MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dylan604 | 2025-05-08 02:33:01+00:00
I've processed lots of sources with 5.1 audio that have "interesting" issues of various types. My favorite is when the LFE channel has a full range signal instead of a low pass filtered one. When that data is down mixed by what ever chip is doing it, there's way more data in the mix resulting in not what one would hope. These are studio provided sources that have been outsourced to 3rd parties for various reasons, but the LFE is often the red headed step child of audio data.
by smt88 | 2025-05-08 02:33:52+00:00
tldr: MASH

> The study, published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, included 800 adults with a severe form of liver disease known as metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis, or MASH. People develop MASH after fat builds up in the liver, which can lead to inflammation, cell damage and scarring. The condition, which affects nearly 15 million adults in the United States alone, is one of the most common reasons for liver transplants nationwide. It is closely linked with obesity and Type 2 diabetes, both of which are also on the rise.
by tbrownaw | 2025-05-08 02:34:08+00:00
> I personally think nuclear proliferation is a more important issue for the world than if I lose weight or not.

That's a bad comparison though.

A better one would be the effects that you losing weight (or getting in shape or whatever) would have on your life vs the effects that nuclear proliferation would have on your life.

Or the effects that globally eliminating obesity would have on life expectancy vs the effects that solving proliferation would have on life expectancy.
by int_19h | 2025-05-08 02:34:59+00:00
Swift does retain this, but it makes it look much more readable. The example above would be something like:

orderbook.sendOrder(symbol: "foo", buy: true, quantity: 100, price: 1000.00);

It also has a nifty syntax for function declarations to allow decoupling the keyword from the variable name when that leads to more readable code:

func parseInt(from s: String) -> Int { /* the variable is named 's' here */ } parseInt(from: "123")
Ask HN: Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 arrives May 19 at $299 revive PC builds?
by byte-bolter | 2025-05-08 02:35:28+00:00
Nvidia just announced that the GeForce RTX 5060 will hit shelves on May 19 starting at $299. It succeeds the GTX 1060/RTX 3060 line, adds DLSS 4 and Multi-Frame Generation—but still ships with 8 GB of VRAM amid ongoing supply shortages.

I’m curious: Will this price point and feature set finally revive mainstream PC builds? Is 8 GB of VRAM still enough for today’s 1080p/1440p gaming?

Looking forward to benchmarks and your early impressions once cards start rolling out!
by meesles | 2025-05-08 02:36:35+00:00
> I don't see any relationship between idolizing rich people as a culture and capitalism

The primary goal of capitalism is profit. Therefore successful people in capitalism are rich. People look up to and idolize the most successful people within their cultures.

The connection is crystal clear to me.

> There's also nothing wrong with capitalism ...

I think if you put yourself in my shoes, you could come up with your own counter examples. There's plenty of things wrong with the pursuit of profit when many people suffer needlessly. It breeds callousness, greed, selfishness, and other personality traits that aren't great for society.
by azemetre | 2025-05-08 02:38:39+00:00
How does this not vindicate their viewpoint? Do you really need a team of ivy grads to make power points or inexperienced people to give unqualified answers?

Modern consulting seems like one of the better deaths inflicted by GenAI. The entire industry is a means to commit corporate espionage legally.

They can do something more useful with that education.
by RainbowcityKun | 2025-05-08 02:40:39+00:00
Right now, most LLMs with web search grounding are still in Stage 1: they can retrieve content, but their ability to assess quality, trustworthiness, and semantic ranking is still very limited.

The LLMs can access the web, but they can't yet understand it in a structured, evaluative way.

What’s missing is a layer of engineered relevance modeling, capable of filtering not just based on keywords or citations, but on deeper truth alignment and human utility.

And yes, as you mentioned, we may even see the rise of LLM-targeted SEO—content optimized not for human readers, but to game LLM attention and summarization heuristics. That's a whole new arms race.

