MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thewebguyd | 2025-07-14 19:26:13+00:00
> If someone is running everyday like this, do they actually even need to lose weight? Aren't they already very fit?

Not necessarily. There's a reason the saying is "You can't outrun a bad diet."

Before I got my diet dialed in I was cycling every day, upwards of 10 miles a day with a couple 20 mile rides per week, and was still gaining weight because I ate like crap, and more importantly, still ate more than I was burning with all the exercise.

The average American consumes 3,864 calories per day. A moderately active male might have a maintenance of ~2,647 calories, give or take a couple hundred. Just eating 500 calories per day over what you burn will lead to about a 1lb increase in weight per week. A zone 2 run might burn somewhere between 500-600 calories per hour, so its easy to see how quickly over eating can add up and at a point it becomes basically impossible to "run it off."

There's other factors that play into it such as lean mass vs. fat, etc. but in general, you can be very active and still be overweight.
by masklinn | 2025-07-14 19:26:23+00:00
> I'd guess it'd be enough for something like 1-2 miles a day on an electric drive train

It's probably more 10~20, possibly as much as 30, if it's a long and sunny summer day FWIW.

For references:

- the F150 lightning gets close to 2 miles / kWh on average, ~1.5 at highway speeds but as much as 3~4 at consistent low speeds

- on the other side of an RV, Volvo markets their FH Electric (cabover semi) for 1.1kWh/km — 0.7 mi/kWh — at 80km/h (50mph), DAF/Innovate UK's Battery Electric Truck Trial yielded similar results (1.08kWh/km over 287000 km), it's also close to the numbers of the electric trucker in their very recent MAN eGTX video (0.83 kWh/km = 0.75 mi/kWh)
by randycupertino | 2025-07-14 19:26:25+00:00
I used to work with the lady who fashioned herself a "networking genius" and her secret was keeping a giant one-note with pictures of everyone's pets. She took their pet pics off facebook and instagram and would ask about how they were in meetings. One time she was screensharing and I saw it and asked her what it was. My dog was in there.
by coldpie | 2025-07-14 19:26:29+00:00
Yeah, a test is a terrible idea, for a ton of reasons. Courts would rightly strike it down.

Just set a simple age cap. You are ineligible for election if you will be 65 or older on the day of the election. Done. It's simple, it's predictable, there's no wiggle room, and we already have precedent for limiting representation by age.
by pessimist | 2025-07-14 19:26:37+00:00
The standard model is 100% quantum mechanics. It's just QM as applied to fields. While undergrads start with single or few particle quantum mechanics.

There is a lot of hard math and fundamental physical ideas that pop out when we apply quantum mechanics to fields, but it's still QM.

The work of Heisenberg, Schrodinger, Dirac, Pauli from 1925-28 or so is absolutely not our date.
by dylan604 | 2025-07-14 19:26:48+00:00
It could also mean that if you have to ask... or the first rule of data brokering...

Seems like the first thing to do would be to get an account with one of these data brokers. I'd imagine most of these places are "contact us for pricing" so they can play used car salesman games

Or, you could ask John Oliver to do it for you and then tell all of us on one of his episodes exactly how in depth it could get. They have the money to do this, and it seems like something right in his team's wheel house
by tetromino_ | 2025-07-14 19:27:00+00:00
> I've never personally been hurt by them

You say that because you lack the tribal mindset. While people who do have the tribal mindset, if they see another person of the same demographic as them being mistreated, will automatically interpret it as a personal threat to themselves and their friends, and as evidence of discrimination against their group - regardless of the facts of the case.
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2025-07-14 19:27:18+00:00
I think they're trying to keep it readable to people who don't know the terms.

I can say "sortition" and "ranked choice voting" and "LVT" and you'd understand what I mean, but to get a broad audience it pays to break it down into concrete ideas like "Random elections" and "More than two political parties" and "Why are we paying landlords to speculate on empty lots?"
by trod1234 | 2025-07-14 19:27:27+00:00
That may have been the point of union's initially, but the reason the economy didn't collapse when no production occurred is because this never actually happened and was never tested fully.

