MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aabhay | 2025-05-24 22:37:57+00:00
For any interested, the best book I found on this topic is Project Japan (https://a.co/d/fcrNp6p). It dives into the history of the whole Metabolism movement (in my opinion, an effort to create more modular and dynamic architecture and entire city plans that could be deployed, migrated, and repurposed effectively).

Members of this movement created everything from Tokyo’s iconic phone booth, to the ubiquitous soy sauce container, to ski cabins and a plan to dredge the whole tokyo bay to construct a completely designed cityscape, with some truly wild proposals.
by rTX5CMRXIfFG | 2025-05-24 22:38:40+00:00
But you're also assuming that people aged 50+ are necessarily inclined to keep contributing to science and passing on their "wisdom" (quotes because they're actually fallible) to the younger generations. In reality, the vast majority of them would just go on to consume, while also being content enough to be prepared to die any minute.

And believe it or not, whatever knowledge or discovery you think you're losing with one death isn't actually contingent to that person. Given enough time, someone else will figure it out, and it becomes especially less valuable if you believe that AI tools are only going to get better.
Show HN: I built a chill place online to work on your ideas
by wmastover | 2025-05-24 22:38:47+00:00
I used to watch hundreds of hours of lofi beats on youtube while I was coding, but I got really sick of all the ads.

I decided to build a better alternative - It's a configurable space for you to hang out online while you work, with a ton of relaxing music and backgrounds. Its got useful tools built in like a timer to keep track of how long you've been locked in, and a notepad for todos or scribbling down ideas while you work.

Honestly this is the first tool I've built that I personally use every day, so I'm hoping some of you out there can get some use out of it too!
by numpad0 | 2025-05-24 22:38:50+00:00
it's just not there. Whether it's text, chat, images, video - the quality sometimes appear regular to cursory look, but aren't actually up there with that of humans. That's the problem.

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This gets into cheap scifi territory but: I think someone should put people in fMRI and make them watch live archive recordings of something consistent and devoid of meanings, like a random twitch channels on same theme, or foreign language sports, and sort results by date relative to time of experiment.

Expected result would be that the data is absolutely random, maybe except for something linked to seasons or weather, and/or microscopic trend shift in human speech, and/or narrator skill developments. But what if it showed something else?
by giraffe_lady | 2025-05-24 22:41:12+00:00
The Miocene Arrow is an interesting post apocalyptic novel that takes this problem seriously. In it a neofeudal society is oriented around producing surplus grain and processing it into alcohol for small diesel-powered airplanes, maintained in small numbers at vast expense by an aristocratic class as both symbol and means of enforcing their dominance. Entire hereditary craft guilds for all the support and subskills necessary to keep them running etc. Sort of analogous to warhorses in premodern europe I guess. Solid book, the first one in the series is interesting too but based in a different setting.
by pdonis | 2025-05-24 22:41:14+00:00
> I understand what he is saying and it’s precisely what I am disputing.

I don't see how. Your post was disputing the claim that good design, craftsmanship, beauty, etc. are signs of correctness. And that's not the claim PG makes in the article. Your post never disputed the claim PG did make, which is that bad design and craftsmanship, ugliness, etc., are signs of lack of correctness.
by bjourne | 2025-05-24 22:45:32+00:00
LLMs is a subset of sequence learning which is a subset of ML which is a subset of AI. But even in the LLM subset the field is so deep and vast that you can only learn one small subset. It's a subset of a subset of a subset of a subset of a ... You get the idea. Do you like math? Then pick one subset. Do you like hardware? Pick another.
by KTibow | 2025-05-24 22:49:06+00:00
I'm not much of an ML engineer but I can point you to the original chain of thought paper [0] and Anthropic's docs on how to enable their official thinking scratchpad [1].

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.11903

[1] https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/extende...
by ptek | 2025-05-24 22:50:37+00:00
Former Australia scaffolder here: The bamboo scaffold is used to hold people mainly and to act as fall protection not support weights like steel scaffold (i.e They won't be storing I-Beams on it temporarily or shifting wheel barrows full of cement). Weight difference in people. When I was scaffolding in Australia, I was 70Kg and 178cm tall. I was working with people who were 100-120kg+, Those people would have been carrying 4-5 steel boards about 80-100kgs on their shoulder, I was carrying 3-4 steel boards 60-80kgs. Light duty scaffold, is 2 boards wide (450mm) and 3m long bays. I could pass another person my weight, but some one who is 100-120Kg+ I would struggle on scaffold. Most of it is build at heavy duty steel which is 5 boards wide + 2 board hop ups and 2.4m long (Standards say it should be 1.8m long). After 45M high, scaffold has to restart again and they use I beams inside the buildings and U heads under the screw jacks before they start building again. I prefer buildings 4 storeys high (1 ground + 3 levels), that is you get the sun in the winter and if the shit hits the fan even if you jump from that high you may break bones but you should still be able to live depending on what you land on.
by doodaddy | 2025-05-24 22:52:05+00:00
For all the writing there is about writing, Orwell’s six rules have yet to do me wrong:

1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

2. Never use a long word where a short one will do. (To add: short words are best, and old words when short are best of all)

3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.

