MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by motorest | 2025-06-26 03:57:54+00:00
> Yeah, not kill, but participating in a DDoS against a heavily frequented commercial site that makes hundreds of thousands of dollars of revenue a minute, that's still some substantial damage.

It sounds like that hypothetical site has an interest in not going down if a random baby monitor sends traffic their way.

Also, to underline how silly and poorly thought through your idea is, are you aware that there are nearly 200 countries out there, each of them with many people with their own internet connections? Or are you expecting DDoS botnets to be comprised exclusively of devices in your jurisdiction?
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-06-26 03:58:06+00:00
> The outcome where all of a sudden leadership just shit its pants and doesn't communicate at all and never followed up...

This is not only a possible outcome, it is a common one. When leadership realizes it was a mistake to instill one of these types of "productivity motivators", it is easier to disappear it and never (officially) speak of it again.
by somenameforme | 2025-06-26 03:59:06+00:00
Ironically appropriate example. Many of the most famous restaurants in the world, like Noma [1], are famous precisely for sourcing ingredients that bypass mega-farming. At Noma many of the dishes are based on the produce provided from local foraging.

And contrary to what you might expect from its presentation/reputation, the place itself is just a building surrounded by green houses and a guy growing and harvesting most of his own stuff. It's an extreme example, but the issue is fairly typical at nice restaurants.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noma_(restaurant)
by jerrysievert | 2025-06-26 03:59:41+00:00
I too was surprised about the slower startup and am planning on spending a lot of time in the quickjs repo to try to improve it. Thankfully most use cases use a connection pooler, which removes startup costs from the equation, leaving conversion speed much more important. I was able to speed up conversion of jsonb by writing a custom conversion from jsonb to quickjs and back, but feel there is still a lot of room for improvements.

As for quickjs vs quickjs-ng: ng is a fantastic project and I’m really hoping it pulls an egcs and ends up canonical, but when this project was started, it did not exist, so quickjs was chosen as the starting point. As for why it has not been adopted yet by this project, it comes down to a few things that helped make the decision:

* quickjs is still having releases * as learned from plv8, when there are constant changes it becomes much harder to maintain, so a steady target is easier to deal with (this is constantly being evaluated) * the build system change from make to cmake adds friction to Postgres embedding, I already have to patch quickjs, and would need more complicated patches for quickjs-ng. I have a good working relationship with Ben Noordhuis, but it’s still a source of friction that isn’t needed now.

As things change, everything will be re-evaluated, but for now quickjs itself works great.
by anon291 | 2025-06-26 03:59:50+00:00
I know it's funny because it's boner pills, but realistically, the article does not paint as bad a picture of hims as it is attempting to. The various rules they make to skirt the law seem silly, but are really the result of over-regulation. The simple truth about hims algorithmic care is that the vast majority of medical care could be given this way. This was a major revelation to me when I had a medical question that I asked through Amazon's online doctor platform (off-insurance) for just $30. The system asked me several quiz style questions. It determined exactly what was the problem (because again... most primary care is really not that hard). It gave a suggestion of what I'd probably get from the doctor. It sent all the details, including its suggestions to a board-certified medical doctor, who reviewed it within an hour, and then chatted directly with me via a secure messaging site. She agreed the plan suggested by the computer made sense. She asked a few more questions. Within 10 minutes, amazon pharmacy had my order and I received the medication the next day. I even received follow up care.

Honestly, this was way better than using insurance for a physician visit. Half the time you go to the doctor, you already know what they're going to tell you.

I could be wrong, but I believe this system was first made legal during COVID. Despite all the pearl clutching, it works exceptionally well, and should have been legal earlier.
by nextaccountic | 2025-06-26 04:00:43+00:00
Note that a turtle's shell already approximate a Gömböc shape (the curved self-righting shape discovered by the same mathematician in the linked article)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6mb%C3%B6c#Relation_to_a...

