MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by const_cast | 2025-05-08 01:14:27+00:00
I live in the south, for the record, and MAGA culture is prolific here. It’s not about conservatism, it’s about populism. This is the most successful cult we’ve seen in a long time. Their belief systems are predicated on allegiance to a living God, and their decisions are reactionary in nature. This is all underpinned with a populist “burn it all down” ideology, which sounds nice, but is inherently incompatible with growing and maintaining existing institutions.

We have transitioned past the point where most everyday people are reasonable and the American right is merely disagreeable. This is more akin to attempting to convert Christians to Judaism. It just doesn’t work, and it’s not productive. It will only make things worse.

This natural distrust in all that is organized or exists outside the control of one man means that these people don’t want to be part of our particular organization. The fact we are not devotees is evidence enough that we have been corrupted. This is the fatal populist checkmate. In their irrationality, they revel. The proposal of finding things out or working together towards a better state are hostile to it.

To be perfectly clear, these are not bad people. Nor does it have to do with what kind of people they are. Rather, they were vulnerable at the right time and, at this particular point in history, it is the perfect condition for populist messaging to work.
by nemothekid | 2025-05-08 01:15:39+00:00
Of all the information I've seen about Semaglutides the only people I've seen it keep the weight off are:

1. High end personal trainers clients, for which semaglutide was used in conjunction with the trainer's workout regiment and diet.

2. Body builders and models, for which semaglutides simply replaced caffine/adderall/ephedrine.

The drugs can't induce the lifestyle change needed to keep the weight off (nor will it give you the motivation to go to the gym and build muscle). I'm thinking for now, it's a race to see how cheap these drugs can get and ensuring they have no side effects from very long term use. Overall I think the drugs are a net good and I'm interested for seeing the effects for myself, but I'm in good shape and $500/mo is still steep.
by anenefan | 2025-05-08 01:15:48+00:00
I found this more interesting for light production and a new led driven method. [1] The premise of using far UVC ( see lead / lede [2]) to kill off pathogens is also interesting.

[1] So if you shoot a 444 nm blue laser into an appropriate crystal, you get exactly 222 nm far-UVC light back

[2] In January 2024, I wrote a big piece on a relatively new, and very promising, approach to fighting respiratory diseases like Covid, tuberculosis, and flus. It’s called “far-UVC,” a type of ultraviolet light, at wavelengths of roughly 200 to 235 nanometers, that can kill the vast majority of airborne pathogens it targets, without damaging human skin or eyes the way longer-wavelength UV does.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-05-08 01:15:57+00:00
It doesn’t help matters that desktop environments that try to do things “the mac way” and don’t just mimic macOS superficially (like Pantheon/elementary) don’t exist. Everything is either Win9X-like (KDE, Cinnamon, XFCE, LxQt, etc) or tablet-like (GNOME). For the most part, to a longtime Mac user switching to Linux feels like switching to a bizarre alternate universe Windows that’s built around the Linux kernel instead of the NT kernel.
by screye | 2025-05-08 01:16:27+00:00
To be clear, I wasn't dunking on Modular. I meant it more as praise for what Astral has achieved. Lattner is a veteran and Mojo seems to be coming along at a good pace. Mojo is admittedly more of a Rust-competitor. Couldn't think of other contemporary "we are trying fix python's problems" companies. So went for the low hanging fruit.

Either way, Python's irritants are the 'stick' that motivates devs to try alternatives. Astral is patching python's problems at lightning speed. Soon, there may not be enough incentive left to migrate off python. I'm assuming Mojo's target customer is an application dev who uses python and not a seasoned system dev looking for a more aesthetic language.

fwiw, I hope Mojo succeeds.
by trentnix | 2025-05-08 01:16:49+00:00
Now there are more avenues for Samsung to shove bloatware down our throats. I have a modestly high-end home theater and it is utterly maddening waiting for devices to “boot” and “handshake”. And after the wait, I’m presented with another “User Agreement” to sign that insists on shoveling ads down my throat and harvesting data.

How much do you have to pay for a quick boot, no ads, and a private movie or music experience? Just like every retailer has embraced usury with their credit card programs, every technology company has decided they are in the data harvesting business. I’m so over it.
by jwr | 2025-05-08 01:17:12+00:00
FoundationDB is pretty much the best distributed database out there, but it's more of a toolkit for building databases than a complete batteries-included database.

I found that once I took the time to learn about FoundationDB and think about how to best integrate with it, the toolkit concept makes a lot of sense. Most people instinctively expect a database interface with a certain level of abstraction, and while that is nice to work with, it does not provide the advantages of a deeper integration.

