MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by embedding-shape | 2025-10-28 17:00:50+00:00
> Seems like the problem is in one hand, and the solution is in the other.

I think that's a common thread with what Musk does. On one hand, his companies rely on money from the US government, then with the other he's helping firing a lot of people in the government supposedly to save money.

On one hand, he's trying to run for AGI and manage a LLM company that use vast amount of resources. On the other hand he's trying to sell electric vehicles because vast amount of resources are being used.

I guess it kind of makes sense in some way, but also he could probably better help those efforts by just stopping doing the other thing, but that probably conflicts with his other more important goals.
by nostrademons | 2025-10-28 17:00:59+00:00
Schools in the U.S. in general start way too early. The AAP recommends no earlier than 8:30 AM [1]; the average across the U.S. is 8:00 AM [2], and close to 20% of suburban high schools start before 7:30 AM. An 8:30 AM start time would be after sunrise in every major municipality in the U.S; sunrise in Seattle and Duluth (the most northerly major cities in the continental U.S.) on Dec 21 is at 7:55 AM.

GP was proposing year-round standard time, not year-round DST.

[1] https://www.apa.org/topics/children/school-start-times

[2] https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2020/2020006/index.asp
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-10-28 17:01:00+00:00
Reminder that the Recommended Daily Allowance of Vitamin D found on all the labels (800 IU) is mistakenly too low, by a factor of 10x, due to a maths error (should be 8000 IU). It has not been corrected yet. Source: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5541280/
by scatbot | 2025-10-28 17:01:03+00:00
The author is deeply misguided and clearly frustrated. The claim that the GPL can't be enforced is simply wrong. GPL violations are regularly challenged in court and through community pressure. But let's assume for a moment that the author's claims are valid in the context of AI. Wouldn't the GPL be just another permissive license? Why switch to the BSD license, which explicitly throws away the one right GPL still guarantees: the ability to demand that derivative works remain open?

The GPL gives you enforceable rights. The BSD license gives corporations a free pass to close off your code. Calling this "pragmatic" isn't just backward, it abandons protections that matter. And frankly, it baffles my mind that someone who believes closed source shouldn't exist would be this fatalist to give up the leverage that still protects openness.
by incomingpain | 2025-10-28 17:01:05+00:00
>It’s and honest question. I haven’t noticed a strong bias on Wikipedia but that may just be because the kinds of the things I look up on Wikipedia are usually not political in nature.

Lets do it on some random article that isnt political.I have aichophobia, so I'm an outside observer on this one. I will never ever ever ever have it done on me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acupuncture

>Acupuncture[b] is a form of alternative medicine[2] and a component of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in which thin needles are inserted into the body.[3] Acupuncture is a pseudoscience;[4][5] the theories and practices of TCM are not based on scientific knowledge,[6] and it has been characterized as quackery.[c]

So no neutrality here at all. Just straight up ideological attack. You scroll down:

>It is difficult but not impossible to design rigorous research trials for acupuncture.[69][70]

So that's some pretty strong and biased statements against a widely used procedure that they cant really make conclusions about?

https://grokipedia.com/page/Acupuncture

>Scientific evaluation reveals that while acupuncture demonstrates short-term benefits for some pain-related issues compared to no treatment, its superiority over sham procedures—such as needle insertion at non-acupoints—is often minimal or absent, suggesting effects may stem from placebo responses, expectation, or non-specific factors like counter-irritation rather than meridian-based mechanism

This is shockingly better writing.

>A 2020 Cochrane systematic review of 33 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) involving 7,297 participants found that acupuncture, compared to no treatment or sham acupuncture, provided short-term pain relief and functional improvement for chronic nonspecific low back pain, with standardized mean differences (SMD) of -0.82 for pain versus no treatment (moderate-quality evidence) and -0.18 versus sham (low-quality evidence due to imprecision and inconsistency).[91] The

This is what I'm aware of. That acupuncture has some minimum affect on pain better than placebo. Efficacy comparable to tylenol for pain relief. Which I dont know if you know, but tylenol is extremely ineffective for pain relief.

