MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-06-26 12:31:46+00:00
Absolutely. It serves as a filter, if people are being honest. It also highlights the bizarre dating culture and view of life we've adopted. This dating culture has produced a good deal of rotten fruit.

The ultimate purpose of dating is to meet your future spouse. We're turned it into some kind of senseless sexual escapade, and this has poisoned the relations between men and women. It makes them exploitative and dehumanizing in spirit: sprinkling them with the waters of "consent" doesn't change that, as the subjective cannot abolish the objective. We've reduced sex to something that is merely pleasurable and contradicted its intrinsic and essential function which is procreative by employing an array of technologies that impede and interfere with healthy procreative processes. This creates a mindset not unlike that of a drug user who is obsessed with getting another hit with no thought given to the damage, or the bulimic who wants the sensual satisfaction of eating, but not the calories.

The psychophysical reality of sexual intercourse is much more than some passing physical pleasure. It mobilizes processes in us that are completely oriented toward bonding and the strengthening of the relationship in preparation for children. Whence the stereotype that men will often exit quickly in the morning after a one night stand with a strange woman? Because both can feel, if only subconsciously, that the processes of bonding are taking place, and who wants to bond — and in such a profound and intimate way — with someone they've just met? In this regard, the character of Julianna in Vanilla Sky makes an astoundingly profound and accurate remark for a movie coming out of Hollywood: "Don't you know when you sleep with someone, your body makes a promise whether you do or not?" Our capacity for sexual intimacy is likewise dulled.

(Masturbation is even worse. Those processes bond us with a fictional harem of the imaginary and close us within ourselves. For social animals like us, this is a recipe for misery.)

We thwart and ignore our biological nature to our own detriment. The procreative prime spans the mid-twenties into the early 30s. Statistically, most people should be having families by their mid-20s. Our culture confuses people and creates a pointless obstacle course that leads them to postpone such things either because they're too immature (and encouraged to remain so, also by this unserious dating culture) or because they believe they must achieve some arbitrary milestones first. Furthermore, family and community support has been dashed by a culture of hyperindividualism.

The causes of demographic decline are not a mystery. People simply either don't think deeply enough, or they don't want to make the cultural changes necessary to restore normalcy.
by entuno | 2025-06-26 12:31:53+00:00
SBS server "just works" if you just set it up once and then ignore it, your requirements never change, and and don't do basic things like maintenance and installing updates as well.

People absolutely should be setting up offsite backups. And more importantly, testing them so that they can prove that they work. But if they have no technical team then neither of those things are going to happen.
by oblio | 2025-06-26 12:32:38+00:00
Wall Street (and the average Joe) doesn't trust Google for enterprise solutions. And AI is basically 100% a B2B play at the moment. The money side of it. The hype is obviously mostly B2C, but the money isn't there.

Microsoft has a track record of delivering enterprise solutions that dates back to when Page and Brin were toddlers.
by CompoundEyes | 2025-06-26 12:32:52+00:00
This reminded me of the Stoop Coffee post from awhile back. Many are yearning for these analog connections and trying to crack the code for making it deliberate, inviting and low barrier to entry. I don’t think it’s just a reaction to everyone being online — books like Bowling Alone in the late 90s were calling out other trends leading to disconnect.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43473618
by wk_end | 2025-06-26 12:33:09+00:00
I suppose - owing to its accuracy - that this doesn't have some of BasiliskII's killer features: it patches the OS/ROMs to add support for super-high resolutions and (mostly) seamless integration with the host's file system and network.

It's a shame that Basilisk - possibly owing to its inaccurate but killer features - is as janky as it is, because it's really remarkably pleasant to use when it works.
by ninjin | 2025-06-26 12:33:11+00:00
I fail to see how that is different. Ultimately, you have released a piece of software into the wild with a clause stating: "The software is provided 'as is' and the author disclaims all warranties with regard to this software including all implied warranties of merchantability and fitness". Thus, it is purely cultural that somehow others and yourself expect you to cancel your family time on a Saturday night solely because an issue has been found in a piece of software you have given away for free. This "value add" is wearing people out and if we want this expectation to remain, maybe it is time for those profiting or those with a monopoly on violence to explore ways to support those that kindly provide free labour like this?
by bell-cot | 2025-06-26 12:33:35+00:00
Full title:

> Intel lays off hundreds of engineers in California, including chip design engineers and architects — automotive chip division also gets the axe

Interesting that they (seemingly) couldn't sell that automotive chip division to anyone.

