MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by khqc | 2025-04-19 13:08:04+00:00
Great concept! However like many zettelkasten implementations it gives the user too much freedom imo. To me zettelkasten are most useful because of their limitations, like restricting the size of each note, limiting how many notes you can see at a time, or limiting how fast you can traverse through notes. I think it's more important to be able to hold the overall structure of notes in your mind, which zettelkasten facilitates by intentionally making everything harder to do.
by TylerLives | 2025-04-19 13:09:00+00:00
This is why all the smart Russians are leaving Russia to go study at the Chinese Harvard. This is why they're all getting their news from the Chinese internet and why they're dependent on the Chinese military for protection and can't domestically produce weapons. If they refuse a request, China will bomb their gas pipelines or finance a revolution. Oh wait, I was thinking of a different empire.
by MattPalmer1086 | 2025-04-19 13:11:01+00:00
Not really.

Restart - simple with known and predictable effects, data no longer accessible, all secrets flushed no matter where they were or cached.

Turn off disk encryption, suspend all running services, overwrite all secrets in the O/S wherever they are, and then restore all that on entering password. Probably can't do anything about secrets cached by actual apps. Complex, hard to maintain and probably buggy.
by kamranjon | 2025-04-19 13:11:11+00:00
A friend and I were talking about a somewhat related idea.

We were wondering if we could encode the STL for a 3d print entirely into a QR code and then put that on the actual printed object - so that any piece you made could be replicated by just scanning the object and printing again.

When looking into it I thought it just was too much data, even looked into multi-colored QR codes. But I didn’t realize you could just make a bigger QR code…
by bob1029 | 2025-04-19 13:11:14+00:00
> S3 or glacier

This is the same product.

> 20TB

I think we might be pushing the 1% case here.

Just because we can shove 20TB of data into a cute little nas does not mean we should.

For me, knowledge that the data will definitely be there is way more important than having "free" access to a large pool of bytes.
by paulcole | 2025-04-19 13:11:28+00:00
> Freelancers are OpEx, FTEs are CapEx

I don’t think this is true unless simply make up your own definition of CapEx.

“Examples of OpEx include employee salaries, rent, utilities, and property taxes.”

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/112814/whats-differ...

(Yes there are some times when you may be able to capitalize some labor, but that would apply to freelancers as well and is very much the exception, not the rule)
by breckenedge | 2025-04-19 13:12:12+00:00
The is the paper the article is written about: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/Era-of-Experie...

Seems mostly to posit that AI will quickly improve once it’s unleashed on an environment that lets it judge its own reinforcement learning feedback, versus mostly text-based human responses up to this point.

My opinion is that there are probably a few companies capable of building this, but jury is still out on succeeding meaningfully, and I doubt it will keep using LLMs. Half the time I find Cursor agents work themselves into error loops, but I realize this is a consumer product likely loosing money, versus a research project sponsored by companies with massive capital.
by rdtsc | 2025-04-19 13:12:39+00:00
> In some cases, criminal records appear to be a factor. Other instances have reportedly included minor legal infractions like driving over the speed limit. But "a lot" of those targeted have been involved in pro-Palestinian protests, Secretary of State Marco Rubio himself has said.

Have there been any successful legal challenges and wins on this front?

I find a lot are surprised by the rules around student visas. These were always “walking on shells” type visas. The port of entry officers can cancel it based on a vague hunch. It can be cancelled from breaking university rules. It may not seem fair but it’s always been like that.

A 1st amendment appeal is worth trying as defense strategy for protesters but the response to it is usually that the students are not sent to prison, they are merely “sent home”.

This is also a golden moment for EU and other countries to say “come here instead” and make that process as smooth as possible.
by mrob | 2025-04-19 13:13:11+00:00
Anybody who's taken psychedelic drugs has likely seen this color already. Overlapping sensitivity of the cone cells doesn't matter when the image is generated without light. Psychedelic visuals are full of impossibly saturated colors.

