MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by K0balt | 2025-05-22 02:36:29+00:00
Lol. Definitely!

It’s a ratchet:

Need more power: Buy more panels, they are cheap! Need more power: Buy more panels, they are cheap! Need more power: Buy more panels, they are cheap! Need more power: Can’t buy more panels, need more batteries to stabilize the system. Thankfully , batteries are getting better and cheaper! Lots of power, so much we need to find new ways to benefit from it! Need more power: Buy more panels, they are cheap! ……

The economics of panels are basically 20 percent APR here over 20 years. Over 40 years it drops to around 10 percent for out of service life panels.
by jsphweid | 2025-05-22 02:36:44+00:00
Took 1-2 years before I went a single day without thinking about tinnitus after I gave it to myself playing drums. I was so happy to be smashing those punk drums in the first rehearsal of this band. I remember exclaiming afterwards to one of my bandmates, "Wow my ears are ringing! That was awesome!" He said, "Ya, mine have been ringing for 30 years." My heart immediately sank knowing what I had just done.

I spent a lot of days/months totally devastated about it. I remember reading this story about some woman in a scandinavian country who chose medical-assisted suicide because hers was so bad. I thought that was going to be my story. I thought it was inevitable.

But I met a lot of people who lived completely normal lives and described their tinnitus as so much worse than mine. I eventually got used to it. I wouldn't say the actual ringing is better or worse than it was. I have no idea how to measure it anyways. But life has gotten so much better. And I almost never think about it any more -- maybe once every few weeks I'll have the thought, "Oh ya, I have ringing in my ears" and a few seconds later I forget about it again. I think it gets better for most people, thankfully.

But it'd be cool to hear complete silence again.
by vel0city | 2025-05-22 02:36:45+00:00
> Given how popular the disappearing messages feature is,

I don't think it's really that popular or extensively used. Most people I know who use signal use it pretty rarely. I'll turn it on when I'm about to send something sensitive, but generally it's not enabled. I've been using Signal since 2015 and I've probably only sent or received a hundred or so disappearing messages. I've sent and received many, many thousands of messages. And I mean even in this HN thread tons of people are taking about how they wish the iOS app would have better backup and transfer functions. Something tells me they're not itching to transfer all those already deleted messages.

And sure, maybe Recall ends up saving things longer than it was set for. Maybe Signal does as well. And once again, accessing all your Signal database doesn't even require system privileges just your local user account.

Your browser can access all your Signal messages. Your chat app can access all your Signal messages. Your email client can access all your Signal messages. Your calculator app can access all your Signal messages. That videogame made by Tencent can access all your Signal messages. They don't even have to screengrab, they can just read them.
by nine_k | 2025-05-22 02:38:08+00:00
I think it's uniformity. You have 9(n) all over the place, and only pay attention to the number in parentheses. It's more error-prone to count repeating characters, and it's easier (to me) to notice a typo in the form 9(4) instead of 9(3) than 9999 instead of 999.
by blackguardx | 2025-05-22 02:38:21+00:00
I have tinnitus from an inner ear injury from snorkeling/free diving. Tinnitus can be caused by clenching your jaw or otherwise stimulating your jaw muscles. My ENT told me the nerves for the muscles are extremely close to the nerves for hearing. One thing I try when my tinnitus acts up is making sure to keep my jaw relaxed.
by ch4s3 | 2025-05-22 02:40:45+00:00
Yes, I told a bunch of people to read the chapter the quote was pulled from, when they clearly had not, but you are right I was a bit rude to you. I'm sorry.

I think we have a reasonable difference of opinion here, and while my focus is primarily on the force of law, you're right the the history of the racial covenants is important to consider.
by dragonwriter | 2025-05-22 02:41:37+00:00
> Kind of, except that a non-DSL API doesn't create any new syntax.

Internal DSLs are always (by definition) valid code in the host language; external DSL, where parsing and interpretation or compilation to executable code for raw text code in the DSL are implemented in the host language, are all new syntax, but “languages that encourage making DSL” are usually ones that are favored for internal, not external, DSLs.
by adverbly | 2025-05-22 02:41:46+00:00
> 5. … like a clip. Something that attaches to clothes.

