MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by almostdeadguy | 2025-06-23 20:06:19+00:00
I think this is all common knowledge? A brigadier general of the IRGC was in the room with Nasrallah when he was killed IIRC. I might quibble with "militia", which has legal ramifications I'm sure you're aware of. Maybe there are conspiratorial cranks who deny that's what Hezbollah is, but I'm not sure I know any people who would disagree with this. I believe Khamenei called Hezbollah and Nasrallah "his children" with pretty clear connotations being conveyed after Nasrallah was assassinated.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-06-23 20:06:26+00:00
Hold on there amigo.

What you said is that Fauci had no reason to believe that social distancing would be helpful and knew that it wouldn’t be helpful.

I just linked to very clear reason to substantiate his beliefs. Regardless of whether you agree with it or not, and even regardless of whether this view ended up actually being correct, this evidence existed.

It is empirically, obviously true there was reason to hold this belief.

> Yet a system that concludes both yes and no simultaneously isn't worth anything

I see that you’ve never heard of science… which concludes: “we don’t know yet” on most questions most of the time. The reality is we didn’t have high certainty on most of these questions and even still they’re open for debate. But we have to make decisions in the presence of uncertainty all the time! Even the decisions that ended up being wrong during COVID (of which there were plenty) were well within the aperture of reasonability given the conditions they had to be made under.

None of this gets even close to the threshold of the government propagating verifiably false information. Not even in the same ballpark.

> Such papers aren't worth much.

Lol. “How am I so confused about what’s going on?! Must be the institutions’ fault!”
by lizimo | 2025-06-23 20:06:44+00:00
Most of the documents are generated in an instant, plus we deployed this on Kubernetes with HPA, so high load isn't an issue.

The main issue I found with an HTML-based approach is that browsers are not designed for papers. It would be very challenging, but still possible [1], to customize the page layout, headers, and footers. Nonetheless, we have even more advanced use cases that only Typst/LaTex could cater to, such as displaying the table header of a table that spans multiple pages on every page.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_media_q...
by misiti3780 | 2025-06-23 20:07:23+00:00
A lot of people have shorted TSLA and lost a lot of money - See Jim Chanos. I actually agree the price is going to go down before it goes up, but I wouldnt waste money trying to time it

Long term I think they are fine - I think they will have solved FSD and no one will remember Elon's politics.
by lubujackson | 2025-06-23 20:07:25+00:00
These predictions seem wildly reductive in any case and it seems like extrapolating AI's ability to complete task that would take a human 30 seconds -> 10 minutes is far different than going from 10 minutes to 5 years. For one reason, a 5 year task generally requires much more input and intent than a 10 minute task. Already we have ramped up from "enter a paragraph" to complicated Cursor rules and rich context prompts to get to where we are today. This is completely overlooked in these simple "graphs go up" predictions.
by djoldman | 2025-06-23 20:08:15+00:00
> Greenpeace calls for the following measures to minimize the environmental impacts of Artificial Intelligence:

> 1. An energy-efficient AI infrastructure powered 100% by renewable energy. This green power must be additionally generated.

> 2. AI companies must disclose: a. How much electricity is used in operating their AI. b. How much power is consumed by users during their use of AI. c. The goals under which their models were trained, and which environmental parameters were considered.

> 3. AI developers must take responsibility for their supply chains. They must contribute to the expansion of renewable energy in line with their growth and ensure that local communities do not suffer negative consequences (e.g., lack of drinking water, higher electricity prices).

Is there a term for "energy neutrality," the cousin of "net neutrality"?

Do we as a society want to wade into the morass of telling people what kinds of activities they can use energy for?

If we care about saving a watt-hour, there are lots of places to look. Pointing fingers at the incredible energy consumption of internet-delivered HD video might not feel very comfortable to lots of folks.
by johnisgood | 2025-06-23 20:08:33+00:00
Oh but there is an objective way to substantiate this claim. How familiar are you with Perl? It will not work (to convince you) if you do not know the language, you need to be quite familiar with it. There are extremely short ways to do string manipulation, for one, think 3 characters short. So, assuming you know Perl, it is definitely easier AND faster, than say, Python.

