MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by burnt-resistor | 2025-06-30 05:20:56+00:00
0: I dislike political sides-ism extreme rhetorical tone because it reinforces divided and conquered political gamesmanship rather than addressing an almost universally-greater concern: that ordinary people are so easily set against one another by very few, small cadres of excessively rich+powerful people and their helpers in mass media and political figureheads.

1: I dislike fatalism/doomerism because it reinforces learned helplessness and assumes absence of agency. (And I also detest accelerationism.) No empire/established/civilization is irreversibly doomed to decline or dissolution if the cycle of corruption, power accretion, and/or mismanagement that may occur as a macro trend in a cycle, orthogonal to political parties, can be interrupted and reset. FDR did this once and someone like him can do it again. It's important to read and learn from historical examples of how other empires failed and to avoid rhyming historical patterns of unnecessary chaos.

Suggested reading:

- The Fourth Turning by Howe and Strauss

- The Sorrows of Empire by Chalmers Johnson
by asveikau | 2025-06-30 05:21:37+00:00
I'm not even talking about the financial status of these students, which due to the nature of the school sounds like it's pretty dire.

I'm merely talking about stability for the child. This would be a stressful event even for a well off child.

That's why I keep asking if you guys are parents. A school change can be a huge deal.

As for why Zuck's conduct is immoral, it's about keeping promises. You say you're going to fund something and solicit people to orient their entire life around it, which is what we do when we enroll our kids in school. Then you take it away. That is ... Almost criminal levels of not keeping your word. I would totally unironically put it on the scale of violence towards the families. It honestly is very offensive, it makes my blood boil.
by computator | 2025-06-30 05:22:41+00:00
The business model of the S1 is just wild. It mimics the PC clone industry of the 1990s.

From the Wikipedia page:

This product is what is referred to as a 'common mold' which means many different suppliers can produce this same model. The manufacturers are almost exclusively located in China.

Primarily defined by the use of a system-on-a-chip of one of the Actions brands and some common core features, S1 products vary widely in software and hardware as well as design.

I counted 62 different manufacturers listed in the Wikipedia article that apparently licensed this reference design (the core features and basic hardware), and who then made variations to the user interface or added a feature or two, and slapped their names onto it.

There seems to have been a whole industry of MP3 Players that were essentially identical at the core electronics level in the early 2000s, and we never realized it.
by keyserj | 2025-06-30 05:23:24+00:00
I'm building an app[1] (repo[2]) that helps you visualize perspectives and details about complex problems so that it's easier to figure what to do about them.

Right now it's basically a diagramming app specifically for the domain of problem-solving. I think an issue with it is that it's too hard for new users, so I've spent the last few weeks UX designing a view (figma prototype[3]) that I think is more intuitive to use (though sacrifices some features).

I'm currently working on code design for this view and am hoping to implement in the next few weeks!

[1] https://ameliorate.app/

[2] https://github.com/amelioro/ameliorate

[3] https://www.figma.com/proto/psTRolY8LTVOef3fkCJ0B4/Simplifie...
by tinyoli | 2025-06-30 05:23:30+00:00
A bit an older post with more data on the topic: https://medium.com/better-humans/measuring-blood-sugar-as-a-...

TL;DR:

As a healthy, non-diabetic adult I wore a Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) to measure my blood sugar for two weeks

The sensor was convenient to use and painless to apply, and was barely noticeable during the two weeks it was on my arm.

In analyzing my blood sugar levels, I learned a lot about my body’s response to different foods and exercise; I could identify some foods that spike my glucose.

Two weeks is too short to make detailed improvements to my nutrition in order to stabilise glucose levels — further monitor and experimentation will be needed.
by comonoid | 2025-06-30 05:23:55+00:00
I'm working on a dynamic ARM assembler for Rust. dynasm is too restrictive: it uses static register names, and iced-x86 is x86/x64 only.

