MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by caseyy | 2025-04-27 03:33:16+00:00
Maintaining adult relationships post-Covid is hard as a millennial. Or rather, getting friendly relationships started/restarted has gotten very awkward. But I’ve noticed that most people respond very well to my efforts.

I started texting my acquaintances and old friends at random just to ask what’s up every once a week or two. I also started calling some people instead. Almost everyone responded really well to that. When I go out to eat, I often check with a few people if they want to go if I swung by and picked them up.

This is how things used to be for me before the pandemic. But it was difficult to get back to it. What I found though is that most people are lonely but they don’t want to put much effort into building friendships. And that’s ok, I can be the one who initiates the outings and chats.

It’s okay to be the one who initiates. It seems like not everyone can, somehow the level of social anxiety has gone up in the world. In the end, I get my socialization full and so do they. So I’d recommend to whoever feels a bit lonely — reach out to your past friends and current acquaintances.

The only issue with always being the initiator is that no reciprocation is a bit of an… issue to our social brains. Validation, trust, confidence, and friendship itself forms better when there is reciprocation. It’s best not to overthink it, the world is different and what it means to have friends has changed. This is the new normal. It’s better to be the one who leads all the friend groups and activities all the time than to be lonely.
by worik | 2025-04-27 03:33:33+00:00
> This movement is mainly driven by people who feel they have been marginalized by our society, and they want to lash out and see other people get hurt,

Yes. This.

This is what drives facism: It is not your fault you feel bad, it's them, over there

This is why it is so important to "cuddle a facist".

Facism feeds on violence, showing love and compassion to those whom you disagree with robs fascism of its oxygen
by gruez | 2025-04-27 03:35:06+00:00
>Maybe corporate America should have taken the fascist candidate with a proven track record of destruction at his own words, and donated money to conservative (aka Democratic) candidates instead.

Putting aside the laughable implication that "corporate America" is some sort of monolith that can agree on one party to support, is there even evidence that they supported the Republican Party more? The Democratic Party out raised them in the last cycle.
by half-kh-hacker | 2025-04-27 03:36:39+00:00
- the relay storage volume scales only with the backfill window for consumers that drop briefly - the bluesky pbc operated relays let you reconnect up to 24h later and not miss any events but that requires around 200gb of scratch disk space -- live tailing an rpi relay without dropping a connection can give you events from the full network span (ie the complete set of the firehose) without requiring any backfill window, but it's nice to use a few tens of gigabytes anyway. -- the full firehose is like 20mbps at maximum so it's far from hard to serve a few live consumers

- bluesky's feed gen post-dropping is about internal operation of their appview and not anything to do with network sync semantics

- if you're running an AppView for the bsky data you are likely keeping a copy of all bsky posts in a database, since fetching from PDSes on-the-fly is network intensive over a relatively small pipe, which is what i mean by write volume requirements.
by gsf_emergency | 2025-04-27 03:36:57+00:00
Placeholder while I wait for poetic inspiration to strike :)

Project ? http://symmetry.constructor.university/cgi-bin/group.cgi?gro...

These Huguenots discovered Bauhinia, so there should be plenty of samples where you are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspard_Bauhin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Bauhin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Bauhin

E: https://youtu.be/t5AymeRq6vs I didn't get the ref here haha >海军学员和非海军学员
Tell HN: Technical blogpost written by companies are ad-funded tutorials
by dvrp | 2025-04-27 03:40:32+00:00
“Here you go, some facts about technology X or Y (usually coincidental with company technological stack) in exchange for your attention and, likely, a job posting ad to work with us by the end of it.”

I’m not against it or anything, I just noticed it that it’s the text version oh how youtube channels work but without capital in the form of cash involved—or more indirectly shown.
by kcexn | 2025-04-27 03:41:30+00:00
Having worked with it only a little on occasion. I found that the problem lies in its atrocious documentation.

I get it, there are lots of knobs and dials I can adjust to tune the cluster. A one-line description for each item is often insufficient to figure out what the item is doing. You can get a sense for the problem eventually if you spin up a local environment and one-by-one go through each item to see what it does, but that's super time consuming.
by msephton | 2025-04-27 03:42:33+00:00
How frequently are the profiles ingested? Would you pick up the change I made to mine earlier today? How is AI used in this? I can find something I'm thinking of only if I use exact terms that I already know are there, which kind of defeats the point. If I use fuzzy terms I don't get useful results. If I use single words, eg. people with Hanafuda in their profile, the results are totally irrelevant.

It would be good if the site showed it was searching. If I issue a new query there's no feedback that something is happening until the page changes, you're just stuck looking at irrelevant old results from the previous query.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-04-27 03:43:31+00:00
Now sure about "we" but I have used these for years in personal projects for own purposes.