But yeah a specially designed exoskeleton could perform better, kinda like the prosthetics of Oscar Pistorious
by echelon | 2025-06-26 04:00:50+00:00
> Yeah and it was terrible. Your password would be stored as an unsalted MD5 hash if you were lucky.

That's so 2001.

Bcrypt was in the default PHP libraries in 2013. It's been available in Python even longer.

This pattern of outsourcing the most basic of application responsibilities is lazy and exposes you to needless fragility and cost burdens.

There are a million and one libraries and frameworks that will handle all of this for you, meeting industry standards, without having to pay to be coupled at the hip to some SaaS vendor that will undoubtedly raise prices on you when they hit growth pains.

You're being rented a partial solution to something that has long been solved. And this - your customer relationship - is such a core function to your business that you shouldn't outsource it.
by cchance | 2025-06-26 04:02:47+00:00
Your not spinning up a whole server lol, most MCP's can be run locally, and talked to over stdio, like their just apps that the LLM can call, what they talk to or do is up to the MCP writer, its easier to have a MCP that communicates what it can do and handles the back and forth, than writing a non-standard middleware to handle say calls to an API or handle using applescript, or vmware or something else...
by Nopoint2 | 2025-06-26 04:04:49+00:00
Let's add an example to illustrate the difference:

Let's say that there is a correlation between the number of flights between London and New York, and the prices of sulfur. The correlation is near perfect.

When your neocortex is working, you ignore it. You can't create any plausible scenario how this could work (it doesn't exist within your latent space) so you don't learn anything from it, it doesn't even register in your brain as anything worthy of notice.

But everybody with the cerebellum only absolutely does learn it. And completely for real, not just as some fun factoid, but as a fact that they know the same way you know that airplanes have wings, and everybody knows it, only you don't.

Then, one day out of nowhere people start buying sulfur. Your questions are met with laughter and mockery "dude, everybody's buying sulfur, are you autistic?". And you don't know, because you haven't even learned the pseudo facts that everybody else bases their reasoning on.

This is only a made up example, but this is exactly how it works.
by xvilka | 2025-06-26 04:06:53+00:00
GitHub is also from them and brings the very same risks. The solution would be to build viable open source alternative but decentralized. GitLab Federation [1] or Forgejo (Codeberg) Federation [2] might be the answer.

[1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/6468

[2] https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation/src/branch/m...
by dotancohen | 2025-06-26 04:07:00+00:00
From what I understand, most homes that are connected to both solar and the grid require the grid to be active to produce solar. This is for two reasons. One, not to endanger lineman working on the grid. And two, the solar AC cycle must be synchronized with the grid AC cycle.

Are these homes not also connected to the grid? Or is there some technology that addresses these two issues that are in use in Puerto Rico?
by xarope | 2025-06-26 04:07:07+00:00
> Take for example the Stroop task . It's a classic psychology experiment where humans select the color a word is written it and not what the word says. Humans typically show slower responses when the meaning of a word conflicts with its color (e.g., the word "BLUE" written in green), reflecting an overriding of automatic behavior . Bots and AI agents, by contrast, are not subject to such interference and can respond with consistent speed regardless of stimuli.

So I completely disagree with this; you can train youself to completely ignore the color and just read/act on the word very fast. In fact, this is a game that people play.
by dcow | 2025-06-26 04:07:54+00:00
We may have swung the pendulum a little too far towards deliberate, though. The birthrate right now is below replacement rate, meaning that if we keep going like this (even if the birthrate doesn't keep trending down and holds steady) that society will die off. We need to figure out how to build an economy and society that can facilitate deliberate responsible parentage younger and more often. Luckily we have generations to solve the problem, but it’s there looming.
by judahmeek | 2025-06-26 04:10:22+00:00
Google search results back up the accuracy of your claims for PhD students, especially regarding tuition waivers.

I focused on your use of the term "graduate student" and applied that to master students as well, which, in the context of the post that triggered this discussion, doesn't make a lot sense.

