MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hbogert | 2025-04-26 10:58:13+00:00
i am somewhere different in my search for something like this. I'd like this idea for a single command. More like a command builder.

I've started to make one for kubectl. Sure, the standard completion for kubectl is okay, but it could be so much better if not confined to the restrictions and archaic zsh-fuu to make it interesting.

For example, the default completion does not allow completion for a pod in a different namespace, unless you choose the namespace first. Why not tab complete all pods in all namespaces with a fuzzy finder? Why not allow completion for labels? Why not tab complete more complex outputs with custom columns? Etc etc.
by rglullis | 2025-04-26 10:58:17+00:00
I thought I had it (mostly) solved with fediverser: users would go to one place, sign up with OAuth to the service they wanted to leave (Reddit, Twitter...) and the system would behind the scenes create an account on any of the participating instances. In doing so, it could leverage the user existing information (subreddits subscribed, users followed on Twitter) and find the corresponding subreddits/users that are already registered.

Turns out the biggest challenge was not in getting users, but in convincing admins to join the network. Instances with open registrations are already dealing with spammer accounts, and none of them was excited about the idea of this extra vector for having unvetted users on their services.

This doesn't mean that centralized services are safe, though. I am reasonably convinced that we can have "social media" that is less focused on "platforms" and more like what we (used to) have with web: companies and institutions owning their presence by running ActivityPub "servers" on their own domain, and a hotch-potch of community/commercial servers to serve the users who want "basic access".

But to get there, we need to stop thinking that the way to get rid of Facebook/Twitter/Reddit/Instagram/YouTube is by taking their templates and tacking "but federated!", and we need to really come up with a killer app on ActivityPub (or Solid, or Linked Data, or ActivityPods) to disrupt the whole thing entirely.
by rikroots | 2025-04-26 10:58:26+00:00
I've got a demo[1] where people can play with (my interpretation of) various calculation engines, adjust variables, etc. But seeing this comment made me realise I've never heard of Verlet integration[2] before - not surprising given that I got an F in Maths (and got thrown out of Physics before I could take the exam). So ... how efficient and accurate is Verlet compared to Euler/Runge-Kutte/etc? And what other methods are out there for this sort of calculation?

[1] - https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/demo/particles-008.html

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verlet_integration
by LadyCailin | 2025-04-26 10:59:40+00:00
Everything about this entire situation is comically dumb, but shows how far the US has degraded, that this is meaningful news. If this were a fiction book, people would dismiss it as being lazy writing - an ultra conservative CEO of a pillow company spreads voting conspiracies leading to a lawsuit in which they hire lawyers that risk losing the case because they relied on AI.
by aloha2436 | 2025-04-26 11:00:11+00:00
"I don't like any of the rat-bastards." "I don't care." "I think it's funnier to draw a dick. (And I don't care.)" "I trust other people to make the right choice." "I refuse to participate in this bourgeois sham election." ...are all reasons I've heard, even if I don't actually understand any of them.
by cesarb | 2025-04-26 11:00:20+00:00
> JS and Python wouldn't be what they are today if you had to `./configure` every website you want to visit, lmao.

You just gave me a flashback to the IE6 days. Yes, that's precisely what we did. On every page load.

It's called "feature detection", and was the recommended way of doing things (the bad alternative was user agent sniffing, in which you read the user agent string to guess the browser, and then assumed that browser X always had feature Y; the worst alternative was to simply require browser X).
by jerryliuoft | 2025-04-26 11:01:18+00:00
2 reasons!

Most important reason is to link membership.

Second is to prevent abuse for some of my features. Think of it like my poor mans recaptcha.

