MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dsign | 2025-05-30 06:44:40+00:00
What utopia? Material scarcity is certainly not one. Agree with the rest.

I however have hopes for the future. Our society is still locked in and "end of history" mentality that makes most of us believe that economically and socially we have reached the end of the road and that all that is left are minor tunings. The next "collapse" or "big" crisis, that can come from anywhere (not necessarily be a purely economic thing), may shake that belief from us.
by energy123 | 2025-05-30 06:44:46+00:00
> LLMs will never be able to figure out for themselves what your project's politics are and what trade-offs are supposed to be made.

I wouldn't declare that unsolvable. The intentions of a project and how they fit into user needs can be largely inferred from the code and associated docs/README, combined with good world knowledge. If you're shown a codebase of a GPU kernel for ML, then as a human you instantly know the kinds of constraints and objectives that go into any decisions. I see no reason why an LLM couldn't also infer the same kind of meta-knowledge. Of course, this papers over the hard part of training the LLMs to actually do that properly, but I don't see why it's inherently impossible.
by tbyehl | 2025-05-30 06:45:52+00:00
> People are getting chickens because they think it'll be cheaper than store bought eggs. Spoiler: it is not.

The joke is that the first egg costs $X,000. But these have been weird times.

On low-end feed it costs about $0.55/week to keep a Golden Comet alive and I can buy them at 18 weeks old for $20. If one is extremely frugal in sheltering and containing them, doesn't experience any losses to predators, illness, or wandering off, and retail eggs hold above $0.20/ea, a small flock can conceivably break-even during its second year.

That pile of assumptions is unlikely to hold up but everything I've spent on chickens the whole time we've had them is less than the carrying costs of our two dogs over that time. And the dogs have never provided us food.

> The local farm store has changed their policy to not sell less than 4 chickens

The first year we raised chicks the minimums were 6. Best advice to anyone starting out is to buy 18 week pullets or mature hens cycling out from a pastured egg producer at 18-24 months. Raising chicks is much more challenging and attention-demanding than keeping mature chickens and if you manage to keep them all alive you'll still be $20+ into them before they start laying.
Ask HN: Since getting an Agent, what's changed in your life?
by yeeyang | 2025-05-30 06:46:34+00:00
Every day, X is flooded with new agents. From generalists like ManusAI and Genspark, to niche pros like Lovart and PineAI,or super-specific AI tools built on top of big platforms.

With all these agents popping up... Which ones have actually changed your life? Helped you save time or got the real results?

I want to learn from your best practice , thanks!
by antman | 2025-05-30 06:49:16+00:00
Looked it up on google and it provided me with this summary above the search:

"Ultra Muscleze® P5P," a product by BioCeuticals, contains 53.7 mg of the active form of vitamin B6 (pyridoxal 5-phosphate monohydrate) per tablet. This equates to 34.2 mg of pyridoxine (vitamin B6).
by andrewzeno | 2025-05-30 06:49:52+00:00
They are stored in ~/Library/Application Support/DonutBrowser/profiles. So right now you can use something like Syncthing to synchronize the data across desktops. Once the project matures enough, I may add add end-to-end encrypted sync. If you just want to manually do it, it's as easy as copying the profile folder and the .json file with the same name.
by seanhunter | 2025-05-30 06:50:14+00:00
There are lots of non-vector embeddings. “Embedding” just means one mathematical structure stuck inside another in such a way as to preserve its algebraic properties. So for example the real number line is embedded into the Cartesian plane along both axes. That’s a non-vector embedding. I think that field extensions (like the rationals in the reals) also count as an embedding although I may be wrong about that.

In ML, embeddings are used as a way to work with text using the tools of linear algebra. So of course people use (and want to use) vector embeddings, because that’s what gives you what you need in order to “do linear algebra on text”.
by riffraff | 2025-05-30 06:52:37+00:00
> In contrast, when is the last time one of the greatest cathedrals were built? Probably not for hundreds of years.

Our Lady of Good Health[1] in India is 1962.

