MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rozap | 2025-11-21 22:42:59+00:00
I can only consume information where each nugget of truth can be contained in 160 characters. Nothing extra, each insight must be a atomic and self contained, an element in the larger tweet stream. When I pull my phone out to scroll instagram in the middle of reading your piece, I get lost if it's not formatted like this.

zizek does regularly do a bit of meandering but damn, does everything need to read like a chatGPT summary?
by Telemakhos | 2025-11-21 22:43:14+00:00
My cousin homeschooled her kids, who are now finished with college. I know they're capable of using phones (one's a programmer), but I've never seen them pull one out. They're social and love playing board games, and I suspect that comes from their parents. They also socialized with other homeschooled kids, because they were part of lots of homeschooling groups.

The kids in public school are there by default; the homeschooling parents are actively choosing to raise their kids differently, and, from what I've seen, they're more likely to interact with their kids instead of letting them go terminally online or play video games.
by VerifiedReports | 2025-11-21 22:43:19+00:00
I haven't even considered Arduino for anything in years. It's just way overpriced and oversized. For the same price as an Uno you can get a Raspberry Pi 4, or seven Picos.

Nonetheless, this looks like another step toward robbing everyone of something useful and reducing our options... not to mention encouraging others to do the same thing. Depressing.
by ben_w | 2025-11-21 22:43:20+00:00
Perhaps.

But that's just the USA's software developers in just their first year after graduating. Software devs are 1% of the US job market, the first year after graduation is (66-21=45 years, 1/45 ~= 2%) of a working life, the US is just 4% of the world's population/25% GDP.

For the 1% to matter, there have to be other jobs that LLMs can do as well as a fresh graduate. I don't know, are LLMs like someone the first year out of law school or medical school, or are those schools better than software? Certainly the home robotics' AI are nowhere near ready yet, no plumber, no driver (despite the news about new car AIs), would you trust an Optimus to cut your hair? etc.

For the 2% to matter, depends how seriously you take the projections of improvements. Myself, I do not. Looks like exponential improvements come at exponential costs, and you run out of money to spend for further improvements very quickly.

For the 4% to matter, depends on how fast other economies grow. 4% by population, about 25% by GDP. I believe China is still growing quite fast, likely to continue. Them getting +160% growth, and thus getting 2.6x times the money available to burn on AI tokens, over the next 20 years would be unsurprising.

All in all, I don't think the USA is competent enough at large-scale projects to handle the infrastructure that this kind of AI would need, so I think it's a bubble and will burst before 2030 because of that. China seems to be able to pull off this kind of infrastructure, so may pull ahead after the US does whatever it does.
by tim333 | 2025-11-21 22:43:24+00:00
I find most of these consciousness discussions not very enlightening - too many ill defined terms and not enough definite content.

I thought Geoffrey Hinton in discussion with Jon Stewart was good though.

That discussion from https://youtu.be/jrK3PsD3APk?t=4584 for a few minutes.

One of the arguments is if you have a multi modal LLM with a camera and put a prism in front of it that distorts the view and ask where something is, it gets it wrong, then if you explain that it'll say - ah I perceived it being over there due to the prism but it was really there, having a rather similar perceptual awareness to humans. (https://youtu.be/jrK3PsD3APk?t=5000)

And some stuff about dropping acid and seeing elephants.
by pron | 2025-11-21 22:43:28+00:00
> The difference with manual memory management or parallel GC is that concurrent GCs create a performance penalty on every reads and writes

Not on every read and write, but it could be on every load and store of a reference (i.e. reading a reference from the heap to a register or writing a reference from a register to the heap). But what difference does it make where exactly the cost is? What matters is how much CPU is spent on memory management (directly or indirectly) in total and how much latency memory management can add. You are right that the low-latency collectors do use up more CPU overall than a parallel STW collector, but so does manual memory management (unless you use arenas well).
by jdietrich | 2025-11-21 22:43:43+00:00
If someone is sad for a specific, identifiable and tractable reason, then they are experiencing a categorically different phenomenon to someone who just feels sad all of the time regardless of their life circumstances.

