MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aeturnum | 2025-05-24 01:07:32+00:00
Good news - his plan also includes not being able to afford healthcare and housing while working full time! Are you interested in doing what you do now but different? It just cuts corners in different places than other people do to achieve a result that doesn't seem that interesting to most people but is also bad in interesting ways.

I don't think that this approach is "scalable" and I don't think it's a good idea for most people (perhaps not for anyone). I do think it usefully focuses attention on how so much of cost of living is not exactly one line item, but the massive interconnection of modern life. Living in a place where you can have access to the networks (literal, social, medical, etc) you need for the rest of your plan.

I wouldn't want to live like this! But the fact that one could until one got sick (a common limitation on many creative ways of living the modern US I find) is interesting. I think the fact that there are similarities to traditional frontier living (wood stove heating included!) makes it a particularly interesting.

Edit: Arguably, I think the problem is that the USA achieved the original "American Dream" and simply stopped thinking about how the world was changing and what a modern re-envisioning of that dream should be. Pointing out that you can be an impossibly good frontier pioneer in 2025 could be a way of pointing out to people that we need to move on and stop imagining a thing we can active as the pinnacle. We need to imagine living in a world where everyone who works full time can afford housing and healthcare, where performance is rewarded but isn't required to simply live and where we can let living in the woods safely fade into history as a thing we can certainly do if we prefer but should stop idealizing.
by Mizza | 2025-05-24 01:08:11+00:00
She didn't even break the top 10 in this content: https://www.societyforscience.org/regeneron-sts/2025-student...

I'm impressed beyond words by these kids, though I think I'd give her the top prize. Watching my grandfather's final days taken away from him by the effects of morphine has always made me wish so much that we had much more effective non-narcotic painkillers
by cgio | 2025-05-24 01:08:12+00:00
At least they are making windows so bad that the incentive to go the other way around with Linux and wine looks better by the day. I personally made the transition last year. I have been playing with Linux since late 90s with dual boot, vms, wsl etc. But Linux never stuck as my main driver. I still don’t love it, but they managed to make me hate the windows experience so much that it feels natural to switch. I also have Mac, which I am using less and less for some other unidentified reason. Probably, that experience has degraded too but in more subtle ways.
by ninkendo | 2025-05-24 01:09:28+00:00
> But why? And why the researchers didn't tried to reduce stress levels?

Because they can’t pass up the opportunity to dunk on people, is my guess. This whole article is a sham. They’re not measuring literacy, they’re fishing for a sensational conclusion. It was an utter waste of time even reading this article, which I foolishly finished to the end.
by kukkeliskuu | 2025-05-24 01:12:13+00:00
"Battle" was (if I remember correctly) the term used by Stonebraker in his 2001 SIGMOD keynote to describe what happened at that specific SIGMOD in the 1980s. It is not "only in my head". Like I said, I don't care what other people store data in.

I don't think MongoDB is going anywhere on the medium term, and there is always going to be some customers. Just like the network databases in the 70s, or XML databases in the 90s.

Bad ideas never die, they just resurface in another form, which people label as "new".

https://db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2024/whatgoesaround-sigmodrec20...
by throwawaymaths | 2025-05-24 01:12:28+00:00
impressive for a high schooler but this just adds a protecting group onto tylenol. am i missing something?

edit: oh i see. its really blurry but the silyl modified tylenol is predicted to have good trpv1 binding computationally. afaict no in vitro or in vivo studies were done. could be cool. not sure if diethylethynylphenylsilyl group has good Lipinski properties though (i suspect not)

edit: s/aspirin/Tylenol
by supo | 2025-05-24 01:12:30+00:00
It allows faster experimentation because you can't do things like partial embedding updates and reasonable schema migrations on your vector search index - if you could, you'd experiment in retrieval... and with better retrieval you don't have to move 100s or 1000s of candidates from a database and pay a ton for a ranker inference on every query (not even mentioning the latency impact of that).
by jagger27 | 2025-05-24 01:13:43+00:00
Never mind the fact that it shrunk or stagnated in value due to mismanagement for decades. Oil prices are low and you have a single buyer who hoses you already.

