MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mindslight | 2025-05-02 17:53:49+00:00
If your desired goal is to reduce our dependence on Chinese imports you should actually be completely against what this administration is doing. The doubled cost of importing equipment to build new factories, the unpredictability of policies changing by the month discouraging investment, the locking up of our economy (consumer and industrial) from everything we currently rely on doubling in price. All of these are things that will destroy domestic industry, and at this point it should be painfully clear that there is no plan for actually constructively growing our economy. Yet meanwhile killing the constructive attempts by the Biden administration (eg CHIPS), because you can't have the other team be successful at helping the country!

Then let's look at some of the second order effects. A container of cargo going to a US (eg Amazon) warehouse has to pay tariffs up front, whereas a direct-from-China purchase can pay the tariffs at the border with cash-in-hand. So that gives a leg up to Chinese vendors and marketplaces.

Think about Chinese companies building out factories in other countries. The tariff tax enthusiast response is to imagine we'll respond by raising tariffs on those countries as well like some game of wack-a-mole. But the reality is that trend will be spreading Chinese investment and influence even further throughout the world, and any post-facto attempt at punishment will just push that country fully into the Chinese sphere of influence!

When examined, every single action by this administration seems to be much closer to supporting the desires of our adversaries rather than helping our own situation. It's hard to know exactly whether these people are directly working for foreign interests, just following the winds of social media campaigns working hard to promote edgy feel-smart but society-killing memes, or somewhere in the middle with a wink-wink. But regardless, we need to pull up hard from this societal embrace of team-sport ignorance if we want to have any future that isn't being a hollowed out backwater.
by derektank | 2025-05-02 17:53:51+00:00
>I got on TRT and compound semaglutide

>There are always solutions, we don't have to accept a slow decay.

I find it funny that you say there are always solutions when two of the solutions (or if you bristle at referring to them as solutions in themselves, certainly pieces of a solution) you mention have only really existed for the last twenty years. Semaglutide obviously was only approved by the FDA recently, but the first transdermal/non-injectable Testosterone (which I'm guessing is the form you're taking) replacement therapy was only approved in the late 90's. Most people today, even in developed countries, still can't afford Semaglutide.

I agree with your broader message that people shouldn't give up and should seek to leverage every resource available to them, but there's a faint whiff of moralizing in your comment that seems unearned when it's based upon the happy fortune of living in an era of medical marvels.
by cjbgkagh | 2025-05-02 17:53:52+00:00
Underestimating the complexity of other fields is not mutually exclusive with overestimating the intelligence of others. The real issue is that society is very stratified so smart people are less likely to interact with regular people, especially in circumstances where the intelligence of the regular person could become obvious.

I don’t see there being an insurmountable barrier that would prevent LLMs from doing the things you suggest it cannot. So even assuming you are correct for now I would suggest that LLMs will improve.

My estimations don’t come from my assumption that other people’s jobs are easy, they come from doing applied research in behavioral analytics on mountains of data in rather large data centers.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-05-02 17:53:54+00:00
A miracle, by definition, transcends the nature of the thing in question. The cause is not attributable to the power of the thing effected or anything in the world.

If God is distinct from what is created, then a miracle cannot be said to be a manifestation of what is created. Pantheism, on the other hand, must deny miracles, because God and the universe are one, and so all apparent miracles are merely unaccounted for manifestations of reality and perhaps explainable by "some future human theory of reality".

Since Jesuits (ostensibly) hold to a Catholic view in which God and the created order are distinct, they must therefore believe that miracles are not only possible, but do happen. The question is then largely whether a particular effect is miraculous or not.
by lysace | 2025-05-02 17:54:16+00:00
https://globalnews.ca/news/11160912/rfk-jr-vaccines-placebo-...

> Vaccines that target new infectious agents are often tested using the placebo method, but for well-known and researched diseases, health experts say using a placebo poses ethical issues because the group receiving it will not know if they are actually protected against the illness.

...

> Peter Lurie, a former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official, told the BBC, “It’s hard to tell exactly what is being proposed.”

> “But, broadly, if they mean that every modification to an existing vaccine would require a new placebo-controlled trial, they are treading in ethically dubious territory and likely to deny Americans life-saving vaccines at some point.”

So grandstanding without nuance. It's a clear pattern with this US admin.
by BizarroLand | 2025-05-02 17:54:17+00:00
I think you misunderstand.

Prices on some things trend downward without inflation as the products become cheaper to manufacture and distribute due to process improvements and economy of scale.