One of the key diagnostic criteria for melancholic depression - what we might lazily and inaccurately call biological or "real" depression - is mood unreactivity. Someone with severe melancholic depression could win the lottery one week, lose all of their family in a plane crash the next, and feel literally nothing about either event.

Some people with atypical depression (or normal sadness that has been mis-diagnosed as depression) can respond rapidly and dramatically to a change in their circumstances. For many others with depression, there is no external why - something has gone fundamentally wrong in the functioning of their brain. Trying to help those people with talk therapy or exercise or companionship would be as futile as using those things to treat hepatitis or gangrene.
by Flux159 | 2025-11-21 22:44:00+00:00
Nice, this is similar to what I was wondering about - it looks like it's pretty limited in capability right now (looks like it only supports canvas2d at the moment: https://nxjs.n8.io/runtime/rendering/canvas), but in theory it would allow you to make a layer to convert WebGPU or WebGL games for Switch (ignoring the huge performance drop going from v8 / jit JS engines to QuickJS).
by ur-whale | 2025-11-21 22:44:30+00:00
My all time favorite analog oscillator is the Twin-T (the one with a BJT) [1]

It was hard to get a proper intuition of how and why it works, but when you finally do ... fireworks!

Another thing that's real fun with oscillators is to try and build a true chaotic oscillator, but only with R+C+BJT

Not easy, but can be done [2]

[1] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj...

[2] https://www.instructables.com/A-Simple-Chaos-Generator/
by nonameiguess | 2025-11-21 22:46:03+00:00
My first question was how much of this is labor, and from the chart provided at the bottom of the helpful link provided elsewhere (https://controller.lacity.gov/landings/lapd-helicopters), it appears to be around 60%.

I was wondering because I remember the last time I lived in Los Angeles in 2009 I went to a Lakers championship parade and talked to one of the cops assigned to crowd control, and asked about it when a helicopter flew overhead. She told me it's a great job a lot of them try to get because even 20 years ago they were starting out at something like $215,000 a year and were not expected to have any flight experience. The city just trained up regular patrol officers and tripled their pay.
by kevinqi | 2025-11-21 22:46:27+00:00
+1, very polite way of saying it. of course there's a difference between the two posts. open source is interesting but not enough with a financial app, since it's all about trust + usefulness.

landing page needs to look good and communicate the value prop super effectively. If it doesn't look good you'll lose people's interest in about 2 seconds.
by vladde | 2025-11-21 22:46:29+00:00
is there any way to remove entries with the CSV import function?

my bank includes transactions that are yet not final (preliminary transaction where currency conversion still isn't final). these rows change both in both the title and the amount, but i can do some guessing on how a row updates.

however: when i import my transaction a couple days later again, i need to manually keep track and remove preliminary transactions (now removed from my bank's export).

related: when i imported a CSV into YNAB, i would have to manually keep track of updated entries and remove those. with some code and state handling, i could figure out which rows no longer existed – but i couldn't remove them with the import function.

i ended up abandoning YNAB's CSV import and use their API to remove transactions... but it would have been much simpler if the CSV import could just have removed certain rows from the get-go.

(while i don't think this acts as a budget, it think others will run into similar issues as i have when it comes to importing CSV files)
by alansammarone | 2025-11-21 22:46:51+00:00
I...I am very interested in this subject. There's a lot to unpack in your comment, but I think it's really pretty simple.

> this does not support your conclusion that artificial systems are "computationally equivalent" to brains in any practical sense.

You're making a point about engineering or practicality, and in that sense, you are absolutely correct.

That's not the most interesting part of the question, however.

> This is like arguing that because weather systems and computers both follow physical laws, you should be able to perfectly simulate weather on your laptop.

Yes, that's exactly what I'd argue, and...hm.. yes, I think that's clearly true. Whether it takes 10 minutes or 10^100 minutes, 1~ or 10^100 human lifetimes to do so, it's irrelevant. Units (including human lifetimes) are arbitrary, and I think fundamental truths probably won't depend on such arbitrary things as how long a particular collection of atoms in a particular corner of the universe (i.e. humans) happens to be stable for. Ratios are closer to being fundamental, but I digress.

