MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wonder_er | 2025-05-12 21:33:05+00:00
I do _not_ have any sort of insulin resistance, and have worn a CGM for a while, a few different times.

(Purchased sorta 'just for fun', to evaluate my own metabolic responsiveness. I wrote about it once: [0])

if I moved around much after eating, my muscles would "soak" lots of glucose from my blood and the insulin change would be relatively low. If it was something sugary and I then went to sleep, it would be a big slow rise for a few hours of blood sugar, then insulin would seem to be released, and it would decline a bit, then flatten, then decline, until it went back to a regular level. When waking up, it would often by around 70 mg/DL, and even if I eat zero carbs (or am full-on fasting!) it would bounce up/around during the day. I appreciated that my body seemed quite capable of doing whatever it needed to do to raise my blood glucose levels. (They always go up when exercising, for instance, even if no food is consumed)

I think everyone would likely find the data interesting, it's so freaky customized to yourself, it cannot help but be interesting. They're expensive, so I think buying even one sensor and wearing it for 2 weeks or however long is worth it.

[0]: https://josh.works/cgm
by Oras | 2025-05-12 21:33:22+00:00
My point was that compliance is about trust. If I want to go the SOC2 or ISO27001 route, I want a company that has done it before.

Free in your case is not free, it's pretty expensive. If I can't comply in time, that might mean losing potential business, being late to the market, etc.

Good luck though, you made the first step.
by bgnn | 2025-05-12 21:34:57+00:00
This is neat but I'm not sure sbout sitting on top of the wheel. An electric version would be great

For people questioning the viability of trikes, here is what the Dutch postal service uses:

https://www.bikeshift.com/nl/assets/components/phpthumbof/ca...

And this is ehat they are testing for future: https://fulpra.com/
by XorNot | 2025-05-12 21:35:28+00:00
This still doesn't fix the "trusting trust" attack: which Guix actually can, and which can bootstrap sideways to build other distros.

It also doesn't do anything which regular packaging systems don't (nix does have some interesting qualities, security ain't one of them): I.e. that big list of dependencies isn't automatic in any way, someone had to write them, which in turn makes it exactly the same as any other packaging systems build-deps.
by mmanfrin | 2025-05-12 21:35:29+00:00
> They didn't know what they were doing _and still went through with it_

You don't know what you don't know; sometimes people can think they do know what they're doing and they just haven't encountered situations otherwise. We were all new to programming once; no one would ever become a solid engineer if they prevented themselves from building anything out of fear of doing something wrong that they did not account for out of lack of experience.
by const_cast | 2025-05-12 21:37:06+00:00
> We’re talking about about 3-4x difference in net income here.

Well first off, I don't think we are.

Sure if you compare FAANG to a European company. I'm in Texas, and your typical software engineer is making 80k-120k at almost all companies. The higher paying ones are a very small percentage.

And, it's not like taxes are low in the US. Income tax alone for 100k is ~25k, which, bear in mind, Texas doesn't collect state income tax. But then we also have a sales tax, and Texas has really high property taxes. The tax burden, I'm estimating, is closer to 40%. We just have a convoluted system that makes it hard to see that.

And then, on top of this, our cost of living can be very high. You might be shocked to learn that the last time I went to Europe (London, Paris), food was half the price of food in Texas. I was quite shocked, I thought for sure food would be more expensive.

And then, when we DO consider those very lucky software engineers making 250k - 400k at FAANG, you also have to consider that they're living in some of the highest cost of living places in the world. It's a trade-off. Yes, you're making more than rinky-dink DFW engineer making 80k, but then instead of your apartment being 1200 dollars a month it's 3200. And your Erewhon Japanese strawberry is 19 dollars.
by umpalumpaaa | 2025-05-12 21:37:15+00:00
Every time I see anything on the N-Body problem I am reminded by my final high school project... I had 2-3 weeks of time to write an n-body simulation. Back then I used C++ and my hardware was really bad (2 GHz single core CPU or so…). The result was not really impressive because it did not really work. :D But I was able to show that my code correctly predicted that the moon and the earth would eventually collide without any initial velocity given to both bodies. I went into this totally naive and blind but it was a ton of fun.
by gamescr | 2025-05-12 21:37:17+00:00
Part of the problem is having too much atmosphere. In the original Cosmos Carl Sagan talked about a hypothetical solution where we capture asteroids, and throw them at Venus in such a way that they just nick the atmosphere and knock large quantities of atmosphere out into space. One you reduce atmospheric pressure to a certain level, things could become habitable.