Equalization transfers have cost $67 billion TOTAL since 1957. Less than a billion per year. Alberta collects >$25 billion PER YEAR in royalties. Canada isn’t your enemy here. Your province is addicted to a bad deal. You could have built refineries 50 years ago. That’s not possible now. Imagine how much control of those new facilities would go to unaccountable corporations? It wouldn’t be a good deal and the capex is insane.

The federal govt has been supportive, even under Trudeau, for increasing export opportunities. And you think that will get easier, especially through BC, after secession? Why?

Alberta needed to pivot hard away from oil 20 years ago. The US wont need Alberta crude forever.
by defrost | 2025-05-24 01:14:12+00:00
Sure .. all the same it's always worth emphasizing that neither the tumbling of a tennis racket under gravity nor the axis flipping of a spinning wingnut in an orbiting satellite are deterministic in any predictive sense no matter how well initial conditions are measured ... they are only "deterministic" given out of band god like powers.

Clearly you're aware of this, however I find that the majority of casual referrers to determinism are not.
by pram | 2025-05-24 01:15:10+00:00
I’m not trying to be controversial but this behavior seems to be very hard for a lot of men. I’ve noticed it a lot in my life that guys are far more willing to “circle the wagons” over petty slights, and alienate people over it. Then their ego doesn’t let them back down, and they just get more bitter from the (obvious) outcome.

I’m guilty of it myself of course, but it seems like there is some kind of naturally adversarial behavior baked into me. It literally just makes things worse is the funny thing, and I already know this. But sometimes I cant stop it. Life would be easier and better if we were all collectively friendly hypemen but alas.
by jltsiren | 2025-05-24 01:17:28+00:00
I think the biggest issue is that shipbuilding sucks as a business. Unless you are a large company with many shipyards, you are producing a small number of ships every year, and the ships take a long time to build. Any particular shipyard will likely have gaps between orders due to a number of essentially random factors. If you can't transfer the workers to other shipyards, you have to lay them off. And then you may have hard time getting new orders or hiring the people back once you have work for them.

If you are from a country with some shipbuilding, you've probably seen the same news cycle repeat from decade to decade. A shipyard gets a big lucrative order. It delivers a fancy new ship. This repeats for a while. Then the shipyard is in financial trouble, as there are no new orders. People get laid off, but the shipyard goes bankrupt anyway. And then some foreign company buys it, and the cycle starts again.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-24 01:18:08+00:00
I surmise that you are referring to "universal healthcare". The President does not get to choose a model of healthcare for the nation, so no, my vote was not cast against whatever you're talking about.

Here are a few aspects of the Affordable Care Act:

- In the before times, health insurance was strongly tied to American employers. Their group purchasing power made it affordable, and it is counted in the benefits package. A quitting employee, or a firing employer, would have the understanding that, barring COBRA and other mitigations, the separated employee would lose their group insurance benefit.

- Many hospital systems have offered financial assistance, and self-pay plans, to uninsured patients. Qualify for Medicaid/Medicare, or avail yourself of one of these plans.

- The Affordable Care Act is a tax on the uninsured. Purchase insurance with the tax, or pay the tax directly. "Uninsured" is now the worst situation to be in, financially.

- The ACA signaled to employers, "fire at will." If an employee needs to be fired then they can scoop up insurance on the marketplace. The employer no longer needs to worry about the separated employee's well-being.

- Meanwhile, the employees have received the message "quit all you want." If you can live without the salary then you can scoop up an ACA plan on the Marketplace. Your risk of crippling medical debt is thereby somewhat mitigated.

- Various groups have been setting up Health Sharing plans which affirm that the Health Insurance model is irreparably broken. A Christian Health Sharing Ministry is a mutual-aid fund where members pool their funds and then expenses are paid according to their needs, per the Book of Acts, and mostly conforming to quasi-insurance regulations.

