MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pfdietz | 2025-05-11 00:04:21+00:00
You didn't answer the question.

All the analyses I've seen for fast reactor safety are about avoiding fuel melting, not what happens if the fuel does melt. The variability in this latter scenario is so great that conclusive analysis ruling out disaster doesn't seem possible. Maybe you could explain the unexpected principle that enables one to do that? Or, lacking that, point me to a paper where such analysis has been performed.
by OutOfHere | 2025-05-11 00:04:33+00:00
After having used all three (SO, Reddit, LLMs), they each have their place. SO is the base layer for LLM training, providing a highly dense continuing training corpus for LLMs. There are individual questions on SO that have been explored over ten years. In contrast, Reddit archives threads rather quickly, killing the discussion. SO should remain a tightly-organized place for the elite, whereas Reddit is more suited for diverse and less-organized expression.
by marc_abonce | 2025-05-11 00:04:37+00:00
It's worth mentioning that earlier this year the Vatican published a far longer document about AI. It's a very long read, but it's actually very interesting and worth reading.

Antiqua et Nova. Note on the Relationship Between Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence: https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/docu...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42877709
by Rochus | 2025-05-11 00:04:37+00:00
> he explained how his view of objects sending messages was in line with his background in molecular biology

I don't think he has a formal education in molecular biology (didn't find any (independent) evidence), and I don't think the analogy he draws between his view of messaging and biochemical signaling really works. His messages are directed to specific objects, whereas in a biological system, enzymes and the like are dumped into the bloodstream indiscriminately without a specific target. Biological systems, in constrast to software systems, lack centralized orchestration, relying on emergent behavior from local interactions instead.
by Bjartr | 2025-05-11 00:05:48+00:00
This seems like a set of well balanced, if not comprehensive, principles behind how people interact. Even if it's not complete, I think it can still be helpful. There's a lot here that resonates with me, but only in hindsight. I struggle with understanding people emotionally in the moment a lot of the time it'd benefit me if I could internalize this list.

As they say, all models are wrong, some are useful.
by TMWNN | 2025-05-11 00:05:52+00:00
>(I managed to synchronize the tape drive properly only once and played "Winter Games")

Odd; the Commodore Datasette is about as reliable as a microcomputer tape storage system can be, far more so than the tin cans-on-a-string designs of Sinclair and TRS-80. Did you attempt to use a regular cassette recorder with a third-party adapter?
by const_cast | 2025-05-11 00:06:38+00:00
Politics and social issues, sure, but introspection? Personally, I don't see that. I think people will do almost anything to keep themselves from introspecting.

It's just so much easier to externalize everything and constantly be looking to your environment and how it influences your life, as opposed to looking within. It's very uncomfortable to try to figure out why you are the way that you are and what you can do about it.
by michaelt | 2025-05-11 00:06:45+00:00
> But placing limits on private property accumulation is a controversial idea

The US wouldn't need a legal limit on wealth to prevent Google from becoming this large.

Every major Google product since gmail in ~2004 was acquired. Google Maps? Acquired from Where 2 Technologies. Google Docs? Acquired from Writely. Android? Acquired as a startup. Google Analytics? You guessed it, acquisition. DoubleClick? Once again, acquisition. Deepmind? Acquisition. reCAPTCHA? Acquisition. Youtube? Believe it or not, acquisition.

This isn't a story of a business getting big because of their innovation and the vast demand for their much-loved products.

This is a story of US competition regulators sleeping on the job for 20 years.
by atonse | 2025-05-11 00:06:51+00:00
I honestly felt google is dying a slow death before the recent Gemini models came out. Their search product was pretty reviled. They had very little innovation anywhere.

But after a comically bad start with Bard, they’ve been totally kicking ass with Gemini, and Waymo is become a submarine hit threatening Uber and Lyft. It’s to a point where I think those business will eclipse their cloud and workspace products. (maybe YouTube will become the next wasteland like the google search index, with AI video growing, I hope not though)

In fact, I’d be more worried about MS and Apple. MS started so strong and then stagnated, who even knows what they’re up to now?

