MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Telaneo | 2025-11-05 22:07:08+00:00
> It really is wild the degree to which you can simply dictate your own mood.

This is not a universally true experience, and it's sometimes even hard for me to believe that there are people like you out there who are able to change their mood just by thinking differently. My own experience is that doing that is about as helpful as thinking differently about how hungry I am works to sate my hunger. I can ignore it to some extent, but it doesn't change in kind.
by RickJWagner | 2025-11-05 22:07:23+00:00
You’re right, and you’re being downvoted for being so.

The bullying and name calling were intolerable. Even suggesting that the earths demise was not immediate would label you a denier and ignorant about the undeniable science behind the alarms.

It seems the tide is turning and some of the leading voices in the earth-is-cooking camp are now walking things back.

Don’t wait for an apology, though.
by toast0 | 2025-11-05 22:07:52+00:00
> And grid has a lot of 9s.

Where I live, I only get two 9s from the utility. And I'm within commuting distance of Seattle. With my generator, I still got three nines the one year where the battery tender failed and the generator didn't start when needed, but only because that outage was less than 8 hours and I replaced the battery tender before further outages (I could have jump started the generator, but the outage started overnight and waiting it out was easier). Most years, the number of brief outages adds up, and I probably only get five 9s.

Solar + battery + generator for really bad weeks (but make sure you exercise it!) could pretty easily add up to the two nines I'd get from the utility here.

For developing countries, solar + battery alone is likely be better than many grids which often are intermittent rather than 24/7 and many places don't have any access to utility power.
by skandergarroum | 2025-11-05 22:07:56+00:00
Hey there, author (Skander from Climate Drift) here.

So for the record: This isn't a chatgpt article, it's something I wrote over the weekend while I was down with a flu (although the idea has been running through my head for a while).

@America's 1930s: Most of US rural electrification happened at this point (90% of urban homes hat electricity, only around 10% of farms). Rural Electrification Act from 1936 changed that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Electrification_Act
by simonw | 2025-11-05 22:08:17+00:00
But OpenAI's head of Health AI says that ChatGPT's behavior has not changed: https://xcancel.com/thekaransinghal/status/19854160578054965... and https://x.com/thekaransinghal/status/1985416057805496524

I trust what he says over general vibes.

(If you think he's lying, what's your theory on WHY he would lie about a change like this?)
by anordin95 | 2025-11-05 22:08:19+00:00
I am a huge fan of the "Explanations" page of their docs: "These explanation pages are oriented towards deepening your understanding of Hypothesis, including its design philosophy."

I feel much more software documentation could greatly benefit from this approach. Describing the "why" and design tradeoffs helps me grok a system far better than the typical quickstart or tutorials which show snippets but offer little understanding. That is, they rarely help me answer: is this going to solve my problem and how?
by SR2Z | 2025-11-05 22:08:49+00:00
Asociality is not the same thing as social harmony. It's not better for children if their shithead peers are replaced with smartphones.

The unfortunate truth is that cliquey behavior and bullying are some of things that children have to be exposed to - you won't come out of school as a fully-capable human being unless you've spent the last several years being exposed to a ton of different adult emotions.
by FireBeyond | 2025-11-05 22:08:53+00:00
I've yet to meet a person who both says they are "apolitical" and are more liberal in their perspectives.

It's like centerists. It's funny how when you push at them they reveal more and more right-leaning opinions.

Libertarians should, ostensibly, probably have a fairly split voting history, but yet it's always much more right-leaning too.
by testing22321 | 2025-11-05 22:08:59+00:00
The US is $38 TRILLION Dollars in debt. I think it’s safe to say it’s been operating on pretend money for a long while.

