MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lithocarpus | 2025-10-07 19:18:56+00:00
Gotcha, and that's fair to not be convinced.

"after hormone levels return to baseline, there's no more pharmaceutical effect" Maybe no longer directly, but with one level of indirection there certainly _could_ be.

"no plausible mechanism of action" - I haven't looked into it to understand the mechanism of action for side effects from finasteride, but certainly if it can cause side effects during use, those could impact the body in a way that causes effects that persist past when usage stops.

Same with almost anything harmful that we do to our body - ideally the damage or effect is healed and we return to baseline, but very often we don't.

There could also be an effect where someone tried it, it didn't work as well as they wanted or it caused a side effect, and this was psychologically difficult to deal with and helped lead to depression and anxiety without that being directly chemically caused by the drug. And it would be fair to argue that that's not the drug's fault.
by RiverCrochet | 2025-10-07 19:18:56+00:00
> How would you view art where the artist relies on AI for the pieces they can’t do?

If, for example:

- an artist creates an image,

- 40% of the image is the work of the artist,

- 60% of the image is from an AI

then:

- the image is 40% a work of art.

- the art resides in the 40% of the work that the artist did.

- the majority of the image (51%) is not art.

Drumming presents an interesting perspective because we've had mechanical/synthesized drum sounds in pop and other music for a few decades now. But you can still tell when tracks have a lazy drum programmer that programmed one 16-step pattern in a drum machine (or worse used a stock pattern) and kept it repeating through the whole song. That is less art than the intricate DnB or breakcore tracks with lots of changes and interaction with other layers of the song.
by dgfl | 2025-10-07 19:19:02+00:00
There is no obvious limit to how big you could scale up this experiment right here. In practice, these circuits are already big enough that you can quite literally see them with the naked eye (~mm in length). Nothing really stops you from making one meters in diameter, aside from the obvious impracticality of cooling such a massive structure to the required temperature. Nobody expects this to break any known physics by doing so. In fact, some of these experiments have also been used to estimate lower bounds for nonlinear versions of quantum mechanics (where collapse is a real thing, and the larger an object is, the faster it collapses).

But you should not really think of a physical wall in this case. The experiments that have proven the macroscopic tunneling behave according to the same exact math, but nothing is really tunneling through macroscopic walls. The cooper pair electrons are, but that’s a different Nobel prize (Josephson, 1973).
by johnisgood | 2025-10-07 19:19:39+00:00
> Ada needs a profile that guarantees that code can't be the source of erroneous execution and constrains bounded errors further.

I forgot to add a couple of things in my other comment.

You're conflating a few distinct concepts here.

Ada already provides memory safety by default: bounds checks, range checks, and null checks are all on unless explicitly suppressed. Dereferencing a null access value or indexing out of range raises `Constraint_Error`; it never leads to undefined behavior. So Ada does not need a special profile for that kind of safety.

What you seem to be describing - "a profile that guarantees that code can't be the source of erroneous execution" - is closer to what the SPARK subset provides. SPARK can prove the absence of run-time errors (AoRTE) statically using GNATprove, including ownership and lifetime correctness for access types. That is a verification discipline, not a tasking profile.

Ravenscar, on the other hand, is a concurrency profile. It constrains tasking and protected object behavior to make real-time scheduling analyzable and deterministic; it has nothing to do with preventing run-time errors or erroneous execution. It just limits what forms of tasking you can use.

So: Ada itself is already memory-safe by construction, Ravenscar ensures analyzable concurrency, and SPARK provides formal proofs of safety properties. Those are three orthogonal mechanisms, and it sounds like you're blending them together in your comment. Ada performs its safety checks at run-time by default, whereas SPARK allows proving them at compile-time[1].

I encourage you to read the website for which the link can be found below. If you are serious, then you could go through https://learn.adacore.com as well.

[1] https://docs.adacore.com/spark2014-docs/html/ug/en/usage_sce...
by lm28469 | 2025-10-07 19:19:39+00:00
> I think people will sooner just start hard breaking Windows ISOs

Hasn't it always been the case? Nobody buy licenses besides companies right?

