MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fipar | 2025-06-25 17:52:25+00:00
>In the churches I have been to over the years (all Catholic or Anglican) I have met people with different sexual orientations and a very wide range of political views (everything except far right, as far left as outright communist).

Yeah, it was similar for me (only Catholic churches in my case), though politics were usually homogeneous per church (what I mean is: whether you leaned left or right, you'd find a Catholic community to welcome you, but I'm not sure it'd be easy to find one that would comfortably welcome wide political views). As for sexual orientation, this was not common at all, but bear in mind the last time I attended Church was in the early 90s so things may have changed.

> I agree. It does happen at work anyway though so I put less importance on this as a requirement for third spaces.

I think the main difference of a third space vs work is that, at work, we're forced to "put up" with people we wouldn't normally engage with, because we all have the common goal of making a living, while in a third space, even in one with a common goal like the repair meetups I mentioned, you go there voluntarily and not because otherwise you can't put food on the table.
by ProgramMax | 2025-06-25 17:52:31+00:00
Worry not! (Well, worry a little.)

The first bit of our research is "What can we already make use of which requires no spec update? There are plenty of PNG optimizers. How much of that should go into the typical PNG libraries?"

Same with parallel encoding & decoding. An older image viewer will be able to decode it on one thread without ever knowing parallel decoding was an option.

Here's the worry-a-little part: Everybody immediately jumps to file size as to what image compression is better or worse. That isn't the best take, but it is what it is. So there is pressure to adopt newer technologies.

We often do have a way to maintain some degree of backwards compatibility even when we do this. For example, we can store a downsampled image for old viewers. Then extra, new chunks will know "Mix that with this full scale data, using a different compression".

As you can imagine, this mixing complicates things. It might not be the best option. Sooooo we're researching it :)
by pseudosavant | 2025-06-25 17:52:46+00:00
I use many LLM tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, GitHub Copilot, etc), I have never ever gotten any version of MS Copilot to do anything useful for me. I've been stunned at how they can use the same models that ChatGPT does, copy their use cases, and still deliver a turd.

The Github Copilot (in VS Code especially) is the only application of LLMs that I've found useful from Microsoft. I would have loved amazing Copilot support in Word for working on a large complex document, but I haven't found that to work well.
by arunbhatia | 2025-06-25 17:52:48+00:00
I completely agree with you! LLMs are not good for medical queries, and that's exactly the reason I built this tool. I have used a simple RAG mechanism where I feed only research papers from trusted sources to the LLM to summarise them. In short, every answer is grounded in research papers. The idea is to cut down the time to do research for daily medical queries. I am still working on refining the answers, though - many new features are coming soon to make the research process easy.
by q1w2 | 2025-06-25 17:53:15+00:00
Important to note that the only source of information we have right now is the deported person's account of events.

He does say he was detained PRIOR to the picture being found. Being detained if far more relevant than being asked about a photo.

It's also important to note that Border Control will not tell you WHY you're being denied entry, so the person ascribing it to the meme is speculating based on being asked about it.
by eCa | 2025-06-25 17:53:51+00:00
I (as a non-native English speaker) have pronounced it with a hard g since first i saw it (mid ’90s) and many years before I learned how the creator preferred it to be pronounced.

I continue to pronounce it how I prefer it, not as a slight, but most people here would be surprised by the soft g.

If I ever meet him I’ll attempt to pronounce it soft-g.

On the other hand, even though my name exists and is reasonably common in English, I’m fairly certain neither you or the GIF creator would address me the way I pronounce my name. I would understand anyway, and wouldn’t care one bit.
by adrr | 2025-06-25 17:54:02+00:00
Depends on the level of KYC. If you're just doing social and birthdate, its easy to bypass. You could add additional checks like check phone and email which are readily available from data brokers. You could send a physical mail to the address in the credit report with a PIN. It depends on level of the level friction you want your KYC program to go. When I built a KYC at a neobank, we focused more on verifying that you were in the US. We could detect proxies and if you make the signup in a mobile app, you can pin the cert which will stop automated attacks. We relied on fingerprinting devices but a lot of methods don't work due to mobile OS providers cracking down on them.
by softfalcon | 2025-06-25 17:54:17+00:00
Very interesting, and I agree with your assessment of the difficulties using the aging HoloLens.

