MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bigyabai | 2025-07-08 04:27:35+00:00
One theory is that an abundance of American Christians believe in dispensational premillennialism[0], which rebukes orthodox Judaism in the hopes of returning Christ. Many dispensationalists (including Issac Newton[1]) attempted to interpret the Bible as a function of divine will, and argued that the foundation of Israel is directly imperative due to the prophecy of Daniel. This seems to go against the majority orthodox Judaism interpretation that the Third Temple (as well as the return of Christ) is willed by God alone and not predetermined conditions that men can control.

It's a bit out-there, but unfortunately I can't write-off DJT accepting it all at face-value. He's got conspicuous in-laws and an awfully weird track-record writing policy for the Levant. A religious conviction to defend Israel on behalf of his savior seems to slot rather neatly into his internal belief system.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premillennialism#Dispensationa...

[1] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16878
by const_cast | 2025-07-08 04:27:39+00:00
> I constantly get sleep issues on my Linux hardware where it just fails to resume and sits at a black screen or throws kernel panics. I've got coworkers whose external displays don't get reconnected right from sleep. These are pretty bottom of the barrel experiences. Meanwhile, every one of my Windows machines sleeps and wakes without any issues.

Again, I believe you, but I've never seen this and I don't know anyone else who has ever seen this. Everyone I've ever talked to, ever, has said sleep on Windows does not work. That's a big reason they're on Macs.

Now, I don't like MacOS. So I use a Lunar Lake laptop with Linux, and sleep works. I have 2 1440p 240hz monitors connected over thunderbolt and those sleep and wake just fine too. Which, as an aside, is a testament to the hardware. Shoutout Intel.

And on the topic of drivers, yeah that's just a roundabout way of critiquing Windows. Those should be included in the kernel. It was a design choice to not do that, which really holds Windows back. Microsoft has been reversing course over the past 10 years or so, so we have precision drivers from Microsoft for touchpads for instance.

And, surprise surprise, those touchpads with first-party precision drivers built into Windows are the best touchpads.
by chii | 2025-07-08 04:28:58+00:00
and that's why you don't listen to only a single source of news.

Find multiple, ideally both geographic as well as political alignment.

Learn to discern what is a fact, and what is opinion presented as fact, and learn to read critically - such as question if there would be any omissions, or misrepresentations of facts to make persuasions. Learn to dissect the works, such as dramatic music and literary methods of persuasion, and how it affects the reader's perceptions.

All of this was taught in highschool literary criticism classes - just on old books and such, rather than modern material. But the same exact lessons could've been applied. Except people merely either half-assed those classes and use cliff notes, or just straight skipped them - leading to today's world where most adults are unable to critically examine the media they consume.
Agentic terminology doesn't make any sense
by mathewpregasen | 2025-07-08 04:29:59+00:00
Agentic terminology doesn't make any sense. Why are actions = set of tools. Actions is a more granular word than tools. An action is to jump, to run, to hit, to walk. A tool, meanwhile, is something that can do multiple things. If I asked you to name a tool, you might say "hammer". A hammer can nail something, pull out something, smash something. It's less granular than action.

But for some reason, we chose a significantly more granular word (action) to describe a combination of a less granular word (tools).

end rant.
by jkaplowitz | 2025-07-08 04:30:20+00:00
It's certainly some inappropriate kind of intimidation, but the concept of prior restraint includes some claim that the person is forbidden from doing something, and it typically pertains to speech acts rather than to the distribution of functional tools. "He better watch out" from the AG is certainly a serious threat, but its meaning is too vague and implicit to reach the level of a prohibition or to definitively pertain to speech acts.
by crooked-v | 2025-07-08 04:30:21+00:00
It's actually an explicit plot point in the original book that the containment is insufficient because Hammond thinks he's a big brain brilliant genius who can do all this stuff from scratch better than any boring old normal zookeepers. The movie lost that in translation as part of the attempt to make him a kindly grandfather making bad decisions instead of a two-faced showman who's completely full of himself.
by memonkey | 2025-07-08 04:30:21+00:00
> What gets covered could simply be who a journalist happened to talked to the past week or what is trending on social media that will get clicks.

