MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nickpsecurity | 2025-05-15 16:06:14+00:00
"Observations of genetic drift and biodiversity are consistent with our model of evolution at every scale."

We've actually seen observations of some similar features across species. We see that in most human designs, too. So, it's isnt proof of evolution if it could be the designer reusing tools, techniques, or design patterns across their designs. They'll have to prove those processes actually produce those artifacts.

2. Evolutionists claim these things can be produced by chance events without a designer. They're so complex and advanced they humans can't produce them. They argues against their premise. It also favors God having designed them.

3. I'd have to let a biologist non-evolutionist speak to that one. They'd have more expertise.

"We will eventually find answers to these questions, as the ratchet of scientific progress clicks along. Religion has never been useful in the same way"

God's Word gave us truth, humans' inherant dignity, loving others, character education plus knowledge, wisdom, and justice. Old Testament also had most concepts in our legal system today. These drive human progress to be done in a beneficial way. These principles, though not scientific, are highly valuable both to please God and help people.

Science is a tool that's morally neutral. It uses controlled, replicated experiments to make empirical claims. It can only tell us what we're wrong about or might be wrong about later. Other tools include reason (eg logic), first-hand experience, eyewitness testimony, and supernatural revelation. (Most of science is actually faith-based belief in eyewitness claims that are never done first-hand.)

Godless, evolutionary science... taken to its conclusions of everything being pointless and survival or reproction of the fittest over all other principles... led to the most atrocious things people have done. The Holocaust aiming to boost a "master race," atheist communists killing over 50 million people (torturing many), forced sterilization by liberals in California, Genesis Khan's mass rapes spread his genes everywhere... each can be supported as morally good under godless evolution. If opposed, you need a reason to say such things are 100%, objectively wrong.

So, God gave us an objective reason to do right, even with science, when His Word came through Moses with supernatural events. Later, He confirmed it when the one, perfect man proved He was God by miracles and being raised from the dead. All who repent and commit to Him are transformed by the power of God. Over 4,000 people impacted by the same message. So, we keep sharing it on top of doing solid science. :)
by bittercynic | 2025-05-15 16:06:19+00:00
I meant to suggest the other direction - brazen theft of a cart full by organized gangs is corrosive to the fabric.

A person sneaking an item or two into their pocket is pretty much only affecting the store and that individual. I guess it has a broader effect if it happens so much that the store locks up the merchandise so customers have to ask for assistance.
by treebeard901 | 2025-05-15 16:06:48+00:00
The reality is that anyone in the medical field can put any kind of information in your medical records for any reason. Many motivations exist to compel this kind of behavior. Sometimes this can be in a part of your permanent record that they do not have to provide to you, even if you follow the rules and laws to request the information. Many exceptions exist under the disclosure laws.

Your information then can be freely shared with others but not given to you or give you any way to correct the false information in your record.

For what it's worth, in the United States at least, you have several permanent records that follow you everywhere you go. Your medical records work in a similar way to your former employers. In fact, employer confidentiality to other employers allows them to say almost anything about you and neither has to share it with you and you have no chance to have any kind of fair process to correct it.

Now add all the data brokers and the other bribery kind of situations and the whole system is basically broken and corrupt.
by ty6853 | 2025-05-15 16:07:27+00:00
The bigger problem in the winter is the drivers get even crazier and the roads can occasionally get icy.

When I was bike only I had my arm damaged in a way that it took close to a decade to get back to normal. On another occasion I was knocked unconscious. Both occasions were drivers who left turned into a parking lot without looking, crossing a lane then going right into me in the bike lane.

A car provides a nice cushion for those sorts of happening. I think if I had a child in either case there is a good chance they would be dead.

While I support the right of people to make their own risk assessments for their family, I fear it is only a matter of time until they come to understand what I did about Chicago biking.
by FredPret | 2025-05-15 16:07:39+00:00
...why? How?