The science says there's something to it, it's difficult to measure, and further investigation is needed. But Wiki's ideological bias is showing big time.
by digitalsushi | 2025-10-28 17:01:07+00:00
I, gen-x '79, was taught by Gen-z the reason we don't drink at the bars is cause someone'll make a video of us being weird and ruin us. Be weird at home. With the door locked. Fit in when the camera could be hiding and stay employed. Adequately satisfactory, A+.

I'm too old not to be weird. I get a lot of blank stares. I'm the only person I need the approval of. (For now. I worry the cameras find me more and more)
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-28 17:01:13+00:00
This is not lost on me [1] [2]. I am a technologist (and hacker at heart), but also behind the scenes in politics (outcomes > status). I've commented, quite frequently here, that you cannot fix political and social issues with tech: wrong OSI layer of the stack. But, this change takes time, months, years, sometimes half a decade or more (election cycles, and then policy implementation lag). In the meantime, tactical solutions require technology, and that is what I am proposing in my top subthread comment.

Politics are strategic, long term system improvements. Technology serves for tactical solutions in the near term.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40346506

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28571755
by LordDragonfang | 2025-10-28 17:01:19+00:00
> The GPL already makes it so you cannot translate to another programming language to circumvent the license

The operative words are the last four there. GPL, and all other software licenses (copyleft or not), can only bind you as strongly as the underlying copyright law. They are providing a copyright license that grants the licensee favorable terms, but it's still fundamentally the same framework. Anything which is fair use under copyright is also going to be fair use under the GPL (and LLMs are probably transformative enough to be fair use, though that remains to be seen.)
by ssalbdivad | 2025-10-28 17:01:27+00:00
Yes, there are limits on what string literals can precisely represent, but we've tried to be pragmatic about trade offs around clarity, concision and performance.

Subexpressions like `\\w` or `[a-Z]` would just be inferred as `${string}`, but that doesn't mean the inference won't be useful. For example:

expression: regex("^\\w+@\\w+\\.\\w+$") type: Regex<`${string}@${string}.${string}`>
by ksymph | 2025-10-28 17:01:54+00:00
Great post from Adam Mastroianni as usual, lots to chew on -- but to treat deviance and risk as equivalent seems a bit of a leap. The graphs line up, but just about any wide-reaching measure was put on its current trajectory sometime in the 70s-80s (see [0]).

The hypothesis that lower 'background risk' leads to lower voluntary risks (drugs, unprotected sex, etc.) makes sense. But as far as arts go, I think the cultural homogeneity we see is more of a direct effect of globalization than anything else. In other words, the default state of highly interconnected societies is one of convergence; the variety of the 20th century can be attributed to growth in communication and exposure to new concepts. Now that media technology has somewhat stabilized, we see a return to the cultural stability that has defined humanity for most of its existence.

[0] https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
by AvAn12 | 2025-10-28 17:02:10+00:00
+1 for the Lead Hypothesis. Apart from negative health effects, lead exposure leads to more impulsive behavior and reduced inhibition - which kind of covers nearly everything here.

Have to say, I am glad that the world is safer and less wild, but I do miss the creative energy and "real world" social engagement of 1980s-1990s
by alexey-salmin | 2025-10-28 17:02:11+00:00
I don't think that the State can somehow solve or sidestep the morality problem. The laws of the state are the consequence of beliefs and culture of the citizens (or the elites), not the other way round. Everyone needs to be able tell good from evil in their daily lives, this process can be partly codified in laws but then neither the laws cover it all nor do they work if people don't believe in law.

In that sense very little had changed since Dostoyevsky's time. Or since Homer's time for that matter.
by kreetx | 2025-10-28 17:02:12+00:00
The above is not a discovery though.

My experience with government funding is that they apply something and won't even try to sell it because selling is hard: you don't want to know that the thing you built is lacking nor that the competition is better. Especially the academic types don't. Yet I'm paying for these guys. Also, by funding the academics they won't even need to go to the job market.. But as I paid for their education I thought I was buying people who create value.