I apologize for that and appreciate your patience & clarification.
by nullify88 | 2025-06-26 04:10:29+00:00
You can also achieve nearly the same level of performance by adding exclusions to Windows defender. I typically exclude the game process as I still would want folders scanned when updates / downloads are running. There's a noticable improvement to load times, streaming texture latency, and CPU utilisation.

I don't believe ReFS is contributing so much to the performance improvements seen when using Dev Drives. Removing storage filters from volumes can go a long way.
by bastawhiz | 2025-06-26 04:10:54+00:00
But it's not treated as dealing in probabilities. The CVEs (not that I think they're even worthwhile) are given scores that ignore the likelihood of an issue being used in a security sensitive context. They're scored for the worst case scenario. And if we're dealing with probabilities, it puts less onus on people who actually do things where security matters and spams everyone else where those probabilities are unrealistic, which in a huge majority of cases.

This is worse for essentially everyone except the people who should be doing more diligence around the code that they use. If you need code to be bug free (other than the fact that you're delusional about the notion of "bug free" code) you're just playing the blame game when you don't put protections in place. And I'm not talking about memory safety, I'm talking about a regexp with pathological edge cases or a panic in user inputs. If you're not handling unexpected failure modes from code you didn't write and inspect, why does that make it a security issue where the onus is on the library maintainer?
by motorest | 2025-06-26 04:13:11+00:00
> How would this ever work at scale?

- ISP has terms of service preventing abuse,

- ISP provides an email address to receive complains about abuse

- once a ISP receives a complain, their check if a customer abused their terms of service

- once a ISP spots a customer abusing terms of service, they act upon it.

ISPs have been doing this since the time ISPs exist.
by catlifeonmars | 2025-06-26 04:15:10+00:00
> Given the current usage, I am not sure if AI generated code has an identity of its own. It’s really a tool in the hand of a human.

It’s a power saw. A really powerful tool that can be dangerous if used improperly. In that sense the code generator can have more or less of a mind of its own depending on the wielder.

Ok I think I’ve stretched the analogy to the breaking point…
by somenameforme | 2025-06-26 04:16:15+00:00
I'm not really sure this is true. Big companies find themselves with a big problem by the nature of their own weight. To simply exist they need to see revenue in the millions, if not billions of dollars. So everything rapidly becomes about money. That, in turn, equally rapidly leads to rent-seeking as a goal, which just generally turns everything into a dystopia from inception to production to launch.
by gwern | 2025-06-26 04:17:35+00:00
> This style of writing is a welcome change from all the AI slop or self promoting blogs out there.

Dude. This is AI slop. And quite obviously so! You think all those EM DASHes are there naturally? Or the constant use of reversal? No one writes like that. (Even the people who love em-dashes and make a point of using the Unicode point will change it up more than that, rather than using it like a metronome.) Even if there wasn't that adrafinil referral URL giving it away (which incidentally tells you that OP wasn't doing all his own research but relying on the search plugin to compile a report he could spin), at this point you should recognize the 4o style.

This just doesn't sound like the normal ChatGPT because the author prompted ChatGPT to make it as invective and rhetoric and axgrinding as possible (or possibly, just went through and heavily edited a more neutral ChatGPT draft but I doubt that is responsible for the bizarre analogies or rhetoric like the hot dog thing).

So, a good example of the "don't worry about seeing AI slop on HN; worry about when you stop seeing AI slop on HN" evolution. Stripping referrers or avoiding EM DASHes is, after all, easy to do...

Also, top keks:

>> It is worth noting that the culture that produced Hims—Silicon Valley's peculiar blend of messianic self-regard and algorithmic thinking—has convinced itself that traditional gatekeepers are inherently suspect, that disruption is inherently virtuous, and that the phrase "move fast and break things" applies as beneficently to human bodies as it does to software systems.
by fulafel | 2025-06-26 04:17:36+00:00
> If you can't, it means there's something there you don't understand, and you lost an opportunity to learn. Of course, this is also true for reusing libraries and stuff.

Yeah, in libraries that's the aim, software composability and reusability, you don't need to keep everything in your head. Same here.

