MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by noduerme | 2025-10-24 05:21:14+00:00
Like, that's funny. But asking yourself that question might just be a step toward answering it. I grew up around a lot of autistic kids who had to train themselves to verbalize anything, but also to restrain themselves from verbalizing random thoughts. Then you reach an age where you start to spew out everything in words, and you have to learn that putting something into language too soon can strip it of its actual meaning and ossify it before you have a chance to fully examine it.
by uvaursi | 2025-10-24 05:21:40+00:00
Remember back in the day when we just downloaded skin packs from some random Geocities website with obnoxious red text on black background and after going through the install.txt written in broken English/Italian, lo and behold your AK47 now had a proper arctic camo skin and it was so much cooler?

What was wrong with that? Doesn’t gaben have enough money for his super yachts and sword collections?
by kelnos | 2025-10-24 05:21:46+00:00
It wasn't open and he wasn't eating. The AI flagged a bulge in his pants pocket, which was the empty, crumpled up bag that he put in his pocket after finishing eating all the chips.

This is quite frankly absurd. The fact that the AI flagged it is bonkers, and the fact that a human doing manual review still believed it was a gun... I mean, just, wow. The level of dangerous incompetence here is staggering.

And I wouldn't be surprised if, minutes (or even seconds) before the video frame the AI flagged, the full video showed the kid finishing the bag and stuffing it in his pocket. AIs suck at context; a human watching the full video would not have made the same mistake. But in mostly taking the human out of the loop, all they had for verification was a single frame of video, captured as a context-free still image.

It is frankly mind-boggling that you or anyone else can defend this crap.
by tgma | 2025-10-24 05:21:53+00:00
> The world is simply moving on from dealing with the US.

This seems to be an emotional reaction by the observer, not a quantified study, so citation needed. The US market is so big and relatively unified in language and regulations and that make you willing to bite a lot of bullets. Have you ever listed an app on the App Store and dealt with French BS, for example, for a relatively tiny market?

> They will all just trade with each other instead.

Many of the US products and services are not as commoditized.
by ThrowMeAway1618 | 2025-10-24 05:21:54+00:00
>Friends and I have been threatened with violence multiple times by prominent members of one party and the other party does the same thing to other people. I would love to go into detail but I don't want to get doxxed because it is pretty specific. :(

So you're a nazi/white supremacist/Boogaloo boy? I wouldn't worry too much about getting doxxed, there are plenty of those around.

Or are you a batshit ancap[0]? That's a smaller group, but still sizable enough to avoid being doxxed just by mentioning it.

In fact, most groups that get that kind of hate (from anyone) are big enough (Trans folks are ~3,000,000 in the US, gay folk are ~30 million. I'd expect you could give at least some detail without doxxing yourself just by mentioning it -- assuming MiiMe19 isn't the name on your driver's license.

As such, I call bullshit on your claims. Prove me wrong.
by resters | 2025-10-24 05:23:25+00:00
He probably feels powerful harming businesses (in the US and elsewhere) with his tariffs.

His inheritance performed worse than the s&p by a large margin under his stewardship.

He’s not a business man, he’s someone who inherited $450M in today’s dollars and wears a business suit as a costume, and incidentally more makeup than most drag queens.

He’s disgracing everything he touches and the Trump name will be hated and associated with stupidity and bigotry for a long time.
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by peteforde | 2025-10-24 05:26:02+00:00
I used to be really (really really) into photography. I respect anyone working hard on a physical product, but this misses the mark on every front I can think of.

The real issue that photographers grapple with, emotionally and financially, is that pictures have become so thoroughly commodified that nobody assigns them cultural value anymore. They are the thumbnail you see before the short video clip starts playing.

Nobody has ever walked past a photograph because they can't inspect its digital authenticity hash. This is especially funny to me because I used to struggle with the fact that people looking at your work don't know or care what kind of camera or process was involved. They don't know if I spent two hours zoomed in removing microscopic dust particles from the scanning process after a long hike to get a single shot at 5:30am, or if it was just the 32nd of 122 shots taken in a burst by someone holding up an iPad Pro Max at a U2 concert.

This all made me sad for a long time, but I ultimately came to terms with the fact that my own incentives were perverse; I was seeking the external gratification of getting likes just like everyone else. If you can get back to a place where you're taking photographs or making music or doing 5 minute daily synth drills for your own happiness with no expectation of external validity, you will be far happier taking that $399 and buying a Mamiya C330.

This video is about music, but it's also about everything worth doing for the right reasons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvQF4YIvxwE
by ThrowMeAway1618 | 2025-10-24 05:26:08+00:00
>Not participating in the trolley problem does not remove questions of moral responsibility. You had the choice to throw the lever, you said "either outcome is fine".