Do you believe this with regard to what is happening in Israel/Palestine?

The chaos of information and what is truth is only bubbled up when 1) there's very few journalists in the area or 2) all the journalists are being killed or 3) there's no journalists and only special interests.

Consider that even if it was a "narrative" which at this point is controlled by social media, as it stands it seems to be: "these people are evil, they should be killed, sorry not sorry about the babies" or "these people are committing genocide, this bad."
by asciimov | 2025-07-08 04:31:18+00:00
My family had a '79 Thunderbird that was our main driver from 91-97. I haven't seen any of them on the road in over a decade. I have several memories of that car.

- The water pump going out, as we drove up a mountain, and rolling back down into the drive way of a converted apple barn. Where we found a nice cleaning lady who took my dad the 20 miles into town to get a new water pump, which he replaced in that driveway and got us back on the road.

- The rear diff throwing a bearing well after midnight in the middle of nowhere west Texas. The car limped a few miles down the road to a surprisingly still open gas station. My uncle, a mechanic, happened to have the necessary parts to fix it on him. So when he picked my dad up an hour later, they went ahead and spent the rest of the overnight hours replacing it in the parking lot of that middle of nowhere gas station.

- Spending several days at various salvage yards looking for rear tail lights. They are just the right height to be taken out by shopping carts. Unfortunately the 79 is the only year that didn't have a connecting strip that goes between the left and right hand sides. In the 90's they were very hard to find, I can't imagine they are any easier today. Seriously, buy an extra set even if you don't need them.

If you ever want a to move to a modern V8, Ford's panther platform from '02-'11 are just as big, roomy, and easy to work on as that Thunderbird. Plus you'll get modern conveniences like anti-lock breaks, air-bags, and good part availability.
by lutusp | 2025-07-08 04:31:25+00:00
> ... I was thinking "this is a PR disaster", because people are going to see the contrived, extreme ways this guy has fucked up his Prusa printer to illustrate his how-to and think it's representative of the printer that they would receive if they ordered one.

Fair comment, but Bambu Labs owners have similar issues on a much less open platform where they can't DIY themselves to a solution.

I'm a bit old-school (and a former NASA engineer). I think being able to fix things yourself is an advantage. Young people might not see the world that way.

But to be frank, I might not be the best Prusa advocate. In the linked article I posted a remedy that involved baling wire, without once asking myself, "Baling wire, really? Won't young people find this hilarious and off-putting?"

There are a number of differences between young people and my generation. One of them is ... we built things.
by userbinator | 2025-07-08 04:31:45+00:00
I don't think this behaviour is "peculiar" as the author says it is; why does the error number matter if you know the call succeeded? GetLastError() on Windows works similarly, although with the additional weird caveat that (undocumentedly) some functions may set it to 0 on success.

The system call wrappers could all have explicitly set errno to 0 on success, but they didn't.

Because it's plainly unnecessary. It'd be a waste today, and even more so on a PDP-11 in the 1970s.
by jessekv | 2025-07-08 04:33:31+00:00
I suppose it's correct to say EPANET competes with expensive commercial offerings, but it's actually available completely free:

https://www.epa.gov/water-research/epanet

I know someone who uses it to design clean drinking water distribution systems in rural communities in Central America. They would not be able to do what they do if they had to pay for an expensive commercial licence.

Desktop EPANET is still windows-only though, so having a browser version is pretty cool.
by TimorousBestie | 2025-07-08 04:33:35+00:00
As a point of fact, at least one “flour massacre” does exist: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour_Massacre

Here is a news article where the IDF is quoted directly, admitting that troops opened fire on “dozens of people” at that location at that time: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/08/middleeast/gaza-flour-mas...
by mikelitoris | 2025-07-08 04:33:57+00:00
The simple truth is there are a lot of zionists in powerful positions both in terms of governmental and monetary. Open wikipedia and look up cabinets and powerful people in US government since WW2. Pay attention to their ethnicity; even if half are zionists, that's a lot of people. Edit: people downvoting this, first part of the comment is just facts, second part is plausible speculation. Why are you downvoting?
by const_cast | 2025-07-08 04:36:14+00:00
I think the notion that some sort of god-given right to "scale" can absolve you of laws is preposterous.

