MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tocs3 | 2025-04-21 03:34:11+00:00
From: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22706-dermati...

Dermatillomania (Skin Picking)

Dermatillomania, also known as skin picking disorder or excoriation disorder, is a mental health condition where you compulsively pick at your skin. This can cause injuries, infections and scarring, leading to stress, anxiety and a reduced sense of well-being. This condition is often treatable with a combination of medication and therapy.
by giantg2 | 2025-04-21 03:36:31+00:00
I'm not sure why people get religious about this. The far more interesting approach is to try to use reason along side other current laws to determine the answer to two questions - what defines a human life, and when is it acceptable to take one? For example, trying to compare things like medical support for preterm babies to medical support of coma patients to investigate the logic behind viable fetuses vs various life support methods, etc.
by gsf_emergency | 2025-04-21 03:38:14+00:00
If we take it as a given that BC was inspired by TGG, would you say that the source particulars was healthier? Ginevra ("Geneva"/"Juniper") as depicted in Winter Dreams

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyyrikki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_of_Li%C3%A8ge

>He gained the trust (and the faith) of its people through the outdoorsman skills he acquired in his hunting life.

(One of those rare gods whose father was more mortal-- thus giving credit to the age-old wisdom of marrying up? (Veblen! GOLF! Elite Hillbillies!))

[Recent moves, however, remind that imbecility/juvenility could make particularly effective feints. Pay ever more attention to health!]
by stackskipton | 2025-04-21 03:38:30+00:00
Having work as Ops person at second place, most of time it ends up like that because Ops become dumping ground so they throw up walls in vain attempt to stem the tide. Application throwing error logs? Page out Ops. We made a mistake in our deploy. Oh well, page out Ops so they can help us recover. Security has found a vulnerability in a Java library? Sounds like Ops problem to us.
by jmye | 2025-04-21 03:43:14+00:00
I get it, really. “For the kids” is almost always bullshit. But Zuckerberg (and originally Sandberg) intentionally targeted kids and intentionally tweaked algorithms to hurt them (e.g. the entire profit motive for Instagram is giving teen girls depression). Forcing them to, for instance, stop the algorithms from targeting kids would be a positive step that wouldn’t present the harms you’re noting (or be as completely pointless), IMO.
by plaidfuji | 2025-04-21 03:45:04+00:00
Gemini 2.5 Pro is certainly a tipping point for me. Previous LLMs have been very impressive, especially on coding tasks (unsurprising as the answers to these have a preponderance of publicly available data). But outside of a coding assistant, LLMs til now felt like an extra helpful and less garbage-filled Google search.

I just used 2.5 Pro to help write a large research proposal (with significant funding on the line). Without going into detail, it felt to me like the only reason it couldn’t write the entire thing itself is because I didn’t ask it to. And by “ask it”, I mean: enter into the laughably small chat box the entire grant solicitation + instructions, a paragraph of general direction for what I want to explore, and a bunch of unstructured artifacts from prior work, and turn it loose. I just wasn’t audacious enough to try that from the start.

But as the deadline approached, I got more and more unconstrained in how far back I would step and let it take the reins - doing essentially what’s described above but on isolated sections. It would do pretty ridiculously complex stuff, like generate project plans and timelines, cross reference that correctly with other sections of text, etc. I can safely say it was a 10x force multiplier, and that’s being conservative.

For scientific questions (ones that should have publicly available data, not ones relying on internal data), I have started going to 2.5 Pro over senior experts on my own team. And I’m convinced at this point if I were to connect our entire research data corpus to Gemini, that balance would shift even further. Why? Because I can trust it to be objective - not inject its own political or career goals into its answers.

I’m at the point where I feel the main thing holding back “AGI” is people’s audacity to push its limits, plus maybe context windows and compute availability. I say this as someone who’s been a major skeptic up until this point.
by jchw | 2025-04-21 03:46:03+00:00
Yes of course, but obviously when it comes to household dishwashers those parts of the grid are not terribly important and I think we already exceeded the pedantry budget enough.

