MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by petesergeant | 2025-05-01 14:56:08+00:00
It feels like if you'd expect someone to be something based on their background, _and_ they profess to be that thing, then the onus is on the person disputing it to come up with the evidence contra?

> any impressions we have about Tim Cook ... is a fictional character he is portraying

The relevant ones here are that he's gay, of a certain age, and from the South, and that he heads up a company who appear to invest heavily, over a long period of time, in privacy protections -- these all feel like they'd be easy to falsify if there existed evidence to the contrary.
by dayvid | 2025-05-01 14:57:09+00:00
There's too much money on the line if there is a lack of standardization and rendering/features are all over the place. I don't think it will turn that way as most users will converge on a small number of browsers.

If there is no global infra fund, there will be some type of ad-hoc board composed of some independent entities, but a lot of entities backed by large businesses. If not US then other countries as in many countries there are large tech companies aligned with government interests.
by abeppu | 2025-05-01 14:57:12+00:00
Though these tools might be interesting, I wish they had called this something else. This isn't at all related to the concept of hyperparameters which people commonly refer to as hyperparams. And in their copy, the only reference to hyperparameters seems to be misusing the term.

> This stems from an industry-wide realization that model performance is ultimately bounded by data quality, not just model architecture or hyperparameters.

Generally we think of model architecture + weights (parameters) as making up the model itself, and hyperparam(s|eters) are the more relevant to how one arrives at those weights -- and for this reason are more relevant to the efficacy of training than the performance of the resultant model.
by alabastervlog | 2025-05-01 14:57:15+00:00
They broke the labor unions, and sent union organizers to the concentration camps—they were among the first to go. They employed mass slave labor. They collaborated closely with and enriched capital owners. Collectivism wasn't a feature of their government.

They weren't socialist at all. It's a common talking point from modern fascist apologists (I'm not accusing you of being one—this nonsense leaks out into the popular culture and just gets picked up by accident, too) but it has zero basis in reality if you run down a list of what they did. It doesn't remotely look like what an even lightly-socialist-leaning government would do. Such claims are always supported by pointing at the name (LOL. LMFAO.), making things up, and maybe cherry-picking a couple things that seem socialist-ish if you squint really hard and don't put them in context. There's some early rhetoric about it, but zero action, that was just a cynical appeal to populism, usually accompanied with attempts to redefine socialism itself to mean not-socialism—they wanted the word, but not the meaning.
by AuryGlenz | 2025-05-01 14:57:58+00:00
There's inflation and there's inflation, and it's unfortunate we don't have separate terms.

If you had inflation typical of what we had during/after COVID with our economy being too hot with too much money floating around, tariffs would absolutely help. Preferably they'd be tariffs just on consumer products, and not things used for manufacturing. You'd raise them for a time and then lower them.

It's essentially the same thing as raising interest rates. You're taking money out of the economy.
by the_mitsuhiko | 2025-05-01 14:58:39+00:00
I'm honestly not at all familiar with browsers but I really do wonder if a custom language wouldn't be a reasonable tradeoff. It's not all that insane as that is a path that has been walked before. For instance FoundationDB has their own syntax to manage their actor system which just transpiles to C++: https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/blob/main/flow/README....

V8 also has torque which I think to some degree also fits into that type of mindset.
by lukan | 2025-05-01 14:59:04+00:00
"Therefore, even though we don’t have a perfect theory of physics, we can say that we understand certain stuff quite well."

Sure I agree to that.

"And vague statements about life and “new ideas” don’t help us advance our understanding."

But I disagree that we understand it well enough to exclude subatomic life with certainty.

So vague questions like the one here in this thread certainly won't push the field. It is more about a principle of being open to me and explore the idea a bit with different minds.

Because I know enough history of arrogant science thinking they know it all already. I suppose you are aware of Max Planck? That his Professor tried to discourage him from taking up physics as it is all already well understood and not much remains be found and understood?