To put it a different way - we think we know what the speed of light is. Traveling at v = 0.1c or at v = (1 - 10^(-100))c are equivalent in a fundamental sense, it's an engineering problem. Now, traveling at v = c...that's very different. That's interesting.
by tempestn | 2025-11-21 22:46:53+00:00
At least historically, the research I've seen is that one is better off keeping risk in the equity side of a portfolio, not trying to eek out gains on the fixed income side. So that would suggest sticking with intermediate duration, government bond (funds).

You're not expecting it to earn much, but it should hold its value over the long term. This will reduce the expected return of the portfolio, but the goal is to get volatility to a level you can stomach, allowing you to ride out fluctuations on the equity side. Because even though we can all look at the current situation and say the stock market appears overvalued, we can't know how much higher it will go, when we've hit the top, or once it starts declining, when we've hit the bottom. Even experts do no better than luck would dictate at that game.
by kachapopopow | 2025-11-21 22:46:55+00:00
pick your poison:

- you are vulnerable for 7 days because of a now public update

- you are vulnerable for x (hours/days) because of a supply chain attack

I think the answer is rather simple: subscribe to a vulnerability feed, evaluate & update. The amount of times automatic updates are necessary is near zero as someone who has ran libraries that are at times 5 to 6 years out of date exposed to the internet without a single event of compromise and it's not like these were random services, they were viewed by hundreds of thousands of unique addresses. There was only 3 times in the last 4 years where I had to perform updates due to a publically exposed service where these vulnerabilities affected me.

Okay, the never being compromised part is a lie because of php, it's always PHP (monero-miner I am sure everyone is familiar with). The solution for that was to stop using PHP and assosiated software.

Another one I had problems with was CveLab (GitLab if you couldn't tell), there has been so many critical updates pointing to highly exploitable CVE's that I had decided to simply migrate off it.

In conclusion avoiding bad software is just as important as updates from my experience lowering the need for quick and automated actions.
by WastedCucumber | 2025-11-21 22:47:34+00:00
I ran into this problem on a Slimbook some years ago now. I found that my battery drained way too fast in standby, and I remember determining that this was some (relatively common) problem with sleep states, that some linux machines couldn't really enter/stay in a deeper sleep state, so my Slimbook's standby wasn't much of a standby at all.

But that's just one problem, I bet.
by lazyasciiart | 2025-11-21 22:47:34+00:00
Any specialized teaching: art, languages, in high school I understand they have a different teacher for each subject, a librarian, a substitute teacher on sick days, an individual aide for one of the kids to represent the special education budget…

But I remember you previously and you appear to want a school system that spends money on exactly what your child needs and nothing else.
by jcalvinowens | 2025-11-21 22:48:02+00:00
If they somehow magically didn't, how much could be gained?

I've never seen an attempt to answer that question. Maybe it's unanswerable in practice. But the examples of aliasing optimizations always seem to be eliminating a load, which in my experience is not an especially impactful thing in the average userspace widget written in C++.

The closest example of a more sophisticated aliasing optimization I've seen is example 18 in this paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3735592

...but that specific example with a pointer passed to a function seems analogous to what is possible with 'restrict' in C. Maybe I misunderstood it.

This is an interesting viewpoint, but is unfortunately light on details: https://lobste.rs/s/yubalv/pointers_are_complicated_ii_we_ne...

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying aliasing is a big conspiracy :) But it seems to have one of the higher hype-to-reality disconnects for compiler optimizations, in my limited experience.
by kylehotchkiss | 2025-11-21 22:48:07+00:00
Down in SD at least, the sheriff's office helicopters serve many purposes. They'll use them for firefighting, hike rescues (often! according to their IG), first responder to an aviation accident, loudly shouting garbled messages through their loudspeaker, etc.

There's just enough high-speed/timely crime here that I prefer they use these over drones. There's some extra legal protections built into helicopters that drones don't get, like prison time if some idiot points a laser pointer.
by array_key_first | 2025-11-21 22:48:09+00:00
Public school is not dysfunctional, per se.

