MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-11-05 21:22:55+00:00
I think it’s one of those things that varies wildly from person to person.

In my case, I was almost completely unconcerned about anything except my hobbies/interests in high school and didn’t have the foggiest clue about where I might be headed. It wasn’t without its stressors but overall it was a carefree time. It was maybe some time about halfway through college when reality began to sink in and that all changed. The ability to zoom out might’ve been present early on but if it was, it didn’t kick in until a threshold of some sort had been reached.
by k310 | 2025-11-05 21:22:59+00:00
"Crime Rate" has been used as a proxy or dogwhistle for non-white neighborhoods.

Currently, there is deployment of federal troops to "blue" cities with imaginary high crime rates, which are actually low. Truth is in short supply lately.

High crime may be associated with economically depressed areas, but how about fixing that problem rather than a symptom? UBI may help do that by raising the floor, giving people more purchasing power.
by JohnMakin | 2025-11-05 21:23:46+00:00
What is this author smoking? "2 to 3 feet" of sea level rise is still absolutely catastrophic and is hand waved away in one sentence. 5 degrees in 50 years? We've already gained about 1 degree in the last 20 years alone - with no signs of slowing down. If it's ackshually 5 degrees in 75 years, what even is the point of making a point about that? We're reaching several ecological tipping points. We're in a mass extinction. What in the everloving hell is this? Have we gone full "don't look up" with this now?
by com2kid | 2025-11-05 21:23:49+00:00
There are limits to corporate donations and lobbying, which is why the price of lobbying seems so low (see the linked blog post in the comments here!)

SuperPACs get around that, but there is a chance a large company like Inuit isn't agile enough to defend against a well organized political attack.

Ultimately career politicians care about being elected. Even corrupt ones need to stay in office and they'll happily sacrifice one small donor to keep the gravy train coming with all their other connections.

If an independently funded lobbying group walks into DC and tells a senator they just raised 30M dollars and 80k residents in their state donated as part of that, I bet people will start to listen.
by epistasis | 2025-11-05 21:24:11+00:00
I've only ever heard the claim that climate change is civilization ending as a strawman from so-called climate skeptics. Also occasionally from those that are poorly informed, but they also tend to believe things like GMOs being the end of agriculture, and have basically zero impact on society due to lack of influence and small number of people. Nordhous' extreme situations may have been possible back in the 1990s with zero action and without the advent of solar, wind, and storage that have been created since then, but his statements are kind of wacky.

We've known for almost a decade now that the RCP8.5 scenarios are no longer on the table, and even that worst case scenario wasn't civilization ending.

I read Bill Gates' note as not an evolution on his view at all, it seems 100% consistent with everything he has worked for, but rather trying to place climate change in a more humanity-focused context for evaluating tradeoffs of where to put money. That's very important for governments and for wealthy philanthropists like him, and for the COP 3 audience he's talking to.
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-11-05 21:24:48+00:00
More likely is the hydraulics on that side burst, leading to a loss of pressure keeping the control surfaces deployed. If that lead to the leading-edge slats retracting (like they did in AA 191) you'd get a massive loss of lift on that side. The structural parts of the wing didn't have time to melt, but the fire certainly could damage all the internal control materials.
by CrzyLngPwd | 2025-11-05 21:25:00+00:00
We humans are never happy. We might be content for a while, but that is it.

Smart people see farther than the end of their noses, and so they can effectively project out into the future, and that future always involves work and hardship, and neither of those things brings happiness.

Smart people also know that happiness is a mere moment, not a state one can be in. You have it, and then it is gone. It's like trying to grasp smoke to save it for later.
by pksebben | 2025-11-05 21:25:02+00:00
My assumption is that it's a network bottleneck, and apple clutches their pearls when anyone suggests lowering resolution or allowing for some latency.

My take is like, make me tether with usb-c, reduce resolution and increase latency if I go over what the connection can handle. Use foveated rendering. All I want is more screens.

For now, I'm working with Virtual Desktop on my Quest 3. It's not ideal - pixel density at the edge sucks and even in center it's not quite good enough for text unless I enlarge my screens to be the size of barn doors, but I get 3 very large screens out of my m1 and that makes me happy enough. It's also lighter than an AVP, which after test driving I assume multi-hour sessions would become a literal pain in the neck.

Whatever the tradeoffs are, though, if apple offered infinite screens with text-readability I'd gladly throw money at them for the privilege.

Tinfoil hat moment - I do wonder if the AVP devs got a visit from a bat-wielding gang of monitor engineers. Apple screens ain't cheap.
by vunderba | 2025-11-05 21:25:04+00:00
Wow, that is a terrible image (yellow tinge indicative of gpt-image-1, spelling errors). I don't mind generative images being used in articles, provided that they:

A. Have some relevance to the actual content.

B. Don't exhibit glaringly obvious AI flaws (polydactyly, faces like melted wax candles, etc.).

It's amazing how little time people take to vet images that are intended to be the first thing viewers will see.

