MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jrflowers | 2025-06-24 19:38:32+00:00
You literally say that you lose respect for people that don’t agree with you about chat bots.

Seeing that your essay is about people’s presumptions about one another, and you say that you lose respect for people based on their chat bot opinions without a lick of self-awareness around the topic of the essay it can be concluded that your overall thesis is that people that don’t like chat bots like you do are inherently less worthy of respect.
by maerF0x0 | 2025-06-24 19:38:42+00:00
False, rents are based on what the market will bear. The value of the property is stickier than rents.

Plus one can be "losing money" on cashflow but earning money in equity, so one can rent for less than the mortgage while the value of the asset is rising even faster than the monthly loss. Of course this only happens based on speculation and having free cash to "lose" monthly.
by snackbroken | 2025-06-24 19:39:05+00:00
The few times I've used LLMs as question answering engines for anything moderately technical, they've given subtly-but-in-important-ways incorrect information such that taking them at face value would've likely lost me hours or days of pursuing something unworkable, even when I ask for references. Whether or not the "references" actually contain the information I'm asking for or merely something tangentially related has been rather hit or miss too.

The one thing they've consistently nailed has been tip-of-my-tongue style "reverse search" where I can describe a concept in sufficient detail that they can tell me the search term to look it up with.
by diegomacario | 2025-06-24 19:39:12+00:00
I did this for years to learn computer graphics. I spent so many weekends and evenings building weird things that never made me a single dollar, but all the knowledge I gained eventually led to the job of my dreams. Here are some of the weird things I built:

- Tiny ray-tracer: https://github.com/diegomacario/Super-Sunshine - 2D rigid-body simulator: https://github.com/diegomacario/Dyna-Kinematics - Character animation system: https://diegomacario.github.io/Animation-Experiments/public/... - Animation curve visualizer: https://diegomacario.github.io/Animation-Magic/public/index.... - Motion capture playback in the web: https://diegomacario.github.io/Hands-In-The-Web/public/index...

That's a mountain of code that served one purpose: to gain knowledge.
by kps | 2025-06-24 19:39:19+00:00
The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.”

He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I'll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don't have to pay you.”

“I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.”

… he found the contract. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip.

“You discover I'm right,” the door said. It sounded smug.

From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door.

— Ubik, Philip K Dick, 1969

Apple read Ubik and took the lesson to build everything with proprietary screw heads.
by imchillyb | 2025-06-24 19:39:21+00:00
That philosophy has some lingering halitosis of truth to it.

Any inspection of any economy suggests otherwise. How many tire manufacturers are out there? How many different brands, styles, and types of tire? How many total US Dollars per year are those companies sharing?

How about oil changes? Car washes? How about car wax?

New doesn't equal profitable. Making a different product, or service, is where most of the profits on earth sit.

Wanna be a rebel and broke? Then by all means follow the new-new and barely break-break even.
by jbuch | 2025-06-24 19:39:32+00:00
Full spectrum would be more optimal, but the 5700k "daylight" LEDs I'm using still work very well. They're probably lacking a bit on the red end of the spectrum compared to a full-spectrum light, but otherwise they cover the photosynthetic range pretty well. See page 19 of the datasheet for the LED spectrum: https://downloads.cree-led.com/files/ds/x/XLamp-XTE.pdf. And here for some decent general info: https://www.neherpetoculture.com/vivariumlighting101.

Anecdotally, I've successfully grown a range of plants in these including mosses, ferns, and orchids.
by slt2021 | 2025-06-24 19:39:34+00:00
"Exporting the Islamic Revolution, in Khomeini's view, meant the export of the teachings and experiences of the Iranian Revolution to other nations for their liberation from the colonial powers"

the main lesson of the Iranian Revolution is to 1) get rid of the western colonialists' control over oil resources in the muslim world, and 2) get rid of the western settler colonies that are oppressing muslims in the region.

