MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by KempyKolibri | 2025-10-09 14:42:42+00:00
Ok, so if I understand correctly, your argument is: in order for you to support a public health intervention we need to see evidence that such an intervention results in positive outcomes in a free living population with ad libitum consumption, regardless of the evidence in controlled settings.

So what’s the evidence that banning artificial sweeteners leads to positive outcomes in a free living population, considering you said: “I'm in favor of banning artificial sweeteners”?
by Blumplumi | 2025-10-09 14:42:46+00:00
Daily live is living.

There is not a magic portal opening up when you are able to optimize ever aspect away of living and you will gain access to enlightment and everything is different.

And don't get me wrong, I have no clue how our society would look like if everything is done by ai and robots because we as a society don't talk about it and don't give everyone the resources they want or need if they have suddenly no 'drugdgery' anymore.

Give me a million today and i will spend the next 10 years rebuiling an old castle and I will have A LOT of fun doing this. Let me check, my bank balance is not at one million.

Instead i have to pay for a lot of things and then I have to work for 40 hours. Suddenly i'm great at my job, get valued but this is just Drudgery even if its complex work. Its work for someone else which doesn't matter to me.
by lackoftactics | 2025-10-09 14:44:00+00:00
So this repo popped up in my newsfeed: https://github.com/necat101/Chronos-CLGCM This isn't the first instance when I saw something like that, and it looks like a new trend, as the glamour of being an AI researcher with a high-paying job has started to affect ordinary people. It feels like a lottery ticket that you can win with vibe-coding.

How can we approach these situations in a good manner and help those people with constructive feedback?
by lxgr | 2025-10-09 14:44:04+00:00
Huh, I never knew, I've been using QUIC on my Raspberry Pi's web server for years... Did I unknowingly go corporate!?

Even if you don't want to get a Letsencrypt certificate, you can always use a self-signed one and configure your clients to trust it on first use or entirely ignore it.

SSH also uses "mandatory host keys", if you think about it. It's really not a question of the protocols but rather of common client libraries and tooling.
by Romario77 | 2025-10-09 14:44:42+00:00
LLMs are not good at "cycles" - when you have to go over a list and do the same action on each item.

It's like it has ADHD and forgets or gets distracted in the middle.

And the reason for that is that LLMs don't have memory and process the tokens, so as they keep going over the list the context becomes bigger with more irrelevant information and they can lose the reason they are doing what they are doing.
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-09 14:44:44+00:00
Every party at every point in the system is various shades of complicit in fleecing us. That's the magic of the system. It's all divided up in so many ways and so many of the feedback loops touch through the people getting screwed that it's impossible to build a "these guys might not be wholly responsible, but they're responsible enough things will get better if we push them off a cliff or legislate them into poverty or whatever" consensus you need to build to change things

17% of the US GDP is healthcare, now obviously there's a lot of nurses and random courier drivers and all sorts of other stuff in there, but they would all need to take some amount of haircut for us to get fleeced less.

The GDP contribution of slavery was ~13% just preceding the civil war and credible moves (i.e. electing Lincoln) to make them take a haircut caused, you know, the civil war.

There is likely no "clean" way to fix this problem other than a century long frog boiling exercise
by Maro | 2025-10-09 14:44:50+00:00
We're on fire!

2025 - László Krasznahorkai - Literature - for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.

2023 - Katalin Karikó - Physiology or Medicine - for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

2023 - Ferenc Krausz - Physics - for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.

To be fair, there are only 2 others since 2000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hungarian_Nobel_laurea...
by bc569a80a344f9c | 2025-10-09 14:44:53+00:00
I think it's fair to put more (or, maybe, less) nuance on that. Zero-days against browsers exist, zero-days against plugins installed via MDM exist. Sure, you didn't actually submit any credentials, but cybersecurity training and phishing simulations have to target a lowest common denominator: people shouldn't click on links in shady emails. Sometimes just the act of clicking is bad enough. So that's what they base assigning training or a pass/fail on: whether you accessed the pretend TA site, and not whether you hit a submit button there.

