MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by konmok | 2025-11-21 23:27:37+00:00
> Depression is caused by laziness and anxiety by hopelessness.

I wish this were true, but its not even close. I wonder how your kids will react when they move away, and you're not around to police their emotional expression. If they're like me, they will promptly collapse into paralysis and self-destruction.

I strongly suggest that you frequently give your kids long stretches of time (months) to practice regulating themselves, without your interference.

And if they have anxiety or depression, please let them see a professional. If my parents had noticed the signs earlier, they would have saved me decades of pain.
by mindcrime | 2025-11-21 23:28:05+00:00
Color me skeptical, but I did just order a Uno Q a couple of days ago, right before all this T&C news broke. So I guess I'll still spend at least a modest amount of time fiddling with that when it arrives.

That said, I definitely have some severe reservations about the path that Arduino is on, especially given Qualcomm's history. Old aphorisms like "The leopard doesn't change its spots", and "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree" weigh heavily in mind right now. As does the parable about the scorpion and the frog.
by workworkwork71 | 2025-11-21 23:28:26+00:00
I'm a founder in this space (Fulfilled - posted above). Here's the reality: You're right that incentives matter. But selling your data would be idiotic for us, same reason it would be for your bank in that trust is the entire business model.

If we want to monetize insights from aggregated data, we'd do it in-house and offer you better products. Example: Why sell your mortgage readiness data to some broker when we could source competitive mortgage offers and present them directly to you? Keep you in our ecosystem, add value to your experience, and build a revenue stream that doesn't destroy the core product.

The wealth space is crowded. Companies that burn user trust get exposed fast and die faster. The only sustainable path is treating your data like it belongs to you and not us. Any company here who doesn't get that is building on quicksand and I'd be very surprised to hear any of the larger players engaging in those practices but maybe I'm naive.

Either way, it's why we're a Fiduciary and that blankets the entire product suite.
by lconnell962 | 2025-11-21 23:28:31+00:00
There are 13 years required (K-12) in the US. The way non-compliance is peanlized varies depending on the state.

Education in the US is a complicated subject given the "extreme individualistic American culture" as you say. That will be present in the teachers and school districts, and the lesson plans can/will differ greatly between teachers and school districts for getting students to the general standard.
by awesome_dude | 2025-11-21 23:28:36+00:00
> When lobf posed the question "can you name a single example of a police department, union, or office paying out a settlement? Has it ever happened?", I read that as a rhetorical question

That's on you.

I showed that there are examples of those things actually happening.

> When lobf posed the question "can you name a single example of a police department, union, or office paying out a settlement? Has it ever happened?", I read that as a rhetorical question that was meant to point out that an overwhelming majority of such cases are paid out by taxpayers, not a serious assertion that police officers themselves have never been held personally financially accountable a single time.

Wut?

Do you mean, like I said previously that we the taxpayers are on the hook because we're the ultimate employers??

Or do you not read anything?

> Do you know of any US taxpayer who would explicitly, voluntarily, and freely offer to pay for the settlements resulting from the abusive, corrupt, or criminal conduct of police officers in their town, if that were an optional choice that every US taxpayer made distinctly from the implicit, collective choice to comply with public taxation to fund public services writ large?

Already covered.

You explicitly abdicated that responsibility to the council/governing organisation to do it on your behalf.

You explicitly expect that organisation to work within the laws of your area.

You explicitly expect victims of bad policing to be paid out monetary compensation

If you don't want any of that to happen, then vote for someone else who will do what you claim you want

> If every city in the US had a ballot measure in the next election that allowed citizens to vote on whether they would voluntarily accept personal financial responsibility for the misconduct of their police department, OR, mandate that all future settlements come out of the police union / pension fund / guilty officers' personal finances, how do you think those votes would tend to go, across the country?

You do vote, every time there is an election.

