-cant-powerful-...

Don't get what I'm saying wrong though. Masked attention and sequence-based context models are going to be critical to machines solving hidden information problems like this. Large Language Models trained on the web crawl and the stack with text input will not be those models though.
by foxyv | 2025-10-28 18:19:50+00:00
Our cities are so messed up that just leaving the house is stressful and time consuming. I can't walk down the street without seeing at least one car do something monstrously stupid. I've witnessed accidents, screaming, near misses, people driving on sidewalks, blowing through stop signs without looking, and endless drunk/high drivers weaving around.

I can totally understand why people are holed up in their houses. It feels like a war zone out there.
by zie | 2025-10-28 18:19:54+00:00
in SSH, it's a two-way handshake, the client ordering the coffee also gets a cert to prove their identity.

In browser land, the client browser doesn't get a cert to prove their identity, it's one-way only.

Certainly TLS supports client certs, browsers(at least some) technically even implement a version, but the UX is SOOOO horrible that nobody uses it. Some people have tried, the only people that have ever seen any success with client side authentication certificates over a web browser are webauthn/passkeys and the US Military(their ID cards have a cert in them).

webauthn/passkeys are not fully baked yet, so time will tell if they will actually be a success, but so far their usage is growing.
by somenameforme | 2025-10-28 18:20:07+00:00
Just look at any form of social media. Many, if not most, people seem to seek out and enjoy drama. A straight forward representation of some event is usually going to get orders of magnitude less "engagement" than a excessively hyperbolized and sensationalized representation of it, even if the latter may often play a bit fast and loose with the facts to further magnify the dramatic effect of it all.

And then with every sort of algorithm and feedback mechanism (e.g. upvotes, likes, etc) based on maximizing "engagement" you then get this stuff spreading everywhere and even further drowning out any sort of rational discussion. So people who regularly follow it are going to be living in some sort of alt-reality all the while convinced that they are the most informed about the latest happenings in the world.
by legitster | 2025-10-28 18:20:24+00:00
In his interviews, this is more or less what Yuri Bezmenov described the aim of Russian propaganda was. It's hard to just get people to buy into ideas, but if you just turn up the volume on existing noise, it's simultaneously authentic but also robs people of discerning what's true or worth prioritizing.

The irony is all of his concerns were about the spread of Marxism in the US. Well, it turns out the methods are useful for anyone.
by artur_makly | 2025-10-28 18:20:42+00:00
when i asked it "before i start. tell me if you can generate a database"

answer: it made this landing page: https://ai.studio/apps/drive/1sCGdqs9bCIsb0XIt2aSOTK1Fr5isUC...

"As a specialized frontend React engineer, I do not generate backend databases like PostgreSQL or MongoDB. My expertise is in building the user interface—the part of the application you see and interact with in your browser."
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-10-28 18:21:38+00:00
I trained a few years as an IBEW electrician in large government data centers, but have done decades of residential side work (mostly 500k-2M suburbia):

The stuff you actually witnessed on both types of jobsites often isn't believable. But I've seen [your comment] many times, in the middle of nowhere, with trailcams rolling and tweekers not giving AF, smiling as they roll away with your belongings...

----

We caught a burglar once in our wire warehouse... huffing our marking paint, but on his way to scoring a five-figure copper haul. As foreman, I had to pull a few of my electricians off of the young man (~20~white~highAF) — I sent my guys to their jobsites, keeping myself and two larger others to detain the guy until the police arrived: arrested. Drawn out court proceedings 5x. Dismissed =( "Adjudicated"

That little twerp ended up having already become a career criminal, at just two decades on this earth. He needed good guys like mine to beat his ass a few times, like his family never did the favor of helping him learn.

Next time my guys will not be calling the police, with blessings.
by cortesoft | 2025-10-28 18:21:42+00:00
Yeah, I agree with that. I didn’t mean to imply that it had to be impossible to move your data.

However, I do think that it has to mean something besides “there are no other good providers of a service”. Integrations, platforms, etc make sense as being “locked in”, but not “no one else provides the service”

To me, the key would be, “if you were starting from scratch and weren’t using any service at all, would you choose a different one than what you actually currently use?”

If the answer is “I would still choose the one I am using”, then I don’t think that is locked in.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-28 18:22:05+00:00
> To be fair to Trump, he was the target of lawfare after his election loss in 2020, for instance.

