MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by estearum | 2025-11-06 00:17:19+00:00
This is getting extremely tedious as it seems you’re forgetting your own arguments and arguing against yourself.

You are the one who alleged some “public safety” test or exception (to draw a boundary around things like PSAs). You have now proven why your own argument makes no sense, and why it is not and should not be the legal standard.

Bantam obviously did not establish a “do you have the ability to coerce” test because — again as you have demonstrated against your own point — any instrument of the state can be construed to have “the ability” to coerce any private party. So if this were the test established by Bantam (it’s not), then it would entirely preclude government requests to private parties. Which, again, it does not.

Literally none of those agencies or departments you mention have any regulatory authority whatsoever over social media platforms.
by nyrikki | 2025-11-06 00:17:21+00:00
It is not a nit it is fundamental, a•b•c is associativity, specifically operator associativity.

Rounding and eventual underflow in IEEE means an expression X•Y for any algebraic operation • produces, if finite, a result (X•Y)·( 1 + ß ) + µ where |µ| cannot exceed half the smallest gap between numbers in the destination’s format, and |ß| < 2^-N , and ß·µ = 0 . ( µ ≠ 0 only when Underflow occurs.)

And yes that is a binary relation only

a•b•c is really (a•b)•c assuming left operator associativity, one of the properties that IEEE doesn't have.
by Johnny555 | 2025-11-06 00:18:15+00:00
>It sounds like you should never trust any medical advice you receive from ChatGPT and should seek proper medical help instead. That makes sense. The OpenAI company doesn't want to be held responsible for any medical advice that goes wrong.

While what you're saying is good advice, that's not what they are saying. They want people to be able to ask ChatGPT for medical advice, give answers that sound authoritative and well grounded medical science, but then disavow any liability if someone follows their advice because "Hey, we told you not to act on our medical advice!"

If ChatGPT is so smart, why can't it stop itself from giving out advice that should not be trusted?
by throwaway2037 | 2025-11-06 00:18:34+00:00
As I understand, data centers from hyperscalers (Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Oracle, IBM, Alibaba, etc.) don't create many long-term jobs. Mostly they create short term jobs in the construction industry. Data centers from non-hyperscalers, like Equinix, probably create more long-term jobs because companies rent space, then need (near constant) changes to their hardware that requires "remote hands". I think hyperscalers mostly install monolithic hardware that requires almost no regular changes, except for break-fix.
by titzer | 2025-11-06 00:19:30+00:00
"A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses."

Yeah, this lines up with my personal description of stupid: incapable of achieving one's own goals because of stubbornness, mean-spiritedness, pride, persistent misunderstanding, inability or unwillingness to learn. A danger to themself and others. Usually and unfortunately coupled with overconfidence.

This is stark contrast to being merely ignorant (lacking knowledge, naive or sheltered) and dumb (incapable of learning or grasping complex subjects).

Ignorance is generally fixable and with some capacity, dumbness too. But stupidity is a special kind of bad.
by hansvm | 2025-11-06 00:19:52+00:00
I wouldn't have believed this at all till I met people who fell into that trap, after which I'm genuinely curious how common it is.

It's interesting how different personalities (innate or learned -- probably doesn't matter here) interact with the same stimuli. It's easy for some people to wholeheartedly believe authority figures telling them that being smart and hard-working is all it takes to succeed, and it's easy for others to recognize that those qualities are neither sufficient nor necessary. The externalized thinking our elders do for us no doubt shapes our lives, but the impact of that shaping is more personalized than I ever used to give it credit for.
by throwaway290 | 2025-11-06 00:20:28+00:00
> He’s simply saying that ChatGPT was able to point them in the right direction after 1 chat exchange, compared to doctors who couldn’t for a long time

He literally wrote that. I asked how he knows it's the right direction.

it must be treatment worked. otherwise it is more or less just a hunch

people go "oh yep that's definitely it" too easily. it is the problem with self diagnosing. And you didn't even notice it happened...

without more info this is not evidence.
by orwin | 2025-11-06 00:21:37+00:00
I have hosted the models (mostly regression and random forest) WV use to predict missing part availability at their dealership in 2018-2020 (considering sales in the area, average fabrication/delivery time, likeliness of the part having to be replaced, probably others).

I guarantee you that even if I don't like their car, their dealership will very likely have the part you need around the time you need it. It's not the only car-adjacent company that does something like this (Valeo for sure does it too, i worked with them also), but I'm pretty sure it's the only one who has an internal data scientist team working on it.
by bgwalter | 2025-11-06 00:22:09+00:00
It looks like a maximum security prison so the locals cannot revolt against "AI".

Of course no jobs are created. The data centers are there for cheaper energy, laxer environmental regulations and for the ability to process U.S. citizens' data and build files on them where it would be illegal to do that on U.S. soil.

