MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mindslight | 2025-04-19 18:52:55+00:00
From an American perspective, this post feels like something out of time. It would have been right in line with our hopeful optimism 20 years ago, when progress felt inevitable as these structures that divide us were gradually worn away.

These days, these structures are being built and fortified around us. And for sure there are a lot of misunderstandings on "both [domestic] sides", and they've only been increasing. (n.b. it's important to focus on the authoritarian actions being carried out, rather than being misled by what you think might be achieved)

So about my only contribution to you is to hope that you told on to this optimism and gradually reform your government to be what you want. Because this coming century is shaping up to be a Chinese one. And as an American I really hate saying that, but at this point our self inflicted wounds are just too great and show no signs of stopping.

I have always enjoyed interacting with Chinese sellers while partaking in your manufacturing/engineering culture that my country willingly gave away [, friend]. Now that my country has willingly chosen to give away its world leadership, I can only hope that your larger culture will treat us as kindly.
by soulofmischief | 2025-04-19 18:52:57+00:00
At my local public library, I could request books to be bought and put on the shelves. I was allowed to host open mic nights in middle school where I and other friends would read poetry and whatever else, free of censorship. Civil engagement through the library was easier than a lot of other public institutions, because while librarians curate, they also have the job of catering to their audience, and respecting requests.

The library became a sanctuary for me after school as it meant I could avoid abuse back home and have a less surveilled access to information such as books, wikis, news, protest music, games, etc. which I was able to later take back home or to other places and consume without fear of reprimand. It was also a third place, where I could meet people, gather people and engage with my community.

> They're not banned. But the books on display at my local branch library are curated by dangerous librarians I want nothing to do with.

Did you persistently try to civically engage with your local library over time and form a personal, positive relationship with the librarians? If so, and if denied, did you seek restitution in city hall or by contacting local congressmen? Or are you just complaining?
by norseboar | 2025-04-19 18:53:20+00:00
I think the argument is interesting, but the specific example of prop 65 doesn't really work on a few levels. The argument in the post is that Prop 65's warnings are legitimate in some sense, but only apply in specific contexts.

However, Prop 65 is much broader than that. To qualify, a chemical just needs to show up on one of maybe half a dozen lists that show the chemical has some association w/ cancer, but all these show is that in some study, at some quantity, the association existed. The amount that was linked to cancer could be far beyond what is ever present in a consumer good, and the links could have only been shown in non-humans.

The lists aren't the ones gov't agencies like the FDA use to regulate product safety, they're lists far upstream of that that research institutions use to inform further study. The typical starting point is a mouse study with a huge dosage. It's not a useless study, but it's not meant to inform what a human should/should not consume, it's just the start of an investigation.

I don't think this actually has any bearing on the substance of the broader argument, but Prop 65 is not the best example.
by lanyard-textile | 2025-04-19 18:53:31+00:00
If you’d read the article... ;)

He slightly pushed the computation past the previous world record, and he’s continuing to push it forward with a clear goal. It’s well within the spirit of a world record.

Besides, a world record is still a world record — it’s up to you to decide how interesting it is. You are indeed just dissing on a Show HN post.

Server side validation is trivial. What makes you believe that is not happening? That code is not available.
by cycomanic | 2025-04-19 18:53:36+00:00
Incidentally Mein Kampf often is available in libraries in Germany (in a commented version, here for example https://www.provinzialbibliothek-amberg.de/discovery/fulldis...), and was never banned in the sense that people understand banned. You could always own and sell old versions however, printing and distributing new uncommented versions could be deemed Volksverhetzung.

It's also a crappy text and definitely not necessary to understand WWII, there are better texts.
by casey2 | 2025-04-19 18:53:53+00:00
I really dislike fiction where the author tries to convince you it's real but has so many holes that it reads like more like a hastily conceived debate premise than a real work.

In reality libraries are one of the most conservative classes of people, especially odd the distinction since I'm sure there are plenty of progressive minded librarians. Doesn't help that the average age gap between a reader and their librarian is greater than average life expectancy.
by ab-smith | 2025-04-19 18:56:09+00:00
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by westurner | 2025-04-19 18:56:11+00:00
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42376759 :

> FWIU this Superfluid Quantum Gravity rejects dark matter and/or negative mass in favor of supervaucuous supervacuum, but I don't think it attempts to predict other phases and interactions like Dark fluid theory?

