MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nonrandomstring | 2025-04-02 16:15:23+00:00
And sitting on an airfield for months at a time bored senseless, it used to be cool to paint insulting platitudes like "Eat this MOFO" on munitions. Now:

1) Blowing kids to smithereens must be done in a politically correct fashion, even while violating the Geneva convention.

2) Nobody is sure who the enemy will actually be next week, so it would be shame to have to repaint them.
by chongli | 2025-04-02 16:15:54+00:00
As a daily coffee drinker I wouldn't mind less caffeine in coffee. I drink coffee for its flavour (and have tried dozens of different coffees from many different roasters). I have tried some decafs but they just taste different and generally much flatter. They also behave very strangely in my espresso machine, requiring a much finer grind to sustain brewing pressure. From my limited understanding of decaf processes, they all remove more than just caffeine, so the effect on flavour is unavoidable.
by seanhunter | 2025-04-02 16:15:59+00:00
I'm not sure whether or not he did this first, but it's very similar to an extremely impressive, but old and well-known illustration of the power of Fourier analysis in which you construct a "Fourier epicycle" (think: machine made of circular gears of different ratios) that can sketch any image. 3blue1brown has a great video on Fourier Epicycles but you can also get the idea here https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/171755/how-c...
by snovymgodym | 2025-04-02 16:16:48+00:00
> I'm really curious where you're getting this impression from?

Experience mainly, though perhaps I live in a bubble. My "99%" assertion was more pointed at the "server-side on Linux" part than the "most likely in a container" part.

Really the point I wanted to make was that your development and test environment should be the same as, or as close as possible to, your production environment.

If your app is going to be deployed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (whether in a container, VM, or baremetal), then don't bother chasing down cryptic NPM errors that arise when you run it on Ubuntu, Mac, or Windows. Just run everything out of a RHEL docker container which mimics your production environment and spent your limited time doing the actual task at hand. It simply is not worth your time to rabbit hole endlessly on NPM errors that happen on an environment you'll never deploy to.

> There are a lot of reasons to investigate these things, ...

Sure, I don't really disagree with that and generally it's good to have a solid understanding of your tools and what lies in the layers below the abstractions that you normally work with. The detective work in the post is solid.

But the thing is that the author was supposed to be learning NodeJS in order to ramp up on a React project. But he got derailed (heh) by this side quest which delayed him being able to do the actual work he set out to do. Whether or not it was worth the time is subjective. But either way, it would not have happened in the first place with better dev environment practices.
by kjkjadksj | 2025-04-02 16:17:00+00:00
Individual studies don’t exist in a vacuum. They can cite tens to hundreds of papers just like a meta analysis. The difference is in addition to the literature review they had to do anyway to develop their research question, they also contributed novel data to the field and tried to put it into context. Meta analysis don’t get published in big journals like Nature, novel data do.
by nradov | 2025-04-02 16:17:16+00:00
Commercial insurers are also moving from fee-for-service to value-based care payment models (with capitation being one approach). That isn't something unique to Medicare.

Increasing residency funding is a good idea, but I'm skeptical that it would reduce overall costs. With an aging population, demand for healthcare services is effectively infinite. The shortage of physicians is, paradoxically, one of the factors holding costs down today. If you can't see your doctor because appointments are backlogged for months then no insurance claim will be generated.
by gremlinsinc | 2025-04-02 16:18:04+00:00
Currently homeless, driving Uber and Lyft. I've fixed my mental health after a shit storm of life events, mostly using AI as therapist.

I'm going back to school soon for psychology (figure financial aid can also pay room and board).

I'm wanting to build a mobile journal app with a bunch of AI guided 'games' to help learn DBT skills or work out trauma or do Shadow work or just guided CBT for a purpose.

I've changed my MBTI from intp-t to enfp-a...(I find I revert sometimes when I don't feel safe)... in other words I've become a very outgoing people person at least I'm a lot less afraid in social situations or to act like a fool on the dance floor... etc...

I also want to write a book and do videos on hacking your brain using AI... nobody seems to be doing this... there's a lot of potential for this niche I think.

I fixed hobbies, depression, and social life, all that's left is physical and financial and those are kind of easy when emotions are in check.
by generationP | 2025-04-02 16:18:17+00:00
Nope, but this post is such a neat illustration of the richness of "life" that fits into 39 real parameters (each circle can be coordinatized as 3 real numbers: one for its radius and two for its center) that my first thought on seeing it was also "no surprise then that a matrix with a million entries can talk like an erudite person".
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-04-02 16:18:20+00:00
> For as long as there's some intellectual capability that humans have and machines don't

Careful. You're smuggling in an assumption that isn't true. Machine don't have intellectual capabilities, and this follows from what the computer as formal construct is. They can simulate the appearance of intellectual ability, as LLMs can, at least in certain respects, but appearance ought not be conflated with cause.
by dlivingston | 2025-04-02 16:19:03+00:00
Interesting, looks like I was out of date on that. Wikipedia shows the LCOE of different energy sources [0] and, while nuclear was at parity with natural gas & wind as the cheapest energy circa 2011, it has since become one of the most expensive (~2.5x solar).

