MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cassepipe | 2025-11-01 20:33:51+00:00
I struggle a lot when I see comments like this.

This comes off to me as a more refined "Yes of course, what did you expect you naive person ?" type of comment you often find online (somewhat common among radical leftists)

Maybe commenter agrees with you that the point is to empower a national police to subjugate the populace (This opinion does not raise any of my eyebrows) but do you think this is going to reach people who don't already think that ? To put any doubt in their minds ? I understand the anger the current situation is causing and I am guilty of breaking the hn guidelines a few times myself but I am also convinced of the need to actually explain what you think are the actual problems from the ground up rather than just casting your own conclusions onto people, no matter how obvious they seem to you

So I did think they did a good job with their comment
by epistasis | 2025-11-01 20:33:56+00:00
The only consumer survey they actually reveals preferences is the price that people are willing to pay. Ask them questions in isolation and you miss all the implicit tradeoffs inherent to the questions.

And on that front, prices in dense areas are way way above suburban areas. Even if you subtract the lawn. People will pay far far more per sqft for a home in a dense urban area without a lawn! Which indicates that dense living is far undersupplied.

Not coincidentally, we don't have to ban suburban living, we only ban dense living. Literally anybody could buy an apartment building, tear it down and build a single family home, but how often do you ever see that happen? But you can't go the other direction, by law.
by rolph | 2025-11-01 20:34:08+00:00
coronavirus, is not something that just goes away when covid and sars are no longer popular .

a lot of people had better realise corona virus has been on this planet for a long time before us, and is not going away, even if we go extinct.

this virus is gifted with a high variability, and only needs to reassort with an upstart variant like MERS for a nasty rekoning
by F3nd0 | 2025-11-01 20:34:33+00:00
I’m not sure if you're being ironic or not, since ‘regional taste preferences’ is a somewhat famous excuse brands frequently use to justify selling inferior-quality products (think less meat, less nuts, less fruit, more unhealthy filler) under the same name in different parts of Europe. I recall it being a major topic in our elections several years back, but I don't think anyone has really done anything about it.
by tzs | 2025-11-01 20:34:37+00:00
From what I've read apparently pretty much all PM2.5 encountered by most people has neurotoxic effects.

It looks like there are a couple reasons for this.

1. There are a lot of substances that are neurotoxic. Most things that create PM2.5 pollution will involve some of them.

2. PM2.5 is good at getting to places where the body really doesn't like foreign objects and so the mere presence of PM2.5 particles can trigger responses, such as inflammation, that can cause neurological damage even if the particle itself is made of a normally non-toxic substance.
by noir_lord | 2025-11-01 20:35:46+00:00
They only have to get "lucky" once, we have to get lucky every time so it makes sense if you want this to keep pushing it - once the law is passed it's much harder to revoke it later.

The people pushing it are ~bribed~ lobbied hard by groups who want this so they don't care about wasting their time or resources since they are getting paid for it.

> Is there not some career disincentive/consequence where if you try to push Encryption back doors, you get demolished in your re-election

In a somewhat ironic turn of events we don't know who was pushing it this time as they where protected by anonymity - one rule for them I guess and another for everyone else.
by adamors | 2025-11-01 20:36:04+00:00
It’s not a clickbait title, it succintly sums how the author percieves the dominant feeling of these people

> Silverman: I think it’s [the anger] pretty palpable. That’s one reason why I call it a “gilded rage,” it’s that you hear it from them. We do hear from these people directly on social media and these long interviews they give on podcasts—some of them have their own podcasts—or speeches they give publicly. They’re all content creators now.

