MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sargstuff | 2025-04-28 05:01:38+00:00
Related OpenAI forum topic(s) that covers related issues[0].

Old school, mark 'paragraph'/sentence, regular expression out miscellaneous info (using language linguistics / linguistic 'typing' aka noun, verb, etc) , then dump relevent remaining info in json/delimited format & normalize data (aka 1st november to 11/01). multi-pass awk script(s) / pearl / icon are languages with appropriate in-language support. use regular expressions/statistics to detect 'outliers'/mark data for human review.

multi-pass awk would require a codex/phrases related to a delimited/json tag. so first pass, identify phrases (perhaps also spell correct), categorize phrases related to given delimited field (via human intervention), then rescan, check for 'outliers'/conflicting normalizations & have script do corrects per human annotations.

Note: Normalized phonetic annotations bit easer to handle than common dictionary spelling.

[0] : https://community.openai.com/t/summarizing-and-extracting-st...
by wibbily | 2025-04-28 05:02:02+00:00
Working on an electronic dictionary for my sister. She wanted something to look words up in Italian that wasn't her phone, and well I like a project. E-paper display, snapdome keyboard, an ESP32 to round it out. (Runs lisp.)

Pictures at the link. There's also some webtoys on there, feel free to peruse

https://lmao.center/babble/
by jraghavan | 2025-04-28 05:02:12+00:00
Thanks! Here are the main features

- Multiple log levels: TRACE, DEBUG, INFO, SUCCESS, WARNING, ERROR, CRITICAL - Thread-safe global logger: Safe to use in multi-threaded applications - Extensible handler system: Console, file, and custom handlers - Configurable log formatting: Customize how log messages are displayed - Support for metadata in log records: Add structured data to log messages - Convenient logging macros: Easy to use macros for all log levels - File rotation: Automatic file rotation based on size with retention policies - Colorized output: Colorful console output for better readability - Source location capture: Automatically capture file, line, and module information - Ergonomic error handling and context helpers: Extension traits, error chain, panic hook, and macros

Have tried to maintain parity with what i loved about loguru. Let me know if you think i missed anything here.
by caseyy | 2025-04-28 05:05:22+00:00
I think death being natural lends a lot of credence to the idea that it’s normal — as normal as life.

And I’d say most people probably don’t fear death or non-existence itself, but rather the process of dying (suffering, stress, pain, shame, loss of agency, the grief inflicted on others, etc). In palliative care settings, where the process of dying is well-managed (physically, emotionally, spiritually), people don’t seem to be that afraid. Many make peace. Or at least that’s the image painted by popular science articles on the matter. And speaking for myself, N=1 and all, I really do fear the process only, and not the conclusion.

That’s why I think dignified death laws for these settings are important. And why I say I fear what society will put me through when it’s my time, if such laws aren’t passed.

I am concerned in general about me living past my health-span. It’s a new concern for many, as medicine traditionally focused on prolonging lifespan. But now people are talking about how full of suffering life is when one doesn’t have whatever minimum of health they deem required to live, but are kept alive anyways. Sometimes agains their wishes. It’s just a macabre prolongation of the process of dying — something that really is scary.

Or that’s what I’m afraid of, anyways. But I understand it’s a difficult and somewhat taboo topic in society, so apols if it offends.
by derektank | 2025-04-28 05:05:34+00:00
I share your concern with anthropomorphizing AI tools but I don't think this is really a serious example. It seems fairly common to say a tool, even a rudimentary one, helps it's user in English. Spears helped hunter gatherers out compete other apex predators, road networks helped Rome maintain a large empire, solar panels help us reduce carbon emissions, etc.
by steveBK123 | 2025-04-28 05:06:57+00:00
To me, in terms of Tesla "putting their money where their mouth is" for automated driving, there are two things they've yet to do, and I'll believe it when I see it.

1) Take on any (even limited amount / limited use case / limited region) liability when FSD, the way Mercedes already has.