My uncle taught me how to torrent ~20 years ago, he was already cracking stuff for the whole family, he passed away but his legacy lives through me, I have never seen or heard about anyone buying a windows license in my entire life
by buckle8017 | 2025-10-07 19:19:51+00:00
This paper makes an error that is all too common in discussions of power grids.

It talks about the California grid. Except there is no such thing, California is on the Western grid which is operated by WECC.

The actual mix of energy on the western grid is here.[1]

[1] https://feature.wecc.org/soti2025/soti2025/resources/index.h...
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-10-07 19:19:53+00:00
I suspect the real reason is to allow police to use their own discretion.

I deal with a lot of mentally-unstable people, and some of them are suicidal.

The thing to realize about suicidal people, is that they can be really dangerous to non-suicidal people.

"I'm not hurting anyone but myself." is a big fat lie.

I have friends that work for the railroad, and train engineers have to deal with folks that suicide by train. It's bad PTSD. In some cases, it may even cause the train to derail, which could injure or kill a lot of others.

Then, there's "suicide by cop." Those people tend to hurt a lot of folks, before they get their wish granted.

Not everyone just wanders off into the desert, or takes a bunch of sleeping pills (by the way, I invite anyone to ask the person that finds one of these "easy" suicides, how they feel about it).

And, then, of course, you have your suicide bombers, but they know what they are doing, and aren't telling themselves the "I'm not hurting anyone but myself." lie.
by esafak | 2025-10-07 19:20:22+00:00
It won't be any good at factual questions, for a start; it will be reliant on an external memory. Everything would have to be reasoned from first principles, without knowledge.

My gut feeling is that this will limits its capability, because creativity and intelligence involve connecting disparate things, and to do that you need to know them first. Though philosophers have tried, you can't unravel the mysteries of the universe through reasoning alone. You need observations, facts.

What I could see it good for is a dedicated reasoning module.
by fengjiabo2400 | 2025-10-07 19:20:35+00:00
yes, but the thing that moves the world is the percentage.

if lets say before it was 100% done by human.

now it's just 20%.

that will drastically impact everyone's decision making.

if you were learning photography. would you still?

if you / your kid's in college trying to pick a career. what would you choose?

the information available, which includes how *most* of the world choose to get their photos / software / books made, will have a big impact on our decisions.
by mgh95 | 2025-10-07 19:20:39+00:00
> Or the wind generators across the continent if you have to.

Transmission losses are typically very substantial in most grids that are AC based. For example, a cross-country power transmission with the USAs grid would result in ~36% losses (napkin math at about 20% loss per 1000km).

Reality isn't as simple as "ship the electricity" unfortunately; it makes a lot of sense to keep generation near consumption.

Edit: Since people like this comment, take a look at this: https://patternenergy.com/projects/southern-spirit-transmiss...
by nekusar | 2025-10-07 19:20:44+00:00
I'm honestly surprised this didn't happen sooner. Apple's been a "lavish jail cell" since its inception, and the control definitely makes them the big bucks. ChromeOS was a jail cell from its inception too. You could do some dev stuff to enable user control, but it disabled other things. https://rainestorme.github.io/guide/ is a guide to jailbreak it. It shouldnt need jailbroken, ever. Should be yours from the moment you paid money for it and bought it.

Google/Alphabet's been slowly tightening all sorts of things. Of course "security" is the term bandied around. Of course, I'd say "security" is overloaded - is it security for the user, or security for google AGAINST the user? I think it's the second.

And we also have no valid 3rd party phone platform. In reality, there was Windows Phone, but that was even worse locked down.

There's a few Linux phone projects. Pinephone is an embarrassment and an abject failure. I think the UbuntuPhone is dead as well.

Once they do this, it'll probably be a while before a proper Linux phone hits the market.
by creer | 2025-10-07 19:21:14+00:00
I'm with the commenter: when my first (or within 15 minute) impression of a vendor or product is craptastic I cut my losses and consider myself lucky for dodging a longer term bullet.

The commenter was actually very considerate and raised a warning where it might be seen. And they were kind enough to attempt this with two different browsers. After that you can buy my troubleshooting time at its usual hourly rate.