If your business model is not economically sustainable in the current legal landscape you operate in, the correct outcome is you go out of business.

There's lots and lots of potential businesses, infinite in fact, that fall into this understanding. They don't exist because they can't because we don't want them to, so you never see them. Which might give the impression of a right to scale, but no, it does not exist.
by jacob503 | 2025-07-08 04:39:15+00:00
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by onedognight | 2025-07-08 04:39:15+00:00
What you want is WolframAlpha.com. Your examples[0][1] work out of the box.

[0] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=4+weeks+%2B+59*3+hours+...

[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=1%2F2+*+36g+*+%28900+m%...
by msvana | 2025-07-08 04:40:04+00:00
This reminds me of the idea that LLMs are simulators. Given the current state (the prompt + the previously generated text), they generate the next state (the next token) using rules derived from training data.

As simulators, LLMs can simulate many things, including agents that exhibit human-like properties. But LLMs themselves are not agents.

More on this idea here: https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/vJFdjigzmcXMhNTsx/agi-s...

This perspective makes a lot of sense to me. Still, I wouldn't avoid anthropomorphization altogether. First, in some cases, it might be a useful mental tool to understand some aspect of LLMs. Second, there is a lot of uncertainty about how LLMs work, so I would stay epistemically humble. The second argument applies in the opposite direction as well: for example, it's equally bad to say that LLMs are 100% conscious.

On the other hand, if someone argues against anthropomorphizing LLMs, I would avoid phrasing it as: "It's just matrix multiplication." The article demonstrates why this is a bad idea pretty well.
by bwfan123 | 2025-07-08 04:41:43+00:00
thanks for the your perspective on this ! It is somewhat depressing to view it in that light, but thats the way it works. Being in STEM, and not in finance, I thought reputation and trust matter in banking and finance based on articles like this [1].

[1] https://www.matthewpowell.com/weekly-note/warren-buffett-ste...
by jakelazaroff | 2025-07-08 04:43:21+00:00
> Pretty much all Israeli serve in the IDF. He called for their death. The mental gymnastics.

This argument makes no sense to me. You're basically saying that it's bad to call for the deaths of a genocidal military… once a certain percentage of the country enlists? Like, at what threshold do you think it would have been unacceptable to chant "death to the Nazis" or "death to the Imperial Japanese Army"?
by dlcarrier | 2025-07-08 04:44:29+00:00
In effect, yes.

It took a supreme court case to declare that photography includes some amount of artistic expression, without which it wouldn't be eligible for copyright: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrow-Giles_Lithographic_Co._...

At the time it was debatable whether or not photographs were really art, because the photographer need do nothing more than release the shutter. There was probably some protectionism involved, as photography put a lot of portrait artists out of work.
by o11c | 2025-07-08 04:44:40+00:00
`openat` has basically solved that since 2.6.16 (which came out in 2006). There are still some uncommon APIs have been slow to gain `at` variants but there's usually a workaround (for example, `getxattrat` and family were only added in 6.13 (this January), but can be implemented in terms of `openat` + `fgetxattr`)
by lutusp | 2025-07-08 04:45:07+00:00
> ... you seem to just assume that a Prusa requires "tinkering".

I would have said "allows tinkering." Many Prusa buyers expect to be able to improve things by tinkering. It's more a philosophy than a necessity.

There was a time when one's ability to modify a product was a "good thing". When the Apple II came out in 1977, I bought one, and within weeks of tinkering, its designers wouldn't have recognized it. Same idea.

By tinkering I made my Apple II drive a printer, useful for me, but a change the Apple people tried to keep from the non-tinkering public.

It might be genetic, but I've learned to hate closed platforms.
by soraminazuki | 2025-07-08 04:45:41+00:00
It at the very least means people with Pixels or GrapheneOS are treated unfairly by law enforcement. It's unfair because owning either of those is in no way indicative of a crime. You can't possibly IANAL your way out of this fact.