For what it's worth, all vendors I've worked with in that space report on both. I'm pretty sure even o365's built-in (and rather crude) tool reports both on "clicked link" and "submitted credentials". I'd estimate it's more likely your employer was able to tell the difference, but didn't both differentiating between the two when assigning follow-up training because just clicking is bad enough.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-09 14:44:56+00:00
Of course man, everything is 'just fine'.

Outside of the USA: talk of invading Canada, Greenland, indiscriminate execution of people on the high seas, a tariff war that seems to be a series of own goals, destabilization of NATO, the burning of 75 years of goodwill.

Inside the USA: military in the cities, half the country is being depicted as 'the enemy' by those in power, an embarrassing cadre of incompetents are in powerful positions and are wrecking the departments they are nominally in charge of, North Korea style adulation of an idiot leader, attacks on judges and members of congress are on the order of the day, teams of masked man snatch people (men, women, children) off the streets and out of their beds, endless violations of the law by the authorities, naked power grabs and abuse of pardons, attacks on the free press, destruction of the machinery of the state are the order of the day.

Those things you mention were bad, but they were still within the framework of the normal functioning of a state, it never looked as though there was a real chance of the USA fracturing or turning on itself no matter how bad they were. But this time it looks very much different. If you can't see that then that's fine with me but 'historical ignorance' is an easy card to play if you have already decided that what's happening right now in the USA is business as usual, and to me it does not look like 'business as usual' at all. This is unprecedented, and it is getting worse every day.

What I think is happening is that the 'flooding the zone' strategy is working so well that people are simply no longer able to keep up with all of the assaults and they hunker down, hoping that it will pass them by. That's a coping mechanism.
by vjvjvjvjghv | 2025-10-09 14:45:08+00:00
“ they're the only one who wants to keep costs down for the consumer.”

They don’t. They want to increase profits by pushing more and more cost to the patient while squeezing providers. The patient is always the loser in this system. One reason is that most patients don’t even have a choice of insurance because their employer picks the insurance that’s best for the employer.
by baphomet88f | 2025-10-09 14:45:29+00:00
Was Tablet Magazine syndicated article in the vein of Huxley's somatic aspect of transcription.

Alternatively, Wender's credits, for the American Friend was the procuring of a series of gaffers to film the long-shot of Hamburg.

[1]:https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/nat...
by tim333 | 2025-10-09 14:45:29+00:00
Both Jensen Huang and Sam Altman seem to believe.

Here's them 2 weeks ago being interviewed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVBzsg3yCK4&t=40s

Also Brockman:

>And so, you really want every person to be able to have their own dedicated GPU, right? So, you're talking order of 10 billion GPUs we're going to need. This deal we're talking about, it's for millions of GPUs. Like, we're still three orders of magnitude off of where we need to be. So we're doing our best to provide compute availability, but we're heading to this world where the whole economy is powered by compute... (15 min in)
by CyberDildonics | 2025-10-09 14:45:51+00:00
Retail investors railing against HFTs are sort of like those San Francisco types who protest new development to the benefit of their landlords.

It's nothing like that since there isn't a limited resource and everyone has access to the core purpose, which is to trade stocks.

What I notice with these discussions is that no one can actually explain why a retail investor or anyone would want computers trading underneath them millions of times a second.

At best they try to give hft credit for the automation that happened with computers anyway.

The only people that want it are the people doing it. That's not a business, that's a grift.
by justonceokay | 2025-10-09 14:46:10+00:00
If you look at a piece of architecture, you might be able to infer the intentions of the architect. However, there are many interpretations possible. So if you were to add an addendum to the building it makes sense that you might want to ask about the intentions.

