MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by giraffe_lady | 2025-07-07 16:12:40+00:00
I don't think this is quite true about either group but it's dangerously close if you know what I mean. How & why genesis specifically shares so much content with other stories from the region is an extremely interesting subject in itself and still under active developing scholarship but I'm not qualified represent it well.

That's definitely a misunderstanding of the roman pantheon though. It was already a fully formed syncretic religion at the time of acculturation of the greek gods into it, having regularly adapted to & adopted nearby belief systems as it encountered them.

Some of the greek gods were fully syncretized with similar-enough roman gods, some only partially, some greek gods were adopted more completely because there was no near enough equivalent, and then some roman gods continued in more or less their previous form, for example janus who the greeks had nothing comparable to. But even a lot of the pre-greek exposure "roman" gods were themselves adopted from other cultures, and/or already syncretized with indigenous ones. In any case it wasn't "mostly" stolen from any one place, it followed a pretty typical pattern for syncretic religions. The acceptance & merging of the greek gods was only one event in what was at the time already a venerable and dynamic religious system.

You also need to be careful about timelines. The greek cultural influence here is at like 800bc, predating the roman republic much less the empire. It arguably predates anything you could reasonably call rome at all, this is in the distant past that was already mythological to the roman republic. This was always part of their cultural essentially.
by HK-NC | 2025-07-07 16:13:18+00:00
Why is this specific thing completely unquestionable for self diagnosis without any kind of test? It seems to be treated as if no child could possibly feel slightly less than the ideal representation of their sex and end up embracing the trans identity just like someone might embrace ADHD or autism because of some minor common personality trait. The difference being one annoyingly reminds people theyre ADHD every time they do something untoward, and the other could be rendered infertile due to hormones pr castration.
by galewis | 2025-07-07 16:13:21+00:00
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by webdevver | 2025-07-07 16:13:40+00:00
speaking of exploration, has anyone ever thought about non-cartesian displays? say, pixels that are arranged in a hexagonal pattern. or pixels arranged in a radial pattern and addressed via polar coordinates.

what pattern are human color/light sensors arranged in? maybe we should replicate that pattern? an organic arrangement discovered via simulated annealing?

all this bitmap x/y display stuff is very pre-AI-ish. old tech. victorian era clockwork mechanism. built to make it easy to reason about for humans, before the advent of neuron-soup. maybe we can do better?
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-07-07 16:13:49+00:00
It is a valid concern as to why companies don't do this already. In the face of the legal requirements the initiative is attempting to establish, however, the IP problem would be pretty easily resolved, as companies that sold their server libraries/services with a prohibition on redistribution would either need to change those licenses, or lose customers who want to be able to sell in Europe.
by lysace | 2025-07-07 16:14:14+00:00
You are missing the point. Spotify had permission from the copyright holders and/or their national proxies to use those songs in a limited beta in Sweden. They didn't have access to clean audio data directly from the record companies, so in many cases they used pirated rips instead.

What you really should be asking is whether they infringed on the copyrights of the rippers. /s
by rapnie | 2025-07-07 16:15:07+00:00
Or the Nilfisk consumer vacuum cleaners. They used to be frequently seen in Dutch households, nowadays less so. Indestructable.

My first confrontation with a 'Dyson Airblade Wash+Dry short hand dryer' was after paying 50ct to enter a newly modernised toilet on a Dutch railway station. I got totally splashed with water blown out of the sink, all over my clothes. Quite embarrassing to walk out a toilet like that.
by dragontamer | 2025-07-07 16:15:24+00:00
Monotheism elevates godhood in many regards.

In Polytheistic culture, gods fight and gods die. Zeus eats his (and thus kills) his father Chronos. Thor dies in Ragnarok.

In Monotheistic culture, the one true God is above all else. As it turns out, different Monotheistic cultures can then cooperate as it's an argument over what this one true God believes (Catholics vs Muslims).

Then we get into weird blends like Hindu and their many avatars of Vishnu (who'd argue that Jesus probably existed and could do those things because he probably was that time's Vishnu).

