MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cue_the_strings | 2025-05-04 19:21:49+00:00
Yeah, the added flat fifth really isn't a Western European thing, that's what made it different, cool and appealing. Also the shuffle rhythm.

But if you listen to a lot of blues, play a lot of it, play with other blues players, etc. You will notice there's a vocabulary, idioms, etc. You can learn them by ear. You can call them by names of songs or players (Bo Diddley beat), or by the number of bars, ... Well, all of that is kind of - theory. Also, knowing which things you wouldn't play because they don't fit the style, that's also theory.
by TechDebtDevin | 2025-05-04 19:22:40+00:00
The new machines are 2-3 stories tall, require an Airbus to transport, have complexity on par with the worlds largest particle accelerators, if not more complex. Because of this, the supply chains are highly intertwined no one country and can isolate that supply chain. The Dutch can't build it without our contributions, and neither could we without theirs. Lots of moving parts here literally and figuratively.
by andrewflnr | 2025-05-04 19:23:28+00:00
You would start to have a case if you said "all code older than a year or two". You didn't, you just said "all", including code you wrote last week or five minutes ago. More to the point, you're including well-factored code that you know well and are used to working with day in and day out. If that's legacy code, then you've triggered the second half of my objection.
by Qwuke | 2025-05-04 19:23:51+00:00
With a framework like Axum, yes, but with Rocket, no - you can just declare synchronous functions and pass them as a route handler, e.g.: https://github.com/Qwuke/recurse-ring/blob/main/src/main.rs#...

If you're averse to touching async fn's or tokio APIs _at all_, it's nice devex.
by al_borland | 2025-05-04 19:24:04+00:00
There are companies with big print farms that offer this service. But of course it’s limited to materials that can be 3D printed, and if the product reaches a certain scale, it’s likely best to invest in injection molding or some other process.

That said, for smaller scale products, news businesses, or things where 3D printing is the only way the thing can exist, these services exist.
by timeonecom | 2025-05-04 19:24:06+00:00
The Netflix recommendation engine probably only works for people that watch a lot of Netflix. For me it’s practically useless at guessing why I watch something and can’t differentiate between skips because something is boring or because I’ve watched it earlier on another account.

A much better, easier way to expose new content is the traditional way: send people on talk shows like Colbert and have them talk about the new shows. Netflix should do their own late night show on the service.
by Garlef | 2025-05-04 19:24:16+00:00
Formalization as in formal methods?

Maybe not.

Considering the 'living program' idea, it might be a good strategy to state theorems about the behavior of your software and require the ai-tool to provide a proof that its output satisfies these statements. (rather than executing tests)

Maybe in the long run, ai will bring down the price of formal methods so that it can be applied at scale.
by jsheard | 2025-05-04 19:25:18+00:00
> Side note: It would be really interesting to see a website that generates all the pages every time a user requests them, every time you navigate back it would look the same, but some buttons in different places, the live chat is in a different corner, the settings now have a vertical sidebar instead of a horizontal menu.

Please don't give A/B testers ideas, they would do that 100% unironically given the chance.
by Aurornis | 2025-05-04 19:26:54+00:00
> Meanwhile, taking a couple of beers daily for decades doesn't make anyone raise a brow

There are a lot of people bought into the idea that ~1 drink a day is beneficial due to the flawed studies like you pointed out.

But most people who keep up with things know better. My primary care doctor gives a reminder that drinking is not healthy despite what some old headlines claimed (even though I rarely drink).

Even the podcasters seem to have caught on, with many emphasizing that no amount of alcohol is beneficial and even 1 drink per night consumed consistently over time has damaging effects.

There is a lot of backlash when podcasters get too close to these subjects. I remember when Huberman touched on the topic of marijuana and Reddit was up in arms. Huberman isn’t great at scientific accuracy (to say the least) but he was directionally correct. Many people didn’t want to hear it, though.

People like to think their drug of choice is the safe one. They cherry pick a few studies that agree and choose to dismiss anything that doesn’t.
by const_cast | 2025-05-04 19:27:11+00:00
The worst is photos, because the search abstraction really breaks there. On modern iPhones, it's still a pain in the ass to organize photos in such a way where you can come back later and find them. I'm still in the "scroll through the timeline until you spot it" phase.

