MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by onli | 2025-05-04 18:18:11+00:00
I tried to install the BootManager, but the limitations mentioned in the docs blocked the install. I think this part:

> BootManager isn't yet tested very well and still has a few restrictions that it will complain about if they aren't met: the menu can only be installed on your first harddisk and there has to be a 2KiB space after the Master Boot Record (MBR).

No idea how to create those conditions, the 2KiB space, and since I would have to do it with gparted in Linux anyway this made me install Linux instead first (with grub).

BootManager actually sounded nice - like you describe, I expected it to simply offer me the other OS(s) option(s), and I wasn't even set on installing Linux in the first place on that machine.

To your parenthesis: Yeah, I even had a boot manager on USB once for my PC, so it crossed my mind here, but for a travel laptop this would be a bit uncomfortable.
by valec | 2025-05-04 18:18:13+00:00
dosed reasonably (~125 mg with no redoses), ideally at lower ambient temperatures, and ideally with an SSRI at the end of perceptible effects to stop MDMA to keep circulating through the neuron and causing oxidative stress, you will quite literally see 0 axonal damage. maybe some neurotransmitter depletion, but this is only temporary.

PCA yes that is concerning but I would be extremely surprised if it ended up in the MDMA supply chain. MDMA is made cheaply at quantities several magnitudes higher than research chemicals. it's much more likely PCA will be sold as a cut for others RC's -- especially as a part of those dreadful cathinone soups labelled "3-mmc" these days
by netsharc | 2025-05-04 18:18:34+00:00
Hah, now I'm thinking of an AI that knows your personality and steers you do things you've always been fearful or anxious about. "Steve sees a 10/10 girl, the kind he's always felt inadequate to talk to, but he's a different man now, and he's going to tell her 'Tickle your ass with a feather?' in 5... 4... 3... 2...".

Hah, my next startup is an AI-Assist Pick-Up Artist. But that's the "Lamborghini-desiring Crypto-Bro" package that's 49.95 USD/month, the entry level feature would encourage you to go to the gym and eat your vegetables.

AI voices talking to you... now the hallucinations are actually in your head!
by sabslikesobs | 2025-05-04 18:18:50+00:00
Very cool! You've quite nicely rendered some of Aseprite's attractive window chrome.

I draw "pixel art" in Krita with my "Flipnot Brushkit" brushes [1], which I prefer for Homestuck-style low-res painting where traditional pixel art programs kind of fail. Krita has a lot of nice power features for transforms and layering, like the batch_export plugin for exporting tons of layers at once.

[1]: https://sabslikesobs.itch.io/flip-not-brushkit-deluxe-for-kr...
by brookst | 2025-05-04 18:18:59+00:00
I agree. My point is that if there’s no mystic soul, it’s probably a mistake to say AI can’t provide the same actual connection that humans do. Today’s AI can’t, for most people, but it’s a statement about maturity of the tech, not human special-ness.

I also maybe agree with “very very far away”, in the 20ish year range. Farther than some people think, closer than others do.

If and when we get to a place where AI reaches that holistic facsimile, I’m not sure what I’ll think of humans who reject the idea and insist that we are qualitatively different because (insert biological or spiritual rationale here). I suspect it will feel like seeing someone mistreat a call center employee because they happen to be in India, or sound like a disliked minority.
by nuancebydefault | 2025-05-04 18:19:45+00:00
Writing with pencil on paper is very very slow and takes much more space per letter. If you write a lot, chances are high of developing RSI. I'm not even thinking about editing.

I don't see how the author advocates 'the tool should be better than the one it replaces' and then chooses not to buy a computer. I got my Atari ST around '87 and i loved it.
by const_cast | 2025-05-04 18:20:42+00:00
See, you're somewhere in the middle.

I don't have to try at all, you had to try a little, and some people have to try a lot. And that's why we're seeing a variety of experiences with obesity.

The difference is, I recognize there must be something about my genetics, or my way of life, or my upbringing, or whatever, that gives me such privilege. You, however, have zero humility, and simply believe yourself superior. I doubt it works that way.

