MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jacob019 | 2025-11-05 22:47:23+00:00
"The global North's carbon problem subsidizes the global South's energy access." This is problematic. The subsidized economy will grow inefficiently, the wealth transfer will inevitably result in a corrupt class of bureaucrats who seek to maintain the status quo even when it doesn't make sense. Time will pass and it will get worse until there is political will for change, and that change will result in the suffering of those whom the initial intent was to help.
by rendall | 2025-11-05 22:47:41+00:00
That is not an inaccurate reading of Bantam Books at all. The Court held that informal governmental pressure can violate the First Amendment when it operates "in a calculated scheme to suppress publication." The key factors weren't only formal regulatory power but the reasonably perceived ability to impose consequences. The state commission in Bantam didn’t issue fines or revoke licenses either. It sent "advisory notices" backed by the implicit threat of referral to the Attorney General. That's exactly why it's relevant: the coercive effect arose from context and authority, not explicit sanctions.

Framing the Biden administration’s social-media coordination as "obviously public safety" glosses over the problem. Once "public safety" becomes an elastic justification, it swallows nearly all political discourse. COVID policy and election integrity were both core political debates. The point isn't to demand content-specific enforcement but to note that the subject matter (scientific dissent and political criticism) makes coercion far more dangerous.

A good example is Backpage.com v. Dart (2015). Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, in an example of a Democrat abusing authority, sent letters to Visa and MasterCard "urging" them to stop processing payments for Backpage, claiming it would fight prostitution. On its face, it also was a public-safety rationale, not political censorship. But the Seventh Circuit found it unconstitutional because a government official used his position to coerce private firms into choking off a lawful publisher's speech. Judge Posner called it a "thinly veiled threat."

You're right that the First Amendment's test is content-neutral, but that does not immunize state actors from scrutiny when their pressure targets specific viewpoints under the guise of neutrality. Courts have consistently treated viewpoint discrimination as the gravest violation, and political speech is the area of highest protection.

As for "no regulators": the officials involved were from the White House, the Surgeon General's office, the CDC, and DHS; all executive agencies with regulatory and funding power over the very platforms and sectors they were contacting. That is not "abstract".
by dcchambers | 2025-11-05 22:47:43+00:00
So let me get this straight...OpenAI wants to eliminate basically all jobs via AGI/ASI. They claim it's going to cost trillions of dollars to do that. And they want us (the American people) to pay for it via federal guarantees (bailouts).

They don't want to do this as a nonprofit, they want to be a for-profit company that will reap all of the rewards yet they don't want to take on any of the risk.

This whole industry makes me sick to my stomach. How do the people doing this sleep at night?
by CorrectHorseBat | 2025-11-05 22:48:40+00:00
>Once EU finally gets rid of the ridiculous pricing model where spot prices are dictated by the most expensive energy source (usually, gas), we might have a situation where grid costs exceed the cost of energy itself.

Why is it ridiculous? From a pure mathematical economics point of view it's genius I think. It means energy producers can just set their price at production price, knowing they will get the best deal that way and thus don't need to speculate on the electricity prices. It makes electricity as cheap as possible when it's abundant and expensive when it's not, also incentifying users of electricity to shift their consumption.

What's a better way of doing it?
by Libidinalecon | 2025-11-05 22:49:15+00:00
This is just not true at all.

It is always in my self interest to automate my job as much as possible. Nothing looks better for moving up than this. Even more so, nothing makes me happier than automating a business process.

There are always so many various road blocks to automation it is hard to count.

It is like there is a type of entropy that increases over time that people are largely getting paid to keep at bay with simple business processes that can be easily adapted as things change. So often automation works great for a short time until this entropy breaks the automation. It doesn't take that many times for management to figure out the investment in automation gives poor returns.
by gishh | 2025-11-05 22:49:22+00:00
I’m quite close to being “over the hill” as it were.

I remember being in an honors chem midterm and distinctly thinking “my grade on this test will directly impact my overall grade in this class and have a direct impact on my GPA, which will affect my college selection, and my overall net worth.”

The test wasn’t nearly as stressful as that thought.
by rodarima | 2025-11-05 22:50:21+00:00
Yes, but all those services have the same main problem: a single point of failure. They also don't work offline.

I believe that storing the issues in plain text in git repositories synced across several git servers is more robust and future-proof, but time will tell.

