MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by drweevil | 2025-10-22 01:51:08+00:00
>The tribunal did not find grounds for compensation or remedies for the three claimants, as the force had acted within the law

I totally agree that they should be held responsible. Acting "within the law" is not sufficient. Their job is to get it right. They got it wrong. Doesn't matter how; tech is not infallible, and they should know and consider that before ruining someone's reputation based solely on an IP address. Other forensic evidence is not treated in this cavalier manner. Neither should computer tech. I thought they might have learned this lesson after the Post Office scandal, but apparently not.
by abandonliberty | 2025-10-22 01:52:21+00:00
>It's the same reason vacuum cleaners didn't reduce the amount of cleaning work to be done.

It's true that some of the some of the capacity created by technology was consumed by increasing standards, the data do show a significant reduction in time spent on chores in spite of this.

1965-2011 hours spent on housework decreased 40%, while male housework doubled and female housework halved. The proportion of mothers working went up 90%, but somehow time spent with children went up 70% for men and women, again with improvements in gender equality.

Technology dramatically improved the efficiency of household chores. People invest some of that efficiency into further quality of living improvements or work, and still got to spend more time with their family.

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2013/03/14/chapter...

If you go further back in time the differences would be even more stark.

Yes, we can do better. Expectations on parents have gotten ridiculous, and much of this additional time is spent ferrying their children between 10 different extracurriculars. We spend a lot of time chasing more (thanks, dopamine) which could be spent enjoying what we have.

But the lack of understanding that technology and science have led to dramatic improvements in quality of life has led us to start turning our backs on it as a species, and we will pay a huge price for that.
by lunias | 2025-10-22 01:53:23+00:00
> I'm not sure what you mean by "barely programs"

I felt like people were dumping on you in the comments for potentially "not coding a lot," but I checked and saw this is not true.

> help solve a lot of data sovereignty issues

I do agree with the need to solve data sovereignty issues, I'm not sure self-hosting is not already accessible; or that replicating the complication of cloud architecture makes it more accessible, but maybe I don't have a good grasp of the use case.
by Buttons840 | 2025-10-22 01:55:40+00:00
This is Destin of SmarterEveryDay. This is a very good speech, very courageous and has implications for all of society.

American society seems to be more and more controlled by people in positions where they cannot fail. The example that originally put this idea in my head was the Mozilla CEO who, oversaw a year during which Firefox usership fell, and Mozilla workers were fired, and then the CEO received a pay raise. A job where it's not possible to fail. You get paid no matter what, probably get a raise.

In the video Destin keeps asking "we're going right?", throughout the whole video, and the truth is everyone in the room is hesitant to say yes.

Destin keeps narrating and apologizing for his own speech (because he doesn't want to burn every bridge he has with NASA), but history will make Destin look like a prophet I think. I think this speech is worthy of the history books.
by iandanforth | 2025-10-22 01:55:55+00:00
While all the security / privacy concerns in this thread are spot on I must say that this thing works. I had it do a proximity based search for me in Google Maps and then populate a new Google Sheet with this data and it just went off and did it right the first time. Now obviously Google could probably do this much better once they get around to it, but this is the first truly usable browser automation tool I've ever used and I spent years working with Selenium.

My plan is to create shadow accounts for Atlas and use it to automate tedious research tasks that span multiple websites that other AIs have trouble accessing.
by jtsiskin | 2025-10-22 01:56:46+00:00
We wouldn’t have a long back and forth to establish a common language, we would likely send something like https://cosmicos.github.io.

“CosmicOS is a way to create messages suitable for communication across large gulfs of time and space. It is inspired by Hans Freudenthal's language, Lincos, and Carl Sagan's book, Contact. CosmicOS, at its core, is a programming language, capable of expressing simulations. Simulations are a way to talk, by anology, about the real thing they model.

CosmicOS is structured to communicate the usual math and logic basics, then use that to show how to run programs, then send interesting programs that demonstrate behaviors and interactions, and start communicating ideas through ”theater” and simulations. This is inspired by Freudenthal's idea of staging conversations between his imaginary characters Ha and Hb.”
by swat535 | 2025-10-22 01:57:11+00:00
What you're missing here is that companies happily pay the premium to Heroku because it lets them focus on building the product and generating business rather than wasting precious engineering time managing infra.

By the time the product is a success and reaches a scale where it becomes cost prohibitive, they have enough resources to expand or migrate away anyway.

