MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 1024core | 2025-04-18 00:47:22+00:00
I was working for a postal contractor and we had to go to the local P&DC (warehouse sized building where all the local mail comes in to be sorted and then shipped to various destinations).

The local foreman was giving us a lecture about safety and things not to do in there, and we were standing there listening to him. To my right about 10' away were a couple of boxes around 2' tall each. I was listening and my eyes were wandering, taking in the gigantic space when suddenly, out of the corner of my eye, I saw the box move! It like tilted a little and there was definite movement inside (it had a slit in it)! I yelped like a little kid: "that box moved!"

The foreman nonchalantly dismissed it saying, "yeah those are ducks being mailed". I was shocked to say the least.
by sp3000 | 2025-04-18 00:48:24+00:00
If you presume rationality is the goal, then the rational mind should point to decades of research and anecdotal evidence that shows the positive effeccts of meditation and breathwork on mental well-being. Why are you assuming depriving your brain of oxygen for a short period of time is decreases the ability to think rationally? That could be a short term effect, but a long term adaptive effect could be the brain thinks more clearly. Same with fasting from food, etc.
by throwaway0665 | 2025-04-18 00:49:38+00:00
Does this take into account capo position? A G is easy to play so authors might use G to play a Bb for example with a capo to avoid barre chords. Likewise authors will choose simpler chord substitutes to make it easier to play.

It's the same with lead sheets / the real book style music books. Performing musicians need to reproduce music quickly so only the triad will be written down even if the musician ends up playing some other extensions.

The data is heavily biased towards simplicity. You can make conclusions about the data - but not music as a whole.
by Teever | 2025-04-18 00:49:44+00:00
Eugenics never died -- the term just became taboo.

If you support birth control, abortion, and, genetic testing, prenatal tests then you support eugenics.

What is important in this discussion is to always place individual autonomy as the highest priority here.

Everyone should have the right and opportunity to make choices that maximize the health and wellbeing of their themselves and their offspring.
by dripdry45 | 2025-04-18 00:50:42+00:00
In yoga breath work which happens there is directly tied into the rest of the practice. it isn’t taught enough in America, but if you find an actual good teacher, of which there do not seem to be many, the benefits are wonderful. Anecdotally and from personal experience, they say that when beginning a consistent practice you will often feel a great euphoria after practicing for 60 or 90 minutes. Can confirm; and it lasts for a couple hours also.
by JohnMakin | 2025-04-18 00:51:18+00:00
Language is just a way of encoding semantic meaning - this is a perfect explanation and im going to use it from now on, thanks. yea this is like me too.

curious, did you start reading at a very early age? I started around 3. this is what I personally think it is. It’s not like I dont have the ability to hear a narrative in my head, I just dont do it. I’ve suspected that since I began reading so early, it has something to do with it - and if you’re not capable of reading /comprehending as fast as I can, like if you’re literally sounding out every word in your head you’d never be able to keep up with whatever it is I do. I’d be enormously frustrated by that process. But to me this is what “narrative voice people” must do in their heads.

or maybe it has to do (for me) being on the spectrum (high functioning)
by actuallyalys | 2025-04-18 00:51:23+00:00
It wouldn’t shock me if multimodal LLMs were good at GeoGuesser [0], but if we’re being picky, it takes more than a few examples to demonstrate a game is “solved.” I also wonder what kind of data leakage might have been at play, like other people have suggested.

To be clear, my point is not that this is unimpressive, just that this doesn’t demonstrate much. (Edit: I should have said, it doesn’t demonstrate what the title claims.)

[0] they were very likely trained on a large number of photos that had their location, and they have the ability to isolate features. Combinined with their ability to interpret instructions and just, well, guess, that seems like you have enough for the game.
by 1116574 | 2025-04-18 00:51:57+00:00
This is some 1960s level of optimism lol. While I applaud the authors enthusiasm, this will break as soon as a warship shows up at your free city, and your society (made up of people who avoid governments as much as possible) turns out to not be willing to fight for yours. This doesn't have to be a warship - I would wager that at first major obstacle many would defect.