The next leap won’t be about just accessing more data, but about curating and interpreting it meaningfully.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-05-08 02:41:02+00:00
> Speaking on Tucker Carlson’s podcast, she cited a 2017 report by Mark Skidmore, a Michigan State University economist, which stated that he and a group of scholars had uncovered $21 trillion in “unauthorized spending in the departments of Defense and Housing and Urban Development for the years 1998-2015.”

Uh huh. Stealth underground megacity construction project.
by cameronh90 | 2025-05-08 02:42:39+00:00
As a formerly obese person, I'd say it's both for me.

Prior to taking Mounjaro, I was pretty much constantly hungry when it was objectively incorrect to be - for example I had just eaten literally 30 mins prior. This was usually accompanied with stomach rumbling and the weird hungry rain stick noise in the back of the neck (I don't know what causes this but it's not uncommon), so I'm pretty sure it was "real" hunger.

Since taking Mounjaro, it's much easier now to distinguish between really being hungry, and being, I guess, psychologically hungry. Sometimes, now, if I've had a hard day or am in a poor mood, I want to eat chocolate just to make me feel better. That's something I didn't really notice before, maybe because it was always masked/coincident with physiological hunger? Perhaps the psychological side drove me to eat more or less healthily for pleasure, but I was still actually hungry in the first place.
by malux85 | 2025-05-08 02:42:39+00:00
This is a great resource, when I was in Saudi Arabia a few months ago at the global AI conference I gave a talk on AI in materials science - and while I was talking an LLM read a paper, created a hypothesis and used our API to create and run experiments - all live on our workbench behind me while I gave the talk.

LLMs aren't perfect by a long shot, but at the very least they can attempt to reproduce the paper, take a lot of the grunt work out of establishing a baseline, and let the scientist focus on making changes and pushing forwards with new experiments, rather than getting bogged down in replication of existing work.
by realityfactchex | 2025-05-08 02:43:23+00:00
Use mailman.

Get one list for "newsletter@yourdomain.com". Put your people on it.

Configure it so that only you can post to it. You don't need a public archive, but you have that option. Keep membership-listing off. Make sure each outbound message has the option to self-unsubscribe. Your public page can even have the functionality to let people self-subscribe (or self-resubscribe). This is a default, I think.

Choose a mailman host with a track record of many years, e.g. over one decade. That knows how to manage mail. That knows how how SPF/DKIM/DMARK and discoverability works. That knows how to have good IPs. For example, a host that has managed reputable open-source mailing lists on the long term, has more than one person running it, etc. You have your choice of hosts anyway. If one goes down, there are others to choose from. That should not be a big deal.

When you want to send your people a newsletter, just send an email to newsletter@yourdomain.com.

I could not imagine anything simpler, easier, or most cost effective, for what you ask.
by greenavocado | 2025-05-08 02:45:31+00:00
Earth's oceans contain approximately 1.35 billion cubic kilometers of water. To raise this entire volume from an average temperature of 3.5C to boiling (100 C), we'd need roughly: 1.35 x 10^21 kg x 4,184 J/(kg C) x 96.5C is approximately 5.45 x 10^25 joules That's 545 million exajoules or about 10,000 times humanity's annual energy consumption.

If you tried to brute-force AES-256 with conventional computers, you'd need to check 2^256 possible keys. Even with a billion billion (10^18) attempts per second: 2^256 operations / 10^18 operations/second is approximately 10^59 seconds. You'd need about 2.7 x 10^41 universe lifetimes to crack AES-256

At about 10 watts per computer, this would require approximately 10^60 joules, or roughly 2 x 10^34 times the energy needed to boil the oceans. You could boil the oceans, refill them, and repeat this process 200 trillion trillion trillion times.

For RSA-2048, the best classical algorithms would need about 2^112 operations. This would still require around 10^27 joules, or about 20 times what's needed to boil the oceans.

ECC with a 256-bit key would need roughly 2^128 operations to crack, requiring approximately 10^31 joules It's enough to boil the oceans about 2,000 times over.

