MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ifyoubuildit | 2025-06-11 19:55:57+00:00
Your "statistical proof" is an offhand vague quote about how it "still can help".

Here's an actual study from nejm: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2116597

There was a brief period where this study shows 2 doses reduced the rate of transmission by 68%...during a short window of time. This effect was much less and even shorter lived for later variants.

Ultimately, pretty much all of these people would go on to contract covid, making the claim that the vaccines would make you "unlikely to transmit" very obviously untrue. Remember, the statement wasn't unlikely to transmit for a few months. It was unlikely to transmit, period.

Even if they continued to reduce transmission by 68%, which they clearly didn't come close to, "unlikely to transmit" would still be an overstatement.

This I what a fleshed out argument looks like. Do you have anything substantial to offer in return?

EDIT: strong work there.
by xp84 | 2025-06-11 19:56:22+00:00
I decided to take a very non-representative sample, and found that in many (but not all) parts of northern California, locations of the chain tire shop that I use are closed on Sundays, but most locations in the LA area are open 7 days a week. This chain has a lot of locations. It could be that they're responding to what their competitors do in both cases. So maybe getting tires on Sunday is a so-cal thing? TBH, I personally am more used to expecting the tire shop to be open 7 days a week, unless it was a small, locally-owned place.
by sevensor | 2025-06-11 19:58:02+00:00
I disagree with the entire premise that sending a whole second robot on a space mission is desirable. All that extra mass! And why humanoid? Not a reasonable form factor for a robotic space vehicle. Anyway, on a space mission, mass is everything. Why spend it on manipulators for fixing robots when you could build redundancy where you need it most? Your general purpose robot fixing robot still has to carry spares! Why do that when you can have built in spares in the first place, without the mass of a whole second robot?
by marojejian | 2025-06-11 19:58:16+00:00
I listened to that book and enjoyed it. But that said, I'm torn between friendliness to the general concept, and skepticism based in part on the bias of proponents to deeply desire plants to display something like intelligence (a bias I share).

For example the most amazing claims in the book were around the ability of Boquila trifoliolata to dynamically mimic other plants.

see this old HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31301454

But when one looks more closely the research, the behavior isn't as dramatic as Zoe made it sound, and the research may not be so strong, e.g. :

https://press.asimov.com/articles/plant-vision
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-06-11 19:58:20+00:00
How would you have prepared, were you in their shoes? Roanoke Island was first landed in 1585. The only foreknowledge of the area would have been wildly embellished and optimistic reports (competing for financing, royal favor and prestige) from the likes of Spanish and French expeditions, or Sir Francis Drake. This was mostly limited to coastal recon and said little of the dangers of malaria, indian politics, seasonality, etc.

For example, the Amadas-Barlowe Expedition (1584) described Roanoke Island as "the most plentiful, sweet, fruitful and wholesome of all the world," with fertile soil, abundant wildlife, and friendly natives
by cryptonector | 2025-06-11 19:58:59+00:00
The get function always returns you a stable value if at least one value was ever written (else you get NULL, natch).

The set function will not invalidate any values seen by get that might still be referenced, but the new value will be seen by all subsequent gets.

Old values will be destructed when no longer referenced.

To read-copy-update you'll need to take a lock (that readers don't), get the current value (it will be the current one given you're locking out other writers), copy it, modify the copy, then set the new value.

You don't have to read-copy-update if the new values don't depend on the preceding values. So my API does not force read-copy-update, but you can do RCU with it.
by briandoyle81 | 2025-06-11 19:59:14+00:00
Because skilled writers have started using in place of semi-colons and parentheses in modern writing - it just feels right!

AI models are trained off the work of these writers, so they use them now. Except that the difference is that a writer will just use the - next to the `0` key, expecting that Word, Google Docs, or whatever is turning their markdown into rendered text will automatically turn it from - to an em dash, which is a different character.

The models are then provided that rendered or autocorrected text, and return text with the em dash, instead of the one we type.
by hollywood_court | 2025-06-11 19:59:35+00:00
Oh I know. Carlos Ghosn got them to focus more on the fleet market. I'll always be a Toyota/Lexus man, but I owned a Datsun wagon for a while and I followed the industry closely when I ran an import repair shop (which was never open on a Saturday or Sunday).

It's wild how that one man managed to change the entire path of a once great brand.
by masklinn | 2025-06-11 19:59:41+00:00
> A more ideal approach could be to expose a simple rest API or webhook that allows for the repo owner to integrate external tooling that is better suited for the purpose of enforcing status checks.

That... has existed for years? https://docs.github.com/en/rest?apiVersion=2022-11-28

That was the only thing available before github actions. That was also the only thing available if you wanted to implement the not rocket science principle before merge queues.