5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

Though there is one more that is deserving of seventh place: 7. Edit ruthlessly. “Murder your darlings.”
by neumann | 2025-05-24 22:52:32+00:00
https://www.9news.com.au/national/brett-johnson-court-update...

Pretend you are in op sec for personal information and you'll quickly come up with a dozen examples. Ranging from individuals abusing access for nefarious reasons [1], institutions using it to reward hack kpis to what's happening in America with illegal ICE arrests.
by iamwil | 2025-05-24 22:53:32+00:00
A weak form of algebraic effects are already very common: React hooks.

React hooks are different from full-blown algebraic effects in a couple ways:

- The handler for the hooks are already implemented for you, and you can't swap it out for a different handler. For example, the implementation of useState is fixed, and you can't swap it out for a different implementation.

- They're not multishot resumption. When a hook is raised, the handler can only handle it and resume it once. In a full-blown algebraic effect, the handler can resume the same raised effect multiple times.

- Algebraic effects usually come bundled together. Those effects have specific compositional rules with each other. That's how they're algebraic.
by ppqqrr | 2025-05-24 22:55:45+00:00
the obsessive narrative against redundancy has been the blight of our times. people are copies of each other, they eat the same food, work the same job, have the same needs. if you follow the Big Wheel propaganda to its logical conclusion, you’ll have as your ideal a very specialized person who serves a very specific needs of some (probably) rich people, but knows or enjoys absolutely nothing else: never cooks, grows, loves anything, because those things are redundant.
by kristopolous | 2025-05-24 22:56:20+00:00
yeah I removed it. I grew up catholic, went to catholic school, was an altar boy, and spent decades in the church but people reading it don't know this.

The point is when you instruct it that it's some kind of god-like expert, this is part of the reason that it keeps doing prompt refusal by redoing mistakes despite every insistence by you to the contrary. After all what do you know, It's the expert here!

When you use this approach in cline/roo it stops going in and moving shit around when you just ask it questions
by kayodelycaon | 2025-05-24 22:56:39+00:00
You need to know when not to reinvent the wheel.

I’ve certainly done it at work because I didn’t have time (or desire) to learn a library.

But sometimes you have to understand the wheel to reinvent it.

I’m not gonna let a someone roll their own user authentication and authorization system in a rails application.

There’s so many moving pieces you won’t even think about and there’s gems that solve this extremely well. Study the gem and you will learn a lot more. Then reinvent the wheel.
by FridgeSeal | 2025-05-24 22:58:42+00:00
I have to wonder if they’ve really thought through the consequences of their own intentions.

> eliminate payroll costs

And what do they think everyone who’s been shunted out of a livelihood is going to do? Roll over and die? I don’t see “providing large scale social support” being present in any VC pitch deck. How do they imagine that “without destroying the economy” will happen in this scenario?
by itsjustaclock | 2025-05-24 22:59:49+00:00
It’s fascinating that people still see these things as new or unique to our current administration. This has been an issue for decades that were often ignored or minimized because it only affected smaller more marginalized groups of people. For example conferences involving HIV/AIDS had to contend with these issues for decades due to the blanket ban on HIV+ individuals from entering the country, even for a scientific conference. Often the conferences would continue leading to schisms in the communities and competing conferences that would ultimately disagree on fundamental principles in science and policy.
by iamwil | 2025-05-24 23:00:25+00:00
My understanding is that monads can only be composed in specific orders or not at all without monad transformers.

The "algebraic" part of algebraic effects is that the effects also come with implicit compositional rules that say how you can put them together. You can design a family effects with rules like commutativity and associativity, so that you can be sure of how to compose them.
by CharlesW | 2025-05-24 23:03:22+00:00
> It's amusing to me how people keep trying to apply engineering principles to an inherently unstable and unpredictable system in order to get a feeling of control.

You invoke "engineering principles", but software engineers constantly trade in likelihoods, confidence intervals, and risk envelopes. Using LLMs is no different in that respect. It's not rocket science. It's manageable.
by credit_guy | 2025-05-24 23:05:39+00:00
I don't think this is such a great solution. With regular numpy you can create functions that take arrays with arbitrary shapes. It is not easy, as the author explained in a prior post, but it is doable. But with loops this just doesn't work. The number of nested loops depends on the shape of the inputs.