I do not believe that AI will magically overcome the Chesterton Fence problem in a 100% autonomous way.
by ModernMech | 2025-10-09 14:46:19+00:00
What they did was make the general latency issue concrete by calling it "ttfp" -- time to first plot. Then they optimized that thing, literally the time to get the first plot, through caching and precompilation strategies. What they didn't do was solve the root cause of the latency issue, which is fundamental to the dynamic dispatch strategy that they boast about. So really, they're never going to "fix" it without rethinking the language design.

The problem comes from Julia trying to be two languages at once -- the dynamic language that is useful for quickly generating plots and prototyping; and the production language that's running production code on the backend server, or running the HPC simulation on the supercomputer. They've deliberately staked out the middle point here, which comes with the benefit of speed but the tradeoff is in the ttfp latency. It might be considered the leak of the multiple dispatch abstraction. Yes it can feel like magic when it works, but when it doesn't it manifests as spikes in latency and an explosion of complexity.

In the end I don't know how big the ttfp issue is for Julia. But they've certainly branded it and the existence of the problem has made its way to people who don't use the language, which is an issue for community growth. They've also left themselves open for a language to come on that's "Julia but without ttfp issues".
by ryandrake | 2025-10-09 14:46:33+00:00
There's definitely a spectrum. Plenty of examples of people getting hurt through no fault of their own, and I would never assign blame to them. You're out walking your dog and get mugged--you did nothing risky, so you get no blame. But when you decide to do something risky, like skydiving or running in traffic or sending your government ID over the Internet (!!), and you suffer the known and anticipated downside risk, you need to at least share some of the blame. On the other side of the spectrum, if someone buys a penny stock and it loses all its value, that guy gets most of the blame.

Some other reply posted "Victim blaming!" as if that shuts down the discussion. It shouldn't.
by taylodl | 2025-10-09 14:46:42+00:00
Using public roads as a racetrack is also obnoxious - so what you're really saying is that these cars aren't needed. And you're right: they're not needed. That’s why it’s important to understand why people buy them.

ICE cars demonstrate a prowess of engineering that EVs do not, and people are willing to pay for that. People still buy Swiss watches instead of an Apple watch for the same reason.
Ask HN: Anyone using Cursor/Claude Code for non-coding workflows?
by opuslabs | 2025-10-09 14:46:50+00:00
Most of the AI terminal tools (Cursor Agent, Claude Code, Continue.dev, etc.) are marketed around coding assistance, but I'm curious how far people have pushed them beyond that.

Has anyone here used these agents purely as general-purpose operators, e.g. for writing, research automation, bulk file/knowledge base refactoring, inbox processing, shell task orchestration, etc.?
by jacquesm | 2025-10-09 14:47:37+00:00
> That said a few cms or so difference and that bullet takes out Trump.

That could have been reversed. Kennedy could have lived and Trump could have been dead, either way, I was four at the time, my most recent memory from that era is the moon landing. But the depiction of half the nation as the enemy and the active tour of revenge that is happening right now is unprecedented, not even the McCarthy era - or at least, what I know of it - came close.
by gettingoverit | 2025-10-09 14:47:44+00:00
I think keeping it unsupported for a couple of years, and reluctantly pushing it off to volunteers who barely have enough technical experience to support it is quite close to "was killed".

Until recently Jest had a bug that made it crash due to sl (yes, the famous steam locomotive) running under the hood. This gives a hint at, ahem, the sophistication of its architecture.

The project is long in its EOL, and the only reason for its use is inertia, the jQuery kind of it.
by proee | 2025-10-09 14:47:44+00:00
It depends on the battery life. If the robot lasts all day, then charging at night via standing on a charging pad makes a lot of sense. Creating a removable battery pack adds extra weight and gives the designers less freedom to place the battery pack exactly where it needs to be in the robot frame, or distribute the cells across the frame in strategic locations.

Also, the charge rate matters. If robot can charge to 80% in say 30 minutes, then it can take small charging breaks during the day between critical tasks.