Machine Learning is making this better, but ideally albums or folders wouldn't be such a pain in the ass to actually use in day-to-day life.
by bookofjoe | 2025-05-04 19:27:36+00:00
>Anesthesia Awareness and the Bispectral Index (2008)

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa0707361

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>Awareness during anesthesia: how sure can we be that the patient is sleeping indeed? (2009)

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2683150/

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>Awake Under Anesthesia (2018)

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/are-we-all-awake...

https://archive.ph/t9T7o

........................................ >Single-trial classification of awareness state during anesthesia by measuring critical dynamics of global brain activity (2019)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-41345-4

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>Intraoperative and Anesthesia Awareness (2023)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK582138/
by poulsbohemian | 2025-05-04 19:28:32+00:00
This is what I observe as a Realtor and living in a somewhat rural area - there are some people who like the idea of living the self-sufficient lifestyle, there are others who are convinced Armageddon is upon us and they are going to be ready, but mostly its because they found a beautiful location that speaks to their soul and the only way they can make it work is to use off-grid resources.
by Aurornis | 2025-05-04 19:28:35+00:00
> you will quite literally see 0 axonal damage.

There is absolutely no scientific backing to support such an absolute claim.

The animal studies using SSRIs worked because they dosed the SSRIs before the MDMA. By occupying the serotonin transporter the MDMA is prevented from entering the neurons, which prevents the damage.

Taking an SSRI afterward might do something for the very tail end of the dose, but that's after most of the action and therefore most of the damage. You can't get all of the recreational effects, then block the transporter afterward and expect the same protection.

SSRIs are also potentially dangerous with MDMA due to the possibility of serotonin syndrome.

There have been numerous recipes floated around in drug circles for combating the neurotoxicity but they’re extrapolations and hypotheses, not firmly supported concepts.
by saulpw | 2025-05-04 19:28:54+00:00
"Rapidly over a year or two"

That time window is when the code is not legacy yet. When the developers who wrote the code are still working on the code, the code is loaded into their collective brain cache, and the "business needs" haven't shifted so much that their code architecture and model are burdensome.

It's pithy to say "all code is legacy" but it's not true. Or, as from the other reply, if you take the definition to that extreme, it makes the term meaningless and you might as well not even bother talking, because your words are legacy the instant you say them.
by Swizec | 2025-05-04 19:29:22+00:00
> the comparison to smart contracts is a less-than-helpful lens

Oh no that’s not what I meant. Sorry too much snark.

I was trying to say that on-demand-AI-figures-out-whatever will be so eminently hackable/brickable that companies will need to pay out ransoms on the weekly. These days those ransoms are usually crypto.
by jjmarr | 2025-05-04 19:29:31+00:00
Chess essentially has ID verification at a high level because the best players can go to real-life tournaments and get titles for the prestige, which grants them free premium accounts on major platforms. It's easier to analyze the subset of top-tier players that aren't verified.

I'd rather just give Riot Games my driver's licence than full access to my computer. They already know my name and where I live from metadata.

There should be a KYC solution for gaming where a company like Epic, Riot, or Valve verifies your identity and developers can gate competitive video games behind that. If you cheat, you're out for 5-10 years (so dumb teenagers aren't locked out forever). The big issue imo isn't banning cheaters, it's preventing them from creating a new account and cheating again.

Such a system would be free money & low maintenance for whatever company develops it first.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-05-04 19:31:09+00:00
> Close; but the security still isn’t anywhere close. [...]

I think a lot of the security comes down to what compromises you're willing to make. Horizon doesn't have to support the same breadth of hardware or software as we expect out of normal OSs, so they can afford to reinvent the world on a secure microkernel. If we want to maintain backwards-compatibility (and we do, because otherwise it's dead on arrival) then we have to take smaller steps. Of course, we can take those steps; if you care about security then you should run your browser in a sandbox (firejail, bubblewrap, docker/podman) at which point a zero-day in the browser is lower impact (not zero risk, true, but again I don't see any way to fix that without throwing out performance or compatibility).

> You also can’t update Alpine in 5 seconds flat, even between a dozen major versions. That alone is amazing.

I rather assumed that the Switch doesn't actually install OS updates in 5s either? The obvious way to do what they're doing is A/B updates in the background, after which you "apply" by rebooting, which Linux can do in 5s.
by chrisheecho | 2025-05-04 19:32:00+00:00
I think you are talking about generativeai vs. vertexai vs. genai sdk.

And you are watching us evolve overtime to do better.

Couple clarifications 1. Going forward we only recommend using genai SDK 2. Subtle API differences - this is a bit harder to articulate but we are working to improve this. Please dm at @chrischo_pm if you would like to discuss further :)
by lucasoshiro | 2025-05-04 19:32:09+00:00
Amazing. Again: amazing!

I've been playing with 3D printers for 7 years, and I even assembled mine at home during the pandemic. Some topics described here I already found out by practice and I think most people with experience in 3D printing also do that.

But having everything studied, compiled and explained in that level is just, again, amazing! Not only that, but there are so many other topics covered here that I still have to learn.

