MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by litmus-pit-git | 2025-06-23 04:50:14+00:00
Result might not be as expected ;-)

A much younger cousin used to do that — sans the camera or photo taking part in my village. He could barely talk. When asked around that time and a bit later as well, because it continued, he said something that spooked some in the family. He let us know that she was playing with someone in the large courtyard. Some women in the family (at night after dinner they would all socialise away from work and male intervention relaxed; a very South Asian thing) would remark the way he would sometimes play away in a corner in the gigantic courtyard in the evening (evenings in the city — in a lot of villages 7-8pm is quite the night) - as if he was playing with someone. Something, at least two more toddlers in the family had attested to before him. They all were teens/adults later at that time. Even the description matched. I was a teen, who stayed in boarding schools, and had been bullied too much and sadly bullied others too much in the guise of ghosts and what not so I didn’t believe it, I don’t believe it now. But it was weird. I think it is some kind of family memory or shit. My later explanation is/was — someone scared those kids with such stories so that they won’t wander around alone at night and they kind of started living it.
by galaxyavenu | 2025-06-23 04:50:19+00:00
Sure you don't have an objective best to worst, but I'm sure that most serious listeners will venture to music from all kind of eras and cultures.

I find that it's much harder ( than visual art ) to say "I don't like this" and more "This sounds really fun but I can't budget time to listen to this kind music".

Or maybe this is just me.
by blindriver | 2025-06-23 04:50:50+00:00
I have predicted this for years. I think they will make city cores self-driving cars only, with no other cars, or even bicycles because they are too chaotic. China should have done this with those ghost cities, so that they could have dominated with full self driving before other countries.

Someone will own the platform that coordinate car movement, and then all cars will need to pay to get onto this coordination platform that will tell each car how to drive, which route to take, etc. Each car know what all the other cars in its area will be doing, so that mass coordination is possible. This is how you can get a completely full highway but all traveling at 65 mph 1 feet away from each other.
by fuzztester | 2025-06-23 04:50:54+00:00
>I think he has a little nest egg saved up, and hasn't had to job-hunt lately.

Yes. Good insight. But I'd guess it's somewhat more than a little; apart from other things, he's also an angel investor. See the last paragraph here:

https://www.complexsystemspodcast.com/about/

It starts like this;

>Obligatory disclaimers: I'm a (tiny) angel investor. I previously worked at, and am still an advisor to, Stripe.
by gucci-on-fleek | 2025-06-23 04:51:34+00:00
It depends what you're typesetting—if you're using letter/A4 paper with 1" margins, then you're unlikely to notice any difference; but if you're using narrow columns, then it will vastly reduce the number of paragraphs with ugly huge spaces between words. Margin kerning is the other big feature, but you probably won't notice that unless you're fairly picky.
by mahkeiro | 2025-06-23 04:51:48+00:00
In Saudi Arabia they just disappear or are even executed in total secrecy. They even execute women that were raped… https://reprieve.org/uk/2023/01/31/saudi-arabia-and-the-deat... And please have a look at your index, if there a broken one it is this one https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/thematic-composite-indices/... In 2013 Saudi Arabia went from almost last to ahead of countries like Cuba… Cuba may not be a great country but female don’t need a perpetual male tutor to do anything.
by 57473m3n7Fur7h3 | 2025-06-23 04:56:09+00:00
Since the project consists of multiple SQL files already, a workaround might be to split out all the “comment on” statements from each file into new files following them.

So in file 02-… you have your “create schema”, “create view” and so on. And then in file 03-… you have only the “comment on” statements that go with the things from file 02. And then file 04-… contains “create schema” and “create view” and so on, and file 05-… has the “comment on” statements for file 04-….

And in addition you could then add dash dash comments in 02 and 04 referring to files 03 and 05. And in file 03 and 05 at the top mention that these are valid SQL for PostgreSQL and that GitHub has trouble rendering them properly.