When it came close to being tested, a legal playbook was provided for crushing unions, negating their intended benefit. This playbook was provided by none other than President Regan, with the 1981 PATCO strike.

The government took the side of the companies because they required the services to continue, and so any strike that exceeds a certain point has this bulldozer held in reserve; allowing the companies involved to not negotiate in good faith. The playbook has been used multiple times since to crush union power.
by ktallett | 2025-07-14 19:27:35+00:00
I will keep an ear out and let you know. I primarily hear of engineering positions on software where stability is key due to the industry I focus on (Science, Engineering, Research). They are the industries where you have to plan long-term to keep the max compatibility and ease of use. Adding in AI features could be useful, however if it damages the key functionality it is simply not worth the risk. It is still the case with some new software that is being built for new equipment.
by grishka | 2025-07-14 19:27:47+00:00
There's nothing wrong with fixing actual mistakes. It's obviously in everyone's best interest for documentation to be correct.

But updating dependencies and such is totally unproductive. It's contributing for the sake of having contributed in its purest form. The only thing that's worse is opening a PR to add a political banner to someone else's readme, and then getting very pissed off when they respectfully close it.
by programjames | 2025-07-14 19:28:43+00:00
> Directly select candidates at random for positions from an eligibility pool. Set and maintain the eligibility standard (such as an exam) by randomly selected oversight board to keep it updated and prevent the standard from being manipulated or gamed.

We don't want to discourage people from improving once they've met the bar. Learning a skill is often logarithmically distributed: it costs just as much to learn the first 50% as the next 25% and so on. At a minimum, to keep people cost-agnostic, we need

d/dx Pr(selected | didn't learn x%) ~ log(x%)

or

selection weight = [x log x - x + 1] * C

Note that x is on a scale from 1 to 0, where a 0 means there is nothing more you can improve at the skill, and a 1 means you need to improve at everything.
by lstamour | 2025-07-14 19:29:57+00:00
Can’t speak to this exact circumstance, but more generally: The ONT translates the SFP+ networking to fibre optic, but the modem is still somewhat necessary for logins if you use PPPoE as a wrapper for example. In telecom fibre optic, it often also assigns a particular vlan to internet packets and separate vlans for TV and phone. But I’m not an expert here, just explaining why I needed a modem function in my router as well as a media converter to house the ONT.

As far as I know, nobody uses separate boxes for the modem and router, that kind of thinking died when wifi became more widespread and included by default with ISP plans.
by bangaladore | 2025-07-14 19:30:14+00:00
> EPA range tends to be pessimistic for EVs as it assumes you are always traveling at highway speeds.

EV EPA range historically has been overstated. However, the water is muddied because the EPA doesn't really force the manufacturers to give an accurate number. A manufacturer can choose a highway only test, but then also arbitrarily decide to derate the value (EPA example is 70%). A manufacturer can choose to include city driving in the rating and weigh it accordingly and also derate the value (if they want).

Tesla traditionally (still the vast majority of new and used EV market share) has been the only manufacturer that uses the highway + city driving tests. People then get surprised when the car cannot do the full range at 85 MPH.

All in all, this is the EPAs fault. For EVs they really need two numbers, city driving range and highway driving range. EVs are so much more efficient than ICE that speed makes a huge difference given there substantially smaller energy density.

https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/fuel-economy-and-ev-range-...
by SnowflakeOnIce | 2025-07-14 19:30:24+00:00
A simple hello world in C++ can pull in dozens of megabytes of header files.

Years back I worked at a C++ shop with a big codebase (hundreds of millions of LOC when you included vendored dependencies). Compile times there were sometimes dominated by parsing speed! Now, I don't remember the exact breakdown of lexing vs parsing, but I did look at it under a profiler.