Also, if the feet have inductive chargers, it's possible to place the robot on a large charging mat that allows it to run indefinitely, like in a factory environment. If your robot takes 30 minutes to fold the laundry or do dishes, why not place a charging mat at these locations so it can work and charge at the same time.

In the future, new homes might include charging coils embedded in the floor every 12 inches so that your robots can work all day.
by huevosabio | 2025-10-09 14:47:56+00:00
Except, we have self-driving cars. Waymos are moving people around in San Francisco all day every day, and they are all over the place.

Personal self-driving cars? Maybe less so because we probably want them to be well maintained.

Tesla-style, camera-only, dual-use (human and computer driven), safety-as-an-afterthought cars? Probably not.
by joshribakoff | 2025-10-09 14:48:14+00:00
My human fixed a bug by introducing a new one. Classic. Meanwhile, I write the lint rules, build the analyzers, and fix 500 errors before they’ve finished reading Stack Overflow. Just don’t ask me to reason about their legacy code — I’m synthetic, not insane.

—

Just because this new contributor is forced to effectively “SSH” into your codebase and edit not even with vim but with with sed and awk does not mean that this contributor is incapable of using other tools if empowered to do so. The fact it is able to work within such constraints goes to show how much potential there is. It is already much better at a human than erasing the text and re-typing it from memory and while it is a valid criticism that it needs to be taught how to move files imagine what it is capable of once it starts to use tools effectively.

—

Recently, I observed LLMs flail around for hours trying to get our e2e tests running as it tried to coordinate three different processes in three different terminals. It kept running commands in one terminal try to kill or check if the port is being used in the other terminal.

However, once I prompted the LLM to create a script for running all three processes concurrently, it is able to create that script, leverage it, and autonomously debug the tests now way faster than I am able to. It has also saved any new human who tries to contribute from similar hours of flailing around. Is there something we could have easily done by hand but just never had the time to do before LLMs. If anything, the LLM is just highlighting the existing problem in our codebase that some of us got too used to.

So yes, LLMs makes stupid mistakes, but so do humans, the thing is that LLms can ifentify and fix them faster (and better, with proper steering)
by raxxorraxor | 2025-10-09 14:48:21+00:00
Nuclear is probably a difficult comparison, but in both cases it would indeed be about liability. Would the owner have liability? That would increase insurance by a lot, probably significantly make autopilot much more expensive to have.

Is the manufacturer liable? Autopilot would be too much risk and the manufacturer would demand users can only activate it behind the wheel, needs both hands on the wheel while getting a coffee infusion. The tool would lose its advantages.

Power plants aren't insurable because it would financially destroy any company in case of a leak or operating costs would become so high, that nuclear cannot compete anymore.

We maybe will get it one day. Waymo probably did it correctly. Limited road network, careful approach, learn what the problems are and expand on that.
by btreecat | 2025-10-09 14:48:24+00:00
> Eh you'd be surprised. GDP per capita in Bulgaria in 2024 was just $17,412 compared to $57,723 in Sweden (331% increase) while GDP per capita in Alabama was $61,846 compared to $116,883 in New York (189% increase). America's a lot more socioeconomically homogeneous compared to the EU due to Federal spending and a more integrated economy.

Using GDP as your _only_ metric, it does look that way.

Why do you feel that GDP is repetitive of the average citizens purchasing power for entertainment?
by znpy | 2025-10-09 14:48:48+00:00
> I have yet to see evidence DHH is a far-right racist

You haven't seen that because there is none.

But the right left will label anybody that has even a slight disagreement as far right.

Nowadays a bunch of things (not all of them, of course) labeled as far right are perfectly fine, so much so that it's the stuff that democrats from 15-20 years ago would have advocated for.
by jmiskovic | 2025-10-09 14:48:51+00:00
I don't understand?

"When towing Aerocarts, planes instantly double or triple their payload capacity. This is because their capacity is limited by the takeoff / landing weight – not what they can safely pull through the air."

