MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ednite | 2025-06-05 21:01:00+00:00
You make a solid point, the financials will ultimately decide how far this goes, as with most things in business.

That said, I don’t think it quite echoes Echo (that pun might be intentional) or maybe it does, financially speaking.

For me, this wave feels different: deeper integration, broader scale, and real-time utility. I agree, if the returns don’t hold up, a major correction isn’t off the table.

It reminds me a bit of the smartphone era, rapid adoption, strong dependence. I guess, the difference is, that phones had clear monetization paths. With AI, we’re still betting.

The bigger question for me is, if this all collapses, what happens to the workflows and investments already built around it?
by crispinb | 2025-06-05 21:01:37+00:00
We agree on the empirical fact that many people generate suffering for themselves by encouraging an inner narrative of complaint about others' behavour.

If there's disagreement, it seems to be about whether or not this is necessary. I contend (along with thousands of wise narrators from just about every culture throughout human history) that it is not. This is just spiritual/ideological/psychological pragmatism (depending on your metaphysical orientation), and is intrinsically unrelated to altruism or perhaps ethics. Indeed someone holding a view that judgement of others is ethically or morally 'bad' merely shifts the target of the wasted mental judging-activity to their own putative ego.
by al_borland | 2025-06-05 21:01:47+00:00
It's not exactly the same, as there are studies, there just haven't been a lot yet, since a lot of the study around it is new, although fasting has been practiced for thousands of years. There is no money in fasting, so the number of organizations willing to fund the studies goes way down.

To put some numbers to it:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10564080/

> Only five out of the 1304 studies on NAFLD involved IF.

Here is one that mentions there may be some efficacy to the idea and no harm.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8958240/

> In conclusion, current evidence suggests that intermittent fasting in patients with NAFLD is a feasible, safe, and effective means for weight loss, with significant trends towards improvements in dyslipidemia and NAFLD as illustrated through non‐invasive testing (NIT).

If someone has NAFLD, they can either sit around and eat cake for 20 years waiting for the science, or they can try doing some fasting, which is very low risk (assuming they don't have other issues going on), and find out very quickly if it works for them. Sure, it's an n of 1 in that case, but who cares, if they are the test subject it only matters if it works on them.

I'd add to this that the carbs should be kept low and the diet having quality foods outside of the fasts. Eating aforementioned cake during a feeding window every day is going to leave a person miserable, burning muscle, and still leave the hormones all screwed up. Insulin needs to be controlled and lowered. Fasting does that quickly, but don't abuse it during your meals on a regular basis.

From what I've read elsewhere, fasting can help in the early stages to reverse it, but once real damage occurs that sticks around.
by pegasus | 2025-06-05 21:01:52+00:00
That resistance to toxins we don't encounter often enough to constitute selective pressure, we carry around only if it's the accidental byproduct of another selected-for trait. Otherwise entropy would take care of it, sooner or later. Parent is right, evolution doesn't pay an annual subscription fee for some service which was useful in the past and might come in handy in the future.
by jmb99 | 2025-06-05 21:02:15+00:00
The difference is, in theory if DJI were discovered to be doing something malicious, it could be taken down from the Play Store. If 0% of its current users were side loading the application, that means 100% of their users would be unable to install the app the normal way, and there would be substantial friction to migrate them to sideloading (a google of "install dji app" would probably return a bunch of news articles about whatever the problem was before dji's install instructions).

By making it "normal" to install the app via sideloading, there's little Google could do in the event of malicious app behaviour, and the majority of users would not find out about it (at least, not immediately).
by SlowTao | 2025-06-05 21:02:52+00:00
Yep, the dietary recommendations have been consistent for decades at this point. Dairy, meat, sugars and excessive oils are not great for us. A little in moderation is fine, that is a lot lower than what most people think.

