MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Grimblewald | 2025-05-14 00:43:42+00:00
I'm happy to see a bigger focus on expanding language coverage and less on human feedback. Human feedback has it's place but personally I've found all models that train heavily on human feedback become sycophantic and weak willed in a bad way. Personally I prefer hallucinations over blindly agreeing with everything said / telling me what I want to hear rather than what I need to hear.

The reason I am happy to see expansion of language coverage, is that linguistic research indicates that different cultures capture different parts of the world at different resolution. It depends on cultural values and priorities, but certain aspects of the world and the environment get a greater share of the cultural lexicon and so those aspects are better captured in that language.

Since LLM's much make sense of our world from language alone, it makes sense to me that the best way forward is to expand language coverage, since this gives the model better insight into more areas it cannot experience, and therefore deepen it's understanding of, itself.
by jacobgkau | 2025-05-14 00:44:15+00:00
Do you know for a fact that the rounding errors cancel out perfectly? Probably not.

Trying to make this about "more significant and well known biases" when all I'm arguing for is not introducing additional biases is a logical fallacy. And allowing cartoon watermarks in court documents would not help with the "more significant and well known biases" that you're more concerned about, anyway, so I have to wonder why you feel strongly enough that this should be allowed that you'd write off opposition as "bikeshedding."
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-05-14 00:45:56+00:00
Rust is wonderful but humbling!

It has a built in coach: the borrow checker!

Borrow checker wouldn't get off my damn case - errors after errors - so I gave in. I allowed it to teach me - compile error by compile error - the proper way to do a threadsafe shared-memory ringbuffer. I was convinced I knew. I didn't. C and C++ lack ownership semantics so their compilers can't coach you.

Everyone should learn Rust. You never know what you'll discover about yourself.
by derbOac | 2025-05-14 00:46:14+00:00
That was my reading as well, although like a lot of things lately I find myself stumbling onto these issues where something that seems minor, it eventually ends up not being so minor. Or something that seems like a meaningless distinction is in fact a meaningful one.

My initial thought about invoking the AEA was that it was absurd and overreaching. That the executive doesn't really need to invoke it to deport someone as long as there's due process etc. Then when I read this decision, I thought "well, yes, if all these conditions are met, it seems reasonable that someone can be removed under the AEA. It's kind of a moot point either way."

Where this gets tricky is that it seems now as if you agree that the AEA is a legitimate basis for deportation, that there is in fact an "invasion" from this gang, then you find yourself stepping into another argument, that habeas corpus can be suspended, because there's an invasion:

https://reason.com/2025/05/13/since-immigration-is-an-invasi...

It's this typical chain of reasoning lately where if you let one argument slide, you're opening yourself up to another argument that then seems less reasonable, and calls into question the earlier argument. Suspension of habeas corpus doesn't necessarily follow from the AEA invocation, but I think if you accept the argument that there is in fact an "invasion", and accept that per se is legitimate grounds for deportation, it's more difficult to argue against suspension of habeas corpus because you've lost the basic argument there is no actual invasion and the AEA has been invoked inappropriately.

It's pretty clear the judge is confirming the other rulings about due process etc., but by accepting the AEA as a legitimate basis, they're opening up a much bigger can of worms it seems.
by vel0city | 2025-05-14 00:46:32+00:00
It's not just showing "is the interface up", it's showing current signal strength, showing current ssid, showing results from the recent poll of stations, etc.

And then doing the same for Bluetooth.

And then doing the same for screen rotation and rotation lock settings. And sound settings, And then another set of settings. And another set of settings. All from different places of the system configuration while still having the backwards compatibility of all those old systems.

It's not a slowness on painting it. It can do that at screen refresh rates no problem. It's a question of querying all these old systems which often result in actual driver queries to get the information.