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42371946 :

> Dark fluid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_fluid :

>> Dark fluid goes beyond dark matter and dark energy in that it predicts a continuous range of attractive and repulsive qualities under various matter density cases. Indeed, special cases of various other gravitational theories are reproduced by dark fluid, e.g. inflation, quintessence, k-essence, f(R), Generalized Einstein-Aether f(K), MOND, TeVeS, BSTV, etc. Dark fluid theory also suggests new models, such as a certain f(K+R) model that suggests interesting corrections to MOND that depend on redshift and density
by Dylan16807 | 2025-04-19 18:56:22+00:00
The "stuff" they store is not enough for me to have a hard drive failure but keep all my data. So it's not cheap enough imo.

Even for text files, the only software I trust to find them all when set up by a normal person is something like backblaze and that's a good chunk of money. And for the rest of the data you need to pay significantly for the space no matter how you do it.
by throwaway150 | 2025-04-19 18:57:04+00:00
> If you’d read the article... ;)

If you'd read the article carefully, he hasn't. For all we know one client (or worse, several) found counterexamples but didn't report them back to the server. Without verification on the server side, there's no way to claim the entire range has been reliably checked.

What he's shown is that many volunteers have checked a large portion of the numbers up to a certain bound and found no counterexamples. But he hasn't shown that all numbers within that range have actually been verified. It's entirely possible that some block results were falsely reported by bad clients. Meaning counterexamples could still be hiding in those falsely reported gaps, however improbable! This kind of lapse in rigor matters in math! This lapse in rigor invalidates the entire claim of the OP!

> Server side validation is trivial. What makes you believe that is not happening? That code is not available.

Please read the full thread. This has all already been discussed at length.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43735397

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43735498

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43735483

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43735555

From the OP himself, an admission that there's no mechanism to ensure clients aren't submitting false results:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43736281

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43736558

Don't get me wrong. I've said before. This is a good project. But the claims made in the post don't hold up to scrutiny.

> a world record is still a world record

This isn't particularly relevant at the moment, since OP can't confirm the correctness of the results!
by beezle | 2025-04-19 18:59:25+00:00
A lot of the "elite" compsci students at my college in the early-ish 80s were still using TECO on our DECSYSTEM 2060 but some of the cool-kids were trying that new Emacs thing ;)

Me, being just a lowly compsci minor, prefered the full screen editor called FOXE. Was very simply to use and did the job fine for writing/editing programs of the length typical of homework assignments. Don't recall all the particulars to comment on search, replace, etc.

Unfortunately, there is like zero internet info on it beyond: "Little (if any) information is available for this visual editor available for TOPS-20 in the early 1980's. It was similar in appearance to the then new EMACS but had a far simpler command structure."
by lgas | 2025-04-19 18:59:31+00:00
The benefits of making illegal states unrepresentable are just not widely understood outside of pure FP circles. I think it's hard for stuff like this to catch on in python in particular because everything is so accessible and mutable, it would be hard to talk about anything that provides the level of confidence that eg. ADTs in Haskell provide. And it's hard to understand why you would want to try to do something like that in a context like python unless you already have experience with it in a statically typed context.
by sarchertech | 2025-04-19 18:59:56+00:00
This has been well researched. Most antibiotic resistance has a fitness cost. Which means the resistance is being actively selected against.

This isn’t always the case. There are some adaptations that don’t have an observable fitness cost, but the majority do. That is, in a lab when you remove the antibiotic, we observed that the number of resistant bacteria drops over time.

We have also observed this in the real world. When we reduce usage of a specific antibiotic. The percentage of resistant bacteria in the wild drops.

The question is how long you’d have to retire an antibiotic and how many different antibiotics you’d need for this strategy to be viable.
by ck2 | 2025-04-19 19:00:39+00:00
Some people who are DSD consider themselves binary.

Some people who are DSD take great pride in being non-binary.

People who are DSD have been documented for CENTURIES

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex_people_in_history

But that's my whole point, "sex" a spectrum and it's one of the big lies perpetuated by people who insist everything was known and set in stone, when their bible was invented, despite never having microscopes or telescopes or even eyeglasses
by like_any_other | 2025-04-19 19:00:48+00:00
There is also government propaganda, yes [1,2] - movies that want to use army assets need script approval from the military - but I don't know, and don't think, this was the reason for most of the distortions I listed (nor would I say any except the Highway of Death one were nationalistic). In my opinion, the simple shared ideals of most in the entertainment business, without collusion or coercion (if we discount the leverage of finance from coercion), make for the far more effective propaganda. And occasionally, the propaganda is clumsy enough to get caught - such as when Roald Dahl's books were altered [3]. The list of changes [4] makes for interesting reading.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93entertainment...

