MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ahf8Aithaex7Nai | 2025-06-11 08:46:24+00:00
> I see it as the gateway to people realizing that the left/right 1D line, and even the political compass, are ridiculous.

When this theory is used in discourse, it is always a matter of suggesting that the left fringe and the right fringe are equally to be rejected. Stalin and Hitler, communism and fascism, class struggle and racial theory, Das Kapital and Hitler's Mein Kampf, dictatorship of the proletariat and Nazi dictatorship: the righteous liberal democrat must keep his distance from both extremes in equal measure. The golden path lies in the balanced middle. I am tired of criticizing this nonsense. It is an ideological lie.

The trident means that there is just as much ideology, corruption, political dysfunctionality and all kinds of drivers of suffering, misery and resentment in the supposed political center. But it is very well hidden because it wears a kind of ideological cloak: the horseshoe theory.

So to respond to your sentence I quoted above: the horseshoe theory IS the political compass that should be ridiculed.
by CMay | 2025-06-11 08:46:27+00:00
Not going to leak my tests, but here's how you can create your own.

- Think up a topic that's interesting to you, yet maybe controversial.

- Look up primary sources and empirical information about it.

- Then look at a relevant Wikipedia article about it to see if the way the Wikipedia article frames it is honestly and faithfully justified by the primary sources and empirical data about it.

If the article seems to have a strong bias or critically misrepresent the reality even if it does so by stating true things, you have a juicy nugget on your hands.

Ask any given LLM about that topic and see if it regurgitates the opinion in the Wikipedia article. If it does, then develop your own prompt that requires the LLM to go down a checklist of things that help resolve warped logic without specifically trying to shape the output to your own preference. Now find other articles and see how well your checklist generalizes.

How well this works depends on how good the model you're using is at instruction following.

A lot of what thinking models do is expand the context around a topic to hopefully improve final prediction. To assist that, you have to encourage the LLM to be hesitant to form an opinion or decide on the conclusion before the end, otherwise it can start with a conclusion and spend the rest of the time supporting a weak conclusion rather than arriving at a stronger one after new information emerges.

The danger is that reasoning models will state early on in their reasoning some ideological fact the same way it might say, "well i know that 1+1=2, so that means X", when in reality a particular fact does not stand up to scrutiny. Then it gets lost in a loop thinking ideologically, which can help propagate these things through language models which is dangerous.

Ideally all ingested Wikipedia gets evaluated against some levels of ground truth before getting trained on to start with, but then it's harder to keep up to date with it. Until then we have to help LLMs handle these cases better.
by sgt | 2025-06-11 08:46:35+00:00
Fortunately I don't spend a lot of time in either of these but what I did notice was just the UI being more difficult - so UI friction makes a big difference, especially across thousands of users in a government department.

Also lots of minor bugs, like font kerning looked weird, missing features (one cannot expect it to keep up with MS on this, they've got full time highly paid developers working on MS Office every single day), various incompatibilities... some bizarre crashes.
by anthk | 2025-06-11 08:46:49+00:00
I hate Spanish' Baroquism in literature, a legacy from the Golden Era. 90% of these are pompous snobs.

Btw, 'he visto' would be fine... if the time from his childhood was stretched over.

I mean, here with 'he visto' it's referring both the childhood times and, indirectly, the present ones, as if he wanted to note that he saw something related to his whole lifetime.

Altough Borges would need to state better, -ya he visto- (I've already seen).

Oddly and poetically, 'he (tengo/have) vistos' would be far better (I have these -there- as already seen ).
by dumb1224 | 2025-06-11 08:47:08+00:00
The common cancer treatment modalities: surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, targeted drugs and their combinations are very effective first line treatments. I agree the statistics are much better.

In the field of cancer research it has been focusing more on drug / treatment resistance, heterogeneous response to the same treatment and development of less invasive methods both in treatment and assessment (imaging and monitoring). We have made huge progress in terms of deeper understanding of cancer biology and human disease mechanism in general.

