MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thrwwXZTYE | 2025-06-29 17:56:38+00:00
I kinda heard lots of whispers when I was very young (like 6-7) and now I'm 40 and haven't had any such problems.

I blamed it on the drugs I got prescripted for sleeping (I had bad allergy and was scratching myself to the point of bleeding during sleep so I got some "pacifying" drugs).
by taylodl | 2025-06-29 17:56:53+00:00
The irony is Apple is spending a fortune on their Secure with Apple marketing campaign, the one that ends with the Apple logo turning into a lock that clicks shut, and they’ve undone that, plus some, with the F1 campaign. This is a blunder of epic proportions and is illustrative of a company no longer in touch with their core identity and principles.
by 999900000999 | 2025-06-29 17:57:49+00:00
Depends on the man, I’ll admit in my early twenties I meet a few partners by being car free.

I legit took a girl home after I asked her if she knew why the train was late.

In Amsterdam at least one of the train stations has a piano. It becomes a 3rd place were people can make friends and socialize.

We don’t have many 3rd places in the US where you can exist without spending money.
by MrJohz | 2025-06-29 17:58:46+00:00
Class in this context is referring to the actors' backgrounds, i.e. parental incomes, rather than their own income. There is an issue if you have to be born to a rich family in order to take on a career like acting, and right now, at least based on the evidence, that appears to be true: you need a sufficient safety net to be able to survive for a long time on basically no income while you practice and work low-paying gigs until you finally break through. For some people that just isn't possible.

A social safety net means that more people have the ability to try out risky careers - not necessarily that more of them will succeed, but that the pool of applicants will be larger and include a wider proportion of the population.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-29 17:58:53+00:00
In the 1970s there was a lot of talk about ‘healthful negative ions’ and a fad for negative ion generators even though many of those also generated hazardous ozone.

Hydroxyl ions are a significant kind of negative ion in the atmosphere and they’re known to be good because they react with and clean out pollutants like methane

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroxyl_radical

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144358/detergent-li...
by duxup | 2025-06-29 17:59:11+00:00
Kinda makes me sad. I played civ since civ 1 and in many ways the civ series went hand and hand with my interest in computers.

But with Civ VI it felt like the game had drifted into wonky systems within systems with a city resource mini game that had clear winning moves and non winning moves to make, and an AI that would simply just quit the game and not play often. The AI either beat you because it skyrocketed in tech for no apparent reason, or at best it keeps up but does nothing to compete when it comes to war or other choices.

With VII their commitment to the eras system (borrowed from other games) just erased any idea that this was my story anymore, now it's their story with their introduced era hurdles that feel artificial / not civ ...

Nothing lasts forever, but I miss Civ that I knew, Sim City .. etc.
by theodric | 2025-06-29 17:59:14+00:00
The computer knows there's a fan because it sees tacho output. If it doesn't see tacho, shrug. You can get an external temperature-controlled PWM controller for a few units of your local currency on AliExpress, steal 12V from somewhere (Molex header or whatever) and run the fans off that. Figure out where to put the temp sensor to get the desired effect.

There are far better ways to do this, but they require software engineering, not €3 and 15 minutes.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-06-29 18:00:06+00:00
> I've lost one of my best friends to what I think is schizophrenia. We don't know because she's cut off all contact with friends and family and refuses to see a doctor. It's definitely psychosis.

Schizophrenia is not defined strictly enough that it's possible for you to be right or wrong when you say your friend has it.

Here's a discussion of the change in diagnostic criteria from DSM-IV to DSM-V, which has the side effect of describing what the criteria formerly were and now are: https://psychcentral.com/schizophrenia/dsm-5-changes-schizop...

Has your friend seen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(1997_film) ?
by MangoToupe | 2025-06-29 18:00:21+00:00
> One of my concerns is we're reaching a point where the loss of a fab due to a crisis -- war, natural disaster, etc. -- may cause systemic collapse.