I've not followed Intel's design work recently - but from their "vs. AMD" performance, it didn't seem like they lacked for underperformers on their payroll.
by throwawayffffas | 2025-06-26 12:33:55+00:00
But not more challenging than counter battery against teams firing Javelins or other portable anti tank weapons.Or teams using Switchblades.

FPVs are man portable guided munitions, not artillery. Pretty much all existing man portable guided anti tank weapons are better than FPVs at their job.

And artillery is better than any of them at it's job. While FPVs can score kills they have minimal suppression effects, when an FPV hits a friendly, everyone else is going to keep moving, because stopping will offer them no benefit from the next one, and the next one might be minutes out. When an artillery round lands everyone hits the deck.
by trollbridge | 2025-06-26 12:34:12+00:00
Kratos and Better Auth are almost orthogonal to one another. Kratos provides a comprehensive back end, but no front end at all - you have to write it yourself.

Better Auth is mostly focused on the front end.

You could use the two together, although I haven't seen anyone do that.

I have wasted so much time on third-party authentication frameworks like Ory Kratos that I wish we'd just written our own internal auth library. With Kratos we ended up customising it so heavily we could have just written our own. Same goes for ones that provided a frontend such as Keycloak.
by calpaterson | 2025-06-26 12:34:12+00:00
RE: Meetup.

I think many groups effectively died during that period - but were just able to limp along a bit longer as a virtual meet rather than physical. Once your meetup is sub 30 attendees (attendees who actually attend - so ~45 RSVPs) you lose critical mass and everything from getting people to talk to finding a space to meet becomes very difficult.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-06-26 12:34:22+00:00
NASA did a feasibility study of this even accounting for future technology improvements/cost reductions and it doesn't seem to come close to earthbound alternatives, especially nuclear fission.

Nuclear fission is more stable, less maintenance, less risky, less upfront and ongoing environmental damage, less vulnerable to all sorts of risks, and produces way way more energy.

> We find the SBSP designs are more expensive than terrestrial alternatives and may have lifecycle costs per unit of electricity that are 12-80 times higher

https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/otps-sbsp-re...
by Krasnopolsky | 2025-06-26 12:34:47+00:00
I tried to use the service and got error 500. Here is the full request that led to the error:

curl 'https://vidiopintar.com/api/videos/E4WlUXrJgy4/regenerate-summary' \ -X 'POST' \ -H 'accept: */*' \ -H 'accept-language: en-US,en;q=0.9,ru;q=0.8' \ -H 'cache-control: no-cache' \ -H 'content-length: 0' \ -H 'dnt: 1' \ -H 'origin: https://vidiopintar.com' \ -H 'pragma: no-cache' \ -H 'priority: u=1, i' \ -H 'referer: https://vidiopintar.com/video/E4WlUXrJgy4' \ -H 'sec-ch-ua: "Chromium";v="137", "Not/A)Brand";v="24"' \ -H 'sec-ch-ua-mobile: ?0' \ -H 'sec-ch-ua-platform: "macOS"' \ -H 'sec-fetch-dest: empty' \ -H 'sec-fetch-mode: cors' \ -H 'sec-fetch-site: same-origin' \ -H 'user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36'
by CJefferson | 2025-06-26 12:35:10+00:00
I used to often hear people joke that because of Moore's law, there was no point running any computation which would take longer than 4 years, as you'd instead be better to wait 2 years for computers to double in power, then run your problem then.

Interstellar travel probably has a similar problem, even if you have an engine that can do 0.1c, you have to be sure in 5 years you won't have one that can do 0.2c, or that ship would beat you.
by acedTrex | 2025-06-26 12:35:54+00:00
Author here:

> The article opens with a statement saying the author isn't going to reword what others are writing, but the article reads as that and only that.

Hmm, I was just saying I hadn't seen much literature or discussion on trust dynamics in teams with LLMs. Maybe I'm just in the wrong spaces for such discussions but I haven't really come across it.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-06-26 12:36:09+00:00
Imagine that your car breaks down and you bring it to a mechanic and he tells you, “Oh, your car has a case of broken-downness.” You’d know right away: this guy has no idea what he’s talking about. “Broken-downness” is an abstraction; it doesn’t refer to anything, and it’s not going to help you fix a car. Instead, a good mechanic will describe your car’s problem in terms of entities and rules. “Your spark plugs are shot [ENTITIES], so they can’t make the pistons [ENTITIES] go up and down anymore [RULES].” It’s easy to see how ridiculous abstractions are when we’re talking about cars, but it can be surprisingly hard to notice them when we’re talking about science. For instance, if you feel sad all the time, a psychologist will probably tell you that you have “depression.” But depression is an abstraction — it involves no theory of the entities or rules that cause you to feel sad. It’s exactly like saying that your car has “broken-downness.” Abstractions like this are basically useless for solving problems, so it’s not surprising that we aren’t very good at treating “depression.”
by Esophagus4 | 2025-06-26 12:37:07+00:00
While that is fine in the abstract:

Current 5 year CD APYs are 4.2-4.7%, while current new car auto loan APRs are 5.2-6.7%.

