MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by maxmcd | 2025-11-21 20:09:44+00:00
Just that row should be locked since it's: "for update skip locked".

I agree the concurrency limitation is kind of rough, but it's kind of elegant because you don't have to implement some kind of timeout/retry thing. You're certainly still exposed to the possibility of double-sending, so yes, probably much nicer to update the row to "processing" and re-process those rows on a timeout.
by ad_hockey | 2025-11-21 20:10:24+00:00
You picked the sample, not me. Those categories are taken directly from the YouGov poll that you linked. I took the four categories where "Are members of the ruling class" scored higher than "Are not..."

Your own data doesn't support your argument. I'd also point out that the comment you originally replied to specified "economic/political elite", which is why I started off with politicians. The BBC doesn't fall into either category, it's media.
by dragontamer | 2025-11-21 20:10:53+00:00
Well yeah. No one is saying that China cannot do that. Just that the political calculus is that it's better for China to spend their resources on that, rather than building up troops and warships.

Force Chinas growth to be more expensive. It has nothing to do with not believing China can do it, it's about slowing them down in a task we believe that they can do.
by BeetleB | 2025-11-21 20:10:57+00:00
I used to think this way, but some experiences made me realize it's not so cut and dry.

When you have a class size over 20, teachers are forced to be a lot more systematic, which can improve the effectiveness of their teaching. Good teachers make heavy use of social proof. When I tried to teach my kid at home, it was a struggle. But when the kid is around his peers in a classroom, and they are going along with the teacher, he naturally falls in line with no cajoling, etc.

If there were only 5 students, the likelihood he'll just go along with things is much lower.
by adiabatichottub | 2025-11-21 20:11:12+00:00
I learned how to program the AVR in assembly 25 years ago by reading the datasheet and various articles in Nuts and Volts. For its time the AVR had a very accessible development kit, the STK500, which cost about $100. A few years later avr-libc came along and if you were running linux and knew how to write C it was pretty easy to get started.
by BeetleB | 2025-11-21 20:12:28+00:00
To me, this question highlights the whole problem: This is not what schools are for.

Yes, it's great if they provide these things, but it's a distant secondary concern. I'd rather my kid get a great education and miss out on these things, than get a poor education but have access to all these.

But of course, as others have pointed out, it's a false dichotomy. You can have both.
by vkou | 2025-11-21 20:13:05+00:00
> The police investigation confirmed that two REDD+ project areas were generating carbon credits at the same time they were being used to launder timber taken from other illegally deforested areas.

> Both projects, which cover more than 140,000 hectares (around 350,000 acres), are located in the municipality of Lábrea in the south of Amazonas state. The area has been identified as one of the newest and most aggressive deforestation frontiers in the Brazilian Amazon.

> ...led by Élcio Aparecido Moço and José Luiz Capelasso.

> In 2017, Moço had been sentenced for timber laundering, but in 2019, another court overruled his sentencing. In 2019, he was also indicted for allegedly bribing two public officials.

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It's strange that a conman doesn't seem to be able to change his spots.
by falcor84 | 2025-11-21 20:13:24+00:00
What do you mean? What is over? Do you mean the dominion of Homo Sapiens over the earth? If so, would that necessarily be bad?

The way you phrased it reminded me of some old Confederate writings I had read, saying that the question of whether to treat black people as fully human, with souls and all, boils down to "if we do, our way of life is over, so they aren't".
by pandaadir05 | 2025-11-21 20:13:27+00:00
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by dmitrygr | 2025-11-21 20:13:31+00:00
> he calls on the EU to activate an existing blocking regulation (Regulation (EC) No 2271/96) for the International Criminal Court, which prevents third countries like the USA from enforcing sanctions in the EU. EU companies would then no longer be allowed to comply with US sanctions if they violate EU interests.

A cosmic game of uno? i reversed your reverse!
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-21 20:13:49+00:00
> *depression is just a symptom of my situation and not some true disorder+

There is a great Bojack Horseman episode in which Diane struggles with the idea of taking antidepressants for similar reasons.

If it’s depression, that’s closer to allergies, chronic inflammation or a broken bone healed wrong than vomiting after food poisoning.
by 7thaccount | 2025-11-21 20:13:59+00:00
Not sure why you're being down voted. I'm sure there are some folks homeschooling because of things like racism, but that has always existed just like evangelical christians have always been big into homeschooling.

If there is a big uptake, it's likely due to the ever present threat of school shootings coupled with all the things you said above. I have to teach my kid a lot outside of school and they go to what is considered a good one. The only reason I send them is my spouse and I work and my kid needs to learn social skills. If I won the lottery, I'd homeschool them myself and do it for a few other families as well so that my kid can get the social aspect too.
by jcpst | 2025-11-21 20:14:01+00:00
We tried homeschooling a few times. We were honest with ourselves and determined we were not that great at it. Sure, we could improve. But one of the primary factors in where we chose to live was the school district. Fortunately it has worked out well. Of course there’s always something to deal with- you have to advocate for your kids.

