MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stonemetal12 | 2025-06-06 14:10:07+00:00
>Certainly so many people can't be too weak to regulate one of the most basic facets of existence? How did we come all this way as a species if we are so fundamentally flawed at basic metabolic regulation?

There have been fundamental shifts in CI and CO. Food went from fundamentally scarce and requiring effort to fairly abundant, and the effort to acquire keeps going down. Over the course of US history we have gone from farmers to factory workers to desk workers. Each of those transitions has lowered "natural" daily CO, as such each one has brought about weight increases.

>"trying harder" is just akin to insanity?

Yes, try smarter. CI/CO is true but I find it to be bad advice because a) it is damn near impossible to measure, and b) straight forward CI/CO changes can lead to opposite results.

What I find works for me:

Cut CI a little bit, large calorie cuts can slow metabolism. Up CO a little bit, exercise boosts metabolism even when not working out. Anerobic is better at boosting metabolism than aerobic.

Food wise, sugar and salt drive the human appetite. Reducing them will help you not feel as hungry while reducing CI. The other is just get used to eating less. Low food days help reorient to smaller meals feeing right. By "low food day" I mean find something small, low sugar, and salt (personally I use unsalted peanuts) when you feel hungry stop and focus on the feeling and try to determine if it is actual hunger or just habit hunger, if it is "real" hunger then eat a handful of peanuts and wait 15min before you reevaluate. The day after eating less will feel normal.
by ivanmontillam | 2025-06-06 14:10:12+00:00
I was singling out the idea that a YAML front matter with Markdown is not specially innovative or attractive as a feature.

In fact, YAML is pretty hard to use to be advertised as user-friendly[0] front matter that can be edited by hand.

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[0]: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/yaml-tips
by petercooper | 2025-06-06 14:10:35+00:00
Not at this stage, but it's relatively simple. You can see the feed in question at https://heap2.com/hn-newest.rss

The basic process is fetching https://hnrss.org/newest then piping each item through gpt-4.1-mini with just the URL and title (I think fetching each actual page is overkill and a bit greedy) and asking it to figure out if something is likely to be development related. If it's a confident yes, that item then gets into the final feed. It cuts the firehose down quite a bit just with that simple approach.
by freedomben | 2025-06-06 14:10:50+00:00
Indeed. A family member of mine had a helpful amount of income coming in from a channel of his that was gaining momentum. The point of the channel was to teach gun safety to people new to guns. Keep in mind that where we live, all of this is 100% legal and even encouraged, yet, YouTube threw so many ridiculous barriers in the way that he could not create much content That didn't end up getting removed. He eventually threw in the towel, and now people new to guns have less access to genuinely helpful information that might save their lives. It seems ironic to me that they had to aggressively remove anything that mentioned covid and didn't go exactly down the government line because otherwise it could get people killed, but they have no problem removing gun safety videos.
by nickdothutton | 2025-06-06 14:11:04+00:00
> It did not even occur to me that it was all a scam, that everyone else knew it was all a scam and the actual point was to get rich.

I feel that as a GenX'er I should now dispense some wisdom to Millenials and Zoomers about life, but I just don't have the energy. Read Gaetano Mosca.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-06-06 14:11:05+00:00
I am sure that it isn't that big of a dealbreaker for me personally but surely this can be created by the Manticoresearch right? It doesn't seem to be that bad given the performance gains of atleast 2x on elasticsearch which is already pretty performant in my opinion and also, you get to be stress free about if elasticsearch would change its license again or not given their license pull if I remember correctly.
by roenxi | 2025-06-06 14:11:10+00:00
If anyone thinks drawdowns should be done of the US federal government they aren't anywhere near the levers of government. There hasn't been one of those in the best part of a century as I recall.

> Thinking back on it, a disaster should have been the expected outcome.

I doubt anyone with decision making power is surprised - the flow of events has been both predictable and predicted. Whatever the goals with DOGE were it wasn't spending cuts or finding efficiencies. The first is in opposition to the preferences of the US Republicans as expressed in their actual voting patterns and the second is largely irrelevant and they weren't set up to do that.
by TrackerFF | 2025-06-06 14:11:16+00:00
They also put a 23 year old to essentially greenlight or stop NSF grants.