Also it’s bizarre you're fine with millionaires who are still getting paid while doing nothing to resolve their lack of agreement withholding the pay of people going to work who can’t afford rent, food and healthcare. There is no world where that is ok.
by FanaHOVA | 2025-11-05 22:09:17+00:00
The structure of each section gives away that it's mostly AI even without having to read the actual words. I'm sure it was AI + writer, but there's something about ending each section with 3-4 short, question-like sentences that is strongly AI. This is the same format as the successful LinkedIn slop so maybe it's not AI and just algo-induced writing.
by jakub_g | 2025-11-05 22:09:24+00:00
Less technical newspaper article:

> AI helps couple conceive after 19 years of failed pregnancies

> With the STAR system, the AI analysed 2.5 million microscopic images in two hours and detected seven sperm cells, including two viable, motile ones.

...

> The system then used a microfluidic chip and a robot to gently isolate and recover these microscopic cells.

> The two motile sperm were immediately used for Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI), where a single sperm is injected into an egg. Thirteen days after the resulting embryos were transferred, the woman received her first-ever positive pregnancy test

https://www.financialexpress.com/life/technology-ai-helps-co...
by vintermann | 2025-11-05 22:10:09+00:00
I don't think it's orders as much as vibes. Some people have finely tuned senses for what they should do to be seen as one of the trustworthy ones, the ones that get it, the ones we could use in a more important job. And that trickles down: one of the things you do, is obviously to network with and boost people who look out for the same kind of political trustworthiness.

The ones at the top, assuming they're not asleep/drunk at the wheel/there at all, don't have to do much. The machine operates itself.
by cesarb | 2025-11-05 22:10:11+00:00
> Maybe I’m misunderstanding something - if I store my data elsewhere , am I not supposed to encrypt it anyway

"Cloud" is not only for storage; it's also for compute. Doing compute directly on encrypted data (homomorphic encryption) is very slow and very complicated, so when using a cloud, the data is usually either unencrypted, or encrypted but the key is elsewhere in the same cloud.
by mpyne | 2025-11-05 22:10:24+00:00
> lazy and forgiving technologies drive out the better but stricter ones.

JSON is not "lazy and forgiving" (seriously, go try adding a comment to it).

It was just laser-focused on what the actual problem was that needed to be solved by many devs in day-to-day practice.

Meanwhile XML wanted to be an entire ecosystem, its own XML Cinematic Universe, where you had to adopt it all to really use it.

It's not surprising to me that JSON won out, but it's not because it's worse, it's actually much better than XML for the job it ended up being used for (a generic format to transfer state between running programs supporting common data structures with no extraneous add-ons or requirements).

XML is better for a few other things, but those things are far less commonly needed.
by el_benhameen | 2025-11-05 22:10:35+00:00
In January my daughter had a pretty scary stomach issue that had us in the ER twice in 24 hours and that ended in surgery (just fine now).

The first ER doc thought it was just a stomach ache, the second thought a stomach ache or maybe appendicitis. Did some ultrasounds, meds, etc. Got sent home with a pat on the head, came back a few hours later, still no answers.

I gave her medical history and all of the data from the ER visits to whatever the current version of ChatGPT was at the time to make sure I wasn’t failing to ask any important questions. I’m not an AI True Believer (tm), but it was clear that the doctors were missing something and I had hit the limit of my Googling abilities.

ChatGPT suggested, among an few other diagnoses, a rare intestinal birth defect that affects about 2% of the population; 2% of affected people become symptomatic during their lifetimes. I kind of filed it away and looked more into the other stuff.

They decided it might be appendicitis and went to operate. When the surgeon called to tell me that it was in fact this very rare condition, she was pretty surprised when I said I’d heard of it.

So, not a one-shot, and not a novel discovery or anything, but an anecdote where I couldn’t have subconsciously guided it to the answer as I didn’t know the answer myself.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-11-05 22:10:41+00:00
As far as I am aware, concerning the Big 5 traits

- There is a strong positive correlation between "Openness" and IQ (some people even claim that "Openness" is actually some weak version of an IQ test)

- There is a small negative correlation between "Extraversion" and IQ

The other three Big 5 traits are basically independent of IQ.
by soVeryTired | 2025-11-05 22:10:53+00:00
Ports get retrofitted, redesigned, and rebuilt. The AMOC collapsing is a serious thing, but I'm not saying climate change isn't real or isn't a threat. My original point is that three feet of sea level rise is manageable, if expensive. Simply that, nothing else.