(Because it's a frequent enough issue: I wouldn't see that warning as being about a one-off obscure bug that will affect few people and doesn't matter. It's a warning that the web site probably did not enough take compatibility in consideration - and was approved without such consideration.)

"Runs fine for me" is an absurd bar for reliability / compatibility, no?
by hollerith | 2025-10-07 19:21:28+00:00
You don't deny that in the US, criminals do much more damage (death, injury, PTSD, destruction of property, unjust denial of use of property, the opportunity cost of avoiding certain places because of the danger of crime) than police do; do you?

In your answer, please stick to to concrete harms to actual people (living now or in the future) excluding any harm that is a harm only to an abstraction like Democracy or Freedom.
by IshKebab | 2025-10-07 19:21:30+00:00
IMO Mbed was just as easy for hobbyists but had a far better designed API that could support professional work as well. Arduino is just badly designed.

Unfortunately the Mbed guys stuck to their crap web-based IDE for waaaay too long, and when they finally realised it couldn't cut it, they pivoted to Yotto, which was a terrible Python based build too. When that failed they finally made Mbed Studio which was based on Theia (same as Arduino is now) but by then it was too late.

I think they also lacked an obvious "start with this" board like the Arduino Duo.

I think if they have blessed one of the Neutrino boards (which were incredibly cheap and powerful compared to Arduino) with their branding, and switched to Theia like 5 years earlier they might have had a chance.

Real shame because it really was a far superior software system.
by driese | 2025-10-07 19:21:33+00:00
What a coincidence to see this on the HN front page. I want to use these catalogs for a project of mine, but I first wanted to speak to one of the people of the IKEA museum or IKEA itself to inquire about permissions (outside of the ones on the website). I have been trying to get a hold of them for weeks now, but with no luck so far. If anyone here knows someone at those places, please let me know.
by jmyeet | 2025-10-07 19:21:40+00:00
This isn't surprising. Or new. I've been saying for years solar is the future. Solar has so many advantages over every other form of power generation. It's flexible, scalable (meaning you can have an installation any size from a solar farm to a calculator) and robust because it has no moving parts. It has no pollution (noise or chemical) and can be dual-use on many structures, everything from rooftops to adding solar to highways.

The big problem with solar? Regulation around installing it that is entirely designed to protect the profits of utility companies.

We have predatory financing around solar where companies are allowed to put a lien on your house and then essentially extort the homeowner if they ever choose to sell such that solar can reduce the value of your house significantly.

We limit the amount of solar basically so the utility can keep selling you electricity.

One might say it's to cover the bullding and maintenance of the transmission infrastructure. There's some truth to that. But at the same time utilities are generating massive profits, doing share buybacks and giving massive concessions to data centers that everyone else is paying for.

Basically we would all be better off if every electricity provider wasn't a private company but instead what a municipal operation like municipal broadband.
by Athari | 2025-10-07 19:21:49+00:00
* Large creativity software.

* Windows software development.

* Games.

* Corporate software.

Even if Windows dies now, I'll use it for 10+ years more. There's no alternative for me.

And after 10 years since the death of Windows, I'll be on Mac, not on Linux. Again, no alternative.

Now, if I was exclusively a web dev or something, I'd totally consider moving to Linux. But I'm not.
by amluto | 2025-10-07 19:22:03+00:00
Quoting the article:

> Agyare had instructed Banerjee to hydrate Sam right away but to wait for the results of Sam’s lab work before ordering a chest X-ray or the strong antibiotics used to treat sepsis.

> But Banerjee, a novice, got stuck. He couldn’t figure out how to navigate the template to make some but not all of the auto-populated orders. “This was my first patient that triggered the sepsis pathway,” he explained, in testimony. So he asked Connor Welsh, a third-year resident, for help.

> At 8:50 p.m., Welsh showed Banerjee how. From his own computer, he clicked into a field on Sam’s chart to assert that sepsis was not likely: “Based on my evaluation,” the automated note said, “this patient does not meet clinical criteria for bacterial sepsis.”

