MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by K0balt | 2025-06-28 23:03:55+00:00
Random layperson musing:

I wonder if schizophrenia (or perhaps psychosis) could be in some way analogous to the LLM temperature function becoming disregulated?

I mean, what is the extreme opposite of psychosis? If it is matter of degree, which it seems to be, then there is probably a tuning mechanism. Perhaps too little and you fail to account for factors that might not be apparent but might be guessed or inferred, too much, and too much seems plausible.

If so it would be possible to have a great deal of different “causes” given the tight and complex coupling of biological mechanisms.
by chipsrafferty | 2025-06-28 23:05:02+00:00
The only thing special about this conflict is that it's far more "televised" than any other genocide in history, due to the proliferation of internet access and social media, and that the US is directly funding it.

I think it makes a lot of sense to be more incensed about the genocide in Palestine vs. the Myanmar civil war if you're an American citizen. Americans are struggling and the government is sending billions of our tax dollars to war criminals overseas.
by sneak | 2025-06-28 23:05:43+00:00
If you don’t like the emails your electricity provider sends you, don’t give them your email address, or filter all of their emails to the trash.

Rich text emails as a format and as a feature are great. If you don’t like the content of emails that doesn’t change the issue at all. In the alternative you are proposing, the unsubscribe link isn’t clickable at all.

(I also dislike Discord for many of the same reasons, but it won because it is better for users, because it has more features. Your complaints about it, which I share, are irrelevant to this discussion.)
by OJFord | 2025-06-28 23:06:36+00:00
A knife is a weapon, and the way to manufacture a knife is to sharpen the edge of some metal.

A Molotov cocktail is maybe ever so slightly more complex to describe/understand/imagine? I think if you've ever seen a photo or description of one, or thrown one in GTA as a child, you know how they are made. The overlap of people interested in making one and people not already knowing how to make one is surely approximately nil.
by nlh | 2025-06-28 23:06:37+00:00
If I may wax nostalgic for a moment:

I got my original Novice license in 1990 I think (age 12). I was SO excited to participate in my local club’s Field Day outing - but it was a nail biter for my physical license to arrive in the mail in time.

I’d somehow gotten the word from the FCC that my license was issued and I got my call sign (KB2NDR) but I was so worried it wouldn’t get to my house in time for the weekend (and it didn’t!) - but the club president was super chill and said “I trust ya” so he let me participate and I still remember every minute of that weekend to this day.

It was my first full-fledged ham event (my first all-nighter too), sitting in the tents working on HF rigs I could only dream of affording at 3am with guys chain smoking cigars. They were probably chuffed at this nerdy 12 y/o who wanted to play along (minus the smoking bit).

“…CQ Field Day CQ Field Day this is K2-Zed-O, K2-Zulu-Oscar…”

(That weekend launched my short intensity but long lived ham life. Leveled up to Extra and I still have K2KD active today but haven’t touched a radio in years)
by chaps | 2025-06-28 23:06:56+00:00
Kinda, but not really. Of the infrastructures I've worked on, not a single one has been consistent in installing perl on 100% of hosts. The ones that get close are usually like that because one high up person really, really likes perl. And they send a lot of angry emails about perl not being installed.

Within infrastructures where perl is installed on 95% of hosts, that 5% really bites you in the ass and leads to infrastructure rot very quickly. You're kinda stuck writing and maintaining two separate scripts to do the same thing.
by Aeolun | 2025-06-28 23:07:02+00:00
What else new. It’s just more blatant this time, but does anyone truly believe bombing all hospitals in the strip is anything but more of the same thing?

They’re deliberately creating martyrs so they can prolong this pointless war into the next generation.

I can’t imagine there’s anyone left in Gaza that wouldn’t happily gun down any Israelian just for a chance to get back at them.
by ryandrake | 2025-06-28 23:07:13+00:00
Video is pretty scary. The software doesn’t even seem to have a remote idea of what commands it should be sending to the steering system, but it sends the commands anyway, causing it to jerk back and forth between “I think I turn here” and “I think I go straight.”