However we have a very long way to understand when things progress outside of our control how to respond. E.g the key cancer drivers have been identified long ago but how biology and evolution modulate its response to external treatment has so much unknowns. That requires large effort to push the whole foundation of science to elucidate the details of these processes in my opinion.
by raxxorraxor | 2025-06-11 08:47:48+00:00
If they started to actually build their own infrastructure 10 years ago, we would probably have very advanced and secure government OS and tools complementing usual use cases.

China did it because it is capable. I am not yet convinced that Europe will not bungle it again. In recent times talking 2 minutes about technical issues is too much mental strain for a lot of people that need to make decisions.

You don't have to be a geek to understand these issues, just some basic critical thinking skills would suffice. There is also risk here, but it should be easy to mitigate that. Also, people need training to use different applications.
by bonoboTP | 2025-06-11 08:48:18+00:00
Yes, also the ERC grants allow quite broad freedom in the EU.

But grants have been annoying for long. Even decades ago the common wisdom, in fields like biology, was to write grant applications promising things you've already done recently, then spend the money on doing something new. But this doesn't work in super fast moving fields like AI/ML where a grant length is an eternity relative to change in the field.

Also the bureaucrats want something sexy at the end, so academics overpromise, then there's a bitter taste among the funders that the super fancy thing didn't materialize, high impact factor publications can sweeten this bitterness somewhat, as can awards etc. Also a rising tide lifts all boats so just by keeping up with SOTA, they can woo the bureaucrats.
by matus_congrady | 2025-06-11 08:50:00+00:00
For those interested in a Heroku alternative, have a look at https://stacktape.com (full disclosure: I'm a founder).

It's a Heroku-like PaaS platform that deploys directly to your own AWS account.

It support both serverless (lambda functions), and serverful (AWS ECS Fargate or EC2) deployments. Besides that, it supports other AWS infrastructure resources, such as RDS, Aurora, Redis, ElasticSearch, etc..

You can deploy from console, using git-push-to-deploy, or even use preview deployments (ephemeral environments for every PR).
by mdg_creative | 2025-06-11 08:50:26+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8wNpXE3iA8

TimeSense Pro is a fully automated tool designed to help you organize and optimize your daily and weekly schedule. It tracks time spent on different areas like work, health, and leisure, while letting you set goals to stay balanced and focused. *Unlike any other template, it allows unlimited start and stop of timers throughout the day.*

With real-time tracking, visual progress indicators, and detailed charts, you can easily monitor and analyze how your time is distributed. The clean, customizable interface suits anyone from professionals to students looking to take full control of their time.

### Key features include:

- Automated time tracking with pause/resume functions - You can pause and resume each activity as many times as needed throughout the day - Easy to use from your smartphone - Weekly and daily progress tracking - Customizable categories to suit your lifestyle, whether it's work, hobbies, or self-care - Visual feedback with progress bars and charts to highlight time usage and goal completion

https://www.notion.com/templates/timesense-pro
by mjg59 | 2025-06-11 08:51:15+00:00
You should be able to do what you want to it. You should also be able to configure it such that only you can do what you want to it, and nobody else can.

Secure Boot protects against boot kits, malware that replaces the bootloader and backdoors the OS as it boots and before any other security protections kick in. Real world bootkits have been found in the wild, and we've even seen them use vulnerabilities in signed (now revoked) bootloaders, so we know secure boot has forced their developers to work harder. You may not be worried about that as a risk (well, until you are) but there are real people who this has genuinely protected.

