MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pbohun | 2025-04-17 16:42:56+00:00
The thing I like about software dev is that as I get better at it I get better at thinking and problem solving.

I use AI rarely, but I use it to try to learn. For example, gnuplot is pretty complicated, so I'll ask it to create some examples and that's allowed me to learn way faster than trying to parse out the man page. AI is great for this, even though that's not how most people use it.

Some parts of software dev will likely be automated away (just like compilers automated conversion to binary and some parts of optimization), but I think ultimately software dev will become more important over time. Natural languages have low information density and high ambiguity. Programming languages are the opposite. So I think programming will always be a thing.

Think about music. It's not written in natural language, even though it could. We continue to use musical notation because it is the best way to communicate music. I believe the best way to have unambiguous, information-dense, logical communication with a computer is with a programming language.
by slashdev | 2025-04-17 16:43:09+00:00
> I would wager that if you could travel back in time to the emergence of anatomically modern humans, you’d find they’re just like us. I don’t think that’s particularly controversial or surprising, but it’s easy to forget that people who came long before us were really no different from us (or put differently, were no different than them), and it helps to better understand history if you think of them that way.

In many ways no different to us, in other ways, knowledge, cultural norms, gender roles, morality, etc they are very different to us.

We're very tribal and very hostile to people outside of our tribe, and what we consider our tribe has slowly expanded over time.

Thankfully today we mostly don't form up into raiding parties to go kill, rape, and enslave people in the neighboring suburb - but that would have been historically a very normal and acceptable thing to do.
by JohnMakin | 2025-04-17 16:43:38+00:00
And there's always one of these responses - what actions then, if any, are we taking against instagram?

> There have been numerous reports of the dangers Instagram poses (especially to teens), and when they get posted we get a raft of "why just pick on Instagram?" comments. It's tedious.

The difference being of course that one website (tiktok) is being targeted and essentially no action against meta. That's why people chime in.
by rfmoz | 2025-04-17 16:43:53+00:00
This could be addressed in a more progressive way.

For example, EV carts had the green bar that was a soft way to promote their presence/use over the normal ones. That bar, started as a strong evidence on the url box and lost that look with the time.

Something like that let the owner to decide and, maybe, the user push their use because it feels more secure, not directly the CA.
by pseudosavant | 2025-04-17 16:43:54+00:00
If there is a WASM build of the project, that is going to be the easiest and safest way to run that with untrusted user content. And Deno happens to be really good at hosting WASM itself. So, these are the two easiest tools to do this with.

I was looking into using WASM in Python yesterday for some image processing. It requires pulling in a full WASM runtime like wasmtime. Still better than calling out to native binaries like ImageMagick, but definitely more complicated than doing it in Deno. If I was writing it myself I'd do Deno, but LLMs are so good at writing Python.
by Henchman21 | 2025-04-17 16:43:59+00:00
They were really smart guys. But smart guys don’t stand a chance in the face of all that money because it attracts people who know how to manipulate and control smart people. Smart people think they’re at the top of the totem pole. But really its those without ethics who sit at the top in our society.

This is a conundrum humanity must address if we’re to survive over the long term, IMO.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-04-17 16:44:00+00:00
Just because something applies some negative pressure on diversity of thought doesn't mean it necessarily "leads to a monoculture and echo chambers."

If you're in a car that's going way too fast, do you tell the driver not to touch the brakes because it "leads to us never reaching our destination?"

Anyway, we're currently seeing the reign of the "cancel culture is the big problem" crybabies. Turns out they just thought the state should have the power to decide who's allowed to have an opinion.
by os2warpman | 2025-04-17 16:44:34+00:00
>Cancel culture is not compatible with democratic norms

Cancel culture is a myth.

It is a label used to denigrate people and organizations who exercise the fundamental right to distance themselves from associations they find distasteful or non-beneficial.

There is not a single "cancelled" person who does not retain the ability to work and exercise their speech rights.

This is not opinion it is fact.

I welcome any attempt to prove me wrong.

I will respond with acting credits, tweets, and photographs of the cancelled person serving in a position of authority and/or being chauffeured between media appearances where they complain about being cancelled to an audience of millions.

"Cancel culture" is the same bullshit as "virtue signaling": made up nonsense intended to poison any discussion and blunt criticism without needing to do or say anything substantive.
by LoganDark | 2025-04-17 16:45:02+00:00
Fun fact: On "XDR displays" (such as recent MacBook Pros and also Apple's new Studio Display XDR), you can actually decrease the display brightness to see more dynamic range.

