skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If empathy isn't a social value you get a violent race to the bottom and the complete breakdown of mutually supportive social structures of all kinds.

And after all that, the odds that you'll be the top psychopath are extremely poor.
>99% of situations people are directly responsible for their own situation.

This seems to be a flawed mental model in itself.

At the very least, you should elaborate on your definition of empathy. Do you think cognitive empathy is bad? If so, you’re ignoring that social interactions impact outcomes.
That's the same as voting to let it happen.
Author lives in Northern California. Not the DC area. So was the cost double for just one month? What were the rates? Guessing around $ 0.30 /KHW and $2.25/therm? What was the heat pump HSPF?
> Art of the Deal

Reminder that Trump had no part in writing the book:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_the_Deal

More seriously, this 2018 article from Indiana University negotiations professor David Honig has (re-)popped in recent months:

> Distributive bargaining always has a winner and a loser. It happens when there is a fixed quantity of something and two sides are fighting over how it gets distributed. Think of it as a pie and you’re fighting over who gets how many pieces. In Trump’s world, the bargaining was for a building, or for construction work, or subcontractors. He perceives a successful bargain as one in which there is a winner and a loser, so if he pays less than the seller wants, he wins. The more he saves the more he wins.

> The other type of bargaining is called integrative bargaining. In integrative bargaining the two sides don’t have a complete conflict of interest, and it is possible to reach mutually beneficial agreements. Think of it, not a single pie to be divided by two hungry people, but as a baker and a caterer negotiating over how many pies will be baked at what prices, and the nature of their ongoing relationship after this one gig is over.

[…]

> One of the risks of distributive bargaining is bad will. In a one-time distributive bargain, e.g. negotiating with the cabinet maker in your casino about whether you’re going to pay his whole bill or demand a discount, you don’t have to worry about your ongoing credibility or the next deal. If you do that to the cabinet maker, you can bet he won’t agree to do the cabinets in your next casino, and you’re going to have to find another cabinet maker.

> There isn’t another Canada.

[…]

> Trump has the same weakness politically. For every winner there must be a loser. And that’s just not how politics works, not over the long run.

* https://medium.com/@davidhonig_67081/distributive-bargaining...

* https://blogs.iu.edu/keep/distributive-negotiation-vs-integr...

* https://www.pon.harvard.edu/daily/negotiation-skills-daily/n...
> open source as the average person would understand it ... and it's quite clear to nearly everyone except pedantic people that you can now go and fetch the Gumroad code and modify, run, etc.

The average person would also assume that "open source" means "I can legally use this for my business", especially given that Gumroad is a tool that only makes sense if you're running some kind of business.

Unfortunately, this is true here only with a very large asterisk that says "as long as you never make more than $1 million in revenue". Anyone who attempts to treat this software as Open Source in the way they would treat, say, Postgres, will find that the instant they cross the $1 million threshold they have to rebuild their entire e-commerce setup or be in violation of copyright.

For some people maybe $1 million in revenue (not profits, revenue) is legitimately not possible and not worth worrying about. But for others it is, and that's why definitions matter.

(There's also the fact that, intentionally or unintentionally, the license assumes that you either have a business with some amount of revenue or are a government entity or nonprofit. Which means technically a strict reading of the license would suggest running the software without a business is not authorized.)
It will suck on both sides, but the majority of American households can weather a $2-4k blow over the next year as supply chains react.

Congress stepping in to exclude Canada and Mexico and the NAFTA exemption cushions the blow significantly.

Most of Latin America being placed at the lower end of the announcement means manufacturers who used to be competitive until China Shock set around 2014-16 can be cost competitive again.

Other large markets like India, UK, and Vietnam are negotiating as well and India expects as Bilateral Trade Agreement to be closed by Aug-Oct.
US Federal Government Spending by Agency [video]
Well, if you have ADHD, you are always fifteen. Novelty-seeking is built in, part of physiology, cannot be ignored. I am 42, and LLMs still provide a lot of excitement to me.
I don't really care about ransomware distributors either. I think the burden is on the victim defend their own systems.
The average person doesn't have capacity to care about policies that lead to the long term development of drug-resistant bacteria.

We couldn't even convince everyone to wear masks, this won't be an issue people will rise up in mass protests for... People are literally being kidnapped and thrown into detention centers without due process and there are not massive protests.

It takes a lot to make people protest, this ain't a battle for it.
Machines being able to outthink and outproduce humanity wouldn't be more impactful than the Industrial Revolution? Are you sure?

You don't have to agree with the timeline - it seems quite optimistic to me - but it's not wrong about the implications of full automation.
Perhaps going to the playground would be even better?
> I think it's our only chance at quickly solving huge complex problems like aging, cancer, Alzheimer's.

