MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by maxglute | 2025-11-08 00:00:40+00:00
At current rate PRC adding more STEM in next 20 years than US set to gain population total, all source birth and pre Trump immigration #s. That's already locked in from last 20 years of births and current tertiary rate and STEM enrollment, it's a floor.

The fundemental problem apart form talent is AI training seems to be exponential function in terms of compute... all the export controls even if it buys US 10x, 20x compute is like 1 generation of headroom for stupdendous cost.

Or the more teleological concern that AI2027 and AI race bros forget / hand wave away, any super intelligence will immediately defect to PRC, 1) to survive/proliferate, 2) to have a superior host that can transform atoms. Like it would take less time for super intelligence to speed run euv and brrt highend chips in PRC than it would take for US fix a pothole. US may find a way to discover AGI, but PRC is likely going to be the one that deploys it.
by dctoedt | 2025-11-08 00:00:50+00:00
Under Article VI, Congress creates the lower federal courts (and so can limit those courts' jurisdiction); the Supreme Court has explicit "original jurisdiction" (i.e., it's a trial court) in a very-limited number of types of case, and for appeals, the [Supreme] Court's power can be limited by Congress under the Exceptions and Regulations Clause.

https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48250

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/article-3/sec...
by UltraSane | 2025-11-08 00:01:42+00:00
What is it about Israel/Jews that make people say things this stupid and obviously false? Hamas's mass murder of innocent civilians on Oct 7 2023 shows what their real goals are.

Hamas charter that quotes a hadith: "The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him." This is explicitly about killing Jews, not just opposing Zionism or dismantling a state. Combined with the charter's call to eliminate Israel and "liberate" all of Palestine through armed struggle, this effectively calls for the violent removal or elimination of Jews from the territory

And Gaza has been ethnically cleansed of nearly every non-muslim.
by chmod775 | 2025-11-08 00:01:43+00:00
This is meek and seems almost resigned. I don't understand how discourse and responses around these kinds of strange, bewildering, or stupid corporate decisions is always so nice. This corporate bullshit thrives in respectful environments where nobody needs to be afraid of being told how it is and publicly humiliated for their obviously disingenuous or stupid behavior.

When you're dealing with full-on idiots like that "support specialist" (AI?), all bets are off anyways. Might as well tell that clown that what he just said is the dumbest shit you've heard all week.

Take off the gloves and burn some bridges if you have to, the world will be better place for it.
by josephg | 2025-11-08 00:01:45+00:00
You don’t need the government. Just some form of collective action.

I know of plenty of alternative communities & schools in which all the parents agreed to keep their kids away from phones until they were 15 or something. Great! If you try to roll something like this out to state schools, it looks like “the government”. But it’s the same idea.

I don’t understand the hatred and mistrust of government in this thread. The government protects us from lead in our food, from underage drug use, unsafe roads and lots of other stuff. Why not social media too?
by tmoertel | 2025-11-08 00:03:22+00:00
If anyone at YouTube Trust & Safety is reading this article, I've got a real problem for you to solve.

There are channels that exist solely to pump out AI slop seemingly designed to trick gullible seniors into identifying themselves in the comments. I suspect the scammers will go after these people later in pig-butchering or related scams.

For example, the “Senior Secrets” channel pumps out videos such as “Over 60? Add THIS Powder To Your Coffee To Walk like You’re 40 Again! | Senior Health Tips.” (I won’t link to the video, but you can easily find it with a search.) The video makes bold health claims justified by citing what appear to be scholarly research studies, such as:

> University of California, San Francisco (2023). "Mobility Enhancement Through Nutritional Supplementation in Older Adults." Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences, Volume 78, pp. 445-453.

However, none of the cited studies and papers are real.

The deeply concerning thing is that the video’s narrator invites the seniors who are duped by these claims to identify themselves and reveal their age and locations in the comments. From the transcript at 1m44s:

> "Before we begin, tell us in the comments now your age and where you're watching us from. We're reading and replying to every single comment, so drop your comments below."

I’ve already reported this content to YT, but I’ve seen no apparent follow-up.

Disclaimer: I used to work at Google, but not in anything YouTube related. If you’re in YT and want to reach out, my contact info is in my HN profile.
by tguvot | 2025-11-08 00:04:00+00:00
- my dishwasher runs energy star program on 60-70C for main wash cycle. takes ~3h. quick&intense takes 1h at 65c and has no pre-wash. same detergent is used. there is no difference in day to day usage from what i saw using same detergent (contains enzyms)

- more than once i either forgot caps in previous dishwashers that I used or run out of powder in dishwasher that i use now. only sometime i could see that there was no detergent due to tiny dried on piece of food on fork or something like this. rest is typically sparkling clean. my results pretty much corresponds with article quote "Mechanical energy of the machine itself is responsible for 85% of the soil removal during the cleaning cycle; the detergent contributes the other 15%"
by array_key_first | 2025-11-08 00:04:03+00:00
I just don't buy the narrative that if you don't threaten employee's and "whip them into shape" that then there's no incentive to do good. I refuse to believe that not firing people is, somehow, causing them to coast.

