MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alabastervlog | 2025-04-02 14:47:45+00:00
Meanwhile, deglobalizing might increase domestic manufacturing, over time (years)... except there's going to be minimal activity on that for a while, unless businesses are sure Trump-like policies are going to last a decade or more.

Since he's flip-flopping day to day on trade policy, it's hard to see how they'd be sure of that, even if he personally was going to be directly setting trade policy for the next decade, which is itself a pretty pessimistic assumption about rule of law (so, political and economic-system stability) which doesn't help with the "pulling the trigger on major capital investments" thing.

There's no clear high-confidence route forward at all right now, so businesses will be stuck in a holding pattern until things stabilize, and instead of any meaningful material benefits (setting aside whether they outweigh the harm) from these policies, we'll only feel pain.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-04-02 14:48:24+00:00
Exactly, the whole idea behind the test is flawed. ELIZA was already enough to fool some humans. Humans are very easy to fool.

See also the Chinese Room argument, which got a lot of airtime back in the day. It added no useful insight to questions about the nature of machine intelligence, but it did reveal how little we understood about the nature of language.
by SauciestGNU | 2025-04-02 14:48:24+00:00
If adhering to rule of law is inconvenient, the state doesn't get to ignore it. What if I were to anonymously report you as a gang member? Surely then we'd want to remove you from the country expeditiously, in fact so expeditiously that allowing you to make your case in court would harm public safety. Have fun in CECOT!

That's the strength of the evidence that this individual was a gang member. If it can happen to him it can happen to you or to me.
by djha-skin | 2025-04-02 14:48:43+00:00
Caffeine production is likely difficult in the face of a drier climate. Caffeine is present in the plant as a pesticide. Insects are a much bigger problem in wet climates over dry.

Having grown up in a wet climate (Chicago) but now living in a dry one (Utah) I can say that finding a droubt tolerant species which concerns itself with pesticide production may be difficult. The same water which coffee relies on is the same stuff pests rely on to reproduce. My mother was from Utah, and she always lamented at the small size of her flowers growing up in Chicago. They are much larger in Utah because they can get big without insects eating them.

(I say all this as a point of interest, but I don't drink coffee myself.)
by jqpabc123 | 2025-04-02 14:48:51+00:00
Here is another take on Trump's tariffs --- they amount to the largest tax increase in US history --- magically shifting a huge chunk of the tax burden from the wealthy onto the backs of MAGA supporters.

Not just my opinion but that of Peter Navarro, Trump's jailbird economic adviser.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/peter-navarro-says-tariffs-6-1850...
by watwut | 2025-04-02 14:49:06+00:00
He is literally dealing with himself when Starlink and SpaceX are getting government contracts. Or rather, agencies trying to curry favor with him and president (or trying to avoid their wrath) have to give them contracts. Same goes for Tesla.

Also, there is literally zero to suggest he was "good faith trying to improve the government". He was buying political influence so that he can make changes beneficial for him and damaging for those he looks down at. That is not the same.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-04-02 14:50:18+00:00
Random lithium battery fires are extremely rare. It's like people freaking out about serial killers. It's something that definitely happens, definitely catches the news, and definitely is unlikely to happen to you even in 10,000 lifetimes.

The infamous Samsung note 7 exploding battery catastrophe was 90 incidents out of 2.5 million phones, or 0.003% exploding.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-04-02 14:50:23+00:00
>Not sure why this got downvoted

Because HN doesn't like comments that are blunt about harsh realities, they like a warm tone that coddles and softens the facts.

>They may say things out of social niceties, but they really do not care.

My favorite part is when companies pretend to tackle burnouts with giving their workers subscriptions to yoga or mindfulness apps, instead of you know, the sane thing that actually works, which is less workload and a less toxic work environment.

> Maybe if it causes their cost share of your healthcare plan to go up they might, but not really.

Would be nice if that were the case. I live in a country with universal healthcare, so all the externalities of burnouts get socialized from the private system to the state healthcare and welfare systems, not to the employers. It's incredibly rare that an employer here is reprimanded against stress induced onto the workers. Only if there's hard evidence proving the employer is the cause, or an employee kills themselves you might see the state looking into it and fining the employer.
by talkingtab | 2025-04-02 14:50:27+00:00
At one time I worked at Oldsmobile for a summer. You know Oldsmobile - the big car company. It was a battle ground, not a car factory. I worked on the bumper line where sheets of heavy steel were crushed by giant presses into bumpers. This was long ago of course, because Oldsmobile is gone and so are heavy steel bumpers.