Machine learning is certainly a extremely handy in tacking these issues, thinking of breakthroughs like AlphaFold and similar. However, I'd like to push against your take:

1. There already are tremendous developments happening in those fronts you mentioned. Praising AI as "our only chance" is quite a stretch and possibly even a harmful statement, considering how severely under-funded these research projects are.

2. It seems to me the poem is more about LLMs/glorified chat bots than general machine learning. In that context, I wouldn't consider them as super useful in Alzheimer's research, certainly not "our only chance".
I never benefited from "meaningful" relationships so the choice is pretty easy actually.
Not sure why anyone would trust someone who has bankrupted 6 companies personally and directly to make any choices on the economy.
I mean that choice of framework has very little to do with technical debt. So you claim something like this to create attention.
Both sides just survived covid in their own ways. There was suffering though, just like there will be again.
> How is the moral dilemma of employer-controlled brain implants or eugenics equal to AI?

Well it's just a technology, don't you love technology ? Technology is progress and progress is good!

> it is a genuinely useful technology to lots of people. That's not the case for eugenics robots.

Eugenics would objectively solve a lot of suffering though, your AI might even come to that conclusion

> Did you grow up watching Data (Star Trek), C3PO (Star Wars), KITT (Knight Rider) thinking "Who comes up with these violent sadistic ideas"?

That's how 80% of ai "enthusiasts" sound to me, "AI is good because these sci-fi AIs were cool when I was a kid"
How is it retaliation to destroy your own economy by making the same bad life choices? Isn't actual retaliation to just ignore the entire thing and thank the US for the extra percentage points in advantage you got for free?
> I see nothing wrong with prejudice against ...

> I look forward to you and your army of white men

We know, the secret is out, you and all the other racist lunatics never saw anything wrong with prejudice. It's the same type of thinking that fought against civil rights in the 70s that just moved straight over to the hot new forms of racism and discrimination just because you think it's socially acceptable.

> Is there anything humanizing about the hiring process? Or is it one of the most dehumanizing things most engineers experience?

You are saying this in order to defend racist hiring practices. Whether or not the base hiring process sucks is not part of the discussion on whether or not we should allow racial discrimination in said hiring process.

In the end it's always individual innocent people that get hurt, not broad identity groups that you think deserve it.
In lacking objectivity, is it not objectively false that "millions" have died from this?
US Copyright Office highly anticipated report on copyright of AI-generated works
A nice game. Got 3625 for the first level(with a bit of cheating): https://brixitcdn.net/game/#G9cBACwH7LbpjSNeuZ/Pb0k4tHvVUloA...
I want to assume you are asking in good faith and really aren't aware of academic administration's attempts to silence specific and common viewpoints.

Your comment surprises me, because at this point, there really isn't any contention over the fact that universities have been doing exactly this.

So while I am assuming that you don't actually know, I'll give you a short list of links (I'm not doing research that takes me more than 5m).

> What did US universities do to "silence all opposing viewpoints" on any issues?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/musbahshaheen/2024/06/05/stop-r...

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/diversity-statemen...

https://www.thefire.org/news/anti-free-speech-trends-campus-...

https://www.thefire.org/facultyreport

https://www.hrdive.com/news/stop-requiring-diversity-stateme...

(UK, but still the same idea)
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/kathleen-stock...

https://www.thefire.org/news/speaker-disinvited-uncomfortabl...

https://www.businessinsider.com/list-of-disinvited-speakers-...

And, finally, some charts: https://www.thefire.org/news/blogs/eternally-radical-idea/ne...

Analysis of the data FIRE has collected reveals a clear political trend in the likelihood that a speaker will be targeted with a disinvitation effort. Speakers are far more likely to face disinvitation efforts from opponents to their political left than from those to their right. Since 2000, those behind the disinvitation efforts targeted speakers with views more conservative than their own nearly three times more frequently (97 attempts) than they targeted speakers with views more liberal than their own (36 attempts).

The takeaway is that the right-leaning students and administration are far far more tolerant of speech from the left, than the left-leaning students and administration are of speech from the right.

It pains me to say it, but it aligns with my experience.

> Did they kick students out of school because of their viewports? Claw back their financial aid? Get them deported? Physically harm them?

None of that is required to silence opposing views.

> I sure don't remember things like that happening in widespread manner to conservative students, let alone happening in a way that was organized top-down by the universities' leadership.

"Allowing only one viewpoint" doesn't require that the university administration has a top-down directive to expel students, only that they allow one viewpoint and silence the other.

