MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kragen | 2025-10-10 20:14:38+00:00
You're the guy who in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45517647 I demonstrated was a physics crank: unskilled and unaware of it, dismissing the Alcubierre metric as "fantasy, nigh nonsensical and self-contradictory", unlike actual physicists. And, when I presented the evidence that that's not what actual physicists say about it, you responded by heaping personal abuse on me. Perhaps you posted this comment later as an additional form of ego defense, since it implicitly calls me a crank, by implying that I'm a "rationalist"?
by sgentle | 2025-10-10 20:14:46+00:00
Careful not to fall into the "People's Democratic Republic" trap: the way something is described and its purported aims are not at all the same as its actual effects (and, often, not even its intended ones). Politics is, in many cases, the art of selling you a box of spoons with "forks" printed on the label.

Instead of asking "does this agreement sound nice?", ask what power it gives, to whom, and what might they want to do with it.

Some prompts to spark a cogent reasoning process:

> Signatories commit themselves to [...] transforming or abolishing institutional units that purposefully punish, belittle, and even spark violence against conservative ideas

What "institutional units" might this mean? How are they identified? Who identifies them? What is the threshold for belittling conservative ideas that might trigger the "transforming or abolishing" remedy?

> Universities shall be responsible for ensuring that they do not knowingly: (1) permit actions by the university, university employees, university students, or individuals external to the university community to delay or disrupt class instruction or disrupt libraries or other traditional study locations [...] signatories commit to using lawful force if necessary to prevent these violations

What do "actions by" "university students" to "delay or disrupt class instruction" refer to? What kinds of disruptive action might the people writing this document be so concerned about that they would ask universities to "commit to using lawful force" to prevent? What sort of scenario is being envisaged here?

> Institutions commit to defining and otherwise interpreting "male," "female," "woman," and "man" according to reproductive function and biological processes.

Doesn't it seem oddly specific to assert a definition like this? Why can't a university decide for itself? How does this assertion square with "maintaining a vibrant marketplace of ideas" and the "empirical assessment of a broad spectrum of viewpoints"? Why only this definition and no others?

I could go on, but hopefully you get the picture. It's an important skill to practice critically reading a document the same way you might critically audit code. Don't ask what it seems like it does, ask what it might allow someone to do.
by yieldcrv | 2025-10-10 20:14:56+00:00
Super PACs are the dumbest of dumb money, and I'm surprised this forum isn't solely about extracting money from them

They have no shareholders or fudiciary duties, they are formed as non profits 501(c)4's with no purpose except their stated political position (for a policy / candidate, or against a policy / candidate) and this comes with no limitation on what they can own and do with the money

and this is all based on the flawed theory that spending equals votes

it's the dumbest reality that I thought would have been solved by constitutional amendment after Citizen's United but nope! how are you not taking advantage of this stupidity! the spending has only grown from all sides
by 9front | 2025-10-10 20:16:44+00:00
United Airlines Flight 173 ran out of fuel while circling Portland International Airport trying to troubleshoot a landing gear. Six more minutes of fuel could have helped the airliner to land in the Columbia river by the airport or belly land on the runway. The captain chose to keep troubleshooting and crashed just 6 miles away from the airport.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_173
by joshuamorton | 2025-10-10 20:17:03+00:00
> No, the expectation is that people will respect boundaries and voluntarily stay out of the single-sex spaces they have no right to be in.

So currently, these people have the right to be in these spaces (whether or not you disagree that they should, legally, they do), the expectation would, I assume, be that people will respect boundaries and not accost people based on assumptions about their genitals. And yet as GP said:

> There are plenty of videos online of cisgender people being accosted in the bathroom that aligns with their biological sex simply because other people _assume_ based on their appearance that they are trans.

Why would we expect people who are currently accosting people who are in the right place to respect them more when there is additional legal justification to harass them?