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/02/a-23-year-old-crypto-bro...

I just don't understand how these people can do what they do? If I was a fresh college grad, and put in that position - to have the final say on whether experts in their fields can get grants, to conduct research on something I have no expertise in...I don't think I could do that job. I'd feel like the biggest empty suit in existence. Don't they feel any shame?

Or do they suffer from some superiority complex, where they think that whatever knowledge they have in AI/ML makes them the smartest person in the room?

EDIT: Reading through it, at least the guy acknowledges his errors.
by narratives1 | 2025-06-06 14:11:53+00:00
I’ve heard this before and just don’t get it. Buying healthy food is generally cheaper, or just as expensive in my experience. Buy some vegetables, some chicken, some fruit, eggs. These are generally very affordable, you just have to cook with them.

Sure, buying Just Salad is more expensive than buying McDonald’s, but that’s not the only options.

The bigger problem IMO: we put way more sugar, sweeteners, and addictive substances in food and have big portions where people feel obligated to finish. It’s very easy to eat 100g of sugar every day and hardly notice. Combine that with most American activities involving food and alcohol.

We have a culture that encourages eating and food that responds by being more eatable
by Workaccount2 | 2025-06-06 14:12:02+00:00
"Free" video hosts work for advertisers. Those are their customers.

I can guarantee that if youtube got 70% of it's income from paid subscriptions, they would not give a fuck about 99% of this.

If you want youtube (or any other platform) to not suck...pay for it.

There is no world where you are not a paying customer and get treated like your opinion matters much.
by jrs235 | 2025-06-06 14:12:08+00:00
>At least in the US where the problem is much worse than in the EU, I would say the major driving factor is the lack of cheap healthy foods.

And portion sizes! There a several factors that lead to such large portions. Americans expect (and now desire, thanks to the ever expanding gut lines) to be stuffed from an ordered meal so producers spend the extra $1 on food costs to ensure larger portions and fewer complaints. We'd complain is the the $9 burger was made into 1/3 sized $3 burgers. Additionally the fixed costs of running a food joint require to low cost and high margin items (like fountain soda) to survive.
by bubblyworld | 2025-06-06 14:12:36+00:00
Yeah, it's true, there is politics in mathematical truth, for better or worse. That is slowly changing with the adoption of proof assistants, I think. A lot of well-known names (like Tao and Conrad for instance) are starting to formalise large swathes of modern maths in Lean, for instance. Perhaps it will never get to a point where it is so easy that formal proof is required to publish a result, but who knows? It seems like a start.
by 542354234235 | 2025-06-06 14:12:50+00:00
My partner has this pretty significantly. One interesting byproduct is that for most of her life, she didn’t really understand that other people could just recognize and recall faces. So when a bartender would recall her by name when she had been to a place 3 or 4 times in the last month, she thought they were a creepy stalker and not just someone that automatically recalled her. Because for her it is a deliberate and active process of picking out distinctive traits (glasses, beard, bald, gaunt face, small nose, haircut) to “learn” someone’s face. Or thinking she was just completely anonymous if she went to the same club, on the same nights each week, stood in the same place, and people watched. She was horrified when I told her that everyone that worked there definitely remembered her and probably a bunch of the other regulars too.
by vikramkr | 2025-06-06 14:13:17+00:00
I mean, they're cheaper models and they aren't as much if a pain about rate limiting as Claude was/they have a pretty solid depenresesrch without restrictive usage limits. IDK how it is for long running agentic stuff, would be surprised if it was anywhere near the other models, but for a general chatgpt competitor it doesn't matter if it's not as good as opus 4 if it's way cheaper and won't use up your usage limit
by corytheboyd | 2025-06-06 14:13:21+00:00
Hah I just recently was doing some soul searching for a game dev environment to get started with. I did a wee bit of 2D game dev in college 15 years ago, and wanted to scratch the same itch.

At this point, I demand a good IDE experience: as much intellisense as possible, great debugger, hot reloading.

