MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kristoff_it | 2025-07-12 06:58:34+00:00
That's pretty much what it is, it's a reaction to an implosion that happened last year in the Handmade Network related to the Handmade Seattle conference which caused the conference organizer and the community leads to go separate ways.

https://handmade.network/blog/p/8989-separating_from_handmad...

https://handmadecities.com/news/splitting-from-handmade-netw...
by fjfaase | 2025-07-12 07:00:28+00:00
I am aware of this. But the entanglement of photons in nerve cells can only go as far as one nerve cell, because between cells the signaling is based on chemicals that flow through some liquid. The signaling is not even electric. One nervecel releases some pockets with neurotransmitters and the other cell has receptors for those, causing an electric signal to start in that cell. This breaks any meanigful entanglement due to the very bad signal noise ratio.

So, I was given an example of another quantum effect as an example. If there is some entanglement in nervecells, it might as well occur in plant cells, because they have a common ancestor.

These kind of articles wash over the signal noise ratio. Your phone does pick-up WiFi signals from tens of kilometer away, yet you hardly ever establish a connection with them, because there are so many other stronger signals. Only in some very specific setup is this possible, like we are still able to communicate with the voyager probes, one of which is now more than a lightday away.
by intermerda | 2025-07-12 07:01:29+00:00
And what do you call this? https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/10/texas-kerr-county-co...

> “I’m here to ask this court today to send this money back to the Biden administration, which I consider to be the most criminal treasonous communist government ever to hold the White House,” one resident told commissioners in April 2022, fearing strings were attached to the money.

> “We don't want to be bought by the federal government, thank you very much,” another resident told commissioners. “We'd like the federal government to stay out of Kerr County and their money.”
by brailsafe | 2025-07-12 07:01:39+00:00
It's interesting to work with a number of people using various models and interaction modes in slightly different capacities. I can see where the huge productivity gains are and can feel them, but the same is true for the opposite. I'm pretty sure I lost a full day or more trying to track down a build error because it was relatively trivial fpr someone to ask CC or something to refactor a ton of files, which it seems to have done a bit too eagerly. On the other hand, that refactor would have been super tedious, so maybe worth it?
by toast0 | 2025-07-12 07:02:55+00:00
It's only pointless if we assume crashing was the intended result of the pilot. If the switches failed, or the pilot activated the switches by mistake, it's worth considering options for handling the inputs.

There's a balance of accidents to be found, I think. There are likely cases where fuel does need to be cut off to both engines, and preventing that would lead to accidents that might have been recoverable. This case shows that cutting off fuel to both engines during takeoff is likely unrecoverable. There have been cases where fuel is cutoff to the wrong engine, leading to accidents. Status quo might be the right answer, too.
by mukeshyadavnitt | 2025-07-12 07:02:57+00:00
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by BlimpSpike | 2025-07-12 07:03:32+00:00
Kindof unrelated to the article, but I was recently wondering if it would be possible to detect and deny pointer cycles in a language in an efficient way, so that you could then use simple reference counting instead of full-blown garbage collection.

It probably wouldn't be usable for a general-purpose programming language, but for a special-purpose scripting language I could see it making the language implementation easier.
by mukeshyadavnitt | 2025-07-12 07:04:28+00:00
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by aquariusDue | 2025-07-12 07:05:25+00:00
With the Obsdidian Web Clipper browser extension it's super easy and configurable, I did the same thing for a while before settling on sharing links to myself (Saved Messages) on Telegram. While that makes capture especially quick now I'm looking for a way to import those messages/bookmarks into org-mode.

Though if you're looking for something closer to an archive then Obsidian with the Web Clipper remains the better option because you can easily add the content you're interested in to the clipping. Personally I just don't really care for bookmarks all that long anymore even if I used to categorize them in folders in the bookmark toolbar in browsers a decade ago.
by cjbprime | 2025-07-12 07:06:03+00:00
Not really, though. They're both (retracting the gear, and cutting off fuel) just toggle switches, as far as your brain's conscious mechanisms go. Doing them both on every flight dulls the part of your brain that cares about how they feel different to perform.

(I'm not strongly arguing against the murder scenario, just against the idea that it's impossible for it to be the confusion scenario.)
by tsimionescu | 2025-07-12 07:06:47+00:00
Not really, it's possible with any market economy, even a hypothetical socialist one (that is, one where all market actors are worker-owned co-ops).

