MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rekenaut | 2025-05-07 18:47:40+00:00
I don't know that that's true. For subset of people, this correlation may be true. To be extremely anecdotal though, I have never had trouble maintaining my weight even though I don't exercise, have a mostly sedentary lifestyle, and don't pay attention to my diet. I just got lucky in that I feel hungry more rarely than others. I think it would be absurd to say this is a reflection of my self control, and I am sure there are others that this applies to too.
by alabastervlog | 2025-05-07 18:47:52+00:00
> Diet and exercise works.

We literally have the science, and, over a population and over time, no, they per se do not.

The things that do mostly aren't accessible to normal people (three or four professional nutritionists and trainers and doctors helping out several hours per week; moving to a skinnier country) so "diet and exercise" has been the only available course to recommend, and it's better than nothing, but it's depressingly ineffective.

This is precisely the difference between could and does I was trying to highlight to address this kind of thing in advance: diet and exercise could work, like, on paper they work every single time! Hell, technically, they're even essentially all of the mechanism by which methods that do work, achieve their effect, just indirectly. But just trying to improve diet and increase exercise directly does not work, not over a population. For outliers, yeah, but for most, no. Improving those is a an effect of approaches that do work.
by dylan604 | 2025-05-07 18:48:17+00:00
Why would the IA put out calls for unreleased, possibly unfinished work, that comes from a bankrupted studio? That seems like a very strange request. Do you have a link showing them asking for that? Also, what does being registered library have to do with being able to publish unreleased works that were never made available? I really think we're stretching credibility here
by sgc | 2025-05-07 18:48:29+00:00
Reading a bit between the lines, it seems like the buyers either 1) think that ai assisted coding will get good enough that a lot more people will be doing it - that in the future companies in other fields will spend on it for their employees much the way they are paying for general ai assistants now. Or 2) more likely, they think they will get good enough to completely replace programmers, and the current coding assistant's role is mainly to gather information from developers to eventually replace them completely, by selling a spinoff product at a much higher price. They think they need spyware, and coding assistants are the best version available.
by baq | 2025-05-07 18:48:53+00:00
Not very popular, but popular enough. If you care about sound more than looks (...and if you get the system set up and have a convincing story for your wife that it must be this way), it's the only way to experience movies 'properly'; mixed with an OLED TV, a proper subwoofer (like PB-1000 or similar) and bluray-quality content the system will be better than your average cinema experience.

Now, whether that means anything when 99% of everything made for watching is just playing in the background while you're reading HN on your phone is debatable. Still wouldn't trade the setup even if I'm watching one movie per month. (I'm not even close to that high of a number...)
by resource_waste | 2025-05-07 18:48:59+00:00
Expected this comment.

Mistral has been consistently last place, or at least last place among ChatGPT, Claude, Llama, and Gemini/Gemma.

I know this because I had to use a permissive license for a side project and I was tortured by how miserably bad Mistral was, and how much better every other LLM was.

Need the best? ChatGPT

Need local stuff? Llama(maybe Gemma)

Need to do barely legal things that break most company's TOS? Mistral... although deepseek probably beats it in 2025.

For people outside Europe, we don't have patriotism for our LLMs, we just use the best. Mistral has barely any usecase.
by californical | 2025-05-07 18:49:01+00:00
It’s definitely a Swedish thing. I have some friends there and have visited your country, and the quality of life is incredible and people seem very happy, even if they don’t outwardly show it (people also seemed very private).

I lived in a nearby country for a couple of years and very quickly, the culture of Northern Europe pulled me in. People still want to improve themselves and their communities, they work hard at things they value, but don’t seem to be too bothered by small details or things outside of their control. It’s a very healthy culture - something I can’t say about the current state of my country (USA).
by kenjackson | 2025-05-07 18:49:23+00:00
Why would it correlate with self-control? It seems much more likely to correlate with interests and food preferences. My old college roommate just loved vegetables and complained how he couldn't gain weight, so would take weight gainer powder. I suggested eating hamburgers and pizza, and he said that he couldn't stand the taste. His lack of weight had little to do with self-control.

And given how much weight can be impacted by relatively small changes in diet over a long period of time, makes me think that self-control likely plays little role. The fact that I love basketball and not video games doesn't give me more self-control. It just means I enjoy doing something that burns a lot of calories.
by kewin3 | 2025-05-07 18:49:38+00:00
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by mjr00 | 2025-05-07 18:50:04+00:00
> The way these type checkers get fast is usually by not supporting the crazy rich reality of realworld python code.

