MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chneu | 2025-05-30 09:53:10+00:00
Americans often have to rent multiple storage units to store their stuff. This happens after their garages begin to overflow with junk. Id say like 75% of Americans don't use their garage for their car, it's just storage for shit.

A lot of Americans also buy 5th wheel recreational vehicles(caravans) that they can't store at home so they have to store them at designated facilities. It's extremely common to see run-down caravans parked beside houses or in the driveway, too. It's crazy. People buy em, never use em, and then they rot. Same with boats and off road vehicles; sitting there rotting at storage facilities or next to the garage.

Americans own an INSANE amount of stuff. I'm American and I find it crazy how much shit people own. Remember that per capita Americans are the highest consumers in the world and it's not even close.

It has to do with the American exceptionalism thinking. That Americans are special and therefore more entitled to over consume. Manifest Destiny baby, god chose America! The extreme capitalism in America reinforces this mentality. The amount of crap an American owns is a status symbol. A lot of Americans are proud to own stuff they never use.

In the spring time, when folks start opening their garages, i like to see how much winter junk people have accumulated. A month or two ago it was comedic watching people move stuff out of their garages to reorganize so they could then put it all back.
by nye2k | 2025-05-30 09:53:17+00:00
The problem to solve is that these clubs exist already with low membership. Join a local Masonic lodge, or other local social org if you want to meet men you will learn from.

Boy Scouts, DeMolay and other boys youth orgs got their start in the 1910’s, joined by young men without fathers who were lonely due to their life situations. Many just need someone to take their hand and show them how to break the ice.
by adrian_b | 2025-05-30 09:54:20+00:00
There remain many frequently-encountered cases when carry-save addition is worse than addition using add-with-carry.

Neither of the 2 multi-word addition algorithms can replace the other, both have their use cases, so ADC/SBB instructions are included in any decent ISA, because the cost of adding them is negligible. A dedicated flag register is not necessary, some ISAs store the carry/borrow flags in general-purpose registers, when used.

Not having carry is by far not the worst feature of RISC-V. Much worse is not having an integer overflow flag, because the software workaround for detecting integer overflow, which is mandatory for any program that claims to be written in a safe way, lowers the attainable performance much more than the workarounds for not having carry.
by lupusreal | 2025-05-30 09:54:38+00:00
What I find a bit remarkable is how they lost control of their club dynamics so severely. I've been a regular attendee of a few hacker spaces that were open to the public but never had the problem they describe.

I think maybe a key aspect is ensuring that all men, particular the ones that are classically unattractive (even repulsive) feel welcome as valued equals. Many women cannot countenance this and will try to shape group membership to be more agreeable; those women are free to leave. The rest are welcome to stay and at that point there shouldn't be any issues.

(Of course it goes without saying that actual harassment isn't tolerated, but being a smelly fat slob with a heart of gold doesn't count.)
by nkrisc | 2025-05-30 10:00:43+00:00
Sometimes men just want to hang out with other men. I’m a straight man who usually gets along better with women than men, but I still also like spending time with just other men as well. It’s just different. I have no doubt that my presence in a group of women changes the dynamic.

There needs to be some place men can just spend time with other men. Yes, it’s a problem if those men only places become important to business or politics such that it disadvantages women, but there’s got to be something else instead, then.

Women should also have places where they can be together without men.

And there should be a majority of places where men and women can spend time equally.
by animal531 | 2025-05-30 10:01:23+00:00
I don't really think that it has to be a struggle. For example if you started hobby A (which could be an easy thing) then you'd meet other people doing the hobby and could bond over your shared interest etc. But having said that, difficult things will always bond people faster and better, especially if it turns the dynamic into an us vs them situation.

I find that really outgoing people do great with any situation such as e.g. a dinner, but the truth is they do great because they don't need the shared interest. If we were kids and a really outgoing kid showed up they could just hang out with us without having the slightest interest in our games, simply because they were fun to be around.

Personally the kid analogy works quite well to help me understand the dynamics, and sadly what we lose as adults is the ability to walk up to any other person and go "oh is that an abc", and then just joining them AND to be accepted for having done so.
by debugnik | 2025-05-30 10:01:30+00:00
That doesn't explain why standard C# had to deviate further from the script dialect just for import directives. These directives don't interfere with the rest of the grammar.

Is #:package <pkg> really so much nicer than #r "nuget: <pkg>" as to deserve deviating from .NET Interactive, F# and the existing NuGet picker? (It could be, if properly argued!) Has there been any effort to have the rest of .NET adopt this new syntax or share concerns?