And, since there is no global super-state, the world economy is a market economy, so even if every state were a state-owned planned economy, North Korea style, still there would exist this type of competition between states.
by mukeshyadavnitt | 2025-07-12 07:10:29+00:00
Great questions—thanks for asking!

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by 123yawaworht456 | 2025-07-12 07:11:55+00:00
okay. and? there are no AI 'safety' laws in the US.

without OpenAI, Anthropic and Google's fearmongering, AI 'safety' would exist only in the delusional minds of people who take sci-fi way too seriously.

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

for fuck's sake, how more obvious could they be? sama himself went on a world tour begging for laws and regulations, only to purge safetyists a year later. if you believe that he and the rest of his ilk are motivated by anything other than profit, smh tbh fam.

it's all deceit and delusion. China will crush them all, inshallah.
by lllllm | 2025-07-12 07:12:02+00:00
Yes this is an interesting question. In our arxiv paper [1] we did study this for news articles, and also removed duplicates of articles (decontamination). We did not observe an impact on the downstream accuracy of the LLM, in the case of news data.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06219
by t0mas88 | 2025-07-12 07:12:22+00:00
Aviation is full of those design choices. Similar to how a multi-engine propeller plane will use oil pressure to keep the props in the flying angle, which means that when oil pressure is lost (catastrophic engine failure) it will feather giving the other engine the best chances of keeping the plane flying with the least amount of drag. While on a single-engine plane it's installed exactly opposite, in case of oil pressure loss the prop goes to fine pitch giving you the best hope of creating some trust in case the engine may still be working.

Most of these things were figured out over 100 years of carefully analysing accidents and near accidents to continuously improve safety.
by hyperman1 | 2025-07-12 07:14:17+00:00
My Bosh ebike display can't set the clock unless I make an account with theminstall tje app, and agree to a huge, incomprehensible legal thing. It is a lousy time keeper, loosing 20 minutes over a year.

It will display a zillion fancy useless things to me, but my speed and the time are the only things I care about. I installed a speedometer next to it, which costs €10, looks ridiculous, and works.
by yawpitch | 2025-07-12 07:15:28+00:00
Officially, now, it was the switches being moved to CUTOFF. They were put back to RUN in 10 seconds, after RAT deployment, with engine 1 spooling back up to thrust just before impact. Switches survived the fire damage in that position, so the detents appear to have been fully functional. Crazy implications indeed. The CVR transcript isn’t in the preliminary report, but the little bit referenced indicates one pilot asking the other why they performed a cutoff followed by the other responding that they didn’t.
by brikym | 2025-07-12 07:15:42+00:00
I don't eat that junk but my understanding is McDonald's have segmented their customers into two groups:

1) People who just want to eat McDonald's now and don't care about apps. They will put up with the normal prices which are quite high now.

2) Cheapskate people who wouldn't go to McDonald's much due to the pricing, but can be enticed to go through deals in the app they are happy to jump through hoops to get.
by mleroy | 2025-07-12 07:16:51+00:00
I haven't limited my AI use. In fact, it has increased. It still feels experimental, and I often use it even when it does not save time, simply to avoid effortful thinking. That concerns me.

I believe we are heading toward a world where AI offers easy mental shortcuts for nearly everything, similar to how cheap carbs became widespread in our diets. I do not yet know how I will deal with that. For now, I am just a kid in a candy store, enjoying the novelty.
by rzzzt | 2025-07-12 07:17:54+00:00
This can be resolved by sampling a real hard drive's sounds (spin-up, idle, spin-down, short seek, long seek, big klonk etc.) and playing it back in plausible sequences and variations. You might have to add some mixing capability as well since the motor will drone on constantly.

