MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mapt | 2025-07-27 01:21:06+00:00
I didn't even think about the replication part of the value proposition.

Do a detailed enough study of an entire population and you get very strong hypothesis testing for all sorts of diseases & treatments simultaneously. You don't have to spend tens of millions of dollars and multiple PHD generations running a blinded study to replicate a specific untested first-principles part of modern medicine's treatment for a rare disease, you get that shit for free and call it up in a SQL query.
by appreciatorBus | 2025-07-27 01:21:25+00:00
This is going to be the same tragedy of the commons that played out for road transport, repeated in the sky.

Everyone wants the use of a flying car.

Everyone in a flying car wants an airport at every street corner, just as long as they don’t have to pay for the land it occupies.

But…

Nobody wants to live next to an airport, or underneath a flight path. In the world where everyone has a flying car, everyone will live next to a next to an airport, below a flight path, or both.

In road transportation, rather than trying to link the private benefits of cars with their public costs, we “solved“ the inherent and fundamental conflict by putting the freeways in neighbourhoods that had the least political power.

If we had the ability to learn from past mistakes, we might try to internalize some of the externalities of flying cars, and get better results. One can dream.
by robocat | 2025-07-27 01:22:13+00:00
Being a strong swimmer isn't much help against overconfidence or panic.

Learning how to be careful is really important, and weaker swimmers are often more cautious.

The other big problem is that you might be safe but someone less skilled copies you. I was being very careful in knee high shallows near a well sign-posted rip in South America, and some teens got in and got taken out by it. Fortunately they made it back (nobody near could have helped them).

Or even in the USA: "TikTok discovered scenic Eagle Falls; then 12 people drowned" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44446535

I've definitely had some close calls from poor decisions in rivers and the sea (I can be reckless at times).
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-07-27 01:22:16+00:00
If you think being in IT and supporting random Excel spreadsheets you never knew about and random shadow IT projects that you suddenly get ownership of is a pain. I can't imagine all the vibe coded projects about to come IT's way. With zero standardization on frameworks/DBs/languages used, zero written specs/requirements/anything. It should be fun.
by immibis | 2025-07-27 01:22:29+00:00
One reason that's better is that private companies aren't backed by the force of law the same way police are. I don't think it's a felony to prevent some random company's spy camera from seeing your license plate but it is illegal to prevent the police from seeing it. (Of course it's illegal to generally obscure it so there's some implementation details to be worked out there)
by aaronbrethorst | 2025-07-27 01:23:29+00:00
Rule 1 for performance optimization: measure before trying to make any changes. It’s easy to waste a lot of time and energy optimizing something that isn’t actually going to meaningfully improve your web app’s performance.

Personally, I like Sentry. They have a pretty generous free tier and a great code/db tracing tool.

(And yes I see that the author lists ‘measure’ as their second point. I think they’re mistaken.)
by monero-xmr | 2025-07-27 01:23:30+00:00
Politics is a tricky thing to handicap. The media is easily manipulated. I started asking the guys working the subway, my section 8 tenants, and the uber drivers in 2024 who they were voting for. Overwhelmingly Trump. The blacks were overwhelmingly blaming the immigrant surge for the increase in rent. I rely on these signals more than the media
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-07-27 01:25:28+00:00
Maybe. OTOH I feel rather immune, because I didn't really grew up with TV, and there were other, more interesting things to do anyway.

Have you read something from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan , or at least about him? Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation , maybe about the so called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere ?

I still don't watch that much media, because I mostly prefer reading, with the exception of documentaries and lectures which take full advantage of modern media, or so called 'explorable explanations'.

No matter how sophisticated new sorts of media may be, it would only feel more gross to me, than the stuff which is available now, and has been since almost the start of every medium, be it painting, photography, film, and so on.

IMO it's for people who haven't experienced real things, akin to pigs in industrial farming settings, happily chewing on iron chains dangling in there.

