MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by andybp85 | 2025-06-06 13:50:01+00:00
The book says that that's exactly what it's supposed to be, to inspire people to talk about it. But (also from the book) the war games the USA runs around these situations always end in a massive nuclear exchange. Sure, some specific situations, like the Devil's Scenario, I would imagine might not reflect a real war, but the case the book is making is that reality is far more likely to be closer to the worst case than to a "best case" (whatever that means here).
by mindslight | 2025-06-06 13:50:30+00:00
I'm sure all of the major retailers have found a way to make someone else eat the cost of returns, likely their suppliers (manufacturers). With the suppliers still not wanting to leave the platforms because that is where most of the customers are. It's the only way I can explain the abjectly terrible job places will do packing things, how little they care about what went wrong, and how readily they will keep on refunding/resending.
by _fat_santa | 2025-06-06 13:50:30+00:00
At least in the context of Covid, the real issue I saw was not the taking down of content, it was that a very small group of people dictated what content should be taken down.

Generally speaking in the world of "science" (any field) there will always be a level of disagreement. One scientist will come up with one theory, the other will come up with another theory, they will endlessly debate until the topic is "settled" and then the whole loop repeats if another scientist thinks that the settled topic is not actually settled. Overall I would say this is a very healthy dynamic and keeps society moving forward.

What people go so mad about during Covid was not the content being taken down, it's that you had had various scientific organizations around the world straight up break what I described in the previous paragraph. During covid you had one group make endless rushed decisions and then when other scientific groups challenged those findings, the response was not what I outlined above but rather an authoritarian "I am the science" response.

This "main group" (NIH, CDC, etc) painted all those challenges as conspiracy theories but if you actually listened to what the challenges were, they were often times quite reasonable. And the fact that they were reasonable arguments highlighted the insane hubris of the "main group" and ultimately led them to loose virtual all credibility by the time Covid wrapped up.
by dmm | 2025-06-06 13:50:42+00:00
> Do you think the _process_ of making music is the important part, or the final sounds that are produced?

Pharmaceuticals are regulated not just by testing the end product but by regulating the entire production process[1]. How this came to be has an interesting story but I believe that it's essentially the correct way to do things.

Saying that process is irrelevant, that only the end product matters is a very persuasive idea but the problem comes when it's time to validate the end product. Any test you can perform on a black box can only show the presence or absence of a specific problem, never the absence of problems.

“Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!” - Dijkstra

[1] If you're interested in how this regulatory structure has failed to regulate international drug manufacturers, check out "Bottle of Lies" by Katherine Eban.
by UrbanBird | 2025-06-06 13:50:58+00:00
I built GoMarketMe because I wanted influencers to promote my own app — and there was no platform out there that truly worked. So I built one.

Now, one year later, we’ve launched our biggest update: a two-sided marketplace enabling app developers to easily connect with curated influencers while giving influencers access to mobile app affiliate programs.

Would love to hear thoughts or feedback from other indie devs or SaaS founders. AMA.
by raincole | 2025-06-06 13:51:05+00:00
I wonder if there is a SDL3 wrapper that comes with a scripting language[0], hot reload and build scripts for every major platform.

Love2D seems close to that, but afaik it doesn't support SDL3 features like the new GPU API.

[0]: It's not like I'm allergic to C++, but I firmly believe when developing something that is mostly interactive, such as complex GUI or games, a language that is garbage collected and can be hot reloaded would be much more apt.
by 542354234235 | 2025-06-06 13:51:07+00:00
Some to add

-Plex or Jellyfin: Netflix like interface to organize and watch your content.

-Overseerr: Managing your movie and tv show requests for you and people you share your media with. Works with Radarr/Sonarr/etc.

-Watchlistarr: syncs your Plex Watchlist with Overseerr.
by smackay | 2025-06-06 13:51:10+00:00
I'd be very interested in learning more about how DOGE got staffed.

