MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by EA-3167 | 2025-06-11 18:09:44+00:00
So the issue here is that overly rapid beating (Tachycardia) in the lower two chambers of the heart (Ventricles) can be harmless, but left alone it can lead to dangerous heart rhythms (Such as Ventricular Fibrillation aka VFib) and arrest. The cardioversion is there to prevent it, but it's true that the fast beating of the Ventricles (VTach) is most likely to resolve without killing you.

Still in a patient like him it will eventually lead to VFib and then death, so you implant a device that prevents that cascade. There are settings for these devices about the threshold of when and how to shock, but ultimately it's still going to err on the side of caution because any sustained VTach is dangerous.
by robomartin | 2025-06-11 18:09:48+00:00
> illegal immigration allowed the US to recover faster than it would have otherwise and the lesson from history is we're a stronger nation for easing immigration restrictions.

There is no question whatsoever that immigration, legal and done correctly, is a force for good. As a legal immigrant, it understand this very well.

In fact, I understand the entire process very well, including the illegal immigration part. You see, when I was six years old, my parents overstayed their tourist visa in the US. They were then told to leave and my entire family left. Two years later, after going through proper channels, we obtained permission to come to the US legally.

I truly do not understand how people twist themselves into a pretzel to justify illegal entry into a country. Actually, it is worse than that, the only country where they seem to think this is OK is the US. Every single person who is for illegal immigration in the US understands why you cannot just move to New Zealand, for example, to stay and work there without permission. They also understand New Zealand's points system for the selection of who is granted permanent residency. Not in the US. Of course not.

Proponents also say that not enough people are let in legally or that it is too slow. Two points to be made here. The entire planet wants to come to the US, so, yeah, it will take a couple of years (as it did for my family). Second, when millions of people enter illegally, the annual quota for legal immigration cannot be increased. Doing so would exacerbate the problem. So, illegal immigration actually hinders changes and growth of the legal immigration system.

Finally, proponents of illegal immigrants are of the same ilk as those who propose raising tax rates for everyone except themselves. And, when they do include themselves, they don't lead by example and simply send more money than they owe to the government. Same with immigration. How?

I break into your home with my entire family while you are on vacation. I start paying the bills; power, water, insurance, heck, I even pay the mortgage.

Can we all stay in your home forever? You are welcome to come back from your vacation and share the home with us?

Of course not. Nobody of sound mind would accept such a situation.

How is breaking and entering into a country --any country-- justified and elevated to almost be a virtue?

While not a perfect analogy, of course, this does illustrate a fundamental idea: You don't get to grab things (your iPhone, car, home, residency, benefits, etc.) by force and keep them just because you did. If the world worked that way we would all be walking around with a firearm strapped to our leg and blood would run down every street in the nation. Violating these fundamental rights is nothing less than destructive to society.
by DarmokJalad1701 | 2025-06-11 18:09:53+00:00
Electronics - I recently bought a decent DSO, the "Pinecil" soldering iron, a whole bunch of components. I had some ideas but then sort of hit a wall and lost interest. So now I have a workbench with tools that I will hopefully get back to some day. I think my starting projects were either too difficult, or not that interesting after I implemented them on a breadboard.

Plasma simulation - I really want to understand how fusion and advanced propulsion systems can be simulated and maybe even contribute in some way. E.g. The fusion propulsion being developed by Helicity Space is very interesting. I wish I knew enough to understand their work and maybe do some simulations myself. I tried doing this "Particle In Cell" course I found online but quickly lost interest after a week or so.

I guess I just have a wide variety of interests that come and go. Some of these just seem to be passing interests. I have sort of learned to live with that.
by noworriesnate | 2025-06-11 18:10:00+00:00
Children are incapable of consent. In the same way, people who are having big mental burdens are not capable of consenting to this. It’s a system as ripe for abuse as allowing children to consent to sex.

I’ve had my dark moments, but I learned to deal and I’m sooo glad I didn’t end it.