Perhaps phrased differently: would you support legal repercussions for someone who falsely or incorrectly reports someone as using an "incorrect" bathroom? If the assumption is that everyone is following the boundaries of these spaces, then breaking that assumption is, bad faith and grounds for a complaint of harassment. You'd agree?
by CuriouslyC | 2025-10-10 20:17:06+00:00
A lot of this is because there isn't a good definition of AGI. Look at Sama's recent interviews, that's how he deflects, along with the statement about the Turing test having ultimately been inconsequential. They have an internal definition of AGI that is "the model can perform the vast majority of economically viable tasks at the level of the highest humans" which isn't the story the investors are expecting when they hear AGI, so they're trying to stay mum to truthfully roadmap AGI while not blatantly lying to capital.
by mrtesthah | 2025-10-10 20:17:25+00:00
Trump received the equivalent of two billion dollars in free media coverage in 2016.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/upshot/measuring-donald-t...

Elon Musk spent $44 billion dollars to buy Twitter and then prioritized right wing pro Trump messaging in 2024.

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/22/nx-s1-5156184/elon-musk-trump...
by eisa01 | 2025-10-10 20:18:01+00:00
Toyota's solid-state EV battery promises are almost as bad as Elon's full self driving timeline

Only exception is that they give themselves a bit more lead time "early 2020's" in 2017. Probably because they have an interest to delay competitors EV sales, while Elon is pumping FSD sales

Will be interesting to see which technology comes to market first

https://www.axios.com/2017/12/15/toyota-claims-a-leap-that-w...
by landl0rd | 2025-10-10 20:18:13+00:00
It does imply AMPA antagonists or NAMs might be of interest to people with this problem, though. I wonder if high-dose L-theanine might be of interest; most of the -ampanel family antagonists are liable to abuse and a little sketchy regarding side effects and *NQX family aren't usable outside lab settings, so limited other options. Memantine might help but itself has anecdotal reports of inducing brain fog.

I'd also remark that their methodology has issues; we do not have a clear etiology or diagnostic criteria for "long covid" and its presentation. Participants had previously been infected (this is essentially everyone) and reported subjective "brain fog" type symptoms which is a terrible way to attempt to isolate anything about this "long covid". It's possible this is just a generalized syndrome that results from behavioral or lifestyle factors. I.e. we have no way to know what is "long covid" versus other things, no way to reliably trust patient history, and no way to know we are seeing that particular type of "brain fog".
by jeffbee | 2025-10-10 20:18:15+00:00
If you want to transfer the contents of your old mac to your new mac, your best options in order of speed are 1) thunderbolt, 2) wifi, and 3) ethernet. You do not, in any sense, get "the best speeds" from ethernet. The market penetration of greater-than-1gb wired networks in consumer devices is practically nothing.
by mmaunder | 2025-10-10 20:18:28+00:00
Similar philosophies but with differences. e.g. FAA reserve requirements is destination + alternate + 45 mins reserve. EASA is destination + alternate + final reserve which is 30 mins holding for jets and 45 mins for pistons IIRC. But in both cases it's that idea of a destination, an alternatite, and additional. And then there's the requirements around whether you need an alternate, etc.
by dang | 2025-10-10 20:18:29+00:00
Since this post was originally linked from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45536535, that seems like a natural place to merge most of the comments.

Generally, on HN it's better not to post a follow-up link like this because it leads to duplicate/split discussions. It's better to continue the conversation at relevant points in the original thread.
by altcognito | 2025-10-10 20:18:39+00:00
It's still all about charging in general. If it takes a 8 hours to deliver 50 and you drive 80 miles a day, you'll want a buffer of miles to prevent, having an extra buffer might get you through to a period where you aren't driving as much. Or you can make longer trips without refill. Or you can worry less about inefficiencies at lower temps.
by ivansavz | 2025-10-10 20:18:58+00:00
Direct links to the PDF previews:

- https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSstats_part1_pr... [223pp, 9MB]

- https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSstats_part2_pr... [191pp, 16MB]

The concept maps from the book might also be useful to check out: https://minireference.com/static/conceptmaps/statistics_conc...
by al_borland | 2025-10-10 20:19:32+00:00
Or did it work as intended? The plane had multiple failed landing attempts, was re-routed, and had enough fuel to land safely. While no one wants to cut it this close, this was not a normal flight.