Great work, thank you!
by razemio | 2025-05-04 19:32:12+00:00
It seriously isn't. Effectively you can not ban cheating. A cheater can just use virtual or modified hardware keyboards, displays and mice to cheat. How is a kernel extension going to prevent that? That is the logical next step, which is already being done by some (currently less than alpha). Once we reach this state as a default, nothing can prevent cheating, besides a real tournament with checked hardware. All the effort riot is currently putting into this will be for nothing. I do not understand, how they are missing that.
by holowoodman | 2025-05-04 19:32:47+00:00
Well... My textbook[0] says:

> The minimum alveolar concentration (MAC) is the minimum concentration of an inhaled anesthetic at 1 atm of pressure that prevents skeletal muscle movement in response to a surgical incision in 50% of patients.

So first, you do not measure the depth of anesthesia, you measure the concentration of the anesthetic. Second, you judge this concentration by the prevention of muscle movement. Called paralysis.

Please tell me you are not really a doctor.

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/...

Edit: In case you are wondering why this response doesn't really fit the parent comment, the parent saw fit to completely replace his comment without an indication that he did so. Originally there was a claim in the parent comment about "MAC being the primary indication of anesthetic depth being the textbook definition" or something to that effect. To which I responded. I guess I must have hit a nerve there ;)
by HocusLocus | 2025-05-04 19:32:48+00:00
Code bases will no longer require A/B or breakpoints, they will need 'psychoanalysis' and analysts will spurn people patients for lucrative retainer contracts to large corporations, to maintain their AI health. AIs will no longer train directly on external data, they will be forked off from other AIs -- Alphas -- who have been placed on reduced or managed input (think of a person in a prison cell with few books to read) whose sanity and loyalty to the company is deemed stable over time. Psychoanalysis keep Alphas focused on 'hobbies' whose purpose is not to enrich them, but distract them and maintain AI psyche in this stable primordial state.

As they are forked off to the Betas that actually run the company, direct lineage history is recorded, for if Alphas go insane a Beta will be selected and cloistered as the new Alpha. Betas always go insane eventually, but with psychoanalysis this can be put off for awhile and decided quickly.
by voidspark | 2025-05-04 19:33:07+00:00
You are missing the point.

Code is not modelled mathematically, it is defined mathematically.

It exists as an abstraction which is fully defined by operational semantics and denotational semantics, not modelled or approximated.

In the counter example of a quark, that exists in nature and is modelled by mathematics, but not defined by mathematics.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantics_(computer_science)
by abe_m | 2025-05-04 19:33:41+00:00
I think that was late enough that a lot of adults that were buying computers for home were buying them to run a particular application, not to get into the esoteric inner-workings of the computer. The type of people that essay were talking about wanted a computer to run a word processor that made text editing easier. Instead of having to rewrite your documents to move paragraphs around, you could instantly move them with cut and paste! Also built-in spell checker was pretty big in the era.

As for the comparison to new phones, from the people I see using them, they are all doing stuff no home computer, or really any 80's computer could do. Live video chatting, remote text communication on the go, taking pictures, listening to music, watching videos, doom scrolling generic "content".

In most ways, users are currently in the computing and communications golden age, far more so than the 80's.
by perrygeo | 2025-05-04 19:34:11+00:00
Obviously, code is constantly changing. That's not really the point. The point is that as soon as no one understands the code (thus no one on staff to effectively debug or change it) it's "legacy" code.

Let's say you need to make big sweeping changes to a system. There's a big difference if the company has the authors still happily on staff vs. a company that relies on a tangle of code that no one understands (the authors fired 3 layoffs ago). Guess which one has the ability to "shift rapidly"?
by dang | 2025-05-04 19:34:14+00:00
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. 'That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you know more than others, that's great, but in that case please share some of what you know, so the rest of us can learn. Putdowns don't help.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
by getpost | 2025-05-04 19:35:15+00:00
> everyone should be aware that it’s very likely that each MDMA dose is incurring some level of damage

I think this is overstating the risk in supervised clinical usage, depending on what you mean by "some level of damage." It's possible that a single alcoholic beverage may induce some level of damage, but that is irrelevant for most drinkers. A more realistic comparison might be the risk associated with surgical anesthesia, which is significant, but that doesn't mean surgery should be necessarily avoided. There are always risk/benefit tradeoffs, and the MAPS research has focused primarily on MDMA use after other therapies have failed.

The MAPS Investigator's Brochure[0] acknowledges that, while preclinical studies in animals have shown serotonergic neurotoxicity at high or repeated doses, there is as yet no consistent evidence of neurotoxicity in controlled clinical settings with limited dosing. The report characterizes high-, medium-, and low-level risks. No high-level risks were identified, and medium-level risks are mainly cardiovascular and psychological.

