MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by inglor_cz | 2025-11-08 21:37:49+00:00
"I don't judge things by economic effectiveness;"

Fair enough. I have seen attempts to justify anti-discrimination laws by very shaky economic research too often.

A moral stand is, as you say, independent of the economic ramifications, but as far as "outdated" things go, they may come back to fashion again. Given the current wild political swings between the left and the right, I wouldn't be surprised if at least some Western countries abolished or watered down their anti-discrimination statutes in the next decade or so.
by zemo | 2025-11-08 21:38:59+00:00
The problem is that your claim is just untrue in two major ways.

Chicago is ranked 22nd for murder and 92nd in the country in violent crime overall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...

The obsession with Chicago's murder rate and not the murder rate of cities like St Louis, Cleveland, Cincinatti, Indianapolis, or Little Rock is a political constructon of a right wing apparatus still hell-bent on punishing Chicago for having produced Obama.

That murder rate is gang related and extremely localized, and to boot, people in Chicago DO care about it; here are the top results for searching for "Chicago groups against gang violence" in duckduckgo:

https://thetriibe.com/2024/07/13-black-led-organizations-tha...

https://www.buildchicago.org/our-programs/intervention-and-c...

https://togetherchicago.com/violence-reduction/

https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/sites/community-safety/home/...

https://www.chicagocred.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2024-...

It is just broadly untrue that nobody cares about it. This point is extremely easy to debunk if you have any desire to debunk it, but you obviously have no interest in that.

And besides, there's an ocean of a difference between interpersonal gang on gang violence and the government sending secret police to put people into concentration camps and deport them to countries where they have no affiliation based on racial profiling.
by gosub100 | 2025-11-08 21:39:28+00:00
I think one of the best things they could add would be an electronic drawing tablet for ATC to draw a flight path on a map and pipe it directly into the pilots EFIS or HUD. It's not fool-proof, but in high density airspace, it seems more efficient to be able to draw a curve and press a button than try to verbally describe it. Of course one major pitfall is you cannot draw in 3D.
by jasomill | 2025-11-08 21:39:47+00:00
As a Disney+ subscriber, I occasionally pirate content because the Web app acts up and refuses to play content I'm entitled to, even at degraded resolution.

I do this even though my desktop display is a smart TV that's perfectly capable of streaming 4K content, because side-by-side display of app and HDMI content is not an option.

Speaking of which, how do Disney and other streaming providers benefit from blocking 4K streaming in browsers once the 4K version is readily available to torrent, often at higher Blu-ray bitrates? Is this part of some backroom deal with TV and streaming device vendors?

As for e-books, I only buy them if they're either DRM-free or DRM is easily strippable.

I also check out physical books, CDs, and Blu-ray discs from libraries when possible, not because I believe DRM on borrowed library materials is unfair per se, but because I don't agree with the business models it has enabled.
by casenmgreen | 2025-11-08 21:39:58+00:00
What if you're got the wrong man?

What is the police force isn't completely honest and has a tendency to incriminate say black men?

What if the police force isn't particularly competent?

What if the man was framed?

Cruel and unusual punishment is regarded as sadistic; and how and who decides what is okay or not? I would not be wholly surprised to find the definition of "violent crime" becoming a political football.

What happens if you get an Islamic Government in? cutting off hands is okay?

What about also when people find themselves in desperate situations through no fault or their own and turn to crime to survive? we should torture them?
by dathinab | 2025-11-08 21:40:25+00:00
> Are there any reports actually showing degradation because of LLMs rather than post hoc ergo propter hoc?

AFIK no

nearly all AI features only do any compute if you explicitly ask them to do stuff

the only exception is that when you create a tab group (and only then!) it will auto recommend a name. And while I don't find a very useful for me (and I use tab groups a ton) I also have observed that non technical users get confused with unnamed tab groups and the UI around them so I really understand why they do that. Also while it's "technically" a LLM it's tiny and fast to run and could also have been implemented with just embeddings at a slightly loss of quality (and again only runs if you create a tab group and not at any other time and not if you computer has less then 3GiB of RAM etc. etc.(yes FF disables AI features on very low RAM devices AFIK))

Put people hear AI think LLM get angry and stop thinking.