The closest historical analog seem to be Jewish communities of medieval europe, perhaps up to 1900s. They could sometimes get different treatment, and had some structures, although never as centralised. Some countries even wanted them for their knowledge/skillset and connections (?) which lines up with digital nomad's attributes.
by alexjplant | 2025-04-18 00:52:57+00:00
> People tend to have a warped concept of the history of music. Pachelbel's Canon in D is by no means a complex song and has stood the test of time. Music through out time has also served different purposes. Hell, go back to Ancient Greece, Gregorian chants, and Medieval music. Those various time periods were not generally fully of complexity either. I would argue such times were generally less complex than modern music.

True facts. The fifties and sixties were replete with simple, disposable pop music. "Yummy Yummy Yummy" topped the charts in the late 60s and has, what, three chords in it? What about "Sugar, Sugar" or the Monkees? Staff songwriters and session cats cranked this stuff out by the ton back in the day but people still love to take potshots at modern pop music for being inferior to the oldies in this regard.
by foobarchu | 2025-04-18 00:54:06+00:00
> it's more of a demonstration of the problem with governments that are designed to have a very strong executive

The system WASN'T design to have a very strong executive, quite literally the opposite. The other branches have simply bowed down and let him bulldoze them. And yes, this has been building up for decades, but these cases are and above any overreach of previous presidents.
by zoogeny | 2025-04-18 00:54:24+00:00
Fair point, and a good reminder not to pass judgement on the actions of others. It is totally possible that Altman made his own prediction of the future and theorized that the only hope he had of competing with the existing big tech companies to realistically achieve an AI for the masses was to show investors a path to profitability.

I should also give Altman a bit more due in that I find his description of a world augmented by powerful AI to be more inspiring than any similar vision I've heard from Pichai.

But I'm not trying to guess their intentions, I am just stating the situation as I see it. And that situation is one where whatever forces have caused it, OpenAI is clearly investing very heavily in product (e.g. windsurf acquisition, even suggesting building a social network). And that shift in focus seems highly correlated with a loss of significant research talent (as well as a healthy dose of boardroom drama).
by plsbenice34 | 2025-04-18 00:54:54+00:00
I can't express strongly enough that arguing about how to raise children is an incredibly deep, contentious topic. Over and over i see that the state terrifies me deep into my soul, as does the power that a parent has over shaping its children. You're gambling either way and there will always be disturbing consequences. You do not know the optimal way to raise a child - nobody does. It is subjective. Parents NEED to take on massive responsibility and raise their own children rather than leaving it up to the state or letting the state dictate how children are raised. Do you trust Donald Trump to shape your child? Who knows who could be elected next wherever you live
by mrandish | 2025-04-18 00:55:34+00:00
It's also possible that some people believe one of those will eventually happen (but not in the next three-ish years) AND those same people have a personal vested interest in continuing the current hype that's bidding up valuations as if there will be huge payout within the next three-ish years. Making those people "true believers" long-term but compelled by self-interest toward short-term dishonesty (either by omission or commission).

And beyond the insider founders and employees, there are legions of investors who have sunk serious money into AI bets. While many of those investors have pulled back on making more AI bets (probably due to now realizing it's a bubble), they have every reason to keep that realization to themselves and continue amplifying the hype. Finally, as the article observes, there's a huge ad hoc carnival of AI newsletters, pundits and media benefiting in smaller ways from perpetuating AI hype.
by akerl_ | 2025-04-18 00:57:20+00:00
The easier and more productive thing is to make an easy-to-use tool that does a specific workflow vs trying to be a swiss army knife.

https://github.com/FiloSottile/age is this for encrypting files.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signify_(OpenBSD) and https://jedisct1.github.io/minisign/ are this for signing files.

Signal/Whatsapp/etc that use the Signal Protocal are this for messaging.

