MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-07-14 00:02:28+00:00
Here's the bit on Youtube (I couldn't find an Archive link): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrSAxtIYM08

This is the right conclusion, and I love sharing that video for that reason.

As of 2025 everyone globally has everything they need to make the world a great place for everyone. Instead, people continue to take the lowest energy route for their personal actions, which means they do not even think about the externalities of that purchase from Amazon, the Latte from Starbucks, continuing living in (insert your broken system here), working for some billionaire etc...They just shrug and think "its out of my control, besides I don't have any impact and why should I suffer unnecessarily"

There are millions of examples of individual people who had no education, being actively oppressed and violently attacked changing their situation by either moving or overthrowing their oppressors. Harriet Tubman comes to mind.

It's never been easier to do that, but people would rather not.

The entire "illegal immigrant" concept proves it, people literally spending their entire life savings ($5000) to pay coyotes to smuggle them in horrific conditions so they can be slaves picking strawberries. I know a Houston restaurant owner who did that trek twice from Guatemala, getting deported the first time and he just saved up and did it again. While speaking no english. Tell me again about how it's not possible to do something. Meanwhile the citizens can't be bothered to learn about their own history or you know, do anything.

I've tried to start multiple non-heirarchical anarchist cooperative organizations and the number one challenge is finding people who will put the group ahead of the individual. It just doesn't happen. There are no organizations where that's true. No church, no government, no state, no charity, nothing, nowhere actually meets the test of holistic globally aligned "good."

I read the Medicins Sans Frotiers book long ago, even they were terrible and continue to fight internally [1]. Unions now make most of their money from capital investments [2], which is directly in opposition to their anticapitalist philosophical roots. All of this is because the members don't care and don't have any desire to have less, they all want more forever.

At this point in history, everyone has access to the information they need to make globally holistic decisions. It's not possible to claim ignorance, ignorance is strictly a choice and ultimately a existential personal limitation.

There are no organizations that exist for the benefit of society and they cannot exist because humans fundamentally lack the cognitive ability to think beyond Dunbar's number but their actions have global consequences.

Self elimination is the only possible arc for humanity.

[1] https://healthpolicy-watch.news/inward-technocratic-msf-lead...

[2] https://jacobin.com/2023/02/finance-unionism-union-density-d...
by dmbche | 2025-07-14 00:02:48+00:00
1. Isn't that a big if in itself?

2. Keeping houses off market and renting them for a profit is a bad thing as it is harvesting the money the renters could be putting to the side to buy a house AND hikes the price of houses, making it even harder for renters to become owners.

Can't your friend buy and then sell when they are ready to move?
by burkaman | 2025-07-14 00:03:15+00:00
Hard sci-fi can definitely be popular, The Martian and The Three-Body Problem are two examples I can immediately think of. I think the Arrival and Contact movies would also count (not sure if the books were considered popular before their film adaptations came out). There is usually a way to avoid most of the "opaque wall of gibberish" so that there is just enough for a technical-minded reader to tell that the author has put some thought into it and the science makes sense, but still little enough that a non-technical reader can enjoy the story without having to care about the scientific worldbuilding.

I think Lord of the Rings might be a good analogy. LotR is sort of "hard fantasy" in that Tolkien put a ludicrous amount of work into building an internally consistent world, as you can tell by The Silmarillion, but that book is not enjoyable to read (in my opinion). Part of the reason LotR is good is that he took out enough of the walls of text to make it fun to read. A good hard sci-fi author might have a Silmarillion-level of knowledge about their own book's setting, but be able to leave almost all of that out of the final product.
by peteforde | 2025-07-14 00:04:04+00:00
I know that many of the claims are based on clinical data and retention studies, but I find the entire thrust of the post to be incredibly cynical. Fat people often fight the not subtle sensation that a lot of people see them as either a problem/herd to be managed and/or maximally profited from. This is one of those accounts that seems to say the inside part out loud.

The idea that a few pharmas artificially juicing a desperate population [who just want to feel good about themselves and live longer, happier lives for more than many can comfortably afford] is interfering with insurance adjustors ability to maximize profits doesn't leave me heartbroken.