But it isnt pushed hard because it is difficult to steer the ship of humanity. Like how doctors will say "lose some weight" but they arent really expecting miracles on it as they know the battle that is.
by jamietanna | 2025-06-05 21:03:00+00:00
Rewrote mine a couple of years back to be a Web page that's machine-readable using the Microformats2 standard (https://microformats.io)

It's available at https://hire.jvt.me

Like many things with me (https://www.jvt.me/salary/) I wanted my CV to be public, and something I could keep continually updated (like my blog https://www.jvt.me/posts/)

It's been a hugely positive thing for me personally, as I can regularly go in and add new things I've shipped or am proud of

When you go to print it, there's a reduced view (using media queries for print stylesheets) so I can be verbose for humans reading on the Web, but provide a limited version for submissions

Implementation wise, it's plain HTML + CSS, no templating or processing, just hand written HTML
by vegadw | 2025-06-05 21:03:17+00:00
Oh I am so pissed about the noob guide thing. I have intentionally removed my post about my bad interactions with the Arch community from my website, but if you're curious it's in the history: https://github.com/VegaDeftwing/OpGuidesHugoSrc/commit/dcc07...

The TL;DR: Arch gets harder year over year as the number of ways to setup/options for each piece of your system grows. Hell, even picking a bootloader among 10 options is confusing. A guide that just at least says "This is common for X, this for Y, the others are interesting and may be worth trying. If you don't want to investigate now, use X" Is DESPRATELY needed.

I tried to have that on my site, and a pretty high level arch forum admin came buy and told me to delete my website and made a PR just deleting the page. It was honestly one of the most rude and hateful interactions I've ever had online.
by gmueckl | 2025-06-05 21:04:06+00:00
How so? I understand the tension between freedom to tinker and consumer protection. It's OK to assign different values to either of them. And there are definitely ways to reconcile the two positions. Some of that will have to come through nuanced regulations.

For example, it could be regulated that if the flip is switched (or a fuse is blown irreversibly) on a device, responsibility for the device and its software fall entirely onto the owner. So if they get phished on an unprotected device and lose their life savings, it's entirely on them. Manufacturers and service providers have no obligation to support them.
by scoofy | 2025-06-05 21:04:07+00:00
It just reductionist nonsense. The idea that valuing technical excellence is a masculine trait is just absurd. The idea that valuing social impact is a feminine trait is also nonsense. Yes, we could have an aggregate noticeable difference, but the idea that this creates causal outcomes in something like programing languages... it makes no sense.

People use different programing languages for different reasons. Python is easy to read, it's used more by people who come from non-cs backgrounds. Lower level languages are used by people with lower level needs.

It's like saying that "trucks are masculine" when, sure, I'll grant you that, but the point of a truck is to haul a bunch of shit, often to a work site, and there are plenty of women who need to do that. It's like saying that a "Prius is feminine" because it's built around a social cause (climate change)... I mean, sure, I guess. I still think literally millions of men drive Priuses because they actually care about social causes and want to save money on gas.

The concept between the aggregate outcomes of all masculinie and feminine coded things being driven by and arbitrary culture and not an actual random distribution of needed functions (men are more likely to work in hard labor than women, hence more likely to use a truck for work), just seem like the tail wagging the dog.

All of this, and yes, I consider myself very committed to the values of equality that feminism espouses.
by soulofmischief | 2025-06-05 21:04:17+00:00
It's true that the process is copyright strike/lawsuit -> appeal, but like I said, it's in their best interests to just prove that it's fair use because otherwise the judge might not properly consider all facts, only hear one side of the story and thus make a bad judgement about whether or not it is fair use. If anything, I'm just being pedantic, but we do ultimately agree here I think.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-06-05 21:04:26+00:00
Should call his bluff and move to accelerate deorbiting of the ISS. Can always nationalize SpaceX for national security if needed.

Musk calls for deorbiting ISS “as soon as possible” - https://spacenews.com/musk-calls-for-deorbiting-iss-as-soon-... - February 20th, 2025
by HenriNext | 2025-06-05 21:06:10+00:00
AI Studio uses your API account behind the scenes, and it is subject to normal API limits. When you signup for AI Studio, it creates a Google Cloud free tier project with "gen-lang-client-" prefix behind the scenes. You can link a billing account at the bottom of the "get an api key page".