I mean, I have plenty of other problems. I have no discipline, no self control. And I'm thin. So... it's more complicated then you give it credit.
by mdp2021 | 2025-05-04 18:22:00+00:00
That is an architectural problem. If you want the post to be rephrased: it is paradoxical to have changes made near the output level, "changing words before it says them", given that the expected is to work with ideas. (And even then, selection would not be at the output level - it would be during the definition of the structure.)

So, articles like this submission - while interesting from many points of view - make the elephant in the room more evident.

> You cannot define an idea as a training loss objective

What tells you so? If you see a technical limit, note e.g. that sentences and paragraphs can have their own position in an embedding space.
by otherme123 | 2025-05-04 18:22:10+00:00
Our research around the same time came to the conclusion of a sun tracker, with wind protection, would be the best option. The panels were very expensive (a 400'ish W panel that today cost $80 costed around $2,500-$3,000), so aiming for the absolute best performance for the panels was key.

The trackers fail sometimes, but I would say once a year or so. The electronics are not that complicated, and its reliability was higher than the motor itself. I remember calculating with fixed tracking of the sun (because you know were it is at all time) vs photocells that tell the motors were to move and by how much. The trackers win because when the day is cloudy the best performance is to put the panel flat and let it rest there (instead of tracking a sun that isn't there so the motor that day consume more energy that the panels generate), and with enough cloudy days the tracker outperform the fixed tracking by a significant amount.

It's not until recently, with 400W panels under about $500, that tracking no longer makes sense, at least in our latitude.
by yladiz | 2025-05-04 18:22:31+00:00
Of course, and I have been pretty junior at an early stage startup where I improved and learned a lot (more than I think I would have at a larger company, at least), but I definitely wouldn’t have worked as many hours if I had more experience, and I think the arguments that center around you needing to work extremely hard (7 days a week, and/or like 70-80hrs) are predatory and have no sympathy for them. As other commenters have mentioned, if you need to exploit people in some way to be sustainable then you’re not sustainable.
by tptacek | 2025-05-04 18:22:36+00:00
It's not even in my top 5 Nirvana songs. The riff you're talking about is Boston's "More Than A Feeling" --- so much so that they used to play a fake-out of "More Than A Feeeling" in concert. I like "Smells Like Teen Spirit" more than "More Than A Feeling", but not like, much more.

1. Where Did You Sleep Last Night Unplugged

2. Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle (or, interchangeably, "Rape Me", though the "blanket of ash" line gets me every time with Frances Farmer).

3. Lithium

4. Heart Shaped Box

5. Dumb (unplugged).

It's not fair to make the #1 song a cover, but that performance merits it.
by neonsunset | 2025-05-04 18:22:39+00:00
FWIW web-frameworks-benchmark is bad and has strange execution environment with results which neither correlate nor are reproducible elsewhere. TechEmpower also has gotten way worse, I stopped looking at it because its examples perform too little work and end up being highly sensitive to factors not related to the languages chosen or may be a demonstration of underlying techniques optimizing for maximum throughput, which in real world is surprisingly rare scenario (you would probably care more about overall efficiency, reasonable latency and reaching throughput target instead). TechEmpower runs on very large machines where you get into a territory that if you're operating at such scale and hardware, you're going to (have to) manually tune your application anyway.

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... is the most adequate, if biased in ways you may not agree with, if you want to understand raw _language_ overhead on optimized-ish code (multiplied by the willingness of the submission authors to overthink/overengineer, you may be interested in comparing specific submissions). Which is only a half (or even one third) of the story because the other half, as you noted, is performance of frameworks/libraries. I.e. Spring is slow, ActiveJ is faster.

However, it's important to still look at the performance of most popular libraries and how well the language copes with somewhat badly written user code which absolutely will dominate the latency way more often than anyone trying to handwave away the shortcomings of interpreted languages with "but I/O bound!!!" would be willing to admit.
by cinci | 2025-05-04 18:23:12+00:00
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by serial_dev | 2025-05-04 18:24:34+00:00
I don’t know where the truth lies, but even if everything you wrote is true (and it does sound reasonable to me), not giving anesthesia might still be a safer choice considering the side effects. Not saying it is, only saying that we need to take a look at the side effects and risks, and all other (at a time) available information before we call them barbarians.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-05-04 18:25:00+00:00
>faced with the paperwork issue, airport staff threw all 440 squirrels into an industrial shredder.

