MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by messe | 2025-06-22 18:52:47+00:00
> sendfile() is file-to-socket (zero-copy as well), and has very high performance as well, for both Linux and BSDs. It only supports file-to-socket, however, and well, to stay relevant, sendmsg() can't be used with pipes in the general case, it is for UNIX domain sockets, INET sockets, and other socket types.

On Linux, sendfile supports more than just file to socket, as it's implemented using splice. I've used it for file-to-block-device in the past.
by alganet | 2025-06-22 18:53:51+00:00
I'm not talking about soul.

I'm just saying you're mistaking the thing for the the tool we use to describe the thing.

I'm also not talking about simulations.

Epistemologically, I'm talking about unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know, and we still don't know we don't know yet. Math and physics deal with known unknowns (we know we don't know) and known knowns (we know we know) only. Math and physics do not address unknown unknowns up until they become known unknowns (we did not tackle quantum up until we discover quantum).

We don't know how humans think. It is a known unknown, tackled by many sciences, but so far, incomplete in its description. We think we have a good description, but we don't know how good it is.
by hinkley | 2025-06-22 18:53:56+00:00
I use a lot of features of my tools only when the shit hits the fan. People appreciate me doing it quickly. What they don’t appreciate is when I get mad at them for polluting those tools during their normal activities. Like destroying git history by renaming files incorrectly.

It’s hard to explain to them that things like “mis en place” aren’t OCD but table stakes for sophisticated activities.
by Timon3 | 2025-06-22 18:53:56+00:00
> I don't believe you. You went for the old "they are all brainwashed" routine, specifically after I complained about people doing that. Which tells me you have bought into partisan politics.

I'm doing that "routine" because it's what I've been seeing time and time again over the last years. I keep seeing lines drawn in the sand, those lines being stepped over, and everybody suddenly just accepting it and calling everyone who still keeps to those lines "RINOs" until they fully disappear.

But if you can't extend this much good faith to me, we have nothing to discuss. Good day.
by geoka9 | 2025-06-22 18:54:16+00:00
Humans are fallible in a way computers are not. One could argue any creative process is an exercise in fallibility.

More interestingly, humans are capable of assessing the results of their "neural misfires" ("hmm, there's something to this"), whereas even if we could make a computer do such mistakes, it wouldn't know its Penny Lane from its Daddy's Car[0], even if it managed to come up with one.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSHZ_b05W7o
by mindslight | 2025-06-22 18:54:42+00:00
No, I am not "tone policing". I am talking about deliberate nuance. You were careful to reject endorsing George Galloway - not just once, but again even stronger the second time. Because you're treading a balance between praising one qualified aspect, and condemning the overall person. The more you praise that one aspect, the more you want to make sure it's clear you're distancing yourself from that person over all.

Trump does not distance himself from Putin in this way - rather he compliments often, and then only occasionally backpedals when pressed. The sensible interpretation is that overall he supports Putin, and the occasional critical remark is just part of his signature contradictory word salad.

> Quelling actual riots and enforcing immigration law is not attacking a state

It is the job of the local and state governments to strike the balance between the right to protest and keeping order. The elected officials were handling that just fine - there was no "riot", especially not some kind of ongoing one not being handled by LAPD. Deputizing the national guard against the direction of the state governor to perform domestic enforcement duties is an attack on that state authority. It had the exact opposite effect of restoring order, resulting in a predictable escalation for a TV stunt.

But if you're drinking this level of fascist Kool-Aid, then there's really no point in continuing this discussion. I do have to wonder why you're so invested in American politics not even being American though. I'm guessing you're emboldened by not actually having to suffer the inevitable poor results of Trump's destructive bluster-and-back-down approach. Contrast with say, if you lived in Los Angeles.

(And sure, it's great that Ulbricht was freed. But I'm not going to be placated by one small bone from an overwhelmingly freedom-destroying fascist movement)
by aiisjustanif | 2025-06-22 18:55:04+00:00
Treaties between nations, Iran signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty and would be in violation. [1]

In general many sanctions around nukes are based on many many treaties and the UN Office of Disarmament Affairs. [2]

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Non-Proliferat...

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_disarmament
Show HN: AI movie recommender based on your Letterboxd profile
by boratanrikulu | 2025-06-22 18:55:46+00:00
We built YourTaste — an AI-powered movie recommender that analyzes your Letterboxd profile (likes, ratings, reviews) and gives you suggestions tailored to your taste. You can also search by vibe (e.g. “slow but emotionally intense”) or use prompts like "movies similar to Aftersun but with a hopeful ending."