And, to be clear, EVERY workplace will have people you don't like. Every. Single. One. No exceptions.

Kids needs to be taught resiliency and healthy mindsets, to a degree. They need to learn to live and let go, to learn their value isn't derived from what people think of them, to learn that embarrassment is self inflicted.

You just can't do that if you're only around people who don't challenge you. If you're in a nice, cushy, social bubble, you will develop self esteem and confidence issues.
by citizenpaul | 2025-11-21 22:48:18+00:00
Roughly a dollar a second which if you are a theater kid you know is about $31,536,000 mil a year.

Honestly not that bad considering it provides a real service. I mean how much does the city spend on lawsuits against corrupt cops and other employees. According to the budget something like $300 MILLION on lawsuit payouts last year alone.

Who gives a $hit about the helicopters. Build an app that tracks the employees causing these lawsuits that are still keeping their jobs.
by dugidugout | 2025-11-21 22:48:30+00:00
I'll take this sincerely, and ask you, is this really something you've a continuing curiosity about? I have a suspicion you understand what is taking place, but for whatever reason, are not expressing so directly. Are you asserting there is nothing more to discuss after one parses the search results for “chemical imbalance debunked”. The parent is quite clearly, at the minimum, meeting their parent's level of input, which essentially amounted to "this thing is debunked". As an onlooker and after a quick skim of the search query you suggested, I am still not exactly clear on what "neurochemistry issue [theory]" entails. What would help, is a more clear underpinning for what is being discussed, which your parent is suggesting, through question, before attempting to respond. I appreciate this personally!
by gregsadetsky | 2025-11-21 22:48:47+00:00
There was another great satirical take on FizzBuzz which had something to do with runes and incantation and magical spells...? I sort of remember that the same author maybe even wrote a follow up? to this extremely experienced developer solving FizzBuzz in the most arcane way possible.

Does this ring a bell for anyone?

---

Found it!

https://aphyr.com/posts/340-reversing-the-technical-intervie...

https://aphyr.com/posts/341-hexing-the-technical-interview

https://aphyr.com/posts/342-typing-the-technical-interview

https://aphyr.com/posts/353-rewriting-the-technical-intervie... (the FizzBuzz one)

https://aphyr.com/posts/354-unifying-the-technical-interview

wow.
by overfeed | 2025-11-21 22:48:59+00:00
Don't take my word for it - go to the Ubuntu Concept Snapdragon thread[1] and search for "plus" or "x1p".

> Do you really believe that the upstream Linux kernel would accept patches that are specifically crafted to only work on certain bins of the chip, or to fail to enable a peripheral if not enough of the CPU cores are enabled?

It takes more than a kernel patch to boot a laptop. Qualcomm has been neglecting to release the dtbs for Plus laptops. If you want good peripheral support, don't buy a "plus" variant. Getting back to your question, the answer is "Yes, Linux has always accepted patches that only work on some configurations" with no requirement to support all h/w configuration variants. Infact, some configurations are so obscure only the submitter can test - the maintainer/subsystem chief/Linus may not even know what the potential variants are.

1. https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-concept-snapdragon-x-e...
by hnburnsy | 2025-11-21 22:49:41+00:00
Pets.com→Chewy

Webvan → Instacart, DoorDash, Amazon Fresh

Kozmo.com → Postmates, Uber Eats, Gopuff

Boo.com (fashion) → Farfetch, Net-a-Porter, ASOS

Broadcast.com → YouTube, Netflix, Twitch

The dot-com bubble didn’t prove the internet was a fad — it proved the internet was inevitable, but the valuations assumed adoption would happen in 2 years instead of 15–20. To me it feels like the AI inevitability will be much quicker.
by HaZeust | 2025-11-21 22:50:12+00:00
Yeah but how do you LEARN the ability to do that? To keep that practice always in your mental backburner, and remembering how important it is? Why, you learn it by seeing the impacts from those succumbed to negative influences they surrounded themselves with!