> The emotion that often comes through is this sort of wounded anger, they feel victimized. Some of it is a bit in the style of classic right wing victimology, but it’s also, “the people don’t appreciate them enough and the world they’re trying to make,” whether it’s tech critics or regulators. But I think also they share a lot of the anti-woke grievances of the last few years, Musk very explicitly in his transphobia. The sense that progressive politics has somehow gone too far and has made everyone else’s lives oppressive and miserable seems to be an idea they share, despite all their wealth and power and the fact that I don’t think those left wing ideas had a major effect on tech. But, in some cases, I think it’s also personal. You hear someone like Bill Ackman say that, “Harvard turned his daughter into a Marxist,” or Elon Musk has talked a lot about his child coming out as trans. He said, “the woke mind virus killed my son.” That’s how he came up with this idea of “the woke mind virus”. He seems very angry about that.
by eightysixfour | 2025-11-01 20:36:10+00:00
There's no such thing as an "undistorted economy," there is only different configurations which are more or less efficient in different areas. Taxation isn't "damage," it is the fee you pay for the stability of the system you are operating in and the services that system provides.

> Taxing only dividends, buybacks, and salaries will bias the taxation to mature companies that aren’t growing so fast anymore, minimizing the damage.

This is a reactionary policy to the existing system, not a sustainable new one. At the minimum, it incentivizes:

1. Hoarding cash

2. The acquisition of assets unrelated to the core business (real estate for example)

3. Increased corporate debt (no tax on interest payments)

4. Shifts from salary to stock options

5. Acquisitions over investments in new product lines or R&D

Functionally, you and I probably disagree on some things though - I would want to encourage companies to spend their money on salaries, pushing the money towards the broad consumer base.
by griffzhowl | 2025-11-01 20:36:13+00:00
Not coincidentally, 24 was produced by the neocon Murdoch's Fox, and dramatized the same "ticking time-bomb" scenarios that Cheney was talking about on national TV in order to justify torture. Where you might think torturing one person is justified if it's going to help save thousands from the bomb, that kind of scenario never actually happens. Instead one of the main uses of torture was to extract "confessions" from people swiped from streets all over the world that they belonged to al-Qaeda, in order to justify the war aims of that criminal cabal of still-powerful and protected individuals.
by socketcluster | 2025-11-01 20:36:45+00:00
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by orbifold | 2025-11-01 20:36:54+00:00
A relative of mine worked for the UN and interfaced with the UN after they left for a non-profit. Anyone that knows anything about them and also just simply observing what and how they are doing things should have no doubt that it is filled with people that got there by using their connections. And you absolutely constantly run into people that have no business being there other than through nepotism. Btw. I am sure that US staff is less likely to be a total nepo baby, but because the UN "has" to hire from all over the world, most roles are not filled like that.
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-01 20:37:01+00:00
Frankly it's a miracle it took this long to be a problem IMO.

The supreme court over the years has watered down constitutional protections against government enforcement upon individuals massively because doing so was necessary to empower the government to enforce speeding tickets, financial regulation, environmental regulation, chase bootleggers, etc, etc, with it's power only constrained in practice by political optics.

So now here we are, in a situation where the government is doing what it always does, levying what's essentially a criminal punishment (incarceration in this case, typically fines historically) in a case where allegedly no crime has been committed, and then give the accused only kangaroo court administrative process because it's not a crime, but now it's doing it at scale, flagrantly, loudly and against the political will of some of the locations it's doing it in.

There are a lot of bricks in this road to hell and someone somewhere was issuing a warning as each one was laid. Should have listened.
by zkmon | 2025-11-01 20:37:46+00:00
In most cultures, smiling at someone means, you know them personally. So, when you smile at a stranger, the stranger gets confused. They might think you are crazy. Also it could make them uncomfortable about how to respond. If they smile back, it means they know you, which is not true. Infact, if you smiled at a stranger of opposite gender, it could lead to other complications depending on who are with them, and they could get angry as well.
by Ygg2 | 2025-11-01 20:38:19+00:00
> You seem to be suggesting that code that crashes in Fil-C will often run successfully in YOLO-C, but that doesn't seem to be the case from Pizlo's LFS exercise.

No. I'm saying they will behave subtly different. One will not stop other might, etc.

It's kinda like running same code in debug and release mode and expect identical results.

> Old BASIC programmers are mostly working on Pick and other "business BASIC" systems

I've never heard of those things either. Nor have I met a programmer outside retro computing groups that used BASIC.

