MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rayiner | 2025-06-06 21:35:33+00:00
Think about the probabilities. Lactose intolerance in the UK (as a proxy for British Americans) is under 10%, while in my home country it is over 85%. Meanwhile, drinking milk is universal among white American children (it’s served in schools). If a white kid has stomach problems, there’s a 90% chance it’s not lactose intolerance. But if an Asian kid presents with stomach problems, lactose intolerance is probably the single likeliest explanation. And it can be assessed by asking a couple of simple questions.

Our kids are half white so we were unsure if they’d be lactose intolerant. At the first sign of stomach problems in the youngest, we switched him to lactose free milk and the problem went away immediately. If we took him to a doctor we might’ve gone down a whole rabbit hole of dead ends. And if we weren’t aware of the issue and looking out for it, we may have not done anything and just let him deal with the discomfort. After all, kids get tummy aches for a million reasons.
by Balgair | 2025-06-06 21:36:03+00:00
Oh gosh, 72 is way more anti-prime, I've always just used the rule of 70 in my head though.

if I have a calculator handy, I'll use [(69.3/rate) + 0.3] as that's really close to the actual numbers for rates under about 10 or so.

I'm curious as to what other methods people use.

Honestly, I should probably just memorize the 12 or so numbers.

For those interested, here's a mnemonic that I cooked up quick with chatGPT:

70 bears ate 35 lions who ate 23 tigers who ate 18 wolves who ate 14 dogs who ate 12 cats who quickly ate 10, 9, 8, 7 mice who ate 6.6 grasshoppers who ate 6.1 barleycorns

Look, I know this is not the best, but hey, it's Friday. Please help me out and make up a better one.

70, 35, 23, 18, 14, 12, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6.6, 6.1
by jcrawfordor | 2025-06-06 21:36:26+00:00
There's a few different reasons things are more complex, but one interesting wrench to throw in is that audio tones may not be the best way to send DTMF. Many digital telephone networks support out-of-band DTMF where the digits are sent as digital keypress events instead of actual tones (tones are usually still emitted to the user for comfort). There are a few potential benefits but mostly it improves reliability over iffy connections, reducing instances of one press being detected as two due a dropout in the middle, for example. I believe 3GPP has supported out-of-band DTMF for some time but it may not have been common, VoLTE encourages it much more. The other end is always going to have support for traditional in-band DTMF because they don't know what type of connection the caller has, so it's not a fatal problem, but less than ideal to use in-band DTMF when out-of-band DTMF is supported. This type of consideration is one of the reasons that the telephony part of phones is more complicated than you might think.
by redeyedtreefrog | 2025-06-06 21:37:24+00:00
If you scroll down it also says 60% of the code is automated. Both percentages are essentially meaningless. If you require customers to type all their requirements into a static web based form does that also count as 80% automated information gathering? If 60% of an application is templated components does that mean code generation is 60% automated?

It's meaningless, and I suspect intentionally so. It clearly implies that they were doing things in a more advanced way than a standard Indian outsourcing firm, an implication heightened by hiring people to build impressive tech demos. But the impressive tech demos and the work on real client projects were two entirely separate things.
by delichon | 2025-06-06 21:37:25+00:00
Pass the choices through, please. It's so context dependent that I want a <dumber> and a <smarter> button, with units of $/M tokens. And another setting to send a particular prompt to "[x] batch" and email me with the answer later. For most things I'll start dumb and fast, but switch to smart and slow when the going gets rough.
by farts_mckensy | 2025-06-06 21:37:34+00:00
-The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board’s 2014 review of the NSA “Section 215” phone-record program found no instance in which the dragnet produced a counter-terror lead that couldn’t have been obtained with targeted subpoenas. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_and_Civil_Liberties_...

-After Boston, Paris, Manchester, and other attacks, post-mortems showed the perpetrators were already in government databases. Analysts simply didn’t connect the dots amid the flood of benign hits. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/26/whole-haystack

-Independent tallies suggest dozens of civilians killed for every intended high-value target in Yemen and Pakistan, largely because metadata mis-identifies phones that change pockets. https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/36962/pdf
by kgwgk | 2025-06-06 21:38:12+00:00
> Developing countries, particularly those in Asia, have seen incredible returns over a 30 year period, albeit with a great deal of volatility involved.

The level of the MSCI China index 30 years ago was HKD 70 and it's HKD 75 today. It's kind of incredible but not in a good way. Total return is less than 3% p.a. MSCI Thailand is even worse.

MSCI Korea has a total return of 7% (not bad, 4% above inflation) but it doesn't do better than developed countries.

Of course they look much better if we start right after the 1997 Asian financial crisis but, hey, it was you who talked about "a 30 year period".
by AndyKelley | 2025-06-06 21:38:17+00:00
Sweet! By the way we just added FreeBSD to the download page on ziglang.org (as of today), so FreeBSD users can grab master branch builds automatically built by the CI.

