MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by boxed | 2025-10-22 13:39:21+00:00
And yet, no other rocket company has done anything close. And no other car company has made such radical differences in the market as Tesla.

Again: you must be able to keep two things in your head at once. I understand that Elon is an absolute ass, but also that he has made several incredible (literally!) things happen. Give credit where credit is due, and give blame where blame is do. Don't confuse the two.
by imtringued | 2025-10-22 13:39:51+00:00
As others have said, Wikipedia is a tertiary source. A primary source is the original materials, e.g. research papers for example. Secondary sources analyze or summarize, but also connect the primary sources into a bigger work. This is how comprehensive textbooks that cover a wide breadth of topics are written. Wikipedia is for those who are too lazy for even the secondary sources. I.e. blog post sized articles about a particular topic. That's what a tertiary source is and nobody really needs tertiary sources other than for convenience and time savings.
by akudha | 2025-10-22 13:39:52+00:00
corrupt politicians who think a politician going to jail is a dangerous precedent

There is a reason why administrations don't go after obvious, in-your-face crimes committed by previous administrations/politicians. They all hate each other, but they are also terrified that if they prosecute previous administrations (for legitimate crimes), they'll be the target when someone else is in power (even if they themselves didn't commit any crimes).

I suppose it might be easier to prevent misbehavior by highest officials of the land by having stricter scrutiny, laws etc than prosecuting them after the fact, but who watches the watchdogs? Who watches the judiciary? As an ordinary citizen, it is exhausting to just even follow the news.

And if it is this bad in democracies, imagine how it is like in countries like Russia.
by dotnet00 | 2025-10-22 13:40:06+00:00
Pretty much everyone is heading in the direction of orbital fuel depots and orbital refueling.We're getting pretty good at launching rockets and docking things in orbit. Prior to Starship, ULA was considering having Vulcan's upper stage have refueling capabilities, but their parent company, Boeing, saw it as a threat to their SLS money and tried to get the associated engineers fired. All HLS proposals involved some sort of refueling and reuse capability, and both accepted proposals involve orbital fuel depots.

The only reason NASA hadn't already been investigating the relevant technologies is that politicians threatened to outright cancel space science funding if NASA so much as mentioned depots (the word was actually censored in documents from NASA about HLS until the relevant senator finally retired).
by tekbruh9000 | 2025-10-22 13:40:40+00:00
Imagine the crash in book sales if humans were not hustling and could spend time socializing meaningfully.

Job culture is nothing but empty competition. Billions of normalized thinkers reduced to nothing but tools of a "trade". Where trade is normalized to time for money.

Not a fan of the racism and gender bias, but am 1000% indifferent to bougie labor exploiting office workers being handed their hat.

"Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!" Yeah but you all suck to work with because that's all you are; HR slang, marketroid speak, programming language gibberish. Yawn.

Am psyched the zeitgeist is turning on "knowledge workers" who ignored worker exploitation and devaluation of others just the same.
by mannykannot | 2025-10-22 13:40:42+00:00
To be clear, I don't think the guy in the room will end up understanding whichever Chinese language this thought experiment is being conducted in, either.

You have put your finger on the fundamental problem of the argument: Searle never gave a good justification for the tacit and question-begging premise that if the human operator did not understand the language, then nothing would (there is a second tacit premise at work here: that performing the room's task required something to understand the language. LLMs arguably suggest that the task could be performed without anything resembling a human's understanding of language.)

Searle's attempt to justify this premise (the 'human or nothing' one) against the so-called 'systems reply' is to have the operator memorize the book, so that the human is the whole system. Elsewhere [1] I have explained why I don't buy this.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45664129
by sensanaty | 2025-10-22 13:41:06+00:00
I'm the last person to defend OpenAI on literally anything and personally I hope they crash and burn in a spectacular fashion and take the whole market down with them, but you at least have a choice in using Atlas as it's simply a program that you install on your computer of your own volition. With Recall, there's no choice, M$ will just shove it down your throat whether you want it or not, and most likely (knowing their history it's pretty much a guarantee) you'll be stuck with the privacy nightmare that is Recall with nothing you can do about it.