Then throw in iron form the atseroid belt to react with it to form carbonates. Venus is dry so brining in hydrogen form the outer planets would be necessary anyway to form wate r and thta will account for a good bit. Garden the surface so subsurface rocks which might react with the atmosphere cna absorb some. (Assumign the subsurface rocks are thta reactive.) Scoop it off with smaller versions of the same scoops used to harvets hydrogen from the gas giants.
by PaulKeeble | 2025-05-12 21:39:45+00:00
There is a bit of an issue that almost all the know how exists within a couple of private companies and if the industry down turned, such as from a crash in an AI bubble causing a many year lull, giant companies could fail and take that knowledge and scale with them. Some other business would presumably buy the facilities and hire the people but maybe not. It's one of the issues of so much of science and engineering happening privately we can't replicate the results easily.
by MostlyStable | 2025-05-12 21:40:21+00:00
This reads to me as mostly just an interesting way to teach about expected hardware lifetime assuming we were trying as hard as possible to keep things going. There is an entire genre of speculative SF that posits one major change and tries to think through the repercussions of that change. Often, the change itself is not very sensible, but it's also not the point.
by hnlmorg | 2025-05-12 21:40:30+00:00
Tate Modern: 10 mins by bike

https://maps.app.goo.gl/sdW7h8zMb7qj42Nd8?g_st=ic

But if you really care about art then you aren’t going to limit yourself to “major” art galleries (again, speaking from experience here).

This whole argument is absurd. I dont understand why you find it so controversial to claim that a flat in central London would be near pretty much anything you could want. Business district or not, I stand by my statement. If it weren’t true then people wouldn’t pay the premium to live in central London.
by psunavy03 | 2025-05-12 21:40:49+00:00
My Lai? Prosecuted. Abu Ghraib? Prosecuted and a one-star relieved. Eddie Gallagher? Prosecuted, at least until Trump got in the way.

I'll buy that all of the above were disgraces to the US, and I'll buy that the IDF is a little too cavalier with the rules of engagement. But come on. It's easy to pontificate from an armchair about who's "whitewashing" things when it isn't your friends getting shot. In wars, these things will happen and the best a government can do is put measures in place to stop it and then punish it severely when it occurs.
by XorNot | 2025-05-12 21:40:52+00:00
The xz attack did hit nix though. The problem is no one is inspecting the source code. Which is still true with nix, because everyone writes auto bump scripts for their projects).

If anyone was serious about this issue, we'd see way more focus on code signing and trust systems which are transferable: i.e. GitHub has no provision to let anyone sign specific lines of a diff or a file to say "I am staking my reputation that I inspected this with my own eyeballs".
by vidarh | 2025-05-12 21:41:00+00:00
If you don't have a conflict, and the module is wrapping everything, nothing stops you from doing "include <yourmodule>".

Similarly, if you want to group modules that don't conflict together under a short module name, nothing stops you from doing:

module MyGroup include Module1 include Module2 ... end

In other words, wrapping them doesn't remove your ability to use short non-namespaced names.

Using `include` of specific functionality into a class that will use it is furthermore an idiomatic way of avoiding that extra typing without polluting the global namespace

For that matter, you can often achieve close to what you're arguing for as well without actually making any changes to Ruby:

def wrap_load(path) = class_eval(File.read(path), path) module Test # some_file.rb will act as-if defined within Test wrap_load("./some_file.rb") end

You can do better than that, to get closer to emulate `require` rather than `load`, and handle dependencies.

Overall, I think the fact you can do these things suggests you could probably write a good enough plug-in `require` monkeypatch suitable for the rare cases where `include` from within a class or module without needing a language extension.
by leesalminen | 2025-05-12 21:41:33+00:00
Yes, he’s living life to the fullest!