It's precisely this shit that leads to people celebrating when pharma CEOs get tapped.
by dyauspitr | 2025-07-14 00:04:18+00:00
No, just like with Ayurveda there is plenty of actual stuff they stumbled on through trial and error.

In Ayurveda- Turmeric has medically validated anti inflammatory effects, exactly what it has been traditionally used for. Triphala for GI health, Boswell is for joint paint and arthritis, Neem as an antimicrobial, Arjuna for hypertension, Ashwagandha for anxiety etc.

There are a lot of these trial and error medications that do work. The ratio is definitely not 98:2, more along the lines of 70:30.
by lutusp | 2025-07-14 00:04:22+00:00
> they say people felt 23pc less animosity. Assuming their measurements are okay, what would the statistical power of this experiment ? I dont think they report a null hypothesis.

It's a psychology study, a study from a field whose results famously fail to be replicated roughly 2/3 of the time, even when they meet the 0.05 P-factor criterion that assures publication.

Also, many modern psychology studies don't have control groups, and don't consider the null hypothesis. Too much trouble.

Also also, a paywalled study funded by taxpayers. Wasn't this practice supposed to have been stopped?
by crazygringo | 2025-07-14 00:05:51+00:00
1. I mean, investors invest to make money. You make money by renting. Otherwise you're just throwing money away, which isn't what investors like to do.

2. In general, rent payments are less than mortgage payments for the same property (though this can vary in specific cases due to a number of factors). So the point is the renters get to save more money than they would with a mortgage.

And the problem with buying and selling is the realtor fee on both ends. You can't buy and sell a house every year or two. You'd go broke real quick.
by bell-cot | 2025-07-14 00:06:25+00:00
Back in the day, my middle-class American family's default was that the maternal grandmother moved in for the first 2 weeks postpartum, and the paternal grandmother moved in for the second 2 weeks. There could be quite a bit of family support above or beyond that, if needed.

As mom described it, the right mentality was not "grandma is here to take charge", but "grandma is temporary help, in your home, and stepping back from things every day as you recover".
by awesome_dude | 2025-07-14 00:07:24+00:00
> In Western and especially American academia, there are private sector grants and commercialization avenues for research. Outside of top tier programs, that's nonexistent in most Asian countries, so your department's funding is at the whim of government bureaucrats who tend to be recruited via civil service exams and promoted based on political loyalty, not based on domain experience.

This is sad, and misinformed.

Multiple countries fund their academic research through the state. Adding the misinformation about being "promoted based on political loyalty" is a strong sign of your bias.

Funding can only come through one of three routes:

1. State - which is where people are supposed to be working for the betterment of their country, but is vulnerable to the bias of the politics of the day.

2. Private - which is where people are motivated by a profit, but is vulnerable to the bias of the politics of the company.

3. Voluntary/Charity - which is where people are motivated by whatever wakes them up in the morning, but is vulnerable to the donors.

ALL funding models are vulnerable to the bias of whoever is in control of the funding.
by oceanhaiyang | 2025-07-14 00:07:39+00:00
As someone with a lot of Chinese family and children it can be as expensive or as cheap as possible. The expensive end includes a live in helper who does everything including cook and take care of baby when mama isn’t breast feeding them.

I wish I could have afforded this because American families do not help enough. Chinese side spoils our child and is, American side not so much…
by knappa | 2025-07-14 00:07:51+00:00
That's not what was being said. They are saying that when your body does something different, in this case producing fever, it is (often) because of a change in the level of some number of proteins. You get new copies of proteins through gene transcription, and these changes (both increase and decrease) can be detected through changes in the levels of the transfer RNA corresponding to those proteins. Look up differential transcription analysis for more information.
by physix | 2025-07-14 00:08:26+00:00
I'm not sufficiently familiar with the details on ML to assess the proposition made in the article.

From my understanding, RL is a tuning approach on LLMs, so the outcome is still the same kind of beast, albeit with a different parameter set.