There is usually no magic spread to be captured unless you’re willing to take more risk (say, money in equities instead of CDs). Financing a depreciating asset against one that is volatile in the short term (and has seen drawdowns of 20% several times in the last 10 years) is a duration to risk mismatch.

That spread capture argument often is just justification for a bad decision - people don’t in practice use credit as liquidity backed by an investment, they use it as a cash advance to buy more car than they would absent financing.

So now instead of buying a $20k car cash, people will buy a $40k car, increasing their debt load against a depreciating asset.

In general, my theory is… if that small spread from borrowing to buy a depreciating asset makes a significant difference to you financially, you can’t afford that car anyway, and you’re better off buying cheaper.

Sorry to unload a bit… that wasn’t about you, that was about me being triggered by seeing this advice a lot :)
by codingdave | 2025-06-26 12:37:47+00:00
> If you relapse, you don’t lose everything — just your momentum.

Doesn't this minimize the effectiveness of the app? If relapsing is only as painful (in the app) as breaking a streak in your scoring, that is vastly less painful than the reality of a relapse. Have you researched what effect such a discrepancy would have on the level of motivation an addict would get from the app? Maybe that is better asked in a more general way: What research did you do into addiction and recovery when deciding on features in the app?
by teroshan | 2025-06-26 12:38:01+00:00
While the legality of data preservation/sharing is a whole can of worms in itself, Stop Killing Games would at least address the technical hurdles of even being able to run the game after its end of life.

With always-on-DRMs, server-based multiplayer service games, and even things like exclusive streaming-only video games, even having access to the data required to run what you purchased can be literally impossible.
by billybat | 2025-06-26 12:38:48+00:00
we needed to measure claude tool performance locally for all devs, so we could speed up their usage and optimize token cost, so I built this little tool.

it gives `claude` a different `PATH` env that uses shimmed command line tools that track estimated token usage and duration.

stats are stored in local sqlite or can be sent to DataDog (we use DataDog).

it's one-shot install / uninstall:

`npx claudx bootstrap` `npx claudx uninstall`
by MobileVet | 2025-06-26 12:38:50+00:00
Being an engineer, I use the analogy of SNR, signal to noise ratio. Depression and anxiety, often comorbid, raise the noise floor to the point that it is incredibly hard to feel confident that a decision can be made. This in turn results in a decision NOT being made and progress dragging on... which only raises the tension around the situation. It is a horribly vicious downward cycle.

I have seen this first hand in loved ones and also experienced it occasionally myself, though thankfully less frequently. I am extremely adept at compartmentalizing, including work and life... but a deep depression knows no limits easily bleeds over into everything. The mental noise is deafening. I was shocked how strong the effect was during a recent episode of depression, despite my typically strong executive functioning skills.

Equally amazing is the 'blue skies' and 'quiet mind' that can be achieved with proper treatment, for which I am infinitely grateful.

Please seek out help if you are struggling.
by throwawayffffas | 2025-06-26 12:39:12+00:00
The way I see it, it's probably worth it. You probably want a layered approach, you have a few high end, very expensive very effective weapons for maximum effect at the beginning of a conflict to take out the enemies high end, tip of the spear forces. And then you want to have a deep reserve of cheaper, legacy stuff to deal with volume and attrition.
by originalvichy | 2025-06-26 12:39:13+00:00
FPV drones for combat are a hot flash in the pan. They have had a major effect for now, but naturally as these countermeasures evolve, so weakens their effect.

I keep telling people that the terrain and the strategies that Russians use is the primary reason for the effectiveness. Mortars and artillery already handle the same requirements as the author says. The reason they are effective in 2024-25 is that the drip-drip-drip of single soldiers running over vast fields / unarmoed vehicles driving over known routes is the only way Russians make progress. For a moving target they are great, but multiple moving targets would get shredded by competent artillery anyway.

Most nations don’t have flat open fields where signals can reach far away drones unimpeded by line of sight for tx/rx.

By far the best use of drones still is as battlefield recon/fire correction to adjust existing artillery/mortar capabilities.