Apple is moving at a glacial pace and has had a comically bad time with anything AI so far. “Apple Intelligence” is a joke. Tim Cook has been great at the long term investment stuff, except Siri has seen no meaningful improvements in a decade.

It’s just so early to tell who the winners and losers are going to be. This feels like the early years of iPhone/Android/Blackberry/Windows Mobile.
by bloaf | 2025-05-11 00:08:03+00:00
So I think there are a few subtle things packed into the Pope's statement.

First: A lot of Catholic morality derives from the postulate that man was specially made by God and "in God's image" which gives man an inherent, unique-among-all-creation dignity. Because of this, the church is very sensitive to anything which diminishes the "specialness" of man, as they fear it will undermine people's reasons for treating each other with respect. Its part of the reason why they were initially anti-heliocentrism (man wasn't at the center of the universe) and anti-evolution (man wasn't specially created) before coming around due to overwhelming evidence. The pope is concerned that AI falls into this category of "challenge to human dignity" because it gives the sense that man's cognitive abilities are not unique.

Second: A lot of Catholic theology regarding the soul is driven by god-of-the-gaps style reasoning. Indeed, if you look back at Thomas Aquinas's writings on the soul with a modern bio understanding, its painfully clear that his conception of the "soul" is just his attempt at understanding metabolism without any solid physics or chemistry. Obviously no one today says that the soul is in charge of the "locomotion" of living things, but up until very recently the one last bastion of unexplained behavior where the religious could justify their belief in the soul was the intellect. AI is a direct assault on this final motte, as it is concrete evidence that many of the "intellectual" outputs of the soul could, at least in principle, have a naturalistic explanation. (There was plenty of evidence of the intellect being fully naturalistic prior to AI, but it wasn't the kind of irrefutable "here's a fully natural thing that does the thing you said natural things couldn't do" evidence).

Aquinas: https://www.newadvent.org/summa/1078.htm
by ComplexSystems | 2025-05-11 00:08:42+00:00
DeepSeek's documentation has a different problem, which is that there are spelling errors and weird grammatical constructions everywhere:

"DeepSeek API does NOT constrain user's rate limit. We will try out best to serve every request. However, please note that when our servers are under high traffic pressure, your requests may take some time to receive a response from the server. During this period, your HTTP request will remain connected, and you may continuously receive contents in the following formats..."

The documentation is still mostly easy to read, so it doesn't *really" matter, but I always thought this was bizarre. I mean, I get the language barrier reading manuals from Chinese products off of Amazon or whatever, but this is a company that does nothing but work with language all day long, and even at one point had the world's leading English-speaking language model. Shouldn't they be able to produce professional-looking documentation without spelling and grammatical errors?
by Lalo-ATX | 2025-05-11 00:09:24+00:00
the way I'd look at is what's the return-on-capital for pharmaceuticals as a whole.

Generally I think (this is highly subjective and irrational, of course) that I'd be comfortable with a 10%-20% return-on-capital overall. Lower than that and I'd think that risky drugs couldn't get funding; higher and I'd think there's too much rent-seeking.

Perhaps some economists have studied what an optimal ROC might be for pharmaceuticals.

In any case, the gross margin per-pill doesn't really tell you anything about ROC. 99.875% is astounding, but what was invested to get to that point - including the drugs that never made it to market?
by morkalork | 2025-05-11 00:09:49+00:00
Why is this bad? All those services are areas where there could be interesting competition if google didn't strangle them at birth by subsidizing their own version with infinite ad monies. Take google docs as an example, everyone is talking about on shoring essential services now that the USA has become a security threat to other countries. Before now, imagine any European company trying to justify investment for building a docs competitor when google just gives it away? Yeah sure, your data stays on the continent but that wasn't put into perspective until recently.
by Bjartr | 2025-05-11 00:10:48+00:00
Well, there are many ways to learn about things, there's no "have to" about it.

