MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thesz | 2025-05-08 21:23:41+00:00
Runner's high is due to release of endocannabioids: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35081831/

Please, switch to resistance exercises. As these do not release endocannabioids but endorphines, they have appetite suppression effect.

Resistance exercises help with sarcopenia and lower risk of all-cause mortality.
by cogman10 | 2025-05-08 21:23:42+00:00
It's why programs like FEMA are so important.

The issue with private insurance when it comes to natural disasters is they don't like losing money (understandable) and the climate is changing.

Those two things together mean that this year you could have good insurance that covers freak accidents, but what about next year, or next decade? An area that may have only seen flooding once a century might be predicted to see it once a decade or even once a year.

People still live there. Some people lived there with the insurance coverage for those natural disasters only to see it slowly go away or to be outright cancelled. We can't expect that they all migrate.
by Boogie_Man | 2025-05-08 21:23:56+00:00
This is an overgeneralization. By the fourth century it became standard to forbid marriage because was believed that previously permitted marriage was only for individuals who remained celibate within the marriage.

I find this to be unlikely.

This position also ignores the East, as we tend to do, although I will admit they understood themselves to be changing convention when permitting it.
by eternityforest | 2025-05-08 21:24:51+00:00
I'm stills waiting for the Meshtastic vs MeshCore vs Reticulum thing to shake out.... They all have pretty big disadvantages, most of which seem very fixable.

I think what they really need is cheap solar nodes that have external WiFi antennas, so they can mesh over point to point directional links.

LoRa meshing seems like it's eventually going to be a dead end in any kind of dense environments, WiFi just gets you so much more bandwidth, and the edge nodes only need ~2mA of power.

AFAIK only Reticulum and Meshtastic have software support for that ATM.

I have a proof of concept almost working using OpenDHT as a global routing backend for Meshtastic, but Meshtastic still has some security issues (No authentication on a lot of important stuff), and global routing is really only currently easy to do for unicast traffic.

But if they got rid of the channel hash thing, and instead they gave each channel a special receive address(like IPv6 multicast groups) with their own keypair, global routing would probably work fairly seamlessly.

I think ideally they'd change those node/channel IDs to rolling codes so you can't traffic analyze the global routing.

With MeshCore, it doesn't seem like there's documentation on what info the packets actually give you, so I'm not sure how that would work.

And then with Reticulum, there's no C++ implementation of LXML yet, no standalone devices, or anything like that, so I'm not sure if it can replace Meshtastic/MeshCore until that exists.

Meshtastic is also lacking some applications layer stuff, they have the same issue most IoT protocols have, tons of predefined packets for specific sensors, but no modbus-esque generic telemetry packets, no way to just say "Register 59 is 37.6, look up what that means in the register layout file with UUID Jfjeiuehbdhd"

I think Reticulum is closer to having that, with the "fields" thing.

I'm not sure how the global routing works on reticulum though, I get the impression every node needs to know about every other node with some kind of gossip protocol, but I could be completely wrong.

Reticulum also used Kivy for their mobile app, which doesn't feel as polished as Meshtastic, and it's licensed under some non-commercial creative commons thing that causes issues including it in distro repos and such, or so I've heard.

Meshtastic doesn't exist as a convenient Arduino library or Pip installable package or anything like that, it's not exactly very elegantly embeddable in existing apps, and even if it was, it doesn't have the generic abstractions to actually do custom stuff in a way the app understands.

It almost seems like we either need a heavily redesigned Meshtastic 3.0, or something completely new.

They're all amazing projects, but they're all missing something.
by andy99 | 2025-05-08 21:24:59+00:00
Emergence in the context of LLMs is really just us learning that "hey, you don't actually need intelligence to do <task>, turns out it can be done using a good enough next token predictor. We're basically learning what intelligence isn't as we see some of the things these models can do.

I always understood this to be the initial framing, e.g. in the Language Models are Few Shot Learners paper but then it got flipped around.
by robocat | 2025-05-08 21:25:03+00:00
> phony baloney jobs

I looked hopefully at the HR report https://www.iter.org/sites/default/files/media/2024-11/rh-20... to see if there was some sort of job categorisation - scientist, engineer, management. Disappointingly scant. PhD heavy. Perhaps the budget would be more insightful.

