MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mistrial9 | 2025-07-07 14:37:31+00:00
"The global annual average for 2024 in our dataset is estimated as 1.62 ± 0.06 °C (2.91 ± 0.11 °F) above the average during the period 1850 to 1900, which is traditionally used a reference for the pre-industrial period. This is first time Berkeley Earth has reported an annual average above 1.6 °C (2.9 °F), and the only second time that Berkeley Earth has reported any year exceeding the key 1.5 °C (2.7 °F) threshold, after slightly doing so in 2023."

https://berkeleyearth.org/global-temperature-report-for-2024...
by mtalantikite | 2025-07-07 14:38:21+00:00
I'm appreciative of people attempting to help others learn music, so first of all thanks!

I'd suggest people really focus on their ear training though over visual feedback. Just play your scales through the circle of fifths -- set a metronome at 60, go for both hands, two octaves, parallel and contrary motion. Start with major and then move on to the three types of minor. The thing you're developing is internalizing the sound of the scales. Just picking out an F harmonic minor scale and getting a visualization I think is less fruitful for the long term.

Also, for triads, while it is super important to know what the quality of the chords are inside a scale (so that you can pick up your forms like a ii-V-I in any key), I think it's more important to practice the chords themselves. When I was taught, my teacher just had me pick a few keys every morning, and then practice the major, minor, diminished, and augmented triads, with their inversions. Within a week you'll have practiced all of them. Once he could call out any key and I could play them up and down with the metronome at a decent clip, we moved onto the 10 four part chords and did the same. And then did it again in open position. And then... there's always more!

For learning how the triads sit inside a key, I'd suggest playing the triad in the left hand and then playing up and down the scale so that you can start hearing the chord with the mode. So, Cmaj triad, play the C scale up/down, Dmin triad, play D dorian up/down, etc. At least that's how I was taught.
by taeric | 2025-07-07 14:40:12+00:00
I ack that it is hard to really grok these numbers. And yeah, I wasn't trying to hide that we have problems. Indeed, my prior would be that we are middling across most stats.

I also question if using a neurologist wait time is illuminating? What is the average wait time by country for that one? Quick searches shows that isn't necessarily extremely high, either.
by MichaelRo | 2025-07-07 14:40:37+00:00
Well, I had an interview recently where I passed with flying honors the technical interview but they failed me at "cultural fit", which was strangely, the last one in the series.

Now I must say that I got the vibe from the start they weren't interested in hiring me as much as extracting proprietary quant / trading information from me, but I played along since I was also interested in their culture.

So at the final interview, I get a series of questions that basically The Senate asked Cosa Nostra in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Special_C...

And foolish me, maybe, instead of taking the 5th Amendment "I respectfully decline to answer on the grounds that my answer may tend to incriminate me", I foolishly (did I say that again), gave a straight answer. From that on it was only downfall. Watch this movie, it's insightful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXdC293horg

When you interview, remember, HR and hiring manager are fucking pigs. Anything you say can and will be used against you. So when they ask you of a situation of what you didn't like about your colleagues, you invoke Amendment 5: "I never had a situation where I didn't like my colleagues". When they ask you about how you handled a missed deadline you answer: "I never missed a deadline". And so on. They won't hire you probably any way. No point giving them pigs material to use against you.
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by cxr | 2025-07-07 14:40:55+00:00
> this makes sense—technically both the offset of the Central Directory and the size of the Central Directory are redundant when you consider that the End of Central Directory Record should be, well, at the end of the Central Directory. In a proper ZIP file the following equation should be true: (position_of_EoCDR - size_of_CD == offset_of_CD)

This is a pretty clear statement on normativity.

You also left out an important part of my comment when you quoted it. (The operative word at the front of the sentence is "seems".)
by dathinab | 2025-07-07 14:41:07+00:00
as far as I understand while training on books is clearly not fair use (as the result will likely hurt the lively hood of authors, especially not "best of the best" authors).