Also note that AI studio via default free tier API access doesn't seem to fall within "commercial use" in Google's terms of service, which would mean that your prompts can be reviewed by humans and used for training. All info AFAIK.
by mschuster91 | 2025-06-05 21:08:31+00:00
You are correct. But it's not about stopping scammers, it's about making their lives as difficult as possible. The problem is, as seen with Facebook [1], even that was not enough to stop "self-xss" exploits.

The actual way to stop the scammers would be to sanction their host countries into oblivion: India, Philippines and Myanmar are big in targetting English speaking countries, and Turkey when it comes to German speaking countries. Scammer Payback alone has made so many complaints with very little follow up from local authorities, partially due to open corruption. Either these countries clean up their act or they get dropped from SS7 (phone) and the Internet. But I see no way of this ever happening.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21692646/how-does-facebo...
by dctoedt | 2025-06-05 21:08:40+00:00
> He said the big hurdle was to learn to trust the instruments and ignore your body screaming at you that the instruments are lying.

In about 1967, my dad (career USAF, fighter jock) was flying in clear, sunny weather. He started to get bad vertigo, so he did an emergency, instruments-only landing at a nearby AF base. He said that on final approach, he "knew" he was upside down, and that it was all he could do to refrain from rolling the airplane "right side up" for touchdown on the runway.
by ceejayoz | 2025-06-05 21:09:27+00:00
I, too, spent quite a bit of my childhood designing elaborate lairs for when I became fabulously wealthy, with a dolphin pool and volcano and laser turrets.

"Want" and "capable of" are not the same thing. This feels a lot more like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_One than something that seems likely to move forward.
by switchbak | 2025-06-05 21:10:30+00:00
Oh I see - emphasis on the 'autonomous' part, yeah I would agree on that for today. Things are pretty immature on the autonomous side right now, but that will definitely change ... it's still the military, so it'll take a while, but they'll do it when they're forced to.

I'll skip the shitty retort about not reading.
by al_borland | 2025-06-05 21:10:30+00:00
If you're going to fast, especially extended fasting, it would serve a person well to drop carbs and sugar and get into ketosis, at least for a while, so your body can start burning fat more effectively. If you've never done this before, it can be an uncomfortable process, with a lot of headaches, mood swings, etc. Making sure you take in enough electrolytes (sodium, magnesium, and potassium) will help a lot during all this, and during longer fasts.

I cleaned up my diet about a month ago, and have accidentally done some 24 hour fasts when I was busy and it's been fine. By the time I do eat, I'm really not even hungry, though my stomach may be growling a bit. The first time I ever did this, I had horrible headaches and felt miserable for a while, but subsequent times have been easier.

Good sleep maters too. Bad sleep will throw your hormones out of whack. I'm extremely hungry when this happens, and crave all the wrong things. Knowing what's going on helps a little.... just a little.

I find all this much easier than just trying to cut back by 200 calories with what I normally eat. It's all about hormones.
by hn_acker | 2025-06-05 21:10:39+00:00
Propublica and The Texas Tribune co-published this article, and I originally used the Propublica link. On Propublica, both the regular title and the HTML title are too long, so I shortened and slightly modified the HTML title from

> Why Texas Won't Force Private Companies to Use E-Verify to Check Employment Authorization

to

> Why Texas Won't Force Companies to Use E-Verify for Employment Authorization

HN automatically changed the link (or someone at HN manually changed it) to the same article co-published by The Texas Tribune [TFA] with the title:

> Texas won't force private companies to use E-Verify to check workers' immigration status, despite leaders' tough talk

[TFA] https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/05/texas-e-verify-requi...