What cities are these garbage cars being tested in, so I can avoid driving, biking, or walking there?
by Avicebron | 2025-06-28 23:09:00+00:00
I wonder about this as well...like maybe there's some comfort in automatically "diagnosing" someone when they might see patterns or think in ways that challenge your priors..

EDIT: Imagine being powerful and wealthy and assured in your position in the Catholic Church and someone comes along and questions geocentricity and says you're wrong. It's a pretty easy leap to huffily say well, they are "mentally ill, crazy, delusional, paranoid"
by roxolotl | 2025-06-28 23:10:28+00:00
One thing I’d add to all of the other comments is just to reflect on experience. Maybe I’ve mostly worked with people who are incompetent with natural language. But assuming that I’ve mostly worked with average people it’s astonishing how common miscommunication is amongst experts when discussing changes to software. I’ve always found the best way to avoid that is to drop into a more structured language. You see this with most communication tools. They add structure to avoid miscommunication.
by Aeolun | 2025-06-28 23:11:39+00:00
> War crimes in this war should be dealt with. Nuremberg trials is really not the right analogy.

War crimes for firing into a crowd of civilians, for both the one that ordered it, and those that executed it, should definitely be at the same levels as the nuremberg trials.

The fact that it will never happen doesn’t detract from that. Happily, the ICC seems to already know so, which is why there’s warrants out for all these Isrealian leaders, no?
by miki123211 | 2025-06-28 23:12:08+00:00
MCP seems to be about giving you access to your own data. Your Slack conversations, your Jira tickets, your calendar appointments. Those wouldn't go into AI training datasets anyway, locked down APIs or not.

The APIs of old were about giving you programmatic access to publicly available information. Public tweets, public Reddit posts, that sort of thing. That's the kind of data AI companies want for training, and you aren't getting it through MCP.
by YZF | 2025-06-28 23:13:05+00:00
I'm not following your point.

Anti-Israeli content is continuously promoted here along with anti-Israel commentary while flagging and down-voting of any discussion to the contrary.

Israel can do no right. If it allows food into Gaza Hamas steals it. If it tries to set up a different food distribution scheme and Hamas comes up with various schemes to attack that (including shooting its own people) then that's also a war crime.

There is zero consideration in this discussion to Israel's position. To the hostages. To the realities of war.

That's not to say Israel can't and shouldn't be criticized but this is more of an obsession and a hate fest than any of that. Valid criticism is not cherry picking and piling on, it's a more thorough consideration of the nuanced reality.
by marcher | 2025-06-28 23:13:11+00:00
I can't speak for the above person, but what the OP of this comment thread said also tracks with my own experience of schizoaffective disorder: when I'm psychotic, the pattern matching part of my brain goes into overdrive and not only does my brain erroneously fill in the blanks in sensory input (causing hallucinations), it does the same thing on an abstract or logical level with ideas and people. It's easy to fall into the trap of paranoid delusion when you feel like you're seeing connections between so many otherwise benign, disconnected things and events.

I think what really gets me is that despite my constant vigilance and skepticism toward my own thoughts, I simply cannot talk myself out of how truly real those delusions feel when they happen. I can even acknowledge how absurd they are, even in the moment, but I can never shake the feeling that they're still very, very real. It's so maddening. The best I can do is to just not act on those thoughts.

Maybe the above person's family is actually unearthing valid insights, but if they're prone to psychosis, in that state they'll be prone to finding connections, associations, patterns, and so on between things in a way that doesn't hold up to scrutiny. It'll feel very real to them in the moment, but when they exit that state (if they do) they'll likely be on the same page as others in thinking those ideas were a stretch.
by bmandale | 2025-06-28 23:14:14+00:00
I don't doubt it's not fun, but I also don't think that either you or Mr Metz really give a shit. Rather, you like to bandy about this harassment as proof that your opponents are evil (of course, when it's your opponents being harassed, then that's a sort of divine punishment, and hence also proof that they're evil). If it were any other way, then you wouldn't particularly bring it up in reference to scott, since there isn't much of anything scott can do about other people committing harassment. Furthermore, you might express a degree of sympathy for his efforts to avoid harassment by not having his dox published in the nyt, rather than indignantly expounding on your god given right to publish whatever you feel like.
by mylifeandtimes | 2025-06-28 23:14:17+00:00
> Do the math on how many people are necessary... you're describing a distributed team of maybe 10 people, likely less. Let's assume you need $600K/year to run this business