It's also now a first-class supported cross-compilation target, including when linking libc, so you can do stuff like `zig cc -o hello hello.c -target riscv64-freebsd`.

And then of course if you have any C/C++ dependencies, you can fetch and build them with the zig build system, so it should be possible to easily cross-compile even quite complex projects for FreeBSD now.

Hopefully that helps more projects decide to add FreeBSD support and respective testing to their CI!
by const_cast | 2025-06-06 21:38:23+00:00
So many caveats to this comment...

> "otherwise healthy"

Yeah, not all kids are otherwise healthy. There's kids with Leukemia or whatever that are extremely immunocompromised because of chemotherapy. They have to coexist with anti-vaxxers and, believe it or not, their lives matter too.

> caught Covid

You think the anti-vaxx crazy train starts and stops at Covid? These people have been attacking MMR for much longer than Covid. Children DO die to measles, mumps, and what have you.
by SkyeCA | 2025-06-06 21:38:26+00:00
> It seems totally reasonable to me that arbitrary apps can't insert sounds into my call audio, am I wrong here?

No, though I will say I'm upset with how protected calls have become on phones in recent years. I used to record every phone call with an app so I had a record of it, something which is completely legal to do where I live, but that really isn't possible anymore.

Now all my calls go through a VOIP provider and call recording is a feature they offer.
by wat10000 | 2025-06-06 21:38:35+00:00
Finally, someone else who appreciates Warday!

It's really good. And as far as I can tell, as a layman who reads way too much about this stuff, quite accurate in terms of what the sort of limited strike depicted in the book would do in the short and long term. (I have quibbles, such as what happens to San Antonio and Manhattan, but nothing major.)

Highly recommended to anyone who like the genre.
by int_19h | 2025-06-06 21:39:34+00:00
I think one thing that we should be more cognizant about in general is that corporations are a legal construct to begin with, and as such, there's no natural right to incorporate - it's strictly a privilege. So society attaching even very heavy strings to that is not unreasonable so long as they are applied consistently to all corporations. Which is to say, if corporations don't do what we as a society want them to do, beating them with a large and heavy stick until they start doing that is not wrong, and we should be doing more of it.

And if people really want their freedoms, well, they can go and run their business as individuals, with no corporate liability shield etc. Then I'm fine with saying that their freedom of speech etc overrides everything else.
by BugsJustFindMe | 2025-06-06 21:40:51+00:00
> It takes an intervention to stop an embryo from becoming an adult.

Taking intervention isn't as useful a selection criterion as you make it out to be. It also takes intervention to stop teenagers from making babies with each other. And all they need is time. They often don't even need nutrition or safety. That teenagers left to their own devices will make babies is a fundamental and incontrovertible truth. It may as well be considered a force of nature. It's the entire history of all of biology from the very first multi-cellular organism until today. And yet modern society usually succeeds in preventing them from doing it because we recognize the harms caused by it.

> For any other precursor, something fundamental has to change.

This is both arbitrary and covers a lot more than you admit. For a child to become you today it had to change in very fundamental ways, almost exclusively by external social influence. You are not the same as the child. You are dramatically and fundamentally changed. Your ideas are dramatically and fundamentally different. Your feelings are dramatically and fundamentally different. Your behavior is dramatically and fundamentally different.

This notion of fundamental change only holds up if you arbitrarily hold onto one particular kind of change while blithely ignoring all the countless rest.

> For either of the gametes (the immediate precursors), they have to merge with the other gamete.

So? That's not any more fundamental than the fact that external social influences have merged with your frame of mind to change your behaviors, emotions, and views as you've aged. You are as fundamentally changed from the child that became you as the child is from the sperm and egg it came from. You are changing constantly by merging with external influence. Your ideas are as different as ideas can be, your emotions are as different as emotions can be, your behaviors are as different as behaviors can be. You are the culmination of a lot of merging, not alone in a vacuum.
by Retric | 2025-06-06 21:41:14+00:00
> Early-tags startups into cash bond fires

As a practical measure it’s really not. The transition is difficult for existing companies, but a future startup is going to be minimally impacted.

Year 0 you’re unlikely to have any profits, future years you have multiple years of R&D to offset with.

But let’s assume the worst case. Taxes are 21% of profits and at minimum deduction 20% of R&D so the theoretical maximum distribution is 0.8 * 0.21 = 16.8% increase in R&D expenses if profits = R&D year 0. But that maximum case is only year 0, you’d be able to fund R&D with those same profits and easily be profitable after that.

If profits where say 40% of R&D in year 0 you’d have to pay 16.8% of 40% so an increase is only 6.72% hardly likely to tank the business if it’s already generating that kind of income year 0, and again after that point you’ll deduct for multiple years.

