MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by saertyaetawer | 2025-04-02 16:51:30+00:00
I've seen this reposted many times, many places, and I always wonder ... maybe this person was just not very good at soldering. I had professors order me to do things they didn't know how to do themselves many times. Working with zero competency and support is the norm in academia. Soldering is a bit of an art. I'm a natural, soldering, brazing, and welding are really, really easy for me, but some people never get it and never improve. I did a four-month welding course and there were some people who were no better at the end than they were at the beginning.
by Balgair | 2025-04-02 16:51:31+00:00
One (bad) pet theory I have is that LLMs/AIs are going to uncover something very uncomfortable to us: The difference in intelligence between people is a lot bigger than we thought. In that someone with an IQ of 95 and and IQ of 105 [0] have very different views of the world and very different abilities to navigate that world. Like, some people are much dumber than we thought they were and some people are much smarter. Not sure what the downstream effects of such a theory might be, but I don't like the things I can think up.

Again, a (bad) pet theory.

[0] Yes, IQ is not a good measure of blah blah blah. I'm just using this a handle to explain things, I don't mean it literally.
by JohnFen | 2025-04-02 16:51:32+00:00
As much as I dislike advertising, I'd be very opposed to a ban on it. That would be too heavy of an infringement on free speech, and would eliminate the legitimately good things that advertising can do. And that's not even beginning to address the trickier-than-it-seems question of "what counts as advertising".

I'd prefer to see specific abusive practices banned rather than a blanket ban of advertising itself.
by tomrod | 2025-04-02 16:51:45+00:00
Not that this applies to you, but coffee is definitely one of the things the Utah-based religions and metacultures should reconsider. Both coffee and tea are extraordinarily healthy compared to their more commonly preferred soda/diet sodas, and much more satisfying. Further, they already allow tea in subculture rulesets like Korea (one can speak with former proselytizers that sold the ideas in the region if doubt is one's initial thoughts). Most trace back their current adherence to cultural baggage of the same diet notions that led to Seventh day Adventists's diets, Wheaties, Kellogg Cereals, etc. Some great articles in Dialogue for the Utah-metaculture based curious. It's clear that the health advice banning coffee is a remnant of earlier times and currently operates as a shibboleth and token of obedience without merit.
by cgdl | 2025-04-02 16:52:32+00:00
I recently came across a critique of the Turing test that seems relevant here. Given the test's limited duration (five minutes in this study) and the constrained rate of human communication, it’s theoretically possible to anticipate every possible human response and prepare prewritten replies in advance. If such a giant lookup table successfully deceives the interrogator most of the time, would we then consider it intelligent?
by 6177c40f | 2025-04-02 16:52:47+00:00
Robusta is great if you don't go with the low quality stuff. Good quality Vietnamese Robusta is very enjoyable (and much higher in caffeine than Arabica, which I think is a nice bonus).

There's also the possibility of hybridizing Robusta and Arabica to get the best traits of both. A few hybrid varieties, such as Catimor, have existed on the market for a while. AFAIK Catimor has some of the hardiness of its parent Robusta.

As always, you'll have the best experience if you buy whole beans and grind them yourself (or at least find a supermarket that lets you grind beans fresh). No instant coffee that currently exists will be able to compete with that.
by Mistletoe | 2025-04-02 16:52:49+00:00
Speak for yourself then because I think this looks great and fun.

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/1jnr4bz/...

By the comments, I don't think I'm the only one.

Look at the logo evolution.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LivingMas/comments/17yizkw/evolutio...

Why is Taco Bell slowly losing color like a vampire is draining it of fun and blood? I see these driving around and I just shake my head, what about light purple and white represents Mexican culture and food? It's the whitest thing they could do without making the sign all white. Same thing with Target. Now some of the logos are white on white!

https://www.designyourway.net/blog/target-logo/

It's odd that in this era where we are supposed to be embracing diversity and difference that we are homogenizing our logos to white or gray goo.
by gwern | 2025-04-02 16:52:54+00:00
Yes, this has been done in many forms with other algorithms. You score each generation with a model like CLIP, for example, and then you can evolve 'Mona Lisa made of triangles', say. A constraint like 'exactly 13 circles' will work fine. (And you might experiment with loosening it, like generating a lot of candidates with 5-30 circles each, as a 'library' or 'seeds', before shrinking them all towards 13, to see if you get novel animal designs which are find to find if you simply start the obvious way with 13 circles initialized to random points & sizes.)
by milesvp | 2025-04-02 16:52:57+00:00
War games was incredibly unusual too. The script writers, this was their first screenplay, they had no idea thay no one in hollywood cared about technical accuracy in scripts and spent a whole lot of time trying to get the tech details correct.