"Execution not ideas" is a common refrain for startups.

I wonder how much of the real engineering for ITER is occurring in subcontractors?
by eirikbakke | 2025-05-08 21:25:32+00:00
The government has a fixed pie to allocate to various projects. Businesses, by contrast, can create more pie, from labor and raw materials that cost less than the value of the final product. So funding charitable causes with money earned from honest business is a win-win for society.

But then we can debate if Microsoft made their money honestly or not. If Microsoft exploited their monopoly, then perhaps Bill Gates stole from the rich to give to the poor...
by dylan604 | 2025-05-08 21:25:35+00:00
And the New New Testament could come out and say that same sex is not taboo and there's plenty of people in the world now to not be concerned about shallow gene pools.

The point is that the canon of writings assembled into the book is based on how people think at the time. Things change and evolve. A book canonized today would probably undo even more of the old testament teachings as archaic and no longer relevant with their version of Romans 14 and Acts 11:4-6. Francis 2:8-10 or from a series of letters sent to the people of Americas instead of Corinthians. These writings are just a snap shot in time
by Archelaos | 2025-05-08 21:25:55+00:00
This is the beginning of perhaps the most famous of Leo XIII.'s many encyclicals, entitled "Rerum novarum" from 1891. To my knowledge it is the first of many papal encyclicals on social issues. It thus marks an important point in church history (and beyond that in the history of ideas in general).

For further details see the encyclical's Wikipedia entry at https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rerum_Novarum

For the text itself: https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/docum...
by andrewpareles | 2025-05-08 21:26:47+00:00
This is a good point.We've stayed away from documentation assuming that it's more of a browser agent task, and I agree with other commenters that this would make a good MCP integration.

I wonder if the next round of models trained on tool-use will be good at looking at documentation. That might solve the problem completely, although OSS and offline models will need another solution. We're definitely open to trying things out here, and will likely add a browser-using docs scraper before exiting Beta.
by autoexec | 2025-05-08 21:27:07+00:00
I'm not sure how many things were taken to keep them safe and not just because "we want this", but I can envision instances where it would be justified. It'd have been nice if people swooped in to rescue the statues the Taliban went around destroying, or saved the rare books that were being burned in Baghdad.

I suppose the nice thing to do in those situations would be to return those artifacts to the areas they came from once the place was reasonably stable, but in some situations that day has yet to come.
by codybontecou | 2025-05-08 21:27:11+00:00
Maybe it's just me, but the auto-complete is very distracting and something I avoid. Most of the time I'm fighting it, deleting or denying it's suggestions, and it throws me out of flow.

From what I've seen, most senior/staff-level engineers are working for big corps which have limited contracts with providers like Github Copilot, which until recently only gave access to autocomplete.

I prefer the web-based interface. It feels like my choice to reference a tool. It's easy to run multiple chats at once, running prompts against multiple models.
by alabastervlog | 2025-05-08 21:27:55+00:00
Plus what I'm getting at started shortly pre-WWII and really started to see serious policy and "Overton window" effects in the 70s. There was a huge boom in organized pro-(big)-business and pro-rich lobbying starting in the late 30s and really taking off just after the war. I think it'd be pretty surprising if the following shifts in public perception and opinion, and in policy, just happened to align with what they were promoting by coincidence.

I don't think any of the folks pushing for deregulation of media ownership (to allow it to consolidate) and defanging anti-trust and cutting rich people's taxes and reducing government social spending or other spending that competed with potential "market solutions" or made the labor force less-desperate, or pushing anti-union policies, while promoting the view that "actually all of that is good for normal people, so you should vote for the party promoting it... also, the blacks and gays are out to get you, in case that other argument didn't convince you" had in mind getting someone like Trump, specifically, into power, though without their actions over several decades it surely wouldn't have been possible.
by juancn | 2025-05-08 21:28:15+00:00
The premise feel weird to me, I read the graphs much more as evidence of how scared the devs are to make changes rather than how "stable" the libraries are.