Have you seen any history at all? This has never worked.

Cohesive, trusting societies get much further than ones that are at war with themselves. Even so, cohesion and trust are nice-to-haves.

Tech progress and GDP growth has meant that the world's poor live better lives, decade after decade, for many centuries now.
by johnisgood | 2025-05-15 16:07:56+00:00
My only issue when it comes to Erlang and Elixir (or Java and Kotlin) is that there are just so many files I need to open and keep track of. I do not blame the languages, of course, but it is the reason for why I use Go for less serious projects instead of Erlang / Elixir, because in Go it would typically be contained in one file, whereas in Elixir it would span across multiple files.
by wat10000 | 2025-05-15 16:07:58+00:00
Fingerprinting is an active area of research (both attack and defense), so the answer is, maybe, depending on just how unique your setup is. EFF has a nice demo that will try to fingerprint you and tell you how trackable you are based on non-cookie data: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org

Of course, new techniques are invented all the time, so that may not cover everything.
by crabbone | 2025-05-15 16:08:07+00:00
Designers, QA, support and managers are typically already using a VCS, and usually it's Git. And if they don't, this is as good as ever a chance to start.

From QA perspective, which is the one the closest to me: I wanted such a tool for many years, and even though I haven't tried this specific one, I endorse the idea with both of my hands.

In the context of QA, it's always a problem to coordinate between test development, feature development, feature description, and tracking the work progress. All bug trackers I used to date are awful at it. This has a potential to solve at least part of the problem by being physically connected to the work done by either development or QA, or, ideally, both. The holy grail here is the ability to determine what tests to run in response to a commit without making it too much of a burden on the committer.

Tests can easily be the most expensive ongoing activity a development company may undertake. In this context, being able to avoid running useless but expensive tests is very desirable.
by scruple | 2025-05-15 16:08:26+00:00
Same here. I have a 5TB external that I use for TV shows and movies and run Jellyfin off of my main desktop. Obviously we're not massive consumers and don't need a huge array of tens or hundreds of TBs... What's nice about it is when we're going on vacation or whatever, the external fits into a sling bag with my iPad Pro and it's all highly portable without the networking headache.
by stkni | 2025-05-15 16:08:29+00:00
Think I'm with Larry on this one. Someone should chair the meeting and there should be some expected outcome (decision) from it within the alotted time. If we're 45 mins in and no closer to an answer it's time to assign some investigative actions and regroup? Malicious compliance in this context is good, because it creates an environment where meetings end and everyone gets to pee?
by npteljes | 2025-05-15 16:09:26+00:00
I can imagine a scenario when it's really useful, when portability is concerned. This segment right now is served by web apps, which essentially give the same end result, supposing a working internet connection: the user can have the same software and the same files on multiple systems, like a phone, and a PC. The device itself being portable would be the same, but infinitely more private: all the apps and files could live locally. Now, I don't know how large that market is, and I suspect that it's not that large, given that people are just fine with cloud based solutions.

In another words, I think that the functionality itself is very useful. It's just that it's currently being served somewhat adequately by cloud based solutions. For this reason, such a phone-pc product could not offer much in terms of functionality, and so, it might not be popular at all.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-05-15 16:09:39+00:00
Per hour per hour? Ok, let's see...second-order integral (these always confuse me because rates are stepping up a dimension but derivatives are stepping down a dimension, but that's neither here nor there), assuming no constants, so they start at 0$/h and there's no sign up bonus...

Got it. After one day, they've made $3423.33 A week gets them over two million dollars, putting a solid, but not insurmountable, dent in the transportation budget. A month over five-hundred million, easily bankrupting most midsized towns. After a year they've made almost half the entirety of the US GDP.

Maybe I should become a bus driver.
by mjevans | 2025-05-15 16:10:32+00:00
It's both true and particularly illogical!