I can see why you were confused. Local in this case really meant there’s no uploading of videos. Render, editing, processing all done on your computer. Which also meant that speed of the app could vary depending on if you use it on your Apple Watch vs gaming pc. Hope that helps!
by nialse | 2025-04-26 11:01:29+00:00
The licensing is "interesting". Using a standard and well understood license would be helpful. Reading the license Moby Collaboration, Inc. reserves the unchecked, unilateral right to revoke the permission “at any time for any reason or no reason.” - this is unlikely to hold up in court and is a signal for anyone to not touch the content with a ten-foot pole. It makes me think that Moby forgot to check the license with a lawyer, and maybe with reality, first.
by watwut | 2025-04-26 11:02:06+00:00
The end goal was world domination, as in owning whole world. So, they would eventually come to Madagascar too.

Majority of Jews killed in Hocaust were not Germans. They were from conquered countries.

So, while there was some Madagascar plans floating and while they tried to deport as many German Jews (majority of who were atheists, considered themselves Germans etc) in first stages, they were aware there is going to be showdown later on anyway.
by rollcat | 2025-04-26 11:03:39+00:00
Email has solved federation / decentralisation long before WWW.

Nobody is confused when you hand them a user@gmail.com, user@hotmail.com, etc; I use my own user@whatever.com and sometimes get a blank stare, until people realise you can go to www.gmail.com to check your own inbox, and you can totally just type www.whatever.com into your browser.

Links like reddit.com/u/user, youtube.com/@user, already exist and are de facto a standard of some kind. If we stop trying to make @user@whatever.com a thing, the only obstacle is in convincing people that whatever.com/user is just another link you can click, and this is totally how they can reach you - send you a message.

Federation between servers is an entirely different topic, but for the purpose of this discussion we can assume it's just an implementation detail - just like SMTP is for GMail users.

I'm probably making this sound more trivial than it actually is, but IMO all you have to do is build up on existing paradigms and collective understanding.
by roenxi | 2025-04-26 11:04:25+00:00
> The BBC isn’t propaganda. It has its biases for sure, but it doesn’t exist for the purpose of spreading a particular viewpoint.

If it isn't pushing a British viewpoint, wouldn't it be incumbent on the British government to shut it down? Why would they be funding something that was pushing viewpoints that undermined Britain? This is simple incentive analysis stuff, this organisation isn't being funded for billions of dollars because the Brits happen to just be uniquely dedicated to the cause of the truth even if it hurts their interests. They're British! They're one step removed from the people who invented espionage, there is a long history of information warfare here.

RT & the BBC are both state backed media organisations. It is quite difficult to come up with a reason for those except propaganda. The US has been running this experiment for centuries now, it has been well established that the government-sponsored perspective isn't any more legitimate than anyone else's.
by praptak | 2025-04-26 11:04:53+00:00
Energy preservation doesn't work by default in physics simulations unless you specifically code for it (e.g. by periodic explicit adjustment).

It's not only the rounding error, it's also quantisation of time and other minor errors coming from the mathematical model itself.

If the error is on the damping side, you get the real life effect of motion eventually stopping due to energy dissipation. If it's on the acceleration side you get a runaway simulation.
by Traubenfuchs | 2025-04-26 11:06:04+00:00
> which did eventually give me pain in the breast tissues (so I ceased using it)

You already decided to take one hormonal disruptor, so why not go all the way? Find a private andrologist that prescribes you fin/dut + an aromatase inhibitor. Daily tadalafil also acts as aromatase inhibitor by the way. Should be enough to offset the estrogen increase from finasteride. It's worth a try.

I personally don't really believe in topical min/fin/dut: You are probably just getting the same effects and side effects you'd get from a lower oral dose.

The studies on topical finasteride support this. You just believe it's not in your blood and thus there is no nocebo effect to give you ED but it very much is.
by jdietrich | 2025-04-26 11:06:23+00:00
>What has actually changed?

The value of grants paid from central government to local government have fallen by over 80%. In 2005, the poorest local authorities received most of their funding from central government; today, they're dependent on council tax and business rates for the vast majority of their income. During that time, demand for social care has vastly increased, disproportionately so in the poorest local authorities, eating away at the already shrinking resources of local authorities.