A "lost opportunity to learn" can be preferable to not making the thing or making it much slower.
by briHass | 2025-06-26 04:18:17+00:00
How are you having Dell ship a brand new laptop to a non-technical user and having that machine configured/software installed with a couple of scripts?

Autopilot locks Windows OOBE to your Intune instance based on the serial number. The user only has to know their email and a temp password if they're new, or existing login/otp if not. The device can be remotely wiped, and it will start back over at the OOBE (Windows install), ready for the next user.

You can't achieve that with scripts. That requires the ubiquity of Windows as an OS (so device manufacturers play ball). You may find that lock in distasteful, but if that's the world you're already in, it's a magical timesaver.
by motorest | 2025-06-26 04:19:02+00:00
> Enterprise customers did the math on what a security breach lawsuit could cost and started demanding verifiably decent security, which meant some off-the-shelf off-premises solution.

Not really. What happened is that some service providers started offering managed services, some of them completely for free and snazzy UIs that became de-facto standards. Developers could onboard onto fully functioning auth services in minutes with barely any development work and no service to manage.

Why do you think Google's sign-in flows are ubiquitous?
by badsectoracula | 2025-06-26 04:19:07+00:00
> The biggest thing I noticed when switching from X11/Xfce to Wayland/Niri was just an overall increase in framerate.

Was it with any specific game? I just tried the GOG version of The Witcher 3 "Complete Edition" (which is the remastered one) with the Direct3D 12 renderer under both Xorg/Window Maker and Wayland/KDE using umu-run (essentially proton without Steam) and it had identical performance in both cases (i also tried to use Niri but it would launch in 60Hz mode and for some reason wouldn't allow the game to run at a higher framerate with vsync disabled regardless of any option i chose) in either low or high settings (which is basically what i expected since the window system shouldn't be a bottleneck unless something is either broken or you are running at something like 20000fps :-P).
by labrador | 2025-06-26 04:19:48+00:00
By public shaming I mean going on social media to "cancel" him, with her friends piling on. I'm not worried about it anymore, since it appears to be something important to one slice of young Americans. It definitely was socially acceptable to most groups up until recently.

I can't speak to countries outside America. I'm sure there are a wide range of cultural norms across the globe. I recommended my son date women his own age and he agrees. He's thought about it and now sees he got older without updating his preferences for women. Now he realizes that a 22 year old woman is too young for him.
by kstrauser | 2025-06-26 04:20:03+00:00
> An insurance company cannot reject a prescription. They can only reject paying for it.

That's a distinction without meaning. Say an insurer won't pay for cancer treatments. Although they're not technically telling you that you can't have the treatment, for all practical purposes they absolutely are (unless you're so rich you can eat the cost).

The article talks about Semaglutide, which is $750/month from a traditional pharmacy after UnitedHealthcare rejects paying for it, or $300/month from Hims. If you believe the medicine's substantially the same between those sources, why wouldn't you take the $5400/year out of pocket discount?
by georgemandis | 2025-06-26 04:21:48+00:00
I kind of want to take a more proper poke at this but focus more one summarization accuracy over word-for-word accuracy, though I see the value in both.

I'm actually curious, if I run transcriptions back-to-back-to-back on the exact same audio, how much variance should I expect?

Maybe I'll try three approaches:

- A straight diff comparison (I know a lot of people are calling for this, but I really think this is less useful than it sounds)

- A "variance within the modal" test running it multiple times against the same audio, tracking how much it varies between runs

- An LLM analysis assessing if the primary points from a talk were captured and summarized at 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x runs (I think this is far more useful and interesting)
by rsync | 2025-06-26 04:22:17+00:00
This is what I was saying here, speaking of pinpointed, personalized advertisements:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44318773

"What to do with this massive infrastructure and billions of dollars of investment and workers employed by this global machine?"

... and that is where gambling and vaping (and ED pills and hair thinning medication) come in.

I'm skeptical that the (personalized, aggregated data, pinpointed advertising machine) works for things of value and substance that require thought and nuance to purchase.

