MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aziaziazi | 2025-06-06 20:37:43+00:00
> an optimal mix of nutrients

not much: meats lacks A. fibers and B. carbohydrate. Some can argue removing B isn't a bad idea, it certainly is quire restrictive. Removing A. have many short and long terms effects that are not very desirable.

Therefore most meat eaters also eat thinks like vegetables, beans, grains etc... which "unbalance" the "right proportions" (if that exist) of meat. It's very hard to achieve near perfect macro and micro nutriments if not with an artificial and perfectly calculated meals taking into account daily physical activity, psychological state, temperature, infections exposure etc... I'm not even sure ISS guys get such a calculation.

> sufficient micronutrients

This is easily done by eating plenty of plants -which is exactly what non meat eaters do- and a pill of B12. One can count but it's not more necessary than if they want a perfectly balanced meat diet, which also have its "problems" when not perfectly balanced.
by octo888 | 2025-06-06 20:37:49+00:00
> Just over a year old, GDS would serve as critical inspiration for the founding of USDS [0]

Really appreciate the 14 mentions of GDS and acknowledgment of the inspiration.

(The older but poorer cousin gets ahead of the younger, richer cousin for a change ;)

[0] https://usdigitalserviceorigins.org/timeline/
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-06-06 20:37:49+00:00
... so they added caching to things that should have been cached?

... is this really the way people "back up" git repos? I mean, it is git, so isn't there some way to mirror changes to the repo in another repo and just use ZFS / snapshots / backup software / etc to do that? It's a distributed version control system. Just make sure the version control information is ... distributed?
by krainboltgreene | 2025-06-06 20:38:02+00:00
I was a big fan of the USDSO at the origin, definitely it's previous iterations, but man was it so bad at getting their improvements any publicity. Then and now they (and Democrats) made the fatal mistake that the slow march of government would be enough for public support. This website too is from that same strategy: "If we simply show Americans the machine they'll understand what they've thrown away!" It's very Aaron Sorkin's West Wing.

The reality is that the average american doesn't give a shit about the machines. They want better lives and they haven't gotten that for a long time. Talk to some old guy at a diner about why they were a Democratic voter and you won't hear "The Social Security Administation got my checks on time." You'll hear about the New Deal, wage increases, and how they can retire.
by avtar | 2025-06-06 20:38:03+00:00
Pages 9 - 14 of the following pdf go into more detail about this aspect of softening breathing mechanics:

https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/b68ec804-ba42-4194-b405-d1f...

Don’t a lot about the author. I just came across the doc on Reddit and the practical parts of what’s described checked out.
by rwyinuse | 2025-06-06 20:38:24+00:00
Yep, what I was thinking weren't just direct cost savings, but the ways how what money would flow to other parts of Finnish economy had it stayed here, instead of going to America.

We're in recession, there are way too many fresh IT grads, and even experienced devs are having it hard in this job market. Ultimately this affects every area of our economy, as unemployed people aren't buying houses or spending much on services. Shifting some spending from MS licenses to developing local solutions would almost certainly have a positive impact on our whole economy, even if the solutions weren't any cheaper in the end.

It should be also noted that we have a state-funded education system. It seems incredibly dumb to use lots of public money to train programmers, and then have them sit unemployed, while using more public money to buy mediocre software written by other programmers beyond European Union.
by cyberax | 2025-06-06 20:39:09+00:00
> It is complex - is it better for the money to go back into the economy by paying high salaries to a specific group of highly-educated people?

Yes. Also, the salary will not go _only_ to highly-educated people. For example, if Amazon decides to build a new distribution center, it will employ blue-collar workers to build it, not software engineers.

> Or is it better for the money to go back into the economy through taxes, then disbursing the benefits to lower-income benefit programs?

No.

> I’m not sure what the answer is.

The answer is pretty clear: invest money into the private sector, rather than divert it into the Federal budget. Private actors are more efficient at allocating funds than the government.

I'm not against social spending, it's a necessary evil for any real state. Pure libertarianism leads to dystopian outcomes. But it should be understood that it's a very real artificial inefficiency that is imposed on the economy.