But it was clear that there were sides from the beginning. Management thought workers were scum and treated us that way. We thought management was scum and treated them that way.

And now American car companies like Oldsmobile are gone.

The warfare was ongoing, but there was one time that made it clear to me. The bumper line was an old fashioned assembly line of giant presses, probably twelve or so. We started with a flat sheet of metal. The first press cut it into a rough shape, the next cut some hole, the next bent a part. Each person took the incoming part off one conveyor belt, put it on their press, stamped it, took it off and put it on the outgoing conveyor belt.

When a press would break the whole line would stop, the person at the press would push a trouble light, and eventually a mechanic would come, fix the press and off we go again.

One day we had gotten to the part where the mechanics had arrived. Everyone stood around and watched as the mechanics checked the press for about twenty minutes. Everyone of us watched, as the mechanics spent twenty minutes working on the wrong press. The wrong one. All of us knew and no one said a word.

Finally, the mechanics turned on the press and it worked and they told us we could start again. At that point the guy at the broken press asked about his press.

So why? Management manipulated us, treating us like we were not capable people and not to be trusted to do the right thing. And in turn we treated them like they were manipulative, dishonest chain gang bosses.

So when you use fake deadlines, this is the road you are going down. You are on the road to obsolescence because the people you are lying to will begin to expect you to lie. Then you will be frustrated because people don't believe you. So you will treat them like the scum they are. Been there done that.

Your job should be, but probably is not, to help a team of people accomplish a common goal. Because it takes a team to do software. Actually that is wrong, even slaves can write software.

The truth is that a good collaborative team will run circles around you. So it is not that you will fail, it is that someone will come along and start developing software in 1/2 the time that is twice as good.

Feel free to repeat the mistakes of the past. However, do not be surprised when the results are the same. sigh.
by zdragnar | 2025-04-02 14:50:34+00:00
Tea also has noticeably less caffeine than coffee, yet it has been treated as an energizing drink since it was first discovered.

When you don't have any adrenal stimulants in your diet at all, even a small amount is noticable.

Caffeine also has a metabolic half life of roughly 5 hours in the body, if I remember correctly. A few berries might not do much, but surely a handful will be enough.
by rpsw | 2025-04-02 14:51:11+00:00
There was a paper[1] that showed taking a 600 mg of testosterone lead with no-exercise lead to more gains in strength and muscle size than a control group who did exercise and took a placebo. So some gains may just be "magic", but of course you won't look like Arnold.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8637535/
by johntitorjr | 2025-04-02 14:51:45+00:00
There's plenty of bad human therapists. It's hard to vet quality of care when you're in crisis and bad therapists can cause great harm.

Im pretty bullish on AI therapy agents, at least for mechanistic-ish stuff like CBT where emotional attachment to the therapist isn't super important.

TFA is complaining about cloud software, not AI therapists. Totally agree with that complaint. But LLMs can run locally, and cloud software can be wrapped in enough regulations to stay private.
by bob1029 | 2025-04-02 14:52:05+00:00
> how would you break down natural language for a genetic algorithm?

The entire point is that you do not bother trying. From an information theory and computational perspective, raw UTF-8 bytes can work just as well as "tokens".

The program that is being evolved is expected to develop whatever strategy is best suited to providing the desired input/output transformation. Back to the bitter lesson on this one.
by carlsverre | 2025-04-02 14:52:41+00:00
Thank you! You're 1000% correct, Graft's approach is not a good fit for high write contention on a single Volume. Graft instead is designed for architectures that can either partition writes[^1] or can represent writes as bundled mutations and apply them in a single location that can enforce order (the SQLSync model).

Basically, Graft is not the full story, but as you point out - because it's so simple it's easy to build different solutions on top of it.

[^1]: either across Volumes or across pages, Graft can handle automatically merging non-overlapping page sets
by tpm | 2025-04-02 14:53:16+00:00
> Someone else pointed out that there's very little shipping in central London now. It's all cars and buses causing this pollution.