You can also approximate this effect by tiring out some of the cone cells by staring at a bright area of saturated color, then looking at a different color. See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_color#Chimerical_co...
by EasyMark | 2025-04-19 13:13:42+00:00
From a regime that has a long history of lies, misdirection, and attempts to repress our basic freedoms as a nation and a people. This is why I write my Congress critters at least a month complaining. I know one letter only pushes the needle a tiny bit, but after a lot we'll eventually get them to realize that Congress is the real power and not the dime store dictator in the White House.
by seventhtiger | 2025-04-19 13:14:24+00:00
I've thought about this a lot as a game designer.

My first answer is that one of the most amazing mechanics ever designed is health points, I believe invented by Dungeons and Dragons. Almost every non-health win condition feels more arbitrary than health. Whether it's shooting balls in hoops, crossing a finish line first, or collecting victory points they are all less intuitive and feel more contrived than "you have this many points, at 0 you die."

The second is that many game designs are essentially about conflict, whether with other players or game agents. The ultimate conflict is life or death violence, aka combat. So it's a quicky and easy way to raise the metaphorical stakes. If you take an olympic fencing game and instead make them use real swords and no armor then it's a lot more dramatic with no change in the game mechanics.

Making non-violent games is not undesirable, it's just harder to do well when combat fits so naturally. You end with non-violent games being worse on average, non-dramatic low stakes metaphors and contrived win conditions.
by rk06 | 2025-04-19 13:15:14+00:00
I have used windows since 20 years. I distinctly recall it becoming slower and painful over time despite using more powerful hardware.

But hey that could be nostalgia, right? We can't run win xp in today's world. Not is it recommend with lots of software ot being supported on win xp.

The same is case for Android. Android 4 has decent performance, then android 5 came and single handedly reduced performance and battery life. And again you can't go back due to newer apps no longer supporting old android version.

This is also seen with apple where newer os version is painful on older devices.

So, on what basis do you fairly say that "modern apps are slow"? That's why I say to use faster software as reference. I have linux and windows dual boot on same machine. An dthen difference in performance is night and day
by lordnacho | 2025-04-19 13:16:31+00:00
My first year at uni:

Me: "How about that James guy, huh? He's obviously fought his way past disability, what a great guy, an example to all of us."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, he's a professor at Oxford, that's quite some achievement"

"So what?"

"Well, I mean, you know, he's gotten past his handicap. You can kinda hear it on him, right?"

"He's Brummie..."

"Is that like a palsy or something?"

"No, there's nothing wrong with him, he just comes from a certain area near Birmingham"

"Ah. I'm gonna go find a rock to hide under."

A few years later, around when I got married:

"Hey Nacho, where are your in-laws from? Your mom and I tried to talk to them"

"They're from Scotland"

"What language do they speak?"

"English"

"What, really? I tried to talk to your father-in-law, I couldn't understand anything!"

"..."
by m4rtink | 2025-04-19 13:17:28+00:00
That started showing up maybe ~5 years ago ?

Googling a bit I found this article about the first series produced parcial trolley busses (eq. battery equiped) being delivered in 2018: https://www.bmhd.cz/aktuality/aktualita.php?1481

Since then it certainly expanded a lot & there are now regular lines that have the trolleybus go part of the line under its own power, like the recently introduced line to Soběšice: https://brnensky.denik.cz/zpravy_region/brno-mhd-prvni-linka...

Thanks to this you can go watch them stow/deploy their collectors at the Královo Pole nádraží stop at about any time during the day. :)
by EasyMark | 2025-04-19 13:18:12+00:00
We need to pass a law that makes it obvious that ANY executive order that clashes with a law that has been passed disagree, that the law wins. I know that's already the case, but it looks like it needs to be made a law so that it can go in front of SCOTUS. If a president has an issue with a law, he can always use his influence to see that a new law is passed or that it gets challenged in court; he can't simply issue an Executive order to override it.

I've also been imploring my friends to go vote, make sure their ID is in order because the current regime is going to do everything in their power to make sure than anyone under 65 has a tough time voting
by DavidPiper | 2025-04-19 13:18:25+00:00
Hmm I think I see what you mean - and that's fair.