Quantum computers could theoretically use Shor's algorithm to break RSA and ECC much faster. But to break RSA-2048, we'd need a fault-tolerant quantum computer with millions of qubits. Current quantum computers have fewer than 1,000 stable qubits. Even with quantum computing, the energy requirements would still be astronomical. Perhaps enough to boil all the oceans once or twice, rather than thousands of times.
by bb88 | 2025-05-08 02:45:47+00:00
I completely disagree with you, as is my right. And you can disagree with me, and that's okay. I absolutely, truly believe nuclear proliferation is more dangerous than carbs. Fight me.

The problem with your argument are the words, "you" and "your".

You are making the mistake that pj50c is exactly arguing against. People arguing in effect, that "__you__ should do something."

"If only __you__ understood...."

"If only __you__ could control your lizard brain telling you you're hungry...."

Those are your beliefs. They are not mine. And this is what people talk about when respecting "boundaries".

I'm not saying you can't have you're opinion. And you can say, "I believe x, y, and z. And here's why...." And I'd be fine with that.

In fact, I'd probably be more open to listening to you.
by kragen | 2025-05-08 02:48:26+00:00
They are very different licenses, so their comment has nothing to do with the article, which is what I was pointing out. Including the LGPL in a comment about the GPL makes as much sense as including Switzerland in a comment about Sweden. It's an easy mistake to make if you aren't very familiar with them, but it's still a mistake, and one which leads you to nonsensical conclusions if you don't correct it.
by cyberax | 2025-05-08 02:49:10+00:00
Interesting. There's a fundamental vulnerability in mesh routing: you either have to control addressing, or a malicious actor can flood the network topology with bogus data.

Just imagine somebody generating 10000000000 addresses and flooding everybody with that information.

It looks like Yggdrasil doesn't address (ha) this vulnerability? It kinda side-steps it by requiring enrollment through an already trusted node?
by goshx | 2025-05-08 02:50:24+00:00
> We want to help these countries, and in the process, spread democratic AI, which means the development, use and deployment of AI that protects and incorporates long-standing democratic principles (…) Likewise, we believe that partnering closely with the US government is the best way to advance democratic AI.

The current US government? To protect “long-standing democratic principles”? Give me a break.
by gus_massa | 2025-05-08 02:50:33+00:00
BSD is a permissive licence. Anyone can use the code, even in closed source or with other licence or weird licence. (It may require to keep the original author near the top, I don't remember, IANAL.) MIT and WTFPL are very similar.

If someone doesn't want their code to be sed in closed source or with other licence or weird licence, then they must use GPL or AGPL or something similar.
by int_19h | 2025-05-08 02:51:31+00:00
They aren't even necessarily redundant. If you have argument names as part of the function name, they can be overloaded on - and this is much more readable than type-based overloading because it's all explicit. Swift uses this to great effect, e.g. here are some different ways to construct a string:

String(repeating: "foo", count: 42); String(cString: zeroTerminatedBuffer); String(42, radix: 16); String(contentsOfFile: "foo.txt", encoding: .utf8);
by thwarted | 2025-05-08 02:51:38+00:00
If one looks to "government employees", as individuals, then yes, they aren't prescient enough to allocate resources efficiently. But comparing the free market to government employees is not an apples to apples comparison, because individuals don't allocate resources efficiently either in a free market; the "market" as a whole is what optimizes for efficiency.

And I think there is a distinction in different kinds of efficiency that can be optimized for, not just monetary cost. If we desire clean, paved, safe roads, that can be used by all equally for efficient movement of goods, because we recognize that as a prereq for a strong economy, we can not rely on the free market to deliver that, much less optimize for it. It can be more efficient, in terms of actually delivering the desired goal vs not delivering it at all (or delivering a grossly bastardized version of it) to pool our resources and explicitly work towards making something available rather than hoping that the free market will deliver it.

The free market did not deliver on reducing congestion in New York (in fact, one might say that over the decades, the free market is what made it worse), but the congestion pricing program has, and has resulted in a bunch of valuable/desirable knock-on effects.

I do not think that a centrally planned economy is workable; but collectively being deliberate about building the things we need/want, and taking a longer view, can result in significant efficiencies.