Or considering that maybe a non negligible amount of people outside of their bubble want exactly that and might leave your browser if you don't supply that.
by a4isms | 2025-11-08 21:41:17+00:00
Reminds me of an old argument that if I'm running a restaurant, and if customers don't want to be served by coloured people or homosexuals, I shouldn't have to hire them. It's bad for business, what other reason do I need?

At some point, we have to face the fact that there are two kinds of freedom: The freedom TO something-or-other, and the freedom FROM something-or-other. And the two are often in tension, requiring actual judgment calls and weighing of values, because there is no one perfectly crafted set of objective rules to sort that mess out.

Some people care about the freedom from algorithms not showing them ads for jobs they are qualified to do and pay better, but the companies would prefer the freedom TO primarily hire whomever they please and advertise to whomever they please. Those two freedoms are in tension.

If the freedom from gender discrimination in the marketplace freedom doesn't matter to you, or matters les than the freedom for someone else TO advertise only to men, well, I can see that you are consistent in your beliefs of things I deeply disagree with.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-08 21:41:27+00:00
Very cool, I always thought it would be cost and compute efficient to write magnet torrent blobs to the blockchain in similar fashion, creating censorship and law enforcement resistant durable distributed storage for said data. Exciting to see this proven out (albeit for a not so great use case).

(if anyone can suggest an open toolchain for this and my use case [writing arbitrary data to the Ethereum ledger], I am interested!)
by giardini | 2025-11-08 21:43:02+00:00
The discussion seems unduly focused on lipids, whereas I would think that blood pressure would be a, if not the, primary concern.

Also for those who do take blood pressure medication: never quickly change the dosage, and especially never quit taking it w/o supervision!

I've seen several untimely deaths b/c someone ran out of their BP medication and could not get to a pharmacist quickly enough. Alternatively the person became irritated with the medication and simply stopped taking it.

Maybe part of starting BP medication should be the doctor giving you a "safety package" that includes a full month's worth of the drug and is to be put on a shelf somewhere where you can get to it should your usual prescription run out.
by flir | 2025-11-08 21:44:03+00:00
I'd bet a chunk of cash that it's segmenting people, at least initially. And the "gender A" segment are seeing the ads that are popular with the "gender B" segment at a far lower rate, or not at all.

So it's not an individual's revealed preferences, it's a group's revealed preferences. And that's where the discrimination comes in.
by generativenoise | 2025-11-08 21:44:41+00:00
I think the better rebuttal to that is the existence of many other species that have been around much longer without what we loosely call intelligence.

I think the better take away from the evidence is that humans are really limited and have heuristics that are really exploitable. At large scales that can lead to some pretty counterproductive behavior.

The interesting thing is that some of those same heuristics can be really adaptive at smaller scales. So the question is where is the balance and what sort of systems lead to better global behavior.

I don't think your example of living on other planets is correct (at least as homo sapiens, seeding lifeforms and maybe even intelligent life is another thing), but I think it is in the right direction of that there is so much more that is achievable but we don't have the social co-ordination to approach it in a way that is much better that a random-walk.

Large scale co-ordination and sense making of actual reality is hard.
by ai_critic | 2025-11-08 21:45:01+00:00
It's not particularly a "surge" in crime, as the issue (illegal immigrants) has built up over time.

However, in years past, everybody just kind of overlooks it--and on the local level, it's basically not a problem beyond the normal folks being mad at demographics changing. Most all of the immigrants are working and participating in the economy--ironically, making them more vulnerable to the .gov than if they were just criminals!--and that's fine for the cities.

But, now, the federal .gov (under the direction of Trump et al) is deciding to finally enforce the law and doing so in the most cartoonishly thuggish and evil way possible.
by goblin89 | 2025-11-08 21:45:11+00:00
If “in response” means replying back to tower on tower’s frequency, then no. After the lady on tower frequency told them about traffic (twice), they came in on departures frequency (it was a fresh contact, they started with “good afternoon, American 4 with you”) and said they have traffic in sight.