I’m not an expert in this field, but it would seem that the weight of extra fuel would increase operating costs, so it’s is effectively insurance. How much extra fuel should be carried to account for unplanned events like this, while not carrying so much that it becomes cost prohibitive.
by beezlebroxxxxxx | 2025-10-10 20:19:37+00:00
The amount of money in US politics and elections in particular is staggering when you think about it. In 15 weeks Kamala Harris' campaign spent $1.5 billion. That's just insane. Especially when you find out that a lot of that spend goes through "media consultancies" and PR firms...run by former DNC staffers. And the same is true for the RNC. The two parties are basically a giant revolving door and network of jobs with access to this enormous slush fund.
by batrat | 2025-10-10 20:19:38+00:00
Ads? I thought HN crowd already know how to use a pihole or at least adguard dns. I got Samsung TV's in every room because they are easy to use with a Galaxy phone, using it as a remote and a keyboard. Also wireless DEX is soooo underrated. Want a specific app on tv? no problem. I'm basically using them as displays for my phone.
by esseph | 2025-10-10 20:19:43+00:00
> I Would still take the trouble entirely out to a provider.

Frankly, because you don't trust your own abilities in that area, or you're simply not interested in taking responsibility for that piece - and that's totally fine.

> Public in the sense that the front page is public, and the client still need to authenticate to the service at home

Maybe your authentication doesn't live at home, or on the home network. It could be on a vps or a cloud radius/ldap/etc auth service.

Some people have been writing code for 30+ years. I've been running internet facing systems for 30+. Different backgrounds, different levels of comfort and enjoyment out of different things!
by neutronicus | 2025-10-10 20:19:49+00:00
FWIW, in my (emacs, C++) experience, writing the editor config is a relatively minor part of the yak-shaving required to have jump-to-definition on an actual work codebase.

I had to get my project to emit compile_commands.json, get clangd, figure out which things about our build process clangd was not understanding from compile_commands.json and add them in .clangd. All to achieve a level of functionality significantly jankier than just opening the damn .sln file in Visual Studio.

Once I did all that it was, as you say, very little actual stuff written in my .spacemacs. And probably could have been less if I had felt like figuring out how to get my windows emacs to find clangd on the path instead of giving up and just specifying full paths to everything.

I only persevered because emacs (unlike Visual Studio) gives you all the necessary access to its internals to build LLM Tools around its LSP functionality.
by kjkjadksj | 2025-10-10 20:20:12+00:00
The difference is that leadership and wealth has agency and power. Of course the coming dystopia will serve to benefit them exclusively. Who do you think is calling the shots here today? Billionaires are. These are products designed for them by people they hired. The idea of using profit to create a billionaire is already inefficient and yet, that is how most of these companies are structured to burn profit on enriching the few vs having the ceo live like a monk and putting everything back into the company.
by Nevermark | 2025-10-10 20:20:37+00:00
The Democrats don't appear to be falling down the same hole.

They are not rallying for or under an Anti-Trump, but looking for a credible remedy for Trump.

Unfortunately, that is a much harder challenge, given how centralized their opponent party's representative power has become. Centralized power is so dangerous, because it is so effective.

And the Supreme Court's participation in that centralization adds a formidable head wind to any reform.

I just don't see the Democrat being able to take the same road. Even if they wanted to.

I think the future for now is balanced between Trump successfully tilting the next elections enough to continue to sideline Democrats, or attempting to do so and triggering a sea change/backlash that gives Democrats some significant power to attempt reforms with.
by clessed | 2025-10-10 20:21:49+00:00
If the policy of MIT or any other institution states that certain spaces are designated as single-sex only, then no, people of the opposite sex do not have the right to use these spaces.

I don't expect people to have a problem with understanding this, in practice. It's really not that difficult to understand what sex you are and where you're allowed to be. Children learn this quite early on.

