MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xnorswap | 2025-05-30 07:05:47+00:00
I tried this out and a hilarious "context-slip" happened:

https://imgur.com/a/gT6iuV1

It generated (via a prompt) an image of a space ship landing on a remote planet.

I asked an edit, "The ship itself should be more colourful and a larger part of the image".

And it replaced the space-ship with a container vessel.

It had the chat history, it should have understood I still wanted a space-ship, but it dropped the relevant context for what I was trying to achieve.
by l8rlump | 2025-05-30 07:05:49+00:00
That's interesting. The product I looked up has 50mg of the pyridoxine hydrochloride form of vitamin B6: https://www.bioceuticals.com.au/products/ultra-muscleze

Interesting that they ostensibly make a version with the P-5-P form. I've read that the P-5-P form is less associated with neuropathy. As a personal anecdote, 50mg of pyridoxine hydrochloride daily for a couple of weeks gave me nothing except numb fingers (which resolved after a few weeks). However, 12mg of P-5-P with my magnesium supplement has been life-changing so far. Been taking 350mg of magnesium daily for a year or more but only when adding the P-5-P with it, do I have relief from cramps.

Anyone in the know: is there some condition that would explain this?
by Aziell | 2025-05-30 07:06:06+00:00
That line ugly because I made it really hit me. So many websites today look clean and polished and perfect, but you can't really tell who made them.

This one is a bit messy, but it feels personal. Like someone is using CSS to write a diary. Not perfect, but warm and alive. That feeling of making something just for yourself really means something.
by pelorat | 2025-05-30 07:06:07+00:00
Happened to me too. I had been consuming two energy drinks per day for a week or so and then my SO (who's addicted to vitamin supplements) gave me some multivitamins that I took just to be nice. Apparently that pushed me over the edge.

After one night and day of sweating profusely and feeling really bad, and me thinking I've cached a bug on my daily public commute, I didn't think about it any more, until days later when I began shedding the top layer of skin on my palms. Like, big flakes just started to fall off. Similar to what happens when you've had a severe sun burn.

Once that was over, any my palms were back to normal, it was then I noticed that compared to previously, my sense of touch wasn't what it used to be. Also, I noticed that I wasn't sweating as much any more. It was at this point I went to see my GP who confirmed elevated levels of B6 but didn't give any other diagnosis. This was two weeks later though and I was still sporadically consuming energy drinks, but it made me remember reading about B6 toxicity, so I began looking into it.

My own suspicion is that overconsumption of B6 damaged the nerve endings under my skin leading to a reduction in touch and the ability to sweat.

So now I live my life with about a 25 to 50% reduction (subjective) of my sense of touch. Plus I barely sweat any more (which has it's upsides). Before, I was an "easy sweater" and would begin to sweat if I walked a kilometer to the train station in the summer (20C or so), but now I can be out all day in 30+ weather (~90F) without as much as a drop of sweat.

I still sweat if I do actual prolonged physical exercise, like when I'm at the gym or exercise bike, but during daily life, not really any more. Also my hands are always dry and as a side effect quite slippery.

So yeah, stay clear of vitamin supplements and overconsumption of energy drink. I'm just happy it wasn't worse in the end, as I've read about many life changing cases of B6 toxicity.
by aapoalas | 2025-05-30 07:06:08+00:00
Not really, no. The main reason is that the origins of the Nova JavaScript engine as a project (without the ECS / data-oriented design focus, that came later) are in the Deno runtime's Discord where a friend joked "so when are we starting our own JS engine?" in response to someone jokingly complaining about Deno using V8 which is of course written in C++.

So the project started as a "let's write a better JS engine than V8 in Rust!" kind of joke. Beyond that, I personally wanted to write in Rust, and it turns out that with sufficient abuse[1], the Rust borrow checker can be used to perform GC safety checks at compile time. This means that Nova can avoid rooting a lot of values during runtime because at compile time the borrow checker has already ensured that those values will never be used after a GC safepoint.

