MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gcheong | 2025-05-08 21:10:04+00:00
By sheer numbers, yes, but the kinds of birds killed are different. Larger, slower reproducing birds such as eagles, condors, etc. are more at risk being killed by wind turbines because deaths in those groups have a much larger effect whereas cats kill a much larger number of birds but they tend to be smaller, faster reproducing species and as such their numbers overall aren't as much at risk.
by Animats | 2025-05-08 21:10:43+00:00
Fukishima containment.[1] The top of the containment vessel is shown in yellow, just above the red cylinder containing the reactor. The containment vessel was a heavy shell, but not much larger than the reactor. It had to contain any steam overpressure resulting from an accident, and didn't have enough volume that the steam pressure would decrease, and maybe condense. The surrounding building wasn't a pressure vessel and couldn't contain anything. Building panels blew out, leaving visible holes in the walls.

Three Mile Island containment.[2] The entire huge concrete and steel building around the reactor and support equipment is the containment vessel. When the reactor failed, radioactive steam escaped into the large containment vessel, where it was contained.

[1] https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/appendices/fuk...

[2] https://www.ans.org/news/article-3916/the-three-mile-island-...
by Aloisius | 2025-05-08 21:10:47+00:00
> South Americans do consider themselves Americans, so it's a different case.

I have a hard time believing people in South America actually call themselves Americans or are remotely confused about where someone identified as American is from.

This all seems pedantic.

Yes, everyone from the Americas could conceivably be called an American, but the lack of any shared continental cultural identity largely removes any need to self-identify as an inhabitant of the continent. But hey, if people desperately want to call themselves Americans, I say go for it.
by thrance | 2025-05-08 21:11:59+00:00
I doubt so, Christian Republicans conveniently ignore the parts of the Bible that directly contradict their ideology. How else could J.D. Vance consider himself a Catholic when his actions so directly go against the teachings of Christ?

More generally, I think religion doesn't really inform your political views. It can certainly reinforce them post-hoc, but it certainly isn't the basis of one's morality.
by jebarker | 2025-05-08 21:12:03+00:00
Yes, this paper is under-appreciated. The point is that we as humans decide what constitutes a given task we're going to set as a bar and it turns out that statistical pattern matching can solve many of those tasks to a reasonable level (we also get to define "reasonable") when there's sufficient scale of parameters and data, but that tip-over point is entirely arbitrary.
Mercury Delay Line Memory
by amosjyng | 2025-05-08 21:12:56+00:00
"[T]o get the acoustic impedances to match as closely as possible, the mercury had to be kept at a constant temperature. The system heated the mercury to a uniform above-room temperature setting of 40 °C (104 °F)...

A considerable amount of engineering was needed to maintain a clean signal inside the tube. Large transducers were used to generate a very tight beam of sound that would not touch the walls of the tube, and care had to be taken to eliminate reflections from the far end of the tubes. The tightness of the beam then required considerable tuning to make sure that both transducers were pointed directly at each other. Since the speed of sound changes with temperature, the tubes were heated in large ovens to keep them at a precise temperature. Other systems instead adjusted the computer clock rate according to the ambient temperature to achieve the same effect."

It is really interesting to me to see such high-tech solutions to problems that no longer even exist. A top-of-the-line memory module from the 40's with exciting carefully engineered features is completely outclassed by a cheap modern memory card. We live in a mundane age of science fiction.
by raron | 2025-05-08 21:13:34+00:00
Plats survive some time (days) without light. If there is not enough backup power source (peaker gas plats, not nuclear though) the grid could quickly collapse causing a continent-wide blackout from what it would be really hard and it would take a long time to bring the grid up. Cities would be uninhabitable within a few days (no water, not sewage processing, no heating).
by Capricorn2481 | 2025-05-08 21:14:23+00:00
> simply calling non-homophobia progressive is in itself reductive

I think you need to reread the discussion. That is something you wrote in response to someone else. Someone expressed they found the position immoral, and you said "why are we judging people based on how progressive they are." I am explaining why that's reductive.

> But also I find it weird to turn around and tut-tut at a Christian bishop because he failed to express pro-gay views

Saying "we don't turn away gay people" is only pro-gay in the way that allowing Black people to have bank loans is pro-black. As in, not at all. It's just not anti-gay.

> A key tenet of Christianity is that homosexuality is, in short, bad

That's a motivation for bigotry, yes. It doesn't make the consequences different.

> And in turn, waiting for the Catholic Church to change its mind is like saying it should bend to popular, "progressive" views

What is progressive today is an outburst of long-standing grievances, previously quelled with violence. Gay people were killed purely on religious demonization, and legally tried in court as recently as the 50's. Not framed for a crime because they were gay, but tried for the crime of being gay. So yes, there may be an uptick in open discussion on the matter as we move into a world where we don't kill people for their sexual orientation, something we are still not out of in many parts of the world.

