MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hinkley | 2025-04-26 17:33:15+00:00
He was working with doctors who were knowledgeable of techniques the UCI was not testing for yet, and in masking. That’s why he got popped on the stored samples. They have rules against doping that are set up to cover substances they don’t have tests for yet and that is part of why they store samples.

But they were also using “blood doping” which is essentially giving blood transfusions to yourself. One of his lieutenants, Tyler Hamilton, got busted for it a few years before Lance got caught. He claimed he was innocent and maybe it was chimerism or an absorbed twin. But this dumb fucker had already been caught doping several times before, one of which stuck and the other failed on a technicality (frozen backup sample could not be tested) My guess is they switched bags and he’s lucky he got a compatible bloodtype and didn’t stroke out. He got caught doping again in 2009 and received an 8 year ban, and retired. And later was stripped of his gold medal as well.

The only legal form of blood doping is altitude training and that effect doesn’t last long enough for the Tour or the Gira. But could allow someone to get an early lead.

As for Lance not getting caught between 1998 and 2005, that’s only barely technically true. He was caught using corticosteroids in a test in 1999, but explained it away with a topical steroid allegedly for saddle sores. He confessed later that it was a cover up for his doping. He also tested positive for EPO six times during this period but as the tests were still experimental, there was some clever lawyering that kept it from sticking.

Laurent Fignon and Eddie Merckx have both been accused of stimulant use which cost them only one or two races instead of years.

Richard Virenque was a popular French rider who won the King of the Mountain many many times, when he went down it was for an entire cocktail of drugs including HGH.

And I had forgotten that Christian Vande Velde was caught in the postal service bust. He’s a commentator for NBC now. I wonder what Liggett thinks of that.

Sources: a bit of memory but mostly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_doping_cases_in_cyclin... which, by the way, has become ridiculously, alarmingly long. Jesus Christ.
by op00to | 2025-04-26 17:34:28+00:00
So it’s ok to steal as long as you are feeding a family with it? :) I get what you’re saying, anyway and it’s an important distinction.

I guess what you see as “stealing” I see as inspiration. I also believe that there will be artists who use these new artistic image generation models in ways that are new and interesting just like the first person who used spray paint for graffiti was ripped off by everyone else.

It delighted my kids to see themselves depicted in coloring sheets in situation where they are currently interested. There is no world where I would have paid an artist to make these photos, and we would have just colored on blank paper.

Again, I get that real people’s content was devoured by these big companies, but at the same time I am much more concerned about bigger issues and would rather focus on getting ahead of AI rather than fighting it.
by Aurornis | 2025-04-26 17:34:46+00:00
> My wife and I share chores and swap out tasks evenly.

Having some give and take between parents makes such a big difference.

I think every time I’ve talked to friends who are new parents who complain about not having any free time ever, they eventually reveal some excessive rigidity in how they share the parenting load. Some parents try to have both parents involved in everything all the time. Some parents refuse to let the other parent handle a task like bedtime. Some parents let their kids get demanding about which parent does a task and they never push back on it. And of course some couples have one lazy parent who just doesn’t do the thing, leaving it to fall to the other parent.

There’s often a lightbulb moment when parents realize that there can be flexibility and trading back and forth between parents.

I once coached a young guy who was struggling at his job because his ~9 month old still wasn’t sleeping well. After some questions he revealed that both he and his wife were getting up with the baby every time and staying up together.

It took some convincing to break him of the notion that every interaction with the baby required two parents. Once they started staggering their sleep schedules and taking shifts during the night everything improved.
by o11c | 2025-04-26 17:35:06+00:00
Note that there are a lot of exciting new float-related functions in C23, many related to NaN handling, signed zeros, or precision in edge cases. Some have been in glibc for years; others not yet.

The API for `getpayload`/`setpayload`/`setpayloadsig` looks a little funny but it's easy enough to wrap (just consider the edge cases; in particular remember that whether 0 is valid for quiet or signaling NaNs is platform-dependent).

