MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bradleykingz | 2025-04-17 11:40:56+00:00
Indeed.

Maybe once day, aliens will drop by and discover what remains of humanity. And stories will be told of how, when the time came, our species decided to bury its head in the sand and hope the problem would go away. Or maybe that we attempted to create god to come rescue us.

Life imitates art. We refused to listen to the scientists.
by Yiling-J | 2025-04-17 11:41:21+00:00
I noticed there's an example in the docs: plandex rm app/**/*.ts # by glob pattern.

However, looking at the code (https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex/blob/main/app/cli/cmd/...), it seems you're using path/filepath for pattern matching, which doesn't support double star patterns. Here's a playground example showing that: https://go.dev/play/p/n8mFpJn-9iY
by jjice | 2025-04-17 11:41:41+00:00
> then the state should provide opportunities for them so that they can continue their education

I get what you mean, but saying that something _should_ be the case in response to not liking it doesn’t really make sense since that’s the reason it’s popular in the first place. States don’t do this, so that’s part of why online schooling is valuable.

I agree that online school isn’t as quality as in person (in my experience), but it gives a ton of flexibility to those who can’t commute (due to time or cost) and allows those people to possibly get an education when they otherwise couldn’t.

I wonder if there’s a formal term for this kind of argument (would love to know because I see it a lot).
by hypercube33 | 2025-04-17 11:42:40+00:00
The thing I miss and can't find a replacement for is lastfm inside of Spotify. It gave two things and did it exceptionally well:

1. Helped me take something I like or am super into at the time (band or song) and give me a playlist

2. actually suggested with a high hit rate something I didn't know about and it was available to play right now.

other streaming or stations just loop into what I already have which sucks. Side note that I'm into pretty niche non mainstream music such as Melodic Death Metal and Industrial so self hosting seems interesting but I also spend a good chunk of my time looking for more music. (Most of the bands I am really into only have sub-20k plays a month on Spotify).

I really miss Napster letting you browse people's music when you found someone who was also into things you liked - pure gold mine only second to a LAN party where you could dig through the file server.
by philipallstar | 2025-04-17 11:42:45+00:00
> mostly because they were liberal journalists

No, blue ticks were for far more groups than liberal journalists. You're right that certain progressive anti-shibboleths, like saying "masks might not work" or "trans women shouldn't be allowed in women's bathrooms" could well get you de-ckeckmarked, or outright banned, but pretty much everyone on there as a blue checkmark was toeing that line, or quickly recanting if they strayed.

I think he wanted to de-emphasise celebrity and also raise some cash.
by jccalhoun | 2025-04-17 11:42:45+00:00
I'm a prof at a community college and I encountered this last semester. I was teaching an online class of 30 and 3-4 were definitely "fake" students. A college had about half her students turn out to be "fake."

Students had to do discussion board posts and these students responses all had html formatting as if they were indented replies from an email chain. The clincher was one of them posted in the introduction message board, "Hello, I am a student in [insert city] and I'm studying..."

We had been warned that these "students" were coming because we are part of a system of schools and the schools earlier in the alphabet had encountered it in the semesters before us. So the school had contracted with some id verification system and those students got kicked out pretty quickly.
by dash2 | 2025-04-17 11:43:50+00:00
> It is just crazy how easy it is to set this stuff up nowadays. I run both Navidrome and Jellyfin in docker containers….

Wow, I’ll get grandma to do it! Ha ha, just kidding, but I’ll try it myself. Ha ha, just kidding.

Honestly, I just want to scream “self-hosting isn’t going to happen, stop trying to make it happen.” I absolutely welcome the hobbyists doing this fun stuff in their free time, but the idea that they will ever win over ordinary users is total fantasy. And it’s accompanied by reality-denying stuff like how “you don’t need” feature X or Y. Sure, I long to go back to organising my own mp3 files like it’s 2002. And because you’re angry about corporate power, Spotify or whoever definitely provide no features of value to anyone! This is all pure mood affiliation.