Remember that the Iranian Revolution was happened against the western controlled puppet Shah that gave all of Iran's oil to the British Petroleum (Anglo-Persian Oil Company)
by beepbooptheory | 2025-06-24 19:39:36+00:00
Yes, we hear versions of this conceit a lot, but how does it play out? Like where exactly is this arbritrary power exercised in your mind? Where is the payout? In each discrete call out or critique? Is the world in your view just full of a million tyrants fighting for various fiefdoms, or is there just one collective bad faith actor here? How can you marry here both the overarching individualism which would make this rendering possible with collective phenomena we actually see with this stuff?

This really is just what we have been hearing from the cultural right for a long time, masked as a kind both-sides/human-nature take. It sounds good, in that it gives something like general principle to subsume all the instances. But it just doesn't really make sense in the actually existing world. How could any given side even know they are the new hegemon, the new line-drawers, at any given moment. At what point are they rewarded with regard to the influence they wield? What does it even look like? Do you have examples? Sovereignty implies a concentration of something like power, but your very point here seems to decentralize sovereignty to the point of it being unrecognizable as such. Its like taking something very individual and trying to stretch it across everything in awkward way.

Just simply: how does this actually work? When does whatever side thats on top actually get to feel good, actually get to be the sovereign?
by timewizard | 2025-06-24 19:39:36+00:00
> and are generally unaware of their own shortcomings

You don't see your own here? Are you honestly sitting on the side of the road and intentionally evaluating drivers according to some criteria? Or are you just allowing yourself to notice that which inconveniences you?

Do you ever take time to notice how _convenienced_ you are? How cooperative other drivers can be? How often the rules get followed even though there is no one around to enforce them?

> the author interacts with can think critically about a complex topic

People can. They let their emotions get in the way and they simply choose not to. Frustratingly they never seem to notice when this happens. They remember that they _can_ make rational decisions so they assume _all_ their decisions are rational.

> I wish I lived where the author lives

Your experiences would likely not change.
by rizzom5000 | 2025-06-24 19:39:41+00:00
> Is there something here about the role of (and lack of in this case) deliberate and intentional practice?

Something like 50% of college graduates in the US are considered functionally illiterate, despite an enormous number of opportunities for intentional practice; and despite presumably knowing, at least somewhat, of the benefit of attaining more advanced literacy. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna10928755

When I think of poor drivers, I think their incentives to become a good driver are much higher. After all, their own lives and the lives of their loved ones are at risk.
by kmeisthax | 2025-06-24 19:39:49+00:00
> “We will have a trial on the pirated copies used to create Anthropic’s central library and the resulting damages,” Judge Alsup wrote in the decision. “That Anthropic later bought a copy of a book it earlier stole off the internet will not absolve it of liability for theft but it may affect the extent of statutory damages.”

I'm not sure why this alone is considered a separate issue from training the AI with books. Buying a copy of a copyrighted work doesn't inherently convey 'fair use rights' to the purchaser. If I buy a work, read it, sell it, and then publish a review or parody of it, I don't infringe copyright. Why does mere possession of an unauthorized copy create a separate triable matter before the court?

Keep in mind, you can legally engineer EULAs in such a way that merely purchasing the work surrenders all of your fair use rights. So this could wind up being effectively: "AI training is fair use for works purchased before June 24th, 2025, everything after is forbidden, here's your brand new moat OpenAI"
by IncreasePosts | 2025-06-24 19:39:50+00:00
Has the professor shared what their messages actually were? This is the same exact issue that this thread is about - it's impossible to judge this without any kind of detail except the outcome.

The messages were described by the source in your article “reflect[ing] hatred toward Trump and can be described as terrorism”, and “hateful and conspiratorial messages”. Maybe they were? Who knows?
by blobbers | 2025-06-24 19:40:16+00:00
I think most Americans do not understand what is a healthy food and would think of a "balanced" meal of carbs, protein and fat, with fat being bad circa the 1960s line of thinking.

