MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by uhhhhhhh | 2025-05-29 18:11:16+00:00
This is interesting, but a few issues jump out at me.

There are fundamental issues mapping Biological Evolution to the formation of the universe. Evolution fundamentally works on 'introduce random variations into an environment with selective pressures and/or competition and if that variation produces a change that benefits the animal relative to those pressures and competition, it will more likely survive and reproduce' and that reproduction ultimately is what defines the fitness of that evolution. How does this apply to a uniform CMB, the sudden collapse to make supermassive black holes? The eventual formation of smaller black holes? The formation of planets? The expanding universe? Where is the competition? Where is the reproduction? Where are the selective pressures that define evolution? Where does this show branching and dead branches of evolution's failed attempts.

You repeatedly refer to evolution directing, favoring, having reproductive strategies etc. showing either a fundamental misunderstanding of evolution or a casual use of the terms that will confuse many readers. Evolution is a random and non-directed process. You describe a singular chain of events where those events are just as likely to be random and unconnected but try to imply strongly directed evolution because you approached it with the view that evolution would optimize this process and combined theories that could indicate a more optimized process (while not actually proving that optimization or any form of selection for it).

It fails to address observations backing the existence of dark matter while criticizing existing theories for failing to address observations that do not line up with their predictions.

Beyond that, are any of the predictions you make novel to just your story, or are they ultimately the combined predictions made by the various theories you are basing this on? I didn't see any that did not lead off the existing work that doesn't always require throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Ultimately this feels like a new interpretation combining a number of exciting and new discoveries that make predictions that JW is backing, approaching them with a philosophical view giving potential novel insights, but failing to disconnect the philosophy before engaging actual science and misunderstanding the difference between a good sounding science story and good science while on-boarding a fair amount of personal skepticism and frustration with the existing methods.

Its not to say that some of the theories its based on aren't correct, or that the existing theories aren't problematic, but it certainly feels like its leveraging the predictive power of other theories to do its heavy lifting.
Show HN: Postman like VS extension that works with .HTTP files
by sconeguy | 2025-05-29 18:11:57+00:00
I really like the simplicity and portability of .http files, but find Postman's UI easier to work with. So I built HttpDesigner, a free Visual Studio extension that blends the two together.

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There is a .http collection treeview also which allows you to navigate to any .http file in any solution that HttpDesigner has seen before.

You can install it from the Visual Studio Extensions menu.

If you give it a try and like it, I’d really appreciate a positive review on the Marketplace!

(Currently VS 2022 only, but will consider VS 2019- support if there’s demand.)
by kazinator | 2025-05-29 18:12:03+00:00
I agree that particular image is a dud; I was not able to perceive any depth.

The creator mistakenly used the same image twice.

The two men in a tent image is likewise a dud. If we look at the pole at the tent entrance, there is no difference in parallax between that and objects at the back wall.

The Abe Lincoln doesn't pop out much for me.

The dead soldiers in the field also seems to be identical images.

The clearly genuine ones are the horse-drawn carriage in the forest, and the horseman in front of the cannon.
by joshstrange | 2025-05-29 18:12:29+00:00
> In fact, if you are true believer, you almost need to keep it hidden because it’s going to come off as mentally ill.

Even agreeing on what a "True Believer" is would be impossible but, from what I have read of the bible and know from 18+ years in the church I agree. As I child I got in trouble a few times for suggesting we take the concepts in the bible to their logical end. Things like:

- If we really believe all these people will burn in hell then why aren't we all becoming missionaries?

Then when I learned about "age of accountability" [0] I had 2 questions:

- If there is no age set on the age of accountability (to account for people living in remote areas who never heard the word of god) then isn't being a missionary and going to those places damning some percentage of them to hell if they don't accept jesus as their lord and savior? Aren't you making it worse? Even if you are able to "save" 60% you've damned the other 40% when before you visiting 100% would never have met the "age of accountability" due to never hearing about jesus?

and the much more horrifying question (note: I was 6 or 7 at the time)

- If the the age of accountability is real, and if our time on earth is truly inconsequential compared to eternity in heaven then (AGAIN: I was a child, I want just following logical chains), isn't the best option to kill everyone before that age so they will live for eternity in heaven?

Needless to say none of these questions were appreciated and all of them resulted in anger from the adults I mentioned it to. It taught me from a very young age how to lie or obscure what I thought/believed since voicing it or even asking innocent questions got me in trouble for reasons I could not understand. Perhaps there are logical flaws in my questions that a biblical scholar could point out but all I got was the fury of people too invested in a myth to question it.

[0] Concept that if you are younger than it and you die without being "saved" then you will still go to heaven because, essentially, you didn't know any better. There is no age defined since people reach that state at different ages and, IIRC, it even accounts for people who never hear the word of god and thus don't have an opportunity to be saved.
by 3cats-in-a-coat | 2025-05-29 18:12:34+00:00
"Better" is relative to context. It's a multi-dimensional metric flattened to a single comparison. And humans don't always win that comparison.