The provider was instructed (possibly wisely) to take some of the automated sepsis actions and to defer others. The computer did not allow this without generating an automated note saying “ this patient does not meet clinical criteria for bacterial sepsis.”

Imagine if your email UI auto-classified one particular email as so high priority that it would allow you to do nothing else, including reading other emails, until you archived the priority email and, to for good measure, would auto-reply “no action needed” when you hit archive. You get a priority email, and you determine that the correct action is to wait up to 20 minutes for another email that you expect and, while waiting 20 minutes, to read other emails from the same sender. But you can’t because your UI won’t allow it. So you archive it, send the “no action needed” reply (which is outrageously inappropriate but you don’t actually have any control here), and hope you remember in 20 minutes while you are horribly overworked.

ISTM the patient’s family should consider suing the software vendor.
by prerok | 2025-10-07 19:22:05+00:00
I would say we don't know that yet. Comparing the current state of LLMs to what they can lead to or what they might enable later on is like comparing early machine prototypes to what we have today.

I can also 100% tell you that the farming folk of 100 years ago also felt like the farming machines took away their jobs. They saw 0 positives. The ones that could (were young) went into industry, the others... well, at the same time we instituted pensions, which were of course paid for by the active population, so it kind of turned out ok in the end.

I do wonder, what will be the repercussions of this technology. It might turn into a dud or it might truly turn into a revolution.
by Tepix | 2025-10-07 19:22:27+00:00
With $40/kWh batteries available soon, i think even having 100 kWh of storage for a house will be rather common. With 14.4kWp solar, 5 MWh of electricity use per year and 100 kWh at 50€/kWh of battery you have 90% autarky and a time-to-value of 8-9 years. Pretty sweet.
by Razengan | 2025-10-07 19:22:27+00:00
Does the Common [Wo]Man have any control over any of our own shit anymore?

I just got an iPhone 17. I travel often and have a bunch of SIMs and eSIMs from various countries, with varying periods of validity.

With the physical SIMs, I can just pop them into the new phone and still use them for a month or two more just fine. (I specifically got a Singapore region variant with a SIM tray AND eSIM support just for this)

But with the eSIMs, it goes for "approval" through the carriers, some of whom demand me to update my ID with them before they can allow an eSIM to be used on a new phone.

When Apple announced going eSIM only in the US and other draconian countries, I thought nothing of it. Now I see how bad it can be...
by mixmastamyk | 2025-10-07 19:22:33+00:00
Arrogance in the GNOME desktop community.

Unfortunately us folks who grew up on sane, usability tested interfaces are not in charge anymore. A disease that has spread across all OSs. Recommend Cinnamon, KDE, XFCE in order of least traditional to most traditional window controls.

Also there is a dconf setting to configure titlebar buttons for GTK/gnome decedents. KDE has a GUI.
by tavavex | 2025-10-07 19:23:02+00:00
I expect it to become settled, just not in the way we want it.

Sure, there is the rollercoaster, ups and downs, small wins and losses going on all the time. But look at the general trends - these freedoms that we enjoyed are by and large being chipped away, it's all trending down, worldwide. It's two steps back, one step forward. Maybe CC doesn't get put in place this particular time, but they will ram it through eventually, at some point the right angle will be found to make the right people vote for it. Then the battleground will move onto something even more egregious, and so on. I'm not seeing why there would be a sudden reversal of this trend in the coming decades.
by mikestorrent | 2025-10-07 19:23:09+00:00
One thing that could help would be to see more folks who are bullish on solar actually push the new promise that it gives: not just that we'll have clean energy (yay, but abstract) - we'll have cheap energy, if we do it right. Tons and tons of it for so cheap that you'll almost not even have to think about it, especially in comparison to fossil fuels today. Every aspect of the supply chain is simpler and cleaner.

If people could see that at some point, keeping their house at a perfect temperature with an electric heat pump would lead to them _never thinking about a heating bill again_... that would be far more concrete than promises of staving off climate change.
by Swenrekcah | 2025-10-07 19:23:17+00:00
Not every generator needs to be always on, but the generation needs to be relatively independent of external conditions, especially when there might be correlation between high usage at disadvantageous external conditions (for example it’s colder and less sun in winter).