We're all limping towards Universal Healthcare and Single-Payer Insurance. That's the eventual end-game for most pundits. It may go back and forth for a while. But nobody can deny that we're aiming to replicate models in the UK and Canada.
by thangalin | 2025-05-24 01:18:08+00:00
This only supports my point about having more stuff to maintain. Now there's this GitHub page having a large "Download on Flathub" link that goes absolutely nowhere because the package is unmaintained. Who makes the GitHub page go away?

https://github.com/flathub/com.whitemagicsoftware.kmcaster?t...

Also, the image on that page is outdated, which would have been one more thing to maintain. In addition, the install instructions are four lines of code to run, compared with three lines of code to download without Flathub. My point stands: Flathub adds an unnecessary maintenance burden (to some projects).
by mrandish | 2025-05-24 01:18:11+00:00
Indeed, starting with IBM's initial 5150 design, early PC graphics made cost, memory and capability trade-offs which would soon be seen as unfortunate from a graphics and gaming perspective. Although IBM specced the platform and chose Motorola's 6845 video display chip, I assign some blame to Motorola too for not having created a range of video chips with increasing capabilities to choose from. We'll never know if IBM would have ponied up a few dollars more for a chip with at least a 256 color palette or a few other niceties but it's always possible.

Strangely, Motorola did eventually decide to get serious about offering more capable graphics in the form of the RMS chipset but not until it was already too little and too late. They announced the RMS chipset in 1984 and tried to drum up interest among system designers but eventually cancelled it before release amidst lukewarm response and bugs in the early prototypes (https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/10977/fat...). It certainly didn't help that other options like TI's 99x8 VDP chips were now getting cheaper and the pre-Commodore Hi-Toro company was shopping around their Amiga chipset to all the major consumer computer manufacturers in 1984.
by jazzyjackson | 2025-05-24 01:19:10+00:00
I see them as funhouse mirrors, the kind that reflect your image to make you skinny or fat, except they do it with semantics, big deal. I've never had an interaction with an llm that wasnt just repeating what I said more verbosely, or with compressed fuzzy facts sprinkled in.

There is no machine spirit that exists in a box separately from us, it's just a means for people to amplify and multiply their voice into ten thousand sock puppet bot accounts, that's all I'm able to grasp anyway. Curious to hear your experience that's led you to believe something different.
by CSMastermind | 2025-05-24 01:19:25+00:00
Assuming people adopt MCP then:

- JSON over the wire instead of binary

- Schema optional with the spec only defining the envelope

- Lack of inheritent support for code generation

- Poor support for flow-control or multiplexing

- Deadlines/timeouts, compression, per-call metadata, bi-di streaming, TLS, load-balancing hints: none of it standardized

- No inbuilt payment mechanism
by mickelsen | 2025-05-24 01:19:51+00:00
The US system is a special case that goes beyond partisan politics, framing it as a lack of solidarity misses the point.

The real issue is that healthcare in the US has no functioning market and no effective regulation: prices are arbitrary, patients only see costs after the fact (even if you insist cash on something simple, the itemized bill takes forever), and insurers mostly exist to extract value. Both major parties keep allowing this to exist.

In other countries (even with hybrid social systems, multi-payer, etc) there’s at least transparency and accountability. You know what you owe upfront, and regulators monitor excessive price disparities. Differentiation is allowed, but it’s still regulated.

Do you really believe UHG's 6% profit margin? US Insurance is basically private equity draining cash through inflated bills, with providers and insurers passing the buck while fleecing patients.
by supo | 2025-05-24 01:19:57+00:00
If this was a solved problem, every e-com website would already run some variant of https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.07663 for all their shopping surfaces and some version of "deep research" on every search query. They don't, so the problem isn't solved. And a big part of the problem is still the integration of behavioral, structured and unstructured signals into the underlying retrieval of products and content - which is what the article is about.