Finally we have a reliable `roundeven`, and the convenience of directly calling `nextup`/`nextdown` (but note that you'll still only visit one of the zeros).

The new `fmaximum` family is confusing, but I think I have it clear:

without 'imum' (legacy): prefer non-NaN with 'imum': zeros distinguished (-0 < +0) with '_num': prefer a non-NaN, also signal if applicable with '_mag': compare as if fabs first

`totalorder` has been often-desired; the other new comparisons not so much.

`rootn` and `compoundn` are surprisingly tricky to implement yourself. I still have one testcase I'm not sure why I have to hand-patch, and I'm not sure which implementation choice keeps the best precision (to say nothing of correct rounding mode).
by specialist | 2025-04-26 17:35:50+00:00
I vaguely recall a criticism of neoliberalism related to the emphasis on home ownership. Something about policy, homes being the primary vehicle for building wealth (vs say pensions), etc. And, ultimately, begetting NIMBYism.

I'm just repeating stuff I've heard. A lot of it feels like unintended consequences.

The NIMBYism part seems pretty clear.

If others have ideas, sources, rebuttals, please share.
by andrewmcwatters | 2025-04-26 17:36:08+00:00
And, these models' architectures are changing over time in ways that I can't tell if they're "hallucinating" their responses about being able to do something or not, because some multimodal models are entirely token based, including transforming on image token and audio token data, and some are entirely isolated systems glued together.

You can't know unless you know specifically what that model's architecture is, and I'm not at all up-to-date on which of OpenAI's are now only textual tokens or multimodal ones.
by swores | 2025-04-26 17:37:04+00:00
If you could share the actual prompts & info you wanted I would be curious to try and see if it is indeed too complex for it or if prompting differently would work better, because I've had it produce tables with multiple columns pulling info from different sources for different columns before so that's definitely not a hard limit... so would be happy to come back to you either with advice on how to do it next time, or with agreement that having tried it myself it is indeed ChatGPT not your prompting that was the problem.
by turtleyacht | 2025-04-26 17:37:30+00:00
Copy paragraphs from textbooks. Time-consuming but forces one to slow down and think.

Memorization mnemonics. Shuffling through index cards to associate numbers to words. See Mind Performance Hacks (2006) from O'Reilly.

Make notebooks with cheap filler paper, high-capacity stapler, and duct tape. Use G2 pens or archival quality ink.

Make your own index cards: fold in half and then into thirds; cut those into rectangles. (Still on the lookout for good storage.)

Shade paper with crayon. Carpet is smoother than desks. Envelopes are a good way to iterate color combinations. Pick colors at random.

Convert mailed coupons into CSS. You get salable graphic designs and color palette for free.

Break down milk cartons for free cardstock.

Prime cardboard with paint for a cheap canvas.
by Aurornis | 2025-04-26 17:37:53+00:00
I don’t pay for a cleaner and still have plenty of time for friends.

I think people overestimate how much time a cleaner saves. It’s helpful if you can afford it but IMO it’s not the life-changing improvement that you hear about on Reddit and other places. Someone who comes once per week to spend an hour or two cleaning could give an hour or two back (usually not 1:1 because they clean deeper than you would yourself most times to show that a good job was done). It’s not going to make the difference between having tons of time to spend with your friends if your scheduled is already packed though. That is, unless you plan to pay for a daily cleaner which is a different level of expense.
by vinibrito | 2025-04-26 17:38:05+00:00
I'm replying to this one, but I read all your other replies in this post, honestly I rarely laugh when reading here but I laughed more and more as I went through the discussion, and I think that maybe you were dealing with a troll, but I liked your explanations anyway, very informative, thanks for that.

Only a troll would defend that two CPUs are cheaper than one. Especially if you already have this one.

I'm a web developer, not even specialized in backend and I could follow and agree with what you said.