You know, you always hear about people who survive a suicide attempt often find out after they’ve jumped that they really didn’t want to die! It’s an irreversible choice, and something about realizing that changes people.
by throwaway522482 | 2025-06-11 18:10:16+00:00
How funny, my wife and I were literally just talking about Dollywood right before I opened Hacker News.

We live in Sevier County, and Dolly offers $5 tickets to her park to locals this week, which is really quite a charitable thing to do. The discount even applies for taking ~$100 off of a season pass.

Never realized that train got so much usage, but I guess it makes sense. Although you do have to pay attention if you sit near the front as you’ll be slightly covered in soot after the ride.
by gawa | 2025-06-11 18:10:44+00:00
> This is why I avoid using non-official actions where possible and always set a version for the action.

Those are good practices. I would add that pinning the version (tag) is not enough, as we learnt with the tj-actions/changed-files event. We should pin the commit sha.[0]. Github states this in their official documentation [1] as well:

> Pin actions to a full length commit SHA

> Pin actions to a tag only if you trust the creator

[0] https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/harden-runner-detection-tj-...

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/actions/security-for-github-actio...
by ucha | 2025-06-11 18:11:08+00:00
Can we know for sure that the price drop is accompanied by a change in the model such as quantization?

On twitter, some people say that some models perform better at night when there is a less demand which allows them to serve a non-quantized model.

Since the models are only available through API and there is no test to check which version of the model is served, it's hard to know what we're buying...
by charleszyong | 2025-06-11 18:11:29+00:00
Kuka had this demo years ago: https://youtu.be/tIIJME8-au8

Nowadays, if you’re running a 2–3B parameter foundation model on a standard computer, you’ll probably get a rollout frequency of 1 to 10 Hz. ACT would be faster, but I still don’t think it’s fast enough.
Ask HN: How do you demo your SaaS product?
by Mikhail_Shadrin | 2025-06-11 18:11:42+00:00
I find product demos to be a constant challenge. I've tried: Videos: Low engagement, people rarely finish them. Screenshots/GIFs: Lack context, don't show the full workflow. Live product embed: Risky, can break or confuse users. I'm curious about what actually works for others. What format do you use? (e.g., video, interactive demo, live environment) How do you manage the maintenance overhead, especially with frequent product updates? What have you found that actually moves the needle on conversions? Looking to learn from your experiences.
by daft_pink | 2025-06-11 18:11:52+00:00
I've been told the one reason why Japanese is so hard to learn is because there is an underlying etiquette and social hierarchy built into the language and it is not simply being able to understand and speak the words.

Native speakers tolerate errors when it's obvious someone is non-native, but become offended when they speak it perfectly, but screw up the social heirarchy, so it's extremely hard to progress beyond a certain point.
by verifex | 2025-06-11 18:13:04+00:00
Some of my favorite things to use AI for when coding (I swear I wrote this not AI!):

- CSS: I don't like working with CSS on any website ever, and all of the kludges added on-top of it don't make it any more fun. AI makes it a little fun since it can remember all the CSS hacks so I don't have to spend an hour figuring out how to center some element on the page. Even if it doesn't get it right the first time, it still takes less time than me struggling with it to center some div in a complex Wordpress or other nightmare site.

- Unit Tests: Assuming the embedded code in the AI isn't too outdated (caveat: sometimes it is, and that invalidates this one sometimes). Farming out unit tests to AI is a fun little exercise.

- Summarizing a commit: It's not bad at summarizing, at least an initial draft.

- Very small first-year-software-engineering-exercise-type tasks.
by Agentlien | 2025-06-11 18:14:18+00:00
That's just self checkout. Some places, like Ica, have self scanning which works so much better. You just scan the bar code as you pick things up - which is just in one motion as you put things in your bag. No need to unpack as you pay.