If you draw the line at the year 2100, things are uncomfortable but maneagable. If your horizon is 2300 or 2500, you get a different story. But you would hope that in tha sort of time frame, we have time to adapt.
by cxr | 2025-11-05 22:11:15+00:00
Point to the part of your comment that has any-fucking-thing to do with the topic at hand (i.e. engages with the actual substance of the comment that it's posted as a reply to). Your comment starts with "Yes but", as if it to present it as a rebuttal or rejoinder to something that was said, but then proceeds into total non-sequitur. It's an unrestrained attempt at a change of subject and makes for a not-very-hard-to-spot type of misdirection.

Your neighbors' ugly yellow tchotchkes have in no way forced you—nor will they ever force you—to ornament your house with XSLT printouts.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-11-05 22:11:35+00:00
Speak for yourself. That "we" is presumptuous.

The cause of the universe must itself be uncaused, or else it is only an intermediate cause that must itself refer ultimately to an uncaused cause. An infinite regress is impossible with respect to existence. Unlike causes per accidens which can in principle be infinite in length, a cause `per se` cannot; without a terminus, there would be nowhere from which the latter causes would derive their force, so to speak, like an arm pushing a stick that is pushing a rock that is pushing a leaf. Meaning, the cause is not some distant one in time, but one always acting; otherwise, everything would vanish. The only cause that could have this property is self-subsisting being.

From there, you can know quite a bit about what else must be true of self-subsisting being.
by chermi | 2025-11-05 22:11:41+00:00
My money is on a 10-20% pullback within a year. The valuations (besides palantir and tesla) aren't really that crazy. Nvidia is producing real stuff and real people are using these so called scams because they find them helpful, for example.

Now, as for the possibility of the "big one". I think there's a 25%+ chance of that in the next 2-5 years, likely bigger than anything before. But it won't be because of a scam.
by kelnos | 2025-11-05 22:11:43+00:00
> Wouldn't veering into highway at 30 mph be weighted against certain, big loss of life?

V1 for this plane in those conditions is nearly 200 mph. Even if they shut down all engines and applied full brakes (and assuming the brakes/tires didn't catch fire), they'd still run off the end of the runway with enough kinetic energy to kill themselves and anyone else in the way.
by manmal | 2025-11-05 22:12:53+00:00
Here in Austria, grid costs are now on par with the actual electricity cost. Each are ca €0.1 per kWh now, plus again that in taxes.

Once the 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.

Oh and what do they do with that money? Hoard it for upcoming grid updates, which they supposedly have to make to accommodate solar peaks and EV charging. And buy solar parks in Spain, apparently.
by kelnos | 2025-11-05 22:12:55+00:00
Maybe we should just stop commenting about whether or not something is AI generated. It doesn't add anything to the discussion, and is a waste of time.

An apology (in advance or afterward) doesn't absolve you of responsibility. And if you feel the need to apologize for something in advance, that's a huge clue that maybe you should stop yourself from doing the thing you've just apologized for.
by initramfs | 2025-11-05 22:13:26+00:00
I think those authors have been trying to figure out what I've long suspected- infrastructure can't be build locally as easily as one that can be exported with extreme modularity. Building a nuclear power plant, even a small modern one, still requires a ton of permitting and environmental review. Setting up a portable solar power plant, with imported panels and inverters, in theory allows for much more adaptability and affordability.

I've heard/read common criticisms about NGO's having more power and private funding than weak and poor governments, but then again, if there isn't a centralized effort to develop infrastructure, citizens are more likely to prefer outside funding/investment https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/internation...
by hashmash | 2025-11-05 22:13:26+00:00
Yes, I'm familiar with these. Many of the earliest problems were to due bugs in the verifier, and there were several different vendors with their own set of bugs. The bulk of these problems were identified and resolved over 25 years ago.

Most of the later problems are due to the fact that the API attack surface was too large, because of the backwards SecurityManager design. And because it existed, it seems there was little incentive to do something better.

