MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jchw | 2025-04-02 18:48:16+00:00
Challenging your own viewpoints is not just hard, it's downright dangerous. You can really lose your sense of identity and question your own morals if you are not well-grounded. It's much easier to dig your heels in and try to limit your self-reflection to be more "safe". (I still think you should question your viewpoints, but I don't blame people for being a little afraid.)

This is especially true if you have a history of being somewhat cruel to people on the basis of a conclusion you're not really 100% sure you agree with anymore. Now if you question it, you have a lot of guilt to contend with.
by flowerthoughts | 2025-04-02 18:48:21+00:00
> The most interesting part of this attack was the discovery that the reset pin goes low for the window of time you should insert a glitch to bypass security!

Wait, does this mean you can use the reset signal directly as a glitch signal, or that the glitch has to happen for a short while within the window? If the former, that's the first time I hear of a device that provides its own bypass signal.

Excellent work!
by techpineapple | 2025-04-02 18:48:35+00:00
One thing I didn't see mentioned, and maybe this is part of being tribal, but politics is often not about the positions you take, but about the game theory of how you stay in power, and convince a group of people about the positions you take.

One thing I hate about the trump administration, and maybe all politics is fundamentally like this, is you can't really disagree with them. You can't really disagree with them because it's really hard to figure out what position they're taking. I find it makes discussing things with family really difficult. I can intellectually agree that "A nation should protect it's borders" and have a nuanced perspective on how much immigration is the right amount, but then I'm never going to square that with what the politicians are actually doing, right? We can't have a nuanced conversation with what the right immigration policy is, when the administration is deporting people without due process, or when the current administration says the problem with immigration is that Joe Biden let judges run wild in 2019.
by dcrazy | 2025-04-02 18:48:45+00:00
It would be especially detrimental to the pursuit of justice if the friends, family, and lawyers of a suspect could find out whether or not a warrant has been issued for them or their stuff before it is executed.

Our system works on “trust but verify”. If the cops show up with a warrant they claim they is valid, you trust the warrant is valid, let them do the search, and later verify the warrant is real and that it was issued legally. Doing otherwise is a crime (obstruction of justice).
by seadan83 | 2025-04-02 18:49:13+00:00
> In the introduction they talk about creatine loading

(1) Yes, that the loading phase was BYPASSED. = (

"Those on creatine did bypass a loading phase, which includes taking 20 to 25 grams daily for up to one week. While it is common to start with a loading phase, it can cause gastrointestinal issues and is not necessary to reach saturation levels – the maximum that the body can store at any one time. "

My understanding, to reach saturation without a loading phase - it takes about 3 to 4 weeks. (Could be wrong, going off of memory there.)

With loading, I've read it takes 1 to 2 weeks to reach saturation.

(2) Without measuring creatine levels, what was even tested? How many people were creatine "non-responders?" How many people were getting plenty of creatine from their diets already?

(3) Was the creatine regimen effective and optimal? Water intake is another factor. I don't think a set of 50 people divided between 2 groups is going to be anywhere near enough to capture a nuance like efficacy of the regimen vs no regimen.

> Also, their study is looking at lean body mass changes after the "wash-in" period, so any effect that increased recovery is supposed to have on lean body mass when following the exercise protocol they give for the time period they studied should be captured, no?

I'd say no, simply because it is not known whether the wash-in period was actually a wash-in period without knowing if creatine levels actually changed in a significant way. Second, the study group of beginner weight lift lifters is a chaotic data set. The gains of lifting weights vs not lifting weights is likely magnitudes different from creatine vs no-creatine supplementation. Some beginners might easily get 10% more muscle mass vs 5% for others. An effect that is expected be very low is going to be completely lost in the noisy data. Let alone that we are starting from a questionable baseline.

Overall, since the body can absorb up to about 5g of creatine a day, and the body is likely already intaking 1 or 2g per day - this study is kinda only looking at the effect of an increase of creatine from a moderate dosage to a maximal dosage, across beginner weight lifters. It's like, say you're a bit dehydrated, instead of drinking 500ml of water per day, you now start drinking 550ml of water and then measure any changes from starting a brand new weight lifting routine.
by infecto | 2025-04-02 18:49:21+00:00
I don’t know but the way I think about it…

Israel v Palestine. Lots of posts will pop up over time. If it’s simply an another attach or similar and you start seeing a he roll of disagreement from both sides, flag. There is nothing additive to it. I remember vouching a story though that was touching on Israel’s PR marketing ability of the war. That’s fascination and both new as well as high potential to discuss something new.

In the current immigration and administration. I feel like to some degree the horse has been beaten. There is not much to add for yet another misstep in the administrations policy. There is both no new interesting angles from the news itself and the discussion has been beaten to death by both sides already.

