MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dmoy | 2025-06-16 16:46:43+00:00
Not on original topic, but:

I definitely prefer having graphs put the unit at least on the axis, if not in the individual axis labels directly.

I.e. instead of having a graph titled "latency, seconds" at the top and then way over on the left have an unlabeled axis with "5m, 10m, 15m, 20m" ticks...

I'd rather have title "latency" and either "seconds" on the left, or, given the confusion between "5m = 5 minutes" or "5m = 5 milli[seconds]", just have it explicitly labeled on each tick: 5ms, 10ms, ...

Way, way less likely to confuse someone when the units are right on the number, instead of floating way over in a different section of the graph
by mikestew | 2025-06-16 16:46:53+00:00
…whether that's ballpoints or razors or anything else.

Oh, man, those crap razors. I’m in Whitehorse, Yukon, and the only disposable razors the drug store carries are BIC. I remember that they’re crap, but obviously people must still buy them, how bad could they be?

I would have had fewer nicks and cuts if I’d used my pocket knife.
by Barrin92 | 2025-06-16 16:47:30+00:00
Take this with a grain of salt because I am not autistic but my first intuition when reading the paper wasn't that autistic people antropomorphize objects, but maybe its the other way around. Namely that they have less of a subjective or interior view on people, how other people see them and maybe how they see themselves (there's some comments to that effect in this thread)

Again because I don't have direct experience with it I don't want to lean too much into stereotypes, but it seems possible to me that people with autism have a more monistic, or at least less dualistic view on these things because the kind of thing that makes other people distinguish between subjects and objects is less present in people with autism.
by dylan604 | 2025-06-16 16:47:32+00:00
J&J's baby powder situation was related to asbestos[0]. So it must be under your "or something" hand wavy qualifier. If you're going to sling dirt, at least make it accurate. The benzene use was in other products like sunscreen[1]

[0]https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/johnsona...

[1]https://www.jnj.com/media-center/press-releases/johnson-john...
by mrguyorama | 2025-06-16 16:48:02+00:00
The US does not want to go to full scale, open war with Russia.

So the US will downplay or ignore some amount of aggression from Russia to do so.

If the US wanted to go to war with Russia, we would be playing up some rather minor thing, like sending a missile system into "Europe" or something.

When that Ukrainian SAM fell in Poland and killed a farmer, there was a late night emergency meeting between a lot of very important people from NATO countries to decide WTF to do. If the west wanted to fight Russia, that meeting would have resulted in an Article 5 declaration of some sort.

Russia is behind the sabotage/blowing up of a Czech Republic arms depot. If the west wanted to go to war with Russia, that could have also been an instigating event.

Russia will continue to get passes for "minor" acts of war as long as the west does not agree with sending citizens to die in a war.

That we don't equip Ukraine with more than enough war material to do whatever they are capable of, however, is fucking stupid.

Welcome to geopolitics.
by thuwarakesh | 2025-06-16 16:48:10+00:00
It may sound counter-intuitive, but we use AI to evaluate AI.

But the challenge is writing an evaluation prompt.

You get built-in prompts if you're using LLM evaluation frameworks. But they are often off the mark. They are too generic to evaluate AI responses on niche applications.

So you should write the prompt. Here's how.
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-06-16 16:48:11+00:00
//hack = I have found a way around the problem that was probably necessary to use and could even be arguably clever under the circumstances where a hack is required Example: When I suggested using data uri as source of iframe to get around domain security restrictions in FF and still allow you to click on links and scroll in iframe which using about: uri scheme did not (long story involving national security and identity platforms)

//stupid hack = somewhat ugly thing I am doing to somewhat solve problem because I am perhaps not clever enough to think my way to solution at this time. Example - when I set the center of the map to be a couple decimal points of latitude off from where the address actually was because the designer wanted the address to be not in the center of the map, because then it would be covered by the search box, but slightly above the search box. Stupid because I bet there was another way to do it, also stupid because it was not exact and so we did not know exactly where the address was going to be drawn in relation to the search box, but we knew pretty closely where and that was good enough.