Why did this happen? Why has the cost of nuclear doubled in the past decade?

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levelized_cost_of_electricit...
by delecti | 2025-04-02 16:19:19+00:00
I think that 28oz of dark chocolate, whether weight or volume, would be a ludicrous amount to eat in one sitting. A chocolate bar is about 1.5 oz (and 1 fluid ounce of water weighs 1 ounce, at least to a rough approximation), so to eat 28 you'd need to eat nearly 20 chocolate bars.

For that matter 24oz is rather a lot of coffee to drink at once. I brew my daily coffee with 200g of water, or only about 7 floz.
by arjinium | 2025-04-02 16:20:07+00:00
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by dlivingston | 2025-04-02 16:20:55+00:00
> I generate most of the power my house needs right ON my house. The rain that runs off the generators waters my vegetable garden.

Very cool. Sounds like a great setup.

> Do you want to live a few meters from a nuke?

Yes, I have no problem with this at all. The risk of anything happening, catastrophic or otherwise, is extremely low.
by hobofan | 2025-04-02 16:21:17+00:00
Yeah, same here. My Switch is essentially a indie game console (~indish, e.g. Hades, Darkest Dungeon), as I didn't want to pay the absurd prices of the first party titles.

With the Steam Deck coming out in the meantime, I'll likely pick that up soon instead of a Switch 2. Around the same price, much better specs (and also Bluetooth support, which the Switch 2 will supposedly be missing again), and access to a much bigger library of games.
by hackeraccount | 2025-04-02 16:22:01+00:00
I've got the book on my reader but haven't started it yet.

I've heard a few interviews though with the authors and while I'd like to see their ideas succeed I am suspicious of the idea that we can just get rid of the regulations that don't work.

All regulations work. There's a reason they get codified; they're working for someone. People who own property are voting for things not to change. It's not that they mistakenly think that building more housing is against their interest - it is against their interest.

Look at housing prices in Texas and California. Which would rather own a house in? In California it's going to be expensive and get more expensive. There are no can't miss investments but a house in CA. is pretty close. Now if you're buying a house Texas might be a better bet but owners are the ones running the regulatory environment.
by hgs3 | 2025-04-02 16:22:07+00:00
Yes, the "${}" would be for the program to evaluate; referencing environment variables that way isn't uncommon in Unix configuration files.

"Reverse Solidus" is the Unicode name for the character [1], so if you don't like the name, blame Unicode :)

I hadn't thought of using '[' and ']' for multi-line directives, that's an interesting suggestion. It vaguely resembles arrays as they appear in various other languages. It fits with Confetti's design of, ultimately, being user interpreted.

[1] https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+005C
by IvanFPJ24 | 2025-04-02 16:22:08+00:00
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by 7bit | 2025-04-02 16:22:18+00:00
Agreed with the "what does this achieve". In Corporate environments you would use SCCM or simply the Windows ADK plus WDS.

Installing a custom Firewall and Antivirus ist straight counteproductive, as ist disabling security features... obvisouly.

Downloading and installing group policies however is often required and a typical enterprise scenario.

Whenever I hear people praise these kind of things I know they don't really have any professional knowledge. It's fine to configure your own system, but suggesting these things SHOULD be done pisses me off to no end.
by mjburgess | 2025-04-02 16:22:29+00:00
The Chinese room does not aim to show, nor does it show, that part-whole relationships fail nor is it even about part-whole relationships.

Yes, neurones do not understand "pen" -- but some highly particular whole bodies do (ie., english spekaing people). That's because of highly particular relationships between those neurones, the body, the environment, and the history of that language user.

This is the csci brain rot that searle is baffled by. Symbol manipulation implies no relationships between wholes and parts. The capcity to understanding meaning requires extraordinarily specific ones.
by noman-land | 2025-04-02 16:23:39+00:00
TIL!

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Fldigi is a free and open-source program which allows an ordinary computer's sound card to be used as a simple two-way data modem. The software is mostly used by amateur radio operators who connect the microphone and headphone connections of an amateur radio SSB or FM transceiver to the computer's headphone and microphone connections, respectively. This interconnection creates a "sound card defined radio" whose available bandwidth is limited by the sound card's sample rate and the external radio's bandwidth. Such communications are normally done on the shortwave amateur radio bands in modes such as PSK31, MFSK, RTTY, Olivia, and CW. Increasingly, the software is also being used for data on VHF and UHF frequencies using faster modes such as 8-PSK. Using this software, it is possible for amateur radio operators to communicate worldwide while using only a few watts of RF power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fldigi
by pron | 2025-04-02 16:23:50+00:00
Java allows you to freely change any decision made by any author of any library you use. None of that ability has been taken away.

