MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aredox | 2025-06-04 14:05:16+00:00
Yeah, and not specifying them - as well as not specifying the assembly steps, which for some models isn't obvious; I know it, I build the bed frame on page 24 - is part of the learning process.

"Autoprogettazione" is not a DIY book, or a guide, or a procedure. It is a project to gift common people the insight of what goes into making an object. The result Enzo seeks is not that you end up with another object/furniture in your house, but that you end up with a new appreciation of what makes an object stand up in 3D and, for example, support your weight, or flatter your eye.

If you want to follow step-by-step orders, there was and there is already hundreds of books, and thousands of workers do the same in factories - just executing orders.
by Bender | 2025-06-04 14:05:19+00:00
Age verification sites were never required. This is a new artificially created business model. There is no need for age verification on the server side. Parents of small children can handle it assuming minor changes or reverts to devices and some apps to look for the RTA header. The server or CDN need only let the client know it may contain adult and / or user generated content via one simple header. [1]

Not perfect, nothing ever is nor ever will be. Also never try to block teens, that is a foolish losing battle.

[1] - https://www.rtalabel.org/index.php?content=howtofaq#single
by thaumasiotes | 2025-06-04 14:05:35+00:00
> Still, Quadmaster has half a point. It's probably not consumption (tuberculosis), or hookworm. It's much less likely than it was to be black lung.

But that's not because we got better at treating hookworm or black lung. The big ideas there are "wear shoes" and "don't work as a miner". You don't have to treat a problem you never have.

(Wikipedia: "There is no cure or discovered treatments for pneumoconiosis.")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPZwRF7yRAQ
by tasty_freeze | 2025-06-04 14:05:46+00:00
For the past year or so, a couple teen boys from my neighborhood come by on sunday afternoon for a couple hours of programming in python. I started very simply and built up with text based tasks, then showed them pygame.

I am thinking about showing them what is under the hood, that python itself is just a program. When I learned to program it was the late 70s, and trs-80s and apple-IIs were easy to understand at the machine code level.

I could recapitulate that experience for them, via an emulator, but that again just feels like an abstraction. I want them to have the bare-metal experience. But x86 is such a sprawling, complicated instruction set that it is very intimidating. Of course I'd stick to a simplified subset of the instructions, but even then, it seems like a lot more work to make output running on a PC vs on the old 8-bit machines where you write to a specific location and it shows up on the screen.
by thesuitonym | 2025-06-04 14:06:09+00:00
Even if we assume a 12 hour average workday for a CEO (I wouldn't, but let's be generous) and 8 hours for sleep, that gives him 4 hours of time to do whatever he wants with. If his main hobby is reading, 10 novels a year would be easy in that time.

Also, everybody knows CEOs have a lot of free time. They don't have real jobs.
by captn3m0 | 2025-06-04 14:06:27+00:00
I also like to emphasis the corollary for this: You can build so much more if you remove the “be profitable” constraint. Building a profitable business reduces both the problem and the solution space by a huge margin, and if you can find a way to get rid of that, the space opens up. As an extension, taking VC money reduces the problem space even further.
by skissane | 2025-06-04 14:07:09+00:00
If humans were to colonise Mars, I suspect they might adopt a hybrid calendar, combining the Martian day with the Earth year

I think for humans on Mars, the local day-night cycle would likely be much more important than local seasonal cycles. Plus for a long time they’d be dependent on Earth (financially, politically, etc), and Earth years are a natural unit of Earth-centric planning, plus they’d see themselves as part of Earth-centric human history. And maybe eventually they’ll wean themselves off their dependence on Earth, but that would likely take centuries, by which time such a hybrid calendar may have become deeply embedded in Martian culture, and the use of the Earth year might endure long after the original motivations for it ceased to apply

So I could see our current Earth-centric year numbering system being maintained as humans spread out through our solar system. And if eventually we spread to other star systems, we might take that with us too
by diggan | 2025-06-04 14:07:24+00:00
Do mean VMs? ISO is a file format, commonly used for VMs and other computers.

For VMs, they did take off and essentially the entire cloud ecosystem runs on mostly VMs behind the scenes for VPS and similar hosting.

It's true though at it seems more popular for developers to reach for containers when they need to think about deployments, particularly docker containers. But VMs are still widely in use and deployed today.
Show HN: The never-ending story, create your own 8-bit AI adventure.
by ramathornn | 2025-06-04 14:07:31+00:00
Hey everyone, i'm trying to recreate those fun game books from when I was a kid - where you pick a story line and go to the page.