//stupid fucking hack = ugly thing I am doing that must be done to get around problems even though as well as being ugly it is also less than optimal in multiple ways, requirement for this hack caused by third party who have screwed us over by their very existence which makes me incredibly angry Example: put span around any text node inside of an element rendered by React using a Ref to get around the Google translate bug and similar problems.
by stego-tech | 2025-06-16 16:48:32+00:00
I’m glad to see more research into this phenomena. Not the best data out there, sure, but it’s a start that could incentivize further research with proper sample sizes and procedures.

This is an issue I’m acutely familiar with. Everything of import is, to a degree, personified. Not everything gets a name, necessarily, but everything has an “identity” which helps me to process events and interactions with it.

AVR crashes? “Oh, she’s being pissy today.”

Car taking a little longer to start in the morning? “I know girl, I’m tired too.”

This extends to treatment: the more personified the object, the better its treatment. Stuffed animals get names and apologies, as does Siri (though the voice assistants also get a tongue lashing when they’re non-performant). When I retire something, I try to find it a good home before trashing it (which is why an old Pioneer HDMI 2.0 AVR is still sitting in a box, alone and unloved by a new owner). I treat objects with the same reverence I treat people, which earns me the occasional eyeroll.

I’d love to know more about why this phenomena is so prevalent in autistic people, and what the benefits or harms of it are. Here’s hoping another team takes up this baton and runs with it some more.
by alganet | 2025-06-16 16:48:43+00:00
Maybe I'm not.

However, I'm discussing this within the context of the study presented in the paper, not some future yet-to-be-achieved performance expectation.

If we step outside the context of the paper (not advised), I think any average developer is better than an LLM at energy efficiency. LLMs cheat by consuming more resources than a human. "Better" is quite relative. So, let's keep reasonable.
by filoleg | 2025-06-16 16:48:56+00:00
> Europe isn’t “starting from scratch.”It already has 12nm-class fabs (just like the US did until very recently), designs its own chips, and developed the very architecture — ARM.

Sure, but the way you put it makes the final outcome look even worse for Europe.

As you said, Europe already has 12nm-class fabs, designs its own chips, and yet they still went with NVidia.

If it was a choice between truly starting from scratch vs. going with NVidia, the decision to go with NVidia would’ve been more understandable. But given the context that they aren’t truly starting from scratch, their decision to go with NVidia just seems even more embarrassing.
by almosthere | 2025-06-16 16:49:12+00:00
"Child Actors" are more an exception. You can train a million children on the books of harry potter, only 3 or 4 will be good enough to be actors. The children that "made it" did so from grit and passion (or other traits) but very little from that reading of 10-20 books.

The AI that reads the books, and can do what LLMs do, are guaranteed to sold for billions in API calls.
by MarkusQ | 2025-06-16 16:49:48+00:00
Ok, I'll take a stab at it.

Suppose you had a bunch of decisions that needed to be made, and you would rather that (on average) they were made by smart people rather than dumb people. So you set up a system of tokens, where people with more tokens were allowed to make more of the decisions.

Then all you need is a system whereby smart people wind up with more of the tokens than dumb people. So you set it up that, when a dumb person meets a smart person, the dumb person gives the smart person some of their tokens.

But how are they supposed to know which is which? "Dunning Kruger" and all that seems to doom this plan from the start. But markets always find an answer; what we're seeing here is the efficient market resolving the question for us.

How was that?
by bsenftner | 2025-06-16 16:50:02+00:00
Exactly! Never ever ever have AI write for you. Ask it to critique what you wrote, ask it to pick your arguments apart. Then use your mind to fix what it pointed out. If you cannot figure out how, ask the AI to explain how. Then take a break, 20 minutes is fine, and then return and fix the issue yourself using your own mind to write without assistance. This is how one uses AI to learn.
by thfuran | 2025-06-16 16:51:30+00:00
>There are people out there who believe in crazy things. We agree on that. How we should treat those people, or react to their existence, is entirely outside of the scope of conversation. It is perfectly acceptable to call an irrational belief irrational.

