MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chankstein38 | 2025-07-07 21:16:34+00:00
Cool article! I'm pretty familiar with the GIS offerings and the USGS's site but it was a fun read. I had to block the sidebar that took up half the screen though. I really don't need half of my screen taken up by contact information while I'm trying to read an article. At least UBlock lets me block it fully and then the site just expands normally. Wish the author would've overthought their design..
by rhet0rica | 2025-07-07 21:17:44+00:00
Hang on there a moment—you missed a few things:

1. Life-extension research, which is what I take umbrage with, is not "all human progress." It is a very specific, high-effort kind of gene therapy whack-a-mole, borne entirely from our hubris and our fear of death.

2. Perhaps I wasn't clear enough, but research for _aging gracefully_ is fine by me. I genuinely hope we beat Alzheimer's. But we all know who holds the purse strings on these initiatives, and it isn't charitable organizations funded by bereft families.

3. Unlike other technological advantages, life extension is a _multiplier_ for inequality. The Undead pay no estate tax. The Undead never change their minds. The Undead never have to give up their bought-and-paid-for seats in Congress.

Death is the ultimate Chesterton's Fence.
by pests | 2025-07-07 21:17:50+00:00
Reminds me of the old videos on the Mill CPU architecture. There is multi hour long video about “the belt”, a primary concept in understanding the Mill architecture and instruction scheduling. It’s portrayed in the slides as an actual belt with a queue of items about to be processed, etc.

Only in the end to reveal the belt is truely conceptualized and does not formally exist. The belt is an accurate visual representation and teaching tool, but the actual mechanics emerge from data latches and the timing of releasing the data, etc.

I thought it was helpful.
by mlsu | 2025-07-07 21:17:50+00:00
LLMs cannot be effective therapists because they aren't another human being. If you're going to use LLMs as a therapist you may as well fill out worksheets. It'll be about as effective.

A good therapist is good because they are able to make a real human connection with the patient and then use that real human connection to improve the patient's ability to connect. The whole reason therapy works is that there is another human being at the other end who you know is listening to you.

The machine can never listen, it is incapable. No matter how many factoids it knows about you.
by no_wizard | 2025-07-07 21:18:29+00:00
>Linting on handoff, aka process, is the way to solve this, not dogmatic restrictions. You should always provide freeform design, otherwise your design language never evolves to changing requirements, but doing so should be an explicit choice and part of a process. Completely locking that down will also lock down creativity. This is what I was talking about in the talk I linked above about balance - going too far on either end will harm the overall process

Process is fine, but enforcing process is what is desired. Being able to express constraints globally (IE, organizationally) may limit creativity in an absolute sense, but within constraints you can have your own kind of creativity.

That means not designing features that don't fit within the bounds of a layout for example. Not the easiest to 'process lint', but the tool would know instantly. Thats what I'm talking about. Hand waving that away as a 'process human problem' is disingenuous and I'm rather frustrated thats the response Figma has to this.

So called "dogmatic restrictions" exist for a reason. Though, to say being able to enforce consistency by being able to say, only allow auto layout and associated features, isn't really 'dogmatic'. Just like linters catch features of a language nobody really should use anymore (like JavaScript's `with` for example) is the correct way to solve this problem. Thats not really dogmatic, its just good hygiene.

If Figma doesn't care about any of these real problems, than fine, then make yourself plain and say so explicitly, otherwise the tool has a huge gap in functionality that makes it irritating to actually evolve with.

I imagine this is why Figma has no concept of a staging area either, or a proper VCS, nor a review pipeline, which are also gaps in functionality that would relieve so many issues
by OJFord | 2025-07-07 21:18:46+00:00
Because there's only one story to tell, for adults, and it's the Jurassic Park (et al.) story.

You can't tell a period story for adults, with dinosaurs birthed normally and no modern science, because then it's not a 'talkie', and we're about a century past it being possible to have the budget for a state of the art dinosaur-prop film with no dialogue.
by schuyler2d | 2025-07-07 21:19:32+00:00
Well the evidence is circumstantial. A bunch of Canaanites celebrate a spring festival with unleavened bread. Later they adopt a different religion that has a spring festival and an Exodus story with a new god called YHWH is glommed onto El.