So these companies receive subsidies like in the U.S. How does the government shutdown affect these subsidies in the U.S.? Are SNAP benefits for corporations being halted as well or does it only affect poor people?
by zamadatix | 2025-11-06 00:22:27+00:00
For a good 90% of typical visits to doctors this is probably fine.

The difference is a telehealth is much better at recognizing "I can't given an accurate answer for this over the phone, you'll need to have some tests done" or cast doubt on the patient's accuracy of claims.

Before someone points out telehealth doctors aren't perfect at this: correct, but that should make you more scared of how bad sycophantic LLMs are at the same - not willing to call it even.
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-11-06 00:22:42+00:00
Much like they are paying the leaders in other specialties instead of becoming eg. a assembly company (Foxconn) or a search company (Google Search) they are not going to try and be a leader in at least large language models.

Am I interpreting that correctly?

I can understand that to a degree but that means the future for Apple is as a technology integrator, not a fundamental technology company.

As I type that out I guess I’m realizing that has always been true.
by kobieps | 2025-11-06 00:23:10+00:00
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by mc3301 | 2025-11-06 00:23:10+00:00
In the early 2000s, when everyone had a phone but no smart phones, we had this "thing" at the college bar:

Sitting around the table with some beers and friends, everyone put their phones in the center of the table. First one to touch their phone had to buy the next round of drinks. It was effective. I've tried similar recently, but people are less enthusiastic about the idea.
by jsight | 2025-11-06 00:23:52+00:00
What law governs this? I'm familiar with a lot of restrictions on grid-tie systems, but I've never heard of it being this strict for something that could (presumably) be done without a back feed.

I mean, are you saying that someone sticking up a few panels+batteries to run an electric fence, gate, and camera system has to have permits?

This all seems strange.
by WorldMaker | 2025-11-06 00:24:04+00:00
Hola's worst division got spun out into a separate company, Bright Data. Bright Data's worst innovations since "Free VPN" are using those "Watch this ad for 30 seconds for bonus in-game currency" things in many, many awful mobile games and using those as a "opt-in" signal to use the user's device for those 30 seconds (or however long) as an exit node for whatever scanning/botting processes they resell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright_Data
by chriswarbo | 2025-11-06 00:24:53+00:00
When I'm "up to my armpits in trying to understand the on-the-ground problem", I find PBT great for quickly find mistakes in the assumptions/intuitions I'm making about surrounding code and helper functions.

Whenever I find myself thinking "WTF? Surely ABC does XYZ?", and the code for ABC isn't immediately obvious, then I'll bang-out an `ABC_does_XYZ` property and see if I'm wrong. This can be much faster than trying to think up "good" examples to check, especially when I'm not familiar with the domain model, and the relevant values would be giant nested things. I'll let the computer have a go first.
by sfRattan | 2025-11-06 00:24:57+00:00
> There are plenty of addons that I want to use occasionally that require full data access. I generally do trust them...

Seconded, except I don't trust most add-ons and don't want to have to trust them.

I want an easy way to launch a disposable browser session in any browser, totally isolated, with add-ons chosen (and downloaded) at launch time, and then erased of with the rest of the session when its last open page is closed.
by synapsomorphy | 2025-11-06 00:25:07+00:00
Interesting essay. But it attributes something magical (ability to solve undefined problems) to humans and says that AI doesn't have it.

It seems pretty meaningless and not engaging with the real problem to say that AI doesn't "actually" write movie scripts or paint pictures. Like this doesn't line up with my definitions for doing those things which AI clearly fulfills.

And human intelligence arises from a well defined problem: maximizing f(environment, self) -> babies.

Also: if it were possible to measure, which it isn't, I strongly suspect that ability to solve well-defined problems and ability to solve poorly-defined problems are highly correlated, not totally uncorrelated. Happiness is a poorly defined problem, but it's just one of many, and has its own pile of things to consider that can isolate it from the general ability to solve poorly-defined problems.

I do like the framing. seems to be describing something similar to Goodhart's Law.
by gandalfian | 2025-11-06 00:28:47+00:00
Equator, poorest countries with 12 hours of sun 365 days a year. If batteries really fall in price it may rapidly have the cheapest, cleanest energy on the planet. The future of energy intensive industries may be Africa, which would be nice, they could use a break. Not to mention the cheapest place to launch your rockets into orbit.
by eldaisfish | 2025-11-06 00:29:03+00:00
comments like this really show that many people with strong opinions do not understand how the electricity grid, electricity markets or electricity economics work.

Electricity is priced at the edge entirely because demand must match supply at all times. You either meet all electric demand or someone will go without power. This is why marginal pricing exists and this is why the most expensive generator is always the last to be accepted. This is why electricity at night is cheaper that during the day.

