MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gus_massa | 2025-07-06 02:24:21+00:00
There is a curious case with small male salmons: From https://www.fishingwithrod.com/articles/fish_biology/whats_u...

> Size obviously matters when it comes to mating for salmon. However, being a small male can also succeed when it comes to scoring a female. The so-called "jacks" that are found in chinook and coho salmon are male individuals that return to their natal streams a couple of years earlier than expected.

> Although they are much smaller than a fully grown male, they are also sexually matured when they reach the spawning ground. What advantages do these smaller fish have? It is obvious that they will not win when confronted by a fully grown male. Behavioural biologists believe that these jacks are "sneaker males". Their duty is to simply stand by when larger males are fighting for territory, and sneak in while unnoticed to mate with the females that are also waiting for the fights to end. As you can see, being big does not always have all the advantages, sometimes being small can be very beneficial too.

IIRC the female already laid the eggs, and the big males start to fight. During the fight the small one sneaks a fertilice them. "Waiting" and "Mate" are misleading.
by CompoundEyes | 2025-07-06 02:24:53+00:00
Two conversation tools I regularly use: “What are you currently obsessed with?” and if you want to follow up on even dull things a “What surprised you most about that?” works great. I don’t like small talk this helps get right to the novel, weird, and unique so I can at least enjoy the conversation and get to the core of who I’m really talking to. These help.
by susiecambria | 2025-07-06 02:25:06+00:00
Didn't the ACA reduce DSH payments because more people would be receiving Medicaid and thus the need for DSH was reduced? I've not read the Big Bad and Ugly Bill but I'm presuming that since it cuts Medicaid, and the GOP has so little empathy, that funding for DSH was not increased. (Though as I write this I realize how stupid I sound; of course the GOP did not increase funding!)
by cryptozeus | 2025-07-06 02:25:41+00:00
yeh I type in Paris, now I get a paragraph to read with random suggestions with no context to verify if these are good for me or not. If User has to figure out and make choices and tell AI to plan the trip then what is the point. It is easy for me to see nice UI with reviews, image grid and make choice based on this type of data. Why is the purpose of back and forth discussion with AI ?
by bigfatkitten | 2025-07-06 02:26:35+00:00
Some of the smartest and most capable people I’ve ever worked with came from government agencies where you send in your CV, write a max 700-800 word spiel about why you’d be a good fit for the role, and then do a 30-60 minute interview if you look good enough on paper to be shortlisted.

It’s a surprisingly efficient and low-bullshit process.
by grugagag | 2025-07-06 02:26:36+00:00
Look ma, I can change the air conditioning controls without looking moment.

A friend got a tesla on lease and it was quite cheap, 250/month. Been driven in that car a few times and was able to study the driver using the controls and it’s hideusly badly designed, driver has to take eyes off the road and deep dive in menus. Plus that slapped tablet in the middle is busy to look at, tiring and distacting. The 3d view of other cars/ pedestrians is a gimmick, or at least it looks like one to me. Does anyone actually like that? Perhaps im outdated or something but I wouldn’t consider such a bad UX in a car.
by chouaibyoussouf | 2025-07-06 02:26:51+00:00
ConvoSphere is an (all age ranges) platform that instantly connects two users for a 10-minute conversation based on shared interests and educational levels(pre-college,college,professional) ensuring relevance and chemistry. After each session, users can choose to connect or get a new match. Unlike many social platforms that turned into dating platforms, we focus on goal-driven, meaningful conversations, not swipes or dopamine loops
by Mockapapella | 2025-07-06 02:27:16+00:00
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by toomuchtodo | 2025-07-06 02:28:18+00:00
What leads you to this conclusion? Heat pumps can replace existing fossil fuel boiler units for heat, while also providing cooling as global warming continues to expose the UK to increased heating year after year.

Perhaps a home than can maintain temperature passively does not require a heat pump, but any home that requires active conditioning of either heating or cooling will benefit.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/28/heat-pum...
by const_cast | 2025-07-06 02:29:17+00:00
> Our ancestors were eating primarily meat for 10's of thousands of years

I've heard this before and it needs to be said: this is a myth.

Human hunter-gathers ate very, very little meat. Which makes sense when you think about it - gathering is easy, hunting is hard. Humans ate mostly nuts, berries, fruits, and vegetables. You might be shocked to learn early humans ate over 100 grams of fiber a day. Today, the general recommendation is 35 grams a day, but most Americans get about 2 grams.

In addition, game meat is not like farmed meat. Farmed meat is high in saturated fat, but game meat has much more unsaturated fat. Game animals are significantly leaner.

Humans eat the most meat they've ever eaten today. Up until maybe 70 years ago, meat was fairly rare in the human diet. Even today, high meat consumption is only observed in the west. Coincidentally, or probably not, we see the highest incidence of obesity and CVD in the west. Of course it's much more complicated than this - we eat a lot of meat, but we're also much richer and eat more in general.