Is it worth it by default? Completely reasonable separate discussion to have. But is there a reason it exists? Absolutely.
by smartmic | 2025-06-11 08:51:56+00:00
It's a generational thing. There has definitely been a change in recent years, especially the younger generation can no longer do much with the formal “Sie”, but of course they know it. I am 46 years old and have grown up with and been familiar with the “Du/Sie” dichotomy from the very beginning. It also has many advantages and offers clear relationships: There is no ambiguity as to which pronouns I use to address someone, older people and superiors always use “Sie”. With younger people/peers of the same age, you can quickly agree on a “Du”. These days, it's unclear to me who I can address as “Du”. I'm a friend of clarifying this before starting, but it's always a meta conversation, which can hinder the flow of conversation. Besides, it's a kind of badge of honor and a sign of trust when you're offered a “Du”. When I address anyone of our management team as “Du” these days, it irritates me - I'm not “best friends” with them, nor do I feel closer or more connected. For me, the distinction is/was never an expression of whether you are on an equal footing or not.
by netsharc | 2025-06-11 08:52:39+00:00
It's a definition that could add 1 to everyone's birthday celebrations. A baby born on the 15th of June 2024 could be celebrating its 2nd birth day in a few days. Or well the family would. They'd celebrate the birth, and why not count that as a "birthday celebration".. Ha.

Curiously I guess most of us celebrate the number of years completed.
by lynx97 | 2025-06-11 08:53:14+00:00
This is why I call these voice "commands" spells. They feel very much like a spell. You have to remember them, and if you don't remember 'em exactly, they don't do what you expect. Siri (and Alexa for that matter) is a big failure. After 12 years of having a voice "assistant" in my pocket, I still don't use it for anything important and/or useful.
by msgodel | 2025-06-11 08:53:39+00:00
There aren't decent Pro systemd arguments other than "the Linux API confused me" and sysv init (which no one argues is good) was bad.

Personally the last system I had systemd on corrupted my package database after killing apt that I was running in tmux. "Oh you can fix that with xyz systemd configuration." Here's my response:

Kindly shove it up your ass and quit moving things around all the time just because you're board.

Also if "it's good enough for most people" is a decent argument then you should be on Windows.
by regularfry | 2025-06-11 08:54:06+00:00
There's an active knee-jerk hostility in the FreeCAD community to any user problem that even hints that it might involve a comparison to proprietary CAD. I've had "FreeCAD isn't Fusion and you shouldn't expect it to behave the same way" thrown at me when I've been discussing something bone-headed FreeCAD was doing.

I've never used Fusion, in any incarnation.
by pona-a | 2025-06-11 08:54:33+00:00
Replying to some sibling comments asking why anyone wouldn't want to use systemd.

People want to understand their software as well as it's practically possible. It's not an uncommon preference; worse-is-better was quite successful for a reason. As systemd stands, it's an unauditable mess of tightly-coupled components built to handle any conceivable need. These features create new attack vectors: for instance, systemd-machined credential passing system, which can inject arbitrary files such as keys and configs into the guest, also runs on bare metal. And some are just running a musl system that can't even use systemd.

Some might look at the old SysV init scripts through rose-tinted glasses, but I don't think it represents the current state of the community. We have the modern OpenRC with parallel startup, dependency-based initialization, supervision, network management, and cgroups; dinit, which tries to imitate the 80% of systemd features that people use with 20% of its footprint; s6 with its supervision trees; runit that just works; and GNU Shepherd, which gives you an entire Scheme interpreter to configure your system.

Monocultures are bad because they eliminate competitive pressure for good design and create single points of failure that affect everyone. systemd was an excellent addition to the ecosystem in its day, but has become uncomfortably sticky: you can't just choose to replace systemd; you'll need to reimplement udevd, logind, D-Bus activation interfaces, and now userdb, all of which have their own subtle quirks you'll need to replicate. Look to the state of mdev or elogind and you'll see why it's not a sustainable compromise.
by mschuster91 | 2025-06-11 08:54:57+00:00
Empress made a name for themselves not just with cracking Denuvo but for going on full blown transphobic rants in their NFOs such as in the Hogwarts Legacy crack [1].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Asmongold/comments/119x8ht/heres_em...
by arturocamembert | 2025-06-11 08:55:05+00:00
Small addendum: some traditional wooden joinery is deliberately prepared to account for the varying rates and effects of drying across the timber.