It's rich to accuse others of "baiting" while engaging in sealioning. I'm not the one trying to strip all meaning from words.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
by coyleandrew | 2025-07-08 04:45:42+00:00
Thank you for pointing this out! I wrote the article, and that was exactly the point I was trying to make. I agree with most comments in this thread, but they're addressing a different issue. I assume they didn’t read the article in full. There’s a common frustration with designers who create superficial user interfaces—visually attractive at first glance, but offering little to the user. There's a good article on this topic called, "The dribbblisation of design."

Good design isn’t about making things pretty. It’s about making things make sense. Visual design is just one piece of that puzzle.

To reduce a designer’s role to 'making it look nice' is a fundamental misunderstanding of the craft. The shape of the interface reflects the thought behind it—ideally rooted in a deep understanding of the user’s context, goals, and jobs-to-be-done.

Thank you for reading the article!
by dlgeek | 2025-07-08 04:45:56+00:00
Yes. All CAs trusted by browsers have to go through WebTRUST or ETSI audits by accredited auditors.

See https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/policies/secu... and https://www.ccadb.org/auditors and https://www.ccadb.org/policy#51-audit-statement-content
by AuryGlenz | 2025-07-08 04:46:15+00:00
Everyone has issues. For instance, I have idiopathic hypersomnia - I'm tired literally all the time. I don't get to say "Sorry wife, I'm just not going to be able to work."

There are things we're good at and things we need strategies to mitigate. I may not have ADHD but I have friends and family that do, so I'm familiar enough with it. What steps in a routine are needed to leave the house? Find your keys and wallet? Always put them in the same place. Go to the bathroom and maybe check how you look? Set that timer I talked about 3 minutes earlier. Other people with your condition can handle it; so can you.
by const_cast | 2025-07-08 04:46:30+00:00
Well I mean you're constructing very convoluted and weak examples.

I think, in your example, the obvious answer is no, they're not entitled to any profits of Gravity. How could you possibly prove Gravity has anything to do with someone reading, or not reading, a textbook? You can't.

However, AI participates in the exact same markets it trains from. That's obviously very different. It is INTENDED to DIRECTLY replace the things it trains on.

Meaning, not only does an LLM output directly replace the textbook it was trained on, but that behavior is the sole commercial goal of the company. That's why they're doing it, and that's the only reason they're doing it.
by elmomle | 2025-07-08 04:46:32+00:00
It is correct. They are considering the most extreme case; in the most extreme case, no non-botulism-infected infants eat honey, and honey was the cause of botulism for those 20 infants.

If that is so, then completely removing honey exposure for infants would mean that 80 rather than 100 infants get botulism poisoning.

So the new probability of contracting botulism is (80 / 100) * (old probability), and (80 / 100) * (1 / 40000) = 1 / 50000.
by tareqak | 2025-07-08 04:48:09+00:00
Defence contractors hire a lot of people which in turn create a lot of ancillary jobs to support said industries.

Defence contractors are also becoming increasingly sophisticated so they use more software, more chips, more clouds, and more information security.

Almost all of MAFANG has some defence-related footprint, and some have multiple. You might see a few defence/defence adjacent companies in the monthly WhoIsHiring posts as well as https://www.workatastartup.com .
by whartung | 2025-07-08 04:48:49+00:00
Take an SE/30, add some mass storage (something above 20MB), plug in a postscript printer, add ClarisWorks, maybe Filemaker, and you have something that, even today, would do 80%+ of what human beings use computers for.

Outside of the internet.

Get a network adapter (which pretty sure exists for the SE/30), and, like, Eudora(?), and you MIGHT even get email. Struggle there is everyone (rightly) does email over TLS, so there’s that.

BUT, add a raspberry pi as an email gateway, telnet to it for some Lynx love, and, boy, that’s a lot of computer utility.

Glaring gaps are anything graphic intensive, notably photos, and graphical internet.

Betting there’s some nice games that run on the SE.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-07-08 04:49:07+00:00
It would mean that somewhere in your sentence there's a clause headed by a passive verb. A finite verb is one that heads a clause.

This terminology is where we get the name of the "infinitive" form from, by the way.