The result of those cuts have been drastic for people living in poorer communities, particularly the poorest members of those communities. They quite justifiably feel abandoned by society. Youth clubs and children's centres, social work, homelessness provision, subsidised bus routes, parks and libraries have all been cut to the bone. None of that is captured in the Gini coefficient, but it's felt acutely by the people who rely on those services.

The wealthy are largely unaffected by this, because they live in local authorities that were never particularly reliant on central government funding and because they never really relied on council services anyway. For the very poorest, the impact of austerity is often dominated by one big failure of provision - being stuck in unsuitable temporary accommodation for months or years because there's no social housing available, being denied support for a disabled child etc. For the majority, it's just a slow but pervasive erosion of their quality of life - their kids have nowhere to go after school, their street is full of potholes, the bus they take into town has been cut from four an hour to one an hour, their back alley is full of rubbish because the council can't afford to deal with fly-tipping.

https://neweconomics.org/uploads/files/NEF_Local_Government_...

https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cbrwp51...
by freddie_mercury | 2025-04-26 11:06:39+00:00
Weird that you pull the one quote but ignore the rest of that paragraph which is about how being the leading cause of infertility is exactly the kind of thing evolution normally fixes.

"It’s odd for there to be such an easily-removable design flaw in the human body; evolution tends to remove them. Since it strikes at advanced ages, BPH doesn’t make a big impact on a man’s ability to pass on his genes. But being the leading cause of male infertility sure does. Their explanation is that evolution hasn’t had much time to work on the problem; in animals the spermatic vein is horizontal, and doesn’t have or need one-way valves. It’s our standing upright that yields the problem; in evolutionary terms that’s a recent development."
by motorest | 2025-04-26 11:07:13+00:00
> He has two degrees. BA in Physics and BSc in Economics

You should verify your claims

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/musk-physics-degree/

From the article:

> Musk's past statements about his educational background, however, have been, at best, imprecise. He has claimed on several occasions to have received a physics degree in 1995 — a claim that was never fully true but which may have aided Musk's early business career.
by aaronmdjones | 2025-04-26 11:07:48+00:00
#if __has_attribute(cold)

You should use double underscores on attribute names to avoid conflicts with macros (user-defined macros beginning with double underscores are forbidden, as identifiers beginning with double underscores are reserved).

#if __has_attribute(__cold__) # warning "This works too" #endif static void __attribute__((__cold__)) foo(void) { // This works too }
by sokoloff | 2025-04-26 11:08:34+00:00
> Kids [whose] parents who are well off but wouldn’t pay for college is an entire cohort who are functionally locked out of the housing market.

That can’t be a particularly large set. Parents well off is already a small minority case and only a minority of that small minority won’t give support to their kids.

For people in that tiny sliver, I’m sure it feels bad but it doesn’t seem like a solution that works for other “starting from zero” young adults would need changes to also work for this set.
by Traubenfuchs | 2025-04-26 11:09:21+00:00
Daily use of cyalis (tadalafil) is officially marketed.

https://www.hims.com/blog/daily-cialis-costs-benefits

https://investor.lilly.com/news-releases/news-release-detail...

It's superior to taking it on an as-needed basis because it has positive long term effects on your cardiovascular and penile tissue.
by austhrow743 | 2025-04-26 11:10:13+00:00
I've never had a complaint about anything I put in to a form requesting a quote for insurance. I just get the quote back. Did you write that in the comment expecting an insurance salesperson to call you up and argue passwords with you? Call their back office and say "hey this guy says our password question is crap, get our best guys on it!"?

I just cant imagine any outcome other than it was translated to just a "no" and increased your premium over what it would have otherwise been.
by bko | 2025-04-26 11:10:18+00:00
I think it argues the opposite.

The school was likely a failure. I couldn't find any stats on success of children but I find that telling as if it was lifting kids out of poverty effectively it would have been advertised. Its probably just not effective and the money could be better spent elsewhere.