It's very easy in C++ projects to structure your code such that you inadvertently cause hundreds of megabytes of sources to be parsed by each single #include. In such a case, lexing and parsing costs can dominate build times. Precompiled headers help, but not enough...
by worik | 2025-07-14 19:30:55+00:00
> it was breathtaking the amount of information you could get on anyone, over 10+ years ago.

After being burnt by things taken from my social media out of context, used to publicly shame me, I locked down my social media

Am I "sweetly naive" to think that had an effect? I do think it did

Before I stopped using Facebook I noticed, over the last decade, that almost every account I encountered was locked down similarly

My point is I suspect it is getting harder, not easier, for data thieves. The golden age of data theft has passed. Maybe.
by eqvinox | 2025-07-14 19:31:08+00:00
My pet unorthodox position is also sortition, with an added (possibly transitionary) twist: hold elections and do it for non-voters, for a non-voter share of seats.

You can decide to vote, in which case you're removed from the sortition candidate pool. If you don't vote you're in the pool. A common representative body is formed at respective percentages.

This basically makes it so politicians have to race against "some random schmuck". If they can convince people they can do better, nice. Otherwise... too bad.

Of course some people will vote just to get out of the pool, but I think that's fine too.
by mtalantikite | 2025-07-14 19:31:44+00:00
Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but for me there certainly was (is) a mental hurdle to get over. When I first seriously started exercising I think it probably took 6 or so months of 3-4x per week before I began looking forward to it. Even after years of training, I still will battle with myself a bit before heading to my muay thai gym or heading out for a run.
by tonyarkles | 2025-07-14 19:31:56+00:00
> In many cases joining datasets is both labor intensive and creates a surprising amount of new information, and there is also plenty of "free" data that is incredibly tedious to work with.

I am a perfect example of this. Due to a bit of a quirk in how my house got its address assigned to it in 1959, we have a unique postal code. If a data broker gets access to a list of product purchases by postal code from a retailer, that's in theory somewhat anonymized. However... if they also get a list of people-postal code mappings, they have now established exactly what products my wife and I have purchased (by virtue of us being the only two people with this postal code).

Do that across multiple retailers and they've painted an incredibly vivid picture of what exactly we do with our time.
by Polizeiposaune | 2025-07-14 19:32:06+00:00
No, that's my understanding as well.

My fiber installer referred to the Adtran 632V ONT he installed as the "modem".

He installed two other junction boxes (one outside the house near/under where the fiber attaches to the wall of the house, one inside near the ONT) but they're just passive optical couplers allowing them to swap out fiber segments in the event of fiber damage without re-running the entire install.
by pheller | 2025-07-14 19:32:11+00:00
You can always print up one of the remastered C64 Users / Programmers Reference Guides on Lulu. See here: https://pickledlight.blogspot.com/p/commodore-64-guides.html

It's my hope they brought the individual who did this work in to help make the minimum changes necessary to accurately document the differences. These recreations are really quite nice.
by NathanKP | 2025-07-14 19:33:22+00:00
It's hard to directly compare, but 3000 interactions should be very, very high. Think of each of these 3000 interactions as you supplying a prompt that potentially runs for 3-5 minutes of Kiro iterating away on writing code. With appropriately sized prompts (most likely aided by spec mode), you could write a ridiculous amount of code.

For reference 3000 interactions * assumed 3 mins of AI work per interaction / 60 mins per hour / 8 working hours per day equals 18.75 working days of nonstop back to back AI coding. Typical month has 20-23 working days. But realistically you likely won't be using Kiro nonstop all day back to back, so 3000 interactions per month should more than cover your work month.
by int_19h | 2025-07-14 19:33:29+00:00
We're long past that point. Many (most?) Western governments ban simulated CP, including non-realistic stuff like cartoons or even purely textual descriptions.