I feel like the most natural thing would be basically push-to-talk-to-AI:

1. Some sort of mic + earpiece that you can wear comfortably(e.g. airpods)

2. A wireless button that you can put on a ring to activate the mic in the most ergonomic way possible

3. Any time you press the button, everything you say gets sent to a running AI chat
by K0balt | 2025-05-22 02:41:58+00:00
To be clear, we are distributing power over about 600m of length, so it has to be high voltage. HVDC is very very dangerous, I would not want it in my house. Not only that, it’s hard to find things that are efficient and work on high voltage DC. Since our batteries are already 60V, our inverters already are very efficient, it’s simply not worth it. Panels are so cheap, it almost doesn’t matter how you are trying to save power, the answer is that it’s almost always cheaper just to buy more panels.
by tripplyons | 2025-05-22 02:42:37+00:00
All Hands AI has instructions for running Devstral locally on a MacBook using LMStudio: https://docs.all-hands.dev/modules/usage/llms/local-llms#ser...

The same page also gives instructions for running the model through VLLM on a GPU, but it doesn't seem like it supports quantization, so it may require multiple GPUs since the instructions say "with at least 2 GPUs".
by ggm | 2025-05-22 02:43:12+00:00
I have it in my mind that Wirth floated modula/modula-2 variants into the early round of Ada candidates but I can find nothing evident.

My back reasoning to it's truth is threefold:

1) He did a residency at York university relating to pascal and modula in teaching CS. That's why my first uni language was pascal. (He'd just left)

2) York used pascal and modula heavily across the Ada specification window

3) York got an SERC or other funding contract to implement a multi pass Ada compiler on BSD Unix.

Which would mean (if true) Dijkstra's comments basically slated all of the candidate languages, and by implication Wirths language views, given he'd worked on the IFIP programming language specification process and was so strongly associated with pascal variants of imperative programming languages.
by magicalhippo | 2025-05-22 02:44:23+00:00
I've never had it hijack the desktop/documents/pictures folder when I've explicitly disabled it, so perhaps that's a viable workaround. Ie enable OneDrive, but have it use it's own separate folders and just ignore those.

That said, really dark pattern to enable stuff users have explicitly said no to. Microsoft really is a two-headed monster these days. Parts of Windows is really good, but then there's shit like this that just ruins it.
by nozzlegear | 2025-05-22 02:46:56+00:00
I've got the typical high-pitched ringing kind that I've had for as long as I can remember, along with pulsatile tinnitus that developed several years ago, meaning I can hear a whooshing sound in my ears to the rhythm of my heartbeat. When I tell people about the pulsatile tinnitus, I like to joke and compare it to the heartbeat from Edgar Allen Poe's story "The Tell-Tale Heart."

Luckily neither of these tinnituses bothers me as much as the subject of that story. In fact they don't bother me much at all anymore, although the pulsatile one did cause a great deal of anxiety when it first developed seemingly out of nowhere. My brain has learned to adapt and ignore the sounds pretty easily unless I'm in a quiet room and have nothing else to focus on.

And a tip for anyone suffering: I've found that those "8 hours of brown noise" loops on YouTube work wonders for drowning out the sound of both regular and pulsatile tinnitus.
by turnsout | 2025-05-22 02:47:05+00:00
AirPods Pro 2 are now FDA approved to act as hearing aids, and during the setup, you will take a hearing test that generates an audiogram (essentially a personalized EQ adjustment). [0] I have pretty mild hearing loss, but it was very wild to turn it on for the first time. It’s like taking OFF a filter.

With that said, I don’t think it would lessen tinnitus, and I don’t think the parent comment was suggesting it would.

[0]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/120992
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-05-22 02:48:00+00:00
They make a lot of sense if you consider that the man up top is an actual stupid person and he is surrounded by sycophants. He has suggested for decades that he understands trade deficits to be identical to subsidies. He prefers mob-boss dynamics as opposed to mutual alliances. He legitimately thinks he can engineer a market economy's prices with his closed-door meetings with CEO buddies.

