MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kemayo | 2025-10-01 22:37:41+00:00
He seems to be the glue that's holding together the current coalition. The fascist project set is absolutely there, but they've never really won over the MAGA crowd who flocked to Trump's rallies. It's certainly possible that someone will manage to hold them together post-Trump, but nobody in conservative leadership right now seems to have his charisma and ability to draw those people in. (I absolutely believe that Vance thinks he can do it, but I am extremely skeptical.)

Which does make it challenging for them, since Trump's an elderly man who doesn't look to be in particularly good health.
by citizenpaul | 2025-10-01 22:37:55+00:00
Also how do you get invited? When the invitee is specifically inviting the CEO without you to circumvent your influence?

Who is going to do your job while you stroke egos?

Victim blaming as usual. The problem is you don't do the CTO's job in addition to your own....f-off with that hustle life nonsense.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-10-01 22:38:27+00:00
I asked it to abstract a event-specific table to a GP "events" table which it did, but kept the specific table. I asked it to delete that table and it said it did, but did not. I got stuck in a loop asking it to remove the table that the LLM insisted was not part of the schema, but was present in the diagram.

It was easier to close the tab than fire a human, but other than that not a great experience.
by matt_s | 2025-10-01 22:39:34+00:00
> If you have a C-suite that makes decisions based on golf games, this advice is not for you. You have a different set of problems.

Another way to look at it is that your role isn't in the decision making circle, even if you are on a project that is supposed to help make a decision. I was in this role evaluating vendors solutions, in hindsight I can see how I conflated the involvement in the evaluation process with the decision making, those aren't the same.

Think of it like buying a car. You could be on the project to evaluate car companies, features, test drive them and document findings but just because you did all of that doesn't mean you're a decision maker and shouldn't have any emotional attachment to whatever the decision ends up being. Yes if they make a decision with bad trade-offs, like a car with a lot of issues, you may be dealing with those and it may suck but that's your role.

I think part of politics around technical decisions is recognizing if your role has any attributes of being involved with the decision making or if your input is just one of many, potentially minor, inputs.
by jmdeon | 2025-10-01 22:39:53+00:00
From the Snopes:

> Some viewers took the video a little too literally, however, and were surprised at Koko's pithy and timely exhortation to heed the perils of global warming. But nothing about the video indicates that Koko can actually entertain, much less communicate to humans, thoughts about environmentalism.

Personally I never took it literally. I saw the video and knew right away it was just a marketing stunt, but that didn't mean I suddenly thought research into ape intelligence and language should stop. I do wish they had made it more clear that it was just a stunt because I'm sure people like you felt mislead.

I am still fascinated with Koko and the brains of great apes! Also fascinating that they've never asked a question but at least one grey parrot has. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_(parrot)#cite_note-jordan...
by m_a_g | 2025-10-01 22:40:17+00:00
There are many people who are adamant that this bubble will burst. Those who believe that, did you sell all your S&P 500 stocks?

I have many friends and coworkers who think the AI race will come crashing down. But they are not selling their stocks. I’d love for some AI skeptic to help me make sense of this mess.
by pedalpete | 2025-10-01 22:40:46+00:00
Nicely done, and very smooth animations.

It might be nice to have the size of your tracked elements scale as you zoom in so you can see more data without having to swap to the "particles", or have the particles swap automatically at a certain zoom level.

It's pretty amazing that this is all happening in threejs now.

I'm the founder of Ayvri.com (acquired) we originally used cesium before building our own 3d world render engine.
by Jtsummers | 2025-10-01 22:41:17+00:00
I agree. But my point is in that last clause:

> this is squarely on them [the Republicans]

They have the opportunity right now to end the shutdown without requiring any Democratic or independent votes.

They could have offered a compromise budget. They only needed five more Democratic or independent (one available, the other already voted yea) votes.

They did not choose either of those options, instead presenting an option that they knew the Democrats would vote against. That was their choice, they could ignore the Democrats and pass it anyways, or they could work with the Democrats and both can get what they don't want.
by alexktz | 2025-10-01 22:41:24+00:00
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by gs17 | 2025-10-01 22:41:26+00:00
> eg https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tinker

Does this page show something different in your region? For me it doesn't say anything about what you're claiming it does outside of one "chiefly Ireland, sometimes offensive" definition. The etymology only says "Middle English tinkere", and the history explicitly states its first use as being the not-"chiefly Ireland, sometimes offensive" definition. The etymologies I was seeing show it going from "this is a word that describes a job" and branching to "this group of people does this job a lot, let's call them this word" and "fiddling with things to do anything is close enough".