There are also situations where additional social spending is necessary, but they are VERY easy to detect: when your interest rate is near zero.
by dragonwriter | 2025-06-06 20:39:23+00:00
> There’s plenty of evidence to the contrary, including Denisovan and Neanderthal that is not present in any African population

OOA does have an explanation for Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA that isn't found in African populations, and that is that the cross-breeding between anatomically modern humans and Neanderthals and Denisovans occurred after modern humans left Africa.

> as well, something like up to 20% of West African genome has an as yet unknown source which is usually referred to as “archaic” or ghost DNA which is not found elsewhere in other populations.

"Archaic" DNA refers to DNA that appears to have originated with some human group other than modern humans and not be shared among modern human populations (the Denisovan and Neanderthal-origin genomes of Eurasian humans would be included here), but specific to some subpopulation. It is not the case that "20% of West African genome" is archaic, though there is a study in which some specific isolated West African subpopulations had archaic fractions that high, which is not something that OOA has no explanation for (the explanation is that those subgroups were isolated from the ones that participated in the various outbound migrations, and so their particular archaic genome is not shared with the groups that migrated out.)

There may be valid challenges to OOA, but those aren't it.
by RobinL | 2025-06-06 20:39:27+00:00
Codex also had this feeling to me, it's like a control centre for a repo, but it's easy to imagine that being the whole computer.

There's a kind of inversion in how you do things: e.g. rather than navigating to settings until you find the screen time controls and changing the settings, you explain in natural language what to do, the agent asynchronously proposes the solution, and you just click accept or reject.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-06-06 20:41:21+00:00
Every runtime executing LLMs with support for tools does it, starting with the first update to ChatGPT app/webapp that made use of the earliest version of "function calling"? Even earlier, there were third-party runtimes/apps (including scripts people made for themselves), that used OpenAI models via API with a prompt teaching LLM a syntax it can use to "shell out", which the runtime would scan for.

If you tell a model it can use some syntax, e.g. `:: foo(arg1, arg2) ::`, to cause the runtime to call an API, and then, based on the context of the conversation, the model outputs `:: get_current_weather("Poland/Warsaw")`, that is "generating code on the fly to all APIs". How `:: get_current_weather("Poland/Warsaw")` gets turned into a bunch of cURL invocations against e.g. OpenWeather API, is an implementation detail of the runtime.
by gitremote | 2025-06-06 20:41:33+00:00
Homo sapiens didn't evolve from Denisovans and Neanderthals. All are branches of human and existed at the same time and interbred.* Homo sapiens survived while Neanderthals and Denisovans became extinct. The majority of the ancestry of living humans, Homo sapiens, was originally from Africa. Europeans have some Neanderthal ancestry (like 2%) due to interbreeding with Neanderthals, but the vast majority of European DNA is from Africa. Sub-Saharan Africans have less Neanderthal ancestry than Europeans and more Homo sapiens ancestry.

* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interbreeding_between_archai...
by godelski | 2025-06-06 20:41:40+00:00
I'd follow "Thumper's Rule"[0].

If you don't want to interact, you don't have to comment or engage.

> Maybe they want a circle for themselves, as a basic human need?

Fwiw, I'm a big fan of having private spaces and niches. It helps to filter this out. I think it is a mistake we make in our community designs, that everything needs to be public or whole cloth (e.g. Reddit doesn't allow subdivisions within the community). I do like that HN puts a threshold on the downvote, but I'd even like a lower threshold on the upvote. Allows people to wade into the community.

But yeah, I think there is a problem now that the majority of communities have no ability to self filter and self form hierarchies. Without this, noob voices tend to drown out experts and frankly, noobs begin to believe they are experts. I'm sure we've all seen the typical CS stereotype of "read first line of wikipedia article, assume I know the rest" type of person...

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fYngTUZeUQ
by GregarianChild | 2025-06-06 20:42:10+00:00
I'd be interested to learn who paid for this machine!