It’s a bit messy of course, but that’s why I say it’s a possible workaround rather than a great solution. Could be worth considering and trying, anyway.
by eesmith | 2025-06-23 04:56:30+00:00
> For rites, Tacitus mentions that Mercury receives animal and human sacrifices while other deities only get animals.

Right, but as the text I quoted earlier pointed out: "Of course, it has already been shown by Karl Helm that this was a historical trope copied from Herodotus, and/or Caesar’s Commentarii de bello gallico (Helm 1946: 7-12). The fact that Caesar was talking about Celts, and his description of religion among the Germani mentions worship of the sun, moon, and fire, does nothing to secure the reliability of such ‘historical’ sources. Either way, the argument that the foremost deity interpreted by Tacitus as a ‘Mercury-type’ must be Wodan/Óðinn is a projection of the latter’s supremacy in Old Norse material onto a Germanic society several centuries older. This becomes a circular argument and cannot be leading."

> acknowledging that something is a supernatural entity is worshiping it

I ... really? Christianity has angels, devils, cherubs, the Nephilim, and other supernatural entities who are not worshiped. Who prays to the first and second beasts of Revelation or the Ophanim?

Those are supernatural entities in a (nominally) monotheistic religion.

But really I was thinking more that given all the world's mythologies, I find it hard to believe that all supernatural entities in them are worshiped as gods.

In trying to research this, it seems the main problem is the dearth of information we have about pre-literate German culture. We have views through the eyes of Tacitus and Bede, but these come with unknown biases and misunderstandings.
by leptons | 2025-06-23 04:57:05+00:00
>For the very first time on this phone I felt like I need an upgrade, it felt like the last days of my iPhone 6s. I didn’t know you can do that to an iPhone.

Apple got caught purposely slowing down older model iPhones.

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/18/936268845/apple-agrees-to-pay...
by kennywinker | 2025-06-23 04:57:35+00:00
I get what you’re saying, but:

1. the issues lies in the bounty hunting laws not the app. Change the law, the app goes away.

2. I’d rather bad laws get struck from the books, rather than lurking mostly un-enforced in the toolbox of police to weaponize. E.g. jaywalking. A crime made up by car companies to shift the blame from cars+drivers to pedestrians, mostly un-enforced except when cops want an excuse to id/frisk/hassle a young person or visible minority.
by zdragnar | 2025-06-23 04:57:53+00:00
So you'll take months of time from a candidate but won't give them at least a week?

A take it or leave it offer with a three day window to accept is, to be blunt, a terrible offer. That combined with the number of interviews to get that far show just how little the company respects the candidates.

You're selecting for a specific type of person, and you're going to get a culture that reflects it.
by hnfong | 2025-06-23 04:58:17+00:00
I guess it's kinda hubris on my part to question your ability to know things with such high certainty about things that philosophers have been struggling to prove for millenia...

What you said is only true for the bits of humanity you have decided to focus upon -- capitalist, technology-driven modern societies. If you looked beyond that, there are cultures that build society upon other assumptions. You might think those other modes are "wrong", but that's your personal view. For me, I personally don't think any of these are "true" in the absolute sense, as much as I don't think yours is "true". They're just ways humans with our mortal brains try to grapple with a reality that we don't understand.

As a sidenote, probability does not mean the thing you think it means. There's no reasonable frequentist interpretation for fundamental truth of reality, so you're just saying your Bayesian subjective probability says that math is "the most likely possibility". Which is fine, except everyone has their own different priors...
by gucci-on-fleek | 2025-06-23 04:58:50+00:00
> LaTeX needs several passes to compile because it was designed with minicomputers of the 80s in mind, i.e. tiny memory constraints.

That's certainly part of it, but any typesetting program will need multiple passes to properly handle tables of contents—you can't know a section's page number until you've compiled everything before that section (including the table of contents), but adding a new section to the contents could push everything ahead by another page. The only unique thing about LaTeX here is that it directly exposes these multiple passes to the user.
by proc0 | 2025-06-23 05:00:11+00:00
> Postscript: I don’t use LLMs for generating the texts in my blog posts, because I use these posts specifically to clarify my own thinking.