> Nearly all software written today is either written in C, written in C++, or interpreted or compiled by an interpreter or compiler written in C or C++.

For time being. Up until 10 years you had no other realistic options.
by AmbroseBierce | 2025-11-01 20:38:24+00:00
>Can you set some timers for my sport session, can you plan a pure body weight session ? Yes, that's perfect. Wait, actually, remove the jumping jacks."

Better yet, why exercise -which is so repetitive- if we can create a machine that just does it for you, including the dopamine triggering, why play an arcade video game where we can create a machine that fires the neuron needed to produce the exact same level of a excitement than the best video game.

And why find mates when my robot can morph into any woman in the world, or better yet, the brain implants that trigger the exact same feelings than having sex and love.

Bleak, we are oversimplifying existence itself and it doesn't lead to a nice place.
by pinnochio | 2025-11-01 20:38:34+00:00
No, they don't? Sora is a separate product, and they're working on a social media platform. And that thing with Jony Ive. Other things, too, that I'm sure I'm forgetting.

At any rate, this looks like they made a headline out of a passing comment. I wouldn't read too much into it.

Edit: lol at the AI bros downvoting facts.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-01 20:38:34+00:00
> whenever someone is talking fondly about UAE that's all you need to know about that person

I’ve heard that line about Qatar, Uruguay, Singapore, Malta, Cyprus, the Maldives, and countless other small states.

I grew up in Switzerland. Folks like to compare themselves to us, mostly due to complete ignorance of our actual history and culture.

It’s true in part and misses the point in others. Geopolitically, however, the observation is sound. Small states need a powerful protector far away or to balance their position between nearby large states. The latter only works in mountainous hellholes and on peninsulas (provided your larger neighbor(s) can’t blockade you; if they can, you need a foreign guarantor with a blue-water navy, of which historically there have only been one or two at a time).

(You know Switzerland is a weapons exporter, right? To the U.S. But also to Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Hungary. One could almost say that folks who conclude intent from a place of ignorance communicate “all you need to know about” themselves.)
by asgraham | 2025-11-01 20:39:39+00:00
I was initially skeptical of this claim because I’d previously learned that to cross the blood-brain barrier particles need to be ~200nm (PM2.5 = 2500nm). However, PM2.5 does seem to be an important category of particles for brain damage: somehow these particles can access the brain [1]. Obviously, yes, it depends on exactly the particle whether it will be “neurotoxic,” but generally “unnatural” particles in the brain are not going to do good things. (I am not an expert in particulates) it seems like things larger than this don’t penetrate the blood-brain barrier, so they can’t be neurotoxic. So PM2.5 is probably at an intersection of large enough to be unhealthy but small enough that the blood brain barrier doesn’t help (probably some evolutionary argument to be made here).

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9491465/#:~:text=PM...
by daedrdev | 2025-11-01 20:40:19+00:00
The market shows we do not have enough housing first and foremost. Many people care most of all about the cost, which is why people live in terrible buildings, so denser housing which can lower housing costs is the only real solution to increasingly unaffordable housing. Real estate is recession proof because we have effectively banned new housing which creates a massive rent seeking wealth transfer to those holding onto land simply by being there first
by asa400 | 2025-11-01 20:40:38+00:00
It’s a reasonable question!

In WAL mode, writers and readers don’t interfere with each other, so you can still do pure read queries in parallel.

Only one writer is allowed at a time no matter what, so writers queue up and you have to take the write lock at some point anyway.

In general, it’s hard to say without benchmarking your own application. This will get rid of SQLITE_BUSY errors firing immediately in the situation of read/write/upgrade-read-to-write scenario I described, however. You’d be retrying the transactions that fail from SQLITE_BUSY anyway, so that retrying is what you’d need to benchmark against.

It’s a subtle problem, but I’d rather queue up writes than have to write the code that retries failed transactions that shouldn’t really be failing.
by testing22321 | 2025-11-01 20:40:58+00:00
What planet are you on?

I’m in Canada, in a tight valley that snows a lot.

