MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Jun8 | 2025-10-03 18:49:15+00:00
Excellent book review by Noah Smith that is relevant: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/book-review-doughnut-economics.

"Here’s a very short, oversimplified history of modern economics. In the 1960s and 1970s, a particular way of thinking about economics crystallized in academic departments, and basically took over the top journals. It was very math-heavy, and it modeled the economy as the sum of a bunch of rational human agents buying and selling things in a market.

The people who invented these methods (Paul Samuelson, Ken Arrow, etc.) were not very libertarian at all. But in the 70s and 80s a bunch of conservative-leaning economists used the models to claim that free markets were great. The models turned out to be pretty useful for saying “free markets are great”, simply because math is hard — it’s a lot easier to mathematically model a simple, well-functioning market than it is to model a complex world where markets are only part of the story, and where markets themselves have lots of pieces that break down and don’t work. So the intellectual hegemony of this type of mathematical model sort of dovetailed with the rise of libertarian ideology, neoliberal policy, and so on."
by UncleOxidant | 2025-10-03 18:49:19+00:00
> The Great Depression was blamed for the rise of Fascism in Europe (the collapse of Weimar Germany and the rise of Hitler).

Fascism in Europe was already well underway when the Great Depression started in '29. Weimar Germany collapsed due to the terms of Treaty of Versailles which essentially broke Germany's economy (Germany was essentially already in a depression well before the US). However, there was a very real fear in the US that the downturn that would later become known as The Great Depression would lead to fascism in the US.
by HankStallone | 2025-10-03 18:49:51+00:00
If you bookmark Dave's blog, you have to check his blog every day to see if there's something new, even if Dave only posts monthly. Or you check less often, and sometimes discover a new post long after the discussion in the comments has come and gone.

If you put Dave's blog in your RSS reader, one day "Dave (1)" shows up in your list of unread sources and you can read his new post immediately, and you didn't need to think about Dave's blog any other day.

I could use the "all articles" feed in my RSS reader (TT-RSS), but I would never do such a thing unless all the blogs I follow had similar posting frequencies that would mesh well together, which they don't. I never use the front page of Reddit for the same reason: the busy subs would drown out the ones that get a post a week.
by Zak | 2025-10-03 18:49:53+00:00
Here are some possibilities:

* You don't want your trip to be delayed

* You object to police checkpoints in principle

* You or your friends or family have had negative experiences with law enforcement, so you prefer to minimize contact

* You share a car with family members, one of whom smoked cannabis in it; the smell will result in an extended detention and investigation at a checkpoint

* Your license/registration/insurance is not current

* You are an undocumented immigrant

* There is a warrant for your arrest
by 01-_- | 2025-10-03 18:50:57+00:00
I'm working on a site that serves as an alternative to Hacker News. There you will find two relevant options (at least I thought so kkk)

1. A notification system. All posts that are commented on or voted on (positively or negatively) will generate notifications on the site for the owners of the respective posts.

2. Diversity of topics. On Comuniq we're not fixated on a single theme, so users who like topics such as health, politics, entertainment, art, etc. will be able to post there and generate very intelligent debates.

We're not trying to take power away from our monster hn, but rather to provide another option where we can talk about other things we love. Check us out at https://comuniq.xyz
by hollerith | 2025-10-03 18:51:21+00:00
Exposure to radiation up-regulates genes involved in DNA repair pathways, genes associated with antioxidant defense (notably those downstream of the Nrf2 transcription factor) and autophagy-related genes (which are crucial for the degradation and recycling of cellular components).

Fasting does all those things, too -- without introducing random errors into one's DNA. Basically everyone under 40 should do regular fasts of some form, and those that do will probably derive no additional benefit from exposure to ionizing radiation, i.e., the type of radiation being promoted by the OP. (People older than 40 need to worry about losing muscle mass during a fast since old people find it very hard regain muscle mass once it it lost. Actually it is likely that only people over 60 or 65 might have to worry about muscle mass: experts disagree on the best cut-off age, and 40 years old's is the lowest I have seen.)

Three days of fasting has all of the benefits I list above, but there are risks to going completely without calories for that long, and actually our ancestors probably went without any access to calories for days almost never, but often endured stretches of days in which their calorie intake was less than a sustainable level, but not zero. To reduce the risks of going completely without calories for 3 days at a time, longevity researchers have devised the "fasting-mimicking diet", which give over the course of 5 days most or all of the benefits as eating no calories at all for 3 days. It restricts calories to about 800 calories per day with only 10% of that coming from protein and is the type of fasting that most people should be doing.

FMD requires no interaction with or prescription from the health-care industry and costs nothing except the time and attention needed to learn how to count calories if one has never done that before.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-10-03 18:51:38+00:00
At this point, we might be just fine. The academics won't be, but they were the ones telling everyone to wait on having kids in the first place. Demographic trickle down, biting the hand that feeds academia, is a big part of this story.