As the eminent philosopher[0] opined:

You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill I will choose a path that's clear, I will choose Free will

[0] https://genius.com/Rush-freewill-lyrics
by fluoridation | 2025-10-24 05:26:20+00:00
I'm not going to respond to any arguments that rest on the veracity of mythology (such as the garden of Eden). I'm only interested in the internal consistency of Christian doctrine.

>Jesus is also fully God. His divine nature is perfect and unchanging. His divine nature is immutable (not merely immortal) and was not subject to death. Thus Jesus was subject to death in His human nature not in His divine nature.

This is maddening. Okay, so these are the logical relationships between the terms,

* Jesus is fully God.

* God is immutable.

* Something immutable is also immortal (and by contraposition, something mortal is not immutable).

* Jesus is fully man.

* Jesus is mortal and died.

Correct? None of this is in dispute, I assume, since it's what you said. Alright. To this I answer: if Jesus is mortal then he is not immutable, and if he's not immutable then he's not fully God. If you insist he is God then that's a contradiction by the terms you yourself laid out. The supposed two natures don't matter if they lead to this conclusion.

To give a simple analogy, you can make a sword that's sharp only halfway along its length and is blunt the rest of the way. The statements "the sword is sharp" and "the sword is blunt" are both simultaneously true. What you can't do is make a sword that's both sharp and blunt all throughout its length. You can say, "well, God can do the logically impossible". Fine. But then you're telling me that I'm right, that Christian theology does contain contradictions.
by president_zippy | 2025-10-24 05:26:28+00:00
You mean Circuit Court judge Robert Bork's "consumer welfare" standard?

He's the genius behind that.

The same Robert Bork whose SCOTUS nomination got held up by the Senate in a deluge of fire and fury, only for Antonin Scalia to get the job and make the same kind of rulings much more articulately.
by alphaglosined | 2025-10-24 05:26:33+00:00
The following statement originates from Adam Wilson who is heading the PhobosV3 project, and I will second it.

The issues you have are examples of known problems that PhobosV2 has suffered under. Coroutines, for instance we would like to have in language, a proposal (me, not Adam) have already made one, but it's sitting till next year. Naming and interfaces issues are a big part of what will change in PhobosV3.
by businessmate | 2025-10-24 05:27:36+00:00
Visibility across regulated sectors stabilized this week but failed to regain parity across assistants.

Finance and pharma brands rebounded modestly, while aviation and telecom drifted further outside reproducibility thresholds.

Total regulated-sector Revenue-at-Risk (RAR) now exceeds $1.1 billion per month, with average reproducibility variance widening to 6.3 percent.
by kelnos | 2025-10-24 05:27:44+00:00
> the Supreme Court of the United States has already affirmed and reaffirmed that individual ownership of firearms in common use is a right.

The current interpretation of 2A is actually a fairly recent invention; in the past, it's been interpreted much more narrowly. And if SCOTUS can overturn Roe v. Wade's precedent, they can do the same with their interpretation of 2A. They won't of course, at least not until some of its members age out and get -- hopefully -- replaced with people who aren't idiots.

But I'd be fine if 2A was amended away. Let the states make whatever gun laws they want, and we can see whether blue or red states end up with lower levels of gun violence as a result.
by Quarrelsome | 2025-10-24 05:27:45+00:00
> Chances are you'd do the same thing

I would never be a slave to metrics like this, certainly never on my own dime. A long term refrain of mine is that businesses tend to over-optimise what they can measure and under-optimise what they cant. This is just orgs outsourcing their thinking into a black box so they don't have to consider the ethical ramifications of chasing "number goes up" like a government A/B testing themsleves into "kill all the poor" as a strategy to cut welfare.
by noduerme | 2025-10-24 05:28:11+00:00
>> the moment when the solution to a problem emerges “in the shower” unexpectedly after a long period of unconscious incubation.

A lot of responses here seem to place this chain-of-thought on a spectrum between verbal and "vibe". I don't think that solving problems pre-verbally is actually at odds with verbal intelligence, or that a person must by definition be better at one than another. The pregnant, mathematical, nonverbal thought in the shower is only really useful if it can be organized and stated rationally at some point later. Likewise, the wordy explanation is useless without a well-reasoned theory it's explaining.

For me, I find that dreams help bridge this gap. Oftentimes I'll be struggling with a difficult mental model of a problem, and thinking of a lot of math in my head in the shower. But when I sleep, I'll have some dream that acts as a metaphor for the problem. Say, e.g. I'm thinking about how to time two independent processes to deconflict some data. I might have a dream about missing a flight because the plane already arrived but was announced at the wrong gate, and I'm running across the airport. Then I wake up and see the answer to the problem. Moreover, I then see how to explain the problem I just solved, using a metaphor that most people can understand.