2) Actually launch Robotaxi for really real, at any sort of scale, the way Waymo has

Right now its the same situation its been for years & years - a lot of talk, and FSD cannot fail.. only be failed, by the driver.

That is - if it crashes, the driver failed to intervene. But if the driver intervenes & complains about frequency of interventions, the response is that the driver probably is too conservative and intervenes too often.. that the car wouldn't have crashed anyway. Circular logic.
by andrewflnr | 2025-04-28 05:07:06+00:00
I would instead say that people who cannot legally drive should avoid living in places where driving is likely to be essential to their survival. But also I have nothing but contempt for drunk drivers. If you're addicted to alcohol, there's a simple solution: don't drive, at least not at the same time you're drinking. Maybe plan a little. You have to spend a lot of time placing your petty convenience over the lives of others before you get your license taken away.
by xvector | 2025-04-28 05:07:24+00:00
I genuinely think death will be conquered, for all practical purposes, within this century. In our vast 300 thousand year history, we are likely in the last century of mortal humans, and in the last millennium of biological ones.

Future generations will wonder at our coping mechanisms for something so tragic and horrifying as death, and wonder why we didn't try harder, earlier.

Why isn't the longevity problem our #1 tax expense? Because the culture believes the problem is insurmountable, inevitable, and not worth solving. Our parents try to hide their grief and dread at the inevitability, telling us it's okay, but the tears at a funeral disagree.

As an aside, I would pay vast sums of money (millions of dollars) to live my final days at an old folks' home that was capable of monitoring my health on a frequent basis, catching things early, and integrated SOTA cryonics facilities to maximize my chance of revival in case LEV doesn't become a possibility in my lifetime.
by BuyMyBitcoins | 2025-04-28 05:07:45+00:00
>“This should be telling all of you in the U.S something important. I wish you all listened to it.”

There is no need for this condescending attitude. The average citizen has virtually no say on these things and our infrastructure was decided decades before most of us were born. Major cities are investing in transit improvements but the nature of these projects means they will take over a decade to reach fruition. We aren’t doing nothing.
by thrwyep | 2025-04-28 05:08:07+00:00
I see this too, more and more code looks like made by the same person, even though it come from different people.

I hate these kind of comments, I'm tired to flag them for removal so they pollute code base more and more, like people did not realise how stupid of a comment this is

# print result print(result)

I'm yet to experience coding agent to do what I asked for, so many times the solution I came up with was shorter, cleaner, and better approach than what my IDE decided to produce... I think it works well as rubber duck where I was able to explore ideas but in my case that's about it.
by YZF | 2025-04-28 05:08:31+00:00
I see. I assumed. It's hard to give generic advice since everyone's situation is unique. One thing is you can try just taking a few courses. You could consider studying something completely different. Or you can use the vast resources online to learn something new (e.g. Coursera?) and see what you think.

AI could be changing a lot of what we do as well.

I wouldn't spend time and money on something that's iffy. A real science bachelors degree is at least 3 years of fairly hard work. You could do that part-time over a longer period. That's not going to necessarily make you a great programmer - a lot of that is just doing it and learning. Which you don't need a degree or a bootcamp for. But it's going to be somewhat limiting not to understand the "science" part, how much depends on the specific role.

I work with someone who got a diploma, got hired, is doing great, and also going back to school to finish his degree part-time. I also studied part remote part on site to finish the courses I needed while having a full time job and other responsibilities. It's tough but doable.
by dewey | 2025-04-28 05:09:08+00:00
I’m working on supporting photo posts on my blog (Kirby), I bought a new camera and thought it would be nice to share them in one place (Cross post to Mastodon).

I’m still looking for a new SaaS idea, so if you have something you want to partner on do reach out. Preferably Rails or Go. Previously I built stuff like https://getbirdfeeder.com/
by sandreas | 2025-04-28 05:10:32+00:00
Great post, thank you.

I had a similar experience a while ago and believe me that building such a thing is a SERIOUS investment in time - especially as a parent. While admiring the effort and the result, I can't recommend anyone to go for such a self-made device, if it is not for the learning experience and the fun of the project.

