MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by martin-t | 2025-11-07 18:12:16+00:00
A lot has been written about FPTP/plurality voting:

- https://rangevoting.org/

- https://rangevoting.org/BayRegsFig.html

- http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/

- https://ncase.me/ballot/

TL;DR

- It forces people to vote strategically according to who they believe has a chance to win instead of accurately describing their preferences.

- They can only express their opinion about one candidate, not all of them.

- The spoiler effect - more candidates for one side (on a given axis) increases the chance of a candidate on the other side winning.

I really encourage you to read all of those pages and play with the explorable explanations.

Dumb people are either able to understand this or generally have lower tendencies to engage in self-education so they don't know about these issues.

And, changing this fundamentally requires convincing dumb people because last time I checked there was not a single country where votes were weighted by intelligence.

> Since the dumb people end up being too dumb to participate

Again, this is incredibly wrong, everybody's vote counts the same.
by twiclo | 2025-11-07 18:12:38+00:00
No one is going to take you seriously if your argument is the tired, long debunked, wage gap argument. Women make less than men because they choose to. In recent years when you compare single working men to single working women, women are out-earning men. They're graduating college at higher rates.

There are countless other statistics that paint a clear picture that men are struggling. At what point will you actually care?
by AIorNot | 2025-11-07 18:12:56+00:00
I found this in the article to be pretty funny

“I’m pretty frightened, to be frank,” Dr. Melumad said. “I’m worried about younger folks not knowing how to conduct a traditional Google search.”

20 years ago I remember all the scary articles/studies about the web ruining education.

e.g

Net cheaters (from link below)

The ease of gathering information on the Internet has a darker side. The simplicity of finding out things on the Web also makes it easy for students to cheat. Cutting and pasting text from a Web site and into a paper is effortless. So is wholesale copying or purchasing finished essays or reports. About a fifth of online youth (18%) say they know of someone who has used the Internet to cheat on a paper or test. While 9% of those who have been online for a year or less know someone who has cheated, 19% of those who have been online for 2 to 3 years and 28% of those who have been online for more than three years know people who have used the Net to cheat

from https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2001/09/01/main-report-...
by Liquix | 2025-11-07 18:13:06+00:00
this seems to run parallel to the "i have nothing to hide" / "well they have everyone's data, so who cares about mine" arguments.

this is too narrow a view on the issue. the problem isn't that a colleague, acquaintance, neighbor, or government employee is going to snoop through your data. the problem is that once any government has everyone's data, they will feed it to PRISM-esque systems and use it to accurately model the population, granting the power to predict and shape future events.
by aaroninsf | 2025-11-07 18:13:32+00:00
Their entire business model is corrupt and a significant driver of the degraded state of our society, civility, and politics.

What is the core of their business? Maximizing and totalizing surveillance, in service whoever has money in hand, including those interested not (just) in selling you shit, but steering your behavior, mood, and beliefs.

There's a reason for the constant drumbeat of stories about whistleblowing, lawsuits, suppressed research, literal criminality, and contempt for the wellbeing of their "users."

It's not "polite" to talk about this on HN, but if you work there or do business with them, you better be at peace with your moral complicity.

There's also a reason they pay so well. It's to make people hold their noses.
by joering2 | 2025-11-07 18:13:34+00:00
This just came out yesterday but what the hell man! its like only keeping your top cocaine sellers in hope less of your people on the streets, less possibility to get caught. Everyone else out.

How the heck are they not being raided and at least temporarily shut down at this exact moment? No wonder Trump is best friend of Mark as of recently... it really does scream "guilty".
by phantasmish | 2025-11-07 18:13:34+00:00
I started using mods in Morrowind from basically my second play-through, way back around the time it was released.

Mods to make plants either vanish or (even better) switch to a different model when they're "harvested" instead of acting like static containers is a must. And I think most consider some kind of mod to at least chill out the cliff racers a little bit to be a must-have.