This is absolutely ridiculous. Even if Taiwan sank today we really don't need those fabs for anything critical. i strongly suspect we could operate the entire supply chain actually necessary for human life with just z80s or some equivalent.
by charcircuit | 2025-06-29 18:01:07+00:00
>It's literally controlled by corporations and platforms

The NFT based domains are controlled by a decentralized network of computers. Compare this to web2 which is actually literally controlled by corporations with registrars and ICANN.

>that can only be visited by browsers that support it

Unstoppable Domains already work out of the box on Brave and Opera. Other Firefox and Chromium browsers can download the web extention for it to be able to resolve the domains.
by TheBicPen | 2025-06-29 18:02:50+00:00
That's supply and demand I suppose. As demand for lightning dwindles due to a decreasing number of people actively using devices with lightning ports, the price will tend to drop. That's not an invalid reason to prefer lightning over USB-C, but it's not sustainable. Production of lightning accessories is probably at or near 0 at this point so the oversupply will not last forever. Enjoy the deals while you can!
by mandmandam | 2025-06-29 18:02:54+00:00
> I don't believe you. If you had, you would have led with it, just like I did.

You really can't imagine someone arguing from scientific research over their own personal experience?

> Jenny McCarthy is a big fat pain in the ass

Again with the autism/vaccines comparison, again missing the point, again doing yourself and your family member a disservice.

> WTF? I've never believed that crap in my life.

You keep repeating the claim that there's no therapeutic value to cannabis. That's madness, my friend, by the very literal definition of ignoring reality.

> don't insist that the vast majority of the population change their worldview to fit mine.

That's exactly what you're doing though? You're insisting that people ignore the research which I've linked multiple times now, and adopt your worldview which is based on vague assertions and claims; and you insist that anyone would argue the same way as you're doing when that's neither true or sensible.

> Personally, I think that pot should be legal everywhere, including at the federal level (which will basically kill all the "mom and pop" operations out there, so be careful what you pray for).

Huh? I can't tell if you're insinuating I'm a drug dealer or what your point is here. I'm certainly not the one who made this debate about whether cannabis should be legal or not; I just pointed out that prohibition made it much more dangerous to consume.

> I'd gently suggest that a professional forum, read by many of the most influential people in tech, might not be the best place to be a crusader for drug use.

As has been pointed out by people above, you're the one on the crusade here. My point, which I've repeated many times now, is that CBD has shown potential to help people vulnerable to psychosis and schizophrenia. I don't know why that triggers you so hard, or why you can't engage with the research which shows that very clearly, but I wish you the best all the same.
by yorwba | 2025-06-29 18:02:55+00:00
Mercury was released at least 59 days ago and precedes Gemini Diffusion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43851099

You're right though that they weren't the first, e.g. here's a survey paper on text diffusion models from 2023: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.06574
by maipen | 2025-06-29 18:02:59+00:00
Unrelated: This is why reading comments is becoming useless. People react to the news without opening the article. Its so annoying.

Related: This article shows an interesting study but it’s hard for me to interpret what does this translate to? I think we should minimize very complex and synthetic products to our bodies. Although sometimes it’s necessary when we harm our body (e.g. long sun bathing sessions)
by Barrin92 | 2025-06-29 18:04:06+00:00
>Why not go to the gym instead or something? Why not read 20 classics instead of 2?

Because as Nabokov said, what a scholar one could be if one could only read five or six books. Real knowledge lies in depth, full exploration, individuation. Knowing five books totally, having one unique experience, is worth infinitely more than checking books of your Goodreads list.

Oppenheimer learned Sanskrit just to read the Gita. Was that "utilitarian"? No, but he didn't care, because utilitarianism is a suckers philosophy anyway. Don't try to be good by some stupid quantitative metric, try to do something interesting.
by williamdclt | 2025-06-29 18:04:50+00:00
Well done, writing interpreters is fun!

I’m not really sold on why Go would be a particularly good fit for the task, compared to other languages. Seems to be mostly “interfaces are useful for interpreters, and GC means I don’t have to care about memory management” - both of which are true but hardly specific to Go. There’s some form of interface in almost every mainstream language, I think the implementation would be pretty much the same in any GCd language
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-06-29 18:04:52+00:00
I... don't really understand what this comment means.