7.8kw on the roof, even if I paid full price out of pocket it would be fully paid off in 13 years, and then I get $1000 a year of free power for another 20 or so years.

Even at full price it’s a total no brainer.
by synack | 2025-11-01 20:42:02+00:00
Which chips specifically are we talking about? Nexperia's products page looks like it's mostly basic semiconductors and standard logic ICs, all of which are available from several manufacturers. Sure, they might have to modify the PCB layout if the pinouts are different, but that doesn't seem like a major hurdle.

https://www.nexperia.com/products
by Animats | 2025-11-01 20:42:06+00:00
This might be worthwhile for special situations, such as river and canyon crossings. There, the towers are huge and the spans are long.[1]

Those super-tall towers are one-off designs and striking structures. Just putting a stork-shaped tower in the middle of a long line in open terrain looks silly.

[1] https://transmissionlineworld.blogspot.com/2020/08/worlds-ta...
by walleeee | 2025-11-01 20:42:21+00:00
I'm not endorsing victimhood or saying that Bangladesh is poor because the US is rich. It was badly phrased if that is how it reads, for that I apologize.

I'm saying the US does what it can to keep itself richer than other countries all around the globe by immoral means. It is not unique in this. This is not the only reason the US is rich or the only reason any other is not.

I'm also saying that this is a really bad strategy if the goal is humankind flourishing on this planet. People already enrich one another in many ways. We have to stop warring on one another and nature, thoughtlessly dumping entropy where we can't see it, etc.
by samdoesnothing | 2025-11-01 20:43:02+00:00
That makes no sense. It was much longer than 10 years before people considered C to be tech debt for example. Idk if it will be 10 years exactly, but we are seeing better languages emerging (Swift 6, Mojo, probably others) that provide the same safety guarantees and performance/use case profiles as Rust, but are vastly more ergonomic and lovely to use. I fear Linux was hasty integrating Rust because it will likely prevent them from integrating something better in the near future.
by firefoxd | 2025-11-01 20:43:54+00:00
Neat! Let's take this at face value for a second. The generated code, and html can be written to disk. This way as the application progresses it is built. Plus you only ever build the parts that are needed.

Somehow it will also help you decide what is needed as an mvp. Instead of building everything you think you will need, you get only what you need. But if I use someone elses application running this repo, the first thing I'll do is go to /admin/users/all
by culi | 2025-11-01 20:44:18+00:00
Sure, but asbestos, lead, formaldehyde, benzene, etc particulate matters are all undoubtedly going to be more harmful than most types of wood smoke. An urban area will have both wood smoke (which is often treated, possibly with methyl bromide) and industrial smoke. Few would deny breathing in campfire smoke is less likely to cause more immediate harm than a fire at a waste site
by whatpeoplewant | 2025-11-01 20:44:42+00:00
Cool demo—running everything through a single LLM per request surfaces the real bottlenecks. A practical tweak is an agentic/multi‑agent pattern: have a planner synthesize a stable schema+UI spec (IR) once and cache it, then use small executor agents to call tools deterministically with constrained decoding; run validation/rendering in parallel, stream partial UI, and use a local model for cheap routing. That distributed, parallel agentic AI setup slashes tokens and latency while stabilizing UI across requests. You still avoid hand‑written code, but the system converges on reusable plans instead of re‑deriving them each time.
by Jotalea | 2025-11-01 20:44:44+00:00
Fuck Linux is a new Linux distro, intentionally designed to provide the worst user experience possible. it is based on Ubuntu 24.04, and the ISO alone takes 16 GB.

it has one single release. it comes with LXQt on Wayland apparently, uses swaybg for wallpaper, PCManFM-QT file explorer; ships with all Java runtimes for no reason, has SDKs for every single popular language. it comes with Edge as the default browser, as well as Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Vivaldi and Zen browsers.

