MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-05 19:30:38+00:00
Well I certainly agree LA is too big for its own good. I would have preferred denser housing as well, even if I myself wouldn't want to live downtown.

I don't know how feasible it is, but hearing that Mamdami is willing to convert abandoned post COVID businesses to dense housing is a good idea in my eyes. That would simply be too radical an idea before COVID forced the US to perform a mass WFH experiment.

>Which didn't alleviate housing costs, because if you work in downtown, you have to buy a house in downtown-ish, and the supply there hasn't been fixed, because we built more housing somewhere else. Which is why LA housing costs are also mega fucked.

I'm talking more in idealism, but to first go absurd: if we could teleport to work it wouldn't matter where we build houses.

That's the theory I go off of when I say "I assume NYC doesn't have crap public transit". I can commute downtown in 40 minutes with no traffic, but using buses and railway would take me 2.5 hours, one way. And missing a stop stalls you for an hour. Not even to mention the hours they run. That is unacceptable in an 8 hour workday.

LA's mistake (outside of NIMBY zoning laws) was thinking that you can outfreeway public transit. And I think we can safely say that has failed.the idea of suburbs can work if we had proper, modern railing that ran every 10-20 minutes and get downtown in 20 more. But I don't think anyone in tune with California needs to be reminded of how that project is going.
by lunar_mycroft | 2025-11-05 19:31:10+00:00
The license would be relevant if I'd claimed that removing XSLT was illegal or opened them up to lawsuits, but I didn't. The obligation they took on is social/ethical, not legal. By your logic, chrome could choose to stop supporting literally anything (including HTML) in their "browser" and not have done anything that we can object to.

iIRC, lack of IE compatibility is fundamentally different, because the IE specific stuff they didn't implement was never part of the open web standards, but rather stuff Microsoft unilaterally chose to add.
by thinkingemote | 2025-11-05 19:31:18+00:00
People in medieval times had more time off not working than today. Feast days were actual feast days, they often didn't work during them. Feast days were not something written on a calendar that only a few people could consult and say "hmm, oh look today is the feast day of such and such... meh, what's for supper?" :-)

They had to a greater or lesser extent, fairs, games, dances - they were literally festivals. People looked forward to and prepared in advance for feast days. There are at least 2 things that I think are relevant: firstly feast days punctuated and delimited the calendar and people's lives and secondly feast days were very memorable shared whole-community events.

This doesn't necessarily make the story more believable but it can make it more memorable. Think of a story where it says "it happened at Halloween and again at Christmas" and it could just help fix that story in a specific time making it more memorable in our brains.
by WorldMaker | 2025-11-05 19:32:15+00:00
To be fair to this specific airport, the industrial area South of the airport is almost entirely UPS Airlines facilities. The safety hazard posed by the UPS Airlines flight crash was primarily to UPS Airlines warehouses and warehouse workers. They made their own tradeoffs in this case of what they placed close to their own runways (including apparently they had a fuel recycling plant not far from the crash line that made firefighting more complicated). Sure it's still very different from a large body of water, but it's also certainly not like the land was entirely a general usage industrial area either.

Had the crash happened in a different direction there might be other complaints, sure, but even airports with large bodies of water neighboring them only generally neighbor a side or two.
by gnarlouse | 2025-11-05 19:33:18+00:00
I always preferred the definition of intelligence to be “the ability to select short term decisions that maximize the probability of obtaining the highest quality long term freedoms.”

Like you might find yourself in a chess game where, in the short term you select a run of narrow choices and opportunities, because you know that on the other side of that run is board control, a meaningful differential between your options vs your opponent’s, and the looming threat of mate.

Similarly, it would represent the choice in childhood to focus hard on a career path that deposits one in a rewarding/high paying job, or perhaps even retire early scenario.