"I think most people know what’s considered healthy food. They maybe wouldn’t be able to perfectly break down ideal ratios of macronutrients, but they have a rough idea. The average person whose bad diet is making them unhealthy would probably be able to point to the bad diet as part of the problem. If I walked up to the average person and asked them to make an ideal meal plan for themselves to be maximally healthy, I think most people would do a decent job."

This is why most of america is stuck in diabetes land. I bet you most americans couldn't tell you the difference between if something is high in carbohydrates or fat.
by LarsDu88 | 2025-06-24 19:40:30+00:00
Maybe this should be titled "Basic Facts about Nvidia GPUs" as the WARP terminology is a feature of modern Nvidia GPUs.

Again, I emphasize "modern"

An NVIDIA GPU from circa 2003 is completely different and has baked in circuitry specific to the rendering pipelines used for videogames at that time.

So most of this post is not quite general to all "GPUs" which a much broader category of devices that don't necessarily encompass the type of general purpose computation we use modern Nvidia GPUs for.
by pvtmert | 2025-06-24 19:40:31+00:00
tl:dr; remove memes before entering to the US. welcome to the most free country in the world.

> Mathias Rongved, a spokesperson at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has warned fellow Norwegians that it is their duty to be clued up on US regulations before entering the country. "Most trips to the US go without any particular problems," he said.

> "Entry regulations can change at short notice, and it is the traveller's responsibility to have valid documents and be familiar with the current entry regulations. It is the immigration authorities upon arrival who decide whether you are rejected at the border. Norwegian authorities cannot intervene in this decision.
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-06-24 19:41:11+00:00
"Yeah, yeah." in a sarcastic tone of voice means "no". Also see the opposite meanings of "yeah, nah" and "nah, yeah" in Midwestern US English. Or the Japanese who will say "yes" out of politeness while meaning "no" which you should be able to intuit from context. Etc.
by qsort | 2025-06-24 19:41:12+00:00
Those quizzes are completely worthless. There's no way 53% of the population doesn't know that. It was probably worded weirdly or set up in a way that tricked people.

Another one that made the rounds recently was the one where they asked people to estimate what percentage of the population is trans, and the median answer was like 20%. There is no way this captures actual beliefs held by real people, it's a number so unaligned with basic reality that the only thing it points to is a flaw in the test.

My working theory is that a good chunk of the interviewees are uncomfortable being asked nerd shit like this and they just say whatever they think will make the game stop.
by cpburns2009 | 2025-06-24 19:41:22+00:00
The impact of a 2x speedup is relative. For a quick test on one of my projects it's 10 seconds with pip and 4 seconds with uv. That's roughly in line with my previous testing. It's a nice minor speedup on average. It really shines when pip does some non-optimal resolving in the background that takes a minute or more.
by ryandrake | 2025-06-24 19:41:34+00:00
Got it! The financial incentive will probably turn out to be a double edged sword. Maybe in the pre-AI age, it’s By Design to drive those goals, but I bet the ability to automate submissions will inevitably alter the rules of these programs.

I think within the next 5 years or so, we are going to see a societal pattern repeating: any program that rewards human ingenuity and input will become industrialized by AI to the point where it becomes a cottage industry of companies flooding every program with 99% AI submissions. What used to be lone wolves or small groups of humans working on bounties will become truckloads of AI generated “stuff” trying to maximize revenue.
by umanwizard | 2025-06-24 19:41:44+00:00
The point of analogies isn't to claim that the two things being compared are exactly identical, it's to draw attention to the ways in which they're similar that are relevant to the point being discussed.

By the way, I never said anything like "power tripping pro-MAGA border guards are okay because there are volcanoes in Iceland", so your lightning vs. speed limits analogy isn't relevant.
by dexwiz | 2025-06-24 19:41:51+00:00
Bad drivers are a poor example. Driving is an inherently social activity. It involves subconsciously predicting other people's behaviors. Each region has its own definition of what is the norm. This includes things like acceptable speeding, lane switching behavior, average distance between cars, etc. When reality differs from expectations, we label them as a bad driver.