it's developed by the #1 Linux hater (no u/basedchad21, you're not the #1 Linux hater anymore). it has a quite annoying user interface. it also jumpscares you with a job application form if you type vi, vim, nvim, neofetch or fastfetch. shutdown has a 50% chance of rebooting. it mimics the windows filesystem (/c/Users/user/Downloads). and quite more annoying effects.
by nradov | 2025-11-01 20:44:49+00:00
There don't seem to be any substantial federal legal issues in OpenAI converting one of its units from a non-profit to a for-profit corporation. This is almost entirely a state issue, and OpenAI was able to get the California state government to go along with the plan by threatening to move to another state. For better or worse that's the way our dual sovereignty federal system works.
by petre | 2025-11-01 20:45:02+00:00
Read on insulators and AC insulator losses, insulator aging, cost vs. air. Or ask your favourite LLM.

A few bird shaped pylons near busy roads is probably nothing compared to miles of HVAC or HVDC cable and normalized insulation losses spread over its lifetime.

Also the branches in the sculptures are used to break lightning into smaller electric arcs just like in regular pylons. Pretty cool. Very Victorian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWYxrowovts
by ford | 2025-11-01 20:45:22+00:00
The argument sounds like he believes AI (+ robotics) will take jobs, and breaking up OpenAI could slow it down

Historically the most productive countries are the most prosperous - I think there is a big landscape of local maxima/minima in how healthy & happy a country/economy is, but shunning new technology has never been the path to Quality of Life. The only future where the US maintains its relative success involves American leadership in AI and robotics, with humans supporting them
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-11-01 20:45:33+00:00
Seems like an optimization that could be applied quite generally - as the author mentions at the end there’s lots of places this could be used.

The problem with applying this technique generally is the amount of code generated. But what if you can optimize that too.. perhaps share the common parts of the AST between the copies of the code that are generated, and overlay the changes with some datastructure.
Show HN: Game where players write real JavaScript to battle other players online
by artchiv | 2025-11-01 20:46:16+00:00
The game was released today. I’m the lead developer and game designer. This game isn’t meant for a wide audience — it’s very niche, since the programming aspect is fully real. Your JavaScript (or any language compiled to WebAssembly) runs on actual servers inside a sandboxed game environment. All language features and systems are allowed.

The game provides opponents and gameplay challenges, as well as a full way to test your code by saving specific opponents as your own unit tests. It’s basically test-driven development (TDD): you encounter an opponent, lose to them (red test), refine your code, beat them (green test), and move up the ladder. Opponents are saved autonomous versions of other players’ scripts, so online presence isn’t required.

There’s a free demo version with a live single-player tutorial available, but without access to multiplayer arenas.
by michaelt | 2025-11-01 20:46:19+00:00
> Surely they could have put a cable duct, trench or similar alongside it, or an under the adjacent cycle path. Maintenance would surely be cheaper too.

Burying a cable is 3x to 10x more expensive than running it overhead. [1]

Although faults are less common, they become much more expensive to fix - digging the cables up to fix is expensive, and it's even more expensive when you don't know quite where the fault is and you need a bunch of exploratory digging.

And unlike California, Austria doesn't have a load of wildfire problems.

[1] https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2024-11/111524_Un... https://www.theiet.org/media/ss5ndfti/electricity-transmissi...
by jsrozner | 2025-11-01 20:46:26+00:00
I had a convo with a senior CS prof at Stanford two years ago. He was excited about LLM use in paper writing to, e.g., "lower barriers" to idk, "historically marginalized groups" and to "help non-native English speakers produce coherent text". Etc, etc - all the normal tech folk gobbledygook, which tends to forecast great advantage with minimal cost...and then turn out to be wildly wrong.

There are far more ways to produce expensive noise with LLMs than signal. Most non-psychopathic humans tend to want to produce veridical statements. (Except salespeople, who have basically undergone forced sociopathy training.) At the point where a human has learned to produce coherent language, he's also learned lots of important things about the world. At the point where a human has learned academic jargon and mathematical nomenclature, she has likely also learned a substantial amount of math. Few people want to learn the syntax of a language with little underlying understanding. Alas, this is not the case with statistical models of papers!