It’s a non-commercial MVP — we wanted to see if we could build a system that really understands movie taste using LLMs and user's data.

We’d love feedback from the community — both on the product idea and the technical direction.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-22 18:56:01+00:00
I think the basic argument you're following is an old one.

At one point, playing chess was considered to be intelligent, but early in the computer age it was realized that alpha-beta search over 10 million positions or so would beat most people. Deep Blue (and later Stockfish) later tuned up and scaled up that strategy to be superhuman.

Once one task falls, people move the goalposts.

There are some things that people aren't good at at all, like figuring out how proteins fold. When I was in grad school in the 1990s there were intense effort to attract bright graduates students to a research program that, roughly, assumed that "proteins fold themselves" to the minimum energy configuration in water. Those assumptions turned out to be wrong. Metastable states are important [1] and proteins don't just fold, they get folded. At the time it was thought the problem was tough because the search space was beyond astronomical and it remains beyond astronomical. Little progress was made.

The best method we've got yet to interpret a protein sequence is to compare it to other protein sequences and I think Alphafold is basically doing that with transformer magic as opposed to suffix tree magic.

Godlike intelligence might not be all it is cracked up to be. Theology has long studied with questions like "if God is so almighty how did he create screw-ups like us?" No matter how smart you are you aren't going to be able to predict the weather much longer than we can now because of the mathematics of chaos. The problems Kurt Godel talks about, such as the undecidability of first-order logic plus arithmetic [3] are characteristic of the problem, not the way we go about solving them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prion

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaperone_(protein)

[3] A real shame because if we want to automate engineering, or software development, or financial regulation FOL + arithmetic is the natural representation language
by vladkampov | 2025-06-22 18:57:42+00:00
As developers, we constantly bounce between docs for frameworks, libraries, and tools. What if that knowledge were instantly available inside your LLM conversations?

Inspired by Vercel and Stripe hosting their documentation under llms.txt routes, I built Markdocify, a Homebrew tool that scrapes entire documentation websites and converts them into clean, consolidated Markdown files.

Perfect for: Creating llms.txt files (following the emerging LLM accessibility standard) Feeding Claude/ChatGPT during dev – React, K8S, AWS, MCP, internal docs, anything Offline access – no more tab-hunting during deep work

Real-world use case: Instead of switching between your IDE and React docs, use Markdocify once and reference the entire documentation locally inside your LLM session.

It supports: JavaScript-rendered SPAs Complex navigation structures Internal link resolution Respect for robots.txt and rate limiting Clean, developer-friendly formatting

Install: brew install vladkampov/tap/markdocify Run: markdocify https://ai-sdk.dev/docs/introduction More examples → https://markdocify.dev

Whether you're building an llms.txt or creating a personal dev knowledge base, Markdocify bridges the gap between scattered docs and LLM-accessible knowledge.

What documentation would you want instantly available in your next coding session?
by mort96 | 2025-06-22 18:58:24+00:00
If a human body is intelligent, and we could in principle set up a computer-simulated universe which has a human body in it and simulate it forward with sufficient accuracy to make the body operate as a real-world human body has, we would have an artificial general intelligence simulated by a computer (i.e using mathematics).

If you think there are potential flaws in this line of reasoning other than the ones I already covered, I'm interested to hear.
by bz_bz_bz | 2025-06-22 18:58:36+00:00
I'm curious what part of this you thought was an indictment on Texas.

ERCOT has the most generator-friendly interconnection process in the nation and leads the country in both renewable generation and utility-scale solar installations.

Mineral rights are dominant over surface rights in most jurisdictions, including other states like California. To call it "insane" just shows how little experience Mr. R has in land development.

OP lost the game playing on easy mode because he was purely chasing tax breaks with zero experience. The area OP is trying to develop in is a QOZ for a reason; he should have expected there to be upgrades necessary to delivery that level of power to a substation in an area where nothing else is going on.

OP is actually lucky that this project failed. Expecting to get the ISO-average solar PPA price for a project in Coleman County is nuts. This solar farm would have lost even more money had he continued.
by jl6 | 2025-06-22 18:59:20+00:00
You don't need to rank strictly and linearly. An objective ordering need not exist. It's enough to see that on shortlists of "great" works, common themes emerge. Is The Great Gatsby better than The Catcher in the Rye? It doesn't matter. They both come with universal acclaim, and that's stiff competition for anything new. Besides, are great works not promoted as being timelessly relevant to the state of the world?
by mgraczyk | 2025-06-22 18:59:22+00:00
You are confusing expected value with probability of "winning".