You add the code, and rather than change it if needed, you just leave it there and add more code.

You could argue too that Scala is much safer so changes to the code are not scary and it's easier to be stable even under code changes.
by h2zizzle | 2025-05-08 21:29:04+00:00
Multiple members of my family have tattoos or brands. I've just never felt the need to permanently mark my body like that, so I feel like I'm considered somewhat boring or vanilla for not getting one myself. Of course, they don't know that I'll be first in line should novel in-vitro genetic manipulation technology become available. We'll start with growing a tail and work from there. Turns out, when it comes to body mods, I'm less, "Ew," more, "Go big or go home."
by ricardobeat | 2025-05-08 21:29:05+00:00
Because most mainstream frameworks are too bloated to handle more than a few hundred rps on a normal server, and caching has gone out of fashion (?), so it's the best way to save money.

All of this makes very little sense, but every couple years a guru will shout new commandments from his social media mountaintop and reshape the landscape. It's more of a religious ritual at this point, really.

On a more serious note, it's also because the market is saturated with developers who specialize on React, and this is what's easy and makes sense to reuse their knowledge and code (vs say, setting up a caching reverse proxy and dealing with invalidation).
by godelski | 2025-05-08 21:29:11+00:00
A lot of the walled gardens are recent. Scarping massively increased due to the LLM era. There's always been mitigations, but the scale of the issue was different.

But the problem I'm talking about is SEO (search engine optimization). It is the reason for things like a page telling you about a recipe also has a long story about their grandma and how this recipe brings back all those memories in vivid details they share with you. Is it dwell time that matters? Is it more words? More "context"? I don't know, but I know that those sites get better traction. It's no surprise that writing a good search algorithm is extremely difficult. Especially as what's a measure of something useful in one context may also be a measure of shittiness in another. But ultimately would that not fall under tech debt? Making the wrong decisions, making poor approximations, etc. It's also a constant battle as websites want to get their results to the top. I'm not trying to say it is an easy task, but I think Google is on the losing side of the battle and decisions like LLM generated answers don't seem to be addressing the underlying issues and more seem like short term solutions that help the stock go up "because AI". Hell, this is CS, how often do we praise someone for being a pioneer in VR, and in blockchain, and in AI? Why is having those three things on your CV seen as a green flag instead of a red one?
by ericmcer | 2025-05-08 21:29:48+00:00
Sweet spot for me was cursor for autocomplete/editing and manually using Claude for more deep dive questions.

I cant go back to a regular IDE after being able to tab my way through most boilerplate changes, but anytime I have Cursor do something relatively complex it generates a bunch of stuff I don't want. If I use Claude chat the barrier of manually auditing anything that gets copied over stays in place.

I also have pretty low faith in a fully useful version of Cursor anytime soon.
by hajile | 2025-05-08 21:30:07+00:00
That’s an appeal to ignorance. You can look up the Greek yourself (I’ll link a basic translation below). There’s just not much room to mistranslate “one wife”, or “husband”.

The official Catholic translation agrees with KJV as does Thomas Aquinas in his commentary. In fact, I don’t know that there’s ANY disagreement about this translation anywhere.

The clear issue is that the Catholic Church believes (and states) that their ecclesiastical authority supersedes even the Bible on not only this minor topic, but more important ones too.

https://biblehub.com/text/1_timothy/3-2.htm
by autoexec | 2025-05-08 21:30:11+00:00
> Not to forget that the very promotion of those foreign artifacts played a big role in making Westerners recognize the value of those other cultures and how much we have destroyed!

This is kind of where I stand on zoos. It sucks to see animals taken from their homes and held in unnatural captivity but the science, conservation, and educational aspects have a lot of value which is hard to ignore. A lot of people would never care if they didn't see with their own eyes what they stand to lose.
by betterThanTexas | 2025-05-08 21:32:08+00:00
> By the fourth century it became standard to forbid marriage because was believed that previously permitted marriage was only for individuals who remained celibate within the marriage.

