MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nonethewiser | 2025-05-02 17:59:14+00:00
>If you have a good one your understanding of the world around you gets broader and deeper.

The problem is, is it _unique_ to liberal arts? That is what must be true to give it some purpose. If you can just read a bunch of books or study something else with additional positive benefits why do liberal arts?

I am a liberal arts and computer science degree holder. I don't think liberal arts is _worthless_. I do think its a terrible value proposition and that the positive side effects can be achieved while studying something far more marketable. Computer science has made me a much stronger general problem solver and a better critical thinker than liberal arts did. These are the primary skills touted by the liberal arts.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-05-02 17:59:14+00:00
I'd also strongly recommend this view of how Kubernetes uses cgroups, showing similar drill downs for how everything gets managed. Lovely view of what's really happening! https://martinheinz.dev/blog/91

I've been a bit apoplectic in the past that cgroups seemed not super helpful in Kubernetes, but this really showed me how the different Kubernetes QoS levels are driven by similar juggling of different cgroups.

I'm not sure if this makes use of cpu.max.burst or not. There's a fun article that monkeys with these cgroups directly, which is neat to see. It also links to an ask that Kubernetes get support for the new (5.14) CFS Burst system. Which is a whole nother fun rabbit hole of fair share bursting to go down! https://medium.com/@christian.cadieux/kubernetes-throttling-... https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/104516
by toomuchtodo | 2025-05-02 17:59:15+00:00
Study:

The cost of raising a child: Equivalence scales in the United States - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016517652... | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2025.112359

Abstract:

As fertility rates drop to another historical low, understanding the economic burden of child-rearing on household income, a main economic reason for falling birth rate, has become more crucial than ever. This study calculates a subjective equivalence scale explaining how much the income of a two-adult, one-child household should increase to maintain the same level of life satisfaction as a two-adult household, using a nationally representative U.S. sample. The results suggest that the equivalence scale for a two-adult, one-child household is 1.18, indicating that raising a child costs 18 % of a two-adult household’s income. Our analysis indicates that programs like the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) may be overly generous for households with one child, while the tax deduction policy does not cover child-rearing costs sufficiently.
by ReneSac | 2025-05-02 17:59:48+00:00
SOLO Bench is a benchmark that tasks LLMs to create 250 unique sentences, each exactly four words long in a specific grammatical format, using only words from a provided list of ~4,000 words. Each word from the list can only be used once across all sentences, and must be completed without external tools or code. This test aims to evaluate long-context (input and output) performance, memory, instruction following, reasoning, and hallucinations all in a single benchmark. It proves to be a very difficult task for all LLMs.

https://dull-stop-29a.notion.site/SOLO-Bench-1e70c13d9e4580e...
by ThinkBeat | 2025-05-02 17:59:49+00:00
"On premise cloud computer offering a virtual machine on demand, easily hardware extendable in most directions, using proprietary hardware¹ and software²"

IBM mainframe on premise, offering virutal machines on demand, easily hardware extendable in most directions, "using proprietary hardwareand software"

¹ Will Oxide certify 3rd party vendors as fully integratable and offering the same support as harware solutions from themsevles.

² What other operating systems cna Oxcide Cloud Computer run aside from the default one? (IBM LinuxOne "bare metal(?))
by calebhwin | 2025-05-02 17:59:52+00:00
The main sort of parallelism we exploit is across distinct websites. For example "find me the cheapest rental" spawning tasks to look at many different websites. There is another level of parallelism that could be exploited within a web site/app. And yes we would have to make our planner rate limit aware for that.

Absolutely agree there are ethical considerations with web browsing AI in general. (And the whole general ongoing shift from using websites to using chatgpt/perplexity)
by unsupp0rted | 2025-05-02 18:00:01+00:00
> 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.

There's also the ethical issue of giving a bunch of people an intervention that doesn't do anything, other than create various side-effects.

Obviously if you're tweaking strains in the annual flu vaccine there's no need to go back to the drawing board. Just tweak and inject.

But if you're testing a new vaccine technology, it would be nice to know it's more effective than salty water.
by dragonwriter | 2025-05-02 18:00:11+00:00
> I mean, without a constitutional amendment how can that be done?

1. Ignore the laws passed by Congress, and rule by executive decree

2. Experience no consequences, and thereby

3. Establish and institutionalize the idea that Congress is meaningless and decorative.

What documents say the law is doesn't mean anything if it what the people with guns do doesn't reflect what those documents say.
by anon7000 | 2025-05-02 18:00:31+00:00
Oh yeah, there are definitely valid use cases. If you’re a web hoster, you host many sites under user’s domains. There are plenty of features you might want to offer your users — for example, if they’re logged into their hosting account, visiting their domain shows them some kind of status or site editing bar. Or maybe there are social features, like liking posts or commenting on other people’s sites without having to create new accounts and logging in everywhere. 3rd party cookies make this possible. Alternatives (at least as of a couple years ago) are often still worse user experiences.