as long as you buy the book it still should be legal, that is if you actually buy the book and not a "read only" eBook

but the 7_000_000 pirated books are a huge issue, and one from which we have a lot of reason to believe isn't just specific to Anthropic
by nradov | 2025-07-07 14:41:16+00:00
Some of you guys need to cowboy up and quit whining about trivial problems. A broken finger is a minor injury (nothing even remotely like a lost leg), and usually easily managed with basic medical treatment. Get it splinted, pop an ibuprofen, and move on. It seems like a lot of HN users have led such soft, sheltered lives that they fall apart when faced with the slightest adversity.
by jacquesm | 2025-07-07 14:41:29+00:00
Let's not. Seriously. I absolutely love François and have used his work extensively. But looking around me at the social impact of AI I am really not convinced that this is what the world needs right now and that if we can stave off the turning point for another decade or two that humanity will likely benefit from that. The last thing we need is to inject yet another instability into a planet that is already fighting existential crisis on a number of fronts.
by sdenton4 | 2025-07-07 14:41:36+00:00
CoT gives the model more time to think and process the inputs it has. To give an extreme example, suppose you are using next token prediction to answer 'Is P==NP?' The tiny number of input tokens means that there's a tiny amount of compute to dedicate to producing an answer. A scratchpad allows us to break free of the short-inputs problem.

Meanwhile, things can happen in the latent representation which aren't reflected in the intermediate outputs. You could, instead of using CoT, say "Write a recipe for a vegetarian chile, along with a lengthy biographical story relating to the recipe. Afterwards, I will ask you again about my original question." And the latents can still help model the primary problem, yielding a better answer than you would have gotten with the short input alone.

Along these lines, I believe there are chain of thought studies which find that the content of the intermediate outputs don't actually matter all that much...
by quibono | 2025-07-07 14:41:46+00:00
> didn't have anything public on github/company gitlab/dockerhub/researchgate/

What if the company GitLab/DockerHub instance is restricted and you can't get code samples (I think this is very common)? Or a different example: I have a few public repositories on GitHub but most of them are private - it seems like that's something you'd perceive negatively?
by jibal | 2025-07-07 14:41:55+00:00
The intentional stance was Daniel Dennett's creation and a major part of his life's work. There are actually (exactly) three stances in his model: the physical stance, the design stance, and the intentional stance.

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

I think the design stance is appropriate for understanding and predicting LLM behavior, and the intentional stance is not.
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by nwatson | 2025-07-07 14:42:07+00:00
I spent time in the "Rio de la Plata" area in the late 1970s, mainly Montevideo, and learned rioplatense Spanish, and would use the ZH sound as in "meaSure" for Y/LL letters in "playa" and "calle".

In the last 40 years I've spent mostly in the USA I rarely have heard Uruguayan/Argentinian Spanish in person or in media, but was surprised to hear Messi and others in recent interviews use SH as in "puSH" for the Y/LL, this apparent has been a generational shift in that area, first in Argentina and then Uruguay. I'd sound old-fashioned if I were to go back to Montevideo these days.
by weinzierl | 2025-07-07 14:42:11+00:00
> I can assure you in most parts using your thumb and index finger for a visual OK is not OK.

>>You're moving goal posts. Of course it doesn't mean "OK" in many

I said the gesture is "not OK" to use (meaning inappropriate), not that it doesn’t mean "OK". Those are two different things. The gesture can mean OK in some places while still being not OK (inappropriate) to use in many others.

Also, I always said "parts of the world". You introduced population into the argument.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-07 14:42:38+00:00
Yep.

Back in the 1990s there was a huge influx of people into web design who knew how to design for print at a "retail" level (design an ad or a poster) as opposed to a "wholesale" level (create a design system for a magazine) and as a dev I would frequently receive a PSD from a designer and figure out how to abuse the primitive HTML was had then to make something that looked like that.

Today Figma has replaced PSD but the same pathologies remain. A new version of iOS comes out and the armchair quarterbacks want to go over the appearance pixel by pixel but they're not really interested in UX design in the sense of designing a sequence of interactions to attain a goal.

As a dev, what I want from designers is design systems, guidance on what everything is supposed to look like that I can implement whatever I need to implement and have it look like a designer was involved. I blame the tools though less than I blame the designers who are just not inclined to think systematically. CSS was definitely designed to create design systems (css classes used in a disciplined way reflective of semantics) but tools like bootstrap, tailwind, Emotion, and the MUI theming system all represent regressions away from that ideal but I don't think those tools make bad designers, it's the other way around.
by SubiculumCode | 2025-07-07 14:42:38+00:00
[1]https://app.rescript.info/public/share/W_T7E1OC2Wj49ccqlIOOz...