[2] https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/us-pentagon-hollywood-...

[3] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/17/roald-dahl-woke-...

[4] https://old.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1154tr5/the_hundreds...
by nmilo | 2025-04-19 19:01:06+00:00
I meant more like storing closures to be used later after any locals are out of the stack frame, but tbh that's an abstraction that also causes allocations in C++ and Rust. On the other hand, no idea how JS internals work but I know in python getting the length of an array takes five layers of pointer indirection so it very well could be pointer to closure object -> pointer to list of closed variables -> pointer to boxed variable -> pointer to number or some ridiculous thing like that.
by const_cast | 2025-04-19 19:01:11+00:00
> definitely subverting the parent/child relationship.

That's the job of schools. Okay, it's not all about parents. We stopped allowing parents to do everything because, as it turns out, most of them are fucking stupid.

So we have public school, where real things are taught. And now, most people aren't illiterate. So, yay us!

But this notion that everything should always bend over backwards to cater to what parents want... uh no. This is some 2000s bullshit. This is not the way it worked before. If parents don't want their kids learning about X, Y, Z then their options are either getting over it or pulling their kids out of school to home school. Bending the public school to whatever their dumbass whim is, isn't an option.
by soulofmischief | 2025-04-19 19:01:19+00:00
But then the State is implicitly deciding morality by deciding what is and isn't abuse. It's engaging in censorship, and is subject to corruption, as was and is my government in the Deep South. It's actively hostile towards information.

Literally just last month, we as a city came together and narrowly avoided the city passing a sneak ballot that was going to remove a lot of funding from our public libraries and redirect it towards police retirement funds. They even tried to repress our vote by making it a parish-wide vote instead of a city-wide vote, inviting in people who were ignorant of the consequences of the ballot but easily swayed by local identity politics.

Libraries are in danger, and it's precisely because they provide things that our local governments, and the current rogue federal government which they massively support, and their generationally brainwashed constituents, don't want people like me and other pacifists and archivists to access and share.
by aaaja | 2025-04-19 19:01:20+00:00
> I would like to reflect on the timing of this - the UK Supreme Court just ruled something about a woman is a “biological” definition - and I am willing to put a lot of money on many people on both sides of that contentious debate struggling with the idea that "someone born without a womb is a woman" and "hey we can transplant wombs now"

MRKH syndrome is a disorder of female sex development, and if you look at this from the perspective of developmental biology it's clear that anyone affected by this must be a woman. I feel it shouldn't be too hard an idea to struggle with.

That they have a working womb transplant technique is impressive from a medical technology point of view but I think not enough has been said about the ethics of this experimentation.

Personally I wouldn't risk exposing my baby to transplant anti-rejection drugs. We don't know how this may impact the short-term or long-term health of the baby.
by ay | 2025-04-19 19:02:58+00:00
> more like 802.11

L2 is “relatively simple” in a sense that it’s usually under the same administrative control; unlike with L3. And even then, if you have a look at all the complexity between the maintaining the interop in the wireless space… it’s amazing it works as well as it does, with so much functionality being conditional.

> "nats are good" video isn't ringing any bells

https://youtu.be/v26BAlfWBm8?feature=shared - it was a bit of a meme back at the time in making the “X fanboy” videos.

> I came up through the Nortel heritage originally

My networking cradle is Netware 4.1, and in those times it was a zoo of protocols anyway. I really liked conceptually the elegance of Nortel management being SNMP-first. Makes me smile hearing all these “API-first!” claims today.

> It was great running into you here

Indeed, nice to meet you too ! :-)

I do a fair bit of lurking. yesterday was a bit of an anomaly since the whole “truncation as a means to do PMTUD” was a subject of my idle ponder for more than a decade, so it struck the chord :-)
by thomassmith65 | 2025-04-19 19:03:15+00:00
This is like someone accustomed to rubbery, processed mozzarella visiting Italy and complaining that Italian mozzarella has so little flavor and texture.

If someone doesn't like Italian mozzarella, then they don't like mozzarella: what they like is some mozzarella-inspired thing.

The same goes for espresso. In Italy, espresso and coffee have been synonymous for over a century.
by lq9AJ8yrfs | 2025-04-19 19:03:24+00:00
But this is the same problem!

