MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hatthew | 2025-12-16 00:17:50+00:00
Yes, you learn more than 1 bit in that case. However, if you are told A is false, you still don't know whether B or C is true, so you gain less than 1 bit. Assuming A, B and C all have equal probability, your average/expected information gain is <1 bit.

If you ask the question "which of A, B, or C is true?" then you're not asking a yes/no question, and it's not surprising that you expect to gain more than 1 bit of information.
by GMoromisato | 2025-12-16 00:18:35+00:00
I will agree that if he hadn't aligned himself with Trump/MAGA he would have a much lower profile.

But I think we'd be better off if taking a political position did not automatically piss off half the country. I think a lot of competent but normal people refuse the get involved in politics because of how toxic it is.

I wish Musk had stayed out of politics, but I'm glad he hasn't given up on Tesla/SpaceX just because of the enemies he's made. I think any normal person would have.
by while_true_ | 2025-12-16 00:18:45+00:00
I think the sweet spot for EVs are for small, compact crossovers, hatchbacks and sedans, not large trucks or SUVs. Batteries don't scale up well. I have a Chevy Bolt EUV and it's great, the most economical vehicle I've ever owned, it's cheap to charge at home and there's virtually no maintenance. The new 2026 Bolt and the 2026 Nissan Leaf will both be just under $30k and will make great commuter cars or grocery getters.
by lossolo | 2025-12-16 00:19:07+00:00
> No freedoms are ever unlimited, so that's not an interesting point.

Of course no freedoms are unlimited, so I'm not sure why are you reading this literally?

> The question is, were they useful?

Are we talking about the same thing? I'm talking about the lack of freedom under British rule, and you ask if it was useful for HKers? While there are a lot of people in HK who are not happy about what China is doing now, there is almost no one who would take British rule over that. I actually talked with people about it in person when I was in HK.
by pixelatedindex | 2025-12-16 00:19:12+00:00
> China can use TikTok for many purposes, whether it's purely disruptive, or in pursuit of nation-state agendas, or any sort of nefarious deliberate action they might take. You can hold Zuck accountable.

Yeah they can in theory but so can Facebook. Remember Cambridge Analytica? They held Zuck accountable in the sense that there was a slap on the wrist and he went on his merry way. You can similarly hold the ByteDance US CEO accountable and they operate as a US business.

It’s all political theatrics and has nothing do with keeping our personal data safe or protect the American people. These companies might run in the US but corporations are beholden to no nation.
by mmooss | 2025-12-16 00:19:19+00:00
I think you might intend to compare 'that' and 'which'? Common advice is to use 'that' with people and 'which' with objects, though that isn't necessarily followed and omits many nuances.

Use 'who' with people especially, often with other living beings ('my dog, who runs away daily, always is home for dinner') or groups of them ('the NY Yankees, who won the championship that year, were my favorite'), but never with objects unless pretending they live ('my stuffed bear, who sleeps in my bed, wakes me every morning').

If you care about these things, the Chicago Manual of Style is a large, technical, highly respected guide aimed at publishing. Fowler's Modern English Usage is more focused on usage. A short and beloved guide is The Elements of Style by Strunk & White. You can find all on the Internet Archive, I'm almost certain.
by ikiris | 2025-12-16 00:20:27+00:00
I think the point the original guy is hand wavingly getting at is the point of something like this is to avoid the possibility of say a FBI raid or Nuremburgish trials for a vast AI surveillance processing facility hub for other down looking satellites if they were to lose their newly acquired power, or similar technocratic ramblings / ideas like it would survive the end of society.

Its like that scene at the end of Real Genius, "Maybe somebody already has a use for it, one for which it's perfectly designed." Lets look at the facts: Impossible to raid, not under any direct legal jurisdiction, high bandwidth line of sight communications options to satellite feed points that would be difficult to tap outside of other orbital actors, Power feed that is untethered to any planetary grid or at risk of terrestrial actors, etc.
by mr_toad | 2025-12-16 00:20:49+00:00
> I don't understand the question. There must have been a cloud of gas big and dense enough to provide the mass for the solar system. Once that exists gravity does the rest, right?

