MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by maxglute | 2025-11-05 22:17:21+00:00
You mean the 12/14 land borders disputee who settled with PRC ceding 50%+ concessions. Probably very happy because again objectively that is magnanimous by historic standards. For SCS where PRc offers to share but retarded democratic countries can't becausen itd political suicide, even now it's really just PH being a cunt. Otherwise unsettled land borders left is India and Bhutan because bhutan border ratification is linked to India's. So the answer is most of the neighbours think PRC did them a solid. Going rate for free math lesson that PRC has equals/most borders in the world and relations with most neighbours are good is free. Combo free geopolitical lesson that it's not good with the ones with US military cooperation that generates most propaganda.
by rgmerk | 2025-11-05 22:17:39+00:00
Privacy nightmare undoubtedly, but if you want affordable EVs BYD has you covered. A fully-functional, crash-worthy and apparently quite decent EV for around 16,000 USD (in Australia).

If you can't buy one, blame your government:

https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-reviews/2026-byd-atto-1-rev...
by kstrauser | 2025-11-05 22:17:46+00:00
That's probably all true, but it's the complaint I hear from people where I grew up in the Midwest when talking about meditation. "I can't do that, I'm a Christian" is an all too common refrain, as though it were inherently not Christian (or pro- or anti- anything else).

And yes, in this specific case, if you attended a Zen Buddhist temple, you'd probably get a lot of assistance meditating, if requested. That's far from the only way to get that framework. By analogy, you can pray without attending church.
by afiori | 2025-11-05 22:19:11+00:00
It is funny to me how fractally perverse systems gets when a centralised authority refuses to directly solve a problem but rather decide have it solved by third party uncooperative players by creating an endless stream of byzantine rules to force the solution to be a twisted copy of what the centralised authority could have done by itself.

Of course there are failure modes in any approach but "oh no! Herding cats is hard. Who could have imagined!" is funny to me
by lovich | 2025-11-05 22:19:54+00:00
It sounds exactly like how business works in my experience. It’s just the principle agent problem showing up in the government that same way it does in the private sphere.

I mean, if you’re at a place that uses staff aug and managing a project it’s just something you have to watch out from your vendors as table stakes. Whenever a new vendor was hired my fellow low level managers would be making bets on how long before they switched out their best guys with some fresh out of college junior that they’d give a fancy title to.
by ojosilva | 2025-11-05 22:20:10+00:00
Yeah, I'm just going through the Cerebras migration at the moment.

It's a shame Cerebras completely dropped Qwen3 Coder's fast tool calling, short and instant responses, and better speed overall for GLM 4.6 thinking. Qwen3 is really good at hitting the tools first, then coming up with a well-grounded answer based on reality. Sometimes it's good when a model is Socratic: just knows it knows nothing.

GLM 4.6 on the other hand is more self-sufficient and if it sees it, and knows it, it thinks and thinks and finally just fixes it in one or two shots, so when you hit the jackpot, it probably an improvement over Q3C. But when it does not get it right, it digs itself into a hole larger than the Olympus Mons.
by nkmnz | 2025-11-05 22:20:13+00:00
Mine says "NovaMin" right on the front. There are multiple types of Sensodyne.

Btw, what really drives me crazy is that Elmex sells multiple different sorts of tooth paste with the colors green and violett, each. How can a company confuse their customers so much that they buy a tooth whitener paste instead of a remineralizing one? Did the mistake twice...
by curmudgeon22 | 2025-11-05 22:20:43+00:00
I agree with this. I quibble with the wording "enjoy" thinking. It's probably also true, but it's not always the enjoyment of it, but a general propensity to overthink or dig into the weeds more, with the resulting less actual doing.