The GDPR and such define PII so broadly that more or less everything in web server logs is included in the definition.

Not sensitive PII, but still PII that the individual has rights and interests over.

That is more or less on purpose, and they do have a point.

Rogue debugging on the other hand is not what they are worried about vs using the data in web logs for targeting, profiling, etc.

If you could sell your web logs, would you? Vs how much would someone pay reddit or github for theirs? And would you be ok with that if your browse history was in there?
by mppm | 2025-04-19 19:03:39+00:00
1) Why is this even on HN? Some guy complains about third wave coffee on his trashy, possibly AI generated, blog. Very interesting.

2) Since people take this seriously for some reason: Fine coffee is neither a hallucination, nor a theater performance, nor a sign of ultimate decadence. Or at least no more so than fine tea and wine. Different producers, roasts and preparation methods give markedly different coffee with a lot of nuance that you can learn to discern and enjoy. Or not -- to each his own.
by Ygg2 | 2025-04-19 19:05:47+00:00
> containment vessel to protect the mother (host) from the fetus (roughly, xenomorph) that would otherwise explode like an aggressive parasite (killing them both).

You can also flip the perspective the fetus is trying to survive in a hostile environment designed to strangle it. If it isn't clawing for every ounce of food and air it will become a miscarriage. It must interface with a system built for millenia designed to kill anything that doesn't have its code.

In truth, it is the equilibrium that evolution has achieved. Placenta must account for the most vicious fetus, and fetus must account for most vicious placenta.
by light_hue_1 | 2025-04-19 19:07:31+00:00
They're discovering the wrong thing. And the analogy with biology doesn't hold.

They're sensitive not to architecture but to training data. That's like grouping animals by what environment they lived in, so lions and alligators are closer to one another than lions and cats.

The real trick is to infer the underlying architecture and show the relationships between architectures.

That's not something you can tell easily by just looking at the name of the model. And that would actually be useful. This is pretty useless.
by pclmulqdq | 2025-04-19 19:08:01+00:00
It's interesting that this is a problem for people because I have never spent more than about $0.50 on a task with Claude Code. I have pretty good code hygiene and I tell Claude what to do with clear instructions and guidelines, and Claude does it. I will usually go through a few revisions and then just change anything myself if I find it not quite working. It's exactly like having an eager intern.
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by Amezarak | 2025-04-19 19:08:45+00:00
A lot of those books received a complaint by some parents or were maybe even possibly removed from a school library in one of the thousands of schools in the US. That's what they mean by "banned." It's just a way to market approved books to kids who have to read them anyway as if they were edgy.

In TKAM's particular case, a lot of the complaints came from across the spectrum because of the use of racial slurs, so it was often not even controversial for the reason you might think. Frankly the book is not even good outside of its propaganda value for fighting racism. At any rate, even then it wasn't meaningfully a "banned book", even in the south.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/to-kill-a-mockingbird...

Sometimes "banned" is a complete misnomer, as when back in 2017 it was simply removed from the required reading list in one Mississippi school district because people complained about reading racial slurs out loud. But the reporting, as you can see from Google, almost all says "banned."
by jodoherty | 2025-04-19 19:09:38+00:00
I would hesitate to judge based on what's "easy to type" on the keyboard in front of me.

A lot of editing tools and processes automatically converting `--` to `—`, so folks editing markdown or using a Word processor might get the emdash automatically. Similar things are often done for matching double quotes. I wouldn't be surprised if quite a few WYSIWYG CMS systems do this conversion too.

There are also a lot of input methods that make it trivial to write special characters.

Apple famously uses the Alt/Option key to make inputting a lot of special characters simple. Look at any place that does a lot of writing and publishing, and you're bound to see a lot of Macs.

On Windows, you can memorize and input code points pretty easily as well if you have a number pad. Just hold Alt and punch in the 4-digit character code.

I hop platforms a lot, so I commonly use digraphs with Ctrl+K in VIM, or TeX input in Emacs to insert unicode characters. I'll also use `Ctrl+x 8 <RET>` to insert characters by name in Emacs when I need to search for something specific.
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by thrance | 2025-04-19 19:10:29+00:00
Apparently [1], it's not completely out of the question, but more research is needed before it can be safely attempted on a trans woman.

However, I fear the largest hurdle will be a political one, with so many nutjobs [2] so hell-bent on imposing their dogmatic definition of gender on everyone.

[1] https://www.euronews.com/health/2023/08/23/uterus-transplant...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/18/jk-rowling-har...