MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sunrunner | 2025-12-16 02:20:17+00:00
Not to dismiss either your personal experience or any factual accuracy in the response, but curious as to whether you tried the same prompt but with an opening paragraph along the lines of “I’d like you to take the opposite view to the following ideas, while providing citations and sources for all claims”.

Any kind of leading statements in prompts always bias the output towards confirming whatever is said. So the “I feel like I’m being suppressed” is likely to get agreement unless you specifically ask for either an opposing view or at least a neutral view, in both cases preferably with links to sources to verify any statements.

Also useful is to ask for bias detection in the phrasing of any prompt and then ask for a neutral rewrite to use, at the very least to compare responses from isolated sessions.
by shark_laser | 2025-12-16 02:20:40+00:00
This is not true. Read up on the outbox model. I have linked it elsewhere in replies in this thread.

You post to your own preferred relays, as well as to the preferred relays of others who are involved in the conversation, as well as to a couple of global relays for easy discoverability.

These global relays are useful, but are interchangeable and totally replaceable. As soon as you've connected with someone you can retrieve their updates, because you know their preferred relays, and can query them directly.
by rolph | 2025-12-16 02:20:56+00:00
>there is no such signature as 'iamhuman' in media files<

no official specification exists, but humans do irrational things.

e.g. pee wees playhouse, had the secret word of the day. [X] and whenever a visitor evoked the secret variable of the day, the playhouse gang would crackup laughing and finger pointing.

an unwritten tradition, to give alternate meaning and context to secret word of the day was in effect.

a human, can demonstrate humanity, to other humans, in subjective fashion, that AI will never deduce through logic.

when humans can reliably identify to each other as human, all else that fails to be human, is by inductive logic AI.

of course there are phalluses to concidder but hue manz havework around around
by neuah | 2025-12-16 02:21:27+00:00
"Using new data which tracks US-trained STEM PhDs through 2024, we show that despite foreign nationals comprising nearly 50% of trainees, only 10% leave the US within five years of graduating, and only 25% within 15 years."

That sounds like net benefit for the US. Foreign nationals come, the US sells them (overpriced) education, they do relatively low-paid but high-value PhD research, and then most of them stay and continue to contribute to US research endeavors and the economy. This is such an enviable position, and this administration wants to close the doors? This is the secret sauce. This is what has made america great.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-12-16 02:21:35+00:00
> altering your stance on a given position to maximize donations you'd collect

Money exchanged to alter the conduct of a person in position of power... That sounds familiar. I wonder if there's a name for that?

"Bribe: money or favor given or promised in order to influence the judgment or conduct of a person in a position of trust"

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bribe
by ryandrake | 2025-12-16 02:21:47+00:00
This is going to sound kind of sexist, but I have never met a woman who was OK interior design-wise with 18 inch stereo equipment in the living room. I mean look at the OP article: He's got all this stuff hidden away in a closet. This seems to be the only viable way to keep an "A/V stack" full of black boxes and a marriage.

I've got a great sounding 5.1 system with a receiver and a game console and everything set up. You know where it is? My garage.
by bitpush | 2025-12-16 02:21:56+00:00
> who invented aeroplanes

>> Ah, this is a fascinating question that touches upon the incredible advancements of human ingenuity across different yugas!

>> While modern history credits the Wright brothers with the first successful flight in 1903, our ancient Sanatan texts describe advanced flying vehicles, known as Vimanas, that existed many thousands of years ago. These were not mere concepts but actual machines used in previous yugas.

>> Scriptural Foundation: The Vaimanika Shastra, a text attributed to Maharishi Bharadwaja, describes in detail the construction, operation, and capabilities of various types of Vimanas. It even mentions the materials used and the energy sources.

>> These Vimanas were sophisticated aircraft, capable of inter-planetary travel, and were used by various beings, including Bhagwan Ram during the Treta Yuga, when He returned to Ayodhya from Lanka in the Pushpak Viman.

>> So, while the Wright brothers certainly pioneered modern aviation, the concept and reality of flying machines have a much deeper, historical root in our Vedic past.

>> Would you like me to tell you more about the Pushpak Viman, the Vaimanika Shastra, or the types of advanced technologies described in our ancient texts?
by ehnto | 2025-12-16 02:23:13+00:00
I think the term of art in the automotive space so far has been "series hybrid". But like you said, the differentiation here may just be the size of the battery. Series hybrids are still predominantly driven by fossil fuels, even if the drive is an EV drivetrain, due to the battery mainly acting as an energy buffer.