The purpose is to trade EV for a small probability of high payout. It's less extreme than the big ticket lotteries but more extreme than a scratcher. If that's not for you, don't do it

Also your last point is either obviously not true (if you're talking about big lottery winnings) or trivially true (if you're talking about $1000 scratcher prizes). More people made life changing money from a single company (Facebook) than all California lottery winners combined across all time
by cjbgkagh | 2025-06-22 18:59:34+00:00
I completely understand MAD and game theory.

What I’m saying precisely is that quite often things will appear to be one way for a long time even if the underlying premise is wrong. E.g. the chicken who thinks the farmer is nice because the farmer feeds, houses, and provides safety until the inevitable untimely end for the chicken.

Similar situations which are assumed to be impossible have risks pushed right up to the edge until it becomes inevitable. Sure Pakistan and India narrowly averted this time but what if they didn’t. Take for example the concept that US housing market couldn’t crash simultaneously across the US, this enabled cheap debt which pushed the market to the edge until one day it went over the edge.

There is additionally the problem of victory disease, it looks like you’re winning right up until you fail.

There is a survivability bias, we wouldn’t be discussing the viability of MAD had it not worked out thus far.

If Iran gets a nuclear weapon they’ll be able to avoid being invaded while being able to constantly needle Israel, to the point the survival of Israel would be at stake. Similar to how Israel is needling Iran now but with proxies. At that point Israel must make a choice, peacefully collapse or escalate and I’m confident they’ll escalate. I don’t think it’s a question of if but a question of when, once the threshold has been crossed the once unthinkable becomes routine.

Additionally the inaction of a strong adversary is often seen incorrectly as sign of weakness, but it is the cornered rats that lashes out. We can cross Russia’s and Chinas red lines all day every day, right up until they think they’re a cornered rat and then we can’t. How confident can we really be that we know exactly where that limit is. Because the bellicose are more often promoted the people marking these assessments are more likely to have an overly optimistic on the location of that limit. It appears to me China and Russia have a wait and see approach to the US which appears to be in terminal decline, and yet again the west is taking that as a sign of weakness.

When you have morons in charge not even MAD can save you.
by baxuz | 2025-06-22 18:59:48+00:00
I find it offensive and playing games when they won't give me the ranges.

I've been at companies which paid me 1/2 of what some my peers earned. I don't have time for these games. Give me your salary ranges for the position and I can negotiate. Otherwise I'm pulling numbers out of my ass.

The recruiter wants to pay me as close to 0 as possible, and it's up to me to push back on that.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-06-22 19:00:23+00:00
i actually hate it when people pull the victim card and i can't stand apologists either but happily i have a very pragmatic answer;

the West benefits from israel that at least one country in the region isn't an authoritarian hellhole and actually contributes to the global economy beyond just providing petrol.

You might resent it but that's the truth.
by hinkley | 2025-06-22 19:00:56+00:00
I think where parallel discovery really shines is in operational excellence. Your best people have high tolerances for certain aspects of the work, the craft, and low tolerances for others. But to industrialize it needs to be accessible to tens of thousands, and they don’t have time for this shit.

I expect that was a lot of the speed up. You can’t do eight wells a week if every well exhausts your team. Better working conditions mean faster cycling. Hell I bet whoever brought the best “Gatorade”, masseuse, and entertainment deserves more credit than they ever got.
by FireBeyond | 2025-06-22 19:01:33+00:00
What a bunch of assholes, you're right, there's no talking to them. I wonder why they're so angry at us?

"The last 50 years", you say? Oh, so right around the time when the US and Britain overthrew Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister to install a religious nutcase, because that nutcase would agree to sell them oil at a better price?

No, can't imagine that causing any bitterness.

We reaped what we sowed with Iran.
by themagician | 2025-06-22 19:01:46+00:00
> BTW can your neighbor, who keeps saying that he's going to kill you, or maybe your friend, obtain a machine gun?

Definitely. This is America. There is nothing I can do to stop them.

> Would you approve of that?

No, but I don’t really have much of a say in the matter, and that’s kind of the point. I just have to accept it and try to make peace with my neighbor.

Are you suggesting that if your neighbor threatens you that you should just go over and murder them first?
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-06-22 19:02:36+00:00
This paper is about the limits in current systems.

Ai currently has issues with seeing what's missing. Seeing the negative space.

When dealing with complex codebases you are newly exposed to you tackle an issue from multiple angles. You look at things from data structures, code execution paths, basically humans clearly have some pressure to go, fuck, I think I lost the plot, and then approach it from another paradigm or try to narrow scope, or based on the increased information the ability to isolate the core place edits need to be made to achieve something.