Or gas boilers, in the case of NOx pollution:

> Gas boilers now produce ~72% of NOx emissions in central London.

https://bsky.app/profile/janrosenow.bsky.social/post/3lltacf...
by aNapierkowski | 2025-04-02 14:53:19+00:00
yeah I took a look at the methodology here, it seemed like this should have been accounted for in the plan though maybe I'm missing something. That said this is just one study and will play into meta-analyses at some point which are more interesting

After the 7-day wash-in, both groups followed the same RT program that comprising 3 full-body sessions a week for 12 weeks (Supplementary Materials, Table S1). All sessions were supervised by tertiary qualified exercise physiologists and commenced with a standardised warm-up of dynamic flexibility exercises. Each session consisted of 5 exercises: 2 compound movements each for the upper and lower body, and 1 isolation movement for the upper body. Four sets were prescribed for all movements to ensure an adequate weekly training volume for hypertrophy [32]. Training intensities were 6 to 12 repetition maximums (RM) with 60 and 120 s of rest between sets and exercises, respectively. To adhere to the prescribed RM, an individual’s rating of perceived exertion (RPE) on a Likert scale of 1–10 was recorded. RPE corresponds to the number of repetitions an individual perceives they will be able to perform after the set is complete, where an RPE 5 equates to 5 reps more, RPE 6 is 4 reps more, RPE 7 is 3 reps more, and so on [33]. When a RPE of 8 or lower was recorded, the external load (kg) was adjusted on successive sets to ensure that subjects achieved the target RM. The RM method was used to ensure that training intensities were relative to the individual’s abilities while also standardising the training intensity across all participants [34].
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by mistrial9 | 2025-04-02 14:54:52+00:00
there is guy here who was a wrestler in college, and now 60+.. he eats more protein per day than most people, his muscles are dense, heavy and now painful. I mean back surgery and limited mobility.. He does two minutes of exercise, claims to "stretch" then eats more.. basically, his body is making a lot of muscle but he does not do much work, and it is degenerate at his age.
by gavinray | 2025-04-02 14:55:00+00:00
I think this takeaway is deeply flawed:

> "The sad truth is those on steroids, though sedentary, gain more muscle than those who workout without steroids."

The proper takeaway is something like: "Untrained males without prior AAS use gained more muscle over a 10 week non-exercise period than similar males who performed exercise."

These sorts of adapations are not linear and consistent, similar to the "noob gains" experienced in the first few months by novice lifters.

Anyone who has trained in a somewhat serious gym can tell you that there are many people taking steroids, often times in dosages manyfold what this study use, who have mediocre physiques.
by adolph | 2025-04-02 14:55:10+00:00
For me, the original eye-opener about civil forfeiture was this NYT Mag article from 1994. Hard to believe it has been so long since I first read it as the sense of unfairness and suspicion of government it delivered to me is still fresh.

SULPHUR [Louisiana], POPULATION 20,552, ILLUSTRATES THE transforming power of civil forfeiture. It is a modest Southern town with one main drag, but at its north end stands a modernistic new office building. Outside its tinted windows and trim lawn, the well-swept Tarmac is crowded with rows of gleaming blue-and-white cruisers and sporty unmarked coupes, many of them equipped with video cameras and computers. The building, cars and gear all belong to the Sulphur Police Department. The day after my run-in with the drug-interdiction cops, I talk with Keith Andrus, supervisor of investigations for Sulphur's narcotics division. How does Sulphur manage to pay for the Police Department's new building, the cars and computers? Andrus smiles and points to a framed news item on the wall: "Traffic Violation Yields Police $532,100." An inset photo shows Andrus with a fellow officer beaming from behind a table heaped with stacks of cash. Typically, a speeder is pulled aside. When a lot of cash is found on him and his explanation is suspect, a drug dog is summoned. If the dog smells narcotics, the police seize the money. Because dollar bills are routinely used for packaging and sniffing cocaine, and the minutest trace of the drug will "infect" other bills, much of the currency in the country now tests positive for narcotics.

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/11/magazine/the-law-goes-on-...
by giraffe_lady | 2025-04-02 14:55:17+00:00
Well just extremely basically, what are you gonna get when "not a democrat" forms a brand new & fully independent polity, completely outside the international system, virtually impossible to have any external insight into, not a signatory to any treaties or conventions, with no peers at all to provide any sort of mechanism for economic or humanitarian pressure and not even the realistic possibility of emigration if you're born inside it. It may not be exactly slavery as we know it historically but there are very few ways this could go I think.