I guess I'm a bit too conservative to trust I'd get out soon enough (in financial investment, or work time spent) if the hype doesn't materialise. And if it does, there's always time to learn a new domain, etc.

Fancy me pushing into the Late Majority of the bell curve. Must be getting old.
by luckylion | 2025-04-19 13:19:07+00:00
Why would your neighbors worry about rain, unless they are farmers or otherwise directly impacted?

We've generally abandoned "being in touch with nature" for focusing on specific niches, and it's so incredibly more efficient that you can have large groups of people who focus on systems based on purely made up things, like sports.

If they both needed the probability of rain three days from now, who do you think would fare better, the ancients with their ancient wisdom, or your neighbors with modern sensors and meteorological models?
by romaaeterna | 2025-04-19 13:20:37+00:00
"Can you elaborate on share documents on this?"

https://archive.is/uTAaW

"I’m wondering why east asia is different in anti fungal usage."

It is a logical error to assume that it has to be substantially different. East Asia is simply the region that Candida auris originates from (ie., evolved in). It was first noticed in Tokyo and South Korea, and eventually India a few years later.

EDIT:

Actually, looks like there's some evidence that multiple evolutionarily-separate unrelated strains attained drug resistance one after another. Presumably the same antifungal agricultural product would have been in widespread use if this is the cause. If you look at the PLOS article linked in the NYT article in my link, they give an example of this for Aspergillus fumigatus strains.

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/j...
by luckylion | 2025-04-19 13:21:33+00:00
> Can you point to an engineering feat in modern times which is still functional after hundreds of years of neglect?

Why would anyone build something only to neglect it? If one of the requirements was "it shall work for 500 years and never be maintained", then I'm sure you could get plenty of things designed and built for that requirement. It's just that it's a lot more expensive and not particularly useful, so nobody bothers.
by m4rtink | 2025-04-19 13:23:13+00:00
Thats the genial thing about trolleybuses with batteries - there is alread a substantial city wide charging network, that is even distributed and enables on-the-go charging. :)

Sure, for regular battery buses without trolley collectors, indeed some new transformers might be needed. But even here, I wonder if you could make it somewhat distributed, with some charging happening at the line terminus where the drivers also often have to take a break anyway.
by karaterobot | 2025-04-19 13:25:23+00:00
> This is pretty normal in any large region that has been speaking a language continually for 1600 years.

Large! The thing that gets me is that, geographically, all of the UK would fit easily into the state of Oregon, but you'd have to be a linguist to describe even one distinctly Oregonian accent, let alone dozens. It's not surprising to me that a very old country would have so many accents, but it's surprising that they would still perpetuate into the present, after mass media, travel, and mass communication seems to have flattened or homogenized so many fine distinctions based on geographic isolation.
by pvg | 2025-04-19 13:25:31+00:00
Hang on, you've not responded to anything I've said and are just piling on the questions. You kinda have to address what this different HN would look like and how it would be different and/or better than the one now. Like, you say 'unreasonable', 'not right' and when the things you're talking about are explained, you just move on to something else. What specifically is unreasonable about 30 fp slots and users and moderators using repetition-reducing conventions? Why would it be 'not right' to have a nerd messageboard be, again, by convention, fairly light on regular news type news?

What would "glut" mean to you? [...] Why is "activation" bad? [...] clear connection to the software industry*

The first two are basic concepts of how HN works, there is endless mod commentary about them (i.e. repetition, high-dudgeonery, etc) and you're surely familiar with them after a near decade here. The last one is a common misconception but HN's remit is not 'things with a clear connection to the software industry'.

If you want a different HN, advocate for that different HN instead of having me explain the existing HN to you - you can get better explanations elsewhere, beside the fact you're already likely familiar with them.
by freefaler | 2025-04-19 13:25:31+00:00
When you have a full-time employee, from the perspective of the company you're entering into a contract where you have a fixed cost to buy fixed amount of hours per week of said employee work. To get the tasks completed efficiently is the employee manager's job (set goals, create an environment, give specs & etc...)