I don't see why the situation would be any different if your airdropped, say, a 25 year old person who grew up in eg quadrilingual Luxembourg into eg extremely monolingual Yakutsk, and act like their childhood means they can suddenly master the native tongue there without hundreds to thousands of hours of unpaid effort.

They would probably do a lot better spending that time, well, getting out of Yakutsk. Assuming no one is holding them there at gunpoint.
by Art9681 | 2025-06-29 18:04:54+00:00
This is completely irrelevant without knowing if you are effectively prompting each model. Your workflow may just be suitable for a particular model and not others. And tuning a workflow for each model is tedious. I seriously doubt there is ANY class of problem DSR1 can solve that OAI's third tier model can't at this point (o4-mini).
by Retric | 2025-06-29 18:05:13+00:00
Legal issues are more of a hindrance.

At the start you might be adding a few million in land costs and building taller, but that quickly deflates the housing market. Pushing people to sell before their homes become ever less valuable. Further cities outlive people, reluctant homeowners eventually die.

City infrastructure similarly has real costs, but an infrastructure tax on every net new unit isn’t going to see anywhere close to current prices.
by ericmay | 2025-06-29 18:05:27+00:00
You're thinking about how you use your phone, not how most people use their phone. The reason people continue to upgrade their phones isn't always mindless consumerism.

For example, when you write:

> Headphones? My 25 year old phone will do that. Bluetooth? I'm fairly sure my 3GS did that. Sadly modern phones don't do wired headphones any more, so have regressed on that metric.

You're already showing me how you don't understand what people are buying or why they are buying it. You're referencing wired headphones as if anyone besides a tiny group of people wants wired headphones anymore. People are buying AirPods and AirPods Pro - they want them connected to their Apple Watch so they can go for a run with them, and they want new health features that continue to be released for such devices.

Reading these responses reminds me of the "inverse Reddit stock pics". If I were to take these responses seriously, and I don't because they are nonsense, Apple and others would be out of business tomorrow because any old Joe just wants to use their wired headphones and their 10 year old iPhone is JuST aS G00d. It's rubbish.

Here's a good example haha:

> Alas I'm not particularly fit, however I do recall a fitness tracker on windows 3.1

Yea man. That feature existed on Windows 3.1, ergo nobody should or would want to buy the next iPhone. Give me a break. Even so you yourself said you're not particularly fit. What makes you think you know the first thing about why people are buying new phones or new devices as it relates to fitness activities or apps?
by superkuh | 2025-06-29 18:05:51+00:00
Cloudflare products disrupt the human ability to read science.org articles. The article text available to me:

>Enable JavaScript and cookies to continue

Turning on JS and doing the captchas just results in more captchas, forever, with no end. I have emailed science.org about this in the past but they only fixed it on the blogs, not the main site.
by moomoo11 | 2025-06-29 18:07:15+00:00
True but I guess I don’t find those visionary at all.

Historically Apple refines something common that already exists and makes it cool. The last big thing they made cool was the smartphone, followed by the AirPod pros. I think AirPods really pushed headphones ahead. Do you remember how bad wireless headphones used to be?

So I guess I want that sort of Apple experience. If Apple turned ordinary hardware experiences into premium, that would be nice. AR googles are not ordinary experiences. Smartphones were.

That’s just my opinion though.
by srj | 2025-06-29 18:08:01+00:00
The article cites no evidence except for anonymous accounts. There's no video evidence even though people would widely have smart phones there. The association distributing aid as well as Israel's government have denied any of this happened.

I'd be upset if this happened too, but there's no evidence of that. My guess is that warning shots were fired.

Did I miss something from the article? I did read it.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-06-29 18:08:11+00:00
The billionaire's mantra: "Anything free is communism! Gubberment bad!"

This is a sign of a larger effort to replay the fall of the Soviet Union in America: sell off public lands, privatize everything that was public, and charge more money and take on debt for worse services where funds are gifted as dividends to owners rather than providing value to customers because a powerful ruling class demands more money and more power.
by EGreg | 2025-06-29 18:08:14+00:00
Wow, this is fantastic. I have been searching for a tool that would let me output videos like that.

