MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rendx | 2025-05-08 01:34:23+00:00
Any successful form of trauma treatment will first make it worse, because you open the can of worms and begin to go deep. Unfortunately, many therapists are not very good at explaining that up front. If you only have a few sessions, it is basically guaranteed to make matters worse. That's a sign that it is working (but maybe a sign to switch therapist if it wasn't explained well and cautioned about; making sure the environment and person is ready for it should happen first...).
by tass | 2025-05-08 01:34:46+00:00
Monoprice make a HDMI switch that does a lot of this. No metadata for game mode, etc. as far as I know but I have:

TV

Apple TV on earc connection (HomePods for sound)

Blackbird switch with all other devices.

It can automatically switch between everything, but also has an IR remote for selecting an input.
by tbrownaw | 2025-05-08 01:34:53+00:00
Seems to me that the use of AI is irrelevant[1], and the real problem is the absurd error rate.

[1] In the sense of "it doesn't matter if it caused the problem", rather than "it probably didn't have any effect". Because after all, "to err is human, but to really foul things up takes a computer".
by mlyle | 2025-05-08 01:34:54+00:00
> You're out of luck there; no matter what happens you can only generate floating point numbers. If you're worried that the solution lies within the space of floating point numbers, but not within the part that's reachable by generating uniform samples with 1/2^53 resolution, you need to be much, much, much more worried that the solution isn't a floating point number at all.

2^53 is 15 sigfigs. My answer might be around 10 pico-something and I might need a few digits of precision. Then I've thrown away 11 of my sigfigs and there may not be a numerically stable solution with what's left.

As you point out, double precision often isn't enough. But it's much more likely to not be enough if we throw large parts of the precision away.
by hedora | 2025-05-08 01:36:12+00:00
I don’t understand what an A/V receiver is for. Our setup:

- An old LCD TV with 4(?) HDMI inputs and a few legacy ports.

- linux box with hdmi out

- apple tv with hdmi out

- console with hdmi out

- line out cable from TV to 1970’s receiver’s line in.

- line out from sonos to another line in on the receiver.

- roof antenna, with a Y to the TV and receiver

- turntable

- two extremely nice speakers

(Before someone asks, the TV has some sort of multichannel digital audio out. I don’t care. If I did, that’d give me surround sound. Similarly, I could get a subwoofer if I wanted.)

This is completely fine. The apple tv and console auto-switch the tv to their output, and sync the power buttons. The linux box doesn’t, but probably could if I decided to RTFM. The apple tv can be controlled with the tv remote, but its native remote is nicer. We only use the TV remote to access linux.

We only touch the receiver to switch between TV, turntable, sonos and radio.

How would an A/V receiver possibly improve this? (Note: I want the analog radio and record player with their nice mechanical switches and warm FM sound, and will run the sonos s1 app until the cloud side of it dies.)
by ddkto | 2025-05-08 01:36:25+00:00
It’s hard to believe this is the first time I’ve seen Grasshopper on HN!

Just this morning, a colleague showed me a web app for building option exploration that he had vibe coded on Replit that wrapped around existing core logic in a Grasshopper script hosted in RhinoCompute [1].

The combination of visual programming, the tree data structure and Rhino’s geometry engine has made this the de facto standard for parametric design in architecture (sorry, Dynamo…)

[1] https://github.com/mcneel/compute.rhino3d
Ask HN: What's the best email newsletter tool for a software engineer
by stuart_real | 2025-05-08 01:36:26+00:00
I have a small list (<1000) of email subscribers who have signed up and opted in to be notified when new blog posts are published on my website.

What's the best tool to set up such an email-based newsletter? Kit? Mailchimp? Something else?

I am a software engineer, so I do want maximal control and the ability to maintain this system for years to come. I am concerned that many SAAS do enshittify the product over time, so I would prefer to control it as much as possible.
by vkou | 2025-05-08 01:36:55+00:00
For any non-trivial work, dentists will happily look around in your mouth, and then give you an itemized quote for how much treatment will cost, before they schedule treatment for you. They aren't doctors, they know how much two pills of ibuprofen cost.

You absolutely can comparison shop (Even if the dentist in question doesn't exactly know what % of the bill your insurer will reimburse, and the best they can do for that is to give a rough estimate.)

It's probably not worth it for routine work if you're insured, and absolutely worth it for anything serious, or if you don't have insurance.
by atonse | 2025-05-08 01:36:59+00:00
I have launched Zed probably once a week for the past few months to try it out (each time running updates to see what's improved). I so badly want a native editor like this one to succeed. But the UX just seems very difficult to use. For a while, there were no settings UIs, and you had to edit everything in JSON. I think that's still true. But fine.