Once the instrumentation API was introduced (Java 5), it made it easier to write agents which could limit access to APIs using an "allow" approach rather than the awful rules imposed by the SecurityManager. Java 9 introduced modules, further hardening the boundaries between trusted and untrusted code. It was at this point the SecurityManager should have been officially deprecated, instead of waiting four more years.

Going back to the earlier comment, the problem isn't due to the runtime being somehow inherently insecure, but instead due to the defective design of the SecurityManager. It hasn't been necessary for providing security for many years.
by FloorEgg | 2025-11-05 22:13:33+00:00
Hey in the part 3 that introduces PAYG it jumps from $100 down $40-65 a month to $0.21 a day / $1.50 a week.

It seems your mixing up examples since they're off by an order of magnitude. Once I read that my trust in everything else started breaking down and I couldn't be bothered to read the rest with the same level of engagement.
by kaicianflone | 2025-11-05 22:13:52+00:00
I hear you and I’m not trying to push a cultural version of Christianity. What I’m saying is that Jesus wasn’t just another spiritual teacher. He fulfilled hundreds of prophecies written centuries before His birth, and instead of conquering through power, He conquered through sacrifice. That’s what makes His message different and why His story has endured when so many philosophies fade.

Not all spirituality leads to peace. We live in an age where “spirituality” often means yoga, breathwork, or Stoic quotes. Things that calm the body but rarely heal the soul. Marcus Aurelius was wise, but even he couldn’t save himself from despair.

I think many of us, myself included, have resisted Christianity because of how poorly it’s been represented. But the real Christ isn’t a tool of culture or control. He’s the God who stepped down, fulfilled His own Word, and died in our place. That’s not pride. That’s mercy.
by bluebarbet | 2025-11-05 22:14:15+00:00
Profiles are great. I've used them for years. Much better than containers, which separate your data sort-of-but-not-quite. A profile folder has everything. You can copy it, back it up, plug it into a completely new Firefox installation later.

That portability is a killer feature, but scriptability needs to be improved. The manual says you can do:

>`firefox --profile <path> Start with profile at <path>`

But that will not work as expected if you have more than one profile (which is the whole point). At present the only workable solution is to fiddle with a GUI thru `about:profiles` (or `firefox --ProfileManager`) in order to create the profiles and give them all-important UIDs. And then do:

>`firefox -P <UID>`

It may seem small, but I've found that this is a serious roadblock. I wish it could be fixed so as to make profiles entirely scriptable.

PS: to be clear, after the futzing with the GUI to create the profiles, my script works (well!) at opening windows in the right profile, this way: (1) Check if the given profile is already launched: `ps -eo args | grep -E ".(firefox).(-P $UID)" | grep -v grep > /dev/null` (2) Do `firefox -P $UID --new-instance $url` if it isn't, and `--new-tab` if it is. Inelegant, but very reliable.
by filleduchaos | 2025-11-05 22:14:28+00:00
> So far we discussed UPS2976 and UA1175 where the presence or absence of the camera didn't change the outcome

To be fair, the presence of a camera might have changed the outcome of UPS2976. Depending on when the fire developed fully, rejecting the takeoff based on the sheer size of the fireball on the wing might have led to fewer casualties on the ground. This is of course under the assumption of a world where a camera feed is a normal part of the flight deck instruments and there is a standard for the pilot monitoring to make judgments based on it.
by hunterpayne | 2025-11-05 22:14:34+00:00
Two things:

> - He owns 100% of the future value of the company despite being created only 10% by him. Well, not exactly, he was creating 100% for the first year and 10% from then on.

1) If you believe this, then you have a massively simplistic view of employee value. The distribution of actual value provided by employees is probably log normal, and certainly not normal (gaussian).