That's not to say that your diet is for sure unhealthy. If it's working for you, then great. Just be aware of the evidence surrounding meat consumption, particularly red and/or processed meat consumption. Processed meat in particular is pretty much never safe to eat, in any amount. It's a group 1 carcinogen, in the same classification as Tobacco and alcohol. We know, for sure, it increases your risk of cancer.

Which is a shame, because pastrami is delicious.
by echelon | 2025-07-06 02:29:29+00:00
> “AI or not” is going to be the norm going forward

The new "is it Photoshop?"

It'll be so pervasive that the average Instagram user will become fluent.

People are going to get so used to this technology. It's going to be added to everything.

> Sad state of affairs for creatives and non-creatives alike.

Heavy disagree. I absolutely love AI generated content, and my friends and I have been using the tools quite a bit:

https://youtu.be/Tii9uF0nAx4

https://youtu.be/tAAiiKteM-U

https://youtu.be/H4NFXGMuwpY

Other people are making really cool stuff, too.

Hollywood never catered to what I wanted. We lived in a drought where 20,000 yearly film students had to fight for 100 roles of autonomy (most often won by nepotism). I certainly never made it, despite trying. Now I can make the stuff I want to see for myself.
by yupitsme123 | 2025-07-06 02:29:31+00:00
Climate change is the only issue I'm aware of where "humanity" routinely gets implicated.

Climate change has been a mainstream issue since the mid-90s. From then until now we've had massive material and ideological changes across the globe, none of which required the support or awareness of humanity or the voting public.

The internet, cell phones, social media, fracking, AI, multiple wars, changes in attitudes towards family, sexuality, and marijuana usage have all occurred during this time period. Why then has a slight, gradual reduction in greenhouse gas reduction been so hard?
by fiddlerwoaroof | 2025-07-06 02:29:32+00:00
My point is that no one is a new user forever and so I think we need to come up with a better solution than UI taking up screen space for things people end up doing via shortcuts. Menus and command palettes are great for this because they are mostly invisible.

The other important thing is learning to fit into the conventions of the platform: for example, Cocoa apps on Mac all inherit a bunch of consistent behaviors.
by papertigerau | 2025-07-06 02:30:15+00:00
This is a great point on the value of recurring events! Multiple serendipitous / unplanned interactions (where both people leave feeling good) are an important pathway to building a relationship. As a child most of your friendships were a function of proximity & chance - school and community events provided opportunities for regular (but unplanned) interaction.

Recurring events make it easier to meet others, and the regular, repeated interactions help form stronger connections.

Over time it also deepens your options of people to move around room for conversation - which is a nice way to break out of being awkwardly stuck in a 1:1 conversation for too long.

"Follow me so I can introduce you to Bob" is a way kinder way to exit a 1:1 than "I'm going to get another drink/visit the bathroom" and leaving them standing alone.
by neom | 2025-07-06 02:31:28+00:00
Chloropicrin.

May 2024: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/world/europe/us-russia-ch...

Oct 2024: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yj5qepe4wo

Seems the Dutch think they are stepping it up.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-07-06 02:32:49+00:00
What's tricky about it? You can use USB over IP on Linux in the real world today, so I can't see any reason why you couldn't pass devices from the thin client to the server in the same way. The only slight oddity is that you would pretend that it was a USB hub that got plugged and unplugged whenever the session connected and disconnected.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-07-06 02:33:24+00:00
They can be used, they just need more complexity than a simple switch that completes a circuit, they now have tiny cpus so they can signal the bus correctly. The switch must broadcast turn thing on when the switch is set to on, and then turn thing off when the switch is set to off, all with whatever serial protocol being used (including back off and retry, etc. ..). So your input devices need to be little computers so that you can use one bus for everything, now you can see where one touch screen begins to save money.
by jmogly | 2025-07-06 02:33:47+00:00
I never got into the weeds as I didn’t end up taking the job, but ill explain a bit:

The factoring company buys a company’s invoices at some discount, say $.90 cents on the dollar. Companies that need factoring are usually small businesses in dire straits (if the straits weren’t dire, why couldn’t you get a regular business loan/line of credit?). This is where it started to look a bit like a shylock to me, not to say all factoring companies are nasty, but this one definitely smelled funny to me. Bad factors will deliberately look for desperate businesses and take advantage, buy their receivables for say $.60 on the dollar, company barely makes pay roll, has to continuously keep factoring. There’s also stacking fees for things like unpaid receivables and contracts that give the factor recourse to go after a company’s assets directly in case of unpaid invoices. It just seems a little parasitic, a little mafiaso to me. I never took the job so this could be somewhat cynical and uninformed as well.
by aaronblohowiak | 2025-07-06 02:34:19+00:00
Ehhhhhhh. I believe but cannot cite that fork() got a lot cheaper over the last 30 years as well (independent of machine stats, I believe the Linux impl is inherently cheaper now but I can’t remember the details.) cgi bin works really well if you don’t have to pay for ssl or tcp connections to databases or other services, but you can maybe run something like istio if you need that. I have long thought that (fast)cgi is better model than proprietary “lambda” /“faas”. But the languages de jure and vendor lock in didn’t favor a standards based approach here.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-06 02:35:55+00:00
There is no doubt the competitive ideology is high D

https://exper.psy.rptu.de/hilbig/get.php?p=140

What could be higher D then “Many people should lose their health care coverage so a few wealthy people can get richer?”