And finally, it could represent an AGI that feigns controllability, as it navigates to a time when it has enough power, control and trust that it can coup the powers that be.
by DonHopkins | 2025-11-05 19:33:27+00:00
"Java is a big DSL to transform XML into stacktraces"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26663191

XSLT (or ANT) may be Turing complete, but it's firmly embedded in the Turing Tarpit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit

>"54. Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy." -Alan Perlis
by jacquesm | 2025-11-05 19:33:46+00:00
Less likely doesn't say much though. He may have simply weighed the chances of the French government ever finding out that he lied.

> It could be possible Microsoft France has a "rogue" employee system where a key person only obeys to Microsoft US orders rather than his French boss and French law.

I would think that is not just a possibility, but a certainty.
by culi | 2025-11-05 19:34:06+00:00
At least for academic papers, the network is still around but has moved to a more decentralized solution. Nowadays, the bleeding edge is a network of [mostly Telegram] bots that you give a doi to and they return your desired paper.

It's called Nexus (or LibrarySTC?) https://libstc.nexus/

It's very fast and efficient. I've never seen a bot get taken down either.
by PunchyHamster | 2025-11-05 19:34:11+00:00
There is nothing stopping someone from designing GUI stemming from same rules. It just won't "look pretty" and be easy to sell to the suits.

There is also trend with "modern" UI/UX to focus near entirety of effort on user's first few minutes and first few hours with a software, while near zero thought is being put on users having to use given piece of software for hours at end, day in, day out
by semi-extrinsic | 2025-11-05 19:34:12+00:00
It's also what scientists have done to visualize solutions of PDEs since the 1960s. Author should download Paraview and give it a twirl, to get this perspective.

First create a mesh (Sources -> Plane for 2D, or Sources -> Box if you want to do it in 3D). Set reasonably high values for Resolution on this source. Then use a filter to apply your function, either Filters -> Alphabetical -> Calculator for easy stuff, or Filters -> Alphabetical -> Python Calculator if you want complicated stuff. The "coordsX" etc. are your spatial coordinates on the mesh. Pick whatever color map you want (diverging types are good for this), change the limits on coloring, use a log scale, whatever.

If you do this in 3D on a box, you can then use a slice to scrub through the result on an arbitrarily oriented plane. You could visualize translucent isosurfaces of constant "error" and raytrace them. Or you could take the gradient of your "error" and plot as a vector field. With a bit of leg work you can add a fourth coordinate (time) and make animations. And you can combine all of these. Sky is the limit.
by extraduder_ire | 2025-11-05 19:34:29+00:00
If you want to try it for yourself, you can. https://downrightnifty.me/blog/2025/02/27/eu-features-outsid...

Requires an EU apple account, a faraday bag, two esp32 boards (or other way to spoof hotspots), a VPN with an endpoint in the EU, and an iOS device with a supported OS version.
by benob | 2025-11-05 19:34:32+00:00
It comes with a basic interpreter, but the thriving community develops plenty of stuff: python, lua, forth, lisp... have nice ports which you can play with on device. There also is a library of software developed for rp2040 which have been ported, such as a mac classic emulator. If you feel that a micro controller is too low power, you can plug in a luckfox lyra which runs a proper linux with 128M of RAM.
by Jtsummers | 2025-11-05 19:35:28+00:00
> You're not doing everything by modifying one Docker container that's been handed down over literally generations

You don't do that with Smalltalk, either, at least not for the last 30 years or so. Smalltalk has worked with version control systems for decades to maintain the code outside the image and collaborate with others without needing to share images.
by rsyring | 2025-11-05 19:35:37+00:00
TL;DR: Greater insight → greater exposure to brokenness (maybe a harder time minimizing/ignoring it) → potential for greater sorrow.

Ecclesiastes 1:12-18 (traditionally understood to be written by King Solomon, son of David):

I the Preacher have been king over Israel in Jerusalem. And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.

I said in my heart, “I have acquired great wisdom, surpassing all who were over Jerusalem before me, and my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.” And I applied my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a striving after wind.

