MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by shayway | 2025-06-21 14:54:12+00:00
I enjoy the kind of analysis the author talks about, and also see the anti-intellectualism among younger folks. I too have felt disconnected from the many people who aren't interested in taking a deeper look into things.

But when posts like these are making the case for intellectualism I can't really blame people for finding it distasteful. The author gives a moral argument for why one should engage in critical analysis, but that's weak; there are far more morally just and productive things to do with one's limited time and effort than analyze TikTok trends, and also, people do just need some room for lighthearted fun. People don't engage with memes because they think it's righteous, so to say they shouldn't because that's righteous doesn't make a lot of sense.

I think the best argument to be made for looking deeper into things is that it's fun. Learning is fun, analyzing is fun, understanding how things work is fun. I particularly like this tweet from the post:

> "let people enjoy things" ok i enjoy critical analysis and being a hater

I believe the perception of so-called intellectualism as something relegated to those with the time, effort and convictions to engage with it does far more to repel people than attract them. The case may be that it helps fight consumerism and whatnot, but that should arise naturally as a result of curiosity; curiosity with a goal kinda misses the point of curiosity. So while I disagree with this:

> We can — in fact, we must — interrogate the culture and society that simultaneously shapes us as we shape it. Otherwise, we submit to our own perceived powerlessness to make change.

I strongly agree with this:

> The way to resist anti-intellectualism is not to say that the “intellectuals” are a distinct, superior class of educated elites, but rather that we are all capable of becoming intellectuals ourselves, if we so choose.
by tialaramex | 2025-06-21 14:54:42+00:00
I live in the UK, so I'm aware our power sockets have switches. However, if I walk into a darkened room I certainly don't want to crawl around in the dark looking for a switch - so better that (as I believe a friend's home has in some of their guest bedrooms when I had reason to visit) there's an ordinary light switch, near the entrance door at a good height - to activate the distant socket.

Since you live in the UK you may also be aware that, unlike ordinary appliances, smaller low power (5 amp) connectors are authorised for lighting, so in that particular house because of its age the floor lamps literally can't plug into a conventional socket, the plugs are the wrong size, this has the further advantage that you can't accidentally plug an appliance such as a vacuum cleaner or television into a socket controlled from a light switch.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-06-21 14:54:56+00:00
A comment was flagged and killed so I can't reply to it. But these questions are common and important to reply to in order to improve science literacy

> Long covid or the vaccine? Is there any way to tell the difference anymore?

Yes, 2 ways:

1) If you didn't take the vaccine, it's long COVID

2) If you got the vaccine, complications are rare and present in specific ways.

On 2) the long covid-like symptoms are clumped into a group called PVS (post-vaccination syndrome). The minor symptoms of PVS resolve within a few weeks, and the long-term effects are so rare that they're having trouble studying it to try to determine the cause. So we don't know whether or not the vaccine alone causes those reactions or why. But we do know it's very rare, whereas long COVID from not getting the vaccine is much less rare. OTOH, getting the vaccine actually resolves long COVID symptoms (we know this because long COVID predates the vaccine, and long COVID sufferers reported their symptoms abating once getting the vaccine, and in data from other studies).

Defunding/dismantling the NIH is not helping us find answers. If you want to "know the truth", call your representatives and ask them to invest more in NIH research and studies around COVID symptoms.
by remram | 2025-06-21 14:55:47+00:00
Twake Chat is a Matrix client, seems to be a fork of https://github.com/krille-chan/fluffychat

Twake Mail backend is a fork of https://github.com/apache/james-project but it seems their app can work with any JMAP server.

