MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wnevets | 2025-10-06 20:02:51+00:00
> But President Donald Trump, who recently called climate change a "con job", has pushed to scrap many of those measures, including the $7,500 credit, arguing that they were pushing people to buy cars they would not otherwise want.

There is a significance portion of the US populace that is vehemently opposed to the very concept of electric cars, claiming to be "Dark MAGA" isn't going to fix that.
by bigwheels | 2025-10-06 20:02:57+00:00
How do you use it to compress a directory (or .tar file)? Not seeing any example usages in the repo, `zli compress -o dir.tar.zl dir.tar` ->

Invalid argument(s): No compressor profile or serialized compressor specified.

Same thing for the `train` command.

Edit: @terrelln Got it, thank you!
by fluoridation | 2025-10-06 20:03:36+00:00
Agreed, with one caveat: demand for hardware can drop if the optimization is so substantial that deployed hardware is already capable of fulfilling any possible request in a timely fashion. Say, anyone becomes able to run any state-of-the-art model on any desktop computer. 90% is not enough, though. It has to be at least three or four orders of magnitude. The ones driving demand are big datacenters, so they need to be in a position where just throwing more hardware at the problem solves nothing.
by baggy_trough | 2025-10-06 20:03:41+00:00
That's basically my point. I'm not missing anything, so I'm happy if it just gets small / stability fixes, which doesn't seem like it needs a six member maintainer group. That team should go off and do a great job with 'rv' or whatever the next brand new idea is, and just let rubygems sit there with minor updates, same as we do for the ruby logger or date class.
by NickC25 | 2025-10-06 20:04:08+00:00
>China should have strong car companies for their domestic market. The problem comes when they end up destroying other/outside markets.

Agree. However, those other companies in other markets didn't just destroy themselves overnight when China's industry decided to magically will itself into existence.

You know what did? Worthless companies who backed themselves into corner after corner by ignoring market trends, new technologies, and dissing consumers who didn't want oversized trucks or SUVs. Those same companies got multiple bailouts after being mismanaged for decades. Those same companies STILL refused to get with the times, and tried to force crappy oversized vehicles down our throats. Most people have zero need for trucks, yet GMC, Ford, etc tried to market them as the quintessential American vehicle. Yuck.

Folks, rip on the CCP as much as you damn well please. But don't fault them for picking an industry that they viewed as a future necessity, subsidizing its growth, and reaping the rewards of their investment.
by RajT88 | 2025-10-06 20:04:10+00:00
This is not a "America is Bad" debate, it's a "There are things America is bad at which we should get better at".

> Abortion access is a debatable topic

It's a simple debate though, one we can speedrun:

Objections to abortion access are rooted in religious concerns.

The first amendment guarantees separation of church and state.

Birth control of all sorts are the best method of reducing generational poverty.

It is also medically necessary in some cases to save the life of the mother, especially in the case of a non-viable fetus.

QED: If you don't like abortion, don't get one. It has multiple societal benefits.
by markus_zhang | 2025-10-06 20:04:27+00:00
Sorry for my nonsense...I always get excited when I saw a post about a classic/PowerPC Macintosh (I don't like the colorful ones, though).

I have never owned, used, or seen other people used one in real life. I have only seen them in YouTube videos and in articles such as this one. I don't know why I'm so excited about these cuboid machines.

I need to grab an emulator and install some toolchain to work on it.
by nemothekid | 2025-10-06 20:04:39+00:00
We were on Mesos before so k8s complexity wasn't the deciding factor. If I cared about being could-agnostic, I would have gone the kubernetes route. The main factor was we decided to move as much as possible to aws managed services so that we wouldn't be responsible for their operation. Once we have made this decision, then paying the premium for EKS over ECS Fargate didn't make much sense.

From there a lot of our custom software is just adapting the AWS platform for our taste. For example, we define a lot of our routing configuration using docker labels (similar to Traefik), so we needed a reverse proxy that could handle that.
by atmavatar | 2025-10-06 20:04:46+00:00
Historically, it's been the case that a relatively small percentage of men have monopolized the available women of their time. Perhaps the most famous example of this was Genghis Khan, to whom something like 1 in 12 men in Asia and 1 in 200 men globally carry Y chromosomes linked to him.