Now if you refuse to accept it as a moral judgement because "it sounds like what those progressives would say," that's you using a "dirty word" to refuse engaging with the topic altogether.
by lalessandro | 2025-05-08 21:14:26+00:00
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by mgraczyk | 2025-05-08 21:14:34+00:00
I largely agree, but there is essentially no possibility of ever eradicating polio with the current OPV strategy.

If you stop vaccinating, cVDPV will spread person to person. Some people carry virus for decades and it can become infectious at any time, many years after they were first vaccinated or infected. There will sparse but significant episodes until all humans who were vaccinated with OPV (or infected with the wild virus) have died.

but that doesn't mean we shouldn't do it! It's ok if we don't eradicate the virus. The point is to prevent children from being paralyzed, and it works for that.
Most businesses are collapsing under invisible labor. We gave ours a memory
by alkhemyst | 2025-05-08 21:14:38+00:00
Over the past 6 months, I’ve been working on a system that replaces most internal business operations — approvals, reporting, lead handling, onboarding — with private agents that live inside the business logic itself.

We didn’t use Zapier or SaaS wrappers. We built a lightweight, containerized agent framework that reflects, remembers, and improves over time. The system isn’t public yet — we’ve only deployed it for select clients — but the results have been wild: • 30–60% reduction in repetitive ops labor • Near-zero timeouts or script failures (we’re testing in ERP environments) • Agents that actually get smarter with every failure they encounter

We’re not building another SaaS tool. This is more like installing cognition into a business.

Curious if anyone else is working on embedded AI systems (especially outside the chatbot layer), or has thoughts on recursive automation in real-world infrastructure.

Happy to share more about the architecture or where we’re going next if there’s interest.
by anon291 | 2025-05-08 21:15:04+00:00
> if a person is a priest, remove their priesthood, and if civilian, excomunicate them.

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of catholic doctrine. One cannot have their priesthood 'removed'. However, they can be banned from the public performance of it, which is usually the punishment doled out.

As for excommunication... excommunication is removeable via confession, which is freely given.
by gregable | 2025-05-08 21:15:05+00:00
Very well put together. If you are curious about the weighted version, I tried to explain it some here: https://gregable.com/2007/10/reservoir-sampling.html

There's also a distributed version, easy with a map reduce.

Or the very simple algorithm: generate a random paired for each item in the stream and keep the top N ordered by that random.
by mac3n | 2025-05-08 21:15:06+00:00
Otto [von] Habsburg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Habsburg)

By the Grace of God Emperor of Austria; Apostolic King of Hungary, King of Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia, Galicia and Lodomeria; King of Jerusalem etc.; Archduke of Austria; Grand Duke of Tuscany and Cracow; Duke of Lorraine, Salzburg, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola and Bukowina; Grand Prince of Transylvania, Margrave of Moravia; Duke of Silesia, Modena, Parma, Piacenza, Guastalla, Auschwitz and Zator, Teschen, Friuli, Dubrovnik and Zadar; Princely Count of Habsburg and Tyrol, of Kyburg, Gorizia and Gradisca; Prince of Trent and Brixen; Margrave of Upper and Lower Lusatia and Istria; Count of Hohenems, Feldkirch, Bregenz, Sonnenburg etc.; Lord of Trieste, Kotor and the Windic March, Grand Voivod of the Voivodeship of Serbia etc.
by just6979 | 2025-05-08 21:15:24+00:00
Because the US has absolute garbage enforcement of consumer safety and anti-monopoly laws, and those laws aren't exactly strong or clear to begin with.

Health-care industry lobbyists spend huge sums to convince lawmakers that they're not price-gouging and _any_ kind of price control is somehow illegal and/or will destroy the economy. This allows them to keep prices high, colluding with health insurances to make deals that incentivize buy insurance (direct-to-patient prices for many medical things are much higher than the prices that the insurance companies pay). Prices high enoguh to make it worth spending so much on lobbying.

It's completely backwards and very anti-consumer/anti-patient, but money has such an outsized influence on our politics, it's ridiculously difficult to get changes made that actually benefit the average citizen.
by bigfatkitten | 2025-05-08 21:15:34+00:00
In the late 90s I worked for a now defunct Australian electronics retailer, who were also a well-known AS/400 shop. Our stock reports etc would come via email from qsecofr@<domain>.com.au.

The QSECOFR (Security Officer) user is effectively root on OS/400.