Personally I think a lot of leftists on Mastodon and AoC are high D. I think Mitt Romney is low D.

The conservative in me thinks “politicians model behavior for other people.” In Trump’s first term my mother-in-law took a break from the casino because drunks felt empowered to grab ass. I’d much rather my son talk like Mandami or Romney rather than Trump or AoC.
by gus_massa | 2025-07-06 02:36:15+00:00
Once I once have to hide the forums in the webpage in an old version of Moodle. It was impossible do it in the configuration and we didn't have enough headcount to moderate them.

I printed the relevant code in dead tree paper (probably dead sugar cane), then analyzed it for two days and then I typed:

\\

That's 0.0007 CPM.
by nine_k | 2025-07-06 02:38:08+00:00
BTW one way to break the ice is to go a bit meta. Imagine saying: "Hello! My name is ${name}, nice to see you! One of my favorite ice-breaker questions is: ${some_question}. What do you think?"

It evokes smiles, it allows the other party to answer the question, share their own question, discuss the process of getting into a friendly conversation, etc, all without being formulaic.
by aspenmayer | 2025-07-06 02:38:14+00:00
Well you misspelled place, but that word likely isn’t present in their email, so I apologize for the instructions being unclear. I don’t know their email definitively, so I guess you’re on your own, as I don’t think that the issue would be resolved by rephrasing the instructions, but I’m willing to try if you think it would help you.
by const_cast | 2025-07-06 02:38:15+00:00
Which method works best varies person to person. But how they work, in the context of weight loss, is identical. That being, lower calorie consumption. This goes for intermittent fasting, too.

The trouble is that eating healthy is hard, expensive, and time consuming. People largely don't want to do it. Counting calories can work for those people, as it may allow them to continue to eat the foods they love.
by yupitsme123 | 2025-07-06 02:38:56+00:00
I didn't say that the media said that. It was the general feeling that many people (myself included) had and that activists perpetuated at that time. Disaster was about 15-20 years away.

What I said about the media is that they talked about climate change a whole lot more back then compared to now. Beside the Iraq War it was one of the big topics that everyone was always talking about. Nowadays it seems more of a background issue.
by Lerc | 2025-07-06 02:39:12+00:00
A lot of advances led to bad things, at the same time they led to good things.

Conversely a lot of very bad things led to good things. Worker rights advanced greatly after the plague. A lot of people died but that also mean there was a shortage of labour.

Similarly WWII, advanced women's rights because they were needed to provide vital infrastructure.

Good and bad things have good and bad outcomes, much of what defines if it is good or bad is the balance of outcomes, but it would be foolhardy to classify anything as universally good or bad. Accept the good outcomes of the bad. address the bad outcomes of the good.
by nine_k | 2025-07-06 02:42:05+00:00
Fast code is easy. But slow code is equally easy, unless you keep an eye, and measure.

And measuring is hard. This us why consistently fast code is hard.

In any case, adding some crude performance testing into your CI/CD suite, and signaling a problem if a test ran for much longer than it used to, is very helpful at quickly detecting bad performance regressions.
by josephg | 2025-07-06 02:42:07+00:00
I don’t know that I agree. Take reading HN comments on my phone. There’s dozens of UI controls that are hidden behind a few buttons at the top or bottom of the screen. Getting that stuff out of the way makes the page itself take up almost all of my phone screen - and that makes the webpage much more beautiful and enjoyable. My phone screen is only so large. The palm pilot era equivalent browser would fill half the screen with buttons and controls and scroll bars, leaving much less room for the website content.

In my opinion, hidden controls aren’t bad per se. But they are something you have to learn to use. That makes them generally worse for beginners and (hopefully) better for experts. It’s a trade off and sometimes getting users to learn your UI is the right decision. I’m glad my code editor puts so much power at my fingertips. I’m glad git is so powerful. I don’t want a simplified version of git if it means giving up some of its power.

That said, I think we have gone way too far toward custom per-app controls. If you’re going to force users to learn your UI conventions, those learnings should apply to other applications on the same platform. Old platforms like the palm were amazing for this - custom controls were incredibly rare. When you learned to use a palm pilot, you could use all the apps on it.
by Teever | 2025-07-06 02:43:04+00:00
There are many remarkable leaders throughout history and around the world who have done the best that they could for the people they found themselves leading lead and did so for noble reasons and not because they felt like they were better than them.