Very large clouds of gas can exist with gravitation attraction balanced by gas pressure. This delicate balance can be disturbed by passing stars, supernovae, galactic mergers and other events.
by tastyface | 2025-12-16 00:20:55+00:00
Sure, there may be more pressing matters than the richest man in the world enthusiastically boosting Tweets that describe Western civilization as getting raped to death by the unnamed (you-know-who-I-mean) Others, but it is absolutely part of the same white nationalist zeitgeist, lexicon, and community. The rhetoric Musk uses is *identical* to what Miller and the White House, Reform, AfD, etc. are using to dehumanize immigrants and to direct racial hate and violence towards them. And it’s just one example out of hundreds.

I can’t do anything about Miller being a ghoul, but if I can help one or two people have second thoughts about using Twitter or Grok, it will be well worth it.
by abigail95 | 2025-12-16 00:21:00+00:00
What would it break? It can't do anything that NPM malware wouldn't also do and that's a risk I've already accounted for.

At best someone extracts 0-59 minutes of a session key for my aws credentials for one development account, boring, whatever source code is currently on the machine, also boring,

There's more risk that vetting someone on Upwork goes wrong and they burn me than Claude does.

Am I blind to the actual risk here? how many of you execute unverified code from libraries without a sandbox?
by danielmarkbruce | 2025-12-16 00:21:03+00:00
Look up "newspaper joint operating agreements" and the "Newspaper Preservation Act". They were literally government sanctioned monopoly/duopoly structures from a business perspective to save newspapers from going to 1 paper towns. Ie, the government stepped in to help what was a process towards natural monopolies all over the country. The seattle times, the denver post were effectively monopolies via JOAs, and the san diego union tribune was a monopoly in its day (without a JOA). There are endless small city / large town examples.

You are clueless about newspapers in their heyday. It was like 60 years ago. No need to go around correcting people on a topic you know nothing about.
by Aunche | 2025-12-16 00:21:14+00:00
Ellison, Zuckerberg, and Shou Zi Chew (who to be clear is only the CEO of TikTok, not ByteDance) may be willing to brainrot Americans, but it's for the sake of profit, so they can be pressured to change. Facebook and Twitter cooperated with American intelligence to uncover to Russia's disinformation campaign and they have no incentivize to fake compliance.

From those investigations, it was revealed that Russia and likely other foreign adversaries do simply want to brainrot Americans for the sake of destabilizing the country. If TikTok gets investigated for Chinese intererfence, China can pressure Bytedance into sabotaging these investigations.
by avi_vallarapu | 2025-12-16 00:21:37+00:00
This is probably an Interesting if not a Poll leading to interesting conversations.

If you already know, Orafce is an extension that emulates in PostgreSQL, a subset of functions and packages from the Oracle RDBMS.

This extension is very helpful while porting Oracle applications to PostgreSQL, avoiding application code rewrites in a performant way.

Do you think it is worth having a similar emulation of Oracle functions/packages on Snowflake and BigQuery ?
by esaym | 2025-12-16 00:21:56+00:00
I would read the manual too on the ride home. But I think that was only for new games? I seem to remember that rentals didn't come with manuals. The best memory was my grandma picking me up to spend the summer at her house. We stopped by wal-mart and I grabbed the first release of Gran Turismo for psx. It came with a fairly giant manual. Had a three hour drive to her house. I read it over and over!
by michaelt | 2025-12-16 00:22:16+00:00
If there's one thing I've taken away from Trump's successes, it's that there's no such thing as "political suicide".

A massive tax hike on imported goods, making loads of things more expensive? Political suicide! Constant flip-flopping and backtracking on deals? Political suicide! Doing mocking impersonations of disabled people? Political suicide! Accepting donations from neo-nazi groups? Political suicide! Cheating on your pregnant wife with a porn star? Political suicide! Repeatedly visiting a billionaire pedophile's private island? Political suicide!

Except it turns out actually none of that is political suicide.
by NoteyComplexity | 2025-12-16 00:22:25+00:00
Just cancel it.