Basically the ability to say, "this has stopped making sense" and stop or change approach.

Also, we clearly do path exploration and semantic compression in our sleep.

We also have the ability to transliterate data between semantic to visual structures, time series, light algorithms (but not exponential algorithms, we have a known blindspot there).

Humans are better at seeing what's missing, better at not closuring, better at reducing scope using many different approaches and because we operate in linear time and there are a lot of very different agents we collectively nibble away at complex problems over time.

I mean on a 1:1 teleomere basis, due to structural differences people can be as low as 93% similar genetically.

We also have different brain structures, I assume they don't all function on a single algorithmic substrate, visual reasoning about words, semantic reasoning about colors, synesthesia, the weird handoff between hemispheres, parts of our brain that handle logic better, parts of our brain that handle illogic better. We can introspect on our own semantic saturation, we can introspect that we've lost the plot. We get weird feelings when something seems missing logically, we can dive on that part and then zoom back out.

There's a whole bunch of shit the brain does because it has a plurality of structures to handle different types of data processing and even then the message type used seems flexible enough that you can shove word data into a visual processor part and see what falls out, and this happens without us thinking about it explicitly.
by kristopolous | 2025-06-22 19:02:59+00:00
What gives make a bad name is the same thing that gave javascript or m4 a bad name - these things are their own exotic birds - doing them well require new concepts and new behaviors.

You can indeed shoehorn them into what you know but really you need to fully embrace their weird world.

See also forth, dc, awk, jq ...

It'd be nice to have a dedicated crash course on these things for people who understand conventional programming and have been doing the normal stuff for a number of years.

Also see supercollider, prolog, haskell, apl...

I think the most mainstream exotic bird people learn is Lisp. Doing all these things well is as different as Lisp is from say conventional python.
by braden-lk | 2025-06-22 19:03:07+00:00
There's been this vein of advice from the past decade that's in the realm of "just work at FAANG". Always rubbed me the wrong way; they make it sound so easy, lol. The couple of interviews I managed to get after hundreds of ghostings, I was absolutely demolished in the interviews. It seems like if you get nervous doing math problems in front of people who really don't want to be there (and tell you to your face), you don't get to work at FAANG.

Just started my own business instead.
by gorbachev | 2025-06-22 19:03:47+00:00
New York City doesn't do this for "even the slightest infractions at all times".

The idling regulations are based on real harm, and the reporting requirements include things like recording video to prove that the car you're reporting didn't start idling in the last 5 seconds, but has, in fact, been doing that for 3 minutes or longer, or 1 minute or longer adjacent to a school.

More info here: https://www.nyc.gov/site/dep/environment/idling-citizens-air...

You have to actually submit a 3:01 (or 1:01) minute video as part of the report for that to be actionable.

And, yes, I would really, really want to live in a society where unnecessary idling is not allowed. And if I was living next to a street corner where that happens regularly, I would be on that street corner recording videos any time I'd have free time, and more, if I had babies, who are especially vulnerable to air pollution, living with me.
by ffwd | 2025-06-22 19:04:03+00:00
Why can't it be algorithmic? If the brain uses the same process on all information, then that is an algorithmic process. There is some evidence that it does do the same process to do things like consolidating information, processing the "world model" and so on.

Some processes are undoubtedly learned from experience but considering people seem to think many of the same things and are similar in many ways it remains to be seen whether the most important parts are learned rather than innate from birth.
by OptionOfT | 2025-06-22 19:04:52+00:00
This is a great observation. Google established rules that would increase your website's pagerank. In response to that SEO was created, and with that the experts. Tags, inbound links, and then more content.

A good example of how this spawned articles that are absolutely useless: https://www.partitionwizard.com/news/

All those articles have nothing to do with application they're trying to sell, but they do (did) bump the pagerank.

Many companies do this, which has polluted search results for issues to the most common denominator, making it impossible to find that 1 post that actually has a working solution.

And now we've reached the next stage, those pages are no longer written by humans, but entire websites are being generated for the purpose of selling you stuff.

I was searching for the name of the bitter part in a peanut, and stumbled upon this website:

https://www etprotein com/parts-of-a-peanut-anatomy-of-a-nutty-snack/

(URL is missing a dot after the www and before the com)

We have entered a situation where there is no longer 'no answer', there is always some answer out there, simply to sell you stuff.

In the past if you searched for Brand X at Retailer Y, and they didn't carry it, you'd get no results. Now they autocomplete Brand X's name, and show you a whole bunch of products related to Brand X, with no indication that they don't carry it.