On the ultra realistic end: take a dead hard drive, trim the head assembly back so it won't touch/scratch the platter surface, remove its original PCB and replace it with the simulator which now will be responsible for driving the motor and the voice coil. If there is some space left for SSD storage, slap that on as well and use the original power and data connections.
by maxbond | 2025-07-12 07:18:43+00:00
Absolutely, Postgres is fantastic but LISTEN/NOTIFY is it's weakest feature. It's convenient, it has the potential to open up compelling use cases, it very nearly works, but has all these nasty limitations and rough edges that cause people to steer clear. I think a lot of people don't know it exists, you almost never hear it mentioned in discussions about async job queues in Postgres (which would seem like and obvious use case). I don't think it's ever been mentioned on the Postgres.FM podcast (I'm sure they're aware of it but it speaks to the lack of usage). I'd love to see it get some love in future releases, and I agree that access control is necessary for it to really work.
by rhrazu | 2025-07-12 07:18:52+00:00
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by Arainach | 2025-07-12 07:19:13+00:00
Why?

>- VMs deleted, along with all the files on them

VMs shut down, deleted after a specified time period (7 days, whatever, the exact time period doesn't matter)

>- S3 buckets emptied

S3 buckets no longer accessible, emptied after a specified time period

>- DNS queries no longer getting answered

Yep, fine

>- Databases dropped, backups deleted

Database access revoked, backup access revoked, deleted after a specified time period.

There is no reason this has to be an immediate deletion. Heck, even if you request they delete something they probably don't do it immediately and just mark it "deleted" until it's cleaned up after time.
by fzeindl | 2025-07-12 07:19:34+00:00
What is needed is more evidence based software engineering. Statistical methods applied to datasets correlating issue trackers with code ASTs to show us exactly which ways of coding are correlated with longer issue times, frequent bugs etc.

I sometimes wonder if there could be an optimal number of microservices. As far as I know no one has connected issue data to the number of microservices before. Maybe there‘s an optimal number like „8“ which leads to lower number of bugs and faster resolution times.
by aquariusDue | 2025-07-12 07:20:22+00:00
Well, sometimes I'm digging through my (multiple!) lists of links when I remember a tidbit that relates to what I'm working on but most of the time those lists gather dust.

In the future I'd like to maintain a link log or something similar on my personal website like some people do:

- https://matklad.github.io/links.html

- https://dotat.at/:/

- https://til.simonwillison.net/

The weird thing about saved links in my case is that I get the most satisfaction out of them when I share them with friends and so on, a bit of "Hey! I think this might be helpful, here you go" and that ends up being the extent of that particular link's usefulness for myself most of the time. Of course I can't accurately gauge how helpful it actually is for the other person.
by moffkalast | 2025-07-12 07:21:06+00:00
Batteries are also inverter based sources so they typically don't add any inertia to the grid either. It's not really about the supply of power, it's about maintaining the 50hz frequency to a 0.002% accuracy (yes really) and keeping the voltage similarly exact, otherwise things start quickly disconnecting and tripping in a chain reaction. DC sources would work much better with a HVDC grid... if we had one.
by gehwartzen | 2025-07-12 07:21:47+00:00
That’s a good protocol for safely doing IM as you describe it. Though that seems like a big IM dose! :D I’m not too familiar with 4-aco-dmt so couldn’t say.

For 5-meo I generally do 6-8mg prepared as above. That seems subjectively close to 15-20mg vaped (powder in a glass pipe not in a “juice” vape).

But either of those are definitely a commitment to the ride, lol. I do like the mixed jaguar vape cartridges for micro dosing though (like Bill prepares them in the article). Very easy to control your dosage that way with the ability to start slow and add more with additional puffs.
by hnaccount_rng | 2025-07-12 07:22:10+00:00
Of course it seems like wishful thinking! Because that’s the historic norm. Energy was (in some way) always the limiting factor. And every time energy access got meaningfully cheaper society massively reorganised around it.

And yes “energy” in general won’t be free. We still need to build the generation and distribution systems. But we reached a point where just dumping solar on all _new_ roofs rounds to essentially free (the costs are the labor and the access to qualified personnel). The exact same is currently happening to batteries. Any transformer project will be able to just integrate 4-12 hours of batteries without getting meaningfully more expensive. The same for every domestic or industry service upgrade

We are not there yet. But give it another 5 years and we will. And then we are only talking about financing what little distribution system we will need (basically you only need average-sized cables not peak-sized ones) and a capacity market for backup power systems (also only for average residual demand). And those we simply cannot (efficiently) finance by a per-kWh-used charge
by hedayet | 2025-07-12 07:22:38+00:00
I was so surprised (or shocked) to hear that Windsurf was getting acquired for 3 billion dollars, I made an HN post asking about the truth of that news - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43933825. HN's system didn't like my tone I guess and removed it, lol.