Using the heuristic that HR costs are 2x the gross salary, the 10 people are earning 30K/year gross salary (no bonus). And I'm not leaving any room to pay for the compute/storage infra.
by alain_gilbert | 2025-06-28 23:14:26+00:00
I did use AI for the logo! Using Go libraries is still kinda rough, the standard library works fine, but for other libraries you'd need to (re) define the types manually. I'm trying to make something that would generate it all automatically, but there is some problems that I don't know how I would solve.

For example, I'd like to have the pointers being automatically wrapped in a Option[T], but then if you have something like a linked list, with a struct containing pointers to other nodes, it gets complicated.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-06-28 23:14:35+00:00
Humans don't generally have the same needs, and to the extent they do they're competing over limited resources.

At one extreme you get theories like communism or socialism that treat humans as disposable cattle to be murdered or starved when they stand in the way of whatever the party leaders decide is the common good.

The common good is something that has to be worked out deliberatively and is more like taking the resultant of a huge number of force vectors than it is like mass producing units of the same good for everyone.
by DaveZale | 2025-06-28 23:14:51+00:00
Are we overthinking this?

Old school specialty sites are still around, with topics, categories, and discussions around the whole site emphasis.

As someone who likes to grow a little food in a semi-rural area, I enjoy permies.com - every day, a volunteer posts a new question or reposts a relevant topic, depending on the season or recent interest or whatever.

But they're not trying to make a billion dollars. Or even a million dollars.

That's why I like it. To raise funds, they sell books, playing cards, instructional videos. With non-invasive "tiny ads" which they self-parody.

Small is beautiful. The current internet is ruled by evil reptiles seeking to rip off your time, your data, your privacy, your friends... "Don't be evil" is dead and gone.

Turn back the clock 30 years. I did. And I'm happy.
by jlgustafson | 2025-06-28 23:14:59+00:00
Sorry to be late to this discussion. Please be aware that there are a number of variations of the original posit definition that preserve the elegant properties (2's complement negation, perfect reciprocals of the integer powers of 2, etc.) but correct the loss of accuracy at extreme magnitudes. By using 3 exponent bits instead of 2, and limiting the number of regime bits to a maximum of 6, you get a dynamic range of about 1e–15 to 1e15 that is independent of the precision and has a quire with only 256 bits. The decoding is MUCH simpler when the regime is limited... we're seeing about 40% reduction in circuit area.

I call these "b-posits" for bounded posits. They are described in Chapters 6 and 13 of my latest book, Every Bit Counts: Posit Computing.
by Avicebron | 2025-06-28 23:15:06+00:00
Well it's not a neat little pet theory though, it's an opening up of the conversation, thinking in binary.. It's a "poor vs rich" disease isn't helpful. Thinking in gradients is... "It's 50% more likely in people with this income level vs 10% in this other population", that's still a problem. The point is to address problems, not hand wave them away as "complicated" etc etc, something something engineering
by WillAdams | 2025-06-28 23:15:07+00:00
The enraging thing is NeXTstep ran acceptably on a 25MHz 68040 (and okay on the 68030 --- the lucky folks had 33MHz "Turbo" '040 boards) --- the performance Rhapsody promised was amazing, but Adobe reneged on a free license of Display PostScript, and Apple spent 10 years recreating that as Quartz (née Display PDF) --- the transparency and drop shadows are nice, but I'd rather have the performance.
by kyralis | 2025-06-28 23:15:45+00:00
That sort of loaned manpower isn't free, despite management's continued delusions that it is. Loaners have a cost, both up-front (onboarding, mentoring, reviews, etc) and on-going (lack of organic expertise in the new code remaining on the team, maintenance of suboptimal or inconsistent code, etc). But they're not the sorts of costs that show up well on balance sheets, so good luck convincing anyone that they exist.
by YZF | 2025-06-28 23:16:32+00:00
And where is the Pentagon?