I'm genuinely interested in this, I work in what's a relatively "woke" domain (education) and I've never heard a complaint about something being called "tinkerable", even from colleagues in the UK.
by agedclock | 2025-10-01 22:41:29+00:00
That is unfortunate to hear. I don't really care for any of the political parties in the UK and tell them exactly what I think of them when they knock on my door.

I wouldn't trust them in young LibDems in Bristol either. Doesn't matter if they seem nice or not. Lots of young politicians have nice ideas and over time they either end up as bad as the ones they are replacing, they are forced out or leave of their own accord and then complain about it on a podcast.
by ebbi | 2025-10-01 22:41:32+00:00
I demoed the Vision Pro recently (live in a country with no Apple Store), and I have to admit, I really enjoyed the experience. But it was too bulky and too pricy.

Subsequently, I've tried a pair of Xreal One. I really like the concept, especially for what I used it for, which was as a secondary monitor when hooked to my MBP. Probably a niche use-case for sure, but if Apple can pull it off with a better resolution, it's something I would seriously consider purchasing.
by thiht | 2025-10-01 22:41:39+00:00
> For example it blacklists Fox News but allows CNN or MSNBC as valid citable sources.

Gee I wonder why!

Maybe because of the constant lying, corruption, and absolute MAGA cult bias.

Wikipedia is biased towards truth, which incidentally looks like left-leaning bias to MAGA since they constantly lie about EVERYTHING

Honestly I can’t believe I have to read this kind of garbage on HN.
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by pertymcpert | 2025-10-01 22:43:16+00:00
I really don't see how your reply made a new point. What the other person was responding to was that even if you were to construct your positive sum game, you will have politics because reward distributions are not equal. The very fact that some people receive bigger bonuses, RSUs or promotions and others don't is an unequal distribution such that politics will be there.

Say everyone is compensated with equity. The goal is to increase share value. Yes every action that each employee takes in theory is going to be toward that goal because that's how they're incentivized through the compensation. But in reality you do a performance review and you have to decide how much some person contributed to the overall result, which isn't possible to objectively determine. And in that space of perception and subjectivity is were politics, or as I call it social arbitrage opportunity, exists.
by rolandog | 2025-10-01 22:43:30+00:00
Yes, agreed. Though that's what I meant by "in part": when you read the threads, they derail when Kent takes potshots at other filesystems ... whose developers were CC'd in the mailing list.

To be honest, some of those reactions did feel a bit out of proportion; I am not entirely sure if there could be other reasons for blowing Kent's attitude out of proportion: (Like, does someone stand to benefit that a COW-filesystem without too many sharp edges isn't shipped?).
by bmh100 | 2025-10-01 22:43:54+00:00
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by skeeter2020 | 2025-10-01 22:44:12+00:00
I don't think this is "politics" but even if it technically is, the term has such negative connotations that I think we're better off approaching the scenarios from a different angle, rather than trying to rescue "politics". Start by telling yourself "I will assume the best in motivations and most charitable interpretation." Now approach the "Why?" like a cultural anthropologist: How did we get here? What clues can I find that explain the current state? What artifacts are out there? How is communication organized? What's the hierarchy structure? Who or what are notable influences? Talk to lots of people. Ask lots of open questions. Listen. Sketch literal and conceptual diagrams of "how this all works".

It's likely to turn out everyone is NOT an idiot and there are very logical & understandable reasons for why things are the way they are. Or not, in which case you can run away secure that you've made the right conclusion.
by commandersaki | 2025-10-01 22:44:17+00:00
Yeah then you need a monitoring solution for your backup, another colo for your DR, etc. You end up with all this overhead that you need to always be on top of, unless you can hire someone that you trust and maintain things for you. It's just better value hosting elsewhere where all these unhappy path scenarios have been careful considered and taken care of. I'm definitely not say use free services either as they do not even come with support, but there's middle ground.
by karmakaze | 2025-10-01 22:44:21+00:00
The point of the enclave is so that you can have a provider operate the hardware without access to any unencrypted data. That's why they go through the trouble of encrypting the data on the wires in the first place. So it wouldn't be a physical intrusion of the building or access to the machine as they are operators and should have it. What they shouldn't have is access to unencrypted data.
by crote | 2025-10-01 22:44:54+00:00
Not all gas plants are made equally. There's a huge difference operation-wise between "able to scale at any moment from 0% to 100% within 15 minutes" and "can start going online within 30 days".