It is not an indication that the topic is not important but to me that there is nothing left to say on the topic. I am certain there are folks that would love to keep going on and on about it for either side but nothing new or engaging comes from it. I am sure others disagree but that is my mental model.
by Balgair | 2025-04-02 18:49:43+00:00
I mean, yeah. IQ is a bad measure (if self-consistent). Training trumps all, like with every task. The more we do something, the better we'er going to be at it.

The thing that is going to be interesting is now that we have essentially cheap, ethically clear, and realistic digital 'people', what are the experiments that we can do with them and what can we uncover? I'm a little flat-footed even as to the questions that we can ask them now. At the very least, we can use them to 'dry-run' surveys and experiments and have better data collection and stress-testing. Like, you can now generate realistic data now and use that to run the stats while the real surveys are coming in.
by xandrius | 2025-04-02 18:50:06+00:00
I honestly often hear about the "demo scene" being talked about but I've never even once seen anything in the real world. I might see a youtube video or two but I would have 0 clue on:

1) What is it for?

2) Where does it happen?

3) What's the goal? (not in a snarky way but in what do the sceners pursue?)

4) How does one get to know about the demo scene? How does one "join"?

I'm impressed by how something that seem so hidden, but also talked about, but also hard to catch still exists.

I guess I'm just a noob out of the loop but I'm curious :)

EDIT: Or maybe I am so out of the loop not to know it's mainly a thing of the past?
by mmooss | 2025-04-02 18:50:23+00:00
What are the requirements of a review? And what is the marketplace for someone meeting those requirements?

What expertise is required - someone who researches the same questions? Same general domain? Adjacent domain?

And how long does it take? I imagine that depends on many details.

Finally, what are they reviewing for? Is it a once-over for errors in method? Something like grading a student paper?
by LinuxBender | 2025-04-02 18:50:36+00:00
Rather than wholesale banning of advertisements I would like to see existing laws actually enforced and judges using existing wiggle-room to make examples of businesses that use deceptive advertising, false advertising, multiple shell companies to hide bad reputation highly prevalent on Amazon for Chinese resellers, knowingly selling defective products or used refurb products as new, making it highly difficult or near impossible to return items or contact a real person at the company and so on. Those shady companies should feel enough pain they just leave the scene all together. The same goes for countries that harbor shady businesses. After enough complaints are confirmed they must be isolated entirely from global trade long enough to make them feel real pain.
by pvg | 2025-04-02 18:51:04+00:00
Yeah, that's the 'receipts for everything' idea and if you think it through, you'll realize it's at a minimum impractical and more likely just an outright bad idea. Where are these 'reasons' going to go? Who is going to read them or act on them? It sort of wants to stick it to those bad flaggers and misinformed downvoters or whatever but think about it applied to you. Do you not recoil at being asked by some random web app to justify your actions? Like, we're ostensibly here for conversation not to fill out TPS report cover sheets.

This is 'drink verification can' but for messageboards.
by hnlmorg | 2025-04-02 18:51:30+00:00
Ive taken entire web farms offline due to an unexpected expansion of a command on a Cisco load balancer.

The command in question was:

administer-all-port-shutdown

(Or something to that effect —it’s been many years now)

And so I went to log in via serial port (like I said, *many years ago so this device didn’t have SSH), didn’t get the prompt I was expecting. So typed the user name again:

admin

And shortly afterwards all of our alarms started going off.

The worst part of the story is that this happened twice before I realised what I’d done!

I still maintain that the full command is a stupid name if it means a phrase as common as “admin” can turn your load balancer off. But I also learned a few valuable lessons about being more careful when running commands on Cisco gear.
by fatbird | 2025-04-02 18:51:38+00:00
I wasn't saying, as a layman, that this is evidence for Dark Matter. I'm saying that the current thinking in astrophysics is that this is evidence for Dark Matter. Katie Mack, the astrophysicist in the podcast I linked, is a reknowned expert, and discusses how running the numbers on exactly these things provides evidence for Dark Matter, and how alternatives fail.
by zozbot234 | 2025-04-02 18:51:45+00:00
It could be used to replace k8s-based deployments (also Docker Swarms, etc.) since system interfaces on Plan 9 are namespaced and containerized "out-of-the-box" as part of its basic design (and this is one of the most prominent additions compared to *NIX). It's not a hacked-on feature as with Linux.
by stretchwithme | 2025-04-02 18:52:02+00:00
Ideally, one should select friends that are respectful of other's opinions. Certainly, one shouldn't keep someone close who isn't.

But with family and acquaintances, it's not worth getting into. Except when someone isn't being respectful. Then I will certainly speak up and ask why they aren't respecting someone's right to think for themselves.
by viccis | 2025-04-02 18:52:20+00:00
If anyone here hasn't read Borges, I'd strongly recommend him. Pretty much everything he wrote was short, <20 pages, and so it's really easy to sit down and read one of his stories over a lunch break. The common recommendation would be to try out Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius and see if you like it. If so, it's part of Labyrinths, which is (in my opinion) his best collection of short stories. The best edition in English is probably Penguin's Collected Fictions.