Source: I’m one such drone hobbyist and I’ve watched way too much footage from the front. None of what i’m writing is in absolute terms. I just don’t see the same way as commenters in the public who think they are a checkmate for any combat situation. The incompetence of the Russian forces caught everyone by surprise, but they have learned. My country’s border with Russia is heavily forested and not as flat as Russia. The drones are not able to go through the canopy. Infrared recon is a way better choice than FPV suicide drones.
by SkyBelow | 2025-06-26 12:39:21+00:00
This implies adding tests that accurately capture all the nuances of the function and don't test the simplest logic need to hit code coverage. When we are talking someone new to the function, then this is about the same as asking them to learn the function so they can be sure they didn't make an error when they changed it. The benefit of tests is that they are written by the person creating the function originally who is most aware of the hidden dangers of it.

I'm distrustful on unit testing as I've seen too many tests written to make code coverage numbers but that don't actually test the functions they are aimed at. A non-trivial number which run the function asynchronously and then report a successful run before the function even finishes executing, meaning that even throwing errors don't fail the tests (granted, part of that is on the testing framework for letting unexpected errors ever result in a pass).
by SirHumphrey | 2025-06-26 12:40:27+00:00
It's a bit annoying, but you can install conda without admin privileges and apptainer was installed for compliance with some EuroHPC project and luckily made accessible to all users. The container allows me to have an environment where I have "root" access and can install software.

The most annoying thing is not the lack of privileges, but that the compute nodes do not have internet access (because "security") beside connecting to the headnode, so there is the whole song and dance of running the container (or installing conda packages) on the headnode so I can download everything I need, then saving the state and running them on the compute node.
by ColinWright | 2025-06-26 12:41:24+00:00
... and while I appreciate the rationale behind it, I'm always saddened when a carefully chosen link that suits the way I think, giving and overview and a context with links to the projects, is then over-written by the direct link to the project that doesn't give a sense of why it's interesting or relevant.

But as the Man in Black says in The Princess Bride: "Get used to disappointment".
by matthewdgreen | 2025-06-26 12:42:16+00:00
This is the one aspect of this article I’d have liked to understand better. It can simultaneously be the case that these compounding pharmacies are regulated, and also that they’re buying peptides from Chinese suppliers that aren’t regulated and hence there’s some room for serious problems. I’d be much happier if I felt that these suppliers were being carefully regulated and monitored but I’m not convinced that this is the case.
by fcoury | 2025-06-26 12:42:43+00:00
This was also my exact experience. I was pretty excited because I usually use Gemini Pro 2.5 when Claude Code gets stuck by pasting the whole code and asking questions and it was able to get me out of a few pickles a couple of times.

Unfortunately the CLI version wasn't able to create coherent code or fix some issues I had in my Rust codebase as well.

Here's hope that it eventually becomes great.
by supplied_demand | 2025-06-26 12:42:46+00:00
== Currently, in western countries, socialist policies to import the 3rd world and open borders are directly responsible for the lowering social trust.==

I don’t know of any western country with an “open borders” policy, can you provide one? Is there a part of the US’s 250 year history where we weren’t bringing in immigrants from poorer countries to provide cheap labor?
by graemep | 2025-06-26 12:42:48+00:00
I wonder. Even Walmart is still not operating at the scale the hyperscalers do, and their systems will be far less varied, far more homogenous and under their own control. They are big enough for a lot of economies of scale to kick in.

> Note that you need to bring your own ID, Auth, Office, desktop system, etc.

Do Microsoft entirely manage all these systems for them? Otherwise they just swap managing one system for another. A quick search seems to show Walmart do hire sysadmins so the current cost on top of what they pay MS is not zero.
by mailund | 2025-06-26 12:43:09+00:00
I experienced mentioning an issue I was stuck on during standup one day, then some guy on my team DMs me a screenshot of chatGPT with text about how to solve the issue. When I explained to him why the solution he had sent me didn't make sense and wouldn't solve the issue, he sent me back the reply the LLM would give by pasting in my reply, at which point I stopped responding.

I'm just really confused what people who send LLM content to other people think they are achieving? Like if I wanted an LLM response, I would just prompt the LLM myself, instead of doing it indirectly though another person who copy/pastes back and forth.
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by koonsolo | 2025-06-26 12:44:25+00:00
My first reaction was the same. I have a small indoor quadcopter with 2 main modes: freestyle (like a helicopter), and an easier mode that keeps the drone hovering.

My first thought was, why not use the easier mode (press forward to go forward, back to go back, etc.)? But looking at those war videos, these drones always come at an angle towards the target. And in that sense, it's easier to use the more difficult helicopter mode. What I mean is, once you know the helicopter mode, it's easier to do this kind of maneuver than using the "easy mode".