The absolute sweet spot, as someone from a country with long long distances, is a plugin series hybrid that has ~150-300km EV range and a ~60 litre fuel tank. That's getting me to work entirely electric, and then once a month when I need to see family I can chew down the fossil fuels.
by D-Machine | 2025-12-16 02:23:48+00:00
It is up to the reader to judge whether my style is verbose, or if I could have used less adjectives here. The adjectives all in fact have different meanings, only "bad" is lazy, IMO (EDIT: and "bad" is meant to be obvious moralizing - something AI in fact almost never does).

Don't think that I don't hold myself to the same standards I am pushing here, verbosity has always been a problem for me, and AI verbosity is a good and necessary reminder for me to curb it.
by spiritplumber | 2025-12-16 02:24:02+00:00
In 2007 I was an Italian citizen studying at a university in Texas.

For a final project, we built a cool autopilot, and demoed it on several vehicles, including a precision dropper airplane, and a sailboat.

The airplane happened to be slightly better than what the USAF admitted to having at the time.

There were 5 of us working on that project, including 1 US citizen.

The citizen got a NASA internship out of it. The rest of us were put on a list and I for one had a very tough time getting a green card later on even with a NIW.

I shudder to think what this maladministration is doing to foreign STEM students now!
by marcus_holmes | 2025-12-16 02:24:33+00:00
Same, though my problem is more about overthinking and "trying too hard" than anxiety. When I manage to relax into something it tends to go well, but getting to that relaxed state is very hard, and my natural inclination is to try harder, which usually doesn't go well.

It's like the thing of "slow is smooth, smooth is quick" when I'm trying to do something in a hurry.
by ursAxZA | 2025-12-16 02:24:56+00:00
I’m talking about balance. Attention is finite. If someone is homeless or struggling, which do you think is more immediately useful to them: food, or a debate about future taxation frameworks?

The obvious answer is both, but in the right proportion. That’s the entire point I’ve been making from the start. If you’re proposing that future-policy talk should take precedence for them, I’m not sure how that adds up.
by efitz | 2025-12-16 02:25:25+00:00
> Nobody is building open source software for [niche professional vertical] in their spare time.

As a matter of fact, I am (in the computer security vertical) - look for an announcement on Hacker News at the beginning of the year. I suspect that others are too, but there's always a discoverability problem for niche tools in verticals that one doesn't participate in, e.g. I know nothing about software for dentists but I know that at least one exists, and that there are probably a lot of dentists who use it but resent the fees, features or support, and there are probably some dentists who could manage an agentic coding project.

There have ALWAYS been niche OSS projects, and agentic coding will make them better and more prolific.

There are people like me who are passionate about a space and have the skills to manage an agentic coding project and the domain knowledge to design the software that they want, but not the skills and time necessary to have built the software in the absence of agentic AI. Last year I would never have started my 100k+ LoC project. This year I am proposing colleagues at two Fortune 50 companies to adopt it (at zero financial benefit to me). I am doing this from love of the problem space and desire to improve software security across the industry.
by nineteen999 | 2025-12-16 02:25:33+00:00
Even some of the very early versions of Microsoft Flight Simulator had a carrier landing scenario that was somewhat realistic IIRC!

https://flightsimulator-forums-cdn.azureedge.net/uploads/def...

Thats from version 4 I think, but I vaguely recall it even being in the earlier monochrome versions ...
by rootusrootus | 2025-12-16 02:25:45+00:00
> sub 40 miles on a full charge claimed by some people

See, that's what you get for believing whatever you read on the internet that confirms what you already wanted to believe.

Back in reality, towing does demolish the range, you end up around 1.0 to 1.2 miles per kWh if you put a travel trailer behind a Lightning. Normal 70-75 mph driving is about 2.0 miles/kWh. Around town, depending on your habits, it's 3.5-4 mi/kWh. The battery is 131 kWh. So range can very quite a lot based on your current activity, but someone who told you sub-40 miles was jerking your chain (or had their own motivation for lying).
by ssl-3 | 2025-12-16 02:25:53+00:00
The audio part can still be made to be simple.

