MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BryantD | 2025-05-01 21:01:47+00:00
Speaking as someone who grew up in the United States Waldorf community, I would say that the type of community you and I have experience with isn't tightly aligned with the right/left political spectrum. The political environment of the 60s and 70s was such that earthy-crunchy devotees found lots of commonality on the left; as such I'd agree with your statement. But ideologically, there's no reason at all why people focused on returning older ways -- for reasons of health or otherwise -- wouldn't align with a movement that rejects modernity.

I recommend Leah Sotille's new book Blazing Eye Sees All, which looks at New Age figures who have drifted into the MAGA movement. It's kind of wild seeing the channelers I remember from my childhood going hard right.
by marc_abonce | 2025-05-01 21:01:56+00:00
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by Johanx64 | 2025-05-01 21:02:09+00:00
Because the author can't help himself. Obviously. These guys always let their convictions screech out.

The opening statement makes it sound like it's only the wealthy "tech-bros" that are rubbed the wrong way by DEI.

(in my recollection of it, the wealthy techbros were the first ones on the uptake of the whole DEI swindle. It's just that it's not the direction the wind blows these days)
by gbnwl | 2025-05-01 21:02:14+00:00
FTA: “The team showed that indeed they express “D1” receptors for the neuromodulator. Commensurate with the degree of dopamine connectivity“

There are receptors specifically for dopamine on the amygdala neurons. Dopamine molecules are released by the pre-synaptic neurons, travel across the synapse, and bind to these receptors.

Dopamine’s role in the nervous system is not simply an intermediate on the pathway to produce epinephrine or norepinephrine. If you thought like this you’d reach the conclusion that testosterone is simply a precursor to estrogen because the pathway to convert it exists in some tissues of the body.
by ForOldHack | 2025-05-01 21:02:18+00:00
It has the possibility of being really really cool, but after using it for a 5 day tutorial:

1. There is a cross dependence on the mail server: I used live.com to log in, and was stuck running in edge. I then tried my google account, and was stuck running in chrome, If I used my yahoo account, I could run in any browser. A good idea would be to mail a cookie... and then we could choose any browser, and while this was all happening, Nightly/Firefox took a major dump in many of my systems. So... I used chrome.

2. I would like to be able to mirror the code window in my favorite one of the top 3 editors: so... either I could choose a font in your system, or I have to get my other editor to use YOUR font, your spacing, your beautifier, and your color scheme. I opened three bugs in VS Code, one in a plug-in ( yes, prettier is absolute garbage, I may make a cb(1) plugin. ). I opened a bug in Sublime... Also I opened a bug in Notepad ++.

I am now forcing myself to relearn Lisp for emacs. Its really quite brilliant. I would wonder if it would all be possible to implement this all into emacs.

FYI: When I am taking jobs freelance I ask them 3 questions: 1. What is your tool chain? 2. What editor are most of your engineers using? 3. What is the best font for programming?

I have not used Roboto, but now am forced to do it. My favorite font is Arial Narrow, mono-spaced.

As for the highlighting colors, How hard would be a preferences export for VS Code/Zed/Notepad++/emacs to match your color screen so... ( paper balls loaded and ready )...

"What you code is what you get."

And lastly... why is WSL2 so broken? and why is syncing between containers so evilly difficult. The Alpine community has been a great help.
by ryandrake | 2025-05-01 21:02:44+00:00
Plus, this isn't just a mindset that people have in their heads, some chip on their shoulder from their upbringing holding them back: It's their actual reality.

Some people do have agency to act, and the assurance that their actions will produce value, and they are in fact not in catastrophic danger. And some people really do not have agency, they are pawns largely under the control of others, and live on a knife's edge where everything they have might be swept away by things entirely outside of their control. These realities shape whether it is even possible to take the risks that are necessary to reach success.
by hackncheese | 2025-05-01 21:03:11+00:00
Definitely a big privacy concern, especially for people like you who aren't using the technology, and haven't consented to giving your data.

But car crashes are the third highest cause of death in the US (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm). As a society, I think the benefit outweighs the cost in this case, and we can (theoretically) continue to make progress on privacy as a society. Seems like much more of a step forward than a step back to me
by boltzmann-brain | 2025-05-01 21:03:26+00:00
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by npongratz | 2025-05-01 21:03:42+00:00
> Everyone loves pie!

Oh gosh, no! Count me among those who greatly dislike pie charts in almost every context.

"Almost never use a pie chart for data"

https://theconversation.com/heres-why-you-should-almost-neve...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38912534
by caseyy | 2025-05-01 21:03:44+00:00
You're right, we can't really know. But on HN, there are always a few comments to that effect whenever there's a larger discussion about EU consumer protections and anti-monopoly laws or penalties.

What % of the public holds these opinions? Who knows? Maybe someone will conduct a study one day, but 99.9% of internet opinions don't get studied, and 99.9% of people don't post mainly responsibly verified information.