My usual mod set back in the day also included some light improvements to graphics (some of the later, heavier fixes involving wrapper-binaries and such didn't exist yet, or weren't stable), NPC schedules, and an Imperial Library just outside Vivec that would pay a little gold to be allowed to copy any books you provide that it doesn't already have (it starts empty) which would then spawn neatly organized on its shelves, mostly to give me a low-effort outlet for my book hoarding tendency in those games.
by IncreasePosts | 2025-11-07 18:13:37+00:00
Did the user accidentally keep hitting Alt+H? Or are they part of some experiment? Gmail writes nothing for me unless I click the "help me write" link. I also don't know why it is so hard to record a screenshot of the behavior, you can write it to example@example.com, and the draft email UI can be clipped from where it shows your email address.
by riomus | 2025-11-07 18:13:38+00:00
I did a shallow check on PyTorch (that reports it is 2.9.0) - and it is different from 2.9.0 from PyTorch index - and differences are from code parts that are months before 2.9.0 was out - that is why I am assuming that Nvidia is using their fork. For cuBLAS - natively i see it is available (libcublas.so.13.1.0.3) in same version as in the container.
by truck234 | 2025-11-07 18:13:40+00:00
Many non-work trucks are bought because the owner needs to tow boats, ATVs, an RV, etc. Unfortunately the towing range is awful on this gen of electric pickups. Gas stations are much more common and quicker to fill up.

Electric is great for torque but terrible for range. So a local delivery van or box truck is much simpler to electrify than a towing pickup or a long distance semi.
by bri3d | 2025-11-07 18:13:51+00:00
Whoops... it was formed by agricultural run-in!

Regardless, it's sort of a bad example of "humans are the virus" type thinking, since it both lived and died by agriculture.

If you really dig into the story there is an interesting commentary about the horrible Western US water rights compacts system and the continuing inability for US states, especially in the West, to accurately price water consumption in a way that makes consumers sensitive to inefficient water use. But even then, in the case of the Salton Sea, the system actually did work: inefficient agricultural use was "improved" when San Diego called for more water and farmers were forced to be more efficient. Perhaps in an ideal world those farms would never have existed at all.
by agentultra | 2025-11-07 18:13:56+00:00
I should add that you are a real dev. There's all kinds of programming out there. That's why I enjoy DSA and maths; it's the stuff that transcends languages and has applications in almost every domain. You benefit from knowing how to implement a queue or balance a tree whether you're writing databases, making games, or building distributed systems.

Anyone can learn this stuff. Ignore the gate keepers and the little voice that tells you only smart people can do this. You're a smart person. Crack a book, open a new file, compile some code. You'll get there.
by atomscale | 2025-11-07 18:13:57+00:00
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by sirsinsalot | 2025-11-07 18:14:00+00:00
I'm saying that at some point declaring the minimal interface a caller uses, for example Reader and Writer instead of a concrete FS type, starts to look like duck typing. In python a functions use of v.read() or v.write() defines what v should provide.

In Go it is compile time and Python it is runtime, but it is similar.

In Python (often) you don't care about the type of v just that it implements v.write() and in an interface based separation of API concerns you declare that v.write() is provided by the interface.

The aim is the same, duck typing or interfaces. And the outcome benefits are the same, at runtime or compile time.
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-11-07 18:14:03+00:00
Except in this case, the platform is actually paid real money for that content, so yeah, I absolutely expect them to review each and every piece of it.

If ads worked this way:

- Victim clicks crypto scam ad, loses their savings ($xx,xxx)

- Forensic investigation happens, determines that this happened due to a paid ad on site X. Site X knew that this was an ongoing problem and didn't manage to control it, but was still showing ads.

- Site X is considered complicit and just as liable for the loss as the scammer. Since the scammer is hard to find, the user sues the site and the site has to pay the losses.

- The site is now free to pursue their "business partner" for the damages, the user doesn't have to care.