Twake Drive (web app) and Twake Mail (mobile) seem original.
by lisper | 2025-06-21 14:56:01+00:00
> I am saying this just as a random guy who never studied these things

OK, well, let me tell you as a non-random guy who has studied these things extensively that the MWI is very commonly misrepresented. It is not a case of simplification for a lay audience, it is flat-out lying, at least most of the time. The math does not say that there are parallel universes. All the math tells you is that in order to recover the results of experiments you have to throw away some of the information contained in the wave function. MWI proponents interpret this by saying that the discarded information has to correspond to something real, and they call that thing "parallel universes". But there are three problems with this. First, the MWI does not explain the Born rule. Second, the math doesn't tell you whether or not the discarded parts of the wave function describe something real or not. It is possible that mathematical operation of discarding parts of the wave function actually corresponds to real physical phenomenon, i.e. that whatever is described by the discarded parts of the wave function actually ceases to exist. This is a tenable scientific hypothesis. It's not easy to actually make it work, but it can be done and has been done. It's called GRW collapse [1]. So anyone who tells you that the MWI is the only possible scientifically tenable interpretation of QM is lying. And anyone who leaves open even the possibility that the "parallel universes" contained in the wave function are discrete is also lying. The only MWI proponent I've ever seen being intellectually honest about this.David Deutsch in his book "The Beginning of Infinity" chapter 11.

The third problem with the MWI is something called the "preferred basis problem". This one is harder to describe succinctly, and some people claim it has been solved, but I don't agree with them. In a nutshell, all two-state QM experiments rely on some macroscopic apparatus to split a particle into a superposition of two states. But if you model the entire universe as a quantum system, this apparatus is itself a quantum system that can be in a superposition of states, so you can't say, "The polarizing beam splitter is aligned vertically or it is aligned horizontally" any more than you can say "the cat is alive or it is dead" without begging the question.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghirardi%E2%80%93Rimini%E2%80%...
by bigtones | 2025-06-21 14:56:14+00:00
>> Casper Klynge, a former Danish and European Union diplomat who worked for Microsoft, said the episode was in many ways the “smoking gun that many Europeans had been looking for.”

Damn right. Strong evidence that Europe should look after their own, and not rely on the good old US of A. Written by an Australian who thinks we should do the same down here.
by dtagames | 2025-06-21 14:56:49+00:00
This is a thorough and well-written examination of an industry that's dying and needs to die. It's based on the same outdated concepts that allowed The Elephant Man and "native" displays at carnivals, married to the socially-detrimental features of casinos.

I've lived near an active dog track in Florida that ran races because it was legally required at the time but made money only from slots. I also worked on a mobile gatcha game from a slot machine company and we know casinos will cozy up to nearly anything and everything. I had no idea that a huge chunk of the current wagering on dogs is happening on mobile apps through clearinghouses in Oregon and North Dakota.
by arp242 | 2025-06-21 14:57:36+00:00
And what I am saying is that this is far too focused on the how the displeasure with racist garbage is voiced instead of the racist garbage itself. You can't just ignore what was said and brush it off with "I'm not choosing a side".

The core problem here wasn't @almostgotcaught, it was @typeofhuman. Maybe they could have handled it better, but it really wasn't that bad, and their sharp response really isn't the main problem here.

This is also why flagged comments should just disable replies to the entire thread by the way, instead of just the flagged comment.
by hnlmorg | 2025-06-21 14:57:46+00:00
I’m of the opposite opinion. It’s better to ingest everything and then filter out the stuff you don’t want at the observability platform.

The problem of filtering out debug logs is you don’t need them, until you do. And then trying to recreate an event you can’t even debug is often impossible. So it’s easier to then retrieve those debug logs if they’re already there but hidden.
by remram | 2025-06-21 14:59:59+00:00
Every one of their product's page, plus the frontpage, has a direct link labeled "get on GitHub". I don't know how it could be easier to find.

The deployment documentation seem appropriate for Docker-based services: https://github.com/linagora/ToM-server/blob/master/docker.md https://github.com/linagora/tmail-backend/blob/master/tmail-... (although Twake Drive's docs seem under construction)
by pdimitar | 2025-06-21 15:00:05+00:00
Who is "we"?

A lot of "us" don't have the time to do programming as a hobby -- even if we started off that way.

Many of "us" don't accept blanket grouping with privileged others who had thousands of opportunities to improve the general IT area but were too cool to do it and invented yet another LISP interpreter instead.

