MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mackenly | 2025-04-02 20:03:08+00:00
I really like Mermaid, but I'm not seeing the value in this as is.

- Mermaid within .md is widely supported. The file format of .mmd, while supported in most integrations, is a standalone file rather than living within my documentation/markdown. I use Mermaid charts and graphs as visual aids to add to the documentation or notes rather than having them stand alone. If I wanted a standalone file, I'd use any other diagram tool with its proprietary file format. I like Meriamid because of how easy it is to integrate into markdown. The value isn't in having a Mermaid file; the value is in adding diagrams and charts to markdown.

- Within .md files there's a Mermaid logo added beside the Mermaid, but it doesn't seem to be clickable or have a context menu. Maybe this is a bug. It also weirdly highlights all of the Mermaid code. Why doesn't it syntax highlight within markdown? This extension works great for highlighting: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items/?itemName=bpruitt...

- It doesn't add support for viewing mermaid within markdown preview. I currently use this extension for it. This is a key feature that is missing. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items/?itemName=bierner...

Overall, excited to see what this becomes. Hope this is useful feedback! It can only get better from here.
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by scoofy | 2025-04-02 20:03:25+00:00
>To me it just sounds like you're holding interrogators to an unreasonably high standard in order to deny the findings of the study.

There isn't a THE Turing test. On a deep philosophical level, a Turing test is a kind of never ending test for everyone we interact with all the time. I don't want to get too deep in the weeds of philosophy here, but the idea is that we are talking about verifying intelligence in general, just like we verify any scientific theory through replication.

In a very scientific way, it's just another case of perpetual falsifiability. The same way that Newtonian physics is a "fact" until it isn't, an AI passes a Turing test until it doesn't.
by tbcj | 2025-04-02 20:03:51+00:00
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by nickjj | 2025-04-02 20:03:54+00:00
I am guessing it's a hard thing to do unless you slam dunk something that hits absolute critical mass.

I have a bunch of repos with 500-1000+ stars. I've gotten folks who emailed me entire stories on how a project I created helped them get over being blocked on something, or how it kick started them into getting more involved with programming. I've on many occasions had folks email me asking me why I put some of the things I do up for free on GitHub.

All in all I've made around $17 in almost 10 years through donations (GitHub sponsorships).

But I don't do it for the money, although I'll admit it would be nice to receive income for doing something you'd happily do for free anyways. I create almost all of my projects based on a personal need and the idea of openly sharing what I can is built into how I operate given how much I've learned from others, I feel very strongly about returning the favor when I can with no strings attached.
by schoen | 2025-04-02 20:04:03+00:00
Yep, they started in 2020: https://letsencrypt.org/2020/02/19/multi-perspective-validat...

This has been challenging for some subscribers who are unaccustomed to receiving any legitimate site traffic from foreign countries.

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/multi-perspective-valida...

Now that it's a requirement for the whole web PKI, it will be interesting to see the pressure against blanket geoblocking increase. (Or maybe more web hosts will make it easier to use DNS challenge methods to get certificates.)
by joquarky | 2025-04-02 20:04:04+00:00
Oh my god, yes this is hitting the nail on the head in a way I hadn't thought before. The bloat comes from the discipline (or lack of) more than the framework.

IMO, those who have only worked in React tend to be unfamiliar with the layers of native capability that React is built upon, and so they are stuck in the React bubble unless they want to learn a ton of (admittedly crufty, but useful) web fundamentals.
by benhoyt | 2025-04-02 20:04:14+00:00
I do it by working for Canonical. The vast majority of our projects are open source. Yes, Canonical's application process is very long and thorough, but it's a good company to work for. Those aren't "my" projects, of course; I'm still very much working for an employer, but it's nice that our development effort is in the open and freely available. I also maintain a few of my own open source projects, for which (via GitHub Sponsors) I get about enough for one coffee date with my wife.
by redeux | 2025-04-02 20:04:26+00:00
I'm a vet and I code, but my god the amount of AI slop in the copy makes me very wary of the educational quality vets will receive. In order to leverage AI successfully people must learn that you can't just take whatever comes out of the model and call it good. You have to evaluate and refine it, or it all just becomes garbage in, garbage out. I guarantee the hero text was copied verbatim from an LLM - probably ChatGPT. Cool idea, but too many flashing warning signs for my liking.
by dekhn | 2025-04-02 20:04:35+00:00
Yeah, when I saw the original comment I tried to find the source of the term but wasn't able to find it.