"" * 'Employment Assistance' - connect workers with the best jobs that want them ""

^^^ Would someone like to end welfare ('unemployement insurance')? How about just connecting people with useful work! The New Deal was one of the best social welfare programs the US _ever_ did and politicians are allergic to it.
by _factor | 2025-05-15 16:10:47+00:00
The age old value vs perception of value dilemma.

The issue is that recruiters and many times the first few interviewers are not at all technical. They have all the time to make their outward appearances business aesthetic, and their skill won’t deteriorate dramatically without being used.

They will use keywords and industry jargon to find candidates; that’s after the AI siphon out the resumes without the “must haves”. You’re left interviewing with people who have a superficial, if not backwards idea of what they’re looking for, and tend to be personable enough reject any “off” personalities which are common in the loner coder types who might not care to update their LinkedIn every time they fart into the wind.

Sure you 5x your salary, but the real shame is that the best talent becomes underutilized and dejected as companies fill with shiny slick employees who know how to sell better than engineer.
by dahart | 2025-05-15 16:11:06+00:00
I heard about that one too, very unique and weird for sure! But we could go through the stories of each of the few hundred fatalities that happened on public transit last year, and it wouldn’t even be a blip compared to the tens of thousands of people killed in gruesome accidents in cars. Incidentally I still remember the description of Paul Walker’s death for kinda the same reason that subway chainsaws and necrophilia are so memorable… it was freaky.
by ramoz | 2025-05-15 16:11:15+00:00
I've been using Gemini to shorten llms.txt and stick those in my repo.

But what I find best - cloning doc sites directly into my repos in a root context folder. I have bash scripts for managing those, and I instruct Claude how to use them. Context7 I dont like for the same reasons I don't hook up any MCP to Claude Code.
by ankit219 | 2025-05-15 16:12:13+00:00
Cynicism aside, Apple also has a very critical trust problem to solve here.

Many non tech users in Apple ecosystem are used to a specific flow: See an interesting game, download it, when the game asks to pay, link your apple wallet, and then if you dont find the app useful within 14 days (iirc) you just open your subscriptions and ask for a refund. (this applies to more apps than just games. basically companies offering digital goods). If it's more than 14 days, you are subscribed, and want to cancel the sub (as you are no longer playing the game) you can just go to Settings and cancel subscription, no dual popups, dark patterns anything. Of course, in exchange for all this, Apple charges 30% from app developers. (i am not justifying anything, just stating how the system works at this point). For reference, the cancellation flow [1]

This flow is incompatible with 3rd party payment system, especially for non tech users where it's just a payment system for you, does not matter who is providing that. You purchase an app and suddenly you don't see that reflecting in your subscriptions, you can't reverse it. To cancel a subscription, you have to deal with the app's customer support, who have all the incentive in the world to hide it. (Add to it the companies and PMs who would figure out the best hack is to make it look exactly like how Apple's system looks like when it comes to payments).

For the people who follow the news, it's great, they understand the changes. For others, they are going to blame Apple when they cannot reverse their subscriptions and trials. Or when they do not get the experience they are used to. This is not to say that Apple should not allow 3rd party link outs etc. This also does not require the scare screens that apple designed.

There needs to be a reversal of trust where you could download any app you want without thinking. Would be a steep learning curve for a lot of people.

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/118428
by picafrost | 2025-05-15 16:12:43+00:00
Sit on the other side of the hiring process and observe the impact of your hiring decisions enough times and you'll see why.

I don't care (that much) about your projects because they don't tell me if you'll drop into my team and kill it with your ego. I can't fully understand the context in which you developed those projects. I don't want to search around and see if it's just a clone of someone else's work you're trying to pass off as your own, or if the community you've mentioned in your CV really exists.

I'm more concerned if you'll be able to consistently make it to our stand-ups. I will take a mediocre but steady, agreeable, and trustworthy developer I don't ever have to think about over a "rockstar" who is making life hell for the team every time.
by naasking | 2025-05-15 16:13:08+00:00
> If you pretense everything with "what value will this bring" then you've already lost. Research is about finding things out for the sake of it.