Edited after I rewatched the video:

1. Tower handed them off to departures.

2. They said bye and stopped listening to tower.

3. ITA veered left.

4. Tower noticed it and warned them, hoping they are still listening.

5. They were evidently not listening to tower anymore, and did not contact departures yet, when they noticed traffic themselves.

6. They greeted departures saying they see traffic, and veered left.

Later at 2:45 American said tower didn’t give them a heads-up. The fact that departures asked them about it could mean that departures thought they were still listening to tower.

Pretty sure the pilots have a second radio and could be listening to both departures and tower during handoff, but it’s unclear whether that’s routine. If they did it, they would have heard tower’s original warning.

> I believe their avoidance maneuver was a climb change.

According to the chart in the video, AA veered to the left. This maneuver started around 1:51 in the video, which is at least 10 seconds after tower warned them of traffic and instructed to stop the climb for the first time around 1:38.

I don’t know if they stopped the climb around 1:38. If we know for sure that they stopped the climb around 1:38 when tower told them so, then there is a good chance they were indeed still listening to tower and heard the traffic warning. If that’s the case, maybe they thought that stopping the climb 10 seconds earlier was insufficient (and tower was wrong about it).
by brandonb | 2025-11-08 21:45:20+00:00
> When I see that it is widely accepted that ApoB is better to measure than LDL-C, but the industry continues to measure LDL-C, but not ApoB, I wonder why. It makes me skeptical.

Part of this is just that insurance coverage lags science. We've known that ApoB is more accurate than LDL since the 1990's or 2000's, but to be covered by insurance, several more steps have to happen.

First, the major professional societies (like the American College of Cardiology or National Lipid Associations) have to issue formal guidelines.

Then, the USPSTF (US Preventive Services Task Force) needs to review all of the evidence. They tend to do reviews only every 5 or 10 years. (Countries aside from the US have different organizations that perform a similar role.)

If the USPSTF issues an "A" or "B" rating, then insurance companies are legally obligated to cover ApoB testing. But that also introduces a year or two lag since medical policies are revised and apply to the next plan year.

The net effect is that the entire system is 17 years, on average, behind research.
by kace91 | 2025-11-08 21:45:24+00:00
>why should I show them to somebody not interested ?

Because interaction goes both ways. A big influencer on women not being interested could be a societal expectation that is not a job for them, which you’re unknowingly reinforcing.

This is particularly important when it’s not “mechanic jobs” but “senior jobs” for example. Only male workers being “proposed” leadership positions over time leads to a statistically significant imbalance.
by jstimpfle | 2025-11-08 21:45:56+00:00
"Deep copy" is quite hand-wavy. A useful program is not a collection of trees that you can just copy like that. Instead, typical program's data structures tend to have lots of references that let you go from anywhere to just about anywhere else. That's why "deep copy" is just a rough idea that may work for simple container types but not much else.
by davorak | 2025-11-08 21:46:51+00:00
> A form of protest I assume,

Or to avoid the fines and/or to avoid integrating some age verification service.

Maybe symbolic since it unlikely the site would be prosecuted, even if they were in violation in some minor form. It is easy to be in violation to my understanding since it does not need to what is posted by the site owner as part of the blog but could be in the comments.
by eesmith | 2025-11-08 21:46:52+00:00
They were not specifically a 90's and 00's thing!

We had them in the 1980s in elementary school, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participation_trophy says the practice is over a century old, and the "backlash against participation trophies intensified in the 1990s."

There's no need to take my work for it. The Arlington Heights Daily Herald Suburban Chicago (1975-11-28) article at https://archive.org/details/arlington-heights-daily-herald-s... describes how every soccer team member at a high school got a participation trophy.

Speaking of ribbons, the same Wikipedia page points out "the US military has awarded ribbons to anyone who participates in surface combat".

McConnell in "Rapid Development" points out how Microsoft in the 1990s used nonmonetary awards to boost morale. https://archive.org/details/rapiddevelopment00mcco/page/270/...

