MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by typpilol | 2025-11-08 02:23:02+00:00
300tb seems insanely small so that 15pb number is probably closer

Id say though with the rise of video on social media, if they didn't 3x or 4x that 15pb number since then.

I'm sure there's plenty of room to replicate to aws but I'm sure they couldn't afford to host 60pb of data on aws. They have their own Colo or data center if I recall.
by daniel_iversen | 2025-11-08 02:23:55+00:00
Sure. There are however probably also plenty of examples where the opposite is true (people being hesitant to use newer better technologies) like not everyone wanting to use computers early on ("the old lady in accounting" etc), people not trusting new medications, people being slow in adopting tractors, people being afraid of electricity (yes!) etc. Change is hard, and people generally don't really want to change. Makes it even harder if you fear (which ~25% of people do, depending on where you are in the world) that AI can take your job (or a large part of it) in the future
by krapp | 2025-11-08 02:25:47+00:00
No one is claiming that intelligence isn't genetic. Certainly not "the left."

The claim is that race as commonly understood and defined (specifically by eugenicists like Watson) has no genetic basis, and therefore claims which follow from that definition such as "Asians have higher IQ" are not scientifically valid, and do not prove the validity of Watson's racial views.

For some reason sparkie just decided to reframe my comment around a claim I didn't make and now here we are litigating a "leftist" strawman.

I'm so tired.
by andsoitis | 2025-11-08 02:27:06+00:00
> The support of Israel relies on two things: the Holocaust and the old Testament.

Come on. Geopolitically, Israel is an important pillar.

The V-Dem Democracy indices ranked in 2024 Iraq, Israel, Mauritania and Tunisia as the Middle Eastern and North African countries with the highest democracy scores. The Economist Group's Democracy Index rated in the region Israel as the only "flawed democracy" and no country as "full democracy" for year 2023.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_the_Middle_East_a...
by AlotOfReading | 2025-11-08 02:28:43+00:00
The intention behind these stories is to tell learners "people like you made great contributions, so can you". If your main example is a woman whose contribution is a patent that didn't inspire any of the things popularly attributed to it, the actual subtext you're communicating is that there are no better examples.

"You'll be minimized too!" isn't exactly a great subtext to encourage interest in the field, compared to other positive examples like the people I've already mentioned.
by tastyfreeze | 2025-11-08 02:29:13+00:00
Web monetization looks so promising. The big hang up for it to work is users have to have an account somewhere shared or penny transactions and payment streaming are too expensive. The cost of bank transfers kills it otherwise. Does this require a GateHub account to send and receive? The benefit of Coil was that there was no central account issuer. It works directly with the XRP ledger. The catch with that one is payments in anything other that XRP must be tokens on the ledger.

I like the idea but so far I keep seeing lack of adoption, in the case of Coil, or a shared institution requirement. If either of those get fixed web monetization will take off like wild fire.
by kjkjadksj | 2025-11-08 02:29:35+00:00
I would say learning to be successful in modern society would probably count as a new competency. Rather than know to hunt and forage like our ancestors have for what millions of years, within three generations that has been replaced with having a sense for grocery shopping. How to hold a job. How to manage modern social constructs.

However, three generations or so is not enough time to see the effects of this form of selection on our species. All the great things we see in life that we’ve built rest on the laurels of behavioral patterns and neuron networks established by millions of years of this hunter-gatherer paradigm. Now that is over for most of the breeding population. What is next for us is the interesting question. What are we selecting for today? What sort of person tends to be the most fecund? Where are our alleles heading? I mean, we aren’t even selecting for reproductive success anymore. For example, the people who need to rely on ivf to reproduce today perhaps would not have reproduced in the past, and whatever alleles that conferred that infertility might have been regularly lost in the population shortly after they emerged through mutation. Now, that ivf offspring survives, and might harbor these alleles instead to the next generation where they will also depend on ivf to reproduce.

