MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MichaelZuo | 2025-05-29 12:54:43+00:00
Well yeah life is competitive…? exceedingly so for property within London it seems.

Even if millions of Londoners hate it that doesn’t change the fact that they are continuing to do so day after day… so something must still outweigh all the downsides combined.

So their care is very high, just focused on perhaps a very peculiar basket of things, so to speak. I can’t see any other explanation for such large scale behavior.
by JSchneider321 | 2025-05-29 12:54:44+00:00
The parameters of the universe we live in seem fine-tuned for creation of stars, galaxies, black holes, and life. If those values change too much, you don't get any of it. That needs to be explained.

Observation also reveals startling levels of complexity wherever we look, even in the early universe where our standard model didn't predict it.

The only mechanism we know of that creates Intelligent Design-flavored complexity is natural selection. Black holes and the Big Bang already suggest physics we don't fully understand, but the evidence is compelling that they're the same phenomenon viewed from opposite sides.

CNS gives you a theory that provides both explanatory and predictive power within this framework, and (in my opinion) offers alternative explanations for many of our other cosmological mysteries like dark matter and dark energy. You can just take the direct-collapse SMBH portion if you want to and leave the rest on the table, but I feel that in doing so you're neutering what makes this theory so compelling: how (potentially) easily it can explain a wide range of observed phenomena.
by masklinn | 2025-05-29 12:54:54+00:00
> Zuckerberg saw them coming though [...] even Bezos saw it coming, that why Amazon bought Twitch.

Which pertains to my reply... how?

> Musk saw it coming with Twatter

Musk saw nothing coming. He bought twitter in 2022 after getting baited into making a binding offer. Twitter was a household name at least a decade before that: news networks had direct twitter interactions and mentions at least as far back as the 2012 election.

And although it's been turned private and delisted, it's estimated to be worth just a fraction of what he paid for it.

> Google leadership just doesn't understand social media

Have you considered actually reading replies instead of going off with whatever your pet assertions are?

> That's irrelevant what old googlers think.

It's very relevant to your assertion that "google never really cared".

> Google has a responsibility to their shareholders to make line go up, not make some of their programmers feel good by keeping them working on platforms with no user base wile their competitors steam ahead.

That has nothing whatsoever to do with what I'm replying to.
by littlecorner | 2025-05-29 12:54:57+00:00
If you want to go down the rabbit hole of higher order intelligences, look up egregores. I know John Vervake and Jordan Hall have done some work trying to describe them, as well as other people studying cognition. But when you get into that you start finding religion discussing how to interact them (after all, aren't such intelligences what people used to call gods?)
by FinnLobsien | 2025-05-29 12:55:20+00:00
> You should read 'Amusing Ourselves to Death' by Neal Stephenson. It's painful how apt it is for current times.

Assuming you mean Neil Postman?

And yeah, I am also wanting to get print magazine subscriptions. Luckily I already live in a neighborhood with a very 1950s vibe where I know the baker, the coffee guy, the butcher, sandwich shop guy etc.

I just want to remove my compulsive internet usage. Even if I'm reading The New Yorker, it's still because I've defaulted to consuming media on the internet in an empty moment.
by szjanikowski | 2025-05-29 12:55:30+00:00
Hey, what do you mean by "performance bottlenecks"? Do you mean finding CPU/memory hotspots in your apps? If so, APM tools like New Relic or runtime scanners like AppMap sound like a better fit than static code analysis.

However, if you want to visualize the codebase structure and reason about how coupling and design choices impact performance, static analysis becomes your friend.