But in any case, I just can't see how AI code editors like Windsurf or Cursor, without any proprietary model, can be valued at billions. What's the underlying IP that justifies these valuations?
by contrarian1234 | 2025-07-12 07:23:34+00:00
This seems like the equivalent of a university designing an ICE car...

What does anyone get out of this when we have open weight models already ?

Are they going to do very innovative AI research that companies wouldn't dare try/fund? Seems unlikely ..

Is it a moonshot huge project that no single company could fund..? Not that either

If it's just a little fun to train the next generation of LLM researchers.. Then you might as well just make a small scale toy instead of using up a super computer center
by dns_snek | 2025-07-12 07:24:26+00:00
Yes? That's what makes something a broadly recognized "good opportunity" in our current economic system that you can base public policy around. Everything else is just variable personal preference.

People don't leave their home countries and entire lives behind because they're looking for the "opportunity" of nursing a foreigner for a pittance. They do it because they want to make good money and provide for their families.
by speleding | 2025-07-12 07:26:47+00:00
Yes, I agree, one or two good engineers should easily be enough, and preferable to a large team. In between having programmers on staff I ended up doing most of it myself. It was not for want of trying, but even getting someone to apply is hard when good engineers were getting dozens of emails and calls from recruiters a week (back then). In the end, doing too much things by myself caused my company to be a bit slower with design updates, not enough attention to marketing, etc. And although there are way more people available who claim they can do marketing, finding a good one turned out to be just as hard. But some things, like well-funded competitors appearing that outspend you on Google Ads, are not under your control. I'm still happy with the end-result though, it's a great life style business.
by hyperman1 | 2025-07-12 07:27:43+00:00
I feel a bit lost here. In the good old days, I ran ext2/ext3/ext4 and forgot about it, or Reiserfs if I felt fancy (and which was great until it wasn't).

Now, there is a cambrian explosion going on. Ext4, xfs, btrfs,bcachefs, zfs. They each have their pros and cons, and it takes a while before you find out you run into an expensive limit. E.g. Ext3/4 is good, until it ran out of inodes. ZFS is good, but has only 1 password for full disk encryption and I want to store a second one with IT. According to the jungle drums, btrfs eats your data once in a while. Bcachefs stupidly tries to get itself rejected from Linux, not good for long term stability. I'm on XFS now, but let's see how that ends.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-07-12 07:29:16+00:00
A 4x efficiency bump is fairly easy (.9 efficient gas to 3.6 COP heat pump). Older non-condensing boilers (or modern condensing boilers run too hot) are more like .8 when new and messured at .6 in real life circumstances.

Even at the high end efficiency, this is enough that you can burn the gas centrally in a generator, lose 40-60% of it as heat as is standard with fossil electricity generation, lose a few percent more electricity in transmission and still come out ahead overall.

And of course, that's a lower bound as you'd ideally be generating electricity from other sources like solar and wind and battery and keeping the gas generators for when needed, making use of the giant scale gas storage most countries already have.
by atakan_gurkan | 2025-07-12 07:29:56+00:00
His reaction seems entirely appropriate. He could ignore you, but then you might keep replying to his posts and potentially spread incorrect but damaging information. He is losing close to zero by blocking you, but preventing a potential big loss. Why did you make that remark, if not to damage YC's reputation? This does not seem like the correct approach, if you wanted to improve their selection process.
by creata | 2025-07-12 07:30:52+00:00
One solution is to forbid recursive data types - e.g., require every struct type to only reference types that have already been defined. I can't think of any languages that do this.

Another solution is to make things immutable (like Erlang), or "as-if" immutable (like Koka), which guarantees that data can only point to things that have already been defined, preventing cycles.* Erlang uses this to simplify generational collection - because old data can't point to young data, it doesn't need a card table or anything like that.

I think it's perfectly possible to have a general purpose language without cycles: you can just use integer indices into an array instead of pointers if you want cyclic data structures. This is common in Rust, when people want to avoid the overhead of reference counting, but don't want to use unsafe code.

* A hidden assumption here is that the language is eagerly evaluated. There are languages like Haskell that have immutability and cyclic data structures.