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Polytheism is likely flawed as an organizational concept because it's clear that gods were creations of man. Monotheism flips it and makes God the master of the universe while man struggles to understand the nature of God.

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But yes. As the sibling comment points out: the gods of most polytheistic cultures are NOT omnipotent or omniscient. They are more powerful or smarter than humans but they are still able to be killed or destroyed.

Maybe back when cities and religions would get wiped out by warfare, it was more common to see religions die out (and thus those old gods die with those religions/cultures). It makes you wonder about the nature of human belief systems and how humans lived differently back then.
by bhaktatejas922 | 2025-07-07 16:15:31+00:00
I think it depends - the actual thing to measure it to keep a developer in flow state. Many errors as well as latency break this. To be brief yes, accuracy comes first.

Quality is measured 2 main ways:

1) End-to-end: User query -> to task resolution. These are aider style benchmarks answering the question of actual task completion

2) Apply Quality: Syntax correctness, character diff, etc..

The error rate for large vs fast is around 2%. If you're doing code edits that are extremely complex or on obscure languages - large is the better option. There's also an auto option to route to the model we think is best for a task
by rs186 | 2025-07-07 16:15:52+00:00
Sounds interesting, but I imagine all the big players (Cursor, Windsurf, and maybe even OpenAI/Anthropic) will achieve something similar very quickly in their tools first-party, which will decimate the company. And I don't get the API part of this -- at the end of the day people use those IDEs, and I don't see developers/companies want to send their code to yet another endpoint.
Show HN: Unlearning Comparator, a visual tool to compare machine unlearning
by jaeunglee | 2025-07-07 16:15:52+00:00
I built Unlearning Comparator, a visual analytics toolkit to help researchers and developers compare how different machine unlearning methods work. It provides a unified workflow to test for accuracy, efficiency, and privacy. You can check out the live demo linked in the post, and the source code is on GitHub: https://github.com/gnueaj/Machine-Unlearning-Comparator Our accompanying paper is currently under review at IEEE TVCG. Happy to answer any questions and would love to hear your feedback!
by zdragnar | 2025-07-07 16:16:40+00:00
Unless you're building content-marketing or similar- you don't need a lot of the exploratory phase to be done freeform.

Trying to implement designs in a product where every single new design stretches or modifies the design system is mind bogglingly annoying as a developer, especially if you've got a small team trying to crank out new features. We don't need a tenth variation of a call to action, we don't need to use a new, tenth shade of blue or green for just this one place, we don't need a twentieth exception to the existing padding rules. If it is one size on desktop and another in mobile everywhere else, then those are how the sizes should change in this new feature too.

Once you've got a design language in place, leave it alone unless the change to the semantics is meaningful and consistent.

Having done the slice and dice of Photoshop files in years gone past, I'm very glad we have better tools for collaboration now.
by randomNumber7 | 2025-07-07 16:17:06+00:00
The genius of what newton did (and what started the modern world I would argue) was to stop asking the question of "why" and just describe (with mathematics) the "what".

It was always just a model of the world. We (humans) have defined it and it describes what we see (the experiments).

Asking the question of the "truth" in a way similiar to platon and kant is religous. What is truth? We as humans can only gain knowledge from our experiences.
by resurrectedcyb | 2025-07-07 16:17:15+00:00
Interesting. The change to sets of loans is interesting. Datalog, related to Prolog, is not a language family I have a lot of experience with, only a smidgen. They use some kind of solving as I recall, and are great at certain types of problems and explorative programming. Analyzing the performance of them is not always easy, but they are also often used for problems that already are exponential.

I read something curious.

https://users.rust-lang.org/t/polonius-is-more-ergonomic-tha...

>I recommend watching the video @nerditation linked. I believe Amanda mentioned somewhere that Polonius is 5000x slower than the existing borrow-checker; IIRC the plan isn't to use Polonius instead of NLL, but rather use NLL and kick off Polonius for certain failure cases.