Also, the company is doing fine, not sure where that last sentence came from ^_^
by aragilar | 2025-05-24 01:20:03+00:00
I agree, if you know your requirements are such that you don't care about the correct answer, but any good enough consistent answer will do (e.g. the fast inverse square root), then doing the full numerical analysis is not worth your while (though I'd still do some back of the envelope estimates just to make sure the answer is in the "good enough" category and not in the "wtf" category). The issue is when there's libraries involved (especially more generic libraries are involved), typically they don't document what assumptions they are making, so unless you are very clear about the limitations of your code, people will use the library inappropriately (and I've seen some really bad implementations, even from people claiming that their code can be used for more traditional numerical work).

To me it's the same as whether your default random number generator is a CSPRNG or just a PRNG, and generally it's safer for all involved if it's the former. The latter should exist, just with lots of warnings and guidance.
by nobodywillobsrv | 2025-05-24 01:20:34+00:00
To be fair, leaving everyone behind and not seeing them again was kind of what people did in the great grandfather era mentioned in the article. Even not that long ago. I was talking to someone only perhaps grandma age the other day who said their brother's family moved to BC and they didn't see them for 25 years.

Your comment does focus in on the interesting point in that connected places have perhaps not scaled as well. Or perhaps there is some pareto front of locations on cost vs connectedness we need to imagine in our heads. Very interesting.
by raddan | 2025-05-24 01:21:25+00:00
Oddly I have found that nearly all of my best friends come from different walks of life than me, and do different things for work. Only one of my very good friends does the same things that I do. Others, like my stonemason friend, have very different lives, and we met by chance. I’ve also found lately that I enjoy socializing with people over a shared activity, like a class. I just got back (today) from taking a drafting (ie, architectural drawing) class. The people in it were very different from me: a mix of tradespeople and artists. Nevertheless, it was clear that all of us shared a love of learning a skill and doing it well, and so it really was a blast. I learned a lot from them.

You might try just doing something different. It was an interesting experience spending the day with people who wanted to talk to me because I was the odd one out—none of them personally knew any programmers or computer scientists and they all had a million questions!
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-05-24 01:24:56+00:00
> what people did in the great grandfather era

Unfortunately the appeal to ancestry fallacy is always a terrible idea.

You see this in the nutrition space where “influencers” go on and on about how our ancestors ate, forgetting that our ancestors died extremely early relative to modern humans.

Similarly, our grandparents lived pretty terrible lives in many ways.

The reason to complain about the high cost of living is that the U.S. has an incredibly high GDP and yet Americans live highly precarious lives, not that in certain very specific ways our ancestors had it slightly better, which as you point out leads to all sorts of issues.
by NightMKoder | 2025-05-24 01:25:09+00:00
IMO mermaid is awesome, but for two somewhat indirect reasons:

- There’s an almost wysiwig editor for mermaid at https://www.mermaidchart.com/play . It’s very convenient and appropriately changes the layout as you draw arrows!

- Notion supports inline mermaid charts in code blocks (with preview!) It’s awesome for putting some architecture diagrams in Eng docs.
by ninkendo | 2025-05-24 01:26:07+00:00
If someone gave this test to me, and I was volunteering my time and it didn’t matter to my grades/etc, no chance in hell I’m going to look up every single term I don’t know. I’m a busy person and I’ll just say “meh, it’s some old English thing that I’m sure will be explained through context in later paragraphs, and if I got through the whole first chapter of the book and it turned out to be an important word, I’d look it up. Next question please.”

According to the authors I’d be “functionally illiterate.”

> the problem is that people are not thinking as hard and often.

Modern language as understood by modern readers doesn’t require you to think as hard, and that’s a good thing. We shouldn’t strive to make language intentionally difficult just so we can feel smug and call those who don’t waste their time on it “illiterate.” Dickens’ prose is a sort of poetry and is more about creating a mental picture. The definition of “michaelmas term” and “lord chancellor” don’t seem like important parts of that paragraph at all. The important thing of the paragraph is for you to read it and get a picture in your minds eye about how dreary and muddy London was then. That’s all. Giving this to readers and saying “If you don’t choose to look up the word michaelmas, you are functionally illiterate” just shows that the authors need to look up what a fucking “study” is supposed to accomplish. Hint: it’s not about stoking the author’s ego.
Show HN: Web Apps for Python Devs with Auto-Generated UI
by ruben-davia | 2025-05-24 01:26:23+00:00
Hi HN,

We’re Afnan, Theo and Ruben. We’re all ML engineers or data scientists, and we kept running into the same thing: we’d write useful Python functions, either for ourselves or internal tools, and then hit a wall when we wanted to share them as actual apps.

