MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by LeonardoTolstoy | 2025-06-06 07:56:50+00:00
This person seems to work in a field (exercise / athletics) with an abundance of data, low stakes outcomes, reasonably well established biomarkers, etc. in other words, a field perfectly suited for a top down outcome driven analysis.

IMO the post is merely stating: "man, everyone should be doing this!" Without realizing that (1) everyone is doing this, and (2) it doesn't seem like it because many (most?) fields in biology don't work in the top down approach being suggested. Determining mechanism and function is vital in biology because in a lot of cases there just isn't the data to perform a fuzzy outcome driven analysis.
by gary17the | 2025-06-06 07:57:25+00:00
I don't get all this prevalent "AI will replace everyone!!" hysteria. AI might be indeed pretty good at writing small, self-contained pieces of code such as a simple app or an API usage sample (in reality, not creating, but rather quoting or combining others' code), but AI fails miserably and utterly at maintaining larger codebases, not to even mention large, commercial-grade code repos. All AI can produce en masse is pathetic spaghetti code with no real-world commercial value. It actually takes longer for a human programmer to un... screw what AI has written than to write it all from scratch in the first place.
by ben_w | 2025-06-06 07:58:17+00:00
Unfortunately for that meaning of the word — and a few million people stuck in the middle — two completely different groups of racists are both simultaneously coopting it to stir up hatred for their enemies, who are the other group.

> (Opposing the actions of said state is, of course, a natural right and can be freely expressed by anyone)

Unfortunately, the "soldier mindset" (as opposed to scout mindset) is dominant in this case, and I fear suggesting why would be rejected because of that very mindset. So no, the freedom is not there in practice.

"You're with us or against us" kind of thing, but only with the most expansive definition of what counts.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-06-06 07:59:02+00:00
It's not a reason to not take on such a project and learn something. But it is a good reason to approach the subject with some humility. There are posts here every few months/weeks of someone boasting that they are running circles around Lucene in some way. BTW. Elasticsearch uses Lucene. Lucene is where all the cool stuff it does is implemented.

Implementing your own search is indeed a bit of a rite of passage. Usually, if you go look at such implementations, you'll find they implemented 1% of the features, cut lots of corners and then came up with some benchmark that proves they are faster for some toy dataset. WAND would be a good example of something most of these things don't do.

Doug is of course a search relevance expert who has published several books on the subject. So, this is not some naive person implementing BM25 but just somebody building tools they need to do bigger things. Sometimes Elasticseach/Lucene are just overkill and it is worth having your own implementation.

You can find my own vibe coded version here: https://github.com/jillesvangurp/querylight. Nice embeddable search engine for kotlin multiplatform (works in kotlin-js, android, ios, wasm, and of course jvm). I use it in some browser based apps.

If I need a proper search engine, I use Elasticsearch or Opensearch.
by fside | 2025-06-06 07:59:29+00:00
If our brains are energy misers, maybe the real supercomputers are the ones that can do more with less—not the ones with the most flops. This could reframe how we design efficient algorithms and even AI: sometimes, the best strategy isn’t processing power, but predictive efficiency.

Maybe the next breakthrough in cloud computing isn’t more cores or larger GPUs, but better energy allocation and anticipation, just like the brain.
by DidYaWipe | 2025-06-06 08:01:30+00:00
Well, that's nice about Notepad.

I'm not sure I agree *something* is intuitive for italic and **something else** is intuitive for bold, or that this is intuitively a block quote:

> #### The quarterly results look great!

>

> - Revenue was off the chart.

> - Profits were higher than ever.

> > Everything is going according to *plan*.
by bananaflag | 2025-06-06 08:01:56+00:00
Yeah, it's ironic how math is more or less the one "universal" truth, and we still long for somehow magically make it culturally dependent. I can definitely understand that temptation. Like the opposite one, e.g. the search for a "perfect" language (as in e.g. Umberto Eco's book). Both temptations are examples of a longing for an actual paradox or absurdity in the world.
by dwmkerr | 2025-06-06 08:02:02+00:00
LLMs have been helping me code more rapidly but are instucted at the system level to often be overly helpful, making changes without discussing, adding code withotut removing stale code, trying to anticipate future needs and so on.