That slowdown might be temporary, as it is optimized over time, if I had to guess, since otherwise there might then be two solvers in compilers for Rust. It would be line with some other languages if the worst-case complexity class is something exponential.
by adgjlsfhk1 | 2025-07-07 16:17:23+00:00
there are plenty of imaginable levels of language. there's everything from ability to communicate danger (which even trees seem to have), having simple constructs like names/ a handful of nouns for specific types of danger (e.g. Bear!) which is roughly where we think dolphins and some apes are. above that likely we get some verbs for coordinating hunting. at some point in this process you start getting syntax, tense, declension, adjectives etc.

If I had to guess basic sentence structure probably goes back to the beginning of homo. The differences between Sapiens and others is likely much more subtle. e.g. symbolism, myth making, abstraction or something like that.
by Tainnor | 2025-07-07 16:18:06+00:00
In the mathematical sense, a vector is nothing but an object that can be added to other objects and scaled by some field (with some reasonable properties attached).

In physics, a vector is often more specifically something with magnitude and direction. This still doesn't mean that it needs to be anchored at the origin. Vectors that are anchored at the origin are IIRC called position vectors, but mathematically, if you translate them away from the origin they're still the same vector.
by jpalawaga | 2025-07-07 16:18:08+00:00
you've created a very obvious category mistake in your final summary by confusing intellectual property--which can be copied at no penalty to an owner (except nebulous 'alternate universe' theories)--with actual property, and a farmer and his land, with a crop that cannot be enjoyed twice.

you're saying copying a book is worse than robbing a farmer of his food and/or livelihood, which cannot be replaced to duplicated. Meanwhile, someone who copies a book does not deprive the author of selling the book again (or a tasty proceedings from harvest).

I can't say I agree, for obvious reasons.
Mobile-Friendliness of Flagging Submissions
by gipp | 2025-07-07 16:18:21+00:00
Let me start by saying I generally appreciate the simplicity and conservativeness of HN's design. But one minor quibble I've had for years is the lack of friction for "flagging" a post combined with the overall desktop-first layout.

On mobile, I'll frequently try to click a link but accidentally hit "flag" instead. Since this immediately removes it from the feed, I then have to go into my flagged posts, unflag it, then navigate back to where I was. Sometimes I'll also fail to notice I flagged a post.

I currently have dozens of flagged posts, and ~100% of them were flagged accidentally, so surely this also creates a lot of noise in moderation as well. Have you given any thought to just adding a bit of extra friction there? Perhaps just a second confirmation click?
by drillsteps5 | 2025-07-07 16:18:28+00:00
Nobody in the right mind is using cloud LLMs for "therapy", it's all done with local LLMs.

Latest local models that run on consumer-grade hardware can likely provide "good enough" resemblance of communication with human and offer situation-dependent advice.

Which btw is not a therapy in any way shape or form, but a way to think things through and see what various options are.
by mindslight | 2025-07-07 16:18:45+00:00
Another example of draconian enforcing the letter of the law in the name of making things "safer", then Goodhart's lawwing themselves into thinking they're succeeding. At least for myself, when I've got to deal with some kind of traffic control device and optimize my driving around that (say a speed bump), it takes my view/attention/focus away from looking for pedestrians elsewhere.

There's also the general problem with stop signs that if you do stop before the line as you're technically supposed to, then most times you can't actually see oncoming vehicle traffic. So most people stop over the line where they will be able to see, which means they're not planning on stopping where pedestrians walk. But fixing intersections is expensive meticulous work, while fining drivers for dealing with what they've been given is profitable.

If this were targeted at flagrant violations with warnings for a percentile of marginal cases (ie getting people who don't stop at all, and warning those who strain the idea of a rolling "stop"), then I could see it. But as it's worded, and as speed/red light cameras have been implemented, it just seems like another dynamic of a dystopian hellhole.
by underdeserver | 2025-07-07 16:19:09+00:00
That's solvable with modern cloud offerings - Provision spot instances for a few minutes and shut them down afterwards. Let the cloud provider deal with demand balancing.