Learning principles in the context of a language is learning in the context of application rather than pure theory. For some, this helps ground ideas by connecting them to others they already understand. Of course, no advice is universal, and each person needs to decide if it applies to them.

This advice most applicable in the context of deciding what language to learn next. Assuming you want to improve your ability to tackle more kinds of problems, rather than fulfill a particular checkbox. Like learning Java when you already know C# is going to contribute to personal growth less than a LISP or prolog or Rust.
by lukan | 2025-05-11 00:10:58+00:00
Nice pictures, but everthing else was a bit disapointing, so I am going to nitpick.

For example I did not learn, what they actually hunt. I initialy assumed by the title they hunt eagles, but they hunt with eagles, but no word of their prey or anything of how they hunt or where the eagle helps with the hunt.

I assume by letting the eagle fly to go look for bigger prey and then circeling around that area so the hunter goes there with his rifle.

But nothing about that.

And one of the titles broke the long word of outdoorsmen into

"outdoorsm

en"

Not sure if anyone think that is cool(I assume a bug, on desktop it is not broken), but I literally cannot read like this.
by s1artibartfast | 2025-05-11 00:10:59+00:00
It is the actual definition since economist Paul Samuelson coined it in 1954.

Things like public parks and public pools would be classic examples of a "Common resource." Rival and non-excludable.

Classic examples of true public goods would be public radio broadcasting or national defense.

At some point in the past couple decades, people have come to misunderstand the term. Having heard the argument that public goods justify taxation to fund them, they come to believe that anything they like must be a public good.
by stevage | 2025-05-11 00:11:03+00:00
I spent a month in Kyrgyzstan last year and also went to the world nomad games. You do see quite a few eagle hunters around the place offering their birds to pose with tourists for tips. People seem to be pretty into it. They put the bird on the person's arm, blindfolded, and encourage them to we their arm up and down so the bird has to flap its wings to maintain balance.

Overall I really liked Kyrgyzstan. Definitely a simpler kind of place but just well enough developed to feel comfortable. Amazing opportunities for hiking if you're comfortable just making up you own route with no trail to follow.
by quitit | 2025-05-11 00:11:08+00:00
Those changes seem more like boiling the frog because the content they're looking for is only available on YT.

I'm a firm believer in the issue being one of pricing, not that the consumer is willing to pay nothing at all.

I have this view because we've already seen how users flocked to iTunes, then Spotify/Apple Music and Netflix/other streaming services when the pricing was right. We are also now watching as people depart streaming services and return to direct sales and P2P file-sharing due to incrementally higher prices.

To me that's a sure indicator of price being the problem, not an insatiable appetite for zero cost.

The math largely makes sense too. Particularly in music if you're the type that has a taste for a genre of music, rather than just wanting to listen to the top 40.
by delichon | 2025-05-11 00:11:29+00:00
most people love what loves them back

That is exploitable. I tried it and it works. When I was 18 I got a job in a telemarketing boiler room. Two dozen people sitting at long tables with phones and scripts, asking for donations for various causes. Yes I should probably burn in hell for it, but I was a dumb kid.

The first day really sucked, but they let me try again and I came with a plan. Before every call imagine my feeling of love for that person. As I read the script, think "I love you grandma".

Something magical happened. I got like 3 donations out of 5 calls for the rest of the day. The boss was joyful, I was the flavor of the day. He presented me with an alarmingly large bonus when I left.

I was nauseated and never went back. That was my last job in sales.
by like_any_other | 2025-05-11 00:11:43+00:00
First? So not a single white Afrikaner has been admitted as a refugee in the last.. 10 years? Ever?

> in stark contrast to the virtual shutdown of all other refugee admissions.