The free market ends up simply wasting resources in its drive to discover where efficiencies lie and how to take advantage of them.
by andrekandre | 2025-05-08 02:52:30+00:00
> We have more cash than we know how to spend reasonably?

literally all kinds of things could be done...

- pay your workers a good bonus?

- invest the money in the market?

- lower prices?

> What's the argument for stock buyback programs generally?

they used to be illegal because its a form of stock price manipulation*

* https://www.forbes.com/sites/aalsin/2017/02/28/shareholders-...
by turtletontine | 2025-05-08 02:52:35+00:00
Having been on the other side of this (teaching undergrads), I do get why courses would be structured like this. If you actually try explaining multiple things, lots of students freeze up and absorb nothing. Certainly there’s a few motivated and curious students who are three lectures ahead of you, but if you design the class for them, 60% of students will just fail.

So I get why a professor wouldn’t jump in with maps and folds. First, you need to make students solve a simple problem, then another. At the third problem, they might start to notice a pattern - that’s when you say gee your right there must be a better way to do this, and introduce maps and folds. The top 10% of the class will have been rolling their eyes the whole time, thinking well duh this is so boring. But most students seem to need their hand held through this whole process. And today, of course, most students are probably just having LLMs do their homework and REALLY learn nothing
by Paddywack | 2025-05-08 02:52:56+00:00
I’ll try, but not succeed with a view from Australia..

Companies and governments have been concerned about data and AI sovereignty, and chip (processing) access. The new risks imposed by the USA are increasing this concern / push.

So, it’s hardly surprising that Sama is getting a lot of calls for local instances.

However, if the data etc. moves back to the USA this is exactly the opposite of the control companies and governments are looking for.

So, fair proposal, wrong execution.
by hapless | 2025-05-08 02:54:09+00:00
Stock buybacks are substantially equivalent to dividends. You issue a dividend when you have nothing to invest in that will develop shareholder value. Buybacks work the same way. You have a stock of capital, or a great borrowing opportunity, and nothing to do with it.

Most companies always have another idea to do a new thing, that might induce growth. WW did not. WW has been in trouble for decades, because their business model pre-supposes consumers are too stupid to use a search engine. (Does "weight watchers" work? No. No it doesn't.)

The debt-for-buyback swap is a symptom, not a cause. Management had nowhere to go, no vision for growth, and when you are out of ideas and you are offered an attractive loan, you do a buyback.
by ddxv | 2025-05-08 02:54:13+00:00
Rather than going through 1000s of app companies, why not go directly to the 100s of third party analytic companies?

From my research most all apps use some SDK which tracks users. Many apps use 3 or 4 for various marketing / product / business use cases. I've been tracking this on https://appgoblin.info/companies if anyone wants to check. Try looking at the "no analytics" found groups, which are just apps I haven't found evidence of 3rd party trackers, almost certainly they do use them.

I would like to see world where Angry Birds data at least stays on Angry Birds servers and have been working on building a part of that with OpenAttribution (https://openattribution.dev) to let app/game companies build their marketing pipeline with at least one less tracker in the app.

I think as compute is getting cheaper a lot of this should/can be self-hosted by at least larger companies so they have full control of their BI tools and the data underlying it.
by setr | 2025-05-08 02:54:31+00:00
The lost money comes from the taxpayer. But that loan money was going to be used to pay the school; and presumably if the student doesn’t have that loan money, they ain’t gonna be paying (or attending, because they can no longer afford to do so). So schools should care. And the students should care — they don’t get to join the school. And the government should care — their funds just went into a void. And the taxpayers should care — their money just went into a void, and some number of their kids just got denied college access.

What involved party shouldn’t care?
by mdaniel | 2025-05-08 02:54:38+00:00
I was curious about "for a while" and it is apparently 16 years (2009 commit with message "license.txt" https://github.com/Jetbrains/intellij-community/tree/4d9912f... ) and the PyCharm Apache 2 release seems to be a lot harder to actually track down but https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/commit/e0d02... is cited as "initial extraction of python-community module (for now with a few cyclic dependencies)" in 2013
by fromMars | 2025-05-08 02:56:36+00:00
We can't really know for sure. We have the anecdote about the workbook but what about earlier and did he absorb any of his dad's teachings or aptitude by osmosis.