If you don't know what you are voting for, or you don't like what's on offer, that's on you.
by Nextgrid | 2025-11-21 23:28:45+00:00
I'm sure there would be plenty of things to blame me for, but I'm still waiting to be able to sit and do nothing while my assets grow by an order of magnitude effectively risk-free, and be able to influence local policies to protect that growth no matter the cost. Instead, it seems like the very opposite is happening, with my labor being used to subsidize boomers to this day.
by DFHippie | 2025-11-21 23:28:59+00:00
To elaborate a bit: your parenting is much more likely to affect how your kids parent their kids. And, for better or for worse, mostly what they'll be doing is avoiding the mistakes you made. Your mom was distant and judgmental? You'll be super attentive and supportive, assuming your kids need what you wanted. And quite likely you'll overshoot the mark and set up a pitfall your kids will avoid when it's their turn. And they will then overshoot the mark. The cycle of parenting. Hakuna Matata.
by torginus | 2025-11-21 23:30:01+00:00
Considering all this work is open-source, could some third party make a Qualcomm Snapdragon based handheld console, if Valve decides not to make a Steam Deck Mini?

I really loved the idea of the Steam Deck, but I'd prefer to play something that's more like the size of a PSP or a Switch Lite at most.
by bigmattystyles | 2025-11-21 23:30:21+00:00
I'm sorry that you're dealing with this - it was my greatest fear at that point. That my daughter seems to not have my disposition and seems happy go lucky is the greatest thing ever. There's no rhyme or reason to my depression and anxiety, it's completely maladaptive and I'm relieved, that knock on wood, she stays happy and light while not having to shield herself from the horrors of the world.
by mindcrime | 2025-11-21 23:30:37+00:00
> I mean even if it came from the CEO he could change his mind tomorrow.

To a point. Public statements do carry some legal weight, due to the principle of "Promissory Estoppel"[1]. There are limits to that though, but it's not nothing.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estoppel#Promissory_estoppel
by dylan604 | 2025-11-21 23:30:37+00:00
> I genuinely wonder what the cause of this behavior is.

Seriously? It's from people not wanting to be arrested and go to jail. If they get away, perfect. If they don't, well, they were going to jail anyways. Now they have a cool story to tell while in jail. These are not people getting pulled over because they rolled a stop sign. These are people doing dirt, know it, and are willing to try something to avoid getting caught. It's really not complicated
by munk-a | 2025-11-21 23:30:41+00:00
The really weird thing is that Big Business actually is buying supercomputer clusters to do just that. I can't really talk to the government side but a lot of businesses' early forays into AI was just slapping a chatbot on their product and hoping it'd attract a lot more business. I also think you'd be surprised how integrated really dumb chatbots are into business communication these days.

I think most smart people are looking seriously at different models to try and improve the accuracy of any existing ML uses they had in their business but the new features built post-ChatGPT tend to often just be fancied up chats.
by Animats | 2025-11-21 23:30:42+00:00
Yes. It's very Derrida in style. Derrida is not mentioned, but, inevitably from that crowd, Marx is. Once you get used to that style, you realize they're not saying much.

Quoting from Marx: “An ardent desire to detach the capacity for work from the worker—the desire to extract and store the creative powers of labour once and for all, so that value can be created freely and in perpetuity." That happened to manufacturing a long time ago, and then manufacturing got automated enough that there were fewer bolt-tighteners. 1974 was the year US productivity and wages stopped rising together.

As many others have pointed out, "AI" in its current form does to white collar work what assembly lines did to blue collar work.

As for how society should be organized when direct labor is a tiny part of the economy, few seem to be addressing that. Except farmers, who hit that a long time ago. Go look at the soybean farmer situation as an extreme example. This paper offers no solutions.

(I'm trying to get through Pikkety's "Capital and Ideology". He's working on that problem.)
by interroboink | 2025-11-21 23:30:56+00:00
Also, beware of taking generalities (such as the claims of this study) and applying that directly that to your specific life, or anyone else's.