It allows to define

add x1, x2, w3, sxth 2

add x2, x3, x4, lsr 8

as

...

add(X1, X2, X3).extend(ExtendMode::SXTH, 2), // yes, it is X3, not W3.

add(X2, X3, X4).shift(ShiftMode::LSR, 8),

...

Still haven't published the repo as I can't pick a cool name...
by speeder | 2025-06-30 05:24:18+00:00
Last time I bought a car, my family kept pushing me to buy new, avoid used.

All new cars were crap and expensive. People wanted me to buy a Hyundai HB20 with a crappy engine that couldn't climb the hill where my house was located.

I ended buying a used Mitsubishi Lancer GT, the thing had same engine as Evo (minus the turbo), leather seats, roof window, rear camera and so on. For half of the price of the HB20.

Sadly Mitsubishi discontinued those and went on to join the SUVmania where your cheapest car is a big as a SUV externally, but that has cramped interior and none of SUV features.
by adityaathalye | 2025-06-30 05:24:43+00:00
https://bombaylitmag.com/contribution/the-cordyception/

In my imagined world of Halahala, silent stories have occupied prime real estate since 2005. I think of them like music without lyrics, jazz-like in the experience. The Cordyception is another riff on Halahala’s staple theme of nature, sustainability and our obsession with a certain ladder. An Attenborough documentary led me to these marvellous fungi called Cordyceps and the rest is pure Halahala. The fungi infect and take over specific insect-hosts – body and mind – commanding them to a high vantage point for dispersing spores.

I swear I drew this before the pandemic

—Appupen
by bluefirebrand | 2025-06-30 05:25:52+00:00
Well, the used car market has also been decimated

Cash For Clunkers took a ton of used vehicles off the market

Stricter environmental standards have also taken otherwise working cars off the market, by preventing used dealerships from selling them in general, and making it more difficult/more expensive to insure them

The days of buying a used car for 2 grand are long gone
by ddeck | 2025-06-30 05:26:44+00:00
Chinese EVs are certainly strongly tariffed. The below Reuters article highlights how BYD are apparently shifting to plug-in hybrid sales to avoid the 27% tariff the EU imposes on its pure battery electric vehicles (plug-in hybrids attract a reduced 10% tariff).

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/chines...
by joshdavham | 2025-06-30 05:26:58+00:00
> Positional arguments means a caller can use MyDataClass(1, 'foo', False), and if you remove/reorder any of these arguments, you’ll break those callers unexpectedly. By forcing callers to use MyDataClass(x=1, y='foo', z=False), you remove this risk.

This is an awesome way to prevent future breaking changes!

...but unfortunately, adding this to an existing project would also likely result in breakings changes haha
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-30 05:27:09+00:00
> unless you're eating your lotions

Buddy of mine did research in Milan on common sunscreen ingredients. In a lab, those chemicals didn't tend to cross the dermis.

But put that person in the sun and you find detectable quantities of those chemicals in serum within minutes. Turns out the flushing (i.e. rushing of blood to the skin, in particular, to the surface of the dermis) increases permeability. Nobody really tested those chemicals for intravenous use.

So in a very real sense, you ingest in all but digestion the ingredients in your lotions.
by counters | 2025-06-30 05:28:56+00:00
It's not a question of "the market." Weather stories very strongly breakthrough in our current media environment. More importantly, weather forecasting and government services related to them enjoy deep and durable bi-partisan support.

It just so happens that the communities most likely to be adversely and quickly impacted by the loss of these data are deep Republican bastions in the South / Gulf Coast.
by nmehner | 2025-06-30 05:30:45+00:00
As a diabetic having alarms is the most important thing. Measurements are not that accurate (neither is the finger prick method: If sometimes get a difference of 20% comparing two measurements from both hands). But also the "ok" range of 3.8 mmol/L to 10 mmol/L is quite large and levels can rise/drop 20% in minutes. So it is still quite helpful.

With the CGM there is also an additional delay of about 15 minutes in the measurements. Mostly you want to be triggered when something strange happens and then you do a manual measurement to confirm.