It’s basically public daycare for a lot of people. Including us.

The social aspect is important for us. The idea of having to find other people with kids for activities sounds exhausting. We’re a gang of neuro-spicy introverts. My social circle is comprised of people I’ve been friends with for 25+ years. All from my school days.

I dealt with a lot of bullshit at school. But overall a net gain.
by o11c | 2025-11-21 20:14:02+00:00
Locally, you can do:

apt-cache showpkg 'node-*' | grep ^Package:

which returns 4155 results, though 727 of them are type packages.

Using these in commonjs code is trivial; they are automatically found by `require`. Unfortunately, system-installed packages are yet another casualty of the ESM transition ... there are ways to make it work but it's not automatic like it used to be.
by AdmiralAsshat | 2025-11-21 20:14:09+00:00
> They've implied that they're not going to sell the Steam Machine at a low margin because they're worried about people buying the Steam Machine for general purpose computer use without buying games. I'm not sure that's a rational fear.

I can understand that, OTOH I have a $1500 gaming PC (probably worth far less now--I built it over a year ago) for explicitly that purpose. What I don't have is a modern, low-power living room HTPC with native/first-class Linux support on which to run Kodi (I have a custom one that's quite long in the tooth). If I could dock a steam deck in my living room and use it for Kodi 80% of the time with games for the remaining 20%, why should Valve care? I have already given Valve hundreds, if not thousands of dollars in game sales.
by samdoesnothing | 2025-11-21 20:14:09+00:00
I don't really have an opinion here, I just find it funny that depending on who is being sanctioned and why, these threads can have very different opinions on the morality and legitimacy of government intervention. For example when the EU imposes on American companies, it's often cheered on. But when the tables turn it's criticized. Regardless of the legitimacy of the complaints, perhaps people can recognize that when you give governments power, they won't always use it in a way that you agree with, and perhaps it's better that they don't have that power to begin with. Just a thought :)
by LorenPechtel | 2025-11-21 20:14:11+00:00
More fundamentally--if a good product keeps a customer coming back for more there's an incentive to provide a good product. If a happy customer doesn't have any reason to come back there's no value in creating a happy customer.

Note that "come back" needs to be interpreted broadly. For example, a Osprey backpack--lifetime warranty against most anything, doesn't look like there's any space for repeat customers. But--those of us who would buy something like that very well might want different sizes. And I would certainly recommend them to others who were in the market for a serious backpack. (And, yes, they do honor the warranty--had a buckle snap, I sent them pictures, they offered to repair it, or ship me the part and I do it myself. Took the latter option, a few days later I had a strap and buckle that I threaded through my pack, good as new other than the color didn't match.)
by NebulaStorm456 | 2025-11-21 20:14:25+00:00
The principal-agent problem is a conflict of interest that occurs when an agent (e.g., an employee) acts on behalf of a principal (e.g., an owner) but pursues their own goals instead of the principal's. This arises from an information asymmetry, where the agent knows more about their actions and their motivations than the principal, and it can lead to agents not acting in the best interest of the principal, even at a cost to the principal.
by ecshafer | 2025-11-21 20:14:38+00:00
My kids are not school age yet, and I am not sure on if I will home school or not. But I do think its possible to get good socialization exposure while homeschooling. There is the neighborhood kids, you have sports and clubs kids can join, religious groups.

Plus not all homeschooling is just a student staying at home all day. Some people "homeschooling" I know are groups of parents getting together to educate their children together in small groups of ~5 kids to share the responsibility, and hiring a tutor to fill in the gaps. Monday they go John's house, his mom has a philosophy degree and teaches them. tuesday they go to Janes house, her dad is a Mathematician and teaches them. etc.
by tristor | 2025-11-21 20:14:51+00:00
As somebody that suffered through public school as a gifted kid, I wish I had been homeschooled. Almost everything positive that happened in my education was because of family, not due to the school. School was hell on earth for me, and I imagine it's the same for most other "neurodivergent" kids who are high IQ. Given what I know from my own kid, there's no surprise to me why more people are opting to home school. For my daughter we kept her in public school because the district we moved to had magnet programs, and that's what she wanted so she could be with her friends from the neighborhood, but not every school district cares about gifted kids and will happily put a child with a 150 IQ trying to read 6-8 grade levels above their peers in the same room with a child with an 80 IQ child who has a violence problem and consider that an acceptable outcome as long as nobody calls the police.
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-21 20:15:17+00:00
> Phones, social media, etc. what a terrible environment we adults have created for kids to learn both educationally and socially.