More realistic numbers are going to be really low multiples here, more importantly they represent significant investments not operating expenses.
by behnamoh | 2025-06-06 21:41:22+00:00
Okay Apple, you got my attention. But I'm a strong proponent of "something is better than nothing" philosophy—even if OpenAI/Google/etc. are building reasoning models with the limitations that you describe, they are still a huge progress compared to what we had not long ago. Meanwhile you're not even trying.

It's so easy to criticize the works of others and not deliver anything. Apple—be Sam in Game of Thrones: "I'm tired of reading about the achievements of better men".
by 6510 | 2025-06-06 21:41:39+00:00
You can get the same picture from the other end: For each real position a politician takes on an issue they will lose everyone who disagrees. If you chose sides on a hundred topics in the most sensible way you will lose everyone.

So they have to be as vague as possible about everything until an audience gathered behind some specific topic, then it is required to lie so that they think you are one of them.

Beyond those basic requirements the competition is to encourage their dreams, justify their failures, allay their fears, confirm their suspicions, and help them throw rocks at their enemies

but it doesn't even matter anymore.
by jorangreef | 2025-06-06 21:41:48+00:00
The scenarios described in our QCon London talk linked above.

This surveys the excellent storage fault research from UW-Madison, and in particular:

“Can Applications Recover from fsync Failures?” “Protocol-Aware Recovery for Consensus-Based Storage”

Finally, I'd recommend watching “Consensus and the Art of Durability”, our talk from SD24 in NYC last year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRgvaqpQPwE
by philwelch | 2025-06-06 21:42:03+00:00
> I imagine Europe probably has more semis on the road transporting cargo.

They absolutely do: unlike the US where more freight is transported by rail than truck, the opposite is true in Europe. And personally I think this is the right tradeoff. The efficiencies of rail over road vehicles scale up with mass. The US has 200 car freight trains hauling 400 shipping containers at a time; compared to 400 semi trucks that’s a massive improvement. European freight rail isn’t even capable of this level of scale; their railroads have maximum train lengths well below the US average.

Freight is also much less fussy than passengers when it comes to scheduling, comfort, or speed, which is why this level of scale is possible for freight rail and not passenger rail.
by nomel | 2025-06-06 21:42:04+00:00
> However, in this article, I show that female-mediated sperm selection can also facilitate assortative fusion between genetically compatible gametes. Based on this evidence, I argue that reproductive failure does not necessarily exclusively represent a pathological condition, but can also result from sexual selection (‘mate choice’) at the level of the gametes.

I'm haphazardly suggesting that the above is the same as:

> "There are some (small) genetic populations whose genetics diverged so much, from geographic separation, that they have fertility problems [1].

We have genetic populations that are the result of geographic separation, and we even have genetic divergence that makes reproduction difficult/impossible.

Again, what's left? Why can't we categorize human genetic populations to the same level? Please be specific in what's missing?

> It says nothing about species or subspecies

Why would it? If the categorization of humans included subspecies, I couldn't have responded.
by anonym29 | 2025-06-06 21:42:15+00:00
It's worth noting that FB was quite possibly being secretly funded with taxpayer money by national intelligence interests at inception, which would have substantially reduced or eliminated commercial pressure early on.

DARPA was working on Project LifeLog starting in 2003, was to be "an ontology-based (sub)system that captures, stores, and makes accessible the flow of one person's experience in and interactions with the world in order to support a broad spectrum of associates/assistants and other system capabilities". The objective of the LifeLog concept was "to be able to trace the 'threads' of an individual's life in terms of events, states, and relationships", and it has the ability to "take in all of a subject's experience, from phone numbers dialed and e-mail messages viewed to every breath taken, step made and place gone".

The program, at least officially and publicly, was cancelled on February 4th, 2004, the exact same day that Facebook was founded.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_LifeLog

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook

You can call it a coincidence if you want, I just tend to be very skeptical of "coincidences" where massive, powerful, unaccountable, immoral, unethical institutions like the US intelligence community get exactly what they want at the expense of our civil liberties.
by doctorpangloss | 2025-06-06 21:42:28+00:00
There is a lot of negativity on Hacker News.

Staying focused: the panda is wearing gloves, but then when it does the Hadouken and the Hurrican Kicks, it loses the gloves.