I suppose for solo devs it might be cheaper to setup a box for fun, but even then, I would argue that not everyone enjoys doing devops and prefers spending their time elsewhere.
by HardCodedBias | 2025-10-22 01:57:19+00:00
IIUC there are few "prime" locations on the moon. NASA publicly named 13 specific candidate regions.

The nations will will likely use "safety zones" to exclude others from their base of operations. We'll see the radius of these zones but expect 200m - 2km for a start.

There is a reason to think that there is a race. Without very advanced automation all of this is pointless, but I am willing to wager that many think that advanced automation will occur within a short timeframe.
by kbos87 | 2025-10-22 01:57:30+00:00
I think a lot of them actually do. It's easy to see TikTok users as mindless consumers, but the more you consume the more you develop a taste for unique content. Over the past few years the content that seems to truly do well at a global scale very often has markers of authenticity. Once something becomes easy to produce it becomes commonplace and you become sick of it quickly.
by bdangubic | 2025-10-22 01:57:39+00:00
ride the indexes if you want to get rich, if you want to get wealthy absolutely not. no wealthy person is index investor. the number 1 rule of investing is that you should know what you are investing in and no one sane knows everything about all the companies in a given index fund. so while conventional wisdom is ride the indexes, if you care about your money and are willing to put the necessary time in for research index funds should be the last thing you invest in.
by Liftyee | 2025-10-22 01:58:18+00:00
I have a Ring alarm. It has a battery backup and is powered by AC adaptor, so no need to turn off entire circuits (but no easy silence). All the sensors I have are wireless (not sure if they offer wired).

I would honestly do your box option. Stuff it in there with some pillows and leave it in the shed for a while.
by Thorentis | 2025-10-22 01:58:29+00:00
Companies more likely to want to save money on labor costs (employing many h1bs) are also likely to want to save money on Tooling costs, by using safe options like MSFT stuff, rather than finding better tools.

Also yes, due to availability and various other reasons, H1bs, particularly from India, seem more likely to use a MSFT stack.
by siglesias | 2025-10-22 01:59:08+00:00
"Actual understanding" means you have a grounding for the word down to conscious experience and you have a sense of certainty about its associations. I don't understand "sweetness" because I competently use the word "sweet." I understand sweetness because I have a sense of it all the way down to the experience of sweetness AND the natural positive associations and feelings I have with it. There HAS to be some distinction between understanding all the way down to sensation and a competent or convincing deployment of that symbol without those sensations. If we think about how we "train" AI to "understand" sweetness, we're basically telling it when and when not to use that symbol in the context of other symbols (or visual inputs). We don't do this when we teach a child that word. The child has an inner experience he can associate with other tastes.
by ComputerGuru | 2025-10-22 01:59:49+00:00
Yup. The beauty of it is that the underlying ai accelerator/hardware is completely abstracted away. There’s a CoreML ONNX execution provider, though I haven’t used it.

No more fighting with hardcoded cuda:0 everywhere.

The only pain point is that you’ll often have to manually convert a PyTorch model from huggingface to onnx unless it’s very popular.
by mannykannot | 2025-10-22 02:00:07+00:00
People are doing things they personally do not understand, just by following the rules, all the time. One does not need to understand why celestial navigation works in order to do it, for example. Heck, most kids can learn arithmetic (and perform it in their heads) without being able to explain why it works, and many (including their teachers, sometimes) never achieve that understanding. Searle’s failure to recognize this very real possibility amounts to tacit question-begging.
by smcnally | 2025-10-22 02:00:10+00:00
> The technical term is enteral ventilation via anus (EVA).

Anecdatally, I have encountered multiple people with congenital capabilities re enteral locution via anus.

Wishfully, training astronauts for enteral ventilation via anus during extravehicular activities that involve writing an ongoing Prince song would be called “EVA EVA 4EVA.”
by philsnow | 2025-10-22 02:02:31+00:00
> it did provide a handy plot point for the 1989 film The Abyss, in which a rat is able to “breathe” in a similar liquid

Yes.. a rat..

(The statute of spoiler limitations is definitely over, so rather than being coy I'll say that a person undergoes the same procedure, under duress, in an particularly dramatic scene. It's a great movie but I fear its effects won't feel like they've held up well for anybody watching it for the first time.)
by jimbo808 | 2025-10-22 02:03:05+00:00
There are many ways to do it. How good of a way it is depends on what the market rate is for a 20 something possible unicorn/probable dud.