Did Sandia pay list price? Or did SpiNNcloud Systems give it to Sandia for free (or at least for a heavily subsidsed price)? I conjecture the latter. Maybe someone from Sandia is on the list here and can provide detail?

SpiNNcloud Systems is known for making misleading claims, e.g. their home page https://spinncloud.com/ lists DeepMind, DeepSeek, Meta and Microsoft as "Examples of algorithms already leveraging dynamic sparsity", giving the false impression that those companies use SpiNNcloud Systems machines, or the specific computer architecture SpiNNcloud Systems sells. Their claims about energy efficiency (like "78x more energy efficient than current GPUs") seem sketchy. How do they measure energy consumption and trade it off against compute capacities: e.g. a Raspberry Pi uses less absolute energy than a NVIDIA Blackwell but is this a meaningful comparison?

I'd also like to know how to program this machine. Neuromorphic computers have so far been terribly difficult to program. E.g. have JAX, TensorFlow and PyTorch been ported to SpiNNaker 2? I doubt it.
by whatevertrevor | 2025-06-06 20:42:17+00:00
The pandemic might need its own special studies because a lot of adults have weird temporal experiences associated with it.

For me it also feels like pre-pandemic years were a lifetime ago, that life events around 2018/19 happened to someone else. But I don't think I have SDAM as I do have good recall for personal experiences, though it feels like it's getting weaker as I get older and the frequency of novel experiences wanes.

The other confounding factor is I moved to the opposite side of the world after completing my education, which meant a lot of those really foundational memories didn't get reinforced as much as they did for my peers. Because they got to hang out frequently and relive those tales together, while I felt them slipping away like sand from my fingers.
by lbotos | 2025-06-06 20:42:41+00:00
> Git presumably doesn't have something approximating a WAL, so I understand the hesitation with this path.

Bingo. One of the worst problems is helping a client piece back together a corrupted repo when they are using snapshots. Check my profile to see how I know. :)

It's usually an OMG down scenario, and then you are adding in the "oh no, now the restore is corrupted."

It's fixable but it's definitely annoying.
by matklad | 2025-06-06 20:45:45+00:00
To add to what aphyr says, you generally need three components for generative testing of distributed systems:

1. Some sort of environment, which can run the system. The simplest environment is to spin up a real cluster of machines, but ideally you want something fancier, to improve performance, control over responses of external APIs, determinism, reproducibility, etc. 2. Some sort of load generator, which makes the system in the environment do interesting thing 3. Some sort of auditor, which observes the behavior of the system under load and decides whether the system behaves according to the specification.

Antithesis mostly tackles problem #1, providing a deterministic simulation environment as a virtual machine. The same problem is talked by jepsen (by using real machines, but injecting faults at the OS level), and by TigerBeetle's own VOPR (which is co-designed with the database, and for that reason can run the whole cluster on just a single thread). There there approaches are complimentary and are good at different things.

For this bug, the critical part was #2, #3 --- writing workload verifier and auditor that actually can trigger the bug. Here, it was aphyr's 1600 lines of TigerBeetle-specfic Clojure code that triggred and detected the bug (and then we patched _our_ equivalent to also trigger it. Really, what's buggy here is not the database, but the VOPR. Database having bugs is par of course, you can't just avoid bugs through the sheer force of will. So you need testing strategy that can trigger most bugs, and any bug that slips through is pointing to the deficiency in the workload generator.)
by radley | 2025-06-06 20:45:54+00:00
It's not really targeted at tech, insomuch as at Democrats.

Everyone assumed it was a traditional accounting hack. But given the timing and the reinitialization, it's clearly political, not economic.

The code is a strategic time-bomb designed to cause a high-profile economic downturn during a presidential election cycle, specifically when the following president is a Democrat and Republicans have a house majority.

It was used to harm Biden's economy, and it will happen again in 2030 if the next president is a Democrat. While deferred, it will be spun as a major Trump "economic achievement" for the midterms, because companies will be able to afford to hire again.