Or in this case, writing it in Rust...

mypy is written in Python. People have forgotten that Python is really, really slow for CPU-intensive operations. Python's performance may not matter when you're writing web service code and the bottlenecks are database I/O and network calls, but for a tool that's loading up files, parsing into an AST, etc, it's no surprise that Rust/C/even Go would be an order of magnitude or two faster than Python.

uv and ruff have been fantastic for me. ty is definitely not production ready (I see several bizarre issues on a test codebase, such as claiming `datetime.UTC` doesn't exist) but I trust that Astral will match the "crazy reality" of real Python (which I agree, is very crazy).
by glp1guide | 2025-05-07 18:50:24+00:00
Also relevant, compounders are being sued by Eli Lilly right now. The compounding loophole is being welded shut:

https://glp1.guide/content/eli-lilly-suing-glp1-compounders-...

Only a partial patent expiry for Semaglutide in 2026, then full in 2033:

https://glp1.guide/content/patent-expirations-for-glp1-recep...
by aaronbaugher | 2025-05-07 18:50:28+00:00
I get vertigo from heights very easily, so much so that I even have to look away from movie scenes where a camera looks straight down, like the scene at the beginning of The Matrix where Neo is on the ledge and drops his phone and the camera follows it down.

A couple years ago, some friends got me to go along to one of the Spiderman movies. Early on, there's a big fight scene on a bridge, and heroes and villains are flipping around in the air, falling off towers and things, and I realized it wasn't bothering me at all. None of it had any weight, or whatever it is about heights that usually makes me feel sick even when I know it's fake.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-05-07 18:50:37+00:00
The way Ozempic works is basically by controlling desire so you eat less - it's the eating less (less calories consumed) that makes you lose weight. As you lose weight you will also be able to exercise more easily, which again will help to lose weight (more calories burnt).

At the end of the day it is just about diet and exercise - not eating more calories per day than you are burning via exercise.
by umbra07 | 2025-05-07 18:50:46+00:00
We can live in the world where people don't take GLP-1s, and there are a lot of fat, unhealthy, and undisciplined people. Or we can live in the world where people do take GLP-1s, and there are a lot of not-fat, healthier, still-undisciplined people. I would rather live in the second world. I don't understand why you want to live in the first world (over the second world).
by sublimefire | 2025-05-07 18:51:56+00:00
Good example how to push forward and do the thing.

Otherwise, is it me or the info on the product page is a bit dry. No size specs, no instructions, not enough pics. It is like the last step to convert is not fully complete yet.

One of the issues usually is to make sure the part is compatible with the bike as otherwise you need to spend money to get it and then “try it”. The suggestion with tge pictures how to put it would be useful as well.
by doright | 2025-05-07 18:52:05+00:00
Possibly because you can completely avoid alcohol but you can't completely avoid food. Some large percentage of people who would have been addicted to other substances (due to less than optimal nature/nurture) but didn't, because they did not take those substances, instead became addicted to the substance of food.

It might be more useful to see addicts to every type of substance as a large pool of anxious people who came across a substance to self-soothe, and figure out how to address the anxiety problem first.
by Jtsummers | 2025-05-07 18:52:08+00:00
Strong and weak are ill-defined, but JS is generally considered weakly typed. It's about how the language treats the results of expressions on mixed types and whether it permits implicit conversions or not. Contrast with Python, which is also dynamically typed but is strongly typed (by default, you could add in your own operations to weaken these runtime type checks).

JavaScript: https://tio.run/##bdBBCoMwEIXhfU4xuNFG01C6K3iYF2tLixhREXr6NJ...

Python: https://tio.run/##K6gsycjPM/7/P1HBVkHdUJ0rCUgbc3EVFGXmlWgkKm...