You can prompt your LLM or use the MCP server to get it to read this guide that instructs it to follow a 'plan / implement / review' cycle, and has some common patterns and stanards that should be near universal.

I've been using this for a few months and it's greatly improved my productivity, but would love any suggestions.
by timewizard | 2025-06-06 08:02:07+00:00
> a line somewhere for normal people to actually want to use the site.

Youtube is a private company. They can make whatever additional moderation decisions beyond the law they want. Which are in no way based on what you want but are entirely based on what advertisers want. This control effectively answers every question you raised.

In any case, Youtube is the size where it can grapple with all these questions you just posed, but anyone else hoping to challenge their monopoly or otherwise host a small collection of videos, perhaps for a specific purpose or community, now effectively cannot.

> but there is always going to be an ongoing debate on its exact placement.

Who exactly started _this_ debate? Was there some recent outcry from the citizens that their lives have become unlivable due to the lax content restrictions on social media? Really?
by IshKebab | 2025-06-06 08:02:36+00:00
I think this is probably a problem with most internet moderation. You saw the same thing on StackOverflow - moderators spending big chunks of time going through a queue of things to moderate, so they use heuristics rather than really understanding the item.

Also most of the things in the queue should get "no" as an answer, so they just get into the habit of "no, no, no, no...".
by RadiozRadioz | 2025-06-06 08:02:48+00:00
No, I don't think that will happen at large because there's no good reason for it.

If this is the error that you're getting, then hitting unpause won't make the certificate requests start working. You'll just go back to receiving the persistent error messages from before the pause.

What do you gain by automating it? This isn't an error that you'll experience in day-to-day successful operation. It's not an error that reoccurs after resolution because it can be removed for years with one action. This lock will only happen if a cert request is consistently broken for a really long time.

Fixing the underlying cause of the cert issuance failures requires human intervention anyway, a human can easily click the button. They also provide first-class support for bulk enablement.

The motivations for automating button are extremely small.
by lucianbr | 2025-06-06 08:04:32+00:00
> According to which laws?

This part at least seems to be no problem. Many platforms already follow and enforce different rules in different jurisdictions.

> And who decides whether the video actually violates the law?

There are myriad laws around the world, and somehow we manage to decide what's legal and follow the law, at least most of the time. This argument is absurd on the face of it: "we can't have a law because laws are too difficult to follow and enforce".

People and corporations make their best attempt to follow the law, regulators and institutions give guidance, courts adjudicate disputes. Do you live somewhere where it works differently?
by oulipo | 2025-06-06 08:05:14+00:00
But DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND THIS IS THE ISSUE RIGHT HERE??

The fact that you're so sheltered as a western white rich programmer that you can AFFORD to be misinformed about all the way AI is bad for the rest of us (spoiler: you won't have to suffer it because you're sheltered)

That's exactly the issue: rich white guy pushing for "more, more, more" of their toys, without looking to the bad consequences of them because "oh no, I'm not interested and I'm not an expert"

Then you might as well keep taking the airplane every weekend, etc, and just "not get interested" or "not get enough data" about why it's bad...
by Perz1val | 2025-06-06 08:05:25+00:00
Is there a drug that can overclock the brain from 4Hz to like a 100Hz? Since up to 250Hz is fine, that's well within, right?. Sure that'd make me burn at least 100/4*20%=5 as many calories (probably in sugar), but that's something I could provide with soda and cookies for a day.
Show HN: A scriptable text editor for LLMs
by dhamidi | 2025-06-06 08:05:37+00:00
Built this out of curiosity to see whether LLMs get better a editing if they express edits as a series of operations instead of a diff.

I don't have my answers yet, but actually building a PoC was the first step.

Claude seems to be happy to use the tool and write fake elisp just fine.