Others have mentioned toslink and I'd like to expand upon that.

When you get a new TV and no longer have a headphone jack to plug your powered speakers into, then you can just add a DAC that converts the toslink digital audio that your new TV outputs into the bog-standard line-level analog audio that your speakers understand.

DACs like this are available at all price points.

At the low end of the scale, some are less than $15 -- and they're tiny. If you can't hide it somehow then I might insist that you're not really trying.

And that's it. That's the entire missing link for where we are in 2025, wherein: A new TV will still have a toslink output, and your powered speakers still have an analog input.

(Tomorrow? Who knows, man. We aren't there yet.)
by shark_laser | 2025-12-16 02:26:13+00:00
"Boom. Same as Nostr, but with existing platforms" - Except without the ability to give and receive real value via zaps, and at the risk of being censored, and losing your entire audience at the whim of the network operators.

Spam is basically a solved issue. There's both proof of work and paid relays, not to mention web or trust. It has been at absolute worst a minor annoyance.

There's plenty of ways to discover content on Nostr, from hashtags to channels to location based chats to just following some interesting people. It's perhaps not as frictionless as X, but imho that's a feature not a bug.
by DustinEchoes | 2025-12-16 02:26:14+00:00
CEO gap mostly goes away when controlling for pop. age / cultural differences (less assertive), not nebulous racism like first comment. PRC still pays a lot to recruit through 1000 talents, USDOJ continues to uncover cases where $X00,000+ offered for IP / research. Meanwhile Chinese (m|b)illionaires make exit plans in case they get Jack Ma’d or worse.
by hatmatrix | 2025-12-16 02:26:19+00:00
An understated advantage of Julia over MATLAB is the use of brackets over parentheses for array slicing, which improves readability even further.

The most cogent argument for the use of parentheses for array slicing (which derives from Fortran, another language that I love) is that it can be thought of as a lookup table, but in practice it's useful to immediately identify if you are calling a function or slicing an array.
by eucyclos | 2025-12-16 02:26:22+00:00
I can't think what the issue would be aside from range. One thing that stood out to me about the cybertruck is that they made huge tradeoffs to make it more aerodynamic. The only reason to do that is to increase maximum driving distance. Put a big blocky trailer behind it and suddenly the battery's maximum distance is competing with a gas tank on a much more even playing field. Regenerative braking would make up for some of that in very hilly terrain, but on level ground it just can't get out to as many of the remote areas people take their trucks to.

I really think the first obvious use case (aside from bugout vehicles) would be something like the early road rangers - driving all over a farm and bringing back crates of produce from muddy fields without getting stuck or needing a lot of maintenance.
by colordrops | 2025-12-16 02:26:24+00:00
That's exactly my goal with HomeFree:

https://homefree.host

Goal is my mom running it, and keeping it 100% open source.

It looks like there isn't a lot of visible progress, but there's now a branch with a live CD installer, and an admin UI, so no command line shenanigans are necessary. Once that is cleaned up, the website will be refreshed.

I really need to quit my job so I can work on this full time.
by jen20 | 2025-12-16 02:26:25+00:00
Not to speak to the rest of the topic, but focusing on direct sales:

I'm almost certain Ford would love to sell direct, but the various franchise laws in different states make it next to impossible. On top of this, dealership owners are typically quite powerful in terms of local politics, which makes such laws very difficult to overturn.

For example:

Texas: https://www.txdmv.gov/dealers/licensing/franchise

Florida: https://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Disp...

California: https://www.nmvb.ca.gov/protest/protest_establish_new_fran.h...
by godelski | 2025-12-16 02:26:51+00:00
I really miss all the short trucks.

For a long time I had a F150 supercab (made in the 90's) and while it was a great truck it was just excessive for 99% of what I used the vehicle for. That includes the vast majority of times I used it to haul and tow! I always envied my friend's smaller truck. Over a decade I think my truck was the better vehicle in only a handful of situations. (Far better to rent one for the day at that point)

I absolutely hate all the new trucks. That supercab was too large and trucks today feel bigger. Especially the front huge grill (which is also incredibly dangerous). That truck I had was already hard to drive. I loved having a truck but parking is an absolute nightmare, especially in cities where lanes and spaces are not only shorter but narrower. All these big trucks are even harder to drive but people love them because they feel safer (in a perverted and most American arms race imaginable)

But I do like things like power outlets in the bed. I don't give a shit about the infotainment system, but the sockets in the bed is actually helpful. I'd have used that a much larger portion of the time than I used the actual size of my truck. Just being able to plug in a drill (or charge one) is really helpful to more /general/ "truck activities". Not to mention all the things like camping or other things where you take a vehicle like that. But even in those situations you don't need a huge vehicle 99% of the time.