Hopefully you get a bit of amusement from this web app! 99% coded via cursor x Claude 3.7. Nuxt.js was used for the application. Text & images are generated via Gemini-2.0-flash.
by bluGill | 2025-06-04 14:07:44+00:00
Quality of life is what everyone cares about, but is is expensive to study. We want this things like lesion growth becuase they are much easier/faster, and thus cheaper to study. There is only so many people who can do this research, and the more work they have to do in one study the less work they can do in others. You can study lesion growth with just 100 people that you follow for a year or two - this is possible for just one person (though for double blind reasons you still want a small team). To study quality of life there are so many other variables that you need tens of thousands of subjects that you follow for a decade just so you can be sure that you can statistically isolate the non-factors.

Thus last I checked statins were only proven to prevent heart attacks in males under the age of 65 who have already had a heart attack. That is a large enough group to show results, and their change of heart attacks is known to be higher than normal so you don't have to study as well. Does this really mean other people should take statins, and if so who - hard to know. Our best evidence after years of study is that high cholesterol increases your odds of a heart attack, but a few people live to their 80s with high cholestrol without ever having a heart attack and nobody really knows why. (I haven't looked at the above in about 10 years so I might not know about some more recent science) We would like better study about statins and quality of life, but those are really expensive, and that is depsite statins being cheap and a lot of people willing to take part in a study.
by elric | 2025-06-04 14:07:50+00:00
Self publishing is easier than ever. But even shitty publishers like Packt still have a huge networking/marketing machine. My skillset does not include marketing, or checking whether a target audience exists.

If I want to write for just myself, I can just journal or blog. A book is a significant undertaking, writing one which no one reads would just be depressing.
by FinnLobsien | 2025-06-04 14:07:51+00:00
One of the most impactful books of my life. I think it's so important to realize that even if you could go back and rectify your mistakes, buy Bitcoin, invest in Google, whatever, you'd eventually run into the exact problem that nothing means anything and what you actually want is some permanence.

There's a quote I love from The Remains of The Day:

> I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?”
by oersted | 2025-06-04 14:07:54+00:00
This is a reasonable take, and there is strong precedent that it can work.

In Germany, the drinking age for beer and similar lower alcohol drinks is 16 instead of 18, and it has a big impact in preventing teenagers from binge drinking vodka and such.

In the Netherlands, beer and wine are readily available in every supermarket, but you really need to get out of your way to get harder alcohol at designated dispensaries or liquor stores manned by a clerk.

Similarly, the laws on drugs make a significant distinction between softer drugs like weed (not legalised despite stereotypes, but tolerated) and harder drugs like heroin. There was a massive heroin addiction epidemic in the 70s, and such methods were remarkably effective in combating that.
by BlackFly | 2025-06-04 14:08:05+00:00
As much as I would love thieves to lose access to stolen property, I'm not willing to give a kill switch to my property to these companies specifically and most companies in general.

Worse, in most jurisdictions that I am aware of it is perfectly possible to become the legal owner of stolen property and a company destroying that property due to theft would make them liable for the damage in those cases. In order to lawfully disable the device they would need a court order that proves that the person who currently possesses it doesn't do so lawfully... but that just means that the person who possesses it was (civilly) tried to not have lawful possession, so how did the court not order the device seized and returned? Why would you ever want to open that can of worms?

Then there are all the terrible revenge possibilities where an ex or whoever decides to report a phone as stolen. Again, either you know who has the device and can solve it civilly or you have no idea who has it and what the legal status is. The thief is criminally and civilly liable, but that might not be the person currently in possession.
by remram | 2025-06-04 14:08:34+00:00
Tinc will exchange endpoint information over the network, so clients will connect directly to other clients without having to set up every connection explicitly. For example, if A is configured to connect to B, and C is configured to connect to B, then A can connect to C to exchange packets directly without you having to configure that. https://tinc-vpn.org/documentation-1.1/How-connections-work....

Tinc will also do a layer 2 tunnel if you want (tap) while wireguard is only layer 3 (no broadcast/multicast).

The big con of tinc (and most VPN solutions) compared to wireguard is performance. Wireguard is a small kernel module which can process traffic very fast.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-06-04 14:08:44+00:00
> Why? Do you care more about the origin than the quality?

Because they are linked. AI content can be generated so frivolously and at such volume you easily be overwhelmed by low quality garbage. Humans can also generate crap, but a much slower pace and I think that AI being so good at crap generation that it will push out any humans in the space that used to meek out any work here. So, what we are left with is AI content that is mostly low-effort crap, with maybe some rigorously reviewed bits that are good here and there, and the human-content which will mostly be people who care enough to make quality content otherwise they would be already posting AI schlock.