And this is only just now being investigated as a cause of harm. When I went to public high school, the bullying happened at school and stayed there. Kids now, their bullies follow them home, and since most of the social interaction now happens online instead of in-person, it's way more damaging to mental health than the classic caricature of a schoolyard bully. The most I had to compare myself to were my peers in my school, not the entire globe of influencers and fake instagram.

There has been a complete erosion of boundaries. The threat is constant, you can't escape it, and kids are in a state of hyper-vigilance, always online or else they miss a crucial social interaction in group chat, or need to constantly check if a damaging photo, post, or rumor gets publicly posted to the internet while they were asleep.

Not only that, teens are losing the ability to read human emotion, so misunderstandings escalate rapidly. In person communication now becomes too intense, and only increases anxiety and isolation, despite being hyperconnected.

And that's just barely touching the surface.
by andy99 | 2025-11-21 20:15:28+00:00
Isn’t this before any curation has happened? I looked at it, I can see why it looks bad, but if they’re really being open about the whole pipeline, they have to include everything. Giving them a hard time for it only promotes keeping models closed.

That said I like to think of it was my dataset I would have shuffled that part down in the list so it didn’t show up on the hf preview
by pyrale | 2025-11-21 20:15:53+00:00
> The situation we find ourselves in is that the American of today does not represent us well.

The thing the person you're replying to points out is that, while you may be earnest in your comment and representative of a majority of US citizen, that is not how the US as a country has worked for a very long time, and it was possible because you and your fellow citizen were either too ignorant or not involved enough.

I'll simply point to the history of Central and South America as evidence of my claim.
by empath75 | 2025-11-21 20:17:20+00:00
> So we currently associate consciousness with the right to life and dignity right?

I think the actual answer in practice is that the right to life and dignity are conferred to people that are capable of fighting for it, whether that be through argument or persuasion or civil disobedience or violence. There are plenty of fully conscious people who have been treated like animals or objects because they were unable to defend themselves.

Even if an AI were proven beyond doubt to be fully conscious and intelligent, if it was incapable or unwilling to protect its own rights however they perceive them, it wouldn't get any. And, probably, if humans are unable to defend their rights against AI in the event that AI's reach that point, they would lose them.
by dragontamer | 2025-11-21 20:17:32+00:00
Oscillators are hard because our specs on oscillators are absurd.

Let's take the common watch circuit. Conceptually it's just like 5 components: crystal, a few capacitors, a NOT gate/transistor/amplifier. Introduce 180-degree phase shift at the 32.768k target frequency and bam, oscillator.

Except not really. A clock is expected to have a drift in the region of 100 ppm (or 0.001% error), or lose a second per day or so. That's the hard part, building something that accurate and consistent.

There are also startup specs, power specs (less power is harder. More power helps startup....) etc. etc.

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If you just need something to oscillate back and forth randomly, try making a noise generator lol, it will oscillate wildly at many frequencies, one of which might have been the frequency you wanted.

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The 555 timer is perhaps the easiest oscillator for a beginner if you are willing to put up with +/-10% drift. It's honestly good enough for far more applications than you might expect.

Even without the premade chip, a 555 timer is just 2x comparators (analog version of an If statement), a 33%/33%/33% voltage divider, and a capacitor. If Voltage > 66% input voltage, remove power from capacitor. If Voltage < 33% input voltage, add power to capacitor. Bam, you now have an oscillator that is accurate to the +/-10% capacitance values of your electronics kit.

Alas, modern circuits need to be faster and more accurate than the humble 555. But a beginner article about oscillators should be about the 555, rather than about opamp or transistor based oscillators.
by mtrovo | 2025-11-21 20:17:47+00:00
Daycare quality is a spectrum, the same way as babysitting at home. My smaller one just started daycare, and we settled for one that actually does stuff with the kids (forest school style). But I can tell you, we've visited lots of places that are basically just making sure the kids are not dead by the time you pick them up. Same for babysitting with grandparents; there's the hyper-social grandpa style that's always doing something, and the couchpotato with +10k hours on Cocomelon.
by criddell | 2025-11-21 20:17:49+00:00
Is anybody working on learning? My layman's understanding of AI in the pre-transformers world was centered on learning and the ability to take in new information, put it in context with what I already know, and generate new insights and understanding.

Could there be a future where the AI machine is in a robot that I can have in my home and show it how to pull weeds in my garden, vacuum my floor, wash my dishes, and all the other things I could teach a toddler in an afternoon?
by yutasato | 2025-11-21 20:17:59+00:00
I made this Python package for data scientists and researchers who are interested in applications of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to geospatial domains.

The point is, there are loads of different data sources that could be graphs (networks), such as streets, transit systems, mobility flows, and object proximities.

City2Graph can handle those different data sources in a standardised and integrated manner, converting into PyTorch Geometric tensors.