Trivial example:

Replace all numbers in a string (faster and easier in Perl):

Perl:

$string =~ s/\d+/NUM/g;

Python:

import re string = re.sub(r'\d+', 'NUM', string)

Perl's design history is text processing as a first-class goal. It has syntax-level efficiency, and expressive power (e.g. s///e, tr///, inline regex flags, etc.). Do you want me to go on? These are all objective ways to substantiate the claims I made.

Perl is implemented in C with a runtime that aggressively optimizes text processing. The core primitives such as split, join, substr, index, s///, etc. are tight wrappers around C functions with minimal object overhead. In Python, even simple string manipulations go through Python's object system, and in Python strings are immutable, so every manipulation creates a new string object, which incurs extra memory allocation and garbage collection.

Perl is typically 30-80% faster in similar regex-heavy workloads because there is no import overhead, there is internal opcode dispatch for regex, and no allocation of new strings until match is confirmed.

Additionally, Perl frequently wins by eliminating boilerplate, as shown above. It has advanced features with simple syntax, too, meaning you get fewer lines of code, fewer concepts to juggle, and faster iteration time. Python, by contrast, forces the developer to switch between the re module for non-trivial regex, multiple string method calls, and so forth.

Shall I go on? I can objectively substantiate my claims with regarding to Perl vs. Python, as I have done above, but if it is not enough for you, I could easily go on. I can give you benchmarks, too, if you so wish. FWIW, my claim was: you can achieve string manipulation / text processing faster (both execution speed and development time) and easier in Perl vs. Python.

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The bottom line is, that for text-heavy workloads, Perl remains the more efficient and developer-friendly tool as opposed to Python; a conclusion that can be quantified, measured and defended objectively. It is not an opinion, nor a matter of taste.

Just to reiterate, across a wide range of text processing tasks, Perl consistently offers:

- Fewer lines of code

- More powerful and concise idioms

- Better CLI support

- Faster execution for regex-heavy operations

- Less boilerplate and setup overhead

This list is non-exhaustive, and I can get more into the implementation details (I did touch it above), too, if you so wish, such as, for example, how Perl's interpreter is string-first and how Perl uses SVs that are internally optimized to handle both numbers and strings interchangeably without conversion overhead, as opposed to Python that uses PyObject-based immutable strings which incur copy-on-write penalties and method dispatch overhead.
by kevincox | 2025-06-23 20:08:37+00:00
The problem isn't that "chemicals are bad" but that we don't know which chemicals are bad. Ones that we have been eating for centuries are unlikely to be significantly harmful and we can stop consuming them them when evidence is found. But for things that we haven't been eating for that long we don't really know. Right now the system is sort of set up as default-allow. So what happens is that some company wants a blue dye because they think blue candy will sell. They try things until they find something that isn't obviously harmful and start selling it. Then in 20 years it is found that it actually was harmful in the long term and impacted a huge swath of the population. The company then searches around until they find another blue dye that isn't obviously harmful and the cycle repeats.

To some degree we do need to experiment and try new things. However for something like food dyes it likely isn't really worth the risk. Or at least they are far overused. Many of the foods with dyes aren't that healthy anyways, so maybe it is is best to have them less attractive to avoid ingesting more chemicals which we don't have strong long-term evidence that it is safe.

We see a very similar cycle with plastics, refrigerants and many other things. We use something for a long time before realizing that it actually has harmful effects, then industry just creates a new very similar chemical that isn't known to be bad yet (or at least isn't bad in the same way the last one is). In some cases it is probably worth it (refrigeration is a valuable technology) but in the cases where it isn't as valuable to society we should be much more conservative with what we allow.