It is gobsmackingly dumb, but remember we have no evidence of him being anything other than gobsmackingly dumb. It's a very parsimonious explanation of everything he does.
by mdaniel | 2025-05-22 02:48:53+00:00
> It’s also a pleasant language to work in

I know, practically self-documenting code!

https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio/blob/tokio-1.45.0/examples...

I'm not trying to pick on tokio, it was just a public link demonstrating that the syntax can get to be a bit much
by bytesandbots | 2025-05-22 02:49:17+00:00
I'm just listing some points that a VC might be interested in, but you haven't clarified, at least in this post. Usually, they need information of the following also:

- Is the market big enough to allow multiple players at a large scale? There are many viable and profitable ideas, but having a ceiling due to limited market demand is a negative.

- Apart from your technical expertise, do you have go-to-market capability to be able to capture the above market?

- Do the promoters have a vision for exit? Running a profitable long-term business is not usually the right venture for a VC. They need to see a possibility of either acquisition or market listing or further investment rounds at a higher valuation.

- Are you offering enough company shares in order for the investors to have some say in the company? A profitable investment without significant control might not be enticing for some investors.

- You have mentioned collaborating with another stealth start-up. You shouldn't appear as dependent on another company. Even having a large client as a significant fraction of your revenue can be considered as negative.

With all that said, it is a competitive market influenced also by macroeconomic conditions and fund cycles for the investors.

If you are already profitable, have confidence, and some personal financial stability, debt funding might be a good option for you.
by mark-r | 2025-05-22 02:50:29+00:00
My favorite comment:

> But on the other hand I think it won't create terminators. Just some silly roombas.

I watched a roomba try to find its way back to base the other day. The base was against a wall. The roomba kept running into the wall about a foot away from the base, because it kept insisting on approaching from a specific angle. Finally gave up after about 3 tries.
by huevosabio | 2025-05-22 02:52:05+00:00
I am so excited about diffusion language models. They may be the piece we need to make our voice-to-code game mechanic be as smooth as we envision it.

Cerebras and Groq are amazing, but the fact that they use custom hardware really limits the ability to finetune or scale. The other route would be an MoE that has barely 0.5b parameters active, but that would be a major undertaking that we can't prioritize at the moment.

--- If anyone at Google/Deepmind reads this, please give us API access.

We are building generative sandbox games. First title is a monster trainer where you get to actually command your creature in realtime, here is an early prototype: https://youtu.be/BOwpLyj2Yqw
by nodja | 2025-05-22 02:53:54+00:00
My intuition is that the harder it is for an LLM to do something during training the more actual compression/learning will be encoded in it's weights. With multi-token/diffusion it becomes much easier to "reward/loss hack" your way, this won't matter much during pretraining, but I assume a lot of "cheating" will happen in the finetune/RL phase.
by mindslight | 2025-05-22 02:54:38+00:00
> This present issue has been caused by decades of bad fiscal policy by both parties

So I completely agree with this statement, but I completely disagree with the metric you've chosen to illustrate it.

"National debt" only exists due to the martingale of the Federal Reserve neutering the government's own monetary sovereignty. If we need to have an inflationary currency, then the new money should be spent by Congress on deliberate public goals - it's another tax.

You can tell "national debt" is a dodgy metric because it combines two very different things into one scary-in-the-context-of-household-finances thing. The portion of "the debt" that is Treasuries held by the Federal Reserve is the lesser bit of monetary creation that was actually spent for public goals, in spite of the fake "fiscal responsibility" narrative. It is moot as far as debt goes - nothing actually happens if it compounds to infinity.

The other portion of "the debt" that is held by private/foreign owners is the government functioning as a bank account of last resort, and could very well just be at the central bank instead.