(Edit: My account is now rate-limited because of downvotes, so I can't reply to any responses. However I would like to point out that if MIT is currently allowing staff and students to use single-sex spaces that are designated for the opposite sex, this is very likely to be a Title IX violation. Unfortunately, sexism is rife in institutions of higher education, and MIT is no exception.)
by canucker2016 | 2025-10-10 20:22:08+00:00
If you look at the commits for the process.cc file, you can see that the ORIGINAL version of the GetProcessMemoryUsage function was correct.

for original function, see process.cc, lines 36-53 in https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-windows-process-tree/com...

A week later, when the GetCpuUsage function was added to process.cc, the CloseHandle call at the end of GetProcessMemoryUsage was deleted/pushed into GetCpuUsage.

for updated code, see process.cc, lines 53-96, in https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-windows-process-tree/com...

The unified diff for that change doesn't point out that code was deleted from GetProcessMemoryUsage (the CloseHandle() call is now in GetCpuUsage).

Someone ok'd those changes...

Also MS's PREfast/PREfix static code analysis tools missed that bug as well. I'd update my static analysis perl script to check for that case, but one of the comments to TFA said chatgpt will catch the problem, so I'll punt.

Minor nit: The ProcessInfo struct declares fields in an awkward fashion if you're debugging, esp. if you're viewing memory of the struct. One should put small size fields at the start of the struct, large size fields at the end. As is, the large name character array will occupy a large amount of space and if you want to see the values of the small fields, one would probably have to scroll to locate these small fields after the large character array.

Minor nit: What's with the magic number 1024? At least in recent versions of the process.cc file, they've gone from a fixed 1024 element array (each element == MAX_PATH * TCHAR + sizeof(DWORD)*3 bytes) to a dynamic array.
by Veserv | 2025-10-10 20:22:10+00:00
In 2023-03, they did passenger 1,000,000 [1].

In 2024-05, they did passenger 2,000,000 [2].

So 1,000,000 passengers in 14 months or ~420 days. That is a average throughput of ~2,400 passengers per day.

In comparison, the Tokyo Marunouchi line averages ~1,100,000 passengers per day [3]. That is ~420x the rate. Every single day, they do what the Las Vegas Loop does in a year.

The peak capacity that they claim without evidence is ~32,000 in a day [4]. The Maruonouchi line does in a day what the Las Vegas Loop at maximum capacity could theoretically do in a entire month.

[1] https://www.teslarati.com/elon-musk-boring-co-vegas-loop-1-m...

[2] https://www.teslarati.com/boring-company-2-million-passenger...

[3] https://www.japan-experience.com/plan-your-trip/travel-by-tr...

[4] https://www.boringcompany.com/lvcc
by nomel | 2025-10-10 20:22:21+00:00
Related, many modern TVs have "game mode" which prioritizes video latency, with the loss of some of the algs being available.

RTINGS actually tracks this, with most being comparable to monitors at the same refresh rate, while in game mode (around 10x faster than non-game mode). [1]

4k@120Hz with VRR is even available in < $1k TVs these days!

And, for audio latency, unless you're using the built in speakers, it's fairly trivial to make the video and audio paths independent.

[1] https://www.rtings.com/tv/tests/inputs/input-lag
by mmaunder | 2025-10-10 20:22:27+00:00
The regs are quite specific on if and when we need an alternate, which is weather dependent, and what your fuel requirements are. And we don't really have the idea of "multiple alternatives", but I guess it's implied by the additional reserve - what us Americans call a reserve or the Europeans call "final reserve". In case you're curious, we use the TAF (termimal area forecast) to determine if we need an alternate, and use a 1,2,3 rule which is 1 hour before and 1 hour after arrival time we need ceilings of at least 2000 ft and 3 statute miles of horizontal visibility.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-10-10 20:23:13+00:00
Yes this administration definitely has strong, disturbing authoritarian tendencies. The censorious tendencies of the "far left", though, took us a meaningful distance here. Executive power and Congress's uselessness has been accelerating for decades now, but it's not hard to see the place we're at as an extension of where we were.