A false alarm of low blood sugar is annoying, but it is a lot better than collapsing. You can relax a lot more if you know you will get an alarm.
by Larrikin | 2025-06-30 05:31:15+00:00
The solution to fossil fuels was not make gas cost 20 dollars a gallon (or an imagined unbounded amount) so only people who really need to drive can afford it. It was serious research into many different forms of energy. There are many old people who have their lively hoods tied to the fact that we ignore the science, but we do have solutions.

Propose some kind of research into lab grown meat, extremely cheap feed, or some unthought of billion dollar idea solution.

Rich get to enjoy something that all of humanity has enjoyed for the entirety of human existence will never be a solution people take seriously.
by bix6 | 2025-06-30 05:31:56+00:00
Most T1Ds I know use a CGM now as they are much more accurate than they used to be. But they are expensive so insurance generally covers for T1D but not T2D. You can always double check with a finger stick though as that uses blood instead of interstitial fluid. My friend uses a Tslim which uses a CGM to adjust her insulin automatically.
by octo888 | 2025-06-30 05:32:35+00:00
This is it. People take more than 7kg because it's replaced their checked in bag

EU will claim a massive victory (with very little mention for the 7kg limit in their PR headlines), which is largely all the want. But airlines will carry on selling 8kg plus bags probably for even more than before

If this wasn't done in negotiation with airlines I would be very surprised
by Someone | 2025-06-30 05:33:18+00:00
> And if the first set is 6-0, that indicates one side has exceptionally better skills.

In the model I proposed, it doesn’t. Even if the players are perfectly balanced, there’s a 1:64 probability of getting 6-0 and a 1:64 probability of getting 0-6. Combined, that’s a 3% chance of getting a bagel.

But as I said, there’s a huge server’s advantage in men’s tennis. That makes ‘bagels’ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagel_(tennis)) less likely there, and means a player winning a set 6:0 indeed statistically is much better than their opponent.

They’re fairly common in women’s tennis, though, even ones with the side losing that set winning the match.
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-06-30 05:35:23+00:00
Not sure the exact combination of internal security nonsense used, but my corporate laptop idles at a good 20% cpu utilization. It would not surprise me at all to know that the products are stepping over themselves and scanning each other. Double plus ungood is that any programming tool I use seemingly gets extra scrutiny and can take 10x as long as I know it would on a non-compromised Linux machine.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-06-30 05:35:30+00:00
1341 PLN / 371 USD isn't "cheap" for 25% more cores. That's almost double the price.

Q64-22 on eBay (US) for $150-200 USD / 542-723 PLN.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/365380821650

https://www.ebay.com/itm/365572689742
by dmitrysergeyev | 2025-06-30 05:36:21+00:00
I made Peekly[0] because I was tired of feeling FOMO about all the stuff happening in AI, dev tools, indie hacking, etc. I couldn’t keep up with blogs, feeds, and newsletters — it was too much.

Peekly pulls from high-quality sources using LLM + retrieval, then sends you a regular digest with just the most relevant content according to your interests. You can even give it custom prompts to control what it finds and how it summarizes — super useful if you want a particular angle on a topic.

YC folks can use code YC256 for an extra free month (on top of the 14-day trial). Would love to hear what you think!

[0] https://peekly.ai/
by casid | 2025-06-30 05:37:40+00:00
I'm working on a video game called Astroloot[1], a mix of bullet-heaven and scifi-space ARPG. After two years, I've finally completed the main-campaign and now start with the endgame. Ever since playing Diablo 2, I've wanted to create an ARPG. Have to say, this project brought back the joy of programming for me.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/3498390/Astroloot/
by vishu42 | 2025-06-30 05:38:41+00:00
1.) Well, both startups and enterprises. both can benefit from reduced costs. 2.) Haven't worked out any figure yet. 3.) I was thinking an agent could run on the laptop/machine exposing compute and making sure it doesn't sleep, also report availability i.e if it can schedule a job or not. 4.) Correct, it should be a drop-in replacement type of thing, where for instance only changing the runs-on bit in github actions should suffice. Machines could became part of a node-pool via vpn? and jobs could be scheduled on the ones that are available.
by nmehner | 2025-06-30 05:38:58+00:00
https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/safety-communications/do...