I think what the author means is "one of the famous ones in Europe", but the Sagrada Familia is still being built[0], tho arguably construction started two centuries ago :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada_Fam%C3%ADlia [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_Our_Lady_of_Good_H...
by atoav | 2025-05-30 06:53:09+00:00
> Reasonable people can disagree what counts as a positive vs negative externality. Eg if you like to be warm, perhaps you see global warming as positive externality.

I know this was just an example (and you said you weren't entirely happy with it), but the thing about externalities is that yeah someone may like it warm, but just because the damage doesn't happen where you are, doesn't mean it does not happen.

E.g. I could totally argue that I like draining that old oil from my car into the river next door since the river flows by and will carry the dirt away from my house. I externalize the pollution I'd have to deal with to the environment where other people live. Just because that cost is not affecting me in regards to that individual act, does not mean I didn't produce it.

Or to stay with the climate example: Yeah someone might like it warmer, but do they also like rising sea levels, more extreme wheather events, draught, higher food prices, climate migration, the cultural changes it brings and/or the violence coming from trying to prevent it? And what when the temperature is reached that they no longer like? Climate systems have multiple decades of lag, so when they decide to stop the tanker moves on, and on, and on.

Externalities are called that because they have to be paid by someone or something eventually. And not pricing them in is how you get neighbours who start to throw their dirt onto your lawn.
by chneu | 2025-05-30 06:53:26+00:00
Not much happened to people but mad cow(prion diseases in general) completely changed US beef/cattle production.

For example, it used to be common practice to feed dead cattle to the remaining cattle. That changed. Some ranchers still do it, though. We also changed the breeding programs and import/export. A lot of countries, because of prion diseases, basically stopped importing US beef.

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/05/us/mad-cow-forces-beef-in...

The US is also dealing with a chronic wasting disease issue in deer and other wild animals right now. It's one of those "about to explode" problems.

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poultry-disease/cervid/...

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10892334/
by pjmlp | 2025-05-30 06:53:49+00:00
As someone that routinely kind of talks C down, yet knows it well enough since around 1990, I will acknowledge that for many in the current generation entering the workforce that is definetly not a given, especially the recent trend to treat C as if it was a scripting language, tryingt to avoid learning about the whole compiler toolchain with stuff like header only libraries.
by andrewzeno | 2025-05-30 06:54:19+00:00
You can do that, yes, but if you are going to need too many profiles (Over 10, I would say), your best option is to use an anti-detect browser or something like Camoufox. If it's under 10, the application has proxy support. But outside that, there a many use cases. I use it to privately browse the web, separate my personal and professional accounts, and manage links. If you have multiple accounts and you open a random link, you have an option to select where you want to open it.
by em500 | 2025-05-30 06:54:37+00:00
The source material is free for anyone to evaluate for themselves: https://www.library.dartmouth.edu/digital/digital-collection...

It's not overtly technical or inaccessible, if you're a quick reader it only takes a few hours (probably less than what many people spend on Youtube or other internet feeds daily).

Don't wait for some second hand opinion/summary/rephrasing/interpretation, everyone will have their own bias.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-05-30 06:56:47+00:00
If you build so much solar that rates are consistently zero during the day then solar is unprofitable. But if rates are normally non-zero during the day then generating power generates revenue -- and then your alternative generation method gives you the additional benefit of needing less solar, which isn't free even if it's cheap.

And, of course, the main benefit is at night, because solar is cheap but solar + storage is significantly more expensive, so you get to generate all night -- and get the higher rates from generating at night -- without emitting CO2.
Launching TextCLF: An API to create custom text classification models
by santanaforai | 2025-05-30 06:57:13+00:00
Hello All! I’m launching TextCLF: an API that allow users to train custom text classification models with their own data.

It’s available on RapidAPI: https://rapidapi.com/textclf-textclf-default/api/textclf1

Users can use TextCLF with their labeled dataset to train custom models for a variety of text classification tasks such as sentiment analysis or document classification or any other task that involves classifying with text inputs.