I would've thought they would run these jobs as some other user, but apparently not.
by bunderbunder | 2025-05-08 21:15:52+00:00
I've always understood it more to mean, "phenomena that happen due to the interactions of a system's parts without being explicitly encoded into their individual behavior." Fractal patterns in nature are a great example of emergent phenomena. A single water molecule contains no explicit plan for how to get together with its buddies and make spiky hexagon shapes when they get cold.

And I've always understood talking about emergence as if it were some sort of quasi-magical and unprecedented new feature of LLMs to mean, "I don't have a deep understanding of how machine learning works." Emergent behavior is the entire point of artificial neural networks, from the latest SOTA foundation model all the way back to the very first tiny little multilayer perceptron.
by hajile | 2025-05-08 21:16:24+00:00
I’m clearly quoting a large section of the chapter and quoted the entire part before it starts discussing deacons. Paul was an evangelist who preached, converted, then moved on. He wasn’t really a bishop. He also wrote 1 Timothy.

You can look it up in the original Greek, but translation is extremely clear with the approved Catholic translations saying the same thing.

Thomas Aquinas in his Latin (and in the English translation of his writings) agrees with the translation and also agrees that priests fall under the Bishop, but then seems to completely ignore the obvious contradiction.

Finally, mandatory celibacy wasn’t mandatory until the second Lateran Council in 1139 with the admittance that it was ecclesiastical rather than dogma (with the ruling clearly going against the New Testament).
by TheCoreh | 2025-05-08 21:16:30+00:00
This is perhaps why it took us this long to get to LLMs, the underlying math and ideas were (mostly) there, and even if the Transformer as an architecture wasn't ready yet, it wouldn't surprise me if throwing sufficient data/compute at a worse architecture wouldn't also produce comparable emergent behavior

There needed to be someone willing to try going big at an organization with sufficient idle compute/data just sitting there, not a surprise it first happened at Google.
by 2muchcoffeeman | 2025-05-08 21:16:32+00:00
And with such a sum of money they would surely have to hire staff to work all that out. Can thy do that?

I’ve tried volunteering at certain orgs before, I filled out forms and literally they rejected me because they had no more staff to organise and oversee more volunteers.

If your solution is just invest it, well, the Gates Foundation may as well hang on to it (you think you can do better job than Buffet?) and setup a system to dole it out.

If the org has to find new uses for it, surely the Gates Foundation is in a better position to get that done?
by DemocracyFTW2 | 2025-05-08 21:16:44+00:00
This conveniently ignores that Ancient Egyptian monuments were often little cared for by the natives of the land for centuries to the point where they would go and deface ancient statues because religion. I think at some point a zealot was lynched when he tried to damage the Sphinx of Giza though so there's also that. And it's not like ancient European monuments fared any better at the hands of later Europeans. They'd also go and pillage Byzantium FWIW. Likewise the pharaohs would often pride themselves how they killed and dismembered enemies and what riches they brought back as spoils of war. I will not excuse slave trade or tolerate war as a business model, however show me the civilization that did not wage war for gains when in doubt.
by godelski | 2025-05-08 21:17:14+00:00
> but they don't seem to be signs of technical debt > they also might be the results of strategic product decisions to make more money. That isn't technical debt, that's enshittification for money. > that's a bad product decision, not technical debt. | technical debt refers to the implied cost of additional work in the future resulting from choosing an expedient solution over a more robust one. - Wiki[0]

I think these suggestions fall under this category. At the core, technical debt is myopia. "Technical" refers to more than code. Ultimately, the bad code is generally the result of poor decision making. "Tech debt" is a broad word, but I don't think the things I mentioned here are in direct contention with the wiki definition nor the examples they give under "Frequent causes of technical debt". It's all about planning, and that process begins even before any code is written.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt
by ab5tract | 2025-05-08 21:18:57+00:00
I think he was all of those things, but also could be the opposite of those things, too.

Humans are complex and when you already changed the course of history by 25 or whatever, you are going to be even more complex.

I don’t idolize Steve Jobs but I do find him to contrast positively against other similar figures like Gates and Ellison. Low bars, I know. But I guess I wanted to defend that people can have a soft spot for Jobs without ever making a dime from any of his endeavors.
by calepayson | 2025-05-08 21:19:12+00:00
I'm an AI skeptic when it comes to business cases. I think AI is great at getting to average and the whole point of a business is that you're paying them to do better than average.

But I think current AI (not where it might be in a few months or years) is absolutely amazing for disadvantaged people. Access to someone who's average is so freaking cool if you don't already have it. Used correctly it's a free math tutor, a free editor for any papers you write, a free advice nurse.

This sucks in a business setting but I could see it being incredible in a charitable setting. When businesses try to replace someone great with something average it sucks. But if you're replacing something non-existent with something average, that can be life changing.