Reminds me of the image attached to Karpathy's (one of the founding members of OpenAI) Twitter post on founding an education AI lab:

https://x.com/karpathy/status/1813263734707790301
by lordnacho | 2025-11-05 21:25:07+00:00
A few thoughts on the matter:

- Happiness is fixed, perhaps. Short-term, it isn't (coke and hookers work!). Long-term, it is. People fall back to a baseline. So then, being smart doesn't help you.

- Dumb people might be misreporting their happiness. So smart people are making themselves happier, but all the studies are done on self-reported happiness, and the dumb people report that they are happier than they really are.

- There's a difference between intelligence and wisdom: if you're intelligent, you have good models. If you're wise, you make good decisions. You might think that you need to be intelligent to be wise, but you also need wisdom to navigate uncertainty, ie you need to exercise your decision making for when you don't have a good model. Dumb people have to do this a lot.

- It may just be that you can make yourself happier, but being intelligent doesn't give you differential access to the levers that you need. Eg to be happy maybe you need an active social life. Well, there's no particular reason having high IQ would help that. We generally have a tendency to think that IQ is a kind of magic substance that can do anything, but why would that be?

- Being smart could actively harm your happiness. I told my kid he needed to wait for his friends to grow up, they will stop only caring about football (luckily the prophesy came true and they are having a great time in their little nerd group). Another friend has the same problem with his kid, they just don't have the social ties available yet. BTW, I really do think there's something to this one, you need the social side to be happy. There's a few HN people who also give me that "finally found my tribe" vibe when they write. I met a guy on the train who saw me coding, and he had the same story.
by terminalshort | 2025-11-05 21:25:16+00:00
Why are you saying we shouldn't get AI advice without a "professional", then? Why is everybody here saying "in my experience it's just as good or better, but we need rules to make people use the worse option"? I have narcolepsy and it took a dozen doctors before they got it right. AI nails the diagnosis. Everybody should be using it.
by kstrauser | 2025-11-05 21:25:20+00:00
I tend to agree, although I wouldn't limit it to one religious tradition, or even to religion at all. For example, mindfulness meditation doesn't require any spiritual believe whatsoever. (In before: "But isn't that Buddhist?" Reply: "Who invented it is irrelevant. The practice itself is areligious, unless you go out of your way to make it otherwise for yourself.")

I find that being mindful of the world around me, and wishing well for the people around me, and even people I dislike and am predisposed to not wishing well upon, makes me a happier person. I think we all need that, or something like it: a reminder that the world is larger than ourselves, and that we're just one part of the whole, whether that be our relationship to the god of our belief system, or to our secular existence on a living planet in a tiny corner of an immense universe.

That stuff's good for us. I'm convinced of it.
by throwaway201606 | 2025-11-05 21:25:24+00:00
They stop growing a full amount of low value subsistence crops needed to survive and start growing cash crops on some portion or on all of the land. Those cash crops have a higher value.

An example - say you have 4 acres of land and have a family of 4.

In the old world, say you needed one acre per person to grow enough food to the next crop harvest. This would be something like corn or potatoes that can keep. So all your land goes to growing food to survive and you cant make any money.

In the new world, with irrigation, you can do much more - say for the sake of argument, 4 times the crop, in the same space. Now, you only need 1/4 of an acre per person or an acre for everyone. So you grow vegetables that sell for 10 times as much on the 3/4s of land you have that you no longer need to use to survive.

Or even better, you grow high veg on the entire piece of land for income and use the cash to buy your corn and potatoes or whatever as you need them.

Just as all other commercial farmers do across the world.

In other words, solar allows them to become small business owners.
by jmclnx | 2025-11-05 21:25:27+00:00
And dillo still works great on NetBSD :)

I think it is becoming more important to i386 BSD, especially since i386 OpenBSD can no longer build Firefox, Seamonkey and IIRC Chrome on i386 systems.

I have been using dillo more and more as time goes on, plus you can get plugins for Gemini Protocol and Gopher.
by wasted_intel | 2025-11-05 21:25:53+00:00
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by isuguitar121 | 2025-11-05 21:26:07+00:00
How did I say that? This is really cool and advancing but calling it "Autonomous Discovery" is very bold claim and needs strong evidence. I don't see it. They could have claimed it differently but they chose those words and that is what I am commenting on.

You are changing what they claim from "Autonomous Discovery" to "Accelerating Scientific Discovery". I agree with the latter.
by rlucia | 2025-11-05 21:26:08+00:00
Ah I am still running such a thing: a wonderful piece of software I wrote in the 90s w/ FoxBase.