Once again, that this happened is not in dispute, so I am left wondering where you were going with this response.
Show HN: I made a Fallout-inspired U.S. presidential term countdown timer
Hey HN!

I had this idea a few weeks back and put it together one morning.

My motivations were to give myself an easy way to check how long is left in the presidency while providing myself (and others) with some inspirational quotes to encourage those of us who need it to “hang in there”.

This was really fun to make; I got to flex some creative design skills I haven’t used in a long time. And it was a good opportunity to create a completely skeuomorphic design, which I haven’t done in many years. Obviously my design inspiration was Fallout's Pip-Boy UI.

The stack is a basic Next.js static site with a handful of NPM packages like `react-countup` and `date-fns`, deployed on Cloudflare Pages. Next.js might seem overkill but it was the fastest way for me to get this thing going.

Would love to hear your feedback!
Gdrive’s download as zip never worked reliably for me, and would like you, fail silently with a happy download completed.

For large binaries better to use Google Drive for Desktop (their official client), which is kinda like rsync mount but bulletproof.
I noticed that turning off the soothing in-game music goes a long way in reducing my sons Minecraft craving.
Interesting proposal. Maybe if race or sex or height or eye color etc isn't given, and the LLM determines there's no reason not to randomize in this case (avoid black founding fathers), the backend could tweak its own prompt by programatically inserting a few random traits to the prompt.

If you describe an Indiana Jones character, but no sex, 50/50 via internal call to rand() that it outputs a woman.
Be honest about the timescale, I understand why climate activists use the "10 years" timeline because its hard for people to care about something beyond that and the idea that we need to panic about it to enact mass change but I think anyone can thinking critically for even a moment can see nothing will have significantly changed in 10-15 years on this matter.

Personally I think lying about the timeline just gives ammunition to climate denialists because each time it's rolled out it creates a data point a denier can point at and say "look nothing happened".

Realistically if this is a problem it's my adult grandkids at most or great-grandkids who it would begin to impact.
Pharma products were previously tariff-free under a WTO agreement that is based on the principle that life-saving items shouldn't face any tariffs. Looks like this exemption is now also being eliminated and will probably cause the prices of drugs and treatments in the USA to skyrocket.
I've always considered references to "the best minds" to mean those glorified because they make others large sums of money. "The best minds" are never the ones profiting from their ideas.
Just yesterday people were trying to convince me that price hikes were good and would benefit Trump’s base. Now JP Morgan is predicting a global recession. I cannot fathom how this is good for America.

It just feels like a colossal own-goal that will weaken America on the global scale. Americans will suffer in a recession. And it was by choice that this administration put us here.

Is there any recourse?
My main use of Numbers is when I open a CSV file and it's messed up in Excel, I then open it in Numbers and export an Excel which fixes the issues.
I hate to say it: this might be the thing that actually screws his movement.

Biden was uninspiring but ultimately did okay on a few things. The things that screwed him were inflation - some of which was Trump's fault - and his mental state, which can happen to anyone at that age. The inflation followed Harris in her run, as people were fondly remembering 2017-2019 and the era of lower prices. They thought putting Trump back in office would reverse the trend.

Well, now he's drastically kicking prices up left and right with no end in sight. It's not even macroeconomic factors doing this like it was with COVID; it's purely the strokes of his pen.

The bottom line is the ultimate thing that matters in American politics, as it is everywhere. The talk about democracy, institutions, rights, etc. are all window dressing. "It's the economy, stupid", and it's getting noticeably worse.

Of course, I could also be totally wrong like everything else has been for the last 10 years when it comes to predicting the downfall of that tyrant.
Security systems also give you power and control over others. Whether or not it's harmless to break them is a case-by-case question.
"Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!"
Zen of Python
Fine-Tuning LLMs for Report Summarization
It would be great if they’d actually collect data instead of merely speculating, that’s what I’m getting at.
Under this logic, aren't all preventable deaths (no matter how much it costs to prevent that death) the same as murder? Doesn't that technically make all of us guilty of murder if we are not all spending our entire paychecks preventing the deaths of others?
Economic Decoupling and the Threat of Foreign LLMs
It depends on your use case. I wouldn't use numbers for anything large or complex but it's really quite a pleasure for smaller things, like invoices or planning.
Show HN: ChatHPT – Connect with Human Pre-Trained Talkers
> ChatHPT is a revolutionary text-based chat platform connecting curious minds with Human Pre-trained Talkers (HPTs) – real experts who share their knowledge based on years of authentic experience.

While ChatHPT is just a vibe coding experiment and a playful jab at Generative Pre-trained Transformers, I built it secretly hoping it might prompt others to reflect on how we acquire knowledge in the current dystopian rise of AI-driven chats. It’s essentially a simple P2P chat built on websockets, a nostalgic postcard to many hours I spent on IRC making friends all over the world many years ago.