At my college, birth control was as free as water. Teaching people to postpone marriage, children, for the sake of career, combined with record-high school debt... might be partly why academia finds themselves in this demographic decline. They told the next generation not to have kids, made it financially impossible to have kids, and lo and behold, there's less kids entering college now.
by jkaplowitz | 2025-10-03 18:52:46+00:00
Sometimes I take a legally prescribed stimulant / controlled substance for ADHD. Those medicines can be perfectly safe to drive with once you know how the particular dosage affects you, and driving with them is often even safer at the appropriate therapeutic dosage than driving without them. Further, as a person with ADHD and a tic disorder, I would have a fair chance of failing a field sobriety test even if I'm sober. I'm also not thrilled with the idea of lying to cops, since I know that can be a crime separately from the question of DUI.

So, putting all that together, imagine this sequence: cop at a DUI checkpoint asks me to perform a field sobriety test. I refuse, either without giving a reason or citing my ADHD and tic disorder. They ask me if I'm taking any medicine for ADHD. I don't lie and either confirm that fact or plead the fifth, or even if I do lie they still might not believe me. I probably don't have the pills or the bottle with me since I wouldn't usually be taking it in the car anyway. They then insist on a blood test, either with consent or with a quickly obtained warrant. I then have to accept a long detour going for the blood test, and then spend a lot of time and money proving in court both that I had a legal prescription and that I was not legally impaired by the medicine. (Even if I do have the correctly labeled pill bottle with me in the car, the cop still might incorrectly assume the medicine impairs me.)

Avoiding this hassle is a perfectly legal and legitimate reason to want to know where DUI checkpoints are.

Nothing I'm saying is condoning driving drunk - I certainly don't do that. When I drink, I pay attention to the advice of blood alcohol content calculators to figure out when I'm safe to drive and when it's fully out of my system. And when I take medicines that interact with alcohol, I'm even more cautious with drinking than when I don't.
by JuniperMesos | 2025-10-03 18:52:51+00:00
> Working at a workplace that has a large immigration workforce is also not a crime or a reason to be detained.

It's not a crime to work at a workplace with a large immigration workforce, but it is a reason why you might reasonably be detained by federal officers specifically investigating workplaces with large numbers of immigrants where it's widely known that many of those immigrant workers are not legally in the country.

> If someone is "actively interfering" with ICE that's not immigration enforcers job to deal with, and should be handled/handed over to the local police force and taken to a police center, not immigration detention.

In a lot of places where ICE is operating the local police have been ordered by local political leadership not to assist ICE because local political leadership is anti-immigration-law-enforcement. There have been cases in New York, Portland, the Bay Area, probably other places too where local law enforcement refused to assist ICE, or did assist ICE in violation of local law banning this. There are reasonable constitutional justifications for states or localities to be able to pass laws banning local law enforcement from assisting with federal law enforcement, but that also implies that detaining people actively interfering with their investigation is in fact part of the job of federal law enforcement.
by lillecarl | 2025-10-03 18:53:16+00:00
Use K3s in cluster mode, start doing. Cluster mode uses etcd instead of kine, kine is not good.

Configure the init flags to disable all controllers and other doodads, deploy them yourself with Helm. Helm sucks to work with but someone has already gone through the pain for you.

AI is GREAT at K8s since K8s has GREAT docs which has been trained on.

A good mental model is good: It's an API with a bunch of control loops
by thrance | 2025-10-03 18:53:24+00:00
Wow, deregulation and austerity, what a fresh perspective on the economy!

This abundance "movement" has absolutely nothing new to offer, it is simply a rebranding of neoliberalism. It's easy to spot too, just look at who backs the movement: the same old establishment democrats and their wealthy donors. The same people who have entranched the democratic party into this technocratic blob of ineffectiveness and societal erosion. In particular, it is financially backed by, among others, Peter Thiel and Mark Andreessen. This should raise some red flags.

Also, I personally like winning. This abundance movement has exactly zero electoral hype. American voters don't care about it at all. Meanwhile, populist leftists like Mamdani are able to generate momentum for the left for the first time in decades. That Klein, Thompson and the billionaires behind them are so harshly criticizing them should raise additional red flags.
by jMyles | 2025-10-03 18:53:25+00:00
Being able to instantly know the locations of our friends and of threats to them (whether in the form of other people, natural disasters, fires, anything!) is such an obvious benefit to public safety in the information age.

It's one of the things that will finally allow us to supplant the yoke of the state, by having our own decentralized emergency response systems.