I was going to create a javascript-based version of FCP to essentially implement the keyframes and transitions with arbitrary videos from youtube/vimeo and try to queue them up before they play. Then people would come to our site or use our widget to play all the videos.

I even considered doing a kenburns effect and zooming/panning/cropping the videos. I wanted to have the AI do some takes, finding highlights in the video by transcribing it.

And adding the stupid text overlays etc. would be done in javascript so we don’t need to generate so many versions of the video for different languages or styles.

What do you think? Should we use cutlass xml as the format? Probably better to just make our own json no?

Does anything like this already exist? There are a bunch of sites to edit video timelines. Maybe there is a js lib, like impress.js has for presentations etc?
by KittenInABox | 2025-06-29 18:08:37+00:00
> Homosexuality is interesting from this perspective too - common enough that evolution has to be selecting for it,

Are we sure this is the case? I think it's more like homosexuality isn't extremely selected against on a population level. Evolution doesn't really select for, more like evolution is a process in which least-viable-specimens are killed off for their environments. It could very well be that a small number of homosexual specimens are simply irrelevant to evolutionary fitness.
by ajsnigrutin | 2025-06-29 18:08:38+00:00
That's also true for programmers, machinists, all kinds of engineers, pilots, etc.

A cheap guitar + youtube to start is a lot cheaper than anything involving eg. CNC machining, where most people can't even think about starting the process, way before the "get good" phase. Just obtaining a mac + an iphone is hard to impossible in many places on earth, especially for younger people.
by blue_pants | 2025-06-29 18:09:05+00:00
The commercial domain name system is a perfect example of the type of artificial scarcity capitalism creates and exploits. Domain names are tiny little rows in a database. They cost next-to-nothing to set up and maintain. There’s absolutely no reason why they couldn’t be a public good, paid for from the public purse. And yet you pay (at times extortionate) amounts for them… why? Because capitalism.

Isn't this a bit simplistic? Domain names are a limited resource, so there has to be some way to regulate who can use which domains. What alternative method of regulation would you propose and why it's better?
by kvemkon | 2025-06-29 18:09:13+00:00
> tape

Only once (or very few times) overwritten?

> on a shelf

At home or in a specialized room with controlled climate?

At least I cannot find quickly the requirement in someone (or a robot) pulling each tape once a year(?) and doing a rewind? Which is formally needed for HDD.

Btw, shouldn't HDDs be much more resistant to magnetic fields than magnetic tapes?

Edit:

26TB HDD Non-operating / storage:

Temperature -40 to 70°C (Storage 0 to 70°C)

Relative humidity 5 to 95% non-condensing

Maximum wet bulb temperature: 35°C non-condensing

Maximum temperature gradient: 30°C/Hour

LTO 9+:

Recommended Storage Environment: 15 to 25℃ / 20 to 50%RH / Max Wet Bulb Temperature: 26℃.

Stray magnetic field at any point on tape not to exceed 50 oersteds (4000 ampere/meter).

[1] https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library...

[2] https://www.fujifilm.com/uk/en/business/data-management/data...

[3] https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-deep-archive?topic=media...
by sshine | 2025-06-29 18:09:39+00:00
Sure, it will be around for a long time. Decades, at least!

But with “ICANN being around”, we mean “everyone can access ICANN domains unless they live in an oppressive regime”.

With “Polygon being around” it’s more like “gopher being around” or more fairly “Tor being around”: it certainly may be, but you need to be part of a technologically advanced internet subculture to use those domains, they’re not standard.
by mshockwave | 2025-06-29 18:09:45+00:00
> This means I can't feed any function as-is (even a tiny one). I need to manually cut out the loop body.

> It doesn't support branches at all. I know it's a very hard problem, but that's the problem I have

Shameless self-plug: https://github.com/securesystemslab/LLVM-MCA-Daemon
by suzzer99 | 2025-06-29 18:09:47+00:00
Yes, I agree with that. I'm just guessing because she's super paranoid of doctors. One of the downsides of being in and around the wellness community for decades.