Yes you do need to be a member to use the system, but that's a very small price to pay for the convenience and speed of avoiding all lines and stress of the regular checkout.
by 1659447091 | 2025-06-11 18:14:34+00:00
How about starting with getting the largest republican border state to require private business to run a free simple check of the persons work status?[0] The federal gov has had a free system for that for years. But they won't and they wont create an enforcement agency to check that state government offices comply. I am sure they can find it in the 11B immigration budget to audit some businesses. They won't.

Undocumented immigrants are too important to the economy, to the tune of over 17.7 billion worth in 2005. (in Texas)

Instead they do things that look great (and check the most important box): border wall (that the US gov pays us for), security forces (that the US gov pays us for), mandating that the sheriffs work with fed agencies (that the US will reimburse them for). But passing a law that requires businesses use a free quick government service to check documents and a small agency to do random audits -- that's to too burdensome on the state's bottom line. Any one that thinks states like Texas actually wants to eliminate undocumented immigration at this point, has simply been hoodwinked.

[0] https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/05/texas-e-verify-requi...
by ashwinsundar | 2025-06-11 18:15:04+00:00
Yes, .git/info/exclude is a nice trick. No, we don’t need another AI-generated article about it.

Also, that suggestion about how to avoid committing temporary changes is not great. Just run a git restore, instead of applying strange settings to your entire repo and then wasting time trying to debug whatever went wrong after forgetting that you made that change to git behavior for a single file.
by qualeed | 2025-06-11 18:15:22+00:00
>You know, you always hear about people who survive a suicide attempt often find out after they’ve jumped that they really didn’t want to die

You don't just walk into a building and say "I would like to die please" and then get assistance on the spot.

The two people I know who chose assisted death both had to go through various evaluations (over a period of several months) to determine that they thoroughly understood the decision they were making and that they had the mental capacity to make the decision.

The comparison to a child 'consenting' to sex is completely nonsensical.
by bmn__ | 2025-06-11 18:15:45+00:00
I notice you choose to shift the goalpost instead of engaging with the central point. The central point, stated clearly and unequivocally, is that the project maintainer wrote he welcomes anybody and does not care about race, and you call this racist, and thus there is a huge contradiction.

I suspect you double down because you are so captured by your emotions that you cannot possibly admit the lapse in critical thinking. I predict going that path won't take you far on HN.
by z3t4 | 2025-06-11 18:16:30+00:00
In my experience you need at least 8k per eye to get sharp text. But if you just want to watch a movie 4k will look very crisp and 1080p@30hz also works for movies.

So what you get is basically a larger mobile screen for watching videos, something that competes with video projectors, but you can use it on the bus. It's an easier sell compared to a device that will give you a good reading experience and competes with paper books.

Those of us that want to use them as terminal emulators are still too few.
by _wire_ | 2025-06-11 18:18:08+00:00
Solid overview of applied color theory for video, so worth watching.

As to what was to be debunked, the presentation not only fails to set out a thesis in the introduction, it doesn't even beg a question, so you've got to watch hours to get to the point: SDR and HDR are two measurement systems which when correctly used for most cases (legacy and conventional content) must produce the visual result. The increased fidelity of HDR makes it possible to expand the sensory response and achieve some very realistic new looks that were impossible with SDR, but the significance and value of any look is still up to the creativity of the photographer.

This point could be more easily conveyed by this presentation if the author explained in the history of reproduction technology, human visual adaptation exposes a moment by moment contrast window of about 100:1, which is constantly adjusting across time based on average luminance to create an much larger window of perception of billions:1(+) that allows us to operate under the luminance conditions on earth. But until recently, we haven't expected electronic display media to be used in every condition on earth and even if it can work, you don't pick everywhere as your reference environment for system alignment.

(+)Regarding difference between numbers such as 100 or billions, don't let your common sense about big or small values phase your thinking about differences: perception is logarithmic; it's the degree of ratios that matter more than the absolute magnitude of the numbers. As a famous acoustics engineer (Paul Klipsch) said about where to focus design optimization of response traits of reproduction systems: "If you can't double it or halve it, don't worry about it."
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-06-11 18:18:09+00:00
Intel's Omni-Path was very similar but a little different from Infiniband. Anyone remember any details on how; I'm forgetting?