This is something that would not be feasible in other languages without significant custom checking infrastructure. As an example, Firefox / SpiderMonkey has a custom linter that checks that "no-GC" functions cannot accidentally call back into "GC" functions, but it is roughly a full-program analysis task and the checker is hand-written, custom code that sometimes lacks special cases for this function or that. In Nova, a "GC" function takes a move-only "GcScope" parameter by value (and all GC-able Values observe that value; when the value gets moved to a child call, all those observing Values invalidate; this is that GC safety checking), and "no-GC" functions take a copy "NoGcScope" parameter that can be created from a "GcScope" and that again observes the "GcScope". Through these, the borrow checker becomes the checker for this logic.

[1]: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4394-abus...
by rapsey | 2025-05-30 07:06:10+00:00
I've had on and off insomnia for 20 years, mostly on and quite severe. If I exercised it got way worse, if I got sick sleep was practically impossible. B6 and magnesium have done absolute wonders for my well being.

I also had problems with irritability. Especially if I got hurt in some way (like sprained wrist). If I get this way now, it is a clear sign I need to take B6. It fixes it right up.

Both elements are something the body requires in the diet and does not store much. If you go to doctors most will tell you magnesium and b6 have nothing to do with sleep and give you melatonin, which is utterly useless to take regularly. It is very unfortunate how the medical profession is useless regarding fixing well being issues.
by strogonoff | 2025-05-30 07:06:16+00:00
(For the sake of completeness, I should add that Thailand’s crackdown could potentially be motivated not only by tourism revenue but also by the pressure from the government of PRC, which in turn could be motivated not only by its poorer citizens being among those kidnapped but also by its richer citizens being a target of pig butchering scams. Still, I don’t know how common the latter is—from my observations, in Western cultures people are more inclined to trust strangers compared to Chinese cultures—and in any case this does not make the well-documented kidnappings and forced labour less real.)
by h4kunamata | 2025-05-30 07:06:33+00:00
This!!!!

LLM is as good as the material it is being trained on, the same applies to AI and they are not perfect.

Perplexity AI did assist me in getting into Python from 0 to getting my code test with 94% covered and no vulnerabilities (scanning tools) Google Gemini is dogshit

Trusting blindly into a code generated by LLM/AI is a whole complete beast, and I am seeing developers doing basically copy/paste into company's code. People are using these sources as the truth and not as a complementary tool to improve their productivity.
by bvxm9 | 2025-05-30 07:07:26+00:00
Dont to raise awareness. Thats just a mindless mantra that benefits the attention economy. Its rakes in cash when everyones threat perception and anxiety is elevated.

The fact is there are things people are not capable of doing anything about. See Theory of Bounded Rationality - you cant push school kids to solve quantum field equations. There is a limit and a cost to over loading people with complexity.
by richarlidad | 2025-05-30 07:07:43+00:00
Serious side effects from long term high dose vitamin B6 include peripheral neuropathy. Doses exceeding 500 to 1000 mg per day pose the greatest risk but prolonged intake of lower doses may also result in this side effect. The Therapeutic Goods Association of Australia has found that peripheral neuropathy can occur at doses of less than 50 mg.

In pregnant adult women, vitamin B6 is likely safe at a dose of up to 100 mg per day. In adolescent pregnancy, vitamin B6 is likely safe at a dose of up to 80 mg per day.

In lactating adult women, vitamin B6 is likely safe at a dose of up to 100 mg per day. In adolescents who are lactating, vitamin B6 is likely safe at a dose of up to 80 mg per day.

In children, vitamin B6 is likely safe at a daily dose of 30 mg (1-3 yrs), 40 mg (4-8 yrs), 60 mg (9-13 yrs) and 80 mg (14-18 yrs).

The likelihood of side effects increases at doses higher than 200 mg per day.

In 2023, the European Food Safety Authority set an upper limit of vitamin B6 of 12 mg per day for adults, and 2.2 to 10.7 mg per day for infants and children.

Source: https://inspectsupplement.com/vitamin-b6 (Edited Note: My Website)
by Duanemclemore | 2025-05-30 07:11:11+00:00
I can only imagine that he pledged his actual papers to a museum or University film school a long time ago. It's not uncommon to do that well before you pass away. And you / your estate gets a very substantial tax break for it.

So I would -definitely- guess this is what's left after anything of scholarly or creative value was taken care of.