So the pushback makes perfect sense to me. Also, HN isn't 1 entity, it's many people with many different opinions, you can easily find people who were/are excited about Recall the same way people are excited about Atlas.
by Nextgrid | 2025-10-22 13:41:09+00:00
Don't worry, you are still being tracked by IP + browser fingerprinting... and using a browser with a low single-digit marketshare stands out like a sore thumb.

(which is also why framing GDPR discussions around cookies misses the point - the point is to determine the user's consent to being tracked regardless of technical ability, whether cookies, IP address, fingerprinting, or even some magic crystal ball)
by lorddumpy | 2025-10-22 13:41:13+00:00
I ended up trying them around 2 decades ago (I do not recommend lol) and learned so much from that site. The information about the long time for it to take effect (1.5 hours AFAIK), warnings to take the right dose and no more, and the vision side effects the next day, along with horror stories of what could go wrong, Erowid probably saved us a trip to the ER or even worse.

Love those guys, incredible resource.
by slightwinder | 2025-10-22 13:41:28+00:00
Every door you close, is one less someone can break.

Every complex services running, is a door someone can potentially break. Even with the most secure and battle tested service, you never know where someone fucked up and introduced an exploit or backdoor. Happened too often to be not a concern. XZ Utils backdoor for example was just last year.

> Your network authentication should not be a fun game or series of Rube Goldberg contraptions.

If there is no harm, who cares...
by throw0101c | 2025-10-22 13:41:32+00:00
Depending on your paranoia level, there are lists of National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA: i.e., non-Chinese) camera OEMs:

* https://www.a1securitycameras.com/blog/non-chinese-security-...

Some names: Axis, Avigilon, Bosch, Vivotek, Hanwha Techwin (SK), Acti (TW), Motorola, Mobotix.
by akagusu | 2025-10-22 13:41:43+00:00
Item 15 of the license states:

THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM *"AS IS"* WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND

They have no obligations to provide documentation, binaries or anything beyond the source code.

I personally think this is a better option than migrating from an open source license to a source available and I would like more project adopt this approach from the beginning of their projects, to set people's expectation right.
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-22 13:41:47+00:00
The quality was legendary too, they were serious about the lifetime warranty.

After 1990 though I had repeated experiences that "the lights were on and nobody was home" at Sears. When I showed up for grad school they had people tabling in front of Willard Straight Hall to get sign-ups for the Sears credit card. I signed up and a few weeks later got a letter that said I'd be declined because I lived in student housing. Why canvas students if you won't give credit to students? This was the only time in my life that I've been denied credit.

Maybe 15 years later I bought 4 tires from Sears and walked 1.5 miles back in the dark and in the snow after work to pick up my car. The salesman insisted on charging me for only one tire after quite a bit of arguing. You might think less of me for this but, no, I wasn't about to call the store manager (who knows how long I'd wait?) to pay another $300 and I wasn't going to call the 1-800 number to make a complaint. I just drove home. Even though it was clear Sears was running a lottery where you might get a "buy 1 tire get 3 free" on a good day, it also made me think about whether I wanted to go back in case the actual mechanic shop was as disorganized as the front end (e.g. "buy 5 quarts of oil, get 0") They went out of business within two years of that though.
by boxed | 2025-10-22 13:42:37+00:00
> Considering their contract just went back up for grabs I’m not sure how true that statement is.

SpaceX is far and away the most credible contractor. And it's not even close.

> This was unnecessary and patronizing

And yet, you said something that was uninformed AGAIN just after I pointed out how uninformed that take was. Doubling down on the mistake is even MORE reason for me to keep reminding you to keep the two things in view at the same time.
by Kbelicius | 2025-10-22 13:42:38+00:00
> Disagree. The popup is the enraging problem. It's not a small annoyance. I click them multiple times every single day and it's ludicrous.