The tech industry is merely high-profile fodder for extreme politics. It really is that petty.
by taylodl | 2025-06-06 20:46:28+00:00
If you want to operate autonomous vehicles on public roads, you don’t get to hide behind corporate secrecy. Public infrastructure demands public accountability. Trying to block the release of first crash data nationwide and now robotaxi trial data in Austin isn’t just anti-transparency, it’s anti-public interest.

You want the privilege of using public roads? Then you play by public rules.
by josephcsible | 2025-06-06 20:46:39+00:00
There's one unfortunate historical reason: passing FDs >=1024 to glibc's "select" function doesn't work, so it would be a breaking change to ever raise the default soft limit above that. It's perfectly fine for the default hard limit to be way higher, though, and for programs that don't use "select" (or that use the kernel syscall directly, but you should really just use poll or epoll instead) to raise their own soft limit to the hard limit.
by _heimdall | 2025-06-06 20:46:45+00:00
You're conflating the risk of a monopoly in a market and the absolute monopoly of a government.

I'm not arguing why people choose to use YouTube, I'm arguing that it is a choice. Staying in a country is technically a choice, but as long as you live there you have no choice in your government and can't opt out of their rule.

Its very different. Our speech is protected specifically from government censorship because their control over us is a monopoly by design and their will is enforced through mechanisms like prison and military.
by genewitch | 2025-06-06 20:46:55+00:00
> What other company has a standing offer to anybody to upload their content and get paid for it?

my first sentence bears out that this isn't true, it's like a scratch-off ticket. i understand you spoke to this, but it's worth re-iterating. If 100k eyeballs isn't enough to earn me even a penny, then what chances does 99.9999% of "content creators" stand?

secondly, amazon pays twitch streamers. or so i hear. who knows, i said monetization isn't my wheelhouse. Nor does it have to be to suggest technical solutions to what people perceive as problems with youtube/ABC/goog

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by HillRat | 2025-06-06 20:47:56+00:00
The problem here is that all software development (excepting that done for hire) is classified as R&D. The software developer working on your Wordpress or Magento site (and arguably the accountant building a spreadsheet, to take the statute at face value) isn't an operational expense, they're now an R&D expense that has to be amortized and can't be taken as an expense against revenue. Previously, this was an optional choice (and many large and mature companies were amortizing anyway), but under the current tax treatment it's required, which essentially turns early-stage startups into cash bonfires, given how many small companies don't make it to year five.
by righthand | 2025-06-06 20:48:31+00:00
Hopefully these services can be restored in 3.5 years. One of the greatest things to happen to aging infrastructure of this country in the last 10 years as a lot of our systems are based on aging military systems.

We just need it, there’s no question of the benefits and there were no negatives to speak about.

Thank you President Barack Obama! A true leader and patriot.
by Izkata | 2025-06-06 20:48:50+00:00
> You say it isn't true, but then say "many", so it is true, just not in all cases? Just because others are being deported alongside you doesn't change that you are being sent to a foreign prison for speech, and with no due process anyone can be targeted.

Reread what they quoted. The statement as a whole is not true, he was correcting the latter part of it that made it false.
by _heimdall | 2025-06-06 20:48:51+00:00
> obviously good and saved a number of lives

You would really have to show your work on that claim.

"Good" is a judgement call, it may be obviously good to one and obviously bad to another.

Claiming that a number of lives were saved by aggressive YouTube censorship of specific content is also quite a claim. What is the number, and how can you show a direct link between censorship and any one life saved?
by godelski | 2025-06-06 20:49:19+00:00
No, it was a bit different. Basically the install guide cut down with more direct suggestions for typical setups. I believe this is it[0] and I also found this reddit post from 9 years ago talking about the migration[1]. Today, that link will redirect to the standard installation guide.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20130116090332/https://wiki.arch...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/4z7z0i/the_begin...
by nitwit005 | 2025-06-06 20:49:29+00:00
If incentives rule, you should never, ever, under any circumstance, seek medical treatment.

The incentive is to make everyone who shows up at the hospital maximally sick, ideally with illnesses that require as many tests and treatments and possible.