Few languages are truly strongly typed (zero implicit conversions, numeric operations commonly allow them without requiring explicit casts) so it's really more of a spectrum. How much does a language allow in comparison to other languages.
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by aposm | 2025-05-07 18:52:13+00:00
I had a coworker making very similar claims recently - one of the more AI-positive engineers on my team (a big part of my department's job is assessing new/novel tech for real-world value vs just hype). I was stunned when I actually saw the output of this process, which was a multi-page report describing the architecture of an internal system that arguably needed an overhaul. I try to keep an open mind, but this report was full of factual mistakes, misunderstandings, and when it did manage to accurately describe aspects of this system's design/architecture, it made only the most surface-level comments about boilerplate code and common idioms, without displaying any understanding of the actual architecture or implications of the decisions being made. Not only this coworker but several other more junior engineers on my team proclaimed this to be an example of the amazing advancement of AI ... which made me realize that the people claiming that LLMs have some superhuman ability to understand and design computer systems are those who have never really understood it themselves. In many cases these are people who have built their careers on copying and pasting code snippets from stack overflow, etc., and now find LLMs impressive because they're a quicker and easier way to do the same.
by blendergeek | 2025-05-07 18:52:21+00:00
California Code, Vehicle Code - VEH § 25251.5

(a) Any motor vehicle may also be equipped with a system in which an amber light is center mounted on the rear of a vehicle to communicate a component of deceleration of the vehicle, and which light pulses in a controlled fashion at a rate which varies exponentially with a component of deceleration.

(b) Any motor vehicle may be equipped with two amber lamps on the rear of the vehicle which operate simultaneously with not more than four flashes within four seconds after the accelerator pedal is in the deceleration position and which are not lighted at any other time. The lamps shall be mounted at the same height, with one lamp located on each side of the vertical centerline of the vehicle, not higher than the bottom of the rear window, or if the vehicle has no rear window, not higher than 60 inches. The light output from each of the lamps shall not exceed 200 candlepower at any angle horizontal or above. The amber lamps may be used either separately or in combination with another lamp.

(c) Any stoplamp or supplemental stoplamp required or permitted by Section 24603 may be equipped so as to flash not more than four times within the first four seconds after actuation by application of the brakes.

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by ipdashc | 2025-05-07 18:53:21+00:00
This gets thrown around a bunch, but it always seemed like kind of an odd complaint to me? They're not actually pushing the DDoS traffic itself through cloudflare's network, or operating the botnet through it, are they? My assumption was that when people say this, they're referring to the webpage where you can buy the DDoS providers' services.

And for that, I mean, is it really a big deal that it's behind cloudflare? There are plenty of similar reverse proxy services, I assume they just used cloudflare because it's reliable and cheap (and as people in the business, they probably know that it's effective). Would it make a big difference if they didn't use a proxy- are people going to start ddosing the ddos providers?
by the__alchemist | 2025-05-07 18:53:27+00:00
Some examples:

- How much work would it take to implement and maintain this if done without a library? - What other libraries are available? - Does this library meet our needs superficially, or will it be a robust solution long-term? - When our requirements change slightly, or we need to add or change features, will this library still work? - How much code architecture needs to change to integrate this? Does it require changing other parts of the program that it seems should not be required to change for the reason we are bringing this in? - What impact does including this have on binary size and compile time? - What is the risk of security vulnerabilities? - Does this library have its own deep dependency tree? - Will this require continuous maintenance to keep it in sync with other dependencies? - Does this library require certain system dependencies to be installed that will make the build more fragile / less portable? - Will using this dependency impact performance over implementing manually? (Or over another dependency)
by bitwize | 2025-05-07 18:54:00+00:00
The trouble is that piracy can run halfway around the world while the legitimate distribution networks are just getting their shoes on. Around that same time frame -- summer of 1996 -- is when I saw an item on the Damaged Cybernetics (remember them?) web site that read: "We are investigating the use of MPEG Layer III compression for music piracy." Those investigations bore major fruit, because by the tine Napster emerged, distribution networks of MP3s (and sometimes other formats like VQF) on IRC channels modelled after warez swapping channels were well entrenched. Napster started off as a search engine for material on such channels.

Pirates thus shaped the early years of music distribution and exert significant influence today. Consider for example, the fact that people bristled so much at DRM on music that Apple was forced to remove it from iTunes purchases, whereas DRM is normal and even expected for digitally distributed movies and books. (I was there for the early ebook scene too; readers celebrated DRM as it allowed their favorite authors to be compensated and helped prevent them from being scared off the platform entirely.)
by bracketfocus | 2025-05-07 18:54:22+00:00
The comment reads as ragebait or sarcasm but I actually can’t tell.

I don’t want to take away from Game developers but as a “corporate developer” I can attest that a lot of what you said about us is blatantly false.