Then don't visit webpages that do illegal things and are hostile to their users.

> I want a law that protects consumers in the first place.

This is that law.
by strogonoff | 2025-10-22 13:42:56+00:00
> I see technological advancement as inevitible and good.

It’s false, simply because it is a product of human effort and human choice to do this or the other.

> A robot that can do jobs so that humans don't have to is a good thing. It's progress

A “good thing” is what benefits humans. Robots replacing humans at what humans choose to do for their own benefit is decidedly not a good thing—aside from humans who profit from running the robots.

You may have noticed that I am repeating myself[0]. You are yet to show how this benefits humanity in a way that outweighs harm to humans who lose their jobs (especially considering many of them provided, without consent, the data instrumental for the robots to work in the first place). If you are among the people who work on robots, I think you ought to pause and reflect.

> The wealthy already own and control everything.

“They” don’t. A lot of “them” are here, by the way. Wealth gap is high, but to say it’s absolute (100% is owned by the rich and we are all just slaves for them) is simply wrong. We should work towards decreasing the gap, not increasing it.

[0] I am basically reiterating my original comment:

> “robots are coming for your jobs” is a valid argument against robots even if they can do those jobs better and faster, under two assumptions: 1) humans benefit from having jobs and 2) human benefit is the end goal.
by kace91 | 2025-10-22 13:42:58+00:00
>it's not a problem of the language, but the author's unfamiliarity with the tools at their disposal.

If you have to share a codebase with a large group of people with varying skill levels, limiting their ability to screw up can definitely be a feature, which a language can have or lack.

As always, it comes with tradeoffs. Would you rather have the ability to use good, expressive abstractions or remove the group’s ability to write bad ones? It probably depends on your situation and goals.
by JohnFen | 2025-10-22 13:42:59+00:00
I would not be comfortable with constant screen recording, personally. Local-only storage + open source code wouldn't increase my comfort. My machine would still be compiling a very sensitive database, keeping all that data in one place. That's a bad situation because should my machine be breached, then the whole candy store is robbed. The theoretical benefits don't come anywhere close to enough to make me entertain taking that risk.

But I am not a typical user.
by anonnon | 2025-10-22 13:43:36+00:00
This reminds me of when Rossman was accused of transphobia and other prejudices because he created a KF account solely to respond to things said about him in his own dedicated thread on that site, without posting anywhere else. Pure guilt-by-association tactics.

DeVault apparently considers anything short of complete deplatforming (even spirited debate) as a form of sympathizing, and probably would regard even Robin Hanson (who debated Yarvin) as a kind of cryptofascist--which is funny, since the only effective push-back Yarvin ever gets is from conservatives, who (besides preaching to the same choir), still preferring debate to deplatforming, haven't suffered the atrophy of their rhetorical muscles that afflicts progressives[1]. Meanwhile the man hysterically paranoid about creeping fascism and fascist sympathizing is himself a well-documented lolicon addict[2].

It is cute, however, that he thinks it's still 2015 and not 2025, and that he can write pro-censorship, pearl-clutchy stuff like this:

> and Odysee, the latter a platform controversial for its role in spreading hate speech and misinformation.

and still be taken seriously.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcSil8NeQq8

[2] https://dmpwn.info/
by kragen | 2025-10-22 13:43:56+00:00
An unfortunate suggestion of that nomenclature is that it suggests that "humanity" came into existence only 12025 years ago, which would mean that the creatures before that time were all non-human. This is especially unfortunate given that it strongly implies that, for example, either Khoisan people, Australian people, or European people are human, but not more than one of the three, since they diverged genetically before that date. While, on one level, this is merely a semantic issue about the definition of the word "human", on another level it mirrors the ideological justifications for mass enslavement and genocide that caused historically unprecedented atrocities in the 20th century (unsurpassed until Mao surpassed them), because most people's ethical systems accord special privileges to "humans", for example holding that killing any number of nonhumans is justifiable if it saves even one human's life, or, in most cases, even if it merely provides them with meat to eat.