If you're on .NET, you might consider joining our early testing campaign at Noesis.vision (https://noesis.vision). There are also a bunch of other tools—some more AI-based (like GitDiagram, DeepWiki), and others less or not AI-based and more language-specific (often IDE plugins). Let me know if you'd like to chat more.
by StackRanker3000 | 2025-05-29 12:56:00+00:00
Between 2022 and 2024, 0.1% of all fentanyl seizures were at the northern border with Canada, vs ~99% at the border with Mexico. There’s also an (equally small, relatively speaking) reverse flow of fentanyl into Canada from the US. Not to mention that fentanyl trafficking is completely orthogonal to tariffs, except that the former is used as an excuse to utilize the latter to bully an ally.
by tliltocatl | 2025-05-29 12:56:32+00:00
IMHO what just referring to uncountability misses is that not only most functions are unexpressable, many __useful ones__ are not. Most ℝ→ℝ functions (and even most real numbers) are so unremarkable there is no way to uniquely name them. The fact that some useful functions are undecidable is quite a bit less trivial than "there are more functions than there are programs to evaluate them".
by southernplaces7 | 2025-05-29 12:56:35+00:00
>You'll see in literature that there are people with some 'lucky' form of hydranencephaly where their brain is as thin as paper. But they vote, get married, have kids, and for some strange reason seem to work in mailrooms (not a joke). So we know it's something about the connectome that's the 'magic' of a human.

These cases seem totally fascinating. Have you any links to examples or more information (i'm also curious about the curious detail of them tending to work in mail rooms)?
by maeil | 2025-05-29 12:57:19+00:00
And I'm tired of this sort of sloppy and inflammatory discrediting.

It fits 'shadowbanning' to an absolute tee. Without any kind of notification, or any recourse, a switch is flicked to "off" in a single moment, putting a domain on the shitlist. This is now very well documented, including by this post, and incredibly obvious from the graph.
by 0x000xca0xfe | 2025-05-29 12:58:28+00:00
Is it just me or has search become even worse in the past couple months?

I've used Google and Bing to look up my Geocaches because the Geocaching interface is clunky. Except I can't find them anymore. Exact ASCII matches in the <title> tag, even with a unique identifier, but now it's become impossible to find them via search.

Just blank results, ads or SEO spam no matter what I try. site:xxx, inurl:, exact quotes, similar words, repetition, nothing works anymore. What is going on?!

And geocaching.com is a pretty big site. I wonder what is happening to small blogs...
by 3cats-in-a-coat | 2025-05-29 12:58:34+00:00
Nothing lasts forever.

I've pondered that a lot in my system design which bears some resemblance to the principles of REST.

I have split resources in ephemeral (and mutable), and immutable, reference counted (or otherwise GC-ed), which are persistent while referred to, but collected when no one refers to them.

In a distributed system the former is the default, the latter can exist in little islands of isolated context.

You can't track references throughout the entire world. The only thing that works is timeouts. But those are not reliable. Nor you can exist forever, years after no one needs you. A system needs its parts to be useful, or it dies full of useless parts.
by JSchneider321 | 2025-05-29 12:59:21+00:00
I'm curious what you mean by this. We already know with confidence that when feeding, black holes emit relativistic jets from their poles that reach distances of tens of millions of light years. How could those not affect the environment around them?

As far as if the SPECIFICS of how they work are exactly as the author surmises, I think that's something that has to come in the simulation phase once the theory is adopted and tested more thoroughly, and absolutely shouldn't be something a theory should have to establish before even being properly considered.
by bediger4000 | 2025-05-29 12:59:47+00:00
The ideological revulsion about mRNA vaccines in particular is an interesting phenomenon.

The vaccines were developed during the first Trump administration. Trump himself wanted credit for developing them. He mentioned Operation Warp Speed in some of his 2020 rallies, and got booed for it.

Trump's Base decided mRNA was bad, with influencers making bizarre predictions about the vaccinated bleeding out in the streets, which of course failed. But Trump's Base decided for Trump about this issue. Trump leads from behind on this one.
by masfuerte | 2025-05-29 12:59:56+00:00
This is nuts. More than a decade ago Microsoft made a big deal of startup optimisations they had made in the .Net framework.