Omni-Path was sold off to Cornelis Networks in 2020. Cornelis just released new 400Gbps products last week, their CN5000 line, with 48 and 576 port switches. https://www.crn.com/news/components-peripherals/intel-spins-...
by cluckindan | 2025-06-11 18:18:42+00:00
They don’t ”think”.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.09211

They don’t ”reason”.

https://ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-illusion-of-thinkin...

They don’t even always output their internal state accurately.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05410
by bearjaws | 2025-06-11 18:19:05+00:00
> People close to X said the platform pressed vendors that were supplying it with goods or services to spend money on advertising. X is a customer of Amazon Web Services, its cloud-computing unit, and had past-due bills for that. X used those unpaid bills as leverage during negotiations, according to people familiar with the matter.

> At its peak, Amazon had spent around $100 million a year on advertising on X, according to a person familiar with the matter, far more than it is currently spending.

This is absolutely wild, way worse than the Verizon bills.
by isodev | 2025-06-11 18:19:11+00:00
Your iPhone is fully managed by Apple. They control which apps are preinstalled, which apps you can install and uninstall, they can even intervene and install/uninstall apps without your intervention. Your phone needs to communicate with Apple even to just be a phone for calling and SMS. The data from apps is included in your iCloud backups (in addition to the data some apps choose to share with iCloud so it syncs between devices) and so easily accessible. We’re not talking about individual targeting here, but there are no technological barriers to guard against your data being shared by “the platform”.
by TeaBrain | 2025-06-11 18:19:25+00:00
I don't think this is pertinent to their point at all. They were just referencing the quality of one of the scores Reznor has done. Reznor has continued to score movies nearly every year since. I'd agree with them that Reznor's career heyday probably is now. He's writing scores for multiple productions a year while still playing stadiums with NIN.
by shortformblog | 2025-06-11 18:19:31+00:00
The irony being, of course, that it is surrounded by an area where it is basically impossible to get by without a car.

My wife and I once left Gatlinburg after a week there and our tire blew out on the way out of town. It was a Sunday morning. Literally our only option to get it replaced that day was a Walmart location 15 miles away. So we had to wait for AAA for an hour and a half to tell us we were stuck using a donut to get there.

There is a trolley system but it is anemic.
by Earw0rm | 2025-06-11 18:19:49+00:00
Good sleep and frequent exercise are both amazing. That said, without a good to excellent diet or supplements, exercise can deplete things which in turn compromises sleep and recovery.

How do I know? My sleep quality was shot to shit. Tried Mg supplements on a hunch, and got a massive improvement in sleep quality and exercise metrics (I put the latter down to better sleep, not anything in the supplements). I'd tried all the other sleep stuff, no caffeine after 3pm, various GABA modulators, found the somewhat improved sleep quality wasn't worth morning foggyness and lack of motivation, and I didn't like the fog they cause generally (you sleep, but, like alcohol or weed, it's not _clean_ sleep.)
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-06-11 18:19:56+00:00
> the same curve every service goes through

This is honestly why I struggle to get excited for anything in our industry anymore. Whatever it is it just becomes yet another fucking vector for ad people to shove yet more disposable shit in front of me and jingle it like car keys to see if I'll pull out a credit card.