If your goal was to dramatically cut government spending, then hiring bright, young people, with no prior experience, who axed first, and asked questions later would be the way to do it, otherwise you'd get bogged down in details since there was probably a good reason, at least initially for the said spending.

However, if you really, wanted to make a spectacular mess then hiring bright, young people, with no prior experience, who axed first, and asked questions later would be the way to do it.

Somebody, somewhere, thought this was a good approach. How could they not know it would turn into a massive clusterfuck. Hubris?
by cbm-vic-20 | 2025-06-06 13:51:24+00:00
TAOCP is a product of its time. While the concepts are timeless, and as such still relevant today, MIX is similar to how many programmers built software back in the 1970s: with assembly code. If TAOCP was written today, it probably would use something else.

The good news is that, even though 1970s-era MIX assembly is much different than even modern assembly, it's pretty simple. The most confusing part is the field manipulation part of the instructions. Don't get hung up trying to memorize all of the instructions; take a look at the examples in the text, which are commented to say what they are actually doing.

My strategy when reading TAOCP: if I get stuck, move on to the next section, and come back to it later when I've had time to sleep on it...
by lmm | 2025-06-06 13:51:31+00:00
> Linux is both a kernel (which is under GPL), and an operating system

I was talking about the kernel, though what I said applies to both.

> Humans have made art since forever.

Perhaps, but not the kind of long-form narrative experiences that we're talking about here. (Sagas and epics predate copyright, but those are a quite different form, and indeed have much the same downsides - struggles with coherence and consistency when there are multiple authors, inability to put everything together in a sensible arc).
by paulcole | 2025-06-06 13:51:32+00:00
> No, it is not more fun to go through live believing you have enough mental fortitude only to have context tap you on the shoulder the moment you take that first step.

It is also possible to have enough mental fortitude to read beyond the first item in a list that you yourself wrote about an hour ago.

Yes, you can’t mental fortitude yourself out of every situation. But you can be committed to change and figure things out.

Or you can just say “Nah, I’ll let somebody else fix things for me. I’m sure I’m high on their list of priorities.”
by johnwatson11218 | 2025-06-06 13:52:03+00:00
Everyone is talking about having LLMs write software but what about having them delete code? That can be very hard in a legacy enterprise environment. I think dead code detection overlaps with security and that is a good way to sell that kind of code clean up. Having LLMs review your architecture is a fun exercise, being able to incorporate that feedback is a good measure for the dev teams.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-06-06 13:52:38+00:00
> Has anybody modeled what percent of a population has to die from something for the protective gene to become widespread?

The question is incoherent. The gene spreads if the organisms carrying it average more children. It unspreads if they average less. All of them could be dying of the same thing, and it wouldn't matter.

The rate of spread is given by the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_coefficient , but cause of death isn't relevant.
by foldr | 2025-06-06 13:52:49+00:00
> "I am pleased that Kent Police has apologised to him and removed the caution from his record."

This is bad, but corrective action was taken. You can look through the news in pretty much any country and find some examples of the police abusing their power or arresting people for stupid reasons. That doesn’t mean that it isn’t bad or that it’s not worth drawing attention to. But cherry picking these kinds of incidents can give people outside the UK a deeply misleading picture of what life is actually like here (see e.g. the green account posting elsewhere in this thread for one example).
by blagie | 2025-06-06 13:52:51+00:00
Because such cases don't really exist.

Your text used an unusual double ellipsis (" .. " instead of "... "), uncommon (not rare) generative vocabulary ("panacea"), etc. Statistics on those allows for pretty good re-identification.

Ditto for times you do things and work schedule.

Etc.

It's not "obviously identifiable," but a buffer overflow is not "obviously exploitable." Rather, it takes a very, very expert individual to write a script before everyone can exploit it.