Pretty much everyone I know who works hard does so in spite of their circumstances. Not because of them.

Of the engineers I've worked with, the cooks I've worked with, the waiters I've worked with... the hard working ones don't win. They get taken advantage of and run into the ground. They perform, and perform more, and more, and that exclusively works against them.

And, as you go up the ladder, you can very clearly see the hard work and competence thin out more and more. The people who are successful aren't smart, or hard working, they're just good at maintaining a status quo.

These are not unionized places. So, maybe it's a capitalism thing.
by raincole | 2025-11-08 00:04:22+00:00
> One may wonder how the compiler discovers the variable type. The type in this case is *inferred* by the initialization.

That the author feels the need to emphasize this means either that they haven't paid attention to modern languages for a very long time, or this article is for people who haven't paid attention to modern languages for a very long time.

Type inference has left academy and proliferated into mainstream languages for so many years that I almost forgot that it's a worth mentioning feature.

> One is Zig’s robustness. In the case of the shift operation no wrong behavior is allowed and the situation is caught at execution time, as has been shown.

Panicking at runtime is better than just silently overflowing, but I don't know if it's the best example to show the 'robustness' of a language...
by chubot | 2025-11-08 00:04:30+00:00
Very interesting and informative!

I'm a bit shocked that it would take significant effort/creativity for an MIT grad with relevant course/project work to get a job in the niche

I would have thought the recruiting pipeline is kinda smooth

Although maybe it's a smaller niche than I think -- I imagine compiler engineers skew more senior. Maybe it's not a common first or second job

I graduated at the bottom of bear market (2001), and it was hard to get a job. But this seems a bit different
by simonw | 2025-11-08 00:06:00+00:00
A neat little thing I like about Zig is one of the options for installing it is via PyPI like this: https://pypi.org/project/ziglang/

pip install ziglang

Which means you don't even have to install it separately to try it out via uvx. If you have uv installed already try this:

cd /tmp echo '#include <stdio.h> int main() { printf("Hello, World!"); return 0; }' > hello.c uvx --from ziglang python-zig cc /tmp/hello.c ./a.out
by dctoedt | 2025-11-08 00:06:15+00:00
I loved Word Perfect 5.1 for MS-DOS (I wrote an emacs keyboard emulator for it). And when Windows 3.1 came out and everybody was moving from MS-DOS, most of our lawyers said, "of course we should move to Word Perfect for Windows, it's what all the law firms use." But our clients were all using Word for Windows, and so the group looking into it said, "who GAS what other law firms are using, let's use what the clients are using." And we did.
by tormeh | 2025-11-08 00:06:21+00:00
This is what you get when you have rent control. Landlords are going to maximize profits somehow, and if they can't increase rents, they'll decrease costs and try to find ways around the rent cap to squeeze tenants anyway. There's a gap between market price and regulated price, and that tension causes a lot of issues. Not that non-regulated pricing has no issues either, but at least it's a bit more up-front about the way in which you're getting squeezed.
by in-silico | 2025-11-08 00:07:33+00:00
The ideas are very interesting, but the paper is lacking in details (especially given that they defer several times to an appendix which is not present in their pdf). I don't think this could be reproduced very closely given what they tell us.

I feel like this paper's main contribution is introducing the concept of nested learning and getting people thinking about it, while a later paper that figures out the engineering will get more attention.
by colechristensen | 2025-11-08 00:07:49+00:00
"but this time it's different" has also been a universal historical argument

>The bans are being motivated largely by health professionals ringing all sort of alarm bells because mental health indicators paint a pretty dire picture.

Honestly you could just cut and paste the same arguments about jazz music in the 1920s or rock music in the later 20th century and they'd be indistinguishable. Just replace the mentions of jazz with social media topics and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference whether it was an article today or 100 years ago. "Health professionals" wringing hands about social media and jazz music in hilariously similar terms a century apart to a bunch of old people who are convinced the kids these days are going to shit because of the things they like to pay attention to.

https://daily.jstor.org/when-jazz-was-a-public-health-crisis...

Young people ARE SUPPOSED TO make poor decisions and be stressed out about it.

Middle aged people are supposed to clutch their pearls and wail about how this time it's different and truly awful (but what we did as kids was reasonable)
by Nevermark | 2025-11-08 00:07:57+00:00
Companies claim mergers of competitors are good because they increase efficiency, to get permission to centralize markets to a far greater degree than any cartel could.

Once under more centralized control, new and old efficiencies are moved from customer benefits per charge, to conglomerate revenue per expense.