To be fair to reality, no, he wasn’t. He committed a number of very serious crimes flagrantly out in the open and the Justice Department was inordinately slow in responding to them out of a number of factors, including institutional partisan bias (even under Democratic Administration the bulk of the federal criminal investigatory apparatus has always been Republican, including political appointees at the FBI, and every single FBI director in the bureau's history), concern over appearing political trumping concern over enforcing the law, and, well, a number of other things.
by JuniperMesos | 2025-10-28 18:22:22+00:00
It's not clear to me what this story has to do with Flock specifically. Surveillance cameras have been around for a long time, and cops can use footage from them as evidence for charging people with theft. Cops can legally lie to suspects about all sorts of things including how certain they are of evidence against a specific person - this is probably a bad thing that ought to be legally reformed, but it also has nothing specifically to do with Flock or surveillance cameras more generally.

> She later watched footage from the victim’s doorbell camera, which was posted on NextDoor, showing the package thief.

It seems like a package theft did in fact happen, and that the house owner themselves chose to put up cameras to record their door and posted the footage of it on the internet. In fact this footage was evidence the person in this article used to exonerate themselves, so this isn't even a general argument against surveillance cameras.

I wish this article explored more why the cops thought the thief was this person, or tried to suggest a better procedure for the police to use. Should the police have been legally required to just send the court summons and not try to talk to the suspect? Is there a better procedure than having a court case for incidents like this where a theft seems to have actually occurred and the police think they have a suspect? How ought the system to work here?
by zahlman | 2025-10-28 18:22:25+00:00
(Despite all the valid critique being offered ITT, I applaud the author for trying. The underlying viewpoint is valid and deserves some form of representation at law.)

> A copyleft provision would require you to share the source-code, which would be beautiful, but it looks like the author misunderstood…

This license doesn't require the original author to provide source code in the first place. But then, neither does MIT, AFAICT.

But also AFAICT, this is not even a conforming open-source license, and the author's goals are incompatible.

> ...by natural human persons exercising meaningful creative judgment and control, without the involvement of artificial intelligence systems, machine learning models, or autonomous agents at any point in the chain of use.

> Specifically prohibited uses include, but are not limited to: ...

From the OSI definition:

> 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor

> The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

Linux distros aren't going to package things like this because it would be a nightmare even for end users trying to run local models for personal use.
by afro88 | 2025-10-28 18:22:30+00:00
I was always disappointed by the Cursor version because the agents would make entirely new mistakes that Cursor IDE wouldn't make locally. Like so much that it was totally unusable. Completely messing up code edits to the point where a whole file would be deleted.

Interested to give this a go. But I would also need it to be able to run docker compose and playwright, to keep things on the rails.
by pbhjpbhj | 2025-10-28 18:22:35+00:00
The work I know of, I'm not in USA only have an interest in copyright laws in general, is Feist v Rural Telephone (1991) -- which appears to mirror codes for health procedures quite closely; but not exactly.

There's old but more recent law from Practice Management v AMA (1997) supporting that AMA's codes can't be copyrightable as they're part of legislation.

Berne's Art 2(8), to which USA are signed, related to non-copyright of facts.

I'm afraid I'm not appraised of the full situation, however.
by whimsicalism | 2025-10-28 18:22:35+00:00
I think that analogies are helpful for elucidating the point but in terms of concrete evidence, there are two gold standard studies that really reveal this issue. These studies are very hard to come by because it is typically difficult (for good reason) politically to experiment with people's healthcare, but we are lucky to have two: the RAND healthcare study and the Oregon medicaid lottery.

My understanding of both of those studies is that (particularly for pre-registered analyses), we saw that adding some sort of cost-sharing substantially reduced utilization of healthcare services (~30%) without any impact on health indicators even multiple decades down the line, with the possible exception of mental health indicators. Nowadays people try to p-hack their way out of these conclusions, but it is pretty strong high-N experimental evidence.
by cj | 2025-10-28 18:22:41+00:00
It really depends. Other things like iron is best taken fasted (and paired with Vitamin C). Coffee also blocks iron absorption, so many people supplement at nighttime. Also things like Zinc and Copper both compete with each other for absorption, so best to avoid taking them at the same time.

If you're optimizing your supplement stack, really gotta research each one individually (and how each impact the absorption of the others)
by BenjiWiebe | 2025-10-28 18:23:07+00:00
Why are yours changing every day? If they always did that, then yes it would be a stupid idea. But they don't change on their own, or for no reason, so it isn't a stupid idea.

Mine change maybe once every couple of years, if I do a full reinstall without copying over the old host key. And then I know exactly why it changed.
by indoordin0saur | 2025-10-28 18:23:10+00:00
> my lived experiences would contradict the laws of physics.