Ditto here.
by davidgerard | 2025-06-06 13:53:06+00:00
This ad for Builder directly claims "Natasha" - the secret sauce that Builder hoped to sell to Microsoft - is an "AI":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D36ZmJRYGK8

Engineers in the dev office say that's false and "Natasha" was a running joke in the office:

https://techfundingnews.com/fake-it-till-you-unicorn-builder...
by maketheman | 2025-06-06 13:53:09+00:00
Science disagrees.

On an individual level, yes, "try harder" is all we personally can do (well, until GLP-1 agonists, LOL). So, sure, it's "good advice" in that it's all there is.

On a policy level? As far as medical intervention efficacy? It's entirely useless. Even crazy-expensive interventions involving several hours of professionals' time per week, for months on end, are wildly less effective than one might think.

What does work? Changing environment! Just ("just", lol) move to a skinnier country. You'll probably lose weight. Conversely, if people from there move to the US, they'll probably get fatter. That is, willpower and accountability and all that are not why certain populations are skinnier than others. Environment, which likely encompasses tons of factors that'd be incredibly expensive and take decades to change, seems to be it.

> Your claim that "trying harder" is "akin to insanity" is such an overreaction that it's misleading exaggeration, not worthy of further dissection.

"Akin to insanity" in the sense that nobody who's aware of research on the topic thinks it can work over a population... I mean, yes, very much so.
by dgfitz | 2025-06-06 13:53:42+00:00
Yeah, “no snacking” would have been my next suggestion, but I was worried about coming off as too preachy.

My spouse and I work full time with 3 kids between ages 3-11. We are very busy, all the time. We have both lost a noticeable amount of weight in the past 6 months following these kinds of “rules” if you will.

People who says they’re too busy are sadly fooling themselves.

We don’t even exercise! Well, maybe at night sometimes…
by paulcole | 2025-06-06 13:53:47+00:00
> I'm also fascinated by the reaction that I must be fattie fat man who wants to make excuses and wait for others to fix my problem because I questioned whether mental fortitude is enough

Why is this fascinating when you both offered up a litany of excuses and then went on to say:

> Much like fighting climate change, placing all the responsibility on the end user without changing some of the social conditions is a flawed approach, even if there are some things individuals can do to help

Who is changing some of the societal conditions here? You or someone else?
by ofjcihen | 2025-06-06 13:54:01+00:00
They should include the part where the order is a result of them deleting things they shouldn’t have then. You know, if this isn’t spin.

Then again I’m starting to think OpenAI is gathering a cult leader like following where any negative comments will result in devoted followers or those with something to gain immediately jumping to its defense no matter how flimsy the ground.
by paradoxical-cat | 2025-06-06 13:54:03+00:00
Interesting.

I tried the following prompt and seems like model struggled at the ending "purr"