As far as actually explaining it formally in writing, I usually test the code a zillion ways first and then write the documentation.
by neilwilson | 2025-10-24 05:28:56+00:00
So high prices induce new supply in a market to relieve shortages and the “economy is in free fall”?

Sounds like it is working as it should. Those with oversight fixing supply in response to price signals when the private system is unable to.

Wouldn’t it be nice if those in charge of the economy in the real world made the same sort of intervention.
by musebox35 | 2025-10-24 05:29:06+00:00
Sadly this naturally happens in any field that ends up expanding due to its success. Suddenly the number of new practitioners outnumbers the number of competent educators. I think it is a fundamental human resources problem with no easy fix. Maybe llms will help with this, but they seem to reinforce the convergence to the mean in many cases as those to be educated is not in a position to ask the deeper questions.
by smnrchrds | 2025-10-24 05:30:27+00:00
Also Canadian here. Have been closely following US-Canada trade for years. What you are saying is news to me. I am leaning towards believing you are simply mistaken, but if you have specific evidence about these two assertions, I would love to study them:

> tariffs on a ton of stuff

> we are rebuked because we have tariffs on a bunch of their goods

I can guess why one might think some of this (tariffs on Chinese EVs directly led to agricultural counter-tariffs from them and dairy trade barriers have always been a source of frustration), but in general, Canada's tariffs and barriers are by all indications in line with peer countries (US, UK, EU, Australia, etc.) and not particularly noteworthy. If you have concrete evidence to the contrary (not just that some trade barriers exist between Canada and its trading partners, but that they are out of the ordinary and much higher than other countries'; and that the world, in particular EU does not want closer ties with us because of them), I would love to study your sources and update my understanding.
by mirzap | 2025-10-24 05:30:42+00:00
Yeah, but the hubris of American MAGA nationalists doesn’t allow them to see it that way. They’re convinced the world can’t function without them, that everyone needs them.

Anyone with a shred of sense can see where this is heading: the inevitable collapse of the American empire and the end of its unparalleled global dominance. At this point, it’s unavoidable. The U.S. has alienated nearly every ally it once had. Ironically, Trump might be the one who saves Europe in the long run.
by awesome_dude | 2025-10-24 05:32:12+00:00
Like I said, the AI does exactly what I intend for it to do.

Almost, as I said earler, like the AI has processed my request, realised that I am referring to the context of the earlier discussions, and moved on to the next prompt exactly how I have expected it to

Given the two very VERY dumb responses, and multiple people down voting, I am reminded how thankful I am that AI is around now, because it understood what you clearly don't.

I didn't expect it to delete the internet, the world, the universe, or anything, it didn't read my request as an instruction to do so... yet you and that other imbecile seem to think that that's what was meant... even after me saying it was doing as I wanted.

/me shrugs - now fight me how your interpretation is the only right one... go on... (like you and that other person already are)

One thing I am not going to miss is the toxic "We know better" responses from JUNIORS
by hunterpayne | 2025-10-24 05:32:22+00:00
In the US, we spend about $3T on social safety net programs at the federal level, that's half the federal budget or about 12% of the GDP.

I used to live in Oakland, CA...about a mile from MLK. I can tell you plenty about the amount of crime there over the last decade. I've known lots of people from the suburbs that will try to tell me that crime is down, meanwhile I saw my neighbors getting robbed during the day (not just at night anymore).

If your only experience with these things is watching the news, you really shouldn't be talking about them. And taking police services away from the poorest parts of town is despicable.

PS It was the votes from those high crime districts that got Trump elected last year. The people down there don't watch the news. Your take is just copium because you don't want to do the real work of looking at your side's policies and fixing what is costing you voters and elections.
by angst | 2025-10-24 05:32:38+00:00
“Today you pardoned the founder of Binance,” Collins began. “Can you explain why you chose to pardon him, and did it have anything to do with his involvement in your family's —

“Which one, who was that?” Trump asked.

“The founder of Binance,” Collins continued. “He has involvement in your own family’s crypto business.”

“The recent one? I believe we’re talking about the same person, because I do pardon a lot of people,” Trump said. “I don’t know. He was recommended by a lot of people. A lot of people say that — Are you talking about the crypto person? A lot of people say he wasn’t guilty of anything, he served four months in jail, and they say that he wasn’t guilty of anything.”

As Collins attempted to clarify, Trump jumped in, saying, “Well, you don’t know much about crypto — you know nothing about nothing, you fake news!”

Trump then continued answering the question.