So empirically, I actually thought that the lead companies would already be strongly focused on improving coding capabilities, since this is where LLMs are very effective, and where they have huge cashflows from token consumptions.

So, either the motivation isn't there, or they're already doing something like that, or they know it's not as effective as the approaches they already have.

I wonder which one it is.
by folkrav | 2025-07-14 00:09:14+00:00
Assuming they have offices at all. My previous employer didn’t even have an office until 6 months after I was hired, and half the employees in the country were at the very minimum a decent 3-4h drive away from the office anyway. I’ve only ever met a handful of members of my team in person. The remaining employees were split up on 3 different continents.
by maxbond | 2025-07-14 00:09:16+00:00
People want the benefits of interacting in public without the cost of being scrutinized and manipulated. When they post in public, they are not, in their minds, giving people permission to cyberstalk them and build out a profile. Legally, it's sort of the case that they're granting people that permission. But not morally.

If I was talking to a group of friends in real life, and I realized someone in the group was developing an obsession and closely keeping track of everything I said and subjecting it to endless scrutiny, I would be super creeped out. Even though they had every legal right to do that.

I understand that to some extent my friends build a profile of me in their heads and use it to anticipate like, if I want to go to an event with them. But that's not really a difference of degree, there's a phase change when it becomes an obsession and it becomes a difference of kind.

Similarly sometimes retail workers get to know my taste and will point out some item I would be interested in. Sometimes that makes me uncomfortable, but because I'm shy, not because they did anything wrong. If I learned they were reading my social media profile, it would start feeling uncomfortably close to the plot of The Menu.
by xenihn | 2025-07-14 00:09:30+00:00
Not true.

Do a google search for "rent-fixing algorithms".

If you own enough homes in a rental market, you can determine the market rate. An empty house has value simply by depleting local housing stock, since it is giving you greater leverage to drive market rate up.

Of course its less value than actually having it rented, but its still value. Tax code will also allow for softening the loss.
by ahartmetz | 2025-07-14 00:10:12+00:00
Ah, auto-injectors, a curious piece of technology. I've always wondered how it is to actually use one since we had these in everyone's medkit in the German army, loaded with nerve agent antidotes. Just slam it on you leg and inject through the pants were the instructions... Kinda grisly, I guess it's less emotionally charged for a weight loss drug!
by lutusp | 2025-07-14 00:10:39+00:00
> I had never seen 'pc' used as a short hand for percent (%) until recently in an article (can't remember where), where they used 'pc' repeatedly.

A couple of possibilities:

* For plain-text content that might migrate into a Web page (or emanate from a Web page), the special meaning of '%' in that context might motivate some to avoid the character entirely. * When typing on a cell phone, one may want to avoid '%' because it often requires shifting to an alternate character set, typing a non-alpha character, then shifting back.

Still, as you point out, it's confusing.
by strongpigeon | 2025-07-14 00:10:50+00:00
It’s an almost YoY doubling of the Q1 2024 rate (14.8%, 13.1% and 13.8% for 2024, 2023 and 2022) [0], which seems pretty significant. Though, what’s interesting is that the share bought by institutional investor is shrinking per the article.

[0] https://www.realtor.com/news/trends/real-estate-investors-re...
by crazygringo | 2025-07-14 00:10:57+00:00
> But if 27% is pure corporate investment pushing up the prices - yes, it's bad.

But it's not "pure corporate". Quite the opposite. From the article:

> mom-and-pop investors, or those who own between 1 and 5 homes, account for 85% of all investor-owned residential properties, while those with between 6 and 10 properties account for another 5%.

I really don't see anything wrong with mom and pop buying a second or third home to rent out for extra income.

And I don't see anything inherently wrong with 27% either. If there aren't enough rental homes, then an increase in the share of investors is exactly what you need to achieve the "reasonable balance" you're talking about. And then there's nothing bad about it -- it's exactly what's best.
by haiku2077 | 2025-07-14 00:12:17+00:00
> In general, rent payments are less than mortgage payments for the same property (though this can vary in specific cases due to a number of factors).