Take, for instance, flat screen tvs. The first 42" flat screen TV, released in 1997, cost $18,750, or the equivalent of $37,201 in today's money.

https://www.wgal.com/article/evolution-of-tv-technology-pric...

The least expensive 42" (technically 43") tv available at Bestbuy today is on sale for $113.99, or the equivalent of $57.21 in 1997 money.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/hisense-43-class-a6-series-led-...

Obviously this is not an apples to apple comparison, its a clarification that on some goods prices decrease regardless of inflation due to forces outside of the relative value of a dollar.
by spamizbad | 2025-05-02 17:54:35+00:00
Not sure if Canadians are aware of this, but Canada does two things really well:

1) Developing its own domestic artists/musicians, to a much greater degree than the US (eg https://www.factor.ca/)

2) Greatly restricting smaller foreign acts (especially from the US) from performing in Canada for commercial purposes

Yes, point #2 also applies to the US, but it's not enforced. But if you cross into Canada with musical instruments, they'll put the fear of God into you.

This is largely why the phenomena you describe exists: artists can develop within their domestic cocoon, without being crowded-out by Americans, and then tour their larger, wealthier neighbor to greatly expand their profile virtually risk-free.
by goldbeck | 2025-05-02 17:54:40+00:00
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by 7373737373 | 2025-05-02 17:54:43+00:00
One problem I haven't found a mechanical solution for yet is how one could (simply) implement a state transition table - for a specific example say you have 9 states each mapping to one of 9 other states, and many-to one mappings are possible:

1 -> 2 2 -> 9 3 -> 1 4 -> 6 5 -> 2 6 -> 6 7 -> 1 8 -> 8 9 -> 9

(This is the 3rd of 4 transition tables for an 8-state, 4-symbol Universal Turing Machine. These transitions apply if the 3rd symbol is read from tape at the current head position - with all 4 transition tables implemented you could select between them depending on the read symbol. 9 is the halt state.)

The mechanism should remain in one state and then go to the next as indicated by the table, repeatedly. How would you mechanically implement this? A face cam with many grooves perhaps, starting and ending at different angles? https://i.imgur.com/aNPBcdh.png - while always moving a follower from the center of the wheel through the groove to its edge, with something like a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chebyshev_lambda_linkage, so the wheel stops at the next angle representing the current state?

The fact that there does not seem to exist a simple answer for even this seems to partially explain why mechanical computers were quickly given up on.
by infecto | 2025-05-02 17:54:48+00:00
I’m not a literary scholar, but this seems like a great use case for ChatGPT. I’ve used it for music explorations and found it surprisingly good at providing context and interesting suggestions. I tried your idea with The Grapes of Wrath and it surfaced Whose Names Are Unknown, with a thoughtful explanation. Obviously it’s qualitative, but you can shape the prompt to reflect your taste and still get some worthwhile discoveries.

[1] https://chatgpt.com/share/68150654-bebc-8010-ad4b-050f5b39d4...
by seanw444 | 2025-05-02 17:54:53+00:00
I rarely touch LLMs (I think they're very overhyped and usually unnecessary), but I did find one use case that was handy recently. I was writing some Nim code that interfaced with Cairo, and one Cairo feature wasn't really documented at all, and the design pattern was one I was not familiar with.

Asking it to write Nim code to solve my problem resulted in a mess of compilation errors, and it kept looping through multiple broken approaches when I pointed out what was flawed.

Finally, I just decided to ask it to explain the C design pattern I was unfamiliar with, and it was capable of bridging the gap enough for me to be able to write the correct Nim code. That was pretty cool. There was no documentation anywhere for what I needed, and nobody else had ever encountered that problem before. That said, I could have just gone to the Nim forum with a snippet and asked for help, and I would have solved the problem with a fraction of the electricity usage.
by Jensson | 2025-05-02 17:55:07+00:00
> In the case of human spoken language, the recursion exists in our characterization of the grammar

But people are constructing sentences, not grammars. When you construct a grammar you can add a recursive part to it, that is true, just like in a programming language, but constructing grammars is not what people mean with language skills.

A sentence can't be recursive since languages in themselves has no concept of applying a concept, for that you need an interpretation of the language references. For example, you can have a recursive function written in a programming language that doesn't have a recursive grammar, the concepts are different things.
by Arelius | 2025-05-02 17:55:16+00:00
Ugh, on both mobile platforms, we have/had multiple popular games that their updates keep breaking, and they keep deprecating SDKs for. And each game is at on a different engine revision so we can't combone the work. We'd really like to keep these games up for for our mobile players, but we can't justify the cost, we make some money on these platforms, but nothing that justifies the immense cost.