To take an example: FoundationDB itself has no indexing. It's a key-value store, but you get plenty of great tools for maintaining indices. That sounded strange to me, until I understood that now I can write my indexing functions in my app's language (Clojure in my case), using my model data. That is so much better than using a "database language" with a limited set of data types.

Incidentally, I think that using SQL with FoundationDB is a waste, and I would not write a new app this way. Why would I want to talk to my database through a thin straw that mixes data with in-band commands?

Since FoundationDB is hard to understand, there is (and will be) strong resistance to adoption. That's just how things are: we do not enjoy thinking too hard.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-05-08 01:17:17+00:00
> Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this section, the head of each Federal agency shall update each document and map of the Federal agency in accordance with the renaming described in subsection (a).

They... want to rename it regardless the doomed annexation attempt?

I guess this is the circus they kept warning us of.
by smadge | 2025-05-08 01:17:41+00:00
Yeah, I have the Busch & Müller Toplight [1]. "The Toplight Line Brake Plus senses when the bike slows under braking and glows brighter. It does this by monitoring the AC frequency from the hub. During braking, the AC frequency slows quickly, and then makes the LEDs pulse or flicker, hopefully getting the attention of that fool in the jacked up SUV behind you."

[1] https://www.rivbike.com/products/dyno-rack-light?srsltid=Afm...
by codetrotter | 2025-05-08 01:17:43+00:00
Yggdrasil is from Norse mythology. So I’m not surprised that a bunch of different people name software after it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil

Just like many might pick cool and important names from Greek mythology for example, like Poseidon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poseidon
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by 9x39 | 2025-05-08 01:20:00+00:00
The essay was about 10 people who self-selected into an interview study based on online negativity and 'problematic' speech.

Online spaces have always sort of transcended the filters that exist in person. The insulation from individuals' physical identities and body language enables or maybe even causes interesting behaviors that to occur that wouldn't otherwise. We saw this originally in "Deviance in the Dark" from the 70s, but anyone who's had experience with extremely online realms knows this to be the case as well. We even have pop TV shows exploring this phenomenon.

I think what probably would be more interesting is an exploration to what clusters of personalities tend to develop or emerge in virtual worlds, across platforms, etc than attempting to make a research paper out of comments that escaped profanity filters. Come to think of it, a taxonomy of unfiltered speech and its source demographic might be interesting.
by api | 2025-05-08 01:21:51+00:00
I agree that the situation is pretty far gone. The time for my comment was probably 15 years ago. But the postmortem still has value. If this movement implodes, which I think it eventually will, there may be a window for something better.

I’m not sure it will survive the death of Trump. There is nobody else with… whatever weird formula he has. Nobody else has been able to nail his schtick.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-05-08 01:22:18+00:00
Obesity is literally the major cause of ill health. Cancer, dementia, heart disease, diabetes, and strokes are all extremely unpleasant and are all credibly linked to excess weight.

The food industry is a lot like the tobacco industry. Everyone is aware of marketing around health and fitness. But the marketing and social programming that keeps people eating - ad campaigns, portion sizes, food consumption traditions that are billed as "family" events, even things like giant popcorn buckets in cinemas, or the idea that sweet things are "naughty" but also rewarding - gets a pass because it flies under the radar.

It's literally a double bind. Everyone gets two contradictory messages about food, starting from early childhood. And they cannot be reconciled.

So no. It is not about personal morality or shaming people for the sake of it.

Medically, economically, and personally, it really is that important.
by const_cast | 2025-05-08 01:23:05+00:00
It’s not really, and it’s more complicated than we think.

If we take a gander at Hollywood, we would be deceived into thinking it’s full of men who take really, really good care of themselves. But it’s not so - most are taking steroids, and even more are doing extreme starvation diets prior to roles.

We can actually see the inflation of physique in real time. Look back 5 years, then 10, then 20. Look at the protagonists - they represent the “peak” of what humans want to look like. By today’s standards, those super heros 20 years ago are scrawny.
by jwr | 2025-05-08 01:24:00+00:00
> Google's pricing for a general search API

As I discovered recently, and much to my surprise, Google does not offer a "general search API", at least not officially.

There is a "custom search" API that sounds like web search, but isn't: it offers a subset of the index, which is not immediately apparent. Confusing and misleading labeling there.

Bing offers something a bit better, but I recently ended up trying the Kagi API, and it is the best thing I found so far. Expensive ($25/1000), but works well.
by motohagiography | 2025-05-08 01:25:15+00:00
the way guys chirp each other, those aren't slurs, they are intimacy. I'd challenge it a step further and say the people who try to police the language are trying to police and supervise relationships. the critical ideas they use are the lever, but what they are fundamentally lacking is consent and desire.

that view is more than reaction, or backlash, I think we're in a period after one of suppressed volatility, and sublimated desire. my pet theory is that generationally it was much easier for millennials to not be racist because almost none of them drive. in intimate, physically dangerous, or unmediated relationships, these words have no lasting meaning, but in neurotic, artificial, and affected relationships, the words are all they have. the shared intensity of gaming is intimacy. what are slurs to an outsider are terms of affection to someone who is a participant- and not merely a critic.
by wonder_er | 2025-05-08 01:25:46+00:00
the biggest way to make a motorcycle safer, IMO, is remove the need for shifting.