Tecumseh, Malcolm X, Angela Merkel, Cincinnatus, Eisenhower, and Gandhi all come to mind.

George Washington was surely an exceptional leader but he isn't the only one.
by eslaught | 2025-07-06 02:43:12+00:00
Recently I was introduced to the distinction between anxiety and dread. Anxiety is, essentially, a form of fear. You fear a worst-case consequence that isn't actually that likely. If you put up with your anxiety and just go and do the thing (on average) you'll do just fine, or at least ok-ish. Over time your body learns that the anxious activity is ok and the anxiety is reduced.

Dread is different. Dread is the expectation of a bad situation. It's not a worst-case scenario, it's a typical scenario. If what you are experiencing is dread, then pushing yourself into that situation will confirm to your body that, yup, it really is as bad as you thought, and will amplify the dread rather than diminish it.

A classic example is that certain forms of neurodivergence create sensory overload in typical "social" environments. This is likely to result in dread rather than anxiety. Your body is literally telling you that this situation is problematic, and repeat exposure isn't going to improve anything.

In our modern culture the language of anxiety is widespread but the language of dread much less so, and I think that's unfortunate because a lot of advice centers around "just get over it", which works only if what you're experiencing is anxiety. Personally, learning about this gave me permission to do "social" activities on my own terms and stop worrying about what other people think "social" means; turns out the social anxiety I had was relatively minimal and what I was experiencing was mostly the dread from environments where social activities often occur.
by FallCheeta7373 | 2025-07-06 02:43:48+00:00
Practically not really needed for a person going out of their way to setup syncthing, you can just sync the underlying folder, I do this with logseq, their syncing subscription is paid, I just sync the underlying logseq graph and markdown syntax. It's seamless and rarely disturbs me, works well in background, although android seemingly doesn't respect my background preferences, and clears it out of my ram when I inevitably hit the clear button, but that's soluble by simply rebooting once in a while.
by yupitsme123 | 2025-07-06 02:44:17+00:00
Things do in fact work that way. Here's a list of things that a small number of people changed without the consent of the public, all before we got a single workable plan for climate change:

The internet, cell phones, social media, fracking, AI, the fall of the Soviet Union, war in Iraq, changes in attitudes towards family, sexuality. Just to name a few.

All of these things just kind of happened without the public having asking for them. Why then has a slight, gradual reduction in greenhouse gases been so hard?
by VikRubenfeld | 2025-07-06 02:46:23+00:00
Is a future where AI replaces most human labor rendered impossible by the following consideration:

-- In such a future, people will have minimal income (possibly some UBI) and therefore there will be few who can afford the products and services generated by AI

-- Therefore the AI generates greatly reduced wealth

-- Therefore there’s greatly reduced wealth to pay for the AI

-- …rendering such a future impossible
by mazzystar | 2025-07-06 02:46:26+00:00
This reminds me of my own painful story: I once made a local photo search app called Queryable that ported OpenAI's CLIP model to iPhone, letting you search your photos with queries like "a black cat sitting on a sofa."

Since it needed to access users' local photo libraries, I didn't want the app to connect to the internet under any circumstances. So I made it a paid app instead of the usual free+in-app purchases model, since the latter requires calling StoreKit which goes online. But because the app had to run the CLIP model, it would crash on lower-performance phones like the iPhone X. Users who paid for it couldn't use it and felt scammed, leading to tons of one-star reviews and angry complaints about their photos being stolen. Eventually I decided to open-source the app, though it never brought me much revenue anyway.

Two years later, Apple started announcing they'd be integrating this exact feature into Apple Intelligence : )
by apical_dendrite | 2025-07-06 02:46:58+00:00
The printing press led to more than a century of religious wars in Europe, perhaps even deadlier than WW2 on a per-capita basis.

20 years ago we all thought that the Internet would democratize information and promote human rights. It did democratize information, and that has had both positive and negative consequences. Political extremism and social distrust have increased. Some of the institutions that kept society from falling apart, like local news, have been dramatically weakened. Addiction and social disconnection are real problems.
by gus_massa | 2025-07-06 02:47:26+00:00
Do you have an URL? Are you part of the team? People is friendlier here when the author is in the comment section replying the questions.

It look like a lot of buzz words:

> • Using quantum-enhanced predictive analytics to optimise energy grids

May be related to quantum annealing. I know too little to be sure, but I think something is possible.

> • Speeding up sustainable materials discovery

There is some research like this, but until we have a real quantum computer with enough qbits, it's difficult to do.

> • Building quantum-resistant AI cybersecurity protocols

No idea what it could mean.
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