Having a simple storage format allows me to later on export it to any other service if I change my mind.
by jeffbee | 2025-11-05 22:50:40+00:00
I was a long-time adherent of powder for all the reasons in the video. I used the Seventh Generation powder that is widely available, or once was. One day I couldn't find it, so I got Cascade Free & Clear Pods. I was completely blown away by how much better the pods work. And they work faster, too, because my dishwasher cycles are based on water clarity and they end sooner if the detergent is working faster. So I permanently switched, nevermind the cost difference.

Perhaps part of the issue is that the presenter in the video is using a somewhat primitive machine.
by dzaima | 2025-11-05 22:50:47+00:00
Scalable vectors as in RVV & SVE aren't available in rust corrently; see https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/145052

(that said autovectorization should work, and fixed-width SIMD should map to RVV as best as possible, though of course missing out on perf if ran on wider-than-minimum hardware not on a native build)
by SchemaLoad | 2025-11-05 22:51:08+00:00
I feel like we have had a long history of overreacting to new things. "D&D is the devil", "Rock music is evil", etc. But we have just encountered one of the rare times where something new actually was harmful. But it rolled in so rapidly that it was universal before we had the chance to push back.

I think chatbots and AR glasses are going to supercharge these social problems at a rate much faster than phones and facebook ever could.
by chfritz | 2025-11-05 22:51:15+00:00
Rule of thumb: Demos = as low as 10% reliable (read: we are showing you the successful cases). Product = 99% reliability required and even that is still not great (costly to operate and maintain, sub-par reviews from customers). So the answer to your question depends very much on the use-case and form-factor of the robot. Watching that Neo robot closing a dishwasher was so painful, and even that was still teleop-ed.

Another data point: in academia people thought robot localization was solved back in the 90's. In practice, mislocalizations has been an issue for robotics companies in the real-world until very recently. The number of 9's really matter and is where all the sweat is.
by tamimio | 2025-11-05 22:51:47+00:00
That's the experience of a lot of people I know or read their stories online, but it isn't about AI bad diagnosis, it's because they know in 5 years doctors and lawyers will be burger flippers, and as a result people won't be motivated to go into any of these fields. In Canada, the process to be a doctor is extremely complicated and hard only to keep it as some sort of private community that only the very few can become doctors, all to keep the wages abysmally high, and as a result, you end up waiting long times for appointments, and the doctors themselves are overwhelmed too. Messed up system that you better pray you never have to become its victim.

In my opinion, AI should do both legal and medical work, keep some humans for decision making, and the rest of the doctors to be surgeons instead.
by throwaway150 | 2025-11-05 22:52:30+00:00
That's quite a claim. I'm not sure I buy it. We never had all this lunchroom social drama growing up, and my old mates and I seem to be doing just fine.

Maybe you feel that navigating social hierarchy is more important than anything in math is because that's the kind of culture you happened to grow up in, not because it's truly more important?
by ddxv | 2025-11-05 22:52:54+00:00
Honestly I barely care which model I am using and switch between them all. Usually in a 'this is terrble' to 'this is amazing' and back cycle.

What I definitely do care about is speed and efficiency. I recently canceled CoPilot to go back to Cursor, it's just so much faster for the inline code completion.

When I do have something difficult, I open four browser tabs and copy paste a big long promp into the free versions of the top models so I can take my time reasoning out their answers.

I use agents when I have a basic task that I can easily judge their output in code review.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-11-05 22:53:14+00:00
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by Dylan16807 | 2025-11-05 22:53:24+00:00
> Too many people treat politics like sports fandom. I know people whose political views are the exact opposite of Party X, but if you ask them, they will tell you they will always vote for Party X, because they were born and raised an X, and stick by their team no matter what they do.

This part makes enough sense.

> They're like fucking Eagles fans.

Now you've gone and implied 95% of sports fans aren't that way?? I don't understand your argument any more.
by alt187 | 2025-11-05 22:53:58+00:00
You might be glad to learn a number of studies (mostly commissioked by the European Union) agree on the fact that piracy doesn't hurt sales.

The main consensus is that people who illegally access content wouldn't have bought it otherwise, and that they still advertise it (thus, still driving up sales).

These studies have then been systematically strong-armed into silence by the EU and constituent countries' anti-piracy organisms.

This is probably because the war on piracy, too, is a billion-dollar industry. I'd be glad to blow it all up and give it all to the starving artists and their families.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-11-05 22:54:14+00:00
Rural electrification in the US hugely proves your point. Yes, grid costs are fantastically expensive!!