I think the real issue is that developers waiting for PRs to go green are taking a coffee break between tasks, not sitting idly getting annoyed. If that's the case you're cutting into rest time and won't get much value out of optimizing this.
by ceejayoz | 2025-07-07 16:19:24+00:00
> And, indeed, the link I posted calls out that the US is basically typical for most things.

We are typical in wait times and outcomes.

We pay 2-3x as much as the rest of the developed world for that.

https://www.oecd.org/en/data/indicators/health-spending.html

https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/2024/06/society-at-a-gl...
by bigyabai | 2025-07-07 16:19:49+00:00
Donations aren't tips. I'm an Open Source maintainer as well, and I don't ever expect to be paid for my work. It's a hobby, whereas the code I write at work is what people pay me to do. Growing up, I knew a fairly popular musician from the internet-era, and I'll just say she made less money than I did working the cash register. She worked more hours, too.

Tipping, as an American culture, exists to reward "above and beyond" behavior from service workers. Tiktok performers, bedroom musicians and FOSS developers aren't service workers, and most of the time they aren't salaried either. Expecting to live off those wages is an unfortunate mistake.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-07-07 16:20:07+00:00
I wish Web Packaging / Web Bundles / Signed HTTP Exchanges has gotten some support from the web community. The idea that the content can be signed, that imwe can pass it along however we want, is a super powerful tool, one that allows origins to radically de-emphasizes the need for serving / hosting if they want.

It's unclear to me why Mozilla was clutching so hard to the idea that the act of hosting is so sacrosanct. They talk at length through the matter, and I appreciate the effort they go through (web standards are amazing) but none of the FUD lands with me, none of the downsides feels like a truly significant change from what the web can do already.

https://www.ietf.org/slides/slides-escapews-mozillas-positio...
by rorylaitila | 2025-07-07 16:20:07+00:00
The one thing LLM cannot do currently is read the room. Even if it contains all existing information and can create any requested admixture from its training, that admixture space is infinite. Therefore the curators role is in creating with it the most interesting output. The more nuanced and sophisticated the interesting work, the more role there is for this curation.

I kind of use it that way. The LLM is walking a few feet in front of me, quickly ideating possible paths, allowing me to experiment more quickly. Ultimately I am the decider of what matters.

This reminds me a bit of photography. A photographer will take a lot of pictures. They try a lot of paths. Most of the paths don't actually work out. What you see of their body of work is the paths that worked, that they selected.
by johnnyjeans | 2025-07-07 16:20:13+00:00
> Most of us still mispronounce some words

The bureaucratization of language is more problematic in my view, where things are seen as wrong and right and we try to cram the beauty of of natural language into a restricted box that can be cleanly and easily defined and worked with universally. I quite literally have nothing but detest for this conception of language, that it must bend to the whims of rigidity when it's very clearly a natural, highly chaotic dynamic system constantly undergoing evolution in unexpected ways.
by rapind | 2025-07-07 16:20:22+00:00
> This will make the CI bottleneck even worse.

I agree. I think there are potentially multiple solutions to this since there are multiple bottlenecks. The most obvious is probably network overhead when talking to a database. Another might be storage overhead if storage is being used.

Frankly another one is language. I suspect type-safe, compiled, functional languages are going to see some big advantages here over dynamic interpreted languages. I think this is the sweet spot that grants you a ton of performance over dynamic languages, gives you more confidence in the models changes, and requires less testing.

Faster turn-around, even when you're leaning heavily on AI, is a competitive advantage IMO.
by 999900000999 | 2025-07-07 16:20:54+00:00
It's ok.

But LA has high rent and public transportation isn't really usable.

People are mean.

I wouldn't suggest LA to anyone.

The city definitely has tech jobs, but you might have a job in the valley now, get laid off and have to drive to Culver City. Super commutes of 1 hour each way are common.
by GuB-42 | 2025-07-07 16:20:57+00:00
I wouldn't call the richest man on Earth a fool from a business perspective.