I’ve spent a lot of time optimizing the performance of many backend services. This is a very standard practice. Having highly performant code can save companies a ton of money on compute.

In fact I’ve worked on a stateless web server who’s architecture was completely designed around a custom chunked/streaming protocol specifically to minimize latency. All changes to the service went through rigorous performance testing and wouldn’t be released if it failed certain latency and throughout thresholds.
by indymike | 2025-05-07 18:55:00+00:00
> I wanna pick your brain a lil. Are you saying agentic AI has helped you replace devs that you would otherwise need for your startup?

I need fewer devs to get more work done... but interestingly it has put a premium on experience because a lot of the "human work" is debugging and fixing where the LLM missed the mark. So less headcount, higher skill required.
by zanie | 2025-05-07 18:55:04+00:00
:wave:

Looks like you found the not-so-secret repository we're using to prepare for a broader announcement :)

Please be aware this is pre-alpha software. The current version is 0.0.0a6 and the releases so far are all in service of validating our release process. We're excited to get this in people's hands, but want to set the expectation that we still have a lot of work left to do before this is production ready.

Stay tuned for more for news in the near future!

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by weegee101 | 2025-05-07 18:55:04+00:00
The issue with this in practice is that there are always cases where panics are absolutely the correct course of action. When program state is bad enough that you can't safely continue, you need to panic (and core dump in dev). Otherwise you are likely just creating an integrity minefield for you to debug later.

Not saying there aren't applications where using these lints couldn't be alright (web servers maybe), but at least in my experiences (mostly doing CLI, graphics, and embedded stuff) trying to keep the program alive leads to more problems than less.
by mrguyorama | 2025-05-07 18:55:24+00:00
I've never used heated dry in any dishwasher in my entire life. It's a massive waste of power for no gain, and will destroy things like plastic food containers and utensils.

Your dishes dry just fine through normal air. The dirt cheap dishwasher my family had in the 90s even had a little flap to let out the steam and let in cool air after the cycle was done.

I can't understand how people are so insistent this is even a mild annoyance, let alone something worth destroying our government over.

I think some of you guys are buying "high end" appliances on this mistaken belief of "it's so much more expensive, surely something about it is better right?" and just get taken for a ride. Nothing in those super "smart" dishwashers has any value.
by AndrewStephens | 2025-05-07 18:55:25+00:00
The documentation states that rybbit does not use cookies and is compliant with the GDPR. The first part is true but, looking at the code (very nice to have it available), the tracking is done by IP address, trading one piece of tracking data for another.

I realize that this is probably the only way it could work but it is not clear to me that tracking by IP address (even over a single session and shredding the data once a day) is any better from a GDPR standpoint.
by bhouston | 2025-05-07 18:55:34+00:00
I feel that sound bars + speakers directly attached to TVs has decimated the "home theatre receiver."

"Back in the day", home theatre receivers made sense when you wanted Radio + CD inputs in addition to the TV input. But radio and CD players are gone. There is just TV. Even when I do audio, I run it through the TV.

Thus why do you need a separate box? It just seems like a waste.

Instead everyone these days are just attaching their speaker systems directly to the TV.

And with wireless speakers, e.g. Sonos and similar systems, a centralized audio amplifier just doesn't make sense at all.

So all that is left is ultra-high end applications and there are few of those.
by Teever | 2025-05-07 18:56:02+00:00
Do a search for x79 and x99. Or the socket type of your preferred xeon chip.

People recommend the machinist brand motherboards. I've had good experience with the Killrser (typo) brand.

At the prices you see it seems too good to be true but those xeon CPU/motherboard/ram kits are the real deal. It's mind blowing buying a Xeon processor for the price of a cup of coffee.

If you live in an area with low electricity costs, or a cold climate where the computer ends up heating your house it's a hell of a deal.

Check out YouTube for reviews and gaming benchmarks on these systems too.
by IX-103 | 2025-05-07 18:56:17+00:00
You can't just train with the negative examples showing filtered content, as that could lead to poor generalization. You'd need to supplement with samples from the training set to prevent catastrophic forgetting.

Otherwise it's like taking slices out of someone's brain until they can't recite a poem. Yes, at the end they can't recite a poem, but who knows what else they can no longer do. The positive examples from training essentially tell you what slices you need to put back to keep it functional.