At the time: we had no choice! Universal electricity access was (& is) vastly better than the alternative: not having universal access. But what's happening in this article isn't an alternative, not so far: it's leaving the masses behind, dropping the pretense that electricity is a utility that ought be available to society broadly.

Perhaps the private rental systems here provide pretty good access. In general though, I think society really ought to accept pretty big inefficiencies/costs (if that's what it takes) if thats what it takes to provide these base demands widely. It feels horrific to consider only the costs here, to see the inefficiency, without regarding what electrification, transport, and other base utilities enable your people to do, how much it changes lives.

Narrow, mercenary cost analysis is an awful way to run your society. For sure, I deeply hope solar maybe can reduce some of the grid maintenance costs, by decentralizing energy. Over time. But this article &b this comment broadly accept a cost-based analysis, that largely revolve around the failure of a public works, one that needs to be efficient but that also has to be more willing to lose some money, to operate no matter what in unprofitable places. States have to make utilities available, period, whatever combination of political & economic will/unprofitability is required.

I'm excited for solar! The decentralized nature is amazing! But beyond the glory of possibility, it scares the heck out of me that society might just give up on a tie that binds us, might abandon the basic sense of utility that most states have been able to keep going for around a hundred years now.

The success & market capture of the companies spotlighted here is both a success, but also an liability. Solar is plentiful but the middlemen here have enormous price control, that maybe they are not flexing on now, but over time is a capability I would far prefer states tap & use for public benefit, rather than comingling with private interest.
by Viliam1234 | 2025-11-05 22:55:00+00:00
I wouldn't mind public torture for violent crimes (hey, if it is acceptable to torture the victim, what is it unacceptable to torture the criminal?), but the part that when they apologize they get a 50% discount is stupid.

Either the punishment is appropriate, or not. If it is inappropriate, change it. If it is appropriate, don't give a 50% discount for saying "sorry" when told to. First, it means nothing; no one reasonable will think that the "sorry" was sincere. Second, if once in a while an innocent person is incorrectly sentenced, you insist that they either apologize for something they didn't do, or get 2x the punishment an actually guilty criminal would get.
by perihelions | 2025-11-05 22:55:13+00:00
I.e.,

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/01/business/economy/solar-xi... ("Solar Supply Chain Grows More Opaque Amid Human Rights Concerns" / "The global industry is cutting some ties to China, but its exposure to forced labor remains high and companies are less transparent, a new report found")
by jhoan1 | 2025-11-05 22:55:55+00:00
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by AmirKodro | 2025-11-05 22:56:01+00:00
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Usually to fix it you'd add logs here and there, that might surface some information. But, it's time consuming & tedious, and not the best developer experience.

return0 dynamically figures out what information to extract, like variable states. In your AI IDE - with the help of the return0 MCP server - simply explain the issue in the chat window, and it will find the root cause based on live variable states from the deployed code - like a local debugger would. And no redeployment of the code is necessary to extract more information, return0 includes an SDK that enables this dynamic tracing of your code. You also don't need to tell what information to extract.

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by dwd | 2025-11-05 22:56:09+00:00
Worked for a car insurance firm about a decade ago and the whole business ran on their Big Iron. I joined the company to work on a customer facing web UI that hooked into an API layer the server group developed to pull data from the Db2.

The callcentre however still used the TUI for all customer inquiries; it was only the customers who got a pretty interface to view their details.

Depending on which system you were logged into, you had a green screen (production) or magenta (development).
by fullstacking | 2025-11-05 22:57:08+00:00
This frame of mind is what lead to this issue. How do you do that when they both have a concern for producing html. SSR is not fad, its a real issue. If SSR is a real issue than that means the server must produce the initial hydrated html. How do you do that if not with a shared template or duplicated template? Even JS front end still does not deal with this any different. You still have node compiling the front end code server side to address that very issue.

Maybe we need to acknowledge that you can't seperate them as they both exist with a need to produce HTML. But instead position the html closest to who it best serves and let them inform the other side. IE JS is most concerned with html as it interacts with it more where as the server only needs to really produce it once.

IMO your take is the worst take on this issue.
by jebarker | 2025-11-05 22:57:11+00:00
For me this has 100% been the main source of unhappiness in my life. I wish nobody had ever told me how smart I was as a child. The reality was that I was above average but in an unremarkable collection of kids mostly. I’ve done fine in life academically and career wise but I’ll never live up to the expectations that were planted in my head.