Has nobody commented on the sheer macabre bloodbath that must have ensued, or that some random airport staffer were willing to carry it out right to the end, for 440 chunky, cute, furry marmots? That's some psychotically serious.. uh, dedication to job duties.
by Nifty3929 | 2025-05-04 18:25:17+00:00
This right here. Medicine is not bad in general. Mother Nature is a wicked mistress. Pain and suffering are her defaults, and glimmers of happiness fleeting.

Modern technology and medicine in particular have made our lives better and longer in ways our near ancestors could not have dreamed of or hoped for.

It's not hard to find counterexamples of course: opioid addiction, climate change, etc. But on balance we're a hellava lot better off now than 50 or 500 years ago.

Nice to use a bit less anesthesia for faster/better recovery and money savings. But for goodness sake - let's not go TOO far down that path.
by const_cast | 2025-05-04 18:25:42+00:00
> If it's just left wing good, right wing bad, then you've made my argument for me!

No, that's not my argument.

My argument is that public and private media have different incentive structures so you can't just compare them like that.

And, in addition, the right hates anything public. Of course they want to dismantle public media, because that's what they do. They want to dismantle public schools too, and social security. Because then they, and their friends, can get their slice. The problem with public programs is that rich can't buy them.

And this isn't an unfair characterization of the right, this is their explicit goals. Again, with SS, the second it was made into law it was under attack by the right. They'll lie to you and say "it's insolvent! It doesn't work! We need to privatize it... if me and my cronies control it, then it would be much better!" But of course, what happens is they sell it off, you don't get your retirement, and the money gets stolen. They know that, that's why they want to do it.

> FOX isn't a private entertainment programme, it's a channel that's focused exclusively on news and current affairs.

See, this makes me think you're trolling. Come on now.
by rozab | 2025-05-04 18:25:52+00:00
Isn't this exactly how Pluto was discovered? Due to an innacurate estimate of the mass of Neptune (not corrected until Voyager I think), people were hunting for a large planet to explain the discrepancy. After a bunch of searching they happened to find Pluto, but it was not the Planet X they were looking for. The mass estimates for Pluto were gradually downgraded from many Earth masses to 1/500, which is the true reason it was initially classified as a planet.
by freehorse | 2025-05-04 18:25:53+00:00
That sounds like a software problem to me, not one that requires a hardware solution. There is nothing in what you describe that cannot be performed through bluetooth packets.

I am not sure which dongles make these corrections, but my experience with dongles is worse than bluetooth. Typically, a mouse is very close to the bluetooth antenna of a computer, and I have not really experienced any sort of connection issues due to missing packages etc. In contrast, I have had tons of issues with usb dongles due to usb interference.
by aziaziazi | 2025-05-04 18:26:14+00:00
Rough like the roughest hangover you can have.

I had a general anesthesia at 21 for dental surgery. The come back was a nightmare: nausea, shaking, cold and hot alternating, terrible headache, cramps, exhausted and mentally depressed during ~2 days. I couldn't eat, I couldn't drink (but brute force myself to do it), I couldn't think or concentrate on anything but the pain. The only close experience I can remember is the wake up after a blackout hangover but it really wasn't that bad compare to the anesthesia.

6 years later a car crash required artificial coma during 3 days. They drug me along the week following my come back. The dreams during the last day of coma and that week took me through fascinating and terrifying experiences half real (intubation, interactions with family and medics...) and imaginary (ever-repeting-same-day, interns having a fireplace in the ICU floor with guitars, mind-controlled bed to move around the room...). They finally gradually stop the drug and I was only a bit angry and physically suffering from my injuries but not that bad.

Big up to the amazing Royal Perth Hospital team for that amazing care. They saved my life and made the process a confortable trip.