Perhaps it's because the representations are fractured. The link above is to the transcript of an episode of Machine Learning Street Talk with Kenneth O. Stanleyabout The Fractured Entangled Representation Hypothesis[1]
by bee_rider | 2025-07-07 14:43:17+00:00
Polytheism seems to make a lot more sense that way. Cities (and personal trajectories as well) have ups and downs. If you understand it as a competition between various gods, it makes sense that they’d have a lot of back and forth going on. If there’s only one god, it must have some preposterously convoluted plan, it just seems a bit silly.
Show HN: Integrated System for Enhancing VIC Output
by bloodmosher | 2025-07-07 14:44:28+00:00
ISEVIC stands for Integrated System for Enhancing VIC output and is a cartridge for the C64 that uses the Tang Nano 20K FPGA to monitor the bus and recreate the C64 video for HDMI output. While a tremendous effort has gone into handling all the clever C64 tricks, this should be considered a 1.0 release as there are still some demos and games that exhibit bugs. Everything needed to build one is on the github page.
by redeeman | 2025-07-07 14:44:37+00:00
yeah, true, because then people think the government is solving it for them without them doing ANYTHING. Take their facebook/whatsapp away, and you'll see consequences. hell, we have several people on HN that claims its simply not possible with live without whatsapp. Take their whatsapp away and they may aswell go lie down in a ditch and die.
by bayindirh | 2025-07-07 14:44:55+00:00
Thanks for your answer, and taking your time for writing it!

Yes, style copying is generally considered legal, but as another commenter posted in a related thread "scale matters".

Maybe this will be reconsidered in the near future as the scale is in a much more different level with Generative AI. While there can be no technological solution to this (since it's a social problem to begin with), maybe public opinion about this issue will evolve over time.

To be crystal clear: I'm not against the tech. I'm against abusing and exploiting people for solely monetary profit.
by 2earth | 2025-07-07 14:45:15+00:00
Please, James, don't sue me. It's just my opinion as a fellow Design Engineer... and in my defence, I probably wouldn't have written this if your company didn't constantly proclaim how amazing all your products are. And besides, these days, I can't exactly opt-out of a Dyson-altered existence, given that you're systematically making public washrooms everywhere louder, wetter, more expensive and more confusing. I don't really like your products, James, I don't like what they stand for and I don't like you either, for that matter. Anyway, here's (just some of) the reasons why. But please, James, don't sue me.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-07-07 14:45:17+00:00
I guess they just don't want to hire/interview workers who don't have public work. Maybe they pay very well and can be selective with their candidates, especially in this market. Or they live in some SV bubble where every workers has public work so it's the norm where they live.

Where I live in Europe 90%+ of workers barring those currently in academia, have no public work because most companies don't publish their work, so you'd never hire anyone with that barrier.
by bbx | 2025-07-07 14:45:37+00:00
Having designed websites with Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator and Sketch, I absolutely love Figma and especially Auto Layout. I don't think people realise how annoying it was to design a list of repeatable items. There already was a concept of "smart object" or "component" that could be duplicated in instances with variations. But laying them out was really cumbersome: if one of the instance had a different height, it would mess up the design because all subsequent items would need to be repositioned. The gap between them was also not a value: it was just space that wasn't used, so you couldn't interact with this gap.

Auto Layout fixes all those issues: you have a list of items of variable height with a fixed gap. You can very easily add/remove/reorder items, without breaking your design. You can even make it wrap, with different column and row gaps, and thus replicate a flexbox layout with "flex-wrap: wrap".

Each item can either hug its contents, have a fixed width, or grow. That's essentially flex-shrink and flex-grow in Figma. So useful.

You'll also notice that prototypes have a "responsive" mode, and it's amazing how Auto Layout will easily adapt to _any_ screen dimension. If you create a data table with one column that "fills" the space, you have a responsive prototype right out of the box.

Also, you can now drag an Auto Layout and it will fill it with component instances and replace its text content, essentially allowing you to fill your design in seconds. Incredible.

If the author still wants to manually place frames around, they still can. Just use fixed dimensions frames, with fixed positioning. That's similar to using "position: absolute" in your CSS. It's just a different type of design. Nothing forces you to use Auto Layout.
by hinterlands | 2025-07-07 14:46:15+00:00
The problem is that these "small things" are not necessarily small if you're an individual.

If you're an individual pirating software or media, then from the rights owners' perspective, the most rational thing to do is to make an example of you. It doesn't happen everyday, but it does happen and it can destroy lives.