LLMs are faster, and when the task can be synthetically tested for correctness, and you can build up to it heuristically, humans can't compete. I can't spit out a full game in 5 minutes, can you?

LLMs are also cheaper.

LLMs are also obedient and don't get sick, and don't sleep.

Humans are still better by other criteria. But none of this matters. All disruptions start from the low end, and climb from there. The climbing is rapid and unstoppable.
by reverendsteveii | 2025-05-29 18:12:38+00:00
"Whenever the president shall find" seems to establish Annoying Orange as the sole arbiter as to whether that satisfies the burden/disadvantage clause. This admin has successfully argued much shakier positions than that in court. Hell, he once argued successfully that he broke the law and the law prescribes a punishment but that punishment doesn't apply because the law doesn't say who should administer it.
Show HN: Edit any image with plain language – full guide and live demo
by chayhun | 2025-05-29 18:13:03+00:00
The team behind FLUX just launched a new model family focused on instruction-based image editing. No need for advanced design skills — just upload an image and describe what you want to change. It handles both text and image inputs, and supports iterative edits while preserving structure and style. More info and live demo at the link.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-05-29 18:13:46+00:00
I feel like Doom is maybe obsolescent on account of standard out of the box emacs having fairly easy to set up these days, with themes and LSP and etc just there out of the box and package-install just working.

But also I have absolutely zero desire to run with modal keybindings, which seems to be Doom's schtick.
by lenkite | 2025-05-29 18:13:54+00:00
Github has dependabot https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot/dependab... which can also raises PR's, though your mileage may greatly vary here depending on your language.

You can also configure update of dependencies https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot/dependab...

These work with vendored dependencies too.

(In our org, we have our own custom Go tool that handles more sophisticated cases like analyzing our divergent forks and upstream commits and raising PR's not just for dependencies, but for features. Only works when upstream refactoring is moderate though)
by dfxm12 | 2025-05-29 18:14:04+00:00
If you ever do get around to reading the new testament, you'll find that Jesus is obviously more of a collectivist than a capitalist. Jesus "radicalized" me. You can try and delay this realization by arguing over the minutiae of what exactly socialism is and if Jesus would agree with Marx on every little thing, but that, and also failing to practice what he preached doesn't change Jesus' obvious message that hoarding wealth, consolidating power, othering people, etc., is not a path to heaven.
by wahern | 2025-05-29 18:14:49+00:00
> Come back and reign for a thousand years, but not touch private contact law and definitively let you keep and enjoy the fruits of the money you bet on him.

Modern Evangelical Christian movements have from the beginning incorporated (classically) liberal political theory, including economic theory, into their theology, not merely their ethics (as almost all faiths must do to some extent). But more recently there has been incorporation of more (classically) illiberal libertarian and conservative ideas in their theology. Someone else pointed out Prosperity Gospel, but the new hotness is the idea that charity and empathy is un-Christian. (Or to steel man it, the idea is that excessive charity and empathy is un-Christian, but that begs alot of questions and arguably invites more self-serving utilitarian line drawing--the movement presupposes that contemporary American political culture is too charitable and empathetic.)
by Meph504 | 2025-05-29 18:15:03+00:00
I always found it interesting as the sharp term including C# was odd because it isn't the sharp symbol, which is ♯. All of them use the # hash character, so calling it sharp always seemed odd to me, though C-Hash also doesn't roll of the tongue admittedly. It is also interesting how hash is correctly used in some places "Hash Tag" but not others.
by vouaobrasil | 2025-05-29 18:15:05+00:00
I acquire skills to enjoy applying them, period. I'm less concerned about the final result than about the process to get there. That's the different between technical types and artist types I suppose.

Edit: I also should say, we REALLY should distinguish between tasks that you find enjoyable and tasks you find just drudgery to get where you want to go. For you, audio editing might be a drudgery but for me it's enjoyable. For you, debugging might be fun but I hate it. Etc.

But the point is, if AI takes away everything which people find enjoyable, then no one can pick and choose to earn a living on those subset of tasks that they find enjoyable because AI can do everything.

Programmers tend to assume that AI will just take the boring tasks, because high-level software engineering is what they enjoy and unlikely to be automated, but there's a WHOLE world of people out there who enjoy other tasks that can be automated by AI.
by EA-3167 | 2025-05-29 18:15:25+00:00
How it's being sold, as a way to monitor high-stakes jobs like ATC or piloting, feels a bit like the "think of the children" excuse to dismantle encryption.