Now I'm excited that they actually have a Cursor-like agentic mode.

But the suggestions are still just nowhere near as "smart" as the ones from Cursor. I don't know if that's model selection or what. I can't even tell which model is being used for the suggestions.

Today I'm trying to use the Agentic stuff, I added an MCP server, and I keep getting non-stop errors even though I started the Pro trial.

First error: It keeps trying to connect to Copilot even though I cancelled my Copilot subscription. So I had to manually kill the Copilot connection.

Second Error: Added the JIRA MCP (it's working since Zed lists all the available tools in the MCP) and then asked a basic question (give me the 5 most recent tickets). Nope. Error interacting with the model, some OAuth error.

Third Weirdness (not error): Even though I'm on a Pro trial, the "Zed" agent configuration says "You have basic access to models from Anthropic through the Zed Free AI Plan" – aren't I on a Pro trial? I want to give you money guys, please, let me do that. I want to encourage a high performance editor to grow.

I'm not even trying to do anything fancy. I just am on a pro trial. Shouldn't this be the happiest of happy paths? Zed should use whatever the Pro stuff gives you, without any OAuth errors, etc. How can I help the Zed team debug this stuff? Not even sure where to start.
by koito17 | 2025-05-08 01:37:16+00:00
> I actually like the editable format of the chat interface because it allows fixing small stuff on the fly

Fully agreed. This was the killer feature of Zed (and locally-hosted LLMs). Delete all tokens after the first mistake spotted in generated code. Then correct the mistake and re-run the model. This greatly improved code generation in my experience. I am not sure if cloud-based LLMs even allow modifying assistant output (I would assume not since it becomes a trivial way to bypass safety mechanisms).
by jeffbee | 2025-05-08 01:37:41+00:00
Licensing is definitely strangling the market for Atmos decoders. If you have particular requirements you can always do it with ~$2k in Dolby software licenses and also ~$2k in converters. You cannot, unfortunately, DIY hardware for Atmos without an HDCP license. If you have one of those you can actually DIY something around a DSP like the ones Analog Devices sells preloaded with the IP. Then again if you have those kinds of resources you probably already work for Harman or something.
by Spooky23 | 2025-05-08 01:37:42+00:00
EBT was about reducing stigma and resale of food stamps and WIC. Even that was pretty limited — the amount of money skimmed for ATM fees from cash benefits exceeds fraud losses historically.

Same here. Creating some expensive and complex system that fights “fraud” that consists of people taking on lifetime debt is dumb. Make the services share the pain for bad underwriting and the problem goes away instantly.
by aeronaut80 | 2025-05-08 01:39:13+00:00
Lifting your foot off the accelerator in a Nissan Leaf triggers brake lights when in e-Pedal mode (one foot driving, no need to use the brake pedal except in an emergency). It reminds me of a feature that car manufacturers declined to install (due to cost) many years ago, in which brake lights would be triggered by rapidly taking your foot off the accelerator. The idea was that this scenario would usually be followed by emergency braking and that anyone following would see the brake lights come on a fraction of a second earlier.
by gruez | 2025-05-08 01:39:33+00:00
>It wasn't clear precisely what information can be extracted from which apps, but one of the slides gave the example of a user who uploaded a photo using a social media app. Under the words, "Golden Nugget!" it said that the data generated by the app could be examined to determine a phone's settings, where it connected to, which websites it had visited, which documents it had downloaded, and who its users' friends were.

Sounds like those apps weren't using SSL, and NSA could eavesdrop on whatever API calls or telemetry it was sending? There's no real evidence that those apps are complicit, even though the article tries to imply that.
by 9x39 | 2025-05-08 01:40:20+00:00
I think we're way early to have clinical evidence for a lot of vagal nerve theory that is approachable by anyone outside research fields, but I've had my eyes opened to how much is connected to vagal nerve stimulation (VNS).

For example, basically deep belly breathing reduces stress supposedly through VNS: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6189422/. Yoga, yes, but also even popular and known in some military and police cultures where I've seen it labeled "tactical breathing" as a proven way to lower stress responses like heart rates on command. There seems to be growing evidence around some of these responses being real and reproducible.

FWIW, I've personally observed this working in my family with a licensed therapist as a family member was able to develop and rely on belly breathing to interrupt the onset of panic attacks. There's a lot of talk - if not reproducible science yet - about the possibilities of positively outcomes through so much connected to the vagal nerve.