It turns out solving one problem at a time and ending up with a bunch of purpose-built tools is way easier to get right than trying to jam an entire toolbox into one thing.
by WiSaGaN | 2025-04-18 00:57:49+00:00
Interesting that the output price per 1M tokens is $0.6 for non-reasoning, but $3.5 for reasoning. This seems to defy common assumption of how reasoning models work, and you tweak the <think> token probability to control how much thinking it does, but underlying it's the same model and the same inference code path.
by MattGaiser | 2025-04-18 00:58:22+00:00
I am sending it screenshots of my vacation pictures (i.e. without the metadata) and screenshots from GeoGuessr. It’s not doing well and is making guesses based on my location.

So I sent it a photo from Warsaw and it guessed a place in my hometown of Calgary.

Sent it a picture of Bangkok and it guessed Calgary in the summer or Hawaii or something like Singapore.

It confidently stated that a photo from Versailles was Hyde Park.

It correctly identified that the panda photo was from the zoo, but said it exactly matched a zoo in Sichuan, a place I have never been.

It identified a street as being in Bridgewater Nova Scotia, when it was actually in Miramachi NB. Even made up business names for the buildings.

It identified a random house in Moncton as the "old sheriffs house in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia.

A beach in Phuket was identified as Destin, Florida.
by darth_avocado | 2025-04-18 00:58:27+00:00
> What's missing is the judgement call of a human to say if some newly created information makes sense to us, is useful to us, etc.

When I gave an example of a recipe book, that’s what I meant. There’s the element of not knowing whether something worked without the explicit feedback of “what worked”. But there is also an element of “no matter how much I experiment with new things, I wouldn’t know sous vide exists as a technique unless I already know and have it listed in the recipe book.” What I don’t know, I will never know.
by belorn | 2025-04-18 00:58:56+00:00
> She and the lab perform the research and share it with the scientific community for free.

I remember that people advocated quite hard a few years ago to make that last part mandatory, because at the time it wasn't. Universities can claim ownership and patent the discovery. The research was also usually locked behind for-profit publications, thus limiting the research to only those that can afford to pay.

The initiative that I remember asked that government funded research must be published in open access, and that no patents (or other IP) may be created in direct relation to such research.

Did such initiative win and become law?
by primitivesuave | 2025-04-18 01:00:00+00:00
Ah you're right, thank you for pointing it out!

In the previous version of this comment (where I was still reading it incorrectly) I added a fun fact, that the significand of an IEEE 754 double-precision float is only allocated 52 bits, but the "hidden bit trick" provides an extra bit of precision when the normalized form starts with 1.
by alganet | 2025-04-18 01:00:03+00:00
One side has an excuse, the other doesn't.

I wish I had an excuse not to be technical. But I will not complain about not having it. Neither I will fake being what I am not so I can get that sweet free out of jail card.

I am a dumb tech boy who is fragile and broken. And I am not upset about it. I will kindly help you without putting you in a pedestal.

Your move to be human.
by godelski | 2025-04-18 01:02:05+00:00
I have drafts for it but maybe I shouldn't have made this comment under my anonymous account lol.

I'm a firm believer that tools should be made to be usable by both technical and nontechnical people. Usually we do one or the other but it's a false dichotomy. "For the noobs" pushes for sane defaults, reduced complexity, and fixing bugs. It's also an entry point to become a power user, especially as being a power user in one domain doesn't mean you're automatically in another. "For the power users" gives flexibility, helps fix bugs (faster and higher coverage), as well as is critical for feature development (unless you naively believe you can know everything your diverse users need and have an infinite budget), and evangelize your product. The magic of success requires having both but I think we pretend it is one or the other. It needs to work well and be pretty.
by jofzar | 2025-04-18 01:02:21+00:00
It also depends on what you are using the data for, if it's for non (precise) data based decisions then it's fine. Specially if you looking for "vibe" based decisions before then dedicating time to "actually" process the data for confirmation.