TextCLF is lightweight, accurate and fast to train! It will help users create custom text classification models for their specific needs.

No data is saved during training or prediction. The user can choose to either save their trained model the remote server (for faster prediction) or save the model locally (for maximum privacy) or both.

You can try it and let me know what you think and if you are happy with the accuracy!
by aapoalas | 2025-05-30 06:57:18+00:00
Thanks for the heads up, I hadn't realised that Static Hermes has the "sane subset" idea underpinning it! I had just thought it's an (somewhat) AoT JS compiler, like a mix between Porffor and V8. I'll have to look into their subsetting and indeed, match theirs as much as possible. Especially if they have written custom specification patches / versions.

Thank you so much <3
by atoav | 2025-05-30 06:57:20+00:00
Explain to me like an five year old how you expect the end game of those exponentially increasing resources on a finite planet.

Maybe I am not seeing a thing that I am seeing, but the logistical function is pretty well explored. If you want infinite growth you need infinite resources and thus an infinite world. Our world is not infinite last time I checked.

I haven't checked their precise model and whether the timelines it predicts are sound, but the general idea of a logistic function describing the general dynamics as a rough ballpark model still stands. In reality of course we will have more stepped saturation effects, until a new resource pool is found, maybe outside of planet earth etc. But the saturation region of that more complicated stepped function would still translate to untold suffering. Unless you see a different end game.
by JimDabell | 2025-05-30 06:57:34+00:00
Yes. I selectively pulled out the bits that I thought were relevant instead of quoting the whole thing.

I know he said that it’s been good, but taken in relation to the rest of the article, I don’t place much weight on it.

The women persistently pressured the men to join, the men were apprehensive, they allowed them in for one morning, one morning turned into all the time, women now comprise 50% of the group, and the men’s area is now relegated to a back room they escape to.

They got one of the men to say it was good, but that’s not the story that the article was telling.
by mdavid626 | 2025-05-30 06:57:42+00:00
> Cases of toxicity have been reported at doses as low as 21 mg per day, the recommended daily intake is 1.3 to 2 mg. The person in question was diagnosed with issues possibly caused by this after 2 years.

That's very hard to believe. In my "normal" vitamin B-Complex supplement there is 20mg of B6 in the daily dose. If 21mg per day would cause nerve damage, that we'd know (and it would be an epidemic).
by ragebol | 2025-05-30 06:57:48+00:00
> There once was an ""old good internet"", Doctorow said, but it was too difficult for non-technical people to connect up to; web 2.0 changed that, making it easy for everyone to get online, but that led directly into hard-to-escape walled gardens.

Maybe we should not 'democratize' some technologies and keep a bit of difficulty as a gatekeeper.

(Yes, I know this is not really a moral position to hold)
by dachris | 2025-05-30 06:58:07+00:00
I also share this kind of existential angst. The future is unknown - yes, such a scenario might come true. As might nuclear war, a truly deadly pandemic etc. And yes, there is too little done to mitigate the potential impact. And lots of unknowns.

However - don't let it drag you down. Think about what you can do, personally, as a person that has agency, to mitigate the potential effects for you, for your family, for your community.

And the answer for me, personally, is the same as for many other of these issues - stay in good health both physically and mentally, keep in touch with the people around you, have a buffer (financially, resources, time), raise awareness of the potential impact. And don't be a doomer, acknowledge that you might be wrong - because you would have been (up to now).
by mjfisher | 2025-05-30 06:58:55+00:00
And in case it helps further in the context of the article: traditional rendering pipelines for games don't render fuzzy Gaussian points, but triangles instead.

Having the model trained on how to construct triangles (rather than blobbly points) means that we're closer to a "take photos of a scene, process them automatically, and walk around them in a game engine" style pipeline.
by travisgriggs | 2025-05-30 06:59:57+00:00
LLMs are a passel of eager to please know it all interns that you can command at will without any moral compunctions.