Perhaps the above is rather harsh and it's "not that bad", my subjective experience nevertheless.
by JustExAWS | 2025-10-28 17:02:19+00:00
If today, the National Guard dropped a non nuclear bomb on a blue city, 40% of the US population would shrug if not outright cheer.

https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/socprac/vol10/iss1/15/

Rebellions have been successful in underfunded countries with few resources. Can you actually come up with a scenario where a few yokels in the south running around the field playing militia could overthrow the US government?

And those people were all pardoned by the same President who cheered them and on and he was voted back into office. If Trump - who was still president then had wanted to call in the full force of government he could have.

Do you think they would have let thousands of minorities invade the capital?
by wolframhempel | 2025-10-28 17:02:21+00:00
I'm wondering if this overlooks areas where we experience much higher levels of deviation today. Take music, for example. When I grew up, I was basically limited to whatever was playing on the radio or MTV—there was only so much airtime for a small set of popular songs. The mainstream was much more mainstream. Today, I can listen to obscure Swedish power metal bands with fewer than 5,000 monthly listeners on Spotify without any difficulty.

The same goes for fashion. I have a picture of my mom and her friends where everyone looks like a miniature version of Madonna. Today, fashion seems far more individualistic.

Streaming has given us a vast spectrum of media to consume, and we now form tiny niche communities rather than all watching Jurassic Park together. There are still exceptions like Game of Thrones, The Avengers, or Squid Game, but they are less common.

One of my friends is into obscure K-pop culture that has virtually zero representation in our domestic media. Another is deeply interested in the military history of ancient Greece—good luck finding material on that when there were only two TV channels.

Maybe deviance hasn't disappeared—maybe it's just shifted elsewhere…?
by netdevphoenix | 2025-10-28 17:02:26+00:00
Took me a bit of scrolling to find this. I believe most of the other folks are functional devs or something. The 5 functions on a single line wouldn't pass the code review in most .net/java shops.

The rule I was raised with was: you write the code once and someone in the future (even your future self) reads it 100 times.

You win nothing by having it all smashed together like sardines in a tin. Make it work, make it efficient and make it readable.
by nonethewiser | 2025-10-28 17:02:48+00:00
> it did not do negotiating and it doesn't seem like the accuracy of its understanding of medicare practices was actually checked. The author reasonably accused the hospital of gouging and the hospital came back with a much lower offer.

Im increasingly of the opinion that AI gives people more confidence than insight. The author probably could have just thought of the same or similar things to assert to the hospital and gotten the same result. However, he wouldn't have necessarily though his assertions would be convincing, since he has no idea whats going on. AI doesn't either, but it seems like it does.
by yesfitz | 2025-10-28 17:02:51+00:00
"Deviance" is probably the word to focus on here, as in "deviation" from the mean.

Drinking underage is a deviation from the norm of following the law.

Moving is a deviation from the norm of staying (as evidenced by the census data showing that in the 1950s ~20% of people lived somewhere different than they had the previous year, in 2023 it was 7.4%. In 1950 3.5% of the population lived in a different state than they had the previous year, in 2023 it was 1.4%)
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-10-28 17:03:37+00:00
Hydropneumatic suspension :-) There's a hydraulic pump about the size of a coffee cup driven off the end of the camshaft, which provides power to the suspension, braking system, and steering.

The suspension has no springs or shock absorbers - there's a "sphere" screwed into the end of each suspension cylinder with a bubble of nitrogen trapped by a rubber sheet that acts as a spring, and a set of spring-loaded valves kind of like the ones in a shock absorber piston to set the damping rate.

For the brakes, the hydraulic pump fed the ABS block through a shuttle valve under the pedal. When you press the pedal it does not move! Or, hardly at all. I takes a little getting used to and the brakes feel really harsh until you realise you don't need to welly it down hard - just gently touch it. The back brakes use pressure from the rear suspension, so they're more effective the heavier the car is.