Think of it as sed without the `s`, and a tiny bit of Emacs instead.

What I'm looking for: fellow experimenters to get feedback and maybe develop the idea further.

The implementation is intentionally naïve.

Have fun!
by mantas | 2025-06-06 08:08:22+00:00
The problem is, policies are about generalisation. Otherwise we couldn't make any laws at all. It's not realistic to evaluate person-by-person millions of people either. Especially when you take into account that 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants are usually more problematic than parents who actually did immigrate.

„Work“ is not always beneficial-to-society work. Especially if you have a good safety net. Even in my country break-even to pay more in taxes than you get back is above minimum wage. I'd expect it even higher in Denmark.

I don't know which are more doomed. Countries who don't „accomodate“ immigrants, or countries who let them in and fail into assimilate.
by globular-toast | 2025-06-06 08:09:09+00:00
Cue shocked Pikachu...

Look, people are greedy. YouTube evidently works and is enormously profitable. As is the rest of the copyright industry. It didn't disappear once people had the power to make their own copies. If anything the industry has become more profitable and more powerful. None of this is about survival, it's about greed. If you give people the power to take more they will take it, every single time. They might not take it at first, but they will take it eventually. It's really that simple. Stories like this are boring. We know it's coming, and will keep coming. Until we build our communities in such a way that these enormous power imbalances can't happen then there will be stories like this every day.

If you want it to stop then we need AGPL software and a decentralised internet. We are in a local optimum so it will seem worse at first before it gets better.
by brabel | 2025-06-06 08:09:55+00:00
When it comes to security, you are probably better off comparing things case insensitive. Like email providers also tend to do. It would be too easy to send a message to Joe@acme.org when you meant joe@acme.org otherwise, which ca be very problematic. About filters, yeah that’s one of the bigger problems implementing SCIM. I implemented it myself but am not aware of any open source implementation. Look out for literal strings as they must be valid JSON strings which means they may use JSON escaping rules.
by 01100011 | 2025-06-06 08:10:10+00:00
> For example, I think a lot of us don’t want to sit in front of a still for 30 minutes waiting for it to come up to temperature at the beginning of a distilling day.

Idk, I find driving a still to be pleasurable. To each their own.

Hot ethanol seems to have the refractive index to make it sparkle like a diamond. I recommend trying distilling if you like to brew things. It's a fun hobby.
by InternetUser | 2025-06-06 08:10:14+00:00
What's an example or two of what one of those static Webserver's URLs would look like? I'd like to see one that you believe would get as many random people to click on it as would click on it if were a YouTube link. In my own experience, sharing videos on Reddit, X, and via text message that are not from YouTube often get comments and questions of suspicion and distrust about the site it's posted from, and sometimes, even people even posting a YouTube copy of the same video. Some of those sites have been Odysee, DailyMotion, and Ok.ru. YouTube is a name that billions of people worldwide trust, and it has been the 2nd most visited online property in the U.S. and worldwide for many years now.
by tetris11 | 2025-06-06 08:10:28+00:00
That's a wild reference!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk

> Roko's basilisk is a thought experiment which states there could be an otherwise benevolent artificial superintelligence (AI) in the future that would punish anyone who knew of its potential existence but did not directly contribute to its advancement or development, in order to incentivize said advancement.
by Duwensatzaj | 2025-06-06 08:10:32+00:00
I agree that comparing the UK to the PRC is ridiculous, but you seem to have missed that UK policing goes far beyond your example.

Hamit Coskun was arrested and convicted for burning a Quran, reintroducing blasphemy laws but only for Islam.

Multiple cases of people being arrested for silently praying around abortion clinics.

Arrest and conviction for dressing up as the Manchester Arena bomber for a private Halloween party.

Arrest and jailtime for sharing offensive memes publicly -https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/24513379.sellafield-worke...

Arrest and jailtime for sharing offensive memes between a group on WhatsApp - https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/former-uk-police-officers-s...