43fps? Sure sounds slow to me. Why not 333fps on that hardware? So bloated, so slow.
by Grimblewald | 2025-05-14 00:48:17+00:00
I'd agree with your experience. I simply sit my phone (~200 dollar motorola, cheap phone) in centre of room, split voice file into chunks using voice prints/ID's I get from a voice embedding model I trained, then feed labelled chunks through whisper, and get a nice transcript of everything said. I combine that with my handwritten notes (as image, get a VLM to transcribe) and the agenda, and I get out really nice meeting minutes as a LaTex document. Works a charm and has turned an hour or two of work per meeting into maybe 30 minutes (proofing what was written).
by fallingfrog | 2025-05-14 00:48:44+00:00
If the epigenetic drift theory of aging is correct, it's because when the jellyfish becomes a polyp again its epigenome is reset to factory defaults, erasing the effects of aging.

According to this theory, the reason the epigenome accumulates damage is because while the dna strand is static through the life of the organism, and therefore has all sorts of error correction mechanisms, the epigenome changes on a per-cell level as the organism grows according to hormonal signals and so on. That's how a nerve cell and a muscle cell can have the same dna strand but act almost as if they are from totally different species. Therefore it has to be flexible and can't be error checked in the same robust way. So aging is a consequence of multicellular life cycles.
by cloudedcordial | 2025-05-14 00:49:07+00:00
Yes, please ignore the cynical and negative folks. They are not doing you any good.

Like what a few other folks in this thread pointed out, your resume and your portfolio looks outdated and fragmented on my first glance. Most recruiters and hiring managers spend 5 seconds max during the first pass, so first impressions matter.

Here are the things you can do to bring your resume up-to-date: * "Key achievements" does not include numbers to describe impact. For example, "pre-screen and match thousands of patients a day" could be rewritten as "pre-screen n patients per day and match them to m healthcare provider with 99.99% uptime" sounds impactful. * Self-rating of your skills is not necessary. Nowadays your description of your impact is implicit on how you learn and work. In addition, "expert" for one person may not be the same for others.

On your portfolio: * Listing your education is no longer necessary after the first job. Putting this in your portfolio site makes you look inexperienced. (Leave education in the resume, however.) * The screenshots for Nike and LG look outdated, which contradicts "cutting-edge internet experiences".
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-05-14 00:49:39+00:00
Consider UX:

Click the link and contemplate while X loads. First, the black background. Next it spends a while and you're ready to celebrate! Nope, it was loading the loading spinner. Then the pieces of the page start to appear. A few more seconds pass while the page is redrawn with the right fonts; only then can you actually scroll the page.

Having had some time to question your sanity for clicking, you're grateful to finally see what you came to see. So you dwell 10x as long, staring at a loaded page and contemplating the tweet. You dwell longer to scroll and look at the replies.

How long were you willing to wait for data you REALLY care about? 10-30 seconds; if it's important enough you'll wait even longer.

Software is as fast as it needs to be to be useful to humans. Computer speed doesn't matter.

If the computer goes too fast it may even be suspected of trickery.
by ednite | 2025-05-14 00:50:47+00:00
Ok. I’m left speechless—but I can only comment that I’m trying to be genuine—obviously failing at an alarming rate! Yes, my blogs are edited with ChatGPT or whichever AI tool I have open, but my words and experience are my own, for what it’s worth—again, I am not an LLM agent. To be fair, I sometimes think ChatGPT writes like me. Where’s Sam when you need him? (Tasteless joke.)
by s1artibartfast | 2025-05-14 00:51:02+00:00
can you fill the city house completely? Why push for short term rental in the cabins instead of long term?

It seems like getting those two sorted would greatly improve your monthly situation.

going back to the wealth thing, I recommend you think of these places as assets, not set in stone. If you are ahead on your mortgage, they literally are, slow to sell but worth real cash.
by teleforce | 2025-05-14 00:51:23+00:00
You can safely say now the pendulum is swinging back towards Google if YC is complaining, and there's probably moat in AI after all [1].

Google has Google Search, Gmail, Scholar, Patents, Books, Maps, Workspace, Drive, Gemini and Youtube just to name several killer applications that are being widely used by billions of people every single day [2].