This is particularly relevant in timberframing, where you want to work with the wood when it is as green as possible. Green pine, though heavier to lug around, is significantly more receptive to a chisel than drier lumber. In a classic mortise and tenon joint [0], it's common to leave the outer edge of the shoulder slightly raised from the inner edge to account for the natural warping as the exterior of the beam dries more aggressively.

Although it's more outside my area of experience, I believe fine carpentry also has a few techniques that see a higher frequency of use in areas that enjoy seasonal swings in humidity. The split-tenon is the only one that comes to mind, but, now that I think of it, I realize my mental model isn't great. More surface area to account for seasonal swelling / shrinkage? Maybe someone else can chime with a better explanation of this one.

[0] https://www.barnyard.com/sites/default/files/styles/full_pag...
by skrebbel | 2025-06-11 08:56:04+00:00
I have to admit that I don't understand half of this blog post, feels like I'm missing some context, but I do like that the "left pad guy" does a post mortem.

That said, this seems like a weird argument to me:

> but I still don't understand why NPM didn't take the time to find out if any of my modules were widely used and consider ways to handle the unpublishing without breaking anything

Sure, NPM's unpublish mechanism was a misdesign, but is he saying that he expected people at the company to manually go through this every time someone did an unpublish? That doesn't seem too reasonable IMO, NPM the company isn't curating NPM the registry. They host it as a public service.

I can't fault the author all too much here though, if he hadn't triggered "the left-pad incident" then someone else would've not too long after. NPM fixed the problem, by means of a better unpublish policy [0] and that's that.

[0] https://docs.npmjs.com/policies/unpublish#packages-published...
by npteljes | 2025-06-11 08:56:15+00:00
I am concerned about that as well! The medical field has a horrible of mistreating people, psychiatry comes to mind first, but human experiments do as well. And even besides the abuse, people have every right to be skeptical, and to think critically. But what happens is not skepticism, and critical thinking, but emotion-based provocation against the science-based establishments at large. And there is a huge difference between the two.
by gorbypark | 2025-06-11 08:56:35+00:00
Yeah, I've not quite figured out what I'm doing wrong, but sometimes iOS notifications just disappear after clicking on them. I think it's when iOS decides my face isn't good enough (I have an iPhone 11 where the FaceID isn't as good as the newer phones), and then it tries three times and fails...then the notification is dismissed because I clicked on it but I haven't actually unlocked the phone? Then it's gone forever seemingly.
by Kiyo-Lynn | 2025-06-11 08:56:41+00:00
I feel that the effects of fine-tuning are often short-term, and sometimes it can end up overwriting what the model has already learned, making it less intelligent in the process. I lean more towards using adaptive methods, optimizing prompts, and leveraging more efficient ways to handle tasks. This feels more practical and resource-efficient than blindly fine-tuning. We should focus on finding ways to maximize the potential of existing models without damaging their current capabilities, rather than just relying on fine-tuning.
by sokoloff | 2025-06-11 08:56:46+00:00
Tooling has made us vastly more efficient since the days of FORTRAN and punch cards, which has caused millions more of us to be able to employed in the field. Few companies could afford websites built with ancient tech, but everyone can afford websites built with recent tech and, as a result, everyone has one.

NB: Firing 20% of employees requires a 25% increase in efficiency by the simple math.
by scarmig | 2025-06-11 08:58:24+00:00
The diversity is itself indicative, though, that intelligence isn't bound to the particularities of the human nervous system. Across different animal species, nervous systems show a radical diversity. Different architectures; different or reversed neurotransmitters; entirely different neural cell biologies. It's quite possible that "neurons" evolved twice, independently. There's nothing magic about the human brain.