Thankfully you can get over this/yourself and let go of ego, ambition, achievement and all that unnecessary crap.
by raincole | 2025-11-05 22:57:13+00:00
> The farmer making $600/yr is kind of a non-sequitur.

It's less than a non-sequitur. It makes the contrasting even weaker because it means in modern Africa labor is still cheap, just like in 1930s America.

> I love the story of it, but I can't take the writing

My personally heuristic is that if the style is AI, the substance is likely AI too.
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-11-05 22:57:27+00:00
I shouldn't be here, the first 20 years of my life were essentially every bad thing, defective body, I had my first birthday party at 30, dead parents, stolen and exploited childhood, moving all the time, constant mortality threat, surgery induced aphantasia, waking surgeries scenarios that spiral some adults into ptsd. Long term thwarted desires because I couldn't get health insurance without being a wage slave pre ACA. Co-founded my own succesful company the moment I could get ACA.

I have a brain and as my wife once told me in a moment of frustration.

"You're just happy to be here" and that is true. I didn't ask to be born and I've generally not enjoyed it, I'm only here because random luck geographically and temporarily allowed me to just squeak by surviving childhood and adolescents, I am a few years away from a cardiological surgery I could easily die in.

But, it's all so damn funny isn't it, what an odd thing to be alive, a little cluster of atoms arranged human wise. I hope I die not having achieved what I want to achieve, I hope, like sharks, I never keep moving.

Humans generate meaning, we are the known, empirically observed generators of the mosy complex meaning in existence and we still don't know and haven't created most stuff, it's early days yet. In the meantime, we're part of the entropic cycle, and we emit meaning the way stars emit photons.

People will say we aren't special, but we are, special and rare and should be preserved, dolphins, et all should be too, but let it be observed that it will be humans and not dolphins that deflect asteroids for the foreseeable future.

Many times when things got bad I thought I'd kill myself, I woke up from so many surgeries I started getting disappointed when I'd wake up, but I was too damn curious about what happens next, I can always end it tomorrow, nbd, I look forward to the perma nap, I'm an accident that shouldn't exist and I can exert casual leverage on the world with mere speech.

Who knows what the future holds, let's give dolphins thumbs, let's give silicon rockets to explore the universe, let's engineer long life so we can start worrying about solving entropy instead of whether or not a single spinning rocks "mid air collision" or 5 degree increase in temperature will cause total societal collapse and put an end to our weird little epicenter of meaning generation.

Maybe we solve entropy, maybe we figure out how to change the topology of spacetime, maybe we don't, it's too early to tell.

Optimism is just the headspace to try again, it's not emotional ignorance, it's not positivity, it's the curiosity to keep trying new experiments, and the humility to not be intellectually certain of despair.
by chasd00 | 2025-11-05 22:57:37+00:00
Intelligent people are also pretty ambitious in my experience. More ambition raises the risk of failure and failing doesn’t generate the feeling of happiness. I know many smart people absolutely terrified of failure to the point they take meds for it and I know a handful who are emotionally crippled by failing at something 20 years ago. Smart people and failure do not mix.
by tech_ken | 2025-11-05 22:57:51+00:00
> “Worse insomnia, depression/anxiety or the use of other sleep-enhancing medicines might be linked to both melatonin use and heart risk,” Nnadi said. “Also, while the association we found raises safety concerns about the widely used supplement, our study cannot prove a direct cause-and-effect relationship. This means more research is needed to test melatonin’s safety for the heart.”

This seems pretty critical, no? I would assume that melatonin use increases with the severity of insomnia, and persistent lack of sleep has a whole host of long-term health implications. So insomnia a priori seems highly likely to cause both increased melatonin consumption and heart disease. Given how obviously confounded this causal system is, it's practically negligent to not at least control for severity of insomnia or something. Ideally they should have done a matched study or DID or something, but without any attempt to account for the confounding this study is just clickbait.
by HiPhish | 2025-11-05 22:59:17+00:00
Depending on where he lives this might be illegal. Yes, we live in a cyberpunk dystopia where the manufacturer can break what you bought and then send you to jail for repairing it. You can read more about it here: https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_A...

This shit is absolutely dystopian. The law must not just be reversed, manufacturers need to be taken to court for shoddy software. Insecure data collection and transmission should be treated the same as having unsafe electrical wiring. It is a defect that needs to be either fixed or the product recalled. As long as manufacturers are not just allowed to but rewarded for selling defective products this won't change. I expect the moment unsolicited data collection becomes a liability manufacturers will drop it like a hot potato.