MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by myth2018 | 2025-05-19 21:19:59+00:00
Glad to hear you are well. Also because that gives me some more hope.

> which seems to have some weird comorbidities

I'm a bit shocked by your list of comorbidities. Not only yours, but also the one you linked to. MCAS is currently among my most pressing concerns, although it seems to be getting under control with H1 and H2 antihistamines + cromoglycate. An anti inflammatory diet also helps, even though I'm struggling to stay completely away from sugar. The psychiatric part calls my attention. I also present some traits of ADHD and ASD, although not enough to complete a diagnosis. Twenty years ago I joined mensa at the 99th percentile, but I do believe my IQ has decreased significantly since then. I can't even remember the last time I had, in my adulthood, my mind as functional as I used to have in my teenagehood, even before covid and the aggravation of the symptoms.

Out of your list, the only item I couldn't relate with were the medications working less than expected. In my case, I usually have stronger effects, both therapeutic and side ones. That happens with vaccines too. However, last weekend I took one for Influenza and the side effects were barely noticeable for the first time in my adult life -- I hope that's a result of the MCAS treatment.
by max_on_hn | 2025-05-19 21:20:04+00:00
(please pardon the self-promotion) This is exactly what my product https://cheepcode.com does (connects to your Linear/Jira/etc and submits PRs to GitHub) - I agree that’s the golden state, and that’s why I’m rushing to get out of private beta as fast as I can* :) It’s a bootstrapped operation right now which limits my speed a bit but this is the vision I’ve been working towards for the past few months.

*I have a few more safety/scalability changes to make but expecting public launch in a few weeks!
by BoorishBears | 2025-05-19 21:20:08+00:00
I haven't seen a model since the 3.5 Turbo days that can't be ruthless if asked to be. And Grok is about as helpful as any other model despite Elon's claims.

Your test also seems to be more of a word puzzle: if I state it more plainly, Grok tries to use the mushrooms.

https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_2db81cd5-7092-4287-8530-4b9e...

And in fact, via the API with no system prompt it also uses mushrooms.

So like most models it just comes down to prompting.
by antihipocrat | 2025-05-19 21:20:47+00:00
That's exactly what senior executives who aren't coding are saying everywhere.

Meanwhile, engineers are using it for code completion and as a Google search alternative.

I don't see much difference here at all, the only habit to change is learning to trust an AI solution as much as a Stack Overflow answer. Though the benefit of SO is each comment is timestamped and there are alternative takes, corrections, caveats in the comments.
by troupo | 2025-05-19 21:21:39+00:00
So, an "easy" "better" option is:

- worse ux (nix commands are much more cumbersome and often make no sense compared to `brew install`)

- you have to use some third-party wrappers to make it work on Mac

- features incomplete and outdated packages (and is missing others apparently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44034446)

... but it "does the job better than anything else could".

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This is the issue I have with the whole nix discourse: it's hailed as this great magical tool. But when pressed for details it's always this: weird commands, configs, working or non-working wrappers etc.
by ezst | 2025-05-19 21:21:43+00:00
Yep, you can totally do that with Trilium. Instead of #topic, you would type @topic in the body of your note, Trilium will autocomplete trying to find matching references (containing "topic" in either their name or attributes or path or prefix), and if none exists, a new "topic" note will be proposed to be created on the fly. You will also be asked whether the new note should derive from a Template or not, and that's where maintaining a collection of Templates and reference notes makes a ton of sense.

For instance, if you type "I went to @ThatOldPub with @Alfred", @ThatOldPub can be created on the fly as a [Place], and just like every other [Place], it will have an attribute ~location=@London (@London being itself a note of type [City] itself having as attribute ~country=@UK, …) ready for you to fill now or later. Same goes for @Alfred being a Person.

That way you are not just building a graph of "related things" with their name as a weak link, you are creating a semantic graph of typed entities, where notes can be approached not just from edge-to-edge but as clusters, and manipulated in bulk.

> The other thing I like are "unreferenced blocks" where if I don't think to tag a stray thought I have about, say, RAG, it'll still show up on my #rag page.