Hope you get better people to interact with next time :P
by bjourne | 2025-04-26 17:38:38+00:00
Geoguessr pro zi8gzag tried out one of the AIs in a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQKoDSoxRAY It was indeed extremely impressive and for sure would have annihilated me, but I believe it would have no chance to beat zi8gzag or any other top player. But give it a year or two and I'm sure it will crush any human player. Geoguessr is, afaict, primarily about rote memorization of various features (such as types of electricity poles, road signage, foilage, etc.) which AIs excel at.
by GeoAtreides | 2025-04-26 17:38:45+00:00
That's because you haven't lived in an authoritarian regime. NKVD, STASI, Gestapo, would all have killed for such capabilities.

As an east european who grew up and lived in such a regime, I would like to respectfully remind all westerners their care-free and free lives is a privilege the majority of the world doesn't have.
by Waterluvian | 2025-04-26 17:38:59+00:00
I feel more disgusted by the Americans who know this is wrong but do nothing. I have no patience for evil people, but the truly damned are all the Americans who know and sense better but do not or cannot act properly.

If deporting U.S. CITIZEN CHILDREN does not send you to the streets with fire and fury, you are well and truly lost. So much damn talk over the decades I've been alive about patriotism and liberty from America, but when a moment unquestionably calls for action, it turns out Americans were just unserious cosplayers the whole damn time.
by BlueTemplar | 2025-04-26 17:39:21+00:00
How ? The issue seems to have been that they had not revealed that LLMs were involved in the creation of the multiple choice questions. The questions/answers themselves seem to have passed the bar ? (no pun intended)

A much worse failure seems to have been the incompetent software to run the tests. And that for something as high level they would have decided to do it through the mediation of a computer as well as used multiple choice questions in the first place.
by whoknowsidont | 2025-04-26 17:40:37+00:00
>If you've been in the 3d printing space over the last decade or so, there's plenty of honest criticism and knowledgable discussion. But it's also infectiously enthusiastic and there's a sense of exploration and desire to see everyone* succeed that's very genuine. Things don't always succeed or work out, but it's pretty rare to encounter hard "that's stupid, you're stupid and you should feel bad" sort of commentary.

> And when I find something in a project that I think could be improved, I make an effort to ensure that I'm putting proper effort into trying to improve it, either with a patch/fix or if I'm incapable of patching/fixing, as much detail and testing as I can document in order to have contributed more than just a drive by criticism.

This is an amazing way of putting it / viewing it. In hindsight I feel like my comment was probably a bit misplaced.

Thanks for the response!
by nineplay | 2025-04-26 17:41:04+00:00
I'm surprised you single out Americans who on the whole still a lot more welcoming than a lot more countries in Europe and Asia. The last few months have torn that reputation apart of course, and there is loud group who would happily shut the borders, but there are a lot of citizens who are happy with legal immigration, sympatric to illegal immigration, and still embrace the melting pot.

My conversations with H-1B visa holders is that whatever aggravations they may have in the US, they can still get into the US. Other countries just don't have that pathway
by exceptione | 2025-04-26 17:41:07+00:00
I think the one who derailed the conversation did not do that on purpose, but yes, throwing in a technicality to us/the HN crowd is like throwing red meat to the lions.

It seems we as technical people give little reason for giving us a leading role in society. I admit that the media doesn't help as they keep the big picture out of frame, but then again, we are very easily cornered with minor details.

Anne Frank's house is not far from where I live. I bet that the term "forcefully" in a sentence like "She was forcefully deported" could have been up for debate too, who knows, but in the end it would not have really helped the girl.
by geor9e | 2025-04-26 17:42:16+00:00
I think part of that is an illusion, since for something bowing upwards, the usualy anchor point of top left seems rotated clockwise.

But there is still a real rotation - look at wyoming or colorado for a perfect rectangle. My guess is the div element isn't quite centered - perhaps too much padding on the right edge, causing the center point to be off to the right. So when it bows you get the rotation bias
by WalterBright | 2025-04-26 17:42:49+00:00
> When D came out I was interested but garbage collection immediately turned me off,

Only a small amount of D uses the garbage collector. It's quite easy to write D code that doesn't use it.