"I spent a year at Microsoft working on Windows 3.1. During that time, I received three team T-shirts, a team rugby shirt, a team beach towel, and a team mouse pad. I also took part in a team train ride and a nice dinner on the local "Dinner Train" and another dinner at a nice restaurant. If I had been an employee, I would also have received a few more shirts, a Microsoft watch, a plaque for participating in the project, and a big Lucite "Ship-It" award for shipping the project. The total value of this stuff is probably only two or three hundred dollars, but as Tom Peters and Robert Waterman say, companies with excellent motivation don't miss any opportunity to shower their employees with nonmonetary rewards."

Those are all participation awards, yes?
by tekla | 2025-11-08 21:47:21+00:00
Open to suggestions. Keep in mind I've worked on Aircraft control systems and have a very strong opinion on reliability and crew management.

I also note that the budget isn't infinite nor do these aircraft like running electron apps.

Also note that not all (if not most) aircraft are not brand new and so would need all to be retrofitted and re-rerated w/ any new system and every single pilot retrained.

This requirement also includes systems for general aviation pilots and both to be able to sync with each other.
by k310 | 2025-11-08 21:47:34+00:00
> Tactile-based Object Retrieval from Granular Media [0]

Home page with videos, and links to papers and github.

> Tactile-based Object Retrieval From Granular Media (Arxiv) [1]

Damn paywalls, when the material is available from the authors, and in much greater detail.

[0] https://jxu.ai/geotact/

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04536
by IanCal | 2025-11-08 21:48:24+00:00
That’s a pretty simple rule but allows lots of deliberate ways to significantly reduce one group.

You have however written a thing here that’s fine - it’s totally fine if your advert is seen more by men. But what you want, and what we as a society generally want, is for those ads to be shown to likely candidates regardless of gender. Given two equally qualified people, do you want your ads to only be shown to one of them, because the other is a woman? I assume not because you want to hire th best person not the best man.

The issue isn’t that the ads are shown to more men because they target things like “has said they have worked as a mechanic and are looking for a job” and that happens to be more for men, the accusations is that Facebook is specifically using your gender to determine what job adverts to show you.
by ai_critic | 2025-11-08 21:48:38+00:00
Eh, they're not, though, and you disregard them at your peril--just look at where we are now.

It's not for no reason this particular issue has been used so effectively. I'm not saying you have to agree with them, and I'm not saying that you have to believe their belief is coherent or sensical, but if you don't recognize that those beliefs are held honestly and widely you're in for a rude surprise...as we saw in the 2024 election (and before that, the 2016 election).
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-11-08 21:49:35+00:00
While any particular individual isn't "owed a job", it must be true that people as a whole are "owed" jobs and that if governments are incapable or unwilling to foster the economic environment that makes it possible for all working-age people to get jobs, then those governments are invalid. And, as much as we might want to deny it we do live in an era where it seems that maybe the economic environment does not provide enough jobs for the entirety of the population. Glibly saying "you're not owed a job" might not be strictly false, but it's certainly misleading and out of touch.
by WalterBright | 2025-11-08 21:50:05+00:00
D's `write` function is generic:

write(1,2,"abc",4.0,'c');

write is declared as:

void write(S...)(S args) { ... }

where `S...` means an arbitrary sequence of types represented by `S`. The implementation loops over the sequence, handling each type in its own individual fashion. User defined types work as well.
by montague27 | 2025-11-08 21:51:26+00:00
I’d say the way you ask the question is much more important than the answers themselves, as it reveals your own - likely unconscious - metaphysical and ethical assumptions. Mathematically, the optimizations you mentioned are probably well-researched, so further study in the humanities would likely be more fruitful than taking an economics-based approach.