Intelligence is also not being selected for. Intelligent people tend to have kids late in life when sperm and egg quality are already in decline harboring more mutations than gametes from younger humans. They tend to also have fewer kids. Lack of education on the other hand is correlated with having more kids younger in life. The poor and uneducated therefore have a higher fitness.

It does not seem to bode well that our present level of intelligence will even be around in 10,000 generations time given that the selective pressures that generated it in the first place are now lost.

Maybe that is the great filter: intelligent life is short lived as the changes to behavior that emerge from it being widespread and technologically capable lead to that very intelligence no longer being selected for.

Socrates was really ahead of the curve on this I guess…
by samrus | 2025-11-08 02:31:04+00:00
You could just read the primary sources. The things hes showing people to have said.

The gist is altman was trying to be slick about requiesting a government bailout, got called out on his bullshit, and then decided to lie and say he never wanted a bailout

The implication being the bubble is getting closer and closer to popping, since even altman is thinking about how to survive the pop
by makeitdouble | 2025-11-08 02:31:35+00:00
> Would it have made a big difference if you learned X at 13?

Yes. Kids getting access to knowledge that clicks with them earlier than later makes a huge difference.

Which is exactly why so many people are rushing in to control what kids get exposed to. You seem to have pretty strong thought on the issue yourself, if you agree on the possible negative impact, you can't also deny the possibility of positive impact.

The dose makes the poison, I think we can understand how extreme position tend to bring more negative than positive consequences, regardless of the rethoric.

[edit: rephrased the last part]
by dyauspitr | 2025-11-08 02:32:16+00:00
Collective action that is effective is hard to pull off in a million homes a million times around the country. Most people without extra time and resources are just not going to do it which at this point is a large part of the country. It’s like advocating for town level collective action on alcohol or age of consent. It’s way more sensible to just make it law.
by an0malous | 2025-11-08 02:33:57+00:00
The VCs and bloggers have also shifted tone and are hedging to save themselves from embarrassment. It used to be “AGI is just around the corner” and now it’s “Just because we haven’t figured it out yet doesn’t mean we never will” (Andreesen) or “Actually bubbles are good” (Stratechery).

Gary called it a long time ago but I think the Dwarkesh and Karpathy podcast is when the shift started.
by georgehopkin | 2025-11-08 02:35:26+00:00
New findings from NASA’s Cassini mission show that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons and a top contender for extra-terrestrial life, is losing heat from both poles, indicating that it has the long-term stability required for life to develop.

Researchers led by Oxford University, Southwest Research Institute and the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, have provided the first evidence of significant heat flow at Enceladus’ north pole, overturning previous assumptions that heat loss was confined to its active south pole. The findings were published in Science Advances.
by thomassmith65 | 2025-11-08 02:36:52+00:00
The hyperbole that 'Hedy Lamarr invented Bluetooth' seems innocuous to me - it's a pop culture thing, like the claim that 'Steve Jobs invented the personal computer'.

I wouldn't lose sleep over hypothetical crestfallen child engineers. If they read a biography of Hedy Lamarr, they'll finish it more impressed, not less. She was an exceptional person.
by aerostable_slug | 2025-11-08 02:37:36+00:00
Correcting the historical record isn't despicable. You'd honestly rather people go around parroting a myth because it makes you feel better?

Maybe the author uncovered it as part of a separate research effort and decided to contribute to the record. Maybe he really does have it out for women. Point is we don't know, and it's rude to assume malice when there are many other possible motivations that aren't "despicable" in any way.
by BenFranklin100 | 2025-11-08 02:37:43+00:00
High housing costs is a key factor.

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/31/nx-s1-5551108/housing-costs-b...

The Boomer generation has perpetuated and intensified restrictive zoning. The lack of new homes where well-payong jobs are located has caused housing prices to soar.

The Boomer generation has also led the de-growth movement. I guess they are going to get their way by making it too expensive for their grandkids to have children and cause the population to plummet.
by torginus | 2025-11-08 02:38:42+00:00
Honestly I've read a ton of scaremongering about how awful and complex LLVM was, and I too assumed the worst, but the API is surprisingly benign and well documented for how difficult a task it accomplishes.