Also, not sure if you missed it, but Manhattan Project was part of the trifecta for me from that era that fed my desire to grow up to do intellectually difficult things.
by light_triad | 2025-04-02 16:53:21+00:00
The Russians had some successes in asymmetric warfare, but they can't 'win' outright on the ground, and peace would probably decimate their economy.

From the WSJ a few days ago:

For Russia’s Economy, Peace Poses a Threat

https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russia-war-economy-ukraine-...
by nvahalik | 2025-04-02 16:54:05+00:00
We use Forge because they support our non-big-3 Cloud provider and because they take the headaches out of provision systems. Overall, it's been great.

The thing I love/hate about Forge is that it makes some stuff JUST easy enough to not have to build yourself, but also makes it just frustrating enough for the customizations/tweaks we've built up over the years.

More recently, we started using the API to script various setups and configurations. It took processes that used to take several hours and made them minutes. This means we avoid having to figure out and manage things likes what the default nginx config is across servers. But then, there is SOME stuff like PHP ini files that you can't modify via the API. So we end up running an amalgamation of API commands with some "command scripts" that do the one-off things.

All things considered, I wish there was an Ansible migration path off of Forge. There are so many little things we've had to do that results in our needing to create and run one-off scripts but Forge has just the little bit of edge that migrating off is "more trouble than it's worth".

I just with they could fix the team dynamics. e.g. I want to be able to have a library of scripts (forge: recipes) my team can run—but since I'm the account owner, only I can run them!
by efavdb | 2025-04-02 16:54:22+00:00
In fact, there is demand for colorful products. However, the way businesses measure demand today is through the aggregate unit demand. In effect, you get the lowest common denominator products rising to the top, and people with specific preferences can't get at their desired products. If instead, businesses would measure demand at a more granular level, they'd see this and be able to better serve their customers.

my startup varietyiq is working towards helping apparel businesses do this / have seen it work very well.
by dkjaudyeqooe | 2025-04-02 16:54:40+00:00
This article illustrates how economically destructive these tariffs are for all involved.

Of course those who are politically favored, such as US farmers, will get a handout, everyone else gets to pound sand.

I think a US recession is a given at this point, the only question is if there will also be a global recession.

If Trump persists with the threatened tariffs, there will definitely be a reordering of US and global trade, but not in the way he thinks. The US will likely have lower growth and higher inflation, ie "stagflation" and the rest of the world will move to trading with itself and without the US. There will be less competition and a consequent lowering of quality and innovation in areas such as cars.

It's a recipe for long term US decline.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-04-02 16:54:42+00:00
I've always found these general solutions kind of confusing. All uses of distributed data are inherently flawed, and have specific limitations, so you have to pick a solution that closest matches your specific use case.

I like the idea behind graft, but it immediately runs into some complications. Like the fact that, as an edge device with unreliable networking, its client may not have availability to fetch the pages it needs when it needs them. If anything, what the client really needs is to fetch all the data whenever it can, so that when it does need to access it, it isn't waiting.

But if you have a lot of data, that could take forever! That's why the application needs to be more intelligent about what data it's requesting, and do things like create priorities and classes for its data so it can fetch what it needs the most first.

The fact that this is built for SQLite kind of reinforces the point. Distributed relational databases are usually a bad idea, because usually people want them to be ACID-like, but you can't enforce that in a distributed way. That's why things like CRDTs exist; you treat every "copy" as an independent thing, breaking the false narrative that you can really distribute the same thing in multiple places reliably. (And that shows you why relational databases just aren't good for replicating; to replicate an entire relational database with CRDTs, you need one CRDT per cell, which multiplies your data)
by torial | 2025-04-02 16:55:01+00:00
There might be a physiological aspect (not just psychological aspect) that you might be able to mitigate. - Make sure you are getting enough vitamin D (I would recommend a Vitamin B Complex using Methyl B) - Some supplements can reduce anxiety -- stuff that improves the GABA neurotransmitter can be helpful. As well as serotonin. I take saffron, St John's Wort, GABA (starting liposomal soon), Tryptophan. I also take 2 blends of supplements: Dr Berg's Adrenal Stress and Dr Berg's Adrenal and Cortisol support. Between all this, it has me on a mostly even-keel.
by willdoenlen | 2025-04-02 16:55:16+00:00
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by calvinmorrison | 2025-04-02 16:55:27+00:00
The 9fans list had this one for April Fools:

Given the huge maintenance cost of immature computer architectures such as mips, 386, arm, arm64 and amd64, we decided to put our focus on the more mature and stable achitectures:

power64 and itanuim.