For a modern example, restaurants have online ordering systems. And a lot of them use the same service under the hood. (Eg toast.) If you want to use the same credit card you used somewhere else, you have to login on every single restaurant site using the SMS code. (Eg “link pay.”) Allowing 3rd party cookies would make that flow faster, since you could visit other restaurant’s domains while still being logged into the 3rd party payment domain. (And specifically, logged-in inside an iframe so the restaurant site can’t read your payment info.)
by dash2 | 2025-05-02 18:01:20+00:00
325 points for this nonsense? Oh, HN.

From the title I expected something serious. I gave up halfway, having pigeonholed the pompous verbiage as a first cousin to Women Who Run With The Wolves. But really, the game was up when I read the phrase "late stage capitalism", which is the verbal equivalent of a plague bell, used by halfwits to warn us of their presence.

Friends, here's how to have an intellectually rich life: read serious authors. There's Montaigne out there. There's Orwell. After a while, you'll recognize good writing and thinking, and you won't waste your time on pap.
by gen220 | 2025-05-02 18:01:57+00:00
I think you’d be interested in Tolstoy’s view of “Philosophy”, which he expresses in “Confession / What I Believe”.

Basically that the reason why philosophy is cold and meaningless is because it tries to separate itself from the source of meaning, which is intrinsically subjective and physical and spiritual.

Philosophy’s logical conclusions are relativism and nihilism (or at least they were in Tolstoy’s time? I’m not a philosopher), because they try to understand the world with a pretext that denies its vitality.

Common folk / common sense frown on these forms of philosophy, because they miss the point in a sense; they don’t actually tell you how to live in a moral way. Tolstoy thought intellectuals grossly underrated the perspective of folk wisdom in that way. We’ve made some progress in that department, since his time, but it’s still largely true today.
by karmakaze | 2025-05-02 18:02:01+00:00
This is why I believe Valve will win the space regardless of how slow they move. Meta's desire for VR/AR is incidendal, primary is 'the platform' they'll own and so it will never be as good as someone making it as a primary goal. Same goes for Apple's Vision Pro/Air who's reluctant to even call things VR or AR--I wonder what they'll call the games, experience apps?
by hungryhobbit | 2025-05-02 18:02:33+00:00
What an awful list!

And I say that as a Modern Literature major who has read a lot on that list. FAULKNER IS A TERRIBLE WRITER! And while James Joyce and some of the others are good writers, they don't deserve multiple entries in the top 100.

It's clear this list is really "5 librarians personal favorites."
by adonovan | 2025-05-02 18:02:35+00:00
I think you underestimate your cultural bias. Being physically capable may seem like an objective basis for attraction, but at various times and places in history larger people have been considered more attractive than skinnier ones, perhaps because a richer diet signifies affluence. Remember that, relatively recently, having a suntan changed its connotation away from "farmer" and toward "world traveler".
by throwawaymaths | 2025-05-02 18:02:55+00:00
if it incentivises congress to be more specific and reduces executive free reign style legislation in the future I'm not too terribly bothered (oh shit do we not want to give the president the authority to change tariffs in an "emergency" without defining the scope of an emergency?? yeah let's pass non stupid laws). there's lots of other stuff in this administration to be critical about.
by miki123211 | 2025-05-02 18:02:55+00:00
More common are multiple sites (which use their own domains for esthetic / brand reasons), but are actually hosted by the same SaaS provider and could therefore share authentication infrastructure.

Imagine an easy-to-use website builder for restaurants where each restaurant gets a memorable domain, and they let you order things online. It would be great for customers if they didn't have to enter their payment details and shipping address for each new restaurant they order from. Maybe they could even see opening hours and product availability for the closest restaurant to their address. There's no privacy risk here, as all these websites are actually on a single provider anyway. They're just multiple entries in some SQL database, each with a `domain` associated with them.
by svieira | 2025-05-02 18:02:58+00:00
> What are the legitimate use cases for third-party cookies?

Embeds

1. As a user in BigCorp I want to embed this new AI reporting software into my larger internal portal for certain groups so they can try it out. The embedded software needs to know who the user is for authorization purposes. 2. As an end user of multiple appliance websites I would like to not have to enter my information multiple times into the support chat bot since all of these various companies are all part of the same overarching corporation and they already know my information. 3. As an end user of multiple blogs all using the same third-party commenting system I would like to already be logged in on foo.blog if I logged in earlier on bar.weblog.