People in that age range sometimes have a nice set of traits like youthful self confidence and the energy levels needed to bust their ass and sell, along with the right amount insecurity that will drive them to need to prove themselves. When you combine this with the naivety and inexperience that lets you get a lopsided deal, with your experience that means that doesn’t happen to them after you, you end up in a situation where you can afford to have 10 or 20 duds between each winner. And it’s a lot of fun.
by consumer451 | 2025-10-22 02:04:28+00:00
First, I mean no personal insults. Let's discuss ideas.

As someone who grew up being de-programmed from Soviet propaganda by my parents every time I came home, starting from pre-school, I cannot even begin to communicate how allergic I am to this discourse. "There is no truth" is some grade-A bullshit to me. What's next? Maybe Stalin wasn't Hitler's military ally to start WWII? Maybe we live in a simulation? What's the point of anything? 1+1=3!

I could just be dumb, but my theoretical view from 30,000 feet, or 30,000 years in the future can be read here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45661175
by fc417fc802 | 2025-10-22 02:04:43+00:00
> if they would be cool with their moderation logs being completely open

It takes a certain mentality. That's rare but I think it makes for much better communities on the whole.

However I think most participants, not just moderators, don't like the environment that sort of mentality results in. When anything and everything, including the moderation itself, is up for civilized debate that tends to foster an environment in which it's acceptable to question core parts of people's worldviews. There's little shared doctrine beyond "argue any position you'd like" which most people seem to find intensely uncomfortable.
by slyall | 2025-10-22 02:07:08+00:00
My 2cents is that in a lot of cases swap is being used for unimportant stuff leave more RAM for your app. Do a "ps aux" and look at all the RAM used by weird stuff. Good news is those things will be swapped out.

Example on my personal VPS

$ free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 3923 1225 328 217 2369 2185 Swap: 1535 1335 200
by o11c | 2025-10-22 02:09:29+00:00
Um yeah don't use liquid oxygen.

But oxygen dissolved or otherwise absorbed in a material is fair game. Even without anything fancy, water can contain about 1% free oxygen, which is 8x what you could do with gaseous oxygen (which is in turn 5x what atmospheric mixture has).

And there are a lot of chemical reactions that can produce oxygen much better than 1%. The trick is going to be avoiding heat changes.
by jychang | 2025-10-22 02:11:14+00:00
There's also a lot of "universals" that people take for granted as universal when it really isn't universal.

Things off the top of my head that humans usually take for granted as "universals":

- Separation of memory and DNA. What if memories were stored in DNA and can be passed between individuals?

- Inability to share memories. What if memories can be passed around like semen and sweat?

- Inability to easily read others' minds. What if kissing/touching someone would share all of each others' thoughts? How would that alien society develop differently?

- Existence of the ego. What if they live in a constant state of ego death, like some humans on certain drugs?

- Separation of the id and the superego. This is... one way to solve an alignment problem, I suppose. Imagine a species which replaced their sense of hunger/sexual craving, with a craving for morality. And they execute creatures like humans when they see a human do anything immoral, such as eating an ice cream when it can reduce your lifespan and thus deprive your children of a parent, or deprive your society of tax dollars.

- And many other possible examples that i can come up with that exists within human "thoughtspace", let alone concepts that do not exist within human thoughtspace

How would you feel if you met an alien species that communicates by raping their children? If that sounds weird to you, what if they can communicate via the DNA in sperm, so it'd be somewhat similar to how human sex transmits information from the human male to the human female?
by bigbadfeline | 2025-10-22 02:14:33+00:00
> The sooner we all admit that we are all easily programmed meat machines

All is big word and needs to be used properly, like - we are not all the same.

> the sooner we can move beyond the current insanity.

To where? Historically it's been, meet the new insanity the same as the old insanity.

> We all got played. Let's all admit it together. Is that really too much to ask?

Before, after or without an admission, those who did get played together with those who didn't, would be entitled to ask "And then what?"
by quuxplusone | 2025-10-22 02:18:03+00:00
If you like the Zork "engine", learn Inform 7. If you like the Colossal Cave "engine" better, you might like to look at https://github.com/Quuxplusone/Advent/blob/master/ODWY0350/a... — it's very easy to remodel with your own rooms, items, verbs, and so on. (So is the original Fortran, but then you have to be able to compile Fortran...)
by fragmede | 2025-10-22 02:18:11+00:00
> When expressed in constant 2019 dollars, the average price of electricity in the United States fell from $4.79 per kilowatt-hour in 1902 (the first year for which the national mean is available) to 32 cents in 1950.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/electricity-its-wonderfully-afford...