I also checked out Cranelift which was recommended to me as a battle-tested but easier to use alternative, and honestly I haven't found it to be that much simpler.
by zzzeek | 2025-11-08 02:39:05+00:00
I actually agree with you on that as well, watching claude take over so many tedious "oh this thing broke, I have to google how that works, re-learn its config format, fix the thing, then forget about it again" kinds of tasks does at the same time reveal a lot of thought processes that i no longer have to engage in.

then again I dont see how it's too different from just a simple move into middle management where you manage programmers but dont do as much of the coding yourself. with Claude I'm finding myself taking on much bigger tasks and orchestrating a lot more technologies to do things, so I am learning about things i would not have if i didnt have the LLM to assist me through it.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-11-08 02:39:40+00:00
[transcript->formatter->ai synopsis]

Over 500 charge cycles, the iPhone fast-charge group lost only 0.5% more capacity than the slow-charge group, while the Android results were similarly negligible.

Additionally, the experiment examined the impact of maintaining battery levels between 30% and 80%, finding that this practice did reduce wear, albeit modestly. A separate test on battery aging revealed that once battery health drops below 85%, users may notice decreased battery life, with a recommendation to replace batteries around 80% health.

The findings suggest that charging habits may not significantly affect battery longevity,
by jonah | 2025-11-08 02:40:18+00:00
Oh, also:

1. When an FAA owned and operated facility does not have adequate staffing levels, ATC may elect not to provide the following services:

a. Radar Traffic Information Service;

b. Radar Assistance to visual flight rule (VFR) aircraft;

c. Terminal Radar Services for VFR aircraft;

d. VFR Traffic Pattern Operations;

e. Practice Approaches to VFR aircraft;

f. Flight checks services to restore inoperable equipment and approaches;

g. ATC services to parachute operations; or,

h. ATC services to certain special or unusual operations
by aoasadflkjafl | 2025-11-08 02:40:22+00:00
To defend Wilkins, it was John Randall, the director of the lab Wilkins and Franklin both worked in, who probably intentionally pitted them against each other to mess with or motivate Wilkins. Wilkins was possibly the most honorable out of all five people involved in the situation.

Wilkins was "second-in-command" to Randall, developed the DNA structure project, and convinced Randall to assign more people to work on it. Randall then hired Franklin, reassigned Gosling, the graduate student who had been working with Wilkins, to Franklin, and told Franklin that Wilkins would simply be handing over his data to her and that she would subsequently have full ownership of the project. Randall didn't tell Wilkins any of this of course, so a lot of hard feelings developed between Franklin and him. The situation got worse when Wilkins tried to get sample from external collaborators to continue working on the project himself and Randall forced him to hand over one of the samples to Franklin. Franklin finally got sick of Randall herself and left, leaving Randall to turn over all the data to Wilkins, who then went to talk about his pet research interest with Crick, a personal friend of his. Wilkins then recused himself from Crick's paper, feeling he hadn't contributed enough to it. He also worried publicly to others that maybe he had been unkind and driven Franklin out, having minimal insight into Randall's tactics, which are unfortunately common in the field. When they're being used on you by someone skilled in them, it's often hard to realize, and you end up being resentful of the person you're being pitted against until one of you leaves and you suddenly have clarity because the stress of the situation is suddenly reduced.
Show HN: Focus with Strangers – Multiplayer Pomodoros
by walrussama | 2025-11-08 02:40:56+00:00
Hey HN,

First time posting here. Go easy on me, haha.

I made Focus with strangers, a site where you can do pomodoros alongside some random people online for a hit of social pressure. There's a simple todo list built in, and you can chat (or 'shout' as I like to call it) with other participants during the break. If you don't like the idea of interacting with randoms, you can send a link and work with your friends as well.

No logins/accounts, free to use.

Made using elixir + phoenix, hosted on fly.