But are they a bad driver? Maybe. Or maybe they are driving according to another region's expectations. So any time you see a bad driver from another region, or you are the one in another region, stop and think is it really bad, or just unexpected?

For this reason I ignore all claims of "People from X are terrible drivers." No, they just drive differently.
Show HN: Zooesis – instant veterinary lab test analysis from a photo
by alejandropr_ai | 2025-06-24 19:42:24+00:00
For the past year, I’ve worked closely with veterinarians and saw how much time is lost manually transcribing and interpreting lab results—often leading to mistakes and delays, especially in small clinics or rural practices. I realized there had to be a better way.

So I built Zooesis (https://zooesis.com) from scratch: an AI-powered tool that analyzes veterinary lab tests (CBCs, biochemistry panels, urinalysis) instantly from a photo. It uses language models to extract values, interpret results, and generate clear, ready-to-use reports in seconds—no manual data entry required.

If you’re a vet, work in a clinic, or just curious about AI in healthcare, I’d love your feedback, suggestions, or questions.

Website: (https://zooesis.com)
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-06-24 19:42:28+00:00
I don't really get a lot of joy out of building copies of things other people have done better than me before. Almost by definition, no list of cool toy projects is going to appeal to me for that reason. I might like the techniques or algorithms employed within them, but frankly if I'm after that kind of knowledge I just find Leetcode and traditional studying to be both higher value and more fun.

But I do like writing programs in some strange new, non-CS domain where very little software to address my very particular needs already exists. Most of the software I've written in the last few years has been of this kind, for the purposes of learning Finnish. It is amazing what a few shell scripts, fzf wrappers, and well-timed calls to an LLM can do for accelerating one's own learning process.
by Michelangelo11 | 2025-06-24 19:42:58+00:00
The author's point seems to be: "It's not that they don't know it's bad. They know, and they do it anyway. The fact that they know shows they're not stupid."

Umm, OK? I still don't get why, in the author's view, they do the bad thing on purpose, and why that is not stupid. (Perhaps the author might make say that doing a stupid thing doesn't make someone a stupid person, or something to that effect -- but, even if so, I don't see any sign of that argument in TFA.)
by archagon | 2025-06-24 19:43:06+00:00
To my chagrin, I recently learned that plain old parchment paper is made with plastic. In trying to avoid plastic as much as possible in the kitchen, I seem to be falling back to the ancient technique of slathering every cooking surface in butter or lard, and even that doesn't always cut it. (Try cleanly removing a cheesecake from a springform pan without the use of parchment paper or Teflon coating...)

By the way, even glass bottles aren't safe, apparently, unless the cap material is carefully vetted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44332912
by jfengel | 2025-06-24 19:43:23+00:00
We should expect the average person to struggle with factual questions about abstract ideas and far-off events, but not so much about what’s right in front of them day to day.

But it's the former metric that I care about.

The average person gets through their day, and that's great. I don't interact with them about that. It does not affect me one way or the other.

Their opinions about "abstract ideas and far-off events" do affect me. That's clearest every couple of years, when they vote (or fail to). In between, the results of their opinion are imposed upon me by literal force. The government has a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence, and those elections determine what is "legitimate". Just the threat of violence is sufficient to drastically affect my life.

I don't expect people to be experts. Democracy rests on the proposition that reality puts a thumb on the scale. If ignorance is randomly distributed, and the experts mostly agree, then you'll get the right choice most of the time regardless.