I am curious, what size of clients are you working with and how many contracts has it realistically turned into?

I also believe proper AR hardware/software can revolutionize the QA and inspections industry.

What I am noticing is a chicken/egg problem where companies want proof it works, while also reluctant to put their money where their mouth is and invest in the R&D. Which then leads to Microsoft and similar refusing to fully invest in new AR tech.

As such, it all stays mostly in experimental and drawing board land, never quite fully reaching the market.

Thoughts?
by 0x457 | 2025-06-25 17:54:18+00:00
When I use amazon-q for this, I make it write a plan into a markdown file, then I clear context and tell it to read that file and execute that plan phase by phase. This is with Sonnet 4.

Sometimes I also yeet that file to Codex and see which implementation is better. Clear context, read that file again, give it a diff that codex produce and tell it do a review.
by strict9 | 2025-06-25 17:54:42+00:00
>Rapidly declining numbers of youth are committing crimes, getting arrested, and being incarcerated. This matters because young offenders are the raw material that feeds the prison system: As one generation ages out, another takes its place on the same horrid journey.

Another factor which will soon impact this, if it isn't already, is the rapidly changing nature of youth. Fertility rates have been dropping since 2009 or so. Average age of parents is increasing. Teen pregnancy on a long and rapid decline.

All of these working together means that each year the act of having a child is much more deliberate and the parents likely having more resources. Which in turn should mean fewer youth delinquency, which as the article notes is how most in prison started out.
by os2warpman | 2025-06-25 17:54:59+00:00
>To get around thousand-year generation ships, we are examining some beamed energy solutions that could drive a small sail to Proxima in 20 years.

The odds of a spacecraft hitting a single particle of dust while in space are 100%.

A spacecraft hitting a single particle of dust at 0.2c will impart tens of millions of joules into the body of the spacecraft, the equivalent of getting hit with hundreds of pulses from the most powerful laser ever created by humanity-- simultaneously.

Or concentrating several kilogram's worth of TNT into the size of a particle of dust and detonating it.
by tomsto | 2025-06-25 17:55:07+00:00
AS01-adjuvanted shingles (herpes zoster) vaccination is associated with a lower risk of dementia, but the underlying mechanisms are unclear. In propensity-score matched cohort studies with 436,788 individuals, both the AS01-adjuvanted shingles and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines, individually or combined, were associated with reduced 18-month risk of dementia. No difference was observed between the two AS01-adjuvanted vaccines, suggesting that the AS01 adjuvant itself plays a direct role in lowering dementia risk.
by fallingknife | 2025-06-25 17:55:16+00:00
The left has done more damage you our education system by removing standards and getting rid of separate schools for the smartest students than the right ever could by cutting funding. Most recently in California they got rid of calculus class in high school. Meanwhile we continue to increase spending and are near the highest in the world and our education system is trash https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd/education-exp...
by WorkerBee28474 | 2025-06-25 17:55:39+00:00
> 120 per 100,000 ... Is there a reason for this?

Crime statistics (e.g. homicides) are often quoted as 'n per 100,000 population'.

It's probably also easier for mental math, e.g. here's a city with 1 million population, that's 10 100Ks, so 1200 people in prison.
by rawgabbit | 2025-06-25 17:56:19+00:00
This is good news. The level of crime and number of offenders has decreased.

Quotes from the article:

> As of 2016—the most recent year for which data are available—the average man in state prison had been arrested nine times, was currently incarcerated for his sixth time, and was serving a 16-year sentence. > But starting in the late 1960s, a multidecade crime wave swelled in America, and an unprecedented number of adolescents and young adults were criminally active. In response, the anti-crime policies of most local, state, and federal governments became more and more draconian. > Rapidly declining numbers of youth are committing crimes, getting arrested, and being incarcerated.
by lq9AJ8yrfs | 2025-06-25 17:56:49+00:00
So all the addressing bodies (e.g., ISPs and cloud providers) are on board then right? They sometimes cycle through IP's with great velocity. Faster than 6 days at least.