I mean, I like your comment and am glad you got thinking about this, but it's just a line of reasoning that I see a lot and I wish I saw less, so that's why I bring it up (:

"True for most people" does not imply "true for me" or "true for that person over there".

And the reverse is not valid either, of course - "true for me" does not imply "true for most people."

There's always some tension between people's individual anecdotes and experiences (which are fascinating, and I like), and the claims of broader studies like this one.

Sometimes I try to remind myself of this with the "on average, people have 2.3 children" factoid. Obviously, nobody actually has 2.3 children; the general truth does not necessarily apply to specific individuals; potentially not even a single one.
by metamet | 2025-11-21 23:30:58+00:00
I think you're the one in a bubble here.

> The belief that it is? Hysterics being fed by your media diet.

You know nothing about my media diet, except that yours tells you all others are being fed hysterics.

> The videos that you’re seeing of people losing their minds over law enforcement actually doing their jobs?

Huh? No, these aren't reaction videos. These are videos of ICE violently detaining people they have no right to detain. I'm just going to completely ignore their "stop and frisk" style of fishing for undocumented folks and focus solely on them abusing American citizens.

Which they have done. Countless times. One time they hit someone driving to work in their car. Then they got out of their vehicle and violently ripped a lady out of her car--an American driving to work as ICE did an illegal U-turn in the road--and put their weight on her while they detained her.

That's a police state.

And your media diet didn't show it to you. Your media diet is feeding you propaganda by means of telling you "everything is fine, it's hYsTeRicS".

> Do you not realize that outside your bubble, this is how you and your compatriots are perceived? Hysterical and fully disconnected from reality?

Your head is in the sand, but I understand you honestly believe this nonsense. But you're factually wrong.

The US police state is obvious to most Americans and the vast majority of the world. Any global polling--or interaction with people from other countries, which I do daily--will show you that.

You are in the minority, blaming what's happening here on hysterics. You are wrong.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-11-21 23:32:25+00:00
It doesn't matter if I'm just a machine or not

I'm human, human rights should apply to humans, not synthetics and the creation of synthetic life should be punishable by death. I'm not exaggerating, either. I believe that building AI systems that replace all humans should be considered a crime against humanity. It is almost certainly a precursor to such crimes.

It's bad enough trying to fight for a place in society as it is, nevermind fighting for a place against an inhuman AI machine that never tires

I don't think it is that radical of a stance that society should be heavily resisting and punishing tech companies that insist on inventing all of the torment nexus. It's frankly ridiculous that we understand the risks of this technology and yet we are pushing forward recklessly in hopes that it makes a tiny fraction of humans unfathomably wealthy

Anyone thinking that the AI tide is going to lift all boats is a fool
by ghm2180 | 2025-11-21 23:32:40+00:00
I have a noob question. How can developed economies where populations levels have plateaued continue to be expected to post positive GDPs (and therefore add net new goods and services) yoy?

Homes as assets should pass on, higher cost services of today would be replaced by lower cost which only temporarily would increase units sold(but should eventually plateau because #units/person is not going to change). No component of the GDP will move.

If the fertility rate of developed economies is less than 2.1 then there should be wealth and asset accumulation among the younger people over time. The demand for newer goods and services from the people who get richer is inelastic: most goods and service's prices dont matter to the rich they buy them any ways, and it continues to keep becoming more inelastic.

So within like a several years the demand should just collapse as wealth accumulates a lot and people work less and become more price insensitive. Immigration is set to remain low to developed nations for the next 3-5 years.

This seems to be quite evident in Japan and EU already(though in the EU if you adjust the productivity for work hours the GDP becomes same as America's).