Bigger picture this seems like a focus on product stuff like pricing and demos and navbars that don't really matter to artists or game developers. Your feelings are correct that people here - the root motivation of the negativity - are questioning your sincerity. With AI art this is acutely true, people don't view AI art as a sincere art endeavor. I don't doubt your sincerity. But spending more time on the art thing, and making it free or open source, it's going to look and feel more authentic.
by msdrigg | 2025-06-06 21:42:58+00:00
There are some hilarious tidbits in here

> Starting in the first week of 2024, the FreeBSD boot process suddenly got about 3x slower. I started bisecting commits, and tracked it down to... a commit which increased the root disk size from 5 GB to 6 GB. Why? Well, I reached out to some of my friends at Amazon, and it turned out that the answer was somewhere between "magic" and "you really don't want to know"; but the important part for me was that increasing the root disk size to 8 GB restored performance to earlier levels.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-06-06 21:43:02+00:00
well, that's a pretty dramatic take on what GP said.

there's a world of difference between literally starving and being unable to break focus on something to feed yourself and maintain a healthy weight and ensure that you're getting all the vitamins and nutrients your body needs to operate beyond a minimal level (especially as you age). i've definitely skipped multiple meals before while caught up in something and it ruins the rest of my day, my sleep, and impacts me moving forward beyond that til i can reach more of an equilibrium.

edit: i see from your other comments that you're not really willing to accept that some people have issues with their brains that make them behave differently from the idealized version of yourself that you hold in your head. so whatever. i hope you grow some empathy for others.
by mindslight | 2025-06-06 21:43:14+00:00
Seriously. It's heartening to see some kind of split, but depressing when you see it's just from Musk wanting to thump fundamentalism about tHe dEbT [0]. I guess Musk's excuse for being a true believer is that he was a newcomer to the Republican party? Republicans have been the more profligate spenders of "taxpayer money" for longer than I've been alive. Trump certainly slid right in to his new snake skin, I don't know why Musk couldn't.

But really on reflection I'm back to my original appraisal wondering if it's all just kayfabe with Musk trying to keep the so-called "Libertarian" contingent on board, with monetary inflation part of the destructionist plan just being a minor let down.

[0] Debt denominated in a currency we control is certainly indicative of something, but it isn't nearly as big of a deal as other countries losing confidence in the US. Ergo cutting scientific research, destroying academic institutions, and eliminating foreign policy outreach programs to "save money" actually makes our financial position worse.
by kgwgk | 2025-06-06 21:44:42+00:00
Fair point. I changed the question to "according to the tax code" and it told me that

Construction labor is generally not deductible as an expense in the year incurred if it is related to the construction or improvement of a capital asset (like a building). Instead, under the U.S. tax code (IRC §263A), these costs must usually be capitalized and recovered through depreciation over time. Exceptions may apply for certain small taxpayers or repairs.
by Reason077 | 2025-06-06 21:44:44+00:00
The OBBBA (“Big Beautiful Bill”) suspends amortization requirements for domestic R&D expenditure, and explicitly allows domestic software development as an R&D expenditure eligible for immediate expensing.

The new rules would apply from 2025 to Dec 31, 2029:

https://www.crowell.com/en/insights/client-alerts/house-comm...
by skippyboxedhero | 2025-06-06 21:44:57+00:00
There is redeeming value: it is fun and harmless for most of the population.

The same people that I have seen rage against other people gambling will also argue in favour of legalising drugs which are more addictive and can cause psychosis.

In addition, making it illegal does not stop actual addicts gambling. You can go offshore and get completely unregulated services, that comply with no regulators on harm prevention. The US was the largest sports betting market in the world when it was illegal in every state bar Nevada.

Also, online providers maintain lists of self-excluded people with state regulators (to be clear, the state holds the list, people put themselves on the list and are banned everywhere). Casinos are significantly less regulated in this area because, due to the nature of the product, is not possible to put in limitations to the product (for example, reality checks, loss limits, giving you access to data on your usage).

All regulated sites have third-party verification of their games by specialist testers and state regulators. Every change to every line of code that touches a regulated service is reported. It is not possible for operators to lose at casino games because of the scale, and you think they are willing to destroy it all to get your $10 faster?

The issue with online gambling is: some people cannot resist telling what other people (usually people poorer than them) what to do, and some people have not thought the alternatives through.
by bmcde001 | 2025-06-06 21:45:08+00:00
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by toss1 | 2025-06-06 21:45:21+00:00
That sounds like a good idea but the physics mean you have a far greater likelihood of painfully regretting that choice; "It seemed like a good idea at the time" will be no solace.

Using an example of a 350kt airburst on NukeMap[0], the fireball radius is 700m with an area of 1.53 km². The Thermal Radiation Radius with 3rd degree burns is 7.67 km with an area of 185 km². The Light Blast Damage Radius is 13.9 km with an area of 610 km². While the numbers will be different for different yields, the basic ratios will be the same.

This means that your person in the lawn chair is highly unlikely to get to unconscious bliss in 20ms. They are 120 times more likely to enjoy the full experience of 3rd degree burns and ~400 times more likely to get significant injury while still being alive.

It seems far better to take shelter and do all you can to survive intact, and help others. If the situation on the other side is intolerably bad, you'll likely be able to find ways to end your situation far less painfully vs being naked against a nuke blast.

[0] https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/