Were this a public project it would have persisted indefinitely and have a lobbying constituency to keep setting money on fire.

We want more failed experiments. If committing to a venture where there is no off ramp if it doesn't work, no one will invest
by morkalork | 2025-04-26 11:11:04+00:00
When you take a step back and look at what is happening as a whole, it's definitely not looking good.

I was going to start listing examples but that's not the point now. And even if something specific is undone weeks after because of outcry it's still a steady two steps forward, one step back, progression in a nasty direction.

I've read some books, seen some documentaries, learned some history. What's happening is very obvious and anyone who doesn't also see it is either ignorant or in denial.
by HenryBemis | 2025-04-26 11:13:08+00:00
A "NOBUS" weapon. Any system (country/gov/para-...) needs the right 'tools' for people-manipulation and people-programming. And such weapons should not be allowed to be used against 'us'. Kinda like devices that must accept (and malfunction) but not cause interference.

So, for a "let people speak their mind - don't control information" the Trump side quickly goes to universities must teach only what 'WE' want, Wikipedia must mention only what 'WE' like. Hilarious if not pathetic and dangerous (very-very 1984-ish...)

Side-note: it has since amused me but apparently it's not often told/at all.. the absolute propaganda tool for Russia/Soviet was "Pravda" (the "Truth"). Imagine my amusement when Trump created "Truth Social". You can't make that shit up....

Now, as I've said before, I live in the EU and don't vote in the US, so you folks decide, and then we all get to 'share' the experience (since I do have some/plenty of SP500 and similar instruments).
by cogman10 | 2025-04-26 11:15:18+00:00
Interesting study. Myopia can definitely be caused by focusing too much on nearby things.

I just so happen to have Hyperopia with astigmatism, neither of which came from a lack of outdoor exposure. (If anything, I needed less time outside).

That's a bit of the issue I have with such a broad generalization. It's true that for some, a lack of time outdoors damaged their eyesight, it's not universally true that all or perhaps even most poor eyesight is a result of staying indoors.
by Riverheart | 2025-04-26 11:15:36+00:00
A systematic effort to dismantle the federal government bypassing the legislature entirely, replacing federal employees with people who pledge loyalty to the president over the constitution, firing anybody who would hold him accountable, undermining the separation of powers in favor of an all powerful executive who treats executive orders as law, attacking media outlets and judges they disagree with and threatening to either remove their access to the White House press room or revoke their license or fire them, deporting people without due process, threatening to invade Greenland, threatening to withhold congressionally approved funding as a cudgel, and invoking the friggin Alien Enemies Act of 1798 in a time of peace is not “pushing back a little”.

But if you haven’t realized that yet it’s obvious you never will till it’s too late and sure, maybe that’s harsh to say but as trump himself said “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters” because that’s precisely how much y’all care what he does. Gimme your downvotes but don’t pretend you’re standing on moral high ground, you’d justify anything he does.

The whole anti-DEI sweep across the government where people who don’t remove “let’s treat people nice” posters risk getting fired and attacking people using the office of the president is so obviously deplatforming and censorship that your criticism of democrats is laughable. When’s the last time Biden threatened to revoke Fox News license? Republicans even a tiny bit critical of Trump get exiled for daring to step out of line. You don’t hate censorship and deplatforming, you love it, can’t get enough of it, you just hate it when it happens to people you like.
by 20after4 | 2025-04-26 11:17:21+00:00
It's pretty straightforward but nothing on Wikipedia is really black-and-white. Most decisions are made through a consensus process. It's really quite different from what most people are used to.

A good place to start for information about how user blocking is done would be the following links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guideli... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Blocking_policy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppetry

In this case I think that a sock puppet account can be trivially blocked without much process as long as it can be proved that it is operated by someone who is already blocked for some violation. The sock puppet is an attempt at evading the block that was placed on that user's other account.
by foldr | 2025-04-26 11:17:42+00:00
Every news organisation reports its own point of view and could potentially be shut down by whoever controls the purse strings. Your logic will lead you to the conclusion that all news is propaganda. That might be technically true in some very broad sense, but it tends to lead to absurd comparisons like your comparison between the BBC and RT.