On that note, is any language other than C# supported for `dotnet run`? Is the machinery at least documented for other MSBuild SDKs to use? Considering how dotnet watch keeps breaking for F#, I suspect not.
by imiric | 2025-05-30 10:01:33+00:00
As someone working primarily with Go, JS, HTML and CSS, I can attest to the fact that the choice of language makes no difference.

LLMs will routinely generate code that uses non-existent APIs, and has subtle and not-so-subtle bugs. They will make useless suggestions, often leading me on the wrong path, or going in circles. The worst part is that they do so confidently and reassuringly. I.e. if I give any hint to what I think the issue might be, after spending time reviewing their non-working code, then the answer is almost certainly "You're right! Here's the fix..."—which either turns out to be that I was wrong and that wasn't the issue, or their fix ends up creating new issues. It's a huge waste of my time, which would be better spent by reading documentation and writing the code myself.

I suspect that vibe coding is popular with developers who don't bother reviewing the generated code, either due to inexperience or laziness. They will prompt their way into building something that on the surface does what they want, but will fail spectacularly in any scenario they didn't consider. Not to speak of the amount of security and other issues that would get flagged by an actual code review from an experienced human programmer.
by metalman | 2025-05-30 10:01:34+00:00
Our sun is beautifull in action.It looks like nothing else.wow double wow, lucky day.

"The GST system Cona uses a mirror that continuously reshapes itself 2,200 times per second to counteract the image degradation caused by turbulent air. “Adaptive optics is like a pumped-up autofocus and optical image stabilization in your smartphone camera, but correcting for the errors in the atmosphere rather than the user’s shaky hands,” says BBSO Optical Engineer and Chief Observer, Nicolas Gorceix."
by AnthonBerg | 2025-05-30 10:02:53+00:00
Interesting!, thanks! —and also: I’m sorry you had to go through that

Had an experience with a missed type 1 diabetes diagnosis causing neuropathy in a loved one. There is a surprising amount of actionable scientific literature out on neuropathy and all sorts of other issues commonly discussed as best-you-can-do-is-wait-and-see. Once you happen to dig in and start reading.

I remember reading papers on acetyl-L-carnitine helping with diabetic neuropathy, and it was our clear experience that it did help.

There were other supplements which helped with various similar repercussions of a severe and prolonged state of elevated blood sugar, which causes oxidation and tissue damage, and isn’t dissimilar to B6 toxicity as it seems. I don’t remember exactly which nutrients/OTC medications seemed to help neuropathy, but I’d suggest looking into alpha lipoic acid (ALA; more specifically Na-R-ALA), argine, maybe BCAAs in the context of mitochondrial function. Probably some other stuff that has results out on it too.

I’d also suggest reading the molecular biology and neuroimmunobiology on NMDA receptor antagonists and 5-HT2A receptor agonists, classes both of which are shown to be “profoundly immunomodulating” as one paper put it – reducing inflammation, including neuroinflammation – as well as encouraging neuroplasticity, which is also useful in peripheral nerves. The discussion of these known molecular-biological results and implication is unfortunately swamped by various social effects; the best-known NMDA receptor antagonist is called “Ketamine”, haha, and 5-HT2A agonists are usually known as psychedelics and, uh, yeah… molly. The partying and the “wheeee” factor isn’t interesting to me; the neuroimmunobiology of it is!! And I, yeah, I emphatically recommend reading the scientific literature on that.

And generally looking for recent papers on nutrients/supplements/OTC medications in the context of all kinds of similar issues. There are often results in one sub-specialization which are applicable to other things. You don’t need to limit yourself to randomized controlled trials, especially if considering supplementation of compounds known to be safe, rather than medication; Molecular biology is molecular biology, and it’s implausible to me that the placebo effect will reliably improve things like chronic neuropathy. Or insulin sensitivity. I’ve seen direct results on continuous glucose meters and all manner of labwork that confirm this view. —Don’t believe me; I deeply and emphatically recommend reading academic literature.

To paraphrase a nice-seeming guy,

Read papers. Mostly published. Not too slowly.

ps., Claude is unusually good at navigating the scientific landscape!
by hellotheretoday | 2025-05-30 10:03:21+00:00
A lot of times when I ask chatgpt for references on something it sends me dead links or links to something that do not have anything to do with what it claims to be citing. I point that out and then it sends me more of the same. I would not be surprised if they were already working on this to improve that aspect to convince people who actually bother to check sources. I also wonder how many people don’t bother to check and are convinced of its potentially flawed perspectives simply because it delivers some citations that are completely irrelevant

It reminds me of a time I met some kook who was arguing the merits of this dumb bullshit they bought off instagram. It was $800 and claimed to cure anxiety with magnetic power. They sent a word document provided by the company and it was just a bunch of random studies about transcranial direct current stimulation, which is a real thing with some evidence, but was completely unrelated and is based on electrical currents and not magnetic woo woo bullshit.
by timewizard | 2025-05-30 10:03:42+00:00
This is sort of what I'm getting at. These are my taxes. I honestly don't want to involve a third party or sketchy links leading to janky websites. I want to go to IRS.gov, download a form, fill it out, submit it, all within a very limited context and with the smallest amount of feedback that the process completed successfully so I can relieve myself of the burden for another year.