I think NotebookLM is easily one of best products come up from Google since the initial search engine with PageRank. It's a combination of virtual personal and research assistant that's very helpful that keep you in the driving seat with much less hallucinations compared to your typical LLMs including Google own Gemini.

Never paid Google for all its services all my life but now I'd probably would pay for NotebookLM, and get 2 TB storage on top of that, that's telling something from the user of the early Google years, of more than 20 years.

[1] Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI” (1039 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35813322

[2] List of Google products:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products
by tdb7893 | 2025-05-14 00:52:11+00:00
There are some differences between the Constitutions and I'm not convinced, partially because the vice president of the Confederacy himself seemed to think that it was "unmistakably" protected in the Constitution:

"I congratulate the country that the strife has been put to rest forever, and that American slavery is to stand before the world as it is, and on its own merits. We have now placed our domestic institution, and secured its rights unmistakably, in the Constitution. We have sought by no euphony to hide its name. We have called our negroes 'slaves', and we have recognized and protected them as persons and our rights to them as property."

Edit: The privileges and immunities clause of the US 14th amendment seems to have a parallel in the Confederate Constitution so it's not entirely clear that the Constitutions are the same here (and it seems like if the Constitution didn't protect slavery it was an oversight or someone just forgot to tell their vice president). Apparently the privileges and immunities clause in the US Constitution was essentially nullified later (the US Supreme Court seems to have just wacky interpretations sometimes) but seems intended to confer rights to people in states. I'm a bit out of my depth in finding primary sources on this though, except for the excerpt from the VP who has a very clear opinion (and I have a tendency to not immediately believe what a VP is saying).

Article IV Section 2(1)

The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States; and shall have the right of transit and sojourn in any State of this Confederacy, with their slaves and other property; and the right of property in said slaves shall not be thereby impaired.
by blagie | 2025-05-14 00:52:31+00:00
> You argue that housing has a finite supply, but that's true of cars and steel and everything: there is always a finite supply

Land is a finite supply. With zoning (and with exponentially rising costs for skyscrapers over one-story homes), so is housing on land. At least in places where housing is expensive (e.g. major cities like SFO, NYC, Tokyo, Shanghai, etc.), this is a limited, rent-extracting resource.

The Earth's crust is about 5% iron. Cars are limited by our capacity to produce them.

> I know that you mean competition from not-private providers, but that's not explaining why a not-free provider is good.

No, that's not what I mean. I would recommend taking a basic econ course to understand jargon like "free good," "scarce good," and "rent." I won't fix that in a web post.

Khan Academy is not bad for this kind of basic economics.

> So can you, but you are the one making exceptional claims.

Ah yes. The great controversy of Adam Smith and basic economics.

I gave one link, which you clearly didn't bother to even click through.

> Links?? And no, I'm not going to look it up. You look it up.

Fine. Wallow in ignorance. I won't be responding further.

https://xkcd.com/386/
by Grimblewald | 2025-05-14 00:52:32+00:00
My problem was that all the modern Samsung watches have a battery life that wont get you through the day without removing half it's features, and charging solutions that are unreliable. If half the time you want to use the watch it's dead, it stops being a product you place value on or even rely on. I found myself checking time on my phone, despite the watch being on the same hand I'd grab the phone with, because I could rely on my phone to show my something other than a dark mirror.

I used to have a gear sport, it was fine, held charge for 2-3 days, had more sensors, and was all around a good device, but all watches after were a massive step down, even if they moved from tizen to wear os.

I'll give wearables one more try if someone has a good device to recommend, but as it stands I'd prefer to just spend the extra second to pull out my phone, and for health metrics, wear a more discrete and longer battery life device.
by ethbr1 | 2025-05-14 00:52:33+00:00
There was a liberal monoculture in American universities ~2000-2023.

Said as a liberal.

Litmus test: Say something incendiary in a liberal direction at a university and observe reaction (i.e. "there is no such thing as biological gender"). Say something incendiary in a conservative direction and observe reaction (i.e. "life begins at conception and abortion is murder").