I've built a "Phoniebox"[1] and a "Tonuino"[2] and both were used pretty heavily by my kids. The biggest issue I experienced is the "creation" of media. While this should be an easy task, it just takes it's time. Creating the cartridge, printing the image, copying the file, etc...

As my daughter was getting older (>4) it was so much easier to just buy a CD Player and used CDs. In the meantime we use an old Smartphone (offline) as spare device with Audiobookshelf to sync the media locally and VLC Media Player to play them.

1: https://github.com/MiczFlor/RPi-Jukebox-RFID

2: https://github.com/tonuino/TonUINO-TNG
by throwaway2037 | 2025-04-28 05:10:47+00:00
> No, the safety lights don't always work.

Do you report the incident to the local city when they don't work? Or you can send a letter to your national safety board that regulates freight trains.

> "avoid being hit"

You were not careful enough when crossing the train tracks. When you get a driver's license in Japan, they strictly train (and test!) you to stop at a train tracks (regardless of lights), roll down the window, and listen. If we are talking about a 200 ton diesel locomotive, you shouldn't have any issue hearing it. If you follow these simply instructions, you can avoid most safety issues at railroad crossings. Many trucking companies are required by company policy to do the same.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-28 05:11:34+00:00
I suppose that Catholic hospitals were in the business of "treating fear of death" effectively through evangelization of all patients. At this point in history, hospitals, whether secular or religious, stand between us and death at all times. They are practically the only portal to the other side, whether or not we are willing.

For me, perhaps I do not fear death so much as infirmity. Dying, for me, would be entrance into glory and bliss (at least that beginning of that process), but to live with illness, to be incapacitated, to suffer helplessly, that's a terrible and frightful thing.

So being admitted to a hospital, the beginning of that infirmity or incapacitation, that is definitely a traumatic experience for me that requires accompaniment and soothing. Unfortunately, modern hospitals are woefully equipped to allay our fears, but instead just run us through a meat grinder of paperwork, finances, poorly-informed decisions, and disappointment.

So it's laudable that palliative care and hospices are making efforts like this one.

On my own part, I'm gradually overcoming a visceral fear of hospitals and facilities by just waltzing in while I'm perfectly healthy. There are a couple nearby and so I've taken to eating in their cafeterias when it's convenient (very cheap, great selection of healthy food!); and the chapel where the Eucharist is reserved is a focus of peace and prayer; and there is actually a lot of art and history to admire in them, so it's become an interesting and unexpected diversion.
by Terr_ | 2025-04-28 05:11:49+00:00
Right: When I avoid memorizing a country's capital city, that's because I can easily know when I will want it later and reliably access it from an online source.

When I avoid multiplying large numbers in my head, that's because I can easily characterize the problem and reliably use a calculator.

Neither are the same as people trying to use LLMs to unreliably replacing critical thinking.
by ozim | 2025-04-28 05:12:22+00:00
My observation over the years as a software dev was that velocity is overrated.

Mostly because all kinds of systems are made for humans - even if we as a dev team were able to pump out features we got pushed back. Exactly because users had to be trained, users would have to be migrated all kinds of things would have to be documented and accounted for that were tangential to main goals.

So bottleneck is a feature not a bug. I can see how we should optimize away documentation and tangential stuff so it would happen automatically but not the main job where it needs more thought anyway.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-04-28 05:12:50+00:00
Study:

Ecologically informed solar enables a sustainable energy transition in US croplands - https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2501605122 | https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2501605122

Related:

New study compares growing corn for energy to solar production. It’s no contest. - https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/04/new-study-compa...

Impacts of agrisolar co-location on the food–energy–water nexus and economic security - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-025-01546-4 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-025-01546-4
by Xylakant | 2025-04-28 05:14:18+00:00
You’re trying to apply the “I am a good driver and my judgment is better than other people’s” argument - but the majority of people believe they’re an above average driver. That’s a dangerous fallacy. Now, you might truly be, but your argument paves the way for everyone else to say the same. After all, nothing happened so far. And that other driver might be the one that misjudges and crashes into you.