Anyway, C# and MonoGame was what won at the end of the day, at least to just get the ball rolling. Rider is a great IDE, and MonoGame… at least has great getting started documentation to get me going again. Once I knock out a few cutesy games I’ll probably go build my own thing on top of SDL3, so that I’m not held back by MonoGame. Also the MonoGame content builder is just completely broken on Mac, so on the side I am building my own Rider plugin to bring actually good intellisense to the mgcb file, so that I don’t need the broken editor gui (all it does is manage the mgcb file anyway, arguably should have just been an IDE plugin the whole time)

I tried Dragonruby, really wanted to like it, but the development experience is just… not there. It live reloads, but seems to offer no IDE tooling whatsoever. They talk a lot about emacs, maybe you’re supposed to use it with emacs, which I just have zero interest in doing. You’re also not using MRI, or the full Ruby language, so a lot of tooling for “normal Ruby” may not work. C# is just C# with MonoGame, I can use all the tools, import all the nuget packages (if you really want to), etc.

I felt like going with a C based project would lock me out of having hot reloading, but that might not be true, please let me know if I am wrong!. I know of a C++ hot reloading thing specifically made for game dev, it’s in my notes somewhere, just not sure if it’s suitable for use (you sure do have to sift through lots of abandoned experimental stuff in this world)
by nancyminusone | 2025-06-06 14:13:47+00:00
>You can also forget about the inverse square law to protect you

No, you don't get to ignore physics because the source is not a point source

>Very large area of EMP

How large?

>Induces currents in any conducting material

So does a magnet falling off my fridge. What magnitude of currents, at what distance, in what sized conductor?

>During E1 the frequencies are so high

How high are they?

There can be radio waves strong enough to fry a silicon chip. There can be radio waves strong enough to melt glass vacuum tubes. This article provides no parameters by which one can make these calculations.

You might as well say "don't get nuked" which is admittedly sound advice.
by fkyoureadthedoc | 2025-06-06 14:15:04+00:00
This doesn't really hold up to scrutiny. Big Pharma would benefit from everyone taking ivermectin to cure their covid, yet content about that was removed. Google is bigger than the entire Pharma industry, and only a couple Pharma companies had covid vaccines.

There's also a ton of general anti-pharma content on YouTube that they'd get taken down, demonetized, etc if they had any power over YouTube.
by dralley | 2025-06-06 14:15:08+00:00
One open issue has a comment at the bottom saying that the issue is fixed and was an issue with Mutter. There's no evidence to think that it was ever a "wayland" issue.

One open issue has had locked comments for 5 years. It's probably fixed but nobody has bothered to close it.

Most of rest were not actually "wayland" issues, either. Yes, someone's hobby project screen recorder might not get updated to work with wayland, but there's dozens of those, feels a bit unfair to ignore that there's alternatives.
by darthcircuit | 2025-06-06 14:15:32+00:00
The problem is that YouTube and Google on a whole actively encourage the use of YouTube in schools, home schooling, and education in general. Google workspace for education is free for educational institutions. They also have a curated YouTube kids app with a giant feed of brain rot that they consider to be safe for kids, but only because the content doesn’t show anything graphic or have bad language.

On the other hand, porn services are (generally) actively blocked in educational institutions, so the content, regardless of its educational quality will never be suggested to kids because they are not a target audience. (Not to mention the legal trouble these services would have from actively enticing minors) I doubt we’ll see “PornHub for kids” our RedTube signing a contract with Blippi or Miss Rachel.
by grues-dinner | 2025-06-06 14:15:41+00:00
Plus artillery shells, cruise missiles, high altitude balloons and various other ways to fill the sky with literally tons of foil, chaff, tiny bits of wire, smoke, ball bearings, blaring radio transmitters, balsa wood dummy gliders, whatever is hoped to disrupt the targeting long enough to sneak something nitrogen-rich near to the fiddly optics.
by smeej | 2025-06-06 14:15:45+00:00
Sincere question: Is there any societal change you wouldn't want to survive?