> "split-phase 240V" happens at the transformer near your house, in North America. I don't know as much about the rest of the world, but I've always understood it to be ~440v split phase because it allows longer wires between the transformer and the house.

Where I live, we have three phase 480/277V for commercial. I believe that is standard in North America, but I'm not really sure.
by leeoniya | 2025-04-21 03:46:44+00:00
a couple days ago i asked a buddy (he's an exceptionally good SWE) who was raving about AI coding if he could ask it to write some code that would match or beat the 170 LoC uWrap [0] in size, output quality, or perf. i asked him to do it soonish, since i was sure the lib was likely to be in most training sets very soon, if not already.

all models but one failed completely. only grok made a version that was several orders of magnitude slower than the lib which uWrap bests by 10x, which he considered a small win. but when he checked what it used as a reference, it turned out that uWrap is what it had pulled from the web. so it very poorly regurgitated my lib.

i guess i dont need look for a new career just yet.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43583478
by bruce511 | 2025-04-21 03:47:35+00:00
Somewhat true if you remain a programmer. Much less true once you have an understanding of the business.

As a programmer your skills are very replaceable. Your domain knowledge less so, and your knowledge of the code base even less so.

If you intend to stay at this level then its worth highlighting this value regularly to management. Because they are for sure being reminded daily that there's a fresh-grad waiting to elite code for little money.

But ultimately yes, coders can be replaced. Ots not terribly hard, crumbs even an AI can do it.

Understanding the business though is next level. By understanding the short, medium and long term needs of both the business and the customers you are well positioned to target "doing the right work" rather than just the "fun work".

As a part-coder part-manager you are slso more able to bridge the knowledge gap between upper management (who are exclusively business) and the coders (who are exclusively technical. )

Focusing on clear communication in terms that suit the audience really assists job security. For example selling the eradication of some technical debt, as a business advantage, yo upper management is more likely to suceed if it aligns with business goals than just "the techs want to pretty up the code."
by maxloh | 2025-04-21 03:49:51+00:00
> I really don’t know where we went wrong, and I’m not sure it’s purely financial either (tho it is for many), at least from my anecdotal experience.

The problem is welly explained in the video: the society in East Asia (South Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, etc.) is too toxic for the youth and it is too hard for them to live a decent life.

Young people there are constantly competing with others of their generation. Households are unaffordable for the majority of the population, and for the lucky ones, it takes approximately 30 to 50 years to buy one. Traditional culture encourages people to work extremely hard, to the extent that they don't even have time for social activities or to form relationships. Meanwhile, promotion is often difficult because management-level positions are occupied by older individuals.

People are stopping having children not only because they cannot afford it, both financially and in terms of time, but also because they do not want their children to suffer. It is expected that the situation will persist for generations to come.
by ammo1662 | 2025-04-21 03:51:42+00:00
Since Valve joined the game, the development of WINE has improved significantly. While it was decent before, the limited user base meant many rarely used APIs or parameters only had stubs. Steam's involvement hasn't just enhanced graphics and audio support, many APIs have also been implemented to support some weird games.

At least I can now run the ancient programs I wrote in the school, though I still have to implement some parameters and recompile WINE.
by bruce511 | 2025-04-21 03:53:22+00:00
I did this, so I completely agree with this advice.

But of course then you really need to do the business first, and right, and the coding comes second.

If you plan to go down this route I recommend exposure to accounting either at school or college (or via external self study.) I did it at school, and while I'm not involved much in accounts these days, being able to read them, and understand them, is really useful and important.
by cko | 2025-04-21 03:53:42+00:00
I'm pro choice, but let me play devil's advocate.

If you view the fetus? embryo? as a human life, then abortion doesn't just affect the person having it, but also the life being aborted. Not only that, but what are the moral implications to the rest of society if "murder" is allowed?