Soundcloud these days is nothing but a spambot filled website that have ripped countless users’ tracks and scam to earn fake followers, which the platform doesn’t block these bot but instead shallow banning proper users. The support is also nonexistent and my support ticket hasn’t being been responded for more than an year.

I ended up trashed my account because I got shadow banned for no reason while they keep on stripping off basic features. Some of the users in my community also faced the similar stories.

Unless there is an irreplaceable feature in SoundCloud you rely on, I see no reason to use it.
by scotty79 | 2025-12-16 00:22:42+00:00
> So with dynamic typing, you will have to change the same amount of code if you want your code to stay correct.

No, because if a piece of data is pushed through multiple layers you can just change its type at the source and the destination and not in all the layers the data is pushed through. And you can still be correct.

Imagine you have a thing called target which is a description of some endpoint. You can start with just a string, but at one point decide that instead of string you'd prefer object of a class. In dynamic language you just change the place where it originates and the place where it's used. You don't need to change any spot in 3 layers that just forearded target because they were never forced assumed it's a string.

You can achieve that in staticly typed language if you never use primitive types in your parametrs and return types or if you heavily use generics on everything, but it's not how most people write code.

Tools can help you with the changes, but such refactors aren't usually available in free tools. At least they weren't before LLMs. So the best they could do for most people was to take them on a journey through 3 layers to have them make manual change from string to Target at every spot.
by craftkiller | 2025-12-16 00:22:45+00:00
> The security aspect seems also a bit funny to me. After all the average Desktop has most data in the home directory, so every application can read everything. That's not the fault of D-Bus.

Those secret stores (gnome-keyring/kwallet) store the secrets encrypted on disk, so every application can read the encrypted secrets but only the secret store has the encryption key to decrypt them. This is held in memory, not on disk.
by belviewreview | 2025-12-16 00:22:58+00:00
So you claim to know for certain that it virtually never happens that someone winds up homeless for financial reasons, like their rent got raised or they lost their job and couldn't find one that paid enough for the prevailing rents.

Perhaps you would be so kind as to explain how you determined this. Did you for instance survey homeless people in a number of US cities? Or perhaps you used some other method.
by credit_guy | 2025-12-16 00:23:23+00:00
That's unlikely. Cerebras doesn't speed up everything. Can it speed up everything? I don't know, I'm not an insider. But does it speed up everything? That is evidently not the case. Their page [1] lists only 4 production models and 2 preview models.

[1] https://inference-docs.cerebras.ai/models/overview
by m463 | 2025-12-16 00:24:27+00:00
I wonder about the specs though.

I recall the bmw serial hybrid was called a range extender, because the gas motor couldn't actually put out enough energy to drive the vehicle on the freeway.

So basically it was an EV with a small +xx mile extra range from the gas engine.

so no "ice for road trips", more like "ice for an additional +xx miles" then you need to recharge.

In comparison the chevy volt had a better hybrid design (not a serial hybrid) and you could drive it on gasoline only.
by hatthew | 2025-12-16 00:24:28+00:00
We have to make a distinction between "expected information gain" vs "maximum information gain". An answer of "yes" generally gains >1 bit, but an answer of "no" generally gains <1 bit, and the average outcome ends up <1. It is impossible for a single yes/no question to have an expected gain of >1; the maximum possible is precisely 1.
by cogman10 | 2025-12-16 00:24:36+00:00
The problem with EREVs is they are more complex than a BEV. More parts to go wrong, to purchase, and ultimately a (potentially) higher price.

The reason to do EREVs for a manufacture is, IMO, primarily because they can't get a hold of batteries for a cheap enough price. And I think that's the weakness of the way Ford has attacked EVs. They haven't (AFAIK) really built out battery plants. As a result, they are at the whims of their supplier for their battery packs.

For a truck like the F150, that's a large pack requirement that probably ultimately likely killed their margins.

Edit OK, they've been working on a plant for the last 5 years, but it looks like they've done almost nothing. Like, literally just have some support structs up.
by oersted | 2025-12-16 00:24:44+00:00
By the “sewage” analogy you are expressing the assumption that the vast majority of what people write is outright toxic and that being exposed to it is actively hurtful.

My experience on the internet does not reflect this, this is a very pessimistic view of people, bordering on perl-clutching.