At something more of a stretch, the same pro-VNS therapist posited to me that even swallowing is a way to engage in VNS, and thus might have a connection to eating disorders. Sure enough, maybe there is emerging evidence: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8027699/

Emerging therapies seem to always get a sideways glance from the medical industry which loves its double-blind derived protocols, so I've started to be more receptive to being part of the vanguard in experimentation when I or someone I love is acutely suffering and it doesn't have a known protocol to alleviate it. An example of that reluctance in PTSD, of course, is the controversial psychedelic therapies: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38284341/. Sometimes these treatments just need time, and if they're reproducible, they grow in popularity.
by codetrotter | 2025-05-08 01:40:22+00:00
How about on an MacBook Pro M2 Max with 64GB RAM? Any recommendations for local models for coding on that?

I tried to run some of the differently sized DeepSeek R1 locally when those had recently come out, but couldn’t manage at the time to run any of them. And I had to download a lot of data to try those. So if you know a specific size of DeepSeek R1 that will work on 64GB RAM on MacBook Pro M2 Max, or another great local LLM for coding on that, that would be super appreciated
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2025-05-08 01:40:54+00:00
> old news

Vogon detected

"There's no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth years, so you've had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it's far too late to start making a fuss about it now."
by alabastervlog | 2025-05-08 01:40:56+00:00
They deny they target people they aren’t seeking for other reasons (uh, duh? This basically doesn’t say anything at all) but don’t deny mass collection, nor using your data to try to target others (or you, if “other reasons” come up!) or to build a general spying-on-everyone surveillance system.

But sure, I do believe them that they don’t bother to look at it unless they want to. Like… yes, that’s how looking works.
by yieldcrv | 2025-05-08 01:41:40+00:00
I never mentioned any party or conservatives or democrats.

I don't think this is the gotcha you think it is.

I never mentioned any party or conservatives or democrats.

I don't think this is the gotcha you think it is.

You are bringing up other positions to discredit a position you assumed I have, because you saw something that overlapped with something partisans say, when the only position I have is that the federal government doesn't need to be involved. and this subthread is about the federal government not being involved, because a state did it on their own. the article is about an individual doing it on their own, the article is about a foundation that does it on their own.

that's the whole position the whole time.

and I don't care who does it, the federal government doesn't need to. not everyone that would be against one particular organization doing the action with money is against the actual action occurring. that's what I think gets lost here, and how its masquaraded as controversial to suggest a different organization is capable of doing it. this article and thread is exhibits a, b, and c of different organizations doing it.
by _heimdall | 2025-05-08 01:41:46+00:00
I still don't quite understand the free speech issue with banning one particular foreign media outlet or platform.

Banning TikTok would do nothing to hinder Americans' ability to say (almost) whatever they want without fear of government retribution. Anything you would have said on TikTok can still be said on Facebook for example, or your own website.
by jychang | 2025-05-08 01:41:59+00:00
16GB on a mac with unified memory is too small for good coding models. Anything on that machine is severely compromised. Maybe in ~1 year we will see better models that fit in ~8gb vram, but not yet.

Right now, for a coding LLM on a Mac, the standard is Qwen 3 32b, which runs great on any M1 mac with 32gb memory or better. Qwen 3 235b is better, but fewer people have 128gb memory.

Anything smaller than 32b, you start seeing a big drop off in quality. Qwen 3 14b Q4_K_M is probably your best option at 16gb memory, but it's significantly worse in quality than 32b.
by lmkg | 2025-05-08 01:42:20+00:00
GDPR does not currently have explicit business size thresholds. Its provisions are all framed as personal rights of the data subject, so its provisions are always in effect. By contrast, CCPA in California is framed as a consumer protection law so it only applies to companies of a certain size.

In practice, small fries are not an enforcement priority. Regulators in most countries are not well-funded so they have to be frugal with their enforcement actions.

The EU is currently reviewing an option to relax GDPR requirements for smaller businesses. Not remove GDPR requirements, just streamline some of the process overhead.
by cjbgkagh | 2025-05-08 01:42:33+00:00
Reports from friends in the EU is that doctors are prescribing it for all sorts of things off label. Autoimmune, ADHD, OCD etc. I take it for ME/CFS and it works well for me, but I get grey market supply. I’ve been on a low dose of it for a few years now, I was already researching it when it became a craze, the mass adoption really helped dial in dose safety. A small percentage of people like myself are super sensitive to it and need much lower doses
by CivBase | 2025-05-08 01:42:49+00:00
This is definitely true. I was on some for a little bit and it absolutely killed my taste for beer. Luckily I'm not dependent on alcohol so that wasn't a problem. But now that you mention it I wonder how effective it would be at helping an alcoholic wean themself off it.