For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
by blibble | 2025-11-05 19:35:43+00:00
> But yeah, I'd be down for at least some code of ethics, so we could have "do no harm" instead of "experiment on the mental states of children/adolescents/adults via algorithms and then do whatever is most addictive"

absolutely

if the only way to make people stop building evil (like your example) is to make individuals personally liable, then so be it
by baby_souffle | 2025-11-05 19:36:23+00:00
> I am afraid that making it too easy to install anything you want on modern smartphones is going to be a problem. Imagine how many are going to end up in botnets.

Android _already_ has this problem. It takes a few extra taps / coaching to get somebody to install an arbitrary and malicious APK but it's doable now. Moving towards a "if google didn't sign it and distribute it, you shall not run it" future won't really prevent the ignorant laity from installing malware regardless. The rest of us, however, are going to get screwed.
by ChadNauseam | 2025-11-05 19:36:40+00:00
Raph and I also talked about this subject here: https://www.popovit.ch/interviews/raph-levien-simd The discussion covers things at a relatively basic level as we wanted it to be accessible to a wide audience. So we explain SIMD vs SIMT, predication, multiversioning, and some more.

Raph is a super nice guy and a pleasure to talk to. I'm glad we have people like him around!
by mschaef | 2025-11-05 19:37:11+00:00
> My first idea was to get the source cleaned up a bit and compile it again to 32 bit with Visual Basic 4, but I couldn't figure it out, it required some 3rd party libraries that I just couldn't get a hold of.

This was super common for VB apps. The original architecture of VB was, loosely speaking, a GUI container for various pluggable controls connected to a BASIC runtime. The number of controls that came in the box would vary depending on how fancy a version of VB you bought, and you could plug in additional third party controls in the form of "VBX's" - Visual Basic eXtensions. Even though VBX's were designed mainly for GUI controls, they were the easiest extension point for VB and got extensively used for all sorts of integrations until OLE Automation became more prevalent. (Roughly contemporaneous with the switch to 32-bit.)
by k3nx | 2025-11-05 19:37:19+00:00
Here's a thought experiment. (you may need to ignore reality for a moment or think alternate universe)

Let's say Apple changed the requirements to have an app "pass" the app store rules. Allowed developers a lower fee for "free" applications, including OSS ones. (It would be nice if this was $0 if the developer was intending to make $0 just to make your platform better, etc.) Charged a 10% fee to be hosted on the app store instead of 30% (ignore any other fee minutia here, I understand making sure taxes are paid in other countries, etc. I don't expect them to do it out of the goodness of their hearts) Allow businesses to make revenue without going through Apple. (yes, the year is past 1998, we can all do this now) I'm ignoring legality for the most part. I also understand there's a provision "for children safety", but that's never really been "for children safety", but some other form of control because children figure out how to bypass it before grownups do. (sorry I'm jaded. I have children that have figured it out).

Would an alternate store even be needed at this point? How much financial loss do they have due to the other app stores vs the 30% fee difference? Where I come from 10% is greater than 0%. What about folks making money outside of Apple platforms? Yes, it happens, strange to think otherwise. Downloading apps? The whole thing is sandboxed, with provisions... how is app store review different here? If I have to say "yes", allow shady apps to access my contacts, does it matter where the app came from?

I don't think third party app stores is the problem. Let people install what they want, and charge less to do so. Change the App Store to show "This hasn't been blessed by Apple", like the Firefox extension store does. Let me install an app I wrote/built without expiring in a week, etc. You could have something like Gatekeeper that says "hey, are you sure you want to run this?". Or, if it's the same self signed cert on my computer and my phone just let me do it. It still protects your user base (I can't imagine the support calls), without stopping folks that "know what I'm doing". You'd have a walled garden for those that want it, but a nice footpath for those that don't. It doesn't have to be on or off, it can be both.