Let them have their shit and keep your distance. Bad luck when you can't.

shrug
by parsimo2010 | 2025-07-27 01:27:50+00:00
For those not tracking: this article is about the MOSAIC rules, which the FAA announced this week is now approved (Final Rule). In 90 days the new Sport Pilot rules will go into effect and allow Sport Pilots (a certification less stringent than Private Pilot) the ability to fly aircraft of much higher performance. Over the next year, new certification rules will go into effect allowing manufacturers to manufacture much more high performance aircraft under the Light Sport rules. There are some details, but the big picture is that the allowable performance for these “entry level” classes just got a lot higher.

Is it good? Well, a lot of people are cheering the change. The FAA doesn’t normally make things easier for the average Joe. This will make it easier for an inexperienced (but still fairly wealthy) pilot to get their hands on a real hot rod of a plane. There’s probably some additional risk, but the FAA has clearly recognized that one of the biggest dangers too flying a high performance aircraft is having to land fast. 200 kts vs 100 kts doesn’t make a big difference in risk in straight and level flight, but landing at 80 kts vs 55 kts does make a difference.

I don’t know where I stand exactly. It’s a big jump. Surely this is going to cause some old geezer to be screaming through a congested area and not be able to keep up with the ATC traffic calls because he’s never gone this fast before, and he’ll have a midair collision. Surely this is going to cause someone to buy a “light sport” aircraft with 280 hp and a huge prop and they’re going to crash taking off. But I think that overall I’m just being overly cautious, and most Sport Pilots are too poor to afford a plane that burns 15 gallons of avgas an hour, so most of the new planes under MOSAIC won’t be that powerful. I am curious to see what kind of new aircraft become available, and what the long term safety impacts will be.

Edit: for about five minutes my post said “not approved” when I meant to type that MOSAIC is “now approved”
by nextos | 2025-07-27 01:28:27+00:00
Also, a major differentiator is that Haskell deals with effects primarily by using monads, whereas many modern functional languages (e.g. Koka or Flix) are being designed from the ground up to use algebraic effects instead. OCaml is also embracing effects. Haskell has some effect libraries as well, but monadic code is everywhere. IMHO, as someone who loves Haskell, algebraic effects will make FP much more approachable.
by docmars | 2025-07-27 01:31:28+00:00
For scale, this is the easiest approach. Teams can focus on their roles and specialize more, which leads to higher efficiency as team members build their rhythm and stay focused on what they're great at.

At my company, our React SPA uses just over 500+ components across maybe ~30 views, with many smaller components alongside many of them in the same files. Our bundle size is obscene, but our customers are using fast PCs on fast connections. Once it's cached, they're good -- and each new release is roughly every 2-4 weeks, so fresh visits are painless.

As for server-side rendering from RSC, Next, Nuxt, and SvelteKit, I'd say they're overkill in most situations. The amount of people deploying simple sites on Vercel using Next.js, not really using its features, is just silly (and costly).
by sargstuff | 2025-07-27 01:31:41+00:00
Proprietary 'shell' vs. linux DIY/customized setup.

There are a multiple publically accessible/usable sources which can be found via search engine(s) to extend bash / unix shell functionality based on points discussed in topic link.

few article link topic snippits:

* approaches to autocompletion : [0][1]

* 'man' command and/or cli option -h to cli command shows 'docstring' / options

* jq resources for shell plugin[2]

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[0] https://faun.pub/configure-bash-auto-completion-tab-completi...

[1] https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html

[2] https://github.com/fiatjaf/awesome-jq
by rafaelero | 2025-07-27 01:31:49+00:00
Let's definitely wait for replication, but I am honestly not that surprised that it works. I am surprised it took so long for people to give it a real try. It's such an ideal scenario: every experiment is conducted inside the computer, so there is no need to gather data in the real world, which is the pain point for most experiments in science. The LLM is therefore free to try a lot of different combinations and learn in real time what works and what doesn't.
by Philpax | 2025-07-27 01:32:08+00:00
I would like to believe this, but in practice, the context switch involves purging my mental working state, which drags me out of the flow state. I'm not sure how to solve this, but I imagine that the context I switch to should be as close as possible to the one I started with - the problem then is that the agents might trample over each other.
by BoiledCabbage | 2025-07-27 01:32:14+00:00
Interesting paper - it will fascinating to see if it pans out.