Lower the center of gravity, reduce the weight, increase the wind protection, make the riding stance really comfortable.

Make it easily accommodate a backpack, or a passenger, or both.

And you have a scooter!

They're unconventional in the greater usa, but wildly fun.

Generally, it seems like one can entertain the best parts of a bicycle, feet, and a car, and a motorcycle, all in one.

I wrote a bit of an ode to scooters, here: https://josh.works/scootering

I wish more of my friends rode scooters!

https://josh.works/scootering
by cevi | 2025-05-08 01:26:45+00:00
"For instance, global pharmaceutical companies are advancing both disease research and the frontier of quantum-enabled drug discovery. And in automotive and aerospace, companies are using quantum computing to improve the performance of hydrogen fuel cell catalysts and electric batteries mobility. Companies like ours are currently using quantum hardware to generate truly random encryption keys—making systems more secure against today’s threats and tomorrow’s quantum-enabled ones."

Given what I know about the current progress towards building a useful quantum computer, this is complete nonsense. No company out there has anywhere near enough qubits with enough coherence to solve any real problem more efficiently than brute force on a classical computer. We'll get there eventually - maybe in just a few years - but anyone who tells you it is already here is a bullshit artist.
by api | 2025-05-08 01:27:18+00:00
The challenge with these schemes is always making them robust against intentional attacks.

It’s hard enough to do that for centrally regulated systems. There are whole giant companies like Cloudflare that mostly exist to do that.

With a fully decentralized mesh if someone finds a working attack there is no good way to coordinate a response.

Small hobby and research nets can get away with that, but if anything like this ever got popular or even close to mainstream it would be destroyed. This is especially true if there were any way to make money by ruining it.
by const_cast | 2025-05-08 01:28:02+00:00
A lot of people never need to learn the ability to delay, me included. I eat whatever I want, whenever I want, and I’m thin.

Peoples brains are all wired differently, and some are wired in such a way where they’re forced to struggle in modern society. I can sit here and say I’m more disciplined or better than others, but I’m just not. I’m lucky. If others can harness that luck, that’s good for them.
by rendx | 2025-05-08 01:28:53+00:00
You can use EMDR both for anchoring positive experiences, as well as to dip into unprocessed traumatic memories. In a typical therapy setting, you do both. Stabilization techniques are in addition to that; vagus nerve stimulation serves to calm down your nervous system, so it would aid the stabilization, so then in turn you can face more of the unprocessed trauma. It's not an either-or. PTSD therapy requires a combination of various elements, tailored to the specific circumstances, history and personality.

The idea to "try it at home" from some YouTube videos is absurd, unfortunately. It may do you good, OK, but it has nothing to do with real EMDR used in a therapeutic setting.
by jwr | 2025-05-08 01:29:37+00:00
> 90+% of the things people complain about would no longer be a problem if they got a traditional A/V receiver, plugged all their sources such as streaming boxes and game consoles into the receiver, and just used the smart TV as a monitor (and as a tuner if they watch OTA television).

The problem there is the terrible UI of those A/V receivers, designed by committee that upholds long-standing traditions. It takes a lot of fussing with the complicated remote to get to where you want, which is perhaps fine for geeks, but annoying in a family setup, where all household members would like to know how to watch Netflix.

BTW, these traditions are ridiculous: as an example, my DENON receiver has two monstrous knobs on the front, like most AV receivers. The one on the left I will never use in its entire lifetime: it is for manually sequentially switching input sources, which nobody does anymore. And yet they still place it as the most prominent feature/control on the front panel.

The buttons that I'd like to use are small, black-on-black with dark gray labeling in 8pt type, so basically impossible to use unless you use a magnifying glass and a flashlight.
by scarface_74 | 2025-05-08 01:30:24+00:00
A lot of people over 40 are burdened - kids, soccer practice. My wife and I at 49/50 are empty nesters, I “retired her” at 44 she is pursuing her passion projects, I work remotely and we are always traveling, gone for extended periods.

We are also gym rats. We have friends that join on us our trips when they can. But no one in our cohort has the complete freedom of movement that we have.

The older retired people that have the freedom we have are too (small “c”) conservative and don’t have to deal with us and I am not about to use a filter when I go on vacation or hanging out.