The end is that using AI as a proxy indicator for garbage will be right more than its wrong. So if I see something is AI generated, I should give it a pass and not waste my limited time resource on it.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-06-04 14:08:48+00:00
Most of the conditions you've mentioned there have exogenous causes (i.e. diseases or environmental toxins), and I question your inclusion of many of the ones that don't (who thinks we have "conquered" breast cancer??).

But we have made very little progress in staving off degenerative-type diseases. Even the primary degenerative disease you mention, knee failure, we cure largely with a wholesale replacement. That obviously isn't applicable to organs we can't just swap out.
by Anthony-G | 2025-06-04 14:09:13+00:00
Back in the mid-90s, I asked my mother to teach me how to knit. Like many women of their time, both she and her mother were skilled at Aran knitting¹ and I was always impressed at the complex patterns that could be created from a length of yarn with two knitting needles – or three for the more complicated stitches. Even though this was the 90s and mindfulness wasn’t something anyone would have heard of in rural Ireland, it served the same function for me. I knitted an Aran scarf and a jumper (sweater in American) but didn’t actually wear either of them so I eventually gave it up as a hobby.

Regardless, I think it’s important for those of us who work using computers to have hobbies where you get away from the screens and use your hands in a tactile way – ideally to make something. Cooking, baking and bread-making are things that almost anyone can do. We all have to eat and it’s great to be able to share what you’ve made with others (I find the best hobbies also have some degree of social interaction).

When I cycled and mountain-biked, I used to do all my own bike maintenance and built my own wheels; I got a lot of satisfaction from building a perfectly balanced wheel. I also did a wood-work course and would have liked to have kept it up but I live in a small house without the space for a work-bench and tools.

More recently, during Covid, I started to learn guitar. Even though it doesn’t come naturally and progress happens at a very slow pace, I get a lot of enjoyment from it. My goal is to get good enough that I feel confident jamming/playing with other friends who are amateur musicians.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aran_knitting_patterns
by fwipsy | 2025-06-04 14:10:01+00:00
This is a good point. Righty fighting righty would mean the large claws are facing smaller claws. Righty fighting lefty means small claw facing large claw. But in either case both crabs are in the same situation so I would expect no advantage to either. Maybe there are other parts of crab behavior or anatomy which are hardwired for a large right claw? Another question is why left clawed crabs haven't died out entirely if they're disadvantaged?
by 9rx | 2025-06-04 14:10:13+00:00
I'm as satisfied with the error handling approach as I am for the email address handling approach, the time of day handling approach, the temperature handling approach, etc.

But that doesn't imply that I am satisfied. I do believe there is a lot of room for improvement. Frankly, I think what we have is quite bad. Framing it as something about errors misses the forest for the trees, though.

How would I respond to your query without misleading the reader?
by Bostonian | 2025-06-04 14:11:11+00:00
https://archive.is/qSrH1

"Prospective parents using IVF will soon be able to rank embryos using genetic and other information in the hopes of extending the longevity of their offspring, according to the 25-year-old entrepreneur behind Nucleus Genomics, a DNA testing and analysis company.

“Lifespan has dramatically increased in the last 150 years,” said Kian Sadeghi, the company’s founder and chief executive. “DNA testing to predict and reduce chronic disease can make it happen again.”

Nucleus plans to charge $5,999 for an analysis of up to 900 conditions, including diseases that occur later in life and are major causes of death in older people such as Alzheimer’s disease, heart disease and cancers. The company will analyze up to 20 embryos.

The embryos are given probabilities for the likelihood they will get these chronic conditions. It is up to the parents to decide the qualities most important to them when choosing which embryos to use. They can book sessions with genetic counselors if they want to discuss the results."
by url00 | 2025-06-04 14:11:22+00:00
The reality is modern Kubernetes infrastructure looks a lot like BEAM, at least in the capabilities it offers. That's the far more common way of deploying highly scalable, self-healing systems in the current year. Plus, with k8s you're not constricted to a single language (there are a few more than Erlang/Elixir, but nothing popular) with limited developer resources and interest.
by palmfacehn | 2025-06-04 14:11:33+00:00
I've always had trouble with the contrast between the stated desire to cut spending programs and reduce the scope of the state with Mussolini's, "Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state"

Of course if we observe that both the left and the right tend to increase the scope of the state rather than reduce it, we can better understand the scenario. Today's right is no more authoritarian than the illiberal left. Both sides advance the scope of authoritarianism by appealing to different, sometimes opposing interests.

The post 9/11 era pursued Muslims. The Obama era increased the scope of medical regulation and further cartelized health insurance. TSA and VIPR interceptions increased. Internal border patrol checkpoints became normalized. Gun owners were pursued. There's actually too much to list here. Trump's crusade against illegal immigration is yet another disaster for civil liberties. Not to mention the vaccine mandates and lockdowns...