The IRS actually already has the forms. It needs the scripting. It needs a digital submission system. That should be it and should be most of what average taxpayers actually need.
by vbezhenar | 2025-05-30 10:03:55+00:00
You can also make an actually useful and readable SVG favicon this way:

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by inlinestyle_it | 2025-05-30 10:04:31+00:00
Amazing work. But I'm wondering, this is only for your own personal use right? Because the projects you are talking about here are still covered by copyright and thus even if you were the one who ported them to the web it's still not possibile to redistribute them for other people benefit.

If you are interested in taking a look, we run a cloud gaming service based on WASM at https://gaming.inlinestyle.it with cloud saves support. Many of things you discussed are related to what we had to do too, but we tried to do it only for opensource and freeware games so that everyone can benefit from them and play them on the cloud.

Appreciate any suggestion you have on how to improve the service!
by pjmlp | 2025-05-30 10:04:37+00:00
Compiler toolchains are hardly compromises needed to compile code on a PDP-11.

I do agree that UNIX compilation model is not the best example around, though.

Nonetheless, most languages on UNIX like OSes will for the most part follow the same model, as they need to fit into the ecosystem, as otherwise there is always an impedance mismatch that will prevent their adoption in some cases.

That is how you get modern languages like any wanabee C or C++ replacement using the same compiler toolchains and linkers, instead of compiler based build and linker systems, as languages not born into the UNIX culture.

Thus pretending systems programming languages are like scripting languages will hardly help.
by hagbard_c | 2025-05-30 10:04:41+00:00
Yes, loads of 'm, why do you ask? In contrast to the author of this product they, just like most left-wingers who write software tend to keep their political opinions to themselves. When the author of SQLite - to stay within the SQL domain - presented the Rule of St. Benedict as their 'Code of Conduct' during the Code of Conduct wars of the second decade of the 21st century many a 'good leftie' complained that that was unacceptable - hence the reticence of those who are not in cahoots with those 'good lefties' to voice their opinion on things political. It is the loudmouths like the author of SQL Workbench who draw attention which gives some people - like you - the impression that all software authors must be 'good lefties'. This is not the case, software is produced by people from all over the political spectrum just like bread is baked by all, music is made by all, houses are built by all.

[1][ https://www.sqlite.org/codeofethics.html
by drodgers | 2025-05-30 10:08:03+00:00
I think that's generally fair, but this point goes too far:

> improve benchmarks one by one

If you're right about that in the strong sense — that each task needs to be optimised in total isolation — then it would be a longer, slower road to a really powerful humanlike system.

What I think is really happening though that each specific task (eg. coding) is having large spillover effects on other areas (eg. helping them to be better at extended verbal reasoning even when not writing any code). The AI labs can't do everything at once, so they're focusing where:

- It's easy to generate more data and measure results (coding, maths etc.) - There's a relative lack of good data in the existing training corpus (eg. good agentic reasoning logic - the kinds of internal monologs that humans rarely write down) - Areas where it would be immediately useful for the models to get better in a targeted way (eg. agentic tool-use; developing great hypothesis generation instincts in scientific fields like algorithm design, drug discovery and ML research)

By the time those tasks are optimised, I suspect the spill over effects will be substantial and the models will generally be much more capable.

Beyond that, the labs are all pretty open about the fact that they want to use the resulting AI talents for coding, reasoning and research skills to accelerate their own research. If that works (definitely not obvious yet) then finding ways to train a much broader array of skills could be much faster because that process itself would be increasingly automated.
by az09mugen | 2025-05-30 10:09:09+00:00
Yes, one of the examples I saw is Far Cry. In the 2, there was this nice mechanic of fire that spread from grass to trees to houses. It added a realistic dimension to the game. You think they kept it in the latest Far Cry ? No, of course they prefer to put very beautiful graphics than add/keep interesting mechanics. Also the number of bugs in the first release version of AAA's lately is insane. Signs that editors don't polish their games so they can sell them fast. This is not normal, we don't want mediocre quality for our games.

One of the counter-example is Baldur's Gate 3, this game is polished and oddly, people like it !
by Hilift | 2025-05-30 10:10:53+00:00
No, not this much, and for one person. Lynch was a bit of a mystery. The table router, saws, woodshop tools, the cabinet making books. Lynch was sometimes hands on for productions. A lot of the furniture is cool too. Like 1950's period pieces, but custom made. He had four wives and one partner (Isabella Rossellini) and four children. We probably never saw the real David Lynch. A lot of the stuff could just be accumulations from a lot of shopping trips.