I never trusted that mode, that puts too strong a constraint on how you would name your tags, with essentially typos flying under the radar and leaving an impression that there might be more "strays" than meets the eye. That said, Trilium has a vivid ecosystem of tools, scripts and extensions surrounding it¹, and if hunting for missed references sounds fun, there you go²!

¹: https://github.com/Nriver/awesome-trilium ²: https://github.com/Nriver/trilium-py?tab=readme-ov-file#adva...
Ask HN: Has anyone stopped paying for SaaS because of AI?
by givemeethekeys | 2025-05-19 21:22:13+00:00
In the future where all code will be written by AI, it should be trivial to just ask AI to spin up a custom CRM solution for your business instead of configuring an off-the-shelf variety, right?

So, is anyone actually doing this? How long before it becomes a thing?
by loxodrome | 2025-05-19 21:23:10+00:00
Wow it’s so refreshing to know that other people can see this.

There is simply not enough private capital investment in Europe. The public money is inevitably passed through academic hands or other public sector bureaucrats. And it is simply an ineffective way to allocate capital. The money should be returned to private hands where it belongs and those individuals should be the ones to decide how to invest their own capital.

Why do so few Europeans get this? It’s like they just can’t stand the idea of a wealthy person investing their own money.
by vicentesteve | 2025-05-19 21:23:27+00:00
Hi everyone,

I’m an independent researcher and recently completed a formal, self-contained proof that P ≠ NP. The result is based on an explicit language L* ∈ NP \ P that resists all polynomial-time machines via a certified local test. The core techniques combine locally testable codes, circuit resistance, and diagonalisation.

Unlike many previous attempts, the proof avoids relativization, natural proofs, and algebrization, and relies entirely on constructive combinatorics and meta-complexity arguments. It has been submitted to the Journal of the ACM and also made publicly available here:

ResearchGate (PDF, with DOI): https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.14071.74408

I’m sharing this for discussion and feedback from the theoretical CS and cryptography communities. Constructive criticism is welcome — I’d genuinely like to know if any gaps remain. The paper is intended to be rigorous and elementary in its construction.

Thanks in advance, Vicent Esteve Voltes https://orcid.org/0009-0003-1371-7561
by ars | 2025-05-19 21:23:41+00:00
> or that he has known about it longer than he has admitted.

Which is probably true. And it's fine, he has no obligation to disclose this until he wants to. In contrast his dementia though ....... that's something he should have disclosed earlier.

Edit: "Several doctors told Reuters that cancers like this are typically diagnosed before they reach such an advanced stage." from https://www.reuters.com/world/us/bidens-cancer-diagnosis-pro...
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-05-19 21:23:47+00:00
Not true, 86box while slow on new apple ARM silicon can boot windows XP, and QEMU on Intel silicon will allow you to boot all thee OS at once.

MacOS has a lot of issues (mostly by Apple recent policy changes), but posix systems are more alike than different. =3

https://github.com/Moonif/MacBox

https://github.com/86Box/86Box/releases/tag/v4.2.1
by vintermann | 2025-05-19 21:24:32+00:00
The vast majority of videos are not translated into borked machine-Norwegian, so if this isn't something you opt in to, it's something everyone opts out of (I doubt it).

> A friendly e-mail to the channel owner explaining the problem and asking to manually disable auto-translation is much more likely to achieve what you want.

No it isn't, because I see what kinds of channels do this, over and over again. They're very clearly publishers who don't care that they make something objectively worse as long as the algorithm rewards them for it.

> If you want to get rid of auto-translation on a systematic level, provide feedback to the operators of Youtube through their official communication.

Ha, as if they ever read that. Probably more Google employees will read this comment than will ever read any of my (many) "please stop translating things without asking, I know where to find machine translation if I need it, doing it without asking that means I have to translate back from broken Norwegian into English in order to understand what the hell you were trying to say" feedback reports.
by rolandog | 2025-05-19 21:24:33+00:00
It doesn't matter if it is or isn't. The whole point was accountability to each other. That went out the window with the "American Service-Members' Protection Act" (The Hague Invasion Act) [0].