We tried Streamlit and Gradio. They’re great to get something up quickly. But as soon as we needed more flexibility or something more polished, there wasn’t really a path forward. Rebuilding the frontend properly in React isn’t where we bring the most value.

So we started building Davia. You keep your code in Python, decorate the functions you want to expose, and Davia starts a FastAPI server on your localhost. It opens a window connected to your localhost where you describe the interface with a prompt. It then builds the interface, and you can deploy everything in one step. Think of it as Lovable, but for Python developers.

It works especially well for building AI tools. We built it to integrate tightly with LangGraph, so if you’re writing agents or workflows, you can turn them into real apps without leaving Python.

Docs and examples here: https://docs.davia.ai GitHub: https://github.com/davia-ai/davia

We’re still in early stages and would love feedback from others building internal tools or AI apps in Python.
by 3vidence | 2025-05-24 01:27:23+00:00
Alberta government is trying to rile up people to distract from their own going healthcare scandel where the MP and her party are complicit in stealing billions of funding.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/ousted-alberta-mla-sa...

As an eastern Canadian I'm all for expansion of oil production and building a cross country pipelines, but the UCP as a party seem very corrupt.
by lapcat | 2025-05-24 01:29:00+00:00
> So I'm not quite sure what point you're trying to make that actually needed making.

My point is that the anecdotal data of one person is completely worthless. And for what it's worth (nothing), my own personal anecdotal data is the opposite of yours, so we cancel each other out. I would also note that the commenters on a MacIntyre obituary are an extremely biased sample.

> the other three people in this thread passing judgement on the relative fame of Rorty and MacIntyre (1) in no instance give any more evidence than I did, and (2) in fact give no indication at all of where their opinion comes from.

It's true that I've offered no empirical evidence for my claim. My objection to you is that you offered your own personal experience as a data point, whereas I did not, and indeed deny that my experience is data: "I don't judge fame by my own familiarity". I actually have no wish to get into a long argument about the relative fame of two persons and was mainly just reacting to the ridiculous, "20 years after Rorty's death, he's largely forgotten", which by the way was not supported with evidence either (and was not even numerically accurate, because Rorty died 18 years ago). In any case, another commenter did mention how Rorty has entered into the wider culture in at least one respect: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44074114
by faresahmed | 2025-05-24 01:29:01+00:00
Not so much,

>>> s="1"+"0"*4300 >>> json.loads(s) ... ValueError: Exceeds the limit (4300 digits) for integer string conversion: value has 4301 digits; use sys.set_int_max_str_digits() to increase the limit

This was done to prevent DoS attacks 3 years ago and have been backported to at least CPython 3.9 as it was considered a CVE.

Relevant discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32753235

Your sibling comment suggests using decimal.Decimal which handles parsing >4300 digit numbers (by default).
by supo | 2025-05-24 01:30:38+00:00
Here is a quick overview, doesn't really explain the deep details though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikYsr6nvbdE

Basically think mixture of experts, but each expert is an encoder with it's own input tokenization/feature engineering part and then there is some machinery to parametrize these encoders based on natural language queries and stitch their outputs together to form unified vectors for objects in the index and the queries coming in.

Given that the whole framework is Apache 2.0, you can also check https://github.com/superlinked/superlinked and the docs: https://docs.superlinked.com/ https://docs.superlinked.com/concepts/overview

We have some proprietary tech besides that - mainly embedding models for things like location and then executors for the Superlinked DAG that help you run it on GPU-accelerated Spark and something analogous to that for streaming workloads - those proprietary things are how we make money, we call it Superlinked Cloud.