> in my opinion the boost shared pointers (later adopted into the standard) solved and shut the door on memory leaks as a serious issue.

Reference counting is slow and memory intensive.
by wat10000 | 2025-04-26 17:43:46+00:00
It’s worse than that. Far too many of us want this stuff.

I understand the basic idea of how you fight an oppressive regime everyone hates. I have no idea how you go about fighting one that half the country supports. Protests aren’t going to fix that.

Last time around, I could at least soothe myself with the idea that he only won because our electoral system is idiotic, and a lot of voters didn’t understand what they were voting for. This time? He won the most votes, and everyone had every opportunity to see what they were getting. I can only conclude that my countrymen are fucked in the head.
by SamPatt | 2025-04-26 17:43:48+00:00
I hear you, a lot of people feel the same way. You can always just play NMPZ if you want to limit the meta.

I still enjoy it because of the competitive aspect - you both have access to the same information, who put in the effort to remember and recall it better?

If it were only meta I would hate it too. But there's always a nice mix in the vast majority of rounds. And always a few rounds here and there that are so hard they'll humble even the very best!
by Hackbraten | 2025-04-26 17:44:23+00:00
To spare you the manual seeking, the latest additions seem to be in the Surveillance [0] and Tethers [1] sections.

[0]: https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.en.html#su...

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.en.html#te...
by mdasen | 2025-04-26 17:44:29+00:00
Isn't B2 cheaper than Wasabi? B2 is $6/TB while Wasabi is $6.99/TB. Why would you have to manage hot and cold storage with B2?

Wasabi also treats every object as having a minimum 90-day storage period. So if you upload something and delete it, it's still considered "stored" for billing purposes for that 90-day minimum.

B2 also gives you 3x storage as free transfer compared to 1x for Wasabi.

I'm not saying you shouldn't go with Wasabi, but the reasoning you've articulated doesn't seem to track.
by 0x5f3759df-i | 2025-04-26 17:45:15+00:00
Immigration courts are already separate from the rest of the legal system so the implication here is wrong.

Going too slow for you? Hire more immigration judges, which are executive employees not full article 3 judges.

Voters across the political spectrum have made it clear in poll after poll the last few weeks that they do not approve of the way this administration is grabbing whoever they can and shipping them out of the country without any check or verification that they are deporting the right people.

If the administration can declare you an illegal immigrant with no due process they can ship anyone they want out of the country. They could grab you off the street, ship you to and El Salvador torture prison intentionally or by mistake (as they have already admitted to) and there’s nothing you can do about it.
by swores | 2025-04-26 17:45:40+00:00
That's not correct, and seems to be based on a common misunderstanding of how LLMs work, the rough idea being that when the info the model is being asked for had been in the data used for training, it "looks it up" not unlike software looking up info from a huge database of general knowledge, and that when that lookup fails it falls back to making stuff up. But that's wrong, the models are actually doing the exact same thing when they're hallucinating as when they're correct, just the result is different.

Hallucinations happen when the model determines that the most likely suitable string of tokens turns out to contain incorrect information, regardless of whether the correct information is "missing" or whether the correct information actually would have been outputted had it, when selecting the first token of the response, instead selected the option that it considers second best rather than best.

Whether or not a piece of information was in the training set can obviously influence the likelihood of a model hallucinating when asked about the subject, but it can easily hallucinate about stuff that was in the training and it can also get things right that weren't in the training data.
by Aurornis | 2025-04-26 17:45:58+00:00
Not OP but definitely worth it for me.

This is likely an unpopular opinion, but most of the parents I know do not have these extreme schedules and lack of flexibility that leave zero time for friends.

I do know some parents who fell into the parenting version of “the cult of busy”. I think it’s easy to stack your calendar with a million things and commitments and then wonder where your time went. When someone starts complaining about never having any free time but then in the same paragraph mentions optional commitments like PTA involvement taking up their free time, you have to read between the lines to see what’s really happening. If I didn’t have enough time to see friends for even 4 hours per week, dropping PTA involvement would be an easy target.