I think it depends how "natural" one thinks the reason for unleavened bread is to Exodus. There's obviously plenty of mythical aspects to the story but the oldest are more focused on the river (Song of the Sea) and the battle. Why not combine rebirth/reinvention stories -- one a feast and another the beginning of "freedom"

But it's fair to say that most of Passover as a story and holiday is unrelated.
by agwa | 2025-07-07 21:20:13+00:00
Sunlight and static-ct-api are a breath of fresh air in the CT log space. Traditional CT log implementations were built on databases (because that's the easiest way to implement the old API) and were over-complicated due to a misplaced desire for high write availability. This made operating a CT log difficult and expensive (some operators were spending upwards of $100k/year). Consequentially, there have been a rash of CT log failures and few organizations willing to run logs. I'm extremely excited by how Sunlight and static-ct-api are changing this.
by conradev | 2025-07-07 21:20:16+00:00
Yes! Training and generation are fair use. You are free to train and generate whatever you want in your basement for whatever purpose you see fit. Build a music collection, go ham.

If the output from said model uses the voice of another person, for example, we already have a legal framework in place for determining if it is infringing on their rights, independent of AI.

Courts have heard cases of individual artists copying melodies, because melodies themselves are copyrightable: https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2020/02/every-possible-melod...

Copyright law is a lot more nuanced than anyone seems to have the attention span for.
by jldugger | 2025-07-07 21:22:04+00:00
It's really, really important to understand the context here. From the article:

> I was hired on at Apple in October of 1995. This was what I refer to as Apple’s circling the drain period. Maybe you remember all the doomsaying — speculation that Apple was going to be shuttering soon

Everyone in the company was presumably on edge, and expensive mistakes were starting to border not on career ending, but on _company_ ending. The difference between firing someone for making expensive mistakes and laying them off is nearly immaterial, IMO.
by zkmon | 2025-07-07 21:22:05+00:00
This reminds me how the software integraters or implementers worked a couple of decades back. They are IT contractors for implementing a popular software product such as IBM MQ or SAP etc at a client site and maintaining it. They sometimes incorrectly claim that some feature exists, and after finding that it doesn't exist, they create a ticket to the software vendor asking for it as a patch release.
Show HN: Silobase – open-source BaaS for your own database, no code required
by fathersimi | 2025-07-07 21:23:20+00:00
I built Silobase because I wanted the convenience of Supabase or Firebase, but with my own infrastructure. I had a database already set up, and I didn’t want to be forced into using a managed one just to get an API.

It started when I was building a dashboard and realized I needed a backend API to talk to my existing database. I didn’t want to spin up a whole new server or write boilerplate. I just wanted a plug and play API layer that worked with the stack I already had.

That’s what led to Silobase: an open source Backend as a Service (BaaS) that lets you expose your own PostgreSQL or MSSQL database over a clean REST API. No backend code. No vendor lock in.

You can self host it, connect it to your own database or storage, and get instant endpoints with support for filtering, pagination, role based access control, and more.
by csa | 2025-07-07 21:23:55+00:00
> If you believe that you have celiac but for whatever reason you haven't been able to test it yet, then there is no harm to try going glutten free. The real issue is how many people deny the very existence of glutten sensitivity and put these people in danger. If you look at communities of people with the disease you will see what I am talking about.

You just made one hell of a strawman argument about what GP said.

He merely stated that “the vast majority of self-diagnosed ‘gluten sensitives’ do not have such conditions”, as you quoted. This comment jibes with my experience.

The two folks I know who have full-blown celiac end up projectile vomiting for hours if they consume even small amounts of gluten (e.g., gross contamination in a fryer or on a cutting board).

The two folks I know who have milder versions were able to figure out that they needed to be tested in fairly short order due to “digestion issues” when they ate gluten.

On the other hand, the dozens of other folks I know who claim to be “sensitive to gluten” have no real basis when saying so. When I mentioned to them that I have friends with celiac, and I empathize with them, and I suggest they get tested if they haven’t yet (undiagnosed celiac is real), the answer I get are nothing short of glib - “oh, I’m just on a keto diet, and this is an easy way to do it”, “oh, I just found that I feel bad after eating things like cake” (sugar crash? diabetic?), or “oh, I’m fine, I just want them to make a fresh one (of whatever) for me”.

Your defense of folks who claim a problem that they can (often) fairly easily determine that they don’t have is enabling those folks’ dysfunction — that is, lying to themselves and (per this thread) using labeling as a defensive tactic.

People who actually have celiac need very specific accommodations. But the multiples of people who claim “gluten sensitivity” when they don’t actually have it causes large swathes of the general population to disbelieve the folks who really do have it.

It’s ok to call out the poseurs for what they are while still looking out for folks who have celiac or might have celiac and don’t know it yet.
by euroderf | 2025-07-07 21:24:00+00:00
> There are now custom monitors being put on to cattle that constantly measure how much they eat, how much they walk, body temp, etc. If they fall out of expected range the system will call a vet automatically to come treat them as they're obviously sick. This is keeping the cattle healthier and the production numbers high.