Most raw user generated feeds are not great sure, but it’s mostly mediocre jokes and mildly provocative takes from bored trolls, and that’s usually a loud minority. Most people either lurk or make a modest effort now and then, particularly in niche communities like this where most people aware of it will already be fairly deeply immersed in tech. People have better things to do than to constantly be aggressively offensive, I imagine it gets old fast, and you really need to go out of your way to write something that legitimately hurts an adult.

Sure of course there are corners that are cesspits of hate, but they tend to band together and it is quite hard to bump into them accidentally. And when you do, you just feel slightly disgusted for a second, turn back and forget about it.

Some moderation is critical, but it usually needs to only be enforced for a few bad apples, most people act with decency and common sense, even when anonymous. And yes including people with lesser means and/or from shitty countries. People from different cultures are mostly the same when you peal away superficial customs, and I find much more in common with someone of my age with similar interests from the other side of the world, than with a grumpy old neighbor frankly. At least that’s my experience.
by stonogo | 2025-12-16 00:24:59+00:00
I feel like many of these comparisons are more applicable to an F-150 of twenty years ago. Modern F-150s start at forty grand, are so hard to repair that the CEO of Ford whines about not having enough mechanics willing to get a PhD in Ford Repair, are absolutely software-constrained to the extent they're legally allowed, and have almost as many cockpit gizmos. The primary difference is the flashy bloat, but the majority of F-150s are sold at trim levels that include such things. Even the lowest-trim fleet F-150 these days is basically a luxury minivan with a bed compared to the models of yesteryear.

My guess is that grid operators are offering more money than carbuyers, with the wild popularity of solar and wind.
by Seattle3503 | 2025-12-16 00:25:15+00:00
The initial TikTok ban bill was introduced in January 25, 2023, before the Oct 7 attacks.

I don't think we can trust TikTok to be a defender of global human rights. China doesn't have a great record on this, with Muslim minorities in particular. The furor over Uyghurs in China has died down due to China's strong international influence but that doesn't mean China is respecting Uyghurs human rights.
by hsbdhd | 2025-12-16 00:25:47+00:00
This was an interesting and useful post but you’re kind of losing the plot here in these comments defending against what should be a straightforward minor correction.

JSDoc has been around for more than twenty years and most implementations have never had most of the capabilities you’re describing.

It is actively misleading for you to say that JSDoc has these capabilities when you’re referring specifically and exclusively to TypeScript’s implementation of JSDoc, or you could say TypeScript’s alternative JSDoc syntax. Closure always used language like that in their documentation, and explicitly called out that they had diverged from standard JSDoc, as they should have. TypeScript’s own documentation sometimes refers to it as their superset of JSDoc, again recognizing that “JSDoc” actually does mean something specific and different.

The fact that there may not be a formal technical spec doesn’t mean you’re not wrong and it’s preposterous to suggest that.

There was established tooling and documentation going back 25 years, and it doesn’t somehow not count just because they didn’t give you a formal grammar…
by kryogen1c | 2025-12-16 00:25:51+00:00
>But don't tell me that Katie Ledecky didn't put in a huge amount of effort

Perhaps you should try reading the article, because it doesnt say that. Its a 5 minute read, although perhaps you shouldn't bother because most others dont appear to have either.

Edit: actually, I daresay the contention of the article is the exact opposite: its likely that ledecky put in the least effort out of anyone.
by abigail95 | 2025-12-16 00:26:44+00:00
Someone could post everything on that machine to the internet and nothing would happen because I'm not that interesting, my code isn't that interesting, there's no customer data on the machine.

I sell bespoke SaaS solutions to mid sized businesses. Really really boring stuff. My moat isn't my secret super duper fast software or secret client list, it's that I can integrate and iterate faster than others can in the same space.

Part of that value comes from letting Claude do his thing.
by ryan_lane | 2025-12-16 00:27:53+00:00
> There is a generic flaw in humanity that controversy brings popularity.

Not necessarily. You need to have that controversy shown to enough people of similar mindsets, which requires a platform, or for them to somehow grow their local audience, which was difficult for folks on the fringe to do in the past, but is easy now that social media promotes the fringe.