Lots of sport here, unless perhaps they cool off IPs before reallocating, or perhaps query and revoke any certs before reusing the IP?

If the addressing bodies are not on board then it's a user responsibility to validate the host header and reject unwanted IP address based connections until any legacy certs are gone / or revoke any legacy certs. Or just wait to use your shiny new IP?

I wonder how many IP certs you could get for how much money with the different cloud providers.
by Mukesh_dhal17 | 2025-06-25 17:57:07+00:00
Recruiting operations are undergoing a massive transformation thanks to AI. It's not just about automating tasks anymore; AI is bringing unprecedented intelligence to talent acquisition, from hyper personalised sourcing and smart screening to predictive analytics for better hires. Are you seeing these shifts? What game-changing AI tools are you leveraging, and what are the biggest challenges or ethical considerations you've encountered? Let's discuss how AI is truly elevating the recruiting function.
by janalsncm | 2025-06-25 17:57:19+00:00
> And I think it’s a stretch to say that screaming “I’m a loser” is positive punishment

A positive punishment is giving the subject something they don’t like. For example corporeal punishment.

A negative punishment is taking away something the subject does like. For example food.

Importantly punishments need to happen after the unwanted behavior. So being punished before the behavior occurs doesn’t make any sense.
by tenacious_tuna | 2025-06-25 17:57:53+00:00
re: 2, the issue is that e.g. airport gates are a(n artificially) limited resource that require airlines to perform behaviors that don't benefit customers and have externalized costs (e.g., wasting fuel) in order to maintain access to those resources.

A bus only needs to have something like four people aboard to make it more efficient than equivalent cars by most measures (road space required, fuel, etc); so it's not a 1to1 comparison to other transit rates.
by pengaru | 2025-06-25 17:58:01+00:00
> those locks are so that they can staff the store with 2 people instead of 5.

Maybe in some cases that's true, but it's definitely not true for the few big box stores I frequent in SF where this practice occurs. The Target on 4th street has significantly more staff running around constantly unlocking things and tending to this sort of b.s. than they would otherwise. I'm not sure who pays for the tactical gear wearing security guards at the entrance looking ready for Iraq, but it can't be cheap.
by ProgramMax | 2025-06-25 17:58:08+00:00
New? Yes. Incompatible? No.

We went to pretty extreme lengths to make sure old software worked with the new changes. Effectively, the limit will be the software, not the image.

For example, you can imagine some old software that is unaware of color spaces and treats everything as sRGB. There is nothing we can do to make that software show a Display P3 correctly. However, we can still show the image well enough that a user understands "that is a red apple".
by reverendsteveii | 2025-06-25 17:58:21+00:00
as a followup to that (excellent) book, here's Barry Glassner - A Culture of Fear. The Better Angels of Our Nature talks about how violence has always been declining. A Culture of Fear talks about how the rate of that decline has been increasing since the 90s but people actually perceive things as becoming more dangerous rather than less, and attempts to come up with an answer as to why that may be the case.
by momocowcow | 2025-06-25 17:58:21+00:00
This. I’ve seen businesses where sending a crew to a very remote location in the wilderness (natural resources, oil, mining, etc) is very cost prohibitive. The less time spent over there figuring out what’s up, the better. They’ll have software devs model the remote site in Unity or whatever then have the crew rehearse the task at hand in VR.
by chisleu | 2025-06-25 17:58:28+00:00
Just ordered a $12k mac studio w/ 512GB of integrated RAM.

Can't wait for it to arrive and crank up LM Studio. It's literally the first install. I'm going to download it with safari.

LM Studio is newish, and it's not a perfect interface yet, but it's fantastic at what it does which is bring local LLMs to the masses w/o them having to know much.