Nothing screams "complicit in genocide" like attacking and cripling the institution investigating such crimes.

I'm surprised there hasn't been more public outrage at what I think is the geopolitical equivalent of having a journalist killed.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Pr...
by throwaway894345 | 2025-05-19 21:24:58+00:00
Nah, a good API doesn’t push the conditionals down. You don’t need to pass a union to let the user decide, you just need to present an API for each (including a generic implementation that monomorphizes into multiple concrete implementations) https://matklad.github.io/2023/11/15/push-ifs-up-and-fors-do...
by burnt-resistor | 2025-05-19 21:25:06+00:00
When I repeated to other tech people from about 2012 to 2020 that the technological singularity was very close, no one believed me. Coding is just the easiest to automate away into almost oblivion. And, too many non technical people drank the Flavor Aid for the fallacy that it can be "abolished" completely soon. It will gradually come for all sorts of knowledge work specialists including electrical and mechanical engineers, and probably doctors too. And, of course, office work too. Some iota of a specialists will remain to tune the bots, and some will remain in the fields to work with them for where expertise is absolutely required, but widespread unemployment of what were options for potential upward mobility into middle class are being destroyed and replaced with nothing. There won't be "retraining" or handwaving other opportunities for the "basket of labor", but competition of many uniquely, far overqualified people for ever dwindling opportunities.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair
by chubot | 2025-05-19 21:25:14+00:00
Yeah totally, I have read that the total biomass of cows and dogs dwarfs that of say lions or elephants

Because humans like eating beef, and they like having emotional support from dogs

That seems to be true:

https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammals-birds-biomass

Livestock make up 62% of the world’s mammal biomass; humans account for 34%; and wild mammals are just 4%

https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/environment/weight-respons...

Wild land mammals weigh less than 10 percent of the combined weight of humans

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2204892120

I mean it is pretty obvious when you think that 10,000 years ago, the Americas had all sorts of large animals, as Africa still does to some extent

And then when say the Europeans got here, those animals were mostly gone ... their "biomass" just collapsed

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Same thing with plants. There were zillions of kinds of plants all over the planet, but corn / wheat / potatoes are now an overwhelming biomass, because humans like to eat them.

Michael Pollan also had a good description of this as our food supply changing from being photosynthesis-based to fossil-fuel-based

Due to the Haber-Bosch process, invented in the early 1900's, to create nitrogen fertilizer

Fertilizer is what feeds industrial corn and wheat ... So yeah the entire "metabolism" of the planet has been changed by humans

And those plants live off of a different energy source now
by CoolCold | 2025-05-19 21:25:15+00:00
for me,

> is it better to run Linux in Windows now? Genuinely asking.

definitely is. Servicing takes ~ 1 minute per month to click on "yeah, let's apply those updates and reboot". Peace of mind with no worrying on external hardware won't work or monitor will have issues or laptop won't sleep or during the call battery will discharge faster due to lack of hardware acceleration or noise cancellation not working or ...
by dTal | 2025-05-19 21:25:32+00:00
To the tech savvy, there is essentially only one advantage to running Windows, and that is the ability to run Windows-only software. In all technical respects - control, performance, flexibility - it is inferior to the alternatives. Don't confuse vendor lockin with technology.

I find it dismaying that people on Hacker News willingly submit to incredibly user-hostile behavior from Microsoft and call it "the best of both worlds". Presumably a nontrivial proportion here are building the next generation of software products - and if we don't even respect ourselves, how likely is it that we will respect our users?
by mschuster91 | 2025-05-19 21:25:37+00:00
> The actual cornerstone of conservatism is an instinctual preference for stability, order, and the familiar.

... which inevitably breaks down when fundamental assumptions become disproven. And that's the point. Many "moderate" Conservatives still believe in the "trickle down" economy theory or that government debt is inherently bad and a government's budget needs to be balanced.