The most active 80 year old I’ve seen. Lots of travel, speaking at conferencing, networking in his professional circles.

Believe it or not, he’s a fairly conservative person. He’d never done yoga, breath work, sauna, cold plunge, saline IVs. I had the honor of pushing him out of his comfort zone a bit with the hippy health stuff.

He’s speed run learning how to use a smartphone and loves using it to connect all the people he meets together.

I think that was the most intriguing part of Leonard- his ability to pick up a new concept in minutes and apply it expertly. We were discussing modern cryptography and he was able to grok it in < 5 minutes.

Yes, he and Ross are still friends today. If I understand correctly they recently met up for the first time outside of prison.
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-05-12 21:42:18+00:00
There are simply not enough doctors for doctors to be doing this work.

We have a massive, massive shortage of doctors.

The industry is doing everything they can to make it worse by the day, so I won't hold my breath that we'll get the slightest bit of respite.

It'd obviously be ideal if everyone could see a doctor for an affordable price any time they wanted.

We don't live in the ideal world.

This would be a HUGE win for most people.
by conductr | 2025-05-12 21:42:26+00:00
It would be chaos at first, but if it's at all physically survivable our species likely will, then we're only a few years away from a "humans exist, but most their knowledge has been lost". Only a few more years later before no human alive has ever interacted with a CPU using device, then the whole notion of a CPU kind of disappears before too long.

We've had this happen before of course. There's a ton of things ancient civilizations were doing that we are clueless about. So clueless, that one of the leading theories is that they must have been aided by aliens.
by broost3r | 2025-05-12 21:42:28+00:00
dad of an 8 y/o T1D here, and tbh, "how about just ..." is about the worst thing you can say to anyone dealing with this, especially given the subject of this post. things are just never the same. maybe they will be later in adulthood? i feel like i'm in a position to beta test this with my kiddo and i don't like it at all.
by gwbas1c | 2025-05-12 21:42:31+00:00
FYI: This is more common than you think.

I briefly worked with a company where I had to painfully explain to the lead engineer that you can't trust anything that comes from the browser; because a hacker can curl whatever they want.

Our relationship deteriorated from there. Needless to say, I don't list the experience on my resume.
by viraptor | 2025-05-12 21:42:41+00:00
While the idea is good, I'm not sure how this would get implemented realistically. The industry standards/audits are silly checkbox exercises rather then useful security. The biggest companies are often terrible as far as secure design goes. The government security rules lag years behind the SotA. For example how long did it take NIST to stop recommending changing passwords?

Civil engineering works well because we mostly figured it out anyway. But looking at PCI, SOX and others, we'd probably just require people to produce a book's worth of documentation and audit trail that comes with their broken software.
by hinkley | 2025-05-12 21:43:45+00:00
The trouble would be that even if we sensed other universes we might not be able to go there unless we can create our own pocket universes. There's no guarantee that an adjacent universe has the same rules of physics.

All of the enzymes in your body might stop working if you stepped into even a slightly different universe. You could just turn into a gas, and not in a good way.
by artski | 2025-05-12 21:43:54+00:00
Well I initially planned to use GraphQL and started to implement it, but switched to REST for now as it's still not fully complete, just to keep things simpler while I iterate and the fact that it's not required currently. I’ll bring GraphQL back once I’ve got key cycling in place and things are more stable. As for the rate limit, I’ve been tweaking things manually to avoid hitting it constantly which I did to an extent—that’s actually why I want to add key rotation... and I am allowed to leave comments for myself for a work in progress no? or does everything have to be perfect from day one?

You would assume if it was pure ai generated it would have the correct rate limit in the comments and the code .... but honestly I don't care and yeah I ran the read me through GPT to 'prettify it'. Arrest me.
by const_cast | 2025-05-12 21:43:59+00:00
> Right now the on-hold music is interrupted to sell me shit.

Jesus Christ, this is like those gasoline pumps that blare ads at you while you pump. On that little screen right above the plaque that says "you better not go in your car or this whole place will fucking explode or something".