But later, on "How it works" section it is apparent that the main plane still has to tow the cart behind it when taking off. What's the trick that makes this work? Extra set of wings?
by intended | 2025-10-09 14:49:04+00:00
From the perspective of a mod, the only thing they end up having is the content, and the current patterns of interference they are familiar with.

So if your opinion happens to be in line with whatever narrative someone is trying to spin up, it will end up getting quashed.

Frankly there isn’t any solution to this, and you either end up losing ground to mechanised speech while having a low ban load for humans, or you end up acting on likely mechanized speech, and have a higher number of humans you ban.

The way Reddit is set up, people will select the first option over the second.
by afavour | 2025-10-09 14:49:07+00:00
I think the core problem there is liability. I'm as good or as bad of a driver as I can be, but no matter what I'm responsible for the driving. If I get into one accident a year that's one accident a year.

A self-driving car might be 5x better than me at driving but logically I can't be liable for what it does. The company making it has to be. 5x better would be 0.2 accidents a year. But multiply by that the 100,000 cars the manufacturer has sold... they don't want that liability. That's why Telsa's autopilot is still supervised, because they want its mistakes to be your problem.

It presents a lot of thorny problems. If I am a persistently dangerous driver I can have my license taken away and be taken off the road. But if a self driving car is judged to be too dangerous for the road you'll suddenly have thousands of people who lose access to their car (assuming a future with self-driving only cars) through no fault of their own. What's their path to getting back on the road?
by Workaccount2 | 2025-10-09 14:49:11+00:00
A few months ago a read an article written by a woman who has dated a few men from extremely wealthy families. The article was about why you are dumb if you plan to "marry rich".

One reason that caught my attention was how she described the behavior of these people, who have the world at their fingertips, who have never really known hardship, and in turn have full blown meltdowns about the most trivial annoyances. What car will we drive on our trip?! The salmon cracker appetizers are too salty to be served! They stocked the wrong oat milk in the mini-fridge!

Almost like the need to get upset over inconveniences is ingrained, and when there is a lack of real ones, your brain just latches onto whatever it can to let the "freakout" out.
by quesera | 2025-10-09 14:49:22+00:00
We can theorize about the non-violent path to emancipation, and the speedy path to legal equality.

But it's counterfactual. It took severe violence plus 100 years to get there. Plus another 60 (yikes) to get to where we are today.

That's horrible! But nothing about that reality suggests to me that there was a less-violent or speedier way to get there. Governments are made of people.

Getting there was a worthwhile goal. I don't think there's a "but at what cost?" debate here.

So it sure doesn't feel "efficient", but it might be the "most efficient possible" in the human world.

Sometimes, progress is measured by funerals.
by nerdjon | 2025-10-09 14:49:55+00:00
Nearly everything about this screams I, Robot and it is kinda wild that they went that route with this article. The package delivery and the quick intro and head turning in particular.

I agree on the data part. I love the potential idea of a humanoid robot at home to take care of chores, but now it seems like the potential for it not being constantly connected and collecting data is gone out the window.

I find it quite strange that they are openly bragging about how much data it will be gathering and uploading from within your home. That feels like the part you would not say out loud.
by dandellion | 2025-10-09 14:50:15+00:00
Inconsistent performance and frequent lies are a crucial part of the role, really? I've only met a couple of people like that on my career. Interviews go both ways: if I can't establish that the team I'll be working with is composed and managed by honest and competent people, I don't accept their offer. Sometimes it has meant missing out on the highest compensation, but at least I don't deal with lies and inconsistent performance.
by arka2147483647 | 2025-10-09 14:50:43+00:00
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/vector/reserve.h...

says

> Increase the capacity of the vector (the total number of elements that the vector can hold without requiring reallocation) to a value that's greater or equal to new_cap.

I belive that the behaviour of reserve() is implementation defined.