There is another project that people should be aware of: https://github.com/exo-explore/exo

Exo is this radically cool tool that automatically clusters all hosts on your network running Exo and uses their combined GPUs for increased throughput.

Like HPC environments, you are going to need ultra fast interconnects, but it's just IP based.
by mystified5016 | 2025-06-25 17:58:32+00:00
> like a for loop, but with no dependency allowed between iterations

"Break" is a dependency between iterations, and really only makes sense in a sequential iteration. In a parallel for loop, you can break from the current iteration, but the next is probably already running.

If you want any iteration to be able to cancel all others, they have to be linked somehow. Giving every task a shared cancellation token might be simplest. Or you turn your for loop into a sort of task pool that intelligently herds threads in the background and can consume and relay cancellation requests.

But I agree, we need a new paradigm for parallel programming. For loops just don't cut it, despite being one of the most natrual-feeling programming concepts.

C#'s Parallel.For and ForEach are a step in the right direction, but very unergonomic and unintuitive. I think we could get by with just bolting parallelism onto for loops, but we need a fundamentally parallel concept. I assume it'd look something like cuda programming but I really don't know.
by minimaxir | 2025-06-25 18:00:16+00:00
LM Studio has quickly become the best way to run local LLMs on an Apple Silicon Mac: no offense to vllm/ollama and other terminal-based approaches, but LLMs have many levers for tweaking output and sometimes you need a UI to manage it. Now that LM Studio supports MLX models, it's one of the most efficient too.

I'm not bullish on MCP, but at the least this approach gives a good way to experiment with it for free.
by j-wags | 2025-06-25 18:00:44+00:00
I just got a pair of TCL Rayneo air 2 display glasses since I'm farsighted and my eyes become fatigued after a day of working on a conventional monitor. The increased focal distance seems to help, but the nose piece is weirdly designed and the pressure under the pads becomes a little painful after an hour or two. Also the field of view is too wide and so the edges are blurry (hard to see clock, corner buttons in fullscreen windows, health bar in video games, etc).

Worked great to avoid eye fatigue/posture issues on airplanes though. I'm happy I have them, but in hindsight I'd have gotten a Viture or something with a better nose bridge and a narrower field of view.
by docmars | 2025-06-25 18:00:59+00:00
I wish people could have applied this thinking to the last administration for even more heinous attacks on free speech, hehe. The media has proven itself to lie more around the nature of these controversies before seeking a credible source to begin with.

That should be more concerning here, I think.

In any case, I think with CBP here, it's either take it or leave it.
by rkagerer | 2025-06-25 18:01:02+00:00
Really old versions, sure.

Newer old versions rely on Microsoft to activate them. Given the trajectory the indistry is moving toward, I don't have a lot of confidence that will last indefinitely.

More and more features these days are getting inextricably tied to the cloud, and it's becoming trickier to create offline installation media even for the ones that aren't.
by ProgramMax | 2025-06-25 18:01:30+00:00
It is very backwards compatible. I'm not sure why you thought that.

We jumped through quite a lot of hoops to make sure old software will be able to display new images. They simply won't display them optimally. But for the most part, that would be because the old software wouldn't display images optimally anyway. So the limit was the software, not the format.

What I mean by this is old software that treats everything as sRGB wouldn't correctly show a Display P3 image anyway. But we made sure it will still display the image as correctly as it could.
by everforward | 2025-06-25 18:01:42+00:00
120 per 100,000 includes significant digits. 0.12% could be anywhere from 120-124 per 100,000. You'd really want 0.120%, but that's confusing for different reasons.

Worse would be 1,000 per 100,000, which is 1% but there's no way to tell that it's not rounded or truncated.
by casenmgreen | 2025-06-25 18:01:45+00:00
Freakonomics argued that crime correlates to whether or not abortion is available.

If it is not, crime rates are up, and by a lot.

If it is, crime rates are down.

When you flip from one to the other, takes about 15/20 years for the effect to show up.

Rationale is that forcing parents to have their kids when they're not ready for them significantly increases delinquency in young adults.