These are all nice convenience features that builders and end users have gotten used to. They can all be achieved in other ways. The other ways are more painful to integrate and require a lot more work both on the part of the integrator and on the part of the end user (at least from a machine perspective - consider how much more work a pre-authenticated (no end-user-visible interstitial screens) OAUth flow is from the browser's perspective than a single request with an attached cookie).
by rootnod3 | 2025-05-02 18:03:10+00:00
Nah, as much as I loved the original Redis, they dropped the ball with the license change. To me it looks like they realized way too late. There was a window for them to turn back, but now it looks like they are bleeding some way or another and just trying to recuperate. In the meantime, other drop-in solutions took over.

Can't say that I feel sorry for them though.
by greatgib | 2025-05-02 18:03:27+00:00
From what I understand, the problem is not really from scrapers that would "pound" the service by being thousands of requesting the same things multiple times, but that they are scraping the whole of Wikipedia including heavy content, like video that is not accessed often.

If that is the case, I would think that it is a little bit concerning that the model of Wikipedia is based on having most resources not accessed.

Otherwise, if my understanding is wrong, it would mean that AI company are constantly scraping the same content for change like a search engine would do, but it does little sense to me as I easily guess that models are only trained once every few months at most.

And also I don't understand how they were not already encountering this problem with the existing constant crawling of search engines...
by AlexanderTheGr8 | 2025-05-02 18:03:50+00:00
Off-topic to the comments here, I am impressed by how the poster has described their issue so eloquently!

They mentioned 6 reasons for why they have an issue with the banner : each of the 6 is a valid concern and put very eloquently and clearly.

I suppose I only noticed this because I am used to speaking/writing/reading/listening mid-quality English in day-to-day life as a programmer.
by godelski | 2025-05-02 18:04:38+00:00
I think differential equations was where the switch from "I'm good at math" to "I think I want to actually know more of this" happened. I changed my major from engineering to physics. But agreed, abstract algebra was another big change and after that I took every class my university would let me and the chair of the department even made some new ones for me and some others.

I don't think this experience is uncommon (among people who get to these levels). Which is why it is really sad. Especially given how linear algebra and abstract algebra are in a lot of ways easier than calculus. I also think they should be taught earlier purely due to the fact that they teach abstraction and reasoning.
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-05-02 18:04:50+00:00
I had very risky heart surgery at 3 as a result my memories kick in very early and the stress response meant I developed very early as well, I was doing mental math at least a grade before any other kids in pre-school when we'd play around the world, etc. they thought I was magic and my teacher very wisely gave us a problem with larger numbers so that I couldn't mentally follow the problem and I had to resort to finger counting as a placeholder for larger numbers my close friend who couldn't do mental math yet arrived at the answer sooner because his finger game was stronger.

At the time, based on my heart defect I wasn't expected to live a full length of life (verdicts still out on that one)

By 15 I was working full time in tech.

Married to a 25 year old at 18, imminent death and religious upbringing tends to rush things that shouldn't be, I knew myself but I didn't understand her, I didn't understand attachment theory or that my secure attachment style wasn't the only kind and that a person could marry someone for all kinds of bad faith reasons, in her words later "just wasn't really attached to".

My parents early deaths bookended my twenties.

One thing I've always observed is that I seem to have a very small identity surface area compared to others, more of an identity based on refining my heuristic than any one activity. The identity of exploration and wonder, maybe because that's how children are since everything is so new, maybe my early cognitive awareness locked in that child like trait.

I don't think I've changed at all since I was three except for better executive function and emotional control, more patient, less angry, but the project and it's purposes, the knowledge base has increased, the functionality has changed, priors have been tweaked in an append only kind of way, and so I can still rewind to prior states and think in the ways I used to, but so many of the things I believed to be true ended up being clearly false on further examination.

Sonder was an early expierence for me, knowing I wouldn't be here long and seeing old men walking across a cross walk knowing that their path would continue long after mine was over.

I think if you have sufficient wonder and empathy you can stay connected to all your past states but the less empathy and connection you have I imagine you'd eventually feel disconnected from your past self.

I think continuity of self is very heavily tied to how early you start meta cognating and how much cognitive empathy you are capable of, I notice that many people change their mind on an issue and seem to forget they held a prior contrary position previously, but I cherish the uninformed and unexamined beliefs I've had corrected.

I'm the same person I always was, which at core isn't much, but I'm really glad I still love and have compassion for all the states I've been throughout life.
by alexpotato | 2025-05-02 18:05:03+00:00
This reminds me of the following quote:

"Coding largely involves the 'logical part' of your brain. It tends to not include the 'language part' of your brain.

This is one reason why comments you add to code are so useful: they force you to engage both parts of your brain and therefore get better results.

This is also why when you go to explain a problem to a colleague, you often have a flash of brilliance and solve the problem: you are reframing the problem using a different part of your brain and the different part of your brain helps solve the problem."

I'm sure some readers here will say this is preposterous and there is no such thing as having "two parts of your brain".