On country roads and highways, physics work even worse against you. Most People have good feeling for how long stopping distances are and how fast they increase at higher speeds. Increasing you speed from 100km/h to 110 increases your stopping distance by about 25 meters from 130 to 155. That puts it well above the outer limits for your brights - meaning by the time you could see any potential obstacle, you can’t stop any more. At highway speeds, in daylight conditions, high speeds can put an obstacle beyond the arc of a bend. At the same time, time savings are diminishing. Running 110 saves you 5.5 minutes on the hour compared to 100 with diminishing returns the faster you go.
by tha00 | 2025-04-28 05:14:19+00:00
I'm currently working through Frank Sikora's "Jazz Harmony" book [1] to learn to play Jazz piano.

In parallel, I'm building an exercise generator "Jazzln" [2] to help me practice.

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54391815-jazz-harmony

[2]: https://jazzln.vercel.app
by zie | 2025-04-28 05:15:35+00:00
I would disagree that disks alone are good enough for daily consumer use. I see corruption often enough to be annoying with consumer grade hardware without ECC & ZFS. Small images are where people usually notice. They tend to be heavily compressed and small in size means minor changes can be more noticeable. In larger files, corruption tends to not get noticed as much in my experience.

We have 10k+ consumer devices at work and corruption is not exactly common, but it's not rare either. A few cases a year are usually identified at the helpdesk level. It seems to be going down over time, since hardware is getting more reliable, we have a strong replacement program and most people don't store stuff locally anymore. Our shared network drives all live on machines with ECC & ZFS.

We had a cloud provider recently move some VM's to new hardware for us, the ones with ZFS filesystems noticed corruption, the ones with ext4/NTFS/etc filesystems didn't notice any corruption. We made the provider move them all again, the second time around ZFS came up clean. Without ZFS we would have never known, as none of the EXT4/NTFS FS's complained at all. Who knows if all the ext4/NTFS machines were corruption free, it's anyone's guess.
by strogonoff | 2025-04-28 05:16:19+00:00
Only did it once. The likelihood of coincidence is low, because the topic was specific and unusual.

Here’s something relevant in Google’s current support KB[0], where the combination of the following further supports that the experiment did not have be staged (emphasis mine):

> Web & App Activity saves your searches and activity from other Google services in your Google Account. You may get more personalized experiences, like: <…> Content recommendations

> When Web & App Activity is on, you can include audio recordings from your interactions with Google Search, Assistant, and Maps as part of your activity.

Let’s now go back to the experiment. Given the phone was unlocked, voice activity was enabled, and Google app or search widget was on Google Pixel’s screen (I am certain at least the latter was true) during the experiment, could talking near the phone be counted as “interaction”? If the answer is “yes” then it seems very reasonable for us[1] to expect, per that KB, that the app would listen more actively than what’s required for assistant activation, and that recorded snippets would count as your “activity” designed to affect content recommendations (including the article feed Google app showed to us on its app’s main screen).

No tinfoil hat required.

***

Note that it does not mention ads among personalized experiences[2], and we had not observed any change in the ads either. I didn’t see what exactly counts as “interaction” or whether this blazing-fast content personalization used to include ads previously, but in line with the “move fast” culture of mid-2010s Silicon Valley it could well have been much more lax at some point. If so, I do not envy all the people who have observed it only to be gaslit and mocked by peers and media.

***

As to the article I was vaguely remembering in my original comment, the above makes me think that it was merely about the change of the default to opt-in, which it is as of today:

> This voice and audio activity setting is off unless you choose to turn it on.

[0] https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/54068?hl=en&co=G...

[1] Us tech people; this might not at all align with the intuition of other people.