Both have been proven time and time again to be not just wrong, but outright disastrous in their consequences, and yet Germany voted that ideology into chancellorship, not to mention what is currently going on in the US.
by jmull | 2025-05-19 21:25:38+00:00
A perfectly valid evolution strategy is to add new APIs while keeping the old (which you may or may not choose to deprecate). That is, add the new APIs to 3.x (but probably call them something other than v4.

Now, that's effectively what 3.25 is. But there are some problematic extras... the semantics of the semantic versioning is muddled. That means confusion, which means some people will spin their wheels after not initially grokking the situation correctly. Also, there seems to be an implication there could be a strong deprecation of v3 APIs coming. That is, you have to wonder how long the window for incremental migration will remain open.

To be frank, I wouldn't touch zod on any project I hoped will be around for a while. Predicting the future is an uncertain business, but we can look at the past. In a few years, I think it's reasonable to guess zod v4 will be getting the same treatment zod v3 is getting now.

Not that I think you ought to do anything different. I probably wouldn't want to maintain some old API I came up with years ago indefinitely either (not without a decent support contract, that is).
by stackskipton | 2025-05-19 21:25:40+00:00
Last I looked, Thunderbird used Exchange Web Services to connect to Office365 which Microsoft is getting rid of: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/exchange/retirement... (I point out Office365 since vast majority of "Exchange" users are on 365)

It also only support email and not calendaring/contacts.

That being said, Office365 Web Client is pretty good at this point and someone who doesn't live in Office all day can probably get along fine with it.
by chrsw | 2025-05-19 21:25:57+00:00
I didn't know about this. My knowledge of Windows is very limited. I use it every day for work, but it's managed by our IT and Security departments. It's locked down. You cannot use external drives. You can't install applications yourself and you can't run un-approved applications. So, I learned over the years to never touch anything that already hasn't been approved, even settings. If you want to apply for something to be approved, you can submit a written justification co-signed by your manager. My manager has never rejected anything I requested, but it's a huge hassle. Most of us just don't bother, even developers.
by alex_smart | 2025-05-19 21:26:07+00:00
> You first option is to buy a laptop with linux preinstalled

I have earnestly tried for >20 minutes trying to find such a laptop with any reputed manufacturer in my country (India) and come up empty-handed. Please suggest any that you can find. Even with Thinkpads, the only options are "Windows" or "No Operating System".

>Your second best bet is to read tech reviews.

Which tech reviews specifically point out linux support?

>Playing regular videos worked, and you can always lower the quality if your situation doesn't allow the higher qualities

The issue was never about whether playing the video worked. CPU video decoding uses much more energy and leads to your laptop running hot and draining battery life.

Can we at least agree to reduce the timeframe for things working flawlessly to "less than two years" instead of "a decade"? Yes you were able to go to the toilet downstairs but the toilet upstairs was definitely broken.
by delusional | 2025-05-19 21:26:22+00:00
I can only imagine what's going to happen in 4 years. The current administration has opened a can of worms that is not easily closed. Once you start sending people to torture prisons, once you start defying lawful orders, people are going to be scared that this same power can be used against them.

Imagine what you would do if you thought weakness could leave you no recourse if you were sent to the gulags? How ruthless and self serving would you get?
by LordDragonfang | 2025-05-19 21:27:16+00:00
Staunch adherence to the familiar in a changing world is dangerous in-and-of itself. It is inherently anti-science.

And "order" doesn't fully capture it either, because the concept it gestures at can be more accurately described as "hierarchy" - as Kirk puts it, "a conviction that society requires orders and classes that emphasize "natural" distinctions".

In other words, everyone has a proper place in society, with some above and others below, and any attempts to remove that hierarchy are moral wrongs which require the transgressors to be put back in their place.

You can see how that core belief is intrinsically dangerous, and how nearly every controversial conservative belief about social classes falls out of it.