Indentured servitude I believe he proposed himself actually, though I can't find it now I think it was in a twitter thread and I don't think he used those words precisely. But the idea of people taking loans for the transit costs and then working them off on mars he endorses. That could be called a few different things based on implementation I guess but given the other information we have I find it alarming. At the very least it's company town + 21st century state surveillance apparatus + the above paragraph.

And well but anyway the larger point I was making was just that his extreme political views predate covid or his daughter coming out or democrats being mean to him or several other hypotheses that are regularly asserted. If you don't find that one compelling just skip it and check the others.
by andrewl | 2025-04-02 14:55:25+00:00
Or it may be the application of principles that are described or marketed as being these old principles, but are often just junk with a fake veneer.

These giant systems really are fascinating, although I'm glad I don't work in them. And I believe they were massively advanced during World War II. Because besides the obvious task of fighting a war, a lot of military work is logistics. No large scale operation can be accomplished without putting a lot of thought and work into it. A lot of what is required is sophisticated supply chain.

You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics. General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Amateurs talk about tactics, but professionals study logistics. Gen. Robert H. Barrow, USMC (Commandant of the Marine Corps)
by HDThoreaun | 2025-04-02 14:55:50+00:00
Really disagree with this author's take on robert moses. He is by far NYC's greatest hero. The abundance he created is now enjoyed by tens of millions of people every year, the poor and the wealthy. His singular vision is exactly the type of abundance this country needs. The pain brought onto a few by his plans was well worth the payoff.

The problem with Klein and Thompson's vision, as the author teases out, is that it is politically unpopular when you really dig into what theyre calling for. That's why theyre writing this book I suppose, to create support for their ideology.
by Frost1x | 2025-04-02 14:56:19+00:00
And not even just use that energy, use that in a way that promotes hypertrophy. There’s lots of ways that energy could be used that doesn’t ultimately get you any muscle growth.

For example, you could be using it in athletics, running, etc and it’s not inherently going to give you growth.

The effects have been known to be small. You get a little extra energy that might push you a little further in a set going to failure or with one or two reps in reserve. Maybe you slide in some lengthened partial that you go a bit more through the range of motion that you would have had energy to do otherwise.

And that happens again and again over the course of years and you get a tiny bit extra from it, probably. I’m not sure this study design disproves that at all.
by ferguess_k | 2025-04-02 14:56:21+00:00
I'm wondering if it's possible to track ANY operational train, not just passenger trains. I'm a railway fan but I'm only interested in fright trains. I guess that piece of information is somewhere within the railway system but not public. And it's probably illegal to get a hold of such information.

Edit Found these: https://asm.transitdocs.com/map

https://railrat.net/ (probably just passenger trains)
by mamcx | 2025-04-02 14:57:07+00:00
Yes.

And the keyword here `database` not need to mean the typical one. In fact, most tools (like git) are databases over the code. IDE, parsers, etc. POOR ONES, and probably in the way of 'any program is a poorly implemented half of lisp', but intentionally create a database interface with a relational(enhanced!) view with intentional CRUD+Queries make a lot of sense.
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by 999900000999 | 2025-04-02 14:57:30+00:00
Supabase was neat to get started with. The moment you need any complex backend logic it all falls apart.

A lot of things, like CRUD editing in admin, is just done for you in Django.

My other issue with Supabase is just how difficult hosting actually is. Requires a whole lot of magic/weird undocumented trickery. Vs Django which just works.

It probably really depends on what you need to build though.
by nabla9 | 2025-04-02 14:57:42+00:00
In the original paper Turing mentions 5 minutes.

>I believe that in about fifty years'time it will be possible to programme computers, with a storage capacity of about 10⁹, to make them play the imitation game so well that an average interrogator will not have more than 70 per cent, chance of mating the right identification after five minutes of questioning.
by Akronymus | 2025-04-02 14:57:57+00:00
In f#'s case, there is the trifecta of everything being an expression, static typing and default immutability. This means you often write code like this:

let foo = if bar then baz else someDefault

Due to it being an expression you assign what the if evaluates to to foo. Due to static typing, the compiler checks that both branches return the same type. Due to the default immutability you don't declare and assign in separate steps. What this results in, is that accidentally using the wrong indentation for something usually results in an error at compile time, at the latest.

Compared to how python does significant whitespace is that it's dynamic typing + statement based, which means you can easily end up assigning different types to the same variable in different branches of an if, for example.

I hope I explained it in understandable terms