And if you dig into the weeds enough, you can find alternatives and counterarguments which can lead to analysis paralysis.
by observationist | 2025-11-05 22:20:56+00:00
These writers are no different than bloggers or shitposters on bluesky or here on hackernews. "Journalism" as a rigorous, principled approach to writing, research, investigation, and ethical publishing is exceedingly rare. These people are shitposting for clicks in pursuit of a paycheck. Organizationally, they're intensely against AI because AI effectively replaces the entire talking heads class - AI is already superhuman at the shitposting level takes these people churn out. There are still a few journalistic insitutions out there, but most people are no better than a mad libs exercise with regards to the content they produce, and they're in direct competition with ChatGPT and Grok and the rest. I'd rather argue with a bot and do searches and research and investigation than read a neatly packaged trite little article about nearly any subject, and I guarantee, hallucinations or no, I'm going to come to a better understanding and closer approximation of reality than any content a so called "news" outlet is putting together.

It's trivial to get a thorough spectrum of reliable sources using AI w/ web search tooling, and over the course of a principled conversation, you can find out exactly what you want to know.

It's really not bashing, this article isn't too bad, but the bulk of this site's coverage of AI topics skews negative - as do the many, many platforms and outlets owned by Bell Media, with a negative skew on AI in general, and positive reinforcement of regulatory capture related topics. Which only makes sense - they're making money, and want to continue making money, and AI threatens that - they can no longer claim they provide value if they're not providing direct, relevant, novel content, and not zergnet clickbait journo-slop.

Just like Carlin said, there doesn't have to be a conspiracy with a bunch of villains in a smoky room plotting evil, there's just a bunch of people in a club who know what's good for them, and legacy media outlets are all therefore universally incentivized to make AI look as bad and flawed and useless as possible, right up until they get what they consider to be their "fair share", as middlemen.
by Amezarak | 2025-11-05 22:21:19+00:00
Filing a 1040 in the US is also very easy and takes a few minutes and can be done for free.

Another factor most people are ignoring is that state taxes are filed at the same time and each state has its own separate system. These third parties let you fill in and file both at the same time. It would be nice if the US gov did this too but it requires a total restructuring of the American system, and Intuit’s lobbying has nothing to do with why it hasn’t happened or for that matter why the tax codes looks like it does.
by twoodfin | 2025-11-05 22:21:58+00:00
“Musicians play their instruments, I play the orchestra.” – Seiji Ozawa by way of Steve Jobs by way of Aaron Sorkin

“I don’t want to be a product of my environment, I want my environment to be a product of me.” – “Frank Costello” by way of William Monahan by way of Martin Scorsese

I think humans have a deeply rooted inner sense of how much our destiny lies within our own hands, subject to our own will. That’s in some part a matter of intelligence, surely, but as social animals it’s also dependent on a dynamic set of emotional, historical, economic, political structures and our ability to navigate them, much of which is likely not directly aligned with success in mathematics or French.
by AlexAplin | 2025-11-05 22:22:01+00:00
Google had a tailored fair use argument because they never made more than snippets public and searchable. It was also prior to Hachette that controlled lending with one-to-one digital copies for every physical copy was a status quo that publishers largely accepted, which IA deliberately tried to upset with the National "Emergency" Library.

I think it's worth fighting back on copyright as a broken institution, and it should be part of the IA's mission, but you have to be responsible on your approach if you're also going to posture as an archival library with stability of information and access. I understand Kahle might lament losing some of the hacker ethos, but the IA is too important to run up against extremes like this without an existential threat.
by B-Con | 2025-11-05 22:22:01+00:00
My own personal reflections, that I realize may not be true for everyone.

Hypothesis: Living in the moment and being content is a key aspect of happiness. The more you know, the smarter you are, the harder it is to live in the moment or be content.

1) The more you understand, the more problems you see.

When you understand little, everything is ind of random. You have minimal expectations. The more you understand, the more connections you make, the more you see how things could be and how far away they are from an ideal state. You focus more on the potential, and thus the future, than on the present.

2) The more you understand, the less novelty there is.

The first time you play video game in a particular genre (or watch a movie, etc), you take it all in and experience as it is. Little interactions are delightful, as your brain is happy to see two things make an unexpected connection.