Most current plants are either designed to run basically all the time, or only run a couple of hours multiple times a day.

A renewable grid needs generation which is fully shut down for months, but can scale up to 100% within days when weather forecasts predict it'll be needed. The current plants might work as a stop-gap measure, but long-term we'll need to build something designed specifically for this application.
by justcallmejm | 2025-10-01 22:45:24+00:00
“panoply of grifters and chancers and financial engineers” — accurate

Yet, let’s look at intelligence for a sec… it’s been evolving for quite some time and isn’t stopping at humans. Humans are building intelligence at a rate far faster than biological evolution. It is almost inevitable (pending humans wiping ourselves out by any number of catastrophic failures of governance) that we will build intelligence that supersedes our own. Yeah?

I’m a co-founder of Aloe (https://aloe.inc) - a generalist AI that recently became state of the art on the GAIA benchmark. As I was hand-checking the output of our test to ensure Aloe had done the task, not just found answers in some leak online, I had a real come-to-Jesus moment when it hit that this agent is already a better problem-solver than most of the adults I’ve worked with in my career. And this is the floor of its capability.

It is a humbling moment to be human. The few humans at the helms of companies developing these technologies will inevitably reshape the trajectory of humanity.
by DaveZale | 2025-10-01 22:45:43+00:00
humorous insightful essay!

I could share that, as you drift into senior positions after a decade or so, sure, the technical challenges finally meet or exceed your competence level, but you still have to suck up to those who've always been around or somehow appear out of nowhere to "consult" and you're forced to accomodate them. Annoying is the word for it! Ha!
Ask HN: Are there infrared wallpaper products in US markets?
by westurner | 2025-10-01 22:45:56+00:00
Remembered hearing about cuttable (graphene) infrared wallpaper products awhile back;

It looks like the UK has NextGen Heating and iHelios. (I have no affiliation with either.)

NextGen Heating: https://www.nexgenheating.com/ :

> NexGen manufactures Infrared Heating Systems for homes and buildings. The systems are simple to install and user-friendly. The agile technology warms quickly and controls are tailored to each environment, giving the user choice of when and where to heat.

iHelios Heating: https://iheliosliving.co.uk/ :

> Smart Infrared IR Heating Film Renewable Energy for the Modern Home

Given product certification and training here too, are there yet any US distributors of infrared heating products like infrared 'wallpaper' (that works on ceilings, walls, floors) that can be cut to form, punctured, and torn?

Are there infrared wallpaper products in US markets? What are the risks and cost advantages? Is (graphene-based) infrared residential and commerical heating internationally undercapitalized?
by naasking | 2025-10-01 22:46:20+00:00
1. How do you know human cloning has been prevented? Maybe you mean it's not provided as a commercial service, but does that entail it's not happening at all?

2. Preventing the manifestation of physical objects is a lot easier than preventing the dissemination of pure information. AIs are easy to copy, easy to run, and can assist in their own creation, advancement and proliferation, and it only gets easier over time. For an apt analogy, consider a cloning lab where every clone that escaped was compelled to create their own cloning lab, and everything you needed could be bought at any corner store.

3. All cloning requires existing biological organisms to participate at various stages. You need not only the biologists on board, but also the surrogate that has to carry the fetus to term. What do you think will happen when artificial wombs become available?
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-10-01 22:46:25+00:00
Google Glass was "cool" for about five minutes, then, after test units shipped, it became the biggest laughing stock of 2013. (It was a simpler time.)

Since then, just about every glasses-based project has fallen flat, and Snap's "spectacles" are possibly the most laughable tech product ever released.