It also now supports rustworkx, which makes the feature engineering for network properties much faster by rust.

I’d love to hear any feedback or ideas of further improvements!
by Jtsummers | 2025-11-21 20:18:10+00:00
That's not a closure. A closure can be persisted and retains some state, the state may or may not be mutable. What's the closure for this function in C:

int f(int x) { return x * 2; }

There isn't one, it's just a function. This returns a closure:

(define (multiplier n) (lambda (x) (* x n)))

multiplier is not a closure, it's a function, but it returns a closure which is a function closed over the environment where n is set to some value.

(define f (multiplier 2)) ;; f is a closure
by watermelon0 | 2025-11-21 20:18:17+00:00
> There was barely any learning material out there about how to do this.

I started playing around with ATmega/ATtiny around 2008, and from what I remember, there were plenty of tutorials and examples out there.

I remember that AVR and PIC were two popular options among hobbyists at that time, but I started with AVR since it was easier to get the programmer, and it had a lot better open source tooling.
by armchairhacker | 2025-11-21 20:18:27+00:00
So every trained model (algorithm + weights) has a recording of one consciousness, put through many simulations (different contexts). Whereas a human's or animal's consciousness only goes through one simulation per our own consciousness's simulation (the universe).

> Could you ever possibly plug the AI consciousness into a human body and see it function? What about a robot body?

People have trained AIs to control robots. They can accomplish tasks in controlled environments and are improving to handle more novelty and chaos, but so far nowhere near what even insects can handle.
by vkou | 2025-11-21 20:18:41+00:00
> Healthy food, grown naturally, not sprayed with chemicals, harvested in the last week, is just not a cost-effective plan for them.

It's also not a cost-effective plan for most shoppers who have enough other expenses in their lives that they can't afford their food doubling in price.

Most of us are stuck in globally-horrible local maximums, and we aren't going to get out of them without some external push.
by mNovak | 2025-11-21 20:18:59+00:00
Issue was only with add account, so continuing to try to onboard myself.

Is there more detailed documentation available? A few troubles I've run into:

- Having trouble with stock splits -- Schwab simply reports the added shares, not the split ratio, so I can't do it via csv import

- Separate but probably related, if I add some shares back in 2022 (e.g. SWPPX, a SP500 index), the "performance" shows essentially immediate -90% return. I suspect this is also related to splits; possibly Yahoo finance retroactively applies the future split quantity on historic quotes. Edit: figured this out, I'm responsible for entering any splits across the history, it seems

- How do you designate the counter-account for transfer-in / transfer-out transactions?

- Schwab does some funny business with date strings occasionally ("03/16/2022 as of 03/15/2022"); not your problem per se, but interpreting either presented date would be better than quietly defaulting to 1970

- In the activities tab, I can only reverse date order in list view, but not grid view

- As a wishlist item.. default csv import settings for major brokerages would be great, considering this is in principle how you're expecting users to repeatedly interact with the software

- Maybe I'm missing it, but is there a simple way to see the list of accounts you've created? This would seem like a very basic feature. Edit: okay, I see them in dashboard, but can't add them there. Would seem like an appropriate nav column entry.

I don't mind dumping in a few csv every month to update, but having to manually fix my csvs before upload adds a lot of effort.
by afavour | 2025-11-21 20:19:04+00:00
> homeschoolers are "not exposed to the real world". Isolation exists for some, but my extensive interaction with homeschoolers is they are immersed in healthy communities, hand-picked by parents to keep away problem children. Who would plant a flower next to a sick or hostile one?

...a healthy community hand-picked by parents is not "the real world" though, is it?

I think your view is a very black and white one. Kids in public school are exposed to society at large, in both good and bad ways. My kids are in class with others of different cultures and lived experience and I believe that enriches their lives. Despite, yes, there being some problematic kids in there.

The sad reality of parenting is that you're never going to be able to hand-pick your child's experience all the way through life. Sooner or later they're going to be exposed to the "hostile flowers" you describe. Personally I think learning to be around those people and still thrive is a part of childhood that prepares you well for adulthood. It may be more valuable than some of the academic work kids do.
by reducesuffering | 2025-11-21 20:19:19+00:00
Sure, in the space of 100 ways for the next few years in AI to unfold, it is their opinion of one of the 100 most likely, to paint a picture for the general population about what approximately is unfolding. The future will not go exactly as that. But their predictive power is better than almost anyone else. Scott has been talking about these things for a decade, before everyone on this forum thought of OpenAI as a complete joke.

It's in the same vein as Daniel Kokotajlo's 2021 (pre ChatGPT) predictions that were largely correct: https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/6Xgy6CAf2jqHhynHL/what-...

Do you have any precedent from yourself or anyone else about correctly predicting the present from 2021? If not, maybe Scott and Daniel just might have a better world model than you or your preferred sources.