What we currently have is a dog and pony show to pretend that we don't have this centralized fountain of money, in order for the financial industry to keep getting the first cut of low interest loans (which have mostly gone into bidding up the asset bubbles).
by brandonb | 2025-05-22 02:55:19+00:00
First off, sorry about the unsubscribe links--I reproduced the problem, and we're fixing it.

We're working on getting API access from our lab partner that would let us build a self-serve lab location finder. We know it's a bit of a kludge now. (API access for these types of healthcare services isn't quite as simple as, say, Stripe -- it often requires a few rounds of meetings, approvals, etc.)
by atrettel | 2025-05-22 02:55:29+00:00
Thank you. You raise an interesting point that I had not considered before. Norman does talk about how good design just works intuitively without users needing to be told how use something (especially in regards to door knobs and light switches as examples if I recall correctly!).

That said, intuition is heavily influenced by existing practices and culture. My understanding is that Tufte wrote his first book as a reaction to existing practices and hence the notion was that what was considered intuitive was different than what we both imagine and also suboptimal.

There is a book called Graphis Diagrams released a few years before Tufte's The Visual Display of Quantitative Information that compiled what people previously considered "good" data visualizations pre-Tufte. I'd call Graphis Diagrams more of a collection of art pieces than a collection of good data visualizations, but that was the field before Tufte's work. Some of the visualizations are interesting, but many seem incredibly dated and make heavy use of "chartjunk" (Tufte's term). I'd argue that we wouldn't consider those supposed "good" examples very readable and useful by modern standards, and that just goes to show that intuition can change (for better or for worse).

I do also agree that Tufte tends towards a certain kind of performative minimalism that seems excessive at times to me. Often times the better solution is to present the data in a different way --- transform it using mathematics, use a different visualization, or something else --- rather than just reduce the amount of ink you are using. Box plots and pie charts are just useless to me as media since they simply cannot account for complexity, and no amount of minimalism is going to solve that. The answer is to use another kind of visualization (or perhaps use parallelism/small multiples to build up those kind of simple visualizations into something more meaningful).

I personally find Tufte's book Visual Explanations to be his best book. It focuses much more on how good visualizations can help you explore data more readily (see what otherwise could not be seen), especially in regards to cause and effect. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information is certainly more famous but it focuses on much more low-level implementation details like the "data-ink ratio", etc. and not bigger picture things, in my opinion. I recommend giving Visual Explanations a read if you are interested.
by plaidfuji | 2025-05-22 02:55:51+00:00
I “got over” mine after many months of “tinnitus meditation” (there’s a short book on this written by a guy who has some crazy disease that causes extra-bad tinnitus). Basically, you meditate by purposefully focusing on your tinnitus. It starts to flip your brain’s response from one of fear to one of relaxation. Even within the first session, you’ll find that when you try to focus on the noise for as long as you can (use a timer and start with 5 mins), you eventually get distracted and think about something else, even if just for a moment. Then you realize that your brain isn’t “forced” to notice it - and the more you practice this, the better you’ll get at noticing it and gently pivoting your attention back to.. the rest of the world. The noise never goes away, your ability to ignore it just improves over time.

The book is a quick read and helpful: https://a.co/d/ckOzbSq

I no longer meditate as often, but when I do, it’s actually still quite effective. I now see it more as a “retreat” of sorts - I can just kind of dissociate and let the ringing take over. Reading this article brought it back, incidentally.. but I’m ok with it. Once you fully surrender to the noise, you can start to let go of it. It’s the mental resistance that makes it hard to deal with.
by mattmaroon | 2025-05-22 02:56:34+00:00
Think you mean plugging, not plucking, your ears, unless sirens make you remove hair, in which case they did you a favor.

I got some nice ear plugs designed for concerts (Loop) because I go to a concert and I already have mild tinnitus and don't want it to get worse.

I do not know why concerts have to be SO LOUD. Loud, sure. Permanent ear damage loud, why? It should tell you something that the guys on stage wear ear plugs.