As a consumer of online advertising for over 25 years, I have found much of it to be a grift.

But if I were selling nicotine pouches ... or weightloss aids ... or access to gambling ...

I'll bet it finally delivers as promised.
by ghushn3 | 2025-06-26 04:23:08+00:00
You recognize, of course, that the conventional wisdom up until today (and even still in most people's minds) was that Windows was the OS to install if you want to play games. There's genuinely a movement right now that's saying, "Linux might actually be the all around better desktop OS if you are a gamer".

That's absolutely noteworthy.
by VTimofeenko | 2025-06-26 04:24:18+00:00
Excellent post! I have a Nanoleaf 3d thing that I was hoping to use as an ambilight-like thing for the TV, but the experience was... meh. I know about the Hyperion project and hope to set it up one day, but meanwhile I think I could try to repurpose this code to control the strip from a Linux box.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-06-26 04:24:20+00:00
Besides, the debate on oracularizing AI is much more fun than endlessly debating the meaning of consciousness.

People place plenty of trust in astrology, tarot, and I Ching without requiring they have an subjective experience.

If anything, there's a tendency of technologists to have a blind spot identifying AI as such. The dismissal and sometimes contempt held for divination makes it genuinely difficult to recognize it when it's not decked out in stars and moons.

It's interesting if anything that the Barnum principle applies in both cases.
by wraptile | 2025-06-26 04:26:30+00:00
I genuinely don't get this. Let's say you believe it's an addiction - how is this an acceptable treatment? Would we justify something like this for alcoholics? "Scream you're a loser for another can of beer"

I'm not attacking this project and OP per se but if we do believe that social media addiction is a real problem we're approaching it in very immature ways. It's either an easy problem than can be solved with temperance or its a hard problem that needs to be solved with real science based tools. Anything in-between seems like it could be more harmful than helpful.
by VeninVidiaVicii | 2025-06-26 04:28:16+00:00
The attitude in this article is suffocating. I’m 40, healthy, and picked up cheap generic Cialis for the hell of it with no shame, no crisis. It flipped my sex life on its head, instantly. The real scandal is how cheap, safe, and transformative this stuff is, and yet the medical world acts like you’re doing something dangerous by just wanting better sex. It’s not a problem. It’s the most fun I’ve had in years.
by robinhouston | 2025-06-26 04:30:10+00:00
That's very interesting! I agree Goldberg's proof is not very persuasive. I hope Auburn university will fix their electronic dissertation library.

There's a 1985 paper by Robert Dawson, _Monostatic simplexes_ (The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 92, No. 8 (Oct., 1985), pp. 541-546) which opens with a more convincing proof, which it attributes to John H. Conway:

> Obviously, a simplex cannot tip about an edge unless the dihedral angle at that edge is obtuse. As the altitude, and hence the height of the barycenter, is inversely proportional to the area of the base for any given tetrahedron, a tetrahedron can only tip from a smaller face to a larger one.

Suppose some tetrahedron to be monostatic, and let A and B be the largest and second-largest faces respectively. Either the tetrahedron rolls from another face, C, onto B and thence onto A, or else it rolls from B to A and also from C to A. In either case, one of the two largest faces has two obtuse dihedral angles, and one of them is on an edge shared with the other of the two largest faces.

The projection of the remaining face, D, onto the face with two obtuse dihedral angles must be as large as the sum of the projections of the other three faces. But this makes the area of D larger than that of the face we are projecting onto, contradicting our assumption that A and B are the two largest faces
by theospeak | 2025-06-26 04:30:26+00:00
You are an NPC, just like me. They created this world, plugged it in and now here we are in this "hard drive" with its set storage.

If only we can get to the other side and meet them. But that would mean going through one of these black holes and coming out whole on the other side.

Wouldn't it be cool if an NPC actually escaped the game? :-)

I wonder how many other "games" are out there?

In any case, I am thankful for the game I'm in. Just don't want to take a chance and go to another game and die there. Apparently you don't respawn should that happen. Ralph got lucky.