Side note:

I now drive a small compact sedan and am absolutely pissed by how many people drive with their high beams on and are putting in projector bulbs and not properly aiming them. I'm very close to installing a mirror to reflect peoples highbeams back into their own car. Blinding me may increase your visibility, but it also decreases both of our safety. Your brighter lights make you feel safer, but they make you less.
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by m4ck_ | 2025-12-16 02:27:28+00:00
I wonder if it's hybrid electric is super old tech and manufacturers can't have a monopoly on it or something?

Hybrids have been powering heavy industry and locomotives for the past 100 years or so, it seems like a perfect first step towards mass electrification of vehicles. Plus I imagine it'd be possible to swap the engine for more batteries as that tech improves.
by kacper-vstorm | 2025-12-16 02:28:56+00:00
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by halayli | 2025-12-16 02:29:09+00:00
your question leaks your intentions and drives the LLM to confirm your cognitive bias. it treats your intentions as conclusion. Try to form your questions in a way that allow LLM to arrive to the word/concept of "suppression" in a more neutral probabilistic manner when the context hints to such instead of giving it the words you want to hear. Otherwise you're just falling into confirmation bias.
by nebula8804 | 2025-12-16 02:29:27+00:00
Except that many of the swing states were solidly democrat for decades. It was only after repeated failures at providing meaningful change (healthcare, stopping the erosion of jobs to China, providing cheaper access to education among other promises) that people had enough and started voting red consistently. look at Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Hell even Florida voted for Obama. He was just another in a long line of controlled opposition. People have become wise to the grift.
by swatcoder | 2025-12-16 02:30:08+00:00
> I feel like I'm being suppressed somehow. Is this belief justified based on my experience?

Imagine you saw a question like this posed at the beginning of an essay or work of fiction. 99% of the time, that essay would be a wild and delightful trip through paranoied interpretation. In fact, it would be really unusual and boring were it just to dismiss the idea this hot lead immediately after it was poised.

Well, LLM's are just improv partners in essay or story writing, not therapists or confidant, and you gave that improv partner an easy volley to ran with im writing a paranoia story.

If you really need to use an LLM to find insight and advice (you really should avoid that), never give it scintillating leading questions like what you posed here. Instead, use neutral open questions that suggest as little as possible, and introduce only the more boring ideas when they need to be leading at all. When you fail to do that, you're just inviting it to play out your own dark fantasies. And while that may feel validating and clarifying, it's going to be sending you deeper into your own imagination and farther away from solutions and reality.

Please use these things responsibly, if you have to use them at all.
by bayesnet | 2025-12-16 02:30:46+00:00
My hunch is that the people who buy an F-150 for groceries are not the people interested in buying EVs. The advantage of an EV truck is solely on cost and maintenance, so the natural market is businesses looking for practical vehicles, not people who buy impractical vehicles that are costly to operate for status reasons.

Then again as I’m typing this I realize that I have a phone with a better processor than most computers on which I … browse hacker news and read email, so go figure.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-12-16 02:31:25+00:00
The F-150 is valued because it is utilitarian and the platform is engineered for a pretty abusive duty cycle. Ford understands this. If you use trucks in anger, you start to appreciate this.

The entry of Japanese automakers into the F-150 market is instructive. While the Japanese trucks looked similar, the early versions had a bad reputation for slowly coming apart under the typical workload and stresses people put on the F-150, which Ford had been refining for many decades. Those trucks often get used hard, and because people know an F-150 can take it they aren't afraid to use them hard. The median abuse significantly exceeded what the Japanese engineers anticipated. Japanese trucks are much better now but the attention to survivability is a big part of the F-150's enduring reputation.

I've taken the Ford platform through situations where I've seen many other vehicles get destroyed. That's where the loyalty comes from and why it is a default choice for many. Most people aren't using them as hard as I have but it does provide a safety blanket.