Sorry. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad your setup works for you. But I think you are not using the word “easy” in the same way as most people.
by Zigurd | 2025-04-17 11:44:25+00:00
1. I don't wonder, we've seen it before...

2. They originally didn't think, It was one guy's diktat...

3. It will roll out as gracefully as Cybertruck.

Elon is that idiosyncratic founder we've all met who careens between extravagance and cheapness because he can't stand looking at financial numbers and project plans.
by OZYMANDIASAK | 2025-04-17 11:44:31+00:00
At what point can we say that the US truly has fallen from being the leader of the world?

Each and every decision taken by the current administration is bringing the US closer to an age of darkness and idiocy.

I’m from Europe, I’m not saying the US was ever perfect but I don’t understand how it came to this.

My bet is a on a combination of extreme individualism due to a poor internalisation of the ideals of liberalism combined with a predatory capitalistic environment.

It’s sad to see what happens to a society that has the highest concentration of the brightest minds in world mostly working towards money related goals. So many great people that could work for the greater good and are dutifully tuning algorithms for the 0.01% capturing everyone’s attention and ideas.

Sad state of the world but I guess you can’t stop “progress”.
by dmurray | 2025-04-17 11:45:45+00:00
The problem is that there are just so many planets. Sure, another planet could be 500My slower, but with a billion planets, some of them should be 500My faster instead.

It's possible we are absolutely one-in-a-billion uniquely lucky - after all, someone has to be the first and the luckiest. But every year we find indications that our planet is completely typical.
by belter | 2025-04-17 11:46:07+00:00
Next is to make sure every Top 500 company has a MAGA approved member on the board, or you will be barred from selling to the US government.

Chris Krebs, director of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency was forced to resign from SentinelOne Inc - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-17/ex-cyber-...
by sceptic123 | 2025-04-17 11:46:08+00:00
You're using the same words again. It looks like reasoning, but it's a simulation.

The LLM merchants are driving it though, by using pre-existing words for things that are not what they are saying they are.

It's amazing what they can do, but an LLM cannot know if what it outputs is true or correct, just statistically likely.
by talideon | 2025-04-17 11:46:26+00:00
Much as I like the idea of DANE, it solves nothing by itself and you need to sign the zone from tampering. Right now, the dominant way to do that is DNSSEC, though DNSCurve is a possible alternative, even if it doesn't solve the exact same problem. For DANE to be useful, you'd first need to get that set up on the domain in question, and the effort to get that working is far, far from trivial, and even then, the process is so error prone and brittle that you can easily end up making a whole zone unusable.

Further, all you've done is replace one authority (the CA authority) with another one (the zone authority, and thus your domain registrar and the domain registry).
by artdigital | 2025-04-17 11:46:27+00:00
No, Amazon Q is using Amazon Q. You can't change the model, it's calling itself "Q" and it's capped to $20 (Q Developer Pro plan). There is also a free tier available - https://aws.amazon.com/q/developer/

It's very much a "Claude Code" in the sense that you have a "q chat" command line command that can do everything from changing files, running shell commands, reading and researching, etc. So I can say "q chat" and then tell it "read this repo and create a README" or whatever else Claude Code can do. It does everything by itself in an agentic way. (I didn't want to say like 'Aider' because the entire appeal of Claude Code is that it does everything itself, like figuring out what files to read/change)

(It's calling itself Q but from my testing it's pretty clear that it's a variant of Claude hosted through AWS which makes sense considering how much money Amazon pumped into Anthropic)
by jjice | 2025-04-17 11:46:45+00:00
Anecdata incoming, but to offer an alternative view, I would really love to not use Spotify anymore since they change things constantly in ways I don’t like, but their music recommendations are fantastic for me.

Their generated playlists are great, and they do a good job recommending playlists I’d like from other users as well. And while I hate the format, their music shorts actually give me consistently good music. I just hate that it’s in the TikTok swipe style.
by GuestFAUniverse | 2025-04-17 11:47:14+00:00
You get what you pay for. Capitalism 1.0 -- just unveiled being like it ever was. That's what happens when a (pseudo-) democracy never gets fixed, because everyone in the upper class thinks to get away best _with_ all the loopholes.