That being said, the proposed regulation isn't scientific and doesn't play with this nuance. A more reasonable approach would be raising the standards for introducing new chemicals (natural or artificial) to food. Not just banning anything "artificial" (whatever that means).
by movedx01 | 2025-06-23 20:08:51+00:00
This is great, and I keep my fingers crossed for Hatchet!

One use case I imagine is key here is background/async agents, so OpenAI Codex/Jules style, so that's great if I can durably run them with Pickaxe(btw I belive I've read somewhere in temporal docs or some webinar that Codex was built on that ;), but how do I get that real-time and resumable message stream back to the client? The user might reload the page or return after 15 minutes, etc. I wasn't able to think of an elegant way to model this in a distributed system.
by tinco | 2025-06-23 20:08:53+00:00
I can't wait until my daughter is old enough to play the Wind Waker. It's so amazing that only one generation after OoT they released a Zelda that not only is arguably as good or even better than OoT, but it holds up over 20 years later. You can play Wind Waker today and not realize it's not a new game, the graphics and the gameplay are just perfect.
by colechristensen | 2025-06-23 20:08:55+00:00
>Does it ever put things in absurd places, eg. a necessary dungeon key in a random grotto halfway across the map (or in another time)? Without clues, how would you know where to check next? Does the game help at all?

It can be configured with options as to how items are distributed. But yeah, in general anything can be anywhere. Without clues: sometimes there are clues, those silly gossip stones in OoT can output a message about the general location of a thing, but you check everything you can. You learn which items open up each logic path and then open every chest, do every quest, etc.

>How out of sequence can the game get?

Completely. There are randomizer settings that require glitches and sometimes if the logic is wrong (it is sometimes) there are unwinnable seeds.

> Someone should do this with Majora's Mask, but in a way that can somehow combine the two games.

Someone did:

https://ootmm.com/faq

There are a few multi-game randomizers out there.

Some of them even run on real SNES hardware
by gabrielruttner | 2025-06-23 20:09:51+00:00
gabe, hatchet cofounder here. thanks for this feedback and i agree!

under the hood we're using vercel ai sdk to make tool calls so this is easily extended [1]. this is the only "opinionated" api for calling llm apis which is "bundled" within the sdk and we were torn on how to expose it for this exact reason, but since its so common we decided to include it.

some things we were thinking is overloading `defaultLanguageModel` with a map for different usecases, or allowing users to "eject" the tool picker to customize it as needed. i've opened a discussion [2] to track this.

[1] https://github.com/hatchet-dev/pickaxe/blob/main/sdk/src/cli...

[2] https://github.com/hatchet-dev/pickaxe/discussions/3
by quonn | 2025-06-23 20:10:03+00:00
How do you get the idea that we have any of that technology? Brains are nothing like computers and we have almost no technology that is like biology. There is no reason to be sure that we can just scale down the existing tech to arrive at something as efficient. Maybe we can. But if not then developing a system that‘s more like chemistry could take 50 years or 100 or more.
by HeyLaughingBoy | 2025-06-23 20:10:13+00:00
> There are many more people qualified to do my job than there are jobs.

Maybe. But are they in your city or prepared to move there? Are they available now? Have they applied for this job? Would they even want this job?

All of these, and many more, are considerations that you need to take into account before writing yourself off so easily.
by pydry | 2025-06-23 20:10:21+00:00
Yeah, they invaded twice and in each case a little diplomacy would have been sufficient to roll back the invasion. Diplomacy which was categorically refused for terrible reasons.

Hey, if you want to fight and die on behalf of your Western empire then Ukraine will be only too happy to have you and every Ukrainian of fighting age about to be thrown on to the front lines will be only too happy to trade places.

But, I get it - it's easy to treat little things like honest diplomacy and other countries' security concerns with complete disregard when you're not the one being thrown on to the front lines to die as a result of it. Only Ukrainians are forced to do that.