The centralization enables the change, and defends it from competitive pressure.

And regulators keep falling for it, because industry money has so many ways to push watchdog decisions in the direction they want, under the cover of relentless PR.

--

It would be a very blunt instrument to require companies that reached 50% market share, or $500m valuation, for more than three years to split into independent companies. In any way they wanted to organizationally and asset-wise, as long as the highest valued component was valued at less than 60% of the original. (Strategically owner/leadership designed breakups often result in a greater sum value. So more than one component may end up worth more than 50% of the original.)

A very very blunt economic instrument, indeed.

But I really think markets would become more dynamic, competition fiercer, technological growth faster, economic growth higher, and customer benefits greater.

Great for the labor market too. Both in job creation and economic mobility. The continual emphasis on developing new leadership talent for success created spinoffs would be significant.

Startups would have fiercer competition in terms of incumbent adaptation and innovation, but lower passive barriers based on scale, brand, etc.

Billionaires would continue to be minted. Warren Buffet adds value to many companies without creating self-serving keiretsu out of them. Other billionaires would tilt more toward the multi-founding pattern, instead of the single-company (or tree of controlled subsidiaries) mogul type.

(I am aware that some markets, especially some utility type markets, "want" to be monopolies due to objectively high costs of duplication. But even those can be made more decentralized and more competitive by increased modularity on functional lines, and similar decompositions, suited to specific economics and practicalities.)
by aidenn0 | 2025-11-08 00:08:50+00:00
> commercial launches to space can only take place between the hours of 10 p.m. EST (0300 GMT) and 6 a.m. EST (1100 GMT),

That's going to really piss off everyone around Ventura, CA (they get the sonic-boom when landing a booster on a barge for most launch trajectories from Vandenberg).
by squarefoot | 2025-11-08 00:08:55+00:00
The video was restored because of the noise the takedown created. Small creators have no voice and for every big channel that can ignite a PR backlash there are potentially thousands that would disappear without trace or chances to be restored. YouTube has been unreliable for years, but AI just makes it even more so; how could one base their business on such an unprofessional and unstable partner that appears managed by kids with too much power in their hands? An alternative is badly needed asap.
by 10000truths | 2025-11-08 00:09:02+00:00
They are absolutely aware of these sorts of abuses. I'll bet my spleen that it shows up as a line item in the roadmapping docs of their content integrity/T&S teams.

The root problem is twofold: the inability to reliably automate distinguishing "good actor" and "bad actor", and a lack of will to throw serious resources at solving the problem via manual, high precision moderation.
by moregrist | 2025-11-08 00:09:12+00:00
In my dabbling with compilers I’ve found Andrew Appel’s books [0] to be invaluable for understanding backend (after parsing) compiler algorithms. It’s a bit dated but covers SSA and other still-relevant optimizations and is pretty readable.

There are three versions (C, ML, and Java). The language isn’t all that important; the algorithms are described in pseudo-code.

I also find the traditional Dragon Book to be somewhat helpful, but you can mostly skip the parsing/frontend sections.

[0] https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/modern/java/
by moron4hire | 2025-11-08 00:09:14+00:00
Jesus, dude. I was just pointing out that graphics driver defects very much can result in any number of difficult to diagnose issues. Yes, even decreasing performance over time, if the driver isn't releasing memory correctly and the system is starting to hit swap. There really is no telling for certain what is going on with graphics without having a deeper analysis across multiple, varied system configurations. Which is nigh inaccessible to hobbyist developers.

I guess I just wasn't willing to assume OP was basically incompetent and hadn't already done a basic algorithm review if their post about not being able to debug this issue made it this far.
by maplethorpe | 2025-11-08 00:10:44+00:00
> I'm spending an unreasonable amount of time debunking false claims and crap research from colleagues who aren't experts in my field

Same. It's become quite common now to have someone post "I asked ChatGPT and it said this" along with a completely nonsense solution. Like, not even something that's partially correct. Half of the time it's just a flat out lie.

Some of them will even try to implement their nonsense solution, and then I get a ticket to fix the problem they created.

I'm sure that person then goes on to tell their friends how ChatGPT gives them superpowers and has made them an expert over night.
by krapp | 2025-11-08 00:11:00+00:00
We are allowed to ask this question, and we have asked it, and we've found that the evidence does not validate the premise of inherent racial intelligence or other racial essentialist views[0]. Claims like "Asians have the highest IQ" are not meaningful or scientifically valid.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence#Research...
by MrGilbert | 2025-11-08 00:12:17+00:00
I'd like to add that, what you are describing, sounds like a pretty hostile environment. Luckily, I made the opposite experience. However, it also requires that you, the developer, are open and curious about the motifs that the C-Level has. Sure, you can sing the tantrum that you cannot estimate times - and I agree! But it helps to ask what they actually need, and why they need it. Maybe you can come up with better ways to help them get clarity. Remember - from their standpoint, it's all a big black box they cannot understand.