When will we realize this benefit? Do we really have to wait for Apple to fall?
by zerolayers | 2025-10-03 18:53:26+00:00
ChatGPT can now buy things for you. Google just released a protocol for AI agents to handle payments. And nobody's asking the obvious question: who's advertising to your AI? OpenAI's Instant Checkout lets you shop without leaving the chat. Google's Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) gives AI agents the infrastructure to transact on your behalf. Both companies insist results are "organic" and "unsponsored." Right. Because when you build a payment rail that processes transactions through conversational AI, advertisers definitely won't figure out how to optimize their product descriptions for agent preferences instead of human eyeballs. We spent decades learning how to game Google's algorithm. How to buy Facebook ads that target your exact neuroses. How to SEO our way into your search results. Now we're handing purchase decisions to agents that "consider factors like availability, price, quality" and trust them to rank options "purely on relevance." Relevance to what? The prompt you typed? The preferences they've inferred? The merchants who've optimized their listings for whatever embedding space these models operate in? The shift isn't humans buying things versus AI buying things. It's discoverable persuasion versus invisible influence. At least when you see an ad, you know someone paid to change your mind. When your agent "recommends" something, you'll assume it's acting in your interest.
by caminanteblanco | 2025-10-03 18:53:37+00:00
>Garran then calculates the Wicksellian deficit, which to be clear includes not only artificial-intelligence spending but also housing and office real estate, NFTs and venture capital...think of it as the misallocated portion of gross domestic product fueled by artificially low interest rates

In other words, this is a statement on current US interest rates, not AI. The analyst just chose to single out the AI industry because they believe it has no ability to return on investment. But the actual numbers are not AI-specific.
by port11 | 2025-10-03 18:53:41+00:00
This is one of the most exaggerated takes on the country I've come across. I lived there for 8 years and Germany is, frankly, a superb place to live.

I left Germany 3 times and my quality of life took a hit each time. The first 2 I went back; sadly I can't do it again.

Public transportation was in the top 3 of what I've experienced in Continental Europe; schools are seen as respectable and good; healthcare was generally very good if expensive (14.x% of salary is a bit much). I could go on.

Germany has definite problems, and the federal overruling of things like “rent brakes” is cause for concern. But to call the country ’a total disaster’ can only be done by one that, quite honestly, has no idea of what a bad or even mediocre country looks like.
by 3pt14159 | 2025-10-03 18:53:42+00:00
I remember the first bubble. It was absolutely huge. This is nothing compared to that. This is a bit frothy, but given the difference between AGI and human intelligences it is at least understandable. If AI can replace most workers then we should expect to see sky high valuations. That is a big if but it is at least conceivable.
by ceejayoz | 2025-10-03 18:53:54+00:00
> He says that the best economists in the world are traders. Why? Because they have this big number over their head, their profit and loss ("P&L") that everyone at the bank can see. It also defines their bonus.

This is kinda like the difference between climate science vs. weather forecasting. Being good at making short-term returns without giving a shit about the long-term damage it does is not the same as economic policy.
by EvgeniyZh | 2025-10-03 18:54:24+00:00
> Given they still offer 3.5, three years is probably a more fair depreciation schedule.

But the usage should drop considerably as soon as next model is released. Many startups down the line are existing in hope of better model. Many others can switch to a better/cheaper model quite easily. I'd be very surprised if the usage of 3.5 is anywhere near what it was before release of the next generation, even given all the growth. New users just use the new models
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-03 18:54:29+00:00
> tech exports are 53% of their export output

Sure. Where are you getting that these are a critical source of FX?

> Gas is a laughable non-issue

To FX? Seriously?

> have you ever read about the sanctions on Rhodesia & south Africa?

Yes. Zimbabwe is still sanctioned. South Africa had preëxisting power-sharing negotiations.

> Even China won't sell them any modern airframes. That should tell you something

...that Beijing isn't drunk? Why do you think Washington got pissed off when Turkey bought Russian air defences and let them paint our fighter fleet?

> have evidence of Western & non-western countries banding together to sanction consistent bad actors

One, during a unipolar world. Someone else commented on this, but in a multipolar world, that is a luxury that simply doesn't emerge. (Even the bilateral world of the Cold War very rarely saw international sanctions regimes effected. That was just a nudge for someone to switch from one system of alliances to another.)

> Do you have any evidence of any country surviving sanctions without severe economic damage?

Yes [2]. In the short term, they cause damage. ("Severe" needs to be quantified, however--when regime change is targeted, it's only successful about a third of the time.) In the long term, they're less effective. Economies go into cockroach mode.

If you want a list, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Belarus, Burma and Venezuela are each heavily sanctioned and pretty much setting themselves up to permanently be so. (Pyongyang and Minsk having practically turned it into an art.)

> I'm simply projecting based on history, which is why I cite precedent

You haven't cited anything! Based on history, Israel is highly unlikely to get sanctioned by anyone, let alone America, and if it were, it's likely to be fine.

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01475...
by keiferski | 2025-10-03 18:54:33+00:00
Again, I don’t really see what scenario here is actually some kind of doomsday.