>Repeating Putin's talking points probably isn't going to convince anybody

Putin's a terrible human being and so are his supporters but he's not all that different to his western imperialist counterparts and the supporters of their narratives - people like you.
by zevon | 2025-06-23 20:10:43+00:00
I would personally rank a traditional iPhone home button sensor and the backside sensors on certain Android devices as equally great for unlocking while sliding the phone out of a pocket and general convenience.

Side button sensors work OK, too but I have much more misses on my supposedly more "modern" side button sensor phone than I ever had on old Pixels or any old iPhone with a home button sensor. I assume this is due to the size and general shape of a side button in comparison to an iPhone-style home button or old-Pixel-style back sensor which are bigger, indented and finger-guiding.
by dc396 | 2025-06-23 20:10:46+00:00
Those are a selection I've subscribed to (and pay for Patreon/TWIT membership for Data over Dogma and Security Now respectively to support the creators). If you like Data over Dogma, another in the academic study of early Christianity/Bible that might be interesting is Biblical Time Machine -- similar content, albeit less 80s and 90s references :).
by kypro | 2025-06-23 20:11:24+00:00
As someone in the P(doom) > 90% category, I think in general making overly precise predictions are a really bad way to highlight AI risks (assuming that was the goal of AI 2027).

Making predictions that are too specific just opens you up to pushback from people who are more interested in critiquing the exact details of your softer predictions (such as those around timelines) rather than your hard predictions about likely outcomes. And while I think articles like this are valuable to refine timeline predictions, I find a lot of people use them as evidence to dismiss the stronger predictions made about the risks of ASI.

I think people like Nick Bostrom make much more convincing arguments about AI risk because they don't depend on overly detailed predictions which can be easily nit-picked at, but are instead much more general and focus more on the unique nature of the risks AI presents.

For me the risk of timelines is that they're unknowable due to the unpredictable nature of ASI. The fact we are rapidly developing a technology which most people would accept comes with at least some existential risk, that we can't predict the progress curve of, and where solutions would come with significant coordination problems should concern people without having to say it will happen in x number of years.

I think AI 2027 is interesting as a science fiction about potential futures we could be heading towards, but that's really it.

The problem with being an AI doomer is that you can't say "I told you so" if you're right so any personal predictions you make have no close to no expected pay-out, either socially or economically. This is different to other risks which if you predict accurately when others don't you can still benefit from.

I have no meaningful voice in this space so I'll just keep saying we're fucked because what does it matter what I think, but I wish there were more people with influence out there who were seriously thinking about how they can best influence rather than stroking their own own egos with future predictions, which even if I happen agree with do next to nothing to improve the distribution of outcomes.
by shihab | 2025-06-23 20:12:45+00:00
I don't believe you really can in GPU world. With CPU, if you ignore something important like cache hierarchy, the performance penalty is likely to be in double digits percentage. Something people can and do often ignore. With GPU, there are many many things (memory coalescing, warp, SRAM) that can have triple digits % of impact, hell maybe even more than that.
by badwolf | 2025-06-23 20:12:48+00:00
>none of the pharmacies in his city have it. >He lives in Seattle.

Stores may have it, but have it locked up or behind the counter (or just not carry it at all) my (seattle) grocery store carries hand sanitizer, but not on the shelf. You have to find an employee (good luck...) and ask them to go get it from the back/wherever. Or order the same product on Amazon for same-day delivery for the same price or cheaper :-/
by zamadatix | 2025-06-23 20:13:08+00:00
If you're just playing it for fun the PC port has randomizer seed support as well as a ton of other QoL improvements. If you're doing things as part of a group race there might be a requirement to use only certain emulators or real hardware though, depending how much the group cares.

In general, if you can play the game on the system you can probably get the randomized ROM to play on it.
by bigyabai | 2025-06-23 20:14:24+00:00
I dunno. On the one hand, I think the whole x11 revival project is silly and isn't likely to live past 2030 for most hardware. x11 itself has been in maintenance-mode for years, so the ideological rift over whether or not it's a good idea to revive it is settled. Escalating this argument to ad-hominem is exactly what the trolls want, so they have a polemic to plant their flag in the ground against the "evil progressive agenda" they claim opposes them.