I don't think that Apple can overcome the aversion people feel when they interact with somebody wearing AR glasses with video recorders. It's going to look and feel like all the rest -- like something done in poor taste.
by fentonc | 2025-10-01 22:46:27+00:00
I love stuff like this! I have a Kaypro 2/84, which supports a display resolution of 160x100 with colors ranging from green, to 'less green' to black, and I went down a rabbit hole of trying to push the graphics: https://www.chrisfenton.com/exploring-kaypro-video-performan... - I was eventually able to get it do display (short!) 50 fps video clips.
by hahajk | 2025-10-01 22:46:32+00:00
I agree. However, so many of my use cases include a one-to-many relationship that I was outgrowing excel/sheets too quickly. Once a project added a VLOOKUP, it hit an inflection point in complexity.

I spun up a local Grist instance in my org, using SAML with our org's email authentication. It's intuitive enough that I've replaced a few shared spreadsheets with it (now with rowwise permissions) and powerful enough that I've also replaced a few internal CRUD apps.

https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core
by quickthrowman | 2025-10-01 22:46:58+00:00
I was going to edit my post and add that mushroom visuals can be more tangible than the swirling/shimmering/morphing of LSD.

During one particularly strong mushroom trip I was seeing geometric patterns on surfaces that were very similar to ‘Navajo Print’ fabrics woven by Native Americans. It was uncanny, and I’m convinced to this day that those patterns were revealed to the indigenous Americans during psilocybin experiences.
by jvanderbot | 2025-10-01 22:47:17+00:00
Two things.

It's possible to be great at something simply by practicing, assuming normal capabilities. But great here just means "better than virtually everyone". Being mediocre among people who practice regularly it makes you immediately better than basically everyone who has done it once or twice. By most definitions that's "great".

Median daily StarCraft ranked player? You're great at StarCraft.

Second, if you start young enough, you get the compounding effects of time. You're now "pretty good among lifelong daily players in their prime". That's Olympic/ world class.

Like that guy who had kids just to make them Chess masters. He did so by making chess part of the family life, so integral it wasn't working it just was. The guy from the original post actually.

So it's tempting to say things like TFA posits, and while I'm not sure it's 100% true, it's definitely not 100% false or pure rubbish.
by jennyholzer | 2025-10-01 22:47:26+00:00
It's hard for me to imagine anyone who didn't already rise to prominence in the mass media environment of yesteryear to engage voters in the way Trump has.

In other words, I think Trump was able to succeed politically because he was "the guy from TV".

I don't think the current media environment is making more "guys from TV" (at least not with anywhere close to the status they had ~25 years ago).
by westurner | 2025-10-01 22:47:44+00:00
Remembered hearing about cuttable (graphene) infrared wallpaper products awhile back; It looks like the UK has NextGen Heating and iHelios. (I have no affiliation with either.)

NextGen Heating: https://www.nexgenheating.com/ :

> NexGen manufactures Infrared Heating Systems for homes and buildings. The systems are simple to install and user-friendly. The agile technology warms quickly and controls are tailored to each environment, giving the user choice of when and where to heat.

iHelios Heating: https://iheliosliving.co.uk/ :

> Smart Infrared IR Heating Film Renewable Energy for the Modern Home

Given product certification and training here too, are there yet any US distributors of infrared heating products like infrared 'wallpaper' (that works on ceilings, walls, floors) that can be cut to form, punctured, and torn?

Are there infrared wallpaper products in US markets? What are the risks and cost advantages? Is (graphene-based) infrared residential and commerical heating internationally undercapitalized?

--

NextGen Heating: https://www.nexgenheating.com/

iHelios Heating: https://iheliosliving.co.uk/

/? infrared wallpaper heating : https://www.google.com/search?q=infrared+wallpaper+heating
by Bender | 2025-10-01 22:48:05+00:00
In terms of monitoring I could envision this just being a section of the backup script on the primary servers that perform a dry-run backup and if the delta is massive then something has likely tampered with the files, refuses to do a real backup and sends an alert, text message or otherwise. It would have to be something that people would not ignore.

The sftp backup servers in their script that kicks off their rsnapshot could also count total vs new files and alert if nothing has changed or too much has changed. Each person/org would have to determine what is an unusual time to go without changes assuming the primary mail servers have died due to malware or the new file delta is too big due to files all being tampered with.