That said, I didn't have as much problem with spirits and cocktails since they don't have as much volume and generally aren't as filling. There might be a danger of turning a beer drinker into a hard liquor drinker.
by roenxi | 2025-05-08 01:43:32+00:00
The insurance company may well have already done that; this is being put by someone who is suing them and looking for reasons that the AI bot is bad. The article is silent on what the company response to the accusation was and, realistically, we'd expect the appealed denials to have a very high rate of error whether determined by bots or humans. Few people indeed are going to waste time arguing a hopeless case against an insurance company - this is classic selection bias.
by spudlyo | 2025-05-08 01:43:38+00:00
> I'm still hungry.

Hunger signals can be very confusing. Is it an actual hunger signal or is it a craving for another hit of dopamine? As a formerly morbidly obese person, who through deliberate fasting has tried hard to understand what actual hunger feels like, I have to admit I still don't trust my own instincts in that regard.

Sometimes what I fear the most isn't hunger, but the let-down that comes with not being fully satisfied.
by danaris | 2025-05-08 01:44:27+00:00
Any attempts to solve problems by the invisible hand of the Almighty Free Market will fail abysmally when the plurality of people in that market are severely resource-constrained.

Right now, all most people can afford to care about is what's cheapest. Any supposed wisdom about "revealed preferences" is essentially bullshit because of that.

If you want your much-vaunted Free Market Theory to bear any resemblance to reality, you will need to first ensure that

1) Everyone has a plentiful supply of disposable income, after all necessities and basic luxuries.

2) Participants in the market are mandated to fully disclose all pertinent attributes and conditions of their products and services—for instance, their ownership structure, how much lead, asbestos, and cadmium are in what they're selling, etc.

3) There are numerous participants in the market competing on roughly equal footing—that is to say, the market is not a monopoly or duopoly, or anything even vaguely close to that (dozens to hundreds of competitors, not just a handful—with, of course, the numbers dependent on the nature of the particular market).

4) The market in question has elasticity of demand—any attempts to "let the market decide" with things like housing and healthcare will always fail, at least to some extent, because people who lack them for an extended period of time will die, and thus effectively act under coercion.

And note that these things are the absolute bare minimum required for a "free market" to operate anything like Free Market Theory says it should—other conditions can make it operate more smoothly and effectively. And it's entirely possible I'm forgetting some.
by strangegecko | 2025-05-08 01:45:00+00:00
> He wondered if maybe that there was a tangible benefit to the shaking itself, in that it could help perturb out of the traumatized state itself.

As someone with a trauma background who never learned to suppress this shaking, I am very skeptical of that idea. I'm middle aged by now and still have severe social anxiety problems in certain moments. My body will still shake when this process gets triggered off.
by jez | 2025-05-08 01:46:03+00:00
Out of curiosity, do you have experience with other languages that have type system plugins that you’d hope be used as inspiration for something in Python?

I don’t have any such experience (short of a macro system, which requires code generation or runtime support) and it always makes me curious when people ask for type system plugins whether this is a standard feature in a type system I’ve never used.
by umanwizard | 2025-05-08 01:47:17+00:00
TikTok is the main place pro-Palestine viewpoints went viral. I don't know whether this is because of the demographics of users, or because US platforms were putting their thumb on the scale, or because TikTok was putting its thumb on the scale, or just randomly, but it is in fact the case.

So that's one quite mainstream opinion that would be suppressed if the government banned TikTok. No, you wouldn't be arrested for posting pro-Palestine stuff to Facebook (at least not under Biden...) but that's not the only way for the government to curtail speech.
by pants2 | 2025-05-08 01:47:24+00:00
This is tVNS, which means it's just a device you hold against your neck - the VNS device in the study is implanted in the neck. There's a lot more scientific evidence for the implanted device than the handheld.

For those of us who want to try VNS but not get surgery, the most proven device seems to be the Nurosym, which is an electrode that clips on to your left tragus. It's also not approved for use in the US.
by keepamovin | 2025-05-08 01:48:13+00:00
Thanks, I appreciate your answer. Not sure it’s me tho. I guess another side I’d there’s probably real value in the fad, too. On some level, if you can figure that out.

All these people with money didn’t all get it by being stupid or fddy or vaporware so they’re responding to signals of value and their responses are reliable indicators in general.
by sno129 | 2025-05-08 01:49:30+00:00
My academic work was very close to June Huh's; my Ph.D. thesis was directly inspired by his Fields Medal winning work. His accomplishments have undoubtedly moved the field forward and connected various ostensibly disparate areas of math, not to mention he is one of the clearest writers and speakers in all of mathematics.

There are very few people in pure math that care about transformers; they have had practically zero impact on the sort of research mathematics that the Fields Medal is concerned with.