I always wonder what was that drug that produce so weird half-wake dreams with not much side effects. And why they don't always use that for dental surgery and everything else. I heard hypnosis can work instead of a classical general anesthesia and am keen to try if the funny Australian drug isn't an option. Everything but not the general anesthesia.

edit: wonder if both experiences could have been the same sedative drug but the second had a hypnotic wake-up parachute drug during the comeback.
by mjevans | 2025-05-04 18:26:44+00:00
FUD (Fear Uncertainty Doubt).

Every OS has it's quirks, things you might not recall as friction points because they're expected.

I haven't found any notable issues with quality hardware, possibly with some need to verify support in the case of radio transmitter devices. You'd probably have the same issue for E.G. Mac OS X.

As consumers we'd have an easier time if: 1) The main chipset and 'device type ID' had to be printed on the box. 2) Model numbers had to change in a visible way for material changes to the Bill of Materials (any components with other specifications, including different primary chipset control methods). 3) Manufacturers at least tried one flavor of Linux, without non-GPL modules (common firmware blobs are OK) and gave a pass / fail on that.
by holowoodman | 2025-05-04 18:27:16+00:00
Depends on the "kind" of anesthesia, on the medication used and on the specific reaction of the patient to that medication.

For example there is stuff like Ketamine, which in some cases can live up to its other use as a recreational drug and give the patient very colorful dreams. There are sedatives that just take away the capacity to form memories, but leave you awake and aware, just calmer. In cases like some knee surgeries, it is possible to leave the patient fully awake, just paralyze and numb the legs.
by NorwegianDude | 2025-05-04 18:27:34+00:00
It does not have to be a programming language on the server, no, unless you want to. The server can have a static site, that you build as you deploy it.

Fetching another resource is expensive. It's another round trip, and depending on many factors it could be another second to load the page. And if the HTML includes other nested HTML then it can be much slower.

This is the exact thing we try to avoid when building websites that perform well. You want as few chained requests as possible, and you want the browser to be aware of them as soon as possible, with the correct priority. That way the browser can get the important stuff needed to display content fast.

Including HTML client side for templating is just wasteful, slow and dumb from a technical standpoint.

Every client would have to do another request for each include. It would literally be many thousands of times slower(or worse) than doing it locally where the templates can be in memory as you render the pre-render the pages. You also save a ton of CPU cycles and bandwidth, by not serving more files with additional overhead like headers.
by sofixa | 2025-05-04 18:29:53+00:00
I'm typing this on a Macbook Pro, which is made by Apple with their net profit margin of 24.3% for Q4 2024. BNSF, one of the companies which is the topic of this conversation, has an operating ratio of 68% for 2024 (how much of their revenue goes towards operational costs). Their net income was $5 billion. They can afford to have a little extra employees to cover fucking sick leave.

> Get in the real world, not some fantasy land

Get out of a libertrarian's wet dream and look around you, read up a little bit on various companies financials.
Ask HN: Predictions for the next 10 years? 2025 – 2035
by keepamovin | 2025-05-04 18:29:55+00:00
I see a similar thread here occasionally but not for a while. It's almost midway through the mid-year of this decade, so seems a good time. Plus, it's May the 4th, so: search out with your feelings - and what do you see?
by brudgers | 2025-05-04 18:30:07+00:00
James E. Foy Information Desk

Jim “Dean Foy” Foy was a wonderful human being.

I got to know him a little through Rotary in the last years of his life because I had an off and on honor of chauffeuring him to and from meetings in the Grand Caravan. Even got to bring my boy along on the days he didn’t have school.

He was an Auburn University legend — the Foy Information Desk was created when they remodeled Foy Hall. [1]

Anyway, ironically Jim graduated from Tuscaloosa despite his Auburn being his familial allegiance. The Boll Weevil drove his parents out of Eufala and to Tuscaloosa for work and so he went to college there.

During the war he flew Corsairs and told me and the boy about bailing out and hanging from a tree as we drove home from a meeting.

He’d been Club president in 1953 and had 100% attendance for about 60 years. And always led the Club in a War Eagle before home football games until he couldn’t.

