MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kkfx | 2025-10-06 20:20:14+00:00
As an European, I don't agree with the analysis: it's not labour law that has stifled innovation, but the post-WWII generation that chose to try stopping the train of history.

Those born between the late 40s and 60s want NOTHING to do with innovation, people, from every social background and culture; the development model imposed after the war has killed Western Europe. From being the former greatest secular innovators, we've become the last wheels on the cart, still with some pockets of excellence, but not for long, and most don't want to capitalise on them. This is without even considering the high-treasonous nazi governments in almost all EU countries that pursue foreign interests against our own. Because this has been happening for decades, to put it plainly.

The populations who, when young, sang "we are always twenty years old" today reject all innovation, and the cure is simply the social fracture that will lead them to marginalisation compared to their current dominance, unfortunately dragging everyone down with them.
by HaZeust | 2025-10-06 20:20:21+00:00
>"I am not your brother in Christ."

It's an expression lol

>"It doesn't magically give him a new election or a third term in office, which is what this discussion was about."

He gave an astute example of how constitutionality (which is your crutch for "elections" and "third terms" being protected procedure) doesn't matter when there are currently unconstitutional Supreme Court rulings being honored - which is currently the easiest avenue for Trump to make any more unconstitutional advances (election suspension, third term, etc etc), and you acted - slightly arrogantly in fact - as if it wasn't a valid retort.

That's where we are now - and I don't even have a dog in this fight; I joined merely because you falsely motioned that his link to Trump v. US wasn't complimentary to his position, and I've only elucidated on his behalf how it is.
by Animats | 2025-10-06 20:20:46+00:00
Romance novels are porn. Go to a bookstore and pick up something like "Love's Tender Fury", or "Fury's Tender Love", or "Tender Love's Fury". Open it to 2/3 of the way through. There will be a six-page sex scene.

There are how-to guides on writing that stuff. That industry is probably going to be crushed by AI-generated romance novels. Although someone needs to figure out how to keep long-form AI writing on plot. LLMs tend to run on forever and drift.
by thegrim33 | 2025-10-06 20:20:48+00:00
Recently I got really, really sick. I was running a fever and bedridden for nearly a month straight. It got so bad one day that I ended up in two urgent cares and then they sent me onwards to the ER.

They were constantly taking my blood, constantly running tests, and in the end they basically just shrugged and said it was seemingly some random virus they didn't have a test for, nothing they could do. I heard some doctors talking outside my room about how unusual it was for me to be sick for as long as I had been, and they just seemed to brush it off and one said something like "well he's still fairly young, he'll probably get through it eventually."

They never figured out what it was, never were able to do anything to help me, just kind of shrugged, kept me overnight for more observation and then kicked me out the second the sun came out. My body and mind were absolutely shattered, especially after being woken up every 30min all night long for more blood draws, and I was told I could at least eat breakfast before I left, but they ended up reneging on this and kicking me out before breakfast time.

This was at a major hospital, a well ranked one, in a major city. The experience really opened my eyes.
by kevincox | 2025-10-06 20:21:06+00:00
Now instead of having the 2nd and 3rd packages have ugly names all of them have ugly names!

There are advantages to systems like this such as trust (I can tell that you.example/pkg1 and you.example/pkg2 are owned by the same person) and decentralization. But I don't think it helps with the later packages having ugly names.
by bitwize | 2025-10-06 20:21:16+00:00
Please. This is an event up there with Sony taking Other OS away: tinkering nerds and pirates most affected, the vast majority of consumers won't even notice. I don't think it reaches that level of impact. And I think most Android devs working professionally already have developer accounts, or their employers have one, and are already verified.

That's what this really is about. If you want to distribute Android apps, be a professional or at least act like one. Take accountability for what you produce, under your real government name.
by grues-dinner | 2025-10-06 20:21:54+00:00
I don't think it's nihilism as much as the realisation the vaunted capital-letters Free Market Economy isn't run by level-headed experts who while maybe not benevolent, work within a framework that produces long-term benevolence as a deliberate side effect. Rather it is instead a fractious, squabbling cabal of, to put it lightly, deeply flawed people with aims rather at odds with the average person's long-term well-being.