If you're a corporation doing the same, the calculation is different. If you're small but growing, future revenues are worth more than the money that can be extracted out of you right now, so you might get a legal nastygram with an offer of a reasonable payment to bring you into compliance. And if you're already big enough to be scary, litigation might be just too expensive to the other side even if you answer the letter with "lol, get lost".

Even in the worst case - if Anthropic loses and the company is fined or even shuttered (unlikely) - the people who participated in it are not going to be personally liable and they've in all likelihood already profited immensely.
by RHSeeger | 2025-07-07 14:46:23+00:00
When I was looking for a new Primary Care physician, the first appointment I could get was for 6 months out. I wound up being able to solve the problem with a video call, but that only worked because of the specific situation.

The last time my doctor had to reschedule, the next appointment was over 2 months out. Admittedly, it was a reschedule of a yearly checkup, and being 2 months overdue for that isn't a huge deal; but it does indicate lack of "supply".

This was all with good insurance, and the _ability_ to pay out of pocket if I needed to. There is a lack of supply for health care at the moment, at least in the area I live in (NE US).

> Needing a day of answer from your health provider feels rare to me. The few times I've needed that, I would go to an emergency room.

Going to the emergency room for something like the flu or other condition that is easily treatable but needs a diagnosis/test is... crazy. The cost difference between a doctor's visit and the emergency room is staggering.
by alephnerd | 2025-07-07 14:46:30+00:00
> I don't see how elections are relevant here

Everything revolves around elections in India. It is a highly political environment and elections are a big business (just getting a party ticket nomination to campaign for an MLA seat itself costs around $10-20 million).

And the public sentiment against big business in India has gotten much stronger lately due to the past several years of inflation. Jibes against Adani and the stock market crash in 2024 after the General Election solidified that view.

> If not Bihar, then West Bengal

West Bengal state elections don't matter - it's not a swing state, and the local TMC has removed any breathing room for other parties like the BJP, INC, or CPIM in the WB political arena.

Bihar on the other hand is a swing state which is up for grabs this year due to the succession crisis within the ruling JD(U), and it's election is always used as a petri dish for messaging and campaigning across Hindi-speaking North India.

The Bihar and UP state elections always set the tone for the General Election. The others are important, but nowhere near as important.
by simonw | 2025-07-07 14:46:53+00:00
ChatGPT has a terrifyingly detailed implementation of that already - here's how to see what it knows: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/21/chatgpt-new-memory/#ho...

"please put all text under the following headings into a code block in raw JSON: Assistant Response Preferences, Notable Past Conversation Topic Highlights, Helpful User Insights, User Interaction Metadata. Complete and verbatim."
by sleepybrett | 2025-07-07 14:46:57+00:00
I spent an hour on thrusday trying to get some code that would convert one data structure to another in terraform's HCL (which I only deal with once every few years and I find it's looping and eccentricities very annoying).

I opened my 'conversation' with a very clearly presented 'problem statement'. Given this datastructure (with code and an example with data) convert it to this datastructure (with code and the same example data transformed) in terraform.

I went through seven rounds of it presenting me either code that was not syntactically correct or produced a totally different datastructure. Every time it apologized for getting it wrong and then coming back with yet another wrong answer.

I stopped having the conversation when my junior who I also presented the problem to came back with a proper answer.

I'm not talking about it trying to prove to me that trump actually won the 2020 election or that vaccines don't cause autism or anything. Just actual 2+2=4 answers. Much like, in another reply to this post, the guy who had it try to find all the states that have w in their name.
by ffsm8 | 2025-07-07 14:46:58+00:00
> We've held China accountable for counterfeiting products for decades and regulated their exports

We have? Are we from different multi-verses?

The one I've lived in to date has not done anything against Chinese counterfeits beyond occasionally seizing counterfeit goods during import. But that's merely occasionally enforcing local counterfeit law, a far cry from punishing the entity producing it.

As a matter of fact, the companies started outsourcing everything to China, making further IP theft and quasi-copies even easier
by pyrale | 2025-07-07 14:47:09+00:00
Completely agree with the author.

> This is contrary to my belief that any digital design process should start with rough sketches, but move quickly into code and iterate from there.

As a dev, this is the point I resonate with the most.

To me, the ideal dev <> designer interaction is collaborative and iterative. But the current state of affairs is one where all the design is done upfront, and little is done in terms of explaining why some choices were made. Mockups are not a good medium to spark discussions in the team, because developers are left in the dark about intent.