30$ to get an view into data that would take at least x many hours of someone's time is actually super cheap, specially if the decision of that result is then to invest or not invest the x many hours to confirm it.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-04-18 01:02:26+00:00
You used to be able to ship via Amtrak, but they suspended the service. You could basically send up to a 500lbs pallet. You could also ship a bicycle, or a dead body. All three required correct packaging.

A bunch of us used the service to ship cheap PCs and CRT monitors up to New York for HOPE one year. The shipping cost more than the computers, but it wasn't much (a couple hundred bucks). Public Terminal Cluster was a huge success. Afterward we didn't want to ship them back home, so we gave away two pallets worth of old computer gear to whoever passed by on 33rd St. Took about an hour.
by jaetee | 2025-04-18 01:05:45+00:00
Thanks for this, had heard about it once before, but timing here was perfect. Read at 4:20p, grocery store 10 min later, and made it to the post office by 4:55p. Mailed a yam to a friend in MT postmarked with her bday today. From SD California for a nearly 2lbs spud cost $16 for priority with tracking. 8x the cost of the potato itself but worth it for the pun potential.
by mabster | 2025-04-18 01:07:00+00:00
With dynamically typed languages I feel it's better to wait until you've tried to maintain the code for a while before you consider the languages effectiveness.

I had to maintain a very large Lua codebase that has been active for several years. One big problem with Lua was how it will happily take more or less parameters to functions and continue to execute compared to something like Python where it is an error to pass the wrong parameters. This meant when we update a function signature we would often incorrectly update call sites, etc.

I can't remember the specifics but we had a few issues with tables being both dictionaries and lists. IIRC, if you delete a list index and there are later list indices, they will turn into dictionary keys. We had a few bugs to do with not traversing the entire array portion of a Lua table because of this.

I also implemented a few classic algorithms, e.g. bisect in Lua and you have to be very careful with 1-based indices. You also have to be very careful when interfacing between C and Lua. I prefer 0-based indices and [start, stop) style ranges for everything nowadays.

I much prefer statically typed code during maintenance. But dynamically typed languages like Python or Typescript where you can bolt on types, later if you wish, are not too bad.

Also using named parameters as much as possible is great for maintenance.
by a1371 | 2025-04-18 01:07:38+00:00
Our current understanding is that no amount of CO2 is dangerous as long as everything else is fine, but in reality CO2 acts like the canary in the coal mine. When it climbs, it shows accumulation of stuff you don't want to deal with.

Measurement of compounds is best done using a monitor like Aranet, but incidental bumps in different values don't mean much. Long trends matter. If Radon is an issue in your region, a detector for that. Mold testing kits are readily available in market indicating moisture issues and you can get lead and other hazmat testing done diy/professionally
by jvanderbot | 2025-04-18 01:07:53+00:00
When you consider a paragraph, perhaps to write, how do you plan it before writing?

When you reflect on something embarrassing, how could it have gone differently? How do you imagine "I should have done this differently?"

Imagine arguing with a friend, now a clone of yourself, now hold two options in your mind (what to have for dinner) and assign a clone to argue for each. Is it possible?

You must get this all the time and I'm sorry, but it's so interesting! I'd buy all your beers for weeks just to chat about it.
by nine_k | 2025-04-18 01:09:53+00:00
One big takeaway: a 60k LOC project in Lua is doable, and it will not crumble under its own weight.

Surprisingly, LuaJIT is not mentioned even once. Luau is mentioned, Teal is mentioned, Fennel, not. (But Haskell is mentioned!)

Little is told about the general code structure, likely because it's dictated by the (C++-based) game engine with Lua bindings. It would be interesting to see an analysis of a comparably large game built with Löve, for instance.
by alexjplant | 2025-04-18 01:10:06+00:00
> Here’s the third big thing: Rinsing isn’t necessary. Oma Blaise Ford, a senior executive editor at Better Homes and Gardens, told me that overrinsing is “one of the most common mistakes in modern dishwasher loading.” She recommends scraping leftover food off your dishes into the trash with a rubber spatula and immediately loading them into the machine, without even turning on the faucet.