Attacking the Qirya, Israel's HQ, with some sort of accuracy is a legitimate military target. It's a pretty large target. Soldiers wear uniform. There are no civilians mixed into that camp.

This is very different than lobbing rockets at Beer-Sheba, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Ramat Gan. The casualties from Iran's attacks, minus one off-duty soldier, were all civilians and the targets were nowhere near anything military. The intentionally aim at population centers.
by LudwigNagasena | 2025-06-28 23:16:42+00:00
Wow, looks like a great QoL improvement. I have a few questions though.

Propagation of optional values is an unconventional design decision. Why have you chose it over short circuiting as in C#, JS, Swift?

What’s your opinion on error wrappers and stack trace providers that are often used in go projects complicating simple error propagation? Have you consciously avoided adding similar functionality or just haven’t thought about it yet?
by Strilanc | 2025-06-28 23:16:59+00:00
Isn't that incompatible with the models being consistent?

Suppose model A proves BB(748) = X and model B proves BB(748) = Y > X. But presumably the models can interpret running all size 748 Turing machines for Y steps. Either one of the machines halts at step Y (forming a proof within A that BB(748) >= Y contradicting the assumed proof within A that BB(748) = X < Y) or none of the machines halts at step Y (forming a proof within B that BB(748) != Y contradicting the assumed proof within B that BB(748) = Y).

I'm guessing the only way this could ever work would be some kind of nastiness like X and Y aren't nailed down integers, so you can't tell if you've reached them or not, and somehow also there's a proof they aren't equal.
by Aeolun | 2025-06-28 23:17:21+00:00
> The entire strategy of Israel's opponents in the middle east is to engage in war crimes.

I think war crimes are a lot more acceptable/understandable if they’re the only way you even potentially have a chance to get back at your agressors. Nobody blames the resistance during the Nazi occupation for what they did.

Israel is very much not in a position they need to perpetrate war crimes to win the war. They have already won. It’s like a cat playing with the mouse it killed.
by betamaxthetape | 2025-06-28 23:17:27+00:00
> After OS X, I worked on a backend team for AT&T. Their entire mobile network at the time - billing, backend, customer service notes... ALL of it was in NeXTStep being streamed from centralized servers out to basic PCs running Citrix.

Oh, I would absolutely love to know more details about this. I'm fascinated by the history of telecoms. Would you consider writing a blog post about it? (Or if you prefer, my email is in my profile!)
by alain_gilbert | 2025-06-28 23:17:34+00:00
Yes, I got my inspiration mainly from swift and a little bit from vlang as well.

eg: the @LINE "Compile time pseudo variable"

https://github.com/alaingilbert/agl/blob/8b656a385207e57fd0f...

https://docs.vlang.io/conditional-compilation.html#compile-t...
by atemerev | 2025-06-28 23:17:46+00:00
Godwin himself suspended the law some years ago.

Yes, Nazis were also immensely popular with the electorate, and one can argue they even were democratically elected. Pushing people they didn't like to livestock cars or planes to CECOT is always popular in some circles. That doesn't make them less wrong, and when their time came, they were most properly hanged or put against the wall. As it should be.

I don't care about "one side" or "other side". I care about basic human morality. If somebody doesn't have one, they check themselves out of humans. All governments deported illegal immigrants. Some governments deported innocents. But no governments in the history of the country posted a crying woman in handcuffs on their official government Twitter account, gloating with their cruelty, until very recently. And no one before hired any officials who were giving actual Nazi salutes.

And yes, Nazis never understand why they are Nazis, or why is it wrong to be a Nazi, or why some people didn't like them. They will meet their end nonetheless.

I am not a leftist. I consider myself to be center-right. But you people have no idea about the size of the left reaction you'll get really soon. Anything even remotely right-aligned will be cursed forever and erased from memory for decades. And it's people like you who brought this. MAGA will deserve every last stone thrown at them, of course, but sadly many innocent people will suffer too.

Nothing will be forgotten. Of course, everyone who facilitated cruelty in any way is guilty.
by subpixel | 2025-06-28 23:18:06+00:00
Schizophrenia can coexist with extreme levels of intelligence and lucidity.