There absolutely was a double-standard.

That said, even if liberals created consequences for conservative speech, they by and large allowed it. (While picketing and, in later years, shouting it down)

In contrast to the current group of populist-conservatives who are anti-free speech and want to erase liberal ideas from existence.
by refulgentis | 2025-05-14 00:54:01+00:00
You're seeing the public facing side of it as a wholesale Android replacement, think of this repo as the tip of the iceberg: well, it used to be, but the rest of the iceberg disappeared.

It's still shipping, successfully, on millions(?) of devices yearly via Nest Hubs and such. Never say never. But all public-facing signs are fairly clear, the big move is ChromeOS into Android, not Android onto Fuchsia - and note how invested Google is in the Nest Hubs (read: not at all, languished for years now)

(I'm also curious if we could get a stats-based thing on, say, 2019 vs. 2024, My out-of-thin-air prior would be 30% more activity in 2019 than now. But I also figured there was 10 commits a day now, not 100.)

(I tried checking out the whole repo, but then all the apps on my macbook informed me en masse there was 0 disk space left :X Doesn't look like there's a GitHub mirror)

(cheers btw, you're my kind of people, one of the more soul-sucking parts of Google was finding out that kind of person is few, and far between) (i.e. curious and into It, not just here to make your boss or partner happy)
by ndriscoll | 2025-05-14 00:55:03+00:00
You're just listing mechanisms for how it might be slow, but that doesn't really make it sensible. Why would the OS query hardware for something like screen rotation or volume? It knows these things. They don't randomly change. It also knows the SSID it's connected to and the results of the last poll (which it continuously does to see if it should move).

And yes it should cache that info. We're talking bytes. Less than 0.0001% of the available memory.

Things were different on old hardware because old hardware was over 1000x slower. On modern hardware, you should expect everything to be instantaneous.
by dogmatism | 2025-05-14 00:55:09+00:00
They also should be specific to ask you to say it, not confirm what they say

Because I have literally seen this go wrong: “Mr John Smith, you’re here for procedure X, yes?” “Yes” Some other provider overhears: “I thought that was Mr Jones for procedure Y” “Are you Mr smith or Mr Jones?” “Mr Jones” “Then why did you say yes when I asked if you were Mr Smith” “I assumed you knew best”…

People do weird things in healthcare settings
by jtsylve | 2025-05-14 00:57:44+00:00
“A student asked, ‘Yeah, but do the wrinkles always form in the same way?’ And I thought: I haven’t the foggiest clue!” said German, a faculty member at the Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science’s Department of Biomedical Engineering. “So it led to this research to find out.”

I wish the authors would have mentioned the kid by name in the acknowledgement section of the paper. I bet the kid would have felt very proud and inspired to having their name published in a scientific journal.
by jleyank | 2025-05-14 00:59:57+00:00
I suspect this had a two-step teaching process for neophytes... First, they'd play with the cardboard machine and get a feel for assembly programming, instruction processing, memory, etc. Once then, after a bit more hacking on things like Star Trek or 4x4x4 tic-tac-toe they'd set out to write an electronic version (virtual machine!) of the cardiac "computer". Debugging that process taught all sorts of relevant things.

And it vaguely felt like a PDP-8, and I suspect it also felt like whatever very early minicomputer that was available.
by PartiallyTyped | 2025-05-14 01:00:26+00:00
No. Ignore the other comments.

The reason for this decision is that they wanted a near 1:1 port of the typescript code to go, keeping design and structure almost identical.

You can’t do that in rust as easily because of all the cyclical references and indirection involved.