After you complete a few, you understand how the system works. The balances and trade-offs that make up the nature of the genre. When you start a new one, you instantly start breaking it apart into a mental spreadsheet, rather than experiencing the literal thing in front of your face. The unexpected elements become expected because you know how even the unexpected stuff tends to work.

The more of life you experience, the less novelty there is to any part of it.

3) The more you understand, the easier it is to live in the future.

"I should try this", "I should do that". You get locked into intellectual responsibilities with long-term goals. The short term becomes just a nuisance to achieve long-term goals. You aren't only not living in today, you aren't even living in tomorrow, you're actually living 6-24 months from now.

4) The more you understand, the less of a point you see.

If you're a pattern solving machine, eventually you realize there's no bottom to find. There's always just another chaotic pattern to pick apart. Another thing to learn. The same things play out over and over again, mildly differently. You can't fix the majority of the problems you see. You can barely understand yourself.

You're good at min/max-ing problems. But what's the ultimate thing to min/max? You have no idea.

So you ask yourself, what's the point to the whole process? Simply maximizing brain chemistry? You know you can't just focus on happy brain chemicals because that will also ruin your life (ie, heroin).

5) The more you understand, the less you hope in magic.

Some optimism depends on magical thinking. "Maybe this will work out because X will happen!" Except X can't happen. But if you believe it could happen, you are genuinely more happy.

The more you understand, the more quickly you can solve all known aspects of a problem and get left with the parts that can't be solved. You know all the things that can't happen to fix a problem. The world isn't magical. Medicine isn't magic, doctors aren't magic, technology isn't magic, politicians aren't magic, problems don't just disappear over night.
by jecel | 2025-11-05 22:22:36+00:00
The VM in Slang had been previously published as part of the "blue book" (now that is what I call open source!) some 14 years before, and as the paper you linked to mentioned, Mario Wolczko at the University of Manchester had typed it in so it was available in machine readable form.

They did drop the object memory part completely and designed a new one from scratch.

Previously people had manually translated the VM from Slang to Pascal or C (I did so myself in 1986) but for this project they wrote a tool for that (in Smalltalk, of course).

Here is another copy of the "Back to the Future" paper:

http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Papers/BttF.html
by tuatoru | 2025-11-05 22:22:51+00:00
Everyone is a climate skeptic.

"To know, and not yet to do, is not to know" - Aristotle.

Everyone still flies on planes. Ceasing burning kerosene is the easiest possible thing you could do to reduce your climate impact, but no-one does it.

Everyone hates being called out on it, but it is true. No-one really cares, because no-one is prepared to make a socially costly signal, costly in prestige or relationships or group membership. It's all posturing.
by crdrost | 2025-11-05 22:24:10+00:00
Yes, here "overall" is being used as a synonym for "from all causes" not "over the full length of your life," and there's this frustrating thing for those of us with physics educations where people frequently leave off a unit of time: so like if it's a 5 year study, and your all-cause mortality is lower by a factor of 20% over those 5 years, that means 80% survived and you should compute the fifth root 0.8^(1/5) to find that 95.6% survived per year on this account, and then you can say "reduces mortality by 4.4% per year," and that sounds much more reasonable.

This happens all over the place. You're just supposed to know in investment that a price-to-earnings ratio is measured in years, or people will say "the Buffett indicator is 200%" not "the Buffett indicator is 2 years."
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-11-05 22:24:15+00:00
> I took your earlier post as saying that the ability to see the bigger picture leads to neurosis and unhappiness.

Yes, that was the intention. What I perhaps failed to convey in my last reply is that simply having the mental capacity to “zoom out” on its own doesn’t mean that the individual in question is actually doing that, and that some other secondary condition (such as life experience or knowledge) is required. In my anecdote, I was missing some requirement until halfway through college.

> Going back upstream, I'd say that the ability to "see the big picture" is not well defined. Part of it is abstraction and part of it is systems thinking and knowledge about additional activities going on in your world.