And then they come to HN and use "we" as a big convenient scapegoat, obviously to escape responsibility.

Most of "us" are trying to have some semblance of a life, man.

Whoever could collect $200k+ a year and be comfortable should have been helping the IT area. Not me who still doesn't have his own house in his 40s.
by ulrikrasmussen | 2025-06-21 15:00:11+00:00
My bank app refuses to work on LineageOS, but I can use the web interface just fine which has the exact same UI and functionality as the app. In both the native app and the web app I have to authorize any transactions using my national ID, which for me is a hardware token (the app for my national ID also refuses to run). Why is it somehow insecure to initiate this flow from a native app on LineageOS while it is not insecure to do the exact same via a browser on LineageOS? If the app can be compromised, so can the browser - the bank cannot trust all its browser based clients anyway.

The web app has been running with this security model for decades on PCs, and it has been fine. The whole narrative about remote attestation being necessary to protect users is an evil lie in my opinion, but it is an effective lie which has convinced even knowledgeable IT professionals that taking away device ownership from users is somehow justified.
Show HN: Cogilo – Cognitive Mirror in Google Docs
by lukasego | 2025-06-21 15:00:14+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a Google Docs Add-on that analyzes your writing to reveal your thinking patterns.

I like writing. For me, its purpose has always been clarifying ideas. Writing not only sorts your thinking - it improves thinking.

In the age of LLMs, however, people use them for generating texts. They got it the wrong way around.

Writing is for solidifying your narratives. It’s for yourself.

Many have discussed essay writing. Most recently and famously, in this HN thread on the MIT paper on cognitive debt (https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872). PG had a nice essay about good writing (https://paulgraham.com/goodwriting.html).

Hence, I built a simple Google Docs Add-on, Cogilo (https://cogilo.me), that puts the writer’s thoughts at the center.

Cogilo analyzes text sections for four cognitive markers. It reflects how much you suffer from analysis paralysis, information overload, and uncertainty in your essay. And it shows where you are in a flow state.

Here’s a demo of Cogilo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOUZ2c0Rtjw

People can try it out on the Marketplace (https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/cogilo/31975274...), no sign-up.

You get reflected if your text sounds incoherent or circles too often around established concepts, with Cogilo marking passages where your thinking can be improved the most. Opus 4 then powers rewrite suggestions in your own writing style, incorporating feedback, to convey the same meaning, but more nuanced. They get inserted, and you can compare new and old, and modify.

Ultimately, the goal is that people automatically reflect their thinking processes and enhance them over time through Cogilo.

My team uses it for deep writing sessions, so it might be useful for you. It has helped us reason out concepts - and become better at reasoning itself.

Cogilo follows some personal principles on Writing & LLMs, maybe you’d like to critique them: https://cogilo.me/blog/cogilo Happy to hear about views on LLMs as an analytical tool first!
by pbohun | 2025-06-21 15:00:30+00:00
I recently started using Janet and enjoy it too. I think Rich Hickey got it right when he created a single set of functions to operate on all collections, which fixes most of what's mentioned in the article. Janet does a great job of copying what Clojure got correct.

I've found the documentation for Janet to be fairly adequate. What are some parts where the documentation could be better?
by bigyabai | 2025-06-21 15:01:44+00:00
What are we opposed to? The wanton destruction of civilian infrastructure (which the IDF put into doctrine[0]) or the manufacturing of cluster munitions (which Israel also does[1]).

Neither Iran nor Israel are signed onto the CCM. You're basically just complaining that Israel can't bomb colleges and hospitals without putting their own infrastructure in the line of fire.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahiya_doctrine

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20070102071116/http://www.haaret...
by grues-dinner | 2025-06-21 15:02:12+00:00
That's not what the Y capacitor is doing here. All Y means is "high voltage withstand, will fail open, and we have receipts". Here, it's not line-to-ground, but primary-to-secondary.