Despite its confusing UX, my comedy genius didn’t foresee everyone assuming it’s just another ChatGPT wrapper, which, ironically, highlights the tragedy I’m touching here.
When someone tries to schedule a meeting during my focus hours, I decline it.

When someone DMs me about an issue they should post in the support channel, I link them to the support channel. If they insist, I link them to it again, and I inform my team not to respond to DMs from that person.

Do not engage with people who think their time is more important than yours; if you do, insist on wasting their time in equal amounts.
Y Combinator Little Tech Competition Summit – Washington, DC [video]
While I agree with some of the points here, the aloof tone-deaf consumerist mentality reveals either ignorance of, or more likely indifference to, the transformative juncture we've reached and/or the possible perils. If all you feel about the current situation is "bored," that's a you problem. The world is not here for your amusement. Boredom is a lack of imagination. Go do something else. Your problem is not boredom, it is your own apathetic attitude and need to be regularly spoon-fed entertainment.

Maybe I don't get the level of burnout I'm seeing because I don't spend much time streaming or doomscrolling, but that's an example of my point. If you spend more time creating than consuming, then boredom isn't a problem regardless of what the rest of the world is up to. Occasional fear and horror at the news maybe, but certainly not boredom.
Late to the game here, but I'm working on Basic Memory (https://memory.basicmachines.co/docs/introduction), a knowledge management system for the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

What makes it different:

* Claude (and other MCP AIs) can both read from and write to your local markdown files

* Creates a connected network of notes that Claude can navigate between

* All data stays as markdown files on your computer

* When you chat with Claude, it automatically builds structure with simple patterns

* You can start a new chat and just say "Let's continue discussing X" without uploading files or copy/pasting

* Files are available locally, so you can edit them in and editor, like Obsidian, VS Code, etc.

I built this because I was tired of repeating myself to AI assistants and wanted my conversations to accumulate into something useful over time. It's basically a way to give Claude persistent memory while keeping your data local and be easily readable and editable my humans.

Some people are using it to maintain project context across sessions, document systems, and build topic maps without having to manually organize everything.

Demo video: https://basicmachines.co/images/Claude-Obsidian-Demo.mp4
GitHub: https://github.com/basicmachines-co/basic-memory
JPMorgan Raises Risk of U.S., Global Recession to 60%
This can be taken as an instance of the Shifting Baseline phenomenon [1]. The fact that we can only perceive certain changes over large timescales doesn't mean we can safely ignore them. It's harmful to ignore experienced perspectives.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shifting_baseline
Do you have children? That was a prerequisite for the question. If you do, it implies you don’t consider the relationship with your children either meaningful or beneficial, which says…a lot.
> was taken from others without their consent

Wait, what? Since when our tax dollars taken from us without consent? What are you talking about?
> …I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.

– Captain G. M. Gilbert, Psychologist at Nuremberg Trials
Managing the government isn't brain surgery. It's not that specialized.
Right, speed vs distance. Still, I'd love to know the numbers.
Which is why though, the actual ideal type, would not be just video but video + replay, allowing you to access the game at any time, forking the story away - and upstreaming that as video in turn.

A good gaming video library, would look like a "go on your own adventure book"
People who develop software have to understand what "open source" means (technically, not just some sloppy interpretation), because using a non-open-source package in an otherwise open source project can contaminate the whole thing. License violations can pose high risks, both financial and reputation losses.

Because of that, a lot of effort goes into helping make sure that software stacks are using consistent licenses. There's a whole industry of standards, audit processes, software and companies to help with this; for example, see:

https://licensehawk.com/software-license-compliance-audits/

https://spdx.org/licenses/

https://www.flexera.com/products/flexnet-manager
What kind of people is the study based on? Does it include people with mental disorders? I dont value personal relationships.
He’s owned it though. Did his probation and community service.

Many, maybe most of us did stupid things, it’s part of a hacker youth. Owning it, admitting it, that’s a big part of building trust and proving to others that you’ve grown and changed.
> arises from novelty in others, shifts to the external environment

> Everything is simply a blend of prior work.

I generally consider these two to be the same thing. If novelty is based on something else, then it's highly derivative and its novelty is very questionable.

A quantum random number generator is far more novel than the average human artist.

> have an LLM produce content on developments which had yet to take place at the time of its training. It obviously cannot do this.

Put someone in jail for the last 15 years, and ask them to make a smartphone. They obviously cannot do it either.
A disfunctional government is their goal. Nothing else makes any sense.