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-e-verify-requiremen...
by nradov | 2025-06-05 21:10:44+00:00
There may be some medical benefits to periodic fasting, especially for people with excess adipose tissue. But in terms of "no harm" the Memel et al paper you linked doesn't seem to mention anything about loss of lean muscle tissue. This can cause serious harm for some patients — especially older patients with the "skinny fat" body type — by leading to sarcopenia (higher musculoskeletal injury risk) and endocrine dysfunction (muscle is a glucose sink). Loss of muscle can be limited to an extent by doing resistance training and maintaining high protein intake during non-fasting periods. But overall there are still a lot of unknowns in this field.
by SlowTao | 2025-06-05 21:10:46+00:00
I cannot find the study at the moment (Google you used to be great at this!) but there was one seeing how diabetics blood sugar was impacted from just fruit consumption. Got to the point where even at 20 serves per day (4 times the recommended) in most people it didnt cause an issue. Bundling that sugar with fiber was a big part of regulating sugars.

Corn syrup might or not be different, Im no expert in that field, but simply having highly refined sugars without the filler is monocropping your diet in weird ways. In the same way soil is being killed by mono cropped agricuture, we are doing the same with our gut biome. The flow on impacts are still being discovered.
by fuzztester | 2025-06-05 21:10:48+00:00
it's not only the media.

it's just a figure of speech, (used like some people (ab)use "literally"), which I am sure you know, considering your profile, or even otherwise.

other people than the media use it too:

e.g. this Rob Pike post about Go (the programming language, not the game you like):

Less is exponentially more

https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponenti...
by mikeshi42 | 2025-06-05 21:11:39+00:00
Great questions!

OTel Metrics: I get it, it's specified as almost a superset of everyone's favorite metric standards with config for push/pull, monotonic vs delta, exponential/"native" histograms, etc. I have my preferences as well which would be a subset of the standard but I get why a unifying standard needed to be flexible.

Statsd: The great thing about the OTel collector is that it allows ingesting a variety of different data formats, so you can take in statsd and output OTel or write directly to ClickHouse: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-co...

We correlate across trace/span id as well as resource attributes. The correlation across logs/traces with span/trace id is a pretty well worn path across our product. Metrics to the rest is natively done via resource attributes and we primarily expose correlation for K8s-based workloads with more to come. We don't do exemplars _yet_ to solve the more generic correlation case for metrics (though I don't think statsd can transmit exemplars)

Elixir: We try to do our best to support wherever our users are, the OTel SDK and ours have continued to change in parallel over time - we'll want to likely re-evaluate if we should start pointing towards the base OTel SDK for Elixir. We've been pretty early on the OTel SDK side across the board so things continue to evolve, for example our Deno OTel integration came out I think over a year before Deno officially launched one with native HyperDX documentation <3

Notebooks: Yes, it should land in an experimental state shortly, stay tuned :) There's a lot of exciting workflows we're looking to unlock with notebooks as well. If you have any thoughts in this direction, please let me know. I'd love to get more user input ahead of the first release.
by trilbyglens | 2025-06-05 21:11:54+00:00
I live in the czech republic and this is the way the older generation is here. Many older couples will have the same meal on the same day of the week every week. So not the same meal every day, but the same meal every Monday, a different one every Tuesday, etc. It's mind-numbing to me (I'm American) and these people tend to be outrageously inflexible in almost every aspect of their being.
by pombreda | 2025-06-05 21:12:27+00:00
You wrote:

> So to the more knowledgeable people out there, what is the PURL way of identifying a C++ library like that?

That's a blind spot. This is a real problem for every as you rightfully explained.

So I have been thinking a lot about how to track C/C++ native libraries, and I have been working on a plan to deal with this.

You can read a summary there (that I just posted to supply this discussion!) - https://github.com/aboutcode-org/www.aboutcode.org/issues/30

And this comment links to more detailed work-in-progress planning doc: - https://github.com/aboutcode-org/www.aboutcode.org/issues/30...

If you want to chip in and help, this would be awesome.