This is apparently the only possible theory at the moment. It's not proven, of course, but the other theories which were given have been found lacking. This is the only theory which has some evidence, and hasn't been found to be wrong.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-06-25 18:01:57+00:00
Costa Rica the vast majority of tourist attractions have a resident price and a tourist price. I have mixed feelings about it -- on the one hand, it makes sense for a country reliant on tourism to charge tourists more, since tourists are much richer, and a lot of the money goes to ecological protection, research, the arts, etc. On the other hand, it's kind of a bummer for a nominally cheap country to have quite expensive museum and national park admissions - it's hard not to feel like you're getting screwed, and it's not an ignorable difference for my budget.

It's an interesting dilemma. Personally, I prefer the version of price discrimination where you introduce high-margin premium value-adds that people can opt in or out of - alcohol or steak/lobster at a restaurant, rooms with views or additional packages at hotels, table service, etc, which can allow wealthier customers to subsidize less wealthy ones without necessarily compromising the core service. Though that's still a bummer when adding a view to a room is prohibitively expensive for something that cost the hotel nothing more to provide, and you feel like either you're getting screwed or you'll always have an alleyway view from your hotel.
by asadotzler | 2025-06-25 18:02:29+00:00
Can you claim to that user it is deleted when it is not just because you're holding onto it for legal reasons? I understand the need or requirement to hold some documents, but I don't understand how companies can lie to users claiming their information was deleted when it was not. IMO, they should be required to inform users what specific items were not deleted and the reasons for that.
by jvm___ | 2025-06-25 18:02:37+00:00
The Sun: 99.86% of the solar system's total mass.

Jupiter: ~0.095% of the total mass, and ~71% of the non-solar mass.

Saturn: ~0.03% of the total mass, and ~19% of the non-solar mass.

Uranus and Neptune: Contribute a small percentage to the remaining non-solar mass.

All other objects: (inner planets, dwarf planets, moons, asteroids, comets, etc.) account for less than 0.002% of the solar system's total mass.

Your brain mass is about 3 disposable water bottles in weight and we can debate what parts of that are thinking and actually "you".

You are insignificant on the scale of the solar system let alone the universe.
by koalaman | 2025-06-25 18:02:58+00:00
I'm not sure reCAPTCHA is really trying to detect automated vs human interaction with a browser. The primary use-case is to detect abusive use. The distinction here is if I automate my own browser to do things for me on sites using my personal account may not be a problem for site owners, while a spam operation or reselling operation which generates thousands of false accounts using automation is a big problem that they'd want to be able to block. I think reCAPTCHA is tailored towards the latter, and for it not to block the former might be more of a feature than a bug.
by arunbhatia | 2025-06-25 18:03:02+00:00
Thanks, glad that you liked it! It's a simple RAG w/o indexing, which fetches the relevant research papers and summarizes them as per the question.

I have just launched the POC last week, and mostly focused on improving the search results, so I didn't get time to create the social pages yet. Will do it soon! But, thanks for pointing that out :)
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-06-25 18:03:18+00:00
>You could argue that this isn't something that a phone should be used for

Shouldn't the user decide what to use it for, instead of others?

If people aren't gonna use USB 3.0, that's fine, but at least have it for those who do, it's not gonna bother the rest.

It's not like USB 3.0 is some expensive rocket science that takes a lot of effort to implement or takes up space in the phone like the headphone jack.
by rsync | 2025-06-25 18:03:33+00:00
"Most people who write reviews aren't exactly the most mentally stable people either. If you're not getting something in return, most people won't write a review, that just leave the nut jobs."

Strongly disagree.

IF there were a generally decent and functional and efficient review forum and IF it were painless and friction-free to leave a review, then I think reviewing a product insightfully is something that adds real value and makes the world a (slightly) better place.

Unfortunately, the fora for this kind of activity are either nonexistent or laden with pathological baggage. Reviews at Amazon are unusable at best, fraudulent at worst, and I hear nothing but bad things about "goodreads".