[2] I rather suspect that ToS and possibly some other KB article would indicate that your activity would, in fact, affect your interest profile and by extension ads, but probably in a much less obvious and more gradual fashion.
by kiba | 2025-04-28 05:17:36+00:00
People are different. For example, my fear of death is in the from existential dread. It's an occasional thing.

We should probably try harder to make people healthier in general. Much of the frailty of the elderly can be avoided with rigorous exercise. Maybe heart disease and dementia doesn't have to be your fate. I don't know how much longer people will be able to live if they optimize the hell out of their biomarkers.

But I do know...I don't want to be in pain and frail when I die. The best way to do that is making health my priority.
by SyzygyRhythm | 2025-04-28 05:17:42+00:00
I disagree with the article's claim that the geometric mean lacks physical meaning.

Say you have two benchmarks with different units, frames/second and instructions/second. You can't take the arithmetic mean of these unless you divide by some baseline first (or a conversion factor).

But the geometric mean has well-defined units of (frames * instructions)^.5/second. And the reason you can divide by another geometric mean is because these units are always the same.

Having coherent units isn't exactly the same as "physical meaning", but it's a prerequisite at the least.
by 90s_dev | 2025-04-28 05:17:47+00:00
Honestly a little bit hesitant to say anything yet. There are a few more features to add, and a whole lot more work to be done to showcase just how cool it is. But the short version is, I'm working on a sort of meta-pico8, a game maker for WebGL2 2d pixel art games (e.g. 320x180 games like Animal Well) that runs in the browser, but one that's firstly collaborative, so that we can all build it together. And some of the coolest features are the based around that. For example, I got arbitrary imports of user code working in the browser, so all you have to do is create an account, add a JS file, and other people can import it as if it were a built-in module, and it just works. Plus the SDK I ended up making is simple, and the API is clean, and there's a few innovations in the GUI layer that I'm excited to share. I wish I could explain just how cool this is.
by tsimionescu | 2025-04-28 05:18:06+00:00
This is a common turn of phrase in many languages in informal speech, using negative adjectives for emphasis, instead of positive ones. It carries a light humourus tone, as it kind of implies that the thing "had no right" to be as good as it was, so the speaker is "chastising" it for being so good.

I don't think it's specific to English in any way, but maybe it's also not common in every language or culture. It may also be more common in the UK and certain other English-speaking countries, that use irony a lot in regular (informal) speech.
by Terr_ | 2025-04-28 05:19:14+00:00
> The marketing and at-first-blush impressions that LLMs leave as some kind of actual being, no matter how limited, mask this fact

I like to highlight the fundamental difference between fictional qualities of a fictional character versus actual qualities of an author. I might make a program that generates a story about Santa Claus, but that doesn't mean Santa Claus is real or that I myself have a boundless capacity to care for all the children in the world.

Many consumers are misled into thinking they are conversing with an "actual being", rather than contributing "then the user said" lines to a hidden theater script that has a helpful-computer character in it.
by satisfice | 2025-04-28 05:19:18+00:00
Degrees don’t matter in most cases. Distinguish yourself by doing the work and displaying it and talking about it.

Everybody is having a hard time finding a job. If you get a degree, you will do all that work and simply be competing with 100,000 other people who also have degrees and also want work.

I compete with them without institutional education. Although at my stage of career no one ever asks about my education.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-28 05:19:26+00:00
> now people are talking about how full of suffering life is when one doesn’t have whatever minimum of health they deem required to live, but are kept alive anyways

This is more a social anxiety than reflection of reality. To the extent we’re prolonging suffering, it’s on the order of weeks, maybe months. Not years.

Most people fear death. That’s natural. Some of us, due to being stupid, depressed or possibly enlightened, don’t. But these fears evolved for obvious reasons.
by thrwyep | 2025-04-28 05:19:30+00:00
I think less people will decide to open source their work, so AI solutions will divert from 'dark codebases' not available for models to be trained on. And people who love vibe coding will keep feeding models with code produced by models. Maybe we already reached the point where enough knowledge was locked in the models and this does not matter? I think not, based on code AI generated for me. I probably ask wrong questions.