Incidentally, various British governments have tried quite hard to shut down (or at least neuter) the BBC and failed. You're failing to take into account the fact that the BBC is a popular institution and that there would be domestic political consequences for a government that attacked it too strongly. If you think that your average British government minister goes around thinking "thank goodness for the BBC's news coverage!" then you may be a little out of touch with British politics.
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2025-04-26 11:19:07+00:00
>> a prolog wizard crossing the path is an exceedingly rare and brilliant event, im compelled to make a wish upon this shooting star :3

Well, hello fellow traveler :)

>> but the moment NAF and resolution as a concept clicks, it's like you brushed up against the third rail of the universe.

I know, it's mind blowing. Maybe one day there will be a resurgence.
by tkgally | 2025-04-26 11:20:28+00:00
I teach at a university in Japan, and, for the past two and a half years, I have been struggling with the implications of AI for university education. I found this essay interesting and helpful.

One remark:

> I fed the entire nine-hundred-page PDF [of the readings for a lecture course titled “Attention and Modernity: Mind, Media, and the Senses”] to Google’s free A.I. tool, NotebookLM, just to see what it would make of a decade’s worth of recondite research. Then I asked it to produce a podcast. ... Yes, parts of their conversation were a bit, shall we say, middlebrow. Yes, they fell back on some pedestrian formulations (along the lines of “Gee, history really shows us how things have changed”). But they also dug into a fiendishly difficult essay by an analytic philosopher of mind—an exploration of “attentionalism” by the fifth-century South Asian thinker Buddhaghosa—and handled it surprisingly well, even pausing to acknowledge the tricky pronunciation of certain terms in Pali. As I rinsed a pot, I thought, A-minus.

The essay is worth reading in its entirety, but, in the interest of meta-ness, I had NotebookLM produce a podcast about it:

https://www.gally.net/temp/20250425notebooklm/index.html
by authorfly | 2025-04-26 11:20:43+00:00
So that adaptive system sounds really cool and useful for those bursts of formative assessment. And if the baseline is 100% boring textbook reading, ofcourse that is better. But if they work 9-5 every day, why don't schools do that at the moment do you think?

I don't mean to be negative, but can you name a research paper where a normal students 7 hour school day was changed to formative assessment all week long for a semester or more, and the grades improved? Or identify why students on Duolingo don't tend to learn as well as those taking in person classes? Why does the effect of the Testing Effect/formative assessment tail off when it is used more and over greater time periods?

The point is, the research on learning methods usually researches them in isolation and in 5-15-60 minute study sessions. Maybe doing 15 minutes of formative assessment improves your grades, but puts you off doing other work or makes you less effective in later lessons, when done regularly. There is a lack of useful longitudinal research in Education for the depressing reason that the two main effects are your genetic background, and private teacher attention.

I don't think kids are not motivated about math because they are bad at it. It doesn't seem like a subject that most kids see themselves using every day, because the adults they see around them don't seem to (and in fact largely don't) use Maths. While I value and enjoy Maths, and know how knowing maths makes a massive difference to your experience or life, kids can't, and really won't have good reasons to understand or be motivated through that. e.g. it's not a fear of negativity (though in class under pressure it is). It's an absence of motivation in the first place.
by rainworld | 2025-04-26 11:21:39+00:00
Yeah, it wasn’t the mass murdering of civilians with full material (several Hiroshimas worth of conventional explosives, free of charge) and poltical support of the ruling Democratic party that divided voters. Wasn’t the senile president and his joke of a replacement. It was Russia. Via their unstoppable social media wurlitzer. If you disagree you’re part of it, ipso facto. And a bot.

>HN'ers probably don't see it

Takes a very special mind to see it.