I bet the ads would suddenly get reviewed a lot more. No sane publisher would allow ads from an ad platform that doesn't provide a guarantee against this issue. If a "good" ad platform started showing scams, the site would drop it once notified (because now they're on notice, and would be liable for any future scams). Thus, the platform would make damn sure that this doesn't happen.

"Scam" might be subjective but the legal system usually has a definition for it and judges to apply any remaining subjective judgement necessary. It's usually also pretty easy to avoid the need for a judge deciding by not trying to max out the we-think-this-is-technically-not-illegal grey area.

This doesn't require huge legal costs for the ad networks - they can simply refuse to do business with entities that are not verified, or allow ads for shady business areas where 40% of the businesses are borderline scams and 50% blatant scams...
by afavour | 2025-11-07 18:14:04+00:00
As a man in my 40s I do wonder how I'd fare as a 17 year old today. Back in my teenage years I was deeply awkward, spent a ton of time in my room on my computer (IRC, baby!) and was pretty directionless. Eventually I realised that I needed to do something. Talk to girls. Absolutely crashed and burned the first few times I did it but slowly got better. I started attending the parties kids in my school were throwing rather than sitting at home all night.

But there wasn't a highly motivated and profitable enterprise targeted at me telling me I was a victim. If the "manosphere" existed back then and I was plugged into all the podcasts telling me how the modern world hates men and treats us all unfairly I might have never left that bubble and would have probably spiraled into bitterness. I can't help but feel like we've cursed younger generations (both genders, different effects) with social media and the influencer economy that has a financial interest in their continued isolation.
by taylodl | 2025-11-07 18:14:08+00:00
Americans are losing their jobs in record numbers, yet the administration is actively working to strip millions of their healthcare - or simply price them out of it. Food assistance is being weaponized, not to help, but to pressure the vulnerable into submission. And all of this is happening while the elite toast champagne at Great Gatsby-style galas.

The biggest insult? America’s billionaires have added $700 billion to their net worth this year alone.

So much for trickle-down economics: the only thing trickling down is layoffs.
by simonsarris | 2025-11-07 18:14:16+00:00
Yeah we have state liquor stores in NH and they are much more expensive[1] than driving down to Massachusetts and going to total wine. The point of the stores is not to supply people in the Shire with liquor for cheaper. It's to make it more expensive and then use the profits to fund the state.

It's so thoroughly different in goals from the NYC plan that I'm in awe people would conflate them.

[1] For example Seven Deadly Zins wine is $19 in NH, currently very on sale for $13. Or its just $11.49 at Total Wine in Mass without any sale at all! Ketel One vodka is $38 in NH, or $28 in Mass.
by ngriffiths | 2025-11-07 18:14:24+00:00
> active science communication has been sparse in the area of software research, and those who have tried often find their efforts unrewarded or unsuccessful.

The authors suggest:

> Identify your target audience to tailor your message! Use diverse communication channels beyond papers, and actively engage with practitioners to foster dialogue rather than broadcasting information!

What I would emphasize is that many researchers just don't know how to do it. It isn't as simple as just thinking up a target audience and churning out a blog post. If you are the median researcher, ~0 people will read that post!

I think people underestimate:

- How hard it is to find the right target audience - How hard it is to understand the target audience's language - How hard it is to persuade the target reader that this work you've done should matter even a little to their work, even when you designed it specifically for them - How few people in the audience will ever understand your work well - How narrow your target audience should be

I also think many researchers want to be able to, if not as a primary career goal then at least as a fulfilling, public service type activity. Currently testing this out a bit (more: https://griffens.net).
by merelysounds | 2025-11-07 18:14:25+00:00
Anecdotally, I don’t see any of this. I have all “smart” features in gmail turned off; there is an option like this in the settings.

Google’s Help: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/15604322

Also relevant:

> By default, smart feature settings are off if you live in: The European Economic Area, Japan, Switzerland, United Kingdom
by icandoit | 2025-11-07 18:14:44+00:00
We want the LLM to learn the multiplication algorithm not an incomplete set of tables. The algorithm might be smaller and will be more complete.