A rust port would be a rewrite. This is merely a migration.
by ovligatecarn | 2025-05-14 01:02:40+00:00
> Several of the genes associated with vegetarianism, including TMEM241, NPC1, and RMC1, have important functions in lipid metabolism and brain function, raising the possibility that differences in lipid metabolism and their effects on the brain may underlie the ability to subsist on a vegetarian diet.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
by toss1 | 2025-05-14 01:04:00+00:00
Of course congress can delegate powers, and yes, it is certainly necessary for implementing regulations. Plus, abandoning the Chevron decision framework was IMO, a very bad move by SCOTUS, but respecting the SCOTUS decision in that case makes this even worse.

In this case, Congress actually DID delegate those powers specifically for emergency use.

Arrogating power that was NOT delegated by congress by declaring ordinary condition a bogus "emergency" in order to circumvent congressional control is undermining the democracy.

If congress wants to implement broad tariffs, or enable the executive to engage in tariff and trade wars at will, it is welcome to do that.

But, congress has NOT yet done so.

Until it does, this is at best an abuse of executive power, and whether the intent of the usurpation is good or evil is irrelevant.
by anonzzzies | 2025-05-14 01:04:10+00:00
At least here, everyone I know and see does 'phone calls' with whatsapp and ear buds; I never see anyone holding a phone to their ears or using the GSM network to call actual numbers and I see a lot of people. Also, most prefer text chat anyway. This includes my 80+ parents. I wouldn't need a calling sim if not for sms from some vital services for quite a few years now. It being docked or not makes no difference for that; I wouldn't notice if my phone didn't have built in speakers: for calls we use bluetooth headphones, for music a Bluetooth speaker.

I travel a lot and do not like carrying things, so xreal and phone are more than enough for coding while going day long, easily augmented with a small power bank (unlike a laptop), with all of that fitting in my pockets after I drop my luggage at the hotel. Most my colleagues have macbooks and while they have good battery life, it is no comparison: the search for places with power outlets starts when I am not even at 50%. It is not an apples to apples as I do a lot of compute in the cloud, but even with that on the laptops, they still last a lot shorter and you cannot plug in normal power banks.
by srameshc | 2025-05-14 01:04:27+00:00
I was thinking about intertwining Vector and Graph, because I have one specific usecase that required this combination. But I am not courageos or competent enough to build such a DB. So I am very excited to see this project and I am certainly going to use it. One question is what kind of hardware do you think this would require ? I am asking it because from what I understand Graph database performance is directly proportional to the amount of RAM it has and Vectors also needs persistence and computational resources .
by rectang | 2025-05-14 01:04:28+00:00
> Something not roasted to a charred crisp (looking at you, Starbucks).

Not everyone is going to like less-roasted beans. Less roasted beans have strong, distinct flavors which might be characterized as "green" or "floral" or "woodsy", and it's true that a lot of the individuality of the bean varieties is obscured by darker roasts. But I for one usually prefer the standard roasts of the mainstream vendors over the light roasts you can seek out at smaller boutique vendors.
by fernvenue | 2025-05-14 01:04:31+00:00
Hi, sorry for the late response :)

> The lack of support on LTSC is the least baffling thing going on here but I'm open to the possibility that I'm misunderstanding something....

And yea, you're right, but Indeed, many people need to use the store on LTSC, especially after Microsoft migrated many ecosystem attempts to the store, for example Microsoft Photos and some extensions like HEIC, and now not only UWP applications can enter the store; regular applications can also do so. It actually poses a very big problem that we cannot use the store anymore, at least that's what I think.

Furthermore, it is not just LTSC 2019 that cannot be used; this means that older versions of Windows (at least 1809 or older) are also no longer able to use it. In other words, we can no longer use the store on older versions of Windows. You might say that Microsoft itself didn't intend to provide support for older versions, and yea, I agree, that's true. However, the fact is that many people use Windows largely because of its compatibility advantages. I believe everyone should at least be aware that Microsoft is not as compatible with older programs, especially its own, which is what I want to express.

As for the license, I would like to clarify that it is only to prevent the packaging scripts from being used for commercial purposes and promotion. As you can see, this repository is not specifically intended for hosting store programs, so it does NOT apply to the store programs themselves, but only to the deployment scripts :)