The steering is amazing. When the engine is running the road wheels and steering wheel are not really connected. There's a linkage through a shuttle valve and when you turn the steering wheel it acts as a servo, with the wheels being moved entirely by hydraulic pressure. The Danfoss valves in normal power steering systems work a bit like this but they use a bendy spring, and the hydraulics only "help".

To make it respond properly at speed there was a heart-shaped cam in the steering box, with a sprung piston pushed into it by hydraulic pressure from a speed governor on the gearbox. The faster you go, the more pressure on the piston, and the harder the spring presses a roller into the cam. At idle with the car stationary you can move the steering wheel and it'll spring back to the middle by itself, and at 70mph you can barely move the steering wheel at all.

It's really sensitive and the first time you drive one you find yourself zig-zagging down the road until you get used to just leaving your fingertips on the rim of the wheel and basically just touching the side you want it to turn to.

They're not terribly fast but you can gobble up the miles surprisingly quickly, and I've never driven anything where you arrived so relaxed.
by utopiah | 2025-10-28 17:03:38+00:00
> getting into RISC-V hardware?

Got myself a https://docs.banana-pi.org/en/BPI-F3/BananaPi_BPI-F3 in May last year for 90€. Tinkered again few weeks ago https://bsky.app/profile/benetou.fr/post/3m2m62st3hk2w

> I'm especially interested in using Rust for this if possible

I didn't tinker with Rust on it but if I had to I'd probably try via https://github.com/dockcross/dockcross/tree/master/linux-ris... and avoid compiling on the device itself, unless it's basically a HelloWorld project.
by Fwirt | 2025-10-28 17:04:10+00:00
I have been able to trigger it when fumbling around with adjusting the fit. If I run my finger over the top of the body I can get a brief squeal out of them. Happened just a few seconds ago. I also have noticed on multiple occasions that if I take them both out of my ears and cup them in the same hand, they squeal audibly enough to hear faintly from a couple feet away. The skin contact sensor is very sensitive.

However, unlike a lot of other commenters in this thread, I feel like the APP3 are a huge leap forward from the APP2 and have had zero regrets with the upgrade (other than the forced iOS 26 upgrade, but I feel like that's inevitable anyway.) They stay in much better, the fit is more comfortable, the battery life is better, the ANC probably drops background noise another 10db subjectively, and most of all, the sound quality is absolutely stellar. I have owned several midrange headphones and a portable DAC and I find myself preferring the AirPods over them. I haven't worn my Sennheisers since I got the APP3.
by opwieurposiu | 2025-10-28 17:04:17+00:00
It used to be cool to be deviant and not to be accepted by society at large. Ravers, skaters, punk rockers, cross-dressers, all subcultures that did not care if they were accepted by the normies. Transgression of social norms was considered the cool thing to do.

Now everyone wants social norms to be changed so they feel included no matter what crazy ass thing they are into.

Feels lame to me but I am old so what do I know.
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-10-28 17:04:24+00:00
>It seems like the AIs role was in applying lengthy and complex medicare billing rules - it did not do negotiating and it doesn't seem like the accuracy of its understanding of medicare practices was actually checked. The author reasonably accused the hospital of gouging and the hospital came back with a much lower offer.

What exactly do you think negotiating is? Real negotiation in business transactions is more often based on agreements around certain facts than emotional manipulation.
by johnisgood | 2025-10-28 17:04:33+00:00
Be careful though, because if I were to listen to Claude Sonnet 4.5, it would have ruined my relationship. It kept telling me how my girlfriend is gaslighting me, manipulating me, and that I need to end the relationship and so forth. I had to tell the LLM that my girlfriend is nice, not manipulative, and so on, and it told me that it understands why I feel like protecting her, BUT this and that.

Seriously, be careful.

At the same time, it has been useful for the relationship at other times.