It is only somewhat recently that many first-world societies moved towards more egalitarian, monogamous marriages.

However, dating apps are a big step back towards the original state of human relationships: a small cohort of men gaining the attention of the vast majority of women. The remaining men have few, if any, options, much like it was in the distant past.

Marriage law hasn't yet changed to catch up, but marriage rates are also decreasing.

Can you really blame someone destined to be permanently single for indulging in a fantasy relationship? Is it really much different than someone playing video games where they get to be the hero in a virtual world?

I think I'd prefer single men indulge in fantasy relationships than the time-honored alternative of radicalization and violence, at least.
by nradov | 2025-10-06 20:04:50+00:00
There has been some improvement in terms of long hospital shifts, but there is value in maintaining continuity of care. Research has shown that preventable medical errors are correlated with the the frequency of handover. Proper documentation in the patient chart can help to an extent but there's tacit knowledge that comes from directly observing a live patient which can't be documented in any codified way. So a balance has to be struck in terms of errors due to fatigue versus errors due to care discontinuities.
by alexnewman | 2025-10-06 20:05:02+00:00
I live in Puerto Rico. Electrics don’t make a ton of sense here cause our grid is very strained. I got a used plugin hybrid Lincoln aviator for like 25k. I only got the plugin hybrid because it and electric vehicles are exempt from import duties. I basically never use gas cause the island is so small. I think it’s the best option for island life
by tyleo | 2025-10-06 20:05:38+00:00
Reminds me of one of my favorite memes. It has two images:

1. What men think about working out: a picture of a bunch of girls saying things like, “can I touch your biceps.”

2. What working out is actually like: a picture of a bunch of men saying things like, “nice lats bro,” and “what kind of protein do you drink.”

I got a good chuckle. I work out and 2 hits the nail on the head for reality.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-10-06 20:05:38+00:00
> more shifts for docs = more $$ paying for more medical staff.

I don't follow. It can't be more expensive to pay 2 doctors for 8 hour shifts than 1 doctor for 16 hours; if anything, I'd expect it to be cheaper (no overtime).

> but there have been a bunch of studies that showed that handoffs between shifts at hospitals is where things go bad. Someone doesn't document they gave an extra 2 cc of a drug to a patient, and next shift gives them more and causes issues, etc.

Hence pushing for checklists so that doesn't happen?
by freedomben | 2025-10-06 20:05:40+00:00
Yep, precisely. It really blows my mind to see so many people who normally support a free market suddenly forget (or ignore) what effect a tariff has on a market. Somehow it's now become a hammer and every problem is a nail.

I get that there are some real (or perceived) issues that are trying to be solved with these tariffs, but that doesn't magically make the realities of what tariffs do to a market go away. "Just do something" is a good way to get a "solution" that makes you worse off.
by more_corn | 2025-10-06 20:06:32+00:00
Religions. Corporations. Legal authority.

All exist only because we believe in them.

You could go to the extreme and say that every relationship exists in two copies. One in the mind of the first member and the other in the mind of the second.

Ai relationships are different because they don’t exist in the mind of the ai. There’s no mind there’s an architecture that does not even attempt to simulate a mind.
by quickthrowman | 2025-10-06 20:06:38+00:00
The roadside tests can be declined with no penalty in my state. So, if I was driving high on THC I’d say “I refuse field sobriety tests but will consent to chemical blood testing, which I am obligated to comply with or lose my driving privileges.”

I’d test positive and then say “Good luck proving I was intoxicated while driving!” and then the DA would refuse to file charges, because there is no way to prove that with THC if you refuse roadside tests.
by CharlieDigital | 2025-10-06 20:06:44+00:00
> most people who want public transit want it so they can get OTHER people off the road

Such a bad take. I would guess you've never been to Japan, Taiwan, any country with a fast, well-functioning public transit system. It's so convenient to not have to drive everywhere and have dependable transit options. Not to mention for seniors and even children (yes; kids in Asia board transit by themselves all the time).
by adolph | 2025-10-06 20:06:44+00:00
> I got comfortable with it and told myself that I had overcome my materialism

Vervaeke's "Meaning Crisis" talks have interesting things to say about this sense of the world between modes of "having" (material) and "being" (existential).