Dec Octal Hex Binary 028 034 01C 00011100 FS (File Separator) 029 035 01D 00011101 GS (Group Separator) 030 036 01E 00011110 RS (Request to Send)(Record Separator) 031 037 01F 00011111 US (Unit Separator)
by _bin_ | 2025-04-27 03:44:08+00:00
I used to lean heavily on stuff like this. Unfortunately, in recent years, something's changed with MS and they've started breaking stuff subtly in ways that shows up a few months later when you try to do something. This leads to either reimaging or a painful process tracking down some really obscure relationship. Not fun and not worth it, though I very much wish it worked like it used to.

Glad it's still working for some folks.
by zharknado | 2025-04-27 03:48:06+00:00
I think it’s more productive to ask, “why would someone attribute a different value to learning about the geography, architecture, and language of a region vs. learning about the characteristics of the hardware and software one specific company used to take a picture of it?”

I think asking that question helps move past the surface question of how information was learned (memorization) to the core issue of which learning we value and why.
by spyrja | 2025-04-27 03:48:41+00:00
I don't see why it necessarily couldn't, my only question would be if there are really many actual use cases for such things? As far as symlinks go, I suppose being able to expand them (but not following them!) might be somewhat useful. But converting to DOS paths and vice-versa? That just doesn't seem very useful. Nevermind converting to-and-fro relative and absolute paths, I can't even imagine what the point of that would be. But perhaps I'm just not seeing the forest for the trees, as they say.
by sandspar | 2025-04-27 03:49:35+00:00
People say that being an influencer or streamer is future-proof after AI. "People will still want to watch other people" etc. I dunno. Tim Ferris once remarked that having a fan base of 1 million is like having a fan base of a city. And a city of 1 million people contains all sorts of people, including murderers. I dunno if I'd want to stream video games from my house if it meant my most obsessed, scary fan could trivially find my address. On top of that, AI facial identification will get much better. E.g. a photo of your face may be enough to diagnose you with future diseases and mental instabilities etc. Just seems like a bad time to have photos of yourself online.
by noisy_boy | 2025-04-27 03:51:47+00:00
My mum used to do this - I loved going to various places because either there were kids there to play with OR they had something that I found interesting. For example, one of the places had a 12-inch very detailed sculpture of a prawn which I found very intriguing. Some of the places had lots of books which I loved to raid. And there were always snacks.
by treetalker | 2025-04-27 03:53:02+00:00
> Matt da Silva once worked at the highest levels of government trust as a Japanese and Mandarin Navy linguist. In addition to working at the tip of the intel spear, he also has the distinction of having served 18 months in federal prison for his involvement in Jan 6. Now he's pardoned and using his intel analysis and writing skills in defense of the 21st century civil rights movement known as America First.
by eviks | 2025-04-27 03:53:08+00:00
> there would be a need to have a visible representation for them in the terminal, and a way to enter RS on the keyboard.

Both already possible, they have official symbols representing them

> Then, one day somebody would need to store one of those strings in a table, and there would be no way to do so without escaping.

Why? But also, yes, escaping also exists, just like in the alternative formats
by alganet | 2025-04-27 03:53:47+00:00
> when people feel isolated, they become more sensitive to social threats and more likely to misinterpret interactions negatively, through the lens of rejection

"I think they are saying that they want lasagna."

C'mon, don't be assholes.

There is plenty of evidence that teenagers were encouraged to ostracize certain personas (other teenagers!), and that behavior spread out of control to more age groups and unforseen interactions.

The hubris of trying to generate little soldiers destroyed our cultural inheritance.

"The lens of rejection", great.

I heard pagliaci is in town, you should go see him, he can cheer you up. I mean, I heard psychology is in vogue, maybe you should all see one.

Please, stop this shit. Let the internet die in peace instead of juicing the last drops of it to try and make yourselves look good.
by eqvinox | 2025-04-27 03:55:56+00:00
Funnily enough we're not even referring to the same one, the hexdump thing is in FreeBSD's kernel printf, I was looking at the userspace one :). Haven't looked at the kernel one myself but nice to hear it's also well-engineered.

(The problem with '%D' hexdumps is that it breaks compiler format checking… and also 'D' is a length modifier for _Decimal64 starting in ISO C23… that's why our hexdump is hooked in as '%.*pHX' instead [which still gives a warning because %p is not supposed to have a precision, but at least it's not entirely broken.])
by josephg | 2025-04-27 03:57:29+00:00
Yeah I have the same experience. I’ve done some work on novel realtime text collaboration algorithms. For optimisation, I use some somewhat bespoke data structures. (Eg I’m using an order-statistic tree storing substring lengths with internal run-length encoding in the leaf nodes).