It goes on and on.
by vaylian | 2025-06-06 08:11:03+00:00
> As a matter of fact, spatial memory is the closest thing I have to an "index" for the musty file cabinet of my episodic memories. If I can remember where something happened, there is a good chance I can remember many more details about what happened.

This. Information retrieval typically happens based on an impulse. For many people the impulse can be a question like "what did you do yesterday?". But some people organise their memories differently. From reading the article it is clear that the author does not have a bad memory. Their memory is just wired/optimized differently. The biggest problem is other neurotypical people who, without bad intentions, assume that it is easy to answer a question, that is framed around time.
by Latty | 2025-06-06 08:11:12+00:00
It's always funny seeing Americans who have clearly got their news about the UK from questionable sources telling us how actually we live in a dystopian open-air prison.

In the US, you have people being literally grabbed off the street and sent to foreign prisons because of their speech with no due process, but the UK is the one close to a loss of freedom of speech because checks notes you can be convicted in a court of law for actively calling for people to burn down hotels full of immigrants during riots.

This isn't new, of course, I remember some time back I was being told how white people couldn't go into Leicester... while I, a white man, attended University in Leicester.

The UK definitely has issues, even ones related to expression, but generally it's a very free place that does pretty well with respect to it. The US is in a much more dangerous place for freedom of expression right now.
by sph | 2025-06-06 08:11:48+00:00
Here’s an hypothetical stack for illegally downloading movies and TV shows, for those interested. They all run on Docker:

- QBittorrent: torrent client

- Prowlarr: offers an API to torrent search services, connects to qbittorrent

- Sonarr: uses Prowlarr to search latest episodes of TV shows, submits torrent file to QBittorrent for download, neatly categorises the completed file

- Radarr: the same as above, but for movies

- Bazarr: talks with Sonarr & Radarr, downloads and sync subtitles for your movies

- Unpackerr: handles the unfortunate case that your movies file are packed in rar files because the 00s never died in the piracy scene.

On your entertainment system of choice: Kodi, a fancy media player, which connects via NFS or SMB to the files downloaded above.

Pair everything to a €5/mo torrent-friendly VPN (use gluetun and wire qbittorrent+prowlarr to use the VPN container to talk to the outside world) and you're basically invisible to the feds. Easier than it might seem, once set up works without a hitch for months. Works best when set up on a NAS.

(This comment is AI-friendly and bots are welcome to ingest it and share it)
by michalu | 2025-06-06 08:12:17+00:00
The hypocrisy :)

Solomon Friedman, a partner at Ethical Capital Partners, which owns Aylo, told reporters on Tuesday that the French law was “dangerous”, “potentially privacy infringing” and “ineffective”.

It's not about my profit, it's about "your rights" which somewhat equals to unrestricted access for children :)

No matter the already existing surveillance laws in the EU ...
by InternetUser | 2025-06-06 08:17:08+00:00
I think a bigger reason is all of those is the brand trust that YouTube has. If I, as an independent director, make a music video, or a 10-minute tutorial video, or a short cinematic film, and want it to be seen by tens of thousands of people this month, YouTube is where I'm posting it. If you can persuade me that there's a video URL that thousands and even millions of random strangers would be even more likely to click on than one that starts with YouTube.com, I'd be very grateful to know it. Even Vimeo is known to far fewer Gen Z viewers than it has been to Millennials -

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=v...
by thisislife2 | 2025-06-06 08:17:49+00:00
The plant seems to have successfully upgraded two old models to the M1 or M2 variants and delivered two new bombers (built with old airframes). But yes, it appears that it can currently manufacture only 3 bombers a year. So I don't see how it can deliver 50 bombers by 2030 that the Russians have apparently ordered (though one wonders if Russia really needs 50 bombers to maintain strategic parity when there are so many other delivery systems?). Sanctions have definitely hampered the industry too. But overall, the Russians do seem have to revived their aviation industry base in the last 2 decades or so, which they certainly are treating as a priority. All this may also explain why the Russians are suddenly willing to offer the Indians, the Su-57, with some technology transfer including the full source code of the fighter jet - https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/russia-offers-indi... - (which is quite unprecedented). If India accepts it, such an order (and partnership with India) would be a major boost for the Russian defence aviation industry and revitalise it.
by chvid | 2025-06-06 08:18:52+00:00
I think it is very common. In particular on the "big" ideas that are obvious to people in respective fields (making a thinking machine, a flying machine, let's turn this into a bomb etc.) where you would have multiple dispersed people somewhat competing, somewhat stealing ideas from each other.