"Eraserhead was finally finished in 1976. Lynch said that not a single reviewer of the film understood it as he intended."

Lynch produced Eraserhead on a shoestring budget ($100k) along with Sissy Spacek and her husband, Jack Fisk.
by hland | 2025-05-30 10:11:03+00:00
Binary Security was previously rewarded for three Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerabilities in Azure DevOps, which you can read about here. Now we have found another SSRF vulnerability that we also reported to Microsoft. We then bypassed Microsoft’s fix of the vulnerability using DNS rebinding. If you read the previous blogpost, some of this may feel a bit like deja-vu. This blog post outlines how these new SSRFs were identified by analyzing the Azure DevOps source code.
by sorenjan | 2025-05-30 10:11:08+00:00
This looks really nice, but I cant help to think this is a stop gap solution like other splatting techniques. It's certainly better than NERFs, where the whole scene is contained in a black box, but reality is not made up of a triangle soup or gaussian blobs. Most of the real world is made up of volumes, but can often be thought of as surfaces. It makes sense to represent the ground, a table, walls, etc with planes, not a cloud of semi translucent triangles. This is like pouring LEGO on the floor and moving them around until you get something that looks ok from a distance, instead of putting them together. Obviously looking good is often all that's needed, but it doesn't feel very elegant.

Although, the normals look pretty good in their example images, maybe you can get good geometry from this using some post processing? But then is a triangle soup really the best way of doing that? My impression is that this is chosen specifically to get a final representation that is efficient to render on GPUs. I haven't done any graphics programming in years, but I thought you'd want to keep the number of draw calls down, do you need to cluster these triangles into fewer draw calls?

Is there any work being done to optimize a volumetric representation of scenes and from that create a set of surfaces with realistic looking shaders or similar? I know one of the big benefits of these splatting techniques is that it captures reflections, opacity, anisotropicity, etc, so "old school" photogrammetry with marching cubes and textured meshes have a hard time competing with the visual quality.
by timewizard | 2025-05-30 10:12:00+00:00
You can deduct medical expenses if they're large enough relative to your salary.

You can deduct the cost of thefts. You can deduct alimony. You can deduct student loan interest. You can deduct business use of your car. Donations to charity. Bad loans you gave out. Gambling loses.

Life is not simple. You should not perceive this as an "interview." The tax industry is huge because our businesses are monopoly sized. The majority of money that is liable for tax purposes is held and moved by businesses. Your income taxes are not what this industry runs on.
by phrotoma | 2025-05-30 10:13:00+00:00
As is the case with everything, I'm certain it's more complicated than this, but I believe you've hit on a huge factor. I would encourage anyone who is interested in this (or skeptical of it!) to check out the work of Niobe Way, a psychologist who has been researching the social lives of adolescent boys for a couple decades. I would crudely summarize a key finding of her research as roughly: around 12-14 yrs of age boys stop saying things like "I love my best friend" and start saying things like "I'm not gay" and "I wish I was a girl so I could have feelings".

I'm sad to say that last one is a direct quote. Hug your bros gentlemen.

https://www.niobe-way.com/
by arthursw | 2025-05-30 10:13:03+00:00
Thanks for your comments! I fully agree that the Python ecosystem is (overly) complex, and Conda is generally not necessary for Python tools.

I made this library for a workflow management system, which can use any tool packaged with Conda, not just Python tools. The tools can be binaries made in C++, Java programs, or anything Conda can containerize. Note that Docker is not an option because it cannot be installed automatically on all platforms (and because of performances on non-Linux OS).

My users do not have to worry about command lines to install tools since Wetlands is installed in the workflow management system. Each tool is installed when the user executes a workflow using it.

In the bio-image analysis and medical imaging communities —as well as many others— scientists are often unfamiliar with the Python ecosystem and the concept of virtual environments. However, they rely heavily on a wide range of tools, each with numerous dependencies written in various languages. Applications with a built-in package management system like Wetlands greatly simplify their workflow by handling the complex task of setting up environments for these tools behind the scenes.

For example, Napari is an excellent viewer for multi-dimensional images written in Python which can be easily extended via plugins. There are hundreds of plugins, to do things like image denoising, registration, segmentation, particle tracking, etc. Plugins depend on tools (like Segment-Anything-Model, Cellpose, Stardist, etc.) which cannot be installed in the same environment. Wetlands can come to the rescue and isolate each plugin in its own environment.

I hope the purpose of Wetlands is clearer now :)