It's like being given your portion of a meal, and when your brother, next in line, not having eaten for a week, starts to receive his, you declare "The giving of food to my brother is in stark contrast to the virtual shutdown of food given to myself."

But maybe I'm being too hard on NYT - I'm sure they wrote plenty of "stark contrast" articles back when other refugees were being admitted, and zero Afrikaners were.

https://www.news24.com/politics/court-finds-kill-the-boer-ly...
by BenjiWiebe | 2025-05-11 00:11:47+00:00
Not sure what you're talking about.

The last number of solar cycles have been getting progressively weaker. The current one is bucking the trend by being stronger.

Or are you saying that the CO2 content has been decreasing since the 70s, except for a sudden increase in the last few years?

https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/solar-activity/solar-cyc...
by dangrossman | 2025-05-11 00:12:01+00:00
Almost all the things in this list were acquired from someone else that built them, rebranded, and then given away for free, taking much of the money out of the market that allowed that product to be built. Without Google giving away the one winner they chose to acquire, you'd have options again.

I built my free web stats service in 2004 because I couldn't afford an Urchin license. Google bought Urchin Live and rebranded it as Google Analytics, and gave it away for free. My service barely pays for itself 20+ years later, but I'm still here and would have an offering for that market on day one that Google Analytics shut down. So would dozens of others.
by gopherloafers | 2025-05-11 00:13:19+00:00
Not OP, but In 1983 I was 13 and I won a scholarship to a summer camp that rented space in a rich kid prep school for computer camp. I learned pascal over two weeks and the following summer I went back and learned assembly. Three years later I built a 286 and fortunately lived near the Yale bookstore and it had a book on 286 assembly. Basically being a middle class kid adjacent to rich people is how I learned assembly at a young age. If it wasn’t for that camp I wouldn’t have learned computer architecture, logic, and assembly until college. Zip code matters.
Ask HN: What do you actually do with your wearable health data?
by dzohrob | 2025-05-11 00:13:37+00:00
My problem: I close my rings on Apple Watch, check my readiness score on Oura, see my HRV trends... and then what? All this data without clear guidance on what actions to take.

For HN users with health wearables (Apple Watch, Oura, Whoop, Garmin, Withings etc.):

1. What frustrates you most about your current health tracking experience?

2. What would make your wearable data actually useful for improving health outcomes?

3. Do you use any tools/services that successfully bridge this gap?

For some more background: longtime founder & HN user. I'm exploring this space with my cofounder @smock after selling our previous startup to Spotify and getting a little more time to focus on my health. Still early on the journey but loving it so far.

Thanks in advance for any and all help!
by snpm | 2025-05-11 00:14:00+00:00
Hi this is Nibs. I'm looking for feedback on Scraipe, a python scraping and LLM analysis framework. Scapy does web crawling very well, so Scraipe focuses on versatility; it can pull content from Telegram, CertUA, and other APIs in addition to websites. Scraipe also integrates commercial language models to extract nuanced information from scraped content.

Web demo: https://scraipe.streamlit.app/

I want to make Scraipe useful for the broader community. The main feedback I'm looking for is:

- For my use case, I compiled web links from large datasets so web crawling was unnecessary. Would Scraipe be useful for you without web crawling? - What use cases do you have for analyzing website content with LLMs? - What challenges have you faced in your current scraping workflows? - What new features or integrations would you most like to see added to Scraipe? (e.g., whatsapp, x.com, or other integrations)

If you're interested in contributing, please let me know too. My goal is to build Scraipe to maturity and fill a niche in the python ecosystem.
by malfist | 2025-05-11 00:14:02+00:00
They said Kagi works "way better" than google, not that Kagi is better as of late (although they do ask if they've tried kagi lately). Which is consistent with my statement that Kagi is a consistent product and not really improving. They keep adding AI features, but I disable those and don't care about them.