Meanwhile, our console/steam/gog builds have seen an update or so at our discretion, and have just continued to run happily, and make more money.

Honestly it's hard to justify the maintenance effort to even consider porting out next games to mobile.

But really the people who are hurt are our players that already bought our game, but when the upgrade phones or OSes they no longer have an option to play unless they want to transfer their licenses to PC.
by xk3 | 2025-05-02 17:55:18+00:00
Git works pretty well for syncing binary files. You can even do this:

$ cat .gitattributes *.db diff=sqlite3

And you can know how the sqlite files changed between commits--but yeah if you make commits while a process is writing new rows or updating data then you'll have data loss if you make a commit on another machine--better to use something like litestream in that case
by Klonoar | 2025-05-02 17:55:30+00:00
If you’re only looking at HN, sure.

The programming world is much larger than this small slice of the internet, though. HN has had several eras of “this is the hot new fad language and you should use it!”, going as far back as Lisp in the mid-2000s.

It will likely continue to experience this cycle until the heat death of the universe.
by jghn | 2025-05-02 17:56:01+00:00
Your example is the oversimplification that causes people to disbelieve CICO. In your example the body adjusted and the CO wasn't stable. CICO still holds, the flaw is the person assuming their CO was stable.

People who staunchly support CICO as the end all be all talking point miss what you describe. At the same time people who decry CICO as being bogus are missing what I describe. Both are true and both are wrong. It's really just a semantic argument.
by rafram | 2025-05-02 17:56:04+00:00
Not sure where you're getting the idea that it's a Bash completion extension from. It's a new shell (see name) that natively supports complex nested data structures, numbers, numbers with units, and so on. Compare with the classic POSIX shell model where everything is line-based (defined loosely), numerical operations rely on hacks, and splitting command output lines relies on hardcoded column indices.
by tmaly | 2025-05-02 17:56:07+00:00
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by rsynnott | 2025-05-02 17:56:08+00:00
Well, I mean, yeah, it's not a bill of attainder, and they get to appeal. For something like this, a company will _always_ appeal, even if they are sure they cannot win the appeal, because then they get to hold onto a billion dollars for an extra year or so, and the value of that is far greater than any legal fees they're likely to incur.

> Probably never will, perhaps in exchange for some job creation

That bit I'd be more dubious on. Ireland's courts are very independent (sometimes to the point of comedy, for instance see the incident a decade ago where the courts found that the legal mechanism used to ban most drugs was invalid: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/10/irish-es-are-s... , leading to ecstasy, ketamine etc becoming legal for a day). It's not a US-style highly-politicised court system, and even if the government wanted to influence the eventual outcome, it doesn't really have levers to do so.

They're cranking through the process, but, like, unless the GDPR is found to be _unconstitutional_ (seems implausible, given the enormous amount of constitutional scrutiny that EU law has already had), they're probably looking at paying once the process comes to an end.
by Snow_Falls | 2025-05-02 17:56:34+00:00
You're using some really emotional language about what is really not such a huge issue. Maybe it's time to go offline for a while?

"no different than a mob subjecting an old woman to accusations of being a witch."

Well, you're not being driven out of your village or being executed... Also the person you're replying to has beeing rather polite. Hardly a witch hunt is it?

"barely different from those of the Westboro Baptist Church"

The church that interrupts the grieving of the families of dead soldiers to shout about how much they hate gay people? You seriously believe that the person you're repling to is "barely different" from that?

"IOW, sure, you are allowed to publicly condemn people who hold different moral beliefs to you, but the optics are not good for you."

You're literally condeming them for having different moral beliefs than you right now, while being much more accusatory about it, comparing them to some really vile people. I wonder how you feel the optics of this reflects on you, because I don't think it's good for you.

Why are you so offended that someone might judge you for ignoring the friendly request of someone giving you something for free?
by rolandog | 2025-05-02 17:56:36+00:00
Yeah. I have often wondered how to deal with such vitriolic behavior from a loud — but small — portion of the population.

We have entertained their callousness and allowed them to drown out the conversation for far too long.

But I digress...

We should normalize requiring them to prove their argumentum ad lapidem, otherwise they'll end up depriving us from the very air we breathe.
by horsawlarway | 2025-05-02 17:56:39+00:00
A common need for this is during an acquisition or merger.

It's fine and all to assume that domain is identity, but that doesn't actually map too well to relatively complex organizational hierarchies.