On the other hand, de-facto marriages (say, a live-in servant woman the priest treated like a wife, including having sex with her) were overlooked by the catholic church on continental Europe well into the high middle ages.
by lgeorget | 2025-05-08 21:33:04+00:00
It's usually configured correctly at some point in time and then the configuration "rots": it becomes inconsistent, some emails are forwarded, other are lost, nobody cares, etc.

In my case, I configured Postfix to redirect all mails looking like (root|admin|postmaster)@server to myemailaddress+(root|admin|postmaster)_server@domain and Postfix ignores what comes after the + in the user part. So I get all the emails but I still know where they come from. It has worked well for quite some years now but I'm not deluding myself, I know that at some time, that will rot too.
by guywithahat | 2025-05-08 21:34:23+00:00
It's largely forest fires and regulation. Electricity prices are regulated by the state, and at the same time they mandate certain green energy goals. To hit these goals, electric companies have to ignore infrastructure to build renewable energy sources. If the infrastructure gets too old, it risks starting a fire, which could cost the company billions. When the state sees them lose money after a fire, the state lets them raise prices.

It is a very silly cycle which could be ended by either removing green energy goals so they could improve infrastructure, and to not hold electric companies directly liable for all damage from a fire.
by rorylaitila | 2025-05-08 21:35:33+00:00
I'm 20 year full stack developer who also does a lot of sales. So I have somewhat of a unique experience in both the technical and human sides of AI use. I use AI quite liberally for development, research, and troubleshooting. But on the sales side of things, I don't like to use AI beyond auto-complete. As a technician, I see it as a great tool. When it comes to selling to other people, I agree with the sentiments in the article. Why would I want AI to replace me? It literally makes no sense. The purpose of me selling is to sell to people that want to buy from people. If AI can do my sales for me, then great, that is about equivalent to a shopping cart, and the product is self service. So what I mostly disagree with is the impersonation of people.

In the sales/growth/outbound world, everyone is tripping over themselves to setup AI emailers, dialers, chatters, impersonating people. But I don't think that will give them the edge they think. I'm betting on relationship sales for the future so I'm working on (https://humancrm.io) as my take. I think genuine human connections are going to increase in comparative advantage.
by chuckadams | 2025-05-08 21:35:36+00:00
For the specific problems I mentioned like slicing, literally anything else that actually abstracts the memory layout.

For OOP in general, I'd say anything with a metaobject protocol for starters, like Smalltalk, Lisp (via CLOS), Python, Perl (via Moose). All but the first support multiple inheritance, but also have well-defined method resolution orders. Multiple inheritance might still lead frequently to nasty spaghetti code even in those languages, but it will still be predictable.

CLOS and Dylan have multiple dispatch, which is just all kinds of awesome, but alas is destined to remain forever niche.
by havelhovel | 2025-05-08 21:36:13+00:00
> People from the US really need to get out of that bubble.

Maybe you live in a smaller bubble.

India: "Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a 69-year-old American, has been elected as Pope Leo XIV, making history as the first American to head the Roman Catholic Church." https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/10-facts-ab...

Denmark: "For første gang i verdenshistorien er paven amerikansk." https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/udland/fra-missionaer-i-peru-til-n...

Brazil: "Papa Leão XIV é americano e tem cidadania peruana" https://www.estadao.com.br/brasil/papa-leao-xiv-e-americano-...

Nigeria: "America’s Robert Francis Prevost announced as new pope" https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/05/breaking-americas-robert...

Slovakia: "Lev XIV. je prvý Američan na pápežskom stolci." https://svet.sme.sk/c/23488126/novy-papez-lev-xiv-profil.htm...
by teekert | 2025-05-08 21:36:38+00:00
I have a confession. I don’t really get what Claude Code is… It’s not a model, it’s not an editor with AI integrated… So what is it? It bugs me on the website, I click on it, read, still don’t get it.

I have a Claude console account, if you can call it that? It always takes me 3 times to get the correct email address because it does not work with passkeys or anything that lets me store credentials. I just added the api key to OpenWebUI. It’s nice and cheaper than a subscription for me even though I use it all day.