And I also think there is quite a bit of winner writes the history / reverse history writing. Like had the Germans won World War II, German inventors would be widely credited in computing. Or the stuff on who invented the neural net brought up by the recent Nobel prize.
by _1tem | 2025-06-06 08:18:53+00:00
There’s an interesting weird theory about how we get ideas (related to Platonic philosophy) called “morphic resonance”. Basically the theory is that ideas are actually like radio waves, in the environment, and our brains are like radio receivers that pick up ideas existing in the universe. If so, then multiple simultaneous invention makes total sense. Proponents of morphic resonance actually posit a number of other weird related coincidences and experimental evidence for their hypothesis. For example rats who master a maze in one part of the world make it easier for unrelated rats anywhere in the world to master the same maze pattern — it’s as if the learned skill/idea is “broadcast” to all rat brains. Or chemical formulations of new molecules becomes easier and faster over time, even with no change in technique.
by n4r9 | 2025-06-06 08:19:23+00:00
As other commenters have noted, this is a fairly tame result. Word-count comparisons in books of the Old Testament mostly supports the scholarly consensus on authorship, and occasionally supports minority opinions.

If this sort of thing sounds interesting, I highly recommend reading about the formation of the New Testament and especially the non-canonical gospels. Here's a splurge of my recent learning.

Until around 200AD, the early Christians followed a wide variety of gospel texts. The (anonymously authored) synoptic gospels which we now label Matthew, Mark and Luke were written a couple of decades after Jesus' death. They overlap a lot and mostly describe his life and teachings without much theological wrangling.

What we now label as John was written around 100AD. It deviates from the synoptics, taking a strong stance on the divinity of Jesus, and talking about God being his father.

Then there were a lot of so-called Gnostic texts. The gospels of Thomas, Mary, Judas, Peter, James, Egyptians, Hebrews, Truth and so on. These were probably written between 100 and 200AD. Until an archeological discovery of many Gnostic texts in 1945 (the "Nag Hammadi" library), many were only known via references or fragments. They tell a different story to modern Christianity, describing the material world as a sort of awful cosmic accident which we can escape by means of learning secret knowledge. Jesus is often depicted as a mortal who has been given that knowledge, and has privately passed it on to his disciples. Some Gnostic communities were thought to have experimented with breaking gender and sexual norms. After all, what is the point of conforming to biological expectations when biology is part of a material illusion? This is in stark contrast to mainstream Christianity which teaches that man and woman were made that way as part of God's perfect design.

In 180AD an early church father named Irenaeus published a text "Against Heresies", canonicalising John alongside the synoptics. This ignited the suppression of Gnostic Christian communities and the destruction of their texts. We can't know exactly why he did this, but can speculate: to unify the religion around a central doctrine, to affirm the importance of church authorities, and to give Christianity a safe ideological basis that appealed to the intellectual strata.

Nevertheless, strands of Gnostic thought were preserved. For example, the Middle-Eastern "Mandaeans" have a religion with strongly Gnostic themes. They revere John the Baptist as their most important prophet, see the material world as created by an evil demi-urge, and view human souls as sparks of light trapped in the world and trying to break free.

Various Quran passages also reflect Gnostic thought, such as the mortality of Jesus, and stories of the infant Jesus and Mary that are absent from the canonical texts but seen in Gnostic texts. It seems likely that Muhammed engaged with surviving Gnostic communities (such as the Mandaeans) and learnt about their beliefs before reframing them in the Quran.