Saying that the economy currently doesn't seem to be progressing rationally according to the last century of dogma doesn't necessarily mean it's hopeless. Senseless isn't hopeless (but they are roommates).
by jampa | 2025-10-06 20:21:57+00:00
It's still around, but the hype has faded. Users discovered numerous issues with the project and began abandoning it. I remember one month when everyone was all, "LangChain is the future," and another month when the sentiment became: "LangChain is terrible."

You can see the hype cycle's timeline in HN's Algolia search: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-06 20:22:03+00:00
> once the bubble pops

What's the bubble? It's cash-flow positive. All of SpaceX is cash-flow positive--they've been buying back their own shares.

You can argue it's overrated, i.e. customers will drop it after trying it for a while. (Or when a recession forces their hand.) But bubble requires leverage and losses, neither of which SpaceX (or Starlink) have.
by tenderlove | 2025-10-06 20:22:15+00:00
This absolutely happened and is not speculation. I can't find the emails from the individuals that emailed me, but I did find my email to the board of directors asking that the website language be changed because people had pinged me thinking I would be getting money, or that the money would go to fund rubygems.org.

At the time I'd sent the email I was unaware Ruby Together was on HN front page (and that's why people were pinging me)
by ggreer | 2025-10-06 20:23:06+00:00
If the vaporized satellites were entirely converted into a compound that was as damaging to the ozone layer as the most potent CFC (R-12 [1]), and the compound stayed in the atmosphere forever, it would take 5,000 years to reach current atmospheric concentrations of R-12.[2]

Vaporized satellites really don't seem like a concern.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichlorodifluoromethane#Enviro...

2. https://gml.noaa.gov/hats/graphs/graphs.html
by alphazard | 2025-10-06 20:23:13+00:00
I'm speaking in comparison to THC. We are talking about order of magnitude differences with THC, especially in the blood after smoking or vaporizing. The difference between a little drunk and very drunk is only a factor of 2, probably less. I don't even think it's possible for a human to be 4 times as drunk as another also drunk human and survive.

The best way to think about tolerance to alcohol is buying a small constant headstart, while THC is better modeled as a difference of rates depending on tolerance. I think most people will find that model useful, and the numbers (BAC) support that as a rule of thumb calculation.

Somehow you disagree that my model is accurate enough, but also agree that a constant cutoff is a good heuristic for legal intoxication from alcohol.
by kragen | 2025-10-06 20:23:26+00:00
I'm delighted to see Fraunhofer's report! I'll read it carefully.

You are probably right about the glass. Processing glass in electric furnaces has been a well-established technology for many generations, but it is more expensive than fossil-fuel-fired furnaces, and is used for making more expensive kinds of glass. But the glass in solar panels is an especially cheap kind of glass.

Coal is probably the cheapest form of energy. https://www.coal-price.com/ says that currently in China coal is on the order of US$100 per tonne. Coal has up to 33MJ/kg, so that works out to 0.3¢ per megajoule, or 1.1¢ per kilowatt hour, or more if the US$100/tonne coal isn't the best anthracite. You probably can't literally run a glassmaking furnace with a coal firebox, because of the contaminants from the coal, but you almost certainly can't run it on cheaper energy than that. If 100% of the cost of the solar panels were coal energy instead of electric, that would extend my upper bound out from 7 months to a bit over 4 years.

This seems to be in rough agreement with Fraunhofer's more informed estimate that you cite.
by jader201 | 2025-10-06 20:24:20+00:00
Not disagreeing re: the impact of tariffs.

But our problems started before tariffs. If you look at the graph in the article, things started diverging around 2018. You can see all other countries taking off, leaving the US in the dust.

And the (small) US increase dropped even more around 2023.

But we were already behind.

EV infrastructure is terrible. I've been hoping to trade our second vehicle (that is ICE) in for an EV, so that both our vehicles are EV.

But until the infrastructure improves, we have no choice but to hold onto at least one ICE vehicle for anything longer than a daily commute.