But here’s the nice thing: I converted everything in a Flask app with React frontend.

The nicest thing is that besides using a modern relational DB, I write everything to keep old db files synced so that I can still run the old app in DosBox…and keep the new stuff in Docker.

It works, flawlessly:-)
by nyeah | 2025-11-05 21:27:39+00:00
Yeah, the opening sentence is very easy to disprove. That's going to spark distrust among people who are "more mathy."

Otherwise ... the plot is obviously engaging, based on the discussion here. For people who haven't seen it before, it's a new way to think about it. It may well be a new "plot type" to most people relying on standard plotting software to visualize equations.

Maybe consider saying it's grounded in "more advanced" math than what others have brought to plotting software. That's still impressive, but it can be made pretty much true. You can cite cool math references about "implicit function theorem" or whatever. Stuff that your target audience really weren't going to just find on their own.
by soVeryTired | 2025-11-05 21:28:03+00:00
He's comparing AGW, which drives a trend, with weather-based events, which are noise around the trend. He conveniently cuts his analysis off at the year 2100, by which we'll all probably be dead. But he's probably right that the trend itself doesn't cause insurmountable problems by that point.

But what about the year 2200, or 2300? At three degrees warming per century, the earth looks like a pretty hostile place to live in a few centuries.

"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they will never sit", and all that...
by noir_lord | 2025-11-05 21:28:36+00:00
> All power is being wielded to its fullest in order to prevent skipping ads.

And yet I can go to a site right now off the top of my head and watch any TV show or basically any movie made in the last 50 years for free in HD.

It might be shut down tomorrow and it'll be up against 30s later with a different TLD.

They aren't winning but they really are trying hard to.
by Kon5ole | 2025-11-05 21:28:43+00:00
HDMI 2.1 is required, and the cables are not too expensive now.

For newer gpus (nvidia 3000+ or equivalent) and high end (or M4+) macs hdmi 2.1 works fine but Linux drivers have some licensing issue that makes hdmi 2.1 problematic.

It works with certain nvidia drivers but I ended up getting a DP to HDMI 8K cable which was more reliable. I think it could work with AMD and Intel also but I haven't tried.

In my case I have a 55 and sit normal monitor distance away. I made a "double floor" on my desk and a cutout for the monitor so the monitor legs are some 10cm below the actual desk, and the screen starts basically at the level of the actual desk surface. The gap between the desk panels is nice for keeping usb hubs, drives, headphone amps and such. And the mac mini.

I usually have reference material windows upper left and right, coding project upper center, coding editor bottom center, and 2 or 4 terminals, teams, slack and mail on either side of the coding window. The center column is about tice as wide as the sides. I also have other layouts depending on the kind of work.

I use layout arrangers like fancyzones (from powertoys) in windows and a similar mechanism in KDE, and manual window management on the mac.

I run double scaling, so I get basically 4K desktop area but at retina (ish) resolution. 55 is a bit too big but since I run doubling I can read stuff also in the corners. 50" 8K would be ideal.

Basically the biggest problem with this setup is it spoils you and it was only available several years ago. :(
by 1718627440 | 2025-11-05 21:29:03+00:00
Have you never been to a room full of people/children? If there aren't these 'control freaks' in the room, then it gets louder and louder until to the limit where nobody can understand anything while all are shouting. It's surprisingly fast, about ~2 minutes to the maximum/stable loudness. This 'control freaks' are the requirement to allow children to have a conversation.
by yongjik | 2025-11-05 21:29:05+00:00
I think you're looking at it from the wrong end.

You're right that most people don't want to buy an ideological badge. They want a quality vehicle. The problem is that Musk turned Tesla into an ideological badge.

Off the top of your head, can you think of a single political remark made by the owners of Audi, Toyota, or Hyundai?
by epistasis | 2025-11-05 21:29:17+00:00
I think the problem is that "catastrophic" is not well-defined. Will we all be back to caves and sticks? No. Will there be trillions of dollars of damages and massive societal upheaval from massive migrations of people? Yes. Will a billion people die? Probably not, unless a war breaks out and leads to nuclear destruction.

I would consider all of these to be "catastrophic" but some may not consider migrations + damagaes to be "catastrophic."
by abdullahkhalids | 2025-11-05 21:29:28+00:00
An article talking about a complex system [1] (the Earth's climate system coupled to human industrial/farming systems) with few hard numbers, no mathematical models and graphs of their behavior, and no links to any such discussions, is not objective in any sense of the word. It's all the author's uncited subjective views.

This is the kind of stuff one should take in from one ear, and let it out through the other ear without letting it touch the brain.

[1] complexity in the sense of mathematics.
by JustExAWS | 2025-11-05 21:29:42+00:00
What artist can get away without being on Spotify? There are really only two music streaming services that are important - Apple Music and Spotify. Just like there are only two app stores that are important - iOS and Android.