Ex - Bank A and Bank B merge. There is going to be a period where they have to navigate that two domains represent a single organization. It's often a fairly high level of effort to move to a completely new domain, and it won't be done overnight.

Yes - eventually you want to be back on a single domain, and I think there is definitely a world where this leads to some very bad patterns (HR and healthcare are two examples - if you've ever seen a login need to bounce between like 5 different domains because they've refused to actually do the technical work to consolidate back on a single domain, and treat the domain as marketing).

But it's a really valid spot to end up in, and is the most common cause of having a single entity spread out over multiple domains in my experience.
by cgriswald | 2025-05-02 17:57:04+00:00
I don’t need no-questions refunds. I need fair transactions.

Apple is too powerful in this relationship to provide it. If I have a problem with a merchant I can go to my credit card company about it. If I have a problem with my credit card company I might lose out on that one transaction but I can get a different credit card.

If I have a problem with Apple (or Steam or Nintendo or…) I either have to take the abuse or lose past “purchases”.

And the merchant themselves can do no questions asked refunds anyway.
by PartiallyTyped | 2025-05-02 17:57:04+00:00
I am willing to bet good money that teaching pure mathematics like group theory, abstract algebra, or stuff like big Oh and combinatronics will do our kids a lot more good and advance them far more than calculus or geometry as taught in schools will.

I have the same experience as you did, in that studying by myself abstract algebra accelerated my learning and reasoning skills.
by JohnMakin | 2025-05-02 17:57:07+00:00
> There’s a lot of people out there who “aren’t math people,” but they just might be computer science people

This is beyond silly from my perspective. I know the field of CS is vast, but this seems to conflate programming with CS. My school was more theory heavy but there definitely came a point in certain paths of study where I didnt touch a line of code for a year, just pure math. I struggle to even understand how someone can think of this sentence - computer science at its core is underpinned by mathematics.
by mopsi | 2025-05-02 17:58:11+00:00
And some of the most influential Westerns were shot by Italians in the deserts of Spain, often without any of them ever having set foot in the US, and with a grasp of English barely a notch above miming. The stereotypical Western (as it is known today) is largely Italian-made, especially when it comes to the music (Ennio Morricone): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_Western
by karmakaze | 2025-05-02 17:58:32+00:00
I've wondered what kind of reliability/throughput would be possible sending data to a single process that writes to a log file (assuming writes don't need to be immediately flushed via using battery backup). I'd want a cancel mechanism that could invalidate a recently written entry by marking the start of it. Seems like it would be very reliable. It could even be made to separate streams to different files/devices. A poor-man's Kafka.
by wonderwonder | 2025-05-02 17:58:51+00:00
Perhaps I should have said: "There are always solutions now" Of course these are new medications but they are widely available. I am not referring to history I am talking about the present. Would think that was relatively obvious, I may have been wrong, which, fair enough.

I'm on injectable testosterone, give myself a shot every week. Semaglutide (compounded not name brand) is relatively affordable. I spend $120 a month on it. If I did the work I could probably get it for cheaper.

Edit: I took a look, appears I can get it for ~$40 a month if I want.
by godelski | 2025-05-02 17:59:03+00:00
Unfortunately I don't know any direct resources. I really do hope they are out there and some will share.

But if you're willing to hunt, I know that this idea was attempted before[0]. France and USSR had better success than the US. I'm sure there are still people working in this direction. I don't have children, but fwiw I've taught my nieces and nephews algebra and even some of calculus before they were 10 just in visiting time during vacations. They were bored and it seemed more fun than talking about the drama, politics, and religion that the rest of my family likes to spend most of their time on. Kids were similarly disinterested in that stuff lol. I've also seen my god{son,daughter} be able to learn these types of skills, so I'm highly confident it is doable.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Math
by gh0stcat | 2025-05-02 17:59:07+00:00
This is such an interesting question though! It seems to bring to the fore a lot of deeper, philosophical things like if there even IS such a thing as objective reality or objective context within which the AI should be operating. From training data, there might be some generalizations that are carried across all contexts, but that starts to not be applicable when person A with a college degree says they want to start business x versus person B without said degree who also wants to start business x, how does the model properly reconcile the context of the general advise and each asker’s unique circumstances? Does it ask an infinite list of probing questions before answering? It gets into much the same problems as issues of advise among people.

Plus, things get even harder when it comes to even less quantifiable contexts like mental health and relationships.

In all, I am not saying there isnt some approximated and usable “objective” reality, just that it starts to break down when it gets to the individual and that is where openai is failing by over-emphasizing reflective behavior in the absence if actual data about the user.