So why do people assume developed countries would even buy this much more new stuff. 1.5 trillion$ worth of new things over the next 5 years?
by anonymous908213 | 2025-11-21 23:32:50+00:00
Win a nobel? Stating that LLMs aren't conscious is no more novel than stating that the sun isn't conscious, which is self-evident (but otherwise claims of such consciousness are unfalsifiable ala Russell's Teapot and the burden is surely to prove it exists, not to prove it doesn't). That didn't stop people who didn't understand it from worshipping the sun as a deity, of course. It is unfortunate that humans are somewhat predisposed to such mass delusions whenever presented with something beyond their immediate comprehension.
by jimt1234 | 2025-11-21 23:34:40+00:00
Not exactly. More like, "The world can suck major at times, so we should make sure kids are prepared to deal with it when confronted." It's kinda like teaching kids to look both ways when crossing the street. Ideally, drivers are looking out for pedestrians, but if that doesn't happen and a pedestrian isn't prepared for it, well, people can get killed.

No one should be ashamed for teaching their kids to exist in a world that isn't always as loving as we all wish it was.
by buu700 | 2025-11-21 23:35:03+00:00
> I'd still rather have the original than the AI's un-attributed regurgitation.

If what you need happens to be exactly what the library provides — nothing more, less, or different — then I see where you're coming from. The drawback is that the dependency itself remains a liability. With such an obscure library, you'll have fewer eyes watching for supply chain attacks.

The other issues are that 1) an obscure library is more likely to suddenly become unmaintained; and 2) someone on the team has to remember to include it in scope of internal code audits, since it may be receiving little or no other such attention.

> On the other hand, I would be shocked if I had ever used more than 5% of the standard library in the languages I work with regularly.

Hence "non-core". A robust stdlib or framework is in line with what I'm suggesting, not a counterexample. I'm not anti-dependency, just being practical.

My point is that AI gives developers more freedom to implement more optimal dependency management strategies, and that's a good thing.

> unlikely to be improved by that team replicating the parts of the library they need into their own codebase

At no point have I advised copying code from libraries instead of importing them.

If you can implement a UI component that does exactly what you want and looks exactly how you want it to look in 200 lines of JSX with no dependencies, and you can generate and review the code in less than five minutes, why would you prefer to install a sprawling UI framework with one component that does something kind of similar that you'll still need to heavily customize? The latter won't even save you upfront time anymore, and in exchange you're signing up for years of breaking changes and occasional regressions. That's the best case scenario; worst case scenario it's suddenly deprecated or abandoned and you're no longer getting security updates.

It seems like you're taking a very black-and-white view in favor of outsourcing to dependencies. As with everything, there are tradeoffs that should be weighed on a case-by-case basis.
by awesome_dude | 2025-11-21 23:35:05+00:00
Oh hello person that cannot read, and wants to shift the goalposts whilst they are at it.

We, the taxpayers, are the ultimate employers, we, the taxpayers, are liable for the things that we the taxpayers ask to be done on our behalf (policing)

We, the voters asked for laws that protect civil rights

We, the taxpayers asked police to enforce those laws

We, the voters demanded that people whose civil rights are violated be compensated fairly

We, the taxpayers/voters chose people that didn't do the job properly (including training)

It's not magic, the governments (at all levels) are there because we put them there, and we told them what we wanted to do (and we voted for the ones that do/do not do what we asked of them, including setting up the systems that do the things)

Your complaint is that the systems YOU vote for are ... doing their job
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-21 23:35:23+00:00
People in California were definitely Teslas target audience. The difference is there are plenty of cars that are just as good as Teslas. What are people in the US going to do that don’t want iPhones? Buy crappy ad infested Android devices?

Google is one of the companies that bribed Trump to leave him alone to “settle a lawsuits
by hatthew | 2025-11-21 23:35:58+00:00
I was homeschooled up until college. I was part of a non-religious (maybe vaguely pagan) homeschooler community. I eased into college by taking a couple courses per semester at my local community college for two years around the end of high school, and also some online AP courses from my local school district. Overall I am happy with my experience. I had an abundance of time to pursue my own interests (e.g. reading, programming), since I only did ~1 hour of dedicated schoolwork per day. Among my peers, I ended up probably in the top 10% academically (close to straight As in college) and bottom 10% socially (I kept my homeschooler friends, but don't feel like I could call any of my college acquaintances "friends"). To this day I struggle with being comfortable and non-awkward around strangers and acquaintances, but I feel like I'm improving.