A president reigning at will, no court being able to really stop the shit show and undoing former president's pardons while using pardons as a tool to side-track courts. The whole construct didn't -- and doesn't -- make sense, if you still aim for anything not being despotism.
by squeedles | 2025-04-17 11:47:21+00:00
As this article shows, there are incredibly complex feedback mechanisms around weight and metabolism, but thermodynamics are still fundamentally a thing.

After he died last year, I ran across this engineering and accounting approach to weight maintenance and loss written up by John Walker (one of the Autodesk founders). It worked very well for him and changed the way I thought about weight and eating. It is interesting reading because he is "one of us"

https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/

Basically, he uses a first level approximation of the body as a control system with a feedback loop, and tries to pin down some techniques to bring the system to a known good state (target weight) and manage that loop for long term stability.
by ozgune | 2025-04-17 11:47:38+00:00
> However, a wise man once said: “[It] ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward.” Ujiharu may have lost Oda Castle nine times, but that means he also won it back eight times, almost always with smaller armies. His refusal to accept defeat and his iron will to get up and keep fighting is why many historians reject the “weakest samurai warlord” nickname and instead refer to him as “The Phoenix.”

Love this paragraph from the article.
by formerly_proven | 2025-04-17 11:47:49+00:00
Weight / obesity management is basically managing a chronic condition, that's why time-limited interventions (workout camps, fasting, dieting, drug injections for a few months) don't work - you have to continuously manage the issue. The idea that you have an issue (obesity) and then make an intervention (loose weight) and therefore the issue is resolved (you are no longer obese) is just wrong. It needs to be managed from either the demand side (regular GLP-1 agonist injections to suppress hunger) or the supply side (eating less / better food). Hence: Dieting = never works. Building sustainable habits or continuous administering of GLP-1 = always works.

(Or you're one of the 5% or so of people with a rare gene variation that basically prevents major fat build-up in the body and there's just nothing to manage for you about that — this would've been a pretty disadvantageous adaption in the past, but it's fair to say that the other 95% are maladpated to the last couple thousand years of human life).
by chmorgan_ | 2025-04-17 11:48:10+00:00
If you'd read my comment more carefully you'll notice that I'm asking for exactly that, and from Krebs himself.

My point (again) is that IF he did support the Biden laptop disinformation tract that this would be more than sufficient cause for being removed from his national security related position AND that this one of the reasons listed by the present administration, in addition to suppression of Covid-19 information and others.
by 9Ljdg6p8ZSzejt | 2025-04-17 11:48:13+00:00
This was DigiNotar. The breach generated around 50 certificates, including certificates for Google, Microsoft, MI6, the CIA, TOR, Mossad, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Thawte, VeriSign, and Comodo.

Here is a nice writeup for that breach: https://www.securityweek.com/hacker-had-total-control-over-d...
by pelagicAustral | 2025-04-17 11:48:16+00:00
I've always had an irrational amount of unmitigated distrust in clowns. I do not conciser them funny in any way, and this dates as far back as I can remember. I do not understand why would a grown man wearing make up, acting like a slightly more evolved baboon should be considered fun, funny how?

Most of them are incredibly untalented, and the ones that are talented don't need to dress like a clown at all.

Sometimes in life I come across people, colleagues mainly, that are one-to-one a fucking clown except they are not wearing make up, so I'm confused, are we setting the bar too high for these assholes to actually become a clown, or for a clown to become a software engineer?
by sfjailbird | 2025-04-17 11:48:19+00:00
Insulin sensitivity is a real thing. The less sensitive to insulin you are, the more of it is produced to process a given amount of glucose. And the more insulin (anabolic) is produced, the less glucagon (catabolic) is.

In other words, low insulin sensitivity means your body remains in the feeding (fat building) state more, as opposed to fasting (fat burning).

Insulin sensitivity decreases with age, and with excessive intake of particularly simple carbs. It can be improved through fasting, certain dietary supplements, and low carb diet.