I can clearly tell when AI is being used. AI has a distinct writing style, with broad generalizations usually with lists and it repeats itself a lot. Same happens with images. This is why it seems clear once you use them a lot that they have limitations, and those limitations do not follow (or make sense) given that they display otherwise smart behavior.

For example, if you can write lyrics in jar-jar binks style about quantum physics or some other crazy prompts that would take a human significant effort, it should also write really good article with descent structure and good points, but it fails. Or another example from the latest image generators I tested, it can generate a beautiful image of a castle or some setting with exquisite details but when I prompt it to generate a character with its left foot forward it somehow completely fails. I think this consistency problem is crucial for reliability and applicability in the real world. There might be some workarounds with agents, but so far it seems there is a higher cost to result ratio as it needs lots of prompts to raise that reliability a few points.

I'm thinking LLMs are like one part of our brains like the language area, but intelligence is much more than that so maybe we need a new architecture that combines with LLMs to get full logical thinking.
by moefh | 2025-06-23 05:00:48+00:00
Where am I assuming that we have perfect knowledge of physics?

To make it plain, I'll break the argument in two parts:

(a) if AGI is impossible but humans are intelligent, then it must be the case that human behavior can't be explained algorithmically (that last part is Penrose's position).

(b) the statement that human behavior can't be explained algorithmically is about physics, not mathematics.

I hope it's clear that neither (a) or (b) require perfect knowledge of physics, but just in case:

(a) is true by reductio ad absurdum: if human behavior can be explained algorithmically, then an algorithm must be able to simulate it, and so AGI is possible.

(b) is true because humans exist in nature, and physics (not mathematics) is the science that deals with nature.

So where is the assumption that we have perfect knowledge of physics?
by crq-yml | 2025-06-23 05:01:04+00:00
Typically it's done through source code generation or a runtime interpreter - state machine systems implementing a "DSL->source code" mechanism have been around for nearly as long as high level languages, and by taking this approach they have a lot of freedom to include compiler techniques of their choosing. If dynamism is called for then the diagram is typically kept in memory and interpreted at runtime.

Doing it through types is intellectually interesting and makes the result more integrated into the edit-compile loop instead of involving a step in the build process or a step of invoking an interpreter, but it might not change the practical state of the art.
by throw3434566 | 2025-06-23 05:01:08+00:00
Depends on what you attribute the score to.

I've worked in many restaurants and a lot of the health scores are stacked against ethnic restaurants and how they prepare foods.

Your score gets knocked down if you have soups simmering for too long, but in Chinese cuisine it's often times common to have the broth cooking for more than 12 hours.
by catoc | 2025-06-23 05:01:09+00:00
That about ‘cogito ergo sums it up’ doesn’t it?

Intelligence is clearly possible. My gut feeling is our brain solves this by removing complexity. It certainly does so, continuously filtering out (ignoring) large parts of input, and generously interpolating over gaps (making stuff up). Whether this evolved to overcome this theorem I am not intelligent enough to conclude.
by 112233 | 2025-06-23 05:03:08+00:00
Thank you! It is nice to see that others keep trying and using C++ for embedded. As to 'vetting' the use of std library — I do not see how to do it without making a fork (or writing own "stripped down" version from scratch). E.g., you cannot simply decide not to use container allocator parameters, to reduce symbol sizes.

The point I tried to make is that you cannot reasonably use modern features of C++ with your own standard library — the amount of undocumented internal compiler details you have to guess and match exactly is becoming unmanageable. And while -fno-rtti and -fno-exceptions still miraculously are supported by compilers (it is explicitly non-conforming C++ even in "freestanding" implementation, according to 16.4.2.5) and stop compiler from emitting references to std::, other features like allocators do not have an "off" switch.