> And, I think these are mostly orthogonal to a happiness. Your emotional disposition can cause you to see a very different valence in the same systems view.

I don’t think the two are entirely unrelated. I would expect that someone who’s more cerebral is going to be less influenced by their disposition, and in the case of someone stuck in a negative mental loop their disposition could be shifted if the loop goes unaddressed for too long.
by Zak | 2025-11-05 22:24:55+00:00
> As the business running the servers of smart vacuums, if I saw an atypical device reporting in, without context, I too would kill that device.

If you want to block a device from accessing your servers because it's behaving in an odd way, such as this one that was contacting the update server but not the telemetry server, that's not entirely unreasonable. Sending it a command to modify its software to stop it from operating entirely is outrageous.
by roarcher | 2025-11-05 22:25:08+00:00
On some cars you can also unplug whatever radio/modem doodad is responsible for phoning home. I have a Ford Maverick and disconnected the "telemetry module" which resides under the transmission hump by the front passenger seat.

I no longer receive updates to the infotainment system and I can't unlock the doors with my phone, but I also don't have the dealer emailing me service ads with my exact current mileage and tire pressure.
by dagaci | 2025-11-05 22:25:28+00:00
Imagine your a super smart 'aztec' citizen and you watch your leading priests sacrificing 1000s of people in the name of a god which is probably imaginary ... you have the choice to dumb down (re-occupy your mind with work, duties, mundane, gish gash) and stop over thinking or ... continue to contemplate the true horror's that your world is indulging in or something else even...
by andy99 | 2025-11-05 22:25:41+00:00
Classical LLM hallucination happens because AI doesn’t have a world model. It can’t compare what it’s saying to anything.

You’re right that LLMs favor helpfulness so they may just make things up when they don’t know them, but this alone doesn’t capture the crux of hallucination imo, it’s deeper than just being overconfident.

OTOH, there was an interesting article recently that I’ll try to find saying humans don’t really have a world model either. While I take the point, we can have one when we want to.

Edit: see https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/in-search-of-ai-psychosis re humans not having world models
by tavavex | 2025-11-05 22:26:52+00:00
This is exactly it, beautifully put. It's very easy and tempting to hide behind an ideology that makes broad-stroke descriptions about the entire world. "It's just how the world works", "it's simply basic economics" (really, nearly all claims about "basic" anything with no further nuance). But for people who are entrenched in their opinions, I don't think there's a lot of absolution or guilt going on. To the most dedicated believers, the belief had become a part of their identity, so vindicating it is almost integral to their being. Of course they'd want anyone who disagrees to suffer - they don't just view that as an inevitability, but also the morally correct thing, the appropriate punishment to the people for not accepting their obvious truth.
by walterwootz | 2025-11-05 22:27:25+00:00
Lightweight (but powerful ) system that leverages LLMs and Agents to generate SQL queries from natural language questions and answer in natural language. The system performs RAG by indexing db schemas, SQL-pairs and user Instructions using vector similarity search to provide context-aware query generation. Differenly from WrenAI or similar tools, it is small models native.
by bronco21016 | 2025-11-05 22:27:45+00:00
I’m not positive how this will be implemented but typically airport authorities work with airlines on this subject. The airport authority will likely tell airlines instead of 50 aircraft per hour we can only handle 45 and leave it to the airline to determine where to cut. The result is likely to be the same as what you’ve indicated. Airlines are not going to slash their most profitable routes so the reductions will almost certainly be smaller markets.

I have travel scheduled next week and I fear what this might do to my itinerary. Really hoping the Govt sorts itself out before then but there’s been almost no indication that is going to happen.
by tanelpoder | 2025-11-05 22:28:27+00:00
I figure it’s one way to keep your compiler version unchanged for eBPF work, while you might update/upgrade your dev OS packages over time for other reasons. The title of the linked issue is this:

“Checksum code does not work for LLVM-14, but it works for LLVM-13”

Newer compilers might use new optimizations that the verifier won’t be happy with. I guess the other option would be to find some config option to disable that specific incompatible optimization.
by mindslight | 2025-11-05 22:29:19+00:00
The problem is that Citizens United directly derives from a few straightforward concepts that are much more entrenched. The summary that "corporations are people" is kind of a misframing that makes you think the decision could have easily gone the other way, but that refrain is actually disempowering because there isn't much that could be changed at this level of abstraction.