All of this is, to the best of my knowledge, not disputed or 'bro science'.
by DarkmSparks | 2025-04-17 11:49:00+00:00
60 Universities, the only reason Harvard is interesting here is the revelation its administration are just another average bunch of crayon munching racist idiots.

Down vote all you want, wont make blocking students from class because they are Jewish and hiring people based on their race or sexual preferences any less moronic.

Breath of fresh air to see that idiocy burn.
by mhitza | 2025-04-17 11:52:04+00:00
My impression was that text embeddings are better suited for classification. Of course the big caveat is that the embeddings must have "internalized" the semantic concept you're trying to map.

From some article I have in my draft, experimenting with open source text embeddings:

./match venture capital purchase 0.74005488647684 sale 0.80926752301733 place 0.81188663814236 positive sentiment 0.90793311875207 negative sentiment 0.91083707598925 time 0.9108697315425 ./store sillicon valley ./match venture capital sillicon valley 0.7245139487301 purchase 0.74005488647684 sale 0.80926752301733 place 0.81188663814236 positive sentiment 0.90793311875207 negative sentiment 0.91083707598925 time 0.9108697315425

Of course you need to figure out what these black boxes understand. For example for sentiment analysis, instead of having it match against "positive" "negative" you would have the matching terms be "kawai" and "student debt". Depending how the text embedding internalized negatives and positives based on their training data.
by londons_explore | 2025-04-17 11:52:50+00:00
I suspect because current GPU hardware can't efficiently train such low bit depth models. You end up needing activations to use 8 or 16 bits in all the data paths, and don't get any more throughput per cycle on the multiplications than you would have done with FP32.

Custom silicon would solve that, but nobody wants to build custom silicon for a data format that will go out of fashion before the production run is done.
by larusso | 2025-04-17 11:54:00+00:00
My thought was why use UTM? Most of this can be achieved with qemu alone :). But it showed me something new. The cloud init tool was new to me. From my toolbox I would have used ansible or something. But I think it very interesting that this runs all automatically during first boot. But I agree one needs to read between the lines to understand what the purpose of this post is. As you said it reads like a overcomplicated install setup.
by Zanfa | 2025-04-17 11:54:28+00:00
If you just need a single Linux VM, you don't need to fiddle with cloud-init. If you want repeatability or automation, that's when you'd reach for it, whether for setting up per-project VMs, shareable VM configs between developers etc.

Also, you don't need all 4 Linux images, just the one you want to run as your guest OS. Emulation / virtualization depends on the guest OS CPU architecture.
by aswadalime | 2025-04-17 11:54:32+00:00
Awesome! I agree, recently I’ve seen a huge spike in scraping demand lately, especially from teams building AI products. Everything from training data to competitive monitoring.

LLMs are great for speeding up spider development, but maintenance is still tough with dynamic content and aggressive bot protection.

Scraping in 2025 isn’t just about data collection, it’ll be about reliability, scale, and staying compliant. Feels like we’re entering the enterprise era of scraping.
by FrustratedMonky | 2025-04-17 11:55:03+00:00
Really? With the age of a star, that is too wide a range for you to accept? To pinpoint something like this. What if I were to say, "really it's 1.3435 Billion on a Tuesday".

Of course, calling someone anti-anti-science. The new 'right'. Using science arguments against science. Yes. Your comment is typical, just spam fud. "look at this huge range, see, scientist don't know what they are doing"
by beejiu | 2025-04-17 11:55:04+00:00
As well as the "cell memory", the total number of fat cells you have in your body is set during adolescence, then it remains constant for the rest of your adult life. (https://www.nature.com/articles/ncpgasthep1189).

During adolescence, if you gain weight, you create new fat cells. During adulthood, the fat cells themselves just get larger. Arguably the best thing you can do is avoid obesity during childhood and adolescence at all costs.
by alwa | 2025-04-17 11:55:15+00:00
I have a hard time imagining this specific threat to be more than bluster. Would someone with relevant legal expertise be able to comment on how likely a ban on foreign enrollments would be to fly in the courts?