It doesn't mean I am going to buy Tesla, the market already did, and Elon Musk is not above screwing with his investors to serve his personal interests. But you have to recognize the genius behind the madness. You don't become that rich without being a genius, also lucky, but not just lucky.

Well, it seems that there is more madness than genius lately, but the thing with Elon Musk is that it is hard to tell which is which.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-07-07 16:21:01+00:00
One difference is that saints are not deities, even if there may be a similar psychological need (for protection, help, etc) in play. Saints do not possess power of their own accord. They function as intercessors. They are still human beings, albeit in an elevated spiritual state or plane, so to speak (a saint is anyone who is saved from hell and in heaven; canonized saints are simply those who are known to be saints and thus formally acknowledged).

Pagan gods are personifications of natural forces, hence Thales's famous remark that "the world is full of gods". They are beings like you and me, in some sense, with powers that we may not possess.

God, on the other hand, is not a personification of a force of nature or one being among many. In that sense, the distinction between monotheism and polytheism can be misleading, because it's not a matter of how many gods you believe in, but a profound difference in understanding of what divinity even means. God here is the Ipsum Esse Subsistens, or self-subsisting Being; the verb "to be". This makes God prior to any particular being and the cause of the be-ing of anything and everything at all times.

Whatever the history of the development of theological ideas and beliefs, these must be distinguished from the philosophical substance of the beliefs.
by csomar | 2025-07-07 16:21:03+00:00
This. LLMs might be worse but they open access for people who couldn't have it before. Think of the cheap Chinese stuff that we got in the last decade. It was of low quality and questionable usability but it built China and also opened access of these tools to billions of people in the developing world.

Would this compromise be worth it for LLM? Time will tell.
by danaris | 2025-07-07 16:21:07+00:00
> I see these things every day, all day.

Good for you? But that's not what you said. You said that having a pickup truck, and moving 30k pounds, was "absolutely required" in rural areas.

> at any of the local farms and ranches

Again: Most people living in rural areas are not ranchers or farmers. The people who have unnecessarily big pickups around here range from exactly the type of "city cowboy" you describe (though, again, this is very much a rural area; the nearest Starbucks is about 45 minutes' drive away) to home-grown redneck hicks with rusty lifted pickups that I have never observed to carry anything that wouldn't easily fit in the back of my Outback.

And, of course, there are a fair number of people with pickups that get good use. I'm not in any way trying to deny that there are good uses for pickups.

All I'm saying is that your claim that they are absolutely required for rural living is bullshit.
by DavidWoof | 2025-07-07 16:21:37+00:00
I think the "sendOnce" question is fine. Software development is just different than other professions, and you get a lot of candidates who talk a good show but can't actually program at all. For a decent dev, this isn't programming, it's typing.

But all the "ok, now add this feature..." stuff is just a sign that the interviewer is an insecure asshole. And you get insecure asshole interviewers in other professions as well, asking about obscure laws or diagnoses.

Software is still a bit of a craft, and it's perfectly reasonable to ask a job seeker on a construction site to go hammer a nail. But nobody is going to follow that up with a bunch of "OK, now do an L-joint" just to show off their own knowledge.
by jjcm | 2025-07-07 16:21:38+00:00
Seems like lots of us have stumbled on this. It’s not the worst way to dev!

> Maybe hallucinations of vibe coders are just a suggestion those API calls should have existed in the first place.

> Hallucination-driven-development is in.

https://x.com/pwnies/status/1922759748014772488?s=46&t=bwJTI...
by margalabargala | 2025-07-07 16:21:57+00:00
in American politics, 18 months definitely counts as an "anytime soon".

In the 2026 senate election, the Dems could absolutely flip Maine, North Carolina, and two others; maybe Alaska and Ohio.

If Elon Musk makes good on his threat to try to take out sitting GOP senators, that splitting of the vote could mean the Dems pick up a few more as well.