---

``` [slow paced] [slow guitar music]

Soft ki-tty,

[slight upward inflection on the second word, but still flat] Warm ki-tty,

[words delivered evenly and deliberately, a slight stretch on "fu-ur"] Little ball of fu-ur.

[a minuscule, almost imperceptible increase in tempo and "happiness"] Happy kitty,

[a noticeable slowing down, mimicking sleepiness with a drawn-out "slee-py"] Slee-py kitty,

[each "Purr" is a distinct, short, and non-vibrating sound, almost spoken] Purr. Purr. Purr. ```
by aleggg | 2025-06-06 13:54:55+00:00
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by binary132 | 2025-06-06 13:55:14+00:00
What it does do is improve your metabolism and health, both physical and mental. This can improve lots of your processes. Neglecting exercise is absolutely destructive and restricting calories does not get you those things, in fact it can work against them. Building muscle also helps burn calories and improves insulin response. Obviously, it is not enough on its own without a healthy lifestyle as a whole.
by krapp | 2025-06-06 13:56:15+00:00
Incompetent and destructive as they are, DOGE only did what every company and startup in the world is trying to do, aggressively integrate AI in a way that radically upsets the societal paradigm and makes a ton of money. And much of tech buys into the politics and narrative. They're rock stars. They'll never even need to interview to find work, work will come to them.
by LoganDark | 2025-06-06 13:56:55+00:00
For me, the problem is that it's a lot more work and effort to find healthy foods in a society where unhealthy foods are the norm. I want to be able to go somewhere and order fresh healthy food to eat for example, because keeping things at home leads to risk of spoiling and mold, and that leads me to avoid keeping them at home, but when I go out to eat, I don't know how to get that healthy food, only fast food, but my doctor already says that the oils in fast food are killing my liver which is very bad.

I wish I could just go to a restaurant style place and just like order fresh fruit or something.
by dylan604 | 2025-06-06 13:58:24+00:00
DOGE isn't SpaceX where getting it wrong is a chance to learn for the next iteration. These are human lives being affected by all of these mistakes that they are so nonchalantly making as if the humans are just NPCs in whatever game they are playing. Not only are these mistakes directly affecting humans with the loss of government jobs, they are also affecting citizens that depend on the services these employees worked. I don't care about your silver lining. The damage is done, and it is not easily unwound. All because they had no shits to give and too young to have the life experience to even come close to understanding just how damaging their decisions were.
by _fat_santa | 2025-06-06 13:59:17+00:00
> The sheer scope of the obesity pandemic should make it clear that we are not the problem, that our volitions are not the problem. Certainly so many people can't be too weak to regulate one of the most basic facets of existence? How did we come all this way as a species if we are so fundamentally flawed at basic metabolic regulation? Certainly so many people shouldn't have to try so hard? Sure, some people succeed, but in world where the overwhelming majority are failing, maybe "trying harder" is just akin to insanity?

At least in the US where the problem is much worse than in the EU, I would say the major driving factor is the lack of cheap healthy foods.

We're starting to get more healthy options in the US but the problem I see again and again is that food is always painted as "trendy" and therefore commands a higher price. I can go into McDonalds and buy fries and a cheeseburger for around ~$5. But if I try to get a healthier option from another place I'm looking at $10-15 for just about anything.

Every time I travel to Europe or Latin America I'm always shocked at how easy it is to find cheap healthy food. I can pop down to a local fast food place and for around $5 get a piece of chicken, beans and rice. This by no means fancy but it's solid healthy food.
by sbierwagen | 2025-06-06 13:59:32+00:00
I read it and was not impressed.

It starts with North Korea launching two ICBMs against DC and a nuclear plant in California. Interceptors fail and the warheads hit their targets. This is unlikely, but possible. The launch is explicitly irrational, the act of a mad dictator.

In response, the US counterstrikes with Minuteman, despite having perfectly serviceable air deliverable nukes. Russia detects the launch, and the imprecision of their own early warning systems along with North Korea being next to Russia, they conclude that the US is attacking them. They do a massive launch, the US does a massive launch, worst possible assumptions for a 10C nuclear winter, four billion dead.

The only thing I learned from the book is that if you roll 1 over and over and over again, the worst can happen. But we already knew that?
by ericmay | 2025-06-06 13:59:39+00:00
I apologize if my post might have come off as accusatory of you being, haha, as you say a fatty fat!