Personally, I’d recommend reading Nietzsche and Marx, or thinkers who came after them.
by 12_throw_away | 2025-11-08 21:51:37+00:00
> Also note that not all (if not most) aircraft are not brand new and so would need all to be retrofitted and re-rerated w/ any new system and every single pilot retrained

Ah yes, I forgot, we never introduce new aircraft technology because it's too hard. Too bad we don't, it would be great to fit aircraft, with, say, anti-collision transponders and advanced ground proximity systems. Oh well, my mistake for even bringing it up.
by jstimpfle | 2025-11-08 21:52:06+00:00
It's getting ever more complicated and involved. I need both of my hands to count the number of times I've tried coming back to C++ and use its object model for good effect. C++ is fine for simple things, and if you're smart you can scale it a long way (since it contains C).

But when you try to use all these funny features you're enumerating there for something serious, it will invariably end up in an overcomplicated slow compiling morass. Even just trying to make the types click for inserting something into a non-trivial templatized hashmap becomes a tedious act, and the IDE cannot help anymore either.

(Last issue I had was with catching some exception just to ignore it. Turned out catch(std::bad_alloc) doesn't work, you need write catch (std::bad_alloc&).)

I prefer writing simple C-style C++ where I write whole subsystems from scratch, and I can be very clear about the semantics from the start, design in what matters, and leave out what doesn't. Adding all the built-in object semantics baggage is too much overhead.
by jasomill | 2025-11-08 21:53:16+00:00
Or just use Rufus[1] to create a bootable USB installer from the ISO.

Another trick that should still work, though I haven't tested it with newer Windows 11 builds: to create Windows 11 install media that will install and boot via BIOS — useful on machines where Windows doesn't work correctly under UEFI, e.g., older MacBooks that only work properly with Windows when booted via CSM — create writeable, BIOS-bootable Windows 10 x64 install media, then replace the install.wim file with one from an appropriate Windows 11 ISO.

[1] https://rufus.ie/en/
by reducesuffering | 2025-11-08 21:53:29+00:00
> If you're exercising for cardio, and you're able to follow your book or podcast, you're probably not doing good cardio.

Nonsense. Elite distance runners are doing 80% of their miles at essentially a conversational jog with a starkly lower HR than the 20% of intense miles. Cardio exercise under all levels of intensity is optimal, not just easy or just hard.
by fragmede | 2025-11-08 21:54:43+00:00
That's because most of us can't actively remember back to the dot com bust and have only been around for the boom times since. Success is great! Say you're an early investor, with 2 million shares out of 10 million issued, or 20% of the company at a $10 million valuation, or $2 million dollars. Pretty good! $2 million is $2 million.

The AI boom is in full swing. You've got product market fit, lots of paying users, everything is gucci. So when they issue 40 million more shares to new investors, there's 50 million shares out there, you have 2/50 million, but, hey, lookit! The new valuation is $100 million. You now have $4 million of a $100 million company. Not bad! It turns out that when things are good, things are quite good!

Unfortunate, it's discovered that your product is actually the torment nexus. Users flee, the bubble pops, the entire sector goes bust, your remaining users sue you, you run out of money. Your board fires you and the new CEO takes on a new round of investors. They issue 950 million shares, at a $one million valuation.

Fuck.

For all your hard work, your blood sweat and tears. Failed personal relationships. Your 2 million shares are now 2/1000 of $1 million, or $2,000. That's right, two thousand dollars only. Do not past go, Do not collect money to FIRE, hope you can get a job running Door Dash, except that got automated away so you can't do that.

Edit: Before commenters reply, That's not possible! I have preferential rights written into my contract. They won't and can't do that! And maybe you're right. Maybe you've got a totally iron clad contract written up by a lawyer who experienced the com bust and there are provisions against the exact scenario written above isn't possible. Except you were collecting a founder's salary of $50,000 /year and don't have $200k in savings to afford a high-powered corporate lawyer to sue and get back what's left of your company. Say you do regain control, it's got a $1 million valuation for a reason. Maybe it'll be like Pebble and you win, and you can run it as a life-style business because there are enough loyal customers who like your brand of torment nexus, and you eke out $10,000 of revenue (gross, not net) per month. Not bad per se, but still not the NYSE bell ringing IPO you were hoping for. Plus you're in debt to your lawyers and it's going to take forever to pay them off.