So for some people it's not that simple.
by csomar | 2025-04-21 03:54:20+00:00
tl;dr: LLM struggle to write performant/correct code unless you use codeflash. The "trick" is that you run tests/benchmarks against the generated code. It is not clear whether codeflash does that for you, or you have to write your tests/benchmarks and then codeflash runs a loop trying different versions while testing against your code.
by Spooky23 | 2025-04-21 03:55:54+00:00
I’ve read Marcus Aurelius‘s meditations, a few Greek plays and studied kung-fu movies and Japanese cinema critically. People still endure reading Madame Bovary.

Time stands still for no man, but we’re a curious people, and folks will search for meaning in the past through our art. As a parody of the traditional action movie, I’m sure people will be watching Last Action Hero for decades to come.

I think as time goes on the emotional hooks of media outside of universal themes fade away. My son will never know the time where “It’s a Wonderful Life” impacted my parents, or how the endless repeating of of “A Christmas Story” was a part of my siblings holiday. But the stories that are important to us or capture a moment of time will endure.
by plaidfuji | 2025-04-21 03:58:14+00:00
I don’t think it’s necessary for an AI to operate in the physical world to achieve the dystopian-level impact people expect. After all, the most powerful people in the world operate only by talking to other people. An AGI would solve a plumbing problem by finding and hiring the best plumber and telling them what it needs done. And it would use you to be its eyes and verify the job is done. Whether it’s AGI is, to me, a question of who appears to be serving who.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-04-21 04:00:50+00:00
According to the same source (site), it looks like emissions in China have plateaued in Q3 2024 as compared to Q3 2023. So we’re already seeing some effects. https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-no-growth-for-chinas-em...

I agree with you that the coal capacity buildouts are worrying. The best we can hope is that China has just structurally misallocated a bunch of funds, and when it comes time to burn that coal, continued improvements in renewables and storage will make all those plants unprofitable. That’s what’s happening most other places.
by bruce511 | 2025-04-21 04:01:14+00:00
Age discrimination is real, of course, just about everywhere.

My experience though is different to yours. I joined a bootstraped company in 1992 as emp number 1. Basically me and the founder. We were both in our 20s.

In those years everyone in computers was young. We had no "adults in the room". We did a lot right, and a bunch wrong. I grew a beard to look older. When we had programmer user-group meetups everyone was our age.

That hasn't really changed, except now we are the grey beards :)
by giantg2 | 2025-04-21 04:01:24+00:00
Anecdotal polling from my peer group strongly suggests you are wrong. Every guy I know would rather be responsible for taking an equivalent pill than the woman taking it. Every single one of us has experienced one or more women who missed taking the pill a day here or there and those women weren't that concerned about it. As an add-on (depending on jurisdiction), women have the backup of the abortion decision whereas men do not.
by misrasaurabh1 | 2025-04-21 04:03:13+00:00
Hi, I am the creator of Codeflash. The idea is to do everything that a professional performance engineer would do and to automate it. So codeflash, analyzes your code, creates correctness tests, creates performance benchmarking tests, executes these tests to figure out the behavior and performance of code. Along side it also profiles and determines the line coverage of your original code. Then it uses all this info to generate multiple optimizations and applies them one by one to see if the new code is indeed an optimization, i.e. is correct and is more performant. If this is the case then it opens a Pull Request for dev's review with all the info.
by luqtas | 2025-04-21 04:05:56+00:00
you can also say the Saharan desert played a major role on turning what Amazon is...

now, wow, calling it a grassland before humans 10,000 years ago is to smoke too much pot before reading/making papers. 5,000,000 AD then yes, maybe... /s but Terra Preta and other indigenous interferences is not even 10% of Amazon territory. various other animals are responsible for spreading diversity be it by shitting seed or just moking stuff around to make nests or impress some partner. the rainforest are also there because mountains changing courses of rivers.

[0] "Geology and geodiversity of the Amazon: Three billion years of history" https://www.theamazonwewant.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/C...