To me it sounds like medical genetics terminology (known for terms like "penetrance", "allele", "epistasis", "locus") whereas I'm a molecular biologist/biophysicist, which has far more precise ways of describing the underlying physical model.
by basisword | 2025-04-02 20:04:51+00:00
Been here since 2011 and reading for a few years longer than that. I don't think the site has changed, more that the world has changed (a lot). There isn't that general excitement around consumer tech and programming that there was 15-20 years ago. We've gone from talking about how we need to start teaching coding in schools to how we shouldn't bother because AI will be doing it anyway.

The fun has been sucked out of it all. It wasn't all that long ago that we were excited by simple but fun devices like the iPad Nano and Flip camera. Now we all have phones that can shoot Hollywood films, we can access all art every created on them, and we have watches that can save our lives...and we've got a bit too used to it.

On top of that around here we used to get excited about scrappy startups raising funding and trying to change the world. Unfortunately because a number of those companies went on to dominate the world in negative ways, exploit users and hoard wealth, people have become jaded and scrappy startups are less exciting because we assume they'll eventually do something loathsome 10 years from now.

I'd love more framework debates, excitement, and creativity - but until the wider world is happy and positive again I'm not going to hold my breath.
by mardifoufs | 2025-04-02 20:05:10+00:00
Why does it matter? Wr are discussing religious groups in the US. The comment I replied to said that catering to American Muslims doesn't make sense if you are a progressive because Islam isn't. But somehow catering to Jews (which I know isn't just a religious group) is different. So I'm asking, do you actually think that Judaism is more progressive than Islam? Again, the comment I replied to explicitly said that the community somehow equals the religion and its beliefs.

And I don't know if women have it particularly worse in Turkey than in Israel. Same goes for gay people, though I'd agree that I'd rather be gay in Israel that in Turkey or any other Muslim country. Not sure why that matters in the context of comparing the religions themselves though.
by spacedcowboy | 2025-04-02 20:05:25+00:00
Huh. Also retiring soon (mid-to-end of this month) and (in my previous life) had an LLP called 'salt'. It stood for "Simon, Alex, Louise, and Tom" and 'salt' was the better acronym than 'last' which was the other one we could form :)

Salt was acquired by Apple 20 years ago now, and 20 years later, my Apple journey has come to an end. Anyone running any Apple device has my software running on it, which is kind of cool.. I also had the enormous fun of writing the prototype operating system for the Vision Pro.

But it's time to take a bow, from necessity rather than choice, and retire to actually spend more time with my family.

So I'll raise a glass to you David, and wish you well. I feel something of a kindred spirit in phonetics and timing if nothing else...
by altairprime | 2025-04-02 20:05:29+00:00
If opex is growing at a faster rate than revenue, and it’s not a VC situation, then layoffs are a popular way to curtail opex — typically business leadership cannot effect changes that would eventually impact themselves, so, the board and executive layer prefer to mass-layoff workers and middle management first and then let the remaining leadership fight for their life to present optimized plans. This is of course a terrible approach, because — as Taskmaster quite enjoyably demonstrates — even the smartest people tend to make a lot of asinine judgment calls under duress and deadlines; but when the alternative is to admit weaknesses of leadership, it’s certainly a logical enough course of action.
by psunavy03 | 2025-04-02 20:05:48+00:00
The trouble is that outside things like CYBERCOM and the NSA, it's hard to pitch a use case for people in uniform to be slinging code. If anything, that just makes cybersecurity/counterintelligence harder, because you have a bunch of those bro-level apps running around, potentially poorly-built and secured by amateur coders. There's not much more justification for people in uniform building software tools than there is having them design and build artillery guns or transport jets. Better to buy those from industry and train folks in uniform to use them.

I don't disagree with how horrible a lot of DOD software is, but that's more an artifact of the broken military procurement process combined with the often-childish attitudes people in tech have about working with the military.
by pclowes | 2025-04-02 20:05:51+00:00
I very well believe this could be true. However, after hearing of many studies that don’t get published unless they confirm the suspicion of racial prejudice I don’t even know what to believe anymore. Side effect of a post-truth society locked in endless red-blue proxy fights I guess.

I don’t know why we need police doing traffic enforcement. The cars know how fast they are going, the cars know where they are, the cars know what the speed limit is, why are they able to speed? Enforcement should be fully automated and violations should be forced to provide evidence of a special situation id they do speed eg: in labor etc. or a ticket is automatically issued.