The initializer_list is a good example. N4950 17.10 explicitly tells you there are multiple valid ways to implement it. If you guess incorrectly, your program will crash.

So current C++ standard library must be treated like part of the compiler implementation. It did not use to be like that.
by Svip | 2025-06-23 05:03:59+00:00
I surely hope not. I'd rather have a city centre without cars than one filled with constantly self-driving cars. Pedestrians and animals are still "chaotic elements". At 105 km/h (still slow by European standards), what happens when a deer suddenly runs onto the motorway with a distance of ~30 cm between the vehicles? Talk about carnage.

I suppose the solution is to seal in all roads then with high walls; what dystopian future.
by gucci-on-fleek | 2025-06-23 05:04:51+00:00
> and one area the current crop is bad at is doing layout in anything but latex. Not that they are good at latex, but they are terrible, terrible, terrible at typst

I'm surprised to hear that—I've been using GitHub Copilot with ConTeXt [0] since 2021, and it mostly works fairly well. And ConTeXt is much more obscure than Typst (but also much older, so maybe that gives it an advantage?).

[0] https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Introduction/Quick_Start
by motorest | 2025-06-23 05:04:51+00:00
> (...) we aren’t seeing the 100s of other (mostly bad) ideas that same jerk also blocked that would have changed things in other ways (possibly for the worse).

Perhaps you're not seeing because those never existed? I mean, even though you're clearly speaking in hypotheticals, you're fabricating an outlandish scenario where somehow you associate being a jerk with a 100s-to-1 success rate. But there is nothing to support or even suggest that's even remotely real, plausible, or even conceivable. You have only concrete evidence of someone rejecting a sound recommendation on the grounds of gatekeeping mixed with NIH. Gatekeeping and NIH are not quality gates, are they? If that is the process, obviously you cannot expect a positive outcome.
by palmfacehn | 2025-06-23 05:07:12+00:00
Culture evolves. There's no accounting for taste.

Putting aside the issues with manipulated IMDB ratings, look at the volume of Marvel movies ranked equal or better than classics like "Vertigo" or "Lawrence of Arabia".

Film lovers (or perhaps snobs?) feel jaded about recent output. Pop culture dictates that superhero movies are more accessible. The coarsening of culture is a continual, evergreen observation.
by throwaway314155 | 2025-06-23 05:07:18+00:00
The shoddy past 10-15 years of self driving improvements has led me to believe that this "inevitable future" is at least 20-30 years away, if not longer given that a huge portion of existing cars would need to be effectively outlawed for that that to happen, people and businesses will basically always have legitimate reasons for wanting a human in the loop (and not remotely), and the tech has been worked on actively for decades and still doesn't work well enough to avoid loss of life (which, similar to a terrorist attack, might not be as devastating in numbers as the current state of affairs with humans driving - but will absolutely cause a deeper psychological impact on the general public as there is something seemingly more cruel and dystopian about a company killing people via "error" or cost-savings than a person killing someone by accident).
by justinnk | 2025-06-23 05:08:06+00:00
What you suggest seems plausible, but there is a very good counter example. Overleaf is also managing well by relying on the open-source LaTEX. What drives people to subscribe is not the typesetting itself, but the ecosystem around it (collaborative editing, version management, easy sharing, etc.). You can make money with those and still have the rendering free/open-source. I believe a similar thing is/will be true for Typst as well.
Are we overfitting our code to trends instead of problems?
by fewbenefit | 2025-06-23 05:08:21+00:00
I've been thinking modern programming feels increasingly shaped by ecosystem fashion. Frameworks change yearly, build tools get swapped like phone wallpapers, and even language choices feel driven more by vibe than need.

My concern is are we optimizing for what’s "new and exciting" rather than what’s appropriate and sustainable?

What are some signals that we’re solving tooling problems instead of real ones? Have we trained a generation of devs to chase abstractions instead of understanding fundamentals?