Most of your critique is surface level: you can add all kinds of different structural diversity to an ML model and still find learning. Transformers themselves are formally equivalent to "fast weights" (suppression and control signals). Continuous learning is an entire field of study in ML. Or, for injury, you can randomly mask out half the weights of a model, still get reasonable performance, and retrain the unmasked weights to recover much of your loss.

Obviously there are still gaps in ML architectures compared to biological brains, but there's no particular reason to believe they're fundamental to existence in silico, as opposed to myelinated bags of neurotransmitters.
by Malcolmlisk | 2025-06-11 08:58:32+00:00
> These incentive structures now give tools for mediocre bullshitters to bullshit their way through and indirectly promote proliferation of these tools.

This scares me a lot. I'm a software consultant and I see my software and solutions being appropriated by bullshitters from inside the company. I don't know what to expect from the future anymore.
by chneu | 2025-06-11 08:58:50+00:00
Policies are irrelevant. Americans are still deeply sexist and racist.

I grew up conservative and know very well the quiet things they don't say to most people.

A woman, let alone a black woman, is not electable in the US right now.

It blows my mind how people seem to think Americans aren't still sexist/racist when there is so much evidence saying otherwise. It's important to get outside our social circles and talk to people with differing views.
by benterix | 2025-06-11 08:59:31+00:00
But this is an artifact of a distant past, a small glimpse of the Geocities era. We would write whatever was interested to us enjoying the whole process. Look at the Lisp "article":

http://webarchive.me/geocities/SiliconValley/2072/lisp.htm

just a few notes with the conclusion "Well, that's enough LISPing for now. I may add more to this page if I actually ever learn anything else about LISP."

For me this submission isn't so much about the content, rather about how different the world was back then.
by randunel | 2025-06-11 08:59:36+00:00
> On March 18, 2016, Isaac Z. Schlueter, the chief executive officer of npm, Inc., wrote to both Kik Interactive and Koçulu, stating that the ownership of the kik package would be manually transferred to Kik Interactive. > After Koçulu expressed his disappointment with npm, Inc.'s decision and stated that he no longer wished to be part of the platform, Schlueter provided him with a command to delete all 273 modules that he had registered.[9] Koçulu executed the command on March 22, 2016, removing every package he had previously released

The author simply ran the script that NPM themselves told him to, and later NPM blamed the author for their own failings.
by vbezhenar | 2025-06-11 09:00:04+00:00
Your use-cases are hardly average. I don't think I ever encountered 150MB image or folder with 300 videos. I don't even use nautilus outside of the very niche cases. I'm using Chromium or Terminal or VScode or Idea 99% of time. My GNOME is just a shell switching windows. Whatever file managers, image viewers or other stuff bundled with GNOME matters little for me, I can easily replace them. I don't even understand the concept of DE, this is just wasted work to maintain those apps. They even develop their own browser...
by feoren | 2025-06-11 09:01:48+00:00
It's pretty hard to imagine what an "uncountable group of points" could possibly be, or how anyone could ever test for the existence of such a thing, but we're talking about any possible universe so I can't exactly refute what you're saying here. The very fact that we can even ask questions like "what is the cardinality of a 'set of points' that occupies physical volume?" shows that our math is not at all bound by the constraints of our own universe.

> propositional logic only works because our universe allows us to write truth tables that are causally valid, natural numbers only work because our universe allows us to count over discrete objects, etc.

No, none of this is true. Our universe also allows us to write truth tables that are not valid. We do not dematerialize upon writing down a logical fallacy. Our universe does not seem to contain any infinities at all, and if it does, they're almost certainly countable; yet we can still reason about uncountable infinities without ever having observed them. Our universe seems to exist in only 4 dimensions, yet we can still reason about high dimensional spaces. Why should the constraints of our universe matter to our math at all, other than making some things more obvious than others?

> all 'math' that we can talk about would just be the 'physics' of things that work on paper in our universe

That is just patently obviously not what math is. We have tons of math that is not describing the physics of our universe as we know it.