Existing smart watches that claim to do this are basically garbage. Just use a random number generator instead.

Apple and Samsung are supposedly working on it: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidphelan/2025/01/26/samsung-... But it seems to be hard and from what I have seen the new Galaxy Watch 8 won't have this feature.
by Nursie | 2025-06-30 05:39:08+00:00
Actually in a lot of places the attempted solution was to put steadily escalating taxes on 'gas', to try to make people drive less. That plus put restrictions on vehicle efficiency to drive down fuel use, which can also be argued to push up car prices.

And look where that rather gentle approach got us - we've had decades of people knowing there's a climate crisis coming and here we are still burning fossil fuels for power.

> Rich get to enjoy something that all of humanity has enjoyed for the entirety of human existence will never be a solution people take seriously.

So in your mind it is better to drive the seas to complete destruction than to limit catches and thereby push up the price?

You know this is self-limiting, right? In that if we kill everything in the seas, those people still won't get cheap fish, and the 'rich' will eat the last few at great expense?
by adrian_b | 2025-06-30 05:40:28+00:00
While Amdahl’s Law is very important, its practical effects are very frequently overestimated, at least as frequently as Knuth is misquoted.

Simple problems, e.g. solving a system of equations, will usually include some non-negligible sequential part, which, according to Amdahl’s Law will limit the amount of speed-up provided by hardware parallelism.

On the other hand, complex problems, e.g. designing an integrated circuit, can usually be decomposed in a very great number of simpler subproblems that have weaker dependencies between them, than between the parts of a subproblem, so that by distributing the execution of the simple subproblems over parallel hardware that executes sequentially each subproblem you can obtain much greater acceleration factors than when attempting to parallelize the execution of each simple subproblem.

With clever decomposition of a complex problem and with good execution planning for its subtasks, it is much easier to approach the performance of an embarrassingly parallel problem, than when trying to find parallel versions of simple algorithms, whose performance is frequently limited to low values by Amdahl’s Law.

Amdahl’s Law frequently prevents you from reducing the execution time of some task from 1 minute to 1 second, but it normally does not prevent you from reducing the execution time of some task from 1 year to 1 week, because a task so complex to have required weeks, months or years before parallelization normally contains a great enough number of weakly-coupled subproblems.
by motorest | 2025-06-30 05:41:30+00:00
> Denmark already have a limited form of the UBI when seen in that light. The state offers free education and a monthly "basic income" for people studying for a degree, for up to five years.

Your example has absolutely nothing to do with UBI, other than the fact that a small minority gets paid a stipend. It's not universal as it's conditionally granted only to a very small subset of society (students) throughout a limited time (5 years). At best it's another social safety net that is granted to people who would otherwise have no access to higher education.

Yet, in your example you already acknowledge that even when granted to a very specific subset of society which is motivated and mobilized to seize that opportunity to fund personal growth, it is also abused in ways that go exactly against it's purpose as it provides perverse incentives that attack equity at it's core.

> I don't personally believe that the majority of people will become unproductive consumers with an UBI. I think that societal pressure to contribute, the wish to enjoy luxuries, and to get status is enough for the majority to still work.

I'm afraid your personal hopes are misguided and based only on wishful thinking. There are plenty of examples in areas such as social housing where benefits are linked with immunity to "societal pressure to contribute". Providing a resource unconditionally represents a clear incentive to eliminate whatever incentives there are to secure it.
by deterministic | 2025-06-30 05:42:30+00:00
There seems to be a lot of "Lisp is better than C/C++/..." articles around. I wonder why?