It's hard to beat free tho, especially for OSS maintainership.

And GHA gives you concurrency you'd have to maintain an orchestrator (or a completely bespoke solution), just create multiple jobs or workflow.

And you don't need to deal with tokens to send statuses with. And you get all the logs and feedback in the git interface rather than having to BYO again. And you can actually have PRs marked as merged when you rebased or squashed them (a feature request which is now in middle school: https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/2)

> PRs are hardly latency sensitive, so polling a REST API once every 60 seconds seems acceptable to me.

There is nothing to poll: https://docs.github.com/en/webhooks/types-of-webhooks
by jws | 2025-06-11 19:59:43+00:00
I dried three red oak trees using a dehumidifier kiln. ( 4'x4'x16' 1" pink insulation foam box assembled with packing tape with a household dehumidifier and fan inside. Very low tech. Knock it down when not using it.)

The process is mostly: measure moisture content of wood, pick a humidity to maintain, check wood periodically to see if it is drying too fast or too slow. Weigh water coming out to monitor process.

Very low effort if you have space to allocate while in use. The wood came out well, no complaints.

One downside is you won't kill insects with heat, so you could have trouble if it is buggy wood.
by qualeed | 2025-06-11 20:00:04+00:00
From the post: "I want to live [...]"

I am saying this completely honestly, with no sarcasm:

I truly hope that you never have to experience (or witness a loved one experience) the kinds of illnesses/injuries/diseases that would make someone consider assisted death. It is a blessing that you can't imagine the situation. Because the situations that make you consider assisted death are awful.
by jmann99999 | 2025-06-11 20:00:06+00:00
What sticks with me about Pet Sounds, aside from its unique sound, is that Brian Wilson put sand in his house around the piano to make a more physical and emotional atmosphere in which to help his creation. Here is the only photo I have seen of that. [0]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/thebeachboys/comments/137tx33/the_o...
by wkat4242 | 2025-06-11 20:00:09+00:00
Nice! I wish this worked on my XReal Air :( It does have IMU sensors because their own app (nebula) uses them, and even does 3D effects.

By the way I find my Quest 3 way more comfortable than the Xreal. The problem with the xreal is, the prescription inlays are too small so I can see only a part of the display sharp unless I put in lenses every time. And it is kinda heavy on my nose and ears. the Quest is super nice, has a wider FoV. But it's heavier and bulkier to bring along of course.

PS I had no idea you could connect an HDMI dongle to the quest. I'll check that out.
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-06-11 20:00:13+00:00
I seriously wonder why a state (France in my case) preggers to have people jumping from buildings on into a train than to have them terminate their life peacefully.

I know that when I have Alzheimer or ALS out similar stuff I will commit suicide, quickly. I will have to prepare early to have some poison or jump into a train (something I would like to avoid to not traumatize the driver).

Why not simply helping me when this is what I want, in the name of who knows what.
by absurdo | 2025-06-11 20:00:40+00:00
> As I’ve written before, there are few institutions, or people, with a higher approval rating than Dolly Parton. While I love her for her music and the feeling of joy she gives us, I also love that Dollywood Express, the heritage steam train that operates within Dollywood, has a higher rail ridership than 27 states.

Oh I’d ride that, alright!
by grafmax | 2025-06-11 20:01:43+00:00
It’s somewhat misleading to claim that better care today is the reason for higher costs. Most other developed countries have some form of universal coverage and pay significantly less per person. That includes countries like England, Germany and Switzerland which also have advanced healthcare capabilities. Other countries negotiate drug prices, provide budgets for hospitals rather than charging per procedure, regulate medical prices, and have reduced administrative costs (compared to the US which must deal with the complexities of multi-payer).

That’s to say nothing of the fact that millions are uninsured in the US and have limited access to necessary medical treatment, never mind “cutting edge” treatments.
by twright | 2025-06-11 20:02:06+00:00
When I was still making YouTube videos my big rule was "make videos you yourself would watch" (which may not necessarily reflect what is popular). I tried doing some programming videos once and quickly found that screen-recording + narration is very different from speaking into a camera. Someone here mentioned getting a draft out, definitely a good idea. Record a video and edit together and you'll be able to see what's missing and what you need to iterate on.
by sans_souse | 2025-06-11 20:02:12+00:00
I own a Pixel 7 and two OP7 Pro 's. The OP7Pro runs much smoother and reliably, the physical buttons + the slider switch are sturdy and I would still recommend people buy this phone today. $<200 refurb for this device was an easy buy after paying closer to MSRP for my first one.Pixel's aren't what they are made out to be. "Feature"-rich - sure.