Regarding the content of this interview:

>If you compiled an enormous dataset of everything Borges read, and combined it with an exquisitely sensitive record of every sensory experience he ever had, could you create a Borges LLM?

This is my Kantian way of thinking about epistemology, but I don't think that LLMs can create synthetic a priori knowledge. Such knowledge would be necessary to create Borges out of a world without Borges.

In this interview, Simon's view feels much more like the way Hume viewed people as mechanical "bundles of sensations" rather than possessing a transcendent "self". This led to his philosophical skepticism, which was (and still is I guess) a philosophical dead end for a lot of people. I think such epistemological skepticism is accurate when applied to machines, at least until some way of creating synthetic a priori knowledge is established (Kant did so with categories for humans, what would the LLM version of this be?)
by dcrimp | 2025-04-02 18:52:36+00:00
is "becoming truth seeking" not some sort of religion - like the sports team - and the bay area is your tribe? Perhaps you were already suggesting this in your article and I've missed this - if so I apologise.

you seem to suggest that truth-seeking > tribalism, and we should pity the poor fools who are about tribalism. In this way, you're being tribalist against tribalism, no?

If ignorant tribalism brings people community and happiness, isn't that just as valid and commendable as truth-seeking?

Truth-seeking might provide a level of understanding of the world which is of value to your operating in life. It is not necessarily a sublime good of it's own right. Too much of it will alienate you from your mates.

I'd wager types like you might find on HN, Bay Area, could do with a little less seeking, in fact.

The Underground Man comes to mind, and presents the extreme of this spectrum. But then maybe he'd find mates in an area filled with other Underground Men?
by Finnucane | 2025-04-02 18:52:36+00:00
We bought our house in 2009, and we're about to pay off the mortgage (3.5%). But we don't feel 'locked in'--we're not planning to move or sell, because we don't want to. On the other hand, we've been trying to get my mother to sell her house for years now, because it's getting to be more than she can take care of. But an 84-year-old woman who's been in the same house since 1973 doesn't feel 'locked-in' because of mortgage rates.
by omoikane | 2025-04-02 18:52:38+00:00
For youtube shorts, replacing the "shorts" in URL with "watch" will give you the usual interface, for example:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GqkmtcirwYA -> https://www.youtube.com/watch/GqkmtcirwYA

But actually I see that seek bar is already available in youtube shorts. Maybe it's a recent change?
by sthupukari | 2025-04-02 18:53:02+00:00
Hi HN, I’m Sashank and I'm excited to share Exponent. Exponent is an AI programming assistant that runs in any environment (terminal, web, CI, IDE, remote), can perform simple tasks up to multi-step workflows, and is easy to steer. Our early users have been using Exponent to debug Docker setups, improve query performance, onboard new teammates, automate CI fixes and incident response, and more.

We first got some attention after collaborating with OpenAI on one of their API features last year: https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/1853564730872607229, and we're ready to open to a wider audience.

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I know there are many options and preferences (and probably fatigue) for AI coding tools. After building and using many of these tools, I repeatedly found the same limitations: opaque behavior, difficulty steering outputs, or being locked into just one environment like an IDE or terminal.

So, I built Exponent to be the AI programming agent that I would want to use. It feels great to work alongside, but is also powerful enough to complete work end-to-end. It runs anywhere: I can use Exponent to debug an error in my local development environment while another instance of Exponent runs in a CI pipeline which auto-fixes typechecking errors, without needing any other tooling. And it has a clean, intuitive interface which shows me exactly what the agent is doing instead of obfuscating it.

Right now, Exponent is best for people who:

- View AI collaboration as a skill: you think working with AI is worth improving at, and would use a tool that rewards and encourages high-quality interaction vs. using an agent that tends to go off the rails.

- Want a single tool for multiple contexts: you work in some combination of in your terminal, against CI, with your database, on remote machines you ssh into, and you want consistent context and capabilities across all of them.

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- Try something you're unsatisfied by other AI tools for: Pick a scenario you've been frustrated by elsewhere, and see how Exponent handles it.

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- Play: Experiment casually--ask Exponent to do the worst refactor it can think of, or run an obscure but interesting git operation, or autogenerate an exponent.txt. You'll get a feel for the UX and judge how you'd approach a more serious task.

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Try Exponent and let me know what you think: https://www.exponent.run/.
by UncleOxidant | 2025-04-02 18:53:37+00:00
> Meanwhile you spend your entire time owning the car and driving around like a brooding storm cloud.