I don't know if she's seen The Game, but I do know that she's always had a deep insecurity about being the naive one in the room, being the one not in on the joke. It seems like this thing plays on your worst fears and brings them to life.
by fb03 | 2025-06-29 18:10:14+00:00
Of course! In the PydanticAI docs for Agents, you have a fully defined example of a tool calling agent (roulette_wheel.py)

https://ai.pydantic.dev/agents/#introduction

If you need professional help in any of this, I also do consulting and/or can do mentoring on my knowledge in this area.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-06-29 18:10:23+00:00
> I have seen a discussion about sex differences in performance in other endurance sports, and one important distinction is that women as a group can have average pace times that are faster than men as a group, even when most of the outright winners are men.

Why is that important? Unless the runners are conscripted into the race, it's not telling you anything about women or men.

Your second link notes this explicitly:

>> What the data actually means is that after 195 miles the average pace of all women competing is better than the average pace of all the men competing. Why is this the case? Math and demographics (not physiology and toughness). In any athletic user group, the early adopters are also higher performers. Take the people who pioneered skateboarding, or adventure racing as an example. Those early adopters were good at the sport they were trying to push the boundaries. As a sport becomes more and more popular, the number of non-elites grows much faster than the number of elites. Therefore, even though the best times and performances improve (by way of a course or world record) the average times get worse. Ultrarunning is no different.
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-06-29 18:10:40+00:00
> transitioned off of TLS 1.0 just fine

The difference is only the end client and server need to support TLS, all the middleware and networks between just see TCP packets and do not have to be privy to what TLS version is being used.

IPv6 on the other hand has to be supported by every middleware box between the client and the server and therefore its functionality is limited by the lowest common denominator.

Additionally TLS upgrades were largely drop in, whereas IPv6 changed too many things at once to be easily adopted.

Hindsight is 20/20, but I firmly believe that IPv6 should have only changed source and destination addresses to be 64 bits and that was the entire RFC.
by slau | 2025-06-29 18:10:44+00:00
This is actually a crazy important development if the results can be reproduced in larger studies.

Hormonal contraceptives are absolutely terrible. None of my long term partners were happy with them—whether it was a hormonal implant, hormonal IUD or pill, the side effects have always been ridiculous.

In addition, WHO classified oral contraceptives as G1 carcinogens. So having a potential alternative is incredibly important.

It is insane to me that as a society, we’re fine asking women to “just take drugs” that mess with their reproductive system, affecting their mood, sleep, weight, libido, and blood pressure (and most likely a lot more I’m not aware of).
by rchaud | 2025-06-29 18:10:45+00:00
Jobs disliked anything where Apple wasn't getting a cut. Flash games and Google ads being two of the biggest offenders in his eyes.

He also "hated" the small tablets Samsung were making, saying in a keynote that you'd have to file your finger down to use it. He said this knowing full well Apple were launching the iPad Mini in 12 months' time.

I really hope one day Jobs' marketer-speak soundbites stop being repeated like like biblical pronouncements. The App Store, Apple News, Stocks and other properties are filled with hideous Google-like ads today, and Jobs likely wouldn't bat an eye, because they brought in money.
by Art9681 | 2025-06-29 18:11:10+00:00
Better how? DeepSeek has never held the top spot in any aggregated benchmark. The Chinese bot armies are certainly better at convincing the internet they are trailing western models, despite the fact that in practical use this is not the case and at this rate, likely will never be. If AI progress is exponential, so is falling behind. What doesnt change however, is holding your ace card and dropping it when the time is right. China is competing with the public western models. Western SOTA labs are competing with their previous unreleased SOTA model. Publicly, China is ~3 months behind. But in reality, they are much further behind, and will never catch up.

Be mindful of what this means. A kid in his garage fine tuning a model can "catch up" to SOTA models for most use cases. For actual "frontier" work that requires SOTA levels of intelligence, there are only 3 companies in the race. None of them are from China or Europe.