We also have friends where one works remotely. But the other still has to be in an office. We kind of have to live our lives to our own music.

My parents are 80 and 82 and they are independent now. But I realize the day is going to come where we’re going to have to responsibilities for awhile.
by miki123211 | 2025-05-08 01:30:31+00:00
Python is slow for some CPU-intensive operations.

There are some extremely CPU-intensive low-level operations that you can easily write in C and expose as a Python API, like what Numpy and Pandas do. You can then write really efficient algorithms in pure Python. As long as those low-level operations are fast, those Python-only algorithms will also be fast.

I don't think this is necessarily "cheating" or "just calling disguised C functions." As an example, you can write an efficient linear regression algorithm with Numpy, even though there's nothing in Numpy that supports linear regression specifically, it's just one of the ways a Python programmer can arrange Numpy's low-level primitives. If you invent some new numerical algorithm to solve some esoteric problem in chemistry, you may be able to implement it efficiently in Python too, even if you're literally the first person ever writing it in any language.

The actual problem is that it's hard for people to get an intuition of which Python operations can be made fast and which can't, AST and file manipulation are sadly in the latter group.
by spyrja | 2025-05-08 01:30:48+00:00
What are you trying to say? C++ can be just as safe as Rust. The latter is just easier to use, especially in terms of working as a team of developers insomuch as the safety-nets are by default in place. Once again, C++ is powerful but comes with just as many footguns as C (in fact, more) and so requires a bit more finesse, experience, and skill to work with safely. Otherwise it can encapsulate pretty much any functionality you could possibly imagine, and that includes safety features. Checked memory accesses, managed memory, well-behaved arithmetic, all of that and more can be codified as a set of objects and interfaces. I started out in assembler, worked up to C, then finally on to C++ where I actually found it quite easy to write safe programs by just sticking to a strict set of guidelines. And that works. I have code that has been running almost continuously for over a decade without a hitch, and I credit that to good programming practices.
by fallinghawks | 2025-05-08 01:31:42+00:00
I just hit 60. For the past 3 or so years I've always had some physical problem that is longer-term. Most of them are muscle strains (partially torn rotator cuff last year, plantar fascitis before that), and pretty annoying to keep ending up in PT for something new after many years of pretty robust health. Up to a few years ago I was going on 1-2 hour hikes 2-3 times a week and have always been very flexible due to doing yoga at a young age. I can bend over knees straight and put my palms flat on the floor. It's been trying to get into my head that my body just isn't what it used to be.
by ergocoder | 2025-05-08 01:31:50+00:00
I make 300K-600K/year based on the stock price as a senior software engineer. There are >100,000 software engineers like me in Seattle, New York, and San Francisco.

Yeah, the food and delivery fees are expensive... but we can afford it.

Same with the rent. Yeah, it's high but we can also easily afford it...

People just don't understand how wealthy people are in these 3 cities.
by istjohn | 2025-05-08 01:32:30+00:00
It just goes counter to the way I think about LLMs. It assumes end-products will merely be thin wrappers around an API, perhaps with some custom prompts. It's like thinking of the internet as a faster telegraph, instead of understanding that it's an entirely new paradigm. The most interesting applications of AI will use search as just one ingredient, one input, that will be sliced, diced, and pureed as it is combined with half a dozen other sources of information.

When your intelligent email client uses Gemini to identify the sender of an email as someone in the industry your B2B company serves, deciding to flag the email as important, where is that HTML supposed to go? Where does it go in a product that generates slide show lesson plans? What if I'm using it to generate audio or video? What if a digital assistant uses Gemini as a tool a few dozen times early in a complex 10,000 step workflow that was kicked off by me asking it to create three proposals for family vacations complete with a three 5-minute video presentations on each option? What if my product is helping candidates write tailored cover letters?

It's bad optics for a company just ruled to have acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in "general search services and general text advertising," but worse, it lacks imagination.
by joecool1029 | 2025-05-08 01:33:48+00:00
Somewhat yeah, the GS is a tall bike for sure. I have a zrx1200 and I'm still a ton taller than when I am in the miata. Miata is probably one of the lowest riding vehicles you can get and headlights are a problem at night shining in my eyes, where on the motorcycle it is not an issue.

I don't have a brake light on my helmet on motorcycle but I added DOT-C2 tape to the back and sides of it, stuff like this: https://www.amazon.com/THKULKME-Reflective-Reflector-Waterpr...
by miki123211 | 2025-05-08 01:34:12+00:00
I realize this might be hard from a technical / architecture standpoint, but it would be great if "does not exist" and "does not exist in this version of Python" were two different errors.

If I saw something like "datetime.UTC doesn't exist", I'd immediately think "wait, was that datetime.utc", not "ooh it got added in 3.11, I need to change my Python version"