When you hire a contractor/freelancer you can pay for output, not time. You can specify the work, split into deliverables and tie the payment to delivered work. This might be more efficient for some types of tasks.

This is on top of all the usual big company politics, planning & budgeting reasons.
by tossandthrow | 2025-04-19 13:25:46+00:00
The hedging strategies all seem to assume that latency for an object is an independent variable.

However, I would assume dependency?

Eg. if. a node holding a copy of the object is down and traffic needs to be re-routed to a slower node. Indifferently of how many requests I send, the latency will still be high?

(I am genuinly curious of this is the case)
by EasyMark | 2025-04-19 13:26:35+00:00
They are actively attacking free speech right now with colleges, dem states are threatened if they don't follow MAGA doctrine, same with cities, Trump threatens law firms who worked against him in the past. People elected him to lower prices and have business friendly policies, not to wreck our reputation in the world and cause the next great depression. You should be looking for new news stories I think. They are constantly calling our elections as fake and full of fraud when in truth we have some of the most secure elections in the world.
by torginus | 2025-04-19 13:26:40+00:00
Honestly I concur. Out of interest in what sort of methods they came up with to manage memory, I checked out the language's wiki, and not sure if going back to 1970s C (with the defer statement on top) is an improvement. You have to write defer everywhere, and if your object outlives the scope of the function, even that is useless.

I'm sure having to remember to free resources manually has caused so much grief, that they decided to come up with RAII, so an object going out of scope (either on the stack, or its owning object getting destroyed) would clean up its resources.

Compared to a lot of low-level people, I don't hate garbage collection either, with a lot of implementations reducing to pointer bumping for allocation, which is an equivalent behavior to these super-fast temporary arenas, with the caveat that once you run out of memory, the GC cleans up and defragments your heap.

If for some reason, you manage to throw away the memory you allocated before the GC comes along, all that memory becomes junk at zero cost, with the mark-and-sweep algorithm not even having to look at it.

I'm not claiming either GC or RAII are faultless, but throwing up your hands in the air and going back to 1970s methods is not a good solution imo.

That being said, I happen to find a lot that's good about Jai as well, which I'm not going to go into detail about.
by throwaway290 | 2025-04-19 13:27:15+00:00
Look, I am just an average user. I don't agree with US far right on much, I simply said it seemed like it was suppressed on FB/IG and turns out this was correct.

But if you want to argue FINE.

I don't think this is about shunning people like me because no one cares about people like me. It is about shunning scientists and famous people.

How about mainstream US media literally never touched for years the topic that a massive pandemic that caused billions in damage possibly came from an US funded lab in China? Either all scientists were dumb and thought it was impossible, or they all as one agreed to never talk about it, OR some scientists thought it's likely and wanted to talk about it but could not publicly. Almost as if people talking about unwelcome theory were idk how could we call it... shunned?

All US gov needed to say is yes this maybe happened but we are not sure. Instead they doubled down and even published known wrong papers. This discredited science for many years.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/nih-emails-origin-...

> Unredacted records obtained by The Nation and The Intercept offer detailed insights into those confidential deliberations. The documents show that in the early days of the pandemic, Fauci and Collins took part in a series of e-mail exchanges and telephone calls in which several leading virologists expressed concern that SARS-CoV-2 looked potentially “engineered.” The participants also contemplated the possibility that laboratory activities had inadvertently led to the creation and release of the virus. The conversations convey a sense of anxious urgency and included speculation about the specific types of laboratory techniques that might have caused the virus’s emergence. After roughly a week of debate and data collection, one of the key figures involved in the deliberations characterized the focus of the group’s work as follows: “to disprove any type of lab theory.” Several of the scientists on the calls and e-mails then went on to write and publish “Proximal Origin.” It became one of the best-read papers in the history of science.
by mrob | 2025-04-19 13:27:58+00:00
Relevant paper: The biomass distribution on Earth