I had some Windows command-line apps written in C# that always took at least 0.5s to run. It was an annoying distraction. After Microsoft's improvements the same code was running in 0.2s. Still perceptible, but a great improvement. This was on a cheap laptop bought in 2009.

I'm aware that .Net is using a different runtime now, but I'm amazed that it so slow on a high-end modern laptop.
by notindexed | 2025-05-29 13:00:34+00:00
Just came across this from Quant Network — they’re calling it a “Layer 2.5” aimed at helping institutions use public blockchains without giving up compliance or control.

It seems like they’re combining a multi-chain rollup with trusted node access controls and native asset interoperability — no wrapped tokens or mint/burn bridges. Also interesting to see the emphasis on node jurisdiction and privacy-preserving smart contracts.

Curious how this will play out

“Layer 2.5” a helpful mental model — or just marketing for a hybrid L2/L3 stack?
by ezst | 2025-05-29 13:02:41+00:00
Reading this comment is depressing.

How can you be so naive as to think that Google has your best interests in mind (and not their pockets')? They will absolutely serve you the content that has you stick on their walled garden for the longest, misdirecting you along the way, and serving you nonsense and fake content if that's what it takes. And you don't have to take my word for it, that's what Google search has been doing for the best part of a decade: deteriorating search results and placing partner's/own links/SEO slop more and more prominently on their first results page. Monopolies encourage that.

Also you seem to be believing that LLMs are somehow a source of truth. Here I've got bad news for you: LLMs are political machines "aligned" (biased by design) by slave labourers who are in no way competent nor neutral. They are opinion producing/repeating pieces that you shouldn't take at face value, with a knowledge cutoff in the past and no ability to adapt to real world events. How do you expect LLMs to fare (and the state of the world to be bettered) once all your travel recommendations are AI generated, subsequently digested and repeated by other AIs? Depressing.
by WillAdams | 2025-05-29 13:03:18+00:00
I believe it gets discussed a bit in some Cobol programming texts and ISTR it being discussed in _The Viewport Technician_:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4541460-the-viewport-tec...

Usually though it was a direct display of the program state for a given task, which was part of what made it so efficient --- the task needed to be simplified down into chunks which would fit on/make sense when viewed as text on a text screen viewport.
by jasonriddle | 2025-05-29 13:03:47+00:00
@simonw, how much have you used Claude code? I'm wondering if it makes sense to use Claude code as the main driver, but have crafted specialized "llm" based tools for Claude to use.

I would love to only have to use llm, but with the amount of functionality that Claude code provides, it seems unlikely that llm would ever support all of its features. Also, I have realized that llm is narrower in scoop, which is something I like about the tool.
by billy99k | 2025-05-29 13:03:48+00:00
"looking for work but can’t find full-time employment, as well as those stuck in poverty-wage jobs, according to CBS News."

If you have a 'poverty-wage job', you are employed. If you are working part-time, you are still employed. My guess is that if you include these in the unemployment calculations, it will always be high, regardless of the economy.

Why didn't we see studies like this in the last four years?
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-05-29 13:04:01+00:00
Don't worry. All architectures get recycled eventually. Everything is new again.

One of the biggest problems with having more data is it's just hard to manage. That's why cloud data warehouses are here to stay. They enable the "utility computing" of cloud compute providers, but for data. I don't think architecture is a serious consideration for most people using it, other than the idea that "we can just throw everything at it".

NewSQL didn't thrive because it isn't sexy enough. A thing doesn't succeed because it's a "superior technology", it survives if it's overwhelmingly more appealing than existing solutions. None of the NewSQL solutions are sufficiently sexier than old boring stable databases. This is the problem with every new database. I mean, sure, they're fun for a romp in the sheets; but are they gonna support your kids? Interest drops off once everyone realizes it's not overwhelmingly better than the old stuff. Humans are trend-seekers, but they also seek familiarity and safety.
by aucisson_masque | 2025-05-29 13:04:14+00:00
I think the difference between A.I. fake intelligence and us, humans, can be summed up to that single quote from Oscar Wilde.