(It's also worth noting that this explains why conservatism's earliest champions were supporters of the aristocracy, and also why conservatism is more beloved by the old-money wealthy than move-fast-and-break-things new-money tech.)
by JadeNB | 2025-05-19 21:27:26+00:00
Without knocking this tool, which I haven't tried, there seems to be something about the inability of a package manager to stay simple—MacPorts was the simple (or at least "it just works") replacement for Fink, Homebrew was the simple replacement for MacPorts, ... I don't know what came before Fink, because that's what was used when I first started using macOS. That was under Tiger, relatively early in the OS X days, so maybe Fink was actually the first?
by dmurray | 2025-05-19 21:27:42+00:00
It's an indication that something's wrong with the system. We'd get better overall health outcomes if we tested everyone and told a large cohort of people "you do have cancer, and there are these possible treatments for it, but we recommend you don't take any of those treatments and just hope for the best". But between doctors and patients and other healthcare participants, we collectively can't do this - a large minority of people will freak out and demand treatment and the healthcare providers will feel compelled to go along with it.

Perhaps this plan just needs better marketing. Instead of dividing tumors into benign and malignant we could have a third category for malignant but slow-growing.
by wooten | 2025-05-19 21:28:00+00:00
If you want to see how safe an unfamiliar neighborhood is, you used to have to go to Trulia to see the map. Zillow then killed the Trulia crime map and all the other real estate sites did the same. However Realbloc started offering their own version late last year, but there was a paywall to see the details. Now, anyone can go see detailed maps, down to the building level, anywhere in the US.
by teuobk | 2025-05-19 21:28:43+00:00
Current evidence is that PSA tests don't actually save lives:

https://thennt.com/nnt/psa-test-to-screen-for-prostate-cance...

I wish they did, of course. I personally lost a close friend to prostate cancer last year. He was 41 and was, before the cancer, one of the healthiest and most athletic people I knew.

The first inkling he had that anything was wrong was a backache that wouldn't go away; a stage 4 diagnosis ensued. He held on for 21 months from the onset of symptoms before the cancer took him.
by diggan | 2025-05-19 21:28:45+00:00
> but I do wonder what David Woodard, Basshunter, and Corbin Bleu did

I don't know who the others are, but as someone who grew up 1990s/2000s in Sweden playing video games and being at LAN parties, Basshunter was wildly popular in Sweden at the time, and looking him up now, apparently around the world too. I'm guessing the combination of making songs about video games/internet culture (like "The bot Anna" and "We sit in Ventrilo and playing DOTA") as early as that, with songs translated into other languages had some impact on his popularity, and I feel like many people who'd enjoy Basshunter probably likes nerdy things like editing Wikipedia too.
by jjcm | 2025-05-19 21:28:59+00:00
A fair comment, but the argument I'd make against that is a lot of those creative tools are moving to the web. I personally work for Figma, and have seen that first hand. UI/UX design was entirely OSX/Windows centric for the last 40 years, and now it's platform agnostic. Even video editors are just at the nacent stage of looking at the web as an editor surface.

Totally hear you though for things like CNC milling software that's meant to stay static for the lifetime of the mill - that's not going anywhere.
by plun9 | 2025-05-19 21:29:45+00:00
Here is an example: https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/dty9nd/com...

Here, PM_ME_UR_LIDAR uses the pronoun "their" referring to Ouster, the lidar company. But PM_ME_UR_LIDAR was working at Ouster, Inc. at the time the comment was written.
by vintermann | 2025-05-19 21:29:55+00:00
Attacking? By saying "don't recommend this", I'm just saying I want to give someone else the chance to be seen, rather than the ones who will make their stuff objectively worse in order to juice their stats for the algorithm.

I'm sure my "don't recommend this" clicks don't in any way make up for Google's promotion of channels that "make their content accessible", because it doesn't even stop them from recommending me more machine-translated videos.
by throwaway894345 | 2025-05-19 21:30:24+00:00
You don’t need to downcast to interface, io.Reader is already an interface, and a type assertion on an interface (“if this io.Reader is just a byteslice and cursor, then use the byteslice”) is strictly safer than an untagged union and equally safe with a tagged union.

I wish Go had Rust-like enums as well, but they don’t make anything safer in this case (except for the nil interface concern which isn’t the point you’re raising).