That's a really good point about hearing damage vs eye damage, the only thing I can think of is it's a lot harder to measure and people don't care as much. It would be really hard to prove you had hearing loss in a court of law, let alone that it came from one specific event, and you'd have a much easier time proving that a high powered laser blinded several people, perhaps. And nearly 100% of people would choose "deaf" if they were forced to pick between that and blind.
by philipkglass | 2025-05-22 02:57:36+00:00
About the decompressed data:

zstdcat dataset.zst | sha384sum

0812f3876a7e319081f596a5545321e5c8e8def501add3a4f5ff039568fe59aa5d4ac5d2c3e549532f529bd09b887596

zstdcat dataset.zst | wc

2059116741 22128178392 2099550453760

If you can post your email and you have a sftp server or other accessible means to receive this large file, I'll contact you and then maybe you can help distribute it more widely.

(Offer also applies to anyone else reading this thread.)
by tangoalpha | 2025-05-22 02:58:51+00:00
Got permanent tinnitus due to damage to auditory nerve from an accident back in 2010.

Coping was hard. Distracting yourself with various things so you dont think about it was key.

Things to try - 1) Keeping yourself distracted or occupied and trying to not be conscious about it for 50% of the day to start with, gradually improving to 90% of the day 2) White noise apps for sleep 3) Carry ear plugs at all times. Plug them in if watching a movie in a theatre or attending to an Indian wedding. Prevents worsening of the situation.

To those out there: you're not alone. The journey is different for everyone, and what helps one person might not help another — but with patience and experimentation, many find ways to manage and live fully despite it.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-05-22 03:00:34+00:00
Paint them! https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleis#/media/Datei:Mariazeller...

And/or build them like this https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Schienenauszugsvorrichtu... ,

or this https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:SchienenauszugMitLzb.jpg ,

or this https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feste_Fahrbahn#/media/Datei:Oe...

It's called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breather_switch
by p1necone | 2025-05-22 03:01:10+00:00
78 million is how many pixels would be in 256 different pictures with 307200 pixels each. You're only counting each pixel once for each possible value, but you actually need to count each possible value on each pixel once per possible combinations of all of the other pixels.

The number of possible pictures is indeed 256^307200, which is an unfathomably larger number than 78 million. (256 possible values for the first pixel * 256 possible values for the second pixel * 256 possi...).
by hedora | 2025-05-22 03:01:15+00:00
Clinton balanced the budget back in the 90’s. Biden and Obama’s terms were almost entirely defined by picking up economic disasters the previous administration caused. (2009 marked the beginning of the housing crisis, bank defaults due to deregulation and occupy wall street. 2021 was mid pandemic, after Trump spent years printing money with his zero interest rate stuff and tax cuts. He also fired the US funded team that China relied on for early pandemic detection and response.)

So, claiming this problem is bipartisan is nonsense. I’ll blame the dems for lots of stuff, but wildly inflationary fiscal policies and intentionally destructive economic policies aren’t on the list.
by tomek_zemla | 2025-05-22 03:02:40+00:00
I am not 'rejecting' the alternative design. I am choosing one design path over another. I have a specific vision of how I want this application to work. It is designed to 'push' users to discover new vocabulary. It's not exactly a game, although it feels a bit like that. It's a new take on an ESL vocabulary practice workbook.

Most words in English have synonyms. Some have long lists of them. The puzzles are designed to make you discover (or just recall) specific words. Accepting a semantically correct alternative defies the purpose! It also makes it easier, and the learning happens when it is hard.

If the question is about finding synonym to pretty and you provide beautiful, it's great. But the puzzles are designed so you discover splendind and stunning and ravishing and glamorous and lovely and... etc.
by Jabihjo | 2025-05-22 03:03:10+00:00
> Don't say Thunderbird.

Thunderbird. Seriously though, why do people hate on it so much? I use it on all of my non-mobile devices and the latest version out of the box (at least for Linux desktops) is really sleek.

My only issue is Google Calendar integration, and that's only because auto-generated calendar entries suck and cannot be dismissed. When those events pop up, I just click on the link in the notification which takes me to the email and calendar view, and I delete the auto-gemerated event on the Gmail website.