But in this context, the purportedly irrational belief is that some phrases are offensive. If you accept that there are people who would, rationally or not, be offended by some phrases, then I don't understand why you would even make the claim that it's absurd to believe that some people would be offended by some phrases.
by wosined | 2025-06-16 16:52:26+00:00
Does Asymptote get much use these days?

Not sure. I use it and it is reguarly updated.

https://asymptote.sourceforge.io/ https://asymptote.sourceforge.io/gallery/2Dgraphs/index.html https://asymptote.sourceforge.io/gallery/3Dgraphs/index.html
by carlosjobim | 2025-06-16 16:53:32+00:00
Hold on... A ton of broadcasters, production companies, and individuals have done it and are doing it.

YouTube have many competitors and some of them are enormous, such as Netflix and cable TV. Production companies are popping up all the time and are making some of the world's highest quality material. The same for individuals who are making videos.

Or do you mean that YouTube needs a competitor that does exactly the same thing as YouTube?
by zaphar | 2025-06-16 16:53:35+00:00
I don't know. If you are in posession of enough of a controlled substance to kill 300 people I'm kind of okay with a drastic response. For every Preston Thorpe who turns their life around there 100s of others who will just go out and keep endangering lives like this. I think this is a nuanced topic and 10-30 years is too much for drug possession is entirely lacking the necessary nuance to evaluate. Comparison to other crimes is not particularly useful either without going into the relative harms of each as compared to the harms of the other.
by closewith | 2025-06-16 16:54:04+00:00
> Even if you don't have a metal pot you can do stuff like heating rocks and then stacking them on cool rocks inside a plastic, glass, ceramic, wood, etc container filled with water to get to a boil.

That can get you sterile water, although it's extremely difficult to do and involves many more rocks than you'd imagine easily 5x the mass of rock to water to get a rolling boil for a full minute, but it doesn't get you clean water. Now you have sterile water with a lot of potentially very unpleasant dissolved solids. Certainly not something you'll be using to feed an infant.
by hirako2000 | 2025-06-16 16:54:08+00:00
I came across Yoffee, also requires no specific build system or dependencies. Proposes to either code native web components, or not. No web components means instances are used to get fragments, and still support a state store. Not only one state store can be passed over to instance, as many as we want.

Can you compare with ZjsComponent?

Pure html and JavaScript from my experience is a relief, I still stuff the trauma of seeing jsx error cluttering the console with barely anything useful to troubleshoot.

How doé ZjsComponent compare, any advantage with your paradigm?
by greener_grass | 2025-06-16 16:54:37+00:00
Mojo's promise is the same code, but faster.

They were planning some language extensions but it's more like a compiler project than a programming language project.

The truth is, most developers don't want to learn a new language.

They will jump through extra hoops just to use their favorite one (e.g. Airflow).

Successful languages appear when there is an extreme market demand (C++ providing OOP over C) or, more commonly, a hot new platform that people want to get in on (JavaScript, Swift, Kotlin, C#, ...)

For most people, new syntax / semantics is considered a negative and there needs to be some massive upside to overcome that.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-06-16 16:54:40+00:00
> How does one plan ahead for a multi-day regional power failure, that may only happen once in their lifetime?

Ready.gov has instructions.

> Should everyone have several hundred gallons of gasoline stored in their garage just incase?

oh, c'mon.

Do you or any one person you know use several hundred gallons of gas over the course of a few days on critical things? If that is the case, then yes, by all means you should have a private gasoline backup supply since you are running some sort of industrial scale operation.

If you are worried about it, just make sure you have a several day supply of gasoline on hand. For most people that use about a tank of gas per week that means filling up when you are at half tank. For those of us, like me, who live in a place where a generator is occasionally useful, a couple of jerry cans full of gas are typically already on hand. Hundreds of gallons could keep me powered up for weeks at a minimum unless I was really trying to use a lot of power.

For most people, gasoline is used exclusively for their car, which has a multi-day gas supply storage mechanism built in.