And IMHO, aligned with your thinking this should not be tied to a build system or a for-profit operation like conan.io, or a linux distro, or for that matter a specific build tool or approach as they are so many, and be self-hosted, easy to sync, and simple to store in a git repo.
by efm | 2025-06-05 21:12:40+00:00
Thanks for doing this research!

The information is organized clearly by date, technology and predecessor/descendant.

But,technology continues to improve, and this site has no database or github for continuing to update with new tech or to fill in the gaps.

This website format also makes it difficult to do other forms of analysis.

I wonder if the authors would make the data available in a knowledge graph form.
by neilv | 2025-06-05 21:12:49+00:00
I feel bad about returning things, and only buy with the assumption that I'll be keeping the item.

(For example, in my cart is a few different ~$100 sandals of one brand. I've hesitated to purchase one, since I don't know whether I can risk a 9 non-wide in my preferred style&color. I won't be able to tell whether it fits me well enough until I wear it outside awhile, at which point it's obviously been used on someone's foot, so I'm not going to return it.)

(I also contort my Amazon and Walmart orders, to try to keep them from shipping together items that I know are likely to get damaged that way.)

Yet, the rate of defective and damaged items that arrive from online purchases is high enough, that I've gotten past much of the discomfort for those returns.

(For example, this week, I returned some supposedly brand-name diningware, which the brand's customer service themselves suggested was counterfeit because they simply don't sell it in that branded retail packaging. I'd contacted the brand because the product didn't look quite like the previous one I bought of that brand, in a toxically-tainted-materials kind of way. Guilt-free, annoyed return.)

So I figured I have a normal level of return, as a result of returning obviously defective/damaged items... until I saw this article claim the online return rate is "almost 30 percent".

If I had a retail business with someone doing 30% returns (outside some program for trying on clothing at home for sizing), I would want to fire that customer.

(And for the official clothing try-on-for-sizing program, I't try to throw innovations at that, to get the returns down.)
by diggan | 2025-06-05 21:13:38+00:00
> Code that is simple, easy to read, not polluted with comments, no unnecessary crap, just pretty, clean and functional

I get that with most of the better models I've tried, although I'd probably personally favor OpenAI's models overall. I think a good system prompt is probably the best way there, rather than relying in some "innate" "clean code" behavior of specific models. This is a snippet of what I use today for coding guidelines: https://gist.github.com/victorb/1fe62fe7b80a64fc5b446f82d313...

> That being said it occasionally does something absolutely stupid. Like completely dumb

That's a bit tougher, but you have to carefully read through exactly what you said, and try to figure out what might have led it down the wrong path, or what you could have said in the first place for it avoid that. Try to work it into your system prompt, then slowly build up your system prompt so every one-shot gets closer and closer to being perfect on every first try.
by xoa | 2025-06-05 21:14:04+00:00
>So they do all that (and iPhone sales alone cover basically everything Apple does), and they are "entitled" to charging for a business transaction that happens between users and non-Apple businesses?

Yes, absolutely they are entitled to that. What they shouldn't be entitled to do (and we should pass laws to enforce) is not offer owners a choice as to whether to have Apple be the exclusive software/hardware source or not. By law, at purchase time anyone should be able to choose to have access to their device's software certificate root of trust, hardware rot, or both. Apple should have to compete on the merits of the App Store, on their service, curation, etc. And fwiw I think that for a large number (maybe even the majority) of regular people they'd perfectly well be able to do so. There's significant value there, particularly if the threat of straightforward alternatives kept Apple's incentives better aligned.

But within their own store, in a world with the choice to opt out, sure I don't see why there would be any problem with them charging for their role anymore then for any other store of any kind ever. The core issue is the required technical lock in.
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2025-06-05 21:14:10+00:00
Probably not. RL is really bad at generalising to unseen environments. There was a paper about an ... otter?

Why Generalization in RL is Difficult: Epistemic POMDPs and Implicit Partial Observability

https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.06277

OK, it's a robotic zookeeper looking for the otter cage.

Where does it say they had no prior knowledge before the event? I can't find that in the text. Is it in the video?

I guess there's no paper yet.