I don't call things I don't want to have "features" It's just more bloat in my mind.
by dachris | 2025-06-11 20:02:41+00:00
I've also seen elderly people whose time was past (very old, bed-ridden, lost their partner) go into into what's basically hunger strike in the nursing home. They said "I'm not really hungry today", eating very little, getting thinner and thinner until the end.

It's now legal here, but family, religion and tradition can be obstacles to assisted dying.

In case you don't want to leave that way, you have to prepare ahead of time. There's different legal means in different countries, e.g. advance directive covers the case where you can't decide yourself anymore.
by bluGill | 2025-06-11 20:03:12+00:00
If that is your motivation you just blanket send those advertisements all month. Because you want women to think of you when they have need. Some women are stocking up before they have need, and so the coupon when they are having their period is when they won't be buying supplies. Even those who are buying as they have need, if they are out they are buying from the closest store at whatever price, while those who are not in an emergency know where the low prices are (wal-mart or such)
by phsource | 2025-06-11 20:03:30+00:00
Hey figmert -- this is Peter, one of the co-founders of Wanderlog. I'm actually on a trip to Italy right now and definitely feel your pain with some performance issues, and we've been working hard to improve this.

If you haven't tried the app in the last few months, can you try it again and let me know what parts are feeling slow for you by emailing me directly at peter@wanderlog.com? I'd love to take a closer look, and especially if you've got specifics with screenshots/videos, I can try to fix some of these myself too.
by whoisyc | 2025-06-11 20:03:48+00:00
There is no answer to the question “what Joyce would have done…”. None. Nil. They are dead and anything done it their name is by definition not what they would have done, but what future generations who are convinced that they know better than the men themselves did.

It is better to leave unanswerable questions unanswered.

I am not against LLM technologies in general. But this trend of using LLMs to give a seemingly authoritative and conclusive answer to questions where no such thing is possible is dangerous to our society. We will see an explosion of narcissistic disorders as it becomes easier and easier to construct convincing narratives to cocoon yourself in, and if you dare questioning them they will tell you how the LLM passed X and Y and Z benchmarks so they cannot be wrong.
by TeaBrain | 2025-06-11 20:03:58+00:00
>Everyone else? Well, they (and you, in fact) didn't answer a fairly simple question, and then got pissed off. You can draw your own conclusions.

I did see the question you spammed around the thread. Most people likely didn't respond as they don't have any motivation to prove anything to a random user, which is what you are to them. Also, I couldn't have refused to answer the question you spammed, like you seem to be implying, as I was never asked. Unless you are confusing me with someone else, you seem to be reaching the inane conclusion that every single user who glances at your questions and doesn't respond is implicitly refusing, which is absurd.

Besides this, the premise of your question is flawed, as you would have recognized had you thought through it. The detail, besides his being white, that you seem to be looking for is of hardly any relevance to the novel. A reader could skip the pages those details are mentioned and it would have virtually no bearing on their ability to understand any context, as anyone who has read the book would know. It's about as relevant as remembering the exact number of days till Hal's urine test. Similarly, you could pick any given book that a group of people have read cover-to-cover, and ask a question about a minute detail, and likely most of the readers would not be able to accurately answer, unless they either just finished reading the work, or are currently reading or re-reading it, which you admitted to be doing.
by deepGem | 2025-06-11 20:04:05+00:00
Currently,

You train a VLA (vision language action) model for a specific pair of robotic arms, for a specific task. The end actuator actions are embedded in the model (actions). So let's say you train a pair of arms to pick an apple. You cannot zero shot it to pick up a glass. What you see in demos is the result of lots of training and fine tuning (few shot) on specific object types and with specific robotic arms or bodies.

The language intermediary embedding brings some generalising skills to the table but it isn't much. The vision -> language -> action translation is, how do I put this, brittle at best.

What these guys are showing is a zero shot approach to new tasks in new environments with 80% accuracy. This is a big deal. Pi0 from Physical Intelligence is the best model to compare I think.
by Spooky23 | 2025-06-11 20:04:07+00:00
You could make the same argument about highways if you didn’t have the massive federal funding. Maintenance of an interstate averages around $15,000 per lane/mile. Bridges are 7-12x.

We had a viable rail network all over the country as recently as the early 1950s. Federal policy blew it up because dispersing the population was seen as a civil defense priority for an atomic war, and cars and airplanes provided an economic engine to keep workers and returning soldiers employed.

Later, the shift to rural industry and trucking was a way to break unions. Meatpacking transformed from a good union gig back to an oppressive industry fueled by undocumented labor. If the workers acted up, the owners would realize they knew where a bunch of undocumented people lived and call in INS/ICE.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-06-11 20:05:01+00:00
"Your honor, I could not have possibly shot that person, because yesterday might not have been before today, or at least, there is reasonable doubt that yesterday was before today, according to some physicists on crack. I treat those physicists with high regard personally though, and they have degrees that you don't have, so the court must reasonably conclude their opinions should be entertained."
Show HN: LLM Anon – Anonymize code before sending to AI assistants
by ChrisbyMe | 2025-06-11 20:05:11+00:00
Hi HN!