Happy to share more anecdotes if people have questions.
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-11-21 23:37:12+00:00
If the O(n^3) schoolbook multiplication were the best that could be done, then I'd totally agree that "it's simply the nature of matrices to have a bulky multiplication process". Yet there's a whole series of algorithms (from the Strassen algorithm onward) that use ever-more-clever ways to recursively batch things up and decrease the asymptotic complexity, most of which aren't remotely practical. And for all I know, it could go on forever down to O(n^(2+ε)). Overall, I hate not being able to get a straight answer for "how hard is it, really".
by vessenes | 2025-11-21 23:37:15+00:00
It's clear from the readme that a coding agent made (or at least helped make) this, and.. that's awesome! I love that someone got a local poker server with web ui together because they wanted to. I wish I could try it without downloading it, though.

EDIT: I downloaded it. It is not ready for primetime. I'd be interested to see one of the new long context coding assistants improve it iteratively though. Lots and lots of UI warts and some outright bugs, including installation instructions.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-21 23:37:55+00:00
Android has the same issue with the added disadvantage that Android users are even less willing to spend money.

And you owning devices that run Protonnis a minor anecdote that goes against worldwide market trends.

And what is your definition of “successful” as far as revenue compared to the App Store or even the much less successful Play Store?
by opo | 2025-11-21 23:38:15+00:00
I appreciate how open and honest you have been in this discussion. While it might be that taking Prozac is the best choice for your child, I have to admit I would never let a pediatrician prescribe Prozac (or any other SSRI) - this is enough outside their normal training, I would want to consult with a specialist. Can't you get a referral to a pediatric psychiatrist of some sort?
by westurner | 2025-11-21 23:38:33+00:00
Silicosis is a hazard of doped SiO2 semiconductor manufacturing.

The search is on for semiconductor photoresist that doesn't contain PFAS.

Supply constraints on suitable grain sand for Silicon wafers, Copper, and Neon limit margins.

Graphene and Carbon nanotube production from CO2 could be done on-site with one advantage being that then unprocessed graphene transport would be minimized.

The US currently imports a lot of graphite for graphene production.

There are all-graphene and graphene-coated aluminum heat sinks.

Filtered water with graphene in it can be used to make higher strength concrete.

FWIU there are maskless processes for semiconductor fabrication.

FWIU, existing EUV nanolithography processes already work on Silicon Carbide. There are now DUV and XUV lasers for photolithography.

Nanoimprinting would probably work with graphene. (CVD graphene production processes already have reels, similar to R2R reel-to-reel production.)

It looks like laser shocking carbon nanotubes congeals them into layers.

There are all-carbon motor windings and high voltage power cables.

Do incident rates in graphene production justify additional controls?

CO2 to nano- air and water filters and CO2 to chips would avoid a lot of chemicals in semiconductor manufacturing.

I just saw $26/ton for (non-CO2) carbon capture in 2025. Gravel is like $10-$50/ton.

Is graphene more hazardous than silicon for semiconductor manufacturing?

How can health and environmental hazards of graphene and carbon nanotube production be minimized or eliminated entirely?

Is there are sustainable binder or a glass that slowly biodegrades that would work with carbon-based chips?
by h14h | 2025-11-21 23:38:35+00:00
I suspect it has something to do with LA's large footprint. Comparing to where I'm from in Chicago, LA county is over 4x the land area with less than 2x the population:

https://www.comparea.org/r122576+r396479

Don't know how the math works out exactly, but if they don't have the workforce to cover their patrol area with squad cars, there's probably an argument to be made for covering gaps with areal support. Given that Chicago struggles with workforce shortages, I can only imagine how much worse it'd be if you had to cover 4x the area with half the tax base.