Has anyone thought to put these on human beings (who are not in assisted living situations) ?
by DocTomoe | 2025-07-07 21:24:22+00:00
> Lots of usage of "no prior history"

... which ironically sounds a lot like the family is trying to discourage the idea that there were, in fact, signs that just were not taken seriously. No-one wants to admit their family member was mentally ill, and all too often it is easy to hide and ignore. A certain melancholy maybe or an unusually eager response to bombastic music to get motivation? Signs are subtle, and often more obvious in hindsight.

Then the LLM episode happens, he goes fully haywire, and the LLM makes an easy scapegoat for all kind of things (from stress at work to childhood trauma to domestic abuse).

Now, if this was a medical paper, I would give 'no prior history' some credibility. But it's not - it's a journalistic document, and I have learned that they tend to use words as these to distract not to enlighten.
by tonymet | 2025-07-07 21:24:25+00:00
Is any amateur or professional auditing done on the CA system? Something akin to amateur radio auditing?

Consumers and publishers take certificates and certs for granted. I see many broken certs, or brands using the wrong certs and domains for their services.

SSL/TLS has done well to prevent eavesdropping, but it hasn't done well to establish trust and identity.
by johnea | 2025-07-07 21:24:26+00:00
I agree with the complaint.

I feel though, that the typical racist hyperbole of his rants are a side show to the ongoing condemnation of any person or policy that aims to send anything less than all economic output to ownership.

FDR is still being called a communist for the new deal, in spite of it's effects of raising a huge part of the US population out of poverty.

As we've fully entered the new guilded age, these attacks can only be expected to increase.

I'm still not convinced that the US population of today has caught up with the understanding that voted in FDR 100 years ago. Of course, we're also yet to see another such candidate made available to the people on a national level. Bernie tried, the DNC forbade it...
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by smokel | 2025-07-07 21:24:54+00:00
I did similar testing with ball-point pens. Eventually I ran into the ISO 12757-2 standard on archival ink, thinking that it would be a great idea to use such pens for my intricate drawings.

Turns out the drawings, some of which I actually sold, faded into oblivion within about a year. After slightly more careful reading of the actual standard, I learned that the drawings were supposed to be archived, i.e. kept in a box or a drawer, and not to be framed for full-time viewing pleasure.

The typical blue ink in the famous BIC ball-point pens (i.e. non-ISO 12757) turns black after some time of sunlight exposure, which seems fine.
by freejazz | 2025-07-07 21:25:06+00:00
>It's inherent in the nature of the test. The most important fair use factor is the effect on the market for the work, so if the use would be uneconomical without fair use then the effect on the market is negligible because the alternative would be that the use doesn't happen rather than that the author gets paid for it.

No, that's not the most important factor. The transformative factor is the most important. Effect on market for the work doesn't even support your argument anyway. Your argument is about the cost of making the end product, which is totally distinct from the market effects on the copyright holder when the infringer makes and releases the infringing product.

>To make a search engine you have to do two things. One is to download a copy of the whole internet, the other is to create a search index. I'm talking about the first one, you're talking about the second one.

So? That doesn't make you right. Go read the opinions, dude. This isn't something that's actually up for debate. Search engines are fair uses because of their transformative effect, not because they are really expensive otherwise. Your argument doesn't even make sense. By that logic, anything that's expensive becomes a fair use. It's facially ridiculous. Them being expensive is neither sufficient nor necessary for them to be a fair use. Their transformative nature is both sufficient and necessary to be found a fair use. Full stop.

>Microsoft does this with an automated system. There is no single automated system where you can get every book ever written, and separately interfacing with all of the many systems needed in order to do it is the source of the overhead.

Okay, and? They don't need to get every single book ever written. The libraries they pirated do not consist of "every single book ever written". It's hard to take this argument in good faith because you're being so ridiculous.
by imoreno | 2025-07-07 21:25:26+00:00
>You can give a quick explanation in terms they understand, which makes your job sound easy and makes them wonder how anybody gets paid to do it.

What is the problem with this?

Most jobs, when simplified, sound like "anybody can do it". I think it's generally understood among adults who have been in the workforce that, no, in fact anybody cannot do it.
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by jitl | 2025-07-07 21:26:28+00:00
Back in the day, Sun Solaris and HP-UX were not end-of-life, and FreeBSD had more equal industry footing with Linux. Now Linux is the clear winner in server OS UNIX by a wide margin. Also, Ryan Dhal worked at Joyent, a Illumos/Solaris shop when he built Node; perhaps that has informed his lack of interest in supporting FreeBSD these days.
by SirMaster | 2025-07-07 21:26:32+00:00
I think most people think AGI is achieved when a machine can do at least everything that humans can do.