As a rule of thumb, the nonfinite forms of a verb are its infinitives and participles. jcranmer used a passive participle, but all of his clauses are active. Unnoticed doesn't have a clause around it.

(He might have thought that go unnoticed is a passive form, perhaps of the verb notice (?), in which case that would just be an error.)
by BeetleB | 2025-07-08 04:49:20+00:00
Friends, like spouses, are good for somethings and not for others. Some friends are great when it comes to helping you move, but are effective, and often even harmful, for therapy type situations.[1]

There's a reason many have adopted the prayer "Dear Lord, spare me from those trying to help me!"

[1] Of course, some friends are also the converse - good for helping you in times of mini-crises, but will never be there for you when you need to move. Unfortunately, such friends are rare, and many don't have one.
by decryption | 2025-07-08 04:49:50+00:00
Oh hell yeah, that's top of my list once I crack open the case (waiting for a long T15 driver to arrive!) and poke around inside. I've got a lot of friends who have done it before, so I'll give them the board and and some money and some chocolate/beer (depending on the friend!) and ask for help with recapping the logic board.
by floren | 2025-07-08 04:51:33+00:00
These old cars can be a lot of fun but even the fast ones weren't that fast when taken against a modern family car... take a 68 Mustang, an iconic car as featured in Bullitt, with a 0-60 of 5.4 seconds and compare it to a 2012 Toyota Camry doing the same in 5.8 seconds.

https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/comparison-test/a151426...

https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a15122183/toyota-camry-...

I used to drive a 62 Studebaker. People saw an old car and asked me if it was fast. Hell no, I'd answer -- but by God it can suck fuel!
by BeetleB | 2025-07-08 04:53:04+00:00
I don't know how it is in other countries, but for me, with my insurance, it's extremely rare to get a specialist appointment in under one month. 2+ months is the norm.

I suppose if there were clearly a serious enough concern they'd book me much quicker. But for semi-routine visits ("probably not an issue, but we should get a specialist's opinion"), under 2 months is rare.
by CoastalCoder | 2025-07-08 04:54:02+00:00
FWIW, I trust NPR reporting to only make true statements.

What they're sometimes guilty of (in my judgement) is one-sided reporting. E.g., regarding illegal immigration, providing sympathetic personal stories of illegal immigrants, but not of the persons hurt by illegal immigration.

It's also possible they've gotten better about this. I stopped listening years ago.
by drdeca | 2025-07-08 04:55:15+00:00
Very nice. However, I wonder whether it might be good to have a way to tell LEAN to spit out a more explicit form of the proof steps it obtained during `grind`? Like, to produce text for what one would put in there if one was doing it manually, that would work in place of grind, in case the grind step is slow to verify?
by gyomu | 2025-07-08 04:57:41+00:00
> I’ve never really understood the need to build a full fidelity reproduction of the layout systems a design is targeting.

Well, you wrote why right before:

> As a dev that does a lot of his own design

You understand the whole, so you don't need lossy abstractions to connect the ends. When roles are specialized and people only understand part of the context in which they're working, they need ways to communicate about the whole thing.

Tools like Figma fill those sort of gaps, that tend to occur in organizations with dozens/hundreds of employees, with the need to quickly onboard frequent new hires, etc.
by yorwba | 2025-07-08 04:58:07+00:00
There are no errors in the calculation, but it's wrong anyways because it calculates the answer to the wrong question. "At best" suggests this is the largest possible effect, but it is the smallest possible. To get an upper bound estimate on the usefulness of avoiding honey, you would need to know how many parents of 1-year-olds are avoiding honey.
by dgfitz | 2025-07-08 04:58:33+00:00
Wholeheartedly agree. I’ll leave this here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44422763

“ I do a lot of work on my own vehicles. I think a lot of the responses are from people who do not. Paying for vehicle repair labor is basically a tax. They're making it harder and harder to fix your own car. I spent the afternoon yesterday trying to find headlight assemblies that didn't need to be coded to work correctly. Headlights. All the outrage about right-to-repair around here, and nobody realizes the frog is almost boiled around repairing cars.”