For these reasons I find the Timothy Snyders of the world totally ridiculous. The selective outrage is nothing more than a partisan device. Sure, make comparisons to Fascism, but be consistent. Both sides expand the scope of the state as the pendulum swings to their respective corner.
by tasuki | 2025-06-04 14:11:52+00:00
I've never suffered from anxiety nor depression, and yet can't focus on more than one thing at a time. I can't imagine coding while watching tv or listening to an audio book. Nor would I want to!

If I tried doing two things at once, it'd be painful and also I wouldn't be doing either properly. I believe the "multitaskers" aren't that much better, they just learned to context-switch quickly. I'm not the least envious.
"Give me a few seconds to get everything ready for you so that I can help."
by chrisjj | 2025-06-04 14:12:16+00:00
This is what Vodafone UK's chat service tells me at session start. Even with no coookies or login, meaning there no personalisation being done.

Presumably the following delay is simply to encourage the customer to quit, saving provider server costs.

Any better theory?
by ryukafalz | 2025-06-04 14:12:50+00:00
I'm not convinced that symbolic processing doesn't still have a place in AI though. My feeling about language models is that, while they can be eerily good at solving problems, they're still not as capable of maintaining logical consistency as a symbolic program would be.

Sure, we obviously weren't going to get to this point with only symbolic processing, but it doesn't have to be either/or. I think combining neural nets with symbolic approaches could lead to some interesting results (and indeed I see some people are trying this, e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11589)
by _elephant | 2025-06-04 14:13:06+00:00
Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, recently shared his vision that AI could cure all diseases and solve energy crises within the next decade. He also foresees that AI might render many human jobs obsolete as it surpasses human performance across the board.

While this sounds like a sci-fi future, it’s not that far off. As AI continues to advance rapidly, it raises profound questions: • Will AI create a world of radical abundance or one of human obsolescence? • How should we prepare for a society where many traditional jobs might disappear? • What new roles or forms of meaning might emerge for us as humans in an AI-dominated world?

Personally, I wonder if we’re ready — not just in terms of technology, but emotionally and philosophically — to rethink what it means to be human in an age of intelligent machines.

Here’s an interesting article that covers some of these ideas, featuring Demis Hassabis’s thoughts: AI Will Change Everything in the Next 20 Years

Looking forward to your thoughts — what do you see for our future with AI?
by Boogie_Man | 2025-06-04 14:13:29+00:00
Legitimate and honest question which is not an attempt to insult or devalue you: Do you personally consider 4/5 cousins in a generation of a family being queer (to my understanding this means not heterosexual) to be a statistical anomaly, or have you pinpointed a cause or causes for this outlier?

Feel free to not answer if it's a painful thing.
by bitwize | 2025-06-04 14:14:06+00:00
That romanticizes a vision of Unix that hasn't existed for like four decades, aside from maybe Xenix bitty boxes from Radio Shack servicing two terminals in auto shops, video stores, and the like. People bought Unix workstation and server systems specifically to run large, complex applications. Applications that did many things and kept their configuration in binary blobs or XML files. Stability, security, comprehensiveness, and ease of administration are stronger selling points for these systems than simplicity.

As an example of how comprehensive beats simple in the real world, consider Microsoft Outlook. Not just email, but calendaring and contact management. Microsoft's engineers discovered that in the business world, these things go together and bundled them into one, well-integrated program. Outlook ate everybody's lunch, including Windows-based mail clients like Eudora. Integration with Exchange let these services be provided together on an organizational level, fully integrated with Active Directory, and Exchange came to dominate email server deployments over Unix-based solutions which were more piecemeal. Easier to administrate as well.

NetBSD is a fantastic tinkerer's operating system, one of the most hackable ones out there. But let's not kid ourselves here. The philosophy it supposedly embodies hasn't really served real needs in a long time, if ever. Customers want solutions, not hacks held together with shell and Perl scripts.
by ryandvm | 2025-06-04 14:14:40+00:00
Muscle cars used to be about throwing tremendous resources into achieving incredible performance - which I can understand. Yes, you get loudness and rumble and smell and whatnot, but it's all in the pursuit of actual high performance. Otherwise, they'd all might as well be tugboat enthusiasts.

It fascinates me how the ICE community is sort of just ignoring the reality that electric vehicles absolutely dominate the track now. I have a feeling it's kind of like Wiley Coyote running past the cliff and not falling down. It may take a couple decades, but eventually ICE vehicles are going to be relegated to Saturday morning car shows because they will just be so utterly inferior to even run-of-the-mill electrics.