> So all you have to do is achieve perfect balance and censor only the bad things from both sides, right?

No. Regulate social media that drives views to these people. They're able to exist because social media uses algorithms based on engagement, and these people game the engagement system to slowly radicalize them. If you remove the pipeline, you also lower the popularity of these people.

Sure, some of this is word of mouth, but it's mostly not. Social media actively encouraging people to view this content.

> Because it's better to let every idiot flap their trap than to let anyone else decide who can't.

Yes, but free speech doesn't include the right to be platformed. Depending on the country, the definition of free speech also differs, and I have a feeling you're only considering this from the US point of view.
by foresto | 2025-12-16 00:28:03+00:00
> determine the PID of the process that you are talking to and use pidfd to validate where it is coming from.

The pidfd_open() man page doesn't list many things that can be done with a pidfd. What sort of validation do you have in mind?

I would love to have a reasonably snoop-proof secret storage service whose security model works with normal programs (as opposed to requiring Flatpaks or the like).
by recursive | 2025-12-16 00:28:45+00:00
I'm not going to buy a TV just to "try" to figure out how to get audio out of it. I mean, I'm sure there must be a way to do this. I've seen a few options in this thread. If I were to buy a TV, I would want to avoid making it more difficult than I have to. To that end, I'd want to figure out specifically how to get audio to the speakers. In my case, they're active bookshelf speakers without HDMI input.

If the only possible way of doing this is with a bulky receiver, I'd feel justified in complaining about modern AV stuff. Not because of the cost, but because of the size.

Anyway, thanks for your input.
by maxglute | 2025-12-16 00:29:18+00:00
Liberal world order / zombie democracy gud types. My brain / pov is just boring realism and recognizing a lot of strategic trendlines is going in PRC favor.

TW fine until mid 2030s, tldr is that is around crossing point where current baked in procurement / strategic investments will give PRC potentially unassailable geostrategic advantages vs US+co. If shit hits fan it will likely be around then.

CCP / at least Xi will be magnanmous because he's just a dove / nice boy. But war is war, no one really controls escalation, gaza is not first choice (especially for softie like Xi) but when ability to do a TW gaza, it is on the table and sometimes inevitable result from escalation dynamics.

How postwar TW gets treated depends on nature of capitulation, i.e. hearts and minds vs pacfication, if PRC paid high price in blood then domestic audience will want blood. But most of effort is patriotic education, i.e. school curriculum pro PRC material and next gen sentiment will automatically shift. Mass reeducation wasn't neccessary in HK who was broken relatively bloodlessly, and now new gen of kids shaped from PRC textbooks are going to have different brains than those shaped by British whose position is going to continue getting clowned on in public messaging until it becomes new norm. But would the extra intransient elements be whisked to mainland for re3ducation, probably - explicitly endorsed by PRC french ambassador at one point.

Ultimately how TW seperatist gets treated is matter of petty PRC bloodlust and local TW bloodlust. As with political jockeying during upheaval, anticipate a lot of pro seperatist TWers simply getting bumped off by local internicine factional violence for getting TW into shitfest in first place. The amount of organized crime influence in TW is too damn high, and all of them know they can instantly transform from gangster to legitimate political power post occupation by getting on Beijings good side, and some are actively being groomed for the role via United Front, see triad leading Chinese Unification Promotion Party (CUPP). They're going to be bashing skulls on behalf of Beijing.
by khannn | 2025-12-16 00:31:08+00:00
> * The price isn't right for small businesses. These trucks are quite expensive

> * They're difficult to repair. A regular F-150 is designed to be repaired; these things are designed like iPhones to be disposable.

Add in the crap tow range and it looks like Ford upmarket, as it's known to do, and failed. Just reading these points makes me think that it was designed to fail.
by Computer0 | 2025-12-16 00:31:21+00:00
I must be missing something but $500 for an N150 mini PC pre-loaded with a 4tb nas and a custom OS is a terrible value proposition. And I have multiple form factor N1xx based machines running 24/7, so this is the exact type of thing I would be interested in. Could it have been priced in a more compelling manner without the NVME?