You're welcome to check my post history, I'm certainly not a bot. Or if I am, I'm a very convincing one that runs an astrophotography blog.
by susam | 2025-05-11 00:14:11+00:00
I’d like to share some little demos here.

Bitwise XOR modulo T: https://susam.net/fxyt.html#XYxTN1srN255pTN1sqD

Bitwise AND modulo T: https://susam.net/fxyt.html#XYaTN1srN255pTN1sqN0

Bitwise OR modulo T: https://susam.net/fxyt.html#XYoTN1srN255pTN1sqDN0S

Where T is the time coordinate. Origin for X, Y coordinates is at the bottom left corner of the canvas.

You can pause the animation anytime by clicking the ‘■’ button and then step through the T coordinate using the ‘«’ and ‘»’ buttons.
by caseyy | 2025-05-11 00:14:45+00:00
> most forms of professional therapy the therapist shouldn't say much at all

This is very untrue. Here is a list of psychotherapy modalities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_psychotherapies. In most (almost every) modalities, the therapist provides an intervention and offers advice (by definition: guidance, recommendations).

There is Carl Rogers' client-centered therapy, non-directive supportive therapy, and that's it for low-intervention modalities off the top of my head. Two out of over a hundred. Hardly "most" at all.
by anonfordays | 2025-05-11 00:15:16+00:00
>You're quoting a statement from the Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs.

Trust the experts.

>Given the well-documented history of lies from the current administration, why should we take a statement from a person under their control as fact?

The past N administrations have well-documented histories of lying.

>Let's not forget that the VP literally admitted to creating fake stories to influence public opinion.

Sounds like exactly what this scientist did.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-05-11 00:15:47+00:00
I cannot imagine weighting story and writing higher than gameplay when judging the quality of a videogame

Every videogame journalist who writes about games from a "ludonarrative" perspective just comes across as someone who failed to get into writing about movies

I have one criteria: is the game fun to play

I can put up with a lot of cringe in a story if the game is fun

After all, cutscenes and dialog are almost always skippable. Gameplay isn't

I'll take Dark Souls minimalist storytelling or Cyberpunk's cringe storytelling but fun gameplay over any kind of game with mid gameplay and amazing writing

Edit:

I guess what I'm really saying is that for me, a good story and characters is icing, but games must be fun first. A bad game with good writing is still a bad game. A good game with bad writing is still a good game

I do not understand why people place so much emphasis on non-gameplay elements when judging a game. Watch a show or read a book instead if story is your main concern
by throwanem | 2025-05-11 00:16:30+00:00
If I had to guess, the sixty or so diodes required for an NKRO matrix might have blown the money budget for the project, about like trying to do that kind of work in an interrupt handler would blow the cycle budget for any interesting program even had it been possible. Typing more slowly is free.

Hard to say. I would need to look up component prices for a few years prior to my birth, and it would take me a few minutes to find that archive of 70s Radio Shack catalogs again - though I believe it was actually posted here, so. Of course anyone serious enough to be building an entire computer in those days, brilliant keyboard hack and all, probably wouldn't be sourcing a jellybean part like 1N400x signal diodes one by each...
by stevage | 2025-05-11 00:16:48+00:00
Nah, this would stop a lot of threats.

I'm an example of that threat. I'm a freelancer who often has video calls with new clients. Sometimes I surreptitiously screen cap demos or presentations. It would be very difficult to use a phone that way without breaking the conversational flow.

Other supposed workarounds would require much more preplanning. Like I'd need to know that there was something worth capturing.
by int_19h | 2025-05-11 00:17:45+00:00
The manager at the bottom who has no-one to pass that bucket to does not have the power to institute "better parental leave and part-time work policies", or "open an office in a region with different racial demographics". Yet they are still held accountable for those commitments.

So what they are going to do is the only thing that they actually have the power to do, which is to favor candidates that, if hired, will check off the right boxes as far as "team diversity" goes on their upcoming mid-year review.