The one thing I didn't see that would be good is some validation that the architecture(s) that perform best on large models are the same architectures that perform best on small models.

Ie validation the assumption that you can use small models with sma amounts of training/compute to determine the best architecture for large models and high training budgets.

Even if it doesn't translate it would still be very cool to be able to qui kly evolve better small models (1M to 400M params), but I believe the implied goal (and what everyone wants) is that this exploration and discovery of novel architectures would be applicable for the really big models as well.

If you could only ai discover larger models by spending OpenAi/Anthropic/... budgets per exploration then we're not really gaining much in terms of novel ideas as the cost (time and budget) would be too prohibitive.
by xbmcuser | 2025-07-27 01:32:49+00:00
Like most good things happening in the world now days this is also because of China they were not under the same de beers marketing magic rest of the world was once the Chinese abandoned mined diamonds prices have catered.

Btw Blood diamonds was also a successful marketing ploy of De beers to keep out the competition. It was weird to me how western countries only cared about the exploitation of diamonds.
by lovecg | 2025-07-27 01:32:51+00:00
> Yes, some of that is pilot error which can be mitigated to a substantial extent by computer controls, but it’s also a result of the lack of redundancy and hard failure modes of a light aircraft compared to a car.

Most of it is, and has always been pilot error. If we only had to worry about mechanical problems the safety record would actually look quite good.

It’s harder than driving a car due to much longer decision horizons (what you do now can doom you minutes to hours from now), much more of a dynamic environment with non-obvious hazards, and just plain higher baseline skillset and awareness requirements. All of these can and should be mitigated with technology to some extent, but there will always be that one guy who will choose to dodge thunderstorms at night.
by murukesh_s | 2025-07-27 01:34:03+00:00
This is like repeating code without using a function. If you have a nice abstraction - the same becomes cleaner like below.

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<div class="flex items-center justify-between mb-4"> <h3 class="card-title">Team Settings</h3> </div> <p class="card-description"> Manage your team permissions, invites, roles, and integrations here. Changes apply instantly across all team workspaces. </p> <div class="flex flex-col sm:flex-row gap-4 sm:justify-end"> <button class="btn btn-cancel">Cancel</button> <button class="btn btn-save">Save Changes</button> </div>

</div>
by wrs | 2025-07-27 01:36:04+00:00
My cardiologist pointed out that hard calcified plaques are unlikely to come loose, so unless there’s significant narrowing, they’re not a big problem. However, that situation correlates with a high calcium score. So the calcium score is not always correlated to risk.

A CT angiogram distinguishes soft vs. hard plaques (and shows narrowing), so that’s the ultimate way to clarify the situation. (Bearing in mind radiation exposure risk and cost, of course.)
by sokoloff | 2025-07-27 01:40:19+00:00
> landing at 80 kts vs 55 kts does make a difference

Most single-engine aircraft were already restricted to 61 knot stall speed (and I think all MOSAIC-eligible ones were).

I’m a big proponent of MOSAIC (as I was of BasicMed), even though the MOSAIC rule change won’t directly help me.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-07-27 01:40:27+00:00
By that age there probably would be other things generating code for whatever dynamically runtime-reconfigurable architecture, running fully formally verified GenodixSeL77, on whichever hardware substrate, displaying LCARSified Hypercards on Metaholografix 3.14pE.

Fuppzkntshlyrrtzh!

(Just in case...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L4_microkernel_family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaject https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superoptimization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercomputation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconfigurable_computing

...)
by parsimo2010 | 2025-07-27 01:42:18+00:00
I’m going to add a list of things that I think are going to be cool to see:

- New engine options. Previously getting an engine certified was a big expense, so there wasn’t a lot of advancement. Now I think that higher performing Light Sport aircraft can be made with non-certified engines or components. All electronic ignitions, variable valve timing, electronic fuel injection, it’s all on the table now, and it gets to exist in a factory manufactured plane, not just experimentals.