There is so much to say about this, when most of our socialization has moved online. So much to be said.

Apols for the tangent.
by cogman10 | 2025-05-01 21:03:44+00:00
> The problem with government funded (e.g. funding the ones with legal enforcement), is that then we're picking winners and losers, and it may cause stagnation (or monopolies).

The government funds libraries and the grants for NIH research. It's already in the business of funding both sorts of institutions. Why, then, shouldn't it also simply self-publish results for the research it paid for?

The winners would be basically everyone, the losers' publishers. Publishing is already just a parasitic artifact of over-privatization of what should be government ran systems.

It isn't as if publishing has a large cost in general. In fact, the government already runs a huge publishing operation in the form of PACER. Further, anyone taking grant money is already heavily working with the government to convince it to fund them.
by acdha | 2025-05-01 21:03:47+00:00
Definitely - that kind of context is critical. Signal, iMessage, etc. are designed to let you securely connect to people you just met and don’t share much with other than a phone number. The DoD has the opposite problem: they have a list of people they trust enough to have access and blocking anyone not on that list is a major feature. Beyond the fact that both are sending messages, these problems are less alike than they seem at first.
by boltzmann-brain | 2025-05-01 21:03:48+00:00
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by boltzmann-brain | 2025-05-01 21:04:25+00:00
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by soniachoi | 2025-05-01 21:04:29+00:00
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by delusional | 2025-05-01 21:04:29+00:00
Currently we do not. There's been some of it on the fringes of enterprise/corporate stuff, but in the mainstream the Play store has had a de-facto monopoly for a while.

I would argue that this doesn't change my previous argument. I'm talking about how the "modern" OS experience necessitates a near-monopolistic app-store. That the OS cannot be separated from the app-store. This is also the current state of the Play store, even if google technically allows competitors. I also think their reluctant acceptance of these competitors was relatively recent, and therefore that market is still young. I would think that by the time several competing app-stores exist with their own exclusive apps, you'd have a markedly different experience on these OS's than you have today.
by omneity | 2025-05-01 21:04:42+00:00
This assumes the team deploying the RAG-based solution has equal ability to either engineer a RAG-based system or to finetune an LLM. Those are different skillsets and even selecting which LLM should be finetuned is a complex question, let alone aligning it, deploying it, optimizing inference etc.

The budget question comes into play as well. Even if text is repetitively fed to the LLM, that might happen over a long enough time compared to finetuning which is a sort of capex that it is financially more accessible.

Now bear in mind, I'm a big proponent of finetuning where applicable and I try to raise awareness to the possibilities it opens. But one cannot deny RAG is a lot more accessible to teams which are likely developers / AI engineers compared to ML engineers/researchers.
by boltzmann-brain | 2025-05-01 21:04:42+00:00
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- Fintech: Dev experience with banks and financial institutions. Launched Tezos and other major blockchains. Dozens of smart contract audits.

- Bizdev: Gamification, consumer modelling, data-driven retention and engagement

- AI: LLMs, predictive text, machine vision (trajectory tracking), DSP, Big Data, ...

- Infosec: Cryptography, Red team testing, RE, audits, threat modeling, ...

- Other tech: Godot game engine, audio engineering (mastering), Verilog, VHDL

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by creer | 2025-05-01 21:05:29+00:00
> If somebody doesn’t share without being asked, it doesn’t mean they’re not up for sharing.

Isn't the issue a little different? That it makes it look like that they have no interest in you? If the "conversation" is a journalistic or learning stream of questions then fine. But if the conversation is more social (from friendship, getting to know a little about each other, all the way to gauging hiring interest), then "no interest" is a strong signal to move on. There are other ways to express interest than asking back, but "not expressing interest" is an obstacle.

Agree with you that "drive you crazy" is yet another issue. For most this would be just a figure of speech.
by worldsayshi | 2025-05-01 21:05:55+00:00
Yeah. Feels like it's breaking some fundamental UX principle. If an action is going to make any significant change make sure that it fulfills at least one of these:

1. Can be rollbacked/undone

2. Clearly states exactly what it's going to do in a reviewable way

If those aren't fulfilled you're going to end up with users that are afraid of using your app.
by porphyra | 2025-05-01 21:06:03+00:00
It honestly feels like they spend years validating each new platform, e.g. the Zeekr was announced years ago and only recently are they very rarely seen on the streets but only as Waymo Engineering mules. Likewise the transition from the Chrysler Pacifica to the I-Pace took a while. Hopefully they figure something out to scale up to more platforms soon. They announced a partnership with Hyundai a few years ago, also with nothing to show for it.

Of course, safety first, so they should take their time and not rush things...
by suid | 2025-05-01 21:06:06+00:00
> I have a serious issue with this idea that anyone trying to remote s/w engineer from North Korea is automatically a terrorist. > Maybe some of them are just trying to make a living?I have a serious issue with this idea that anyone trying to remote s/w engineer from North Korea is automatically a terrorist. > Maybe some of them are just trying to make a living?