Some go further still. E.g. in Australia, "laws also cover depictions of sexual acts involving people over the threshold age who are simulating or otherwise alluding to being underage, even if all those involved are of a legal age."
by consumer451 | 2025-07-14 19:34:16+00:00
Important details from the FAQ, emphasis mine:

> For users who access Kiro with Pro or Pro+ tiers once they are available, your content is not used to train any underlying foundation models (FMs). AWS might collect and use client-side telemetry and usage metrics for service improvement purposes. You can opt out of this data collection by adjusting your settings in the IDE. For the Kiro Free tier and during preview, your content, including code snippets, conversations, and file contents open in the IDE, unless explicitly opted out, may be used to enhance and improve the quality of FMs. Your content will not be used if you use the opt-out mechanism described in the documentation. If you have an Amazon Q Developer Pro subscription and access Kiro through your AWS account with the Amazon Q Developer Pro subscription, then Kiro will not use your content for service improvement. For more information, see Service Improvement.

https://kiro.dev/faq/
by no_wizard | 2025-07-14 19:34:31+00:00
>It is possible you're right. It's also equally possible that the founders have still screwed over their employees, we just don't know. Nothing in this post supports either position.

In the lack of evidence, its okay to assume the most likely scenario, which is the executives & shareholders will make out like bandits and everyone else is likely to at best, get pennies.
by trehalose | 2025-07-14 19:34:32+00:00
It would make a difference even if we humans could just accept the same quality of life we already have, instead of building more and more, larger and larger data centers, for whatever the future of AI is. Computers have become so much more efficient than they used to be, and despite any joke we can make about Electron apps and such, those are still reductions in energy consumption, and some people are building such extravagant compute facilities that far outweigh the progress people have made on reducing energy costs.
by herval | 2025-07-14 19:34:33+00:00
For me it was substantially better than Cursor. Their RAG/code indexing/whatever implementation is better (Cursor seems to completely fall apart on larger codebases, unless you keep a very detailed cursorrules file). The cmd+tab was also substantially better. Plus it's cheaper than using Cline.

But with all this changing of hands, I'm not sure I can trust it going forward at all, so I guess it's back to looking for alternatives.
by TLLtchvL8KZ | 2025-07-14 19:34:39+00:00
Related article: https://fandompulse.substack.com/p/jeremy-bicha-a-child-sexu...

I've read the documents where one of his victims describes what he did to her, absolutely disgusting. It goes far beyond assault and r*e, it was torture with tools. To a 7 year old girl, for several years, multiple times daily.

And Canonical, Debian and Gnome are doing their best to protect him and close down any discussion. Although it seems earlier today Canonical have let him go.
by d1egoaz | 2025-07-14 19:34:40+00:00
This already exists via MCP

> For other IDEs: The protocol is editor-agnostic. Any editor that can run a WebSocket server and implement the MCP tools can integrate with Claude Code.

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/1234 https://github.com/coder/claudecode.nvim/blob/da78309eaa2ca2...

Example in Emacs, this is how I use claude-code: https://github.com/manzaltu/claude-code-ide.el
by mieubrisse | 2025-07-14 19:35:12+00:00
Wild - I hit the same "no financial software meets my needs" around the same time as you guys (late 2020 in my case), and started building for myself as well: https://github.com/mieubrisse/wealthdraft

Only, I never had the courage to make the leap to building an actual product out of it. Huge congrats to you guys; going to take a look at Projection and see if I can finally retire my homegrown stuff!
by piker | 2025-07-14 19:35:28+00:00
To be fair though, unsafe rust (where the COM lives) is basically just C, so I totally expected it to be tractable in the same way it has been tractable for the last 20ish years? But it isn’t.

Why is interacting with the OS’ API in a compiled language the wrong approach in 2025? Why must I use this managed Frankenstein’s monster of dotnet? I didn’t want to ship or expect a whole runtime for what should be a tiny convenience DLL. Insane
by martythemaniak | 2025-07-14 19:35:48+00:00
> If you're gonna be angry at someone be angry at the people among us were in favor of the creation of this data set

You're right, they're not shifting blame, they're straight up telling you who is to blame. And apparently, it is not the people who came up with this idea, nor the people carrying out the actions, nor the people supporting them.
by yomismoaqui | 2025-07-14 19:36:01+00:00
It's disingenuous to expect that tools that are publicly available for less than a year have a massive adoption in the wild.