Please, if you do not understand what you are talking about, it's ok to just say that you don't know. Don't spread misinformation like this.
by tempestn | 2025-11-06 00:29:15+00:00
This is an interesting hypothesis, but I don't buy it. I'm pretty confident that "smart" people are also good at solving poorly specified problems. One good example might be, "How do I start a successful company?" There's plenty of evidence that intelligence correlates to ability there.

I think the answer is simpler. The introduction basically asks, if smarter people are better at planning and solving problems, why can't they make the choices that will make them happy? And the answer is that humans have evolved to maintain a relatively stable level of long-term happiness, assuming their basic needs are met, essentially regardless of other factors. Getting what you want can provide a short-term boost, but you quickly adapt. Likewise if you suffer a setback, assuming it doesn't permanently impact your ability to meet basic needs, you adapt. Presumably this is because if people permanently became too blissful, they would lose their drive to strive for more resources and mating opportunities. Likewise if someone is depressed. So evolution has tuned us to a middle ground. Intelligence may allow one to understand this, and maybe even to accept it, but not to somehow think their way out of it.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-11-06 00:29:26+00:00
Yes, there's a well-established historical basis through Ground Delay Programs (GDP). The FAA uses "Ration-by-Schedule" delays are allocated based on your scheduled arrival time with adjustments for airline equity.

Flight selection: It affects flights already in the system (filed flight plans), not future bookings. The scope is defined geographically all flights within X miles or specific air traffic control centers get hit proportionally. There's no inherent bias toward domestic vs international; if you're in scope, you're in scope.

What "cut" means: They reduce the Airport Acceptance Rate (AAR) the number of aircraft the airport can handle per hour. So instead of 60 arrivals/hour, maybe it's 54. Your flight gets assigned an Expect Departure Clearance Time (EDCT) basically "don't take off until this specific time" to meter the arrivals.

The system prioritizes keeping planes on the ground rather than having them circle the destination airport burning fuel. Late-filing flights (cargo, charters) get assigned the average program delay first, then compete for any remaining slots.

So if you filed a flight plan to LaGuardia and there's a 10% cut, you're getting a controlled departure time calculated by the Flight Schedule Monitor software based on your original schedule, airline equity, and current delays.

Of course, that assumes that this won't be politicked. I would not at all be surprised to see them kneecap NYC, Chicago and any other cities that are doing something the current white house doesn't like.
by AbstractH24 | 2025-11-06 00:29:45+00:00
It’ll be interesting to see the headlines the onions writing by summer 2026.

For all I dislike him, Trump essentially squandered the political capital he had on things that are shiny, motivated by ego, and created clickbaity headlines that single out small subsets of the American populous. He could have done far far worse and less reversible things to America. We’re now at the start of the end of his presidency, with focus first turning to midterms and then his replacement.

I don’t expect Mamdani to do much better with his political capital.
by brucehoult | 2025-11-06 00:30:05+00:00
Same here in rural far north New Zealand.

I actually counted the number of outages after I got my battery unit in June -- it was six in five weeks, for anything from a couple of seconds to 30 minutes, which I noticed because the unit clicked over to running from the battery, and the clock on the oven (which is still only mains powered) flashes until I go over and hit a button.

In April I had a 40 hour outage after a storm. That's what caused me to order the brand new Pecron E3600LFP, first New Zealand model shipment in "early" June (I received mine June 19).

In February 2023 I had a 4 day outage during/after a storm.

There are even, every 2 or 3 months, scheduled and notified 9 AM - 3 PM outages for equipment maintenance, tree trimming etc. Just those alone lower the grid reliability to around 99.5%.

Six days outage in three years -- let's call it four -- drops grid reliability by another 0.4%.

So, yeah, two 9s is about right.

With the Pecron base unit (US$999 at the moment still on Halloween special, $1259 before that) I simply don't notice any outage under 4 hours, and that's even with a full winter heating load. In fact I deliberately turn the mains to it off from 7-9 AM and 5-9 PM every day.

A 4 hour outage was a little close sometimes, so in August I added a 3kWh expansion battery ($699 on pecron.com right now).

With 6kWh I can run my fridge, computers, Starlink, some LED lighting for 36 hours. Or 30 hours with typical kitchen appliance usage added (espresso machine, toaster, kettle, microwave, air fryer).

Or virtually forever now I added 6x 440W solar panels (cost me US$400 total) to it, which still generates around 200W between them in even the worse overcast and rain.

I'm running this stuff as a mini off-grid system, not connected to the house wiring at all -- except plugged into a standard socket to charge the battery if needed. I also have a $450 2kW petrol generator which I can use to charge the battery if needed, but needing that should be very rare.