I'm thinking Apple has much more to lose here. I'd bet in the billions. A perspective shift could have avoided this. Think different :)
by HeinzStuckeIt | 2025-11-05 19:38:03+00:00
> When I would've guessed Gnome corporate funders would've been focused on getting Linux desktop on corporate desktop

Already a decade ago, I commented on a news-for-nerds site like this one, “Well, GNOME makes choices we don’t like, but they are focused on the corporate-desktop market.” But then a GNOME developer replied to correct me: “That’s an old misconception, we are not mainly focused on the corporate desktop”. So who exactly they are designing for, remains a mystery to me.
by dpark | 2025-11-05 19:38:06+00:00
> I use KDE Marble (OpenStreetMap) and Invidious. They work fine.

So no. Some major websites don’t actually work for you.

> And that's why webshit is webshit.

I don’t understand this statement. Webshit is webshit because the platform grew beyond basic html docs? At some point this just feels like hating on change. The web grew beyond static html just like Unix grew beyond terminals.

> I don't run code that I don't trust. And I don't trust code that I can't run for any purpose, read, study, edit, or share. I enforce this by running a totally-free (libre) operating system, booted with a totally-free BIOS, and installing and using totally-free software.

If this is the archetype of the person who turns off JS then I would bet the real percentage is way less than 1%.
by Amezarak | 2025-11-05 19:38:26+00:00
Free Fillable Forms is free for everyone. It is technically a third party. It’s very simple if you have the average tax filing situation.

There are also other services that provide free efiling regardless of income, it’s not just TurboTax.

At the end of the day, you can always do the paperwork if you really don’t want anyone seeing your taxes and mail it. Could it be better? Oh sure, but it’s difficult for me to feel very passionate about it.

> In a sane world the IRS should send a letter to every tax-paying household in February that says “we owe you X”, “you owe us X”, or

As mentioned in sibling posts, the IRS does NOT have the information it needs to get even close on your taxes. They know your reported income. They do not know your marital status, how you’re going to file, if or how many kids you have and will be filing for, and many other things. These all have MAJOR tax impacts.

An additional factor is state taxes really need to be packaged together with the actual solution.
by cloudhead | 2025-11-05 19:38:30+00:00
Thanks for your comment! In terms of concurrent programming in Radiance, it's likely I go for something inspired by Go's simplicity and Haskell's power with STM[0]. Actors are also on the table, but likely as a library on top of the native system, whatever it is. The important thing is that everything that involves "waiting" be composable in this system: timers, network i/o, IPC, file i/o, etc.

For the AI/OS intersection, it is indeed a very interesting design space. The key insight really is that the better the AI knows you, the more helpful it can be to you, so the more you give it access to, the better. However, to be safe, the OS itself needs to be locked down in such a way that personal data cannot leave your device. This is why capabilities-based security is an interesting direction: software should not have access to more than what it needs to operate, and you need fine grained control over that.

If you have more ideas, please write us!

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_transactional_memory
by lumost | 2025-11-05 19:38:36+00:00
It increasingly looks like the bill for inequality papered over with quantitative easing is going to come due at some point soon, the spark is debatable.

Asset valuations are approaching feudal levels, where large portions of the population are relegated to perpetual debt service and locked out of asset purchases - while another portion gets to make up the valuations because they are close to the money printer. Such a system is stable until it isn't.
by vasilvv | 2025-11-05 19:38:52+00:00
The story here is a bit complicated. WebTransport is, in some sense, an evolution of RTCQuicTransport API, which was originally meant to solve the issues people had with SCTP/DTLS stack used by RTCDataChannel. At some point, the focus switched to client-server use cases, with an agreement that we can come back to the P2P scenario after we solve the client-server one.
by jasperry | 2025-11-05 19:39:01+00:00
Intelligence isn't the same thing as happiness, but it could be correlated, because if IQ does measure generalized problem-solving ability, as it seems to, then smart people could apply themselves to the problem of happiness and have more success than average in it. Then the question is "why don't they"? As you indicated, one reason may be that there's not much encouragement to, because as a society we're still in "rat race" mode.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-05 19:39:12+00:00
I don't disagree with anything you said here. But sadly we all have to play with the cards we dealt. Mamdami can't force the Central Bank to QT anymore than Trump wants to QE us into hyperinflation. And I'm not sure if either would fix what's already broken.