If the purpose is to try and convince non-Lispers to use Lisp, a more convincing argument (for me at least) would be to demonstrate modern commercial software written faster and more bug free in Lisp.

For example: "Here is a modern biz web application written in Lisp" showing step by step how Lisp makes the development process faster and less buggy than implementing the same application using (say) Typescript/C++.

Notes: I use custom code generators to generate more than 90% of the Typescript/C++ code needed to implement biz applications. Leaving only the core biz logic. So macros for code generation doesn't really give me anything I don't have already. And using macros for defining my own DSL's within the language would just makes the code unreadable for other developers. So it is not a feature I actually want.
by alexey-salmin | 2025-06-30 05:43:52+00:00
> I discovered that a bunch of things I thought were reasonably healthy actually caused huge glycemic spikes -- e.g., white bread in the morning, croissants, dried mangos, excessive amount of fruits, etc.

I wonder if this amounts to optimization of an easy-to-measure and reasonably-looking but incorrect metric, much like the previous "common sense" wave of "fat makes you fat" that led several generations into a dead end.

You assume above that glycemic spikes are unhealthy which I think was never proven for the general population. Eating too much sugar or eating too much in general is bad, but I'm not aware of evidence that croissants kill you if you eat reasonably.

Another thing to note: one of the potential suspects in the obesity epidemic is HFCS, and fructose doesn't actually cause glycemic spikes. If this turns out to be true, then parallels with the "fat makes you fat" theory become uncannily strong.

I tend to think this could be the case because it matches my personal observations. I moved to France a few years ago and the amount of croissants I and people around me consume is at the stereotypes level. My weight is stable but each time I go to US for a couple of weeks I bring back 3-5 extra kilos. Something is seriously different between the food here and there, and I don't think it's glycemic spikes per se.
by johndoe_tps | 2025-06-30 05:44:32+00:00
I'm building a BigQuery SQL tools. It can

- format BigQuery SQL queries better (in my opinion). Support configurations for: maximum line length, standardize casing for SQL keywords and builtin functions (upper or lowercase). BigQuery UI does support formatting but the output doesn't look as "eye-catching" as I want.

- auto converting between standard SQL syntax and pipe syntax in BigQuery. Most queries work but some are not supported (for now - only case I see not supported as query that involves star expression in a group by since it requires the knowledge the underlying column of the table to work - though I haven't seen anyone writing this kind of group by query yet during my work)

- bring all the nested CTE to the outer of the query. this will be helpful such as BigQuery doesn't allow nested CTEs inside a recursive query. (recursive CTE will be handy if you have a CTE that is referenced multiple times - in such case, you can use recursive CTE to materialize that CTE so it is calculated once)

All this is done with the help of ZetaSQL library. I've done the code but have not yet have time to create a simple UI for it yet :)
by amszmidt | 2025-06-30 05:44:51+00:00
Mostly dead. Current Lisp Machine shenanigans related to MIT/LMI are at https://tumbleweed.nu/lm-3 ...

Currently working on an accurate model of the MIT CADR in VHDL, and merging the various System source trees into one that should work for Lambda, and CADR.
by Hilift | 2025-06-30 05:45:17+00:00
Yes, absolutely. This is mostly a legal/enforcement decision. If you avoid Russian authorities, they avoid you. Also Russia is nowhere near as fertile ground as the US. There are plenty of low paid entry level office workers in the US who will gladly update their AP payment information for business email compromise (BEC). $2.77 billion lost to BEC in 2024, the most lucrative category. Total losses in the US were $16 billion from 859,532 complaints.

One investigation I worked a threat actor in China socially engineered their way into getting an employee account in a US company created for them. They were so persuasive they also got their account inserted into the approval process as a manager for creating other new employee accounts (at a specific location) in the identity workflow. They did this only for the purpose of siphoning discounts that are available to employees, and they resold those which resulted in about one million dollars loss over a period of a couple of years.

https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/elpaso/news/fbi...