Honestly, the time crunch trap happens to people in all situations, kids or not. I did some volunteer mentoring for a while and it was shocking to hear so many 20-somethings without kids or relationships tell me how they never had time to see their friends any more between their 9-5 job and chores. When pressed for details they reveal that they’re doing things like grocery shopping every day, spending 2 hours making and cleaning up dinner every night, an hour at the gym, 2 hours catching up on their Netflix, and on and on.

Life is all about priorities. Honestly as a parent I don’t know how anyone could get less than 4 hours/week with other parent friends. We always meet up with parent friends at the park or do other activities together. If you’re strictly entertaining kids alone and you’re not in a remote location, it would be my top priority to make some other parent friends quickly.
by tpoacher | 2025-04-26 17:47:15+00:00
I read this with great interest, because about a decade ago, I was convinced I had prostatitis (but NHS screwed the diagnostic process up - the GP didn't do a digital rectal exam because the ultrasound would be more diagnostic anyway, and the ultrasound scan was cancelled because the GP didn't do a digital rectal exam which was part of the criteria for going through with the scan ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ), and ended up reading quite a bit about it, and how I might try to make things better for myself in the absence of antibiotics.

I ended up on this page which I no longer remember (something something prostatitis foundation maybe?), from which I remember two things.

The first was this turkish doctor, who against all advice was suggesting a "Brocolli juice therapy" as a prostatitis cure. Fast forward to 2025 and there's lots of studies supporting this. Anecdotally I tried this back then and it really helped the prostate pain I had at the time for months go away within a week.

The second, which is more relevant here, was this guy who had a very interesting hypothesis, that a lot of the prostate troubles are actually "musculoskeletal" in origin, and muscle imbalance / weakness of the iliopsoas muscles in particular. And that this imbalance affects venous return which "somehow" causes the condition. But he was just a lay person, and the "somehow" was unclear. So this completes that image perfectly. It's interesting that this article mentions the venous insufficiency link, and that veins rely on valves to direct flow, but doesn't mention the muscular link at all.

In any case, this person was saying that in his case, doing lots of iliopsoas stretching and exercises effectively 'fixed' his chronic prostatitis problems. So I've timidly started including a couple of iliopsoas stretching exercises before any workout I do. Anecdotally, I think it helps, but I can't know for sure. But thought I'd mention here in case someone shows interest or can make that link more solid.

PS. found the turkish doctor page (or at least a mirror of it): https://www.oocities.org/iastr/ebroc.htm

I wish I could find that comment about the iliopsoas ... but alas I think it's probably lost in the sands of time now.

UPDATE: Well what do you know. Found it: https://web.archive.org/web/20230203201759/https://prostatit...

(and https://web.archive.org/web/20230127101206/https://prostatit... more generally)
by anthk | 2025-04-26 17:47:55+00:00
Also, this:

http://mynor.org/my4th_forthdeck.htm

And for retro users,

there's a TRS-100 which can run a moddem ROM and Forth.

https://www.strangegizmo.com/products/mforth/

It it has an editor you could reuse that as a much smarter version of AlphaSmart.
by ridgeguy | 2025-04-26 17:48:02+00:00
There are more egregious cases, of course.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/us/politics/us-citizen-de...

A post elsewhere about the details said ICE found the two-year old was unable to 'describe her status in full, intelligible sentences', so deported, even though her father (not deported and not consenting to his child's expulsion) wanted her left with him.

From my experience with two-tear olds, I guess ICE was technically correct.

edit - typo
by perihelions | 2025-04-26 17:48:11+00:00
C-f "citizenship"—55 results

C-f "metastatic cancer"—1

There's a poor child that's being withheld access to their medication and to their oncologists, and the adults in the room—adults in uniforms, adults with guns, adults in suits and adults in black robes—all of these adults are doing their adult things with their adult words, and the sum total of all that is the child still is without their cancer medicine.

What good can we be, if *this* result is the sum total of our good intentions?