Therefore, all architectures other than power64 and itanium are thereby frozen, conserved and promoted to end of life.
by c22 | 2025-04-02 16:55:33+00:00
A long time ago I worked at a children's toy store and among other things I was responsible for ordering and restocking the bins full of small loose toys that cost under a buck or two.

A weird thing I noticed was that if an item came in an assortment of colors that included yellow, yellow was always the slowest color to sell. Often bins would end up with just yellow inventory after all the other colors had sold. But I discovered that if I removed the yellow samples from the bin entirely that the overall sales for the item would plummet.

I'd often joke that we should open up another store that only sold yellow merchandise as a way to move the excess inventory that built up from me implementing a yellow-buffering system, but instead we'd just end up donating them to a school or giving them away on Easter or whatever.
by braebo | 2025-04-02 16:55:41+00:00
> too easy to modify too many things in one go

To avoid this, just ask Cursor to use suggestion blocks instead of the edit file tool. This way, you can review each suggested change, click apply if you like it, review that specific change and make any edits, then proceed to the next suggestion block.

This is the best way to avoid chaotic changes that become difficult to review thoroughly, and while it takes longer, is a much less risky approach using focused, granular edits.

It’s a much more efficient workflow than alt-tabbing and copy pairing to and from a website, and much more powerful with how easily you can add context, swap out the LLM model being called, and apply suggestions that you deem acceptable with granular oversight.
by nvahalik | 2025-04-02 16:55:56+00:00
One of the big things that Forge did for us a long time was handling of deployments. The ability to just have it respond to a commit: download the code, do the build and then restart FPM, was great.

We don't use that anymore, but we use it for provisioning and maintenance of systems... it's not GREAT at that, but it is still super nice to be able to say "stand up a MySQL server" and then it's just up and ready to go in a few minutes without having to deal with Ansible and Akamai...
by slg | 2025-04-02 16:56:21+00:00
>More than 50% of American voters voted for him. I am having a difficult time to believe that 50%+ of the US are economically oppressed that had no choice but to vote for Trump.

I think it's important to be accurate with this stuff. 49.8% of voters voted for Trump, approximately 32% of eligible voters voted for him, and roughly 23% of the population voted for him. Don't discount apathy, disillusionment, and disenfranchisement in all this.
by zuInnp | 2025-04-02 16:56:38+00:00
For me, it is very apparent in movies nowadays.

I watched the Lord of the Rings over Christmas, and I was stunned by how colorful the movie is. Even in the darkest scenes in Mordor, it felt more colorful than movies of today.

Today, it looks like everything is shot in log and then someone does not add the saturation back. But I am also guilty of this .. when I got my new camera, my graded clips also looked very flat, but I like(d) that look because of all the movies and youtube videos looking like this.
by twoWhlsGud | 2025-04-02 16:56:44+00:00
Pro tip look for an industry that works for big capable customers that can defend themselves. Helps to create a structure of accountability inside a company that you can connect to as someone trying to have a positive career. Doesn't mean everything will be perfect, but it is easier than pushing against the stream in a company that "serves"[1] a disaggregated (and thus mostly defenseless) customer base.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_(The_Twilight_Zon...
by fallsoffbikes | 2025-04-02 16:56:55+00:00
This is amazing!

I have a bud who uses a custom built electric go-kart for filming stunt scenes — specifically those low camera moves of one car passing another.

He had to build his own controllers to allow smooth acceleration as visible jerks ruin the take

His tops out at 100+ mph but I thing they usually film at 70-80mph.

But yeah — those things are death traps
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-04-02 16:57:08+00:00
There is, but...