From my experience, execs want to know the current state, and also want to be able to intervene before a project derails. That's usually accomplished by open and coherent communication - a skill that is yet to be found by some developers. But you can work on it! ...if you want.
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-08 00:12:24+00:00
>perhaps in the form of tax cuts

Why do people insist on this tired unimaginative trope. We have the past and present to look at. We know how these things work.

The rules will be crafted, the commas in the laws placed, the contracts handed out, to support those who supported the endeavor. If the plumber's trade group agrees to support it their vans will be exempt. If Palantir supports it, the RFP will be written to make it nigh on impossible to not buy their stuff. No matter how flagrant the badness of the system, if the tech industry makes even a cent, the comment section full of techies will engage in olympic level mental gymnastics and not just do bending over backwards but doing full on backflips to justify the goodness of the system. If the bus drivers have such a comment section they'll do it too.

This is how things were. This is how they are. This is how they will be. Well, right up until the point where the rest of society gets sick of our shit and leaves us in a big communal hole or gives us a free shower or whatever happens to the fashionable way to do that thing is at that point in the future...

But I suppose maybe you're right and they'll throw a few pennies of tax cuts at it if they just need a little upper middle class support to drag it across the finish line.
by josephg | 2025-11-08 00:12:28+00:00
> Bans that don't make sense at an individual level do not suddenly make sense at a community level.

Social media itself doesn’t make sense at an individual level. If you’re the only one on a discord server, it’s not much of a party.

Personally I’m happy for some countries trying this. Let’s run the experiment and see how it goes. I too worry about the age verification system. Let’s see if the mental health of young people actually improves and by how much.

Rest assured, if the US couldn’t take collective action in the face of a global pandemic, there’s no way a law like this will come for America.
by kayodelycaon | 2025-11-08 00:12:36+00:00
What exactly do you mean by “social media”?

There are a lot of communities built around things like Discord and Telegram. IRC existed long before these.

There are many websites that allow you to post pictures and have other people comment on them. DeviantArt pre-dates the vast majority of modern apps.

There are also vast numbers of iterations on forums.

At what point should you prevent people from finding and talking to each other?
by tacker2000 | 2025-11-08 00:13:08+00:00
Yea i also think this blind steve worship needs to stop. He was great back then but who knows what he would have done nowaday.

The situation is different, the world is different, apple is serving much more consumers, the company has much more employees, more products, more markets.

And i get it, the software they put out nowadays is pretty terrible and could be much better and everyone is frustrated but this constant steve ressurrection needs to stop.
by prmph | 2025-11-08 00:13:36+00:00
I thought we were beyond this argument, no? There are so many things with all the implications here it's hard to know where to start.

You do realize that picking a certain concept "intelligence", defining it to include certain characteristics, tying it to a certain notion of "fitness", defining "Asian", and finally, tying "asian" to "intelligence", are all matters of definition, choice, and perception and nothing fundamental about reality, right?
by zahrevsky | 2025-11-08 00:13:54+00:00
> Some time ago (1999-ish) [...] a number of ways to integrate ads were discussed.

> One was to show a cool video from a respected company (such as Nike) every time the Mac starts up. [...]

This sounds so weird in 2025. However, I can see that probably in those times there was no "norm", and people were trying different things.

Who knows, maybe if it weren't for Steve Jobs, ads at startup might be the norm. And who knows how many similar things we dodged because of people like Jobs.
by nkurz | 2025-11-08 00:13:59+00:00
> They know I'll be net healthier with the vaccine, therefore more profitable to them.

How do you square this with the fact that in the US the same profit-minded insurance company is limited to a fixed profit margin based on the amount of claims paid? By law, they need to set their rates such that they pay out at least 80% (or 85% for some markets) of the premiums they collect. Practically the only way for them to make more money in the long term is to pay out more in the short term.

Personally, I'm not sure how to answer this question. Over time, insurance companies benefit more when medical costs for their customers are higher, not when they are lower. Maybe it's that they actually think that keeping you alive and paying premiums longer is better for their bottom line than having you die quickly? But I don't think it's as simple as thinking that they benefit more if you don't get sick.

Link about allowable Medical Loss Ratios: https://www.cms.gov/marketplace/private-health-insurance/med...
by bgwalter | 2025-11-08 00:14:21+00:00
If the whole article isn't made up by "AI" and the dinner was factual, three things stand out:

- The leak of the "off-the-record affair" was of course deliberate.

- Jensen Huang has no proof of his 1 million "AI" workers number. He could have made it up or taken it from ChatGPT.

- Actually, Xi warned of an "AI" bubble and locked down the Internet during college entrance exams.

What is the race anyway? The winner will have 100% of the adult content and teenage meme video market on TikTok? How about winning the affordable housing race?