- New avionics. The light sport category got to put some neat digital avionics in their panels because they weren’t certified. They had portable ADS-B transmitters that were legal. These options will now be open to faster planes too.

- Importing light sports from around the world. Lots of European light sport planes couldn’t be imported in the past because they weren’t certified but were too fast for American light sport rules. Now a lot of them will be able to be imported as soon as the rules allow.

- Cheaper complex trainers. Allowing variable pitch props and retractable gear in the light sport category will hopefully mean there will be a plane that comes along that allows you to build time in the complex category without spending the money that usually comes with these types of planes.

- there’s probably a bunch of other things we’ll see that I haven’t thought of, and I am curious to see whatever that is as well.
by reitzensteinm | 2025-07-27 01:43:54+00:00
This is a misreading of their website. On the left, they compare the EPYC 9965 (launched 10/10/24) with the Xeon Platinum 8280 (launched Q2 '19) and make a TCO argument for replacing outdated Intel servers with AMD.

On the right, they compare the EPYC 9965 (launched 10/10/24) with the Xeon Platinum 8592+ (launched Q4 23), a like for like comparison against Intel's competition at launch.

The argument is essentially in two pieces - "If you're upgrading, you should pick AMD. If you're not upgrading, you should be."
by Aurornis | 2025-07-27 01:44:32+00:00
> keto diet that's mainly leafy greens with healthy protein like salmon?

A ketogenic diet is 70% fat.

It’s literally impossible to get into keto with a diet of leafy greens and salmon. You would have to augment with a lot of fat from some other source and also limit salmon intake to avoid consuming too much protein. Salmon has too much protein and not enough fat to even come close to keto ratios.

You must be thinking of a different diet. A lot of people think keto is another word for low carb, but a real keto diet is very low carb and low protein.
by a_t48 | 2025-07-27 01:44:34+00:00
uv solves or improves 2,3,5. (It's scary how often lately I find myself saying or seeing someone say that)

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For posterity -

make depending on system python an antipattern

uv is virtual env, uv managed python executable first, opt in to system python packages only

a reasonable package manager with lockfiles and transitive dependency versions

uv.lock, check. I think base pip also has transitive dependencies, though, and has since 2020?

steps towards hermetic builds with less linking against system libraries and dependencies

I know there's build isolation for dependencies in uv, I'm not sure it solves the problem you have

What is it you mean by package org namespaces?
Ask HN: What is the average karma points of HN users?
by EPendragon | 2025-07-27 01:44:41+00:00
Out of curiosity, how many karma points does the average HN user generally get to? I understand that the question should likely be timeframed, I.e. within a year or two. I found there is a top list, but no statistic on the average values. Also would be curious to know how long would it take on average to get to that point. I assume we are talking in years, but I could be wrong.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-27 01:46:48+00:00
CAC tests come with a non-trivial radiation exposure if someone is getting them every few years.

The other problem is that they’re picking and choosing which tests to believe and which to ignore.

They disregard their cholesterol tests because they don’t like the results, but embrace one or two CAC tests because they do like the results (when they’re young).

However the CAC results are a lagging indicator of cumulative damage that has been done. Cholesterol tests are correlated with the rate of damage occurring.

So embracing CAC and using it to justify ignoring LDL and others is the problem.
by cmurf | 2025-07-27 01:47:06+00:00
Sport pilots can’t operate in airspace requiring two-way radio communication, without separate instruction and endorsement. 14 CFR 61.315(c)(7)

All pilots are limited to 200hp or less, and non-complex aircraft without separate instruction and endorsement. 14 CFR 61.31(e) & (f)

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-D...
by Aurornis | 2025-07-27 01:49:58+00:00
There’s an offshoot of the keto community that has become die-hard cholesterol deniers. They don’t necessarily argue that keto doesn’t raise cholesterol. They argue that it doesn’t matter to have high cholesterol. They believe doctors and science are wrong on the subject. They think statins are evil. They embrace a few fringe doctors who agree with them.

