MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by joseda-hg | 2025-07-20 19:27:57+00:00
I'm not vegetarian, but I have a family member that is

He never disliked the taste, on the opposite, he enjoyed, but didn't stand by the means neccessary to put it in his plate

So eventually he stopped eating it, but having always been a curious eater, he's always missed a taste similar to meat

As far as he's told me Burguers and some kinds of Chorizo are passable enough, but still, depends on presentation and it's been so long I don't know if his comparissons are still good
by WalterBright | 2025-07-20 19:28:14+00:00
> one or two hit wonders

Very few are two hit. Three is incredibly rare (Steve Jobs).

Let's look at his hits:

1. Paypal

2. Tesla

3. SpaceX

4. Starlink

5. xAI

6. Neuralink (looking promising)

7. X (looking promising)

8. Boring (successful, but not a breakout success)

9. Solar City (less successful, now part of Tesla)

BTW, Jobs had his failure too - Next

By any objective measure, Musk's business success is incredible.

I'm not just making an argument. I invested in his companies, and am enjoying the returns.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-20 19:28:40+00:00
It can. In permaculture models where you are not supplying a lot of inputs and able to cycle 100% of the manure back on grass it's great. In 20 years of running a horse farm the quality of our pasture and hay has been steadily getting better because we've been building soil.

Apply huge amounts of nitrogen fertilizer to grow corn, badly contaminating the Mississippi river and creating a dead spot in the Gulf of Mexico, feeding animals in CAFO where discarding of the manure is a problem and that's something different.

Real life systems are a little more complex than that as a cow might be grown up on scrub land and then fattened up at a CAFO for the last few months. Who knows what the long term fate of land that is cleared in the Amazon rain forest is.
by inglor_cz | 2025-07-20 19:29:52+00:00
These systems aren't purely algorithmic and the tribal council / althing / whatever body judges the cases understands that people will try to game them. In old Iceland, murderers from wealthier families were often hit by massive weregild, precisely in order not to repeat their crimes.

"Life for life" is, across the entire history and spectrum of cultures, a minority position, for all sorts of reasons. Including the one that you don't want anyone who kills in cold blood (the executioner) living next to you.

Even societies which had the capital punishment usually tabooized executioners, or forced the job on slaves etc.
by const_cast | 2025-07-20 19:30:01+00:00
Okay, but you understand this isn't actually beneficial, right? Because American spend more, but Sweden has significantly better healthcare outcomes. So the American system is just worse, period.

Also: on the topic of same-day visits because I think there's some confusion here. American can, maybe, get same-day visits if and only if they have a PCP, which is increasingly rare.

Your PCP cannot do jack fucking shit. At best, they can swab your throat. Every type of condition management outside of Strep MUST go to a specialist. Your tummy been hurting a lot? That's a job for a gastroenterologist, not your PCP.

For specialists, it's not uncommon to wait many months or even a year. Especially because most insurance plans require a referral - so you have to see two doctors.
by lutusp | 2025-07-20 19:30:06+00:00
Eventually people will separate interface from implementation, not unlike the now-disparaged OO programming paradigm. But not yet. This article discusses something well-known among insiders -- interface schemes frequently expire along with their hosting language, because they're not a recognizable, separate entity.

After AI entirely takes over programming, interfaces will become more portable and platform-agnostic than they are now.

"AI, write me a word processor."

"What language?"

"I don't care ... do you?"

Alternative reply: "COBOL, just because I know you can."
by gred | 2025-07-20 19:30:31+00:00
> It’s part of a global trend: universities cast as enemies and institutions in need of reform.

They are in need of reform.

> As scholars who study nationalism, emotion and higher education, we explore the emotional politics behind these attacks.

I don't think I trust you to diagnose your own condition.

Some of the Trump administration's actions in this area are misguided, but I am enjoying watching them challenge some of the left's sacred cows.
by terminalbraid | 2025-07-20 19:30:33+00:00
How do I reconcile your claim that this news is "A big deal" with respect to the matter-antimatter asymmetry when the article states plainly

"This puny amount of CP violation, however, cannot account for the profound asymmetry between matter and antimatter we see throughout space."

and

"The observed CP violation seems to be in line with what has been measured before in the quark sector, and we know that is not enough to produce the observed baryon asymmetry."