Lets say we require all gas stations to have the ability to pump gas during a blackout. Then what? It doesn't solve any of your hypotheticals. Without a beefy generator and a professional crossover switch, you aren't powering your home with gasoline. What is a working gas station going to do for a renter, or apartment dweller?

In any case. If things get actually desperate, it isn't that hard for a handy person to wire a generator up on the spot, and get gas pumping, although at that point, what are the chances that the payment network is online. At that point you can just run the pump by hand if it's truly desperate.

> Suggesting individuals prepare for this seems equally absurd, does it not?

Not absurd at all. Experts and the government actually suggest that people do some of their own preparations for disasters. They suggest that you have enough on hand to survive for 48 hours without outside help. There are entire government initiatives, campaigns and organizations based on this exact premise. Check out Ready.gov for the USA federal version. You can probably find state and local level initiatives where you are too, if in the US. Almost every large, multi-day, regional blackout in living memory is weather related, which also means it is predictable.
by potato3732842 | 2025-06-16 16:55:05+00:00
Unless you do something so heinous it captivates the public or have a bunch of priors the only crimes that reliably will put you away for that kind of time are ones that the government takes specific offense to. Usually that means ignoring their monopoly on violence but seeing as this guy is behind bars for dealing and not murder I'd bet he just got unlucky and happened to sell the dose that some more equal animal or their relative OD'd on.
by tikhonj | 2025-06-16 16:55:22+00:00
This is a great example where humor can help: I love http.cat because the whimsy makes it easier to look up and remember status codes. Not exactly the same as jokes in code, but an example of how more humor can be better than less humor for practical, human-factors reasons.

https://http.cat/451 and https://http.cat/510 for reference

451 is a bit of a niche joke (took me a bit to realize it was Ray Bradbury), but 510 is definitely going to help me remember "not extended" :P
by almosthere | 2025-06-16 16:55:44+00:00
If you force the federal minimum wage to be $15 for the entire country - we're only exporting more jobs to other countries - nearly instantly.

I do believe that Tariffs should actually be determined by wage disparity. So if the US can make a paper plate for $0.01 each, but China can make it for $0.00001, then the Tariff for the paper plate should just be $0.01 - $0.00001. That way both plates are sell-able for the same price.
by toast0 | 2025-06-16 16:55:50+00:00
> Supposedly about a billion people paid for that at the time.

(I worked for WhatsApp from 2011-2019)

From that article, user count was about 900 Million when the fee was ended; user count was about 450 M in Feb 2014 when the acquisition was announced [1]. Either way, it is a mistake to think everyone was paying.

A) Some people still had lifetime accounts from when the app was $1 for iPhone, or from the typical late December limited time free for iPhone promotions. Windows Phone got marked as lifetime for a while due to a bug/oversight that took a while to get noticed.

B) Enforcement was limited. A lot of users wouldn't have had a payment method that WhatsApp could accept; demanding payment when there's no way to pay isn't good for anybody. For a long time, we didn't even implement payment enforcement; we'd go through and extend subscriptions for a year, initially by manual script, then through automation. When we did build payment enforcement, I think we only set it on for Spain and maybe the US. Everywhere else would get the reminders that the account was going to expire, and then on the day of, it would silently extend the account and not bug you again for a while. Even where payment enforcement was on, it would only lock you out for I think a week, then your account would be extended and maybe you'd pay next time.

Adding on, for a lot of users, the hassle of paying $1 is a bigger deal than the actual $1; but so for people in lower income countries, it's both --- a) it's hard to pay $1 to a US country for a large number of people, b) there are countries with significant number of people living on a dollar a day; I don't think it's reasonable to ask them to forgo a days worth of living to pay for a messenger.

I don't remember numbers, and there's not a lot of financial reporting, because WhatsApp numbers are so small compared to the rest of FB/Meta, but there's a first half 2014 report [2] that shows revenue of $15M. Assuming payments are even over the year (probably not a good assumption, but we don't have good numbers), that'd be maybe 30 Million paying users (some users bought multiple years though), or less than 10%.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-26266689

[2] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680114...
by throwaway1854 | 2025-06-16 16:55:56+00:00
is a judge going to think the same way if insurance doesn't pay and you take them to court though, in the event of a breach, etc.