If you do try keto again, bacon and such are the worst way to do it. Getting your fat content from a monounsaturated source like avocado oil can be helpful. Taking statins is also a good idea.
by yellow_lead | 2025-07-27 01:50:07+00:00
> bushy-tailed young volunteers asking you if you’d like to recall your local KMT legislator to “protect Taiwan and Counter China” because “they’re all in cahoots with the CCP” and “we have to protect our democracy before its too late.”

The CCP refuse to meet or engage with DPP, they'll only meet with the KMT. Meanwhile, KMT cut tons of Taiwan's defense spending in the legislature. But sure, it's all propaganda and fear mongering?
by wild_egg | 2025-07-27 01:52:11+00:00
> The idea is that you never have to send the template again after that.

This implies or assumes that sending the template again is a problem. In practice, it's not. HTML compresses well and the difference between the compressed JSON and HTML response is often on the order of hundreds of bytes. That assumes equivalent data content which, as I've said above, is often not the case. JSON payloads tend to be larger and we need more of them to render the same UI.
by btown | 2025-07-27 01:53:42+00:00
I really wish the community had coalesced around gevent.

- no async/await, instead every possible thing that could block in the standard library is monkey-patched to yield to an event loop

- this means that you can write the same exact code for synchronous and concurrent workflows, and immediately get levels of concurrency only bounded by memory limits

- you'll never accidentally use a synchronous API in an async context and block your entire event loop (well, you can, if you spin on a tight CPU-bound loop, but that's a problem in asyncio too)

- the ecosystem doesn't need to implement libraries for asyncio and blocking code, everything just works

There's a universe where the gevent patches get accepted into Python as something like a Python 4, breaking some niche compatibility but creating the first ever first-class language with green-threading at its core.

But in this universe, we're left with silly things like "every part of the Django ecosystem dealing with models must be rewritten with 'a' prefixes or be abandoned" and it's a sad place indeed.
by xxr | 2025-07-27 01:54:50+00:00
> In inclined to believe that neither would have become trillion dollar companies if they had been acquired by Yahoo.

People also like to point to how foolish of Blockbuster it was not to buy Netflix when they had the opportunity to, but I’m also inclined to believe that the merged companies would never have made the decisive moves involving streaming video and content production. It’s tempting to say that Amazon would have filled in the streaming video gap (although perhaps late enough for feature film and TV piracy to proliferate a little further into the mainstream), but I wonder whether Apple would have adapted its iTunes service into Apple TV first. (Another dark horse I like to think about here would be RealMedia which may have identified a niche.)
by astrange | 2025-07-27 01:55:55+00:00
One thing I've noticed is that when I post something here I know for a fact but that isn't common wisdom, nobody believes me.

> You are mistaken. DRM can work in a variety of ways but that is absolutely one of them.

Of course it can work that way. It's software, you can write whatever you want.

It doesn't though. If you prefer, they have chosen to believe this is what the law says because it's a good argument if some partner asks them to do it.

Similarly you can get banned from the eShop if you jailbreak your Nintendo Switch, but they don't stop you from using physical games. They could do that if they wanted to. Or rather, they could make you have to work around it.
by jeeyoungk | 2025-07-27 01:56:20+00:00
I like `gevent` but I think it may have been too hacky of a solution to be incorporated to the main runtime.

"creating the first ever first-class language with green-threading at its core."

... isn't that what Go is? I think out of all languages I use extensively, Go is the only one that doesn't suffer from the sync/async function coloring nightmare.
by fnord77 | 2025-07-27 01:56:28+00:00
This article is outdated.

FAA split the concept of "sport pilot" from LSA

Now Sport Pilots can fly just about anything with VS1 of 59 knots or less (clean stall speed) (up from 45kts)

Meanwhile, new plane designs can go through a less rigorous certification as LSA if they have a VS1 of 61kts or less.