Like not necessarily physical things, but mental or digital things.

Humans will create a better LLM, (say GPT-5) than all the other LLMs that currently exist.

If you tasked any current LLM with creating a GPT-5 LLM that is better than itself, can it do it? If not then it's probably not AGI and has some shortcomings making it not general or intelligent enough.
by mpalmer | 2025-07-07 21:26:37+00:00
This applies to most modern scripts. Writers/studios have largely decided people don't care about detailed, reasoned-out worlds with unspoken "show-don't-tell" internal logic. Are they wrong? I shudder to consider.

Shows like Better Call Saul and Andor are the most recent high-profile counter-examples. So detailed and lived-in, because the writers wanted to ask interesting questions:

How does the Empire do what it does?

What does a career striver look like in the imperial ranks? What internal forces help/hinder them? Do they struggle with the ethics? Is there even time/opportunity for that?

Was the Rebel Alliance really that organized from the start, or were there growing pains?

Asking and attempting to answer questions like these lays the groundwork for telling interesting character-driven stories that are grounded in the reality of the fictional world.

Neglect to do that, and you generally end up with a bloodless theme park ride with no emotional stakes.
by jfengel | 2025-07-07 21:26:51+00:00
I don't understand that last part. The US is a big country; it can walk and chew gum at the same time. We're spending some money and attention on Ukraine, but I don't see how it would affect our position on China if we weren't.

I do think that the US is badly mishandling its relationship with China, but it is a deliberate choice, not an oversight.

What would we be doing if we had more focus?
by 0x457 | 2025-07-07 21:27:10+00:00
I've printed _many_ parts with multi-material using AMS: PLA, PETG, different support materials. Never had a single failure. It's wasteful, but never had issues.

> And manually switching isn't feasible if you're trying to do something like print supports--are you going to swap filament rolls by hand every layer?

No, first because I would use support material just for the interface and if it's curved, then no. Even with X1C's AMS, any IDEX, H2D print time would be hilariously ballooned. I'n saying that dual-nozzle design didn't make it possible, it made it more convenient.
Telnyx AI Agents add multi-voice handoff feature
by maevesentner | 2025-07-07 21:27:15+00:00
Telnyx just rolled out a new feature for its AI Agent Handoff tool: support for both unified and distinct voice modes.

Users can now decide whether all assistants speak with the same voice for seamless transitions, or keep unique voices for each assistant to mimic a collaborative team. This gives builders more flexibility to create natural, multi-agent experiences with no code changes needed.

Release: https://telnyx.com/release-notes/two-voice-modes-ai-agent-handoff-tool
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-07-07 21:27:24+00:00
Sony v. Universal is a Supreme Court case, but that's the one where they say that sort of thing is fair use rather than that it isn't. ReDigi isn't a Supreme Court case, and it seems rather inconsistent with the Sony case which is. To claim uniformity you'd then need all the other circuit courts coming to the same conclusion rather than just not having had any relevant cases there yet, but is that the case?
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by Rebelgecko | 2025-07-07 21:28:52+00:00
My intuition is that it wouldn't change the ranking of people's wealths, but it would make a big difference in the ratio between a top 10 percentile income and a bottom 10 percentile income

Edit- although even that is an oversimplification because I think in some cases it might encourage people to make more money. I know a handful of people who intentionally limit their income because of gaps in means testing. eg there's a window where you start making too much to take advantage of some govt social services, but not enough to pay for those services yourself (healthcare is a big one)
by a_e_k | 2025-07-07 21:29:25+00:00
I've played with a similar idea for writing technical papers. I'll give an LLM my draft and ask it to explain back to me what a section means, or otherwise quiz it about things in the draft.

I've found that LLMs can be kind of dumb about understanding things, and are particularly bad at reading between the lines for anything subtle. In this aspect, I find they make good proxies for inattentive anonymous reviewers, and so will try to revise my text until even the LLM can grasp the key points that I'm trying to make.
by bruce511 | 2025-07-07 21:30:25+00:00
Obviously it will vary by location and age. But I was in high school in the early 80s, and plate tectonics & Pangea were already in our text books. (And in my country it takes forever for stuff to make it into textbooks.)

I don't recall there being any controversy about it - it was used as the basis for a number of topics in geography (Indian Subcontinent forming Himalayas, bio-diversity and gene relations in Biology etc.)

I suspect the real lesson here us that education is far from consistent both regionally, nationally and historically.