That's a pretty nifty proposition. It means that nobody has to designate who the experts are, which is fraught. But that presumption of ignorance being randomly distributed is dubious. People can easily become convinced of very bad ideas, and there are no good options for dealing with that.
by shagie | 2025-06-24 19:43:26+00:00
What contracts? And would it run afoul of first sale doctrine?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine

> The doctrine was first recognized by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1908 (see Bobbs-Merrill Co. v. Straus) and subsequently codified in the Copyright Act of 1909. In the Bobbs-Merrill case, the publisher, Bobbs-Merrill, had inserted a notice in its books that any retail sale at a price under $1.00 would constitute an infringement of its copyright. The defendants, who owned Macy's department store, disregarded the notice and sold the books at a lower price without Bobbs-Merrill's consent. The Supreme Court held that the exclusive statutory right to "vend" applied only to the first sale of the copyrighted work.

> Today, this rule of law is codified in 17 U.S.C. § 109(a), which provides:

> Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106 (3), the owner of a particular copy or phonorecord lawfully made under this title, or any person authorized by such owner, is entitled, without the authority of the copyright owner, to sell or otherwise dispose of the possession of that copy or phonorecord.

---

If I buy a copy of a book, you can't limit what I can do with the book beyond what copyright restricts me.
by username332211 | 2025-06-24 19:43:37+00:00
I mean, yes. A country that maintains unnecessary employment in agriculture won't have the labor force to develop industry.

Accumulated capital, will by necessity flow towards other countries, where factories can be built and staffed. Meanwhile, because of the lack of potential competition with industry, the agricultural workers will be treated as poorly as the capital owner pleases. But that doesn't mean they'll be happy to be expelled from their lots of land, even if it'll help them.

None of that should be a mystery.
by dan-robertson | 2025-06-24 19:43:40+00:00
Do you have a good reference for sims merge sort? The only examples I found are pairwise-merging large numbers of streams but it seems pretty hard to optimise the late steps where you only have a few streams. I guess you can do some binary-search-in-binary-search to change a merge of 2 similarly sized arrays into two merges of similarly sized arrays into sequential outputs and so on.

More precisely, I think producing a good fast merge of ca 5 lists was a problem I didn’t have good answers for but maybe I was too fixated on a streaming solution and didn’t apply enough tricks.
by dgfl | 2025-06-24 19:44:17+00:00
Nobody would be communicating with neutrinos or gravitational energy. EM radiation is way easier to emit and detect, and at cosmic distances they all scale exactly identically (inverse square law). The other things you mentioned are mostly sci-fi inventions and there’s nothing in known or unknown physics that would hint towards them being plausible communication media.

It’s not about being shortsighted, it’s about everyone being constrained by the same laws of physics. Our models, however imperfect, are still unreasonably good.
by dkarl | 2025-06-24 19:44:45+00:00
If you assume that people's preferences are revealed by their behavior, then you are assuming there is no stupidity. You're starting from that conclusion.

However, you could also choose to believe their regrets, when they look back on their own choices and say that the pleasure than they gained from them did not repay the misery they suffered because of them.

If you choose to disbelieve their regrets, then maybe you would agree to label their regrets as stupid?
by alejandropr_ai | 2025-06-24 19:45:46+00:00
Hey HN,

I’m a software developer who loves creating solutions that make a real difference. As the owner of two beagles, I’ve seen firsthand how important fast and accurate veterinary care is—not just for clinics, but for pet owners like me.

After noticing how much time vets spend manually transcribing and interpreting lab results (and how easy it is for errors to slip in), I decided to build Zooesis. It’s an AI-powered app that analyzes veterinary lab tests from a photo, interprets the results, and generates a clear report in seconds.

My goal is to help veterinarians and their teams save time, reduce mistakes, and focus on what really matters: caring for our animals.

I’d love any feedback, suggestions, or questions—always looking to improve!

Alejandro
by animatethrow | 2025-06-24 19:46:04+00:00
At least with Windows one can 100% disable start menu ads using either gpedit or regedit. A major reason I switched from iOS to Android are the much more powerful adblocking options for browsers (Brave, Firefox, etc.). On Android I can use F-Droid and Aurora Store and install a bunch of Google Play Store apps without a Google account. I can use a proper terminal with a real filesystem and git.