My solution, very, very inelegant, was to focus on the scalar case, and ask Copilot to vectorize my code. I did that just the last two days. It is not all that easy. Copilot will give you something, but you still need to tweak it. In the end, I still had to write line by line the code, and make sure I understand what it is doing.
by theptip | 2025-05-24 23:05:55+00:00
This is a great case study. I wonder how hard o3 would find it to build a minimal repro for these vulns? This would of course make it easier to identify true positives and discard false positives.

This is I suppose an area where the engineer can apply their expertise to build a validation rig that the LLM may be able to utilize.
by joshvm | 2025-05-24 23:06:02+00:00
AMD recently annoyed the gaming community - who are among the most susceptible to unnecessary upgraditis - by saying that friends don't let friends buy GPUs with more than 8GB VRAM. If you look at the Steam hardware surveys, that's probably true. An M-series Macbook can play most stuff that isn't current AAA. Proton let's you play virtually anything on Linux and it's incredible (plus the Steam Deck). There's no point buying a $1000+ card for gaming. You're better off subscribing to a game streaming service.

Was mod support that common back in the day? Morrowind was pretty revolutionary in that you could load the entire "level" into the Construction Kit and see how the professionals built the quests. A few other games were released with map editors (I remember Age of Mythology having one). I feel like the games that can be moddable are notable.

Otherwise servers have always been a problem for developers. Do you let people self host and run the risk of rampant cheating on random servers? Or do you centrally host and eat the cost? I do think that the option of self-hosting is important. For every counter strike there are tons of abandoned RTS games that have nobody playing any more.
by xg15 | 2025-05-24 23:10:20+00:00
Go through the DIG's press releases throughout the war. Their position almost exactly tracks the official position of the Netanyahu government, wrapped in some pseudo-progressive rhetoric (with one(!) notable exception where they criticized Smotrich for planning to officially annex the West Bank). Their positions are also more extreme than even the official German position, e.g. demanding Egypt to accept forced displacement of Gazans into Sinai and all but rejecting the two-state solution.

They agitate against any and all groups that dare to show a Palestinian perspective, even established German antifascist groups like Arsch Huh or Israeli groups like Combatants for Peace.

Their deep integration with the German political sphere tells more about the state of affairs in Germany than about the group. This is the political class' interpretation of the Staatsräson.

I don't see any reason to assume "highest standards of political correctness" for them.
by vlovich123 | 2025-05-24 23:11:57+00:00
The new part is probably the precise details about size and strength of the magnetic sphere in the past and that they used a different mechanism to fill in gaps in existing theories.

> Importantly, these insights were achieved through independent constraints that bypass traditional uncertainties in planetary formation models—which often rely on assumptions about gas opacity, accretion rate, or the mass of the heavy element core

> The results add crucial details to existing planet formation theories, which suggest that Jupiter and other giant planets around other stars formed via core accretion, a process by which a rocky and icy core rapidly gathers gas. These foundational models were developed over decades by many researchers, including Caltech's Dave Stevenson, the Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Planetary Science, Emeritus. This new study builds upon that foundation by providing more exact measurements of Jupiter's size, spin rate, and magnetic conditions at an early, pivotal time

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/jupiter-was-formerly-twic...
by numpad0 | 2025-05-24 23:12:26+00:00
Pi 3 had issues with power voltage, eventually solved by special 5.1V adapters. All models has microSD longevity issues. PoE HATs had issues too.

One thing common to all models of Pi is that the onboard power circuits are either rather simplistic, or missing altogether. I think I saw somewhere that this may have to do with EU/UK regulations that otherwise forbid the bare board sold as a consumer product. Anyone read/heard similar?
by TheAmazingRace | 2025-05-24 23:13:01+00:00
In my view, this tends to go out the window when randoms on the Internet share hints and suggestions in the first place. This is known in some parts as “vague booking” which is intended to possibly elicit sympathy or a similar reaction, with the intent of getting a feeling out of their system.

A good example of this would be a Facebook post similar to the following: “oh wooow I had such a hard day! Can’t believe what I had to do to overcome! Craaaazy time! I hope nothing like that happens again.” and then provide zero context.

Then they act surprised anyone would request for more details. I don’t get the pearl clutching folks like this do. If you have no intention of elaborating, either don’t engage in any responses or don’t bother sharing anything on the Internet at all.

To be clear, this is not a dunk on you or anyone in particular. Just explaining why others might be so inquisitive.
by tomabuct | 2025-05-24 23:13:02+00:00
Resentment is inherently anecdotal, but nevertheless a data point.

The issue with your argument is that you’re conflating two different points on the academic pipeline by shitting on high school science fairs because of the post-doc hellscape further down the line.