However, changing other code (and potentially changing the assumptions on which it was built) shouldn't be as easy as using it in a way that preserves its assumptions. If it were just as easy, you could accidentally break other code's assumptions.

In some situations, all that's required of you is merely to declare that you indeed intend to change some other code's assumptions; in more involved situations (e.g. a library method computes the sum of its argument and you want to change it to compute the product) the work is more involved, but you can still do it relatively easily.

What we have blocked is the ability of a library to change the assumptions of another library or of the application's without the application knowing about it. A library absolutely must not be allowed to do that while hiding that from the application.
by globular-toast | 2025-04-02 16:23:57+00:00
~160lb, 30yo. I know it's nothing special on the world stage but it's irrelevant because everyone is on gear these days and I've never even taken creatine (got scared about hair loss, lol). I also used to rep out both dips and chinups with 60kg of weight attached which tended to attract attention. But no matter what I did I never felt like I needed to take days off. I remember the DOMS in the very early days of the gym, but that just stopped happening and never came back.

Maybe I wasn't pushing myself hard enough, but I also never got injured. How much more could I have realistically achieved by pushing harder? I don't think much. I got really put off trying so hard when I realised how many people were on gear.
by rfoo | 2025-04-02 16:24:00+00:00
I think the most interesting result [0] is, compared to our current benchmarks, on which scaling law is showing diminishing returns, what they did managed to tell apart large language models (Llama 405B, GPT-4.5) from not-so-large LMs.

This could be really interesting if it wasn't due to trivial f-up (e.g. difference in inference speed).

[0] Assuming the paper isn't flawed, haven't read it thoroughly yet.
by panzagl | 2025-04-02 16:24:22+00:00
For World War 2 we relied on the British to name things (The US produced the M4 Medium Tank, the Brits called it the "Sherman"). The theory was they were government designed and (at least theoretically) produced by many companies.

I believe the Cold War names mostly came from US contractors- the government defined requirements ("air superiority fighter") and the contractors came up with designs that then had to be marketed against each other so they were given cool names ("Fighting Falcon").

Now there has been a lot of consolidation of contractors, and budgets are much more constrained. You no longer have the DoD funding competing designs and selecting, but a situation closer to early WW2 where the government is closer to the design.

At least that's my 5 minute guess, probably lots of 'citation needed' to be done.
by dragonwriter | 2025-04-02 16:24:33+00:00
> Besides the fact that this would give Amazon access to more data to train multimodal models, an area where they are lacking compared to Google/Meta, I don't see a good synergy here. It seems reminiscent of the Twitch acquisition where it became obvious through the years that they had no real plan for it besides "hey we can synergize because AWS".

I think the strongest synergy is actually with Amazon-the-retailer and TikTok's advertising business and shopping platform, not with AWS.
by Volundr | 2025-04-02 16:24:54+00:00
Off the top of my head my understanding is a lot of collectables traded at shows (e.x. sneakers, antiques, cardsa) are done as cash transactions, so that could be one possible reason. If someone is an avid collector, or makes a living trading this stuff they could be going to a show with a large amount of cash in anticipation of buying.

(Not my world, so I welcome being corrected here)
by dartos | 2025-04-02 16:25:07+00:00
I just can’t believe you. Nothing I’ve seen indicates that is possible right now.

Would you be willing to share your code and your workflow?

> >You literally can't put enough context into a prompt to have it write the exact code you'd need in every case. Yes you can. I do this every day.

It hasn’t been possible for maths and isn’t for programming.

I’ll defer to Dijkstra on this “foolishness”

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667...
by Kirby64 | 2025-04-02 16:25:15+00:00
The biggest reason decaf brews, tastes, and grinds so different is the processing essentially causes the beans to expands (so you can extract the caffeine out of the center of the very dense, green coffee) and then you need to dehydrate them back to the proper moisture content for roasting. You take a green coffee that is previously extremely dense and non-porous, and make it much much more porous. This leads to roasting difficulities and brittleness when grinding which seems to lead to fines.

I'd agree, less caffeine in the bean without decaffinating would lead to a better tasting coffee (if you want the lesser caffeine).
by mmooss | 2025-04-02 16:25:38+00:00
The paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08689-6

Tong, K., Datta, S., Cheng, V. et al. Genome duplication in a long-term multicellularity evolution experiment. Nature 639, 691–699 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08689-6
by skizm | 2025-04-02 16:25:51+00:00
Protein supplements, like all supplements, are for when you're falling short of your nutritional goals after accounting for your normal food intake. If you're getting enough protein through meals, then there is no need. Many people who lift weights try to achieve about 1g of protein per pound of bodyweight, which can be a lot. Protein supplements make that number easier to hit. Beyond that, there is little to no evidence that getting protein via a supplement is better or worse than through food sources. It is simply more convenient.
by syspec | 2025-04-02 16:26:50+00:00
Prediction: This sale won't happen, in fact, no sale will happen.