Maybe I've read Snow Crash too many times, but I can absolutely imagine some depraved industrialist using this as a means to track how much work their employees are engaging in. Worried that your HR flaks are mostly playing FB games? Strap them up with the "tat" and track their activity in real time.
by growlNark | 2025-05-29 18:16:07+00:00
Ah yea, sorry, I mean in addition to what we already know for sure—Timbuktu is emphatically not what I was referring to (although—I had forgotten about Timbuktu libraries, and it makes my point better than I did, so I appreciate your bringing it up!). I'm referring to oral evidence of writing in Great Zimbabwe (among other places I'm sure). If they had developed script, we unfortunately lack evidence of it.

My point more broadly is that prevalence of an oral tradition doesn't imply the lack of capacity to develop a written one. As Timbuktu is perfect evidence of—their libraries coexisted (and still do today) with griots, and the two repositories of knowledge seem to serve distinct functions in society.
by freedomben | 2025-05-29 18:16:09+00:00
I agree that plenty of Christians have a persecution complex, but there is some persecution against Christians in many parts of the world (especially many parts of the middle east and Asia). I think it should be called out when it happens, regardless of what religion/race/nationality/whatever the target is. I doubt we'll ever see the end of persecution in our lifetimes, but overlooking it definitely won't help to end it.
by Hilift | 2025-05-29 18:16:27+00:00
In the 1991 film K2, Michael Biehn's character used an epinephrine (adrenaline) auto-injector (in his neck), which had recently been marketed and was seen by some wealthy as a booster. This actually increases risk for arrhythmia and makes pulmonary edema worse, so ironically meth would be a preferred booster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2_(film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epinephrine_autoinjector

https://www.outsideonline.com/health/training-performance/co...
by hatefulmoron | 2025-05-29 18:16:48+00:00
> my point is that I think after driving a tractor for a while, the kid would really struggle to go hoe by hand like he used to, if he ever needed to

That's true in the short term, but let's be real, tilling soil isn't likely to become a lost art. I mean, we use big machines right now but here we are talking about using a hoe.

If you remove the context of LLMs from the discussion, it reads like you're arguing that technological progress in general is bad because people would eventually struggle to live without it. I know you probably didn't intend that, but it's worth considering.

It's also sort of the point in an optimistic sense. I don't really know what it takes on a practical level to be a subsistence farmer. That's probably a good sign, all things considered. I go to the gym 6 times a week, try to eat pretty well, I'm probably better off compared to toiling in the fields.
by petr25102018 | 2025-05-29 18:17:42+00:00
One of my favorites from the book is to alias "xdg-open" to "open" because I never remember the command. So now I can just type "open X" to open a file system location or file in a normal GUI program when needed. It is a small thing but I use it a lot.

Something that I didn't put in the book because I learned it only recently is the use of "notify-send", aka you can send yourself a system notification from the command line or script (at least it workd for me in Gnome). For instance once a task is finished:

> echo "when finished send notification" && notify-send "system notification"

Pretty cool if you ask me!
by Whoppertime | 2025-05-29 18:18:16+00:00
Do you want hard caps and redistribution on other things or just money? Like a redistribution of grades. The magna cum laude doesn't need another A+, and there's people at the bottom of the curve who's passing or failing could be changed by a few percentage points. Should we redistribute grades from the top to the bottom? What about Talent? You can say that nobody needs a billion dollars. Nobody needs to be as good at Baseball at Babe Ruth, nobody needs to be as good at Golf as Tiger Woods. Should we redistribute their points to improve the stats of bottom performing players? Speaking of Tiger Woods he's a self described Sex Addict. Nobody needs to be having as much sex as he is. Should we impose a hard cap on the amount of sexual partners you can have in a year to stop "naked greed"?
by chris37879 | 2025-05-29 18:18:25+00:00
I'll be checking this project out! I'm a big fan of ECS and have lofty goals to use it for a data processing project I've been thinking about for a long time that has a lot in common with a programming language, enough that I've basically been considering it as one this whole time. So it's always cool to see ECS turn up somewhere I wouldn't otherwise expect it.
by lysace | 2025-05-29 18:18:30+00:00
> Razr might have been a bit too early for that ?

Opera Mini worked on the original Razr. Painfully slowly and with that giant cheesy font though. And that ZX81-like painful keypad.

We spent a fun day chasing down some weird bug in its TCP implementation to make it work reliably. I don't remember the exact details but the workaround was to wait a few seconds before closing the TCP connection after being done sending data.

Edit: Heh, found a sorta modern video showing this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjPZoQ_1kE8&t=834s
by CyrsBel | 2025-05-29 18:18:53+00:00
Jesus was a socialist? Was that before or after he used supernatural powers to increase the quantity of food instantly? Easy to be a "socialist" in such cases, but let's not pretend that there's any serious economic theorizing being done when people say this about Jesus. It's usually just a convenience for people looking to grift or instigate. lmao.
by evanjrowley | 2025-05-29 18:19:01+00:00
Of all the the organizations in that space that I've had a chance to work IT at, I'd say that VA is one of the best. True, there are some scandals that make headlines every once in a while, but overall the VA runs solid. Considering healthcare is one of the most targeted sectors by ransomware groups, the VA's success is pretty exceptional.