Surely the administration have a substantial degree of discretion with respect to student visas, but can they precipitate a blanket revocal on something as nakedly coercive (and speech-involved) as this?

(Edit: at a casual, non-expert glance it seems that a student can apply for a student visa at any SEVP-certified school, and the regulations governing SEVP certification seem to be at [0]. They list a lot of potential reasons to withdraw approval once it’s issued, but they all seem pretty specific: falsifying records, lying on your application, failing to keep proper records in relation to the students’ enrollment, and so on. Does it feel like maybe the mechanic here is claiming that tracking students’ speech is part of that essential record-keeping task?)

[0] https://www.ice.gov/sevis/schools/reg#2144
by olalonde | 2025-04-17 11:56:02+00:00
Here's what the "The Renaissance Diet 2.0" book recommends:

1) Don't lose more than 10% of your bodyweight in the same weight loss period.

2) Don't lose more than 1% of body weight per week.

3) At the end of a weight loss period, transition to eating at maintenance calories for a while before starting a new weight loss period.

A common mistake is to completely stop dieting when you reach your goal weight. This is a bad idea because your body has adapted to the diet (e.g. decreased energy expenditure) and it's therefore easy to regain weight rapidly. What you should do is keep tracking what you eat while increasing calories to maintenance level, to give a chance to your body to slowly decrease hunger and increase energy expenditure.
by mnky9800n | 2025-04-17 11:56:20+00:00
To be fair to W, some part of the world followed america into iraq. it wasn't like he did it all by himself. i think if these countries had not supported this war, there would have been a reckoning for the usa much sooner than trump. in much the same way that people now question, what could we have done differently with how we treated russia prior to 2014 when they started a war with ukraine, the world should ask itself how it should have responded differently to joining america in a war in iraq in 2003. but so far, i don't hear anyone having these conversations about how did the world allow america to arrive to now.
by alexisread | 2025-04-17 11:56:45+00:00
Actually, it can do a fair impression as well: Crownland has transparent parallax https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN5fSp0XGzI

You're right about the bonkers 3D! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwcN9FraNjQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KatdrdEVEwY&t=532s

I think the main thing was that Atari (pre83 company) abandoned the 8 bit line too early, and didn't make the 5200 cross-compatible.
by inglor_cz | 2025-04-17 11:57:05+00:00
Unfortunately us HNers have a lot to do with this, even though approximately none of us had this in mind when coding the relevant stuff.

This is how politics looks like when the radical fringes from social networks take over national parties and squeeze out the so-much-mocked "enlightened centrists" from their seats. Missing them yet?

The same problem in Europe is somewhat tamed by proportional voting systems, but various edgelords have invaded our politics as well. Slovakia, right next to Czechia, is a horrible political circus. AfD in Germany mostly built its electorate online etc.
by dmurray | 2025-04-17 11:57:42+00:00
The only interesting part of the model's output was

{ "current_play": "ruck", }

So the vision model can correctly identify that there's a ruck going on and that the ball is most likely in the ruck.

Why not build on this? Which team is in possession? Who was the ball carrier at the start of the ruck, and who tackled him? Who joined the ruck, and how quickly did they get there? How quickly did the attacking team get the ball back in hand, or the defending team turn over possession? What would be a good option for the outhalf if he got the ball right now?

All of these except the last would be straightforward enough for a human observer with basic rugby knowledge going through the footage frame by frame, and I bet it would be really valuable to analysts. It seems like computer vision technology is at a stage where this could be automated too.
by LinuxBender | 2025-04-17 11:58:17+00:00
I can invoke the powers of Google as well. Let's ask it how many Americans are on blood pressure drugs.

"Approximately 51.2% of Americans with hypertension (high blood pressure) are currently taking medication to lower their blood pressure."

That is not a temporary thing. Most of those people will be on drugs the rest of their unnatural lives. So when the availability of said drugs is gone, 51.2% of Americans will go into full rebound and their BP will spike for several days to weeks. Their risk of stroke and heart attack will go off the charts as any ER doctor can attest to. What should we do for those poor souls?