And US makers can't sell EVs when most Americans are still dealing with range anxiety due to lack of infrastructure.
by johnea | 2025-10-06 20:24:20+00:00
> Is it really much different than someone playing video games where they get to be the hero in a virtual world?

No, it's not different at all, and that's exactly why I call it a mental illness.

You don't need to be a hero, and you don't need to find a girlfriend in someone who swept right. Go outside! Talk to some woman walking her frikin' dog. Even if she's not single, I bet she knows someone who is.

The human species propagated itself in this way for 10s of thousands of years. You don't need a dating app, you need to get up from the frikin' computer and face the real world.

In human tradition, men have chosen women for their looks, and women have chosen men for their ability to raise their social status. Sad but true, and brutally self serving in a world that has been brutal overall.

If you don't find yourself in possession of the looks, wealth, or social status that cause women to flock to you, try this: look for a woman that expresses interest in you, instead of a woman that somehow meets your ideals of the perfect girlfriend.

I can only say this as a person who spent decades pursuing women based on my ideals, and in the meantime allowed numerous opportunities to escape with women who would have been life long relationship partners.

To paraphrase: If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with...
by petsfed | 2025-10-06 20:24:52+00:00
I used to be all boots all the time, but I realized somewhat recently that unless I'm carrying a heavy load, boots are significantly less comfortable than good e.g. trail running shoes. If I'm carrying the load that the OP is, hiking boots are not really useful for me. If you look at what e.g. extreme long-distance hikers are wearing on the Appalachian trail or the Pacific Crest trail, its usually trail running shoes, because it makes more sense for carrying a light load an extremely long distance.

Certainly, if you've a history of ankle injuries or some other podiatric necessity, go for it. But for me, a pair of good walking shoes and a pair of good sandals is all I realistically need.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-10-06 20:25:15+00:00
How are U.S. automakers "ruthlessly competing" in the global market otherwise? Can you name a single American car that competes well overseas? I know the F-150 did at one time but I don't know if that's even true anymore given that what was once Ford's workhorse has been turned into a luxury SUV for suburbanites cosplaying as blue collar workers occasionally.

Most American OEMs are now all but entirely in the SUV/pickup truck markets precisely because the Asian makes already kick the shit out of them in every other category. Several prominent brands have nothing on sale but SUVs right now! And they're STILL going broke.
by famouswaffles | 2025-10-06 20:25:53+00:00
The number is chatGPT user messages (not requests via the API) so they are no enterprise accounts making hundreds of queries per minute or bot farms automating fake recipe websites.

Based on Open AI's Usage Breakdown[0], as of July 2025, ChatGPT processes 1.9B Non-Work and 716 M Work Messages per day.

[0] https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w34255/w342...
by michaelt | 2025-10-06 20:26:09+00:00
> This made sense because SGX design followed security best practices, namely, you should minimize the size of the trusted computing base. More code that's trusted = more potential for mistakes = more vulnerabilities. So SGX envisions apps having small trusted "enclaves", sort of like protected kernels, that untrusted code then uses.

Let's say I was Google building gmail. What would I put in the 'secure enclave' ?

Obviously the most important thing is the e-mail bodies, that's the real goldmine. And of course the logins / user session management. The SSL stuff naturally, the certificate for mail.google.com is priceless. And clearly if an attacker could compromise the server's static javascript it'd be game over, security-wise.

At that point, is there anything left outside the secure enclave?
by svara | 2025-10-06 20:26:12+00:00
This should be a good starting point:

https://docs.jax.dev/en/latest/jax.numpy.html

A lot of this really is a drop in replacement for numpy that runs insanely fast on the GPU.

That said you do need to adapt to its constraints somewhat. Some things you can't do in the jitted functions, and some things need to be done differently.

For example, finding the most common value along some dimension in a matrix on the GPU is often best done by sorting along that dimension and taking a cumulative sum, which sort of blew my mind when I first learnt it.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-06 20:26:12+00:00
> it could become risky enough that the cost mitigation becomes untenable

What cost mitigation are you referring to?