Unless you're the size of a small child or were in an extreme state of inactivity and low metabolism you were almost certainly were utilizing more than 1k calories per day. Where was this extra energy coming from if not from your body's fat reserves? This does indeed seem to violate the laws of physics.
by coliveira | 2025-10-28 18:23:15+00:00
I 100% agree, but need to add that npr also has financial ties to very powerful oligarchs that need to be disclosed. For example, here is what I get when researching the largest donors to npr: "NPR's largest single donor was the estate of Joan B. Kroc, who left a bequest of over $200 million in 2003. Other major donors include foundations like the Rockefeller Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which have contributed millions to specific projects, as well as the Gates Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation"
by coolewurst3000 | 2025-10-28 18:23:19+00:00
You are wrong in that you think the hierarchies stem specifically from feudalism, but you are absolutely correct in that these hierarchies exist and are deeply entrenched. Sweden and Germany have one of the lowest percentages of self-made vs. inherited fortunes in the western world. Actually some tax policies in the US enable much more upward mobility, such as real estate taxation and 401k-like vehicles.
by andybak | 2025-10-28 18:23:32+00:00
I wish it didn't make public PRs to public repos. I sometimes fire off really speculative and sometimes silly requests and I really don't want a permanent record of these on an open source Github project. I could work on a fork but it's still fairly public.

Codex handles this much better. You choose when to make a PR and you can also just copy a .patch or git apply to your clipboard.

EDIT. They might have fixed this. Just testing. Does the mobile android app have Claude Code support yet or is it still annoyingly an iOS only thing?

EDIT2. It creates a public branch but not a PR. I'd still prefer that was a manual step.
by supportengineer | 2025-10-28 18:24:10+00:00
I see where you're coming from. Democrats haven't done a good job of reaching those blue collar voters in the red states.

What might this look like?

It might look like AOC taking a trip down south to spend the day with southern folks at a pig pickin', a crawfish boil, a monster truck show, day on the shooting range, etc.
by jherskovic | 2025-10-28 18:24:46+00:00
Love my APP3, upgraded from APP2 and have only one regret... no Comply Foam tips available yet. Why does Apple not go all-in on memory foam, I dunno, but at least the APP2 version was so much better it's not even funny.

With the Apple XS tips, which otherwise fit well for me, any yawn means the APP3 fall out.
by legitster | 2025-10-28 18:25:00+00:00
As a point of comparison, the Johnson & Johnson ruling over asbestos and talc never actually proved a credible link between trace amounts of asbestos and cervical cancer or even presence of asbestos in the client's talc. But they didn't have to in order to find J&J guilty of negligence.

One of the things about a jury trial is that the science itself is never on trial, and there's always a risk that one side can just out-maneuver the other.
by amiga386 | 2025-10-28 18:25:23+00:00
I don't think saying "humans only" is going to fix the problem.

It's actually very useful for bots to crawl the public web, provided they are respectful of resource usage - which, until recently, most bots have been.

The problem is that shysters, motivated by the firehose of money pointed at anything "AI", have started massively abusing the public web. They may or may not make money, but either way, everyone else loses. They're just ignoring the social contract.

What we need is collective action to block these shitheads from the web entirely, like we block spammers and viruses.
by tripdout | 2025-10-28 18:26:20+00:00
Does it only clone the EEPROM from one SFP module to another (so you need to physically posess both), or can you write arbitrary data?

And does it only write to SFP modules from Ubiquiti (looking at you FS BOX)?

Another tool you can use for this (without a nice UI) is the SFP Buddy: https://oopselectronics.com/product/SFPB
by adgjlsfhk1 | 2025-10-28 18:26:52+00:00
IMO there's plenty of reason to use Xoshiro over PCG. the quality differences between the best xoshiro and pcg differences are minimal (especially because most languages use a 256 bit state since it makes it easier to split/jump without worrying about duplicate streams), and Xoshiro generators tend to be easier to SIMD for when you need lots of random numbers.
by IAmBroom | 2025-10-28 18:27:02+00:00
Uncalled for. GP is pointing out that the fact the human body can produce Vitamin D means it is not a vitamin.

vi·ta·min /ˈvīdəmən/ noun any of a group of organic compounds which are essential for normal growth and nutrition and are required in small quantities in the diet because they cannot be synthesized by the body.
by lubujackson | 2025-10-28 18:27:03+00:00
Give me a break with this "where are the protest songs" stuff. I'm an old fart, but even I know stuff like Childish Gambino's "This Is America", a bunch of Kendrick Lamar songs (not to mention his Super Bowl performance), Beyonce's "Ameriican Requiem", etc.