[1] the grassland hypothesis (somewhere in the text) and other curiosities about its biodiversity https://www.science.org/content/article/feature-how-amazon-b...
by Aloisius | 2025-04-21 04:08:04+00:00
It doesn't look like it is:

> (b)(1) A person who commits computer tampering as set forth in subdivision (a)(1) or (a)(5) or subsection (a-5) of this Section is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.

Repeat offenses for (a)(2) is a felony though. And (a)(3) and (a)(4) are felonies.
by randycupertino | 2025-04-21 04:08:19+00:00
The author of this piece, Cal Trillin, wrote a lovely, poignant, funny book that was a memorial to his wife (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95961.About_Alice) and also a really silly book about a man sitting in his car hogging parking spots as a form of obstinance/therapy. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/138993.Tepper_Isn_t_Goin...

Enjoyed them both very much!
by freejazz | 2025-04-21 04:09:55+00:00
>The point is the defense can show loads of documents about how working together increases efficiency, how they are streamlining units and they plaintiff has to prove they were targeted as an ex-DEI hire and even though there is just hunch. I don’t know about other countries but that’s how it works in US.

They can and a jury can still think that was not the actual reason someone was fired.

>Worker protection here is very weak. There are protected categories but they’d have the burden of proof they were let go specifically because of their protected category.

You're just making things up.

>Exactly, moreover jurors would be instructed to make up their mind based on the presented evidence. One side will have papers and the other will have read-between-lines hunches. Sure jurors can still do whatever but unless they’re all activist jurors they will just go with whatever side is more convincing and the evidence they have been presented.

You're mistaking plausibility with convincingness.
by simonw | 2025-04-21 04:10:40+00:00
The GIL means you only get to use a single core for your code that's written in Python, but that limit doesn't hold for parts that use C extensions which release the GIL - and there are a lot of those.

The GIL is also on the way out: Python 3.13 already shipped the first builds of "free threading" Python and 3.14 and onwards will continue to make progress on that front: https://docs.python.org/3/howto/free-threading-python.html

And honestly, a Python web app running on a single core is still likely good for hundreds or even thousands of requests a second. The vast majority of web apps get a fraction of that.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-04-21 04:10:40+00:00
> They weren’t done with intent.

“A Litany in a Time of Plague” contains a famous line: “brightness falls from the air.” Many scholars believe it’s a printing error, that the original line was “brightness falls from the hair.” But with apologies to Jay McInerney (who made this point better than I) the former is so much more beautiful. Sometimes art isn’t intentional.
by lovich | 2025-04-21 04:11:06+00:00
> (government is bad at solving most problems)

I reject the implication, that corporations are always better at solving most problems.

> and to seek ways to shrink government.

Id rather seek ways to maximize liberty, and while they frequently can mean limiting the government, the act of shrinking the government is not _necessary_, and even works against my goals if the government is the one keeping my liberty maximized
by eddythompson80 | 2025-04-21 04:12:27+00:00
> Personally, I find the idea that a compiler might be able to reach outside itself completely terrifying (Access the network or a database? Are you nuts?).

Why though? F# has this feature called TypeProviders where you can emit types to the compiler. For example, you can do do:

type DbSchema = PostgresTypeProvider<"postgresql://postgres:..."> type WikipediaArticle = WikipediaTypeProvider<"https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello">

and now you have a type that references that Article or that DB. You can treat it as if you had manually written all those types. You can fully inspect it in the IDE, debugger or logger. It's a full type that's autogenerated in a temp directory.

When I first saw it, I thought it was really strange. Then thought about it abit, played with it, and thought it was brilliant. Literally one of the smartest ideas ever. It's first class codegen framework. There were some limitations, but still.

After using it in a real project, you figure out why it didn't catch on. It's so close, but it's missing something. Just one thing is out of place there. The interaction is painful for anything that's not a file source, like CsvTypeProvider or a public internet url. It does also create this odd dependenciey that your code has that can't be source controlled or reproduced. There were hacks and workarounds, but nothing felt right for me.