The idea that a TikTok ban was signed into law will be quietly forgotten. IMO, that's been the strategy of ByteDance.

Just ignore the law because US politics is very fickle and moves on quickly to the next news cycle.

If the executive does not enforce it, then the law is just toilet paper.
by techpineapple | 2025-04-02 16:26:59+00:00
It would be weird for me to object to vibelearning, since most of what I know is self taught, but. Maybe it's sort of weird that we're talking about vibelearning while also talking about the value of RTO? The stereotypical ivy league classroom is like a small group of 10 people sitting in a room intimately going back and forth guided by their teacher? I suspect a big part of learning is hearing the wrong answers from your classmate; going back and forth with a professor.

But the weird thing is it's not even clear what future we're trying to educate kids for? There will be no white collar jobs in 10 years, right? Here goes tech optimizing the humanity out of the human experience.
by DeathArrow | 2025-04-02 16:27:12+00:00
> A somewhat shallow comment, but why do post-Cold War U.S. weapon systems have such intentionally bland names? ATACMS, HIMARS, etc? They used to give weapons names that made them sound aggressive, dangerous, legendary, bold: Thor, Dragon, Phoenix, Patriot, etc. It has happened to vehicles as well, which used to be named after venerated war leaders: Abrams and Bradley are now HMMWV and MRAP.

To avoid anything that might be deemed not diverse and not inclusive enough.

Any real names might make someone feel bad about something. A sequence of random letters does not.
by tmaly | 2025-04-02 16:27:59+00:00
TikTok platform is not the same as it was in 2020. The creator ecosystem really dried up when they changed the algorithm and suddenly it was very hard to go viral.

I don't see TikTok being that valuable. There is a Lemon8 app that ByteDance came out with that feels like a fusion of TikTok and a Vlog, but it doesn't get nearly the traffic the 2020 version of TikTok did.
by throw4847285 | 2025-04-02 16:28:06+00:00
I don't understand why people get so up in the arms about the Chinese room. It's very clear that a major part of human intelligence is a mental model of the physical world, and linguistic concepts have an (often complex) relationship to that model. There's no magic here. Nothing about that argument implies anything about neurons. The process of forming a mental model of the world and mapping words onto it could easily take place within many many neurons within the human brain, because it does! It does not take place in an LLM. That does not imply that nobody will ever develop a positronic brain that could do the same. We just clearly haven't done so yet.

Saying, "if you can't point to the neuron that does X, then you can't prove X happens" isn't a scientific perspective. It's a willfully ignorant one. If you're confident in the scientific process, then we will eventually understand how all kinds of human mental processes make sense in the context of neural networks.
by wruza | 2025-04-02 16:28:39+00:00
While true, anxiety looks for nice pockets to throw fireballs at you from. And bulldozing these pockets is a part of reducing it. It's sort of an insect control. You can't get rid of them really, but there's a world of difference between a room full of insects and a single mosquito flying around.

If you learn to accept it as part of your natural response, you will calm it down

How do you deal with mind numbing effect of experiencing it in the first [how much time?]? Or is it just a feeling that doesn't intrude your intelligence? I guess I do just accept it most of the time when it's <= "3.5/10". But when it's high it's just debilitating, mentally and even physically. What was your method?
by jofer | 2025-04-02 16:28:44+00:00
Just moved to Utah (wife's job was relocated here) a couple of years ago after many decades in the southeast and midwest. Some stuff grows like crazy here, some stuff doesn't.

Nothing in the continental US competes with the gulf coast when it comes to sheer masses of flowering vegetation. Everything is green and most of it flowers. Everywhere you look, there's actually really neat and beautiful plants. But most of it is what folks think of as "weeds". Non native stuff in yards (what people think of as "flowers") often struggles. E.g. yapon is native and is often an ornamental and it'll grow like crazy, or even worse, try planting some Mexican petunias... I love those things, but they are a purple swarm that will swallow everything.

But plant your daffodils, and while they'll grow, they get overpowered and outspread by everything native. A lot of common ornamentals can't take the fully saturated then dry cycles and clay soils, too. Then there are the bugs. Everything gets eaten by something. So so so so so many bugs.

But in Utah, those common ornamentals absolutely thrive _if_ they get water. When you irrigate here, things grow like crazy. Flowers are huge and there are basically no bugs here at all. (I don't count box alder beetles or brine flies as "lots of bugs".)

But native vegetation can survive the actual climate here, while most ornamentals can't without extra water.