"I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out."

No A.I. would ever think more than a millisecond about a comma, it's pure data retrieval for it. "how many percent of text there is a coma after this word, how many didn't ? ok, done."
by Jedd | 2025-05-29 13:04:54+00:00
Is that just the phenomenon of subsequent children leveraging the benefits of a slightly older sibling? Combined with some training of the parents by the first child, and therefore a significantly different mindset being exhibited towards the second child.

> The ability to teach your child to do something depends almost entirely on the child ...

Is this a summary of your personal experience or are you citing research?
by joshstrange | 2025-05-29 13:05:08+00:00
> For someone who took the administration at their word

Anyone who did that should really not be in charge of anything more important than a popsicle stand, even that might be too much. Come on, how ignorant do you have to be to think you could trust this admin?

> Honestly the best thing he could do for his own personal brand is to come out against DOGE, however lightly.

Yep, and he couldn't even manage to do that, even in passing. I won't be using them but all the semi-slurs (like "beta" but worse) that the right likes to hurl at people seem to actually fit this person. To be so passive about losing a job for a non-reason, especially when they styled themselves as the second coming of jesus to come and clear away all the government waste, is mind-bending.
by ben_w | 2025-05-29 13:05:48+00:00
I've never seen an advert that I'd expect to be bad for mental health no matter how often it gets shown, though I have seen some get banned for risks to physical health, e.g. Tango.

But I do think there's something very wrong with an ad provider deciding to show me *more* copies of an ad that I've reported — surely me reporting an advert is a strong signal that I'm not in the market? Even if the ad itself was legal (and I don't think the most recent two I've reported on YouTube were), at best the company getting advertised is getting ripped off by the place they're advertising in.
by noworriesnate | 2025-05-29 13:06:06+00:00
Off the top of my head:

First they were supposed to prevent COVID. That turned out to not be true, so then they were supposed to lessen the symptoms. Everyone I know who still frequently gets COVID had the shot. Anyone paying attention was lied to.

There were tons of surprise side effects especially relating to women’s periods getting screwed up.

They were administered to children, when children were not in any serious danger.

The official story was that we were trying to make COVID die out before it mutated again, but to do that would have required vaccinating all animals as well.

Despite the above, there was tremendous pressure from left wing institutions to vaccinate everyone, proving that their values were about pharmaceutical profits instead of my body my choice.

Anyone who investigated the origin story became spontaneously racist. But then later morality reversed and it was fine.
by pc86 | 2025-05-29 13:06:16+00:00
This is a good point that I don't think gets enough thought. Unless he's going to an excellent public school, or a private school, the odds he's much more bored in the first few years of school goes up dramatically when he's reading the book in 5 minutes (or practically has it memorized from reading it at home so much) while everyone else is sounding out the words on the first page.

This does all sort of go away if he's going to great school with more individualized attention. The odds of that in general are pretty low, but hopefully a bit better assuming there's some correlation between having a parent that cares enough to teach a 2-year-old to read in their spare time and having the resources to be in a great public district or go to private school.
by SkyBelow | 2025-05-29 13:06:28+00:00
Isn't this related to why the busy beaver is the fastest growing program, given that at some N states it would be able to emulate any closed form function and then at some greater number N + M states be able to use that function in more complex functions (as a lower bounds, the actual busy beaver of N + M states given size would likely be an even larger output than the same sized Turing machine emulating whichever fast growing function is used for comparison)?
by resoluteteeth | 2025-05-29 13:07:17+00:00
The author does imply that the test is effectively getting more difficult, but it seems like they're simply assuming that the adjustment must be happening in that direction without actual evidence.