Isolated ACDC converters are very common these days. Companies like Traco will sell you modules: https://www.tracopower.com/isolated-power-supplies
by thaumasiotes | 2025-06-21 15:04:14+00:00
> The discovery of new blood types isn't limited to transfusion emergencies. It also sheds light on certain previously unexplained pathologies. The specialist discusses the recent case of three siblings who had suffered from mysterious rheumatological disorders since adolescence. It was only after identifying their rare blood type that doctors were able to establish a probable link with their symptoms.

How does that work? Were all three siblings regularly receiving donated blood? The article doesn't expand on this at all.
by nickserv | 2025-06-21 15:04:52+00:00
These are business decisions, not design choices.

> dumbing down the software

"The growth marketing team has identified an untapped demographic".

> change for the sake of change so designers can justify their jobs.

"We've decided to rebrand to focus on XYZ market."

> mobile devices because every one of them is slow

"If we can run the website on the user's device we'll save on developer time."

> Ugly software is a good sign because tells me no designer was there to ruin it.

It just means they don't have the money to hire a good designer. Meaning no marketing department. For whatever reason designers don't do open source. Looking at you GIMP. Blender finally bit the bullet.
by graycat | 2025-06-21 15:05:13+00:00
For abstract algebra, there is the polished

I.\ N.\ Herstein, {\it Topics in Algebra,\/}

(markup for TeX word processing).

For Galois theory, took an oral exam on what was in Herstein.

For linear algebra where the field is any of the rationals, reals, complex, and finite fields there is

Evar D.\ Nering, {\it Linear Algebra and Matrix Theory,\/} John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1964.\ \

As I recall, Nering was an Artin student at Princeton.

Some of the proofs for the rational, real, or complex fields don't work for finite fields so for those need special proofs.

Had a course in error correcting codes -- it was applied linear algebra where the fields were finite.

Linear algebra is usually about finite dimensional vector spaces with an inner product (some engineers say dot product), but the main ideas generalize to infinite dimensions and Hilbert and Banach spaces.
by larrled | 2025-06-21 15:05:57+00:00
“hopefully politicians will soon”

The gop is controlled by donors who are mostly free market liberals. Elon won’t let anyone “censor” (regulate) x. The democrats don’t care about national security historically, and it’s not currently an issue their cosmopolitan TikTok loving base cares anything, at all, about. “Security” is something that most democrats I talk to now associate with deportation or military spending, both of which they ferociously hate. Across parties, policy and discourse are reactive. Security requires a proactive orientation that it seems the public sector may structurally lack.
by freehorse | 2025-06-21 15:07:52+00:00
I hate the ad-centered nature of modern web anyway, but I don't understand why ads are not based on the content of a webpage/video. I am much less disturbed by ads eg on a podcast where the podcaster gives a sponsored message about a service relevant to the topic of the podcast. And prob if I watch the podcast I am already most probably part of the target audience. There is no need to profile me over the websites I visit or apps I am using and invade my privacy, and still fail to target me correctly. And even if you can correctly infer that fishing is my big hobby and now you should bombard me with ads about fishing, maybe this is not what I want to see or hear about when I am watching a lecture on a computer science subject, and I will definitely not want to buy anything then? Maybe it would make for a less distracting and annoying experience when I watch some videos about fishing?
by anton-c | 2025-06-21 15:08:00+00:00
You sound like an ad exec. I never want ads ever, they are by their nature intrusive. I have never bought anything from a targeted ad on social media. If one plays and I can't turn down the volume quick enough I will make noise to avoid hearing it.

If an ad is placed in a way that forces you to look at it you have every right to want to remove it. If it's in my personal power, I do.
by davidmurdoch | 2025-06-21 15:08:09+00:00
They're definitely far far brighter. Here a photo of an old sodium vapor lamp next to a (failing) LED near me: https://photos.app.goo.gl/vwidbJUmG997VLRN7

As far as directional lighting patterns go, that's a matter of the lamp design. Sodium vapor could be housed in a reflector that directs nearly all of it's light downwards.

I'm not against LED technology being used though, just the rampant failing LEDs and the obnoxious brightness & color they produce. Also not fond of the futuristic looking light pole design they seem to always use.