?
by lhl | 2025-07-20 19:30:37+00:00
Strix Halo does not run a 70B Q6 dense model at real-time conversational speed - it has a real-world MBW of about 210 GB/s. A 40GB Q4 will clock just over 5 tok/s. A Q6 would be slower.

It will run some big MoEs at a decent speed (eg, Llama 4 Scout 109B-A17B Q4 at almost 20 tok/s). The other issue is its prefill - only about 200 tok/s due to having only very under-optimized RDNA3 GEMMs. From my testing, you usually have to trade off pp for tg.

If you are willing to spend $10K for hardware, I'd say you are much better off w/ EPYC and 12-24 channels of DDR5, and a couple fast GPUS for shared experts and TFLOPS. But, unless you are doing all-night batch processing, that $10K is probably better spent on paying per token or even renting GPUs (especially when you take into account power).

Of course, there may be other reasons you'd want to inference locally (privacy, etc).
by jmyeet | 2025-07-20 19:31:01+00:00
Yeah, um, citation needed.

As one counterexample, there is a statistically significant spike in cancer diagnoses in the US at age 65 [1]. Why? Because people are on Medicare then so they finally go see a doctor.

Another: the US is the worst for wait times [2].

The US has almost the lowest rate of annual doctor visits of any country, in large part due to lack of access and cost [3].

[1]: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2021/03/Cancer-diagno...

[2]: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/health-ca...

[3]: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-how-often-people-go-...
by godelski | 2025-07-20 19:31:12+00:00
I'm not sure if the Bitter Lesson is wrong, I think we'd need clarification from Sutton (does someone have this?)

But I do know "Scale is All You Need" is wrong. And VERY wrong.

Scaling has done a lot. Without a doubt it is very useful. But this is a drastic oversimplification of all the work that has happened over the last 10-20 years. ConvNext and "ResNets Strike Back" didn't take off for reasons, despite being very impressive. There's been a lot of algorithmic changes, a lot of changes to training procedures, a lot of changes to how we collect data[0], and more.

We have to be very honest, you can't just buy your way to AGI. There's still innovation that needs be done. This is great for anyone still looking to get into the space. The game isn't close to being over. I'd argue that this is great for investors too, as there are a lot of techniques looking to try themselves at scale. Your unicorns are going to be over here. A dark horse isn't a horse that just looks like every other horse. Might be a "safer" bet, but that's like betting on amateur jockies and horses that just train similar to professional ones. They have to do a lot of catch-up, even if the results are fairly certain. At that point you're not investing in the tech, you're investing in the person or the market strategy.

[0] Okay, I'll buy this one as scale if we really want to argue that these changes are about scaling data effectively but we also look at smaller datasets differently because of these lessons.
by palata | 2025-07-20 19:31:36+00:00
The US was built for the individual car. That's what I consider a failure. Maybe it was not obvious back then, but retrospectively I think we can say it is a failure.

In cities in Europe, you can actually walk. Many times you're faster by bike than by car. And public transportation works well (plus you can put your bike in the bus/tram/train if necessary).

> it is incredibly difficult to retrofit onto winding lanes and tiny cobbled city streets.

Agreed. But on top of making them more beautiful, the fact that it's harder to have 6 lanes full of cars is desirable to me.
by bearjaws | 2025-07-20 19:31:59+00:00
It's sad how many younger people fall for grifters on Twitch.

The reality is, almost nobody on Twitch like Pirate software is likely, to put it nicely, embellishing their career.

Someone as accomplished as he claims would not be streaming, because their work is typically rewarding both in terms of day to day challenges and pay.

To actually start a career streaming, you basically have to be "unemployed" for 1-5 years. For anyone making real money, the decision is easy, they simply won't stream.
by klabb3 | 2025-07-20 19:32:25+00:00
> But I'm not as worried as others. None of these have lock-in.

They will. And when they do it will hit hard, especially if you’re not just a consumer but relying on it for work.

One vector is personalization. Your LLM gets to know you and your history. They will not release that to a different company.

Another is integrations. Perhaps you’re using LLMs for assistance, but only Gemini has access to your calendar.