Fromm's point is we get mixed up. We try to satisfy our being needs within the having mode. We suffer from "Modal Confusion". Think about how much our culture is organized around this because it serves a lot of market interests if I can confuse you, if I can get you to try and pursue your being needs within the having mode.

https://www.meaningcrisis.co/episode-7-aristotles-world-view...
by arcfour | 2025-10-06 20:06:47+00:00
The US and South Korea are allies, and SK doesn't have much particular strategic value that I'm aware of? At least not anything they wouldn't already be sharing with the US?

Can you articulate what particular advantages the US would be pursuing by stealing SK secret data (assuming it was not protected sufficiently on AWS/GCP to prevent this, and assuming that platform security features have to be defeated to extract this data—this is a lot of risk from the US's side, to go after this data, if they are found out in this hypothetical, I might add, so "they would steal whatever just to have it" is doubtful to me).
by tracker1 | 2025-10-06 20:07:21+00:00
Drank the kool-aid?!? I worked in the eLearning space, I was a prominent user and developer for Flash/Flex content... there was some interesting tooling for sure, I also completely disabled it on my home computers as a result of working with it.

I had a lot of hopes after the Adobe buyout that Flash would morph into something based around ActionScript (ES4) and SVG. That didn't happen. MS's Silverlight/XAML was close, but I wasn't going to even consider it without several cross-platform version releases.
by terrelln | 2025-10-06 20:07:31+00:00
There's a Quick Start guide here:

https://openzl.org/getting-started/quick-start/

However, OpenZL is different in that you need to tell the compressor how to compress your data. The CLI tool has a few builtin "profiles" which you can specify with the `--profile` argument. E.g. csv, parquet, or le-u64. They can be listed with `./zli list-profiles`.

You can always use the `serial` profile, but because you haven't told OpenZL anything about your data, it will just use Zstandard under the hood. Training can learn a compressor, but it won't be able to learn a format like `.tar` today.

If you have raw numeric data you want to throw at it, or Parquets or large CSV files, thats where I would expect OpenZL to perform really well.
by lisbbb | 2025-10-06 20:07:55+00:00
The US didn't have electric vehicle protectionism until relatively recently? Not more than any other type of vehicles. The NHTSA and crash testing standards limit what cars can come to our shores, often to our detriment. Americans are dumbasses and have allowed government to way over-regulate the auto industry. Just look how much of the price of a car involves government mandates these days. It's obscene.

So...China. They have zero standards for anything. The cars probably do poorly in crashes. The industries making the batteries pollute the shit out of everything. The batteries probably don't last as long as indicated, probably half as many cells as was advertised. The tires are thinner, the glass is thinner, the paint is barely applied. Is this really what we want?

There has to be some middle way.
by HardCodedBias | 2025-10-06 20:08:07+00:00
That title is silly.

The US is #2 in the world in EVs behind China. Tesla leads the US in EVs, and is #2 in the world.

A sample of more reasonable titles:

1. US is #2 in EV manufacturing and sales, can they catch up to China?

2. How did BYD catch up so quickly to Tesla?

3. Why can't Europe create its own Tesla?
by JuniperMesos | 2025-10-06 20:08:30+00:00
A lot of senators and judges are trying to stop various aspects of the Trumpist poltical agenda. And in turn the Trump administration is working against those senators and judges, to the great approval of the MAGA base.

There are a lot of people who really want the objectives you find repulsive, and they want the elected officials they support to smash through the opposition of the elected officials (and judges) that you support. In a democracy, it will often happen that different elected officials supported by rival factions of citizens bitterly fight each other for control of what policies the state actually carries out.
by OCTAGRAM | 2025-10-06 20:08:38+00:00
We had plenty of enlightened network engineers, but eventually government wanted some torrents to stop working. Torrents were installing 6to4, Teredo and so on and hoping to work this way. But government agents were doing checks. Government agents were checking WiFi networks here and there, and ISPs. And government agents also had those torrents installed, and they could easily enable 6to4, Teredo, all of that. As soon as any such loophole permits opening forbidden website, every party gets serious fines. So they were runnning circles in panic. And blocking, blocking, blocking.