Here is a recording of this happening for those who can't experience it for for themselves:

https://logandark.net/files/2QN2R1P3-26295O2O-9045N31P-P2POQ... (6.7 MB / 6.4 MiB)

(sorry for the terrible quality, it was a very lazy recording)
by kllrnohj | 2025-04-17 16:45:10+00:00
> Screens can't often do full brightness on the whole screen so if you come across a video or image that is supposed to have a higher contrast ratio, the system will darken everything and then brighten up the pixels that are supposed to be brighter.

There's no system that does that. The only thing that's kinda similar is at the display level there's a concept known as the "window size" since many displays cannot show peak brightness across the entire display. If you've ever seen brightness talked about in context of a "5%" or "10%" window size, this is what it means - the brightness the display can do when only 5% of the display is max-white, and the rest is black.

But outside of fullscreen this doesn't tend to be much of any issue in practice, and it depends on the display.
by graycat | 2025-04-17 16:45:36+00:00
What I wrote is correct but does not address the traditional Turing Machine halting problem or solve it.

The traditional halting problem is theoretical, i.e., not close to anything practical, and so is what I wrote.

And I did not claim that what I wrote is a contribution to "complexity theory".

The Turing Machine Halting Problem has long been standard computer science; from that it's common to conclude we can't tell if a program will stop. But that conclusion needs some theoretical assumptions, and my version is simpler and shows that we have to be careful drawing conclusions from the standard treatment.
by xorcist | 2025-04-17 16:45:53+00:00
F5 sells expensive boxes intended for larger installations where you can afford not to do ACME in the external facing systems.

Giving the TLS endpoint itself the authority to manage certificates kind of weakens the usefulness of rotating certificates in the first place. You probably don't let your external facing authoritative DNS servers near zone key material, so there's no reason to let the external load balancers rotate certificates.

Where I have used F5 there was never any problem letting the backend configuration system do the rotation and upload of certificates together with every other piece of configuration that is needed for day to day operations.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-04-17 16:46:56+00:00
People always say stuff like this, forgetting that the level of technology has skyrocketed. We cannot compare the USSR in the 20th century to the mass surveillance state and technology-dependant lives that exists today. And even in a significantly weaker, more vulnerable position, the USSR only really fell apart due to internal stresses. The people themselves were completely subjugated in the meantime, a cultural norm that has continued long after the fall of the union and led to the rise of (attempted) fascism again in those states.

There is no real reason to believe that a state with this level of sophistication, if willing to use the US military on civilians, could ever be toppled by the people.
by vyrotek | 2025-04-17 16:47:52+00:00
I overheard my wife's true crime podcast talk about these playing cards and just found the idea fascinating. here are a few more links I came across.

https://nypost.com/2017/10/11/inmates-can-buy-playing-cards-...

https://www.ranker.com/list/cold-case-playing-cards/jessika-...
by bentt | 2025-04-17 16:48:41+00:00
While I agree the experience of using the model will be improved with that knowledge, the memory you build should belong to YOU and not them. In fact, they shouldn't even be able to look at it for any other purpose than to serve you. It needs to be encrypted and secure and private. They will do anything they can to prevent this because there is immense value in owning someone's memory/identity.
by rzz3 | 2025-04-17 16:49:01+00:00
> OR to add regulation around infinite video scrolling.

I really don’t want the government telling me what I can or can’t do on my phone, or that an app I enjoy can’t exist. Alcohol exists, gambling exists, cigarettes exist, porn exists, cars can drive fast, and yet because I have self control and good judgement, I haven’t allowed any of those things to get a hold over me either. I don’t want the government to be my dad. And even if you did, can you really trust our technophobic corrupt out-of-touch lawmakers to get such regulation right? These are consumption-side problems in my opinion, and individuals need to bear the responsibility rather than trying to pawn it off on big tech companies or regulators.
by godelski | 2025-04-17 16:49:12+00:00
You misunderstand the goal.

> to block all ads on your home network?

That. That is the problem we're looking at.

I already use Firefox on /my computer/. We were talking about a pihole or some /network/ solution. How do I block ads on my friends computer when they get into my network without touching their computer? How do I block ads on my TV? You'd have to do something like deep packet inspection. Devices I fully control I can trivially solve this but there are plenty of devices I don't, including ones I own.

And for Android, you know you can use revanced, right? You can recompile the app and others to get more control
by giraffe_lady | 2025-04-17 16:49:21+00:00
I don't know why you'd expect to be able to read the board as a non-player. If I watch a surgeon at work a lot of the individual motions are inscrutable to me. It's like looking at sheet music if you don't play an instrument. You just don't have the mental schema to see what is interesting about even the most interesting parts.

I was watching this game with my go club and we all instantly saw the significance of 37, it was audible in the room. 78 felt tangibly different, some of us immediately read it as a clear misplay, some were taking longer to come to any conclusion, just puzzled. Our most experienced player, at the time 5 dan, gasped when he got it. But it still took him time to even intuit what it was doing. Now that it is well understood, moves of that type are common even in intermediate level play. Changed the game forever.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-04-17 16:49:39+00:00
> I would say most of the time kids spend above 3yo should be without a parent facilitating their activities.