This didn't seem true to me - Anecdotally, my friends pay more in rent for apartments than I do for my mortgage on a single-family home in my area.

Then I googled it, and turns out my city is one of the top five US cities with the highest ratio of renting vs owning cost, and indeed a place where it costs nearly twice as much to rent as it does to own.
by jvanderbot | 2025-07-14 00:12:37+00:00
Well I have been doing daily notes for probably 10 or 15 years, and love it. The clean slate every day is a godsend, and it's really not that hard to 'cat <some range>' or even cat * | vim - if you want a full note.

I guess all I can do is average out TFA since we precisely disagree.

https://jodavaho.io/tags/bash.html
by throwaway31131 | 2025-07-14 00:14:07+00:00
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It's currently 50% off and not only will you learn ARM, and some history about ISAs in general, but you'll learn more about how the computer itself works.

And if ARM isn't a hard requirement, an older edition that uses RISCV as the core ISA is a free download.

https://www.cs.sfu.ca/~ashriram/Courses/CS295/assets/books/H...

Highly recommended.
by kurthr | 2025-07-14 00:14:56+00:00
I was glad they at least mentioned how IPS (PLS) and VA differ from older TN.

But you're right both LCD and OLED refresh a stored voltage on the cell (or caps) on a roughly line by line (OLED can easily be 5 clocks on the GIP to cancel internal transistor offset voltages).

I was mostly annoyed that they didn't mention the circular polarizer on OLEDs. Although there is discussion of going to color filters with Quantum Dot OLED, the circular polarizer is what makes the blacks so black on mobile OLED devices.

Also, didn't really mention pentile RGGB sub-pixel pattern which is dominant in mobile OLED (which is more than 50% of devices). Now they're moving to "tandem" stacked OLED for higher brightness and lower current density, but no latteral sub-pixel pattern.
by ahepp | 2025-07-14 00:15:38+00:00
It can suck. I've definitely had some low points where I screw up an easy question and lost out on a place I wanted to work. I also understand that companies can't afford to make a bad hire often. My experience has been that interviewers are interested in the ability to recognize and fix mistakes, communicate about the problem, etc, and have had multiple occasions where I never even got around to filling out a couple pseudocode comments and still got passed.
by rnrn | 2025-07-14 00:16:02+00:00
> This should be made obvious by the fact that both the metal-semiconductor transistor (i.e. MESFET, patent filed on 1925-10-22) and the depletion-mode metal-insulator-semiconductor transistor (i.e. depletion-mode MOSFET, patent filed on 1928-03-28) have been invented at a time when quantum theory was just nascent,

I don't think that makes it obvious at all, given that the none of these invented devices actually worked, and the first working MOSFETs weren't until the late 50s after a research program of a few additional decades by a bunch of solid-state physicists at Bell Labs (who did know and develop quantum theories of solids - Shockley, Bardeen, Brattain - not successful in making a FET -Atalla, Kahng, many others)

"Electrons and Holes in Semiconductors" was published almost a decade before any functional MOSFET was constructed.

> For designing MOSFETs, you just need to use classical electrodynamics, together with several functions that provide the semiconductor material characteristics, like intrinsic free carrier concentration as a function of temperature, carrier mobilities as functions of temperature and impurity concentrations (and electric field at high fields), ionization probabilities for impurities, avalanche ionization coefficients, dielectric constants, and a few others.

It sounds like you are describing what's required to parameterize some of the traditional semi-classical models of MOSFETs and understand the operating principles at that level.

but FETs work by bending the energy levels of the conduction band so there needs to be a band to bend, and if there's no band gap at the fermi level you can't have a FET, which makes it seem pretty dependent on quantum effects to me even without going deeper than necessary to understand how it can work.

Maybe one could have been engineered with no idea why silicon has the special material properties that it does and why doping changes those properties but AFAIK it never was, and being able to explain and understand band structure seems pretty important to build a working device.
by bko | 2025-07-14 00:16:03+00:00
It didn't used to be. I delivered pizza in the early 2000s, and the fee was $1 and tip, which was usually $2-3. It was pretty normal people ordering the stuff.