Also in favor of governors on max acceleration and relative force generation for large heavy vehicles. Eg: 9k lb electric truck can do 0-60 in a minimum of 8seconds.
by Spooky23 | 2025-04-02 20:06:04+00:00
Lol. No.

BlackBerry was in the same position, and it was absolutely backdoored from a crypto perspective. The FBI doesn’t cry about iPhones anymore, so they’ve likely (along with other entities) identified alternate methods to access communications.

The use of these sorts of actions are about avoiding accountability, not security. Again, BlackBerry is the exemplar — PIN messaging was tied to a device, not a user. People 20 years ago were doing these signal chats with BlackBerry devices, swapping them around physically to build these groups.

Even then, people in these positions of power weren’t as reckless and incompetent. In addition to the reporter, one of the participants was on a civilian phone in Russia. The FSB or whomever does their signals intelligence got a real-time feed of intelligence, military operations, etc. The American pilots were put at risk, and Israeli spies were burned.
by road_to_freedom | 2025-04-02 20:06:17+00:00
The key thing to successfully take refuge in Russia is to be mentally Russian. Ukraine has plenty of such people, at least because 20% of population are ethnical Russians who migrated here at different times in our history. For somebody like me, whose Russian skills are on lower intermediate side, posting comments like this in social networks occupation is effectively a death sentence, there's no way around that.

As an example my friend barely left Russian checkpoint alive after they took his phone for check-up. They were beating him for hours, because they found picture where he stands near the Ukrainian flag. Twist: he was 17 at that time, would he be a bit older, I don't know what would happen. And this is just one example among countless. You can see what happened in Bucha, Izyum, Mariupol, etc. You can learn what happened during the Soviet period after we briefly regained independence. Our population shrinked by double digit percentage pre WWII.

Average homo sovieticus with no sense of identity will be sort of okay, that's true. But Russia probably will use the men for the next war similar to what they did with people occupied in 2014.
by delfinom | 2025-04-02 20:06:17+00:00
>Many devices in the Microchip (ATMEL) SAM Family make use of GPNVM bits

Only in the SAM(single letter)(rest of part number) and SAME/V/S70 family.

They went out of their way to maintain legacy parity with the M7 cores against the older M4 cores (which have GPNVM) for some reason I forget when I was discussing those chips with them in pre-production sampling long ago.

I wouldn't call this a zero-day per say. If I have your chip, programmed, physically in my hands. I will nitric acid the sucker and throw it under an electron scanning microscope to laser the security bits off if I want your firmware. I've done it before.
by dhosek | 2025-04-02 20:07:18+00:00
It’s all part of an ideological attempt to stymie the ability of government to work effectively and then point to how government doesn’t work effectively to justify funneling money to politically connected contractors. It’s the modern version of patronage except that instead of getting jobs for the people in your clan, you get massive contracts for your donors which can be structured so that they’ll still be making money even if you don’t win re-election.
by 9rx | 2025-04-02 20:08:11+00:00
I'd say farm equipment has embraced the same "meaner" trend, but has also doubled down on bright, vibrant colours.

Noticeably, though, the colours don't date the equipment. 20 years ago the colours were the same, and 20 years from now it is very likely that the brand new ones will still feature the same colours still.

That hasn't been the case for passenger vehicles. They are famous for having a colour available this year and gone the next, so if you have one of those no-longer-available colours it sticks out like a sore thumb as looking old. Which is what I believe the consumer truly fears – owning a car that looks old and dated.

The blacks and whites have remained consistently available, so it is far less risky.
by twodave | 2025-04-02 20:08:48+00:00
There's a draft spec out there for discrete unions in C# fwiw. I wouldn't be surprised to see it in another version or two.

And while I agree that I don't love some of the object initialization patterns C# allows--I respect that other people might have different style than me and don't mind ignoring that those styles exist when writing my own stuff :)

My general rule goes something like:

1. Use record types for any simple data structure

2. Avoid using primary constructors (even on record types).

3. Use { get; init; } properties for everything unless there's a good reason not to.

4. For things that need to carry internal state, have different methods for mutations, emit events, etc., use a class with regular old constructors and either { get; } (for immutable) or { get; private set; } (mutable) properties as needed.
by js2 | 2025-04-02 20:09:46+00:00
It's on his site as well in HTML and eBook form:

https://arachnoid.com/sailbook/index.html

I read it years ago and still think of it from time to time. It's a great read.