Jimmy Kimmel's attempted cancellation was just a more state-sponsored attempt at cancelling than the social pressure cancellations of the late 2010s. Sure state-sponsored is what makes it technically censorship but the practical difference it makes for the individual and their platform is almost none. Generating massive amounts of outrage over calling the default git branch "master" is how you get Anduril and Palantir virtue signaling to the right about how their work is keeping America safe and competitive. College student bodies insisting on their administrations doing land acknowledgements is what brought contrarian shit-stirrers like Charlie Kirk to colleges in the first place.

And as a result the modern Democratic party is broken. The "far left" has been obsessed with destroying the Democratic party's coalition because of their insistence on ideological purity. The center left moderates have been vilified and alienated and are too shy to endorse populist left candidates like Mamdani because of how much they've been punched. Free speech advocates have been exiled as progenitors of "hate speech", only for the current administration to use the same "hate speech" rationale to silence the opposition (labeling something as stupid as "Antifa" dangerous.) Left libertarians have been sneered at for so long as agents of greed and enemies of state capacity that now that the state is trying to quash the freedom of those on the left, the left libertarians don't want to speak up.

So yes we're in bad shape, very bad shape. But I have zero confidence that it's the "far left" who is going to save us. If anything I think if the "far left" and the MAGA-ites continue the way they do we're going to end up in an American version of the Spanish Civil War. I think the MAGA-ites just realized that nobody is willing to adhere to historical American norms on liberal democracy; the emperor has no clothes. Might as well push liberal democracy as far as it can go since nobody is willing to fight for it.

EDIT: I'm expecting downvotes for this opinion and it's one I don't share on lefty social media spaces because it's always a very disliked one but I'd welcome actual discussion on this. The closest I've seen to a rebuttal is "if we need to moderate our positions then we become as bad as the other side, so what's the point?" which I also disagree with. An inability to talk about this is yet another mark that shows how far the gulf between the sides are in the US.
by astrange | 2025-10-10 20:23:53+00:00
I have all 2.5gbit at home with some 10gbit SFP copper connections, it wasn't particularly difficult. The devices with built-in Ethernet ports are all gigabit of course, but the ones with USB-C ports have 2.5gbit adapters.

I could go to 10gbit but the Thunderbolt adapters for those all have fans.
by runako | 2025-10-10 20:24:36+00:00
I mean, you're obviously right about this all. Which is why it's an easy decision. MIT chooses independence and so cannot agree to these terms.

Separately, there is the question of whether it is in the best interest of the US to part ways with organizations such as MIT.

> MIT is taking (lots of) money from federal government

Surely nobody is naive enough to think the federal government is giving money to institutions like MIT with no expectation of reciprocal benefit?

MIT is (was?) full of DoD asset tags to indicate which equipment was paid for by DoD grants. So another way of stating your point is the federal government is investing in programs at MIT to shape which basic research gets done so that it aligns with the best interest of the United States.

(A prior iteration of conservativism would have recognized outsourcing to MIT as a capital-light way of accomplishing a set of policy goals. The alternative being to spin up the whole apparatus in-house without cost sharing. Left to their own devices, engineering students are not likely to discover and research problems that are immediately germane to DoD.)

It is possible to be independent while also accepting grants from the USG. There's no contradiction there. The point of independence is that the Institute gets to determine how it runs its affairs. This Compact is an attempt to move that decision-making process to the White House. Maintaining independence in this environment therefore means abandoning federal research funding.
by energy123 | 2025-10-10 20:24:58+00:00
It's wild to claim Saddam was a US ally just two years before Iraq invaded Kuwait against US demands and got bombed by the US in the Gulf War. You are confusing offshore balancing between Iraq and Iran during the Iran-Iraq war with "ally". You need to look up the definitions of these words.

And to claim Assad was a US ally is even more outrageous, where to even start. He was a Russian ally and a Hezbollah ally, not a US ally. All of his military equipment came from Russia. All of his air support came from Russia. He allowed Iranian arms to flow to Hezbollah and was supported on the ground in Syria by Hezbollah. And he is now hiding in Russia playing video games after killing hundreds of thousands of civilians. He and the US had a common foe in ISIS for a period, but they were otherwise antagonistic over the duration of the civil war.