After all it's perfectly possible to do interior work in your house that isn't up to code, but if it burns down in a fire, the insurance company will investigate and may not pay out if they find out.
by VirusNewbie | 2025-06-16 16:57:24+00:00
Mojo was also less ambitious in a lot of ways. It blows my mind the Eve and Darklang guys raised so much money without a lot of momentum. I'd think you'd go the other way, start an Open Source project, spend 10+ years gaining a community and refining it, then raise money.

In both of the above cases, the founders just got bored of their project before they found PMF.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-06-16 16:58:05+00:00
The far left is welcome to use those stupid terms. That is also their First Amendment protected speech.

Has anyone been charged with assault by the state for their speech? No.

Private schools and private employers are private entities (it’s in the name) ergo they do not have to respect the First Amendment. In fact they have First Amendment rights to kick out whoever they want, free of government compelling them otherwise.

Incredible eh?
by BiggerChungus | 2025-06-16 16:58:19+00:00
Respectfully, clearly you aren't familiar with Jan and Brian's history of public statements.

Even for years after they were acquired by Meta, Jan refused to allow advertising and kept pushing the $1 dollar per user subscription fee. Sheryl nixed it b/c it was "not scalable."

VC's may have the mindset that the founders will eventually acquiesce to ads, but also they didn't really care b/c all they wanted was an exit, which they got.

The founders, however, were never interested in an ad business and hold that POV to this day.
by bitpush | 2025-06-16 16:58:21+00:00
> Will We Be Migrating to a New Platform?

>> Most likely, yes. The CNCF Projects Staff, which includes several long-time Kubernetes contributors, has proposed that we move to Discord.

Unfortunately, this just feels like kicking the can down the road. The scale at which k8s operates can only be handled by a very few platforms, and discord is definitely at the top of the list but the circumstances that led to this Slack development will undoubtedly come for discord as well.

Perhaps this discord migration should be seen as a stop gap, while the committee looks to migrate to another place.
by ben_w | 2025-06-16 16:59:07+00:00
1) From what I've heard*, IQ 85 is about the lowest you can be and still function as a plumber. My statement stands about everyone less clever than the worst — not average, worst — plumber.

2) for all values of X in the last two years, every time someone suggests "robots/AI are nowhere near doing X", if X is coherent**, either an AI can already do X, or at most ends up doing it within six months.

So, anyway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmJIuns9nRk

* Which is really vague due to (1) how mediocre IQ tests are in practice and (2) the internet being full of oft-repeated nonsense since day zero

** The two things people end up correctly saying AI can't do, are (1) "solve the halting problem", and (2) reinvent literally everything starting from first principles.
by tptacek | 2025-06-16 16:59:30+00:00
In the law, the jaywalker and the driver will share responsibility. If you knowingly sell carfentanil, the mechanism by which the law apportions blame onto the "victim" won't exist: there is no set plausible of circumstances in which you could reasonably believe it was OK to sell someone carfentanil, where in the jaywalking case there are dueling factors of pedestrial negligence and driver duty of care.
by jxjnskkzxxhx | 2025-06-16 16:59:33+00:00
Awful. All these arguments boil down to "a large number of people couldn't possibly make decisions these bad". Can and do.

To be clear, Im not going to continue arguing this point. I find it as dull as trying to convince a fundamentalist that his arguments are circular. That was fun when I was 14 or so, but it's been a long time since.
by jakelazaroff | 2025-06-16 17:00:00+00:00
What could the technicality possibly be? They explicitly said they deported him due to his speech! This is like the most egregious possible violation of the First Amendment. The police literally — in the fashion of a cartoon villain revealing their dastardly plot — copped to breaking the law.

What the police did here doesn't hold up to even the most stringent possible definition of "freedom of speech", and it's also obviously unconstitutional. And there are still people trying to defend it. I'm honestly a little flabbergasted.