“He was somebody, as I was told — I don’t believe I have ever met him — but I’ve been told he had a lot of support. And they said what he did is not even a crime. That he was persecuted by the Biden administration. And so I gave him a pardon at the request of some very good people.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-scolds-kaitlan-col...
by helloworld4728 | 2025-10-24 05:33:03+00:00
A way that can be walked is not The Way

A name that can be named is not The Name

Tao is both Named and Nameless As Nameless, it is the origin of all things As Named, it is the mother of all things

A mind free of thought, merged within itself, beholds the essence of Tao

A mind filled with thought, identified with its own perceptions, beholds the mere forms of this world
by nickelpro | 2025-10-24 05:33:06+00:00
The Droplet lease timeouts were an aggravating factor for the severity of the incident, but are not causative. Absent a trigger the droplet leases never experience congestive failure.

The race condition was necessary and sufficient for collapse. Absent corrective action it always leads to AWS going down. In the presence of corrective actions the severity of the failure would have been minor without other aggravating factors, but the race condition is always the cause of this failure.
by thisislife2 | 2025-10-24 05:34:22+00:00
> “developers were overcharged by the difference between a 17.5% commission for app purchases and the commission Apple charged, which Kent’s lawyers said was usually 30%.”

> “The CAT also ruled that app developers passed on 50% of the overcharge to consumers.”

And that's why I stopped buying Apple products - ultimately it is the end user that pays for everything. Apple exploits both developers and its consumers.
by AfterHIA | 2025-10-24 05:34:25+00:00
I can't concur enough. We don't teach, "how to design computers and better methods to interface with them" we keep hashing over the same stuff over and over again. It gets worse over time and the effect is that what Engelbart called, "intelligence augmenters" become, "super televisions that cause you political and social angst."

How far we have fallen but so great the the reward if we could, "lift ourselves up again." I have hope in people like Bret Victor and Brenda Laurel.
by masklinn | 2025-10-24 05:35:06+00:00
As all tradeoffs it depends on your requirements. lz4 is ridiculously fast so it essentially gets you more ram for free, zstd is a lot more CPU-intensive but also has a much higher compression ratio. So if your RAM is severely undersized for some of your workloads and / or you're not especially CPU-bound until disk swap takes you out, then zstd gives you a lot more headroom.
by eru | 2025-10-24 05:35:27+00:00
That's probably true for macro-economics. Alas that's also the part where people disagree about whether it made objective progress.

Micro-economics is much more approachable with experiments etc.

Btw, I didn't suggest to completely disregard history. Physics and civil engineering don't completely disregard their histories, either. But they also don't engage in constant navel gazing and re-hashing like a good chunk of the philosophers do.
by kelnos | 2025-10-24 05:35:33+00:00
I think it's almost guaranteed that this model has race-related biases, so no, I don't think you're kidding at all. I think it's entirely likely that an Asian (or white) kid of the same build, wearing the same clothes, with a crumpled-up bag of Doritos in his pocket, would not get flagged as having a gun.
by mediaman | 2025-10-24 05:35:49+00:00
He is telling you how it mechanically works. Your comment about it “understanding what that means” because it is an NLP seems bizarre, but maybe you mean it in some other way.

Are you proposing that the attention input context is gone, or that the attention mechanism’s context cost is computationally negated in some way, simply because the system processes natural language? Having the attention mechanism selectively isolate context on command would be an important technical discovery.
by Earw0rm | 2025-10-24 05:36:02+00:00
That's true at least once they surpass human drivers in collisions per driver mile under equivalent conditions.

It seems like we're pretty close to that point, but the numbers need to be treated with care for various reasons. (Robotaxis aren't dealing with the same proportions of conditions - city vs suburban vs freeway - and we should probably exclude collisions caused by human bad-actors which should have fallen within the remit of law enforcement - drink/drugs, grossly excessive speed and so on).
by tennysont | 2025-10-24 05:36:09+00:00
It was intended. Since my original comment, I have learned that the output of `iptables -L` is incomplete when using `iptables-nft`. Specifically, if hide that the rule

ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere

is configured to only match on the interface `tailscale0`.

The folks at security@tailscale.com were prompt to set me straight when I reported it, and I greatly appreciate that.
by gpm | 2025-10-24 05:37:19+00:00
Modern conveniences such as compiler support for

- Tagged unions so you can easily and correctly return "I have one of these things".

- Generics so you can reuse datastructures other people wrote easily and correctly. And a modern toolchain with a package manager that makes it easy to correctly do this.

- Compile time reference counting so you don't have to worry about freeing things/unlocking mutex's/... (sometimes also called RAII + a borrow checker).

- Type inference

- Things that are changed are generally syntactically tagged as mutable which makes it a lot easier to quickly read code

- Iterators...

And so on and so forth. Rust is in large part "take all the good ideas that came before it and put it in a low level language". In the last 50 years there's been a lot of good ideas, and C doesn't really incorporate any of them.