I am truly blessed to have spent time with Jim and more blessed that my boy now man did.

[1] At the time, the plan was to rename the building, but Google streetview shows that didn’t happen and now even the street is named for Jim. Yeah he was that big a deal.
by LorenPechtel | 2025-05-04 18:31:09+00:00
Treat it more generally--gear that you are in some fashion going to trust your life to. It doesn't even need to be something fancy--a couple of days ago I was out on a hike and realized a companion was wearing jeans. The terrain was slightly scrambly (nothing that required any skill) and in a canyon that should have had a stream at this time of year. Fall into that in jeans and hypothermia becomes a very real issue.
by magicalist | 2025-05-04 18:31:43+00:00
> If a black hole with a mass of, say, Ceres hit the Earth, it would not be particularly worse than if Ceres hit the Earth.

This equivalency is true for many aspects of orbital mechanics (depending on setup giving sufficient distance), but I don't believe that's true at all for a collision. Someone with more knowledge correct me, but a black hole with the mass of Ceres would be very tiny but also emitting a ton of radiation. The collision would be very different.
by Nevermark | 2025-05-04 18:31:59+00:00
I have a set of twelve books by an artist, titled "Astronomical" (one book for each letter). The first page shows the sun, then the rest of the books are almost all simply black pages, but with the planets and asteroid belt entities shown with accurate distance and size scale.

It communicates the scales really well, while only taking up a little over a foot of bookshelf space when not being "navigated". I have two heavy metallic retro looking rocket bookends for it.
by mgraczyk | 2025-05-04 18:32:33+00:00
yeah bro just one more principal bro authenticate each one with SAML or OIDC or Google Signin bro set the permissions for each one make sure your service account has permissions aiplatform.models.get and aiplatform.models.list bro or make a custom role and attach the role to the principle to parcel the permission

It's not complicated in the context of huge enterprise applications, but for most people trying to use Google's LLMs, it's much more confusing than using an API key. The parent commenter is probably using an aws secret key.

And FWIW this is basically what google encourages you to do with firebase (with the admin service account credential as a secret key).
by rainsford | 2025-05-04 18:32:49+00:00
It's sort of amazing to me that the Sun can capture objects that far away. Like obviously even at that distance the Sun would be by far the closest massive thing, but it's hard to comprehend the effects of gravity being strong enough at that distance. From "Planet 9" the Sun probably wouldn't significantly stand out from all the other stars in the sky, yet you'd be orbiting it.
by const_cast | 2025-05-04 18:32:55+00:00
The only reason the economy is in any kind of "decent" shape is because Trump backtracked on the things he said. He's well aware his suggestions are economic catastrophe.

So, you should be thanking his opposition for forcing his hand in this. You're welcome. If we did not complain enough, then the tariffs would still be proposed and we'd be fucked. Luckily, he backtracked 99% of it.

And, nothing has actually went into effect yet. What you're missing is that the economic disaster we've seen is just from him threatening it. Yeah, nothing material has happened yet. So however bad it was, it can only get worse when his awful, awful economic policy comes to fruition.

Also, GDP is down Q1 2025. We're almost certainly going to enter a recession, it's mostly a question of how bad it's going to be. Have fun!
by tptacek | 2025-05-04 18:33:49+00:00
Pixies antecedents are Husker Du and Sonic Youth.

Sonic Youth was the Velvets and The Fall; I found a list of setlists from '70s CBGB and made a playlist, and you can hear Sonic Youth all over it.

Throwing Muses (a favorite of mine) a little harder to pinpoint, feels to me like the product of a scene more than a direct evolution of clear antecedents, rather than an act like Dinosaur Jr. was a perversion of Neil Young. A good contrast to Nirvana.

PJ Harvey is the Pixies antecedents plus Patti Smith. People say Beefheart; I don't know Beefheart well enough to say and have a deep suspicion of people who bring up Beefheart.

Kate Bush is prog rock.

Einsturzende is Can (or like a violent response to Can).

The Cure is radio-friendly post-punk; their early stuff, which is the only stuff that comes close to holding up, is basically Wire.