Honestly, our technology has outpaced our epistemology. So we don't really know what a fact is or isn't. Are facts what we call our supervised learning experiences? You think the sun rises, no the earth spins. Your belief that the sun rises helps you predict sunset and sunrise. Your belief would be quaint to someone born and raised on a space station. Apollos chariot moves the sun across the sky doesn't it?
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-11-07 18:15:16+00:00
> Not to nitpick words, but ablation is the practice of stripping out features of an algorithm ...

Ablation generally refers to removing parts of a system to see how it performs without them. In the context of an LLM it can refer to training data as well as the model itself. I'm not saying it'd be the most cost-effective method, but one could certainly try to create a small coding model by starting with a large one that performs well, and seeing what can be stripped out of the training data (obviously a lot!) without impacting the performance.
by aaroninsf | 2025-11-07 18:16:20+00:00
Current speculation is that it's a novel object type, unlike the conglomerate iceballs we call "comets," with a different origin and history.

Unfortunately we did not make the heroic effort it would have taken to get a close look, so as with 1I/ʻOUMUAMUA we'll be left with enigmas and uncertainty.

Unless of course it brakes hard into a parking orbit. :)
by Dylan16807 | 2025-11-07 18:17:11+00:00
> With regards to what rust team is admitting or not...

That wasn't an accusation. They admit things just fine. It was a hypothetical about using it as the main string type.

> and certainly are not proposing it as a general type.

1. Python's hack isn't used in file formats or transmissions either, as far as I know. It's also internal-only.

2. What they propose it for has zero relevance to my argument. It's merely proof that a hack like this can be added to ordinary Unicode representations. Python's goofy string representation is not enabling its surrogate hack.
by gishh | 2025-11-07 18:17:12+00:00
Sounds like they are, actually. Especially because you used the word "average."

I've been in tech for decades, and coincidently I now have occasion to interact with oil rig workers. They're just normal people, maybe with a bit of an edge to them, which makes sense given the work. There are entire teams at $dayjob that I could swap out with an entire team from a rig, the only difference you'd notice is clothing.

They're also not super-ripped lumberjacks. They're not lifting heavy shit for hours a day. A good day for them is general upkeep where nothing goes wrong. Think things like: adjusting valves, inspecting equipment, welding things, inspecting things. Oil rigs are _massive_ and everything on them is massive. Humans aren't using their muscles nearly as much as machinery.

Which is probably why they're in this debacle.
by sgerenser | 2025-11-07 18:17:20+00:00
CrystalDry is an “upsell” feature on the high end versions of their dishwashers for more efficient drying. It’s not the thing that they’re calling a heat pump, that’s the water pump that also does resistive heating. Bottom line is, Bosch (nor anyone else afaik) does not make dishwashers that are more efficient due to using “heat pump” technology.
by Marshferm | 2025-11-07 18:17:46+00:00
There is no narrow sense, it's a paradoxical phrase, like conduit metaphor. Intelligence can never be artificial. Math is never a model that reaches sentience. Software is neither engineering nor is it science. It inhabits some bizarre overlap with reality that is pretext simula.

AI is software's achille's heel giveaway.

It was a bad idea from the beginning, Von Neumann, Shannon, McCullough got it entirely wrong (though Shannon admitted as such late in career).
by ryuhhnn | 2025-11-07 18:17:47+00:00
Every time the author mentions a problem that young men face, he explains it away by saying that it stems from a society that's built against serving the needs of men, even though the outcomes affect women all the same. He mentions the college debt crisis and it's affects on men merely one breath after explaining that women outnumber men in higher education. The housing affordability crisis is also not exclusive to men. Workforce participation of men can also be explained by relaxed gender roles and more women entering the workforce while their male counterparts take on domestic work. Pretty much the only thing he rightfully identifies as a uniquely male issue is suicide. Nobody is averse to identifying the issues that men face, but be correct in what you're identifying as a uniquely male issue. This author has been making the rounds in popular culture lately and I can't help but feel like it's because he's offering an oversimplified solution to a problem that runs much deeper than how we treat men and young boys. Society consistently asks women and non-White people to take ownership of their own problems, why can't we ask the same of men?
by tpmoney | 2025-11-07 18:17:54+00:00
> Neither Matter nor Matter-over-Thread require Internet access.