That's how our dream of IPv6 died. We don't dream about IPv6 anymore.

Our network engineers do learn new things. How to block. There was no DPI, now there is. A new dimension of progress.
by neutronicus | 2025-10-06 20:08:53+00:00
Yes, I certainly prefer "chatting with Claude Code" to "Copilot taking forever to hallucinate all over my IDE, displacing the much-more-useful previous-generation semantic autocomplete."

The former is like a Waymo, the latter is like my car suddenly and autonomously deciding that now is a good time to turn into a Dollar Tree to get a COVID vaccine when I'm on my way to drop my kid off at a playdate.
by freedomben | 2025-10-06 20:08:58+00:00
That's very interesting to me, as having lived in Alaska, I can't imagine EVs being your only option there. There are plenty of routes with >500 miles between gas stations. If you don't bring extra fuel cans, you are gambling big time. I would imagine there are even less charging stations. Hybrids obviously wouldn't have that problem, though I haven't heard much about Chinese hybrids.
by throwacct | 2025-10-06 20:09:00+00:00
Knowing OAI's history, only big whales could survive being copied by the platform's owner—case in point: Amazon Basics. They're so big that most of the time, SMBs can't escape them and don't have a choice but to cave to Amazon's demands. Is your product successful? Great, I'll copy you, add the "Amazon basics" label, and start bombarding users with my "product".
by epistasis | 2025-10-06 20:09:04+00:00
The role for protectionism is in the early stages of government subsidized and promoted industries, but it has to be matched by ruthless cutting of subsidy for the lower performers. And eventually there has to be competition with the global market to ensure performance.

Taking a mature industry and adding protectionism because of underperformance is a disaster on all fronts.

We were in the middle of a huge industrial investment buildout, absolutely untold of in modern history, for solar and batteries. But with the goal of undoing anything the prior administration has done, we are abandoning the good that a little protectionism could have for a growing battery and solar industry in the US.

We are toast without big changes. The world is leapfrogging us, and with every dozen GW of solar and batteries that China exports, it is permanently lowering demand for US natural gas and oil, which will eventually torpedo the industry, or leave the US with far higher energy prices than the rest of the world, both of which are disastrous for industry.
by WillPostForFood | 2025-10-06 20:09:34+00:00
Why do you think it would be a prolonged recession? Dot com bust, for example, was just two quarters of GDP decline, followed by solid growth. 2007 was much worse, because it was a crisis of financial institutions. AI bubble may be bigger than dot com, but feels more like it in that is a narrow section of the economy. Even more narrow than dot com.
by dijit | 2025-10-06 20:09:38+00:00
I'm one of those.

I'd go iPad only, it's a versatile device after-all, but the truth of it is: it can't beat a laptop for "real work" (unless, real work is replying to emails and running an extremely cut down version of excel).

Yet, a laptop is significantly more awkward to read with or watch media. When flying I have (nearly) lost a screen to someone reclining in front of me while I was using my laptop; this is not an issue with iPads.

As it stands, the iPad is practically an essential, it's just so versatile and useful that it's omission would cut comfort more than it's weight. But I need an additional device, likely a laptop. One can't live without headphones either, and at least a smart-phone for payments, SMS and phone-calls.

So, it looks outsized, but a laptop can't substitute an iPad, and an iPad can't substitute a laptop (yet; it's a software failing mostly)
by tolerance | 2025-10-06 20:09:43+00:00
Dude at this point just raise your knickers up and criticize the thing. You’ve got the most valuable observation about this topic on your side. The graph is jarring and for someone only recently made familiar with Goodhart’s Law this is a great example of it in practice. You must be further well-informed enough to defend any issues you actually have with the project outright instead of this small war of attrition playing out waaay down here.

Too much useful insight is withheld or misappropriated these days.
by mschuster91 | 2025-10-06 20:09:49+00:00
> The roadside test is basically a test to see if you are a moron dumb enough to consent to it.