I mean - the sale of two of the three adjacent properties he owns just off Mulholland would be enough to keep those inheriting his estate going for a while on their own. I doubt "everything must go" to pay off creditors or something...

Anyway - yeah I can only imagine the actual papers are at a scholarly institution.
by chneu | 2025-05-30 07:11:15+00:00
I stopped consuming caffeine and alcohol years ago. My ADHD, depression, anxiety and sleep improved immensely.

I don't really miss em. The only times it's a problem is when other people try to get me to consume caffeine/alcohol because people are weird about it. I'd wager a lot of people don't really need caffeine but our society really pushes it on people. It's also a wicked cycle. Once you get to using caffeine regularly it gets very difficult to operate at the same level without it.

But yeah, regular exercise, good sleep and a decent diet make it not too bad.
by notTooFarGone | 2025-05-30 07:12:01+00:00
The business plan then says something like "we run nuclear 24/7 and in the pasts it's been ok from a cost perspective. Now we actually only get money half of the time but trust me this is economically viable"?

With batteries there is no "too much solar", only too few batteries because they compliment each other so good and batteries are now at a price where adding it to solar is a no brainer economically. Building nuclear now would take 10+ years and then we proabably don't need it anymore. Why take the risk if the new state of the art works?
by silisili | 2025-05-30 07:12:02+00:00
I stopped short of adding this to my comment because I don't want to feel like I'm gatekeeping, but you're absolutely right. That said, it applies to most animals people buy, sadly.

I think it's awesome people are getting into raising chickens - if they do it for the right reasons. Egg prices aren't one of them! But they're rewarding, generally really easy to care for, and depending on your land can eat for free.

Treat them as a pet that just happens to provide. Not as a resource to use.
Open-source project that use LLM as deception system
by mariocandela | 2025-05-30 07:13:55+00:00
Hello everyone

I wanted to share a project I've been working on that I think you'll find really interesting. It's called Beelzebub, an open-source honeypot framework that uses LLMs to create incredibly realistic and dynamic deception environments.

By integrating LLMs, it can mimic entire operating systems and interact with attackers in a super convincing way. Imagine an SSH honeypot where the LLM provides plausible responses to commands, even though nothing is actually executed on a real system.

The goal is to keep attackers engaged for as long as possible, diverting them from your real systems and collecting valuable, real-world data on their tactics, techniques, and procedures. We've even had success capturing real threat actors with it!

I'd love for you to try it out, give it a star on GitHub, and maybe even contribute! Your feedback,

especially from an LLM-centric perspective, would be incredibly valuable as we continue to develop it.

You can find the project here:

GitHub:https://github.com/mariocandela/beelzebub

Research using beelzebub on public network: - https://beelzebub-honeypot.com/blog/how-cybercriminals-make-money-with-cryptojacking/

- https://beelzebub-honeypot.com/blog/ssh-llm-honeypot-caught-a-real-threat-actor/

Let me know what you think in the comments! Do you have ideas for new LLM-powered honeypot features?

Thanks for your time!
by lucumo | 2025-05-30 07:14:05+00:00
I don't get it.

As I understand the article:

1. There was a model in 1972.

2. That model predicts collapse in the mid 2020s.

3. A new group has recalibrated the model with modern data.

4. The model still predicts collapse.

How does that support the title that the model is right about collapse? To support that you need verification against the real world or against a trusted model.
by downboots | 2025-05-30 07:14:19+00:00
I was curious. Why four?

Just recently the "square theory" pattern article got some attention https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44107942 with mentions of category theory ideas

Another often used model is the 2x2 matrix: four stages of competence, TKI conflict modes, Johari window, Eisenhower matrix, stakeholder matrix...

I love my visual cortex. Alignment possibilities here are limited only by vocabulary and RxR->R mappings. With the downside of hidden assumptions.
by kelnos | 2025-05-30 07:14:23+00:00
> If you lose the ability to be a normal person whenever

That depends on what "normal" is, and I don't think you or I get to define it.

I mostly hang out in mixed-gender groups, but I absolutely have seen the difference in vibe others in this thread have noted, when I'm hanging out with a group of just other men. Especially when compared to a mixed group that has both single men and single women.