They drive you nuts trying to communicate with them what you actually want them to do. They have a vast array of facts at immediate recall. They’ll err in their need to produce and please. They do the dumbest things sometimes. And surprise you at other times. You’ll throw vast amounts of their work away or have to fix it. They’re (relatively) cheap. So as an army of monkeys, if you keep herding them, you can get some code that actually tells a story. Mostly.
by chneu | 2025-05-30 07:00:22+00:00
I've used em for years after TurboTax made it even more annoying to file for free.

I prep about a dozen returns every year with it. Id say it's the easiest and most straight forward e-file I've ever used. A simple return should take maybe 10 minutes. They don't upsell very hard either which is super nice.

They also keep your previous years return for free which greatly speeds up filing. Most services charge for that.
by flomo | 2025-05-30 07:00:39+00:00
You are obviously right, and only the mostest HTML5 stuff has been on the same level as the 'flash splash' stuff which was all over the place... But did anyone care? Or was this is just creative mutually-assured-destruction?

> App Store was shaping up to be a cash cow

Okay, how many apps have some super mind-blowing animations on their home screen? Maybe nobody really wanted that? (And, certainly Jobs did not want companies writing CRUD apps in Flash/AS3.)
by andrewzeno | 2025-05-30 07:01:12+00:00
Sorry, just saw your comment. Copying from another thread, I use it to more privately browse the web, separate my personal and professional accounts, and manage links. For example, when I open OneDrive link, I don't want it to open in my work profile. It's not a big deal, but it allows to keep personal and professional lives a little better.

Also, since the ads companies are migrating from solely using your IP and cookies for tracking to creating a comprehensive browser fingerprint, it allows you to better control what data you feed to them.
by HenryBemis | 2025-05-30 07:01:30+00:00
But hey, in case you don't have enough books lined up waiting for your eyes, there are some great ideas/suggestions. Viggo Mortensen is also an author? I saw the book "Coincidence of memory", I looked him up on Wikipedia, and yes, he has written plenty-a-books. So.. there are a few more now on my "future book buys".
by alexey-salmin | 2025-05-30 07:01:48+00:00
Sure. But not everyone in the world shares the same FDIC with you.

To complicate things further, international transfers require cooperation not only between the sending and receiving states but also from states that control the transfer system. Any hiccup along the way and you may lose your money, sometimes forever (true story).

> And my trust in the current administration is rather low.

Again, I'm not sure you realize what the "low trust into the government" means for the rest of the world.
by MassPikeMike | 2025-05-30 07:01:49+00:00
The article is quite one-sided. My experience is certainly that B6 has an effect on nerves, but in my case that's been a good thing.

I started a software job in 1995, writing a lot of code. By mid-1997, I had severe nerve pain in both wrists, even with ice, stretching, and ibuprofen.

I went to an excellent orthopedist who prescribed two things: a Kinesis Advantage keyboard to mostly immobilize the wrists while typing, and 50 mg of Vitamin B6 per day.

The combination saved my career. I sometimes get out of the habit of taking the B6 for a week or two, out of sheer forgetfulness. After a couple of weeks, I'll start noticing very minor nerve pain if I'm using the Kinesis Advantage keyboard (I'm typing this on one right now.) But if I'm typing on a normal keyboard at a client site, a week or so is enough to bring back noticeable nerve pain, which reminds me to start the B6 regimen again. After a few days on B6, the pain recedes.

I was a little nervous at taking 2500% of the RDA, so I researched the medical literature, and the studies I found showing problems caused by excessive B6 all described people taking 200mg or more per day.

The article notes that "since 2022 the TGA has required a warning label for listed medicines with more than 10mg of B6." So maybe studies showing the potential for harm have come out since then; I don't know. On the other hand, has anyone ever gathered data to show whether supplemental B6 actually does improve cases like mine? Vitamin B6 can't be patented, so there's no money to be made, so who is going to fund that study?
by joshvm | 2025-05-30 07:03:07+00:00
They exist at either end of the class spectrum. Working Men's Clubs used to be very common around the UK and many still exist. The one near my childhood home is Victorian-era and was recently refurbished. As long as I can remember it had frosted windows. That's now gone and it's been rebranded it as a family-friendly event space. It's basically a member subsidized pub and your drinks should cost less.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_men%27s_club
by reify | 2025-05-30 07:04:22+00:00
Being a retired psychotherapist I realise how valuable places like this are for men.