Any feedback would be welcome!
by NooneAtAll3 | 2025-11-08 02:41:10+00:00
My gripe with lots of fonts have been insistence on making 1-l-I confusable

the problem there isn't only in making characters distinct - but it's about not confusing one for another "in a vacuum", by itself

this font succeeded in making `I` unique - but `l` still looks like "one"

I wish people copied discord's font in this instance - remove bottom serifs altogether and replace with a slanted end
by mlavergn | 2025-11-08 02:41:17+00:00
Well, it's insanely simple, insanely fast, often more performant than Rust with lower resource usage, with first class C-interop and cross-compiling out of the box. It's easily my favorite language now, with Go being a close second. Both are opinionated and have a standard formatter that makes Zig code instantly readable when you see it, similar to Go. Rust was once interesting, but it's firmly in macro hell territory now, just like Swift, with concealed execution paths aplenty and neither cross-compiling out of the box.
by hollerith | 2025-11-08 02:41:21+00:00
By the time you start advocating for "collective action", you should have defined what the goal of the action is a lot more precisely than "dissuade assholes from being assholes" because a social movement with an ambiguous goal is a menace to society: there is a reason no one want another witch hunt.

If the goal of the collective action is to cancel anyone who (like Watson did) asserts that one race of people is on average less intelligence than another race, then say so.
by rdtsc | 2025-11-08 02:41:54+00:00
> It's almost certainly self-identification, which is the standard for such studies.

No it isn't:

> we use VGG-Face classifier, which is wrapped in the DeepFace Python package developed by Serengil and Ozpinar (2020) algorithm, to obtain an image-based classification of a person’s race. We combine this image-based race classification with a name-based...

Even worse, they use names to infer race.
by 9rx | 2025-11-08 02:42:23+00:00
When someone comes to you with a unique custom request for something, your response is: “Nope. Not on my website, not going to do it”?

Must be nice to have the luxury of being able to do nothing. Ford doesn’t have that luxury, though. It has to answer to angry shareholders if it lets a lucrative customer slip through.

Call them. Talk to a real person.
by chaosprint | 2025-11-08 02:42:52+00:00
OpenAI's Bailout Blunder: How a CFO's Words Ignited a Firestorm

https://entropytown.com/articles/2025-11-06-openai-cfo/

"If you want to sell your shares, I'll find you a buyer." OpenAI and Microsoft Detail Landmark Partnership, Navigate Future of AI and Compute

https://founderboat.com/interviews/2025-11-01-openai-sam-sat...

Crazy sequences in a week...
by lischa | 2025-11-08 02:42:56+00:00
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by rFlex | 2025-11-08 02:43:41+00:00
Most of the TS language is supported, things that are not can be considered bugs that we need to fix. Eval is supported but it won't be able to capture variables outside of the eval string itself. We took a reverse approach than most other TS to native compiler projects: we wanted the compiler to be as compatible with JS as possible, at the expense of reducing performance initially, to make it possible to adopt the native compiler incrementally at scale.

There are significant trade-offs with this compiler at the moment: it uses much more binary size than minified JS or JS bytecode, and performance improvements goes from 2x to sometimes zero. It's a work-in-progress, it's pretty far along in what it supports, but its value-proposition is not yet where it needs to be.
by Jedd | 2025-11-08 02:43:49+00:00
I'd not heard of this model, and amusingly my first hit (4th in an incognito) for `Boox Palma` is a lengthy reddit-user rant from 2y ago about build quality, sluggish performance, and woeful battery life.

That aside, totally agree on the form factor. My first ebook reader was a pocketbook 360, which came bundled with a rigid cover (would snap onto the back while reading) and a 5" screen, when most ebook readers were around the 6" diagonal.

The size delta was significant as it meant the difference between fitting in a jacket pocket vs needing to carry a bag, and that really changes your likelihood to take it with you / read a book.
by teunlao | 2025-11-08 02:44:06+00:00
Impressive tech execution, but the format has fundamental scaling issues.