And let's not forget that protest songs aren't usually promoted by those in power...
by leobg | 2025-10-28 18:27:09+00:00
This is government. If you exceed the speed limit on the autobahn, you’ll be fined immediately. But if you run a multi million Euro fraud, you will get away with it for DECADES.

Why? Because they’ve got no systems in place for that. And to do something out of the ordinary that is hard would require someone with an incentive to do it. That does not fit the profile of your typical government employee. They don’t get paid for taking on difficult cases. They get paid for closing files, or, ideally, finding reasons for not even opening them in the first place.

Laws are like locks. The honest people pay attention to them. The criminals don’t. They look at the enforcement (or lack thereof).
by torginus | 2025-10-28 18:27:13+00:00
I think it's the case of 'monkeys beating the one trying to climb the ladder' - small social circles have informal rules set by the preferences and common values of its members, while larger ones have ossified, and ritualistic rules and canonized 'sacred' beliefs - and you sometimes even have people who appoint themselves to enforce these.

You can see it in small friend group Discords vs large public ones
by CrimsonCape | 2025-10-28 18:27:26+00:00
When the detective says "I've got that (that = doorbell camera quality footage) on my phone right now of you taking that package."

This is clearly a police officer saying that she is a thief and felon. Isn't this slanderous/defamatory? The trial had not even occurred to prove guilt.

Does she have grounds to sue the police department for defamation?
by jancsika | 2025-10-28 18:28:19+00:00
> Meanwhile, my parents in the US at a hospital get a CT scan, MRI 'just in case' immediately (or close-to for the MRI) and pay nothing for it.

I live in U.S. and know people on ACA Marketplace plans, employer HDHP, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, people who are uninsured, people who are overinsured, and people who have crazy expensive fly-me-out-of-the-jungle emergency plans (one who actually used it in the U.S.).

I have never heard any of them get an MRI or CT scan same day "just in case." And for the one who got an MRI close to same day for stroke symptoms, it wasn't free. (And even in that case, the earliest appointment with the specialist to assess the MRI was nearly a month later.)

Someone getting their first colonoscopy had an appointment two months out.

Someone getting shoulder surgery four months out.

A person on Medicaid with Stage 4 cancer waiting a week and a half for a fentanyl patch because the pharmacy couldn't get approval from the Medicaid subcontractor for whatever reason.

People from the U.S. who post on HN: please tell HN which is more common:

* my stories

* your parents getting free MRIs and CT scans "just in case"
by altshiftprtscrn | 2025-10-28 18:28:27+00:00
Can you elaborate a little on point 1? I also somewhat recently had an expensive ambulance ride in SF that I'm dealing with - Insurance told me it was out of network, but would negotiate down on my behalf. They were able to negotiate away most of the bill, but since then the ambulance company has just come back to me asking for all of the money that the insurance company had told me they negotiated out of the bill.
by daveguy | 2025-10-28 18:28:57+00:00
Your first sentence says "there is a credible link between them" and the rest of your post points out how the link is not scientifically credible. Were the first and third paragraphs just bait?

You can't claim that "science says there's a measurable link" when the science in question says the link is just a correlation based on Tylenol being used to treat the causal link (fever from viral infection). Science isn't about finding correlation. It's about identifying causal links. That's why we do experiments.
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-28 18:29:06+00:00
>It's like auditting tax returns of the rich - of course they didn't cheat, they already lobbied for the loopholes making their shenanigans legal.

The IRS disagrees every single year.

They say they can easily recover significant revenue from tax cheats if they were staffed and funded enough, to the point that every dollar you fund the IRS recovers 1.6 dollars.

The rich people who say they are just getting their fair deductions then refuse to fund the IRS.

If they weren't cheating, they wouldn't have to kneecap the IRS.
by sys32768 | 2025-10-28 18:29:09+00:00
Potatoes are king of satiety.

I dice up two giant baked potatoes for lunch daily and mix with a lean protein and some toppings like sliced jalapenos and sometimes Greek yogurt.

At 3 PM, I drink a Premier protein shake but don't eat again until 7AM the next day, yet I am still full by bedtime. Breakfast is a larger protein shake with fruit or almond butter + almond milk.

Easiest diet ever, and I feel great and hardly crave bread or sugar now.