In reality, because the test was normalized, it is useless for determining the change in academic achievement over time, and it could just as easily end up being normalized in the direction of effectively making the test easier. Because the scores can't be used for this purpose, other evidence would be needed to determine how achievement is actually changing over time (and therefore whether the normalization is effectively increasing or decreasing scores) and the author doesn't present any evidence that would show which is the case.

However, either way the decision to normalize the scores on a test that's apparently supposed to be used to show changes over time seems odd if the author is correct that normalized scores are being used for that purpose.
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-05-29 13:07:18+00:00
I disagree that I'd make similar decisions. Postel's Law is a big part of the reason Bleichenbacher attacks (adaptive chosen-ciphertext attacks)[1] stayed so common for so long. As an engineer responsible for the security I absolutely reject malformed inputs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_chosen-ciphertext_att...
by TechDebtDevin | 2025-05-29 13:08:00+00:00
I think theres more to it than just ego. I find myself watching Everest videos on Youtube (shout out Michael Tracy's channel).

Ive never done mountaineering but I become fascinated by these stories of people on the mountain and sometimes wonder if I could do it. I definately never will, theres lots of other things id rather invest my time in but I can definately see the allure and why people become obsessed with doing it.
by osener | 2025-05-29 13:08:51+00:00
Magit has been simply essential for me for the last decade. I still switch to emacs for this even though most of my coding is in VSCode and edamagit covers simpler workflows for me.

Recently I've been trying jujutsu[0]. As awesome as Magit is, it can't fix some warts of Git like how it does conflict management. But I hate having to do version control from CLI. Most of all, I miss doing a bunch of work, going to magit-status (or edamagit), staging lines or entire files and committing parts of my work separately (like, dependency updates in a separate commit before committing api changes).

I've tried VisualJJ[1] and GG[2] but I just can't find a nice workflow with jj coming from Magit. Splitting changes feel cumbersome. What is your commit workflow with jj coming from Magit?

[0] https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj

[1] https://www.visualjj.com/

[2] https://github.com/gulbanana/gg
by JSchneider321 | 2025-05-29 13:09:12+00:00
> It can't be tested, and the predictions it makes can't be verified.

To be clear, both Smolin's CNS and Gough's uptake of the theory make predictions and offer ways to be falsified, with Gough making accurate predictions of early galactic structure that Webb would see.

It's good to see people expecting predictions and falsifiability, but I'm curious why that requirement isn't being upheld against the standard model (which has been predicting more and more incorrectly) and string theory (which is unable to offer any predictions and also expects you to believe there are 9 or 11 dimensions or something). In my view, CNS requires the fewest logical leaps of faith.
by 7thaccount | 2025-05-29 13:09:23+00:00
Although simplistic it does remind me of my dream for a simplistic command driven language that actually does the tasks I want in a simple manner. I'm not thinking of tcl either, but if powershell was a lot faster and included support for a lot more things kind of like the graphics language mentioned here. Calling out to the Microsoft GUI tools is such a pain and not worth it given the glacial performance.
by pc86 | 2025-05-29 13:10:44+00:00
I see this "yeah well that's an anecdote so let's just ignore it" claim a lot but it doesn't hold water in my opinion. Most glaringly, the article almost immediately links to peer-reviewed scholarly research about the effects of reading for pleasure being initiated at various times in development relative to the average. N > 10,000, not that big N is itself a positive measure but it certainly doesn't hurt.

There are certainly times where "this is an anecdote" is useful commentary, even though everybody knows what an anecdote is. But I don't think this is one of those times.
by mdaniel | 2025-05-29 13:10:46+00:00
Seems to be GPLv3 https://github.com/chkas/easylang/blob/394e29a44458ac67f8483... although I think the line right above that stating "All rights reserved" is actually incompatible with GPLv3 which is designed to grant rights, not reserve them. I am not lawyerly enough to know what the story is with that "must contain a built-in function" clause.

Kind of sad it's not self hosted yet :-D