I've always done this out of stubbornness. If I have to turn on the faucet then I might as well just wash the dish by hand. If the dish is still dirty after a cycle then I'll do exactly that and let it air-dry.
by esperent | 2025-04-18 01:10:15+00:00
I have a dishwasher that does this. It was in the house already, I used it for at least a month wondering why it didn't have a proper place to put cutlery before I tried cleaning the top and realized there was a drawer hidden there!

It's a great feature, but since the dishwasher has a standard height to fit under the counter, it means the bottom rack is a bit shorter than standard and I have to be very careful stacking plates to avoid blocking the washer arm. And there are a few large plates which I'm sure would fit in most washers which I have to wash by hand, like a caveman.

On balance it's a good feature though.
by Gathering6678 | 2025-04-18 01:10:38+00:00
After trying with the free ChatGPT at least, I don't think this would be too much of an additional privacy risk. E.g. I submitted a photo I've taken with a feature with a particular architecture style in the front, and a city canal in the background, and told ChatGPT it was taken in China. It separated the feature and canal correctly, but still guessed wrong. I did remove the EXIF information, as ChatGPT tried to extract GPS info and failed at first.

I guess as long as there are no major visible features (e.g. a huge mountain), and you sanitized the metadata, you will be fine (regarding ChatGPT).
by emmelaich | 2025-04-18 01:11:07+00:00
There's a library wrapper, https://www.gnupg.org/software/gpgme/index.html

>GnuPG Made Easy (GPGME) is a library designed to make access to GnuPG easier for applications. It provides a High-Level Crypto API for encryption, decryption, signing, signature verification and key management. Currently it uses GnuPG's OpenPGP backend as the default, but the API isn't restricted to this engine. We have, in fact, already developed a backend for CMS (S/MIME).
by Aloisius | 2025-04-18 01:12:30+00:00
Most of English's inconsistent spelling came about from (sometimes incomplete) pronunciation shifts. Now knight and night are homophones where they once weren't, and while sky still rhymes with by, it no longer rhymes with archery. Fixing this is difficult, not just because people are resistant to change, but also because the variations in accents.

However, we're also introducing a lot of new inconsistencies due to a relatively recent shift to adopting foreign words without changing the spelling or pronunciation as we would have in the past - something no other language does. This forces English readers to learn multiple foreign orthographies and English's to read English.

The British are sometimes better about it. They see the word "jalapeno" or "tortilla" and pronounce it like you'd expect (and get mocked for it) with English's orthography, as opposed to forcing everyone to use Spanish orthography to pronounce them halapenyo and tortiya.
by clipsy | 2025-04-18 01:12:52+00:00
> * Those sites are BS (including Blind) and full of people both bragging, humble bragging, and lying

I've never wasted my time with Blind, but I've used levels.fyi as a guide for expectations/negotiations at three major tech companies and matched or exceeded the mean for my role all three times. Your mileage may vary, of course.

Edit: I'll also note the most recent was 2 years ago, so if it's gone downhill recently I would not have captured that in personal experience.
by al_borland | 2025-04-18 01:13:29+00:00
I had the opposite problem. I used the gel and the dishwasher wouldn’t completely drain. I had someone out to look at it and they couldn’t figure out what was wrong. I tried a pod as a last ditch effort and it worked.

I’ve since moved and use the powder with my current one, as recommended by Technology Connections, and have had good luck.
by stubish | 2025-04-18 01:14:15+00:00
Very hard to convince people to remove Chinese EVs from the market once they are there. Making EVs less affordable is not a green policy, and doesn't get votes from the other end of politics either unless you actually have a local car manufacturing industry to protect. The market is already undercut in places like Australia, and other manufacturers like Nissan and Volkswagen have already been dropping prices to stay relevant. You can now buy EVs in Australia that are not in the luxury car bracket.