You can't trust your friends or family either. The hospital may have paid them to try to convince you.
by meindnoch | 2025-06-06 20:49:34+00:00
>there is no biological motivation for the specific set of racial categories that the US and other societies have developed. An objective Martian biologist studying humans would not group us into 'white humans', 'black humans', ... etc.

Then why do biologists distinguish subspecies of other animals? E.g. look at the subspecies of Panthera tigris: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger#Subspecies
by WalterGR | 2025-06-06 20:49:43+00:00
“Homes” in this context means apartments, not single-family homes.

Further, emphasis mine:

> D.C. apartment buildings exemplify a national trend, as the costs of affordable housing approach and sometimes exceed $1 million per unit in cities that also include San Francisco and Chicago.

Cherry-picking high cost-of-living cities.

How much does it cost per unit to build apartments for the non-poor?
by Kranar | 2025-06-06 20:49:43+00:00
I don't understand your follow up, are you still maintaining your claim that almost every other exchange in the world has been stagnant or declining?

Worth noting that a stock exchange becoming defunct is not the same as the value of the index associated with the stocks listed on that exchange going to zero.

For example numerous US stock exchanges also go defunct. Nevertheless the value of the stocks that traded on those exchanges remains unaffected. It's not like if NASDAQ went out of business tomorrow that Google and Microsoft would all declare bankruptcy.
by LadyCailin | 2025-06-06 20:49:52+00:00
> When "delete" actually means "hide from my view", you can only hope that you live in a country with strong privacy and data protection laws.

I do, but presumably that doesn’t matter, as the US thinks its legal code outweighs the legal code for Europeans living in Europe. Jokes on Europeans for allowing Americans to take over the world stage for too long, I suppose.
by pistoriusp | 2025-06-06 20:49:52+00:00
Thanks! I think you summarized exactly what I was saying, and pointing out that I had a clickbait title. My goal here is if you're starting out with something new, consider reaching for a platform rather than a bunch of services.

The reason why I really love Cloudflare is because of their bindings. A lot of the time you are simply using fetch, so request and response to interact with their services. It feels as if fetch has become like the Unix pipe of the web.
by paxys | 2025-06-06 20:49:53+00:00
I'm at the stage of my career where vendor lock-in (aka "we are going to use this stable boring corporate-backed tech forever instead of migrating between your hot new JS frameworks every 6 months") is a godsend. Yes I'll happily use AWS. No I will not spend my time to learn and implement RedwoodSDK, whatever that is.
by jorangreef | 2025-06-06 20:49:57+00:00
To be clear, we have no problem if all the hyperscalers decide to offer TigerBeetle as their flagship OLTP database. That builds trust and is a good thing for the ecosystem as a whole.

We also don't expect (or need) anyone to contribute improvements upstream to us. That's open source!

Finally, open source is not the same thing as product. There are thousands of companies around the world who make high quality products that people pay for. TigerBeetle is no different.
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-06-06 20:50:16+00:00
At some point you need to trust the scientific consensus, you can only go so far in checking the data (or math).

I have a basic understanding of physics, despite having a PhD. I am not saying this to fake modesty - this is a fact. Most of what is happening in physics is beyond me, not to mention maths (which I had at an advanced level).

Physics taught me to have a bullshit detector when I read articles about "soft" science (and let's admit that this is not a very difficult task), but anything that requires deep, hard knowledge I must just trust.
by dragonwriter | 2025-06-06 20:50:41+00:00
> Is it?

Yes, you give them the list and say "What is your race/ethnicity, you may select at least one and as many as you wish." They answer. You are done.

> What race is someone who's Arab?

Whatever they answer (Middle East or Northern African [MENA], under the 2024 revision to the categories, intuitively seems most likely.)

> What about someone who could look black with one haircut but white with another?

Again, whatever they answer.

> What about half-Arab, half-Euro?

Again, whatever they answer. Though the most obvious guess of what they might answer, given the premise, would be one of White, MENA, or both.

The part to question is not, "is it quick and free to determine race" but "does race carry useful information that helps the doctor treat the patient", which is a much thornier question.