Curious what others think, is this a natural evolution of software... or are we just collectively procrastinating with better toys?
by dataflow | 2025-06-23 05:08:25+00:00
> The performance was hideous, even after we found that having pipes waiting for a connection more or less ground windows to a halt.

When you say the performance was hideous, are you referring to I/O after the pipe is already connected/open, or before? The former would he surprising, but the latter not - opening and closing a ton of pipes is not something you'd expect an OS to be optimized for - and it would be somewhat surprising if your use case requires the latter.
by felipeerias | 2025-06-23 05:08:40+00:00
If we did that, would we be really replicating what nature does, or would we be just simulating it?

Human intelligence and consciousness are embodied. They are emerging features of complex biological systems that evolved over thousands and millions of years. The desirable intelligent behaviours that we seek to replicate are exhibited by those same biological systems only after decades of growth and training.

We can only hope to simulate these processes, not replicate them exactly. And the problem with such a simulation is that we have no idea if the stuff that we are necessarily leaving out is actually essential to the outcome that we seek.
by ktkaufman | 2025-06-23 05:08:50+00:00
TL;DR: it's in a gray area, but nobody with power actually cares (at least for now), so it's effectively fine.

As I understand it, Lego is aware of the project (there's been a significant increase in interest in Lego Island in the past few years, with attempts to obtain the original source code) and simply does not care. It's an ancient IP and can't realistically compete with anything new, at least not in a way that would significantly affect Lego's revenue. This is not unlike the way several other companies have acted when their respective older games have been given the same treatment; if a fan project is not actively causing problems (reputational, financial, etc.), most companies will just leave it alone. For companies that actually seem to care about public opinion (as opposed to, say, Nintendo), I think it's fair to assume that the bad optics of taking legal action against a random fan project, however legally justified it might be, far outweigh any possible benefits.
by kaibee | 2025-06-23 05:11:06+00:00
> Citation needed. If you've spent any time dynamical systems, as an example, you'd know that the computer basically only kind of crudely estimates things, and only things that are abstractly near by. You may be able to write down some PDEs or field equations that may describe things at some base level, but even statistical mechanics, which is really what governs a huge amount of what we see and interact with, is just a pretty good approximation. Computers (especially real ones) only generate approximate (to some value of alpha) answers; physics is not reducible to a computer program at all.

You're proving too much. The fact of the matter is that those crude estimations are routinely used to model systems.
Are we overfitting our code to trends instead of problems?
by fewbenefit | 2025-06-23 05:11:37+00:00
I've been thinking modern programming feels increasingly shaped by ecosystem fashion. Frameworks change yearly, build tools get swapped like phone wallpapers, and even language choices feel driven more by vibe than need.

My concern is are we optimizing for what’s "new and exciting" rather than what’s appropriate and sustainable?

What are some signals that we’re solving tooling problems instead of real ones? Have we trained a generation of devs to chase abstractions instead of understanding fundamentals?

Curious what others think, is this a natural evolution of software... or are we just collectively procrastinating with better toys?
by memonkey | 2025-06-23 05:12:04+00:00
I read both twice, once in high school and again a few years after I graduated (this was over 15 years ago). I loved The Great Gatsby even more (that opening first page is magnificent), and couldn't help but feel like The Catcher in the Rye as being so incredibly naive and juvenile. The latter experience is similar to reading (or watching) Fight Club and thinking Tyler Durden is a hero of sorts and something to aspire to, which is not the ultimate lesson.
by jnsaff2 | 2025-06-23 05:12:13+00:00
My bank has a trading desk, the information about it is not very public, neither are their contact details on the website.

But they have a phone number that I was given and I can call them whenever I need to convert currency worth more than €20k. The rates are much better, and they get almost mid-market by the time you ask them about €100k+ numbers.

The number has no waiting music, it rings, trader picks up and deal is done and money has been exchanged in my account in less than a minute.