Recognizing this does not mean one is hostile to renewables, even though some people that are hostile use this talking point dishonestly.
by pixl97 | 2025-10-07 19:23:48+00:00
>(albeit a long time ago)

This probably matters a lot depending on what 'long time ago' means.

Like when you hear old timers say "When I was a kid I bought X for Y" where Y is something like 10th the cost it is now. The push for profits has squeezed every section of the economy and it sounds like (dealer) mechanics are not escaping.
by fkyoureadthedoc | 2025-10-07 19:23:52+00:00
> if they say no to your transmitting, you're going nowhere.

> if they say no to your forgetting to scan the case of water on the bottom of your cart, you're going nowhere.

> if they say no to your hacked cable box, you're going nowhere.

> if they say no to your speeding, you're going nowhere.

> if they say no to your weed, you're going nowhere.

> if they say no to your growing a mushroom and mailing it to your friend, you're going nowhere.

There's a whole spectrum of how illegal something is to consider. People break the law every day for a range of reasons from accident, to ignorance, to convenience, to want, to need, etc.
by Grosvenor | 2025-10-07 19:23:54+00:00
That's been my expectation from the start.

We'll need a memory system, an executive function/reasoning system as well as some sort of sense integration - auditory, visual, text in the case of LLMs, symbolic probably.

A good avenue of research would be to see if you could glue opencyc to this for external "knowledge".

LLM's are fundamentally a dead end.

Github link: https://github.com/SamsungSAILMontreal/TinyRecursiveModels
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-10-07 19:23:59+00:00
Good housekeeping wrote as recently as 2023 that ikea kitchen cabinets used dovetail joinery.[1] But this runs counter to my and everyone I know's experience. Not sure how/why they could write that.

[1]https://www.aol.com/best-kitchen-cabinet-brands-according-19...
by thayne | 2025-10-07 19:24:18+00:00
So they are assuming that:

- this comment will still be around in 8000 years

- we will still be using the same calendar system in 8000 years

- people 8000 years in the future will leave off the leading 1 of years for some reason, and will use a leading 0 to disambiguate dates from the previous 10000 year period.
by tremon | 2025-10-07 19:24:24+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process

> Nearly 50% of the nitrogen found in human tissues originated from the Haber–Bosch process. Thus, the Haber process [enabled] the global population to increase from 1.6 billion in 1900 to 7.7 billion by November 2018.
by jjcm | 2025-10-07 19:24:31+00:00
> the year of the linux desktop

At least on the gaming side, this is happening verrrrry slowly. It's almost entirely driven by the Steam Deck, which has around a 30% market share for linux users running steam. Since last year linux usage is up a solid percentile, and windows is down a similar amount. OSX and Linux both are making slow but steady progress against Windows' market share.

I don't think there will ever be a year of the linux desktop, but there might be a decade of slow transition towards it.
by jancsika | 2025-10-07 19:24:32+00:00
Your argument doesn't make much sense.

Short term changes in Gaza/Ukraine/PFAS proliferation will all have very little effect on the current daily lives of most Americans.

But those same short terms changes in all of the above will have massive changes in the future of most Americans.

E.g., if public pressure had prevented the U.S. from invading Iraq on March 20th, 2003, not much would have changed for Americans on March 21st, 2003. But by the end of the war, that would be over $1 trillion that would have been spent differently by the U.S. government. You apparently like statistical estimates-- tell me how much of that $1 trillion you estimate would have gone to research grants for PFAS proliferation risks and/or alternative technologies over a 20-year period.

And that's just the opportunity cost. With Gaza and Ukraine there is further escalation of weapons use and drone tech, damage to the Chernobyl sarcophagus, potential use of tactical nukes, endless appetite for incorporating AI into war and mass surveillance... the list goes on and on.

It just cannot be overstated how wrong it is to blithely assume that focus on current events is somehow short term thinking while armchair quarterbacking PFAS proliferation 100,000 generations into the future is somehow more consequential and erudite.

Edit: change "stated" to "overstated" (hehe)