No one in North Korea get to "just make a living" communicating with and working for foreign entities. This is a country that is so paranoid that every visitor to the country is required to stay with an official escort who will vet any contact you have with locals.

The only way that someone gets to communicate with a foreign entity is if they are employed, or closely managed, by the North Korean authorities.
by filoleg | 2025-05-01 21:06:14+00:00
> With the possible exception of 'vandalism', none of the offenses for which it may be applied [1] have any impact on visitors perception of cleanliness, that was my "argument" (although I don't think my comment merits the term).

Fair enough. Agreed, with the only exception being that I would also add drug abuse to the list.

Look, I am not some anti-drug puritan at all. But I would argue that people injecting in the middle of a busy street intersection are definitely gonna have an impact on visitors’ perception of cleanliness. Besides observing exactly this many times over the years I spent living in Seattle (as well as many adjacent scenarios, like the usual drugged out people attacking passerbys), it was also the first time I actually saw a dead body being carried away in a bodybag by EMTs/firemen. Saying that this won’t have effect on the visitors, but vandalism would, just feels wrong.
by salysson | 2025-05-01 21:06:43+00:00
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by arduanika | 2025-05-01 21:06:52+00:00
Maybe the author just forgot which three interchangeable white guys he named at the top of the article, up there with the DEI topic that he broached but then never came back to. Maybe he thought he had written "Elon Musk", about whom the bad father parallel is a little easier to insinuate from the public record.

Or maybe whenever he reads a headline about a billionaire, he just files it under one golem in his head called Zuckermuskezosdriessen. A golem which also includes James Damore (???).

After all, we're dealing with someone who writes sentences like, "the vast majority of your fellow students were men, and they were more or less all the same person as you." This is not an author who sees two people of the same demographic as separate individuals whose sins need to be litigated individually. If Musk is a bad father, what should it matter that Zuck seems to be a fine one?

Sloppy thinking, sloppy writing.
by TimorousBestie | 2025-05-01 21:07:34+00:00
See, if you’re going to conflate intellectual freedom and free speech with the right to any specific platform, we’re never going to get anywhere. The distinction is exactly what’s at stake here.

Can you cite a modern law or code of ethics that secures a positive human right to any specific platform? As far as I’m aware it’s not in the American Bill of Rights (the 9th and 10th Amendments notwithstanding) or the European Convention on Human Rights.

It would be a very strange world if, e.g., I could lawfully demand and be obligated to receive fifteen minutes of time on Fox to read my manifesto on deconstruction.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-05-01 21:08:06+00:00
This entire thing is derived from the vibes of the Internet. You should consider looking into the specifics with your own eyes.

What happened is that scientists who believed a theory advocated for it over competing theories... which is how science happens. Granted it so happened that some of those advocates were very notable and well-regarded scientists, but again: this is literally the story of science. It's constantly a question of when someone's prior success and credibility hits a wall and gets successfully challenged — which is always difficult.

And yes, one consideration was their (IMO entirely legitimate) concern that statements on the generous end of true rather than the cautious end of true (i.e. "we don't know but it looks zoonotic" vs "we don't know but it doesn't look synthetic") would have gigantic negative consequences including prompting military action against China.

The funding note toward the end would be a bit worrying except that NIH also didn’t fund any study examining the zoonotic origin.

Scientists publishing a paper with their assertion that they find the lab leak theory implausible is not "censorship" or "throwing their full weight" behind squashing alternatives, lol. Anyone else was free to publish their paper arguing the opposite.
by Lammy | 2025-05-01 21:08:47+00:00
> But car crashes are the third highest cause of death in the US (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm).

No, that says “Accidents (unintentional injuries)” as a category are collectively the third leading cause of death, and that category contains a lot of things.

CDC “Underlying Cause of Death” dataset sez… https://wonder.cdc.gov/ucd-icd10-expanded.html https://i.imgur.com/4PB0xyC.jpeg

- “Person injured in unspecified motor-vehicle accident, traffic” is the 50th leading cause of death at 0.4% of deaths.

- “Person injured in collision between other specified motor vehicles (traffic)” is the 108th leading cause of death at 0.2% of deaths.
by ryandrake | 2025-05-01 21:09:03+00:00
Instead of coin flipping, I look at it like a baseball game:

Most people are never even given an at-bat. They're born without money/opportunity (on the bench), and they will have to stay on the bench for life.

Some working / middle class people get one or two at-bats. They swing and maybe hit the home run, but maybe instead have a safe base hit or they strike out. That was their chance. Afterwards they're out of money/opportunity.

The top 0.1% or so get as many at-bats as they want. Their parents own the team and the ballpark so they just keep swinging until they get their home run, and then spend the rest of the game talking about how life is a meritocracy, and you succeed by being the best.