> men are putting these strange rules and requirements on their own selves

I wouldn't call it a "rule" so much as a "phenomenon". It just seems to kinda happen. Not always, and not in every mixed-gender group, but it does happen. I don't think anyone is making up or following any kind of "rules", and I can't control group dynamics or behavior on my own.

> I don't think that's a society issue. I think that's a you issue.

I think this discussion would be more productive without thinly-veiled ad hominem attacks.
by aapoalas | 2025-05-30 07:14:34+00:00
Thank you! <3

In a way I'm honestly surprised we've gotten that high, but on the other hand maybe it's not too crazy either: Kiesel engine (written in Zig) is at 75% and is pretty much the same age as Nova, and I believe has a similar sized "development team" (one person doing a lot of the work, LinusG for them and me on Nova's side, and then a smattering of other people with a bit less free time on their hands).

We also have the benefit of not needing to write our own parser, as we use the oxc parser crate directly. That has given us a huge leg up in getting up and running.

That being said, our own tests show 70.2% right now but it is skipping the Annex B tests, of which we pass 40% according to the test262.fyi website. And on test262.fyi we currently pass only 58.7%: this number is in error I believe. We've already passed 60% on test262.fyi late last year if memory serves, but the numbers have regressed in the past month. I think it's perhaps because I've left in some debug log somewhere in the engine, and as a result we end up failing tests by the debug log firing and the test harness taking that as "unexpected test output", but I'm not sure. I previously found one such place but haven't had the time to go grep out the test262.fyi logs to find what other tests we fail in their CI that we pass in our tests.
by curiousgal | 2025-05-30 07:14:34+00:00
> how extremely dirty Tunisia is

These generalized statements make my blood boil. Djerba in particular has had issues with garbage [0]. This is akin to me saying the US is an extremely needle ridden country based on a long trip to San Francisco.

That said, a lot of Tunisian cities do have issues with garbage management and littering but calling the country "extremely dirty" makes it seem like people are taking dumps in the streets which is not the case.

0.https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/31174
by throwaway912312 | 2025-05-30 07:15:07+00:00
I hear you. Same with my dad. Found out after he gave his old phone to my mom without logging out. Tried to show him he was falling for MS-clipart certificates and bossofbigbank@gmail.com but to no avail.

After tracing 250k wired in just 6 months, we detangled my mom out of potential liability and reported him. He was put into financial stewardship (= personal finances done by an attorney). He appealed and the court ruled he seems normal, so he could also be in charge of his finances with only a monthly checkup. We still had his email access. He contacted his scammers the day after promising more money soon...

Fast forward to today, he's broke, likley evicted from his auctioned off appartment in a couple of months at age 79 and dividing his pension between wiring it to scammers and eating just enough to stay alive. Lost all his friends (many borrowed him money), doesn't see his wife or grandkids grow up. The opposite of a happy end.

If you find yourself in such a situation: - I received a lot of valueable advice from the local anonymous addiction hotline (how to react, where to seek help). Best call you can make. - In Switzerland, the KESB (govt authority for protection of elderly and children) can help you. They had a neurological assessment made and a court put him financial stewardship. It would have saved him from himself if not for his appeal. - Think ahead and have one person act as "bad guy" - everything I tried was in consensus with the whole family, but I played bad guy. Of course my dad broke with me, but he keeps sporadic contact with everyone else - his only social contacts - priceless.

I see legislation improve hereabouts - my bank (in France) now requires to watch a screen for 3 seconds and confirm you're sure to wire X to Y and you are sure Y is Y before oking a transaction. Far from enough. We infortunately won't convince our dads that they are getting scammed, but better consumer (and boomer) protection is something we can lobby and vote for.
by csomar | 2025-05-30 07:15:21+00:00
There can be various ways to approach this:

- We are collapsing but it is not the dramatic collapse everyone is expecting it to be. If population "slowly" declines consistently, eventually, there will be too few people. If you have a 2 million year graph, this era will look like a sharp spike for a very short time.

- We are adapting but fracking prevented that from happening in the West and other places. Because China didn't have that luxury, they had to push through solar energy. This provides hope that the exponential growth will continue as energy is abundant around us.