While I don't believe the Kurzgesagt staff endorse genocide and cannibalism, I think they may not have clearly thought out the implications of their choice of terminology.

Premack's timeline that you link does not make the same error, calling it the "Holocene Era", as Emiliani did.
by cmollis | 2025-10-22 13:44:10+00:00
i have the most bare-bones plan with an HSA.. for me and my three kids, it was 19K per year.. and that was basically nothing more than catastrophic insurance.. I don't think my provider actually paid for anything in the last 4 years except for my son's hospital stay (which I paid the max per person out-of-pocket for). Everything else has been paid out of my HSA.. which is at least discounted by my tax rate. Interesting tidbit, I was actually almost broke about 8 years ago after my divorce, so I didn't pay for healthcare for myself for one year, just my kids. When I notified by doctors about this, they actually were very helpful getting me prices for each procedure.. and they were very helpful directing me to hospitals in the area that actually cater to those without health insurance. Grand total for healthcare for me in that year : $300. I pay 500 per month each month for myself now (because of my age).. yet i use almost none of it... and if I did, I would have to pay out of my HSA. Now, I know that I'm paying for catastrophic conditions.. yada yada.. but being mostly 'healthy' I literally use none of that.. there is no way that health insurance providers will ever cover for anything other than what my age is.. and why? because they'll say that it is the most accurate indicator of general 'health'.. ignoring anything related to how much of the health care system that I use, or much prevention that I personally enage in (diet, exercise, etc, etc).. in the same way car value is a function of miles.. not necessarily how much maintenance has been put into it. It's a simple metric, and easy to fleece healthy people to cover those not healthy. There's only one thing that matters at all: profit margin.
by le-mark | 2025-10-22 13:44:18+00:00
> stole the classified documents

A nitpick of mine is how Trump having the documents wasn’t the case against him. The case against Trump was an obstruction case because he lied and concealed the documents from authorities, going so far as shuffling them between properties, having his lawyers give false statements, and defying subpoenas.

This differentiates Trumps document case from everyone else’s (ie Bidens); the right loves to use this as an example of DOJ weaponization when they couldn’t be more different.
by GJim | 2025-10-22 13:44:28+00:00
> Personal data sharing needs to be banned.

Indiscriminate sharing of personal data IS banned under the GDPR.

If you collect personal data, you must only collect it for the stated purpose and can't sell or share it for any other reason.

I continue to be astounded at the ignorance some people have of the GDPR; a vital privacy law and one that is fundamental to modern data use and respect for the customer.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-re...
by Kbelicius | 2025-10-22 13:46:21+00:00
> No, the problem is 100% the law, because it was written in a way that allows this type of malicious compliance.

There is no malicious compliance here, just breaking the law. So if it is the problem of laws that they are broken then according to you all laws are 100% the problem. That stance, IMO, is beyond stupid.
by dns_snek | 2025-10-22 13:46:31+00:00
You need to understand that GDPR and consent requirements affect far more than just online ads and ad-related tracking. For example a website is legally required to ask for consent if they want to share your purchase history with data brokers. Collection of this data is unaffected by ad blockers.

As the name says, it's a General Data Protection Regulation. It covers all types of processing from all types of entities, everything from big tech websites to your local yoga instructor who doesn't have any online presence.
by acharya_local | 2025-10-22 13:46:37+00:00
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That experience revealed both the immense potential of AI as a creative partner and the many ways today’s systems fail to deliver. So I designed something to fix that. Not another wrapper, but an operating architecture for genuine creative partnership and local sovereignty.

I’m looking for a technical co-founder — someone serious, principled, and driven by the conviction that we can build better.