2) This is basically the labor theory of value. That is an economic theory that was discarded as wrong about 150 years ago. If it was true, the value of a newly discovered gold mine would be 0.
by bluGill | 2025-11-05 22:14:39+00:00
> gasless MIG

I hate when people use that term the G in MIG stands for Gas. If you are not running a Gas (argon, CO2...) it isn't Mig. There are flux core wires that are commonly used and called Mig, but they are not Mig (unless there is also a gas flow - this isn't uncommon) and have very different weld properties.
by taeric | 2025-11-05 22:14:55+00:00
My understanding was that the difficulty with the intrinsics was more in how restrictive they are in what data they take in. That is, if you are trying to be very controlling of the SIMD instructions getting used, you have backed yourself into caring about the data that the CPU directly understands.

To that end, even "calling math functions" is something that a surprising number of developers don't do. Certainly not with the standard high level data types that people often try to write their software into. No?
by smiley1437 | 2025-11-05 22:14:57+00:00
The pods cost about 6x as much per load as powder.

So, even if they had equal cleaning performance, economically the powder would come ahead.

As it turns out, the 1/6th-as-expensive powder does an even better job than the pods, making the powder an even more obvious choice

(Unless you really value the handling convenience of using a pod and were willing to accept poorer results at a higher expense)
by cesarb | 2025-11-05 22:15:14+00:00
> the US can update it all remotely, including the hardware now thanks to things like intel ME

Let's not be excessively alarmist; AFAIK, the Intel ME is not (unless you're using things like vPro) exposed directly to the network, you need the cooperation of the operating system to reach the ME.

Of course, said operating system is usually Microsoft Windows, which can be updated remotely... (and even Linux users often use USA-based distributions).
by tomjakubowski | 2025-11-05 22:15:52+00:00
Funny thing about this digression is that MLS is quite centralized, to an extent unparalleled in American major sports. Teams are all owned by MLS; "team owners" own shares of MLS with a license to operate their team; players sign contracts with MLS, not the team they play for. Revenue is shared and teams are allocated money to spend from that shared revenue by byzantine rules (look up "GAM" or "allocation money" in relation to MLS for more info).

This ownership structure was subject to a significant antitrust case in Federal court: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraser_v._Major_League_Soccer
by spwa4 | 2025-11-05 22:16:24+00:00
This word, impossible, I don't think it means what you think it means.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_genocide_in_the...

Oh, one might even add: there was no need whatsoever to change the definition of genocide to come to that conclusion. There was no need to declare a paid mailing list "academic experts on genocide", just to get "academic experts on genocide" to say something is a genocide. No need for years of propaganda, change laws and definitions after the fact.

Who knew? Just emptying two automatic weapons in a kindergarten classroom, leaving no survivors, because hamas fighters thought they were Jews, that event, just that one incident, is genocide. Along with hundreds of other war crimes that also count. Even if two of those children (the black ones) weren't even Jewish. Raping, killing and torturing women because they're Jewish is genocide.

Is your claim seriously that cutting off electricity is worse, or justifies something like this? Because we all know why people think those victims aren't worth caring about ...
by kelnos | 2025-11-05 22:16:55+00:00
> I want to abort unsafely

I expect pilots are trained explicitly not to do that.

If you can't abort safely, than it follows that the safer course of action is to try to fly. I'm sure there are exceptions to that, but a pilot has barely seconds in which to decide if any of those exceptions apply, so they're not going to abandon procedure unless the situation is clear.
by db48x | 2025-11-05 22:17:13+00:00
Watch the video; it makes a huge difference even though the hot water input is not as hot as the water can get when the dishwasher runs its heating element.

Also the size of the heating element is irrelevant. What matters is the power dissipated. Most dishwashers in the US will use only about 900 watts of power even when plugged into a circuit that supports 1500 watts. In the EU they often hit 3000 watts. Even when just heating up a gallon or two of water that makes a huge difference.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-11-05 22:17:13+00:00
> If the LLM output is more effective than a human at problem solving, which I think we can all agree requires intelligence

Your premise is wrong.

Unless you want to claim that the distant cause by way of the training data is us, but that's exactly the conclusion you're trying to avoid. After all, we put the patterns in the training data, which means we already did the upfront intellectual work for the LLM.