In therapy, For every 10 female clients, you get 1 male client, but most of the time that ratio is much worse.

Here in the UK we have Andy's mans club.

https://andysmanclub.co.uk/

Its a male peer support group.

Its a great place to go.

Groups of men talking about stuff that impacts all men in their daily lives.

A safe, supportive space to talk about problems: Relationships, employment, divorce, debt, family, violence, anger, grief, loss and everything men are not that forthcoming to share.

Setup by the family of a young man who took his own life at 21 years old.

The one I went to had about 60 men turn up every week, they were split into smaller groups.

Men supporting men who have experienced the same shit life throw at you.
by mnky9800n | 2025-05-30 07:04:38+00:00
I think if someone thinks it’s interesting they can throw money at it to hire physicists to explore the idea properly. Everyone has a substack. I’m not even saying that there needs to be a peer reviewed article. But if you could build a simulation that could be used to test the hypothesis and throw that on GitHub then others could play around with the ideas. Currently that’s not possible but seems like an obvious next step when trying to convince others of the idea. It would also allow you to explore the failure modes in the theory because that’s something that’s hard to do when you are constructing thought experiments of your pet theory. Because that’s all this really is, there’s no application [1] to cosmology except our understanding of large scale evolution of the universe. So it’s just bragging rights that others accept your explanation.

1. I suppose there could be some kind of high concept sci-fi rigmarole that could be arrived at via cosmology or perhaps it could inform exotic material construction in particle accelerators or something like that. I suppose by “application” I mean something more down to earth like building a new kind of computer, solving climate change, producing a fusion reactor, etc.
The Ivy League Dream possible for Indian middle class
by hakamsingh | 2025-05-30 07:04:58+00:00
Hi, I am Hakam Singh, and I am building a project called Ivygo. This is supposed to help out folks in India who want to have a sure roadmap of how to get into a top school, but cannot have such a roadmap because an average admissions counsellor here takes almost as much as India's GDP per capita as fees right now.(No Joke). Now, I know that I was not planning to build something out till November 2026,but what can I do? Building is a compulsive addiction for me. Anyways, I have bought the domain and made a logo. Now, it is time to build out an MVP and ship as fast as possible. Also, keep in mind that I have never written a piece of code in my life. So, this journey is going to be downright crazy. I wonder if I should use a no-code platform or actually code stuff. Anyway, I will keep you posted.
by js8 | 2025-05-30 07:05:02+00:00
"It is what made us "civilized"."

Not true, it was technology what civilized us (and jury is still out), not growth. Yes, if people are not hungry or sick, spend time doing meaningful work, can talk to others and generally enjoy life, they're less likely to be violent.

But you don't need growth (use more resources and produce more material goods) for that. We can already technologically attain that state for everyone on the planet.

Despite these technological marvels, there are still people who pronounce BS about how we have to compete for resources in order to survive. But (thanks to technology) it hasn't been true since at least 1960s.
by gitaarik | 2025-05-30 07:05:36+00:00
So to clarify, it could potentially come up with (something close to) C, but if you want it to get to D, E, F etc, it will become less and less accurate for each consequentive step, because it lacks the human curated reward models up to that point. Only if you create new reward models for C, the output for D will improve, and so on.
by camillomiller | 2025-05-30 07:05:42+00:00
Every time I make a comment that contains the word "capitalism" in a critical way it goes down inevitably bad on Hacker News. There is inevitably a splitting-like reaction, as if the only way to talk about this is "Capitalism good/bad" and therefore "socialism/communism good/bad".

I am NOT anti-capitalistic per se, but I am certainly critical of any view that takes capitalism (any form of it, even the best ones like the Scandinavian versions) and unbridled growth as an unshakable tenet of our present and our future.

In other words, I am luckily not at a Mark Fisher stage.

Thanks for the link.