Total cost: under US$3k. More like $2.3k at the current Halloween special prices.

https://x.com/BruceHoult/status/1984782313386099022
by Yizahi | 2025-11-06 00:31:21+00:00
Yeah, in Poland two "premium"-ish brands stopped selling powder in favor of tablets, and the cheaper brand is often missing from shelves, I need to order it in delivery separately. Situation is funny, since salt and rinse liquid are still widely available along with supposedly 3-in-1 tablets :) . I guess they are not so 3-in-1 as the ads say. But I will continue buying powder for as long as it will be manufactured. It's cheaper and more efficient. Same with washing machine power.
by zamadatix | 2025-11-06 00:31:59+00:00
More than that: many of the intrinsics can be unsafe in standard Rust. This situation got much better this year but it's still not perfect. Portable SIMD has always been safe, because they are just normal high level interfaces. The other half is intrinsics are specific to the arch. Not only do you need to make sure the CPUs support the type of operation you want to do, but you need to redo all of the work to e.g. compile to ARM for newer MacBooks (even if they support similar operations). This is also not a problem using portable SIMD, the compiler will figure out how to map the lanes to each target architecture. The compiler will even take portable SIMD and compile it for a scalar target for you, so you don't have to maintain a SIMD vs non-SIMD path.

By "calling math functions" I mean things like:

let x = 5.0f64; let result = x.sqrt()

Where most CPUs have a sqrt instruction but the program will automatically compile with a (good) software substitution for targets that don't. It's very similar with portable SIMD - the high level call gets mapped to whatever the target best supports automatically. Neither SIMD nor these kind of math functions work automatically with custom high level data types. The only way to play for those is to write the object to have custom methods which break it down to the basic types so the compiler knows what you want the complex type's behavior to be. If you can't code that then there isn't much you can do with the object, regardless of SIMD. With intrinsics you need to go a step further beyond all that and directly tell the compiler what specific CPU instructions should be used for each step (and make sure that is done safely, for the remaining unsafe operations).
by throwaway106382 | 2025-11-06 00:32:02+00:00
Profiles for the typical Work/Personal separation with their own bookmarks, extensions, password manager accounts etc……

Then I use containers for isolating sensitive accounts within those profiles (bank, work Google Drive, etc).

I also use temporary containers to make it easier to be logged into the same site with multiple accounts at the same time between tabs - like admin and user accounts for our company’s app - which also make it easier to clear sessions and data.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...
by gmuslera | 2025-11-06 00:33:00+00:00
We have a working system. That's why our world's population is so large. And it improved over time, as in more efficient ways to grow food, more productivity, the green revolution, to feed more, then roads/cities/buildings tied to single spots improving efficiency, giving safe housing to billions, mass transport and global logistics.

So what will happen if that gets disrupted? And badly disrupted, while at it. And while that is happening, multiple other things pile up in different ways everywhere?

Thats the danger. You don't die from climate change. You may occasionally die from increasingly frequent extreme weather, a flood because rains, some dam break, extended forest fires and so on. But that is not a single catastrophic event that kill billions. What will kill billions are losing food security in big scale, no safe/climate controlled place to live, violence and wars, widespread diseases and no way to help. In some years to decades millions to billions may die by that combination of factors.

So no, it wont be a single day, sudden event that will kill billions. Is the breakup of the system that holds it together. Agriculture needs a stable climate, megacities need food, the economic system depend on more things, and everything else is packed together. And the first wave of deaths will be just the start.
by lvl155 | 2025-11-06 00:33:39+00:00
Does it select for intellect? I don’t think so. In modern times, there are enough resources around for most people to breed as they wish. Family size in developed nations is probably not even correlated to education or intelligence. It might actually be negative. If there’s an indirect evolutionary arc, I’ve no idea what we are genetically “optimizing” currently. It’s definitely not intelligence.
by gpt5 | 2025-11-06 00:34:11+00:00
I find his videos to have quite a bit of hand waving and poor methodology together with being overly verbose.

For example, he kept on saying that pods are not better in previous videos, but in the study he presented in this video, it showed that pods are performing significantly better than powders in every category. The study (which was not linked and I couldn't find it) was sponsored by a powder maker which the video recommends, but even this study showed just on par results with pods.
by ericmay | 2025-11-06 00:34:16+00:00
I love Microcenter, though I haven't purchased anything from one in quite some time - I don't buy a lot of new electronics.

I remember as a teenager we would go on "road trips" to Microcenter - 25 minute drive tops and since none of us had any money we would just try and get someone to spend their paycheck on a new GPU or something so we could get second hand excitement from a purchase. It was also the first and only place I've ever seen BAWLS energy drinks.