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1711842115

I saw a good 3D visualization of this data using a customized version of Minecraft:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXDZ2LTTKUE&t=505s
by uecker | 2025-04-19 13:28:20+00:00
As a former C++ programmer now writing C, I think this only true for templates, but it if you limited to somewhat this is also fine. For constexpr it depends what you use it for. If it something expensive to compute I would just run a program at build time (caching the output) and include the result. This seems preferable to me anyhow. The same for tests.
by commonlisper | 2025-04-19 13:28:53+00:00
Cool project but... This is an egregious misrepresentation of the actual results both from significance perspective and accuracy perspective.

A. No validation is done on server side to confirm the workers are reporting correct results.

B. Increasing the limit by less than a thousandth of a percent does not make this a "world record"! If we go by that logic, I only have to validate one more example than you and claim a world record. And then you'd do the same. And then I'd do the same and we'll be playing "world record" ping pong all day!

But "B" isn't the big problem here because we have worse problems "A"! Nobody (not even the OP) can tell if the results are accurate!

No, I'm not simply dissing at a Show HN post. There are many comments here that explain these problems much better than I could.

This is egregrious clickbait!
by mmikeff | 2025-04-19 13:30:39+00:00
I had the same conversation with a colleague who managed an engineering department, his answer was that he can take on new freelancers quickly and fire them just as quickly.

There are also patterns where freelancers are more desirable early on in an economic recovery, e.g. the company thinks it might be safe to start hiring again but is not feeling quite confident enough to take on full time staff (cost of firing etc.)
by ninetyninenine | 2025-04-19 13:30:40+00:00
You wish I didn’t read it. You said we never wished for this “level” of AI.

We did man. We did. And we couldn’t even approach 2 percent of what we wished for and everybody knew we couldn’t even approach that.

Now we have AI that approaches 70 percent of what we wished for. It’s AI smarter than a mentally retarded person. That means current AI is likely smarter than 10 percent of the population.

Then we have geniuses like you and the poster complaining about how we never wished for this. No. We wished for way less than this and got more.
by Bender | 2025-04-19 13:30:58+00:00
Not bad. If I could make a feature request it would be something like, After 3 days of being idle:

- [ ] Reboot

- [ ] Power Off

- [X] WIPE triple opt-in

Maybe there is a custom phone OS for this that makes the phone act more ephemeral and network boot off my self hosted iPXE/immich server? A dumb smart phone so to speak. An ephemeral diskless phone.
by jerf | 2025-04-19 13:32:26+00:00
The Wikipedia article also includes instructions on how to see these colors, so "never seen before" is a bit strong.

Technically, the technique they are using may give you a slightly different color than the Wikipedia pictures would lead you to. Depleting one color and then looking at the other color would still technically have the original rod firing at some fraction of its recharge rate rather than zero. But that would be the difference between RGB(252, 0, 0) and RGB(254, 0, 0) and not something like those versus RGB(10, 0, 0). It produces nearly the same color.

I'm actually surprised the article doesn't mention it. That the journalist doesn't know about this is not a huge surprise but I'd kind of expect the researchers to know that there is in fact a way to see at least flashes of these out-of-gamut colors for normal people with no special equipment. It's just a static picture that would easily fit into the article.
by WhitneyLand | 2025-04-19 13:32:35+00:00
Like people spent years of their life scientifically studying the problem and didn’t think of this before making the claim?

It was multi-wave analysis not just visible light, IR spread can differentiate this.

It’s been missing since 2015. Probability of something being large enough to cover the star and stay on a path completely obscuring it for 10 years is shall we say, not likely.

It didn’t rage against the dying of the light, it just switched off.
by juliend2 | 2025-04-19 13:33:25+00:00
What's wrong about filtering before saving, is that if you forget about one rule, you have to go back and re-filter already-saved data in the db (with some one-off script).

I think "normally" we should instead filter for XSS injections when we generate the DOM tree, or just before (such as passing backend data to the frontend, if that makes more sense).