Cloud used to be ”rent a server”. You could do it anywhere, but AWS was good & cheap. Now how is is it to migrate? Can you even afford the egress? How easy is it to combine offerings from different cloud providers?
by vitaut | 2025-07-20 19:32:33+00:00
With fwrite that would be another level of buffering in addition to FILE's buffer. If you are interested in what {fmt} is doing, a good starting point is https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt/blob/35dcc58263d6b55419a5932bd.... It is also possible to bypass stdio completely and get even faster output (https://vitaut.net/posts/2020/optimal-file-buffer-size/) and while it is great for files, it may introduce interleaving problems with things like stdout.
by fragmede | 2025-07-20 19:32:54+00:00
Small children believe in a magic being that lives at the North Pole and brings them presents through the chimney every year o. Christmas, I'm not sure I'd base anything on their beliefs about "amphet" when they can't even describe its MoA. Thinking Adderall turns you into a zombie is fallacious thinking. No one's forcing you to take it, but unbridled creativity is great for getting nothing done. Pushing rope, as it were.
by lblume | 2025-07-20 19:33:03+00:00
This made me think – the fact that the underlying rule that nouns e.g. representing activities such as cooking can be formed from the corresponding verb via the suffix -er breaks in this case is just a historical / cultural artifact of languages, a type of completely unnecessary complication from the machines' standpoint. Maybe LLM hallucination might also partially be caused by this exception-based social modelling forced via our training data into all model architectures?
by lmeyerov | 2025-07-20 19:33:15+00:00
Yes that's how I do Claude code manually, git branch per terminal window, and very rarely multiple agents on the same branch

It mostly works, except we don't have a clean flow for docker: shared system daemon & repository means need to manually tag & run by branch/project (docker compose -p ...), which is friction for the LLM and even more setup than we want

As a heavy multi session Claude Code user, this may be what finally converts me to cloud IDEs...
by zahlman | 2025-07-20 19:33:55+00:00
> Many buy plant based alternatives to milk as well. Twenty years ago only a few people would ask for oat/soy milk when ordering a coffee. But these days many do.

There was a period of my life when I went dairy-free as part of investigating some health issues. At first I bought almond milk. It was clearly not an adequate replacement, and rather expensive, so I quickly ended up just dropping it entirely. I can't imagine a point to using these alternatives in coffee (or tea) — I'd sooner use an artificial whitener, or again just go without (although still with plenty of sugar, knowing me).
by pm215 | 2025-07-20 19:34:01+00:00
The MH and nmh mail clients used to directly look into FILE internals. If you look for LINUX_STDIO in this old version of the relevant file you can see the kind of ugliness that resulted:

https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/nmh.git/tree/sbr/m_ge...

It's basically searching an email file to find the contents of either a given header or the mail body. These days there is no need to go under the hood of libc for this (and this code got ripped out over a decade ago), but back when the mail client was running on elderly VAXen this ate up significant time. Sneaking in and reading directly from the internal stdio buffer lets you avoid copying all the data the way an fread would. The same function also used to have a bit of inline vax assembly for string searching...

The only reason this "works" is that traditionally the FILE struct is declared in a public header so libc can have some of its own functions implemented as macros for speed, and that there was not (when this hack was originally put in in the 1980s) yet much divergence in libc implementations.
by Saline9515 | 2025-07-20 19:34:11+00:00
Out of curiosity, how do you get 150g/day of full proteins?

For instance, eating lentils, which is one of the most proteinated vegetable, bring 18g of proteins per 100g, along with 40g of carbs. You also have to eat a comparable amount of cereal to get a full protein chain.

Given that amount of proteins you mention, this requires eating a very large volume of food (cereals and graminacae swell with water during cooking).

I always wondered how vegetarians could reach a highly proteinic diet as a result!
by bobthepanda | 2025-07-20 19:34:12+00:00
FedNow is relatively new for the US in 2024.

One thing to note is that by design, the US banking system is very decentralized and that makes any sort of migration or mandate like herding cats. There are 141 banks in Spain and 4135 in the US.

US banks are generally not allowed to exceed 10% of deposits through mergers and there are only three passing that threshold; JPMorgan Chase at 15%, BofA at 14%, and Wells Fargo at 11%.
by tialaramex | 2025-07-20 19:34:14+00:00
> TL;DR: mostly what I mean is Go is the only language from this millennium that's consistently in the top 10 most popular programming languages.