On the other hand, free software prevents you from banishing these people out of the Linux software community - it's their right to publish software as much as it is yours. The really sad part is that it's politicizing the most positive change Linux has had in years, on the heels of Nvidia finally treating Wayland like a first-class citizen. In the broadest sense, Wayland brings Apple Silicon, Nvidia, Intel and AMD users under one well-maintained umbrella. As time goes on, it's not going to make sense dying on the Xorg hill with most of the modern users on Wayland.

So, the war is over. Belligerent anti-Wayland trolls want you to take this bait and crash out.
by lifeisstillgood | 2025-06-23 20:14:46+00:00
We (various human societies) do need to deal with this new ability to surveil every aspect of our lives. There are clear and obvious benefits in the future - medicine, epidemiology will have enormous reservoirs of data to draw on, entire new fields of mass behavioural psychology will come into being (I call it MAssive open online psychology or moop) and we might even find governments able to use minute by minute data of their citizens to you know, provide services to the ones they miss…

But all of this assumes a legal framework we can trust - and I don’t think this comes into being piecemeal with judges.

My personal take is that data that, without the existence of activity of a natural human, data that woukd not exist or be different must belong to that human - and that it can only be held in trust without explicit payment to that human if the data is used in the best interests of the human (something something criminal notwithstanding)

Blathering on a bit I know but I think “in the best interests of the user / citizen is a really high and valuable bar, and also that by default, if my activities create or enable the data,it belongs to me, really forces data companies to think.

Be interested in some thoughts
by tzs | 2025-06-23 20:15:32+00:00
> Humans aren't proof that you can't do better than vision, we are proof that the problem can be solved with vision.

It's proof that the problem can be solved with vision when your driver is a human. That doesn't necessarily prove it for non-human drivers implemented on currently known AI architectures.

Humans can learn from a lot less data then current non-human AIs require. We also learn in the field, often recognizing when we've made a mistake and consciously updating ourselves to handle similar situations better in the future. It is possible that this is necessary to make vision only driving work well.
by gabrielruttner | 2025-06-23 20:15:43+00:00
perfect use case and this was one of the reasons we built pickaxe, we have a number of coding agents/pr review platforms powered by hatchet with similar patterns already... more to come on the compute side for this use case soon

we'll have agent->client streaming on the very short term roadmap (order of weeks), but haven't broadly rolled out since its not 100% ready for prime time.

we do already have wait for event support for client->agent eventing [1] already in this release!

[1] https://pickaxe.hatchet.run/patterns/human-in-the-loop
by HeyLaughingBoy | 2025-06-23 20:16:25+00:00
I literally had that happen to me at an annual review.

I got a great review and asked for more money than the raise my boss offered. He had no authorization to go that high, but because I asked for more and having had a good review gave me a strong position, he went to the VP and got approval for it.

It's just business: you're selling a skill. Try to get a good price for it.
by Saline9515 | 2025-06-23 20:16:31+00:00
I took sleeper trains in France when I was younger, it was quite modern (2000-ish trains), but not a good experience honestly. You have to share a tiny room with 3 other strangers, you are stressed about a possible aggression and/or theft and/or bed bugs, everything is impractical, your neighbor may snore, you can't really take a shower... and I can imagine that a woman can feel very unsafe there, too.

I can see the appeal for young people who want to stay in hostels to save money, but honestly I prefer to drive or take a plane. Money here is not the problem.
by amy214 | 2025-06-23 20:16:43+00:00
This is not just an issue of my child, for example, if a German user were to open that site in public, they would be found guilty of hate speech, amongst dozens of localities : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bans_on_Nazi_symbols. Also in California, where speech is free but is not free of consequences.

I don't make the rules here, I just don't want this guy to go to jail for his fun project.