Statements from your sibling poster reminded me of that.
by mapmeld | 2025-05-01 14:59:36+00:00
When I've seen discussion of these in the past, belief is often connected to fear or guilt stemming from how bodies react differently to exposure and/or infection. There's an element of randomness whether you breathe in enough of a pathogen, or run into a super-spreader. It can be a relief to think that people are predisposed to do better or worse, and either you were already immune or you can control it.
by brookst | 2025-05-01 14:59:39+00:00
Do you also think the working class have no business complaining about the struggles of the truly poor? And the poor can’t complain about people literally starving?

You seem to be claiming that empathy is always “hollow” but I think this is at most a statement about you. Many people can be both well off and want to make things better for others. Not everyone, for sure, not enough maybe. But attacking people for showing empathy seems weird.
by zmgsabst | 2025-05-01 14:59:41+00:00
How did Democrats respond to that information?

> Federal agencies did, however, retrospectively determine that 100 emails contained information that should have been deemed classified at the time they were sent, including 65 emails deemed "Secret" and 22 deemed "Top Secret".

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

That sounds a lot worse than what Hegseth is accused of, but didn’t derail her nomination nor draw widespread condemnation from Democrats.

That’s what I mean by “ignoring it”: the conclusion was bad but largely ignored by the party.
by moralestapia | 2025-05-01 15:00:35+00:00
If I understand correctly, your plot is different because you aggregate all of the sampled data; which is in itself quite useful, btw.

While I was going through my B.Sc., I worked a lot with performance optimization, this was around 2008. I used many tools which were slight variations on the idea of visualizing stack traces. I don't recall if that specifically was a thing or not. I believed it was something that has been doing for decades perhaps, because I was touching gdb, perf, etc... I am now reading about it and turns out that the visualization side of it is relatively recent (not 80s but 00s).

Anyway, I apologize for my initial comment being that harsh, I still think you're cool! :D
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by ty6853 | 2025-05-01 15:01:08+00:00
The 'communist' countries generally did these same things. The russians famously just straight up executed anarcho-communists and competing socialist factions and any union of persons associated with such. They employed essentially slave labor in the fields, taxing their grain to the point they could hardly survive. Party bosses were the 'capital' owners enjoying private cars, prime apartments, and de facto private ownership of the fruits of the working class.

Of course there is no real communism, there is no real socialism, and there is no real fascism. Nevertheless if I'm talking to some guy on a street I'll understand what he means if talks about com-bloc eastern europe or asia, and I understood OP was referring to communist countries in the way in which the term is typically used.
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by beala | 2025-05-01 15:01:51+00:00
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by jackdawed | 2025-05-01 15:01:55+00:00
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by justin_sdx | 2025-05-01 15:02:35+00:00
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by markbao | 2025-05-01 15:02:48+00:00
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by chii | 2025-05-01 15:02:59+00:00
> that generation generally viewed the stock market as gambling and thus didn't tend to invest

which, i reckon, might've been what made returns high as that cohort didn't invest as much while prices were down, and thus made more returns as prices grew in the future.

The recent growth in people (esp. young people) investing (from it being easier than ever, to availability of information about investing) would make prices grow higher faster. This, i predict, means future returns are actually going to be lower for this generation.
by o11c | 2025-05-01 15:03:02+00:00
It's worth noting that the data in that benchmark is tiny (28MB). While this varies between database engines, "one transaction for everything" means keeping some kind of allocations alive.

The optimal transaction size is difficult to calculate so should be measured, but it's almost certainly never beneficial to spend multiple seconds on a single transaction.

There will also be weird performance changes when the size of data (or indexed data) exceeds the size of main memory.
by trylfthsk | 2025-05-01 15:03:20+00:00
This does make me wonder what kinds of secrets can and can't be kept; on the face of it, that a critical bit of insider information would be kept for oral transmission at particular times (something like a mystery cult) leads me to think that keeping such a secret is at least possible.

At the same time, people love gossip.

Of course, the only secrets we know from the past were by definition not exactly well-kept.