> thick armor plating

It makes about as much sense to armor a satellite as it does a plane. (Much less, actually, given the fuel costs are higher, energies in orbit are higher and densities orders of magnitude lower--to approximate the global density of airplanes in LEO, we'd need something like 4mm satellites up there. To approximate the density of controlled airspaces in LEO, we need about 10x that.)

> violence shenanigans outside my front door

Where the closest object to your front door is 10+ miles away.
by metalman | 2025-10-06 20:26:14+00:00
there are no fixes, in the dark or otherwise, as it is very possible for coming years to sometimes have NO usefull rain or snow to fill the rivers. here in Nova Scotia, always a green, soggy, foggy, rainy cool place we are haveing a 4 month run of supper dry, hot, cloud free weather, totaly off the charts, and I used to watch the western climate changes with some concern and alloof interest, but not so much right now.
by et-al | 2025-10-06 20:26:47+00:00
Yup, we all go through difference phases of life.

We have a nice airbed (oxymoron?) in our apartment that gets used maybe 3-4 times a year. It takes up more space than the author's backpack, but it's also great whenever a friend or family member would like to visit on short notice (along with a set of sheets, towels, collection of hotel toothbrushes...).
by saurik | 2025-10-06 20:27:07+00:00
You've mentioned multiple times on this thread that Intel has a fix for this in their latest CPUs, but I haven't seen that called out anywhere else... I've only seen the idea that latest CPUs use DDR5 (which also is true of AMD SEV-SNP's EPYC 9005) and so happen to be too difficult (for now) for either the teams of Battering RAM or WireTap?
by Stratoscope | 2025-10-06 20:28:06+00:00
Strictly speaking, it was a two-story building behind the Texaco station:

> There was a Texaco gas station at the corner, and a two-story, small, brown, wood paneled office building behind it, the kind that might house some accountants or insurance agents. Apple rented the top floor, which had four little suites split by a corridor, two on a side. Because of the proximity of the gas station and the perch on the second story, as well as the sonic overlap between "Taco" and "Texaco", the building quickly became known as "Texaco Towers".

I also enjoyed the reference to Cicero's Pizza:

> Burell and I [Andy] liked to have lunch at Cicero's Pizza, which was an old Cupertino restaurant that was just across the street. They had a Defender video game, which we'd play while waiting for our order. We'd also go to Cicero's around 4pm almost every day for another round of Defender playing; Burrell was getting so good he would play for the entire time on a single quarter (see Make a Mess, Clean it Up!).

Now I get to admit my age. When I worked at Tymshare in the 1970s, we often went there when it was still named Coppola's Pizza.

It had previously been part of the Pee Wee's Pizza chain founded by Albert "Pee Wee" Proietti and Nunzio "Spike" Spacone. The Cupertino location was sold to Carmen and Palma Coppola, who named it Coppola's. They in turn sold it to their mother and father-in-law, Angelina and Nunzio Cicero. (Yes, another Nunzio.)

Nunzio Cicero kept the Coppola's name out of respect to Angelina's family name, and only after she passed in 1973 he named it after himself.

Cicero's Pizza moved a couple of times after that and is still in business on Bollinger Road in Cupertino.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/groups/SanJoseHistory/posts/3134634...

One fun thing about Coppola's/Cicero's is that they brought out the sliced pizza on a big round tray, but did not give out individual plates. Instead, you put a few napkins on the table and that was your plate!

As you can imagine, the tables got a fine layer of pizza grease over time.

Another Cupertino landmark around the corner from Coppola's/Cicero's was the R. Cali Brothers Mill on Stevens Creek. This was a huge animal feed mill and drive-through store. The front entrance sign said: “R. Cali & Bro. — Cupertino Feed Store, Ranch Spray Service, General Truck Hauling, Wood • Coal, Hay • Grain.”