So, if you don't count the lists where it isn't in the top ten, and you don't count languages like Typescript? Does that feel like an important distinction to you with the exceptions, rather than an arbitrary post doc justification ?

> Isn't this exactly what we're talking about? I don't think you have to squint too hard to invent the gap between Go and Rust (et al).

Likewise for Go and Python or Javas, so why the "top 10" ? Arbitrary.

> TypeScript is JavaScript

No. Javascript is (very bad) Typescript, but Typescript is not Javascript. That's why they have a transpiler.

If you contend that the similarity means they're the same language that makes C++ also C and I don't think you want to start that fight.

My pithy response to the Stroustrup argument is a T-shirt I own which says "Haters gonna make some good points". Yes of course people will criticize your popular language, but this observation does not make the criticisms untrue, and resorting to Stroustrup's argument is best understood as an admission that he has no response to the actual criticism.

C++ is remarkably bad. You're looking at popularity lists. What else is on those lists which has similar levels of criticism? Go is a long way short of perfect but it's nowhere close to C++. If Go is the Stallone "Judge Dredd" then maybe C++ is "Batman & Robin".
by prmoustache | 2025-07-20 19:34:20+00:00
Sony Minidiscs works great with little kids as well, especially when used with a non portable "Salon" player which you slot the minidisc on. They are large enough that you can print stickers on them for easy recognition and the media has an arrow drawing that tells people in which direction to slot it in. Any kid learns quite quickly how to use the triangle play button and the square stop one.
by appreciatorBus | 2025-07-20 19:36:08+00:00
Sample sentences below from recent work by the authors.

> Anticolonial thought and praxis offer education scholars, activists, and practitioners an intellectual and political framework of connectivity and anticolonial solidarity that neither erases differences between decolonization and other political projects, nor fails to foreground community building between fields, approaches, and geographical regions.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/edth.12660

> This article addresses this gap by introducing the original concept of decolonial chronopolitics, a framework critiquing dominant temporalities underpinning the coloniality of knowledge.

https://www.academia.edu/130467732/Decolonial_chronopolitics...

I can’t stand Trump or Orban and I’m aware of the dangers both people and their political styles pose to democracy writ large. But if this type of “research” is what we have to defend to protect higher ed, I don’t know if we are going to make it.
by WalterBright | 2025-07-20 19:36:17+00:00
> US and Soviet Union studied reusable rockets from at least the 70s, but the economics wasn’t compelling.

What could be more compelling than reducing launch costs by 90%? "Studying" something and "delivering" something are very different things.

> was largely driven by battery tech

Regenerative braking was a crucial enabling technology.

> The first practical lithium ion battery car was either the Nissan Leaf or a weird Renault

Too bad they didn't take the world by storm like Tesla did. Tesla got the formula right, the others did not. The success of the Tesla speaks volumes.
by Vektorceraptor | 2025-07-20 19:36:18+00:00
There is no contradiction between patriotism, nationalism and science or progress. Every time I read this kind of leftist propaganda, I lose hope for the world. The very people who present themselves as intelligent and morally superior fail to recognize the most basic contradictions within themselves: they claim that autocrats and populists sow fear and nostalgia, while they themselves are driven by fear of autocrats and long for utopia, while polarizing and dividing society for neglecting real problems and worries, due to idealization and generalization. It’s simply absurd, and I urge every leftist to stop this. I myself left university because of the moralistic and toxic irrationality and ideology I encountered. Isn't it strange that empirical sciences are not in dispute? It is always the same "circle" - the social justice circle. Social justice is not a scientific category.

Just as the paradoxes of quantum mechanics have no direct consequences for politics, we should not treat the humanities as if they do either. Life is not a question or problem to be solved at the university...
by rwmj | 2025-07-20 19:36:47+00:00
I remember trying to write a cross-platform interface for some software in XUL, around 2003. I even bought two (physical!) books on the subject. It was totally impossible! The libraries were ever-changing and you needed the entire Mozilla CVS tree checked out to compile anything and just getting that to compile was endless complexity. I gave up and used an early port of Gtk to Windows.