The latter is a special case of low wage, dead-end jobs that are inherent to capitalism, which can more generally leave anyone paralyzed in a vicious grind loop. Improving this may require capitalistic reform such as UBI and increased housing supply, but is the human condition of the quest for satisfaction in one’s niche.

The former is exposure to future possibilities that could satisfy the constraints of economic and intellectual well-being, likely through incremental progress but with the potential for breakthrough in either realm.
by playlsd | 2025-05-24 23:14:49+00:00
It was late autumn when I landed in London, the city humming with memories I hadn’t made yet, and ghosts I was unknowingly chasing. The Big Ben stood tall, timeless, ticking—just like the thoughts in my head. I found myself wandering along the banks of the River Thames, wondering if she ever missed its rhythm like I did. Did she walk these same streets? Did she ever look back? - To be continued...
by spwa4 | 2025-05-24 23:14:52+00:00
The police and government are also how they get permission, at least in London, so using law to prevent this ... doesn't seem like it'll be possible.

Although it does seem relevant. Given that these models run easily on phones 2 generations old (that's what they use in pubs, and if they use it in pubs, they use it everywhere), how will you stop it, even if you do get a law against it?
by epolanski | 2025-05-24 23:15:43+00:00
I have two points I want to make:

1) friends definition is vague and often based on language. In Italian or English friend is a word that could include for a single person dozens of people, in many Slavic countries you only use that word for your very best closest friends (the one you can count on one hand).

2) being a humble rooter at work has done better for me and many I know than being the star player. I'm the same person, I just give to others credit and never brag about anything. People notice, people like you, people want you around in projects, end up rooting for your advancements too.
by lolinder | 2025-05-24 23:16:07+00:00
When used that way they also regularly get into loops where they lose track of what they were supposed to do.

The last time I set Cursor on something without watching it very very closely it spun for a while fixing tests and when it finally stopped and I looked what it had done it had coded special cases in to pass the specific failing tests in a way that didn't generalize at all to the actual problem. Another recent time I had to pull the plug on it installing a bunch of brand new dependencies that it decided would somehow fix the failing tests. It had some kind of complete rewrite planned.

Claude Code is even worse when it gets into this mode because it'll do something totally absurd like that and then at the end you have to `git reset` and you're also on the hook for the $5 of tokens that it managed to spend in 5 minutes.

I still find them useful, but it takes a lot of practice to figure out when they'll be useful and when they'll be a total waste of time.
by squigz | 2025-05-24 23:18:18+00:00
How am I supposed to take an article seriously that starts like this, clearly betraying the author's unfamiliarity with the reality of gaming?

> It’s well known that video games today are disposable pieces of slop. Modern multiplayer games tend to fall into one of two categories: they’re abandoned after a while and the servers are pulled (sometimes comically fast, like with Concord), while other games are endlessly changing “live service” games where they get endless updates and free content at the expense of having microtransactions in all their predatory varieties. Just like how arcade gaming died in favor of “redemption games” that act as gambling for kids minus the regulations of casinos, video games have fallen victim to endless microtransactions and FOMO events designed to keep people coming back to play for another week or so. They’re designed to maximize money at the expense of the core experience.

Anyone who genuinely believes this represents most games should do themselves a favor and stop focusing solely on the current trendy multiplayer game. There are countless fantastic games today, and there are many MMOs that aren't the MTX hell that the author seems to think every multiplayer game is.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-05-24 23:18:36+00:00
Half of politics can be explained by framing it around the idea that for a sizable chunk of the population the last 50 years have inflicted a wound to status. The civil rights era changes, demographic changes, and the consequences of the Triffin dilemma leave a large group of people with the living memory that they had more status in the past than they do now.

The natural urge to find a cause results in externalizing blame, elites being one targeted group. It makes sense that lashing out at them is an attempt to heal the status wound, even though the chance that this succeeds is zero.
by eurleif | 2025-05-24 23:19:30+00:00
I was curious if "NOT WELCOME" meant "not legally allowed", so I went to the license page. Turns out it's a modified Apache license that prohibits certain entities from using the software, but not supporters of certain political parties; instead, it prohibits the use by governments of various nations:

https://sql-workbench.eu/manual/license.html#license-restric...

Note that this means the software isn't open source, and can't be linked with GPL code.
by BlarfMcFlarf | 2025-05-24 23:20:56+00:00
Ver few competitive games can survive, because you need a huge player base to maintain a skill based matchmaking ladder 24/7, and the moment you dip below that critical number the game is doomed since new players are locked out. Its winner takes all. Everyone stills tries to make em for the big potential upside, but they are always very high risk.

Single player, and non centralized coop, are a different matter of course, and you can’t really compare them. But the big “AAA” shoot for the big wins of live service and thus often fail.