And the funny thing is I made about $20 an hour (unadjusted for inflation, ~4 deliveries per hour + $5 an hour). Today the drivers still around that amount, the restaurants pay more and the companies operating are often operating at a loss.

Something very strange happened in the last 20 years.
by sensanaty | 2025-07-14 00:16:18+00:00
You realize the major colonizers comprise only 6 nations in the EU (7 if you count Russia, 8 if you count Turkey), and not all of them are that well off these days despite their past riches? (Spain and Portugal, Russia if you include them)

Not to mention countries like Poland and other soviet bloc nations that were the ones getting occupied, not the ones doing the occupying until VERY recently? And in saying "Europe", you're also including the non-EU Balkan states, Switzerland, the Nordics, Ukraine, Russia and depending on how you decide to split things, even Turkey?

Yet despite the MAJORITY of the nations here not being colonizers or having colonial histories, they all have all the comforts you mention in your comment, with things getting steadily better for the average Joe.

And what precisely did the glorious US manage to get with all their wealth, power and splendour, where people live in fear of ever having to go to a doctor's office lest they be indebted for the rest of their lives? Where you can get fired on the schizophrenic whims of the C-levels demanding the stones be squeezed for every last drop of blood?
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-14 00:16:41+00:00
(1) Never underestimate how strong feelings can have about how a repeater gets used, and (2) those feelings are stronger the less a repeater gets used.

I don't know if the worst example is the folks who got mad because I used to use my HT via the repeater to contact people in Canada 250+ miles away when tropospheric ducts were open

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropospheric_propagation

or the guy from the weather service who was mad that nobody on our daily net had information about a localized storm that really scared him because he saw what could have been a tornado on his NEXRAD. I told him, "look, none of us live in that spot and the only way you're going to get more information is if more people think ham radio is a welcoming hobby"
by JonChesterfield | 2025-07-14 00:17:07+00:00
That's pretty damning too though.

A stackful coroutine is "write the live registers to your stack, swap the stack pointer to a suspended coroutine, load the old live registers from your new stack". It's a short and boring sequence of assembly.

A C++ coroutine is a CFG transform with a bunch of logic around heap allocation elision to construct something less capable than the above, with a bunch of keywords and semantics that you can kind of derive from the work the compiler needs to do to wire things together.
by dmbche | 2025-07-14 00:17:32+00:00
1. Investors make money by doing other things than renting properties, do they? Even property investors are able to sell at a profit.

2.Nearly half of renters in the USA are cost burdened (https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2024/renter-h...).

It is mental gymnastics to say that renters are saving by renting.

And about realtor fees, that sure would affect my decision to move or not. Or to rent an appartment/condo, which is almost always possible, especially in urban centers.
by wenc | 2025-07-14 00:18:12+00:00
I feel TCM's empirical roots probably did stumble on some real remedies (many people I know, including myself, have definitely benefited from certain aspects of TCM, especially acupuncture), but there's a problem.

It's a kind of proto-clinical research, and without the methodological discipline of Randomized Control Trials (RCT), it's easy to draw the wrong conclusions from observations. Some observations with small effect sizes might be accepted as truth.

It's not that it doesn't work all the time, but that the conclusions are noisy.

(that said, RCT is not perfect either because the body is a complex variegated thing with feedback loops that we can't fully map, and many interventions have tail risks. But as far as principled approaches for getting at the truth go, RCT offers just one more guardrail against confirmation bias).
by alephnerd | 2025-07-14 00:18:50+00:00
I'm not saying state funding is bad or private funding is good.

I'm saying that having a mixture of both provides checks and balances to moderate the influence of both.

> Adding the misinformation about being "promoted based on political loyalty" is a strong sign of your bias

I'm talking about countries like China and India, where folk medicines have been politicized, lateral movement into the bureaucracy is non-existent, and criticism against TCM and Aryuveda is being slowly suffocated.