HN submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=901072

His site never gets much love from HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=arachnoid.com
by yencabulator | 2025-04-02 20:09:47+00:00
Your argument would be more persuasive if the rant at the end was left off.

"Accidental dismiss" bad UI syndrome plagues me also on my phone, I had a notification from some app and I smushed the screen with my thumb and swiped it off, I have no idea what it was. Just because I (accidentally) acknowledge something doesn't mean the computer should forget that it ever existed!

And about an hour ago, my laptop dinged twice and I have no idea what browser tab did that.

I wish all computer things came with operation logs and where feasible undo buttons. All the way to having perfect audit logs for running ops on cloud services.
by ghc | 2025-04-02 20:11:15+00:00
Different tree, same genus. I'm not sure if all species (of 250+) in the genus have edible fruit, but the berries of several Asian species are harvested for spices, including Sichuan Peppercorns, which are made from the dried berries.

I would bet that the flavor (citrusy, with a numbing effect) is similar among all the species, but varies in strength and pungency. I'm not sure if I would bet that any species is safe to eat, however.
by palmotea | 2025-04-02 20:11:20+00:00
> I think there's enough of a pattern on the alt-right at this point to disregard joking.

I don't think Musk was joking with the pedo comment. I think we was being an asshole and a bully. He might have claimed to have been joking in his legal defense, but I think that was a lie.

But I don't think his comment has anything to do with pizzagate.
by awjlogan | 2025-04-02 20:11:24+00:00
Compare the yields in a typical JACS (or any high end journal) paper versus those in OrgSyn and I think it's pretty clear that yields in many papers are more than exaggerated. It's a single untraceable number and the outcome of your PhD depends on it - the incentive is very clear. Leave a bit of DCM in, weigh, high vac to get rid of the singlet at 5.30ppm and no one's any the wiser...
by neilv | 2025-04-02 20:12:04+00:00
Thanks. Sounds a bit rough.

Personally, I refuse to do the Leetcode interviews, on either side of the desk. (When I'm on the receiving end of that nonsense, I can't afford the months to prepare for the hazing ritual. And, if the employer is doing things like they're Google circa 2010, how full are they of people who are thinking and working in a way that's self-sabotaging in every other time and place.)
by spwa4 | 2025-04-02 20:12:41+00:00
... and what if you're in Europe, and the continent is rearming with German tanks, shells and bullets, paid by EU member states ... that can't pay for that? And what if you're in Europe, but outside of the EU?

In many member countries, ever more people will face an ever bleaker future (because repaying the re-armament debt will mean less social security, less medical care, less housing, less ... and less education). On top of that they will find themselves well-armed with plenty of neighbor countries they could conquer, able to vote in a government that can use those weapons if they want to, all in an EU that's falling apart, because the EU will be the organization extracting debt from everyone's living money, and will quickly find itself hated and despised.

You may think "but don't worry, AI + robots + tech" will save us. That may or may not become possible, but even if it does there's a slight issue: do you mean Chinese robots, American AI and tech that needs education subsidies to be developed in the first place? And are you going to buy that tech with fresh debt while you're already underwater just on the repayment of your current debt?

Even that is ignoring a horrible truth that nobody is yet ready to face: Trump will do the damage to trade and the EU that he will do ... and afterwards the democrats will not reverse it.

In a LOT of EU countries, the current batch of kids will find themselves uneducated, forced to pay back more debt than any 1st world country has ever seen, with lots of weapons, and about half of them with a neighbor country that's weaker than themselves.

These kids will find themselves uneducated, unable to leave, and faced with political parties presenting the "choice" between war and poverty. That will be an easy choice, of course.

And then, after a few rounds of kill-the-neighbor, they will find themselves facing superpowers that have AI robot armies and no use for uneducated human employees.
by westurner | 2025-04-02 20:12:45+00:00
It is not a joke. Topological anyons are the real deal, someday.

This is an article I found while preparing a comment about superfluid quantum gravity; https://www.reddit.com/r/AskPhysics/comments/1iqvxn0/comment...

I was collecting relevant articles and found this one.

TIL about the connection between superfluid quantum gravity, supersolid spin nematic crystals, and spin-nematic liquid crystals (LCDs,) for waveguiding entangled photons.

And also TIL about anyons in neutron stars, which are typically or always the impetus for black holes.

And also, hey, "3He" again.