You could drive your truck through to load it up with farm supplies, or take your car through as I did to get dog food.
by dimal | 2025-10-06 20:29:07+00:00
I had the same problem but in reverse. I’d want to play a song on the HomePod but my iPad sitting on the coffee table would start playing it on its tinny little speaker. The solution was to set Siri on the devices to not respond to “Siri”. To use Siri on the handheld devices I press and hold the side button until I get the ugly gradient border. It’s pretty bad that Apple released this feature in such a uselessly broken state.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-06 20:29:07+00:00
https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/16/against-against-pseudo...

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This paper lists signs of drug-seeking behavior that doctors should watch out for, like:

– Aggressively complaining about a need for a drug

– Requesting to have the dose increased

– Asking for specific drugs by name

– Taking a few extra, unauthorised doses on occasion

– Frequently calling the clinic

– Unwilling to consider other drugs or non-drug treatments

– Frequent unauthorised dose escalations after being told that it is inappropriate

– Consistently disruptive behaviour when arriving at the clinic

You might notice that all of these are things people might do if they actually need the drug. Consider this classic case study of pseudoaddiction from Weissman & Haddox, summarized by Greene & Chambers:

> The 1989 introduction of pseudoaddiction happened in the form a single case report of a 17-year-old man with acute leukemia, who was hospitalized with pneumonia and chest wall pain. The patient was initially given 5 mg of intravenous morphine every 4 to 6 h on an as-needed dosing schedule but received additional doses and analgesics over time. After a few days, the patient started engaging in behaviors that are frequently associated with opioid addiction, such as requesting medication prior to scheduled dosing, requesting specific opioids, and engaging in pain behaviors (e.g., moaning, crying, grimacing, and complaining about various aches and pains) to elicit drug delivery. The authors argued that this was not idiopathic opioid addiction but pseudoaddiction, which resulted from medical under-treatment [...]

Greene & Chambers present this as some kind of exotic novel hypothesis, but think about this for a second like a normal human being. You have a kid with a very painful form of cancer. His doctor guesses at what the right dose of painkillers should be. After getting this dose of painkillers, the kid continues to “engage in pain behaviors ie moaning, crying, grimacing, and complaining about various aches and pains”, and begs for a higher dose of painkillers.

I maintain that the normal human thought process is “Since this kid is screaming in pain, looks like I guessed wrong about the right amount of painkillers for him, I should give him more.”

The official medical-system approved thought process, which Greene & Chambers are defending in this paper, is “Since he is displaying signs of drug-seeking behavior, he must be an addict trying to con you into giving him his next fix.”

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by WorldMaker | 2025-10-06 20:29:25+00:00
Less of that seems to me to be a problem with over-regulation than a problem with current financing games and not competing with each other as much on price, because the average car buyer is expected to buy a car a third of the cost of their house mortgage for a third of the term because that it is what banks want and what banks give a generous cut back to dealerships and sometimes to manufacturers to help entrench it as the way to sell cars.

GM alone has spent most of its history waffling between whether it wants to be a large bank itself or not. (The "GMAC" division has threads back to 1911, was spun out in the '00s as "Ally Bank", has been mostly repurchased with others to reform a larger "GM Financial" starting in the 2010s.)

The other part of it is that marginal costs are weird in the modern software-defined world. Motorized windows are cheaper today than the plastics and mechanical parts of roll up windows. Similar for the mechanics of manual mirrors. An electric motor tuned precisely for that mirror is fewer parts than a manual mirror. A camera system is sometimes even cheaper than mirrors today, which is wild.
by robflynn | 2025-10-06 20:29:46+00:00
Yes, this is so scary! I know I'm just hopping in here with anecdotes but this happened to my friend's mother as well. She was seemingly getting dementia, her health got really bad, she was tired all the time, couldn't figure out what it was for a while. Eventually they figured out UTI, treated it, and all the mental stuff went away as well.
by rose-knuckle17 | 2025-10-06 20:29:47+00:00
I'd re-characterize this as being more about seeking entertainment/escapism or an age group rather than casting it as being about a generation and screens.

Screens have had an impact in that they make entertainment more available and accessible on a moment's notice, and types of screen activity do, I believe, impact attention spans. That said, prior to television, humanity was still pretty good at finding ways to escape or entertain themselves, particularly in hard times.