I'm an AI skeptic and I can empathize with his AI enthusiasm given the problems he's trying to address (or at least professes to be trying to address).
by casey2 | 2025-05-08 21:19:34+00:00
Even if you make the obviously wrong assumption that every library is more secure than the one you would write (that will do less the vast majority of the time) We still end up in a eggs in one basket situation.

You haven't thought through any cyber security games or you are funded to post this bad argument over and over again by state agencies with large 0-day stockpiles.
by brandonb | 2025-05-08 21:19:48+00:00
Sure. I'll try to group my answers by theme since some of the answers to your questions overlap.

First, the data is never anonymized and sold (if that's what you mean by "business development").

We follow HIPAA, since we do realize you're trusting us with a lot of data on your health. The data is necessary to provide good medical care--i.e., it's actually quite relevant to your heart health whether you have signs of sleep apnea or anxiety!

"Affiliated covered entity" refers to the medical groups that provide medical care. Legally, these have to be a separate corporate entity (a "medical professional corporation") from the standard Delaware C-Corp. All telemedicine companies that operate in the US have to have this structure, and it's why you see two distinct company names (525 Medical Group and Empirical Health).

Data deletion requires account deletion -- this is a fair point.

The data collection not breaking down each data type -- fair point. We can expand the details within this policy a bit.
by indrora | 2025-05-08 21:20:18+00:00
Welcome to the reality of anything that Elon Musk has extensive control over.

SpaceX is useful because upper management actively subvert him. Tesla had a functional process before he decided to smear his face all over the public image of it. Twitter was one example of interesting architecture before he gutted it (and caused a LOT of problems; I'm informed about 80% of the infra he took out has been put back in).

He's the very real example of an accidental success without any understanding of why he succeeded.
by JSLegendDev | 2025-05-08 21:20:29+00:00
KAPLAY is the successor to Kaboom.js which was unfortunately abandoned.

As for Phaser VS KAPLAY:

Performance wise, Phaser is still better however there are perfs improvement coming to KAPLAY.

KAPLAY has an easier to use syntax for its API. Things are easier to do in KAPLAY VS Phaser while being less verbose. Phaser however, has more features considering it's more battle tested since it's been around for far longer.

I recommend joining the KAPLAY discord to see what others are building. I'm not aware of any famous games made in KAPLAY yet.

https://discord.com/invite/aQ6RuQm3TF
by daseiner1 | 2025-05-08 21:20:37+00:00
you and i certainly have very different ideas of what an "awful" human being looks like

and i hate to play mr. ceo defender but "a very good businessman who made a lot of money" is selling him rather short, i think. he developed several products that radically changed the paradigm of computing and consumer electronics. that deserves a certain degree of veneration, i think. he didn't get rich by jacking up the price of insulin or dumping chemical waste into rivers or selling petroleum products or developing a human psychology-hacking enterprise to sell ads.
by adeon | 2025-05-08 21:20:46+00:00
Lol, yeah, I also learned yesterday that there is apparently, NSA, National Security Authority. No, not the NSA this article is talking about and everyone knows about.

I mean: National Security Authority, "Kansallinen turvallisuusviranomainen", which appears to be some office/people under Finnish foreign affairs: https://um.fi/national-security-authority-nsa-contact-inform...

I will say I got confused a moment yesterday when googling on the topic here because when you put NSA and Finland in the same search, it would get topics about this other NSA that just happens to exist which I had never heard of before, and just happens to be Finland-associated.
by brandonb | 2025-05-08 21:22:28+00:00
We follow HIPAA (the US privacy law for health data). And we take the security precautions I think you'd expect -- encryption in transit and at rest, MFA, running service accounts under least privilege, everything is in a VPC, dedicated secret manager, threat detection. While these are the "basics" that you'd expect from a modern tech company, they're not always practiced consistently in healthcare.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-05-08 21:23:10+00:00
> "Every time someone gets swindled out of their "deregulated, decentralized" money ... you have one more voice asking a centralized organization for protection, maybe with some regulation."

Regulation is key, quality decentralized finance can only happen with quality regulation. Ditto for plain old centralized banking. My question is, why we don't have anything of reasonable quality?

That lack is the reason fraudsters can peddle their fraud-coins and bait people with bombastic arguments like "the value of decentralization". Crime is decentralized, does that make it good?

>>(by grr19) everybody in the world have access to the same economy without intermediaries asking for a fee.

There is a fee, quite high in fact, and energy cost.
by juancn | 2025-05-08 21:23:28+00:00
I always wondered if the specific dimensionality of the layers and tensors has a specific effect on the model.

It's hard to explain, but higher dimensional spaces have weird topological properties, not all behave the same way and some things are perfectly doable in one set of dimensions while for others it just plain doesn't work (e.g. applying surgery on to turn a shape into another).