Clubhouse lost 93% of users from peak. WhatsApp sends 7 billion voice messages daily - but those are DMs, not feeds.

The math doesn't work: reading is 50-80% faster than listening. You can skim 50 text posts in 100 seconds. 50 voice posts? 15 minutes.

Voice works async 1-to-1. You built Twitter where every tweet is a 30-second voicemail nobody has time to listen to.

The transcription proves it - users will read, not listen. Which makes this "text feed with worse UX"
by beepbooptheory | 2025-11-08 02:44:44+00:00
gp asked us what the blog is arguing, doesn't seem too unwarranted to assume they didn't comprehend? Or am I missing something?

Also, just fwiw, I really tried but I am truly having trouble comprehending what you are saying, or at least how it bears on the article? It is 8-9 short paragraphs long, can you like point to wear he demolishes the straw man? Or like what does that even mean to you? Isn't it a good thing to demolish a straw man? Given that it is fallacy?

Trying to be charitable here parsing this: I don't think Dunning-Kruger really speaks to one's ability to convince right? Doesn't it really manifest when we don't actually need to be convincing to anyone? This is the definitional thing about it really: you are precisely not aware you are "faking" it, you think you are doing really great!
by timlarshanson | 2025-11-08 02:44:51+00:00
This was very surprising to me, so I just fact-check this statement (using Kimi K2 thinking, natch), and it's presently is off by a factor of 2 - 4. In 2024 China installed 277 GW solar, so 0.25 GW / 8 hours. First half of 2025 they installed 210 GW, so 0.39 GW / 8 hours.

Not quite at 1 GW / 8 hrs, but approaching that figure rapidly!

(I'm not sure where the coal plant comes in - really, those numbers should be derated relative to a coal plant, which can run 24/7)
by Springtime | 2025-11-08 02:45:24+00:00
On Windows at least VLC has had better alternatives for the past 20 years, both feature and UI wise. I had frame-stepping hotkeys back in the mid-00s with Korean video players. These days I use the currently maintained fork of MPC-HC which similarly has this.

On Mac it wasn't until the mid-10s that I found a decent player.
by 1659447091 | 2025-11-08 02:46:06+00:00
> It could be that both, men and women, are biased toward professions they enjoy

I would also be interested in data on this. I simply can not buy into it being biologically based. Approved social-cultural identity is the likely culprit.

An example I keep thinking about when this topic comes up, is how computer science and programming was considered "women's/secretarial" work in the early days. It's one of the few STEM areas where looking at it's history, no one is having to dig though obscure archives to find women who were buried or left off co-discover/creator list just to prove they did that work back in the day. This is in part to that profession's invisible "identity badge" being beneath a man to wear (still many males enjoyed it then and got into it, but I doubt his buddies looked at him the way they would today). Women were secretaries; computers and programming was secretarial work. Main stream (US) society looked to this as the way god made men and women at that time; these days they are working with an updated list of approved men-this, women-that and still attributing biology for things far outside the actual body.

Once home computers started marketing the machines to males a rapid shift happened, and now it's male dominated -- and paid at higher rates than when it was "secretary" work and for the "human computers" -- women who did the calculations of computers manually; see early NASA. Yet, today, its looked at as male bio-backed bias thing? It simply doesn't make sense to me to chalk it up to a biological sex difference in determining one's profession.

As far as I know, biological differences don't flip in a single human generation. But social-culturally, absolutely -- when the right incentives are there. In-power groups (e.g., current churches and religion with male deities vs ancient matriarchal religion/societies with female deities) will be able to change the owner of an "identity" type to whatever they want, including gendered Identity badges (example: boys prefer to be programmers and scientist, girls prefer to be care-takers and english majors/writers yet so many of the classic books I read in school were written by male authors) and then sell people on it being a biological sex difference. This includes making it difficult for males who want to be care-takers and nurses, they are harassed for choosing a profession not in their current gendered-approved work Identity lane. It's lose-lose all around, but not always equally.