$0.32 is $0.41 accoreit BLS, which is less than I'm paying today (I live somewhere with expensive electricity), so I'd enjoy the discount if they did!

https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=0.32&year1=201...
by carlosjobim | 2025-10-22 02:19:32+00:00
> Even if you're not dogfooding your own software, if you do not take care of it properly, the cost of changes will climb up.

How do you mean? If the software works, then it's done. There is no maintenance and it will continue working like that for decades. It doesn't have corrosion and moving parts like a car. Businesses make sure not to touch it or the systems it is depending on.
by username223 | 2025-10-22 02:19:52+00:00
What Wikipedia are you looking at? It's one of the things that has survived the longest on the Internet without being enshittified. It could live on in Cockroach Mode forever off the money from a modest solar farm or investment in an index fund. If someone sociopath bought the Wikimedia Foundation and tried to strip-mine Wikipedia, the Wikipedia editors could easily take a copy and go elsewhere.

Ironically, I was just listening to an interview with Jimmy Wales in which he said that, as individuals, most humans are basically good. They don't meet someone on the street and think "what is the rate of return on interacting with this thing?"
by pants2 | 2025-10-22 02:21:48+00:00
I recently went into a McDonald's for the first time in years to just order a drink. The guy at the register informed me I couldn't place an order at the front and had to use the kiosk. The kiosk was full of dark patterns to try to get me to install their app. It took me around 5 mins between navigating the kiosk menus and waiting for my number to get called just to give me a medium drink. Something that would have been 20 seconds at the counter. I'll be avoiding McDonald's at all cost from here on out.
by michaelcampbell | 2025-10-22 02:21:58+00:00
I never used neogit so I can't comment. There are a couple things of magit that I really like; it's super easy to deal with individual hunks, and you have access to all the command line args of all the git commands. The defaults are sane, but you can get to the non-default stuff easy. (eg: force push with lease; diff ignore whitespace; commit amend, extend, --no-verify, etc.) It's all there, all the time. A lot of git UI's don't let you access those, or make you type the entire command to do it.
by hyperflow-ai | 2025-10-22 02:22:44+00:00
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by fc417fc802 | 2025-10-22 02:22:49+00:00
It depends on if you take the parent (err GGP) literally versus in context. My personal experience has been that people claiming that bias is unavoidable (alternatively that objectivity is impossible, or that everything is political, or ...) have usually been attempting to justify a reasoning process that supports a political or religious slant of one form or another.

A helpless "we couldn't possibly do anything about that issue" sort of mentality.

That said if we're talking literally then I fully agree with you that heuristics are a form of bias and can sometimes be a very good thing on a case by case basis.
by gwerbret | 2025-10-22 02:22:56+00:00
A little bit off topic, but even after years of active interest, I'm still amazed by the complexity of the human immune system.

Imagine this: we are all born with a functional immune system which is pre-programmed with knowledge of what bacteria, viruses, and many parasites look like, so it can immediately deal with these without prior exposure. This is the innate immune system, and in many organisms is the only immune system.

On top of that, a database is created which consists of fragments of all our bodies' molecules. This database is used to train the adaptive immune system. The thymus will then present these molecules to new white (T) cells, and screen out the ones that recognize these "self" molecules. This is the adaptive immune system.

Still on top of that, there's another tier, because maybe 0.1% of T cells escape the first-pass screening. You now have a series of checks and balances which screen for these escaped cells outside the thymus, and either reduce their functioning or eliminate them entirely. This is peripheral tolerance (what the Nobel prize in medicine was awarded for this year).

And when there's an actual infection, this system is able to spin up a few VMs, run a large bug-search model, and create a pool of tailor-made antibodies and T cells specific to the new bug, which in most cases are enough to deal with the infection.

So when all is said and done, and the system is trained and working as expected, you now have an immune platform which, on top of recognizing all its own molecules, can also recognize pathogens, including differentiating disease-causing ones from the benign ones; can also deal calmly with the enormous diversity of things we put in our mouths, noses, and other orifices; and in most cases doesn't actually go rogue.

But sometimes, it can be overcome by peanuts.