I use AI to debug lots of issues for work and always have to play this game where I remove company specific info from the code to anonymize it before uploading.

I wanted to automate this process into a CLI tool and give coding agents a shot.

The results were really good and way better than I expected so I'd like to share it with you all. Everything runs via local LLM with Ollama and can be installed with uv.

Key features:

- Local processing (no data leaves your machine) - Validation system with banned string detection and re-prompting - Supports Python, JS/TS, Java, C++, Rust, Go - Simple installation: uv tool install llm-anon

Example workflow:

Create validation config

echo "MyCompany" > secrets.txt

echo "internal-api.company.com" >> secrets.txt

Anonymize code with validation

llm-anon sensitive_code.py --validation-config secrets.txt -o clean_code.py

The tool will retry anonymization if it detects any banned strings in the output, making it much safer to share code with external AI services.

GitHub: https://github.com/ChristianBako/LLM-Anonymizer
by const_cast | 2025-06-11 20:06:44+00:00
IMO the problem with the current software landscape isn't the number of applications, it's the quality and availability of integrations. Everything is in it's own little kingdom, so the communication overhead is extreme and grows exponentially. And by overhead I mean human cognition - I need to remember what's in my notes, and then put that in my calendar, and then email it to myself or something, and on and on.

We have these really amazing computers with very high-quality software but still, so many processes are manual because we have too many hops from tool to tool. And each hop is a marginal increase in complexity, and an increase in risk of things going wrong.

I don't think AI will solve this necessarily, and it could make it worse. But, if we did want to improve it, AI can act as a sort of spongy API. It can make decisions in the face of uncertainty.

I imagine a world where I want to make a doctor's appointment and I don't open any apps at all, or pick up the phone. I tell my AI assistant, and it works it out, and I have all my records in one place. Maybe the AI assistant works over a phone line, like some sort of prehistoric amalgamation of old technology and new. Maybe the AI assistant doesn't even talk to a receptionist, but another AI assistant. Maybe it gives me spongy human information, but speaks to other's of it's kind in more defined interfaces and dialects. Maybe, in the future, there are no applications at all. Applications are, after all, a human construction. A device intended to replace labor, but a gross approximation of it.
by hodgesrm | 2025-06-11 20:06:45+00:00
I suspect most people who read unabridged Pepys for any length of time end up feeling very ambivalent about him as a person. His diary contains the some of the deepest introspection of a human life--both the good and the bad--in the history of literature. Rousseau was a cheap marketer by comparison.

That depth of revelation is one of the things that make Pepys hard to put down, even as you find his personality increasingly disagreeable. It is a truly remarkable work.

Edit: added unabridged for clarity
by ofalkaed | 2025-06-11 20:07:19+00:00
The joints used in dried are dictated by the operations which are easier to do in dry wood and are not influenced by what the wood will do as it dries. Dried you get to use a saw with considerably less kerf and a thinner plate, augers can be more aggressive and take better advantage of lead screw and spurs. Chisel work will be a bit slower when chopping across the grain but not harder and if it incurs many more trips to the sharpening stone you are most likely trying to chop that mortise as you would in green wood.
by bitpush | 2025-06-11 20:07:37+00:00
> Apple had a few Siri layoffs but it seemed to keep the ship steady.

I'm curious how you came to this conclusion against Assistant and Alexa teams. It isnt like Assistant & Alexa shutdown completely, and Siri was uniquely left alone.

Siri's missteps are well documented. If anything, from the quality & speed with which the product is evolving, it seems like Siri might be more resource constrained.
by toast0 | 2025-06-11 20:07:54+00:00
I mean, it was more than marketing. It was hard to build an app that would use WP8 features on WP8 but also run on WP7. If you kept building for WP7, the WP8 features were unavailable; you'd end up with maybe a shared core and a WP7 app plus a WP8 app, and then WP8.1 did the same kind of thing, and finally WM10 let you build "universal" apps which would only run on WM10, which never managed to get an current install count more than WP8, and might not have managed to surpass WP7 either.

WP7 itself was a throwing away of compatability with Windows Mobile apps; reportedly, that loss of goodwill is why Google refused to support the platform. WM6.5 apps would have been out of place on WP7, but if Microsoft was still yelling about developers x3, maybe they would have made that transition possible --- require a new frontend for cohesive UX, but allow for core libraries from older apps to run as-is, instead of forcing the new apis.
by fisiko | 2025-06-11 20:08:54+00:00
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