In addition to good leadership, the VA has a large budget to make the right IT investments. The contrast with other helathcare in the US is alarming. Most US residents pay extreme pricess for healthcare, and yet cybersecurity is lacking for these other institutions.
by fortran77 | 2025-05-29 18:19:03+00:00
> He revealed himself to them and only them, ignoring the rest of humanity all over the globe

That's absolutely not true. First of all, there was an enormous crowd of people: 600,000 families--millions of people--who received the revelation on Mt. Sinai. And secondly, G-d offered the Torah to all the peoples of the world. (https://www.sefaria.org/Sifrei_Devarim.343.2?lang=bi)

It's a fundamental principle of Judaism that all righteous people will be in the world to come, unlike Christianity.

All that being said, I will not be wagering that "Jesus" will come again.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-05-29 18:19:23+00:00
> This was the Centaur hypothesis in the early days of chess programs and it hasn't been true for a long time.

> Chess programs of course have a well defined algorithm.

Ironically, that also "hasn't been true for a long time". The best chess engines humans have written with "defined algorithms" were bested by RL (alphazero) engines a long time ago. The best of the best are now NNUE + algos (latest stockfish). And even then NN based engines (Leela0) can occasionally take some games from Stockfish. NNs are scarily good. And the bitter lesson is bitter for a reason.
by em-bee | 2025-05-29 18:19:47+00:00
once you have narrowed it down, it is reasonably realistic to deeply investigate the remaining ones.

there is good and bad in essentially every religion

have you looked all the major ones listed here? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_religious_groups

for me the standard of evidence is the search for the truth. that means, keep searching until i am satisfied. it could take a lifetime, and maybe that's the point. don't just make a choice and then blindly accept everything from then on.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-05-29 18:20:16+00:00
One thing I've run into with DAST tools is that they're awful at handling modern web apps where JS code fetches data with an API and then updates the DOM accordingly. They act like web pages are still using server-side HTML rendering and throw XSS false positives because a JSON response will return "<script>alert(1)</script>" in the data, even when the data is then put in the web page using either element.innerText or uses a framework that automatically prevents XSS.

Alternatively, they don't properly handle session tokens that don't rely on cookies, such as bearer tokens. At the place I work, in our app, the session token is passed as parameter in the request payload. Not a cookie or the Authorization header!

How well does MindFort handle these scenarios?
by lobsterthief | 2025-05-29 18:21:31+00:00
Same here. I’ve been doing web design and development for 24 years now so I’ve witnessed the full pivot towards homogenization of interfaces; it’s necessary for commerce and usability at this point. But once in a while I’ll throw together a microsite like this to return to my roots a bit. This is my latest (a basic Trump presidency countdown clock): https://timeleft.now/
by AlotOfReading | 2025-05-29 18:21:35+00:00
You can guarantee that the probability is the theoretical minimum with a bijection. I think that would be 2^-N since it's just the case where everything's on a maximum length cycle, but I haven't thought about it hard enough to be completely certain.

A good hash function intentionally won't hit that level, but it should be close enough not to matter with 64 bit pointers. 32 bits is small enough that I'd have concerns at scale.
by nullc | 2025-05-29 18:21:49+00:00
The amounts involved are so small that I'm a little doubtful of this cashflow squeeze pattern actually working, but it doesn't have to work to drive markets.

Fun example is the old fax pump and dumps. You'd get some 'market prediction' fax for a penny stock that is very clearly just some pump and dump. No one buying thinks it's anything but a P&D. But they buy thinking other people will be tricked and that they'll get out before the suckers do... so sad for the P&D savvy buyers that they are, in fact, the suckers themselves. It was very important to the effectiveness of the scheme that the faxes be both obvious to be a P&D but also not so obvious that their targets couldn't imagine it fooling anyone.

The author though shouldn't underestimate people just spending their funds inefficiently. A lot of people are not really aware that they could just get a risk free return better than they'd get from this thing, and even when they are they've adopted a non-linear utility where they value some unlikely JesusMarket windfall as much more valuable than a (higher EV) bond return.

Humans seem to have a pretty predictable mishandling of extremely small probabilities. A lot of cons work by convincing the mark that there is a small (but real) odds of a windfall return.

This thing shows up in cryptocurrency markets all the time, you can have some token listed on an exchange with no information at all but some symbol/name and random people will plunk thousands of dollars on it.

To some extent there seems to be a kind of wealth brownian motion where your income is proportional to the number of pixels on the internet that, when clicked, cause funds to be transferred to you. Of course, having an actual REASON to pay you is even better, but it's not strictly necessary.