Since when is it chill to hold people hostage for ads, let alone LOUD ads? I don't want to hear this!

PS: little tip for gasoline pump ads: one button always mutes them. Think it's a compliance thing. Almost never labeled, so just try all the buttons.
by gruez | 2025-05-12 21:44:17+00:00
>Meta allegedly modified torrenting settings "so that the smallest amount of seeding possible could occur,"

>Meta allegedly tried to conceal the seeding by not using Facebook servers while downloading the dataset to "avoid" the "risk" of anyone "tracing back the seeder/downloader" from Facebook servers

Sounds like they used a VPN, set the upload speed to 1kb/s and stopped after the download is done. If the average Joe copied that setup there's 0% chance he'd get sued, so I don't really see a double standard here. If anything, Meta might get additional scrutiny because they're big enough of a target that rights holders will go through the effort of suing them.
by sambeau | 2025-05-12 21:44:39+00:00
The really amazing architecture of Coruscant is from the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia:

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

In particular, the Museo de las Ciencias Príncipe Felipe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Arts_and_Sciences#/med...
by s1artibartfast | 2025-05-12 21:44:48+00:00
>What does this mean, and why is it relevant?

It depends on the question you are asking, and what you want to learn. If you want to know if you should lock up an individual child cannibal, it doesn't.

If you want to know if the government is doing a good job at catching and preventing child cannibalism, then the trends and comparators matter.

Are there more child cannibals than 10 years ago? Are there more or less than in other countries like France?
by ben_w | 2025-05-12 21:45:43+00:00
> A word without copyright is one where some publisher still makes money, but it's a race to the bottom for authors.

This is the case anyway; there are many writers competing for the opportunity to be published, so the publishers have a massive advantage, and it is the technology of printing (and cheap paper) that makes this a one-sided relationship — if every story teller had to be heard in person, with no recordings or reproductions possible, then story tellers would be found in every community, and they would be valued by their community.

> Here's a hole in your thinking: if you like fantasy, would you be content to just re-read Tolkien over and over, forever? Don't you think that'd get boring no matter how good he was?

The examples aren't meant to be exclusive, and Pratchett has a lot of books.

There's far more books on the market right now than a human can read in a lifetime. At some point, we may have already passed it, there will be far more good books on the market than a human can read in a lifetime, at which point it's not quality, it's fashion.

> And empirically, "new creative [people]" manage to complete with Pratchett or Tolkien all the time, as new fantasy works are still being published and read.

At some point, there will be more books at least as good as Pratchett, Tolkien, Le Guin, McCaffrey, Martin, Heinlein, Niven etc. in each genre, than anyone can read.

> Do you remember that "Game of Thrones" was a mass cultural phenomenon not too long ago?

Published: August 1, 1996 — concurrently with Pratchett.

Better example would have been The Expanse — worth noting that SciFi has a natural advantage over (high) fantasy or romance, as the nature of speculative science fiction means it keeps considering futures that are rendered as obsolete as the worn-down buttons on the calculator that Hari Seldon was rumoured to keep under his pillow.
by imiric | 2025-05-12 21:46:34+00:00
> Why do I have to pay $93 (on top of the cough syrup that costed ~$44) just so that the doctor can see me on Zoom for less than 5 mins and submit an order for the med?

Because you're paying for the expertise of someone who studied for more than a decade which you won't get from a random web search.

An AI system with today's technology should be less trustworthy for medical diagnosis than a web search. At least with a web search you might stumble upon a site with content from experts, assuming you trust yourself to be able to discern expert advice from bot-generated and spam content. Even if a doctor is doing the searching instead of me, I would pay them only for their knowledge to make that discernment for me. Why you think an AI could do better than a human at that is beyond me.

Your question reminds me of that famous Henry Ford GE invoice story:

> Making chalk mark on generator: $1.