This is a better exploration of what needs to happen: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-corporate-power... ( I found this article via HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45317731 )
by kaicianflone | 2025-11-05 22:29:32+00:00
I completely agree. Mindfulness and goodwill are good for the soul. They quiet the noise and help us see ourselves more clearly. I practiced meditation for years (and I still do but with my rosary this time), and it helped me observe my thoughts, but it never really healed them.

That’s where Christianity felt different. Most spiritualities try to empty the mind of what’s toxic, but Jesus calls us to bring our darkness into His light. When we try to cast things out on our own, they return stronger. Like the demon who brings seven more, or the widow who denies her grief only to carry it for decades.

Mindfulness helps us watch the storm. Christ walks into it with us. One teaches peace through avoidance. The other offers redemption through surrender. That’s the difference that changed my life.
by jaggederest | 2025-11-05 22:30:06+00:00
When I lived in a city proper, the grid was doing well to maintain 98% uptime. Multiple day long outages were the rule, not uncommon to lose power 3-5 days in a row.

Now I live in a rural area and it's uncommon to avoid outages more than a month. We have an automatic transfer switch and fuel generator from previous owners and it saves hundreds of dollars in frozen food.

This is in the US by the way. If you're investing in a transfer switch and generator now, the cost is going to quickly approach a modest solar + battery set up with a whole house inverter, and of course, you save money all year that way, not just in outages.
by quitit | 2025-11-05 22:30:40+00:00
You posit:

> Why would I be paying all this money for this realistic telepresence when my shitbox HP laptop from Walmart has a perfectly serviceable webcam?

I gave a pretty straightforward answer for why this feature would exist in this product. People sometimes on this forums ask legitimate questions.

It's pretty clear you weren't, rather you're seeking an opportunity to merely push some tired agenda, likely tied to some personal vendetta, and you're doing a pretty piss-poor job of it.
by abdullahkhalids | 2025-11-05 22:30:48+00:00
> It sort of depends on the expertise of the author, right?

In a well-established field like Physics or Biology, if an expert is talking about the established part of their field, they can just say things and you can trust that they are correct. If they saying things about the unestablished parts of their field - say a physicist talking about string theory - they need to properly cite stuff.

In a not so well established field like Climate Science, where there is a lot of disagreement, every expert needs to cite their sources so people in adjacent fields can verify what they are saying.
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-11-05 22:31:06+00:00
Actually I don't even think the platitude is appropriate in this case, although perhaps this is due to differences in acceptable performance. Do you really need to measure the health impact directly on your body to be satisfied that you are doing something right? I think you can take studies that say "X mg of fiber a day improves outcomes", eat slightly more than X mg of fiber, and likely get 90% of the benefit as compared to the "ideal" amount of fiber, all without a personalized measuremnet. Even if you did have a measurement, there would be confounding factors like "how much did you exercise?" / "how stressed were you?" / "is your body 'just getting old'?"
by Xorakios | 2025-11-05 22:31:15+00:00
It's closer 1 one degree in the last 120 years, than 20, for a global average, though polar areas are bearing more of the brunt.

Unless AMOC collapses and we foolishly trip into another glacial period, the 200ft increase in sea level is inevitable in the next thousand years, but totally manageable for the continents. It's the oceanic mountaintops, aka, low level islands, and coastal cities that are at risk. Most of those cities are already filled with happy rich people who will have been long gone decades, or even centuries before Florida and Bangladesh are submerged and Russia, Australia and Canada are booming with happy with abundant rainfall, crops and awesome weather.

It just seems like focusing on ameliorating pain and focusing on the making the inevitable a better outcome is the most important focus for the next few decades.