You really need to nudge it in the right direction and do your due diligence.
by Roachma | 2025-10-28 17:05:16+00:00
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by LocalPCGuy | 2025-10-28 17:05:20+00:00
If there is any reason for the test, it would be diagnostic and not preventative, and that is generally covered. Just checking cause you want to know your levels generally wouldn't be, but there are any number of symptoms that could be related to that.

As for it being a "scam" - there are enough valid studies that show what this one did, that folks who are deficient that are able to raise their levels tend to be slightly healthier.

There isn't necessarily evidence for supplementation beyond "normal" range, and I do agree that no one should just take high-dose vitamin D supplements without data (tests) that it is necessary.
by dostick | 2025-10-28 17:05:23+00:00
Yes, need proper standardisation. we are now in the era when there’s fragmentation in a tape audio players, with dozen of different incompatible cassette tape formats and musicians having lock-in contracts with one format each. To listen to all music you would have to buy each player on the market. Only piracy allows you to buy just one tape player and have copies of all other tapes to play.
by joshstrange | 2025-10-28 17:05:27+00:00
> Absolutely no one will tell you how much things are, and when you ask, they sass you that it is a ridiculous question.

> You’ll be asked to take a diagnostic not knowing whether it will cost $10 or $15000

I feel this in my bones and it makes me irrationally (or maybe it's rational actually) angry. Find me any other industry where you can get away with not telling how much something will cost (or even a realistic range) before services are rendered.

I had a medical procedure a year or so ago and when I asked how much it would cost I got an eye roll, a lengthy and exasperated lecture, and in the end the number they quoted was wildly different. I knew I was going to hit my out-of-pocket maximum so I gave up after a while and moved on but it makes me so mad. I _wish_ I could "vote with my wallet" but good luck doing that unless you have unlimited time and energy. By the time I finally got to asking about the price I had been through multiple appointments that took forever to schedule, were weeks or months in the future, all while I needed relief. After being strung along for 6 months I gave up and rolled the dice even though I disliked how they treated me when I asked for the price.

People talk about how you need to be an informed customer but I have to assume those people are lying snakes, have never used the system, or just too stupid to understand that it's impossible.

"I don't know" should _not_ be a valid answer when asking how much something costs, it's ridiculous.
by Izkata | 2025-10-28 17:05:43+00:00
Kinda hints most people haven't used a good ORM, or if they have maybe just don't understand how it really works. Django looks similar to this and would have the same misunderstanding (User.objects.all()), except it actually returns a QuerySet object that would let getExpiredUsers() apply its own criteria and not actually run the query until something tries to read from the object. There's an example up above where someone shows SQLAlchemy doing the same thing.
by embedding-shape | 2025-10-28 17:06:05+00:00
I've found LLMs helpful for figuring out what I don't know, then I can go and look up how those things work, again together with an LLM.

But in the past, once I got to the point where I know I could maybe do something about it, but not exactly what, and I don't know any of the domain words used, you got pretty much stuck unless you asked other people, either locally or on the internet.

At least now I can explore what I don't know, and decide if it's relevant or not. It's really helpful when diving into new topics, because it gives you a starting point.

I would never send something to a real human that a LLM composed without me, I still want to write and decide everything 100% myself, but I use more LLMs as a powerful search engine where you can put synonyms or questions and get somewhat fine answers from it.
SAT-CHAIN – Cryptographic compliance for AI systems
by AmarDahmani | 2025-10-28 17:06:11+00:00
I'm a solo developer in Algeria who survived an AI-induced psychosis and realized: AI systems can't prove they followed instructions.

I built SAT-CHAIN: cryptographic tokens that make it mathematically impossible for AI to violate compliance rules.

Live demo: https://trust-this-thing.lovable.app/ Patent pending: US 63/848,345

Use cases: - Pharma: Prove AI didn't hallucinate contraindications - Finance: Prove AI followed SEC regulations - Healthcare: HIPAA-compliant AI audit trails

I'm looking for: 1. Feedback on the architecture 2. Beta testers (especially in regulated industries) 3. A technical co-founder who wants to build this with me

AMA about the tech, the psychosis, or building from Algeria.