It was however, the best attempt at a statically typed language trying to imitate python or javascript scripting syntax. Where you just say put a db uri, and you start assuming types.
by y42 | 2025-04-21 04:13:24+00:00
That’s factually incorrect. You can use most of these products for free. I use ChatGPT, Perplexity, ClaudeAI, and Gemini every day without paying, and even just these free services have already improved various processes in my life.

I do agree with you on the point that we need to find better ways to compensate the people creating content—especially considering that parts of this "AI service," as we might call it, are subscription-based.

But in the long run, I’m quite sure that if everyone shared this opinion, it wouldn't move us forward technologically.

Also, a couple of other points:

Google and others have been scraping the internet for years, and no one complained then. You're not paying the AI company for the knowledge itself—you're paying for the technology behind it, for the ability to access and use it effectively.
by Aurornis | 2025-04-21 04:13:49+00:00
I think JPEG 2000 is simply the chosen format for distribution of the video, not for security.

JPEG 2000 has some interesting properties for very high quality video storage and transport where bandwidth is not a concern. The traditional encoded video formats we know are less preferred at this scale.

JPEG 2000 is resource intensive, though. The decoding hardware is probably either GPU based or using an FPGA implantation from one of the providers who makes hardware for this.
Looking to build someone's small app ideas
by breadchris | 2025-04-21 04:14:33+00:00
In my free time I like to code, but sometimes I have a hard time figuring out what to code. Do I work on that side project with crippling scope creep? That other one doesn't even build. Earning a small amount of cash for spending a week building a crud app that makes a meaningful impact on someone's life sounds interesting. With AI I feel like I could churn these out.

Are there any people that work on building small apps like this for people? I would be interested in hearing people's stories!
by y42 | 2025-04-21 04:17:19+00:00
1. What exactly is wrong with the first part of that point? I agree that the second part is inaccurate—right now, the money mostly flows in one direction. But as I mentioned earlier, we can use many of these tools for free.

2. You’re not paying just to have your own knowledge echoed back at you. You’re paying so that someone (or something) can read what you provide and, ideally, return improved knowledge or fresh insights. As I said above, you’re paying for the technology and its capabilities—not the knowledge itself. That’s how I see it.
by hbbio | 2025-04-21 04:17:31+00:00
Crows soak all their food in our (sorry, their) swimming pool! Sadly, that includes rodents too. I wonder if it is because of the chlorine that could potentially "clean" the food, or if they want to wash out sand, etc.

Been careful not to yell or approach abruptly and they definitely learn to recognize our faces, since we can get pretty close to them now.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-04-21 04:17:38+00:00
> Trivially easy to move that kind of money or goods/services of equivalent value when you have a family business.

And then you should register the gift; it's not hard when filing your taxes. Importantly, the gift exclusion limit is not $19k total, it's $19k per recipient, per year (indeed, a common estate planning technique for rich people is to give away the annual max to loads of their heirs every year). And if you're over the $19k limit, you don't even have any taxes to pay, it just reduces your estate tax exemption amount.
by Aurornis | 2025-04-21 04:18:32+00:00
> If the software to watermark is widely available (as it appears to be) then an adversary has all they need to corrupt any existing watermark.

The commercial software used to embed watermarks into the digital files is not readily available. It’s also much more advanced than putting an obvious logo on screen. There are techniques to embed signals into the video that survive some amount of compression and aren’t obvious to the viewer.

You can identify signals deep below the noise floor if they’re sufficiently low bandwidth and you know what you’re searching for. See GPS and its ability to work even though the signal is completely lost in the noise until you know what you’re searching for in the noise.
by throwaway290 | 2025-04-21 04:18:40+00:00
They got emails from FOIA, this is not a "prove" thing, it is public documents.

Many scientists were concerned with artificial origin but forced to go with political message and when publishing the proximal origins paper the goal was "disprove lab leak" not find the truth.

Related FB & IG suppression of lab leak mentions by CDC moderation happened all over the world including the UK. I won't duplicate the links but those are reputable sources. Your opinion was shaped by US left.