Spotify has a much larger market share in streaming music than Apple has in smartphones in Europe.

Can I side load my own music in my Spotify library like I can with Apple Music? (True you either have to either use your computer or the iOS GarageBand hack)
by EvanAnderson | 2025-11-05 21:29:48+00:00
Cory Doctorow's works that were released under more permissive licensing still reserved some rights for the author. I believe he used some flavor of a Creative Commons non-commercial license, if memory serves. Point being that the method of licensing his works was still fundamentally based on copyright.

(I think the US copyright system is hugely broken and the social contract needs to be re-negotiated, but I comment here in the interests of facts, not in support of the broken system.)
by monkeycantype | 2025-11-05 21:29:55+00:00
yes I agree it's not the angle of the article, but it is my entry point into the idea/concern/unanswered question at the end of the article “My worry is not that these models are similar to us. It’s that we are similar to these models.” - that the enormous difference in the medium and mechanics or our minds and llm's might not be that important.

before i go any further, let me first reference The Dude:

- "this is just like, my opinion man."

I’m down with the idea that LLM’s have been especially successful because they ‘piggyback on language’ – our tool and protocol for structuring, compressing, and serialising thought, which means it has been possible to train LLM’s on compressed patterns of actual thought and have them make new language that sure looks like thought, without any direct experience of the concepts being manipulated, and if they do it well enough we will do the decompression, fleshing out the text with our experiential context. But I suspect that there are parts of my mind that also deal with concepts in an abstract way, far from any experiential context of the concept, just like the deeper layers of a neural network. I’m open to the idea, that just as the sparse matrix of an LLM is encoding connection between concepts without explicitly encoding edges, I think there will be multiple ways that we can look as the structure of an AI model and at our anatomy so that they are a squint and a transformation function away interesting overlaps. that will lead to and a kind of 'god of the gaps' scenario in which we conceptually carve out pieces of our minds as, 'oh the visual cortext is just an X', and deep questions about what we are.
by nluken | 2025-11-05 21:30:05+00:00
The giveaway is almost always an over-dependence on "Not 'x' but 'y'" structure. Even when the author changes the wording so that the phrase doesn't read exactly like that, they tend to leave the structure intact, and the bots really like to lead with the inverse of what the author wants to say to create contrast.

A human author might have used this technique once to really emphasize a strong point, but today's LLMs use it so often that it loses its emphasis, and instead becomes a distinct stylistic fingerprint.
by roenxi | 2025-11-05 21:30:08+00:00
> But that wasn't what I suggested: I said having the ACA is better than not having it, not that having the ACA is better than other possible alternative laws.

It seems to be the only way to interpret what you suggested. How could it end up in a situation where there aren't other alternative laws? There are automatically laws governing what people do - laws exist. The conversation is entirely about which laws are best. In this case, I'm arguing that generic rules (not specifically tailored to healthcare) are probably better, since a generic market seems to outperforms the US healthcare system.

> And I think it's reasonably safe to say that in "ACA vs. nothing else", ACA wins

Well I can't control what you think but I can point out that it is a hard stance to provide evidence for. Healthcare is fundamentally less important than really urgent and essential services like food production or utilities and they manage to get great coverage with relatively limited fuss. The reports I've heard are that people find the situation in healthcare to be quite substandard.
by kelnos | 2025-11-05 21:30:09+00:00
I think too many of us are used to movies and TV (and Star-Trek-like scifi) that gives the incorrect view that extremely detailed information about the state of things is available.

The notification in the cockpit is likely nothing more than "ENG 2 FIRE" or similar. That could mean anything from "the fire is minor enough and we're at high enough speed that it's significantly safer to take off and then make an emergency landing", to "the engine has exploded and the wing is on fire and catastrophically damaged, so even though aborting takeoff now is dangerous and will likely cause us to overrun the runway, trying to continue would be worse".

It's a judgment call by the pilot to guess which of these is the case (or any possibility in between), and given the probabilities of various failure modes, I think it's fair for a pilot to assume it's something closer to the former than the latter.
by endgame | 2025-11-05 21:30:28+00:00
It was an absolutely bone-headed poke-the-bear move and we should count ourselves lucky that it was only a chunk of the library and not the whole archive that got nuked. IA holds priceless and irreplaceable data, and while the library initiative was a well-intentioned move during the pandemic it was way too radical for the keepers of our shared digital history.
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-11-05 21:30:29+00:00
In France the web site asks you if your household details changed.

No? 2 more clicks and you are done.

Yes? 2 + nr of changes clicks and you are done. Took me an extra 5 seconds when my son left.

You can make your taxes as complcated as you want but for 95% of the population foling taxes takes a few minutes.