Living in Oregon I don't want a car that blends in with the asphalt and clouds. I want a florescent lime green car that's easy to see. Those are hard to come by.

Also, I recall traveling to Athens Greece back in 1999 and wondering why people were all wearing greys, charcoals, black? I posited that they were depressed or something. Recall that the 90s were still pretty colorful in regards to clothing here in the US. And then just a couple of years later people here were all starting to wear those greys, charcoals and black.
by setsewerd | 2025-04-02 18:53:45+00:00
Tacking onto this I think the more important variable for ease of conversation is the extent to which someone's sense of identity is tied to their political beliefs.

E.g. I'm moderately left but I'll still engage in healthy conversation with right-leaning friends and acquaintances because I like to understand where they're coming from. However I have some friends who I love dearly but know that despite their intelligence and how much I enjoy their company, they've become very tribal in their politics, so I don't bother engaging in political discussions with them beyond basic diplomatic contributions. Or posing questions that offer new perspectives. I still trust them and value their friendship though.
by gruez | 2025-04-02 18:54:09+00:00
>Does this mean the corporations have to reveal all their internal DNS and sites to the public (or at least the CA) and let them do DV, if they want certs issued for their wholly-internal domains that will be valid in normal browsers?

The blog post has nothing to do with this, because it was already the case with certificate transparency. The solution is to use wildcard certificates. For instance if you don't want secretproject.evil.corp to be visible to everyone, you could get a wildcard certificate for *.evil.corp instead.
by xboxnolifes | 2025-04-02 18:54:23+00:00
I disagree. People will frequently say that downvoting is not for disagreeing, but in every controversial thread dissenting opinions are quickly downvoted and frequently flagged. Some recover, but many die or end up pushed down into obscurity.

Mildly controversial opinions sometimes survive and get discussion, but anything past that rarely get a reply and just get downvoted and flagged into oblivion. This isn't exactly a slight against HN, as this happens basically everywhere past a tiny userbase community. But I don't think it's particularly right to put HN on a pedestal for its ability to handle controversy.
by tptacek | 2025-04-02 18:54:55+00:00
A lot of HN mechanism makes more sense if you can accept the idea that the goal is to promote good threads, and not, as so many people believe, to promote one set of opinions over another. Requiring justification for flags would immediately crud up threads with meta-debates.

A hard thing for people to accept, something that I think is an unstated part of the HN ethos but nevertheless real, is that it's almost always better to have no thread at all than a shitty one. Important topics will inevitably get an airing in one thread or another.
by tracker1 | 2025-04-02 18:54:58+00:00
I would describe it more as noise... When there are loud, clashing color patterns everywhere, it all turns into noise and nothing really stands out. It's like watching analog TV with poor reception... there's stuff there, but really hard to make out or focus.

I'm with GP on this, I'd prefer most things be somewhat subdued and letting key pieces come out. The subdued doesn't have to expressly be a shade of gray or brown/tan either.
by doodlebugging | 2025-04-02 18:55:00+00:00
I enjoy checking all the native plants growing on my place. I discovered another yesterday that I would love to eradicate since it really takes over quickly.

It's in the geranium family Geraniaceae, and is one of the most ancient cultivated plants around. Its use was so common that it has spread from the Mediterranean area where it is native to most every other inhabited place. People ate it and fed it to their animals and it was used as a medicine so they had multiple reasons to carry some with them as they migrated across the landscape.

Redstem Stork's Bill [0]https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/47687-Erodium-cicutarium

Supposed to taste like a parsley. I ate some yesterday and agree that it is close to parsley with a slightly more sharp flavor if you just eat the leaves and stems. I tried some of the seed pods and that was a no-go. They would need to be cooked to be edible since they are hard and fibrous raw. I haven't tried the root yet.

It's unlikely that I will ever eat my way out of this invasive infestation but I will add some to the salad to see whether my wife notices.
by jameslk | 2025-04-02 18:55:04+00:00
The article is titled Why I don't discuss politics with friends but it doesn't explain the why? Unless I missed it. It seems to just talk about the challenges.

Why don't you discuss politics with friends? Are you worried about loss of friends? Do the conversations ruin your day? Do you feel alienated?

Depending on the why, there's different points I'd argue for or against the reasoning. Without that piece, it's kind of hard to discuss the premise of the article without just guessing its implications.
by shw1n | 2025-04-02 18:55:49+00:00
haha yes I was wondering if someone would pick up on this, totally agree

I absolutely joke I am "tribal against tribalists", which to me is sorta like someone implying their greatest fear is fear itself.

I do mention it is a totally fair belief to have in that piece, and respect conscious decisions to value that like I respect people's decisions to follow more traditional religions, but only have issue when it's passed off as a truth-seeking value

Have not heard of the Underground Man, will check it out -- thanks for reading btw!