I don't have any trouble saying this is a race I'm fine with "losing" because I refused to play, because the prospect of living in such a world sounds horrible to me.

From my perspective, it's not that different from the reason I don't own a remote bunker anywhere. I wouldn't want to survive a nuclear holocaust, because living in a post-nuclear-holocaust world sounds horrible.

The fact that other people might do things I would find terrible, and that I might rather let them kill me than willingly participate in the world their activity created, seems obvious to me, but I can at least imagine how someone else might see it differently.

Perhaps it's that many things seem worse to me than death?
by Mindwipe | 2025-06-06 14:15:49+00:00
> DVD encryption is not considered DRM or encryption in the EU, as it is too weak to provide any meaningful protections.

Yes it is.

Where on earth did you get that idea from? Heck, even YouTube's rolling cypher has been found to be sufficient protection to quality from anti-circumvention provisions, and no actual encryption was used there.
by neogodless | 2025-06-06 14:16:03+00:00
You may have missed the point of the parent comment.

Without defining the experience you can call it better or worse than any random thing!

But if the video stops every 0.1 seconds to buffer for two hours, is that better than stopping very 25 minutes for a 30 second ad?

If the video must be 24 x 32 pixels for the bandwidth to be low enough for your server restrictions, is that worse than the above scenario but a 4k 60fps video?

Where do you draw the line for experience?
by RandomRandy | 2025-06-06 14:16:25+00:00
I think that part of the issue is the split between CDNA for data centers [1] and RDNA for consumer products [2] with AMD only having the money to focus on the bigger data center market. There are rumors that both architectures will be merged into UDNA in the future, which will hopefully improve ROCm support, but for now it's lacking

[1] https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/cdna.html [2] https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/rdna.html
by benjaminjt | 2025-06-06 14:16:36+00:00
Yeah, I think accountability is a straw man.

If you make it cheaper, easier and more socially acceptable for a group of people to eat low quality processed foods, even a portion of the time (as is the case where I live), that group of people will be more likely to eat processed foods.

It’s not impossible to follow the advice in the in the article, it’s just harder than it should be for some groups of people. Unfairly so, I think.
by Calwestjobs | 2025-06-06 14:16:56+00:00
1. google how many lightning strikes are there per day

2. google how many millions of miles/kilometers of electric wires is hanging in air all over the world providing people with electricity

3. do not google how many of those millions of lightning strikes PER DAY disabled those billions of miles of wires per day, by applying energy bigger than nuclear EMP. do not google that.
by pfdietz | 2025-06-06 14:17:00+00:00
> There is no disadvantage to being able to synthesise vitamin C,

Synthesizing vitamin C takes energy, energy that could be used for other biological processes. It's also possible excess vitamin C has some minor deleterious effect. For example, it's an antioxidant, and these render immune cells somewhat less effective against certain threats (which they use oxidizing chemicals to destroy). It's been found larger doses of the ACE vitamins causes increased growth of lung cancer, probably due to reduced immune attack.

Some have argued against this idea, though, although I'm not convinced by the argument (see if you can spot the problem.)

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3145266/
by crypto_throwa | 2025-06-06 14:17:41+00:00
I'm in a chat with one of the engineers on DOGE (young college dropout), and they're trying to recruit more young college dropouts to work on DOGE.

I would characterize some in this group as believing they're smarter than everyone else or anything that's been done before, so yes I think it's pure hubris.

There are a lot of bright people in the chat working on very important things, but they're not the ones joining DOGE.
by dismalaf | 2025-06-06 14:18:01+00:00
The entire thesis behind the open source security model is to have lots of eyes on the code/program, since more eyes = more likelihood of catching it. Even if you say it's accidental, let's say the odds of catching it are 0.00001. Repeat that enough times and you get 1.

It was caught before any distro released with it. The system worked.
by udev4096 | 2025-06-06 14:18:09+00:00
> What is crypto mining if not a textbook Captain Planet villain scheme—to kill and raze and destroy for nothing but imaginary tokens proving that you did lots of killing and razing and destroying?