The protocols themselves might not but as a warning to people looking for “matter” as an indicator they can have local only control, apparently the matter spec doesn’t require local only setup. I bought Honeywell’s new matter thermostat and in order to get the QR code and keys you need to register it to a matter controller, you first have to download their app and connect the thermostat to their cloud, so that you can get the keys from the app. So the matter capabilities are still useless
by bradlys | 2025-11-07 18:18:17+00:00
The three issues that I think affect men more:

1. blue collar jobs (mostly men) aren’t abundant. Simply put, we’re not building much of anything in the US. So, why would they be. Tech is mostly men but is importing most of the labor (at least for Silicon Valley). So, tech isn’t helping American men.

2. Dating norms have completely changed. Looks have become a much bigger percentage of the reason why women choose their partner than ever before. Dating apps being the main way for educated grads to meet partners is just a symptom - not the cause. Looksism was taking off before apps caught fire - the apps just accelerated it.

3. Costs have skyrocketed while expectations around men being providers have not changed. While there are a decent amount of men who probably are toxically attached to some idea of being a provider - most men I’ve met would kill for a wife who made significantly more than them. Men typically hate working too. Almost all have resigned and have just accepted that the only way she will contribute is either by her parents giving a ton of money or she will work her job that pays nowhere near as much as his. There are, of course, a good amount of similarly earning couples but for single men - you’re not often choosing your equal when out dating. Hypergamy, etc.
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-11-07 18:18:19+00:00
The key sentences:

> the company prioritized enforcement in regions where the penalties would be steepest, the reporting found. The cost of lost revenue from clamping down on the scams was weighed against the cost of fines from regulators.

The companies don't necessarily want scams, and they might even be willing to forgo the scam revenue itself. But if the consequence of allowing the scam is low, and the consequence of doing something about it would be a loss of non-scam revenue (e.g. by disallowing legit customers or verification requirements making customers go to an "easier" competitor), they won't do anything about it.

It's time to treat them as accomplices. As the report shows - if they had to pay the damage they're helping to cause, priorities would shift and they would find a way to make the problem go away. As is, they have no reason to even try.
by cardanome | 2025-11-07 18:18:44+00:00
The backend work I do is just super boring.

I always wanted to learn Elixir but never had a project where it could show it strengths. Good old PHP works perfectly fine.

Also corporations like their devs to be easily replaceable which is easier with more mainstream languages, so it is always hard for "newer" languages to gain traction. That said I am totally rooting for Elixir.
by lifestyleguru | 2025-11-07 18:18:52+00:00
I used service of Vodafone Germany once. In paperwork fever I only scanned the contract and saw somewhere 6000 but signed off and moved along with remaining paperwork. I thought "it has to be at least 60Mbit/s, right?". Nope. 6Mbit/s DSL, two years contract, cancellation by letter. Fuck you, Vodafone.
by jgdxno | 2025-11-07 18:18:55+00:00
At work we use it heavily. You don't really see "a zillion interfaces" after a while, only set of dependencies of a package which is easy to read, and easy to understand.

"makes it hard to cone up with good names" is not really a problem, if you have a `CreateRequest` method you name the interface `RequestCreator`. If you have a request CRUD interface, it's probably a `RequestRepository`.

The benefits outweigh the drawbacks 10 to one. The most rewarding thing about this pattern is how easy it is to split up large implementations, and _keep_ them small.