It's "voluntary" in Germany as well both for alcohol and other drugs, but if you refuse it the cops can and will use every avenue they can to make your life absolutely fucking miserable, and there are a looooot of ways they can abuse.

Especially if you are in the proximity of a highway or important federal road, they can pull off the full "border control checkpoint" under Schengen laws.
by CharlieDigital | 2025-10-06 20:09:52+00:00
> I get the impression that's the same reason their fine-tuning services never took off either

Also, very few workloads that you'd want to use AI for are prime cases for fine-tuning. We had some cases where we used fine tuning because the work was repetitive enough that FT provided benefits in terms of speed and accuracy, but it was a very limited set of workloads.
by trflynn89 | 2025-10-06 20:10:11+00:00
> However, a jump like that means precisely and exactly what I said it means; very suddenly, that metric became much more important to the team. It is written straight into the graph.

Not really, though. The latest jump was from implementing some CSS Typed OM features, which has been in-progress work for a while now. The 6k increase in the test score was a bit of a happy surprise. It's also not that much of a jump when you zoom out and see it's "just" a continuation of a steady increase in score over a long period.
by al_borland | 2025-10-06 20:10:25+00:00
I can only assume Grok prices will increase again as a result.

I had an X subscription just to get rid of adds, and it came with Grok as a side effect. In the one year that I signed up for, the price more than doubled. I cancelled the subscription and stopped using the site as a result. It runs out any day now.

Getting insane price hikes to fund these AI data centers, when all I cared about was not having ads, doesn’t sit well with me.
by kragen | 2025-10-06 20:10:35+00:00
Generally speaking, steam circuits have large thermal masses, resulting in ramp-up times measured in hours, so most thermal energy is nowhere close to "completely dispatchable". Completely dispatchable thermal power is internal combustion engines (diesel or Otto) and open-cycle gas turbines, and Standard Thermal is not targeting temperatures high enough to operate those machines. Adding Standard Thermal to a baseload coal plant will not make it dispatchable; you will still have a baseload plant, not a peaker. It just won't consume coal.

I agree that it would make solar usable in situations where it would not otherwise be usable, and high latitudes are a good candidate.

For reasons like these I do not think that they will result in a cost reduction.

Standard Thermal has been bending over backwards to store their heat at the high temperatures I mentioned, resulting in a lot of engineering challenges that a lower-temperature thermal store (say, 400° or below) wouldn't have to deal with. For the most part, process heat is lower in temperature than 400°, so I think that isn't their market either.
by dzaima | 2025-10-06 20:10:59+00:00
While it is kinda unfortunate to have one unbalanced test suite as the major external progress indicator, there are.. like no other good options that don't involve someone manually going through like the top 1000 sites or something and checking whether they look good. That leaves having no progress indication whatsoever, which is also pretty bad.

And, in any case, implementing more of the standards is just simply good, and would need to be done at some point anyway.
by dpark | 2025-10-06 20:11:00+00:00
> While it's true that alcoholics can perform most tasks better than the average person after a few drinks, and there is some data showing they are less likely to get in accidents after drinking, they still become significantly impaired at about the same rate as everyone else.

This is completely self contradictory. It’s absolutely not “the same rate” if alcoholics can drink multiple additional drinks without showing impairment compared to nonalcoholics.

> They might have an advantage of a few drinks compared to a regular person, but they often close that gap.

This is kind of absurd. “Yeah, they can drink way more without impairment, but they’ll probably still drink to impairment.” This is borderline future crime.

I certainly don’t think we should allow alcoholics to drive with a higher BAC, mostly because the entire point of BAC is to make assessment more objective, but your logic is pretty tortured here.
by bluealienpie | 2025-10-06 20:11:04+00:00
Too much of the debate is taken up by regulations are good vs bad. The focus should be on drafting regulations that make sense. The US doesn't allow small trucks due to EPA classification so didn't make any until this recent crop of EVs started popping up.

RE China: They also make the cheapest and best qualities Telsa which are shipped around the world. They can make the best and worst quality depending on your price point.