No, it's not. If research never brought any value then we would almost never do it, aside from some weird hobbyists, and particularly not with public funds. Everything has a cost-benefit tradeoff, even publicly funded research, and pretending this isn't so is naive at best.

Research whose costs can be recouped on short time horizons arguably should not have public funding because the economic incentives are sufficient. Exactly where to draw this line is not clear, not only because research returns are unclear but also because publicly funded research diverts talented people from endeavours that would have provided direct economic benefits. This second order effect is not widely appreciated. How can you truly evaluate the opportunity cost of this counterfactual world? Seems virtually impossible in fact, so arguments that research X returns Y with no consideration that you can't evaluate the counterfactual should be viewed with extreme skepticism.

And this doesn't even get into the problem of scope creep. Academics charged with pure research develop the exact mindset you illustrate, where no matter how outlandish the idea, well maybe it will be good for something someday, so why not fund it just in case? This ends up producing a whole lot of nothing, as we've seen in particle physics over the past 30+ years.
by mg | 2025-05-15 16:13:08+00:00
I don't think so.

The price of a bus is roughly 10x the price of a car.

The average number of passengers in a car is about 1.5.

So the average number of passengers in the bus has to be over 15 to be more cost-effective than a car. 15 passengers is far from full. And it is on average, not most of the time.

For the space the passengers take up on the road, it is even more extreme. Take a look at how far apart cars drive on the road. About one or two cars take up the same space as a bus that can carry dozens of passengers.
by RhysU | 2025-05-15 16:13:20+00:00
> the main one is speeding

Speeding mildly is usually a consequence of stupidly low speed limits. Unless the speeding is bucketed, this alone is enough to skew the results to say motorists are worse than bicyclists. Remember, speeding tickets are a revenue source and the incentive is to set limits that produce revenue.

> The main one cyclists break is riding on the sidewalk - which is because of cars, and it doesn't happen when there is a bike lane

This is still illegal. Blaming it on cars is lame-- these are grown adults willfully ignoring the law because they find it inconvenient.

A motorcycle likewise can ride on the sidewalk to avoid car congestion but it doesn't because it's illegal and we would hold the driver accountable. Bikes, not so much.
by nopelynopington | 2025-05-15 16:13:43+00:00
Coming from Dropbox, OneDrive etc I guess I assumed it would "just work". And if I'm honest my experience was compounded by other issues. I was running my server on a pi4 and didn't initially give it a fixed IP so the clients lost it, but even after I sorted those issues and had a solid server, the tray apps just would not sync. Sometimes even stopping and restarting the app wouldn't help. All I really wanted was to have a shared sync folder like Dropbox, across OS with storage size only limited by what I could configure in my attic, but I gave up after a week of trying to fix it night after night.
by jebarker | 2025-05-15 16:14:16+00:00
I didn't really notice much decline in my 30s versus 20s. I was at my peak fitness around 41 (not as powerful or fast as my 20s, but way more endurance and strength). But my early 40s were a pretty rapid decline as I had a bad knee injury that involved a long recovery and we had two kids which meant sleep deprivation. At 43 now I'm on an upward trajectory again in energy/fitness but time is total dumpster fire - getting good at very efficient workouts and mental health breaks!
by thaumasiotes | 2025-05-15 16:15:03+00:00
In my experience, being on time isn't viewed as rude, but it is viewed as a nuisance, reflecting poorly on other people.

I had a Chinese tutor who got pretty upset that I would show up to lessons before she got there. Her first approach was to assure me that it was ok if I showed up later. Eventually she responded by showing up very, very early.