The exception being the Steam Deck, though one could argue it's just a massive loss-leader for Steam itself and thus game sales (though I don't think that would hold up to scrutiny, it's pretty costly and it's not like Valve was hurting for business but anyway) but yeah. LLMs will absolutely do the exact same, and Google's now fully given up on making search even decent, replacing it with shit AI nobody asked for that will do product placements any day now, I would bet a LOT of money on it.
by aaroninsf | 2025-06-11 18:19:57+00:00
What's most striking to me in this article is how perfectly this sums up the ongoing collapse of America's political system and civil society:

"In the paper Basic Patterns in How Adaptive Systems Fail, the researchers David Woods and Matthieu Branlat note that brittle systems tend to suffer from the following three patterns:

- Decompensation: exhausting capacity to adapt as challenges cascade

- Working at cross-purposes: behavior that is locally adaptive but globally maladaptive

- Getting stuck in outdated behaviors: the world changes but the system remains stuck in what were previously adaptive strategies (over-relying on past successes)"

Painfully apt.
by richiebful1 | 2025-06-11 18:20:18+00:00
Certainly there's an element of personal choice. I currently live in a town of 3,000 in a rural state that was previously served by trains. Once cars became accessible to the masses, that train service was no longer sustainable.

But in actual US metro areas where much of the country lives, land use choices were made to enhance moving cars at the expense of other modes of transport. Urban areas were bulldozed to funnel cars into downtowns from far-flung suburbs. Amsterdam, on the other hand, was once a car-loving city, but has chosen to redevelop streets for transit and active transportation. Personal choice matters, but how much is driven by incentives?
by jefurii | 2025-06-11 18:20:43+00:00
This is yet another part of the Right's war on higher education, specifically on general education that is a part of four-year colleges in the U.S. Those classes are a form of civic education. You learn a little bit about a range of subjects: history, science, political science, philosophy, etc, etc. By the time you complete these classes you know at least the basics of how the scientific process works, you know at least a little bit about how history works, etc, etc. You've also sat in classes with people who have different views from yourself (at least within the range of diversity at your college).

Those classes probably feel like they're holding you back but they help you have a more expansive view of the world. It's easy to see why the Right would hate this. This kind of straight-to-work thinking leads to workers who know less about how the world works and have less empathy. It takes young adults at a very impressionable time in their lives and hands them over to be indoctrinated by people like Thiel.
by woodruffw | 2025-06-11 18:21:09+00:00
That's from here[1].

I suppose there's room for interpretation here, but I think an intuitive scan of "Allowing select actions and reusable workflows to run" is that the contrapositive ("not allowed actions and reusable workflows will not run") also holds. The trick in the post violates that contrapositive.

I think people are really getting caught up on the code execution part of this, which is not really the point. The point is that a policy needs to be encompassing to have its intended effect, which in the case of GitHub Actions is presumably to allow large organizations/companies to inventory their CI/CD dependencies and make globally consistent, auditable decisions about them.

Or in other words: the point here is similar to the reason companies run their own private NPM, PyPI, etc. indices -- the point is not to stop the junior engineers from inserting shoddy dependencies, but to know when they do so that remediation becomes a matter of policy, not "find everywhere we depend on this component." Bypassing that policy means that the worst of both worlds happens: you have the shoddy dependency and the policy-view of the world doesn't believe you do.

[1]: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-reposi...
by Boogie_Man | 2025-06-11 18:21:34+00:00
You are correct, and I'm proud to grant you the first "Actually Read Infinite Jest" award. You've also come to the proof differently than I did: there's a section wherein the two urban black gentlemen who work at ETA rescue a severely intoxicated stork from the subway. They specify that James was a lost "white boy", which, along with his mother being French Canadian, inform the reader that he is "white".

You've also sniffed out my question's exploit, wherein people who haven't actually read the entire book, and who may have read the line about his dark skin near the beginning of the book, will reveal themselves because they assume the obvious answer can't be correct. They "tell on themselves" as the kids say. I smile at the idea that overthinking causes people to reveal they didn't read a book in which overthinking is a major theme. I highly suspect the majority of other commenters in this thread did not fully read the novel. This doesn't make them bad or "inferior", but lying does. They know they are wrong because my pointing it out caused them to become angry.

I've started a re read, and I'm taking notes this time. Perhaps we should start a HN bookclub.

I do need a new proof if this thread makes this one Googabale.