If you believe technology should be owned, not rented — that innovation belongs to users, not gatekeepers — learn more at the AILocal page.
by walkabout | 2025-10-22 13:47:01+00:00
Kinda… but between credit cards (and any cards serviced by them—debit cards aren’t safe) and widespread facial recognition with cameras everywhere in stores these days, and things like “loyalty cards” being required to just get what should be normal prices on things, we’re pretty heavily tracked in physical space now, too. People just don’t realize how much, and don’t see this stuff being sold and aggregated then re-sold.

We really need to crack down on stalking-but-automated.
by boxed | 2025-10-22 13:47:08+00:00
Come now. Are you really saying that this is a lie:

> The nice thing is, if you’ve got friends in different cities and they’re playing the same game, you can both go online at the same time and play the game together even though you’re in different cities.

Of course he says true things. And on purpose too! (Unlike Trump :P)

https://www.rev.com/transcripts/elon-musk-interview-with-don...
by andrepd | 2025-10-22 13:47:29+00:00
My friend was extra careful and sent it to a PO box kind thing, with a fake name and throwaway email just in case. But he thinks that is overly paranoid: if the letter was intercepted (highly unlikely), there would be no legal consequences because there is no link between him and the purchase (therefore strictly speaking all that happened was that someone mailed him illegal drugs without his knowledge ;)).
by gwbas1c | 2025-10-22 13:47:52+00:00
My Chromecast uses USB C for its network. I got a power brick (official Chromecast) that also takes an ethernet cable and then provides a wired ethernet connection.

That being said, a quick Google search for "poe usbc" yields some devices that are much more expensive than the power brick I bought, but in theory would let you run a Chromecast from a poe ethernet port with wired ethernet.
by payneio | 2025-10-22 13:48:00+00:00
So, what we do is automate the hand-holding. In your physics simulation example, you can have the system attempt to compile on every change and fix any errors it finds (we use strict linting, type-checking, compile errors, etc.); and you can provide a metric of "good" and have it check for that and revise/iterate as needed. What we've found particularly useful is breaking the problem into smaller pieces--"The Unix Philosophy" as the system is quite capable of extracting, composing, defining APIs, etc. over small pieces. Make larger things out of reliable smaller things like any reasonable architecture.

These things are not "creative"... they are just piecing together decent infrastructure and giving the "actor" the ability to use it.

Then break planning, design, implementation, testing, etc. apart and do the same for each phase--reduce "creativity" to process and the systems can follow the process quite nicely with minimal intervention.

Then, any time you do need to intervene, use the system to help you automate the next thing so you don't have to intervene in the same way again next time.

This is what we've been doing for months and it's working well.
by lowkj | 2025-10-22 13:48:06+00:00
I moved from the USA to France and your statement surprised me. Looking around for some data, I'm seeing around 4,600 French nationals who obtained U.S. permanent resident status compared to 13,000 issued to U.S. citizens by France. So about 3x more US -> France and rising.

https://schengenvisainfo.com/news/number-of-americans-moving... https://www.tresor.economie.gouv.fr/Articles/8c273940-72b7-4...
by avianlyric | 2025-10-22 13:48:29+00:00
EV don’t use vacuum break booster systems anymore. There are much better and more efficient fully electric break booster systems out there which make a lot more sense.

Vacuum break boosters only make sense for ICE vehicles where you already have an existing air pump (the actual engine) providing free “vacuum”, they don’t make sense in EVs where you need to an extra dedicated motor to produce vacuum, to power a vacuum booster system, to boost the breaks. Much better off just using the extra electric motor to directly boost breaks, without the whole vacuum system as a middle man.

Early EVs use vacuum break boosters, but only because they were the only economical solution, given there was little demand for electric break booster systems. After all a vacuum system is cheaper, if you have a free “vacuum source”. But for last decade or so there’s been enough EVs manufactured that electric break booster systems are now more economical for EVs.

To answer GP question, the an electric break booster system is almost certainly powered off the low voltage (12V) accessory system, not the high voltage system. So a high voltage disconnect won’t prevent the break booster from working, assuming the LV battery is working correctly.