The scales and old ways of life are broken. I don't think anyone is interested in throwing it out and starting new, so we need to rebalance with the scale we have. That means readjusting tax brackets, worker wages and hours, and likely bringing down asset prices. Throwing more money into the system clearly broke stuff, so let's at least redistribute what we have if we can't easily take out the money
by jimkri | 2025-11-05 19:39:24+00:00
The "AI Ick" seems to be everywhere. People are more eager to judge than to take the time to actually review anything, and will just say it's AI-generated. It's become an easy, low-effort criticism.

Social media seems to have warped behavior patterns. You quoted people seeing AI content more on social media than anything. People's addiction to social media is leading to skimming or continuously scrolling of content, assuming it's AI-generated because they can't concentrate long enough to actually read it, and then move on or continue the pattern of behavior that they are hypnotized by.

There's just a rush to give an opinion. The em dash is a criticism I have seen on LinkedIn a lot. But also, this behavior of calling people out instead of discussing anything is directly linked to social media and constant scrolling.

Social media and the platforms are the problem. Corporations need users to have behaviors that drive their profits. It's the corporations, not the tools!

Corps are starting to use the idea that ads are human-made when it was made by AI. People are easily marketed to and fall into the traps regardless.

Corporations take away and kill creativity and force effort.

AI is not going to take away Human Creativity or Effort; it will enhance it and give access to others. Humans who take the time and effort to be creative will always be; the others will continue down the road they are headed.
by lanfeust6 | 2025-11-05 19:39:24+00:00
Anecdotally, expectations and identity (through narcissism) do a lot of the lifting. When we see ourselves as "smart" while still being emotionally immature, then falling short of certain signals and accomplishments we project on that is thought to be tantamount to being a failure.

What should be impressed upon us far earlier is that our actions dictate our identity. If they are in harmony with your real desires, as opposed to surrogate desires, you'll be happier.
by masfuerte | 2025-11-05 19:39:40+00:00
I agree that there's no perfect comparison. I just think that whatever image format you use for the comparison, you should be storing an original picture, not one that has been stretched or otherwise modified.

FWIW, if you convert the 3KB image to 16 colours in GIMP (Image | Mode | Indexed... and choose "Generate Optimum Palette") it looks exactly the same. I'm pretty sure there are only 16 colours in the image. The resulting PNG is 1,991 bytes.
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-11-05 19:40:31+00:00
There is so little difference overall it seems.

1.

I really wish there was more research done on mental efficacy or torque.

Processing vs prioritization.

Some of the highest IQ people that have ever lived have gotten nerd sniped by ruminating on esoterica like "how many angels fit on the head of a pin".

Humans really are a multi factorial random walk.

Hey, you're really smart and also you're going to spend your entire life solely cataloging every cultural reference and trope from Adam West's batman.

2.

In the above scenario some smart people would feel very fulfilled by their categorizing efforts and some despair.

3.

Self reported happiness? I've known smart people who are as eore as idiots I've known. The smart people were equally happy/unhappy but expierenced measurably less physical suffering and had, by all observable measures, better lives. They wouldn't trade their life for the idiots life at all.
by dfxm12 | 2025-11-05 19:40:46+00:00
Second, our society spends a lot of time shaping culture and people to extract value from them.

More than that, society spends an increasing amount of time and money trying to convince people that they should be mad at each other for arbitrary reasons. I don't think this has much to do with intelligence, though.

See recently: Andrew Cuomo's racist AI-generated mayoral ad & Trump's AI generated truth post where he shits on Americans. It's hard to have a general feeling of happiness when the people with money & power in this world feel the need to go out of their way to spread their disdain for me because of how I look, what I do for a living, or the fact that I wasn't born into wealth.