Such a "could have been great" technology if it wasn't for Mozilla ...
by guiriduro | 2025-07-20 19:36:59+00:00
Major Cloud providers would still need to invest eu-customer money in providing eu IT services, this is more a legal, security and privacy isolation for big tech players in order to maintain their share, extract royalties etc.

Startups that are not in a large marketshare situation wouldn't trigger the need for intermediary/isolation so the effect on FDI would be limited, and anyway, the tides are turning on US capital in general.

Retaliation: I'm not sure the US fiscal and legal overreach isn't already in place, e.g. VW dieselgate, export controls etc. The US looks after its interests (fair enough), but its time the EU levelled the field to protect its citizens, a small loss of regional sovereignty for those companies in exchange for the EU revenue they continue to make.
by aabhay | 2025-07-20 19:37:02+00:00
Transfer learning isn’t about “exhausting” all available un-curated data, its simply that the systems are large enough to support it. There’s not that much of a reason to train on all available data. And its not all, there’s still a very significant filtration happening. For example they don’t train on petabytes of log files, that would just be terribly uninteresting data.
by bokkies | 2025-07-20 19:37:48+00:00
Back in 2015 I walked 2 miles to a bowling alley tagged on Google maps (in Northwich, England) with my then gf...imagine our surprise when we walked in to a steamy front room and reception desk, my gf asks 'is this the bowling alley' to which a glistening man in a tank top replies 'this is a gay and lesbian sauna love'. We beat a hasty retreat but I imagine they were having more fun than bowling in there
by toomanyrichies | 2025-07-20 19:37:58+00:00
Here's the sorted Equifax list:

Minnesota 730

New Hampshire 727

Wisconsin 727

Vermont 726

Massachusetts 723

South Dakota 722

Washington 722

Colorado 720

Maine 720

Montana 720

North Dakota 720

Nebraska 720

Hawaii 719

Iowa 719

Utah 719

Idaho 718

Connecticut 717

New Jersey 717

Oregon 717

New York 713

Pennsylvania 713

Rhode Island 713

Wyoming 713

California 712

Illinois 712

Kansas 712

Virginia 712

Michigan 710

Alaska 709

Maryland 706

Ohio 706

Delaware 705

Missouri 705

Dist. of Col. 704

Indiana 704

Arizona 703

North Carolina 699

Florida 698

Tennessee 697

Kentucky 695

New Mexico 695

Puerto Rico 695

West Virginia 693

South Carolina 692

Nevada 691

Arkansas 688

Oklahoma 687

Georgia 686

Texas 686

Alabama 685

Louisiana 680

Mississippi 675
by KomoD | 2025-07-20 19:38:04+00:00
"If your work isn't ready for users to try out, please don't do a Show HN. Once it's ready, come back and do it then. Don't post landing pages or fundraisers."

Also how can you say "I built" when you admit that it's nothing other than a landing page?

Also "TRUSTED BY 10K+ ONLINE BUSINESSES"
by Groxx | 2025-07-20 19:38:04+00:00
That seems rather easy? There's still plenty of safety. It's not an `unsafe` trick or worse, you still have bounds checking and safe concurrency and well-defined behavior, and you can trivially guarantee that (while mutating the vec) it cannot be changed unexpectedly while you hold ownership of the vec. The extreme ease of making that guarantee is kinda the core of their complaint.

The dangling-pointer equivalent is an issue, but it's still safe (unlike in C-like langs) and there are ways to mitigate the risk of accidental misbehavior (e.g. generational pointers, or simply an ID check if you have a convenient ID).

That's quite a bit different than what you get in almost any other widely-used language - e.g. some will at best be able to claim "concurrent access won't lead to undefined behavior" via e.g. the GIL, but not prevent unexpected modification (e.g. "freeze" doesn't deep-freeze in the vast majority of languages).
by lousken | 2025-07-20 19:38:12+00:00
Seconds after a video is released on big yt channels bots spam the hell out of it with nasty stuff. But youtube rather fights adblockers rather than this nasty stuff. Discord is just less obvious but it is also a huge issue there

As for matrix i think non-paying user should have limited interactions in large rooms only, maybe require mod approval. There is no reason to limit personal chats or friends chat with five people.