ChatGPT is pretty useless with this kind of code. I got it to help translate a run length encoded b-tree from rust to typescript. Even with a reference, it still introduced a bunch of new bugs. Some were very subtle.
by 7thaccount | 2025-04-27 03:57:44+00:00
I think you're right that those of us that had to socialize either before or when the Internet was more in its infancy are just a lot more used to small talk and meet ups. I've noticed younger family members seem to not value that kind of community. The boomers and their parents would say the same about my generation as we have nothing on them. That's literally all they do is drink beer with friends and socialize at various clubs. D&D is the closest equivalent that the younger generation has and half of the people I see playing at my local game shop have gray hair.
by tyre | 2025-04-27 03:58:40+00:00
Wait I’ve found it very good at debugging. It iteratively states a hypothesis, tries things, and reacts from what it sees.

It thinks of things that I don’t think of right away. It tries weird approaches that are frequently wrong but almost always yield some information and are sometimes spot on.

And sometimes there’s some annoying thing that having Claude bang its head against for $1.25 in API calls is slower than I would be but I can spend my time and emotional bandwidth elsewhere.
by grimpy | 2025-04-27 04:00:07+00:00
This is a nice collection.

If you are making software, I implore you to do a quick and simple test if you plan on using icons: show them to some users and ask if they would know what they mean. There is a significant chance the icons are meaningless. Yes, context helps, yes, merely communicating difference helps, but, for the most part, nobody knows what any of these things mean.
by geodel | 2025-04-27 04:02:25+00:00
> In India Amazon makes little sense. Neither does kindle nor does local book store.

Of course! The number of books outside educational material sold in this country with huge population is insignificant. And it is not much surprise since most people can't really afford much.

But at least mobile data is really cheap and Whatsapp is free, so people get all the information they care about just from this combo.
by alexshtf | 2025-04-27 04:02:37+00:00
I am the author of that post series... I see it did some noise :)

I partially agree with your claims. It indeed is an issue if you take high powers of numbers outside of the [-1, 1] interval, but I completely disagree with your assertion that this is the main issue.

Take the famous LogSumExp function as an example - it's used everywhere in machine learning. Nobody says it's a "big no no", even though a naive implementation blows up because you exponentiate large numbers. And if you want to back-prop through it - well, it's even worse. But there is also a "right" way to use it: LogSumExp(x_1, ..., x_n) = LogSumExp(x_1 - m, ..., x_n - m) + m where m=max(x_1, ..., x_n)

But the point is that you don't even care! We have good implementations in library functions, such as toch.logsumexp, or scipy.special.logsumexp, and we don't need to worry about it. We never have to compute LogSumExp ourselves and get into the numerical issues.

With polynomials it's the same. Take the Legendre basis. Over an arbitrary interval [a, b], you have the formula P_n(x) = (2n+1)(x - (a + b)) P_n(x) / (b - a) + n P_n(x) It's numerically stable. But you don't even care what the formula is - you just call the appropriate function from the np.polynomial.legendre package.

The difference between polynomials and LogSumExp stems from education - people are taught that LogSumExp is "normal" but polynomials are a "big no no". Most people know that there is a library function for LogSumExp, but don't know there are similarly good library functions for the "right" polynomial bases.

And why I believe that the basis is the main issue? Well, it's because even if you use [-1, 1], the standard basis doesn't work with high degrees - it has an extremely badly conditioned vandermonde matrix, and regularization can't help you get a reasonable polynomial. I show it in several posts in the series. The problem with large powers of small numbers is as bad as with large numbers. And the issue with the standard basis is that you have no choice, but to compute these high powers - that's how the basis is defined.

Having said that, I will obviously take your input into account, and say something about high powers in the post. Explain why I believe it's exactly like LogSumExp, and why I believe it's the basis (rather than floating point errors) that is the issue. You are correct that I wrongly assumed it's obivious, and it is not.

Like with any object, oftentimes working with it by definition is very different with how you work with it computationally. But I believe that once you have good library function, you don't really care.
by jtuple | 2025-04-27 04:06:09+00:00
This isn't really random behavior from some mentally unwell person. There's an entire Reddit community for element collectors:

https://www.reddit.com/r/elementcollection/

And various companies that sell elements in nice display cases to support this hobby.

Sure, it's not your typical model car/train or card collecting hobby, but it's a harmless hobby nonetheless not a cry for help.
by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 | 2025-04-27 04:11:01+00:00
Played it on the mainframe in the 70s. It took many plays to make Adventurer Grand Master.

Another game at the time was Lunar Lander. I finally achieved a landing with only three commands: Retrofire, Coast, Final fire.

There was also a Formula 1 race car game and a chess game that I tried out. The chess game was clueless in positions.
by dalf | 2025-04-27 04:12:37+00:00
This partly explains why the recommendations I receive don't feel like mine. Multiple times, it's been obvious that the suggestions were pulled from other profiles and I could even tell whose.