Even if we accept he didn't he still went to college and had an unusual experience as an undergrad in being mentored by an excellent mathematician.

That he took a gap year in h.s. doesn't seem that noteworthy to me.
by kelipso | 2025-05-08 02:56:54+00:00
There are plenty of working class parents who support an older child who lives at home. The difference is the child is not pursuing anything, so most parents would not want that for their child and would want him to get a job or something.

My point being that it’s not about finances, it’s not that much more difficult for most working class families to support an extra mouth to feed, especially when it’s an adult. It’s more about the difference in perspective and future financial stability.
by hollowturtle | 2025-05-08 02:57:31+00:00
I hate chat and panels in my ide, they are distracting and have worst ux, I'm using Cursor because of cursor prediction, but lately the trend has been the opposite even in the development of Cursor, apparently people are more interested about chatting instead of doing super powered editing supported by the AI that let you lead the game and makes you feel much more productive. I'd like to see something like that in Zed and I'd pay for it, agent mode and chats never worked for me, always been the worse experience
by ridgeguy | 2025-05-08 02:57:57+00:00
I started on Zepbound March 1. The food noise is gone. I'm no longer distracted by intrusive thoughts around food/hunger, which after a lifetime of enduring such, is wonderful.

The strongest behavioral effect is that I no longer snack at all, a lifetime habit pre-March. That's resulted in ongoing weight reduction, ~9kg so far.

That, in turn, has encouraged me to increase my activity levels a lot. Offered as an anecdatum in which this drug is driving me away from the sedentary tarpit, rather than towards it. YMMV, of course.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-08 02:57:57+00:00
No, in fact I'm fairly sure it is Fantuan: https://fantuan.ca/delivery/en/

My Chinese-speaking friend told me that the business name translates to "rice balls". Fantuan appears to have a large presence in Anglophone countries such as AUS, CA, US.

And yes, any app that would be in the Chinese language is utterly weird and foreign to me. I can't even read or sound out the characters. I'd be more comfortable in a Hebrew or Arabic app, frankly. They would be "less weird" to me. Feel free to call me a racist bigot, but I'm an ordinary American.
by dzink | 2025-05-08 02:59:16+00:00
The engineer in me immediately looks for ways to map out how tax avoidance via crypto trading on life insurance funds via a Bermuda company can possibly go wrong. Insurance has a nice long term cash flow that has proved very sweet for Berkshire Hathaway, and investment on top of that gets perks for the insurance. However Crypto, which has liquidity issues and is heavily scammed/stolen would benefit far more than the users of business. The holdings would stay for decades, allowing arbitrage of the main company with user investments. If there is a leak or a collapse of the crypto, the customers won’t know it until they can’t get their funds back, but since AI is handling the claims, they may never even find out the real reason they can’t get their money back. And since it’s life insurance, the buyer might never find out, while their descendants or loved ones may not know how to deal with it or be plenty confused by the lack of customer service. Very novel scheme.
by dang | 2025-05-08 03:00:41+00:00
Related:

He dropped out to become a poet – now he’s won a Fields Medal (2022) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37010709 - Aug 2023 (75 comments)

He dropped out to become a poet – now he’s won a Fields Medal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31985400 - July 2022 (136 comments)
by Dylan16807 | 2025-05-08 03:02:22+00:00
If the load meter ever reads "100%" then that means you were at 100% for long enough to cause problems. It's measuring a period much longer than a millisecond. It depends on use case how big those problems are, and whether you want to pay money to avoid them, but they exist even before you hit 100% and even if it's only briefly that high.

Peaking at 90% over the monitoring interval does not mean you can fit 10% more load without compromises. It does not mean your CPU is oversized.

Non-zero concern is correct.