You can't learn the application of hand-picking your people and environments if you don't first see the outcomes when such application is neglected, and understanding its importance from there. If you have the hand-picking done for you as well, you risk not learning the ability to do it yourself. Or how to handle the situations where you can't.
by jdietrich | 2025-11-21 22:50:22+00:00
It is highly likely that your mother was misdiagnosed as suffering from unipolar depression when she was in fact suffering from bipolar disorder. A sudden switch to mania is a common outcome, even in cases where the patient has no previous history of mania. It is crucially important to take a comprehensive history to rule out bipolar disorder, but many general practitioners (and some psychiatrists) reflexively prescribe SSRIs whenever they see a depressive episode, even where there is clear evidence of a personal history of hypomania or a family history of mania.
by digdugdirk | 2025-11-21 22:51:00+00:00
On the other hand, I have seen drones chase down F1 cars at 100+ MPH...

Realistically though, I agree with your sentiment. Solving this would drones would require a constant flock of something more akin to Predator drones.

The better question is - why do we allow high speed pursuit chases in the first place?
by ssl-3 | 2025-11-21 22:51:08+00:00
I run Kodi on a Raspberry Pi 4. I have the same complaints about it that you have.

And it is nice, I guess -- it's functionally simple to just play files over an SMB share. But the interface is... well, the interface was really amazing on the OG Xbox and that was a very long time ago.

So even though I keep Kodi around, most of my video-watching is with Plex, wherein: The library updates itself. The subtitles download themselves (the subtitles even theoretically sync themselves to the video). Stuff generally Just Works, even over the WAN.

Plex is very set-and-forget, and its performance is great on a ~$20 ONN streamer-box from Wal-Mart (and there's also smart TV apps and PC-oriented playback, of course).

The user experience is really good: The interface is very remote-centric and flows well while kicked back in an easy chair in front of a TV. My eldery, tech-averse dad uses Plex without any trouble, which he'd absolutely never be able to do with Kodi.

Amusingly, Plex is/was a fork XBMC. :)

Despite the complexities of its client-server model (where both sides are kind of fat), and the expense, I can't recommend Plex highly enough.

That said: Jellyfin is free both as in beer and as in libre. It also gets most of this stuff right, and from what I've read it's been improving steadily for a number of years. I'd have written about Jellyfin instead, but I don't have as much direct experience with it (and I paid for Plex a long time ago).
by shoddydoordesk | 2025-11-21 22:52:00+00:00
There are high speed police chases (100mph+) in Los Angeles — no exaggeration — on an almost daily basis. Air support is the primary defense tool for law enforcement.

It's so bad that the local TV stations have their own choppers and a dedicated on-screen UI tailored for the chases with GPS-based tracking and speed.

If you're lucky you can catch one of the many YouTube live streams. Here's one from....two days ago: https://www.youtube.com/live/uGiJU-FlpdE
by autoexec | 2025-11-21 22:52:15+00:00
That depends on the drone. There are drones/UAVs that fly so high in the air you can't even see them seeing you from the ground. Even low flying drones would be very hard to hit from a car involved in a high speed chase, and it's not as if people can't shoot at helicopters which are both larger/easier targets and much more dangerous if brought down.
by reactordev | 2025-11-21 22:52:37+00:00
Mozart loved wild parties and had a feces obsession. He also was born 6 years after Bach died so no, Bach didn't shit on Mozart, only the Academics do. The only shits Bach cared for was getting paid and making good music. Mozart on the other hand was "paraded across europe" but as a child. By the time he was an adult, he had a job. By the time America decided it had had enough of the British, Mozart left for Vienna.
by rramadass | 2025-11-21 22:52:38+00:00
A thesis supervisor stealing from his own student and making a business/money out of it is lowest of the low. I don't understand these kind of people. What harm is there in crediting somebody for their work/contributions (especially when they are the main protagonist) even if you make money out of it through your "business acumen"? Where does this sort of mean mentality come from?

Speaking personally, i have great regard and respect for the folks who started the Open Source Software movement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software_movement) and its progenitor Free Software Movement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software_movement). They urged/convinced others to join them with the result that Computing/Software became accessible to all (particularly in the developing world); "Software ate the World" because of their efforts.