My hypothesis

* The algorithms have linked my account to some others.

* They then serve me the embeddings extracted from those profiles. The near-real-time nature of this has crossed my mind more than once.

It's really unsettling, and afterwards I feel uneasy about any recommendations (all Google services, Netflix seems problematic too, not Amazon).

YouTube seems to have some hidden knobs for tuning this behaviour: after multiple negative feedbacks, the problematic content disappeared from my front page. However, the recommendations on the right-hand side of individual videos remain problematic, and the automatic playlists of YouTube Music are still strangely disturbing (even after multiple negative feedbacks).
by autobodie | 2025-04-27 04:13:12+00:00
Since the French Revolution, "right wing" by and large means a politics that defends or expands the established ruling order.

In so far as the established ruling order is so-called free market capitalism, as is the case in the US, I have to agree that your political interests are right-wing aligned.

That said, Americans have somehow redefined and reduced all political vocabulary to absolute nonsense, so I can see why you wouldn't understand this.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-04-27 04:15:40+00:00
Yes, that was exactly my point. The edge case is the potential for the selected behavior to work against reproductive fitness - someone young finding someone old attractive even though they aren't likely to get good offspring out of it.

I'm still not clear what you're arguing for. It isn't media giving women the short end of the stick, it's biology. What exactly are you proposing be done about it? I'm not even clear why it's a problem aside from the general desire that scientific advancement should eventually cure us of age related phenomena entirely.
by chthonicdaemon | 2025-04-27 04:15:46+00:00
The idea that binary formats are the way because "you're going to use a program to interact with the format anyway" ignores the network effects of having things like text editors and unix commands that handle text as a universal intermediate, while having bespoke programs for every format dooms you to developing a full set of tooling for every format (or more likely, writing code that converts the binary format to text formats).

More recently though, consider that LLMs are terrible at emitting binary files, but amazing at emitting text. I can have a GPT spit out a nice diagram in Mermaid, or create calendar entries from a photo of an event program in ical format.
by alganet | 2025-04-27 04:17:49+00:00
> Maybe it's movies and TV

That's pathetic thinking. It's inoffensive until someone turns the keys.

Plane accidents often occur by sabotage or failure of multiple systems.

There has been an interplay and "intellectual curiosity" from both movie studios and internet giants on online personas and social groups. They even married recently!

This bait and switch of blaming the other will backfire.
by toldyouso2022 | 2025-04-27 04:17:55+00:00
You are mourning your parents, your company and maybe you are mourning having to work towards something, maybe even mourning the financial worry itself.

Thing with mourning is that now things seem to be over but they will start again eventually. It's all about time. Also I'm sorry you feel alone, I hope you'll find a way to manage that.

Good luck
by seba_dos1 | 2025-04-27 04:19:38+00:00
Check whether you get a high load average whenever Wi-Fi kill switch is off. If so, keeping it on and turning Wi-Fi off in software may give you better results. There are patches to fix that, but they need more work not to cause troubles with older cards (Redpine).

There was also another issue that may have caused interrupt storms when kill switches were set to off, but that has been already fixed recently.

There are some small power consumption improvements coming in kernel updates soon too, though these shouldn't make a drastic difference, just an extra hour or so.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-04-27 04:22:24+00:00
> modern humans and our society don't reflect natural selection anyway; many things we do are "unnatural".

That's simply not true. Don't get hung up on the word "natural". It's nothing more than the result of a biased random walk (at least until the eugenicists get involved, at which point it goes meta).

Some of the things selected for can get pretty abstract. Cooperative behavior for example. Despite often being to the short term detriment of the individual it is observed in the wild.
by Wickedflickr | 2025-04-27 04:22:58+00:00
Proton (custom WINE by valve) is so good now thanks to Vulkan, you generally only lose about 5% performance compared to Windows, with a 10% difference in rare cases.

It's very easy to be a hardcore gamer on Linux now, outside of a handful of online games that gave yet to flip the switch to let their anti-cheat run on Linux.
by ilyagr | 2025-04-27 04:23:33+00:00
> Both already possible, they have official symbols representing them.

I'm not sure what you mean. For an illustration, my terminal does not print anything for them.

$ printf "qq\36\37text\n" qqtext

*Update/Aside:* "My terminal", in this case, was `tmux`. Ghostty, OTOH, prints spaces instead of RS or US.

Unicode does have some symbols for every non-printable ASCII character, which you can see as follows with https://github.com/sharkdp/bat (assuming your font has the right characters, which it probably does):

$ printf "qq\36\37text\n" | bat -A --decorations never qq␞␟text␊

Here, `␞` is https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+241E, one of the symbols for non-printable characters that Unicode has; different fonts display it differently. See also https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/block/U+2400.

Is there some better representation it has?