> Knowing where to make mark: $9,999.
by aspenmayer | 2025-05-12 21:46:43+00:00
There’s an open source crowdsourced solution for clickbait titles and thumbnails for YouTube, at least.

https://dearrow.ajay.app/

> DeArrow is an open source browser extension for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube. The goal is to make titles accurate and reduce sensationalism. No more arrows, ridiculous faces, and no more clickbait.
by horsellama | 2025-05-12 21:46:52+00:00
I used them to keep track of time in a broad sense. Once the candle was on, my mind wouldn’t care about the time and could focus on the course work. I was offloading the time tracking to the candle (if that makes any sense).

It was also handy to know when preparation was done. Once depleted the candles any doubt about my preparation would be relegated into “impostor syndrome” symptom.
by _bramses | 2025-05-12 21:47:12+00:00
> Discoveryness. Even if the needed content exists, it’s hard to guarantee that users will find it.

I'm curious as to what you'll think of the UX layer I applied to embeddings for public perusal. I call it "semantic scrolling" since it's not searching exactly, but moving through the cluster by using <summary>/<details> as a tree.

[1] is a single starting point (press the animated arrow to "wiki-hole") and [2] is the entire collection (books, movies, music, animations, etc.)

[1] - https://www.sharecommonbase.com/synthesize/1009?id=1009 [2] - https://www.sharecommonbase.com/
by hakunin | 2025-05-12 21:48:29+00:00
> If I try to actually educate someone or do my research fully, either someone will know more than me, and an expert will weigh in to invalidate some section of my posting- or people will pretend to be an expert- and you’ll spend a day trying to discuss why what they’re saying is incorrect. Both will cause the discussion for other people to die.

Personally, I love the debates that stress-test my posts, they're the most interesting part for me. If I put effort into writing something, might as well defend it, and wouldn't want any punches pulled. Oftentimes people's attempts at debunking my message end up doing quite the opposite to what I'd expect — further validating what I wrote. Other times I need to clarify something in the post.
by joaoli131 | 2025-05-12 21:49:28+00:00
Embeddings are still underrated—even in RAG.

Legal text is deeply hierarchical and full of pointers (“Art. 5 CF”, “see Art 34”). One vector per article leaves too much on the table.

Things that moved the needle for us:

– *Multi-layer embeds* vectors for every paragraph and every structural level (chapter → book). Retriever picks the right granularity. (arXiv:2411.07739)

– *Propositional queries* strip speech-act fluff (“could you please…”) before embedding. Similarity + top-k recall jump. (arXiv:2503.10654)

– *Poly-vector retrieval* two vectors per norm—one for content, one for the label/nickname. Handles “what does the CDC say?” and internal cross-refs. (arXiv:2504.10508)

*TL;DR* If your corpus has hierarchy or aliases, stop thinking “one doc = one embedding.” Plenty of juice to squeeze before heavier tricks.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07739 [2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10654 [3] https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.10508
by machtiani-chat | 2025-05-12 21:49:45+00:00
I’m the author, ask my anything.

Codex + MCT is an embedding match made in heaven.

Machtiani can find a needle in a haystack of a repo. It relies on a local embedding model, and amplifies the dimensional space of the project data to hard to calculate heights. And it does it cheap. Use local LLM for your prompt, or any provider such OpenRouter that adheres to OpenAI Chat Completion form.
by gruez | 2025-05-12 21:50:04+00:00
>The reason those are allowed is because they don't compete with the source material. A thumbnail of a movie is never a substitute for a movie.

>LLMs seek to be a for-profit replacement for a variety of paid sources. They say "hey, you can get the same thing as Service X for less money with us!"

What's an LLM supposed to be a substitute for? Are people using them to generate entire books or news articles, rather than buying a book or an issue of the new york times? Same goes for movies. No one is substituting marvel movies with sora video.
by matkoniecz | 2025-05-12 21:50:20+00:00
If this dust is as radioactive as granite dust then its radioactivity is likely not a problem. (breathing in that dust may be a problem despite radioactivity itself not being an issue) Or maybe I am wrong and breathing in granite dust is more dangerous as it is more radioactive than some other stones?

It is 10 000 times more radioactive - then it likely is a problem.

The question is which one applies. Typical bananas are not dangerously radioactive despite being unusually radioactive for a food product.