A schizophrenic member of my family argued in divorce court that her husband, a leading physician at one of the most famous medical institutions in the world, was secretly involved in outrageous nefarious activities.

The stories were all fiction but she was so convincing that the judge awarded her a ruling in the divorce that ruined her husband financially and took an emotional toll.
by alganet | 2025-06-28 23:18:31+00:00
Completely anectodal:

Right after the time I was diagnosed (~36), I started to become weirdly good at some stuff.

Music, for example. I've been playing for almost two decades and couldn't progress after a certain level. This changed almost overnight, and I started to learn new instruments very quickly (now I play guitar, bass, drums and piano). I'm not a genius at them, it's not what I'm trying to say. It's just that the pace at which I learn is very different from when I was younger, I can do things I never imagined being able to do.

Somehow, I also acquired some ambidextry. This might be due to learning the instruments. I now can write with both hands (not at the same time, dominant hand is still faster and more acurate). I also developed a second, completely different handwriting (now I have two "fonts" I can use naturally).

I got worse at dealing with people. Everyone seems to be in a haze from my point of view, and it discourages any kind of meaningful relationship. I can pretend though.

I am highly skeptical of the idea that any genetic component is involved in all of this (my father was ambidextrous though, but he acquired it in childhood), it seems purely psychological. I am also skeptical about the stereotypical triggers people often associate schizophrenia to.

Last year I was reading about Havana Syndrome. That was the thing that most resonated with the kinds of psychotic events I had. Weird sounds and voices that seem to come from nowhere, dizziness, balance problems, insomnia, headaches. By the time I got to a doctor, these effects were not there anymore (they last a very short time, at least for me). I was diagnosed by describing them to the psychiatrist. Since the first episode, it has happened again a handful of times. I have learned since that Havana syndrome is not a thing anymore, but there are no official explanations other than "it's likely to be psychogenic". I also wouldn't qualify for it (apparently, only diplomats and spies had it).
by acdha | 2025-06-28 23:18:57+00:00
> Where do we place Israel on that scale? Is there more attention on Israel vs. other similar world events?

I’d flip that around: why shouldn’t we expect Israel to be better than a terrorist group like Hamas or the deeply evil Iranian government? When some Americans complained that they were being held to a higher standard than Al-Qaeda or ISIL, they were rightly criticized for betraying our national aspiration to leading rather than trailing the world, and the same is happening here. Israel has rightly set its standards higher than its neighbors when it comes to democracy and civil rights, but that entails criticism where it fails to live up to that self-selected standard.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-06-28 23:18:58+00:00
Note that the coreboot that NovaCustom uses is not the same coreboot that Purism or System76 is using. It's Dasharo coreboot. This is not free (as in price). NovaCustom has to pay for a license. How much of that cost is reflected in high price tag for NovaCustom. Maybe it is not much.

If the purchaser does not want Dasharo, they can usually compile their own non-Dasharo coreboot and flash it themselves.
by Hikikomori | 2025-06-28 23:18:59+00:00
We don't know the facts. Like we didn't do with the buried ambulances and journalists like Shireen Akleh.

It didn't happen. We didn't do it. If it happened Hamas did it. If we did it they deserved it. Oh it's on video, our bad, we did an oopsie.

Countless of cases like this.
by Quekid5 | 2025-06-28 23:20:13+00:00
Undefined Behavior has a very specific meaning in the C and (respectively) C++ standards. And it is this.

I think you may be misunderstand how optimization works. It's not "AHA! Undefined Behavior, I'll poke at that!".

It's more that compilers are allowed to assume that some things just "don't happen"... and can optimize based on that. And it does make sense... if you were told to optimize a thing given certain rules, how would you do it?
by pseudo0 | 2025-06-28 23:20:58+00:00
They obtain interest from citizen workers by increasing wages. H1Bs artificially suppress wages and make the market inefficient by removing those price signals. This creates a self-perpetuating problem that can only be "resolved" by bringing in more H1Bs, as the H1B impact on wages disincentivizes citizens from entering the field and pursuing the requisite education and training.