1. It requires flagging first. And that immediately kills posts ability to naturally grow. They're now invisible, so getting karma to get visibility is way harder. Even if they're unflagged, they're inherently disadvantaged and the original flagger still gets their way. 2. It's not accounted for in deduplication. So if a post is unflagged and it loses all momentum, nobody can repost it or it gets flagged for duplication! 3. Only some people can vouch, and they usually don't even know it exists. 4. And even if you can vouch, you need to go looking for flagged posts to find the post to vouch for.

Maybe some people should lose their flagging privileges when they're clearly abusing it? But I have a sneaking suspicion that won't happen.
by ryandrake | 2025-04-02 16:57:36+00:00
Just doing a Google search for "animals made from circles", you get the usual header full of "Images" and "Videos" crap, then in the actual results links, you have the usual Pinterest linkslop, Facebook linkslop, Reddit linkslop, a bunch of articles written by the designer (now we're getting somewhere). OP's link is finally on page 4 of the search results.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-04-02 16:58:05+00:00
Color is the last vestige of ornamentation[1].

Modern design didn’t kill color. It put it on probation. Stripped of aesthetic authority, color now has to justify its existence or get cut. No more freedom to wander or express, it shows up for assigned tasks only: branding, signage, error states, traffic lights.

In the cult of "form follows function," color met the axe. We no longer trust it to create, only to comply. Expressiveness? No. Just signal. Never art. A century after Ornament and Crime, we put color on a PIP. Beauty must be functionalized.

1. https://www2.gwu.edu/~art/Temporary_SL/177/pdfs/Loos.pdf
by PlasmaDiffusion | 2025-04-02 16:58:20+00:00
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by appleorchard46 | 2025-04-02 16:58:56+00:00
The example they use of Baroque art actually perfectly demonstrates this. It primarily consists of neutral tones that integrate well with the blues and muted oranges woven through it. Not exactly riotous color, as they put it - but very similar to the use of color you see both in modern designs and older cultural traditions.

(edit) I do think we've swung a little hard in the direction of color minimalism recently; it can get oppressive when combined with the trend towards minimalism in structure and form too. But I think it's fine for the default to err toward inoffensiveness and color to be used purposefully, and if/when public opinion shifts away from that there isn't exactly any impediment to design shifting with it.
by brabel | 2025-04-02 16:58:58+00:00
> They acted like the goal was to step on Putin's toes without pissing him off too much...

I mean, when you're fighting a nuclear power, making sure you don't piss them off enough to make them use their nuclear weapons, or at least unleash their most powerful conventional weapons on your main cities, seems like a good strategy.

Imagine for a second that instead of Russia, it was the USA fighting a proxy war against, say, China. And that China had just provided the intelligence and maybe weapons for, say, Cuba to sink the largest US Carrier. I am very sure the USA would freaking unleash hell on Cuba, maybe also on China. The only reason the Russians didn't do the same is that they're probably not capable of doing so, at least not without losing too much for it to be a rational choice. But at the time, the USA was not entirely sure of what the Russians would do when provoked to such an extent. They were understandably worried. As they learned the Russians were not exactly doing what they might have expected, they gradually started pushing more and more up until the point the Russians launched an Oreshnic ballistic missile which could've easily been carrying a nuclear payload, but luckily didn't. Biden still pushed further a bit even after that, but in my opinion that was rather irresponsible. You can't push the Russians forever, even in their current position, before you should expect them to become desperate and start using whatever they can to start pushing back at you, and the Russians still can do that.
by tripletao | 2025-04-02 16:59:04+00:00
This appears to be the same two authors who reported that "People cannot distinguish GPT-4 from a human in a Turing test" back in May 2024:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.08007

That earlier result was because they botched the statistics, changing the test so it's no longer a binary comparison but still analyzing as if it was. They seem to have fixed that now, perhaps in response to reviewer feedback. This new preprint is the best LLM Turing test I've seen so far.

That said, their humans sure don't seem to be trying very hard. The most effective interrogator strategies ("jailbreak" and "strange") were also the least used. I don't think any of these models can fool a skilled human who's paying attention, though there's still practical use for a model that can fool an unskilled human who isn't (scams, etc.).
by tarentel | 2025-04-02 16:59:17+00:00
I can't speak to this but I took a drawing class a long time ago. I'm not very good but it was a lot of drawing circles. When you see people freehand stuff it's kind of wild but that's not how people learn how to draw they're just very good at it from practice. Most of learning is drawing very basic shapes, usually circles, and erasing parts that don't make sense and continuing.