But I’m still confused. I just now clicked on “build with Claude”, it takes me to that page where I put in the wrong email address 3 times. And then you can buy credits.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-05-08 21:37:01+00:00
> "Because Musk doesnt care about democracy in Turkey."

He hates democracy in X, where X ranges over every country, or community for that matter. Turkey is just the current high-value target.

As his mentor put it "Competition is for losers", Musk salutes that, search for "Musk salutes" to see how.
Why do websites prevent pasting via onpaste="return false;"
by gleenn | 2025-05-08 21:37:17+00:00
Why do websites do this? Isn't it trivial for bots etc to easily side-step any protection this might give? Or is it just to make people "double-check" their inputs? I find it completely maddening because I would assume I'm way more likely to correctly input a copy-pasted e.g. routing or account number than if I have to manually enter anything. Can we just agree this is terrible UI and is probably detrimental to correct data entry? What am I missing? In frustration I even sometimes open the dev tools and remove this attribute on elements out of spite.
by owebmaster | 2025-05-08 21:37:19+00:00
> I do think over time the concepts behind RSCs will filter out into most web frameworks because they are so powerful

I don't think that is true. React had one great feature that gives it its name: reactivity. People kept using it despite the bad abstractions added later like hooks, graphql and now RSC. The difference is that now react fatigue is way bigger than the hype, nobody loses a job by stating that RSC is terrible.
by hofo | 2025-05-08 21:37:49+00:00
Nah it’s for apps like those that monitor a user’s continuous glucose meter. In addition to simple monitoring they alert the user when the reading is on the extreme ends of a safety range. The app for Abbott’s Freestyle Libre requires the setting to be enabled and will not allow the use of the app without it enabled. I suspect that’s what Apple means in their rejection. I can turn it off but the app won’t work without it.
by betterThanTexas | 2025-05-08 21:38:17+00:00
> and it makes you wonder how much of it is actual science

I don't wonder. You can look up egyptian texts with translations and pronunciation guides. We have literally hundreds of thousands of discarded papyri and plenty of papers detailing the archaeological processes of their excavations and interpretations. It's a gold-mine of explicit documentation about their practices and beliefs and logistics over millennia. We know about their diets, their genetics, how their ruling class changed over time, how they interpreted life and death, to the extent where we can draw likely religious transmission among stories with other near-east religions. The extent of evidence we have demonstrating actual knowledge is better than anything else in the ancient world.

Granted, interpretation isn't science, but it's still expected to be presented rationally. The linguistics that yielded the translation itself proved empirically very reliable.

There are many cranks into Egyptian history with many different agendas, though, and I'm sure many of them call themselves egyptologists.
by bilekas | 2025-05-08 21:38:28+00:00
It's a really cool story, but I can't help but feel a lot has be idealized around regular people who did extraordinary things.

I mean, Steve Jobs had to work with people, but he wasn't some prophet. He was a talented guy, who had his failures and successes, more of the latter.

It is a cool story, but if my boss of 15 years ago becomes world famous, I'm not going to personally treasure the email he sent with 4 words, possible 2 automated, write a blog post about it.

I'm just going to giggle to myself a little. Again, I might be in the minority here.
by _pdp_ | 2025-05-08 21:39:11+00:00
That's very interesting. This is certainly what I was doing before Copilot. Now I let it autocomplete but only sometimes when it makes sense. I guess I am used to the keybinds so that I can undo if I don't like it.

When I was reading your comment I thought that there is a space for an out-of-flow coding assistant, i.e. rather than deploy an entire IDE with extension, the assistant can be just a floating window (I guess chatgpt does that) and is able to dive in and out or just suggest as you type along.
by andrewpareles | 2025-05-08 21:39:55+00:00
We considered Theia, and even building our own IDE, but obviously VSCode is just the most popular. Theia might be a good play if Microsoft gets more aggressive about VSCode forks, although it's not clear to us that people will be spending their time writing code in 1-2 years. Chances are definitely not 0 that we end up moving away from VSCode as things progress.