3 to 4 year olds are still putting things in their mouth that they shouldn’t be.

In a village raises the kid scenario, there would be older kids and neighbors looking after the kid, presumably with good intentions since they are neighbors.

But in a world (the internet) where anyone from around the world can communicate any of their idea to everyone instantaneously, the village is no longer raising the kid, so village rules don’t apply.
by PaulHoule | 2025-04-17 16:50:00+00:00
Had a high school science teacher who had a harrowing encounter with

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

and usually replacing the Cl -> F makes it worse. (Though there's that weird thing that HF hydrogen bonds itself so strongly that it's a weaker acid than HCl though it makes up for it in danger by being neurotoxic.)
by temp84858696945 | 2025-04-17 16:50:21+00:00
It seems really clear that the order as operations is as follows:

1. Administration makes demands of Harvard to change the way it's operating to fall in line.

2. Harvard stands up against these demands.

3. Administration is using every means possible to punish Harvard for daring taking a stand against it.

This is what dictatorships look like.
by sfn42 | 2025-04-17 16:50:22+00:00
In Norway skilled trades generally require a 2-year education and an apprenticeship. After education you start the apprenticeship for which pay starts at like $5-7.5 an hour but every 6 months it increases until you finish the 2 year apprenticeship.

This is for things like process workers in Petro/chemical plants, mechanics for assembly or machining, painters, construction workers, plumbers, electricians, all kinds of stuff. The government also subsidizes the apprentice program so it's very cheap to train young workers.

The people who choose this path generally end up pretty well off, being able to buy a house or apartment by like mid to late twenties and make even more later.
by schainks | 2025-04-17 16:50:39+00:00
Third line of the summary:

> Gases found are the same as those produced by algae on Earth

AIUI, the sensors used for this discover don't look for just _one_ gas, but as many as possible. So Oxygen is probably included in that list.

Life needs more than just oxygen gas in the atmosphere to thrive. The right combination of gasses is a better signal that life could be there versus just the presence of one gas.
by sfink | 2025-04-17 16:51:06+00:00
I also use make -j for C++ with great success. And so I am also stuck with having to declare my functions in a separate file from where they're defined, and thus when stepping through code with a debugger or just a good source viewer that can jump to callers/callees, I never see the comments because they're in the header not the source. Not to mention the problems I run into when linking with a library that was compiled with different options or a different version of the source. And bending over backwards to implement concurrent algorithms to get decent runtime performance, and debugging the inevitable bugs that follow.

Rust focuses on a different set of optimizations. I'm still working out when I prefer the Rust set or the C++ set or the Python set. I want to love Rust, but when doing exploratory work with unfamiliar APIs, the slow recompile loop and need to get everything correct for each incremental experimental build I do to try to figure out how something works is pretty painful. I don't know how much better it gets with familiarity. Rust is very nice when I fully understand the problem I'm solving and the environment I'm working in, and I vastly prefer it to C++ for that. But I frequently dive into unfamiliar codebases to make modifications.
by Night_Thastus | 2025-04-17 16:51:28+00:00
HDR is terribly implemented, in most cases. (Especially Windows)

macOS handles it about the best of the bunch.

What I hate is on Windows, you need to basically explicitly set the program, the OS, and the monitor into an "HDR mode". Then, once you're done, you need to un-set it or the colors and brightness will be screwed up.

That is tedious AF. I refuse to use it until it doesn't require constantly toggling crap on and off.
by crowcroft | 2025-04-17 16:51:30+00:00
When a media buyer puts $1.00 in on one side of the system, on average only $0.60 makes it to the publisher. In some cases less than $0.50 gets to them.

Advertising is an intentionally complex system so that companies can clip the ticket at multiple stages throughout the process. Google should be broken up, but the whole ad tech system needs to go into the bin if these problems are going to ever get fixed.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/augustinefou/2021/02/15/how-muc...
by godelski | 2025-04-17 16:51:31+00:00
You're misunderstanding the problem.

We were talking DNS blockers. The context matters. I already use ublock but I can't do ublock on my pihole. I can't do it on an iPhone (I can use orion browser but YouTube quality is low). I can't do it on my TV. I can't do it on my friends computer that visits my house. And so on. I appreciate you trying to help but you're misunderstanding the problem and honestly I don't know how someone could be on HN and not know about ublock.
by throwaway17_17 | 2025-04-17 16:51:35+00:00
From the footnotes:

> In bare-metal embedded systems or inside the operating system, it’s not unusual to manually break computation into state machines, driven by interrupts.