To them I suggest watching:

1. "You are are two" (about people with their corpus callosum being severed) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfYbgdo8e-8

2. "Conscious Ants and Human Hives" by Peter Watts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4uwaw_5Q3I
by Pet_Ant | 2025-05-02 18:06:53+00:00
You might want to look at the Sol-20, Micral N, and Kenbak-1 as well. From 1971, the Kenbak was a _personal_ computer, but not a personal _micro_ computer.

The Wang 2200 looks most like we'd expect a personal computer to look like, but the price range was not home-friendly (~$50k today).
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-05-02 18:06:54+00:00
The crime family grift is only getting started, alas. UAE using Trump coin to do a $2B transaction, days before they get approval for a big weapons purchase. https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-open-corruption-hits-next-1...

All while basically shutting down crypto regulations or enforcement. Emoluments have never been so obvious & visible.
by NickM | 2025-05-02 18:07:38+00:00
I think you might be missing the point of the article: the study being cited isn't trying to establish the existence of a "language brain" or a "math brain", that's just the way the headline editorialized it to help people understand the conclusions.

The conclusion of the study was that linguistic aptitude seemed to be more correlated with programming aptitude than mathematical aptitude, which seems fairly interesting, and also fairly unconcerned with which specific physical regions in the brain might happen to be involved.
by dspillett | 2025-05-02 18:08:28+00:00
Aye, I was being at least a little facetious. The team of indexing global content is quite different to that of searching my local mail and chat logs. The various "English language search" features attempted for SQL Server are different again.

But they are still all search functions, and the Outlook & Teams search functions seem so terrible that you'd think they'd try do something about it to support the pubic view of their other search related efforts.
by horsawlarway | 2025-05-02 18:08:55+00:00
It's almost like there's a functional method to achieve this through.... drumroll... taxation.

I'm literally paying those folks to do the job anyways with my property taxes. Then I'm paying them again to actually file a permit. Then I'm paying them again for the inspection.

The costs of standards development is a pittance compared to most other expenditures these entities make.

Your approach leads to de-facto guild systems where inside knowledge is transferred within a legally permitted group, and then used to extract more tax from people through the form of elevated service prices and reduced competition. Further compounded by the fact that this inside knowledge is, quite literally, just the legal requirement.

Frankly - no. I cannot disagree more strongly. I don't believe secret, pay-to-view laws should allowed. Full stop.

If ignorance of the law is not an excuse - the law damn well better by publicly displayed and accessible for all.

My county doesn't even have the modern NEC codes available for library checkout (the latest edition they have is 2001).

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I don't mind paying for the regulation, I think the current closed source and copyright protected payment structure is unethical. Frankly - I also don't think it's working very well.
by TheGrognardling | 2025-05-02 18:09:08+00:00
I certainly don’t dispute the empirical validity of the findings from the study - but there are important nuances to consider as well. I am certainly more naturally-attuned to languages as-far as language-learning and reading than mathematics, but I have also found myself understanding more mathematical and theoretical linguistics as well. I also love programming.

It wasn’t until high school, when I tested-into the highest math class that the school offered, that I began to unlock (with some initial struggle) more logical and procedural reasoning specific to mathematics that I had always done well in, but never explicitly went above-and-beyond in, despite hints of such in arithmetic competitions that my school would hold and that sort of thing. I just think my brain works well for both the linguistic aspects of programming (more naturally) and the computational problem-solving aspects of programming. Certainly there are individuals who have strengths in both cognitive aspects, despite being more naturally-attuned to one versus the other, at least presumably.

Perhaps this shows a cognitive profile that has natural strengths in both "brains", or maybe this highlights limitations of the article's potentially narrow definitions of "language" and "math", implying a more complex intellectual landscape.

Interesting findings nonetheless.
by creer | 2025-05-02 18:09:30+00:00
Consumption is addictive - even or all the more so when we feel we are consuming worthwhile stuff (see the various major reading projects here). A useful first step is awareness of the time spent on the various time sinks: we have limited time and sinking all that available time in one thing kills that. So then, diversification away from the worst bits. Even if temporarily that means still consuming.

A second step is understanding the taste vs skill gap: unless what you produce is related to your job or training, when you start creating things your skill is poor (and your equipment probably not adapted) and it's hard to be satisfied with the quality of what you are creating. You can create something related to your job skills, or you can recognize that skill gap is a normal thing and persevere. Some classes though are excellent at carrying someone a long way in a short time.
by triceratops | 2025-05-02 18:09:32+00:00
I mean sure the diversity angle could definitely be about playing to certain audiences. Climate change ain't though. You believing it's proof of that tells us about your own biases.

Also I missed this in your original comment

> Combined with things like job listings explicitly but professionally saying “white men need not apply”,

This sounds shockingly illegal. Do you have an example?