When I wrote my post I was responding to you but also hoping others would see that post and if they had the same challenge that you mentioned that they would find some encouragement. It's unfortunate (maybe not? [1]) but our societal expectations around fitness can cause people pretty extensive anguish and I think it's important to just say, there are no reasons or excuses for me not to work out or go to a gym - it's your life and you decide that, nobody else. BUT if you don't want to go you don't have to and you don't need to feel bad about that either. Making up excuses to mask your lack of desire is an unnecessary exercise in self-deception.

I think one of the greatest problems in America, and one of the sources of many of our downstream problems, is that we build places where local businesses can't compete, people can't walk anywhere, and they're designed for the lifestyle of the automobile instead of the American Citizen. Highlighting the scenario you find yourself in (or was bringing to the discussion as an example) I think is yet another downstream effect of cars cars cars at all costs.

[1] It's probably good overall that we are so focused as a society on health and fitness. We do have a lot of overweight folks which is bad for social health but we also have a very great fitness culture that I think is arguably unmatched in the world.
by flkiwi | 2025-06-06 13:59:46+00:00
I'd invite you to point out where I said that we should all expect others to fix our problems, but you won't be able to. I said, and I'm correct, that there is a larger context than simply one's mental approach to a problem that can the problem more difficult to solve than it should be, even when it is an already difficult problem, and, in some cases, makes it impossible. For some, the external context is a less significant factor and they are able to find a path; for others, the external factors are insurmountable (food deserts again spring to mind). But absolutely nowhere did I say, or even imply, that the solution rests solely outside the individual.
by washadjeffmad | 2025-06-06 14:00:13+00:00
That seems intuitive, though. EM radiation is either reflected or absorbed, and optimizing for that requires both a pretty complex understanding of RF behavior and generally knowing that materials are generally radiopaque and radiolucent at different frequencies and wattages.

Sometimes we're trying to keep things (eg- information) outside from getting in, and other times we want to prevent things inside from getting out. There are practices to optimize for both that don't rely on "blocking".
by malfist | 2025-06-06 14:00:26+00:00
This article is kinda not that great. It's shallow, skips all the information about stacking, calibration frames and all the base layer needed to get to the editing step.

It also has steps out of order (gradient removal is done first), and doesn't even talk about linear/non-linear edits.

Highly recommend picking up pixinsight and a book on how to use it.

Bona fides: I'm an astrophotographer, you can see my work in the link in my profile (not posting it here because I'm not trying to promote it).
by theGeatZhopa | 2025-06-06 14:00:34+00:00
I'm on the other side. Its extremely difficult for me to gain weight. I've never weighted more than 64kg @ 177cm - the only time I really gained weight was when I ate 3x a day like 2-4 warm dishes for few months (chinese food). Actuall I'm pending between 59.5-61.0kg.

What was an eye-opener for me:

once i was prescribed 20mins ergometer. So they put on cables and connected me to the monitoring system - the system is adjusting the power level of the ergometer to keep high power, while monitoring heart rate and that the power level is not set too high / heart rate.

To my astonishing, that 20 minute ride was HELL! constantly keeping the muscles at continuous high load nearly "killed" me - I've fallen asleep afterwards while doing MRT. It really was hell.

and then - the evaluation told me, I've burned the equivalent of 180 kcal. ONE HUNDRED EIGHTTY kilocalories!!!!

My body was on full force for 20 minutes and I burned just a burger ??? - ??? Not to speak of the fanta I usualy drink to spill down my four ordinary hamburgers which I eat 3x a week (doing a fat-diet).

So, I realized, that there's no way other than that of of counting kcal - One can exercise as much as one wants, but the burned energy (output) must somehow correspond to the input (eat & drink). If one eats more than one can burn, it will be stored for bad times in the hips-storages or in the belly-town.

If you want to lose weight - check first how much energy are you capable of burning when doing heavy exercise. And then you have to count the in-put kilocalories. Just for visualizing and assess how and how much you need to exercise, if you put in that burger... and that coke.. and that dessert.

for me, to see how much has been burned cleared up that much:

- exercising doesn't stop me on my way to become round

- no need to count kcal except assuring intake of roundabout the equivalent of burned energy while exercising (not much, though)

- I won't gain weight, because I can't eat that much anyway. So, start loving myself is a better option for me.

If you really all-in about loosing weight, find the exercises that burn the most. That depends on your constitution. You need professional help to get the knowledge. Look for a university doing sport-studies and ask them if they want to conduct a study on this or, at least, whether they can measure what exercises do the best burning. And then count & asses.

Or use the new medication emerged. Or try a stool-transplant. But without, definitely, one has to control the input kcals.

Wish everyone to achieve what one's soughing so hard!!!