In a different case, I had an appointment to meet a friend, and she texted me beforehand to ask whether I'd left home yet. Since the appointment was quite some distance from my home, and I couldn't predict the travel time, I had already arrived, but upon learning that my friend dropped everything to show up early... and asked me why I was so early. I don't see a problem with waiting for a scheduled appointment if I show up early! But apparently other people do?
by CuriousSkeptic | 2025-05-15 16:15:22+00:00
> A Youtube video explaining the Fourier series?

We know this one! Apparently subscription services to learn STEM.

(Coincidentally I actually were shopping for such a service the other day, and checked out the one promoted most. Turns out they seem to have spent the entire budget on marketing add had very little content, so could not solve my problem anyways)
by vessenes | 2025-05-15 16:15:42+00:00
If you imagine a spectrum between a 20 person PowerPoint demonstration that takes an hour, and a 10 minute meeting with say Bezos when you’ll get your next 10 minutes in 90 days and you need him to get behind your project and unlock budget, most corporate meetings would do well to shift closer to Beezy. That’s the intent.

Another way to say it, in the 90s workplace studies showed an engineering IC’s job was roughly 35 hours of meetings a week. If you work 40, that leaves 5 hours for coding. If you could get someone back just 5 of those 35 hours, you’d have double the coding output per engineer.
by evantbyrne | 2025-05-15 16:15:45+00:00
I've been building one for Go in my free time, but it's not ready for general use. Historically, I've used Django despite being imperfect, because I can just install Wagtail and have a nice admin interface for free. It does have some nice convenience features though and transactions are easy enough. At my day job we use a Java framework with a terrible codegen-based ORM. Laravel has a decent database toolkit if you are into PHP. Unfortunately, excellent database toolkits are rare, and I have historically found myself dipping into SQL frequently. All decent ones will at least allow you to do so though.
Show HN: Cogitator – A Python Toolkit for Chain-of-Thought Prompting
by habedi0 | 2025-05-15 16:15:47+00:00
Hi everyone,

I made an open-source Python toolkit/library, named Cogitator, to make it easier to try and use different chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning methods. The project is at the beta stage, but it supports using models provided by OpenAI and Ollama. It includes implementations for Cot strategies and frameworks like Self-Consistency, Tree of Thoughts, and Graph of Thoughts.

GitHub link of the project: https://github.com/habedi/cogitator
by thomastjeffery | 2025-05-15 16:15:53+00:00
> logical self-preservation mechanisms

This tautology has always bothered me. It's such an obvious anthropomorphization. A computer is a clock. A clock doesn't care about its preservation; it just ticks. The whole point of this is to not anthropomorphize computers!

But of course, without some nugget of free will, there would be nothing to talk about. There wouldn't be any computers, because they were never willed into existence in the first place. I think this realization is the most interesting part of the story, and it's rarely explored at all.

I've been spending a lot of time thinking about the difference between computation and intelligence: context. Computers don't do anything interesting. They only follow instructions. It's the instructions themselves that are interesting. Computers don't interact with "interesting" at all! They just follow the instructions we give them.

What is computation missing? Objectivity. Every instruction we give a computer is subjective. Each instruction only makes sense in the context we surround it with. There is no objective truth: only subjective compatibility.

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I've been working on a new way to approach software engineering so that subjectivity is an explicit first-class feature. I think that this perspective may be enough to factor out software incompatibility, and maybe even solve NLP.
by jrflowers | 2025-05-15 16:16:36+00:00
Aella is less of a sex researcher and more of a “professional take-haver” in that she gets the most engagement for her opinions that have nothing to do with any sort of disciplined research. For example she seems pretty confident that using AI to create CSAM is a solution to the creation of real CSAM(1). Aside from it being incredibly stupid, there is no possible way for that assertion to be backed up by any research she could have done outside of her own thoughts.

Also it is a tad weird to conflate “the internet” with a subset of EA folks and libertarians, so this headline is more like

The Internet’s* Favorite Sex Researcher *

* LessWrong forums posters

* Poster

(1)https://reduxx.info/opinion-porn-pedophiles-and-a-combinatio...