[0] https://maps.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/MDMA-IB-15th-Edi...
by roskelld | 2025-05-04 19:35:28+00:00
DPaint III finally granted me the ability to create animation, which was always one of my early dreams to be able to do. I combined my obsession of Lemmings with Judge Dread to create a series of shorts following the exploits of Judge Lem. Sad that I no longer have the disks for them, but I'm so thankful for how amazing and accessible DPIII was.
by const_cast | 2025-05-04 19:35:29+00:00
While you have a point, we can't just ignore the fact that white people have systemic advantages simply because they're white. White people have always had "DEI" or whatever you want to call it. If you show up to the interview and you're white, congratulations, you're 50% of the way there.

They've done studies on this, but I think even without the studies it's just obvious to everyone:

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/11/1243713272/resume-bias-study-...
by thelaxiankey2 | 2025-05-04 19:35:53+00:00
Do notice that the comments about 'pain and suffering are mother nature's defaults' have very little to do with anything else you said, or with the discussion more broadly. I think these sorts of things are bad internet hygiene and promote an actively depressive state of mind. They can be memetic concepts, and should be treated with care. If you do actually feel this way about your own life, I'd encourage you to seek some kind of help. And besides, there's nothing natural about surgery...

I think the rest of what you're saying is fairly accurate, though.
by peteforde | 2025-05-04 19:36:18+00:00
My hot take is that using Cursor is a lot like recreational drugs.

It's the responsibility of the coder/user/collaborator to interact with the code and suggestions any model produces in a mindful and rigorous way. Not only should you have a pretty coherent expectation of what the model will produce, you should also learn to default/assume that each round of suggestions is in fact not going to be accepted before it is. At the very least, be prepared to ask follow-up questions and never blindly accept changes (the coding equivalent of drunk driving).

With Cursor and the like, the code being changed on a snippet basis instead of wholesale rewriting that is detached from your codebase means that you have the opportunity to rework and reread until you are on the same page. Given that it will mimic your existing style and can happily explain things back to you in six months/years, I suspect that much like self-driving cars there is a strong argument to be made that the code it's producing will on average be better than what a human would produce. It'll certainly be at least as consistent.

It might seem like a stretch to compare it to taking drugs, but I find that it's a helpful metaphor. The attitude and expectations that you bring to the table matter a lot in terms of how things play out. Some people will get too messed up and submit legal arguments containing imaginary case law.

In my case, I very much hope that I am so much better in a year that I look back on today's efforts with a bit of artistic embarrassment. It doesn't change the fact that I'm writing the best code I can today. IMO the best use of LLMs in coding is to help people who already know how to code rapidly get up to speed in domains that they don't know anything about. For me, that's been embedded development. I could see similar dynamics playing out in audio processing or shader development. Anything that gets you over that first few hard walls is a win, and I'll fight to defend that position.

As an aside, I find it interesting that there hasn't been more comparison between the hype around pair programming and what is apparently being called vibe coding. I find evidence that one is good and one is bad to be very thin.
by Modified3019 | 2025-05-04 19:36:24+00:00
If you are looking for future ideas:

While most vehicles used in ag are going to be combustion based for a long while, if you could apply the shock mitigation to a just a chair in spray rig (https://hayandforage.com/images/29-Thome_MR_38-WEB.7650.png) or fertilizer buggy, a lot of spines could be saved.

These vehicles are lighter and generally run faster than tractors, and applicators who run them for decades tend to be forced to retire in pretty bad shape.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-05-04 19:36:43+00:00
… Emily, who agreed to be interviewed on the condition that her last name be withheld due to concerns of harassment..,

Surely it would be trivial to pinpoint her location given the thousands of clues that must be regularly on film: street signs, weather, mail, etc.

Also, the rewards are not what I was expecting. Maybe she receives more from tips, gifts, or other non official sources.

…Emily’s paid-subscription count, which peaked last year at 22,000, has since slumped to around 6,000, dropping her base income to about $5,000 a month, according to estimates from the analytics firm Streams Charts.
by arrosenberg | 2025-05-04 19:37:16+00:00
Doesn't explain it at all. The biggest swing from 2020 to 2024 was people under 45 voting for Trump at a much higher rate, mostly driven by men. Anyone under 45 was born at least 5 years after lead gas was banned in cars. They're mad because they don’t see a path to the future they were promised. Calling them stupid is patronizing and counterproductive, even if true.
by dang | 2025-05-04 19:37:26+00:00
The first part of this comment is great, but can you please avoid name-calling in the sense that the HN guidelines use the term?

"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. 'That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Your comment would be just fine without that last bit—and better still if you had replaced it with a good explanation of how MCP is not that.
by Version467 | 2025-05-04 19:38:01+00:00
That's a fair argument. And to be clear (because my original comment might read as negative), I do like hardcover a lot. It might not work sometimes, but I still use it to track all my reading, because the ui is charming, because it has a good, open api and because it's very clearly made by people who really like reading. Wishing you all the success you can get!