So someone makes a fake video of X famous person saying an absurd thing on Joe Rogan’s podcast.

It’s not on the official Rogan account, but just on some low quality AI slop channel. Maybe it fools a handful of people…but who cares? People are already pretty trained to be skeptical of video.

I think we’ll mostly just see a focus on identity verification. If the content isn’t verified as being by the real person, it’ll just be treated as mindless entertainment.
by BoorishBears | 2025-10-03 18:55:02+00:00
Your brief doesn't make sense, maybe you need to expand?

They're only offering 3.5 for legacy reasons: pre-Deepseek, 3.5 did legitimately have some things that open source hadn't caught up on (like world knowledge, even as an old model), but that's done.

Now the wins come from relatively cheap post-training, and a random Chinese food delivery companies can spit out 500B parameter LLMs that beats what OpenAI released a year ago for free with an MIT license.

Also as you release models you're enabling both distillation of your own models, and more efficent creation of new models (as the capabilities of the LLM themselves are increasingly useful for building, data labeling, etc.)

I think the title is inflammatory, but the reality is if AGI is really around the corner, none of OpenAI's actions are consistent with that.

Utilizing compute that should be catapulting you towards the imminent AGI to run AI TikTok and extract $20 from people doesn't add up.

They're on a treadmill with more competent competitors than anyone probably expected grabbing at their ankles, and I don't think any model that relies on them pausing to cash in on their progress actually works out.
by pbowyer | 2025-10-03 18:55:03+00:00
> One of the big advantages people enjoy is the elimination of the network latency between the application server and the DB. With SQLite your DB is right there often directly attached over NVME.

You can install MySQL/PostgreSQL on the application server, connect over a unix socket and get the same benefits as if you'd used SQLite on the application server (no network latency, fast queries). Plus the other benefits that come from using these database servers (Postgres extensions, remote connections, standard tooling etc). I'm guessing more RAM is required on the application server than if you used SQLite but I haven't benchmarked it.
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-03 18:55:04+00:00
>someone was treated for smoke inhalation

I'm mildly amused by this. It's an open air environment, did someone go stand over one of the crashed drones as it burst into flames and just, breathed deep? Glad they got treatment, plastic smoke is gross.

Also wow, the drones are massive, and apparently flying so low they will hit cranes putting things on single story buildings? That's so stupid.

Dear tech world: Please do not fly 80 pound projectiles just a few feet above my head at speed. Jeeze.
by ten_hands | 2025-10-03 18:56:12+00:00
I don't see how this works though. OpenAI doesn't exist in a vacuum, it has competitors, and the first company to stop improving their model will get obliterated by the others. It seems like they are doomed to keep retraining right up until the VC funding runs out, at which point they go bankrupt.

Some other company, that doesn't have a giant pile of debt will then pick up the pieces and make some money though. Once we dig out of the resulting market crash.
by mulmen | 2025-10-03 18:56:18+00:00
> UK passports cost almost £100, so a lot of people aren't going to get one unless they need to go abroad.

Sounds like the UK government doesn’t have a history of making it easy to obtain identification.

> I'd expect a required UK digital ID to be free at point of issue

Where do you expect this point of issue to be and why do you expect it to be free? Is there any precedent to support your assumption?

It sounds like you’re advocating for cheap or readily available government ID. I see no reason why digital ID is uniquely or even well suited for either purpose.

> (otherwise there's not much point in it).

Well the point of the digital ID could be to further marginalize vulnerable communities by not providing easy access to the ID while also making it a requirement for participation in society.

Take a look at the southern United States for inspiration on that approach.

This is exactly the reason Americans (as students of history) are generally resistant to the idea of government identification.
by dkarl | 2025-10-03 18:56:32+00:00
> no one would be discussing the above kinds of issues evaluating a POC

Um, yeah, they would be communicating that it's a bad idea to put sensitive data into it. You have to make that stuff explicit, or somebody will misuse it.

I'm looking for the scandal here. Did the contractors misrepresent the prototype systems as being secure in ways they're not? Is the project behind schedule, and proper authorization controls were supposed to be implemented by now? Is the prototype system being improperly used to share sensitive data? Any of those would be concerning, but the article doesn't make any of those claims.

All I see is, a prototype version of software doesn't have all the capability that it will need when it's finished.
by pcf | 2025-10-03 18:56:52+00:00
I like the thought, but AFAIK it doesn't really change the bottom line much, as long as you buy a used older product from a brand. Probably because the person selling it is buying a newer model, so you're still helping the company out.

I might be wrong, though. But this was the initial conclusion I arrived at when I was researching whether to buy an iPhone 17, iPhone 15 Pro (used) or Android phone. Only the last option would probably hurt Apple directly. And only a liiiiiittle.
by dang | 2025-10-03 18:56:54+00:00
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