So there you have it. I can see arguments to each side of the coin and am not sure which way it'll play.
by flyinglizard | 2025-05-30 07:16:41+00:00
The world’s population growth is slowing (from 2% annually in the 70’s to about 0.9% today), and it seems to me like we are very far from exhausting planetary resources. It’s like the predictions about “Peak Oil” being wrong time and time again, and in fact today we have larger reserves than ever before despite a century of extraction (3x what we had in 1970). We’ll be off oil (as an energy source) long before it runs out.
by richarlidad | 2025-05-30 07:17:18+00:00
This is the mechanism of action:

Vitamin B6 is an antioxidant and coenzyme involved in amino acid, carbohydrate and lipid metabolism. Humans cannot directly produce active vitamin B6 (pyrixodal phosphate). However, salvage pathways allow the enzymatic conversion of vitamin B6 vitamers, including pyridoxine, pyridoxal and pyridoxamine by the enzyme pyridoxal kinase, into active vitamin B6.

In the body, active vitamin B6 is involved in metabolic reactions including GABA synthesis, monoamine neurotransmitter metabolism, the metabolism of polyunsaturated fatty acids and phospholipids, amino acid metabolism and the conversion of tryptophan to niacin.

Vitamin B6 reduces homocysteine levels by acting as a coenzyme for both cystathionine-beta-synthase (CBS) and cystathionine-gamma-lyase (CSE) in the transsulfuration pathway following a postprandial methionine-load (after a meal). In the fasting state, homocysteine is primarily metabolised via the remethylation pathway which does not require vitamin B6.

In the transsulfuration pathway, homocysteine is converted to cystathionine by CBS, then to cysteine by CSE. During moderate vitamin B6 deficiency, CSE exhibits much greater loss of activity compared to CBS. However cysteine production is preserved due to an accumulation of cellular and plasma cystathionine in a larger substrate pool which compensates for reduced CSE activity. As CBS is a vitamin B6-dependent enzyme, CBS deficiency (typically genetic causes) can result in elevated fasting and post-methionine load homocysteine due to impaired synthesis of cystathionine from homocysteine. Elevated homocysteine levels increase oxidative stress, may inhibit nitric oxide synthesis, increase vascular endothelial cell damage and accelerate low-density lipoprotein (LDL) deposition in arteries.

Vitamin B6 may significantly decrease the rate of formation of kidney stones in patients with type I primary hyperoxaluria, a condition caused by a deficiency of the liver-specific enzyme alanine-glyoxylate:aminotransferase by reducing levels of urinary oxalate. The protective effect of vitamin B6 supplementation for kidney stones appears to only occur in women (-34% risk) and not men.
by mariocandela | 2025-05-30 07:17:21+00:00
GitHub:https://github.com/mariocandela/beelzebub

Research using beelzebub on public network: - https://beelzebub-honeypot.com/blog/how-cybercriminals-make-...

- https://beelzebub-honeypot.com/blog/ssh-llm-honeypot-caught-...
by doix | 2025-05-30 07:17:38+00:00
I lived in Tunisia for 3 months, mostly in Tunis. I'm surprised there was no mention of the doors there. They are pretty beautiful[0].

The Star Wars section is also pretty limited, if you're a fan, I recommend checking out the GalaxyTours map[1], the tours were outside my budget but the information they provide is extremely accurate and well researched. Chott el-Djerid [2] was my favourite, basically the outside of Luke's home located in the middle of a dry lake (on google maps it looks like water). Funnily enough, my favourite example of Wikipedia not always being right is also an alleged StarWars filming location, wikipedia claims[3] that Ep 1 was filmed at Ksar Ouled Soltane but GalaxyTours shows that it was not [4].

I'm also surprised there were no pictures of plants in the desert covered by plastic bags. It was pretty shocking, driving through the desert, nothing really around, but pretty much every tree/plant had plastic bags attached. I thought maybe they were intentionally put there to serve some purpose, so I stopped and got a closer look. Nope, just trash bags that blew away in the wind and got stuck there.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medina_of_Tunis#/media/File:Me...

[1] https://galaxytours.com/starwars-locations-tunisia-map/

[2] https://galaxytours.com/starwars-tunisia-film-sites/chott-el...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ksar_Ouled_Soltane

[4] https://galaxytours.com/research/ksar-ouled-soltane-debunkin...