Are you serious? You complain about the 2008 crisis and capitalism and yet completely neglect the true purpose of crypto? No wonder you drank the Google kool-aid
by smeej | 2025-06-06 14:19:17+00:00
In very broad strokes, people have been deciding which categories of people they think deserve to live and which deserve to die from time immemorial. This is just the earliest life stage we've been able to analyze and eliminate the "undesirables."

(To be clear, I think that's an important part of what makes me so uncomfortable with it. I don't mean that as a justification for why it should be fine to do it.)
by zeta0134 | 2025-06-06 14:19:43+00:00
It doesn't even take very long messing around with the things to quickly realize how much smoke and mirrors is involved. Next time you get a good response from your favorite LLM, go ahead, hit "regenerate" a few times. Look at how different the responses can be, from the same initial prompt, with just a liiiiitle push in the RNG weights. Sometimes it's remarkably correct! Sometimes it's remarkably *incorrect* and confident about it. Which one did you get this time?
by delusional | 2025-06-06 14:19:50+00:00
Let me clarify. I agree with you. My point is rather that Silicon Valley bros WONT agree with us. To them it's fine actually if some veterans didn't get healthcare and die, because they don't matter in their grand scheme.

I believe, as a ground truth, that good engineering requires working in the real world. Silicon valley guys do not. They believe their responsibility start and end at the computer.

I understand this sounds extreme, I think so too, but it is the only explanation that explains their fascination with "long-termism". A philosophy that any harm now is justified if it has even a .1% chance of doing something very good in the long term.
by ableal | 2025-06-06 14:19:57+00:00
> There's a huge variety of tastes

And a lot of those are not "tea" (with theine/caffeine), they're herb infusions such as mint, hibiscus, chamomile, etc. You can drink as much as you want without getting the typical caffeine buzz.

I particularly like the Morocco Mint & Spices that Lipton sells.
by matklad | 2025-06-06 14:19:59+00:00
Note that that's a bug in the client, in the Zig-java FFI code, which is inherently unsafe. We'd likely made an a similar bug in Rust.

Which is, yeah, one of the bigger technical challenges for us --- we ship language-native libraries for Go,node,Java,C#,Python and Rust, and, like in the Tolstoi novel, each one is peculiar in its own way. What's worse, they aren't directly covered by our deterministic simulator. That's one of the major reasons why we invest in full-system simulation with jepsen, antithesis and vortex (https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-02-13-a-descent-into-the-v...). We are also toying with the idea of generating _more_ of that code, so there's less room for human error. Maybe one day we'll even do fully native client (eg, pure Java, pure Go), but we are not there yet.

One super-specific in-progress thing is that, at the moment, the _bulk_ of the client testing is duplicated per client, and also the _bulk_ of the testing is example-based. Building simulator/workload is a lot of work, and duplicating it for each client is unreasonable. What we want to do here is to use multi-process architecture, where there's a single Zig process that generates the workloads and generates interesting sequences of commands for clients, and than in each client we implement just a tiny "interpreter" for workload language, getting a test suite for free. This is still WIP though!

Regarding the broader memory safety issue in the database. We did have a couple of memory safety bugs, which were caught early in testing. We did have one very bad aliasing bug, which would have been totally prevented by Rust, which slipped through the bulk of our testing and into the release (it was caught in testing _after_ it was introduced): https://github.com/tigerbeetle/tigerbeetle/pull/2774. Notably, while the bug was bad enough to completely mess up our internal data structure, it was immediately caught by an assert down the line, and downgraded from correctness issues to a small availability issues (just restarting the replica would fix it). Curiously, the root cause for that bug was that we over-complicated our code. Long before the actual bug we felt uneasy about the data structure in question, and thought about refactoring it away (which refactor is underway. Hilariously, it looks that just "removing" the thing without any other code changes improves performance!).

So, on balance, yeah, Rust would've prevented a small number of easy bugs, and on gnarly bug, but then the entire thing would have to look completely different, as the architecture of TigerBeetle not at all Rust-friendly. I'd be curious to see someone replicating single-thread io-uring no malloc after startup architecture in Rust! I personally don't know off the top of my head whether that would work or not.