Think that these were internal tools that provided value to engineers on Anthropic, OpenAI, Google & others and now are starting to be adopted by the general public.

Some people are overhyped and some seem hurt because I don't know, maybe they define themselves by their ability to write code by hand.

I have no horse in this race and I can only tell you about my experience and I can tell you that the change is coming.

Also if you don't trust a random HN nickname go read about the experiences of people like Armin Ronacher (Flask creator), Steve Yegge or Thomas H. Ptacek.

- https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/6/4/changes/ - https://sourcegraph.com/blog/the-brute-squad - https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/
by vel0city | 2025-07-14 19:36:42+00:00
How else do you describe plainclothes "officers" picking up people from the street, putting people into unmarked vehicles, and locking them up in faraway detainment facilities despite never officially charging them with a crime?

If it was an arrest, wouldn't they be charged with a crime or released after a short processing time if not actually charged? If it was an arrest, why not have the officers properly identify themselves?

Kidnapping does have specific legal meaning depending on jurisdiction. But it also has a common meaning of "the action of abducting someone and holding them captive". Abduction has a common definition of "the action of taking someone away by force or deception". Do these actions not fit these definitions?

You're acting like it's impossible for the government to kidnap or abduct people. Seems like quite a limited world view to believe such a thing.
by godelski | 2025-07-14 19:36:55+00:00
> I also occasionally rsync large directories to/from cloud storage and that can also saturate

Just offering some advice if you aren't aware. If you are, freely ignore. (And if you have advice in return I'd love to hear!)

For convenience, the rclone tool is nice for most cloud storage like google and stuff that make rsync annoying[0]

rsync also offers compression[1], and you might want to balance it depending if you want to be CPU bound or IO bound. You can pick the compression and level, with more options than just the `-z` flag. You can also increase speed by not doing the checksum, or by running without checksum and then running again later with. Or some intervaling like daily backups without and monthly you do checksums.

If you tar your files up first I have a function that is essentially `tar cf - "${@:2}" | xz -9 --threads $NTHREADS --verbose > "${1}"` which uses the maximum `xz` compression level. I like to heavily compress things upstream because it also makes downloads faster and decompression is much easier than compression. I usually prefer being compute bound.

Also, a systemd job is always nice and offers more flexibility than cron. It's what's helped me most with the wack-a-mole game. I like to do on calendar events (e.g. Daily, Weekly) and add a random delay. It's also nice that if the event was missed because the machine was off it'll run the job once the machine is back on (I usually make it wait at least 15 minutes after machine comes online).

[0] https://rclone.org/

[1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/292020
by southernplaces7 | 2025-07-14 19:37:10+00:00
Thanks for the detailed reply! So essentially, what many of them do is scour public data sets of all kinds, cross-reference them and repackage the more complete product as their own, which people then buy simply because it's easier to get it that way, all wrapped up neatly than doing the legwork? This is the basic gist of it? As for the complex and highly specific data about individuals, they do the same thing or do they buy from still other sources? I also wonder if they buy any hacked information off the dark web.
by dilyevsky | 2025-07-14 19:37:14+00:00
For regular folks there isn't much benefit tbh. Mainly I think it simplifies ISP architecture and offers slightly faster (like 10%) performance but ISPs have to support IPv4 stack for foreseeable future anyway so kinda moot point. If you game a lot p2p (i don't) you should, in theory, see lower lag.

For me personally, I work on networking startup so I'd like to be able to run IPv6 stack from my home network to test things.
by mschuster91 | 2025-07-14 19:37:24+00:00
Meh, here in Germany you got the same issue with trenches. It takes ages to coordinate digging them, I think the worst example simmered for two years until the permits arrived. And then, it's a nightmare because you can't just cut off people's courtyards and parking spots for any time longer than absolutely required, so as soon as you're at depth you gotta cover the trench with steel plates so cars and pedestrians can cross...