Although not the topic of TFA, in fact, the footnotes that this is "a whole different ball game." Does anyone have any good source for this aspect of 'low-level'/OS development? I'm more than capable of chasing down sources from a more high level introduction or overview, so anything would be helpful. This concept seems like it may just be a more pragmatic description of embedded/OS development than what I've read previously.
by niwtsol | 2025-04-17 16:51:53+00:00
Here is a list of approved programs for JWST - https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/science-execution/approved-progra...

You can filter by cycle & purpose - I think you want GO 4 then look at Exoplanet Atmospheres and Habitability?

Related, but here is the Spectra of K2-18 image - https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2023/139/01H...
by eddyg | 2025-04-17 16:52:01+00:00
What are the real-world benefits over Colima?⁽¹⁾ (Besides having a GUI, which I can do without.)

I'm interested in an up-to-date comparison when running the VM with Rosetta 2:

colima start --vm-type=vz --vz-rosetta

⁽¹⁾ https://github.com/abiosoft/colima

Edit to add: While researching OrbStack, I found this comment in a post from 7 months ago that mirrors a lot about my experience with Colima: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41424044
by shkkmo | 2025-04-17 16:52:26+00:00
> There's serious nerd sniping potential in asking how best to construct an automatic bidder, especially with the speed and scale requirements in place. It's an incredibly deep problem, and I don't believe there is a single right answer.

The problem is that it is unwise to trust an bidding algorithm designer whose incentives are aligned against yours. Google benefits from higher winning bids.
by e40 | 2025-04-17 16:52:35+00:00
The Stelo. 2 for $99. Oddly, it shipped from Amazon but Amazon doesn't sell them.

The app is subpar on iOS, but if you give Apple's Health app permission, you can get more data in there. Graphs that have absolute numbers. I think they reason their app doesn't give absolute values (for historical values, they give the current value only), is because it's not a calibrated device. It can't be used to control an insulin pump, for that reason.
by deafpolygon | 2025-04-17 16:52:41+00:00
> a mobile game that will suck in more people for longer that costs most players $0.00

You realize that most mobile gaming operate on the same aspects of exploiting addiction, manipulating young people, and so on, who don't understand the value of money or have a distorted perception of how much things cost.

Somewhere between 1% to 5% of all the players that play the game are addicted or hooked into addiction through the use of dark patterns, behavioral manipulation or intentionally misleading game mechanics. They account for a "whale's" portion of the revenue.

They shouldn't be allowed, honestly.
by kybernetikos | 2025-04-17 16:52:45+00:00
I'm really struggling to match your definitions of weak and strong here to anything like normal usage.

I think you're saying that it's strong to be employed? I'm not really sure how that matches up to being against the things you mention in connection with "weak".

Incidentally, I don't know if you intended this, but building roads and sewers and policing are, in most countries, socially funded programs.
by ay | 2025-04-17 16:53:51+00:00
I have just went through this with a project of mine, though unfortunately the code wasn’t autogenerated, so I needed to do a lot of mind-numbingly boring search-and-replace commands. I have cobbled together a little utility that allowed to automate the process somewhat.

Mostly a throwaway code with a heavy input from Claude, so the docs are in the code itself :-)

But in case anyone can find it useful:

https://github.com/ayourtch/tweak-code
by LinuxBender | 2025-04-17 16:53:56+00:00
I appreciate you offering the advice but I know from experience I will just get blank stares and overly confident statements when I am doing something outside of the lines that GP's must color within. Throughout the years I have had mostly good results after I have completed enough of my own research with the occasional small mishaps that I also learned from and in some cases even led me down new rabbit holes. I have kept my margin of error small enough over the decades that I have not ended up in a medical facility. I would encourage GP's to not give up on learning new things even if they can mostly apply them in their personal lives and rarely in a professional setting.

Something must give sooner than later as the USA is spending far too much money to get piss poor results. This system will eventually implode on itself and people will be forced to take a similar path I have taken. I am not saying this to be mean to the medical industry but rather to encourage them to evolve and break the dogmas and financial conflicts that are holding them back even if it means spending some money to reform the legal system.
by schainks | 2025-04-17 16:53:56+00:00
Say more? Is trifluoroacetic acid useful for other things? Also does it come out as liquid or gas in these reactions?

I don't know much about organic chemistry but this approach seems like it produces byproducts of "value", as in commercial value. Even if they are dangerous like traditional byproducts, it seems like they can be used for other things instead of just a waste product sitting around?
by bilekas | 2025-04-17 16:53:58+00:00
Breaking those parts away from google absolutely wouldn’t destroy them, over the years I’ve been so surprised from googlers at most levels explaining how much money they make from all their different services. While advertising is absolutely a big one, it’s by no means the only one, and if i understand the situation correctly, the more advertising options that are actually viable for companies will not even kill their advertising business. But big business real doesn’t like competition.