For astrophotography, sodium vapor's color cast is very easy to filter out, whereas the broad spectrum LEDs are not, especially when they don't all emit the same frequencies.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-06-21 15:08:21+00:00
> Personally I don't care if creators get paid or not, I have enough financial problems as it is and I have no capacity to add the problems of complete strangers on the internet to the pile.

Then stop watching youtube. You're just free-riding on the backs of whatever mechanisms exist to motivate the people who make videos to keep doing so. Plenty of other things to do in life other than watch videos you think are worth precisely zero <currency-units>.
by transcriptase | 2025-06-21 15:08:50+00:00
$ show show: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libimageproc.so.2: undefined symbol: jpeg_mem_src@LIBJPEG_8.0, version LIBJPEG_8.0 not defined in file libjpeg.so.8 with link time reference
by throwanem | 2025-06-21 15:11:10+00:00
Shaw deserves better than to be so misread. Progress so called depends far more on the "reasonable" than otherwise, because we so far outnumber all others. We are whom you must convince and yet you show open contempt for the task, which is why only in days when everyone is half mad with terror do you ever get even half a hearing - which is twice what your risible excuse for a coherent ethos actually deserves.
by pixodaros | 2025-06-21 15:11:19+00:00
Even GiveWell partnered with the long-termist/hypothetical risk type of EA by funding something called Open Philanthropy. And there are EA organizations which talk about "animal welfare" and mean "what if we replaced the biosphere with something where nothing with a spinal cord ever gets eaten?" So you can't trust "if it calls itself EA, it must be highly efficient at turning donations into measurable good." EA orgs have literally hired personal assistants and bought stately homes for the use of the people running the orgs!
by Dylan16807 | 2025-06-21 15:11:36+00:00
"Renting a U-Haul starts at $19.95 per day..."

So in the scale between $10 and $10000, it would be like renting a big piece of road equipment, not buying one.

To be clear the middle paragraph of my post was explaining why I think they said that, and the last paragraph was me adding my own commentary. I wasn't suggesting they were implying the part about gas savings, that was all me.
by PaulKeeble | 2025-06-21 15:11:50+00:00
Covid is a vascular disease, its transmitted and caught through the air and our lungs but it does more vascular and organ damage. What is happening in teenagers isn't all that different to adults where Long Covid is a complete multisystem assault on the body impacting every organ and the blood itself and the problems extend far beyond just the lung structural changes.

For a while they assumed children were not as impacted but the prevalence numbers now suggest they are impacted by Long Covid at about the same rate as adults. Given our history with these types of diseases and things that look like this, ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia and chronic Lyme unfortunately its likely a lifelong disease.

We badly need a serious worldwide effort to research understanding and treating this disease because at its worst children (and adults) are locked by their bodies in bed, needing darkness and silence unable to chew their own food let alone do anything else. The level of suffering that is currently being ignored is horrific and the doctors have zero tools to help.
by jdeibele | 2025-06-21 15:13:33+00:00
In Portland, it's against the city code to staple signs to telephone poles.

This is, of course, completely ignored.

There are also signs stuck on wire next to freeway exits or other prime traffic areas. Typically they're on public land because a property owner would want permission or would just remove it.

There are people who angry enough about the sign proliferation that they cut the sign in half so you can't read the phone number or address or whatever.

You should be able to go online and pay a small fee (like $1 or even $.25) per sign that you put up for your garage sale or business. The money could be divided among the city, the pole owner, and people who are paid by the city to remove signs that don't have a QR code or has one that expired.

The fee could be adjusted so that garage sale signs cost much less than business signs. Business signs could only be allowed for businesses who started less than X days ago. Etc.
by maqp | 2025-06-21 15:14:11+00:00
"No, Delta Chat doesn’t support Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS). This means that if your Delta Chat private decryption key is leaked, and someone has collected your prior in-transit messages, they will be able to decrypt and read them using the leaked decryption key."

https://delta.chat/en/help#pfs

It's great they're being open about the implications. But given that there's better protocols out there (Signal protocol for example), it makes no sense to use inferior apps.